he Coquille Valley
THE PAPER THAT’S LI K E A LETTER . EROM HOME
COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER >1. HU
Hotel Nearing Completion
The 1924 budget for Coos county
and the report of the Tax Supervising
and Conservation Commission was
filed with County Clerk
h on
Tuesday. The appro
ed for the ferries of the c
the cmnmission had tentatively cut
out last week, were restored and plac
ed in the following budget which has
been formally approved and adopted
by the commission.
Estimated Expenditures
Justice Courts .............8 1300.09
2,650.00
Juvenile Court
6,000.00
Circuit Court .
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3300.00
County Court
District Attorney’s office .. 1,170.00
Spec, counsel and legal fees 1,000.00
15,640.00
Sheriff’s office
4,619.00
Jail
50.00
Conveying prisoners ...........
100.00
Coroner
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County Clerk’s office......... . 10390.00
County Treasurer’s office . 2,735.00
8,870.00
Assessor s office
4,420.00 ready to install just as soon as the
County Health Unit.............
Vitql Statistics ......................
125.00 building was turned over to him.
Herd & Meat Inspector ....' 8,000.00
Dairy Inspector .. ................
600.00
Sealer Weights and Measures 303.40
500.00
Livestock Indemnity ......
Scalp Bounty, Hunter and
1,600.00
Trapper .......................
375.00
Forestry Department .....
A. O. Walker announced this morn
Tax Rebates .....
500.00 ing that he had made a deal for Hie
Tax Rebates...........
500.00 sale of the local Ford agency to
Establishing omers
. - 25.00 Messrs. Oscar Gplovesen and C. A.
. 1,000.00 Baer, of Marshfield. The deal also
Fair Appropriations
. 9,035.00 includes the sale of the machine shop
County Farm .
Other Indigent» .................... 7,400.00 in the Highway Garage and a lease on
......... 8350.00 that building?
Dependent Mothers
660.00
Insane and Feebleminded ..
The purchasers are live wires who
tldiers ......... 2300.00 intend to establish a completely equip
Indigent Soldiers
7350.00 ped Ford plant here, using all the
Elections ani id Registrations
Statutory Audit and Ac
space in the 100x100 building for
900.00 Ford show room, Ford storage and
counting
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Publishing and Advertising 1,800.00 Ford repairs. They do not intend to
School uperintendent’s office 4350.00 utilize any space for public storage.
Institute Fund
400.00 The purchase of the agency and the
86,060.001 improvements they ettpeet to make
. General School Fund
860.00 in. the business will represent an in
School Library ....................
Elementary School Fund .. 86,000.00 vestment of nearly $25,000.
High School -Tuition ........... 20,00030
The transfer will not take place un
District Deficiencies ...... 2,500.00 til the end of the year.
Court House-Hall of Records
>. M t . Walker says he has no com
Janitor’s salary ............ ..
860.00 plaint to make of his relations with
700.00 the Ford people and he has sold 190
Fuel, Water, Lights ....
150.00 of their ears during the year. But the
Janitor’s supplies ...........
130.00 combined service station, Ford, ma
Maintenance.......................
Court House, old building .. 2,700.00 chine shop and garage business is too
Furniture and Equipment . * 1,975.00 confining and he desires to enjoy a
Statutory Cash payments ..141,275.00 little more leisure.
County Cqurt and Viewing .
500.00
More than that he figures that the
Surveyor’s office (contingent)
300.00 service station will develop into a
Roadmaster's office ....... 8310.00 much larger business than it. is evejj
Traffic Officer .............. /.... 2,400.00 now and he wants to devote his time
Right of Ways and Fencing 18,000.00 to that end.
Fifty-Fifty projects .........
6,000.00
As a first step he plans to build sev
Femes and oquille Bridge Operations eral buildings on the lot the company
ktarshfield-Eastside Ferry 6,500.00 owns and the one recently leased
Glasgow Ferry ......... 8,000.00 from Mrs. Taylor Dement. One of
Riverton Ferry ..........
900.00 these will be a small rest room, an
Bullard's Ferry ........ 3,500.00 other a battery shop, vulcanising, sol
Coquille Bridge Operation 1300.00 id tire press and everything found
General. Road Expense
anywhere in an up-to-date automibile
Publishing Notices...........
200.00 service station.
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Repair and Transfer of
Frank Tennison, as soon as he re
Plant <.... ........... 10,000.00 turns from San Diego, where he was
Motor Vehicle License ..
33.00 called on account of his son’s injuries,
Lumber for general use..
500.00 will move the frame building now
Purchase of Gravel Deposit 7350.00 alongside the service station, and Mr.
Machinery and Equipment 2,000.00 Walker expects to have his naw build
New Grades and Construe-^...
• ings up by April.
tion .......... .......... 40,200.00
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Bridges ................................ .... 9395.00
Arrested for Bank Robbers
Maintenance .......................... 10,500,00
Two hoboes were picked up Wed
Interest on Road Warranta. 3,000.00
nesday evening near the Sitka mill
Interest on Road Bonds ..... 28325.00
on the supposition that they might
Road Bond Sinking Fund .. 86300.00
be the Florence bank robbers. Deputy
One Mill Road Levy (70-30) 24,000.00
Sheriff Bert Smith, Marshal Leach,
Market Road State Tag . .. 24,000.00 Frank Dungey, Lee Goodman and T. A.
Market Road State Surplus. 8,000.00
Walker made the arrest. The two
Market Road, County to
were confined in the city jail for a
¿J match................................ 82,000.00
couple of hours and then released,
State
of Oregon-Coquille“'
Deputy Smith notifying Night Officer
Paving............... ..............
1,14934
Hqjlenbeck that they were not the
Tax Supervising and Con
men wanted.
servation Commission
They had been down there Tuesday
2,500.00 night and Wednesdtay evening when
Salary of Clerks .....
Supplies and Postage
800.00 they built a fire there the mill watch
Travelling Expenses
206.00 man, P. E. Drane, notified the sher
50.00 iff's office.
Telephone ......,...
Emergency Fund.........
12,000.00
SELLS FORD
AUTO AGENCY
Funeral Services Saturday
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Grand Total .........$770,81904
Estimated Budget of Revenues
General Fund ..................... .855,200<00
General Road Fund
26,182.65
Market Road Fund Surplus. 8,000.00
Road Bond Sinking Fund .. 11,436.54
From Kinney Lands Contract 15,000.00
Total
................ ..„8115319.19
Less 1922 closeout................ 824,972.67
NEW BUILDINGS WIH BOTH GAMES
Heat was turned on from the boil
ers in the new hotel yesterday, on
the second and third floor, and with
out a pound of steam showing on
Many Are Being Planned for
the pressure gauge every radiator on
Next Year and More Yet
those two floors gdt hot and the
workmen enjoyed the change in tem
to Be Announced
perature.
It will be necessary to
have the heat moat of the time now
The first of this week J. D. Graham
to get the building dried out before
A Sons purchased of Mrs. Hattie I.
it is occupied.
Bledsoe the lot, 65x100 feet/ adjoining
When the Are was built Wednesday
it would do nothing but smoke and ev their Front street garage on the east
en a kerosene-saturated sack of shav- t 1 is their intention to erect thereon a
ings went out when dropped down the building Covering the entire lot, two
in height This new building
chimney from the roof, and the draft stories
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will
be
devoted
entirely to garage and
seemed to be down, instead of up.
and will relieve somewhat the
By yesterday morning, however, the storage,
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sure to follow the closing
dead air had been forced out and there congestion
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the Highway Garage as a public
was no trouble keeping a roaring Are. of
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for autos, as elsewhere an
C. L. Willey is nearing the end of storage
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in this issue.
installation of both room and lava- nounced
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Mr. Graham could* not announce
tory fixtures in, the hotel, and more
when active building operations
and more it is giving the impression just
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will
begin,
but he does not expect to
of being one of the most attractive
and comfortable hostelries in south be delayed more than a month in
western Oregon.
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1 starting the work. Access to the sec
It seems doubtful now that the ' ond floor will be secured* by an inclin
driveway, or ramp as it is called
workmen will be through with the fin- ed
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<1 touches on the building so that in department stoma.
From present indications the year
opened by Jan. 15. but it shouldn’t be
1924 will be a busier and more pros-
more than two wAks later.
year in Coquille than even in 1928
Lafe Campton stated Monday that ous
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the furnishings would be here and has
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The funeral services for the late
D. P. Strang Were held at the Elling
son Chapel last Saturday afternoon,
beign conducted by Rev. Mr. Iverson,
of Myrtle Point. There waa a large
attendance of friends and neighbors,
who desired to pay this last tribute of
respect to one whom they had known
so long. Tehro was a profusion of
floral offerings.
The interment waa in the Soldiers’
890346321 plot at the L O 0. F. oemetery.
S. M. Nosier Will Build
Another building planned for next
year is the 50x100 that S. M. Nos
ier expects to build on the cornea
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eally decided to do it the coming sum
mer. There will be two store fronts
on First street, each 25 feet wide and
50 deep. This part of the building
will be one story but the rear 50x56^
facing on Hall street will be two story
and contain eight apartments on the
two floors.
The Coast Auto Lines have prac
tically decided to make Coquille its
permanent headquarters and it would
not be surprising if they erected a
large garage, machine shop and de
pot the coming year.
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Gardner and Winters Also
Wimer Bros, last week
the south lot 50x100 of the
feet square which C. W. Gardner pur
chased of Geo. A. Robinson a few
weeks ago. These are the lots at the
east end of the First street paving
where the street jogs.
The Wimer Bros, intended building
a 40x90 sheet iron blacksmith shop
there next summer and Mr. Gardner
ia planning to erect a machine shop
structure of the same dimensions on
the Other lot.
Wickham Lot Is Sold
Mrs. Sarah Wickham this week sold
to Archie O. Walker and associates
the lot west of the First National
Bank on which her hotel stood before
the fire, March 17, 1918.
What to
going to be erected there has not been
announced, but without doubt it will
mean further improvement of Co
quille’s business section.
Mrs. Jessie Richardson came down
from Portland last Friday for a visit
with home folks.
Busy Corner to Build Concrete
Still another fireproof building to
go up in Coquille the coming year is
the one-atory concrete building which
the Coquille Mercantile Co. is expect
ing to put up for the Busy Corner on
their present site.
Three Counties Fight the Law
Klamath is the third county to come
forward with a mandamus
action
against the county tax supervising
and conservation commission because
of items eliminated from the county
budget, says a Salem press dispatch.
The complaint will be heard at the
same time as complaints from Yam
hill and Umatilla counties, December
21. The government is interested and
will make appearance, as among the
items eliminated was one providing
for a tax levy to pay interest on ir-
rigation district bonds. ,
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Tom Tennison’s Accident
Details of the accident which the
in
Sentinel mentioned last week,
which Tom Tennison was seriously in
jured, have reached here. He was on
a telephone pole which fell with him
and as a result he lost an eye, had
an arm, leg and several ribs broken,
and was so severely injured that he
will probably be a cripple' for life. The
letter stated that his condition was
serious but that he would probably re
cover.
Callhig Cards, 106 for >1.50.
Gets A Life Sent^uce
HEIRS ASK FOR IT
After being out 46 Atefcto last
Saturday morning, the jury in the
Alton Cove)l case brought in a ver-
.'Z diet of murder in the first degree, with
Coquille High School Teams Win a recommendation that he be confin John Bilek's Estate Had Es
cheated to the State—May
From Arago High Last • ed in the penitentiary "for life. ■
The jury, in arriving at the verdict,
Result in a Suit
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first took a vote on the question of
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sanity. All voted that tile boy was
In May, 1918, an Austrian by the
Coquille High won both basketball sane. The
xt vote waa on guilt of I
games last evening, at the high school 3rat degree murder and all voted the qame of John Bilek, who had been
gym here, from Arago High. The boy was guilty. When a vote waa making his home at the L A. Law
girls game was won 18 to 10, while taken as to whether there should bo horn ranch near McKinley, off and
the boys had to play an extra fiye a recommendation, all voted to rec on for a couple of years, left this
minutes, the result being four all ommend life imprisonment instead of county and wqnt up to Wahkiahum
county in Washington, where he was
at the end of the fourth quarter. The hanging. *’\ .
killed Sept. 27, of that year. He was
final seore was 8 to 7. The Arago
Judge Kendall, tn his instructions
quintet had previously -won from to the jury, spent over an hour, going a high climber in the woods and a tree
Myrtle Point 21 to 12, and the prac into the details of the trial, instruct fell with him.
Before he left Mr. Lawhorn sug
tice game last night shows the locals ing them as to which of several ver
as pretty strong on the defense at dicts they could bring in and review gested that he should make a will
so that he (Lawhorn) would know
least
ing the case from a judicial stand
what to do with the funds which Bilek
The Arago girls started out like a point
was leaving in his hands and^> which
whirlwind and scored three field goals
He told them that in Oregon fee
early in the first quarter, and also ble-mindedness was not a defense for he was monthly adding from his
converted one free throw. But that murder, but that it could be considered wages. It amounted to over a thous
ended their counting until the last by the jury as contributing to the and dollars.
“You and Mrs. Lawhorn keep it,
quarter, when they made three more. mental condition of the defendant or
Clarabelle Mintonye and Katheryne as a step leading to insanity, which was Biiek’s reply.
But Mr. Lawhorn would not have
Peart were easily the stars for Co is a legal defence.
fl that way and talked him out of
quille, the former throwing all of
On Tuesday Judge Kendall sentenc
Coquille’s field goals. She is as good ed ^young Covell to be “confined in leaving H to chafity. Bilek had left
s player as has been seen on the lo the penitertUaty for the remainder of a sister and a brother in the old coun
try, but at that time was unable to
cal floor in years and would make any his natural life.”
locate them and thought they were
of. the boys hustle to boat her out for
Thus closed the second trial result
a place on their team. Katheryne was ing in conviction for the murder com dead.
At Mr. Lawhorn h inmptence He
just a jump ahead of the Arago girls mitted last Labor Day, and which has
all the way and it was due to her clev cost Coos oounty thousands of dollars wrote a statement that his estate
should be divided between this broth
er playing that Clarabelle had so and much notoriety.
er and sister, Joseph and Franctoka
many uppvrvuiiiiiea
opportunities io
to throw
for me
the
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mrow ior
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Bilek, and Mr. Lawhorn end wife wit
nessed it. They kept the will and also
ed a snappy game and ail are entitled
deeds of property Bilek owned in Aus
to credit for the exhibition.
The
line-ups, ineluding substitutes, were:
Arago—Mary
Gastner,
Velds
Schroeder, guards; Hasel
Newton,
jumping center; Thelma Schroeder,
running center; Roberta Doyle, Chris
tina Vetter and Alice Newton, for
wards.
Coquille—Gertrude Mintoyne and
Dena Ellingson, guards; Brica Flit
croft, jumping center; Myrtle Olsen
and Katheryne Peart, running center;
Clarabelle Mintonye, Dulce Jorgensen
and Alice Collier, forwards.
The boys game was a hard fought
affair and rough for a few moments
Keith
took the referee
job and put a stop to the roughing.
The Arago\ boys are a fast %>unch
and have the faculty of eluding their
opponents in passing the ball, and of
breaking up many of their opponents’
passes. It was in this department that
Arago outshone Coquille. The locals
seemed to be jtftt a step slow in stop
ping Arago’s passing. In the throwing
of baskets both fives were somewhat
weak, but the most glaring defect on
Coquille’s part was the continuous
and never successful long shots, from
the middle of the floor or back of it.
Good team woTk in passing, getting
the ball near the basket before at
tempting to score, will pile up many
more points than the accidental suc
cess of a long throw.
Coach Leslie tried out a lot of his
squad and all seemed to work well.
With another two weeks’ hard prac
tice they should be able to give any
high school team in the county a bat
tle.
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The line-up last night was:
INTEREST IN-
BOY SCOUTS
The sentiment expressed by the
citizens in attendance at Commercial
Club Wednesday evening was that
Coquille is not ready yet to participate
in aq extensive a program fer Boy
Scout supervisiop and executive work
as is contemplated by the attempt to
raise 86,000 for the work in Coos and
western Douglas counties. *
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As chairman of the local Boy Scout
committee, Rev. C. S. Btrgner, had
secured a. copy, of the budget which
would provide that the greater part
of the 86000 go as salary to the exe
cutive, travelling and office expenses,
etc. He stated that while he was
heart and soul with the Boy Scout
movement he believed that if Coquille
could raise 8600 or 8700 for Scouting
it should be applied more directiy*to
providing Scout equipment, a place to
meet and where basketball could be
played during the winter, and for pre
paring a camp nearby where outings
:ould be held during the summer.
“A building where the boys can
meet twice a week, play basket ball
and keep their equipment locked up ia
the first essential
for the local
Scouts,” was Mr. Brgner*s declaration.
It was then decided that a joint
meeting of the Scouts and as many
business and professional men as
could be persuaded to attend should
be held at the city hall at 7:30 p. m.,
on Tuesday, Jan. 8, where plans might
be formulated for raising funds and
putting the Scout movement on a
solid basis.
The training of the boys for citi
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zenship and leadership is one of the
Guards—Robison and Miller.
most important duties the men of
Center—Collier.
this city, state and nation, owe their
Forwards—Farrier and Doyle.
country and it is hoped a good attend
Coquille
ance will be present for the Jan. 8th
Guards—Nosier, W. Laird, Robin meeting.
son, Walker.
Centos—Rice and Young.
To Finish Coal Bank Bridge
Forwards—E. Laird, Levi Wilson,
A part of the approach to the new
Powuder.
Coal Bank Slough bridge, on the high
Fhrri4r and Doyle for the visitors
way at Marshfield is within the city
each’scored a field basket, For Co
limits of that town, and no provi
quille, Wilson threw two, Rice one,
sion had been made by the county
snd he also converted both of Co
for connecting thia bridge with the
quille’s successful free throws.
causeway running from Broadway out
to the Veneer plant..
To Spend Holidays at Frisco
The eitizens of Marshfield began
J. L. Smith and family started yes last week to wish that the bridge be
terday for San Francisco, to spend promptly finished, so Ben Chandler
the holidays with his brother, H. D. came over to ask the county court to
Smith, and,his mother, Mrs. Margar have the connection made and the
et Smith, who is now visiting there. bridge opened as soon as possible.
At Roseburg he expected to meet his The court thereupon instructed Road
brother, S. V. Smith and family.pj master E. L. Robinson to buy the
Corvallis. They are both making this lumber and have thé approach built
holiday trip by auto, and expect to and to present a bill for it to the city
be back in time for the children to of Marshfield.
resume school work as soon as the
holiday vacation is over. J. L., al
. Confirmation Class
though handicapped by a broken arm,
During the annual visit off the
put in the day before he started in Right Rev. Bishop Sumner D. D. to
getting a carload of Jersey heifers, the Missions of the Coos Bay District
which he has sold to a party at Bliss, under the Rev. A. W. Bell, he admin
Idaho, ready for shipment, as soon istered the Apostolic Rite of Con
as the result of the tuberculin treat firmation to the following John An
ment given them is known.
gus Gamble, Joseph Alden Harvellie.
Alton Ellsworth Harris (a veteran of
and
Katherine
rent—Bedroom and sitting f Chateau Thierr$)
with stove, and connecting ; Elizabeth Wilson and Margaret Alex
andra Bell.
Call at this office.
tria.
After Bilekt death Mr. Lawhorn
tried twice to get in touch with the
heirs by letter, but the first was re
turned and on account of the unsettled
conditions after the war ho was never
able to send them their money.
The wife of a man named Yuseck
wrote to Mr, Lawhorn from Eureka,
Calif., that if he would sand her the
money Bhe would see that the heirs
received it, but he didn’t fall for that
kind of a game.
Finally, after Mr. Lawhorn had act
ed as administrator and wound up the
affairs of the estate, h* paid tiw bal
ance of 81137.47 over to the State
Treasurer, under the law that proper
ty of intestate residents escheats to
the state.
That closed the taatter until last
month when the Czechoslovakia con
sul at Omaha, Nehr., Stanley Serpan,
wrote to Judge R. HL Mast, asking
that the will vbe produced in probate
court and that the State of Oregon
and Mr. Lawhorn give an accounting
of the funds, and that the proceeds be
transmitted to the heirs named in-the
will.
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Yesterday Mr. Lawhorn waa ia
town to file the will with the probate
court and give such information as
he possessed. On the request of the
consul, J. J. Stanley was appointed
administrator, end the next step will
be the demand on the State Treasurer
for the funds turned over to him by
Mr. Lawhorn.
Whether the state will contest the
ease or will refund the money without
suit cannot be stated now, but the will
has been accepted by the probate
court as genuine, «nd an effort will
be made to recover from the state.
Mr. Lawhorn says he has the deads
to the property in the old country in
his possession and if the claimants can
prove that they are the rightful heirs
he is ready to turn the papers over
to him. They were received by Hilek
from his mother’s estate.
Mr. Lawhorn hunted all over CJbs
county and tried forty Austrians be
fore he ftffind one who could read the
will and that one could not read all
of it.
Stratton Pays 130 Fin«
D. D. Stratton, who has been in
jail hero since Nov. 25, was taken be
fore Justice Stanley Tuesday and
pleaded guilty to the charge of op
erating a motor car without a driv
er’s license. He was fined 880.
Stratton is the man who was driv
ing the Chevrolet when it went off
the grade at the Schroeder place on
the Myrtle Point road, on Nov. 24,
killing Joe Zachary..
The grand jury had returned not a
true bill when Stratton was before
them, charged with involuntary man
slaughter, and the officers had no
evidence on which they felt that a
conviction could be secured, for either
driving while intoxicated or reeklera
driving, and this 830 fine to the extent
of his punishment for that terrible
piece of reckleuneaa.
Dishes for gifts from 10c up at the
Variety Shop.
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