The Coquille Valley Sentinel Section One, Pages One to Ten 9 . . I ■ I I — . . VOL. XXII. NO. 38. As Approved by the Committee —Increase of $610 Over the 1926 Budget o . . When the budget committee for the city of Coquille met at the city hall last Monday evening, they learned that the estimated receipts for the year 1927, aside from special tax, ia $3,070, divided aa follows: Rents, $120. Licenses, $500. . Fines, $400. Road district tax, $1750. Miscellaneous, $300. When they had finished their tabor of estimating the probable city ex­ penses for next year, they found it to­ talled $20,321.69, leaving a balance of $17,251.69 to be raised by special tax. This ia an incraase of $610.02 over the amount budgeted last fall for this y«»r. With the increasing expenses due to a growing city, which is endeavor­ ing to progress, it is a problem every year to keep the expenses within the 6 per cent legal increase but the bud­ get approved by the committee Mon­ day evening does this. Of course the figures given below will not be ready for turning over to the county assessor, urftil a public hearing is had on the budget, and its formal adoption by the council. Thia hearing will be held next month. For personal services — recorder, marshal, street commissioner, attor­ ney, treasurer, fire chief, health of­ ficer—the budget is estimated at $4900, the same as for 1926. The other items of city expense are listed below, the first figure given being the estimated budget for 1927 -and Ue.s—and the figiuaa to ISgftL- W al s ita i mi d 1927 1926 Light, Power, Phones $3,000 $2,800 .... Stationery‘and printing ■ 850 250 Fuel and sunnlies ~ . 350 400 Construction $400 $400 Engineering streets.^ Maintenance and Repairs Streets, Wharves A $2,600 $Z,4W Bridges 900 150 City Hall - - - 600 800 ' Fire Department “* COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1926. $3,560 $3,900 Total ’ Indebtedness Sinking Fd. 1915 Bonds $1,666 $1,666 900 1,020 Interest on eame gQQ hit. Lamb Grove Warranta 890 500 Int Gen Fund Warrants 500 Payment Water Bonds 1,000 1,000 Other War. A Bond 615 obligations Steiwer is Optimistic F. W. Putnam Found Guilty Frederick Steiwer, republican can­ didate for United States senator, was a Coquille visitor Tuesday and for a few hours was calling on the voters here. He is optimistic as to the out­ come of next month’s election and was much gratified over the assurances be­ ing given him that Coos county, which did not give him a majority at the pri­ mary, would do so at the general elec­ tion. . So far as the entrance of Senator Stanfield into the race as an inde­ pendent is concerned, Mr. Steiwer is convinced that it will not injure his chances much, for the senator will draw votes from the democratic can­ didate as well as from the regular republican candidate, Mr. Steiwer. T——------- 1-------- “ F. W. Putnam, of North Bend, ar­ rested by. Captain-Bloom, of the traf­ fic squad on the 8th of last month lor driving while intoxcated, was found guilty by a jury in Justice Stanley’s court Wednesday. Capt. Bloom arrested Putnam be­ tween here and Marshfield after fol­ lowing him for half a mile, during which his car weaved from side to side and narrowly missed Striking other cars. , , During the trial Putnam swore he had not had a drink since July 4, but Capt. Bloom, P. A. Matheny, who was with the captain, and Traffic Officer Williams swore that his breath sn\elled of liquor and that he could* not walk straight. A bottle, nearly full, was found in, his pocket when he was arrested, -i Putnam was to have appeared be­ fore the judge this morning to receive 'Sentence, but his attorneys by phone secured a postponement until two o’clock this afternoon. Night Ferry Traffic Light Bulkheads for the ferryboat Roose­ velt have been ordered by the steam­ boat inspectors at Portland, and they must be installed whether the ferry is operated at night or not. Their cost will be about $1,000. According to Judge Mast, the patronage of the ferryboat after regular, hours, when the 25 cents for automobile and 10 cent charge for individuals is in force, is not sufficient to pay the wages of the operators and it ta doubtful if the evening service can be long continued. PLANNING BIG CORN SHOW The Corn Show committee chairmen got together last evening at the city hall, on call of Chairman J. L. Smith, and the pep and enthusiasm manifest­ ed makes-it look as though the 1927 event would be the biggest and best yet held. The dates of Friday and Saturday, -have been definitely Khwartttpcm I«» ready at that time. The Monotony Killers are hard at work on the play to be gta^n in the Community Building, Friday evening. * toire of music to enliven the proceed­ ings and a great variety of new tal­ ent entertainment ia being arranged for. New features in the line of sports have been unearthed to add interest to the afternoon programs. The big preparation meeting by the Chamber of Commerce, and which it ia expected will arounse an eves greater interest in the Corn Show all over the county, will be held at the hoteThext Wednesday Tvenfig, at 6:80. Mr. Smith says that the exhibits this year will be the equal of any yet shown at this fall festival event. $5,071 $4,676 Corn Show Oct. 29-30 Miscellaneous ' It ia planned to make the parade $ 150 $ 100 Elections bigger, better and “peppier" than ev­ 480 600 Library Assn. 100 er before; but in order to do this, it 800 City Park Bureau - 50 is necessary, that the parade commit­ 50 Garbage tee have the co-operation of all who 500 Compensation will participate. It is the request of 660 500 Other Items this committee, that all organisations, clubs, lodges, schools and groups in­ $2,600 $1380 Totals tending to participate in the parade Emergency - - 8 1 00 8 75 notify some member of the committee A glance through the above figures as soon as possible in order that they shows that the greatest increase for may be assigned a place in the pa­ 1927 over 1926 ia in the interest rade. This committee consists of J. charges on outstanding indebtedness, J. Stanley, Ned C. Kelley, Fred Lor­ and that can be materially reduced ens, C. C. Farr and Tracy Leach. another year if the $30,000 bond issue is voted next month. Ae previously Football Here Tomorrow reported a refunding bond can be Coquille plays its first home foot­ sold bearing 5 or even 484 per cent, while aU the present outstanding pa- ball game tomorrow at 2:80 when the per which it expected to refund bears Bandon tiger squad will endeavor to do what they cotfid not do last Sat­ 6 per cent. Another item incr*sed is for city urday, score a few points. The Ban­ parks which ia $700 greater than last don team is looking good this year year, and the compensation for acci­ and Brick’s proteges will have to dent insurance for city employes ia play hard ball to win. The other county game will be at $500, whereat was nothing laat year. Myrtle Point, with Marshfield as op­ “Grit” Killed by Automobile ponent, and it is quite likely that the winner of this contest will be the Jap Jarvis suffered a stroke of mis­ season’s victor when the curtain falls fortune Monday when his varmint in November. dog, “Grit," for whom he refused $300 last month, was run over and Next Tuesday Columbus Day killed by an auto on the highway near Next Tuesday, Oct 12, being a le­ Myrtle Point. Jap was just letting gal holiday, Judge Kendall announc­ the dogs out of the ear to go after ed here Tuesday that it would be a cougar when a car came racing non-judicial day and the regular mo­ around a bend and struck “Grit.” The tion day session of the circuit court dog had brought down scores of cou­ would be postponed until the next gar and hundreds coon, but he would day. It is not probable that the court take no notice of deer. house offices will be closed Tuesday. Total 1 1 $2.00 TH a Corn Show Stunts Wanted County Contributes 1250 Any person or persons who care and will help furnish entertainment for the Corn Show, will be assigned ,a place on the program by communicat­ ing with the Entertainment commit­ tee.—J. P. Beyers, Chairman. Jas. W. Laird, chairman of the Corn Show finance committee, secured a donation of 8250 from the county cOSrt ^Wednesday for that next big event* Individuals will be called upon next by the committee. Adoption of Dennis’ Resolution Busy Session Held This Week— Budget Committee Is Would Stop Income Tax Named Agitation The county court has been quite L. B. Smith, Secretary and Attorney for the Greater Oregon Aasociation, busy this, week with the regular 'speaking at the weekly meeting of monthly grist of bills, granting log the Lion’s Club at the Hotel Coquille hauling permits, receiving delegations at noon yesterday, urged the adop­ and transacting other business. Vacancies on election boards were tion of the Dennis Resolution at the Those appointed in Coquille coming general election as the means filled. of lessening the income tax agitation were Violet Lorenz as judge and that has kept the state disturbed by Elizabeth Burch as third clerk of the changing ttax policies for ten years. first board in. Precinct No. 40 S.W. “The Dennis Resolution is a plea Eva Currie was named as chairman tor peace," said Mr. Smith. “Oregon of the second .board in Precinct 41, ' ' business, and the progress of an am­ S. E. The voting place in Pjecinct No. 52, bitious, and progressive people, have been hampered and held back by con­ Four Mile, was changed from the stant state income tax agitation. It school house in district No. 46 to that has hurt the state, and has been the in district No. 81. Four-fifths of the means of holding back development population in the precinct will be capital that is so sorely needed for the benefitted by the change. A board of-viewers, consisting of big improvements that are contem­ plated in all parts of the Oregon Roadmaster W. A. Gilbert, Geo. S. country. Nowhere is the need for de­ Davis snd D. F. Thompson, was ap­ velopment of our lands and our indus­ pointed to view and lay out two roads tries more necessary to the opening petitioned for. One was a road from up of the great opportunities that ex­ the G. A. Collier place to the C. A. ist on every hand, than in our sparsely Keltner* ranch at Fshtrap; and the populated coast districts. The idea other was for an extension of the that these great projects can be fi­ Rock creek road above Bridge. A resolution for the vacation of the nanced out of local capital, available on only thirty day terms, is out of old mile and a third of county road, the question. These improvements, from Myrtle Point this way to the as well as the capital necessary for railroad erasing, having been passed industrial development, must come by the court the roadmaster is now in­ from eastern capital centers, on long structed to make a report on the terms, and with privileges of repay­ advisability of vacating that stretch ment that are granted to building and which has been superseded hy the construction expansion now going new dyke road and the new bridge. Hillstrom Bros, were granted an forward in every part of Oregon.” “Capital is timid,” the speaker con­ extension until July 31, 1927, for the tinued. “Outside investors do not completion of the Sunset-Cape Arago ;on Reeling of gecurity in________ S^iTimmirmting taxes con- ^^ffieraurt agreecl*,to''payl stantig threatening, that they feel in of the cost of a . suspension bridge our competing states of Washington across the South Fork, at the Max De­ and California where these forms of ment ranch, as petitioned for by E. taxation do not exist. Oregon, should Half Chaney who operates a logging capital." The speaker stated further that the Greater Oregon Association will be continued with its present branches in all parts of the state, in the inter­ est of constructive legislation, oper­ ating in the same manner as the tax­ payers «associations in the eleven other states that are members of the Western States Taxpayers Confer­ ence, now in its fourth annual seseion at Los Angeleswhere theOregon as­ sociation is represented. Mr. Smith denounced the “House­ wives" electric power bill, with its proposition of saddling the state with a $40,000,000 bonded debt to be ad­ ministered by inexperienced novices, as an example of the kind of legisla­ tion that would naturally receive the attention of a conservative organiza­ tion devoted to the best interests of the state. Senator Bruce Dennis, the author of the Dennis Resolution, was to have appeared at this meeting of the Lions Club, but his absence was accounted for by the statement that he had.just taken over the Klamath Falls “Her­ ald” and it was neessary for him to go there in the interest of his newly acquired property. Mr. Smith was introduced by the Lions Club president, John E. Ross, and his remarks were listened to wtth close attention by the Lions and others present at this open meeting. $19,000 Fire at Marshfield A 819,000 fire at Marshfield last ^night at six o’clock destroyed the Pat Rooney garage and salesroom and 19 \autos, one of them new, the Chaney bus office and garage and three buses and the Ekblad warehouse, 75x140 feet, and contents. These «tores are located at Second and Elrod, one block west from Broadway, in the automo­ bile district. The fire is supposed to have started from a short circuit on one of the bu«s The Ekblad stock was partial­ ly covered by insurance. Only prompt and heroic action by the fire department prevented a great­ er loss. on Larson Inlet'agreed to lay the plank if the county court would pur­ chase 1,000 feet, and the roadmaster was authorized to furnish them with the luhnber. The citizens budget committee, which will act with the county court in estimating Coos county expenses for next year, was appointed this week. It will consist of J. A. Lar­ son, of Marshfield, Chet Huling, of Myrtle Point, and (L__L. Zentner^af. Bandon. Russ Meyers Arrested Thomas Russell Meyers, who lives near Broadbent, was arrested by pro­ hibition officers and Constable Hunt yesterday morning and the charge filed against him is the possession of a still. Four barrels of mash were also found with the still, but he ve­ hemently denies ownership of either one. A bottle of liquor was found in his pocket when he was arrested. Deputy sheriffs are convinced that he is an old and continuous offender, for former Sheriff Ellingsen and Dep­ uty Malehorn caught him once, sev­ eral years ago, with a still on Yellow Yellow creek. Laird Declines to Run Jas. W. Laird, nominated for coun­ cilman at the city caucus this month, filed his declination with the city recorder this morning and his name will not appear on the ballot. It is to be regretted that Mr. Laird cannot see his way clear to serving as a councilman for the next four years. The committee appointed for that pur­ pose has not yet selected any name to fill the vacancy. Praise for the County Farm Dr. Fred Stricker, who was here for the Coos County Health Associa­ tion meeting last week, visited the county farm in company with Dr. P. M. Drake, and stated that he found the unfortunates out there unusually well cared for, the farm in excellent condition, and that it is excelled by no country farm in the state. Jesse Lee Smith Bound Over Wedding for Next Session Jesse Lee Smith, arrested last week for placing liquor in the car of Frank Smith here in Coquille, was taken be­ fore Justice Stanley last Saturday where he was bound over to the grand jury and returned to jail. The crime is a felony which the law says shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for from one to four years. Coquille Valley Post 1412, Veterans of Foreign Wars, intend to hold their next meeting at Myrtle Point, Oct 12. A member of the Post and a member of the Auxiliary intend to be married at the meeting. No names are men­ tioned but the boys intend to make quite an event of it.—Press Cor. Calling cards 100 fer $1.50. Will Provide Additional Parking Space if Funds Are Available Of considerable local interest is the announcement that Mr. Charles Hall, President, and Mr. Earl W. Gates', The city council Monday evening referred'to the finance committee, with pdwer £