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COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1928.
VOL XXIV
CoafeoMM to Lorenz Robbery
A telephone call from Portlamf yes­
terday moaning by Deputy Sheriff
Frank Osmond, who had gone north
with hia family to spend Christmas in
and Death j Washington, t,
stated that Harvey
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Miller had just
confessed to the rob­
bery of the Henry Lorenz store, the
night of Dec. 5, when 8500 worth ef
merchandise was stolen.
The most narrow escape anyone had
Mr. Osmond was in the Portland
from death in Tuesday’s man hunt has jail as the suspects picked up ware
not yet beeh told in print.
brought out for inspection. He recog­
When Henry Hees picked up Geo. nised Miller and received pertnissoin
Taylor, Fred Lorens and Fred Mc­ to question him.
The latter eoon
Clellan and started for the hill above broke down and confeeeed.
Knowlton Heights, Taylor and Mc­
Another young follow .picked up
Clellan had rifles, Lorens a revolver, with him is being held by the police
but Hess was unarmed.
,
but'it is not known whether be Was
When the bandit waved to them to implicated or not.
etop and yelled “go back,” Henry kept
Miller has been around here for two
going ahead with his new Studebaker, or three months, and had made a
but when Rube threw up his gun and ranch not far from town his head­
fired, at a distance of not more than quarters, - the people not knowing
200 feet, Henry stopped and backed what kind of a follow he was. He
up.
claims to be 22 but is 80 or older.
The car was slightly down lyll from
Since the robbery he has been in
Rube, but had he elevated his gun the Powers, Hauser and elsewhere in the
fraction of an inch it would have county and did not leave Coquille for
drilled Henry through the body, for Portland until Tuesday evening. ■ He
the angle at which it pierced hie was picked up almost at once by the
epare tire, alongside the hood on the Portland police.
left hand side, and Where it struck
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an upright which holds the tire in
place, and which stopped it, would
have put the bullet in Mr. Hess’ chest
had,the trajectory been a few inches
higher. The bullet .may still be in
the tube; Henry has not yet looked
One of the oldest pioneers of Coos
to see.
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county, T. Mannell Hermann, died at
As Rube fired the second time the
Broadbent, last evening. The infirmi­
bullet went wild for he was Just aim­
ties of old age, aggravated by kidney
ing when struck by the bullet from
trouble, was the cause of death. It is
Mr. Gould’s gun.
probable that the funeral services will
Euel Plummer said it sounded as
though the first shot had hit a tire, be held Sunday with interment in the
family plot near Broadbent.
but no one thought at the time to look
Mr. Hermann was one ofthe Balti­
at the spare, and the other four were
more colony which left Baltimore in
solid.
Dan Brown likewise had a close April, 1859, crossed the Isthmus of
call. He was just drawing down on Panama and arrived at San Francisco
Rube when the latter heard a noise, May 7, 1859. Prom there they took
turned and fired. Dan jumped back boat to Port Orford and made their
behind the stump which he wm using own trail to the mouth of the Coquille,
for protection, and a later examina­ where Bandon is now located, and
tion showed that tthe bullet plowed thence up the river to the land which
through the rotten stump and out, Dr. Henry Hermann homesteaded and
No Reward to Be Received
Mrs. Alice Lucas, former wife of
the dead bandit, Marion Rube, and a
’ half brother, Horace Downs, arrived
here yesterday morning from Pepper-
weod Calif., to claim the body of Summary of Its Activities, Pre­
'the desperado.
pared by County Agent
District Attorney Bedingfield gave
Harvey S. Hale
hie eon sent about noon, but Deputy
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Sheriff Bohrer waited a couple of
Agricultural Extension work which
hours longer in hopes that he would
hoar from Gov. Young, of California, is carried on co-qperatively by Coos
as to his wishes.--No word was re­ County, Oregon Agricultural College,
ceived and Sherman Roberts, who the state and the U. B. Department of
came up with a truck, was allowed to Agriculture, has concluded the fourth
start for California with the body year of continuous service in Coos
yesterday' afternoon".
' county. The County Agricultural
Mrs. Lucas has three ” daughters Agent is in charge of this work in the
assisted by member« of
twelve, ten and eight years of age, county and
the Oregon Agricultural College Ex­
the daughters of Rube.-
“8tick ’em up, stick ’em up,” were j
The latter than ran into Second
A press dispatch from Sacramento tension staff.
the words growled »♦ 0. C. Sanford street and with a clear field fired
yesterday stated that no reward - A summarised report Outlined un­
at 9:05 Tuesday morning as he twice at the speeding ear, but it was
der the various projects into which the
started to leave the First National too far away for the shots to carry, would be paid for Rube's body, the
Bank by the rear door. They were ut­ Mrs. Wm. Zosel, passing the Pioneer offer being for his “arrest and con­ Extension services are divided is as
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viction.” The state had offered Mo<> follows:
tered by a dark-complected stranger, church, says that one answering shot
and the county of Humboldt 8500.
Soil Improvement
who was just about to enter the door was fired from the car as it neared
Numerous teste and demonstrations
Deputy Sheriff Bohrer received a
with a 25-35 carbine in his hand, and her.
telegram from Gov. Young’s secretary have proven that the soil« of Coos
began the most exciting day Coquille
She also claims, as do Dan Brown
stating that a reward could only be County are deficient in lime and for
hau experienced in many years, if and Fred McNelly, to have seen two
paid “for arrest and conviction” and the maximum production of most of
ever.
,
’
,
men in the front seat and one in the
that the state of California was not our cultivated Crops and especially the
Yet 30 minutes later the dark man rear, but* on this all spectators do not
interested in the disposal of the body. legumes, lime is quite beneficial. With
agree.
was lying dead on the hill, just back
the use of lime, inoculation and pro­
The car ran up’to the end of Second
of thé C. L. Willey residence, his
per methods of culture, alfalfa is be­
companion was in Jail, and the eftt» street aigi they were forced to turn
ing successfully grown on several
sens had time to settle down.
around as elsewhere described. They
farmu in the county where before it
At the command Mr. Sanford then turned south at Maple, past the
was unsuccessful.
slammed the door shut, yelled, “It’s -W. S. Sickles’ residence and down
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Two carloads of ground limestone
a hold-up,” and jumped to the window ' Into the driveway to the Morgan
from the State Lime plant at Salem
home.
E.
W.
Plummer
’
s
story
of
the
man
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side of the door.
were ordered and distributed to the
Whether the bandit thought the door
Mrs. G. E. Low saw but two men hunt is sensational enough and shows
farmers In the Coquille Valley section.
had fastened with a spring lock will leave the car there. They took their him to have been in a very precarious
The Coos -Bay Mutual Creamery dis­
<>ever be known, for instead of trying guns and pack sack, changed their position. He offered to drive Mr.
tributes lime at cost to the farmers of
to open it he kept thrusting his gun, , eoats or sweatem and started across Gould’s car for - him and in passing
that section.
Dutch
John
toward
the
hill
where
the
aimed at Mr. Sanford, against the
Dsn Brown’s residence they picked
At a meeting of the State Lime
him up.
Willey home stands.
glass and uttering threats.
Board the need of a plant to make the
At Sanford’s call, E. D. Webb, who
Arriving at the spot where the ban­
After their departure from the
shell deposits in Coos Bay available
was in the vaylt, came out with a re­ bank, Mr. Sanford looked down at the dits left their car, Deputy Sheriff Os­
for agricultural lime was fully ex­
volver and stepping to the rear par­ floor outside and received the greatest mond' asked them to go back to town
plained! A petition asking for such a
tition door, fired at less than five feet shock of his life ih not seeing Rube and get a gang of men. They started
plant was circulated among the
from the robber. The bullet broke lying there. He supposed, of course, but Gould remarked, “We haven’t
farmers of the county and forwarded
time
to
go
to
town,
”
and
they
drove
the glass of the outer door but was that Webb's shot had etruck.
to the State Lime Board.
deflected
downward
and dropped
Mr. Webb called up the sheriff’s of­ across the Knowlton bridge and up to
Assistance was given* in the forma­
fice, found. Deputy Osmond in and the the end of road where Bert got out
harmlessly outside the door
ion of two drainage districts. The
The bandit replied with a shot from latter immediately Jumped ih his ear and climbed to the top of the hill,
Haynes Inlet drainage district when
hie rifle, which tore a large hole in the and started down town.
He was back of Willey’s and Brown started
completed will rogjgj®,, pnd_jnMMMUx-
heavy glass. The bullet struck an up- stopped by Archie Walker, whopqint-
►•.n.til about 300 acres of hmdt-W f
e<T otfTffie feeing car at the head of
righe-of ttKRW»W hatfxiy to*-Wi* r W
.wham thedeei
¡»st owes—Ma handr
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’ishtrap drainage district is slightly
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parked
it'
on
'one
side
of
the
grave)
Second
street.
Picking
up
Mr.
Mor
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front,
where
it
made
„a
impreq-
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a
deep
im.
MX Children-
Mr.Men wooM aeem 3» be «entitled Hermann was
smeller hot wfil'-greaffy. incre'a«e~!the
and had just taken'off'his apron
Binger, Y. Mannell, Washington P.,
lumber'of days each year that this
Cass*M., Thrusenalda and Franklin P. leveral pieces ‘were found imbedded was"not "a great way behind when the thrown it in the car when two men land'will be used. Through the aid of
stepped onto the roiad, out of the
robbers abandoned their car..
Cass M. Hermann, of Roseburg, is the in the east wall of the room.
‘he U. 8. Department of Agriculture
His Actions Cool and Studied sole survivor now of the original
Mr. • Webb attempted to fire again
He and Morgan started down to crush, a hundred feet from him. v
and Oregon Agricultural College Ex­
A. N. Gould’s actions the morning Hermann family.
“
Have
they
crossed
the
road
yet?"
but the hammer failed to discharge Dutch John creek and across the
tension Service a survey is being math
of the attempted robbery were me­
the older one asked.
valley.
Mr. Hermann who was about 84 the cartridge.
of the Coquille Valley flood problems.
thodical and coolly performed. Hear­ years of age, is survived by the fol­
“I don’t think so,” Plummer re­
“There's a dog or some one there,”
'L. H. Hazard, at the warning, Tan
M. R. Lewis, a drainage expert, is
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ing the shots from the bank while he lowing children: Geo. and Forrest nto the front office and grabbed the sailed Mr. Morgan as they neared the plied, not knowing whether they were
making the survey.
was attempting to start his ear, he Heimann, Mrs. John Grant and Mrs. rank’s sawed-off shot gun, and waited slope leading up to Knowlton avenue. bandits or posse men.
A ditch blasting demonstration was
realised at once what was happening. J. M. Wagoner, of Broadbent; Henry the robber’s entrance, but the latter “Come out of there with your hands
Just then the Hess car crossed the
held on Catching Inlet and was attend­
He ran into hia store foj his gun, but Hermann, of Myrtle Point; Russell did not come hi.
up,” called the deputy and McGowan bridge and started up the hill, and
ed by forty farmer«. Another group
it was not there. He then ran to Hermann, of Klamath Falls; and Mrs
Instead he backed put from the hall obeyed. The two pursuers did not the dark one asked, “Who are they?”
>f farmers at a meeting on Catching
Oerding’a, asked for and received a Myrtle Baker, of Bakersfield, Calif.
“I don’t know,” was Plummer’s an­
doorway and he and his pal ran in a know then that Rube was lying on
Creek were shown the best methods
30-30 rifle and sheila, and running
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There were about forty in the col­ Hooping position to their car, a hie back, dead, at the road’s edge, and swer.
of blasting-stumps.
back to his ear, called for a driver. ony which left Baltimore and among Chevrolet sedan, parked in front of were constantly expecting gun fire.
The fellow then motioned to the
Crop Improvement
Euel Plummer responded and they its members we find such well known he Mt. States Power Co. office.
They took McGowan’s revolver, ear to stop and yelled, “Go back.” He
A new variety of wheat, Jenkins
started.
The dark stranger was later learned which had not been fired, manacled did this a second time and then fired.
names as Dr. Henry Hermann and
Club, which has been giving the best
Up Second street to Division and family, Henry Schroeder and family to be Marion Rube, a murderer and him and Williams and Morgan took Not more than five or six feet from
/ields on tests conducted at Corvallis,
across to First, they picked up Dan Wm. Volkmar and family, August escaped bank robber of Martin’s Ferry him to Jail.
the line of Are, Mr. Plummer hastily
was planted on the Ben Moomaw farm
Brown and after reaching the bandit Bender and family, and many others.
In bringing McGowan out to the car threw up his hands and got around
in northern California, and his com­
and gives promiseof being a good
car, turned and went around to the
The vicissitudes which these indom­ panion, Bud McGowan, also an es­ on the street, they passed below the to the south side of the car. Not un­
wheat for thin section.
Willey home by way of the bridge.
itable pioneers underwent in reaching caped bank robber.
Rube was 33 Shaver home, Just north of Willey’s til the shot was fired «was he sure that
Five barley, varietial trials were
Bert immediately climbed the hili’ this section, carving out a home in the years of age, and McGowan is 24.
and did not find Rube’s body for the two men in the road were the
planted in different sections in the
and fron( its summit could see most of wilderness and beginning the south­
bandits.
Rube ran to the left side of the several minutes.
county to determine which of the va­
the valley around, but_did not get his west Oregon empire, makes a story as tar, but whether he got in the front
Geo. Taylor, after Rube had fired
rieties would give the highest yield.
eye on the bandits, until he heard interesting as any Action. The his­ >r back door no one seems to know. at the Hess car and disappeared, Rube Murdered Inoffensive Man
Hannchan did best on upper bottom
their voices from the road below him, tory of their affairs is an epic of the McGowan got in on the right side, but started up the road and found Rube,
One man in Coquille expressed soils and O. A. C. No. 7 on lower bot­
talking to Plummer. -------- - ----------------- west.
whether he was driving or not is a with arms outstretched, face up and
great satisfaction when Marion Rube tom soil.
Not wanting to make a mistake and
with his head hanging over the wood­
mooted question.
A nursery of thirty varieties of oats
was killed Tuesday, On his last trip
shoot the wrong man he watched them No Highway Promise Received
C. C. Archibald, J. S. Barton, tn en curb, dead.
to San Francisco in October, Geo. and thirty varieties of wheat was
until Rube shot at the Hess ear. He
After Rube had been hit by Mr.
J. E. Norton returned yesterday their offices, and J. A. Lamb who was
Unaoeld had stopped to see an old planted on the Tway farm, Coquille,
then fired once and missed him, but
Gould’s »hot. McGowan ran down to
morning from attending the meeting just at the northeast corner of the
friend, the sheriff of Humboldt coun­ in an effort to And the varieties of
fired again Just as Rube fired his sec­
a stump, and emptied a revolver, five
these crops which are most resistant
of the Roosevelt Highway and Beach- building, saw them get in and state
shots at Bert, on the hilL ’ He then ty, who had been out all night hunt­
ond shot That shot killed the des­
w Association, which presented a that they had trouble getting the car
ing for Rube. The latter had Just to rust. Three varieties of oats were
perado instantly, and he dropped.
ran
for
a
tree
lower
down
and
Mr.
•itror.g appeal to the highway com­ started. Whether it was not going, or
killed Arthur A. Tomlinson, at Mar­ found to be practically immune to rust
McGowan Jumped into the brukh and
Gould’s shot missed him.
mission Wednesday for the comple­ whether they killed the engine in their
tin’s Ferry, without provocation. Rube and a larger planting of the*ke resis­
from behind a stump fired five re­
He told Osmond, when taken, that
,
tion of the Roosevelt Highway, north -ash is not certain,
wanted to get the deputy sheriff who tant varieties will be tried another
volver shots at Mr. Gould who was
his pal was badly hurt.
from Reedsport.
Specifically, they
Aa they got in their ear, G. Rus­
had arrested him for bank robbery year. Rust is the biggest handicap in
standing in plain sight.
McGowan
Rube’s body wae left there until the
asked that the commission issue th< sell Morgan, who took a most prom­
some years ago, and knowing that this section to the growing of oats.
then ran down hill a riiort distance
coroner’s arrival and a large crowd
The following forage crops and the
bonds and use the proceeds that wari inent part in the whole affair, and
the deputy was at the Tomlinson
and got under a tree behind a log.
quickly collected, with
dozens
of
originally authorised for the construe displayed a vast amount of cool cour­
house he went to the door and best methods of growing them are
Bert fired at him as be ran, but failed
guns in evidence.
lion of the four principal highways of age, drew his .38 revolver and fired
knocked. Tomlinson opened the door being demonstrated in various sec­
tO 1COFO.
If there was a third man in the
the state. The amount la somewhert five shots at the car as it headed west
and Rube shot him, killing him in- tion of the County: Ladmo clover, al­
From hie new hiding place Mc­
party he escaped, but it is probable
near $4,000,000. It was put up to Gov on Second. One of the bullets ri­
stantly, before seeing who it #as. He falfa, tangier peas, Austrian winter
Gowan either threw his revolver away
there was not, although it is believed
Patterson that the objection to issuing cocheted and struck < Geo.
Miller,
then ran up the hill back of the house field peas, hairy vetch, Hungarian
or hid it in a log, for when taken by
that two more of the gang were in
bonds for highways would not be as standing ih front of the Fortier
and poured a number of shots into the vetch, burr clover, bulbous blue
Osmond and Morgan a moment later
town but did not participate in the
potent if the Roosevelt and Dallea- Hard parlor, but it was spent
house, through the windows and grass, Huron timothy and Japanese
the only weapon he had was an un-
attempted hold-up.
Califomia highways had been com­ dropped to the ground.
«rails, but fortunately did
net hit Barnyard millet. The promotion of
Mrs. J. A. Shaver, who walked out
used rusty revolver.
pleted and it was desired to finish the
The bandits turned right at the onto her back porch, saw McGowan anyone else. There were women and Japanese Barnyard millet as a green
feed crop was severely, hampered
Pacific Highway.
Sentinel corner and headed up Sec- behind the stump and asked what was children in the house.
Merry Christinas
Chas. Hall acted as spokesman for ond street, and at the Taylor Service
Iris Elrod, on the road at the time this year by seed of a California
going on. He gave her one look, then
of the Fortuna bank robbery, was at water grass being sold 'for Japanese
At this' season of happiness, friend­ the 75 or *0 members of the associa­ Station corner were greeted by a vol­
rested his gun on the stump and
tion
in
attendance.
Alton, a short distance away, when Barnyard millet The varietial trials
ship and good cheer, the Sentinel
ley from the bank's sawed-off shot fired at Mr. Gould.
The commission did not agree to do gun, fired by Russell Morgan who had
Rube was chased and caught for that •f nine varieties of alfalfa on the
unites with its advertisers in wishing
Thia flatly contradicts McGowan’s
its readers, one and all a very merry anything but it is thought the sug­ secured it from the bank and had run ; ,tory thlt he did not fire a >hoU even affair. That was six or seven year» DeBore place at Gravel Ford is being
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gestions given them will result in up tn th e c o re s » to inter sept-tae-flee------- —------ -
Christmas. .
‘Though The revolver was not found
Rube had been sentenced to - 25
The five varietial trials of corn
—Nbf IhOuld we forget those less some action thia year.
ing men.
upon him. He probably threw it as
years in the pen but escaped from the were carried on thia year with the re­
fortunate than ourselves, and a con­
He was hampered in getting a he ran and rt has not yet been found,
certed effort is being made by the How the Death Ballet Ranged quick shot by Geo. W. Taylor, coming although some one may have picked it road gang, on which he was working, sults quite similar to last year in that
in August.
McKays yellow dent is the outstand­
Salvation Army and the Benevolent
The autopsy performed on Rube's in on the highway, and others who up as a souvenir. The officers have
Bud McGowan was serving a ten ing variety.
Protective Order of Elks at Mirsh- body by Dr. G. E. Low Tuesday af­ would have been in the line of Are
scorched for It, without success, and
year sentence for bank robbery when
field, in a cohnty-wide distribution, ternoon showed that Mr. Gould’s bul­ had he shot more quickly.
In five different sections in the
need it for evidence in McGowan’s
he ee caped on the fifth of this month. county, root crop varietial trials con­
and by the Pioneer Church and a let, fired from above, pieced the
Whether any of hie shots broke the trial.
Rube.is said to have been down there sisting of eeven varieties of msngels,
Good Cheer committee here to see left shoulder blade, passed through a glaAS in the rear of the car is another
Mr j . Shaver, startled at the scene
that none are overlooked and fail to portion of the left lung, broke two matter on whieh there is disagree­ enacted before her eyes, ran into the and assisted tn his escape, and they two of carrots, two of rutabagas and
receive some bounty at this season of vertpbraor-eut the spinal cord, then ment. Some say that the man with house and soon thereafter left home then went over to Klamath rtdls be­ two of turnips were planted to find
fore coming hero. «
peace on earth and good will toward through the right lung and into his the gun inside broke it out and flrod
out which of these give the largest
on the run for quieter quarters.
men.
production of feed at different times
right ana, a few inches below the at Russell twice while others contend
Th e-roner’s inquest found that
Send one of Bergen’s attractive pot during the fall and early winter. For
shoulder.
Death was instantaneous' that the falling glass tinkled on the ; Rai s ea we to his death at the hands
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A. J. Mayse wai a Coquille visitor and it was the only bullet hole la his sidewalk immediately after Morgan a
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yesterday from the East Fork.
body.
first shot.
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OLDEST COOS
PIONEER PASSES
Prompt Action by O. C. Sanford, E. D.
Webb, G. Russell Morgan, Bert Gould
and Others Prevents Robbery
Results in Death of One Bandit
and Capture of Other. It Was
All Over in 30 Minutes
HE WAS IN THE
LINE OF FIRE
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