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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1931)
The ? Provided County Budget Is Not Changed — Valuation ts Higher ■/' . — Unless there is a change in the county budget when the county court meets next Tuesday, the CoquiHe levy will be 76.2 mills for 19S1 taxes, a reduction of 4.9 mills from the 1980 levy, -' . The city levy is 22.8 mills, schools 23.2, port 2 mills, and the county and state, unless there is a change, will bo 22.7 mills. Even with an increase in valuation of <67,767, the reduced levy means that the entire tax paid by Coquille property will be about 81500 leas than last year. Assessed valuations in Coquille will be 857,767 greater next year than they were this, according to figures re leased from Assessor Beyers’ office Monday. The new valuation ia <1,- 096,150 as made by Mr. Beyers, and 8110,477 of public utility valuation, and are both an increase over the last valuation. For the eight towns in the county the total increase is 850,925. North Bend shows an increaae of 8278,778 and Marshfield is $210,577 lees. Following are given the valuations on which the 1931 tax will be figured for the eight towns: Myrtle Point, $622,999, a decrease of <10,385. Coquille, <1,206,627, an increase of 857,767. Marshfield, $4,464,977, a decrease of $210,577. North Bend, $2,782,471, an increase of $278,778. Bandon, $834,159, a $55,600. Empire, $146,996, 474, z - Eastside, $221,662, $4,148. '' *“ Lakeside, $32,554, a $6,884. C. H. S. Rod Devils hero Saturday night when Arago comes to try to repeat the previous drubbing adminis tered by them to the locals on their own floor. This time Coquille will be playing on a regular slued floor and with determination to erase the blot on their record. To do this she must play much better than she did at Arago; better both mentally and physically. New Concentrator Doing Well The Sentinel reporter has not been down to watch the operations of the new concentrator, installed by Messrs. Curson and Williams at the Madden mine near Sixea, but David Gustave- son reports that it is doing a splendid job of saving the value-bearing sands, and that it handles from three to four yards of sand an hour. Everyone interested in the possible gold development of Coos and Curry counties will Watch the results of its operations closely. Will Mean Trip to Portland Probably a duck-hunting warning is not necessary now, for every one knows that the season ended last Tuesday evening. But anyone who ia tempted to kill a duck now ia ad vised that apprehension will mean a trip to Portland to appear in federal court for violation of the United States law. And that will be more serious than a justice of the peace $25 fine locally. "Sailor Maids” Operetta Tonight Attention ia again called to the operettta, “Sailor Maid,” to be pre sented at the Liberty Theatre this evening by the combined glee clubs of Coquille high school, with a cast of good singers from among the students and supporting choruses of sailor maids and life guards. Admission is 50 cento with no reserved seats. Sentinel Out Early Next Week The Sentinel, with practically all other business houses in Coquille, will be closed next Fridsy, Christmas, and the following Friday, New Year’s. All correspondents and all advertisers are requested to send in their com munications or advs. one day earlier for the next two weeks. Santa Claus Will Bring Candy Santa Claus, inr person, is to pay J. L. Holyeroea’ cigar store a visit next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock and every child under eight yean of age in Coquille ia invited to come and see Saint Nick at that time. Each one will receive a bag of candy. " ceiving that they said the. tie boy who was hungry, and some broad. Mr. Paulson cut and as be handed the women tapped him < with both hands, exclaim sick man, you a sick man.” “No, I’m not sick,” Paulson replied as he shut the door. But when he started for bed that night he discovered his wallet with 3300 was gone. Sheriff Hess and Deputy Culver went over to the Bay trying to locate the gypsy outfit, but later learned that they had crossed the Rogue ferry at nine o’clock Wednesday night and were undoubtedly in California before midnight Paroled Convict Starts Writing Bogus Checks Again — Arrested about the received 8outhworth .. the chest. Mrs. Shinn the so'uth- a badly cut an injured hand. The Shinns and Southworth were taken to the Leap hospital for treatment, Both cars were badly damaged. Officer Currie of the state police who arrived on the scene soon after the accident had a complaint lodged against Best, charging reckless driv- ng. Although bogus check artists some- , times get away with their schemes to defraud the unwary here, Coquille is .or has acquired the reputation as a bad place for bank robbers and quest, bunco men to work. The latest of exonerated fender to have a quietus put on his Brewster, from operations was Raleigh Hoyleman, The accid< who was released from the pen three when it was responded weeks ago after serving two of a a little fog, ._______ . „ ... the alarm but before they three year sentence from Coos coun and the glare of lights on the pave could reach the scene the building ty for writing fraudulent checks. ment prevented the driver from see Was ablaze all over. His scheme might have worked, ing the boys until he waa within 40 Of the 28 head of cattle in the barn, too, If the old sleuth, Bill Zosel, hadn’t feet of them. nine cows and a bull were burned to had his suspicions aroused, and then Ray Brown, Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. death and two other cows so badly assisted Officer English to land him in Ray Brown, eight years old in Sep burned about the head that they were Best pleaded not guilty before Jus jail. tember, and Allen Reed KeHar, son of killed. tice Stanley here last Monday. Hie As English was taking Hoyleman Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kellar, were the All his machinery and farm equip trial was set for next Tuesday and to the city hall, with Zosel a few Spring-like This Morning victims. They had been attending re ment were destroyed and about 75 he was released on his own recogni feet behind, Hoyleman kept glancing There was another touch of winter hearsal of a class play at the J. W. tons of bay. The loss is estimated by sance. According to word reaching around for a poasible avenue of es this week when the thermometr got MoGuffin home, north of the Ralph Assistant Fire Chief Schram as be here Best was on the wrong'side of cape. He looked at the wood pile down to 23 degrees Monday morning Nosier residence, after school, and tween 33,500 and <4,000, with no in the road. back of the Ideal Bakery, but make and 21V4 Tuesday. Heavy frost, which were walking home. Mr. Brown, who surance unless there was some on the no attoempt until arrival at the in covered everything by nine o’clock is employed by the Busy Corner Gro building. P. O. Open Tomorrow Until 5 cline to the basement of the city hall. Tuesday evening, had disappeared cery, lives on the Sanford Heights Spontaneous combustion in the hay with the rising temperature by morn road, just off the Marshfield highway, The CoquiHe post office will be open Jerking suddenly, he threw the officer ia the oaly possible cause. The barn ing. Saturday, December 19, till Ave off balance, and then struck him in and Mr. Kellar’s home is across the was built on piling, as are co many the chest at the same time Mr. Eng The rain which started yesterday o ’ clock to receive parcels post. highway from there. barns in the valley, with the floor lish’s feet skidded on the concrete. was warm and this morning the The boys were just beyond the several feet above the ground. It Mr. Zosel followed Hoyleman as ho weather was just like spring. Chris Terre# place when struck. Ono had but the one floor. started to run towards Geo. F. Burr’s of them was well out on the highway , Mr. McNair heard a crackling and shop and just as Bill grabbed him, and the other near the edge. Brew found a spark, which had evidently Hayleman struck him back of the ear. ster jammed on his brakes when he blown from the hay, and extinguished Zosel held on, however, and almost saw them but could not stop his car it, but almost immediately the whole immediately the husky crook was before reaching the boys. At the meeting of the Chamber of struck with a flying tackle by LeRoy hay mow section burst into flames. He and his companion, Fred Crush, A second alarm sounded at 6:45 last Commerce directors Wednesday even Swinney who had jumped from a ear jumped out instantly, picked up the evening. The call came from the ing, Pres. Wm. Zosel announced the to assist. All three went down and unfortunate little fallows, and brought Mrs. Thos. Lane home, but before the appointment of R. L. Stewart on the the officer arrived at once and took them in to the Knife hospital in a department drived thio fire was out Community Chest committee to suc Hoyleman to jail. He was later truck which came along just as the A short in the Lane car burned the ceed A. T. Morrison, who resigned transferred to the county jail. accident happened. wiring and vacuum tank, causing last week. N. C. Kelley is chairman Hoyleman gave C. H. Dondono a Ray died within 16 minutes after about |25 damage. of the cheat committee, and Mrs. Ida check last Saturday night for <17.50 reaching the hospital, and Reed lived K. Owen the other member. The com on a Marshfield bank, signed with the until 2:15 the next morning. Bandon Cases in Stanley’s Court mittee made a partial canvaas last name of “C. R. Ricker.” It was to The boys were playmates and al week and hope to finish covering the pay 812.50 room rent and Dondono , Several cases were brought before most inseparable. Mr. Brown says [Justice Stanley Monday morning by business section this week. gave him <5 in cash. But mA having thst Rood was the first pal of his own, * Officer A. 8. Currie, moot of them for D. J. R. Bunch was appointed a the cash Dondono took the check in committee of ona to make arrange-! ¿Vr" Zosel's itore, endorsed it, and age that Ray had ever had. violations near Bandon. Fvndral services were heM at the' menta for the securing and setting up received the <17.50 from Bill Pook. | Chas. Flanders pleaded guilty to Pioneer ehurch Sunday at 2 p. m. driving while intoxicated and was of small evergreen trees in the busi one of the clerks. Rev. P. D. Hartman, of Monday morning, Hoyleman went in fined $100. His jail sentence of SO ness section, the expense to be borne MacDonald, of days was suspended. A charge of by the Chamber of Commerce. As far to the Zosel store and gave a cock endance of sym- | fading to atop and render aid when as possible the holes in the curbs made and bull story about why he was neighbors was for flagstaffs will be used for the afraid the $17.50 check was no good, Interment > ! he struck a ear a mile eaet of Bandon, trees, and others will be tied to poles. and offered to give Mr. Zosel one on was dismissed. cemetery. The use of the colored light stream a Medford bank and which he signed Geo. N. Bradbum, charged with a eed ia sur- similar offense, the accident happen ers for decorating the Christmas tree, as W. H. Freeman. But before writ Rose, aged ing at almost the same spot as Flan on the lot across from the Cooquille ing that check he had folded the ori Mm. Kollar ders’ was released on $300 bail. His Service Station, was approved. Last ginal one and put it in hie pocket and waa formerly Miss Nellie Johnson. year some miscreant cut a lot of the when asked by Mr. Zosel to do so, ease is set for next Wedneeday. She is a niece of Mm. Emily Heraey. Frank Simmons, of Empire, was ar wire in the strings of lights which the proceeded to write another but mis Ray ia survived by his parents, and rested by Officer Currie Monday even Woman’s Club had provided and the dating it. two brothers and two sisters—Donna The whole thing looked fishy to ing for stealing a crate of oranges ladies did not feel like purchasing Marie 6, Beverly Jean 4, Douglas from the F. E. Cornell truck at Ban more this year. At the request of the the president of the Chamber of Beginning a two weeks’ service in Keith 2, and Billy Burton 1. don. His sentence of 60 days in jail Woman’s Club, the Legion decided Commerce, who hunted up the officer The sympathy of the entire com the Christian Church Sunday, Doe. 20, waa suspended for six months by Monday evening to secure and erect and asked him to arrest Hoyleman. munity ia extended to the bereaved the tree. Errol B. Sloan, son of Mr. and Mrs. The first thing they did was to insist Justice Stanley here Tuesday. The directors also voted to budget thst Hoyleman date the check correct W. A. Sloan of this city, and himaelf families in their lose. Palmer E. Burns, who was connect Mr. Brown said yesterday that the a graduate of the 1924 Coquille High ed with the cattle rustling ease near 2200 for support of Boy Scout work in ly and then they ran around town try School class, will be warmly greeted radio broadcasting of the accident Bandon, a month or two ago, pleaded 1982. ing to find Hoyleman’a partner who from Portland was heard by a cousin had papers establishing Hoylemsn’a by his old friends and classmates. guilty to petit larceny before Justice of hia in Washington that evening, a Erroll is now attending college for Stanley, Monday. He was sentenced Liberty's Free Show for Pupils identity as Freeman. Failing to find letter this week apprising him of the his eighth year in Eugene and is also to a year in jail and paroled. Mr. and Mrs. A. Coombs, of the this partner they went to the First (Continued on last page) serving as pastor in his fourth year Liberty Theatre, are giving their National Bank where O. C. Sanford at the Eugene Fairmount ehurch. Af Judge Brand at Roseburg first free matinee to Coquille school called up Medford and learned that Slippery Road to Fishtrap there was no W. H. Freeman account ter graduating from the Bible School Judge J. T. Brand has been in Rose children and pupils on the afternoon there as Bachelor of Theology and It’s a groat wonder there were no burg this week, sitting on the bench of Thursday, Doc. SI. They made a there. The next move waa to jail. J. E. Quick, on First street, also Oratory, he attended U. of O. and re wrecks on the road up to Roy school for Judge J. W. Hamilton, who is ill. practice in Burns of giving a free lost $2.50 in cash to Hoyleman who ceived his Bachelor of Arte degree. house last evening when about fifty show to pupils and students during Before going he announced that Tues gave him a C. R. Ricker check for $5 He ia now doing post graduate work. cam went up to the McNair fire. The day, Dee. 29, would be motion day in the Christmas holidays, and are going Saturday night and then in a read He was on the debate team in both road had been recently scraped, with to make it an annual affair here. Circuit court here. justment and proposed purchase of Bible College and U. of O, and in the mud on the side pushed up on to Only children with tickets will be ad 1930 was a member of the university the graved, and it made the road as Tickets will be goods Monday morning, put the bogus Visitors* day at the county jail next mitted, however. debate team which toured nine west slick as grease. Even a speed of 20 given in the grade rooms today, and check in his pocket and walked out. week will bo on Thursday, Doe. 24, in On his first trip to the city hall with ern states. miles an hour caused a car to skid stead of on Friday, the usual day, in the high school next Tuesdsy. English and Zosel, Monday morning, Errol always stood high in debate. back and forth across the road. ■ays Harold Varney, jailer. Hoyleman tore up the original $17.50 He was on the C. H. S. debate team Parcels Post tight This Year check and flushed it into the sewer, for four years and one year won the County Court Furnishes Outstanding County Warrant Record For a great many years the Sen so if Mr. Zosel had not had the sec county oratorical contest. He was for Past Eleven Years tinel has been reporting just before ond check there would have been no also student body president and edi Christmas a record-breaking mail evidence against him bn which to1 ob The county court furnishes the press the following statment re tor of "The Laurel” one year. dispatch and receipts of parcels post, tain a veMict of obtaining money un Last year he won the Failing- garding outstanding county warrants for the past eleven years: each season’s mail being heavier than der false pretenses. There seems to be a misunderstanding on the part of certain taxpay Beekman Oratorical contest, which is the one preceding. This year, tip to As it is, so far as learned, Hoyle- open to all the members of the senior ers with reference to the amount of warrants outstanding against Coos this morning, the record breaking man received but $7.50 in cash from elaaa in the University, winning a County in General and General Road Funds and the accumulation of them. has been in the other direction, there hia activities here. The County Court desiring that the public should bo fully inforsaed, cash prize of 8150.00. He ia a mem being lees incoming and outgoing mail A charge of issuing a check with- ber of Delta Sigma Rho, national have therefore caused a table of county indebtedness to be compiled begin- than ever before. out sufficient funds to pay the ume honorary foreenie society, and last ning with the year 1921. • Year General Fund was filed against Hoyleman in Jus year was president of the local chap General Road Total Doc. 81, 1921 $ 18,472.01 tice Stanley’ court Wednesday, and ter. $ 18,059.78 $ »1 fA 1.74 Milk Fund la Great Help 1922 171,546,09 he was bound over to the grand jury. 289,496.56 67,947.46 Supt. W. V. Ferguson says that the 1923 213322.21 135,167.14 348,98945 Hess Glad to Got Back most recent addition to the school 1924 204,181.12 109,024.05 818306.17 Lloyd Wise Killed at Bridge milk fund wsa a contribution of $10 Sheriff Hem returned Tueaday ev 1925 256,551« 161,875.04 417,927.00 by the ladies of the Catholic church. Lloyd Wise, son of W. H. Wise, of 1926 V ' 335,782.76 ening from Pendleton with Sam 66325.17 392,607.98 This fund is a great benefit to many Powers, was killed Wednesday at the Price, who is charged with stealing 1927 289,232.54 208,908.25 498,135.79 of the school children who would not Blankenship mill near Bridge, when a cable some months ago from the Coos 387321.31 1928 244,652 A4 682,17845 otherwise have as much milk as they timber hit him and crushed his skull. Bay Lumber Co. at Powers. Mr. Hess ’ 1929 328,720.95 582,383.04 258,662.09 need. He loaves a wife and three children. says it was like getting back to 1930 246,697.85 219352.58 465,950.43 Their home is on Myrtle Creak, near God’s country when he came over Nov. 1, 1931 809,691.70 241,18647 550,777.17 County Budget Hearing, Dee. 22 Bancroft. Camas countain Tuesday. From Thus it will seen at what rate county warrant indebtedness grew Portland to Pendleton he drove upon us, being virtually on a cash basis in 1921, climbing to «82,178.65 in The public hearing on the 1932 Coos through a blizzard and the entire trip 1928, reducing during 1929 and 1930 to 8465,950.43, and now standing at county budget will be held in the coun C. of C. Nominating Committee up the river and back was made on 8550,777.17. This showing in the face of the largo amounts we are com ty court room at the court house next Wm. A. Zosel, president of the Co icy pavements, solid ice over every pelled to budget for interest and sinking funds, wa think is fairly crwdita- Tuesday morning. Dee. 28. Every quille Chamber of Commerce, has thing. He turned back the first day Me, taking into consideration the reduced interest rate on delinquent taxpayer will have an opoprtunity at pointed as a nominating after going out 25 miles, and finding taxes and the existing financial condition. that time to present any objection he the chamber’s annual stalled machines everywhere, but got D. F. Tompson, Wm. Hagge or she may have to the budget or any will bo' held next month, through Monday.' County Judge CoasmiasfoMe item la it art, C. C. Farr and H. A. Young. ERROLSLOANTO HOLD SERVICES CITY TO SHOW HOLIDAY GARB ■I
