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the target shot. The fellow who can
register a bull’s eye nine times out of
By Lana Lensve
I have interviewed several old-tim­ ton at 50 yeads, on a target range,
ers the past week and asked that they can’t hit a whole flock of doer out in
the woods at the same distance, while
relate their most unusual experience
on the other hand the man that can
in the hunting or fishing game. Most
be depended upon to knock his buck
of them scratched their hpada and re­
over regularly, can’t hit a flock of
marked that they must have a little
time to think the matter up.
And targets on the range.
Pussy wiHows in full bloom on
right there is a mighty good sign that
Christmas day is rather unusual for
we
are
going
to
get
some
good yarns from them.
Most of this part of the country but they were
them have had so many different ex­ bloomed out and plenty of them.
A rare sight occugged last Thurs­
periences during years and years of
day when two beautiful rainbows ap­
fishing and hunting that it is really
peared at the same time in the north­
a hard proposition for them to state
east sky, one being immediately Above
which one was really the most inter­
Speaking of seeing two
esting.
But you msy rest assured the other.
of everything: a tourist after going
that we are going to . have some
through Yellowstone Park said that
mighty fine stories from them in th*
near future. Tonight M. J. Hartoon it was one trip that he got his money’s
worth out of. He drank a quart of li­
has joined us. “Weli, what have you
quor and saw everything twice.
to offer. Harts’?"
It is claimed that the saliva from
* “Just a little fish story is all. When
a human’s mouth is deadly poison to
I was a boy I lived on the Fox river
a snake, be it rattler or garter. I
in Wisconsin. The river was full of
have Bill Ferbrachd*« and “Butch"
muskies.
Perhaps you know these
Elmer Briner’s word for it that Butch
fish bite most any sort of bait They
spit in a garter snake’s mouth, and
are also noted for attacking one of
that the snake was dea&' within a-few
their kind, when the latter is caught
on a fisherman’s hook. They always seconds. I claim that “Butch" guy
strike for the stomach of the helpless is Just plum poison.
Grey foxes are said to be harmless
fish, that being his most enter spot.
when caught in a steel trap. One
One of our favorite methods of tak­
ing these fish in the Fox river was trapper in Utah states that he ap­
to stretch a cable across the river, proaches the fox in his trap, picks it
having baited hooks attached to it up by the back of the neck, releasee
several feet apart. It would not be it from the trap and then laying it
long until a musky would strike. He upon the ground presses his foot hard
would swallow the hook and bait An­ down behind its shoulder and it passes
other fish would spot him helpless >n immediately. He claims thst they
upon the hook and would bite him in shut their eyes as soon as you put
the stomach and immediately be your hand upon them and do not
think of biting you. Somehow I could­
caught upon the hook the first fish
had swallowed. It did not take long n’t get much of a kick out of trapping
rttimala of that sort
to fill the entire cable with these big
Sunday, Mrs. Annie Robinson, my
fish which were landed by the aid of a
lad, my wife and I drove down to
steam engine."
Now there’s a foxy yarn from Fox- Bandon to take a look at the ocean
luring the storm. * A wonderful sight
river, related by a foxy fisherman
{rested our eyes. The waves were
Thanks, Harts'. Once upon a time
creaking high.
Like great, green,
I received a membership diploma in
white-capped monsters they roared
“The All-Star American Fishing
ind dashed themselves upon the rocks
Club” for telling a whopper of a fish
where they were splintered into mil­
story. Got a notion to pass it along
lions of particles of foam-flecked
to you.
«pray; but always another one to take
The Chinese pheasant question is
.he place of the vanquished one. Roar-
forever bobbing up.
Almost every
ng its challenge, it would meet the
week I hear of several suggestions
lame fate in another great spume of
how these birds could bo propagated.
mow-white spray. The rocks of or­
One solution to the question, I believe,
dinary height were completely sub­
is to liberate these birds only on land
merged by the waves, while the larg­
where the owners refuse to have them
est rock in sight, north of the look­
hunted and will give them protection
out station, presented an awe-inspiring
If the sportsmen themselves would
picture with the giant waves crashing
lay off shooting the birds for a year
»gainst it
One huge wave went
or so they would surely increase.
But, of course, they refuse to do this completely over it at one point.
‘Watching the raging sea on such a
There is a continual cry for more
lay, it is hard to imagine it the same
birds to be shipped in from the game
farm and they are usually shipped in ocean that you so dreamily gased up­
on a few weeks back, with Just a
a few days before open season and the
slight swell upon it\ mighty bosom
majority of them placed on grounds
that sent tiny foam-flecked waves
where they may be hunted and fall
curling lazily upon the sand. But the
an easy prey to the hunters the very
first day of the season. To raise a sight of that green, white-capped
monster, majestic in its roaring, dash­
“chink” to maturity costa in the
ing fury, last Sunday, was a sight to
neighborhood of <4.00. Did you ever
quicken the pulse boats of any per­
stop to consider the fact that if you
bagged the limit of four birds in one son.
Tusko, Portland’s big pet elephant
day that you had 816.00 worth of
went on a rampage Christmas day and
birds in the old huntin’ coat? Ac­
almost psid with his life as a result
cording to -the actuaY coat of produc­
Picked men from the Portland police
tion, that is what you have.
department were dispatched to the
But Just as long as sportsmen hunt
acene with high power rifles with or­
them down and bag practicaHy every
ders to shoot if the big fellow broke
one each season and they are liberat­
ed where there is no protection, there entirely free of his shackles. How­
ever he was trapped without being
will bo a scarcity of these groat game
killed. The chances are that every,
birds.
man,
had he had to shoot Tusko,
Lota of people get mighty careless
would have sought to pick a vital spot
in the handling of a 22 rifle.
Many
look upon it as a pop-gun. Few re­ when be fired. A maddened elephant
is mighty hard to stop with anything
alise the fact that the long rifle cart­
ridge in this little gun has an extreme short of a cannon. It took volley af­
ter volley to kill poor old Black Dia­
range of 1400 yards and the bullet
mond, one of the largest elephants in
striking at that distance is capable of
captivity and thia beast was not mad­
entering the human skull. There have
He paid with his
been many s bear, deer and cougar dened when shot.
slain with these little guns. I know life for taking the life of a human
being. I doubt if any of the police
of an instance down in Curry county
force who were going to shoot Tus­
where an old Shepherd dog treed a
ko, if he broke entirely free, would
nine-foot cougar. There were three
have known the most effective spot
small lads along with the dog, one of
them being armed with a »mail 22 which to place a bullet in order to
rifle, shooting shorts only. As they down the big beast with one direct hit
So Just in ease any of you ever run
reached the tree the cougar Jumped
up
against a maddened elephant and
out and fled, but the dog again put
him up. By this time the father of are forced to shoot him, I am going
two of the youngsters reached them. to toll you the exact spot to pick to
place your bullet One well directed
When told that the dog had a big
spot at the elephant’s knee will do
cougar up a tree the man immediately
the business. Breaking the knee joint
forbade his two boys to go after it
will let the big brute down like sev­
and sought to persuade the other lit­
eral tons of brick, and what’s more
tle fellow, who was carrying the 22,
he will stay down, for an elephant is
to go home. But the boy refused and
one animal that cannot travel upon
net out for the spot where the dog
had treed the big cat the second time. three legs on acocunt of hie tremen­
He came out upon a bank almost dous weight I assure you that I never
gained this knowledge while in pursuit I
level with the cougar and only about
of tuskers but the information was
30 feet from it. Drawing a bead on
given me by a hunter of African big
the cougar’s ear, be pressed the trig­
ger. The animal rolled out atone game.
dead.
The 22 long rifle cartridge is claim­ Port Orford Defeated at Home
Again the Coquille Jinx struck Port
ed to be the most accurate cartridge
in the worty. The 38 Special la claim­ Orford; this time on their home
ed to be the most accurate pistol cart­ floor as the Pirates of Battle Rock
ridge manufactured.
Good pistol tumbled from their lofty altitude, 28
shots ar* few and far between. Take to 17, last Tuesday night.
Coquille didn’t perform as she did
the average man with the average re­
volver and a five gallon can is per­ in downing the Pirates the first time
fectly safe at 20 yards. It is very this year, losing some of their smooth
seldom that the combination of a good teamwork, thus having a harder time
rifle and a good wing shot is found. to win. The Alumni team, or For­
Usually a good wing shot is a poor tier’s White Angels, lost 25 to 22, to
rifle shot, while on the other hand She Port Orford All-Stars in a pre­
the man that can get a door “on high- Inn ary game. Only five players—
pretty regular, is usually a pretty Denton Ellingson, Eddie Lorens. Ray
bum shot with a scatter gun. And Woodyard, Harold Stevens, and Ev­
then again, take the game shot and erett Seeley-played for the alumni.
OUT-OF-DOORS STUFF
BLACKSMITH SHOP
ADDED
A blacksmith ajiop has been added to the Coquille
Machine Shop equipment and those needing that
kind of work will find Fred Schaer in charge of
the department.
Let us figure with you on your requirements.
COQUILLE MACHINE SHOP
COQUILLE
Now Using Rogue Bridge
High water on the Rogue pot the
ferry at Gold Beach out of commis­
sion last Thursday but the highway
department had anticipated H and put
gravel on the approaches to the bridge
so that automobiles began using the
new I. L. Patterson bridge on Christ­
mas eve.
With ice and »now on the Pacific
highway in northern California, the
Coast road is much the safer route of
travel now, and efforts to keep trav­
ellers off the winter road up the coast
through Curry and Coos counties
should stop. The following item from
Jack Jusa’s Dei Norte Triplicate, at
Crescent City, would have its readers
believe that the bridge across the
Rogue would not be open to travel
for a month yet:
The form work has been removed
from the new concrete bridge across
the Rogue river between Wedderburn
and Gold Beach and trucks are poss-
ing over the structure. Dirt which is
being removed from the cuts at the
north end of the bridge is being used
to fill the southern approach prepar­
atory to surafcing the road.
The bridge is to be formally opened
to traffic May 1«, 1932. Gold Beach
is planning a celebration to commem­
orate the event, which means the
opening of another link of the all-
eoast route through Oregon.
Recent rains have held up the con­
struction of the bridge lately. It was
expected that the bridge would be
opened in January, but it is now un­
likely traffic Will pass over the span
before February 1.
Tax DeHaquenciU in State
Safety First! Use Cow Boil Dairy’s
Pssteurised Milk and protest your
blithe
U '--- -
Tax delinquendo» ranging from a
minimum of 19 percent in Baker
county to a maximum of 55.66 per­
cent in Crook county are shown in
reports filed by Sheriffs of every coun­
ty in the state, with the exception of
Union, with State Treasurer Rufus
Holman. Exeept for Lake county the
delinquencies this ysar show a mater­
ial increase over those for 1980. Lake
county’s delinquency shows an im­
provement of 4.57 percent over those
of 1930.
A
Coos county with a tax roll of |1,-
786,958.72 had collected <992,11948
of this amount it the time the report
was made, leaving a delinquency of
42.85 percent, representing an in­
crease of 20.73 per cent over the 1930
delinquency.___ ..
Sheriffs who commented on the con­
dition were prone to blame the act of
1981 reducing interest on tax delin­
quencies from 12 to 8 percent a year
and eliminating the penalty entirely,
for moa* of th* increase in delin­
quencies, although adverse business
conditions admittedly had something
to do with the failure of many to pay
their taxes. Wheat and timber pro­
ducing counties are shown to have
been the hardest hit by tax delin­
quencies with Willamette Valley coun­
ties making the best showing except
for Baker county in eastern Oregon.
Well, at least Santa Chu« la just
around the corner.
From now until
Christmas those who can afford it will
forget the past and think of nothing
but the present/
A Happy New Year
is our wish for all of you.
We have just received a shipment of new currency for the
holidays, and we always have gold coins for
those who want them.
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Coquille, Oregon
Transfer and Delivery
Local and Long Distance Hauling
Agents for McLain Coal
Mill Wood
Pb
101-J and 224-L
Mansell Drayage & Delivery Co.
Cure W* b Drastic,
but Effective
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B, CHARLES SLOAN REID
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(A br MoClare Newspaper »radicate.)
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men, with mattocks and
stood Walting for an
eighth man at the cross-roads on the
south side of Little Hogback moun­
tain. The morning sun was just peep­
ing through the tree tops Abe Luns­
ford strode Into view from a trail that
eame tn from the Toxiway side.
“flay, Mlers,” greeted Lunsford. “I
think we got another job afore we
start to ditchin* down the valley this
mornin*."
“What's thet?” Inquired Bob Mauney,
a big fellow from back on Fish-back
ridge.
“I jee* learned wbar 'Bull' Goggins
Is hidin’ out,” declared Abe; “an’ I've
flggered out a scheme as I oplne’ll im­
prove his ways. He lit out arter beat-
la* up the ol* man t'other night; an'
thar ain't nobody as has hyeard any­
thing from him till last night He
mauled the ol* man somethin' turrlble
this time. A chap as will beat up his
sick daddy la a scamp as ought to have
attention, says L”
“Tuh’re dead right Abel" agreed
Mauney.
“Bull got sheered thet ol' Ben was
goto' to take the law o’ him this
time; an* he's hid out The low-down
cuss ain't hit a lick o’ work In more'n
a year; an’ the ol' man can’t more’n
make tongue an* bucltle meet, a dlggln*
yearbs; t'aln't nothin’ but right thet
somethin' sh’d be done to Bull.”
“Whar la her' one of the men want­
ed to know.
“Dad hyeard It from Crazy Mosey
thet Bull’s a hidin' in the ol* shaft
thet Godby sunk down the ridge thar
above the Milk-Sick cove, four years
ago, a lookin' for gold as warn't thar."
“What’s yuhr idee, Abe?” asked Bob.
"Why, we’U stop on the wsy down
the ridge, and fill up thet dinged o'
shaft."
'
“Lord, yuh don’t mean to bury the
cuss alive, do yuh?”
“Hit ain't likely be*ll git buried
much deep; but I opine hit’ll set him
to thlnkln’.”
"I reckon."
“Let’s go!"
The shaft In which Bull Goggins was
presumed to have taken abetter was
about twenty feet deep.
The men gathered about the top of
the shaft Some of them began to
loosen the earth In a nearby area,
while others prepared to shovel It In
upon the man below. Abe Lunsford
began to talk in a loud tone.
“Well, fellers,” he declared; “yuh
know, we ain’t got but two hours to
fill up this dinged hole; so I reckon
we better git busy. Lead off. Bob,
an* we*ll sing Th» Rovin’ Gambler.’
Seems I alien could work faster to
that tune."
Following this speech three or four
shovelfuls of earth, not unmlxed with
small stones, went crashing Into the
shaft At the same time the voices
of the men swung Into the rousing
song. At the bottom of the bole stood
a man in sudden terror, partially
sheltered by
a Jutting rock. He
opened bls mouth to scream, but re­
frained, at the same time flattening
himself more closely against the wall.
Presently his head was pressed
against the rock above. Another foot
of earth beneath his feet, and he no
longer might enjoy the protection of
the crag.
Then to the stentorian tones of Abo
Lwferd camo the words;
EVEN
S shovels,
"Say, fellers; as soon as we’ve
qboveled In another yard or two, we’ll
git together an’ roll In thet big rock
up thar. Hit'll fill In about three
feet, I opine.”
A terrified cry now went up from
the bottom of the shaft Lunsford,
after a smile toward some of his fel­
lows, looked In over the edge. “Who’s
that?" he asked.
“Hit’s Bull Goggins. What yuh try-
ln’ to do—bury me alive?”
Abe turned about “Eellera," he
said, “Bull Goggins 1» down thar—la’s
hurry an’ fill up the hole. Hit'll be a
good riddance. He won't work a lick,
an* he's alters a beatin* up the ol’
man."
Upon this command there arose,
from the depths of the shaft such a
series of pleadings as might have
melted the heart of a gargoyle. Abe
ordered the singing and the shoveling
resumed. An avalanche of soli poured
in upon Bull Goggins for the next ten
minutes, without a moment's abate­
ment Meanwhile Bull was bellowing
and begging with all of bl» lung
power.
“'Bout time to roll in the rock, fel-
lers!’’ Lunsford shouted.
The earth shower ceased, Bull Gog-
gins was now screaming for mercy.
Presently Abe leaned over the shaft.
*’Ef we let yuh out,” he asked; “would
yuh take a turn for the better?"
“Lord, I’ll do anything. I swear I’ll
go to work, an* I’ll never do the ol*
man another lick o' harm as long as
I live!”
Abe turned about chuckling. “He’s
got his lesson, I reckon, fellers,” he
said.
The following morning. Bull Goggins
was swinging a heavy mattock In the
murkiest part of the big valley ditch.
Abe Lunsford gave his fellows an oc­
casional sly wink.
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Oldest Greek Date
The oldest documentary evidence in
Greek goes bsck to farther than the
Eighth century B. C. The earliest his­
torical date Is that of the Olympian
games, 776 B. CL
Original “Patent Law"
In very early times in England the
reigning prince considered himself en­
titled to grant privileges of the na­
ture of monopolies to snyone who
had gained his favor. These grants
became so numerous, oppressive end
unjust that during the reign of James
I (1008-1625) a statute was wrung from
the king declaring all grievous and In­
convenient monopolies to be void.
There was a special exception from
that enactment of all letters, patents,
grants and privileges of the “sole
working or making of any manner of
new manufactures within the realm
to the true and first Inventor.” Upon
these words bangs the whole law of
letters and patents for inventions.
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Easters Tru»>p«ts
Tll»etan trumpets, made of conch
shells, mounted in embossed brass and
copper, or gilt bronze Inlaid with
stones, are on exhibition among the
oriental collection at Field Museum of
Natural History, Chicago.
In Tibet the conch shells In which
the spirals wind from left to right. In­
stead of the usual form from right to
left, are very high priced. The trump
eta made from them are used to sum-
mon the lamas to their dally prayer
meetings.
Similar trumpets are used by boat
men In middle China and In India,
where they are said to have been In­
vented. They are employed to Imitate
the roar of celestial elephants. ,
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