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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1917)
ira&MNfc* w v & h 7.JHT F R ID A Y . DECEM BER 14, Jtfll7 BL-.L-J— LI. nr m e - g S g g = g g = " " r i ’W I.' " W hereas the A m w icsn Bad Cross, through its President, Honorable W oodrow W ilson; it « C aim an , Hon orable W illiam H. T a ft; and the Chair man o f its W ar Council. Honorable H. P. D ari son, has called upon a ll loyal and patriotic citisens o f the United States to affiliate with eaid o r ganization by taking membership therein, and W hereas the week o f December 17- 24 has been designated by the afore said ad the tim e fo r membership affil iation, and ‘ i > V t '; • W hereas the State o f Oregon has been assigned the quota o f 240,000 members, being SO per cent e f the ea- t¡m ated population, and W hereas to fu lfill its quota it is necessary fo r every man and Woman in Oregon to join the Am erican Bed Cioee, Therefore, I, E. E. Johnson, M ayor o f Coquill«, do hereby proclaim to all citisens o f the C ity o f Coqulll# that it is a patriotic duty incumbent upon each and a ll o f thorn th affiliate with the Am erican Red Croaa during the aforesaid week o f December 17-24, to the end that the C ity o f CoquiHe and the S tatt o f Oregon m ay sustain our Skows Up $200,000 la the Good in Her Latea! Finan- m U. a* & - The inform ation contained in the county budget which w e p cl lished Inst wash, and which appears again in this isene, when studied and digested affords a va ry com prehensive survey o f the financial condition o f Coca coun ty as a goin g concern. - t ; , The badgst hsows what the county court thinks ft w ill bo necessa ry to expend during the year 121» la the business managem ent e f the county and in compliance w ith the law s o f the state b at this is by no means all. The first Hems given relate to the courts e f the county and the amounts required fo r them which altogeth er a ggrega te $12,700. This ceVsrs the justices’ courts, juvenile oosurt,the county and circuit courts and the ex penses e f the d istrict attorney’s office in the enforcem ent o f the crim inal PLANS FOR CHRISTMAS Team N o. 6— M. O. Hawkins, cap tain; Mrs. M . O. Hawkins, Mrs. J. Norton, M rs. Aaron W ilson and Aaron Wilson. Team No. 7—Chaa. B axter, captain; Mrs. Chaa. Schroeder, M rs. T . B. Cur rie, Mrs. J. A . C ollier and Clarence T u ttle. ‘ IT ? "...-. TO OPEN THE RIVER’S MOUTH Mrs. F . G. Leslie, M rs. F ay Jones, A t the special masting o f the P ert Mrs. R . E. Fraedrick and If. C. True.' o f Blndon yesterday the eUam iarioa- Team No. • — J. L . Smith, captain; H im Ada N ew ell, Mrs. H enry Dbrenx, Mrs. B. H . B oras and B. H . Boras. d ig a channel a t the msuth Team No, 18— A . J. Sherwood, eap- quille river. F or san e tints tain ; M rs. C. McC. Johnson, Mrs. Jas. com ing into tjto river have Biithmowf, M rs. E. H. Hamden and E. H. Hamden. In the hall w ifi bs located a sm all daesratad tres and bags o f candy wiB bo provided fo r every child in attend ance. N o other present « w ill be per m itted. The Honor Guard has been called upen to decorate the tree and A t the street intersection above mentioned w ill be stationed a large Christmas tree, brigh tly illumined with colored ligh ts and decorated. This tree w ill stand fo r the week front Christmas to N ew Tears. Much interest is 'bein g shown by those who w ill take part in the pro gram and a very enjoyable entertain ment is assured fo r Christmas eve. Mya. C. A . G ags, Mrs. Geo. Robinson, Frank Burkholder and C. T . Sheets. W ith lfr . Norton, L . J. Cary aad I*. H . Hazard w ill form the executive committee. I t is the object o f this drive to se cure as members o f the N ational Red Cross every man, woman and child In the United States and H w ill Mean hard work fo r the com m ittees to see every one in their districts—especi a lly outside the towns. E very member is to be given s Red Crose button and every home, business house, office, etc., in which there a#e members w ill be presented w ith a ser vice fla g to be placed in the window. ( A Christmas eve from 7:80 to 2:80 it is desired that a candle be placed im m ediately behind this fla g bringing into prominence the Red Cross in ev ery house in town. Last evening the committees m et at the city hall fo r further instruction aad it promises wall fo r the success o f the drive when It Is stated that about fifty ware present. The town was divided into ton dis tricts and beginning next Monday a Railroad a Money Saver. The statem ent made by C. C. Car ter, M yrtle Point stockman, that a hundred cars at cattle have been ship ped from there in the past six months, recalls some estim ates by W . T . De- ther infection, $2,000; in paying too much ta menta, etc„ $200. Last week three o f the Ray papers agreed together as touching, one thing The Coos Bay Harbor, the Marshfield Rocatd and the A g ita to r a ll urgod that Coos county should “ throw o ff the in- terest and penalties due it on the K in ney taxes“ —make the parties owning the first claim s oa those properties a present o f that amount. These parties are the T itle Guarantee Trust Co., o f Portland, the holders o f the Shehan m ortgage, and F . B. W aite. These >* three security holder« who come next (a the tax liens, have respectively about $20,000, $S0,000 and $200,000 In terest in these properties. In arguing the injunction asked fo r by the T itle Guarantee and Tru st com pany against Q dos county to forbid the sale o f thoeo lands at Portland last M oaday M r. L iljeq vist represent ing the county, made a point which The Trust company was, o f course, one o f the parties to the proposed set tlem ent, i f the county would rem it all interest and penalties. But the Trust company, itself, has an origin al claim the courts have Axed a t $48,000. The interest accretions on this already make the total $20,000; yet this com pany which asks the county to lm nice and generous and free-hearted and throw o ff $40,000 o f its claim , has nev er once offered fo r the sake # f the holders o f the’ in ferior claims to throw o ff the $47,000 interest due it. N ot on your tin type. N or have eith er the holders o f the second m ortgage or the W aite interests suggested that they wonld put as much or a p re o f in ter est claim s into the pot and relinquish them in order to help the holders o f other junior claim s "'‘ r It is a cnee fas which every ether fello w proposes to keep nil he In s got sad get all hs can, hut in which strong presfure is being brought to b aar on inductTir^to reHmiuW)< $ 4 0 ,0 W ^7 th e county’s claim fo r tbe b eeeflt o f aotne capitalists, who do not propose to re linquish a copper o f their datum in anybody's interact. The people at large are alw ays the The Geo. W . Moore m ill, o f Bandon, goat in such eases and the men who was closed yesterday ow ing to the act fo r them ago alw ays asked to do crowded condition o f the docks with no stenmers aide to get in and load, their constituents to leran what their and every day the ahoal exisit* it ia wishes are in the m atter. People who pay their own taxes costing the CoquiHe river dear. There ia strong hope that congress in fu ll without any squealing are not ional action w ill be taken at this ces very much impressed by the requests sion which w|ll result in the greatly made by big capitalists fo r special needed work on bar aad river channel fffvors. 'j: It is no doubt true, as the B ay pa being done. Aa a w a r measure, in fa cilita tin g the gettin g out o f spruce, pers referred to, assert, that the K in it should have recognition and strong ney properties were hold at prices fa r pressure is being brought to bear with beyond th eir value aad very lik ely as the engineers and others in positions sessed at the request o f their owner o i autnoncy. Just wnat interests are fo r m ors than their value would w ar opposing the project has n ot boon rant. This over-valuation was also with a view to unloading on credulous brought to ligh t. purchasers, as these papers assert. It was a scheme to catch suckers, Some Tax Figures. but one in which those who went out The state ta x levy tor Coos county to «hear are board to come back this year is $62,236.70. This is $$,- shorn. Is that any reason why the 884.40 more than last year when it was $58,562.10. down sta y? W e trow not. The valuation o f the property e f But, we believe, that i f everyone in Coos county this year after receiving terested in the Kinney tract, a ll the the figures fo r the Public U tility cor way down the line to the estate o f the porations from the 8tate Tax Com original schemer, now in the Salem mission is $20,008,604. This is $240,- hospital fo r the inshaa, w ill forego He W7 mare than in 191« when it waa daim to interest on i$s investm ent in $19,762,677. It is also $1,106,04« less these lands the Sentinel w ill be glad than in 1915 before the O. * C. lands to urge the court to be just as gener were taken o ff tip rolls. Then it was ous as the law w ill perm it. $21,109,670. W hite our valuation has increased leas than «w o par cent in the past year, the state tax w e pay has inrreased six per cent. That is the lim it under the law or those fellow s at Salem would probably have made it higher still. Jndffe Coke Has the Case. The esse of Ella aad Warren V. Og- ren against the City of CoquIÜS, in- volving the valldtty ef the ordinanee imposbig a 10 per Cent Ucenee on the Stocks of transient traders ia still in Jedge Coke’s hands. It was agreed by the rity attoraey timt ne attaaspt would be made te enforee the oedin- ance in this ease until Judge Coke had