The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921, February 01, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textgpg a n f 'S*, v tv -m *v i, " t > .. v >■ v r ki ■ * ANJD THE OOQUILLE HERAJJ) . . C O Q U IL L E , COOB C O U N T Y . ORBGON. VOL. XIU. NO. 8. 1 mmm ■?. 1 ■ $130 T H E Y R A B . F R ID A Y . F E B R U A R Y L 1916. . BBS UMBER BOUGHT^ About that 2,500 Aere Sale at South Slough—the Coun ty Crai««. i Sentinel in valleys like that o f Catching creek. H e says that th e value o f the tim - A n a rticle in regard to tha sate o f 2600 acres o f spruce and white tim ber a t the head o f South Inlet, about 10 m iles northw est e f Coquilte, te republished elsewhere In this to- sae. Tha statem ent te there th at there are approxteaaUly 200 asil- 1km fe e t o f spruce in this tract. This statem ent put us oa inquiry and so w e went back to tha figures fo r Dan nie M cCarthy’s cruise o f the o f the county, which te re-published below, and learned that he found only 684 m illion fe e t o f tim ber in the en ter* county. That tw o-fifth s o f this spruce was located in sixteen quarter sections in one tra ct w s denn ed ex trem ely im probable. Since w ritin g the above w e have talked w ith M r. M cCarthy and he says that he feels sure there are lees than 100 m illion fo o t o f tim ber on the 2500 acres Just sold, and th at net m ore than 26 per eant o f this to spruce. Th at w eald make the figu re fo r the sprue« in this tra ct about 20 m illion fe e t instead o f 200 m illion. And o f that 20 m illion n et to eaeeed 8 per cent w ill bo available fo r us* in aeroplane construction. Be only a little m ore than a m illion and h a lf fe e t e f spruce w ill g o into flyin g n s - chines, even i f the whole 8600 acres te logged off. These facte indicate how big a task H te to provide the tela our governm ent must have fo r the w ar in the a ir—a lee how reckless ly some people throw in figures in tutea, the “ fifty -fifty ” order, requir N EW FLOUR RULES MADE F ollow in g w e reprint frees the Sen tin el o f Sept. 4,1914, the article on M m county cxqtee o f tim ber then Just completed, which la o f greater In terest now than when published, ow in g both to the unprecedented do- in g the tim ber lands o f Coos county, has this week turned in bis final re port to Assessor T h rift, and furnishes us the follo w in g summary o f hie flg- T ota l acreage o f tim ber in Cese county, 609386- T otal acreage not tim bered, 244,623. Grand total acreage o f county, 774JH7. No. fe e t o f old grow th fir, 8,428,- 866 , 000 . custom er must buy 8 lbs. o f corn meal or other substitute, and that the ratio o f three-to-one must be strictly ad hered te fat a ll sales o f wheat flour. Th is ruling, he points out, does not in any w ay m odify or effect the lim ita tions on the amounts o f flour that a customer m ay purchase, as determ in ed by previous rulings. The purchas er w ill be lim ited in the quantity he ■toy buy, Just as before, and in addi tion must purchase on* pound o f sub- N o. fe e t o f sesead g ro wth fir, 8<■ 702,266,000. No. fe e t w hite fir, 68,280,000. No. foot spruce, 584309,000. No. o ffs e t w hite cedar, 496,086(000 No. fe e t o f rod cedar, 98,142,000. N o. foot o f hemlock, 390,964,000. No. foot o f sugar and yellow pino. 6387,900. 927386,000. A t an estim ate fit only $1.00 par thousand it w ill be seen that this dm. ber stands a t a valuation o f about 19 m illions. But he adds that anything whichs boosts the lumber m arket, as the reconstruction o f San Francisco did, m ight easily double that figure. And a t the asm# tim e a ll the tim ber is being held now a t a figu re higher than tha $1.00 a thousand mark and H is probable that by the tim e it is cut a ll o f it w ill have averaged ai Club to Hold Aaanal Election. Gets Te Work Today. The new Board o f Appraisers fo r assessment purposes began work over a t the Bay this m orning. A ll tho members met here in the county court room with Judge W atson and A s sessor Beyers yesterday afternoon. Thoso present w ere Dennis McCarthy, A . A . Selander, H. J. Kim ball and J. A C ollier. MV. Kim ball said he thought ha had been selected because he had learned te stand lota o f cuss in g from people who w ere displeased w ith hie official acts and wouldn’t mind a little m ore o f K. Everyone w ith an axe to grind or a low assessment they want te stand is now tryin g to g et tho ear o f some member o f the board and the amount o f argum ents to which they w ill all be compelled to listen in the interest o f partial and ewe aided assessments would fin volum e*. It is probable that the board w ill finish up its work at the north end o f the county w ith M r. Kim ball as a A ctin g on an authentic tip Marshal Epperson and Deputy Hudson went down to the Dispatch last Saturday and nabbed a bootlegger who has pro bably been w orking the gam e fo r some tim e. H e is the fireman in the Dispatch, PMnoeaa Hauser; and three bottles a f whiskey w ere captured, tw o in a travellin g bag which was standing on a b ox in the freigh t room. The bag had a lady's name attached but Epperson picked it up and pried it apart enough to see th e boose. He then came up to the Recorded’* office fot a w arrant w hile Hudson remained on watch, ridin g down to the w are house and back. When the Dispatch returned to the city dock, Hauser picked up the bag to cooes up town, but Hudson invited him to taka a trip up to the city hall, w h en they arrived Just as the w ar rant was ready to serve. fined $96 and coats which be prom pt ly paid. The third bottle was found in his overcoat pocket. But his troubles didn’t end there as 8 h eriff Gage wanted him next. W ith tw o state charges starin g him in the face, and a conviction in the follow ed the Budget law , either la preparing, advertisin g or approving budgets, as required by the law pass ed upon. It is evident that their ac tion a t that tim e is as fu tile as the Pope’s bull against the comet. The amount thus fru itlessly voted was 6S6JM.90. In the various districts the sums voted ware as follow s: No. 1— Lakeside .................. $4,200 No. 2— Haynes Slough . . . . . 1,000 No. $— Larsen Slough ........ 81$ No. 4— Ken tuck Slough........ 900 No. 7— W illanch Slough . . . . 460 SCHOOL THRIFT A n im portant m eeting o f the Com m ercial Chib is to bo hold s t tho city boll next Wednesday evening. It is Ì ----------- tho date fo r the annual election o f The County Organization to officers and a large attendance is de Promote Thrift Stamp Salee sired. J. E. Norton, who has so ably presided over the club’s destinies fo r Now at Work. the past three years, feels that he is entitled to a rest. On tho other hand The Coos county school T h rift cam the members feel that it is a poor paign com m ittee consists o f Charles tim e to trade horses w hile crossing a H all, chairman, o f M arshfield; H enry stream and i f poesible that he should Kern, o f N orth Bend; Hugh M cLain, I s retained at the club’s head. poetm aster at M arshfield, through whose office a ll the supplies and Found It in the Delaware. ftam ps are distributed to the poet- The follow in g are some o f the an efficee in the root o f the county ; R ay swers found on the recent Eighth mond E. Baker, county superinten grade exam ination papers: dent o f schools; J. E. Norton, o f Co- G ive the origin Of Christmas T quille, president o f the ComaMrcial Christmas was discovered when Club here; Dorsey K reitxer, of W ashington crossed the Deleware. M arshfield, cashier o f the F irst N a W ho was Frances E , W illard T tional Bank o f Coos B ay; and Geo. Frances E. W illard was a member E. Tonney, president o f the Commer o f tho first Continental Congress. cial Club o f M yrtle Point. W hy is Spain not one o f the leading Ib o e e gentlem en constitute an ex countries? ecutive com m ittee fo r the county. Spain was not started o ff righ t. They have appointed a sub com m ittee o f three, consisting o f Messrs. Baker, Th« Four-Mfarato Men. Norton and Tonney, which m eets here The four-m inute men who w ill today to district the county. Besides there w ill be local com m it speak at the Scenic next week are: F. E. McKenna, Monday night, Feb. tees in each district, o f which the poetm aster and superintendent o f schools w ill be mem beta. The local com m ittee fo r the Coqullle district consists o f Leo J. Cary, chairman, John W . Leneve, J. C. Alm ack, J. 8. J. L . Smith, Friday night, Feb. 8. Lawrence and Chas. H. B axter. F. G. Leslie, Saturday night, Feb. •. Myrtle Point’« Good Work. native but to come through w ith the inform ation as to whore he g o t i t A ctin g oa this Sheriff G age went down to Bandon and arrested M. T. Baker, ascend engin eer on the steam er Brooklyn, who was taken before Justice o f the Peace C. R. W ade Mon day m orning. H o pleaded gu ilty, was fined $600 and sentenced to fiv e months in Jail, and is now servin g 6,196.04 Jen. 1, 1916; and this weak he makes 1347.43 another call fo r a ll issued prior to 1,000 A p ril 1, o f that year. Just as fa st 1,063 as hs can g e t the necessary interest 4,000 computations made he is callin g f« r m ore warrants and stopping They Averaged $25. interest on them. The mon Tho first school report Superinten eye received last year, it should bp d s Raymond E . Baker received in noted, must be parceled out among regard to investm ent by pupils and many differen t funds, road, school and teachers in governm ent w ar bonds port, as w ell as county and state. and stamps came from Locust Grove, This w ork, however, la don* in the D istrict No. 76, on Tuesday. This sheriff’s office. school is located about 8 m ile* above M yrtle Point near the confluence o f Want (hit to Work on Rond. the South and M iddle Forks o f the Tw o o f the boose peddler« in Jail Coqullle and is taught by Miss Ber here, M. T . Barker, who went in this nice Chandler. O nly eleven pupils week, and Jim Anderson, who has are enrolled but five o f them bold been there fo r three months— both o f Lib erty Loan bonds to the amount o f them ship engineers w ith b ig wages $260, w hile the teacher has three who thought it would be fine to make W ar Savings C ertificates and tw o pu easy money on the side m onkeying pils have T h rift Stamps amounting with the Oregon Bone D ry law ,— are to $130. I f a ll tha schools o f this cow dead anxious to g e t out and work county and o f the nation averaged out th eir sentences on the county a# w ell as this— ovar $26 per capita roads. Commisisoner Ph ilip is tryin g — the total would be $660,000,000. to make arrangem ents to have Ole Paulsen, who is clearing out brush on the Hauser road north o f the Bey with a donkey engine, take them on. Can Key Be Safe-guarded? O ver a t M arshfield the city officials ore building a big burglar proof box to hold th% boose that la being com mandeered by the police there. It is announced that there w ill be only one key to this box end that Recorder Butler w ill carry that— whether in his stocking or next te his heart sus pended from a strin g around his neck is not stated. N or are w e told wheth er the recorder w ill be conveyed by The Crouch Divorce Case. an arm ed guard w hile on the streets The contested divorce suit o f P erry end a patrol stationed a t his reei- Crouch, o f M arshfield, vs. Eleanor S. Crouch, new in Eastern Oregon, is set fo r next Monday in the Circuit court. The application fo r suit mon ey end alim ony was beard a few months ago, resulting in the ear* o f the cildren being given to tho father. Desertion and im proper conduct are alleged by the husband. It has been stated that tho defendant m ay w ith draw her answer thus elim inating tha HOW SHALL THEY MEET? The question o f a m eeting o f the County Court and a Good Roads A sso ciation com m ittee w ith the State H ighw ay Commission next week is still a good deal in the air. The secretary o f the State H igh way Commission w rote to Judge W a t son th at a t the regular m eeting o f the commission a t Portland next Tuesday tho distribution o f the road band fund available *«..1 8 1 8 would bo made to the various road projects. The judge im m ediately w rote to all the commissioners explaining how w ell nigh im possible it would be fo r the County Court o f Coos county te be at the Portland m eeting on Tues day and g e t beck here to hold the re g ular term o f the County Court on Wednesday, so he sugeeted th at the commission hold a session either at M arshfield or Eugene on Monday. Commissioner Adams, however, w rote him last night that it would be impossible fo r the commission to do that and hold its regular m eeting in Frrtland Tuesday. He suggested a later session o f the commission In Coos county, where they could go over the road that has been prepared fo r paving and m eet our “ loyal bunch o f booster*.” It is the opinion o f the court here, however, that they must be repre sented at the Portland m ooting next Tuesday. Three alternative plans are ptopoeed fo r this. One that the en tire court go up Monday and return V edneaday in tim e to bogin their February m eeting here W ednesday evening. Another is that one o f the members o f the court go to Portland and the other tw o go on with the Feb ruary m eeting her* on Wednesday. A third la that Charles H all, presi dent o f the Good Roads Association, bo authorized to represent the court at Portland on Wednesday. The plan fo r a m eeting o f the H ighw ay commission subsequently in Coos county meets w ith approval, provided our interests are safe-guard ed in tho m ooting to be held Tuesday. I f the money is all to be appropriated then, w e must have a representative there a t that time. ‘Teddy Bear” On Fire. The gasoline tug, “ Teddy Bear,” owned b y Aasen Bros., was bedly burned about six o’clock Monday ev ening down s t the Sitka boom. Tad Tester was having trouble with the engine which backfired end exploded the lantern sittin g near. The flam es quickly spread sll over te e cabin and com pletely charred It inside. Ted grabbed a 6-gallon can o * oil and got safely outside where he dumped that and a drum o f gasoline over- braid. E veryth in g inflamaMe in the cabin waa burned, even te the wooden A t M yrtle Point yesterday Chas. H all, Supt. R. E. Baker and Geo. Ton n e) spoke to the pupils o f each room on the T h rift Stamp cam paign and between the dose o f school last night and 9 o’clock this m orning $146 w orth o f stamps had been sold at the post- office. The school board there decid ed to purchase $40 w orth o f stam p» to be sold under the teachers’ direc tions. H ere in Cequille the board has deeided to advance $4<k fo r this pur pose and a t Bandon $60 w ill he ad vanced by the board. Tho intended v is it to our c ity schools today by the T h rift Cam paign com m ittee, who went down to Bandon W ednesday, has bean postponed un til Monday. The developm ent o f a to dismiss the high school and the Eighth grade today in order to fum iga te th eir rooms. Simpson WUI Offer Prize«. L . J. Simpson, county m anager, has made an offer o f at least $200 worth o f W ar Saving Certificates to be di vided between the scholars o f Coos and Curry counties, who make the best showing in the sale o f stamps. P ro f. Baker w ill work out the details o f the distribution and announce ,t later. A t the end o f the first sem ester in our city school* Mrs. M ulkey, who teaches the F ifth grade, found that o f the 47 pupils promoted in that grade a week eg o Friday all except two owned either T h rift Stamps or kaby bonds. And to Stake it unani mous each o f those two had a job promised fo r Saturday, pay tor which they w ere goin g to invest In T h rift Stamps. Bank Will Start Them. The directors o f the Farm ers and Merchants Bank h ere have decided to do a fine thing to help alon g the T h rift Stamp cam paign In tha public schools o f Coquilte and the adjacent territory included in the Coqullle dis trict. This bank w ill .present to every pupil attending the schools in the g ic d c * a th rift card w ith one T h rift Stamp attached. It is estim ated there w ill be about «00 pupils thus given a «ta rt tow ard* g ettin g a baby bond, end we know o f no other w ay in which the Farm ers and Merchants could have done m ore good with the same amount e f money as in g iv ing such a boost te this new m ove ment te teach the children in our public schools the duty a f doing some thing fo r their governm ent, at the ■ « tim e they are ferm in e ah bits e f saving end gettin g a course in th rift whteh m ay be w orth m ere to them than any other course in th eir entire school education. The H igh School basket ball five plays tee North Bend H igh School ever there this evening and n ext F ri day plays M arshfield at the Bay. Se ftu the loeal team has loot but one grjwa, te a t to M yrtle Point, which has waa throe and test none.