F R ID A Y , F E B R U A R Y $.
Judge W eteon and Commissioner
A rm strong opened the February Bas
tion o f the County Court hers W ed
nesday in due season, and Kept too
m ill grin din g that day, though, Com
m issioner P h ilip did not return to trict tax as voted In tw elve districts
take part in the m eeting until Thurs o f this county last fa ll m ay ha held
day m orning.
valid. H e says the cases ju st decid
The court decided to furnish 60 ed at Salem w ere baaed on elections
suite o f uniform fo r the home guard held under the old highw ay law before
companies at M arshfield, Coquille, the new 1917 highway law was en
and Band on. Leo J. Cary appeared acted. The point is, though, that the
before the court this m orning to sex budget law was adopted in 1916, end
fo r 60 suite fe r C oquille and w oe ear- the m w highway law o f 1917 under
which the C o«e county road districts
00. I t is this w ay: N o uniform s*** voted beads was ens i led tw o y e a n
a ll are to provided fo r any sm aller later and should th erefore hold over
company than 00. These uniform s it where the tw o conflict. O f course,
w ill cost |11A0 each, and w ill consist it m ay not be held that they ere in
o f hat, blouse, trousers, cartridge belt conflict, but as M r. L iljeq vist says,
o m can never be certain about a
and leggin gs.
The M yrtle P oin t people appeared m atter o f that kind until the Su
prem e Court baa paw ed upon it.
the same appropriation as last year
fa r the Cooe-Curry fa ir, tollin g how
much they needed new buildings.
Th ey evidently w ere fea rin g that they
would have to eoe the fa ir appropri
ation divided w ith the Coquille Cera
Show and w ere m ere than delighted
when the court ga ve then 6*00 tne
same as before, and in lieu o f addi
tional buildings prom ised them the
lean o f the oousty teats which have
TRANSPORT
SUNK AT SEA
The bids fo r the concrete viaduct c
the M arahfleld-Coquflle reed over A
Southern Pacific a t Overland war
opened end w ere as follow s:
Ostlind A Payne, $9,718.90.
W arren Construction Cow, $10,981.
The next road contracta fo r which
bide are to bo asked are the grave.-
in g o f the Bandon South road, the
F ox bridge end the Cooe C ity bridge.
The firs t w ill probably be a d v e rtís «!
f.t this session; the F ax bridge plans
are aw aitin g approval by the State
H ighw ay Commission; and tho stato
engineer’s office is engaged in draw
in g plans fo r the Cooe C ity bridge,
a fte r learning what the w ar depart
ment required on account o f Isthmus
Slough being a part o f tho navigable
w aters o f tho United 8tatos.
M r. L ilje q v is t appeared before the
court yesterday to represent M r. L ar
sen, o f Larsen Slough, whose rood
dr m age case the Sentinel has hereto
fo re referred to. 17 m question is now
aw aitin g tho decision o f tho d istrict
attorney on the lega l aspects o f tho
case; but m eantim e M r. L iljeq vist
The transport was being convoyed
by British ships, fh o periscope or
the submarine had ju st baen sighted
end the Tuscan is ’■ course changed,
It was s moment too late to evade
the torpedo, though a second one
missed her. It is thought the Ger
man wasp o f the sea eras then done
fo r by depth bombs
The stricken
vetrel floated fo r three hours, thus
enabling most o f those on board to
be reecued end landed in Ireland.
Several men from M arshfield are
known to have been on beard but no
list o f the m issing has yst Come to
hsnd.
This la o m o f tho disasters we have
all along feared; but we believe the
Am erican people w ill be stirred by
•he lots o f the liv e « o f our boys on
this ship to a m ore- b itter and un
yieldin g determ ination to crush G er
man m ilitarism w ith all the countless
crimes against the w orld’s peace and
safety it is constantly planning and
perpetrating.
For Third Liberty Loan Drive.
L . H. Hasard received notice the
from Edward Cook-
first o f the
Ingham, executive chairman o f the
state Lib erty Loan com m ittee fo r
Oregon, that he had been appointed
chairman o f tho executive com m it
tee fo r Coquille and vicin ity fo r tne
third Lib erty Loan campaign.
To
eerve on the executive com m ittee
with hiss, Mr. Haserd has appoined
Lao J. Cary, Roy A . W ernkh, J. E.
Norton end H. A . Young.
The campaign fo r the third loan is
expected to begin March 1, end to
continue fo r $0 days. The tw o prev
ious drives w ere conducted w ith little
oiganised preparation and H la plan
ned fo r this drive to have every com
m unity in this district com pletely or-
Wtg
the
' The Coos county delegation which
went up to Portland Sunday to meet
*> - the state H ighw ay Commission on
ter- Monday consisted o f the members o f
the County Court, Judge W eteon and
000 Commissioners Arm strong and Ph il
ip, Roadm aster Murdock, President
the Charles H all, o f the Good Roads As-
Hoe sedation, Lao. J. C ary, Coquills, and
> * P eter L o ggie and E dgar McDaniel,
ren a North Bend.
eth ' Monday being one day before the
•re regular session o f the commission on
ek- Tuesday, the Coos county people wore
»* • obis to gut the ear o f the commission
to e greater extent than was possible
re- the follow in g day when several hun
gry died people w ere in attendance. They
*•“ gave plenty o f fa ir word• and some
eh- p remise« to Cooe county as usual,
•at hot before this m eeting they had
rty already let contracts fo r' a m illion
the dollars’ w orth o f work on the Pacific
Ing H ighw ay between Portland and Rose-
100 tu rg, although there is no more bind
er- M g prevision o f the law fo r build-
do- in g that read than fo r paving the Co
tto quille-M arshfleld road. That is where
ty- Ceos county has g o t it in the neck,
d r F o r that m illion dollars is in the
in- treasury, w hile the money to be «pent
the wo Cooe county roads is not, and it is
by a question whether the Capital Se
m i curi ties Bond at W ashington, or the
m t Federal Reserve Bank at San Fran
cisco, acting fo r them, w ill perm it the
The Coquille schools
skate o f Oregon to sell any more
phaeising this phase o f education
w ork fo r scene tim e and on January next L ib erty Lean drive. The fca-
26 showed the follow in g results: pm eeiea appears to bo strong in tho
Number o f Lib erty Bonde owned by oemmtw ien, particu larly w ith Oom-
mlw ienw Thompson, that the Pacific
H ighw ay should be bu ilt before any-
$99.76. The total amount loaned by
this patriotic school on Jan. 26 was
$8812.76. This amount has been very
la ig e ly increased since that tim e.
The fifth grads o f the Coquille
schools w ith Mrs. C. E. Mulkey aa
tracker has mads a rem arkable rec
ord with the sale o f W ar Savings
stamps. A t noon, Feb. 7 before any
free stamps w ere received from the
Farm ers A Merchants bank, fo rty -
tw o children out o f the forty-th ree
enrolled owned T h rift Stamps, tbe
amount invested being $$4; six owned
thirteen baby bonds, seven pupils
owned $460 w orth o f Lib erty Bonds,
and tw elve pupils w e n sellin g T h rift
Stamps, the number sold by them is
790 up to this tim e. •
Tw o pupils, E velyn Oerding, o f tbe
F ifth grade, end Clarence Barton, o f
the Second A grade, have sold over
$60 Worth o f W ar Saving C ertificates
and T h rift Stamps each, the amount
sold by E velyn being $90.76 and by
Clarence $00. This entitles them to
be enrolled in tbe Rainbow Regim ent,
as among tbs first one thousand pu
pils in the state o f Oregon to sell
$60 worth o f T h rift stamps, and they
w ill receive an Achievem ent Pin from
Stats Superintendent Churchill as a
recognition o f their patriotic efforts.
Senatorial Candidate Here.
R. N . Stanfield, the b ig
o f eastern Oregon, came
M arshfield this m orning
the m orning here gettin g
sheep man
over from
and spent
acquainted
the house o f representatives at the
last session o f the legislature and Is
new one o f tho loading candidates fo r
the republican nomination fo r Uni ten
States senator at the M ay prim aries.
He is a b ig man in every w ay and an
interesting personality, m aking a
happy im pression on a ll whom he
meets.
Our readers w ill probably
hear m ere o f him as the canvass pro
ceeds. A man who ships to m arket
800 ears o f sheep a week, is certainly
a man who doesn't took back when
have beta furnished fo r tU e by the
U. 8. governm ent which requires the
inform ation sought in its w ar (re p a r
ations and which w ill brook no re
fusal to answer the queries in this
other new “ questionnaire.”
W hat is wen tad in this survey is
to And out the acreage in each crop
last year and the probable acreage
this year; the production last year
sad the estim ated production this
year. The im portance o f this in for
mation to the governm ent can readily
Fu ll inform ation w ill likew ise be
asked about dairy production mad tbe
number o f horses, begs, cattle and
sheep on tbe farm .
In many w ays the inform ation thus
sought to bo obtained fo r tho general
governm ent through this survey is as
im portant aa that furnished la reply
to the questionnaires our young m m
have recently been fillin g out, and <t
Li hoped that every m m having the
w elfare o f the nation a t heart w ill
rep ly prom ptly and fu lly to every
question asked in the blanks goin g
EUREKA MINE
OPENS SOON
M. W . McCormick and C. A . P eter
son, who a n preparing to re-opea the
Eureka mine ju st this aide o f R iver
ton, were callers last Saturday. N e
one who has been on the Coquille a t
that point has failed to observe the
lon g trestle and the bonkers o f this
N ike H u tle y Croaked By Fall
ing Tree and Cripple«
For Life.
M ike Huntley, lo gger a t Crane’s
comp, was crushed b e fe llin g tren
at • o’clock last Monday m orning
and m iraculously is s till alive, al
though ha w ill be • cripple fo r life .
On account o f the high wind no
trees w ere being felled , but Huntley
and another men w ere out bucking,
as the w ork o f cutting a fa llen tree
into p rop er. lengths is called. They
w ere on the hillside when e tree be
low them wee toppled, over by the
wind. In order to see that none o f
the limbs flew back aa it struck they
g o t on a log. Just a t that tim e an
other tree above and behind wee
blown over. The awn w ith Huntley
yelled Just before it hit but the crass
o f the tree below drowned hie voice
end also the noiee o f the decending
tree. When it h it Huntley he was
knocked down among tbs logs sad
that was what saved hie life . Hie
righ t fo o t and le g w ere caught be
tween the tw o logs, the fo o t being
crushed alm ost fla t and the lag brok
en. Besides he was bruised the en
tire length o f his back, his face and
body badly cut, tw o riba broken, and
a snag penetrated his body fo r about
six inches into groin.
Dr. Ham ilton
toned end
he went down in the Queen returning
w ith the injured man about 2:90 p.
m., and talcing him to tho hospital.
There the doctor found that one o f
his kidneys w ee crushed and his back
was as black aa hie hat.
Since Monday ha hga been doing as
w ell as possible end the doctor thinks
his chances fo r recovery are good.
M r. Huntloy was v ia b le to tali
what had happened and was sur
prised to learn the cause o f the acci
dent. H is home is a t M yrtle P o in t
10,000 pounds o f m ilk a day and in
the height o f the season requires two
hands to operate it. > B y running it
in connection w ith his A rego factory
Mr. C ari w ill o f course be able to in-
end CommiauioMr Benson guve Mr.
Cary the assurance that some state
work should bo done in Cooe county
this year.
The Roeeburg road in regard to
which so many pledgee have been
made o f state aid in the past appears
to be gaining fa vo r w ith the powers
that be.
State H ighw ay Engineer
Nunn said this routs from Roeeburg
to the eoM t to Corn county was a
better line to C aliforn ia than tm.
one over the Siakiyooe south from
Ashland.
So the prospect o f state
aid fo r the road through the eanyon
to Camas V alley grow s brighter, as
the prospect that the stats w ill g g l
mors money fo r road work this year
growe dimmer.
On the question which was upper
most w ith the Cooe county people be
fore they went to Portland, what sort
o f a “ paved” road tbe stats should bo
asked to build between Marshfield
end M yrtle Point, Engineer Nunn
seemed to have the last word and
h it decision was that on - e ll low,
swampy ground, a t least, It should
be b u ilt o f concrete.
Another point developed a t this
m eeting was that the cement tru st is
holding up the state o f Oregon fo r
all the concrete work R proposes to
In this connection he states that
during the com ing season he w ill have
e regular pay day, instead o f sm iting
until tho cheese is sold and paid fo r
before settlin g ufith the dairym en.
Paym ents w in be made prom ptly the
first o f the month and 80 days from
the end o f the month. That is the
A p ril m ilk w ig be paid fo r June 1,
They inform us that below the vein
they are goin g to work there era oth
er coal veins to the number o f th ir
teen, o m below tho other. This means
practically inexhaustible fu el resourc
es in this section o f tbe Coquille va l
ley— fo r Riverton is only 6 m iles in
an airlin e from this d ty .
The beet o f the newt the Eureka
men g iv e us, though, wna tho assur
ance that when the Eureka gets into
operation they w ill be able to furnish
coal in this d ty at a low er price than
it is now sellin g fo r.
Stin 150 To Examine.
The exam ination o f the unappealed
cases in Class One by Dr. Richmond
fe r the local board hero w ere e ll fin
ished w ith tw o or three exceptions
last Saturday.
Just then, though,
came the announcement o f new rules
which would perm it o f places being
found in other branches o f the service
fo r men who w ere not physically fit
fo r figh tin g. Those new rules w ere
to be m ailed from Portland today.
Aside from this Hugh H arlocker, the
board’s stenographer, inform s us that
there are about 169 mpre to bo ex
amined who have what is called “ de
ferred classification,” including about
19 men who have been m arried since
the m ilitary service law was enacted
and a b ig bunch who w a n put in
Classes 2 and 4, bqt m ostly the form
er, by the local board, and which the
Shelling Tort For Cora.
J. L . Smith has basa m aking shell
in g teats o f some o f his prias winning
corn samples, which disclose a strik
in g difference in ears. N ot only does
the quantity o f kernels ou good sure
va ry over 60 per cent in some cecee,
but the hulk end w eigh t o f the cobs
varies fu lly ea much. O f course tuo
sm allest cobs are preferred here, Be
cause they dry out m ore quickly. But
it is not true, as m ight be euppoeed,
that the ears yieldin g the greatest
w eight o f grain are the beet to p la n t
The largest «a re run only one to the
stalk and it is better to have tw o ears