The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., April 19, 1918, Image 1

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COQUILLE, C 008 COUNTY,
dier, « h » pasead through Coquille the
first o f the weak on their wop to Cur­
ry county, Intend to retara to Coquille
The follow ing from Wadaeeday’e le­
ie o f the Marshfield Record eeeoee
the great war, and everyone w ill be
able to gat new ideas as to the oper­
ations in Francs. W ord has not yet
been received as to the exact time o f
their return to Coquille.
the lattar placo around to Eugene by
way o f the Coquille Valley aad Coo#
Bay:
CoL Loader Next Friday.
B efore A pril t the Tax collecting
form at the Sheriff’s ottm hare had
mads out receipts fe r $156,000 o f the
tax«« o f 1917, Including som « dslin-
quant taxas paid at the same time
with them. Since than, o f the taxas
paid on the 5th and thorn previously
received by mail hut not receipted for,
receipts bava been made fo r $181,-
876. There still remain to be put on
the books «12,500 fo r the first half
o f the Southern Pacific taxes end
$81,144 fo r the first half o f the C. A .
Smith taxes, with some others which
will run the amount up to somewhere
between $50,000 end $60,000 yet to be
receipted for.
Them amounts aggregate about
$370,000 o f taxes o f 1917 already paid,
The total texaa for test year were
$806,000 hut about $50,000 o f the
Southern Oregon taxes are te litiga-
As illustrating how much better
taxes are being paid this year than
heretofore Mr. Geo. O. Loach, the
made their pick frota the delinquent
traete, going sw ay with certificate«
to the amount o f »12,000. This spring
• tax title man who caras took all
Frank Grant, shot through the that w ont go through and he is
K »»s,
liver
and
intestines
by moving heaven and sarth to compef
"Frenchy” Barreron, is rapidly recov­ the court to tear out those three
ering at the Coquilla Hospital here draws and put in wider ones. He has
add Dr. Hamilton says that barring even succored in getting G eorg. A.
«•expected setbacks he w ill be out Zinn, a government engineer at Port-
before tong.
Hand to write to Judge Watson
Just about dusk last Friday Grant threatening that the war department
saw Barge (on on the road and called will withdraw it. permit to locate a
to him. Bergeron ran and Grant af­ bridge there at all unless the draw
ter him. Coming up with “ Frenchy” is widened. There is really no rea-
Grant «tapped him and told him he son why I arson's big dredge should
agist apologise to Mrs. Grant for go up above any o f tl ese bridges but
slipping her some time ago.
The he seems to be constitutionally a
trouble at that time arose over a pig trouble maker, and paid no attention
o f Mrs. Grant's which “ Frenchy” was when the court notified him to get
abusing, and when she tried to get U s dredge on the free side o f the
toe animal be struck her. Grant at- bridge before it was built. The mat-
tempted to punish him by legal pro- tor will very likely have to be fought
cedure but the slowness with which out in the courts, though the county
the law machinery moved caused him court has offered to stand all Iho cx-
to take the matter into his own hands. pei:se o f getting Larson’s big bueket
Deputy Sheriff Clyde Gage brought dredge through the bridge into free
both Bargeron and Grant to Coquille
that evening and the follow ing is
Grant’s story o f the affair, made im­
der oath to Justice o f the Peace J. J.
Stanley, which was thought at the
tjme to be his dying statement:
A fter slapping “ Frenehy” and de-
This week C. A. Machon made an
mandiag an apology which the latter
refused to make, Grant knocked him agreement with W. J. Longston by
down and while Bargeron tried to which the latter will superintend toe
protect his bead with his hands and construction o f Coqufile’s new $10,000
arms. Grant rained such a shower of show house on s percentage basis. W.
Mowe that the beaten man called for G. Chandler, o f Marshfield, has pre­
toerty and said he would apologise, pared the plans and practically all
Grant yanked him to hie feet and they the details are completed.
The building w ill be 40x100, built
Started for Grant’s home. Mrs. Grant
beard them coming and stepped out- o f hollow tile and pressed brick, with
aide. Grant made “ Frenchy” get concrete foundation and probably con­
down on h b knees to make the apol- crete roof. The height o f the struc­
egy aad then lifted him to h b foot by ture above the street level will be 28
Rte collar. Stepping around in fron t feet The lobby will be 10 feet deep,
o f Bargeron he threatened him with a while the stage, fu ll width o f the
m oresevere beating if he ever both- building will be 20 feet deep. The
dressing rooms and the heating plant
«red M rs. Grant again,
About that time the woman had —hot water— will be located In the
stepped between the two men and basement which w ill be about 14 feet
white time hidden “ Frenchy” drew his under the whole building.
Colonel Leader, the British army
veteran, who was responsible fo r that
bugaboo about 400,000 Germans from
South America invading this coast, is 1 where they will assist-in the Liberty
to spook in Coquille on Friday o f next ; Loan campaign this week. They were
week. Ha was in tbs fighting at the 1 met at the depot by L. H. Hasard,
western fron t until retired on account chairman o f the Liberty Loan com -
o f wounds and is now m ilitary in­ mittee, and a squad o f the Home
structor at the University o f Oregon. Guard.
Mr. Smith was living in California
when the war broke out; although bis
home was in Nanaimo, B. C. He im-
mediately returned home and enlisted
in the kilted Highlander regiment and
it is in this uniform that he is male-
ing a tour o f Oregon in the interest
o f Liberty Bond campaign.
He saw 32 months’ service, was in
France over a year and was wounded
nt the battle o f Vimy Ridge A pril 4,
1017.
He was struck fou r times
within 30 minutes by barags Are when
the Canadians made those heroic and
historic attacks which wrote their
names high on the scroll o f those Eng-
land delights to honor, One piece o f
shrapnel tore a hole in his skull, an­
other piece fa still in his arm and his
back and side were also struck.
For seven months he lay in an Eng-
lish hospital and last Novsmber was
returned to Canada. On the third o f
March, last month, he was operated
on nt V ictoria, B. C. This operation
consisted in the removal o f six inches
e f shin bone from h b left leg, and
the j b rin g it at the crown o f his revolver, a .82 calibre weapon, and
head where it is serviftg the porpoee reaching around Mrs. Grant fired
o f protecting the brain as wed a sd ic point blank at Grant. The ball en-
his skull originally.
Such are the tered h b body an inch and a half be-
wonders o f modern sugery by wnlch low the right nipple, glanced off the
many an unfortunate wreck, emerg- eleventh rib and ranging downward
ing from a hailstrom o f lead and penetrated the lung, liver and intes-
steel, as good as dead, has been tines, lodging in the back,
brought back to ltfe and health.
Notwithstanding the shock Grant
Deasoerat—T. P. Hanly, Lampo;
And after all hs has been through grappled with h b assailant and after
O. A . Trowbridge, Bandon.
Mr. Smith b a fine entertainer, with chewing “ Frenchy’s” ear nearly off
Surveyor '
a vein o f humor and a way o f mak- finally secured possession o f the weep­
Republican— C. 8. McCulloch, Ban­ ing every topic touched on interesting, on. It was a terrific struggle while
don; E. L. Robinson, Marshfield.
« He walks with a cane but the limp in it lasted, pommeling, gouging, bit-
h b bone-robbed leg is slight.
ing, kicking, but it ended with the dis-
A pril 4 he came into the United arming o f “ Frenchy,” although the
States and worked the first week o f latter claims to have given the gun to
the drive in the Bend, Oregon, district Mrs. Grant.
^ ." o c r a t -
campaign.
Bargeron claims that Grant hit him
Lieut. Kuykendall assisted last in the hjad with a rock near h b store
Republican-
week in the campaign at Klamath at Coaled o, before demanding the
Ruling amj ]
Falls.
apology.
- .
M yrtle Point.
" A crowd off about 50 assembled in
Y lm ' D r. Hamilton began to probe
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the Ko-Keel Klub rooms to hear Mr. for the bullet ho had no idea that
| « ln W Ä 4
Smith relate experiences o f his year Grant could live, but the man’s won-
P
in France.
derful vitality, which has stood him
^
How prone the German soldiers are in good stead many times before, b
à u Point now
at times to abandon their barbarous helping him through. The bullet has
• hunch o f m
warfare b made known by the state- not been located and may never be
transfer steti<
merit that quite often the Hun artil- removed.
The big high
lery dropped a barage behind their
Bargeron’s preliminary before Jus-
« * down eigfa
own advancing lines to insure that tice Stanley was held Wednesday
•Pur iroal the
they wouldn’t turn back.
A t some morning, and he was bound over to
to run out on
points the gunners were found chain- the grand jury under $2,000 bonds,
•»•
This wil
ed to their machine guns to make cer- The state called two witnesses, Dr.
transfer o f tl
tain they didn’t run away.
V. L. Hamilton and Mrs. Frank Grant,
°P * « « « the
“The Saxons are-fed up on war,” while the defense called none,
to go out by
said Mr. Smith, “ and I once saw a
Bond in the amount named was im-
the days get
comical situation.
A Canadian was mediately secured by the defendant,
boats w ill p
bringing in four Saxon prisoner* a ho Fred Coleman, o f Coaledo, C. T.
schedules for
carried a stretcher on which b y a Skeeb, S. M. Nosier and Geo. T.
wounded Canadian. One o f the Sax- Moulton, signing as sureties,
ons gave out, so the Canadian thrust
Neither o f the principal* in the a f-
his rifio into the enemy’s hands, seix- fair has a reputation fo r being nn en-
ed h b place at the stretcher and thus tirely peaceable and Uw-abiding d ti-
Looks Lika Camouflage.
arrived at the allied .line#.”
sen, and threats o f murder are re-
The rumor that Major L. D. Kinney,
Mr. Smith declared that the stories ported to have been made some time
who has bean in the Salem hospital o f m utibtion and viobtion o f women ago by Bargeron.
for the insane for years has recovered and children o f Belgium and France
According to Sheriff Gage, the state
his reason, appears to bs a bit o f were all true. He also stated that labor commission, about a year ago,
oassoaflaga to bafog the tax case on the Huns, alm ost to a man, when cap- threatened both AI Powers and Grant
his old properties a little more, if tured, were suffering from venereal with prosecution If the tetter was ever
possible. A s the m ajor, under no im­ diseases.
But the innoculation o f placed in charge o f a Smith-Powers
aginable
combination o f
circum­ Allied prisoners with typhoid and to- camp again, because o f his brutal,
stances can have a m at’s worth o f bercular germs, which Frits started bullying treatment o f the men under
interest in these properties, how his to do at first, was soon stopped when him. He has since been running a
restoration to sanity, gratifying as It became known that reprisals were donkey at Powers,
that would bs to everyone, could offset visited on the Kaiser’s relatives and
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in any way the order fo r the rate o f
noblemen who had not escaped from
The County Court has contracted
them properties for taxes, ordered by
England.
with Bert Baird to run the Coquille
the Circuit Court, is not clear.
The Hmu fear the Canadians end Ferry for $200 « month, hs to fur-
sapseially the “Ladtea from Hell” as nish all the form needed end also
they nickname the kilted Highlanders, gasoline and repairs.
This ferry is
A s everyone knows the barbarians operated from $ in ha morning until
NAMED FOR
PRIMARY
• $870,090 Taxes Collected.
Coq aille’« liberty Loon Sab-
scriptioa la Growing Stead­
ily Every Doy.
$10,000 OPERA
HOUSE HERE
either eoaerete or tUe as may bo de­
cided upon later.
Mr. Longston has his concrete mix­
er at Gardner’s Garage here now and
is ready to begin operations next
Monday if the foundation materials,
which have been ordered arrive. The
hollow tile fo r the side walls end rear
will be shipped from the W illamette
valley. The front will be o f pressed
brick.
In an intervisw with Mr. Longston
this morning he said that providing
there were no delays in receiving ma­
terial the building would be ready for
occupancy in 60 days.
The balcony, on both sides and at
the rear, and the main floor will aeat
600 people. The chairs will be mod­
ern and com fortable.
One hundred
will be leather upholstered, 200 wicker
and 300 regular opera chairs.
When this theater is completed Co-
quille will have as cozy end com fort­
able a-playhouse as there is in the
state and it will attract many shew
troupes which have found it impossi­
ble to come in heretofore because o f
inadequate facilities.
Three parties are seeking a lease
on the new house, but Mr. Machon has
closed with none o f them as yet.
270— W ayne Norman
Epperson,
M yrtle Point.
282—Allen Thomas Roberts, North
290— Edgar P. Blundell, Bandon.
291— Clarence Marion
Billings,
M yrtle Point.
294— Carl Ivor Back, Marshfield.
296—
Robert Sigismondi, Loners.
297— Percy L. Roundtree, Lakeside.
816—Charles Glenn Colson, Powers.
Among the 80 men next in order on
the Cose county list, whom names we
published test week, as to be called
fo r April 26, two were found who are
engaged in emergency fleet construc­
tion and w ill therefore be skipped.
They are Seth L. Betender ^ n d Syl­
vester H. Neideigh, both o f Marsh-
Last Saturday Coquilla went “ over
¡¡¡¡® V**) on **• MO,900 quota for the
Loan but the «ubmrip-
tion* h*ve b«en « “ **** ln «Uadily
*nd * » »"««>*• that the quota
c* L b® do,I»"*L
n*me« of the »»bscribera and
•n,ount U k,n •»
Sitk* MJU
*“ v® not *et
turnwl In to the
b*nk* h®"> but
Nickolai .toted
thU noon th* 1
a“ ount nrould be
>6>000 and mi*ht ^ • »***• more *1“ »
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So far there have been 483 subscrib-
®r i ,or • toU l o t M6.600 worth o f
h01“ 1»' MmnJ men in ***• dUtrict who
smply able to take bonds end have
not don® «> will be solicited next week
“ nd u **•* r*<U8e the committees will
have " ° •»‘ • «s tiv e but to turn their
n* me® int0 the fed#rml authorities.
Th® l o w i n g i , the list o f those
Dora I. Kay, $100.
E. G. Kay, $100.
Jos. Saccomoni, $50.
J. E. Z. Fowls, $100.
Geo. V. Fowle, $50.
August Johnson, $50.
Sig Eckholm, $60.
Dommick Naimo, $60.
James Brown, $50.
David Liljeroth, $100.
Florence Cox, $60.
James Brown, $50.
Frances Saccomaimo, $50.
Paul Boyd, $100.
L. A. Whereat, $50.
Fred Fitsky, $50.
M orril Jameson, $50.
W . J. Ferbrache, $60.
J. M. Hodge, $50.
Emma Kennedy, $60.
Otis A . W ebstar, $60.
Mrs. Julia A . Yoakam, $60.
F. R. Bullack, $50.
J. F. Bullack, $60.
E. E. Johnson, $100.
Philip E. Johnson, $100.
I. 8. Robison, $100.
J. H. McCloskey, $60.
Odis H. B eck s*. $50.
Perry R- Brewdf, $100.
J. F. Policy, $50 .
Elma M. Roberts, $100.
A. E. Crouch, $100.
Eva M. Barrow, $50.
Carrie E. Crouch, $60.
Paul T. Ramsey, $50.
Geo. Gaddis, $50.
Ray Peart, $50.
Frank Milter, $60.
Martin Clausen, $200.
C. C .Gardner, $50.
W alter X . Phelps, $60.
Mary M. Beckham, «50.
E. M. Beckham, $60.
Mary M ulvihill, $200.
Sarah McAdams, $560.
Frank P. M ergel, $100.
Geo. N. Goodrich, $60.
Mrs. Goo. N. Goodrich, $60.
Minnie B. Taylor, $60.
Jim A gostino, $100.
Anton Jacobeon, $50.
H. L. Johnson, $100.
B. R Kingsbury, $100.
Nellis McCracken, $60.
W . L, McCracken, $60.
Jaa. H. W inters, $100.
J. H. Season, $100.
Thos. Coats, $60.
Adam Rice, $100.
H. F. McCracken, $60.
Sylvia B. McCracken, $50.
G. C. W yant, $50.
Roy Neal, $60.
Mrs. Roy Nasi, $60.
F. A. Baker, $60.
Even N. Harry, $50.
A . O. W estgate, $60.
G. W. Harry, $60.
W alter M. Laird, $50.
Parley Crowley, $60.
Jas. D. Laird, $60.
Marvel E. Skeels, $60.
Birdie E. Skeels, $60.
J. W. Cote, $60.
Lillian Cation, $60.
Alex H. Lowe, $60.
P. Colwell, $60.
R. C. Robison, $60.
J. W . Thurman, $60.
Mrs. Jaa. K. Cavers, $60.
Wat. Richardson, $60.
A lim E. Almack, $100.
A . T. Bolden, $60.
R. H. Irvine, $60.
Ed Moeller, $100.
Mrs. M yrl A her, $60.
Chas. A . Goodrich, $60.
Chas. E. Schroeder, $800.
Ciras. H. Crouch, $60.