The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., June 21, 1918, Image 1

Coquille
AND THE COQTJILLE HERALD
Sentinel
COQUILL* COOS COUNTY, ORBOON, FRIDAY, JU N E tf, 1918.
VOL. XIIL NO. 28.
M L MEETING TOO ARBITRARY
Is One of the Charges
Against the Members of
the County Court.
tl-M THE YEAR.
Judge Coke Near Winning
For the republican nomination for
justice o f the Supreme Court the vote
at the primary last month resulted as
follows:
C. A . J o h n s ............................ 26,815
John a Coke.............................. 24,697
Percy R. K e lly *1* . ................... 23,896
In Ceos county Judge Coke received
2396 votes to 181 fo r Johns and 206
fo r K e„
teating the eomhincd Tote
of ^
oth, r c, ndid«toc seven to one.
The vote by counties is also signifl
cant. Judge Coke carried 18 coun­
ties.
Johns carried nine and Kelly
nine. Even the big home vote Johns
got in Portland barely saved him, fo r
Coke ran second and was only 1218
votes behind him. A ll but two o f the
counties K d ly carried in his old ju­
dicial district. Outside o f these home
districts neither o f the two other can­
didates were within hailing distance
o f Judge' Coke.
END OF LONG LIFE
Mrs. Mary E. Coke’s Funeral
Services Were Held at Dora
Yesterday Morning.
. . .
The annual school meeting for the
A n early morning robbery at the
Mrs. Mary E. Coke, mother o f
bt the indictment the recallers have
Judge John 8. Coke and Thomas Coke,
Baxter Hotel Tuesday morning put
Coquille district was held at the high
against the present county court
crimp in Chas. Baxter’s roll to tbs ex­
o f Marshfield, and Mrs. L. Harlocker,
school building last Monday evening.
petitions,^ there
three
tent o f $120. Besides the money stol
o f this city, died just after midnight
A year ago w e noted “ the smallest at­
en, which was all in currency, there
Tuesday morning at the home o f the
tendance fo r five years,'* or since the accused o f being “ incompetent,” “ arb­
Judge, ending a life o f 76 yaars, of
was $46 in silver in the drawer, a lot
question o f a site fo r a new building itrary,” and "extravagant.”
which 45 years had been spent in
o f checks and several envelopes eon
When they tell us where, when and
came to the fr o n t This year the
Cooe county.
taining various amounts le ft by the
number present was considerably in what instanaes the members of the
Mrs. Coke had been ill fo r over
guests fo r safe keeping, and which
smaller than then, dropping from 63 court have been guilty o f either o f
fourteen years and a few days
these offenses it might be time enough
were not touched.
to 48.
before her death she Iapced into un­
It is the hotel custom fo r Mr.
A s chairman o f the school board H. to try them; but we are going to give
1 7 i— Claude W alter Endicott, Nor­
consciousness from which she did not
ter to remain up at night until all
O. Anderson called the meeting to or­ a little attention to that second charge
way.
recover. ■
have retired while Mrs. Baxter gets Id h —George A. McDonald, Norway. der and t ip district clerk, J. 8. Law­ right now.
Mrs. Coke was born near Morris­
up in the morning to call the guests 1 1 » — James Isom Clinton, M yrtle rence, acted as secretary.
They are said to have been "arb i­
town, Tenn., in 1842 and in 1868 mar­
-for the early train. When he retired
From his report fo r the past year trary.” That probably means that they
Point.
_
ried John S. Coke Sr., who died fivn
Mr. Baxter placed the $120 in the 892— Robert Sanford Weekly, M yrtle we gather the following:
hove not done just as other people ask­
List Will Be Revised.
years ago. They came west in 1 >70
drawer in the safe with the bunch at
The number o f children o f school ed them to but sometimes acted as
P oin t
The m ilitary advisory bord o f and the following year settled o:i %
cheeks on top a t the currency, locked
age in the district reckoning from they thought best, from all the infor­
In 1899
the drawer and also the combination
four to twenty years is 647, o f whom mation they had. Probably they are this county, o f which Attorneys L iljo­ homestead near McKinley.
qvist and McKnight are members, and Mr. Coke waa appointed collector o f
on the outer door.
gu lty.
That morning, as uauat, Mrs. Bax
We wonder, though, what a police­ District Attorney J. T. Hall ia the tustoms st Empire.
marked excess o f the latter being no
O of the eight children born to this
ter worked the combination but did
doubt due to w ar conditions. Two man would amount to if he was not legal adviser, arc going to come to
not unlock the inner door until
years ago the excess o f girls was only souse times arbitrary. A school teach- Coquille in a few day and go over the couple six are still living, as follow s:
whole bunch o f nearly 2000 question
Mrs. L. Harlocker, o f Coquille;
o’clock. A fte r making the calls she
three and laa£ year it was 20, while
nairee on file with th f local board Tho«. Coke, o f Marshfield; Richard J.
stepped out o f the oAee once or twice
today it is 46.
kero and recommend such changes in Coke, o f Los Angeles; Dr. Paul S.
¿or possibly a moment or turn, once to
The number o f teachers employed
classification
as they deem proper.
Coke, o f Ooakland, Calif.; Judge John
'order her breakfast.
during the year was 14, o f whom M l off the lawyers and litigants be­
8. Coke, o f Marshfiled; and Judge
About the time the train' pulled in Lilejqvist.
thrqe were men and eleven women. fore him.
James L. Coke o f Honolulu, who ia on
a travelling man, Oscar Hinas, who
People in all these lines have to de­
There were also 14 rooms in opera­
the supreme bench In the islands.
had occupied one o f the rooms in the
cide matters quickly and without ren­
tion during the year.
Hugh MV Coke was killed by light­
Laird building used by the hotel, came
dering
a
reason
fo
r
their
action.
A
’ There are now 1200 volumes in the
ning two years ago at his ranch in
in ranting and swearing because he
school library, o f which 76 were pur­ government in which there was no­
Mendocino county, CaL
had not been called fe r the train. He
chased during the year. Following is thing arbitrary would have to be built
The funeral took place yesterday
had lo ft a call but Mr. Baxter was
H. O. Anderson, o f the Lyceum com­
the financial statement fo r the fiscal along Bolsheviki lines. It would be
talking war and when he returned to
J. D. Myers hands us an interacting year ending June 17:
like waiting for a vote at a mass meet­ mittee, this morning received a letter and Mrs. Coke’s remains were interred
the office had failed to place the sun's letter just received from his a«
ing in a lumber camp gr mill to decide from the Ellison-White Bureau with beside those o f her husband and
Receipts
number on the call sheet
Charles, somewhere in France. In a On hand one year a g o ........$
7.02 how a tree should be felled or a log the following in relation to that miss­ at Dora sad Mrs. Coke’s remains were
ing number on our last winter’s pro­ interred beside those o f her husband
Hines wanted a jitn e y 'to get him previous letter, Charles wrote, “ I ’ll From district t a x . . . ........... 9,889.75 Aould be cut
down to the depot so Mrs. Baxter
toll you father, i f me had twice aa From county school fund. . . 4,146.'i0
Our County Court.has erred at gram which two men got sick, at dif and daughter, Caroline, at the cem­
etery there.
her bunch o f keys in a corner by the many Americans here as we have, From state school fund . . .
947.20 times in not being as arbitrary as it ferent times tryin g to All:
F. E. McKenna came over from
cash register and rushed around to the we'd g o righ t through t o Berlin.” From tuition outside pupils.
Dear Mr. Anderson:— I am in re­
As fo r instance
62A0 should have been.
garage, screes the street south o f the Only a fe w months more end that From Co. high school fund. 1,941.86 when it acceded to the wishes o f the ceipt o f your letter o f June 17th stat­ Marshfield with tho remains on the
First National Bank, pushed the auto
w ill be reeched.
In his lest Miscellaneous receipts . . . .
42.76 people o f Powers and decided to build ing that the Boise office had notified 9 o’clock train and took them out to
out by hand and go t around to the lettter he u y s :
Total ............. ........... $16,506.27 a bridge as they asked, although both you that an extra number fa r your the cemetery by auto. He was met
hotel and then to the depot in time
the Court and the engineers were of Lyceum Course would be provided by there at 11 o’clock by tho relatives
Deer Father end Mother:— This is
fo r Hines to catch the train.
the opinion that anothor plan would taking a number from our Chautau­ and friends who went from Marsh­
Friday and as the natives call it,
N ot until seven o'clock did she at­ "m arket dey.”
qua Course while our program is in field over the Coos Bay Wagon road;
111,690.19 bo better.
The country people
tempt to open the inner door o f the
To make any o f the charges that your part o f the state. W e have ar­ and the funeral services were conduct­
in everything
from young
safe and then she noticed that the goete to rabbits in line at livestock,
have been made against the County ranged with Mr. Paget, manager of ed by Rev. F. G. Jennings at the ceme­
/
lock o f that
without telling in what ways the Coast Six Chautauqua System to tery.
the dooi
they have been either "incompetent,' send to you Dr. Boyl on the evening o f
Water Will Be Off Sunday.
missed the $If9tfceu but thought that tb i market ptare. Than tha paopla o f Clark’s salary . . .
“ arbitrary," or "extravagant” seem July 18th. Dr. Boyl is one o f the
her husband had probably placed St the little village can ehooso what they Library books . . .
to indicate an intention to try and noted lecturers o f America and will
The city water will be turned off
somewhere else and did not at
condemn the court on vague generali­ give your community one o f the next Sunday from 2 Ur 6 p. m. all over
any o f us are not on duty A ll other purposes
notify him o f her discovery.
ties without any specific averments to strongest inspirational lectures you town. It will be shut off at the res­
we have a chance to be interested on­ Puffo on Kfind f
While she was getting the car out lookers. When things are running it
sustain them. In any court in the have listened to fo r many a day. We ervoir to give r.n opportunity to clean
there were one or tw o people in the high water mark it sure beats any
Some
Total ............................ $16,608.27 land such a charge would be dismis­ were sorry that Dr. Evans was un­ the pipes from there down.
office all the time besides M r , Hines. barnyard melody one ever heard. The
able to fill his date, but owing to years ago the connection between the
The amount o f warrants outstand sed as not stating facts sufficient to
sickness which was unavoidable on his iron pipe and tho wooden one under
The only time apparently when the lowing o f the cattle, the blotting of
ing is $6,062.32, which is nearly $2,000 constitute a cause o f action.
theft could have been committed was goats, quack o f ducks, the cockling o f
part, the date was missed. I feel cer­ the middle of the north reservoir be­
less than a year ago. The estimated
tain that Dr. Boyl will please you.— came so defective that it was found
on the two occasions when she le ft the chickens, barking o f doga and the
Personal Taxes Are Lost.
value o f the school house and grounds
W alter Ricks, Manager.
office to go to the kitchen. I t would squeal o f pigs. About this time the
necessary to tunnel under tbe reser­
is $16,000, and o f the school furniture
Special tax attorney Liljoqvist says
seem that the robbery must have been 162 Regimental Band will start some
The committee here will, o f course, voir to make tho necessary repairs.
and apparatus, $6,260.
The school Coos county is losing from $4,000 to
committed by some one who knew o f good old rag-time and Mr. Downey,
accept this offer, and the people who The same thing has now occurred in
house and its contents are insured fo r $6,000 a year o f personal taxes by
the custom a t laying the keys on the
have last’s season lecture tickets will the south reservoir and a tunnel 35
w ill bo givin g the $18,000.
reople moving away their goods with
be glad to see them fully redeemed ev­ or 40 feet in length had to be bored
register and also which key fitted the boys all the once over trying to locate
The average total payments pear out paying taxes on them. We who
door. The fact that the silver and the discord. Then Bugeye (E a rl Nos­
en at this late date.
under it to reach tbe connection there
month during the year were $788.78, have personal property as firm ly an ­
envelopes were not touched practically ie r) w ill sit up and take notice and
between
the iron pipe making the out­
to female teachers, and $867.36,' to chored aa real estate, and who have
precludes the idea that the safe was wonder what is ailing the chief. How-
male teachers.
Shuster Sentenced to the Pen. let o f the reservoir and the wooden
teen putting up our taxes a year in
opened during the mght by an ex­
system beyond it.
It is to do this
when everything is quiet and
The total enrollment in the high advance, wonder how the fly-by-night
Monday Judge Coke passed sentence work that the water must be shut off,
pert, who would most certainly have chief bugler Nosier blows taps at
school wac 116, whi£h waa one 1«
Fellows manage to get by so easily.
on A. E. Shuster, form erly Justice of so fix yourselves for a couple o f hours
taken everything in sigh t
10:20, I ’ll say he K there with the than the year before. O f tfceee 48
But the strangest case be mentions the Peace o f the North Bond district.
The practice o f laying her keys on goods. Ho puts so much feeling in
or more o f drouth.
were boys and 68 girls.
U this: Over $2,000 is due from tbe He had been convicted o f larceny by
the cash register was indulged in fo r the music that it will make you think
The amount paid by the county fo r Bank o f Oregon, form erly o f North embezzlement o f $800 o f funds paid
two reasons. One was the lack o f a o f all the mean things you ever did
Over Six Tons Turned Back.
the tutition o f high achcol pupils from Bend, which dissolved and transferred into his court. The sentence was one
pocket in which to carry thorn and the in your Ufa.
outside the district w s s -$1941.86, as its business to tho First National to seven years in the penitentiary and
The
government has secured the
other that there were only two keys
The weather is sure fine here 'a t shown above.
Bank o f North Bend.
Dissolution a fine o f $1890.
needed ship# to transport tho flour the
^
fo r the three— Mr. and Mrs. Baxter
Three candidates were nominated took place between the time o f the
present and is ideal fo r the chief in­
N. C. McLeod, Shuster’s attoney, people o f this county have turned
and the clerk, Wm. Shults. The latter
dustry in this region which is the fqr the the vacant directorship and levy and the time when the tax war­ gave notice o f an appeal to the Su­ beck to their grocers fo r the starving
was absent from the hotel Tuesday
growing o f asparagus.
The natives the vote resulted in the re-election of rant fo r the sheriff was sworn out. preme Court, claiming that the indict­ people o f Europe and over six and a
morning.
Needless to say the keys
Ho received 29 How collection can tie made is a le­ ment was defective in the same way half tons are going out from Coquille
to like it aa well i f not better H. O. Anderson.
w ill not be le ft there any more.
votes to five'cast for George T. Moul­ gal question.
as others that have -been recently today to federal food administrator
The police have the c u e in charge
ton and 10 fo r Fred Nosier. •
Ayer at Portland. The Farmers Store
thrown out o f court here.
but there is practically no clew on
For clerk the candidates were the
tends 36 barrel», the Busy Corner 27,
The
District
Attorney
says
that
un­
which they can work, and suspicions,
First Coos County Victim.
But a Step From Death.
same as last year, J. S. Lawrence, the
The
less this case ia advanced on the cal­ and P. E. Drane 8 barrels.
o f there are any, are not being pub­
Among the marines killed in action
Nela J. MagUl had a narrow escape incumbent receiving 26 votes to 20
amount the people of tho United
endar
o
f
the
Supreme
Court
it
will
be
lished.
in France the name o f Charles Auer,
from instant death at the Sitka mill cast fo r Mrs. Laura Brandon.
two years before it is decided. Mean­ States have patriotically turned back,
Monday morning. While engaged in
The proposed budget as printed in o f Bandon, was reported on Tuesday. while Shuster’s bond has bean fixed while thoy eat war bread without any
loading a car at 9 o’clock, the boards the Sentinel was adopted without He is the first soldier from Coos at $2,000, and it ia expected bondsmen wheat flour, can hardly be less than
Marine Corps Gets Him.
county to sacrifice his life in battle in
still damp, and with smooth change.
100,000 tons. It is thought that Our
will be found.
/
Levi Billings, o f M yrtle Point, un­
he slipped and took a
The expectation voiced a year ago the present ^rmr. He enlisted in the
government’s pledge o f bread to the
der indictment hers fo r forgery, will
down toward the track.
His
that one-third leas warrants would be Marines just after the war began in
Swiss people will be made good from
be accepted as a recruit in the navy
Miss Hammond Wins Suit.
barely missed a 12-inch square sill, outstanding in 1916 than in 1917, was April a year ago.
the flour thus returned.
if he passes the required physical ex­
Auer uaed to live on a ranch on
but his shoulder struck it, skinning his very nearly fulfilled, the amount be­
In the case o f Miss W. B. Hammond
amination, and the fact o f his indict­
He was about twenty- against the firm o f Fred Hoi
back and bruising him badly in sever­ ing reduced from $6,846.68 to $6,062.- Bear creek.
R«y
ment w ill not bar him from U nde
o years old. His father, John S. lister fo r salary and disbursements,
al places. Besides he suffered intern­ 82.
Sam’s service, so long as he has not
Auer,
moved
from
the
ranch
there
to
al injuries, his lungs being very sore
It doee not appear to be probable
while she waa in charge o f the ab­
been convicted o f crime.
nil day. In spits o f this, however, he now that the new school building we near Salem some time ago. A broth­ stract office here in Coquille, which
Since the above was written Mr.
Bettey, was instantly killed
kept at work until the car was loaded. have been talking about fo r five y ea n er o f Charles still resides on Bear
a tried in the Circuit court here
Billings has been accepted fe r the U.
He says he is a t a lost to understand past w ill be erected until the world creak.
Monday, she was given a verdict of day at McDonald A Vaughn’s
S. Marine service.
The indictment
Heel logging camp over on
how the report that he was in the hos­ war ends; by which time it is hoped
$1083. Mr. Hollister represented by
UgU Mil I him has besn dropped by the
i o f the county. He
pital with his back broken got into the contest in the courts over the site
his attorney, C. F. McKnight, move.)
consent o f Judge Coke and District
Why Not Let Them Marry?
donkey engine there and v
circulation. Had his head struck the purchased in 1914 will also be ended.
non-suit, holding that A. S. Ham­
Attorney Hall, and yesterday morning
log for fuel
In the case o f Ebon Pomeroy, of mond shoudd pay half the sum, since
timber his shoulder did, though, ho
he took the train fo r Mare’s Island.
and
crushed hit
Bandon,
indicted
fo
r
wronging
a
girl
would never have known what hurt
the firm involved was Hammond A
with such force
Marion’s Parole Revoked.
not yet o f age, he pleaded not guilty Hollister.
He agreed to pay half
Marion Williams, o f North Bend, in court here Monday and requested himself. When this waa not allowed pleteiy buried it
Kilbarn Burned Affala.
who had been guilty o f stealing mon­ that his ease be continued to the next by Judge Coke, the defense put no was about 86 years o f age end on«
The steemship F. A. Kilburn, which
the beet known loggers in the county,
ey, tools, etc., at North Bend some term o f court, which was done. Those witness on the stand.
uaed to run from thè Bay has basa
having been employed there fo r about
young people are both desirous at g e t­
An appeal o f the case will be made.
destroyed by Are off K ey W est in thè
ting married but the girl’s mother
G o lf o f Mexico.
This le thè second
Mr. and Mrs. Battey and his father
still refussa her consent, and aa she
tiene this steemship has been burned.
Out at Medford 106 degree heat is went over to attend the funeral, which
is only 16 years o f age, that u neces­
She w m flrst named "James DoOar,”
sary. Pomeroy has given a $600 bend reported. Some day the charms of took place this afternoon at 3:80 at
but after being burned to thè water*»
fo r his appearance at the next term the Coquille valley as a refuge from tho Wilson Undertaking parlors.
he waa rachristened aa thè F .
nmer boat w ill be
o f court with R. H. Mast and Henry
Kilbdm.
LETTER FROM
CHAS. MYERS
f t t I an together
WILL MAKE
THIRD TRIAL