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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1919)
/ T ..________ . VOL. M IL i m ... J NO. ..... — 11.5« T H E YE A R . C O Q tt^ ^ E , COOS C O U N TY , OREGON. F R ID A Y , J A N U A R Y S, M U . IL — The Bln« C t o m m Thin Week W t,Are Aoked to Support De mand That We May Not Approve ' Under date o f Doc. 26, the Coquill« Commercial Club is in receipt o f a letter f r o « Charles Hall, president of the Marshfield Chamber o f Commerce, in regard to a proposed change in the railway schedule at the Bay, for which it is hoped to secure the sup port o f the commercial bodies o f the Coquille valley. This proposal 4s to add to the serv ice a night train between Marshfield and Eugene to connect with a through train on the main line. It is proposed that this train, consisting o f Pullman sleepers and s mail coach, shall leave MarshhsM, going north at 8 o’clock in the evening and arrive at Port land at 7:80 in the morning. Return ing these sleepers and the mail car would leave Portland at 8:00 in the evening and arrive at Marshfield at 6:80 in the morning. The Marshfield people say that they d « not wish the present schedule dis turbed in any way. O f course, H that is the case the additional train from the Bay would certainly prove no die- arivantage to the Coquille Valley. But we note that a mail car is asked for on this train. I f that means that eur through mail to Portland on the pres ent day train to Eugene and connect ing beyond is to be discontinued, we have the most strenuous objections to the proposed new schedule. W e cer tainly question whether the postofflee department w ill be w illing to run two daily mail ears ( i o n Portland, ooe m the morning and the other at night down to Cooe Bay. That is a point we want to see cleared up before we can advocate any change.. I f our one daily eastern mail is to leave Pert- land at 9 o’clock in the evening and get down to M ar A fie ld a t « 4 0 in the morning, it w ill not reach Coquille until half past ten the following morning; and instead o f gettin g the Portend dailies and our t«rs at f o u r '« ‘clock in j as we do now they w ill not be dlstrt- boro much before noen the foi- day, and our mail service will be much the same as when we were served from Roseburg by stage. I f the adding o f a mail car to the pro posed night train would not mean in ferior mail service in the valley we w ill have no kick coming, if it does mean delayed mail service and bring ing in the mail o f the day by slow freigh t totozrde noon, we certainly shall be heard very vigorously in re lation to it. This week we put a blue cross next the date on the label o f all subaerib- era whose time is out tne first o f Jan uary. It was the intention to do this last week, but as the mails would not wait for the paper the question was whether to miss them and in many cases have the Sentinel reach the sub scribers on Monday or Tuesday in stead o f on Saturday, and we decided to get the paper out on time and let the blue erosays wait a week. A good many have paid fo r the new year, lanwhile, so we w ill have fewer, crosses to mark this week and as we have one more day in which to get up the paper you may look fo r the cross this time without f a i l Big Motor at the Sitka Tuesday night the big 150-horse power motor was installed at the Sit ka mill'which will relieve the big en gine o f about a third o f its work. The new motor will furnish the power for the conveyors, slashers and trimmers. The new planing machine is now m operation and the new sheds, docks, etc., cover a considerable o f the wa ter front and extend out over the NO TRACE OF MURDERER Sheriff Gage says there is nothing at all in the story that Julius Brache, the man murdered at the Bay the night before Christmas, bad just re- « shipment o f 36 cases o f A s to the identity o f the murderer, suspicion is directed to a man who had lived at Bunker Hill and is said to have been a partner with the mur dered man in the bootlegging busi es. But after going very thorough ly into the matter and spending sev e n ! day* in making an investigation, was found impossible to identify this partner o f Brache’s, or to maru his name or find where he had lived. Plenty o f people probably knew the facts, but both the jitney drivers who took part psid ltog the b fM e er bring ing customers to the bootleggers, and those who patronised them, were a* close mouthed as possible, and noth ing could be learned from them. This very siTent partner o f Brache, however, disappeared immediately a fter the murder and no traces of him were found. He has, o f course, h ai time to go to San Francisco and sail fo r some seaport on the other side o f the world before the officers could obtain any clue or any satisfactory description o f him; and it may very likely be that the case will prove to be one o f those mysterious crimes Meantime our private opinion 1s whose perpetrators are never discov that the Bay people are asking ered. - . what the S. P. will not be ready to grant. Saw Fleet Surrendered Troops Got Off Safely The wounded and the well on the grounded Government transport Northern Pacific at Fire Island were being transferred to the shore in life boats yesterday and it was expected all would be taken off before night. One life boat loaded with troops from the transport was capsixed by a heavy surf throwing 15 soldiers and life savers into the wa ter. A ll were saved. One soldier and three life savers were caught under the boat. L ife guards ashore rushed into the surf and after rescuing the others, dragged the boat ashore where the four unconscious men were re vived. As soon as they landed the soldiers ware taken immediately across the narrow sand spit, called Fire Island, to a flotilla o f small boats to carry them four miles across the shallow bay to the towns of Slip and Babylon on the south shore o f Long Island. Meantime the life boots and the coast guard boat, returned for more troops More Work For Red Croon The ladies who sew at Red Cross headquarters in the Liberty Temple are requested to take notice that work will be resumed fiext week, beginning Monday afteAieon.. About 25 conval ascent robes, the material fo r which has been at hand fo r over % month, . are urgently needed at camp and tonments in this country. There is also great need fo r refugee garments in Europe, the report being that thou sands w ill fre e s « to death there dur ing the neat «0 days unlees clothing is sent from America. The Red Creas will furnish this clothing ns rapidly M l t w b t ____ HERAIJD T Recall Killed Again H A T AILED THEM C O U R T S » Reason “Prominent” Rancher* at Tewmile Make a Roar Three taxpayers in the Tenmile country have been w riting letters to the Coos Bay Times severely criticis ing the conduct o f the county court and demanding a change in the ad ministration o f county affairs. They are S. Jumper, V. H. Sargeant, and W. J. Cole. The Times designates them as “ prominent ranchers” In addition to the letters to the press Bole am) Sargeant, who were respectively chairman and secretary o f the road meeting held in November in District No. 2, accompanied their report of the proceedings o f the meet ing with a letter to the court in which they recited that the meeting had re fueed to approve the special 10-mUl W hile Attorney General Brown still holds to his opinion that names may be added to a recall petition after it has been filed with the county dent, Ferry and Printing Contracts he also says that the petition filed last year against Commissioner A r A re Let— Quarantine chie Philip is dead, and cannot be at the Bay withdrawn and refiled or used as a basis for further proceedings. Wheth The only change the county court j er it will be possible to get signers to in the budget was to cut off $300 a new petition no one can tell until from the aproprir.tion fo r a county the attempt has been made, but since leader for industrial school work last fa ll’s election the number oi and add that amount to the county names required will be much less titan road fund. The club leader work will at the time the petitions were circu be.handled through the office o f the lated last summer. Coenty agent, J. L. Smith. The personnel o f the board was not Simpson Buys the Laundry. changed f « r this term. John Yoak- Wednesday a change became effec am, the newly elected commissioner, will take his seat next Monday, the tive at the Coquille Laundry when law providing that the term o f coun A. L. Simpson took over the manage ty commiscioners shall begin on the ment of that business, having pur chased it from D. Hurley, who bought first Monday in January. .T h e board has been busy so fa r in it from Mr. Morrison last spring. Mr. auditing the ^December bills and e*- Simpson has been connected with the laudry ever since M r. Hurley has Mil'ning the bids for county work dur the coming year. The following been its proprietor and needs ne rec ommendations as to the conduct of contracts have been awarded. He is a practical For treating the sick at the Infirm that^ institution. laundryman having operated large the eounty county Ja,‘ jail, - to “ ary 7 * an<f ncr **• w Dr. u r - • James laundries in the W illam ette valley. Richmoml, who « r*c* iv* * 8-60 visits to thp Infirmary and $1.50 fo r Mr. and Mrs. Hurley le ft Wednesday for their form er home at Albany. visits to the jail. road levy. They further resolved, as these men reported in the letter to the court to “ adjourn indefinitely,” alleg- ing that it was “ futile to tax them- selves any more during the present regime.” In their letters to the press the For treating tlm indigent at the three men mentioned complained that Bay the award was made to Dr. H. M. the court was squandering the funds wrung from them by taxation, or Shaw at $50 per month. The contract for running the Co words to that effect. The facts in this case make these1 quille ferry was awarded to R. E. statements and claims especially in- Richardson at $225 per month, he to furnish everything except the scow. creating. The Riverton ferry contract was S. Jumper is assessed fo r |160 fo r three cattle and one dog and pays tne awarded to Melvin H syter af $45 per month. county taxes to the amount o f $1 J l . Bullards ferry went to Cassius V. H. Sargeant pays taxes on a $60 valuation on six sheep only. He puts Goodman at $180 per month, the coun ty furnishing the scow. up $1.07. The contract for supplies fo r tne W. J. Cole has a total assessment o f $1166, o f which $940 is fo r real County Infirmary here was awarded to the Coquille Valley Mercantile Co. estate and $225 fo r three head of The printing d f the proceedings o f cattle and twelve sheep. He pays the County Court— list o f bills allow $24.80 in taxes. ed— was awarded to the Coos May These three men on the other hand Times and Marshfield Record at the drew from the county treasury for legal rate. work they- did on the roads during the The printing o f the officers’ re two years, 1917 and 1918, the sum o f ports, notices, budget, etc., was $1061. awarded to the Coquille Valloy Sen- That would look as if the t a x money « . o f theirs the county court had squan- An allowance o f $25 a month was had come back to them many made to Ed Vandecar, o f Eastside, * fold. W hy then their kick 7 from the indigent fund. W ell, Sargeant was an agitator, something along I. W. W. lines, and he was fired. Hence his wail against the reckless manner in which the county court had squandered his $1.0T taxes by paying him several hundred dollars for making a nuisance of himself on the highway. Cole not only worked on the road himself but his w ife ran a cook camp for the force at work there and man aged to fatten five hogs on the gar bage throbn out at that camp. Final ly the officials caught on and the work camp cook house was taken from the Coles and placed in other Then the money paid for Orris Knapp, of the U. S. Navy, hands. was a caller yesterday afternoon in meals began to make the cook house company .with his aunt, Mrs. Ida K. self-supporting. So all that appears to have ailed Owen. He was one o f the first of the Curry county boys to enlist for these men was that they had been sea service, having joined the colors yanked away from the public teat. May 21, 1917, a little over a month We have often noticed tnat men who after war was declared. Following pay little or nothing in taxes make his example seventeen more young the biggest howl about them— but men went into the navy from Curry there is usually a reason. county, most o f them, like him, from the Port Orford neighborhood. The Coldest Ever at Powers young man was on the American flag Never before at Powers has the ship, New York, when the German fleet surrendered and had a fine op weather been as cold in the history portunity to witness that histone o f the loggers’ metropolis as on the Sixteen degress event Later his ship returned to past three nights. above zero was registered each night, New York and he was given a fu r lough o f 21 days, leaving him but a A. H. Powers tells the Coos Bay few days at home after crossing the Times. Pipes of one and a half to two continent twice. He started west the inch diameter which take water to day after Christmas and will have to the donkey engines at comps 7 and 8, report there for duty on the 17th. the Eden ridge eamp and the con struction camp from andv broke and Sheriff Brings In Forger as a result the four eamps could not Sheriff Gage went out Wednesday operate. The value o f the pipes which morning to get R. M. Weakley, who Is the cold has ruined Were, according to accused o f passing forged checks at one estimate, $6,000 but Mr. Powers M yrtle Point. Weakley had gone so says that is exaggerated. There.-Is Eugene. He met the southbound snow several inches deep at the Eden train at Gardiner, where a Lane coun ridge camp. ty official turned Weakley over to him, and the sheriff brought him down here Two Coquille Men in List and placed him in jail. The accused is a son o f Lee Weakley and Mr. Gage Ninety-four men from neutral na says he admitted forgin g a $3 cheese tions living in Oregon cancelled their in the name of Bert Allen. He Is al first citizenship paperr and renounced so accused o f forgin g another check their torivitaff* o f ever becoming fo r |2L American citizens during the war. They were w illing to enjoy the benefit C. W. Gilman this week purchased i ° f American citizenship, but balked the Front street confectionery and at l*1® the cost o f m ilitary news stand o f C. A. Machon. For the Mrvice. present Mr. Gilman intends to m ake! Among toe 94 were two who were no change in the stock or conduct o f residents o f Coquille, or its vicinity, the business but eventually he will John Frank Noumea and Han* Chris- tlaa breach out and add other An allowance o f $25 a month from the same fund was made to E. B. Hasaker, who may be sent back to Lane county. W. J. Murphy, representing the L. L. L. L. appeared before the court askin'? that arrangements be made for establishing a quarantine in Bunk er Hill and other suburbs of Marsh field. P. W. Goodman, constable m that district, was authorized to es tablish quarantine in case o f the In fluenza or contagious diceece and Dr. James Richmond deputized Dr. Shaw to act in his stead as county health officer at the Bay. Road W ill Be 18 Feet Wide The County Court is in receipt o f the following communication from the State Highway Commission: Gentlemen; I am pleased to advise you o f the recent action o f the High way Commission in appropriating from funds available m 1919 a suf ficient sum to provide fo r paving o f the Coast Highway between Marsh field and Coquille, beginning at the end o f the present pavement and ex tending 12H miles south. This appropriation is made from the $6,000,000 bonding act and pro vides fo r a 14-foot pavement with a 2-foot crushed rock or gravel should er on each side. It is probable that proposals w ill be asked in the early spring in order to complete this improvement in a single working season. Respectfully yours, State Highway Commission, by Roy A . Klein, secretary. SITKA JdEN LEFT SUNDAY Last Sunday morning in rain ano sleet a big crowd gathered at the • »- pot here to bid good bye and God speed to the soldiers from the Sltaa mill, with a few from Prosper mak ing 86 in all. They lined up on tne main railroad track facing south some time before the train from Powers came in and gave three rousing chee — for Mr. Wernich, their employer for so long, and three more fo r the Sitka Spruce company. These were called for by one o f the officers o f the com pany, but then the men volunteered “ three cheers fo r Coquille,” which were given with hearty good will. For some reason the next call which was for “ three cheers fo r home” did not elicit as enthusiastic a response, though the boys were no doubt doing a heap o f thinking about that end o f the trip. While they were thus lined up Hie Honor Guard girls, who had provided lunch, papers and magazines fo r the trip, went down the line and gave each man a package o f cigarettes. The trail) remained here about twenty minutes to take on the bag gage for the boys and the crowd that came to the depot braved- the show ers to say a last goodbye and to cheer them as it pulled out. They crowded every window on thie side o f the train and responded to the fare wells with enthusiasm. Many of them, we are sure, regretted to leave, and many o f them will be greatly missed by the friends they have made during their stay here. They will carry back to their homes scattered all over the eastern, south ern and central states vivid impres sions of the Pacific northwest and will spread first hand stories o f this coun try among thousands o f their friends and acquaintances. W e are certainly glad that they came here and learnea to know us and the Coquille country. The Sentinel is glad to learn from this letter that the earlier reports about a 12V4-foot paving fo r this road were erroneous and to know that the pavement is to be 14 feet in width with a two feet rock shoulder on each side, making a width o f 18 feet in all, and affording ample space fo r cars to meet and pass. Dance* Still Under the Ban The ban has been lifted here; and the churches will ell hold their usual ggi vioea Sunday; but the school board thinks there ore still too many sick with the influenza to open the schools next Monday. No time has yet been set fa r opening them, though it may be Monday, Jan. 13, i f conditions im Sure Enough W inter It has been real w in ier'to a great er degree than is often experienced on this coast fo r the past few weeks, yesterday morning the thermometer droppad to about twenty above zero, the ice on the pools thickening, and the whole outdoors was white with hoar frost as it has been fo r many mornings. The earth, too, was in most places frozen enough to bear a man’s weight, which is about as stiff as it ever gets here. Farmers and ranchers are glad to see a stiff enough freeze to kill the bugs which usual ly remain chipper all winter and ready to begin operations in the ear^y spring. W ith but few plastered houses and less protection than where the winters are more frigid, everybody is hoping fo r the chinook and a warm rain that usually comes before the cold lasts as long as it has at this holiday season. Still the new lawns appear as green os ever when the sun scatters the hoar frost. In the shade it has been in evidence ail flay. •e J ' 11 Valuation Beard’s Work Only About H alf Completed in 1918 Assessor Beyers says that while the new valuations o f property made by the assessment board in this county last year were taken into account In making all assessments on which the taxes for 1918, were based, not much more than half the Work o f that board has been completed. He believes it will take most, if not all o f the pres ent year to complete their worn. Com paratively little beyond the town pro perties was reached last year. The work ahead is a complete reclassifica tion o f all ranch lands and all other lands burned over, logged off, etc. They will not make any valuation of timber, as that was covered by Den nis McCarthy’s cruise from five to eight years ago. But all lands that have been logged off since the cruise will be revalued, and the amount of such lands has been increasing very rapidly during the last year or two. The standard minimum fo r these logged off lands is $3 per acre, none being assessed fo r less than that even i f it be all rocks and tilted’ perpendic ular at that. Mr. Beyers mentions timber lands even which arc taxed so high that the owners contemplate ceasing to pay taxes and leaving their holdings fo r the county to acquire tax title. This is the cose o f the Central Pacific Rail-, road company’s timber adjoining Marshfield on the southwest. There the Southern Pacific is not only pay ing taxes on the estimated value o f the timber but on a land valuaion of nearly $100 an acre, on account o f its nearness to the city. This brings the tax actually paid by the company up to $7 an acre per year, and their tax expert recommends that they throw no more good money into that rat- hole. The people o f this county, and es pecially the county court, have got to take cognisance o f the fact that fo r every acre o f Umber felted an® sold the actual wealth o f the eounty grows less, and that the decrease In tazes from this source roust be reckoned with from this time on. That w ill mean that either the actual amount o f taxes levied must grow less or that other property in the county which cannot be shipped out will have to pay a larger proportion o f the taxes from year to year. Mis* Am y Cardiff New Nurse Miss Jane Allen, who came here last summer to make a health survey o f this county and arouse public in terest in the employment o f a county nurse, is making her final round this week accompanied by Tier successor in the work, Miss Am y Cardiff. They were callers at this office on Tuesday. Miss Alien is a wonderfully efficient little woman, and has made a great many friends in Coos county, who will regret to see her leave; but she is a pioneer in the public nurse movement and goes to other, fields to arouse an interest as she did here. W e under stand that Coos is the second county in Oregon to get in line in this work, Jackson being the first. Kennett and Perry Lawrence Yesterday Recorder Lawrence re ceived a telegram from his son, Ken nett, who has returned from over seas and landed at Newport News on New Y ear’s day. He said he was feel ing fine. Both he and hie brother, Perry, contracted rheumatism In France. Mr. Lawrence talked with Perry over the long distance to Port land on New Y ea r’s. He was on his way to Camp Lewis fo r demobiliza tion and said he was feeling well and a physician at San Francisco told him he would come out all right though his joints Were still somewhat swol len. R. E. Nicolai Very 111 R. E. Nicolai o f the Sitka Spruce company here, returned from Port land last Saturday afternoon and be came ill almost immediately with the influenza and went to the Coquille hospital. He has been there- ever since and fo r the peas two days hia friends have had reason to be a good deal alarmed about his caae. This They Began New Term* morning Dr. Hamilton says his condi County Clerk Oddy, Sheriff Gage, tion is very serious, though he does Treasurer Dimmick, Surveyor MeCul- not anticipate fatal results. lagh and Coroner Wilson will each begin a new term next Monday. Com Yesterday thirteen homos were un missioner elect John Yoakam w ill be der influenze quarantine at M on k tea et to* wheal thee. t ■ WILL TAKE YEAR ■ . r • •**' ■ i