THE C O Q Ü lLLB V A lX lft
taraste o f U m C m Boy sida ahead o f
those o f U m Coqufllo Valley.
I t b timo that the pooplo o f U m
V oUoy oido were beginning to look to
their own interests iaotood of pulling
ehootnuta out of U m too for U m boyo
Advertising
Display, U cents
g notice*. 6 cents l
irtion. W ent sds, 1
Tho Marshfleld Record b still ln s
critica! Situation. On Tuoeday it had
another violent attack of th* Wataon-
ophobia with whieh it ha* been affiiet-
ed for years. Proepecta o f ita recov
ery seem so slight es to be negiigible.
On returning fron» a holiday visit
to relativ## in California, Editor Aus
tin, o f tho Port Umpqua
U n r ä te Carter, say»:
I f you want to really appreciate th*
Lower Umpqua qountry, just take a
trip to the put o U i parte, notice care
fully conditions as they exist there,
end then you will know that yoU live
in the moat fevered epot on God’s
earth.
Coquille isn’t worrying about tb*
court house slipping away any more subscription price o f the Sentinel
than it b about the prosi t tram must be increased end last year we
schedule, which might be a grant deal had fu lly determined to do so at the
ond o f tho year. The reason wo did
Tb* claims tb* railroad people mode not wo will frankly state. Govern
about that schedalo seemed to us ment regulations made it imperative
somewhat extravagant—and so do the in October that we should adopt the
dobonds o f the Coos Bay pooplo for cceh-ia-advanc* system in the conduct
night service t i t the benefit o f those o f our subscription business.
That
who have to make frequent tripe to made a very decided change with a
Portland, tar that matter. Coquille large percentage o f our. subscribers.
isn’t hard to please and willl never W * did not doom it good business pol
cease to be thankful that her lot has icy to make another radical change
at so nearly the same time.
Having failed to raise tho price of
mate in western Oregon— or in the the Sentinel at the time intended we
United 8tates fo r that matter. That are waiting to see what tho harvest
her position makes her the hub o f Coos will be. There is a slight tendency
county b another subject for congrat along some lines to a reduction o f tho
ulation.
high war prices. In other line* prices
And while the people o f tho entire are still moving upwanis.
Among
valley are paying many thousands of them w * may mention insurance
dollars every year in port taxes most
ly fo r tho improvement o f Bandon
harbor isn’t just th* time for Bandon
to be suggesting that she doesn't care
a continental where m e court house
From the Bandon World
The Coos Bayites in a roundabout
way are eugffesting to Coquille that
the county seat is not M firmly lo
cated m it might be and that unless
there can be “ complete co-operatioh”
or words to that effect, the court
house might be picked up some dark
night, carried over to Marshfield and
set down alongside that fine new arm
ory that the county and state are go
ing to build there.
The bluff is apparently working on
some o f the Coquille folks. A t leM t
they seem to think that because Coos
Bay says so the new train schedule is
not satisfactory, although it gives bet
ter service than .before to Coquille end
the rest o f the Coquille Valley.
I f Coquille ia susceptible to court
house fears, it might be opportune to
suggest that m far m location is con
cerned it wouldn’t make much differ
ence to Bandon if Coos Bay did steal
the county seat. However, Bandon ia
still with th* Coquille side o f the di
vide and intend« to remain so until
And our duty will have been done.
B u t O U R service still goes on.
I f you hsve a knotty fi
nancial problem let ua assist you.
Our Motto Is
-■ “Still Better Service”
Commercial and Saving Deposits
OREGON
COQUILLE
which we wish to close out a t once
and
which
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will sell below cost
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N O T A S C U L L E R Y M AID
Down in California tho boose deal
ers ere making a strenuous fight
against
th*
federal
prohibition
amendment. The legislature hM rat
ified it, but the wets claim that this,
like every other act o f the legislature,
is subject to the referendum and M y
they must have a state wide vote be
fore th* ratification becomes valid.
The way it look» now they might m
well save themselves all that trouble.
California vote in this matter isn’t
going to bo m pivots! m wm her vote
for president in 1916.
V A L L E Y SHOULD BE A U N IT
The W ar has been won. The Boys will come marching home
Bootlegger Up-to-Date
Here b on» o f those pithy snap
shots Fred Lockloy is contributing to
The former kaiser of Germany is on
tho Oregon Journal:
tho verge o f beeffining a hopeless lun
atic, according to a prominent Hol
That the war has changed the old
lander, who was a guest o f tho ex
order and broken down class distinc
monarch. He declares that Wilhelm
tions there is no possibility o f sue-
talks continuously in s rambling and
cusssfully denying. Here is just one
erratic way and cannot sleep at night.
instance, which could not have hap
He recently announced his intention
pened before tho war:
Th* Eagle
of returning to Berlin. It b difficult
Hut in London is an American Y . M.
to persuade him to remain and at
C. A . hut. Th* volunteer workers or*
times hs is determined to surrender
English girls. One dap an English
to the British.
woman came to the American secre
J. R. Stannard, of Gold vBoach, tary and volunteered her services.
joint representative fo r Coos end Thera were plenty o f helpers in th*
Curry counties, hM been ill with th* canteen and in the restaurant. The
“ flu” and wm unable to bo present American secretary to whom she had
“ The only thing that
when the legislative houses organised applied said:
at Salem Monday. Notwithstanding the needs doing right now is cleaning the
somewhat equivocal safi misleading floor. It b pretty dirty." She said:
title he bears a » a “ joint representa "V ery well, I will scrub it." A few
tive,” h e ‘ would have boon very glad moments later, as she wm on her
to have been there to record his vote knees scrubbing the floor, she looked
in favor of the ratification at the fed up and saw s young officer passing.
She looked up and raid: “ This pail of
eral bone dry amendment.
water b dirty. W ill you empty it for
Desirable M it seemed from the
standpoint o f the employer m well m
th* laborer that prices should con
tinue high' enough after th* war to
permit the same wages -to be paid m
had been gladly conceded during the
war, every one who had lived very
long in this world knew that it was
impossible. Production had been tre
mendously increased along many lines
under th* stimulus o f war demand,
and with mor/ labor needed than
could be obtained, it was inevitable
that wages should go to the top
knotch. That they could be held there,
with the army demobilised, the mu
nition plants shut down, and ship
building cut down, wm certainly a
vain dream, however, much we were
all benefitting by a period of full em
ploying at the highest wages ever.
But to strike now for the mainten
ance o f a war scale of wages, is the
worst possible remedy. That can only
mean the shutting down of industries
and increased unemployment
broodora o f tho North wool, and about
fo rty of thob niunbor have been
chosen a* diroctora o f tb* company.
Prank Broom, o f Carlton, it provi
dent; Wm. Polhnan, o f Baker, vie*
president; E. I. Butler, o f Corvallis,
secretary and 0. M. Plummer, o f
Portland, general manager.
A budget will be made at once cov
ering cost o f propoaed building and
some time during February a cam
paign will be made to socure sufficient
funds to properly take car* o f the
show. A tentative classifier Uon has
already been made, which snows over
$40,000 in premiums, making this
show second only to the International.
The fat stock and dairy interests
have been given equal prominence, as
well as the horse, sheep, gdat and hog
men, with an appropriation o f $6,000
Tor night Horse Show. Fat stock re
ceived $6,000 which is 60% over any
previous recognition.
Mr. Plummer also says, in a letter
to County Agent Smith that they pro
pose to ask tho legislature fox cn ap>
propriation o f $26,000 to be used for
premiums only; but we igugiae-thmt
this year, when every effort is being
made to reduce the str.te budget to
bring it within the possible income for
the year, $26,000 appropriations won’t
grow on every bush.
C. R. Smith, a Wealthy capitalist o f
MenMha, Wisconsin, art to be paid
$232,000 and the counties in which the
lands are located are to be paid about
$600,000 in accrued taxes. A percen
tage o f the proceeds fo r sale pf the
lands is to go into the school fund,
another share to roads and port dis
tricts, and the balance to the federal
government
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In 1863 congress turned the lands
over to the state o f Oregon on con
dition that they be sold at $2.60 per
acre in lots o f not to exceed 160 seres,
the proceeds to be used to aid the
building o f a military road. The state
transferred the lands to a private cor
poration on condition that the Com
pany would carry out th* terms of the
grant.
A fte r that no requirement o f the
grant wm respected. The provision
that the M le should be on a hMis o f
$2.60 per aero wm violated. So was
the requirement that sales should be
in lota not to exceed 160 acres.
No
road that could be called a road wm
built.
The whole process wm sham and
camouflage, was delinquency and bad
faith. One company that got hold of
the lands bonded them fo r $1,600,000.
The grant became the subject of spec
ulation and barter. The violated cov
enants In the case finally attracted the
attention o f the government and suit
wm brough for forfeiture. The hold
ers of the lands were beaten in court.
Congress wm authorised to restore
Uie lands to the government on terms
harmonious with the original gran t
And after 66 years, the process o f
restitution is actually taking place.
The lands pro going back to the gov
ernment for school, road and other
purposes. The department o f justice,
the federal courts and the legislative
branch o f the federal government are
functioning in the demand that pub
lic lands illegally acquired shall be
The following from tho Roseburg
Review indicates how an up-to-date
bootlegger outfits himself now:
A bootlegger by the home o f John
Johnson was fined $200 yesterday a f
ternoon by City Recorder Whipple.
cent on these two items. To make He was arrested on train No. 14 by
the same increase in the price of'sub local officers and^had on him 19 pints
scription that should bo at least $2.25
a year.
Besides the reason given above for
net faexsating the price at present
there b on* other. That is that the
number o f paid subscribers to the
Sentinel hM steadily increased during
th* past two years; and while the cost
o f paper increases in direct propor
tion to the number o f copies printed, I
th* labor cost does not Increase in th*
seme proportion. Another factor in
the same line is tho fact that when ws
Slides Still Going Up
were on the credit basis for subscrip
The
National
Shoe Travelers’ A s
tion we received considerably less
sociation
says
that
skirts are to be
than an average of $1.60 for each sub
scription. Now on the cash in ad shorter and shoes longer w sis ted this
When the cotton and wool
vin e basis there b no discount of that year.
growers’ associations hsvt been heard
kind.
The conclusion wo reach b that from it may bo that progress in the
with a large enough list wo can afford direction o f substituting leather leg
to furnish tho Sentinel fo r $1.60 a gings in place o f other covering for
year. I f one present subscriber in the lower limbs will be chocked. To
every five can during the coming year leave it all to the shoe men would re
secure a new subscriber fo r the Sen sult in shoes absorbing too large a
tinel, w* have- no hesitation in saying percentage o f the money tho fam ily
that we will And it practicable to con budget allows for female wearing ap
tinue to publish th* paper at the pres parel.
30 per cent off list
is the offer we make on these good dependable tires.
Four sizes in stock
34x4
37x5
Coquille Hardware Co
ent rat* o f $1.60 per year. Otherwise,
Fishing *a e Big Scale
unless there is an unexpected and im I
probable decrease in prices all along
A 60-ton purse seine boat has been
tho line, yre shall have to make the engaged from northern waters to fish
subscription rato $2 a year.
off the southern Oregon coast this
year. The boat is 65 feet long and
W H ERE SHOULD A X E F A L L
carries a crew o f eight men and the
For years tho boards and commis plan is to use the purse seine in the
sions o f tho state o f Oregon have been schools o f fish which are headed for
multiplying in number and in expense other waters, which will not interfere
to the taxpayers. Her* is * partiel with the fishing in the Oregon
list of these boards end the appropri streams. The catches are to be taken
ations Mked fo r them in this year’s to the Reedsport Fish company on the
budget. I f you think any of them Umpqua river and the fish shipped out
could, be dispensed wtth write to Sen- from there.
ator Smith end' Representative Thrift
about it:
Barbers examiners board
Board of control ...............
Child labor board, insp.. . .
Child welfare commission
Board of Chiropactic Ex.
State Corporation Dept. ..
Council of Defense
Dental E xam in ers.............
Desert Land Board . , ........
Board at examiners .........
Board o f fire patrol ’ . . . / .
Board o f Health ...............
Board o f Horticulture . . . .
Humane Society
Board I f H y g ie n e .............
Labor Commission ...........
Factory Inspector D ept .
Oregon Lim e Board .........
Livestock' Sanitation ........
Board o f Mints .................
Board e f Optometry . . . , .
Tourist Association ........
Board o f Pharmacy .........
Public Service Commission
Grain Inspectors D ept . . .
State Water Board ...........
The Mortgage
An electric motor can
lilt anything. Let us tell you how
G-E Electric Motors
are lifting mortgages off hundreds
of farms throughout the country.
Bargain price for Telegram
The Portland Telegram ig. making
bargain day rates from Jan. 10 to
February 10.
Ita bargain price is
$3.76 for the daily fo r a year. We
will furnish it with the Sentinel, both
papers for one year in advance, for
$6.00 during this period. Yotar home
paper and a Portland daily are cer
tainly a bargain at that figure. »
70.000
96,226
20.000
10,000
40.000
11,600
26,600
37,900
63,720
§0,000
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36x4 1-2
L rtee help 6fl y e w merteage. W e will fondah
MOUNTAIN STATES POWER COMPANY
Cew Testing Association to Meet
A meeting o f the Coquille-Myr-
tle Point Cow Testing Associa
tion will bo held in the city hall
at M yrtle Point Saturday, January 18,
at 1 p. m. Al| members and dairy
men interested art requested to at
tend. •"
W. C. Cutler,
52t2 *
President.
1,734
PR O FIT B Y TH IS
60.000
3,466
Don’t Waste Another Day.
97,100
When y o v a re worried by b ickache;
79,463
By lameness end uritexy disor
39,180 ders—
Don't experiment with an untried
medicine.
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Hew the Money Geee
Do m thousands o f people ere do-
The special tax levy in the Port of
Cooe Bay ia M mill, which is more ' " i i . . Doan’s Kidney Pills.
Reed this Eugene residont’a exper
than all the tax levied in some por
ience!
tion* o f Coos county. How this tax
Mrs. J. H. Edwards, 1098 W. Sixth
money ia spent is indicated in one St., Eugene, Or eg., rays: “ Once in
item of the proceedings o f a recent awhile my beck B:<a started aching
meeting of the Port Commission st and I have fe it so stiff and weak that
I could hardly straighten up after I
Marshfield.
have M t in ono position very long.
“ A. X. Peck and Anson Rogers Were My kidneys haven’t acted as they
asked today to see to the placing of should when I have bad ibis trouble
20 buoys on South Inlet to mark the with my hack. A fte r I have token
Doan's Kidnay Pills r. few days, my
channel near the mouth.”
back Ima fe lt m strong m ever and
The coat o f these buoys is $360 my kidneys hart acted regularly.”
Price 60c at all dialers.
Don’t
each, at which rate the total for twen
simply ask for a kidney remedy g et
ty o f them would be $7,000.
Doan’s Kidnev Pills— the same that
Mrs. Edwards had.
Feeter-Milburn
Colling Corda, 100 tot fLOO.
C o, Mfgrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
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the Store
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