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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1919)
The Sentinel Advertising Display, » cants no od Isas than I » tm rush is indie*tad by i reeeat it*tarn ant o f Copt. Bobort D o J ^ - w h o *sy»< “ Four m e ^ R P a i * ’ w * ch*rtared a Japan«** itsam er at $21 0 « th* dead weight ton per month, and today w* refused on* at »«.00." Th* orgy to over. W hat remain! to to sober off. A t toast, this story show* that Co quill* has bean bound to have city improvmnents, no matter how high they come. But when it come* to a property holder lying down and de clining to pay state and county taxes, sewer tax*a and street Improvement tax**, in th* lap** o f years th* time was bound to com* whan th* taxes would «a t up the property. W hy the “ owner” absolutely refused to pay tax** to, as the Oregonian says, an other story, which the 8 sa t tael does not f* * l free to teU. I t was not be cause he could not have paid them. Government statistics, just issued, show a reduction o f 6,000 cow* in Oregon and 24,000 in Washington. And yet there to no more certain and reliable industry In the world than the dairy business. It to easy to overdo fruit production and vegetable production, especially the latter as a single season’s work is all that to re quired; but the rancher who raises T H A T W IL F U L T H IR T Y -S E V E N live stock and produces milk and but The thirty-seven wilful senators, ter has a market that can never be who have bandod together to prevent the ratification o f the League o f Na glutted. tions agreement should rsmmnber th* There are eight and a half millions fate o f the wilful twelve who w *r* o f people in this eounty who can’t unpatriotic in 191« and 1917. They read an American newspaper. Eight will all go into the discard like th* per cent or eight in each hundred of rest unless they change their a e**a * our population are suffering under Th* American people who have snert- just this handicap. It to proposed fleed so unstintedly for victory w ill that w* shall remedy this condition not submit to be robbed o f its fruits as rapidly as possible by educating o f enduring peace by a fe w little men our illiterates, and those unable to speak English. It isn’t safe to do cause they had ho hand in making th* otherwise.' Those who don’t speak constitution o f 'the league— though our language can easily become a heaven only knows how t t would have menace to our institutions. 1 e f his •Tlsey kept la th* oaa with th * other, years later, in 1868, they w the segue o f their rather frivolity, Piero* as Preai- dent e f the United States, my father editor o f tit* Washington Union, the organ o f th* Administration. I was a bey th* national capital was still rife with stories o f their escapades. One that I recall had it that on a certain occasion re turning from an excursion late at night my father missed his footing and M l into the canal that then di vided th* city, aad that Pierce, after many fruitieee agorta, unable to as sist him to dry land, axe lamed, "W ell, Harvey, I can’t get you'out, but I ’ll get in with you,” suiting th* action to th* ward. And there they were found by a party o f passers, very well pleased with themselves.” HOW T O USE T H A T W IN D F A L L There seems to be varying ideas as to how the windfall Coos county to going to receive from the U. S. gov ernment in the delinquent taxes, in terest and penalties on th* Coos Bay Wagon Road land grant should be ex- Here to what th* Bandon World has to say on the subject: The move on the part o f Douglas county and some eastern Coos county residents to haye the tax money soon to be collected from the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands expended in improving that obsolete highway should be properly nipped in th* bud. T h * « tax money should go through the same channels as all other tax moneys collected by the’ county. It should be used in reducing the high rate o f taxes brought on by th* fact this money has been held up from year to year, necessitating higher levies to pay current expenses. The improvement o f the proposed high way connecting Coos and Douglas would mean a duplication o f the pro ject connecting the two counties via M yrtle Point. The latter project should be fu lly completed before an other is considered. _______ A P P R E C IA T IO N O F W ILSO N r Representative T h rift introduced two bills at Salem whieh became laws. They were H. B. 144 fixing sal aries o f Coos eounty, and H. B. 201 (by request) relating to maintenance tax fo r drainage districts. Senator Smith also made the same score with th* following: S. B. 87, relating to th* collection o f taxes and 8. B. 198 relating to tax ing o f bank-owned real property. 1W * understand that S. B. 87 was drawn by Attorney Lljeqvtet and puts teeth into the law for tax collection where they were wanting before. Henry G. Kern, th* recall candidate to succeed Archie Philip as county commissioner, s a il to th* meeting that nominated him that i f he eras elected to that office he would compro mise the Kinney taxes. Just why there should be any compromise of these cases we are unable to under stand. No one is offering to make any compromise now and why the county shohld give up a fight already practically won to start out on an un certain adventure like offering to give away the victory in sight fo r an utter uncertainity no good reason can be offered. In a new book just published by William Archer, on* o f England’s foremost literary men, entitled "The Peace President," he says: "Since th* great turn o f fortune in July, 1918— since the landside o f au tocracy set in— Mr. Wilson’s position has been unique and unparalleled. In virtue o f the mandate o f a great .peo ple; in virtue, too, o f his own charac ter; he has at more than one juncture been in very truth th* arbiter o f the destinies o f the world. In the name o f democracy he has spoken the doom o f empires. To this man o f plain Scotch- Irish parentage, this son o f an ob scure Presbyterian minister, Haps- burgs and Hohensollerns have come truckling fo r mercy, only to be told, calmly and sternly, that mankind has no longer any us* fo r them. Th* wonderful and incredible drama to a theme for ah Aeschylus or a Shake speare. We, its living spectators, can find no adequate words for the emotion it excites in as." The lack o f a cipher in our last is sue made th* $1,000 bail given by Percy Bean in the Circuit Court read SCHOOL $ 1 , 00 . A P R E S ID E N T IA L L A R K From a “ Business Digest” just Is sued by the U. S. National Bank at Portland we clip the following: The shipbuilding industry has de veloped besides the tremendous amount of business that it established for itself, an interest in shipping that could be created in no other way. There have been built in the Columbia River and Coo* Bay districts, in the past three years, 189 wood ships, and 87 steel ships; in the Puget Sound and Gray’s Harbor districts, 77 wood and 69 steel ships. The total value o f all these ships amounts to over $200,000,000.00. Th* number of men employed is estimated to have been 76,000. The total payroll fo r all these yards is estimated to have been over $9,000,000.00 per month. A good many o f the Sentinel’s sub scribers are livng on the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands; and f* r their information we publish this week the full text o f th* act providing for the extinguishment 6f the Southern Oregon Company’s title to these That presidents and congressmen in the old days before th* Civil War, when the writer o f theae lines eras a school boy, were not always models o f sedateness and sobriety is made very evident in th* first o f a series o f art! cles that veteran Kentuckian, Henry Watterson, has just begun in the Sat urday Evening P o st And as it his own father of whom he to telling, he can hardly be accused o f exaggsra tion. x Colonel Watterson’s father, Har vey Watterson, eras elected to Con gress to succeed James K. Polk, la ter a president o f the United States, when he had barely attained the requisite 26 years. What follows we will give in the Colonel’s own words: “ Immediately succeeding Mr. Polk, and such a youth in appearance, he attracted instant attention. His fa ther, my grandfather, allowed him a larger income than eras good fo r him — seeing that the per diem then paid Congressmen eras altogether tnsu dent—and during the earlier days o f his sojourn in the national capital he e The Sentinel has advocated prac tically the same disposition o f the funds in suggesting that the county’s $88«,000 interest in thee* taxes be used to pay off the $862,000 road bond debt and interest, as fa r as it will go after the outstanding war rants have been redeemed. As to the Coos Bay Wagon road proposition the road districts in that grant stand to receive $«0,000 o f the moneys from th* grant and with that it looks as If that road could be im proved sufficiently, although i f Doug las county puts all the money she re ceives from the Wagon Road grant on her end o f that highway, perhaps Coos county ought to help some. As it might possibly be inferred from what the World says that M yr tle Point to located on both the roads mentioned it to pertinent to state that the point o f nearest sppro.xch o f the Coos Bay Wagon Road to Coquille and M yrtle Point to at th* Fairview cross roads about nine miles from Co quille and 16 or 20 from M yrtle Poin t To return to th* first proposition, however, it seems to us that to apply the whole e f the $866,000 the county to to get from the delinquent Wagon Road grant taxes to reducing gener al taxation fo r the next year or two, only to have it go up with a bound after that, at the same time the full weight o f the road bond taxes begin to be felt, wouldn’t be wise financeer ing. o f the school fund. In 1906 a Marian eounty grand jury that they had found ever 300,000 acre* q f state lands had been taken from th* state by moans e f fraud. This grand jury report will form a point fo r the investigation which w ill new be made by th* land board and the attorney general. As a «vault o f that grand Jury re port A. T. Kelliher, a Chicago capi ta ltot, was tried aad convicted in the circuit court o f defrauding th* state out o f thousands at acre* o f school lands by means o f forged applications fo r land and forged certificate*. In connection with that caa* and other land fraud case* o f similar hh- turs in Oregon, evidence has been ob tained that theae frauds were commit ted b f means o f forgeries, dummy entrymen, false affidavits aad other methods o f robbing th* state o f Its school lands. Members o f th* legislature did not hesitate to make th* necessary ap propriation to carry on th* investiga tion requested by the state land board. Whan the bill cam* up fo r third read ing in th* senate, Senator Pierce mad* a brief explanation o f its purposes. There was no further discussion, and a unanimous vote was recorded. Aside irony the injustice that has been done to school children o f the state by theft o f school lands, the r«venues from whieh are intended to build up a common school fund fo r the support o f the public schools, the re sults obtained by the attorney general in tjie Hyde-Benson land fraud case have demonstrated the value o f pros ecuting theae land fraud cases from a financial standpoint. The attorney general already has recovered lands which are w orth many time the cost o f investigating and prosecuting the suits.— W ill T. Kirk in Oregon Jour nal. 1 * A N IM PRO VED M IL K S U P P L Y Service to Farm ers N O W li the tta* far *e Uxmu to plan oat year’, crops, non p r o * «* », next year’. property. Whatever Ml plana, whether farm tafrovem ^«, dairying, livestock financing, etc., our w illJ* pkaaed to discuss such matteraandofier their beat aervice A hearty welcome afwayi await, the farmer at this institution. LET US SERVE YOU i n Commercial s s and MERCHUdS BANK Saving Deposit« OREGON COQUILLE HARNESS ‘ We have just received a • new stock of Bridles Collars PIG CLUBS P R O F IT A B L E Cc, Mfgrv Buffalo, N. Y. Halters Sweat Pads which it will pay you to examine if you are needing anything in that line. Our prices are right Coquille Hardware Co. Three-fourths o f Portland’s milk supply ten years ago was skimmed or watered or both, contaminated with filth and dosed with “ preservative«" and coloring matter. M a y b e 'it was perfumed, too, but t!iat to not in the records. Nine-tenths o f th* total sup ply to now inspected and graded by disinteroeted experts and the results published. Portland has the purest milk supply o f any large city in the United States and likewise the lowest death rate, says Professor McIntosh, of O. A. C. Milk contests in Portland have brought the quality o f city milk up from one o f the lowest to the very highest o f big cities in the United States. As the quality o f milk was raised the death rate was lowered un til the Rose City to the healthiest city in t ie land. Station Bulletin No. 16« telling how the contests were con ducted and the good results obtained from them has been issued from the State Agricultural College. Incident ally the bulletin tells how to get clean milk, and keep it clean and good til) it is used in the home«,. Copies free. O f interest to producers and users. Ample proof that pig dub* pay to contained in reports being received continually by the United States De partment o f Agriculture from club leaders. One report recently received tells o f the success o f a Tennessee boy who, in May, 1918, invested $60 in a pure-bred gilt, and now flguraa his profits at $687.86. She farrowed seven pigs, part o f which the boy sold for $188. With this money he pur chased a boar o f excellent breeding, whieh he exhibited at the East Ten- nesee Division Fair, winning the grand championship o f the breed over all exhibits. He won $87 in prise*. $45 o f it in competition with exper ienced farmers. His animals are now valued at $626. This, with the money from sales and prise winnings, L A N D IN V E S T IG A T IO N amounts to $746, from which he de By unanimous vote o f the 28 sens ducts $167.66 for feed and care, leav tors who were present the senate ing a profit o f $687.86. Tuesday afternoon passed H. B. 494, by Richardson, which appropriates RENEWED TESTIMONY $26,000 for us* by the state land board and by the attorney general o f the No one in Coquille, who suffers state fo r investigation o f the land backache, headaches, or distressing frauds which in past years stripped urinary ills can afford to ignore this th* state o f thousands o f acres o f Its Rosebqrg man’s twice-told story. It is confirmed testimony that no one state cbool lands. of this locality can doubt. As this bill, like all other appropri L. Mathews, carpgnter, 818 Short «tion measures, carries the emergency St., Roaeburg, Oreg., says: “ For sev clause, it will become law in full force eral years I was troubled by backache I hurt my and effect just as soon as Govrner and kidney complaint. back severely one time and the trou Withycombe attaches his signature ble seemed to stay with me. I That the governor will approve the a good many medicines and spent bill aad sign it immediately to as more money than I have been able to sured by the fact that ho joined with keep track o f but got no positive re lief. I finally bought Doan’s Kidney the other two members o f the state Pills. A fte r using Doan’s my kid land board in directing the attorney nays were strengthened and the ach general to investigate the reported ing and q$h*r symptoms left.” (State land frauds .And in requesting the leg ment given February IS, 190«.) On March 22, 191«, Mr. Mathews is la tore to provide th* funds fo r de added: "M y estimation e f Doan’s frayin g th* expenses o f such investi Kidney Pills to just as high today as «■tion and any suits that may be jus it was when I first recommended tifled as a result o f th* information them. They have never failed to do good work whon I have had backache obtained. or other symtoms o f kidney disorder." W ith th* appropriation o f $26,000 Price 60e at all dealors. Don’t available the machinery o f th* state simply ask fo r a kidney remedy— get [can be set in motion immediately to Doan’s Kidney Pills— the same that Mr. Mathews had. Footer-M iltem bring t* light i»- * - 1-- *-------- He The Mortgage Ufter An electric motor can lift anything. 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