The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., March 07, 1919, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

PAG E
SIX
Mutimi
Full Tust of U m Statute ’fur thu
of thu Southern
A B IL L
To accept from the
Company, a corporation
under the laws o f the State «< f t »
gon, a reconveyance o f tha lands
granted to the State o f Oregon by
the A ct approved March third,
eighteen hundred and sixty-ulna,
entitled “ A n A ct granting lands to
tha 8tate o f Oregon to aid in tha
construction o f n m ilitary wagon
road from the navigable waters o f
Coos Bay to Boooburg, in
State,” commonly known ns* the
Coos Bay W agon Bond fro n t, to
provide fo r the disposition o f anid
lands, and fo r other purposes.
Section 1. Bo it enacted by the
Sonata and House o f Representative«
' o f the United States o f Am erica In
Congress assembled, That upon the
execution and delivery by the South­
ern Oregon Company, a corporation
organised under the laws o f the State
o f Oregon, o f n deed satisfactory to
the A ttorney General o f the United
States, roeonveying to the Uhited
States a ll the right, title, and inter­
ests o f the said Southern Oregon
Company in and to tha lands situated
in tha counties o f Coos and Douglas,
in the State o f Oregon, and
within tha lim its o f the grant
by tha United States to the State o f
Oregon by tha A'ct o f March third,
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,
titled "A n A ct grsn tfflft lands to the
State o f Oregon to aid in the con
■traction o f a m ilitary wagon road
from the navigable w aters o f Cooe
Bay to Roseburg, in said State,” com
monly known as tbs Coos Bay W agon
Road grant, and now involved in liti­
gation pending in the Supreme Court
o f the United States under tha style
and title “ The Southern Oregon Com
pany against Tha United States,” tha
skid lands shall again become a part
o f the public domain, and tha United
States shall pay to tha Southern Ore­
gon Company the sum o f $282,458.07
The execution and d elivery o f the
aforesaid dead within th irty days
from and a fter tha approval o f this
A ct shall constitute the acceptance o f
this A ct by the said Southern Oregon
Company; end upon the approval o f
such deed by the A ttorney General o f
the United State« the aforesaid suit
shall ba dismissed and a ll m atters o f
difference, controversy, and litigation
between the United States and tha
■aid Southern Oregon Company aris­
in g out o f aaid and grant shall ba
.deemed fu lly settled, adjusted, and
term inated: Provided, That nothing
heroin shall ba construed to prevent
the United Staten from Instituting
and m aintaining such suits or actions
as may ba necessary to recover the
value o f tim ber or other m ateriel
heretofore cut or removed from aay
o f said lands without the consent o f
tbs Southern Oregon Company.
ID
COQUILLE TALLEY
4. T h at the title te a ll
and e f said lands
to agm it the final
4 new pending In tha
Court, aa a for esaid, is herd _
in the United States, and tha United
fc subrogated $s r t tha rights
o f the oblig e e « or ob-
o f H arry B.
under sa y
contract fo r Em purchase o f
Two New Ideas
Which Won Millions o f Friends
In the phenegrsphir art.
m,
and righ tly
that Tha
have te bring 4M overwhelm ing bette rments In
The Pibneer
of
fo r
months ho was in training at Van­
couver, expecting to go overseas,
when the arm istice was signad.
The recai lers propose to wade into
County Judge Watson. T a ylor De­
ment and Brmnstotter sw inging their
club« have picked the man to do the
wading and now it la up to the Gor­
man general o f the hosts o f recallera,
to the tune o f Kern and W ade or
Wade and Kern to drown Watson.
Vern Bennett moved household
goods fo r R oily A lfo rd from McCar­
thy’s camp to Brewster V alley last
weak Friday.
Monday Em river was the highest
at Mountain Glade that it has been
this winter, and yet there was no wa­
ter from tho river in the gardep. The
river flooded part o f Brewster Valley.
K. E. M ercy has been under the
weather fo r a weak or m ore with a
cold.
F e tb * ,” said Em small boy,’•‘what
1« an anarchist 7” "A n anarchist, my
*> ft * socialist who has gone from
id to worse.” — W ashington Star.
The Star man handed out a chunk
o f truth to tho socialists which they
should appreciate aa a life-sised ph-rf-r
o f themselves.
B ill Hohensollerm,
B illie t
and U s follow ers
preached socialism and practised an­
archy.
The Y. M. C. A. oewma gava K-
intana, an
Of
the m ajar instruatenta tha Brunswick was Em first te
play a ll nearda with fa itk fn l regard fa r d iffers**
«M ate. This featu re alone created Emaaaada Of edadron
it meant that a Brunswick owner canM bay and play aay i
whatever seeks.
Stame different aukea affar differen t artists, and aa ana
■.«h e afferà them all. mimic Invars saw in The
opportunity te select their ew a library Uf
Th e eEmr outstanding Brunswick betterm ent was In tene
B y a more seien t ile am plification o f tene waves.
Tha Brmmwfafc Method ateo incladee The BrunewIck Am pl­
•er, aa all-wsad ■tetand chamber built with sclent ifie regard •
Ne metal la usai bacanas it mi* a sanad
far scaaaEt lawn.
beami boar ‘
Before you firn Urn which phonograph far year 1
Neta the Ulto**.
<[tempero Ita tene.
The Brunswick.
Urn Cequilio Ftrattare Company will gladly neEat yen la
The Coquille Furniture Company
s e lf a black eye, in its canteen busi­
ness. Viva, viva the Red Cross and
the 3alvation Arm y.
W ill tha editor o f the Sentinel
please te ll the per cent o f the money
raised, that each outfit in the war
service combination g o tt
' It does not make any difference
what tha cootie politicians in Con­
gress or out think about it. As the
score stands now tho three great pres­
idents e f the United States are Wash­
ington, Lincoln, W ilson.
The other day I heard a man give
w hat I suppose ha thought was a les­
son tat geography. I t was on tha lo­
cation o f Now Jerusalem. A s I un­
derstood his words he said Mount
Olivas would he sp lit and the city
would ligh t between the horns o f the
s p lit Groat dope th a t
I f tha people o f Jerusalem do not
tear down that blotch on the land
scape that B ill Hohensollern. aliai
B illie 2, built on Mount O live, it w ill
bo a good thing to have an earth­
quake, a volcano, or a "s p lit” knock
out that German desecration.
It strikes me that Em N ew Jeru-
Sec. 2. That the taxes accrued,
and now delinquent on the aaid lands
on tho date o f the del:very o f the
deed provided fo r in tke preceding
section slia.ll be paid by tho Treasurer
o f the United States upon the order''
o f the Secretary o f the In terior ae
soon as may be after this A ct be­
comes effective, • and a sum cufflcient
to make such payment and also to
provide fo r the payment o f tho said
sum o f $232,468.07, as provided fo r <n
section one o f this Act, is hereby ap­
propriated out o f any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Section 8. That the acid lards shall
be classified and disposed o f in the
manner provided by the A c t o f June
ninth, nine ten hundred and sixteen
(Thirty-ninth Statotas at Large, page
two hundred and eigh teen ), fo r tne
classification and disposition o f the
Oregon and California railroad grant
lands; Provided, That sucli persons
who, being citisesia o f the United
States, have continuously leased from
the said Southern Oregon Company
fo r a period o f not lees than ten years,
or who under lease from said company
have cultivated and placed valuable
improvements upon any o f said lands
classified as agricultural, not exceed­
ing one hundred and sixty acres to
each person, shall be allowed a p ref­
erence righ t o f six months in which to
purchase such lands from tho United
States by paying therefor the sum o f
82.60 per acre and reim bursing tha
United States fo r the taxes paid on
such land: Provided further. That
where any
such leased lands hero
bean resided upon, to tha same extnt
and in the same manner aa la requir­
e d under the homestead laws, since
the first day o f December, nineteen
hundred and thirteen, by any person
. duly qualified to enter such lands and
devoted some portion thereof to a g ri­
cultural use, and who shall have
maintained his residence to the date
o f his application, tha claim o f aoch
settler and resident shall ba superior
te that o f tha leases, and ha shall ba
allowed Em pr o f erne« right sf entry
te all who
Two Fimou Ideas
Tho
g n a t expects tien was
the provision« o f this A ct sholl bo do-
pool tad in tha Treasury o f tha United
States in a sapors to fund to ba dasig-
anted "Th a Coos Bay W agon Road
gia n t fund,” which fund shall ba dis­
posed o f in tha follow in g manner: A
separate account shall ba kept in tha
General Land O Ses o f tha solas o f
■aid lands and tim ber w ithineaph o f
tha tw o coon ties o f Coos and Douglas,
and a fter tha proceeds from sueh
■alas amount to a sum equal to that
applied to pay tha accrued taxes in
that county and a sum equal to $2.50
par acre fo r aaeh aero o f such land
therein title to which is revested in
the United States pursuant to the
provisions o f this A ct, tw en ty-fve par
centum o f a ll other money* received
from said lands shall ba paid to tha
treasurer o f the county in which the
lands sold are situated fo r common
schools, roads, highways, bridges, and
port districts, to ba apportioned by
the county courts fo r the several pur­
poses above mentioned;' and the re­
mainder shall became a part o f the
general fund in the Treasury o f the
United States. The payments herein
authorized shall be made by tha
Treasurer o f the United States upon
¿he order o f the Secretary o f the In­
terior, as the fund accumulate« in
the Treasury: Provided, That naao ad
tha payments to the countiea pro­
vided fo r in this section shall be made
until tha Treasury has bean reimburs­
ed in the amount paid to the South­
ern Oregon and also fo r a ll .taxes
paid pursuant to the provlsons o f sec­
tion tw o o f this A c t
Sec. 6. That the Secretary o f the
Interior is hereby authorised to per-
■day U rn Esmmwteh M ethed e f Bap
trim aph. It sanana perfected reps
H. And the news la anraading fa st,
that are inefacable; that in the wild
and bleak and cold Dr. Grenfell and
men o f his kind are extended the
streets o f the C ity further and fu r­
ther into the frosen wilderness; that
when the Titanic went down men and
women strove to save others, not
them selves, by g ivin g their places In
the life boat* to those who were more
weak and halpiass and marked the
streets o f the C ity upon the deep.
That in tha past fou r years and mold
o f fire and blood and battle, tha ex­
tension o f tho “ C ity” has been going
on, man and women counting their
lives not dear aa they fought, toiled
and gave. That Em maps and plans
o f Em Peace Conference at Parts era
voices extending the boundaries o f tho
dominion o f the Prince o f Peace. W her-
er men and woman toil, whether la
city or country, whether on the p i« !« «
or in the mountains, whether in torrid
• t or frig id cold, whether on land
or on sea, whether in w ar or in pears,
whether man work* to beat back the
wilderness and Em Jungle o f man’s
inhumanity to man,” there Is being
builded In Em hearts and souls o f men
f t * “ N «w Jerusalem, a city without
fhundaEan whose builder and
is God.”
M cK inley N o t « .
A t our Rsd Cross moati ng thu
week wo finished up a ll our work. W o
decided not to order any m ore m ater­
ial until a fte r the P ie Social, which
w ill come o ff in the near future.
As
wa are behind some on funds we
do not wish to get in debt any more,
W a voted to allow a ll tha old officers
to hold over another year as they all
had given satisfaction. ■
Mrs. A lv a Brown want to Marsh­
field Tuesday fo r a week’s visit with
relatives.
Mabel W ilcox is visitin g in Brew­
ster fa r a few days.
L ittle Bobbie Brown, who has been
very sick, is im proving rapidly.
Mrs. L. A . Lawhorn wont te Co-
quille Tuesday fo r a visit w ith Grand­
ma Lenave, who la quite poorly this
winter.
Mrs. W ilcox is our now postmis­
tress this week while Mrs. Brown is
In Marshfield. N ow te Em tim e to
buy stamps fo r w e think Mrs. WUeox
w ill g iv e a M g reduction.
Mrs. Elm er K in g had Em m isfor­
tune to drop a stick o f wood on I
foot and aha now walks with a limp.
Mrs. W lleox received a letter E
week from Grant, who states he a
in n submarine collision.
Hte sub
rammed the other one, knocking
good-aixed bote in it, w hile tho only
ill effects hte boat crew experienced
is a good shaking up.
Mrs. Holm strin te on Em sick list
this week.
W ord was received from Katharine
Brown nt Monmouth that aha h
been very sick.
A t first Em doctor
thought H was the "flu ” but it later
developed into nothing nut n bad at­
tack o f throat trouble.
Mrs. Hansen te On the sick li
again this weak.
Graoa Sumerlin returned • to h
home a t Las a fte r a wash’s visit with
t slater, Mrs. Gordon Shepherd.
H erbert F ry e returned to Coquille.
Ho has been helping the A seen crow
take the logs from . Arthur Brown’s
field where they floated in during the
last high water.
Richard M cCarthy had buainaaa
M arshfield this weak.
Mrs. Geo. Glenn visited a t Arthur
Brown’s Tuesday.
Glenn W atson te helping M as
W ilcox g et hte spring work started.
He aay* ha believes in startin g aariy
to “ avoid the rash.”
Eastern Coast Hogs Shipping
Tha Robert D ollar Seat o f m arohaal
•hipa, long operated from the Pacific
coast in tha foreign trade, is about to
bofaanaforrod to N ew York, to go in­
to sorvice bat yean that port and tha
O rien t according to late announco-
ment by the owner.
Captain D ollar says ha baa been
compelled to take the step on account
o f the high freig h t rate across the
continent Freights are taken to the
A tlan tic seaboard from as fa r w est
as Omaha m ore cheaply than they
are carried to Pacific porta.
The D ollar vessels w in ba put in
service between North A tlan tic ports
and Japan and China by w ay e f the
Panama canal. In hew fa r the iafin-
ence that drives tha D ollar Una to tin
A tlan tic trad# is to a ffect other Pa­
cific-O riental lines is not known. Th at
tha long tim e congestion e f tra fik at
Puget Sound porta would have a Uka
effect in d rivin g O riental business to
tha A tlan tic seaboard and theses by
steamer through the Panama
«
was recently announced.
R- A . Easton.
Call an vs far
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245 .
$
will buy the best residence
lot in Coquille this week.
Smooth and level. Just west
of the City High SchooL
This lot is worth $500; adjoining
lots have sold for that price, and it
will be good for that again before
many years. Sewer taxes all paid
and street improvement taxes to
date. This is the greatest bargain
ever offered in Coquille city prop­
erty. For further information call at
SENTINEL OFFICE
Thk is the only time this lot
will be effered at that price