The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., April 04, 1919, Image 1

Valley Sentinel
1
AND THE bOQXJILUE HERLALH
VOL. XIV. MO. U.
IFIER 18 YEARS
M. D. Landis, Who Committed
Murder Here, Believed to
Be Captured in Kansas
COQUILLE, co o p COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIL
Mochon Building Nearly Done
The front of the new Mschon brick
building is being put in this week and
it is hoped to have the building ready
for occupancy in a couple of weeks.
The two long store rooms on the
ground floor have not been rented as
yet but Mr. Mac bon has applicants
with whom he expects to close soon.
The large basement is to be used
as a skating rink said the proprietor
says he will open it with a big dance
as soon as the floor is laid and the
room properly fitted up. Electric fans
will help keep the ventilation good.
The upper floor is one in which Mr.
Machon, as well as those who desire
night’s lodging, are particularly in.
teres ted. Fourteen rooms are to Be
fitted up with hot and cold water in
tho lavatories, steam heat ana very
nice furnishings, M. -J. Hartson hav­
ing the contract to ns tali the latter.
One of the front rooms will have a
private bath, while across the hall is
the family suite—two rooms opening
on each other. Toilets and baths suf­
ficient to accommodate a crowded
house are features of this up-to4late
rooming house. A space three feet
wide on the west between this build-
ing and the theatre provides for light
and air on that side.
Across the rear are the three rooms
Mr. Machon is fitting up for himself
and wife consisting of kitchen, living
room and bed room, and as they will
conduct the business of this floor
themselves, they are leaving nothing
undone to make their quarters com-
fartable.
$1-54 THE YEAR.
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LICKS CEIL FIRE COUNTY AFFAIRS
Grand Jury Finds L ittll Excusa Court Meets and Hears Lot of
Requests—Powers Bridge
for all tho Recall Smoke—
Contract Awarded
Watson Held Blameless
the plan being to start at Beaver Hill
Junction and run through to Bullards.
Two Fine Entertainments
Not having been able to have a rep­
resentative at the production given by
Princess Rahme Haider at the Feder-
ated church Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, the Sentinel is unable to do
justice to these splendid entertain­
ments, but many who were there char­
acterise them as the beat ever seen
or heard in Coquille.
Her subject Tuesday was “Under
Syrian Stars.” Wednesday evening
she gave a dramatisation of "Nsr.man,
tie leper,” and in both efforts she
was magnificient.
The house was crowded to capacity
both evening«, many having to stand.
The free will offering, admicison was
free, amounted to $60. Princess
Rahme gives a percentage of these
receipt: to the Syrian relief every,
nfcnth, her receipts siu>T/iug that she
has donated over $400 to that cause
since the first of the year. It goes
as a gift from the United States, too,
this being the counter of her adoption,
and the eulogy she pnic the Stars
rnd Stripes and the nation it repre­
sents was new and soul-stirring.
Our marrying justice, J. J. Stanley,
says the knot-tieing business has been
pretty slim lately but that he had one
wedding Tuesday when he , united
Chas. Baury, of North Bend, and Miss
Edna Messenger,. of Marshfield, in
holy wedlock.
Geo. Chenoweth Kills Geo. Syd-
nam at Langlois Satur­
day Evening
Last Saturday at a dance at Lang-
Marshal Millar and T. A. Walker
The report ef the grand Jury, which After spending Wednesday allow­
lois George Chenoweth shot and killed
is printed in full below, ought to dear ing bills the county court got down to
have received from C. H. Peck, Chief
George Sydnam, an 18-year-old boy.
the atmosphere and show to the peo­ other business yesterday and turned
of Police at Atkanaas City, Kansas,
Sydnam was the son of a Denmark
ple of Coos county that there is noth­ out quite a grist.
copies of photographs of a man who
dairyman and was seated on the plat­
is being held there, with requests to
ing in the wild vaporings of the Bay W. U. Douglas presented a petition
show them to old citisens and see if
papers and the unsupported state­ that the county dredge Larson slough
form of the dance hall, where the or­
the original can be identified as the
ments of theh recall managers on but the court told him he had come to
chestra waa stationed for the dance,
which to base their accusations. The the wrong body, that the Coot Bay
with a number of other young men.
M. D. Landis, who lived here in 1001
and was then accused of murdering
report is more negative than positive Port Commission was the place to
Chenoweth, who is a middle aged man,
Jasa Eudally. There is no intimation
and shows no cause for the claims present his request, end that they
came into the hall, walked straight up
as to why Landis is being held,
to the platform and taking deliberate
that there have been misapproprit- could do nothing for him.
A. B. Gidley and J. T. Brand asked
whether on the old charge made
aim with a revolver fired three shots
tions and reckless extravagance.
against him eighteen years ago or for
at Sydnam. Only one of these shots
Judge Watson is practically given that the court put in a larger drain
struck the young man; but that pass­
n clear bill of health, except for the and raise the road at Bungalow Cove
contention that one could not outvote near Englewood at Morshfiold, com­
The information asked here by the
ed through his left lung, lodging in
his side end causing his death within
Marshal elicited very different an­
two in the county court. Commis­ plaining that the sluice box was not
sioner Philip and ex-Commissioner large enough and that the incoming
swers. Recorder Lawrence and Dep­
an hour.
uty Sheriff Clyde Cage answered un­
Armstrong are condemned for draw­ tides caused the land in that naigh-
Chenoweth turned and left the hail,
hesitatingly that it was not a picture
ing pay for supervising road work, borhood to be inundated.
remarking to the dancers whom he
of Landis. Grover McQuigg, when
brushed past, that he hoped he had
and while such action'might be con­ The contract for the Powers bridge
shown the picture, without any In­
sidered unethical, it is a . practice was awarded to E. G. Perbam, his bid
killed the young man and would be.
timation as to whose it was said:
which prevails in many, if not most of being the lowest of the four submit­
glad if Sydnam died.
‘•Well, that may have been you if
the counties in the state, and Is cer­ ted. Each bidder submitted prices on
He gave himself up to the authori­
three propositions. The first for con­
you ever wore whiskers, but it looks
tainly not Criminal.
ties immediately and was removed to
like Landis."
The ffindings of Accountant J. W. crete piers in the river; the second for
the county jail at Gold Beach.
In addition to the opinions given as
Ferguson cover many pages of a a concrete foundation with pile piera,
Chenoweth, whose hoqae is at Den­
to the likeness sent back to Arkansas
type-written report, his principal and the third for timber piers.
mark, is one of the most prominent
City the full description of Landis is
charges being that moneys from one Mr. Parham’s bid was $11,800 on
men in Curry county. Early in the
preserved in the sheriff’s office here,
fund have been switched to other the first, $9,678 on the second, and
war ha tried to enlist in the United
with many items that a picture would
States army but was refused on ac­
funds temporarily. This has never $9,376 on the third.
not reveal—for instance, the color of
been denied. He also complains of A The Portland Bridge Ce. bid $16,-
count of his age. Subsequently «e
the eyes and hair, the gait and exact
lack of inventory of the county’s road 965 on the first; $13,615 on the second
enlisted in the Canadian army. He
building' machinery and equipment and $13,017 on the third. The Scandia
figures as to height
was severely wounded, seeing some
Compared with the pictures of Land;
As such an inventory is kept in detail Shipbuilding Co. bid $13,923, $12,121
bitter fighting, and discharged on ac­
is that were to be found hero in 19W1,
by the road master’s office, there could and $11,866 on the three propositions
count of hie wounds. His letters
the present picture is, of course, that
be only one fault With the beokkeep. respectively.
from the front were read with great
of a much older man, though the same
ing system and that is that the in­ An association of Rowers men con­ That Coquille will see the erection interest in this section.
droop in one of the eyes is apparent The suggestion of W. H. Lyons that ventory was not carried on the books sisting ef W. A. Varney, W. C. Swain of two modern hotels this summer Last winter after the death of Rep­
in both.
the clerk’s office as an asset ef the and B. F. Segur submitted the follow­ now Beams to be pretty well assured, resentative Stannard of the joint Coos
the district purchase his 16 acres in
bids: $J4,181, $12,228 and $12*46 although Geo. Leach, who has also and Curry district, at the request of
probably few events that ever hap­ north
county.
of town for a high school site, With hundreds of dollars spent to ing
respectively.
pened in this valley caused as great as mentioned
Gov. Withycombe, Judge Woods of
in the Sentinel last secure the evidence which forms tht The county saved a few hundred been figuring on putting one up on the
an excitement in this city as did the week, has resulted
Curry County Court, appointed
in considerable dis­ basis of the grand jury report there dollars on Mr. Parham’s bid by chang­ First street, tells us he is not ready Chenoweth
murder of Eudaily. He had been em­ cussion of the proposition,
as a delegate to the legis­
pat
to
make
a
positive
statement
of
most
of
it
ployed on the ranch of Mrs. S. A. favorable to that site.
ip nothing new made known, and aside ing the specifications so that the his plans.
lature to represent Curry county on
Yoakam on Coos River, and on leav­ With C. R. Barrow’s suit against from the fact that the statements wooden piling for the approach to However, if his plans go through as the floor of the house, but, of course,
ing there to back home by way of the school distrHt to compel the di­ therein are now supported by evi> I tie bridge should be placed on con­ item
a m o H Iv II l / O y uL
i a S linC
l i n C J l U L flO v v i A vIXYlvi
l e l i a s , without the right of voting. He made
UU l 1**8
Roeeburg there was quite an amount rectors to complete the purchase of donee, the whole report might have* crete footing! Instead of blasting into brick
excellent record there and proved
or
concrete
of
from
26
to
30 an
due him for wages, so that he had the Barrow A Strang site as voted been written by any member of the the rock for the foundation for the guest rooms, kitchen, dining room, of­
s very efficient representative.
at least $100 with him when he was by the district several years ago, to grand jury prior to the recent inves­ piers.
reason for the murder he has
fice and lobby, two stories in height just The committed
paid off. At the Blanco Hotel in come up at the next term of court, tigation, but he would probably have A contract for the bridge at Brews­ and
was the samo old
not
to
cost
over
$28,000
furnished
Marshfield he spoke of this wad and there is a natural hesitancy on the included many cleans that are not ter valley, near J. . Laird’s place, was complete, will arise somewhere in the story of loving "not wisoly but too
also announced his intention of walk­
by the evidence.
swarded to Alex H. Austin for $600, neighborhood of the Liberty Theatre well.” While Chenoweth was fight­
of the school board to call a substantiated
ing to Coquille. Landis, who had part
What
effect
this
report
will
have
on
and
$300 for the rock approaches to To those who maye have a fear that ing overseas his young daughter gave
meeting of the voters of the distrirt the recall, we cannot say, but one of the bridge,
come to the county as ui agent for to
about 100 feet in length.
birth to a child of which she said
hotels will’not pay here, a few young
consider
the
purchase
of
Borne
kitchen ranges and later went into tne other site, but Mr. Lyons says he in­ the men who was very prominent in Jas. R. Bonham bid $600 for the two
Sydnam was the father. About
facts
and
figures
may
prove
the
con­
real estate business at Coquille, Hap­ tends to take the matter before the the movement last year said in this bridge but did not bid on the sock trary. At the present time Chas. this time the young man disappeared,
pened to be in the hotel at the time
a couple of weeks ago, "Are approaches.
absence giving rise to the story
Baxter has, including the accommoda­ his
Commercial Club and see if enough office
and said he was going to Coquille and interest
they
going
to put the taxpayers to A delegation from Marshfield wait­ tions
that he was in the army, which was
in
the
Baxter
and
others
scat­
cannot
be
awakened
to
would keep him company. ___
expanse of an election, if no graft ed on the court with the request that tered over town, 47 guest rooms, and true of one of his brothers but not ofr
the directors to call such a the
Arrived on the railroad Just west of cause
or
misappropriation
is found?" He the appropriation promised for the they are always full. Some nights he George. Recently he seems to have
Cedar Point it makes a sharp turn to meeting.
would
not
favor
it,
he
said.
armory there be made. In 1917 has to turn away 16 or 20 people who thought it safe to return and brazen
go over to the hills, something hap­ There is no desire on Mr. Lyons’ The following is an exact copy of new
the matter out.
the
court
included in ’their budget desire sleeping quarters.
nor on the Sentinel’s in com­ the report filed yesterdr.y noon:
pened to Eudaily. He was probably part,
Chenoweth had pleaded with him to
$20,000
for
this
purpose
out
of
With
the
reputation
Coquille
has
stunned by a blow from behind and menting on this new offer, to damage
do
what he could to right the grevloua
moneys
not
otherwise
appropriated,
of insufficient hotel accommoda­ wrong
then shot in the back of the head. Mr. Barrow’c case in any way, but In the matter of the Grand Jury’s and yesterday on the request of the had
his daughter had suffered, but
tions,
there
is
hardly
an
individual
of
Fred a. Tosier who was down here it has got to the point where Coquille investigation of the expenditures of delegation, authorised the county the travelling public acquainted with the young man was not only obdurate
frim Portland last week, says that his absolutely cannot longer suffer the in­
it is intimated that he rubbed it in
money during tj>e past six clerk to issue warrants for that local conditions who does not attempt but
recollection is that after stunning adequacy of the present high school county
by
being
flippant and smart in what
amount,
after
the
money
appropriated
to arrange his affairs to spend the he said about
Eudaily, the murder had stuck a pen buildiiic. and we are for a moderi, up- years.
the affair.
by
the
state
for
the
armory
had
been
night
at
some
other
point.
With
an
to-date
structure
this
summer
if
it
Grand Jury’s Report.
knife into the jugular vein. The
“The
unwritten
law,’’ whieh is heto
expended
and
he
was
called
upon
by
that he wouldn’t have to to justify a man in
murder accomplished, Landis rolled is possible to have it, and this without The Grand Jury, charged with the the General Staff of the state to put assurance
slaying the des­
sleep
in
the
street
but
could
secure
a
considering
the
final
outcome
of
any
victim under the barbed wire fence
above mentioned investigation, now, up the county’s share of the cost. comfortable, warm room, many of poiler of his Home, seems to be the
along the railroad into the long grass lawsuit pending. It’s a commodious, on this 3rd day of April, 1019, make Another delegation from the Marsh­ the«« travelers would cease giving Co­ only defense that can be invoked for
well-equipped school building we need, the following report:
and brush.
,
and North Bend Chambers of quille the go-by and would not only Chenoweth in this case. And so far
That evening as the McQuigg boys and it’s time the patrons awoke and We have made the most thorough field
Commerce
and other citisens request­ spend the night here but their Sun­ as we have observed that law is rarely
demanded
that
one
be
built—at
once.
was» going down the railroad for
investigation possible and spared no ed the completion
the Coos Bay days, when in this section. And we invoked in vain.
their cow they saw a man digging on
pains to get to the bottom of things. North section of the of Coast
venture e gdess that 100 rooms will
their land some little distance from No Night Train Says Scott Mr. J. W. Ferguson, of Portland, Ore­ and the building of the ferry Highway
to oper­ not be too many as business in the Co­ Discharge Quickly Secured
where it later transpired the murder The Coos Bqy people who have gon, a certified accountant, was em­ ate across the bay. The court
told quille valley continues to grow and We referred last week to the case
had occurred. Landis did not see boen so strenuously determined to se­ ployed on the recommendation of the them they intended to finish that link
of Ray Rickman, son of Geo. B. Rick­
them and they ran back home to tell cure a night train from Portland have Secretary of State to make us a re­ as soon as there were funds availa­ expand.
of this city, who had enlisted
But
with
Machon’s
fourteen
in
his
their father. The three of them went at last got it flat and cold from John port on certain mattersf we annex ble. A plan is being worked but now new building, twenty-five or thirty in man
while under age, and whose health
back and after a little turning of the M. Scott, general passenger agent for hereto the report he filed with us, ana by the Bay people to get 30 men to the Leach hotel and fifty in the new was
under his work as fireman
fresh soil, the elder McQuigg uncov­ the Oregon lines, that there will be adopted it as part of this, our own, re­ sign a note for $80,000, on which the Baxter, we would still be short of the on the failing
Newport News. Congressman
ered a hand. He then staid there on nothing doing. Mr. Scott says he ex­ port.
there will furnish the money 100 required, so there is no reason to Hawley had been requested to use his
guard and sent the boys to town for pects to come down here in about Expenditures under Judge Hall and banks
to
pey
off the note. If the lawyers fear that there may be too much of influence to secure the young man’s
Sheriff Gallier.
thi'ee weeks to look over the situation
Commissioner Dement
find
this
can be legally done, the road a good thing in the hotel line.
release, but that such' quick action
The body was uncovered and and see what the people think about In so far as these men are concern­ will probably
be finished this year, as
would be possible we had no idea. On
brought in to town and placed in a the service on this line. He says, ed, we find the county expenditures well aa providing
the connecting fer­
Boost Roosevelt Highway Thursday of last week Commander
shack standing about where Ben Cur­ however, that not only is a night* ser­ as a whole, regular and fairly econ­ ry •
Smith of that ship wired Mr.
rie’s house does now, and the next vice out of the question, but that omical. We And these men free from O. A. Kjelland and Hans Kollansurd Frpd Hollister waa over here yes­ Jess#
Hawley
that Rickman had been dis­
morning an inquest was held.
terday
urging
an
organised
campaign
there is no immediate possibility of blame for extravagance except as to asksd the county to match dollars
charged
as
requested, and his parents
Meeting Landis on the street where more than one passenger train a day
the carrying of the Roosevelt here were apprised
sums paid for publication of sum­ with the district for the improvement for
of the action liy
the poetoffice is now, M. H. Horsey between Coos county and Portland. the
Highway
proposition
at
the
election,
mons
in
(ax
foreclosures
by
the
coun­
letter
on
Sunday—all
within ten days
of
the
Kentuck
Slough
road.
No
told him about the murder of Eudaily As to the best schedule, be will be ty, which subject is hereafter more action was taken.
June 8. He is Coos county chairman from the time the letters
were written
and the former turned and went down open to conviction.
tor
this
drive
and
has
gone
into
it
for
fully
considered.
In
the
main,
,we
asking
Mr.
Hawley’s
intercession.
"
Louis
Wier,
Henry
Gustafson
and
to the scene of the inquest.
he is worth. Buttons boosting the
have no criticism for their adminis­ Harry Walker asked that the county all
As he walked in one of the McQuigg Entertained Princess Rahme tration.
Roosevelt Highway are to be sold at Soils Schools la This Valley
proceed to connect up the Larsoh $1.00 apiece to provide funds for the
boys exclaimed, pointing at Landis, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Machon enter­
Present County Cenrt
Slough road with the Coast highway. campaign in other sections of the J. L. Smith went down to Bendon
"There is the man we saw digging.” tained
Princess Rahme Haider, of We find, to begin with, that through This work has been delayed by Mr. state which are not so vitally inter­ Monday to attend a toil school there.
J. H. Cecil was the justice of the
and her American companion, 1917-1918,
the county business has Larson, who has a suit pending tn ested in this measure as are the coast Owing to the pleasant weather and
peace conducting the inquest, and Syria,
presented such a splendid enter­ been grossly
mismanaged, with a connection with the road and bridge
either he or the assistant prosecuting who
Every precinct in the coun­ the fact that everybody is utilizing it
tainment here Tuesday and Wednes­ marked display of incompetence and work already done there. As there is counties.
attorney told them that they were day
ty
will
be
canvassed and by plunging into belated spring work
evenings, with a dinner and au­ disregard of the county’s interests. $1600 available for use on this road, a complete thoroughly
mistaken. It could not have been. tomobile
registration
voters here the school was hot as well
ride Wednesday noon. The County Judge James Watson has the court is going to start work im­ affected so that a single of vote the will
But they were firm in their statenpnt princess remembers
attended aa was hoped but there is
Mr. Machon as been, in the main, unwilling and re­ mediately and bring matters to an is­ be loot by neglect on election day. not no
that he was the man.
question about their value and we
whom she met at her father’s luctant in permitting this state of sue to see whether Larson can stop
Without saying a word Landis turn­ one
are
glad to bear the ranchers all turn­
place at Hallup, Syria, twelve years affairs; and our censure of him ex­ the work there.
ed and walked out of the building and ago
ed
ont
at Band on.
Tho
senior
editor
was
ordered
to
when he was accompanying Gen. tends to his failure to make a vigor­ Geo. P. laird and others appeared bod yesterday by his physician and
went to his room in the old Lytle ho­ Barnes
on a fifteen ous and persistent fight against it and to request that the court pass a whatever deficiencies are noted in this Shiners have been biting the last
tel, which stood about where Ander­ months’ as tour interpreter,
of the world.
to his consenting at all.
son'S store is. Later it was moved to
resolution ordering the survdy of a week’s Sentinel may be attributed to week or two with excellent results to
Commissiohers Armstrong and road down this side of the rivet. This that cause. He waa t.ire toned with the fishermen. We bear of ladies who
the corner and is now the Coquille
Hospital Going to his room Landis Somebody is going to get a mighty Philip we find to have been incoape- is something that has been needed for bronchial pneumonia but is considera­ catch sixty every day they fish and of
cheap lot up near the high school
long time and the court appeared bly bettor this morning and expects boys who sometimes run their string
building one ef these days.
! Continued oa sixth
to ha iaclinad to gnat the
to ba out ogaia in a few days.
up to A I
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HIGH SCHOOL
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