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Finally Married j
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of 1
f a, enow in Sgnday afternoon
spend n few days with their many
friends bora, by whom they were very
cordially welcomed. Mr. Howard,
addition to Ida school duties, is doing
sons# historical work for the a tab)
university, his subject being the de­
velopment of secondary schools,
(academics, high schools and the like)
in pioneer days. The state university,
to says, is specialising in historical
work and will try to interest high
school pupils in fa th e rin g materials
for pioneer history in their own lo­
calities. . Mr. and Mrs. Howard want
down yesterday to spend a p art of
their vacation at the beach. They were
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. W. H
Lyons, who will spend, the balance of
thah»,vacation there, and E. E. Johnson
and fam ily.^ - t
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. OREGON. FRIDAY, A UGII8T8, 191 ».
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$1.8# THE YEAS. t
County Court Setufon.
Most of the county court's attention
.'on Wednesday and Thursday Was de­
n te d to auditing and passing
.tolls.
• l i . . P r.1 » « , Reason Which
Held for the Mtirdef of ££
polled a Boy to M ilder a
Lillian Leuthold
Young Girl
H a ro ld H ow oii, o f N e a r
? M
f
—
?
e
( ouncjl Vqtea JÇr
for Ito
Ita Rei
I
land Wm. Grimes and Ls F. Price
Make a Start on More ÿ
jointly for a reduction of assessment. Û i
»
* » Street Work
the district attorney was Instructed
to enter into a stipulation by which
Last .Saturday morning two P ros-, The reporters, who have been Writ- last year’* assessment will be reduced
A t the council meeting Tuesdaj
» M ils aecurred t o n T undày after-
per boys, Carroll Warden,, aged 18, ¡u»g up the investigation of the Leu-
to 80 per cent of the original figure! enbig Mrs L. P. Branstetter,
end Harold Howell, aged 14, w ere>r- tbokl murder, case aeem to be p ar­
noon when Miss Virginia Clarke
The esse is over two Marshfield lots Aame of the Woman’s Club,
J m . Malony, both of Marshfield, w e n
raigned before Judge Wade in thfi' *led to find any motive which could
assessed at $11,000 and $20,000 re­ to the officials t)»e recommend:.t
county court room charged with the ^ have impelled Harold Howell, the 14- spectively and as this year’s assess­ which the ladies had adopted a t 1 Mr
united in n a rria * « by Bov. Jaa. Ê.
¿ C w dtr.
murder of Lillian Leuthoki, and M«a*[ year-old boy, who ia held for the
ment was eut to ‘80 per cent the dis­ last meeting. These suggestions!
day sat as tit#day for them to plead, j crime, to have committed it. If he
T
Accompanied by Misa Lillian
trict attorney advised th a t'la st year’s eluded the urgent need of a rest
At Monday’s preliminary after about; committed it there seems to be only
{ man, the bride and groom to be were
figures should be made the same as in Goqutlle, the desire that the
driven ever from the Bay by Thog.
a dozen witnesses had been examined! one possible motive to assign., If he this. The reduction applies only .to purchase the Lamb grove, th a t,
Jam«* in Ida ear. Aa both the
the older boy was freed and the j met Lillian Leuthold on her way home the lots and not to the improvements power and telephone polies be
younger one heltf to the grand Jury between 6 and 6 on the Sunday after*
*r
*iba th e local brandi of the an t­
paintad as required by the ordt
thereon. ¿ S
■ r
'
lered herd decided to give them a roy­
for the crime. They had been brought noon of the tragedy he probably
A widow’s pension of $17.60 per and that a city clean up policj I be
al recaption, ae while Molony and
up here, one Friday night and th# seized her an& proposed improper ret month was ' a'lowed Mrs. Daisy J. maintained, which will insure that
Jajqae want 1er the Hcenae and the
other Saturday morning, so 'th at they lations. When he met with the rebuff,
Fredricks, widow of the late I. C. erv property owner keeps the
minister, leaving the ladies a t the ho-
could not confer with each other as he certainly did, he was not only on­ Fredericks.
and weed*- cut in front of and
Bridge b Needed Badly
i i tali Chea. H er locker and Ben Carrie
to the answer they were to maks to.j gered but he began to think about how
his premises.
The
option
given
to
the
Nestles
peo­
M. O. ) loo ton on Wednesday finish­ the chiftge.
cell a t the bdlet end tell the ycoag
St j Ko would stand a t home and with tha ple is elsewhere noted.
(A s to the Liberty Temple
ed
the
building
of
at
10x14
house
for
ladiee th a t the ceremony will be per-
Warden was brought in first—» ; members of his family and hers if she
B
ranstetter said th at considering
The
court
decided
on
the
Ferrym an Kidd to replace the struc­ round-faced, rosy cheekad young pian ; told the story of his attempted
nlough road, which has been s bon* objections there had badn. e i[
ture
destroyed
by
fire
a*
few
months
with dark, bushy "hair—looking ‘
they will eecort them thither. Arriv­
sa u lt He had but little time to think.
contention for two years, th at H against
“ 3 *inat converti
converting th at building
ed there they find the groom baa not ago. Some idea of the strenuous life personification of good health ,
ul m an instant he decided to us* ghtmM ^ . dyke raid ond
^ th* a .rest room, the
ito
the
ferryman
now
leads
may
be
gath­
pot in an appearance and they ait
good nature. He iras evidently fu ll th at gun on the theory that dead girls mutil ride of tl
slough
te
r
the
whoTe
acquiesce
in
sny
move
(he
city
made
t
to
s
i
down to wait. T yo or three other ered when it is stated th at on <
of animal spirita add one of the last toll no tales—a decision th at indicates distance and (pot
it twice as towards iU removal. This p u t j$ up
Elfca show op and Join the party, bat Sunday h u t month 300 cars pas
persons,in the world to be picked out something abnormal about the young ftrehio Philip ha7 <Jked.
tq^tlie council for prompt action and
Miao Clark# gota very anxious before over the terry. That bridge can’t
as a criminal.
His father, Joseph man. All this on the theory that ths
The court adjourned last evening on motion by Councilman, ¿¡keels the
built
any
too
soap.
Mr. Molony Anally arrives.
Warden, was with him to speak-for officers have found the murderer; and
removal of the building Within 90
until Monday nion.
A fter securing the license and the
___ and th s boy said absolutely no­ it only remains to find a motive for
days was ordered. , f ^
ij|
“ minister, James and Molony rhah
thing while he was before the judge, the Crime. We are not attem pting to
ThS’ m arshal' was
hack to tha hotel only to And the bride
The writer watched him closely as tb*( 1 'iejudice his case, but if he is guilty
force i the ordinane ce
ia gene. A good half h ear is spent
complaint sworn to by John Laul
to buggeet something that could have
weeds and »grass be kept cut, and gbo
looking foe thorn, a call a t the depot
charging him with murdsr was
led him to commit the crime. , We a m
to see that the dqbris left by ;(he
to see if th e ladies ere taking the
to him. Not a muscle quivered; there not supposing much of a struggle ue-
tullder at ttrar drinking fount
train to Marshfield, a n ia oat to May-
Whether Meed’s Canary and French was not the slightest in ideation of tween the boy and the girl, for ia a
Yesterday the Nestles Condensery i'.Vjilard street be removed.
or Johnson’s houss and up to ( Chas. Canary grass ary. the same or entirely nervousness or anxiety, such as gny struggle she probably would have been
Several Hall street property
company
o f Baitdon, through its mari-
Hartocker’i, and finally a t ■, Jam es’ sug- d iferen t varieties of the species is one confronted with such a charge is 'nearly a match for him—certainly
E. Oakes, mads a deal with ,erg wer* I,resentrl<t r*»wsit
gestión down to Ben Currie’s. Each
problem on which D. C. Krantz, of supposed to feel at least.
nearly enough to havs prevented him uger, f c n . fl ty
the coun -ly w hkV H s c a re s a 60- »«W ^em ent on .that street bets
than the ear stopped and McKay ran Arago, thinks to can shod some light.
But when the judge read the words, from accomplishing his purpose.
Second and the gulch and on
in to afe if Miss Clarita was them, H elm s received from a
“shot her with a leaden bullet,” while
Having said this much on the the­ 'day option for 126 feet of river front, between. Elliott and Taylor be
between
the
river
and
the
8.
P.
right-
Mr. Coodsf got out also and followed a t Ada who is in the m arket for he did not pi°ve or, display any other ory th at the Howell boy committed the
poned until next spring, the
him to toe door,' prepared to tie the Canary grass seed some samples of symptom ’Of emotion, tills eyelids murder we may mention one rumor of-way, juat east of Ferry street in toss of the season before work
'this
city.
The
price
paid
is
$8,260.
knot on/ the spot. Finally arriving ha seed of what hia correspondent twitched upward and dropped a gat. we have heard in connection with the
commence there rendering (t
ili tha bappy pair war* uiHv calls Reed’s canary grass. The Seeds Ju st why those words should surprise tragedy which militates against th at When the city sold th at property to cartai'1 th at they would have to
Coos
county
last
year
a
'provision
wad
Mr. < W are
like those of the French him into sach a gesture we could not theory. While the murdered girl was
through the mud all winter,
understand and-one could but won- being dragged towards the hiding inserted in the deed th at should th« council agreed to the ; postpon
county
ever
desire
to
dispose
of
any
Iy dcr what was the thought th a t flashed ;daee amid the jungle by the roadside
but decided to declare their fnten
differences in texture th at could to through his brain and caused that in which het- body was found, it is of the tract the city of Coquille should a t once of making the improve
have
a
prior
right
to
repurchase
over
a free ride in «qo e f Fred
by a good glass. But the quick questioning movement of -the said th at there ware two or three
order th at earth in Thirdjitreet
Could it have bo
vsta, each one marked bv .a pool, of any other buyer. S o -to esabje the be used is making the Taylor at
T l i w n 'w i
county
to
give
a
Hood, which would, indicate P ' '*
th a t th a
fill» . The
p etty th e 'd tp «
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to the aewly Weds. The.
swaed carried an un­ murderer was a person of
with tha dark olivt color of Mr. L i
•aaa a * 9 ili e U
%
tknu —
r „ -a
i m
BBW vi invili bi R
nere
iney were
physique and wss taxing his strength afternoon and waived any and
French canary, th at there can b* no jacketed leaden ball?
Moon A Co. were issued warrants
tog out of town f o f Marshfield with a question about their being different
A t the dose of the preliminary to the utm ost., That would, of course, right tivs city might have.
fo r the contructiim Of the Hnll and
It is 'th e intention at the Nestles
“Ju st Married” sign on tha m ar a f tue /arieties of grass.
Monday Diatrict Attorney Hall ad- agree with the theory that th e mur­
F irst street sewer in the amount oi
auto, bat a telephone call to tha bay
Mr. Krantz brought in n sample of vised the court th at he had investi­ derer was a mere boy. But again it people to erect a warehouse a t this of $Uj41.2Q.
friends them to to on his g rasi *rom a field th at wns cut gated young Warden’s case thorough­ is said th at the person who moved point aa a receiving and shipping
Councilman MeLeod
for them.
!un«Ji6, so th at it has been growing ly and th at he had no evidence on that body from the roadway pulled it station. All shipments to the Banffon Geo. A. Bobjnson was
uat 41 days—and it measures over which to hold the boy. Warden, swore up on a log and then threw it by an plant will past through this ware- in the bridge for his full
63 inches in height and has headed out on the stand that after four o’clock effort away into the thicket where it houst and their finished product will streets on Front s tre e t,
Trip to YaUowatoae Park
likewise be loaded on the cars here.
Jab. Laird and wife returned Wed- and ia turning purple. A crop in six th a t' Sunday afternoon h i “ played was hidden, swinging it clear above It will also be used as a receiving sta­ present pavement If
the
undergrowth
of
weed*
and
buahee,
cards
with
Howell
until
the
latter
week*
would
to
a
good
record
for
al­
pay for the additional
ay from a month’s trip in their
started (pr home between five and ten so that they were not trampled at all. tion for milk for this section.
AS this would make a
to Yellowstone park. They were falfa.
The cans in which the condensary in the appearance of tha* i
Mr. Krants says th at his cattle in minutes before six. The m atter wss This statement, if correct, would cer­
a pan led by Misaee Emma Kenne-
clover up to* their knees leave It to not further referred to in the testi­ tainly imply th at Harold Howell was milk is put up come loose in the car well as make it safer for"
'd y and Winifred Spencer and F.
and it will be in this warehouse that and autoists, the council
Laird and family, of Myrtle Point in urowae oa the French canary. As to mony but Warden’s gun could not not the .person who tried to hide her
th* boxes will be put together and the themselves as willing if-
their .car. The party travelled 3600 the dictum of the agronomists ef the have carried the fatal shot, and the body after murdering Lillian Leo­
empty cans placed therein before could be induced to coraplgtoly bridgi
thoid.
District
Attorney
had
satisfied
him­
Department
of
Agriculture
at
Wash­
miles and warn on the mdve every day
being taken down jiver to the conden his side of the street. A t a late hour
but four, spending four and one-half ington, D. C.< to has this to say; his self as to his whereabouts when the
eary. It was stated three or four men last evening Mr, Train had s e t con­
«hooting
occurred.
”7
~
ittio
in
July
fed
on
canary
grass
Sheriff
Gage
says,
though
this
days to the park. They found
The other boy arraigned on Sat­ statem ent was not made when he was will be required the year round to sented, but with; a sidefsolk to be
hot wsathor, especially to the Bitter raised one point in butter flit, while
his
neighbors’
herds
fell
off.
urday was a different looking lad al­ on the witness stand, th at it is true handle the company’s businesa a t this built as the alternative fat failing io
Root valley in Montana, whom the
extend the bridge to his property
together, with brown hair and sallow th at ths clothes young Howell wore point.
thermometer showed 103 degress. Mr.
ine, leaving a ten foot gap in front of
The first thought one on the day of ths murder have not
Laird says th at everywhere along the School Board Mct Last Night. complexion.
They
Moved
It
Several
Times
his
place, it ia probabe th at he will
been
seen
since.
had
of
him
was
th
at
his
face
was
an
routes they travelled the parks warn
The school board for district No. 8
agree to the plans for a bridge the
We have also just learned that
fitted up for the accommodation of met at thè city ball last evening and old one for a boy of fourteen. But he
Looking today at the men plowing
tourists and wham ovary convenience jpent considerale tinte esaminiti* thè did not betray himself by any indi­ complaint has been made to tha sher­ up and carting away the surface earth full width of the street on Front. ,
The council will meet agitin next
iff’s
office
th
at
young
Howell
has
been
When in­
was provided to make their stay plana of school houias prepared by thè cations of nervousness.
on F irst street, we wonder again why
pleasant instead of allowing them to two architects In attendShce. No de- formed that he would be in charge of accosting girls passing on th*' street that dirt has been moved so niany Monday to open the bids for the Tay­
shift for themselves. Coquille will do •ision wss reached but nnother meet- the Sheriff until Monday he expressed from the windows of the jail. That times to ao'purpoee, as it must .be tak­ lor street improvemdht knd also to
well to take note of how autoists are ¡n J will be held tomorrow evening to a desire to see his folks, mentioning ha is not s normal but an abnormal en away at last. Why not have taken pass on the petition Of A rthur Elling­
his mother especially. But he began boy is beginning to be the opinion of it away In the first place and then ton for the narrowing of Henry street
treated elsewhere when the Roosevelt make a selection.
Highway ia finished.
A Contract was awarded Willey A then to talk and to toll where he was thoee who are learning what there is have had th at much lees to move in between F irst and Second from 98 to
Son to do some ribceasary plumbing at the (hne of the nlurder. Tj)e ex­ to know about.him.
digging for water mains and sewer to feet.
CoqniHa People to Crater Lake ta t the high school building to the pression with which he began was,
mains and the multitudinous laterals?
For Standard High SchooM.
“I t’s an a mistake,” and he appeared
Insane Man From Bay
We have been observing this sort of
Tuesday morning quite a number of amount of $93.
Miss H arriett Sweet was rsleased cry anxious to impress his story of
The
school district ia which Lake-
work
for
many
years,
and
It
seems
to
Coquille people started for a trip to
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Last Friday afternoon Fred Miller,
us exactly like filling up a hole to sidb is located will vote on the 19th
Crater Lake, intending to go on down from bar former contract and then his whereabouts that Sunday evening
iipon" Judge Wgde, a'» if th a t was e J J a night foreman at the Bunker Hill
dig it out again. Why so carefully o f tffis month on the proposition to
into California, after having gased elected teacher of the eighth grade
peoially important, until the Judge mill, who is said to have been a t one
establish a standard high school, at
upon its placid surface, and than over a t a salary of $96 per month.
Miss Clara Ireland and Miss Forest told him to wait until the
^ T ro T h t
| U ‘u p ^ r « r t ’
toy. that place. As $9 out Of the 4 0 'vo­
the mountains into California down to
to make a statement. Further study- (ippi. was brought over here in ha
^
|Jwfcyg g#tUill(f thinK„ ters in the district petitioned for,(he
the coaft, and home again by way of Snyder, of Cbteage Grove, were elect­
ing this boy to find something that cuffs by Constable Goodman, oi
ed
grade
teachers
at
a
salary
of
$86
to unsettle them forthwith, despite the election there seems to be little dpubt
¿rescent City and Gold Beadh. Among
would mark him as different from Marshfield, because he had become
that “nothing is ever settled un­ th at the m atter will be approved by
them w e n Miss Stay Lund, county su­ Ipar month.
other boys, we noticed but one mark- violently insane. He was accompan-.
the voters.
**
is settled right.”
pervisor of school*, who drove her
ed peculiarity—the upper lobes of his led by his fiancee, Mrs. Genevieve
*
On August 29th the voters of the
own car, her slaters, Della and Flossie, Balance Same u for Last Report
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ears were thickened and bulging, ^llliam s, whom he had just received
MU* Clara Nelson and Emmett A.
County Treasurer Dimmick’s semi­ standing out at right angles to the, a llcenae to wed, which ihade the oc- Has Another Jack Phennegar consolidated Riverton, Sunnyside and
Lamps school districts will vote on a
Ouriler, of Portland; Mr. and Mrs. annual report appears elsewhere in
side of his head, instead of flat upon eurce an especially sad one. He was
Dunham thinks Re got hold similar proposition. A $8,000 addi­
Alvah Schroeder and their daughters, this issue» He began the new year
It, as most ears are. Whether this ro violent that Dr. Houseworth had
^
Jmek Pbcnn«gar in the tion to the School building a t Khser-
Rosanna and Ruth, Mias Eva Sehroed- with $63,022.66 on hand and has
any
index
to
hia
character
we
to
resort
to
opiates
to
make
im
Wilson
boy
here
whom he /recently ton is also contemplated.
er and JOdgs Watsoif; Max Dement, since taken in $388,905.52.
During
not any. '
^
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that 11,6
took to the St. Mary’s home a t Port-
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of Myrtle Point, and family. Though the same tim e k e has paid out $888,-
Ten witnesses were Introduced b , »v t e r n a r y , howsvar,
a ^
Jphn ^
hardly more than got
j w t able to get off on tlmq, Mr. and 011.84 and now has on hand $68,926.-
I .e a se s H ia Norway
.sojourn a t the
^
there bcforq he and another boy ran
Mrs. E. H. Hamden also axpset to ov­ 68, Raving a little more than held the state, whosq testimony as far su:
it appears o f S p e d . l pertinence w*
h i. restoration to health.
^
^
captur„ T W J # in
M. M. Schmidt thi* week le
ertake tha party. a )
.. -*! Ms own during th at time. If, aa is
ranch 4 mile this side of No
shall
refe*
to
later.
C.
F
.
McKnight,
!"
■
f
ran
away
again
taking
three
other
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Confidently expected, the Southern
S ta ll ley Clears HLs Client
boys with him and i% still a t large, J«*. Stejling, from Humboldt cod
Pacific Fleet Arrive«.
Oregon taxes are paid during the last who appeared for éfowell, then »overt
r ...
that
the
charge
against
his
client
be
j
j
Stanley
attorney
for
Caroli
Wednesday morning’s mail Hark California, the latter taking in
Yesterday a t San Diego the great­ half of the year, his business both in
dismissed,
elair.
ing
that
was " * * * «
comnnitment p n ^ ra for diate possession. A t the same time
est naval pageant In the history of the receipts and expenditures will be .........................................Warden, tire case ag ain st whom
a
scintilla
at
oa
which
»
dismissed
by
Judge
Wade
last
Sat-
Hie
boy
with
a
letter stotinffthey will Mr. Schmidt bought the Jaa. W. Clin
Pacific coast was witnessed by thous­ much greater than that for the first
base
it.
' urday for complicity in the murder ***** nothing More to do with him. ton place, adjoining his, at 20 adres
and* when the Pacific fleet under Ad­ six months. In that case the figures
“Th*.
motion
is
denied,”
roapondwl
^ Lillian Leuthold, should be given 11 ,ooki ** ^
wa® •J°hn.for the re- for $8,000. This is pretty nearly the
miral Hugh Rodman pasaed in battle will pass the million mark both going
Judge
^
a
d
o
but
he
went
on
to
say
a„
thg
credit
iot
d
u
r
in
g
thè*
young
to™
school
ti/hen
the officers get hold high water mark tor land ia th at pac­
* •
formation before Sec. of the Navy end coming. ' ‘
r «
%
he
wanted
to-hear
on#
moro
witness,
maIli
M
^
worked
hard
on,
the
case
J*!.*.*
* *?n of ^ .at* tion.
•'
*
V;
z.
............
.
m
.
l
.
.•
Daniels. The fleet travelled the 6,000
\
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S
U
M
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^llstm , of this cHy, a n d _ had
The Coos Bay Business Men’s As Samuel Whetstone, gunsmith of thlj lggt WMk and brought "To light *uf-
milee from Hampton Roads, Va., in
The
Geo.
W.
Elder
which
formerly
city;
before
closing
the
case.
Mr.
evidence
to
convince
D
istrict
grown
entirely
beyond
his
mother
s
nineteen day»-
An effort is beta* Sedation (■ Suing W. B. Barger and
ran between Portland, Coos Bay and
was placed on the stand Attorney Hall th at hia client waa ih control.
Ina Barger, hie wife for »103.86,
made to have Cooe Bay named as the
San Francisco, has been arid to fioath
.
.
I
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no
wise
implicated,
and
H
r.
M
b
-‘ff-t
U
-t
barn for some of the smaller vessel. ct which $69.70 is said to be due the
*“ ’* , ’* ’
friend. American Interests.
1 the Ssatinal to i
moved
th
at
the
caso
b*
i
s
m
n
U
*k*
Store
ef
this
eity.
W tiN fitok
i
H I "• j . *
v •'*
TWO KINDS OF
CANARY GRASS
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avo
W ILL BUILD
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