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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1920)
5631 fisi! in s h.Vrff. Fv- 1 ? AN D THE OC LE HERALD • ; VOL. U T . Ma IL OOQUUXK, 0006 COUNTY. Oi Peeple Take lit t le Interest mty Court G iv o Ferry to A . 8. Boi O ther Awordo A t tito m eeting o f the county court on Tuooday the budget wag revised as to the follow ing item s: The allowance fo r bailiffs', ju rors' foes, witness fees, etc., in the circuit court was increased from $6,000 to $6,500. The third Howell murder tria l w ill very lik ely cause these « run over the revised The state tax from $74,898.48 to $98,096.20. but the county levy fo r market roads was diminished by a cor responding am ount A s it stands now there win be a state tax o f one mUl, amounting to $23,- 646.24 fo r m arket roads and a county tax o f exactly the same tSday ir wfe, ■ The item o f district toed maintenance was cranged by dudng the amount which l^ust be levied under the 80-70 ui vi sion from a ten-mill to a c •mill tax. This w ill result in there being $28,646J0 to divide The follow ing from the Coos in these proportions instead o f ten tim es that much; but the Bay H arbor voices a complaint total fo r the districts now stands o f the treatm ent given H arok here by the sheriff’ s of- at $140,118.06, only about $16,- f Howell i />/> / i i i m n o W t a a a m n d u u n n * apfln BcCOUU vi l n l 1 i . • 000 o f which wltt * 6 "T h e defense pleaded fo r hu- by the districts. in treatm ent fo r the The $12,000 allowed fo r nding money borrowed from , but w ithout a va tt The boy was the state highway commission not allowed outside o f the fou r fo r use on the Coquille-Marsh- walls o f the ja il from the I5th field road was reduced to $10, o f December until Christmas 000.« The total amount in the day, when the tria l ended. His budget remains about the same only exercise was that gained as before, but the court w ill net when he was conducted under be hampered as it was feared in guard from the ja il to the court the distribution o f the road room, entering the room from the ja il using the inner door. So funds. The bids fo r the operation o f virtu ally he was never out in the the Coquitte fe rry monthly fo r open air daring that tim e. “Mr. g<mri*n the com ing year w ere as follow s , fo r labor en ly: Joe. P eart ------- $275 WON’T LET BOY- LOOSE E. C. Conger...............260 E F $ Apparently the public did not take very much interest in the county budget as not more than fou r or five people, were present a t the hearing the county court gave on the case Tuesday morn fug. W. C. Bradley appeared in the interest o f the boys end girls dub work and fold how greatly some states had beneAtted from sim ilar work and urging the re tention o f Mr. K. R. Peterson, the club leader who had done so much among the boys and girls o f the county A u t year an< aroused an in te r® ! in pigs and poultry and other lines o f work among the young folks o f the county. The same reasons that led to the discontinuance o f the home demontration work applied here also— the idea that frills weren’t going to help m the ranch and that it was only those having ample means who could afford to put th an —also settled it that Mr. Peterson should not be I tained. H. W . M iU e r____________ 260 C. P. K id d ----------- . . . . 240 A . 8. Bean . . . . __________288 V . G. P e tte n g ill_________ 280 The contract was awarded to A . 8. Bean at his bid o f $280. F or the Eastside fe rry at the Bay there w ere tw o bids fo r la bor on ly: A lex H a ll----- $860 per month F. E. Peterson 866 per month Being practically the same Commissioner Kern was direct ed to investigate the m atter, and the award w ill not behnade until next week. There was only one bid fo r the operation o f the Richmond fe r ry, that o f Mr. H ayter at $60 per month. He was awarded the contract. Dr. James Richmond offered to furnish medical attendance at the county farm and ja il at $3.50 a visit to the form er and $1.60 a I v isit to the latter. Dr. G. E. Low e offered to do the work at $6 a visit to the poor farm — m aking one regular v isit each week and as many more as were called fo r— and $8.60 a visit at the jail. The contract was awarded to Dr. Richmond. The contract fo r groceries fo r the county farm was awarded to the Cash 4 Carry store at its bid which was a rather compli cated one. The Busy Corner bid $12.26 a barrel fo r flour in January: $12.- 76 fo r February and M arch; su gar at 60 cents a hundred above Portland wholesale prices and six per cent retail prices fo r other groceries. The printing o f the official no tices fo r the county was award- ed to the Coos Bay Tim es at its bid— legal rates. The Tim es and tha flS tin e l w ere awarded the publishing o f the court proceed ings fo r the coming year. thout avail. 'T h e ju ry and other court offi cials were allowed freedom o f the grounds, and the defense took the position that the same treatm ent should have been a f forded the boy.” It is not the custom o f the erifTs office here to grant those under arrest or on trial fo r the crime o f murder the same freedom that is allowed those charged with less heinous crimes. N either do the laws which discrim inate against those charged w ith murder in the m atter o f bail contemplate that one who is held fo r so atro cious a crime shall be given so much freedom as those charged w ith minor offenses. But Mr. Gage wonders how he is expect ed to treat one who is held fo r the most fiendish crime ever com mitted in Coos county. The Howell boy has been per m itted to come down town with Mr. Evland to have his hair cot in a barber shop and has had more liberties than Mr. Gage ev er before accorded to a p-isonor ordered committed to the ja il fo r the crim e o f murder. There is no claim that the boy 4s not well tratod in the ja il, only that he is not treated as w ell as the members o f the iury against whom no charge whatever has been mads. O f course, what his attorneys are saying along this line is a hidden plea fo r sympathy, noth ing more. I f the boy is innocent, o f course, he is deserving of sym pathy; but how infinitely less than the girl whom a cow ardly assassin shot in the back because she refused to become s o f hl8 hist. And until he freed from the charge nst him we taka no stock in fo r givin g him more free- and making a pet o f hi' i. H e has so fa r failed to m anifest Advise CoL Wm. Grimes and Dorsey the slightest sign o f sympathy came over from t h e ^ the parents o f them urdered £ „ T f* to attend fir t or o f horror fo r the crime, the budget m eeting o f the coun- T b « county or city health off! ty c o u rta n d the Colonel talked £ • P ™ *** P *1* * 8 t(* g a r S U a S m * b. «"UlSd t e j j j or that hi. h«lth before money was spent on tot- Pen llw l- _______________ - erals th at wouldn’t connect w ith _ ______ ___ frìtti U ha- 5 . .V. JlfeY. JANUARY L 1010. BUDGET CHANGES THE KINNEY SALE W ill D iffer— The W aite and H is Attorney S till at the Their Old Tricks, Playing F or Tim e W ill Pay Far Lobbying The county courts o f Clatsop Tillam ook and Benton counties agreed to funriah $600 each to pay the expenses o f some road boosters to go to Washington, D. C., and work fo r a govern ment appropriation fo r the Roosevelt highway i f Coos coun ty would do the same. The coun ty court here thought this un wise and the district attorney advised that there was no w ar rant o f law fo r such an appropri ation, so it was recommended that this m atter be referred to the commercial bodies o f the county. , The result is that the Marsh field Chamber o f Commerce agreed to donate $160 o f th e $400 asked from this county, Coquille had agreed to give $75 and N orth Bend, Bandon, M yrtle Point and Pow ers are expected to come across w ith enough to make up Coos county's quota. U M T U T KAR. THE 1920 CENSUS It Begins Today— li s t o f •ratora— President’s When the county court came The sale o f over 2,000 d iffer The work o f taking the four to revise the budget Tuesday, it ent descriptions o f land in the teenth census o f the United appeared that there was a t least Kinney tract at N orth Bend by States begins today and the fo l $1,000 to turn back into the gen the Sheriff's office began here lowing are the questions each eral flrnd o f the county, which last Friday morning, according householder is by law required the court could dispose o f as it to notice, and continued day by to answer: pleased. day until Wednesday afternoon, 1. On what street, road or Judge W ade favored givin g avenue do you live? this amount to the home demon Practically all the tracts were 2. W hat is the number o f stration work which Miss Min bid in by the county. A company your house? nie Kalbus has been conducting composed o f F. B. W aite, o f 3. W hat is the fu ll nkme o f fo r the past year. Sutherlin, who is the largest each person whose place o f Commissioner Yoakam oppos itor o f this-estate, and per- abode on January 1,1920, was in ed this very positively, as he did other creditors, called the this fam ily? not believe in the desirability o f is company, bid on t 5. Is this home owned or work o f that sort. tracts the amount o f the judg rented? That le ft the m atter up to ment fo r the 1907 and 1908 tax 6. I f owned, is it free or Commissioner Kern to decide is and demanded a deed, without m ortgaged? and he preferred the money paying in addition all subse- 7. W hat is the sex o f each Fast and furious. The w ife is should be used fo r advertising quent taxes, penalties, interea fast and the husband furious. person? Coos county in a state publica publics- [and costs as the law requires. 8. W hat is the color o f each See “ A Temperamental W ife ” at tion. Another commissioner had A ctin ig g on the vne advice aavice o i f w Mr. r. the Lib erty Theatre Jan. 6 and 7 person? previously said it would be bet ist, the special counsel o f 9. W hat is the age o f each ? ter that book should .not be pub count nty in this case, as well 10. A re you single, married, lished at all than that it should upon his own view o f the law, widowed or divorced? l go out without any reference to ty Sheriff Clyde Gage re- 11. W hat was the year o f Coos county. r So Coos county to make out deeds fo r your im m igration to the United w ill be represented in the Ore* tracts on any such pay States? n Almanac this year but w ill m ent 12. A re you naturalised o r an R eferrin g to the demand o f ve no home demonstration * T h e provision o f the law on alien? . a gen t which they relied in refusing to the State Teachers Association 18. I f naturalised in what Miss Kalbus a few weeks Issue deeds fo r a small fraction fo r a minimum salary o f $90 year? iths, turned down a proposition to be the amount due the county on 14. H ave you attended school come a member o f the facu lty o f we tracts was the follow in g: $1080 a year fo r teachers, the since September 1, 1920? Sentinel doubts Ih e . propriety o f Callage, the Iow a equiva- 15. A re you able to read? fixing a minimum w age by law lent t our O. A . C., ami has “ A ll bidders except the coun 16. A re you able to w rite? in this or other cases. In the n, demand by other coun o f property fo r whi 17. W hat is the place o f your ties in Oregon, so she is not the o f delinquency are esse o f teachers, those who birth? make good are no doubt deserv- this decision o f the by the eounty, shall pay the 18. W hat is your m other ton o f that price where the court, except that like so many amount o f all taxes, penal- gue? ool is o f at least medium sise, others, she had foud the clim ate interest and costs, fo r 19. W here was your father but there a n so many o f Coos County very much to which Judgment is rendered, to born? where there are very fow pupils her liking. geth er with all taxes, interests 20. W hat was his m other ton and costs fo r all subsequent and so many more where in fer gue? ior teachers must ba employed B ig Increase In Taxes years due on said property at 21. W here was your m other because there are not qualified born? N ow that the budget item s the rate o f tale.” onea to go around, that we ques 22. W hat was her m other ton- been fixed and it is too lata tion ^the advisability at the de- i would not appear to lea’ WANT SPECIA I TWO-MILL TAX G t % a *v a - rious cities o f Coos county: Marshfield, total tax increased from 39.6 mills to 60.5. ,. v N orth Bend Increased from 41.4 mills to 58.1. Coquille increased from 42.3 mills to 52J1. M yrtle Point increased from 42.6 m ills to 64.2. Bandon increased from 47.9 to 67.9. Em pire increased from 27.4 m ills to 65.8. The building o f a new school house at Em pire has more than doubled the taxes there this year H ere in Coquille, where in nearly all cases our taxes were lower in 1919 than in 1918, this year we get ten m ills addition or ju st a dollar more on $100 valu ation, or $10 on a thousand. So where we paid $42.30 on a thousand dollar valuation it w ill be $62.30 this year. This w ill mean that all taxes in this city w ill be 23 Vt Vk pel per cent larger this ' c t that the year than la s t The fact increase in taxes is i i sway beyond the sixteen percent lim itation is principally due to the addition o f the tw o m ill m arket road tax this year which was voted by the people and is independent o f o f that lim itation. This adds more than $46.000 to Coos coun ty's taxes this year. stand on in th eir deeds on payment o f the taxes and costs fo r 1907 and 1908 only, but A . 3. Hammond, th eir attorney, says he w ill go into court to try to compel the issu ance o f deeds fo r about one-sixth the amount due on these proper ties. W hether he can get any where by such a move remains to be seen. It may be th at the object o f this contention is to delay the closing o f this ma tor and protract litigation. Aa it stands the county is now the owner o f these tracts and can sell them fo r all they w ill bring, but, o f course, it would be impracticable to do this by or dinary real estate methods, and an auction sale o f another char acter than the foreclosure sale just held appears to be the al ternative. T ryin g to Baat the Com ity W e do not im agine that the attem pt o f F. B. W aite and others interested in the Kinney properties to get tax titles on those properties by bidding them in fo r taxes fo r 1908 and the years prior to that tim e w ill succeed. It would be an anoma lous result fo r the county to throw o ff ton y e a n ’taxes in or der to get pay fo r tw o or three years. H owever it may be fo r others County Court Takes a Stand a claim o f this sort is a good thing fo r the lawyers, still fu r D istrict A ttorn ey J. F. Hall ther protracting the litigation in asked the county court Tuesday what they thought it best to do about the Howell murder cs W on't Favor Salary which has been tw ice tried at Mr. T h r ift who is soon to go considerable expenae to the county without result. Commis out to attend the special session sion Kern suggested the idea o f o f the legislature asked an ex a change o f venue but it was un pression from the court in favor derstood that the state could not o f a raise in salary fo r some o f the county officers who are get ask fo r that. Judge Hall said that the ju ry tin g no more than they did five thought he was gu ilty but some y e a n ago. He was turned down, the idea being expressed that if few had doubts. Commissioner Yoakam voiced a man didn’t want an office at the sentiment o f the court by the present salary he could easi ly keep out o f i t telling the judge: — “ Do your b est; i f you can’t Ma fo il There’s a dash o f convict, w hy you can’t ” French sauce in this tale o f a See “ A E. W . G reet is putting up * man-hunting maid. building on the rear end o f the Temperamental W ife ” at the lot opposite the Nosier Grocery, L ib erty Theatre Jan. 6 and 7. to be used fo r W illey 4 Son*» Hw offer of fos while the old for <3.00 sta erald office which they occuj / U m I both for am is bring refloured and repaired. m world w er, has bean to go to ex- ernes in demanding increased pay fo r laborers in some lines. W hile we have never heard o f a maximum lim it talked o f fo r the wages o f laborers in any line, that would be ju st as reasonable \ a minimum wage. And it m ight w ell be argued that i f no person, however incapacitated, shall be allowed to labor fo r less than a minimum wage so no one, however gifted , shall receive more than a certain maximum wage. The subject is a b ig one and we make these suggestions to set people to thinking, realiz ing that there are tw o sidee to every proposition involving rad ical changes. Tw o Coquille Boys to B ig G aac The b ig football game at Pas adena yesterday between the U n iven ity o f Oregon eleven and he big Harvard team, the lead ing eastern team this year, aroused more interest on the Pa cific coast than any game ever >layed before. In Coquille the nterest was greatly augmented >y the fact that the tw o Leslie >oys, Earl and Keith, were playi ng tackle and center respective- y fo r Oregon. The score waa 7 to 6 in the easterners’ fa vor but there is very little glory in it fo r thé crimson follow ers because h ey expected th eir husky favor- tes to eat up the ligh ter Oregon earn and score more than one touchdown. An average o f 20 pounds ligh ter to the man was a serious handicap fo r the lemon and yellow but they overcame it w ith speed. On the other hand the difference in clim ate between the Atlan tic and Pacific coasts was a handicap to Harvaxd. From the score we judge it was a game which aroused the wild est enthusiasm. G irls G ive Fine Show The perform ance put on by e B arry Studio o f Dancing o f arshfleld Wednesday at the Lib erty Theatre, drew a fu ll house and was greatly en joyed. The little girls ranging in age from five to fifteen years, made a most creditable showing and were warm ly applauded. T h e' youngest perform er was H arriet Neiman, daughter o f Mr. and Mks. N . Neiman, form erly at CoquUk. £3 21 24. W hat is your trade, pro fession or particular kind o f Work? 26. In what industry, busi ness or establishment are you at work? 26. A re you employer, salary o f wage worker, or are you working on your own account ? The follow ing are the enumer ators fo r the districts in the Co quille V alley: Beaver H ill and Ooaledo— L. L. Bunch. I M yrtle Point and Sugar L oaf — John H. Carver. | Cunningham, Fat Elk and Lee — Ned C. Kelley. Dora and Missouri— Edwin H. Kern. » Enchanted and Rowland— Ed win F. Postal. Lam ps and N orw ay— Harold K. Hodge. Bandon— Mrs. N ettie Adams. Coquille— Emma M. Pierce. Prospect and Riverton— Chas. A. Schroeder. Four Mile, Tw o M ile and P ar kersburg— A rthur K . Hodge. President W ilson has issued a proclamation in regard to the census in which a fter calling at tention to the law enacted Mar. 3, 1919, under which the present census is being taken, and to the mportance to the interests o f the people o f the county that this should be a fu ll and accur ate report o f the population and resources o f'th e nation he says: “ Now , therefore, I, W oodrow Wilson, President o f the United States o f Am erica, do hereby de clare and make known that, un der the law aforesaid, it is the duty o f every person to answer aft- questions on the census schedules applying to him and the fam ily to which he belongs, and to the farm occupied by him or his fam ily, and that any per son refusing to do so is subject to penalty. "T h e sole purpose o f the Cen to to secure general stattoti- inform ation regarding the population and resources o f the country and replies are required :lro n individuals only to perm it the compilation o f such general statistics. N o person can be tarmed in any way by furnish- ing the inform ation required. « M- r r i ■W i