* - , - *• Jji i, AND ▼OL, x n . 'N O - UL " " 11 OOQI7XIJLE COQUILLE, COOB COUNTY, ir i' 1 111 i--..'i.Mu. " FRIDAY, APRIL It, mm Bit..!, $M$ THE YEAR. i n. B 1 G E JE P 0 R T ¿ ^ I d G I I I E LIBERALLY OVER THE HILLS A BOND ELECTION . ¿ a, ------ ------------------— to M ercy H o e -, . a . , p ital at N orth Bend, where he died H I* " 8 e * 0° l Others ia the Ceuty | s t $ p .S k . ' , _ __ ,______ Just how the accident occurred w e I . T.sshad Orar. la re not Inform ed, but it ia reportad I th at w hile he was fa llin g a tree a lo g * sas and data fo r the Coquille s w w g around and struck Urn. Ten teams w ent out last F riday ig a required by the W ar Do-1 H e Ima a w tfs and tw e children Hv- our city U gh school te talk to ------------f forw ard to the d istrict ta g at I ships, and his m e iIn s w ill *ba schools from Riverton to Dopa engineer's offlee at Portland a couple be brought te Coquille this afternoon. I ln the interest o f the Armenians The agu. The papera had boon I Th e funeral services w ill be held a t F®«“ * P *°P *« w o instructed, a fter to the d istrict attorn ey fo r the U ndertaking pariere at 2 A 0 S u n-1 m aking talks tellin g o f the starving and whan am ong the re- [d a y afternoon and w ill be conducted I conditions o f those people, not to at- fouad a copy I b y R qr A . B. B arry o f the Federated I tcm p T to taka' up any collection un- e f th e state la w authorising the een- ehulfch. The interm ent w ill be in t h e 1« * « specially requested to do so. s f the bridge, Judge H all | Masonic cem etery. Hence some o f the teem s have The deem sed had bean w orkin g in | P °* r * t to make o f contributions I, as the bridge was to he built I Ceos county fo r s e r v a l y e a n , but his rwehrad as the result o f their risk s, at the general law old was near u — — ■-*- in east- though these w ill no doubt come later. at any apodal statute. But era Pennsylvania, where he has The Riverton team consisted e f a t Portland has brothers and sisters livin g. He wms P a lin e Chase. Irm a Price, O live T oy Ra own ideas shout the rad taps n oe-1 born Dee. 21, 1878, and was nearly l « » ■ » * E velyn W oodward. They •■raat of the W a­ ter Works. before the d ry m m on begins. Tbs second ordinance provides fo r the manner o f callin g and holding general and special elections, nukes the city law s conform to the state laws on that subject, places an or­ dinance on the books which makes the charter provisions concerning elec­ tions operative, which la tter slig h t or m ight not have been b efore; and per­ m its the council, i f necessary to call m ore than one special election in a year, providing a ll members o f the council vote in fa vo r o f it. The third ordinance provides fo r the holding o f a special election on A p ril 29 to vote on one charter Twn Mika to Build approval and the speedy gran tin g o f tea perm it a t W ashington. C. B. McCullough, bridge engineer o f the State H ighw ay Commission, w as doom hare W ednesday te look ar­ ar the prop osed site e f the bridge at the fe rry here. Me says the site U w ell chosen and he ean aee no reason w hy the perm k fo r Ra construction nted. *- fo r M yrtle P o i n t , i s stated in the caB fo r which w ill be a hard surfaced road. | slsction, and noRher the feels warranted 18 y r * ~ . is s f a pt — de-|h* cutting the appropriation fo r any district. T e make a pro rat not bo dotorm iaod b y a cu rsory | tion all along the line would seem to be the moot satisfactory w ay at die- drill I pc sing o f that $27,000 ___ j bora te g ive R a but there is no quest trot before R is de-1 projects can stand a cut much bettor R w ill stand up un- than others. raffle expected. But fo r this uncertainty as to the fifty fo o t spaa was amount to go to each project r the new highway I the Sentinel would have this nted the fu ll details o f the road The near rniaplstlm at the Co-|pi*n to bo submitted at the coming quills-M arshfield hard surfaced road, t®**» election, with also brings up the qnostion at the | dories o f each project to bo provided w ay o f G ravai Ford sad Dora to Sit- . ten nor m ore than 20 days, and the , change is to be made to perm it qon- . form ity to state law. The second measure to appear on . the ballot is the question whether to , vote $24,000 in w ater work bonds, t Kf^ rin y 5 per cent intereet, optioneble | a fte r 10 years and payable in 20 Robert W illard and Lawrence Moon w are the N orw ay com m ittee but here the drive had already been made and $100 raised. ■ T h e team fo r W est N orw ay was C rystal L a fferty. They had a strenu­ ous day, m aking a tw o and a h alf m ile hike over the k ills to the C o ­ logne camp where they fouad the lo g ­ gers a t dinner and got $90. A t a m eeting at B eaver B ill they got $29 more, m aking $119 fo r the day. Taking it altogether it is thought that this high school drive w ill re­ sult in putting several hundred dol­ lars into the N ear East R elief fund d irectly and indirectly. Besides the experience in public speaking and public work the pupils obtained in taking charge o f this drive w ill be o f incalculable value to them. The m orale o f the school. P rof. T u ttle u y s has peon vastly improved by this undertaking. avaOabUky o f the present Goal Slough bridge in thesocRhera part e f I T o M a tc h U n d « S a m M arshfield, and the state en gin eer's! The stats board o f control a t a ' office w ill also draw plans fo r the m eeting at Salem on Saturday last changes needed ia that structure fo r authorised the issuance and sale o f the county court. highw ay bonds in the sum o f $1,000,- 1 — 1000 to HUtch federal aid fo r the con­ Last Night’s Winners struction at peat and fo rest roads .in county was the only coon-1 Oregon. The state highway commis- There was a large attendance and Coos which had am, C s J * > «W *>r the U.uunce o f $2,- much interest a t the' O ratorical and on road I f —1« within Rs 1800,000 o f tit sas bonds, but inform ed Declam atory contests a t the Federat­ I R c o t only $88,000 or I the board o f control that only $1,000, ed church last night. o f the entire amount I 00*) that sum was necessary at In the F ifth and Sixth grades con the United States treasury has paid _ . _ _____ 4 test, Annie McAdams won; in the am the I r ifh m i Oregon taxes. On It was reported to the board that Seventh and Eighth grades Ellen Ba­ this one-tenth the Douglas county I shout $4,000,000 o f fadoral money is ker was the successful contestant. eourt has ¡ r M Ex-G overnor Oswald I available fo r rand construction in In the H igh School contest JeAe W est Ms claim o f $2,108.17. T h e re !0 ™ » « » . bot * e w ill not be able Beckham won the declam atory eon- had been paid him before $100. HU P match m ors than $8,6000,0000 o f test and the gold medal, and E rrol bin o f $10,888 fo r rarviem rendered that amount until s n s h . tta s m the Sloan won the oratorical contest. The C o m county, in addition to $400 al- P™™“ * IndebtodnsM lim itation o f 2 tw o la tter w ill go to North Bend to­ randy paid. ia at the same rata par P*r cent based on the assessed valua- n igh t to represent our city schools I tion o f the stats is extended. A mess- in the county oratorical and declama­ extension o f this tory contests. I lim itation to 4 per cent w ill be sub- m itted to the voters o f Oregon at the , Ellingsen Will R n Again In the distribution o f the Southern .p ed a l election M ay 21. A t the urgent request o f ‘ friends O regon ta x fen ds th e M cK inley school Issuance o f state highw ay bonds to d istrict received $2,066.64. The peo- match any amount o f money appro- and supporters both here and on the pi# there very naturally concluded I pri*ted by the governm ent fo r road Bay side, Ed Ellingqen has decided th at w ith such a neat e g g on hand R construction in Oregon was author- to enter the race again this year fo r w m s goad tim e to build a new school « t the special session o f the leg- the republican nomination fo r sher­ house. Bo th ey a n to hold a m asting ¡stature in January. The total bonded iff. Ed was beaten fo r the M arina, tonight to talk over plans and decide indebtedness o f Oregon a t present is tion tw o years ago by a boat a dozen votes and wKh the encouragement he w h at sort at a building to erect. I $10,666,000, according to a financial County Superintendent Mulkey is go- statem ent submitted to the board has thus fa r received, feels that he la g out them to attend the m eeting. P ractically all o f this IndsbtsdnsM w ill be a few vqtes over this yeas, in­ stead o f sh ort He is the second can­ • ■ 1 1 - represents road didate to announce fo r that ofllce on the republican tic k e t I PE R H AM W IL L SPEND $30,000 M UST BE CU T $27,000.00 Ito * City Aflfcgd to Voto $25,000 for I F or the m arket road from Coos Bay north to Hauser there y et rem ains to com plete the portion fr m G lasgow ! M axine McGUvery and Fred W im er on the bay te the 2-m ile poet, and En­ went to F airview where they obtain- gin eer McCullough, o f th e State H igh ed $42.74. I A lvin N eely and Ralph Colüer went to F airview Thursday, on to M cKin- ley Friday, where th e contributioas reached $80; and then made the loag hike over the b ilis toe Dora where $19.10 was real ised. Th e A ra go team consisted o f Hopa N eal, Thereea WfUard and Teresa Clinton.' There the people had a l- ^ or before tow years. Frank Burkholder and Z. C. Strang were named M judges, and Nad 0 . K elley and Ben Currie as darks fo r the election, which w ill be held in the city hall between the hoars o f 8 a. m. and 7 p m ., A p ril 89. The follow in g Is a section o f the ordinance showing fo r what purposes e proposed $26,000 at .w ater bonds ay be used: here, it would sim ply be a n u tter o f providing m ore power. How ever, such power m ight be supplied, either b y u tilisin g the fa ll o f the river, an or- Crossing Wins the Day Fred A . W illiam s, o f the Public . Service commission, came down here W ednesday m orning accompanied by True, there are ranches along the Benjamin J. Forbes, the commission’! North Fork where stock pollute t ie Stenographer, to hold a hearing on stream te a certain extent, but run­ the righ t o f w ay eaM a t Johnson's ning w ater purifies Its e lf in a couple ( M ill. The county has laid out a road o f m iles and even in Rs natuial con­ there extending about a m ile up the dition it is better than the Dutch river, which connects w ith the Co- q u ille -lfy rtle Point road ju st w est o f John supply w e are now using. > From the quotations on iron pipe Johnson’S M ill. This necessitated a which he has, M r. Lam b estim ­ grade crossing o f the Southern Paci­ ates the east o f layin g the lin e from fic, to which the railw ay company ob­ the North Fork to the top o f the h ill jected. Hence the hearing a t which at not to exceed $18,000, although A ttorn ey Paul Fsiren s appeared in behalf o f the company, and Roadmas- It m ight also be necessary to build ter C. S. McCulloch fo r the county. a h a lf m ile o f flume from the point where the river begins a .rapid fa ll to the* point where the power machinery wduld be installed. A s it would not be expected to pump m ore than three or fou r months during the summer, the expanse o f d man te take care o f it and keep It goin g should not ex­ ceed, *at a maximum e f $180 a month, $800. The m eet logical th in g fo r the city to do in this m atter o f investigation would be fo r the council and as many citisens as desire, to form tw o pertfas, one to start from the Rink croak intake, and the other from the nearest point on the N orth Fork to the gap in the divide, and both to as­ cend the h ill and view the la y o f the And even i f R did cost m ore than Liljeqvist May Prosecute a filtration plant w e should know that A ttorn ey General Brown, who was the w ater thus secured would be in­ asked to conduct the prosecution o f com parably better than the river w a­ Harold H ow ell at his third tria l, ter at CoqaQle. | which w ill occur here next' month, said he couldn’t eom pfy with the re­ quest, but would recommend his as­ sistant, L . A . L iljeq vist, ear form er A fte r a discussion o f the ease, Mrs. Farreas withdrew his objections to the grade crossing w ith the stipula­ tions, to which the county agreed, to secure a clearer visP u o f the highway fro m the cabs of approaching en­ gines, the grade o ( the read, or road­ side should be rut aw ay, and the brush along the roadside should be cut fo r a considerable diiia nse. terday postponed until boom tim e fat June. The strongest opposition to the grant o f boom privileges asked is expected to come from the Ash hatch­ ery. A ttorn ey General Brown has asked D istrict A ttorn ey H all to look a fte r the state’s interest in that ease. Bonds are to be issued fo r either or a ll o f the follow in g purposes: a.— F ar carryin g into effect the provisions at the charter at the cR y o f Coquille relative to a w ater works b. — F or acquiring by condemnation, purchase or otherw ise,- any w ater, stream o f w ater, w ater righ ts, rights o f way, reservoir sites, dam sites, di­ vertin g points and any and a ll other (rights, land or property necessary or convenient fo r a w ater works sys­ tem within or without, or p artly w ith­ out and p artly within, the corporate lim its o f the city o f Coquille. c. — F or constructing, w holly or in part, a new w ater works system. dv— F or relocating, changing, ex­ tending or reconstructing in whole or in part, the w ater works system o f the eitV o f Coquille and fo r installing and layin g new pipe lines and w ater conduits and filters and p u rifyin g plants fo r operating and keeping the same in repair. e.— T o provide and furnish the city o f C oquille and the Inhabitants there­ o f w ith an adequate, su fleient and Wholesome supply e f w ater. Churchill Goon to Carry J. A . Churchill, ateto superinten­ dent, WM here Wednesday on his w ay to Curry county whore he w ill deliver eral addromm in behalf o f the pro- posed tw o-m ill elem entary ta x and in­ vestigate an application tor the con­ solidation o f the P ort O rfard and Langlois school districts. On his re­ turn trip he w il speak here and at Probably a On Tuesday, A p ril 27, the county court w ill hold a special m eeting at which E x-G overnor; W est w ill be sent and ask fo r the paym ent o f hie $19,886 b ill. It w il be an in ter eating occasion, if not a memorable , and quite a, gathering m ay bo anticipated. Cansa « a f i r / i f 3