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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1909)
Coquille îicntlà V o l . 2fi: N o . 31. COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, W EDNESDAY, APR IL 7, 1909. Entered as second-class matter May 8, 1905, at the postoffice at Coquille, Oregon, under act of Congress of March 3,1879. DR. RICHMOND PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office at Slocum’ s Drug Store. COQUILLK, O ukoon . Offio.i Phone Main 123. ltealdeer. 62fi. A. F. Kirshman, D bntibt . Offloe two doors South of Post ofiloe. . C oqu ille - . O regon. Dr. C. W. Endicott D en tist Office on Front Street Plione Main 431. Coquille, Oregon T TOLLMAN Photographer Residence Studio. ! E. D, SPERRY Attorney and Coancellor at Law. Office in Robinson Building W. C. CHASE. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in Robinson Building, Upstairs ! i C. R. BARROW Attorney and Counsellor at Law First-olass References Fifteen Years’ Experience C oquillk C it y , O rr z u i J. J. STANLEY LAW YER Martin Building • Front Street C o q u il l b , O beoon A. J. Sherwood, ATTOBNBT-AT-X j AW, N otaet PUBLIO, Coquille, : : Oregon Walter Sinclair, A tto bn b t - a t - L a w . N o tart P u b l ic , Coquille, : I Hall & Hall, A ttobnbtb - at L a w , Dealer in R bal E btatb o f e ll kind«. Marshfield, Oregon. ______ j ________ ______ L _ E. G. D. Holden L awyer , J ustice of the P eace 3. B. Commissioner, General Insurance Agent, and Notary Pnblio. Office in Robinson Building. Coquille regon. Theo. Bergman Shoe Mfg.Ce. In co rp o ra te d . M anu faatu rers o f The CelebratedBergmann Shoe The Strongest and Jiearest Water Proof shoe made for loggers, miners prospectors and mill men. 621 Thurman Street P o r t l a n d , O beoon . The aafe and reliable tiwn - J d »crew ® y Tlie New and Sp««.K g t* S ir. E liza b eth Capt. Olsen, Master. Will make regular trip« be* Some Suggestions About the Improvement of Our Roads. They can raise the stuff but they can’t haul it to market. Our towns need their product and they need us. Can no way be found to better these roads? Certainly there can. The commissioners have set aside a large sum for our roads and now see to it that it is properly applied. Better one mile of good road a year than ten indifferent ones. Let us all pull together, one for all and all for one. Let better roads be our slogan snd never say die until we have them. Yours for better roads, a Coquille Riv?r an-J San Francisco. Wo Btop-ower at W ay Porta. Electric Lights. Everything in First Class Style. _____________________ P . E. Drane keeps puffed rice a delicHma dish for breakfast and for »'cfc folks. NOTES OF THE BIC EXPOSITION is regarded as the highest develop ment of the glassblower’s art, ex celling^ in richness of coloring. Further Details of Plans for the A . The Tiffany exhibit is valued at Y. P. Fair. $75,000 There are very few people who Seattle, April 6.— With the stop to think of tho heavy toll farm combination of natural beauties ers pay who wagon their produce and architectural skill offered by to market by horse power. Very the A laska-Yukon-Pacific Exposi- few farmers stop to consider how j tion soon to open at Seattle, this much it costs them to haul a ton great fair of the Pacific has already one mile and from this lack of fore been pronounced the most beautiful sight we have as a result very in ever planned. And that is because different roads. Impassable dur the landscape artists have worked ing the only time that a farmer C ro w Q u il l . out so many striking designs in has idle time on his hands, the - - -------------- ~ building sunken gardens and be Huns F o r Oregon. winter months. The toll we pay cause the whole scheme for beauti to poor roade, if invested in bet Washington, April 1.— Represen fying the grounds has for a fitting ter roade, would make our roads tative Hawley today received a let background a lavish display of passable during most of the winter ter from the Secretary of the Navy, mountain, lake and woodland scen and if we would place our improve in which Secretary Meyer says: “ I ery. ments in a systematic way so that beg to acknowledge receipt of your Two years ago the campus of every dtys work was to one end, letter of the 29th inst., in which the University of Washington, that we soon could boast of good roads. you request to be informed if there is that portion of it where the ex I venture the assertion, that we are any guns from the battleship position has been built, was a for spend enough money for roads each Oregon that were condemned, and est in which man, but a few years year, which had it been applied that it may be possible for the citi before, had hunted the wild game intelligently Along one or two zens of Oregon to secure and place native to this state. Today hand main highways, we could now on the statehouse grounds at Salem. some state, county, religious, fra branch out into side roads with “ .’ a reply, I have to inform you ternal, amusement, federal and ex some show of success. I do not that there ure at Mare Island Navy- hibit buildings of every character mean to say that this money has yard two six-pounder guns, without are nestled in among the stately been spent injudiciously, with an mounts, which were on the Oregon firs. Shady walks and paths have intent to have poor roads but that during the period of the Spanish been cut through the underbrush there has been no system in the war, and which have since been con and the old skid roads are now improvements as they are made. demned for service use. If these asphalt paved thoroughtares. One need not go any farther than guns are desired by the citizens of Flowers in profusion are now to from here to Marshfield or up the Oregon for the purpose stated, I be seen on every hand and the Coquille river toward Roseburg to will be pleased to take steps, after central court of honor is one magni- see that the work has been done receipt of their formal application, ficient floral display. Thousands with a view of getting over for the to have them assigned for donation of roses cover the slopes between time being and not for future use purposes.” the drives encircling Cascade Court and permanency. Along the dug Mr, Hawley has sent the letter to and Japanese iris will succeed the ways one can see hundreds of feet Governor JBenson for his action. | roses when out of bloom. The of side hill .work where the water entire court will be framed in with from the hills has no outlet but Murder by Wholesale. rhododendrons, the Washington down the road and no cross drains The Russian police authorities state flower and cactus dahlis, of to allow the water to go under the road bed. Even where there are are investigating the career of Mme. ficial flower of the exposition, have planks, there has been very little Popova, who was arrested recently been planted among the rhododen provision for drainage and the on charges of murdering undersir- drons while flowering horse chest water runs or stands in puddles in able husbands by wholesale. She nut trees give shade to the walks. is said to have confessed to having the road bed About the geyser basin will be This year we have a large sum killed 300 men in the past 30 years, more than 500,000 English tufted set aside for road betterment and but the police think she is exagger pansies, a beautiful and delicate would it not be economy for us to ating her deeds. The authorities, plant that holds its head erect al- see to the better drainage of roads however, admit that she will prob ways facing the sun and blooms that are already built and then put ably prove the greatest murderess continuously throughout the sum mer. some of it into permanent road bed. in Russian bistory. Mme. Popova says her own un A feature of the exposition is the Above this town there has been some road built of crushed rock, happy life caused her to conceive three radiating vistas, out through which during the last winter has the idea of relieving unfortunate great stretches of fir trees to obtain stood a heavy travel and has rutted wives of cruel husbands. She claims the excellent view of the lakes and very little and that only where it to have accepted a small fee for mountains seen on every side. had no drainage. I walked over each killing and says the operations These vistas are now carpeted it during the heavy rains and have been over a large part of the with great stretches of lawn flanked on either side by walks. Roman found it in a good etate of preserva province of Astrakan. The police claim that such a benches and settees as well as tion. Also at Argo there is a stretch of road covered with a career would be impossible, as sbo electroliers have been set in place clayey gravel and it has been used would have been detected at the be along the vistas. for a number of years and ys still ginning of her operations. Exhibits of the finest specimens — Oregon. i FOR BETTER ROADS FOR COOS. * of the silversmith’s art and Tif good and it is on a flat bottom Ashland Woman Ends Life. where it has been very muddy be fany’s fragile glass will be on dis Ashland, Or., March 30.— The play at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fore the gravel was put on. Would it not be better to put up a few body of Mrs. Henry Bates was Exposition at Seattle this summer. miles of permanent way every year found in Ashland creek last night. None of the exhibits, representing than to patch up long stretches of She came to Ashland in 1906 with an expenditure of more than $225,- road that will not last during one her husband, and the couple went 000, will be on sale and the dis play will be one of the features of winter. As long as we have roads under the name of Smith. They later separated, and much the fait. in Coos County we will have mud, The exhibit of siver has has been the same as they have in our east domestic trouble is believed to have ern states. I have seen just as unsettled the woman's mind, which loaned by the Gorham Manufac turing Company, and consists of much mud in old Missouri and strengthens the sucide theory. She leaves a bright 14-year-old nine piecies, each worth a small Iowa as I have seen here and just as deep and a good deal tougher girl. The father is living at San foitune, the leading one being the celebrated Century vase manufac and they have overcome it and Francisco. tured for an exhibit at the Colum have good roids. We, too, can do During the spring every one better and I have very, little use would be benefitted by taking Fol bian exposition, and never since for a man that will sit down and ey's Kidney Remedy. It furnishes exhibited. This vase illustrates in its de not try to improve his country and a needed tonic to the kidney’ alter the extra strain of winter, and it sign the progress of a century on himself. Show me a land of poor roads purifies the blood by stimulating j the American continent, starting the kidneys, and causing them to I and I will show you a land that is eleminate the impurities from it. j from early Indian days and carry backward and where land values Foley’s Kidney Remedy imparts ing the idea through the transi and all that goes to make a land new life and vigor. Pleasant to tions of war and peace,development and progress to the civilization prosperous and its people happy is take. Furhman’ s Pharmacy. ■ —- ■ --------- and prosperity which marked the far below the average. There is Eggs lor Hatching nothing that will so soon make a from pure breed Btock. Both our closing decade of the last century. community prosperous, intelligent, (JocErols to head our pens of Brown This vase is four feet two inches contented with their lot as good and White Leghorn took 1st prize high and five feet four inches roads. One need only to go back at Oregon State Fair 1908, where across the base, is made of solid to the plains country before the more birds were on exhibition, than silver and weighs 2,000 ounces any show ever held on the coast. railroads came to see what good Have a pen of full blood White The value of the vase is not de roads can do. Just as soon as Plymouth Rocks headed by rooster termined, as the vase is not for sale, the iron horse came we began from U R Fishel, the most cele but it is insured for $35,000. Four vases accompany the to build roads. We could then brated breeder of W R in the world, smaller sell our surplus and we had to have aibo have Black Minorcas of the century vase. best atraiD, and the let pair of prize Two other pieces in the exhibit belter roads to haul our products winners Indian Runner ducks at are a lady’s desk and chair of to the markets. It is so hero. Oregon State Fair, 1908. Register Jersey cattlo and Birk-I solid silver, of ornate workmanship Could a farmer haul his apple orop The sliver from the middle fork or the east shire hogs. Write for prices or easily worth $25,000. fork of the Coquille river to this call at farm of J. G. Watson, C o -; exhibit of the Gorham Manufactur quille. I town and have marketable apples ing Company at the exposition ..... I have more inquiry for all kinds totals $150,000 in value. when he arrived here? Hardly. of lands than I can supply. Send | The Tiffany fragile exhibit ia , Last year a man used to come to my house with tomatoes and his me your lands for sale. E, H. j famous and has been much exhibit- abroad in recent years. Theglasa great complaint was, poor roads. | Kern, Coquille, Oregon. Oregon A ricultural College. $1.50 P er Y ear Everybody Bowls At the New Coquille Bowling Alley An agitation has been started with the avowed purpose of calling the referendum on the Oregon A g Now opened to the public, an d everyone can in ricultural College appropriation dulge this pleasant and healthful exercise to bill. The fribnds of the college their hearts’ content. Two perfect alleys feel that such action would be ex tremely injurious to tho college and Gilhey Building, West Side Front Street therefore injurious to the important interests of the state which are so closely allied with it. To avoid such a result it is important that the people of the state should be informed as to the real condition of A. i SHERWOOD Pres. R. E SHINE. Vise Pres affairs. I. H. HAZARD, Cashier 0. C. SANFORD, Asst. Cashier In the first place it is not the verdict of the people that is feared, but the effects of the delay which O F C O Q U ILiLiB , O R E G O N . the use of the referendum imposes. If, by the use cf the referendum, T r a n s a c ts n G e n e ra l B a n k in g B u s in e s s the people of the state could vote on this bill before the first of Julj Board of Directora. Correapondonta. of the present year, there would be R. O. Dement, A . J. Sherwood, National Bank o Commerce, New York Cit no opposition on the part of the L. Harlocker, L. H . Hazard, , Crocker Wool worth N ’l Bank, San Francise friends of the college to its exer Isaiah Hacker, R .E . Shine. First Nat’l Bank of Portland, Portland, cise. If the referendum is invoked the bill cannot be voted on until Nov ember 1910 which will mean that the buildings provided for by the appropriation would not be ready for occupancy for at least three years. The present college build ings and equipment are entirely in adequate to meet the present needs. The present attendance is over 1400 C Street Coquille, Oregon while the college library will ac commodate 108; the work in agri culture has increased nine times in two years while the room allowed for the work has only been doubled; in the past year the work in chem istry, which requires the use of laboratories, has doubled and there is no extra room available; the pres ent armory will accommodate less than one-fifth of the students re quired to take military drill, and We Carry such illustrations might be contin ued almost indefinitely if space per mitted. Add to this the fact that last year the attendance in creased 38 per ceDt and that in the past four months the number of We are headquarters fo r everything in the meat line. You letters of inquiry received from wants always receives prompt attention. farmers and citizens of the state generally has doubled, and it will give some conception of the extent to which this vital work will be B STRACTS ABSTRACTS ABSTRACTS A B ST R A C T S crippled by the delay. Moreover, the delay would make it impossible for the college to ful fill the conditions which the Feder AND al Government imposes as prerequis ites to the enjoyment of its bounty. The state would be forced to break Marshfield and Coquille, Oregon. faitb with the Federal Government which has offered many thousands We have completed a thorough, up-to-date of dollars to aid in the educational A b stra ct P lan t. and experimental work which is tc be done in this state during the We are now ready to furnish correct ABSTRACTS at short next two years. notice, and orders will receive careful and prompt attention. It is for these reasons, the sigui- ficatance of which cannot be fully Marshfield office adjoins Flanagan & Bennett Bank realized until the conditions at the Coquille “ " Coquille Post Office. college are personally investigated, MARSHFIELD PHONE, 143. that the friends of the Oregon Ag COQUILLE PHONE, 191. ricultural College urge that the peo Phone at our expense when ordering ABSTRACTS. ple of the State consider well be TITLE GUARANTEE & ABSTRACT CO., fore calling the referedum. J. S. Barton, Abstractor. Henry Sengstacken, Manager. R . D. H iz e l , ABSTRACTS A BSTRACTS A B STRA CTS Oregon Agricultural College. Osmundson & McClendon, Proprietors. F ÍR S T N A T IO N A L B A N K A. P. MILLER, Stationery, Fruits, Cigars, To bacco, Confectionery. piONEER ME0T MAIftET Lard, Hams, Bacon, Sausage, Fresh and Salt Meats. COQUILLE V A L L E Y PACKING CO. TITLE GUARANTEE ABSTRACT COMPANY For Sale. E. S. DEAN G. R. HENSLEY Two or three nice new bungalow in beautiful locations. Inquire at the H erald office. ---- «»► «------- Foley’s Honey and Tar is a safe guard against serious results from spring colds, which inflame the lungs and develop into pneumonia. Avoid counterfeits by insisting up on having the genuine Foley’s Hon ey and Tar, which contains no harmful drug. Furhman's Phar macy. The People’s Market DEAN & lTEMSLEY PROPS. We wish to announce to the public that we carry nothing but strictly first-class meats. Everything that is found in an up- to-date market. Courteous treatment. Front Street, Coquille. CALL ON D. L. Perkins and inspect the largest and most handsome line of Gents’ Furnish ing Goods in the City. The Newest and most handsome thing in the City in BOOTS AND SHOES 22* Rouse’s Coal The Best Coal in Coos county Leave Orders W ith W m . Oddy PhoneiMain 295