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Colmile ïlcr&là COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, W E D N E S D A Y , AU G U ST 4, 1909. 20: No. 47. V ol . Entered mb second-class matter May 8, 1905, at the postoffice at Coquille, Oregon, under act of Congress of March 3,1879. DR. R. S. DeArmond PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office at Slocum’ s Drug Store. OOHUIU.E, O hkgon . Offlo. Pbone Main 211. n ~ i A. F. Kirshman, D entist . Office two doors South of Post office. Coquille . - . Oregon. _______ I I Dr. C. IV. Endicott D ev tibt Office on Front Street Phone Main 431. Coquille, Oregon T O L L M A N Photographer Residence Studio. E. D, SPERRY Attorney and Connoellor at Law. Office in Robinson Building 1 V. C. CHASE, ATTORN EY-AT-li AW Olilo in Robinson Haildiag, Upstairs C. R. BARROIA/ Attorney and Counsellor at Law First class References Fifteen Years’ Experience C oquille C ity , O kk J. J. STANLEY LAW YER Martin Building • Front Street CoQUILI.H, O b ROON A. J. Sherwood, A t t o b n k y - a t - L a w , N o t ab y P u b l i o , Coquille, : : Oregon Walter Sinclair, A tto bn k y - àt - L a w . N otary P u b l ic , Coquille, : : Oregon. Hall & Hall, Our S ch ool M eeting More about our late school meeting, and the necessity of ample playground for the children. Ever since the or ganization of the “ Playground As sociation of America” three years ago, this matter has received au impetus that will be surprising to those who have gtven the matter little or no attention. Probably few of us know that over fifty mil lion dollars have been spent for this kind of work for the school children of this country. Those who criti cised the prices at which the vari ous tracts were offered to the school district, evidently had not com pared these prices with the price they paid twelve years aeo, wheu they paid a thousand dollars for the old cemetery block. The value of lots is at least three to four times as high now as it was then, and the price of lots is at least twice as high now as it was only three years ago. The truth of the matter is, that they paid a great deal more lor that block twelve years ago, in proportion to what other land was selling for, than any o f tracts are held at, which are offered to the school district now. And this mat ter of price was sprung at this time simply to detract the minds of the people from the real issue, thinking no doubt that they had forgotten what was paid for the old cemetery block. The moving spirit, and the purpose back of the whole thing, however, is to prevent three-lourths of the district from having or ob taining a school pudding in their territory. Three-fourths o f this dis trict lies north and west o f the big gulch, and three-fourths of the peo- ble will soon live there; and in les- than five years four-filths of tile people will live there. But it is evident that three or lour “ silk stockings” are determined that the major portion of the school dis trict shall not have a school build ing placed any where, near where it will accomodate the majority of the people of the district. It sim ply resolves itself into a proposition of three or lour ‘ silk stockings” against a large majority of the ‘common people” . And the “ silk stockings” seem to think that the ormnon people have no rights that they need respect. They always hive run thing their own way, an 1 they seem imbued with the old, mythical idea that they alone are endowed with the "divine right of Kings.” it is simply a repetition of aneient and universal history of the “ few” irampling upon the rights of the many. The old kingly idea that the “ commou people” are simply ‘,mud sills” for the “ few” to wipe their feet upou. E ditor H krald . Equal rights and equal justice for all. should he the motto of every mail. I repeat this,—equal rights Dealei in R e a l E st a t e o f all kinds. and equal justice for all, should he Marshfield, Oregon. the motto of every man. And ninety-five per cent o f the people believe in this motto, and in the E. G. D. Holden rule of the majority, and will live L aw ykr , up to this rule and to this motto. J u s t ic e or t h e P e ace J. 8. Commissioner, General Insurance Every man should remember that Agent, and Notary Publio. Office his rights end where his duties be in Robinson Building. gin. But in every community you Coquille regon. will find men who have milked the public for years, hut they never re turn even a small portion o f the List Your Property With skimmed milk, unless forced to do so. They have grown rich, fat and STUTSMAN & COMPANY sleek off o f the public patronage REAL ESTATE and support. The public patronage Office Front St., Opp. Hotel Coquille has made them what they are and CLAUD STUTSMAN, Mgr. all they are. And, but for this pub COQUILLE, - OREGON lic patronage and support, they would be as poor and as ordinary as the rest of we “common people’’. But now. by virtue o f this public patronage and support they have Incorporated. waxed rich, purse-proud, and "even Manufacturers o f blue-blooded” . Yea verily! And The Celebrated Bergmann Shoe remember, ye “ common people” The Strongest and Nearest Water that now, th ;y know ye not! Neith Proof shoe made for loggers, miner- er have ye any rights that they prospectors and mill men. need respect! Ye are of the earth, 621 Thurman Street earthvl A t t o b n k t s - at L aw , Theo. BerpaD Shoe Mfe.Co. P ortland . O regon . “ For twenty years I suffered om a bad case of granulated sore yes, says Martin Boyd of Henriet- », Ky. "In February, 1903 , a entleman asked me to try Cham- erlain’ s Salve. I bought one box nd used aqout two,thirds of it and ly eyes have not given me any louble since ” This salve is for ale by R. S. Knowlton. ground while being educated; they lose sight of the’ importance of answer, hence ye scum o f the earth, these things, and when any e x in so far as we are concerned your pense is proposed for the education children have no need of either a of the children, we begin to kick. play ground or o f an education. We do not stop then, to think of They can go to the money we are fooling away on That is, unless we cauforce the things that are really of no value to the whole thing to be placed iu and us, or that are merely a passing around us and our holdings, for we pleasure and give no return, or are the whole cheese, while ye are worse yet, an evil return. Next week we will take up the only the whey. Yea verily! We matter ot school playgrounds, show know ye not! The cost o f putchasing school ing something of w hat is being grounds is a matter that every one done along that line iu this country has thought about, and it is one a nd in Europe. C. R. B arrow . ot the things that some kicked about at the late school meeting, Oregon C a ves R eserv ed . though not one ot the kickers gave any figures as to what the cost The president has signed a proc would be to the individual tax-pay lamation whereby one square er, and more than likely not a half mile of land surrounding the en dozen persons have figured it out, trance to the famous Oregon caves, or given it any careful attention, or "Marble Halls of Josephioe Now this is a matter that the direc County,” is reserved from any form tors have figured upon, having first of disposition and set aside as a obtained from the assessor the national monument. amount of the taxable property in These wonderful caves are locat the district. And to purchase any ed within Siskiyou Is national for- of the tiacts offered would cost the I est, about 30 miles south of Grants tax-payors from fifty cents to ten or I p#ss Qr fa Cave mountaing, fifteen dollars apiece; depending I which is one of the peaks of the upon the amount of their taxable Grayback range. The mountain property, and they would have lises to an elevation of about 6,000 three years time in which to pay it. feet. The main openings of the Even taking it at the larger caves are at an elevation of about sum what does it amount to, when 4,000 feet. The entire mountain divided into three payments, say side for five or six miles shows from three to five dollars each caverns of various sizes, and it is year? While the smaller tax-pay- beHeved , llat the iulerior is honey ers would not have half that combed with caverns like those much to pay, many of them not which have already been explored. a third as much. The caves were discovered in There is not a town in the State, 1864 by Elija Davidson while bear people are hunting. As far as known they better to give to any worthy pur- have never been carefully explored. pose than they are here. Yon go They appear to be made up ot a around with a subscription paper series of galleries rather thau roomy- for fixing roads, streets, side walks, caverns, although many beautiful or to assist some person in need rooms have been discovered. There and the people generally will give are thousands of passageways lead from five to twenty-five dollars, ing in all directions, many of which and give it gladly and willingly. are partly closed by stalactites. This town has a splendid class of Small streams are found at different people in this respect. Yet at the elevations, ane large bodies ot run- same time, if you ask for half that nitig water can be heard in pit, much for the school children, and bottoms of which have not yet been give them three years even to pay discovered. It is thought this run it in, but call it a tax, a few of these ning water accounts for the cur people who are most liberal in rents of wind which in some of the other things, begin to kick about galleries blow so hard as to extin the tax. While if you were to go guish au open light. to them with a subscription paper The lime deposits take many and ask them for a subsetiption ol beautiful forms; massive pillars, twenty-five dollars, payable in delicate stalactites of alabaster white three equal annual payments, for ness from the points of which sus the school children, they would pend the crystal drop water carry most likely give it very readily, just j ing its minute deposit of lime from so you did not call it a tax. As if which they are formed, and broad thsre was any real difference in the sheets resembling drapery with name you call it, when the amount graceful curves and waves that and the purpose are the same. seem to have been made by vary 1 presume, where the In all probability any o f us spend from ten to twenty-five dollars every year for little, foolish things that are of no value to us what ever; and even may be injurious to us. In many instances we would be better off. not only financially, but socially, morally, physically and intelectually if we did not so spend the money, but we never stop to think of the money we are wasting, much less to kick about it. ing currents of wind. Many beautiful aud valuable specimens have been broken off and carried away bo visitors. The act under which the monu ment was established makes it an offense, punishable by fine or im- ptisonmeut, or both, to appropri ate, excavate, injure or destroy any objects which posses h.storic or scientific interest. For the present ths monument Another thing, we will spend will be under the control and sup hundreds and thousands of dollars ervision of Forest Supervisor M. J. for fine stock of all kinds, cattle, Anderson, of Grants Pass. sheep, horses, mules, and even T each ers’ Institute. chickens, cats, and dogs. Nothing but the highest grade or the The Annual Teachers’ Institute best breed will satisfy us. Then for the year 1909, will be held in we build the finest of barns and the school house in Coquille, Aug houses to keep them in, but when ust 17-19, 1909. Ai rangements are perfected for it comes to paying for good school buildings and playgroundsjjfor the the most successful institute ever held in the county. The outside school children, which is the great help and local assistance will be of est, the noblest, and the highest Ihe very best. Every department duty we owe either to man, to the of school work will receive due at state, or to God! Then we begin tention. Very Respectfully, to kick about the cost, the tax. We W. H. B unch , say, “ O! they don't need any play County Superintendent. ground f The school buildings are ------------ m «»» * ■ ---- good enough! The children can T ea ch ers’ E xam ination. get glong with what they have.” Yet, in the whole realm of human Notice is hereby given that the responsibility there is no other ob. regulnr semi-annual examination of ligation as binding or as important applicants for state and countv and essential as the proper training lepers will be held by the exarain. and education of the children o f in»' board of Coos county, Oregon, at the court bouse, beginning at 9 this country* from whom must a. ni. Wednesday, August 11, 1909, come the legislators, the states j and continuing three days. Di'ted this 12th day o f July, 1909. man, and the business men of the ' future. And these men to succeed | B. B unch , must be men o f culture, and men " County Huperinten en True that ye have made them what they are by your patronage, but when you go to them pleasant ly, kindly, yea even beggingly, and ask them for a little, even a very little o f the skimmed milk they ob probity off, Reg istere.l Durork Jersey pigs, tained from you, with which to whose integrity aud purchase good school grounds for oharacter is, like Caesar’ s wife, ,j,e kjn 4 that fatten on clover, for j sale by j ' D Ca-1, Myrtle Point, your children, in order that they above suspicion, may have decent ar»d ample play It seems however, that many f,Or. Pho.ne 101. P ortland and C oos Bay. The next meeting of the Oregon- Idaho Development league occurs on August 20 and 21 at Coos Bay. Portland business men and com mercial organizations should see to it that a large delegation of rep resentative business men of this city attend that meeting. People of Portland are not taking enough interest in these development league meetings and the projects theiein discussed. Through these assem blies o f wideawake, enterprising, progressive and in many instances individually disinterested and self- sacrificing men great things will be achieved for Oregon and Idaho within the next few years. There will be far more irrigation, more scientific and profitable culture, more people located satisfactorily on small tracts of land, more pro ducts gaining a big reputation for Oregon, more electric lines of rail way and probably a railroad from Coos Bay to Boise City, to form a part of another transcontinental line. All these tnmgs the business men and capitalists o f Portland ought to take a lively interest in and help. Everything done in this direction anywhere in the two states, or in a large part of Washington as well, is “ water on Portland’s wheel.” A big meeting was held here awhile ago to inaugurate a campaign for “ 500,000 in Portland in 1912 .” But to accomplish this result, or anything like it, all parts of the great country tributary in whole or in part to this metropolis must develop rapidly, must fill up with people, must increase their products must double their business. Port land will only grow as the Oregon country grows. Portland people have been too self-centered; they should look abroad more, over all parts of this vast splendid region, and take more interest in them. At the recent meetings of devel opment leagues at Boise, Vale, Burns and other places, few Port land people were present. They were conspicuous by their absence. Iu proportion to its population, wealth and interests at stake, it was the most poorly represented town in the state. This should be better ed, and there is no better place to begin a better record than at Coos Bay. $1.50 P er Y e a r COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS same 1909 Term of Mid Court' as tl,B appear in the Journals of Synopsis of the Proceedings of the said Court now in my office and custody. County Court, at the July, Witness my hand and the seal of the County Court affixed this 30tli 1909 Adjourned Term. day of July, A. D. 1909. In Be Roads and Bridges. J ames W atson Bradon & Hartley, con County Clerk tract work, R D No. Salem B o y Hau W ireless. 18 special.................... 258 00 Stemmier A Minard, con Earl R Simpson, of 457 South tract work, R D No. Seventeenth street, of this city, has 26 special.................... 300 00 just ; completed a modern Wireless \V C Lungren, opening Telegraph station. Mr. Simpson Shutter Landing north built his instruments at odd times Slough R oa d ............ 177 00 during the past six months and as Alex Hall, 2 registers a result has one of the best equipp East Marshfield Ferry ed machines in the west. Transit......................... 22 40 Mr. Simpson’s apparatus includes In Re Miscellaneous everything necessary for the suc Dennis McCarthy, cruis cessful operation of a wireless plant ing 23, 193 acres of and is tuned at the present time to timber land.............. 1376 58 send or receive messages for a dis J F Fouts, 6 tier of tance of 100 miles. His plant rep w ood............................ 10 50 resents an outlay of $50 and liis State of Oregon, ) County of Coos, j 88 labor, which if purchased outright would have cost $ 500 . I, James Watson, County Clerk for Coos County, and State of Ore- goD, ex-officio Clerk of the County and State, custodian of the records, archives and files of said County, do hereby certify that the forego ing is & true and correct statement of the amount of bills of expense, in whose favor allowed, continued and not allowed, on the various funds of the County, as audited by the County Court of said Couuty and State, at the adjourned July There are eight wireless stations in the city which are owned and operated by young men interested the study of sending messages through the air. The machines in most cases were manufactured by the boys themselves and show great ingenuity on the part of the youth ful inventors. Tczier’s Celebrated Loggi r Shoes have won popularity with the woods boys. E. L. Tozier maker, Coquille. ÎSSS8SSS 1 i Schroeder w. H. Jeweler FR0N1 STREET, ! COQUILLE ORE. W e carry a good line of W altham, Elgin, South Bend and Howard Watch es. Before purchasing a watch else where call aud examine our stock and get pries. W e guarantee our prices to be as reasonable as any. PIONEER ÄlEflT MARKET The Coos Bay country is well worth Portland's attention. It is a region of maguificieut resources. Marshfield aud North Bend togeth Lard, er will in a few years make a city Hams, half as big as Portland. And don’ t imagine that Portland will lose We Carry Bacon, anything by encouraging develop ment there. That splendid region Sausage, and this city will grow and Fresh and Salt Meats. develop together. Both are parts of Oregon. They should sympath Your etically co- operate. What helps one We are headquarters for euerything in the meat line, wonts always receiues prompt attention. will help the other. There will be in the near future not only one rail road but two or more into that re gion. Its wealth o f timber, coal, dairy farming and fruit lands is im mense. It ought to be Iriendly to Portland, and is, it Portland wiil show due and timely friendship for it. And the Coquille region is of Oils, cleans and looks after his ponderous scarcely less importance and in locomotive every few hours. In the little deli terest. cate watch there are wheels which make more There ougtit to be a big, hearty, revolutions than those of the fastest train and enthusiastic, sincere delegation of do it day after day. Is it not reasonable Portland people to Coos Bay on that these little wheels should be attended to this occasion. Broaden out. Look far around; in all directions, over occasionally. Let us do your work for you. this great “ empire,” of which Port- and is and can be more and more the metropolis and mart. Go over to Coos Bay. It will do that region good. It will do that region good. It will do the visitors and Portland op C O g U I l i l i H , O R E G O N . more good. It will enlarge their opportunities. It will make new T r a n s a c t s a G e n e r a l B a n k i n g B u s i n e s s and strengthen old friendships and business relations. Make the peo Correspondent!. Board af Director». ple o f that region know that Port R, O. Dement, National Bank o Commerce, New York Cit A. J. Sherwood, Crocker Wool worth N’l Bank, San Francis« L. H. Hazard, land is alive and is interested in L. Harlocker, R.E. Shine. First'NatT Bank of Portland, Portland. Isaiah Hacker, them. COQUILLE V A LLEY PACKING CO. Our Friend, Tlje Engineer A L L W ORK G U AR AN TEED B. C. BARKER & CO ««•* - Mr. A. Robinson of Drumquin, Ontario, has been troubled for years with indigestion, and recommends Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets as “ the best medicine I ever used.” i f troubled with indiges tion or constipation give them a trial. They are certain to prove beneficial. They aie easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price, 25 cents. Samples free at R. S. Knowl- ton’s drug store.