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COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, W E D N E S D A Y , FEBRUARY
V ol . 27: No. 22.
Entered as second-class matter May
8, 1905, at the postoffice at Coquille,
Oreaon, under act of Congress of March
3,1879.
DR. RICHMOND
CITIZENS AND
COUNCIL MEET
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Hold an Enthusiastic Meeting at the
City Hall Thursday—Councilmen
Office at Slocum’B Drug Store.
Transact Usual Business.
C o q u i l l e , O r e g on .
Office Phone Main 211.
TO MOVE R. R. FROM FRONT S T
Session
A. F. Kir8hman,
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Spirited
on«— Business
Men
State Proposition— Another Meeting to
D entist .
be Called Soon-
Office two door» South o f Po«t offloe.
Coquille ,
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Dr. C. W. Endicott
D e n tist
Office on Front Street
Phone Main 431.
Coquille, Oregon
E. D. SPERRY
Attorney and Coancellor at Law.
Offloe in Robinson Building
IV. C . CHASE,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offio in Robinson Bnilding, Upstairs
C. R. BARROW
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
First class References
Fifteen Years* Experience
C oquill * C it y , O b i
J. J. STANLEY
LAWYER
Martin Building
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A. J, Sherwood,
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N o t a r y P o b l io ,
Coquille,
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Walter Sinclair,
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N otary P ublio ,
Coquille,
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Hall & Hall,
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Dealer in R e a l E stât » o f all kind».
Marshfield, Oregon.
E. G. D. Holden
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J UPTICK OF THR P e AGI
U. 8. Commissioner, General
Insurance
Agent, and Notary P oblio.
Office
in Robinson Bnilding.
Coquille
Oregon.
M . E. WHITMORE. E. F. MOKRIS8Y
Coos
Bay Paving and Con­
struction Company.
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
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Contractor.
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Office» 117 Front Street, Marshfield Ore.
Incorporated.
Manufacturers of
The Celebrated Beramann Shoe
A special meetii-Jt ot the town
board was held on Thursday night
of last week, and which wa< attend­
ed by some forty visitors.
The meeting was called to order
by Mayor Hawkins, and the min­
utes of some previous meetings were
read, corrected and approved. Next
a franchise, granted the Coquille
Mill and Mercantile Co. last June,
granting them the right to erect
electric light poles, wires, etc., on
the streets of this city, was taken up
and all conditions therein named
were declared to be null and void,
as a clause in said franchise speci­
fied certain work which was to bare
been commenced within ninety days
from that time, and which had not
beea begun.
An ordineDce was then proposed
which provides for the protection of
electrioal appliances belonging to
the city, the electric Co. and others.
The ordinance was adopted and
ia in effect at the present time.
It
reads as follows:
An ordinaoca prescribing a pun­
ishment for tbe unlawful interfer­
ence with, or the destruction of an
electric light wire or lamp within
the City of Coquille, Oregon, and
declaring an emergency.
The people of the City of Coquille
do ordain as follows:
Bee. 1. That it shall be unlaw­
ful for any person, without authori­
ty, to displace, remove, injure, inter­
fere with, alter or destroy any law­
fully constructed line or lines, or
wire or cable, or material, property
or apparatus belonging or apper­
taining thereto, used for conducting
or transmitting electricity for any
purpose whatever, or cuts, breaks,
taps or makes connection with any
such line or lines of wire or cable,
or material, property or apparatus,
or breaks, injures, interferes with,
alters or destroys any aro or incan­
descent lamp, or its appertenances,
or any lamp used for lighting any
street, road or public or private
place within the City of Coquille.
Section 2. Any person violating
any o f the provisions of this ordi­
nance shall, upon conviction thereof
before the the City Recorder.be pun­
ished by a fine oi not less than $5.00,
and upon his failure to pav such
fine, such person shall be impris­
oned in the city jail one day for
each two dollars of such fine.
Sec. 8. That, whereas, several
street lamps have been destroyed
by peasons striking them with hard
substances, aDd, whereas the con­
ditions are such that for the imme­
diate preservation of the public
peace, safety and health of the in­
habitants of the City of Coquille, an
emergency is hereby declared to ex­
ist, and this ordinance shall take ef­
fect and be in full force and effect
from and after its approval by the
Mayor.
Adopted by the common council
of the City of Cequille, this 3rd day
of February, 1910.
Attest:
A. W. K elley ,
City Recorder.
Approved February 3rd, 1910.
M. O. H
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The Strongest and Nearest Water
Mayor.
Proof shoe made for loggera, miners
prospectors and mill men.
A statement from the fire depart­
621 Thurman Street
ment was then presented to the ef­
P o r t l a n d , O regon ,
fect that the fire company bad elect­
ed A. W. Morrison as ohief of the
R e a so n E n th ro n e «!
fire department, and bis election was
Because meats are so tasty they confirmed by the city council.
are consumed in great excess. This
A petition for a light at the east
leads to stomach trouble, bilious­ end o f First street was presented,
ness and constipation. Revise your and after due consideration was
diet, let reason and not a pampered turned over to the light committee,
appetite control, then lake a fe w 1 giving them authority to act in the
doses of Chamberlain's Stomach matter.
and Liver Tablets and you will soon
An ordinance providing for the
be well again.
Try it.
For sale protection of city water was also
at R. S. Knowlton’s Drug Store. presented and considered, but was
Sample free.
referred back to the committee for
some slight alterations before be­
ing adopted.
Some other business of minor
importance was talked over in an
informal way, and postponed.
Then the real object of the meet­
ing was taken up, which is a move
now on foot to move the railroad
track from Front street, and put it
along the water front
Many of the Front street busi­
ness men were present as well as
L. A. Whereat, a representative of
the railioad company, beside a large
number of our citizens. J. A. Coll­
ier brought in his proposition in
which be proposed to give a strip
of land near the river and a site for
a depot and warehouse in trade for
the strip where the railroad now
crosses his place, and tbe sight of
the present depot.
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The business men made their
proposition clear, which is to say(
they were willing to pay the dam­
ages for a right of way along the
water front, so there would be no
tax levied on the abutting property
the owners of which have formed
an organization for the purpose of
bringing about the removal of said
railraad (rack, and have signed an
agreement to the effect that each
pay bis share according to tbe
number of feet of land be owns
which abuts upon the railroad right
of way affected by this change.
Several of tne council stated that
they were willing to grant a right
of way as soon as one could be
agreed upon which would not in­
terfere in any wav with the roadway
leading from Front street to the
city's wharf.
A committee was ap­
pointed to meet a committee from
the business men and come to some
understanding as to what could be
done, and report at the next regu­
lar meeting of the council, which
convened Monday evening.
There being no further busicess
the meeting was adjourned.
MONDAY EVENING’ S SESSION.
BASKET B A L L
AT BANDON.
Game Witnessed by a Large and En.
thusiastic Crowd C. H. S. Boys
Win by Score of 4 to 12.
STEAMER CHARTERED FOR TRIP
Large Crowd Also Witness Game Flayed Be­
tween two G irl Teams— Something Do­
ing all the Time.
The steamer Favorite left Co­
quille shortly after four o ’clock on
Friday afternoon with a merry
crowd of high school pupils and
their friends.
After a joyous ride
down the Coquille they landed at
Bandon about 6:30.
At 8:30 the
game was called, and an excit­
ing half hour ensued.
In the first half of the game Ban­
don was given seven chances to
throw baskets from the foul line,
but Gallier seemed too much excited
to throw baskets, only making one
out of the seven chances. Coquille
only bad two chances to make bas­
kets from the foul line aDd Gardi­
ner
made good of both which,
with the two baskets made from tbe
field, made the score 6 to 1 at the
end of the first half.
Then there was a short intermis­
sion, during which two girl teams
of the Bandon school played a live­
ly game.
In the second half Gallier got
his nerves settled and did better
work, but it was too late. Although
Coquille did not make so many
fouls in the last half, Irvin Custer,
Coquille's center, did himself proud
by throwing three baskets from the
field. Gardiner also threw a bas­
ket from the field and three more
from the foul line. It was thought
that he might not be able to play,
having been sick the day before
the game, but he gingered up at the
Inst moment and played good, fash
clean ball.
Marion CuBter and
Melvin Kern showed up much bet­
ter than they have in any of the
privious games, for while they bad
no opportunities to make grand­
stand plays, and showed no desire
to do so, they worked hard all the
time and showed good team work
in making opportunities for the
others. Owen Knowlton got around
so fast that one would have thought
be had a twin brother in the game,
as it seemed that he was to be seen
in more places than one at the same
time. In the last half of the game
the ball was not in Bandon’send of
the hall 5 minutes all together. This
was principally due to the tact that
Kuowlton had bis opponent out
classed. When the ball would drift
down that way be would send it
back before any of the Bandon boys
could get near him.
Among the Bandon boys there
seemed to be more oxcitement than
play in the first half, and having tbe
odds against them, they lost cour­
age and did not play up to their
standard.
Ray Watkins showed
the fastest work of aoy of them.
He moved fast and used good
judgment, but be did not have the
support.
Bandon also played in
hard luck, as they would often
throw for the basket and tbe ball
would roll around on the hoop and
fall on the outside.
After the game the boys got their
supper and the boat started for
home. They all seemed happy and
sang their old high school songs
until their voices failed them.
The two teams parted on friendly
terms after exchanging penants and
congratulations. The Coqnille boys
seem vtr) proud over their little
victory, and have much more confi­
dence in themselves than they have
had before, and hope to defeat
Myrtle Point in their first game
with them.
On Monday evening the City
Council was called to order by May­
or Hawkins and after the roll call
and the reading and approval of
the minutes of the special meeting
held Friday night, the following
business was transacted:
Mr. Kern, the city engi neer, re­
ported that some of the original
lines of tbe old plat were hard to
distinguish,a number of the old cor­
ners being bard to find, and the
old survey pot being correct. Some
time in tbe near future there will be
a resurvey o f the old plat, but it
was postponed for the present.
A report from the water commit­
tee concerning an application filed
by J. C. Watson for city water, will
result íd a 2-inch pipe being laid to
the north boundry lice of the in­
corporation.
The light committee reported, and
a light will be placed near the cor­
ner of Mr. Candlin’s property at
the east end of First street.
There was an ordinance passed
repealing aD ordinance giving the
Coquille Mill & Mercantile Co. cer­
tain rights nnd privileges, which
was mentioned in tbe proceedings
of Friday night’s meeting.
Several bills were brought in
which were read, thoroughly invest­
igated and ordered paid, excepting
one in which the statement was not
made out íd proper form.
J. A. Collier presented a propo­
sition to sell to the city the land ly­
ing between tbe railroad and tbe
river from the city’ s wharf to Ferry
street, which proposition was refer­
red to the railroad committee for
investigation.
There were other
matters of lesser moment talked
over without definite action, after
which the meeting adjourned.
In behalf of the city council we
wish to state that in tbe past there
have been various remarks made as
to what goes with the city’s money,
which are o f an insinuativo nature.
'If those who are constantly asking
that question will attend a few meet­
ings of the council, look over the
bills that accumulate in a few weeks,
and see how thoroughly they are
investigated, and notice wbat an in­
terest is taken in how every dollar
of tbe city’ s funds are expended,
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they can’t doubt that tbe council
NOTICE
are doing their duty to the best of
their ability.
Furthermore, the
City Recorder's books are kept very
All Coos County warrants drawn
accurately, and by applying to him on tbe general fund and endorsed
hs will show you what becomes of prior to July 1st, 1908, will be
every cent that comes into the city’ s paid on presentation at my office in
treasury.
Many people envy tbe j Coquille, Oreg. No interest will be
city dads, but you must bear in allowed ou any of these warrants
mind that there is no salary in con­ after December 10th, 1909.
nection with this office. All they are | Dated this 7th day of Dec. 1909.
supposed to get are honors, and they ,
T. M. D im m ick ,
get more curses and abuse than that. '
County Treasurer.
$1.50 P er Y ear
9, 1910.
The Margaret Ilea Company
On Saturday night the lies Co
presented the four-act play of the
South, “ Down in Dixie,” which is
one of the best in their repertoir.
This play comes the nearest giving
each member of the company an
equal chance to show his or her
talent of aDy that they have played
here up to this time.
There were
no characters who dropped in for
just a few words now and then, but
all* had strong parts which kept
them on tbe stage a good part of
tbe time.
This play requires a person who
can immitate a German exceedingly
well, to take the part of Baron
Franz Victor Hohenstouffen, and
Mr. E. H. Mead proved himself
equal to the emergency. This char­
acter provides the greater part of
the comedy throughout the play.
The part of Martha Boland, play­
ed by Ionella Robbins, while not as
long as some of the others, was
about as difficult to handle as aDy
in tbe cast, but she did it justice
in eyery sense of the word. While
she seemed to work without an ef­
fort, she put the feeliDg into her
words and actions which seemed to
hold the audience.
Edson Elliott, in tbe part of
Marshall Boner, we must say, while
be always seems equal to the occa­
sion, made a better appearance Sat­
urday Dight than he has heretofore.
This, however, is perfectly Datural,
as Mr. Elliott is a youmg man of
but a few years’ experience in this
work, but is improving rapidly, and
it is plainly to be seen that he has
a great future before him in tbe
theatrical sphere.
Mr. Elliott is a
young man of temperate habits, but
last Saturday night be played tbe
part of a drunk man in a manner
that would do credit to a booze
fighter of many veara’ experience.
Again Hubert Addison took the
black faced part which seems to be
in bis line. It seems almost super­
natural for 14-year-old boy to carry
this part out in such a pleasing man­
ner.
He shows no signs of self-
consciousness, and goes through his
part as though at a rehearsal.
Helen Harvey, Jas. Thompson
R. J. Haley were ready for their
cues throughout the play, and gave
the full effect which the writer in­
tended them to have.
Miss lies played the part of Miss
Flora May Randolph very graceful
ly and effectively, making very neat
appearances throughout the differ­
ent acts in tasty selections from her
beautiful and extensive wardrobe,
which were in keeping with her
sweet smiles and the clear tones of
her musical voice, which it is need­
less to say win the affections and
admiration of all who attend the
performances of this company.
Baby Thom sang a quaint little
Dutch song between the first and
second acts which was one of the
principal features of the evening.
She baa a Dice part in the “ Two
Sisters” which they will play here
next Saturday night.
This is a
good play and you can not afford
to miss it
Music by Gage's or­
chestra.
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A Good Man Gone.
County Judge J. O. Booth, of Jo­
sephine county departed this life at
Grants Pass last Wednesday, Feb­
ruary 2nd, after a brief illness. Mr.
Booth was an early pioneer, having
come to this state in company with
his father in the early fifties.
He
came of a moat highly respected
family, noted for rare ability aDd
Lard,
eubstantial achievements.
He ie
survived by his father, who is a
Hams,
minister of the gospel.
He is also
We Carry
Bacon,
survived by three brothers, one of
whom is also a minister, while the
Sausage,
other two are distinguished and in­
fluential citizens.
Fresh and Salt Meats.
Judge Booth held his first office
in Douglas county at the ago of We are headquarters for everything in the meat line.
Your
21 years, that of school superin­
wants always receiues prompt attention.
tendent, after which he moved to
Grants Pass, where he has resided
for the past twenty years. He serv­
ed as county judge of that oounty
for four years, and was one of the
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commissioners to the Seattle fair.
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I. H. HAZARD, Cuiller
In politics he was a staunch Demo­
crat, and was a national delegate to
the convention which nominated W.
J. Bryan to the presidency in 1900,
and rendered splendid service to
o p C O Q U Ib b H , O R B O O fl,
Bryan’s cause in all his campaigns.
Judge Booth, as a business man,
wan highly successful and managed 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
well. He wa» well known and had
many friends throughout the state
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