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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1910)
formile îlcntlà \ 28: No 7 öl . Entered ¡ ih hhcoik I-H ahh matter May 8, 1005, at the poatoffice at Coquille, Cfreuon, under act of Congress of Man li S, 1870. COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, W E D N E S D A Y , OCTOBER 2G, 1910 PROTECTION FOR THE DR. RICHMOND PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office over Rose's Store, Front St.. C o su ille , O regon . Office Pbone Main 211. I Dr. C. J V. Endicott D kntibt Office over First National Bank Phone Main 431. t/oquKle, Oregon E. D, SPERRY Attorney an<l Connoellor at Law. Oftioe in Kobinson Building IV. C. CHASE, attorney - at - law Offlo in Robinson Building, Upstairs C. R. BARR0V\/ Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office Phone 335 Main Residence Phone 346 Main C oquill * C it y , O r * i J. J. STANLEY LAW YER Martin Building • Front Str.e O b B O O N C oQ U IL L H , A. J. Sherwood, A tto r n k t -* t - L a w , NOTiBT POBLIO, Coquille, : : Oregon Walter Sinclair, A ttounkt 11-L iW , N o ià r t Coquille, Pernio, : : Oregon. Hall & Hall, A ttobneyb - at L a w , Dealer in R ea l E st â t » o f all kinds. Marshfield, Oregon. E. G. D. Holden L a w yk b , J ustice of the P eace 8. Commissioner, General Insurance Agent, and Notary Public. Office in Robinson Building. Coquille W ickham Oregon. House EMPOYE A Bill for the Protection of Laborers in Hazardous Employ, ment. This is the call of the|plain people to the plain people for relief. Ore gon is making a name for itself as the best home for the immigrant lie- cause of its political reforms and the powers wbicn the people have taken into their own bands, and yet Oregon stands backward and almost alone in her failure to recognize that the injury or death of a work man is as mutch a part of the con duct of the business as the bursting of a boiler or breakage ef the ma chinery and to prevent the death or injury of the workman Bhould be as much a part of the business as the protection of machinery or replac ing old with new. The iron ma chinery is insured and guarded form injury in every way, but the human machinery is, in fact, too oheap to be worth protecting. Every from of capital receives the aid of special privilege laws; land held in vacancy, money authorized by cer tain institutions only; and manufac turers are protected by tariff laws. The only factor in the production of social wealth which is not pro tected in any sense whatever is la bor. Babies are born without limit and must live, and there are always plenty waiting to take the dead man’s shoes. This bill does not ask so arbitrary and artificial a thing as that the laborers’ waifs be protect ed and guaranteed by law, but it does ask that the employer be com pelled to use diligence in protecting the laborer ss to bis life and limbs, while earning wages; that a safe place in which to work be providad and that ropes, chains, beams, ma chinery, etc., be properly tested before the workman is asked to risk his life with them. Surely this is a reasonable request. Ten per cent of electrical workers are killed. It is a more hazardous emplyment than war. The same may be said of workers on bridges and high steel frame structures. Sena or Ellhu Root, iu bis spree.] before the National Civic Federa tion, said; It seems to me that our present system or dealing with those injuries ¡hat come to our em ployes in our great industrial life is foolish, wasteful, ineffective and barbarous.............. The coast of sup port which is made necessary by the injuries suffered in a business is just as muck a part of the cost of the business as the tools that are worn out and the material which is consumed.” The commission appointed to re port to the legislature of New York on the question of employers’ liabili ty says, at page 1 1 : ” A t common law in England and the United Board by Day, W«el( or Month States the legal relations of employ Sanjple f(oon)s Nice Batl)s er and employed Before 1837 did not differ in anv wav from the legal relation of strangers and there were Special Attention Paid to no special rules as to employers' the Traveling Public. liability............Up to 1837 that single principle seems to have been the whole law on the subject. But H. E. Shelley from that time, both in England and America there has developed gradu- ually a large bodv of special law on employers’ liability. This is judge- C:>r .i...V C made law.............. The important point to be noted ia the fact that First Class W oik Guaranteed. this body of special laws exists for M. E. WHITMORE. E. F. MOKRISSY no very clearly defined reasons of justice or social policy; that it is Coos Bay Paving and Con purely 'Judge-made’ and not over seventy years old. struction Company. MRS. G. R. WICKHAM Proprietress Phone Main 13X. C arpenterand Builder nated; never existed in any system of law except the English; never existed in the admiralty courts of the United States, which takes its law from the Roman law and not from England, so that today in a suit in admiralty it is no defence to allege that the man was damaged by some negligence of bis own con. tributiDg to the injury. His own negligence may be taken into ac count in measuring the damages, but is not an absolute bar and this ia exactly what this bill proposes. It puts the State courts on the same plane with the courts o f admiralty and of all the civilized world in this respect. The bill itself is drawn from those of Illinois and Pennsylvania. It is not only inherently just in itself and such as no juBt man or humane man ought to complain of, but it is good policy for Oregon, if she ex pects to be an attractive home for intelligent workers. Read the bill. For RECEIVES STRONG H0MEEND0RSEMENT B. F. Jones, Republican Candidate For Circuit Judge Has An Excellent Record. Toledo, Ore., Oct. 4, 1910. B. F. Jones, Republican candidate for Cir cuit Judge of the 2ud Judicial Dis trict, was born on a farm near Law rence, Douglas county, Kansas, February 24, 1858. In 1866 his father died, and he came to Oregon with his widowed mother, and Bet- tied on the Yaquina Bay in Benton county, where the town of Toledo uow stands. His mother died two jears later, and for the next six years he spent the summer time io working in the logging caiups of Douglas and Benton Counties on the Umpqua and Yaquina Bay, and going to school in the winter time, acquiring his education in the Public Schools and at the Corvallis College. He then followed steam-boating for ten years, working from deck-hand to captain, and thus acquised a thor ough knowledge of Oregon’s water ways. Congress Robert G. Smith, of Grants Pass, Democratic candidate for Congress, will deliver a series of addresses in Coos county as follows: At Myrtle Point, November 4th; at Coquille the 5tb; at Bandon the 6 tb and at | He seryed as County Clerk for Marshfield the 7th. Lincoln County for three terms, dur- Mr. Smith was a Republican un . ing which time ho studied law under til the year 1902; in 1895 was the late Judge John Kelsey, and in elected as a Republican to the low ; 1897 was admitted to practice in all er house of the State Assembly. ! | the Courts of Oregon, since which Was elected to the same office as a time he has been actively engaged Democrat in 1905. He has always in the practice of law. favored all laws which tend to en He represented Polk and Lincoln franchise the people. In his own Counties in the Legislature for county, he fought for open prim. aries before they become an issue io | ^*ree towns, 1J03, 1907 and I960 Oregon. He is a firm believer in He introduced the Demurrage Car the Recall, Primary Election law, Shortage bill in the session of 1903, Statement No. 1, the Initiative and which was defeated, and again in Referendum. Iu 1905 he intro the session of 1909 introduced it, duced in the Legislature many re and being a member of the commit form measures, some of which were; tee on Railroads, had it incorporat an anti-pass law, a railroad com ed into the railroad commission bill mission law, a bill raising the ¡o f which he was one of the strong amount of damages collectable for est supporters. Io the session of 1907, he intro deatb by negligence to ^ 10 , 000 , a corrupt practice act, and several duced what is known as the Jones measures regulating freight charges Free Locks bill, appropriating $300,- of railways and to prevent the land 000, conditioned that the Govern grant railways from excepting min ment would appropriate a like sum eral lands from deeds made by for either the purchase of the old them. Most of these bills passed or the building of new locks at the the house but were defeated in the j falls on the Willamette River at senate. The anti-pass law, the Oregon City. railway commission law, the cor- At the same session he introduc- rupt practice act have since been cd a bill, and it became a law, re enacted. The agitation began by | pealing the former attempted act of Mr. Smith undoubtedly hastened the legislature, and acts amenda- the enactment of such laws. He tory thereto, granting to the Oregon was a pioneer in the agitation for Pacific Company all the tide and forfeiture of the O. & C. R- R. land overflowed lands on the AUea, grant. If elected, will represent Siletz and Yaquina Bay, compris the people and oppose Cannonism ing practically all the water-front in any form in the Democratic party on these Bays, aggregating about 20,000 acres of tide and overflowed as well as the Republican. — ------------------ - ------------------ — lands, on the grounds that Legis- Vote for number 76 . W . E- Dun- ture bad no right to donate State gan. Independent candidate for lands to private individuals or cor- Coronor. Bill has announced his p0rations; and for the further rea- candidacy and will make a strong Bon that the railroad company had run for Coroner. He has many jn thirty years, paid any taxes friends and is well acquainted in j ou the, land or complied with other the County having been "Knight conditions of law. of the Grip” for the past ten years, j * pn 1908 Mr. Jones filed two suits Bill will let the people know that before the State Railroad Coinmis- he is on the ballot and when he is i „¡on ¡n the interest of the public; elected Coroner all the stiffs will one against the Pacific Express be planted in the proper manner. 1 Company, and the other against the Wells Fargo Express Company, Big Fire at Florance. charging that their express rates j t The Coos BayTimes says in part: ‘ were treasonable, t j u s t and un- According to word received this lawfu1’ These cases have both been morning br Fred Hollister o f North decided against the Express Corn- Bend, one of the officers of the bank PunieB' ttod the,r rates reduoed ot Florence, two-thirds o f the busi- twpnty Per cent' thus eaviDK anou- ness district of Florence, at the ,0 ,he Pe 0 Ple ot ° re&on man* mouth of the Siuslaw, was wiped thousands of dollars. He is well out by fire late Satuiday night. qualified for the position. But meager details of the fire wa* nominated without oppo- were obtainable. The cause o f the ai‘ ion- beli“ Te9 in tha Primary law, The bill here submitted to the blaze which started in one corner and a square deal for everyone.no g en er a l co n tracto rs voters of Oregon modifiies the pre o f the block occupied by the Wm raatter what their ^09ition in Iif* Plans and Estimates Given vailing rule as to the defenses of Bryan hotel and the F. VV. Carey may be Concrete Bricks 8 tone and Timber J S. Akin, Merchant. contributory negligence and the Lumber company’s buildings, Contractor. J. H. Ro«s, Sheriff. negligence of a fellow servant. could not be ascertained. T he en- Phone 151 -J Lee Wade, Clerk. Offices 117 Front Street, Marshfield Ore. ! The ignorance of lawyers is largely tire block was wiped out. R. A. Arnold, Mayor and Post responsible for the popular belief master. Wanted— Men and women to that these legal defenses are both have clothes cleaned, pressed and C. E- Hawkins, Lawyer and holy and hoary and that to weaken repaired Slagle the tailor. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. them would tie to infringe on the C. B. Crosno, Secretary Lincoln sacred rights of employers. A* Incorporated. Biliousness is due to a disordered Co. Fair. just shown by the quotation above, condition of the stomach, Cham Manufacturers of R. E. Collins, Editor “ Leader.” both theee doctrines are judge made berlain’s Tablets are essentially a The Celebrated Bergmann Shoe law, usde in England, are of com stomach medicine, intended espe G. B. McClusky, Lawyer and The Strongest and Nearest Water County Treasurer paratively recent origin, never exist cially to act on that organ; to cleanse Proof shoo made for loggers, miners it, strengthen it, tone and invigorate W. C. Copeland, Farmer and ed on the continent of Europe, have prospectors and mill men. Lumberman, it, to regulate the liver and to ban- j been abolished by the act of Parlia j ish biliousness positively and effect 621 Thurman Street R. S. Van Cleve, Merchant. ment in England, where they origi ually. For sale by all dealers. P ortlan d , O aeoo *. (Paid ^rertiseipent) Ttieo.HepanStoelliii.Co. The P er Y ear $1.50 Dora. Capt. Panter’s new steamer which he has seeu fit to name the "Dora,” was recently inspected by U. 8 . Steamboat Inspectors Edwards and Fuller, passed up from the lower river where she was built to Myrtle Point last Wednesday, and as soon as the finisbtng touches by the painters are completed Bhe will te ready for duty between Coquille and Myrtle Point. As we have previously stated, this boat was constructed at Ran dolph by the Hermann Brothers for Capt. Panter and son William, and designed for the upper river run. Her power will be furnished by the boiler and engines taken from the Echo, and which are equal to the task, the new boat being constructed on better lines which will make her drive through the water more easily than the old boat, a fact which she well proved coming up the river on her trial trip. Her dimensions are 70 feet length and 154 feet beam, i<nd she drives 17 inches of water, light, and will not draw a great deal more when loaded. Her length is five feet greater than that of the Echo, and Bhe is six inches greater breadth, and it is believed by all who are acquainted with her shape are of the opinion that she will be a much speedier boat than was the old one, and has greater cabin ca pacity on the upper deck which will be a great comfort to passen gers in the future. Girl ot The Hour’’ This comedy will be put on in the Masouic opera house Friday night Oct. 28 under the auspices of Beulah Chapter O. E. S. No. 6 Tne play is under the personal direction of Mr. W. E. Graham, late of the Florence Roberts company. If you want to witness a real comedy here is your chance. "G irl of the Hour” is up to the minute and the comedy that you can see, laugh at and congratulate yourself for attending. There are a great many people wonder how it is possible to stage a play with local people iu eight days’ time, but when you take into consideration that the cast have their general rehearsals every night as well as the private training in the day time at different hours with each one separally, one can readily understand how it is ac complished. Mr. Graham has staged different plays in such towns as Portland, Walla Walla, Medford, Grants Pass, Eugene, Roseburg, and many of the leading places around here, and the press speaks of his work in the highest manner. In addition to the comedy proper, there will be a one act playette, (or curtain raiser) Van Bibber’s ‘Littlest Girl” proceeding the play. This has been considered one of the clevetest ever written; the parts will be played by Dr. C. W. Endicott, and Mr. Graham, the rest of the cast is as follows: Owen Knowlton, J. A. Lamb, Earl Slagle, Dorris Peoples, Esther Johnson, Mable Wilson, Mrs.Mamie Slagle, Mrs. Alice Hite. Now if you want to see what your local people can do when cast right, and directed by one that knows how, be in the opera house at 8:30 p. m. sharp Friday night as no one will be seated after the cur tain 1 ises except in the back seats, until it falls again. Reserve your seats at Knowlon’s drug store from Thursday noon on. You are not experimenting on yourself when you take Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy for a cold as that preparation has won its great reputation and extensive sale by its remarkable cures of colds, and can always be depended upon. It is equally valuable for adults and chi! dren and may be given to young children with implicit confidence as it contains no harmful drugs. 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