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T he C oquille H erald VOL. 28; NO. 19 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1911 PER YEAR $1.50 BOOSTERS HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ BELIEVED HILL AND LUMBER MILL PORTLAND TO VISIT COQUILLE OPEN BASKET BALL BOGUS COCER SEASON ON THE BAY HARRIMAN MAY UNITE FOR COQUILLE FIRST OF NEXT WEEK MEN CAUGHT The following letter froinC. 0. Chap The high school boys’ basket ball KKYXOI.DH >111.1. DK.tl. t'ONSl'M - man, of the Portland Chamber of Com* team will play their first game of the ARRESTED IN D IN D O N OX LAST merce. is largely self-explanatory. Beason at Marshfield Thursday night M ATED AND TH K COM PANY TH URSD AY AFTERNOON BY According to present plans a large del and at North Bend ' Friday night. OKGANIZKD. egation of business men of Portland, S H E R IFF GAGE. Prof. Hockett will accompany the who are interested in securing more of team. tiie business of this section that lias The boys are said to be in fine been going to San Francisco will leave shape and no doubt will put up a Portland the last of tins week on a visit stifT game In each place. Work <>f MoviiiK tlu* Plant to Hcgiti to Coos county towns. The line-up of the team will be as Following is the letter. nt Once and Ualciilations Marie An article which appeared in the office here ad/IrM ^ will be in scent a further move on the part of follows: Passed Forged Cliecl.s on the Hub Portland, Ore., Jan. 14, 1911. Matt Kerrigan, captain: guard. Editor Herald, Coquille, Ore.— Dear Oregnnian this week concerning the Portland lío ; to lie II ii n n in £ in From .. • »! jfl that the great railroad enterprise of the C loth in g Company at iursh- Tom Belloni, guard. i | Sir : I expect to pay a visit to Coos renewed activity of the Lane County he will be In e up Northwest to share in the trade that 60 to 00 l>nys. Irvin Custer, center. tleld and Bandon— .Li hay about next Monday, January 23 nand will follow the entrance of a line Into George Oerding, forward. coining via the first trip of the steamer Asset company, announcement of all o f the HI mited ( l ine. Clay Knowlton, forward. which appeared 111 the Herald last Immediate attention, principal the Coos Bay section, The Coquille Lumber company, Anvil, but cannot advise you definitely Ray Miller, substitute. ju.-t when I will reach there as it will week, professes to see Immediate among which Is the Oregon Electric That this new company is a part the new company formed to take over Owen Knowlton, referee. Jepend entirely upon weather and SherlfT Gage returned Friday even prospects of a railroad for this conn- extension. The Coos Bay enterprise of the Harriman system and built for the plant of the Reynolds mill on the Concerning the Friday night game ing from Bandon having in custody other conditions. bay, expects to have the machinery consld- the purpose of combating the latest the Coos Bay Harbor, of North Bend, J hope to bring with me a delegation try. It Is to be hoped that such is may not receive Immediate two men wanted for pulsing worth moved to Coquille and In operation says: of Portland business men, un ler the the case— that an outlet will soon beieratton but that it will be kept in Hill progress Is believed highly prob less checks at Marshfield and Bandon. within the next 60 to -90 days. This "T h e first game of basket ball of A third member of the party, but ampicee oi the transportation commit secured to the markets of the world mind for future activity Is not doubt, able. The construction of the road is the enterprise for which the Herald the Coos county high school series against whom (li< tee of the Portland Chamber of Com . no evidence for our vast resources and to assist ed. ) from Drain to Coos Bay as originally announced subscriptions were being merce. to be played in North Bend occurs on taken last week. w !th in the la8t few months the Panned is no longer included in the Friday evening, January 20, in the of complicity In the I' : enV- . was al The establishment of this iine of in developing one of the most fertile lowed to go on tl Elizabeth to San Monday morning the stockholders, bouts while emanating from suggestions and productive agricultural sections Lane County Asset company has fig- circulations for the work of the inj Park Pavilion. The Coquille boys’ Francisco. numbering about 4 0 of the business originally made by the promotion com of the United States. high school team will attempt to de ured the cost and practicability of mediate future. The two men, givi: t!i ¡r names as men of the city and a few outsiders, mittee of the Portland Commercial feat the North Bend boys’ high Ray Brown and Arthur Young, are * oHowing is the article: building the road from Eugene to- With so much activity on the part met at the court house and proceeded club, has been undertaKen by the school team. A great deal of inter to organize. The subscription books transportation committee of the Port Entrance of the Hill lines into the war(j Elmira. Arrangements have of railroad officials having Coos Bay est centers on this game and our now lodged in the county jail where they will be held to appear before the of the company were opened and land Chamber of Commerce, which or Coos Bay district over a new road to been made to build and operate the as their objective point the construe boys say they will win the first If grand jury In April. signed, by-laws governing the cor ganization deserves all the credit. be built from Eugene to Florence,; first 20 miles, after which the road tion of a road into that territory is there Is a possible chance. They are Ray Brown, or Cr.i vford, as he poration adopted and articles of In I am looking forward to an oppor practicing regularly and make a fine mouth of the no longer a remote idea. The theory, called himself at V. . hfi.-M. acknowl. corporation drawn up. The capital lunity to outline to your business men thence southward along the coast, is w ill be pushed to the showing. The people of North Bend edged his guilt to G ,(fleers and result siuslaw and thence to the Coos Bay so often advanced in the past, that stock was placed at $50,000. The the work of the Oregon Development considered a probability as a should turn out and encourage proposed to pay In the mone}’ , with articles of incoporation state that the League, how you can co-operate witIi of recent activities of officials of the district. as soon as one of the two rival con them.” interest, In order company proposes to do a general us and we with you in bringing more Lane County Asset company, known ’ ' ipe ptinlsh- The next game of the series will cerns obtains an entrance the other, W hile the Lane County Asset com- ment. lumbering, logging and manufactur people and more activities to your lo locally as a Hill corporation. ; pany was organized by Eugene real- will found on the ground, be played here next Thursday, Jan. cality. The first hoard of the operations ing business. 2 6, when Marshfield plays the local Looking forward to the pleasure of a of the trio was in Marshfield, where It is understood that arrangements dents for the ostensible purpose o f seems likely to be vindicated. A board of five directors was elect team. i visit with you, I am, Brown, or Crawford, pn ] a cheek ed by the stockholders as follows: have been made to prepare an esti- j building an electric road, financial But two separate lines will not be Yours cordiafly, on the Huh Clojliin : company store J. A. Collier, Coquille. G. W. Clintori, of Myrtle Point, was PORTLAND COM MEKCIAL CLUB, mate of the cost of the road from , aid has been secured in the east and built into Coos Bay at the outset. One for $28. He also : ttenipted to pass C. A. Gage, Coquille. . a Coquille visitor today. Eugene to k lorence and that some ^ in this movement is seen the master set of rails will suffice for the two C. C. Chapman, Manager. Geo. W. Beale, Marshfield. one for $20 at a rah ion but the check of the surveys already have been hand of James J. Hill, who, It is roads. In recent years the compet- was found to be vnrthb : and Brown L. J. Simpson, Marshfield. L. J. Seeley, Coquille. completed. Authorization of the known, desires to be the first to tap ing railroad interests have adopted was forced to return the money. A directors meeting was held Mon They came to Coquille 1 v the morn construction work has not yet been ^ ¿he rich and latent resources of the the plan of combining their strength day afternoon at which the following ing train Wedge 1:- : 1 went on to considered by the board of directors, fertile Coos Bay district. The timber in construction and opposing each 02782819 men were elected officers of the com Bandon on the 0 o'clock bout. of the Hill system, but that the ap- ; alone will provide activity for any other in service and accommodations pany: About 6:30 AY In-ulny evening propriation w ill be forthcoming, if railroad for almost a century, it is after the roads are completed. J. A. Collier, president. Brown and Young turnon red nt the the plans meet with the approval of nt,ffmntnx ~ „ ., , C. A. Gage, vice president. Hub store at Bandon, where Young *1 , estimated. Coos Bay, therefore, will find it- R. H. Mast, treasurer. purchased a pair of shoes. Brown the engineers and local H ill officials. .. . . . . . . . Coquille Lodge, No. 53, I. O. O. F. Following close upon the heels of »*1f possessed of all the advantages M. O. Hawkins, secretary. paid for the same, giving a check for is not doubted. ! » . . . . . . . . ... the announcement by the Lane Court* of two railroads with none of the installed the following officers on Sat $32.62, made In r, v ■ of himself and A joint installation was held Satui- J. A. Collier and C. A. Gage left urday evening, Jan. 14: The construction of this piece o f j ty Asset comp?iny 0f its plans comes inconveniences of two separate sys- for the bay Tuesday morning to take day evening by the Modern Woodmen purporting to have been Issued by M. H. Hersey, D. D. G. M. an inventory of the plant and it is and Royal Neighbors, Rev. W. T. road, of course, would leave the Hill j the organlzat|on of the pacifl0, Great the Randolph Lumber company. of tracks if the developments of C. W. Upton, N. G. intended to begin moving the mill at Goulder acting as installing officer for After receiving the eliantre in cash C. R. Barrow, V. G. item without an outlet to Its main Westcrn Railway company, which fll. the last few days are any criterion the Woodman and Past Oracle Inez once. A force of men will be put they purchased titckel to San Fran, J. S. Lawrence, Sec. Jenkins, o f Bandon, for the Royal line, but this could easily be provided , pd art|c]ea of incorporation at E i i - of what may lie expected in the pro- to work at either end, the one here cisco on the Elizabeth, which was L. H. Hazard, treasurer. by the extension of the Oregon Elec Nt ighbors. gene. The capital stock is $50,000 of the future, putting in the pilings and flooring and scheduled to leave at S o'clock Thurs H. C. Davis, warden. Following were the officers installed tric from Salem to Eugene, surveys the one on the bay taking down the and R. B. Hunt and Jesse C. Auer, With $200,000,000 of new foreign day morning, the men evidently ex M. H. Hersey, conductor. by the Woodmen: and rights o f way for which already of Eugene, and Frederick M. DeNefL», capital at his command, James J. machinery and buildings. pecting to make their get-away be Geo. F. Hall, I. S. Venerable Consul, C. E. Van Marter. fore the bank opened. The site secured for the mill is T. J. Thrift, R. S. N. G. of Portland, are named as the direc. Hill will be in a position financially Esteemed past consul, E. H. Kern. have been completed. E C- Ostrander, L. S. N. G. considered a very good one, being This Is where their calculations Worthy adviser, R. B. Rogers. It is understood that work on the tors. - to carry on a railroad development J. S. Barton, R. S. V. G. close to town and having the river miscarried, however, for the Eliza, Clerk, Ned C. Kelley. Oregin Electric extension may be M. T. Clinton, L . S. V. G. This conce.1i proposes to construct which it is believed will include on one side and the railroad on the beth was unable to crons out over the Escort, M. C. Tozier Geo. T. Moulton, chaplain. started within the next few months, a steam railway from Eugene west- plans more far-reaching in character other. The railroad company will bar and they were found on hoard by Watchman, Jas. McGuffin. put in a side track to the mill large Sheriff Gage short IA elder noon on and that the intentions of the heads erly to the Siuslaw river, thence to than heretofore undertaken by the Sentry, Robt. Maddox. enough to accommodate 30 cars or Thursday. The Royal Neighbors installed the of the enterprise are to rush it to .Florence by way of Mapleton, sixty i builder of empires, There will be a meeting o f men and more. A preliminary hearing was given following officers. completion within the present year. miles from Eugene. To avoid expen.! Although local representatives of women property owners living in the them Friday morning and they were Coquille people are jubilant over Oracle, Eva Howe. Many of these plans have develop- j sive cuts the road will cross the Sius the Hill lines profess ignorance of Elliott and Notley additions at the brought here the same day the certainty of again having two Vice Oracle, Eunice Dobson. city hall, Jan. 23, for the purpose of mills running in the near future. The Brown and Young claim to have Recorder, Esta Lane. ed so far as to need only the final j law river three times on the w aj to the railroad’s plans on the Pacific divising ways and means for improv two will employ in the neighborhood been employed at the Gardiner mill Receiver, ClothilJe Van Marter. order of the proper executive. Much Mapleton and at the summit of the coast, advices received in Portland ing the streets of said district. of 60 to 75 men. until recently, and to have walked Marshal, Amy Kelley. depends upon the announcements to mountains there will be a tunnel from apparently reliable sources in- J. E. QUICK, Mayor. down the bench to Marshfield. Chancellor, Mary Kern. | be made by John F. Stevens, follow- 1,100 feet long. Portland capital is dicate that the next territory to be I. Sentinel, Nina Kelley. (Tiild limlly Burned. The story that the third mail made S T O C K H O L D E R S ' M E E T IN G . O. Sentinel, Vena Frye. ing his return from Chicago next said to be behind the movement, but exploited is southern Oregon and the Mertle Mast, the flve-year-old his escape, Sheriff Gage states. Is not Managers, Ethel Taylor and Edna week. Stevens, in a telegram to his in this well-informed railroad men entire state of California. daughter of Hardy Mast, of Lee, was Itu.'idolpli 1.limber < ‘iiiiipany Elected true as he saw and tall < d with him on the Elizabeth, both v lien he ar badly burned by Bpllling the con Kelley. Officers. The decorating committee and the tents of a boiling coffee pot over her. The yearly business meeting and rested Brown pml Inter . hen he ar bo rapidly or burn with such fury in self last Saturday evening. A num refreshment committee are both de election of officers of the Randolph rested Young. There was no evi all itry life. It seemed only an in ber of people of that locality were serving o f special mention. Lumber company was held at Ran dence to show that he had been a stant after the gasoline lamp was The hall was beautifully decorated spending the evening at the skating dolph Monday and the following o f party to any of the crime committed overturned that the entire down by the other two and he was allowed rink there, and while they were pre with the emblematic colors of the two ficers elected. stairs room In which it occurred was to go for that ren on. Neither is the paring a luncheon the little girl met orders, Oregon grape and ferns being Alfred Johnson, president. filled with flames and in but a few with the accident. One limb was interwoven with the colors. statement that he carried off most of S. P. Bartlett, vice president. Three young men belonging to both | minutes flames were shooting out quite badly burned, but at last re the money home out by tlie facts, as Geo. A. Hartley., secretary. orders comprised the refreshment com thorugh the roof and from all sides. ports she was getting along as well the night watch at Bandon found E. E. Johnson, general manager. mittee and performed that part o f the as could be expected. him on the street* without money ‘‘ Everybody turned out promptly, _______ program in m very creditable manner. L F T I I E R IlI R B A N K HAS and paid for Ills lied. and soon all the hose in the town was W IN T E R SPOUTS. PERFECTED NEW BERRY Brown had $2.50 when arrested CAUSED BY OVERTURNED GASO plying on it. It jumped from one T H R E E TO W N S ALREAD Y’ ON T H E The follow ing paper was written and Young 25 cents The steamship building to another and Anally across First of a New Race Which Has Conic LINE LA M P IN BOOM OF by a sixth-grade pupil of the Coquille LOOKOUT FOR CHANCE TO company refunded the $15 for their the street. Then it was seen that the to..Make Strawberry Grow schools: fares. HOTEL. SECURE ONE. attempt to extinguish it with water ers Rejoice. There are many places in the world To secure another year’s subscription would be futile and that probably where you can have lots of winter to the H ERALD at a one-tliird reduc Million Dollars for Komi Building, Reed's store and the rest of the town One of the notable creations per sports, but hack In Wisconsin you can tion. We are not giving away a pi in that section would be swept. Hood River, On >n. .Ian 14. -T he fected this year by Luther Burbank, have all kinds of them. announcement of which has Just been largest road meeting that has ever "A fte r a short consultation, it was The snow Her. on the ground for ano or automobile; we do not believe made public. Is a strawberry of a been held In Hood II ¡v • convened at. decided that the only means o f stay. three months at a time and sometimes mi giving one or two persons a prize new type, “ The Pntagonia.” Some the commercial club nlay, when Ing It was by dynamiting some of longer. worth several hundred dollars and the grangers of E ■ v. -y and the The river also free, s over and the having the balance of the subscribers Herolf Work Required to Save Entire the buildings In the path of the Centrally Located, Easily Readied by Some of the features of the new strawberry are that It commences to commercial club m b i held a Jolnt flames. This was done and all went Ice Is sometimes a foot and a half Town Fnmi Being Destroyed— Railroad or River and 111 the pay for it. W e are giving a premium ripen first and continues to bear the meeting. It was or h : d on motlon to work tearing out the shattered thick. longest. Then the leaves are large of A. I. Mason th I ur representa- buildings and a bucket brigade was Five Business Houses n.-)d lleart of lllrh Farming When It snows the boys and girls — a 50-C’ENT PIECE— to each and and unusually thick and firm, with five In the lower 1 pe be Instructed formed and after an hour or so It go sleigh riding. They can hire a every one on each year’s subscription Four Dwellings Go. Section. a thin, silky down, and "are never to vote and work for the passage of was under control. team for three and it only costs them paid. Every subscriber shares in the bills with the injured by sunburn, where other va the five good i :! two dollars. They get Just a nice transaction instead of a few'. "T here was some wind blowing but ■niter be taken rieties are either seriously browned modification that It was to the advantage of the ma sleigh full and start out In the moon This county Is waking up to the , Gardiner had a $30,000 fire Mon All subscriptions must he ¡mid up from the county «miri In the dlstri- or wholly destroyed." jor portion of the town. light and the snow certainly looks fact that it needs a cannery to take The new strawberry Is heralded by button of the mone} s for-roads and beautiful with the moon shining on — an up-to-date paper cannot be run day even ng, caused by the overturn- " I never saw men worlf so hard rare of the thousands of dollars worth that the roads In the • 'unties he con- it, which makes It so light that you without money. One or two dollars ng of a gasoline lamp in the Gard in my life. The way that the citi of fruit for which there Is no con Its creator as "the first o f a new race which has come to make straw structed by petition, w here the abut, The fire started about zens of Gardiner endured that terri could read a newspaper. Rut they is a small sum to each individual ner hotel. venient market and for the Immense berry growers rejoice." The berries ting property would lie made to o’clock and burned until 11:30 fic heat and exerted themselves try never find time for that. They often reader hut multiply it by 1200 and it quantities of vegetables which the are uniformly large, single berries, share a proportion of the expense. before the firefighters succeeded In ing to save furniture and goods from turn over but they don’t mind that, fertile valleys are capable of raising. amounts to considerable. It means getting It under control. '■ ■ I that the prop- and up they get and start out again the buildings was something that de While there has been talk of such an sometimes weighing an ounce; fine Mr. Mason sug erty abutting I o il to pay one- scarlet color with handsome pale They Sing and laugh and tell stories the difference between a poor paper serves the highest commendation. A total o f five business blocks and enterprise In this city and some cor fourth of the nut of '!■■■ road leading and never think of getting tired until and a good ¡wiper. four residences were completely de Only the excitement could have kept respondence with interested parties, flesh. The seeds are so small as to The meeting be almost Imperceptible. The new past his property, their three hours are more than up If you cannot call at the office send stroyed, some of them being dyna some of them up.” nothing definite has yet been done in placed Itself on r e t nrd as favoring strawberry melts In the mouth with Then, after their sleigh ride Is over mited In order to check the spread of that direction. they go over to the river where every a elirck or money order and a receipt 1 tl Hood River a sweet pineapple, strawberry and the bonding m 1 the flames. Burkholder III. one that Is not slelghrldlng Is skating will b<* mailed to you. IM> IT NOW Coquille has the best location In cream-llke flavor. enthusiasts are dealt ing to bond the and having a good time, while others Dr. A. L. Houseworth, o f Marsh Frank Burkholder has been con the county for such an enterprise. Burbank worked on this strawberry county In the sum i f $1.600,000 so who do not care to skate are hover W HILE* YOU CAN SECURE TW O field, who was In Gardiner at the fined to his home the past week with W e not only have a large farniTTig for.a number of years until this year that the entire sire ■ h of roada in ing over a big Are on the banks. YEARS’ SUBSCRIPTION FOR LIT- time, gave the following details of a severe attack of appendicitis. He and fruit raising section In the Imme They skate for many hours and then maendnmized. he has pronounced It perfect and has the county may h when they go home It ends the fun T L K MORE TR A N T H L P R ilk , U F jth e fire In an Interview in the Times: Is now much Improved end a speedy diate vicinity, but being centrally lo. so announced It within the paat few Delegates will go to Salem to assist until the next day. ONE. I I never saw a fire gain headway recovery le hoped for. In the pasasge of such a bill. daya. (Concluded on Fourth Page) Probably Will Combine Forces in Construction of Railroad but Operate as Entirely Separate Systems. COLLIER ELECTED PRESIDENT WERE ON STH. ELIZABETH OFFICERS INSTALLED SATURDAY EVENING BY 1 .1. 0. F. NO. 53 JOINT INSTALLATION BY ROYAL . AND MODERN WOODMEN N otice. (30,000 FIRE AT GARDINER COOS COINTV BUILDINGS ARE DYNAMITED COQUILLE IS LOGICAL SITE Now Is the Time