flThe Herald, the old estab
lished reliable newspaper of
the Coquille Valley in which
an “ad" always brings results.
T he C oquille H erald
COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1912
VOL. 29, NO. 17
CENTENNIAL
HELD ST BAKER
ing between Boise and Walla Walla,
when the old Overland hotel in the
former city was the only public
house within a radius of several
hundred miles. He is now librarian
and secretary of the Idaho His
torical society, and one of the in
teresting figures of the Idaho
capital. The reminiscences of the
three were interesting indeed.
With their heads together, they
spent every available minute re
counting adventures in which all
bad sharbd, and recalling the
history making incidents of the last
half century.
All in all, the celebration which
marks the beginnmg ol the second
century of the rule of the white man
in Oregon was a notable event and
will be long remembered aa one of
Baker's big days.
The one hundredth anniversary
of the coming of the white man to
eastern Oregon was observed at
Baker, Oregon, December 28 .
Many visitors from eaatern Oregon
were present at the exercises, and
some of the best known historians
and pioneers of the state were
speakers. Over one hundred parti
cipated in the banquet given lh
honor of the visitors, which preced
ed the centennial program.
One hundred years ago Captain
Wilson Price Hunt, the brave re
presentative of John Jacob Astor,
attempting to reach Astoria by the
overland route, reached the valley
where Baker stands today. The
first white child born in Oregon,
east of the Cascades, saw the light John Hopfield, a well known and
of day on the present site of the rospected
of this country and
town of North Powder. It was the a veteran citizen
of the Civil war, died at
child of an Indian squaw wife of a his
home in McMinnville, Oregon,
“squaw man” whose name is dis Christmas
at the age of 75
puted. From that point the ex years, after noon
a brief illuess. He was
plorers followed the Indian trails born in Windenhausen,
Germany,
reaching the Columbia river near July 28, 183C. His parents
died
The Dalles and completed their per when he was young and he came
ilous journey to Fort Astor.
to America when only ten years
One very unusual feature marked old.
In 1862 he eolisted as a pri
the occasion, it being the gathering
in company K of the 30th Wis
of three unique characters, who vate
infantry, with which com
took an important part in the state’s consin
pany
he
served three years and front
early history. They were the guests
he was honorably discharged
of houor and clearly entitled to the at which
close of the war. In 187 6
homage paid them. The trio con he tho
settled
He was a
sisted of William H. l’ackwood hr., member of in G. Oregon.
A. R. Custer Post
David S Littlefield, both of Baker, No. 9.
and John Haley of Boise, Idaho.
Mr. l’ackwood, who is well past 80 Alfred B. Humphreys, who has
years of age, as are the other two, resided
Oregon City, Oregon, for
was a member of the first legisla the last in thirty
and who was
ture of Or.gon, aud one of the one of the best years,
aud most
frameis and signers of the constitu highly respacted known
men
in
com
tion, that advanced the common- munity, died December the
27
Mr.
wealtn to the dignity of statehood. Humphreys was born in Connecti
Bent with years, yet his mind as cut, March 20, 1832. With "his
keen ns ever, he takes as much in family he came to Oregon in 1871
terest in the affairs of Oregon as where he has since resided. Be
be did when a young man.
widow, he leaves one
David S. Littlefield, a slight old sides bis Miss
Gartrude Humph
man, is the last surviving member daughter,
reys.
of the party that discovered gold
in eastern Oregon, the man whose
pick first uncovered the precious Mrs. Maria Carpenter, a Coos
mettle at Griffin's gulch, and unlock- county pioneer, died December 31,
the storehouse of nature, which has at her home on South Coos river,
since yielded millions in wealth. at the age of 81. Mrs. Carpenter,
John Hailey, pioneer stage driver, was a sister of Anson Rogers, -*rj,
historian and author, won fame as and S. C. Rogers, well known in
the proprietor of the stage line this community.
from Kelton, Utah, to Umatilla
Landing, on the Columbia, in the Mrs. Eliza Jane McKinley, an old
days when the only law was that of pioneer of this state, who w as 81
the steady arm. Later he was years old, died at Baker, Oregon,
proprietor of the stage line operat on Christmas day.
THE PASSING OF
OREGON’S PIONEERS
FORD
Automobiles
Four D oor T ourin g Car
$800.00
Fore Door R oadster
$690.00
D elivery Car
PER YEAR $1.50
claims the same was purchased as
COMMISSIONER OOFF
investment property. Possessed of
laud the railroad people would OUR STATE'S
ON EIGHT-HOUR LAW this
have a terminus on the Bay in case
ITEMS FROM
ingress could not be obtain
When the canned pineapple in
Because of reporled violations ot direct
ALL
SOURCES
ed
bv
bridging
the Bay.
RAPID GROWTH
dustry was started in the Hawaiian
the eight hour law, especially on
Islands, the juice, cores and every
I public works, State Labor Commis
Durham, LoviDgton, III., The Thirteenth Census of the
thing but the slices were consider The first poultry show giveu by sioner O. P. Hoff has addressed a let has Charles
succeeded
in finding a positive United States, prepared under the
ed waste material. One day some Douglas county raisers, held at ter to all the members of all county cure for bed wetting.
"My little supervision of William C. Hunt,
one conceived the idea that they Roseburg December 28 , brought courts in Oregon. There are 108
boy
wet
the
bed
every
night
clear Chief Statistician for Population,
might be able to bottle the thous out 500 birds.
commissioners and county judges thro’ on the floor. I tried several
ands of barrels of juice that were Once there was a game called in the state. One reported reason
as April 15, 1910, gives the
of kidney medicine and I was taken
going to waste. The bottling ex town ball, from which baseball was for much of the law breaking along in kinds
population
of Oregon as 672,765,
periment was successful and soon evolved. It had more fighting in these lines is a false impression the drug store looking for some which represents an increase of
the juice was selling, for more than it than any other game, and more among commissioners that to em thing different to help him when I 62.7 per cent during the last decade.
the sliced pineapple. Recently cheating than any other except ploy men and pay them by the heard of Foley’s Kidney Pills. Af The growth of the state was a little
someone else had the happy thought croquet. Ask grandmother how it hour, makes it legal to work them ter he had taken them two days we more tfc-.n. A t :~> as rapid during
could see a change and when he the preceding deoade 1890-1900,
that the core might bo made into was played.
over the eight hour limit.
a confection and now wo have on According to a letter received by Commissioner Hoff calls atten had taken two-thirds of a bottle he when the rate of increase was 30.2
cured. That is about six weeks per cent,
the market the pineapple glace, and Governor West December 27, from tion to the opinion rendered by the was
ago
and be has not wet in bed Oregon was orgauiled as a terri
they make more money out of the the Treasury Department, Oregon’s attorney general in which it is de
glace thao they do out of the rest share from the National forest re clared that it is a violation of the since.’’ For sale by C. J. Fuhrman tory in 1848 and four years later
of the pineapple put together. Ws serve fund this year is $35,612,30. law to “p;rmit laborers or mechan
the people adopted a constitution
all know the profits that are made This sum will be turned in to the ics employed by the state or any
and asked for statehood which, by
out of the by-products of the meat common school fuud.
act of congress was approved in 1859
county to work more than eight
industry. The question then arises, There are two hundred and fifty hours a day in any calendar month
and, with boundaries as at present,
are we making sufficient money out thousand words in the English lan regardless of whether they are em
she was then admitted iDto the
The eleventh annual meeting of Union. The total land area ot the
of our fruit by-products. The an guage,
ployed
by
the
day,
hour
or
minute.”
and most of them were used
the western division of the Oregon
swer we have to give is a negative. one Sunday
is 95,607 square miles.
by a lady who discov “Permit me to suggest.” writes Teachers’ association, held in Port state
We should have in various parts of ered after coming
There
are 34 counties in the
Commissioner
Hoff,
"that
you
send
out of church,
land
December
28,
opened
with
an
Oregon co-operative by-product that her new hat was
state,
the
population of which
notices
to
all
supervisors,
superin
with
of over 400 teachers. ranges from 2,044 in Curry County,
plants. I would suggest the build a tag, on which was adorned
tendents, etc., for whom you may attendance
written,
‘‘re
ing of plantB that could make vine duced to $ 2 . 75 .”
be responsible, calling attention to Representative educators by the to 226,261 in Multnomah county.
gar, can apples, make jams aud Charley Johnson has a hen, a this matter. It is my duty as well hundreds gathered from all parts Harney county, with 9,933 square
jellies, aud also the evaporation of
as yours to see that the law is en of the state to attend this meeting. miles has the- largest area, and
fruit and in this way there would cross of Brown Leghorn and Rhode forced. The penalty for violation An address delivered to the teach MultDomab county, with 451 square
be virtually no loss. Only certain Island Red, that was hatched April is a fine of $100 to $1000 or im ers by State Superintendent L. R. miles, has the smallest area.
20, commenced laying October 1, prisonment not more than six Alderman set forth the condition Portland, the largest of 97 cities
grades of apples make good vinegar and
hatched a brood of 10 chicks months or both.’’
of the schools over the state as he in the state, has a population of 207,-
—apples that are thoroughly ripe
21. That’s something of We believe that the custom has found them, and some of the school 214,
and high in sugar contents. Certain a December
aud Salem, the second oity,
record even for Corvallis.—Cor prevailed in Coos county, where needs. Two of the main points of a population
varities are better for evaporating vallis
of 14,094. There are
Gazette-Times.
his discourse were the need for the 5 cities having from 5,000 to 10,000,
than others. For example the
men
were
worked
more
than
eight
Spitzenberg makes an exceptionally An exchange has discovered that hours per day, that they signed re development of strong rural high 9 having from 2,500 to 5,000 and
good dried apple, Baldwin and Ben a poor girl has to be awfully good ceipts for the total hours work with schools and the co-operation be 18 having leas than 2,500 inhabit
Davis are used extensively, while looking to be pretty, and a rich girl eight hours as the basis. Accord tween teac&ing forces and the par ants. There are 3 Indian Reserva
the Limber Twig makes more weight has to be awfully homely to tie ing to the above information this ents in the district. He further tions in the state.
of dried product to the bushel than ugly. It might have added that a is illegal, strange as it may seem.— stated that there were some things The population of Coos county
in the state educational work that in 1910 was 17,959.
any other variety. By the combina poor man has to be awfully smart Coos Bay Harbor.
Oregon could well be proud of-that
tion of these various fruits we can to be intellectual, aud a rich man
utilize all parts of the apple. By almost a blockhead to be ignorant- On December 28, the coldest she stood first in the United States The lumber shipment irota this
the associations taking hold of this My son, it is conceded that your wave of the winter struck Chicago in point of attendance in high port during 1911 amounted to 6 3 ,-
work it could be conducted in such lather is a fool, but try to bear with and the middle west, the mercury schools, in fact that she leads the 000.000 feet or an average of over
a manner that a man could afford ! him yet awhile as best y^umay, tor being at 5 above zero. Thousands world. “Twelve years ago Oregon,” 5 , 000,000 a month. This is the
----- 1— y o u m a y neeu u im t o \iig~lfuta to es of people* are suffering and two Baid he, “had but five high schools, biggest shipment of any single year
to bring his :----- cull ii — and 1-------
lower grades
of apples to the by-product factories. and clean the cow barn while you deaths have been reported. At with a four-year course; now she in the history of this port and
Here in Oregon we have a splen are engaged in the laudable enter Portland on the same date the has 1 1 1 and the movement is ad shows the constant increase of the
did opportunity to develop apple- prise of reading “Old Sleuth,"smok Weather Bureau registered 28 de vancing at a rapid rate. In the 393 business in this section. While we
drying. Wo have prune driers that ing cigarettes and disporting your grees above zero, being the coldest high schools in the state the attend were unable to get exact statistics
suap experienced since November ance was 3,800 last year and this on other shipping to and from this
sire idlo about the time this work latest hot socks.
port, yet it is known to be propor
comes on and we also have bop J. Nelson Wisner of Oregon City, 1 1 , when the mercury dropped to year a little short of 10 , 000 .”
A reception at the Portland hotel tionately large, and the amount of
driers that could be utilized. One who for nine years was superintend 24 degrees above.
large oichard wbicb deals in hop ent of the United States bureau of Reports from San Bernardino, was giveu the teachers by the passenger business done by the
drying found that they could make fisheries, has been notified of his Riverside and Los Angeles counties Teachers’ club and the Portland oceangoing steamers was about
double that done in any previous
$400 to $500 out of drying apples appointment ns director of fisheries state that thousands of dollars’ dam Principals’ association.
year. All other business in the Co
and it took very little expense to of Uruguay, South America, at a age was done to the crop by the
change the hop dryer to conform salary of $4,800 which amounts to recent heavy frost. At San Ber SiDce the run of steelheads put quille valley has been proportion
with the npple needs. It would more than $5,000 in this country. nardino the mercury dropped from in an appearance in Coos Bay the ately large and the prospects for
only then be necessary to have Mr. Wisner came to Oregon in 1898. 44 degrees at 6 o’clock to 25 at mid catch of silversides hasbeen greatly 1912 are fora still better year.-Ban
increased, and a large percentage of don Recorder.
special appliance such as parting
Rumor is already whisper night. Growers were quick to real these fish has been iced and ship
tables, slicing machines and a ing Dame
ize
the
danger
to
the
crop,
at
least
Do not allow your kidney and
for neighboring
ped to fresh fish markets in Port bladder
bleacher. The bleacher, being sim cities of for prosperity
80 per cent of which is still on the
trouble to develop beyond
the
new
year
as
follows:
ply nn air-tight box, has a hole at A $ 12,500 Carnegie library for Ore trees. Smudging fires were started land.
the
reach
of medicine. Take Foley’s
one end to allow the fumes to enter gon City, if the city will maintain and hundreds of men worked all J. O. Root, who lives on the Mo Kidney Pills.
They give quick re
and a stovepipe outlet at the other same at an annual expense of $ 1,250 night, but with faint hope of saving hawk, brought in an immense radish sults and stop irregularities with
which grew from a vol surprising promptness. For sale by
to allow the fumes to escape. A
a new two story brick build the oranges because of the low yesterday
unteer
seed.
It weighed over 10 C, J. Fuhrman.
box about 3 or 4 feet square and 20 a ing year,
range
of
temperature.
jor Cottage Grove; a city park
pounds.—Eugene
Register.
feet long will allow one to bleach a for Bandon
of the Interior Get your butter Oregon
great many apples in a day. Ap Marshfield. and a candy factory for has The just Department
wrappers
printed Get your butter wrappers printed
issued a patent to Rev. at the Herald office.
ples can be run through the driers Superintendent of Banks, Will Adolph Haberly
at the Herald office.
of
Bandon
for
a
faster than prunes and the system Wright, has just completed a state homestead Dear that city. This
of heating is just the opposite of ment which shows almost $3,000,000 case has been pending for the past
that of the prune heating. For in
in the bank deposite of Ore six years owing to a contest made
stance, we start prunes at a low gain
gon
during
year. At the close by agents of the General Land
temperature and gradually bring of business tho
December
5, 1911, the Office who claim that, ns Haberly
them to a higher temperature, while total deposits in the banks
of the was an itinerant preacher aud
with apples we often start at 150 state amounted to $121,834,044.79,
much of the time, he bad
degrees and drop gradually to 125 while the deposits for the last re absent
not
complied
the residence
degrees. The time it will take for port in 1910 were $119,194,851 96. provisions of the with
law.
you to dry a bushel of apples will
The Kruse & Banks company of
depend somewhat on the experience A bridegroom of Sheridan, Ore North
Bend has been awarded the
you have bad and will be controlled gon, had the misfortune to lose contract
for building a large lum
the
opal
setting
from
bis
scarf
pin
to a certain degree by the form of
ber
schooner
for the Davenport
on
the
day
of
his
marriage.
Three
the fruit. Slices ought to dry in weeks afterward, when domestic company for whom
they built the
14 to 12 hours, 14 the maximum. If
Fairhaven
three
years
ago. The
duties
replaced
honeymoon
joys,
he
we used racks in our prune driers
new
boat
will
be
207 feet long, 4 1 -
found
the
opal
in
the
gizzard
of
the
we could reduce this time. Often
foot beam and 14 feet depth of bold
five hours is sufficent on racks such hen he was preparing for Christ and
when completed will cost about
mas
dinner.
An
opal
for
luck,
re
as we dry prunes. The quarters
$n,ooo.
She will not be equipped
ports
to
the
contrary
notwithstand
would probably take 18 to 20 hours
for passenger travel. This vessel it
Feed, Flour, Hay, Fresh Fruits and
and the whole apple from 30 to ing.
understood will ply in the coast
50 hours depending, of course, There is nothing aside from the is lumber
Vegetables, Agents DeLaval Seperators.
trade out of Puget Sound
upon variety, type of fruit, etc. milk of human kindness so necessa and the Columbia
Freight and Ticket Agents Steamers
river.
Concerning the amount of evaporat ry to the comfort of any family as
Fifield, Bandon and Alliance. Coal Oil,
ed fruit we can secure from a bush the milk of the good old cow. It According to tb» Coos County
el of apples, it will run from 6 to 7 is like oil poured upon the troubled records a deed was filed one day last
Gasoline
and Distillate Always on Hand.
pounds of white frnit and from waters of family life. It is an ex week transferring about 1,100 acres
3 to 4 pounds of waste material. cellent beverage for the children. of (idelands opposite North Bend
The waste material, however, can be It furnishes cream for the coffee, and Marshfield to Alva Doll, the
sold to pie manufacturers. As you butter for the bread aud cheese for property beiDg transferred by C.
all know, the price for evaporated the lunch. It shortens the pie S. Winsor, L. F. Falkenstein, C.
fruit has keen high, and yet people crust and raises the Johnny cake. Albrecbt, F. B. Waite and others.
are making very little effort to Even cats and dogs cry for it. It Some time ngo there was a rumor
establish markets on dry products. feeds the pig, pleases the colt and of this tract being purchased for
With the reputation that Oregon delights the chickens. Yes, and if the Southern Pacific Railroad, and
has aa a fruit center, it would seem we will give her a fair chance the is now supposed that Mr, Doll is
easy for us to build op a good repu cow will clothe the children, buy it merely
seting ss an agent for the
tation for dried apples and also can comforts for the family, pay the tax
the railroad company, although he
ned apples an>l other by-products. es and pay the mortgage.
HIGH SCHOOLS OF
OREGON IN LEAD
j
Sc Norton
Nosier
GENERAL COMMISSION
And Wholesale Merchants
1912
Three P assenger R oadster
EVAPORATION OF APPLES
BY C.I. LEWIS, O.A .C .
fljob Printing—New presses,
new material and experienced
workmen. A guarantee that
Herald printing will please.
____$690.00
$825.00
F. O. B. M A R SH FIELD
FRED SLA G LE
AGENT, COQUILLE, OREGON
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