$JTh« Herald. tk»«M ectab- lished reliable newspaper of the Coauille Valley in which an “ad*1 always brings result». T he C oquille H erald ^Job Printing—New presses, new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1912 VOL. 29. NO. 23 REPRIMAND A PENALTY FOR CRIME OF BOYS MAIL CARNEI SERVICE URGED Two boys of our city were ar raigned in the juvenile court last Monday accused of breaking into the Alpine saloon and talcing there from a quantity of bottled whiskey. It is said they pleaded guilty to the charge and when asked why they did it, said : “ We just wanted it.” Judge Hall administered a severe reprimand, pointing out the results a continuance of such conduct would entail, and it is hoped a salu- tarv effect will accrue. Boys, heed the warning. PER YEAR $1.60 EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE RENDER GOOD PROGRAM COAL COAL^ Try The Coquille Educational League gave a feast of knowledge to a large gathering of our citizens at the High School on Friday after noon. February 9. Tbe meeting was opened with the singing o( America. The fol lowing program was then given: G A G E ’ S The Best Lasts Longest TAXATION STATEMENT The following circular received by A statement of taxation of un one of our prominent citizen* ia usual inteiest has jnst been tssned IN S A C K S , F U L L issued by eastern business men and R iv e r to n by the state tax commission. The will bo read with interest by all and W EIGHT AND W ASH ED figures cover every phase of the tax particularly those within the cor problem as related to the various Recitation— Mies Beulah Price. porate limits of Coquille : counties and the state. Taking the Instrumental Solo— Miss Alice Culin. "Tue business men and their or tax roll of 1911 the commission Recitation— Misa Hazel Howey. ganizations in every town which shows the totals of each class of Vocal Solo— Mrs. Gertrude Lorenz. does not have mail cairier service property for each county as equal Mrs. M C. Maloney, of the Pro are bejrg urged to bring immediate gress Club, Marshfield, read a ized by the county boards and ap and eaergetio influence to bear up ----------------------------------- paper entitled "What Women’s portioned by the state tax com on their United States Senators and during the present session of con- Clubs aud Kindred Organizations mission. Representatives in Congress to per greae. The tillable laud of tbe state ia can do for the Public Schools,” the suade them to work and vote for Adopt resolutions in your local shown to be 10,720,088 acies, of a rhetoric of which was excellent and PRIZES AWARDED PROFITABLE COOP legislation extending the mail deliv organizations. value of $223,475,480. The non- the rendition faultless. ery carrier service to all towns hav. Present petitions of citizens to tillable land is given as 14,451,415 SCHOOL PUPILS The business part ot the meeting FOR HOG RAISING ing 1,000 or more inhabitants. your congressmen. then followed, the rollcall being an acres worth 1114,672,512. Improve No letter oarrier is employed in Write letters to congressmen urg ments on deeded land are assessed The Oregon Society ol the Sons Not long since D M. Ratcliffe swered to by twenty-seven mem your town and the postoffice profits ing action. at $22,385,214, while the improve bers. There were also many vis and David Clark of Woodburn, are spent elsewhere, while the busi Requests for information may be of the American Revolution offers ments on town and city lots are Oregon, visited the farm of D. M itors present. ness men suffer inconvenience and addressed to Dr. John F. Meotzer, prizes totaling $100 to the pupils valued at »85.176,465. The minutes of the previous meet the public schools of the State The American people paid Dryden near McKee station, and financial lose by being compelled to Secretary, Ephrata, Pa,, who will of The assessed value of railroad ing were read and approved. collect and deliver their own mail. welcome inquiries and suggestions. of Oregon, for essays on subjects 5300,000,000 to see moving picture while there viewed his artichoke The following were voted on and tracks is fixed at $109,225,989, and connected with our War for shows last year. crop. The magnitude and possi The postmasters at all presidential accepted as members of the League of sleeping car companies at Independence. postofflces should have competent On February 12, George W. P. bilities ot the crop so impressed A BILL $574,805. Union station aDd de Hazel Howey. Beulah Price, Alice One prize of $25, one of $15 and establishment of a carrier assistance. In the large For experimental Hunt took the oath of office as the them that Mr. Clark wrote of it to Stanley. Erma Culin, Laura Watson, pot companies are assessed at mail delivery system. one of $10 will E>e awarded for the cities free delivery is established, Be town first governor of the state of a local paper. Part of his article is Janie Lowe, Alice Culin, Margaret Cur $6,062,000. Electric railways come it enacted by the Senate and first, second and third best essays, as follows: and the rural delivery has been House of Representatives of the United 1 Arizona. ry, Naomi Knowlton, Edna Harlocker, in at $31,479.391- Express com respectively, written by pupils of given the country residents, but States of America in Congress assem the High Schools of the state ou Frank Garrison, the Coos county “ We measured off one square Iva Howey, Geneva Robinson, Geneva panies pay on a valuation of rod and found that it contained 48 Bither, Ula Slagle. town people suffer unjust discrimi bled, That for the purpose of ascertain $1,242,294. murderer, has been granted a re The following committee was then one of the following subjects: hills. We took the fourth of this, ing the practicability of establishing a nation. Every progressive town It is interesting to note that prieve by Governor West until appointed to find some way of raising town mail delivery service for the free which was 12 hills, dug them and 1. Treaty of Alliance with should at once petition congress for delivery steamboats and other transportation December 13. funds: Miss Hopkins,’Mrs. Liljeqvist, of mail matter at every incor found, on weighing the tubers, that Mrs. Anderson, Miss Gamble. France. mail carrier servioe. equipment are assessed at $14,450,- porated city, town, village, or borough The First National Bank of Last year there was a surplus in containing a population of not less than 2. The Injuries of the Colonies Bend, Oregon, will erect a 520,000 there were 144 pounds, which made The next meeting of the League 354 while merchandise and stocks an average of 12 pounds to the hill. the postal funds and the govern one thousand within its corporate limits, Under Great Britain. and office buildiDg which will Forty-eight hills per square rod will take place March 9, at which in trade carry a value of $28,479,- ment is oow ready to create a new according to the last general census 3. Relation of the New England bank implements and lie the finest in all central Oregon. made 7,680 hills per acre, and time Prof. Grubb, principal of the 684. Farming taken by authority of State or United States to the Revolution. and economical mail delivery system States North Bend School, will deliver an machinery Are equalized at $6,026,- law, and having a postoffice of as soon as the people in the towns the second or third class, the Postmas One prize ot $25. one of $15 and A 230-foot flagpole, the largest twelve times 7,680 gives 92,160 address entitled, “ Necessity ot 094, while money is given as will evidence their demand for mod ter General be, and he is hereby, au one of $10 will be awarded for tbe in the world, will be given to the pounds— or a little over 46 tons. Occupation for Children." $14,072,734. Multnomah county ern facilities suoh as are enjoyed by thorized and directed to conduct an first, second and third best essays, Panama-Pacific Exposition at San That would mean 1,536 bushels. is given credit with the largest sum experiment of establishing such service respectively, written by grade pu Francisco by the Astoria Centen This was selected just from aa the city and rural residents. of money, $9,420,985, and Tilla KO KEEL KLUB HONORS to rules to be prescribed by pils on any one of the following nial committee. average of the patch. Now with The report juat issued by the according claims the smallest sum, the Postmaster General, who may adopt subjects: THE BIRTH OF LINCOLN mook The Northwest Products Exposi hogs always commanding a high postoffice department says: $6,640, Household furniture is suitable regulations as to sidewalks, COAL WM. MANSEL, AGENT $4.50 ANY PLACE IN CITY * j W HOM ui sons “ The City Delivery Service is now in operation in 1,641 cities, serving more than 46 , 000,000 people. On the 42,000 rural routes 20,000,000 people receive their mail from rural carrier*. This leaves a considerable percentage of our people, the majority of whom reside in towns and villages, without any form of free delivery service, and under the present laws there is no way by which the department can relieve this ine quality. • * It is believed, therefore, that an experimental service should be authorized.” To provide for the experimental inauguration of a town mail deliv ery service in communities having 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants, a bili known as the Oriest bill is now pending before the committee on Post Office and Post Roads of the House of Representatives. Prompt action commending the establishment of a town mail deliv ery system must be taken to secure the enactment of suoh legislation gates, numbering of houses, naming of streets, and the placing of approved mail receptacles at the door or entrance of residences or offices: Provided, That letter carriers of the town delivery ser vice shall upon appointment receive a salary not exceeding six hundred dol lars per annum, and after one year’s service may be promoted to seven hun dred and twenty dollars; and no carrier shall receive a compensation in excess o f nine hundred dollars per annum, at a postoffice which produced a gross postal revenue, for the preceding fiscal year, of less than six thousand dollars: Pro vided further, That such statutes as have heretofore been enacted with ref erence to the City Delivery and Rural Delivery Services are hereby extended to the town delivery service, as far as applicable, and the sum of three hundred thousand dollars is hereby ap propriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or as much thereof as may be necessary to enable the Postmaster General to establish a system of mail delivery in accordance with the provisions of this Act. FORD Automobiles 1912 F our Door T ouring Car $800.00 Fore Door R oadster $690.00 T hree Passenger R oadster $690.00 D elivery C ar ----------- --------- . - • $825.00 F. O. B. M ARSHFIELD FRED SLAGLE AGENT, COQUILLE, OREGON 1. Alexander Hamilton. tion will be held in Minneapolis 2. Capture of Ticonderoga and November 12 to 23, 1912. Oregon Crown Point. being one cf the sever states that 3. George Rogers Clark and will participate. the Conquest of the Western Fron "Jack” Yale, the pioneer travel tier. ing salesman, one who will be well The essays are limited to three remembered by old-timers, died re thousand words each, must be cently at his San Francisco home. written in the student’s own hand He first came to Coos Bay in 1876. writing on one side of tbe paper The use of 1,000 acres of land in and accompanied by a certificate from the teacher, stating that the 1 a body iu Lane county near writer is a pupil in a designated Springfield, has been given the class, and that the teacher believes state fish and game commission by the essay to be the pupil’s own different owners as a game pre serve. unaided work. The Oregon Fish Commission The essays must be signed by the writer, giving also his or her will soon receive 200,000 black- post-office address (including spotted and 50,000 rainbow trout county). They should be forward eggs from the Federal Fish Com ed to John K. Kollock, chairman mission to aid in stocking Oregon of committee, 313 Corbett building, streams. Portland, Oregon, and should The State Game Commission ot reach their destination not later Calitornia is trapping California than March 15, 1912. Essays uot quail and will send them to Oregon, complying with these conditions as it is desired to stock the Willam will be rejected. ette valley with these hardy, swift- In awarding these prizes the flying game birds. committee will be governed by Fitty pairs of Hungarian par considerations of: tridges direct from Hungary have 1. Originality. jnst been received at the state game 2. Accuracy of statement. farm at Corvallis. Some will be 3. Manner ol treatment. released and others held for the 4. Orthography, syntax and purpose of propagation. punctuation. A permanent exposition building 5. Neatness and legibility. to cover a city block and to cost These prizes are offered to en 5t.ooo.ooo is to be one ol the most courage love of country and the attractive features of the 1915 study of its history. Any additional inlormatiou Panama-Pacific International fair which may be desired will lie to be held in San Francisco. John B. Suedden lias the dis cheerfully furnished on application to the chairman of the committee. tinction of being the first United States mail carrier in Coos county. ohn ellinger He is a native of Coos county and addis ichols a graduate of the Oregon state nor ohn ollock mal at Monmouth. Marshfield is Committee. the city favored with free city delivery. WANTED AGENT A warrant issued in the name of To handle best Automobile built in America. Exclusive in this coun the state to the war department at try. Built by old time line manu San Francisco has been returned because banks refused to honor it. facturer. Self starting. Long wheel Oregon warrants have been sent to base. No deposit required. Prefer dealer now in bnsiness,but will con Germany, England and other coun sider live people who will enter bu tries, but the warrant sent to the war department is the first that has siness. This agency includes a com ever been returned. plete Correspondence Sales Course. Application has been made to the Largest discount ever offered. Deal supervisor of the Deschutes nation direct with factory. Address Sales I Manager, 608 Washington Street, al forest for a permit lo use part of the government domain for a tur ! Portland, Oregon. key ranch Twelve hundred tur — - Flirtation is a sport at which only keys will be herded, just as sheep a “ good sport" should play, and in are, and allowed to partake freely which only '-good losers" should of the grasshoppers which abound in that vicinity. take a chance. J 8. D J. G N J K. K , . , price, can a farmer afford to be without a good sized piece of land to produce a food that tor qua and quality is unsurpassed iu the production of pork at a low cost? Mr. Hog will do the digging him self. This patch of artichokes might have been, in my estimation, planted somewhat thicker, but whether the yield would have been greater is a question." Mr. Dryden goes more into de tails and makes the following sug gestions: “ A hog would eat twenty pounds a day for 150 days, and on this he would gain one pound a day. At $6 per hundred, live weight, this would be a gain of $9 It would take thirty hogs to the acre lo eat the 92,000 pounds. In other words, those artichokes could be make to yield 5270 per acre and the hogs do tbe work. How else can the same amount of profit per acre be realized?” There can be no doubt of the pro fit in artichokes as a hog feed wherever they do well. Wherever and whenever they have been tried in the Willamette Valley they have done well. Perhaps the profit would not be as large as Mr. Rat cliffe estimates, but there is no doubt of their giving a very large return per acre, and with less work than almost any other crop.— Ru ral Spirit. The K o Keel Klub celebrated iaooln’s birthday by bolding the first ladies’ night since its organi zation. The members of the Klub spared neither time nor expense to make it one of the most pleasant events of the Bocial season. The beautiful reception rooms were aglow with light and color and in the Klub rooms the ladies were en tertained with tbe various games that go to make Klub life so pleas ant. Tbe Modern Woodman hall, with its good floor, which is con nected to the Klub rooms by fold ing doors, bad keen secured for the occasion nnd Gage's Orchestra fur nished the splendid music to which the younger guests tripped away the delightful hours. About midnight a delicious re. past was served, and after all the new and old time songs were sung, the crowd dispersed delighted with the evening's entertainment, and at the thought that this affair was only the first of a series that will make the popular Ko Keel Klub even more popular. valued at $13,156,602. In livestock horses and mules lewd, with • value of $13,282,385; cattle follow’ with a valuation of $7,043,414 and sheep and goats are worth $4,515,058. Hogs are valu ed at $454,157 and dogs at $119,083. The total value of taxable pro perty as returned by the county boards is $784,118,857. Multnomah county’s portion of this sum is $295,333,62°. Of tbe thirty-four counties in tbe state Coos county stands tenth with an assessed valuation of $19.455.6*5- Wheeler county is lowest with $3,263,810. In an effort to improve the standard of intelligence in tbe pub lic schools of St. Joseph, Missouri, tbe Board of Education has arrang ed, for surgical operations at the expense oi the school district to re move adenoids from throats ot all afflicted pupils. Twelve children have been operated upon. It is the doing, not the saying, that makes the hero. FOR ADVERTISE^ LETTERS List of unclaimed letters remain ing in Coquille P. O. on Feb. 3 , 1912: Ht-alhel, Mrs. Dagle, Mrs. Fred Hancock, Miss Edith Anderson, Mrs. 8. W. Becket, Mr. Will Coulter, Mr. Frank Crank. Mr. W. L. Dunn, Geo. H. Goulder, Mrs. D. L. Hone. Mr. Axel. Rose, Mr. Charles Smith, Mr. Wm. Shine, W. S. U. 8. Reclamation Service Wallace. B. If not called for by Feb. 17 , 1912,1 same will be sent to dead letter office. A. F. ined P. M. . .» • - The ostrich is only secondarily responsible for the big millinery bills. It does not part with its feathers willingly. The man with his all invested in mining stocks is seldom in a posi. tion to rest on his ore. L An, SAKE I can sell to you, delivered at Coquille, special Lime in sacks, just what your ground needs, at $25.00 per ton. Super Phosphate at $30.00 per ton and also Nitrate of Soda at 3c per pound. No orders taken for less than % ton lots. SEE F. C. TRUE -AT DOW’S WAREHOUS