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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1912)
flT h e Herald, the old estab lished reliable newspaper o( the Coquille Valley in which an ‘ ‘ad’ always brings results. T he C oquille H erald fljo b Printing— New presses, new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, VOL. 29, NO. 24 Our Presidential Possibilities Series Our Presidential Possibilities Series ............................... ^ Try COAL COAL G A G E ’S The Best Lasts Longest Riverton COAL IN S A C K S , F U L L W E IG H T A N D W A S H E D W M. MANSEL, AGENT $4.50 ANY PLACE IN CITY Scene of the Republican Conventiot 0 b y M o ffe tt WEJLJAM J b y A m e r ic a n P r e s s A s s o c ia tio n . M 0W A » TAIFT TM EO PÄ E. RO O SEVELT HOUGH he haa repeatedly declared that lie Is not a candidate for till Chicago nomination, the belief persists that circumstances might arise which would prevent Colonel Roosevelt from refusing the honor If It should be thrust upon him. Unique among ex-presidents, he holds a posi tion of unquestionable tactical advantage which Inis for months made polit ical observers bang upon his words nnd attach Importance to his very silences. W ith the prestige of his forceful personality and ills picturesque career. Theo dore Roosevelt is a figure In the presidential eoniesl as to whose action all other competitors must feel a nervous uncertainty until the winner hrensti the tape in the Coliseum next June. T O uncertainty attaches to the candidacy of the president for a renomlnn- tlon. “Nothing but death can keep me out of the fight now.” were the N words in which he stated his attitude. Until his appointm ent in 1000 as first civil governor of the Philippines his public career had been entirely Judicial. In 1003 he declined an appointm ent by President Roosevelt to the su preme court and the next year accepted the w ar portfolio in his cabinet He "kept the lid on” in Cuba as provisional governor in loon By order of the president In 1007 he visited Panam a, Cuba and Porto Rico nnd later the Phil ippines and Japan, returning by way of Russia, his nomination for the presi dency following soon after his return. He received 321 electoral votes as ae 'lp st 102 cast for William Jennings liryau. ITEMS FROM ALL SOURCES A bunch of green wild currants and a half pint of wild strawberries are reported as being on exhibition at Cottage Grove. A man in Los Angeles recently gave a dinner to five ot his friends, the menu consisting of— puree of alfalfa, roasted alfalfa roots, with al falfa au gratin, alfalfa salad, alfalfa pudding and alfalfa cafe noir. W. J. Bryan will visit Portland on his present speecbraaking tonr of the west, and will deliver a polit ical address there February 29. The place has not been selected as yet by the local committee, nor has Mr. Bryan indicated along what lines he will direct his remarks. Major Mclndoe, corps of engi neers, U. 8. A..has made the remark that ships will probably be able to go through the Panama canal by the fall of 1913, but nothing except government ships will pass until the official opening on January 1 , 1915 The government vessels will be sent through to make tests and see that everything is in proper working order. The Educational Bureau at Washingtion, D. C., has named the three educational institutions in Oregon which meet the require ments of the system of standardiza tion of the different schools of the country. Those selected are: Uni versity of Oregon, first place; Pa cific Universty, second place; Wil lamette University of Salem, third place. The larger educational institutions of the east, such as Harvard and Yale, will now re ceive the graduates of there three Oregon schools for post-graduate work without an entrance exami nation. Dr. K. C. Babcock, who is connected with the Educational Bureau at Washington, investigat ed the standing of the Pacific Uni versity under the direction of Superintendent of Public tion Alderman. Instruc W. B. Cox, a Marshfield consta ble, sixty-one years old, claims to be the oldest native-born Orego nian. Eugene Moore, aged nine, fo Woodville, is said to be the young est hunter in the west. While on his way home from school one night he shot and killed a cou gar which measured over eleven feet from tip to tip. His dog treed it. The date on which the Oregon commissioners may select a site for the state building at the Panama- Pacific exposition at San Francisco, will be determined Ibis week. Ore gon is to have first choice in the matter of sites and the Oregon com missioners are anxious to make the selection in order to begin work on the plans. An association, to be known as the Foiest Grove Shropshire Sheep Association, is being organized in that city. It is the object of those promoting the organization to get enough stockholders interested, so that a farm of from one to five hun dred acres, may be rented, where sheep will he raised. Should the plans of the association mature, an nual sales will be held in Forest Grove, at which sheepman from all sections of the western states will be present. The following proclamation has been issued by Governor West: "Now, therefore, I, Oswald West, Governor, by virtue of the authori ty in me vested, do hereby appoint and proclaim Thursday, February 22, to be known as Colonist Day throughout the State of Oregon, and I earnestly recommend that all people on this day write their friends and relatives in other states showing to them the great possibil ities of Oregon for the farmer, the stockraiser, the dairyman, the poul- tivnian, the fruitgrower for all productive industries— in order that those whom Oregon needs may be induced to join with us in the up building and the development of our magnificent state.” TME CMCAG® COLISEUM IIE building lu which the delegates to the Rt'iiubilcau national convention will assemble on June 13—the Chicago Coliseum—Is on part of the ground _ occupied by the world's fair of 1803. It is in W abash avenue, near Fif teenth street, a few blocks south of the hotel center. It was erected In 190(1 on the site of the Libby prison exhibit, and was dedicated by President Mo- Klnley. The stone wall and turreted gate which stood In front of the old building are seen at the main entrance. It Is 300 feet long, 150 feet wide nnd has a seating capnclty of 10,000 people, which enu be somewhnt Increased on occasion. It has nn Immense steel arched roof and hns no posts to obstruct the view. A great balcony runs around the four sides of the hall. There are twenty exits, many windows and a glass roof. The num ber of delegates will be 1,074. an increase of 94 since 1908. This Is due to the reapportionm ent by congress, which increased the size of the house of representatives from 391 to 433 members or 430 with the represen tation from the new states of Arizona and New Mexico The distribution of delegates will be as follows: Alabama, 24; Arizona, 6; Arkansas, IS; California, 20; Colorado, 12; Con necticut, 14; Delaware, 6; Florida, 12; Georgia, 28; Idaho, 8; Illinois, 58; In diana, 30; Iowa, 26; K ansas, 20; Kentucky, 20; Louisiana, 20; Maine, 12; Mary- Aind, 10; M assachusetts, 30; Michigan, 30; Minnesota, 24; Mississippi, 20; Mis souri, 30; Montana, 8; Nebraska, 10; Nevada, 0; New Hampshire, 8; New Jer sey, 28; New Mexico, 8; New York, 90; North Carolina, 24; North Dakota, 10; Ohio, 48; Oklahoma. 20; Oregon, 10; Pennsylvania, 70: Rhode Island, 10; South Carolina, 18; South Dakota, 10; Tennessee, 24; Texas, 40; Utah, 8; Vermont, 8; Virginia, 24; W ashington, 14: W est Virginia, 10; Wisconsin. 20: Wyoming, 0. Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii. Philippines and Porto Rico 2 each. T P. M. Hall-Lewis, Coos County Fruit Inspector, who has just re turned from Portland, Hood River, and Corvallis, secured some valua ble information concerning the pro posed plant here for the manufac ture of spraying fluids. He finds that it will be impossible to get the plant in operation before the bloom ing season, but will have it ready for the summer spraying. He plans to put in a plant with a capacity of about 20 barrels per day- It pro bably will be a cooperative plant and will probably be located in the Coquille valley, as the fruit growers are better oigauized there to han dle it. The- company will be or ganized soon -Coos Bay Times. JACKSON A CANDIDATE EEECTION EXPENSES ELECTRIC RAILWAY 1912 FOR OREGON MARSHFIELD ROSEBURG FDR DISTRICT ATTORNEY A telegram to the Oregon Journal from Roseburg under date of Feb ruary 17 states that city is promised a railroad to Coos Bay on the con dition that $100,000 be paid to the builders upon its completion. This proposition was made to Roseburg yesterday by J. Arnold Doyle of Spokane, Wash., who says his com pany h is the capital and means business. Mr. Doyle and associates have visited Roseburg several times within the past few weeks, and have gone over the proposed line of railroad a number of times, as have also their engineers. Judge J. M. Upton of Marshfield also received a like message on the same date from the same source ask ing for a bonus ol $100,000 from Marshfield, to be paid after the line is constructed. It is quite certain that both Rose burg and Marshfield will pay any responsible company the sum asked upon the conditions set forth, and it now looks very favorable for the early completion of the long looked for railroad. A Roseburg newspaper states that it is intimated by frieuds of Hon. C. S. Jackson, ex-representa tive of the twenty-loutth legislative assembly of the State of Oregon, that he may allow bis name to go before the people of Douglas, Coos and Curry counties as a candidate for prosecuting attorney. His friends say that there is some sen timent for a change in that office. Mr. Jackson’s friends say he is a native son of Oregon pioneers of 1853, a shrewd lawyer, splendidly qualified to fill that office. He was graduated from the University ot Denver, Colorado, in 1898, since which time he has been in constant practice of law at Roseburg, Oregon, with marked success. He was one of the leaders in the 24th legisla tive assembly of Oregon, and was the author ot the most comprehen sive and equitable railroad commis sion ever introduced. He is wide ly known as one of the leading law yers of the Oregon bar. With an army of judges and clerks employed and with all the expensive machinery in o peration the two elections for 1912 -general and primary elections— will cost the taxpayers of Oregon more than $125,000 at a conseivative estimate with all the figures shaved to the lowest possible margin. According to figures on file in the office of the secretary of state there will be 1397 election boards. Kach of these boards will have three judges and three clerks, or a total of 8,382 persons who will be em ployed at each election, or 16,764 persons at both the primary and general elections. There are 1082 precincts, the 1397 election boards including boards in those precincts for which two sets of boards are provided. Among the m an y new students registering at the University of Oregon for the spring semester, is! Louis Bond, a fifteen-year-old lad ' in knee trousers. His record from the Eugene High School is most A. H. Hermann of Handon has remarkable every grade through • - purchased a fine anto from J. C. out the course having been A. Little George was repeatin'» the ! Walling known as "Reo the Fifth.” Lord’s Prayer When he got as \ The car is equipped with self-starter The surgeon who ordered bis far as “ Give us this day onr daily and all np-to-date modern conven operation for appendicitis had inside bread,” be paused a moment, then iences. The machine will be de information as to ivhat was the added, fervently, “and molasses.” livered April 1. How much can the pullet? DECORATION DAY TO OBSERVED IN COQUILLE The Grand Army of the Repub lic and the Women’s Relief Corps are at work formulating a program for the proper observation of Deco ration Dav. A call has been made for a meeting on Tuesday, March 5. at which time various sub committees will tie chosen to act in conjunction with the general com mittee. It is highly fitting that the Grand Army and its auxiliary should take the initiative in render ing homage to our Nation’s heroes and all patriotic citizens will join in proper commemoration of the occa sion the day calls forth. FOR SA KE 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 WAREHOUSE-