tJThe 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, MARCH 14, 1912
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ACCIDENTS AMONG
OUR LABORING MEN
Fred Belloni, a member of the
Coquille Mill company, met with a
painful accident while working in
the engine room of that institution
last Saturday afternoon. His foot
caught in a fly-wheel quite severely
injuring it, so much so that it is
probable it will not be in normal
condition for a long time. Mr.
Belloni has been in the employ of
the mill company about five years,
careful and painstaking and this is
his first accident in all that time.
While confined at home be is occu
pying his time at readiug, patiently
waiting for nature to heal the dam
age.
G A G E ’S The Best Lasts Longest
To Parents, Teachers and Young
People of Coos County :
The boys and girls of Coos county
are entitled to every advantage that
modern conditions make necessary.
Older and, to some extent, more
favored states find that the proper
employment of children during their
leisure hours at borne has not only
better fitted them for useful lives,
but has greatly contributed to the
general prosperity of the communi
ty. It is claimed that the school
children of Kansas have doubled
The Uandon Recorder gives au
the wealth of that state. We be account of a horrible accident which
lieve that the boys and girls of Ore occurred to R. W. Tucker au em
When Alonso Gesuer succumbed
gon are just as intelligent, just as ployee of the Qeo W. Moore Lum
energetic, just as susceptible of ber company at that place Thursday to heart trouble and dropsy there
great achievements as the boys and last. While crowding a resaw to passed away one of Salem’s oldest
girls of Kansas, or any other state its fullest capacity a sliver caught and most highly respected pioneers.
In the Union. To prove that this his arm pulling it into the saw. He was a pioneer in the true sense
is true, and to inject into our school splitting his right band and arm so of the word, having crossed the
training an element of practical badly that it was necessary to am plains with hispareuts66 years ago.
everyday home making, we are putate the arm half way to the el He reached his seventieth birthday
planning for this county a contest bow. Mr. Tucker is cheerful that a few days ago. He served as a
member of the legislature and on
in gardening, poultry and stock nothing more serious resulted.
the city couucil. He also served
raising, and home work.
nine
years in the State Militia and
Every phase of the competition is
W. H. Lingo while cutting wood
open to boys and girls. Each is to near Marshfield was badly injured for nearly three years of this time
do the planting and cultivating of by a wedge which he was driving was captain of Company i, Second
the produce and the selecting and flying from its place and striking Regiment, Oregon National Guard.
packing ol the fruit he or she ex him just above the eye making a Mr. Gesner was a member of the
Masonic and Woodmen lodges at
hibits.
serious wound. The wedge was of
The Coos County Fair Associa steel and after striking the unfortu Salem.
tion is planning to hold a fair in the nate man deflected and fell fifteen
Frank Smith, who for many years
county sometime in September and feet from where he was standing,
made his home at the Knapp hotel
we have requested that one day be indicating a powerful force.
and who was known all along the
given us for an exhibit of the best
coast as one of the "landmarks’’ of
the school children have raised or
made. In the event that the coun thankfully received from those who Port Orford. died at that city last
ty fair should not be held a special think this enterprise should be en week. The deceased was born in
school fair to exhibit the enterprise couraged, and who feel that they Hamburg, Germany, and came to
ol our young people, in answer to can give something to reward the the United States with his parents
this request, will be held in Co young people who win in this con when six years old. In 1859 he
quille about the middle of Septem test. Please send a list of your went to Port Orford, where he was
ber. We believe that gardening contributions to the office of the boss of the lighters for shipping
and home work in cooperation with county school superintendent as lumber from Harry Tichenor’s mill,
soon as you have decided as to the which made “ Port Orford Cedar”
parents will help to solve the prob
assistance you can give.
first known to the world. Mr. Smith
lem of finding profitable work for
Very respectfully yours,
was 76 years of age and is survived
the town boys and girls as well as
R. S. K n o w lto n ,
by
no known relatives
for the country children.
L F. F a l k e n s t e i n ,
We recommend that contestants
M in n ie M c C i . o s k e y ,
After a brief illness Mrs. S. B.
get their advice and all necessary
M. C. H o t t o n ,
Irvine, au Oregon pioneer of 1852,
assistence from the Oregon Experi
W . H . B u n ch ,
mental station at Corvallis, who e
passed away at the age of 74 years
Coos
County
Board of Education.
literature and written instructions
at Corvallis, Oregon. At 15 with
J. T . M c C o r m a c ,
will be sent to any one ftee on ap
her parents she made the long trip
As$t. Supt.
across the plains to Oregon, jour
plication.
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neying by ox team and settling
Keep the fact constantly in mind
finally in Linn county. With pa
that quality, not quantity, will he
tience and courage she endured all
the standard by which awards will
Most any one can be an editor.
the privations and hardships inci
be made; therefore limit the amount
All the editor has to do is sit at a
dent to pioneer life iu the West, and
but strive tor the best.
desk six days out of the week, tour
as a wife and mother bore her part
All poultry and stock entered for
weeks of the month, and twelve
prizes should be pure blood, but not
in the building of Oregon.
months of the year and “ edit” such
necessarily registered.
stuff as th is:
At the proposed fair prizes will
Mrs. Eliza Robison Stilwell, who
"Mrs. Jones of Cactus Creek let a
be given for the best of the follow
can-opener slip last week and cut died at her home near Dayton, Ore
ing: field corn, sweet corn, popcorn,
gon, was born on a donation claim
herself in the pantry.”
musk and water melons, pumkins,
"Mr. Miller’s judgment slipped south of Dayton, in 1850. She at
squashes, all garden and field vege
while getting candy for a customer tended Lafayette and Portland
tables, (necessary to the daiiyman)
the other day and injured him on academies and completed her educa
corn, vetch, peas, carrots, beets,
tion at Willamette university, grad
the weigh.”
kale, grasses and clovers, including
" A mischievous lad of Piketown uating in 1871. With the exception
alfalfa, common to this country;
of five years she lived continuously
any article manufactured from our threw a stone and struck Mr. Pike on the home farm.
native timber; bread, cake, canned in the alley last Tuesday.”
“ John Doe climbed on the roof
fruit, jelly; mendiug, darning, sew
Sylvester Casebeer, 62 years of
ing, flowers, truits and berries, of his house last week looking for
age, an Oregon pioneer of 1852 and
a
leak
and
fell,
striking
himself
on
chickens, ducks, turkeys, calvesj
a resident of Douglas county practi
pigs, sheep, goats— all ta be of this the back porch.”
cally all of his life, died recently at
"W hile Harold Green was es
year’s growth.
Roseburg. His parents came to
The girls’ skill in sewing is to be corting Miss Violet Wise from the
Oregon when he was one year old,
shown by exhibiting each article church social last Saturday night a
and in 1853 settled on a donation
made. The garments may be white savage dog attacked them and bit
claim on South Deer creek, east of
or colored, plain or ruffled, hand or Mr. Green several times on the
Roseburg.
machine made. Neatness and ta.te public square.”
rather than elaboration will be the
"Mr. Fong, while harnessing a
Miss Anna Fulton, a member of
standard. No extra credit will be broncho last Saturday was kicked
a pioneer family of Sherman coun
given for the use of lace, embroi just south of his cornctib.”
ty and a prominent member of the
dery, or expensive materials. In
With the opening of the great Order ot the Hestern Star in this
cookery each girl may exhibit one
loaf of bread, one cake, one pint or cofferdam in Havana harbor more state, died at Portland after an ill
quart of fruit, one glass of jelly, or than half completed, the U. S. army ness of several weeks. Miss Fulton
any, or all, of these. All work e x engineers believe that, barring mis was born in Sherman county fifty
hibited must be done by the girl haps, what remains of the old battle years ago.
ship Maine will be floated soon. As
without help
P. F. Bailey an aged resident of
For this contest the children will soon as it is clear of the dam, the
be divided into two classes, those hull, under convoy of the cruisers Sherwood, Oregon, died at Portland
twelve years or older, and those North Carolina and Birmingham, as the resul, of a fall, when a blood
under twelve years of age. Those will be towed far out into the Gulf vessel in his head was ruptured.
of each class whose exhibit is ad of Mexico, and there with appropri He had Eieen a resident of Sherwood
judged the best will receive prizes ate ceremonies will be consigned to for forty years, and operated a
of equal value. Prizes for second the final resting place in the deep, large onion ranch.
and third best of all exhibits will be
Better one small cheer than a big
Mrs. Charlotte Dunn, 84 years
given
We wish to say that suitable bowl.
old, was recenty buried in Portland.
There are more muscles in a rat's She had been a resident of that city
prizes of stock, poultry, commodi
ties, and cash contributions, will be tail than in a man’s hand.
35 years. ,
ANYONE CAN BE AN EDITOR
COAL COAL
Try
R iv e r to n
COAL
THE PASSING OF
OREGON’S PIONEERS
IN S A C K S ,
FULL
WEIGHT AND WASHED
WM. MANSEL, AGENT
$4.50 ANY PLACE IN CITY
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ITEMS FROM A SINFUL OF WASTE PUBLIC MONEY
ALL SOURCES
Albany has prohibited public
dances by an ordinance recently
passed.
The United States spends every
year $11,500,000 for education in
art alone.
At Cottage Grove the receipts
from the dog tax are to go into the
library fund.
A new league has been founded
in France, entitled ‘‘The League
Against the Lending of Books.”
The McMinnville High School
has perhaps the only class of high
school boys in cooking in the state.
Lnther Burbank, the "plant wiz
ard," celebrated his sixty-third
birthday March 7, at San Francisco.
Riverton, Oregon, March 12.
Editor Herald :
There is probably no public insti
tution more abused than the county
roads of Coos county- I shall name
the abuses as they come in order:
1st.— The allowing of the county
road to become a public pasture for
all stock and an exercise lot for the
dairy herd.
2nd.— The unlawful width county
roads are being fenced.
3rd.— The unlawful use of the
county roads for a dumping ground
for all kinds of rubbish.
4th.— Ths use of narrow tires es
pecially in the wet season.
I could add more to this list but
probably the first is the worst. I
have seen roads improved and grav
eled at big expense and afterwards
torn down by dairy herd. This is
poor management and causes poor
roads, and keeps more people from
locating in Coos county than any
thing else. I do not think there is
one supervisor in the dairy districts
but what it costs hundreds of dol
lars to repair damage done by the
dairy herd. There is a piece of road
on the river bank below Coquille
where the stock have traveledjup
and down so often in search of
grass, tramping up the sod into
mud, that the freshet coming and
going has formed a trough in the
road causing the bank to cave into
the river so bad that there are many
places hardly wide enough tor a
wagon to get by. The county will
have to buy another strip of land ot
the farmers for a road. I might
add that there are a number of law
abiding citizens who keep tbeir
cows off the county road and are
anxious that their neighbors do the
same.
Now these are facts that should
be looked into and it is up to the
officials to order notices to be put
up to keep the stock off the county
road and the order will be complied
with as it was once before.
PER YEAR $1.50
TO INOCULATE THE
SOIL OF OREGON
Free bacteria for the raising of
leguminous crops, such as alfalfa,
peas, beans aud clovers, will be fur
nished to the farmers of Oregon
upon a request to the department ot
bacteriology at the Oregon Agricul
tural College, Corvallis. The ex
perimental experts have been busy
preparing th's material for the in
oculation of soil for some time, and
will send full directions for its use
with each culture. Those desiring
the material should send their re
quests at least two weeks in advance
of the time they wish to use it stat
ing what leguminous crops they de
sire to raise, and how much land
they intend to plant.
Any one who has examined the
roots of a thrifty plant of this sort
of crop knows that there are found
on the roots small lumps, known as
nodules. Scientific study has shown
these to be caused by bacteria in
fecting the roots, and that unless
these are present, a good stand will
not be obtained, showing that the
bacteria are necessary to the full
growth of the plant. If the soil
does not contain the bacteria, a
good catch of the crop may not be
expected. By using these cultures
the proper bacteria may be intro
duced into the soil. Where a crop
has never been grown on a particu
lar piece of land, as where alfalfa
is being introduced, or where the
stand obtained has not been satis
factory and it is known that the
lack was not that of sufficient lime,
such cultures can be used with good
effect. They will not, however,
correct lime deficiency, nor will the
bacteria thrive in acid soil. B’or
this reason, lime should be applied
where needed before the culture is
used.
Miss Ida Adams, a graduate of
Simmons college, Boston, and a resi
dent of Campton, N. H.,has taken
the position ot librarian of the city
of Marshfield.
Harry Beard, a trusty, who es
caped from the penitentiary about
Business of all kinds in Coquille
three months ago, has been caught
will be suspended on the coming of
at Bend. He was working as a
St. Patrick’s day this year as it oc
teamster when he escaped.
curs on Sunday next. National
William McCaleb of Cottage
affection and pride swell ever strong
Grove has what he claims is one of
in the hearts of the sons and daugh
the latgest calla lilies ever raised in
ters of Erin, and thousands of peo
that valley. It stands four feet tall
ple throughout the country revere
and is a healthy, sturdy specimen
the day stronger than almost any
of the lily family.
other festal occasion.
Seventy-two vessels, aggregating
St. Patrick’s day, and I ’m far away
14,918 tous (gross), were construct
From the isle of emerald sheen,
And many a year a dear grave there
ed in the United States in February
Has been wearing of the green.
as reported by the Department of
Ah, 'tis here I am in freedom’s land—
Please God I’m here to stay—
Commerce and Labor, the largest
But my heart and soul go home each
registering 6,106 tons.
year
For to spend St. Patrick’s day.
A Leavenworth & Western pass
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enger train was stalled in snow
That the mining business in
drifts three days near Clay Center,
southern Oregon is beginning to get
Kansas, the crew and passengers
back to its former good condition
of a few years ago is evidenced by
being obliged to subsist on milk
the miners who are frequently re
and eggs for nearly a week.
turning to Grants Pass with plenty
The
anti-capital punishment
of spare change in the shape of raw
measure for Massachusetts, which
gold. Charles Burkhalier exhibit
ed a nugget which weighed a value
might have saved the lives of three
. A F arm er .
of $120.
doomed men, including Rev. Clar
ence V. T. Richeson, was defeated
in the house of representatives on been covered it will bear 52 pennies
There being 1,760 yards in a mile,
March 7.
a total of 91,520 pennies will be
Some square timbers, considera
stuck to a mile of adhesive tape
ble lumber, redwood shakes and
when the campaign is finished.
other articles of wreckage, probably
Scientific Study Methods is the
from the Ida McKay, which capsiz
title
of a course that has just been
ed off the coast recently, have been
washed asboie on the beaches of added to the curriculum of the cor
respondence school of the Universi
Port Orford.
From 50,000 to 75,000 school ty of Oregon, at Eugene The pur
children have been enlisted in gar pose is to guide the teachers of the
den contests throughout the state. slate in the outside reading that they
State Superintendent of Schools, L. are re<luired t0 do bV ,aw- in ° rder
R. Alderman, is of the opinion that t0 hold ,heir «rtifieates. The course
Oregon will have the greatest school j is. specially designed to be of ser-
cbildren’s exhibit ever displayed in v'ce to lbe teacbers 'n lbe rural,
the United States
| communities where libraries arc not
accessible.
The plan to consolidate the north -1 . . .
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A citizen of Lower Santa Clara’
west customs will soon come before I ~ ,.r . .
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California, has started quite exten-
the ways and means committee at . , .
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sively in the raising of fancy hogs.
Washington. D. C.. and will proba-1 T
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In addition to his herd he received
bly be recommended to the house r
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from an uncle in Ciermany two thor-
for adoption. It piovides for one;
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Angora pigs, the first of
customs district in Oregon, that of 1 .
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the kind in that section. Their
Portland, with subports ot entry at I .
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pelts when tanned are said to make
Empire City, Astoria and Newport.1
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beautiful rugs, and the hair is also
To obtain one mile ot pennies to- supposed to be very valuable for
ward helping l>ear the expense of making paint brushes and rats. II
the construction of the new I’resby- he has good luck in raising them,
terian church at \\ alia Walla, \\ ash- he will no doubt beat the cat farm
ington, Is the object of the members for profiits.
of that church and Sunday school.
Light housekeeping makes heavy
Members have been given narrow
strips of adhesive plaster, one yard bread.
-A T DOW’S
in length. Pennies will adhere to
There is a big difference between
tbe tape and when one strip has a butterfly and a fly in the butter.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
NEWS FROM
THE WIRES
(Associated Press from varied sources)
Railroad King's Great Weahk
The final appraisal of the estate
of the late Edward H. Harriman of
Arden to determine the amount of
the state transfer tax was held at
Goshen Msrch 12 . The present
indications are the value of the es
tate will be in the neighborhood of
one hu-'dr.vj million dollars. Of
that sum, one per cent will be
turned into the state treasury. The
estate is the largest ever probated
in New York.
Timber and Stone Entries
The Supreme Court of the United
States today declined to block the
Secretary ot the Interior in his re
fusal to accept applications for land
under th« timber and stone laws
when the applicants do no< swear
they have seen the land. The case
was that of Mary Ness of Oregon,
who presented an affidavit that ehe
was physically unable to inspect the
land personally.
Pioneer Salmon Canner Dead
The death at San Francisco of
George W. Hume, aged 75 years,
brings to the fore the fact that he
was the pioneer salmon canner of
the United States. Mr. Hume came
from a family of fishermen and can-
ners, the scene of operations for
scores of years being the Kennebec
river, in Maine. He came west with
the rush of goldseekers and in 1856
engaged in the industry of canning
salmon. He retired from busineas
in 1892 .
Norwegian Flag at South Pole
The claims of Captain Amundsen,
the Norwegian polar explorer, of
bis discovery of {the south pole,
have been unqualifiedly accepted by
English scientists. The pole is a
broad plateau just over a range of
mountains. He planted the flag of
his country there and conferred the
name of "K iD g Haakon VII P la
teau” upon the newly discovered
land.
Darrow to be Tried
May 14
Clarence Darrow, the Chicago at
torney who defended the McNama
ra brothers, will be brought to
trial May 14 , on the charge of at
tempting to bribe a juror in the
trial of the dynamite conspirator*.
Big Cougar Shot in Umatilla
The first cougar to fall in the war
of extermination in Umatilla coun
ty was a female weighing 150 pounds
and measuring seven feet from tip
to tip. Seven shots from a .22 cal
iber rifle were required to put an
end to its harmful existence.
FOR
LAND’S
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 l/ i ton lots.
SEE
F. C. TRUE
WAREHOUSE-