s n r o p s is o p tw d annual s t a x im iw t or Q u it s D iffe re n t. PEOPLE’S NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF W ILM INGTON. IN TH IC HTATE OF D E L A W A R E . On th« Slut »lay of December. 1911. mml tin* i ;«t» of Oregon, pursuant to law: I IHOOMB. r cr|v«*d during the year In cash ...........* !> t -iis, ind rents receive»! during year.. , r'n'in otlur sources received .luting year.. • T* * ts 1 in 1.000.000 00 Copyright. 1912, by Associated Lit erary Press. TJS*?1S’27 li?-i??-3 1 2S1.591.44 9 1.HMTT.01 ...................................................... .............................. $ 1,839,019.11 me DISBUHSEM ElfTS •Id during the year ................. ..................• • • $1,050,900.93 50.000.00 . paid during the year on capital stock., 331.484.08 rv n <1 salaries paid during the y e a r... _______ _ __ [ 44,987.99 ors.s, and fees paid during the J_____ year. To::- Amount of all other expei nditures.................................... _ _ _ 364,656.88 _______ Total expenditures ASSETS. Value of stocks and bonds owned .................................... 1 Loans on mortgages and collateral, etc......................... rash in banks and on hand. .................. ..... P r e m i u m s in cours of collection and In transmission r ! H UHS g?'25? 2? o i .i i « .si 134,«67.40 $2.033,286.55 Total asset* I a IABIEITTES $ 149,887.21 Gross claims for losses unpaid......................... Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding 645.611.33 risks ..................................................................................... 9.765.28 All other liabilities .............................................................. I 806.166.71 $108.554,161 00 Total liabilities .........- -.•*■ ...................................... Total Insurance in force December 31. 1911 ........................ BUSINESS Ilf O R IO O N TOB THE T E A * . Total risks written during the year Gross premiums receded during t ie year ...................................... P r e m iu m s returned during the year ........................ .............................. Losses paid during the year ............................................................... Losses Incurred »luring the y e a r .. . . . ............. • • • • • Total amount of risks outstanding in Oregon tv»- 31. 1911. $ I 3,641,148.00 17.989.07 18.477.31 8,631.15 11.483.90 1.460.726 00 PEOPLE’S NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY By Henry T Statutory re*ldmt «enerml agent r.d vttom.-v for " * rv,^ A LLEY, Secretary. XNK R p oO L T . m to p s is o r t i i aitmdax . statem ent o r m GENERAL FIRE ASSURANCE CO. OF PARIS FRANCE. On the 31st day of December. 1911, made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Oregon, pursuant to law INCOME. Premiums received during the year In ash ................$315.716.84 Interest, dividends, and rents receive 1 during y e a r . . . . 21,033.54 Total income ............... : ........................... .............................................. DISB UBS r ME . $ 69.394.40 Losses paid during the year..................................... 85.857.53 Commissions and salaries paid «luring tlie year 11,274.89 Taxes, licenses, and fees paid during t • year . . . 19.221.95 Amount of all other expenditures............................. Total expenditures ..................................................................................... A SSE T «. Value of stocks and bonds owned..........................................$603,790.00 Cash In banks and on hand....................................................... 64,490.19 Premiums in course of collection and 1:: transmission.. 71,761.83 Interest and rents due and accrued...................................... 8,317.82 $ $ 836,749.18 185 , 746.77 Total assets .......................................................... ................. $748,359.84 Less special deposits In New York and Ohio ............. $301,180.00 Total assets admitted In Oregon...................... INABILITIES. Gross claims for losses unpaid.......... ..................................... $ 20,443.25 Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks. 221,549.99 All other liabilities ..................................................................... 22,578.93 $ Total liabilities .......................................................... •*............................. Total lnsuranco in force December 31, 1911 ....................................... $ 264,572.17 $38.028.707.00 b u s in e s s 447,179.84 nr O r e g o n f o e - t h e t e a r . 675,733.00 11,962.64 1.186.14 12.64 1,012.64 510,000.00 Total risks written during tho year........................................................... Gross premiums received during the year ........................................... Premiums returned during the year........................................................... Losses puld during the yea r......................................................................... Losses Incurred during the year................................................................. Total amount of risks outstanding in Oregon Dec. 31, 1911........... GENERAL FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF PARIS, FRANCE. . . By FRED S. JAMES & CO F. E. SH A W , Manager. Representing and Authorized by the Firm of Fred S. James & Co., Unite' States Managers. Statutory resident general agent and attorney for service: F R A N K E. DOOLY. D a v e n p o r t, D o o ly & C o ., R e s id e n t A g e n t s , P o r tla n d , O r e . SYNOPSIS OP THE AN N U AL STATEM EN T OP TED Beaver State Merchants’ Mutual Fire Insurance Association OF PORLAND IN T H E STATE OF OREGON. On the 3lst day of December, 1911, made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Oregon pursuant to law: INCOICE. Premiums received during the year In cash ......................... $27,293.30 Received from all other sources ................................................... 3,607.38 Total Income ................................................... .................................................... $30,900.68 DISBURSEMENTS. Losses paid during tho year............................................................. $ Commissions and salaries during the year ............................. License and fees .................................................................................. Dividends to policy holders............................................................... All other expenditures ....................................................................... Total 9,380.61 7,724.86 26.20 4,905.00 2,162.68 expenditures............................................................................................. $24,149.26 ASSETS. Cash in bonk and on hand........................................................................ $ 4,351.17 Premiums In course of collection.................................................. 3,857.75 Reinsurance premiums ..................................................................... 1,638.77 Total admitted assets....................................................................................... $ 9,847.69 L IA B IL IT IE S . Dividends duo policy holders...........................................................$ 512.35 Commissions duo agents..................................................................... 24 5.25 Premiums on reinsurance ........................................................ .. . ’ 2,149.75 Total liabilities ................................................................................................. $ 2,907.35 BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR THE TEAR . Total risks written during the year.................................................................$1,428.113.00 Risks cancelled, terminated, or withdrawn during year ...................... 1.148,375 00 Total amount of risks outstanding in Oregon Dee 31. 1911 ................ 1.580,106.00 Beaver State Merchants’ Mutual Fire Insurance Association CJIAS. B. M ERRICK, Secretary. S\.\om s < ' VVM \|. STATEMENT OF Till: EMPIRE STATE SURETY CO vr w ’i rk, in tin ■ ' ■'<> <'f New York, on the 31st day of December, 1911, made to i I h * 1 r.Kuratic»- <'onmii vioner of the State of Oregon, pursuant to law: CAPITAL. Amount of capital paid up......................... ..................................................... | 300,000.00 INCOME. Premiums r.-ceived during the year.................................. $ 519,229.97 Interest. <: vid.-nds and n nts received «luring the vear 41,758.07 Inmme from other s »u.rc-s r.-eelv.-d during the year. 86.247.07 Total Income ...................................................................... I «47.215.11 DISBURSEMENTS. Losses paid during the > < ar. including adjustment expense*. «.!«■ ..................................................................... $ 392.817.78 Dividends paid during tin* year on capital stock................................... Commissions and salaries paid «luring the year........... 295.887.97 Taxes, licenses and f . . s paid «luring th«* year............. 19A8(L46 Amount of all other expenditures.............. .................... 50 494 49 Borrowed money, f 66,000; loss on sale of securities, * i 7-9*0 ................................................................................... 72.900 00 Total expenditures ......................................................... I 1 31 ,740.79 ASSETS. Value of real estate owned...................................................f 84,939 11 Value of stocks and bonds owned....................... 63!M00.00 Loans on mortgages and collateral, etc........! ! . . . . ! ! ! 23(L654 70 Cash 1n banks and on hand................................................ 59,397 49 Premiums In course of collection ami in transmission 110J14 66 Interest and rents »lue and accrued ind other assets 23.460.27 Total assets ....................................................................... $ 1.148,666.21 Less special deposits In any State (if any there be) loss liabilities ....................... .............................., , . $ 1844347 Total Assets admitted in O r e g o n . ! I ! ! ’ LIABILITIES. Gross claims for l«»ssca u tint hi . . . . . .. $ 228 518 96 Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks ...... . . . ............ ,-;•••.......... ...................................... W .m .M line for commlsplon nn.l l.r.tk.’. .1 . . ->q ,, All other liabilities......................... .......................... 4V 0M ts T -ia i lioMiii - . . . . 8 T ' t ' l premium* In f.. -o I n. . ml :l |t|| ............... UUSIltESS IN OREGON FOR TH E YEAR. r«tn! ri :kn written «luring t . j 6 1,180 12176 , , , ........* «•*.► • a P ml rturtnx the j I $ ■ 1 f t n t <> I 1. ny ...r . -1* 1 ............. Saved! By M. QUAD CAPITAI*. Amount of capital paid u p .. r 5 l , T he Sunflower Me to the Insurance commlasloner of ....................................... ........................ , 00 7„ s . 5 9 2 7 *’ ? 1 tJIJt» . # J, Jj , d i no ng in Oregon Dtctiwher 91, ,91 j 29lft4 BMPlItK STATK HI R B T I CO Hi Oha* I Brook*. H.eretary 11 nn^ attorney for service The Coquillef Herald First-Class Printing at Reasonable Prices “ I refused to be operated on, the morning I heard about Cardui,” writes Mrs. Elmer Sickler, of Terre Haute, Ind. “ I tried Car dui, and it helped me greatly. Now, I do my own washing and ironing.” One day ten years ago III the mouth of April a stranger who gave his name as William Hobson appeared In the vil lage o f Grafton in a certain middle state and engaged quurters at the inn for several months In advance. Tills was something never heard o f before and created quite a sensation. Tben the report went around that Mr. Hob son intended to build and operate a E 63 large woolen mill there, and that was sensation No. 2. Then a county consta ble had his suspicion aroused that the stranger was a fugitive from Justice, and that was sensation No. 3. The fourth was not far away. Mr. Hobson was a man of middle age. lie was quiet and kept to him Cardui is a mild, tonic self. With all the pumping they could do the villagers could find out very lit remedy, purely vegetable, tle about him. The most that could lie and acts in a natural man extracted from him was that he had ner on the delicate, woman made an important medical discovery and would furnish particulars later on. ly constitution, building On the 1st o f May. after looking up strength, and toning up around a bit, Mr. Hobson leased ten the nerves. In the past 50 acres o f land o f a farmer near the town, and the fourth sensation came years, Cardui has helped when it was known lie intended to more than a million women. raise sunflowers. No human being in You are urged to try it, that county had ever heard o f any one growing more than a hundred head, because we are sure that and here were to be thousands and it will d o you good. thousands of them! W hat could lie At all drug stores. done with them? n o w did they lit into a medical discovery ? Men and teams were hired, the ground prepared, and sunflower seeds were brought in and planted. The en terprise was discussed iu hundreds of homes and given liberal space in the county papers, but Mr. Hobson would not interview. Ills reply was “ wait.” When the stalks were knee high that field was good to see. It was a novelty that drew. Just about that time almost every person in the county received n circu FOR lar through the mails. It was about the new medical discovery, aud the eat was out o f the bag at last. Sunflower ten would speedily— Cure indigestion. Consumption in its first stages. Cancers and tumors if not too far advanced. Neuralgia and rheumatism. T H IR D D IS T R IC T Fevers rising from biliousness. Clear the system o f mnlaria. Strengthen the weak and make the I will impartially enforce the crimi strong stronger. For six weeks the sunflower crusade nal laws without fear or lavor. went on. Mr. Hobson did not seem Important to secure pub-. greatly interested. So fnr as could be He confidence iu ascertained, be was not the man put ting out the mlvertising, nor did he the courts ever say in so many words that sun flower tea would cure a complaint o f pd adv. any kind. It was not known till the sunflowers began to turn their yellow faces to the morning sun and hang their heads in modesty what be pro posed to do with the crop. Then indi viduals began to come to speak for seed. It was so much seed for 50 cents and no smaller orders taken. Mr. Hobson had 400 orders booked and was still writing down names when a merchant o f the town went to a money lender and said: •‘See here, Carter, there's a chance to make $1,000 right under our noses, and we are sitting around like bumps on a log!” “ What is i t ? ' George & Madison, Props. “ This part o f the state has gone cra zy about sunflower tea. That man Hobson is raking in the money as fast as he can reach out his arm. It's a quarter n head for sunflowers, but tlie General photographic mob is paying the price and glad to work, portraiture and get ’em.” viewing, developing “ But n obson hns got the only sun and printing for ama flowers for n hundred miles around.” “ All the I letter for us if we buy him teurs. Call and see us out and corner the supply. Why not and get price. Branch raise the price to 50 cents a head?" "But Is the ten any good?" persisted at Myrtle P o i n t . the cautious capitalist. "Hobson hns got more than 100 un solicited testimonials. Deacon Good- lK>y says it cured him o f kidney trou ble after he iiad suffered for fifteen | years. le t 's buy Hobson out." Only one thing on the face o f this earth made Mr. Hobson willing to listen to an offer. He had trouble I with his heart, and sunflower tea | would not cure It. During the next three days 100 peo ple came per day to buy and take sun flower bends. Some had driven a dis tance o f twenty miles. Tho stalks C. A. HARRINGTON, Prop. covering three acres had been sold and carried away by this time, when a New York wholesale druggist ap peared on the scene—that Is, ho said he was from the big city, and he cer tainly smelled o f drugs. He wanted the balance o f the crop at $2.000. Then Mr. Hobson did a mean tiling. Had his heart been all right he would never have thought o f doing such a thing. Ho sold those seven acres o f sunflowers as they stood to the mer chant and capitalist for $2,500 and was missing the next day. So was the New York wholesale druggist, in S . B . L e g h o r n $ 1 .0 0 S e ttin g three or four days the news got around, and buyers became scarce. What were seven acres o f sunflow S C . W h ite , $ 1 .5 0 ers good for to the buyers? Well, they got about $100 out o f tho enterprise nnd felt themselves lucky. In d ia n R u n n e r D u ck s , $ 2 .0 0 Mr. Hobson was reckoned to have made almost $2.000. and that wasn't bad for a summer's work. The get ting stuck wnsn" • bad ns what fol COQUILLE lowed. Every ■: • o f the sunflow- | er ten denied that he had made a fool o f himself, nnd the lie was passed j around and heads punched and to ! this day nothing will bring on a tight | so quick as the mention o f the swln- | die. The Woman’s Tonic HON. C. S. JACKSON PROSECUTING ATTORNEY COQUILLE STUDIO Skookum Restaurant Same Old Place Come and See E G G S J. C. W ATSO N Baby Chicks Day-old, Barred Rock C h i c k s from trap nested hens, #15.00 per hundred. FOR SALE The Norway Store, consisting of general meichsndise. three miles below Myrtle Point on bank of Co quille river, one.quarter mile from railroad station. Stock will invoice •bout 52,800. For terms and par- ! ticnlarg apply to Mrs. S. J. M c C los I et , Norway. Oregon | B o x 4 3 4 Plymouth Place Poultry ------------- Yards-------------- M a r s h fie ld , O r e . A J. SHERWOOD Pits. Mother— Kritz, I thought 1 told you a little while ago not to make that noise. Frits—This is quite a different noise, mummy. The first was with a drum, and this is with a trumpet.—Fliogcnde Blatter. R. E.SHINE, Vite Pres I. H. HAZARD. Ossidar 0 . C. SANFORD, Asst. Cashier FIRST N A T IO N A L B A N K op COQUIUÜB, ORBOOR. Biting. Spinks—What made him »0 annoyed? Winks—He told his wife she had no T r a n s a c t s « G e n e r a l H a n k i n g H u s i n e s s Judgment, and she Just looked over him critically from head to foot aud Bosrd of Directors. CorrespooilenU. said she was beginning to realize It.— New York Journal. R. O. Dement, A. .) Sherwood, National Bank o Commerce, New York Cl Took A w ay L. Hariocker, Iaaiah Hacker. H e r O p p o r tu n ity . “ What's the matter with your w ife?” “ Oh. I've Just acknowledged that I made a fool o f myself in lending Ham- mersley $25, and she's mad because there's no chance to go on arguing about it.” —Cbicago Record-Herald. C W ker Wonlworth N'lBaolt, Han Fraud Flr»t Nat'l Bank of Portlkn.1, Portland. Fred Von Pegcrt C. I. Kime KIME & VONPEGERT D ru m m e r*. The custom o f calling “ drummers” originated that in the early days sold goods about the nounced their arrival in ing a drum. 1,. II. Hazard, K. E. Hhiue. traveling men in the fact peddlers who country an town by beat MECHANIC AL S H O P G e n e r a l I'-lacks mi things I Wagon Making» Machine Work, Pattern Making and Casting, Automobile Work. T a m p ssts. Science attributes tempests to a gen eral internal movement o f detnobed masses o f aerial projectiles, wbleb traverse the general mass o f tho at mosphere like the discharge from a mitrailleuse. COQUILLE, OREGON !^ 0 < > O C 0 ^ 0 < > « 0 < > 0 0 < 1 F u r A n i m a l s In R u s s ia . The annual total o f animals killed for fur throughout the Russian empire Is nbout 20,000,000, o f which squirrels represent 13,000,000, hares 3,000,000 and marmots 1,000.000. There are 300,- 000 ermines and 40.000 blue foxes. Nosier & Norton T h e H u m m in g B ird , G ENERAL CO MMISSION Among migratory birds it is found that some o f the longest journeys are made by the smallest birds. The hum ming bird goes from tbe middle states to Mexico and even ns fnr as Soutli America nnd back again each year. And Wholesale Merchants H P o u lt r y V e n tila tio n . Chickens breathe 8,278 cubic feet of air iu twenty-four hours for every 1.000 pounds of live weight, while men re quire only 2,833 cubic feet nud cattle but 2,804; henco for poultry ventilation Is a mutter o f first importance. Feed, Flour, Ilay, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Agents DeLaval Seperators. Freight and Ticket Agents Steamers Fifield, Bandon and Alliance. Coal Oil, Gasoline and Distillate Always on Hand. Birds. Mamma—Wasn’t it nice o f the ravens to work for poor Elijah, Willie? Wil lie—Huh! Elijah's got nothing on pa. I beard him tell a fellow this morning about the bir<f lie's got working down in tho office.—Buck. T h . S o f t A n a w a r. COQUILLE, “ Dear me, Mrs. Billlnger, who would have thought o f seeing you down town? Are you shopping?” “ Oh, no. I'm hunting antelopes in South Africa."—Cleveland Plain Deal er. : OREGON Phone Home 1 1 1 Farmers 4 8 3 A ll S e rv e d . Lady—Couldn’t you possibly have saved your friend who was captured by the cannibals? African Traveler— Unfortunately not. When 1 arrived he was already scratched off the menu.— Boston Transcript. P r e c a r io u s P E A R T ’S C O A L E n te rp ris e . “ What happens to a man who carries water on both shoulders?" asked the youth who is learning politics. “ Well,” replied Ills preceptor, "1 bate to use slang; but. ns a rule, he gets soaked.” —Washington Star. L u m p $ 4 .o o P e r T o n ( DERIVEREI).) PHONE A n U n u s u a l P riv ile g e . 93 M A IN COQUILLE, ORE. The Bank o f England has the right to sell beer without a license. The privilege was grunted to the bank in its charter o f incorporation under tile great seal July 27. 1004 The bank doesn't take advantage o f the privilege A c c u ra te . Tho passengers in the Pullman were commenting on the winding river. "Porter.” inquired a lady, “ Is that the Missouri river?" “ Yes, ma’am—yes. ma'am, a portion o f it.” he replied.—Everybody's. Oaks and Melons A W it t y R e p ly. Dr. Held, tbe celebrated medical writer, was requested by a Indy o f lit ernr.v eminence to call at her house “ Be sure you recollect the address.' she said as she quitted the room—"No 1 Chesterfield street.“ "Madam.” said the doctor. “ I nm too great an admirer o f politeness not to remember Chesterfield and. 1 fear, loo selfish ever to forget No. 1.” the melons are gone - It takes a hundred years to grow an oak— three months will grow a melon. You can grow fou r hundred melon crops white one oak is growing and the oak will remain long after The Stickney Engine has the stability o f the oak. Nosier & Norton E EXCLUSIVE AGENTS NOSLER & NORTON -to-* > «?-• A n element of weakness in much of our resolving is that w e try to grasp too much of life at one time. W e think of it as a w hole, instead oi taking the days one by one. -o tP g O O C H OLD R ELIABLE— EQUIPPED WITH WIRE!,ESS STEAMER BREAKWATER A L W A Y S ON TIME S a ils fro m C o o s B a y e v e r y S a tu rd a y at serv ice o f tide. S a ils fro m P o rtla n d e v e ry W e d n e s d a y at PAUL L. STEHLING. Agent L IF E . Coquille, Ore. AuesSSki His Little Joke. “ Killed my old cow yesterday.” said Farmer Haw. “ and what do you s'pose I found inside?" “ I dunno,” snld Farmer Heck “ Sixty dollars in gold coin.” “ Well. I swan! You never suspected anything like that, Illram ?" “ No. Jabez. I didn't. But I often used to wonder what made her milk so rich.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. B U IL D IN G A - I 1 -C 9 a. m. Phone Main 181 C i- t o -538^ > SB FC -t> -Vsr Z -O ; Life is a mosaic, and each tiny piece must b e cut and set with skill. BEE SUPPLIES Bee Hives, Supers, Metal Spaced Frames, Sections, Section Holde-s, Slotted Wood Separators, Division, Boards. Comb Foundation. Orders taken for Italian «Jucens. Incorporated. Manufacturers of The Celebrated tiergmann Shoe The Strongest and Nearest Water » oof shoe made for loggers, miners prospectors and mill men. 21 Thurman Street P o rtlan d , O m o o n . J. h. OERDING C O Q U IL L E , O R E G O N -