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lished reliable newspaper of
the Coquille Valley in which
an “ad” always brings results.
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T he C oquille H erald
C O Q U IL LE , COOS C O U N TY , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , J U L Y 25, 1912
NO. 45
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BEEF CATTLE BRIEFLY TOLD
GREAT ALASKAN EARTHQUAKE ONE HUNDRED ONE PRESENT
TO SUPPLY THEIR WORKMEN EVENTS OF T H E P A ST WEEK
Accoturt Published by U. S. Geslsfical Sum y Hospitality at Hone of Mr. and Mrs. J. L Roy
— T it y Folk*” Enjoy Brief Touch
• f the Quake at Yalntat Bay —
o f Life on the Farm
Greatest in History
Two Beer* Required Each Day far Smith-Power* Transpiring in OregM BoileJ D m In
Logging Company Buy* Gteria
Number t f Line* and Yet
Ranch for Stock Farm
Ike Sekjed Underlined
The United States Geological Sur
The Order of the Eastern Star,
vey has just published an account wishing to pay some mark of re
ot one of the ten greatest earth spect to that estimable couple, Mr.
quakes of historic times— that in and Mrs. J. L. Boy, decided to hold
the Yakutat Bay region of Alaska. a picnic supper at their ranch on
Although there is no especial rela Thursday, July 18. All members
tion between earthquakes and vol of the Star with their families left
canic eruptions, the recently report for the ranch at 2 p. m., going up
ed earthquake at Fairbanks as well and returning home in the automo
as the activity among Alaskan vol biles which had been so kindly
canoes gives perhaps added interest placed at the disposal of tbe com
to this account of a natural phe mittee for the afternoon.
nomenon of another class.
Those who could not come at two
The Yakutat Bay earthquake oc o’clock arrived in time for the pic
curred on September 3, 1899, and nic supper which was held at six
was followed during the next three o’clock. Sandwiches, salad, cake,
weeks by mauy less violent shocks. coffee and ice cream, in quautiti s
The area of greatest intensity lay enough to fill even a child's dream
along the flanks of the St. Elias of all that stands for enough, com
Range, in a region of high moun posed the Bupper.
tains and superb glaciers, and the
The Itoys were royal hosts and
movement was accompanied by built a seesaw, hung a swing for the
enormous avalanches and rock little tots and gave them all the
slides. This is a vivid demonstra cherries and home grown butternuts
tion that the growth of mountains that they could possibly store
is still in progress. At some places away.
iu the region the land subsided and
The ranch was explored and the
forests were submerged. At most elders joined with the children in
places, however, the land rose, and playing almost every game known
many ^qiuts which before had lain to childhood.
below sea level were elevated above
After enjoying a large bonfire,
it. Barnacles which had lived in the party left for home delighted
sea water were found 47 feet above with tbe hospitality shown them
sea level. The study of the effects and with tbe wish that Mr. and Mrs.
of this earth movement was under ltoy may enjoy many more years of
taken by the late Ralph S. Tarr, of health and prosperity.
Cornell University, and Lawrence
Among those present were:
Marlin, of the University of Wis
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stauff
consin, and their report of the work
Mr. and Mrs. W alter Sinclair
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sherwood
has just been published as Profes
Mr. ami .Mrs. i?harles Evland
sional Paper 6y of the United States
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Folsom
Geological Survey, with a preface
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Pierce
by G. K Gilbert.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J . Longston
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Rose
In addition to making an exhaust
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Peoples
ive study of the movements of the
Mr. and Mrs. Will Lyons
land which took place in the Yaku
Mr. and Mrs. Fay Jones
tat Bay region and of the effects of
Mr. and Mrs. J . L. Roy
the earthquake upon the many gia-
Mr. and Mrs. A rthur Ellingsen
ciers of the region, the writers
Mr. and Mrs. J . A. Collier
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Fuhrman
amassed a great fund of information
Mr. and Mrs. John Leneve
in regard to the intensity of the
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Slagle
quake throughout the whole area
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. James
within which it was sensible and
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. l.awrence
recorded the testimony of many
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Candlin
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lorenz
witnesses The shock was felt at
Mr. and Mrs. N. Lorenz
distances of 670 and 1,200 miles in
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Johnson
opposite directions from Yakutat
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Mast
Bay, and the area of the region over
Mesdames—Mary Harvey, Charles
which the tremblings were felt' is Levine, Emma Lyons, J. J Lamb, Pike
more than 1,500,000 square miles. Maury, Sam Nosier, K. V. B. Nicklin,
This gives the Yakutat Bay earth A1 Hite, J. W. Laird, E. H. Kern, C.
R. Barrow.
quake a place amoug the very great
Misses—F.sther Johnson, Flora Quick,
est earthquakes of historic times. Gladys Curry, Eva Sugg, Beulah Price,
The other great shocks, without Doris Peoples, Leta Mast, Dorothy
exception, resulted in heavy less of Watson, Alice Small, Edna Itobison.
Messrs—L. Leneve, V. R. Wilson,
life, the number of persons killed
George T. Moulton, J. E. Quick, Perry
reaching in one of them the enor
E. Lawrence, Ben Curry.
mous total of over 60,000. The
Twenty-five children and others, a
Yakutat Bay shock was fortunately total of one hundred and one.
free from fatalities, not because it
was less severe than the others, but
The World’s Largest Building
on account of the sparsely settled
The first day of July tbe topmost
character of the.regiou in which it piece of steel work was riveted in
occurred.
place on the Woolworth building in
This report— “ The earthquakes New York. This structure is nota
at Yakutat Bay, Alaska, in Septem ble as being tbe loftiest building
ber, 1899” — is illustrated with half devoted to business purposes in tbe
tone views showing the effects of world. From tbe sidewalk to the
the earthquake, maps, and seismo top of the cupola is 750 feet, which
grams of the shock as recorded at ; is 50 feet more than the height of
places a« far distant as Batavia, the Metropolitan building, and LIS
Java; Cape Town, South Africa; feet more than tbe height of tbe
and Catania, Italy. A copy of the Singer building lower, both in New
report may be obtained free on ap York. Tue building contains fifty-
plication to the Director of the Geo five stories in the tower. It is of
logical Survey, Washington, D. C. the standard steel column and floor
A i ’T omobilk A o k n ts : — I want
local agents in every county in Ore
gon to handle a popular priced line
of automobiles; a good name and
reputation for integrity counts
more with us than money or exper
ience; if you have $175 and can
furnish bond, you can procure tbe
agency for our high-grade car and
we will furnish you with demonstra
tor. For full particulars address
E E Gerlinger, Sales Manager, <188
Washington street, P o la n d , Ore.
Despise not tbe day of tbe one-
boise farmer for it leads to a two-
horae team.
BOYS’ HOG CLUB, ALLEN. TEXAS
The Oregon School Children’s
Industrial Contest
Synopsis of Address by N. C. Maris of the Extension Department O. A. C.
r p U E S D A Y evening, July 23, N. I professional pursuits and minified
1 C. Maris of the Extension De 1 the industrial, thus making consum
It has
partment of the Oregon Agricultur ers and not producers.
country and
al College and Field Organizer of depopulated the
the School Children’s Industrial overstocked the profession. It has
Contest, addressed the people of driven the people from the farm and
Coquille, at the court house, upon crowded them into the cities until
that and kindred subjects. He told many of them are idle, discontent
of tbe great success of tbe move ed and poorly fed and furnished.
ment in other states, and other This, Mr. Maris said, could in time
parts of this state, and of the rapid largely be overcome by changing
ity with which the “ back to the our educational system—by addiog
land” movement is being populari agriculture, domestic science and
zed. He favored tbe idea of stay manual training to the course of
ing on tbe farm rather than going study; by teaching the rising gen
back to it, however, and said the eration how to do something useful
ouly logical way to accomplish this> and practical and by dignifying la
or any other great reform or edu bor in their minds. lie also cited
cational movement, is to begin with the great change of sentiment along
the children. He said statistics this line in the city of Portland
show that the ratio of producers to where this season 10,000 boys and
consumers has decreased 50 per girls entered enthusiaBticully into a
cent during tbe past 30 yeats and garden contest with splendid suc
that on account of the great exodus cess, and that those children take
from the farm to the city we are ns much interest in their gardens
not producing as many of the ne as they do in their games and
cessities of life as we should, which sports, and the boys, who before
fact is lurgely responsible for tbe j this could not have been hired to
high cost of living. For several carry a hoe down the street, are now
years Oregon has been sending east I jiist as proud to do that as they are
of thu Rocky Mountains for 75 and to be seen carrying a base ball bat.
85 per cent of her pork and pork During the Rose Carnival there one
products— seventeen to twenty mil school personified the garden con
lion dollars going east every year test in the school children’s parade,
for meat that ought to be produced the girls wearing sanbonnets and
at home. Tbe same is true of carrying baskets tilled with flowers
olher products. He said our edu land vegetables, the small boys
cational system has been largely wearing large straw hats and carry
responsible for this condition; that ing hoes and garden rakes, while
it has popularized commercial aud j the larger boys brought up the
rear with wbeel-harrows loaded
with vegetables, and a prouder
bunch did not march down tbe
street in that grand parade than
those juvenile farmers.
Mr. Maris emphasized the impor
tance of educating the hand and
mind together; of a closer relation
between the school and the home;
of giving the children credit at
school for work done at home; of
snaking the home more pleasant and
attractive on the farm and allowing
them more personal ownership as a
means of interesting them in the
home and keeping them on the
farm. As a means of creating in
terest and sentiment aloDg this line,
he recommended school fairs, such
as are to be held throughout Ore
gon this year, where the boys and
gills that do the best in raising
und making things, will be encour
aged by receiving prizes.
Mr. Maris is authority on these
matters haring been u breeder and
exhibitor of livestock for man;
years and, since retiring from the
farm, has for several years edited
the “ Rural Spirit,” one of the lead
ing stock and farm journals in the
west.
While spending the week with
Superintendent W. H. Bunch in this
county, Mr. Maris is visiting and
talking to the schools throughout
the day and holding public meet
ings at night in the iuterest of the
Industrial Contest.
Mr. Maris paid the Herald a call.
The Smith-Powers Logging com
pany has purchased the Guerin
ranch on the south fork of the Co"
quille river and will go into the
cattle business on a large scale for
the purpose of producing its own
mist to be used iu the logging
camps fo the company. The ranch
which was purchased is one of the
finest in southern Oregon, and in
connection with it tbe company ex
pects to use a large amount of land
the firm now owns in the same
neighborOood, which will give a
large range. It is expected to
stock the ranch with several hun
dred head of cattle.
Cattle have become so scarce in
this county that i* is with difficulty
they can be purchased in sufficient
quantities to supply the local mar
ket. It requires about two heads
of beef a day to supply the Smith-
Powers logging camps and the
boarding houses and vessels of the
C. A. Smith company, so it will pay
the company to raise its own meat.
It is probable butter and milk will
also be produced on the big ranch.
The Smith interests own about
six townships of timber lands in the
country along the south fork of the
Coquille river, which insures log
ging operations in that locality for
many years to corns, so the ranch
will be near the bigger logging
operations of the company in the
future.
The ranch just purchased is near
Eckley. It is a country well adapt
ed to the livestock business.
Eels Food for Hatchery Fish
There are 9,300 registered auto
mobiles in Oregon.
A school fair, harvest festival and
picnic will be held at Criswell about
September 1.
A severe bail storm ot five min-
utes duration visited Bead Sunday.
No serious damage done.
A mammoth ice cavern with nine
inner chambers has Eieen found 17
miles north of Fort Rock, near
Lake.
Hood River valley shipped an
even 73 carloads of strawEierries
this year, ten carloads less than last
season.
The manager of the Roseburg
Brewery and Ice company has been
iudicted for violating the local op
tion law.
High schools must have at least
eight months of school each year in
order to draw from the county high
school fund.
The city council of Astoria has
passed an ordinance prohibiting
music of any description in the sa
loons of that city.
The Oregon Normal School at
Monmouth has completed tbe first
of tbe six weeks of its summer
semester with a total enrollment of
«47- .
As a result of electrical storms in
the foot hills near Medford twelve
forest fires are reported. Rains fol
lowing the lightning aided in keep
ing tbe fires in check.
Governor West has been asked
by the Good Goverumeut league of
Huntington to take measures to
suppress gambling, running ot slot
machines and disreputable resorts
in that city.
Tbe six elk, including the baby,
which were an interesting feature of
the showing of the Aberdeen lodge
in the Elks’ parade at Portland,
have been purchased ior the city
park at Eugene.
Five tons of loganberries to the
acre is the estioiated output from
Aspinwall yard at Brooks. The
yard consists of 35 acres. During
tbe last two weeks 85 tons of berries
have been picked.
Seven to eight tons of eels were
shipped to Goble last week Irom
the Oregon City falls to be kept in
cold storage for the purpose of feed
ing young fish at the state hatcher
ies later in the fall, Efforts are
being made by Master Fish Warden
Clanton and an organization of the
residents along the Willamette river
below the tails to keep the eels from
gathering and dying on the rocks
at the falls to be washed down along
the banks of the river to putrify
when the river rises again. These
eels have been a disgusting pest for
the head and the end of tbe sheet several years and money was raised
Coos County Teachers
Frank Curtis, superintendent of
rolled over the ring and tightly this year to get rid of them before
Following is tbe list of successful
tbe penitentiary, by the introduction
crimped. In the exploded barrel
applicants ol Coos county for state
they become a nuisance.
of goat meat, figures that be has ef
the head was bulged like a grocer’s
teachers’ certificates which were
fected considerable saving. Mutton
scoop, the ring torn apart and the
issued in Juue from the office of the
A Rubber Substitute from Sea Fish
is high in the market, and tbe fes
crimp of the barrel pulled out
state superintendent of public in
A press statement forwarded by tive goat is cheaper and acceptable
straight. This explosion made a Consul Frank W. Mahin of Amster
struction.
•
to the inmates.
very loud report and the pieces dam, tells of a factory established
One-year certificates Zettie Gib
Robert Tucker, president of the
were blown a great distance. For at Ymuiden at the rubulh of tbe
son, Amelia B. Cbanev, Dorothy
tunately, no one was injured, North Sea Canal in Holland to pro Oregon Humane society, recently
Gibson, Mrs. Essie L. Cox, W. I,.
Arnold, Margaret Curry, Idq E. Precautions Should Be Taken With Gasoline though some damage was done to duce a substitute for rubber, and it distributed one hundred straw bats
other equipment about the barrel. is reported that the company oper free to express drivers and venders
Gamble, Della Bryant, Kathryn
Barrels When Emptied- Hot Sun
By “empty” gasoline barrels is ating the factory has succeeded in in Portland. Horses are to be the
Lehnherr, Ruth Mary Wade, Ber
Generates Ugly Vapor
meaut those that have been unload producing a substance having the wearers The hats fit snugly over
tha Conlogue* Jessie Huntley,Edith
ed by dealers or garages, both pub qualities of rubber and some special the animals’ heads, leaving tbe ears
Lusk, Beatrice McLeod, Eva A.
Hicking, R R. Bennett.
That &asoline is very daDSeroUS lic and private. They are the bar advantages over the genuine. While protruding, but affording excellent
Five-year paper-E arl A. Brown. >8 Prel‘y ee°erally uuderstood rels rolled out to be returned to the process is a secret, the princi protection to tbe eyes and wards off
Twenty-nine life certificates were tbouSh the death to11 from carele88 the refineries for refilling. These pal ingredient is said to be fresh the fierce rays that beat down on
granted to applicants throughout i d l i n g is heavy. Usually farail- barrels are a source of dauger and j sea fish, which are brought to the pavements at this season of the
year.
tlie state
iarity with any dangerous thing should receive greater care. The
\ Ymuiden in vast quantities by the
breeds contempt, but even down in cause of tbn explosion of these bar
W. S. Chandler, Dorsey Kreitzer,
| Dutch fishing fleets. According to
the “ oil country’’ gasoline is treat- rels is the excessive pressure of the
: report 15 to Iff per cent of natural Judge John S . Coke and William
Twins 85 Years Old
e l with a respect that is greater gasoline vapor generated when
, rubber is added to the fish, and the Grimes have purchased the interest
J. A Haines of Hcklev, Curry thin that given to nitroglycerine.
standing in the hot suu. A little oil result is a substance as flexible and of M. C. Horton, vice president aud
Many persons have already bad is liable to be left in them and if
county and W. W. Haines of Eu
elastic as rubber, but much cheaper general manager of the First Na
gene, Lane county, 85 years of age, tbe wrong idea regarding the dan the vent plugs are screwed ¡ d
— about 1.25 to 8 in price, compar tional Bank of Marshfield. W. S .
are doubtless tbe oldest twins on gers from gasoline. They have tightly there is danger of an explo
ed with real rubber. The low price Chandler, whose home is in San
taken the greatest precautions with sion. Drain tbe barrels thorough
the Pacific coast.
of this product will be caused part Francisco, will move to Marshfield
These twins, though grizzled and the full barrels and have given ly and have the vents opened; also
ly by the by-products which are and devote bis time to the bank and
beam construction; but in order to bent, are as active as many men 50 scant attention to the partially fill-
store the barrels in a cool or shady possible, for it is said that much al other financial interests in tbe city.
taxe care of tbe enormous dead load to 60 years old, and recall names, j ed and empty ones; in fact, very
place.— Scientific American.
bumen will be made from the fish Mr. Kreitzer will succeed Mr. Hor
and the great wind lood, tbe col dates and incidents of events that few dealers and users have ever
and half of the factory is arranged ton as manager.
umns are necessarily of unprece happened when gray-haired men given any thougiit to the care of
Lebanon will spend $100,000 for tbe manufacture of fertilizer.
dented size.
Titus Raji, a 14-year-old school
were unborn. Both are in excellent empty gasoline barrels. That this 1 this year in paving and sewer con
Scientific American.
boy of Portland, has grown a bead
health. They dress alike, trim their is wroug is evidenced by the fact struction,
H ies! Hies! Hies!
beards similarly, aud both are bald ¡that an “empty” gasoline barrel ex.
"Better one rose in front of one's of lettuce, the largest ever produced
Get your screen doors and win in the same spot.
ploded recently. This barrel “ went
window
than a whole arm ful on it is believed. The big head weighs
Ivan C. Laird of Sitkum, began
dows made. Meat safes, bread
nearly 4 ^ pounds and measures 6
W. W. Haines said: “ Wer’eboth up’ ’ while standing in the hot sun school in his seventh year, passed one'B coffin.”
boards, ironing boards and sleeve | good for too years and we expect on tbe platform of the freiget sta the eighth grade examination at
inches at the base and 24 inches
In these days of high cost of living
boards made to older at Quick A to die about the same time. No, tion. It was a 50-gallon barrel 15, took up the ninth grade the a medicine that gets a man up out of across the top. When placed right
bed and able to work in a few days is a
Curry’s.
■ we don’t feel any older than two made of heavy iron The heads were following year, making a total of valuable and welcome remedy. John side up the lettuce head stands 16
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This lettuce was
kids, and are just as happy, but I made of a single sheet, slightly nine years steady attendance with Heath, Michigan Bar, Cal., had kidney inches high.
A man lovas justice— for the guess if the truth were told, it has crowned and act on a projection out being tardy or absent a day and bladder trouble, was confined to his grown in a little 10x15 Foot plot in
tied unable to turn without help. “ I
other fellow.
commenced using holey Kidney Pills Woodlawn in one of the regulation
been so long since we were kids rolled on the inside of the cylindri- during his school life.
and can truly say I was relieved at school garden contest strips, among
An upright piano is sometimes a that we don’t know just how kids cal barrel sheet. A solid welded
once.’’ His example is worth follow-
I ing. For sale by Fuhrnuin s Pharmacy. growing Eieets, onions and potatoes.
Have you paid tbe printer ?
downright nuisance.
feel.”
ring was placed against and around
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EMPTY BARRELS DANGEROUS