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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1912)
•JThe Herald, the old estab lished reliable newspaper of the Coquille Valley in which an “ad" always brings results. V O L . 30, T he C oquille H erald N O . 47 OLD PIONEER SHOT BY BOY JONATHAN QUICK IS VICTIM While Enjoying Camp Life at Bandon Beach Old .and Highly Esteemed Coquille Citizen Instantly Killed C O Q U IL L E , C O O S C O U N T Y , O R E G O N , T H U R S D A Y , A U G U S T 8, 1912 ity. At the age of 23 he started west, b u t while on the plains took the fever and returuA l to Missouri He was afterwards married in Miss ouri to Ja n e M. C hambers May 8 , 1861, From this union there were nine ehildreu born of whom the fol lowing are living—rJohu E. Quick and Mrs. Charles Levine of Coquille, Flora Quick and Mrs. Mary liarvey of Pendloton and Mrb. S. S. Wheeler of Portland. Soon after his m arriage he e n te r ed the Union Army and served till the d o s e of the Civil War. He then moved to Kansas where he resided until 1871 when, with bis family, he oame to O regon making his home on his farm on Latnpu creek, Coos county, Oregon. After the d i a t h of his wife, October 13, 1836, he made his home in Coquille. l i e became a Christian and joined the Baptist church ot the age of 18, and has been a faithful worker for his Master ever siuce. F o r years he has been an honored member of General Lytle Post Q. A R. Jo n a th a n Quick, an old and h ig h ly respected citizen of this place was shot and instantly killed at Bandon Monday m orning by Lite P errin e, a hoy eleven years of age, non of E B. Perrine of K osehurg. The tr agedy occurred near the camp of the Perrine family and there were no eye witnesses, the only p a r ticulars known being gleaned from the boy. Mr. Quick was cam ping at Ban- don with part of his family, and was 'breaking camp to retu rn home. H e - ......- - - -►« » > -------- - started for the P errin e camp for the Demented Man Suicides purpose of selling some «firewood th a t he had left over. Tne boy was Early Inst F riday m orning the left to g u ard the camp in the a b body of Elias H. Hamble was d is sence of the older people who wero covered on the railroad track about down on the beach. The boy’s story a mile east of town, with every in is substantially as follows: dication of suicide, which was the When Mr. Quick arrived the boy verdict of the jury called bv C oro n was u p a tree. H e descended and er Wilson, who was in town. The the old g entlem an usked for the man had shot himself betw een the men folks. The boy replied, "T hey eyes with a 38 calibre revolver, are over there a ways." Quick then which was found lying ou his breast. " p e e k e d ” into the tent and the boy The cause of the deed was u n d o u b t asked him what was wanted. He edly mental derangem eu t which had replied th at he w anted to see about been evident to acquaintances here. some wood. The old man went look T h e deceased was a b o u t forty ing around the wagon and the boy years of age. He bad been in Co went into the tent, g o t a Marlin quille about three months. A small rifle of 32 calibre, and threw the le amount of money was found on his v er loading it. C jm in g o u t he o r person, also papeis showing him to d ered Quick to go away as he did have been a mem ber in good s t a n d n o t want him pro w ling around ing of N ewport L odge No. 180, I n there. The old man replied tLat d ep en d en t O rder of Odd Fellows, he did n ot have to, b u t started away, of Newport, W’ashington, where a the boy following. W hen the boy sister resided. A b ro th e r in St. would stop the old man would stop, Croix, Wisconsin, was com m unicat a n d the boy would then advance ed with who requested th at the an d drive him farth er away. In this body be buried. The funeral was m an ner thev had gone about a h u n accordingly held S unday being con d re d yards and o u t of sig h t of ducted by Coquille L o d g e No. 23, camp. Quick th en made an a t I. O. O. F. tem p t to seize the g u n and th e boy Death Claims Infant Son s h o t him. The bullet entered the body about F r e d Linscott Morse, the infant 6 even inches below the arm pit on son of Mr. and Mrs. F ra n k Morse, th e left side, passed back of the died Saturday morning, after a brief h eart ran g in g dow nward and pass illness. The funeral services were in g th ro u g h the Bpinal column and held at th e family residence Mon lo d ging in the back near the right day afternoon at 2 p, m. conducted side. Death m u st have been prac by Rev. C. H. Cleaves and Rev. Evan R. Evans. B orn Ja n u a ry 26, tically instantaneous. The boy th en went out to the 1912, fhe little life of F re d Linscott main road, where he met Tom A n was soon ended and the bereaved derson to whom he said, " I have parents are accorded th e heartfelt killed a m an." H e gave Anderson sympathy of their townspeople in the g un and they went back to this sorrow th at has entered their lives. where the body lay. The co ro ner’s jury, which was con Christian Church Rally vened Tuesday morning, b ro u g h t in a verdict to the effect th a t the Thursday evening, A ugust 15, we boy should not be held responsible will have a rally at the Christian fo r bis deed, on account o f his Church. There will be with us at y o u th and the extenuating circurn- that time three of O re g o n ’s live sta nces. wires in the m inistry—C. F. Swander I t seems th at the boy had been of P o rtlan d , G. E. Williams, state w arned agaiust tr am ps and, being evangelist and Z O. Doward of in a strange place and lacking the Marshfleld, late of G ran d Island, experience and ju d g m e n t of an Nebraska. You will miss a rare older person, and being u n d o u b t treat if you fail to hear these men. edly somewha frightened at being Come. aloue, he mistook the white-bearded Colportage Boat under Construction old gentleman for one of th e d a n gerous characters with which his Rev. G. L. Hall, colporter, was in im agination had peopled the wilder the city Tuesday and exhibited ness. On realizing the frightful plans of the Chapel Colportage deed be had committed, the boy Cruiser, the bull for which is now was overcome with h o rror and re being built Voluntary c o n tr ib u morse. The general feeling is that tions of needed articles from the th e boy is not b o much to blame as whistle to the ru d d e r have been th e p arents who had failed to incul made and also about $1,700 d o n a t cate sounder ideas in bis young ed. The boat will be of sufficient mind. size to afford every convenience d e At one o ’clock Wednesday after sired. We shall see the Chapel noon y ou ng P errin e was b ro u g h t C ruiser in Coquille waters in the before J u d g e H all, sitting in J u v e n near future. I t is the intention to ile Court. After h earin g the b o y’s have the boat completed in ab ou t story and some o th er evidence, two months. The name chosen for J u d g e Hall gave the boy into the the cruiser is “ Life Line.” custody of his parents, inflicting no penalty. Allah Temple, 'A n c i e n t A rabic T h e body was b ro u g h t to this O rder Nobles of the Mystic S hrin e, city Tuesday m orniug, and the fu of A shland, will un dertak e a pil- n eral was held this afternoon from g tim ag e to Marshfield by au tom o the Ellingsen u n d ertak in g chapel. biles in the near future to conduct Rev. G. Le Roy Hall officiating, In- a class of fifty Bay candidates over te rm e n t in Masonic cemetery. the hot sands o l mystery. The Discovery of the Schoolhouse Frederic C. Hoover in The Saturday Evening Post—Copyrighted P E R Y E A R $1.50 opportunities for pleasure th at would yield dividends in artists, dram atists aud m usicians—even aside from the happiness it would give. A C O M P R E H E N S IV E C L U B H O U S E E D W A R D J. W A R D discovered " T h a t is w hat I wished to bring prohibition; but if you visit what tlie schoolhouse. H e discov out. T he same condition obtains was formerly an old beer garden ered it up in Rochester four years almost everywhere. It is what the and go up to the bar and put your ago H e invited some of his n eig h p.-ople have got to break up.” foot ou the rail and call for some bors into the school one evening to thing, you will receive a volume T 11K I D E A t N WISCONSIN talk th in gs over. So much interest Iron: the public library iustead of a It was the discovery of the school was aroused th at they came again. glass of beer. Milw aukee used to house to be used by the people to At the first meeting there were three be filled with beer gardens. Now free politics from the boss and m a hu n d red and fourteeu people pres the people go to their own parks, chine rule th a t bro ught a d is tin ent. T h e y had music, recitations, listen to their own music from their guished g ro u p of men and women dances. T h e y found their neigh own bands. T h e schoolhouse has together at Madison. T hey came bors were very pleasant people. undeveloped possibilities as a su b from the east, the so u th —eveu from Soon the building would not hold , stitute for the saloon. , T . , the far-away west The idea of the all who came. It was amazing how | , . In T ex as, where solitude is very school as a perm anent town meet- h u n g rily the people took to t h e , . , „ solitary, the raising of corn, cotton , ~,u . , ... rug bro u g h t out Governor Wilson, idea. I hey had not th o u g h t of the ° ° „ and hogs has been relieved of some . i n of f New N phi Jersey; T p r c p v * I Governor . m t p t n n r \ W. \7 U R. schoolhouse as their pro perty; the of its dreariness by Colonel F rank Stubbs, of K an sas; and G overnor th o u g h t it belonged to the Board ot P. H olland. He got to thinking Fraucis C. McG overn, of Wiscon E d ucation. Soon other buildings about the cow punchers and ranch sin as well as United States S e n a were opened. F inally th e schools ers much a> Jane A d d a m s thought tors Clapp and Pomerene. T here were federated into a city-wide or of the children of the tenements ol were several university presidents, ganization representing more than Chicago. H e employed a drum mer a score of editors and two hun dred tiiiy thousand ctiizeus. to w ake up the state of T e x a s to the reformers, educators, architects school idea. He also founded libra As soon as th e people came to and soldiers of the common ries—not like those of the Laird of gether they saw the waste jn the use good, w ho had made a trip Skibo, but little bunches oi fifty of schools. T h e y induced the Board half way across the continent books that are sent by express to of E ducation to appropriate five to give testimony to the value the farmhouses and villages. After thousand dollars to keep them open of the discovery. They th ought H o lla n d ’s schoolhouse d ru m m e r bad fourteen hours a day instead ofi the Rochester idea oug ht to be aw akened the curiosity of T e x a s he seven. T h ey converted the kinder . kn o w n all over the country, and garten into a library and clubroom. : th e y bad come Madison because called a convention of farmers, with their wives, to take possession of the T h e v opened the gy m n asiu m five the State University had called FTd- nigh ts a week for athletic sports ward J. W a rd to Wisconsin to pro schoolhouse. Delegates came from all over the state. T h e y launched and one night a week for e n tertain mote the Rochester school-center j the school center as a farm ers’ club, ments. F athers and sons began to idea in th at state. For democratic and now scores of cou ntry schools spend their evenings together ou Wisconsin, so unlike boss riddeu are being used in this way to the the rings, bars and tum b ling mats. Rochester, had passed a law in vit southwest. T h e y had b o x in g and wrestling ing the people of the state into the ♦ * * * * matches and basket-ball games. governm ent. T h e women formed a gym n asium T h e town-m eeting idea is another In Wisconsin, the people of any class. c om m un ity can use the schoolhouse evidence that we are beginning to O thers borrowed a traveling li in that state bv merely dem an d in g I’ave more faith in all the people brary from the capital at A lbany, it from the school authorities. : *han we ever had before. T h a t faith subscribed for periodicals and also T h e conference discovered that *s ex planation of direct prima- b o u g h t a stereoptican and d in i n g other people had stumbled ou the ries> ,he initiative and reterendum room appoiutm ents, so th a t they idea th at the schoolhouse o u g h t to a °d recaH- m ight give lectures and dinners. be used more widely. O zer one Some saw the seboolhouse as a THE n e ig h b o r h o o d " gang ” D IS A P P E A R S A short time after the school opened a m erchant stopped the d i rector on the street and said : “ T h e school center has done what I th o u g h t was impossible. I have been here nine years an d d u rin g th at time there has alw ays been a g a n g of to ugh s aro u n d this corner- T h is winter the g a n g has d is a p peared .” “ T h e y a r e n ’t a g a n g any m o re;” the director replied; " t h e y are a de bating c lu b .” T h e women organized clubs. T h ey became interested in child labor, in city problems. T h e yo un g people bad debates, a banquet an d a m i n strel show T h e schoolhouse be came a family club. T h e men began to talk about Rochester. T h a t was the clubs' un doing; bu t they could not avoid it. T h e y called in the m ayor, their alderm en, the healih and school of ficials. T h e y even had G overnor H u g h e s down from A lbany. T h ey kicked about the gas com pany and the street railroad service. T h e y w anted transfers. Some one took a fall out of the local boss. U p to th at time the boss had held R o ch ester in the hollow ot his“hand. He decided to run for Congress, alw ays a dan g ero u s th in g for a boss to do. But Rochester now had a forum for discussion. T h e people picked out a candidate of their own for Congress, a man who would repre sent Rochester, an d to the surprise of everybody they elected him. Professor G eorge M. Forbes, pres ident o f the Board of Education, was telling a gro up of people out at Madison,Wisconsin,about the school center an d w hat it had done for Rochester. Gov. Woodrow Wilson, who was there, in terru pted to ask w hether be m ig h t put a question to the speaker. Receiving assent he said: ” Is it not true, Professor Forbes, that because of yo ur p a rt in this work you were, after twelve years’ service on the Rochester school board, refused a renom ination by the boss controlled convention?" " I th in k that bad som ething to do with it .” “ Is it not also ttu e th at the con J o o atb an Quick was boro io Ohio , 1 Love is the greatest thing in the structive boss system of Rochester G uernsey county, A ugust 28, 1836, ^ world, b u t no one objects to a little is bipartisan?" and grew to manhood in th a t vicin - 1 money for a change. " I t is.” • hundred communities have opened lifelong university, where men and wide the schools for some purpose women could continue studies they or other. T h e city ot New York never had a chance to pursue. It spends two hundred and twenty- would be a democratic university in eig ht th ousand dollars a year for which all k in d s of educational work school lectures and neighborhood could be carried on. gatherings. Forty-eight schools T H E R E A L H U N G E R OF T H E POOR are open every night in the week. W isconsin has started such a uni A school official visited one of these versity in the public schools. It has schools last fall and found three nearly five th o u san d pupils enrolled h u u d re d y o u n g people dan cin g u n and employs eighty-seven profess der wholesome surroundings. Across ors and instructors. Professors from the street a dance hall th a t had pre the university are sent into every viously done a flourishing business county to condnct serious universi was nearly empty. Mr. Clarence ty w ork. Correspondence classes A . Perry, engaged by the Russell are offered, in which students get Sage F oundation of New Y ork to uuiversity credits There are shop m ake a study of school centers, classes in the factories iu mechanics, says, after an investigation ot con electricity and engineering, as well ditions in large cities: “ T h e girl as agricultural courses for farmers w ithout a social center is the mother Some d a y we shall be able to go to of the woman on the stre e t.’’ H e college all our lives— atrd without goes farther a n d says: " I f a city leaving out own ward or county. has to choose between the schools T h e re were farmers at the c o h e r and the play centers it could, I be ence who saw great possibilities in lieve, give up the schools more safe the school center. I t would relieve ly th an it could go without the play the loneliness of the farm and check cente rs.’ the stream of boys and girls to the C hicago leads the world in this city. In stead of the old fashioned democratic idea. Over eleven mil spelling bee there would be lectures, Hon dollars has been spent on rec- ! singing classes, dances and debates. reation centers, on playgrounds and Fairs and festivals could be held. people's clubhouses, open all the Iu the ‘ enlarged schoolhouse the year rouud. T h ere are tw enty-eight G ov ernm ent could maintain stations of them in the crowded parts of the for testing seeds, soil and milk. city. T h ey contain gym nasium s, Here the cooperative store could be baths, libraries and assembly rooms. located. T here is no reason why A bout the clubs are parks from two tbe cou n try school should not be a to s ix ty acres. There are wading town hall, a people's club, an agri pools and sandpits for the children cultural experim ent station and a as well as sffady place for the m o th branch ot the state university all ers to sit an d watch the children at under one roof. A n d why should we not use the play. T h e re is a restaurant oper ated at cost. T h e exhibition of what schoolhouses as people’s theaters? C hicago has done at the T ow n- W h y not develop the undiscovered P lan ning Exposition, in Berlin, a talent now lost to the society by the few years ago astonished all Europe. organizaticn of neighborhood d ra T h e playgroun d is oue of the th ing s matic societies, with orchestras and we do better than any cities iu the singing and musical clubs? Some day we shall provide such oppo rtu world. T h e arrests for juvenile offenses nities as a part of well-ordered com fell off seventeen per cent abo ut the m u n ity life. T h e countries of E u neig hborhood centers in C hicago rope subsidize the theater; the cities d u rin g the years 1904 to 19 06 ,while m aintain orchestras and military they increased twelve per cent for bands. In G erm any, F rance and the city as a whole. A b o u t the Italy the dram a and music are sup stockyards district they increased ported by tbe city, ju s t as are the forty-four per cent. T h e play cen police and fire departments. We ter is the best sort of a policeman. spend tens of millions on the theater It is also a good investm ent, for it and m uch ot its influence is bad. costs one h u n d re d and thirty-five N e x t to the school and the press the dollars to care for a boy in the re- d ram a is our greatest educational form school. j influence. A nd ju s t a little added Milwaukee is not likely to adopt to the school budget would open u p ' fljob Printing—New presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please School experts say th a t out ot every thousand children at least two are probably geniuses, while fifty have talents that would enrich the world. T h e geuius of the poor is mostly lost to us because the schools press all children in to the same mold; but when we open up the seboolhouse, as we now open up the back lots to the b u d d in g base ball professionals, we shall begin tu produce talent aud g tn iu s as never before. T b e schoolhouse can readily be made the most alluring club in tbe city. T h e saloon aud the theater will have difficulty in com)>etiug with it. W h en tile school-center idea is fully developed then the school will be dem ocracy’s center, the people’s fo rum —the place where we go ou all k in d s of occasions, T h e schoolhouse should be a kiud of city hall— a big club: it should be built for m a n y activities now scattered under m any roofs or not boused at all. It is tbe natural place for tbe b ranch library and reading room. T h e voter will come to the school- house to cast his ballot—iustead of 1 be saloon, tbe batber shop and tbe stable. T h e school is the natural place for the ballot box, T H E AC RO PO L IS O P DEMOCRACY THE FARMERS WILL FEAST FIRST OF AM ANNUAL EVENT Farmers Union to Inaugurate Harvest Festival Which Will Ultimately Indade All Coos County Unio T b e Coquille Fatm ers U nion at its last meeting decided to hold a harvest festival in the W . O. W. hall, this city, S atu rd ay n e x t, A u gust 10 T h is is the forerunner of what is hoped to be au ann u al event that all unions in the county will hereafter participate. A t this meeting mem bers Horn Myrtle Point, Fishtrap, Lee and other localities will be pres ent. T w e n ty new members will unite with the union on th at day to work for the rig h t, against wrong, oppres sion and h u m a n suffering. H a r m ony and good feeling will prevail and the cement of affection will bind all as one happy family to re gard the sweat ot honest labor and tbe virtue of a happy home as the brightest jewels to adorn life'3 p ath way. T h is is the regular meeting of the union aud, aside from the in itiatory ceremonies, other matters of im portance wilt be transacted T h e meeting will be called to order at 10 :3 0 in tbe forenoon and, after the transaction of business p ertain ing to the union, the feast of good th ings will follow. It is the design of the farmers' festival to serve as a “fo u n d - u p ” to meet old time friends and to e x tend cordial greetings an d good fellowship to the new. Plan to attend tbe meeting and aid in contributing to the h ap pi ness of others that will doubly re dound to your own joy. T h e architects also had dreams. T h ey saw the schoolhouse as a means ot ex pressing the new spirit of democracy. T h e y saw the spirit ol America tak in g form in brick aud stone, ju s t as the religious fervor ot the Middle Ages erected gothic ca thedrals T h e schoolhouse, they said, was the proper temple for the expression of A merican ideas. A nd thev described these people’s tem ples as located in parks, with pro vision lor recreation, for play, for rest. T here would be auditorium s for political gatherings, for lectures, concerts, tbe dram a. Seats would be movable, so th a t the assembly ball could be used for receptions, banquets and dances. T h e re would be a stage for orchestral, choral and T h e State F air board has voted dram atic performances. T here also $500 to be used as prizes for tbe would be gymnasium s, sw im m ing pools, branch libraries an d reading Eugenics F-xposition p lann ed for Wednesday, September 4 . T h is is rooms a feature of the State Fair this year T h e basement would be given for the first time an d it is expected over to bowling, billiards a n d other it will attract a great deal of a tten play. T here would be a restaurant tion. I t is to be really a scientific where the children could get their baby show, children u p to three noonday meal and where neig h b o r years old being eligible for prizes. hood dinners conld be given. All A $ 50 silver cup will be offered for these th ings would be provided the best boy and best girl in the w ithout in any way interfering with show and six cups for tbe best boy the use of the building for school and girl in three divisions, the ages purposes— rath er beauty an d h a r ru n n in g from six m ouths to three mony would increase the effective years. ness of education. T h e cheerless Medical experts will j u d g e tbe schoolroom would be sweetened with children entered from the standpoint a hom e atm osphere. Barren walls of physical perfection, much as live would be covered with pictures and stock is ju d g e d . O. M. P lu m m er d reary hallways would be converted has been made superintendent of into restful corridors. the eugenics show and is hopeful of T h e re is nothing fantastic about having 200 children entered at S a these dreams. We are building lem, H e hopes commercial bodies, private schools with m any of these and other organizations will hold comforts. T h e Y. M. C. A. build local shows in each county, sending ings are becoming secular in their tbe t e r t boy and girl to the state activities as they are in their archi competition. tecture. So are the social settle ments. T h e schoolhouse is waiting for democracy—for the democracy that is fast finding its voice all over America It will be the new town Dwelling houses were built in hall— the town ball th a t bred the spirit of Revolution prior to the bat P ortland, d u rin g tbe twelve rnontbs tle of L exington. In the «chool- or fiscal year end ing Ju n e 30, at an house we shall breed the orators, average rate of 12 4-5 for every statesmen and politicians of the fu- working day, or one completed ure. From them will issue the house for every 37$ minutes of the Estimates musician and the artist. O ut of it eight h o u r work Jay. obtained from tbe moat reliable a new dram a will spring. T h e schoolhouse will make cul sources point to tbe city's having ture. education and companionship gained 20,000 in population during lifelong th ing s. In the revivified that period. Statistic« of tbe building inspec old red schoolhouse democracy has to r's office show that perm its were possibilities th a t no one has fully dream ed of. It will be democracy’s issued from and including July 1, Acropolis ! A bout it th e life ol the 1911, to J u n e 30, 1912, for 4,000 com m unity will center as it centered dwellings of all classes, apartment abont the F o ru m in ancient Rome. 1 bouses n o t iucluded. ». •• - Vacant tracts of acreage in and about the city are being transform Flies! Flies! Flies! G et your screen d o o r s and win- ; ed into m odern residence districts so dows made. Meat safes, bread 1 rapidly th a t the people of Portland boards, ironing b o a r d s and sleeve as a rule fail to comprehend the ra boards made to O l d e r at Quick A . pidity with which the work is being done. P o rtla n d Journal. C u r r y ’s. EUGENICS EXPOSITION AT OREGON STATE FAIR REMARKABLE RESIDENCE BUILDING IN PORTLAND