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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 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 . 50 cis com C O Q U I L 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 29, 191 2 K. H. HANSEN EXTENDS THANKS TO “ A VOTER NEIGHBORING BEST CATTLE NEWS NOTES STOCK ON CUT-OVER LANDS TOPICS WISE AND OTHERWISE •JJob Printing— N ew presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please P E R Y E A R $ 1 .5 0 TILLAMOOK GRAPHITE AT STEAMEK RESUMES RUN SOON OREGON NEWS GRAVEL FORD BRIEFLT TOLD Iu the Herald of August 15, a person signing himself "A Voter” undertakes to write a history of my life and also to predict what I am likoly to do in the future. It is for — tunate that we are no longer com- Portland Company Will Aid Owners of Logged- pnlled to d e^ n d on the wandering Interesting Happenings and Doings of Nearby Fortune Favors E. C. Barker Means Much off Lands to Purchase all Cattle Neighbors Clipped from Exchanges Towards Advancing Coos County’s gypsy for our fortune telling. We That Can Be Cared For and Otherwise Secured Industrial Progress can now apply to Mr. A Voter. I am glad iudeed that I have ris The West Coast Lumberman de en to sufficient importance to merit MYRTLE POINT MATTERS E. C Barker, formerly in the votes nearly fourteen pages particu that distinction and permit me to Democratic Nominee jewelry business in this city, now The cannery starts on YVidnes- larizing on the fourth annual session thank Mr. A Voter for his kindness day, the 28th. of Marshfield, exhibited a quanti FO R ASSESSOR of the Pacific Coast Logging Con If he will favor me with his name C oo« County, Oregon ty of graphite to the Herald force The Cecil Carters are rusticating gress recently held in Tacoma. and address I will send him a st Port Orford. that is without doubt the genuine Solicits your support Loggers and lumbermen from all ebromo. article. Mrs C. H. Soutbmayd is the guest sections of the northwest as well as It is true, as Mr. A Voter says, I of Mrs. J. Lowe this week. A vein of the valuable mineral Investigate my past record and machinery and supply meu were have been honored by the people of eighteen inches in thickness was you will know my Platform Dr. and Mrs. J. Masson and niece present. Various topics of interest Coos co u D ty with various positions found at a depth of but sixteen feet — Equal Taxation— are visiting this week at Riverton to loggers and mill men were dis of trust. I am grateful for the same. from the surface. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Soutbmayd cussed We quote Hie following It shall be my purpose in the fufure It is admirably situated for profit relative to live stock on cut-over as in the past to do all in my pow spent the week end with their son able miniug being upon a side hill lands as being a subject of interest er to merit their confidence. Mr. A F. E Soutbmayd of theN. rth Fork where uhuudance of water can be and benefit to prospective producers Voter states that I was nominated Hon. Binger Hermann, who has obtained for power aud other pur in this section : poses. in 1900 for superintendent of schools been here on a business trip return “ D. O. Lively, o f the Portland on the populist ticket, but he did ed to Roseburg Sunday, but will Mr. Barker was on bis way to “ The Guardians of the Columbia,’’ Union Stock Yards, Porlland, Ore state that I at once declined the return with the Shriners, who are to the new book by John H Williams, Marshfield whore he will have a gon discussed the subject of live nomination. It is also true that a meet in Marshfield the first week iu has already been pronounced by ex quantity of the graphite assayed to stock on cut over lands. He spoke few of my friends voted for me for September. perts to be tbe most beautiful vol ascertain its purity for upon this of the necessity of the increased the democratic nomination for as Mr. and Mrs Cass Hermann, sou ume ever published about tbe west. depends the success of the under production oí live stock on the sessor in 1902. 80 did a few repub and daughter, and Mrs. Stormer Indications It describes tbe Columbia river and taking commercially. coast. There is such a profit that licans vote to nominate a democrat with her little girl, all of Roseburg, are that a great perceut of it is pure, its snow-capped guardian peaks, it behooves every man who owns for the office of assessor last April. returned borne in their auto the 23d Mounts Hood, St.Heleus aud Adams; and those who have examined a cut-over land (ogive this subject au piece left on the Herald desk are o f Also Mr. A Voter did not state after a three weeks’ visit here and and it does justice to the subject. early and intelligent attention. that I had held the offices of sehoo down the coast. The little boy (oot this opinion. Those who are familiar with Mr At twelve of the leading markets clerk, school director and clerk and yet twelve) drove their car the en The Oregon Agi ¡cultural College Williams’ former book, “ The Mount of the United States on June 30 th jadge of election, besides serving tire distance. ain that was ‘God,’ ’’ will find this at Corvallis will also be asked to there was a shortage of 500,000 cat on Fourth of July committees and Our city looks quite deserted at new volume even more attractive. determine its contents and quantity tle. estimating weights and num various ether things. present so many being away on va- Especially to all Oregonians will it from which values may be known. bers. The production o f cattle is It is true I was formerly a demo catious. Am mg the number are: prove a joy. The great river and Graphite is a mineral found in not keeping pace with the increase crat, became dissatisfied aod joined Dr. Stemmler’s family and Miss Dot its noble white sentinels are shown but few places in the United Stales. of population. Throughout the the populist party and when that Miller who are carnpiDg on Mill in more than 200 magnificent illus Ceylcjp, according to tbe U. S. Geo LTuited States there has been no party died, I drifted for a time, aud creek beyond Rural, the Geo. Rack- trations, eight of which are in col logical Survey Bulletin, being the decrease in the number of hogs. It finally joined the republican party lids, Lew Browns, Mrs. Ralph Rick ors, true to Dature. The text is as largest producer of this valuable is, however, claimed that hogs will But Mr. A Voter, why make such a lid, Mrs. D ivisof Remote, Mr. Allen interesting as the piotures. It tells mineral. grow scarcer year after year. The roar about it ? Why not take up The many uses for graphite h ive and Miss Electra Brady, all of whom the story of tbe uprising of thu Col Northwest sends from $ 1 7 , 000,000 the cases of other candidates who started for Whiskey Run on the umbia region out of the Pacific, the caused it to be manufactured arti- to $ 20 , 000,000 annually away from have been democrats, had a change 24tb. Mr. E. Snider an 1 family aud creation of the Cascade-Columbia fically by means of tbe electric fur live stock and packing house pro of heart, as ycu call it, and became Mrs Ernest Snyder are at Bandou gorge, and tbe building of the now nace, an anthracite coal carrying ducts. populists, had 'another change and The Milton Lees, Mrs. Jus. Arring extinct volcauoes There is also a small amounts of evenly distributed Wherever owners of cut-over again became democrats. And, if ton aud daughter Hazel have been short, but valuable, ebapter on tbe impurities being the material from lands have burned off slashings and your memory is so good, do you re- which the ordinary grades are ma le. camping on the beach below Ban- forests of this district. have sown meadow, and other grass membor a prominent man who was don for the past two weeks. The Oregonian, in an editorial, The artificial product is much infer the ventures have met with success. formerly a republican, joinel the calls the book ‘ ‘both a delight to ior to the graphite that is mined. Cattle raised on this cut over laud populist party and later again be CURRY COUNTY One of the most important uses the lover of nature’s grandeur and have gone largely to supplying log came a republican and was elected A new school house is being built a service to the whole Columbia riv of graphite is for lubricatiug. The gers’ camps. to office. on the upper Chetco. er country,” and it declares the text addition of graphite to oil results Coos county. Oregon, furnished Now Mr. A Voter, if you object ''o f as high order as the illustra in a lower frictional resistance than An onion on exhibition in the the best lot of cattle in point of to a man changing bis politics and tions." In every way this fascinat would be obtained bv the wee o f oil postoffice at Agness, grown near breeding and in point of finish that then running for officp, why not ing volume is a book to own, to read alone. The quantity of oil requir has reached Portland in a long write up the whole batch at once. that place, weighs twenty ounces. ed for a giveu service is also reduc Mr Maurice, an agate collector, and to send your friends. time, and they were driven six days It would save time and besides it “ Tbe Guardian of Ihe Columbia,’ ’ ed and a lighter grade of oil may be made the ruu from Coos Bay bar to before they reached a railroad. They would look more consistent. I am employed without decreasing the Cape Blanco in five and one-half by John H. Williams, Tacoma, Wasli- were fed on cut-over lauds, and fond of company. If you can send quality of tbe lubrication. A small iugton, published by the author. never saw hay or grain. These a crowd of us together I will not be hours in a small 19 -foot boat of the Cloth $ I. 6 G post paid; paper covers, quantity of graphite only is required dory type built by himself. cattle brought seven cents a pound so lonely. 85 cents post paid. J. K. Gill C '., and the benefits derived from its in Portland. The Bane sawmill on the Sixes The taxpayers of Coos county de Portland, distributors for Oregon. use persist long after the application He cited the results obtained with mand a fair aud equal assessment, river has resumed operations and has ceased. Both the amorphous pigs in Carey wood, Idaho, by the Scientific Value of Homan Body but 7 do not think they care if the will run steadily during the winter. and crys'alline varieties of natural Michigan Land and Lumber Com Rough cedar aud fir lumber is being assessor was formerly a democrat or A French analvsist makes the fol- graphite are extensively employed pany in one year’s time. On an sold at the mill for $ 10 per thous lowii g observations: A normal man a populist. for lubrication. investment of $55 a profit of $619 of 150 pounds contains in reducible Now Mr. A Voter, I do not intend and. Twenty men are employed. We are informed that Clias. Kitne was reaped, and in two years the Final arrangements to purchase nutritive principles the equivalent of Kiine A Von Pegert, had a mine to conduct a newspaper campaign company netted $ t,o t 8 . At this and do not think I shall answer necessary equipment lor the co of 12,000 hens’ eggs. The gas of of graphite at Baker, Oregon, many time the company has on hand 114 anything that you may publish in operative cold storage plant to be the human organism is sufficient to years ago from which he then real pigs. Any other logging concern the future. I have lived in Missouri operated on Rogue river have been inflate a balloon of 10,000 cubic feet ized $40.00 per ton. It is said a or farmer can do what this company precinct, near Gravel Ford, for the made. The plant will be located capacity. A human body contains considerable greater sum is now has done. last 27 years. If you, or anyone on the Gold Beach side o f the river sufficient iron to make nails of five paid. Mr. Kime pronounces tbe A company in Portland will leud centigrams weight. else, desire to know anything fur and will employ about fifty meu. graphite found bv Mr. Barker as of^ the purchase price ol cattle sufficient Dr. Campbell, a physician and ther about me I will refer you to the A man of this weight contains excellent quality and believes it will to consume the grass and hay that people who have known me the surgeon long in the employ o f the enough of fat to nuke seventy-five prove to be at least eighty per cent any owner ol logged-off lands can Hill railroad company, is a recent candles and leave enough grease to pure. longest. care for. arrival at Wedderburn where he make a cake of maiseilles soap. Mr. Barker ie sanguine he will be If elected I promise to give the -------------> ------------- will locate. He says the railroad There is a sufficient quantity of taxpayers a square deal richly rewarded by the discovery Oregon Vital Statistics along the coast will be completed phosphorous to make 8,045 boxes and working of bis graphite mine, Respectfully, The quarterly bulletin ot the Ore by the time the Panama canal is of parlor matches. The hydrogen and that he is possessed of no undue K. H. H ansen gon State Board of Health for the finished. portion of the human gas contents mercenary or selfish motives in the months of April, May and June last would fill a balloon that would lift success of the venture is demon A Fish Story among other items, contains the fol A Natural Error tbe weight of the contributor. strated when he said: " I t will be a A Coquille correspondent of the lowing: A teacher in Boston was telling great help toward advertising Coos In addition to the foregoing the April— Births, male 444 , female Portland Journal on August 24 the story of Red Riding Hood. She human body contains also six tea- county and making known to the says:— A giant sturgeon ( Acipenser 4 3 3 ; deaths, male 328 , female 2 1 6 . bad described the woods and the spoonsful of salt, a basin of sugar world the many advantages we May— Births, male 4 5 8 , female sturio ), which was caught in the wild animals that lived there. and thirty-fwo quarts of water. enjoy.” river a few miles below the city, is 3 7 7 ; deaths, male 286 , female 1 9 !. “ Suddenly,” she said, “ Red Rid These are utterances of a loyal the only one known to have been June— Births, male 354 , female ing Hood heard s loud noise. She Heavyweight Twins Insane citizen and we trust abundant suc 3 7 8 ; deaths, male 25 4 , female 1 3 7 . caught this far from the O'ean. turned around, and what do you Missee Loies and Louise Schatz- cess will crown the efforts of our Of the marriages 483 were report This species goes to fresh water to suppose she eaw standing there, maD, twin sisters, each weighing esteemed friend, E C. Barker. spawn but instances when speci ed lor April, 400 in May, aud 755 looking at her, and showing all his 350 pounds, have been taken to a -» - • » - couples entered into the bonds of mens are taken this far up are very sharp, strong teeth ?’’ local asylum and are attracting T he “ ProgreM ive” Party matrimony in the "month of mar rare. The fish is nearly nine feet "Teddy Roosevelt !” cried all the wide attention throughout tbe Is the individual, man or woman, who in length and weighed over 200 riages.” uses Foley Kidney Pills for backache, boys in chorus. — Boston Post. State of Kentucky. rheumatism, w<jak back, and other kid pounds. ney and bladder irregularities. Foley The twins became insane at the --- -----» --------- Bank Note 500 Years Old ! Kidney Pills are healing, strengthening, A vast amount of ill health is due to ^ same time and apparently in the tonic, and quick to produce beneficial impaired digestion. When the stomach ; Can Yon Beat It The sub treasury at Philadelphia 1 results Contain no harmful drugs. fails to perform its functions broperly has just received, with an applica An almost fully blown Martha the whole system becomes deranged. same manner. They talk exactly Never sold in bulk. Put up in two sizes tion for redemption, a Chinese bant Washington rose was discovered en A few doses of Chamberlain’s Tablets alike and seem to have identical in sealed bottles. The genuine in a yel- I low package. Fuhrman’s Pharmacy. are all you need. They will strengthen I note which is more than 500 years cased in a double sack of protective your digestion, invigorate your liver, I thoughts at the same moment. The case is believed to be with old. tissue in a Plymouth Rock hen kill and regulate your bowels, entirely doing ' FOR SALE away with that miserable feeling due The note was issued during the ed bj Mrs. Florence Mattbes of to faulty digestion. Try it. Many out a parallel in medicine, and do*- Three acres close in. Suitable for Ming dynasty, io the reign of the Cbemawa, Oregon. Despite that others have been permanently cured— tors are watching the sisters with ¡chicken ranch. New six room cot why not you? For sale by all druggists. interest. The women are not vio tage, all modern improvements. Emperor Tsi Tsee, who occupied reveral weeks must have elapsed ---- -- » For sale cheap by owner. Address lent or dangerous the throne from 13G9 until 1399. since the swallowing of the bud to He who seeks a wife should find Box 147 , Coquille, Oregon. The value is one kwan, or ‘‘a enable it to have become so coated, her aod he who does so ought to i Sometimes justice doesn’t hare string of cash." the flower had not undergone decay. mind her. Have you paid the printer? her scales on straight. VALUABLE MINEHAL IS FOUND T. J. T H R IF T ABOUT THE COLUMBIA AND ITS MOUNTAINS Shippers will bo pleased to learn thiit the Steamer Tillamook will soon ! he ready to resume her Portland* Coquille run Tbe boat is now at Otkland where new engines are being installed and other improve- i merits made. Good authority upon Transpiring iu Oregon Boiled Down (a Least Number of Lines and Yet Make the subject is contaiued in the fol lowing letter: the Subject Understand j EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK 8. E lmore & Co. SALMON PAC KE RS Astoria, Oregon, Aug. 21, 1912 Nosier & Norton, Coquille, Oregon. Gentlemen:—I w sh to advise that Capt. Antonsen informs us from Fast Oakland that the overhauling should be completed so that the “ Tillamook” can leave within about two weeks’ time. Immediately on arrival she will go on the Coquille River schedule. You may notify our patrons to the effect as they make inquiry, with the proviso that no unforeseen difficulties arise in the mean time, which might delay her fuither than is now expected. Yours truly, S. K imore Co. AtwEveu:ng with Authors Tbe liferary aud musical enter tainment given under the auspices of the Coquille Educational League at Masonic hull, Thursday evening Inst, did not receive patronage the talent displayed deserved. Unfor tunately this was a week wherein entertainments were numerous aud our people being surfeited, many missed Ihe rarest treat. Miss Gitchel, a graduate of the famous Emerson School of Elocution and Oratory, Bostou, gave readings from Kipling, Browning aud other noted authors, in a most commendable manner, t.iss Gitchel proved herself to be highly talented in her chosen pro fession, bis a pleasing voice and portrays her readings so realistic that the subjects treated were al most sg good as seeo. Vocul solos by Mrs. Tyrrell, with piano accompaniment by Mrs. Haw kins, and selections upon tbe vio’in by Mr. Charles A. Pureley were features of interest interspersqd with the rtadings. The Educational League is to be congratulated upon presenting such a high class entertainment, and the lack of attendance should uot— we hope not— deter from giviDg similar educational entertainments in tbe future. It costs $1G8 per year to support a patient in the insane asylum at Salem. A $350.000 steel bridge over the Willamette at Sdem is rapidly near- iug completion. A $65,000 four-story bulge build ing will Ere built by tbe Order of Muoee at Roseburg, Tbe Woodmen ol the World ot Oregon City are preparing to com pete for a prize at the State Fair at Salem, Tuesday, September 2 . Holding that corporations were in common with individuals, when it comes to the payment of taxes, Judge Hamilton, at Roseburg, has banded dowu a decision compelling tbe Southern Oregon company to pay taxes on its big acreage of tim ber lands in Douglas couuty for the lour years ending with 1 9 1 2 . Tbe taxes amount to $ 12 , 000 . It is expected that the work of laving rails on the Eugene Coos Bay railroad will begin soon. The Southern Pacific engineers in charge of building the road say the rails are expected in a few days and that concrete culverts and the concrete work on the bridges between Eu gene and the Noti tunnel have been finished Mrs. A. M. Rinehart of Vale, Or egon, is financing operations in drilling for a flow of hot water to be piped into every business house, hotel, store and residence in Vale. Tile scheme appears leasable as hot water has for years been one of the city’s greatest assets because of its medicinal qualities. The pioneers tell ot boiling eggs in the hot springs near tbe river. In late years wells have Eieen drilled and shot, and gusbers ol hot water have iorced themselves 50 feet into the air until capped, and the water piped into bath bouses aud plunges. Horrible Crime at Eugene Tribute to His Mother Mililred Greeu, tbe 12-year-old I think back through the years, daughter of a pastor at Eugene, was tbe lean and the fat, the good and recently murdered while in bed, by tbe bad ones, to my earliest recol an unknown fieDd. Tbe girl's bead lections. I see a woman, with an was nearly severed from her body. eye that flashes swjft as an arch Rewards by tbecily of Eugene and angel’s wing and a mouth that tbe Btate of Oregon aggregating breaks with laughter and hardens $5,000 are offered for the murderer. Excitement at tbe university city at sight of wrong, singing lullabies a woman who, with hand grasping does not subside, ¡ d fact it seems to tbe Unseen Hand, walks the briar- iucrease, for on the night alter the hordered paths of life unashamed crime a man was seen trying to get unafraid, unharmed. She is clad through a window iu the residence in garments of beauty for me. and of George Johnson, a block west of age does not soil them, nor years the Green residence, where » do make them cheap aud tawdry. Hei_| mestic was asleep. He was fright tongue is without gnile, having nev- | ened away by her screams. At tbe home of D. M. Puikerson, er been the messenger of a lie. It is seventeen years since her soul a block east of the Green residence, went home to God and her fingerH some one was heard tampering with became for me the fingers of an the screen over tbe window occupi angel, but I have not forgotten all ed by two daughters of Purkerson, she said. She told me there w is a Their father heard their screams Santa Claus, and I believe her. He and running to tbe winbow with a brings me no longer drums and shotgun saw a man crouching be fifes. But be s'.ill brings to me the neath the window. As tbe man ran vision of my mother and tbe music across the lawn be shot at him and of that aDgeiic chorus which sang be fell to the ground, wounded pos at creation’s dawn and at the hour sibly, but escaped. It is thought a negro committed of man’ s redtmptinn. — Gov. Thomas the crime, several strangers of that U. Marshall of Indiana. --- «--.»»■ — -- type of humanity being in tbe city recently. Popr'alion of Oregon — --------- * - --------------- Oregon’s population during two Lane Couuty has Wild Fw Trees years from April 15, 1910, to April ^ Ciint Stewart of Cottage Grove, 15, 1912, increaaed 03,959, Record ing to statistics compiled by Labor while roamiog in the woods and Commissioner Hoff, and that is the mountains west of that city, ran estimate he will embody in his re across several fig trees filled with port. The last census shows the fruit. He will have some on exhib population on April 15, 1912, to ition at tbe grange fair. How the trees came to be grow have been 572,765 Taking the school census, attendance nnd en- , ing on the mountain side is a mys rollment as a basis, L ibot Com tery, but it is more than probable missioner figures that on April 15, that the seed must have been carri 1912, the population was 736,724, ed there by birds. Some time ago while excavation an increase of 53,959. which is a work was being done near the city, shade less than 10 per cent increase a petrified fig and tbe imprint of a in two years. * -• * - fig leaf were unearthed. Writer’s cramp more often affects All that glittors is not a diamond. the stomach than the wrist