^JThe Herald, the old estab
lished reliable newspaper of
the Coquille Valley in which
an “ ad’ always brings results.
VOL. 31,
T he C oquille H erald
NO. 2
COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1912
SHIPPING
AT
VAST VOLUME OF BUSINESS M. E CHURCH SOUTH, BANDON
Shipments Over the Coquille Rev. S. R. Steele Extends His
River Bar for Eight Months
Thanks Through the Her
of the Year Ending on the
ald for Aid Given Toward
31st of August, 1912
Building Parsonage
Au enterprising citizen ot the
hustling city-by-the-sea kindly fur
nished us the following data con
cerning the shipments over the
Coquille river bar, Inward and out
ward for the eight months of 1912,
ending August 31.
The names of steamers, schooners
and gasoline coasters plyiug be
tween Bandon and various ports—
twenty-lour in number— are also
given.
It will be a great surprise to many
readers of the Herald to learn of the
vast amount of skipping business
transacted at our sister city, and is
an evidence of push and enterprise
the effect of which will redound to
the prosperity of all thronghout the
entire length and breadth of the
productive and beautiful Coquille
Valley.
Bandon is the logical, geographi
cal shipping point for this section
and with the excellent craft now
available business is bound to in
crease.
Following are the quantities of
the freight commodities and the
number of passengers carried for the
period above named :
O u tw a r d B ound
Cedar piling, pieces..................
1,217
Shingles ...................................... 5,274,000
L u m b e r.......................................47,950,000
Cedar railroad ties ................
132,741
(Equal lumber ft. 4,247,712)
Splints, bundles.........................
18,400
Matchwood, cords .....^ .........
715
Produce, tons
1,747
Passengers.................................
925
I n w a r d B ound
Freight, tons.............................
Passengers.................................
The
PARSONAGE
1,098
10,407
Steamers for San Francisco, San
Pedro, San D iego—Speedwell, Fifield,
Elizabeth, Bandon, Brooklyn.
Schooners for various ports—Ruby,
Advance, Oregon, Sausalite, Oakland,
Bertie Minor, Esther Buhne, Mary
Dodge, Hugh Hogan.
Steamers for Portland—Anvil, Patsy,
Tillamook.
Gasoline Coasters—Ranger, Rustler,
Tramp, Osprey, Enterprise, Randolph,
Newark.
Facts Facetious
Some two months ago I erected a
small suite of rooms for my living
quarters which became the property
of the Bandon Methodist Church
South. In acknowledging the gen
erosity of the citizens, not only of
Bandon but of Coquille and others
along the river, I beg to publish the
names of those contributing and the
amounts, and I wish to express my
cordial appreciation in behalf of the
church I represent for these contri
butions.
COQUILLE
$35.00— E. E. Johnson.
$5.00—J. J. Lamb, A. T. Morrison, R.
S. Knowlton, Coquille M.E.C.S
$3.50— Dr. Walter Culin.
$2.50—M. H. Hersey, J. S. Lawrence,
O. R. Willard, W. W. Gage.
$2.00—G. H. Williams.
$1.75—Peter Johnson.
$1.50—L. H. Hazard, W. G. Ackerman,
C. E. Watson.
$1.00— F. E. Hull, W. H. Smith, S. Ed
wards, Capt. H. W . Dunham.
BANDON
$10.00—R. H. Rosa Co., Moore Lumber
Company.
$8.00—Gallier Hotel.
$5.35—A . McNair.
$5.00—First National Bank, Bank of
Bandon, Sabro Bros., Bandon
Furniture Co., Mrs. M. E. Led-
gerwood, Mrs. Minnie Chandler
Charles Chandler, Mrs. C. E.
Langlois, Dr. H. M. Brown, S.
R. Steele.
$3.50— Public contributions.
$3.00— W. C. Sellmer.
$2.50—O. A. Trowbridge, A. J. Hart
man, Ira Sidwell.
$2.00—Dr. Smith, J. Mann, Dr. H. L.
Houston, Dr. S. C, Endieott.
Dr. R. V . Leep.
$1.75—C. W. Hill.
$1.50—W . L. Beach, J . E. Walstrom,
J. W. Mast. F. V. Catterlin.
$1.00—Mr. Charleson, Fundy Medlock,
L. Mynatt, J. Engleman, C. E.
Klepfer, S. L. Shumate, T. T.
Hill, Blundell Bros., Fox, the
hatter, Sam Goff, J. T. Sulli.
. van, Mills & Straubaul, A. F.
Deringer, N. J. Crain, S. J.
Fahy, M. Breur.
$25.00—Conference Missionary Fund.
Eight dollars were given byfriends
who did not care to have their
names mentioned. A total of $235.-
85 was secured and the building
with furnishings and some repairs
on the church cost ¡¡>300, so if there
are those who wish to aid in mak
ing np this deficit, I shall be very
glad to receive what may be given
and acknowledge same in connec
tion with the above.
At the recent session of the Col
umbia conference preliminary steps
were taken toward projecting a plan
to build a parsonage at Bandon in
cluding the present structure, and
to build a church edifice.
S. R. S tkki .E, Pastor.
B a r b a r is m o f P o litic s
MONG certain barbarous and class attributed to him every virtue tlie attack is usually upou their
savage tribes, when one man in tilt calendar, the other every vice positions, their principles or their
Cleveland was the last
is in another’s wav and they want ! and crime It is highly amusing to record
the same thing, it is not unusual read contemporary accounts ol An candidate lor the presidency whose
for one to put the other out ol his drew Jackson. He was a saint and personal character and private life
were viciously assailed. During
way with a dagger, a spear or a a monster.
One has but to look into the his campaign in 1884 and during
bludgeon. Success is the oue prime
consideration, and to achieve it any newspapers of 186065 to see what his first term bis private life was the
means may be used. Homicides no was said of Lincoln. He was ridi target for the vilest calumny. The
less brutal and unjustifiable are not culed, reviled and slandered in the mistake and failure of that policy
uncommon among ourselves in these foulest and most atrocious terms. was perceived by his enemies and
enlightened days. Let a man offer Grant was subjected to the like they have never resorted to it since.
himself lor some public office, not treatment, aud so was Cleveland. In fact, it has almost never happen
necessarily an important one, and Nobody now believes the degrading ed that a man of shady character
see how promptly the effort is made stories that were rehearsed in hun and debauched life has been made
to butcher him. His neighbors will dreds of newspapers and by hun the candidate of his party. His
be told things about him that they dreds of speakers about these men. personal character and his private
never dreamed of before and that he Other public men whp^vere promi life must be inspection-proof, bomb
never dreamed of himself. Other nent, but who never reached the proof And it always is so.
men want the place he aspires to, highest place, were handled in the
But the decline of mudslinging is
and their first thought is to get him same way. All this was brutal, due to other causes. The average
out of the way; how to discredit, barbarous and utterly indefensible.- intelligence of the American people
disable or in some way kill him off. It was simply the tactics of the sav is probably higher than it formerly
And the candidate who is in the age aud the jungle. And this very was. Then the means of informa
lead will suffer the most abuse. His thing has kept out of public life tion are immensely enlarged. When
rivals with their several gangs ot great numbers of men of pre eminent the attempt is made to put a man
backers will combine against him fitness and to the great loss of the down by lies and calumny it is
in the common effort to pull him public. Men of character, of high quickly exposed, and this brings a
down, maim him or by some means spirit and seusibility have lefused reaction In his favor. Just men will
put him out of the runuiug No to subject themselves, their families not stand supinely by and permit a
accusation is too baseless, no charge and their friends to a fusilade of man to be reviled and slandered to
death unjustly. They will take up
too shameful, no slander too villain calumny.
Of course, when a man steps out for him It is said that Grant used
ous to be used if it gives promise of
as a candidate for office and asks to chuckle over the extravagant
hurting him.
This has been the shame of our the suffrage of his fellow citizens, abuse of him in the newspapers. He
political contests from the begin the people have a right to know thought it helped him. When Gen
ning. No other political campaigns what manner of man he is. They eral Ben Butler was running for
on earth are so disgraced by vitu have a right to sit in judgment governor of Massachusetts, a per
peration, villification and brazen upon his qualifications, to know fect flood of slime was poured out
and brutal lying as are the cam whether he is capable and honest upon him. Suddenly it stopped.
paigns in this land. There is a com and worthy of confidence and sup He sent word around to the worst
mon impression that men like Wash port. His character, bis principles, of these newspapers asking them to
ington, Jefferson, Madison and oth his habits and his record may be keep it up, and offering to pay
ers were not subjected to this treat scrutinized aud canvassed. He can them something if they would.
ment but were universally honored not object to this nor shrink from There was a grim humor in that, as
in their time. But it one will turn it. If his adversaries can bring well as a streak of seuse. Then
over the files of old journals and any damaging accusa ions against the newspapers have been much
pamphlets of iheir day he will see him w hich are liue an« which affect tamed in recent years. Reputable
that they were abused like pick his fitness for the place he seeks, it newspapers now, however, strongly
pockets and berated like pirates. is their right even their duty to partisan, have given up mere vitu
Andrew Jackson was the fireist and do it. Only he is entitled to fair peration. There are yellow jour
most domineering man we ever had and just treatment. His foes have nals, sensational, unscrupulous, ve
in the presidency. While ha was no right to lie about him or to cov nal, muckraking journals which
in public life he was a veritable er him with vituperation and sen »till follow the practice, but sensible
storm-center, and the whole land sational abuse. That ought to re men care but little for their opin
was swept with tempests. Probably act in his favor, as it usually does. ions on any subject. They carry
It is evident that there is far less no weight with the public judgment
no other man in our history was the
object of so much unreasoning ad abuse of men who seek high office of men or measures. There will be
miration on the one hand and of so especially the presidency, now than plenty of fiery writing and speaking
much inveterate and malignant hate there used to be. Candidates for in the coming campaign, but we
on the other. And both his friends the hightest places are not vilified look for no vituperation or mere
and foes deeply and passionately now as they were formerly. They abuse. The Herald advocates a
believed they were right. The one are fiercely attacked, of course, but clean campaign.
A
AND THE GENERAL SAID: “CHARGE."
The lollowitig from the pen of a
brilliant Iowa editor is a good thing
for some fathers and mothers to
read:
“ The mother who allows a six
teen year old daughter to float
around the township in a top buggy
with a counterfeit sport of a weak
jaw and weaker morals merely
opens the door to grief and disgrace.
If you don’t know what company
your girl keeps or what time of the
night she turns in, your roar when
the gossips get busy will sound as
A Weighty Cake
pathetic as a wheeze of a jewsharp.
The girl who insists on spooning
One of the largest cakes ever
with everybody in the corporate
limits ought to b: backed into a baked in the city of Philadelphia,
woodshed and relieved of her over and one of the most extraordinary
flow of affection with a No. 11 slip wedding gifts ever presented, was
per laid carelessly across her hiplets. given to Miss Mattie Morgenstein
We would rather see a girl kiss a by her lather who is a baker in
blind shoat (brought a barbed wire that city.
The cake is said to weigh 300
fence than to have her change part
ners six nights a week in a front pounds, among the ingredients
parlor with the lights turned low. being 100 pounds of raisins, 100
It is harder to marry off" a girl who pounds of currents, 39 dozen eggs
has been pawed over by every yap 75 pounds of sugar and 20 pounds
in the community, than it it to fat of butter.
It stands six feet high and is
ten a sheep on a pineapple ice cream.
You cannot gold brick a sharp-eyed artistically decorated. Morgenstein
• T hs Monopolistic Risdon Family.
suitor with second hand goods any and his sons spent two weeks mak-
Oue o f the prettiest midsummer cus
ing
the
big
ccnfection.
They
say
more than you can fit a bathrobe on
toms In England Is observed at the de
a goat. There are lots of weak i it will last without crumbling or lightful Devon vlllnge o f Ilolsworthy.
By the will of a former vicar the sum
minded parents who are going up melting for twenty five years.
o f £2 10s. Is provided annually, which
against the judgment day with
the churchwardens mnst "openly give
T. L. l’ arks, Murrayville, (ia.. Route to the young single woman resident In
about as much show as a cross-eyed
1, is in his 73rd year, and was recently j the parish who Is generally esteemed
girl at a beauty show, and their c u r d nf a bad kidney and bladder tTOU> ; by the young men as the most hand
ble.
He fays him self: “ I have suffered some and most noted for her quietness
children will rise up and call them with my
kidneys
My back ached and 1
blessed with the enthusiasm of a I was annoyed with bladder irreynlari- Slid attendance at church.” The prize,
ties. I can truthfully say, one 50c liottle which Is [publicly [presented In the
one legged man at a club dance.”
church porch, has been won during re
Solitude is sadly disagreeable to
the girl with a new eolitaire.
of Foley Kidney Bills oured me entire
ly .” They contain no habit forming cent successive years by four good
drugs. Sold at Fuh rm an’s Pharmacy looking and good living young damsels
who belong to a family named Utsdon.
Have you paid the printer?
l —London Chronicle.
PER YEAR $1.50
OREGON NEWS
NEWS NOTES BRIEFLY TOLD
TOPICS WISE AND OTHERWISE EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
Interesting Happenings and Transpiring in Oregon Boiled
Doings of Nearby Neigh
Down to Least Number of
bors from Correspondents
Lines and Yet Make the
and Exchanges
Subject Understood
MYRTLE POINT POINTERS
Miss Jennie Roberts from near
Eugene is here on a visit.
Miss Dora Williams was in town
Wednesday en route to her school
at Lakeport.
Mrs. Verna Howard of Humbolt
couutry, Califoruia, is the guest of
Mrs. G. Lowe of the North Fork.
Mr I T. Weekly and family will
soon move to Coquille, while his
daughter and Iter husband, Mr.
and Mrs. James Brockman, will run
the ranch on the East Fork.
Owing to the fact that the con
tractors cannot procure the rock fast
enough, the paving on Spruce street
is progressing very slowly. We all
hope the rain will keep off until it
is finished.
Mr and Mrs. Thos. Barklow re
turned the first of the week from a
three week’s trip to Ashland, Ore.,
where he spent his vacation. His
son Wilber and family also enjoyed
a visit at the same time and place.
Mrs. Messenger, Mrs. Chester
Lee’s mother, returned to her home
at Carlton, this’ state, on Thursday,
via Roseburg having spent the
summer with her daughter, who a
tew days before, entertained a num
ber ot friends at an afternoon tea in
honor ol her mother.
BANDON BREEZES
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Catterlin of
Salem are.visiting with their son
F. V, Catterlin.
At the opening day of the Bandon
public schools 494 pupils were en
rolled and several have been added
to the books since that time.
Bishop Scadding has sold two
lots on Spruce street to W. J. Sweet
who is now making preparations to
build a modern bungalow thereon.
The board ot directors of the Ban-
don public schools have established
musical instruction in all the grades
and in the high school. Commer
cial, shorthand and typewriting will
also be taught. A study in book
keeping will be inaugurated the
first of the year
Experienced
teachers have been secured in the
various branches
CURRY COUNTY CULLINGS
T h e Moving Roadway.
Tho New York public service com
mission has authorized the construc
tion o f n moving sidewalk subway In
Thirty-fourth street from Third ave
nue to Ninth nvoiiue. a distance o f
about a mile. The expectation is that
the work can he completed In about
twenty months. The plans contem
plate three platforms, the first moving
slowly, the second at double and the
third at treble speed.
A sidewalk
such as tills was flr-t exhibited and
operated at the World's fair in Chica
go in 1893
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Perhaps Lut’s wife was turned to
bait because she was too peppery.
ijjo b Printing— N ew presses
new material and experienced
workmen. A guarantee that
Herald printing will please
A much needed road is being
built up the Sixes river.
Huckelberries are very abundant
throughout Curry county.
Miss Kathryn I.enheir of Myrtle
Point is teaching school at Gold
' Beach.
The sheriff sold the old court
bouse at Gold Beach last Saturday
| to Alt Gauntlett lor $200.
George Sutton of Port Orlord is
a student in the Oregon Agricul
tural College at Corvallis.
The Wedderburn Trading com
pany’s mill is now sawing lumber
to enclose The mill. In another
week Curry county cau boast ol one
of the best sawmills on the coast.
Carl Groves and Sarah Crowley,
both natives of Curry county, united
their energies recently with a view
1 of starling little Groves. Rev. R.
Ç o / z y B i 9r g h t / S / 2
O R T o r i g. G O O D * , *
C. Young of Port Orford performed
the ceremony.
1 W. II. Meredith, democratic can
The Last of Berlin’s “ Cabbies.”
Berlin police authorities hove issued didate for joint representative of
an edict bniifshfuK horse drawn cabs
Coos and Cuiry counties, is a highly
from the si room o f the city. The ve
hicles in question, says the Autocar, popular man in the community
are so utterly obsolete as to be un where he resides. Mr. Meredith is
worthy o f such an up to date place as an attorney ai law at Port Oiford
Berlin. To each o f the sixty licensed
The socialists of Port Orford have
drivers affected by tlie new regulation
$ir$0 is to be paid by way of compen purchased two columns of space in
sation. wTille applications from any of
them for permission to drive motor ve the Tribune aud have well written
hicles are to be favoably considered. articles therein relative to their
The edict goes into force on April 1 cause. They will make their influ
next
ence felt at the polls in November
• «•» •
If u freak garment shock, a wo- through the medium of printers’
[ink as in no other way.
mnn .he’ll wear it sooner or Uter.
Mrs. Lavina E. W rig h t, an Ore
gon pioneer of 1843, d ied at Port
land at th e age oi 83 years.
A cannery to preserve the hun
dreds of thousands ot gallons of
wild berries growing near Wald-
port is contemplated.
William Stockman, Forest Grove,
has a pear tree in his orchard that
has borne three crops this year, says
the Washington News-Times.
Seven potatoes raised on the
ranch of J. W. Inman, near Dallas,
weighed a fraction less than four
teen pounds. One tipped the scale
at four and one-half pounds.
The annual report ot the Presby-
rerian church, just issued, gives the
following statistics oi the Oregon
Synod: Presbyteries, 5; ministers,
153; churches, 149; communicants,
' 3 > 9 8 5 ; Sunday school memtiers,
16,023
Miss Edna C. McKnigbt of A l
bany has been appointed assistant
instructor in history at the State
University. Miss McKnight is a
graduate of Albany College, ’07,
and of the University, ’ 12. She had
previously taught in the high school
at Jefferson.
Altogether children took part in
88 fairs held in various parts of the
state. The value of the prize list
amounted to about $20,000, It is
estimated that about 75,000 children
prepared exhibits for county, dis-
tiict or state fairs.
The monster new smokestack of
the Smith mill at Marshfield towers
232 feet iu the air, is 16 feet across
at the bottom, and is
leet
across at the top It is claimed by
those who know that the smoke
stack is the tallest in Oregon.
To make dryness doubly dry, the
faculty of the State University have
passed a drastic rule under which
drinking in any saloon makes a
student subject to dismissal.
In
Eugene the anti-liquor law has
been enforced for six years.
Mrs. Anna Ohlendorf of Lents,
while digging in her garden un
earthed a potato which weighed two
pounds, and resembled a miniature
aeroplane, consisting of a body and
two horizontal planes. When dis
covered its position was that of an
aeroplane ready for flight.
The onion crop of western Ore
gon this season will be 389 cars
compared with 370 cars a year ago.
This is an increase of 19 cars over
the crop of 1911. Eastern Oregon
also has a bigger crop of onions
this season but the figures are in
definite as yet. The quality of the
western crop is perhaps 75 per cent
No. 1 and 25 per cent No. 2.
Minnesota capitalists have pur
chased the Broadmad farm, Yamhill
and Polk counties, and will subdi
vide and plant logant>erries. The
highly profitable result ot the lo
ganberry crop this year has thor
oughly demonstrated the commerci
al possibilities of this prolific fruit.
The loganberry reaches its greatest
perfection in the moist bottom lands
at the Willamette valley. Coos
county cannot be excelled in the
production of this berry. Plant and
profit thereby.
A fire of but thirty minutes dura
tion caused a property loss of I30,-
000 at Cottage Grove last Thursday.
The Commercial Stables, Burkhol
der-Woods’ warehouse, Knowles It
Graber's warehouse, S. R. Pipper
residence, and several smaller build
ings were reduced to ruins. The
fire started in the Burkholder-Wood
warehouse in a room filled with
matches, probably from spontaneous
combustion and the building was a
roaring furnace almost before an
alarm could be turned in.