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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1912)
T he C oquille H erald Q Thi H r. ili#- il I estab lished n.!iul-- K W ip B tf of the (.«i'juille \ Hey in which an ‘‘ao alwiy, brings results. VOL. 51, NO 3 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8» 1912 FOR m o o DAIRYMEN oUOULO NOT OVERFEED THEIR COWS ELECTION CALLED III Hi [IDE \ ------- * \ Proposition lo P iuc H m # '.ots Opposite Court House and Build Ht| ?» Schell " £ tion Satu >6 \ 1 3 ' st in T r u s te e s .if i tion have info; e > ' ' id 4 appointed by t. H. O. Anderson, V <■ i.union Kin R. S. Knowlton tba* they would sell the library lo.s lor the purpose of erecting a high school building thereon on the following conditions: That a permanent library room with an outside entrance bo provid ed for a public library in said build ing. That a gymnasium with an out side entrance be made in said build ing for public uso under direction of the school. That the sum of $1,000 (tho price of the lots) for which to purchase books for said library be paid to the association. Officers of School District No. 8, Coquille, have called an election for Saturday, October 26, to voto upon purchasing the site and bonding the school district in the sum of $21),000 with which to erect a high sohool building. Three questions are submitted, and voters are to designate their preference separately. Briefly stat ed tho propositions arc as follows: First— Shall the district school board purchase lots numbered elev en and twelve in block thirty, Elli ott’s addition, at a cost of $1,000? Socond— Shall the school district board erect a school liouso to cost $20,000 on said site ? Third--Sh V ‘ b- district school board contract a bonded indebted ness of $20,000 for the purpose of providing funds with which lo erect a school house on said site? Election will be held at the pub lic. school building and polls will bo open from one o’clock until four in the afternoou. P M. Hall-Lewis is drawing plans for the high school building which will soon bo completad and placed in a conspicuous place where all in terested miy gain an idea of its ap pearance when built. No human endeavor was ever pro posed without opposition and the foregoing is not an exception. It is contended that the grounds are not adequate to supply play grounds for the pupils, in fact are only large enough for the building. This is the only bone of contention we Lave heard. The site appears to many as de sirably situated not only for a high school but the central location would best serve tho majority of people who would patronize the library and attend public entertainments. That Coquille needs a modern high school building of a size suffi- cent to accommodate its growth and in keeping with the substantial and beautifying improvements iuaugu- rated and under way iu our fair city, no enterprising citizen will deny. We abide the decision of the ma jority. May that verdict be for the best. A Jolly Crowd A blank crop report, says the San Francisco Argonaut, was sent out by a Cleveland paper for the farm ers to fill out, and the other day one of them came back with the following written on the blank side in pencil: “ All we’ ve got in this neighborhood is three svidders. two school ma'ams, a patch of wheat, the hog cholera, too much rain, about fifty acres of taters and a durn fool who married a cross-eyed gal because she owns eighty sheep , , . . . . . K and a mule, which the same is me, ’ and no more at present. ’ ■ 'ug . ’ ‘ ¡if reuse P E R Y E A R $ 1 .5 0 INITIATIVE MILLAGE TAX BILL ARGUMENT A N IN SU LT T O JUSTICE In his eagerness for large pro duction the feeder oftentimes over feeds the cow. In many ways this is more to be condemned than un derfeeding. Sometimes it ruins the cow’s usefulness for life. Repeat ing observations of W. J. Gillette of Springvale Farms, Rosendale, Wis., of how lie fed On! ,■ .’a Jo hanna, he ays ‘‘Sli • ¡1 icr best work on a total vt in raj n of from *0» :ie v.i Remarkable Longevity Workmen engaged in clearing and blasting rock 011 the L. D. Loomis property, in Santa Monica Canyon, Cal., found a frog imbed ded in solid limestone, three feet beneath the surface. It had been encased in rock for several hundred years. Apparently petrified, the amphibian was taken by the aston ished workmen and laid iu the sun. In a few seconds it suddenly show ed signs of life. After several min utes it blinked confusedly, drew a long breath and in great leaps trav eled a hundred feet before the work men could recapture it. The lump of limestone from which it was taken was carefully packed and taken to Santa Monica- It showed clearly the exact shape of the occupant, to the minutest detail. Professor G. W. Altland of, the University of California, to whom the rock was shown, and to whom the circumstances of its finding were related, said that undoubtedly the frog was hundreds of years old. Professor Altland.is recognized as an authority. Millions for Negroes To date there are 22,400 negroes employed by the Federal Govern ment at an annual cost of $12,456,- 760. Henry W. Furniss, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary of the United States to Hayti, who receives a salary of $io,- 000 a year, is the highest paid ne gro in the service. A number ot negroes receive from $2,500 to $5,- 000 annually. About 2,200 work in the Treasury Department at an annual compensation collectively ot » , ____ . . ,, , $1,500,000. That is the largest , j number in one department. OREGON NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD The initiative raillage tax bill, providing for a six-tenths ot a mill tax, four-sevenths for the use of the Agricultural College, and three- sevenths for the use of the Univer sity, and providing also for a single Board of Regents, was prepared by Transpiring in Oregon Boiled a joint committee from the govern Down to Least Number of or’s special commission appointed to solve Oregon’s higher education Lines and Yet Make the al problem, and trom the Boards of Subject Understood Regents of the two institutions working in conjunction with the governor and with the presidents of Five hundred baskets of Muscat the two institutions, and is offered grapes were given away one day at as a substitute tor all the present the Pendleton fair by the Hermis- legislative bills for support and gov ton Commercial club. eminent of the two institutions. Grain receipts iu the railroad This bill does not increase the yards at Portland aggregate 800 average rate of taxation for the sup carloads more than) for a like period port of the two institutions as last year and the movement con shown during the last ten years. tinues heavy. The average during this period is a The twenty-seventh annual con trifle over six-tenths of a mill. clave of the Knights Templar of The State of Washington is at Oregon will be held in Marshfield present paying for the same pur next year, with William E. Grace poses seventeen hundredths of a of Portland as grand commander. mill for the Agricultural College. Mrs. Berilla F. Denny, a pioneer The growth of the two institu tions will certainly keep pace with ot r849, died at Beaverton, at the the growth of wealth iu the state, age ot 89 years. Since crossing the as has been shown by the experi plains from Indiana to Oregon in ence of all other states using the that year she has lived on the do nation land claim where she died. millage basis of support. This bill expressly repeals the About r,200,000 Chinook salmon $500,000 appropriations of the leg eggs have been received at the islative session of two years ago, Klaskanine hatchery to date. Last now submitted to the voters under year in the neighborhood of 3,000,- the referendum (official numbers on 000 eggs were handled at that the ballot, 372, 373, 374, 375,) for hatchery, but this season the num ber will be considerably increased. their approval or rejection. The ptesent standing appropria Miss Lela Murray of McMinn tions to be continued for one vear ville picked 831 pounds of hops in are most urgently needed to give one day in the J. G. Morris yard the institutions a start in buildings this year. She picked for twenty and to carry them through the pe days and made a daily record of riod while the mill tax is being 525 pounds and, it is claimed, holds collected. the record of hoppicking in the Pa The passage of this bill will take cific Northwest. the University and Agricultural It is stated tbat 100,060 Douglas College out of politics. The effi fir saplings and a large quantity of ciency and dignity of the institu seed will be planted in the forest tions demand permanency of sup reserves of Oregon and Washington port and freedom from political en this winter. In the Siuslaw mount tanglements. ains 6,000 acres will be planted and Through the unified control ot in the Mount Hood region 3,000 the single board, hearty co opera acres additional. tion of the two institutions will be The potato crop in Washington insured. The advantages of a com county will be larger than lor sev bined institution will be secured, eral years and, although blight is and the advantages which come reported trom some sections, as a from segregation will not he sac rule the crop will be good. Fruit rificed. crops of all kinds are reported as Since the millage bill involves being a good yield and but little the question ot taxation, it should damaged from the rains. be taken directly to the people. It According to the roll just com is, therefore, not an abuse, but a proper use, of the initiative law and pleted by the county assessor, Jo the bill should be voted upon its sephine county has an assessed val uation of $8,989,r 10. This is an In merits. crease of $320,000 over the figures ot a year ago, and is due no doubt Some Suffrage Facts to the new lands that have become One million women in the United assessable rather than an actual in crease of values over a year ago. States have full political rights. Utah, a suffrage state, has the Approximately 15,000,000 acres largest proportion of home-owners of land were filed on the Lakeview of any state in the Union. laud district during the month of In Denver the women cast 55 per August, most of the filings treing cent of the vote in the large resi- made iu Lane county. The move idence wards and only 4 per cent in ment in government lands has been very brisk lor the past year and the slum wards. tracts that are worth filing upon are In most states about 60 or 65 per found only in the more isolated sec cent of the men vote. In Wyoming tions ot the state. 90 per cent of the women vote. In The Albany Commercial club Colorado 80 per cent of the women has adopted a resolution favoring register and 72 per cent vote. In the setting aside by the governor ot Idaho 40 pet cent of the total vote the second Saturday of October as is cast bv women though women Fire Day— that is, a day for the ex are in the minority in that state. press purpose of cleaning up all In Colorado in the first eight rubbish that is couducive to acci months after women were enfran dental fires which contribute so ser chised more books on political econ iously to make up the immense omy and advise were sold than in losses throughout the country each the whole twenty years previous. year. A pumpkin weighing 140 pounds In Seattle there were never too women devoting themselves to the was entered at the Junction City suffrage campaign, but 23,000 wo fair held September 27-28. This was men registered at the first election. over 30 pounds heavier than the And Soper cent of the womtn vot big pumpkin of last year, and near ing in Seattle this year were married ly 100 pounds heayier than the prize of two years ago. Five thou women of the “ home.” sand pumpkins were used in the Where women have voted the formation of the “ Pumpkin Palace,” longest, divorce is only one-eighth from which the Women’s Improve as great as iu similar states where ment club dispensed pumpkin pie, they do not vote. cider and other good things to eat. There is no nation, no state, no city where women vote that the Sick h e a d a c h e is caused b y a disor vote of the undesirable women even d ered sto m a c h . T a k e Chamberlain's a b le ts an d c o rre c t th a t and th e h ead remotely approaches that ot the T ach es w ill d isa p p e a r. F o r sale by all women of good repute. d ru g g is ts . EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK awing when , to 24 I pot 1 from | two to s,x. pounds of grain were wasted each day during the vyeek she received the greatest amount of feed. Besides, the digestive organs were put under too severe a task. Had the ration of Colautha 4th’s Johanna been kept at 24 pounds daily for a long period of time, she would not only have been unable to make her great record, but likely her future usefulness would have been ruined, if indeed she had not sickened and died. By studying the ration fed to the champion cows "of the world, the manner of preparing the cows for freshening and by practicing meth ods of the most successful feeders, any cow * owner, farmer, dairyman or breeder of dairy cattle will find it possible to greatly increase the production of his cows. In fact the use of these methods during the coming year should produce twice as much butterfat from the came number of cows as during the past year: and, if the output is doubled, profits will be increased all the way from 1,000 to 3,000 per cent— a re sult surely worth while in this day when the prices of all necessities, farm lands, etc., are constantly growing. No matter how much or how little food is given the cow, or whai Is ihe chaiat a ..- of her ration, she cannot yield, a large amount o( butterfat unless she is given proper care and management and kept un der the conditions necessary for her best work.— Farm Journal. •¡¡Job Printing— N ew presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please 1 SINGLE TAX IS OPPOSED Sellin g AgiHnßt A n y M e a su re D oin g A w a y W i t h In d ivid u al O w n e r sh ip Of co u rse, Ben S elling, p ro g ressiv e R ep u b lican nom inee for U n ited S ta te s S e n a to r, is being opposed by W . S. U ’R en, A. D. C ridge, H. D. W agnon an d o th e r ad v o c a te s of single tax. B u t th e re a l re a so n is n o t difficult to a s c e rta in . In th e p rim a ry cam p aig n M r. S ellin g cam e o ut fe a rle ssly a g a in s t Mr. U ’R e n ’s pet ta x m easu re. W h a t is m ore, Mr. S elling is still a g a in s t sin g le ta x an d a n y o th e r m e a s u re th a t pro p o ses to do aw ay w ith th e r ig h t of in d iv id u al o w n ersh ip of land. Mr. S ellin g a n n o u n ced his unqualified opposition to sin g le tax a t th e b eg in n in g of th e p rim a ry ca m paign. H is o p p o n en ts in th a t c o n te s t rem ain ed s ile n t on th is q u estion. H is o p p o n e n ts in th e p en d in g cam p aig n a re eq u ally silen t. T h e v o te rs of the s ta te h a v e a rig h t to know w h e re c a n d id a te s for U n ited S ta te s S e n a to r sta n d on th is issu e w hich so v itally c o n c e rn s th e hom eow ner. A re Mr. S ellin g ’s o p p o n en ts a fra id to ta k e th e people in to th e ir confidence? S e l l i n g ’s Position Sim ilar to B o r a h ’s In re fu s in g to leave th e R epublican p a rty , Ben S elling, p ro g re ssiv e R e p u b lican n o m in ee fo r U n ited S ta te s S e n ato r, h a s ta k e n th e sam e p osition a s S e n a to r B orah, G overnor D eneen, G overnor H ad ley an d o th e r lead in g p ro g re ssiv e s of th e co u n try . W ith th e m h e b eliev es th a t th e refo rm s d em an d ed by th e people can b e s t be acco m p lish ed w ith in th e R epublican p a rty —th e p a rty of p erfo rm an ce. And in ta k in g th is sta n d he h a s n ot com p ro m ised h is p ro g re ssiv e n e ss one w hit. D oes an y one, ev en th e m ost rab id so-called p ro g ressiv e, q uestion th e p ro g re s siv e n e ss of S e n a to r B orah? Perform ance Only Reliable Test P e rfo rm a n c e , r a th e r th a n prom ise. Is th e only re lia b le te s t of th e co n sis te n c y of an y m an w ith re la tio n to th e cau se he ad v o cates. M easured by th is te s t, Ben S elling, p ro g re ssiv e R e p u b lican nom inee for U n ited S ta te s S e n ato r, qualified y e a rs ago a s a co n s is te n t p ro g ressiv e. As a m em b er of th e O regon L e g isla tu re , Mr. S elling n o t only ad v o cated b u t a s siste d in the e n a c tm e n t of th e follow ing m easu res of p o p u lar le g isla tio n : A u stra lia n ballo t law, d ire c t p rim a ry law, in itia tiv e an d re fe re n d u m , recall and P re s i d e n tia l p re fe re n c e p rim a ry law. If you d o u b t th a t Ben Selling, p ro g re ssiv e R ep u b lican nom inee for U n it ed S ta te s S e n a to r, w as n ot a p ioneer in th e p ro g re s siv e cause, c o n su lt his reco rd . I t b eg an 16 y e a rs ago. ----------------------» s> i -------------------— Wise to be Cautious Capital Punishment SELLING WARMLY RECEIVED Met W ith Much Encouragement on Oregon voters who have not yet Recent T rip T h ro u g h Oregon made up their minds to favor the D u rin g th e la s t te n d ay s, B en S el retention of capital punishment ling, p ro g re s siv e R ep u b lican no m in ee should give consideration to the ex fo r U n ite d S ta te s S e n ato r, h a s v isited pression of Ohio voters last month. S o u th w e ste rn O regon qnd v a rio u s By a majority of over 43,000, Ohio co u n tie s in E a s te r n O regon. On th e s e tr ip s he m a t w ith m u ch e n c o u ra g e voted down a pi .posed law to abol m en t In h is can d id acy fo r th e S euator- ish the death penalty for murder. ship. O n th e s e trip s Mr. S ellin g did It means a great deal when 302,- n o t e ssa y an y sp ell bin d in g o rato ry , 246 vote to retain capital punish b u t p la in ly to ld th e v o te rs w h a t th e y could e x p e c t of him a s a public se rv ment when they are changing other a n t if elected . H e re fe rs to h is p a s t conservative laws, and by heavy p e rfo rm a n c e s a s a c o n siste n t p ro g re s majorities adopt nearly all of the siv e a s a g u a r a n te e th a t h e w ill "m ak e two score amendments to the state good” on a ll p ro m ises a s U n ited S ta te s S e n a to r. J u d g e S tep h en A. Low ell, constitution. o n e of M r. S e llin g ’s o p p o n en ts fo r th e Those who dislike the iufliction n o m in a tio n In th e p rim a ry electio n , is of the penalty of death may well lo y ally su p p o rtin g th o R ep u b lican pause and look beyond the law it nom inee. Ju d g e L ow ell acco m p an ied self to the code of defensive and Mr. S ellin g th ro u g h som e se c tio n s of E a s te r n O reg o n an d ex p ects d u rin g protective statutes of which it is a th e m o n th of O cto b er to v isit se v e ra l part. o th e r c o u n tie s In b eh alf of Mr. Sei As death is the extreme penalty lin g ’s can d id acy . for the greatest crime, it of necessi E d i t o r D a v e y N o w F a v o r s S e l li n g . ty occupies a position at the top of T h e H a rn e y C ounty N ew s opposed the criminal code. From this ex B en S ellin g , p ro g re ssiv e R ep u b lican treme downward to the smallest n o m in ee fo r U n ited S ta te s S en ato r, misdemeanor the penalties for crime in th e p rim a ry electio n , b u t is now are graded. When the extreme lo y ally s u p p o rtin g th e P o rtla n d m an. penalty should be abolished, the en In a r e c e n t Issue, E d ito r D avey h ad th e fo llo w in g to Bay re g a rd in g th e tire scale of lesser penalties becomes p ro g re s siv e n e ss of Mr. S ellin g : affected, the same as when the key “ N o m an In O regon o r th e U n ited stone of an arch is removed, every S ta te s h a s a b e tte r title to th e n am e ‘p ro g re s siv e ’ th a n Ben S elling. In stone in the structure is loosened. This is the more readily observ ev ery m o v em en t for p o p u lar le g isla tio n a n d fo r e n la rg in g th e re se rv e ed in prison discipline. Men serv- p o w er o f th e m asses, Mr. S ellin g h as itlg for life may kill their keepers; b een a n in flu e n tial fn cto r, th ro u g h and s u f f e r no penalty. Realizing ! a ll th e tim e s and stru g g le s w hen su ch this, the guards at the Ohio state ad v o c a te s w e re In th e m in o rity and w ere th e ta r g e ts of b itte r a b u se.” penitentiary stated that their lives wouid not be under protection of S e llin g a Pioneer P rogre ssive law if abolition of the death penalty P ro g re s siv e Is a s p ro g re ssiv e does. for murder prevailed T h is Is ju s t a s tru e a s it Is concise. The murderous convicts at the It is p a rtic u la rly ap p licab le to th e Jackson, Michigan, prison are with S e n a to ria l c o n te s t In th is sta te . T h e reco rd of Ben S elling, p ro g ressiv e R e out the deterrent influences of the p u b lican no m in ee fo r th e U n ited punishment of death, and the best S ta te s S en ate, d u rin g h is se rv ic e s of that the authorities can do is to 16 y e a rs in th e O regon L e g isla tu re , give them the punishment of tor Irre fu ta b ly sta m p s him a s a p io n eer In th e p ro g ressiv e cau se. H e was ture. This indicates that abolition fo re m o st In th e ra n k s of th o se who ot capital punishment in Michigan w e re n o t only a d v o c a tin g but w ritin g hss been a long stride toward bar upon th e s ta tu te books of th e s ta te p ro g ressiv e m easu res w hen m an y of barism. Rhode Island, which abolished th e stro n g -lu n g ed so-called p ro g re s siv e s of to d ay w ere Ju st a s ac tiv e In capital punishment about the same d efen d in g m ach in e ru le a n d o pposing time that Michigan did, had the • v e ry m ea su re o f p o p u lar leg islatio n . same difficulty in controlling her prisoners until, in preference to Good Food for Stock adopting torture, the law of capital punishment lor state convicts was A government bulletin says that enacted. Like the knife of the sur peanuts will do for the south what geon or the gardener, the cutting alfalfa has done for the west. Pea oft from society of the life of the nuts will grow on poor land and murderer is a necessary evil. live stock will thrive on them. The The humanity of the* law feels tops make fine hay and it is also every pain it inflicts, but it uses estimated that the nuts will produce evil as a means of preventing great 600 pounds of pork to the acre. er evil. A Scotchman at the dentist’s was told that he must take gas. While the dentist was getting it ready the Scot began to count his money. The ----------------------» > » . m .............- J. W. Copeland, of Dayton, Ohio, | dentist somewhat testily said: “ You About 30,000 women voted in Sough R e ^ y l o r " W until the tooth is out.” Denver at the last election and of cold, and before the bottle was all used ‘ T ken that,” said the Scotchman, , , , . , these « ■ 4 . nil ! be connected the boy’s cold was gone. Is that not ..c . . Even a barber can’t always judge A hubby at home is worth two better than to pay a five dollar doctor's : aS - e re u^out »0 make me with art ad clement. bill? For sale by all druggists. I sleep I jiat want to see hoo I stand.” a man by his mug. t hat roam.