A J. SHERWOOD Rrs*. K. Halverson has installed a modern Steam Pres sing machine, and is prepared to serve his trade better than ever. Bring me your work. Guess There A r e Other Canals Besides Uncle Sam’s Big Ditch 0. C SARF0R0, Rial. CtiMir FIRST N A T IO N A L B A N K op C O Q U ID b B , O REG O N • T r a i m a c t s a G e n e r a l B a n k i n g Bu®lneta* SPRING SAMPLES ARE READY See my display of suitings for spripg and summer. New and nobby pat terns at lowest prices. Bring your Repair Work to me. HURRAH R. E.SHIRE, V.-P res. l.N HAZARD, Cashier Beard ef Dlraetera. { R.O. Dement, A. J. Sherwood, L. Harlocker, L. II. Hazard, Isaiah Hacker. K .K. Shine. K. H A L V E R S O N j Cerreapeadeata National Bank o Commerce, New York Ci Crocker W ool worth N ’ lBank, San Franc! First NatM Bank of Portland, Portland. Front Street My Family is Protected by the ,* * «««««««««««««««««««««««««« R. S. K n o w lt o n , President G eo . A. R o binson , Vice-PreB. R. H. M a s t , Cashier. GARDEN F E R T IL IZ E R S Farmers SUPERPHOSPHATE For General Gardening SULPHATE OF POTASH For Potatoes NITRATE OF SODA For Special Purposes Merchants Bank C0QUILLE, OREGON Opened for Busmes March. 1 8 9 0 CORR KSPONDENTS: J. E. Q U IC K C O Q U IL L E and Ladd & Tilton Bank, Portland National Park, New York OREGON C s w s w v Str. Elizabeth ^ % - v v » A 'V w w W W First National Bank, San Francisco First Trust & Savings, Coos Bay ^ W * W V cC V ” W W 9 9 9 9 V W W W V OLD RELIABLE-EQ U IPPED WITH WIRELESS Regular as the Clock STEAMER BREAKWATER San Francisco a n d Bandon ALW AYS ON TIME Sails from Portland at 9 A . M., First-class fare only............. $7.50 Up freight, per ton............... 3.00 April 15, 20, 25, 30 Sails from Coos Bay at Service of Tide E. & E. T . K ru se April 12, 17, 22, 27 24 California Street, San Francisco W. L. K0LM, Agent Phone Main 181 Photos by American Press Association. Giant of the West A Reserve Fund Society For Reaervationa NOSLER & NORTON Agenta, Coquille, Oregon St r . Br o o k l y n Plying Between San Francisco and Bandon * First-class fare only. $7.50 Up freight, per ton............. 3.00 O. Sudden & Christiansen Agent«, San Francisco, California ■O 115,000 members. 20,000 in Oregon. For Reservations NOSLER & NORTON $5,500,000.00 in reserve. Agents, Coquille, Oregon $14,000,000.00 paid in death claims. Increasing rapidly. Assessment rates are based on the socie ty’s own experience o f 22 years, with m ore than 115,ooo lives exposed, and are found to be in every way equal to its require THE HERALD W ill Accept ments. Investigate now! Join while you can! N o “ fool” degree work, but dignified and in & There is N O B E T T E R P R O T E C T IO N . There can be no better protection than Fi rew ood that furnished by the W oodm en o f the W orld. Prosperous camps in every city and town & in the entire west. For a Period of 30 Days Cost of Joining SUBSCRIPTION is Absolutely Free. -ON- C H A N G E IN YOUR LACE CURTAINS ASSESSMENT RATES Age» to 22 to 25 to 2!) to 31 to 33 to 85 36 37 38 to 40 18 23 *6 so 32 34 $500 $1,000 $2,000 $3,000 .45 I .70 1.35 2.05 1.45 2.20 .50 .75 .50 .80 1.60 2.35 .85 .55 1.70 2.55 .90 .55 1.80 2.70 .95 .00 1.90 2.85 .60 1.00 2.05 3.05 .05 1.05 2.15 3.20 .70 ! 1.15 2.25 3.40 Ages 41 12 43 14 45 to 46 47 48 49 50 $500 $1,000 $2,000 $3,000 1.20 2.35 3.55' .70 .75 1.25 2.50 3.70 1.30 2.60 3.90 .75 .80 1.36 2.70 4.05 1.40 ^2.80 4.20 .80 .85 1.45 2.95 4.40 .85 1.50 3.05 4.55 .90 1.60 3.15 4.75 .95 1.65 3.25 4.90 W . B. H O L D IM A N , District Manager. Headquarters at the Sentinel Office P O L K ’ S' Have you paúl the printer. OREGON and W A S H IN G T O N Business Directory A D’reotory of each City, Town and Village, giving descriptive sketch of each place, location, population, tele* graph, shipping and hanking point; tLso Classified Directory, complied by business and profession. R, I . POLK * Concessions at Exposition CO., NRATTLR CHICHESTER S PILLS w vrr» T H E I H A M O N I I 111* A M E Ladles! Ask will need laundering this spring. Send them to us. W e wash Quilts at 15 cents, Comforts at 25 cents. W e will wash your Wool Blankets for you better than you can do them and for the small charge o f 25 cents. Send the entire family wash and be rid of the hardest o f the home : : : : : : work. A. yt t l.l o h r . . ! r r '. I Tills m K *d ir I’o m , sealed wi T a k a no o tk e e Buy o f your ^ M r a n l s t A s tc fr r C II M I I E S - T F R * » DIAMOND IIR \NII 1*11.1.a, for •& years known as Rest. Safest. Alwtys Reliable SOLO BY DRICfilSTS [YCRYWHiP “ This is phenomenal as the Divi sion of Concession and Admissions of our Exposition will only have sixity-three acres devoted to conces sions whereas other Expositions used from one hundred un i four to one hundred and twenty-four acres C. I. Kime KIME & V O N PEGERT MECHANICAL S H O P G e n e r a l Ulacksmithing, Wagon Making, Machine Work, Pattern Making and Casting, Automobile Work. Robert Dollar Talks Robt. Dollar, of (he D dlar S'eani- COQUILLE, OREGON ship Co., made a visit to the liver last week and looked over the situa tion here in the interest of his com pany, which has become financially interested in the development of the lumber traffic of the river. J. L. LA IR D , Proprietor He was the guest of the Ko-Keel Club Thursday eveuiug aud made Leaves Mrytle Point daily at 7 o ’clock an interesting talk to those present. a. m. Arrives at Roseburg at 2 o’clock aviug been in close touch with Leaves Roseburg daily at 7 a. m., ar conditions in China for number of riving at Myrtle Point at 2 o’clock. years, be was able to tell his hearers Special rigs for parties at any time. much that they did not know about conditions there an 1 the changes wrought in the recent past. Mr. Dollar held out the hope that Carrying United States Mail and Passengers’ Baggage we might see vessels of the Dollar Office at L aird ’ s L ivery Barn, M yrlle Point line loading at our C< quille mills H o m e T e le p h o n e 4 6 1 F a r m e r s T e le p h o n e 15 6 direct for China. He said that with twenty feet of water on the bar tliis would be practicable, and he urged the creation of a port TH E commission that would do effective work for the improvement of the river entrance. It is gatifying to see men of Mr. Dollar’s standing taking eDougb interest in this country to come in persoD to visit us BDd to give valu is now fully equipped with modern able suggestions and advice. > o ^<^ ooooooooodoooooo < Roseburg-Myrtle Point Auto Line S t a g e R u n n i n g in C o n n e c t i o n Coquille Herald However the success of this Divi sion may be attributed to the fact . .*> . that it will accept only that which The Western W orld says: B. L. represents what is best in the amuse ment world, small uninteresting Tracy expects the brick on tbe Fi- “ side-shows” are eliminated, only field to build a pateut kiln at Arago those that are educational and clean in which to burn drain tile. receiving the consideration of this , faces of type and accessories for the execution of r ^ j Division. Incorporated. Myrtle Point has passed an o rd i-; Manufacturers of nance limiting the speed of auto The Celebrated Bergmann Bhoe mobiles to twelve miles an hour on The Strongest and Nearest Water the city streets, also providing jen- Proof shoe made for loggers, miners alties for unauthorized monkeying j prospectors am' mill men. with machines standing on the j 21 Thurman Street P o r tlan d . O reuom . streets. 8 Y N 0 P S IS OF T H E A N N U A L S T A T E M E N T OF T H E C O N T IN E N T A L . IN S U R A N C E C O M P A N Y r J a 0 V. in a style unexcelled and at prices equally as inviting as can be obtained from others OF N E W YO RK , IN T H E S T A T E O F N E W YO RK on the 81st day of December, 1912, made to the Insurance Commissioner o f the State of Oregon, pursuant to law: C A P IT A L Amount o f capital stock paid up............................................ $2,000,000.00 INCOME Premiums received during the y e a r................................. $8,118,908.59 interest, dividends, and rents received during the y e a r ... 1,108,440.91 Income from other sources received during the y ea r......... 764,369.35 Total Income ..................................................................... D ISB U R SE M E N TS Paid for losses, endowments, annuities and surrender values ................................................................................. $3,910,649.28 Dividends paid on capital stock during the y e a r................. 1,000,043.60 Commissions and salaries paid during the y ea r................... 2,354,679.39 Taxes, i:. enses, and fees paid during the y e a r................... 301,579.10 Amount of all other expenditures.......................................... 987,241.14 $1,991,718.86 Total expenditures ........................................................... A SSETS Market value o f real estate ow ned................................... $1,175,000.00 Market value o f stocks and bonds ow ned............................. 22,282,237.00 Loans on m ortgages and collateral, etc.............................. 502,700.00 Cash In hanks and on hand.................................................. 1,707,129.92 Net uncollected and deferred premium s............................. 1,193,489.46 Other assets (n e t) Interest and rents due and a ccru ed .... 209,474.90 $8,6i4.lM.il Total assets ...................................................................... $27,070,081.28 Leas special deposits in any State (I f any there b e )---- $ 321,400.00 Total assets admitted In O regon................................... $26,748,681.18 L IA B IL IT IE S Net reserve .............................................................................. $9,097,603.78 Total policy claims .............................. 560,664.20 All other liabilities .................................................................. 921,772.1» Total liabilities exclusive of capital stock o f............... $2,000,000.00 $10,680,040.08 Total insurance in force December 31. 1912......................... $17,177,632.04 BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR T H E Y E A R Total risks w ritten during the y ea r.............................................................. $5,011,499.00 Cross premiums received during the y ea r........ ....................................... 62,036.20 Premiums returned during the y ea r............................................................ 7,997.22 Losses P ild during the y ea r.......................................................................... 23,124 73 Losses incurred during the y ea r................................................................... 31,098 48 Total amount of risks outstanding in Oregon December 31, 1912............. $4,944,158.00 C O N T IN E N T A L IN S U R A N C E C O M P A N Y COQUILLE LAUNDRY & ICE CO. Fred Von Pegert (Crowded out last week) San Francisco, April— Six thousand applications for concessions at the Panama-Pacific International Ex position have been filed with Direc tor Frank Burt of the Division of Concessions and Admissions, and although only thirty oue contracts have been granted to concessiona ries, the latter will expend more than two milloD dollars in preparing their attractions for 1915. “ I t is safe to predict," said Direc tor Burt, “ that this Division when complete will represent an invest ment of ten million of dollars and the employment of seven thousand people, which is fur in < xcess of previous Expositions, their average investment having been seven mil lion dollars with the employment of five thousand people. for concessions. structive. N O P ICTURES often fool you Indeed, did you ever stop to think how often the eye Bashes wrong Impressions to the brain? If the above Ulustra dons were not captioned you would, nine out ol leu chances, say tlie.i were of the Panama canal work Well, the $ 101.000.000 barge can« In New York state, now neartug completion. Is In many ways like the "big ditch" It’s a minimized Panama canal, an artlllci.il river broken by lo'ks Instead of by waterfalls, an up to the minute water highway built for trail* portation speeding. The pictures show one of the big locks, worked by elec trlctty. Just as are Uncle Sam’s own Isthmian gales, soil a combination steam ■hovel and crane, rivaling anything the war department ever put Into, the Reid In the Panama dirt struggle. By J. 13. LO PE Z. Secretary. Statutorj general agent and attorney for service: \V. A. Williams, No. 613 Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon. H a w U r ir fg PRINTED PROMPTLY A N D {ACCURATELY El W ork entrusted to us will receive tbe personal supervision of a practical printer who takes pride in the proper execution of every detail E1 Give Us a Trial Order