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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1913)
flThe Herald, the old estab lished reliable newspaper of the Coquille Valley in which an “ad” always brings results. VOL. 31, T he Fraternal and Benevole r I Orders & A. M.—Regular meeting of A • F. Chadwick Lodge No. 68 A. F. A A. M.. at Masonic Hall, every Sa'urday nicht in each month on or before the full moon. C. W. K ndioott , W. M. R. 11. M a s t , e c r e t a r y . O E. 8.—Keitnlar meeting of Heulah . Chapter No. 6, second and fourth Friilay evenings of each month, in Ma sonic Hall. E va B a r h o w , W. M. J oski ’ iunr G . l'a o i’i.KS, bee. T O. O. F.—Coquille Lodge No. 53,1. O. 1 . O. F., meets every Saturday night li Odd Fellows Hall. C. H. C lbavkb , N. G. OREGON NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD [NTS OF THE PAST WEEK Transpiilng in Oregon Boiled Down to Least Number of Lines and Yet Make the Subject Understood. ' .wburg is going to build a X K AMIE UEBEKAH LODGE, No. 2h citv hall. . - * - .'V. « > eond end .a G. ’ iidc lit tin an eig J . 8. I.AWKKNCK, 8ec. ,,a ! ,o / L / 1. Th v, „ k , 8«e. The C o u n try Club, of Eu g e n e , ' -E F NOAM If .VI E N T, No 25 ' ) O. F., meets the Brat and third will uect a $¿-,,000 club bouse. .v u ; tv in Ood KelloAH Hall. .1. B arton , C. I’. J L a « usarc, Sec. F rNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.—Lycurgus V. Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights in W. O. \V. Hall. R. R. W atson , K R. 8. O. A. M intonyb , C. C. P YTHIAN SISTER8— Justus Temple No. 35, meets first and Third Mon day nights in W. O. W. Hall. M kb . G boboe D avis , M. E. C. M rs . F red L inkoar , K. of R. Tribe No. 46, l. R ED O. R. MEN—Coouille M., meets every Friday night in W. 0 . W. Hall. J. 8. B arton , Sachem. A. I’. M iller , C. of R. A.—Regular meetings of Bea- M W. • ver Camp No. 10.550 in M. W. A. Hall, Front street, first and third Sat urdays in each month. M. O. H awki ns , Consul. R. B. R ouers , V. C. N ed 0 . K elley , Clerk. N. A.—Regular meeting of Laurel R . Camp No. 2972 at M. W. A. Hall, Front street, second and fourth Tues day nights in each month. M ary K ern , Oracle. E dna K elley , Rec. W.—Myrtle Camp No. 197, W O. . meets first and third Mondays at W. 0 . W. Hall. R. 8. K nowlton , C. C. J ohn L enkve , Sec. VENINGTIDE CIRCLE No. 214, meets Becond and fourth Monday nights in W. O. W. Hall. O ra X. M aury , G. N. M ary A. P ierce , Clerk. F 'ARMERS UNION.— Regular meet ings second and fourth Saturdays in each month in W. O. W. Hall. F rank B urkholder , Pres. O. A, M intonyb , Sec. AID N . 398, meets the F 'RATERNAL second and fourth Thursdays each o month at W. O. W. Hall. M rs . C has , E vland , Pres. M rs . L ora H arrington , Sec. Educational Organizations and Clubs O Q UI L L E E D U C A T I O N A L LEAGUE—Meets monthly at the High School Building during the school vear for the purpose of discussing edu cational topics. R ena A nderson , Pres. E dna M inard , Sec._____ T /O KEEL KLUB—A business men’s l \ social organisation. Hall in Laird’s building, Second street. A. J. S herwood . Pres. F red S lagle , Sec. COM M ERCIAL CLUB—J. E. N orton O President; J. C. S avaoe , Secretary Transportation Facilities Fore.st Grove will build n con crete school i.uil iing, at i ost of $24,900. The new armory to be built at Roseburg this summer will cost $40.000. The Knights of Pythias are pre paring to put up a two-story trame building at Seaside, to cost $5,000. The Odd Fellows will erect a $25,000 building at Tillamook, containing bank qnarters, store apartments, lodge quarters, office rooms and 3 fireproof vaults. Judge Will R. King, of Portland, Democratic National Committee man for Oregon, has been appointed Chief Counsel of the United States Reclamation Service by Secretary Lane. A number of mild cases of small pox were reported from different points in the state last week. It is said to be similar to the epidemic that was prevalent a few yeats ago, and which some people called the Filippino itch. Bolton, on the main line of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern will be the site of the mammoth carshop, machine rhop and repair plant for the electric roads in the P. E. & E- system. This plant will cost up wards of $1,000,000 and will occupy a tract ot land of more than 24 acres A portion of the deckload of the Speedwell, which she lost shortly after leaving Coos bay on a recent trip from this port to San Francisco, drifted ashore at South beach, near Yaquina, and some of the residents of that section are building new houses. Several hundred white cedar ties also drifted ashore. NOTES ON THE PHOTOPLAYS Of Interest to Those Who Patronize the Movies r RAINS Leave, south bound 9:00 a. Lilliao Christy has left American. m. and 3:00 p. m. North bound Hope she books up with a licensed i O :40 a. m. «ml 4:40 p. m. boats plying on the Co B OATS—Six quille river afford ample accommo dation lor carrying freight and passen gers to Bandon ami way points. Boats leave at 7 :30, 8:30, 9:20 and 9:30 a. m. and at 1 :00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p. m. Laird, proprietor. S TAGE—J.-L. parts 5:30 p. m. for Roseburg De via Myrtle Point, carrying the United Slates mail and pasengers. company. Good vaudeville by a couple of youthful performers is being shown at the Royal for a few days. Florence Turner, who recently left the Vitagraph company will form a company of her own in Eng land. We didn’t think that of Flor ence. ■pOSTOFFlCE.—A. F. Linegar, post- ± master. The mails close as follows: Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. m. The “Answer Man” of the Motion Marshfield 10:15 a. m. and 4:15 p. m. Picture Stories Magazine says, in Bandon and way points, Norway and Arago 12:45 p. m. Eastern mail 5:15 reply to an inquiry: “The man with p. m. Eastern mail arrives 7 :45 a. m. City and County Officers Mayor................................. A. T. Morrison Recorder............................J. 8. Lawrence Treasurer.................................R. H. Mast City Attorney................. L. A. Liljeqvist Engineer........................ P. M. Hall-Lewis Marshal.............................C. A. Evernden Night M arshal..................... John Hurley Water Superintendent 8. V. Epperson Fire Chiet..........................Walter Oerding Councilmen —D. D. Pierce, C. T. SkeelB W. C. Laird, G. O. Leach, W. H. Ly ons, Leo J. Cary. Regular meetings first and third Mondays each month. J. J. Stanlev .........Ned C. Kelley the big nose” is G. M. Anderson. Isn’t it a dream? Ruth Roland, the handsome girl who lias been seen here several times lately in Kalem comedies, re cently visited an encampment of thre state militia of an Eastern state dur ing target practice, and put some of the marksmen to shame by het skill with the rifle. Must be a fine thing to be a top- notcher picture player. Costello and family and Clara Kimball Young, the girl with THE eyes, have been taking a trip around the world at the Vitagraph expense. Of course they are taking pictures on the way nnd we may expect some | good ones. Cross,” for next Friday evening This picture weg taken by the Societies will get the very best Kalem players in the Holy Land amid the actual scenes in which the P R IN T IN G greatest of all dramas was enacted at the office of Coquille Herald ■ 1 -¿rii----------- 11 ----------- 11 ----------- Im nearly 2000 yeats ago. It depicts 1913 Ibe life of the Saviour with all pos states provide the entertainment sible accuracy of detail aud should for the tourists. Such means were be of the greatest interest. decided on by the conference iu the shape of a string ot carnivals ex The Dayton Flood pictures shown tending from the Canadian line to at the Scenic recently gave a very the Mexican border. vivid idea of the desolation wrought in the Ohio town by the recent over It is the intention to have Seattle’s flow. The Scenic is entitled to the great Potlatch celebration and Port appreciation of its patrons for the land’s famed rose carnival made im- enterprise shown in getting this portant links of the great chain ol feature so promptly after its release. To Make This Edge of Con celebrations Originally called as a tinent the Playground of conference to consider only the The extra expenso involved in get ting these special features is large, the W 01 fid, Commencing at “ standardization” of California's and if the people like that sort of festivals, the plans quickly broad Exposition of 1915 ened out to take in the whole coast service in the line of inatruetion and j entertainment all the : 1 nail Fntqf'i'X o, ''■pi to the region, through co-operation and to indicate it by libel ;»:ti iprocity with the Pacific Coas^ Het aid - The whole Pacific Coast tivals association, The two aud three is ’ > lie joji&ii together in ot,e stu- d on*— where tbi n this way, it was agreed, (tenuous publicity scheme 10 make attle’s great annual carnival, the e lengthy treatn: - l * the Western edge of the United e in a thousan 1 I of States the playground of the world. Potlach, and Portland’s yearly rose > > erwise the picture in Deuei ,0 a in.-» i» toe uesuiL.o ttu- lormauon .e, will become important links in 1 reel. For instance, a multiple of the California Celebrations Com a great chain of fiestas along the 1 vei Lubiu shown here the other mittee at Santa Barbara, Cal., by a whole Pacific Coast. day told exactly the same story as gathering of railroad, hotel and Thus the tourist coming to this was told by the Biograph Co. some newspapermen and members of coast a* any time of the year will years ago in one reel. With Flor civic bodies. always find something doing to ence Lawrence and Arthur Johnson This publicity is to be provided make time pass pleasantly, whether in the principal roles, that Biograph by the railroads which have their he start his sightseeing in the was one to stick in the memory, termiui at Pacific tidewater. They southern part of California or while even with Ormi Hawley and are more than anxious to spread whether he reach the westeru sea Edwin August in the lead, this the fame of the great out-of-doors through Vancouver, or other cities Lubin was too much diffused and of this coast, provided the various of the Northwest. there was too much outside matter mixed in with the real story Two of the best dramatic pictures Sir Thomas Lipton Will T ry ever seeu here were shown at the Scenic within the last few days. The Again to Lift America’s Cup Vitagraph, “ Wings of a Moth,” with Florence Turner iu the principal role was a vivid portrayal of one of the dangers to which girls are ex posed in a city. With the suberb acting of Miss Turner and Roger Lytton it was a picture to be re membered aud one which every parent should see. “The Maid of Honor,” an E lison, was a story of love and renunciation of rare deli cacy and truth. With Mabel Trun- nelle, one of the most attractive little ladies appearing ou the screen in the title role, Marc McDermott and charming Bessie Leirn iu prin cipal parts, it was a play to touch the heart. SYNOPSIS OF MANY EVENTS IN GREAT PUBLICITY SCHEME THE NEWS IN TABLOID Progress of Work on Smith-Powers Road A. S. Riggs, superintendent for Willett & Burr, was on the Bay last week to meet Mrs. Riggs who was arriving from San Francisco on the Redondo, and he gave the Record this information: The work at Myrtle Point is going along finely now, and they have a big force along the route. Today, 60 mules are leaviug Roseburg for the work of grading along the railroad, and they will likely reach Mvrtle Point some time tomorrow. Additional men were expected in today on the Redondo. The steel on the railroad is laid for a distance of three miles out of Myrtle Point, to the approach of bridge No. 2. The concrete pier ior this bridge is now being put in and the timbering and crossing will be made very shortly. The pile driver which is making the bridge approaches, is now driving the pil ing for the fifth bridge, about six miles south of Mvrtle Point. On the south fork of the Coquille, there are eight crossings of the river, and seven bridges on additional tribu taries. The span for bridge No. 2 is rsn feet and timbers are being hewn and hurried to the front as fast as possible. Men, working for the Smith-Powers people, are strung along the line southward for the entire distance, hewing timbers and preparing the crossings for the bridges. The clearing is going along well and the men are busy on every stretch of the right of way. Free Puzzle Cups To stimulate public sentiment which shows a way to avoid public drinking cups and also teaches many lesson about the lorest fire evil. These will soon be distributed ( in immense quantities through the public schools. PER YEAR $1.50 WHOLE PACIFIC M ast t o m S. against lorest destruction and at the John T. Hall Oounty Judge Commissioners—W. T. Dement, Geo. J. same time promote sanitation, the Armstrong state authorities of Idaho, Washing Clerk ................... .........James Watson .............W. W. G»^e ton and Oregon have endorsed a .......T. M. Dimmick unique project of the Western For T. J. Thrift School Su pt.......... . Raymond E. Baker Tha Scenic is advertising the estry & Conservation Association to A. N. Gould Surveyor F. E. Wilson great Kalem religious feature in five snpply 300,000 public school child Health Officer......... ....Dr. Walter Culin reels, “From the Manger to the ren with a folding cup puzzle 01 ----------- “----------- H erald COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY Á NO. 34 CITY DIRECTORY _ lle Photos by American Press Association. IR THOMA8 LIPTON, following his recent visit to this country, dived bendlong Into the spotlight’s glare on the water of publicity by Issuing a challenge for the America's cup It Is six years since he last ehal lenged the New York Yacht club, holder of the famous International trophy, to a race. He agrees this time to build Shamrock IV. and sail hei across to compete on this side with the bust American product. He stands ready to race In 1914. Thrice before he was defeated, the last time being ten years ago. Sir Thomas Is showD here with Shamrock HI S A Noble Work Game Law Changes A lady representing the Pacific Coast Rescue and Protective Society, which maintains the Louise Home for Unfortunate Girls nnd the Al bertina Kerr Nursery for the Babies of Abandoned Mothers, both Port land institution«, was in the city last week, raising funds for the support of those institutions. The first named is, as the name implies, an organization for the rescue aud pro tection of girls who have started on the downward road but who only need a helping hand, extended with sympathy and understanding, to re deem themselveB and lead upright lives. The Herald is informed that the results attained in nearly every case handled by the Society are most gratifying. The home for infants is also doing a noble work, and is taking tbs little tots who would be practically doomed to lives in the underworld and giving them a chance to grow up into good and useful citizens. The work is supported by public contributions. Nothing more worthy is before the public, and every dol lar put into it by the people of Oregon is a good investment. After interviewing Game Warden Baker, the Westarn World gives the following points regarding the new game laws: It is unlawful to fish from the jetty or rocks of the ocean within the 3 mile limit without a license; also boys over 14 years of age are required to have a license. After June 1st all women who wish to fish or hunt must secure a license. Another important item tn the new game laws is a liability act, which makes the state of Oregon liable for damage done by protected game. If deer are damaging your crops the first step to be taken is to notify the game warden, and if he does not respond within a certain stipulated period, you are at libertay to shoot said deer. Anothe good feature of the new law makes the owner responsible or the acts of his dog — for in stance, if a dog escapes and chases deer and the fact can be proven, whether the owner is aware of the fact or not, the owner is subject to a stiff fine. On the sec ond offence the dogs may be shot. •JJob Printing—New f rerses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please Condensed for the Quick As similation of Busy Men and Women— General Round- Up of a Wide Scope Andrew Carnegie ridicules the idea of an invasion by Japan in case of war. The logging companies of Aber deen, Wash , are planning to erect a fireproof building at a cost of $50,000. Ten fire insuranc companies doing business in Missouri havr suspended writing new insurance ou account of the repeal of the Oliver rating law. Preliminary work an the gun boat Palos and Monocacy has been at the Mare island navy yard. The gunboats will cost $242,000 each and are destined lor the China service. The Japanese of California an nounce their intention to "earnestly to endeavor to secure the right to naturalization as the ultimate and permanent solution ol the Japanese problem on this coast.” More than 2500 department store employes at Buffalo, N. Y ., went on a strike on May tst, demanding increased wages and shorter hours. The present average weekly wages paid girl clerks is said to be only $5. The public utilities committee of San Francisco has recommended a bond issue of $3,500,000 to con struct four municipally owned cross town trolley lines and to pave the way for city ownership of the en tire trolly system. "The publicity given by the press generally tends to lessen evil condi tions and thus renders a useful ser vice to the public,” the commis sioners of the District of Columbia declare in a report submitted to Congress on the Works bill to pro vide a censorship of the news. ! job is completed. With Geo. Dunn also starting dairy work, it will make between 75 and 100 cows that will be milked on F^uchre creek where for a number of years past there has been no dairy ing to speak of going on. (Gold Beach Globe) Ere another week Stafford and Bauer will have finished the in terior of the court house The Randolph came in Friday afternoon loaded with the new ma chinery for the cannery. W. J. Bailey sold out his house hold goods last week and departed for Bandon, where he has invested in property. After a few weeks visit with relatives and friends, Mrs. Bailey will join her husband iu Bandon. Survey of Coast Line of the S. P. Completed (Del Norte Triplicate) The meeting of the two survey ing crews south of Crescent City, Tuesday afternoon, marks the cotn- ple ion of the preliminary survey of the Southern Pacific’s coast line from Portland to San Francisco. The crew that has been working out of Crescent City under R. J. Weir packed up their outfit and took passage on the Del Norte for San Francisco, Tuesday evening, where they were ordered to report for work on another project. Mr. Weir will go via Eureka to inspect and look over the work ou that section and will sail from there to San Francisco. The crew working up from Eureka will finish up the work this week and leave for San Francisco later. Definite news is lacking as to when the work of construction will begin here, but the graders are active on the gap south of Eureka, and it is expected that trains will be running iuto the Humboldt couuty city early In the summer, and that it wilt not be much later when they reach Crescent City. The word has filtered up from be low that the Southern Pacific in tends to carry its Exposition traffic from the north over the new coast line, and this means that work will Equal suffrage in Pennsylvania have to be pushed rapidly from all won a victory when the State Sen points in order to make the connec ate passed the suffrage amendment tions in time. by a vote of 26 to 22. The House Another Fake Exploded had already favored it overwhelm ingly, 131 to 70. The ammend- During the past winter there have ment will come again before the been persistent reports of the dis Legislature in 1915, and will then covery of gold and other valuable go to the voters. ores in the vicinity of Albion, Push mataha Couuty, Okla.. some finds CURRY COUNTY CULL1NGS being reported as exceeding $60 a (From the Port Orford Tribune) ton and some even as approaching A. B. Carey came up from Cor a value of $600 a ton. The reports bin several days since with his clip and the demands were so persistent of mohair. Mr. Carey keeps about that by direction of the Secretary of too goats on bis place. the Interior a field examination Mrs. A. H. Moore Sr. is quite was made by Henry G. Ferguson, seriously ill at her home in Gold associate geologist of the Survey. Beach. Her son, Fred S., ex-sheriff Mr. Ferguson reports the entire of Curry couuty, arrived at Gold absence, so far as can be recognized last week, from his home iD Seattle, in the field, of gold or other metals to be at the bedside of his mother. in commercial quantities. None of The Tribune Is in receipt of the the supposed rich ore, which is gen intelligence that a daughter was erally a brown or gray sandstone, born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. when crushed and panned yelded Tichenor, ot Seattle, on the 17th auy free gold. The entire local excitement ap inst. Next week we will print a pears to be based on certain fabu cut and a lively description of the event sent us by one of Mr. Tiche- lously high assays made chiefly on material dug from wells. Assay uor’s enthusiastic friends. certificates which reported as much George Lewis, who attended as 32 ounces ol gold a ton were school in Port Orford last fall for shown to Geologist Ferguson, but several months, was severely in samples of the supposed gold ore, jured while falling a tree at bis collected by him and assayed by home on Cedar Fork several days Ledoux & Co., of New York,showed ago. It seems that the tree splin less than 2 cents of gold and half a tered as it fell and struck him in cent in silver to the ton. The assay such a manner as to render him un certificates which are being shown conscious until the following morn by the promotors are therefore either ing. Just how he was injured we directly or indirectly fraudulent in did not learn, but he is reported as character.— U. S. Geological Press getting along nicely. Bulletin. ----- —— «■ • - --- S. P. Merrill is engaged in build Died ing an up-to-date milk house for PERKINS— At Parkersburg, Or., Walter Moore, at F^uchre creek, April 29, James M. Perkins, aged who is engaging in the dairy busi 67 years. ness and will milk 15 or 20 cows Deceased was a native of Tennea- this season and about double that many next year, when he will have see and had been a reeident of a lot of pure blood Jersey heifers Parkersburg since 1876. The widow, comiug on. Frank Moore, further one daughter and three sons sur up the creek, is also going into the vive him. The funeral wae held dairy business, and Mr. Merrill has Thursday from the M. E. Cbureh the contract for putting up a large South and burial took place in Ma- barn for him as soon as his present sonic cemetery.