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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1913)
fJThe Herald, the old estab lished reliable newspaper of the Coquille Valley in which an “ a d " always brings results. V O L . 31, T he C oquille H erald 36 CITY DIRECTORY Fraternal and Benevolent Orders A F. & A. M.—Regular meeting of • Chadwick Lada« No. (>8 A. F. & A. M.. at Masonic Hail, every Saturday nitfht in each month on or before the full moon. C. W . E ndicott , W. M. K. It. MAST, ecretary. 8.—Regular meeting of Beulah O E. . Chapter No. t>, second and fourth Friday evenings of each month, in Ma sonic Hall. E v a H akko w , W . M. J oskph ine U. P e o p les , Sec. T O. O. F.—Coquille Lodge No. 63,1. O. I . 0 . F., meets every Saturday night n Odd Fellows Hall. C. H. C l e a v e s , N. O. J. 8. L aw - hence , Sec. I OREGON NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK Transpiring in Oregon Boiled Down to Least Number of Lines and Yet Make the Subject Understood. K R W E I B S P P E R Y E A R $ 1 .5 0 SMITH-POWERS RANCH WILL BE MODEL ONE ON MYRTLE POINT ROAD W ife of Drunkard Can Col lect Damages of Liquor Seller After June 3 County Court Will Visit the Canyon to See What Work is Scaicely a day goes by that Gov Required—Engineer Condemns Present Grade ernor West does not receive in per and Recommends a Relocation son or by letter the tearful petition of some wife for help in keeping (Roseburg Review) the saloons from selling liquor to The County Court is now consid plank as fast as it is built. The her drunken husband. They plead helplessness, and say they are ering the best plan ol procedure for newly graded road should not be mocked at every turn when they the improvement ot * 'ie Coquille rutted and gtj.lt d o"t by travel try to save their husbands from Canyon road. The court will prob before it is covered or planked, It themselves and the saloon. The ably give this road a personal in is understood that this type of road cry of hungry children and the spectiou at an early date with a construction is not permanent, how' tears of destitute wives accomplish view to letting the work by con ever, the plank covering laid as little or nothing, the governor is tract. That the road will have to specified, with a small amount of told over and over again The be planked a good portion of the patrolling and maintenance, will distance, as recommended by En last ten or twelve years. Good husbands continue to get liquor. For these reasons the governor gineer Germond in his report, seems gravel or hard rock fit for road again calls attention to the law to be generally admitted. To do material can not be had along the passed by the last legislature, which this, the work will probably have proposed road change. However will go into effect June 3, and gives to be done by contract, instead of if construction work should be a wife, husband, parent or child the employing state convicts, as was opened up gravel pits or rock that could be crushed and is fit for road right of action for damages against being considered some time ago. Engineer Germond’s recommen material it is understood that form any person who sells or gives liquor to an intoxicated person or habitual dations after a trip over the road in of road surfacing would be used The lumber could be made from the drunkard. The law says that “ the April, are as follows: I recommend that no extensive timber that grows along the right act of anj- agent, employe, barten der or servant shall be deemed the repair work be done on this road. of way of the proposed road. Other act of his principal or employer lor To spend money on this road as it timber, if needed, could be obtained is located, otherwise than just at nominal cost horn the land the purposes of this act.” “ That law will be a great help to enough to make it passable and a through which the road passes. It many wives and mothers in this state,” said Governor West, "and I wish every one of them might know about it by the time becomes King Menelik, Reported Dead, effective.” A s He Looked In Last Picture The law means that if a saloon keeper, or any one else, sells or gives liquor to her husband when he is intoxicated or is a habitual diunkard, a wife will have the right to bring a suit against such a per son for damages. “ INTERESTS” STILL HOLD UP THE KINNEY DEAL T I 19 1 3 MAKES SALOON KEEPERS LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE C ■ 20, Hog values havejbeen falling in the Portland stock yards. Douglas county is second in num ber of deer in the counties ot Ore gon, while Curry ranks first. UILi,E ENCAMPMENT. No. 2f> The P. E & E Ry. Co. is con O. O. F., meets the first and third Thursday nights in Odd Fellows Hall. sidering a line between Independ J. 8. B arton , C. P. ence via Buena Vista and Albany. J . 8 . L aw rence , Sec. A new cannery to be built at n i g h t s o f p y t h i a s .— Lycurgui Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights Medford, the owners trying to have in \V. O. W. Hall. it completed for this year’s produce. R. R. W a t so n , K R. 8. O. A. M in t o n y e , C. C. Ordinance is up for consideration ■rjYTHIAN SISTERS—Justus Temple of the Eugene council that all pav 1 No. 35, meets lirat anil Third Mon ing laid hereafter shall have a base day nights in W. O. W. Hall. ot from 4 to 6 inches. M rs . G eorge D a v is , M. E. C. M r s . F red L in eo ar , K. of R. Cottage Grove has received bids ED MEN—Coouille Tribe No, 411, 1. on about one mile of hard surface 0 . R. M., meets every Friday night street paving The improvement in W. O. W. Hÿl.^ B arton , Sachem. will be divided between four streets. A . P M il l e r , C. of R. James M. Cox, an Oregon pioueer j y j W. A.— Regular meetings_of_ Bea ver Camp No. 10,550 in M. W . A. of 1851, who has resided in the Hall, Front street, first and third Sat- vicinity of Canyonville for the past urdavs in each month. 30 years, died there May 6, aged M. O. H a w k i n s . Consul. R . B. R og ers , V. C. 86 years. N ed 0 . K e l l e y , Clerk. The school board of Silverton, is N. A.—Regular meeting of Laurel Camp No. 2972 at M. W. A . Hall, going to ask the people to vole a Front street, second and fourth Tues special tax to build a 16 room brick day nights in each month. school house, which will cost ap M a r y K e r n , Oracle. E dna K e l l e y , Rec. proximately $30,000. O. W .—Myrtle Camp No. 197, From four to six weeks’ work re ery Wednesday at 7:30 • meets ever mains to be done on the Wildcat p. in. at W . 0 . \Y. Hall. A. J. S iiehwood , C. C. tunnel between Eugene and Coos J ohn L knevk , Sec. Bay, also on the Noti tunnel about VENINGTIDE CIRCLE No. 214, 23 miles west of Eugene. meets second and fourth Monday nights in W. O. W. Hall. Many mule teams have been ar O ra X . M a u r y , G. N. riving at Eugene for work on the M a r y A. P ierce , Clerk. Willamette Pacific, and the present F A R M E R S UNION.— Regular meet ly ings second and fourth Saturdays in force of 1000 men will be increased (Marshfield Record) each month in W. O. W. Hall. to 2000 in a short time. F ran k B u rkh o ld er , Pres. The latest information about the O. A. M in t o n ye , Sec. The Norwegian steamships Ter- Kinney case is to the effect that the l^ R A T K R N A L AID No. 398, meets the rior and Mathilda left Portland last closing of the deal was held up by a second and fourth Thursdays each week with cargoes of lumber ag month at W. O. W . lfall. Frank B. Waite, who, reports say, gregating 7,500,000 feet, both M rs . C h a s . E vi . a n d , Pres. had agreed upon a price he was M rs . L ora H arrington , Sec. bound for Australian ports willing to take for release of his Boys less than 10 and girls less mortgages. The story goes that Educational Organizations and Clubs than 18 years of age are prohibited afterwards, Mr. Waite changed his OQUILLE EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE—Meets mom lily at the from selling newspapers or other mind and raised his price, so that High School Building during the school periodicals on the streets by an the difference was considerable. Mr year for the purpose of discussing edu ordinance just passed in Portland. Waite had not been at Portland for cational topics. R ena A nderson , Pres. R. H. Pierce and H. P. Landis, nearly three weeks until he lelt here E dna M in a k d , Sec._____ owners of the 70 acre loganberry Monday on the Breakwater, and it TT’ O KEEL KLUB—A business men’ s ÌA. social organization. Hall in Laird’ s tract near Pleasant Hill, largest in was learned he had been receiving building, Second street. the world, plan to build several telegrams from the Rose City ask A. J. S herwood , Pres. F red S l a g l e , Sec. large buildings on their ground to ing him to meet the terms he form It q OMMERCIAL CLUB—J E. N orton be used for driers and for camping erly submitted to Mr. Wilsey. President; J. C. S a v a g e , Secretary purposes. is known the deal was ready for \ Extensive street improvements closing over two weeks ago, but 1Transportation Facilities are planned for this summer at was delayed because the Waite RAINS—Leave, south bound 9:00 a. m. and 3:00 p. m. North bound Cottage Grove. Contracts were let mortgages could not be released. i0 :40 a. m. und 4;40 p. m. Tuesday for hard surface pavement The story here is that during Mr. Photo by American Press Association. OATS— Six boats plying on the Co on 5th and 7th streets, one'block Waite’s visit to Coos Bay a new quille river afford ample accommo deal was framed up whereby the ING MENELIK of Abyssinia is dead. "W hat, again?" you ask. Well, dation for carrying freight and passen north and one block south of Main this time it is said to be true—at least the recent report of his death gers to Bandon and way points. Boats street Also three blocks north on “ interests” were to go to Judge was not denied, as It had been previously when such reports reached leave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9 :20 and 9 :30 a. m. Harris again and ask for a receiver, 9th street and Birch avenue. the newspapers. This is said to be the last picture taken o f the fa and at 1 :00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p. m. mous negro ruler, who in a way was a world figure. He Is seen with his With a score of 383 targets in and that a local Coos Bay man will finger TAGE—J. L. Laird, proprietor. De tips together, which Is said to be a royal attitude. The report of his parts 5:30 p. m. for Boseburg via 400, leading all amateurs by a safe bid the property in when it is ol- death came from Addis Abeba and stated that hi« nephew, Prince LidJ Yaasu, Myrtle Point, carrying the United States margin and equaling the score of iered for sale, shutting out the Wil a youth of seventeen, had succeeded him. mail and pasengers. sey syndicate. This story cannot OSTOFFICE.—A. F. Linegar, post H. E. Poston, a professional, Don master. The mails close as follows: Morrison, of Portland, carried off be relied upoD as accurate, for there Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. m. is not enough money on Coos Bay summer road, is a waste. A good is my opinion that a small portable Marshfield 10:15 a. m. and 4:15 p. m. premier honors in the first annual road cannot be made out of this sawmill operated by the county Bandon and way points, Norway and shoot of the Portland Gun Club on that can be bunched together to road by repair work. The present would be the cheapest means of ob Arago 12:45 p. m. Eastern mail 5:15 make the purchase, and while the the Kenton traps, ending the two- p. m. Eastern mail arrives 7 :45 a. m. man in question has about $50,000 location is poor, the grades are ex taining the lumber for the road sur day conqieMiou at Portland. on local deposit, that would not cessive, in some places exceeding face and bridges. Such a mill can City and County Officers The total number of accidents in satisfy the creditors or look like a 20 per cent, and the whole has suf be purchased, exclusive of the in the industries ot the state for sufficient fund to a receiver. It is fered from neglect. power, for a sum not exceeding R ecorder.............. April were 411, of which seven evident, from reports that leak $500. I would suggest and recommend .................. R. H. Mast proved fatal, according to the through from those who hear con to your honorable body that this All grading and clearing right oi P. M. Hall-Lewis monthly report of State Labor Com siderable from Portland about the eight miles of road be relocated in way should be done by contract Marshal................ Night Marshal.. John Hurley missioner Hoff. The industries and deal, that everybody connected with part and rebuilt along lines that work or by some method other than Water Superintendent. .8. V. Eppereon the number of accidents and fatali the supervisor system. the deal, unless it be Mr. Wilsey will be a credit to our county. Fire Chief......................... Walter Oerding A preliminary estimate based I would recommend that that Councilmen—D. D. Pierce, C. T. Skeels ties occurring in them wete: Car and his people, are desirous of cut W. C. Laird, G. O. Leach, W. H. Ly penters, 17; construction work, x 1; solely on a passing observation portion lying between the county ting Major Kinney down to the last ons, Leo J. Carv. Regular meetings first and third Mondays each month. logging, 35, two fatal; machine cent, and those who have claims line and the sheep ranch be reloca would place the cost of rebuilding shops, 43; paper mills, 32; railroad that may be hazarded if the prop ted and graded this coming sum and planking the portion of the Justice of the Peace.......... J. J. Stanley construction, 24, two fatal; railroad erty goes into the hands of a re mer. This part of the road is about road lying between the county line Constable........................... Ned C. Kelley section, 42; railroad trains, 39; rail ceiver are not willing to give and two miles in length and offers no and sheep ranch at $4500 per mile, road yards, 41; sawmills, 58, two take on what has been agreed upon very difficult construction work. exclusive of the price and setting County Judge......................John T. Hall Commissioners—W. T. Dement, Geo. J. fatal; sawmill yards, 20; miscel as equitable. The creditors, those It is my opinion that the cheapest up of the mill. This estimate is Armstrong laneous, 49, one fatal. C lerk...................................James Watson actually interested in having their and most economical construction purely a guess and nothing definite Sheriff............ W. W. Gage Steps will tie taken at the annual legitimate claims paid, are not being at this time is to grade and ditch could be given until the new line is Treasurer..................... T. M. Dimmick Assessor............... T. J. Thrift meeting of the Yamhill County given much attention in the ne the road bed to a proper cross sec run and the quantities measured School Supt............... Raymond E. Baker Pioneer Association at McMinn gotiations and the whole thing is tion and cover it with three inch and computed Su rveyor..................................A. N. Gould Coroner ................... ......F. E. Wilson ville, on June 4, to organize an simply a scramble among the ma Health O fficer............ I>r. Walter Culin association of the pioneer mothers nipulators to see which shall get the only safe guaid the small credi ment was true. There is another of Oregon. The purpose of the the lion’s share ol the price, should tors feel they have. story to the effect that C. R. Peck proposed organization is "that the | the deal be completed. It is be- It was stated here before Mr. who has represented Mr. Waite in Societies will get the very best trials of the pioneer mothers may lieved on good information that Waite departed that he had started other matters and once before got PRINTING be jointly told while they are yet Judge Harris has decided ou whom foreclosure proceedings against the out foreclosure papers for Mr. Waite with us and lie made a permanent ( he will appoint in case the negotia- Kinney properties, but no one could had been agreed upon by some as at the office o f Coquille Herald record for the generation to come.” lions fail, tor receiver and this is say for a certainty that the state- attorney for the receiver. AMIE REBEKAH LODGE, No. 20 I. O- O. F., meets every second and fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows Hall. E m ily H e k s e y , N. G, A nnie L a w ren ce , Sec. CT ■ C O Q U IL L E , C O O S C O U N T Y , O R E G O N , T U E S D A Y , M A Y K QJob Printing— N tw presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please Fine Beef Cattle Will be Raised for Company’s Commissaries SYNOPSIS OF MANY EVENTS THE NEWS IN TABLOID FORM (Myrtle Point Enterprise) The Smith Powers Company is Condensed for the Quick A s gradually stocking its ranch on the similation of Busy Men and south fork of the Coquille. Tuei Women— General Round- company bought over 1000 acres of Up of a Wide Scope natural grass land last fall, which with the 5,000 acres that the cum-1 , “ * pany owns in the same locality, Ei* ^ " e' e killed in a cyclone at when cleared ot timber, will furnish 1 LWal 1 * e ’ on ,be ! 5 o- abundant pasture. j rbe biS buck ni2ger was found The ranch is being stocked with 8u>by °f “ white slaving’ ’ by the great care. Some of the best cattle Chicago jury, which can be found in this locality President Wilson declares that he have been purchased and some fine will stand for no compromise on stock from the outside has been im- wool and sugar schedules of the ported. As the production of beef new tariff bill, is the object, Hereford cattle will be Martin Rickert, the 14-vear-old raised and about fifty head of this Los Angeles boy who shot and breed have already been purchased killed his father because he beat his and put on the range. mother and knocked her down, was The ranch is in the south fork acquitted by a jury in 14 minutes, country which will be reached by ; The Chicago Dressmakers' Club, the new logging railroad and will at its annual meeting, denounced therefore be in the neighborhood the “ slit” skirt as an atrocity, and where the greater part of the Smith- j went on record as being opposed to Powers Company’s logging opera- all similar designs that suggest ¡ra tions will be carried on. The plan ■ modesty. will be, when the ranch is in opera- j Saloon9 Santa Barbara mus, tion, to slaughter on the place and out of business by August r, as the ship the meat to the camps. result of a municipal election in Experiments in grass are also which the “ dry” element emerged being made. Over $500 worth of victorious by majority of 179. So grass seed has been planted. Every ciety women worked for the wets. kind ot grass suitable to this part of the state has been planted for the Attorney General MacReynolds purpose of ascertaining just which has reached a tentative decision that varieties are best adapted to the the Central Pacific Railroad should different kinds of soil. As a result be divorced from the Sonthem of these experiments the company Pacific in the dissolution of the will be able to know how to best Union Pacific and Southern Pacific seed the logged off land and other merger. pastures that may be used. The An absolute divorce of the Stan ranch will be operated as a separate dard Oil Company from all other concern and a manager who is a oil companies has been effected and competent business man, live stock the company is not ’ now ih any man and farmer will have charge. sense a trust, according to L. Drake, vice-president of the corporation. Old Jury List Isn’t that fine? James A. Ralston, aged 70, who The Coos Bay News of May 1 2 , is on trial at Seattle for opium 1 8 8 0 , gave the following list of smuggling, testified that there is a jurors drawn for the term of circuit large traffic in contraband opium court then coming on: Goorge A. throughout the Northwest, and it is Smith, Duvid Drew, Johu Larnont, carried on with the connivance of C. S. Higgins, J. H. King, Chas. customs officials. Eckoff, Wilbert Noyes, Chas. E. Ed The four New York ex-police in wards, B. F. Ross, James Hervey, A. Decker, J. P. Tupper, T. J spectors, Hussey, Murtha, Sweeney Davis, David Holland, J. B Fox, and Thompson, recently convicted David Palmeuteer, John Cartwright, of accepting immunity money from Alex Hall, J. W. Herbert, Chas. A. a dive keeper, were each sentenced Gate?, J. M. Stock, Aaron Emmett, to one year in the penitentiary and Gilbert Hall, D. C. Morris, A. H. to pay a fine $500. * t » L Fish, A. Harrison, W. D. L. F. An appeal has t>een published by Smith, Louis Heller, S. D. Stewart, the officers of the United Japanese Provit Dean, W. H. Jackson. Association of Southern California, counseling patience pending the Will Try Mile of Road outcome of diplomatic negotiations regarding the California anti-alien Indorsement of the plan of con land ownership bill. struction of concrete highway with Arrangements have been com bituminous surface, as proposed by pleted for the summer cruise of the professor McAllister, of the Univer Washington naval reserve in south sity of Oregon, was given by the eastern Alaska, for gun practice. Lane County Good Roads Associa The trip will be made on the cruiser tion at its meeting held in Eugene Galveston now being overhauled at last week when it adopted a resolu Bremertou and the Seattle and Ta tion asking the County Court to coma companies will sail on June 21, construct a sample mile according At the meeting ol the legislative to the specifications suggested. By the use of a volcanic rock that committee investigating charitable has been fouud plentiful in western institutions in Chicago, the superin Oregon, the cost of surfacing can be tendent of the United Charities cut from $12,000 to $6500 a mile. testified that 53 per ceot of the Professor McAllister’s paper ex money received was spent for the plaining in detail his recent bulletin expenses of the organization and issued by the university and the only 47 per cent ever reached the discussion ol the different plans sug supposed beneficiaries. gested occupied the entire session. William J. Calhoun, the retiring »«»»• ------ United States Minister to China, W a n t e d — An editor who can said thus far the federal govern- read, write and argue politics, and I ment of the new republic was at the same time be religious, funny, largely a figurehead, without any scientific and historical at w ill,1 real power. The real problem, write to please everybody, know which will take many years, is the everything without asking or being adapting of the people themselves told, never make mistakes, always- to the new system of government. have something good to say about Plans for the organization of the everybody else, live on wind and insurgent Modern Woodmen of make more money than enemies. America were perfected at the For such a man a good opening Springfield, 111 , convention, when will be made— in the graveyard.— a report was adopted recommending Ex. .. . . . . , ___ one member from each state be The Santiam Water Co., with elected by the convention to be principal office at Salem, has iccor- known as “ National Modern Wood- porated for the purpose of supply men of America Federation." This ing Salem with water from Santiam committee will work out a platform river. Stayton. Turner, Aumsville and carry on the plans outlined by and Sublimity will also be included, the convention, "V