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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1913)
Q T h e Herald, the o ld estab lished reliable newspaper of the Cocjuille V alley in which an ‘ ‘ad” always brings results. VOL. 31, T he C oquille H erald NO. 39 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, CITYDIRECTORY!CyjUnpe|C np Fraternal and Benevolent Orders Y. A A. M.— Renular meeting of . Cliadwick Lodge No. 08 A. F. A A. M.. at Masonic Hall, every 8a unlay night in each month on or before the full moon. C. W . E ndioott , W. M. A K. H . M a s t , e cre ta ry . O K. 8.— Regular meeting of llculah • Chapter No. 0, second and fourth Friday evenings of each month, in Ma sonic Hall. E v a R a h k o w , W. M. J o s k i - i i i k r G. P e o p l e s , Sec. 0 . O. F.—Coquille Lodge No. 53,1. O. . O. F., meets every (Saturday night n Odd Fellows Hall. C. H. C l e a v e s , N. G. J . 8. L a w r e n c e , Sec. 1 No. 20 I. O. O. F., meets every second and fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows Hall. E m il y H u s k y , N. G, A n n ie L a w r e n c e , 8ec. M a m ie rebekah lodge . /"«O Q iJILLE ENCAMPMENT, No. 25 I. O. O. F., meets the firstand third Tliureday nights in Odd Fellows Hall. J. 8. B a r t o n , C. I*. J. 8 . L a w r e n c e , Sec. n i g h t s o f p y t h i a « . —t r a u m a Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights in W. O. W. Hall R. R. W a t s o n , K R. 8. O. A. M in t o n y r , C. C. K P YTH IAN SISTERS—Justus Temple No. 35, meets first and Third Mon day nights in W. O. W. Hail. M r s . G eorge D a v is , M. E. C. MANY EVENTS THE NEWS IN TABLOID FORM Condensed for the Quick As similation of Busy Men and Women— General Round- Up of a Wide Scope Cattle, meats, flour and wheat are to be on the free list of the new tariff bill. The last horse car in San Fran cisco has made its farewell trip on Market street. New Mexico is overrun with grasshoppers, and they are too plentiful in Idaho and California. A special committee ol IJ. S. Senate has commenced the invest! gation of the West Virginia coal strike. 1913 .11 45 Third street, in I tie Multno mah hotel, and has 7(1 feet of ghiss age, 40 feet in the hotel ro tunda. This headquarters will be Sidelights on the Problem With Which Our Neighbors on opened on Juno 15 and it is in the South are Dealing in New Anti-Alien Law tended that it shall contain a gen 1 eral exhibit for th - a. uthi rn Ore gon counties and be made, as it Collier’s Weekly has a long ar There is a fruit-basket factory in nan e implies, publicity I eadqimr- ticle by Peter Clark Macfailaue, a the town. It formerly employed ters for Ibis part of the slate, giv special wiiter sent by that paper to white help; but when Secretary ing information to ;h- tln.UL.iuJs o. California to write up the Japanese Bryau walked into this factory he people who come *o P - i II nh .1 seek situation as lie Ion: d it. As the found forty Japanese employed, the iug a location in Oregon, and turn people of Oregon seem to have little foreman being the only white man ing a stream of s'raM-j ci’iz- n* in conception of the se ion mess of the about. Apparently about half ol our direction. problem with whi-h the people of the employees were women. Some A. A. Wright, who has spent years Calitornia are struggling— a prob of them had their babies by their as arsistant manager of the Port lem which, if not dealt-witb, would sides. As we were preparing to land hotel, will he publicity man soon confront all the people of the take a picture a woman with a baby ager, L. D. Ki-uiy v,... lc publicity cuust, we give below a few extracts rushed out, hut she could not take director, and his daughter, Miss from the Macfarlane report: the crib with her. These employees Annie M. Kinney- will be corres Just at the moment the classic in are now all Japanese, while former ponding secretary, being a very stance of Japanese agrarian aggres ly they were all white because, as competent young lady. sion is the town of Florin, which is the manager informed me, so many We are all more or less familiar but eight miles southeast of Sacra whites had moved away to avoid with Major Kinney’B ability as a mento, and therefore an object les Japanese neighbors that he was real estate man, and corroborative son right at the doors of the legisla compelled to employ some Japanese evidence was given by H. M. Ab ture. The proponents of the Ami- and then the remaining whites be bott, a banker and hotel mao, who Alien Land Bill took great pleasure gan to ooze out because they would told Mr. Wright that he bad known in showing Mr. Bryan by means of not work in the same factory with L. D. Kinney for over twenty years, this community exactly what the the Japanese. and had heard Iho expressions of Japanese invasion meant. Florin We went around to the neat little able men, and he said unhesitatingly is the center of a beautiful little two-room schoolhouse. presided that Kinney was the most artistic vine and berry growing district over by two charming young advertiser of city real estate in the comprising about twenty-four sec- women — typical American ruial United States. This new venture lions of land. A dozen years ago 1 school-teachers— and found in the will give the Major a chance to exercise bis extiaordinary gift to good advantage to this part of Ore gon, aDd if be receives the proper co-operation from the people here he can do Coos county a world of E. T. A llen good. JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA •JJob Printing— N tw presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please. PER YEAR $1.50 Florin they have done to a greater or less degree in the fruit-grov/ing districts of Solano, of Santa Cruz and Placer counties, and in the vegetable-growing delta district at the confluence of the Sacramento and ihe San Joaquin Rivers * * * OREGON NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK Once a foothold was gained, the Japanese colonization operated to the exclusion ol the whites in two Transpiring in Oregon Boiled Down to Least Number of ways. The first was by forcing Ihe whites out of employment upon the Lines and Yet Make the soi^. The extent of this crowding Subject Understood. out was startlingly revealed by an investigation conducted in 1909 by 1 Wool buyers at the Shaniko sale the State of Calilornie.imo'the rela-; offered but 13*10 14 ceiNs, and but tion of the Japanese population to few sales were made. agricultural operation. The attempt to recall County This commission visited 4,102 Judge Worden, of Klamath Falls, farms scattered over twenty six was defeated by 1200 votes. counties. It found 1,733 of these Susan F. Miller, aged 84, was farms operated by Japanese either taken to the polls in Portland in an as owners or lessees. On these automobile, to cast her first vote. Japanese-operated (arms 96 per cent There were 120 applicants for of the labor employed was Japanese Of the 2,369 farms, 53 4 per cent of admission to the Oregon bar last the labor was white, 36 4 per cent week, and seven of them were was Japanese, and the remaining women. The American Road congress will Foicsi uies destroyed several 10.2 per cent was Chinese, Mexi hold its third annual meeting at thousand dollars worth of timber can, Hindu, and Indian. M r s . F re d L in k g a k , K . o f R . Detroit during the week ol Septem In other words Ihe coming of on the Rickreall river the first of ED MEN—Coauille Tribe No, 4t>, I. ber 29. Japanese into possession or control last week. O. R. M., meets every Friday night A soldier in the German army in W. O. W. Hall. of the farms of a given community Astoria is excited over a proposi J. 8. B ar ton , Sachem. was court-martialed and given 16 occasions a reduction of White labor tion ot the council to forbid the A. P . M il l e r , C. o f R. days in the guardhouse because his employed by approximately 90 per serving of free lunches in the 50 _____ __ _ of _ Bea W. A.— Regular meetings cent— which practically means ob saloons of that city. ver Camp No. 10,550 in M. W. A. hair was too long. Hall, Front street, first and third Sat The big power resources of the literation. A drilling outfit at Oregon City, urdays in each month. Klicketat river, in Washington, The second blighting effect is seeking a source of a municipal M. O. H a w k i n s . Consul. R. B. R o g e r s , V. C. will be developed by local capital through social pressure There is water supply has reached a depth N ei > O. K e l l e y , Clerk. on a co-operative basis. little use to argue or speculate over of 260 feet without finding it. N. A.— Regular meeting of Laurel whether the two races should dwell A French inventor has succeeded . Camp No. 2972 at M. W. A . Hall, Arlington has commenced work --,----- ------------ Front street, second and fourth Tues in rising from the ground and fly together in brotherly affection. The on cement walks and will soon be day nights in eacli month. fact is that they will uot. ing 150 to 200 feet in an aeroplane Official Schedule For ‘‘No, I ’ll not burn my slash this spring” M a r y K e r n , Oracle. gin on the new reservoir. An elec E d n a K e l l e y , Rec. The Japanese —without meaning tric lighting system is also to be in The Seaon's Base Ball propelled by foot power. The moss-back logger said, any disrespect to the little brown stalled. O. W .— Myrtle Camp No. 197, ‘ ‘I ’ll trust to God and luck again; And now Denmark is getting the ts every Wednesday at 7:30 man—does not commend himself May 25 th Expense is what I dread.” war bug, and the people are con Charges of graft in the Salem . O. W . Hall. p to the average American farmer At Marshfield— Bandon. A. J. SllEHWOOD, C. C. tributing money to strengthen the police department have caused the ‘‘ It’s time to hit the trail again” J o h n I. k n e v e , Sec. lamily as a desirable neighbor. He Bandon wins, 6 to 1 fortifications of the nation. appointment of a committee of three The careless camper said, is not ovetly clean He is accused At North Bend— Coquille and The House, at Washington, is councilmen and three citizens to in Li# meets second and fourth Monday And left his little fire ablaze of being unmoral. It is claimed nights in W . O. W. Hall. vestigate. practically on a vacation, and no Myrtle Point. Within its lealy bed. North Bend beats Coquille 2 to 1 the Japanese have no marriage tie O ba X . M a u r y , G. N. important business will be trans Mayor Rushlight was defeated M a r y A. P ier ce , Clerk. ” ” ” Myrtle Point 7-4 as we know the institution. Women, ‘ ‘ I ’ll light another cigarette” acted until after the Fourth. for re-election as mayor of Portland 'A R M E R S UNION.— Regular meet June 1 st if scarce, may be held pretty much The idle loafer said, ings second and fourth Saturdays in Richard L Metcalf, editor of At Bandon— North Bend, in common. The white farmer’s by H. R. Albee. East Portland And chucked his old snipe in the brush eacli month in W. O. W. Hall. Bryan’s Commoner, has been se F r a n k B u r k h o l d e r , Pres. Bandon wins 5 to 2. wife does not run in and sit down and the residence districts went One end still glowing red. O. A. M in t o n y e , Sec. lected by President Wilson for gov heavily for Albee. At Coquille— Myrtle Point and to gossip with the Japanese farmer’s 'R A TE R N A L AID No. 398, meets the ernor of the Panama canal zone. ‘ ‘Let’s punch the screen out of the stack” Marshfield. The State Railroad Commission wife and she does not want the second and fourth Thursdays each Coquille beats Myrtle Point 10 to 0. The donkey fireman said. The altitude record for an aviator has ruled that the railroad can stick Japanese farmer’s wife running into month at W. O. W . Hall. Marshfield forfeits to Coquille. M r s . C h a s . E vi . a n o , P res. And so he did and all the sparks with a passenger was broken by gossip with her. Their children the traveler for only 25 cents, in M r s . L o r a H a r r in g t o n , Sec. June 8th Sailed blithely overhead. Edmond Perreyon, who reached a cannot play together. Jenny Brown stead of 50 cents, in case of the loss At Myrtle Point— Bandon and Co height of 16,368 feet at Buc, cannot go for a buggy ride with of a baggage check. Educational Organizations and Clubs "Come on, w’ell dump our ashes now” quille. F’rance. Three men of mystery, from Cali Harry Hirada. The whole idea of The railroad trainmen said. 0 (1 U I I . l ¥ e d u c a t i o n a l Bandon beats Myrle Point 3 to 1. LEAGUE—Meets monthly at the Frederick Dicksan, of London, social intercourse between the races fornia, toured Lake county north of The train soon fanned them far and wide Myrtle Point beats Coquille 13 to 10. High School Building during the school has been selected as president of the is absolutely unthinkable. It is not Lakeview recently, and opinion in As on its wav it sped. year for the purpose of discussing edu A t M arshfield— N orth Bend. First Church of Christ, Scientist, that the white agriculturist cannot Lake is divided between a soda and cational topics. Marshfield wins 10 to 3. R en a A n d e r so n , Pres. "Good time to fire my slashing now” founded by the late Mrs Mary compete witli the Japanese agricul borax formation and a new railroad E dn a M in a r d , S e c ._ June 15 th The thrifty rancher said. Bakei G. Eddy. turist. It is that he will not live project. O K EEL KLUB—A business men’ s At Bandon— Coquille and Myrtle And touched it of) without a thought social organization. Hall in Laird’ s beside him. The aviator who was to blow up Point. Governor Sulzer, of New York, building, Second street. Ol how far it might spread. the Mexican gunboat in Gnaytnas has written to the Oregon secretary A. J. S h e r w o o d . Pres. At North Bend— Marshfield, two One on Smith F re d S l a g l e , Sec. harbor has given it up as a bad job. games. ot state inquiring about the opera " I think I ’ll blow an hour or two” tion ot our direct primary law, o m m e r c i a l c l u b — j . e . N orton being unable to reach a height The restless east wind said, Juue 22 nd O. F. Smith, a photographer, re President; J, C. S a v a g e , Secretary which he considered safe. which New York contemplates Then liked it so he changed his mind At Myrtle Point— Marshfield and cently from GrantB Pass, was at adopting. -» And blew a week instead. The territories committee of the North Bend. Transportation Facilities Bandon receutly. He went out on Gilbert Zacher, late Socialist At Coquille— Bandon. R A IN S -L eave, sonili bound 9:00 a. U. S. Senate has agreed to a proposi the jetty to see two fishing boats "Millions in lives and timber lost” tion to issue $40 ,000,000 of bouds come in and to get some snap shots caudidate maV°' a' Eugene and June 29 th The newspapers next said. i0 :40 a. m und 4:40 p. m. for the construction of a govern of them as they crossed the bar. | !ormerly emPloyed in ■ U'ocery At Marshfield— Myrtle Point and What made those fires all start at once, T y OATS—Six boats plying on the Oo- ment railroad in Alaska. Before they were near enough for | «'ore, has been chosen as manager Coquille. O quille river afford ample accommo We wondered as we read, dation for carrying freight and passen A twelve year old boy of Castle his purpose they got into trouble, 1 of a cooperative store soon to be At North Bend— Bandon. gers to Bandoti and way points. Boats "It wasn’t us, it was that wind” Rock, Wash , held a giant powder and he became absorbed in watch-, «'arted 'n Eugene, leave at 7 :30, 8:30, 9:20 and 9:30 a. m. July Cth The fools in chorus said. cap in his band and hammered it and at 1 :00, 3:30 and 4:43 p. m. ing their struggle with the waves L- H. McMahan, the unterrified At Coquille— Bandon and North So they’re alive and loose this year Finally, he came to himself and kicker of Salem, has filed an in TAGE—J. L. Laird, proprietor. De until be suddenly found himself Bend. parts 5:30 p. m. for lioscburg via shy the ends of his thumb and two — We hope the wind is dead. thought cf his camera just in tiroo junction suit against the expendi- At Myrtle Point— Marshfield. Myrtle Point, carrying the United Slates first fingers. mail and pasengers. to get it into action for a snap at lure *be $ 45 ° p 000 appropriated July 13 th A German cancer expert declares the boats at the moment that one of bV 'he legislature for the Columbia OSTOFFICE.—A. F. Lincgar, post At Bandon— Marshfield and North master. The mails close as follow*: that he has discovered that cancer them capsized. He was somewhat Bouttyern irrigation project, Bend. Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. in. chagrinned, later, to discover that Governor West has appointed Marshfield 10:15 a. m. and 4:15 p. in. is caused by a parasite, that it is each ol its vineyards and berry primary grade twenty whites and At Coquille— Myrtle Point. Bandon and way points, Norway and contagious and that he has discov io the excitement be had forgotten Miss Bertha Moores, John P, twenty-two Japanese. The white farms surrounded and sustained an Arago 12:45 p. m. Eastern mail 4:45 July 20tb ered a cure, which he will demon to pall the slide, and the plate was O ’ Hara and Amadee M. Smith, all a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: a. in. At Marshfield— Coquille and Ban American home. Now it is esti children in the primary were small, strate to the Medical Society. a blank. The picture would have of Portland, as members of the In- but among the Japs were two strap mated that 65 per cent of these don. City and County O fficers In the trial o( President Wood, been worth some money. dustrial Welfare Commission, ere- ping young fellows who had been farms are owned or operated by At North Bend— Myrtle Point. of the American Woolen Mill Co,, **--------- ! ated by the minimum wage bill Japanese— about 15 per cent owned in high-school grades in Japan. Mayor....... ........................A. T. Morrison July 27 th Recorder ......... ..... .......... J. 8. Lawrence on a charge of conspiracy to plant Ten years ago there were n o Road Improving passed by the legislature. and 50 per cent leased. Formerly At North Bend— Coquille and ____ i Treasurer................................ R. H. Mast dynamite, the judge refused to in white children in the school. To there were alxmt 1,500 whites and City A ttorn ey............... L. A. Liljeqvist Ofegon physicians are balking at Marshfield. Knginee- ..................... P. M. Hall-I^wis struct the jury tor acquittal alter no Japanese in this community. To day there are but forty. The sev . ■ air«, proprietor of tie givjng a c|eau bill of health to pros- At Myrtle Point— Bandon. Marshal............................C. A. Evernden the evidence of the prosecution was iyc bridegrooms for $2 , 0< the day it is estimated that there are enty white children who are gone Ro.eburg-Myrtle Point stage line, Night Marshal.............. John Hurley Augirnt 3 rd last week He r . , , . , Water Superintendent 8. V. Epperson in, and the trial goes on. 500 whites, and 1,500 to 2,500 Japa constitute an index to the exodus was in town one day by law, saying that it Fire Chiei......................... Walter Oerding At Bandon— Coquille and Marsh nese according to the demands of of white families. Nor was there a says that they are J now running fee provided . .. , , .. , Learning that a warrant for his Conncilmen—D. D. Pierce. C. T. Skeels J J ® requires three weeks time and an field. W. C. l-aird, G. O. Leach, W . H. Ly arrest for violating a building ordi single Japanese child in the school autos from Myrtle Point to Rock expensive analysis of the blood, the season. ons, Leo J. Cary. Regular meetings At Myrtle Point— North Bend. creek, and from Camas Valley to There were three large general a decade ago. first and third Mondays each month. nance had been issued, Bert I.ustig, and is worth $1$ to $20. August 10 th In the town of Florin the great Roseburg, and are making it motion picture showman, ol Los merchandise stores in the town, Three men left Tillamook Rock At Coquille—Marshfield and North owned ’by whites Today two of majority of people one meets in the through in about eleven hours go ..... J. J. Stanley Angeles, who also is a deputy lighthouse one day last week in a Ned C. Kellev Bend. sheriff, demauded the warrant and those stores are held by the Japan streets and stores are Japanese. All ing out and a little longer coming t6 foot dory to go to the mainland, At Bandon— Myrtle Point. in, when they are loaded with mail. but a few of the workers seen in the ese, and the lone white man has John T. Hall served it on himself. He will col August 17 th computed the hour of his own de fields are Japanese. One may stand The road through the canyon is and were wrecked on Bird rock. Commissioners—W. T. Dement, Geo. J. lect the fee. Armstrong At Myrtle Point— Coquille and mise. He says that within five at the freight station in the after fairly dry but very rough. It is not They were rescued after 24 hours James Watson Clerk ............. by M. S. Warren, who made two j Bandon. ........... W. W. Gngp Opens Headquarters years the Nipponese will ‘put him noon when the fruit is coming in so bad this side of the Coos county ......T. M. Dimmick At Marshfield- North Bend. out business. His store, too, will for shipment and see forty wagons line, but on the Douglas county ,riPs tro u g h 'he surf with a small To Promote Publicity T. J. Thrift August 24 th Raymond E. Baker become Japanized There were two drawn up in line (or the station side it is much worse. Mr. Laird is boat ,0 lake ,hem off- ........... A. N. Gould At Marshfield — Coquille and Myr white hotels in the place; now there platform, every wagon driven by a inclined to be pessimistic about the A Farmers’ Union has been form- During his stay in Portland, Major F. E. Wilson Coroner is only a Japanese boarding house. Japanese. There will be Japanese prospects of Douglas county going cd at Monmouth, consisting of farm- Health Officer.......... Dr. Waiter Culin Kinney launched a new publicity tle Point. At North Bend— Bandon. There were two white blacksmith check clerks, Japanese roustabouts, right to work on her end of tbs ers of Independence, Monmontb, scheme for Coos and Curry counties August 31 st shops, now one of them is Japanese. Japanese foremen, and Japanese road. He says that has been the Rickreall, Stiver, Airlie, Lewisville, and the southern part of the state Societies will get the very best At Bandon— North Bend. The barber shop, the shoe shop, the fruit buyers. The whole scene is talk for a long time, but nothing Oak Point and Buena Vista. They He organized the Southern Oregon At Coquille— Myrtle Point. has come of it. It is to be hoped will try by combination to obtain P R IN T IN G Publicity Headquarters and has fish market, and the meat market Japanese. * * * that Douglas will fool him once, better prices for their products and k are owned or operated by the Japa- with him the lease of a fine room at the office o f Coquille Herald I lower costs on their supplies. What the Japanese have done in 1 this time. for its occupancy. This is situated Paid the printer lately ? I nese. R The Fire-bug and the East Wind R w. F C K C r S P