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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1913)
Î he C oquille H erald (¡T h e Herald, the o ld estab lished reliable newspaper of the Cocjuille V alley in which an “ ad* always bnngs results V O L . 32, C 0 Q U I L 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 , O C T O B E R 2 1 , 1913. NO. 5 SYNOPSIS OF C I T Y D 1 R E C T O R Y Fraternal and B enevolent Orders F. & A. M.— It it In r im-eting of A . Chailwick L<vlgi- No. 68 A. F. A A. M.. at Masonic H»ll, every Saturday niitht in sash montli on nr before the full moon. C. W . F. ndioott . W . M. If. 1!. M int , Secretary. E. S.— IL-guUr nm-litig nt Bculali . Chapter No. II, »ecoml and fourtli Friday evening* o( eacli iu> nth, in Ma sonic llall. Ev* H a r r o w , W . M J osephine ( i. I’ eoplss , bee. O Lodge No. A3,1. O. 1 0 • . O. O. F., F .—Coqnille meet* every Saturday night n Odd Fellows Hall. t!. H. C liavks , N. Q . J. S. I.AWRKNCK, bee. THE NEWS IN TABLOID FORM Condensed for the Quick As similation of Busy Men and Women— General Round- Up of a Wide Scope Governor Lister, of Washington, ami e k e b e k a h lod oe , no T- jo is a Good Roads booster. I. O. O. F., me i t* every neeond and The number of horses in use in fourth Wednesday night* in Odd Fellowa Chicago decreased 3859 last year. Hall. E mii . y H kksky , N. <i, A nnie I. awurncb , bee. M /"«OQUILLK ENCAMPMENT, No. 2.» W I. O. O. F., meet* llie Urständ third Thursday nights in Odd Fel’owa Hall. J. b. B arton , C. 1*. J . S.I.AWRKNCK, Sec. OF PYTHIAS— Lycurgui K NIGHTS Lodge No. 72. meeta Tuenday nights in W. O. W. Hall. R. R. W atson , K R. 8. O. A. M intonyk , C, C. TH IAN 8I8TER8—Justus Temple P Y No. 35, meets first and Third Mon day nights in W. O. W. Hall. Mss. G k > hob D avis , M. E. C. M rs . F red L inroar , K. of R. MEN—CoaniUe Tribe No. « 6 , 1 . R ED O. R- M., meets every Priday night in W. O. W. Hall. _ . J. b. B arton , Sachem. A. P. M ill e r . C. of R- W. A.— Regular meetings of Bea- . ver Camp No. 10,560 In M. W . A. Hall, Front street, first and third Sat urdays in each month. M. O. H awkins . Consul. R. B. R ouers . V. C. N ed 0 . K elley , Clerk. M R N. A .—Regular meeting of Ijiurel . t amp No. 2972 at M. W . A . Hall, Front street, second and fourth Tues day nights in eacli montli. M ary K krn , Oracle. E dna K elley , Rec. W .— Mvrtie Camp No. 197, every Wednesday at 7 :30 W O. . meets p. m. at W. O. W. Hall. Lee Currie, C. C. J ohn I. enkve , bee. CIRCLE No. 214, E VKNINGTIDE meets second and fourth Monday nivht* in W . O. W. Hall. < i y.. n a i ry , G. N M ary A. I’ ifkcb , Clerk. P'ARYUCIU I AliOV — lingular meet- * '¡.«1 second an ldttri. lay* fn h month in \Y. 0 . W. Hall. F rank B pxkhoi . o m , Pres O. A. M intonyk , bee. .ATKKNAL AID ho. 398 m eet-tlie secOmr and lonriti t'rmredays each month st W. O. W . flail. M rs . C iias . F. vi . ano , Pres. M rs . L ora H arhinqton , bee. F Educational Organisations and Clubs Q UILLE EDUCATIONAL C O LEAGUE—Meete mom lily at the High School Building during the school year for the purpose ot discussing edu cational topics. H kna A xdbkbon , Pies. L ln a M inaho , bee. K O KF.EL KLUB—A business nien’ B social organisation. Hail in Laird’ s building. Second ytreet. A. J. bHBRwoon. Pies. F r e d H l a OLE, b e .. OMMERCIAL CLUB J. E. N orton President; J. C. 8 a raes, Secretary C *Transportation F a culties RAINS—Leave, south hound 9:00 a. m. and 3 NS I p m. North bound i O :40 a. m. and 4 :40 p. m. r B OATS— Six boats plying on the Oo- quille river afford ample accoi -m.i- dation for carrying freight nnd pasean gera to Bandqn and way points. Bcr.s leave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9:20 and 9:r0 r.. m and at 1:00, 3 ;30 and 4 :4j p. rr. E—J. L. Laird, proprietor. De- S TAG parte 5:30 p. m. for liTSeburg via Myrtle Point,carrying the United States mail and pAsefiflers. ■pOSTOFFIOE.—A. F. I.inegar, post- tr master. The malls close as follow -: Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. m. Marshfield 10:15 a. in. anil 4:15 p. ui. Bandon and way points, Norway and Arago 12:45 p. m. Eastern mail 4:45 a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: a. m. C ity and County O fficers Prof. John Robie Eastman the astronomer, is dead at the age of 77 Aviator Moreau wou the Bonnet prixe by flying half an hour with out touchiug the levers. The Baldwin Locomotive Com pany recently completed their forty- thousandth locomotive. The discovery (hat has been an nounced of a new series of rays, the F-rays has just been contra dicted. At the Schneider mines in France successful experiments are being made with a 70 botse-power gaso line locomotive. Julian Hawthorne, who was sen to the U. S. penitentiary for viola tion of the postal laws, has ended his six month term. Germany is experimenting with searchlight projectiles, which are thrown to a distance and then Hate up and give an intense light. Since the German airship ac cidently landed in France, the two countries have enteted iuto a con vention to cover such incidents. The New York Metropoliton Mu seum ol Art will receive the great art collection of p< njamin Altmau, he .epartment st j : millionaire. Govern-r Foss, ot Massachusetts, three times elect;, a- Democrat, has filed nomination ¡apers as an 'independent candidate for re-elec tion. Guod Roads enthusiasts at Walla Walla are starting a campaign to bond the county for $1,250,000 lor the construction of 125 miles of hard surface roads. After riding his motorcycle from Plant City, Fla., to San Francisco, C. W. Delong found that $5 would cover the cost of all repairs necessa ry after the long ride. Fates will have to be increased if street railway companies must meet the present day demands of the public and survive, says George H.Harries, of Louisville. The steamer Wilhemina, enroute frop Honolulu to San Francisco, met a tidal wave twenty feet high that rose out of a smooth sea and broke over the vessel s deck. The Department of Agriculture bolds otf no hope of a lowering of the cost of living, so far as meats and lood stuffs are concerned, re porting a scarcity all along the line. An average speed of over two miles a minute was made by the winner of the race for the Gordon Bennet enp this year, the fastest sp ed yet attained by a flying ma chine. Southern Pacific stock dropped three points on the announcement trom the Department of justice that suit would be commenced to com pel the reliequishment of the Cen tral Pacific Mayor....... ........................ A. T. Morrison R ecorder......... ............... J. 8. Lawrence Treasurer................................ tR. H. Mast City Attorney................ L. A. Liljeqvist Engineer......... ............P. M. Hall-Lewis Marshal................................................C. A. Evernden Night Marshal .............. John Hurley The immense biplane that recent Water Superintendent S. V. Epperson Fire Chiei.................. Walter Oerding ly flew lor over an hour with seven Councilmen—D. D, Pierce. C. T. bkeels passengers, at St. Pertersburg, has W. C. Laird, G. O. Leach, W. H. Ly ons, Leo J. Cary. Regular meetings a spread of 91 lee*, a length of 65 first and third Mondays eacli month. feet, and is dtiven by four 100 Justice of the Peace ....... J. J. Stanley Constable ........................Neil C. Kelley County Judge John T. Hall Commissioners—W. T. Dement, Geo. J. Armstrong Clerk ............................ .... James Watson S h eriff................................. _.W. W. Gsge Treasurer ______ _____ T. M. Dimmick A s s e s s o r .......... T. J. Thrift School bup t.............Raymond E. Baker Surveyor............... A . N. Gould C oron er................................F. F.. Wilson Hralth Officer..............Dr. Walter Culin ieties will g et the very best P R IN T IN G he office o f Coqullle Herald horsepower motors. Former Herald Editor Write» of State Fair RESOURCES M R INVESTIGATION Salem, Oregou, Oct ! 9 '3 United States Geological Survey in Cooperation With the Editor Coquille Herald: One week ago the filty-second an State Officials Examining Mineral and Water nual Oregon State Fair terminated and Water Resources of Oregon the greatest event in its history. Weather conditions were ideal So many of the resources are di each containing approximately 212 and vast crowds were in attendance rectly related to the development of square miles. Mapping the Condon daily The recording Rates num the State's mineral resources or 30 minute quadrangle, in Gilliam bered over 25.000 visitors on Salem water resources that the work of and Sherman comities, with an ap Day (Wednesday) and a like num the United States Geological Sur proximate aiea of 842 square miles, ber attended the day following. vey is always of special importance is also in progress A large amount The official figures are not obtain in this state. Oregon, in common of triangulation work, to establish able but doubtless 100,000 paid ad with other public land States, is the control of the other areas to be missions were received during the now receiving a much larger share surveyed, is also in progress. This week. of attention Irom the Federal Sur surveying is being done by Topog Just outside the the fair grounds vey than the older S ates of the raphers C. A. Birdseye, W. O. a beautiful tract covtred with oak East, largely because cf the need of Tulls, J. H. Wheat, O G Taylor. trees has been assigned to OreRoni- information for the classification of S. G. Lunde, W. S. S. Johnson,and ans for camping purposes Nearly public lands F. W. Crisp Plan and profile sur every county in Oregon was repre In accordance.with arrangements veys of the Middle and McKenzie sented. It is known as the Tent with the stale Bureau of Geology forks of Willamette River and of City and is presided over by Albert and Mines, work was begun in Santiam, Clackamas and Sandy Tozier as Mayor, a relative of a Co June by a party id charge of A. J rivers are also in progress by Top quille business man Collier in the reconnaissance ex ographers L. F. Biggs and D. S As you enter the fair grounds s bed of King Humbert caonas eight feet high, with bronzed spikes and scarlet blossoms serve as a beautiful introduction. The effect was start William Sulzer, as He Looked ling and paved the way for «hat On Eve of Impeachment Trial followed which was one ol the most magnificent and instructive displays of growing flowers ever seen on the coast. Among other plants were over 1.000 dahlias embracing four hundred varieties, and other choice flowers reposing in well construct ed beds made a scene of rare splen dor. The new machiuery hall present ed a scene ol activity as many ol the devices to lessen the labor ol man were propelled by electricity and demonstrated their uses to a remarkable degree. The main exhibition building was filled with delicious fruits and large and perfect vegetables of nearly every kind for which the Beaver state is noted Oregon manufactur ers also exhibited their waits, some of whom had miniature workshops which were both interesting and in structive Women’s textile buildidg was re plete with every variety of needle work. . , Live stock and poultry exhibits were the best ever and the Lone Oak race track was in excellent condition for the many races that were held daily. Free amusements, unique and pleasing were held at frequent in tervals during the day and gor geous fire-works ol beautiful design provided a pleasing spectecle by night. i Words of mine are inadequate to describe the magnitude and beauties of the fifty-second Annual Oregon Photos copyright 1*11. by American Pres. Association. State Fair. Although a daily visit- or, it was impossible to see every ILLIAM SULZER, whose pictures here were taken shortly before bis trial began, was the eighth governor tn the United States to be ltn thin?. penciled He faced the court o f Impeachment on Sept 18 at Al Sheriff Gage and W . C. Laird bany. N Y„ the state capital, determined to fight for hla political were in attendance from Coqnille, life. A verdict of guilty meant 1 big victory for Charles F Murphy and Tam and doubtless Coos County contrib many Hall nnd political and personal disgrace for Sulxer. A verdict of not guilty meant his restoration to his duties as governor nnd a great personal uted other visitors. conquest ov er his enemies It meant that he would probably be accepted as Let us hope the new railroad to the Dem oc ra tic lender o f the state, to which position he aspired when he * u your section will be completed in Inaugurated gov ernor He was charged with misusing cauipnlga fends. time tor Coos county to exhibit bsr products at the next State fair, and ploration of the John Day Valley, Birkett. win many first prizes therefor. The work will include the de Frank Meredith, secretary of the in the northern part of the State, where Irom time to time the resi tailed surveys necessary to prepare State fair board, whose visage is dents have reported hopeful indi a map which will show all rivers, usually pleasing, im o w wearing a countenance as radiant as a boy cations of the occurence of coal and towns, roads, and railroads, as well oil. The study of the detailed as the surface relief of the country with his first red top boots, in con-| strstgrapby end economic geology by means of 5 and too foot contour sequence of the successful fair, and of the Sumpter quadrangle, west of lines The completed map will be is already fostering ideas with a Baker City, nearly half of which engraved on scales of 1 and 2 miles view of making this great Oregon had previously been mapped by J to 1 inch, and the tiver profile will event i. possible, better in future T. Pardee of the Federal Survey, be reproduced on the scale ol half a years. will be completed under cooperative miie to 1 inch. The maps will W. G. A CKER M AN . auspices by F. J. Katz for folio des probably not be ready for distribu cription and publication. tion until about two years after the Three Thing» Prophesied The lands in the Klamath Indian completion of the field work, but George M. Hyland, of Portland, Reset vaticn are being classified by the river profiles reproduced by after a'five- weeks trip through the H. G. Ferguson for the Office of In the photolithographic process, will East and other parts ot the country, dian Affairs, and the geologic map be available next spring. announces that he is confident that ping and classification of the coal I N V E S T I G A T I O N S O F WATER three things are going to take place bearing area including Eden Ridge RESO U RCES Thd water-resources branch of in the Uuited States within the next in the western part of the State will be accomplished for the Land the Geological Survey, in coopera ten years He says: "First,there will be woman’s suf Office by C. E. Lesher. tion with the State and others, is Following the opening of the Panama Canal, the Boston Pacific Steamship Company, will establish a regular steamship line between Boston and ports on the Pacific frage in every state; ! coast, to carry lumber to the East. "Second, there will be Nation G. M Hyland. of Portland, who al prohibition, and, recently returned irom the East, “ Third, there will lie universal says that splendid headway is being municipal ownership of public util made with the Lincoln highway ities and it will be completed to San "It is coming as sure as you are Francisco bv the opening of the e x born. Woman's suffrage will come position. first and right soon, too, I’ m think ing.-’’ Have you paid the printer? W S IX NEW T O P O G R A P H IC M APS IN PRO G RESS In cooperation wich the State engineer of Oregon, the topographic branch of the Survey is this season engaged in making maps of the areas known as the Salem, Albany, Aumsvillr, and Corvallis quad rangles, in the Willamette Valley. T*ese are 15-minute quadrangles, f l jo b Printing— N ew presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please. P E R Y E A R $ 1 .5 0 James L. Coke May Get Hawaiian Governorship OREGON NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD A. J. Sherwood has received from Honolulu a copy of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser which con tains matter that will be of interest to many people in Coos county who are acquainted with James L Coke, brother of Judge John S Coke. It stems that James L-, who has been Transpiring in Oregon Boiled Down to Least Number of a resident of the Islands for some years and has attained a position of Lines and Yet Make the prominence there, is nefw in line Subject Understood. for the governorship of Hawaii. In a column news writeup ol the situa Salem has a recall fight on, in tion, the Advertiser says in part: the cases of some ot the councilmen. Another Richmond is in the field Miss Agnes Pitchford is the new for the governori-bip of Hawaii in ly elected treasurer of the city of the person of Senator James L- Roseburg. Coke, and what is more, Coke is The Moose lodge at Dallas has said to have the backing that might purchased two lots and will build yet place him in the chair as a com itself a home. promise,should Congressman Kent's John Minto, of Salem, a pioneer Republican poriege, L.E.Pinkbam, lail of confirmation by a Democratic of 1844, celebrated his 91st birthday at Newport recently. senate. Harrisburg has been holding a Coke, it is said, has not entered the field voluntarily; rather he has potato carnival, poultry show and been projected into it by several children’s school fair. Democratic politicians of national George W. Pickett, an old set prominence. Chiei among these is tler at Canyonville, died last week said to lie lormer Governor Alva from the kick of a horse. Adams of Colorado, who recently Joel L. Koonts, a councilman of passed through Honolulu, en route The Dalles, died suddenly of to Australia and the Orient as a Bright’s disease last week. member ot the Panama-Pacific E x Jane Kazler, of Portlaud. was position commisson. given the first honors as a perfect Adams, it is said, has thrown ail baby, at the Salem State Fair. bis influence and that of his friends The assessed valuation of Polk toward Coke for the governorship, county is $12,532,370, including although the latter insisted that he city and town lots valued at $613,- was a candidate for the United 050. States district attorneyship. Johnathan Bourne, Jr. addressed Coke, be is said to have written, would orove acceptable to the re a large gathering at Eugene last sponsible Democrats of Hawaii, for week, explaining bis good roads plan. it seems that one of the objections An earthquake shook the terri to giving him the district attorney- ship. according to Washington ad tory along the Snake riyer below vices is that "he is too popular" to Huntington last week, but did no damage. hold such a position. EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK Coke has a g. od friend in Secre tary ol Slate Bryan, whose nomina tion for the presidency he seconded in 1908 at Denver, and be also has the interest of Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, who is chairman of the powerful senate committee on mili tary affairs. Governor West says he intends to allow O. S Ilanstl to hang, be having killed Judge F. J. Tsylor at Astoria. D. M. Lowe, of Ashland, was ap pointed by Gov. West as a state commissioner to the Chicago Land Products Show. An edict has been issued from with the State of Oregon, and the the president's office at the state rest in cooperation with other Fed university forbidding the bathtab eral bureaus, municipalities, and bing of freshmen. private persons At these gaging The corner stone has been laid stations the height or stage of the and the Carnegie building of the rivers is determined each day by lo cal observers and at some stations Hood River County Library will soon be completed. by automatic gages, and measure Following ttie first day of open ments of the discharge of the streams are made by engineers of the Sur season on Chinese pheasants in vey. From these data the quantity Linn county, hundreds of dead ot water flowing past the stations is hltds were left in the fields. Fire of unknown origin destroyed determined. Stream flow records are of particular value in Oregon in the store of the Sutberlin Mercan the design, construction, and main tile Co., at Smherlin, Oreg., last tenance of waterpower plants and week, with a loss of $20.000. irrigation projects, in investigations At a meeting of the Umpqna for the classification ct the public Port Commission at Gardiner it lands, and in Carey Act examina- was decided to levy a one-half mill lions. The records also find wide tax for the current expenses. use in the State in all problems The trial of LaFrance failed to where the quantity of water is in clear up the mystery of where be volved, such as those relating to obtained the dead body which be water storage, seepage, river regu "planted” on the Clackamas. lation, land drainage, stream pollu Two S. P. freight trains collided tion, and municipal water supplies. Such records are also of great value head on at Albany last Wednesday for general statistical and compara and three horses were killed, but none of the crew were injured. tive purposes. The investigations of surface wa Corporation Commissioner Wat ter by the United Geological Sur son will start suit against several vey in central and western Oregon loreign corporations that have not are carried on by F. F. Henshaw, paid their annual license fees. district engineer, E. S. Fuller, and Geo. E. Hytner, a Marshfield John E. Stewart, with offices at 416 man who disappeared mysteriously Couch Building, Pottland, Oreg; alter leaving for Portland, has been and those in eastern Oregon by located in a hospital in that city. G. C. Baldwin, district engineer, Members of the state Railroad A. B. Purton, and R. C. Pierce, Commission predict that the time with offices at 615-617 Idaho Build ing, Boise Idaho. The cooperating is not far distant when all grade State official is John H Lewis, State crossings will be eliminated in this state. engineer, Salem, Oregon. Examinations, investigations, The text book publishers have and reports needed by the laud-class nearly all complied with the request ification board ot the Geological that they reduce the selling price of Survey in passing on right of way their school books in this state to investigating the water resources applications, water-power withdraw conform to the lowest prices charged in the various portions ol Oregon. als, and Carey Act segregations, to elsewhere. For this purpose n o gaging sta gether with examinations of land Plans are being made for the tions are maintained in the State, for designation under the enlarged- shortening ol the highway between ten of which are in the Great Basin, homestead act involving the use of Roseburg and Medford 25 to 40 8 in Pacific coast and California water in Oregon, are being made miles, by taking a new route, cat drainage basins, and 92 in the Col by E C. LaRue, Hydraulic engin ting out the worst of the road and umbia River basin Seven of these eer, Feceral Building, Salt Lake giving only one divide to be crossed. stations are maintained by the Fed City, Utah, and E. C. Murphy, hy Have you paid the printer. eral Survey alone, 28 in cooperation draulic engineer, Napa, Cal.