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.-’’
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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.