•J The Herald, the old eitab-
lulled reliable newspaper of
the Coquille V alley in which
an “ ad* always brings results*
VOL. 32,
T he C oquille H erald
C O 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 , J A N U A R Y 6 , 1914.
NO. 15
C1TY DIRECTORY OREGON
Fraternal and B enevolent Orders
F. <St A . M .— He^iiUr meeting of
. Chadwick Lodge No. 08 A. F. A A.
M. at Masonic Hall, every Saturday
night in each month on or before the
full moon.
C. W . K ndicott , W . M.
K. H . M a s t , Secretary.
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EVENTS OE THE PAST WEEK
T O. O. F .—Coquille Lodge No. 63,1. O.
1 . 0 . F ., meets every Saturday night
n Odd Fellows Hall.
O. H . C l e a v e s , N. G .
J . 8 . L a w r e n c e , Sec.
No. 20
I. O. O. F ., meets every second and
fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows
Hall.
E m ily H e h sey , N. G,
A n n ie L aw r e n c e , Sec.
M
a m ie
kkhekah
lodge ,
p O Q U I L L E ENCAM PM ENT, No. 25
V> I. O. O. F ., meets the first and third
Thursday 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 ig h t s
K
o f p y t h i a s .— Lycurgus
Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights
in W . 0 . W . Hall.
K . R. W atso n , K R . 8.
O . A . M in t o n y e , C . C.
p Y T H I A N SISTERS— Justus Temple
A No. 35, meets first and Third Mon
day nights iu W. O. W . Hall.
Mss. G kohoe D a v i s , M. E. C.
M r s . F keii L ineg au , K . of R-
oqu ille Tribe No. 4(1, 1.
R ED 0 . R. M E M., N -C meets
every Friday night
I n W. 0 . W . Hall.
J. 8. B arton , Sachem.
A . P. M il l e r , C. of R.
M
W . A.— Regular meetings of Itea-
• ver Camp No. 10,550 in M. W . A.
Hall, Front street, first and third Sat
urdays in each month.
M. O. H a w k i n s . Consul.
R . B . R o g er s , V . C.
N ed 0 . K e l l e y , Clerk.
Lines and Yet Make
Subject Understood.
the
The Lafayette Weekly Visitor
has been leased by Heury T. W ill
etts, who has takeu charge.
T. Orville Walker, a merchant of
Monmouth who came to this state
in 1849, died last week at the age
of 91.
E.
Jones)
It will be remembered that a few
years ago the hanking interests of
the country were in feverish excite
ment over the proposed postal sav-
ings banks. Now that this system
is in operation, it is found that it
lias not been a success and has lost
practically one million dollars to
the government since it was install
ed. 1 he principal reasons assigned
are ascribed to the limit of $500
which any individual may deposit.
The Fostoffiee is getting all the
small change while the larger ac
counts still go to the private bank
ing interests.
Sugar dropped to cents a hun
dred on the last day of the year on g r e a t l o s s e s f r o m h o g c h o l e r a
this coast, and a further drop is ex
Hog Cholera is creating great
pected.
havoc in the country, and it is de
The O. R. S l N. C o . will spend clared that there is a loss of two
$5,000,000 in Washington and east bilioti pounds of meat every year,
ern Oregon this year, on improve the results of the disease. Senator
Kenyon of Iowa is hack of a bill to
ments.
appropriate
one million dollars to
The Employers Association will
try to break the concract made by enable the federal government to
State Printer Harris with the Un cooperate with the states in stamp
ing out hog cholera.
Senators
ion at Saicm.
Reed of Missouri aud Pomerene of
The new Hill line of steamers Ohio have called the attention of
from Astoria to San Francisco will the Secretary of Agriculture to the
sUrt the service, it is announced, importance of vigorous action.
on Jan. 1, 1915.
S T A R T L IN G REVKNUfC FA C TS
To rupture the relationship of a ! history and a part of tbis Nation.
life time in a political party is no
We left this party because we felt
minor event in the history of any that its work had been done. That
man. This is especially true if such the leadership had fallen into
man has found his political faith in sirange places. That it had become
places where fiires have burned and 1 a chattel to bosses, a servant to cor
lives been given up. Whether from porate wealth, a tyrant led by ty-
the Democratic party or the Repub J rants, instead ot the friend of the
lican pariy the membership of the floor, the lowly aud the unfortunate
Progressive party has come, ties as iu Lincoln’s days. That iustead
dearly loved have been broken, old of granting every reasonable oppor
associations full of pleasant memor tu n ity for development of our
ies have ceased to be, old friends country and every man in it, that
have gone— and the age of any it had throttled the many for the
friendship stamps its value— and the benefit of the few.
communion with trusted allies has
Friends, we have enlisted in this
work for life.
been put aside.
It is a religion. We ate like the
Iu my own case, although ready
to follow our great leader, Theodore Crusaders of old. Not a new relig
Roosevelt in his fight for purer pol ion, for it is the sermon on the
itics and better things in the Repub Mouut brought into civic affairs and
lican party, there was yet another into national affairs. The religion
one whose approbation I must have of the brotherhood of man.
When I hear what is going on to
before I would go into a new party
and perhaps forever leave her party. deceive the people of the country
This one, my mother, true to her by the present leaders of the rem
son in every emergency of his life, nant of a great party,— to deceive
a sweet old lady, who uever had them into the belief that the so-
No, This Is Not a “ Joy Ride!”
Merely Eaton Jury on Duty
One of the new inventions that
S. E. Krohn has been convicted
of violating the local option law by came along just ahead of the auto
selling liquor on an illegal prescrip mobile and the moving picture and
tion, at Roseburg.
a few other common necessiiies of
Oregon senators have received time, was the cigarette. From gov
ernment statislics it appears that
O. W .— Mvrtle Camp No. 197, over 150 applications for the four
. meets every Wednesday at 7 :30
new positions under the income over fourteen billon cigarettes were
p. m. at W . 0 . W . Hall.
consumed in the United States dur
tax law in this state
Lee Currie, C. C.
ing the last fiscal year. The reven
J ohn L e n e v e , Sec.
The Portland council has appro ue tax on cigarettes is considerably
v e n i n g t id e
c ir c l e
n o . 214,
meets second and fourth Monday priated funds for furnishing sleep over a million dollars a year.
By
nights in W . O. W . Hall.
ing accommodations lor 100 or the same figures it appears that the
O ra X . M a u r y , G . N.
more of the unemployed.
M a r y A. P ierce , C le rk .
use of whiskey in the United States
Members ot the former Taylor has doubled in the last fifteen years.
ARM ERS UNION.— Regular meet
ings second and fourth Saturdays in Street M ethodist church at Portlaud
LOOKS t o w a r d g o v e r n m e n t o w n
each month in W . O. W . Hall.
e r s h ip
have adopted a plau for the settle
F r a n k B u h kiioldkr , Pres.
0 . A . M in t o n y e , Sec.
Already the railroads are shaking
ment of the church difficulties.
r a t e r n a l a i d n o . 398, meets the
A family at Dallas enjoyed for in their boots, since the attitude of
second and fourth Thursdays each
their
New Years dinner a turkey the Interstate Commerce Commis
month at W. 0 . W . Hall.
M rs . C h a s . E v l a n d , PreB.
which had come, all roasted, by sion has lead the railroad managers
M rs . I . o r a H a r r in g t o n , Sec.
parcel post from a friend in Idaho into the belief that the Commerce
Commission wants practically to
A deaf and dumb newsboy at
Educational Organizations and Clubs
run the land transportation lines, as
Portland threw a hammer through
o q TF i l l k
e d u c a t i o n a l
evidenced by regulations provided
LE AG U E — Meets monthly at the a large plate glass window, so that
High School Building during ttie school he might be locked up and taken for the parcel post, and the fixing
year for the purpose ot discussing edu
of express and railroad rates, as
care of.
cational topics.
well as the investigations of wrecks.
R en a A n d er so n , Pies.
The Moose lodge at Oregon City The complaining railroad compa-1
E dna M in a k d , Sec.
has closed its bar, so tar as intoxi nies are telling Washington that
O K E EL K LU B— A business men’s
social organization. Hall in L&ird’ s cating liquors are concerned, com the methods of the Commerce Com- i
building, Second street.
plying with the spirit of the local mission point entirely to eventual
A . J. S herwood , Pies.
option law.
F red S l a g l e , Sec.
government ownership.
A Portland shipper is ahead $16,-
o m m e r c ia l c l u b
j . e . N orton
AM OTHER CH AUTAUQ UA VICTIM
Photo b y A m e r i c a n P r e s s Association.
President; J. C. 8 a r a g e , Secretary 500 by the failure of the British ship
Chautauqua “ gets” the best of
N tills age of speedy autos and speedier air craft this picture looks odd In
Interavon to arrive ou time,freights them, and now Vice President Mar
Transportation Facilities
deed. ft shows the jury tu tlie trial of Mrs. Eaton on a charge of mur
having fallen and grain gone up shall has followed the example of
dering her husband. Hear Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton, retired, In a
RA IN S—I-qave, south bound 9;G0 a.
during
the
wait.
the illustrious William Jennings
m. and 3 t TO p. m. North bound
big cart drawn by four oxen. The Jury was thus taken from Plymouth,
it) :40 a. m. and 4 ;40 p. in.
The new Federal building at Bryan, Champ Clark, Captain Hob Mass., to A ssln lppl, Mass., where the Eatons lived. The Jurors received a good
OATS— 8ix boats plying on the Co The Dalles will probably be built of son and others, aud has Signed a jolting over the country roads by this antiquated method of traveling. It waa
as novel to them as It was uninteresting. The cart and the oxen belong to the
quille river afford ample accommo
local stone, the Treasury Depart contract to deliver from thirty to cmiuty jail, being used 011 the farm which supplies the prisoners with food.
dation lor carrying freight and psasen
gers to Bandon and way points. Boats ment having included a provision forty-five lectures in Missouri, Iowa
I eave at 7 :30, § :30, 9 :20 and 9 :£0 a. m.
and Kansas next summer. A good but kind words for any one, a boru called “ two wings of the party” are
for bids on that material.
and at 1 :00, 3 :30 and 4 :43 p. n„
deal of sympathy has been bestowed peace maker— an angel on earth,— to again be united, it is impossible
Conrad
Glantz,
who
got
a
jail
TAGE— J. L. Laird, proprietor. De
parts 5 :3 0 p. m. for Koseburg via sentence in Wheeler county for sell upon the Vice President because of was the one from whom my repub not to feel the deepest indignation
Myrtle Point,carrving the United Slates
There is no amalgamation. There
ing liquor to a minor while acting the fact that he is compelled to live licanism had come.
mail and pasetlgers.
can
be no amalgamation. The real
When
Abraham
Lincoln
called
for Governor West, has been par 011 his salary, and this restricts him
OSTOFFICE.— A . F. Lincgar, post*
progressive element in the old Re
for
troops
to
save
this
country,
the
to
a
palatial
suite
of
rooms
and
master. The mails close as follows: doned by the governor.
Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. m.
very first call to arms carried many publican party labored through
On instructions from taxpayers board iu one of the most aristociatic
Marshfield 10:15 a., ni. and 4:15 p. in.
from her own family. Before the many years for a peaceful solution
Bandon and way points, Norway and under the new law, the Wheeler hotels in the United States, where
Arago 12:45 p. m. Eastern mail 4:45
war was over three uncles, three of the difference between itself and
the
charges
are
so
high
that
he
un
county court has reduced the pro
a. in. Eastern mail arrives 10: a. m.
brothers-in-law, three brothers and the leaders who had become drunk
posed tax levy for this year for road doubtedly has to take up the Chau
her
own husband— my lather— ten with prosperity and power. Conces
tauqua to “ piece out’ ’ expenses.
C ity and County O fficers
purposes from 9 ^ to” 5 mills.
in
all,
from the State since honored sion after concession had been made
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Mayor......... .............. .......... A. T. Morrison
If Miss Fern Hobbs, Governor’s
Recorder...............................J. 8. Lawrence
The contribution of the State of by another patriot, Robert LaFol- them, but in the end when these
Treasurer..................................IR. H. Mast West’s private secretary, is ar good
lette went to the front. From her leaders thought that they were safe
City Attorney.................... L. A. Liljeqvist looking as her picture in the Ore Oklahoma to the Hall of Fame in
Engineer.........................P. M. Hall-Lewis
the National Capitol will lie a life immediate family these ten fought ly trenched in the fortress which
the Copperfield saloon
Marshal................................C. A. Evernden gonian,
that this Union might be preserved. the real people in the party had
Night Marshal.......................John Hurley keepers will do anything she asks size statue of Sepuoiah, said to be
Water Superintendent .8. V . Epperson
the son of a Hessian soldier and his Before I could join the call for the built for them, they disdainfully
Fire Chiei....................... Waller Oerding them to.
Cherokee wife, who served under Progressive party. I went a thou cast out the hewers of wood and
Councilmen—D. D, Pierce, C. T. Skeels
The sheriff of Baker county hav General Braddock and rendered sand miles to talk to this old lady, the carriers of water
W . C. Laird, G. O. Leach, W . H. Ly
ons, Leo J. Cary. Regular meetings ing refused to close the saloon» un
When in Chicago the solemnly
distinguished service, afterward liv and to see what she thought best to
first and third Mondays each month.
til the governor shows him the law ing in what is now the State of Ok do.
expressed will of a long suffering
Justice of the Peace....... . J. J. Stanley by which he can do it, West has lahoma. Sequoiah was the inven
A great reader, I found her mind rank and file was frustrated; when
Constable.............................Ned C. Kelley sent his private secretary to do the
tor of the Indian alphabet which is almost already made up We talked a legally elected majority fresh from
job, law or no law.
used to this day in the west. His the matter as though of a funeral, the people had been made a minor
County Judge....................... John T. Hall
Au alarming decline in the health remains rest in a cave on the Pacific and when the conference was fin ity; the heart of the old Republican
Commissioners— W . T. Dement, Geo. J.
Armstrong
of Portland school teacheis under coast. Mrs. Vinnie Reanbox'e has ished she handed to me my shield party broke, and its day of useful
Clerk . . .................................. James Watson
the ruling that a teacher could lay received her commission to perform for the fight, and like a Spartan ness passed away forever.
Sheriff........ .............................. W .
W . Gsge
Treasurer......................... T . M. Dimmick off three days on full pay in case
When the split came, we had
the task. There are a great many mother of old told me to return
Assessor .......
T.
J. Thrift
hoped to have with us some of the
of illness, has caused the board to unusual statues in Statuary Hall, with it or upon it.
School Supt................ Raymond
E. Baker
Surveyor................................ A .
N. Gould
Borah,
revise the rule.
And my own experience is but men who have remained
among which is that of Susan B.
Coroner ............................... F. E . Wilson
Health Officer ............ Dr. Walter Culin
A suit has been commenced to Anthony, which was placed there the record, perhaps in another way, Cummins and Hadley at the last
make the clerk of the state land by the Slate of New York. Wis of all you fellow Progressives. Iu abandoned us. Ephraim was wed
board, and not the state treasurer, consin contributed the statue of sorrow yon withdrew trom your old ded to bis idols Believing in re
Societies will get the very best
form, knowing its absolute neces
custodian of the school lund securi I-ather I ere Marquette who ex parties, and most of you like myself,
sity if this country is to exist, still
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ARGUMENT
Eevents of Interst Reported Address Delivered by Dr. Her y Waldo Coe, Progressive Against Paying Circulators of
for The Herald
Initiative Petitions
National Committeeman for Oregon
E . 8 .— Regular meeting of lteulah
. Chapter No. 0, second and fourth
Friday evenings of each month, in Ma
Transpiring in Oregon Boiled
sonic Hall.
E va R a k b o w , W . M.
Down to Least Number of
J ohepiiink G . P e o p l e s , Sec.
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To the Editor; It has been quite
generally agreed that under the
system of paid circulation of initia
tive and referendum petitions two
evils exist: the submission of many
measures for which there is no pop
ular demand, and the forging ot
signatures. To remove these evils I
shall propose an initiative measure
prohibiting payment for circulation
ot petitions but placing no restric
tion upon the right of the people to
circulate petitions for any measure
in which they feel an interest.
One of the fundamental purposes
of the Oregon System is to increase
the power of men and decrease the
power of money. I am surprised,
therefore,to find that there are some
sincere advocates of better govern
ment who oppose the plan of pro
hibiting paid circulation o( petitions
Most of those who will oppose my
bill acknowlege that it is right in
principal but say it will not work
satisfactorily in practice.
I con
tend that if it is right in principle
it will ultimately be adopted and
will work in practice.
An initiative petition is supposed
to represent the desire of 8 per cent
of the voters. It does no such thing.
It represents merely the expendi
ture of a certain amount of money.
Possibly circulation ot petitions
serves to notify about 10 per cent of
the voters that the measure is being
proposed, but, if that is the end to
to be gained, il certainly could be
done more effectively by expending
the money in the printing and cir
culation of coppies of the bill which
the voters could read, rather than
in securing signaturs of voters to a
petition which few lake the time to
read.
The adopting of my suggested
bill would make the petition repre
sent public opinion, for the number
of volunteer circulators would be in
proportion to the extent of public
desire for the measure.
I admit that so long as the cus
tom of paying circulators continues,
practically every measure must be
initiated in that manner, but I am
confident the time will come when
the duty of citizenship in procuring
and protecting desired laws under
the initiative and referendum will
be performed without special com
peusation.
The hiring of paid circulators for
measures or candidates is no less
unrepresentative than the hiring oi
workers or vehicles on election day,
which have both been prohibited
by the corrupt practice act.
J o n a t h a n B o u r n f , J r .
SYNOPSIS OF
MANY EVENTS
THE NEWS IN TABLOID FORM
Condensed for the Quick As
similation of Busy Men and
Women— General Round-
ip of a Wide cope
And now politics will soon begin
to hum.
Milwaukee road is survf/jng for
two extensions in Washington.
The inhabitants of Jerusalem saw
their first aeroplane on New Years.
A suffragette army will march on
Albany, N. Y ., to demand votes
for women.
Livestocks to the value of $565,-
000,000 was received at the Chicago
stock yards last year.
The new submarine destroyer,
built at Seattle for Chile, was
launched on Dec. 31.
A 51-story building, 864 feet
high is planned in New York, to
cost over $12,000,000.
California was swept by severe
storms the last day of the year and
much damage was done.
The Grand Trunk Pacific rail
road through Canada is expected to
to be completed by the first of June.
In spite of the pouring rain. San
Francisco welcomed the New Year
with the hottest time kt years. The
lid was oft.
Suffragists and antis are both
greatly encouraged at the progress
of their movements last year.
So
they claim
Telegraph operators on the St.
Louii & San Francisco railway
have received a 6 per cent raise,
averting a strike.
For the first time since President
Monroe, New Years day passed at
Washington without a public recep-
at the White House.
The gathering and selling of
acorns is a new industry, in Arkan
sas to supply eastern nursery firms
with material for forest planting.
W. A Fraser has become the ac-
active head of the Woodmen of the
World, succeeding the late Joseph
Cullen Root, founder of the order.
A crowd of 500 unemployed men
marched through Chicago’s streets
on New Years day carrying a ban
ner: “ We demand work, not chari
ty.”
Over 600 Federal troops were
killed and wounded in a battle on
the border last week, and hundreds
of wounded took refuge across the
line.
men It was hard to leave. They
John Mitchell, who retires as
thought possibly that there should
vice-president
of the American Fed
be one more attempt made for right
living. They were in bad company, eration of Labor, announces that he
will put in his time writing for the
yet one may be pardoned lor every
last effort to hold together the as cause.
Ruin of one of the largest oities
sociations of a life time. When they
come to us, as in the end they will, discovered in South America since
we will receive them with open the Spanish conquest have been
arms.
But now, we fear, they found on top of the Peruvian
stand discredited before the pro Andes
A proposed bond issue for the
gressive sentiment of the country.
They feared most the ascendency construction of a municipal car line
of the Democratic party.
Those at Tacoma was lost by 200 votes,
who went into the Progressive party and it will probably be voted on
feared more the longer life of the again in the spring.
boss ridden Republican party.
Two islands of the Friendly
A meeting was recently held in group in the south Pacific have
State of New York.
From the sunk in the sea, carrying with them
press reports one would have several hundred natives and a
thought that the Progressive party number of white men.
and the Republican party had met
The captain’s bridge on the Im-
in a convention. That a great get- perator is 75 feet above the sea level.
together meeting was being held of
The Austrian War Office has for
what the Republican press delights bidden uniformed officers to dance
to denominate "the two wings ot
the tango at public balls.
the Republican party.” But what
Two gunboats have been built at
were the facts. A mimic battle was
Mare Island navy yardsto be shipp
on to deceive the people, as it is
ed in separate pieces to China,
now in the nation everywhere else.
where they will be put together and
On one side was Barnes, of the
used with the Asiatic fleet.
Republican National Committee,
Colonel Henry T . Bevans, who
standing for and openly champion
ing every reactionary principal. The was guarding President Lincoln on
leading speech of that session was i the night of his assination and who
from a college professor against the | who shouted a warning too late,
referendum, the initative and the 1 has just died at St. Paul Minn.
By the use of typhoid vaccine,
recall, loudly applauded by the
meeting. The leader of the so call the army got through the year with
ed progressive element was that only two cases of typhoid fever
great patriot Senator Root. The among 80,000 men, and one of
I these had not been vaccinated.
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