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Q T h e Herald, the o ld estab lished reliable newspaper of the Coquille Valley in which an “ ad*' always brings results. V O L . 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 , F E B R U A R Y 10, 1914. N O . 20 CITYDIRECTORY Fraternal and Benevolent Orders F. & A. M.—Regular meeting of . Chadwick Ixxlge N o . 08 A. F. & A. M.. at Masonic Hall, every Saturday night in each month on or bolore the full moon. D. D. 1’ if . hck , W. M. R. H. M a s t . Secretary. A ^JJob 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 SYNOPSIS OF HAWLEY ASKS PARTICULARS ERRONEOUS STATEMENT CORRECTED FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL OREGON NEWS MANY EVENTS, BRIEFLY TOLD Wants Definite Information Events of Interest Reported Attorney General Crawford Explains Provisions of Law From Homesteaders for The Herald Governing Tax Penalties, Which He says are The Herald has received from (By J. E. Jones) Excessive and Burdensome Congressman Hawley the following A L A S K A REDISCOVERED letter regarding the new homestead The Coquille Herald, and May {st, one per cent; between The most important thing ever law which be has introduced, and Coquille, Coos Co., Oreg. Way 1st and June 1st, two pereeut; done in reference to Alaska since Condensed for the Quick As asking lor information from home Gentlemen-- between June 1st anil July 1st, three tbe United States purchased it for a Transpiring in Oregon Boiled M ary A. PncRfit, W . M. Replies should be ad similation of Busy Men and steaders. per cent; between July 1st and song, was tbe passage by the Sen Down to Least Number of A n na L awhk nc k Sec., I notice in your paper an item to Women— General Round- dressed to Hon W C. Hawley, August 1st, four per cent; between ate of the bill providing for a rail Lines and Yet Make the O. O. F.—Coquille Lodge No. 53,1. O. House of Representatives, Wash the effect that the Attorney Genetal August 1st and September 1st, five p of a Wide Scope road in that country. The House . O. F., meets every Saturday night Subject Understood. ington, D. C. The letter is as fol has advised that in the collection ol per cent; it not paid on or befote n Odd Fellows Hall. of Representatives will undoubtedly taxes for the present year, if the C. H. C l e a v e r , N. G. September 1st, then an additional concur in the Senate measure; Missionaries ill China are making lows: A receiver has been asked for the J . 8 . L a w r e n c e , Sec. first halt is paid April 1st, the sec Editor of ihe Herald, ten per cent is added, making a to which will give to that great region U. S. Cashier Company at Portland. an urgent appeal for more funds. ond half runs to September 1st with a m i e k e b e k a h l o d g e , No. 20 Coquille, Oregon tal penalty of fifteen per cent. Fur a railroad one thousand miles long I. O. O. F., meets every second and About 200 lives have been lost in My dear Sir: out penalty. This is an error. We Organizations of boys’ and girls’ fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows ther, after the first day of Septem The road in itself is important, but submarines in the last ten years. Hall. E m ily H e iise t , N. G, industrial clubs are numerous in In order to get complete and re have never so held, and the law ex ber, the whole amount begins to A n n ie L a w r e n c e , Sec. the fact that the United States has Polk county. Canada is preparing for a parcel cent evidence to show that the cul pressly provides to the contrary. I draw interest at the rate of twelve declared that it proposes to back the /"»O Q U ILLE ENCAMPMENT, N o.: 25 wish it were true, because the pen post like that of the United States. tivation requirements in the three- A six-months sentence on the per cent per annum. This is bur Alaskan proposition to the extent X_. .. j , y O. j t r,, I. y O. F., m.r.B meets m the . inn.w...l firatand third thii Thursday nights in Odd Fellows Hall. year homestead act should be modi alty is excessive. However, the law densome, and I wish I could hold rockpile was imposed on a chicken In some parts of Switzerland and of $40,000,000, means mote than J . 8 . B a r t o n , C. ? . provides, and I see no' way to avoid J . S .L a w r e n c e , S ec. Germany churches are heated by fied, I need letters from homestead it, that all taxes are due April 1st; as reported in some of the papers, simply a streak of rust, screeching thief at Portland. ers who have made entry under it. but the report is erroneous, and I locomotives, and freight cars, trav nights of bythiah .—Lycurgu* electricity. Governor West says he has two I have introduced a bill which is an if one-half are paid April 1st, the beg you to publish this iu your pa- Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights eling through a barren waste. In openings for a job when bis term is Col. Goethals has accepted the balance can run until September 1st in W. O. W. Hall. amended form of the bill introduced | per, that tax payers may not be short the isolating of Alaska is to out but will not tell what they are* K. R. W atson , K R. S. appoimment as governor of the by Senator Borab, and the changes However, for every thirty days the j O. A . M in t o n y b , C. C. misled to their prejudice. be brought to an end, and an ag Canal zone. Cheese prices are up and the Till it is proposed to make are as fol last halt remains unpaid, one Per I Very truly yours, t t YTHIAN SISTERS—Justus Temple gressive policy lo develop tbe great amook factories will resume opera cent is added to the amount of tax - 1 ‘ ax.'I A. M. CRAWFORD, The new wireless service between lows: 1 No. 35, meets first and Third Mon day nights iu W. O. W. Hall. Attorney General resources is to be carried on— our tion the last ot this month and run “ Provided, That the entryman in that is, if paid betweeu April tsl j Germany and the United States has Mss. G eoroe D a v i s , M. E. C. greatest storehouses of wealth are to to lull capacity. lieu of cultivation herein required been opened. M r s . F red L in e g a r , K. o f R . opened The general impression is Heavy buying of equipment indi e TT M E N -C oou ille Trihe No, Jti, 1. The Audodou Societies expended may make improvements upon his that Alaska is a frigid region, O. R. M., meets every Friday night $80,000 in bird protection in this entry by constructing fences or whereas tbe mean annual temper cates that the loggers are preparing ‘Human Icicles” Make M e r r y In 1 n W. O. W. Hall. buildings, by slashing, clearing, or J. S. B a r t o n , Sachem. country last year. ature of Sitka is about the same as to run to full capacity this season A. P. M il l e r . C. of R. in other ways preparing the land Coney Island’s Ice Cold Surf all along ihe coast. The Alaska railway bill has pass that of Washington, D. C Like \v. A .— R eg u la r m e e tin g s o f B ea- ed the Senate and is said to be sure for cultivation, for meadow, for The farmers of Eastern Oregon wise it is learned that Alaska has __ M. L. ver Camp No. 10.550 in M. W. A. pasture, or for grazing purposes, or numerous deep land-locked, ice-free are taking great interest in the de Hall, Front street, first and third Sat of passage in the House. by planting orchard, or by other urdays in each month. harbors; and the coast line Is 26,- monstration train which is visiting The first U. S. Senator to take C. D. H ud so n , Consul. wise making the homestead habit Li. H. I h v in e , Clerk. 000 miles long, while there are six that part of the State. his seat by direct vote ol the people able or capable of production, or ol thousand miles .if navigable rivers N. A.— Regular meeting of Laurel is Blair Lee, ol Maryland. Arrangements are being made to enabling the entr\ man to obtain . Camp No. 2972 at M. W . A . Hall, in the cuuutry. Of course, portions establish a municipal wood-choop- British army officers are planning Front street, second and fourtli Tues- means of livelihood from the home of Alaska are extremely cold, but piug camp uear Portland to give on a fleet of iooo aetoplanes, each stead, said improvements to aggre day nights in each month. M a r y K e r n , Oracle. it is a region of great variety. The employment to idle men. capable of carrying ten men. E dna K elley , Rec. gate in value an amount each year sixty-five thousand people of that The value of shares in national of not less than $15 per acre, except Grading on the Qolumbia High O. W .— Myrtle Camp No. 197, country have certainly showed • meets every Wednesday at 7 :30 banks has been rising since the new that in cases of entries under section way, Irom Portland to tbe sea, will their patience, and now that the p. ni. at W . O. W . Hall. currency law went into effect. be completed this yeaf, according six of the enlarged-homestead law Lee Currie, C. C. government has joined the boosters J ohn L eneve , Sec. to State Engineer Bowlby. A gander, lately exhibited at a the amount of improvements shall club there will doubtless be a great pVENINGTIDE CIRCLE No. 214, poultry show at Wichita, Kansas, not be less in value than 75 cents All cabaret and vaudeville feat movement toward that rich regiou. - meets second and fourth Monday per acre: Provided, That the term was claimed to bt 65 years old. nights in W . O. W . Hall. IN T H E H A N D S O F T H E L A W Y E R S ures Iu the grills of Portland will be O ra X . M acry , G. N. Emperor William is the richest ’cultivation’ shall be held to include Some of the best lawyers of the a thing ol the past alter March 1st, M ary A. P ierce , Clerk. man iu Germany, his private for also the growing of grasses, or country are engaged in setting up by order of Mayor Albee. ” ARMERS UNION.— Regular meet other crops, for pasturage purposes A committee has been appointed thepiusfor the new antitrust leg ings second and fourth Saturdays in tune amounting to $86,000,000. eacli month in W. O. W. Hall. by the Willamette Valley Associa The worst blizzard of the season or for making hay--------and that islation. There have been numer F r a n k B u r k h o l d e r , Pres. swept over the middle West last the provisions of this section relative ous conferences of the leaders for tion to attend to securing space at O. A. M inton yk , Sec. to the homestead peiiod shall apply Friday, causing much suffering. the purpose of agreeing upon a pro the Panama-Pacific exposition. RATERNAL AID N o . 398, meets the to all unperfected entries as well as gram that will have the solid sup The London coal strike has end Arrangements are being made at second and fourth Thursdays each entries hereafter made upon which port oi the Democratic party. Of the State University for the recep month at W. O. W . Hall. ed, a few of the men winning an M rs . C iias . E vland , l’ res. residence is requested.” the twenty-three members of the tion of 50 new students at the be M rs . L ora H ahkia G ion , Sec. extra two cents a ion for loading. In lieu of requiring that ten acres two committees in the House and ginning of the second semester. The American manufacturers be cultivated at the end of the sec Senate that will direct this legisla Educational Organizations and Clubs have made great reductions in the The Oregon Agricultural College ond year, and twenty acres by the tion all but Senator Smith ot South has received a challenge to a dual O Q U I f. L E E D U C A T I O N A L price of armor-piercing projectiles end of the third year in a home LEAGUE— Meets monthly at the Carolina are lawyers wrestling meet from tbe St. James Entrance to West Point has been stead of 160 acres, as required by High School Building during the school “ P U T T I N G ON T H E D O G ” Athletic Club of Vancouver, B. C. year for the purpose ol discussing edu made easier by the authorities, be the three-year homestead act, the cational topics. The social season is on in Wash cause of a falling off in the enroll Prominent membets of the State R e n a A e d e r b o n , Pies. bill I propose allows the homestead E dna M inaho , Sec. ington at the White House, and Grange have decided to lead a ment. er to be given credit for necessary the new Democrats who have come movement to protest against tbe O KEEL KLUB—A business men’s During the recent cold weather improvements. This bill also pro social organization. Hall in Laird’ s to the Capital in consequence of the proposed increase in second class in France, wolves attacked and de vides that “ cultivation” shall in building, Second street. victory of their party have been mail matter. A. J. S herwood . Pres. voured a girl on her way home from clude the growing of native or tame F red 8 l a d l e . S«\. splendid customers of the merchant school. Grant B. Dimmick, of Oregon grasses and hay crops, as well as tailors and hatters, who have rigged City, has filed with the secretary of o m m e r c ia l c l u b j . e . norio » the growing cl crops that necessitate The Revolutionists in Haiti have President; J. C. S aiaoe , Secretary them up in spike tails, top coats, state his declaration of intention to ch,:tured the principal towns, and the plowing of ihe soil, and en Photos by American Press Association. and elevated hats. A good many become a candidate on the Republi Transportation Facilities President Oreste has abdicated and courages stock raising. ATHING Is ns popular at Coney Island during January, when the water 01 the newcomers betray their self- can ticket for governor. This is a practical and reasonable RAINS —Leave, south bound H:00 a. skipped. is at freezing point, as it is during July, when It Is around 70 degrees, consciousness, and they are making m. and 3:00 p. in. North bound solution of the difficulties which only it is not as popular with so many persons. During the summer The creameries of the rural dis Chairman Underwood has given »0:40 a. m. and 4:40 p. m. the salt water bathing at this famous New York seashore resort at a fine struggle to play the game notice that there will be no more settlers are complaining of in the tracts hundreds of thousands. In January It attracts only a hundred or so. according to the rules, and in a tricts and of Portland are having a OATS— Six boats plying on the Co cultivation requirements of the These winter bathers call themselves "polar bears,” "snow birds," "winter fight over the proposition of raising quille river afford ample accommo tariff legislation at this session of manner that may lead onlookers to present law and does not mean that mermaids" and “ human Icicles." They take a dip even In the coldest weather dation lor carrying freight and p - sb ^ u Congress. the express rates on cream,which is gers to Bandon and way points. Boats and enjoy It. These pictures were taken on New Year's day and show that believe that they might always been asked by the rural creameries I eave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9:20 and 9 :C0 a. m. Champ Clark is losing his mind. the homesteaders shall not exhibit the bathers are not only fair and young and good looking, but Iu a few cases accustomed to this sort ot thing. and at 1:00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p. nr.. There is a prospect of A. L. Mills, He asserted at Baltimore that be good faith Raising stock, lor an are well advanced In years. The picture o f the old bather shows the dean of th e TAGE—J. L. Laird, proprietor. De would be the next president of the instance, is just as useful work as the clan. Though past seventy, this aged man frisks around In the surf like t h e y ’ r e s t i l l c h a n g i n g president ot the First National parts 5:30 p. m. ior lioseburg via INAUGURAL DATE raising large quantities of grain or a hoy and says it does him a world of good. Bank of Portland, being named for Myrtle Point,carrying the United Slates Unitea States potatoes on homestead far Irom the mail and pasengers. Shortly after George Washington one of the five members of the A French bank has been given a OSTOFFICE.— A. F. Linegar, post concession to light the city of Jeru market, and is mote profitable to • The purpose of this letter is to fare Commission was correct, and if became president the suggestion Board of Control under the new the homesteaders, and therefore master. The mails close as follows: arose that the inauguration should currency act. Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. m. salem with electricity and construct makes his homestead more valuable get the views of as many homestead no one could employ an adult wo Marshfield 10:15 a. in. and 4:15 p. 111 . a trolley line to Bethlehem. The registration of voters in Mult ers as possible so that in the pass man in the afternoon. He thought be changed from March to January, to him. The growing of cultivated Bandon and way points, Norway and or to April or May, or some other nomah county stands as follows: Arago 12:45 p. m. Eastern mail 4:45 Japan has explained that the hot crops will follow in due course of age of this homestead bill ail proper that would be a pretty how-de-do, old dale. Senator Shafroth of Col Republicans, 10,414; Democrats, a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: a. m. anti American utterances in the Jap time, and there will naturally be opportunity and relief is furnished or words to that effect. Then he orado is the latest Don Quixote to 3467; Progressives, 845; Independ read from the paper as follows: "No to those who make homes on the anese parliament were only pre garden cultivation and growing of City and County Officers public domain, and if you will give person, firm or coporation shall em attack the inaugural windmill, and ents, 601; Prohibitionists, 377; So election buncombe, calculated to win some grain from the beginning. Mayor................................A. T. Morrison it space in the columns of your val ploy any experienced, adult woman he finds that political tangles and cialists, 258. R ecorder.......................... J. S. Lawrence the jingo vote The information I desire from in any industry in the P. M. of any bad weather would be jointly elim Governor West has telegraphed Treasurer......... ...................... 'll. H. Mast Plans have been filed with the the homesteader covers these points: uable paper you will render them City Attorney...... L. A. Liljeqviit day,’’ and be wanted to know if that inated by cutting out the extra short President Wilson, urging that he and the stale of Oregon an import Engineer.................. P. M. Hall-Lewis Bureau of Buildings, ol New York, 1) Can you clear twenty acres of Marshal............................C. A. Evernden for an office building to be the tall ant and valuable service, and for correct. We told him that we session of Congress and having the give shippers a hearing before he your land in three years and have Night Marshal............... John Hurley thought it must be a bull of some president come into office on the proceeds with the suit for the dis Water Superintendent S. V. Epperson est in the world, reaching a height it ready lor the plow, without hir which I express to you my gratet ul kiud, as that certainly wasn’t the first day of the year. solution ol the Southern Pacific and Fire Chie:........................ Walter Oerding of 894 leel 6 inches. thanks. ing extra labor or buying expensive Councilmen—D. D. Pierce, C. T. Skeels law. Then we went and looked at S O A K I N G T H E S T O C K E X C H A N G E S the Central Pacific. I have discussed the bill with a W. C. Laird, G. O. Leach, W . H. Ly Irish nationalist leaders are con machinery or explosives, and if you Some,of the Democratic leaders number of Representatives from the paper. The article had been ons, Leo J. Cary. Regular meetings Sheriff Rand, ot Baker county, first and third Mondays each month. fident the Home Rule bill will pass cannot, please state why? public land States, all of whom broken in two by a cut, and instead are in real earnest in their desires says that Copperfield will die a the British House of Commons 2) If you raised grain, or pota have approved it, and I think all of reading down the column when to put the screws on stock exchange natural death before April 1st, and Justice of the Peace....... J. J. Stanley wilhin the next few months, in toes, or other cultivated crops on others from the State will support he came to the cut Mr. Starr jumped methods. A measure has been in that it will not be necessary for the Constable........................... Ned C. Kelley spite of the opposition in Ulster. the twenty acres could you sell If troduced in Congress by Senator governor to take legal steps to dis it. In that event we will have a to the top of the next column. The marine disasters of 1913 j them? If you cannot, please state John T. Hall County Judge he had held a straight course down Owen, which prevents the use ot incorporate the town. very material backing for the bill. Comniissioners- -W . T. Dement, Geo. J. amounted in money value to $35,- why. the page he would have read: “in tbe mails, telegraph and telephone, With best wishes, I am, Armstrong F. X. Mattbieu, the oldest pio 3) What kind of a road is there C lerk................. ................ James Watson 000,000 in British-insured ships and any industry in the— State of Ore in furtherance of fraudulent and Truly yours, Sheriff............... ....................W . W . Gsge cargoes that were a total loss. The to your homestead? neer of Oregon, and one of those harmful transactions on stock 'e x W. C. Hawley gon, paid” etc ; and going on to Treasurer......... ..............T. M. Dimmick whose vote at the “ Champoeg 4) How far would you have to Assessor............ .....................T. J. Thrift last storm in the Great Lakes caus the bottom be would Lave read: changes. Raymond E. Baker School Supt. Meeting” saved Oregon for the Haul grain, or other crops, to mar ed a Joss of $4 700,000. C H I L D L A B O R T O RE B A R R E D PRO M “In th«TP. M.” “ the hour of eight-thirty o'clock— ................. A . N. Gould Surveyor United States, d;ed last Wednesday F. E. Wilson C O M M E R C E Coroner In the last six months of 1913 the ket them? P. M of any day ” We will make Dr. Walter Culin Health Officer 5) Will the bill proposed above After many years of efforts to se at Butteville, aged 94. A gentlemen who gave hie name the paper up crosswise next time. U. S. Treasury received in round meet the difficulties you are experi It is claimed that some of the ----- - - ------ a » ---------------- cure more rigid restrictions with ns Starr called the Herald up short numbers, 86 million dollars from the encing under the present law? most prominent physicians of reference to child labor, and in con ly after last week’s paper was out. If the Republican party had lived tax on distilled liquors, 4t millions Societies will get the very best 6) Have you any suggestions for He seemed to be laboring under as it ought to have lived it would formity to a public demand that Oregon City have been promiscu from the tobacco tax, 11 millions P R I N T I N G quite a stress of excitement, and he now be enjoying a larger funeral or children be saved from the great ously giving prescriptions for liquor Irom cigarettes, 12 millions from further amendment? at the office of Coquille Herald Representa- to parties who did not need it for cigars and 30 million from corpora - t Any additional information will wanted to know if the Herald’s ver- revival or whatever the disturbance maw of the factories be gladly received. medical purposes. Strange it true. (Continued on fourth page) lion taxes. of the ruling of the Industrial Wei- ; is.— Myrtle Point Enterprise O K. S.— Regular meeting of Beulah . Chapter No. 0, second and fourth Friday evenings of each month, in Ma- ■onic Hall. THE NEWS IN TABLOID FORM EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK I M K R R W t j F F C K C r B S P B