Q T h e Herald, the o ld estab
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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
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M.. at Masonic Hall, every Saturday
night in each month on or bolore the
full moon.
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R. H. M a s t . Secretary.
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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.
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“ the hour of eight-thirty o'clock—
................. A . N. Gould
Surveyor
United States, d;ed last Wednesday
F. E. Wilson
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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
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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.
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