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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1914)
<JThc Herald, the old 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 IL 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 , M A R C H 3 N O . 23 C1TYDI RECTORY Fraternal and Benevolent Orders A . - -Regular meeting of Beulah O K. . f OoApter No. 6, second and fourth A nna L awrence Sec., I O. O. F .—Coquille Lodge N o.53,1. O. . O. F., meets every Saturday night n Odd Fellows Hall. O. H . C l e a v e s , N. G. J. S. L awrence , Sec. THE NEWS IN TABLOID FORM Condensed for the Quick As similation of Busy Men and Women—General Round up of a Wide Scope. Only 30 per cent of the women reg’ .’ •»•»d in Illinois voted at the am IK RKHEKAH LtHJUF. No. 20 I. o ! O. F., meets every Weond and piimaries. ourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows The federal white slave law has Hall. K miey H krbey , N. G, A nnie L aw rence , Sec. again stood the test of the U S. / ' a OQUII-I.E ENCAMPMENT, No. 25 supreme court. I. O. O. F., meets the llrstand third At Ellenstmrg, Wash , 5000 rab Thursday nights in Odd Fellows Hall. bits were recently killed in a big J, 8. B arton , 0 . ? . J. S. L a w r e n c e . See. drive in which 400 men took part. nights ok p y t h ia s .—Lycurgus All the shingle mills on Willapa Loilge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights harbor have shut down as a prelim in W. O. W. Hall R. R. W atso n , K R. S. inary to the establishment of the O. A . M i nto ny e , C. C. open shop. r jY T H IA N SISTERS—JuBtus Temple Less than 20 out of 7493 National 1 No. 35, meets first and Third Mon day nightB in W. 0 . W. Hall. banks have failed to make applica Mas. G e > r <; e D a v i s , M. E. C. tion for membership in the new M r s . F red L i ne q ar , K. of R. ED MEN—Coquille Tribe No. 48, 1. Federal Reserve banking system . _ O. R. M., meets every Friday night Seventy per cent ol the population n W. O. W. Hall. of North Yakima, Wash., attended J. S. B arton , Sachem. A. P. M ill e r , C. of R. morning services at the churches, W. A .— Regular meetings of Bea- as a result ol a ’ ’Go to church” . ver Camp No. 10.550 in M. W . A. campaign Hall, Front street, first and third Sat urdays in each month. Another blizzard swept the South C. D. H udson , Consul. and East last week and the ther Li, H. I rvin e , Clerk. mometer reached 42 below zero. N. A .— Regular meeting of Laurel . Camp No. 2972 at M. W. A . Hall, Snow fell in New Orleans for the Front street, second and fourth Tues first time in twelve years. day nights in each month. M ar y K e r n , Oracle. The U. S. Secretary of Commerce E dna K e l l e y . Rec. will send a man to spend five months O. W .—Myrtle Camp No. 197. investigating the fishing conditions • meets every Wednesday at 7 :30 in Alaska, along the Pacific coast p. m. at , W. O. W. Hall. Lee Currie, C. C. and in the Columbia river and Cun J ohn L e n e ve , Sec. ningham creek 1 " VENINGT1DE CIRCLE No. 214, The killing of Benton, a British JL-rf m eets second and fourth Monday nights in W . O. W. Hall. subject by General Villa has com O ra X . M a u r y , G. N. plicated Mexican affairs. Villa M a r y A. P ierce , Clerk. ARMERS UNION.— Regular meet claims that Benton was a thief and ings second and fourth Saturdays in murderer and had made a murder each month in W. O. W. Hall. ' F rank BitRruot.iiKR, Pres. ous atlsck ou him. M K R M R W F 0 . A. M i nto ny e , Sec. . 398, meet» the second and fourth Thursdays each F month at W. O. W . Hall. r a t e r n a l a id no M r s . C i i a b . E v l a n d , Pres. M r s . I, o k a H a r k i n u t o n , Sec. Steam Whistle Causes Scare at Hood River A Hood River dispatch to the Portland Telegram says: Educational Organizations and Clubs The cries of a supposed cougar O Q U I L L E E D U C A T I O N A L created a near-panic in the Odell LEAGUE—Meets monthly at the district Monday and hunting part High School Building during the school ies, led by O M. DeWitt, who was year for the purpose oi discussing edu a sharpshooter during the Spanish- cational topics. American War, and Dr E. T. Hull, R ena A nderson , Pies. who has been on grizzly hunts in E dna M inard , Sec. the Rocky Mountains, started out -r t q KF.1JL KLUB—A business men’ s I \ social organization. Hall in Laird’ s to round up the big cat The party was almost stampeded at one time, building, Second street. A. J. S herwood . Pres. when a large rabbit, jumping out F red S l ao le , Sec. of a bed of dried leaves startled the the o m mercia l club j . e . N orio » hunters as they approached President; J. C. S a v a g e , Secretary wooded hillside, where the sup posed cougar was hiding One boy of the party was so badly Transportation Facilities frightened that he dropped his gun RAINS —Leave, south hound 9:00 a. m. and 3:00 p. m. North bound and climbed a fir tree. Unable to find the cougar, the id :40 a. m. and 4 ;40 p. m. men started home, and stopped at OATS—Six boats plying Oil the Co quille river afford ample accommo a well digging machine on the Mr. Hill who runs dation lor carrying freight and p-issen Dunbar place. gers to Bandon ami way points. Boats the machine was quitting work and I eave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9 :20 and 9 :50 a. m. as he greeted his callers he pulled and at 1 :00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p. nr.. the wistle cord on his engine. It TAGE—J. L. Laird, proprietor. De was theu that the hunters learned parts 6:30 p. m. for Koeoburg via the cause of their futile search for Myrtle Point, carrying the United Slates the cougar. The new whistle, just mail and pasengers. installed, gave forth a shrill moan OSTOFFICE.—A. F. Linegar, |>o8t- ing sound, which, expert woodsmen master. The mails close as follows: Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. m. declare, might well be taken for the Marshfield 10:16 a. m. and 4:15 p. m. cry of one of the large beasts Bandon and way points, Norway and The above will he appreciated by Arago 12:45 p. m. Eastern mail 4:45 those who were living in Marshfield a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: a. m. some years ago when the steamer City and County Officers Czarina first came iti there She Mayor................................. A. T. Morrison was equipped with a siren of espec R ecorder...............................................J. 8. Lawrence ially diabolical propensities, and the Treasurer ......................... .... ’R- H; Mast man who manipulated the whistle City Attorney..................................... L. A. Liljeqviet Engineer....................... P. M. Hall-Lewis cord was an artist in bis line. She Marshal................................................C. A. Evernden Night Marshal...... John Hurley fiist came up the bay in the night, Water Superintendent....8. V. Epperson and when the weird screams, yells Fire Chief....................... Walter Oerding Counciiinen—D. D. Fierce, C. T. Skeels and giowls with which her arrival W. C. Laird, G. O. Leach, W . H. Ly was heralded weut perambulating ons, Leo J. Cary. Regular meetings first and third Mondays each month. around through the circumambient atmosphere every nerve in Marsh J. J. Stanley field went to doing something. One Justice of the Peace Ned C. Kelley peculiarity of the sound was that it County Judge .....................John T. Hall didn't seem loud, but it seemed to Commissioners —W . T. Dement, Geo. J. be close by. People living down Armstrong Clerk .............. ................James Watson town did not know what it was \V. W. Gage but every one in the suburbs knew .... T. M. Dimmick T. J. Thrift what it was. It was a cougar. One School Supt. ...... Raymond E. Baker man reported next morning that it A. N. Gould F. E. Wilson was on his back porch the night be Dr. Walter Culin fore, and one old hunter waxed Health Officer quite indignant when his report elicited laughter. He guessed he Societies will get the very best knew a cougar when he heard one. PRINTING Out of deference to the feelings of at the office of Coquille Herald the public, the Czarina afterward ceased using the siren in the harbor. C C r B S P P E R Y E A R $ 1 .5 0 SUPT. BAKER ADDRESSES SCHOOL BOARDS Cirular Letter being Sent out This Week, Dealing with Improvement of the Schools of the County F. & A. M .~Regular meeting of . Chadwick bodge No. 08 A. F. & A. M.. at Masonic Hall, every Saturday night in each month on or before the full moon. D. D. P i b b c k , W. M. K. U. M a s t , Secretary, Friday evenings of each month, in Ma sonic Hall. M auy A. P ierce , W. M. SYNOPSIS OF SCHOOL MANY EVENTS 1914. •JJob Printing— N ew presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please OREGON NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Coquille, Oreg., Feb. 25, 1914. ' make free use ot it, during school hours and at home. In addition to the TO T H E SCHOOL BOARDS _ books for reading by the individual pupil, and for heme circulation, ev OF' COOS CO U N TY, OREGON. ery school library should be provided with oue or more sets of supple- Gentlemen: mentary readers which are needed to add variety and interest to the read- In connection with the Standardization Posters being sent out to ing classes The books should be kept in an upright position, in a good Transpiring in Oregon Boiled all the rural schools I wish to call your attention to the plan for grading, bookcase, and should be provided with cards and pockets, which will be Down to Least Number of aud ultimately improving, the rural schools, aud at the same time I wish furnished free by the County Superintendent. Lines and Yet Make the to suggest what is needed in order that a school may be able to do its j The standard school room should contain a set of not less than full duty to the community and to the pupils who have to depend upon eight good maps, and it is more economical iu the end to buy these maps Subject Understood. it for getting their preparation for lite. , in the steel case mountings There should also be a good twelve inch Miss Hobbs has been investigat As the school house is to be the home of the child duriug the suspension globe, a flag that is displayed at all times wheu the weather greater number of his wakeful hours while the school is in session, a com- is suitable, au International or Standard Dictionary, aud three or more ing conditions at Cove. Mrs. Edith D. Muhs has been ap- fortable building is as essential to his welfare as is a Comtortable home, standard pictures, the 75c size of Perry or Brown pictures if framed will w • pointed superintendent of the Mult perhaps more so, for no parent would think of requiring his children to he sufficient spend as mauy hours iu daily confinement in the home as is required in The most important part of the furniture is a proper supply of nomah county poor farm. good single desks for the pupils, and a good desk for the teacher, with the school room. Billy Sunday will be invited to The standard class-room (or a school of thirty-five should be two comfortable chairs. The desks should be fastened to the floor or to come to Portland this fall and whoop twenty five ieet wide by thirty feet long, and the ceiling should be twelve three inch strips so that the proper distance may be maintained between things up in the religious line. Ieet high. The principal lighting should come from the left side of the them It is generally customary to place the small desks in front and the The Eugene city council received pupil, but one or two windows placed in the rear are useful for addition large ones behind. This compels a pupil to sit on a high seat with a many bids for the $100,000 bonds al light and for the purpose of ventilation The windows should be close low desk in front of him, and should be avoided. An entire row of for the extension of the city water together so as to avoid cross-shadows, and it would frequently be practi seats, Iro.n the front of ¡be room to the back, should consist of desks system. cable to transfer the windows from the right side of the building to the having the same numbers. The proper spacing distance for No 5 desks Helen Keller, the wonderful deaf, left, placing them between the windows already there, and in this way is 22 inches from back to back, for No. 4’s, 24 inches, for No. 3’s, 26 dumb and blind girl, will lecture in complying with the standard as to a unilateral lighting system. There inches, for No, 2’s 28 inches, and if there are any No i ’ s they should Portland the latter part of this should be no wiudows in front of the pupil, and none at the right side if be 30 inches apart. Any attempt to place desks of different numbers in month. it can be avoided. The front of the room and the right side, except for fine across the room from side to side will result in improper positions U. S officials last week seized the door spaces, should be devoted entirely to blackboard, which should for the children, and will cause round shoulders aud nearsightedness, fifty boxes of misbranded and adul be ol slate or hyloplate, or 4 feet wide, and placed 27 inches from and may even be the cause of serious spinal and lung trouble. terated cheese shipped to Portland The aisles should be about two feet wide, and a broad aisle should the floor. The blackboard should be provided with a chalk rail for hold from the Lake Zurick Creamery Co , be left all around the room The floor should be given all the oil it ing the crayons and erasers. of Illinois. The windows should be hung on pulleys so that they cau be low will absorb some time before school commences, and should be oiled as The Prohibitionists are already ered from the top or raised from the bottom at will. If there is not a heat needed with lighter costs while school is going on. working to carry their constitution A sanitary water supply is necessary for the health and safety of ing and ventilating plant in the school room the windows should be pro al amendment this fall. One hun vided with window boards about ten inches wide, which are placed in the pupils. If the source of supply is a well or spring it should be far dred volunteers and 20 paid work Wherever possible the the lower part of the window opening so as to shut off a direct draft and enough from the toilets to be absolutely sate ers are busy in Portland. throw the fresh air upward as it is admitted. Good window shades water should be piped into the school house, and the sanitary bubbliug A franchise has been granted at should be provided, and it is belter to have these roll up Instead of down. fountain or inverted faucet used for drinking purposes. Where this is Newport to the Portland West The building should be well painted, both inside aud out, and for not possible, but the water has to be carried to the school house a closed the inside a light green or cream is to be preferred for the walls, the ceil tank with a bubbling fountain should be used, or at least a faucet aud Coast R R. & N. Co., which prom ing being much lighter so as to reflect the light down upon the books of individual drinking cups. Rolls of absorbent paper towels should be ises to have a line completed to a the pupils. Blues, yellows and reds are to be avoided, as they are hard provided, or in case this is not done the children may carry their own connection at McMinnville within towels from home. A water basin used by the entire school is very un four years. er on the eyes than the colors mentioned The People’s Power League in A suitable place should be provided for the hats, cloaks, and sanitary, and is no doubt the cause of many contagious skin diseases tends to submit a measure to give lunches, and these should always be kept in place. This cloak room being spread. While there are other things that might be mentioned as essential the governor power to remove any should have good ventilation from outside. Whenever possible oue of the modern beating and ventilating to a standard school, your attention has now been called to the most im sheriff or district attorney who he plants, costing about $120. to $130. lor the average rural school, should portant points for which the school boards can be held responsible, and thinks is not performing his duty, be installed. Where this is not praclicable. a good large stove should the other points, as indicated on the Standardization Poster, are largely and to appoint a successor. Judge Webster Holmes, in the be placed somewhat near one corner of the room, and A sheet-iron jacket those for which the teacher and pupils are responsible. It is to be hoped should be placed arouud it projecting six inches above the top, and com that all will cooperate in the effort to put the schools of our rural com District Court at Dallas, declared ing within three inches of the floor. This jacket should have a large munities on a higher plane than they have been before. While it will unconstitutional the law passed by door that can be opened to allow the children to dry their clothes and cost something to furnish a majority of the rural schools with all the the last legislature giving county slioes. It should stand upon legs, and be securely fastened to the floor, furniture and equipment in order that the schools may be standarized, courts the right to prohibit The school grouuds should be of ample size to accommodate all nothing is required that is not needed for efficient work, and efficiency hauling heavy loads over the county the children at play, and should be well drained, free from brush and after all is what leads to true economy It is also belived that where all roads in narrow tired wagons. stumps, and surrounded with a good fence In order to gain lull credit it will work together In order to have the school become standard, the fur is necessary to have walks to the toilets and gate,and the toilets must be niture and supplies will be takeu lar better care of by teacher and pupil Successful Varmint than has been the case in the past. in a sanitary condition, and free from writing and pictures. Hunter In Curry Co. Sincerely yours. The school library should be provided with books adapted to the R a y m o n d E. B a k e r , C o . Supt. varying ages and interests ol the pupils, and they should be taught to The Port Orford Tribune says: EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK ‘Running a Bill” shops that ask high prices; a charge account usually means that you pay Irom five to ten per cent, more for a thing than its cash value. If you adopt the pay-as-you-go principle, you will considerably re duce your own high cost of living. — The Youth's Companion. of time by the bad weather. The railroad will cross the Ump qua river on a bridge ij4 miles above Gardiner, at the mouth of Smith river. Mr. Thomas says that Reedsport is the coming town of the Umpqua and will be the largest place between Eugene and Coos Bay. It seems economical, but really it is not. You feel that because you are not parting with cash at the moment, you are temporarily sav ing money; and you are usually sure that when the bill comes in, -------------- 4------------ you will be better off financially A Narrow Range of Vision City Council than you are at the moment Ol course this idea is delusive; you Sylvia, supple aud slender, and At the meeting on February 24 th find on the first of the next month that the bills are larger and the ac Aunt Belle, bulky and beuigu, had the motion was carried to lease the cumulated fund less than you had returned from a shopping tour. old city hall to the Coquille River Each had been trying to buy a Transportation Co., for a period of expected. two years at rental of $8 per month Running a hill is subtly demoral ready-made suit. When they returned home, Sylvia until Front Street is finished, and izing. When you open a new ac count, you are scrupulous to pay was asked what success each had $15 a month thereafter. Several the bill very soon after it is render in their efforts to be fitted "W ell,’’ other minor business matters were ed; you wish to impress your cred said Sylvia, " I got along pretty attended to, after which the council itor with the fact that you are an well, but Aunt Belle is getting so abjourned until Thursday, the 2 (ith The main transactions of the uncommonly desirable patron. Af lat that about all she can get, ready ter awhile you feel that he has made, is an umbrella.” — The Thursday evening meeting were that the motion was carried that learned this fact, and you let him Youth’s Companion. the objections be overruled in re wait for his check while you im Saw Railroad Work gard to the proposed assessment of press a new set of creditors with Second Street, and Ordinance No. your punctuality and solvency. So J. M. Thomas, federal deputy 109 was psssed declaring an assess you keep puttiug off and putting off the creditors who are ‘ ‘old game warden, whose territory cov ment against the lots and parts of lrlends,” until finally it becomes a ers Coos county and the western lots on Second Street. ------- -----n t » .---------- — scramble to prevent their sending parts ot Douglas and Lane counties, A Confidence Man in an account headed by that dis was in the city one day last week couraging item, "Bill rendered.” on his way to Marshfield, having When you sink into the "f ill ten been down the river to investigate A candidate for governor recent dered” class, you have entered the an alleged iniraction of the game ly got into print in a great manv He had recently returned state papers by furnishing to pub second stage of indebtedness The laws. lishers a gratis plate service, which third is marked by the receipt of from a trip to the northern part of ostensibly was a good roads story, dunning letters, the fourth by per his district, and he brings corrobo but in reality was a boost for this sonal visits from collectors, the ration ol the encouraging reports ol particular candidate. Thus does fifth by menacing communications the resumption ot activity in tail-i the wiley candidate get in his fine road construction. At tunnel num 1 work on the unsophisticated coun Irom lawyers. try editor.— Bandon Recorder. It is difficult for men and women ber 6, north of the Umpqua, work Yes, and some of the suckers who have the habit of “ chaiging” has been resumed after a lay-off of were found in Coos county. It everything to put aside money lor three weeks caused by a soft place might be well to state that the can investment. They have adopted a in the tunnel. At tunnel number didate in question was John Man costly way of living The ability 7 . s°u|h ot the Umpqua, work has ning, so that none of the otberB will be blamed. If that sort of a to purchase wbat you will, although j started up after two months’ cessa- deceptive confidence game is rd in vour pockets ate empty, is an e x - ! tion, and the steam shovel is again dication of the sort of “ principle" pensive luxury. The shops that [at work at Schofield creek, after we want in a governor, then the permit charge accounts are the being held up for the same length Herald is a poor guesser. Eugene L White o( Port Orford cau certaiuly lav claim to being one of the must successful "varmint” The Gold Beach Globe gives the hunters in the couuty. Within a following particulars of a near little over two months he has killed tragedy which caused the hurried and treed with dogs 2 bear, 3 wild calling out of the sheriff and a cats and 5 panthers, aud running physician, aud then turned out to back a mouth or two further 3 bear be a comedy: and several more cats could be add The facts in the case, as near as ed to this list. we can judge from the many differ The big yellow hound "Blutcher” ent reports are: O ’Conners and that Gene uses for starting, is one "Dago Joe” have been working for of the best dogs ever in this section their board and what booze they and be is well assisted in the chase could drink, for the little Swiss, who by two young Airdales that are has A lf Miller’s place under lease. hard to beat when started i f f on 1 O’Conners and "T ony” the Swiss, fresh track. Last week Mr. White after embibing too much ol the and Robt. Forty spent several days ‘dago red’ got into a dispute and up Sixes and during that time kill O ’Conners pulled a gun on “ Tony.” ed an old she panther that had been Joe watched his chance and caught killing a tew sheep and many deer O’Conners off his guard and threw in that neighborhood lor several him down. About the time Joe years. The animal bad been chased was ready to give him a good pum- with dogs before and had become tneling, O’Conners got his pocket; skilled in eluding them. When the knife in to action aDd Joe let go of young men arrived at the tree the bis would be victim and started to dogs had the panther up, it com run. In his haste to get away he menced snarling and showing its ran into or tripped over a barbed teeth and started for the grottud. wire fence and refused to get up, Robert who had a camera along, and stoutly maintained with smoth got several fine pictures, but in the ered groans that he was fatally meantime the panther reached the stabbed. A hurried call fot Dr. gr jund and gave the dogs quite a Dunlap was sent in for Joe, and chase before if was finally cornered. Sheriff* Bailey was as hurriedly When running out of sight of the called to take care of O ’Conners, dogs, it would go up a tree and then who had sought shelter in the house spring out onto a log or into an and stood all comers off with a other tree and make off in a differ rifle. The Shetiff said there were ent direction, which proved the a few scratches on Joe that looked varmint an experienced campaigner as much like the work of barbed with a well developed plan lor fool wire as a knife. Thert is some ing the dogs in pursuit. talk that O ’Conners will be arrested The State Game Department has Many Salmon Eggs inaugurated a system of hiring hun The Coos river hatchery has 4,- ters to kill off predatory animals, 000,000 small salmon hatched aud and this department could not pro the establishment will have another tect the game of Curry county more million before hatching is completed. effectively than by keeping Mr. The Coquille hatchery has one mil White and his dogs in the raounl- lion eggs hatched and there is an faius. Panthers, not hunters, are other million to develop. — The Record. Ithe worst enemy of the dee.. Thought He W as Killed