MJThe Herald, the old estab­
lished reliable newspaper of
the Coquille Valley in which
an “ ad" always brings results
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the
C oquille H erald
C O Q U I L L E , C 0 0 S C O U N T Y , O R E G O N , T U E S D A Y , A P R I L 14, 1914.
N O . 29
CITVDIRECTORY
F. 4 A. M.— Regular meeting ot
. Chadwick Ixxlgc N o . 68 4. F. 4 A.
M. at Masonic Hall, every Sa unlay
niirht in each month on or before the
lull moon.
0. I). PtmcK, W. M.
K. H. M ast . Secr-tarv.
A
For The Herald
(By J. E. Jones)
[ “ W AIT UNTIL THE CLOUIJS ROLL BY,
E, s,—Regular meetinir of Beulah
. Chapter No. 6, second and fourth
Friduy evenings of each month, in Ma­
sonic Hall.
M aby A. P ikbi k , W . M.
A nna L awbknck Nee.,
O
EMMA.’ ’
—Coquille Lodge No. 53,1. 0.
1 . 0. (). O. F., F meets
every Saturday night
n Odd Fellows Hall.
(). H. C dkavkb , N. U.
J.
I. aw bincj , Sec-
R l.B E K A H LODGE, No. 20
M AMIF.
f. O. O. F ., meets every second and
fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows
Hall.
E m ily H kusky , N. G,
A nnie L awbknck , Sec.
»*.—I
nights
K Lodge No. 72. meets Tuesday
n ig h t s
of p y t h ia
tm m h
in W. O. W. Hall.
„ . u
K. R. W atson , K K. S.
O. A. M intonyk , C. C.
I y Y T H IA N SISTERS—Justus Tempie
1 No. 30, meets first, and Third Mon­
day nights in W. O. W. Hall.
Mss. G k ibof . D avis , M. K. C.
M bs . F bkd L inkoab , K. of R.
ED M E N — Coauille Tribe No. 46, 1.
O. R. M., meets every Friday night
in W. O. W. Hall.
J. s. B abton , Sachem.
A. P. M ii . i . kb , C. of H.
R
A. —Regular meetings of Bea-
M W.
. ver Camp No. 10.550 in M. W. A.
Hall, Front street, first ami third Sat­
urdays in each month.
C. U. H udson , Consul.
Li. H. I bvink , Clerk.
PRO LO G U E.
Was Jennie B rice m urdered?
I f she were murdered, who was
guilty o f the fo u l deed?
I f she were not done away
with by an assassin, what became
o f her?
Whence did she disappear?
These and a few other inter­
esting questions are raised at
once in this very clever tale o f
mystery written by a woman
who is not only an adept at
writing fic tio n o f this charac-
i e , , but the possessor o f a style
that chains the interest by its
clearness and directness and
wins by its rich humor.
the parlor bedroom and the room be­
hind it. Mrs. I,udley, or Miss Brice, as
she preferred to he known, had a small
part at a local theater that kept a per­
manent company. Her husband was
1 111 that business, too, hut he had noth-
i ing to do. It was the wife who paid
I the hills, aud a lot of quarreling they
I did about it.
I knocked at the door at 10 o’clock,
■ and Mr. Lad ley opened it. He was a
| short man, rather stout and getting
bald, and he always had a cigarette.
Even yet the parlor carpet smells of
| them.
"What do you want?” he asked
sharply, holding the door open about
| an inch.
"The water’s coming up very fast,
I Mr. Ladley,” I said. " I t ’s up to the
i swinging shelf in the cellar now. I ’d
like to take up the carpet and move the
piano.”
“Come hack in an hour or so,” he
snapped and tried to close the door.
But I had got my toe in tile crack.
“ I'll have to have the piano moved,
Mr. I-adley,” I said. “ You'd better put
off what you are doing.”
I thought lie was probably writing.
He Hpent most of the day writing,
Since the course of true love was
never known to run smooth, it
ought not to be so surprising that
the Democrats have been indulging
in a sort of "lover’s quarrel ” The
partisans within the party should
not forget that Democratic harmony
was first established in Congress two
years before the beginning ol the
present Administration, aud that for
more titan a year past its inventors
have kept the cogs of peace running
easily. It is unreasonable to expect
I the President to do all the thinking
for his party, and il some of them
go off in an opposite direction at
times it ought to be their ptivilege
under a free government. Our “ Un­
de Champ" and our genial “ Oscar’ ’
think they are right, and they cer­
Pauucefote treaty. There are Su­
preme Court decisions and acceptan­
ces after a sort of this claim from
the British. Still another argument
is that the treaty was made before
the Canal was commenced, and at
the time it was not known whether
Britain, France, America, or some
other country would dig the ditch.
However, the time came wheu the
Canal Zone ceased to be a territory
of Colombia, but was acquired by
the United States, after which the
canal was built in domestic territo­
ry.
Ex Presidents Roosevelt and
Taft have taken positions exactly
opposite to that of President Wilson.
Add to this the division of opinion
in the Senate and House among the
President's own party, and you have
proof of the claim that this is not so
simple a matter, after all Undoubt
edly it is a many sided question
storming Adventure
Athletes W h o Have W o n at
Hom e W ill Get Chance
Margarita Fischer, who used to
in S ta te Meet
visit this county ten or twelve yeats
ago, playing the leading lady in a
University ol Oregon, Eugene,— company managed by her father,
H igh schools over all Oregon are now deceased, is now a prominent
br .¡inning to gel (heir men ready for and well boosted figure in ihe inde-
the third
L ' >i-
d~nt movin'» pictures, being the
ttack meet
..
1 .vile u! Har.-y 1
H a photoplay
y e ar on Mat ;
t t';. b ’ -te l ill j director. She ii well
remember-, d
versity atblei!
Id.
Oradua.e I*..'— auJ ti.... , ie ;,-s \ ,01 lorgc-t -
Manager Dea V, ill,
1
1 I tell Coos county re
owe too
dies the bitsi . - id
tli proud to rt member h
barnstor'.u-
Student Body -, - he
ing diys is shown by the following
testants from forty High schools little story which appears iu an iu
he thinks the competitors will num terview with the fair Margarita iu
her 150 to 200.
the Photoplay Magazine lor April:
High School boys like the yearly
‘ Once,” she said, “ we were in
spring meet at “ Oregon ” It gives the Coos country, Oregon, aud had
them opportunity to try out against to wait for a boat to take us to Eu­
picked men who are to hold up the reka, Cal
We decided to fill our
state’s intercollegiate record during time by going to a little town called
the next seven or eight years.
It Libby. We had a perfectly awful
IS THIS CONSERVATION?
There are two thousand acres ol also gives watchful atheletic experts time of it- We had to carry our
coal lands in Montana lying idle, an idea of who have team material grips lor miles, aud after much per­
in them.
suasion we managed to flag a flat­
The University Student Body car drawn by a small eugine.
will pay the expenses of four repre­ When we got there we had a terri­
sentatives from the high school of ble time getting anything to eat
each Will .mette valley town. There aud had to climb up some coal
is no limit to the representatives bunkers to get where we wanted to
that may be sent, but expenses ot go. Eventually we got flxed iu a
men over the four have to be paid dinky little ball, the schoolhouse—
by the school. The Student Body ugh! it was dirty. When the time
will also pay the expenses ol first came fot the performance nobody
and second winners in county meets appeared Father could not under­
from counties outside the Willamette stand why not even one person
valley. Silver cups are given the came, so he went to the village to
winuing school, the winning relay inquire.
The ’oldest inhabitant’
team and the individual winning looked at him and said: ’ Have ye
most points. Winners cf first place rung the bell?’ Father admitted
in the events get gold medals; ol he had not. ‘ How can you expect
second place, silver medals; of third people to come if ye dou’t?’ said the
place, bronze medals.
old man
Father took the hint,
The visiting athletes will be given and the bell was pulled vigorously,
lessons in form, and directions lor then came a troop of people who
training, by William Hayward, the had been waiting patiently to see
widcly-kuown athletic instructor of the 'show.’ We gave them some­
ihe State University, for whom thing pathetic aud had them with
every high school boy with a liking os throughout. After the show we
for athletics has a warm spot. Mr, lost our way trying to find our
rooms. It was a caution."
Haywatd will also give an illustrat­
ed lecture on the last Olympic 16041204
games at Stockholm. Sweden.
Fraternity houses and private
April 25th the D ay for AH
homes provide entertainment for
to W ork Roads
most of the contestants aud visitors.
Miss Eleanor Wilson W ill Wed
W. G. McAdoo In White House
CHAPTER I.
T T T l E have Just had another flood,
N. A.— Regular meeting of Laurel
y y | Imd enough, hut only u foot
. ( amp No. 2972 at M. W. A . Hall, E.vyAI o f two of water on the first
Front street, second and fourth Tues­ iP W n l floor. Yesterday we got the
day nights in each month.
mud shoveled out of the cellar and
M aby K kbn ,■Oracle.
found I ’eter, the spaniel that Mr. Lad
E dna K kllky , Rec.
ley left when he “ Went away.” The
O. W .— M irtle Camp No. 197, flood, and the faet that it was Jlr.
. meets every Wednesday at 7 :30 Ladley’s dog whose body was found
p. m. at W. O. W. Hall.
half hurled in the basement fruit
Lee Currie, C. C.
closet, brought hack to me the strange
J ohn I. knkvk , Sec.
events of the other flood five years
VE NIN G TID E C IR C LE N o . 214, ago, when the water reached more
meets second and fourth Monday than half way to the second story,
aud brought with It, to some, mystery
nights in W. 0. W. Hall.
O ka X. M auky , G. N.
and sudden death, and to me the worst
M aby A. P ikkce , Clerk.
case of “ shingles” I have ever seen.
My name is Pitman- in this narra­
'A R M E R S UNION.— Regular meet­
ings »econd and fourth Saturdays in tive. It Is not really Pitman, but that
does well enough. I belong to an old
each month in W. O. W. Hall.
Pittsburgh family.
f was horn on
K r a n k B ubkiioi . dkr , Pres.
O. A. M intonyk , Sec.
Penn avenue, when that was the best
part of town, and l lived, until I was
r a t e r n a l a i d N o . 398, meets the fifteen, very close to wliat Is now tile
second and fourth Thursdays each Pittsburgh club, it was a dwelling
month at W. O. W. Hall.
then; 1 have forgotten who lived there
M bs . C h as . E vi . and , Pres.
M rs . L ora H arrington , Sec. at that time.
I was a girl in '77, during the rail­
road riots, and 1 recall our driving
in the family carriage over to one
Coos county and Crook county
i O Q U I L L B e d u c a t i o n a l of the Allegheny hills, and seeing the
have
the newest high school athlet­
-t LE AG U E —Meets monthly at the yards burning, and a great noise of
ic organizations.
High School Building during the school shooting from across the river.
It
year for ttie purpose oi discussing edu­ was the next year that I ran away
The meet was won in 1913 by
cational topics.
from school to marry Mr. Pitman, and
Columbia University, Portland.
h a n a At.Di.usoN, Pies.
I have not known my family since.
E dna M ina ku , Sec.
Visitors at this year’s meet, which
We were never reconciled, although I
r r O K E E L K LU B —A business men’s cume back to Pittsburgh after twenty
comes during Junior week-end, will
l x social organization. Hall in Laird’ s years o f wandering. Mr. Pitman was
have opportunity to see the Oregon-
building, Second street.
dead; the old city called me, and I
A. J. buaawooD. P.cs.
O. A. C track meet, May 8, and
came.
F bkd bLaLLK, be..
“ What do you want?" he asked
other Junior week-end events.
I had a hundred dollars or so, and
sharply.
OMV1ERC1AL c L U b J. E. Nonio« I took a house 111 lower Allegheny,
President; J. C. S a i auk , Secretary where, because they are partly Inun­ using the washstand as a desk, aud it
CURRY COUNTY CHUNGS
dated every spring, the rents are cheap, kept me busy with oxalic acid taking
(From the Port Orford Tribune)
and I kept hoarders.
My house was ink spots out of the splasher aud the
always orderly and clean, and although towels. He was writing a play and
RAINS —Leave, south hound 9.00 a.
the neighborhood had a bad name, a talked a lot about the Shuberts having
Photos copyright. 1914, by American Press Association.
Steve Gallier and Frank Catter-
m. and 3:00 p. m. North b:>und
good many theatrical people stopped promised to star him in it when it was
i0 :40 a. m. and 4 :40 p. m.
lin
were in town last night, return-
HERE will be another White House wedding very soon. Miss Eleanor
with me. Five minutes across the finished.
Randolph Wilson, youngest daughter of the president and Mrs. Wil­ ing to Bandon from a business trip
OATS—Six boats plying on the Co- j bridge and they were in the theater
“ I I ----!” he safd, and, turning, spoke
quille river afford ample aecor^mo- district. Allegheny at that time, I be­ to somebody in the room.
son. will wed Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo. Miss to Gold Beach.
dation lor carrying freight and p «.Sv.ii lieve, was still an independent city.
Wilson Is twenty-four and Is the most vivacious of the Wilson daugh­
“ We can go into the back room,” I
»¿era to Bandon and way points.
j Itut since then it lias allied itself with heard him say, and he closed the door.
ters. Mr. McAdoo Is fifty. He Is a widower with six children, two of whom
Geo. Johnson ol Astoria, who had
leave at 7:30, 8:30, 9:20 and 9:.r0
m.
are married. He Is a grandfather. Mr. McAdoo Is said to be younger In charge
his
Pittsburgh; It Is now tile north side of When he opened it again the room was
of the fishing interests of
and at 1 :00, 3:30 ami 4:43 p. ir.
the city.
empty. I called in Terry, the Irish­ manner than those of his age usually are. Reports that Mr. McAdoo would
I AGE—J. L. Laird, proprietor. De­
i was glad to get back. I worked man who does odd jobs for me uow resign from the cabinet were circulated. Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, the the Wedderburn Trading Company
parts 5:30 p. m. for loeeburg via hard, hut I made my rent and my liv­ and then, and we both got to work at second daughter, was the first of the three Wilson girls to marry.
at Rogue rivet last season, passed
Myrtle Point,earning the United States ing and a little over. Now and then the tacks in the carpet, Terry working
down the coast a few days ago to
mail anil pasengere.
on summer evenings I went to one of by the window and I by the door intc
resume the same position
the back parlor,- which the Ladleys
t j OSTOFFICE.— A. F. Linegar, poet- the parks and, sitting on a bench,
1 master. The mails close as follow-»: watched the children playing around used as a bedroom.
tainly have as much reason to sup­ and one ol the western railroads of­
County Attorney Meredith says
Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. in. and lookisl at my sister’s house, closed
That was how I happened to hear port their judgment as anyone else. fered to purchase this acreage from
that he will vigorously prosecute
Marshfield 10:15 a. m. and 4:15 p. in. for the summer. It Is a very large what I afterward told the police.
Uando • and way points, Norway and house. Iler butler once had his wife
Some one—a man. but not Mr. Lad- Politically this Panama canal toll the government. Senator Myers of all persons who accidentally shoot
Arago 12:45 p. in. Eastern mail 4:45 hoarding with me—a very nice little
ley was talking. Mrs. Ladley broke exemption matter is very exciting, Montana, introduced a bill to dis­ and kill another in Curry county so
a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: a. m.
woman.
in: “ I won't do it!” she said flatly. and while some o( the big steamship pose of the land, and get the coal to
long as he holds the office he does.
It is curious to recall that at that “ Why should I help him? lie doesn’t
time, five years ago, I had never seen help me. He loafs here all day, smok­ companies and the transcontinental the consumers, and incidentally stir His position in this matter will meet
Mayor.......................... A. T. Morrison my niece, Lida Harvey, and then to ing and sleeping, and sits up all night, railroads doubtless have axes to things up in an industrial way. By with the hearty approval of the
Recorder...................... J. b. Lawrence think that only the day before yester­ drinking and keeping me awake.”
grind, yet there is no evidence that a vote of 28 to 27 the Senate defeat­ people of the county
Treasurer ........................ R. H. Mast day slie came in her automobile ns far
The voice went on again, as if in re­
Of course the
ns she dared and then sat there, wuv- ply to this, and I heard a rattle of they are becoming agitated by con­ ed the proposition
City Attorney
L. A. Liljeqvist
E J. Loney has been in Marsh­
Engineer.................... P. M. Hall-Lewis
ing to me. while the police patrol glasses, as if they were pouring ditions. Meanwhile it is a mistake thousand of acres of Alaska coal
Marshal
C. A. Evernden brought across In a skiff a basket of
field since our last issue, where he
drinks. They always had whisky, even to think that harmony has been lands are to Ire leased, hut original
Night Marshal.................. John Hurley provisions she had sent me.
when they were behind with their routed at the Washington wigwam, proposals to do this very thing were took the Master’s degree in the Ma­
Water Superintendent s. V. Epperson
I wonder what she would have board.
sonic lodge Mrs. Loney is improv­
Eire Ohie;..................... Walter Oerding
thought
had
she
known
that
the
elder­
Councilmen—D. D. Pierce, C. T. Skeele
“ That's all very well,” ¿Mrs. Ladley and the more conservative expect to invariably defeated in Congress ing nicely in the hospital at Bandon,
ly
woman
in
a
calico
wrapper,
with
W. C. Laird, G. O. Lead), W'. H. Ly­
said. I could always hear her, she see the hosts of Democracy break­ The law makers have been so scared
although it will probably be six
ons, Leo J. Cary. Regular meetings an old overcoat over it and a pair of having a theatrical sort of voice—one
ing bread and singing glorious hal of the conservation issues for sever­
first ami third Mondays each monih. rubber boots, was her full aunt.
that carries.
“ But what about the
weeks belore she will be able to re­
The flood and the sight of Lida both prying she .l%v 11 that runs the house?”
lelujas in harmony in a abort time al years that they have stood so
turn
to her home in Port Orford.
brought
hack
the
ease
of
Jennie
Brice,
J. J. Stanley
Justice of the Peace
“ Ilusb, for ! ok I' s sake!" broke In Mr. It is only a lover's quarrel.
straight on the qtteslion that they
Uufi8tül)ltf... .......... ....... Died t.. Kelley ! for even then Lida and Mr. Howell Ladley, and after that they spoke In
At a preliminary hearing before
have bent over backwards most of
THE BROADER QUESTION.
were interested in each other.
whispers. Even with my ear against
Justice Wright last evening E. C.
This Is April. The flood of 1907 was the panel I could not catch a word.
the time.
County Judge....... .........John T. Hull
It has been several years since
Egger was bound over in the sum
Commissioners—W. T. Dement, Geo. J. earlier. In March. It had been a long
The men came just thi n to move the
A good many people have won-
hard winter, with Ice gorges in all the piano, and liy the time we had taken Washington has become so per -1
Armstrong
of 5s°o to appear before the grand
upper valley. Then in early March It and the furniture upstairs the water turbed over a public question. Tar \ dered how it happened that a “ reg-
jury for the killing of J D Bush.
there came a thaw. The gorges broke : was over the kitchen floor and creep­
up and began to come down, filling the ing forward into the hall. I had never iff bills, currency revision, and the j ular Republican” like Congressman C. E. Inman furnished bail,
T. J. Thrift rivers with crushing, grinding ice.
seen the river come up so fast. By goings and comings of new political 1 Burke happened to become tlie
Raymond E. Raker
School Supt.
(Gold Beach Globe)
There are three rivers nt Pittsburgh, , noon the yard was full c f floating Ice, parties have hardly caused such dis choice of "progressive” South Da-
A. N. Gould
Surveyor
the Allegheny and the Monongahela 1 and at 3 that afternoon the police I
The
Postal authorities are now
turbances
as
the
proposition
to
treat
kota,
and
the
answer
seems
to
be
in
Health Officer....
Dr. Walter Culin milting there at the point to form the skiff was on the front streets, and I
Ohio. And nil three were covered with was wading around In mhlier boots, everybody's vessels alike at P a n » the persistent fight Mr Burke has advertising a Civil Service examin­
broken ice, logs and all sorts of debris j taking the pictures off the walls.
ma. The President says ihe treaty carried on against wbat he terms ation to be held in Grants Pass,
from the upper valleys.
I was too busy to see who the Iaid- stands lor just wbat it says
Read “ professional conservationists ” He Or , on April 25th to examine ap­
Societies will get the very best
A warning was sent out from the leys' visitor was nial he had gone when
it yourself, and you will agree tha> j Uas been a bitter loe of the govern- plicants for a post master for Gold
wenttier
bureau,
and
I
got
my
carpets
I
remembered
him
again.
The
Ladleys
PRINTING
ready to lift that morning. That was took the second story front, which it is plain enough, no matter what ment policies that tied up home- Beach.
Wonder why the appli­
at the office of Coquille Herald
on the 4th of March, a Sunday. Mr. | was empty, and Mr. Reynolds, who your political creed may tie
The steaders and settlers in reclamation cants were not required to go to
Ladley mid bin wife, Jennie Brice, had i wss In the silk department in a store
Washington D. C.
opposition says that American ves {
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FROM THF NATIONAL CAPITAL lean
MARGARITA REMEMBERS COOS
be exempted because they ate RiGH SCHOOL BOVS COME
not engaged in “ foreign commerce,”
TO EUGENE ON MAT 9 < Movie Actress Tells of Barn­
Events of Interest Reported which is the meaning of the Hay
Fraternal and Benevolent Orders
/•»OQUIL1.E ENCAM PM ENT, No. 25
v y I. O. O. F., meets the first and third
rhursday nights in Odd Fellows Hall.
J. S. BABTON, 0.
J. N.L awbknce , Sec.
ijjo b Printing— N ew preises
new material and experienced
workmen. A guarantee that
Herald printing will please
Judge John F. Hall has sent out
the following letter calling on the
people to turn out and celebrate
“ Good Roads Day" by doing some
manual labor on the public high­
way and byways:
C iquille Herald
Coquille, Oregon,
Dear Sir:
Governor West has pro­
claimed Satuiday, April 25th as a
public holidav , to be known as All
Ori gon Good Roads Day, and has
requested that every person don
their working clothes and proceed
to do one days labor on the public
highways.
And I request that you give
notice to the citizens |of your dis­
trict, irrespective of race color ot
sex, to procure the necessary tools
and material and perform eight
hours hard labor upon the public
highway for the benefit of public
roads And that you give notice
in writing to the County Court of
the names ol persons so performing
labor,
Persons performing labor upon
that day will not be entitled to com­
pensation.
Yours very respectfully,
John F. Hall
County Judge.
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Jimmie’s Essay on “Botels”
Botels. Botel is a verry use full
little artickles and tbay aim awl
little neather. ive saw sum botels
most as big as a man cud carry an
ive saw sum not so verry big wat
had inside of em moar then most
cud carry.
Sum botels is maid ol skins and
sum is maid of lether but moast
botels is maid of glass. Sum botels
you can sel to the salunes and get
3 for a nickel for em and sum caint
but you can mostly sell the ones
you find around in basements and
old empty bildings and sumtimes
us kids finds em when thay ate
neerly full and then my dad he
likes em and will moastlv give us
ten cents apeace lor em and that is
wy the good hook sez look it ot thow
up on the whine wen it is read wen
it givveth its culler in the cup for
at last it bitteth like a alder and
stinggeth like a surpent, but taik a
little whine lor the stumniick ake,
and did he neerly always has the
stummick ake so he drinks it out of
the botel snze he caint look up on
it in a cup.
youres truely,
Jimmie.