tjT h -j Herald, the o ld estab
lished reliable newspaper of
the Cotjuille Valley in which
an “ ad" always brings results.
V O L. 32,
T he C oquille H erald
the Speaker of the House
CITY DIRECTORY FKOM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL !. shall . be and official
referee ”
i
Fraternal and Benevolent Orders
P E R Y E A R $ 1 .5 0
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 , A U G U S T 11, 1914.
N O . 46
T E S T IN G T H E F L Y ’ S F L IG H T
RECORD OF ONE YE/ R
provements on his house, lor per
sonal comforts and luxuries; and
when one-third of the people in a
country are buying more ofall these Compiled by State Bureau of
Industries and Statistics
things, activity must increase im
mediately in the implement trade,
Glendale has opened a new aud
the steel trade, the clothing trade,
the automobile trade, the grocery itorium.
trade, the trade in household fur
Sheridan business men are back
nishings; in short, in virtually every ing a cannery.
branch of industry.
Springfield state bank is erecting
a new building.
Prohibition W orking North
Cloverdale gets a $2000 co-opera
tive cheese factory.
Sitka, Alaska, land of glaciers,
Main street, Oregon City, will be
gold, sled-dogs and adventurers,
has gone dry by 25 votes.
“ It is repaved with Bitulithic.
Events of Interest Reported
There have been a series of long Oregon Power ( empany Prove# Itself a Public Service
For T he Herald
distance races between the British
Corporation That Does Things Right
and American house flies, iu which
(By J. K. Jones)
On August hrst 1913 the Oregou equipped with large steel enameled
the United States has been hopeless
TH H NKW T H O U G H T IN L IK E I N ly outclassed, according to informa Power Company purchased from reflectors, aud all installed on a
K. 8.—ltegmar meeting of Beulah
SURANCE
tion that has been received by the Frank Morse the Coquilie River separate circuit which begins at the
. Chapter No. 8, second and fourth
Evidently hosti'e interests are be i United States public health service. Electric Company, which supplied new power plant and runs to every
Friduy eveningB of each month, in Ma
sonic Hall.
coming very much dis'res«<d by the It ivas agreed between scientists of electricity in Coquilie and Myrtle street light in the City. In building
M ahy A. P ikkcb , W. M
They have now rounded this line over 30,000 feet of No. 8
success of the Postal Lite Insurance , both countries that there should be Point.
A n n a L aw hknok S e c .,
Company of New York, since they a series of flights to determine jttst out their first year and on looking copper wire was used. Current at
O. O. F.—Coquille Lodge N o.6 3 ,1 .0 .
. O. F., meets every Saturday night are attempting to check its onward how far the flv can carry his bacil back over the pa-.t twelve months a voltage of almost two thousand is
u Odd Fellows Hall.
course by legislative enactment. I lus-covered feet.
In the United one cannot help but notice the used on this system; this being
C. H. C lba vk h , N. G.
There has been a pet theory for a l States 350 flies were captured and rapid strides the new Company has reached and controlled by means of
J . 8 . L a w r e n c e , Sec-
a constant current transformer
good many years that nobody would marked by means of spots of gold made in its service
a m i e r e b e k a H l o d g e . No. 20
Soon after the purchase of the which is installed at the plant.
the most amazing uews,” savs the
I. o. O. F., meets every second and take life insurance utiles, solicited enamel. They were afterward re
fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows
In constructing the power plant SeattleTimes,“ which ever came out
by an agent. The Postal Life has leased and the winner was found property, a little over a year ago,
Hall.
E m il y H eu sky , N. G, .
A n n ie L a w r e n c e , Sec.
plenty ot resources and owns one only 240 yards from the starting work was started on a new power every precaution was used to guard of the Northern territory,”
plant and new distribution systems against possible interruption of ser
of
the big downtown buildings in point.
Sitka is pre-emiently a pioneer
/-«O Q O IL L E ENCAMPMENT, No. 25
V>| 1. O. O. F., meets the first and third New York City
The men who
Arrangements were made Alaskan town, populated by old-
The British experiments were and was pushed rapidly to comple vice.
Thursday nights in Odd Fellows Hall.
organized it believe in printers ink, much more elaborate
with the Mill Company to make timers.
25,000 flies tion.
J. 8. R a r t o n , C. ? .
The plant which formerly sup connection with their boilers in
J . 8 . L a w r e n c e , Sec.
and have hacked their judgment by- : were captured. They were fed on
plied service was located at the mill case of necessity This arrangement
Forest Fire Bulletin
r r NIGHTS OF P Y T H I A N — Lycurgus placing their advertising throughout brown sugar for 24 hours because
IS. Lodge No. 72, meetB Tuesday nights the country.
The result is that it was fourni that such food was below town and for the hrst two proved ot value on the second Sat
in tV. O. W. Hall.
they have been forging ahead rap best to develop their full powers of months, or until the new plant, lo urday that the new plant was in op
K. R. W a t s o n , K R. S.
Portland, Ore.— Several hundred
O. A . M in t o n y b , C. C.
idly —in iact, they have made such flight. The flies were divided into cated on the Coquilie Mill and Mer eration when a defective fitting on forest fites successfully handled with
O Y T H 1A N SISTERS—Justus Temple progress as “ the only non-agency armies of 5000 each, and each lot cantile Company’s property, was the blow-off pipe of one of the practically no loss of green timber
1 No. 35, meets first and Third Mon
company in America” that the old was dusted with a colored powdered completed, which was on October boilers broke which would have is the Pacific northwest record for
day nights in W. 0 . W. Hall.
Mss. G eorge D a v i s , M. E. C.
caused a long shut-down had not the driest July since 1910, according
line insurance companies have de chalk. In one case a fly traveled i S ' h
After a test run o f ten days the
M r s . F red L in e u a r , K . o f R
the emergency boilers been in read to bulletins received from a number
cided to try and to put the innova 1,700 yards within 48 hours of the
ED MEN— Coauille Tribe No, 46, 1. tion out of business, and therefore time of liberation. This, according new plant began the supplying of iness
As it was the lights only of states by the Western Forestry
■ •day” service at n o o n October 25,
O. R. M., meets every Friday night
flickered
as the emergency boiler & Conservation Association. Fires
bills
have
been
introduced
in
belli
to
the
British,
constitutes
the
long
In W. O. W. Hall.
1913.
This marked the first time
J. 8 . B a r t o n , Sachem.
was being cut in.
the Senate and the House which est flight that has yet been recorded,
for the most part have been in old
A . P. M il l e r . C. o f R.
that Coquilie had ever bad electric
A few months ago the company slashings and burns, and while
provide that no insurance company while the American scientists are
ity
for
use
during
the
daylight
W. A -—Regular meetings of Bea- shall be permitted to use the mails
installed a line across the Coquilie filling the country with smoke and
willing to yield the fly marathon
• ver Camp No. 10,550 in M. W . A.
hours Since that time almost con
river, just below Johnson’s Mill to in places severely taxing the patrol
Hall, Front street, flrBt and third Sat for procuring or effecting a policy championship to great Britain, they
tinuous service has b e e n given,there
urdays in each month.
supply power to the ranch of Mr. forces, prompt action has robbed
of insurance upon persons or prop insist that the United States is the
C. D. H u d so n , Consul.
having been very f e w times that it
Detlefsen. A short time previous them of the usual toll of green tim
erty situated in any state of the greatest winner, for the most desir
Li, H . I r v in e , C le r k .
was necessary to shut the plant
to this a fourteen pole power line her or logging equipment.
The
N. A .—Regular meeting of Laurel Unitea States, when the said state able thing to learn about a germ down for repairs.
. Camp No. 2972 at M. W . A . Hall, by its own Hlws prohibit the com carrying house fly is his inability
was constructed to supply service woods are now extremely dry, and
That
the
people
ol
Coquilie
have
Front street, second and fourth Tues
pany from transacting business in to cover very much ground. Eng been anxious lor the day service is to the Jacobson Ranch on the Myr although the full patrol force is on
day nights in each month.
M a r y K e r n , Oracle.
that state. The Postal Life endea land wins, yet she loses.
evideuced by the fact that since the tle Point road. This latter instal duty, the utmost vigilance will have
E d n a K e l l e y , R e c.
lation made Mr. Jacobson’s ranch to be exercised to prevent disas-
vors to reduce the cost of life insur
T H E LIN C O L N M E M O R IA L
Oregon Power Company began con
O. W .— Myrtle Camp No. 197, ance, by doing all its business from
the first in the County to be milking terous fires. The worst of the fire
T
h
e
nation’s
noble
tribute
to
tinuous opreration over sixty horse
. meets every Wednesday at 7 :30
o n e headquarters a n d without Lincoln, for which Congress appro power in motors have been installed, cows with electric power, which season is still to be passed through.
p. m. at W. O. W. Hall.
Lee Currie, C. C.
agents. It has been in business for priated $2,000,000 in February, the latest being the new twenty shows the progressiveness of the
Washington had 75 fires during
J ohn L en kv k , Sec.
a number of years and is successful, 1913, which is now in course of horsepower motor driven pumping dairymen in this territory.
July, nearly all of them being slash
The new line to the City pumping
VENINGTIDE CIRCLE No. 214, as a corporation of New York it is construction in Washington, is to
installation at the City water works station consists of eight forty foot ing fires. A few logs were burned
meets second and fourth Monday regularly examined and has been
as well as some camp equipment,
take
the
form
of
a
monument
sym
on Dutch John Creek.
One can
nights in W. O. W. Hall.
The line is built through and the improvements of one settler.
O ra X . M a u r y , G. N.
given a certificate of good standing bolizing the Union ol the United now see motors in operation in wood poles.
M a r y A. P i e r c e , Clerk.
by the insurance department of that States of America, inclosing in the working factories, machine shops, the thick timber above Dutch John Accurate figures on losses are not
creek but is so constructed that available but the amount is small
ARMERS UNION.— Regular meet state.
walls of its sanctuary three memori garages, ice cream factories, meat
ings second and fourth Saturdays in
Every session ol Congress brings als of the man himself— one a stat markets, blacksmith shop, laundry should it be torn down by a falling taking into account the number ol
each month in W. O. W. Hall.
tree it would become disconnected
forth a lot of bills which bring up ue ot heroic size, expressing Lin
F r a n k B u r k h o l d e r , Pres.
Donkey engines,
and even see them milking cows on from the main distribution systems fires occuring.
O. A. M in t o n y e , Sec.
the old doctrine of stale's rights, coln’s humane personality, the oth
locomotives,"
berry
pickers, a n d
two of the ranches between here of the city and would not interfere
If the ers memorials of his two g r e a t
r a t e r n a l a i d N o . 398, meet» the and this is one of them.
lightning are given as the causes of
and
Myrtle
Poiut.
second and fourth Thursdays each Postal Life was open to criticism on
with the rest of the service. Heavy the fires, About too men are on
speeches, one of the Gettysburg
The electric flat iron and cooking
month at W. O. W . Hall.
No
6 wire is used to transmit the patrol duty for the Washington
the part of the federal government, speech, and the other of the second utensils are also extensively used,
M r s . C h a s . E v l a n d , P res.
M rs . L o r a H a r r in g t o n , S ec. t h e n
the Postoffice Depratment inaugural address, each with attend over two hundred being sold in current from the power plant to the Forest Fire Association, while the
pumping station.
State Fire Warden has on some 70
Educational Organizations and Clubs would have checked its progress ant sculpture aud painting telling Coquilie during the past twelve
During the past year the company men.
long years ago.
in
allegory
of
his
splendid
qualities
months.
•»
OQUILLK EDUCATIONAL
The singularly significant thing evident in those speeches.
One ot the most important things has spent quite an amount of money
LEAGUE—Meets monthly at the
Idaho in common with other
Duriug th e construction states has experienced high temper
High School Building during the school about this legislation is that only
the
Company has done was the re here.
By
means
of
terraces,
the
ground
year for the purpose ot discussing edu
one company is affected by the num at the site of the Lincoln memorial building of the distribution systems period from August first to Decem atures and practically no rain during
cational topics.
K en A AkDERSON, Pies.
erous bills that have appeared al will be raised until the same level and the installation of the new ber first a large crew of men was July. A number of fires have start
E l n a M i n a k u , S ec.
kept busy on the lines, from thirty ed but prompt discovery has prac
most simultaneously in Congress, is obtained as the ground at the street lighting systems.
O K EEL KLUB—A business men’ s
to forty men being employed. tically prevented loss.
The
former
constituted
the
con
A small
social organization. Hall in Laird’ s but il it is true that through the base of the Washington monument.
use of advertising space and the First, a circular terrace, 1000 feet struction of a new pole line from the Much of the material used was pur amount of green timber has been
building, Second street.
A. J . S h e r w o o d . Pies.
United States mail this company in diameter, will be raised 11 feet Ferry to the east end of Second chased through local merchants fire-killed. Campers, lightning and
F re d S l a g l e , S e ..
has built its business to a big above the present grade. On its street, on which were strung large both here and in Myrtle Point. brush-burning are responsible fot
om m er c ia l club
l . h . H a zar d
success,
then there is no more rea outer edge will be planted four con wires, for this line is the main feeder Their payroll has averaged over a nearly all fires which have occured
President; C. A. H o w a r d , Secretary
son why it should be restricted by centrate rows of trees, leaving a system fer the entire residence sec thousand dollars a month, although in the state.
The full patrol force
Transportation Facilities
local state laws, than by acts of plateau in the center 750 feet in di tion of the City. New branch lines now that the construction is practic is on duty.
ally completed only a few men are
RAINS—Leave, Bouth bound 9 :00 a. common council and county boards.
Montana has experienced no sev
ameter, which is four feet greater were built on several of the cross
m. and 3:00 p. m. North bound
employed.
streets
to
assure
the
people
who
With
all
the
restrictions
being
plac
ere
fires.
The State and Forest
than
the
length
of
the
Capitol.
In
ill :40 a. m. and 4:40 p. m.
____
Shortly after Manager McKenna Service are cooperating in an effort
ed upon insurance companies has the center of this plateau, surround lived on the north and west ends of
OATS—Six boats plying on the Co
arrived and took charge of the Ore properly to cover the timbered sec
quille river afford ample accommo come the demand that the United ed by a wide roadway and walks, town of securing the same class of
dation lor carrying freight and passen States Congress provide for federal
gon Power Company's business tions adjacent to the National For
service
as
the
stores
in
the
business
will rise a terrace 16 feet high and
gers to Bandon and way points. Boats
here the Herald made the prophecy ests.
section.
control
and
regulation
of
insurance
I eave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9:20 and 9 :C0 a. m.
500 feet in diameter, making a total
In building these lines over that he would make good and be
and at 1:00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p. m._______
business throughout the United elevation of grade 27 feet above the
Oregon reports about 100 fires
n PAGE— J. L. Laird, proprietor. De States as a practical solution of the present grade. On this will rise seventy-five new poles were used, well liked in this community. This lor the month, the most severe ones
al} parts 5:30 p. m. for lOscburg via
many being of 50-foot lengths. Sev forecast has been amply verified being in old slashings. An incon
Myrtle Point,carrving the United States problems that have been exciting the memorial to Lincoln.
mail and pasengers.
legislatuies and state insurance de , T H E COLON EL A N D T H E T R E A T IE S eral thousand feet of wire and many and under his management the Ore siderable amount of green timber
pole fixtures, such as cross arms, gon power company has become has been fire-killed. The State For
OSTOFFICE.— A. F. Lincgar, post partments in recent years
When Colonel Roosevelt came to
iusulators and hardware were also very popular in this city.
As a ester has go men on patrol paid by
master. The mails close as follows :
Washington two years ago and ap
A R G U M E N T S BY FORCE
Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. ni.
installed.
matter of fact, this is the record of State and Weeks law funds and
Marshfield 10:15 a. m. and 4:15 p. in.
peared
before
the
committe
investi
When one sees old Ben Tilman
The new street lighting system, the Byllesby corporations wherever private owners are employing 300
Bandon and way points,7 a m. Norway
h e
and Aragol2:45 p.m. Eastern mail 4:15 plodding through the streets of gating campaign expenses,
which is known as the “ Series Sys they do business, and if all public wardens. Telephone service which
a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: p. m.
Washington the conclusion sug turned the plans of Congressmen tem,” and is classed in the electrical
service corporations conducted their has been greatly improved the past
gests itself that this fiery individual topsy turvy. With this recollection industry as the best system of street
affairs on the same lines there year is proving a marked factor in
City and County O fficers
who once fought with fists in the in mind, the Senate Foreign Rela lighting, consists ot the installation
would be much less sentiment for protection work
High winds, hot
Mayor................................A. T. Morrison United States Senate, has become tions Committee is not particularly
of sixty-two lamp fixtures, each municipal owuership.
R ecorder.......................... J. 8. Lawrence
weather
and
practically
no precipi
anxious
to
have
the
Colonel
appear
too civilized to continue to advocate
Treasurer .........................R. H. Mast
tation
have
put
the
woods
in dan
before
it
to
tell
what
he
knows
and
City Attorney..................L. A. Liljeqvist that style of argument. Yet there
The Tariff and Sugar
Engineer ......................P. M. Hall-Lewis remain in Congress politicians who thinks about the pending treaties
Crops bnd General Prosperity gerous condition.
Marshal....................................A. P. Miller
Reports from portions ol Califor
Night Marshal................ Oscar WicKham a.-* quite as obstreperous as was proposing to pay Colombia $25,-
Water Superintendent S. V. Epperson
Under the stimulus of the reduced
Alexander D. Noyes, financial nia indicate more favorable condi
000,000 for the partition of Panama.
‘
•Pitch
Fork”
Tillman
in
hisearlier
Fire Cliie;...... .....................
W.
C. Chase
Recently Representative The Colombian treaty promises to tariff, consumption of sugar iu the tditor of the New York Evening tions than last season, while the con
Councilmen —D. D, Pierce, C. T. Skeels d a y s .
C. I. Kime, G. O. Leach, W . H. Ly Bryan of the state ol Washington, become a great political issue, be states of the East alone has increased Post, writing in the Youth’s Com trary is true elsewhere in the noith-
ons, O. C. Hanford. Regular meetings
To be panion on the significance of a west.
Hrst and third Mondays each month. having become infnriated by the cause it not only carries the sugges practically 20 per cent.
Throughout the northwest the
taunts of Repiesentatives Moore of tion to repudiate the acts ot the exact, the consumption of sugar 900,000,000 bushel wheat crop,says:
Justice of the Peace.......... J. J. Stanley Pennsylvania and Madden of Illi Roosevelt administration with ref from March first to June 19 in the “ Abundant crops in any country in preparations made early in the sea
Constable........................... Ned C. Kelley
nois, went oil the warpath, and had erence to the independence ot tne . territory above mentioned was 893,- fluence that country’s prosperity. son to meet a bad year are proving
Republic ol Panama, but it opens 000 tons in 1914, as compared with Since a farmer’s earnings a n d extremely helpful
Never before
John T. Hall there not been interference it is
County Judge..........
Com m lesionerà—W. T. Dement, Geo. J. likely that some Congressional mugs wide the question of continuing the 748,000 tons in 1913- This is one wealth depend on bow much he can has such close working cooperation
policy of secret sessions ot the com
Armstrong
existed between the Government,
James Watson would have been sadly disfigured, mittees of the Senate in considering the results of Democratic rule. The earn and sell, a big crop is a wind
Clerk
..........
,W. W . Gape The speaker reminded the House treaties. Those Senators who have | saving to the consumer by taking fall, both to him and to the employ States, and private patrols, and to
..... T. M. Dimmick
the duty off of sugar is , 58 i cents ees whom he pays for harvesting it. this can be largely attributed the
T. J. Thrift that the Congress of the United been making a fight for public j
Raymond E. Baker States was "not a school lor pugi hearings upon all questions declare ; per pound, which, figured on the Since something like one-ihtrd of the success of the work up to the
A. N. Gould
Surveyor
that there is no more interesting I
present time From now on hunters
.......... F. E. Wilson lism ” Representative Roberts who matter before the American people amount of Sugar consumed in the the people engaged in the produc
United States last year, namely, 8,- tive occupations in the United j and campers will be going into the
Dr. Walter Culin is making a hid for the position of
Health Officer
than surrounds the affairs ot the j
House "jester,” has introduced a Colombian and Nicaraguan treaties. 384,631,360 pounds would be equal States work on farms, bountiful j mountains, and their cooperation is
Loggers,
crops directly enrich a very great ' needed to prevent fires.
resolution providing that "the Although the Republicans always to $48,724,708.
maintained
this
policy
whe«
they
j
road
builders
and
ranchers
should
part
of
the
country’s
population
Societies will get the very best
Marquis of Qneensbury rules shall
were in power, they are now ptac- J
But the farmer who earns more be doubly careful with fire. Only
govern the House in the settlement tically unanimous in caiticising the
PRINTING
Trespass notices printed on cloth
of all disputes, when the question Democrats for holding executive) and worded in keeping with law, money can afford to spend more— I through such care will serious fires
at the office o f Coquilie Herald
for new farm implements, for im be averted.
or sale at the Herald office.
of personal privilege is involved . sessions.
F. & A. M.— Regular meeting ol
. Chadwick Lodge No. 88 A. F. & A.
M.. at Masonic Hall, every Saturday
night in each month on or helore the
lull moon.
l>. D. I’ ikhck , W . M.
K. H. M a h t , Secretary.
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STATE INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
New Bridge, Baker county, can
nery is running on beans.
Pendleton will have auto street
car service for the roundup.
A 12 ft. vein struck 3
miles
from Medford says the Sun.
Willamina wants another payroll
in the shape ot a cheese factory.
S H. Friendly and A. Martin
will build residences in Eugene.
Warrenton has carried a $150,
000 bond issue for gravity water.
Salem commercial club will make
a strong pull for a starch factory.
Krebs Bros , Sidney, Polk coun
ty, are building a $2000 dairy barn.
Two east side docks are to be
built at Portland costing $140,000.
Nearly two thousand piles driven
on Astoria Municipal dock to date,
Contracts have been let for the
Sandy river bridge to cost $20,849.
Linn county officials are plan
ning a new auto road to Cascadia.
The S. P. Co. will install block
signals on 200 miles of its Oregon
lines.
Green Mountain mine, Douglas
county, may operate on a large
scale.
Pendleton has a building boom
and the Daily Tribune has a new
home.
Steam shovels are working night
and day between North Bend and
Ten Mile.
Woodburn In d ep en d en t h a s
moved into the new Austin brick
just finished.
The distilling of peppermint oil
has begtfn on the Dugold Campbell
farm near Coburg.
Phillips and Miller have installed
an 100 horsepower engine in their
Bandon brickyard.
Hood River Co-operative cream
ery has secured site and will begin
construction at once.
Oregon Eastern railroad renewed
construction from Vale toward cen
tral Oregon the past week.
The Geo. F. Willey Co. conducts
extensive operations on Vale oil
field beginning this month.
Eugene will try to float a broom
tactory and Albany is raising a
subsidy for a furniture factory.
The Hill system will resume oper
ation of the big Kalama ferry and
take traffic right through to Astoria.
Red Ledge mine to have $100,000
and Homestead mine $250,000 spent
on development work, is a Baker
Democrat report.
The State Industrial Accident
commission has on file 200 claims
against the state betore it has been
running a month.
State bank examiners reports
show a decrease of deposits in Ore
gon national banka from Nov. 1 to
June 3r of $2,064,250.
Willamette Pacific grade is to be
completed from Eugene to Marsh
field by Jan. 1st.
Between 1700
and 2000 men are employed.
Eugene council and the Portland,
Eugene & Eastern Ry. have settled
their differences on Eighth avenue,
and construction werk begins.
Last heavy machinery for the
Booth-Kelly sawmill has arrived
and the formal opening of the mill
has been deferred to Labor day,
Sept. 7.
C. E S. Wood, just home from
New York, says both the Hill and
Harriman systems will resume e x
tensions in Oregon under better fi
nancial conditions.
Salem labor organizations are
picketing his public market build
ing and boycotting R. R. Ryan as
unfair. Ryan has been a promi
nent socialist leader and labor ad*
vocate.