/ •¡T h e Herald, the old estab lished reliable newspaper of the Coquille V alley in which an “ ad" always brings result; VOL. 32. T he C oquille H erald NO. 49 CITY DIRECTORY COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1914. FINANCIAL SITU ATIO N DSCUSSED fljo b Printing— N ew presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please PER YEAR $1.50 sured to us, but I must omit doing cerniug the situation, as at that So as, before closing. I wish to say ! time we were laboiing under an Fraternal and Benevolent Orders a word or two concerning our local antiquated and archaic system that F. & A. M. — Regular meeting ol conditions and how I believe the was utterly incapable ot expanding Events of Interest Reported Compiled by State Bureau of • Cliailwick Lo<lgu No. 68 A. F. & A. Address Delivered by A . L. Mills, a Portland Banker who European war wilt effect business with the needs of commerce Thanks For The Herald M .. at Masonic Hall, every Saiunlay Industries and Statistics night in each month on or before the interests in the northwest. is no Prophet of Disaster and who Takes Some however, to the Aldrich-Vreeland full moon. I*. H. I’ ik u c k , W . M. (By J. E. Jones) FJugene gets a big box factory. We are now harvesting one of Currency Bill that was passed in K. ti. M aht , Secretary. Hard Falls out of Calamity Howlers the most bountilul crops with which 1908 and extended by the present BIG A N D BU8V P O L IT IC S Linton gels a $3500 bungalow. K. S.— Reguiar meeting o( Beulah . Chapter No. 6, second ami fourth On Wednesday your Committee nauciat system today is shown by *be northwest was ever blessed; a Congress it becomes possible for the Warretiton gets a clam cannery. While ihe Capital itself has been Frulay evenings of each month, in Ma honored me with an invitation to the ease with which we parted with . croP tbat Europe and especially backs of the the country to join to trying to “ get the number” of the sonic Hall. Parma gets Dairy Products fac M an y A . P ibhck , W . M. speak to you tonight on the exist- j one hundred millions of gold in the England must have in order that gether in Currency Association and Attorney General of the United tory. A n n a L awiiknck S e c ., ing and future financial conditions first five months of this year and their peoples shall not starve. This obtain issues of currency for which States, the President has been so Springfield sawmill starts August o . O. P c—Coqstile Hodge No. 5 3 ,1 .0 . in the United Slates. forty-eight millions more duriug crop thev must pay for no matter "Vncle Sam” acts as the redemption well satisfied that he has elevated 2 9 t h . . O. F ., meets every Saturilay night agent. The limit of this currency what the cost may he. England There is not time tonight, nor! the month of July, without disturb- ■l Odd Fellows llall. him to a position in the Supreme Columbia county reduces valua O. H . C l b a v k s , N. G . pethaps is there inclination on your j ing one iota our finances At no appreciates this lad and is bending was at first put at five hundred mil Court, which is supposedly the J. S. I. aw hb n ck , Sec. tions rue million part to listen to an exhaustive eco- previous date in the history of onr every effort to compass its safe lions, but within the past lew days greatesj h&nor that can befall a law A M 1K K E B E K a H LODGE, N o . 20 n-mic discussion of American fin- country have we exported a like transportation. The British gov this limit has been taken off and Astoria has opened bids on $35,- yer McReynolds was practically 1. O. O. F ., m att* e v r second and 000 sewer contract. the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. ernment itself has. Limotinced that nance; at best, only ill! most strik- amount ol gold in so-short a time fourth Wednesday nights in'Odd Fellows unknown to American politics until Hall. E mily lltcnaitY, N. G, it will insure the shipper and owner McAdoo, is permitted at bis discre $2iro bridge going across Camas ing feature ot the situation can be to have done so in tears gone by President Wilson dug him up.) A nnik L awhkncb . Sec. touched upon. ; would have rocked every financial against any loss occasioned by the tion to allow this issue to be put out Another new man has been elevated swale, Lane county. /C O Q U IL L E E N C A M l’ MENT, No. 25 Certain facts— and beyoud per- institution in the country to its European war, and it but remains in an unlimited amount. Such cur to the position, and this gentleman,- $15,000 is 10 be expended on the V r I. O. O. F., meets the first and third Thursday nights in Odd Fellows Hall. adventure the most important ones foundations and probably brought for our International bankers toper- rency associations bave been formed Thomas Watt Gregory of Texas, Clackamas hatchery, J. 8 . B a r t o n , O . 1 ’ . in the consideration of our present ruin to many. Today not one has lect arrangements for negotiating in New York and Chicago and, I is as obscure so far as any kuow- J . 8. L awhkncb . Sec. One vessel took 22,000 cedar ties Al financial conditions, which must be been disturbed by such a heavy ex the bills of exchange drawn against believe in other large centers. lege of him by the American people “ nd poles to San Diego. \ r NIGHT8 OF PYTH IAN.— Lycurgur ready the strain upon the financial Iw Lodge No. 72. meets Tuesday nights indelibly impressed upon the mind portation of (he precious metal; nay these corgoes so that they may be is concerned, as a country postmas A large summer hotel is to be in W . O. W . Hall. of every business man in Ihtse Un- more, financial leaders say so good converted into cash in New York. institutions of those centers has ter. It is understood that Mr. built at south Coos rivtr. R. R. W atso n , K R. 8. ited States, are — and sound is our condition that au- This I firmly believe will be con been so materially lessened that our Gregory was appointed largely be O. A. M intonvk . C. C. $25,000 is to beexpendedsinkiog recent telegrams from those points First— That financial conditions ° ,ber 0De hundred millions could summated within the next two or cause of the influence exercised in oil and gas wells at Astoria. i j Y T H IA N SISTERS— Justus Tempi« state that business again in proceed three weeks When accomplished, 1 No. 35, meets first and Third Mon in our country today are soutid, bave gone abroad without percepti- his behalf bv Colonel E, M. House, day nights iu W. O. W . Hall. ihe question of exporting our grain ing normally. Cottage Grove Electric Co. se and at no time since our govern-1 bW affecting conditions who is another man of mystery, Mss. G b imuk D a v i s , M. E. C. (Mr. Mills here explained that Colonel House is a Texan, although cured the municipal contract. M rs . F red L ink oar , K. of R ment was established were they! Third: Because the New York is solved, and with the solution will come a flow of English gold to our tbe Portland bankers did not think Newport is installing a pumping ED MKN —CoaniUe Tribe No, 40, 1. ever in a sounder condition than ■"’loch Exchange against which so he lives most ot the lime in New O. R. M., meets every Friday night they are at this moment. many ot our people exclaim, was country in greater volume than we it would be necessary to issue any York and Washington, iu ihe same plant to increase water supply. f n W. O. W\ Hall. have ever witnessed before— a vol Vreeland currency, but that they Tbe Hoke cannery at Medford is J. S. B a r t o n , Sachem. manuer as a good many Senators Second (and let this sink deep in- kePl °P en ior days af,er everV or* ume (so great as to materially [stim were perfecting the necessary ar A. P. M ill e r . C. of R. to your understanding) — There is 8*n,*ed s,ock exchange iu the who are supposed to be residents of puffing up a large pack of tomatoes, W . A. —Regular meetings of Bea- absolutely no danger today of a fi-: wor,d had closed: yet by 80 doin8 ulate every business enterprise with rangements to meet a possible em particular states and only get back, S. A. Buck starts work on a large • ver Camp No. 10,550 in M. W . A. in this country. ergenev, and if it should prove home at election time. Thus Texas box factory at Eugene this week, Hall, Front street, first and third Sat naneial panic sweeping across this ’vas able t0 absorb' wi,bout Panic In the meantime however, lor necessary they would not hesitate which already has tbe place of Post-! Portland firm got the 2,500,000 urdays in each month. country such as all of us have seen | or d,saster’ the immense flood of se C. D. H udson , Consul. the uext two or three weeks there to take out all the currency needed nt times gone by, nor, indeed, shall rurles Poured uP°n us by the Pauic master Genera! in the Cabinet, is gallon reservoir contract at Eugene, L l H . I rvin e , Clerk. will be unrest and fear and excite for the commerce of this section ) given a second portfolio in Presi- j Linn county citizens want to es you or I ever again witness in this strlcken peoPles of EuroPe - Such -Regular meeting of Laurel N. A .- One moving cause for the belief dent Wilson’s official family. Polit country such panic conditions as stability ot our financial institutions, ment. It therefore devolves upon • Camp No. 2972 ....................... at M. W . A Hall, . of the Portland bankers that we ically Texas, in point of being con tablish a county rock crushing Front Btreet, second and fourth Tuea us all to practice patience and main prevailed in 1907 or 1893 or, in 1 for ,n the end the burden was cast plant. day nights in each month. M aky K krn , Oracle. deed, in other panic years. These l,Pon ,hem’ makes il but tbe Tues- tain our courage, for there is noth should go slow in issuing the Vree spicuous, ranks next to New Jersey. Riverside Drive, Portland, will E dna K e l l e y , Rec. land currency is the fact that the ing to fear in the future. Wbat is It may even become notorious in a are cold, hard tacts and not the ro- j ,lon of a ,ew yea’ s before New York be paved with Warrenite. Cost O. W .— Myrtle Camp No. 197, sy dreams of some visionary student | becomes tbe recognized financial true of our wheat crop is true in Federal Reserve Act will shortly short time, since it is probable that . meets every Wednesday at 7:30 $ 1 9 - 3 4 *- lijce measure to our meat, bops and be in operation. The Federal Re ihe Senatorial contest will be en of political economy; facts that are;center ot tbe world- p. m. at W . 0 . W . Hall. serve Board has now been organized livened by the demand ol the parti Bids were opened Aug. 26 for Lee Currie, C. C. established truths in the minds of Fourth: Because today we have other products. J o h n I. e n e v e , Sec . and they are pushing forward rapid the construction of the Hood River Your grouchy pessimist, ever sans of former Senator Bailey that financiers ol established reputation, eslablished in this country, and highway. and facts that should and must he -,oon t0 be in full operation a scien seeking for fresh causes to whine ly the organization of the twelve he be returned to the Senate It isolat fcs meets second and fourth Monday equally well established in your ,ific financial system that is capable abcut, is going up and down our District Reserve Banks. The Star Packing Co of Chicago nights in W . O. W . Hall. ed that by October first these banks T H E LOST A R T OF " W A R C O R R E S is putting a large clam cannery at streets today saying “ doubtless it mind and in the mind of every bus- j °* withstanding any strain or stress O r a X . M a u r y , G . N. PONDENCE” M a r y A. P i e r c e , Clerk. Warrenton. may be true that Europe needs our will be in operation If so, it will iness man in these United Slates. tbat may b<= brought upon it. When the American fleet sailed Let me repeat them, for they can- I These are the reasons why our crops, but nevertheless if they can easily solve auv existing financial The Pacific Power & Light Co. is ARM ERS U N IO N.— Regular meet ings second and fourth Saturdays in not be reiterated too often; — First; | practical financiers believe our fi- not be shipped in safety from our troubles and be far less expensive for the Gulf of Mexico most of the preparing to extend service to each month in W . O. W . Hall. These United States were never in naneial conditions were never ports they are of no value to us.” to tbe borrower. As you know, tbe metropolitan newspapers were rep Warrenton. F r a n k B u r k h o l d e r , Pres. O. A . M i X io n y », Sec. This is utterly false, as I have en Reserve Bank of this District will resented by special correspondents a sounder financial condition than 'sounder than they are today, A force of twenty men are at deavored to show you, for England be located in San Francisco, but who. after spending a week or two work on tbe new highway from they are today. Second: There is Let me repeat them for they are 'R A T E R N A L AID No. 398, meets the second and fourth Thursdays each no danger of financial panic today w°rth remembering: must have our grain and is prepar we are using every effort to have a in the war zone were glad to find a Alsea bay east. month at W. O. W . Hall. ed to pay the price and bear the branch established in Portland at as boat returning to the dear old nor shall we ever again see such First: One billion, five hundred M rs . C i i a s . E vi . a n d , Pres. Roseburg commercial club has en- M rs . L ora H akhinoton , Sec. panics as we have*in the past. million of gold on hand in these burden of the war risks. That Eng early a moment as the parent in United States Circumstauces con- nected with the European war con- dorsed the bil> t0 peusion and retire stitution in San Francisco will per Take these statements of facts United States, an amount capable land is amply able to do this is Educational Organizations and Clubs firm the experiences of metropolitan c' vd serv’ce employees. mit Should, however, the estab shown by the fact that when the home with you. mull over them, ;of supporting a currency system OQUILLE EDUCATIONAL Astoria municipal docks will take lishment of the branch bank newspapers at the Mexicon trouble, European war first broke out, as a make them a part and parcel of bf*y limes, at least, greater than L E AG U E — Meets monthly at the High School Building during the school your daily financial creed, and then now is carried. first protection against a business be delayed more than is expected, showing that the science of "war two and a half million feet of lum year for the purpose ol discussing edu excitement, the Bank of England nevertheless we shall be ably pos correspondent” has become a "lost ber from the local mills— giving join with other loyal patriotic citi-! Second: I he ease with which cational topics. Richard Hardinv Davis, them preference. H e n a A e d k r s o n , Pies. zens in preaching to your neigh-Jwe withstood a drain within six raised its rate of discount to eight sibly, at some inconvenience, to art.” E d n a M i n a k u , Sec. John Reed, Jack London and a few transact our business directly with The boycott (or the destruction bors the gospel of faith in on' coun- month, of one hundred and forty- and then to ten per cent, and de other gentlemen wrote very enter- of the Salem public market is still. ' O K EEL K LUB— A business men’s try’s institutions and the absolute eight millions of gold and the ability clared a few days bank holiday. the San Francisco bank. E social organization. Hall in Laird's Incidentally, I wish to call the at tainingly of the affairs of Vera Cruz : on hut the market is being establsh- soundness of its present financial to withstand a further drain of one When it was seen by the English building, Second street. tention of the business men of the but the teal stories tbe American on a large scale, A. J. S heravood , Pies. hundred millions financiers lhat there was no need system F r e d S l a o i . k , Set. community to one change that will people looked for hungrily were The Gold Ridge Mines Co. of lor undue alarm the bank of Eng Third: The remarkable strength Aye, this and more, you and I OM MKRCIAL CLUB L. 11 . H aza rd ensue in our methods of doing busi furnished by the Associated Press Seattle has bought 300 acres of gold ol the New York Slack Iixchauge land's rate of discouut fell rapidly and all ol us should do— combat President; C. A . HowAnn.Secrolary with the power aDd force that is to absorb vast quantities of our to six per cent; and then to five per ness after this bank is established— and other similar organi ations piacer ]and on Josephioe creek, and Transportation Facilities ___ within us the dismal croakings o( j securities without malqng any pre- cent. This rate, although some Commercial paper proper for dis “ Fine writing” will always be ap wjn pm ¡n a lar){e dredger plant. predated, but, iu tbe hours of ex-1 »„ „ . . p R A l NS—Leave, south hound 9 .00 a. tue confirmed pessimist who, when* i ceptible strain upon our financial what higher than normal, is not an count at the reserve Bank must have r ’ 1 An injunction was granted by c l i e n t the dot and dash of the Judge Eakin tQ re#trajn ,he co,lec. a fixed date of maturity, and inter unusual one at this time of year, l0 : « ; . m d.n.M :« pD,m NOrth ever there is the smallest cloud iu institutions. , tbe sky, believes that the sun will; Fourth: The establishment ol a nor one that is in any way a bar to est must be taken out in advance. telegraph instrument, prompted by ,ion Q, ,he IQ pef CfQt OATS— Six boats plying on the Co at the scene „ „ . Such calamity scientific and economic system, the commercial transactions. It means It is within tbe possibilities that live war correspondents r . the new tax law due alter Sept. 1st. quille river ufTonl ample accommo never shine again dation lor carrying freight and jMsaeii howlers are pests in society, of value equal ot any in the world These that the merchants and bankers of when the reserve bank is in opera of trouble, interested in telliDg the The state highway campaign gers to Handou ami way points. Boats tion a member bank will he able to exact news, is the modern and more leave at 7:30, 8:30, 9:20 and 9:30 a. m. neither to themselves nor to others, are the reasons why financial con London, of worthy standing, can through central Oregon will turn satisfactory method demanded by the and at 1 :00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p, rr. but rather they : re a drag upon the ditions are sound today in this coun discount their papers and commodi liquidate every dollar of its com travel through the great interior to American newspaper readers. Be mercial paper, provided such paper try Practical economists believe ty bill at reasonable ratesofinterest. TAGE— J. L. Laird, proprietor. De wheels of our nation’s progress. the loss of tbe Willamette valley side this the scope of operations in parts 5 :3 0 p. m. (or loscburg via That Pardon this digression, hut there in them; bankers worthy of the Such being the case, and with trans is of the proper character. counties. Myrtle l’oint,carrving the United Slates should not be even standing room name ol bankers believe in them, portation rendered safe, there is means that a properly conducted modern warfare covers scores of mail ami pasengers. Portland has awarded ten paving and it but remains to drive this be practically nothing to hinder our member bank cannot suspend or miles, and long range guns make it OSTOFFICE.— A. F. Linegar, post for the pessimist in this great coun almost impossible for one army to j contracts aggregating a quarter of fail. lief home to every business man in exports freely going abroad. I con master. The mails close as lollow-t: try of ours. Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. anti 2:35 p. in. get near enough to another to be a tndbon' Warren Bros, and Ore. Now, the future! A man is a To return to our subject— why the country, to still forever the pes- fidently believe that within a month Marshfield 10:15 a. m. anil 4:15 p. m. eeen. The day of the musketry Independent Paving Co. getting Bandon anil way points,7 a m. Norway should the best financial minds in •‘iimist who now goes np and down our foreign export trade will again tool who attempts the role ol a pro anti Aragol2:45 p.m. Eastern mail 4:15 our country believe financial condi- \ *bf land mournfully crpaking about be on a comparatively normal basis, phet— but were I to venture such charge and the slashing saber, and ! tbe j ° bs- a. in. Eastern mail arrives 10: p. m. tlons never sounder than they are impending panics and by so doing or at least on such a basis as will foolhardiness, I should say that the hand to hand fights has passed, i A force of men have resumed con- today!1 i disturbing business and spreading permit foreign business to he trans next year or two will see in Oregon Tbe telegraph wire at tbe scene of struction work on tbe Western C ity and County O fficers First: Because in these United \ unrest wherever he goes. acted by the country at a handsome and the United Stares generally,due battle is inevitably in the possession Union telegraph line between Eu- Mayor .................................A. T. Morrison Slates there are one billion, five to the misfortunes of others, such of the contending armies, and mill-. Ken; and Mapleton on the Siuslaw. Alter wbat has just been said, do profit. Recorder.............................J. 8. Lawrence hundred million dollars of gold, a you ask further why there is no prosperous conditions as never be tary authorities do not permit inter -1 The new Booth-Kelly sawmill at In the meantime we bankers Treasurer................................. R. H. Mast City Attorney .... ........ L. A. Liljeqvist supply, roughly two and a half danger of a financial panic today, have before us a few weeks of some fore prevailed. In the end, how ference by correspondents. Io the Springfield, operated entirely by Engineer.........................P. M. Hall-Lewis Hat vest ever, we cannot have such an enor case of European warfare available electric power, will be started from Marshal A. P. Miller times greater than that of any oth and why we shall never again have what difficult financing. Night Marshal Oscar W er icKh am country; an amount more than such a one as we have experienced hands in the fields must he paid in mous economic waste as this great telegraph lines, if found at all, are Poriland by President Griffith of Water Superintendent 8. V . Epperson sufficient to transact (he business of in tbe past? cash and also the cost of transport European war seems likely to cause, j aPl *° be bu°dreds of miles awav the Commercial club touching an Fire Chie:.................... W. C. Chase Cotincilmen — D. D. Pierce, C. T. Hkeels this country; when nested soienti- It needs but a word in answer; ing our crops to the sea board. It without materially affecting the fforn the scene of the struggle. The electric button, Aug 29. C. I. Kime, G. O. Leach, W . H . Ly difficulties of news gathering never ons, O. C. Sanford. Regular meetings fically as a reserve against currency Due in the first place lo the work can be done and will be done with ability of those nations to purchase A finished deed to transfer the first and third Mondays each month. issues it is sufficient to carry a bui- done by the Aldricn Currency Com- comparative ease if the business our exports. It is as if you had a were greater in war matters than locks and canal to the United States den of currency fifty times greater mission and, later, to the crystali- people of the country have faith in country customer whose stock of now. Io order to control the nntur- ; has now been sent iu to the law de- Jastice of the Peace J. J. Stanley si methods of communication the 1 Constable .........................Ned C. Kelley than we now have, without endan- zation of that work in the Federal our institutions supplemented by a goods was destroyed by fire and | partment and it is believed tbe gering our maintenance of a gold Reserve Act, we have now a sound moderate amount of patience. If, who wired you to replace the same esse of Germany and its censorship property at Oregon City may finally County Judge John T. Hell standard. Take for example the economic system that makes any however, the business men of the at any price. You might make a is in point. However, tbat is not s be turned over lo Uncle Sam. Commissioners— W . T. Dement, Geo. J. panic ol 1907, when England had serious financial panic an utter im- country, such as I see before me handsome profit on the first ship- new experience, since no foreign Armstrong The European war is boosting Clerk ................................ James Watson but four hundred millions of gold; possibility. Tight money we may now, become excited and each man men but thereafter the country country knows even yet what hap- Sheriff........................................ W . W . Gage Neither the 1 Pr'ces Oregon products and will and yet so perfect was England’s have in the future, commercial de- endeavor to rush in ahead of his store keeper would be so crippled Pene(^ ftt Mukden Treasurer...................... T. M. Dimmick industries. One Assessor .................................... T. J. Thrift financial system that it parted with prtssions we must and shall have neighbor, force collections and grab that his purchases for some time to 1 J»psnrse nor tbe Russians would simulate many School Supt. Raymond E. Raker permit any writer near tbe scene new industry, the manufacture of one half ol this supply lo this coun- whenever speculation exceeds the come would he materially lessened. all that is in sighi, the situation Surveyor ...... A. N. Gould no correspondent peppermint oil will be established Coroner F. E. Wilson try without shaking the financial bounds of prudence, but financial will become more c implicated.FJven So it seems to me will be the case Besides that, Health Officer Dr. Walter Culin fabric of Great Britian. Our sup panics—-never again, then, and in spite of fools and al with the nations of the world. Tbe could of himself possibly know on a l*rge scale, p’y of gold today is nearly four So much for the financial eondi- armists, the banks of the country great nations of Europe, by the what was going on over a te ritory : Establishment of independent meat packing plants in various parts times larger than that of Great tion ot the present and the future. will be able to finance the harvests destruction of life and property, so very many miles in extent. Societies will get the very best Britian in 1907, and should with Were there time I should like full and within a short time make pos- will he reduced to such poverty that of tbe state are being encouraged PRINTING ease carry all the burdens that may veil to go into the details of the sible bountiful returns for our crops. they will not be able to buy tbe The Eugene high school will he by the farmers as the only solution I be put upon it. i Federal Reserve Act by which In 1908, I should not have dared goods we have to sell The result built ol local brick finished with of the growing abuses of the meat at the office of Coquille Herald Second: The strength of our fi- sound financial conditions are as- to have spoken so confidently con- (Continued on second page) the Willamina product. land food products trust. A O I M R M R W F F h C B S P FROM TH£ NATIONAL CAPITAL STATE INDUSTRIAL REVIEW