T he C oquille H erald
VOL. 33,
NO. 23
CITY DIRECTORY
Fraternal and Benevolent Order
COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1915
GERMAN RED CROSS CORPS ON FIELD
F. & A. M.—Regular meeting of
• Chadwick Lodge No. 08 A. F. A A.
M.. at Masonic Hall, every Saturday
night in each month on or before th*»
full moon.
D. D. P ikrcu , W. M.
R. H. M ast , Secretary.
A
Friday evenings of each month, in Ma
sonic Hall.
M ah y A. P ikhch , W. M.
nna
Superb Sculptured Group Will Exalt Pioneer
Mother at the Panama-Pacific Inter*
national Exposition
TRAPPED IN BÜRMN& HOUSE
S.—Regnoir meeting of Beulah
O E.
• Chapter No. 0, second and fourth
A
SEVEN
PERSONS
PERISH
PER YEAR $1.50
Smith Mill Boarding House
Becomes Roaring Furnace
W hile Inmates Slum ber-
W orst Holocaust in Histo
ry of Coos County
L aw kkncr S e c.,
r O. O. F.—Coquille Lodge No. 53,1. O.
I . O. F., meets every Saturday night
n Odd Fellows Hall.
C. H. C i . k w k s , N. G.
%
J. 8 . L a w ke n c k , S ec.
, No. 20
I. (). O. F., meets every second and
M
fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows
Seven persons lost their fives
Tuesday night in a fire that started
about two o’clock and destroyed
Hall.
E m ii . y H khsky , N. G,
Photo by American Presa Association.
A n n ie L a w r e n c e , Sec.
the boarding and lodging house
occupied by employees of the Smith
r'O Q U ILLK ENCAMPMENT, No. 25
it Senator Clapp remained with the
v_y I. O. O. F., meets the lirstand third
Mill at Bunker Hill.
riuirsday nights in Odd Fellow’s Hall.
President for a time, and they j
The names of the dead, as given
J . 8 . B a r t o n , O. I*.
doubtless found the weather neutral '
J. S .L aw ren c e , S ec.
Events of Interest Reported
May Be Trying to Throw a at this writing are: Wm. S Glover,
territory for continuing their little;
Roy B. Askey, Louis Kalinowski,
ITNIG1IT8 OE PYTIIIA«.—Lycurgna
For The Herald
Scare into Hark
chat.
IN Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights
Louis Pepas. Sidney E Lewis, A.
in W. O. W. Hall.
THE EXTRA SESSION TALK
A. Craig and Byron Craig. A A
R. R. W atson , K R. S.
H W. Duuham appears to have
(By J. E Joues )
O. A. M intonyb . C. 0.
Every member of Congress who
Craig
was a paralytic and was the
| “ started something”
when he
THE LEGACY OF THE OFFICE
has beon on the job for two years
n Y T H li N SISTERS—Justus Tempie
lather
of George Craig, the board
prophesied the recent trouble on
1 No. 35, meets first and Third Mon
Byron Craig
Party insurgency may not add to or more, and was re elected last fall, the river and told what people here ing house keeper
day nights in VV. O. W. Hal!.
Mss. G icokgk D avis , M. E. C.
the elements of happiness for the is opposed to an extra session - at thiuk about the system of leaving was the 12 year old son of Mr. and
M kb . F iikd L in e g a r , K. of R
President, but there is nothing in least at heart The newly elected this section without a resident rep Mrs.Craig. He was severely burned,
ED M E N — Conuillu Tribe No, 40, 1. the situation that is at all surprisiug. Congressmen would like an extra
resentative of governmental author and died in the Mercy hospital
O. R. M., meets every Friday night
session
so
that
they
could
get
to
It
worked
up
to
such
a
growth
un
i n tV. O. W. Hall.
ily to handle marine matters. The Thursday. The old gentleman was
J. H. B arton , Sachem.
der Taft that bills were frequently work before next December. "Big Inspectors who visited here to “ in evidently suffocated by smoke, his
A. P. M[I. i . er , C. of R.
killed, simply because the President Business” never wants any Con vestigate” were greatly interested body being taken from the building
W. A- —Regular meetings of Bea-
• ver Camp No. 10.550 in M. \V. A. voted them It was (he same way gress at all, and "little business”
.
.
j iu obtaining a copy of his published before the fire reached it.
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,
,
,
Hall, Front street, first and third Sat under Colonel Roosevelt, who spent has had quite enough ot legislation,
The building was a large, three-
,
...
.
,
,
article, and were also apparently
urdays in each month.
and
would
like
to
be
let
alone.
.
m . .
,
story
wooden structure. There was
his
latter
ypars
in
office
in'continual
C. D. H udson ’ , onsu 1.
greatly ruined thereby.
Li. H. I r v in e , lerk.
one
stairway
between the different
warfare with Congress McKinley,
THE BUSINESS SHRINKAGE
I Now it seem s that the perturb a-
floors. A wooden fire escape ex
N. A.—Regular meeting of Laurel Harrison and Cleveland met the
The railways of the country have H°n
spirit has been sp re adin g
Charles Grafly at Work on His Monument.
. amp No. 2972 at M. W. A . Hall, same conditions. Belore the civil
isted at one end of the building, but
Front) street, second and fourth Tues
been spilling buckets of .tears be- al,d *be following letter w a s re-
so far as heard from no one reached j
war the administrative and legisla
day n slits in each month.
cause of “ persecution” ip state and ceived by Mr. Dunham last week:
M ary K ern , Oracle.
it. When the fire alarm was given Let O ne City Official
tive branches of the government oc
L aura B randon , Rec.
the stairways were impassable and
rurenase all supplies
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casionally agreed, but siuce that federal supervision, but the good
T R E A S U R Y D F P A R TM EN T
old Pennsylvania system appears to
O. W.—Myrtle amp No. 197,
the
halls
were
filled
with
flame
and
time
harmony
has
always
appeared
. meets every Wednesday at 7 :30
Compiled by State Bureau of
United States Customs Service
be in good standing with the hold
"Some one person should be re
smoke. Those who escaped did so
with the advent ol a new party in
p. m. at W. O. W. Hall.
Portland, Oreg.
Industries and Statistics
ers of American money bags, since
Lee Currie, C. C.
sponsible
for
purchase
of
all
sup-
by jumping from the windows, ex
to power, but when the fruit is
J ohn L knkve , Sec.
Feby. 15, 1915
the subscriptions to its $49,000.000
cepting
one
man
who
had
a
rope
in
plies
for
Oregon
cities,”
says
Pro-!
shaken off the plum tree, the trouble
Gold Hill gets a powder ware
VENINGTIDE CIRCLE N o . 214,
bond issue totaled five times the Mr. H. W. Dunham.
his room for such an emergency fessor Don O. Sowers, director of
meets Becond and fourth Monday began President Wilson has simply
Coquille, Oregon.
house.
amount
offered.
Bank
repoits
show
the
municipal
research
bureau
of
nights in W. O. W. Hall.
and descended uninjured, and an
inherited a lagacy of his office.
O ra X. M aury , G. N.
that there is a plethoria of money Sir:
Ontario— A fruit evaporator is to
other who tied his bedclothes to the University of Oregon. "In a
M ary A. P ierce , Clerk.
MCADOO AND TUMULTY
The attention of this Office has
resting easy, and apparently blind
small city this can best be accomp- '*e huilt here,
gether
and
descended
without
ser
ARMERS UNION.— Regular meet
been called to an article in the
fished by making it one of the dut-
Flax plant and wagon plant con
Son in-law McAdoo does not at to the alluring offers of investment
ious hurt.
ings second and fourth Saturdays in
“ Sun” , published at Marshfield,
each month in W. O. W. Hall.
ies of the city recorder. In a large sidered at state prison,
tempt to deny that he is a grand throughout the country. The postal
Seven
injured
persons
w
e
r
e
F rank B urkholder , Pres.
Ore., under the date of Jan. 21st.
father, but the world has grown so savings banks are teceiving unus
McMinnville— Two story annex
rushed to the Mercy hospital at city, or in a county, a separate po- j
O. A. M inton ye , Sec.
ually large deposits, indicating that 1915, wherein reflection is cast up North Bead as fast as automobiles sition r f purchasing agent might wifi be built to hospital,
swift
that
some
people
reach
that
r?RATERNAL AID No. 398, meets the
on Officers of this Office and the
I second and fourth Thursdays each relationship to their descendents a lot of money that was formerly
could travel and their injuries were have to be created.”
Madras-Commercial c l u b Is
Local Inspectors of Hulls and
month at VV. O. VV. Hall.
sent
to
Europe,
is
now
being
laid
rather
early
in
file.
Secretary
Mc
This
is
one
piece
of
advice
given
boosting
a starch factory.
promptly
attended
to.
Of
these
all
M rs . C has . E vland , Pres.
Boilers, and also a letter over your
, —. . .
, . . .
M rs . L ora H arrington , Sec. Adoo looks like a young man, acts by through the government banks.
but the Craig boy are reported on in Professors Sowers’ third bulletin
• 1 j ,, ol
™ ,, , „
Tillamook— Electric plant being
signature wherein you state that
entitled "Short Talks for Busy Of-i
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like one, and undoubtedly feels like Many instances of this kind may be
the road to recovery.
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constructed at Bar View.
your assertions can be substantiated,
Educational Organizations and Clubs one
Anyhow, he is so energetic cited to show that one oi the main
The building burned like tinder, ficials, which is being sent to offic- |
a lack o f !as relating to the Customs Officers
O Q U I L L E K D U C A T I O N A L that he and Private Secretary Tu troubles right now is
and was consumed in a short time. ials of any Oregon city requesting , Sa,em 15 t0 have a '^ree-story
LEAGUE—Meets monthly at the multy have grown to be considered confidence among the people. This j w^° v's*,ed Coos Bay in October
By daylight the ruins were well it. As things now are in Oregon br,ck apartmeDt building.
High School Building during the school
A Douglas County library may
soaked with water and the search cities, Professor Sowers says:
year for the purpose oi discussing edu the “ young men” who carry the is reflected by the low point leached ■ I 9 I 4 -
in immigration, since the loreignersi You are requested to submit to
be
established at Roseburg.
cational topics.
"
A
comparatively
large
number
greatest
of
the
President's
burdens
for bodies was being prosecuted.
R ena A nderson , Pies.
Gresham —Beaver State motorcar
in the accumulating rows with Sen outside the war zone are giving this office information properly The Marshfield fire boys rushed to of meu is granted the privilege of
E dna M inak d , Sec.
ators and Representatives
Both America the go-by. The president *worn 10 to substantiate your state- the scene as quickly as possible, as purchasing supplies, materials and factory is ready to operate.
O KEEL KLUB—A business men’ s
of the steel company says that big men,s- 8ivinK *P«cific acts- dates or well as hundreds of others, but services. Iu most of the small cities
have
been
very
much
in
evidence
The Oxbow Power Co. is operat
social organization. Hall in Laird's
building, Second street.
in the Senate corridors and galler business is going to open its affairs other conduct not in accordance nothing could be done to check the the following officials do their own ing its plant at Copperfield.
L J. C ary , Pres
Recorder, treasurer,
ies during late weeks, and the crit- on the old scale, and the unemploy- w't*1 *aw-
fire until its work was accomplished. purchasing:
VV. C. K ndioott , Sec.
Eaton bill for $20,000 for Em
Respectfully,
ed
have
laken
hope
to
some
extent.
engineer,
chief
of police, chief of ployment bureaus was killed.
One instance of real heroism was
pO M M ER CIAL CLUb l .H.H azard ,ics 0< the administration have fre-
T h om as C. B u rk e
w
President; C. A. H o w a r d , Secretary qucntly referred to McAdoo and President Wilson is an optimist,
recorded. Max Kruger, one of the fire department, street commission
Out of 400 bills in legislature 40
Collector of Customs.
and
most
of
the
leaders
of
his
party
'
Tumulty as lobbyists.
The re
firemen and a native son of Marsh er, and superintendent of parks. regulate the salmon industry.
Transportation Facilities
maining member of the Presidential »re boosting hard to support the I
field, wrapped himself in a wet Whether the purchasing is done
Malheur— Gold dredge arrived to
Mr. Dunham has not come to a
theory that if people get over think
blanket and dashed into the flames directly by heads of departments or
'RAIN S—Leave, south bound 8:10 a. triumvirate is Secretary Bryan, and
operate on Lyon placer mines.
settled
conclusion
whether
t
h
e
ing
things
are
in
a
bad
way,
that
I
by
council
committees,
we
have
six
while the latter does not get out on
and smoke of the burning building
9:20 a. m. and 4:20 p. m.
the "firing fine” as do the other there will immediately be a big im above letter is written in good faith several times to help men escape, or eight groups making purchases | Pendleton wifi construct an $8000
or and he took desperate chances to payable out of city funds.
OATS—Six boats plying on the Co two, yet be has been active from the provement. The business shrink iu the quest of information,
1 swimming pool at Roundup park.
quille river afford ample accommo
age has hit the country hard, so whether it is more or less of a bluff reach and bring out A A. Craig,
The
result
is
what
might
be
e
x
-
' Cresswell— A. Vatuone of San
first
in
calling
obstreperous
states
dation for carrying freight and pnasen
gers to Bandon and way points. Boats men into consultation, and in ad hard, in fact, that there have been intended tc make him shiver in who had already succumbed to the pected:
there is no competition Jose is establishing a paint factory
eave at 7 :30, 8:30, 9:20 and 9:£0 a. m.
Each city of- here.
vising them to "get oft your foot,” more laborers going to Europe in his shoes for his temerity in presum smoke. Kruger was quite painfully among local dealers
and at 1 :00, 3 :30 and 4 :43 p. DCu
but not dangerously burned James
when they essayed to question the late months, than have come here ing to write anything in which "re
ficial or council committee buys
The S- P. Co. bridge across Coos
g l'A G E —J. L. Laird, proprietor. De-
flection is cast upon the Officers Merchant is also mentioned as play from his favorite dealers on the Bay wifi be 2400 feet long of struc
SOUTHERN DELEGATES
parts 5:30 p. m. for B >seburg via wisdom of the "presidential way.”
ing a hero part in assisting Krug
(with a capital O) of this Office er in getting Craig out.
Myrtle
Point,carnung the United Slates
Mj
dealer's own terms
tural steel.
When Harrison was President
"PR ESIDEN TIAL INTERFERENCE”
mail and p^sengers
(also with a capita! O) and the local
The origin of the fire is a matter
“ This course is not followed in
and defeated Blaine in securing his
Canyon City— Utah mining men
O8TOFFI0E.—A. F. Linegar, post
Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers ” of guess work. The cigarette nat a n y well-organized department are here t0 develop Canyon moun-
Senator Clapp has answered a
second nomination the country rang
master. The mails close as follow*:
urally comes in for the greatest bur
Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. in. summons from the White House, with the accusation that it was be At this writing he says that his an
s,ore’
! tain mines.
Marshfield 10:15 a. m. and 4:15 p. in. and has refused to listen to the
swer wifi be to the effect that he den of suspicion, hut there seems to
A model ordinance tor organiza -1
cause of the manipulation of "south
be absolutely no evidence .s to the
Bandon anil W’ay points, 7 a m. Norway
,
,
Grants Pass— Portland architect
dn-ws no salary for the gathering ol origin of the fire.
tion of the office of purchasing agent j .
and Aragol2:45 p.m. Eastern mail 4:15 President’s advice upon the ship ern delegates.”
The same com
is
to prepare plans for an $80,000
a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: p. m.
ping bill.
The Senator once îe-
the information requested by the
accompanies the bulletin.
(Continued on Page 2)
plaint followed in the cases of Mc
court
house.
marked that "high as I bold a seat
Collector, but that such information
City and Countv O fficers
Kinley, Roosevelt aod Taft, and the
The Rogue River Public Service
in this great body I will retire to
is easily obtainable here if the Col mitted that, even alter all that has this county and having charge of
of 1912 at
Mayor......
A. T. Morrison private file before any man shall be-, Republican convention
. . .
.
lector really wants to get it; also that occurred and become a matter of these matters.no such troubles arose, Corporation will install an electric
. J. 8. Lawrence
Recorder
, ,
.
.
[ Chicago was said to have been de-
conie
the
keeper
of
ray
conscience;
,
the use of a little more common sense common knowledge, the man who for the Major made it his business ditch digger.
Treasurer
......... R. H. Mast
starts out to get a lot ol sworn testi
Engineer
P. M. Hall-Lewis or judgment ” Only once before I etded by the “ southern delegates,
and civility and not quite so much mony about "dates not according to nip them in the bud.
Baker— Chambermaid sues Crab-
But with
Marshal
A. P. Miller
who voted for the renomination of
red tape in conducting the affairs of to law” will have bis work cut out no representative of authority nearer ill Hotel for $5680 damages for per
Night Marshal
Oscar WicKham in recent years has a Senator refused
Water Superintendent S. V. Epperson to listen to the President, and that I Mr. Taft. The Republicans have the office would have a more pleas for him. Even if he could produce than Portland it is quite different sonal injuries.
Fire Chiei......
W. C. Chase
had a sort of referendum, iu which
conclusive evidence that some rep- It is against the new conditions, so
ing appeal for people here.
Councilmen—Jesse Byers, C. T. Skeels was when Senator La Follette de-
T. A. Livesly & Co. of Salem sold
.
, T1
. 1 they submitted the question of rep-
C. I. Kiine, Ned C.Kelley, W. H. Ly dined
President Tail s invitation to
^
r
From the wording of the letter, rehesible date had slipped into the well calculated to minimize the im 1 ten tons loganberries to a Chicago
ons, O. O. Sanford. Regular meetings
calendar during the past year, it is portance of this section and make it
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resentation
to
the
states
The
re
At the time it was claimed
it might be either; but a close read hard to see what even the potent
first and third Mondays each month. call
an appendage of Portland, while mail order house.
lU
. . was . because
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that . . this
personal i:n
ill* suit has been that the southern dele- ing, with an attempt to see between UnitedStaiesCustoms Service could working such great detriment to the
Willamette Valley editors refused
c
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...
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. . gate will find that there has been a
Justice of the Peace
J. J. Stanley feeling
between the two distinguish- •
the fines, inclines one to the belief do about it— unless it would be to service, aud the new spirit which to endorse amendments to working
Constable..................
Ned C. Kelley
ed gentlemen. But there is no strain ,hearlng bee when he shows UP at that it is the latter. The spirit of hire a stenographer who could put seems to characterize the acts of the
I men’s compensation law.
between President Wilson and the |the next nat,onal convention, as the the thing seems to be something the thoughts of the "higher-ups” non resident officials, that bis hre
County Judge
James Watson
into
passable
English.
has hern directed.
southern states will lose fully one-
Three Pacific coast states will lose
like this: "You have presumed to
Commissioners—W. T. Dement, Geo. J. Minnesota Senator, and while the
Mr. Dunham is not greatly ter
As a matter of fact, these condi
Armstrong
Utter takes his stand on the ground half of their representation under criticize us. Now you Common Cit rorized, however, and he displays a tions have only been brought about $250,000 gross earnings taxes by
Clerk
Robt, Watson
unregulated jitney-bus competition.
the new plan.
izen, come through with sworn evi disposition to stand pat. He wants by the working of the same old
Sheriff .............
Alfred Johnson. Jr. that he is resisting ('presidential in-1
Treasurer........
...... T. M. Dimmick terference,” the most of W’ashing- 1
Klamath Iron Works has turned
one
thing
understood:
That
these
game,
to
make
a
city
one
hundred
w a n e o f THE b i r d m e n
dence of 'acts, date or other conduct
Assessor.........
T. J. Thrift
criticisms
have
had
no
"politics”
miles
from
the
ocean,
by
way
of
a
out
400 flanged carwheels lor the
tonians
have
been
saying
tnat
since
Although
the
United
States
was
not
in
accordance
with
the
law,’
or
Raymond E. Bakei
School Snpt.
in them. He is as staunch a Dem tortuous and difficult channel, the Pelican Bay sawmill yard trucks.
C. F. McCullock Senators do little else but listen to the first among the nations to in- the gobbieuns will get you.”
Surveyor
ocrat as you will find in this neck only Oregon seaport worth mention
Coroner
F. E. Wilson
Granite is one of Ashland’s big
It looks in fact like an attempt to of the woods. But he has been ac ing That game has been success
Health Officer
Dr. Walter Culin other ^ieople’s views upon public ' vent flying machines, there has
questions, and advise constantly been less progress in aviation in make Hark think that he is over a quainted with the steamboating bus- fully worked tor some time; it may future possibilities. Big develop-
with their fellow men, that they fail; this country than in any other, barrel, by demanding the impossible iness ¡0 the waters of Coos county be worked with equal felicity for j ment meaus big payrolls — Tidings.
to get the point as to why Senator The.Smithsonian Institution has rec- of him. For while he might be able for a generation and knows what some time yet; but the Herald
Some counties are refusing to
he is talking about. He says that would like to have every person in
.
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Clapp should draw the fine so rigid- ommended to Congress the creation to get snch evidence of "acts or
for the many years daring which Coos county understand the exact | sen<1 * « P ^ n t a t i v e to the Panam.
ly with the President of the United of a national advisory committee other conduct not in accordance Major Morton Tower was collector meaning, object and effect of the i Exposition to hiing more people to
States. On the occasion of the vis -1
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with law,” it is respectfully sub- of customs with headquarters in game.
Oregon.
a m ie r e b e k a h
lodge
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