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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1915)
T he C oquille H erald VOL. 33, CITY DIRECTORY FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Fralemat and B e n V o len t Order F. A A. M.—Regular meeting of A . Chadwick Lodge No. 68 A. F. 4 A. M.. at Masonic Hall, every Saturday Events of Interest Reported For The Herald night in each month on or before the full moon. D. D. Piaaca, W. M. K. If. M aht . Secrotary. (By J. E. Jones.) ONB CEN T POSTAGE S.—lteguiar meeting of Beulah O K. . Chapter No. 6, second and fourth Senator John G. Weeks of M is- saebnsetts, may be counted on as one of the half dozen best informed A nna L awrkncc Se c., men in Congress upon postal affairs. O. O. F.—Coquille Lodge No. 53,1. O. For many years be was chairman . O. F., meets every Saturday night of the Committee on P^slofiices and n Oild Fellows Hall. H. B. M oore , N. Q. Post Roads of the House of Repre J. S. L aw hence , Sec. sentatives, and it was there that he a m i e r e b e k a h l o d g e , No. 20 achieved his best work, resulting io I. O. O. F., meets every second and fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows his election to the Senate to succeed Hall. E lla A nderson , N. G, Murry Crane. Senator Weeks de A n n ie L aw rence . Sec. clares that (he Government is mak / " yckj UILLE ENCAMPMENT. No. 25 f. O. O. F., meets the first and third ing a large profit on first class mail, Thursday nights in Odd Fellows Hall. and he adds that there is too much J. S. B arton , O. ? . discrimination existing in the pos J . S. L aw rence , Sec. tal laws favoring certain classes of n i g h t s o f p y t h i a h .— Lycurgus Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights mail. It is interesting to note that in tV. O. W. Hall. by some process of reasoning the R. R. W atso n . K R. 8. Postmaster General has recently O. A. M into n ye . C. C. turned back $3,500,000 into the r jY T H lA N SISTERS—Justus Temple 1 No. 35, meets first and Third Mon general treasury of the United States day nights in W. O. W. Hal!. as representing what he claimed to Mss. G eohue D a v i s , M. E. C. have been a surplus in the revenues M r s . F red L ineu ah , K. of R ED MEN—Coauille Tribe No. 46, l. of his department for the fiscal year O. R. M., meets every Friday night ended June 30, 1914. Of course, 1 n W. O. W. Hall. there is nobody except, possibly, J. 8. B arton , Sachem. A. P. M il l e r , C. of R. General Burleson, that has any idea W. A. -R egu lar meetings of Bea- that the postoffice made three and . ver Camp No. 10.550 iu M. W . A. one-half million dollars during 1914. Hall, Front street, first and third Sat or even three and one-half cents urdays in each month. C. D. H u d so n , Consul. General Burlesou is the first Post L. H. I r v in e , Clerk. master General since 1836 to sur N. A .— Regular meeting of Laurel . amp No. 2972 at M. W. A . Hall render any of his appropriation. Front, street, second and fourth Tues By lumping guesses on what ought day n ghts in each month. to be the revenues from Federal M a r y K e r n , Oracle. L aura B randon , Rec. buildings, frank and penalty mail, O. W .—Myrtle amp No. 197, and the handling of second class . meets every Wednesday at 7:30 mail, Mr Burleson, as a true Tex p. in. at W. O. W. Hall. an, “ reckons" that his department Lee Currie, C. C. J ohn L rnkvk , Sec. is carrying a load of about $50 000,• VKNINUTIDE CIRCLE No. 214, 000 a year for other departments of meets second and fourth Monday the government and for subsidies nights in W. O. W. Hall. A nnie B u r e h o ld e b , G.N. to publishers. Friday evenings of each month, in Ma sonic Hall. M ary A. P irrck , W. M. I M K R M R W E M a r y A. P ier ce , Clerk. F ARMERS U N IO N — Regular meet ings second and fourth Saturdays in each month in VV. O. W. Hall. F rank B u hkho lder , Pres. — O. A. M in to n ye . Sec. r a t e r n a l a i d N o . 398, meet» the second and fourth Thursday» each month at W. O. W . Hall. M rs . C h a s . E v l a n d , Pres. M rs . L ora H arkinuton , Sec. F Educational Organizations and Clubs S Sludv Club. —Meets 2:30 W OMAN’ p. m. at city library every second and fourth Monday. H a r r ie t A. L onoston , Pres. F rancib E . E pperso n , Sec. 1 LLK EDUCATIONAL O Q U1 _ _,KAGUE— M eets m on th ly at th e C H igh School B u ild in g d u rin g th e school L f ' y e a r for th e p u rp o æ 01 d iscu ssin g e d u ca tio n a l topics. B ird ik S kkbi / j , P ie s . E dna H ah lo ckbk , Sec. K O KEEL KLUB—A business m en 's social organiïation. Hall in Laird t building, Second street. L J. C a r y , Pres. W. C. E ndicott , Sec. / C O M M E R C I A L C L C B - L ro J. C a r y Lg P resid e n t; L . H . H a z a r d ,S e cre ta ry Transportation Facilities — r ^ a n l 2 M o V 0mtb N^rth bound 9 :26 a. m. and 4 ;26 p. ni. B OATS—Six boats plying on the Co quille river afford ample accommo dation lor carrying freight and paseen gers to Bandon and way points. Boats eave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9 :20 and 9 :Z 0 a. m. and at 1:00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p. m. L. Laird, proprietor. S TAGE—J. parts 5:3 0 p. m. for lo s e burg De via Myrtle Point,carrying the United Slates mail and pasengers. A. F. Linegar, post P OSTOFFICE.— master. The mails close as follow s: Myrtle Point 7:40 a.ra. 5:20, 2:36 p . 111 . Marshfield 9:06 a. m. and 4:15 p. ui. Bandon, way points, 8 :45 a m. Norway and A ra goli :55 p.m. Eastern mail 5:20 p. m. Eastern mail arrives 7 :30 a. m. City and C o u n h O fficers M ayor................................ A. T. Morrison R ecorder...........................J. 8. Lawrence Treasurer ...... ....................R. H. Mast Engineer................ » !’ . M. Hall-Lewis Marshal.................................. A. P. Miller Night Marshal Oscar Wicaham Water Superintendent 8. V. Epperson Fire Chie;............................... W. C. Chase Councilmen—Jesse Byers, C. T. Skeels C. I. Kime, Ned C.Kelley, W . H. Ly ons, O. 0 . Sanlord. Regular meetings first and third Mondays each month. Justice of the Peace.......... J. J. Stanley Constable.........................—Ned C. Kelley PER YEAR $1.50 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1915. NO. 27 PARCEL POST NOT A MONEY MAKER It was calculated that tbe parcel post would render an immense profit to the government, and department officials prophesied in the begin ning that Uncle Sam wculd clean up from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 annually upon this branch of the service. The postoffice itself appears to be in considerable of a quandary as to the results ol tbe parcel post, hut the special Joint Committee of Congress headed by Senior Bristow, has made a report upon the parcel post, and while it does not deal specifically with its revenue-produc ing powers it clearly indicates that this new feature in tbe postal affairs is not a monty maker T h e Post Office Department makes millions of dollars on first class mail matter,and losses it— and more-in carrying; uewspapers.mer- chandise and othet classes of mail. As the prinicpal function of the Post Office Department is to trans mi( communications, the suggestion put forth b/ Senator Weeks- boils down to the plain proposition that inasmuch as letter mail is undoubt edly able to pay its own way at tbe one eeut rate of postage, the people are entitled to that rate. But there is no attempt on the part ol Senator Weeks, or any one else who thinks as he does, to conceal tbe fart that one cent letter postage would mean a higher rate upon parcels and sec ond class mail matter. As an increase on second class mail matter would effect every pub lishing concern, it is very easy to forsee that any material growth of this one cent letter postage idea along tbe above lines will rapidly bring about the concerted opposition 0f the publisheis against an increase in their postage rates. At tbe same time tbe large shippers o f m erchandise th rou gh the m ails will will resist any attempt at “ revision u p w a rd s” of parcel post rates. U n d ou b ted ly Senator W eek s is County Judge....................James Watson tig h t; nevertheless there is little Commissioners—W. T. Dement, Geo. J. probability of one cent letter postage Armstrong Clerk ................................ Robt. Watson for a good many years. Sheriff ......................Alfred Johnson. Jr. F A R M BOYS CLU B S Treasurer.........................T. M. Dimmick Assessor............ ..................... T. J. Thrift Liess than ball a dozen years ago, School Supt.... ...... . Raymond E. Baker Su rveyor.........................C. F. McCullock a few boys who had made an unus Coroner ........ . F. E. Wileon ual showing in raising corn on an Health Officer . Dr. Walter Gulin acre of land upon a farm where they lived, were sent to Wash ington The Agricultural Depart ment took up the matter in dead earuest and now the boys are com ing in trainloads. Other big bodies are made up of girls in canning clubs, but some of these girls have made the boys bustle in raising their prize acres of corn, peas, po tatoes and other products of the soil. Tbe agricultural clubs are not tde only juvenile excursionists to Washington, since thousands of h;gh school children from New York,Brooklyn, New England and all over the eastern states mike their pilgrimages to tbe Capital each spring and summer. T H E REQUIEM Nine United States Smators laid down the burdens of office on March 4, and of these at least two never would have been elected to the Sen ate but for the fact that their bank accounts held millions. On the oth er hand two and possibly three of tbe most conspicuous men who have s-trved in the upper branch of Con gress in years have retired to pri vate lile, and these in tbe order of their importance are Root of New York, Burton of Ohio, and Bristow of Kansas. Those nine names are prominent in the minds of the peo- ule of tbe states that are represent ed, but in another sessiou new fig ures will appear in the Senate and new men of great intellect will be uncovered from tinder their bushels. TH E A R L I N G T O N M E M O R IA L From tbe great Mall of Washing ton one can look across the river into Virginia and two conspicuous sights stand out. One is the mod ern wireless towers, from which messages have been sent to Patis, l ’anama, San Franc s:o and thou sands of miles across the ocean A mile to tbe northwest, high on the hillside, clustered about by magni ficent trees, stands tbe former home of Robert E Lee. Its massive white pillars, and the background ot the building, resplendeut in tbe same clean white, gives one that gentle touch of the colonial which has in spiled poets and writers to spin their beautiful stories around Ar lington house. General Robert E Lee was sur rounded with all the magnificence that belonged to a southern gentle man. When the war broke out he led tbe Conledetacy. As a penalty he lost his home and estate and it became the national cemetery. The remains of heroes of the Revol ution have been transplanted to this hallowed grouod¡great generals of the Civil war and of the regular army have been brought to Arling ton for burial; here the unfortunate victims of the battleship Maine found their last resting place. As though to finish the story tbe mast of the Maine was set up among their graves Each year the fading ranks of tbe Grand Army of the Republic are recruited at Arlington, and within the last few years they have been joined by veterans of the Confederacy. A year ago a monu ment to the confederate dead was dedicated in this cemetery and tbe blue and the gray met on an equal plane, to properly dedicate it. On Memorial Day of each year the President ol tbe United States de livers an address at Atlington. It has become a custom that is so thoroughly established that <t is al most a national institution. Lest the splendor ot this great annual event mig:t be too frequently marred, and its significance depre ciated, it has been determined that a $750,000 memorial amphitheatre and chapel is to be built, and Secre tary of the Navy Daniels has turned the first shovelful of earth, and work has begun on the memorial. The contract calls for completion within two years. The amphithe ater will be circular in form, open at tbe top, and contain a chapel It will provide a place where mem orial exercises and other patriotic functions may be held, and where shelter may be provided when oc casion requires W A N T S A N O T H ER INQUIRY T h e spectacular congressional lobby investigation of 1913 has not completely eliminated the lobby ac cording to a statement by one of the most conspicuous characters unveiled Colonel M. M. Mulhall declares that "a few months after tbe investigaton was over tbe old lobby began to come back, and they are stronger today in Washington and at the state capitals than they have ever been before.” Colonel Mnlhall, therefore, wants another investigation. ACTUALLY DID SOME CUTflNfi MAIL-OHDEK INSURANCE PAYS Legislature Reduces Expend Company Builds up Business itures of State By Advertising Tbe legislature appropriated and left standing tn millage and taxes and continuing appropriations $6,- 477,031 tor the next two years as against $ 7.735 921 in 1913, a net reduction of $1,258890. With laws repealed and consolidations ef fected the total state reductions will total two millions. No new taxes were imposed, fees and licensts were reduced No new boards or commissions were created, taxes were lowered, limited and made easier payable, no radical la bor laws were euacted, no refereD- dums ordered to be taken, condi tions lor industries were made easi er and new industries were promot ed, is the record made The following remedial, beneficial and constructive laws in the inter est of retrenchment and economy and to produce revenues were passed: 1. Law to repeal continuing ap propriations cuts off miny fixed charges. 2 Limiting tax levies of all tax ing bodies in the state. 3. Reduce railioad commission appropriation from $105.000 to $80,- 000 and cut off 17 salaries. 4 Joint memorial to c o l l e c t $466,872 taxes and return of O. & C. land grant to state. The world recognize* insurauce as one of its foremost economic and social institutions. Through it the business, commerce, manufacture* and lives of citizens are protected in every civilized country throughout the globe Although the insurance business in the United States has assumed enormous proportions, cov eriug as it does every phase ol hu man endeavor, and protecting not only the property and. occupation of mankind, but life itself, its power is constrained, its growth checked, because the business is burdened by the heavy expense of agents, interstate taxes, licenses, fees, and various exactions from which it should be freed. To support its agents, pay Its taxes and license fees, the insurance company must have money, and this is naturally supplied by I he policyholders. In other words the public is obliged to pay a larger sum for protectiou than it should pay, or than it is necessary to pay. Until ten years ago all the “ old line,” legal reserve companies con ducted their busiuess through agents, paid the necessary commis sions, taxes, licenses and office ex penses, and charged their policy holders accordingly. At that time (shortly alter the Hughes Insurance Kill This Winter Fly That May Become Ancestor to Countless Others. subject this Company to taxes, li censes and other exactions to secure additional revenue. Last year more than $12,000,ocx> was paid in assess ments, taxes, etc..by insurance com panies in this country. Not a pen ny of this amount was paid by tbe Postal; its share went to the People and not to the States. Iu addition to other opposition, a bill was last year introduced to prohibit life in surauce by mail, but it called forth indignant protest from thoughtlul people in every State and it is also interesting to note that while the measure was before Congress the Postal received more requests for in surance information than ever be fore. However, the Bill referred to is now dead, and a piece of L-gislation so unjust and harmful will hardly be again introduced To date, the Company’s advertis ing has been conducted along e x tremely conservative lines, period icals of general circulation through out the country being the principal mediums in which its announce ments have appeared. But now the Company's efforts have passed be yond. the experimental stage. The advertising policy therefore is to be broadened and will shortly include farm and country newspapers, in dustrial and trade journals, as well as class publication* Tbe Com pany's publicity efforts have been conservative, well planned and care fully followed; it has, indeed, open ed up a new field in advertising which should develop a large vol ume of business for the benefit of newspaper» and periodicals through out the country. The Postal Life has nevet asked newspapers and magazines to sup port its publicity efforts, although numbers of them have done so in the past and will doubtless so con tinue, for tbe Company’s success is an advertising success. All pub lishers readily perceive the great opening that would lie before them il all life-insurance companies were to follow the Postal’s lead and do business through advertising in stead of through an army of agents on commission. J. E. J o n e s . Here From Frisco F lie s m ultip ly rapidly. One fly can become the ancestor to several billion oth er flies In a sin g le season. The Importance of exterminating the w in ter fly la a p p a re n t It is something that the Individual house keeper m ust do. Be su re to kill tbe first flies of the season Don't let one escape, as every fly k ille d in early spring means billions less of the pest th is sum m er. Milton Glass, of San Francisco, was in town the middle ol last week, representing the H. L- Judell Co. Mr. Judell has made this territory for a number of years and Mr Glass has taken his place, having bought into the company, while Judell look* after the business in San Francisco during the fair. Mr. Glass was forinetly a “ wet goods mer chant” and has made this territory for a number of years He states that he is now promoted and is sell ing cigars and likes hirf new line of business fine. Mr. Judell has a place fitted up at the lair grounds, in which he carries all his line of cigars. He also state* that he will be glad to accommodate any Coos county people who come to the fair, by assisting them in finding lodg ing etc. Investigation) an institution was 5. Semi-annual tax law making chartered in the State of New York taxes payable April 5 and Novem to transact the business of life insur ber 5 without penalties. ance in tbe same manner as certain 6. Abolishing useless state cen important European companies a- sus will save state and counties tnong which wete Ibe Equitable of $50,000. London, organized in 1762, the 7. Permitting insane patients to Metropolitan of London, chartered be paroled reduces fixed charges in 1835 and the London Life,found of state asylums. ed in 1806, all ol which operate 8. Biennial appropriation $10,- wholly without agents and eliminate 000 for bubonic plague repealed. the heavy expenses attendant upon 9. Counties given share of game the agency system law fines. That institution was the Postal 10. Abolishing license fees fo r Life Insurance Company of New fishing in Pacific ocean or bays. York, the only non agency com 11. Requiring boards and depart -----------------------------* 9 • pany in America. It reaches the ments to pay for printing out of Birthday Party public by means of advertisements tbeir own funds. in the periodicals of general circula 12. Law to collect revenue from Last Wednesday night the Sub tion, through circularizing and use trading stamp devices. marine U 11 Club, under Leneve's of the mails. The Postal pays no 13 Reduces cost ot elections by Confectionery store gave a big par commissions to agents, no licenses ty in honor ol Eatl Schroeder’s 2isl abolishing one judge on each of or taxes to State insurance commis 2000 electiou boards, birthday. If was a great event and sioners, since the Company does not 14. Permanent registration law will be written down in the history Enter the several States but simply with card index, saving counties of the club It was a surprise party receives such business as comes to for Earl and he knew nothing and cities large sums. it Irom them. It is therefore able 15 Exempting state institutions to save for its policyholders the com about it until it was sprung on him in the Club Rooms at about 8 p. m from the eight hour law. mission (less a moderate advertis 16. $200,000 of highway fund to ing charge) that other insurance Tne evening was given over to var ious sorts of amusement and at a finish state road over Siskiyous. companies pay their agents, These late hour refreshments were served. 17. Abolishing state immigra savings are covered by guaranteed 1 The party brokç up towards dawn tion board and accountancy system.* annual dividends which Postal pol and ail present wended their way 18. Establishing flax industry for icyholders receive in addition to the homeward, wishing that some contingent dividends depending on employment of idle convict labor. other member would have a birth- 19. Consolidation ol State Engin the Company's earnings 1 day very soon. At the outset the method employ eer and State Highway Engineer. Small Fire 20. Requiring banks to pav two ed by the Postal Life may have per cent on deposits of county seemed experimental; hut it can no Last Wednesday forenoon a fire longer be so considered; it is now funds. started in the residence of J B. an acknowledged success. 21. Bill for farmers’ state banks Naturally the growth of tbe Com Sw t in the north east part of this on co-operative plsn. pany has aroused organized opposi city Tue fire boys responded to Coquille river channel to be tion on the part of life-insurance the alirrn and bad both the hose carts and chemical curl to the scene dredged to a uniform depth of 10 agents and agency companies; on of the tire io record time. But it the part of certain insurance period feet. had Dean put out bv the inmates of icals published for ageuts, and also the h 1 i»e and the neighbor» before Eugene conducting survey of on the part of a few State insurance thev arrived. Tbe damage was commissioners who are anxious to slight. home industries. YOUNG OFFENDLRS ARRESTED Burglary and Sneak Thievery Get a Set-Back Last Wednesday Ivao Gaidner, aged sixteen, of this city, was ar rested for the robbery ot Kelley’s store, which took place the Sunday night before. Several bits of con versation overheard among tbe small boys that associate with the Gardner boy led to the belief that he was guilty. Prosecuting Attor ney Liljeqvist then “ framed up” a scheme ou the Gardner boy. He stopped the boy and borrowed hi* knife, telling him t.h«t he wished to sharpen his pencil. With the knife in his possession Lil went to his of fice and examined the knife blade with a glass and lound signs of put ty on it. He then took the knife and tried it on Kelley's window just as tbe robber had done. The knife blades fitted the cuts on the putty around the window pane, just as if they were a plaster cast mold made expressly for the knife blade- Sheriff Johnson went to the school house, got the boy and brought him to Liljeqvist’s office where he was asked what he knew concerning the robbery. At first he denied knowing an\ thing about it; but un der a severe piobing by Lil he at last said that be had seen some one else rob the place and bad seen him hide the plunder and that he himself bad afterwards taken tbe goods from where the fellow bad hidden them and had theu con cealed them himself. It was with a great deal of aston- isment to t.ll present that the hiding place was revealed. It was not thirty yards from the scene of the robbery, under the new Post Office. There is an air yent uudernealh the building, fixed in the side ot the wall and this having no grate in it left an opening large enough for tbe boy to climb through and hide his plunder It might have stayed hid den there for years, as nothing is kept under this place but the water piping, and it is quite likely that no one would enter it unless to re pair a broken pipe, and so it is hard to tell how long it may have remained hidden if the Gardner boy had not confessed. Many of tbe cigarettes and a few of the cigars had been smoked, so that goes to prove that even il some one else didn’t assist in the robbery they helped dispose of the goods stolen. (Continued on Page 2.) Pulling Its Teeth It seems that Attorney Liljeqvist is to have another throw at the Port on the Coquille side ol the di vide. He was author of a bill that .would have reserved to the taxpay er a say in bonding for large sums. The measure applied to all ports and would have pulled some of the creature’s viscious b o n d -e atin g teeth. Alas for Coos bay it was late on tbe calendar, even had the solons at Salem given it the official O K We had already taken the hurdles— b e e n devoured by t h e Port shark, figuratively speaking. So our enthusiastic port neighbors must accept this comment from a district that has been through the mill. We cannot but look with some apprehension, that is born of experience, lest the Coquille should endure the pains suffered by us, and are ready with advance sympathy We are not butting into your game, but are hoping that you get results — a run for your money. Whatever dental work is accomplished by Mr. Liljeqvist in the rehearing of this port case will lessen the pain to be experienced by the taxpayer on the Coquille,if it becomes his lot to trav erse the route covered by his Coos bay neighbor — Marshfield Suo. ------------ ■ i g » » ------------------- The Mail Service A 1 Baker, who carries the outside mail between Myrtle Point and mi* city .states that he will carry it from now on in his Overland car, winter and summer. He now leaves Myr tle Point with the mail at 6:30 a. in and this place at 5:30 p. m He also says that after the first of April he will make three round trips daily between Myrtle Point 1 and Coquille.