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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1915)
/ The Coquille Herald T h e d a b a r a in “1 he Clemenceau Case” PUBLISHED EVERY g q g g J ............ Hogwallow News TUESDAY F.ntered as second else» matter May 8, 1905. at tlie poet office at Uoquille, Oregon, under act ol Congress of March 3. 1879. ¿T h an kin g o u r p a tr o n s fo r th e ir P. C. LEVAR, Lessee. very | ¡Devoted to the materia, and social upbuilding of the Compile Valley par ticularly and cf Cons County generally. Subscription, $1.50 per year in advance th e L iberal p a tr o n a g e T lo ltd a y fla rin g sea so n , w e w ish th em a l l a h a p p y a n d p r o s p e r P hone Main 3H1. ou s ^Tfeiv ^iea r. Captain Lofstad, of the Santa Clara, has pleaded guilty to n egli gence in the matter of the steering gear of the steamer, which he knew to be defective, and which was re sponsible for her losa nt the Coos Bay bar. Tbis would seem to fix the responsibility for tbe disaster upon the North Pacific Steamship Company, who failed to have the steering gear repaired, aud upon Captain Lofsted for taking bis ship to sea loader} w ith |tnssengers and freight when he knew h er condition. I t is another illustration of the ex pression “Soulless C orporation.” Probably no oflicer or stockholder of th at corporation feels the sligh t est personal responsibility for the loss of life th at occurred Had the steamer been ow ned by an individ ual, lie would be pointed out as criminally negligent of the lives and property entrusted to his care He might even be amenable to the law, ami possibly might be sent to the penitentiary where he would In - long. B u t not so with the corpora tion There may Ire some recom pense for the people who lost p ro p erty by tbe wreck ami there may not; b ut c u anyone im agine any member of tbe corporation bring really punished? The captain loses bis liceUHe for good and his career as a master of steam vessels is cl rssd, which he richly deserved. Y<-t hs had the example of many o th er c o m m a n d o s who are doing exactly as he did nrnl putting lb- liv. s entrusted to their car- iu dead ly peril.—to hold theii jolm What will the president of the corporate n lose? Possibly an hour's sleep. DUNK BOTTS, Regular Correspondent (George Bingham) All Rights Reservd At The SCENIC, January 5th O U R P U B L IC F O R U M -S û M e S I’oke Exzley took n walk th rou gh thesa on wbeuever he wants to tbe Calf Ribs neighborhood Mon- walk in the tig h t and narrow path, day and found many improvements, Sap S p r . rtl, n ig 8Uckinf, a lem0D consisting of the Calf Ribs Widow thig week g0 th at he WQDt be hoarga KNOWLTON'S DRUG STORE Dock Hocks says he would not when he goes to speak to Miss mind going to church occasionally Fruzie Allsop next Sunday, if the preacher wouldn't try to get L i,tle FidUjr F J in d -rl carried an com m ander ot the state militia, to-wit : th st quai ter ?eekí) pouthweat i South all-day sucker to school with him placed him self under Mr. Lewis’ quarter uarter ( pw rw ^ of section zy, 27, town ah ip 4*; ) or Monday, but the teacher used it un orders for the purposes of the 61m 27, south ranye 14; north half ( ^ ) (d recess. northeast quarter (n e ^ ) section 34, III— J u liu s Kruttschnitt and the director tem porarily e n township 27, south range 14; northeast ... , , quarter (n e ^ ) northwest quarter (nwj^) Miss F lu tie Belcher says there jo y ed the distinction of being com- On Financing Railroads _ , . . , . , of section 84, township 27, south range are two th ings a man will stand m an d in g officer ot a force |o f two ai| tr«Inrz west of the Willamette •fimmls- The farmers of —the legislators aM ■ round aud look at ami they are, thousand men. As tor the militia meridian in Coos county, Oregon. , , , . , , , . , Taken and levied upon as the property this nation need sloners. Much heavy hauling will set in E ,ection R eturn s and S k ir t, they declared they had the time of Df Baj,i j Greenough or as much "Managing a railroad Is quite differ from here to Bounding Billows and to become bettor their you ng lives and would like to j thereof as may be necessary to satisfy acquainted with ent from managing a government T he Dog Hill p ieacher had on an I the Baid judgment in favor of plaintiff other points as soon as tbe roads tbe railroad men where the money is raised by taxa | against said defendant with interest o th er clean shirt last Sunday. Poke work for the camera every day. and their prob tion. When the expenditures, for get bad T h e members of the Richm ond thereon at the rate of 6 per cent, per Eazley says he can’t see bow some annum from the fitli day of December, lems. It is only good reasons or otherwise, Increase, (Jricket Hicks went over aud h id L ig h t In fan try , C aptain George 1915, together with ad costB and dis those who know taxes can be equally Increased. The a long sociable talk with the Rye folks can afiord to dress so well. E a in s , co m m and ing ; tbe Ogle- bursements that have or mav accrue. that run give us railroads, while servants of the pub The Horse Doctor was called Alfred Johnson, Jr. Information and lic, cannot raise money with such Straw storekeeper tbs other day on tf orpes, C aptain T C. Jowitt. com Sheriff. Thursday n ig h t to see Ellick Hell ease and facility. The railroads must the farmers of the Hnaucial condition of the co un Dated at Coquille, Oregon, H an d in g , and tbe R ichm ond H us keep their expenditures within their WHLger who has been so badly America should December 27th, 1915, because while they have try, and it was found th at condi si rs, C aptain W. K. Y o u n g com - *•*- -- listen attentively Incomes some control over their expenditures tions were so bad that Cricket was threatened with pneumouia th a t he m an ding, all participated. to what the men they have almost no control over their In tbe County Court of the State of Oregon who manage rail Incomes, their rates being fixed by unable to borrow the thirty five has had to order a second jug in and for the County of Coos Hat S m ith ’s Moonlight Heel. His road property public authorities. Bridge Pointers. cents he went alter. have to say. Mr. Kruttschnitt, exec "There Is not a railway manager In ! ailment, it is said, was bro u g h t cn In the matter of the Estate) Dock Hocks, who has gained utive head of the Southern Pacific, the country today who Is not fearful of V CITATION The B ridge stores did a lively on account of negligence on the D avid m . drrw , Deceased.) lias written an article dealing with that under the press of increasing de much notoriety as a dentist du rin g To Thomas A. Dre*, Claud E. Drew, the financing of railroads. He said mands the transportation systems of his leisure hours at the blacksmith p'irt of Ellick, in his failure to don b tsiness last week. the country will, In a few years, break Maud H. Bean, Lou \V. Gillespie and iu part: Ray E n d ic o tt ai d L . le Nosier are Roy R. Drew, and to all other heirs and down, unless the railroads are allowed shop, mixed business with pleasure his sox at tbe customary time this “The financing of a railroad Is a to earn larger funds wherewith to f$ll He has been iu the habit of tbe “boss’’ trsppera. They have devisees of David M. Drew, deceased, unknown, if any such there be, function which the people, through build it up. There are vast sections yesterday by pulling a fine tooth d o n n in g them about the 6rst of Oc cau g h t several good fur bearers. GREETING: their servants, the Railroad Commis of the country, especially In the West, for Miss Gondola Henstep, In the Name of the State of Oregon, tober for protection against the cool sioners and the Legislators, have where more railroads are needed and Tbe blacksmith .-hups have been You Dnfcc H eilw anger has a hole in and each of you are iiereby cited weather, but being busy with var k j p t quite busv lately fixing autos and required never attempted, but It Is a most Im tlioy cannot be built unless the rail to appear in the County the brim of his hat, but he puts it ious other im po rtant matters, he portant problem, especially to sec ways raise new capital. Court of the State of Oregon, for the "People Invest money In order to and broken down wagons The tions of a State where new railroads County of Coos, at the Court Room money, and they are skeptical to use b> looking through ir when iu ,prudent by neglecting to m til drivers report th a t the roada thereof, are needed The placing of securities make at Coquille, in the County of as to whether they can make money he wants to see up. Coos, State of Oregon. Wednesday, the do so. And now from this c has been left entirely with the pro by investing in concerns that are dealt io the caoyon are muddy and rough. 26th day of January, 1916, at the hour moter and owner of railroads. with stringently and unfairly. Rail ( lab Hancock, who with his fam- arises the question as to what time The Laird stage line has been giv often o’clock iu tlie forenoon of that "The immediate determination of road securities must be made more ily, was washed down G an der Creek 0 f the year a person really should day, then there to show cause, if ing good service notw ithstanding any exist, and what earnings the railroad shall be attractive to Invite Investments, and durin g the rise last spring, having p u t w hy an order of sale should on Should he don them in order that they may be made more the bad roads. The autos are still not be made of the real property of the permitted to receive and what bur attractive, the roads must be allowed dens It shall have put on it is in the earnings that will enable them to grown tired of waiting for a rise th» first of October or should he ru n n in g between Myrtle Point and estate of David M. Drew, deceased, to- wit: the south half of the southeast hands of other servants of the public meot the Increased capital charges.” going the other way, has returned wait and take bis chances with the Bridge. quarter and the south half of the south by waeou to Hogwallow. advent of a cold spell, when the west quarter of section thirty-four, in Coquille merchants report a much Miss Florence Jenn in gs, primary township twenty-nine south, range Two Dew posts have been in- p< reimmons get ripe? While it better holiday trade than they e x teacher, ia spending a p a rt of her fourteen west of the Willamette meri The Inquisitive Japs. dian, iu .Coos County, Oregon. pected, and seve al say it was far The Familiar Unknown. The Japanese have a lively desire to stalled to assist in holding up the must be admitted that the former is vacation a t Powers Witness, the Hon. John S, Coke, Tbe the safest plan, we believe every better than last year. T b is has rhinos you see day and never ; know all about you. They are actively front porch of the postoffice. Judge of the Circuit Court'o? the »State Bids to build a play shed for tbe of notice ' Ite topic with those interested In your health, your busi- Oregon in and for the (’)untv of four others there have stood tbe citizen should do as bis conscience been a pleasant surprise, as it was 'vho probe curiously into our deficien- ! ness, your habits, your wealth, your school are to be opened Jan. 3 The Coos, acting for and in the absence of feared that a low record would be 1 the Hon. James Watson, Judge of the 1 ■ 1 1 trick Is perhaps an j personal affairs, hew yon like your strain well for the past several : dictates in this matter, made. It indicates reviving confi open secret by now, and yet yon mn.\ , eggs for breakfast, what your clothes years, having been leaned against A Wild West dram a was witness- shed is to be 30x50 feet and ao ar County Court of the State o r. Oregon, in and for the County of Coos, with the dence and the faith ot our people fall in reprt.during the Roman figures j cost, where you are going, when you ire th *n a n ything else in tbis sec- e<| a t the Tickville opera house Sat- ranged th at athletics such as basket seal of said County Court affixed, this that you confront in all moods many are going and why you are going; what b.'ll may be played in it, also a g e n 10th day of December, 1915. that good times are ju s t around the times a day. Can you describe the as you intend to do after you get there, tion with the possible exception of urday Diq h t to a large and repre Attest: R obe rt R. W atson , Clerk. corner. In tru th , it would seem pect of a shilling, which 1 hope you what your excuse for existing is, how tbe Imr at the Hog Ford still house, tentative audience. As soon as the eral school program may be given SEAL By D. W atson , Deputy. in it. B ridge school has a rep u ta see as man.\ times a day, or n penny often you get your hair cut, how many that such a faith was never better 12-28-5t Slim Pi kens was seen headed emoke cleared away, work was be postage stump? I am sure that any children you have or have not and tion in the county for being pro founded, for the lumber revival on postal maiden could sell me a dozen toward the Calf Ribs neighborhood guu to get the stage iu repair for why, what your watch cost, who is which we bank is already under penny stamps with the wrong head on your tailor, how often you wash your Sunday wearing his high stan d in g tbe next show which comes next gressive. A C hristm as eve social was con way and it is not a mere matter of them and send me away contented. teeth, how much you owe, whether collar and smaller shoes. Slim puts T hursday night. you have any birthmarks and what ducted at tbe home of Mr. Claude newspaper talk. As the wave of .And yesterday l met a man who had was the occupation of your grandfa lived for years in happiness on Haver If I FAIL to CURE a«y CANCER or TUMOR i tr..t Nosier. A merry time and a pleas before It POISONS »up (lulls or ittictis to BONE depression that swept the country stock hill and couldn’t toll me the ther. These and all other topics that G a t h e r in g D a te s . Have yon paid the Printer? made itself felt last in Coos county , number of steps that led to the front are personal to you they are anxious ant evening was spaut by those Without Knife or Pain. Dates grow at the top of such tall, to discover. Their curiosity is un- No PAY Until CUREOf so it would seem th at the prosperity door of his own house.—London Spec I hounded; but, my takes, how polite ■lender trees that in order to gather present. N e P lus U ltra tator. W RITTEN GUARANTEE them men have to swing themselves boom reaches us last, but not tar No X R ay o r o th e r j they are about It!—Samuel G. Blythe ■w indle. An Is la n d up the trunk by degrees by means of in Saturday Evening Post. The Rise of Newfoundland. behind the more eastern parts of Called Out the Militia East Fork Items p la n t m ak es th e c u r e A ny TUMOR. LUMP o n a rope, one end of which they fasten Newfoundland Iris had a curious his the country. With the profitable- SORE o n th e lip , face around their bodies, while they loop tory. Cabot, sailing from Bristol, dis Hunting Trouble. or is Lloyd Leatherniai], Mrs. Leather- C A N b C o E d R y ! long state of the dairy business already- covered it In 1107, and In 1583 Sir Hum i t n ev er When u man just naturally wants the other ci I An entire battalion of state militia Gl i ! if will catch on p a in s u n til laHt stag e existing, the boom in lumber is phrey Gilbert annexed its wild and trouble it is mighty easy to find an ex to the noie!' mink of the tree and a squadron of c a ra l ry was “ re in .n and the older child have be«n 1 20 -PAGE BOOK se n t FR E E , 10,000 te sti- bound to raise the Coquille valley rocky shores for Queen Elizabeth. Yet cuse for making it. According to Mike —Lon.In.. \ > ____ quisitioned” by Director E d g a r quite sick with la grippe. R ufus m oni&ls. Writ« to M l until 130 years ago it was illegal to Ilogan, Casey and O’Brien were hav on the crest of the wave. And this build a permanent house there. The ing a personal argument of their own. Lewis, of the G overnor of Georgia. Howe and Harold P o rte r did the without figuring on the new de Island was held by “merchant adven It had progressed to the extent that Jo h n M. Hlaton, for the William choree and work th a t was to be !._ l i done. velopment that is h o un d to come turer»” for the sake of the fisheries each had forgotten what it was about O n ew o m an in e v e ry 7 aieso fci F ox production of E d w a rd Shel They hired their fishermen in England, originally, and they were wholly obliv We refu se m a n y w ho w a it to o lo n g & m u s t d ie with the completion of the Willa took them across the Atlantic each ious of the gathering crowd until an A Christm as tree on Christman P o o r cu re d a t h a lf p ric e if ca n c e r is y e t sm a ll d o n ’s greatest success, “ T h e N ig I. mette-Pacific this spring. It is hard spring and brought them hack at the urbane and genteel person in n frock Dr. & Mrs. Dr. CHAMLEY & CO. g s & m g e r,” in screen form, which was eye was bad at Wm. S m ith ’s. “Strictly RstlaMs. Grastest Cancer SRedallst llvins” coat put in. to Ire pessimistic about the pros commencement of winter. filmed at A ugusta, G a., and will be Miss McDonald and pupils of the 4 3 4 0 t 436E Valencia St, San Francisco, Cal. Newfoundland’s importance in the "Come, come, my man." lie said, gen pects of Coos county ju s t now. cod fishery arises to a great extent tly plucking Casey by the sleeve. “You seen tomorrow r.ight at the Scenic Dora school gave a sho rt program K IN D L Y M A IL T H I S ta taasaai sltt C A N C E R from the fact that it is only within her don’t want to fight. I can tell it by theatre One of the most im port last Wednesday before adjourning waters that tin* small fish desirable as your looks. Your face is too benign”— ant scenes ot the motion picture for a two weeks' holiday vacation. bait can be obtained In the necessary “Two l»e nine! Two be nine. Is ut. LED A "DOG'S LIFE.” quantities. London Telegraph. shows violent race riots in full Tne teacher and pupils are to be ye scut?" bellowed Casey. "Me face is two be nine, is lit?” blast about the gubernatorial m a n co ngratulated for tho good work Better Than a Play. 8 - y I ooii Keeper Tell» Court He Slept In And there was where the real trou New York - An unscheduled perform Charles II.’s contempt for parlia Room With Fifteen Canines. Mr. Lewis determ ined, if doDe, The Christm as tree was a ble began. Louisville Times. «nee of Andrades mid the lion was sion. St. Louis. Sleeping in the room and mentary government evinced Itself In stmuvl recently In the « entrai park possible, to “ call out the m ilitia” to tb ng of beauty and yielded “ fruit” the bed with as many ns fifteen dogs strange forms. Me seems to have en All Money Good In Canada. polar Invii utik Jim Coyle, the keep “ quell the riots.” But he wanted fo each oue present Is a dog’s life. according to Edward joyed his visits to the house of lords, There is no place in the world where er. " Is A .. f ' IIU namesake, .lini the real th in g and not a crowd of Finder, a former saloon keeper, now ami be once said that going there was money is under less supervision than 1 he pm:. C hristm as night there was a big if tl.e t ear col.my play living in Bellevue, who recently sued better than going to a play. In Canada. The coins in circulation <-d H ie lia. .vid e ll > consort. Molly, extra people made up to look like e n e r t a i n m e n t at McKinley ball. for divorce “Ou one occasion.” writes Mr. C. B. there are net confined to the Dominion. .M is tl.e ï . id ot wild animals of the the citizen soldiery. Mr Lewis, Tlie dogs belonged to his wife, Ida. Roy la me Kent In Ills “Early History British halfpennies and pennies cir arena, w a n Miss McDonald went to her home r e was lo eat tl.e mar who is a G eorgian himself, and was n he Ten Mile Lake country to the petition stated it 1« said that she of the Tories," "In order to avoid deal- culate as freely as the cents, and Unit tyr also permitted chickens a free runway I lug it li a bill relieving Protestant ed States coins of all descriptions are At 'J 1.7 o'clock p in Androcles a schoolmate of Mr. Slaton, called ■ pond the vacation. of the saloon, and when Finder at dissenters, sent up by the house of accepted as equal in value to tbe Ca eiptlppul v i l l i hip hoots and a monkey tempted to drive out flit' dogs he says commons, he contrived that It should | nadinn coins, though tlie United States wren. h. went Into the tank to repair on the governor. B. K . Marcy made a trip to C»- his wife threatened him with a club | l»e stolen from the table in the lords. refuses to handle tlie coins of the the drain at tl.e ho'tom .Ihn anil Mol “ I made a special trip from New On another he showed such an extrav Dominion on its own side of the bor ly retired upstage ou the rinks ami ^ o r k to vote for you J o h n , at the qu lie Thursday. agance of delight over a money bill der. In the course of a busy day in looker! ut him A ml routes went nliend ]g, t election,” be said, “ and I want Mr. Cook, of Myrtle Point, lost a Old Gas Well Does Duty. Napoleon, O.-A go* well sealed up I which Htrott bed from the throne to the Canada you are not surprised to meet with tils work, helpline over Into the , , _ . . , valuable “ varm int” dog on the East In disgust twenty seven years ago Is , »‘lid of the chamber that he measured coinage of many nations. Sometimes water, with his hack to the animals. ! y ° u lo do me 8 b"? ,8Vor- you get finds. A correspondent who And rod c s’ ‘¿00 pounds caught Molly’s now being used for lighting, heating it with Ids walking stick.” T hen he sprung his request. Mr., F ork. T he dog has helped get 59 Is nn amateur coin collector tells me •ye. nml cooking purposes by former Sheriff Skill Recoijniz«d. Slat.m at first refused but M r.Lew is w’i', 08,8 an'1 ,h ree e o u g s r a th e past I>. \V Sunglei on his farm near here. An instant later she Jumped, and It wfao jf fae n o | one of , he year. R. A. E asto * "What wonderful performers there lie got among bis change a beautiful Users specimen of a farthing of the reign of When fils neighbors recently began us are j ----------------------- that orchestra!’ la lined Mrs. Georg»* III , ami an hour or two after- would have been all up with Andro- cles If Jim had remained a spectator, kn o w n directors in the world,w ould j lug the gas from the Napoleon Wause Are Nofict of Sheriff s Sale 1 ward he became the possessor of an lie Jumped after Molly and caught her have made a good diplom at, pre on pipe line he recalled the abandoned “Wc erf ul isn’t tht word.” replied old Irish halfpenny over 100 years old, by the throat, while Androcles clam well and bad It eased and pipes laid such ,c telling el- Mr I'omrox. "They*» almost superhu- with tbe harp on one side. Probably bered out of the arena, with only a sented to tNe house ’CUICU his case ul* with wllu sueu ,,ln K eI By virtue of an execution and Order man. Why. hey sound to me ns If these two coins had been carefully scratch on the back of his hand to facl that at last his proposition was o! stale duly issne.1 by the Clerk of the they could tu ko a tune and play it 1 preserved, but poverty Induced the pro show where the hear’, teeth had agreed to by G ov. Slaton K o S i w . f u i S r t S ? T ’.h'>! l i ° r f Cut« Third Set of Teeth. prletors to part with them.—London gmzod him. Sandusky.—John Brooks. « Iglity two. backward ns ■ nsily ns they could for Chronicle. , , T h e result is th at the race ri t December 1915, in a certain action in Bill Snyder. head keeper, and liir ____ ^ _T, .. . the Circuit Court for said Coun'vand Is getting his third set of teeth Brooks ward.”—Wash aggiti Sar. For Sale By three assistants heard Androcles using scene.- in T h e N igger are in- .State, w herein John C. Kendall as plain Is a el?» war veteran and ll\ in Cot Self Reproach strong language and hurried up with tensely realistic and thrillingly e x tiff recovered judgment ag inst K. L. D e la y e d K n o w le d g e . tage M. Ohio Soldi» r\ .md Sailors’ When a bride begins to meet her hus [ lie (bltlngly)- Will you he good pointed Iron bars After five minutes citing. „j Before vour eves vou can ',olr,8 business under the home Ills grandmother, he says, out pel suasion tliev separated the couple c" ,n K- " f^ r e your eves you can fjri„ name ot F. L. Greenough A Co. for enough to tell me why you insist on hand's relations she Is astonished that her third set of teeth at ninety four. while the martvr went Into the police *ee th* sw eeping charge of the cav- »ht sum of Four hundred eleven and Coquille, Oregon a man like him came from a family raking up nil these old stories of men A Pointed Hint. airy driving a crowd of panic strick- J4-19?.d_oll*r* lhe 6lh d*T of Decem- who proposed to you and that you re Station to recuperate. Dissatisfied (»nest—Walter, you don’t like that- -Galveston News. her 1915. "That hear Jim.” said Snyder, "has en b, , ck rio(erg fused? She (sweetly*— 8o that by re been here ten years and has never g.v ” seem to know how to broil a stt-ak at — — 'h e m and ^Notice b ^ shat I will on S o u r Grape«. this rating house. Let me give you a »<=d smoke of the infan- frr,m ,loor o( the r „ nntv The New Home S e w i n g “The man I marry must have com calling tin* mistakes 1 made in youth en us any trouble. Molly tins been »hi pointer. Waiter (with some alacrity! I may realize today that 1 got only hero six amt keeps you guessing every tr y ’s volleys as they obey the com- >n Coquille in asid County, at 10 o’clock mon selige." slie said haughtily. Machine Company Ail right, **uh. only we usually calls what I deserved. — Richmond uid Tluies minute Yes. st-. bear» are funny, i ,j,and lo •<F jrep> in ihe forenoon of said day, sell st pub- “He won’t.- replied he bitterly.- You daren't turn yoor back on ’em— . l i e .«notion to the highest; bidder, for ’em tips. Dispatch. Denver ( iarlou San F ranctsco California General Moss A Breckinridge, cash, the following described property. im to joiu. Slim Ricketts who got h u n g tin- der the Wild Onion school house last sum m er while hunting for hen eggs, w is a social visitor at R«« Straw this week. 1 WILL GIVE $1000 DEAL F..Ü dì Any LUMPin WOMAN’S BREAST Is CANCER p0,."°-n-'d-e<,j.,nn- UÜIÍ ï iv9ii íiv;py Mtsr Attacking Pfojpac iïô 2üû Pound Meal. New Home Quality Choosers COQUILLE FURNITURE CO.