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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1916)
T he C oquille H erald VOL. 35, NO. 4 « K J OF MAN F ETUIS News of County. Stale and National Interest Told in Brief Concise Form and son Ivan, and Ingram left here Sunday morning for the huckleberry fields near Parkersburg, and were join ed on the way by Mrs. Cavitt and two children. The party had their first mishap when ascending the ¡ong Bear creek grade. A leakage in a valve in one of the front cylinders failed to sup ply the proper amount o f oil, with the result that the babbot was burned out around the crank shaft. Reaching the berry fields Mrs. Pen dleton left the rest o f the party to pick berries and ran her car into Bandon and had it repaired. About four o ’ clock in the afternoon they started on their re turn and just before making a * short turn this side o f the Sweet farm they saw the Hoyt car come around the curve. The road was narrow and Mrs. Pendleton and party say she was very close to the bank and that she at once blew her horr, and stopped her car, be ing by that time about 25 feet from the big car, which came straight on crash ing into the Ford, smashing its radiator and one of the lights and jarring the occupants. The little son o f Mrs. Cav itt struck the back o f nis neck on some part o f the car and sustained a very severe bruise, and there was consider able excitement among the passengers of both cars and a few compliments passed. The Coquille party claim that the Bandon people refused to do any thing to help them out o f their pre dicament, going on their way and leav ing them to do the best they could. However, Jess Kay and wife, of River ton, came along and towed them to Riverton where they left the injured car and Mr. Kay brought the party home, reaching here so long after dark that their friends were beginning to feel anxious about them. T o Attempt to Am plify County’s Road-Building Powers Is Plan Coos County Good Roads Association Holds Annual Meeting, Re-Elects Officers of Last Year, Adopts By-Laws, Listens to President’s Report and Many Interesting Talks and Starts Movement for Granting Counties Greater Power A committee o f five members, to be I coming to the meeting Mr. Lewis, ac county were represented by from one appointed by the president, through companied by County Roadmaster Mur to three carloads o f association mem which the influence o f the association dock, had gone down to Parkersburg. bers and a great majority of those pre can be exerted to the end of having a Surveyor Elliott and a crew o f men sent took an active part in the meeting. measure passed at the next state legis were ju st beginning the survey o f the I The bylaws which were adopted at lature removing the two mill tax limit liandon-Coquille road. In speaking of j the meeting were short and concise. Southern Pacific Shows Rea for road purposes which now rests upon the work being done by Mr. Elliott, They make every citizen of Coos coun son for Car Shortage the counties of the state, was author Mr. Lewis seemed, well pleased and ty eligible to membership in the asso ized at the annual meeting o f the Coos stated that work is going on systemat- ciation and provide that no dues or fees County Good Roads Association at the ■ ically and economically. o f any sort shall be required. This last Myrtle Creek prune crop will ap City Hall Friday night. This, it was A simple, short, comprehensive code provision was objected to by one or two proximate 2,000,000 pounds. brought out at the meeting, is the only o f road laws, is, in the opinion o f Mr. o f the members, but when a vote was The Southern Pacific has nearly com way in which Coos county can hope to Lewis, one o f the greatest needs o f the taken upon the matter of amending it, pleted its stockyard at Reedsport. continue the good roads program on state along this line at the present the amendment failed to carry. The Salem is getting the one-man street which she has entered, as the bond is time, and he stated that the necessary treasurer's report showed about $11 in cars, made necessary by jitney compe sue, together with what state and fed steps are being taken to bring this the treasury. tition. eral aid will be available, is conceded to about. A t present there are 567 sec The following resume o f the past be inadequate to do more than place tions in the Oregon law dealing with year’s work, written by President Hall Bids are to be considered at Grants the principal roads on grade and get roads and about 10U0 officials control was read by the secretary: Pass for Josephine county’ s new $75,- them in shape for hard surfacing. The ling ror.d construction. Of these many 000 court house. To the Coos County Good Roads Asso matter was brought up by County A t lawB some repeal others, says Mr. Dean and Brown commenced work on ciation: torney L. A. Liljeqvist who addressed Lewis, some are identical with others, the paving of the water front road be Gentlemen: the meeting on som eof the legal phases and taken all together it is impossible tween Marshfield and North Bend yes- It is just one year since the reorgan of the bond issue and good roads ques for the officials to know just what they terJay. ized Association came into being. It tion in Coos county. He stated that he can and cannot do. It is reported that a movement, seems proper and fitting that a resume had absolute confidence in the method All three members of the county started in New York to petition Presi which the county court was employing court were present at the meeting and o f the activities be placpd on file with dent Wilson to place an embargo on in their road building program and was Judge James Watson and Taylor De the Secretary. It is for this reason wheat may assume nation-wide propor assured that none o f the money would ment explained at some length the that the writer attempts to detai1 to tions. be misspent. “ But,” he continued, plans o f this body as to the expenditure some extent the year's work. The State has sold 25 tons o f flax at Your President made three calls on our powers in this county ought to be o f the bond money and whatever other 7 cents a pound to California mills. amplified, and the Good Roads Associa road money they may be called upon to the State Highway Commission in the Same was produced with convict labor. year 1915. With the able assistance o f tion o f Oregon ought to go on reerrd as handle. The State is handling 750 tons. County Judge Watson, we Becured State Health Officer favoring a law that would give the According to Judge Watson, Federal Twohy Brothers, o f Portland, will their promises as follows: county the same right that is now en Confer* With Han ilton aid under the new law will be asked in soon commence work on a contract for joyed by the road districts—the right “ A delegation was present repre the construction o f the two pieces of forty standard, all-steel cars for the to vote a special tax for road purposes senting Coos County.” Dr. D. M. Roberg, state health officer road in Coos county. One from Ken- Copper River and Northern Railway without being hampered by the two “ Also: That the County Court o f o f Portland, was in town Friday con tuck Inlet toward Allegany and the company, o f Alaska. mill limitation.” This bill, according Coos County be and hereby is advised ferring with County Health Officer Dr. other from Haines Slough to Tenmile. A Chicago buyer at Cottage Grove to Mr. Liljeqvist, should go through V. L. Hamilton, regarding the new law He explained that as they understood that in case said county votes bonds says Oregon brocolli comes on the mar the coming session o f the legislature. for permanent road construction to be relating to the registration o f births it this federal money was to be ex Mr. Liljeqvist also pointed out that the ket after all other supplies are ex expended under the direction o f the and deaths. Under the old system it pended in building roads to or through passage o f the six per cent tax limita hausted and therefore has the market was the duty o f the county health forest reserves and, that being the Engineer of the State Highway Com tion measure at the coming election o f the world to itself. mission, that said Highway Commis officer to see to the le g is la tio n o f all case, these were the only two pieces of The largest cable to be brought into births and deaths and there was no would work a hardship on us in carry road in the county to which it would sion will appropriate from the 1917 road funds money to assist in said road con Coos county came in on the Adeline penalty imposed upon a person if the ing out the good roads program. apply. struction.” Smith Saturday. The big spool o f steel reports were not made to him, which Mayor Topping, o f Bandon, also Commissioner Dement pointed out This is an extract from the minutes was billed to the Smith-Powers com resulted in the records being incom spoke in favor o f having the limitation that there were two projects upon o f the Corporation. pany and weighed nine tons. raised. He said he thought the people plete. which work should be done this winter. The Association, through its Publi o f Coos county were o f sufficient intel Another German submarine showed The new law provides that the county One was from Coquille to Coaledo to up unexpectedly in Newport last Satur shall be divided into registration pre ligence to be able to decide for them connect with the road that is being city Committee, gave publicity to this day, delivered some mail and after ly cincts and a registrar appointed in each selves the amount o f taxes they could built by Contractor Perham. As shown and many other things which consti ing at the dock for three hours put out district. In towns of two thousand stand for road purposes and that they by the work on this road this summer, tuted reason for the county bond issue. This campaign o f general publicity was were not going to vote a larger tax t o sea again. population or over the city health offi he stated it would be necessary to have prosecuted until April o f this year, at The Oregon Supreme Court in the cer acts a < the registrar and in smaller than they could stand. it closed part of the time and if the The election of officers which took work was done in the winter the in- which time a definite proposal was case o f Justice Daniel Webster o f Sa communities the justice o f the peace placed before the voters with the re place at the beginning o f the meeting lem has ruled that a justice of the assumes this duty. It is further pro convience to the traveling public would sults now well known. peace in Oregon is a judge and that his vided in the law that a penalty o f $25 and for which it was primarily intend be much less. In this connection, the services of may be imposed on the person who ed, resulted in the re-election, by un term o f office is six years. When County Roadmaster Murdock animous vote, of all the officers that was called upon to address the meeting, Frank Terrace to t h i s community neglects the duty o f reporting deaths Just three weeks after his old friend have served the association for the he objected to the applause that greet should never be forgotten. The credit and employer J. W. Bennett had passed or births. for passing this bond proposal is due Under the new system Coos county past year, with the exception o f the ed him upon the ground that the only to the Great Beyond, Torn Maginnis, vice-presidents from t h e different remark he had to make was a regret. A LL the Good Road Association and is divided into five registration districts. another well known Coos Bay pioneer, towns who, under the bylaws that were He regretted that he was not built the voters o f Coos County. died Friday night at his home at Broad In accordance with this resolution, udopted at the meeting, will hereafter along the lines o f ex-President T aft way and Market. A. L. McNair Injured be elected by the commercial bodies of that he might allow his features as the supervision o f the spending of the Coos Bay coal mine operators are the different towns. Those re-elected well as his words to express hisjpleasure proceeds o f the bond issue has been receiving urgent inquiries from several A. L. McNair received a painful gash were: President, CHas. Hall;Secretary at being able to felicitate with those placed under the supervision o f the points in the Willamette valley about in the scalp and was badly bruised Earl L. Powell; Treasurer, R. H. Mast, present upon the way in which the road State Highway Commission. This com coal shipments, and it is believed that about his shoulder, arm and hip last pletes our part o f the contract. Sr. program is working out in Coos county. the fall and winter business will de- j Thursday, when the piledriver upon Pertinent here, it might be mention John H. Lewis who was in the coun Many other good roads boosters, both velop an extensive and steauy demand. j which he was working at the Conlogue ed, Thursday the 28th o f September, ty, was present and addressed the local and from other towns, added their —Telegram. \ construction camp at ‘ he mouth of the State Highway Commission appro- meeting regarding some o f the plans of ideas to the general educational discus- | priated $5,000 for a survey of the road Tne Reedsport Fish company in mak- j Beaver Hill slough, tipped over. No the state officials in regard to roads. sion that took place, and a striking fea- from Myrtle Point to Roseburg. Much ing a haul o f their seine at Winchester | bones were broken, however, and the He said he was here for the purpose of ! ture o f the whole meeting was the on Sunday morning succeeded in catch- j injured man is getting along nicely un- credit far this prompt appropriation ii getting information to aid the state in ; feeling o f harmony that prevailed. in g over 1200 pounds o f perch and other der the care o f Dr. V. L. Hamilton, due our very efficient County Roadmas forming a comprehensive road plan ] The representatives from each o f the ter, Mr. Murdock. fish. These they Bhip to Portlanu and The fireman on the piledriver was also which will be utilized in obtaining fed towns seemed satisfied with the treat Your officials have kept constantly in other outside points, obtaining a good thrown off when it upset and it is re eral aid. ment that they were receiviug in the price for them.—Telegram. j ported that he was entirely buried in touch with the State Highway Com Unlike many other counties o f the matter o f road construction and not a mission and feel that the substantial For two carloads o f chromium ores i the mud wh,ch surrounded the trestle state, Coos county, according to Mr. single complaint was made from any appropriation promised will be forth recently shipped from Riddle to Illinois ” P0" wh|ch the driver w<*9 re8t,n<?- He Lewis, already has a comprehensive quarter. coming in due time. Steel Company at Chicago the Oregon i was ,nJure ■ The meeting was well attended and ! As stated above, one year has elapsed plan which it is following in the con Nickel Mining Company received a »■«» « '\e n ' a the cause o f the acci- struction of her road system. Before each o f the five larger towns o f the since our activities began, and the mat check for the sum of $3,1)68.95, says the de,nt ,that the sklds uP°n which the ters above mentioned have been accom Riddle Tribune. In the shipment were piledriver was resting were too short and allowed the machine to become plished. It would seem, since to a a little less than 100 tons o f ore, and it overbalanced and fall from the trestle. small extent only are there any matters was worth above $20 per ton f. o. b. at | The Conlogue people are engaged in pending, that it is now time for fur Chicago. buijding a lugging road into a tract of ther plans and further accomplish The Puget Sound Dredge & Bridge timber recently purchased by the Moore ments. company have notified members o f the Lumber company, o f Bandon, and it To this end, I would suggesL that the Port o f Coos Bay commission that they was while driving piling for a trestle Trustees here assembled take the nec- are willing to remove the piling driven on this road that the accident occurred. essarv action, looking towards the elec in the bay while the dredge Seattle was tion o f new officers. operating here. Fishermen have been Very truly yours, Has Easy Fire Season complaining for some time regarding CHARLES HALL, President. the piles, which interfere with the op- i Those present at the meeting were: When in town the first o f the- week eration o f gillnets.—Telegram. A. G. Raab, North Bend. from the Ranger Station on Middle The Southern Pacific company in a C. A. Smith, North Bend. Elk, Forester J. B. Curl said that there statement on car shortage says it is Archie Philip, North Bend. hau not been a fire in his district this due to small demurrage charges col B. B. Weldy, North Bend. ^ year that had gotten beyond his con lected in this state. It says: Edgar McDaniel, North Bend. trol. He attributes this fact pertly to efficiency can be obtained only by fixing Harry Morrison, Bandon. the season and partly to the fact that the demurrage rate at a figure that will Geo. P. Topping, Bandon. their lookout stations and telephone make it incentive and a benefit to the Steve Gallier, Bandon. system is so well established that no general shipping public to release cars Lentner E. Gallier, Bandon. matter where a fire starts in the for with the greatest possible dispatch, and Dr. S. J. Mann, Bandon. ests, some ranger is on the spot before as the 52 rate obtaining in California Walter Wells, Bandon. the fire has time to gain much headway. has brought about this to an extent not Geo. Manciet, Bandon. One o f the best lookout stations equaled in any other territory, we have Dr. Vogel, Bandon. maintained by the service is on Granite to recommend its adoption in Oregon, F. N. Perkins, Bandon. Peak, near Iron Mountain. Here the where because o f the low rates and the O. A. Trowbridge. Bandon. Ranger can sweep the country with his average agreement, five times as many S. E. Elliott, Bandon. glasses for many miles in every direc cars are held in excess o f the free James Montgomery, Marshfield. tion, being at an altitude o f over 2000 times as in California.” Robt. R. Watson, Cequille. feet. J. O. Mock, who has been sta C. E. Huling, Myrtle Point. tioned there this summer, has been Cars Collide at Curve Claud H. Giles, Myrtle Point. able to locate as high as thirty fires at J. L. Masson, Myrtle Point. one time, and has reported some that An automobile accident which was went over the border line into Cali H. M. Fensler, Myrtle Point. serious enough and might easily have fornia. E. A. Roberts, Myrtle Point. been much worse, occurred Sunday a f C. S. McCulloch, Coquille. Mr. Curl has had Jas. Crew with him ternoon on the Bandon road when a this summer, but has not put the For C. A. Howard, Coquille. large car driven by A. G. Hoyt, the est Department to any extra expense Roy M. Avery, Coquille. Bandon grocer, ran into a Ford driven Cal Slagle, Coquille. whatever for fighting ; re, which is an by Mrs. C. A. Pendleton of this city. Geo. P. Falconer, Coquille. » The Coquille car in which were Mrs. exceptionally good record.— Port Ripley In New York Globe. E. E. Cook, Coquille. Pendleton, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Gregory ford Tribune. WILLAMEHEMENAEIE■:! COAL PER YEAR $1.50 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1916. Wm. H. Fearnley, Myrtle Point. L. D. Jones, Coquille. Wm. Bettys, Coquille. G. J. Armstrong, Coquille. K. E Hodginan, Coquille. John H. Lewis, Coquille. R. B. Murdock, Coquille. A. L. Martin. Marshfield. C. Milton Schulz, Myrtle Point. J. B Radry. Myrtle Point. M. H. Hersey, Coquille. 1 eo. J. Cary, Coquille. J. A. Lamb, Coquille. L. H. Hazard, Coquille. C. L. Willey, Coquille. J. E. Norton, Coquille. A. J. Sherwood, Coquille. C. W. Endicoit, Coquille. J. S. Lyons, Coquille. H. A. Young, Coquille. W. T. Dement, Myrtle Point. A. T. Morrison, Coquille. James Watson, Coquille. Earl L. Powell, Marshfield. R. H. Mast, Coquille. Chas. Hall, Marihfield. W. W. Weekly, Bridge. The Purpose The purpose o f store advertising is not merely to sell goods, but to sell more goods—to make friends, build up a patronage that will not only stick but grow. Newspapers reach the greatest number o f people in the immediate vicinity in the most natural way, at the least expense, and they are there fore the best o f all mediums for stores. In a newspaper you follow the lines o f least resistance—you follow with the stream—you talk to an audience al ready assembled, to the people who want to read—their mental cosmos is right—they are on your wire, and they won’ t ring off if you hold their interest. Ex-Governor Os West Talks to Big Audience Ex-Governor Oswald West spoke be fore a large audience at the court house last night on some o f tha more impor tant issues of the present political cam paign. Mr. West is not out for any office, he is making a personal fight against the brewers amendment and the other things which he brings up seem to be secondary to it. In his speech last night he went over the record of the Wilson administration showing where many o f the attacks that are being made upon it are not well founded. He took up in order the many problems that the present con gress and the president have had to solve. He did not enter into any pro longed discussion o f any point; but passed rapidly from one to the other giving a few fundamental reasons why he endorsed what the administration has done. He also spoke briefly in favor o f the tax limitation amendment that will be upon the ballot this fall. This, he said, would provide relief from excessive tax burdens as it limited the amount of money that could be raised by direct taxation and that the officials who had charge of the expending o f this money would be compelled to take care o f the necessary things o f the government first and if there was not enough money left for the unnecessary ones it would be impossible for them to get it except by submitting it to a direct vote o f the people. M t . West went into detail more in regard to the brewers amendment, as he was interested in that personally. Reading the bill as it is to appear on the ballot he pointed out several al leged jokers in it. In fact, he made the statement that under the law pro vided for by that amendment, about the only beverage it would be unlaw ful to sell in Oregon was one that did not contain alcohol. He was warmly applauded at frequent intervals through out his talk. Cupid Goes Duck Hunting Only two marriage licenses were is sued by the county clerk’ s office during the last week and both o f them were filed yesterday. The clerk says that the only way to account for this is that Cupid must have taken advantage of the opening o f the season the first o f the month and gone duck hunting, and for the week chickens were free from I his attacks. I One o f the licenses issued yesterday was to Arnold Me Lay, who was re cently tried here upon a statutory charge, and Mrs. Minnie Philbrick, the California widow who stood by the : young man throughout the trial. | The second license was issued to R. G. Saaf and Olena Aspen. • «•> * Stands for “ the Open Door” Frank B. Tichenor, Democratic can didate for Joint Representative from Coos and Curry counties, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Tichenor is pretty well known in Coos county, and the ef- l fective and energetic boosting he has done for this section in past years is favorably remembered. He recognizes j the handicap under which a Democratic : candidate labors in Coos County, but in consideration o f the fact that he stands for "th e Open Door” on Rogue river and the breaking o f the close monopoly 1 of fishing held by the McLeav interests there, he hopes to receive favorable consideration from voters o f all parties. GERMANS AGAIN SIMILE WORLD Submarine Operates on This Side ot Atlantic and Makes a Killing SENDS NINE TO DAVY JE NES Vessels Wait Their Turn to Be Scuttled and Sunk Sunday’s and Monday’ s dispatches brought the astounding news o f the sinking near the American coast o f nearly a dozen British and other for eign vessels, by a German submarine which had bobbed up serenely in the har bor at Newport News Saturday before anyone knew she had left Germany, delivered some letters and again put to sea. Following are clippings from the dispatches appearing in the Record and * Times o f yesterday: One or more German submarines op erating off this coast today, well out side the three-mile limit, sank the Brit ish steamer Strathdene, British steam er Kingston, British steamer Stephano, Dutch steamer Bloomersdijk, Norwe gian steamer Christian Knodson and dis abled British freighter West Point. No loss o f life is reported. The iden tity o f the other three reported lost is not known. The crews of all the known vessels, except the Kingston, were brought here today, with 83 pas sengers of the Stephano. It is believed no lives were lost. It is declared the Germans gave the boat proper warning and stood by un til all passengers were taken off then the members o f the German crew boarded her and opened the water cocks. No torpedo was discharged. While the Germans were disposing of the Stephano, the Dutch vessel Blocm- ersdiik was standing a short distance away “ like a steer waiting to be slaughtered,’ ’ according to the passen gers. She had been warned to hold up. Before attacking the West Point, the submarine examined the New York, bound toward Boston and sent a boat and examined the Kansan’s papers. Finding them to be American ships they were allowed to proceed. Secretary Daniels informed President Wilson the submarine operating off Nantucket had obeyed all of the pro visions o f interrational war before hav ing torpedoed nine ships throughout the past 24 hours. It was late Saturday afternoon that the grim fighting craft o f the German navy appeared in the harbor at New port, R. I. The diver had confidential mail for the German ambassador at Washington. Later in the evening the submarine slipped out of the harbor again. The commander w a s Lieutenant Rose. He had gotten by the blockade and had beer, at sea 17 days. The U-53 came from Wilhelmshaven. She was in Newport less than three hours. Lieutenant Rose told American officers there would need be no worry over his stay, as he intended to be in port only a short time. He had supplies he de clared and desired nothing. He kept his word, as it was just before dark when the U-53 started out again to sea. The diver carried oil enough for three months. Upon leaving Liet. Rose said he was going outside the harbor and remain there for the present. Program Completed County School Superintendent Ray mond E. Baker has completed the ar ranging o f the program for tlie teach ers' institute which will be held in Marshfield the 18th, 19th and 2Uth o f this month. Among the speakers and instructors are Dr. H. D. Sheldon, dean o f the school o f education at the Uni versity of Oregon; Dr. Joseph Hart, a specialist in rural education from Reed College, Portland; Prof. James T. Mat thews, o f Willamette University; Miss Minetta Magers, who has charge of the music in the Salem schools and who will give three periods a day devoted to the teaching of music; Prof. M. S. Pitt man, of the Oregon Normal school at Monmouth; and Miss Ava E. Millem, head o f the department of Domestic Science at the Oregon Agricultural Col lege, who will be there for one day only. * «•» • Hunters Fined J. B. Johns, W. W. Kimball and C. D. Garoutte, all Bandon men, were ar rested- yesterday for mutilating deer, and failing to properly tag the car casses. They were tried before the Justice of the Peace in Gold Beach yes terday and fined $100 each and costs. Mr. Garoutte was the only one o f the trio able to pay his fine, which he did, and Mr. Johns and Mr Kimball were sentenced to 50 days at hard labor on the county roads. The men were arrested on Rogue river by Game Warden Roy Dixon, who preferred the charges against them. This was the second time the same men had been before the court for similar offense, and they were given more ex- , treme sentencesmconsequence. -Times.