T he C oquille H erald VOL. 35, NO. 46 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1917. PER YEAR $1.50 JAIL D E M OF TWO PRISONERS BIG ADVANCES BV BBSS PROPERTY CENSUS SHOWS FEW TIMBER MEN Raicy and Weidner, Charged With Embezzlement, Walk Much Money Spent Locally and Many Permanent Improve Small Percentage Available for Timber Work If County ments Made by Present Manager Suspends Work on County Roadways Free From County Bastile -Not Yet Located The first jail delivery from the Coos county bastile for many years took place last-night at an unknown hour when F. W. Raicy and J. R. Weidner unceremoniously bade farewell to their quarters there and departed for unknown parts. The men unlocked their cell doors with a key manu factured it is supposed from an old composition comb and walked out while the other prisoners and the jail er were sleeping. They even went to the extreme of relocking their doors before departing. The wires were kept busy from the sheriff's office all day in an effort to locate the men without getting any trace up to time of going to press. r The men were confined in the jail awaiting trial on the charge of em bezzlement placed against them by F. B. Cameron, of the Agitator, and have been confined for over three months up to the time of their escape. They were to have come to trial at the Oc tober term of court provided no fur ther delays were caused. The last delivery of prisoners from the Coos county jail occurred on Feb ruary 7, 1907, when Ballard and Ma- causley, partners in a crime of felony, sawed their way to liberty. Both were caught a few miles above Myr tle Point after less than twelve hours of liberty and afterward served terms in the state penitentiary. BACK FROM SALEM. Hark Dunham Glad to Return to a Good Climate. Hark Dunham, Coos County Pro bation officer, returned Thursday from Salem where he placed Geo. Lemon, a boy of about 15 years of age, in the state school. The boy is a son of John Lemon, of North Bend, and was taken in charge by county officials at Coquille several weeks age for delinquency. Hark has made his home or head quarters in Coos county for 44 years, while he has taken trips on the coast from Alaska south. He says this is the forty-fourth time he has decided Coos county is the only place in the world to live and has the ideal climate of the universe.—Coos Bay Times. Local Garage in Trouble Last Monday J. J. Stanley began a case in the circuit court here involv ing the Gardner & Larsen garage on Front street and other properties. The case was begun by Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Johnson and Chas. I. Kime who are the plaintiffs, and C. W. Gardner and Herman J. Larsen, who two years ago bought the garage, are the prin cipal defendants. The lessees of the plant, Frank Schow, Geo. N. Battey and Burt Doyle are also made defen dants in the -ase. A couple of ago Gardner & Larsen bought the garage from Kime & Von Pegert for $6.500 of which $3,300 consisted of real estate and $3,200 was for the machinery, stock on hand and good will. Of this $2,000 was paid in cash, $1,500 in mortgage on Gardner’s res idence property in Marshfield, $2,000 on securities put up as collateral. The remaining $1,000 was covered by a mortgage on the garage property which was to run five years. The present suit is to foreclose the two mortgages mentioned. The trade between Fred Von Peg ert and H. L. Johnson and wife two years ago transferred his interest in the mortgage to them. A few weeks ago Larsen sold his interest in the garage to Gardner tak ing a second mortgage for $2350 in exchange for his interest. In chambers last Tuesday Judge Coke at Marshfield granted the appli cation for the appointment of a re ceiver for the garage and George T. Moulton was named for that position. He declined to accept it, however, and M. H. Hersey was subsequently named and is now in charge of the husiness. This garage and the extensive and well equipped machine shop in con nection with it has always done a good business, and the trouble ap pears to have been in extending too much credit to irresponsible joy-rid ers. Mr. Gardner came down from Powers Thursday and is quite confi dent that he will be able to adjust ev erything satisfactorily and go ahead with the business. Saturday afternoon the interested parties got together and adjusted mat ters temporarily by Mr. Gardner pay- The editor was invited to accom of land in this valley. Of this num The census of road workers in Coos j were compiled but they will but furth But two prisoners now remain in the county jail. They are A. M. pany L. P. Branstetter on a tour of ber about one-half will be sold off I county is practically complete with \ er augment the number of farmers Zevely, charged with bootlegging, inspection of the Russ holdings Sat before winter, but Mr. Branstetter the result that it is plainly shown; and teamsters as both units are in stated Saturday that he will continue rural sections where the most of the and Jimmy Butns, the South Slougti urday morning and it was certainly a buying this fall and that he expected there are but a small number of mill men employed live adjacent to the Indian charged with murder. revelation to see the work accom to have at least 600 head again by ■ or logging men now employed on the road work. He says he could easily county road work. In fact, but 9 per Raicy and Weidner, who last night plished by him as manager of the pro spring. Tom trow is the day set for the escaped from the county jail here, perty since his management began handle 1500 head during the summer j cent of the workmen at present em final hearing in the matter as it may have, during their confinement, per two years ago. During that period but the winter feeding problem is too ployed would be available to the mill affect the logging and mill men in the fected two or three patents which over one thousand acres of bottom great at the present time. or logging men were the county work county. Speaking of the matter yes In this connection we were also to be suspended. they have been working on for sever land owned by the Russ people has terday County Judge Watson said he al years but which they have appar been cleared and practically all seeded shown the new tide gate installed The returns in late last night show had no thought of in any way obstruc ently not had time to complete before. down and is now being used as sum this summer at the mouth of Fat Elk ; ed that out of 284 men employed all ting the work of the industries of the ^ One of them was that of the milk bot mer pasture for the eight hundred ditch which will do much to help out j but 21 had definite reasons why they county and that it was solely in the tle holder which was credited to E. A. head of cattle owned here by the com the hay and pasture next year. The would not engage in work either in the interests of the county as a whole tha; Beckett in these columns several pany. In addition to this pasture Mr. new headgate, which, with another mills or camps were they to be let out the census had been ordered, but that weeks ago. Another, on which the Branstetter expects to harvest over that they expect to install next year on the road work. The census also its result bore out the opinion he had patent was received by them last three hundred tons of hay for winter will virtually do away with the old shows that there a.e about 200 of the formed at the outset of the controver headgates and which will absolutely men who have at some time in their sy. Roadn.aster Murdock expressed week, is a wedge to be used in the feeding this coming month. falling of big timber and is one which This winter feed will be housed in control the water, is constructed of lives engaged in logging or mill work the opinion that when the logging and may come into unversal use in the four barns owned by the company, corrugated iron and the gate itself tut that all have since been engaged mill men saw the final figures in the timber of this county at some future three of which have been erected this of steel, turned and emery smoothed in other employment, as but 12 of census they would readily agree with time. summer. The last of these barns is on the face so as to be absolutely them gave either logging or mill work the court that stopping the work would It is thought by the sheriff’s office not quite completed but will be fin wuter tight. The gate and pipe is as their avocation immediately prior be foolishness in the face of the facts. that it was because of these patents ished within a week and be ready for five feet in diameter and weighs over to engaging in the road work. Gus Peterson was here today and and the desire to be free to push their two hundred tons of hay. This barn 5,100 pounds. It is installed at the east The greater percentage of the men sale that the men walked out of the is on what is known as the Chase side of the old concrete gates and the pave their regular calling as farmers j stated that much interest was mani jail last night. They have both been place just below Cedar Point on the second new gate will be placed at the and teamsters though there is a smat fest in the proposed plan to stop all He says that everyone model prisoners during the period of Marshfield road. In connection with west side of the old gates. tering of til the trades and callings road work. With these gates the water level on the calendar. There are miners, out his way is hoping that the work their confinement and have been given this barn the largest silo in Coos some liberty inside the building as a county will be erected as soon as the on the entire holdings of the company clerks, mill wrights, draughtsmen,ma will not stop for it gives the ranchers result of the good behavor. However, barn is completed. This new silo will as well as all other land on the south sons, railroad men, a photographer who have teams a chance to earn good there is no thought that they had any be sixteen feet in diameter and thirty side of the river can be held to a de and even a printer on the county rolls ray during the summer months. So assistance in getting out either from feet high. It will be of the Wiscon sired inch thus insuring a perfect and this miscellaneous assortment far as he is able to learn very few, an inside or outside source, though sin type and will have a concrete base sub-irrigation of the entire tract and takes up 81 of the 284 men employed. if any, men employed on the Grant- local parties were seen talking to four feet thick which will fully insure Mr. Branstetter estimates that it There are 20 men in the various road Smith contract north of the bay them at their cell door yesterday. its stability even when loaded to the will mean the production of thousands camps who have at some time in their would seek employment either in the of tons more feed for hundreds of head lives engaged in shipbuilding but none mills or logging camps if they were full or when perfectly empty. Local Ferry Report. The second largest barn is on the of cattle in addition to those it is pos gave that as their regular employ thrown out of work. He considers it, as do all others out that way, the upper place until last year occupied sible to feed at present and will mean ment. The summer auto season is now at by Glen Collier. This barn will hold a far greater investment on the part One or two projects were yet to be height of folly to consider stopping its height as is evidenced by the ac several hundred tons of hay and there of the company as well as other land heard from when the above figures road work now.— Coos Bay Harbor. companying report of the local ferry are stalls for over two hundred head owners under this drainage project. HOME-MADE EVAPORATOR. Comparative Figures. business for the month ending July of cattle. The smallest of the three Mr. Bransetter stated Saturday 24. That tourist travel through Coos new barns is on the old McAdams that since he took charge of the hold So much has been said about the Producers May Save Surplus Products county is of considerable importance place on the Marshfield road and this ings the company has spent over $30,- by Drying, Rain or Shine. is proven by the statement made by will hold over one hundred tons of 000, much of which is in the shape of expense incurred in the County Road- Logan Kay, the ferryman, that, aside hey when filled. In connection will permanent improvements and all of master’s office that one is induced to Grc vers of win-the-war crops may from the local stage cars between Lite latter barn Mr. Branstetter has which has been spent in this section believe that office is one of the real save the most valuable part of their this city and Bandon, over twenty just installed a modern scale for the alone. As a whole the trip was a burdens of the county. Investigation surplus products by evaporating them per cent of the cars that cross the weighing of his cattle, with the nec very instructive one and showed the reveals, however, that the entire ex at home In a simple and cheap home river here are California cars. Ar.d essary yards and corrals to accom writer what can be done on the bot pense of the Roadmaster’s office for made evaporator designed by the O. that does not take into consideration modate the herds both before and af tom land of the Coquille valley even the first six months of this year is A. C. Hort. department and fully ex $4,770.16. The expense o i the County plained in Extension bulletin 213, the Oregon cars from outside points, ter weighing. ; in a few years by intelligent and con Surveyor's office for the same time now ready for distribution. The title as there is no way of identifying The company has at present over tinuous work toward draining and and the exact number of days is $5,- of the bulletin is, “ A Moderator-sized them unless the ferryman was person 800 head of cattle on their 2600 acres , clearing the land for occupation. 660.71 or $890.55 in excess of the ex Evaporator for Fruits and Vegeta ally acquainted with the drivers of pense of the Roadmaster’s office. We bles.” local cars. Photographs and drawings believe that in justice to Mr. Mur are used to make plain the text, and For the thirty day period ending dock they should be clearly stated by means of these almost any one July 24, 5,221 footmen, 121 single and widely published. teams, 364 double teams, 2,932 au who cares to undertake it may build In addition to the above statement at home an effective evaporator. tomobiles and 50 head of live stock The Navy wants men and more than the interesting phases of air naviga were ferried over the river. And ever has opportunities for certain tion. Those two fields should attract which was published in the Coos Bay The capacity of this evaporator is Harbor last week, Roadmnster Mur six bushels. Since most of the evap there are two or three months of sum trade lines which should offer hun hundreds and the man wh dock wishes us to state that the Ford orated products can be dried out to a mer yet to come which will swell the dreds in the next few weeks. for such service can count himself car which was purchased for his office good keeping stage in about six hours, grand total of traffic to enormous Owing to the fact that certain rat quite lucky. this spring had not been charged to it is readily seen that the products proportions. ings are closed, the impression has In addition to those posts, several his office at the time these figures may be handled in comemrcial quan gone out that the Navy is restricting cooks are needed and mess attendants were compiled. The machine cost tities if two or more families go in Fat Hog Shipment. enlistment generally, but the Portland which is a field of utmost importance $504 which, added to the above fig together and build and operate one office wants it particularly understood to the Navy. Through the many mod One hundred and nine fat Curry that only certain lines are closed and ern appliances which the Navy sup ures, still leaves a margin of $386.55 of these evaporators in common. county hogs were shipped from the that many men are needed to fill rat plies for the use of cooks, this phase in favor of his office. By following the ideas of the bul local loading yard last Saturday ings which offer good clean men splen of ship life ranks well forward in the letin in a general way it will fre morning. The hogs were purchased did opportunities. need of capable men who can take ov Coos County to Win the War. quently be possible to construct the in Curry county by J. F. Ford for his drier out of such materials as are at It is only the following classifica er the responsibilities of feeding hun The following from the Portland Marshfield business and represented tions that enlistments are not being dreds. band, or to remodel some unused Journal is of interest as showing how over $3000 in value on foot. They made in at present: Landsmen for building, such as the smoke-house, In brief, the ratings which are to were brought up from Bandon by Electricians, general; yeomen; plumb day open to the right young men are important a part Coos county pro with heat produced by the idle heater scow and were in prime condition for ers and fitters; shipwrights; shiplift- as follows: Appretice Seamen; Ma ducts are going to play in the great or the laundry stove. the market. It took quite a crew of ers; blacksmiths; boilermakers; paint chinist's Mates, first and second class; war: Men and women who used to sun men to handle the shipment, even ers and printers. However, many Coppersmiths and sheet metal work “ It seems to be up to Oregon, the dry their fruits and keep off the flies Marshall Epperson being called in men fitted under those branches might ers; Firemen, first, second and third volunteer state, to win the war. by mosquito netting for several days with the city water works to furnish very often take a rating under other class; Hospital Apprentices, first and “ More definitely it mav be that to each batch find great satisfaction water and wallows for the porkers branches which are now open and in second class; (incidentally only two a Coos county, Oregon, will win the in drying their fruit and vegetables in and keep them from over heating in which men are needed badly. a few hours, rain or shine. month can be enlisted); Landsman for war. the squable of loading. There is a big need today for ap baker; Baker, second class; Mess At “ Why? prentice seamen, machinists’ mates, tendants, third class; Landsman for Opening in September. “ E. ause the experts tell us that Dr. Low To Enter Army. first and second class. There is a ship’s cook; Ship’s Cooks, fourth class; the war will be won in the air, and Geo. W. Zurr, a mechanical expert special opportunity for musicians and Landsmen for musicians; Musicians, j that to win the United States must Dr. G. Earl Low, who went up to almost every town in the state has a first and second class; Landsmen for equip the allies with a preponderating from Portland, came in Wednesday Vancouver last week returned Wed band which could send a representa Quartermaster, aviation section; and from Portland to install the steel fur fleet of war airplanes. nesday evening He went to take the tive to the Navy. This particular Landsmen for Machinist’s Mates, avi “ The finest grade of spruce is niture in the Hall of Records for the examination for the Medical Reserve need is most urgent and because so ation section. needed to make airplanes and the contractors who furnish it. The ma Corps, and according to the statement much of the spirit and morale of the The special need as outlined is for j supply is limited, in America the terial had not yet arrived, however, of the examining officer he passed a men on board ship depends on their musicians and machinists, first and supply being largely confined to Ore and is not expected until the middle good test and will probably receive band, musicians everywhere are being gon and Washington, and Coos coun of August, so Mr. Zurr has gone out second class. an appointment on the active list urged to consider the call. to Brewster Valley to take a vacation There is a real live opportunity for ty has a considerable part of Ore with the rank of first lieutenant. He and do some fishing. When the fur It is the band which gives the men gon’s share. wanted to get into Wie regular army their daily entertainment and relaxa some band from a live Oregon town “ Five mills in Coos county are cut niture arrives it will be about a two to win a name and real fame. service which means signing up for tion from stern duty. The band helps ting spruce now, and the best of the weeks’ job to set it up, so there is The Portland recruiting office of the five years and while at Vancouver the sailors in their drills, and in gen produce is being sold to the United no prospect of County Clerk Oddy made application for that branch. He eral is recognized as a big factor in Navy is trying to persuade some band and Sheriff Cage being able to move ' States, to England and to Italy. expects to receive his commission in the building up of the organization of to enlist as a whole, taking in 22 men, “ So maybe the salvation of human- into fireproof quarters before Septem ten days or two weeks and be called the ship’s crew. In this connection Vhe number of a full Navy band. ' ily and the democracy of the world ber. We are informed that the fur within six weeks. While the Portland Musicians’ depends upon the rcsilence of a stick niture for these two offices which wa3 every rating is needed and musicians Union is co-operating with the Navy of Coquille valley spruce.” bought last summer on the basis of will find unlimited opportunity. ing the interest on the outstanding in the prices for steel prevailing in the Those who have a desire to see ser office in this endeavor, the opportuni debtedness against the garage and the vice in the air also have an excellent ty is still open, and if some crack or spring of 1916, at an expense of about No Use For Them Yet. receiver was discharged and the plant opportunity at this time, for the Port ganization from some Oregon town $10,000, would cost double that is in Mr. Gardner’s possession. Just land office has an opening for rating gets on the job first, the honor will be Nobody having been drafted in Coos amount at figures prevailing now. v.’hat disposition will be made of the as Landsman for Quartermaster in ¡theirs. „ county the shipment of about ninety This furniture includes the shelving business none of the interested parties the aviation section. This is a job of All branches of the Navy have an different forms of application for ex and cases for county records that it seems able to say but it is thought some responsibility and the man who especial need of good musicians, and emption from military service just re would be impossible to replace in that the plant will again be leased and is enlisted under such service will be the organizat*':. that gets this honor ceived from Washington by County case o f fire and whose loss would en put in full operation. extremely fortunate. Clerk Oddy is of no immediate use. tail an expense of probably a million ' will indeed be an exceptional one. Another interesting place in the If such r band is taken in, it will in Some persons named as the first who dollars on the people of Coos county. The coasting steamer, Del Norte, same section is Landsman for Ma clude the ratings of c~e bandmaster, will be drawn in the county are ap went on the Point Arena rocks Sun chinist’s Mates, aviation. This will ¡one chief musician, and one bugler, plying for these exemption blanks to General Harrison Gray Otis, owner day morning and is a total wreck. include the building of airplanes, in nil o f which will be quite worth while fill them out in anticipation of what o f the Los Angeles Times, died in that The passengers and crew were res struction in the case of engines and .to the leader of any organization may come, but so long as there is no city Monday morning of heart dis cued with great difficulty. handling, and in other ways studying which is taken in its entirety. draft here none will be given out. ease. MEN WANTED FOR NAVAL SERVILE