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WO way» of stretching your income: First, you and your wife can
pull on it from OPPOSING ENDS until the poor little long suf­
fering pay envelope FAIRLY GASPS for BREATH.
That's
stretching it the WRONG WAY. Second—and the RIGHT WAY—
you and the better half can get right down to BRASS TACKS and work
BOTH ENDS AGAINST the MIDDLE so SUCCESSFULLY that you’ll
have a TIDY SUM in OUR BANK in NO TIME. TRY IT.
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HW GOLU NT’GGET
not been received.
WEIGHING 12 Ol'NCEH
Last spring J. R. Smith
caused
considerable excitement by coming
Curry County Men Make Finii On out of the mountains from
Hock
Prospect Alona Boulder Creek
creek, about three miles from where
—Find Inedite.
Curl and Ainsworth are located on
Boulder creek, with a nugget that
The biggest nugget of which there brought $06 and considerable smaller
While the Smith property,
Is any record of having been found gold.
in thin section of the state was pick­ however, has been worked more or
ed up recently by Chas. Curl and less since that time, so far as can
Clint Ainsworth on their mining be learned, It has not yielded accords
The publicity
claims on Boulder creek, says the Ing to expectations.
Port Orford Tribune. These gentle­ given the Smith strike caused many
men are located on the creek about a prospectors to flock to that section
mile and a half below where the Port during the summer, and a nugget
Orford-lllahe trail crosses It. They valued at $93 was picked up on
have been working for several Boulder creek, but while various par
months opening up tlieir claims, and ties made wages mining along these
it will probably be well along In the two streams, which head close to­
spring before they are ready to do gether, yet the location of the moth­
any actual mining. In putting In a er lode that supplies these big nug­
trail they changed the channel of the gets remains a mystery.
creek slightly, and when returning
Messrs. Curl and Ainsworth are
to their work In the morning a few­ opening up about 40 acres of virgin
square feet of bed rock had been un­ ground that lies in a comparatively
covered and the big nugget was lying level basin along the stream. Nug­
In plain view. It weighed a little gets have been found above and be­
over 11 ounces, and as the gold found low them, but the ground they are
in that section runs from $19 to $20 developing had not been worked be­
an ounce it is safe to say that this cause of the large amount of "dead"
nugget will bring $200. It was sent work necessary to put it In shape to
to the mint, hut as yet returns have mine. The largest nugget they found
had a small piece of quartz sticking
The Majesty of the I-aw
to it, ana they have discovered a
ledge further up the creek of the
Leailea:
For collecting 5 cents
same formation,
and believe that under false pretenses a man 46 years
they may have found the source of old was sent to Sing Sing recently
supply.
I for two and a half years by a county
Judge in Brooklyn.
I* I ant Wizard is I^ m - m U m I
A respectable boy in Plainfield, N.
Father George Schoener, the plant J., shot and killed a rabbit that vas
wizard of Oregon, will be located near j nibbling at the cabbages In his back
St. Johns, a tract of land having been I yard. A game constable arrested
secured from Coe B. McKenna tl.at him for "killing out of season.” The
is suited to the purposes of develop­ lad was dragged from his home and
ing new species of plant life. The ! sentenced to three months in jail.
experiments with flowers and plants I Everybody in the village at once pe­
are to be financed by an association titioned the governor for his pardon
of business men of the city, but the it was granted.
results of Father Schoener’s work
A stranger called at the door of
will not be commercialized. The pub­ Senator Goff at Clarksburg. W. Va.,
lic cannot purchase the new plants | with a package bearing Mr. Goff's
that are to introduce new fruits, I name. The senator told the man he
grains and flowers. The wort: is to | had not ordered anything.
The
be a broad experiment, hut the suc­ stranger insisted that the senator s
cess which Father Schoener has here­ name was on the package and that
tofore had causes his friends to be­ it must be left. When opened it was
lieve that "Father Schoener's scien­ found to contain whiskey. The sena­
tific Gardens" will soon be one of tor was arrested for violation of the
the most valuable assets of the state prohibition law and was fined
state. Portland C. C. News.
New York has a law forbidding the
possession of deadly weapons.
A
Salem, Ore.—Khaki will be worn Columbia college professor while liv­
by inmates of the Oregon state in­ ing in the Maine woods had a revol­
stitution next year Instead of blue ver for protection.
When he was
denhlm.
Efforts of R. B. Goodin, about to return to the city he direct­
secretary of the board of control, to ed that the revolver be left in his
obtain bida on blue denim for the bungalow until next year, out on un­
manufacture of overalls and other packing his belongings in New York
working clothing for the state’s he found the revolver. He called in
wards, he said Wednesday, had fail­ a policeman to take charge of it. The
ed, and khaki will be bought instead policeman at once placed the profee-
sor under arrest on a charge of vio­
Remember the Christmas
Eve lating the law against possessing a
Mask Ball, December 2 4, at Dream­ deadly weapon and toog him before
land pavilion, given for the benefit a police judge. He was discharged.
of the G. A. R. The biggest dance
The majesty of the law must be
of the season.
Everybody Invited vindicated.
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I.ANGUHS UX’ALS
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(From Langlois Leader)
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J. C. Thorhaven who has been
spending a few weekB at Crescent
City, arrived In Langlois Friday on
his way to visit Ills brother! vvh<
live near Fourmlle.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cox, of Bandon
came down to Langlois Saturday t<
visit their children, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Engleman.
E. A. Thorhaven of Bandon, wh<
after spending a year in Bandon will
return In
the spring to his hom<
north of Langlois.
Jack Fitzhugh of Sixes, who has
been visiting his sister, Mrs. Chas
Jamieson of Bandon, for the last few
days, returned to Langlois Monday
to visit with his friends.
County Fruit Inspector Nick John­
son has instructed all common car­
riers in the county to deliver no con­
signments of trees or shrubs until
he has had an opportunity to inspect
them, so that the chances that un­
scrupulous nurserymen will be able
to put anything over on the people
by shipping them diseased trees and
culls will not be great.
District Attorney Liljeqvist has
been at Salem this week attending a
meeting of the district attorneys of
the state. The meeting was called by
the attorney general so that “ach rep­
resentative of the law in the counties
of the state will have a general und­
erstanding of the new prohibition
law, which goes into effect January
first.
NEW
TELEPHONE
DIRECTORY
The January issue of the Tele­
phone Directory
go
to
or
advertising
space
should
make necessary arrangements as
early as possible.
If you are planning to have
County Superintendent of Schools
Raymond E. Baker left Saturday en­
route to Eugene and Medford. Mi-
Baker will attend the state teachers’
association meeting at Medford and
then return to Coos county.
I t
speaking of things in general Supt.
Baker said there are a number of
communities in Coos county which
are entitled to rural mail routes anJ
he named in particular the district of
Fishtrap and I.ampa creek, and the
west side of the Coquille river from
Myrtle Point towards Arago.
A mining engineer has been look­
ing over the Petersen mining claims
on Elk river, and it is reported that
considerable money will be spent In
developing this property next sum­
mer. These mines, which are locat­
ed at Middle Fork Elk, near Geo. W
Axtell’s place, have been worked
more or less for a number of years,
a telephone installed,
DO
IT
NOW, and get your name tn
"most used and most
useful
book" in Coos, Curry and West­
ern Douglas counties. EXTRA
and DISPLAY
LISTINGS
are
effective advertising.
COOS & CURRY
TELEPHONE COMPANY
but only in a comparatively small
way. It is understood that the engi­
neer has found a satisfactory pros­
pect and that the owners propose
to give the property a thorough trial,
picking the river up in a flume dur­
ing its summer stage in an endeav­
or to get to bedrock.—Port Orford
Tribune.
Edison Mazda Lamps
Electric Supply Station
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Everything goes by January 1, therefore
beginning
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Saturday, December 18th
we will sell all our Wines and Liquors at
ONE-FOURTH OFF
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will
press DEC EMBER 31. Subscrib­
ers desiring change* in listings
Beer $2.00 per Dozen Bottles
Rasmussen Bros. & Tuttle
Eie^i'cint^tor