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About Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1915)
Streich Zie Xälue County News Circuit court adjourned last week until January 5th. (’apt. J. Dunson of the Cape Arago lighthouse at Coos Bay says then was a disturbance at the cape last Thursday uioruing which was un doubtedly a slight earthquake shock brought from the mill started at Bullards’ landing on the lower Coquille, and is expected here on the next Speedwell. The mill will manufacture laths and box shooks, using waste from the North Bend Mill & Lumber Co.’s mill as much as possible, and spruce timber will be furnished by the mill at reasonable rate«.—Coos Bay News. Grimshaw-Greene Secret i By LOUISE B. CUMMINGS Grazing on The National Forests of Cattle, Hornee, Sheep and Goats Pastured Annu ally on larnds. TI ioumum I s In one of the regiments that sailed According to the annual report of from Florida for the Spanish American the secretary of agriculture, there war were Privates Tom Grimshaw and were grazed last year on the nation Numbers of logging camiis along Oliver Greene, who api>eared to be In al forests under pay permits, 1,724.- coast which have been closed timate friends. Grimshaw was cut 000 cattle and horses and 7,300,000 many months, are again opening out for a soldier, but Greene was not, sheep and goats. Several hundred a greatly increased activity in being of slight build and feminine In thousand head of milch and work appearance. He gave bls age at enlist lumber manufacturing Industry ment as eighteen, but it was doubted animals were grazed free of charge, Is anticipated. by his comrades if he were so old as and more than 3.500,000 head of A large tract of land in tlie Ten that. Either Lis voice had not changed stock crossed the forests, feeding en nille section Is being platted and no from that of a boy to manhood or it route, also free of charge. doubt many lots uill be sold to out was naturally high pitched and To show the increased use of the squeaky. siders, who will have Hummer homes forests for grazing, the secretary During the early part of the term of there when the railroad is In opera service of the two friends they were states that during the fiscal year of next year. Sheriff W. C. According to Deputy very companionable. Whenever they 1905 there were only 692,000 cattle is probable. notwithstanding Laird, Mert Jennings, Fred Haiev were permitted to leave camp they and horses and 1,514,000 sheep and recently went together and came back together. goats on approximately 85,000 acres. 1 WO ways of stretching your income; First, you and your wife can there Is some opposition, that a and Arthur Baker who were pull on it from OPPOSING ENDS until the poor little long suf public market will be opened here arrested at Marshfield, accused of Their comrades wondered why Grim The number of animals now sustain fering pay envelope FAIRLY GASPS for BREATH. That's in tlie spring, where farmers and committing a series of ’ bold saloon shaw chose a chum of such different ed in proportion to the area of the makeup from himself, but some one stretching it the WRONG WAY. Second—and the RIGHT WAY— gardners will sell direct to the con robberies, made an unsuccessful at suggested that most men's friendships forests is 50 per cent greater than it tempt to break jail at Coquille last sutners. — Coos Bay News. was ten years ago. Since 1905 the you and the better half can get right down to BRASS TACKS and work Thursday. Fortunately they were dis were of that kind. When two persons BOTH ENDS /GAINST the MIDDLE so SUCCESSFULLY that you'!! Deputy U. S. Marshal T. De Boost covered at work by officers and plac come together permanently one should number of persons holding grazing privileges has increased 200 per cent. of Portland, was here during the ed in ceils, where they will remain be yielding. have a TIDY SUM in OUR BANK in NO TIME. TRY IT. After awhile it was noticed that a This can be attributed principally to week subpoening witnesses in the pending their trial in the Circuit soldier named Evans was added to the wider use by settlers and small stock- case of United States vs. Shook on a court. When discovered the men duo, making n trio. He was more like men. > white slavery charge. The case is had removed several bricks from the Grimshaw than Greene, being a larger According to the report, the great docketed for January 10th, at Port *all of the jail, and in another hour man and stronger than either of the er part of the summer range in the land.—Gold Beach Globe. other two. would probably have made their es- The trio friendship lasted but a few Western States is In the national The Supreme court has denied a cape. days, and it was noticed from the first foests. Under the regulated govern motion to dismiss the case of W. J. The state public service commis- that Grimshaw did not relish the ad ment system the forage is utilized Mitchell et al. vs. Joseph W. Coach sion lias refused to penalize the Coos vent of Evans into the companionship. fully, without Injury to tree growth, on appeal from this county. Mitchell Hay Water company for its failure Then the trio changed. Greene was and with adequate safeguards against alternately hobnobbing with Evans watershed damages. It Is stated that Is the Portland detective who hr-uglit to comply with an order made in County School Superintendent Ray fill and thorough; that it was not suit against Coach for services in th< 1913 by the commission to construct and with Grimshaw, while the two the productivity of the land for for latter had nothing to do with each mond E. Baker Informs the Coquille equally so last yeur wo have no rea Circuit court and was given a verdict i lo inch water main for giving ad- other. age in most places has been restored for $2900. Suntlnel that with returns in from all son to assume. lltional service to the cities of North Evans was made a sergeant, and and everywhere is increasing; the in the districts except on-, where they Friends of J. M. Upton of the U. S Bend and Marshfield. In the same this gave him some authority over dustry has been made more stable; Noutii End Still Growing have been sent back for correction, An especially noteworthy point in land office at Roseburg were sorrj rder the commission also refused Grimshaw and Greene, He never lost stock comes from the forests in bet and estimating that 30 children of the school enumeration just complet to learn by letter last week that his he cities’ request that the rates fix an opportunity to domineer over the ter condition; range wars have stop school age are In the district, same ed in tliis county, and one to which son. Monroe, who had been trying t< 'd by the commission be decreased if former nor to make Greene’s duties ped; ranch property has increased in as were returned last year, he finds no attention lias heretofore seems to make two years in one at the Row lie additional service were not lighter. Greene was frequently seen value; and a larger area has been the county has a school enumera have been paid, is tiiut while the in burg high school, hail broken down granted. Construction of an addi- arguing earnestly with Grimshaw, and available through range Improve although little or nothing was heard tion of 6,862 against 6.873 last year, crease In country districts pruifti- under the strain and that Ills condi ional reservoir of 250,000 gallons of what he was saying to his friend ments. It is possible, so the report a net loss of only 11. cally offset the drop In the towns, tion was serious. apacity by the water company, how- It was supposed that he was trying to states, that 100,000,000 pounds of keep the peace between his two friends. beef and mutton are sold each year He says, too, that Bandon's revised those increases, almost without ex The Port of Port Orford has again -ver, has been ordered. He seemed to Incline to his first from herds and flocks occupying the ception. have occurred In the districts figures been denied government aid by th< Local imbibers of "the cup that friend, Grimshaw, but the more be did of 960, in Hie south end of the county. And ranges. That the forests have pro board of army engineers, lack of com beers" were somewhat elated this so the more Evans seemed to be an 14 less, while the three larger Coquille river moted the development of the stock merce being given as the reason veek by an article In tho Portland tagonized against both the other two. towns have lost 192 of their school ported. industry is Indicated. This is appre During an interval in the fighting at Port Orford has opportunity for a Telegram to the effect one would be As It now stands the city school population within the year, the two splendid deep water harbor, but It ible to secure 36 "quarts" of beer Santiago Grimshaw and Evans were ciated by stockmen and they are urg districts have lost 440 pupils of principal bay towns have lost 313. requires a large sum of money t< mder the prohibition law instead of seen to go off by themselves, and after ing that a similar system of range school age while Powers lias gained From these Indications we judge that awhile Grimshaw returned with a regulation be extended to the unre make the improvements necessary. he 24 bottles anticipated; this being 209 and tlie rural districts, 220. the lead of seven hundred votes which black eye. 1 When Evans came in u served public lands. A letter to a Coos Bay man from a irought about by the supposition that little later it t was noticed that there That there has been such a move the Coquille valley section of the The secretary concludes by stating quart" bottles contain only 21 was blood on i bls shirt Since he gave nient of city population from tlie Bay county had over the Coos Bay section f liend working on the dredge Seatth tliat it is not merely the stock indus towns and Coquille to Powers we nil In the primary registration two years brings the Information that two men mnees and the law says 24 quarts, no sign of a l wound it was surmised try that has been benefitted. The know, but that there had been an ev ago may be nearly doubled in the named “Harry and “Fred” had beer, iut the joy has been abated by a that he had received a blow on the grazing privilege has been so distri en heavier migration from the towns registration for 1916. We should be mixed up in a bad accident on the •vord from District Attorney Evans nose which bad drawn tlie claret. Nei buted as to promote healthy commun ther of the men would give any ex generally to the country districts, glad to see the north end keep up vessel In which "Harry” lost hi: it Multnomah county to the effect planation ns to wbat had happened, ity growth, increase settlement, pre no one would have Imagined; and Its percentage better than It Is doing, life and "Fred" was badly injured tuch a method of shipment would be but it was evident that they had had a vent monopoly, and diffuse pros It is thought on the Bay that Harry confusing and that the only satisfac- fist fight, and this view was confirmed perity. In other words, public con wh would not yet believe, if there but it wont so long as Bandon beats ory solution is for the breweries to were any other way to account for Marshfield in school enumeration and is a local man. by tbelr keeping apart thereafter. trol has served social as well as econ- increase the capacity of bottles to the the figures we have. Unquestionably Powers, Coquille and Myrtle Point For the next few days Greene seem omlc ends. Port Engineer D. M. Charleson of regulation quart size. the census this year has been cure hold over North Bend nearly two to ed to be much troubled. He evident Coos Bay and Bandon ports, Is at the ly sided with Grimshaw, for he had A Ten Ton Aeroplane Bay this week making a survey of the » ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A very little to say to Evans, who was An aeroplane weighing ten tons, Coos river estuary to obtain data as ♦ FOUR MILE “SMOKELESS" ♦ glum, keeping much by himself ex- to the depth of the river. The in ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦« , cept when performing military duties.' with a cruising radius of 675 miles formation is primarily to establish Then the fighting increased, and the at a speed of 75 miles an hour, is Happy New Year. regiment was so Incessantly engaged under construction at Buffalo, N. Y., tlie position of port lights, but it is said the same will be useful fol 8. J. Wilson and son, Don. who that this little play being enacted be in* the Curtiss factory. It is expect other purposes also. are working at the Craine logging tween three soldiers was dwarfed by ed that within a few months this great “dreadnaught of the air" will camp, si»ent Christmas at the home more Important matters. Mayor R. A. Coppie of MarHlitield Toward the close of the fighting at be ready for flight. It will be sent ranch. has announced his ap Santiago Greene was severely wound to Great Britain and will be used in city offices as follows: Mrs. Roy Jones who has been se ed. He was picked up and carried to fighting Zeppelins and submarines. the rear on a stretcher. A surgeon verely ill with lagrlppe is now conva to fill vacancy on council formerly The machine will be six times as attended him, mid lie was placed in occupied by the present mayor; Jack I escent. large as the America, at present tho the hospital. Carter, chief of police; John Brock- Doc Anderson was a caller In our Wiekersbam, of his company, who biggest battleplane in the world. It mueller, night officer: Dr. 11. M community last Friday. was discharged from the hospital, re will have a wing span of 133 feet, a Shaw, health officer; J. T. Brand ported that Greene had been taken length of 68 feet, and will be pro A. L. Duke and F. R. Miller, who city attorney, filling the place for- from the ward In which he had been pelled by six motors of the V-2 Cur ire fishing on the Coquille river, merly occupied by John I). Goss first placed and given a room by him spent the Yule Tide with their fami- •elf. Tills was considered remarka tiss type of 160 horsepower each. It Kruse A- Banks of North Bend will Iles will carry eight passengers and will ble, for it would not have likely hap start work on a steam schooner foi mount several guns. pened unless the invalid had been dan Mrs. Geo. DeOs who has been dang the t'lias. Nelson A Co. of San F ran- •rously ill. is somewhat improved at gerotisly wounded, which was not tlie cisco the first of the week In January case. The tT. S. navy general board will or as soon thereafter as the mill can this writing. Then it became known that Grim recommend that our navy equal that furnish the timbers. It will requin G. M. Willoughby was a Bandon shaw had visited bis chum, but there of any afloat by 1925. Our customers, whose tables was uo evidence that Evans had done a force of fifty men for nine months visitor last Friday. we serve, rest fully assured that so By this time the boys had begun to complete the big ship, which wili Three logging canipe, after long Judging from the contaminated at they are getting a square deal be the largest ever built there It mospheric conditions of our locality to chaff Grimshaw and Evans about idleness, will begin operations in the their rivalry for the friendship of 1 on weight. will be on similar lines to the Wil Harbor district January 3. of late we surmise that some of our Greene and asked Evans why he did Grays ' mlngton, built for that company sotm We fill phone orders and ent local trappers are meeting with suc- not also visit his wounded friend. ’ They will employ more than 200 men. Evans turned on bis heel and walked meat for children just as ac time ago, and will have a capa city cess. of about 1,250,000 feet. away without a reply. curately as though we were Mr. and Mrs. Hughes of Two Mlle Soon after this the war closed, and serving our friends in person. Archie Kruse has made arrange spent a couple of days of last week the troops were removed to Montauk Point. on Long Island. Grimshaw was This business is built on hon ments to build a box factory ai North visiting in our valley. Bend. The machinery will be one of the few who went home In good est weight, high quality A fine Durham cow belonging to health. Evans was down with typhoid meat and reasonable prices. the F. R. Miller ranch came home fever. Grimshaw was devoted to one As to the rural districts, how a few days ago followed by a fine Greene, and as soon as he received bls ever, the quantity of arable land, pair of twin calves. "Old Maggie" discharge he took his friend away from and more especially of rich bottoms. was greeted with a "Merry Christ the camp, and this was the end of Is so much greater in this end of the mas" from the whole family. This the matter of the trio friendship so GEO. ERDMAN, Prop county that there never can be much PHONE is another demonstration of the pro far ns the regiment knew anything aliout It. comparison between them. ductiveness of Four Mile. One day Grimshaw met one of his H. P. Clausen and family spent war comrades on the street and asked The January I m lie of (be Tele Christmas at the Levi Goff ranch, him to dine with him. stating that he phone Directory will go to hn<| l>een married and wished to intro returning home Sunday evening duce his companion In arms to his press DECEMBER 31. Sutwcril» The Misses Vera and Fern De Long wife. When the guest met Mrs. Grim- era desiring change-, in listings spent Sunday afternoon visiting at •haw he looked nt her In a sort of be or advertising «pace should wlldermetit. the J. O Perdue ranch. “Are you or are you not Oliver J make neceeoary arrangements as Several of the Four Milers have Greene?” he asked. early as |M>ssilde. been invited to attend a New Year's "1 am Olivia Greene Grimshaw." Then Tom Grimshaw explained, ;»art.v at the II. B. Smith ranch. A If you are planning to have lie and Olivia Greene had l>een mar good time is anticipated as Mr. and ried before the Cubnn war. aud. either a telephone iustalled. DO IT Mrs Smith are royal entertainers. from a desire to tie with her husband CLEM. NOW. anil get your name in or n love of adventure, or both, she j The Coos county Circuit court has been presented with a large silk American flag which will be used in the process of admitting foreigners to American citizenship. The flag is a gift from the Oregon Sons of the American Revolution, which organi zation has presented a brand new flag to each circuit court in the state. A flag was sent to the Coos county Clr cuit eourt some months ago. but was lost in tlie Santa Clara wreck and the new one was sent to replace it. ■W 'M T alhejftrfit » of ¿LtaiiiUni Cities oi County Lose Population; Rural Districts Gain. 4 A- 4 Honest Weight NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY CITY ME A T MARKET Edison Mazda Lamps J. T. LILLARD Electric Supply Station Electrical Contractor The Rogue river valley received her one beat Christmas gift Friday when announcement was made from Halt laike that the Oregon-Utah Suit ar Beet company had definitely de cided to erect a beet sugar factory In the Rogue river valley. had enlisted in the same company will I him. Evans bad discovered her sex. : but not that she was a wife He had made lore to her and. Jealous of Grim shaw. had threatened to reveal her se cret. That was all there was to the mystery. Mrs Grimshaw's sex was discovered by the surgeon who attend ed her when wounded, and she was blared In a room by herself "moM useil an<l moat A useful book" in Coos, Curry and Went ern Douglas counties. A EXTRA and DINPI.A1 LISTINGS offertile advertising. are COOS & CURRY TELEPHONE COMPANY »