| Coos history home Herald 1883 1884-June-on 1884-Dec 2 | 1885 1886-9 1890 to newspaper menu Historical Newspapers OREGON YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO PUBLISH (or show publicly) THIS FULL DOCUMENT. For permission to copy excerpts. click here. compilation copyright (c) 2008 by Marilee Miller COQUILLE CITY HERALD Coquille, OR. [needs keywording] DECEMBER 16 – 23, 1884 [compiled June 2008; not keyworded yet] December 16 Nv184 CCH December 16, 1884 [several natl-fillers on agriculture topics] [Natl-filler] Nv184 CCH December 16, 1884 The Maidens’ Petition. [South Carolina.] [humor] [Maids (single women) say there ought to be a law that widows didn’t get all the bachelors, leaving out single women. Not q at all.] [natl-filler] Nv184 CCH December 16, 1884 The bad old fashion of breaking the wills of children has mainly passed away and parents are becoming aware that the will of a child is very essential factor [sic] in the man or woman that is to be. The will is to be educated, developed like every other element of character and woe to the unhappy child who is born without a good, vigorous determination to self. It will be a poor weakling, unable to maintain its chosen line of life against opposition, vascillating [sic] in opinion, unstable in action. Rejoice, O mother, in your persistent and determined little boys and girls. They cause a world of trouble and annoyance until the judgement and conscience are matured, but they are children who pay best for their raising. There is nothing so incurable, so utterly hopeless as weakness. It is as dangerous as premeditated treachery, as destructive as vice, as bitter as ingratitude, as sorrowful as the grave. –Farmer. + [natl-filler] Nv 184 CCH December 16, 1884 The London Times of the 6th, [sic] says: “The prospect that the U. S. will stop the coinage of silver by repealing the Bland bill has unsettled business in India and caused Calcutta exchange to decline 1s 7d. [sic] + Nv184 CCH December 16, 1884 Wealth has its cares as well as poverty, but they are more popular. --Telegraph. + = Nv185 CCH December 16, 1884 Canadian Breeding Experience. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; narrow margins. [short line-under] The superintendent of the Model [sic] farm at Guelph [sic], Canada, gives us below the results of some experiments there in cattle breeding. 1. A steady, frosty winter is better than an open one in feeding cattle. 2. An average two or three-year-old steer will eat its own weight in different materials in two weeks. 3. Two or three-year-old cattle will add one-third of a pound more per day to their weight upon prepared hay and roots than upon the same materials unprepared. 4. It is 30 per cent more profitable to premature and dispose of [sic] fattening cattle at two years than to keep them up to three years old. 5. There is no loss in feeding a cattle beast [sic] well upon a variety of materials for the sake of manure alone. 6. Farm yard manure from well-fed cattle three years old is worth an average of $2.30 a ton. 7. A three-year-old cattle beast [sic], well fed, will make at least one ton of manure every three months of winter. 8. No cattle beast whatever will pay for the direct increase of its weight from the consumption of any kind or quality of food. 9. On an average it costs twelve cents for every additional pound of flesh added to the weight of a two or three-year-old fattening steer. 10. In Canada the market value of the stock can be increased 36 per cent, during six months of finishing by good breeding. 11. In order to secure a safe profit no store cattle beast can be sold for less than four and one-half cents per pound, live weight. 12. In fattening wethers [sic], to finish a shearlings the Cotswold and Leiscester grades can be made up to 200 pounds, the Oxfordown [sic] 180 pounds, and the Southdown 160 pounds, live weight. 13. A cow wintered upon two and a half tons of hay will produce not far from five tons of manure, provided that she is well littered and none of the excrements wasted. + = Nv185a CCH December 16, 1884 A Cool-Headed Engineer. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium margins.] _______ A correspondent writing of a trip over the Rio Grande road, says: Leaving Salida we have to use two large mogul engines [sic] to take us over Marshall Pass, a grade 26 miles long and 227 feet to the mile, winding around 26-degree curves. On one side you look down 3000 feet, while by looking up on the other side of the train you can see rocks hanging over you more than a mile high, one of the grandest sights that a man ever saw, and worth the time and expense of any man. Forty-four miles is counted a day‘s work on this division for engineers, and their monthly earnings amount to from $160 to $225 and the risks they run and ability that are required is worth all the money they get. It is there that our old friend “Curley” Whitney had his runaway. Curley was coming down this grade when his brakes got out of order and his train got the start of him [sic]. He was running as second section, and seeing no hopes of avoiding collision by dashing into the train ahead, he and his fireman, after doing all they could to check the train, jumped off and let it go. Ahead of them on the first section was one of those ever wide-awake, careful men, who always looks to both ends of his train, and he was looking back when Curley and his fireman jumped off. Realizing his danger at once, he eased up on his brake and got the speed of the runaway train. He then caught them and held both trains together until he brought them to a full stop, without a broken drawbar even in either train. For this gallant conduct and presence of mind he was called before president Palomer [sic], his heroism complimented, his good judgement commended, and presented with $5000 in cash, given a six month’s leave of absence and his transportation to Europe paid, together with all personal expense. The hero’s name is Jake Moyer. –[Ex. + = Nv186 CCH December 16, 1884 [Editorial] Bar Improvements. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium margins.] ____ With reference to the frequent comments that we both hear and receive on the merits and demerits of the work now progressing at Coos bay and the mouth of the Coquille, we deem it sufficient to say that all comment by parties outside of the Board of Engineers, seems to be superfluous. Government educates men with a view to utility – the theory first, and then a practical instruction follows. This being the case, of what use is it to complain? The heads of departments will take no notice of people objecting to the course of an improvement progressing according to the plans and specifications of that department. Complaints have been made, heretofore, calling attention to gross corruption on the part of some of these officials; but, on a thorough investigation, the charges were not sustained. Of what use is obstruction, anyway? Untold efforts, and some that have been thoroughly ventilated, were made to obstruct the preliminary proceedings of the bar improvement at Coos bay. After that work commenced – for some reason unknown to us – the system of attack was changed, and the men in control came in for their share of abuse. What effect has that had? None whatever. Yes, we are mistaken, it has had the effect of enabling the officers in charge to treat all such matters with contempt. Monopoly has had, and still keeps a wedgy [sic] weapon of obstruction pointed and ready to insert whenever an opportunity offers. If no improvement had taken place the business would have been circumscribed, and would have remained in the hands of those who would have controlled it for their exclusive benefit. This is the meat in the cocoa-nut [sic]. The improvements will still go on, notwithstanding all this opposition. We all may give our opinions, pro or con, but, if we are not connected with the constituted authorities in such matters – the Board of Engineers – we will enjoy as much satisfaction from our opinions as if we were to whistle against a hurricane. During our checkered career, we have had considerable experience with rough, rocky inlets and sandy streams, or in other words, where the action of the current was confined by shifting sands. Our opinion is that where you can obtain rock that will harden in water – there is plenty of such rock here – you must build crib work first, as it offers an advantage in building track in a direct line with the proposed improvement; and moreover, where the appropriation is light, you can carry the jetty further into a stream by this method, than by any other; besides, you will have an earlier opportunity of observing its action. In soft sand containing great quantities of drift wood [sic], this object can be attained by driving piles. On Coos bay where the foundation was solid rock, they had to build cribs made of square timber. On the Coquille bar, they are driving piles, which is by far the cheapest method, and if appropriations are sufficient to rip-rap [sic] the crib work, there need be no fear of the result. Fears have been expressed by some parties, that the winter freshets will wash the new work away. Granting this to be so, although we fail in seeing how the piles driven to an extent of sixteen feet, can be so easily washed out, what would be the effect of the current on a wall of artificial rock placed on this sand in a position where you can obtain no solid foundations? The winter freshet would come just the same; the swift current would cut the quicksand with the same severity, and the magnificient [sic] wall would be undermined and tumble into the river. This is precisely what occurred to the Umpqua lighthouse. They dug in the sand among old logs for a foundation, and built their lighthouse – a veritable house on the sand; but the high tides came, and the sand shifted, and away went Uncle Sam’s lighthouse. Rip-rapping is, no doubt, the best method for the Coquille. The rock used both here and at Coos is said to harden and become firm, therefore, instead of attempting useless destruction, let us join in efforts to promote the continuation of this much needed work. The Coquille is bound to go ahead regardless of obstruction. Men with capital will finally enter and develop [sic] her resources. Great efforts have been made on Coos bay to keep them out; but, what is the result? The Southern Oregon Improvement Company and the investment in coal lands by J. C. Hawley and others. What the Coquille needs is a few such men, then, her business will progress without those depressing fluctuations which are an ever recurring theme. + = Nv187 CCH December 16, 1884 Blasted Hopes. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium-wide margins.] ___ A lady, with whom we were unacquainted, called to us in a somewhat loud voice, on the street, a few evenings past, and seemingly in a great hurry. We thought that leap-year being near its dissolution, she was making a last, frantic effort to spread her net. Being perfectly willing to be taken in out of the wet, we awaited the angler. “Mr” [sic] said she, on heaving along side [sic], “you will excuse me; I was looking for my brute of a husband, and thought that you were he. There is a striking resemblance between you.” We thanked her for the compliment, and, [sic] in pure, unadulterated exasperation, made a striking go-as-you-please record for home. Farewell to the ear piercing cry of that misguided creature. The year is leaping – passing by; Dog-gon [sic] its phantom feature. Our hopes are blasted – flung abroad. Those leap-year antics but a fraud. [+ text/] Nv187 CCH December 16, 1884 Capt. Reed will immediately commence the construction of a stern wheel steamer in the ship yard at this place, for Capt. G. W. Cooley, to be run on the bay. The dimensions are, keel, 90 feet., beam 22ft [sic], and depth, 4ft [sic]. The lower deck, forward, [sic] will be used for freight, and a hurricane deck and comfortable quarters for passengers will be fitted up aft [sic]. Machinery will be put into the boat to assure a speed of 12 knots an hour. A spark catcher [sic] will be put on the smokestack, so that in fine weather passengers can enjoy a seat on deck without danger of having their clothes burned, and it is the intention to make her in every way a first class boat. –News. + Nv187 CCH December 16, 1884 The Director of the mint writes us for a detailed account of the various mines of gold and silver in this part. As this is to be published to the world, it is important that our part of the country should be fairly represented. To this end, we request that those who have such knowledge as will be of interest and show our great resources of precious metal, that they will each send us a true statement of the mines in their respective localities and we will see that a correct compilation of the facts are duly forwarded. + = Nv188 CCH December 16, 1884 Young girls are being enticed into opium dens in Chicago by Chinese laundrymen, who have raised means to pay any fine of their countrymen may be subjected to for the offence [sic]. A 15-year-old girl has recently been secreted in one of these dens. It is thought a special statute will have to be passed there before redress can be had. Pity the Chicagoans. + [M. 2008. this is in a column of general news.] Nv188 CCH December 16, 1884 Our Railroad. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; wide margins.] ___ Portland, December 8. –Captain W. H. Besse, a well-known ship-owner of New Bedford, Mass., and one of the principal stockholders in the Southern Oregon improvement Company, arrived here last night. Relative to future movements of the company, Captain Besse said to a Chronicle correspondent that they would, no doubt, build a railroad from Coos bay to Roseburg as soon as everything was in readiness. The company has nearly finished a sawmill at Empire City, which will have a capacity of 150,000 feet per day. It will cut mostly white cedar for export. + Nv188 CCH December 16, 1884 The Chinese Treaty. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; wide margins] ___ New York, Dec. 9. –The Herald says of the Supreme Court decision: “There is no question that Congress has power to pass a law in conflict with a treaty. The courts never hesitate to sustain a statue [sic] which overrides a treaty, when the language of the intention of Congress is clear to that effect. The number of Chinamen affected by the decision is insignificant, and therefore the practical effect is not likely to be serious.” Referring to Judge Field’s remarks that it will revive and intensify the bitterness on the Pacific Coast and that courts on the Pacific Coast will be crowded with applicants for land who never before saw our shores, the Herald says: “The function of the judiciary is simply to interpret the law. His intemperate remarks are not only out of place on the bench, but are calculated to do more to do more mischief than he predicts from the dicision [sic] of the court.” No other paper notices the decision editorially. + = Nv189 open = Nv190 CCH December 16, 1884 Important Measure. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium margins.] Washington Dec. 7. –Three measures of importance are mentioned as likely to come up this week for discussion in the Senate. On Monday Senator Slator intends to call up the House bill to “declare the forfeiture of certain land granted to aid the construction of a certain railroad in Oregon,” known as the Oregon and California railooad [sic] bill [sic; no period] On Tuesday Senator Harrison will call up the bill for admission of Southern Dakota [sic] as a State. The measure is expected to give rise to considerable discussion which will probably be of a political character. On Thursday Senator Cullom [sic] will , if possible [sic; no comma] call up the inter-State [sic] commerce bill. It is probable the regular order will be set aside, early in the week, to give Senator Hill an opportunity to make a speech on the “silver” resolution, offered last week. [M 2008, The above item was at the bottom of a column. The following item is at the top of the next column, with no headline; but doesn’t appear to continue the first item.] Nv190 CCH December 16, 1884 [Poem is in smaller type, centered, with medium margins. Regular text spans the column.] The hypocrite will leer and lie, And not one step retrace – He loans his venom wingsto [sic] fly, And smiles before your face. The impossibility of a reformation in the character of those whose untiring efforts are always put forth with the object of deceiving, is perpetually apparent. No system of persuasion possesses any virtue with the habitual liar – no manner of attack is available, because this character fights back, and but supplements his mendacity, with a torrent of abuse. The character depicted here is abominable, and while it escapes criminality, it must be shunned and allowed to thrive in an isolated sphere – that of its own creation. All the reformatories and humane societies in existence are unable to control the hypocrite. Externally, he may seem to acquiesce; but, internally, the object is the same. + = Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 How’s your plants since the frost? + Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 Judge Dyer came over Saturday evening. + Tot-Parkersburg-name commute Tot-Coq Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 Mr. Jacob Prewitt, of Parkersburg, is in town. + Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 E. D. Myers has become a resident of this place. + Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 The steamer Coos Bay, has made her last trip to Portland. + Srh-river Srh-CoqR Srh-boat-LittleAnnie Srh-CaptRoberts Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 Our old friend, Dan Roberts, is captain of the Little Annie. + Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 Rev. Hollenbeak and lady, of Fairview, came down Sunday. + Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 J. D. Hayes and Elias B. Robinson were in town Wednesday. + Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 Mrs. S. M. Benham, of Fairview, has been in town since Friday. + Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 Mr. Wm. Gallier, of this place, has been quite sick, but is improving. + Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 Mr. D. P. Strang moved to town last week. He occupies J. Snyder’s residence. + Paper-name-Dean name-Starkey b-act Tot-Coq Locale-CoosBay Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 Mr. Starkey, of this paper, paid the bay, his former home, a visit last week. + [M. I had read in an earlier issue that Dean was going to turn the paper over to Starkey for 2 years; however the Masthead continued to list Dean as ed and prop. ] Church name-Nosler name-Easter event? Tot-Coq speech Nv191 CCH December 16, 1884 A debate between the Elders [sic], Nosler and Easters [sic], is the next in order in this place. + = Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 The Burnham sawmill down the coast is to enlarged [sic] to accommodate a grist mill and a planer. + Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 Frank Clarno, of Ellensburg, recently had a leg broken in attempting to lower a wagon down a hill. + Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 The Arcata and Coos Bay arrived in the bay Sunday, and the latter sailed for San Francisco yesterday. + Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 We are in need of the money due us, and our patrons will please remember this, and send us the amount. + Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 Our old friend, Dr. H. H. King, of Looking Glass [sic], spent two days last week with us. He looks natural as life [sic]. + Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 Mr. J. J. Thompson, superintendent of the government work at the mouth of the river, was in town Saturday. + Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 All interested in getting up a Christmas tree, will attend at Nosler’s Drug Store Saturday evening at 6 P.M. + Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 Uncle Daniel Palaske [sic] has sold his place at the foothills opposite this place. We hope Mr. P. will remain among us. + Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 Mr. Geo. Leneve who has been steward on the Annie for some time informs us that he is soon going to the Palouse country. + Nv192 CCH December 16, 1884 Johnny Leneve killed 23 fine ducks last Saturday afternoon. He invariably gets more game in a hunt than the other fellow. + = Nv193 CCH December 16, 1884 Congressman-elect Hermann and Mr. Wise, one of the new mercantile firm [sic] of Myrtle Point, made this office a pleasant visit yesterday. + Nv193 CCH December 16, 1884 As going to press, a regular old-fashioned rain and wind storm is getting its work in. A considerable-rise [sic] in the river is inevitable. Natl name-Hermann govt-president OT-WashingtonDC Tot-Coq mill-Hermann Nv193 CCH December 16, 1884 Congressman Hermann intends visiting Washington to take in the inauguration of Cleveland, after which he will return here and put his mill in motion. + Nv193 CCH December 16, 1884 The late frosty weather which lasted almost a week moderated into what promises to be a regular Oregon rain, at which we web-footer [sic] rejoiceth muchly [sic]. + Nv193 CCH December 16, 1884 The December number of the Portland, Oregon, West Shore is on our table. It is the finest number yet published of that interesting and worthy publication. + Nv193 CCH December 16, 1884 News reached here Saturday that a Swede, whose name our informant had forgotten, had been killed at Empire City the day previous. It seems that he and another man were running a loaded truck from the new mill when it struck against a flagpole, knocking the ball loose, which coming down struck him on the head, killing him. He was a stranger and had only worked four days. + = Nv194 CCH December 16, 1884 SUICIDE BY DROWNING: Mrs. Mary A. True Throws Herself Into the River. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; Line 2 spans the margins.] _______ Last Friday morning this place was thrown into great excitement over the report that Mrs. True, wife of Charles S. True, post commander of the G. A. R. of this place, had drowned herself in the river, which proved true. A week before she had given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, the former still-born. The week intervening she had been as well as could have been expected, and her husband, leaving her at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Elliott, in the care of a competent nurse and his family physician, went back to the lower river where he was engaged as engineer of the tug, and was returning home when met by a messenger who gave him the sad news of his wife’s untimely demise. On the fatal morning some time before six o’clock Mrs. True, seemingly in good spirits and much improved physically, begged her attendant, Mrs. Barklow, to retire as she was feeling well and needed nothing. A few minutes later Mrs. Barklow and Mrs. Elliott, each heard some one leave the sick room but each thought it was the other until some fifteen minutes afterward, when it was found that it was Mrs. True. Prints of her bare feet in the frost were tracked from the door to the wharf, in front of the house, which is about 35 feet above the water, and from which she threw herself. The tracks indicated that she had went directly to the place [sic], making two short steps to bring her foot at the edge of the wharf. Her night clothes, which is all she had on, in going down brushed the frost from the outer plank. Boats, with drags, were searching from soon after it was known that she was drowned till soon after noon, when Johnny Jenkins, with the aid of a drag, found and raised the body to the surface, from whence it was taken by tender hands back to the heart-stricken husband and children. The funeral took place Saturday afternoon and an immense gathering witnessed the obsequies [sic] at the Masonic cemetery. The little babe which was buried a week ago was placed beside its mother. The cause of this rash act is a matter of conjecture, but it is generally believed that it was the result of an aberration of mind. Her husband informs us that on three occasions before, during her sickness, she had left her bed and wandered aimlessly about, but remembered nothing of it afterward. She leaves three little girls, aged, one week, three and six years. + Nv194 CCH December 16, 1884 Schetter & Flanagan have enlarged their Marshfield market. + Nv194 CCH December 16, 1884 Mr. H. P. Whitney left for the World’s Exposition at New Orleans by the Coos Bay. + = Nv195 CCH December 16, 1884 The North Bend mill is temporarily shut down, pending the adjustment of the main shaft. + Nv195 CCH December 16, 1884 The O. S. I. Company are said to be selling goods extremely low at their Empire City store. + Nv195 CCH December 16, 1884 Judge Dyer recently sold his stock ranch at Roland prairie to Schetter & Flanagan, for $6700. + Nv195 CCH December 16, 1884 “Skukum Joe,” [sic] will give his entertainment to-morrow night, at 7 ½ [sic] o’clock, after which a dance will be given. + Srh-ocean Srh-ship-Alki Srh-ship-building OT-SF Nv195 CCH December 16, 1884 The new steamer Al-ki [sic] will not return from the city till after going on the ways for the purpose of receiving a new propeller, we are informed. + Tot-MP business bldg name-Hermann OT-JacksonCounty Nv195 CCH December 16, 1884 The Wise Bros. who have purchased an interest in the Myrtle Point store are spoken of in the highest terms by those who knew them in Jackson county. + Nv195 CCH December 16, 1884 Preaching is held in this place at hours that prevent many from going. The announcement is generally made for 11 o’clock, and the small congregation that can go will have gathered a little before noon, when the service is begun. At this time all the public and most of the private houses have dinner, and a person must do without that meal or fail to go to church. It is out of the question to expect women to have diner and work incident thereto [sic] done much before noon, or wait till one or two o’clock to before commencing the work of getting their mid-day meal. + = Nv196 CCH December 16, 1884 PRAGMATISTS. [head, centered, bold, same size as text; medium-wide margins.] [BY LE GARCON.] [centered, smaller type; brackets sic.] _______ What trouble we borrow through life, What thorns in our path ever strewing, What sources of turmoil and strife Spring from minding what others are doing. I’d prefer, much, to wander alone In a desert of pitfalls and snares, Than to hear the perpetual moan Of the meddler in people’s affairs. [space] There are some that feel fretful and sad, If their neighbors surrounding are quiet, But always disposed to feel glad At the sound of a fracas or riot; They envy another’s success, And sneer at that other’s contentment, And are filled with the greatest distress Unless full of bitter resentment. [space] There’s a “shining light” now in my eye— He is fertile in precepts and hints; The measures he would like you to try Are oblique—cause—he mentally squints. [sic] He had plenty of morals in store, But alas! this prodigal elf Gave the good ones away to the poor, And kept all the mean ones himself. [space] Bid adieu to all foolish reserve, Fling sentiment into the flames, Give to mankind just what they deserve, And call their acts by their right names. Where you find one gadding about, Some evil of others to speak, Then, sirs, he’s a pragmatical lout-- [sic] You must post him at once as a sneak. [space] We all may avoid this whirlpool, As the danger is ever in view; The act, then, is that of the fool, Interfering with what others do; My scheme has no merit because It has brought me but sorrow and care. What of that? If I break not the news, [no cap on I] ‘Tis my own – not another’s affair. + = Nv196a CCH December 16, 1884 Card of Thanks. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; wide margins.] ___ To our kind friends in Coquille City, I extend my heart-felt thanks, also those of Mr. And Mrs. Elliott, for their kind attentions to my poor wife while in sickness, and for their sympathy and kindness to me and my orphaned children in our severe affliction. I feel especially grateful to my comrades of the G. A. R. Charles S. True. + Nv196a CCH December 16, 1884 Card from the String Band. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; narrow margins.] ____ Having seen it announced by the “Dramatical Entertainment” [sic] placard that the Coquille String Band would give a Ball at the close of the Entertainment on the night of Dec. 27th, ’84, and thinking the public might be misled, would state that the Coquille String Band will not close the Entertainment with a Ball on the 27th of Dec. 1884. C. W. Zumwalt, Leader of the Coquille String Band. + Nv196a CCH December 16, 1884 [M. the following must be general news, but there is no headline, just a series of indiv items. ] The Western Union has reduced its wages 10 per cent. + Nv196a CCH December 16, 1884 A tie game – pretty girls begging gentlemen’s neckwear for crazy quilts. –Journal. + Nv196a CCH December 16, 1884 China proposes to assume the aggressive, taking its queue [sic] from France. –Telegraph. + Nv196a CCH December 16, 1884 The official vote of West Virginia for October was determined by the supreme court on the 6th inst. No going behind the returns is the gist of the decision. + = Nv197 CCH December 16, 1884 OBITUARY. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text;. Wide margins.] ___ The spirit of Luetta L., youngest daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Wm. Cribbins, of Catchen creek [sic], took its flight to the eternal world at 5 o’clock p. m., Nov.27, 1884. Her age was 15 years, one month and 15 days. After an illness of about two years of that dread disease, consumption, the messengers summoned her to cross that dark river from which no traveler ever returns. Her modest and lady-like disposition won for her the love of all who knew her. She bore her sufferings with heroic fortitude, with never a murmur. She expressed a willingness to die, and urged those around her to meet her above, “Where sorrow will be felt no more. [sic; no closing quote] One more plant just blooming fair, Could not stand the chilly storm; Christ who loves, with love so rare, Changed it to an angel form. The bereaved parents have the heart-felt sympathy of all. No one can realize until they have had a trial of it, how sad and lonely it is to go home and find that place so desolate – a vacant chair, a vacant place in the once happy fireside circle. It is hard to give them up, but we console ourselves in the blessed thought that we shall meet them again. Why then mourn your precious darling; She is happy over there; And is waiting for the dear ones, In the realms bright and fair. + Nv197 CCH December 16, 1884 BORN. In this place Dec. 11, to the wife of J. Wes Nosler, a son. [+ text] Nv197 CCH December 16, 1884 DIED. In this place, Dec. 12, Mary Asenath, wife of Charles S. True, and daughter of J. W. Clark of Kansas, aged 24 years, 11 months and 12 days. [+ text.] = December 23 Natl-filler? Nv201 CCH December 23, 1884 Bread on the Waters. [head, centered, bold; larger than text; medium margins.] [space] A poor vine-flower that clung unto A tall and fragile wayside weed, Shook out a drop of crystal dew That there might live a star ing [sic] seed. The years sped on – a double score Had sailed into oblivion’s sea— Then lo! a hundred vines or more, Climb up a strong and giant tree. + Nv201 CCH December 23, 1884 HE “RAISED” ON HIM. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; narrow margins.] Concerning the sale to Jay Gould of the Missouri Pacific railroad by Commodore Garrison, who then owned it outright, there is a story told which is eminently characteristic of Commodore Garrison’s well-known determination and grit. The Commodore had bought the property for $800,000 at a foreclosure sale, when it was in a very unpromising and bankrupt condition. When Mr. Gould wanted to buy the road he sent Russell Sage to make the negotiations with the Commodore. The latter was smart enough to know that Mr. Gould wanted the Missouri Pacific very badly. “I want $1,000,000 for it,” said the Commodore. “Dear me, Commodore,” said Mr. Sage, insinuatingly: “you only paid $800,000 for it yourself.” “The price to you is $2,000,000.” “That’s too much,” said the frugal Mr. Sage. “Good day, sir,” said the Commodore. Next day Mr. Sage, after consulting with Mr. Gould, came again to see the Commodore. “I think we’ll take the road at your price, Commodore,” said he. “What price?” “Why, $200,000.” [sic] “That was yesterday’s price. Today I want $3,000,000.” “Good gracious, Commodore! You [no cap] said yourself that you would sell it for $2,000,0000.” “So I would if you had taken it then. Now I want $3,000,000. If you will take it now you can have it for that. If not it will cost you more!” The good Mr. Sage was greatly perplexed and said that he would again have to consult Mr. Gould. He begged the Commodore to wait until the next day and not make another raise in the price, but the shrewd old gentleman would not promise. On the following day Mr. Gould himself went to see the Commodore and it was diamond cut diamond. The great operator was willing to give $3,000,000, but the Commodore had advanced the figure again to 4,000,000. This Gould positively refused to pay, whereupon the Commodore quietly announced his intention of extending the line of the Missouri Pacific so as to make it run parallel with some of Mr. Gould’s western roads and take away the business of the latter. Then Gould came down and paid the $4,000,000. –Ex. + Nv201 CCH December 23, 1884 For the week ending Dec. 13th the specie imports [sic] to Nen [sic; =New] York were $498,000. + = Nv202 CCH December 23, 1884 CHINESE LOTTERY GAMES. [head; centered, bold, smaller than text; quite narrow margins.] ____ The following from the San Francisco Chronicle shows how some white people are attached to the Chinese, and calls for a remedy—not that the whites get more than their deserts, but from an anti Chinese [sic] standpoint: [sic] “There are twenty-seven Chinese lottery companies in this city. Among them are the Eagle Head, Quong Tai, Star Head, Green head [sic[, Clock, etc. Each company has two drawings a day, and at 3 and one at [sic 10 P. M. making fifty-four drawings daily. There are 378 clerks and 500 agents, who, [sic] with the cappers [sic] and outside watchmen, make 1000 Chinamen employed in the lottery business, besides the proprietors. The salaries and commissions paid by the twenty-seven companies amount to more than $720,000 per annum and the profits remaining to the proprietors are enormous. There are at least 3,000 white persons of all ages and conditions, who are regular patrons whose average playing is $1 a day, or $1,095,000 [sic] a year, and as nearly all the winnings are invested in tickets, this amount represents about what the lottery companies win from their white patrons yearly. The wily Mongolians occasionally announce that a certain company has become bankrupted by heavy losses, or they do not pay the full amount that a winning ticket calls for, declaring that the players have won so heavily that they are obliged to pro rate their payments. This is a favorite ruse, as it encourages the playing of higher stakes, each victim imagining that he will be the next one to break the company. Another mode of encouraging the players is the employment of cappers who announce their winnings at every opportunity in the hearing of the faint-hearted player or in the presence of any new “chump” whom they can induce to play. Agencies are scattered all over the city – in cigar stores, laundries and underground dives. Some of these places are protected by heavily barricaded doors and some by watchmen, who give the alarm on the approach of an officer, and they are all provided with means of destroying any evidence of gambling in case of a raid. Formerly these agencies were conducted altogether by Chinese, but the business has become so lucrative and the patrons so numerous that white men have obtained agencies, and there are many white men in San Francisco where tickets for any of the Chinese Companies may be obtained, accompanied by stories of new large winnings have just been made by mythical players [sic] and that new players are invariably “lucky.” Notably among these white agents is Charles Peterson, who ostensibly keeps a saloon at 21 Montgomery avenue, and who was arrested by Sergeant Reeves on Sept. 7, 1882, for conducting a lottery agency. Five other persons were taken into custody at the same time and charged with visiting a lottery agency. This arrest, however, did not break up the agency, as it is at present in full blast and crowds of the votaries of the Celestial cornucopia [sic] gather every afternoon and evening to compare their tickets with the drawing of marked tickets for the next drawing. Among the white players there are very few who will acknowledge the amount which they have lost. Some, however, boast of their bad success. An employe [sic] of a steamship company, who receives a large salary, has admitted he had lost $4000 in the past three years, while a street railroad employe [sic] lost nearly every cent he had earned since he began playing three years ago, and had never won more than $7 at one time. Several players expressed a wish that the agencies were all closed up, as they could never save a cent as long as they could find an opportunity to buy Chinese lottery tickets. + = Nv203 CCH December 23, 1884 [jpg ] the well-to-do class and reverse the saying: “The rich get all the money and the poor get all the Justice.” --Detroit Free Press. + Nv203 CCH December 23, 1884 Capt. W. H. Besse, of New Bedford, Mass, the well known ship owner and the leading spirit in the Southern Oregon Improvement Company is stopping at the Gilman House in Portland. In answer to an Oregonian reporter says: “The company has 102,000 acres of land, and, underlying it were immense beds of coal. Just what quality the coal is will be determined by actual mining hereafter. The company have [sic] nearly completed a new mill at Empire city, which will have a capacity of 150,000 feet a day. Work on the building is practically completed, and the machinery which is of the latest improved pattern, will probably be in position before the end of the year. All the machinery was sent around the Horn in the new steamship Al-ki.” --Douglas Independent. + Nv203 CCH December 23, 1884 Saint John announces himself as a candidate for president in 1888 on the Prohibition ticket, and warns the enemies of Temperance to stand from under. + [M. 2008. He ran as a candidate for president, representing the Prohibition Party, in 1884.] Nv203 CCH December 23, 1884 Rates Reduced. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; Wide margins.] ___ Chicago, Dec. 15 --. The Commissioners of the Chicago freight bureau has sent a letter to Chicago merchants announcing proposed reductions of rates from Chicago to the Pacific Coast to 15 per cent, less than the present rates from New York, with such a basis established that it is claimed Chicago will be able to compete with Eastern merchants who have heretofore had an advantage over this city. + Nv 203 CCH December 23, 1884 American Beef Eaters. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; wide margins.] ___ Helena, M. T., Dec. 12 – In reply to an editorial, the Herald to-morrow will print a letter from General James S. Bresian, president and chairman of the National Executive Committee of Cattlemen, explaining the object and purposes of the St. Louis Convention. The General declares free ranges are no longer practicable or desirable, and the majority of the cattle-men [sic] of the United States favor leasing of the public grass lands, a Texas cattle trail and an animal industry bill. The statement is made that one-sixth of all the cattle herds west of the Missouri river are owned by or controlled by Englishmen who feed their cattle on free American grass, and are gradually driving the Americans out of the cattle business. The letter appeals to the people and Congress to protect American cattle growers against foreign capital, and in favor of cheap beef for home consumption. + Nv203 CCH December 23, 1884 Extensive Matrimony. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text. Medium margins.] ___ Chattanooga, Tenn.,Dec. 15. [sic] – Less than twelve months ago Mrs. Hugh Bair [sic], of this county, gave birth to three children, all of which are living in good health. Saturday evening the same lady gave birth to two boys and a girl, making six children born to the lady in less than a year. + = Nv204 CCH December 23, 1884 [cch pg2] “HEY: LANCH!” [sic] [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium-wide margins.] ___ It has demonstrated itself here that God helps those who help themselves; or at any rate the help those receive who do not help themselves is so meagre [sic] that it is not perceptiable [sic]. For the past ten years many people of this valley have lain back on their oars [sic] in expectancy of something to turn up. We have come to the conclusion that without an effort to help ourselves, the things most likely to turn up are our toes. What can we reasonably wish that is not available if we put forth an effort? Probably one man could not do all this, but we are not addressing this to one man. Don’t wait to become a hireling, when some man of means, or perhaps with more jawbone than money comes along and starts up a profitable business under your very nose. What are you doing in your societies for the protection of labor? If it is only to vent your indignation at capital, you had better resolve it into an indignation meeting, and hold its sessions publicly on the streets, where you might be joined with many who are more capable of doing the subject justice than those who find their way into such societies. If for amusement or “fun,” for which monkeys fight, you had better resolve it into a mutual admiration society, and renounce your allegiance to your grand lodge which, by its constant drawings, impoverishes your community, in a measure, without the shadow of a benefit. The old mother lark was convinced that it was about moving time when the farmer, tiring of waiting to secure help, decided to do his own harvesting. It is about time our people were chasing away the “larks,” by going to work together to accomplish that whereunto they look for the capitalist, or man with the long molar extension. There is hardly a man to be found who could not raise a hundred or two dollars. To do this he might have to mortgage his property, but with the money thus obtained a company of forty or fifty could start a business that would probably give work to every man who would care to do the work, individually. In a short time the borrowed capital could be paid and the borrower have a good, steady job. A business of this kind would have the advantage of many friends; and as every man in it would be interested, pecuniarily [sic], more care would be exercised and it would consequently prove more profitable. Such a business would not have to declare a heavy dividend for some capitalist every week to warrant its going ahead but as long as it would pay wages its proprietors would prosecute the business. The reason you are idle is that you are not willing to work at such wages as would leave a good profit to your employer. Then consider these things, and you will doubtless present a well-thambbed [sic] ear to the deputy grand [sic] when he comes around to organize you into a we’ll-growl-but-can’t-help-it society. + Nv204 CCH December 23, 1884 The Coast Mail in its strictures upon an article which recently appeared in this paper on protection, tries to make it appear that ours was a partisan view of the matter. Does that paper not know that the tarif [sic] question is not a political one; that many democrats [sic] are high protectionists, and that many republicans are for low tarif [sic] or free trade? It depends on what part of the country a man is situated in or the business he is following – for instance; [sic] the manufacturer wants protection, and the consumer wants cheap goods which, if protection is too high, he cannot get. This paper further claimes [sic] that the patent right on sewing machines was the cause of their high price, as though machines of equal merit from some other country (if they were not prohibited by a too high tarif [sic]), would not be brought here and sold at such figures as would bring our home manufacturers’ down to reasonable figures. + = Nv205 CCH December 16 BANDON. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; wide margins.] ____ Strolling along the beach a few days since we found ourself [sic] in the neighborhood of the breakwater, and resolved to pay it a visit. About 500 feet of the present jetty has been completed since the work was commenced this year. It consists of piles driven into the substratum [sic] by means of a steam pile-driver. These are secured together by stout ties on the top, and by a strong frame work half way down on the inside. On the bottom between the piles is placed a tier of sand bags running along the entire length of the new jetty and in this is placed a row of alder brush from three to four feet in height, and on these three rows of sandbags. When the waters from either side brush against the piles they deposit the sand and mud eet, [sic]which are diffused through them, and thus in a short time the jetty gets not only filled in, but also packed in a firm solid sediment which looks as if it come [sic] to stay. This is already run up from 8 to 10 feet and it is expected that by next spring the head of the piles will be scarcely visible. To show you how efficscious [sic] this method has been we will merely mention that the south channel which is now crossed by the jetty was the one through which the ill-fated “Precursor” as driven and wrecked against the rocks that adjoin the shore. This has been so thoroughly blocked up that it is now dry land, and bears on its rugged surface its proportion of the ponderous driftwood that has long held possession of the beach, of which it now forms a part. The current at present runs against Ratcliff [sic] rock from which it shoots of [sic] at an angle of 45 degrees towards the head of the present breakwater, and doubling this goes south again. Now when this south wall is carried out beyond the bar into deep water a distance of only 1500 feet from where they are working now, and when the north wall is completed out the same distance the entire current must necessarily run between the two walls, and the south wall will be out so far as to prevent it doubling it, and running between the rocks on the eastern side as heretofore. [sic] Some people imagine that the tide ebbs and flows with the same velocity and in the same time and therefore if a certain quantity comes with a certain force, the same volume can only go out with the same force, but this is not so. The tide comes in here in about 6 hours and 50 minutes; slack water lasts about one hour, and then the tide ebbs out in the balance, namely, 4 hours and 10 minutes, or with nearly double the force with which it comes in. Add to this all the waters of the Coquille that have been backed up by the flowing tide and we may readily estimate that the accumulated water will rush out with a very considerable increased momentum and sweep out all impediments before them into deep water. The Parkersburg is expected daily. She has a lot of machinery on board for Grube’s saw mill, the sawing capacity of which is considerable [sic] in excess of that destroyed by the late fire. Several lots of lumber for building purposes are now lying on the side of the road leading to the beach. They were delivered there from the Bandon saw mills, and are nearly all for Denmark, Curry Co. From the number of houses erected there this last summer and fall, and those in process of erection now, we should not be surprised to soon see another Copenhagen [sic]. Legem. [signed] + [M. a correspondent.] = Nv206 CCH December 23, 1884 It is confidently believed that the depression in the lumber trade is close at an end [sic], and that the coming season will bring us a market not equalled in the past two years. It is a well known fact that the country, all considered, is very short in the timber supply, and that no distant future will make the vast forests in this section very valuable. It behooves every person who can to secure to themselves a good piece of timber land. + Nv206 CCH December 23, 1884 The Gold Beach Gazette has gone off on witchcraft and necromancy. + Nv206 CCH December 23, 1884 The Thieving Pension Agents. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; narrow margins.] ____ Washington, Dec. 11. –To-day a resolution was adopted by the House Committee on pensions, bounty and back pay, calling on the Secretary of the Interior to report to the House the number of contracts providing for the payment of a $25 fee in pension cases to claim agents, under the act of July 4, 1884, that have been filled in the pension office, and whether any such contracts cover a claim on file prior to the passage of the act. At the last session an amendment to the pension appropriation bill was passed, allowing $25 for the prosecution of pension claims if a contract was made with pensioners, and approved by the Commissioner. A member of the committee says claim agents send blanks for contracts throughout the country, and after securing them filed them in claims that had been taken in former years, under the law limiting the fee to $10. It is estimated that about 150,000 of these contracts have been filed, and by this means claim agents have secured several million dollars to which they are not entitled. The committee proposes to call the matter to the attention of Congress, and if necessary ask new legislation. + Nv206 CCH December 23, 1884 The Inauguration Ball. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium margins.] ___ New York, Dec. 15. –Gen. Meiggs is endeavoring to find favor with his old Democratic friends by hurrying up the work on the new pension office building, so that it can be used for the inauguration ball. A temporary roof will be thrown over the central court, which will be a ball room 316 feet in length by 116 feet in width. On the south side of this ball room are 16 rooms, each 26 x 36 feet, each connecting with the other by large double doors. These rooms, [sic] are finished and can be used for dressing rooms and supper rooms. The managers are to be selected by the National Democratic Committee, and both parties will be represented, although no followers of Butler, St. John or Belva Lockwood will be on the list. + = Nv207 CCH December 23, 1884 To Open the Fair. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium margins.] ___ Washington, Dec. 11. President Arthur has signified to Commissioner General Morehead, who is here in the interest of the New Orleans Exposition, that he will comply with the request made yesterday to start the machinery in person, on the 16th inst., by electricity. A wire will be run directly from the Executive mansion to the Exposition building, and so arranged that when the President opens the circuit in Washington motive power will by this act be applied to the machinery in New Orleans. Members of the supreme court [sic], a delegation from the Houses of Congress, cabinet officers and diplomatic representatives of foreign countries will be in attendance at the Executive mansion on the occasion of the opening. + Nv207 CCH December 23, 1884 It is claimed by those who pretend to know, that the report that $150,000 will be expended by Capt. Powel [sic] on Port Orford next season, is a certainty, and that the commencement of the railroad mentioned is also a certainty, but not likely to commence so soon as the improvement to the harbor. Port Orford is destined to become the principal deep-water harbor on the Northwest coast. + Nv207 CCH December 23, 1884 The Coos bay papers are using considerable invective language toward those who do not do as they would have them to do. Hold, hold! Do not try to create the impression abroad that the country is filled with fools and knaves. + Nv207 CCH December 23, 1884 One would suppose from the reading of the Recorder that this was the only paper published at Coos bay. Under the head of “Coos bay news,” it gives a half column from the HERALD. + Nv207 CCH December 23 1884 What is the country coming to? We hardly read an exchange that does not give an account of some county seat troubles. State militia has been called out in two or three cases. + Nv207 CCH December 23, 1884 Geo. R. Justus, convicted of killing an Indian at Grant’s Pass, was sentenced to ten years in the Penitentiary. + = Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 Church Directory. [head, centered, bold, abt same size as text; medium margins.] ____ Methodist services, by Rev. H. B. Swaf- Ford, are listed as follows: [no cap on ford] 1st Sabbath at North Fork 11 A. M. 2nd “ “ Lampey Creek “ “ 3d “ “ Fish Trap “ “ 4th “ “ Coquille City “ “ + Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 LOCAL ITEMS. Merry Christmas to all. Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 No snow here up to date. + Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 Captain Bruce is master of the steamer Comet. + Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 James F. Cox, [sic] went to the bay yesterday on business. + Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 Mr. G. A. Brown, of South Coquille, was in town Friday. + Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 Mr. J. A. Lehnherr, of Myrtle Point, was in town Sunday. + Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 A Swedish church is in course of construction at Marshfield. + Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 Material for repairing the Isthmus railroad arrived by the last steamer. + Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 Our school takes a holiday recess until the 29th, when it will resume its labor. + Nv208 CCH December 23, 1884 Marshall Way, Sumner’s operator, with his family, is visiting friends at this place. + = Nv209 CCH December 23, 1884 Capt. Tom S. Floyd is to take charge of the steamer Coos which is to be put on the Coos river route. + Nv209 CCH December 23, 1884 We understand that Mr. Ed Jennings has opened a notion store in Marshfield. Success to you, old boy. + Nv209 CCH December 23, 1884 We are informed that Mr. J. W. Caldwell’s little son John has had the misfortune to break one of his ribs, and fracture another. + Nv209 CCH December 23, 1884 The L of the Olive hotel next to Front street has been undergoing repairs which adds to [sic] the comfort and appearance of that house. + Nv209 CCH December 23, 1884 Percy Levar and F. P. Norton expect to start a cigar store at Empire City. They are both jolly, [sic] good boys, and we wish them success. + Nv209 CCH December 23, 1884 The name of the Swede killed at Empire City a few days ago by the ornamental ball from the flag pole, was A. Ulman. He was about 30 years old. + Nv209 CCH December 23, 1884 George McEwan has just received a splendid assortment of coffin trimmings which are too pretty for any use. Call and see them whether you leave your order or not. + Nv209 CCH December 23, 1884 Eld. J. C. Canterbury preached here Sunday evening. He will conduct services in this place on the third Sunday in each month, at the usual hours, morning and evening. + = Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 Dr. Angell’s residence, which is nearly complete, is without doubt the finest in the county. It adds much to the appearance of this town which has many residences not to be sneezed at. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 Mr. Starkey, of our editorial staff, after visiting Coos bay last week and the week before, returned Saturday, having also visited the mouth of the river. His hand will again be visible next week. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 In mentioning the large number of ducks recently killed by Johnny Leneve, we omitted to mention the killing made at the same time by John B. Shelton and Geo. T. Moulton at which they kick. [sic] The boys all did well, but Leneve’s 23 was the best. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 A deck hand on one of the steamers on going ashore on a gangplank, the other day, forgetting his longitudinal proportions collided with a swinging limb and was inserted, head first, in a mudflat, from which he was extricated by a small brother. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 Hon. B. Hermann lost a large number of logs here last week. They had been put adrift on South fork, and coming out on a small freshet, were badly mixed with driftwood. A boom was stretched across the river here, but it soon broke from the heavy weight coming against it. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 Capt. Edwards has had a pair of boots [sic] at Coaledo for three weeks, which, from lack of water in the slough, could not be brought down. At last accounts he was trying to drive a bargain with a hardware dealer in town for a cargo of freight for each, which he expects can be brought out on the first freshet.+ [M. 2008; obviously must mean boats, not boots.] Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 Port Orford seems to be enjoying a boom. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 Go hang your presents on the Christmas tree. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 Judge Nosler has a splendid assortment of holiday goods. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 Dunham’s steamer was launched and is now running on Beaver slough. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 The steamer Annie came near capsizing opposite Hamlock’s yesterday. + Nv210 CCH December 23, 1884 The children of this place are to have a Christmas tree on Wednesday evening. + = Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 See the ad of the Coquille Thespians’ entertainment in today’s Herald. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 The indications are, [sic] that the rain is over till the waters will somewhat subside. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 The 8 mill [sic] school tax for this school district is due and payable to Geo. McEwan, the clerk. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 At going to press the river has risen above the highest point attained this winter. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 The work on the jetty at the mouth of the Coquille will close, we understand, in a few days, on account of the weather. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 Capt. Littlefield was at Bandon during the latter part of last week, looking at the progress of the government work at that place. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 Yesterday this part was visited by the heaviest wind storm that we have had for six years. At intervals it rained great guns! + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 J. M. Cult, 12 years, and G. R. Justice, 10 years, have been consigned to the Penitentiary, from Jackson county, for manslaughter. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 Skukum Joe’s entertainment on Wednesday evening afforded great amusement, if heel music [sic] is a sign. We were unable to attend, but could hear the cheering. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 William Phillpot [sic], who was torn by a giant explosion of giant powder at the Democratic jubilee, at Williams creek, [sic] Jackson county, is dead of his injuries. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 Mrs. Olive has just received a magnificent stock of holiday goods. Her millinery stock is complete, and of styles the very latest. See her goods and prices. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 The freshet last week came near coming to the top of the river bank in low places, but has subsided, to some extent. The rain in the past two days will again bring the waters up as high as before. + Nv211 CCH December 23, 1884 Mr. Hansen, of Marshfield, whose ad appears in another column, wishes it understood that his business is purely local, yet, [sic] he would be glad to have a portion of the patronage of the traveling public. + = Nv212 CCH December 23, 1884 The entertainment to be given here on the 27th inst. promises to be a grand treat. The Coquille Thespians are now a permanent organization, and they will spare no pains to make this the best entertainment ever given on the river. The proceeds this time goes to [sic] buy a school-bell [sic] for our magnificent school house, which should prompt every person in the vicinity to attend. See posters. + Nv212 CCH December 23, 1884 Farmers in many parts of Nebraska are burning corn for fuel, says an exchange. They have figured the matter out to their own satisfaction and are confident that it is cheaper to burn corn than to sell it and buy coal. The coal is 22 cents per bushel while the corn is dull of sale at 12 cents. One bushel of coal will not produce as much heat as two of corn, and then the hauling of both is avoided. + Nv212 CCH December 23, 1884 Slater’s Bill. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text, wide margins.] ___ Washington, Dec. 17. –Senator Slater to-day [sic] introduced a bill to provide that no statute of limitation heretofore enacted shall be deemed to prohibit the adjudication of claims for compensation for property lost in the military service of the United States when such loss is a matter of record in any official record of the war or Treasury Department. It is provided, however that this shall not be construed to extend to any classes of property other than those for loss of which compensation has been authorized by the existing laws. + Nv212 CCH December 23, 1884 Eleven feet of snow is reported in the Coeur d’Alene mines. + Nv212 CCH December 23, 1884 On the Death of a Little Boy. [head, centered, bold; abt same size as text; narrow margins.] [LE GARCON.] [small type, not bold, brackets sic] [medium line under] Our little boy has gone to rest, That long and final step, The earth lies lightly o’er his breast, His bed is small and deep; But, ‘tis the mortal part alone That there quiescent lies--- His spirit has took [sic] wings and flown To realms beyond the skies. + [jpg in 1994-dec16-pragma] Nv212 CCH December 23, 1884 A new sailing schooner is being built at Seattle, to be ready for operation March 1, 1885. + Nv212 CCH December 23, 1884 Portland suffered heavily on account of the weight of the snow breaking down roofs and awnings. + Nv212 CCH December 23, 1884 The roof of a livery stable in Albany broke down under the weight of the snow, killing several horses. + Nv212 CCH December 23, 1884 During the fog on Wednesday, says a dispatch, the schooner Stella Mariso ran on the main keys at St. Mary’s, N. F., and all on board perished. + = Nv213 CCH December 23, 1884 The freight trains between Junction City and Roseburg have been reduced to two one week and one each alternate week, for the present. + Nv213 CCH December 23, 1884 A young man was frozen to death near Albany last week. He had been out hunting, and had got within 200 yards of home when he perished. Some distance he had crawled. + Nv213 CCH December 23, 1884 Communicated. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium-wide margins.] Mr. Editor: I desire through your columns to make some remarks in regard to that two and a half column article of falsehood and abuse I received at the hands of our Coast Mail editor in his issue of the 18inst. [sic] Now as to the card he published, it is word for word as I wrote it, and as I intended it, but as to the P. S., I denounce it as an infamous falsehood, and charge him with forgery, in placing under it my enitials [sic], for not a syllable did I write, nor is there a scratch of it to be found on the card I sent, unless placed there by himself. How true the saying that he who would steal a pin, would steal articles of greater value, and with equal truth can it be said that the man who would be guilty of forgery on a small scale, would commit the same in matters of greater importance. Our state has a place fitted up at Salem for just such characters. And now as to his uncalled for, unprovoked and unwarranted attack upon me, I will not stop to notice, but of the editor I would say this: The world will know itself no better that such men have ever lived and they can be followed to their graves, not by their good deeds, but as we can trace the snail’s sluggish trail, by the slime he leaves behind. J. S. Jones. Nv213 CCH December 23, 1884 COMMUNICATED. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; wide margins.] Ed. HERALD: Seeing a little squib from Mr. Zumwalt in your last issue, which was calculated to mislead the public and keep them from patronizing a worthy object viz: the raising of funds for a public school bell, we the undersigned members of the Coquille String band take pleasure in announcing that we will give a ball at the close of the Dramatic Entertainment on Dec. 27, ’84. Tickets per couple, $1, including refreshments at the Olive Hotel. Titus W. Willard H. I. Clinton. H. J. Tobias. Albio [sic] Barrows. = Nv213a CCH December 23, 1884 Letter. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; Very wide margins.] Having always tried to accommodate my customers, and give them all the time they possibly could even when pressed myself. [sic] I now ask them to Help Me Out [latter 3 words, larger type, and bold] as the last of the yearis at hand, and I have to pay my bills. I am Obliged to Collect [3 words, larger type, and bold], please remit to G. McEwan, Pioneer Hardware Man. Coquille City, Or. Dec. 20, 1884. [+ text] Nv213a CCH December 23, 1884 BORN. At Myrtle Point, Dec. 18, to the wife of W. L. Dixon, a son. [+text.] Nv213a CCH December 23, 1884 BORN. At Myrtle Point, Dec. 17th, to the wife of Al Devaul, a daughter. [+ text.] Nv213a CCH December 23, 1884 BORN. On Fishtrap [sic], to the wife of B. F. Hill, a daughter. [+ text.] Nv213a CCH December 23, 1884 The EXCHANGE! [head, bold, spans the column. Front St., Marshfield, Or., N. P. Hansen, prop. Agent for Gibbson’s [sic] fine whiskies, an AAA whisky [sic]. Also agent for the CELEBRATED CHICAGO BEER and PORTER at wholesale and retail. The celebrated BOCA beer on draught and in bottles. [ + text.] Nv213a CCH December 23, 1884 Immigration. [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium-wide margins.] [very short line-under] Orogon [sic] possesses many attractions for the settler, and the interior is constantly receiving accessions [sic] of first-class people. The last steamer from California brought 140 passengers, and of that number seventy-five were well-to-do immigrants, who bring money enough with them to buy improved farms or settle on Government lands. Nearly all have definite plans for the future. There were not a few who return from Los Angeles, whither they went a few months hence They come back from the semi-tropic region disgusted and say they prefer a section where it rains annually and a crop is a sure thing every year, to one where the raising of a crop occurs only occasionally, owing to frequent drouths [sic]. There are nine families from the vicinity of Santa Cruz, who will go to the Willamette Valley to-day looking for locations. C. B. Carlisle, of Oregon Immigration Bureau, has them in charge, and will take them to the vicinity of Albany and Corvallis, where there is some first-class land for settlers only. Quite a number go to eastern and western Washington, and a few to Montana. –Portland News. + Nv213a CCH December 23, 1883 The thermometer showed 30 degrees at San Francisco on the 12th. Pretty cold. + = December 30 -- missing [M. note, 2008. This document contains most of the data from these issues except for some outside news and national-fillers (boilerplate). Repeat-display-ads are generally not listed more than once in the year.] home 1883 1884-June-on 1884-Dec 2 | 1885 1886-9 1890 to newspaper menu |