home Myrtle Point Enterprise   Myrtle Point, OR.     Chronological, with keywordsi JUNE 5 - DEC 25, 1897  MPE (b)       1897a MPE   |   1898a   to newspaper menu   School Lhc-statistics elections  MPE  a 30 June 5, 1897    Coos County has 71 public schoolhouses and 2,098 legal voters for school purposes.  Curry county has 18 schoolhouses and 520 legal voters. Wool  condit  MPE a 30 June 5, 1897  The warehouses in The Dalles are filling with wool, but no sales of the 1897 clip have thus far been reported, says the Times-Mountaineer.  SKIP    The market is still dull and will likely show no activity until the bulk of the wool is in. Suit  road  MPE a 30 June 5, 1897  The complaint in the case of the United States vs the Coos Bay Wagon Rd Company.  [more if needed.] Holiday MPE  a30  June 5, 1897  [long article abt] memorial day observances and festivities.   4th-July MPE a 30   schedule of what will happen on the 4th; exercises. School  Tot   MPE a 30 June 5, 1897  Hall's Creek Items.  School is progressing nicely under the efficient management of Miss Inez A. Lusk. Pursuit  Tot-indir  MPE  a 30 June 5, 1897  The Lee and Arago baseball clubs. Rackleff  flouring-mill  disaster  Tot-MP?  MPE a 30 June 5, 1897  The Myrtle Point roller flour mill is a smouldering ruin.  Capt Rackleff, 3/4 mile N. of town. [more] Hermann  MPE  a 30  June 5, 1897  T. Mannel Hermann mentioned  [brother of Binger] Blacksand-mining   outside-locale  MPE  a 30 June5, 1897  The Pioneer Mining Company.  Smith-Howard-ville.  Black sand mining.  [not clear where it is.  Fm Bandon Recorder.] = other-coal Riverton    Srh-indir  name? [MPE a 31 June 5, 1897. ]  Bandon Recorder: Robert Marsden and Peter Loggie, under the firm name of the “Diamond Block Coal Co., of Riverton,” have leased the Bandon Block Coal Co.’s. coal mines for a term of seven years.  The new company will take possession of the property, and will put in a store at the mines as soon as they can get a stock of goods up from the city. Mr. Marsden has gone to San Francisco, in the interest of the company.  +  [cp] Utility  MPE  a 31  June 12, 1897  It is soon to be determined whether or not our citizens mean business and really want a good self sustaining system of water works and electric light.  [more] Silk  MPE  a 31  June 12, 1897 Silk can now be made from wood pulp by machinery at a very small cost and without the unreliable services of the silk worms.  The process is a French invention.  Extensive factories are soon to be built in this country for the manufacture of the "new" silk and the silk worm is liable to lose his job.  Tot-Coq  MPE a 31 June 12, 1897  "County Seat" Notes.  Many improvements have been made in the hotel Coquille the past week.   Other-coal  town-pride?  Tot MPE a 31 June 12, 1897  "County Seat" Notes.    We notice the Coquille coal mine shipping fuel to Myrtle Point Monday.  Such a spirit of interchange should be encouraged.   School  Tot-Coq  MPE a 31 June 12, 1897  "County Seat" Notes. Public school will close today after a most successful three month's term.  The directors have engaged the same faculty for the fall term.   Srh  prices-rates   MPE a 31  June 12, 1897  County Seat" Notes.   The Moro is now carrying freight between San Francisco and Coquille for one dollar a ton.  It is probable that Capt. Drisco of the Coquille River [boat] will meet the cut.   [red check mark] Tot-MP   food  price  MPE  a 31  June 12, 1897  A few more salted pickles to close out at 15 cents a gallon at the Bazaar. Utility  MPE  a 31  June 12, 1897  City council to submit bonding for water works/ electric light to vote of people.  Not quote.  [more] Wool novelty-woolen  prices MPE  a 31 June 12, 1897 The spring clip of wool is coming in and is purchased at twelve cents a pound.  That beats last's year's seven cents badly and there has been no exorbitant advance in the price of woolen goods either. Utility  MPE a 31  June 19, 1897.  Don't put a veto on the water proposition.  It may not be exactly what you want but anything will be better than what we have now.  [more] Spreckels  saying-attitude MPE  a 31  June 19, 1897.]  When old Claus Spreckels goes, he goes it.  He has sued the San Francisco Examiner for $1,000,000 libel, and, if the case ever comes to trial, he may get 99 cents.  +  [cp] Srh  name MPE a 31 June 19, 1897  Hark Dunham engineer on stmr Fawn.   [red check mark] Other-mining  Locale MPE a 31 June 19, 1897  Salmon Mtn and Sixes River mines. School  locale   MPE  a 31  June 19, 1897  Prof. L. R. Traver has decided to conduct a private school during the coming winter. Not quote  3 dept of study: Academic, Teachers, Common School.  Also Vocal Music, Elocution, Methods of Teaching.  The rooms at the public schoolhouse have been secured and are very comfortable and attractive and the rates of tuition will be very reasonable.  [M. note.  because public school had run out of money.   See fall issues.] =   other-mining  MPE a 32 June 16, 1897 Much interest is being manifested in the mining districts tributary to this place this season.  Many new claims are being located and developed and the prospects are very encouraging.  + Other-mining  outside-Tot  MPE a 32 June 16, 1897   article on Bohemia mines and Lemati Bros.  [Cottage Grove area] Other-coal  conditions  Tot-Libby   Srh  [MPE a 32  June 26, 1897.]  Coos Bay News.  The strike at the Newport mine is still unsettled, and the mine remains shut down.  Superintendent Hennessey informs us that he has about 1600 ton of coal on hand, which will keep the Arcata in fuel for quite a while.  +  [cp] Utility  voting-stat  MPE  a 32  June 26, 1897 Water works election defeated by 38 to 18, a total of about one-half the usual vote of that city.  [M. hard to believe there could be so few legal voters, but they did have to own a certain amount of property.  ] Mill Rackleff  Locale  MPE a 32  June 26, 1897  The busy hum of Capt. Rackleff's saw mill is heard again.  + Politic  MPE  a 32  June 26, 1897  Wm Jennings Bryan to speak in Ashland. Tot-MP   utility  MPE a 32 June 26, 1897  A public meeting held at the Opera Hall to discuss water and light plant.  Voters not say no to waterworks, just no to public bond.  Not quote.  [more] Srh  MPE  a 32  June 26, 1897  [long article abt river improvement work.]   [red check mark] utility    MPE  a 32  July 3, 1897  Marshfield is to have a new water system to be completed in about three months. Srh  Tot MPE a 32 July 3, 1897  Bandon lighthouse being recemented on outside. Patriotic  paper  MPE  a 32  July 3, 1897  [The inner 2 pgs printed in red and blue ink.  Stripes of blue w/red in middle each page, with overlap purple.  Very nice looking page.  One wonders why they didn't do more often.  ] Entertain  Tot-MP music   MPE a 32 July 3, 1897 [Ad:] "Tatters" the pet of Squatter's Gulch.  A thrilling frontier drama in five scenes at the Hermann Opera Hall Saturday afternoon July 3rd, 1897.  Lists plot, characters, to benefit MP band.  [first 2 sentences are  +] Tot  entertain  climate  saying MPE a 32 July 3, 1897 Remote Items.  The social dance at Fetter's Hall would have been a success if the old weather king had not turned the crank the wrong way.  All it needed to be a blooming success was -- girls. Tot  music  Mpe a32 July 3, 1897  Remote brass band. Utility  MPE  a 32  July 3, 1897  more on MP waterworks.  People want owned by private capital. Fruit  MPE a 32 July 3, 1897  The strawberry season is ended.  The crop has been large -- and so has [sic] the prices.  Blackberries and raspberries are a full crop. livery  name Tot-MP    MPE a 32  July 3, 1897  Charles Dodge has opened livery stable opp.  hotel.    Tot-MP town-pride  MPE a 32 July 3, 1897    talk of MP being garden city of Coos Co.  Tot-MP-indir  other mining  MPE a 32 July 3, 1897      Huling and Lundy at MP Mining and Devel.  mines.   Art entertainment drama  Tot  MPE a 32 July 3, 1897. Urban Gray, our local landscape artist busy painting scenes for the drama.  The work excels anything of the kind that has ever been seen in this city and will add much to the interest of the entertainment.  [some skips.]   [M. 2005. Maybe this was for  the "Tatters" drama (latter is another item on this pg).] Court  Tot  [MPE  a 32  July 3, 1897.]  It is now “Coquille City the County Seat.”  The transfer of the records is being made today, Friday.  +  [cp] Volkmar  Tot-MP item   MPE a 32  July 3, 1897  [ad:]  Wm Volkmar Pioneer Hardware Merchant for your hardware, stoves, and tinware. Paper  character  MPE a 32-33  July 3, 1897 D. F. Dean, the junior editor of the Coquille Herald spent Wednesday in this city in the interests of this paper.  The Enterprise was favored with a pleasant call and we found Mr. Dean a very genial and interesting gentleman.  + = Tot-MP mail character  MPE a 33  July 3, 1897  E. Bender resigned as Postmaster to make long trip.  [Tells character, etc.] Tot-MP MPE a 33 July 10, 1897  [long article on] MP public news. Tot-Dora  4th name   MPE a 33 July 10, 1897  Dora News Notes.  The 4th of July was made memorable at Dora by a celebration on the 3rd in the grove of F. E. Scoffield's place.   Tot-Dora crop climate MPE a 33 July 10, 1897  Dora News.  ... Part of the hay crop has been ruined by the late rains but the damage has been more than offset by the good to other crops.  +     vv4th  MPE  a 33 July 10, 1897 [ long list ] celebrations 4th July. Other-coal conditions  Tot [MPE a 33   July 10, 1897.]   The strike at the Libby coal mine is still on.  +  [cp] Srh   name MPE  a 33 July 10, 1897  The new little steamer of the Wall Bros was launched Thursday and has been christened the "Emily."  [red check mark] Utility  MPE a33 July 17, 1897 C. B. News.  William Ross has finished 5,000 feet of ditching for the water works, abt 1/3 of the contract.  Not quote. County jail.  Court  Tot-Coq  RR-depot   [MPE a 33  July 17, 1897.]  County Seat Notes.  I. Heaton of Coquille City, was given the contract to remove the cells from the Coquille depot and inclose [sic] same in a suitable structure on the county grounds.  The court allowed $120.50 for this job.  +  [cp] Other-coal  conditions O C & N  Tot [MPE a 33 July 17, 1897.]  C. B. News.  Most of the miners left Newport this week, in accordance with the notice given by the company.   It is generally believed that work will be resumed at the mine shortly, but the O C & N Co. has not yet announced its intentions.  +    [cp] Other-coal Conditions  Tot   MPE  a 33 July 17, 1897   The Libby coal mine will start up some time between this and the first of the month.  +   [cp] Utility  MPE a 33 July 17, 1897  lights and water.  City council contract with F. M. Friedberg.  [long article] not quote Tot-MP  mail  Hermann   MPE  a33 July 17, 1897  F. P. Hermann received the appointment as postmaster of this place last Saturday.  +   [M. replacing Bender.] Srh  name  MPE a 33 July 17, 1897  not quote  McCloskey made improvements on Myrl. Cosmic-misc    MPE a 33  July 24, 1897 The second and final eclipse for 1897 will occur Thursday July 29th.  It is an annular eclipse of the sun will be visible in the entire United States.  It begins standard time at 7:40 o'clock a m and ends at 10:00 a m occupying 2 hrs and 10 min. Alaska mining  MPE a 33  July 24, 1897  mining in Alaska Fruit  MPE a 33 July 24, 1897  The markets are being supplied with Coos county apples and plums.  AHB  food  novelty RR haul  Tot-MP  MPE  a 33  July 24, 1897  A. H. Black & Co. received a shipment of 600 sacks of flour by Wednesday's train.    AHB  novelty-woolen item  outside-Tot   Tot-MP  MPE a33  July 24, 1897 A. H. Black & Co. are agents for the Salem woolen mills suits.  All made to order.  [woolen suits for men.] Court  judge MPE  a 33 July 24, 1897  It is stated that Judge Fullerton will not hold a special session of court this month, at Coquille City, as was rumored some time ago. Utility  MPE a 33 July 24, 1897  [more on] MP waterworks. = outside-school-Tot   MPE a 34 July 31, 1897  [ad for] Southern Or. Normal school Ashland.  Statistics, descr. misc-word Klondyke  Alaska MPE  a 34  July 31, 1987  The word Klondyke, spelled also Clondyke and Clondike, is a corruption of the Alaskan Indian word tendatt, meaning salmon stream.  The Clondyke River affords the only food that does not have to be transported over the miles of mountains, lakes, and river, it being full of salmon.   [+ except which time it's K  and  C] Alaska mining  misc  MPE a 34 July 31, 1897  The number of women going to the Klondyke [sp?] is an interesting feature of the present exodus to the Yukon.  [more] Srh  MPE a 34  July 31, 1897 [ more on] river improvements. Machine  novelty-wood Tot-Coq   MPE a 34 July 31, 1897 A new lathe was put into position at the broomhandle factory this week.  County Seat Notes. County Courthouse  Tot MPE  a 34 July 31, 1897  County Seat Notes.   Sheriff Gage will soon occupy offices on the court house block, being in the front end of the building where the steel cages are located.    [should be cp] Courthouse Tot-multi  name   [MPE  a 34 July 31, 1897.]  County Seat Notes.  Coos county’s jail cages and officers safes [sic] were moved this week to the present county seat from Empire City.  I. Heaton, who has the work by contract, is moving the same to a building erected for the purpose on the court house grounds.  +  [cp] BH health  character  [MPE a 34  July 31, 1897.]  Miss Mertie Lemon, employed as nurse in the hospital at Beaver Hill, died suddenly of heart disease, Friday afternoon.  She was about 22 years old and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. +  [cp] Needed   RR   [MPE a 34  July 31, 1897.]  Myrtle Point ifs – if they had fire protection, a normal school, fruit and vegetable canning factory, if CBR would extend road on to Roseburg.  NQ.   [cp] Vvutility MPE a 34  July 31, 1897  Letter fm Mr. Friedberg abt water works other-mining locale MPE a 34  July 31, 1897  [more on ] Salmon Mtn mines.  [Headline:] Our Own Klondyke. Conditions agric  Srh-indir RR-indir  MPE a 34 Aug 7, 1897 Resume of Events in Northwest.  [From Oregonian or other but never says so]. The citizens of Marshfield, Myrtle Point, and other towns in Coos County have complained for want of a sugar famine, but Coquille has been worse off.  There has been a shortage of flour, sugar, butter, eggs and fruit jars, and steamers and trains would come and go without replenishing the stocks of flour and sugar.  [Hasn't been anything in the MP paper complaining, but Oregonian or whatever seemed to think so.  M. note]  [M 2005. "trains come and go" , since only CBR, would have to be the steamers not trains which brought in commodities.] Condit-Prosperity  farmers  politic-indir MPE a 34  August 7, 1897 Hundreds of Oregon farmers will get out of debt this fall.  They will do more to make good times than all the politicians have done since 1866. Circus   politic-indirect  saying  MPE  a 34   August 7, 1897.  The circus at Roseburg last Friday drew a crowd of about 2500 people, and Mr. Bryan was not included in the menagerie either.  +   [M/ 2004  Refers to Wm Jennings Bryan, drawing crowds.  He was scheduled to speak at Ashland, see  MPE        .  Prior to that, in some other place, a platform collapsed because so many were on it at one of his speeches.  See MPE    ] RR  name [MPE a 34  Aug 7, 1897.]  Marshfield Sun.  Fred Wall has accepted a position as conductor on the railroad.  +  [cp] Other-coal  condit-progress Tot  [MPE a 34  Aug 7, 1897.]  The Libby mine has worked full time since starting up a week ago Monday. +   [ cp] Art  school  character  Tot-MP outside-Tot    MPE  a 34  Aug 7, 1897 Urban Gray, our local landscape artist, has gone to Portland to enter an art studio and perfect himself in his chosen vocation.  Mr. Gray is a natural artist and a sober, industrious young man who will make his mark on the world.  + = animal-wool  novelty-woolen AHB  Tot-multi  tariff  prices MPE  A 35 August 7, 1897 J.  L.  Hood was in town with his last load of wool Thursday.  His clip for the season amounted to 7500 pounds and was an extra fine quality.  It was purchased by the A. H.  Black & Co., for the Bandon woolen mills company, who furnished sacks and twine and paid 13 1/2 cents per pound.  Mr. Goode says he has no kick on the tariff.    + [name, as typed] fruit  Dr Easter  MPE  A 35 August 7, 1897 Some of the largest, soundest, and prettiest red Astrakin apples that we have seen thus far, came from Dr. J. P. Easter's torture where it was reported that all the fruit was killed by spraying.  When we go into the fruit growing business we want our apples "killed" that way too.  + RR-haul  novelty-brick Giles  Tot-MP  MPE  A 35 August 7, 1897 D.  Giles & Son shipped a car load of brick to Coquille Monday.  + tariff-condit  Srh-indir outside-Tot  MPE  A 35 August 14, 1897 Resume of Events in Northwest.  At the custom house in Astoria one day last week $1200 duty was paid under the new tariff, or $360 [??]  that would have been required under the old law.  + school outside-Tot condit-hard times   prices MPE  A 35 August 14, 1897 the salary of the principal of the Roseburg school has been reduced to $70 and the under-teachers to $37.50.  The janitor's salary was cut down to $18 from $30. AHB  Srh  transport  Tot-multi   MPE  A 35 August 14, 1897 A. H. Black and wife combined business with pleasure in a drive to Coquille City Tuesday, at which place they took the steamer for Riverton, returning home in the evening.  + Srh  govt MPE  A 35 August 14, 1897 government work on river being curtailed. School  MPE a 35  Aug 14, 1897  schedule of teacher's institute program Fruit  MPE a 35 Aug 14, 1897  Coos County's apple crop will be large this year.  + Ad-paper-cuts  MPE  a 35 August 14, 1897 [M. note.  for quite a long time now Myrtle Point paper has variety of cuts in papers for ads.  Most cuts are for repeat advertising, but I surmise they're made elsewhere, perhaps with an inset for local type.]  [ads for  furniture, stoves,  etc.).] Fruit  MPE  A 35 August 21, 1897  Coos County will do a great deal toward perpetuating Oregon's enviable reputation for big, sound red apples this fall.  + Crop  Misc MPE A 35 August 21, 1897. Pencils and Scissors.  The opening up, demand for potatoes, peeled, sliced and dried like apples, promises to give a fresh impetus to potato cultivation, as decay will be prevented and freight costs lessened.  The potatoes are peeled and sliced by machinery, soaked 20 minutes in strong brine, drained and dried at a temperature of about 194 degrees.  Before using the slices are soaked from 12 to 15 hours and then they have all the freshness and flavor of new potatoes. Saying  climate  MPE A 35 August 21, 1897 "Undressed Kids" are all the style along the river front on these bright, warm August days.  + other-mining Tot?  MPE   a 35 August 21, 1897 [article about]  Eckley mines Dr Easter  fruit MPE  A 35 August 21, 1897 Dr.  Easter presented to this office Wednesday a Gravenstein apple that measures 13 inches in circumference and weighs 14 ounces.  It is a fine specimen of that variety of apple.  + Circus  exhibition entertain    Tot-MP   MPE  A 35 August 21, 1897 Godfrey, the gymnast and aerialist, would you a public exhibition on the tightrope both this Friday and Saturday evenings, before the opening of the entertainment in the Opera Hall.  + = AHB  fruit  brick-bldg Tot-MP  MPE  A 36 August 21, 1897 A.  H. Black & Co. are erecting a new building 20 x 48 feet on the vacant lot by the side of their brick, in which to store and box fruit for shipment.  They expect to do quite a business in handling choice fall and winter apples, which are a good crop and unexcelled in quality.  + RR conditions utiltity-indir  trust-like  MPE a 36 August 21, 1897 [ headline:] Electricity.  [Sub-head: ]  The Passing of Steam Locomotion is Drawing to a Close.  [Article about J.  Pierpont Morgan's plan to substitute electric power for steam on railroad.] Srh price-rates  condit  MPE  A 36 August 28, 1897 County Seat Notes.  Freight rates by the steamer Moro have again been advanced to $3.50 per ton since the withdrawal of the steamer Coquille River.    Courthouse  Tot-Coq  MPE A 36, Aug 2, 1897  County Seat Notes.   The county prisoners have been moved to new quarters on the courthouse block.  Heretofore they were quartered in the city jail.    School  Tot-Coq   MPE A 36 Aug 28, 1897 County Seat Notes.   The Coquille Collegiate Institute will open next Monday, under the management of D.  F. Nicholson, principal, late of North Carolina.  + Dora  Tot-Multi  fruit  road  condit-optimism  MPE  A 36 August 28, 1897 Dora News Notes.  There is a very heavy apple crop on Kitchen [as typed] Creek and tons and tons of apples will be fed to the hogs or left to rot on the ground.  With a practical road over the mountain, much of this fruit would find a market in Curry County.  + Tot  road  mail MPE  a  36 August 28, 1897 P. O. at Elliott on Dairyville -- MP road; discontinued. RR-extension conditions anti-character  [MPE a 36  Aug 28, 1897.]  [Head:] Right of Way Obstructed.  [Sub-Head.]  Reasons Why the Roseburg, Coos Bay Railroad Is Not Built. [lst all caps; subhead main words cap. ]       There is no immediate prospects of the Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern railroad being pushed through to connect with the Southern Pacific at or near this point, and the chief reason therefor, [sic; no e on end], judging from present appearances, is the trouble and expense of obtaining the necessary right of way, says the Roseburg Plaindealer.  The road is now completed and in operation from Marshfield t o Myrtle Point, a distance of 28 miles, and there yet remains about 60 miles to be built before the road would be completed as intended.  The surveyed line passes through some of the farms along the Coquille, and many of those through  whose land the line passes seem to think they ought to get the full value of their farms for the few acres required for right of way.  Some of these cases have been tried before juries and the juries have been disposed to give the farmer all intended for.  It shows evidence of a disposition on the part of the community through which the road passes to cinch the railroad. They have been taught by demagogues, both platform and newspaper, that railroads are the enemies of the people, and whenever they can be struck a blow it should be done in the interest of humanity and civilization.  There is no promise of a large business for this road when it is completed, else the company might be willing to pay pretty well for the right of way.  But if the road should pay operating and other expenses for some years after construction it would do well.   Railroad companies are only aggregations of individuals, and individuals do not ordinarily invest their money unless there is prospect for a return on the investment some time in the near future.  It is conceded that the building of the road in question would be a splendid thing for this county, and bring the settlements along the line in touch with civilization.  Every farm along the line will increase in value, and every farmer with a few isolated exceptions, could afford to give the right of way outright.  Why could not a committee of interested citizens go along that line, and secure bonds for deeds to right of way?  If this can be done and the deeds obtained for a reasonable figure, there is a fair prospect that the road would soon be built, but as long as the company has to fight for every inch obtained and pay a big price there will be no further effort made, at least not for the present.  +  [cp]   [M 2004.  Last 2 lines are from pg a 37-40] = agric  name  MPE a 37-40  Aug 28, 1897 Chet Huling has turned his attention to the cultivation of rare plants and flowers -- potatoes and sunflowers.  One of the "flowers" plucked from his garden this week measured 45 inches in circumference.  + Fruit  MPE a 37-40  Aug 28, 1897  Tons of plums are rotting in the Coos county orchards.  The market is over- stocked. Tot  dairy  town-pride?  MPE a 37-40  Aug 28, 1897 Hall's Creek Items.  The Arago Creamery company after all expenses were paid, paid the patrons 17 cents per lb. for butterfat delivered in July and gives them back their skim milk besides.  What creamery in Coos county can beat it?  + = school  [MPE  a 41  Aug 28, 1897.]  school apportionments  Coquille City $467.20; Beaver Hill $179.20. school MPE a 41 Sept 4, 1897  [long article teachers institute at Bandon.] School name conditions  Tot  MPE  a 41 Sept 4, 1897 L R. Traver was going to have two weeks of public school, then money to be exhausted, therefore (principal) would open a select school immediately for pupils of any age. Fruit RR  outside-Tot MPE  a 41 Sept 11, 1897 Brief Pacific Coast News [usually fm Oregonian but not directly cited]  It is estimated that 1,280,000 prunes were shipped in the three cars that left The Dalles recently.  That number could about supply nearly everybody in Chicago with one Dalles prune.  + CBR right of way  conditions  needed-RR  animal  marketing [MPE a 41 Sept 11, 1897. }  A Bandon Correspondent pleads with farmers to give up lands without charging too much rather than expecting the inflated prices for right of ways which are bankrupting the CBR and making it impossible, or nearly so, to raise sufficient money to complete the line.  Writer points out advantages to farmers to have the railroad; how they can get their cattle to market, etc.  Also suggests that if CBR encounters too much trouble, they may change their route and cut down to join the SP line many miles south of Roseburg, thus avoiding the right of way problems of the present route where people evidently were speculating on the railroad’s intention to come through their land. Nq Asks for an amenable third party to be appointed to help settle the present disputes.  (A Bandon correspondent writing to Rsbg Review; reprint in MPE.)  [cp] RR-natl crop  condit-prosperity    [MPE a 41 Sept 11, 1897.]  The railroad managers of the country are at their wits end to furnish cars and power to move the immense shipments of wheat to the seaboard.  After three years of almost unprecedented depression, this condition of unparalleled  activity has come upon them suddenly, and they are largely unprepared for it.  +  [cp] County taxes    S O Co, .MPE a 41  Sept 11, 1897 County Seat Notes.  The most important county seat news this week is the enriched condition of the County treasury by receiving some $10,000 as taxes from the Southern Oregon Company.  Mr. Shine, Manager for the corporation, was in the city Wednesday and made the settlement.  The company still owe [sic] for the years 1893 and 1894.  +  [should be cp] Needed   crop  locale   MPE a 41 Sept 11, 1897  A good roller process flour mill would be an excellent investment for someone at this place.  There is but one flour mill in this county and it is far up on the East Fork of the Coquille River.  +   [M 2004.  Did Rackleff not  rebuild his?.] Gap Health  MPE a 41 Sept 25, 1897  lot of yellow fever in south of this country Crop  climate MPE a 41 Sept 25, 1897 Henry White saw two large Burbank seedling potatoes in MPE window.  Offered to plant potatoes and divide yield w/editor.  Yield: 72 lb.  Each got 36 lb.  This in spite of unfavorable season.  Not quote Other coal  OC&N Tots [MPE  a 41 Sept 25, 1897.]  Coos Bay News: The Oregon Coal & Navigation Co. has purchased the Eastport coal property, adjoining the Newport mine, and superintendent Hennessey has received instructions to commence development work.  +  [cp] Agric.  [condit.]  [MPE a 41 Sept 25, 1897.]  Coos Bay News.  Idle men are scarce in town at present and farmers find it difficult to secure extra help when in need of it. + [cp[ = school  Tot-Coq MPE  A 42 September 25, 1897  County Seat Notes.  Public school will open next Monday    Mill novelty-wood  Lyons  Tot-Coq  MPE a 42 Sept 25, 1897.  County Seat Notes.   The sawmill and broom handle factory in this city, formerly operated by James A. Lyons, were again put in working order Monday morning in charge of Mrs.  Lyons, adminstratrix [as typed].  + Crop prices Tot-MP  MPE  A 42 Sept 25, 1897  Onions by the sack only 1 1/2 cents per pound at Machados.     Fruit AHB Tot-MP  MPE a 42 Sept 25, 1897   Sweet apple cider 15 cents per gallon at A. H. B. & Co. road transport  prices-fares  Tot-multi  other-mining MPE A 42 Se[t 25. [Ad:] Ho for the mines!  Hack leaves Myrtle Point for Deer Park via Eckley every Tuesday and Saturday mornings.  Passenger rates $1.50.  Freight  and baggage 75 cents per hundred pounds.  Freight or baggage through to Galena 1 1/2 cents per pound.  L.L. Haynes [sp?]  Myrtle Point Oregon.  + school  condit Tot-MP  MPE  A 42 September 25, 1897 The public school is progressing with good attendance.  The select school will open September 27th with attendance above 60.  People who can't spare money for tuition, have work or produce to share, and should see the principal with regard to getting their children in school this winter.  + Srh MPE  A 42 October 2, 1897    Work on the river was finished this week. Disaster Srh  MPE A 42 Oct 2, 1897  Gasoline schooner Moro fire. Crop  Tot Coq Valley MPE  A 42 October 2, 1897 Grain of all kinds is turning out splendidly in the Coquille Valley.  On fish trap [as typed;  =  Fishtrap] , wheat is running from 40 to 60 bushels per acre, oats from 45 to 100, barley from 100 to 135 per acre.  George Wimer had 4 1/2 acres of barley that turned off 552 bushels.  Robinson had a little less than 2 acres in oats, which returned 105 bushels to the acre says the Bandon Recorder.  + Mill  locale?  MPE A 42 October 2, 1897 [M.  Minard mill several times has appeared Miniard.  Which is correct?] Mill-grist  Locale?   MPE  A 42 Oct 2, 1897 Dora Notes.  Miniard and Krantz are building an addition to their grist mill which is running night and day. Locale  school paper name  outside-Tot MPE A 42 October 2, 1897 Bald Hill Items.  Isaac LeMahieu will open a private school at the Dean schoolhouse.  [He was formerly proprietor of Oregon City Courier newspaper.] Tot  fruit dryer  name MPE  A 42 Oct 2, 1897 Judge J. .  Henry Schroeder, of Arago is at present taking care of his large crop of fall apples.  His drier is running night and day and turns out about forty bushels of apples every 24 hours. Utility  MPE  A 42 October 2, 1897 County Seat Notes.  The Occident Water Co.  are extending their system to the north part of town, where it will prove of great benefit and convenience. Fruit  MPE  A 42 Oct 2, 1897 White grapes and Peck's Pleasant apples, which not a large apple but excellent in flavor.  Grown in Myrtle Point.  not quote Needed   school  MPE A 42 Oct 9, 1897  Oregon needs a compulsory school law..  [M.  kids didn't have to go to school if  parents didn't send them??] [Lhc=combo]  Srh BH     [MPE A 42, 43  Oct 9, 1897.]  Coq river been much improved and business prospects vy favorable.  Fruit crop is the largest in years, and the fruit already marketed brought fair prices in most instances.  The same is true of other products, and the tiller of the soil, as a whole, has no complaint to make.  The outlook for the lumber and coal industries, which are the leading industries of the county, has seldom seemed more favorable.  It is true there has    skip         The Beaver Hill coal companies mines are running on full time, and the coal mined finds a ready market.  The owners of the Newport mine have recently purchased a large tract of land adjoining their property, which will be developed at once, and the management of the Beaver Hill mine contemplates further development of their property, so as to increase the output, which tends to show that coal operators have confidence in the future of the coal trade.    Skip      Take the situation as a whole, the people of Coos County have reason to feel content, and have cause to look forward to a more prosperous era soon to dawn.  +   [cp] Outside-Tots  Other-RR  [MPE A 43 Oct 9, 1897.] Portland hopes to be able to send Astoria a “Merry Christmas” by rail.  + Paper  Upton Tot  MPE  A 43 Oct 9, 1897  [brief article about J. H. Upton's paper at Langlois, the Southern Oregon Reporter.] Dairy  Tots  MPE  A 43 Oct  9, 1897 County Seat Notes.  The closing of the Myrtle Point skimming station will incur quite a loss to the creamery of this place, which is greatly regretted. Other-mining  MPE A 43 October 9, 1897   annual meeting MP Mining and Development Co.  A great deal of development during the year. Tot-MP  Boomer? Sidewalk   MPE A 43 Oct 9, 1897  Myrtle Point has more good substantial sidewalks and street crossings than any other town in the state of the same population. Crop  MPE A 43  Oct 9, 1897  Potatoes:  White Elephant, Jennie Lind, and Late Rose varieties. AHB  dairy Tot-MP   fruit  MPE A 43 Oct 9, 1897  A. H. Black & Co. are spreading out all over the upper part of town.  The recently completed a new warehouse 20 x 46 feet and this week began the erection of another ware-room 24 x 71 feet, which together with their per [M 2004 check this] store and creamery building adjoining occupies a considerable area.  The Company are preparing to handle winter apples quite extensively.  + Srh  condit  MPE A 43 Oct 16, 1897    river improvements.  Money spent and now boats can get downriver from MP even at low tide. RR suit subsidy Nosler  [MPE A 43  Oct 9, 1897.]  Circuit court.  In the suit of the railroad company vs J.H. Nosler to compel the payment of a subsidy.  Verdict in favor of Nosler. Not direct quote.  [cp] Crime  outside-RR  [MPE  A 43 Oct 16, 1897.] Two masked men held up and robbed an Oregon City-Portland electric car 4 miles fm former place. Escaped w/$97 in silver, held up passengers, etc.  not q  [cp] Name  MPE A 43 Oct 16, 1897  J. S. McEwan vs Emily G. McEwan -- suit for divorce.   Decree.  [Meaning?]  Fruit  Tot  MPE A 43 Oct 16, 1897   Home grown peaches up at Remote. Fruit  locale  MPE A 43 Oct 23, 1897  A cranberry grower in North Slough, Coos County, states that his crop this year is about 550 bushels.  (Brief Pacific Coast News.) Agric MPE A 43 Oct 23, 1897  Home grown Coos County sweet potatoes and white grapes. AHB  Tot  fruit Srh  conditions MPE  A 43 October 23, 1897 Mr. A. H. Black, the leading merchant of Myrtle Point, was in the city returning home from a business visit to San Francisco.  He tells us that he has contracted 10,000 boxes of apples the city, which he will sell from the product of Coos County orchards.  Business is improving in his section of the state, so Mr. Black says.  --Roseburg Review.  + = AHB  fruit  price Tot  [MPE A 44  Oct 23, 1897]  A.H. Black paying 30 c per box for good Baldwin and Spitzenberg apples delivered at their warehouse.  Boxes furnished.  Nq  [cp] Tot-MP  item  MPE A 44  Oct 23, 1897  Hermann and Brown advertising suits for $5, 7, 8, 9, 10. Other mining locale?   MPE A 44 Oct 23, 1897  [more on] Salmon Mtn mines   also South Fork   Sixes  mines Bunch Tot  MPE A 44 Oct 23, 1897  Mrs. W. H. Bunch of Dora RR-haul  fruit  Srh-indir  [MPE A 44  Oct 30, 1897]   Car load after car load of fine large, sound red apples –  the kind that gave Oregon its enviable reputation for the production of the finest apples in the world – are being shipped from this valley to San Francisco, and the prices received for the fruit is in the main satisfactory to the producer.  +  [cp] Novelty-wood   fruit  AHB Tot-multi [MPE A 44 Oct 30, 1897.]  The stave mill shipped 1000 apple boxes over to Myrtle Point yesterday to the order of A.H. Black & Co., the leading merchants of the Coquille Valley. – Coast Mail.  +  [cp] Srh fruit  world-news price  MPE A 44 Oct 30, 1897  More than 26,000 barrels of American apples were shipped to Great Britain this week.  The price per barrel in Liverpool averaged $3.75. Novelty-woolen  MPE A 44 Oct 30, 1897 The number of woolen mills in the state of Oregon is nine which are running on full time, some night and day.  + RR-haul  fruit  needed Tot-Multi  [MPE A 44 Oct 30, 1897.]  Car loads of apple boxes are being shipped to this city from Marshfield in which to pack our apples for shipment.  Why could not these boxes be manufactured here at home?  A box factory and shingle mill, and a sash and door factory would be paying institutions at this place. +  [cp] Fruit  names MPE A 44 Oct 30, 1897  N. G. W. Perkins' strawberry patch is still producing big fine red berries.  + Crop  MPE a 44 Oct 30, 1897  Roasting ears in Coos. Fruit  MPE a 44 Oct 30., 1897  Apples:  Ben Davis variety Other mining  locale  MPE A 44 Oct 30, 1897  [2 articles abt] mining  S. Fork  Sixes and others Conditions novelty-wool  Srh  Tot   MPE A 44 Nov 6, Not quote.  Fm Bandon Recorder.  May lose woolen mill on account of poor prospects for transportation and urges building of suitable steamer for route. Crop  name  MPE A 44 Nov 6, 1897  James Bright has obtained 500 sacks of potatoes from "something over an acre."  Can any section of the country beat this?  Bald Hill Items.  + Graham  RR  [MPE A 44 Nov 6, 1897.]  Coos Bay News.  Manager Graham of the C.B.R. & E.R.R., left for the city, Sunday, via Myrtle Point and Roseburg.  +  [cp] Fish cannery  locale?   MPE A 44 Nov 6, 1897  Coos Bay News.  The cannery shut down Monday.  The pack for the season amounts to 8,500 cases, of which about 7,000 are Chinook.  + Fruit  AHB  Srh  condit-outlook  Tot   MPE A 44 Nov 6, 1897  Not quote.  A. H. Black began with a shipment of 1100 boxes Gravensteins and since tt time received 500 to 1000 boxes of winter apples a day.  In their packing houses employing fm 10 to 15 hands in boxing and preparing apples for shipping.  At present have 7000 boxes choice apples on hand for shipment.  Price paid ranges fm 20 to 30 cents per box, with company furnishing box.  Mr. Black, has G. W. Edwards, of the wholesale commission firm of McDonogh [verified] & Runyon of San Francisco have had many years of experience in the business, in charge of this apple packing establishment.  The apple product of this section of the country for quality and size cannot be excelled anywhere in the United States.  However, not until Mr. Black took hold of matter has the industry assumed any proportion whatsoever. = Misc  history MPE A 45 Oct 30, 1897  opening of Whitman's grave at Whitman Mission in prep. To build mausoleum.  Descr. how they recognized Whitman by gold tooth and tomahawk wound.  Massacred 50 years when article written.] BH-accid  health names  [MPE A 45  Oct 30, 1897,] County Seat Notes.  Word came to town last Friday of an accident in the Beaver Hill mines, resulting in the injury of John Peart, Wm. Grande, J. Thomas, Mr. Morrison.  The first named was quite seriously injured.  +  [cp] food  Tot-MP  MPE A 45 Oct 30, 1897  The finest super cured hams ever placed on the market, at Machado's.  + Climate  Srh  Tot-MP condit     MPE A 45 Oct 30, 1897 Since the recent freshet the boats are able to reach their moorings at this place.  + Fish  River  Tot   MPE A 45 Oct 30, 1897  It is reported that a school of salmon a mile in length entered the river at Bandon last week.  Salmon and trout are very plentiful in the river at this place.  + Other mining  MPE A 45 Oct 30, 1897  [Brief article abt] development of MP Mining Co. Boomer  Tot-MP  town-pride   MPE A 45 Oct 30, 1897  Myrtle Point is not a "rubber stamp town."   SKIP   Myrtle Point businessmen are more enterprising, progressive and up-to-date, and there are no cebwebs [ as in print; means cobwebs] and dust on their shelves and counters.  Show us a "bum" town and we will show you a rubber stamp in every business in town.  Of five letters recently received from business men of one of our Coos county towns, three contained the blurred, dim and unsightly impressions of rubber stamps.  + Other- mining   locale  road  paper needed  anti-boomer  MPE A 45 Oct 30, 1897 [P. O Tribune scolding MPE for comment abt Coos County's Klondike good enough.  Guerin Bros placer mines.] "Don't try to claim all the earth for Coos county, Bro. Conner.  The South Fork of Sixes is altogether within Curry county territory and that Klondike is Curry county property, although drained of its wealth through an artificial channel in the shape of a wagon road running to Myrtle Point, which was constructed through the encouragement and substantial aid of the enterprising people of that place, for the express purpose of diverting all the trade and gold of the richest part of Curry county that way, while Port Orford was asleep, expecting to be awakened by a big boom. "  + road  transport  misc-word  UR  MPE Aa 45  Oct 30, 1897  [Editor had gone to Coq City over wagon road.]  For a main traveled thoroughfare and the only one leading from the county seat to the upper Coquille, it is about the poorest excuse for a road that we have ever seen.    Descr steep grades, hills, places where impossible to pass a team. Hermann  school  Tot? MPE A 45 Oct 30, 1897  Among new students since last reported are: Henry Hermann, Binger Hermann.  [M. this must have been another generation.]  [M. 2005  in MP, or outlying?] RR-sked  name [MPE A 45  Nov 6, 1897.]  [ad for]Coos Bay Roseburg & Eastern tells when trains depart and come. E A Dodge, agent.  [all tt in notes.] [cp] Commission-house  fruit  statistics  MPE A 45 Nov 6, 1897 Coos Bay News.  W. G. Hunt, of the firm of Hunt, Hatch & Co., Oakland, Cal., estimates that the amount of apples contracted for in Coos county this season, including those already shipped, figures up to 30,000 boxes, and several thousand more boxes are being held for higher prices.  + Misc  holiday  MPE A 45 Nov 6, 1897  Deviltry carried on on Halloween even though the day was Sunday.  Not quote. = other-mining locale name  MPE A46-50 Aug 7, 1897   R. W. Lundy and son in law to Johnson creek mines Sun. on business and pleasure; will return abt Wed.  not q photo  name  locale?  organization  MPE A 46-50  Aug 7, 1897  W. Hunt photographer says will be at home and ready to make pictures for the GAR encampment.   Name  home-seekers  MPE A 46-50 Aug 7, 1897   W. H. Walker and Verner Fetter gave notice of their intentions to make final proof on their homesteads.  + crop  misc  name  MPE A 46-50 Aug 7, 1897 Peter Wise presented us with a bottle of cucumber pickles, or rather pickle, Wednesday.  It was a two ounce bottle into which the cucumber was placed when very small and allowed to grow until it filled the bottle, which preserved in alcohol makes quite a novelty.  + AHB  Tot-MP    MPE A 46-50  Aug 7, 1897  A. H. Black, chairman of town board [city council]  not q at all Health  logging BH-surr  [MPE A 46-50  Nov 6, 1897.]  CB News. O.J. Seeley met with an accident at his logging camp on the Isthmus last week. He had a narrow escape from being crushed to death between a log and a stump. His escape with a broken arm may be classed as fortunate.  N f q  [cp] AHB  Tot-MP item  silk    MPE A 46-50  Nov 13, 1897  A. H. Black & Co carry largest stock yarns in town; all colors in Fleisher's Imported, Spanish, and Bandon yarns.  Imported saxony, zephyr.  [former are in caps, latter not] and also full lines of colors in knitting and embroidery silk on spools and skeins.  N q  BH  accid -health  cemetery-locale?  Outside-Tot.  Organize-indir   [MPE A 46-50 Nov 13, 1897.]  John Lehty was killed accidentally at Beaver Hill mine on Monday, last week.  He had finished his days [no apostrophe] work in the mine, and was getting into the car with four companions at the foot of the slope. Owing to some misunderstanding of the signals, the car was started up and Lehty was thrown in front of it, and dragged some 40 feet before the car could be stopped.  He was killed instantly.  Deceased was 32 years of age and leaves a wife and three children.  He came to this place from Rock Springs, Wyoming, about two months ago. The funeral was held in Marshfield, on Wednesday.  Interment in Odd Fellows cemetery.  – Mail.  +  [cp] Strahan  Tot-multi  outside-Tot  Names    [MPE A 46-50  Nov 13, 1897.] P.O. Tribune.   Chas. Strahan of Gold Beach arrived up yesterday enroute for Alaska via San Francisco.  Will Caughell and Will Strahan are expected to arrive this evening bound for Seattle overland thence to Alaska.  Nq.    Cp School  Giles  Tot-MP?    MPE A 46-50  Nov 13, 1897  Miss Daisy Giles entered school on Monday to take the book keeping course.  + Interest   Srh  names?  Tots?  MPE A 46-50  Nov. 29, 1897 George Griffin and Albert Bright contemplate the construction of a boat to be propelled [print] by hand power [print] for navigating the turbulent waters of the North Fork between Myrtle Point and the numerous farms along the stream.  The power is to be similar to that used on a hand-car of a railroad section crew.  This style of "steam-boat" however is not new.  During the Civil War "waterwhackers" would sally forth from the creeks and bayous tributary to the Mississippi in light hand-power craft to worry unarmed Union steamers, with rifle shots.  Whether Messrs. Bright and Griffin will be able to overcome the strong current of the North Fork with their boat remains to be seen.  + = paper Tot-MP MPE A 51  Nov 13, 1897 Last week completed our second year of newspaper work in MP. Tot-MP blacksmith  livery   MPE A 51 Nov 6, 1897 W W Endicott has opened a blacksmith and carpenter shop next door to the Mast stable and is now ready for business.  [M. note.  Is he the man sued by RR?] Invention  Tot-MP?  Long  harness MPE A 51 Nov 6, 1897 On Thursday, Nov. 4, 1897, F. Long, our harness maker, perfected a new and original hame-tug that promises to take the place of the old bunglesome leather hame-tug.  It is manufactured from hickory, and is strong and durable and greatly simplifies and reduces the cost of this particular part of the harness.  He invites you to call and inspect it.  + Health  Tot-names  MPE A 51 Nov 6, 1897  Dr. Leep  MP   Dr. Tower  Marshfield Fruit paper  Dr Easter   MPE A 51 Nov 6, 1897  Dr. J. P. Easter presented us with a bushel box of Blue Winter Pearmain apples this week from his orchard that are beauties to behold.  The box contains four layers or 60 apples, which are perfect in every respect.  [going to give a yrs subscript to Enterprise to anyone who can produce a better box of the same variety apples; competitor to pay for paper himself if he fails to produce that finer box.] Crop  MPE A 51 Nov 6, 1897.  Four pound Snowflake and 3 pound Peerless potatoes were grown. Item  Tot-MP   MPE A 51  Nov 6, 1897  Delft ware.  More durable than any other ware manufactured in the world.  In fact indestructable.  Beware of imitation.  Huling & Lundy have the only genuine for sale in the county.  + Health  BH-allied  racism  MPE A 51 Nov 13, 1897.] [M.note.   Tucker seems to have been a popular name for a Negro.]  Fatal shooting of Doe Tucker a colored gambler.  Miss Sadie Thompson also of the same dark hue and disreputable class doing the shooting.  [more in item; but all I have in notes.]  [did it say what town?]  [cp] Fruit  food Dr Easter Tot  MPE A 51 Nov 13, 1897 Bridge Items.  Dr. Easter proposes to try the experiment of making fruit syrup next week.  He is of the opinion that it will be superior to any syrup in the market.  He has purchased a cider mill for that purpose, in connection with his apple butter factory.  + RR-haul  crop  name animal  [MPE A 51   Nov 13, 1897.]  A great many car loads of fine stock beets are being shipped from this city.   +  [Also tells of Dement and Shoemaker shipping cattle.]  [cp]  Srh  RR- shops [MPE A 51  Nov 13, 1897.]  Coos Bay News.  The “Harrow,” to be used in deepening the channel across the Hog’s Back, was completed at the car shop lately, and is ready for business.  +  [cp] Fruit  pests  MPE A 51  Nov 13, 1897  Coos Bay News.  Not quote.  Apples shipped from the Willamette were condemned because of codlin moth but Coos apples free of the pest and in demand. Misc   MPE A 51 Nov 13, 1897  The latest thing doing the rounds, repeat it rapidly -- "A noisy noise annoys an oyster."  + Tot-MP  Item  MPE A 51 Nov 13, 1897  We keep 3 grades of giant Queen ware, the best in the market, a middle grade, and the cheapest grade that can be bought.  [kitchenware.]  [what store?] Invention  harness  Long  Tot-MP  MPE A 51  Nov 13, 1897 The new hame-tug invented by F. Long, the harness maker, is meeting general favor.  Mr. Long has applied for a patent on his invention which combines lightness, strength, simplicity and cheapness in its construction.  The tug is manufactured from hickory, hence there is no stitches to rip, is lighter, stronger and will outlast four ordinary hame-tugs, while it can be sold at a great reduction over the old tug.  It promises to be a great success.  + = [M. 2004  is there a page 52?]   fruit  agric  RR-haul prices  boomer   [MPE A 53  Nov 27, 1897.] [C.B. News]  The railroad is bringing apples from Myrtle Point and delivered [sic] them in San Francisco for ten cents a box.  This very low rate makes it possible for the farmers in that section to market their apples, and bring a large amount of money into the country which otherwise would not come here.  People who are prejudiced against railroads in general are beginning to understand that the C.B.R. & E.R.R. is proving a blessing in more ways than one, and is doing more to open up the resources of the county than many are willing to give it credit for.  +   Invention  Tot-MP Long harness  saying?   MPE A 53  Nov 27, 1897 One-hundred dollars that you can't break Long's patent Hame-tug [sic].  $100 [sic] that you can't wear one out.  $100 that is [as I typed it] will out-wear six leather hame-tugs.  $100 that it will work easier, smoother and nicer than a leather hame-tug.  $100 that there isn't an elephant in the state that can pull one apart.  $100 that there isn't a horse in the state that can break it.   It looks better on a harness than a leather hame-tug and is easier to put on and take off of a horse.  It don't [sic] cost as much as the leather hame-tug and there is no iron to rust or stitches to rip.  If you can pull a stick of hickory in two end- wise, then you can break this hame-tug, otherwise you cannot.  Bring your old harness and have new hame-tugs put in.  You can get them cheaper than you ever can again, at Long's harness shop.  + Hermann, Binger-bio  Lonaconing-name  govt  MPE  A 53  March 27, 1897      Washington, D. C., March 22.  -- Ex-Congressman Binger Hermann was today appointed commissioner of the general land office, vice Silas W. Lamoreax, resigned.  The appointment of Mr. Hermann was urged by the United States delegation, as well as many of his old congressional colleagues.  The office pay a salary of $4500 a year.     Binger Hermann was born in Lonaconing, Allegany county, Md., February 19, 1843.  He was educated in the rural schools of West Maryland, and at the Independent academy, afterwards Irving college, (near Baltimore).  He removed to Oregon, where he taught in country schools, studied law and was admitted to practice before the supreme court in 1856.  [M. 2004.  Not a correct date; did I type it wrong?]  He was elected to the lower house of the state legislator [sic] in 1866, and was state senator in 1868.  From 1868 until 1871 he was deputy collector of internal revenue for Southern Oregon [caps only as in print].  In 1871 he was appointed by president Grant receiver of public moneys at the United States land office at Roseburg, serving until 1873.  From 1882 till 1884, he was judge-advocate, with the rank of colonel, in the state militia.  He was elected to the 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th congress as a republican.  He sought renomination by the third congressional district republican convention, which met at Albany last year, but was defeated by Thomas H. Tongue, who was later elected.      Mr. Hermann's relatives and many friends at this place are delighted to learn of the recognition he has received at the hands of the new administration.  They feel that an honored and faithful servant has only been amply rewarded for the faithful and valued services rendered in state and party.  Owing to Mr. Hermann's excellent qualifications and fitness for the office and his knowledge and experience of this line of official work, his appointment is generally approved by the press of the state, the Pacific Northwest, irrespective of their political affiliations.  From his long residence and public life in the West, Mr. Hermann is posted on the needs of this...   [end of tape] = other-mining locale?  MPE A 54  Nov 13, 1897  Salmon Mtn mines Tot-MP RR-haul  item   MPE A 54 Nov 13, 1897  A car load of nails enroute fm the east for Huling and Lundy. Accid-BH health  MPE  A 54  Nov 13, 1897[tells of John Lehty being killed at Beaver Hill. [I think I already have this.] Fruit  MPE A 54  nov 13, 1897  Apples: Pippins, Spitzenbergs, Jonathons.  How much the Oregon apples are being praised in Chicago market.  Not quote Agric MPE A 54  Nov 13 1897  [Always agric.column in each paper but general, not local.]  Srh govt  MPE A 54 Nov 20, 1897  going to be opposition in Congress to Nicaragua canal.  Not quote Novelty-wood   fish  locale-Multi   MPE A 54 Nov 20, 1897  Brief Pacific Coast News. A Curry county man soon expects to begin manufacturing barrels of which to pack fish [as typed].  A number of such barrels are used on the Coquille, and some on Sixes and Elk rivers.  + Tot-MP  misc-word   names  MPE A 54 Nov 20, 1897 [ad:] E. A. Page and Walter Endicott Tonsorial Artists.  [Ad put together slightly different.]  [Were apparently several Walter Endicotts.] Srh  locale  name  Interest  MPE A 54 Nov 20, 1897  Bald Hill Items.  [Article about] George Griffin and Albert Bright's hand car boat.  [M. If I didn't already get this, I need it.] Food  Tot-MP  price MPE A 54 Nov 20, 1897  Pearl Tapioca 6 cents a pound at Machados. Graham  health  transport animal  [MPE A 54  Nov 27, 1897.]  Saturday morning Edd [sic] Patterson started to take a team and buggy belonging to R.A. Graham, to Coos county.  When near Greens [no apostrophe] he stopped to let the horses drink, when they became frightened, ran away and completely demolished the buggy.  Fortunately neither Ed [sic] nor the horses were injured.  – Roseburg Review.  [cp] Climate   holiday   MPE A 54 Nov 27, 1897  County Seat Notes. The weather was ideal Thanksgiving day.   climate  Tot-Coq mill  MPE a 54 Nov 27, 1897  County Seat Notes.  ...Lyons' mill lies idle on account of the high water. Alaska mining  MPE A 54 Nov 27, 1897  [article abt] the New ElDorado, gold fields of Alaska and Yukon. Novelty-wool  flax-mill?    Outside-Tot   MPE A 54  Dec 4, 1897  possibility of the Scotch Mills of Salem being converted to linen mill with flax being made up into wares.  Not quote. Fruit  conditions  MPE A 54 Dec 4, 1897  A great many of the apples shipped form Coos county are being sold as Northern California apples, and the choice potatoes sent from here are also put on the market as a California product, and called Salinas Burbanks.  Well, as long as our farmers get the top price, the name doesn't cut much of a figure; but the truth is, that California can no more raise good apples than the coast counties of Oregon can raise good grapes.  --  News.  + Tot-Coq Paper  MPE A 54 Dec 4, 1897  The Coquille Bulletin passed the fourth milestone in its history last week.  It is one of the brightest, newsiest and most progressive newspapers of the county, and justly merits the liberal patronage extended to it.  Editor Lawrence is a rustler and we trust that the ensuing year will reward him even better than the one just closed.  + [under Pencil and Scissors column but doesn't say what paper from.  Is it MP editor, or?] Tot-MP  item  prices  MPE A 54 Dec 4, 1897  Richardson the jeweler just received a fine line of jewelry.  Watches ranging from $5 to $40.  + Xmas  church   MPE A 54 Dec 4, 1897  A Christmas tree and an appropriate entertainment will be given at the Presbyterian church on Christmas night.  + = Tot-MP  harness    MPE A 55 Dec 4, 1897 A partner wanted in the best paying business in Coos county. Apply to or address, F. Long, Myrtle Point, Or.  + Tot-MP  Xmas  MPE A 55 Dec 4, 1897 Are you going to have a Christmas?  Remember for tree ornaments candles and holders Adam's Bazaar.  +  [no commas] Health  MPE A 55 Dec 4, 1897  Dr. Leep applying chemical compound to destroy skin cancer without surgery.  Not quote Hermann  govt  MPE A 55 Dec 4, 1897  [article saying hope] Binger Hermann will run for presidency in 1900.  [more] /Novelty-woolen  Tot  MPE A 55 Dec 11, 1897 Bandon Recorder.  The woolen mills will put on an extra force next Monday.    +   Lumber Srh condit-outlook  misc-word  MPE A 55 Dec 11, 1897  Bandon Recorder.     The lumber trade is looking up and the schooner service to the river is almost as large as it was in the halcyon days of the past.  There are ten schooners calling here now.  The greatest number that ran here at any one time was eleven.  + RR-suit  name  MPE A 55 Dec 11, 1897  W.W. Endicott called to Marshfield on matters pertaining to his right of way case.  Not quote. [cp] Tot-MP  photo  church-indir  MPE A 55 Dec 11, 1897  [ad] Artistic Photography.  Reed & Leek, Photographers.  Gallery next door to M.E. church, Myrtle Point, Oregon.  All work guaranteed satisfactory.  + Food  Xmas  Tot-MP AHB  MPE A 55 Dec 11, 1897  Colored cake sugar, raisins, citron, powdered sugar and everything necessary for Xmas luxuries, at A. H. Black & Co.  + School  Tot-multi? name   MPE A 55 Dec 11, 1897  Miss Flora McCloskey, of Norway, one of Coos county's most successful teachers, entered school at this place Monday to take up some of the higher branches of study.  + Alaska  MPE A 55 Dec 11, 1897  Yukon rush.  How 1000s will reach Alaska.  Only 2 routes advised.  Difficulties to be overcome. Misc  natl  MPE A 55 Dec 11, 1897  [Insert to paper has complete text of President McKinley's message.] Interest  MPE A 55 Dec 11, 1897 [Insert filler tells of] man who was lost for 23 days in the crater of Mauna Loa.  Confused in efforts to reach camp. At last clouds lifted and he could get his bearings and return to camp. Disaster National conditions  outside-Tot  MPE A 55 Dec 18, 1897  suspect arson in fire at Ellis Island a few months ago, reasons why.  People had taken out insurance, etc. Lhc   boomer?  Tot-MP  MPE A 55 Dec 18, 1897  [a long article by outsider] who came to Coos county; favorable impression of MP Hermann   politic MPE A 55 Dec 18, 1897  One of Binger Hermann's closest political friends says Hermann wants to succeed Governor Lord to make stepping stone to US Senate.  Not quote Geology Lhc  road name locales  MPE A 55 Dec 18, 1897  [huge landslide on Bandon-Empire City road.  ]      The whole "Seven Devils", an immense mountain, took a slide into the ocean, carrying with it a house and barn, unoccupied, belonging to A. Hansen, and about ten acres of fertile ranch of Dr. J. G. Cook.  + Other mining  MPE A 55 Dec 18, 1897  [article on] MP Mining Develop co Food  Tot-MP  MPE A 55 Dec 18, 1897 [ad:]  Cracknel biscuits and all kinds of fancy crackers just received at Machados.  +   [also fine evaporated peaches.] AHB  RR-haul  fruit  price  boomer?  Tot MPE A 55, 56 Dec 18, 1897 Another car load [sic] of 800 boxes of fine winter apples was shipped to San Francisco Wednesday by A. H. Black & Co., making a total of seven carloads [sic] shipped already this season and we learn that they have about as many more that will soon be ready for shipment.  It is estimated that fully 40,000 boxes of apples were purchased in the Coquille valley [sic] for shipment this fall, the price ranging from 20 to40 cents per box.  A. H. Black & Co. have done much toward establishing a good market for Coos county apples.  + Xmas  entertain  music-etc   MPE A 56 Dec 18, 1898  lengthy article abt Xmas] entertainment of Echo Octet and Imperial Dramatic Society. Alaska mining  govt  outside-Tot  MPE A 56  Dec 25, 1897  Congress, Washington DC have voted relief for starving miners in Alaska. School  Locale Bunch  MPE A 56  Dec 25, 1897  Bald Hill Items.  Prof. Bunch is making a decided success of his private school at Gravel Ford.  Several young ladies from this section are attending it.  + Misc  politic  misc-word  outside-locale  MPE A 56 Dec 25, 1897  Not one-tenth as many men are opposed to the annexation of Hawaii as were opposed to the purchase of Alaska, and it took 40 years' coaxing before United States statesmen would acknowledge the Oregon territory, with its 300,000 square miles, of any value to the nation. Statesmen are queer animals.  + Fruit  name Tot MPE A 56  Dec 25, 1897      Of interest to fruit growers. Capt. S. T. Malehorn Olive Park Fruit Farm and nursery at Langlois has 30,000 saleable trees on hand.  My Tragedy, Silver, Golden, Italian and Petite prune trees.  +      There is as much or more money in a good prune orchard as an apple orchard.  If you buy 1000 at a time, he will sell for $9.00.  2000, $15.00.  [M. this price for a whole thousand?]      Such prunes as the Silver and Golden sell readily at 7 cents per pound when evaporated, thus netting the grower from $400 to $500 per acre annually as they grow and produce here.  When our people more thoroughly understand the business they will realize a great deal of money from prunes as well as winter apples.  Tot-MP  Boomer  RR-extension  [MPE A 56  Dec 25, 1897.]  Myrtle Point will no doubt witness some lively times in the spring.  Several good substantial buildings will be erected and there is every assurance of work commencing on the railroad to Roseburg.  +   [cp] Tot-MP harness Long   MPE a 56 Dec 25, 1897  After January 1st the firm F. Long will be F. Long and Son, wholesale and retail harness.  Not quote. RR-right-of-way extension   govt name locale   misc-word?   [MPE A 56  Dec 25, 1897.]  U.S. Commissioner Orvil Dodge and W.W. Endicott went up the Middle Fork the first of the week to secure titles for contracts for right-of-way for the C.B.R. & E. railroad.  They returned home Tuesday evening and report the right-of-way now practically clear all the way to the county line.  Now let our Douglas county neighbors bestir themselves a little and thus hasten the construction and completion of the railroad.  + Xmas poetry  stories  MPE A 56 Dec 25, 1897  several Xmas stories, articles, poems. = home              1895 MPE   1896 MPE |   1900a MPE    to newspaper menu