Coos history home Herald   1883   1884-Jun   July   Aug   |   1884-Sept23   1885-9   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. [additions and re-keyworded, Dec 2007] SEPTEMBER 2 - 9, 1884 September 2 Tot-Coq business bldg name-Olive Tot-MP Tot-Empire Tot-Marshfield Tot- Parkersburg Tot-Randolph Tot-Coaledo Tot-Norway Locale-river Locale-CoqR Locale-SouthFork Locale-CoosBay OT-SF OT-Roseburg OT-Portland OT-HumboldtCali name-Olive name-Hermann name-Marshall name-Dunham name-Fox name-Buck name-Halter name-Smith name-Sugg name-Prey name-Sharp name-Ward name-Mast  Nv11 CCH September 2, 1884  HOTEL ARRIVALS.  [head; centered, bold; medium margins.]     (Olive Hotel.) [M. these are in 2 columns (within a single newspaper column), sometimes the town being on a separate line.  I’ve consolidated.]  [no forward-slashes used in text.  Ditto marks are same town as the one above them.]  [the order of dates is unclear; appear to go left to right over both columns.  I’ve copied them as they appear.] [col 1] Aug. 11  C B Watson                  O H Prey  Myrtle Pt             Empire City                     Jas NeCay [?]  Marshfield B T Sharp  river                          T M Hermann South fk C Harrington  SF                         Aug 12  Hon Binger Hermann Geo Norton  Portl’d                                           Roseburg Chas Marshall  “                          Fred Snyder  Portl’d Thos Mastic [?]  “                        M Thompson  “ C Peterson  “                                Fred Sauger  SF M Rowan  river                           S L Leneve  city Aug. 13  Thos Hollis                   F Sheridan Parkersb’g         Parkersburg                         Mr. Dorson  SF Mr. Toler  river                           Mrs B Oman  Randolph Mrs. Dunham  Coal-                   Mrs. J Fox  Coaledo edo                                            R E Buck  city Aug 14  G Brown  M Pt              J Snyder Myrtle Pt W F Newsom  Portl’d                 J W Sugg  city G W Palmer  Roseb’g                 Dan Wagoner  river P Hickey  Empire                        T Ward  Humboldt Cal O B Smith rivr                             Aug 15  S A Lee  river Aug 16 W Mast  river                 The DeMoss troupe Joe Laird  Norway                      Al Lillie  river J Rimmer [or Himmer]  river        Louis Heller  river Aug 17  D H Getchell                  R Hayter  river      wf & chd   Park’bg                  J Waller  river S Barrows  Lark’s’bg  [sic]          S Gallier  city Aug 18 J Aiken  bay                     J Halter  Norway A Halter  Norway             [+ text.] Health-birth health-death locale-IowaSlough  Nv11 CCH September 2, 1884  Died. Near Iowa slough, August 11th, infant son of  S. T. [or F.?] Steward.  [+ text] Ad Tot-Marshfield business bldg item-tobacco OT-SF misc-word(superlative)  Nv11 CCH September 2, 1884  DON’T READ THIS – DON’T  [headline, large type; centered, bold, spans the margins.]       If you do, you will call at the wholesale and retail, Cigar and Tobacco Store  -o-  F. P. Norton, Marshfield.   Where I sell goods at San Francisco prices.  I will say to the public – those wishing job lots of cigars, that they can buy of me, cheaper than they can from the city.       Please give me a call before buying elsewhere.  [+ text] = Literary? Poetry lifestyle? Srh-misc disaster-shipwreck-indir condit? Character? [?]-attitude Nv12 CCH September 2, 1884  HE NEVER HAS BEEN THERE.  [head; centered, bold, larger type than text; very narrow margins.]\           ____   “A life on the ocean wave!”      The man who wrote it was green;   He never has been at sea,     And a storm he never has seen. [space]   He never has seen a wave     As it dashed o’er the vessel’s deck;   He never has seen a fire at sea,     Or been on a floating wreck. [space]   He never has been aroused     From his morning’s gentle doze   Ay [sic] the sound of the splashing water     As it fell from the horrid hose. [space]   He never has heard a man     Scrubbing right over his head,   With a noise sufficient to arouse     From the grave the slumbering dead. [space]   He never has seen a fat womam [sic]     Growing thinner day by day,   And leaning over the vessels [sic] side,     Throwing herself away. [space]   While people look carelessly on,     Though in tears the woman may be,   And unfeelingly says it is not     Only the roll of the sea. [space]   Seasick he has never been to his toes,     And crept into bed in his coat,   While every motion increased his throes,     And his feel’ngs [sic] were all in his throat. [space]   That man may have sailed in a boat,     In some puddle, or on a sound,   But if he has been to sea and wrote     Such a song he deserves to be drowned.                               BOSTON [GAZETTE?]  + Name-Starkey literary history OT-SF Locale-Cali crime Srh-misc? govt war-indir govt racism-ethnic judge other-mining-indir  Nv12 CCH September 2, 1884  San Francisco and Sacramento in     The Days of 1849, with a Sketch        Of the Celebrated Trial              Of the “Hounds.”                    ____      CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.      When the indictment was presented to the Commander, the prisoners were ranged in a line on the quarter deck, and he proceeded to address them.  “Men,” said he, “you have been brought here charged with a certain amount of crime; but the indictment does not state that you are the very men who committed this crime, you are here only on suspicion.  I will now read the indictment to you, remarking, by the way, that  it seems to me hardly possible that such a young and seemingly intelligent body of men would be guilty of the facts herein set forth.   The first count is conspiracy, the second riot, the third robbery,  the fourth, rape, and the fifth, what is still worse, murder.  Master-at-arms, Ship’s Corporal, put them in double irons.”    The reader may possibly be surprised at my acquaintance with the minutest details of this trial.  That is easily explained.  In the city, I had the same opportunities enjoyed by others; but, on board of the ship, I possessed an advantage; being, but recently, a man of war’s man, I could go and come wherever it pleased me to do so.  An old servant of the government, [sic] is not treated exactly like a stranger.  After an interval of three days, the Commander was notified that the citizens had arranged matters, and were prepared to try the accused, with a court, somewhat resembling lynch law.  This was heaping one crime on another; they had no legal power to try the case.  The Commander refused to give the men up.  Here was a dilemma.  Any attempt to take them by force, from the ship, would end in disaster and defeat.  Commander Long’s advice was that they should apply to the governor of the territory, Gen. Persifer [sic] F.  Smith, for authority to organize a legal tribunal, and that when they pledged their honor as gentlemen, that the prisoners should be tried by a jury of twelve men, in a court so organized, he would deliver the men up, otherwise, he would try them himself.  Application being made to Gen. Smith, it was so ordered that Leavenworth was appointed chief justice, with power to select two associate justices; a prosecuting attorney, and counsel to aid him, also a counsel for the defense.  The territorial government assuming the burden of expense of the trial.  I forget the name of the prosecuting counsel, with one exception, and that was McAlister.  Judges Norton and Barry were selected to conduct  the defense.  Barry was an Irishman, with a slight brogue.  It was the first serious case that had arisen, and about the first opportunity for the lawyers, most of them having but recently arrived.  The display of talent was fair on both sides.  The preparations being now complete, the prisoners were brought on shore, and escorted to the school house [sic] situated on the S. W. corner of Brenham [sic] place. On the morning that the trial commenced, it was discovered that there was [sic] sixty-five witnesses for the prosecution, the major portion of them, Spanish, or speaking that language, some French, and one rioter, a New York volunteer who turned state’s evidence, and, [sic] on whose testimony the principle reliance was placed to convict the other members of the regiment who took part in the riot.   An artist named Pendergrass was employed as interpreter, he speaking French and Spanish fluently.  One circumstance connected with the riot should be mentioned, before proceeding any further with the trial.  Two brothers, natives of Chile, resisted the attack on their tent, and one of them received a pistol shot in the leg.  The shot was fired by a New York “rowdy” named Richard Cornell, he was not connected with the regiment of volunteers; he made his escape.  Many years afterwards, he kept a low, [sic] dance cellar on Jackson, between Kearny and Dupont streets.  This was what led to the indictment for murder; but he (the wounded man) was pronounced out of danger during the process of the trial.  In examining a witness, each prisoner was made to stand up consecutively to allow the witness an opportunity to identify him.  Out of the seventeen prisoners, three passed through the ordeal, safely, not a finger being pointed at them.  These were, Kanaka Jim, a well educated  half-breed of that race [Ed.  Hawaiian], whose only fault was associating with the habitues of Tammany hall,  one Robison, an Irishman, in whose place, some of the goods were found, which, belonged to the Mexicans; it was proved on the trial that the goods were brought to his place for save [sic] keeping by the owners.  This man’s compassion might have led into the danger of risking his neck; had the owners been killed in the row, he would have stood fully convicted without a particle of evidence in his favor.  The third prisoner exonerated was the boy, before mentioned, as arrested while talking to Saunders.  The prosecuting attorney having entered a nol proseque [sic] in these cases, they were discharged.        Concluded next week.  [M . this line is in italics.]  + Health-treatment  Nv12 CCH September 2, 1884  The Cholera Scourge – A Timely                    Remedy.  [head; 1st line, almost spans margins.  Centered;]\      Rev. Dr. Hamlim [sic], of Constantinoble [sic], has saved hundreds of lives when the cholera was raging in that city many years ago.  It is said that in no case did the remedy fail when the disease was reached in season [sic].  The mixture is compounded as follows:  One part laudanum; one part camphor and spirits; two parts capsicum.  To be taken one tablespoonful in a wine glass of water, and repeated in three or four hours if the case is obstinate.  +  War Srh-misc? Srh-ocean Srh-ship-Alexandra natl-filler OT-PortSaidEgypt OT-England OT-ThamesR crime  Nv12 CCH September 2, 1884  Fighting Sailors. [head; Centered; smaller type than text; fairly-wide margins.]          ___        While at Port Said the passengers and crew of an English steamer, which has arrived in the Thames within the last few days, were eye-witnesses of an extraordinary fracas between some English sailors and a number of Egyptian troops and sailors.  The mail steamer had occasion to wait at Port Said for a short time, but had barely come to her moorings when her passengers noticed a boat leave the side of the British war vessel Alexandra [sic], which was stationed there.  The boat contained four sailors and one marine and appeared to have left the vessel surreptitiously.  It had got some distance from the Alexandra before the flight was discovered and immediately signals were passed to an  +  [jpg  missing.]    Natl-filler Srh-misc? paper? Srh-Caspian Sea Srh-MediterraneanSea OT-JordanValley  Nv12 CCH September 2, 1884  How Long It Would Take. [head; smaller type than text; centered.  Medium margins.]                   ____      The project for filling the Desert of Sahara with water is creating a great deal of discussion among foreign, especially French journals.  Naturally the question has arisen, how long it would take to fill the whole basin of Sahara, and some startling figures are given in connection therewith.  Five-thousand years, is required to fill up that vast sea of sand were the water to flow through a passage 100 feet wide and 20 feet deep, and the velocity of four miles per hour.  [M.2008.  if the flow were halted eventually, wouldn’t the water continue sinking into the sand ?]  Under the same conditions, it would take 4,000 years for the waters of the Mediterranean Sea to fill the valley of the Jordan.  With a channel 100 times greater capacity it would do the work in 40 years.  At the same rate it would take 400,000 to fill the Caspian Sea to the level of the Mediterranean .  Fortunately it is only a portion of Sahara which can be made into a lake or inland sea, and doubtless there are middle aged [sic] men to-day [sic] who will live to see this feat accomplished.  + Lifestyle natl-filler paper-attitude? Lifestyle? Agric-indir road-wagon-indir animal-horse  Nv12 CCH September 2, 1884  What to Teach the Girls.  [head; centered; bold; smaller type than text.  Medium margins.]              ____      Teach them self-reliance.  Teach them to make shirts.  Teach them to add up bills.  Teach them not to paint or powder.  Teach them to wear a cheerful smile.  Teach them to wear thick, warm clothes.  Teach them that a dollar is only one hundred cents.  Teach them to make their own dresses.  Teach them how to cook a good meal.  Teach them to darn stockings and sew on buttons.  Teach them to say no, and mean it, or yes and stick to it.  Teach them to regard the morals, and not the money of beaux.  Teach them to wear calico dresses, and do it like a queen.  Teach them to wear their own hair, and dress it neatly.  Teach them the mysteries of the kitchen, dining room and parlor. Teach them to cultivate a garden, and drive a road team or farm wagon.  Teach them to have nothing to do with intemperate and dissolute young men.  Teach them that the more one lives beyond their income the nearer they get to the poorhouse.  –[Recorder.]  + = Temperance correspond misc-word(several) condit? Quote  Nv13 CCH September 2, 1884  Communicated.  [head; centered,  smaller than type.  Medium margins.]     True temperance is the proper use of good things, and total abstinence from bad things.  Socrates says:  “He who knows what is good and chooses it -- knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate [sic].”      It is a grave popular error that temperance is the moderate use of everything, irrespective of quality,   Good things may become bad when used in excess on account of quantity.  But there is another [class] which is evil and have [sic] no redeeming qualities.  The slightest indulgence is intemperance.  Intemperance presents two extremes.  At one end is the man who takes his daily or occasional glass of wine or beer – “just to make him feel good, or for his stomach’s sake”  -- and, at the other is seen the confirmed inebriate reeling into a drunkard’s grave.  Both stand in the same line; their feet follow the road of shame and sorrow.  Moderate drinkers differ from beer guzzlers, topers, and old [soakers] in only one particular; they have only taken one degree, while the others are full degree members.  We will now notice the death rate of tipplers.  In the United States alone, it is 60,000 a year, which, in the past 19 years would amount to 1,140,000, which is 140,000 more than were lost on both sides during the rebellion.  These people thus destroyed by the demon of strong drink might have been [jpg ]   In England, the death-rate is estimated as [120,000] a year – 120,000 of her citizens filling drunkards’ graves.  No wonder that governments and political papers are corrupt, so long as they are wedded to this crime-creating rum power.                                                                     F. B. H. [?]      Angora, Aug. 20.  + Entertain-show entertain-dance-indir correspond paper-attitude paper-rivalry character misc-word(several) Communicated.  [head; bold, centered, smaller than text. Wide margins.]        ___      Professor DeMoss sends us a lengthy epistle in reply to the editorial notice he received in the Coos Bay News of the 20th ult.  It is too long for our columns, but, we will giver place to an extract therefrom [sic], although a portion of it is but a repetition of his remarks on the night that he performed here.      He says:  My performance in Marshfield was disturbed by some persons of unruly character, but, I was astonished in observing that the chief hoodlum was a big, fat galoot, with the Colfax grin [sic], and who called himself an editor.  I paid him to state in his paper that we were on a visit to Coos county, to some relations, and he inserted an untruth by saying that my wife was sick.  Possibly, as he is a fiddle-grinder [sic], he was jealous of us earning a trifle.  As to his talk about “short pants and dirty shoed bilks,” [sic] I suppose that to be his idea of respectable journalism.  I hope that my performance in Marshfield did not beggar the inhabitants, as it would cause me any amount of excruciating torture to know that they could not respond with the coin when this fat Pagannini essays to give what he calls a free dance,  If a party give [sic] a dance, it is an imposition to charge for it.  Begging becomes respectable in contrast with this fiddling abortion’s efforts to “raise the wind.”  +  Road mud climate Tot-MP Tot-Coq paper-attitude?  Nv13 CCH September 2, 1884  Roads.  [head; centered; bold;  extra-wide margins.  Type smaller than text.]    __      Their [sic] is a necessity existing for the improvement of some roads in this locality.  The weather-prophets predict a dry fall; it is better to throw prophecy to the winds than it is to take chances in the truth of their predictions.  While there are several roads which need attention, that between this place and Myrtle Point deserves especial [sic] notice.  It seems to have been the idea in locating that road across the spurs between the gulches, that, it was better to go over a hill than it would be to go around the spur on a level, or nearly so.  The perpendicular arc formed in going over the spur of an incline, will be no longer if you lay it down horizontally, and the gulches will be as cheap to bridge.  It would be well to give this road some attention before the rain comes and makes it impossible. + Poetry lifestyle natl-filler  Nv13 CCH September 2, 1884  [a solid horizontal line, and a narrow one, on top of this; same style of 2 lines, but order reversed, below it;  regular column separator rule on right side; open on left.]      The small boy stands         Beside the pool,     And with his hands        The waters cool           He feels. [space]       He lingers not,          Nor time does waste,       The weather’s hot,          And with great haste,             He peels.     –Boston Post.  +  Srh-ocean Srh-ship-HelenMerriam misc-word-ult  Nv13 CCH September 2, 1884      The Helen Merriam arrived in port on the 26th ult.  + Enterprise-cannery locale-[?] racism-ethnic Locale-river Locale-CoqR?  Nv13 CCH September 2, 1884       Forty white men and ninety Chinamen are employed at the cannery.  + Tot-Randolph business bldg RR-name-indir? nimprove Nv13 CCH September 2, 1884       John D. Bennett is building an addition to the Douglas hotel at Randolph.  + Srh-river Srh-CoosBay Srh-ColumbiaR Locale-ColumbiaR Locale-CoosBay Srh-tug-Astoria Srh-tug-Novelty  Nv13 CCH September 2, 1884       The tugs Astoria and Novelty, left Coos bay for the Columbia, last Friday.  + = Fruit name-Ferry paper  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       Mr. Joseph Ferry presented us with a sample of fine, large prunes.  Thanks, Joseph.  + Srh-river? Srh-CoqR? Srh-ocean ship-Coquille Srh-CaptHansen   Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       The schooner Coquille, Captain Hansen, went to sea, the early part of last week.  + Name-Volkmar Tot-Marshfield Tot-MP commute  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884        Mr. Charles Volkmar came over from Marshfield, last Wednesday and went up to Myrtle Point.  + Outing beach health-[?]  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884        Mr. H. F. and W. Tennison with their families have gone to the beach for health and recreation.  + Agrc organiz  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       The members of the Agricultural society are paying up their dues.  This means business.  + Health-accid  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       C. C. Barklow whose arm was injured by the accidental discharge of a gun is improving.  + Mill-Coquille Tot-Coq log condit?  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       The saw-mill at this place will be shut down, indefinitely, as soon as the logs on hand are used up.  + Health-accid [?]  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884  [   ]  which he inured, some time ago, is recovering with fair speed. Fruit paper misc-word(superlative)  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       Mr. Wm. Paxson has our thanks for some luscious plums.  They are the largest that we have seen yet seen.  +  Health-sickness  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       B. Waltermeir has been down with a severe attack of rheumatism.  At the present writing he is somewhat better.  + RE Locale-CunninghamCr OT-HumboldtCountyCali  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       Mr. Steward [sic] Miller of Humboldt county, California, bought the McAdam’s place on Cunningham creek. + Salesman book travel?  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       Mr. J. M. Adair who is traveling in the interest of the Presbyterian Publishing House of Philadelphia, is in town.  +      Music Locale-CoqR Tot-Bandon commute organiz misc-word-up-river Tot-Coq  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884      Mr. M. C. Miller came up river from Bandon, where he has been residing, to look after the progress of the new band.  + School Tot-Parkersburg building enterprise-carpentry  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884        A new school house has been erected at Parkersburg.  The school is under the able management of Prof. Welsh.  + School Tot-Coq commute Locale-DenmarkCurryCounty OT-Roseburg   Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       Miss Jennie Malehorn who has been teaching school in Roseburg passed through our town on the way to her home in Denmark, Curry county.  + Locale-theCoquille Locale-CoosBay Locale-HaynesSlough Tot-MP  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       Mr. J. M. Wilson and family have returned to the Coquille. He was located on Haynes’ slough, Coos bay.  He will reside on his old place at Myrtle Point.  + Pursuit-hunting animal-deer misc-word(superlative)  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       Mr. Samuel Rowan brought one of the finest deer to market, that has ever been seen in this town.  It was a five spike buck.  The fat on the hind flanks was an inch and a half in thickness.  +  Name-Nosler Tot-Coq church  Nv14 CCH September 2, 1884       Rev. W. H. Nosler will preach in this place next Sunday, morning and evening.  The same hours on the following Sunday will be occupied by Eld. [sic] G. R. Edmunds.  + = judge item-liquor crime Tot-Sumner county-court prices  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884      W. S. Jenkins was taken before Justice Hyde on a charge of selling liquor at Sumner without a license, and was held in the sum of $100 to answer before the grand jury at the next term of circuit court.  –Mail.  +  Health-contag Tot-Coq Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884       Some kind of an epidemic is said to be prevalent among the children in this town.  A. G. Aiken’s little girl, Alice, is ailing with something resembling the whooping cough, and James Bowen’s children are sick with a similar complaint.  + Entertain-show paper-attitude paper paper-rivalry character  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884       The DeMoss family did not seem to suffice for a mouthful for the glutton of the News.  He is, now, [sic] going to swallow the “enema.”  If the usual course of his enema is obstructed, the difference will be in the means used, the ends, only, will be changed.  + Tot-Coq visit misc-word-ult  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884       Messrs. Barklow and [   ] visited in town on the [27th] ult.  + Health-sickness health-treatment health-provider  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884       Mrs. [Ellen Boggs], Mrs. [Yagee’s] mother-in-law, is very sick.  She is under the treatment of Dr. Stockman.  + Church event travel name-Sharp OT-DaytonWA  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884       Rev. B. T. Sharp and family leave for Dayton, Washington territory.  He goes there to attend conference.  + Disaster-fire [?] Locale-[?]  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884  A. G. Aiken and lady return their thanks to the citizens, for the preservation of their property in yesterday’s fire.  + Moving? Locale-CentralCity  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884        Frank Johnson has given up the Arthur Lewis place, and is now living on the John Flanagan place, at Central City.  + Tot-Coq Music organiz school-indir entertain  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884       The Coquille brass band is making rapid strides in its tuition.  An entertainment is to be given for its benefit at an early date. + Health-sickness  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884       Mts. A. Simons who has been very sick for some time past, is now recuperating with a fair prospect of an early convalescence.  + School health-sickness Tot-Coq  Nv15 CCH September 2, 1884       Prof. H. J. Tobias is indisposed from a severe attack of rehmatism [sic].  The school is closed in consequence.  We hope to see him around again, soon.  + = Locale-Isthmus salesman item-household  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884       Mrs. King from the Isthmus, is distributing the washing machines that she sold in advance, last spring.  She guarantees their durability for five years.  + Health-provider friend paper name-Dean home-seeker OT-RollaMO  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884       Mr. John Courtney, a druggist formerly of Rolla, Missouri, and an old friend of J. A Dean proprietor of this paper, arrived in town last week looking for a business location.  + Misc-word(several) saying paper paper-attitude paper-rivalry? lifestyle?  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884        “Oh bosh!  Those ears, you know.”  Bosh is no name for it.  To transform ourselves into a lump of dough and then offer it to another to knead, is the quintessence of bosh.  +  [M.  referring to boxing?  Or meaning?  M. later “bosh” is used in paper-rivalry item, so this item is likely to be that also.] county-official Tot-Coq? Locale-LR Locale-CoosBay  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884       Peter Hickey, deputy sheriff and Dick Cussans were both in town, attending to legal matters.  Hickey went down the river, and Dick returned to the bay, on Sunday morning.  + Health-death health-mental? Locale-RogueR Locale-NorthFork misc-word-betwixt  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884       A Mr. Huntly [sic], of Rogue river, and a brother of the late Eben Huntly of North fork, recently committed suicide by placing the muzzle of a gun betwixt his eyes, and pulling the trigger with his toe.  + Srh-harbor Srh-dredging Srh-river? Srh-CoqR? Machine enterprise-pile-driver RR-spur misc-word-fly-Chinaward  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884       The first piles was driven at the breakwater on Wednesday last.  The driver is an odd looking thing at it stands on the track, and seems only to want wings to enable it to fly Chinaward.  It works well, however.  + Paper paer-attitude paper-rivalry misc-word? Saying  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884       The News will accept just as much matter this week as will suffice for an equivalent for the “enema,” and a load for the “ass and credit “Bob “ [sic] with the balance.  All we ask is fair play. Give and take.  +  School Tot-Coq business bldg?  Boomer?  Paper-attitude  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884      We are informed by Prof. M. C. Miller, that the Commercial College at this place will be reopened about the first of October.  If it can be made a permanent institution it will add to the attractions of the town.  We wish it success.  + Enterprise-foundry Tot-Coq b-act machine mill-Empire Tot-Empire OT-SF  Nv 16 CCH September 2, 1884       Mr. D. L. Hardbach of Tatham and Bowen’s foundry, San Francisco, was in town on some business connected with the firm.  We understand that this gentleman will superintend the placing of the machinery in the new mill at Empire City.  +  Paper paper-attitude paper-rivalry saying? Misc-word?  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884       We request it as a favor that the News, in slinging medical technicalities at ‘Bob,” will not tell all it knows in regard to such matters. Drop the “enema” and the “ass,” and call us some pet names.  You have made your point on them and “Bob” is having the benefit of it.  + Ad paper? Photo character misc-word-tintype misc-word-humbuging  Nv16 CCH September 2, 1884       Read McMillan Bros. card in another column.  They are doing a very lively business here. Everybody seem [sic] to be taking advantage of their low prices.  Remember they make photographs as well as tintypes.  Dealing honestly with their patrons; no humbuging [sic] or disappointment.  + = climate Srh-river Srh-CoqR Srh-boat-Little-Annie Srh-dock novelty-wood-firewood humor? interest?  Nv17 CCH September 2, 1884       During a fog on the river, the crew of the Little Annie piled up some very large cord-wood on the bows of the boat.  On stepping aboard and ringing the bell, the Captain mistook his own wood for a pile of wood on the wharf, and kept backing away from it until the mirth of the boys awakened him to a sense of the situation.  + Poetry character lifestyle paper-rivalry?  Nv17 CCH September 2, 1884  Retaliation. [head; centered; bold, wide margins.]   {Le GARCON.)  [small type]     Not a smile or a frown,       Not a sigh or a tear,   Do I miss or neglect; no, not I.       Would you crush a man down?           Then his duty is clear,   To return you full change, or to try. [half-space]       ‘Tis a foolish conceit          To think others are blind;   There are many who think so, alas!      But the fool they would greet,         Were they that way inclined,   Is concealed in a small looking-glass. [half-space]      From the envious sneer        You will not be exempt.   Let your effort be never so pure.       Treat the lout or the jeer          With cool, cutting contempt;   ‘Tis the most direct, radical cure. [half-space]     Not a smile or a frown,       Not a sigh or a leer   Can I ever neglect; no, not I.       If you crush me when down,         I will kick like a steer,   And keep out of your debt, or I’ll try. +  [M.  Probably this has to do with paper-rivalry, and the article directly below it.] Paper paper-attitude paper-rivalry name-Starkey character misc-word(several) [?] interest? Health-provider-indir saying  Nv17 CCH September 2, 1884  A PERSONAL MATTER.  [head; centered, bold; medium margins.]              _________      On the 21st ult., an article appeared in the Coast Mail on the continued [   ]  -- “new editor of the HERALD,” which appeared in the News.  Personally I cared very little about that, but coupled with the fact that parties connected with the News have thrown out slurs, inuendos [sic], and impotent stabs in the dark for the avowed purpose of interfering with my efforts to earn a living, it would be poltroonery [sic] in me to pass it unnoticed.  The low skunk that will iterate his slimy venom for the purpose of injuring another in business, from no other cause than jealousy, is a proper object for retaliation.  The latest effort of the News in its issue of the 27th ult., is made, evidently, with the intention of setting me with my back to the wall, consequently, I assume that position.  The News calls me, “A gaseous enema”  [sic]  Did it ever occur to the writer that, [sic] he is a fool?  Does the fact not become impressed upon his mind when asserting that he entertains when asserting that he entertains no ill-feeling [sic], or if he asserts that he, in company with others, never attempted to injure me or obstruct my path in obtaining my present employment that he is guilty of uttering a cool, deliberate lie.  I now volunteer the information for the express purpose of enlivening his vagrant memory.      What has become of these incisive scissors which supplies the editorial column with original matter, that you have to fall back upon old, stale fables about lions and asses?  What is the matter with you anyway?  Do you want  me to drop the newspaper and provoke the enmity of the medical profession by setting up as a doctor for your especial [sic] benefit?  You assume too much in crediting me with the matter in the Mail.  You lack the brain of true discretion.  It is, now, [sic] some twelve years since you “crossed” the pond, and you ought to know by this time that you do not “boss” the thing entirely.  A part of the education of your sort, that has been sadly neglected, is – the right to rule without reference to the rights of others.             Do you suppose that the “gaseous enema” of thirty-eight years of experience in the country, will sit down, calmly, and be slobbered over with the slime of a hog that has been injected but little more than a decade.  [sic]  An enema, eh!  There are other injections, editorial and anatomical that will have to be discussed before this thing is finished.  How is it with the parties that go out of their way to talk about a worthless cuss that lived in the woods?  How many are they who are numbered in this conclave of smutty sneaks?  I have learned to call some of them by name, and neither love or fear them.  A biographical sketch of some of them, would make interesting reading; their lives need illumination, and the little light that I may be able to shed on their eminent (?) [sic] characteristics, would be appreciated by an ever willing and admiring crowd.      Call again if you should be afflicted with one of those rare – very rare, in your case -=- spasms of originality, and the “enema” will inject and forward a prescription, gratis.      “Lay on, McDuff.”  Issue your drafts.  Draw upon me when you lack a better theme, and I will honor the call and return the compliment with compound interest.                                              ROBERT STARKEY.  +  = House disaster-fire climate Tot-Coq? Utility church agric-indir needed character name-Bunch name-Buck RR-name-indir? paper-attitude saying  Nv18 CCH September 2, 1884  FIRE.  [head; centered, bold, smaller than text.  Extremely wide margins.]   __       About one o’clock, yesterday, a fire was discovered in the dwelling home of J. D. Bennett and which advanced so rapidly that in fifteen minutes, the building was totally consumed.  Mrs. Bennett has been an invalid for some time, and it was the first day that she had been able to sit up.  Notwithstanding her weak condition, she made an effort to save a trunk, but, Mr. J. T. Moulton who was on the scene early, saw the danger and pulled her out.  Miss Alice Bunch, who was in the house at the time, had a narrow escape as she was surrounded by the flames and had to stoop her head in her hasty exit, to avoid them.   A strong wind was blowing in the direction of A. G. Aiken’s house and barn on the opposite side of the street, but willing hands were around and on top of it with buckets of water, and though it caught fire in several places, the efforts of the boys to save it were crowned with success.  The church, lying directly east, and across the street, was scorched, but sustained no further damage.  The houses of Messrs. Moulton, Gallier, Buck, and Bowen caught fire, but were easily extinguished.  Mr. Bennett is unfortunate in not only losing his house but everything it contained.  It was but last week when we called attention to the necessity of some organization – some indispensable precautions to guard against fire.  The lesson comes but too soon, and we ought to take it to heart and apply ourselves to the work of preparing suitable places in which to store water and a supply of buckets, if we do nothing more.  The citizens of the town deserve praise for their united efforts; each and all exhibiting an eager willingness to render assistance in this emergency.  + Paper paper-attitude Srh-river Locale-CoosBay? Srh-ship-CoosBay Srh-CaptHarkins Srh-CaptReed Srh-shipbuilding misc-word(several)  Nv18 CCH September 2, 1884       The Mail says:  The new steamer, Coos Bay, arrived here last Monday.  In coming up, her speed was about eight and one-half knots per hour.  Mr. Lyle and Capt. Thos. Harkins, two of the principal owners, came up on her and are well pleased with the vessel and compliment Capt. Reed very highly on success in her construction.  Her officers are:  James E. Denny, captain; George H. Freirmuth [sic], purser; Frank Dowd, chief mate; Joseph Herbert, second mate; Charles Alison [sic], chief engineer; Alex McDonald, second engineer.                                                      _________      If the captain is given as one of the officers in command of a vessel, he must, despite all argument to the contrary, be the first officer.  Some captains speak of their chief mate as “my first officer.”  Nautical men speak of that as “putting on French.”  As the name, Shingle is merely a slang term, we give the correct one for the second mate.                                                                                                                          --Ed.  + paper paper-attitude paper-rivalry humor? Misc-word(several) saying  Nv18 CCH September 2, 1884       “The gaseous enema injected into the editorial chair of the Herald by Marshfield.”  -- News.      How profound.  We stand in awe of such an original conception.  We desire to go deeper into the matter of injections, knowing that, we will be talking unto a wise man.  Place a prize for original bosh, in a position surrounded with difficulties, and the News will wade through a pig-sty and over and through a dung-hill, and succeed in capturing the prize in advance of all competition, every pop.  +   Paper Tot-Bandon? character Tot-Denmark Locale-CurryCounty Locale-SouthwestOregon  Nv18 CCH September 2, 1884         The “Recorder” makes its appearance this week in a new, enlarged dress.  It is an eight page paper, and has at the head of its columns a new name – Southwest Oregon Recorder.  The paper is replete with matter of a highly interesting character.  The Messrs. Upton are gentlemen of large, practical experience in all that pertains to the make up of a newspaper; consequently, there will be no dearth of ideas, or lack of practicability on their part.  We wish them success.  The paper is printed at Denmark, Curry county.  + Ad photo Tot-Coq bldg organiz prices misc-word(superlative) “first”?  Tot-MP Tot-Norway  Nv18 CCH September 2, 1884  A CARD!  FROM McMILLAN Bros., Photographers.  We would respectfully announce to the people of Coquille City and vicinity, that we have located our photographic tent south of the ODD FELLOWS’ HALL!  --o—      We are fully prepared to make all kinds of Photographs and tintypes at prices from 50 cents a dozen up to any price you feel able to pay.  We finish all our Photographs at our San Francisco gallery, and they are finished superior to anything of the kind ever made in Coos county.        All our old friends and customers in and around MYRTLE POINT and NORWAY      /are requested to give us a call, as previous engagements prevent our visiting those places this time.  We shall remain here for 2 or 2 weeks, giving all who may desire pictures, a chance to call and give us a trial.                                                                            McMILLAN BROS.  [+  text.] Humor saying natl-filler paper? [?]  Nv19 CCH September 2, 1884  WIT and HUMOR [head; centered, bold]       The coming era – chol-era. –Merchant Traveler.      In the midst of life we are in debt.  – Washington Hatchet.      The water line – An ocean table.  – New York Telegram.      Buy ways – The methods of a politician. –New York Telegram.      A pole that wants a cracker – Polygamy.  --New York Telegram.      Flirting on pleasure yachts is a marrytime pleasure.  –Philadelphia Call.      Kind words are like bald heads -- they never dye.  –New York Dial.      Hurling bricks at each other is missilaneous sport.  –Whitehall Times.      A sample room – the boarding house dining-room.  – New York Telegraph.      Talk about babies, but then we never indulge in small talk.  – Chicago Sun.      Hanlan seems to have discovered the rowed to health.  –Whitehall Times.      The really highest strung men in the west are the horse thieves.  –New York Dial.      “Tooth is mighty and must prevail,” is the motto of the dentist.  –New York Telegram.      “Out on the fly is now the cry of the infuriated bald citizen.  –New York Dial.      And they say Russell Sage is insane.  Ingenious paradox that – a sage lunatic.  –Washington Hatchet.      I ain’ got much faith in de frownin’ man.  In de black cloud dare’s more win’ den rain.  – Arkansaw [sic] Traveler.       A western lawyer has written an essay entitled “My Conscience.”  It is not stated where he got it.  –New York Graphic.      The sting of a bee always carries a stern conviction with it.  It makes a man a bee-leaver [sic] almost instantly.  – Chicago Sun.      An exchange wants to know what kind of an apple Eve ate in Paradise.  We presume it was a fall apple.  –Noah’s Nonsense.      A horse died the other day on seeing the white elephant.  The elephant was probably dyed too.  – Philadelphia Call.      “Yokes are immensely popular for young ladies and little girls.”  The matrimonial yoke is always fashionable with old maids.  – Boston Star.      “We had a smashing old time,” remarked the young man as he returned from Coney island with his collar-bone in his pocket.  – Commercial Advertiser.      “Will some one [sic] give me a recipe for tanning hides?” asked a rural subscriber.  Such ignorance as this shows a man’s bringing up.”  -- New York Graphic.      “I’ll be blowed if I stay much longer,” said a hunk of fresh beef which was laying on the kitchen table for over half an hour.  – Kentucky State Journal.      Notwithstanding the business is dull, our boarding-houses claim to be filled.  Boarders, however, do not claim any such condition of affairs on their part.  –Chronicle.      The officers of a British man-of-war in the harbor gallantly fired a salute as the Jersey Lily arrived in town last week – Liberty bangs, as it were.  --  New York Dial.      Tight pants are going out of fashion.  The number of tight men in pants will probably always remain just he same, however. – Exchange.  [all are +] = Ad home-seeker land? agric? Locale-CoosCounty Tot-MP OT-Roseburg name-Steele   Nv20 CCH September 2, 1884  NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF.  [head, bold, centered, medium margins.]     Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon,    [narrow margins]                        August 20, 1884.      Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Register and Receiver at Roseburg, Oregon on Thursday October 9, 1884, viz:  A. L. Buell, pre-emption D. S. No. 4075 for the S E quarter of S E quarter section nine, S W quarter of S W quarter section ten, and N half of N W quarter, section fifteen, T thirty S R thirteen W.      He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: H. H. Greenwood                                   [4-line vertical bracket] Joseph Steele                                             all of Myrtle Point, Jas. Whobray [sic]                                              Oregon. Geo. Martin.                                                                 W. F. BENJAMIN,                                                                          Register.  [+ text.] Ad home-seekers land? name-Stockman Locale-CoosCounty Tot-Empire Tot-Norway OT-Roseburg  Nv20 CCH September 2, 1884  NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF.  [head; centered, bold; medium margins.]      Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon  [narrow margins.]                            August 22, 1884.      Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof  will be made before the clerk of Coos county oregon [sic], at Empire City oregon [sic], on Friday october [sic] 3, 1884, viz:  John C. Stockman pre-emption D S No 4445, for the W half of S E quarter of SE quarter and S E quarter of NE quarter section two, T twenty\nine, S R thirteen W.      He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: F. M. Murphy,                                [4-line vertical bracket] S. M. Aasen                                            all of Norway, W. T. Hayter                                                        oregon. [sic] J. W. Mumford.                                                             W. F. BENJAMIN,                                                                       Register  [+ text.] Ad home-seeker Locale-CoosCounty Tot-Empire Tot-Coq OT-Roseburg name-Miller  Nn20 CCH September 2, 1884  NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF.  [head; centered, bold; medium margins.]      Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon  [narrow margins.]                            August 22, 1884.      Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof  will be made before the judge or clerk of Coos county, Oregon, at Empire City, on October 30, 1884, viz:  John M. Adams, homestead No. 2952 for the S W quarter of S E quarter of section twenty seven, east one half of N W quarter and N W quarter of N E quarter of section thirty four, T twenty eight S R thirteen west.      He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: John Morris,                    [4-line vertical bracket] E. S. Spurgen [sic; = Spurgeon],            all of Coquille City [no comma after city] W. L. Miller,                                                             Oregon. W. N. Hyatt [no period]                                                                                    W. F. BENJAMIN,                                                                               Register.  [+ text.] = ad home-seeker land? Locale-CoosCounty Tot-Empire OT-Roseburg name-Hunter  Nv21 CCH September 2, 1884  NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF.  [head; centered, bold; medium margins.]      Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon  [narrow margins.]                            August 22, 1884.      Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof  will be made before the judge or clerk of Coos county, Oregon, at Empire City, on Saturday September 20, 1884, viz:  Thomas Shultz, homestead No. 3300 for the S E ¼ section 31, township 28, S R 14 west.      He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: George Bennett                      [4-line vertical bracket] George Williams                         all of Coos county, John Lamont                                     Oregon. Samuel Hunter [no period]                                                                      W. F. BENJAMIN,                                                                             Register. [+ text.] = ad Tot-Bandon business bldg misc-word(superlative) food lifestyle?  Nv22 CCH September 2, 1884       Bandon Hotel  --(Bandon, Coos Co., Or.) –  M. E. ANDERSON, xxProprietorxx                           ____      This house has been elegantly furnished, and is at once the home of the tourist.  The house is of easy access to the steamer landing.  The table is supplied with best [sic] the market affords, and no pains spared to render comfort to guests.  [+ text.] Ad Tot-Coq business bldg misc-word(superlative) food  Nv22 CCH September 2, 1884       Robinson House    Coquille City, Ogn [sic].    This house has been fitted up with the very best rooms, Special care is taken to keep the tables supplied with the best the market affords.[jpg missing  ]   [+ text.] Ad Tot-Coq item-goods item-apparel item-yardage item-stationery item-household item-hardware  Nv22 CCH September 2, 1884       J. A. Collier,   Front Street,   Coquille City, Oreg.   Dealer in General Merchandise, including clothing, furnishing goods, dress goods, boots, shoes notions stationery, clocks, hardware, crockery and glassware etc., etc.  Also, a splendid assortment of choice furniture.  [+ text.] September 9 literary poem name-Starkey name-LeGarcon misc-word(several) boomer Locale-Oregon climate other-mining agric animal-dog animal-game lifestyle timber boomer  Nv26 CCH September 9, 1884                      OREGON       [head; centered; bold, larger type than text; spans nearly to margins.] Spanish – “Oreion;”   English – “Big ear.”                   LE GARCON.                 [smaller type than text.]                          ____ Where did thy name originate?   Fair land of breezes cool – Alas! Was’t ta’en thro’ cursed fate   From Pixley’s famous mule? Oh, Oregon – “Big-ear” – “Webfeet [sic]” –   Naught can thy worth defame; “The rose’s perfume smells as sweet,   Called by some other name.” The poets still shall sing thy praise   To distant nations tell, [sic]\ In fruitful fields, in healthful days,   No state can then excel. Italian skies – we have those here,   That none o’er there can beat; A climate that we hold most dear,   With water pure and sweet. ‘Tis mild, refreshing, evergreen –   The sick grow wondrous glad; Why, e’en the dogs enjoy the scene –   None ever yet went mad. A real, invigorating balm,   The nights so cool do keep, You need the blankets to keep warm,   In consequence you sleep. And many things that I could name,   We have here to unfold, The forests are well filled with game,   The mountains rich in gold.  +  = Paper paper-attitude literary crime OT-SF OT-Sacramento Srh-[?] Srh-ship-{?] Srh-ship-Ohio war-indir govt name-history church-indir-Brannan OT-NY racism-ethnic character lifestyle law sickness-insane sickness-death misc-word(several) misc-word(superlative) saying?  Nv27 CCH September 9, 1884  San Francisco and Sacramento in    The Days of ‘48-9, with a Sketch       of the Celebrated Trial           of the “Hounds.”    [head; centered, bold, smaller type than text; first line spans margins.]                    ____      CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.  [smaller type than text.]      The State’s evidence being a volunteer, convicted every volunteer arrested, and pointed out those who escaped.  Sam Roberts and T. R. Saunders were sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, wherever the Governor saw fit, and never to return to California, under the penalty of death.  The balance received sentences varying from two to three years, with ball and chain, likewise, to be left to the discretion of the Governor. The prisoners were taken on board the U. S. Ship Ohio [M. 2008: Ohio in italics], seventy-four guns, for transportation.  Reader, having journeyed with me as it were, so far, no doubt, in your opinion, the trial ended with serious consequences to these misguided men.  Quite the reverse.      Public opinion, while still in favor of suppressing disorder, had undergone a complete change; the extreme antithesis of what it had been, the day succeeding the riot.       Bear with me a little longer until you behold the closing scene.  The prisoners were taken aft, on the quarter deck, and the Captain addressed them -- as near as I was informed at the time – in this manner:  “Men, you have been brought here to me with the request that I convey you to New York, otherwise, I have no stringent orders with regard to you, as far as I can learn, you were not altogether to blame, still the law must be enforced. Those Mexican scoundrels needed weeding out, but, that was not the way to do it.  Now, I will make a proposal to you, my ship is short handed, sign the articles to serve as lands’s men [sic] from here to New York, and I will pay you off and discharge you.”  Or course they accepted his proposal, gladly, and thus the trial ended.  The only tragical [sic] occurrence connected with this affair was the suicide of Robinson. E was a middle aged man, and very excitable; the trial had a serious effect upon his constitution, and that coupled with the delirum [sic] resulting from intoxication was the cause.  He cut his throat in an old shanty, close to Sheriff Merrill’s residence.  Thus ended the career of a man who took no part in the transaction , but that of ameliorating distress [sic].      Notwithstanding the peculiar termination of the riot and the trial resulting from it, it bore good fruit, and its moral effect is not to be despised.  It taught the Mexicans that their occupation of an isolated spot, where they lived promiscuously, the good and the bad without discrimination, making the locality a terror to other portions of the town, possessed its dangers; and, that it would be better for them to separate and assimilate with other portions of the community.  The “Hounds,” likewise, received a final check. So far as bravery, courage, and all that, go, no doubt, these men would compare favorably with any other equal number of men; they had left their homes to cross the wild ocean, embarking on a dangerous passage around Cape Horn, their destination, distant man y thousands of miles, and all this with the possibility of a bloody reception in an enemy’s country; yet they were taught that it is cowardly for an armed mob to attack defenseless people, many of them sleeping, calmly in their beds, and then to destroy their property.  “Might is not always right.  Right may be suppressed, and enveloped with a mountain of difficulties; but, it will clear away the rubbish, and struggle to the top at last.  The calm view of the situation, taken by the right thinking portion of the community, was all that prevented a bloody fight.  Whilst Brannan [sic] was aping the role of Bombastes Furioso many of the volunteers and other friends of the prisoners, were arming for the purpose of rescuing the men should his advice have been taken.  Thus, we see, that through the insane meanderings of this viper [sic], this would be [sic] desperado, a battle might have raged, that would have ended seriously.  If he had succeeded in his desire for lynch law, he would have been one of the first victims, as his executioners were marked out, and cultivated a peculiar desire for his company, never permitting themselves to be driven from his vicinity.  Reader, I have given you, in this simple narrative, [sic] – my first attempt in that line – a history of occurrences that took place thirty-five years ago.  I have had no assistance from records, but, have relied, solely, on the powerof [sic] memory, for names, dates and other acts herein stated.                                                     Adieu.. – R. S.   +  = Lifestyle paper-attitude natl-filler? character?  Nv28 CCH September 9, 1884  The Training of Children.  [head; centered, bold, smaller type than text, medium-narrow margins.]            ____      It is a good thing to start right.  A child properly managed at the beginning of life goes along much more satisfactorily than the one that has not that advantage.  Most young mothers are about as ignorant of a child’s needs as the babe itself; and hence, having nearly everything to learn, their first-born suffers from a great many mistakes which the children coming after escape.  This has been the case from the beginning, and doubtless will be to the end of time.  Almost always, if children turn out badly, you can trace the cause to parental neglect or ignorance, carelessness or overindulgence.  It is a great responsibility to have the care of a child thrust upon one. And to realize that its future state, both in this world and the next, depends almost wholly on the mother.  It is an appalling thought to conscientious and sensitive women.  I believe that nearly every young mother has fear that her child will die.  It is so frail, so wonderful, so unlike anything she has ever seen before!  Her own love and tenderness are a revelation to her, and the depths of her nature are stirred by that tiny being in a manner that she would previously have considered impossible.  Every little “baby trouble” that afflicts her child is magnified by maternal love and her inexperienced heart trembles in secret terror before the unknown.  The best way, young mother, to overcome such feelings is to teach yourself to look upon the babe as a spirit loaned from heaven to be loved and cherished awhile [sic], liable to be called for at any moment and which you must return none the worse for having in your possession.  That thought makes its life precious, helps you bear patiently the many little trials, and if called upon to separate, sweetens and softens the parting pang, giving you a claim on heaven itself, “for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”  How many people have suffered all their lives from a dread of that inevitable event, which to a properly instructed mind is a pleasant thought, a beneficent and kindly Providence prepared for the world’s weary and heavy laden!  Parents are frequently impatient with children because they do not understand matters, or quickly comprehend some hint or sign given at a special moment.  A lady once complained of her little girl who happened to be especially stupid at the wrong moment.  An old gentleman rebuked her, saying, “If you had learned as much in any two years of your life as she has, you would be a wise woman by this time.”  That remark set her to thinking, and she never complained afterward because her child was not able to comprehend as quickly as she did.  The child was probably as smart as its mother was at that age, and nothing more could be required.  It was a word fitly spoken and it bore good fruit.  In one thing the writer differs from many parents, that is in attributing the troublesome tricks of children to natural depravity.  They learn them from others for the most part, and once acquired are not readily overcome.  Parents are generally the teachers – unconsciously, perhaps, but non the less are they responsible for what follows [sic].  For instance, many children want a light in the room to sleep by, and perhaps a watcher to sit by them until they have fallen asleep.  Parents sometimes complain that this is such a care and trouble, but say:  “My child won’t go to sleep alone or in the dark.  Whose fault is that?  Who taught this child that a light could be kept burning while it was going to sleep, or that somebody would sit by its bedside?  An infant would never have imagined it unassisted  The first time it was done taught the child that it was possible, and who can blame it for desiring a repetition of what was agreeable?  A child that is never rocked to sleep knows nothing about that troublesome process.  Put your child to bed and let it lie there till it falls asleep in a natural and quiet manner.  Do not create an unnecessary want.  A child’s education in obedience should begin at a very early age, but in a most gentle way;  little by little as events occur.  Do not crowd the young mind by telling it what it should not do.  Simply tell it what it should do.  Do not teach it evil by letting it know that such things exists [sic].  A babe’s mind cannot comprehend two ideas at once; give it the right idea and say nothing about the wrong one.  –{Examiner.  + Humor saying? Natl-filler  Nv28 CCH September 9, 1884       “So you call that well water?” remarked the stranger, spurting the offending liquid from his mouth.  “Great Scott!  How must it have tasted when it was ill!” –[Boston Transcript.  + business bldg Tot-Marshfield name-Siglin name-Gray Locale-CoosCounty Locale-Oregon  Nv 28 CCH September 9, 1884  J. M. Siglin                     John A. Gray [no period]    [small type; at column edges.]               Siglin & Gray,  [centered, large type, bold, medium margins.]      Attorneys and Counselors At Law, [large type, centered, bold; narrow margins]           Marshfield, Coos county, Oregon.  [smaller type than text; centered, bold] Office – Holland building, opposite Blanco Hotel.  [+ ] business Tot-Coq  Nv28 CCH September 9, 1884  W. Sinclair  attorney Coquille  nq = natl-filler govt politic president history lifestyle? mail? RR-passenger transport? Interest? War-indir OT-NorthCarolina name-Weed OT-BatonRouge OT-Philadelphia book entertain speech correspond  Nv29 CCH September 9, 1884         ZACHARY TAYLOR.  [head, centered, somewhat-bold; med-wide margins]                   _____ How He was Officially Informed          of His Nomination.     Nowadays a train of cars is barely sufficient to accommodate those who travel hundreds of miles charged with the important duty of informing a candidate that he has been nominated for the President.  Long speeches are made and the notification costs many thousands of dollars. But this is not all.  The candidate must write a letter of acceptance, giving his views on pretty much every subject he can think of.  These journeys, parades, speech-makings and long letters are of comparatively recent origin.      The convention that nominated General Taylor met in Philadelphia, June, [sic] 7, 1848.  The chairman as the Hon. John Morehead of North Carolina.  On the 19th of that month Governor Morehead addressed General Taylor a letter officially notifying him of his nomination.  The distraction into which the whig [sic] party was thrown by General Taylor’s nomination was not made less in the ensuing thirty-five days by the silence of General Taylor.  Governor Morehead in reply to inquiries by leading whigs [sic]—notably Mr. Weed – said he had positively written the General, and he knew of no reason why the reply was not forthcoming/  General Taylor was such a crotchety old fellow, and whig leaders in general knew so little of him personally, that it was not thought best to stir him up on the subject.  Letters from the old soldier ]]]]]  were appearing in different quarters, some of them not altogether satisfactory to whig leaders, but not a word came to them about the nomination.  It began to look like an indignity.  Mr. Weed, by whom more than any other man General Taylor owed his nomination, was desperate under the suspense.  Meetings were proposed and one was actually called in Albany, looking to the repudiation of this nomination. When it met, however, other counsels prevailed, though the suspense continued.  On July 22d the postmaster at Baton Rouge, where General Taylor lived, addressed the postmaster- general a letter, saying that with the report for the current quarter from that office two bundles of letters were forwarded to the dead letter office, they having been [         thirty-eight letters [  ] forwarded to the dead letter office, the Baton Rouge postmaster said the majority were addressed to General Taylor, who had declined to pay the postage on them and take them out of the office because his expences [sic] had become burdensome.  The general had since become aware that some of the letters were of importance and asked for their return.  In due time the letters were sent back to Baton Rouge.  [     More]head’s letter notifying General Taylor of the action of the Philadelphia convention.      General Taylor’s response was dated July 15th, a month and five days after the letter of notification was written.  It had lain in the Baton Rouge postoffice four weeks after General Taylor refused to pay the ten cents postage.      General Taylor’s acceptance was couched in respectful terms, in a letter not exceeding 250 words.  He expressed his thanks for the nomination, said he did not seek it, and if he were elected president, for which position he did not think he possessed the requisite qualifications, he would do his best.  He discussed nothing, laid down no principles, and gave no indications of what course he would pursue.  In this the General cut it too short to satisfy the whigs.  He had to write another letter – one of considerable length  -- to his friend, Captain Allison, in which he set things right.  The authorship of this letter was the subject of no little conjecture.  If living, Thurlow Weed and Alexander Stephens could shed light on the subject.       After that the campaign went ahead smoothly and successfully.  Although Mr. Weed makes no mention of this matter in his book, it was one of the most annoying escapades in his eventful life.  –[Examiner.]  + = Boomer Srh-river Srh-CoqR Srh-dredging Srh-bar Srh-shipbuilding pioneer condit enterprise-[?] character? Lhc-resources Lhc-land mill-[?] prices Locale-CoqValley timber Tot-Coq?  Nv29 CCH September 9, 1884  THE CLAIMS OF OUR RIVER.  [head; centered, bold; smaller than text; very nearly spans margins.]                  ____      With a representative in Congress who possesses a complete knowledge of Southern Oregon and the necessity of government aid, than that possessed by any who have preceded him, we may look for some action in that body,  and some increased appropriation that will be commensurate with our growing needs.  The paltry sum of $10,000 for the improvement of the Coquille bar is insignificant when compared with that which is donated to other sections.  Present appearances indicate that our section is not looked upon as being of much commercial importance; but, a careful survey of our resources would convince the most skeptical that we have the material which, when aided by judicious appropriations to improve the river’s mouth, will transform the Coquille valley and the immense forests by which it is surrounded into the homes and laboratories of a fourishing [sic; = flourishing] community.  The day is not far distant when the farmer will be able to sell the maple, myrtle, ash and other varieties of valuable timber which he is now compelled to burn and get out of the way.  The immense forests of cedar and fir are bound to find a market; the march is slow but sure.  As the river improves, capital will enter and construct mills.  Light draft vessels are being built here, and more will yet be built; population will increase and the stock raiser will be a factor in the general prosperity.  The early pioneer who has toiled industriously, frequently becomes disheartened at the slow, tortuous way in which government lends its aid to develope [sic] the resources of the country.  This is the case with the pioneers of this section.  Possessing a country abounding in diversified, undeveloped wealth, they behold it lying stagnant for the want of such nourishment has [sic; =as] a generous government has in its power to bestow. Let us hope, and pray, if we deem it necessary, that the general government will look into our case, at its next session, and grant us that which is honestly our due.  Let us, in the mean time [sic], use all legitimate efforts to attain the accomplishment of the end in view.  Statistics should be prepared and an impartial statement made of our resources, products, and present business record. The Coquille river is deep and with an improved bar, larger vessels will be able to enter and load a distance of thirty miles from its mouth.  After crossing the bar there are no other obstructions.  +   Climate home-seekers Lhc-land agric? Animal-livestock crop boomer Lhc-resources? Timber misc-word(several) lifestyle?  Nv29 CCH September 9, 1884  Our Climate. [Head; centered, bold, type smaller than text, wide margins.]        __      In regard to enquiries [sic] frequently made in reference to the soil and climate of Southwestern Oregon, we will give a few items that may be interesting to those seeking homes in this – the most extreme portion of the western limits of the United States.  .The country is in general, hilly, [sic] but there are numerous valleys in which the soil is of the best quality.  The hill country will become valuable for stock-raising, and there are innumerable quantities of good bench land on which the different cereals flourish.  The climate is all that can be desired. The nights are cool, invariably, and the covering of the blankets is indispensable to repose.  We have it on the best authority that no more rain falls here than the amount which falls in Missouri, the difference being that it falls there throughout the year, while in this section, it falls during the winter months.  Snow seldom lies on the ground four days at a time; but in 1875, in the month of January, it lay on the ground for three weeks.  It was about six inches in thickness.  We are not afflicted with those great extremes of heat and cold, so prevalent to those states where the winters are severe and summers very hot.  While we may possess the draw-backs [sic] inherent in an undeveloped country, we are blessed with a magnificent climate and the expansion of the busy wheel of commerce to enable us to attainthe [sic] of due of [sic] the most desirable and successful portions of the Union.  + = disaster-fire Tot-Ellensburg Locale-CurryCounty paper correspond Srh-river Srh-RogueR Srh-tug-Pelican climate  Nv30 CCH September 9, 1884  Fire at Ellensburg.  [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; medium margins.]          ____      On Tuesday evening, about three o’clock, the roof of the building now occupied by the Post took fire from a spark from the chimney, and narrowly escaped destruction.  We were working in the lower room, when we heard a peculiar noise over head [sic], and going up-stairs [sic] found the roof in flames.  Almost at the same instant the men on board the tug Pelican, which was just coming up the river, discovered the fire and gave the alarm with the tug’s whistle, which soon brought sufficient help to subdue the fire.  Fortunately the wind was southerly and very light, whereas if a stiff nor’wester had been blowing, not only the Post building, but the entire row of buildings adjacent would undoubtedly have been destroyed.  +  [M. 2008;  Post = Curry County Post newspaper] Expo-fair entertain-programme organiz agric Locale-HallsPrairie Locale-Hall’sPrairie pursuit-racing animal-livestock animal-horse prices character Temperance  Nv-30 CCH September 9, 1884  Programme of the Fair to be Held   On Sept. 6, by the Southwestern      Oregon Agricultural Society.   [head, bold, smaller than text; first 2 lines span the column.]                   ________      At a special meeting of the Board of Managers of the Southwestern Oregon Agricultural Society, held at Halls [sic] Prairie Sept. 6th, 1884, the following business was transacted:      It was decided that the fall races and stock show should commence Tuesday, October 7th, and continue three days.      The rules and regulations for the governing of the races shall be those governing the races at the annual fairs of the Oregon State Agricultural Society.      Racing – The first days [sic] racing shall consist of a single dash of one-mile, free for all horses owned in Douglas, Coos or Curry counties, on or prior to the first day of Sept. 1884, for a purse of one hundred dollars together with entrance fees to be disbursed as follows, viz:  The first horse shall receive two-thirds of the entire purse, and the second shall receive one-third.  Entrance fees twenty-five dollars.      Second day – The races shall consist of a race of three-eighths of a mile; two best in three, for a purse of twenty-five dollars, to be disbursed as that of the first day.  Entrance fees to be five dollars, and second-rate horses or such as have never run in a public race, shall be admitted to run this race.      Third day – A half mile [sic] race, best in three, free for all, a purse of fifty dollars and entrance fees.  The first horse shall receive two-thirds of the entire purse, and the second horse one third [sic].  The entrance fees for this race shall be ten dollars.      In all, the above races named races shall come off at eleven oclock [sic] A. M.      All entries for these races must be made on or before the first day of October.  50 per cent [sic] of the fee to be paid on the entry of the horse and the remainder before the race comes off.        Tickets – Season tickets will be sold at one dollar each.  Day tickets 50 cts. each.       The grounds of the company not being fenced, they rely upon the honor of a just and generous public to enter the grounds at the gate, and procure an honorable entrance to the grounds and the privileges of the same.      The president will receive and receipt for all entrance moneys [sic] in the name of the company.  Privileges and stands at or near the grounds can be procured from J. Henry Schroeder, who has been authorized to dispose of and license the same for the benefit of the society.  No spirituous liquors [sic] will be sold upon the grounds during the fair.      Done by order of the board at fair grounds.  Dated Sept. 6 ’84.  James Aiken,           O. C. Huntington,              Pres.                              Sec.  + = Natl-filler racism-ethnic war crime govt politic disaster-fire-shipwreck money OT-France OT-Russia OT-Waterritory OT-Egypt OT-Glascow OT-SF OT-Valparaiso Srh-ocean Srh-ship-Beaconfield OT-Britain money other-mining-silver OT-NewOrleans OT-Philadelphia OT-SF  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884  GENERAL NEWS.  [head, bold, smaller than text, medium margins.]         ______      The French are hammering away at the Chinese.      Outrages being committed on Jews, are a common occurrence in Russia.      A woman in Washington Territory has announced herself a candidate for congress.  +      The British are on the warpath in Egypt again, for the purpose of relieving General Gordon.  +      The British ship, Earl of Beaconfield, from Glascow to San Francisco, was burned at sea.  The crew landed at Valparaiso.  +     The treasury department purchased 470,000 ounces of silver for delivery at the New Orleans; [sic] Philadelphia and San Francisco mints.  [all +] Tot-Bandon visit [?]  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884   Mr. Wm. Morris is visiting at Bandon. +      Srh-ocean Srh-ship-Amethyst Srh-river Locale-[?]  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884       The schooner Amethyst has arrived in port.  + b-act Tot-Coq  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884        C. Potter and H. Grady were in town last week on business.  + Log Locale-CoqR Srh-river Srh-CoqR Tot-Parkersburg  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884       Peter Robison [sic] took a raft of logs to Parkersburg.  + Misc-word(non-sequitur) county-officer animal-deer character  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884       P. Hickey, our enterprising deputy sheriff, killed a deer last Friday night.  + Name-Root Tot-Parkersburg log  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884       Dan Root has gone to Parkersburg, to look after his logging business.  + Crime health-[?] health-death Locale-LR  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884       Frick, the stabbed man is very low and not expected to live past tomorrow noon.  + Enterprise-cannery locale-[?] OT-SF Srh-ocean Locale-CoosBay? Srh-ship-Arcata  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884       Mr. Burt Getchell, of the cannery, returned from San Francisco, per steamer Arcata.  + Health-provider business bldg street Tot-Coq improve?  Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884       Dr. Leneve has laid plank down across half the width of the street in front of his store.  + Other-coal Locale-Newport Tot-Libby health-sickness health-death Nv31 CCH September 9, 1884       Mrs. P. Flanagan, of Newport, died on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 4, after a lingering illness.  + = Tot-Norway Tot-Gardiner visit travel?  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       Mrs. Myers and Mrs. Hoover, of Norway, returned from Gardiner, where they have been visiting friends.  + Item-goods item-hardware misc-word(superlative) business bldg Tot-Coq  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       For goods, as cheap as they can be had in Oregon, call Whitney & O’Connell, the hardware dealers.  + Crime enterprise-cannery Locale-LR commute? County-court Tot-Empire? Tot-Coq?  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884      Frank Sheridan came up from the cannery on Saturday, to attend the late stabbing affray.  +  [M. 2008.Apparently meaning, that he went to Empire to appear in court/] Visit name-Messer OT-JosephineCounty Tot-Coq  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       George Matthewson and family, of Josephine county, are visiting relatives in this place.  Mrs. M. is sister of Mrs. J. P. Messer.  + County-court county-official b-act? Tot-Coq? Tot-Empire? Crime  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       D. L. Watson is in town.  He came over yesterday to prosecute the parties in the stabbing affray mentioned elsewhere.  + Locale-Sixes Tot-PortOrford health-death  Nv32 CCH September 98, 1884       Milton Huntly [sic] who resided on the trail between Sixes and Port Orford, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a rifle.  + Srh-ship-building crime county-court Tot-Randolph  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       Mr. Harry Southwell, the well known shipwright is in town, [sic] having been subpoenaed to attend the investigation of the recent fight at Randolph.  + Entertain-show paper-attitude OT-Willamette-valley character  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       The De Moss [sic] family seem to be receiving fair treatment from the papers in the Willamette valley.  They are frequently mentioned, and always in terms of praise.  + Name-Hermann commute Tot-Empire enterprise-[Empire SO co?]  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       Mr. F. P. Hermann, of Myrtle Point, passed through town yesterday on his way to Empire City. Possibly, he may remain there in the employ of the new company.  + Name-Volkmar paper paper-attitude?  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       Miss Clotilda Volkmar, Mrs. Morris, Mr. Carl Volkmar and Johnny Snyder paid the HERALD office a pleasant visit.  The next time you call, be particular and see the whole menagerie.  + Tot-Coq-name salesman business bldg character friend  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       Mr. Hayes, of this place, is now a salesman in Whitney & O’Connell’s store.  He is a courteous and obliging gentleman, and will be pleased to meet his old friends and former patrons.  + = climate Locale-[CoosCounty?]  Nv33 CCH September 9, 1884       We have had a con iderable [sic; = considerable] sprinkle of rain during the week ending up to date [sic].  It has caused a decided change in the atmosphere, the weather being cool and pleasant, but somewhat damp.  + Name-Dean OT-Texas paper paper-attitude? Locale-Oregon  Nn33 CCH September 9, 1884       Mr. R. J. Dean and family arrived here from Texas, on Wednesday last.  Mr. Dean is a son of Mr. Robert Dean, and a brother of J. A. and D. F. Dean of this paper.  Mr. Dean’s family consists of himself, wife and four children.  We welcome them to Oregon.  + Utility? Street-sidewalk business bldg Tot-Coq disaster-fire-prevention locale-CoqR  Nv33 CCH September 9, 1884       Mr. Andrews is constructing a cistern under the sidewalk in front of his store, for the purpose of having a supply of water in case of fire.  Its dimensions are:  Length 25 feet; [sic] depth 4, and width 3 feet.  It will be supplied by a windmill at the river.  This is a needful precaution.  + Log misc-word(superlative) mill?-[?] transport?  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884      Charles Hanscom hauled the largest fir tree, one day last week, ever hauled in Coos county.  It was cut into eight logs and scaled 21860 feet.  The tree, before sawing into logs, was 176 feet in length.  He hauled one, the week before, which scaled 20416 feet.  He very often hauls trees which scale, after being cut into logs, from 12 to 18 thousand feet.  + Tot-Bandon-name commute Tot-Coq  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884  Mr. Anderson, of Bandon, is in town.  + Climate  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884  Prospects for more rain are very good at this time.  + Poem literary? Paper  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       A poetic medley is unavoidably crowded out.  It will appear next week.  + Tot-Coq business bldg ad paper  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       Wash Bullard and Phil Drane have leased the Robinson house in this place, and desire a share of the public patronage.  See their ad.  + Name-Roy enterprise-fishing fish Locale-river Locale-CoqR Locale-harbor condit?  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       Messers. [sic] Roy and Collier have been trying their new gill net at the mouth of the river, but with no success owing to their net being to [sic] fine for the present run of fish.  They will probably have a better prospect later in the fall when the fish are smaller.  + Locale-BearCreek health-death Tot-Newport-indir? Tot-Libby-indir? Locale-CoosBay misc-word-inst  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       Mr. Joseph Williams, who lived on Bear creek, died at the residence of Gov. Bennett, on Wednesday night, the 3rd inst.  He was buried on Friday, at 3 o’clock p. m.  His two sons, who live on Coos bay, were in attendance at the funeral.  The apparent cause of his death was old age.  + Photo Srh-[] Srh-ship-[?] salesman enterprise-photography Tot-Coq Tot-Sumner saying health-death-indir  Nv32 CCH September 9, 1884       McMillan Bros [sic] received a new viewing outfit by last steamer, and are now prepared to make photographic views of your house, garden or ranch, at very reasonable prices.  Leave your orders at their tent.       How many fathers and mothers there are who would give a fabulous price for the picture of their children, after death had claimed them!  Now, while they are in health, take them to McMillan Bros., and for a small sum you can get their pictures.  A penny saved is a penny earned.      They will remain a week or ten days longer, then go to Sumner.  + = Paper crime health-[?] county-court Tot-Bandon? Tot-Randolph Locale-Sam’sValley Locale-RogueR Tot-Empire [?]-official saying?  Nv33 CCH September 9, 1884  A STABBING AFFRAY.  [head; centered, bold, smaller than text; medium margins.]                ___      A row occurred on the night of the 4th inst., at Randolph, in which one man received wounds that may terminate fatally.  A. C. Frick, the woundnd [sic] man, is a native of Josephine county, 27 years of age; and he resided, before coming here, in Sam’s valley Rogue river.  In his deposition he says:  Myself and others had been drinking and having come to the wharf with a boat, I wished to take the boat away again, but was prevented by Frank Sheridan.  I struck him and he struck me.  This is about the substance of what he said; but when it is taken into consideration that he lay out the balance of the night, and slept until awakened by the cold, then going to the hotel and applying for admission, still unconscious of the fact that a portion of his bowels were protruding, it is evident that he was in such a state of intoxication as precluded the possibility of delivering a clear statement of the facts in the case.  [sic]  A warrant having been sworn out for the arrest of the parties implicated, an investigation was had before Justice of the of the peace, J. A. Simons, yesterday.  The evidence [so?] given went to prove that Frank Sheridan was the party who done [sic] the stabbing, consequently he was bound over to the next term of circuit court.  The trial of the crime will soon take place, therefore we refrain from publishing the details [elleged?] at the preliminary examination.      Sheridan’s attorney reserved his right to make a defense, or offer evidence till circuit court meets, which occurs next Monday.  He was taken to jail this morning by Jas. Cartwright, constable.  + School name-Capt-Harris Locale-SouthFork Locale-CoqR emtertain literary name-Volkmar misc-word-ult misc-word-tripped...hours   Nv33 CCH September 9, 1884  Miss Volkmar’s School.  [head; centered, bold; smaller than text; medium margins.]      The first quarter of Miss Clotilda Volkmar’s school district No 2 -- near Capt. Harris’ place – closed Friday 29 ult.      A general review of the studies of the term was had during the forenoon, and the afternoon was occupied with recitations, dialogues and other literary exercises.  All the pupils showed marked improvement.      At night the school-room was swept, the benches cleared away, and the young folks tripped the light fantastic toe [sic] until the wee small hours, and everybody enjoyed a good time.  After one week’s vacation the school will reopen and continue two months longer.  + Name-Starkey name-LeGarcon poem lifestyle? Srh-ocean-indir crime-indir  Nv33 CCH September 9, 1884  Never Wait for the Turn of the Tide.  [head, centered, bold; spans column.]                    ________      Inscribed to Mrs. Florence K. Sheridan.  [centered, narrow margins.]                 (BY LE GARCON)  [smaller type than other lines.]                      _______ There are people forever repining,   And from gloomy forebodings ne’er free, The sun cannot always be shining,    Nor this life like a smooth flowing sea. Launch the boat – keep her trim – and be              ready,   Meet the waves of misfortune with pride, Take the oars with a strong pull and steady,   Never wait for the turn of the tide. [space] Don’t despair, for that’s unavailing,   If she strands we must float her again: Though the winds are ahead, keep her sailing,   To rest on the oars is in vain--- And if fierce, flying clouds gather ‘round us,   There’ll be calm spots in which we may                 glide; When the shoals and the quicksands sur-                  round us,   Never wait for the turn of the tide. [space] This life has its pleasure and sorrow,   Then enjoy it whenever we may; The sun may be brighter tomorrow,   Tho’ the mist hovers o’er us to-day. Then in fair or foul weather pull steady,   O’er the ripples and whirls we’ll ride With a will and a heart always ready---   Never wait for the turn of the tide.  [+ ] = Lhc-stat land timber boomer [?] transport-ox-sled Locale-CoqR Locale-CoosR Srh-river Srh-CoqR Srh-CoosR Srh-watershed Locale-Northwest animal-ox condit-signs-times lumber mill OT-PugetSound Locale-ColumbiaR Locale-CoosBay Srh-ocean Srh-freight misc-word-ox…obsolete   Nv34 CCH September 9, 1884       Both forks of the Coquille and Coos river, [sic] course through vast sections of timber where the sound of the axe was never heard, which for variety and excellence is unequalled on the globe.  Cedar, spruce, hemlock, maple, myrtle, live oak, and every variety of fir grow to the most enormous size.  The finest maple ever found in any country, much of which is of the quality known as “birdseye maple,” grows there more abundantly than anywhere on the shores of the Pacific.  It is no unusual thing to find maple trees on the Coquille six feet in diameter, with limbless trunks from forty to sixty feet in length.  The myrtle, which is coming into use in the manufacture of furniture, attains a size nowhere else known.  The timber often stands so thick among narrow bottoms, near the water courses [sic] that it is difficult to pass through on horseback, where there is no under-growth [sic] to obstruct the way.  It is a well known fact that the timber most convenient to points from which lumber can be shipped along this coast is rapidly becoming exhausted while the demand for lumber, in all parts of this world, is on the increase.  The shipments of lumber from Puget sound, the Columbia river and Coos bay, has been greater during the past year than ever before within a like period.  The market widens and the demand increases, and lumbermen are compelled to go deeper into the mountains for suitable timber.  The ox team and the bob-sled [sic] are rapidly becoming obsolete and a new method must be resorted to for the purpose of conveying timber from where the trees are fallen to the mills.  –[Salem Talk.  + = school Tot-GF Lhc-census name-Bright  Nv35 CCH September 9, 1884  Shool Report  [head, centered, bold, smaller than text, wide margins.]      The following is a report of the term of school which closed at Gravel Ford [sic] on Saturday the 10 ult. [M.  The following is divided into 4 columns, but with the title words turned vertically.] No days   Month.     Average     No names Taught.                     attendance.  enrolled.    18         May          32 ¾            41    20         June           33 ½           41    20         July            27 ½           36     6          August       26 ½           29      In May and June there was not a single case of tardiness, although five of the pupils walked four miles.  A record of the spelling of the advanced classes, which was done in writing, and ended on page 85 of Watson’s speller, each individual spelling all the words, shows that W. E. Weekly spelled 1350 words, missed  6,                                                                          Mary Jackson  1209,                           “      13,                                                                          Telitha [sic] Culbertson, 1650,              “       2,                                                                           Annie Culbertson,  1700,                     “     34, .                                                                          Ida Jackson  1380,                             “       4, ,                                                                          Mary Bright  1380,                              “     37.      The school closed with a theatrical entertainment, with which all were pleased.  It lasted over three hours, and engaged the strict attention of the audience, the whole of that time.  The actors, particularly, the pupils acted their respective parts with credit to themselves; especially the smaller singing class.  [+text.] Tax county Locale-CoosCounty land improve item-goods money item-personal item-household animal-horse animal-mule animal-livestock animal-sheep animal-hog Lhc-census?   Nv34 CCH September 9, 1884  Summary of Assessments of Coos   [head, centered, bold but smaller than text, first line spans column but spaces between words]         County for the Year 1884. [same info as above, but medium margins.] Acres land 269,917;  value $927,825. Town lots                       “    189,800. Improvements                “       40,047. Mdse & implements       “     252,330. Money, notes, etc.          “     255,589. Household, watches       “        45,436. Horses, mules 1,266;      “       41,045. Cattle  8,460;                  “     114,239. Sheep  9,172;                 “        10,350. Swine  4,328;                  “          8,641.                                              _________ Gross value                           1,885,334. Indebtedness  318,932 Exemptions     182,205 Taxable property                    1,383,107. Polls paid                618 Polls unpaid             577 Total polls                                      1,195.  + = Tot-Coq commute? Business bldg Name-Olive name-Buck name-Graham name-Miller name-Green other-coal-indir Tot-Newport Tot-Libby Tot-Parkersburg Tot-Empire Tot-Marshfield Tot-MP Tot-Norway Tot-Bandon Tot-Fishtrap Tot-Dora Tot-Sumner  Locale-CoqR OT-Portland OT-Montana OT-Philadelphia   Nv36 CCH September 9, 1884  HOTEL ARRIVALS.  [head; centered, bold, smaller than text; medium margins.]       (Olive Hotel.)  Sept. 1  [Lesse Pillam,]           J. M. Adair, Philadelp’         Newport;                         [Saukum] Joe Parkr’bg [J   Green]  Parkersbg             [Jas  ] Aiken Marshfield Sept 2  Price Robisons [sic]    Peter Hickey  Empire  R E Buck  city                        Sept 4  H Collier  city [   ]    Portland                          Sam Beliou [ ]  river Mr. [   ]  Portland                     Albert Graham M Pt J[  ] Snyder Myrtle Pt               Frank Getchell  Par- Dr. Angell  city                                       kersburg Walter Sinclair  city                  Bert Getchell Parksbg [J. Lillis]  river                           H. Thurston  Fishtrap [F. Miller  Montana]                  Mr. Sherwood Sumner Sept [  ]  Ed Gallier city             P Lasswell & sistr Dora [   ]    Parkersburg                       P McDavid  Parkrsbg S P Chandler  Norway                T Cunningham Bandn Capt Jensen  Bandon                   J Waller  river Mrs Tupper  Bandon                   Miss L Clinkenbeard [  ]  Clinkenbeard                                          river                   river         +  Tot-Newport Tot-Libby other-coal-indir health-death misc-word-Esq  Nv36 CCH September 9, 1884  Died.  At Newport, Sept 4, Mrs. P. Flanagan, at the residence of George Bennett, Esq. [+] Health-death Locale-BearCreek  Nv36 CCH September 9, 1884  [Died]  Joseph Williams, of Bear creek.  = Ad RE farm fruit agric house crop animal-sheep animal-hog animal-livestock item-household utility?  Nv37 CCH September 9, 1884  Notice.  [head, centered, bold, smaller than text; very wide margins.]      We have the selling of a farm of 100 acres with a splendid orchard, good water, a good house.  The farm yielded 50 tons of timothy hay, last season.  The farm will be sold cheap, and the following go with the place:  70 head of sheep, a lot of hogs, 1 yoke of cattle, chain’s [sic] & c, a lot of cows, yearlings and the house-hold [sic] furniture which is new an [sic] good.  + Road-stage transport? Srh-river Srh-CoqR Srh-boat-Ceres Srh-LittleAnnie Locale-UR Tot-MP name-Brown misc-word-hack-line  Nv37 CCH September 9, 1884       NEW HACK LINE!  ---Connecting---  With Steamers “Ceres” and “Little Annie” at the terminus of their upper river route, carrying passengers and freight to and from Myrtle Point. G. A. Brown, Proprietor.  [+ .] = September 16  [missing] = [M. note, 2008.  This document contains almost all the data from this paper except for some outside news and national-fillers, that is, "boilerplate."  Repeat-ads are generally not listed more than once in the year.]    home   1883   1884-Jun  July   Aug   |   1884-Sept23   1885-9   1890   to newspaper menu