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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1900
Page
8
A South Africa dispatch notes hundreds of Boers fleeing with families seeking new lives abroad, many eyeing America. They travel on French and German ships, with Holland as a temporary stopover. Trains meet ships in Marseilles to move families through France toward Holland.
The Empire seized 400 head of cattle from the railroad depot as part of a band led by J A Yokam. Wild duck flights arrived from the North with hunters bagging well on the lower bay. A factory began first matches with 16 workers to be employed regularly for contracted output. Ten schooners lie in Coquille awaiting the Tug Triumph, absent in San Francisco. John Flanagan of Empire toured Coquille City during court week and raised 192.50 for the Galveston Relief Fund, sent via Flanagan Bennett bank to George Taylor, Portland Chamber of Commerce treasurer.
Miss Sarah Chandler returns from visiting relatives in Coos. Dave Carey plans to move his family to Coquille after settling business affairs. Carey sells interests in the Curry ranch known as the Carey Range to W O Cook and Iran Smith. A note on church membership and political influence is included. Perkins' drug store advertises a new stomach remedy.
A garbled mix of aphorisms and playful ad copy references Myrtle Point. It includes quips about stage life and folly, plus stray lines about collecting subscriptions and clothing stock like Mackintoshes. The text reads as a miscellaneous local page fragment.
Notice of land selection under the June act with detailed parcel lists in Linn and Willamette meridians, including sections 1, 14, 20, 30, and multiple townships. Frederick A Kiibs files application from Roeeburg Oregon for tracts in multiple lists. objection window to follow.
United States Land Office Roseburg Oregon announces entries by F A Hyde & Co of San Francisco under the 1897 act for unsurveyed land tracts in sections 20 22 and 34 township 31 south range 10 west Willamette Meridian. Protest period lasts 30 days from notice date for disputes over mineral value versus agricultural use. Register 9213 T Brivags.
A fragmented directory lists President William McKinley and John Hay plus cabinet members and state officers. It names Reeves, collectors, judges, district officials, and local county offices with scattered spellings and titles.
The administrator Isaac Danklow announces an administrator's sale by private sale of land in Coos County Oregon. The parcels include the southeast quarter of section ten and parts of sections fifteen in township twelve west Willamette Meridian totaling 160 acres. Terms require cash down or half cash and half deferred with a mortgage securing payment at 6 percent interest. First publication made October 1300.
By order of the County Court of Coos County Oregon dated August 8 1900 Truman J Rookard James H Roman executors announce that all claims against the estate of Thomas Rookard deceased must be presented verified within six months at attorney LA Robert Myrtle Point Coos County Oregon.
United States Land Office Roseburg Oregon October 3 1900. F A Hyde of San Francisco California has made application under the act of June 4 1807 to select unsurveyed land tracts listed as 121 124 and 126 including Bee 82 T31 R48W and others. Protests or oppositions to selections on cultural purposes must be filed with the General Land Office by October 12.
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