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The Headlight The jSwoi’n Circulation -ancl- •■of tlje- fe gi'iulliflht. ÍTilliiniooli The Oregonian both for Headlight i$ more thaq doub'e that of any other paper in Tillamoo^ County. $2.00 per Year, Vol. X, No. 19. TILLAMOOK, OREGON, THURSDAY, Oct’21st. 1897, $1.50 Per year PROFESSIONAL CARDS. WHY THE PEOPLE KIGK j *V1D WILEY, M. D., So * you -i- PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR, ah Representative Tillamook Business Men Reasons Why They Are Dissatisfied COUNTY ITEMS Give Mr. Orchard States the Water Company’s Grievance. ters from Messrs- Harrison and Donaldson. If so we Carry Fifty seven different Pubications. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office ftt Allen House, Tillamook, Oregon, fclephone No. 7. A. WISE, DENTIST, The Dekum Building T illamook , 3d A Washington, Portland. cctpw <£umßw j O re Flooring, Rustic and First Class Finishing Lumber Ship Lap ana Sized Dimension Rough, Dimension Lumber ¡J ames M c C ain , ¡A. W. S everance . HC OAIN & LEVERANCE, ATTORNEYS AT-LAW, TILLAMOOK, OKKCON. $12.00 7.00 6.00 Tillamook Lumbring Co ^y J. MAY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TILLAMOOK, OREGON JJ. J. IlALV. ,OSCAR H avtbk £)ALY & HA VI ER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DALLAS, OREGON. Jllva. flnt? LUillinnta, Vvop FULL LINE OF B'KT ddy Dress Trimming a L:ninz, I ners hi Black Mini Cream, Velvets and 8ilks, Hosiery. Latest Styles in Gloves. Mit*. Co ts, Capes, Baby Coats, shott and long, also Buby Dresses. Ladies I n lei wear, n fine line of Corsets. The latest styles just from the East in Hats, Bonnet , and Caps lor Children. ATTORNEY A LAW T lilamook , O regon , Late Styles, G.0- N;,LAN> New Goods Lowest Prices. Dress Making Done to Order. ATTORNEY AT LAW Opposite H eadlight Office, Cor. Main mu Second Street, Tillamook City, Oregon Deputy District Attorney of Tillamook County Office in Alderman Hotel Building Tillamook, Oregon 'j’ II. GOYNli, ATTORNEY AT LAW i : A COMPLETE NEW STOCK- Office Opposite Comi House of --------- Tillamook, Or< gon HARDWARE, STOVES, TINWARE. FARM MACHINERY, LOGGERS SUPPLIES, QLAUDE THAYER, AITORN E Y-AT-L AW, FISHING TACKLE. AMU NITION ETC. TILLAMOOK, OREGON Painting Lessons . L. Stubbs is organizing a painting class. Lessons will be given in landscape marine, flower mid figure painting- See him about it at the Elite Studio. B ÁÑK of C. & E. THAYER Genetai Banking «nd Fschann« butintw. I iteiest paid on time deposit«. Exchange on England, Belgium, Germany, A 1 : < 1 4 FULL LINE OF READY MIXED PAINTS I M, old shelf worn stock; Everything new and up to dale. WJi. M. CARY» 4 O pposite B ank ; ...................... Cbc (Corner Saloon* brinn brothers props ^Fine Wines Liquore and A ’ gars; Sweden atid all foreign countries. Tillamook, nracon. Charles1 Peterson, ( ^Barber Shaving Hair Cutting Shampooing Hot and Cold Baths. Everything Strictly First Class, ......... Magnolia Whiskey D3ZSIDTZT BEOS. HXs-print! And everybody says ■We DO 'Headlight- GATHERED BY D'JR CORRESMNBENTS A Brief Glimpse at Last Weeks , Happenings calls promptly attended to TILLAMOOK. ORE. t Let Bay City Miss Alice Robbias returned from u better service. Tlie service, which was Newport Saturday, by way of North poor at best, lias been worse of lute, Yamhill. there being as long kb three weeks be Mrs. Sibley has been to Forest Grove, tween trips, making heavy loss on tlie making her son Alpliouso a visit shipment of butter (in our small business Miss Alice Pet toys has been visiting Having lost $150 on one sliipineut.) A sin.ill steamer plying directly be her Tillamook friends. tween this place and Portland is what Mr. Knight lias moved to Hobsonville tlie service demands. Should be small so as to be nearer his work. enough to navigate the slough to . ilia- Mrs S. Weaver accompanied by her monk city, and inuke regular trips to sister Mrs. Wright, of Forest Grove re Portland so the freight would not have turned home Wednesday. to be trmisfered while enroute as it is Letter from Mr. Orchard Miss Della Oakes is spending a few very detrimental to the appearance ut butter and causing Tillamook to take days nt home. W. F. Mason, President Chiimbei of Commerce, second place on the market. Kiger and Means have been driving Will heartily co-operate with you in a few piling for Elmore's cannery at Portland, Oregon. securing u better service. Garibaldi. Dear Sir, Yours Respectfully Mr. Carter, of Garibaldi beach, lias We commenced to make pipe in Tilla John Donaldson mook about Feb. 18th 18(17, mid when Secretary for Cold Spiing Creamery. been gathering a second crop of straw berries. our boat mangers did not know the amount of space thill freight of tlie class Lost Hundred* of Dollar:*. A petition is being circulated for the of unr pipe would occupy, they were very purpe ee of ascertaining the number of that slow to give rates,but finally agreed Tillamook Ore. Oct. 2, I8D7 patrons willing to support a subscription they nouhl handle our freight with Mr. W. 8. .Mason school to follow the slioit term of public promptness and nt living rates, We Portland Oregon: school. fair considered Unit they would give us I have been requested to write our ex treatment ami reasonable rates as an periences with the transportation com Town Council Meeting. inducement to start such an enterprise pany operating between hereand Astoria. here. We invested a considerable The boats lire uot run as advertised nor A regular session of the Common amount in the installing of our pipe fac at regular intervals. It is not an un Council of Tillamook City, was bold on tory mid commenced nt once on business common occureuce when inquiring when Monday evening Oct. 18th. Tlie follow principles to gather trade both for our the boat will sail for Astoria to be told ing officers present: Councilman Good. selves mid the transportation company that she is going to some oilier point and speed, Knudson, Thompson and Rey and were not long in Hilding tliat if we will return and lake freight for Astoria in nolds; W. J. May, city attorney; C. could get reasonable rates to Astoria and 2 or 3 days. It frequently is ns many Clements, Marshal; C. N. Drew, Recor tlie const towns Unit we could build up a weeks. In the meantime our customers der—absent councilman Hadley. The thriving business ill the pipe business : are being supplied from other places, journal of last meeting was lead and ap But after making one shipment to Astoria and our goods, deteriorated in quality, proved as read. we were charged four limes as much for are placed on a glutted market. Conse The only bill presented at this meeting carrying our pipe from Tillamook to As quently we have lost hundred" oi dollars was for $10 salary for the third quarter toria ns we Mere charged for carrying oil a single shipment. We some limes from the city attorney, which was allow from Astoria to Kalama, (the neatest gel orders fur stock to be delivered a1 ed, Hilda warrant ordered drawn to pay point to N. P. R. R ) Then we under the place of purchase ut a certain date. the same. took to charter tlie Str. Harrison to do We are obliged to teply that we can The Street Commissioner reported our freighting to Coos Buy, where we only promise to ship on the iliat op|>oi- that Mr. J. A. Momoe will build the had opened up trade (or a large amount lunily. ■idewalk north of the mill bridge in a of our pipe. They claimed that this boat Tlie freight charges on our line of short time as ordered at call of meeting. would safely cany 1800 pieces of 8 foO( goods ai e not too high fora good service, Tlie Marshal was instructed to open 61 h pipe and on this basis wengreed to pay but they are ample to pay for a much Avenue East by removing fences now them $300 per trip mid went ahead anil better service Ilian we receive. obstructing the travel of said street in made arrangements to furnish pipe and We need a bout direct from Tillamook Thayer's, ad to the city, and the marshal figured our nites on tho above basis, but to Astoria every 5 days from April 1st to was also ordered to remove any and all when they cauls to load tlieir bout tlie Nov. 1st. A boat every 10 days for tlie fences, closing or obstructing any of the first title they did not show any effort to balance of the year would be sufficient streets in tlie McDermott addition to give IIS any thing like prompt service Our company are willing to pledge our Tillamook city. and in place of currying 1800 pieces they freight to any boat that will guaiantee The Marshal was instructed to And the 1 carried 800, making our rates for ship such a service ut existing rates. surveyor's monument on 2nd Avenue ping pipe more than double what we East, at or near the junction ol 2nd St. Respectfully Yours s luid estimated. This of course we could and to box anil cover the same, and M. W. Harrison, not stand mid do business against our j Secretary of the Tillamook Creamery Co. also to investigate a neiisauce situated competitors. For our small job at in the east part of the city mid remove ! Marshtielil our freight rates to E & 8 was the same. A’cal Estate Transfert. ! more than $IOJO I bad arranged to The Recorder repotted the receipt of a furnish pipe for Bandon, Myrtle Point, 15. Felix noy to Louin Peterson, W % of the insurance policy in the City Hull for and Couqnille City, all in Coos Co., and 12 lot 3 and lot 4 sec b and lot 1 ace 6 TJ N R 9 amount of $600 dollms to expire Oct ' several oilier towns along tlie ooast, but, W. 1900. 15. Louis Peterson to Albert E- Kitten* as soon as we found that we were com Adjourned to Nov. 1st 1897. house, same. pelled to pay such rales we simply fin- 16. U. ft. A to Bertha J. Powell W % uf , nishttl our contractai Marshfield mid ar- Truck«« company halse« Wane* W '.of sec9 T1IR9W. . ranged to move our factory to some point 16 U.S. of A. to Lucius ft. Maynards W % of N w >4 of S K % of sec 8 Tp 1 H K 7 where we could get better rates and bet- The Truckee Lumber Company Ims W. iter sei vice. But if we could have any increased the wages of the employes 10 16. Sarah J. Perkins to Emma Perkins ' definite assurance that we could have per cent within the last month, thus Trustee, tract ill Tillamook City. good service mi<l reasonable rates, we 16. Sarah J. Perkins to Emma Perkins bringing them up to the old standard of 3% acres in Trask D L C. could and would continue to do business pros|H)rous times. The reduction hail 16. Sarah J. Perkins to Madaline Wade from tliis point. We are prepared to say taken place about 18 mouths ago, mid tract in J 8 Tripp D L C. tluil we can afford to pay for shipping r6. William Tai ton to James Tatton lots 1 was still fresh ill the minds of all the our freight, from lillmnook to Astoria, old employes. When it was determined and 2 blk 9 Garibaldi. 18. John Schmelr to John Jones and D to increase the wages Manager Sibley double the rate charged for freight from W Jones lot H iu blk 10Tillamook. I Portland to Cooe bay. Tins may seem called some of the principal of the em rather extravagant but we can well afford i ployee together mid told them that as Organ for Sal« to do it. Our freight in the last 3 mouths times were still very hard mid the com | has amounted to $300 per inontii and at I have mi excellent Bridgeford organ pany had gone to great expense in put ! reasonable rates our business would in first class condition, that I will I ■ell ting in improvement» it found it necess have lreen at least 50 per cent greater cheap. Tlie. organ cost $175, and ha« ary to make another change in the wage mid with good traneportation facilities only lieen used about two years u schedule—and he wanted to know of the we could keep our business going day by taken at once I will sell the organ for men how much they could stand. 'I lie day. Not only ourselves but every $50. Inquire al tlie Headlight office, men supposed he meant another reduc hydraulic and civil engineer who has F. 0. Hhanahan. tion, and with long faces began to con given an opinion on our pipe say that it sider tire situation. -Mr. Sibley waited is tlie coming pipe for water systems in a moment before informing them that The Blake McFall Company, dealers this country, and, already we arj open the company did not mean to reduce tlie in nil kinds of paper, have established an ing tip new fields for the pi|»e in Idaho, wages but voluntarily to raise them 10 agency in tide city with Mr. Bowman ol Montana, Washington and Wyoming per cent. It is needless to say that dole , the IleAio.loiiT in charge. The com and the reason why we select this point ful looks gave place to smile«, and that 1 puny imports and handles everything in for making our pipe is, the coast fir is the change met with the hearty approval ! tlie p«|>er line, such as book, news, the best timber we can procure for Hie writing and wrapping papers, card stock, of all concerned. i purpose. straw and binders board, roofing, build Galvanized Wire Pipe Co. Cronp Quickly Cnr« d ing and deadening papers, patent ma By H. Orchard Pres chine made paper bags, Manilla, straw Mountain filen, Ark -Our children and carpet papers—in fact everything in were suffering with crofip when we receiv the paper line. A complete set of sain- wl a I otile of Chsmberlein'o Cough I plea can lie seen at the H kadijgiit office, Remedy H afforded almost instant Tillamook, Oct. 14th 1897 and prices given that defy competition. re|jef _F. A. Thornton. Tliin celebrai- Call and »ee samples of paper before I ed remedy is for sale by 8. J . Sturgeon . Rev. Father Schell Iruying elsewhere. Dear Sir:— Aa regards our opinion of the ship T« Cor« (BMllRllM For«»«». No-To-Hw for rirty Canta. Takr Orareis Csralr Cslhartie. !<*■ or Ha. ping facilities of this place will say we OoarsDtmd u>b*ecn batti cure malie« wsak ¡IC.C C. lag 10 cure, druulala refund niviwy. hink there is certainly a demand of UIIVWI. tuuod pure KM,II. All drug<l»t* , Ily request of the Portland Chamber of Commerce m ule to Rev. Joseph Schell, and by him conveyed to them a number of our prominent business men have given their views of the abuses of our present transportation system. The letters were written to Mr. Mason, presi- dentuf die chamber, who now has the originals in his possession. The following are verhatine copies of some of the lette.s thus far received :