Vol. IV. No. 51.
TILLAMOOK.
OREGON. THURSDAY
$1.50 Per Year.
MAY 19
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
'TIS THE STEEL AGE
V. V. JOHNSON. M. D.
Office on next door to Tempérance Parlors.
Tillamook, - Oregon.
L. H iner , President.
S.m ^German. Vice President
Wm, D. Stillwell, Treasurer,
L. Crenshaw, Secretary,
Win. Barker, Superintendent
SOME OF THE WONDERS Of MOD
ERN BRIDGE BUILDING.
Tillan]oolç Lumbering Company,
E E. SELPH,
The Great Structure Soon to Span the
IIAtatui'ie River Thames—Other Bridges
of Note tn Be Found in England and
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
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TILLAMOOK,
America»
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It has been tritely said that while the
urt of bridge building is ancient und the
science of bridge bnilding is modern,
the skill of the present engineer has be
come the special flower and glory of our
age of steel.
The earliest timber bridge on record
is that which was thrown over the
Rhine by Julius Ctesar; but long ages
before the Chinese built stone bridges
of great magnitude aud first introduced
in their construction the principle of
tho arch. One of theso is four miles
long, seventy feet high and has 300
Tho ~
Romans followed, and
arches.
nothing in tho way of modern bridges
/ , years ago equaled tho one
up to fifty
built by the Emperor Trajan, A. D. 104,
over tho Danube, During the last two
centuries Bouie very beautiful bridges
havo been erected in Franco, and in
Venice there aro no fewer than 339.
In Great Britain tho art kept pace
with its progress on tho Continent, the
most ancient bridge being that nt Croy-
hind, Lincolnshire, said to have been built
in 860. The bridgo over the Trent at Bur
ton, in Staffordshire, was built in the
Twelfth century. It was 1,545 foot long.
Old London bridge was begun in the
reign of Henry II in 1176, and its erec-
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or if you live, give you a sum of money
a few years later.
General Banking and Exchange business,
luterest paid on time deposits.
Exchange on England, Belgium, Germany,
Sweden and all foreign countries.
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H. 0. COLTON, Gen’l Ag’t, 33 Stark St, Portland, Ore.
Waroil making, aud all kinds of Wood-work
and General Blacksmithing done.
Mill
T1IE TOWER BRIDGE.
Machinery Repaired.
Horse-shoeing a Specialty.
OKU.
TILLAMOOK,
Mrs. J. JOHN8ON
Miss L. J. RUGGLES
DUGGLES à JOHNSON,
MILLINERY AND DRESS
MAKING.
(OF S an F rancisco .]
Hat., lire»« Trimming* sad a General A»»ort-
ment of Millinery Goods.
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We always keep
General Merchandise.
the latest styles.
Near Court House,
T illamook , O kk .
^ILLAMOOK LAUNDRY.
LESTER HART,
PROPRIETOR.
Washing gathered and delivered every
week. Work done on short notice when desired.
Starched shirts lscts each. Common Shirts and
drawers, 5 to lOuts^ach. Family washing and
troniiig. sOcts per dozen.
They keep on h/ands at their store in
Hobsonvi 1 le the largest stock of goods5
in Tillamook County
Our stock consists of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps
and Notions. Groceries, Crockery, and Queensware. Doors, Windows, Lime,
Hair, aud Cement. Hardware and Nails. £l^*S|>ecial attention giveu to
ordeis for goods in jobbing lots.
Suits cleaned to order.
TILLAMOOK, ORE.
QENTRAL MARKET,
A gents
for
L. H. BROWN, P roprietor .
TILLAMOOK, SAN FRANCISCO AND WAY PORTS.
Makis regular trips about every two weeks, the weather Permitting.
The beat Beef, Vest, Pork and Multon alway«
on hand. Eggs. Butter, Vegetable» and
Chicken» bought and »old.
Satisfaction guaranteed to every one.
The fast sailing S tr . T bvckee has been specially fitted up for carrying pas
sengers. Following are the rates:
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CABIN PASSAGE .............................................
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ROUND TRIP......................................................
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Freight, (GeneralJMerchandise)
Shop opposite the Grand Central.
TILLAMOOK, ORK.
yiLLAMOOK LIVERY STABLE,
Manager, Hobson ville, Ore.
JONES B ros , proprietors .
First-class single and double tern-outs kept on
hand.
Boarding and transient stock cared
for.
T illamook , ore .
j^CRE TRACTS AND
T own L ots .
Kor sale at reasonable prices and on favorable
terms ¡«ovation best in tile city of Tilla-
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tion occupied eighty-three years. After
having served its purpose more than 650
years it gave placo to tho present struc
ture, which was begun in 1824 and
finished in 1831. This is but ono o' six-
ben of tho finest ar< hitcctnral works of
their kind in tho world that span tho
Thames.
The first metal bridge in England was
erected in 1779 over the Sovcrn, and it is
a curious circumstance that Thomas
Paine was a successful contriver of an
iron bridge, which in 1787 he proposed
to construct without any iron piers over
the Schnylkill in Philadelphia, as the
stream was npt to bo choked with ico in
the spring freshets. His backers liecom-
ing bankrupt, however, tho structure
was not finished and the materials were
used in England. This work was long
regarded as a great triumph of art, its
I span being 236 feet long with a riso of 34
feet.
Suspension bridges wore erected in
America as early as 1796 by a Mr. Fin
lay, who in 1801 took out a patent, and
in 1811 eight bridges had been built on
his plan. Snlwcqnontly, in 1826, a chain
cabio suspension bridge was built across
tho Straits of Monui, which until then
formed a troublesome obstruction upon
tho great road from London to Dublin.
Many beautiful suspension bridge's have
sinco been erected in Great Britain and
on tho Continent. Tho most rcmnrkablo
wire suspension bridgo in Europe, on ac
count of its dimensions and height, is
that of Freyburg, in Switzerland, which
has a span from pier to pier of 870 feet
and is suspended at tho height of 167
feet above tho river which tlows un
der it.
Ono of tilo .most wonderful achieve
ments of engineering nrt is tho steel
bridge aero-» tho Firthof Forth, iuScot
land. It has tho long<st i pun, thogreat
est weight and tho greatcut length of
any yet built.
Tho structure shown in tho illustra
I tion, which thousand:« of workmen are
now hurrying to completion, will I m
known us the Tower bridge, inasmuch
as it will cross tho Thames near the
Tower of London. It i.» ono of tho most
rsmarkablo undertakings of tho kind in
existence, spanning us it does what is
perhaps the busiest waterway on earth.
The peculiarity of its construí lion con
sists in two huge leaves weighing 050
tons, each of which is raised and lowered
to a level thirty feet almvo high water,
somewhat after the manner of an ancient
drawbridge, thus affording passage for
rivercraft. They aro shown in the ent
open. A hundred feet alero this bridge
level is nnother roadway for the accom
modation of foot passengers, who are to
be lifted to it in elevators running
through tho towers whenever tho lower
portion of the bridge is open anil travel
is impeded. Thu cost will be $8.500,000.
A project is now tinder discussion for
spanning the Hudson river with steel
wire snsjR'nsion cables that will support
a highway fifteen feet loftier than tho
great Brooklyn bridgo and largo enough
to accommodate six lines of railroad.
Its iqinn, as contemplated by the engi
neers, will bo 2,850 feet long and 150
feet above tho water. Coinjiared with
the Brooklyn bridge its length, inclnd-
ing anchorage, will lie 6.5<X) feet', the
ini
former moiHure» 3,700 feet. Each an
chorage of the North River bridgo will
weigh 600,000 tons, wliilo that of tho
Brooklyn bridge weighs only 60,000
tons. Tho C'Mt is roughly estimate«! at
$16,000,000.
Among other suspension bridge» in
the Unite«! Htates is that at Wheeling,
which has a span of 1,010 feet; at Niag
ara. with a span of 621 feet anil a road
way 250 feet from the line of the river;
at Pittsburg, with n»pan of 1.345 feet; at
Cincinnati, with a total length of 2.220
feet and a span of 1.057 feet. Other ex-
of advanced bridgo nrchitectura
igtneering are to bo fonnd in
many other M-ctiona of the country, an«l
IO,, unpr .1. O' n'x , . 'I’Tr • lily in.«d<i
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HOW THEY RAISED THE
MONEY.
The Miui.fr In Which Otsego's Library I
Promoters "Got There."
Otsego was never suspected of being
among the most enterprising towns of
Michigan, but its talented women have
lately given it national fame. It has
about 2,000 people, two big paper mills
and a chair factory, and according to
one vexed citizen it also has “more rich
men who do nothing for tho place than
any other two thousand town in the na
tion.” However, that is a common com
plaint with those who liavo more enter
prise than money.
Early l.iat year forty Otsego ladies
organized into tho Ladies' Library asso
ciation, raised money in all the ways
known to the sex, such as socials, fairs,
THE OTgKOO LIBRARY,
dances, readings, etc., and built a very
pretty structure nt a cost of $2,000.
They worn but forty dollars in debt, and
two young ladies started out to raise tho
amount. When they called on Mr. N.
W. Mills, whoso wife is president of the
association, ho jocularly offered fivo
cents each for kisses anil wtut promptly
taken tip. Then Mr. Burdeen, owner of
one of tho paper mills, raised the offet
to fifty cents, and thus contributed some
what.
Tho ladies declared that this would
do for a joke, but n little of that sort of
thing was quite enough. They resolved
that each of tho forty should raise a dol
lar in some novel way, but not by kiss
ing. The plan watt carried out and the
reports made at tho meeting in the town
hall created no end of fun. Tho little
city had a jubileo over it. Mis» Maggie
Smith bandaged the arm of a law stu
dent who had been badly cut and
charged him a dollar. Her treatment
was correct and the surgery a success.
Mrs. N. W. Mills took a step ladder
and washed storo windows at the Chi
cago prico till sho had earned a dollar.
Mrs. P. W. Travis and Mrs. H. L. Miller
ran a hand organ, tho collections rang
ing from a peuny up to ten cents. The
local re]>orter adds that tho organ was
•‘of tho Annie Rooney vintage.” Miss
Hattio Mitchell earned a dollar splitting
wood. Mrs. George Easton blacked
boots. thio sold doughnuts from house
to house, another sewed on buttons for
boarders ut the hotel, and last of all
Miss Cregant sold a spring poem to the
editor. So tho money was raised, tho
fun was all of » good sort and now do
nations of books to the library are in
order.
A
KING
IN
AMERICA.
He Is from tlie Gilbert I h I uik I n and Has
Wealth.
WAGES ARE RISING.
THE CONTENTION THAT THEY HAVE
FALLEN 13 DISHONEST.
Individual Cases of Advance or Berlin«
Provo Nothing—Accurate Results Only
Possible
by
Thorough
investigation«
Which Has Shown Higher Wages.
It has been asserted un<l reiterated
over and over again that wages lu.vfl
fallen since the McKinley tariff was en
acted. It is the one single survivor of
the multitude of falsehoods sent abroad
during the campaign of lying in 1890.
It survives, not that it was more fit than
tho others—"McKinley prices,” for ex
ample—but from the difficulty of secure
ing labor statistics complete enough to
obliterate it. "McKinley prices" were
disproved by simply comparing the mar
ket reports as published before and after
the new law took effect. But there are
no regular reports published on rates of
wages. Tens of thousands of changes
are annually made iu this country, some
Involving increased, others decreased
wages or hours of labor. They have oc
curred, do occur and will occur inde
pendently of any tariff in response to the
varying conditions of industry. If ore
dors for goods come flowing in, the labor
lu tho industry which makes the gods
will lie fully employed and wage reduc
tions will bo impossible. But if short
crops curtail the purchasing [lower of
consumer» or the demand becomes inad
equate to the supply because of over
production or a change in fashion even,
or for any other cause, labor in the in
dustries concerned will bo injuriously
affected, and if tho unfavorable condi
tions continue wages will fall. Tho law
of BUpply and demand will continue to
operate inside, aud so far independently
of nny tariff law that can I m framed.
Thousands of changes in wage rates,
both tip anil down, were mado in tho
most pros[ierous years this country ever
knew; they are made now under the
McKinley tariff, and will bo inado un
less Edward Bellamy or Henry George
succeeds in revolutionizing the existing
industrial system.
As a rule, changes in rates of wnge»
do not get into tho public pre» beyond
the local papers. A reduction in wages,
being more unusual in this country than
an advance, is more likely to lie chron
icled. Ever sinco tho McKinley law
[Missoil, tho Free-trade papers all ovor
tho country have watched liko vulture»
for Instances of wages reduction and
gloated over these misfortune» of the
working people liko birds of prey. The
New York Times in particular lias been
on the alert to record and exult over
every reduction of wages iu order to as-
crilm It to tho McKinley law. Reading
its editqrials on this subject ono would
get the impression that a 5 og 10 per
cent, decrease iu wages Was tin unknown
occurrence befoto the McKinley act
passed. Wo have before pointed out its
»hallow dishonesty in thin res|M0t. It
collects ten or a dozen or a score of
cases of reduced wages and proclaims
that wages generally are falling. It
heeds not the thousand* of case» of in
creased pay which liavo occurred under
tho new law.
Only nfter a painstaking canvass of
all the industries of tho country and of
the wage changes occurring in them
can any ono form nn intelligent opinion
as to whether tho general course of
wages is up or down. But your zealous
Free-trade “reformer” doos not care for
that. He is bent on making out a case
against Protection, aud iu his desper
ation at the lack of favoring evidence
does not hesitate to mannfactnrc it.
In this connection it may not I m ami»
to call attention to tho fact that the an
nual report of the bureau of statistics of
labor of New York stato for IMlt chron
idea 1,941 cases of increased wages.
2,085 cases of decrease in the hours of
lalM«—virtually increase of wages, also
—and only 441 cases of rodneed wages.
Yet all that year the New York Times
was loudly proclaiming that wages were
generally falling.
No less instructive is tho record of tho
state bureau of labor statistic» of Illi
nois, which has issued u report on coal
statistics for that state. Not only has
more coal been mined in the first year
of tho new tariff and more men been
employed than ever before, but wages
have averaged higher while coul lias
been ebeapor.
With a single exception, and that the
most unimportant, wage» were higher
in 1891 than In any of tho threeotlier
years considered. These are the result»
arrived at by scientific investigation.
Hi mi I ar results would appear In every
state from similar investigation». Wages
are going np under tho new tunff.
Hi» majesty Tonbramo, king of Bnri-
tari and Mankin, is not mentioned in
tho “Almanack
du Gotha," anil
Europe probably
never heartl of
him, but ho is
over
nix feet
high, weigh» 260
pound» mid look*
every inch a king
all the same. His
kingdom (two isl
and» of the Gil
bert group) con
tains bnt 2,000
TON MR A MO.
people or so, yet
be governs it well, has got rich on bin
income nn«l is visiting tho United States
to learn all ho can about tho wonderful
white people.
H<> is {H-rluip» tho only modern mon
arch who makes a revenue out of re
ligion. for each subject who nlmenta him-
self from church without gtxxl canso is
fined fonr ccx'oanuta. Other taxes are
light, nn«l psiid in cocoanuts, which uro
»old to trader.« as Boon ns a cargo nc-
cnuinlates. The jieoplo arc Christians,
an<l far nioro peaceful than Gilbert
ialandcra generally. They are »uppoaed
to have resulted from a fusi<m of Chinese,
Kanakas. Malaya and what not, nn«l tho
king l<x>ks very much liko un ordinary
mulatto.
His natno is nn English adaptation of
hi» nativo title, which his interpreter
»pells K bill ora. Ho has ono wife, nn«l
sho is regent in bis absence. While in
Han Francisco ho was tho guest of tho
eaptain with whom bo came, n» were
his nephew, Prince Antnvar, and hi» In
terpreter. an old pilot known simply a»
Jack. Tho king speaks no English. The
Gilliert fidmidH mtrnlxT sixteen, lying
on both »ides of tlie equator, alwiut 1,600
miles southwest of Honolulu. The peo
ple aro M-milMirbarona, but King Ton
bramo live» in n nice frmno house, is
greatly impressed by the geniti» of tho
Americans who trade tit bis ono wharf,
Low IVugrn In llolirinin.
an«l intends to visit the principal cities
According
to tho report < f Consul
of the Unite«! Htates to get klcaa for tho
Hawes, tho average weekly wages of
advancement of bis people.
100,000 working jx-ople ill 1,131 establish
ments in the coiumlar district of Reich-
Wanted a Hare Thlnfc.
enlierg, Bohemia, are 6.13 florins ($2.57)
The mnnatfpr of a Binnll t heat deal for adult main and V.72 florins ($1.56) for
company traveling in the northweet, adult females. Judging from tliu depos
having rercntly Rome “open time” on its lu savings banks and the capital of
hia route Ixxik, wrote to the proprietor building and loan awociatioiia in tho
of a hall in a little Tillage in the State United Htatca, it is not too much to say
of Worthington to arrange for a (late. that tho average American working
Tho following reply can»M*<l hint to give man, after paying for everything ho bos
np tho idea of playing that particular UM-d (ami ho live* better than die work
town:
ingman of any other coiuirty in tho
Yoen to hand. I won’t play on «halm no world), has as lunch money left at tho end
more. Your < urn ¡»any will Lav to tend me Un
Dollar« for one night nnd supply thalr own of the week as a woman earns in Bohe
krrronran and lamj*. They will alUxi liav to mia, and ulumst as Inticli as mourned
build tbnir own «taigr. !>«•<■»»'>•* the last cum- there by a full grown man. This fact
pany broke it down. Thalr ain't no money in speaks more eloquently in favor of our
plain# on «hairs In thia town, and I wont a
protective policy than any thiofctical
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argument we could adduce.
Gel In * N-roud Vol*.
Home of the French-Canadian» who
have adopted tho United States as their
home are proving remarkably apt polit
ical pupils, as was shown in Lewiston,
Me., where one fellow voted in Ward 2
as Antoine Boisverts and in Ward 3 an
Antoine Greenwood. The simple trans-
Only
m
•»tempi« C»««*.
In 163», nntler a low pottery ilnty, an
anaort>»l pacitg;v of or Imuy olita» ware
cwt nlnety-fivo dollars <".t tlio dock.
T«»lay, nndsr tho Mr Kink y la*, tho
•amo quantity of geoda aud i.f niporu-T
oualitv cun.lo
j d« Har»-