. ILLAMOOK. OREGON. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1894.
Vol. VII. No. 21
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
THE BIG BAFT
1 he Astoi'ian of October 12, says: |
j JAVII) WILEY. M I).,
¡"Yesterday at noon the monster
rail, which for the past six weeks
AND ACCOIKTIEPR,
has been in course of construction
All calls profit; tly attended t >
at Stella, arrived safely in Port in
office at the A1.OEE .IAN.
TILLAMOOK, ORE
tow ol tlm lug Monarch ami (lie
steamer City of Frankfort. The
HAVPON, M. I).
Monarch dropped anchor at a point
opposite
the O. R. and N. dock,
Special a!tenti»»n to Surgery and
and held on to the raft with a
t’hroni - Piscases.
hawser, both swinging with the
BAY CITY, ORE.
tide and nearly blocking lip the
channel, for the time being, so long
\y I MAY,
is the peculiar looking craft. Hun
dreds of people Hocked to the water
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
front and watched the progress of
TILLAMOOK, OREGON.
the steamers with the big tow from
the moment they came in sight of
J T. MAULSBY,
| the river above Tongue Point, until
!anchor was dropped abreast the
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
! city, after which many people
Notai y Public anti Real Estate ConveyHiicer.
| visited the raft during the after-
TILLAMOOK. OREGON.
. noon.
PIIYSLT IN, SI IKilON
(JLAFDE THAYER,
A'l TORNEY- Vl’-I.A W,
T illamook , O regon
W. SEVERANCE.
ATTORNEY-AT LAW,
Tll.l. XMOoK. OKKGON.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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blacksmith
Wngvll insklux, Rial Hll kinds of Wood work
Mill
«nd General UlRckRinlUmig done.
Mncliinery Repaired.
Wagons Made to Order.
£4^-llor«e shoeing a Sjxvialty-
TIM.ANOOK. OHL.
CHAg. PETERSON.
BARBER SHOP-
First Class in Every Particular.
Shaving,
Mair Cutting.
Shampooing
BATH ROOMS IN CONNECTION.
The patronage of the public is reiqieet-
uljy solicited.
Frescoing, Decorating.
painting ,
and Paper-hanging.
For estimates and prices call on. or write to
H ermann G rshxfr . Beaver Post-office.
4i
Tillamook County. Orc.
Looking at it from a distance it
, resembles very mach the whale-
¡back class of vessels, and appears
to be very solidly constructed. In
dimensions the raft is 100 feet
shorter, but seven feet wider beam
’ and seven feet deeper than the
raft that was constructed last year
' n( Goos Bay, and contains at least
one third more limber. It is 525
feet in length, 52 feet beam, taper-
ing to two feet at the ends, 27 feet
deep, and draws 20 feet aft and 19
feCt, 6 inches forward. It contains
9000 piles, averaging forty feet in
lei iigtli, in running feet a total of
! 360,000. A part of the raft is com
J posed of 8000 running feet of ship's
I spars, which, with the piling,
j makes a total of 4,500,000 lineal
I feet. The raft is formed around a
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Works, uml they left out about
8 o’clock in the evening. This raft
is consigned to the Southern Pacific
railroad at San Francisco, and it is
expected that ten days will be con
sumed in towing it down. Another
raft will lie framed at Stella this
w inter and taken out in I lie spring.
When work was started on the
cradle at Alderbrook It was in
tended to load 300.000 feet of Inno
her on the raft at the Clatsop Mills,
but on account of the lateness of
(he season the idea Wils abandoned.
Mr. A. K. Robertson left for San
Francisco on the Monarch, ami Mr.
\V. E. Baines returned to Stella
last night to supervise the eon
struction of the second raft.
L atek :—The tali got safely out
and has been sighted on her journey
down the coast.
FOR SETTLEMENT.
Township 3 north, range 6 west,
was throw n open for filing Monday.
A number of filings were made by
settlers with the register of the
land office at Oregon City on that
day, about a dozen going from this
place. Among the number were
Win. Watrous, Dr. G. <». Rogers,
A. F. Shearer, Mr. Witt and Geo.
ami E. J. and John Straight. This
is a line timber region ami also
et>ntsii uh much good agricultural
land and is situated at the extreme
head of the Nehalem river. The
township was first entered by Jas.
Stephenson and Geo. K. Burnett,
wll(l lna(]e a private survey of a
part of it and opened up the old
military wagon road about four
years ago.—Forest Grove 1 imes.
$1.50 Per Year.
lax list, and t he combination never
dreamed that the county court
would take a hand and let the
work to the lowest bidder. The
H eaui . ight does not like to cut
rates, but it is willing to be out a
little for the fun of bursting a con
spiracy. The bidding was a great
surprise to the Advocate, and after
Mr. Handley read it in the H ead
light he squirmed around trying
to convince the authorities that
Iiis bid was the lowest. Fifty cents
per column is very cheap, even it
it were so. but the Advocate has
several columns that it does not
get one cent per column for. and
and the balance are not worth one
cent to its readers. It doesn’t,
even give the court proceedings.
As to starving concerns,—well, the
Advocate was just dying ami was
offered repeatedly nt 8500. Finally
Mr. Handley got it I’or873 in county
orders, and two or three other
parties whose names dare not be
published took a little stock on the
European plan. The thing will be
to sell or give away again soon.
The H eadlight has llm business
in this country and is content with
it. See which starves out first!
It touched I lie Advocate in a
sore
spot when the tax list was let
main chain 540 feet long, to which
are attached cross chains which go p» the H eadlight . In fact, tl.e
crosswise through the raft at inter- Advocate expected to get 40 cents
vals of 12 feet on the main body of per line for doing the work—enough
the structure, ami at the tapering to pay for its 8350 outfit. Forty
ends, herring-bone chains are used cents a line is a little over 25 times
and are laid at right-angles to the the rate that it will be done for.
main chain. Attached to the lat but when the Advocate realized
ter are the chains which encircle that the H eadlight hud knocked
the raft, and when being towed, their combination out of sight, it
the tighter the strain on the main bid only two cents a line, just a
chain, the more compact arc the shade over the H eadlight . In
fact as every printer knows both
piling held together.
There was no trouble experi bids scraped the bottom, ami were
enced in coming down the river, only nominal figures. It was noth
except an accident near Woody ing but a contest between two
island, w here they spent the night, papers, ami the H eadlight got
the raft drifting against the tug s there. No use to cry because our
rudder and damaging it slightly. bid was one.half cent lower. Every,
As soon as they arrived in the body umlerstamlsthat theAdvocate
city yesterday the broken parts was kept going only with the un
were repaired by t e Astoria Iron' derstanding that it would get the
The Observer acknowledges a
call from Indian policeman Pave
Leno, of Grand Ronde.
Mr. Leno
ami his party were on their way
home from the State Fair, ami he
does not report that they enjoyed
tlieir slay there the best in the
world. Leno is one of the largest
farmers on the reservation. His
farm of 3(10 acres is located at the
junction of tlm salmon river and
Neslucca roads. Mr. Leno was
born in Oregon, near Chemawra,
and was moved to (he Grand Ronde
reservation 3(1 years ago. He says
there are only thirteen pure-blood
Indian families at Grand Ronde,
and a total population of 3(10.—
I »alius (»bserver.
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career .Jerome K. Jerome is about
towrite directly for an American
audience. This work consists of a
series of papers similar in vein to
Ida “Idle Thoughts of an Idle
Fellow,’’ but addressed to American
girls and women. The articles will
begin shortly in The Ladies’ Home
Journal, which periodical will
print the entire series.
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