Image provided by: Tillamook County Library
About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1894)
. Vol. VII. No. 30 TILLAMOOK. OREGON. THURSDAY. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, THAT LRIDGT QUESTION. DECEMBER 20. 1894. filial to the I pct it ionera, and soon M i ;. O i / if N eijion —We uro quite you will see* Friend Olof, how interested in yourl citers published m nicy is used ami expended in I’llYSL 'l AX. St ItGEON lillmmsik. Mr. Holden was elect - pu the H eadlight . indeed you are ANI» ACCOUCHEUR. ed judge ami Mr. West? and Mr. i iminifesl ing a good deal ofeouinion Kelso com in issioners, and "so we All cnll. promptly Hit. mieti I > j sense mid inter-st Ibr the welfare Ofllceal the A i . kkksian . TILLAMOOK. OKE. had n new court w illing to any tiling ¡of this county, more Ilian we else except to do justice to the pe yy HAYDON, M. D. i thought you in pose.ssiou of, but we titioners. k jfhe first bill that came against Special intention to Surgery ami -can expect I hi II i good an bad of the new road was a bill of damages Chronic Jlisesses. I the Swedes as well aa oilier nations, of Mr. Kelso,¡over whose* laud the BAY CITY, ORE. according to I lie quality of I In* man. road was to run—bill put nt 8.300, A our first letter 'nuked somewhat and allowed at_$200. Then the W J..MAY, I funny Imt the second had so much court proposed to the'petitioners if they wauled the road they had ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, good common sense in it that we to pay one-half, or one hundred changed our opinion of you very Tll.I.AMOOK, OKEGON. dollars, and, believeiug that settled much. the matter, they paid it gladly, so Now, about yourqiiealions. We the road was established by the | T. MAL'LSBY, will try to answer to some extent. court and tile people dared to be ATTORNEY-AT-I.AW, ’ bill you must not expect too much lieve all trouble was over, and Notary Piililic aik I Reni listate Con ve vh licei of us, for we know but vary little hoped soon to have the bridge TlLl.AMOOK. OREGON. 1 of what you asked for Imt w hat built on the only right place, i we know we are going to tell you. where it would have been a great (’LAIDE Hi AVER.- Without doubt you have heard benefit to the whole settlement on | something ttlaiul tlm Wilson river the Wilson river, (Imt is of very AUUKWiX^vr-^.HV, j bt ulges a mJ road-ulfan s, which liltkfclieiietit J.O the people where it | have been a standing case for about is now) but it was not many weeks TII.I.AMOOK. OKEGON. l four years, eras long as Mr. Holden after before the sound of the pile | kept the office of County Judge, driver was heard at the old bridge. W. SEVERANCE, and as you want to know where The court had then authorized Mr. money goes, you will, in the pro Freeman to rebuild the old bridge ATTORNEY-AT LAW, ceedings, understand something in the same place. The petitioners then saw they were decieved in TILLAMOOK, OIIKGON. about it. About four and a half years ago the hope they had cherished, yet MISCELLANEOUS. the old bridge at. Mr. Freeman's it was to uppear as a repairing, was almost rotted away, a big but the intention was to rebuild a wrack heap of drift wood lodged section each year. That expense Prices to Suit against it, and it was destroyed, so on the bridge we heard was over the Times: it was necessary to build a new $41)0.00, and immediately (encour bridge across the Wilson river. aged by the authorities. We sup Having been caused great trouble pose Mr. Freeman began to run a Made to order. -H- and inconvenience by I living the remonstrance in order to vacate Kepairing done as cheap as the cheapest. bridge at a wrong place, the whole the new road, mid was successful Come and be convinced. Advocate Building. neighborhood agreed upon getting because favored by the court. Next P. F. BROWNE. tip a petition for a change of place winter after repairing the bridge a for the bridge, so it would be a ben-, freshet caused a wrack-heap to efit for the neighborhood, as well lodge against it, washing away the as for the traveling public at large, north apron and damaging the and consequently, as a necessity, a bridge. A new repairing, said to change of road. The petition was cost about 8150.00, was done. Now favorably accepted by the court. every thing was set in order til) ----- +----- Mr. Cooper was then judge, being next time came, ami it came the First Class in ¿very Particular. well aquainted with the locality, next winter. Another wrack heap S H avlng, and he knew the demand of the lodged against the bridge and Mair Cutting, people was nothing else but just damaged it so that the court, after Shampooing and fair, and the court ordered the viewing it, found it of no use to re BATH ROOMS IN CONNECTION. road to be viewed and surveyed. pair it again. Meanwhile the pe —♦— Tht pntronage of the public is respect- So far was everything all right, but titioners were not satisfied with ul y solicited. Mr, Freeman, always opposed to the proceedings of the court in va the change, declared so long as lie cating the road they needed so had a dollar to his name no change much and lutd paid for too, so they should take place. Regardless of appealed to the circuit court for that the people went ahead, trdol justice and were successful. The PAINTING, the road to ing that justise would be done to circuit court restored • and Paper-hanging. the petitioners, but Mr. Freeman them, but a change of officers took For estimates and prices call on, or write to H kkman . n G essner , Beaver Post office, place at that time, which proved and the court were dissatisfied j )AV11> WILEY. M. D.. - - - - - - - - BOOT? and ?|IOE? CHA?. pETER?ON. BARBER SHOP- Frescoing, Decorating, Tillamook County. Ore. Z «A.... > .»A £4 $1.50 Per Year. with the decision mid took appeal to the supreme court, but even there the petitioners were given justice. Then the petitioners pe titioned (lie comity court to build the bridge at the upper place and it was granted to them. At Inis lime one of the old com missioners was gone and a good man. Mr. Bridgeford, was appoint ed. He was a man of justice and had he remained in court to the end of the case the bridge surely would not have been taken from the people and given to one man. flint, least of all. had any need of it. Then the court advertised for two bridges to be built, one across the Wilson river, the other across the slough, and the plan was ac cepted which was iio good, and the court could have known it if it had wanted to, for if they did not understand bridge building they should have called on some one else to assist. The contract was given to a party wl.o built the two Jiridges for about $J 700.00 (the slough bridge to cost about $400.- 00). Finished in September, it was accepted and pronounced a firs» class bridge, but every person that had any knowledge about bridges said “it will go down of its own weight” mid others “the first high water will take it away,” and so it did. There you see, friend Olof, $1300.00 went in one stroke. Well, the tax payers pay the cost. All right then. Well, now, the op poser and the court try to smooth over their carelessness by putting the blame on the place, but the place is there yet, and is as good as ever. A new site, better of course, must be found, mid ii com- mitte of of bridge builders and the court examined every foot of ground from the old bridge to the new and they located a site about 150 or 200 feet below tlio wrecked bridge, and ordered the petitioners to get up a petition for a small change of road to where the new bridge was to be built, and they, trusting everything would come all right went to work and run it and were successful in every way of legal undertaking in this mat ter. They went home glad of their success, but Mr, Freeman was at work with his assisting friends from the bay. They knew the court better than the petition ers and as they left court be went in with one of his influential friends and proposed to the court to build the bridge very cheap if they