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W. F. D. JONES.
T he C ounty O fficial P aper
------ Independent in Politic»------
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The public does t care about “somebody
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building of hen coops," etc. Write about sonic
thing interesting 01 not at all. Write as plainly
as possible. If yon can't spell correctly, 01
use goo.l grammar, never mind that
Don't
let a good news item spoil on that account. We
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help to those who wish to write for papers
The space in this papet is yours. Make use of
it if you like
Uhe Famous Wilson IRiver Tfcuie
benefit the Southern timber and for pencils. The sequoia is the big
lumber trade.
The benefits of tree of California, anti thus are the
this waterway would hoof incalcu old giants of that state to be liter
lable Bev ice to the sections which ally whittled out of existence.
I
now contain the largest and most
(W est C oast L umberman .)
valuable timber reserves of the: Theatrical managers have fre
T he M ost P opular beach R e
United States. The Gulf country quently recommended our cedar F orest G rove to T illamook by Q uickest , C heapest , and B est
sort on the C oast .
route to P ortland .
can well echo the cry going up sawdust as the only proper filling
T he W ilson R iver R oad .
from the far Northwest: “Build for chorus girls tights as its rich,
lluppy Camp now ready, bath horn«» will be
Connects with evening train in Forest Grove
The best mountain road, the most magnificent so passengers from Tillamook arrive in Portland prepared soon, and stages will connect with the
the canal!”
healthy odor has it good effect on
scenery on the Pacific coast.
SPRING CHICKENS PREFERRED.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Advocate, very pertinently re
marks:
“If yon have any article of table
use that is about to spoil on your
hands just bring it around
Advocate oftice and apply
subscription.”
Well, the H ea DLIOHT is never
behind in any enterprise, and will
agree to pander to the curiosity of
its subscribers
hapenings, and i
that is palatable
return.
However, we prefer dressed
they are rich
spring chickens, as
i
in the necessary ingredients to
build up tbe pliyiscal system of a
hungry editor, and contain abun
dant nitrogenous material to repair
the worn-out tissues of an overtax
ed brain. If you want a good pa
per bling us plenty of yelow legged
chickens.
Those who wish to do wlint is
fair and right might take a string
of fish around to the Advocate
office occasionally.
LUMBER NOTES
Cheapest rates of
same day. Only 10 hours on stage.
the voice.
toll in the state.
Leaves Forest Grove 6:30a. m. Sundays, Tues
Four horse team, $2 00 Round trip, $3 25
days and Thursdays.
The dry hhiisoii and frequent Two
”
”
150
”
’5®
Leaves Tillamook, Mondays, Wednesdays, and
and buggy, 1.00
”
i-5<>
lire« are again warning mill men Horse
Fridays.
”
cart, 1.00
1.50
Engage
seats at Tillamook hotel or of r . < .
or pack horse.50
that precaution is ciieaper than I Saddle
McNamer, Forest Grove, who can be reached by
Loose horse or cow 12J4
telephone from Portland.
05
coidlagration. A
band pump Sheep or swine
with a lever on which four men Take ths Sunset Route for Tillamook. New Wagons, New Stock, Sals Driving.
Good accommodations en route.
A. W. S everance , Receiver.
can work is a cheap water system
and when set a few yards from a
mill can be operated at any time.
1'liis with one or two hundred feet
of two inch hose would furnish
ample protection for most of the
smaller mills or would be an effec
tive addition to the fire system of
the large mill. A pump of this
style could always be manned at a
moments notice.
A good lumberman says that as
a rule mill hands on this coast
have very little regard for stock
and think nothing of sticking a
picaroon in the middle of a w ide
clear plank or spitting tobacco
juice on a nice pile of finish, Time
will educate men in this section
the same as it has in the others to
the necessity of care in handling
the better grades of lumber. Na
ture has been so lavish with tim
At their Hobsonville store they carry a large stock of
ber on this coast that men nutur-
nlly grow reckless in handling it
and, until educated, often fail to
discriminate between a clear board
and a cultus slab.
Lumbermen who have a ten
dency to get off a bud pun occa
sionally should take something to
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hardware, Groceries,
cure the disease. Probably the
Feed, Provisions, Etc.
best corrective would be a careful
reading of these two gems from
the last issue of the Lumber
Attention to Oiderç in
World:
“The superficial observer might
say that the logger slabbers where
he peaveysldy says: “I cant-hook
STEAMER TRUCKEE
it!’’ All the same it is knot slab
bering.”
Agents for the fast sailing Steamer Truckee,
carrying passengers and freight from San Fran
‘‘A skillful carpenter ought to
ci>eo, Tillamook and Portland. Trips everv
be able to ex-plane all j-okes knot
two weeks, weather permitting.
—R ates :—
too in-tree-cate, and fir-there-more
Cabin, one way, (Tillamook and S. F.)
$15 00
he should be able to put up jams
9 00
Steerage ”
Cabin, Round Trip.
$14 00
without ju is.”
Some of the daily papers have n
(I’fGET Sol'NII LUMBERMAN.)
fashion of putting more words in
Yellow pine manufacturers of
their large display headings than
belong there. A full line is sup th« south have advanced prices on
posed to be necessary for typo lumber. They evidently conclnd-
graphical neatness, but a half line ■ ed that they were not in the busi
looks better than several words ness for their health alone iih the
manufacturers of Washington lum
run together without spacing.
ber generally are.
Lumber freights oil' shore have
materially advanced the past
month owing to the demand for
deep water tonage, particularly on
lumber cargoes. An unusual de
mand for lumber from Chili is an
ticipated this summer, and mill
owners generally anticipate a
healthy foreign trade this year.
The Northwest Lumberman, of
Chicago in noting a call from W.
11. Hanson, of the Tacoma mill
1HE HEMLOCK BARK BUSINESS.
company, says the day he visited
that oftice he sold 400,000 feet of
But a few years ago the hemlock
lumber without going from under bark industry of Wisconsin, Michi
national committee of re the roof of tbe Old Colony building gan and Minnesota was insignifi
publican clnlis lit (’leveland, Ohio, and the day before 100,000 feet. cant. For the most part timber
dared not tackle the money ques The next day be turned his face
owners paid no attention whatever
tion. All mention of silver or toward Tacoma again, as his mil) to this asset. If they cut hemlock
gold was carefully avoided. It Ims orders which foot up about
nt nil was in connection with pine,
was policy, but the democrats will 15,000,000 feet to get out.
and it was handled in the .sume
say it was cowardly. The siber
Speaking of large trees, said Mr. way. But this was in the days
ites are jubilant, though in the Wheeler, of Wheeler, Osgood .\ when there
was an abundance of
minority, to think they could Co., “1 was down to Elma the
hemlock in l’ensylvanin and before
force a compromise, mid their suc other day and n gentleman took
the tanners began seriously to
cess is far beyond all expectations. me over to see the stump of a
look for suplios elsewhere. Now,
It begins to look ns if the republic cellar tree which had been burned,
however, the bark industry lias
ans and deniociats both will strad except the outer rim, and this
come to have almost as important
dle this question in their next measured 15 feet across on the in-
a place in the lumbering industry
national conventions.
ssde. The num who showed me ot Michigan and Wisconsin as it
the stump had offered to take his has in Pennsylvania, and the lum
CANAL WOULD BENEFIT THS SOUTH Sunday school class of ten boys,
berman is no longer looking upon
The Sont licrn Lumbei-miin of mounted on ponies, and put them Ilia hemlock timber simply as to
the lumber be can get out of it,
Nashville, Tenn., believe« the Nic all inside of this i
was
one
day
an
but adds to that value the pro
aragua canal would benefit tho
ceeds of the bark.—Timberman.
Gulf anil South A tlniitie «täte« a« giant.”
The Southern Lumberman, of
Here is a pointer for the hemlock
well uh tlm Pacific const. The
Nashville, Tenn., is willing to bark industry of Washington. The
paper says:
"Mears. Tatum & Bowen, of wager a straw hat that the third hemlock, or more properly now,
Portland, Oregon, in n letter to the trial effort to run il largo raft of the Alaska pine, has not been in
West (’oast Lumberman for May, logs out of the Columbia river and favor on the coast as a timber, and
are earnestly advocating the com down the Pacific coast to Sail there Ims been little or no demand
pletion of the the Nicaragua canal Francisco will prove il success, for the bark, but in line with what
ill the interest of the lumber in notwithstanding tho two previous is occurring in the middle western
dustry of the Pacific slope. They failures involving a loss of 940,000. states the W. C. Benedict Leather
hold (lint every lumberman in that 'I’lie Lumberman bases its large Company is now building a tan
section should be pledged to confine stake on dogged persistency that nery Maple Valiev, near Seattle,
their efforts strictly to the business ini ites good luck. The new raft and has already contracted for
<>l securing the Nicaragua canal— which w ill soon be ready to float several thousand cords of hemlock
chopping down every obstacle. is to be 525 feet long, 52 feet wide, bark from which the tannin ex
There is nothing else of the slight 30 feet deep and draw 21 feet of tinct is to be inaile, It is also an-
nounced that with the revival of
est importance in comparison with water.
thin canal propoeition.
An example of wlmt must some better times better times the ex-
“But it is not the timber and day be true of the great forests of tensive tannin extract works at
lumber of the l’acifie slope alone Puget Sound, the lend pencil users Gray’s IlnrlHir are to be started up
that is to be benefited. The val- have whittled away several big again. Thus it is not improbable
liable timber and lumber internata forests of cedar trees in Europe that tbe inncli despised and ne
of the Gulf anil South \tlantic and the supply of wood is practic glected hemlock may become the
Stilles would find new markets for ally exausted in the Old World. head of the corner in the estab':»b-
their product from San Francisco It is stated that an order has just inent of a prosperous industry <>.:
down the coast to Santiago, Chili, been placed by a noted German the coast.—Lumberman.
and also in Atistni'.iii. China, and firm of pencil makers with a Cali-
Japan. The stimulus to ail kinds foil ill lumber company for a large liipans Tabules cure bad breath,
li i pans Tabules : for bad temper,
of industry in the cotton and yel quantity of sequoia wood. which is
low pine belts would indirectly found tobs the best wood mailable
fai ans Tabules : a family remedy
Best Road,
Netarts Beach.
Stage Line.
The Sunset Route.
l-'orest Grove Stage.
If you want to see the sea
lions’, the arched rocks, and
tbe grandest scenery in America,
come to Netarts. Good ac
colti niodatlons reasauable.
The Mecca of all Coast Tourists.
Addre»« I>. J H adley , Tillamook.
Best Beach
Best Stage,
c°
0«.EE LU1W»1
oí H
Lots.
MAIL SCHEDULE.
T illamook and N orth Y amhill :—
Leave N. Yamhill daily except Sunday 8 p. in.
Arrive at Tillamook next day by
4 p. m.
Leave Tillamook daily except Sunday 6 p. ni.
Arrive N. Yamhill next day
2 p. ni.
T illamook and H obsonville :—
L've Tillamook daily except Tuesday 6:00 a.m.
Arrive Hobsonville
9:00 a.m.
L've Hobsonville, except Tuesday . .2:15 p.m.
Arrive Tillamook
5-15 p.m.
N etarts :—
Leaves Tillamook Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays at ...............
7 a. m.
Arrives Netarts
12 111.
Leaves Netarts, same days,
. 1 p.in.
Arrives Tillamook by
6 p. m.
B arnegat :—
Round trip to be performed on Monday.
G rand R ond :—
Leaves Grand Rounde daily except Sunday
at 6 p. m., or on arrival of mail from McMinn
ville.
Arrives at Tillamook at 1.45.
Leaves Tillamook Daily except Sunday at 6
p. ni. or on arrival of mail from N. Yamhill,
which is usually 4:30.
Arrives at Grand Ronde at 1:45.
Post Office hours, 7:30 A. M. to 8:00 P. M.
Money Order department, 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P. M.
Sunday 3:00 to 2:00 P. M.
DIHKCTOHY.
STATE OF OREGON.
Governor
w. P. Lord
Secretaiy of State
IL R K incaid
Treasurer
P hil . M etchan
Supt. of Public Instruction
G. M. I rwin
Attorney-General
C. M. I dlkman
State Printer
\v. H Leeds
iR. 8. B ean
Supreme Judges ..
<F. A. M oore ,
<C. W olverton
Member Board of Equalization . S. 1). G ibson
ÎG eo . h . B urnett
Circuit Judges ....
I H. H. H ewitt
Prosecuting Attorney
J ames M c C ain
Joint Senator........... ’.
J. W. Maxwell
Representative.............
H. G. G uild
UNITED STATES OFFICALS:
*
M itchem .
i J. N. D olph
H ermann
W. R. K lli »
[ R out .A. M iller
U. S. Land Office, Oregon C'ity^
Register,
Peter Paquet
I
Receiver.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Judge
W. W. C onder
jD. P. H akvkv
Commissioner
II. b . alley
Clerk...........................................
T. H. Gorsr.
Sheri If...........................................
J. H. J ackson
Treasurer .................................
J ohn B arker
Assessor...................................
A. T. W hite
Surveyor .....................................
A. M. A ehiin
School Superintendent
. .
I.. P. S mith
Coroner ..............................
C. E. R eynolds
Deputy Prosecuting Attornc •y
K. E. S kli ' h
Circuit Court convenes tl_
M
be 4th Monday , in
August, and an adjourned term is generally
held 111 the spring.
PRECINCT:
Freight, general merchandise, San Francisco Justice of the Peace
................... I. T. M aclsbv
Constable ...
or Portland, >3 00 per ton.
CITY OFFICIALS^
S 5,ILl'tlt
Mayor........
E. E. S elph
Manager Store and Mill. Hobsonville. Oregon Council j
D. R easoner
............... J ohn J ones
..................... L.. H iner
Mills at Truckee, Cal..
W. H. R eynolds
.................. G eo . C ohn
Recorder
C. N. D rew
Treasurer
A lfred W illiams
Marshall
W. T. Perry
m w «
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SCHOOL BOARD
11 Harrisson, A w. Severance, and Claude
lhayer.—( lerk, Tom Coates.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
C hristian C hurch :—Rev. h . B. Morgan
pastor. Services on Sundays at 11 o'clock \ M*
and at 7:30 P. M. until further notice.
M E. CHURCH -Rev. I). McLachlan, pastor.
Senators
Congressmen
}
V?-sV*ct*.
(2nd District .
J. E. SIBLEY,
Principal Office, 249, Berry St., S. F.
■Headlight and Oregonian $2.00
days at Nehalem.
C atholic C hurch :—N o pastor at present.
SOCIETY DIRECTORY.
r m ?n'l o U f
"‘td-t »> 7
D.T. Edmunds, ¿^"der ”• Edn,und’' M *-
H A. WOODFORD, Proprietor.
HOOK & LADDER CO. -Meets on first Tues
day night of each month in City Hal
Geo
nd
Drew, Adjutant; f w. Waxwell.Commander
r. V in°L
'*>
Tï? ALDERMAN
Per Secretary.
8ecretar>'' *“• Hamilton,
m ., r. R. Bealg, Secretary.
JOHNSON CHAPTER NO. 24.—Meets at 7 to p
O f ” t|Ia!i,rdJSF U’r’» rV of each month «1 1 O*
^cretary
4. E. Sibley, H. P.; W. W. Conder.
w
First Class In tbe Strictest
Sense of the Word. Rates SI
to S2 per day.
Tillamook. Ore.
SILVER WAVE CHAPTFR Nn t « n F «
Mrs"VAdF?ur‘,l4w ?!!turda>’ of pac'1 month'
Mrs. A. a . Ford, w M.;G. w. Pettit, Secretary.
School Sm»„7TI,e T'!lani,ook Secular Sunday
oin'h.™ ,,tvery Bunday at 3, P M. in the
coun house
Mr». J. E. Hosni», Supt.
ALLEN HOUSE
( )
J. P ALLEN. Prop'r.
on^R nT»r»?n , r PP ,e yonr "nme printed
indic»rw th. ,?f >our p"P*,r or 0,1 ,h>- » rapper
'
,h' ' ■ ' yo,,r «"tweription expire»
M^ VnT nTi"S1,Ore,,ew “*
tin".P All
papers sent to parties outside the cotintv are
J nio1',X'1,'"U<"1 Whe." ,ht'rtlme expire,
fhe eoimv ?n a,rr<'"Fa8e •’ the limit within
t.
6«tsubscriptnn, it
sarj Bret to pay alf arrearaar.
Noted for it* Fine Cuisine Department.
Ladd’s New Gun Store
Best Meals In the City.
TILLAMOOK. OREGON
New line of all sporting
4 goods. Campers. Fisher
men and Prospectors sup
plied at reduced rates
Highest cash price paid for
Raw Furs.
SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
Addrew Ladd's Cun Store.
Cor. Third A Market Sts , S an Fuitcisco.
M
H
LARSEN, Propt etor
:.. •••
ARSEN HOUSE
LOUISE
Suñdav«
°¿cry morning (except
Trip»m»dedu th«°.n°ck r' “"'nin« .bout noon
anrer tonehe.:?^:.’on’01h0en^,,,rd,r’
WBRIELSOI, Master.
Ri| M» Tabules : one gives relief.
R ¡pans Tabules have com2 to stay.