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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
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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 :