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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, NOVEMBER 24, 1898 But your mother says it’s true 4000 population, the appointment of a WRECKED ON THE COAS . FRESH FROM THE YUKON. Bad man’s got a-hold of you. truant officer is to be authorized, whose A Tillamooker Comes Home for How about it, little Miss, Fred C. Baker. PultliMher And 34 Men Find a Watery Grave. duty it shall be to look after the children With the rosy lips to kiss ? the Winter. | Y aqltna , Or., Nov. 18. — The British who should be in school. Couldn’t punish her a bit, Two men, fresh from the Yukon, ar It is agreed that countv treasurers ship Atalanta, carrying a crew’ of 27 men Official Paper, Tillamook City and County And that just clean settles it. rived in Portland on the late train from should act as treasurers for school dis and loaded with 2800 tons of wheat, But I couldn’t bear to whip her. the Sound Friday night. They «re from Tacoma for South Africa, was tricts, and that no funds be turned over When I see her sweet lips curl, Captain Arthur Riggs, who left Portland RATES OF SUMCKIPTIOM wrecked near Alsea bay yesterday morn to the district clerks, so the clerks will For she’s such a very little, (STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.) last May. and F. A. Elliott, of Newberg, be relieved of the necessity of giving ing. and so far as known there are but Such a tiny, little girl! One year ....................................... $i 5<> who went in with the first trip of the three survivors. bonds. ___ Six months......................................... 75 steamship Elder, leaving Portland July The causes of the wreck of the Atalanta Three months . ............................................... 5° WHEN TO MARKET PRODUCTS. and the circumstances attending it, pro 31, 1S97. Both say they are glad they The Ranch Girl of the West. Office at corner of Main and 2od streets. went, and both will return to the Yukon duce a tale most harrowing. The mis Holding for Better Prices Some There’s a simple grace about her that her management of the vessel by its officers in the spring. times Causes a Loss. garb cannot disguise, EDITORIA!, NOTES & NEWS. Riggs used to work for the O. R. & A writer in an article in the Country 1 is ascribed as the case of the disaster, and N. Co., but he resigned last April to go There is frolic in her nature, laughter in Gentleman says: “It is just as import 1 the crippling of the Yaquina life-saving her sparkling eyes, j north. His first engagement after leaving O ur peace commissioners in Paris are ant to know how to market to advant station by a penurious policy of that de There is vim in every action, vocal ginger ■ Portland was with the Canadian Pacific wrestling with terms to be decided upon. I owa has reason to I feel proud of its age as how to produce to advantage. partment of the government, adds horror in her words, Spain sees the inevitable. She is po wer- position at the head of the republican Profit depends fully as much on getting r; to the situation. The only three sur- to run the steamer Constantine on the kss to stop the United States acquiring column. The Hawkeye state has rallied a good price as upon producing at little . vivors aver that some of their comrades Stickeen river. Before she left \ancouver, And the music of her singing rouses envy in the birds. the Philippine islands. No doubt it ap nobly to the support of President Mc cost.’’ on board the ship may yet be alive. however, Stickeen prospects began to dim, and the Constantine was sold to All the tinting of the roses finds reflection pears to the Spanish jxople that the Kinley bv more than 50,000 majority There is a natural penchant among pro While the members ofthe life-saving crew in her cheeks, United States is somewhat exacting in and a solid republican delegation in the ducers to hold for a better price. It is a t are in sight of the wreck, they are so far British-American Corporation and put demanding the surrender of these islands, national house of representatives. While trait of human nature that a man’s labor • powerless to render assistance, owing to in tow of the steamship South Portland, When she laughs we hear the rippling of her dashing native creeks, but it was for humanity sake this there is naturally a falling off in the or its produce should seem to him to ( the want of apparatus. Meanwhile j which a Boston party had brought country went to war, and it is for hu aggregate vote of Iowa, as in all other have greater value than they have in the i couriers scoured the beach and country I around from the Atlantic coast, for St. And the tenderest emotions sway the heart within the breast manity sake we want to relieve Spain. states; as compared with the returns in eyes of others. The majority of men over , adjacent for 10 miles, to procure horses , Michaels. The Constantine met the fate No one can blame Spain for holding on the presidential year, when popular ex estimate their ability to handle capital. to bring up the lifeboat and beach cart. of most of the river boats that set out Of that bud of native modesty, the ranch girl of the west. so tenaciously, but the inevitable has citement ran very high, there had been They stand ready to pay a higher rate in tow for St. Michaels; she went to SURVIVORS DRIFTED ASHORE. come and Spain must give up her foreign gratifying republican gains in every of interest for money than they can At 2 o’clock to-day the Atalanta lay pieces in a storm about 400 miles off She can ride the restless broncho in its possessions and sink into insignificance section of the state which can only be make out of it. Hence “the borrower about a mile off shore, in a field of furious ! Qu een Charlotte island. The crew was most rebellious mood, as a nation. In their next memoran interpreted as an assurance of popular becomes servant to the lender.” This is breakers. Every sw’ell passed over her saved by the South Portland, which con Till it bangs its head in meekness, till its dum the American commissioners will go sympathy and appreciation for the something farmers may well consider, w’orks. Each hour a section of the tinued on to St. Michaels. There the spirit is subdued, to the vital points. Definite notice will great work done by President McKinley. for many fanners go into debt when they vessel was seen to fall aw’av, and the British-American Corporation bought She can pitch the long riata o’er the be given that the United States will take horns of fleeing steer, had much better stay out of it. Just as timlxrs float toward the shore. Astrong another river s eamer, the Tvrrel, and over all the Philippines, and Spain will T he west needsand must have millions men overestimate their ability to handle and steady southwester aided the Riggs was given command of her, and And her dauntless border spirit never feels unquestionably learn the terms, from of eastern capital if its development is capital do they overestimate the value of ’ current from the same direction to bear ran her all the season. Leaving St. the thrill of fear. which there will be no deviation. It is to continue at the pace recorded for the their labor and of its product. It comes the wreckage rapidly to the beach. It Michaels, August 13, the Tyrrel made She will ride upon the roundup with a more than likely that the Americans will past quarter of a century. It should be of only normal, healthy self-respect— w’as this power, and agency and this the run to Dawson with a load, and after free and dashing air, fl itly summon Spain to effect an immedi our aim and object constantly to show very valuab’e quality : but it must be alone that enabled the three sailors who I * 1 doing some river business, she was put While the breezes softly ripple through ate amicable adjustment. Should Spain to the world that this is a far more in reckoned with, We are disposed to hold survive the escape the fate of their into winter quarters near the mouth of her loose, unprisoned hair; refuse to make a treaty ceding the In a lifeboat filled w'ith the Stuart river, and Riggs came out to All the dangers of the riders she will viting field for the investment of surplus our products for a higher price, independ brethren. Philippines to the United States, the in share with nervy zest, capital than is cither of the islands of ent of sound reasoning, of conditions or water, partly disabled with wreckage, spend the winter with his wife in Tilla stant alternative for America will lie the the sea recently acquired by Uncle Sam. probabilities. From this inclination we and without oars to direct their craft, mook county. For timidity’s a stranger to the ranch conquest of that territory at an increased Elliott went to the Klondike with L. S. girl of the west. For a lime American money may be may easily adduce our first rule about they w’ere borne to terra firma, thus cost to Spain in the final settlement and passing over a course of nearly two Hill and A. Bowman, of Newberg. Both Mounted on her lively broncho flying at poured into these new possessions, but selling: In case of doubt, sell. possibly with the loss of Spanish life. It Bowman and Hill returned home during Each year the more clearly shows me miles. the time is bound to come when the pre terrific pace may be held that the Philippines, if ceded One man, who was clad in simply a the summer, the former disgusted with She’s an eye-entrancing picture of the eminence of the west as a field fer the wisdom of this rule. Ofcoarse, there now, without any terms, would be an wealth-getting is acknpwledged the are exceptions to every general rule, and, shirt, more hardy than the others, made j the Yukon country, and the latter fairly poetry of grace, adequate war indemnity to the United «as one cannot foresee the exceptions, one his way along the Ixach. He found a | well satisfied with his experience there. And the hoof-beats of her pony as she world over. States for its w ar expenses already in The party was among the first of the must follow the general rule to one’s farmhouse and announced the news, and wildly sjxeds along curred, and that Spain cannot expect, as REVISING THE SCHOOL LAW. occasional loss; but I am convinced that solicited assistance for his companions. rush to get through to Dawson, and had Beat the time in thumping measure to a legal or moral right, any monetary if, year after year, the average farmer When the unfortunates on the Ixach provisions enough for the winter. Bow the music of her song. concessions. Philippine acquisition by The committee appointed to revise the sells his products when he is in doubt were reached they were so Ixnumlxd man worked for wages and the others conquest, however, would entail upon school law of Oregon has about complet whether he should sell or hold, he will w’ith cold as to appear beyond help. It prospected. They struck some good On the hills the gray coyotes catch the ring of her refrain the United States a waste of treasure far ed its labors, and the numerous changesit find that he has done the best thing. It has required nearly 24 hours for one of claims in the course of their prospecting. greater than a sum that Spain may ac suggests will surely meet with approval is easier to find cases of men having held them to regain his powers of mind and Four men are working two of their And their harsh, discordant yelping sounds in envy o’er the plain, cept now* as the basis of peace for the of all citizens, no matter what political too long than men having sold too soon. body. The rescued sailors have been claims on a "lay'' for the winter, taking And the sagehen crouches lower o’er faith they may belong to. A good deal This follows from the inclination I taken into cabins along the beach. ession. half the clean-up for their labor. Elliott the brood within her nest of contention appeared to exist in the have already noticed. So we may say will go in so as tobe present at theclean- The only body that has been picked W iiv is it that so many Oregon raised committee as to a proposed change in Filled with awe to hear the carols of the that the probabilities that one will do up is that of S. A. Jacobson, of Stock up in the spring, which all mine owners young men, who have had many educa the manner of selecting text books, but ranch girl of the west. tional advantages, lack the energy and it was ultimately proposed to recom the wrong thing by holding, the right holm. The wreckage that has come deem it prudent to do. All the rough and dashing riders of the thing by selling when in doubt. Elliott was in Dawson the day after from the stranded ship has been ground ambition to make a mark in the world ? mend that the governor appointed five cattle studded plain If the general trend of prices were up up fine. Nothing of value has been found the big fire that destroyed two full Most every town in Oregon appears to conqxtent men of high character from ward, the probabilities would be in favor blocks of the town. He says the fire left except some of the ship ’ s papers which Are devoted to their princess, loyal sub have a number of young men who apjxar different parts of the state to make the of holding, and this might be put against are in the hands of Captain Clark. Sail no one destitute, so far as he could learn, jects of her reign, to think that the only thing in life is to selection, these men to have no official have a good time and to loaf about and connection with the school system. the natural inclination to hold too long. or Frazer is the most talkative of the he started home October 20. Then there And the lucky knight who wins her feels that he’s secured a prize, grow up in idleness. The natural out Whether this will have a tendency to If being at a higher point at the end of sailors, McMahon and Webber usually was no scarcity of provisions in the come of this is to create a Large propor put a stop to the con ni very of the book a period than at the beginning of it, and endorsing his expressions, He says that Klondike country, and on the way up And rejoices at the envy in the other fel low’s eyes. tion of hudlums, who grow up to be a trusts remains to be seen. One thing is at the beginning of that period than at when the Atalanta struck the breakers the river he met several boatloads of pro worthless, idle class of citizens. Is it the certain, however, the book monopolies end of the proceeding one, then the prob all hands were called on deck. First visions going in, particularly large quali As a quiet wife and mother she’s a gem abilities would be in favor of a higher Mate Hunter, w ho was officer of the ties of fresh meat. There was sure to be of priceless worth, fault of the parents in the training of will not have so many parties to deal price by holding, though there might be deck at the time of the accident, spread an abundance of fresh meat in Dawson Yet her voice is ever ringing with the their children that so many young men with if this becomes a law. On the sur uneven places in that plane and prices the alarm with the call, “Get above, men all winter, he says. For a while butter olden girlish mirth, throw away splendid opportunities to face the proposed charge appears all might be lower one year than they were for your lives. Don’t wait to dress.” and eggs ran a little low, and speculators And the songs of love she carols to the imp ove their standing in society, brought right, but on second thought we believe the proceeding year. If, on the contrary, Captain McBride sprang through the attempted to corner the supply, but baby at her breast about by parents being too indulgent ? it will have «a tendency to bring politics the trend of prices is downward, the hatch exclaiming, “Put the wheel hard more arrived and the market is now easy. Seem as realistic echoes from the ranch It is a sad sight to sec young men of into our school affairs which is not de probabilities are that the best prices will up, square the yards. My God, Hunter, Both Elliott and Riggs say the Yukon girl of the west. ability trying to make themselves tough sirable. In the matter of the vexed ques be got by prompt selling. In fact prices where are you bringing us.’’ The next county is a good country for a man of as they possibly can by participating in tion as to the qualification of a voter in have traversed a descending plane, as moment the vessel struck. The waves good health, and average abilities to go every kind of debauchery against the a school districts of less than 1000 chil A Soliloquy. earnest pleadings of their parents, vet in dren of school age, no exceptions can lx* everyone knows, for the last quarter of lifted her three times so that she settle to. The Klondike is occupied, but they century. It appears to me that this is heavily on the sand. The lastjar parted say the opportunities are as good in other many cases the parents are responsible taken to the proposed change. It reads inevitable, due to labor-saving inventions her just forward the mainmast, as parts of that vast region as they were in This world is such a bubble, doncherknow, for this on account of lack of training on as follows : Full of twails and of twoubles, doncher and the discovery of better methods of though she has been cut with a knife. the Klondike. The country is fairly their part. We have heard much about know ; “Any citizen of this state, male or fe production. It cost less to harvest grain At no time during the accident were shreded with gold-bearing streams, and protection the past few years but very male, married or unmarried, w ho is 21 You come to earth to cwy. with the self-binder than it did in the old seen the carpenter, the steward or the paying claims are by no means hard to little about protecting young men from years of age, and has resided in the dis You grow oldah and you sigh, the haunts of vice which exist more or trict 30 days immediately preceding the days of the cradle and hand rake and sailmaker. The survivors think they find. Elliott, who was out among the Oidali still, and then you die, doncher and hand binding — less than even later never got on deck. McMahon was on the mines most of tile time, though frequent less in every city, and which is even a meeting or election, and has property in know. menace to the young men who have the the district, as shown by the last preced when we had the reaper, but it was nec port watch at the time the ship ly in Dawson, says he knew of very few And it ’s all a howwid mix, doncherknow. moral courage and determination to ing assessment, upon which he or she is essary to bind the grain by hand ; hence grounded. He relates that Captain Mc men who were without means of getting Business, loveandpolitics,doncherknow; the price of wheat is a little less on this Bride ran to him sobbing, “ My boy, we through the winter in reasonable com- shum them. Perhaps someone can throw required to pay a tax of not less than Fashions, follies, cliques and sets, It costs less to plow and are lost. I want you to promise to stand tort. He is interested in four or fivegood some light oil whv so many young men $5. shall lx* entitied to vote at any such account. Clubs and pawties, sighs, wegwets, fit an acre with the sulky steel plow and by me. 1 can’t swin but two strokes.’’ claims. He expects to look after his lack ambition, prefering to lx* toughs meetitig or election in said district ; pro the improved harrows than it did McMahon was with the captain for Stwuggle, stwife and cigawettes, don mining property in the Yukon country rather than gentlemen. This is a matter vided that no property qualification shall twenty-five years ago; hence, what is some time after they were thrown into cherknow. in summer time and s|>end tile winters which concerns every parent and should lx* required of any man residing in such produced on that acre is sold for some the water, the captain holding to a Business? Aw! That’s twade, doncher in Oregon with his family. be thought out and delicately handled. district who is otherwise entitled to vote; what less. Hence instead of the tend broken spar, while McMahon swam know. Two rich finds were reported as these provided, father, that no property quali ency of price opposing the rule I have about dodging debris until he climbed men were coming up the river. One was Something lost or something made, don E astern democratic pajxTS sec in the fication shall lx* required of any widow’ laid down, that tendency favors the into the life boat. The disheartened com on Thistle creek, about 10 miles above result of the elections a promise that the residing in such distict w ho is otherwise cherknow ; ride. Again, the probabilities are that mander of the ship soon surrendered to democratic party will lx* redeemed from entitled to vote, and who has a child or the Stuart, and they met the discoverer You twouble and you mope one will do best during a term of year by the inevitable. its devotion to free silver and go into on his wav to get his claim recorded. And you hang your highest hope children over 6 and under 20 years of age.*’ selling promptly. Mate Hunter and the other men disap The other find is on Tulare creek, a few (>n, jxrhaps, the—pwice of soap, doncher the next national campaign upon some It will be observed from this extract We are prone to underestimate the peared when the rigging to which they other issue. The Philadelphia Record that there is to be a changed in the age miles above Thistle. In both instances know. cost of holding pro lucts. Grains lose in were clinging w ent over the side of the says: “One lesson. at least, of the elec of children who shall lx* entitled to re the reports appeared to lie authentic, and Politics? Just a lawk,doncherknow, weight and deteriorate in quality when vessel. A few’ cries for help were heard tions should lx taken to heart by dem< - ceive public money. The present mini to lie supported by the facts, and the Just a nightmare in t he dawk, doncher stored for a considerable time. The loss as the crash came, and then all was cratic leaders and that is that free silver mum age is 4 years, w hich is to Ixchang- gold looked like that of the Klondike. know. is not so small as many think. Mice over, except the efforts of the three sur is not, and cannot hereafter lx- made, an e 1 to 6. The maximumage, 20years is left You perspire day and night, and rats will generally do damage even vivors to keep their places in the life Favorable reports have been coming from American territory down the river, issue. That it remains a potent force unchanged. The time for taking the And aftaw ail the fight, in the best kept granaries and cribs. boat. cannot be denied, but its whole potency school census is fixed for the first Monday and it is believed there is a vast extent Why—perhaps the wrong man’s wight, The weevil may get into the wheat, the is and will I k - exerted solely to insure in June throughout the state, so there oats may become musty, corn is easily NOTICE OF CITY ELECTION. of mining ground there as rich as any- doncherknow. republican success and democratic fail tiling in the Klondike. may lx* no doubling of the enumeration. and sadly damage I. Rats have well Love? Aw! yes; you meet a girl, don ure. A study of the election returns It is to lx carefully provided also just nigh ruined a crib of corn before it was NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.-That cherknow, must satisfy any otic of sane mind of what children shall lx* enumerated. suspected that they were doing much the annual city election will be held in And get in such a whirl, doncherknow; The Tiny Girl. this.’’ The Baltimore Sun, observing the City Hall, in Tillamook City, on The matter of conpulsory education re damage; naturally enough they kept Get down upon the floah, that the democratic gains are largely in ceives considerable attention. All the away from the outside. Then there is Monday, the 5th day of Decern tier, 189*. Mother says she's awful bad. To adoah and to imploah, the districts where the democratic can member of the committee were in favor the danger of the loss of the grain or Beginning at 9 o’clock a m., and closing Gets so cross it makes her mad. And its all a howwid boah, doncher didates broke away from the Chicago of a law that would result in giving every hay by fire. Lightning may strike the at 4 o’clock p.m. That said election is Wants to know if I can't do know’. platform, exprcscs the opinion that if child in the state a common-school educa mow or granary ; or they may lie burned for the puq>ose of electing Somethin’, little girl, to yon ; Fashion? Aw! that’s dwess, doncher ONE MAYOR. that platform has Ixcn frankly aban tion. The present law is deemed wholly in any of a half a dozen ways. If one i Thinks.I better whip you well, FIVE COUNCILMEN, know dotted everywhere the control of the next inefficient. It is proposed that in every insure i his grain or hay one must pay ONE MARSHAL. Says you're good and bad a spell. The cause ofmuch distress, doncherknow’, house would have fallen to the dcmoc district the clerk shall supply the teacher the premium. Then, as long as one ONE TREASURER. I ain't home all day to see. raev and says: “So far as the election w ith a list of all the children of school holds To determine w’hat to weah, ONE RECORDER I his farm products, one losses the use So don t know how bad you lie. When you go and likewise w here, indicates tendencies it plainly means the age in the district» and the teacher shall of To serve for the year 1899; and < the money they would bring. This must But I could'nt bear to whip her. decay of the silver party. It has made report to thecounty superintendent those lie And how to pawt your haih, doncher T. H. G oynk . I considered. When all costs of holding When I see her sweet lips curl. know. free coinage an impossible issue tor 1900 who do not attend school. Unless it shall 1 products W. H. R eynolds , and | are taken into account, it will For she's such a very little, T om C oats , and the losses of the |M>pulists suggest lx* shown that such children receive eq uiv- lx And there’s weallv nothing in it, doncher. I seen that they foot up t > an amount Such a tiny, little girl! Arc appointed judges; and A. T. W hite that greenback inflation will also be alent inst ructions else where, to test which that know, makes no small advance in price I "Would'nt mind a word to day !' - and D. C. F ierce are appointed clerks to weakly supported tn that year.*’ For you live just for a minute, doncher to cover them. an examination will lx provided for, the necessary i conduct such election. Spect that's what her ma will say. know, county superintendent shall withhold By order of the common council. “Just as bad as bad could be. And when you’ve eaten, read and felt, T he Portland Evening Telegram has from the district the proportion of public Notice. 'Cept in little spells, you see.' C. N. DREW. Recorder. Heard and seen and said and smelt, I ern obtaining the opinion?» of theeditors money based on such nonattending chil I am sorry to disappoint my Tilla- Mother tells me that there child "hy—all the cawds aw dealt, doncher- <> this state whether they favor the legis dren, and shall also take steps to prose mook ¡Nitrons, but on account of an un- T he North Yamhill Record shot off its Sets her sometimes wild. know. lature appropriating money for the state cute those rvs|x»nsible for the nonattend ex|xctcd run of work here I will not lx bazoo again last week, throwing its Won't 1 punish her al>it ? fair. Possibly the real contention is an ance of the children. Compulsory school able to leave for some time. Just as soon billingsgate and epithets this time at the You have one consciousness, doncher- Thinks she's hetter after it. effi-rt to have the state fair held in Port attendance is required only between the as I can I will come and bring a good editor of the Headlight. No gentleman know. But I couldn't bear to whip her. land instead of Salem. Logically Port ages of 7 and 14 years, and where the assistant with me.and we will remain at descends to such low down personalities, One stomach, and that’s small, doncher. When I see her sweet lips curl, land is the place to hold it. for that city child d<xs not live more than two miles the Tillamook office till all work is done. consequently we can afford to treat the know; For she’s such a very little. would make a financial success of it every from a school. Twelve weeks a year is Due notice will lx given in this paper. slang of the Record with contempt and \ ou can only weah one tie. Such a tiny, little girl! year. Although we are opposed to the I the time required for attendance at Yours truly, And one glass in your eye. below the dignity of a gentleman to an Thinkin' of her all day long. • ‘.ate appropriating money for the neves school. In districts having more than W. A. WISE. swer. And—one coffin when you die, done her. With her laughter and her song; know. geaMight sarv expenditure which must attend the preparations, believing it should be self- supporting, the state legislature should appropriate enough money to give a pre mium to those who exhibit the finest pro duct of Oregon growth or manufacture. Here is Tillamook county we make the best butter and cheese that is placed upon the market, and it would be a satisfac tion to the citizens to know that Tilla mook held the state diploma for butter and cheesemaking. Appropriating state money for premiums would create quite a healthy state of affairs, and, indeed, the county receiving the most would feel proud to possess them. I