Tillamook headlight., November 24, 1898, Image 5

THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, NOVEMBER 24, 1898.
«3^ OUR
TWENTY five
DOLLARS
GIVEN AWAY
Call at Cohn Co.’s and
get a chance to get $2 J.00
worth of Merchandise with
out costing you one cent.
One Ticket with each
dollar purchase-
The Winning number
gets any thing out of our
store they wish
BIG
HOLIDAY CLEARANCE
SALE
Out» Competitors are
I utondering
hoou uue can
sell elothing so eheap. I
£ But our $5, $6 and $7
begins Dee. 1st and ends Jan. 1st, ’99.
$
SUITS are selling fast
just
the same. We must &
This sale includes Clothing, Hats Shoes.
make room for necu
goods. Quiek sale small
Ole aim to make this Sale our DRAWING CARD for our i profit.
Holiday Trade, and mill give the people of Tillamook
County some rare bargainsin Clothing, Hats & SHOES.
Our Clearance Sales have always saved people a good many dollars, and this one w’ill be no exception to the rule.
COHN & CO
HEADLIGHT PIRATE.
some improvement and the census roll of and we in this land of plenty can have
1875 was increased to 6,00,000, at little conception of the w retchedness and
Doles Out Gems of Current which figure, or a little less, it stood in the suffering of tens of thousands of the
1882. Now’, after scarcely sixteen years Cuban people. The latest reports state
Topics and Events.
of British rule, the population is about that entire villages are dying of star­
T he Nicaraguan Canal commission, 10,000,000. That means an increase of vation, while the Spaniards continue
appointed by the president under an act 66 per cent in sixteen years, or more robbing and plundering on all sides.
of congress directing a complete injury I than 4 per cent a year. It means that Such a state of affairs should arrest the
into the project with particular reference EKXPt to-day, Egypt proper, not count- | attention of the entire American people
to its practicability and cost, has about
the vast realms of Equatoria and ¡ and command from the Washington
completed its work and the present pros­ the Bahr-el-Ghazel, is more populous , authorities prompt remedial action, if
The question
pects is that the report w ill lie handed than ever before in all its history. That any be practicable.
to Secretary Hay in about a month, j in itself is a singularly impressive and i whether we are doing our duty toward
The commissioners) have taken a build-, significant fact. In industries the growth j the Cuban people is certainly most perti-
ing on Fifteenth street, formerly used as | of Egypt is comparably great. The I nent. We went to war on the ground of
the German legation, and under the di­ country is not the granary of Europe, as , humanity. The sufferings of the recon­
rection of Admiral Walker, with a force it once was. Other lands have usurped centrados appealed to our symathies and
of thirty-six computers, draughtsmen, the place. But if we measure its grain, j we determined that they should be re­
engineers, etc., is at work on the report, its fruits, its cotton and all its products lieved from the cruel doom to which the
the mass of technical matter which will w’e shall find it is wielding far more than Spaniards had consigned them. Few’ if
accompany it making in all the mosi it did even in the fat years of Joseph. It I any of those unfortunate victims of
elaborate presentation of the subject is not building pyramids and sphinxes Spain’s barbarous and brutal methods
ever attempted.
The commission is i and Philaes. But the barrages of the j are now’ living. They died by thousands
laboring, however, to avoid prolixity , Nile, one built and one building, are j w’hile we were making war for their
and to centralization of the salient £reater works than those. Nor may we rescue. Others are now in as hapless
features of thü'grea't'project, leaving'the i »»"look its railroads, of which it has | condition as they were and what are we
statistics and details to follow in supple- to-d“y 8ome i-400 miles- or m<>re thftn ,1°inK for them? Apparently nothing,
meats. This promises to give a report SP“,n or Portugal, or even Austria-, or at all events so little as to amount to
which will lie inteligible by its concise- Hungary. Twenty years ago there was a most nothing. We shall not thus lie
ness and vet sufficienlv comprehensive to I starce'y G m.le of good wagon road in able to justify before the world the claim
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i„..,i —j 4.—-„i „—-- ----------- 4„ that we made war for humanity’s sake,
meet the requirements of such A large
tion had to be afoot or on muleback or i If we stand by and let these people
problem. The commission has gone
camelback. In the last six years more ! starve to death, when we are in a posi-
about its work feeling that it was likely j
than 1,000 miles of fine roads have been tion to succor them at will, history will
to furnish the basis for the final action
built.
| not give us much credit for humanitarian
of this government on the building of
! motives. There is no barrier, or none
the canal. The conclusions reached by
A very marked change has come over I that our government cannot remove, to
the commissions w ill not be announced the lot of the ranchman in the past
' sending relief to the suffering Cubans
until the reports is submitted. It is tw’o years. The time was, and that i
and we shall deservedly incur the re­
known, however, that on the salient within twenty-four months, when the
proach of mankind if wre fail to relieve
feature—practicability and cost—the man with cattle paper found but few’ !
them.
commission will report first, that the bank doors open to him—he was forced i
project of a canal joining the Atlantic to go to a shaving shop and pay a | I t has been the boast of the people of
and Pacific by what is commonly know n usurous rate of interest. To-day the
country for years that they paid bet
as the Nicaragua route is entirely feasible greatest banking institutions welcome *er wages to their coal miners than the
and practicable, presenting no engineer­ this class of paper and the interest rates people of other countries, There has
ing problems which cannot be met; and are on a par with commercial accontino- nevcr been a time, however,
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that the
second, that the cost can be presented dations, 6 to 10 per cent. Banks in mine owners and operators did not apol­
w’ith a fair degree of mathematic exact­ I general are looking upon the cattle in-1 ogize for their action in a round about
ness, allowing for excavation, construc­ dustry more favorably and investing way by saying that, w’hile the wages
tion and all other items.
The report freely. There are two conditions that I were not w’hat they ought to be, yet
will give this cost in figures, but the have led up to present state of affairs. ! they were far ahead of those paid in for­
amount is not yet known even to the Primarily, the improvement in the herds. eign countries. The comparative wages
commissioners, as it will depend upon The agents of the banks ha ve been travel­ earned by miners in Germany aud miners
the careful computationnow’beingmade. ing over the country and quietly priming I in this country are shown by the follow­
The purpose is to make it as near math­ themselves with the state of affairs. Sec­ ing tables:
ematically exact as possible and not to ondly, the excellent system of quaran­
United States.
Yearly.
give a mere opinion of the various com­ tine and protection against infectious Ohio.........................................
....$192
missioners. Admiral Walker has already disease as adopted and enforced by na­ j Pennsylvania, anthracite...,
.... 290
expressed the opinion before a congres­ tional and state sanitary boards. These ! Pennsylvania, bituminous.
..... 230
sional committee that the cost would lie are the principal factors that have West Virginia........................ .
..... 277
within $125,000,000, and this is unde»-- finally given timid capital the courage i Gerintny.
Yearly.
stood to lie his figure not based on to accommodate those in a promising I Upper Silesia...........................
....$180
opinion still. But the rejMirt will state industry, and in gaining this point the i Low’er Silesia........................
..... 197
a figure not based on opinion, but on cattle raiser begins to have more confi­ Aachen ....................................
..... 239
the careful calculations of the many ex­ dence in himself. The natural result will Dortmund............................... .
..... 282
perts who are now at work on every’ follow. The industry will in future be
The fact that such wages are paid the
conducted on more businesslike lines,
branch of the project.
toilers in any country is not one for con­
America will raise the best of l>eef possi­
T he growth of Egypt under British ble to be found in the world and she will gratulation, but the comparison becomes
still more odious to this country when
guidance is an interesting spectacle. feed the world.
the fact is taken into consideration that
How many inhabitants the Egypt of the
There is a very bad condition of affairs in addition to this the German miner is
Pharaohs had is problematic, but it is
doubtful if it had more than the Egypt of in Cuba. This is most amply attested I irsured against sickness and accident,
the Pto’e nys, and that was not more by all the information coming from the ' and is provided a small pension when
than 8,000,000. A couple of centuries island, every fresh advice showing more old age disables him. A small deduction
ago, under the Mamelukes, the number s rongly the urgency of the demand for w as made from his w ages for the insur­
had fallen to 3,000,000. Under Me- relief. The appalling record of deaths ance fund, but that charge is not includ-
heniet Ali and his successors there was from starvation is growing every day ' ed in the average w’ages given. It is to
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Big Store, Big Stoek,
TINY PRICES.
We have
£ â:
very
£
a fine line
a of Mackintoshes uuhieh
are
uue
Bl. eheap.
—..
selling
I be regretted that the coal miners are so 000 more than St. Louis.
poorly paid as a class the world over.
They are compelled to toil as hard as
any of the worker in the field of labor,
and in many instances coal mining is
considered skilled labor. When one reads
these tables and is advised of the wages
these people get annually is it a ques­
tion for surprise that we have strikes
and that they are often accompanied by
violence ? There is something radically
wrong with the system of coal mining.
N ikola T esia , the electrician, in a
newspaper interview, describes an appli­
cation of electricity whereby, without
the interposition of any artful medium
of communication, one man can control
and direct, with absolute exactitude, the
movements of any type of vesssel balloon
or land vehicle, at any distance that
may be disired, From a station on
shore, or from the deck of a vessel under
way, a torpedo boat equipped with Mr.
Tesla’s controlling device may be pro­
pelled either on or below the surface,
maneuvered at will in any direction, and
finally brought into contact and explod­
ed against the side of a hostile vessel at
any point within the range of the vision
of the operator. More than this, assum­
ing that it were possible to accurately
locate the position of the vessel which it
is desired to destroy, the torpedo boat
could be directed to it, even if the ship
lay in the harbor of Southampton and
the operator w as stationed at Sandy
Hook. Mr. Tesla said that some months
had elapsed since he had fully developed
his devise, for which he had applied for
a patent. When it was learned that
Admiral Cervera was bottled up in Sant­
iago it was his intention to apply his
mechanism to his several launches and
similar small craft loaded with high ex­
plosives and annihilate the fleet at anch­
or. Admiral Cervera, however, came
out and met his fate under the guns of
the American fleet before the necessary
arrangements could be made. Then Mr.
Tesla planned a raid on the Spanish ves­
sel in Havana harbor, only to be thwarted
by the proclamation of the suspension
of hostilities.
A ccording to the Cincinnati Price Cur­
rent, which is the recognized authority
on statistics of the hog industry, the
number of hogs slaughtered in the Unit­
ed States during the eight months end­
ing Octolier 31 is computed at 13, 910,-
000, as against 11,660,000 for the same
period in 1897. This representsan aver­
age grain of 19*6 f>er cent for the present
year over last year in all the packing
centers of the country, In the compara-
tive exhibit Omaha not onlv maintains
its position as the third largest packing
center, but shows a marked ascendancy
over competitors in its territory. While
Omaha has increased its output by 190,-
000 hogs, Kansas City has increased its
output only 50,000, Sioux City, 63,000
and St Louis 153,000. Within the eight
month Omaha has slaughtered three
times as many hogs as Cincinnati, the
former Porkopolis of the country, more
than five times as many as Sioux City,
six times as many as St. Paul and 345,-
make a livelihood by their labor in Ha­
waii. Now there is like information
from Porto Rico, the American consul
having sent to the State department a
warning to Americans that there are few
if any opportunities for them in that
island now. The labor market, he says,
is overstocked. Several hundred thou­
sand Porto Ricans stand ready to take
all places that may be vacated and at
low wages, and any American who goes
♦ here with the idea of “striking it rich”
is sure to be disappointed. All who go
A new cure for nervousness has been should be prepared with money to pay
suggested to American sufferers from their board and secure a return passage
this indefinable but terrible malady, and to the United States.
by a Chinese student of national and
racial characteristics. The man who
T he promotion to rank as commis­
has formulated the new nerve specific sioned officers in the volunteer army of
says that he believes its adoption will members of the colored regiments of
cure the worst case of headache concha nt I regulars who distinguished themselves
over nerves rampant known to man­ for gallantry in the fights at El Caney
kind. He believes the entire absence of and San Juan is a merited recognition
nervousness which characterizes the by President McKinley of their services
Mongolian race to exist simply from the which the colored people everwhere will
centuries of practice which his country­ appreciate. There was no color line in
men have given to the simple cure. And the.w ar against Spain, and the president
this is the cure, which is very simple : recognized no color line in the distribu­
“Always wear soft-soled shoes and you tion of honors.
The colored troops
will never be conscious of possessing fought nobly in Cuba and Porto Rico
nerves,” says the savant from the and they will be to the fore again when­
flowery kingdom. To Americans but re­ ever they may be needed.
cently induced to try the wearing of
heavy, thick-soled shoes with a view to
T he Oban, like the Filipino, is rapidly
mitigating the very conditions now acquiring American ways. No sooner
under discussion, the idea would seem docs he get one square meal under his
at first sight ridiculous.
belt and one in reserve in the cupboard
than he goes on a strike. Probable he
A ccording to the Washington corre­ is justified in demanding good pay when
spondent of the New York Evening Post, he was compelled to engage in such un
western influence is very largely re­ usual work as cleaning the streets, a
sponsible for inclining President Me- custom which has not been in vogue for
Kinley in favor of the policy of ex- centuries until the Americans took
pansion. The president, this correspond- charge.
ent says, at first would greatly have
A dmiral N oel , in command of the
preferred to draw out of the Philippine
entanglement as quietly as possible, an­ British fleet in Cretan waters, has a re­
nexing substantially nothing in the way freshing av of doing things. When the
of territory, but requiring the cession Turks refused to move out of Canada on
merely of a coaling station, with enough the demand of the powers he simply
land about it to provide projierly for its made them prisoners and put them on
defense. Presently his ideas expanded, board a British vessel. Even the tem­
but it was not until Mr. McKinley porizing Turk can lie made to under­
visited the west, according to this au­ stand if you just go after him in the
thority, that he became convinced that right way.
Up to within
twelve months the hog output of Kansas
City packing houses was twice that of
Omaha. Today Kansas City overlaps
Omaha only by slightly one-third, with
Omaha steadily gaining. If the rate of
progression which has been made during
the last eight months is kept up for the
next two or three years Omaha is des­
tined to overtake Kansas City and start
the twentieth century as the second pork
packing center in America.
a majority of the people wanted terri­
A C hicago grand jury has returned
torial expansion.
fifty indictment against alleged pur-
veyorsofbad literature and slot ma-
T iie French holders of Spanish bonds
chine men. At Milwaukee several ar­
chargeable against the territories lost
rests have recently been made of boys
to Spain have taken action with a view
who started their apprenticeship in
to securing their payment or realizing
crime by slot-machine gambling. The
something on them and their apjieal is
suppression of all slot-machine gambling
made to the United States. It is an­
devices is now generally demanded in the
nounced that the state department has
interests of the rising generation.
received through the French embassy a
statement of the various Spanish bonds
P orto R ico politicians are already
owned by French citizens, aggregating
many millions of dollars, but it apfiears sipiinting toward statehood. They will
that the statement is not accompanied learn, however, that they will have to
with any request or demand upon this pass through the vestibule and hallway
government, lieing apparently intended liefore they can get into the dining room.
simply as a matter of information.
It
I e Spain has any more islands stowed
is ex|>ected that other European holders
of Spanish bonds will follow the exam- away among its relics of former gran­
deur it might not lx* a bad idea to trans­
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fer the title to some friendly relative lie-
A mericans have already l>ecn warned fore the American expansionistsget their
that there arc few chances for them to eyes on them.
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The Soil Surprisingly Productive.
Fine Schools and Churches.
The Land is Cheap.
Crop Failure Never Known
Good Class of People.
Stock Alway Fat.
GRASS IS KING I
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\cre of Land ill Tillamook County will raise three times the amount of Grass to that raised in any other section of Oregon.
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jt .,roW9 and keeps green the year round, and is the ideal pasture for dairying.
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