Tillamook headlight., December 22, 1898, Image 5

THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. DECEMBER 22, 1898.
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get a chance to get $25.00
worth of Merchandise with
out costing you one cent.
One Ticket with each
dollar purchase-
The Winning number
gets a,,lJ thing out of our
st°re they wish.
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OUR
BIG
HOLIDAY CLEARANCE
SALE
begins Dee. 1st and ends Jan. 1st, ’99.
This sale includes Clothing, Hats & Shoes.
Ule aim to make this Sale our DRAWING CARD for our
Holiday Trade, and mill give the people of Tillamook
County some rare bargainsin Clothing, Hats & SHOES.
Our Clearance Sales have alwavs saved people a good many dollars, and this one will be no exception to the rule.
fa
COHN &
LEADING-
CO.,
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&
â
Z
well
're is but
/ob office
2nd that
Our Competitors are
uuondering houi cue can
sell elothing so cheap.
But our $5, $6 and $7
SUITS are selling fast
just the same. We must
make room for neui
goods. Quick sale small
profit.
»Unfit.
Big Store, Big Stock,
PRICES.
tiny
r
• 5» •
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We have a fine line
of Mackintoshes uihich
cue
are selling very
heap
. . I
MERCHANTS.
HEADLIGHT PIRATE.
I to stock raising and rotate grains and
WHY UNDERVALUATION ? I bonds, mortgages, notes and other jier-
WESTWARD THE STAR.
is denied by no one. What then are
grass, and these grass lands will raise
' sonality are constantly put up with bank­
these guaranties by which congress is
The National Review of London, in dis­ wheat as abundantly as ever. It is an
limited whether it sets up colonial or • ■ In grappling with the question of reve- ers and loan br< k?rs as security for
Doles Out Gems of Current territorial government or confers state­ . i nue law revision the most intricate and debts. Why should not this property be cussing the American political situation, unusual grain; it can be grown where
I perplexing problem is that of property taxed ? Why should not every banker exhibits a knowledge ofchanging condi­ corn cannot; it can be grown where
hood upon its new territories ?
Topics and Events.
undervaluation.
Under the existing and broker be required to furnish the tions in this country which is somewhat grasses cannot. It is always a cash
R eferring to the question whether
T he War Investigating commission is i system, although the law requires the assessors with a list of all securities in in advance of that possessed by a very | article. The pioneers of a new section
Spain can “deliver the goods” for the I attempting to find out why the Spanish i ! listing of all taxable property at its true their possession, the names of the own­ large percentage of our own population produced wheat first liecause of it’s quick
in that cultured but extremely provincial | money value, then grass and grain for
$20,000,000 to be paid her, the Lock­ ! prisoners of war were sent home at the market worth, the competition among ersand the real value of the security?
port Union says: “There is a fearful expense of this government. That is an i ■ assessors seems to be to see which can | People who have money subject to section generally designated as the stock, and these grass lands are now
suspicion that the Administration may easy one. It was cheaper to send them i J reduce the basis of assessment the low- taxation do not hoard it. They deposit Atlantic coast, but which extends inland ' good wheat lands. This is the history
be the victim of a bunco game, and we ‘ home than to feed them, especially in i ' est. As a consequence nowhere is even it in banks and banking institutions. as far as the Ohio reserve. These well- of the corn belt in the Mississippi valley.
may have to spend more millions to view of the appetites cultivated by long- ’ a pretense made of true value assess- Why should not this money be included intentioned but poorly-informed jieople Sir William adv<K*ates increased elec­
meats, while the grossest injustice is in the assessment ? Why should not usually agree with cx-President Cleve­ trical agitation of the atmosphere as
gain poseession of our purchase.”
continued short rations.
I perpetrated by flagrant inequalities every banker be required to furnish the land that life beyond the Alleghenies re­ the only method of precipitating the
I n a letter to the Anti-Imperialist
I owa cows and hens contributed more from one country to another and from assessor with a list of all depositors and presents an admixture of ignorance, nitrates in the air, but the secretary
League of Boston, John Sherman utters value in the world’s commerce last year ! one individual to another in the same the average amounts each has on deposit ruffianism and semi-savagery, and has advises the planting of clover, which, he
a lot of common sense and statesman­ than the entire foreign trade of the I country.
little real conception of the fact that the says, will l»eat electricity; the crop will
j during the year.
ship. With the idea ofa war for Cuba’s Philippine islands, both exports and im­ i Were this experience pecular to Oregon i If property which comes within these real power and influence and progres­ stay where it is put, while lightning
emancipation from Spanish misrule he ports. Millions at a distance always these abuses might properly be charged classes, whose true value can be easily siveness of the country is growing away is liable to be vicious and unreliable,
has been in sympathy for thirty years. seem large and attract attention, but to mal-administration.
But as the ascertained, were assessed upon that from them, and that in truth “westward coming down in job lots and destroying
But with the emancipation of Cuba he here at our own doors are resources same glaring defects have been exposed 1 valuation, it would form the basis for the star of empire takes its way.”
property.
Not so with the editor of the National
thinks our interferance should have only partially developed which afford I in every other state in which the same the assessment of other property sim-
In the famous Genesee valley of New
I.
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ended. The annexation of the Philippines an outlet for the energy of the people, | system is pursued, the remedy to be ilari y situated. The man whose farm is Review, who, from his unprejudiced scat York state was accomplished the first
means unmixed evil, to his mind. It with results beyond the possibilities applied must, to produce the desired re- . taxed on a valuation fixed at foreclosure in London, has more carefully and more wheat-growing in this country and the
threatens a war of conquest at the out­ even of these far-off islands.
suit, effect a change of method. Instead sale will insist that his neighbor’s land candidly studied the course of events. |ieople there to-day are feeding st<M*k on
set and the probable admission of unfit !
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of taking the word of the owner as to 1 lie taxed on the same basis and the same As a result, he observes: “The real scat the grass growing on the old wheat
populations to the Union as States as an I T he navy department has not aban- the value of his property—especially is true with the owners of other kinds of political power in the United States fields. They buy flour manufactured in
I
lies in what may be termed the Middle Minneapolis and get it for less money
ultimate result. His letter is greatly doned the ho|x? of rescuing the Maine where his interest is to undervalue it— I of taxable property.
Undervaluation of property for taxa­ West, that magnificent section compris­ than it would cost them to make it.
interesting because it is greatly sensible, from Havana harbor and bringing the ' measures must be devised to ascertain
j wreck back to this country for rehabili- market value through other sources. tion can be cured, but to do so will re­ ing the great belt of states stretching These lands would produce as much
N either the President nor his Secre­ 1 tation, nor does it seem likely, from the ' There is no good reason why the value quire the application of radical remedies. from Ohio to the Rocky mountains, and wheat as ever, but stock-raising is more
tary of the Treasury suggests the possi­ i interest taken by responsible wrecking set upon property for taxation purposes
for a period to which no term can be set, profitable. There arc also other crumbs
bility of mustering out war taxes with I experts, that the Christobal Colon will should be less than the value set upon
A hitter partisan has figured it out it will continue to govern the nation. of comfort, despite Sir William. The
the advent of peace.
Secretary Gage be permitted to pound to pieces on the it in other business transactions.
that a change of 300 votes would have Those who wish to understand Ameri­ Interior department announces in re
says that the repeal of even the “more shore west of Santiago. The board of
In every county in the state, for ex­ given the Democrats the next Congress. can affairs must keep in touch with the centlv published statistics that we have
vexatious’’of these taxes cannot be re­ 1 construction has under consideration a ' ample, property is sold in foreclosure If the people could have realized this public opinion of this region, while those at the present time a trifle over 600,000,-
commended, in view of the “extraordin­ formal proposition for the salvage of I that fixesits market value to a certainty. when they voted the Republican* major­ who wish to misunderstand the same 000 acres of virgin soil unoccupied and
will confine their attention to what is untilled. Four hundred millions of this
ary expense for the army and navy.” both these vessels, and their delivery at Why should such property be assessed ities would have been much greater.
said and done in Bostonand New York.’’ is in Alaska, it is true, but we have not
With a ceded deficit of $112,000,000 for New York or such other port in the for taxation any less than it lias brought
C ongress is not doing just the right
The editor of the Review also observes exjierimented on wheat there yet, and
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, and United States as the government might within one year at public sale ?
a smaller one based on hopes of “econ­ select, but no company will be allowed j In every county in the state property thing by the noted members of the that this great Middle West looks much besides there is a clear margin of 200,-
Canadian commission, who have several more intelligently and with less local
omy” for the next year, which experience to begin operations on the vessel until i is regularly brought into the probate
000,000 acres which is surely full of
has shown to be vain, the truth is ob-. a comparison shall have been made be- i court, where valuations are put upon it times been present as guests at its ses­ bias upon the relations between Great nitrogenous compounds.
Carefully
sions.
They
would
have
enjoyed
a
spe
­
Britain and the United States than do weighing all the facts, we arc bound to
Why
vious that the war tax must stay. The tween the offers from several trus:worthy i for the settlement of estates.
should this property be listed for taxa­ cial performance showing Speaker Reed the generality of jx-ople in New England sustain the secretary. But it might be
Government has been and still is living concerns.
tion at a less value than accepted by presiding and Bailey of Texas in a state and the East. He finds them more cos­ well to hedge a little on Minnesota No.
on the proceeds of bond sales—that is,
of active eruption.
H anerhill , M ass ., is the first city in those who inherit it ?
mopolitan in their views, more progres­ 1, December delivery, 1931.
on borrowed money. There is enough
sive in spirit, less blinded by prejudice
In every county in the state property
of this left to carry the Government the Uuited States to have a socialist
Johnny
(age
6)
—
I
say
Bob
I
really
be
­
and not so narrow in their judgment
into next fiscal year, in spite of an esti­ mayor, or, more strictly speaking, a is annually mortgaged and the mort­ lieve I’m gettiij’ old.
ABOUT ADVERTISING.
upon all international propositions. Bet­
mated expenditure of $689,874,000. mayor, elected on an out-and-out social­ gages recorded in which agreed valua­
Bob—How’s that ?
ter still, he holds this section tq be the
But if the schemes of the jxrrmanent ex­ ist platform. He will have the backing tions are usually stated. Why should
It would be impossible to estimate—
Johnny—M v ma’s paid my fare in the
pansionists prevail the Treasury will be of three members of the city couucil, this property lie assessed, as it frequently ’lectrics three times lately without great life-engine of the republic, the seat much less to enumerate—the good things
elected
at
the
same
time,
though
this
is
of
its
greatest
industrial
activity
ami
is, for less than the face of the mortgage,
compelled to draw on its reserve after
that resulted from adverting. There
kickin’.
advancement, the most promising field
that, or new war taxes must lie laid. not enough to give them the control of to say nothing of its true value.
was a time in the remote past, liefore
that
body.
This
fact
may
lie
fortunate
There
was
no
response,
and
she
con
­
for
profitable
investment
and
the
home
Every
corporation
and
firm
doing
busi
­
How will the people like the idea, two
the newspa|M*r and the magazine 1>e-
for
Haverhill,
but
unfortunate
for
other
tinued
:
“
Have
not
some
of
you
been
ot
those
¡acople
whose
acquaintance
ness in the state enters, either in its
years hence, of having war taxes, origin­
came factors in the onward march of
ally imposed for a specific and tempor­ communities which have a desire to annual repot* or in its annual inventory, out and seen minerals on exhibition ?’ Britishers will find most congenial and civilization,when the manufacturer and
ary purpose, as a permanent state of learn just how the socialist theory will the value of its property among its as­ One little girl raised her hand. “I thought most profitable.
the consumer were as far apart as the
These sentiments may surely be regard­
affairs ? Will not this inevitable enter work in actual practice under conditions sets necessary to balance its financial so. Mary will name three minerals.’’
East is from the West and the middle­
existent
in
this
country,
but
whose
Mary
arose
and
putting
her
hands
be
­
ed
as
a
startling
innovation
in
British
statement. Why should this property
as an issue into the Presidential cam­
man reaped whatever profit he might
curiousity does not go to the extent of not lie assessed for taxation at the same hind her, lisped: “Apollinaria, vichy and ideas of America, and should they be­
paign ?
________
ask from the retailer and in turn the
being willing to take the chances of ex­ valuation? In every part of the state ( seltzer.”
come general would portend much l>ene-
retailer asked any price he might desire
T he Madrid correspondents of the perimenting for themselves at their own
fit and advantage to the West. Hereto­
from the buyer or consumer.
British and continental European pa­ cost.
fore our English cousins have leaned to
—
Advertising stepped in and compelled
pers are predicting an immediate rising
the belief that all of America centered in
NOW’S THE TIME TO BUY
I
n time of ¡)eace prepare for war.
all parties to make their price known
of the Carlists, and yet the average
New York. The day that this fallacy is
and as a result the consumer is the one
level-headed American disbelieves that With this bit of condensed wisdom ex­
effectually dispelled will be a profitable
that has rea|>ed the reward. The mer­
there is much danger of any thing of panded in various forms congress will
one to all concerned.
chant of to day that docsnot advertise
this sort. Spain has done many foolish I m ? urged to make appropiations aggre­
can hardly exjject to compete with the
things in the past hundred years, but it gating millions upon millions for the re­
A DISMAL OUTLOOK.
one that docs. The old idea that the
has committed no folly which was more organization of the army, the enlarge­
ment
of
the
navy,
the
strengthening
of
profit must l>e large “though the
calamitous than a Carlist revolution
There will l»e no wheat grown after sales few” has given way to the
would lie likely to be. All the traditions the coast defenses and a hundred an 1
1931—and the supply will not last until new idea that the quick movement of
one other purposes suggested by experi­
of Carlism and all that the world has
then—so that there exists at the present goods on small profits is the projier
learned of the views of the present head ence in the recent war w’ith Spain. One
moment a real necessity for economy spirit of business. Frank A. Munsey, of
of its house point it the direction of of the great object lessons of the late
in the use of bread. Sir William Munsey's Magazine, in an address la-lore
war, as of all modern wars, is the abso­
reaction. About the only chance that
Crookes, president of the British asso- the Sphinx dub at the Waldof-Astoria
lute necessity of government control of
can be cited in favor of the successes of
■ ciation, says no ami backs up his state­ in New York, hit the point when he said :
the lines of telegraphic commuication
ofa Carlist revolt is the circumstance
ment by an alarming array of sternly “The man who dors not take advantage
not
only
in
the
military
field
but
con
­
that Spain has in the past two-thirds of
doleful scientific reasons. Sir William of the product of the printing press—
necting the military forces with the seat
a cennury tried every sort of a govern­
has long Ixen regarded as a very able take ad vantage of all that science and in­
of government. Were the items of war
ment, from a military dictatorship on
scientific investigator, with a tendency vention ami thought have evolved—can
expenditure examined they would dis­
the one hand to a republic on the other,
toward spiritualism. The great Malthus not meet the competition of the man
close huge sums paid to the telegr a ph
except Carlism. The success of the pres­
said that KM) years of overproduction who docs take advantage of these. I
and cable companies for the voluminous
ent pretender or his son would lie a de­
and insufficient food supply would re­ don’t lidicvc there is a man anywhere
telegraphic and cable correspondence
cided step backward, which the United
duce the whole world to starvation, and j who is manufacturing for the jieople,
rendered necessary by .he operations
States would I* very sorry to see Spain
his theory has laen thorouglv and com merchandising for the {¿copie, who can
on land and sea. Just how much of the
take and which it believes she will not
pletely disproved by facts. But Sir Wil­ afford not to talk to the fieoplc about
The Pianos and Organs remaining in Stoek
war fund went for telegraph and cable
take.
liam says the “exhaustion of nitrogen” what he has for them—to put himself in
tolls i s not yet ascertainable, but it is
after that date mill be shipped to Portland.
will get us to that |>oint in much less touch with them to make them know
L egislation proposed for the govern- safe to sa v that it would pay interest
time. He points out that the United ami have confidence in him. The l>cst
ment of the territory newly acquired by several times over upon all the capital
States has l>ecn using up its virgin cquip|M*d establishment, whether it lie
the United States is sure to occupy a represented by the plant thus pressed
soil at such a rate that it cannot last, as that of the manufacturer or merchant,
into
the
governmetiu
service.
prominent place in the work of the
a wheat producer, and we are moreover everything else l»eing equal, will crush
session.
These circumstances
are
rapidly adding to the great army of out the < <>mjictition of the inferior equip­
How gratifying that when the Spanish
]«>mpting new inquire into the scope
bread eaters. Unless the future chemist ment. This is a great big vital fact. The
leave
Cuba
it
will
be
impossible
to
of congressional action and limitations
can capture and control large bl«x ks of cost of maintaining such an equipment
on the power of the federal government. carry the island itself away with them.
I fugitive nitrogen and compel it to unite —the fixed charges covering the pro­
Having neglected no opportunity to take
Were congress free to ignore the con­
with and revivify the soil there is no prietor's living expenses, rents, taxes,
everything movable, they seem still to
stitution, it could doubtless agree ufion
hope for us.
be looking for more. It has been cus­
interest, salaries, counting
a frame of government for our new
KINDS FRESH and REASONABLE There is, however, a ray of light insurances,
tomary for certain officials of whom
room ex|ienses and a thousand and one
possessions that would obviate many ot
amidst this encircling gloom. Secretary other ex|jeuscs, all these are so great and
a bond was required to put cash with
the dangers now threatening from those
of Agriculture WiUon has announced so inexorable certain that one must
the understanding that the money
quarter«. Whatever actrnn congre«
that there is no immediate cause for reach out and out and always out to a
would be returned to them, but it now
takes, however, met be subject tothe
alarm. Sir William to tl»e contrary not- wider market. And this cun lie done
develops that the higher Spanish offi­
by talking to the {¿copie.
constitution and to thelimitatK.ns t ere
withstanding The secretary naturally licst
cials have either spent or appropriated
I wish I had the time to dwell tipon
inestabl.shed. The annexat.on of tern
holds the optimistic views ofa man from the importance of this idea of talking to
this trust money. Unless the officials
torv of the United States by conqnest.
the great wheat-growing state of Iowa the [icoplc. It is the Isrdrock, »ulisfratum,
who must stand this loss differ ma­
SEXD YOUR ORDERS TO
trraty or p-rcha« makes that tern^X
and they are expressed with plain, of modern business. Talking to the ,ieo-
terially from their su fieri or s they have
Í»le—that’s the idea. A simple, straight,
.«rt of the United States and its inhabi-
farmer like sense Continuous wheat urward talk as a man would talk to
long ago made up for this misfortune by
•9
tants free to beco-eati»«^,’-
I erupt without rotation will exhaust his ncighl>or It is the very essence of
appropriation of public funds on their
states cnt.tled to the protect.«»
'
ASTORIA, OREGON
i land ; farmers then turn their attention good advertising. ”
ORGANS and
PIANOS.
Persons Wanting Pianos or Organs can save
$50 on the former and $25 on the latter
by purchasing before Dec. 25th.
F. C. SHANAHAN. T,oREncoNOK'
All
TIMOTHY, 4,cts. pound
óc stokes
a
and Mrs.
9 pounds.
ALS.
nis.
1.
Anton Lut.
and Arnold.
t and John
ucham.
pin Johnson,
Ott.
t Nelson.
H. Mills,
and A. N.
and
Mount
A. Zwicker,
oloniew, ().
arrifon, M.
W. Gruff. W.
Uatt Brown,
wife and W •
W. Gruggee.
ngton, John
II.
•ane.
ick.
. Fuller.
tin.
end daughter.
Coleman, Al­
li, A. S. Payne
jre registered
.estocton and
>use.
i Platform.
annouces his
truth, though
e, for ths ¡s‘o-
vopls.
with a tselief
bribers.
in sight ami
r friends and
thine eiifiny
wijMi him with
e butt of the
r country, our
ns.
n pomp and
JLE.
HIM.—
pt Muuday W p m.
/
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pt Sunday 6 p in.
m
Tuesday s.ooa ni.
9 oo a in.
io v> a. ro.
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tailfrum NcMm»>
scept Sunday at •
fro« N YarnMill,
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