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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JANUARY 5, 1899 THE VOICES OF THE PAST. [ OBEYED THE JUDGE. CHILDREN’S EYES. From the ”alc of the past, thro’ the mist of Got His Man and Bronrt ------ Him to Did you ever look years, — «ant Town. . In a child’s clear eyes. Voices of the long ago And feel the heaven that lay Among the wills that were probated Come dreamily, soothingly to my ears, As the sun of my life sinks low. the other day was that of a negro blaek- In the innocent depth Of the open soul, In the whispering breexe. In the pattering nan>ed Austin Thompson, whose As yet unsoiled by clay? shop was on Sycamore street. There is rain, Oh! a holy thing As I sit by the fireside glow, a story connected with this man's name In a child’s cle ar eyes. I hear in faint echoes the tones again that is worth telling, says the Lexington And tender the hand should be Of the friends I used to know. I (Ky.) Herald. 1 hat touches the flower Still wet with the dew When around the eaves the etorm-wind Just after the war old Benjamin F Of Heaven’s own mystery. howls, Graves was county judge. He was an I am, as of yore, at school, It was said “Of Old” And hear with trembling the master’s eccentric man, very peculiar in manv That the demons that strove growls. ways, very honest and very positive. For the doom of the race that fell, As he glares from his three-legged «took He ruled with a strong hand. One day If meeting the look Of a child's pure eyes All in fancy, forsooth, when the south wLnd Austin Thompson, who lived in the Sank down to their native hell. sighs. county, was brought before him As the evening shadows grow, charged with hog stealing. The meat And the truth that hide« I hear once more a fair maiden’s replies In the myth “Of Old” was found upon his premises, but he In the twilight long ago. Breaks as a star doth rise; find made no effort at concealment. For the ir.most heaven And the merry brook, as it softly purls Of innocence dwells He acknowledged having the hog and Its song in the summer air, In the trust of a child’s sweet eyes. Killing it, but insisted that he bought Calls up from the ¡«st the boys and girls At play in the meadows fair. the hog from another negro, who rep And this is the look resented it as his own. Judge Graves T hat the God-man loved, As I list to these low. sweet voices of yore When lie gathered them close to His inquired if he could “bring that other What Joy awakes in my heart’ breast. For their music delights and charms me fax nigger into court.” He was answered And, laying His hands more On their shining heads, somewhat doubtfully. The old judge Than the best musician’s art. Pronounced them forever blest. then answered to Austin that he "must —A. S. Brendle, in Good Housekeeping. ■‘V bring that other nigger in, dead or And the angels sent From His kingdom above, alive.” To watch, ard to guard, and to stay, THE KING OF LAPLAND. A day or two afterward Austin drove Do always behold I know a tiny monarch who has taken his up with a cart to the judge's office, and The face divine Of Him who spoke that day. command entering informed his honor that he YV,ithin a quiet region, where a faithful had his man. Are we worthy to share little band The holy charge? "Bring him in,” said the judge. Of people do his bidding, or yield him hom Let us fold our hands and pray, age true, I can’t,” said Austin; "he’s dead.” Lest we merit the doom And watch his faintest gesture, as old vas Of those who cast He had followed the old judge's in sals used to do. structions to the letter. The other “ Offense’’ in the little one’s way. — Emily B. Dickenson, in N. Y. Home His territory’s bordered by two encircling negro refused to accompany Austin to Journal. arms, town, and so Austin killed him. And keeping in their shelter, he is safe » from all alarms. Of course it caused an immense sen FEEDING A PUMPKIN. This land is something “rocky” if he feels sation in the community, and there Inclined for jest, Nebraska Farmer'« Saccensful Scheme Or lies at peace, a quiet plain, when he was talk of impeaching the judge and to Win a Ten-Dollar Prise. would stay at rest. I of hanging Austin. But nothing after *‘Say, did you know’ that pumpkins all was done about it, and the matter One mountain rises northward, and Is could be fed and made to grow to an was allowed to drop. known as Mother’s Brow, enormous size?” asked a retired farm While east and west are twin-gray lakes, er of the Omaha Bee man. reflecting, I avow, BOVINE VALOR. The prettiest bit of nature that a human ‘‘It’s a fact,” he continued. ‘‘I remem heart can see Two Cows Stormed a Barbed-Wire ber one spring that my father was Whene’er the little monarch Is alert for Fence to Rescue Their Calves. elected secretary of a county agricul jubilee. The editor of the Condon (Ore.) Globe tural society and he told me that he But when he’s feeling weary from the rid saw a deed of valor lately that was w as going to offer a prize of ten dollars ing cut in state, worth recording as well as seeing. A for the largest pumpkin exhibited at Or bowing to his subjects and serfs im herd of cattle, among them two cows the fair. 1 determined to get that portunate. Retiring to the castle, his regal head, our accompanied by their calves, were graz prize and I did. king ing in tall, dead grass when the calves ‘‘IIow did I do it ? By raising the big Lay down in princely grandeur, while lov became separated a little way from the gest pumpkin, of course. I selected a ing minstrels sing. rest of the cattle, and some wolves vine that looked unusually thrifty and Jf you would find his royal seat you need started in pursuit of them. After run gave it extra care until pumpkins had not sail the sea, For—strange enough—his throne is set in ning about 200 yards the calves came to formed about as large as a baseball. this home of the free. a high, five-wired, barbed-wire fence, Selecting one of these I began to feed ift Just find the nearest nursery, and bow to and, being small, managed to get Yes, feed it. I cut a gash in lhe stem the command the and run a soft cotton rag through it. Of the loving little monarch, who Is king through it. On the other side of fence was an open pasture. of all Lapland. Then I covered the place with wax. —Alice Crary, in Ladles’ Home Journal. The wolves quickly followed the Every night I set a pan of milk on each calves through the fence, and were rap side of the stem and put an end of the idly running them down on the other rag in each pan. That pumpkin would SLEEPING WITH DAN’L. side, when the two cow mothers discov drink up that milk faster than a pig. How the Squatter*« Son Entertained ered what was going on. Each uttered It would absorb from a quart to three the Vlaltins Stranger. a loud bellow, hoisted her tail and jiints every night and it began to swell The squatter informed me that there started for the rescue. at an enormous rate. When the fair wasn't a spare room in the house, but if It appeared to be a hopeless chase, for opened I loaded that pumpkin into a I was willing to sleep with his boy the fence intervened, and the cows were, ie aid of a derrick — it Daniel he’d be glad to accommodate certainly much too large to get through] took it down me, and, as I was completely fagged out it. They knew well enough that it "affi to acculturai hall. Of from a 40-mile ride that day, J was only there, and could, beside, see it plainly 'thè ten dólter». too glad to accept his offer. The boy but both cows plunged straight into it. hnv* often w onde rd! L w many was a lanky young fellow about 16 The watching editor, horrified, looked pie« that xvould hart* made. Eatimat- years old, and we had hardly got into to see them burled back, frightfully . ing 33 per cent, waste, there were bed when he called out to his father in wounded, but, instead, one of the posts ah- >ut 202 pounds of pie material and the next room: gave way under the onslaught, th* | 5 1-3 ounces to the pie would make—” “Dad, the stranger’s got all the bed wires sank dow„. and in another I But the reporter was too Imsy to hear ment the mothers were on the pasture I the rest, n? was figuring on feeding a clothes!” As a matter of fact, I simply had my side ot the f*nce. badly cut and bleed watermelon on port wine and astonish- share of them, but to quiet him I gave ing, but still able to charge th? wolves j ing the world. him some more, and was closing my successfully and put them to flight. Soon the cows were licking the res GALLANT CONDUCT OF PIPER. eyes when he shouted: “Dad, the stranger’s pokin' his elbow cued calves affectionately, and the co instance« of Bravery Shown in Peril- yotes were how ling a disappointed duet ill my back!” on« Quarter«. from the summit of a knoll near by. I movz-'J further away from him, but There have been several instances of a minute later he continued: bravery similar to that of the gallant “Dad, the stranger's makin’ faces at STRANGE CASES OF POISONING Gordon piper at Dargai, who continued Gila Bite Wa. Not Deadly, Hot Im* to play after both his legs had been *• ix>ok-a-yere, stranger,” said “dad” lirella Tree We.. shot off, says the London Chronicle. — as be came to our door with a lighted In the far northeastern part of Ari One of these, which occurred duringthe candle in his hand: “Dan’l has alius bin zona territory, that is to say in Navajo Peninsular wars, was almost identical brought up as a pet and is kinder techy, county, a young man was bitten by a with that of the capture of the Dargai but if yo’ don’t worry him he’s one o’ Gila monster recently. Almost at the ridge. It was at Vimiera, wttien the the nicest boys in the hull kentry. Jest same time, at Yuma, in the extreme then Seventy-first Highlanders hurled give him his way and he won't find any southwestern corner of the territory, themselves against the French as a fault with yo’.” a little girl ate some berries that fell counter-stroke to the attempt of Kel I gave him his way and all of the from the umbrella trees that grow so lerman to recover six captured guns, clothes and nearly the whole of the plentiful in southern Arizona. The and drove back their assailants in head bed, but the old man had hardly left us young man lived, but the little maiden long rout. When the Highlanders w ere when the ingTate called out peevishly: died. The latter case is the more re advancing Piper Stewart, of the gren “Dad, the stranger says he’ll kill me markable, perhaps, for until this in adier company, fell, his thigh being when yo’ and ma go to sleep!” stance not even the medical profession broken by a musket shot. Yet he re "Did yo’ say that, stranger?” asked suspected that there was anything fused to quit the field, and. sitting on the father, as he reappeared at the door poisonous about the umbrella tree. The a knapsack, continued to inspire his again. child's name was Dora Lynch, her fa comrades with a pibroch, saying: "Why, of course not!” I replied, an ther being well-known in Yuma. The “De’il ha’e me. lads, if ye shall want grily. “I haven’t said a single word to lucky young man in the northeast was for music!” For this he received a him since we came to bed!” Orrin Barney, who had started out with handsome stand of pipes from the High “Wall,” he continued, kindly, “jest a party for Utah. He was following a land society of London. b'ar in mind that Dan’l has alius bin wagon up a hill and "scotching" it with Again, there the historical incident brung up as a pet anddon’t bother him. rocks. He reached down for a rock of Pipe Major Mackay, who, when his He’s a mighty nice boy, Dan’l is. and and picked up a Gila monster. The regiment had formed square to receive yo'll say so when yo’ know him better.” monster's head had to be cut, to a charge of French cavalry’ nt Waterloo, I was too tired to answer him again, loosen the grip on Barney s hand. The stepped outside the square and strode and for the third time was almost in the latter suffered severe pain for two days, round the bayonet bristling ranks play land of dreams when that boy broke out but then recovered. His only remedies ing his most inspirating pibroch in the presence of his comrades—nn incident again: were tobacco and whisky. “Dad, the stranger’s snorin’ and won’t which forms the subject of one of Mr. let me git to sleep!” It ia said that the pilgrim to Mecca, Bogie’s finest battle pictures, exhibited “Dan’l!” called the squatter in a starting from Washington city, would at the academy a year or two ago. voice of thunder, “and yo’, too. stran have to travel 6,598 miles in order to ger, if yo’ uns don’t behave in thar’ and reach the Caaba. let me'n the ole woman git to sleep I’ll HIS WEDDING TRIP. To go from New York to Aden, in cunt in and wallop the both of you!” Arabia, vis Iztndon, ny the swiftest It Wa. a Lose Tim. A<o. Ha, ICvew I said to myself that if he'd come in neeamer and crossing the continent of Now He Sometime. Hear, oi It. and wallop Daniel for about two hours Europe by rail, requires 20 days. “The day I waa married," said a Lew he could have everything I possessed iston I Me.) man, "a thin crust had for his trouble, and I kept repeating GOLD AND SILVER. formed over the snow all over the ooun- this over and over to myself and sink A pound of feathers contains in try. The w ind was blowing a gale, and ing off to sleep when that little villain ounces, or 7.000 grains; a pound of gold my wife and myaelf started for our suddenly planted his two feet against new home at Sabattua. contains 12 ounces, or 5.760 grains. the small of my back and sent me out on “Just beyond Thornew Corner the In the calendar year 1894 3,093,97» the floor with a bang that shook the wind took the box in which my wife’s house from cellar to rafter. I lay where silver dollars were struck at the mints: wedding hat- reposed, and whirled it I fell, expecting “dad” to rush in and in the fiscal year 1895, ending June X', out of the sleigh upon the crust. I got make good his threat, but as he didn't 3,956,011 dollars were struck. A woman at Walkerville. Mont., who out and chased it. appear I finally got up and dressed, and "It kept just ahead of me for a quar keeps hens, gathered four dollars' passed the rest of the night on^ two ter of a mile, and w ent rolling over and worth of gold in the craws of three chairs by the stove, while "Dan’l." sat over across the Lew iston lx>g. The wind isfied at last, slept the sleep of the just chickens she had just killed. Now she cut through me like a knife, but I kept follows her hens to discover the spot and kept up a snore the livelong night on and I last.saw it catch on a hard-hack which sounded like the growls of a where they find gold. bush. I made a flying leap to catch it A California gold prospector has ferocious grizzly bear.—N. Y. World. and sprawled all over it. I lugged it written a letter addressed to Mayor bark, only to find that my wife bad been Colored emigrants starting from Pratt, of St. Paul, Minn., in which he unable to stand the cold wind and had XVashing’on to Monrovia, in Liberia, ailvances the claim that gold can be lo driven on. would have before them a voyage of cated in eastern Minnesota. “I walked into Sahattus carrying the Production ot gold has enormously wedding hat, and there met my men 3.645 miles. The returns issued by the London increased, particularly in California friends. "I sometimes hear of the incident board of trade fbr March show an in and Utah. Gold ore yielding as low as crease of £2.380.000 in imports and aa three dollars per ton ran now be now.” worked by the new cyanide process, increase of £1,900,000 in exports dur ing the month, a« com pared with March whereas silver ore must show »24 a ton before it can be worked. .__ last year. Zöllen pou^ß. ALLEN, Proprietor. First class accommodation at second class rate. BEST MEALS IN THE CITY. Tillamook, Ore llüHdquarters for Forest Grove Stage Line« "My Kingdom For a Horse." WELL, WE’VE GOT IT AND MORE TOO If 37- c - cl “S77"a.rxt to ZD i I xto -¿L. IToie G-erxtle Horse To ex TTioe Easy Come to Oxxr Statole a,rxd. G-et it. The Tillamook Livery and Sale Stable, OREGON TILLAMOOK, 6.00 ROUND TRIP. 3.50 ONE WAY. ASTORIA AND TILLAMOOK. WILL RUN THE Steamer W. H. HARRISON or R- Will innke tiiua «vary fir« Java, tlM iMMg. between *«ioria «ad Tillamook City, canying frei«l>t and E, SANftOtiN & CO.. ASTORIA ; or COHN & co., TILLAMOOK. AGENTS. WHEN YOU WANT LUMBER, Remember that we keep the best of everything in Stock and at prices as low as the lowest- FOLLOWING IS OUR LIST OF PRICES : COMMCN ROUGH LUMBER at <XI |wr thousand feet, SHIPLAP at ¿9.00 per thousand feet, SIZED LUMBER at 9 00 per thousand feet, FLOORING. No. 2, at $12 00 per thouHand feet. • FLOORING, No. 1, at $16.00 per thoiiHaud feet, .. g t|louHnni| feP, RUSTIC, No. RUSTIC, No. 1. at $16.000 per thousand feet. No. 1, FINISH, at $15.1X1 per thounand feet, MOULDINGS. J4c i» r foot, |>er inch in width. ALL SIN. PLANKING at $7 per 1000 feet. Tillamook T imber L and , A ct J une 3. I878.—N otice F or P ublication . United States Land Office, Oregon City, Oregon, October nth, 1898.’” Notice is hereby given that in compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress of June 3rd, 1878, entitled “An act for the sale of timber lands :n the States of California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington Territory,” as extended to all the Public Land States by act of August 4, 1892, CRI8 T. STARR. of Dayton, county of Yamhill, State of Oregon, has this day filed in this office his sworn state ment No. 3081, for the purchase ot the 11H of s’4 of Section No. 32 in Tow nship No. 1 s. Range No. 6 w, and will offer proof to show that the land sought is more valuable for its timber or stonethau for agricultural purposes, and to es tablish his claim to said land before the Register and Receiver of this office at Oregon City, Ore., <>u Saturday, the .Mil day ot Januiux, D- al He names as witnesses: Nathaniel Stretch, of Dayton. Ore., Rilv G. Smith, of Dayton, Ore., John Glen, of Dayton Ore , Albert K.Cook, of McMinnville. Ore. Any and all persons claiming adversely tho above-described lands are requested to file their chums in this office on or before said 20th day of December, 1898. C har . B. M oorks , Register. T imber L and , A ct J unk 3. 1878.—N otice for P ublication . United Suites Land Office, Oregon City, Oregon, October lilh, 1898. Notice ia hereby given that in compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress of June 3rd, 1M78, entitled “An act for the sale of t niber lands in the States of Califor nia, Oregon, Nevada, ami Washington Territo ry," as extended to all the Public Land States by act of August 4, 1892, LUTHER I FLETCHER, of Dayton, c unity of Yamhill, State of Oregon, has this day filed in this office his sworn state ment No 3050, for the purchase of the e% ot e% of Section No 24 in Township No 2 S, Range No 7 w, aud willoffiti proof to show that tin- land sought is more valuable for its timber or stone than for agricultural purposes, ami to establish his claim to said land before the Register and Receiver of this office at Oregon City, Oregon, on Saturday, the 28th day of January, 1899. He names as xvituesses: Albert E. < 00k, of McMinnville, Yamhill county, Oregon, Riley G. Smith, of Dayton, Yamhill county, Oregon, James B. Mellott, of Dayton, Yamhill county, Oregon, John W. Fishburn, of Dayton. Yamhill county, Oregon. Any and all persons claiming adversely the above-described lands are requested to tile their claims in this office on or before said 21st day of December, ih98. C has . B. M oores , Register. Reduced & T imber L and , A ct J unk 3, 1878.—N otice for P ublication . United States Land Office, Oregon City. Oregon. Octoberiith, 1898. Notice is hereby given that in coinpliHUce with the provisions of the act of Congress ot June 3rd, 1878. entitled. “Au act for the sale of timber lands in the States of California. Oregon, Nevada and Washington Territory’’ as extended to all the Public Land States by act of August 4, 1892. GKORGK H. BAXTER, of Dayton, county of Yamhill, Slate of Oregon, has this day filed in this office his sworn state ment No. 3055, tor the put chase of r’., of w‘i of Section No 26 in Township No. 2 s. Ran *e No. 7 w. and will offer pt oof to show that the land sought is more valuable tor its timber or stone than for agricultural purposes, and to establish his claim to said laud before the Register and Receiver of tiiis office at Oregon City, Oregon, on Saturday, the 28th day of January, 1899, He names as witnesses: Riley G. Smith, of Da x ton, Yamhill county, Oregon, John Starr, of Dayton, Yamhill county’ Oregon, William H. Fletcher, of McMinnville, Yamhill county, Oregon, Albe t K. Cook, of McMinnville, Yamhill county, Oregon. Any and all persons claiming adversely the above described lands are requested to file their claims in this office on or before said 20th day of December, I898. C has . B. M oores , Register. T imber L and , A ct J unk 5, 1878.—N otice Eon P ublication . United States Land Office, Oregon City Oregon, November sth. 1898. Notice. Ab hereby given that ill compfe revisions of tin* act of (’"g- I, entitled “ An act ior iiu the States ol Cnliloi» Ulasliinaton Tetri- ■Mt^l.and States ineiit No. 8078, foi the pure of Section No 8 in Township NTT 7 xv, an<l will offer proof to shoxv sought is more valuuble for its timber than for Hgriculturiil purposes, and to estab his claim to said land before the Register a Receiver <»f tin- «illite at Oiegon City, (Ireji >-a, on Saturday, the 28th day of January, I!c naint'hiiR witnesses: Albeit K. took, of McMinnville, Oregonh William Cain, of Dayton. Oregon , Rily <*. Smith, of Dayton, Ore.; J. W. Coffin, of Daytog, Oregon. Any and all persons claiming adversely the above described lands are requested to tile their claims in this office on or before said 28th day ot January, 1899. (.’ has . B. Moores Register. notick for publication . Land Office at Oregon City, Ore., Herein ber 9U1, ¡8<> k . Notice is hereby given that the following named Mettler has filed notice of his intention to make thud proof in Niipport of hi« claim, and that said proof will be made bciore the County < lerk of THIamook co , at Tillamook, Oregon, on February 1st, 1R9H, viz : J j HN WILLIAM STEINMETZ; H. K. 11,784, for the Lot 3, He of Nw and E «4 of Sw of aec 4, Tp >N. R BW. He naineM the following xvltnesses to ¡»rove hi» continuous reaideuce upon and cultivation of said land, viz John Conklin, James Wiley, Gustav Kunze, EdwardG. K- West, of Tillamook, Oregon. C has . H. M oores . Register. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.-That by virtue ot hii order of th«' County Court of tho State of Oregon for the County of Tillamook, sitting in probate, made and entered in the record» of said Court on tbe aolh day of May, 189K. the administrator of the estate of J. <’. HALL, deceased, will, from and after the 20th day of January, 1*9, i>r-x:rr<1 to sell at private sale foi cash, the following described real pro- |M*rty iMrlonglng to »aid estate, to-wit The W J4 of the Bw ' 4 of see. 27 and the Nc of the Sr '4, and »he Sr *4 of the Ne % of sec. 28, containing 160 acre» in Tp 3 H. R. V W of the Willamette Meridian in Oregon, nave ami except all of that portion of the Sc % of the Sf % of sec. 28 lying North of the Big Ne»tiicca River hik I containing 15 acre» more or I cmm , deeded bV W A Hanoi mid wife t-> R o. Richards, November nth, 1891, also saving and excepting all ot that portion of the Nw of toe Sw >4 of see 27, said Tp and Range hrie to fore deeded by W. A. Hanor and wife to James Hughey ami wife, leaving n balance conveyed herein of 140 acres more or less. Dated at Tillamook, In Tillamook county, Oregon, this 12th dav of December A.D., 189H. CHARLES E HALL Administrator of the Estate of J. C. Hall, deceased. Lumbering Co ST KAM ER Direct From S. F. to Tillamook WHERE TO INSURE. Freight handled with pispateh and at lowest rates. Fruit delivered in good order. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND Best Accommodations and Cheajiest Route to or from Tillamook. GLOW INSHHANIE CO. Every attention paid to wants and conveniences of passenger. Firat-class table set. AGENT rOlt TILLAMOOK. J 8. STEPHENS. WILL SAIL FROM SAN FRANCISCO ABOUT OCTOBER 30th AND EVERY 10 DAYS AFTER. HOME MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. For further particulars apply to AUKNTH VOX TILLAMOOK. BIGGS A STEPHENS. ufk.. "W~. ¿C Co., SCHOOL DESKS AND SUPPLIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. J 8. HTEI'HENK ia agent for the Northwest School Furniture Com|>any for Tillamook co. No. 14 C aupobxia S tbekt , 8 am F banciao ; or to T hicker L i 'MHHR C o . I DO YOU When you are in town and want to atop at a nice hotel, the place to go ia to KNOW THE NEWS THE TILLAMOOK • You can have it nil for PER. CRp I'ER MONTH JUL MONTH in The Evening Trlrgrnni, of Portland, Oregon, It in the Inrg- eat evening uewapa|>er publish- ed in Oregon ; it contain* all the newa of the atale and nation, Try it for a month. A «ample copy will he mailed to yon free. Ad- dreea EOU/. G. E. U/IBT Proprietor. This Hotel has just been newly furnished and put In first class repair and is now by far the best in the city E verything C omfortable and H omelike - Tirei hiimbli, 9 Tillamook Ore THE TELEGRAM, i Port! Mild,Or