THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, FEBRUARY 2, 1899
BOARD
OF
TILLAMOOK
COMMISSIONERS knives which made it appear most blood
rending.
Levy a
Tax and Appoint Two J. I). Chitwood was out looking for
Road Supervisor*.
cattle and bagged two antelope on last
The board of county commissioners Wednesday.
met on Monday at the Court House,
Nick Appolten started out side on
with County Judge G. W. Sappington horse back on the 27th.
and Commissioners C. Ray and C. H.
| We hope the reduction of the road
Wheeler present, when the follow
I districts will work a benefit to the roads.
ing business was transacted.
The road district in the south end of the
It was ordered that the following
county has been so large that the sup
named person* be allowed the amount I
ervisor has not been able to visit our
set opposite their res|xxtive names for
roads at the right time ofthe season to
the purposes therein set forth, and that
get all of the road tax worked out before
the Clerk draw warrant* on the treasurer
many of the settiers go out to work.
for the several amounts on the general
The supervisors ought to have deputies
fund.
I to see after the loose hands and have
Homer Mason, salary for county
clerk for January........................ 133.33 their work done before they go off and
spend thesnmmermonthsabroad. There
E. D. Severance, for salary as
deputy clerk for January........ 50.00 was more than ten days work lost last
H. II. Aiderman, lor salary as
year in this immediate locality, but still
sheriff for January.................... 133.33
we hope the change will work for the
E. W. Stanley, for salary as
deputy sheriff for January...... 5O.n<) best and that our roads will be im-
5.70 proved with time.
I). S. Bovakin, for hardware......
Frank Severance, 2V6 days ser
5.00
vices as supervisor R. D.No. 3
WILSON RIVER.
W. W. Jacobs, drawing jury list
3.00
in first justice precinct district
J. Svenson brought a load of planks
B. C. Lamb, for stationery,
books and blank*.................... 103.86 from Tillamook last Saturday to use in
Fees allowed in re inquest on Sam repairing the Wilson river bridge.
Brammer;
Quite a number of jieople gathered at
J. E. Tuttle, coroner’s fees...........
David Wiley, physician’s fee......
the home of Erick Glad last Thursday
Jos. Hauxhurst, witness fees.
evening and spent theevening in singing.
J. A. Biggs,
„
They will meet at Mr. Freeman’s next
Frank Norberg, ,,
Thursday evening.
A. Beuscheidt,
,,
James Wilson,
,,
Lewis Smith, from Miama, came
Frank Elliott,
„
down to Peter Wilson's last week.
Mary L. Day,
,,
Mrs. Frank Eliott „
Erick Glad and Charley Svenson re
Gilford Stillwell, juror’s fees.
paired the breakwater walls under the
A. L. Whillen
Wilson river bridge last Monday.
Fred C. Skomp, ,,
,1
T. A. North.
Charles Bucholtz, ,,
NESTOCTON.
Chas. Ooley
,,
,, ......
Geo. H. Handley, taking testi
Miss Lizzie Fleck, of Hebo, has been
2.50
mony ..........................................
visiting her Grandmother, Mrs.Simmons,
B. L. Eddy, deputy district at
5.00 for a week.
torney’s fees..............................
Tillamook Livery Stables, haul
Quite a nice time was reported at the
ing coffin box...........................
1.50
last dance at Simmons’.
Allowed on Road Fund:
Brown, Herman, for work in R.
Mrs. Schlatter's father, J. J. Hall, who
1.50
I). No. 3..................................
1.50 has Ireen visiting with her this winter,
Brown, Tom
,,
,,
1.50 made a trip over the Noth Yamhill road
Ellison, Henry
,,
,,
2.25 on horse back.
Mills, Morrison ,,
,,
Mills, Grant
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„
0.75
Mr. Tharp's folks moved into the Dan
Wallin, Chas.
,,
,,
1.50
Pierce house lately.
Fanner, L. E., for work in R. I).
No ft ......................................
*Mr. William Schlotter, in company
Bodyfelt, G. W.
wi.li Albert Harris, made a trip to
Hellcbuyck, C.,poll tax refunded
Skookum Lak?, Mr. Schlotter's home-
It was ordered that the claims
Little Nestucca Toll Road Co. for costs steail.
re Baxter vs, Tillamook county and G.
Our Grange No. 281 met tile 27th. new
officers were installed by thepastinaster.
E. Mizner was rejected.
It appearing to the court that certain Proposals were made to build a Grange
projierty assessed to W. S. Cone for the hall.
year 1896 and 1897 is assessed at an
NEHALEM.
unjust valuation, it was ordered that
the sheriff re-assess the property at a
The Woodmen installed their new set
reasonable and projier valuation.
of officers on Saturday night.
The# court appointed supervisors as
W. H. Hoskins and daughter Ethel
follows _• Road District No. 2, Carl Wal
lin; No. 3, L. M. Commons. In regard were visitors at C. Pye's Saturday and
to the appointment of a road super Sunday. Miss Ethel returns to the
visor for Road District No. 1, the court Academy at Tillamook on Tuesday.
The Misses Esnia and Gladys Newell
ordered it continued until the March
are both teaching school; the former at
term.
The court ordered the following levy Barnegat and the latter in the adjoining
on all taxable property in Tillamook district.
county for the year 1898, for the pur
A slight accident to the tug Maggie
pose herein named, to wit;
occti Ted on Thursday, a weak spot in
For the payment of state tax...5.7 mills. her bailer caused by salt water corrosion
For County School Fund......... 5.0 mills. gave out. the has been rep tired.
For Comity General fund........ 14.0 mills.
Blackburn's cook left for his home on
For indigent soldier’s fund......... 1 mills.
For incidental fund ........................ 2 mills. the Coquille River on Sunday, and that
For Road Fund on (iroperty
department is now in charge of the two
outside the corporate limits
Mrs. Blackburns.
of Tillamook city, payable
in rash...................................... 5.0 mills.
E. K. Scovell was around on Sunday
On all propertv within the cor
soliciting signatures to an Anti-Imper
porate limits of Tillamook
ialism petition.
city the levy forcounty road
fund shall be..................................mills.
There is a very bitter feeling among
And it was further ordered that the the citizens of Nehalem City against the
sum of $2 be and the same is hereby 1 projectors of the incorporation scheme.
levied against all persons within this They charge high-handed sharp practice
county who are subject to a state poll in applying for a charter without the
tax for road purposes payable in cash ; 1 knowledge or consent of the citizens;
and it was further ordered that the also fraud in stealing the name of the
Clerk extend said levy on the said assess original town, Nehalem.
ment roll for the year 1898, and place a
Born—To the wife of Wm. Told, a
warrant thereon for the collection of
daughter.
sai I taxes made returnable on the first
Married—Christ Christiensen, of San
Monday in April. 1899.
Warrants were ordered drawn upon the Francisco, to Miss Nelly, youngest
daughter of Salomon Lovewell. Next!
treasurer, as follow*;
(». W. Sappington, for salary
as county judge, January.....
Chas Ray. salary and mileage
as commissioner ....................
C II- W heeler, salary and mile
age as commissioner.............
McIntosh N- McNair, for stove
and stove pi|>c for clerk’s
office ................................ .........
Allowed on Road Fund
H. M. Farmer.................................
James McGee.................................
K. Osburn........................................
M E I’hclps..................................
(». W. Sappington ................... .
Now is your time farmers of Nehalem
41.66 to rustic for a creamery.
Did you see
the article in the last issue of the Head
11.00
light? A Washington county creamery
14.60 man is seeking a suitable location.
14.30
Neighborhood Quarrel.
Frank Reynolds paid a fine of $5 on
Tuesday for assault and battery on Jas.
Kimball in a neighborhood quarrel on
Sunday. In the same squabble William
Kimball pleaded guilty to assaulting H.
Kimball and paid a $5 tine. On Thurs-
day Frank Reynolds stood trial charged
EMMA.
with assault and battery upon William
\t the recent freshet Slab Creek was Kimball. The jury, after a long trial,
brought in a verdict of not guilty.
higher than it hits been for eight years.
4 47
38
1 25
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6.
Since the freshet we have had nice
warm weather up to this date, the 2Mh. Turkish Bath Fix in Home for *5-
J. W Steinmetz is the agent for the
Harry Chitwood arrived home from
Cr< wiry, Polk Co., on the 21st inst . Quaker hot air anil vapor bath cabinet.
A consignment of these baths reached him
atvompanird by Mr. Rudnev Bowman, this week, which he is selling at the low
ot Ballston. They have been spending a Bum of $5 each No home is complete
without one. Prof. Kuhne resolves all
few day* on Salmon river hunting.
disease into one. and says that dirt is the
Hall Tunlnage, of Red Prairie. Polk primal cause of all the ills to which flesh
Co., has l»ccn »(tending a lew days on is heir to. It requires heat tn open the
his ranch on the little Nvstucva. ami (»orc* of the skin, cither dry heat or not
went out via Emma, on the Slab Creek air. It cost*only about 3cents per bath.
Further particulars of J. W. Steinmetz,
road.
Tillamook, who is now prejuired to fur
nish
a limited number of these baths.
Joe Altenbnrgrr is burn on his house,
and Steve Batter has I wen looking after
Masonic Notice.
his cattle that arc out on the ranch.
A F A a M T ill «Mito*
The d iner at Mi. Logan's on Salmon
l.oiw.r No 57 Stateti communi-
river, on the 25th, was w ell attended by
citlon Satunlav wcuiug, beb
4tl»,
al 7 jr»p in.
both w hites and Indians. A war dance
Sojourning brclhtvn cordially
invited.
v as one of the interesting features of the
IH >i »1er of the 1ft M
evening. They used their guns and
T hu *. H. G ovxk . S«c.
WEATHER.
Temperature.
5 Maxi
Mini.
Rain«
•-> muni
mum.
Mean.
fall.
1.58
45 ... 37 ... 41.0 ..
1 .
1.98
2 . . 43 ... 33 ... 36.1 ..
3 . . 39 ... 28 ... 33.1 ... 0.12
0.25 l
4 . . 40 ... 30 ... 35.1 ..
5 . . 44 ... 33 ... 38.1 ... 0.85
6 .
46 ... 40 ... 43.0 ... 1.15 given in an address just delivered by
48 ... 36
42.0 ... 0.09 John Morley, the well-known British
7
H . . 47 ... 32 ... 39.1 ..
T. statesman, in which he deplored the pres
1.35
■J . . 48 ... 38 ... 43.0 ..
ent tendency to expansion which is seen
0.77
10 . . 49 ... 44 ... 46.1 ..
0.13 in the policy of England and the I nined
11 . . 49 ... M ... 41.1 ..
0.20 States, says the Globe Democrat. Speak
45 ... 33 ... 39.0 ..
12 .
13 . . 49 ... 40 ... 44.1 ..
0.19 ing for England he said that “the pre
2.60
14 . . 47 ... 39 ... 43.0 ..
15 . . 52 ... 41 ... 46.1
2.40 vailing spirit of imperialism must inevit-
16 . . 51 ... 47 ... 49.0 ... 0.88 ' ably bring militarism, a gigantic and
17 . . 55 ... 48 ... 50.3 ... 0.53 ' daily growing expenditure, increased
0.65 1 power to aristocrats and privileged
1H . . 54 ... 47 ... 50.1 ..
0.60
19 . . 54 ... 44 ... 49.0 ..
20 . . 51 ... 49 ... 50.0 ... 2.85 i classes, and war.” Mr. Mor’.ev is one of
2.65 ' the best informed on matters of history
21 . . 52 ... 43 ... 47.1 ..
. 48 ... 32 ... 40.0 ... 0.03 of all the statesmen now at the front in
22
23 . . 49 ... 37 ... 43.0 ... 0.22 ' England.
He is a typical scholar in
24 . . 50 ... 43 ... 46.1 ..
0.30 ! politics. Moreover, he has been in public
25 . . 54 ... 47 ... 50.1 ..
0.24
26 . . 50 ... 42 ... 46.0 ..
0.02 ' for about a quarter of a century, and
27 . . 47 ... 37 ... 42.0 ..
0.02 . has thus had an incentive to study public
28 . . 51 ... 42 ... 46.1 ...
T. ! questions on their practical side. He is
29 . . 49 ... 37 ... 43.0 ... 0.03
30 . . 50 ... 38 ... 44.0 ... 0.40 1 a radical, too, and must be supposed on
31 . . 48 ... 31 ... 39.1 ... 0.45 1 that account to be familiar with the dif
Sum. 1504. ...1208...... 1 346.8....... ..23.53 ferences in the political conditions in
Mean 48.5 .. 38.5 ..... 43.8....... ....0.00 England between the present time and
S ummary —Mean temp., 43.8 max. I the recent and the remote past. He has
temp » 55 ; date, 17th. Min. temp., 28 ; 1 overlooked those differences in this ex
date, 3rd; total precip. inches, 23.53 ; igency, however, for the history of his
total snowfall inches, 0 ; number of country in the past three-quarters of a
days clear, 0; partly cloudy, 2; cloudy, 1 century proves that there is no such re
29. Dates of frost— Light, 13th and lation between imperialism and preroga
22nd; killing, 3rd and 12th. Dates of tive as that which he tells.
What Mr. Morley calls imperialism has
hail, 1st, 2nd, 11th, 14th anc 31st.
Sleet, 0. Thrunder storm, 14th ; Auro, found its most conspicuous assertion as
ras, 30. Prevailing wind—Direction, W. a settled policy in England within the
R emarks —14th, a heavy thunder i past sixty or seventy years, and yet no
storm from S.W., running to the east, country in the world has made such ad
followed by heavy rain lasting 40 vances in liberalism as England has in
that time. When England in 1783 lost
minutes.
all her American colonies except Canada
C apt . J oseph J. D awson ,
the world for a time supposed that her
Voluntary Observer.
power was ended, and that the fate of
Athens, Rome, Venice and other states
HOTEL PERSONALS.
which has once been great, but which
had vanished from the map of the world,
Allen House.
Bay City—W. S. Cone, West Day, Wm. would soon be hers. But in the wars
S. Provost, Mrs. Adolph Nelson, T. with Bonaparte short’y afterwards she
Trayne, Peter Nelson, Frank Wirdington, revealed a power and a persistency
Louise York, W. I). Woods, H. E. War which she had not shown before, and im
mediately afterward she began a career
ren.
of expansion which has no parallel in his
South Prairie—Pate Wells.
Garibaldi—Harry Mitchell, S. P. Swen tory. With this territorial expansion an
expansion in the rights and privileges of
son.
her people have gone hand in hand. The
Hobsonville—J. E. Roach.
Nehalem—Clarence Smith, Nels Nelson, franchise act of 1832 added 500,000 vot.
Dave Martiney, S. Tompson, Wm. Bris ers to the British electorate. The act of
1867 increased the list by about 1,100,-
coe.
000. The act of1884 added more than
Netarts—G. M. Watkins.
2,000,000 to the roll. Shortly before
Trask—I). Curtis.
Spruce—Jim Christenson, D. D. Jones. Mr. Morley was born, or before 1832,
only 400,000 persons were permitted to
Portland —Frank Kiefer.
vote for members of the House of Com
Astoria—Otto Johnson.
mons. The number which voted in the
Beaver—Chas Walley.
last general election was about 6,000,-
Kelches—John Wm. Jennings.
000. Previous to 1832 only one in fifty
Forest Grove—Chas. N. Dolstrom.
of the inhabitants in the United King
Larsen House.
dom were electors. One in six have the
Oretown—Edith Ellis.
status to-day.
Trask River—Frank Tone.
The period of England’s greatest ex
Bay City—W. Durham, M. Warren, pansion, that is to say, is coincident with
H. Warren, W. S. Cone, W. II. Hare, an extension of popular rights and a dif
Dr. Madison, D. W. Rhodes, B. I). Hare. fusion of liberty in that country such as
Netarts—M. Morgan, G. B. Willey, the world never saw in any great nation
G. W. Phelphs, M. E. Phelphs, Geo. Tone, before, for the basis of the franchise in
Ali Bunn.
the United States, notwithstanding the
California—I). J. Trippe.
states at the outset, was broad from the
Utah—Harrv Coleman.
beginning. England, during the period in
Miama—D. Murphy, Emmett Jenkins. which she has extended her rule over
Hobsoiiville—Leigh Jones, Chris Peter Asia, Africa and the islands of the sea,
son, Wall Staple*, Jno. Bodie.
has progressed nearer to democracy than
Nestucca—Jno. Barbuean, W. J. Ray, any other great nation of ancient or
J. P. Turpie.
modern times except the United States.
Portland—A. I). Tone, J. J. Purcill, Mrs. Lord Derby a little over 40 years ago ad
Starich, Chas. Clough.
vocated the raising of a “barrier against
Idaho—Dr. W. H. May.
the current of that continually increasing
Nehalem—C. Wheeler.
and encroaching democratic influence in
Fairview—Edmund Bush, G. Chance. this nation which is bent on throwing the
Forest (»rove—Chas. Dolstrum.
whole power and authority ofthe govern
Clark Point—Jno. Tone.
ment nominally into the hands of the
masses, but practially and really into
those of demagogues and republicans.’’
BEAVER.
The “democratic influence’’ which the
The protracted meeting, which has great Tory chieftain deplored has come
been in progress one week. held bv in England, and Derby himself was oblig
Elder Le Masters of Tillamook has been ed to help to extend it by the franchise
well attended by attentive and eager bill which he and Disraeli were force to
listeners. He expects to close his series put through Parliament a few years
of meetings Thursday, when C. Mills is after he made this outburst—the franch
expected to fill his regular appointment ise act of 1867. The peril which Eng
at 11 a.in. this coming Sunday.
land’s Radical leader imagines he sees in
Rev. Dollarhide reports good congre imperialism does not exist. Nowhere in
gation at Coulson’s school house last the world's history has the power ofthe
“aristocrats and privileged classes’’ di
Sunday with good results.
Rev. Armstrong report* a pleasant minished in such a degree as it has in Eng
time at Sand Lake and being kindly land in the period in which its expansion
in territorial area and political prestige
entertained by the people.
has been greatest.
C. Mills reports that he also had a fine
audience at the Hebo school house and
W ill the treaty of peace l>e ratified ?
that after services he was kindly invited
to several of their homes for refresh, The senate is to decide this momentous
question on Monday. It should lie rati-
ments.
. tied without any hesitancy whatever.
Last Sunday night several from Blaine, ___________-
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a distance of 8 miles, also from Ceilarville, ,
a distance of 9 miles, were out to Eeav«*r
C. A. BAILEY >
to hear the gospel preached by Elder Le
DEALER IN
Masters.
5 TL DEE. I KE K H’.J CO.VS.
The H kadi . ioiit is highly appreciated
OSEOKNE MOHEKS,
and read by most of the Beaverites.
Buggies, bsy rakes, plows, slid other
farm mschinery.
You can save
The new church is nearing a comple
money by dealing with me,
tion. Those who have signed to help
Special Prices on Buggies and Spring
1 will do a great favor by paying up at
Wagons.
once to C. Mills, the treasurer, also those
U. A. BAILEY, Tillamook, Ore.
who signed work. Now is your time.
This coming Sunday Rev. Armstrong
goes to Woods, and Rev. Ihillerhidc to
' Hebo.
Wm. Christenson, of Oretown, the first
I
THOUGHTS
Two Men Drowned.
the liberty to put his horses in C. Mills
barn and waited himself out in the cold
A storia . Jan- 31.—Two men were
until Mr. Mills came home and took .Irmvned’in Young's bay this morning,
and another was saved only by good for
him in.
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tune. Abnuu Junnn, a dairyman in
EXPANSION AND LIBERTY.
charge of the Andrew Young ranch. 1»
A fine illustration of the folly of form- the man wived, and Harry Light and
ing theories before collating fact is August Baer were the two who were
OF
TILLAMOOK,
ORE.
TICKLE.
"Professor," said a graduate, trying
to lie pathetic at parting, “I am indebt
ed to you for all 1 know.
••pray do not mention such a trifle,'’
was the reply.
“Our duty to humanity,” »aid the
Corn fed Philosopher. ‘demand* that we
drowned.
should administer the affairs of the
It has long been the custom of the weak and oppressed, and our duty to
three to bring milk from the ranch to ourselves demands that we should get
Astoria every morning in an open boat, darn good pay for the job.
and this morning they started as usual,
notwithstanding the fact that a gale was
"Conversation is only th® art of talk-
blowing. Each was an expert boatman, back.”
and as they had often crossed in bad
"Not much; conversation is the art of
weather, paid little attention to it. They getting somebody to listen to you.
left the ranch about 4 o'clock and had en
tered the main channel of the bay, when
"There is nothing more uncertain than
their boat was struck by a sudden squall a horse race,” exclaimed the mail with
and capsized. How long Baer and Light a tendency to talk loud.
kept above the water will never be
And the melancholy friend responded.
known, but as Junna rose to the surface "You never worked in a weather bur
he found himself against the upturned eau, did you I”
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boat. He grabbed it and climbed on
Uncle Silas, just in from Upcreek,
top. Chilled to the bone, he crouched on
jum|>ed Oft of the way of the car fen
the drifting boat ami there bt came un-
der and shook his brawny fist at the
concious.
About 7 o’clock, two hours after the gripman.
•If you jab that blamed hay rake agin
accident, as Charles Eklund, the draw-
my laigs,” he exclaimed, "I'll lick ye! ”
tender at the Y’ourg s bay railway bridge,
was going to meet the inorning train, he
“Wot’* that book you’ve got there.
saw a boat coming down the bay, with
Weary.”
a man clinging to it. Fortunately, the
"That’s the 'Art of dining well.’ ”
craft drifted close to the pier, and Eck-
"Say. that's a rum sort o' book fer a
lund was able to secure its passenger. Ac
gen'leinan in your position. Weary,
tive rubbing soon brought Junna back to
"Oil, I dunr.o. A fellur can aduiire
consciousness, and he then told of the
art without bein’ a artist, Litnpy.
loss of his two companions.
August Baer, one of the men who was
“Yooea II
don’t mean to tell me
drowned, w as a native of Coos bay. and
you consider Ritern a genius?” asked the
son of John Baer, who was considered
office loafer.
one of the wealtiest residents of that
"That is just what I mean to tell you,”
section. He had left home owing to some
said the proofreader, stoutly. "You
family diffeiences. Henry Light was a
ought to see his stuff as it comes in—
Finn, and was known to be a hard work sometimes with as many as three words
ing young man. Both were unmarried,
misspelled in one poem.”
and were about 25 years old. The bodies
have been recovered.
Bigsbee is a terribly melodramatic fel
low. isn’t he? He said he'd drain his
Young’s bill to prohibit the opening or heart's blood for the woman he loved.
laying out of county roadson any greater Do you think he meant it ?”
grade than 7 per cent is considered a
" Why, I guess so. Bigsbee is agent for
most meritorious measure. Exceptions
a drain and sewer pipe concern.”
are made of roads in mountainous coun
try, where easy grades are impossible, the
When a young woman can describe to
only object of the bill being to obtain you the necktie that a young man wore
good grades where they are feasible. The the week before that young man was
bill also provides for the letting of coun
peril.
ty road or bridge work by contract, when
"And when I pro|>o8ed to her she turn
ever the cost exceeds $50. The contract
is to be in writing, and let to the lowest ed all colors of the rainbow at once.”
"How can you make such a rediculous
responsible bidder.
assertion ?”
The postage rate on letters from here
"All the colors at once, if you have not
to Manila, via Hong Kong, is 5cents. If
forgotten your high school lessons, you
one cannot afford this small outlay on cor
ought to know make white.
respondence for United States sailor or
soldier at Manila.it can be forwarded for
"My wife told me to buy a parrot.
2 cents on a transport or any other govern How much is this one worth ?”
ment vessel, if so designated on the enve.
"Five dollars.”
lope. But there is no telling when such
"Great Scott! That's simply robbery.
letter will reach its destination, the surest
Can he talk ?”
and safest course is to “dig up” a tiickle
"No, sir.”
and transmit the letter by the regular
"I'll take him.’’
mail route.
A Qiuker once sent his watch to a
jeweler to have it repaired,and sent with
it the following note: "Mr.-------- Dear
Sir: I hereby send thee my pocket clock,
which standeth in need of thy friendly
correction. The last time it was in thy
friendly school it was in ro way bene-
fitled or profitted thereby, for I perceive
by the index of its tnmd that it is a liar
and I he truth is not in it. Purge it there
for?, and correct it from the error of its
way and when you findest it conform-
able to the above rules, send it home to
me with a true and just bill, drawn out
in the spirit of moderation, and I will
remit to thee in the root of ill evil.
"It beats all," remarked the Human
Ostrich, "how people stare at the India
rubber man. Rubber, forsooth! The rub
ber is all in their eye!”
The Sutherland Sister had sold but one
photograph tonight; but her spirits were
as bouyant as ever.
“No, some of it must have been in
their necks!" she replied, naively.
"Do you believe in expansion, Mr.
Noodle ?”
Noodle—No, quite the contrary. I be
lieve in making two one.
The Heiress—The man I marry must
be handsome, afraid of nothing and cle-
J. H. Griffin, a well-known timber ver. Money’s no object to me.
Mr. Broke—Doesn't it seem like fate
cruiser, returned to Portland from St.
Helens, where he had been examining that we should have met?
timber lands for Michigan capitalist, 1
“Why should you worry ? You’ve got
with a view to purchasing for sawmill
a rich uncle who is on bis last legs, and
plants to lie started in the near future. I
you are the nearest relative.”
He savs there is considerable good timber
“O, yes, I know, but a grass widow
in Columbia comity still, but most of it
is rather remote from the streams. When has just moved into the flat across the
hall.’
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asked where the hulk of the available
Mystery—“Robert dear, how do you
timber lies now, lie said the Nehalem,
Wilson and Trask creeks and their tribu suppose those dozens and dozens of em
taries still contain large bodies of fir, pty l»ottles ever got into the cellar ?”
cedar and spruce, and there is also a large I
•Why, I dont know, my dear. I never
amount of timber at the head of Lewis . bought an empty bottle in ujy life.”
river and on the Washougal, in the state |
of Washington. On Gray's nver’and on ! After an absence of half a year she
Young s river, tributaries of the Lower had retnrned,
Columbia, mudi first-class timber can I "Did you think of me often, George?”
still be found. Most of the timber lands she asked.
■‘Only once, Aggie,” he replied. "But
of Oregon and Washington have passed
out of the hand of the government, and it was an awful long think—six wlioie
are being, held by private persons, who months!"
are awaiting a rise in values. Mr. Grit
tin thinks there will be a general inquiry
for these lands on the part of the East-
ern people in the near- future.
The \\ ell-Known
tea of the Pacific Coast is
Schilling's Best.
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“I think I’ll get my wife a cook book,”
said the young man.
j “How Jong have you been married f*
asked the experienced one.
"Six month*,'*
“To late. You ought to have bought
it the first week. She will take it no*
as an indication that you no longer lo^e
i her.”
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of S. J. Cheney & Co.
. doing business in the City of Toledo, County
and money-back-if-you- ' and State aforesaid, and that tl e firm will Pav
the sum of one hundred dol rs for each and
don’t-like-it.
every ease ot C atarrh that cannot be cured by
«« the use of H all a C atarrh C ork .
Frank J. Ch- u«.z
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day ot December. A D
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SHAMPOOING, ETC.
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Hall’» Family Pills are the be»t
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white child born in the south end of this
General Bsnkmg »nd Exchange Ensi
’ county, who was recently married, drove
into Beaver last Sunday night after dark lles» interest paid on time deposits.
Exchange on England. Belgium, Ger
in route for his home from Tillamook.
He found Beaver (wople all away from many, Sweden, ami all foreign countries
home attending church, hence he took ■
THAT