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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, FEBRUARY 23, 1899. OUR GRAHO FEBRUARY INVENTORY SALE! n Order to REDUCE our STOCK before taking Inventory cue cuill give our Patrons a fern of the GREATEST BARGAINS ever given in Tillamook City. * or 30 daj s we Mill ghe a 20 per cent discount on all Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing and Dre ss Goods. All Calicos in our store iet uced 5 cents a yard. Our large line of All Wool Shirts reduced to 50c. a piece—some of these sold from SI to $2 a piece. ’ e will make a general reduction on all these goods, and people who wish to save money will find this a rare opportunity. ‘ FirSt ClaSSN?nredh°f £\%in °rne PoUUd P^a^’ rJeduced to 25C- a P°und- Star Tobacco> 45c- a pound. Battle Ax Tobacco, 35c. a pound. Nine bars (C) Soap for 25c. High Grade Corn and Tomatoes, three cans for 25c. Fancy New Stock Rice, iólbs. for |i. THIS OHN & CO •J lect road supervisors . that such an amendment would nullify Tlie Nails, 3c. a pound—special prices in keg lots, SALE ENDS MARCH ist . Leading Merchants. FOR OREGON RIVERS. ORDINANCE NO. 111. ORDINANCE NO. 112. TOO MUCH. the act it was withdrawn. An Ordinance to Provide for the Con An Ordinance to Provided for the Con measure Passed Legislature Which Freeland objected to the measure upon Senate Committee Reports Fav Again the puerile plea is made that the struction of a side-walk on the West struction of Sidewalks on the South is Apparently Good. Paris treaty is opposed only “because it the ground of expense, having heard Side of Second Street. Side of First Avenue East. orably on the Appropriations. I That sections 4081 and 4082 of Hill’s that the system was copyrighted, and has taken too much from the van The people of Tillamook city do ordain The people of Tillamook City do ordain W ashington , Feb. 17. — The river and (Annotated Laws of Oregon be and the its adoption meant the payment ofheavy quished.” as follows: as follows: harbor bill to-day reported from the (same are hereby amended so as to read royalty. It is true. The treaty takes— S ec . 1. That a sidewalk shall be built S ec . 1. That a sidewalk shall be built , senate committee contains several items las follows: Too much leprosy, small-pox and fever. on and along the west side of First on and along the south side of second Stillman asked two pertinent ques I Sec. 4081. The several county courts tions, to which he could get no satis which were put in through the efforts of Too much barbarism and savagery. Avenue East as follows: Beginning at street as follows Beginning at the Senator McBride. Among the important ■shall, as often as they deem necessary, factory reply—what effect the Torrens Too much necessity of conquest. the northeast corner of block No. 9 in point where the south line of second changes are: Too much expense — $20,000,000 down [but not oftener than once in two years, system would have upon the present re the town of Lincoln, now Tillamook street intersects the West line of and $200,000,000 a year perpetually. [divide their resjiective counties, or any cords of title, and in a conflict of legal Coos bay, Oregon, cash appro city, and running thence south along Stillwell Avenue, and running thence priation inserted.................. $100,000 Too much complication in Asiatic wars. the east side of said block 9 and along East on and along the north line of |part thereof, into suitable or convenient and equitable titles which party would Columbia river, Oregon, Three- Too touble: we have enough at the east side of blocks numbered one and blocks one and four in McDermott's [road district, each of which shall be have the right to place the registration Mile rapids and boat rail way....................................... 50,000 home. I numbered, and cause a brief description of the land under the Torrens system. new item................ 100,000 When a man beats off a footpad and two in McDermott’s]] addition to the addition to Tillamook City and on and I of the same to be entered on the county In short, it was the dense ignorance of Cascades, Below Tongue point, new item 71,000 takes away hi*» club, isn’t he justified in town of Lincoln, now Tillamook city, to along the North side of blocks four and records. No road district shall be so the provisions of the Torrens system and Lower Willamette river, in the point where the west line of First three of Claude Thayer’s addition to the made that it shall be partly in one elec its merits that resulted in its defeat. The crease to............................... 150,000 feeling that he has “taken too much” if Avenue East intersects the south line of town of Lincoln, now Tillamook City, Lewis river, Washington, new 60,000 he catches the small-pox in the encounter? Fourth street. tion precinct and partly in another, but bill received only 15 votes. to the point where the South line of each road district shall be formed as to The items below $50,000 are as fol —World. S ec . 2. That all of such sidewalk as Second street intersects the East line of v The Last Nickel-in-the-Slot. lows : lie wholly within one election precinct. is described in Sec. 1 of this ordinance Fourth avenue East. O ne of the surprises of the session was Tillamook harbor (increased Provided, that all territory within any FUTURE WHEAT SUPPLY shall be built and constructed as follows: S ec . 2. That all of that part of said $8000).................................. incorporated town or city may be one the passage of Froebstel’s bill to abolish Such sidewalk shall be eight feet wide sidewalk fronting and abutting blocks Siuslaw river ............................ road district. Each county court, at nickel-in-the-slot machine. When the A short time ago Sir William Crookes, , and constructed with four longitudinal one and four of McDermott’s addition Clatskanie river.... the January term, 1900, thereof shall so bill was referred to the committee on Improving president of the British Association for sills, . or stringers, two inches by six to Tillamook City, and block four of Long Tom river, transferred arrange the road districts in its county printing some time ago, it was generally from Willamette river fund... 3,000 the advancement of Science, expreised j inches, or three inches by four inches and Claude Thayer’s addition to the town | so as to conform to the provisions of believe that this would be the end of it. Coos river, added to house tlie opinion in an address to the associa well braced or firmly set upon sound and of Lincoln, now Tillamook City, be provision, which completes this section, and in the January term of This suspicion was strengthened when tion that within a generation the world's , substantial underpinning when necessary built and constructed as follows : the work ............................... production of wheat will not equal tlie to , raise it up to the established grade, said court every two years thereafter, Curtis, chairman of the committee on Mouth of Coquille river (in Such sidewalk shall be eight feet wide demand—an opinion which attracted a , and such sidewalk shall lie covered with and constructed with four longitudinal and at no other time, make such change printing, was reported to have gone to creased from ($15,000)......... great deal of attention and provoked ( one and one-half inch by eight-inch plank siils, or stringers, two inches by six in- in road districts as may be deemed nec Portland without a report having been Upper Coquille (increased $3000).................................. much unfavorable criticism. In refer- ing j laid crosswise and firmly nailed with dies, or three inches by four inches and essary, but no changes, either in road received from the committee, and when The clause of the bill repealing the Ya- ence to this country it is said: ‘ Practi 20d nails, and all street crossings con well braced or firmly set upon sound districts or election precincts, shall be Lewis’ turn on roll-call to call up a bill he called up Proebstel’s bill, and, quina bay project and the boat railway cally there remains no uncultivated necting such sidewalk, or parts thereof, and substantial underpinning when nec made which shall interfere with the rel- came, ' ative arrangement thereof as provided 1 much to the surprise of the house, the were stricken out of the bill. McBride prairie land in the United States suitable j shall be constructed with three-inch by essary to raise it up to established bill was in evidence. It was intimated made an unavailing effort to secure an for wheat growing. Tlie virgin laud twelve-iych planks, and all such plank grade, and such sidewalks shall be cov- in this section. 1 ; shall lie laid upon cross-sills four ' ered with one and one-half inch by eight Sec. 4092. At the general election in that this was not the original bill, but, appropriation of $250,000 for the boat has been rapidly absorbed, until al pres- ing ent there is no land left for wheat with inches by six inches, and such cross-sills inch planking laid crosswise and firmly 1900 and every two years thereafter as J it had the proper senate indorsements ' railway. shall be elected in each election precinct it ’ was voted on and passed. Young op- J Representative Tongue is working out reducing tlie area for maize, hay shall be placed cross-wise and four feet nailed with 20d nails, and all crosswalks the passage of the bill, while among the members of the river and and other necessary crops. It is almost apart, and beveled on each end four connecting said sidewalks and crossing in this state in which there is one or posed 1 advocated it. Stillman then harbor committee of the house, and espe certain that within a generation tlie inches to the foot and all well and firmly Stillwell’s avenue, First avenue Bast and more road districts, as provided in sec- Stillman ' a call of the house, and cially with Chairman Burton, trying to ever increasing population of tlie United nailed with 40d nails and such cross Second avenue East shall l»e constructed tion 4081, a road supervisor for each demanded ' road district in such election precinct, would not give in till most of the ab induce them to withdraw their strenuous States will consume all the wheat grown walks shall be five feet wide on top. | with three-inch bv twelve-inch planks, S ec . 3. That the owners of all lots and all such planking shall be laid upon who shall be a resident of the road dis sentees were rounded up. The roll-call objection to the appropriations. While a within its borders and will be driven to trict for which he is elected and shall resulted in 47 ayes and only nine noes, few members of the committee have de import, and, like ourselves, will scram abutting upon the line of the sidewalk i cross-sills four inches by six inches, and hold his office for two years, or until his four members being absent. The pas clared that they will withdraw their ob ble for a lion's share of the wheat crop required by this ordinance be and they such cross-sills shall be placed crosswise are hereby allowed a period of thirty I and four feetapart, and beveled on each successor shall have been elected and sage of the bill by so large a vote was jection if the chairman takes that course, of the world.’’ The question of the future supply of days in which to construct the same, i end four inches to the foot and all well qualified. At such elecion every person received with a demonstration of ap there are yet other memliers to be con- _______ i vinced of the right and justice of the wheat is of universal interest and it and if said owners of lots, or any of and firmly nailed with 40d nails and entitled to vote for precinct officers in a proval. given precinct shall be entitled to vote School Book Trust Lost its Grip. claims made for Oregon. At present the receives most instructive consideration them, shall fail to construct said side such crosswalks shall be five feet wide for one road supervisor for each road T he state legislature redeemed itself in chairman has not given way materially, ‘ from Mr. oohu Hyde, statistician of the walk within said period, the common on top. S ec . 3. That allot'said sidewalk front district in such precinct. Before enter one respect. It downed the American but Mr. Tongue hopes to make an im Department of Agriculture, in the Feb council of Tillamook city will proceed to ing upon the discharge of his duties, each Book Trust by passing the Daly text book pression on him in time to save Oregon’s ruary number of the North American construct the same and assess upon the ing and abutting block three of Claude road supervisor shall take an oath to bill. There is little question that the appropriations. To aid him in his efforts Review. Mr. Hyde points out tlie con- I lot or lots of such persons so failing, the , Thayer’s addition to the town of Lin- has prepared ¡»repared a a tame table show- i coin, now Tillamook City, shall be built faithfully discharge the duties of his greatest battle of the session has been Mr. Tongue longuenas .now-, j ditions in the United States a generation I cost of constructing such sidewalk. office, and when any person shall fail or between toe friends of the Daly text-book >"« the total amounts the first congres- ' ago as to jiopuiation and wheat produc- ■ Passed Common Council, February of the same material and according to the same »¡»ecifications as the last men refuse to accept the office of the bill and tlie American Book Company, s.onal dwtnet of Oregon ha. received for j tion, showing that the growth of the lat- | , 20th, nine o’clock p.m., 1899. W. H. COOPER, Recorder. i *• scenes — ««««»«*■ since the ter has been relatively much greater tioned sidewalk, except that it shall be road supervisor to which he shall and j a» the dramatic enacted in thu the river and harbor . improvement* r five feet four inches on top and support- oa state to the Lnion. The than the increase of population, but he Approved, February 21, 1899. have been elected, he shall be fin house i las- a week i as »I« the «»«„„.Vi« struggle u. was , . . was . admitted r n B. L. EDDY. Mayor. I- table is as follows: observes that we are liable to be led ser- cd by three longitudinal sills instead of ed in the sum of twenty-five drawing to a close were not entirely un j iously astiay if we assume for the thirty- four. dollars, which fine shall be appropi- expected. It has been a struggle between Mouth of the Coquille $168,419 86 three years to come an increase of wheat S ec . 4. That all the cross-walks con ated to road purposes in the road dis principle and the beat interests of the u™r Blasts From Ram’s Horn. 21.839 55 production proportionate to that ot the necting said sidewalks and crossing trict in which such person shall have public schools on the one hand, and a (joos bay.......................... 514,007 86 Nights of sorrow bring out stars of Third avenue East and Fourth avenue been elected. Such fine shall l»e imposed book trust that has been charged, either Coos harbor and river.... 4,375 82 thirty-three years last past. He thinks East shall be built of the same kind of 39,219 89 j tlie population of the United States in promice. Umpqua river and collected by any justice of the peace rightfully or wrongfully, with levying ' 119,904 30 ' 1931, exclusive of colonial possessions or j God's telephone needs no central to material and according to the same in the county in which such road district tribute upon the schools on the other. Siuslaw river. 1,949 88 depeedencies, will be at least 130,01X1 000 make connections. Alsea river.... «¡»ecifications as the aforementioned shall be located or by the county court This tribute, according to the allegations Yaquina bay... 687,379 28 They who only live for others are alive crosswalks, except that they shall lie 5,385 12 and the agricultural requirements of of such county, and the amount of said of those who have been in the thickest Nestucca river four feet wide on top. 52,769 92 5 this population will include a wheat to themselves. fine shall be turned over to the road sup of the tight in opposition to the contin 69,000 00 | crop of 700.0o0.000 buahels, without a Nicodemus warns us against trying to S ec . 5. That the owners of all lots ervisor of the precinct in which it is to nance of the book trust influence, lias Upper Willamette river. 302,057 40 bushel for export; an oat crop of 1,250,- j sit on two stools. abutting upon the line of the sidewalks be used. All vacancies in the office of been predicated both ujion the excessive The height of kr.owledge is to know required by this ordinance l»e and they 000,000 bushels, a corn crop of 8,450,(MM) Total...................... road supervisor shall be filled by the prices charged for the school books and (MM) bushels and a hay crop of 100.000,000 what you do not know. are hereby allowed a period of thirty county court at the the next term there the poor quality of books themselves The above sums are all that have ever i Atheistic arguments are but the whist days in which to construct the same, and of, after such vacancy shall have oc Now tliat the back of this so-called hydra been expended for rivers and harbors on | tons, all for domestic consumption, with I cotton and wool, fruit and vegetables, ling of cowards in the dark. if said owners of lots, or any of them, curred. ________ headed octopus has been broken, a more the western coast of Oregon within the The coward measures difficulties with 1 shall fail to construct said sidewalk dairy and poultry products, meats and successful future for the educational work first congressional district, a district , Ignorant of the Torrens System. innumerable minor commodities in cor a telescope; the brave man wile his feet. within said period, the common council of the state is predicted. The American which casts about 50,(MM) votes, which responding proportions. These are cer Don’t be overanxious to give some one ' of Tillamook City will proceed to con It was surprising to note how little has about 300 miles of sea coast, 10 Book Company, against which so much tainly formidable figures and Mr. Hyde ' a piece of your mind," the loss may be struct the same and access upon the lot knowledge the members of the house had lias been said, is still in the ring, but ouly habors, exceeds in area the state of New j says the area necessary to the production t<«> keenly felt. on the Torrens system of land title regis or lots of such ¡»ersons so failing, the in competition with other publishing York, and is capable of turning out as When you find a man chuckling tie cost of constructing said sidewalks. of the three principal cereals alone will tration when Kelly’s bill providing for much farm produce, fruit, hops, livestock houses. It is now a free-for-all fight for cause a neighbor has been caught in evil, I ms over 15 percent greater than the enor the adoption of this system came up for Passed Common Council, February preference and the books that may in fu and dairy products as either New York mous total acreage devoted in 1898 to watch him. nnd you'll catch him. next. consideration. Butt led the debate in 20th at 8 45 p.m., 1899. ture be adopted will have to win on their or Pennsylvania. There is not within ; grain, cotton and hay, while the mere It isn't the amount but the quality of favor of the bill, although he himself had W. H. COOPER, Recorder. this district, according to Mr. Tongue’s addition of the last two mentioned pro talk that tells. She who spoke to Ba* but a meager knowledge of its provisions merits. Approved, February 21, 1899. There is no denying the fact that the statement, outside of the Indian depart ducts and of the minor cereals will call laain wasn't given to talking much, but or effect. Stewart also spoke briefly in B. L. EDDY, Mayor. American Book Company has done its ment, a single federal building. The favor of the measure, and expressed the utmost to defeat the Duly bill, and this total salaries paid to all United States , for an -icreage exceeding the total area when she spoke, it was to the |siint. of improved land in farms at the present opinion that the system would prove fact perhaps, coupled with its cheap and officers outside of the land offices and Notice. ; time. satisfactory if adopted. Whys. useless lobby, has operated in the sue Indian department, will not exceed Whalley expressed his doubts as to j I 'Mr. Hyde says it is too well estab $500 annually. Practically all of the N otick in H rkkrv G ivrm ,—That the cess of the bill. The paid agents of tlie whether the bill was well enough under IxHik company have had little influence appropriations that go to this district lished a fact to be the subject of contro Why should well water ever be un- annual meeting of the stockholder* of stood at this time to warrant the house versy that for general agricultural pur healthy ? the TILLAMOOK DAIRY ASSOCIA on (lie members of the house and the from the federal governments are those in passing it, nevertheless stating that bill might perhaps have been much more given for river and harbor improvements. poses Che public domain is practically Why isn't a quack physician a skin TION will be held at the Court House, the Torrens system was a good one, and easily defeated had they kept out of the During the late war there was probably exhausted and that consequently there doctor! in the city of Tillamook, Tillamook co., had proved satisfactory wherever tried. fight. As one member remarked Thurs not $1000 ex ¡»ended in Oregon, out of cati t>e no further considerable addition Why doesn’t a tall man live longer Oregon, on the 27th day of February, McCulloch opposed the bill upon the day, "Such a lobby of itself is sufficient the war tax, in the purchase of army to the farm area of this country. Il can than a short one T 1899, at one o’clock in the afternoon, for ground of expense and the opening it left Why isn't the combination of whisky the purpose of electing three directors, supplies or in any other way connected I be somewhat increased by the reclama tion of desert lands, but such addition for fraud in the provision for acquiring to defeat any bill.” ami water a mixed evil ? with the war. The government has pro- one treasurer and the transaction of suc h Why does old age tear down the cir other business as may come before them. title by publication. He also believed the bablv received more than $3,000,(MM) will be very small, if not absolutely in Notice. indemnity feature was inadequate as the from the first district from the sale of sigufleant There is, however, a vast cus bills stuck up by youth 1 Dated Feb. 14th, 1899. Why does a prohibitionist kick when in lemnity fund, provided for the protec To W hom it may C omcmm . public lands. Out of nearly $150,000,- body of improved land already in forms, S. SEVERANCE, Secretary. tion of minors and other mentally dis This witnesseth, that I, Martin Hill, of OOO ¡»aid for penstoM each year by the amountirg at the last census to 265, he finds water in the milk ? Why doesn't the man who is hunting abled, would doubtless too often be ex Clackamas County, State of Oregon, do government, there is paid into this dis 600,(MX) acres, which will be made to Notice to Taxpayers. hausted. He urged that the bill be given I this dnv grant unto my son, Harry r. trict not more than $350,000, while Contribute to the agricultural production I trouble shoot folly as it flies T Hill, of Tillamook county, his time with of the future. On the whole the figur. Why is silent« golden when silver will mature consideration two years longer full liberty to dispose of his labor or there are paid to the state of Ohio over es presented by tlie statistician of the abut a man's mouth just as effectively t NoncR i* H erkhv G iven ,—That the aid then, if deemed expedient, pass it. other personal property in his possession $16,000,000. _________ Why isn’t the patient in danger as taxes on the tax rolls tor the year 1896 Agricultural department support the Flagg objected to the emergency clause, in anv manner he may choose or see nt. long as the doctor continue* to visit and 1897 are now delinquent and that contention of Sir William Crookes that cla ming that this feature would prac and no one need herniate to deal with Premium on County Warrants. unless said taxes are i > hi <I on or liefore in such property thr >ugh fear that within a generation tlie w best supply of him ? tically result in the confiscation of a large him the 1st day of March next, 1 shall l»e will object to whatever he may do, or in- Why does the average man prefer to the world, including the United States, The Tillamook Lumber Company will obliged to levy upon the property of amount of property. ter ere in any manner whatev«T.HiLL piy 2 per cent for county warrants to be will fall so far short of the dernaod as win a dollar on a horse race to earning said delinquents.. Stump offered an amendment making II H. ALDERMAN, Sheriff. Beaver Creek. Clackamas co., Or., live by honest labor t ta ken out in trade with lumber. j to constitute general scarcity, the adoption of the system optional with tiken Nov. 14th, 1898. he county judges, but as Moody held I