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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, November 16. 1899 L. H. BROWN, P kesidetk W. H. COOPER. Sue. & T reu . D irxctobs • L. H. BROWN. II. G. DAVIS. G. W. TEFIT ■ rural freedelivery service. In onecountv Anxious to Try Her Strength With in Indiana a special agent reports that the farmer incured an expense of over Russia. ♦-G00 to grade and gravel a road in OF SAN FRANCISCO. DEALERS IN V ictoria , B. C., N ov . ll.-That the order to obtain rural free delivery. Manufacturer« of rumors of the serious situation between “Better prices obtained for farm prod Russia and Japan are not exaggerated ucts, the producers being brought into seems certain from news received here daily touch with the state of the markets from the East. The North China Daily and thus being enabled to take ad van* News says: I tage of information heretofore unattain TlbbAMOOK, OR “So greatly excited were the Chinese of able. the north hv rumors of an impending “To these material advantages may lie 1 , war be tween Russia and Japan that added the educational benefits conferred ' many merchants, both Chinese and by relieving the monotony of farm life | Japanese, who were doing business in through ready access to wholesome lit j New Chwaug, Port Arthur, and Che Foo erature, and the keeping of all rural Ltoeal Orders Promptly Filled. Well Stoeked have sent their families to Shanghai and residents, the young people as well as elsewhere in the south for safety.’’ 1 their elders, fully informed as to the Lumber Yard near Court House It is believed Japan rather courts the stirring events of the day. The moral AGENTS STEAMER LUF.LLA. 8truKgle. a8 «he is now second only to I value of these civilizing influences cannot I England in naval strength in the Pa 1 be too highly rated.’’ LEIGH JONES, Mgr Hobsonville, Or cific, and for years has viewed the en croachmentsof Russia with resentment 1 P resident M c K inley will tell con- and alarm. gress of his intentions to appoint civil C. B HANTHORN, Pres ; A. WELCH, Vice-Pies ; S, T. HARRISON. Sec. The Hong Kong volunteers have of-1 governors of Cuba and Puerto Rico, and fered their services to the imperia) gov may even wait for congressional action J. P. ALLEN, ernment for service in South Africa. before announcing the appointments. Proprietor- It is said 2000 British subjects are I This statement is made on the authority serving with the American army in the I of a member of the committee on foreign I Successors to the Columbia Iron Works. Philippines. First cías« accommodation relations who had just talked with the B Hi: IB ■ » IB B"B 533 Bond Street Li Hung Chang, in an interview given I at second claws rate. president on the subject. Strong pres- | to an American correspondent at Peking I sure is being brought to bear upon the ASTORIA, OREGON. on the Philippine question, blames the ¡»resident for the immediate appointment ‘ BEST MEALS United States severely for departing from I of these governors. Governor Roosevelt CITY. and its traditional policy, saying that had I is particularly urgent in his champion General Grant lived the country would ' ship of General Wood for the Cuban , Tillamook, Ore never have entered upon the policy that! billet. He wants the appointment made | Headquarters for Forest Grove Stage Line. he (Li Hung Chang) prophesies will be at once, believing that the time is ripe | Cannery, Steamboat Loggers’ Work disastrous to the United States. When I for civ’l government and that General and Blacksmithing. asked if China would object to Americans I Wood is just the man to effect the change Electrical and Cycle Sundries « Bi III W B B 8 IB * Rates, $1 Per Day enlisting several regiments of Chinese to I with the best result for all concerned. Centrally boeated in Stock. Estimates Given. fight Filipinos, Li replied : * * * “China would not object if they were | O n beh-lf of Admiral Dewey and hi.< enlisted in the Philippines, and with the knowledge and consent of the Chinese °®cers flnd men, Washington attorneys consul there.” I have asked the court of claims to find M. H. bflRSEN, Prdprietor. He said in conclusion : "You had bet-1 that the amoa,,t of bount-v money due OREGON. ter sell the islands to Japan for the sum , them is $382,800. The decision of the 1 TILLAMOOK, you paid Spain for them ; then clear off court will establish a precedent which I Stage and Express Office. The Best Hotel in the city. No Chinese Employed home and attend to your own business ” will effect the amount of bounty to be i He suggested if that course were not distributed among the officers and men I pursued the next best plan was to buy ofitlie North Atlantic squadron, which | destroyed the squadron of Admiral Cer- Aguinaldo out. vera. If the finding of court is in accor dance with the request, the admiral’s A Terrible Battle. Now Running Under New Management. share of the bounty will be $19,994. P uerto C abello , Venezuella, Nov. EMMETT QUICK, Proprietor. * * » 12.—General Parades, a foimer coinman. Stage leaves Tillamook daily except Sunday Fourth Assistant Poetmaster-Generai der of tiri ui the me aiuiy army of ui ex-Presidei»t 2x11 An First Class Herdquarters for Traveling Men. RATES from $1 to $2 per day. I dr»de, who had refined the demand John L in hi« annual report, Stage leaves Yamhill daily except iDonday FREE BATHS FOR OUR BOARDERS. made upm him by General Castro ami announced that during the past tiscal TlbbAMOOg, OREGON- the de facto authorities t<> surrender the | year 14.004 |ostniMter* were appointed. Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at : town, even when this was reinforced by , 13,581 being fourth class and the re- North Yamhill and Tillamook. t * ' mainder being presidential. There were the request of the British, American, 2359 post offices established, and 1505 FOR French German and Dutch commander«, discontinued. At the close of the year, TILLAMOOK RESOURCES, surrendered this morning at 10 o’clock, the total number of postoffices in the after a terrible battle. country was even 75,000. Registered SEE THE The aspect of the city is one of ruin Illustrated and Descriptive and devastation, and it is estimated that mail lost averaged one piece in every 25,- 980 handled. There were 1679 postal upward of 650 persons were killed or Ulilou Depot, Sixth and J Street#. Special Edition arrests during the year, including 119 wounded during the fighting. Dr OF post masters, 31 assistant postmasters, TWO TRAINS DAILY The Tillamook Headlight. Braisted, of the United States cruiser 41 postoffice clerks, 41 railway ¡xjstal FROM ALL POINTS EAST. Detroit, and the other surgeon« of the clerks, 34 letter carriers, and 361 |w>st various warships in the harbor are min FAST MAIL ItOl'TK.” This edition was issued to give a office burglaries. Of all these, 659 were Agent« for Kopp’s Brewery, the Brewer of the Finest Beer in the Northwest. Leaves for the East via Walla Walla and more concise idea of the resources istering to the wants of the wounded. Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, privately Spokane daily at 2:20 p.m. Arrives at 10:15 convicted and 629 cases are still pending of Tillamook County and is full of Generol Ramon Guerra led in the land a.in. confer upon bu«ines8 or social matter« and generally feel at home. in the courts. The report says the prac useful information, liesides being Leaves for the East via Pendleton and Hun- attack upon the town and the position profusely illustrated with attrac ngton daily at 8 p in Arrives via Huntingtonl ticability of trans|M>i ting the mails over of General Parades on Friday night. and Pendleton at 7:208.111 tive pictures specially prepared the proposed all-American route to the Dalles aconi mod a tion leaves daily except Desultory fighting continued until Satur for this edition. Sunday at 8 a.m. Arrives daily except bun Yukon, Alaska, is a problem yet to lie day at 6:30 p.m. day morning about 4 o’clock, and then a determined, and a recent inspection THROUGH PULLMAN AND TOURIST PRICE - • IOC. Each- fierce struggle ensued. General Para SLEEPERS. Water lines schedule subject to change with Wrapped for mailing and on sale at the des made a stubborn defense, but Gen found so few settlers in this interior out notice. count: y that only one postoffice was es eral Guerra forced an entrance into the Headlight Office, Tillamook City ,Or. OCEAN AND ICIVKH SCIIKDUI.K. tabliahed. PROPRIETORS OF OCEAN DIVI8I0N. — Steamships sail from towr. at 5 o’clock yesterday. * * * Ainsworth dock at 8 p.m. For San Francisco As early as 8 o’clock Saturday morn Geo W. Elder sails October 4, 11, 20 and 29 : INSURE WITH A long-lost will come to light, and | Columbia sails October S, 14 and 23’» State of ing the fleet arrived ai»«l began a born California sa Is October 8, 17 and 26. with it the prospects that the immense Claude Thayer, bailment, but the range was loo great, COLUMBIA ICIVKIC MUMMKIC SCHBD DEALERS IN Agent for Fireman’s Fund and London and the firing proved ineffective. Gen estate of the late Andrew’ J. Davis, the UI.E DIVISION. PORTLAND, ASTORIA AN l THE (OAST Parade« held the fort on the hill Montana millionaire will again burden eral and Lancashire Fire Insurance Steamer R. R. Thompson leaves Portland the records ot the Montana supreme and Fort Liberatador until tliia morn* daily, except Sunday, at 8 p.m., on Saturday Companies. court There is a woman in the case, at io p.m. Returning, leave Astoria daily, ex ing. cept Sunday, at a.m. Shop next door to Laretn’s Hotel, Tillamook. apd she is after her share of the Davis WILLAMKTTB RIVER ROUTE. millions. Her name is Mary C. Wilson, Rural Mail Delivery. PORTLAND AND SALEM Steamer Ruth, for Salem and way points and her home is in Chicago, but the case leaves Portland ' on days, Wednesdays and Fri W ashington , N ov . 5.—One section of takes its origin in Omaha, as W. A. San days at 6 a.111. Returning, leaves Salem Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:15 a.m. barber and hairdresser the annual report of First Assistant ders, an Omaha lawyer, leaves Chicago YAMHILL RIVER ROUTE You intend to give your house a new «Irene in«ide or out, nee Postmaster-General Perry Heath is de in a tew days for Butte, Mont., to file Steamer Modoc, for I ay ton and way noints SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING, leaves Portland Tuesdays.' Thursdays and Sat the will for probate. Andrew J. Davis voted almost entirely to the rural free- urdays at 7 a m. Returning, leaves Dayton fo« HERMAN GESSNER, Painter and Paper Hanger SHAMPOOING. ETC. Portland and way points Mondays, Wednesdays delivery system—a new feature of the w’a« one of the most conspicuous of the and Fridays at 7 a.m. wealthy men of Montana, and when he j service in which Mr Heath is intensely Steamer Almota leaves Riparia Mondays Spruce and Tillamook City, Or. Wednesdays and Fridays at 1:45 a.m.. a ter ar Electric Baths nicely flitted up Good for interested. This system, as yet, has died, on March 11, 1890, he left an rival ot train from Spokane and Portland persons suffering with rheumatism, Leaves Lewiston, returning, Sundays, Tuesdays barely got a foothold in Oregon and estate valued at $5,000,000 to $7,000,- Building next door to the Post Office and Thursdays at o a.m. Washington, there being but three routes 000 No will was to l>e found other than | Steamer Lcw.ston leaves Riparia Sundays. FRED SAPPINGTON, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:45 a ’ ,a”‘7 in Oregon, and one in Washington. Two a document exe< uted in 1K04, and as arrival of train from Spokane and Portland. TILLAMOOK. OREGON, of the Oregon routes have lieen instituted piring heirs immediately plunged into I Leaves Lewiston Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 6 a.m. since the 1st ofjuly, when an additional litigation that was drawn out into a W H HURLBURT, General Passenger Agent. appropriation became available for this half dozen years. The story of the will service. I'nder the present arrangement, has to do with the alleged relations ot it has been estimated that the delivery an old man w ho had already reached I system costs but H4- cents per capita, the age of threescore and ten and an ex and this is not taking into account the ceptionally prejHJSsessing woman not All work done on the Shortt st Notice snd at Reasonable Prices, Satisfaction TWO LIVE PAPERS great increase of postal receipts, a ver a g yet 30 years of age, placed in custody of guaranteed. SHAVING, ing 50 to 75 per cent, which always fol. the millionaire’s last will and testament. HAIR CUTTING, lows the establishment of rurnl free de Miss Wilson, it is stated, did not know SHAMPOOING, livery ; nor is any reduction made for the of Davis’ death until some time after cost of fourth-class offices which have ward, but no reason is assigned why her The repnlar subscription price of claim was not pressed until this time. lieen or might be discontinued. THE HEADLIGHT is$l50. and * * * everything strictly first class . In commenting upon the service, Mr. the regular subscription price of Concerning the reported almorptirjn of Heath says: the Weekly Oregonian is $1.50. “Whenever the system has lieenjudi the Union iron works, of S in Francisco, C. A. BAILEY, Any one subscribing for THE ciously inaugurated, with a sincere pur. by a gigantic shipbuilding syndicate or DKAt.EK IN HEADLIGHT and paying one STUDEBAKER WAGONS pose to make it a success, it has lieen ganized by the Seligmans, the Call says: year in advance can get both the ■ Preliminary stejm to consolidate under OSBORNE MOWERS, followed bv these beneficial results- Baggie«. h«y r»ke», plow». "'"I "the "Increased postal receipts. More let one general management the leading farm m«cliinery. Y oh <•»" HEADLIGHT ters are written and received. More shipyards of the Atlantic coast and the immev by -lesling with me. Union iron works, of the Pacific, were ASTORIA AND Spec,» I Price« on Boggle« an I Spring newspapers and mngazinesaresubscrilied taken last summer. The negotiations for. So marked is this advancement that Wagon«. BA|| Ky Tillamook. Or*. TILLAMOOK and quite a number of rural routes already were conducting with supreme secrecy. pay for themselves by the additional It now transpires that before Henry T. Scott left the city on his recent Eastern ( To bnild a railroad from Klamath business they bring. WEEKLY OREGONIAN trip «*11 of the stock of the Union iron , Fall«. Klnmnth coantv, down thx Kla "Enhancement of the value of farm works was placed in escrow in the Anglo- > free delivery. lands reached by rural math river. 60 mile« to a junction with bank, of San Francisco. One Year for >2.25 the Southern Pacific at or near Klama- This increase of value has lieen estimated Californian This l>ank is the agency of the Seligmans »hon. a few mile» «outh of the Oregon at as high as til per acre in some states. in California. A moderate estimate is from *2 to $3 per and California boundary, i» the object of Wirrten. the Oregon Midland Company, which acre. : Will make trip* every five days, the weather permitling. beiween Astoria and "A general improvement of the condi ha*ju«t lieen organized at A«hland and To W hom I t Mtt i . oa «.».«* Nolire ta here Tillamook City, carrying freight and paaaengers. tion of the road» traversed by the rural by given Ihn! 1 will not 1* rr-p»>«»ible for any All old «abaci ibers paying their which will file it» articles of incorpora 4ebt« or coni racla entered into or iar nrrrd on carrier. In the WestemTstates especially subscriptions or one year in tion with the Oregon «ecretary of «tate sc* *»uiil of any of my intere«»« in Tillam>M»k ELMORE, SANBORN <t CO., ASTORIA ; or COHN A CO aou'ity by any pera*»« whomsoever, an lea« the advance will be entitled to the in a few day». The capital »tock ia «.- the construction of good roada has lieen can*» ---- u. ' r ? anthoriaod in writ in TILLAMOOK, AGENTS. a prerequisite for the establishment of same offer. 000,000, divided into 10,000 »hare» JAPAN COURTS WAR I PACIFIC LUMBER CO All Kinds of Fine Merchantable Lumber. FIR & SPRUCE Lumbei BOX SHOOKS Fine Dressed Flooring and Finishing Lumber a Specialty. GENERAL MERCHANDISE And LOGGERS’ SUPPLIES ouge COLUMBIA ELECTRICAL & REPAIR CO Electric Light Power Plants Installed Foundrymen and Boiler Local Agents—L. HINER and H. HUDEN LARSEN HOUSE, The DIRECT ROUTE to TILLAMOOK Carrying U.S. Mail. THE TILLAMOOK. BARKER & McNAMER, O.R.&N WINE AND LIQUOR HOUSE Billiard Parlors and General Social Resort C. E. HADLEY, Proprietor, Tillamook City, Oregon LEACH & JONES, Tillamook Meat Market Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc, EDGAR LATIMER, . CHAS. PETERSON, Barber1 Painter, Paper Hanger and Decorator. Reduced Hot and Cold Raths. 6.00 HOUND TRIP. 3.50 ONE WAY. Steamer W. H. HARRISON or R. P ELMORE. . ■ «