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
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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 :
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“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.
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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
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'
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.
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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
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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.
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