THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. November 23, 1899.
NICARAGUA CANAI,
the machinery of a territorial govern-
lt Pays to Be Cheerful.
| ment should be set up in Porto Rico
Bill to be Introduced and Pushed I now it would be utilized by the profes
A manufacturer of Kensington tells
Through, says Hepburn.
sional policians to regain the ascend this true story in the Philadelphia Press:
P eople on the Pacific Coast, and more ency which they lost by the overthrow “Fifteen years ago I was very rich, but
OF SAN FRANCISCO. DEALERS IN
especially persons owning timber lands of Spanish rule. General Davis says the ten years ago there came a time when it
in Tillamook county, are particularly in capacity of the people of Porto Rico for seemed that I’d surely fail. One day
terested in everything that pertains to higher and belter conditions can be de when a smash appeared a certainty 1
the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, veloped out under a system which will walked down Chestnut street toward the
and what Congressmen W. H. Hepburn wisely control themselves. He thinks wool warehouses, blue, blue as indigo.
has to say on the subject is doubly inter, what is needed there is a strong govern On a corner I went in and hit one. It
est ing to them. He waschairman in the ment which will plant an educational was a big drink to take, but I needed it.
last house of the coinmitteeon interstate system and through it lead the people It cheered me up. Just then a man 1
and foreign commerce—the committee up to self-government, rather than such knew came in and said: 'Say, Bill, what
that has charge of the Nicaragua canal, a structure as an illiterate suffrage makes you always look so cheerful ?
Don’t you ever have any trouble at all?
and what conclusions he has arrived and would leave the territory to form.
‘Oh, yes,’said I, jollying a little, ’but to
what he intends doing is of national im
look blue doesn’t do any good,’ etc.
portance. Here it is in a nutshell : “I
Trusts Don’t Always Succeed.
‘Well,’ this fellow said, 'I tell you what
shall introduce a Nicaraguan canal bill
I'm going to do. I’ve got $25,000 lying
oil the first day of the session and will
AGENTS STEAMER LUELLA.
T he daily newspapers and many of idle and I’m going to get you to invest it
push it to action.’’ That looks as though
LEIGH JONES, Mgr.
the congressman intends fighting those the tiade papers have devoted untold for me. You're so well off, so lucky in Hobsonville, Or.
who have opposed its construction with columns of late to the trusts, and the business always and so blamed cheerful,
a vim, and then he goes on toexplain the general consensus of opinion has been I m sure nothing ever fails with you and
C. B HANTHORN, Pres ; A. WELCH, Vice-Pres.; S, T. HARRISON. Sec.
situation by saying: “The opponents of decidedly against this latter form of I want you to invest this money any
the canal gained something in the wav commercial concentration, says the Pa- way you please and I won't even ask
of postponement when they succeeded in cific Lumber Trade Journal. Recent de you how you invest it.’ Well, I took
velopments, however, have shorn the this mail’s money. It was just the
interpolating in the last river and harbor
bill u provision for a new commission to trust demon ofsome of its dreaded power, amount my tottering business needed. A
Successors to the Columbia Iron Works.
as it has been shown that such combin year later times and prices were vastly
investigate all the proposed routes across
ations are often top heavy, utiwieldly better and I paid the $25,000 back with
533 Bond Street
the isthmus. The Nicaragua route has
and topple over of their own accord. interest at—what do you think?—9 per
been recently investigated by a careful
Z
ASTORIA,
OREGON.
Take the case of the American Wood cent,”
commission, which had made most elab
working Machine Co., with its eleven
orate provision, and submitted a most
Wise Precaution.
factories. It has recently passed into the
and
satisfactory report, but by contending
hands of a receiver, and the papers of “I am thinking of going into politics,”
th t the Pan ima route has been neglect
record in the court proceedings show he said thoughtfully.
ed the postponement of the whole matter
that from a business standpoint
?
“What!” exclaimed his wife.
was secured. The new reports inform us
¡Cannery, Steamboat, Loggers’ Work
this trust company had been anything
“
Yes;
some
of
the
party
leaders
have
that the committee will not he able to
and Blacksmithing.
but a business success. This, too, in I been to me and they assure me that I
report at this session. The friends of
Electrical and Cycle Sundries
face of the fact that it was a combina would be a very strong man and almost
■ «i * « * is ■ ■ i if
P .naina will, of coarse, throw all possi
Estimates Given.
in Stock.
tion of old established concerns, each do certain to lx elected.
ble obstacles in the way of the United
ing a large business, some of which had
“
John
Henry,
”
she
said,
“
you
’
re
worth
States building the Nicaragua canal, as
eno-mous sums of money invested in
the construction of one canal will preclude plants that would be a credit to any $2,000,000, aren’t you?’’
“Easily that.”
the building of others. The Panama country, and yet the trust failed to make
“Well, you just assign everything over
commission says that $100,000,000 will fayorable returns, indeed paid no divi
to me and then go to the party leaders
be required to finish the canal. It is cer dends. It is more than likely that if
and tell them you’ve done it, and then if
tain that they can never raise any con each member of that company had con
they still consider vou a strong man and
siderable part of this sum if it is known tinued operations independently the re
want you to run for office I won’t say a
that the United States government in sult would have been vastly different.
word. It is just as well for you to find
tends to build the Nicaragua canal. The improved condition of the country
out at the start in what your strength
Other companies, such as the Maritime at large justify this.
lies.”
Canal Company, the Cragin-Erie syndi
cate and another whose name I forget,
Quaint Features of Life.
FALSE ANTIQUES.
but which operated a steamboat and
Mrs. Kena Rutz, a Chicago woman,
railway line across the isthmus in the
'50, also claim interests. The Cragin How Bogus Curios Are Manu appeared in court charged with spanking
her husband. The man, very dejected, Stage leaves Tillamook daily exeept Sunday
factured and Sold.
people claim that they hold a right to a
concession that took effect on October 10,
X UV making VI
<I V I v | A. v. Vj SSMSZ
The
of sUICV.
false M antiques
has be told how twice a day his wife overpow.
Stage leaves N- Yamhill daily exeept ittonday
when the Maritime company's rights ex. come a regular business, reports the St. erC(^ him and, taking him over her
Many people kn<*» «panked him.
pired. Just what value this alleged con Louis Globe-Democrat.
Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at
“Yes, I spanked him before breakfast
cession lias 1 am not prepared to say. who like to have picturesque old furni-
admitted
North Yamhill and Tillamook.
For my part, I do not think the United ture and curios around them cannot , and before supper each day,’
States need bother about any of these afford to pay the high rate of prices the defendant.
concessions. ”
Congressman Hepburn charged for originals and they are con. I “But why do you spank him ?” inquired
L. H. BROWN, P rksidetn .
D irectors :
further states that the canal question is tent to take imitations, which can be His Honor.
“Oh, he deserves it, and it is good for W. H. COOPER, Sic. & T rks .
L. H. BROWN, 11. G. DAVIS, G. W. TEFFT.
of overwhelming importance, but how had at comparatively little expense. One
much the opposition can delay matters dealer, who, owing to the difference in his health. He eats much better after I
him a Rood spanking.’’
price, sell a dozen re( ■productions ■ to ore Kive
lie is not able to make any predictions.
QLio
<< r-z>< 1 n
»a rl pnoflrinpil
She nra,-3
was lectured
and
cautioned.
antique now, says that the business is
Commenting upon the above, the Ore perfectly legitimate; if the reproduction
Manufacturer» of
A dispatch from St. Louis reports a
gonian offers this scarcastic lampoon :
is made like the original and sold as sauer kraut famine in that city. What
“Hepburn professes great interest in such, no harm is done and the purchaser such a famine means is not understood
the Nicaragua canal bill. Then let him gets what he wants at a low price. Re by those who are not aware that sauer
prove it by acts. He had part in the productions of rare pieces of antique kraut is the great popular dish of St.
TlüüAMOOK. OR
conspiracy that defeated the bill last furniture can be honestly made and sold Louis and occupies the place taken bv
spring Congress is full of railroad just as copies of favorite oil paintings are beans in Boston.
There were heavy
strikers who are red hot for the canal ! reproduced and sold. The dishonesty is frosts at the lieginning of the season
but secretly beat it session after session. when a dealer tries to sell the reproduc-I which killed many plants, and conse
tion as an original. Poplar, bass and quently the _____
____
r ___
Faith without works is dead.’’
cabbage
crop
was light.
white maple are the woods ordinarily when the sauerkraut makers came into
,,«*.<1 for the manufacture of false anti
anti-
used
Lioeal Orders Promptly Filled. Well Stoeked
Smokeless Powder Deteriorates. ques, but veneers of these woods are too market this fall for their raw material
they discovered that state of things.
Dumber Yard near Court House.
softfor the completion of certain classes Prices went up at a jump. Cabbage
T hb vastly increased expence of a mili
of goods. It is a common practice to sold by the ton a year ago at from $6 to
tary establishment under the more make the base or core or the work of
$8. Now they bring $15 to $18 a ton
scientific methods now employed is some light wood such as pine, over which
by the carload and are hard to get at
sharply illustrated in the discovery that is laid a veneer of oak, birch or maho
__________
about half a million dollars' worth of, gany wood. This gives an article which, that.
Miss
Frances
L. Wood of Greenwich,
smokeless powder for sea-coast guns ! while being to all intents and purposes a
turned out to be worthless, through an piece of hardwood furniture, weighs Conn., has resigned her position as
unexpected deterioration in its quality, i much less than the original and will not 1 teacher in the North Street district school
.wntary experts
experts have
nave supposed
suppose.. that
«... the
....
Stj|| another stvIe ls on account of the goss.p wh.ch arose
Military
smokeless powder manufactured for the
wagte pro(lucts of the among the residents of that neigh bor-
I made from the w
United States army was the best ever
‘
.„ _,u _L a
a
hood when it became known that she Agent* for Kopp's Brewery, the Brewer of the Fii.ext Beer in the Northwest.
sawmill. The stuff is reduced to a pulp
made, and a contract was not long ago and pressed into sheets under such an | rode a man’s bicycle and wore divided
Stranger* can fluff here a place to write, attend to corres|iondence, privab-lj
signed which involved the expenditure of enormous pressure that warping is skirts. The parents of thechildren feared
confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home.
about $1,000,000 for a supply of it. But effectually prevented. From one base lest the example of the teacher in this
it is stated that recent experiments at may be made all kinds of furni garb should have a bad influence. There
Sandy Hook showed that the smokeless ture, mahogany, oak, rosewood, walnut were other complaints made hut when
powder now on hands is worse than , 1 or even ebony. A great deal of the the town officers sifted them down all
valueless.
A ten.inch gun was being “aging" is done in the rear of the dusty, there was left was that she wore the
fired with charges from a supply that ' dingy shop in which curios of this class offensive divided skirts in school and
had been stored for about two years and are usually sold. A regular apparatus is out of school. The town officers decided
PROPRIETORS OF
a delayed detonation occurred, which employed for the pu rpose, the object of to let the teacher select her own apparel.
Then
it
became
a
local
issue
in
the
dis
burst the gun. a new one, valued at ; which is the alternate application of
$30,000. An examination of the powder steam and hot air. The sides and back trict and Miss Wood resigned.
revealed the fact that it had undergone of the apparatus are of brick, the top is
An odd error made by the clerk of the
DEALERS IN
chemical changes of some sort and all of 'of
j sheet iron and the base is of wood. common pleas court of Schuylkill county.
the supply on hands is supposed to be There is a second slatted bottom, on Pa., in 1888 was corrected in the United
equally affected. Experts will now try which to stand the piece of furniture. States district court of Pittsburg a few
to discover the cause of the deteriora Pipes are used to carry steam or hot am, days ago. Naturalization papers were I
Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel. Tillamook.
tion, so as to make the needed change in as the case may be, into the chamber. issued to Conrad Fecasseko of Duquesne. '
the formutar. Meanwhile the contracts After the furniture has been steamed for, In his petition Fecasseko says that he |
for manufacture must be suspended, and say, twenty minutes, hot air is let in and went to Shenandoah to take out his first I
if a war should break out it might be this treatment is repeated until the pre papers in 188«. When the clerk asked'
necessary to use the old variety of black paration of the wood for sizing, filling or him his name he says he said it was
You intend to give your house a new dress inside or out, see
•---- to
powder. Apparently large charges
priming is completed. After the article "Kondria,” the Greek for "Conrad.’’
the profit and loss account must be has been removed from the oven it re The clerk did not understand, and again HERMAN GESSNER, Painter and Paper Hanger,
allowed for in estimating the cost of ceives its finishing touches. What these askel him his name. It is claimed that
Spruce and Tillamook City, Or.
keeping up with the times in warfare.
are to be depends upon circumstances a witty Irishman who was present, to
The metal work is soon tarnished by ex relieve the embarrassment, told the clerk
posure to dampness and the woodwork to put it down as "Mike." and “Mike’’
Our Dependencies.
it went This mistake was not discov
rapidly collects dust.
C ongress will be amply provided with
ered until 1896, when Conrad alleges,
information and suggestions when it
he applied for his second papers. Ever
A Startling Contrast.
shall come to consider the question of
since, he says, he has tried to have the
mistake corrected at a great lose of time
government for dependencies. The first
“The sultan of Sulu isn’t such a bad
J. P. ALLEN,
and money, but people will insist on call
of these that will receive attention is
looking
fellow
after
all.''
Proprietor.
Porto Rico, where there are absolute
ing him "Mike?’____________
“Does that surprise vou?’’
,
tranquillity and complete submission to
“Yes. Think of all the wives he has''
" Our engagement is off again.”
Fimt dam acomnmodatiori
American authority The latest opin
"It wouldn't do me any good to think
’’What’s the matter now ?’’
ion in regard to the policy that should
at hccoik I ciana rate.
of them. Whatofit?”
“I gave her a belt buckle with my pho
be pursued toward this island comes
"Why, he’s so young looking, so fresh, tograph on it and she uses it to fasten
from the military governor. General
BEHT MKALH IN THE
■ > debonnair—and with all those wives her dog’s collar.’’______
Davis, who makes an earnest plea
CITY.
It’S the contrast that gets me.”
When a woman calls her husband up
against any early attempt to convert
"What
contrast?"
Tillamook.
Ore
He thin
thinks
the island into a territory- He
"Why. when I look at you, with only by telephone, without hi* knowing who
»he is. »he is always surprised to see hr.w
that immediate territorial autonomy
Head quarters lor Forest Grove Huge Lina.
one wife, and—"
politely he addresses her at first.
would be disastrous to the best ,ntf^
’
•That'll
do.
”
eats of the island, his idea being that if
Truckee Lumber Co.,
FIR & SPRUCE Lumber,
BOX SHOOKS.
OF —
C. & E. Thayer.
General Banking snd Exchange busi
ness interest paid on time deposits.
Exchange on Englund, Belgium, Ger
many, Sweden, and all foreign countries.
TILLAMOOK,
And LOGGERS’ SUPPLIES,
COLUMBIA ELECTRICAL & REPAIR CO
1
Electric
Light
Power
Plants
Installed.
: Foundrymen and Boiler
Makers.
Claude Thayer,
Agent for Fireman's Fund and London
and Lancashire Fire Insurance
Companies.
FIRE
/.
Fine Dressed Flooring and Finishing
Lumber a Specialty.
Agent for North West School Supply
Company, Notary Public.
TILLAMOOK,
- OREGON
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
ß L. EDDY,
ATTORN BY-AT-L1
T illamook , O regon .
yy
C. E. HADLEY, Proprietor
Tillamook City,
Oregon.
LEACH & JONES,
Tillamook Meat Market,
Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc.
]W,
H. cooper ,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
OREGON.
TILLAMOOK
rp
H. GOYNE,
ATTORNBY-AT-LAW,
Office: Opposite Court House,
T illamook , O regon .
(J LA UDE THAYER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
T illamook , O rkgon .
JJ ALY & IIAYTEB,
ATTORNEYRAT-T.AW,
D allas . O regon .
»OBERT A. MILLER,
ATTORNEY-AT LAW,
O regon C itv , O regon .
Mini Titles sud Land Office Business e
Specially.
UAMHH McCAfN,
ÍA W. HEVKKANCK,
^{cCAIN & SEVERANCE,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
T illamook , O rkgom .
JJAVID WILEY, M.D.,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND
ACCOUCHEUR.
All call promptly attended to.
T illamook , O bkgon .
(J
WINE AND LIQUOR HOUSE.
Billiard Parlors and General Social Resort.
STEPHENS,
HOME MUTUAL AND LONDON &
LIVERPOOL GLOBE INSURANCE
COMPANIES.
BARKER & McNAMER, Pros.
PACIFIC LUMBER CO.,
INSURANCE.
-S’.
AGENT FOR THE
Local Agents--L. HINER and H. HUDEN.
The DIRECT ROUTE to TILLAMOOK
Carrying U.S. Mail.
WITH
INSURE
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
ORE.
E. HAWKE, M.D.,
PHYSICIAN
AND
SURGEON.
TILLAMOOK,
Office. Over T'sld's Store.
OREGON.
CHAS. PETERSON,
'
*1
Barber
» i
SHAVING,
HAIR CUTTING,
SHAMPOOING,
Hot and Cold Baths.
EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST CLASS.
C. A. BAILEY,
DKALKR
IN
STUDERAKER WAGONS
OSBORNE MOWERS,
Buggies, hay rakes, plows, anil ollie
farm machinery
You can eave
money by dealing with me,
Special Prices on liugK>e* ""‘I Spring
Wagons.
C. A. BAILEY. Tillamook, Ore.
EDGAR LATIMER,
lutti 111 »Ululiti
SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING,
SHAMPOOING, ETC.
Elaetrie Bath* nicely tintad up. Good for
persons suffering with rheumatism,
Building next door Io th« 1’ost Olfiee.
KXECLTO9M
NOTICE
Notice »■ hereby «ir«*n that the nndemifned
has be»« «Inly at»,M>nit<"l aseouUtr of th*- estate of
Joaiah Bitftf* <!•«■<■ am M wild that all peraonfl
iiaeiDtf claims »«ainsf said estate are required
to pruaent the same to me. duly vended, at the
office of A W M-veranca i
Til i.swiok City.
Oregon, «vithin si« rrwmths from the date of th»
1 rat pubii atto»» of this nwice ibeffrat public»
tiua being o« lb*
day of
JOHN A BIHGA.
Kxeeutor of th« eatnte of Jaateb
B i scua deeaaued
IMWd Tillamook.Orsaoa, Get >*,
b