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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, November 23, 189£ SUMMARY OF TILLAMOOK’S ASSESSMENT BARNEGAT. I The Annarine and Louise were at Barnegat last week. The County Assessor has made a Number of Improvements Ernest Baker and Ernest Smith were guests at Barnegat. in the Roll which will Avoid Double Assessments. John R. Harter was a caller at Barne Assessor J. S. Stephens, assisted by Deputy Assessor Thos. Coates, completed gat last week. the assessment roll of Tillamook county this week, a summary of which is given ; Bert Biggs w’ent to the hub Wednes day and Sunday. below ; Average i Some of the Truckee Lumber Co.’s logs Total Value. went over the bar last week. Value. No. 6,605 .. $118,505 .. $17,789 Acres of tillable land....................................... 2,173 805,205 .. EMMA. Acres of non-tillable land................................ 370,543 . 102,165 .. — Improvements on deeded land ...................... Lots of rain this month. 10,601 55,901 .. 5,273 .. Town and city lots.......................................... Joe Altenberger got home from the — 44,465 .. — Improvements on town and city lots ......... vallev last Sunday; he reports the roads 8,415 .. — — on land not deeded or patented just horrible. 5,900 .. — 104 . Miles of telegraph and telephone lines......... — — Antone Resch is still at work on his 21,940 .. Merchandise and stock in trade................... — Salmon river ranch. 14,050 .. — Farming implements, wagons, carriages.etc 17,955 .. — — Steamboats, sailboats, stationary engines.. J. T. Weekert is buildingan addition to — — . 26,035 . . his house. Money ............................................................... — — 39,700 .. . Notes and accounts.......................................... J. D. Chitwood arrived from Tillamook — — 30 .. . Shares of stock.................................................. last Sunday, where he had been attend — — 31,515 . . Household furniture, watches, jewelry, etc.. ing county court, in behalf of the mtn 23,495 . . 22,593 who worked on the Slab Creek road last 1,041 . Horses and mules............................................. 13,100 April and May. 82,995 . 6,153 . Cattle................................................................. 1,173 1,603 .. 1,430 . Sheep and goats................................................ George Bales and wife, of Oretown, 1,519 1.327 . 808 . Swine.................................................................. were visiting at Mr. Chitwood’s last Saturday and Sunday. _ — 1,401,201 Gross value of all property. Dennis McNeil, of Willamina, was in on 144,160 — — Exemptions......................... his ranch one day this week. Theo. Arnelt has just finished building 1,257,041 Total taxable property a porch which helps the looks of his house. 626 Number of polls. Mary Chitwood is attending school on We are glad to see that many improvements and changes have been made in the assessment roll thi» year by Assessor J. S. Stephens. It will be remembered that Salmon river; she is staying with Mrs the county court appointed Thos. Coates to assist thecounty assessor in this work, E. B. Harris. e FLIGHT OF TAGALS. I ' the Filipino Insurgents Hard Pressed by the Americans. i war in SOUTH AFRICA. What’s Wrong With Funston? Reports of Great British Victories S an F rancisco , N ov . 21—General Fred- erick Funston is quoted by the Examiner Are Not Confirmed. as saying in an interview ; L ondon , Nov. 21 -The latest direct “Some of the rankests cowards in the M anila , Nov. 20.—Only fragmentary! new. from Ladysmith, dated Thursday, army were officers of the Twentieth Kan. November 16th, and Friday. November reports reach Manila «(operations in the sas regiment and they were far from be north which, when the story is known, 17th, strangely conflicts with reiterated ing noncommissioned officers, too. They will prove to have been tile most remark reports of tremendous battles and great left the firing line without permission able campaign the Philippine war has British victories on Wednesday and during the battle of San Fernando and Thursdav. Neither of the messages above known. went to town. All efforts to get them Lawton’s division is spread thinly over referred to. though dispatched on the back to their places in the regiment were days following the date of the alleged the territory beyond San Jose, where the of no avail. ! fight mentioned any great fights or Boer telegraph ends. Had I not allowed sentiment to inter . Young’s two regiments of cavalry are defeats. fere with duty at the time, 1 should have On the contrary, both distinctly state continuing their rapid sweep into the preferred charges against them for cow. new country and the infantry is being i that beyond a false nlarra on Tuesday ardice. There w ere five of them, some of evening, and little increased shelling shoved forward to hold the towns the whom are staff officers, and it is this cavalry take, all in a country xvhose nat Thursday and Friday, causing little dam same class of skulkers that is now mak ural difficulties are increased indescrib age, everything was perfectly quiet and ing the contemptible and underhauled ably by the tropical rains, making rivers the garrison was cnafing under its en attacks upon Colonel Metcalf and mv. of the creeks and swamps of the fields. forced inactivity. self. Nevertheless, special dispatches from ................. Wagon transportation is supposed to “I want to deny most emphatically and Estcourt today enlarge on the reported have been practically abandoned, the absolutely that Col. Metcalf was guilty American troops living on captured sup battles and insist that the Boers received of neither cowardice or wanton cruelty plies and the little produce the insurgent a more terrible lesson Wednesday than in the treatment of any prisoners that tn any previous fight. According to these levies have left. fell into his hands, The whole trouble Major Swigert’s squadron of Third circumstantial accounts, the Boers deter arose over the fact that both Colonel cavalry is reported at Pozarrubia, north mined to attempt to reach the north end Metcalf and mvself were com ¡jelled to east of Dugupan. These troops have of Ladysmith with a large force, but reprimand some of the disgruntled cffic. fought three engagements and are now were unable to make headway against ers because of their efficiency and lack of holding their position, awaiting rein the well-sustained fire of British riflemen courage.” and Maxims. forcements. The general then explained that Met Later, it is added, the British force It is believed at headquarters this force calf was elected colonel of the regiment is covering the retreat of the insurgent worked around the Boer flank, causing by vote of the noncommissioned officers, leaders to the Binguet mountains: that the latter to withdraw under a deadly receiving 26 votes to 1 for Lieutenant. the insurgent planned to retreat north fusilade, with exceedingly heavy losses. Colonel Little and none for Major Whit east along the Tayud road, which is Large numbers of «lead and wounded are man. stocked with storehouses, three of which said to have been left on the field and a New English Shells. the Americans have had to draw upon number of prisoners were captured. Brit enroute and that only the insurgents ish losses are reported to have been Ono of the methods adopted by the advance force had passed Tayud before trivial. the result of which is the assessor and his assistant have completed the assessment NEHALEM. The dispatches from Ladysmith report British in their warfare on the Boers in American occupation, the main body of roll in a systematic and business-like style. Those who have occasion to consult the assessment roll will readily detect this, betides it will rectify the mistakes pre Our people are wondering when the Aguinaldo’s army being within our lines ing there is an ample supply of ammuni this latest outbreak has been the queer viously made in assessing property twice. Acreage property, .city property and Elmore will have an opportunity to get The majority of these insurgents may tion there have seemingly set at rest a explosive known as lyddite, an excluse disorganize the pose as amigos when the point on which there was much diversity ively British element of ammunition. personal projierty are all nicely classified andean easily be found on the assessment in. It is a peculiar development of picrat* of opinion. roll. The various tracts have been placed on the roll according to location, each Americans overtake them. The prevailing storm, and the recent Apparently the British commander at acid, the invention of one Turpen, who tract being assessed separately with the name of the owner opposite the descrip- Hardships of the Campaign. big tides, have combined to play havoc Ladysmith believes General Joubert has sold it to the Armstrongs for the use of ti >n. In this manner double assessments are avoided and it is much easier for the at McMillans, having washed every Among the »caps of news obtainable gone south, leaving only a force sufficient the British only in their frequent spora- assessor to make values in the same locality equal. Few people give the assessor are stories of the hardships with which thing away clear up to the house, which to prevent the garrison from sallying i lie experiments in freak warfare. The a really correct description of their property, especially in town lots. Sometimes the American army is meeting. It is re out, and there is a disposition in some Chinese stink pot, evidently was the in was expected to go also. ih same lot is given in by several parties, making it difficult to avoid double Last Wednesday’s tide washed clear ported, for instance, that Lawton nar quarters to think Joubert possible ini spiration, for the principle is quite the assessn cuts. Many people, especially non-residents, send money to the sheriff to over the neck of the spit at Cronen’s, and rowly escapted drowning while fording tiated the story with the object of in same—that of drowning the enemy with pay taxes on a certain piece of laud without giving the name of the owner, and if a river recently, when Lieutenant Luna ducing White to make a serious attack smells. the sheriff did not happen to know the owner it was sometimes a difficult matter filled the river with drift. and two privates were lost. or relax precautions so as to permit the Lyddite is placed inside a shell and White Clover Grange held its regular to find the description on the roll. An index gives the line and page at which each Capt. Leonhauser, with a battalion of Boers to seize ground vital to the defense fired from an ordinary cannon by pro name appears, so the sheriff can turn at once to any particular piece of property meeting on Thursday last, and initiated the Twenty-fifth infantry, is oil his way of the town. pulsion of ordinary ordnance powder. three new members. or to any person’s assessment. from Bamban to O’Donnell to take the A report from Durban, however, says When the shell explodes, the lyddite The Nehalem Literary Society had a insurgent cartridge-filling works there. there are rumors that the Boers are pre flies over every tiing within reach and They’re Oregon’s pride in girth and very interesting meeting Thursday night, A Filipino captain who surrendered with paring to break camp and withdraw suffocates the enemy with its deadly TILLAMOOK. there being 96 present to listen to an ex length. four men to Colonel Burt, of the Twenty from the in vestmen i of Ladysmith. But fumes. It kills by smell at a very long When from Yamhill to Tillamook Bay, On flows Trask, as shadows longer grow’, cellent program. fifth infantry, described the factory and it is said that the investing force con range, and is ¿sai l to be more deadly You go on an early autumn day ; Born, to the wife of Sam Lundberg, on volunteered to guide the expedition. And skies in the west are all aglow, tinues to receive reinforcements and fresh than theHhell that kills by striking. Tho’ the meadow larks may still sweetly To find on Tillamook’s fields so fair, the 19th inst., a son. sing. supplies of stores daily. The gentlest cattle, with silky hair ; General Joubert, commanding the There are rumors of an alliance be Yet crisp is the air the breezes bring; And thrift and plenty on every hand, The transport City of Cambridge, with Boer forces, is reported to have protested Vice-President Hobart is Dead. As you ride o’er Moore’s Hill to the west, For nature has blest that favored land. tween Sweden and Germany. the Second battalion of Scottish rifles, against the use of this modern stink-shell And reach Fairdale about noon for rest. Gathering waters flow to the bay, Sam Lundbcig is gathering up another P aterson , N. J. Nov. 21Vice-Presi. arrived at Durban this morning. by the English. He is said to have de Then winds the road past old Sampson’s Whither the geese and ducks wing there band of cattle for the Clatsop dealers; ■lent Hobart died at 8:30 A. M. The cried it as an unchristian and uncivilized Mill, way, surplus stock will be sold out pretty vice-president had been failing since late Heavy Boer Losses. All the while up toilsome ways, until mode of warfaie, and especially to be To feed o’er the flats when the tide is low. One pauses thereon the crest so high. close this year. yesterday afternoon, although reports L ondon , Nov. 19.—A special dispatch condemued when employed by so pow There kingfishers strikes at prey below; Of those mountains which have faced With a measured aim that does not fail ; given out at the house were that he was from Pietermaritzburg, dated Saturday, I erful a nation as Great Britain as a sort the sk v, And gulls thro’ the air so lightly sail. holding his own. Soon after midnight November 18, savs: Long ages before Hood mounted guard ; NETARTS. of malevolent experiment u ¡on a nation he became unconscious, and at 7 this Where many tall trees by fire are scarred. Beyond is the roar of the ocean grand, “A runner brings a message from Lady, for which it has a great contempt, and On whose shores, oncejeeased our native Fred Mills, Otto Blosser and two other moining had an attack of angina smith, saying that November 9 the Boers which is deemed only flt to serve as food Wil’amette’s Valley with yellow fields, ; Is smiling with soil that plenty yields; But land gentlemen from Hubbard, Marion co., pectoris, from which he never rallied. attacked the town from the southwest, for its trial exercises in new modes of now, setting sun shall guide the As mountains part for that far off view', Mrs. Hobart, Garrett Hobart, jr.. Dr. but were repulsed by the Royal rifles and slaughter. Its armored tram was ano are at Netarts, stopping for a couple of helms, Of lowland, with river winding thro’. Newton, Mrs. Newton, who is a cousin rifle brigade with great loss. November ther grotesque departure from conven Of ships that sail to our island realms. weeks. At Summit a son of Erin dwells, ships; speed your course, hour of Mrs. Hobart; and Miss Alice Waddell, 14 the Boers made an attack near Col- tional ethics of battle between civilised And rich is the brogue in yarns he tells. O, good Geo. W. Phelps has sold his interest in by hour; nurse, were at the patient’s bedside con enso, but were repulsed with a loss of peoples, and although it was not the the Netarts Bay Lumber Co. ’ s, mill to Till wide seas shall know our flag and Traveller beware; let not that wight stantly from the time he became uncon 800 Fighting is proceeding at Est rapid success it was intended to be, it pow’r. C. P. Alberts, of McMinnville. Beguile you till the approach of night, scious. Before Hobart became uncon court.” R obert C. W right . But hasten whither the ways shall lead, was likewise deprecated by the Boer Bina Hurlbut, Elmer Hurlbut, Leon scious he was able to converse with Mrs. Or you may be very late indeed. generals as an introduction of iuipr oper Hurlbut and James Kodad, who have Boers Tried To Rush Estcourt But Hard by, is Tillamook's hound'ry line; W ashington county warehousemen been camping on the Sand spit for the Hobart about some private affairs, He I methods. Beyond, is the zigzag’s steep incline; Were Driven Off say the wheat yield this year was the past two weeks hunting, returned home was very patient, and showed his re. Lyddite has proved itself a very de«- Where the blue grouse and quail speed in biggest in its historv. It is estimated E stcourt , N ov . 18, 140 P M. — At 10 markable will power to the last. tiuctive agency, and if it be not tabooed Saturday last. flight, Soon after the news of Hobart's death o’clock this morning the Boers attempt as a needlessly cruel and barcarous fac And the squirrels bark with all their that the county will sell ever 600,000 E. P. Wells is talking of renting the J. ed to rush Estcourt, but one shot from I I bushels. Nearly all the grain w as stored might. was announced, telegrams of condolence tor in th» war upon men, it will doubt Where bluc-javs chatter from tree totree, i along the line of the Southern Pacific, H. Jackson place, at the head of the Bay began to arrive at Carroll Hall. Among 1 our naval gun and several long-range* less relegate the ordinary shell to the for the coming season. And woodpeckers work so noisily; the first to send words of sympathy and 1 volleys fired by the Dublin fusiliers, sent! storehouse of back-num liered imple Where graceful sword ferns wave tenth’ry not more than 50,000 bushels being taken them back precipitately. The Boers had Chas. Hobart, of Los Angles, Cal., and ! to Portland. condolence to Mrs. Hobart were Presi plumes, * * * former owner of the Netarts saw mill, dent McKinley and Mrs. McKinley. Mrs.1 several guns posted on surrounding ments, along with the bow and arrow And maiden hair modest place assumes. T he Oregonian says: “ Portland’s returned to this place on Saturday last Hobart bears up well under her great kopjes, but our naval men fairly aston and the flint-lock musket. Blackberry vines, fallen logs embrace; ished them, and their guns were with British residents do not propose to allow after an absence of six months. Thimblelierry’s there with rosy face; hcreavement. Laughing Lines. draw n. Oregon grajie's matchless red or green ; the general movement in aid of families Geo. W. Phelps has been very sick for The flags ou the city hall and other And biueljvrries by the road are seen ; bereaved in the Transvaal war to pass the past ten days, but is lietter at the public building were half-masted, as were Colenso Bridge Destroyed. “There are several ways to prevent the Fine nee«lies and cones are dropping them by A call for a meeting to discuss present writing. Dr. Wiley was called also flags on many private buildings! 'round, L orenzo M arquez . Delagoa Bay, teeth from decaying,’’wrote the answers- raising funds is printed in The Oregonian. from Tillamook. While winds softly pipe with mournful and dwellings The l>ell on the city hall Nov. 17.—The official Volstem reports to-correspondents man in response to a sound. This universal response of British people The tide was higher on Wednesday the was tolled at intervals during the fore that th« bridge over the Tugela river query from “Miriam,” “but the only ab Five miles down the road, on canyon everywhere in this hour of strain on the loth than it has been for years at noon. The Passaic court adjourned in near Colenso was completely destroyed solutely certain way is to have them side; empire is a remarkable tiemonstration in Netarts. I token of respect to the dead vice-presi Wednesday. November 15. The Boers pulled or die early.” To the toll gate Inflow you must ride. virile patriotism. It sets an example of Dell Burdick came in from Tillamook [ dent. and the business houses and public are looking forward with great interest There’s w here Grayson lived a farmer’s vigor and loyalty that puts to shame life, on Monday to spend a few days hunting buildings in Paterson are being draped. I to the impending encounter between I “I ¿ee that Lady Randolph Churchill, And with her hook and line, Grayson's our own ants and Aguinaldists.” A special meeting of the common council Colenso and Estcourt with the advancing the editor of the Anglo-Saxon, wears a ducks and geese on the bay. wife. * * * 8 diamond snake in her hair.” A. A. Ajisley came home from John 1 was called for noon at city hall to take British. Beat them all fishing, and won her fame. “That’s certain an innox ation. Snakes T he foreign commerce of the United Simmon’s loging camp on Tillamook suitable action on Hobart's death. (Folks there now can’t help it ¡—Smith’s About BOO burghers with cannon are their name.) 1 he vice-president's private offices in guarding the Helpniakaar pass. 18 miles don’t usually’ get any higher than the ed States «eems likely to make its highest river, on Saturday, where he has lieen the city were cloee<#as soon as his death from Dundee, to baffle any attempt to itoral boots.” Thro’ that farm, Trask rushes boist’r- record of the century in the dosing year working. was announced. The funeral will prob, ouslv. of that period. The October exports are “What key did the program say that reoccupy Dundee hy the Pietenuaritz- JamesStarek went to Tillamook Mon And on the wav keeps von company. ably be held next Saturday although no bury Drytown roi|te. larger than those of any preceding Octo- composition w as in?” asked the friend at day to make final proof in support of his Now he dashes on rinks with a roar; public announcement has vet been made. l>rr, the total for the 10 months ending a classical concert. Thro’ the deep gorges his waters ¡»our; homestead on Cape Meares. Then a grav’lv bar im|>edes his course; ' with Octolier is greater than the total “I don’t believe it was in any particu Ben O’Hara went to the Hub Monday * John McNamer Sick. But ’round it he swerves with gath’ring fur the corresponding period in any pre lar key,” answered Mr. Cumrox. “ft to transact business. WILSON RIVER. force. ceding year, and it is apparent that for John McNamer was taken suddenly sounded to me like a bunch of ’em.’’ The recent high tideshave brokendown ! the first time in our history the foreign When Oregon mist on ev’rv hill. Win. Rogers, of Long Prairie, was over sick on Wednesday night at the Allen Swells into rain-clouds, drv streams to 1 commerce of the year will exceed $2,(MM\- nearly all of the fencing fronting Happy “So you engaged a lawyer ?” honse, and it was thought he would not on W’ilson last Tuesday. nil. “Well I’m not just sure about that ________________ 000,(XM). For the 10 months ending Camp. recover, k appears he had several ribs And Storm King bids all the springs to The recent rains have not improved with October, 1899, the figures of the broken m the liverv barn about a week Sometimes I think I engaged a lawyer flow, otir road up the river. Should one suc ago Rnd wag not aware of t|)at and sometimes I think I was hypnotized BLAINE. Into Trask, a hundred feet I jc I ow ; treasury bureau of statistics show the ceed in traveling this road without Then his torrents rush in might v sweep; total exports to be $1,029.242,(MX), by one. I’ll know' more about it when until he was examined bv Dr. Wiley. We touching bottom, he can consider him Rain, rain and mnd, mud. Past mountain spurs, toward ocean while in the corresponding months of the case is finished.” «re glad to say that Mr. McNamer is deep. Seth Moon lost a fine horse last week. self in luck. last vear thev were $987,879.000. They say real estate is on the boom, around. 'b” mOn"ng and abk to •* But tar above rWer and its banks. I “In order to settle a little bet,'' the Our real estate agent, W. N. Bays, has « * * Where alders march in unbroken ranks; For particular, inquire of Peter Heisel. young man said, passing a ring over the When the sun is bright at close of «lay ; General Frederick Funaton. accom returned home for a few days. It is th. expectation of Secretary Hav showcase, “please tell me whether tbc Long ere be sinks in the west away ; ' ¡»aiiietl by his wife, arrived At Oakland We welcome new neighbors, but are John M. Tresenwriter bought the W. ' correct pronunciation of the name of the Tarry, as along the road you go, He is ou his way to .Manila, where he' N. Quiek place and moved in last week. | . sorr^ *c Mr. Jones leave us. . He is that the treaty for the final)y of t| m »tone in that ring is turkeeze or turk- And look round at nature's wond'mus j one of the few who believe and follow will report for duty to General Otis. "1 Consideration, $300. show. "eek. Aiubwwador Choate 1. under do not know anything about the robb Dave Coulson was at Tillamook City v I the adage. "Eternal vigilance is the »•■xxi to have mailed the text of the woiae.” All about, the scene is ever new ; The jeweler inspected it and handed it '• i price of success." Autumn leaves arc there in marv’lous ing of churches in the I’hillippines bv last week. «Rreement reached by Germany J back. h uc; American soldiers ' declared the general We have been reminded through the «»rent BnuUn. When thi. i. recced R. Dillow was at Beaver last Sunday, While np ami down, on fireaxvept slo|»c. in an interview, “and while it may be “The correct pronunciation is glass* J. B. Creevy was at Tillamook City last . death of Mr. J. Erickson's little daugh Like spirits Iterefl of future hope; ->llbemn.rM'”UfOr’igning"M‘,rea‘T he said. _ true that some of our men were guilty ter that "In the midst of life there is week. Stand «mt old gray trees in weirdest death." of sacrilegious thievery, I can hardly forms. Anyone wishing to purchase a place believe it. D iring the war between the All weatherbeaten by many storms. Dr. J. W. Vogel, There seems to he a prospect of having here will do well to write to W. N. Bays, .ak-T «roping flats have knock They tell how the years have ¡msaed in Sj-anish and Filipin s there were a num S pecialist for R efratctiox a ” a cheese factory located on Wilson River. our real estate agent. her of native churches robhed by Span, tight. •'—■■»Mm; D efects of the E ye . Mr. Miller, a cheese maker, offers the An skyward they point with fingers ¡ante. A great deal of plunder got into Chas. Scars went out to Portland last dairymen of this community ¿favorable Will visit TILLAMOOK every thrt* white. week on business. inducements. However, at present writ Dark ami still, in their majestic state. I the hands of Chinamen, who eventually Nolde first the woodman's hand await. sold considerable of the stuff to the men J. C. Creevy has the contract of paint ing. no action has been taken in the P ortland ... O regon - With a century’s sun.given strength; of our army " ing the school house here. matter. O ffice : 132 F irst S treet . I I R esidence : 529 S herman S tri **