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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, December 7, 1899. New Line of Clothing, including a Varied Stoek of Fine GENT.’S OVERCOATS. SWETTERS ! SUlETTERSI All Grades, Colors and Qualities. MACKINTOSHES—The best Stock in the City. We only carry First Class Goods. Headquarters for Buckingham & Heeht Boots and Shoes. COHN & CO ■J The Leading Merchants Fisher that the timber of the Nehalem | pino force and secured their arm», the I for we find, notably at the “ Hoxie the entrance shifts or plays between INTEREST IN COAL LANDS. valley and tributaries will some day rebels supposing Monroe had un army place,” on Tillamook spit, banks of shells “great gaps of time.” Nehalem Valley Property Again alone warrant the construction of a rail I behind him. feet in thickness covered by three But the spectre of a waste basket, for Commanding Attention. road thereto, but whether that railroad Some Observations Upon the several feet of black soil and sand, those beds of this already too lengthy article looms I William Fisher, of Vernonia, Columbia will go to Astoria or Portland will de WERE FOREST GROVE MEN. Formations, etc., of Our shells, called “kitchen middens,” or up before me and I must hasten on to a pend entirely upon the energy, co-oper county, thinks that portion of Oregon "kitchen refuse,” on the coasts of Den conclusion after a word as to the late The McNamers, Who were Drown Bays and Bars. I will soon become known as a great coal ation and perserverance of the inhabi I mark, Cornwall and Devonshire, and shoaling of Tillamook bar. The winter ed in the Yukon River. tants of which ever city first starts to also at points along the shores of of 1887-8, in Tillamook, was a remark I mining region, as it is now famed tor [ by an old settler .] F orest G rove . Or ,Dec. 3 —Miss Alice build the railroad that Mr. Fisher pro i its big timber. The United States gov France, where similar deposits are found. able one in its meterological history by M-'Namer, of this place, received word The sudden shoaling recently of Tilla Said " refuse” being the cast offs from the its extreme minimum of rainfall, the ernment, he says, owns a whole town poses. W illiam R eid . this morning confirming the former re mook bar naturally brings up before us ship which has been reserved for settle daily peasts of prehistoric man, whose I stream emptyinginto the bay. remaining some momentous questions as to its port i hat her two brothers, Theodore C. "when,” “who” and “what,” seems to ! comparatively very low throughout the ment since the lines were first run in that c use, and will it continue to indefinitely TILLAMOOK WEATHER. and Con vet ce W , were drowned in the i portion of Columbia county, many years have been swallowed up in the shifting ; winter, an unusual lack of rainfall, not remain thus, a serious obstruction to our Yukon river November 11, about -Joo | ago. This township, known on the Temperature. past without leaving even a dream. withstanding that there was the ordin growing commerce, also causing to Rain miles from Dawson, by the ice up.iet- maps as 4 north, range 4 west, possesses Maxi- Mini The sandspit of the Columbia we find ary amount of southwest winds and Spring up theories as back-ground ad fall. iog their scow, which was loaded with Mean. mum. mum. large veins of as good coal as that mined 2 juncts to these questions, concerning the runs due north from its starting point | gales within that period. Now the re in Coos county, but its remoteness from .. 0.00 stock. No futher doubt exists. Con .. 53.0 64 ... 42 1 .. early forming of our bays and bars, and at Tillamook head, this course being sults of this uncommon state of affairs transportation lines has kept the fields .. 53.0 .. 0.00 McNamer was 25 years of age, and will ... 42 64 2 .. their probable future, the latter a most somewhat contrary to the direction of! was that it was found in the spring that from being developed. The government 3 .. 59 ... 50 .. 54.1 .. 11.58 tie retnembened by most of the football serious matter just now to citizens of th ? southerly current, by which it was the bar had shoaled to an alarming de price of these coal lands is $10 an acre. 4 .. 60 ... 50 . .. 55.0 .. 0.30 players in Oregon, and was formerly a 49.1 . .. 0.02 Tillamook county. So,along with others, created, seems to have been caused gree. The only company doing the trans Several years ago, a corporation pur 5 .. 60 ... 39 . . .. 50.1 . 0.12 member of Pacific university’s first team. the author is pleased to advance some bv the pushing back of the ocean current, portation business here then (Lienenucher chased a number of acres and proceeded 6 .. 56 ... 45 . 0.90 Theodore C. McNainer was 44 years old, . 56.1 . 62 ... 51 . 7 .. & Brown, of Astoria) was severely con by the vast volume of fresh water flow thoughts of his own to-day, as to the 55.1 . O.oo and had been a farmer and experienced to develop a very fine ledge, which 8 .. 59 ... 52 . This bay demned by many citizens here for caus origin of bays, etc., together with some ing in from the great river. 1.25 stockman in this county for the past 20 . 57.1 . showed six feet in width at the surface 9 .. 60 ... 55 0 60 history of past shoaling of Tillamook must be one of great age for those ex ing w hat was supposed to be false re of the ground and widened to 11 feet as 10 .. 57 ... 50 . . 53.1 . years. Both were born five iniies north bar and its removal therefrom through tensive timbered flats with deep black ports as to the conditions of the bar to a depth of 40 feet was attained. At that 11 .. 55 ... 51 . . 53.0 . . 0.65 of Forest Grove, and had been residents . 0 08 59 ... 45 . . 52.0 . 12 .. soils lying within the half triangle be be circulated in order to keep out pos the simple working of natural laws. . 55.1 . . 0.57 of this county continually until their time, Mr. Fisher says, everybody ex- 13 .. 60 ... 51 0.28 trip to the Klondike the past two years. The creation of bays may be divided tween Seaside, Skipanon, Young’s river sible competition in the carrying busi- j pected a railroad to l>e built between 14 .. 61 ... 51 . . 56.0 . an I there abouts was certainly included ness of this bay, but the writer of this . 53.0 . 1.08 ... 49 . 15 .. 57 into two classes: First, “Landlocked,” these Hillsboro and Astoria, and 16 .. 52 ... 44 . . 48.0 . . 0.68 as that of San Francisco and Puget in its former basin, but deposits from article, along with others, thought differ valuable coal and timber lands at 17 .. 52 ... 41 .. 46.1 . . 0.04 Quaint Features of Life. Sound, where points of land or hills that mighty stream covering long ages cntly, and so in an article in the H ead the head of the Nehalem, at once 18 ... 56 ... 48 . . 52.0 . . 2.02 of time has filled it in. Tillamook spit, light of April 16 of the latter year, 56 19 ... ... 48 . 1.04 . 52.0 . closely bound the entrance; second, bays miles sprung into prominence. Several Some society girls of Brhylon, Ling protected by spits of sand from the ocean with a less projecting headland south under the head of "Bar Opinions,” the of the road were graded out from 20 ... 51 ... 44 . . 47.1 . . 0.85 21 .. 54 ... 47 . . 50.1 . . 1.75 Island have formed the Giddy Girls’ and moderate inflow from the land, . writer gave as a reason that said shoal swells, to which class all Tillamook Hillsboro, but the building of the other 22 ... 53 ... 45 .. . 49.1 . 0.34 Darning Club, the avowed object of bays, including that of the Columbia takes nearly the natural direction of the ing was caused by the usual filling in road down the Columbia river from 23 ... 58 ... 49 .. . 53 1 . . 0.02 which is to keep in order the hosiery of southerly winds, its be«l or “ flats ” being effects of the southwest currents meeting river, belong, and hence will be the only 24 ... 58 ... 46 . 52.0 .. . 0.28 Portland took the wind out of the sails These gid ly 0.07 their bachelor fl tends class we need consider to-dav. These pretty well divided between the dark | at the bar with only a minimum amount . , of the Hillsboro projeet. and so the coal 25 ... 61 ... 48 . . 54.1 .. girls, however, will only darn the socks 60 sediments from inland and beds of sand | 26 ... ... 55 .. 1.85 of extra freshet water for the time of . 57.1 .. sandspits, however, will have to be fields were abandoned for the time be 27 ... 59 ... 54 .. . 56.1 .. 1.75 of such young tnen as do not smoke, separated into two classes, those having brought in by tides or blown by the year to offset or washout its natural ing. The upward tendency oftimber in 28 ... 57 ... 47 .. 52.0 .. 0.04 drink, play cards or do anything really a northern entrance or terminus, as winds from the spit, and, as a consc- labors, hence the ocean work prepond terests had recently brought the entire 29 ... 56 ... 44 .. 50 0 .. 1.76 50.0 .. 2.55 naughty—the kind of men, in short, Netarts, Tillamook and the Columbia, quence, we find the sand flats next the erated and the bar was "shoaled.’’ The Nehalem country before the world again, 30 ... 54 ... 46 .. western and the mud or land deposits who are perfectly able to darn their own article pointed out that under this and those permitting a southern en Sum..1 730.. ..1429...... 1588 ...... ..22.02 socks. theory a resumption the next winter of ! and men who have patiently held on to trance as Nehalem and Nest ticca, dejieiid on the eastern side of the bay. their timber claims are now on the eve Mean 57.5 ... 47.5 ..... 52.7 .............0.00 Bui Netarts having but little inflows the average conditions of rain fall and ing in each case on the near by head Theyoung duke of Manchester is mak ( of being rewarded. Deeds can be ob. south winds, (the difference between the S ummary .—Mean temp., 52.7 ; max. ing a copper-riveted donkey of himself. lands or capes, or submarine extensions of land waters, we find its “flats" com- I tained to very fine timber lands at 30 of points of mountains, which, together posed almost exclusively of sand from amount of freshet water flowing over an acre, which Mr. Fisher regards as temp., 64 ; date, 1st and 2qd. Min. When Otero appeared on the stage at with the winds, control the direction the ocean. Apropos of those deposits in the bar that winter as a minimum sea cheap, considering the millions of feet temp., 39; dates, 5th. Total precip. Lyons the other night, the duke ran and weight ot the inshore ocean currents. our bays. This may be called the pass son and an average one he estimated i carried on these hitherto neglected tracts. inches, 22.02; total snowfall inches, down toward her, scrambling among 0; number of days clear, 0; partly the orchestra, and, with clasped hands, The souther!v moving Japan current ing age of the genus clam, for within a would alone make a stream 500 feet ; —Oregonian. cloudy. 1 ; cloudy, 29. Dates of frost— implored her for the cigarette she was along this part of the coast being some few hundred thousand of years, more or wide, 5 feet deep, and flowing rapidly for Light, 0. Killing, 0. Dates of hail, 0 ; smoking She gave it to him. he drew miles off shore, it leaves eddvs or ■ less, even without artifical aid, our bays three months), would sweep the bar RAILROAD TO NEHALEM. sleet, 0 ; thunder storms, 21st; auroras, two puffs ecstatically, then extinguished irresponsible currents on its shore edge, will be filled with sediment, burying up clear of its obstruction which it did as 0. Prevailing wind—Direction, S. W. subject to being moved in any direction, the clam, relegating it to a bit of ancient we all know, for there h«*s been no com it, placed the butt in bis card case, threw Coal of That Region Contains Too agreeable to the course of the prevailing r i geographical history a petrified fossil for J plaint of the matter since until this fall, C apt . J oseph J. D awson , a kiss to the Spanish girl and went out, Much Sulphur to Make Line Pay. w hen nature ’ s work at the bar seems to winds, which winds, being southerly in ( future spectated professors of that time! Voluntary Observer. leaving the audience in an uproar, The winter and northerly in summer, drive . to ponder wisely upon. In that day, the ' got out of balance again by reason of the j duke needs a guardian. The following letter apt»eared in the south west w inds starting up unusually streams flowing into our bavs will Tillamook Bay Improvements. respectively the currents in those direc ! Oregonian: tions. The sandspits ot the Columbia, noisely meander through beautiful sea strong for the time of year. The south For wavs that are dark the ’‘Heathen "I notice the article of Willi» ni Fish The Portland Chamber of Commerce Tillamook and Netarts bays arc doubt, level prairies on their way to the ocean. west winds of September in velocity ac- Many of er, of Columbia county, Oregon, in your is not selfishly and exclusively interested Chinee*' still holds his own. less caused, first, by the elevation from The prepotideracy of the heavy south i cording to weather bureau at Portland the Cninamen who have been working paper this morning regarding the coal in Portland. It works for the entire beating all records, the accompanying the ocean depths, at some remote geo- I current over that of the north or sum- beds there’n. I speak from experience Northwest, It has indorsed and will j on the Mexican Central railway and who logical |>criod those huge and far ex-1 i mer current ought to construct then all i rainfall being only about an average, . . | j now want to return to their native lana land when I say Mr. Fisher’s reports are cor support 4 the petition to improve the en- t i i.- tended wipes, that now so safely protect I our sandspits, and indeed it would, weie 1 hence as a natural result of such unbal- . «... , , . fiee of expense, have crossed the Ixjrder rect. and furthermore, that these coal trance to Tillamook bav. lhe petition I, » m . i » i i them in each case on their southern i | it not for what we can reasonably con- | ancing shoaling is inevitable, but with a r . ,. adrnntn<n-c . ’ , 1 into Texas, where they beds are (as reported by United Slates recites J have been taken recites the the advantages tliot that ,..,^..1,1 would _ ac. . . . .. shores. After said elevations, it would ! sider as effectual hindrances to that re- resumption of average conditions of ___ ... .. . . "'to custody pending deportation, ill ac geological survey) 10 miles in length by ! crue to the surrounding territory if such iuiincdiMlely follow that the southerly 1 suit in the shape of submarine ridges or rainfall with the south winds this com not exceeding two miles in width, of un-' improvement were made, and states cordance with the provisions of the ex ing winter, unless there is an increase in spurs of mountains at intervals project currents, fiercely driven by the wintery broken coal veir.s of six to nine feet. Re- that competent authorities have placed elusion acc. There are several hundred gales and winds, would in each case, ing out from the shores, whose sub 1 the width of the entrance, which is not of them and the cost of returning them lying upon these reports ami of those of I the cost of the construction of a jetty to after rounding those caps, take a merged sides, detect the heavy position common (under the theory of it as »■ill be about $500 per capita, but per six different mining engineers from! northerly course, in harmony with the of this current from hugging the shore corn »borated by past experience) the accomplish the end sought at $250,000. haps Uncle Sam, who has just discovered different slates whom I ha<l investigate direction of the winds, its inner edge; al all points. Under this theory then, bar w’ill bv next spring be swept out by The matter was explained to the trus ibis little game, may find some way to marking the outlines of the present sand-1 ! we may conjecture that at some point the winter freshets to its normal con- these mines in 1800 and 1891, I was in- ' tees by W. S. Cone and J. H. Bridgeford, structed by clients last spring (1899) to I of Bay Citv, Tillamook county, the lat- beat it. spits, (nr the simple reason that along ' Inflow the month of the Nehalem, prob- dition. pre|»are for the construction thereto of a R'isie Davis, a bearded lady now iu this edge would be deposited sedimen ably at the “halt way rock,*’ twixt tea gentleman stated in support of the local railway from Portland to these Real Estate Transfers. tary matter, mainly of sand, from the there and Garibaldi, a submarine ridge measure, that because if impeded navi- Chicago waiting to fill an engagement Upper Nehalem mines, but liefor? doing ocean outlie one rn.lt, and the dark soils sheers the current off shore, which, con. gation, their are now hundred of tons with a circus, got lost the other night and vegetable matter that constitute sequence would ¡»ermit the north current U.S. to J. W. Steinniitz, lot 3, Se % of so to find out the true amount of sulphur of butter and cheese in Tillamook await- while out walking in Lakeview and not N\v ’4 and E »•*.» of Sw *4 of sec. 4, the.ein. Accordingly, three separate ing transportation to the outside world. le8'r',,K to ,>e conspicuous went to the the fresh water dv|M»sits carried in from to do an unimpeded work of construct large parcel« of these coals were shipped At present, lie stated, the depth on the i,ac'< d°or "I a house to inquire her way. tp. 2 N. R. 8 W. the land on the other, those spit deposits ing a sandspit at the Nehalem that Lanarkshire, in Scotland; to lean liar is. approximately, at mean low tide *,le re8U*t w“s a great fright on the part once built up to the surface, was rapidly allows only of a south entrance, such Clara C. and J. D. Edwards to W. W. Fcnelon, E »? of Ne V4 and E of cash ire, in E-igland, and to the United 12 feet. In lhe summer time, when j clevatvd, in those troubled ages, when entrance, would, of course, I k * as per. t,le l*oP'e w,,° U’eJ in the house, States assay office in Washington, D C., Se of see. 11, tp. 2 S, R. 8 W. the elements played fierce games with manent as those of the other class were northenily winds prevail, the depth is ree 'voll,en going into the hysterics every thing terrestrii.1 that was mova it not for the evident fact that the su b- Theo. Steinhillier to Florence Hardman, with s|nx'ial instructions to each to care from 16 to 18 reel at low tide. But with ami ' a man running out the front door in a tract of Bailey’s pre-emption land fully anal)zr the same and find the sev ble. Forming them into those long, mergence of the aforesaid ridge, acting each recurring winter season, » hen the j search of the police. The bearded lady claim in sec. 21. tp. 1 N, R 10 W eral pr«»|M»rtions of sulphur. The result wind changed from northern ly to south- i Hed and tried another house, at which sinuous ridges, and mounds that we as a break water to the south current, I ehold to-day. their elevating indeed |x*rmits a greater or less depth of water John S. Clark to Abraham Jones, lot 3 was as follows; The Scotch people re erlv direction, the channels fills i up to | her appearance caused a woman to faint. and SH of Nw V4 and Nw *4of Sw ported 4 per cent, the English ® people a »bout 12 feet, and even less. still goes on, but slowly now, tor gcolo. flowing over it, which fiercely driven and “ There is ' By tliis time the police arrived with a Hof sec. 2. tp. 2 S. R. 7 W. little over 4 per cent, and the United gical history, like that of man s churned by the wintry gales sometimes no question as to the feasibility of the ' patrol wagon and the free exhibition for shows a more quieting state as time tears and rends at the bar the work of Ella S. Jenkins to Abraham Jones, W v9 States geoiogimi survey office reported project fm maintaining a channel at a which people generally pay to see was of Sw Sw l4 and lot 4, tp. 2 S, R. 3 97 KM) per cent of sulphur in these U|»* goes on. The marine construction of the Mimmer current, often creating a suppressed, constant depth of 22 feet. 7 \\ per Nehalem coala The latter analysis those sandspits would naturally begin second opening or otherwise shifting and It w as moved and carried that reww ' Le > Frankel, a Chicago peddler who at the southern or ca|»c etuis and build troubling the former entrance, and this Aug. C. Kinney to Joseph Lyons, Sc ’ t was made under direction of the Unite*» lutions be pass«! indorsing the petition i sold books, argue I fi r nearly an hour novtWrly, pushing the bar or outlet uncertain stale will probably, without of Se of see 9, tp. 3 N. R. 10 \V. States geologit^l bureau officer, Peter The trustees all expressed themselves as further sud further north, until the solid artificial improvement, continue. The I’.S. to Charles Young, \V I, ot N w ', Foreman, the reporter stating: “These heartily in favor of the improvement of | < with Mis August Schiak of 307 Flet headlands is mrt thrtt W||| no| |<rmit a outlet working down (as it is graduallv cher street, to induce her to buy a pho- and W *4 of Sw of sec. 8, tp. 2 N, coals contain an unusually large |»er- Tillamook bar. ograph album. Wheu she agreed to Oirthcr crowding thM direction, and doing) the coast until it reaches the R. 8 W sentage of sulphur. After making the here the work rots M thisl ||||ti| to.dav i submarine ridge al»ove mentioned and U.S. to Mark T. Cox, Ne i* of sec. 31, first analysts, with practically th-* same take one he dropped dead. At first Mrs. Bluffed the Insurgents. Av the Miuthern current driven a iis it is by tp. 2 N. R. 5 W. i Schaak refused to buy anything, but fi- nMults.” Thereupon the professor of imdcr those protecting walls it will the much heavier gale» of winter ia va»tlv I probably I I nally he went out to his wagon, which Iwvome j»ermanent, like that of Kate and James St a sc k to Anna Kul- chemistry of the Oregon agriculture col M amila . Dec. t -The capture hr Lieu- cher. N », of Nw If and Se t4 of Nw lege at Corvallis was consulted, who re .t!..»urr than the northern .invent, hence the 1 had I »sen left standing in the street, and Nest uvea, which seems to have dug ’eimnt Monroe and M men nf the Fourth it toll.»» . that Min<ta|nta constructed by its ' and Ne t4 of Sw of sec. 9, tp. 2 plied last summer that if the Upper Ne brought forth an album with a bright way down t ie shore to a point cavalry of the Filipino general. Canon R 10 W »bv former are the more permanent of where it secures protection from its halem coal contained such larire amounts 1 green cover, which he offered for $6- with 800 men anil officer«, with rifles •he twu j„ eviilcncv of which fact, we! *'utheru 1 Carrie and \V J. May to Effie M. Gray, of sulphur, it «wild he ».f httl? vklue She exclaimed that she would buy it. enemy. |.«r if I am rightly in- -vend American .ml 70 Spanish prim have on mort or )ws ani, at • ft»rmed J,rmed th)a u(llkrg(<a n< tht4 t>i|r bar undergoes no changes son. lot 1. in block 1 of McDermott's for onumercial or st« am pur|»oaM. * At that moment,” said Mrs Schaak, afi'en Vdar^fl >-''*'’‘‘KrowthKw,th ■ Under thi. ,W1. ,he„. . ,„r addition to Tillamook city. Tb me these recent report« are a mat oners, st Rsyomhong. in the province of in telling alxxit the aff dr. “I looked up en- Nueva Vi«ay,. ... . .u.-oWul Wuff and saw the man looking at um with an !mhe.,t.both W,th I ttr,on‘hr the moetpermaneut. Edward H. H irdie to The Astoria Co. ter of deep regret, as. having eight and Monroe tapped the re^i wire, tele- «S the otbo cuZ^Ty *" ‘ ,h'n""” ,h< rid«e' “ ' E t> of W of sec. 18, tp. 3 N, R. 7 one half miles of grade, which I con- expression of bew *Ider ment on his ci»un grsghed to Canon th.t he was advancing W, tenance. The next instant he stagger« d com'trweted for a railroad to the Neha _ . . . the sandspit« ot both TiUa.n .ok «n I wi«h a large force. ,mi demanded his fro„!X “ h"" n"k' "F f"’"' thr and sank into a chair, his limbs twitch* lem. wet of H^lslMiro. I WM laipeful of surrender After neg<Hi.tk>,Mi taD,m The Scoffer—Wlm flight have yon to ing convulsively ” Mr« Schaak sect tho^. of th. < k A,,d. •»««« nn interval offlatw„dt utihzirg the sivne for the proposed coal <m«ented to capitulate to the sign your name wit!) an “A. M.” after VUme.U.H.mthjX"^" ’ I 'm',r” her little t-oy for a doctor. When he railway to Uw.Nel^fem. an ordered it |<, it? -¿-Si forve. whereupon Monroe telegraphed ; arrived at lhe Imyse life had jwowed from . k K I ■won to point to a probability that this be built l.xst apHng. bnt the large amount The Signer—As , fMSHHMMkg|a|||||jjBaM," internal ia trader ground. ' over which ^K^a^anv^oncof sulphur Heaped tint enterprise At that he would enter the town with i a i lhe body of tlie pedier Die physician it mtaas, in wage man. lhe • Mnall guard and receive the n s pronounced theoase one of heart failufC- He cafXured the 1» Fill-1 superinduced by a mental rhur*- » -A. WHY BARS SHOAL UP I
