THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, January 4, 1900.
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Umpire Air Tight Heaters,
Doors, Windows & Glass,
Churns & Butter Workes,
Milk Cans,
Paints &, Oils.
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GROCERIES.
HARDWARE.
We carry a First Class Stock of G oceries and Provisions,
Canned Goods, etc., which will be found complete in every line.
We want your trade and will do our best to give satisfaction in all
transactions.
We keep in stock a nice line of China, Crockery, Glass,
Tinware, etc.
We carry the Largest Stock of
Hardware in Tillamook County.
Before buying Nails, Windows,
Doors and Sashes call and get
our prices.
& .*2i $ 5 $ ^4?
CHINA & TINWARE.
McINTOSH & McNAIR. Tillamook.
wild gamble to win
A BRIDE.
Chicago Plunger’s Motive in Try
ing to Gat a Fortune.
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1 stand on Central Park west, opposite
the Hotel Majestic, the two happiest I
It was at Porter’s Western home that
Mason first met sweetfaced little Alva spectators of the great parade were
Porter. The girl, like her brother, became Arthur Mason and Miss Alya Porter.
enraptured with the air of reckless bo- It was the only blissful day that Mason
has hau in five years, since he first won
hemianism which Mason habitually as
his sweetheart’s promise of marriage,
sumed In less than three months’ time
and then set out to make a name and
the girl, but 19 years old, had given her
fortune, But
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the happy holiday was
promise to Mason that she would be
soon over and Mason is back at his self
come his wife. In this alliance Mason
saw a speedy termination of all his imposed work again.
His Betrothal to Miss Porter.
headquarters got its name of the Palace
of Tears and Good-Bys.
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A writer on marriages in Self Culture
declares that marriages are happy only
between the very stupid and the very in
telligent ; which is a very stupid asser
tion to make and leads one to conclude
that he must |)C|ong to neither of the
two classes named. “The average man
no longer loves his wife.’’ Ergo, of the
twenty or more million men in this coun
try alone, nine-tenths are making a fail
ure of happy marriage life.
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OF SAN FRANCISCO,
DEALERS IN
FIE & SPRUCE Lumber,
This is the story of Arthur Mason, a
Chicago plunger who is making a for
tune, or, rather, trying to make a for
tune, in speculation with the purpose of
carrying out a romantic love compact,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean Young financial difficulties
But he was too
Mason—he is only 29 years old—cares much of a man to marry Miss Porter till
PASSING REMARKS.
little for the money so far as his own he had made a start in life.
financial benefit is concerned. He wants
Mason went to San Francisco as the
The charing up of the murder mystery
it in order to cancel a debt of honor, and
most convenient place for operating in at Odessa by the confession of the mur
This comes from the Minneapolis; Lil
thus be free to marry the girl of his
stocks. He was soon joined by his friend, dered man's widow but adds another lian Murray Knott, a prima donna so
choice. It is by long odds the queerest
Horace Porter, who brought plenty of number to the long, long, list in which prano of reputation, stood at the wash
and most interesting story that ever
cash to do business with. As an evidence unholy love figures as the primal cause. tub in the workhouse yesterday and
AGENTS STEAMER LUELLA.
came out of the maelstrom of specula
of his sincerity in his friendship, Porter
worked out the first of her sentence of
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tion; and the strangest part ofitisthe
JONES,
suggested to his friend that they go into
forty days for petty larceny. When her Hobsonville, Or
fact that Mason has thus far been suc
It is only the old, old story,
some business together. Porter had the
days work was over the girl tremblrd in
And
only
the
world-old
woe
;
cessful in his quest.
capital and he was sure Mason had the
eVcry limb and seemed on the verge of L. H. BROWN, P reside ™.
A foretaste first of Sin’s Eden
D irectors :
Mason set out a few months ago to brains. The offer was accepted and
And then—but the rest you know ; physical and mental collapse.
W. H. COOPER, S ec . & T res .
L. H. BROWN, H. G. DAVIS, G. W. TEFFT.
gather in <$250,000 from the New York under Mason’s guidance Porter began
And into the soil of the ages
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The root of this sin will grow
stock exchange. Contrary to the cus speculating on the stock exchange.
Aside from the doubt as to her guilt,
And its fruit will be just as bitter
tomary experience of ninety-nine men
In less than a year Porter’s inheritance
As in Eden long ago.
as given in the account from which the
out of every hundred, he has frequently
of $260,000 had dwindled to about
preceding paragraph is clipped, it would
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Manufacturer« of
had a great run of luck. He has suc
$10,000. Mason would not ask his
They have a potato in Kentucky that it seem as though justice could have been
ceeded at one time in accumulating
father for assistance and Porter refused would not be advisable to introduce easier satisfied than by putting a deli
nearly $150,000, and his wise friends
to write to his mother for money, and here. A farmer’s wife in Owen county cate, cultured woman at a task to which
begged him to stop. They told him that
thus it was that at the outbreak of the put some in the oven stove along with she was unaccustomed, and for which
such luck as he had could not stick to
recent war with Spain Porter was work the pan containing roast beef; by the she evidently was not physically fitted.
TIUUAMOOK, OR
him long, and that, unless he quit the
ing as clerk in a Boston dry goods store bye there was an explosion that blew What is that Shakespeare says ?
game, he was sure to go broke. Mason,
while Mason earned a sort of a liveli» open the oven door and scattered the “And earthly power doth then show
however, was deaf to all their entreaties.
hood as a board marker in a Boston roast beef all oyer the kitchen. In that
likest God’s
He insisted that nothing less than $250,-
When mercy seasons justice.”
bucket shop. When President McKinley same county at another place, some
000 would satisfy his needs, and that
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issued the call for volunteers Arthur spuds that were boiling in a kettle also
when he had secured the sum he would
Mason and Horace Porter were among exploded, throwing hot water over the
We often hear about the injurious
diop out of Wall street and never en
bocal Orders Promptly pilled. Well Stocked
the first to present themselves for enroll scared farmer s wife and scalding her as effects of coffee on the human system and
gage in any sort of speculation again.
ment on the books of the Ninth regiment well. This Kentucky story comes to us once in a while a case comes under ob
Lumber Yard near Court House.
He plunges with the delirium of a craz\
of Masachusetts volunteers.
by wav of Texas. We will letsomeother servation that might be used as an argu
man. Some days he cleans up $10,000
Mason went from choice; Porter be fellow ask how the powder got inside ment in the affirmative; as, for instance,
or $15,000 ; on others he loses an equal
the story of the Cincinnati woman who
cause
his friend enlisted. They went to the jacket.
amount. Old timers shake their heads
put $95 in bank notes in her coffee pot ;
Cuba and underwent all the hardships
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and sec only disaster in the end.
A11 effort is being in.-nje to pioinote the then forgetting the incident, added a
into which that gallant bam! of heroes
I lie Hccuinulatioii of $150,000 only
was driven. M ison, strong of physique, migration of the Negro to the Northern couple of cablespoonsful of coffee, put
served to make him more rash and
withstood the a wful ordeal, bill Porter, and Western states and an association water in-to brew a breakfast drink ami
daring, lie took desperate chances of
always delicate in health, quickly began I has been formed in Buffalo, N.Y., for this swallowed the decoction. Then, sudden
doubling it, and lost nearly all his
purpose. It v. ilr fail unless the promot ly remembering, she investigated the
to feel the effects of the climate.
money. Since then he has been up and
ers
can change climatic conditions. The contents of the pot and found brown
Death of Young Porter.
down by turns; one week worth $50,
negro is a creature of the tropics. A grounds and greenish pulp. A nervous
000 or $75,000, the next operating in
He became ill and was removed to the
wiser move would be to induce our col tit followed. Naturally there was good
bucket-shops or on race tracks, with a hospital. Mason begged to be allowed
ored brother to go to Porto Rico, Cuba grounds for it.
shoestring” as the saying is.
to go with his friend, and the request
Stage leaves Tillamook daily exeept Sunday
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i and our other tropical isles.
was granted. Porter was unable to re
Why He Wants $350,000.
The
race
problem
is
up
to
the
salons
of
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Stage leaves N* Yamhill daily exeept iDonday.
sist the tropical fever and in a few days
Sentiment prevails sometimes in the Alton, III., in a case brought by a colored
Arthur Mason wants $250,000 with was dead. Mason cared for Porter as
Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at
which to repay the sum that his friend tenderly as a mother would a sick child, naming of postoffices, as in other things. man and brother to compel the admis
Horace L. l’or*?r lost in speculation on and as he held the fever-stricken hand of Our lads and lassies will be pleased to sion of his children into the school with
North Yamhill and Tillamook.
his advice in San Francisco two years his comrade friend he made a vow that know that there is a “Love’ in Colo white ones, when they are schools espec
A jury,
ago. porter is dead, l»u‘ he left a pretty in life his only motive would be the re rado. a “Lover” in Pennsylvania, while ially established for negroes.
sister, a Miss Alva Porter, to whom demption of Porter’s money ’ost in i ‘ Sweet Lips’’ is in Tennessee ; but they after fifty-seven hours’ deliberation, had
Mason has been engaged for five years. s|>eculation, and the re-establishment of will not admit that these are all they to lie discharged. A new trial is to fol
C. B HANTHORN, Pres.; A. WELCH, Vice-Pres ; 8, T. HARRISON. Sec.
He says hr doesn’t wish to marry the his own previous good business char are What lover but thinks his love has low. Eleven to one in favor of the city
girl so long ns the debt of honor is un acter.
the sweetest lips in all the wide, wide leads us to wonder if the one obstinate |
fellow who stood out for negro equality
paid, and nt the same time hr Icels it is
Upon his return from Cuba almost the world ?
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unlair to keep a girl of her age tied up first one to meet him at Mantauk Point |
bad mixed blood in him.
Successors to the Columbia Iron Works.
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with a matrimonial contract the fulfill, was his father. An affecting scene fol- , There is one turkey in the country that
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ment of which is uncertain. So Mason lowed, during which Mr. Mason implor for years has had no fears about Christ
With snowdrifts sixty feet high, up in
533 Bond Street
has set to himself the task of securing ed his bov to return home and the past mas or any other holiday. It is in Illin Minnesota at a place called Harmony
ASTORIA, OREGON.
the money within the next six months. would all be forgotten and forgiven. ois. stands five feet on its toes, and at a result of a storm of sixty hours’
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weighs sixty-five pounds ; probably the duration, how much harmony was there
“It wouldn't lie fair to the girl to keep The soldier’s answer was ;
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largest bird of its species known.
It likely to be among the shut-in inhabit
her waiting longer than that. If I can’t
and
“When 1 have made things right with
Its wings ants? Perhaps each family, having a
get the money by the expiration of the the mother of the dearest friend I had on looks like a voung ostrich.
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time I have set, I’ll give up the S|>ecula- earth I will come to you, father, but un measure seven feet from tip to tip. Of copy of Whittier's poems in the house,
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tive game and cancel the engagement.’’ til then I must work as I never worked course its owner is proud of it, and no whiled away the snow-bound hours by
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monev would induce him to sell it. If the open fireside in its fresh perusal.
This is his ultimatum.
Cannery, Steamboat, Loggers’ Work
liefore.”
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and Blacksmithing.
For the past few months Mason has its gobble is equal in sound to its corpor-
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Arthur Mason is the son of Elias Ma
Electrical and Cycle Sundries
son, the head ot a large shipping busi been living in New York city, He has osity, no ordinary darkey will ever at.
The tidal wave that wiped out the
Estimates Given.
in Stock.
ness on the great lakes. The elder Mason made the statement that as he lost his tempt to hypnotize it and cart it off in population on the Island of Ceram, sug
would gladly have his son join him in father’s money by speculation he will a wheelbarrow on a moonless night.
gests future events that await our islands
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business, but the young man has deter continue speculating until he finds it
in the China seas; and it is also a warn
Last winter when the Cuban troops ing to the enterprising Americans who I
mined that, alone and unaided, he will again. He spends his time among the
make his own fortune.
bucket shops and poolrooms of the Wall were quartered in Florida, at swamp- want to get up colonies to replace the
When w aves fifty
Mason s ambition ami romance are street district and he is now the recog. surrounded Tampa and Miami; and at native inhabitants.
the result of a five years’ career as inter nixed plunger among the world of small Jacksonville, where they are high land feet high sweep over the lowlands and
esting as any young man ever had after s|>evnlators who woo chance for a liveli areas that were not swampy, the head transform miles of coast line into a mud
quarters of General Lee was in one of the puddle, it would seem the part of wis-1
leaving college. While Mason was at hood.
At times his play at the races is phe big hotels, that came to be known as the dom to prefer—well, say the sixty feet j
Princeton he met Horace L. Porter, a
quiet, mild-mannered youth of a lather nomenal hts luck seemed to l»e always in Palace of Tears and Good-Bys.
snowdrifts of Minnesota.
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urt'ring disposition. Porter was of the range , his play at the brokers’ stock
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(mrt that is susceptible to a man of boards is considered remarkable. His
The general was a man beloved by all.! The “quiet and apparently harmless
strong personality. So it was that. entrance at anv of the smaller brokers’ especially bv his men, whom he ever kept citizen” who went into a Chicago tlie Atrentw for Kopp's Brewery, the Brewer of the fii.eet Beer in the Northwest.
despite the extreme di fere nee in their offices is generally a signal for a crowd in mind, ministering to the comfort of ater, watched the play for a few m< -
Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, private!?
physical and mental compositions, a to gather near and watch his moves
the sick in a way not usual to depart nients, and then began to mutter unin
confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home.
On three separate invasions lately his ment commanders. The hospitals were telligibly, winding up by firing four shots
strong attachment sprang up between
the two young men. which strengthened winnings have reached over $15,000 a filet! with the flowers he had sent to the over the heads (and heels) of the aston
day. but in his eagerness to master for. invalids, anti he spent largely of his sal ished playfolks, was evidently from the
ns time wore on.
Shortly alter leaving college Mason tune at one bold stroke he has every ary to provide delicacies tor them.
Wild West; but not quite equal to the
came to Chicago and liegnn tospevulatc. time forfeited the greater part.
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legitimate dramatic presentation on the
Girl Urges Him to Marry Her
Like in mv other man who has tried the
Not only this, but it came to be under- stage of the city by the lakes, and so ex
same g one. he lost, mid lost again, and
During all this time Alva Porter has stood that no mother, wile, sister or pressed his sentiments in the only way
again. His father refused to give him an written many letters. She urges him to sweetheart visiting the various camps tn he was accustomed to at home.
PROPRIETORS OF
additional allowance. \t the very time abandon his self-imposed task and marrv t ie suburbs of the city must leave with*
ot Mason's financial distress lie received her. She waits for him to say the word o it calling on the commanding general ;
INSURE WITH
an invitation from his former college and yet he refuses till he has accomplish- t • each he gave a cordial greeting, a few
chum. Horace L. Porter, to visit him nt ed his purpose of securing $250,000.
Claude Thayer,
kind words such as fitted each case, and
DEALERS IN
his home in Nevada. Tl»c invitation
One of the most joyous meetings of the gave also a few flowers to be carried
Agent
for Fireman'» Fund and Lor.do
c »me as a pine of good fortune to Ikwev celebration of two months ago away ns a memento. With many the
Mason, who jamped at this temporary w s that ot the voung speculator and good.by to the general was said with
and Lancashire Fire Insurance
abatement of his trouble«.
•his fiancee. Upon the Ing observation tearful eyes and trembling lipa, and so
Shop next door to Lzmn’i Hotel. Tillamook
Companie«.
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And LOGGERS’ SUPPLIES,
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PACIFIC LUMBER CO.,
Fine Dressed Flooring and Finishing
Lumber a Specialty.
The DIRECT ROUTE to TILLAMOOK
Carrying U.S. iVLail
Tillamook & North Yamhill Stage Line.
JOHN BARKER, Proprietor.
COLUMBIA ELECTRICAL & REPAIR CO.
Electric
Light
I Power
Plants
Installed.
Foundrymen and Boiler
Makers.
Local Agents--L. HINER and H. HUDEN
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.