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_________________________________ THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. AUGUST 16, 1900. HARDWARE AND DAIRY UTENSILS. groceries . STOVES & RANCES. t Large Line Charter Oak Stoves. Star Estate Ranges, Umpire Air Tight Heaters, Doors, Windows & Glass, Churns & Butter Workes, Milk Cans, Paints &, Oils. HARDWARE. We carry the Largest Stock of Hardware in Tillamook County. Before buying Nails, Windows, Doors and Sashes call our prices. | We carry a First Class Stock of Groceries 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, (.lass, Tinware, etc. and get CHINA & TINWARE. McINTOSH & M c NAIR. Tillamook savages who thirsted for glory. Sowhen possible to manufacture lumber to any GHOSTS OF SKOOKUM LAKE. the white giant had been without food large extent. But, from all indications, Indians will Not go Near the or water for many days, the young chief , the present efforts put forth to improve armed himself with a sword taken from Place—Ghosts Manifest Them the bar will result in the accomplishment the whites and sallied forth. He went selves in Many Forms. of this desired and necessary improve cantiouslv to the door of the cabin, and ment. The ghosts of Skookum Lake, Tilla then went in. Then those on the out mook County, have for many years puz- side heard a terrible hand-to-hand strug Another “Army” Pest. i zled the white settlers of the locality, gle begin. Blow after blow the swords ‘‘What’s struck Tillamook ?’’ and struck terror to the hearts of the struck, but the white giant was tired, “A jiest that will beggar people in less native red Indians,” said Phil H. Slos- and his superior skill availed him little time than the army worm.” against the strong thrusts of his wary ' son. in the Evening Telegram, This is a fact, for a prosperous country j “Skookum Lake is located on top of antagonist. The white man was and a thrifty class of dairymen are sure Skookum Mountain, and every Summer wounded many times and he resolved to Congresnman T. H. Tongue makes an Official Visit and to fall a prey to more than one pest, and season hundreds of campers on their way parry the Indian’s blows and save his it is surprising what a lot of people have to or from the beach go there in hope of strength for an opportunity to strike Watches a Lumber Vessel Bump on the Bar While come into Tillamook this year to find, seeing the spooks and solving the tnys- hard. It came and the giant complete. Crossing Out—Tillamook’s Dairy Industry. well, what shall we call them, "Suckers” I terv. They have no trouble in peeing Iv severed the Indian’s head with a sin or "tarnation fools” having their eye the ghosts. The departed spirits are gle blow. Then putting it on the end of teeth cut. Congressman T. II. Tongue, as a mem and that was for each dairyman to keep ' there every night ready to exhibit them- a spear, he staggered out, down to the Prejudiced Against Tillamook. ‘‘But how does this come about ?’’ ber of the rivers and harbors committee, a few Angora goats. He had used them 1 selves to all comers. But no one has lake, into its waters and waded out So prejudiced are owners of vessels In ibis wav. You cannot go out into ever been able to give substantial foun deep until the lake closed over his head. m ide an official visit to Tillamook last on his farm, and it was surprising how I against Tillamook that they prefer to the country without running across a dation for their appearance, and they week for the purpose of acquainting him soon they cleared up a piece of land with ’ When the white settlers went to Til self with the unsatisfactory state of brush upon it. When informed of the send them to Gray’s Harbor, 200 miles legion of pests preying upon the unsus vanish in thin air. lamook 50 or 60 years ago, it is said, affairs in shipping lumber to market difficulties attending transportation, further north, for a cargo of lumber, pecting dairyman orjhis wife, trying to “Indians think the place is cursed'and traces of the old cabin were found. A new from here and to inquire into the pro Mr. Tongue immediately asked why the than to risk their vessels being tied up in convince them that black is white, and never visit it. Indeed, it would prove a one, the present one, was built where the bay on account of the bar shoaling white is black, and black is no color at hard matter to haul one there with a I the former one stood, and it is now the posed improvinent of Tillamook bar. dairymen did not build and operatea Since Captain W. W. Harts has taken steamer for carrying their products to up and the channel changing, although all, this being the razzle-dazzle process to double ox team, so great is their fear. , scene of ghostly revelries. charge of the government work in this market regularly. He thought it would they are offered one dollar per thousand I ascertain whether you are a big sucker, | “I haye never been able to secure time I “Many have tried to locate the buried feet more to come to Tillamook and load. a little sucker, oi no sucker at all. While to go and investigate the matter, but chest for the treasure it is supposed to district, the improvements in Tillamook pay the dairymen to form a stock com- the editor of the Headlight was rubber I expect to do so vet this season. The contains but the Indians kept no record have taken a wonderful change, for it patiy for that purpose, Mr. Tongue A Saving of $13,000,000. can plainly be seen that what money has said he came ne«.r buying a dairy farm It was pointed out to Mr. Tongue necking out in the country he came across ghosts manifest themselves in many of where it was buried, and the spot was been used for this purpose the past lew in Tillamook some years ago, and his that if the bar was improved lumber pest number one: This was a quack doc wavs. There is an old cabin there, but forgotten long ago.” months have been used to good advant visit here last week convinced him that could be shipped from Tillamook bay at tor who pretended he could cure all man it is so full of vermin that nobody will age and with permanent improvements he had missed a good tiling by not $4.50 per thousand, whereas the Truckee ner of diseases—and, by the way it was sleep in it. It is said that at 12 o’clock 1 to show for the expenditure, con doing so. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Lumber Companv is now paying $5.50 stated he had no legal right to practice every night a man of enormous stature, ' scqnently those who have watched On a Visit to the Bay. |>er thousand, and yet at that figure it medicine in this sta e and should be ar dressed in a soldier’s uniform of the the expenditure of government money to On Friday morning, Congressman is a difficult matter to get vessels. A , rested. If you want to keep away from style of 400 years ago, and bearing in no purpose in previous years see a de Tongue, accompanied by Messrs. Claude reduction of $1 per thousand in freight the silent city of the dead or save vour his hand a spear, on which is an Indian’s B. L. EDDY, cided change now for the better. Hence, i Thayer, \V. S. Cone, J. E. Siblev, B. L. would be a saving of some $13,000,000 pocket book from being emptied, tell this head, stalks out from the door, and with l ATTOK N E Y- AT-L A W. there is confidence in Captain Harts and | Eddy, A W. Severance, F. C. Baker, F. if all the timber tributary to Tillamook fakir pest to take his own medicine. measured tread goes to the edge of the , T illamook , O regon . Then there's the stock-broker with his his ability to carry on the work practi M Lamb, F. R. Beals, O. R. Nolan, R. bay was taken into consideration. That lake, wades in, deeper and deeper, and cally and with good results. He is ably I M. Watson and Assistant-Engineer alone is conclusive proof that Tillamook plausible story of rich gold mines, which then disappears from sight completely, j yy H. „COOPER, assisted by Assistant-Engineer Frank I Frank Batter, went down to the bay in bar should be improved, to sa v nothing of will bring a fortune to those who buv I “A friend of mine who saw this ap-! Batter, who is in charge of the work j the steamer Louise, for the purpose of the value of thirteen billion feet of lum mining stock. And it is wonderful how parition declares that he was within ten , ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, here, and having had considerable ex inspecting the government improve ber waiting to be manufactured as soon people bit and grab up miningstock only feet of where the shade walked by, and I to find at some later date how they were perience, is carrying out the work most ments. The steamer glided gracefully as the bar is improved. OREGON. although the path was strewn with i TILLAMOOK, duped by a lot of schemers. satisfactorily. down the picturesque Hoquarton slough $25,000 for a Plant. leaves and twigs he made not a sound. ! Another thriving business is that of the Tillamook Weather in Portland. until Dry Stocking bar was reached, The giant stature of the spirit awed him,1 'P H. GOY NE, Assistant Engineer Batter was closely The weather was ideal for Mr. where the first stop was made. This question as to the improvements by Mr. traveling spectacle and eye-glass sellers, and he felt afraid, but did not dare run. Tongue’s visit, for Captain Dawson, our used to be the shallowest part of the Tongue, who furnished him with a good who have the presumption not only The man, he said, was as tall as that ATTOKNE Y-AT-LA W, weather prophet, must have allowed a slough, and considerable money was deal of useful information. Mr. Batter to call themselves "professors” but "ocu young fellow who advertises coffee Office: Opposite Court House, lists, ” when, as a rule, they know as few rain clouds from Tillamook to go on expended in previous years for the pur- thought $25,000 would be sufficient to | ’ around town, but was big in proportion. T illamook , O regon . «i vacation to Portland, where, in a state pose of scowering this out, but to no construct a plant for the improvement much about the treatment of the eve as He said that a substantial man of that a goose does about shooting a gun. of overjoy, they held high carnival on purpose, until Captain Haris and En- of the bar so as to have twenty-two feet size would weigh 450 pounds. (JLAUDE TIIAYER, Wednesday of last week in the metropolis ' gtneer Batter put their practical heads of water at low tide, He would not Some of these fellows are so persuasive “ The horribly dead look on the face of of the North west, so much so that the together, with the result that the bar was commit himself as to the probable cost that they make people believe they will the spirit was one to remember,” he ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, loose their sight, thus drawing the wool denizens of that city thought sure they | dredged and dykes constructed on cither of improving the bar. said. “The face was cut and bloody and I ever their eyes. And the first thing the were experiencing another deluge, but side. Instead of being a menace to Tll.LA.MOOK, O k EGON. Derrick Should be Kept at Work. spectacle seller knows is that lie has re- blackened, and the eves had a wide-open, which, in fact, was only a Tillamook navigators any longer, the work is so | staring appearance.” After the party had partaken of dinner ' ceived from five to ten dollars for an arti-' mist. This is how the storm ended up ; well done at this point that it is not (JAMES McCAIN, 1 here are many other ghosts seen (A. W. SEVERANCE likely that the bar, which was caused at McMillan’s restaurant, a start was 1 cles which perhaps cost him not more ‘•Rail, rah. rah! Tillamook! arouu I Skookum Lake. Some of them Spooks, spooks, spooks, Skookum! bv a number of large snags and drift made for this city. On reaching the | than fifty cents. How people would howl if . are only seen once in a season. Some ypCAIN & SEVERANCE, Rah, rah, rah, Tillamook !’’ wood being covered up with sand, will government derrick, now at work in | j local business men sold at that margin of nights there aregroans and shrieks heard ; ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Visiting the Creamcties. the upper end of Hoquarton slough, the . profit. All we hope is that these so-called ever fill up again. in the cabin and from the woods about i It is some seven years since Congress T illamook , O kegon . Making another start, the steamer party stopped there a few minutes to | oculists won’t come into Tillamook and the lake. Nobody has ever been able to ' man Tongue was in Tillamook, and headed for Hobsonville in the face of a watch the process of removing snags persuade people that the dairy herd need prove that human agency is responsible DAVID WILEY, M.D., knowing something of the reputation strong tide and a brisk breeze, which I from the slough. It is now some five i spectacles. for the manifestations. Tillamook is getting for dairying and kept stoker Abe Severance busy burning j i months since the derrick commenced ! Life insurance men chew the rag from Of course, there are stories to account 1 PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND for the manufacture of butter and cheese, lumber and his optics consulting the work, it having made .some fine improve- morning till night atjaw-breaking speed, . for the presence of ghosts. The Indians ACCOUCHEUR. he could not let this opportunity pass I steam guage. Of course a number of I i in that time. It was pointed out to Mr. thereby catching a number of persons who tell atale, it is said, of a ship laden with J without seeing for himself the splendid North Yamhill geese were seen lurched I Tongue that the derrick should be kept had no idea of insuring their lives, conse All call promptly attended to. beeswax going ashore a wreck many, j dairy ranches which are increasing every upon the numerous beacons in the bay, ; at work continuously. The expense of quently they get tired paying after two T illamook . O regon . year in this county. Accompanied by but the party was to interested in enjoy- i I doing so, including wear and tear, or three years and then quit, when the many years ago. The crew escaped, I and brought with them a chest, so Messrs. W. 'I. Cooper, Arthur Beals, B. ing “light” refreshments to arouse much | amounts to about $600 a month, and insurance man smiles and says to him- heavy that six men were required to ¡{OBERT A. MILLER, L. Eddy and the editor of the Headlight, curiosity. Even our prohibition friends ! ; as there is considerable work to be done self “There goes another sucker who carry it. They carried it to the shores I Mr. Tongue was driven first to the Tilla could find no fault, for there was not i in the slough and bay, it would delay helped the old line company accumulate ATTORNEY-AT LAW, of Skookum Lake. A hole was dug, mook Creamery Co.’s, faeforv, to Mc enough “spirits" aboard to arouse the I : the improvements to tie the derrick tip a big reserve fund.” O regon C ity , O regon . and the chest placed in it. Then the Intosh’s cheese factory at South Prairie, peaceful slumber of theghost of Skookum after the money is expended which was Wc will only mention a few more of white men killed ail Indian and buried Land Titles and Land Office Business a I appropriated in the last rivers and har and then to Koger’s creamery. IL* was Lake. Specially. these profiling pests and then quit. There Bumped the Bar. bors bill, which, of course, cannot last I is the molar puller extracting teeth with him with it, well knowing the Indian agreeably surprised at the rapid strides | custom of never disturbing a grave. Tillamook had made in dairying, the When nearing Hobsonville the steamer much longer, for the present derrick and out pain, a legion of book-agent pests, C. A. BAILEY revenue from which bringing nearly Luella was seen to cast off and start on ' plant had to I k .* paid for out of that i organ and harmonium agents, sewing | "Then the men fell to and built a cabin DKAI.KR IN ’ $206,(KM) into the county annually, yet her voyage to California with a cargo sum. This greatly decreased the amount and washing machine solicitors, the Ot logs. There was room for but a few, STUDEBAKER WAGONS it may he said without fear of contra of lumber from the Truckee mill. Mr. J. 1 of work which would have been per- agent who takes orders for shoddy cloth- and the rest slept out of doors, as it OSBORNE MOWERS, diction that the industry is only in its E. Sibley, manager of the mill, joined the 1 formed had these appliances been on ii’g. parties who tell corn cure and those was Summer. The Indians held the Buggies, hay rnkes, plows, and otlie white men in great awe at first, but hand when the appropriation was made. infancy. Mr. Tongue was inquisitive to partv, which started for Garibaldi. ¡»ester one with pain cure. larni inHcliinery. You can eave they wanted revenge for the death of the know the amount of milk received at At riving there, the party made for a I If funds cannot be obtained it is more money by dealing with hip , i It's not all pleasure living in a prosper buck. They watched their chance, and • peuial Brices on Buggies and Spring each factory and the number of patrons, bluff to watch the Luella cross out. than probable that work will have to ; ous county after all. for these jiests dump one day when a party of three sailors Wagons. also the number of creameries and cheese There was hardly a ripple on the bar as stopped Ixefore a great while, or until ' themselves into Tillamooh at this time wandered away some distance without C, A. BAILEY. Tillamook, Ore. factories throughout the county, lie she did so. When outside the captain congress makes another appropriation 1 of the year in such large number that the guns, they did not come back. A large wasanxious to know it the dairymen of signalled fifteen feet of water on the bar for the slough and bay. It may be stated editor is force to forget his good morals party of Indians had overpowered and Tillamook properly understood the care and that the steamer mid bumped three right here that of al’ the money appro- > ■ and sav “Tax 'em darn good and rid killed them. of milk, and as this is one of the features times. This appeared to surprise Mr. printed for the improvement of the the county of them." Presently some more were missed, of successful dairxing. he thought they Tongue, and he asked to be furnished slough and bay the last $25.000 appro BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER Local merchants should lie protected, and then yet others, and then the In would obtain a good deal of useful in with an affidavit from the captain of the priated in the rivers and harbors bill has SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING, i for thev help pay the taxes, while |>edlars dians made an attack on the place and bought about better results, did more formation in a report recently prepared Luella to that effect, and from all other SHAMPOOING. ETC. and sent out by the agricultural depart captains who had experienced the bump work and \\ as niorejudiciouslv exjiended who come here and fleece and impose killed several. The Indians witched without ceasing, and soon but a few of ment bearing upon this subject. Mr. ing process in crossing the bar. This than all the money put together for like upon the people pay no taxes. Electric Baths nicely fittted up. Good for Tongue will send a number of these re unlooked tor incident knocked the logic improvements in the past. First, we I Yet how fieculiar and truthful it is that the white men remained. These were persons suffering with rheumatism. kified offone bv one until only one was ports to each factory to be distributed. out of Major Fisk’s report, which states have to thank Congressman Tongue for so mnnv people * ill bu v of a perfect Building next door to the Post Office. Speaking of the manufacture of olro, Mr. that any vessel that can cross the bar his ¡»erseverance in securing this appro stranger something they have never seen left. He was a giant. Such a man the Tongue is inclined to think that congress can navigate in the bay. It was pointed priation : and second, a word of com at an exorbinant price when thev could Indians had never seen, He was a will place a tax of two cents |x*r pound out to Tongue on the government chart mendation is due Captain Harts and have saved money bv trading with the match for a dozen of them, He killed upon uncolored olro, and ten cents upon w here there w as forty feet of w aler in Engineer Batter fortheir ability in which respectable business firms of Tillamook many Indiansnnd while hewas wounded sorely, he would not surrender. colored oleo, which, he thinks, will have the bay. and w here vessels could anchor they have planned and carried out the city. "1 he Indians set almut to starve him a tendency to drive it off’ the market. and load. The Luella drew nearly four work. out. He had no water in thecabin He The Lumber Industry. Mr. Tongue was well pleased with what teen feet of water when she left the INSURE WITH stood ,t for many days, nnd when a ven General Banking and Exchange busi- he saw ot the dairy farms, remarking wharf. It is plain to those who have gone tnresome buck would steal to the cabin Hess interest paid on time deposits. Claude Thayer. that Tillamook was the best dairying ' The Channel Changes over the situation that Tillamook bar , section in Oregon. There was one thing To prove to Mr. Tongue that the must be improved before the lumber in-1 Agent or Fireman’s Fund and London tosee if the man had not succumbed the Exchange on England, Belgium, Ger- o:t:flrat,comebnckbadi^-'’^ that he pointed out which he was sure channel t is constantly on the change, the diistry of this county can be developed. | and Lancashire Fire Insurance many, Sweden, and all foreign countries would help clear the country of brush. w histeling buoy was from half to tliree- for under present conditions it is ini- j Companies. ■ There was a young chief among the I TILiLiAJVIOOK’S SHIFTING BAR Thirteen Billion Feet of Timber Tributary to Tillamook Bay CUaiting to be JVIanufaetured. quarters of a mile from the channel on Saturday, whileat other times, especially in the winter, it is two miles or more north of it. Mr. Sibley thought a stir vey of the bar should be made in the fall and another in the winter, which would soon prove that the channel changed considerably, and he informed Mr. Tongue how five lumber vessels had been tied up from four to six weeks on account of it, and how at the end of that time he had investigated for himself on board the tug Kobarts, and after a good deal of sounding he found a channel with eighteen feet of water something over two miles to the north. He also pointed out that captains crossing out could not find the same channel on their return a few months later. EDGAR LATIMER, OF C. &L E. Thayer TILLAMOOK. ORE.