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I « THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. AUGUST 30. 1900. ¿ A Maniac's Freak ? 1 “I 4 J » h I » t I > I ^llen police, LARSEN HOUSE, OREGON Overheard on CDain Street. 'v N KING & KERREMANS ■ • ready acquainted you with the na i I r Alex. McDonald and Felix Roy re HOW WILL FENELON WAS | he went there with no intention of con- I BARNEGAT. ture of my buaincKM here to-night. [ turned from Tillamook, where they pur ' tinning his punishment. It is thought perceive,’’ he added, glancing at rny MURDERED. The steamersAnnarine andLouise made chased quite a band of young cattle. negligee robe, “that you were expect his object was to learn the address of a The Terrible < |.en.-e.-e Timi Illssvawl ? ing me.” Some Additional Particulars of the the young man with an idea of writing two or three trips to Barnegat last week. Me says this was a purely business trip, “ a Wutuan s Hair “No.” I found voice to stammer; to his company and reporting his action . Tragedy. Mrs. Joe Hauxhurst’s father and that when he goes after grass widows “the doctor has said nothing to me A copy of the New North, a newspaper In fact it is said he so intimated his in mother arrived here last Wednesday he wont take Roy along. about a visitor at this hour of the published in Rhinelander, Wis., has been tention to a number of citizens while on from California. i HAVE heard of persons whose night.” SWELLING TUE WAR BILE. his way to the hotel. The consensus of ' received in this citv, which give some Mrs Day and daughter went home “Ah! he wished to spare you, no hair was whitened through ex a ditionzI particulars of the murder of opinion is that when he entered and ob Sunday. Some Remarks on the Treasure cessive fear, hut as 1 never saw my doubt, a disagreeable apprehension.’’ served Robins he became angered again. air. Will W. Fenelon, as follows • James Wilson and family moved to and Lives Lost in the Philippines. self al.vone so affected, 1 atu disposed he returned, advancing and taking a A representative of the New North their home on the Tillamook River, Sun to be incredulous on the subject." seat on the sofa opposite me. where for RhineEinder was stirred from center to War is a costly business under any The above remark was made to l)r. a few moments he sat and eyed me from circumMrence last Saturday night about visited voung Robins in the county jail day. circumstances; it is especially cost I v when Maynard, as we sat ou the piazza of head to foot with a strange, glittering i before his removal to Wausau and from 9:30o7lock, when William W. Fenelon, Joe Hauxev went over to the cannery carried on far away from home. 1 he his pretty villa, discussing the differ light in his eyes that mysteriously im ’ him received an excitable and incoherent one of ic city’s most prominent and re- Monday and returned Wednesday. army and navy expenses of this country ent effect's of terror on dissimilar tem pressed me. “You have a remarkably I statement which could only be expected, | specte4 business men, was shot and G. W. Boyington went to the city since the beginning of the war with peraments. Without replying to me, fine physique, madam.” he observed, killed | the office of the Rapids House by I considering the young man’s condition Friday and returned Saturday. Spain have amounted to more than the doctor turned to his wife, auu quietiy; “one that might deceive the I after the terrible excitement he had J. Baa an Robins, a young man twenty- eves of the mail skilled and practiced Miss Alvie Biggs is visiting with Clare $400,000,000. Not all of this amount said: j passed through. He said he had no idea five v| irsof age. a traveling representa- “Helen, will you please relate to my physician. Do ycu suffer much pain?” is to be charged directly to war expenses, Briggs this week. | ot taking the life of any man and his de- Unable to speak. I shook my head. A old friend the incident within your rive for the inc Chicago v Jtfve Crockery company. A fire broke out in Bert Biggs’ house but the greater part of the expenditures, own experience? It is the 7 '"♦qt one shot t was fired, a 38 calibre re I monstrations evidence that he was »st. con terrible suspicion was creeping over particularly on army account, have been me. I was a lor e, miles away from aid fiver being used. The bullet pierced the almost in a total state of collapse. He Saturday night, but was discovered in due to the war with Spain, followed by vincing argument I can advance. ’ asked that his brother be notified of the time, and put out before much damage I looked at Mrs. Maynard in sur or reecue, with a madman. Victim’s body just below the heart, the war in the Philippines. It is impos prise. 1 had observed that her hair, “Ah,” he continued, reflectively, tragedy, Which was done. W hen taken was done. severing an artery ami he breathed his sible to make an accurate division of ex which was luxuriant, and dressed very “your husband may have mistaken c to the train at eleven-twenty he was last two minutes after the shot was WILSON RIVER. penses, but experts figure that the Philip becomingly, was purely colorless; but, tumor for a cancer. Allow me to feel completely unnerved and frightened into fired. your pulse,” he said, rising and bend a state of almost insensibility. After Rev. Osbruik and family and Rev. Aps- pines have already cost us $186,678,000 as she was a young woman, and also As if bv magic, the news of the tragedy a very pretty one. I surmised that it ing over me. I in money and 2.394 lives of American reaching Wausau he engaged the firm of lund and son, left for their home in Port I thought it beat to humor him. re-« spread o’er the whole city and in five i soldiers. We paid only $20,000,000 for was powdered to heighten the bril Bump, Kreutzer & Rosenberry to de land on the last boat. membering it was unwise for a help minutes the town was in a fever ot ex I the Philippine islands, but the title was liancy of her fine dark eyes. fend him. On Monday Senator Kreutzer Frank Eklof and son started for the The doctor and I had been fellow- less woman to oppose the as yet harm citement. Hundreds gathered in and | not insured, ami we have been obliged stmlents, but, after leaving college, less freak of n lunatic. He took out hii around the Rapids House and viewed came to the city and spent a couple of hoy yards on Monday. | to expend eight times that amount in an days looking up facts relative to the Paul Erickson and family visited with we had drifted apart; I to commence watch, shook his head gravely, laid my the prostrate form as it lay on the floor. tragedy. Mrs. E. Paterson at Garibaldi on Sunday. attempt, as yet unsuccessful, to get pos practice in an eastern cby. he to pur hand down gently, and then went to That such a crime could be committed, sue his profession in a growing town ward the study, where on the table was Tuesday afternoon Robins was brought Mrs. Augusta Thorall left Portland for session. seemed impossible and a stern realization The war in the Philippines is an insigni in ilie west. 1 w^s now on a visit to an open case of surgical instrument'». was difficult to meet. For hours after up from Wausau and taken before Muni Astoria the 22nd on her way home from ficant affair from a military standpoint. him for the first time since his mar Involuntarily I raised my head and the deathly shot was fired, groups of ex cipaljudge Browne for arraignment. An the sanitarium. cried: “Spare me! Oh, spare me, 1 be- Since the first week there has been no riage. adjournment was agreed upon until Nearly all the children in the neighbor cited citizens stood on the streets dis Mrs. Maynard, no doubt reading my sech you!” Sept. 4. In the meantime the youngman hood have had an attack of cholera mor action worthy to be called a battle, but supposition by my look of incredulity, “Madam,” he said, sternly, clasping cussing the sad fatality and occasionally j incessant sniping has told heavily upon will remain in charge of Sheriff Wismer , bus. smiled as she shook her snowy tresses my wrist with his long, sinewy fingers strong talk of violence was heard. The school is progressing nicely under the aimy of 60,000 men engaged in try over her shoulders, and, seating her with a grip of steel, “you behave like a Robins made no attempt to escape. at the county jail. The awful affair has cast a dreadful j the able management of Miss Dora High. ing to suppress what is called a rebellion. self by her husband’s side, related the child. 1 have no time to parley, for I He was hurriedly ushered to the county Only 533 Americans have been killed in following interesting episode: have received a letter from the emper gloom over the entire city. The feeling I jail and kept until shortly before the ar Rev C. Mills passed through this vici. action and less than 200 of the wounded it was nearly two years ago since or of the French, stating that he is de is one of deep regret. It is idle to say rival of the North-Western limited at nity on his way from Bay City. have died of their injuries, but there have my husband was called on one evening sirous of my attendance. 1 must start 11.20 o’clock, when he was secretely that the bereaved family have the com Nels Hanson has bv hard labor graded been more than 1,600 deaths from acci to visit a patient several miles away. for Europe immediately after perform munity ’ s sympathy. We all share with taken to the train and to Wausau for | and graveled and almost completed a dents ami disease, bringing the total of, Our domestics had all gone to a wake ing the operation on your breast,” and, them the terrible loss. safety by Sheriff A. W. Wismer and Chief private road far superior to theonealong casualties up to 2,394. More than 2,000 in the vicinity, the dead man being before I could, make the slightest re of Police Morris Doyle. The officers, to Wilson river. We people are wondering other soldiers have been wounded, and a relative of one of our serving worn- • sistance. he had me in his arms, and NETARTS. gether with the prisoner, boarded the whether any more work is going to be many other thousands have been brought en. Thus I was left alone. But I felt , was carrying ine into the study, wher<j was a long surgical table, covered with train on the side opposite the depot. Mrs. J. E. Tuttle, of Tillamook, and done on our road. It is evident that by home with the seeds of fatal disease in no fear, for we never had heard of ■ burglars or any sort of desperadoes : green baize. On this he laid me, and The tactics adopted in removing the Miss Kate Illii’gsworth, of W ilson, has past experience the road should be grad- their bodies. in our quiet village, then consisting of . holding me down with one hand, with prisoner to a place of safety were car been visiting at Netarts for the past ' I ed and graveled us far up as Mr. Thomas When the Philippine islands were a few scattered houses. The windows [ the strength of a maniac, he brought ried out so that scarcely a dozen in the week, returning home Saturday. Jenkins; but if it is left in its present con bought for $20,000,000 doubt was ex leading out on the piazza were open forth several long leather straps, which city were aware of the move While ' Carb P. Fuchs, of McMinnville, is dition the labor and money already ex- pressed whether they were worth that as now, but I secured the blinds be bore evidence of having recently been there was very little, if any danger of } pended will be that much thrown away. much to this country or any other. But fore my husband’s departure, and cut. with which he secured me to the stopping on the beach. violence, the proper course was pursued. I The writer saw the item stating that locked the inside doors, all evcept the table with the skill of an expert. It Marion Chance and family, of Long I ; Frank Ely, of South Prairie has a herd the purchase price was really the smallest front one, which I left for the doc- I was but. the work of a moment to un Story of the Tragedy. part of the expense The cost of sub tor to lock after going out, so that loose my robe and bare my bosom. About 8 o’clock in the evening Robins Prairie, are spending a few days on the ' of eleven milk cows that a\eraged $9.10 duing the Filipinos will soon be counted if I should fall asleep before his re Then, after carefully examining my I per head for the month of May. We entered the store of C. M. & W. W. Fene beach. by hundreds of millions, and the cost in turn. he would enter without arousing left breast, he said: lon and made the purchase of a hand J. W. Maxwell and family, of Fairview, have reasons to know that M j . Ely is a lives and health of American soldiers me. I heard the doctor’s rapid foot “Madam, your husband has made a kerchief of one of the sale ladies. He were on the beach visiting their old ¡' successful dairymen and do not doubt steps on the gravel, quickened by the mistake. 1 find no necessity for my cannot be computed. friendsand neighbor. asked the young ladv if he could meet I the truthfulness of the statement. W. B. The cost to thiscountry of the Spanish- urgent tones of a ir.es'enger who intended, operation.” her the following day—Sunday. The re James Stack has gone to Fairview to 1 ' /Mderman, who is patronizing Wilson At this I gave a long-drawn sigh of American war is computed at $213,122,- awaited him; and. afte- the sharp quest made by the young man was re- ■ work for J. W. Maxwell for a couple of river factory, realized from his herd of rattle of th” carriage wheels had be relief, and prepared to rise. <»00. an amount soon to be exceeded by come but an echo, I seated myself sented by the saleslady. Enough of the I weeks. seven three-year-old Jerseys, the hand- “But,” he continued,nI have made the the expenses of the Philippine war. But conversation was overheard by .Mr. O. Heins, of Tillamook, was at Netarts 1 some sum of $65 for May,or $9.29 each. the losses of men in battle have been by the parlor astral, and very soon discovery that your heart is as large as became absorbed in the book I had that of an ox! I will remove it, so that Fec.elon to make him believe the young ! last Sunday. Dairying far excels raising grain. greater in the Philippine than in the been reading before being disturbed you can sec for yourself, reduce it to its 5 mail had made advances unbecoming a The saw mill has been running for the Spanish war. It is worthy of note that, by the summons. natural size by a curious process of my gentleman. It is said that Mr. Fenelon NEHALEM. last 10 days. notwil hstanding the tropical climate of But after a time mv interest suc own unknown to medical science, and upbraided Robins, charging him with in the Philippines, our soldiers are now so cumbed to drowsiness and I thought of which I am sole discoverer, then re suiting one of his lady clerks, which he The fisherman are on a strike, for the well cared for that the death rate from of retiring Then th” clock in the place it again.” HEBO. said he would not tolerate and proceeded 1 same prices as are asked by the Tilla. disease even in the Philippines is much doctor’s study struck 12, so I deter He began to examine the edge of the to punish the young man for what he [ Nearly every one has gone hop-picking. mook Bay men. Solomon the salter is mined to wait a few moment’s more. ' cruel knife, on which I closed my eyes, less than that of our home camps during considered a gross insult. Robins was feeling that he would be h me very Master Alick Bain returned home from paying the price asked. the Spanish-American war. There were soon. I closed my book, donned a while every nerve was in perceptible evidently frightened badly and ran to Woods last Sunday, where he has been E. K. Scovell is supplying the towns twice as many deaths from disease robe de chambre. let down my hair, tremor. the hotel. He went to the baggage room He now bent over me, his long, white attending school. i with spruce limb wood. during the Spanish war as from all and th,en returned to my seat to pa- : beard brushing my face. I opened my just off the office, opened his grip and causes during the present war with the tiently wait and listen. Not the faint- I eyps beseechingly, trying to think of | Geo. Nelson was quite sick, it being G. B. Lamb our gallant school super procured a revolver. necessary to call a doctor troni Tilla intendent has been up visiting the school- Filipinos. At present the war in the est sound disturbed the stillness of 1 some way to save myself. “Oh, sir. give After the chase, Mr. Fenelon returned ma’ms. Philippines is costing this country an the night. Not a breath of air stirred | me an «anaesthetic, that I may not feel I to the store, which he dosed, going then mook last week. I Messrs. C. Ray, 0 I*. Mattoon, N. P. average of $10,000.000 per month, and the leaves. The silence was so pro- J the pain.” I pleaded«, E. G. E. Wist was on the river last to the hotel. Robins had been in the found that it became oppressive. I “Indeed, indeed, madam, T would there is no visible sign that it is likely to hotel but a minute or two when Mr. 5 Hansen, L. Jensen, E. E. Cross, Jerry i week settling up his business. longed for the sharp click of the gate- j comply with your wish were you not be soon ended. A collapse may follow | Grant Bayley went through on Sun- , Lewallen, J. R. Lowrance and Ab Hem latch and the well-known step on the i Fenelon entered. In an ordinary tone of the wife of a physician—of a skillful voice lie said something to Robins. Mr. | bree, each went to the valley with a team 1 day with 34 head of beef bound for the presidential election, but even in that ; grave] walk. I did not dare to break surgeon. I wish you to note with what event expenses cannot be greatly re- the hush myself bv moving or singing. ' ease I perform this difficult operation, Fenelon made an advance toward him, j ast Monday. I Astoria via the Buchanan trail. These duced during the present fiscal year. I was so oppressed with the deep still- i so that you may tell your husband of when Robins drew his weapon and fired, I J. A. Ward has just finished a wagon, cattlemen appreciate the work County ness. 'ihe human mind is a strange the great savant whose services lie se being only four feet distant from the j the wheels being made of fine maple. Commissioner Parish has had done on Shingles Wanted. torturer of itself. I began to conjure cured. fortunately in season.” murdered man. Mr. Fenelon threw tip the state road between the north and Wanted, at once, 33,000 best quality up vivid fancies about ghostly visit- As he said this he made the final test his hands, at the same time sinking to Mr. Fitzsimmons’ capers on the public south forks of the river, which has been shaved shingles ; will pay’ cash. i ants, in the midst of which occurred of the knife o-n his thumb. How pre his knees, said : “ He has shot me boys. arena are to be commended as a means so long neglected. Opposite Bank. W ade & B riggs . I to me the stories I hail heard from I cious were the moments now! They superstitious people about thetroubled | were fleeting al! too fast, and yet an Oh, my God!’’ lie maintained the posi of enforcing proper respect for old age. Nehalem Camp, W. of W. had nine new In China, as in Africa, American mule spirits of those who had died sudden- eternity seemed compressed in every tion on his knees for a second or two Pugilist Fitzsimmons has broken into , application on Saturday night, and when his head sank toward his chest a fashionable residence district of New , were also treated to a pleasant surprise meat is demonstrating its strenuous ly, like the man whom my servants ( one. I never fainted in my life, and I had g’one to “wake.” who' had been and he began to sink to the floor. A York. His prospective neighbors wisely by members << the Circle and other qualities. never felt less like swooning than now, killed by an accident at the sawmill. I as I summoned all my presence of mind couple of traveling men who were eve decline to meet him. Speaking of national colors, isn ’ t the friends. Come again girls. In the midst of these terrifying re- I witnesses to the sad occurrence, went to yellow of China due to age? The em flections, I was startled bv a stealthy I to > delay the fearful moment, fervently Mr. Fenelon and laid him on his back footfall on the piazza, 1 IKtened be praying in the meantime for my hus pire has years to burn. i tween fear and hope. lt might be band’s return. on the floor. Robins, after committing Once in a great while an Ohio man “Doctor.” said T. with assumed com the doctor. But P ’ no. he would not the deed, entered the baggage room. falls by the wayside. Ruhlin hails from tread like that; posure. “I have the utmost confidence t?__ r 2; the step was too soft The door entering the room from the the Buckeye state. and cautions for anything less wily in your skill; I would not trust my life hall was held while W. T. Stevens and The gaiety of the campaign continues than a cat. As I listened again, tnv to another; but, doctor, you have for E. Forbes entered and secured the to grow as the season advances. Pro eyes fixed on the window-blind. I saw gotten to bring a napkin to stanch the J. P. ALLEN. fellow. He made no attempt to get (the slats move slowly and cautious blood. If you will have the goodness hibitionists now claim Kentucky. Proprietor away and offered no resistance, but did ly. and then the rays of the moon dis- to ascend to my sleeping chamber, at Word comes from New York City that closed a thin, cadaverous face and ' the right of the hall, you will find not wish to give lip his revolver. The the naval arch will be built. Prospects bright, glittering eyes, peering at me. • everything you need for that purpose prisoner was taken through the rear are equally good for coyerting China. . ‘orr,Or; h° "as i,? nr wh"‘ "as 1 in the bureau.” way to a hack which was in waiting Ah. madam.” he said, shaking his It. I felt the cold perspiration start and taken to the jail, as previously at every pore. I seemed to be frozen j head sagaciously, “I never draw blood stated. BEST MEALS IN THE in my chair. I could not move- I 'luring a surgical operation; that is All kinds of rumors are afloat regard 1 could not cry out; my tongue seemed another one of my secrets unknown to CITY. ing the different details of the tragedy glued to the roof of my month, while I the faculty.” and out of these rumors a variance of 1 hen. placing his hand on my bosom, Tillamook, Ore the deathly white face pressed closer, opinii ns is gained. The whole affair ami the great sunken eyes wandered he added, with horrible espieglerie: 111 scarcely mark that skin whiter seems to have been a series of mistakes I in their gaze about the room. In a HEADLIGHT few moments the blind closed as ’ an snow, and smooth as monumental Rates, $1 Per Day. ending in a tragedy that might have Centrally Located. noiselessly ns It had been open.d. and alabaster.” been prevented had the Samaritan a t and ”0 God!" I cried. ng j feIt the coM the caution. footsteps enme toward been pct formed nt a critical moment, j the door “Merciful heavens!” I cried steel touch my breast; but with the Still it was not dreamed, perhaps, that WEEKLY OREGONIAN in a horror-stricken whisper, as I same breath came deliverance. death was to be the ultimate outcome. M. H. URRSEN, Proprietor. Quick as thought a heavy woolen heard the key turn In the-lock, “the What Mr. I'enclon’s intentions were doctor, in his haste, must’ have for- piano-cover was thrown over the head TILLAMOOK, alter locking up his store and proceed One Year for $2.25. gotten to withdraw the key.” an< person of the madman, and bound ing to the Rapids House will never be I heard the front door open the tig). 1\ around him. As quickly was The Best Hotel in the city. No Chinese Employed. re eased, and the thongs that bound step in the hall, r and. -, helpless as a known. The prevailing opinion is that TWO LIVE PAPERS statue. I rat riveted to my chair Th',' me soon held the maniac. My husbnnd 11 1 me in his arms. He had noiseless- parlor door was open, and In it stood approached, and. taking in the hor- beh 't n ™an- " honl 1 neiPr bpf'>'-e beheld. He was dressed in a long, r''r o my situation at n glance, had. by loose robe, a sort of gaberdine, and " on.y means at hand, secured the a b ack velvet skull-cap partial!,- con tna man. who was the verv patient he The regular subscription price of cealed a broad forehead, under which bad been summoned to attend, but THE HEADLIGHT is$l.50. and gleamed black eves, bright ' h"*' ’’’‘■"Ped the vigilance of hii the regular subscription price of coals, and .ci p< r soon after the departure of the "nd placed P1«™’ so «O near together .ogerne “You didn’t either !” “Yes I did, honest.” “Twenty dollars ? An’ how much the Weekly Oregonian is $1.50. th2ir Ìi H g"7- misscnger. who had now returned Prit "natural i was the Overcoat ?” “Sixteen." “By jove, have King & Kerremans any more goods ------- in with the doctor in pursuit of him. As the r distinctness; heavv grj Any one subscribing for TH 1*2 their grizzled the poor wretch was being hurried like it ?’’ Sure thing, and hundreds of other patterns too. The Royal Tailors of e HEADLIGHT and paying one eyebrow, hung over thet^ )ik -■••d the Chicago take care of the boys in good shape, and don’t you forget it. Go in and talk with me*, and said: the nose was "«"j rear in advance can get both tor tangled mane of « a lion; the sharp and prominent; the _ ’ hi ’ i ’ a plot to rob me of my the boys.” »2.23. chin was P’itntton. Your husbnnd is envious overgrown’ with white hair, which Not to be had elsewhere is our Slogan. You see just as good tailoring once in a "fmv great skill a surgeon. Adieu!” hung down in lock, ns weird as the while, but not at the same price by a long shot. afterward learned that the man was i’arinr’’ I-IHely doffed hi, cap. bowed, replaced it. and then Yours truly, nn ’■’’’Inent surgeon In Europe. .aut in a slightly foreign accent: U h '’’arning had made him mad. adam. it is not necessary for rnn bn ie to the table, mv «’r wns black as a raven; when I left ’‘V’1’ "n •”» farther ceremonv a, your husband. Dr Maynard " here'he foil > t"1" a!> •TOn ’ee ’’ now—white ai I again bowed profoundly, “has al- CoMon’ - S«n Francisco Argonaut.