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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. SEPTEMBER 6, 1900 loud, sort o' pIelUiant |ike. .()h Campaign Drift. thought you’d change your minds, puny dearies!' But they wa’n't no an- There is now no doubt that Bryan is »«er an I begun to get kinder mad I the most nominated man in the push. A Also Two Girh Who Seemed tv Need 3 «as jest startin' to look over the fence No Protection. Until the several “letters of acceptance" all see what was the mutter when I heard a growl behind me an’ turned appear the campaign cannot be regarded As a compliment toj our many patrons and the public generally, for a time, we round quick. Lands o’ rattlesnakes, as wide ojien. propose to give to every customer making Cash Purchases to the amount of $25.00 a QUARTER of u century ngo. when boys, what a sight met my eyes! Thar Murat Halstead promises to outshine handsome three-quarter, life size, Crayon or Water-color portrait FREE. To this end the valleys and bottom-lands of «a, a big. ugly-lookin' cinnamon b’ar j'tiinsyIvanin were decked in the abun standin' we have made a contract with one of the leading portrait houses of America to furnish under an apple tree an’ a-look- Senator Jones in casting horoscopes into dant growth of timber which was na >n' right at me. Wall. I'll bet th se the political caldron. us with their celebrated portraits. R emember that the portraits do not cost you any- ture’s heritage, any self-respecting log beautiful locks of mine stood on w»d The I nite I States Monetary kague, an thing. R emember also that the goods you buy at our place do not cost you any niuie jobber, if his attention had been di like porc'pine quills. They wa’n’t “o organization with more title than mem than at any other store, We are simply presenting you the portrait as an appreciation of rected to the desolate Kettle Creek use feelin' for u gun. 'cause I known. I region, would have turned up his nose didn’t have any, not even a jackknife or bership, threatens to hand Bryan another Yours truly, your patronage. disdainfully and ¡xassed on to greener weapon of no kind. It was a leetle hot nomination. fields, says a Williamsport (l’a.) cor ter proposition than I wanted to tackle I That Nebraskan who offers to bet his respondent of the N. Y. Sun. But the jest then, so I hade Mr. llruin a hasty farm against $1,000 on the election of days when a contractor could choose farewell an’ made for the fence. Bryan might as well deed it away now nis place of residence are practically “But now, boys, come the trouble in 1 past, und so it was that “Hank’’ Bell earnest. It was an easy enough matter and spare himself the anxiety of the con man was redveed to the extremity to get over that fence, but when it come test. W. V. MORGAN H. MUDGE. J. D. EDWARDS. Out of the Ordinary. last fall of erecting his shanty and to gettin' back, why that was a dif Croker and Hill insist that it is neces The biggest orchard in South Dakota starting operations in the heart of the ferent thing. I seen I couldn’t do it sary to light tor harmony in New York. jangle-like forest overlooking Kettle nohow, an' so I jest stood an' turned my is owned and managed by Mrs. Laura I At this distance it looks as though David Creek. The camp is fitted into a lit back to the fence an’ waited. Bruin A. Alderman. It covers 150 acres and ‘ had the tiger by the tail and dare not let Are pre pareil to do all kinds of tle patch of clearing ground far over was «ithin three feet of me then, an' he contains 8,000 trees, besides currant and JR«- the mountain top. A narrow turnpike riz up onto his hind feet an’ stood thar gooseberry bushes and grape vines and winds up to it from the highway hun movin his head about in a threatenin' How times have changed. Santa Claus three acres of strawberries dreds of feet below, and beyond it, ex manner an’ motionin’ at me with his ’ Stewart's whiskers are now an object of There are now 13 cable lines across tending into the wilderness, great big. ugly paws. The moon was shinin’ wastes of fallen trees, stumps and out bright an' clear above us. an’ ns he wild derision in democratic circles. Even the Atlantic in successful operation, yet piles of hemlock bark show what the stood thar between mean' it he was one the “Crime of ’73“ is treated with con- the charge for sending messages remains what it has been for twenty years or woodsman's ax has been doing all win I of the most skeery-lookin* sights I ever tempt. ter. Directly surrounding the shanty seen. He didn't appear to be narvous Hon. Horace Boies, one of the faithful more—25 cents a word for commercial the trees have not all been removed, or discontented in the least, an’ I made messages and 10 cents a word for press and on the frosty winter nights, when up my mind I wouldn’t be narvous of Iowa, is not exercising his voice in | dispatches. politics this year. But his shipments of First Class Ulovk Guaranteed the snow hangs in great layers upon either. So, lookin’straight into his face State Senator McCarren of New York the heavy branches and the air is sc an’ reckonin' the distance, I picked out | stock and farm products to market in- is proving himself a terror to the gamb- Reasonable Charges. crisp and keen that sound travels a spot on the big feller’s under jaw an' | dicate that he is doing fairly well. ing houses of Saratoga. In three suc through it with as much precision as give him such a kick with my big cow The output of eggs bearing the initials cessive evenings recently he came out Shop in Hiner’s old Stand, TILtUAJVIOOK CITY though shot from a megaphone, the hide boot 'at he yelled with pain. “You can bet I didn't wait to see the of presidential candidates appears to be $500, $4,000 and $7.000 ahead. He panthers and catamounts climb up I into the tall timber and wake the result, but I jest took it across that growing. Interest in these “lays of the likes to play faro with $25 chips and slumbering echoes of the forest, as o'chard as if the devil was at my heels. | campaign’’ would be greatly increased if whenever he sits down the dealer begins well as the boys in the eamp, with Lordy, how my feet did welt the the output could hatch out votes. to breathe hard. ground! At last I seen a hole in the | Webster Davis is sorely perplexed these their wild and dismal bowlings. During a tremendous thunderstorm at OF SAN FRANCISCO, DEALERS IN fence whar a board was gone, and at it One of those nights came about a | days. He says lie has been obliged to Bellfontaine, 0., last week the house of 1 went; 1 reached it all right, an ’ was month ago. The panthers and wild Tobias Kerr was struck by lightning. | decline in one week 84-2 invitations to cats yelled more furiously, it seemed, jest about half way through when I Everyone in the family was more or less than they had done before during the heard a shufflin’ an’ pantin’ behind me j make speeches. Localities favored with stunned by the shock. On coming to winter, und added to their woeful wail 'at made my blood freeze up in knotty a Davis decline are to be congratulated they were amazed to find that a bureau ings was the voice of the north wind leetle lumps. Boys, did you ever know on their good luck. had been moved from one room into as it tossed the snow against the a b’ar could bunt? Well. I have had the McKinley is reasonably sure of a ma- another. weather-beaten sides of the shanty. fact drilled into me in a purty forcible jority in Pequea township, Lancaster Several years ago Frank P. Van Valk- For that night the shanty was good way; for what knocked me through the I county, Pa. Rev. Daniel Rliines, 79years enburgh, a prominent attorney of Mil enough for the boys. When supper fence at such a lively gait that night was nothin' more nor less than that j old, lives there, with his five sons, five was over and the storm showed no waukee, who died a few days ago, re b'ar's head. I was knocked into a heap I sons-in-law and thirteen grandsons, signs of abating they all gathered to quested that no publicity be given to his AGENTS STEAMERS KRUGER AND TILLAMOOK. on the outside of the fence, an’ thar I every one of them republicans. gether in the big “lobby.” which is obsequies. His funeral, as a consequence, laidl huggin’ the ground an’ shiverin' home, club, society and Sunday school Hobsonville, Or Mgr. an’ expectin' every second to find Bruin j The democrats and populists have not was devoid of all ostentation or cere to them, and prepared to make the mony, only his own relatives being per on top of me. lost any southern or carried any north best of a night indoors. Now these “Wall, I was purty sore when I got ern states so far this year. Elections mitted to attend it or view the remains. woodsmen are not the sort of men who Left-handed parties are amusing some can spend an evening over a book or back to the camp, but I didn't say noth have been held in Oregon, Alabama, enjoy themselves at any tame diver in’ 'bout that an' the gals put up a nice Rhode Island and North Carolina. of the Chicago stay-at-homes this hot sion, and on this night even jack leetle story, tellin’ me how when they Arkansas, Maine and Vermont will vote summer. The invitations are written saw the b’ar they was so skeert they poker had no charm for them. The with the left hand and the host greets couldn’t say nothin’ an’ jest ran back to in September. SAW fact is that they were just in the mood you with the left hand instead of the the house. I took in everything they Connecticut formerly made it a requi to listen to one of Bill Blake's stories. right hand. The guests must draw said, an' the next night when they ast “Say, Bill,” said one of the woods me if I wanted to go 'long down with site of suffrage that electors should pictures or write with their left hands men. “what tarnal cussedness ever 'em an’ explore the old mine. I was jest “have sustained good moral character , and prizes are giyen for the best and possessed you to leave the good job tickled to death to get the chance. We during the year.” In South Carolina j worst efforts. you had in the Slate Run camp last took an old minin' lamp with ns, an' paupers were excluded and in Arkansas The little Grand Duchess Olga of Russia fall and come up to this pesky hole?” when we got thar I started in ahead, no soldier, seaman or marine in the BUI Blake puffed contemplatively at carryin* the light. The old drift hadn t United States services was qualified to may be said to be the richest baby in the world. The week she was born $5,000,- his pipe for a moment, after which he been worked for years, an’ dirty water vote. 000 was settled on her and it is said that said: was drippin’ from the roof an’ coverin’ PORTLAND, OREGON. John W. Yerkes, the republican candi this huge sum was safely invested in Write for Catalogue and Prices. “Well, mebby T had a party good my best eoat as I groped m.v way in. date for governor of Kentucky, is a law British aud French securities. For in a never doubtin' 'at the gals would fol reason, if I wanted to tell.” Then he laughed quietly. Nobody ler. I had only got a dozen feet or so, yer and is collector of internal revenue, country like Russia no one knows what spoke, and when Bill had finally gone an’ was jest turnin 'round to see if the He was a candidate for United States may happen to members of the reigning i over the details in his own mind, he damsels was gettin' on all right when senator when Senator Deboe was elected house. I stumbled over somethin' an’ went in 1897 on the 112th ballot. Heisa continued: It is the law in Maine that the bounty “You see I’d never have gnre fO the sprawlin'. The light went out in the resident of the town of Danville, the seat for bears must be paid when the animal’s Slate Run job in the first place, but flurry an' the fust thing 1 knowed they of Centre college. nose is shown and in New Hampshire the was a deep growl ’at echoed through for one thing. Down at the city, the mine an* somethin' had hold*of me John H. Holt,democratic candidatefor money is payable on exhibition of the , where I had a lovely suit as coach governor of West Virginia, will make a ears. Some enterprising sportsmen who j man for a rich lady, I got knocked out by the bootleg. “It was pitch dark in the hole, but a fiddling campaign, in imitation of some live near the border of the two states get in a love affair. You needn't grin, Agents for Kopp’s Brewery, the Brewer of the finest Beer in the Northwest. Shorty. I kept myself purty spick- flood of moonlight to one side told me other southerners who have run for sim a double bounty by collecting on the Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, privateli whar the openin' was. With an awful noses in Maine and on the ears in New an’-span on that job, an’, if I do say ilar offices. Governor Atkinson, the confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home. effort I jerked my leg free an' scram it, they wa’n’t many han’somer rib present republican executive of the state, Ha mpshiie. bled to my feet with the intention of bon slingers drivin’ down the pike. The Marquis of Londonderry, the post made use of a violin in his canvass, and Wall, who the gal was don’t matter, makin’ a dash towards that flood of former Governor Wilson was also a per master general, has issued a hard and moonlight. Wai, I had only jest nicely an’ it hain’t no one’s business who fast order to postoffice clerks that the dude was ’at ent me out. I only got onto my feet an' turned around former on the same instrument. “Alt” when I felt somethin’ shoot between “Esq." shall l>e used in future in address- j mention the incident for the sake of m.v legs an’ tip me back. I clutched Taylor fiddled his way into the guberna explainin’ why it was ’at I ever went wildly in front of me an’ got my both torial chair of Tennessee. He and his ing all male correspondents unless they brother “Bob” canvassed the si ate to i “are evidently laborers, personal ser back to the lumber business at all. PROPRIETORS OF hands imbedded in the shaggy hair of “You see, everything went sort o’ Bruin—for I knowed right well by this gether, divided time in their speeches and vants or tradesmen.” In case of doubt the "Esq. ” must be used. Depositors in frequently slept in the same bed. contrary with me in town after that. time what it was. The b’ar shot out postal savings banks are not entitled to I got sick of the whole business, an’ of that drift at an almighty rapid gait all the time while I was drivin’ them an’ I didn’t dare drop off for fear of the “Esq.” TILLAMOOK WEATHER. DEALERS IN spankin’ hosses through the streets buttin’ mv brains out against the sides, To all appearances Mrs. Eliza Walker my mind would keep a-runnin’ back so I jest‘laid flat an’ hugged tight, of Carthage, Mo., died one (lav last Temperature. to the old camp life, where I knowed watchin' for a good chance to make a Rain- week. Preparations were made for the Mini- Maxi- they wa’n’t like to be no dudes nor Mean. fall. funeral, but no one thought of getting a mum. mum. Shop next door to Laintu’« Hotel, Tillamook , . no gals to play hide-an’-seek with a leap. “Wai. I kin sit here now an laugh ... 0.15 ... 60.1 65 ... 56 1 • burial permit. To this oversight Mrs. feller’s heart. So back I goes to the with the rest of you. when I look back ... 0.03 ... 58.0 . 68 ... 4H 2 • old Slate Run job, where I was well nt it; but you kin bet they wa'n t no 1 3 • .. 71 ... 44 ... 57.1 ... 0.00 Walker probably owes the fact that she ROUTE TILLAMOOK known an’ only had to whistle to get fun in it fer me jest then. 4 . .. 67 ... 41 ... 54.0 ... 0.00 was not buried alive, for while a mes- “Right outside the mouth of the drift 5 ’ . 67 ... 45 ... 56.0 ... 0.00 senger was dispatched for the necessary work. ... 0.25 ... 56.1 ... 47 Carrying U.S. •‘Wall, the very first night I spent was a little decline, an' at the bottom 6 ■ .. 66 document she opened her eves and sat 7 . .. 68 ... 50 ... 59.0 ... 0.00 ill the camp I made up m.v mind it of it was a pool of water that was made ... 48 ... 57.0 ... 0.00 up. She is now as well as ever. 66 . 8 . wa’n’t no use for me to try to get by the leetle stream flowin’ out of the 9 . .. 67 ... 50 ... 58.1 ... 0.04 Speaking of the health of the British j nwav from the pals. Right in that mine. I was all ready, an' as soon as I 1 10 . .. 66 ... 47 ... 56.1 ... 0.00 camp they was two as purty pals as seen ’at I was out in the open air again 11 . . 68 ... 51 ... 58.1 ... 0.00 army in South Africa, the Lancet says | JOHN [ jest slid off. easy as you please, from 12 . .. 68 ... 53 ... 6".l ... 0 00 that “ one of the greatest difficulties you’d care to see-nieces of the boss wife I guess. a-visitin' thar. they told the b’ar’s back an' struck right in that 13 . .. 69 ... 47 ... 58.0 ... 0.00 which confront the medical officers is to .. 68 ... 51 ... 58.1 ... 0.O2 induce the men to drink only water me, for their health. I found out afore pool of water. Wow! But I did get a Stage leaves Tillamook daily except Sunday j 15 . .. 67 ... 55 ... 61.0 ... 0.00 1 was in the camp very lonp at they nice duckin' an’ no mistake. 65 ... 47 ... 560 ... 0.10 which has been rendered as pure as was a little too healthy for that place “The first thing I done was to cuss 1 16 Stage leaves N- Yamhill daily except monday, ... o.oo possible by boiling and filtering. After ... 59.1 i 17 • .. 66 ... 53 as it was. an’ you’ll see purty soon mvself for bein’ such a blamed fool as 18 . .. 64 ... 49 ... 56.1 ... 0.05 a long march the average soldier will run Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at to’drop in that water, an' then I pul led whnt made me think so. 19 . .. 6.5 ... 44 ... 54.1 ... o.oo “The damsels started ripht in by mvself up onto my feet an’ proceeded 20 .. 68 ... 51 ... .59.1 ... 0.00 any risk to obtain a draught of water, North Yamhill and Tillamook. flirtin’ with me. an’ they was so wm- to’ look myself over. Never lettin up 21 .. 68 .. 53 ... 60.1 ... 0.00 however bad.” In one of richest wine districts of som' 'at I forpot all about the city pal on my cussin’ for a minute. I mean 22 .. 68 ... 52 ... 60.0 ... 0.00 ... 0.85 France there are stationed 104 soldiers ripht awnv. I met ’em half way in dered back to the camp an’ jest sneaked 23 .. 67 ... 51 ... 0.30 the flirtin’ game an' it seemed to me in an’ went to bed without sayin’ noth 24 .. 67 ... 51 ... 59.0 ... 0.74 and fifty-two cannon, man and arms 65 ... 51 ... 58.0 •at was in clover. The other fellows in’ to nobodv. It was a little late when 25 M.0 ... 0.03 being used in most civilized warfare. At 26 .. 65 ... 43 was all peltin' jealous of the way I got around the next mornin’, an jedge ... 55.1 ... 0.00 the first sign of a storm which might be ... 47 .. 64 27 the pals was shinin' 'round me; but mv su’prise. fellers, when I went be 28 .. 70 ... 47 ... M 1 ... 0.00 exjiected to seriously injure the vines an it wa'n't exactly my fault if they hind the fence an’ seen one of them 29 T 66 ... 45 ... 55 1 J. P. ALLEN, wa'n't In it. so I didn't bother about blamed gals feedin’ an old b’ar outen 30 .56.0 ... 0.00 alarm is given from a look-out tower. 67 ... 4.5 that. Wall, thinps went on lovely for a tin pan! Proprietor 31 .. 65 ... 51 ... 58.0 ... O.oo The guns are wheeled into position and open fire on the clouds. This treatment “I seen how the whole thing was in a about a week, an’ one night the pals snvs to me. they says: ‘Let s go along second. Them gals had been makin Sum .2C71. ...1513 . ... 179.8 . ... 2.59 is found to bring admirable results, the First c I hhh hccoiiiiikm I h Iion 58.0 ........ 0.00 clouds being shattered and the storm game of me all the time, an’ the b ar at Mean66.7 ... 4Af. down an’ get some apples. Ht HCCOlIll clartH IHt«'. Sl MMARV —Max. temp., 7 1 ; date. broken up into comparatively harmless “Now the o'chard was quite a ways had been makin’ me so much trouble below the camp an’it was closed in bv was nothin’ but a tame one at wouldn t 3rd. Min. temp.. 41 ; date, 4th. Total sections. _________________ hurt nobodv. Fust I had a notion to go precip. inches. 2.59; total snowfall a blp board fence about six feet h ph. BEST MEALS IN THE NOTICE. EOK EIBL1CATION. Of course. I went. We had a Jolly time in an’ get mv shooter an' put an end to inches, 0 ; number of days clear, 7 ; iMpmrtment of the Interior, Land Office at CITY. the ’ tarnal thing for spite, but I con Oregon City, Ore , beptenitn-r ¡st. ¡900. guin' toward the o’chard an the pals partlv cloudv. 7: cloudy, 17. Daten of Notice 1« hereby given that the following seemed more lovin’ to me than ever. cluded it was best to curb my temper frost-Light. 0 ; Killing. 0. Tillamook, Ore named -ettler haa filed notice of his hitenUoi* [late« of an’ let it go. The fellers had all gone to make fi h ! pr<x>f in «upport of his claim When we pot thar an' 1 seed the hip U : work, an I knowed if I waited until hail, 0; sleet. 0; thunder storms, 0 ; and that Mid prtwjf will lx- made before the fence I wanted to help the pal. over, hegisterand Receive . at Oiegoti < itjr, Oregon, they got back they’d be onto the thing auroras. 0. Prevailing wind—Direction, 1 on October lo. loflO, vn but they says: 'No. you po fust. Centrally boosted. Rates, $1 Per Day ERh.Dh.KlCK M BLAlMJEl.t. .n' have an awful leg on me. so 1 jest N.W. then we'll foller.' So of course I went I! K No 11 Í r the S of Ae Ix>ts 7. 8 and got mv togs together an scratched out I put a board up to the fence an dumb Remarks.—29th, a rainbow tincted 9. s c. ro. Tp. 3 S. K MW. i He names the following witnesses to prove as quietly »» I could. over an' then waited to ketch the pals Solar halo. T trace. ! hi« continuous residenoe upon and cultivation “ Yea. this is a lonesome, pesky hole, , of said land, v 1 Wall, it must have been a minute 1 Heavv rain on the Sth Sept., if wind M- H. UARSEN, Proprietor. j I). I Springer, of Jewell. Oregon : Matt Lnk waited thar an' I didn't hear » sound an' no mistake, but they ain’t no dudes S.W. and 15th, and light rain 23rd. I ksrilla. of Klaic, Oregon . E.ri< k Heniatrofn of here nor gals to play hide-an I Olney. Oregon ; Leave Tweedie, ol Vine Maple TILLAMOOK, OREGON. from the other side. Carr. J oseph J. D awson . with a feller s heart ao he payin . I m Oregon. “ •Yea.' says I to myself. 1 «ee what The Bent Hotel in the city. No Chinese Employed. Voluntary Observer. C has . B. M oobks Register durn glad of it.** thev're at: they don’t want me to help ’em over after all.' Then I say. out c Bill Blake and the Bear ’ A Special Inducement A KING & KERREMANS, MORGAN, MUDGE & Co General Blacksmithing Logging and Machine Work a Specialty. Truckee Lumber Co., ¡FIR & SPRUCE Lumber BOX SHOOKS GENERAL MERCHANDISE • And LOGGERS’ SUPPLIES, E, SIBLEY, ENGINES BOILERS RUSSELL High Grade =! Machinery MILLS RUSSELL & CO. 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. to Mail. The DIRECT Tillamook & North Yamhill Stage Line BARKER, Proprietor Zallen [loitfß LARSEN HOUSE,
