THE TILLAMOON HEADLIGHT. NOVEMBER 22, 1900.
the subsequent Boxer troubles. This is
Clillamooh Ijciibligbt. a strange doctrine for an American and
a republican. The critics must know
Ir«<l C. llxkrr. Publisher
that President McKinley alone could not
form any such alliance. That it would
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require a two-thirds vote of the senate.
( strictly in advance .)
And they seem to forget that the presi
$1.50 dent’s experience with the treaty of
One year........
75
Six months.....
50 peace with Spain was not calculated to
Three months
encourage him to try an v more treaties
affecting our relations in the Far East.
Which Route Shall It Be?
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J.
MORGAN.
THE BAR NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
It Ought to be Improved and it is Absolutely Essential for
the Proper Development of Tillamook County that
it Should be Improved, says Mr. Tongue.
D.
EDWARDS.
MORGAN & EDWARDS,
Are prepared to do all kinds of
General
In answer to a communication addressed to Congressman T.
Blacksmithing.
Logging and Machine Work
H. Tongue in regard to the contemplated improvement to Tilla-
mook bar, we have received the following reply :
a Specialty.
F red C. B aker , E sq .
Hillsboro, Or., Nov. 15, 1900.
The admonition of Senator Beveridge,
The bill providing for the construction
M y D ear S ir ,—Yours of the 12th instant in reference to the
First Class CUot'k Guaranteed
of the Nicaragua canal will probably be of Indiana, that now the watchwords improvements upon Tillamook bar has just been received. After
must
lie
conservatism
and
moderation,
taken up in the senate for consideration
Reasonable
Charges.
returning from Tillamook 1 had some conversation with an Ore
While the re-election of
early in the coming session, it having is judicious.
gonian
reporter
in
which
I
stated
the
conditions
existing
at
the
passed the house at the last session. President McKinley is an unmistakable
bar, and also gave some description of the timber and dairy re Shop in Hiner’s old Stand, TIlaLiAJWOOFÇ CITY
This measure provides that the presi endorsement of the republican policies,
sources
of the county. I am not sure whether this was published
both
domestic
and
foreign,
it
must
not
dent shall acquire from Costa Rica and
Nicaragua for the United States control be assumed to imply a popular desire for or not, but if so, it seems to have escaped your attention.
One of the difficulties in the way of the improvement is the
of such portion of territory now belong radical and aggressive measures not
ing to those countries as may be desir made necessary by existing conditions report made by Captain Fisk some years ago, and a copy of which
OF SAN FRANCISCO, DEALERS IN
able and necessary on which to con While it gives authority to congress and I think you have.
You will remember that he reported in sub
struct and defend a canal of such depth the administration to go on in the per-1 stance that the bar was perfectly safe for the entrance and depar-I
and capacity as will be sufficient for the formatice of the duties and in fulfillment I ture of all vessels that could navigate inside of the bay, and that
movement of ships of the greatest ton of the responsibilities assumed by the na therefore it would be a useless expenditure of money to improve !
nage and draft now in use from a point tion in its relations with the rest of the
the bar. With this report standing it would be difficult to get any
BOX SHOOKS.
near Greytown, on the Caribbean sea, world, it invites nothing beyond this.
appropriation
for its improvement. The first step, as I under-1
via Lake Nicaragua, to Brito, on the
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stand it, will be to obtain another survey. This will require a bill G-ENERAL MERCHANDISE
Pacific ocean. It further provides that
The clergyman in the little country
Either [
when such territory shall have been se town who has brought suit for damage I to be passed by Congress, directing and authorizing it.
And LOGGERS’ SUPPLIES,
cured the secretary of war shall be di against the gossips in his parish is decid-1 those who made the examination for Captain Fisk were mistaken,
There seems to be
rected to excavate and construct a canal edly business-like in his methods of get or conditions have very materially changed.
AGENTS STEAMERS W. H. KRUGER AND TILLAMOOK.
Ijetween the designated points, for which ting square with those who seek to de no question whatever that at present vessels could navigate the [
the bill appropriates the sum of $140,- fame hischaractrr. Without saying that bay with safety much larger than those that cross the Bar. The' Hobsonville, Or.
J. E, SIBLEY, Mgr.
000,000, or so much thereof as may be defendant or plaintiff in this specific case Bar needs improvement.
It ought to be improved. It is abso-1
necessary to complete the waterway.
has the right of it, everyone feels an in lutely essential for the proper development of Tillamook county
Both the republican and democratic clination to back up anybody who re
WINE AND LIQUOR HOUSE.
that it should be improved. My present plans are to endeavor
platforms call for the construction of an fuses to be a victim of heresay gossip of
first
to
attempt
to
secure
a
re-survey,
and
then
attempt
to
secure
1
isthmian canal—the former not naming a the sewing circle—or, to put it more farci
route and the latter favoring the one ful, the school for scandal in some of our | the necessary appropriation, providing the survey and recom-'
designated in the bill before congress. | churches—that seems trivial and inoffen mendation of the Engineering Department should be favorable.
There are many who think that it would sive, but which works often dire results. | But upon reaching Washington City I shall confer with the
C. E. HADLEY, Proprietor,
be good policy, from a practical or finan If this minister makes a good precedent I Chief Engineers, with the Chairman and leading members of the
cial standpoint, for the United States to in defensive tactics there will probably i River and Harbor Committee, and will adopt such steps as seem
enter into ail arrangement with the be others to follow his course.
to be in harmony with their ideas and views, and that will excite Agents for Kopp's Brewery, the Brewer of the Brest Beer in lhe Northwest.
Panama Canal company, which already
the least opposition. The object is success. I can tell better what Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, privately
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confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home.
has two-fifths of its project completed
General Barry, who has been with Gen- I means to adopt, when upon full examination and consultation
and is making steady though slow
eral C liaffee's army in China, pays the with those through whom it will be necessary to deal, I can
Tillamook City,
Oregon.
progress. Mr. Walter Schlecht, a mem
Japanese a high tribute in saying of ascertain what difficulties are likely to be met.
ber or the Isthmian Canal commission,
their military development: “The Jap
I certainly shall do everything in my power to secure at the
has just returned from Central America
anese army is as near perfection in ad earliest possible moment the necessary appropriation for the im
and though he would say but little
ministration, instruction and general provement.
In the meantime I apjuehend no difficulty in secur
in regard to his investigations he con
efficiency as anything I have seen.” And
ing the necessary appropriation to complete the present project
veyed the idea that the Panama route
PROPRIETORS OF
that army is to play a very important
is not unworthy of consideration, lie
for the improvement inside the bay.
part during the next fifty years, if the
expressed the opinion that the Panama
Truly and sincerely yours,
oriental game is to call for armies. By
company will not finish its canal within
THOS. H. TONGUE.
the way, Japan was left to develop her
Truckee Lumber Co.,
FIR & SPRUCE Lumber
Billiard Parlors and General Social Resort.
LEACH & JONES,
a measurable period of time, because it
is 8| »ending only a million a year on a
one hundred million dollar enterprise,
still he appears inclined to credit the
company’s estimate of the cost of com
pletion, which is $110,000,000, or $30,-
000,000 less than the Hepburn bill ap
propriates. Besides this considerable
saving in exjieiiditiire, Mr. Schlecht said
that two gears’ time would lie saved if
the iiivernment should undertake the
completion of the Panama project.
These are certainly important consid
erations, but how much influence, if anv,
they will have upon congress is alto
gether problematic. Much will depend
upon the nature of the report which the
canal commission will make and there
is reason to expect that this will be fa
vorable to the Nicaragua route. In his
letter of acceptance President McKinley
said: “ A subject of immediate im
portance to our country is the comple
tion of a great waterway of commerce
I >e tween the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Theconsi ruction of a maritime canal is
now more than ever indispensable to
that intimate and ready communication
between our eastern and western sea
ports demanded by the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands and the expansion of
our influence and trade in the Pacific.
Our national policy more imperatively
Ilian ever calls for its completion and
control by this government.’*
There probably would be no difficulty
in acquiring from Costa Rica and Nica
ragua the necessary territory, though it
is |N>ssible those countries would require
some modification of the proposition as
to fortifications.
Tillamook Meat Market
self.
DEALERS IN
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Political Snapshots.
result is known; “Til’ mornin’ afther
There is an impressive moral in the re
iliction, ’t is Hinnissy to th' slag pile an’
mark of the defaulting New York bank
Senator Pittigrew of South Dakota Dooley to th’ beer pump an' Jawn D.
Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel, Tillamook
"
teller, caught in Boston, that a great , also ran.
Rockefellar to the ile-can, an' th' ol' flag
load had been lifted from his mind by his
| The result is an embarrassment of elec- floatin’ over all iv us if th' wind is good
arrest. z\ game such as he played is i torial votes
i
an’ th' man in charge has got up in time
hardly worth the candle when it brings,
I Nature kindly tempered the wind for to hist it. Foolish man, th’ fun.rals don't
after a very brief enjoyment of the loot, i
stop f r iliction, or th' christenin's or til'
such mental suffering that lifelong dis- I , the unfortunate.
wedin’s. Be hivins, I think th’ likes iv ve
As
a
vote
of
confidence
the
returns
are
grace and prison stripes are looked for
imagines this counthry is somethin' lie
quite emphatic.
ward to with relief.
sides a hunk iv land occypied be human
The full dinner pail is booked to stay I
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I bein's. Ye think it a sort of an autymobill
Hermann, with his senatorial l>ee in four years more.
that'll run down onless ye charge it with
his bonnet, may be an attractive person«
Senator Wellington of Maryland is a ye’er partic'lar kind iv gas. Don't ye ex-
age in Washington, but out in the woolly notable example ofthe man without a pict Hinnissy, that anny throopiv angels
Stage leaves Tillamook daily exeept Sunday.
west there appears to lie other webfeet party.
will dhrop fr'in hiven tochop ye’er wood
with senatorial bees in their bonnets,
Notwithstanding enthusiastic predic on th' mornin' iv th' siventh iv Novem- Stage leaves R. Yamhill daily exeept monday,
notably II. W. Corbett. We don’t want tions, Missouri resolutely refused to get ber if Bryan is ilicted, an' don't ve lave
Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at
to bet on the size of their respective bees, into the band wagon.
Jawnny McKenna think that if Mack
but if a man's pile is one of the necessary
North Yamhill and Tillamook.
Democratic forecastors have ample gets in he'll have to put a sthrip iv oil
things to get into the senate than Her
time to repent their folly and "get on cloth on th' dure sill to keep pluthvcrats
mann is not in it.
fr'm shovin' threasury notes undher th'
speaking terms with truth.
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Mr. Bryan may extract sonic consola- dure. No, sir; I used to think that was
Speculators on Wall street estimate the tioni from the ¡fact that his letter mail I so—wanst, in th'days whin 1 pnthrouized
profits of Rockefeller from the rise in will be substantially reduced.
a lothry. Now I know différent.”
stocks since the re-election of McKinley
The Canadian administration, follow
a4- 15,000,000. Mr. Rockefeller can af i
Elasts From Ram’s Horn.
ford to buy a Thanksgiving turkey for ing the example of its neighbor, made a
We guarantee first class Wagon Work
everyman, woman and child employed clean sweep in the election.
at low charges.
St. Louis is said to have reformed by I i ABibleisof little value till it is the
by the Standard Oil company and still
worse for wear.
Shoeing, No. 4's down, $1.50.
have a few dollars left for Christmas taking its medicine straight. The repub
The power of a tear drop is in that it
lican triumph is not the onh wonder of
gilts.
WEST A THAYER,Proprietors.
rises in the heart.
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the election.
Work Shops :
The governor of North Carolina hasn’t
Ifvou have religeon by proxy you may
Kansas City republicans did not pay
Next
to
(joyne’s Office, Tilla
made any long time observations to the much attention to the presidential tic have heaven in the same wav.
mook
City, Oregon.
governor of South Caroline of late. The ket, but hustled for the spoils and wiped
The hypocrite says, “Leave my sins
wife ot the present governor is a stanch every local office but two.
alone and chase those heretics.’’
prohibitionist and has turned the ball
Chicago papers are hilariously happy
There are some things you must both
room of the executive mansion into head They succeeded in defeating two machine
be and live lxtore you can believe.
quarters of the W.C.T.U.
candidates for office and crow lustily
The artillery of skepticism ofter o;xns
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over their growing influence.
Congressman Tongue's letter shows
up new mines in the mountains of God.
the interest he is taking in Tillamook,
The number of sudden deaths occuring
Mr. Brvan’s “Second Battle’’ is the
When there is sunshine in the soul
nnd it also shows some difficulties which lately among ministers is worthy of severest drubbing received by any presi
there will be flowers and fruit in the
will have to lx surmounted Ixfore the passing note.
Certainly none of the dential candidate since Horace Greeley life.
work of improving Tillamook bar is penalties pertaining to dissipation and was waylaid in the democratic camp.
Has Opened a Heui iDeat market
A man is not a champion of truth be
commenced. Captain Fisk's report, no high living that directly invite physical
Senator Carter apjiears to have his
doubt, has been instrumental in retard decay apply in their case. It is true whiskers clipped in’ Montana. His pile ' cause he howls at all who differ from In
PACE’S Seeond Hand
him.
ing the improvement of the bar, but most of them have hard work and com could not approach that of Clark, conse
Only the man who can say, “All my
when the actual conditions are intelli paratively poor pay, with the attend quently he lagged superfluous in the
springs are in Thee," can gothrough the
. Ir. Barnes is a I radical Butcher, and will keep in
gently placed before the river nnd harbor ant overstrain and tireof the life struggle, race.
drv and thirsty land.
committee by Congressman Tongue we but there seems to lx no good reason
Stock Prime Meats of all description,
Webster Davis is now at liberty to
confidently believe that the objections why their orderly lives should not in a
It is a good deal easier to demonstrate
| Hock by himself aud shed gobs of tears
Your
patronage
raised by this report will lx overcontt. great measure counterbalance the mental
„ is solicited.
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Prime meats at low figures.
for the oppressed. His dramatic entry i that men may lieconie monkeys than that
The improvement of Tillamook bar is and bodily stress. Notwithstanding all
monkeys have become men.
1 on the campaign stage is fittingly fol
Highest market Priee Paid for» Cattle.
naked for on the grounds that commerce this the clergymen wear out compara
lowed by a cheerless exit.
nnd manufacturing in dust ■ ies arc crippled tively early.
For some reason not
CASH PAID FOP HIDES
A Milwaukee brewer is planning to
When the late William L. Strong was
on account of a dangerous bar. Let the equally explainable with other brain
make Japan famous by establishing a
government improve the bar and it will workers there appears with them to lx mayor ot New York he was kicked and
I beer factory in that country.
not take long to demonstrate that the a marked proclivity toward apoplexy. cuffed by politicians and organs. Now
i There has Ixen some yellow pulpitism
that
lie
is
dead
they
say
he
was
the
liest
commerce of the p»rt justified ’lie ex|xa. Perhaps this is in part due to continuous j
Bit are, as all will n bnit who have nnv and exacting mental drudgery along ! mayor the city ever had. We do not this year as well as yellow journalism.
i l, > of the immense quantity of timber necessarily limited lines. But this was | know now what they will say of him But the compensation is in a tendency to
. prevent a yellow election.
the e is to lx manufactured nnd sbip|x<l hardly the case with the Brooklyn pas I since his firm is busted.
If all the sycophantic newspapers and , I The state legislature meets in January,
fiom Tillamook to the markets of the tor, who added to his other qualification«
world.
that of a well merited reputation fur | Ittnklicaded “leaders’* who are now say-, and it is reasonable to suppose that for
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outside scientific research. Death in Ins j mg that “free silver did it’’ had plainly I the next lew months numerous bills will
Some of the criticism of our policy in ease, qj is common in some forms of told .\lr. Bryan and the national com-' lx prepared—good and had—but very
For All Kinds of Shooting.
China, even in so me of the papers that apoplexy, came to him with startling mittee, as the World did, that free silver ' tew to relieve the burdens of the tax
All Desirable Calibers and Weights
support the government in other re«- suddenness. While preparing to make a would do it, free silver would not have 1 pavers.
A FEW FAVORITES FOR HUNTING.
peets, seem hnrdlv fair. It is to the effect call and standing in bis doorway, he done it.—N.Y. World.
Model 189J. go Anny caliber, -reetpht 8 1-4 pound».
A Pennsylvania clergyman who has
Mod'LIW.4; ™ w- c F-
Light,”
that we missed our opportunity, That merely “straightened up and then slowly ' If Mr. Pettigrew, ns seems likely, has Ixen criticized for attending the opening
Weighs 61-2 iwunda,
when Secretary llay sent out his
sank to the floor." Evidently a bl<*od *°me right of the end of his tether as of a new brewery excuses himself by
W' C- F- «»«her, “Take Down,"
-1 United
F * , 1, V .1 I States
n • senator,
.-4.x — • it * ...
—„ saving:
Weight 7 &-| jx,undi,
door note, he got in reply nothing that vessel of large size in the substance ofc he ’ ' *
“1 did visit the brewery,
is not J-,.
flatter,
MOdel7
a“d M caUbOT' “ Tak0
weight
to
him
that
so
many
hundreds
of
i
is binding on anybody. That then was brain gave way ind killed him as in. ling
' '"S to •><"> thnt so many hundreds of because my wife wanted me to go."
the time when we ought to have pro. stoutly ns the bullet from a rifle. The thousands of Americans who never1 Adam, it will be remembered, said in
MOdf' J^tla45-70 c'llber’ “ E*««
weight
posed—and the proposition, the critics preliminary spasm thus explained itself. saw South Dakota regard his defeat as somewhat similar circumstances ; “ She
Shoot Winchest er Ammunition. Made for all Kinds of Guns,
say, would haveIxen accepted—an Ang There was no warning. In fact, ns is one of the blessedest blessings the elec tempted me and I did eat." Evidently
lo-Americ.in alliance, tlie moral effect of often noted in similar instances, the man tions have vouchsafed.
man Ims not yet got beyond the stage of
nitt.—Send Name and Address on Postal for 16C - oars Illustrate
which, they flirt her claim, would have had previously said that he felt unusually
Philosopher Dooley's remarks on the shifting the blame wheneveropportunitv
been strong enough to have prevented well.
election are good reading, even after the offer».
Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc,
The DIRECT ROUTE to TILLAMOOK
Carrying U.S. Mail.
Tillamook & North Yamhill Stage Line.
JOHN BARKER, Proprietor
Horse Shoeing and General Blacksmithing.
UUagon
UUork
New MEAT MARKET
L.
N
BARNES,
Proprietor,
Repeating Rifles