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» THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JANUARY 3, 1901. liUle boo,lle '• **'"« »*<1 in the direc- HOW THE COUNTY IS TO BE DIVIDED. tion indicated. How the politicians do There’s Other “Shady Spots” Beside This. Fred C- Baker. Publlaher manage to squeeze millionaires who have “Talk about shade up there, you have got‘shady spots’ right senatorial bees in their bonnets. One of the Originators of the Scheme Talks Confidentially f in Tillamook City within a stone’s throw of the city hall. You KATES OP SUBSCRIPTION. * * « (STUCTLV IN A IVANCK.) , chaps need not worry about our roads, they are all laid out to drop The newspapers of Oregon, especially to the Headlight’s Correspondent. i to the country. We will begin at Blaiue and work ’em down hill One year....... $1.50 those of the first congressional district, Six months.... scientifically with the law of gravitation. Strange, isn’t it, that 7.-. have given Congressman Tongue the Three months 50 credit of procuring so much money for this idea was never thought of before ? It took thousands of years TO THE EDITOR OF THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. to invent suspenders. government improvements in the river The rumor that our fellow citizens in the south end of the and harbor bill for this state. All should EDITORIAL NOTES. The Slate Made Up. admit, no matter what their political county design at the coming session of the legislature seceding “Yes, sir ; we have about made out a perfect slate for our One would have naturally thought affiliations may be, that Mr. Tongue is from us and forming a separate county, or, at least, uniting with that the business interests of the city of only receiving the merit which is justly j Y amliill county, seems to be true, as the following conversation first set of officers. Hon. T. J. Lucy, who leads this move, for County Judge; Richard Robedee for County Clerk ; Win. Scott, Portland would have rear he I out before I due him. Had it been Senator Simon 1 this when a valuable feeder like Tilla who had been instrumental in bringing the writer recently had with a prominent citizen of those parts . of Ocean Park, for Sheriff ; Frank Wilehart alternate and board of commissioners ; Win. Collyer for Treasurer—Mr. Collyer will mook has been within its reach for years. this satisfactory state of affairs about it clearly show. board with his wife. There are many substantial and intelligent Not only would a railroad pay, for those is safe to predict that the Oregenion My informant being intensely enthusiastic in the matter, gave citizens eligible for the other positions, including Rev. C. Mills, of who know the resources of the county would almost have fallen over itself in need not trouble on that score, but it lauding him. And why uot do so with vent to some very extravagant ideas in regard to the movement Beaver, for Chaplain at the county jail, and Jacob Butcher, of would double the population oftlie coun Mr. Tongue ? Little and its results, much oi which is herewith eliminated for purposes Oretown, will sit majestically upon the dead carcasses. M * * ty as soon as it was complete. And we Nestucca, it’s true, don’t show up many ou this slate, but slie is The Baltimore American says a North of publication, as over-sanguine and irrelevant matter, giving may say this, of all the railroads running , Carolina minister is preaching against 1 only the more natural and reasonable propositions that accen used to that and won’t mind. The fact is the voters in that pre into Portland there is not one which ( cinct have been employed as mere clothes-pins for twenty-five courting on Sunday. By the time the 1 tuates and is to follow the secession business, in his own words. would compare in local business to one , years to hold your politicians’ shirts upou the line up there. In reformers get this world arranged to suit to Tillamook city. Railroad men tell us ( hat length of time Little Nestucca has received but one county themselves it will hardly be worth dying Will Bring Up on the Outside. that dairying produces very little freight in. , office, and that candidate only got there in his shirt sleeves. in bulk, consequently there is very little “You think we don’t mean it, do you?” said my inter Compromise on County Seat. height to haul. True. But the lumber locutor, as he set down a box of soap which lie had just purchased Notice. and the coal will do so to a greater ex and adjusted his person more comfortably upon the nail keg, “ To suit the rival interests of Woods and Ocean Park, a Engineer Office, U. 8. Army, tent than wheat is doing, and, besides, it which he was sitting on, and lit the cigar tendered him by the huge scow will be constructed, upou which will be erected the Portland, Oregon, Dec. 28, 1900. will net the railroads more m< ney merchant, went on : county buildings. County business then can alternate between Attention of all interesteil is called to whin it is shipped to Eastern markets. “Well, you will discover, soon too, and the reasons for it, the two points. Choice rooms will be let to summer boarders, We have noticed in the railroad gossip the fact that the creation of any obstruc running strictly ou the European plan, and will float up and down that it has been suggested to haul the tion to the navigable capacity of any sir, are plentier than blackberries. You ask if we have not had with the elete on board to the soft strains of music. Oh! it’s all navigable water of the United States is justice. I reply that your rule over this end of the county has logs to Portland and manufacture the lumber in that city. We hardly think prohibited by the Act of Cougiess ap. • 1 been one long line of misgovernment in which acts of justice going to be delectable. proved March 3, 1899, unless first' (towards us are as scattering as pure democracy. I tell you, you this likely, for as soon as a railroad con Taxable Property only $300,000. specially authorized in each case. ‘tit pullers’ up there with your heads buried one half the nects Tillamook county with the “out “ How is that ? You say we have less than $300,000 taxable The construction of bridges, dams, side world’’many desirable saw mill loca time in your cow’s flanks, are not calculated to be an inspired property and that it will take a 50-mill tax to run us. Admitted, tions will presint themselves to millmen. dikes or causeways over or in any har authority on human justice. You will persist in that one busi If Portland secures plenty of cheap coal bor, port, navigable river or other navi, ness, with its resultant selfishness, until you will all bring up on and what is that when balanced against the freedom of an auto then it should be content to allow the j gable water of the United States requires the outside of St. Peter’s gate some day, where you will be made cracy of our own—the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, un- trammeled as yon puissaut winds which sweep off Mexico’s aching lumlier to be manufactured here in Tilla- I the prior approval of the Chief of En to stand around with one foot up like geese on a cold floor, whilst gulf. Great Scott, Mr. ------, what a grand new field in which to inook, as we ha ye no doubt but what it gineers, U. S. Army, and the Secretary of | War, and also the affirmative actioii of | the blessfd Nestiiekcrites will be marching in four a breast and sprout grand Websterian flights of oratory, especially when they will lie. Under these conditions it is Congress, or of the Legislature of the no questions asked. can be mixed up with the Declaration of Independence, heroes of plain to see that an independent line from Portland to Tillamook is going to lie a State when the navigable water is wholly the revolution—times which tried men’s souls. Say, come down Sentiment Don’t Work Down South. within a single state. paving investment, anil besides will give The construction of any log-boom, u Sentiment, you say, should hold the county together. Now to Woods next 4th of July and hear the orations—they are golri«» to Portland the advantage of furnishing fish-trap, wharf, pier, dolphin, break, that’s funny. Why sentiment is about as adhesive as coal-oil. be stunners—whoop !” all the supplies to the comity, which will Forgot it was Washing Day. he considerable when the saw mills can water, or any other structure in anv My wife some times speaks of sentiment as something that ship their lumber to market at a profit, port, harbor, navigable river or other happened when years ago I came round courting with my pockets Here my talkative friend sprang to his feet, gathered up water of the United States, outside es-! full of candy, gum, etc. Sentiment is in one sense a species of for this is one of the perplexing questions hastily his box of soap, and walked excitedly to the door. mill men have to contend with at the tablished harlior lines or where no har axle greese to keep wheels from creaking, a lubricator that men bor lines have been established, is illegal “ Excuse me, Mr. ------ , but I was to hasten back with this present time. Tillamook county is on wear on their clothes to smell well and to prevent sticking when except oil plans recommended by the article — wash day at our house —ten o’clock and no soap—the old the anxious seat to know if Portland is they ruu against each other. But, practically, it amounts to Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, and au woman ’ s clapper trap must be running like a dynamo—gee whiz, going to avail herself of this opportunity thorized by the Secretary of War. pre neither a soap nor a soda. A township of it would not paralyze I must scoot !” of secure what will make her the most vious to the commencement of con a flea. Now some of our folks prefer to go to Yamhill, but the substantial, industrial and wealthy eitv Aud the door closed with a bang. ¡majority of us don’t want any of that. We don’t want to belong struction. in the Northwest. Voilation of the above provisions of. to a people that depends ou leap-year for a crop, and no green i Yours very respectfully, Mr. Editor, * * * the law is made a misdemeanor, punish- I things visible in the county seven months out of the year, except A CITIZAN. Some of the Portland divines and the able by a fine of $2,500.00 and by im- a « goodly portion of its inhabitants and the paint on some of their city officials have been discussing the prisonnient for one year. buildings. No. We have been connected with our inferiors— gambling question, and as this is not a The dnmpage of any ashes, ballast, i present company, you know, etc.—long enough. Aside from the very easy matter to decide satisfatory to saw-dust, slabs, or other solid refuse all parties we suppose it will lie a bone from any vessel or other craft, or from [inconveniences incident to our present situation, the precious of contention as long as the world re | any mill or factory, into any harbor or i boon, so dear to the American heart, of getting gloriously drunk OF SAN FRANCISCr», DEALERS IN mains, for men will gamble in spite of I I navigable river, or on the bank where it Jis denied to those of us that wish, lest we would have to give the every effort to stop it. The philanthro-j j may be washed in at high water or by [ friend ‘ away’ that found a market for his whiskey. If I behold ’s wife wink at the minister, I have got to go forty phist looks upon it as a curse to those j storms, is also prohibited. The viola- j my 1--, neighbor — „ who are infatuated with gambling and I lion of this provision is punishable by a i miles to root ' iu the ’ land. ’• H my W’fe W prove it •- oi * permit ■----- -- sin ’ to ------- who are beyond redemption ; the pul- j I fine of $2,500.00 and by imprisonment and I desire to separte, the vast trouble, expense and other diffi piteer looks upon it as one of the great < for one year, one-half of the fine going to culties thrown in our way up there renders the domestic ‘split’ sins of the age ; the business man looks the person giving the information lead a simple impossibility, Compelling us to live on with the old un upou it willi indifference, although he ing to conviction. In addition, masters, parliamentary language, and continue the flinging of crockery at may silently cure the habit when he pilots and engineers ou vessels violating other’s heads.” ''— knows that money which should have this provision are subject to revocation gone to -pay store hills and sapport the of , license an4 the owners erf the vesarls Christens the County by the Name of “ Bryan.” wire and family bare been fooled «vy are , subject to libel for the damage oc- “ What are we going to name it ?” at the gambling table; political parties casioned. , AGENTS STEAMERS W. II. KRUGER AND TILLAMOOK. “We are going to call it Bryan county. After—well you consider silence golden ; the newspapers All masters, pilots and engineers of Hobsonville, Or. J. E, SIBLEY, Mgr have heard of him — his constituents here will rally enthusiastically see scores of intelligent men impregnated vessels and all others interested in pro- ‘ republicans “ with gambling, bright young men becom tecting , the rights of navigation are re- over the name and ■ the won’ ’ t ■ care. . Their well known . re|>ort - ‘ to me __ _ promptly -_¿1— — —__ _ ? A_ _ you . - 1 know, - —. — — — X towards — • •z' .-i 1 F the I. z . W names 'I 1'1 C? i A of f I our country’s great ing worthless to society, bummers , quested • to any magnamity, PROFESSIONAL CARDS. around gambling resorts until they join . violation of the above provisions coining men who have passed into oblivion. the criminal class; parents see their sons , to their notice. Information as to the Boundaries will be Slender and Bow-Legged. gamble and consider them smart when I manner of obtaining authority for con- ß L. EDDY, “What are onr proposed boundaries ? Now that is what I thev win ; parties who gamble say it is ' strutting fish-traps, log-booms, etc., will ci [> nobody's business but their own if they 1 |}e furnished on request. am anxious to tell you. It will be something the shape of a ATTORNEY-AT-LAW W m . W. H arts , lose or win money grmbling ; county or female that I saw upon the streets of Tillamook one day, rather T illamook , O kkcox Back of Cohn & Co. ’ s Store. Captain, Corps of Engineers, slender, perhaps, and a little bow-legged, but all right in the city officials make very little effort to U. S. Army, stop ii ; Christian people pray that the He employes only Skilled Work end. It will be bouuded on the east by the rising sun, on the evil be stamped out, but take good care h . cooper , west by the horizon ; on the north, where the poetically green D men. Reflections of a Bachelor. not to go beyond the praying line to do and northern line of townships south, seven, eight, ten and nine E Makes any and all kinds of Ma. so. Thus we could continue to show the a chinery, Boilers, Engines, Separa ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Love will find a way if it’s only the —heavens, what poetry—cut through and take the wig off Pleasant different stand points from which gam tors, Mill Machinery, Loggers’ | Valley. With one exception, we are going to make a jog up Outfits, Guns, Saws, Fits Boxes, bling is looked at. It is no wonder that wav out. TILLAMOOK, OREGON. A man’s idea of woman is theoretical ‘: ;' there and take in section 31, of T. 2, S 9, in order to get the new and Turns Shafting. gambling is prevalent when so many big saw mill of Wist & Co. for purposes of taxation, at which Skilled Horse Shoer and |ieople are indifferent to it consequences. a woman’s idea of man is intuitive. 'p If. GOYNE, Whenever a woman sees a telegram place we also will deflect the Tillamook river over through Blum’s Wagon Maker. Newspa|>crs are often accused of cowar A. K. CASE, dice for not condeming it, but these accu coming she feels ofher heat t strings. gap down the Beaver and on into the Nestucca. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, sations come generally from those who Master Mechanic. In order to be patriotic, women have Office: Opposite Court House, Beaver is a “ Dry Town ” and Needs More Water. want to avoid the odium of a crusade first got to make patriotism into a fad. T illamook , O h KOON against the gamblers and fasten it upon “ Beaver is a dry town, you know, and requires more water. Nothing catches a woman quicker the editor. Until a different sentiment is match, unless it's a j}es;3eS) the flood will deepen the at .... additional _____ ---- " Nestucca ----------- v bar. " See- 0 ■ « « a than a runaway i created in the minds of the people against (J LA UDE THAYER, deathbed repentance. I Of course the change will make stockwater scarce down about this pernicious habit ilappears useless to « Aman's revenge on a woman for not goufh Prairie and lower the depth of water on Tillamook bar 25 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, make a spasmodic attempt to stamp it « having him is to goand tell her allabout or 30 inches, raise a howl at Bay City and Hobsonville, flooding out. As everyone knows, this in not T illamook , O regon . I Congressman Tongue’s desk with fresh correspondence. But we a effectual, for it is carried on just as bad his next love affair. ■ A really brave man is the one who has don ’ t care; it ’ s going to be our turn at the raisinsnow. Yes, behind doors. Under all these circum stances. what is best to be done ? Port the nerve to marry a girl after he hears that jog in the north line will look bad indeed, on the maps, but « UOBERT A. MILLER, S. M. HAYES land officials consider it the best plan to J her say she takes a cold bath every except in tax-paying time the officers can fold it under for looks— ■ Makes a Specialty of Manufactur. ■ ATTOaNEY-AT I. \W . _______ ■ fine the gambling houses once a month, morning. 1 and to keep blamed fools from asking questions about it. . Now ■ ing all kinds of C itv , O kkgon . and although this is considered a public j No matter how big a brute he is. the south* line that will be a inch In geography. Something « ■ Land Title« aik O I kkgon Lain! Office Buaiiiese a Harness, Saddles, nothing but a surgical operation would however, benefits by “graft," the city, new under the sun. When in the future you ask your wife where ■ Specialty. ¡convince the average woman that her Collars, that procedure. it is, she will either consult the almanac, or consider what style of I husband's heart wasn't full of affection « UAMKH Mcl'AlN, Carriage Trimmings. ■ bonnet she is then wearing, winterer summer. Ask your kid <A. W. HKVKHANCK W b do not consider that we are out of J for her. about it. and he will look to see which way the geese are flying. UcCAIN & SEVERANCE, « First Class Work Guaranteed. What a woman can't get out of a man order in asking who is at the head of H. A puzzler, isn’t it ? Give it up ? Ordinary men will not see into g In Bailey’!* Warehouse at 0 W. Corbett's editorial bureau, tor they by sticking roses in her hair, she can - - - We'.l it’s going to be Salmon Cape in winter, ATTORNEYH-AT LAW, contain so much siniiliarity that wc are L’enerallv get by crying on shirt bosom, it without help. ’----- , Tillamook City. w (£iic ÒlilLiinooh * » abliqbt - Truckee Lumber Co. FIR & SPRUCE Lumber BOX SHOOKS. GENERAL MERCHANDISE And LOGGERS’ SUPPLIES, I OAK NOLAN'S j MACHINE SHOP. yy < L a a ■ Harness Making, * * inclined to think that some of the Oregon , pencil pushers are only playing second I fiddle to some sharp politician who is j engineering the editorial scheme to laud the Portland banker. We feel concerned for the independence of the Oregon press il a lot of politicianscancontrol the ideas and opinions in the editorial columns, for it is only poor tools ta newspaper men who will ulluw themselves to be coutroled in lists wsy. «•11 orita bwress wo«’' 'taka marked al the U - . ---------- This will . give and awav down to Cap Foulweather in summer. _ ’us salmon and hnckleberries over there m summer and Lmcoln county will get the geese aud ducks _ in ____ winter. . It I- will be - har- - When yon want meat go to Leach & ; r< wing the ’ but the the ex extra benefits that * **e a ~ year for taxes, bnt Jones’ Meat Market, for they will allow -”'der two administrations at once will no other meat market to undersell them. will »• •ont mind. It will be like two Below will lie found our prices uniil fur 4be -non an inhabited globe, as ff somewhere in ther notice . Will not be Undersold ! Porterhouse Steak tar loin ........ Beef, roaat Boiling Beef •rk .... * *■.*■*■**■« 1 T illamook , O iueoon . NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior j,Aud office at Oregon City, Or. DecemlMT Mlh. I goo . Notice in hereby given that the following named M-ttlcr has filed notice of his Intention tn Make tiunl in support of hi« claim, and that sai'l proof Wtti lc Made I m f »re the Register Rereiv. r. M OkSg Oregon, on asa ’ ot » r wbl - I M HilltB PHTtUClAWA AN y *
