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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1901)
THE TILLAMOOX HEADLIGHT, APRIL 18, 1901. question of building a railroad to Beaver The Present Status of the Bicycle <3 the purpose ot catching trade from Judging from present indications, the this county. Fred C. Baker. Publisher. outdoor bicycle season, which usually * * * Dealers in Only a few years ago we were ¡told sets in about the middle of April, will this KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. that the days of the horse had passed. year lie open in all its glorv before the The bicycle was to take his place as a close of the present month. Indeed, it ( strictly in advance .) mode of recreation, the traction engine, may almost be said that the season is $1.50 One year........ y OAK even now under way, so great is the Six months.... 75 the trolly car and the automobile truck activity (existing in the bicycle trade and were to supercede him in traffic and as 50 Three months. Headquarters for Dairymen’s Supplies. burden bearers. The horse decreased in among theclubs of the wheelmen, and so valueand breeding was either discontin numerous are the wheels in use. Weekly A Agent for CHARTER OAK STOVES Western Washing Machines- ued or less care taken to rear good ani- runs have been held, and others have EDITORIAL NOTES. Large Stork of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Glass. ' rnals. The various devices which were been announced, and from now on noth- i * * * i to take his place have been in large mea ing short of heavy roads and bad The Evening Telegram is asking some sure perfected and today the horse is as weather will prevent the pedallers from ! ¿7 of the country editors to write articles indispensible in the affairs of men as ever. enjoying to the utmost the first weeks of' on the subject of “Oregon’s Needs and Good horses bring good prices and the spring. How Best to Supply Them.” That’s demand is in excess of the supply. Parti- j From a commercial viewpoint, the be-1 easy and don't take a long article either, cularly is this true of the animals com ginning ofthe new century finds the bicy-1 for “Coal. Manufactories and a Weekly bining size and quality. The English cle industry in this country in excellent j Pay Roll” are the most important needs government is scouring the country for, health. Never since the wheel first made I of Oregon. As to how best to supply horses of this class to mount its soldiers its appearance has the business of its | them is a sticker, for one is so wrapped in Africa, and the United States is having manufacture and salt been carried on so i up and dependent upon the other that if difficulty in securing enough for the new satisfactorily as now; never, we believe. , we cannot procure plenty of coal in Ore. regiments of cavalry, offering as much as has the quality of the machines produced | gon we cannot hope to become a manu $150 for horses suitable for that pur been better or their price so reasonable; I factoring state, consequently a com para and at no time has there l»eeii a clearer Ay pose. tively small weekly pay roll. The ques * * * or more widespread understanding' - tion then presents itself, Have every ef We are indebted to Rev. F. II. Neff for among riders of what constitutes a nrst- fort been exhausted in Oregon to find calling our attention to a sentence in an i class machine. The truth of these state- sufficient coal for manufacturing pur editorial which conveyed a wrong im . 1 merits is shown in many ways. The poses ? We hardly think so, for a united pression. It read : “The church has been i | systematic conduct of the bicycle industry and systematic effort should be made to practically dorment for year,” but a part ; is apparent from the lack of strife and in- ascertain, with practical and experienced of the sentence had been inadvertently ! decision among the manufacturers, and men, what amount of coal is hidden in ' the absence of unfavorable criticism of the bowels of the earth where there are omitted, which was “in making provision j their output is proof enough that it indications of such. But another sticker for widowsand orphansapart from char-, I never Ims been excelled. is, Where can the money be obtained from ity,’’concluding thus, ‘ and when the idea I Believing, therefore, that the wheels of of fraternal life insurance came to be dis- 1 to carry out such a project ? In recent 1901 will be taken at the proper value years we have seen hundreds of thou cussed and understood such orders as the and that their sale will lie large, makers one or the other. True, society may, I sands of dollars fooled away by political A.O.U.W. had a wonderful growth.’’ and dealers are planning for a busy because of your station, condone your “grafters” in the city of Portland, to wit, Bro. Neff, we may say in this connection, I spring. All over the country cycle fac offense, but the attitude of society does , thinks that Key. F. E. Coulter, whose the county money tied up in the defunct tories are being prepared to receive large not not lessen the offense. You are held PROPRIETORS OF Oregon National bank, the city hall com sermon on “Socialism and the church” (l orders, and stores and shops are being just as responsible as though your in j mission, the county jail site, the purchase was under review, was preaching for tentions were exactly in line with your I of the rotten Stark street ferry and the | notoriety, and he also considers him j renovated and enlarged. Experienced and actions. wide awake agents who have visited fancy price paid for the Morrison street I an enemy of the church. We beg to dis- | What is there to be gained by dis the South and West aver that several bridge. Could all this money have been agree with the reverend gentleman, and, DEALERS IN features of the trade this year contrast honesty ? Arc the fleeting gains of| furthermore, think that Mr. Coulter was used in trying to find and develop coal crooked dealing satisfying to the soul of | mines tributary to the Portland no doubt prompted with a pure Christian motive very strongly with the conditions preva the man who has lost all and, behind that city would be in a fair way today and with an idea to elevate the church. lent in the past. They report that, par his prison bars, pleads with his consci Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel, Tillamook ticularly in towns and small cities, there M * * to becoming a manufacturing city. This ence for just one moment of respite? has been a general clearing out of small We have always looked upon the gov Wad to another of Oregon’s needs, to rid ks the money bought at the price of dealers whose responsibility was doubt the state of political grafters. It is, how eminent distributing garden seeds as a honor equal in value to the happiness of ful, whose capital, in many cases, was ever, humiliating to see so much of Ore bit of foolishness and a waste of public a wife and the good name of children ? j gon's raw material ship|>ed out of the money. It will cost the government this ' I too small to enable them to meet the Is there any amount of gain through ' exigencies of their trade. Their places year $170,000 for common garden seeds state, such as lumber, wool, hides, pelts, dishonesty which will heal the gaping have been filled by trustworthy rep re-1 tallow, young stock, etc. It should be and $28,000 for clerical help in scat wound of mental agony which tortures the aim and ambition of Oregon to lie- tering them among the people who sentatives of large and established man and crazes its victim ? ufacturers with a reputation for conser have no use on earth for them If the come a manufacturing state, for as long It is not true that the dishonest man is | as we continue to send large sums of amount of money for clerical lirip had vatism and fair dealing which promises happy. It is not true that happiness de-1 money East lor manufactured articles, it been used to make government improve to inspire confidence and promote busi pends in any degree whatever upon ill- will make that section of the country ments in Tillamook it would have been i ness. The desire for improvement, ever pre ^S^te^^rr^ ^336 leaves Tillamook daily exeept Sunday, prosperous at Oregon's expense. li the I expended to better advantage. These in America, has been the cause of | : money cannot be obtained to locate and seeds, though, undoubtedly have quite sent advancement in the art ot wheel which draws many a man to his moral Stage leaves N. Yamhill daily exeept monday, 1 development coal mines let the legislature an influence politically in determining the ■ marked making, and the various mechanical feat i and material destruction. Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at fate of many a congressman, ami thus is j 1 hold out some inducement by way of a ures of this year’s models seen at the I There is only one safe rule, and that bonus, which is sure to cause some in explained why so many old seeds get ' 1 North Yamhill and Tillamook. is ; Don’t Monkey With a Buzz-Saw. i 1 Cycle Show become even more striking terest in different sections of the country, places in congress. —————— now that the wheels are actually in use. mid in this way we believe the problem * * * | J This and That. The cushion frame, for example, which of a plentiful supply of coal for manufac Mr. L. B. Cox, a well-known lawyer ! j The glue manufacturers have decided to turing purposes would be solved quicker in Portland, died last week in that city. I: has undergone material changes, appears than in any other way. A little rivalry It was his motto that he would rather in greatly improved form, and is sure to ¡ stick together. is different counties of the state as to be right than president. In a letter ad . have a host of admirers, particularly . [ An appendieitisclubhas been organized which could develop the best coal mine dressed to his friends, and made public among middle-aged persons who hitherto • i at Old Orchard, Me. As an appendix to Make a Specialty of Logging and Machine Work. would show a great deal of laudable en alter his death, among other tilings he have found the bicycle’s \ibration objec-1 j society the club expects to cut quite a First Class Work Guaranteed. Charges are Reasonable. terprise, not only so, foi the county that said was this good advice : “Give a help tionable. But if any one of the three dis-' figure. can development coal mines is in a posi ing hand and a word of comfort and hope tinctive models of this year’s make—the Every true-blooded Buffalo is tender, tion to offer inducements to manufac to your struggling brother ; clear his chain mount, the chainless, and the ing the glad left hand to Aguinaldo. The Shop in Hiner’s old Stand, TILtUfl|VI00K CITY. turers to locate there, and theindications path of difficulties, rather than beset it motor cycle—become more popular than I insurgent chief is a distinguished addi are they would. As coal is of vital im with obstructions ; help him to be a bet another, it is likely to be the chain less. tion to the lefts. portance to the industrial and commer ter man, and by so doing you will help | Heretofore the wheels of this pattern, it Mrs. Nation’s lecture at Indianapolis cial development of the state, we hope yourselves to lie better men.’’ There is may be said, have had merely an experi drew a corporal's guard. Currie, too, mental existence ; but the term of doubt that the Evening Telegram and the coun none of us that good hut what we can was in poor voice, as she didn’t have a try pencil pushers will succeed in creating heed this and make it a trait of our char and cxi>eriment is now ended, and in the ' chop for breakfast. coining months chainless machines, with ! sufficient interest so that some plan may acter. their carefully encased gears, and with I Ella Wheeler Wilcox delicately protests be devised to ascertain once for al! whe * * * their price reduced to reasonable figures, | against being stared at in the streetcars. ther enough coal can be found in Oregon So the Steele combine in Portland could That's one of the penalties of being a to assure this statc^berotiling a manufac not make the graft stick. This should are certain to be prominent. warm poet. turing center. make the taxpaversof Multnomah coun BreWW °f ‘he f " eRt Beer in ">e Ndrthwest. W * * Don ’ t Monkey With a Buzz Saw. The agitation over the real estate ATtmLers S’«“ ty breath a little freer, for if thev can get Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, private!, Benjamin Fay Mills, an eloquent ora l id of the political grafters one at a time [ A cashier in one of the larger cities has market in China is due to the fact that confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home. Russia squatted on the pick.of the land tor, has been lecturing in Portland, and they, no doubt, will lie able to rid them just been convicted of embezzlement anil before the plat was filed. this is how the livening Telegram sizes selves of ring rule politicians. It is plain sentenced to the penitentiary for a long him up : “He used to be an ‘evangelist.’ to sec that the Steele grafters have been term. He was an honest man, and he Philosopher Dooley's “ Archev road” Now he is a Unitarian. When he dies he fighting for control of the political sack intended to put it all back. is taking on nn-to-date face. The famous may lie an ‘infidel.' He is not only an at the next election in that county. A cashier in one of the Colorado towns highway is to be paved and the tribe of entertainer, but a very brainy man. He M * * has just gone to the |>eiiitentiary for five Hennessy is inconsolable. 'converted' a great many people some Maine's crop of sardines amounting to Character is just as pronounced in a | years on the same charge. He was also OF SAN FRANCISCO, DEALERS IN years ago. Let us hope that one out of newspaper or magazine as it is in the honest and intended to put it all back. thirty eight carloads, is being hurried to a thousand of them staid'converted.' If various distributingpoints. The French His wife is paying part of the money by they did they did more than Mr. Mills friends you know personally. Some of writing and teaching. She couldn't do labels are said to be fine specimens ofthe did. But few of them have his brains. your friends you know are al wavs truth 1 otherwise, because she is a woman, and urt preservative. He very eloquently and really effectually ful, and some of them you would not be women ure almost pathetic in their de The report that the Hawaiian legisla lieve under any circumstances, while preached ten years ago that the story of votion. ture is unable to pass a bill is a mistake. Jesus' miraculous birth and resurrection others you have to watch constantly. It I I These cashiers each made a mistake. The appropriation bill went through was literally true ; that Jesus came from is just the way with any sort of publica-1 Thev monkeyed with a buzz-saw and with a whoop and the members are dili the skies from 'God who is our Hom;'”— lion, for it reflects the character of the) they will have to stand the consequences. gently drawing their stipends. as Wordsworth, that prince ofpoet-phil- people who are behind it. It doesn't pay to gamble with your * * * Some people in St. Louis are worrying osephers says—as a God to save human conscience. The penitentiaries of the j themselves needlesslv about what the ity. Now Mr. Mills says, in effect, that President McKinley is coming to Ore country are tilled with men who arejust United States commissioners to the fair Jesus was only a great man and teacher, gon and is not going to taken trip down as honest at heart as any man outside will do. For one thing they will draw AGENTS STEAMERS - w H Kürrrir like Socrates, Buddha, Shakespeare, the Columbia river. Probably those F.>r r KRUGER AND “ACME.” the prison walls. They have just as their salaries. Wordsworth, Gacthe and Tennyson. 1 who made his arrangements did not know LJ -11 Francisco and L<« Angeles. much moral integrity. as a matter of Was Mr. Mills right ten years ago ? or wli.it they were depriving the president “ Take no thought for the morrow, for is he right now ? It is very interesting, of in a delightful trip from Portland to fact. They are referred to as victims of the morrow will care for itself,” mav be circumstances. They were victims of if not imfiorlnnt, tor ns ignorant crea- the mouth of the Columbia. a good motto for the philosopher, but weakness—that's all. tines to know.” ( practically applied on the farm will end * * * They thought to play fast and loose * M * in a foreclosure suit as sure as shooting. Kansas has decided to sue the state of with conscience, and they tost, as men If the new road to Beaver is to be open New York and Brooklyn street railway Colorado for diverting the water of the always lose who enter that game. Thev ed this season it is high time there was Arkansas river from its natural channel Imd no thought of being ci iminals. They companies are living pinched by juries in something living done. Several of our and appropriating it to its own use had no guilty intentions. They plead damage cases, the last verdict lieing $22.. business men have expressed them With Carrie Nation smashing the joints, that their trouble was brought on not 000. The companies hang the bulk of selves favorable to tile development the question of water is a vital one to by their conduct, but by being found the population to carstraps so frequently of this prospect Why not a meeting l>e Kansas. < out. One of the unfortunate circum. that the victims find jury service the called to put the business on a footing * * * most effective way of reciprocating. stances of crime is discovery. and get to work at once Beaver is in In the light of factsaccessible to critics, The butter producing value of a cow No matter what a man may be. if he the midst of one of the richest parts of is more often determined by the nnmlier allows himself to become anything else it is cruelly unjust to assert the Cubans Tillamook county and has no railroad of pound» of milk she will give in a ve.ir he loses his original identity. If he is an are incapable of self-government. Mem. facilities. This new road would put them than by the butter test of her milk. Few honest man and allows himself to fall tiers of the constitutional convention are in touch at this place and naturally cause cows that give less than 5,00l» pounds of into dishonesty, then he becomes a dis drawing $15 a day and show no un- people to come here when desiring to go milk in a year are worth keeping as dairy honest man. It's one of the laws of seemly haste in letting go a good thing. to nnv part of the country. The S. P. R cows. What American lawmaker shows a nature. R. will, we have been assured, do their w * * Men may play skittles with good in loftier perception of public duty ’ share towards opening up this road. It cntr.uyuoe.ud. R.U., p.r D.y. Fann» located on rural mail routes are tentions if they wish. They are free i only remains to I k - seen if there is enough »aid to 1< womh about $5 an acre more Notice. moral agents. But it is just as certain enterprise or not in McMinnville to push than those not reached by thia new that when they have entered the game An perw'ns are hereby forbidden to the business ahead.—McMinnville News. |»o«tnl service. If that is the case then it they must play it through. trespass, by driving stock of any kind Presumably, from this, the business men is time Tillamook county had a fcw mail T ’ PP°^GON You can't be a sort of a criminal and a through my stock ranch at Blaitie, Til- ol McMinnville must be agitating the routes. sort of an honest man. You must be otoSkCo. Or. J. D J oxm . Öjbe (HilLmiooh Sjriibligbt. ; for McINTOSH & McNAIR, STOVES, RANGES and HEATERS. The Most Reliable GROCERY STORE in Tillamook Tt^rrxs of Interest. ROYAL EGG NOODLES. Two packages for 25 cents. The cheapest and best Noodle on the market, and better than the home made article. 1 Ar buckles’ or Lion Coffee, two packages for 25 cents. Shredded Wheat Biscuit, two packages for 25 cents. White House Coffee, 50 cents a pound. 9 8 9 KING & KERREMANS, LEACH & JONES, Tillamook Meat Market, Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc. The DIRECT ROUTE to TILLAMOOK Carrying U.S. Mail. Tillamook & North Yamhill Stage Line. w General V. MORGAN, Blacksmithing WINE AND LIQUOR HOUSE Billiard Parlors and General Social Resort. C. E. HADLEY, Proprietor. Oregon. Tillamook City, Truckee Lumber Co., FIR & SPRUCE Lumber BOX SHOOKS. general merchandise And LOGGERS’ Hobsonville, Or SUPPLIES j. E, SIBLEY, Mgr. BUSSELL “Ss High Grade Machinery SÀW MILLS THRESHERS STICKERS LARSEN HOUSE lLLAMOHOKbBRSBN The Best HoUI ih. «“ . J- „ No Chinese UKtGON. *** in U,e Employed.