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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JUNE 6, 1901 * Attention ! Attention ! * • * Your Attention is Called to the BARGAINS Offered Below : b O y ' s ^V ITS, 'sizes from fa to 20. No SHODDY GOODS5 Made of Clay, Worsted, Mixed Cashmere, and Fine Thibet. A BARGAIN at $5.00 and $6.00, choice, per suit I3.15. 85 BOY’S SUITS' stricklv all WOOL, Oregon Cashmere, sizes from 12 to 20, worth $7.00 and $7. o while they last, CHOICE per SUIT $490. WORSTFn 65 EXTRA HIGH GRADE SUITS, made of Albany, Salem and Brownsville Woolen Mills, in sizes from 12 to 20, well worth $10 per Suit. Choice of the lot, $5.90. LINE WOKS 1 LI) and SILK FINISHED SUITS at astonishing low prices. , . MEN’S ALL WOOL SUITS at $4.90, $5-9» and $6.90. FINE DRESS SUITS $6.90 $7.90, *8.40, $9.00 and $10. Worth nearly double the money are TTS at U to 150 MEN’S, LADIES’ and MISSES MACKINTOSHES to be closed out ata sacrifice. A large assortment of CAPES, JACKETS, SKIR1S, SUIISaud HR LOLLAKU1 lb at /3 to l/ lower in price than what you would have to pay East. A fine and large assortment of DRESS GOODS, WASH GOODS, COTTON and SILK SKIR I \\ AIS I S at way down prices. CALL AT ONCE AND GET FIRST CHOICE, as our Stock is Moving out fast. Respectfully yours, A JACOBSON ORIGINATORS OE HIGH GRADE GOODS AT LOW PRICES. D. NAYBERGER, Manager. & CO TILLAMOOK, OREGON. Whole number enrolled, 25 ; whole keeping the road, and give the under hie person for ten years who would keej number of days attendance, 449’^; taking to secure the performar.ee thereof the r >ad in repair. as provided in said Title III of Chapter Rates of toll for the Big Nestucca Toll whole number of days absence, 241/2 ; Ixxvi., of the Miscellaneous Laws of whole number of times late, 10. Oregon. Mr. Clark came in from Woods and is Ro«id were established as follow s : Dated at Tillamook City, Oregon, this Roll of Honor—Bernice Warren and 50c. For two wheel vehicle .. now assistingin Clough’s drug store. We desire to submit to your careful consideration some state- 5th day of June, 1901. Lola Smith. 25c. For saddle or pack horse H omek M ason , Mr. Shackelford came in on the stage j ments of fact. M ildred S ybil L ister , Teacher. 10c. For loose stock ................ < County Ckr: of Tillamook! on Wednesday with his son, Mr. P. D. Some months ago a few Portland business men, who know .025 For sheep or hops, each.. County, Oregon. Advanced Department. Shackelford, of Hillsboro. I what the oil field of California had done for that state, and who Whole number enrolled, 21; whole Messrs. A. W. Fletcher and G. S. Rich, Grants Another Water Franchise. were anxious to find out if the Coast Range mountains in Oregon Told Out of Court. number of days attendance, 373 ; whole tirdson were in from Oretown on Tues ' were not as promising in oil indications as the Coast Range moun number of days absence, 12 ; whole num At the meeting of the city council on day : also Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Porter. An old gentleman walked into the pro tains of California, engaged the services of two professional oil land I Monday evening a letter was read from ber of times Lite, 0. secutor’s office in Kansas City with an air M. Susman and sous, of Astoria, were Roll of Honor—Alice Bevington, Mary experts and sent them intoWestern Oregon to examine the territory. ' Mr. H.J. Withey asking for a franchise of serious importance and consulted. As in the citv this week and gathered up a I to put in a new iron pipe water system, Lederer, Frank Warren, Margaret Watt, sistant Prosecutor Kelly about a young These experts, Mr. P. W. Francis and Mr. G. P. Brown, first ex Land of 40 head of cattle and left with giving a pressure of 80 pounds to the Sadie Watt. them this morning. man who persisted in making love to his plored the county around Clatskanie and the upper Nehalem region, M arie M erriman B radlev , square inch and the system to be com and were both highly pleased with the indications and with the daughter. Portland wholesale merchants don’t pleted in six months. Other features in Principal. formation. They were both, however, strongly impressed by the “That’s no crime,” said Mr. Kelly. believe in reciprocity, for they want to the letter were that he would furnish the Monthly report of School District No. “Well, maybe not. But isn’t there [ fact that both surface indications and the oil-rock formation be hog the trade from Tillamook county, city with water free of cost for municipal some law to keep him from making love came more and more promising as they neared the Lower Nehalem but not being content with 1 cent per I | purposes, charge 50c. for each faucet, $1 10, closing Mav 24, 1901. No. pupils registered, 44; no. days to her?” pound for handling Tillamook cheese, | I for patent water closets, and would j and the Tillamook County. Returning to Portland, they so reported. they declare they won’t do so any longer [ make no charge for water used on lawns taught, 20 ; no. days attendance. 769 ; | “None that I ever heard of,” said Mr. At this stage Mr. Brown was called away on business in another unless they receive 1’/a cents We wonder I j or street sprinkling. This is a synopsis no. days absence, 56 ; times late, 1 ; i Kelly. “Are his intentions honorable?” | field, and Mr. Francis, taking with him Mr. E. S. McCoy, a Pen “Yes, sir,” was tho answer. “He is so whether they are going to make the | i of the letter received by''Mr. R. M. Wat average no. belonging, 41; average nsylvania oil man of long experience, made a field exploration same raise for handling the products | son and handed to the city council, with daily attendance, 38 ; visitors during the anxious to marry her that he’s been try about the mouth of the Nehalem and around Tillamook Bay, the month, 6. ing to pawn his watch to get money for i from other parts of the state, or is it a the proviso that the city pass an ordi result was the leasing ofabout ioo acres, and the formation of a Those neither tardy nor absent : Nae- th e license. ” starter to make the farmers pay in an in nance right away. City Attorney Eddy direct manner toward building the cen had talked with Mr. H.J. Withey over oma and Edna Young, Edwin and I company in Portland, iucoporated under the name of the Tillamook The docket of a justice of the peace in Paraffine Oil Company, with the following well-known gentlemen tennial in Portland in 1905 ? Tillamook the long distance telephone in,Portland Stanley Boxuist, Lizzie Erickson, Alvin. Michigan states the following finding: ( as officers and directors: Mabel and Lillie Wicklund, Alfred and will have to build a steamer and do all that day, with the result that he had its trading with San Francisco or the drawn up an ordinance empowering the Erick Gulstrom, Louie, Freddie and •‘Plaintiff proved an account of $29.49. President, H. S. Rowe, Mayor of Portland ; Vice President J. Almeda Eklof, Lotta and Tommy Price, Defendant did not prove his set off by a Sound cities vet. mayor and the president of the council Emma and Naemi Swenson, Erick Wil preponderance of evidence, leaving his A.Taylor, of the firm of Honeyman & McBride, Portland ¡Treasurer, We have even moulded the opinion of to enter into ati agreement for a water rights thereto indefinite, but in equity I Samuel Connell, President of the Northwestern Door Co. and Presi son. D ora E. H igh , Teacher. the Tillamook Herald in regard to the franchise for 30 years in accordance with have estimated the same at $17.50.” On dent of the Board of Trade of the city of Portlaud; Directors M. J. I railroad situation, for it is now twitting I > the terms of the letter. This ordinance the basis of this equitable estimate of Roche of the Rio Grand & Western Ry. Co., and President of the Notice to the Public. the Portland scheme. How the Herald, was passed without a dissenting voice. what was not proved, the docket adds: Pacific Coast Passenger Traffic Association; E. E. Miller, of tl:e I wish to announce to the citizens of in its issue of Feb. 21st, tried to make * * * “Judgment in favor of plaintiff for Tillamook and surrounding country All the city officials thought the propo firm of Miller & Miller,Commercial Block, Portland; F. E. Beuel’, out that the editor of the Headlight was $15.49. principal and $10 costs.” Careful a bad man and had given the county a sition was a good one. It was pointed that I have become a permanant citizen headot the firm of F. E. Beach & Co., the Pioneer paint and Oil subtraction indicates that the justice black eye for telling a little wholesome out that Mr Withey had taken a pecu of this place. That 1 am an Optician of finally revised his equitable estimate by firm of Portland, so widely and favorable known over the entire truth makes us snicker a little to see liar course in wanting a franchise before twenty-six years’experience, and have a northwest; and P. W. Francis, professional oil land expert. reducing the set off 50 cents. what a somersault it has now taken. It he had obtained w ater rights or hadeven thorough understanding of the human It goes without saying that men of the standing and credit of now proves that the Headlight knew full made his appearance or become known eye and its relations to health. I under Was this man Dennis an entire stranger well what it was talking about, for in to the city council, for no one knew fora stand the principles of refraction of light, to you?” asked the cioss examining the gentlemen managing this Company do not lend their names writing upon subjects of interest to Tilla certainty whether Mr. Whithcy intended and am prepared to correct all errors of counsel of a witness in an important and influences to any mere stock-jobbing, fly-by-night scheme. They are men you know, men whose reputation is worth more than mook county we never do so through business or had a card up his sleeve. .All refraction in the human eye by the scien case, reports Youth’s Companion, our hat. But we will forgive our Bro. was not scerene with the conncihnen, for tific adjustment of spectacle. And if any i “Sorr?” said the witness, whose stupid many thousands as a mere business collateral; men who will see for doing so now that we have mould- Messrs. Cary and Mason wagged their person is afflicted with pains in or face was crossed with wrinkles of anxiety that every dollar of money subscribed to this enterprise is honestly e<l his opinion to conform to that of the heads and with smiles on their counte- around the eyes, the region of the temples, for he had been warned to be cautious expended in boring for oil, and who will see, too, that the small Headlight, and. furthermore, we do not natices foretold that they were in doubt or the back of the head or neck, call on and exact in answers. stockholder’s rights are just as carefully protected as the large '.espnir of seeing the Herald take an about tRe genuineness of the proposition me by all means and have your case The lawyer repeated his question. stockholders. diagnosed free of all charge. For the other somersault and follow the ex- and did not want to be fooled with. •'Well, no, sorr,’’said the witness, with The Board of Directors have ordered that 100,000 shares of ample of the Headlight in opposition Evidently the councilmen had very little present mv office will be at my residence, a sudden gleam of erdightment; “he to bonding the city for water and faith in what they were doing for they l’ a blocks east of the bank, and all eves couldn’t be that, for he had but the wan capital stock, each of the face value of $i.oo, be offered to the This stock is full-paid, is non did not want to run the risk of spending will be tested free. electric light systems. arrm, sorr; hut he was a parrital stranger public at io cents per share. D r . W. E. L awless , Optician. assessable, and when you have bought it and paid io cents for it, money for the publication of the ordi sorr. Oi’d niver seen him befoor.” nance. Time will tell, however, whether your payments are done and there is no further liability of any Bids Wanted to Lease the Wilson J. A. Todd Sc Co.’s Drawing. Mr. Withey means business or whether i The cross-examiner was a smart man. kind. With the $10,000 realized from the sale of this stock, in River County Road. whose object waste» disconcert the wit addition to the money paid in by the incorporators, we will bore The prizes offered l>v J. A. Todd & Co., I there is a little w ire-pulling going on for Notice is hereby given, that by virtue ! ness «and discredit his testimony. the city clothiers and general merchants' obvious reasons. of an order duly made and entered by | “What did you way your narue was?” standard size oil wells to a depth of 2,000 feet, if necessary, on the * * * were drawn for on Saturday evening, leased property near Bay City. It is proper to say that the work We have been asked what we think of the County Court of the State of Oregon was the first question. and the lucky individuals were _• for Tillamook County on the 5th day of we contemplate will cost from $25,000 to $30,000, and in offering “Michael Doherty.” 1—2715 .................... Mrn Win. Patrick. Mr. H. J. Withev’s proposal to put in a June, 1901, as follows, to wit ; part of the capital stock to the public we do it for two reasons : I new water system. Until we know more In tl e County Court of the State of “ Michael Doherty, eh? Now Doherty, 2— 453.................... . . .J. 8. Stephens answer this question carefully. Are you a First, we think it an excellent investment, with a promise of very 3—4455................... ................ M. Leach. ' about the gentleman and he knows more Oregon, for the County uf Tillamook. In the matter of the applica great profits; second, we think that a public enterprise like this, married man?” 4— 890 ............. B. O’iiara. J about Tillamook City it is only guess tion of J. D. Edwaads to lease “Oi think so, Oi was married.” which, if successful, will add millions to Tillamook’s wealth and 5—4008.................... .............. J. CoelllolL | work whether the scheme will material the Wilson Rivercounty road. This matter coming on now to be heard “So you think because you got married bring oil operators and wealthy men from all over the Union to in 5- 208.-1 .. . .. .Geo. McNortoii I ize or not. On the face of it, everything 7—2878.................... ... John Latimer. | ; looks on the square, and, ofcourse, as it oil the application of J. I). Edwards to that you are a married mail, do you? vest here, is worthy of public assistance. We are willing to do lease the county road known as the • 8-2462................. ............... J. A. Price is proposed to give the city water free of “Wilson River County Road,” and the! Now, felltne whom you married.” our share in the hope of profits, and we think you ought to be 9—3020 . “ Who Oi married? I married a woman. willing to join hands. Anna Willi.mm charge for municipal purposes, this makes Court having heretofore taken this mat. 10— 670 ................ ............ H. A. Davis. J it much more desirable. We are not car ter under advisement until this 5th day ’ “Now don’t you know better than to June, 1901, and the Court now being If we strike oil in good quality, the stock now offered at 10 11—3038 .................... ........... F. L. McFall. ried away with enthusiasm at present trifle with the court? Of course you mar fully advised in the premises, cents will jump to $10 a share in a day’s time, and an invest over the prospect of seeing another 12—2253 ................... ried a woman; did you ever hear of any Mrs. Wald. It is hereby considered, ordered and I ment of $100 now for 1,000 shares will net you $10,000. Does 13— 74...................... ............... Bert Biggs. water system, for the name of Mr. H. J adjudged that that part of said road one marrying a man?” this seem exaggerated ? Just read a few examples of what has 14—4581. ..................... “Yes. Moi sister did. ” R. M. Watson. Withey is so much shrouded in mystery commencing at what is known as the Bester Ford and running thence up Wil- l’>— 19.................... Herbert Parnone. that even the councilmen don't know soil Rivet to the county line between Till- actually occurred in California within three years : The learned justices of Georgia differ 16—2897...................... .... John Hickey. where they are at or who they are deal mo<»k and Washington Counties, is a 1 hree years ago the Union Oil Company’s stock was $1 per 17—1989 .... C. Hodgdon, ing with—a reality or a sham Had the county road, and as such that this coun somewhat as to whether the braying of share. It is now $1,500. Au investment of $100 made $150,000. 18—1825.................... D. Oliver. city council insisted upon Mr. Withey ty court has full jurisdiction and control an ass can lie considered a lullaby. In a recent decision as to what consti The stock of the Home Oil Company, of Coalings, Cal., sold 19- 218 ........ ........... J. K. Brady putting up a cash bond liefore hastily thereof, in the <>|»eni»*g, improving, re pairing nn I leasing thereof ; that there SO— 827.. It is now $5. An investment of $100 earned $5,000 ......... Claud Hunt. drafting an ordinanceand throwing it at is a very small amount of local labor tutes a "noise nuisance" the supreme at 10 cents. St- 445 ................... ...J. 8. Stephens. a person unknown to anyone in the city, nl.nie the line of said road ; and that it is court of Georgia referred to a previous in two years. 22—2134...................... ........ C. IhHigdon. it might have been more liecoming the deemed advisable to lease the said road decision of that court in which Justice The New York Company’s stock in 1897 was 50 cents per to some responsible person or corpora S3- 782 Jasper Smith. dignity of that body and brought the tion. to improve and keep the same in Lumpkin said in regard to the braying snare. It is now $200. An investment of $100 earned $40,000. 94—2470 ..................... J A Price. council in personal touch with the gen repair for the |>eriod of ten years with of an ass: "We know of no sound, how The Reed Company’s stock sold at 25 cents one year ago. It ever discordant, that may not, by iiabit, tleman desiring a water franchise. Pos 95 - 328...................... the right in consideration thereof to col Jean Jenkins. sibly it mav turn out satisfactory, but let t and receive tolls for travel thereon in be converted into a lullaby, except the recently sold its holdings for $i,800,000, netting each investor of braying of an ass or the tongue of a $100, $40,000 profit. we do not care to lie tripped up, for there the manner provided by law. Answer to Correspontlent. It is also hereby ordered further that is so much close figuring and investiga the County Clerk of this county cause scold.” In the latest decision Chief Jus The chances of these companies were not one bit better than X.X., Tillamook.— No, sir, we cannot tion liefore putting in a water system this order to lie published in the Tilla tice Simmons said of the above opinion ours to begin with. publish your letter in lies«you are willing 1 which will cost about $50,000, that it mook Headlight, a weekly newspaper of of his brother justice: \\ e think the best chance to make big money by a small to sign your name to it. for to attack a ’ nppenrs to us that Mr. Withey is taking general circulation and published in "With this statement wecannot profess ■ , this eftvvn»«) 4k-*4 I«*— ___1______ if 1 ------------- B 4 (tersoli mid then hide Miind n non de a decidedly peculiar course in asking for Tillamook county. Oregon, for theperiod that we entirely ag.-ee, but if we did so ,n'es»ment that has ever been offered in Oregon - -- viv-^vd. 1 he stock will ' plume is somewhat c »wartlly, therefore. a franchise lietore he Ims obtained water of tour weeks, and that the said Clerk in we would still think that lullabies are be on sale in Portland, Seattle, Spokane, and San Francisco like manner give notice therewith that we cannot allow von or anyone else to or water rights or even gone over the sealed bids will lie received at such not usually desirable after one is wrapped •i’P- i a"d 7’.11 not lonK wait buyers. The first or 10 cent issue is encroach upon the lilierty of the press in ground. One thing is certain, if it comes Clerk's office in form and manner as by in slumber, and might become an i intol offered in Tillamook county, as we want the people here to be in ■linking clmrgm of that description with to competition the present company is law in such eases made and provided for erable nuisance at 4 or 5 o'clock in the on 7" the ”1“ ground-floor. 7------------- ’ The Secretary Secretary of the Comnanv Company, MR. P. the leasing of such road until the 5th out you are willing to do as we state. in a (MMition to make it interesting, espe day of July, 1SMH, morning. ’’ \V. - FRANCIS. V :” v - -- • for - - 1 days at the T ¡ w FRANCIS, will be in Tillamook a few But, my friend, don’t get excited. Sealed bids will lie received at the cially it the company carries out its in .... P 8 “ ;° *• “ *•* tention of putting in iron pipes, which office of the County Clerk of said count v all the information in his power. from the date ot this notice until the 5th Commissioners' Court. ‘ is must do if it intends to remain in busi day ot July, 1901, at 9 o’clock a.m.. for hoursconstituterl a nuisance which the court would enjoin. The board of county commissioners ness, tor if this is not done the citizens the leasing of that part of the Wilson hel.l nn adjourned seMion on Wednesday may take the bull by the horns and put River Road, descriliedin the above order, j for the |ieriod of ten years in accordance ' with County Judge <». W. Sappington in a water system of their own if this is with said order of Court and Title III. delayed much longer. and Commissioners Ray and L. Parrish of Chapter Ixxvi., of the Miscellaneous Law sot Oregon, and that no bids tiled HEADLIGHT present.when the following business was shall lie considered unless accompanied Sc hoot Reports. transacted : and by an undertaking, executed by two or ' In the matter of the application of J. Report of Bay City Public School. Di . more sureties, in the sum of two thou D. E<iw ards to lease the W ilsou river t.ict No. 31, Tillamook co., Oregon, sand dollars. to lie void upon the con WEEKLY OREGONIAN dition that the bidder, if the lease is countv road, it w as decided to call for month ending May 24th. 1901 : awarded to him. will within ten davs bids to lense the road to some rcs|»onsi- ( Primary Ikpartment. thereafter enter into the contract for | One Year for #3.35. TILLAMOOK JOTTINGS. To the People of Tillamook Co. Continued from First page. I Tillamook Paraffine Oil Company,