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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1901)
ELEGANT HOUSEHOLD FURNITU Wall Paper and Linings. Furniture, etc., Sold on the Installment Plan. Easy terms. Call and Investigate. HOUSEHOLD FURNISHING GOODS, | CARPETS, JIPETS, MIRRORS MIRRORS, BEDROOM SUITES, | MATTING, OIL CLOTH. LINOLEUM LACE CURTAINS, TABLE LINEN, TOWELING j STOVES, RANGES, CROCKERY, GLASS, N oxju ’ s the time to refurnish your home. co„ Tlie MRS. MEDDER Sewing [Machine Undertaker's Supplies CUe are Headquarters for Prices are louu for First Class Furniture Call and Inspect our Goods. Fxix*nislxex*s Tilla,moolc BLUEGRASS in our burg that the county court will politicians who don’t respect people's allow these fellers to put up their own rights. Relates Some of the Incidents in bonds. One of them swore sixteen times Yours, for free roads and streams, that he was worth over two thousand Making Tillamook Streams M rs . M edder B luegrass . dollars.” Toll Water Ways. “Lore, a-mercy ; if I’d only know’d fl- Nortstrom Was Hanged. Won’t Allow the County Court to fore this that that there feller was worth sixteen times two thousand gold dollars S eattle , Aug. 23.—Charles W. Nord Milk the Hind Teat of Her you’d not be sparkin’ so lively with my strom was hanged this morning at 9:4-5 Spotted Cow. Mary Jane. It’s doin’ her an injustice to o’clock for the murder, on November 27, [ to EDITOR OF TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT.] engage her to you when she could just as 1891, of William Mason. well have had the dude with all that From early morning the condemned M ister E ditur ,—There’s a devil of a dough.’’ Then I felt exasperated and man had seemed to fully realize his posi ruction up in our naberhood with the got so rattled and excited like that my tion, and while ministers and members men folk. At first I thought it was a hen brand new store teeth fell out, them gold of the Salvation Army prayed with him on, but the atmosphere became so tropi plated ones which I had bought from the he cried continually. Shortly after 9;30 cal that I thought, sure, that some of proceeds of the hen fruit I had sold in Nordstrom was brought from the room them darn’d fools of men had slept on a Tillamook City. I couldn’t hold my in which he had been, just adjoining the hornet’s nest and they would never quit dander down with the safety valve any execution room. It required the assist jabbering about those pesky things tor longer, so stormed liked a good-tempered ance of four men to keep him on his feet. mentin’ ’em. This went on for several woniin would under thecircuinstance and When he was taken into the presence [ weeks, so I decided to haul my man over vowed if them there fellers, to whom the of the scaffold, he broke down entirely.! and give him a rub of my tongue. I’ll let county court leased the streams to with Crying in a childish voice, and praying him know who’s bossin’ this ranch, for out we woniin knowiu’ a blesssed word that his life be spared him, he collapsed he’s takin’ to gossipin’ too much with about it, didn’t present we with another entirely and fell to the floor. Efforts to ! the men about payin’ toll on timber and set of store teeth I’d sue ’em, sure. Be raise him and keep him on his feet were 1 cussin’ the court for barterin’away their sides, I’ll do a Carrie Nation act upon fruitless, and at last Sheriff Codihee or inalienable rights to a pack of suckers, and them and make ’em hunt their holes, for dered that a board be brought. To this at a time ’o day when they should be it was all their fault I got so excited that Nordstrom was tied. It required six men down on their marrow bones prayin' to my grinding machine flew out. Through to hold him while this was being done. be forgiven for their meanness to we sheer exhaustion venting my mind I sud While being tied to the board, Nordstrom womin folks. denly collapsed. My man went to the continued to cry in a loud voice. Several “You’ve got to pay toll on all timber family medicine chest and revived me with times he seemed to speak, but his words floated down the streams to those fel a drop of the “critter” to tone down my were unintelligible. The six men who had lers,” one of my nabers would keep re wrought up temper. It had a good effect held him raised his body on the board minding the crowd. for a while and there was a lull in the and, with great effort, succeeded in get “Darn’d if I’ll pay toll to those fellers ; atmosphere. ting him onto the gallows and onto the and I’ll see the county court to blazes “Yes,” began Bill Joues again, “they fatal trap. Here he was stood upright, first,” came from one of those big wire want to perpetuate this toll business in four of the men standing on the four pullin’ polerticians, and then the crowd Tillamook and tag it onto every darn’d sides of the trap and holding him. cheered him to the echo and I'm sure he thing we’ve got, and we’re simpletons to Within two seconds after the condemn felt as big as Roosevelt when he carried allow the county court to giveaway our ed man was in place the trap was sprung New York for goyernor on the back of rights because these here fellers hold the and Nodstrum had paid the penalty of the Rough Riders. court by the leg. There’s toll roads his crime. The trap was sprung at 9:4-9 Mr. Editur, I never saw such a lot of aglore. The court hasgiven a monopoly and Nordstrom was pronounced dead at disgruntled men folk afore in all my born on sixteen streams to make them toll 10:02. days. Mv man was as mad as a turkey water ways. If these here fellers can The crime for which Nordstrom was cock when he came home that night. My find a law to mal e us pay toll for milkin’ hanged was one of the most cold-blooded dander was up and I was loaded for him. our cows you bet your bottom dollar and unmitigated in the criminal history The first thing he did was to tread on the they will do so, just as they intend doing of the Northwest, and was committed nearly 10 years ago, the victim being cat’s tail, and this caused a cat and dog with those who own timber.’’ fight. M v man caught hold of the dog’s Fearin’, perhaps, they might put a toll Willie Mason, one of twosonsofThomas tail and he told me to /catch hold of the on marriages, I advised Bill Jones to wed Mason, a wealthy farmer living in the cat’s tail. This parted them as slick as my Mary Jane and save bein’ bled by yicinity of Cedar Mountain. At the a whistle and there was peace in the them there fellers who would suck the time of the murder the young man was 21 years of age, and was unmarried. family once more. I could see that mv blood out of a turnip. man was woefully worked up, so I did Mv man had been meditatin’ for seve not allow my dander to escape but shut ral minutes, when all on a sudden his mel Tordan Talks on Problems. down on the safety value. I d heard the odious voice, which is pitched in a kev D enver , Aug.—President David Starr men folk talkin’ lots about toll, it between that of a fog horn and that of a sudden’ly dawned on me that some poor scyron on board one of those big battle Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, is here on his way to California, after critter was goin* to die and a happy ships, exclaimed : thought had flittered through the men’s “What tarnation fools we polerticians having spent several weeks in Estes Park witii Professors Kellogg and Campbell, of mind to toll the school bell the day of were.” the funeral, when we womin always put Bill Jones puckered up his face like a the Leland Stanford University. In an interview he said there were three great on our best bib and tucker and crowd all laughin’ hynea and jerked out ; the finery and flowers onto our head “You’re gettin’ plenty of your own questions now prominently before the country, the labor problem, the Chinese gear. medicine, boss.” “Did you ever know such a brazen “Hold your darn’d whist, will you ; exclusion questisn and the problem of the effrontery in vour life ?” my man com you impudent little puppy. We’ve had Philippines. “The questions of the trusts and the menced, with his eyes buggin’ out of to take too much of our own medicine, their sockets. but we’ve made up our minds it won't unions,’’ he said, “must be settled by bal lot. If the laboring men have not the I had to admit I hadn’t made that per happen that way again.” son’s acquaintance, for she didn't live in My man, he's what they call a blue common sense and the judgment to vote our naborhood. blooded republican, and all he knows rightly they will suffer the consequences. ‘ That there court has leased all the about it is what them there polerticians They ha ve it in. their power to solve the streams without the people knowin* a tell him when they comes round so per- problem. If force or bloodshed are re syllable about it, and they’re going to litely and friendly shakin* hands election sorted to, it a mistake. I do not believe make em pay toll to beat the band.” time. He gets so befuddled I vow he in sympathetic strikes, as they oblige I asked my man if it was thecourt over don’t know a scheemin’ boss polertician many innocent individuals to suffer. in China he was referrin’ to, for all that from our jack mule. I do, for they kinder Why should a fruitraiser lose his crops I had ever read about the Empress I had puts me in mind of my man Ixfore we because the freight handlers are on a not seen the European powers were try were hitched up double. They are so sympathetic strike? The strike of freight ing to collect toll when the court returns perlite to we womin and make all kinds handlers on the Pacific Coast has cost an of promises when they woo us into mar immense amount of inconvenience and to Pekin. Just then Bill Jones, who’s sparkin’ rying them. A lot of ’em are base de loss to travelers and members of the with my Mary Jane, came in all a-puffin’ ceivers, so are some of these polerticians community who know nothing about and a-blowin*, just as he did when my when they get into power and then mon the grievances, but are made to suffer. “As to the Chinese exclusion,” said Susan had her first baby, so anxious was key with people's rights Bill Jones is a straight demercrat and the doctor, “it is not all one-sided. 1 he to pnxlaim to the wide world that I would, in a few minutes, become a grand he never failed to vote the populist ticket am not in sympathy with the sentiment from top to bottom, and lore a mercy, • that would exclude al! Chinamen from ma. “Have you heard the latest new’s ?” he to hear my man and Bill Jones scrappin’ our country. 1 am in favor of admitting over poleYtics you'd think they could run a Chinaman who comes to these shores gasped. “No ; do tell. Is there another hen and had the responsibility of the whole accompanied by his family. If he brings on ?" I replied, before my inan had time state upon their shoulders, when actually his family he will have something to they don't know how to run their own anchor to. I would exclude all paupers to collect his senses. “Don’t this jar you ?” Bill Jones com farms if we womin didn’t tell them what and Chinamen who came alone. We menced. "It’s rumor’d up in our burg to do. Bill Jones, he makes my man real should bear in mind that if China is that the fellers to whom thecountycourt mafflots of times, and he even told him opened to the trade of America, we can leased all the streams to are goin’ to ap if the convention put up a stock hog for not afford to antagonize that great ply to the county court again for more office, like ours which is expectin' a litter nation by a rigid law of exclusion.” Dr. Jordan said his travels in the Phil of the people rights, and we're not to next month, he’d whoop her up and vote know anythin’ about it until them there as the boss polerticians told him. Then ippines had not caused him to change fellers are over in our meadows sucking my man, to get even, calls Bill Jones a his views regarding expansion. He said: “I do not believe in expansion, and the hind teats of every cow in the darn’d red flag dcmercratic anarchist who'd pull the flag down in the Philippines, when I did not, but ns we have put our shoulders Country.” “I’ll be sorry for the county court or have to step in and settle the ash by to the wheel, we can’t possibly back out. We must sec the thing through som-how. any of them there other fellers if I ketch boldin’ the rollin' pin over their heads. Let's know, Mr. Editur, if them fellers But the Philippine Commission is a very ’em milkin’ the hind teat of may spotted cow,” I chimed in when I found an op are goin* to get the right from the county able body of men, and thecountrj court to milk the hind teat of my spotted have the greatest confid portunity to wedge in my ideas. ' MYes,” said Jones, “and it's rumored up cow, so that I can lx loaded fur those Ability. Notice to Creditors. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. I O. H. DAVENPORT, Notice is hereby given that on the 16th DENTIST. day of August, 1901, CHARLES L. L. EDDY, Makes a Specialty of Crown and Bridge THOMPSON, of Tillamook, Oregon, Work. was duly adjudicated bankrupt ; and ATTOR N E Y-AT- LAW T illamook C ity , O regon . that the first meeting of his creditors will T illamook , O regon be held at Room 600, Chamber of Com merce Building, Portland, Oregon, on the 18th day of September. 1901, at ten yy 11. COOPER, o’clock a.m., at which time the said cred itors may attend, prove their claims, ap ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, point a trustee, examine the bankrupt and transact such other business as mav TILLAMOOK, OREGON. properly come before said meeting. Dated, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 20th, S. M. HAYES rp II. GOYNE, 1901. ALEX. SWEEK, Makes a Specialty of Manufactur- Referee in Bankruptcy. ing all kinds of ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, i ß Harness Makin Harness, Saddles, Collars, Office : Opposite Court House, T illamook , O rkuon . Go to Carriage Trimmings. 0LAUDE THAYER, E. JENKINS, WATCHES. CLOCKS and JEWELRY, T illamook , O regon . ROBERT A. MILLER, ALSO OF ATTORNEY-AT LAW, O begon C itv , O hkgon . I.ami Titles mid Land Office Business a General Banking and Exchange busi Specially. ness. Exchange on England, Belgium, Ger (JAM KN McCAIN, (A. W. 8EVKKANCK many, Sweden, and all foreign countries C. 8 l E. Thayer OPTICAL GOODS. Will guarantee all goods as repre sented. CALL First Class Work Guaranteed. In Bailey’s WareltMae at Tillamook City. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Who has a fine assortment of TN AND INSPECT OUR STOCK. TILLAMOOK. J^cCAIN & SEVERANCE, CHAS, PETERSON » A TTO R N E Y S- A T L A W, T illamook , O regon . PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR. All call promptly attended to. T ii . i . amook , O hkgon . I. M. SMITH, M.D., PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Hot and Cold Raths. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST CLASS Offices in T.sld’s Buildings. TILLAMOOK — For Fence Posts. FIR COATED WITH Carbolineum Avenarius |)AVI1> WILEY, M.D., SHAVING, IIAIR CUTTING, SHAMPOOING, ORE. OREGON. Will outwear CEDAR. It is also a RADICAL REMEDY AGAINST CHICKEN LICE. Its application to the iu| •ide walla of poultry houses will perma| nently eater- minate all LICE. Results: HEALTHY d PLENTY EGGS. Write for circular and prices and men- tion this paper. WADE & BRIGGS, Tillamook, Or. M c I ntosh & mcnair HARDWARE, TINWARE’and CHINA. STOVES, RANGES and HEATERS. OAK Headquarters for Dairymen’s Supplies. Agent for CHARTER OAK STOVES. Western Washing JWaehines "''''///iYY Large Stock of Pain tn, Oils, Varnishes and Glasa. The Most Reliable GROCERY STORE in Tillamook LUMBER AT TILLAMOOK j TAFT A CO. HAVl Oh HAND DRY FLOORING, CEILING Finish Rustic, Wainscoting, Mouldings and Ship Also all Sizes of ROUGH LUMBER. Lap THE GOOD BOOK SAYS: Royal tailoring can be Worn by the wot k man as Easily as it can be worn Uy the merchant or banker, 2 uf- * .y A., •> A . */%L« JULY PRICE LIST now in effect, and it is a warm one. too ♦ Pick your cloth for any season, no limit of patterns to make a «election from. Those who can ufford it will Iwy SUITS, OVERCOATS and PANTS. There are ninny who will order no less than six pair trouser*. The sale is on and the goods will lie gone before n great while. Il pay« to pay less and dress lietter. KING & KERREMANS. ■KBrsivi: kesiiiest is royal tai L ohisg . & k At
