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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. NOVEMBER 28, IgQL.
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are Headquarters
Headquarters for
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Furniture, etc., Sold on the
Installment Plan. Easy terms.
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STOVES, RANGES, CROCKERY,
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Nocu’s the time to furnish your homes.
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Undertaker’s
Supplies.
Call and Inspeet our Goods.
Tire Tillamook
Priees are lout for First Glass Furniture
House
Furnishers
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that bright business men who I more for any act on their part than th«
Ijcabligbt wonder
become infatuated with the same ideas law provides.
vrathful indignation of the republican
»arty in Tillamook countv belches forth
n protest of Sappington’s loose system
of government, then see how quick Bro.
»Vatson will scramble out of the Max
well-Sappington band wagon and slob
ber those who are elected.
J. s. LAMAR,
The acts of one commissioner can noi
cannot pay creditors and their businesses
bind the countv unless he acts by auth
gradually go to the dogs.
ority of the board and that authority
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Let us administer a kindly rebuke to must appear in the records. The board
those who have been in the habit of com cannot make a contract with one o'
( strictly in advance .)
I have the largest and best assorted stock of old
$1.50 plaining about the saloons and the gam their number.
One year.......
Wines
and Liquors that has ever been imported into
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Delivery
Extention.
Six months—
75 bling and the morality of Tillamook
Rural
In regard to the bridge law. which
50 City. The Editor of the Headlight has
Three months
this City.
President Roosevelt is fnvorable to
heard these complaints from the pulpit, was in effect when Judge Sappington
Thoughts on the City Election on the streets and in private, and al says he made a contract to build the continuing the extention of the rural»;
Bea ver Creek bridge, the following will treedeliverv system. At a recent con-
’’ Whisky, $2.25 to $8.00 per gal. J
The Headlight a few weeks since indi though lie has attended nearly every show conclusively that he as well as the
terence with the postmaster general lie
meeting
of
the
city
council
for
over
three
j
|
Wines, $1.00 to $3.00 per gal. j
cated along what lines the present elec
other commissioners acted unlawfully.
is said to have expressed himself ear
tion should he fought and which we be years, not one word of complaint has i Upon the establishment of any road,
nestly in favor of the development of
lieved was for the best interest of Tilla been made to the city council, not even the county surveyor shall enter the plat
the service to the idea that the friends of
by
a
member
of
the
ministerial
associa
mook City—that of having the law rig
Don’t drink cheap doctored stuff when you can
and field notes thereof upon the official the system have had in mind for years.
tion,
or
those
who
have
done
no
end
of
idly enforced and explicitly obeyed. We
records of the county. He shall make It is understood that in his annual re-
buy
it
pure and unadulterated from me.
kicking.
At
the
council
meeting
is
where
believe so still, and on a square issue we
out a complete description of all port the postmaster general will recom-
believe also that this is what the conser the kicking should be done. Another or any part of the real estate of his
mend an appropriation of $6,000,000 for
vative people require and have the power thing, we fail to recall how many at county, to be made out and entered in
to carry through. As usual the extrem tempts have been made to curtail the proper rolls furnished by the county the maintenance and extention of free
ists steps in, men who fail to grasp the evil, by a little smuttering of agitation clerk for such purpose. The county sur delivery routes during the next fiscal
situation and take no heed as to what for a few weeks before an election, or veyor shall make complete surveys, plans, year and it is expected that congress
can or cannot be accomplished—and, in when a few new ministers arrive in the specifications and estimates for all brid will do this. It is said to be in contem
our opinion, they become a detriment to city, only to drop into insignificance ges, culverts, roads ditches or other pub plation toplace this under the civil ser
those win» work along safe and conser after a few weeks. We point this out to lic works to be constructed under the vice rules, so that the carriers will be
protected and retained in employment
vative lines. The introduction of prolii-1 show what little results have been ac-
authority of the countv court, and shall on the merit plan and without regard to
bition into city politic» has proved fatal ! comP,ished bv tl,esc spasmodic efforts
report the same with his recommenda
to those who have striven to bring about Is the present agitation going to meet a tions thereon, and he shall superintend political influences.
Mr. A. W. Machen, who has had charge
like
fate
?
reform by other means. It will prove
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the construction of such work and make of the rural delivery system since it start
fatal this ye ir as well ; doubly so, l»e-
The Headlight believes that, no matter reports on the progress of the same to ed. predicts that in a very few years Agents for Kopp's Brewery, the Brewer of the Finest Beer in the Norths««.
cause when prohibitionists undertake to who is elected next Monday, they should
Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, privatelj
the county court as often as they may every farmer in the land will have his
scold the business men of Tillamook City enforce the law and not fine one man for
confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home.
require ; provided, that the county court mail delivered at his door. The spread
it antagonises a powerful influence and breaking it and allow another man to do may employ a civil engineer or architect
of the service, he said, has demonstrated
brings the matter down to personalities. I so with impunity. There is no justice in
to act in conjunction with the county that it will ultimately have the most im
Business men resent l»eitig scolded by |
that. Let the new city officials have a • surveyor in making plans, specifications portant effect on the business opportuni
throwing their influence in an opposite I little more grit in enforcing the law. In
and estimates ofanv bridge, culvert, road ties of the farmer and it will bring the
direction—an influence, which, if prop advocating that the Headlight firmly
ditch or any other public work to be con tradesmen of the cities in such intimate
erly handled, can be used togood advant believes that this is for the best interest
structed by the county and in superin relations with the farming community
age.
Let us take a retrospective of Tillamook City, and we appeal to our
tending the construction of the same ; that gradually we shall see some re
OF SAN FRANCISCO, DEALERS IN
view For the past few years the minis, sol»er thinking citizens if this is not a
provided, that in the construction of the markable results in our domestic com
ters of the respective churches have taken fair and right position th*y should take
same the services of the county surveyor mercial world. He declared that it
active interest in the elections, God fear- in the matter and insist upon it being
may be disjiensed with» at the discretion would l»e impossible now to deprive
ing men, men who are giving their life carried out ?
of the connty court. Whenever any those parts of the country that have be
work to raise humanity to a nobler
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bridge is to be built by anv county in come habituated to the free rural deliv
It
only
takes
three
things
to
make
an
and higher pinnacle, men who were just
this state, the estimated cost of which ery svstem ot its advantages. The out
I
ns earnest as anv member of the present ideal city official ; Good business judg
shall exceed the sum of $200, the countv cry against any attempt to do away
ministerial association, yet for all that ment, moral backbone and a determina
surveyor shall at once advertise for seal with it would soon become a political
they have sadly lacked the experience to tion not to be a tool for the special in
ed bids, according to the plans, specifica issue that would have to be reckoned
grapple with l<x*al evils and checkmate terest oi any one faction.
tions and strain diagrams to be furnished with promptness.
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those who are masters in the art of con
Tillamook City is no one horse town bv him and to be kept in his office tor the
There is no doubt that the svstem is
trolling votes. We have all heard these
AGENTS STEAMERS ' W. H. KRUGER” AND •'ACME."
information of bidders. Said advertise permanent, nor is there any question as
good men talk when they first came here neither can it lie run long by one man or
For San Francisco and Los Angeles.
ment
to
be
published
for
at
least
two
in
the
interest
of
one
faction.
Those
to its great benefit. At present nearly
full of zeal, and taking part in elections,
consecutive
weeks
in
the
official
news.
Hobsonville,
Or.
J. E, SIBLEY, Mgr.
4,COO,OUO people are enjoying its advan
solemnly deciare that the prohibition days are past and gone, and a good
paper of the county, if a weekly, and tages and within five years the number
party was going to sweep the saloons out thing, for if it will broaden people’s ideas
twenty days if a daily paper. Each bid will doubtless be several times that, if
of this city and county. These men have as well.
der shall be required to deposit with his the appropriations are sufficient to ena
come and gone and others have taken
The Law in the Matter.
hid 5 per cent of the amount ot such bid, ble the department to promptly meet the
their places, only to follow the same tac
We stated that we would give the law which shall be forfeited to the countv in applications for routes. As an educa
tics of applying the prohibition medicine
to cure existing evils in a city where anv in the matter regarding the action of the case the award is made to him and if he tional influence alone the value of rural
attempt to introduce prohibition kills off county court which has been called into fails, neglects or refuses for the ¡»eriod of free delivery cannot be overestimated.
STEAMERS-SUE H. ELMORE, W. II. IIARRIS0N.
anv sentiment that may have lieen creat question. County Judge Sappington two days after such award is made to en
ter
into
the
contract
and
file
his
bond
in
ONLY
LINE—ASTOTIA TO TILLAMOOK, GARIBALDI
ed for l»etter city government. If anv stands self convicted. No one doubts
Real Estate Transfers.
BAY CITY, HOBSONVILLE.
gentleman belonging to the ministerial this after his admission last week, I m » th the manner required bv and to the satis
U.S. to Isaac M. Donkel, lots 3. 4 and
Connecting at Astoria with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. «nd
association doubts the Headlight s state as regards the Nolan-Woods bid and tne I faction of the county court. Upon the
sec. 2, tp. 3 N,
also the Astoria & Columbia River R. R. fol San Franctaco, Portlsnii
ment, we point to a “wide open” town building of Beaver Creek bridge. Even 'day appointed, the county surveyor, 5 and Srv i, of Nw
and all points east. For freight and passenger rates apply to
so to speak, where some laws are not en. if both commissioners had sanctioned 1 with the county court, shall proceed to and lots 9 and 10, sec 35. tp. 4 N, R. 8
SAMUEL ELMORE & CO. General Agents, ASTORIA. 0B
forced ami obeyed. as the result of their , the building of that bridge there is noth open the bids and award the contract to W. ; saire to Janies McFarland.
B. C. LAMB, Agent. Tillamook Oregon.
Freda Hendricks, by sheriff, to Claude
misguided efforts. This should cause ■ ing in the journal, and, besides, the law 1 build such bridge to the lowest responsi-
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N. R
R. Ca
R. Co
. Portland.
Agents (A R
& c
port)Bnd
food for reflection, for they arc stubltorn was not complied with and the county I ble bidder, and the county court shall Thayer, S H, Se '4, sec. 18. and N H of
facts which those who want to do good judge has no right to dabble into county enter into contract with him therefor ; Ne l4. sec. 19. tp. 1 N, R. 6 W.
provided always, that said county court
Wm. D. Stillwell to Mina M. Chase,
and raise the moral standard of the city j contracts, or so-called contracts.
should not overlook. We have this much 1 Uhe law relating to the salary of the mav, in its discretion, reject any and all lots 5 and 6 of block 10, in Stillwell's
add. to Tillamook.
Centrally Lioeated.
Rates, $1 Per Day
faith in the people of Tillamook City. 1 County Judge, is as follows; “The | bids.
W. H. Hammond to The Astoria Co.,
They would support a conservative move-1 County Judges ot the several counties ot
Here’s a Coocoo.
various tracts.
ment to right existing wrongs if it was this state shall receive as compensation
U.S. to Josiah P. Kane, Nw X. sec. 23,
Bro. Baker's report of the matter was
undertaken bfeconscrvative men, but as for their services the following annual
soon as the cxtcrmisis, with their prohi salaries : Tillamook county, five him- unfair to the Judge in attempting to tp. 1 N, R. 8 W.
[ compare a contract to do the w'ork'ivith
Henrv Vierick to Hugo Reichenbach,
bition ideas, attempt to run things, it dred dollars.’’
the one to do the work and furnish the Ne>*ofSe
of sec. 16, tp. 2 N, R 10
The duties of the County Court, setting lumber.
cuds in failure. The experience of those
The Best Hotel in the city. No Chinese Employed.
—Herald.
W.
who have conic to Tillamook ami know as a board of Countv Commissioners,
Had the Headlight reported themntter
Thomas Coates to E. T. Davies, quit
it all and how to run things directly thev are pointed out bv law. They constitute [ in any other way it would have erred in
get inside the city limits is that they a court of limited and inferior juris truth. We simply stated th; ground of claim deed, E H. Se p*. sec 10 and E %
unconsciously court defeat when they diction. They are simply agents or the complaint, so if anyone is unfair to of Ne l4, sec. 15. tp. 1 N, R. 7 W.
Rachel V. Lavish to Laurence Lavish,
start out to take the bull by the horns. trustees for the people of the county, the Judge it is Commissioner Parrish and
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and their acts must l>e strictly within others, ns well as the editor of the Her N H of Nw H, sec.S, tp. 3 S, R. 10 W.
PROPRIETOR OF
We cannot understand why so many the law ns provided by the statutes.
John B. Ault, by sheriff, to Geo. W.
ald. frir in an issue of that paper on the
business men are in lavor of gambling. Whenever their actions go beyond it
Kiger. Sw >, ot sec. 3. tp. 1 N, R. 8 IV.
12th Sept, there is this item :
U.S. to Gerrod E. Graves. Sc V4 of sec
Looking at it from a business stand their jut isdictionceases and their acts are
G. W. Sappington, building
point, apart from its pernicious influence void ; or, in other words, they can only BeaverCreek bridge ................ $236 00 27, tp. 1 N, R. 8 W.; same to the Olean
DEALER IN
and moral aspect. we look at the mat exercise such powers as are expressly Now what kind of a kettle ot fish has the Laud Company.
ter lii<c this ; Suppose there is $5,000 in conferred or necessarily implied by editor of the Herald fallen intowhen he
Henrv Hamilton to Winton Lumber
circulation in a city, all of which would statute. Nor will their jurisdiction l»e attempts to pulaver and soft soap the Co., Se of sec. 34. tp. 2 N, R. 8 W.
Shop next door to Laroen's Hotel, Tillamook)
go through the legitimate channels of implied where the existnnce of the [ countv judge all over with the iden that
Lyrena E. Weaver to Winton Lumber
trade and is required to meet the people's powers are doubtful.
and sec 32, tp. 2 N, R. 8 W.
"Bro. Baker's rejiort of the matter was Co., Ne
obligations. Allow the gamblers to
George A. Monroe to Winton Lumber
Bring courts of limited anti inferior unfair to the Judge ?” Bro. Watson can
gather up one fifth of the above amount jurisdiction, their records must show find by looking up the bill for the above Co.. '.V >, of Ne H and W H ofSe Hof
and the business men are deprived of an that the requisition of the statute under $236 that it claims $200 for building the sec. 29. tp. 2 N. R. 8 W.
equal proportion of that money. It is a which thev acted were complied with in Beaver bridge and $36 for pulling out
John W. Farquhar to Giles Gilbert,
well known fact that a number of men order to give them jurisdiction, They the old structure. And not one word is und. L, interest in Ne I, of Sw I, of sec 1
who gamble owe store bills and that the must speak by their records.
mentioned about lumber, it being simplv tp 1 8. R H W. ; Charles T. Wooding to
money they loose deprive their families
The County Commissioners are trus an itemised lull, which any intelligent Giles Gilbert, same
of clothing, etc .the money tor which the tees of the property interests ot their person could not mistake its meaning.
Roman Catholic Archbishop to Sisters
business men would receive if the gam county and owe the same good faith to As long ns Bro. Watson can bleed the Servant, of Mary, block 4. in Miller a
birrs did not rake it in. True it is, we wards the county as is required of any county judge for all the patronage at his add. to Tillamook.
H M. Button to W W. Redehalgh
Is still here and expects to remain.
have no pity for the man who gambles ordinary trustee. They have no power ' disposal he will never utter a word in
assignment of bond, lot 7, block 4 in
and goes into a game with his eyes wide except what is expressly given them by protest. He has not the backbone, the town
of B hv City.
Thanking you for past favors and a continuance of y°®r
open and tries to buck a lot of profes statute. Their acts, their salary, and grit or the public enterprise to expose a ! 1. W. Cook to Sam McVev. W Hof
sional gamblers at their own game No I ter diem is fixed by law and they have
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and
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rotten system of county government. He
. la.tp,« Cash paid for HIDES and PELTS and FURS, Etc.
wonder some men cannot pay their store no right or authority to perform an act j has the reputation of standing in with ! 8. R. » W.
bills and neglect their families, and no in any other way, or to charge one cent I tlie county judge now, but wait until the I w I> Stillwell to Erick Clad, 8 acr^
tn «ec 45, tp. I S. R 10 W.
Fred C. Baker. Publisher
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT.
WINE AND LIQUOR HOUSE.
Billiard Parlors and General Social Resort
C. B. HADLEY, Proprietor.
Tillamook City,
Oregon.
Truckee Lumber Co.,
FIE & SPRUCE Lumber'
BOX SHOOKS.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
And LOGGERS’
SUPPLIES
Pacific Navigation Co.
LARSEN HOUSE,
M. H. LARSEfl, Proprietor.
TILLAMOOK,
OREGON.
M. F. LEACH,
Tillamook Meat Market
Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc.
L. N BARNES,
-A.t üa.e NEW
meat market ,
FAT HOGS \V ANTED right away to pack down.