Tillamook headlight., July 17, 1902, Image 3

1902
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JULY 17.
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ANOTHER BOLD HOLD UP.
case.
Would Not Be Stumped.
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It is probably that by the time the dogs
are
again
on
the
trail,
but
the
fact
that
I
S
umptkb
. July 12 —A tragedy occurred
Posse Passed House WhiletheOut
Tracy again lias a supply of provisions j at ____
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Susanville
July
3, _____
which by ____
some ____
rea-
law Held Old Couple Prisoners. makes it improbable lliat ai.yliimg more 1 son had not become generally known of
will be herd of him for some time.
until to-day. William Johnson, a young
S eattle , July.12.—By an exhibition
,
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man well known in this section of the
• TO THE PEOPLE OF TILLAMOOK CITY AND VICINITY.
| of almost superhuman skill, daring and
S eattle , June 10. lracy coin^icllep , state, was shot and instantly killed by
' resource, Harry Tracy, the Oregon des- a rancher named Johnson to go to laco- John Crisman, another well known man.
A FEW WORDS FOR THE WISE ARE SUFFICIENT.”
! perado, has escaped once more, and has ma vesterday afternoon and buy a revol-
Bad blood had existed between the
When you make your purchase be sure and patronize the store where you can get the best goods for the
put to shame the utmost efforts of the ver under penelty of murdering |ohn two for »ome time, and J g I iiihoii worsted
least of money, and where you are under no obligation to deal unless you are sc inclined to do. Then your
pursuers human and canine, who were son s family. This report was received | Crisman in a fight before the shooting
conscience will feel clear by the thought that as a free born American citizen, you can trade anywhere you
vesterday expected to lay him cold in here at 11:45 A. Al. today, lracy rode Johnson, while a peaceful man, was very
please and not be dictated by anybody under some pretense or other.
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death before the shades of the evening to Johnson’s place, one mile from Kent, j ”handv with his fists.” and at the time
When you admi re yourself before the mirror you’ll see that the clothes you wear and purchased from the
on the white horse he stole near Renton of the tragedy had just whipped a Swede
fell.
FAMOUS CLOTHING STORE, opposite Tillamook P.O., Fit to perfection and retaining color and shape,
The story of the outlaw’s latest esca­ Tuesday night. Arriving he gave the I who bantered him fora bout, when
and made of no shoddv, but of the best material and in the latest fashion.
pade renders it no longer a question of farmer money w ith w hich to buy a re- chriman stepped up and made an insult,
What other promise the FAMOUS does, and this has been already demonstrated. Your hard earned dollar
doubt that he is a man of clear brain volver
vol ver at Tacoma.
Tacoma. Tracy told Johnson | in> _ , reinnr|( (O him. This enraged John
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gets in trade at THE NEW CLOTHING 150 cents of merchandise. We defy anybody to beat our sale prices.
and indomitable will, and this new he would kill the family it the messenger son, and he started for Crisman, when
THE “ FAMOUS” CLOTHING STORE, OPP. THE P.O.
informed the
me «/iiivcis
officers where
wiicrc he was. the bystanders interfered and held John­
glimpses of his character makes it once iiiioiiiicu
more look as though his deed of blood Johnson obeyed onlers, Tracy r remain. son back.
ing at the ranch until last night, w hen
may never be avenged.
Crisman drew a revolver, and Johnson
While Sheriff Cudmee and his posses of Joiinsou returned with the weapon. The ! taunted him bv saying that he was a
outlaw'
departed
’
on
horse
back
and
man-hunters were vestehhiv closing in
v
coward and wouldn’t shoot anything.
oil a swamp near Black Diamond in a [ohnson waited until this morning be­ With this Crisman fired, shooting a man
northwesterly direction, the desperado fore raising an alarm.
who heldjohnson through the hand. The
had coolly back-tracked toward beattie
same bullet penetrated the latter's heart,
Bloodhounds Not Infallible.
and nt the very time the hopes of his
ami he fell dead. The citizens became in­
pursuers were highest he was rapidly
S eattle , July 12.—Illustrative of the dignant. and threats were freely made
putting miles of swamp and forest be­ peculiar events that have transpired in of lynching Crisman, but he hurriedly
tween him and his foes.
the Tracy hunt, are two instances where­ made his escape, and went to Canyon
The first news of this latest feature in the hounds have taken the scent of City and gave himself up for protection.
of the chase was sent to Seattle by a far­ two men who prove to be not the Ore- Johnson and Crisman were both at one
mer named Ray, who lived near Auburn, gon escape. The first instance was at time residents of Sumpter, having
and created no little excitement. Ac­ Green Lake, in Seattle, last Wednesday worked here. The latter was in the
cording to his story, Tracy may at this night, anil in the woods near the town saloon business at Susanville when the
moment be in Seattle, for at about 10 of Covington, yesterday.
shooting occurred. Johnson was born
o’clock last night he left the farm of one
In both instances, the man was found, and raised on Long Creek.
Piopot, nine miles from Auburn,with the and of course was not Tracy. In both
declared intention of returning to this cases the dogs took the scent from blan­
The Coal Mine Disaster.
citv.
kets in which Tracy slept, while in Salem
The story told by Piopot more than prison. Both times the hounds went
J ohnstown , P h . July 12—T up extent
any other incident of the chase illustrated along rapidly, in full cry, and the officers of the horrible catasiropbeof the Rolling
the daring of the desperados, as it also felt sure they were on the hot trail of the Mill mine of the Cambria Steel Com­
does his remarkable acuteness.
most-wanted man in Washington and pany, is now capable of being grasped. »
The story told by Piopot reads like the Oregon.
Early tonight, in spite of conflicting re­
fantastic creation of some romancer's
The strange proposition has created ports as to the numlier of dead, a careful
brain. He says :
no end of comment, and manv are in­ and complete compilation by the Associa­
“Al about 6 o’clock last evening, clined to the belief that the dogs are al­ tion Press shows that 112 is the exact 2?
while I was sitting out in front of my most worthless and should be sent home number of bodies taken from the mine.
bouse, which is about nine miles from at once. Others are more lenient and Up to 6 o’clock this evening, 108 bodies
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Auburn, a rough looking man came in think they may need a scent more recent had been recovered, ailït at 8 o’clock
by the front gate and walking up to me fro ni T r a cy.__________________
four more were brought to the surface.
covered me with a rifle and ordered me
To ibis list future explorations of the
into the house, saying, ’I am Harry
mine corridets may add a few but it can­
THREE ARE SHOT.
Tracy ; move quick and I won’t hurt |
not be many. Almost all the employes
you, but I wan’t something to eat and | Jealous Man’s Dire Vengeance who could have been in the mine at the
1 wr nt it quick.’
time of the life wrecking explosion of
Upon his Own Family.
Realizing that I had to do with the
Tuesday are accounted for. Very fexv
murderer wnom I knew all the posses were 1 In one fierce ravel of vengeance, A. L. inquiries for missing have been made to
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chasing, and being an old man besides, Belding, a bartender, last Friday shot the authorities or to the mine officials,
I attempted no resistance, but walked to and killed his wife, his mother-in-law and this, better than anything else, dem­
have ok hand
the house, where mv wife was, as he and Frank Woodward, whose attention onstrates the impossibility of many bodies
told me to do. When he got inside he to his wife fie resented, and seriously still remaining in the death trap
Mine
sit down in a chair and told my wife to . wounded Lemuel McCroskey, his father officials say there is no use attempting
get him something to eat saying he was in law. at whose bouse on the northeast to estimate the number of «lead. They
•yerv tired and hungry and he certainly 1 corner of Fifth and Flanders street, Port- say simply tliey do not know, ami urge
looked so.
I land, the shooting occurred. After he the futility of placing the matter on the
“While she was preparing a meal for I had killed, as he supposed, every inmate basis of guess work. They express the
him I said : ‘Tracy. 1 thought you were ' of the house save his little boy, the niur- belief, however, that all, or almost all,
away over near Palmer. How did you . ’ dcr^r . ___
coolv
walked over to the Lake
are out of the mine.
get here ?’
Charles saloon, across the street, luviled
General Superintendent Robinson came
“ ‘Why,’ he said, ‘that was easy. ; a man to take a drink with him, and out about 8 o’clock this evening, alter an
When they ran me into the swamp near xvent out to look for a policeman to arduous day’s exploration He expressed
Black Diamond I dodged around in the arrest him. He xvas rolling a cigarette his conviction that not mole than five
brush for a little while, then circled when Policeman Bailey, who was attra­ dead bodies would be added to the 112
around and struck my own tracks away cted by the shooting, met him, and, already known
back where I was sure the posses had announcing that he had killed a family,
passed. Then I just walked hack along be surrendered himself.
Again the sea serpent has been sighted.
BARBER IND HAIRDRESSER
Graduates of the school are in con
iny own tracks hr about five miles. 1
For the past six months. Belding has According to a VS 01 Id dispatch from
stant demand at salaries ranging from
HAIR CIiriNG.
guess 1 fooled their <1----- d dogs all right, been vowing vengeance on the entire I Halifax, it measures 200 feet in length SHAVING,
$40.00
to $100.00 per month. Students
eh ?’ ami he laughed heartily. Tliey McCroskev family into which he married and was observed by pilotsot Cranberry
SHAMPOOING,
take the state examinations during their
haven’t got anx dogs in this country eight years ago His wife left film sev­ Head. It is alleged to have come near
course in the school and are prepared to
that can catch me.
It was mighty eral months ago, taking her little boy the entrance of the harbor and then
receive state certificates on graduation.
though,' lie said. I io live with her parents. and Woodward passed on to the north. The American Electric Baths nicely fitted up Good for
hard travvh..
Expenses range from $120.000to$175.00
guess I must . vc covered pretty near commonly called “Gyp,” xvas a frequent steam yacht Waconta, with J. J. Hili, 1
persons suffering with rluurmitiim
per year. Strong Normal course and
I 1st -night [Thursday], visitor to, if not an actual inmate of, the president of the Great Northern Rail­
40 miles si
well
equipped training department. ’The
il pretty bad leg here.’ same house.
and I have r.
Last night at 8 o < lock Bel- . way, and his party, xvas coming into the 1
fall term opens September 16th.
I up the leg of his pants ding went to the house, and finding his harbor at the timb and. it is said, was
“He then j
For catalogue containing full informa­
>. here his leg was all wife at the door, demanded that she obliged to haul out of the serpent’s way.
and showed
tion address.
> w - the knee. It looked bring him their 7-y**ar old child, Eddiu.
swollen up
E. I). RISSLER, President.
II. (’. Burrow, a steam boat man whose (
id I been wounded but he The women said that the boy xvas in bed,
as though ii
Or J. B. B1NTER, Secretary.
.tying, ‘You see, it’s nut Belding told her to dress him, and home is one mile east of Vancouver,
explained ii
mg out in the bush at she did. The father talked to the child thinks he has the smallest baby in the [
Hard on a m.
AND
e been doing. I have a minute, kissed him good night, and Northwest at his house. It is a girl, and
nights as 1
uh zrhumntiwni a good when the little fellow was in the house, xx’ns born June 28. when it weighed three 1
been troubl«
to
.
pounds.
It
is
now
15
inches
tall,
and
lew
days,
and
I
guess
deal for tli­
Bending turned toward the doorway
the amount ..f i' 11 nd I have covered with two revolvers drawn.
Seeing | its bead is about the size of an average
ft
up like this. I hope Woodxvard on the threshold, heexclaiiu- peach. Its feet are l’/a inches long, and
has made n
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■ its forefinger passes readily through the
it won’t gt i LX • 1 e. dr I guess 1’11 have ed. “you fii*8t,”and fired.
* to stop
• ;? ■ ami i ligitt it out.’
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The bullet sank inlo the victim’s head, j eyelet in its mother’s shoe.
“During the time we were talking like and he fell over the rail of the porch,
A fresh eruption of Mount Pelee OC- i
ft
this nix xx te was making the meal ready, dying instantly. Running lip the steps, curred during the morning of July 11.
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and when she was finished Tracy sat the murderer saw his wife, who had fol­ ..........
,
It was quite
as violent as the one of the !
down and ale heartily, making us sit lowed Woodward to the door. She previous day, and was marked by loud |
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down with him. but 1 must say we were turned at the sight of him. but he again detonations, followed by showers of
Freight in 5-ton lots and over $3.50 per ton.
too scared to eat. When he had finished pulled his deadly trigger and sent a • stone and cinders, which tell on the,
Of Cheesery, Dairy and Creamery ft
he sat around for a while, waiting tor bullet through h^r neck, severing the communes of Basse Pointe, Morne Rouge ,
Freight in less than 5-ton lots, $4.00 per ton.
Machinery and Supplies we carry ft
my wile to put up
t a some provisions. jugular vein. che fled to a back I and Fonda St. Denis. The population
the largest stock in the northwest.
Passenger rate, $3.50.
every little xvhile taking a look out of room, where she was found two hours remained calm. There was no loss of 1
A full line of D. H. Burrell & Co.’s ft
the door to see it anyone was coming ' afterward, lying prone and dead. Mean-; life. The scientific mission which left
celebrated Cheese making prepara­ I
along the road, which was about 50 1 while Lemuel McCroskev, the head of I i Guadeloupe on receipt of the news of the
tions, Apparatus, etc.
ft
yards
----- .. hum the
.
house. .
. j the family, had started to come into the fresh eruption, has arrived at Fort de
Send for Catalogue.
• I should think we had been talking ])ap with a gun, but before he could France.
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..early
three
hours
—
it
must
have
I
take
a
shot
at
the
bloodthirsty
intruder
r.»r
for nearly
There is apparently a disposition on
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been about 9 o’clock—when Tracy, who , another bullet had killed Mrs. McCrosk-
was looking out of the window, said rv ns she sat in her chair. Still another the part of the Vatican to take advan- '
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*D----- n it! I here s a posse now,’ and wounded McCroskev himself, in the tage of the Philippine question to for­
143 FRONT STREET, ■
sure enough, when 1 looked out, there ! arm, but the old man put up a hard ward its desire for the establishment of
wa» a posse headed by Deputy Sheriff j fight, taking several shots at Belding, diplomatic relations with the United
PORTLAND, ORE.
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Fred Berner just walking past the house. and finally engaging with him in a hand- States. The Vatican authorities hope I
that
the
question
of
the
purchase
of
the
|
Agents for
to-hand
scuffle.
He
received
another
‘ ’Tracy dideii’t seem to be scared much.
DeLaval Cream Separators. II
He pulled a revolver out of Ins pocket bullet in the breast for his pains, and | friars’ lands and other matters involving
PROPRIETOR OF
and laid it on the table beside him, all was badly beaten over the head by one the payment of money will render indis­
pensable
the
continuance
of
relations
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the time keeping a bead on Berner whom of Belding’s pistols, which refused to dis- I
opened by Governor Taft for at least
he could have killed as easy as anything. charge.
Leaving the bloody dwelling, Belding two years, while they are also hopetui
Then he turned around to me and said,
’See here, ol«l people, there’s going to be walked out on the sidewalk, threw of reserving the question of the with­
DEALER IN
some fun here in a few minutes. I don’t, awav his guns, and, without further drawal of the friars from the islands, so
want you to get hurt, and you’d both let­ effort to kill any one, walked quietly as to prolong the relations even longer.
I
ter go into the other room and crawl un-1 over to the saloon.
Oregon counties for the l<st year,
Her the bed. Hug the floor tight, for |
I have just received direct
havelieen paying out nearly
fur
Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel, Tillamook]
there'll be bullets flying here pretty d—d
scalps of wrild animals, prim ip illy coy­ from Chicago, the best quality
s<x»n. ’
otes. The county stand* one third of
x
A'\v \
“Of course I was badly scared, as was
Rain and sweat W«a>
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the amount, and the state two thirds. and latest styles of footwear.
have no effect on
my wife, and we did what he told us.
The appropriation made by the L»*gis Consisting
Gentlemen’s,
of
harness treated
For about 10 minutes we lay under that
future of 1901 is already exhausted, and Ladies’, Misses and Children’s
with Eureka Har­
Ind, too JI Tightened to move or bresthe,
$20.000 in claims are on file
The coun­
ness Oil. It re­
sists the damp,
when lie came back and said. ’It s all i
ties are relying on the next legislature* Shoes that was ever offered for
keeps the leath­
right now. Those fools have gone on and
for reimbursement. Lane County, how­ sale in the City of Tillamook.
er »oft and pil­
it « a goo«l thing for some of them that
able. Stitches
ever, does nut propose Io pay out any
It will nay you to call and
STEAMERS—SUE II. ELMORE, W. H. HARRISON.
do not break, v
they minded their own business. Now, ,
more money on this supposition, and has
No rough sur­
\
come un out of there and get me that I
made an order lliat no scalps will be examine my goods and prices be­ ONLY LINE—ASTOTIA TO TILLAMOOK, GARIBALDI,
face to chafe ,
grub. I guess its about time for me to j
•ndcut. The I,
accepted.
fore purchasing elsewhere.
BAY CITY,- IIOBrtONVILLE.
harness not Ji
lie moving,’
j
only keeps ^4
Wilhelm Busch, the German humorist
LA
Connecting at Aatorin with the Oregon Hailroad & Navigation Co. anti
”1 think it must have been aliout 10
looking like W
and comic artist, received the fidlowing
o’clock by this time. Tracy then told me |
also the Astoria & Columbia River K. K fol San Franciaco, Portland
new. but
M
message from the kaiser the other day :
wears twice
|
lie wanted a hoise to get to Buckley. I
and all point» cast. For freight and pasaenger rate« apply to
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«s long by the
“
To
the
poet
and
artist
whose
splendul
told him I had no horse, but he woubin t
use of Eureka
SAMUEL ELMORE &. CO. General Agent», ASTORIA. OR
creations,
full
of
genuine
humor,
will
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l»elieve me and made me take him nut to
Harness OU.
B. C. LAMB, Agent. Tillamook Oregon.
live imperishable among the German
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the barn ami show turn that what I had
i
people, [express my sincere congratula­
.
. IO. It & N. R. R. Co . Portland.
said was the truth. Hr then told me that
A*"nt" (A. * C. It. R. Co.. Portland.
tions on the occasion of his seventieth !
if I said anything al>out him I'emg there
Sold
f
birthday. May a beautiful evening l«e
r ' ' \
he would come back ami kill both me
everywhere V
vouchsafed to his life. In gratitude for
in can»-
//
and my wife, and taking up the bundle
the many merry hour» which you gave
•llaire«.
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of food my wife had made up. walked off
Mede by
him —William, I. R.’’
into the dark, saying as he Jett that he
Standard Oil
was going st Haight to Seat! le.
Company
“As soon as he xvas gon *, my wife, |
Deafness Cannot be Cured
who was nearly frightened to death,
by local application*, a« they cannot rea^h the
made me take her to Ray s farm. We
of the ear. There ia only one
The Examiner says that the E. K. way to cure ileainea«. and that »* by ••on«titn-
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diden’t tell Mr. R»y anything aismt what
Wood
Lumber
Company,
in
addition
to
tional remcdlt
Deafneiw i* esnaed by an in­
wan the matter, for we were afraid, but
flamed condition of the mucous lini k "f the
buying
up
$3,000.000
worth
of
wood
asked to stay all night. Ray waasuspic
I Euatachian Tube
When this tube
Hiflwm-
yon have a rumblmjc *mi»d or imperfert
ious that something was wrong, and ; belonging to the Simpuon Lumber Com­ 1
ing. and when it is entirely closed deafneaa
asked us what it wa* but we were afrahl pany, has bought all the spruce ob­ t heat
is the resell, and un’**« the inflamniation < «n
to say. This morning, though. I told tainable in the Western market. The l»e taken»out and this tube restored to its nor
SHAVING,
NOTICE.
him what bad happened, and beatMMW companv has also entered into arrange­ I ihm I condition, hearing will be destroyed fo -
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HAIR CUTTING,
I ever, nine ca«cs out of ten arc rau«wl by
ments
with
the
Northern
Box
Factory
♦
IITSBIKG
WISH
No
charge
made
for
sewing
sent the news 10 Seattle ”
i Cstarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed con­
As s<M>n as the n£ws of the latest es­ Association, comprising 40 miles on dition of the mucous surface*
rips
or
nailing
soles
on
shoes
SHAMPOOING,
-w
ww was
w«- received
________ Puget Sound and elsewhere in the States
We will give One Hundred Dollar« for any
capade of the desperado
7hire
Washington and Oregon, whereby ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can­ purchased of me.
here more posses w
‘__ . I»»üi7<<rgan
*”7 - - ’iised
— 1
not be mred by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for
- in
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and sent to guard the roails
vicin­ these mills agree not to »hip any lumber cin ulars, free
las. W-..,
F. I < HENEY fc UO.. Tele«k>. <>.
ity of where the outlaw was I last
seen, to tht- market unie« consigned through
¿terifTCiidi’- the San Francisco box fnctorie» represj
Sold by I>ruggi«t-. 7yc-
xx hil* a dispatch w as sent to Sl;rr:fTC::di
FVERYTHISG STRICT!. Y FIRS T f 1.ASS
Agent and Salesman.
Half- Family Fill«* «re th«* best.
1
e
»tn
g
the
trust.
l»ee informing him of the state of hi*
WITH OUR PRICES.-The ‘‘FAMOUS” opposite the P-0-
L. ROBINSON & CO.
L. ROBINSON & CO., Proprietors.
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LUMBER AT TILLAMOOK
J
A
TAFT
DRY FLOORING, CEILING,
Finish
22
Rustic, Wainscoting, Mouldings and Ship
Also all Sizes of ROUGH LUMBER.
EDGAR LATIMER
Lap
Normal School, Monmouth, Or.
BUTTER Steamer Geo R. Vosburg
MAKERS Tillamook and Astoria.
Will Run Between
B^DDIClÇ-kEATINÎ CO.,
Ship Freight by A. & C. Railroad in Care of
Geo. R. Vosburg.
NEHALEM TRANS. CO
M. F. LEACH,
Tillamook Meat Market
Red Shoe House
Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc.
H arness
O il
\\V
X
BEST HARD
WHEAT FLOUR,
Edwards & Sladden,
4 kìkìus = i
P. F. BROWNE,
Sold by COHN & CO Hot and Cold Baths
Tillamook. Or,