Tillamook headlight., January 01, 1903, Image 2

TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, January 1. 1903
COHN’S ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE.
Great Big Bargains in Dry Goods.
Sale Begins To-Day. Will be soldata Sacrifice
Do not miss it. The opportunity 'of a life time
CENT.’S CLOTHING
B oots
LADIES
(Éilfamook
Municipal
Ownership.
R1ESLAND.
“C.” BEN
Score ’em Again, Brother.
Ìtjfiib'i jbt. The Bonding and Water Questions
•t?
G oods
F urnishing
AND
frauds. Innumerable publications which
were purely advertising circulars, having
Here is a difference of opinion. One no bona fide circulation oi any other
Fred <’. linker, Publisher.
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party said on Monday they did not want characteristic of a legitimate newspaper
to own citv property if it was bonded for or periodical, have secured the privilege
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
• $60,000, while another party said if the of the pound rate under one pretense
( strictly in advance .)
city did not do so he would want to sell or another. In the aggregate the gov­
One year.............................................. 1 1.50 out. Gentlemen, where are you at when ernment was thus carrying at less than
75 you allow such extreme ideas to preju­
Six months..........................................
cost an enormous tonnage, which, in
50
Three months.....................................
dice your minds ? It is safe to make addition, interfered with the dispatch
this remark, it will be almost impossible
Representative B. L. Rddy Leave to bond the city for $60,000 if the build­ of more important mail, causing a great
annual deficit which one year reached
for Salem.
ing of a water system and the manage­ I $11,000.000.
ment of the same is to be mixed up with
Although the facts were well under,
Representative B. L. Eddv, with his
city politics. We would suggest that, stood, year after year the need of legis­
family, left Tillamook for Portland to­
to obviate this, that twelve of the most lation has been urged in the reports of
day, preparatory to attending the state
successful business men and largest tax­ I the postmaster general and the presi-
legislature. Mr. Eddy was non com-1
payers be appointed a commission, with­ . dential messages without result. The
mittal as to whom lie would favor for
out pay, to manage it, and if the city reform was one of the important fea-
United States senator, and informed the
charter is to be amended to give it larger ! tures of the Loud bill which failed in
Headlight man that lie had been elected
borrowing powers, this should also be j three successive congresses because it
as an anti-Simon man, had told the |>eo-
incorporated, with the names of the com­ I went altogether too far. As the postal
ple in the county convention that he
missioners. This is the right and busi­ laws clothe the department with exten-
would so stand, but had made no other 1
ness way to proceed, but we pity the tax­ sive discretionary powers, a systematic
pledge or promise either privately or pub­
payers if ever the city is bonded and the effort was inaugurated two years ago
licly, that lie intended to support some
building and .management of a water to accomplish administratively, at least
qinlified anti Simon man who had a
system is to be tossed about like a shut­ in part, the reform which had failed in
chance of < e lion, and, naturally, would
tlecock and fought over every year by congress. This effort succeeded in weed­
prefer a man who can be implicitly re­
the city politicians. One thing is certain, ing out a myriad of illegitimate pub-
lied upon to put forth his energies for
the waler company must soon improve I lications and in saving millions of dol-
Tillamook bar improvements. That is
its pipe line, or the city, as was demon­ j lars of revenue. It has now almost
a burning question in Tillamook, and as
strated by the urgent demand for water wiped out the deficiency of postal reve­
we have stated before, is why this county
during the forest fires last summer, for nues, when the courts intervene with
is interested in the senatorial fight. We
public» safety, will be compelled to do the decision that the reform, needful and
know we are justified in saying this, no
something to afford fire protection for salutary as it is, is beyond the legal
one can get Mr. Eddy's support unless he
the large business and property interests power of the department.
pledges himself to the above improve­
which are now at stake in this city.
A proper act curing the defective clas­
ments and will be held responsible until
sification is what is demanded.
it is consuinated. So it is to the best in­
(flit
DRESS GOODS.
The Tillamook Herald rightly scored
several parties who had taken the paper
for years and then quit without paying
for it last week. Only a few persons
resort to such dishonesty, but it shows
the business sagacity of editors putting
their subscription lists on a prepaid
basis. This is what the Herald says :
Houses* Rented and Taxes paid for non Residents.
The person who tries to brow beat an
editor out of several years subscription
may think that such dishonesty is smart­
Tillamook City, Oregon.
ness w hile on this terrestrial globe, but
he will be sorry when lie goes to the hot
place—for that is the destination of all |
dishonest subscriber?. Several parties |
whose names we will not mention at |
this time, but may later, have taken the i
Herald for a number of years and now j
refuse to take it out of the post office |
Stoves and Ranges,
Fishing Twine,
and pay what they justly owe the
Fine Cutlery,"
Sewing Machines,
editor. Two cases in particular came to
Loggers' Tools,
light recently where parties have taken
Wagons and Buggies,
the paper for four years This means
Hardware,
Farm Implements,
over 800 copies of the Herald they have
Empire Cream Separators, Paints and Oils
received, read and kept posted with the
news. They have now the Jeffronterv to
stop the paper and refuse to pay up. :
To say the least this is dishonest on
their part, for every one who subscribes
fora newspaper pud takes it out of the
post office should pay for it like gentle­
men and honest citizens. We do not
object to a person stopping their paper i
it they will square up their account. If i
you haven’t paid up for a long time call ,
in and do so, and at the same time re- |
new your subscription for another year, |
It works out all impurities out of the blood that causes rheumatism.
for we intend to put our subscription
Coal Oil.
list on a cash basis in the new year and A package of 50 tablets is twelve days treatment, for $1.00 ; or two packages for
$1 50. Will send testimonials with all orders.
The wonderful development in this line knock out all "dead head” subscribers, if
For the Gloriatonic sent by mail remit by postal money order addressed to
still goes oil. The latest is a great we have any.
gusher in Alaska, and the oil fever has
This year has shown a great increase ; mt's. G. GIBSON, 2727, Court St., Baker City, Or.
struck that land of gold and ice. We in the postal revenue of the conutry. The
imagine they need something to keep postal department’s receipts for the fis­
them warm during the three months’ cal year ending June, 1902, were $122,
night that prevails around Cape Nome 000,000, an increase of more than $10.-
000.000 over the preceeding year. This
The oil sells for $4 a barrel there. Fuel was a larger gain than had been made
is very scarce and in great demand. We before in twelve months.
suppose the reverse conditions prevail in
regard to gold. The Texas field has been W-_ w
. - urr **,,,> w,
'Jlv Bv.M WuR OXT
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extended into Louisiana, and at Lake
or Homo, Store and Street»
Charles a big gusher has been struck.
The Neareat Approach to Sunlight and Almost as Cheap.
Texas oil is being used largely foi fuel,
AHS ILLUMINATORS i ¡"nks'i'-.vo'cENTs’.
BUkd / JUT stores light as day. A Hardware house writes US.
taking the place of coal on railroads
*lWe like your lamps so well we are
and in sugar mills. Ocean steamers also
now working night j instead of days.**
Now
is
the
time
to
buy
a
We
eke
mxnufactjro
TABLE LAMPS, WALL LAMPS,
use it, and the United States r.avy is
OflANDELlEKS, STREET LAMPS, Etc. loo Candle
new
Sewing
Machine
for
Power seven hours ONE (’EM T. No wicks. No Smoke No Odor.
now experimenting with it. Their in­
Absolutely safe. THEY SELL AT SIGHT. Exclusive ter- .
$22.oo, with drop head and
vestigations seem to give it a little less
ritory to good agents. UTWrite for caUJoijuc and prieee.
all
the
latest
improvements
CHICAGO
SOMJt LIGHT CO-
CHICAGO.
value, ton for ton, than good coal—that
at M c I ntosh & M c N air ’ s .
is, five and one-halt barrels of oil will
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equal one ton of coal as a fuel. The easy q It is the B onita S ewing
■ manner in which oil can be handled
M achine , and they range
makes it superior to coal.
in price from $22 to $35,
Dairy Farms. Timber Claims.
Home Locations. Town Property.
Insurance. Loans.
Financial Agent.
LET US FIGURE WITH YOU
THIS NEW YEAR ON
¿2 STOKES CO.,
-¿istoria, Ore.
John A. Smith’s Gloriatonic
Cures all Kinds of Rheumatism and Blood
Diseases,
terest of the c Minty that Mr. Eddy goes
The extension of municipal ownership
to the state legislature unpledged as to
who he should vote for to wear the sen­ of public utilities has in no western
state been more rapid than lately in
atorial toga.
As to matters of legislation, Mr. Eddy Iowa, a noticeable impetus having been
stated that he thought there was. room recently given by the decisions of the
for reform in matters of taxation, ami courts. The most important cause of
that he was at work perfecting a bill I this growth, however, is the satisfactory
which he had already drafted a'otig that experience of municipalities which have
For the most
line. It will be one of the most import­ made the experiment.
ant measures to lie introduced, and hr part these have not been the largest
thought, if it becomes a law. it would cities of the state, for the reason chiefly
greatly relieve the people of moderate that about nil of those had already
means in the way of lighter taxation. long since reached what was under­
He liad in hand also many measures stood to be the constitutional limitation
which the people of Tillamook county | of indebtedness, depriving them of the
were demanding, and which lie wished to means of providing the funds necessary
be able to |>erfect before the convening of tor expensive plants. But for a period
the legislature. One important matter of years a large and constantly increas­
is that of dairy insjiector lor Tillamook. ing number of the smaller cities and
Of course the Headlight mail had to towns have owned and operated the
ask Mr. Eddy what his chances were for plants bv which particularly water and
holding down the house, for we have re. light are supplied.
So low have been both the charges
Iieatedly made the statement—from good
authority- that the Tilkimook man and the operating expenses of these
would get there when noses were count­ plants that a multitude of towns have
ed. Mr. Eddy expressed himself as well been able to supply themselves where
Blasts From Ram's Horn.
satisfied with his compaign lor the it was impossible to enlist private rap.
speakership, and believed he would be itnl to operate under franchises. There
He chooses night who refuses light.
elected, but remarked that in case of tail- is almost no record of towns which
Preaching for wages never won the
are in that direction, hr could foresee have thus administered their own pub- world.
much hard and important work to lie lie utilities abandoning the effort or
A silent idiot is wiser than a babbling
done as a memlier on the floor of the subsequently turning over to franchised sim pieton.
There can be no communication where
house, and could console himself if lie corporations, bu^ there are numerous
was not chosen to wield the gavel.
, cases where the latter have originally there is no union.
Everything comes to the man who
attempted to supply the public and
waits—and keeps on walking.
tailed, where the municipality taking it
Talking Through their Hat
The man who says there is no truth
over lias succeeded. Municipal owner- in the world has mistaken a mirror for
From a private source we learn that ship is now practically* the rule, so far the universe.
the report which we copied from the Till­ as water ami light are concerned.
It is easier to preach patience in the
amook Headlight to the effect that the
Thecaseis materially different in the church than to practice it with our
children.
election of Chas. \V. Talmage as mayor principal cities, for the constitutional
It will not help your husband to hea­
would likely be contested was entirely reason already cited and for the fur­
ven to leave him at home with cold vic­
without foundation,—Telephone Regis ther reason that the experience of pub­ tuals while you go to warm your heart
ter.
lic ownership in the larger has not been at the prayer meeting.
As the Register calls into question the as satisfactory as in the minor mu­
Most continental countries have a I
veracity oi the Headlight, let us inform nicipalities. But under the holdings of
our McMinnville contemporary that we the courts a distinct movement is al­ minister of education among their cab­
never make such statements without ready on in the former to control di inet officers. As the subject of education 1
knowing them to be facts, and in proof rectlv as proprietors their public utili­ in this country does not come within the
of this we state again that certain par ties even where they are now in the federal jurisdiction, the educators who
ties did say they would
contest hands of corporations. The extent to aspire to cabinet positions have to find
Mr. Talmage if he obtained the nomina­ which the public owneishlp movement another avenue of entrance. The l>e
tion and was elected, on the ground that has gone in Town has hardly been ap­ partment of Agriculture, however, seems
becoming closely allied to educational
he was not a taxpayer on real propertv. preciated even within the state itself.
interests and more than any other de­
Whether this will lie done we do not
know, nor even care. But tor the Regis Postage Refotm Up To Congress. partment has been presided over bv an
educator.
ter to deny what was common gossip in
Onr dairymen are usually too con-
The decision of the federal court of
Tillamook City lo«»ks, to l»c exceedingly
mild, darned ridiculous. The Register api»eal in the District of Columbia, bus servative in not cutting out for sale the
was badly imposed upon at the last pending the classification policy of the unprofitable milk cows of the heard,
county election by the duplicity of some Post office department, leaves it to con­ says the Farm and Ranch. This is in
tieople in this city writing diegraceful let­ gress to reform the laws regulating part due to the fact that thev have a
ters to that newspaper which thev were postage rates. Failure to act involves strong demand for milk and hotter and
nshamed and too cowardly to come out an enormous deficit in the postal reve­ arc inclined to the opinion that every
in the o|»en and father. Now, Bro. Hard­ nues and postponement of cheaper letter c«»w in the herd is a paving investment
That might he true if thev did not eat
ing. *|*ik out hi class, and answer this postage
The postal laws pro per Iv favor news- good hay and grain. But a id to this
question Is not your ’‘private source”
from the same source and parties who papers and |»eriodicals, making then a the labor of lecding. milking, driving and
wrote the letters which disgraced the class by themselves on which the very sheltering these doubtful ones in the herd
Telephone-Register and lowered it in the low rate of one cent a pound is charged, and we have caose enough to blacklist
the same lieing prepaid in money with the nonpayir.g members of the family.
estimation of the fraternity ?
out the trouble of affixing stamps. But How can you know “ tolhvr from
Stolen thunder will not bring shower» this classification has without doubt be- which" unless you use scales anJ Rad­
I come the m< a ns of groat abuses an I I cock test ?
of blesMIlg.
THULITE
vgas LAMPS
i Sewing Machines.
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TILLAMCOK
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with ball bearings. They
are little beauties, perfectly
made aud something new on
the market. These machi­
nes are a better article than
the peddlars are charging
$65 and $75 for.
( incorporated ),
TILLAMOOK
CITY,
ORE.
PAID UP CAPITAL. $10,000.
A GENERAL BANKING
BUSINESS.
T. SARCHET,
Tailoring
COUNTY BANK
Directors :—M. W. H arrison . W. W
C vrtiss , B. L E ddy .
Cashier ;—M. W. H arrison .
E^abli^ijent,
Liberal Prices Paid for gilt edge securi-
ies of all kinds.
TILLAMOOK CITY, ORE.
G bntlemkn
Thanking you fcr
past favors, I l>eg
to say that I have
moved into mv
new store next to
C. Ben Riesland'S.
It you wish tn
see all the choice
line of Suiting and
up-to-date Pant-
ting’s to choose from kindiv give me a
call. All Suits cut and made in the shop
at 1 illamook.
P S.—Pressing, cleaning and repairing
of all kinds done.
T. SARCHET,
Merchant Tailor
BEST HARD
WHEAT FLOUR,
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Don’t hunt the town over
looking for shoes that will fit
and wear well and keep their
shape.
The Red Shoe House has in
stock shoes and slippers of dain­
tiest kind for Christinas gifts for
Mother, Wife or Sister, Brother,
Husband or Sw’eetheart. The
public is invited to call, I will
be pleased to wait on you.
CHEESE
BUTTER
MAKERS
of Clieeserv. L>i.irv and Crcametv
Machinery mid Supplies we carry
the largest slock in the northwest
A fnll line of D H Burrell Jr Co. s
celebrated Cheese making prepara,
lions. Apparatus, etc.
Send for Catalogue.
Agent.
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Agents for
DeLava. Cream Separators.
a.
Sold by CCHN & CO
Tillamook. Or.
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Special for the
Holidays.
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