TILLAMOOK
just recalled from the long ago. Nor
are we sure that, with all our agitation
and legislation against such evils, we
are any liettcr, for the same aulhoiity
that we have quoted tells us that in one
ilav twelve grocers were convicted and
severely sentenced tor selling the “tea’'
made of poison thorn leaves, Human
nature is pretty much the saint in all
lands and in all ages.
rates of subscription .
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HEADLIGHT. DECEMBER
Quaint Features of Life.
Hundreds of people in Kalainazoo.
1
Mich . have visited the home of Marv
Knlder and there is great excitement.
The girl has l»eeii going »’’to trances tor
the past week, during which she claims
to have visited heaven. A remarkable
feature is that she ha- told persons with
íbe
(Tillamook
Ijtabli gbt.
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'.¿p
whom she is not acquained about «lead
relatives whom she «lid not know ami
some of whom have never been in Kala
Farming a Great Industry.
mazoo. One man she claims to have
Oleo Now Mostly Uncolored.
talked vitli has been deal over fort)
T he annual report of the secretary ot years.
During the discussion of the Grout bill agriculture shows that fanning is still j
to tax colored oleomargarine at the rate the chhl business of the pe«Aple of the
John Fox. jr.. the author, went on a
of lOcents a pound, it was openlv an United States. Fast as our other indus tour of Kentucky in search of " local
nounetd by the advocates of the measure tries have grown, especially within re color’’ and one night stopped at a
that the object was to drive “ oleo’’ and cent years, agriculture still tar surpasses mountaineer's cabin, where he slept next
kindled products—substitutes for butter any <>l them hi the nmounl of capital, in to the clapboards of the roof ami came
—out of the market altogether. Repre the value ot its products and in the num* down a ladder to breakfast. He washed
his face ia a creek below the house and
sentative Wadsworth of New York, bei <»t jieople engaged in it.
chairman of the committee oil agricul
We have been boasting of the rapidity dried it on a siding of coffee sack hung
ture, insisted that instead of a prohibi with which our exports of manufactured against the logs for family use, and
tive tax it would lr far better for con goods have increased, of our “conquests coinlieil his hair with his own comb» be
gress to place a moderate impost—say 2 of the markets of the world,’’ but Secre- tween the chinking and daubing. The
cents per pound—upon
all oleoma r | tary Wilson shows that the balance ot mountaineer’s boy wa’ched the stranger
garine, and to compel its sale only in trade in all products except those of ag make his toilet,* at the conclusion of
original packages.
Mr. Wadswor h’s riculture ran against us $865,000,000 which he said “ Sav, iniste*’, y<»u re a
idea was to compel the sale of butler .luring the last 14 years. The balance of good deal ot trouble to yourself, ain t
substitutes in exactly the same wav as trade in agricultural products was $4,.
_
tobacco is sold. That is to sa v, to make 8O6.0C0.0O0 in our favor, however, so
The natives of Central America are at
it a crime to sell butterine or oleomar that ’the total balance in our favor,
least
liegitming to see that though the
garine in any other than original pack thanks to the farmer, was $3.940,000,-
ages, so marked as to assure absolute OOO. While we have not been able little republics down there may oc
protection to the consumer against to turn out—or, at least, have not turn casionally thrash one another they must
fraudulent substitution of a compound ed out —enough of other commodities to treat the United States with respect.
when he goes to a store for the purpose supply our wants we have raised enough This result was brought about in good
of buying real butter. Because of the farm pioducts not only to meet our own measure bv the effective n eans of im
position he took at that time Mr. Wads demands, but io teed a large part of the pressing the natives taken by Admiral
worth was heralded throughout the rest of the world ; and the agricultural Coghlan while his fleet was stationed at
United States as the representative ot lands of the country still possess large Puerto Cortes. He trained the three big
the oleo margarine trust.
In fact, so iesources that never have been exploited. searchlights of his flagship, the Olympia,
widely distributed was this misforma In the course of time the country’s in* upon the town and played up.
tion as to the real position of the chair dustrial population no doubt will be
R. E. Caudill and F. P. Caudill, twin
man of the committee that in a recent come so great as to consume all the food brothers of Cntinel City, Ky., have
numberofa popular magazine his por that the land can be forced to produce. written to Walter B. Stevens of the St.
trait was printed as “ the recognized But that day is still far distant. Eng Louis World’s fair, preferring a strange
agent of the oleomargarine inaiiulac land, Germany and other indurtrial na* request. Tlirir letter is in part as fol
turers.”
tions can continue for; a long time yet to lows : “ We are twin brothers and
The repot t of the commissioner of in rely upon us as their principal base of married twin sisters, and all four of us
ternal revenue for the fiscal year ended supplies. The construction by the gov have red hair. Nobody living can tell
June 30 has just been made public. In it ernment ol extensive irrigation works in brothers or sisters apart. We are 35
the commissioner discusses the result of the arid west will enable that section years old and the sisters are 34 years
the enforcement of the provisions of the | i within no very long time to make an
old. We would like to be on exhibition
Grout law during its first year. The immense addition to the annual Ameri* in St. Louis next year. Will yon kindly
“ oleo” act as it passed provides that ! can production of grain and live stock.
place us in touch with the peison we
colored substitutes are taxed at the rate
The bill to create a department of ag- must correspond with to this end?’
of a quarter of a cent p»T pound only. [ ‘ riculture met with strong opposition
If the Grout law had been as effective as ! when on its passage, being denounced as
This storv is stranger than fiction : A
its advocates hoped, the result should excessively paternalistic, and the depart farmer of Wabashcountv. Illinois.owned
have been :irtual annihilation of the ! ment itself has been a good deal ridiculed a drove of fifty fine blooded hogs. He
“bogus butter*' industry. But oil the I since it was established. But results turned them loose last spring in a pas
contrary, the commissioner's
report | : have vindicated both the establishment ture to shift for themselves
They had
seems to indicate verv clearly that there I : of the department and the work it has to be called back only for meals, and as
is a big demand throughout the United I done. It has distributed many pamph- the farmer was a weak voiced man. he
States for oleomargarine, and that if j ' lets containing worthless advice from hit upon the plan of pounding with his
the colored article is too high a price the theoretical farmers. But, on the whole strick on a board. The sound this pro
uncolored product of the factory will be I | the good seeds it has distributed, the duced meant “ corn*’ to the porcine
I investigations and experiments it has intelligei ce
sed.
In the autumn they were
It appears from the report that during i i made, the statistics it has collected and turned into a grove full of dead trees in
he fiscal year there was manufactured in , | the forestry work it has done have in- which the woodpeckers found a happy
the United States a total of 5,710.407 I structed and stimulated the energies ot ground. No sooner were the hogs left
pounds of colored oleomargarine—that | I the farmers of the country and have been bv themselves than a “ rap rap-rap”
is to sav, butter substitutes colored to i worth a great deal more than they have sounded from the further side of the en
resemble the genuine article.
Of this cost. Nor have they benefited the far closure. Off tliev scampered to the prom
amount 3,122,503 was withdrawn for mers alone. Whatever helps the farmers ised banquet.
“ fap tap-tap’’ called
export and only 2,312.493 pounds helps the whole country. From nowon them back to the starting point before
withdrawn for local consumption and it will be necessary tor our agriculturists they were half across. “ R-r-r-rp” came
taxed at the rate of 10 cents a pound.
to apply themselves more dilligenth from an industrious redhead in a third
On the other hand the report shows than in the past to devising systems ot quarter. To made a long story short
that during the same period the factories culture adapted to getting the largest the hogs chased the woodpeckers about
produced 67,785.796 pounds of un- ! i ami best returns from their land; and in the lot from morn to noon, from noon to
colored butter substitutes, of which vast I ! this work the Department of agriculture dewy eve, and with the setting sun
quantity 66,785,796 pounds were with- | j will no doubt prove a great help.
dropped in their tracks from sheer ex
drawn for local consumption and taxed
haustion, never to rise again.
at
of a cent per pound.
In other i
Library
and
School.
words, the amount of uncolored oleo
margarine manufactured ami consumed !
within the United Slates was thirty j
A way of bringing the public library
three times greater than the amount of and the public school into harmonious
colored butter substitutes manufactured relation is to be tried this winter in Ore
and taxed at 10 cents per pound. It the gon. Fifteen hundred volumes have been
Wadsworth substitutes for the Grout selected from the Portland public library
bill Lad been enacted into law the and these are to be boxed and sent the
revenue receipts from the tax oil butter rounds of all the public schools in Mult*
You can make your har
substitutes would have been in round noniali county. This means that in every
ness ns soft as a giovo
mid ns touch ns wire Ly
figures $ 1,400.000
As it is, the report isolated farmhouse throughout the re
I . I I K \ liar.
of the commissioner shows that this gion, it the dwellers there so will, some
nc*M Oil. You can
lengthen 113 life—make it
item produced only $400,000 in revenue, of the world’s best literature is to find a
last twice as long as it
or less than one-third of the sum which lodging. These books will not lie un
ordinarily would.
would have been realized from a uniform opened on shelves and tables. They will
tax of 2 cents per pound.
be read, and read thoroughly. The win*
ter tasks and privations of the dwellers
in the wild will be lightened and made
The Same Old Food Frauds.
profitable by companionship with great
minds.
The cruisade, official and otherwise,
The Oregon plan of circuiting good
i rr.-»ke3 a poor looking har-
against adulterations of food is in every books in tlie farming districts is
otilv
i n«sd like new. Made of
respect commendable.
There is need one of several ideas for giving in the
pure, henry bodied oil, es
pecially prepared to witb-
enough of it on every hand. “All we. country the benefit of city advantages.
auuid tho weather.
like sheep, have gone astray.’’ There is In Illinois the advisability of having
Sold everywhere
no room for one country to regard county schools is under discussion, with
in cans—ail sizes.
another as the chief of sinners. We are the prospect that the experiment will he
here taking stringent measures against tried before long on an extensive scale.
Midi bf STANDARD OIL CO. \
the importation of adulterated and drug Instead of the little district schools scat
ged goods from Germany ami other tered over the prairies, there is to be one
lands, and Germany and other lands are large graded school for each county,
taking the same precautions against us. built in accordance with the latest im
Vet it is notorious that many American provements in school architecture, and
producers and manufacturers have prac provided with a corps of well-trained
160 acres, over 120 rich bottom land,
tised such evil methods wholesale, while and competent teachers, who will be
as for Gerniony the iniquity has there paid salaries that under the district sys 40 acreshave been slashed. House, barn
extended to some of her most cheiislied tem would he out of the question. Pu and other buildings ; 40 fruit trees, 8
and vaunted national products, even pils are to be transported to and fro at tons of hay, tools stock, etc, household
some of the wines of the Rhineland hav the expense of the county, and it is con furniture All for less than $1,800, or
ing been adulterated, counterfeited and tended that the entire cost, when equita will sell land separate. Half mile from
what not, to an extent sufficient to take bly divided among the districts, will not Spruce post office and school house. Call
awav the breath of the “cutest” Yankee be much, if anv greater, for each district or address F. Pichereau. Spruce, Oregon,
who is wanting to sell on account of
manufacturer of wooden nutmegs that
than the maintenance of separate schools rheumatism.
ever existed in jealous fancy.
With trolly cars, the telephone, rural
Noris there occasion for any one to tree delivery, big public libraries to draw
point at these things as proof of the de upon, and county schools for thechildren
generacy of modern times. There are Ide in the country is going to be a very
those, we know, who are fond of harp different thing in the twentieth century
ing about the “good old days” when from what it lias been in the past. In
I offer for sale inv place known as Ne.
things were what tliev seemed. Pshaw! tact it begins to look as if the country carnie Mountain, located north of Ne-
This fm d fraud business is older than the
people would have the benefits of city lialem Bay. This place consists of eight
“oldest inhabitant.’’ We are not sure
lite without its distractions and dissipa hundred acres of land, over half of which
but that it was worse in the days of our tions. If their intellectual advancement is open prairie, either now under cultiva
great.giandfathers than it is now.
shall be proportionate to their oppor tion or ready for the plow. This is good
Halt a century back Tennvson wrote of tunities. they will develop a standard of grass land, well watered by mountain
bread made of chalk and alum as a com
civilization that dwellers in the cities streams, and can easily be made one of
mon and well known thing. Blit let us
the l»est. if not the best stock or dairy
may regard with envv.
reckon Tennvson as among the moderns,
farmin Tillamook County. Price reason
and, moreover, as a mere |ict. whose
able and terms easy. Apply to
▼rises arc not legal evidence. From a
Fight Will Be Bitter.
P. C. W arren .
serious writer, in a serious record, in
Those who will persist inclosing their
Warrington, Ore.
London eighty five years ago we learn
ears against the continual recommenda
that grocers were widely selling * tea"
tion of Dr. King's New Discovery for
made of thorn leaves dried on cop
Consumption, will have a long and bit
per and colored with logwood, verdigris
ter fight with their troubles, if not ended
and Dutch pink. Port wine was largely
earlier bv fatal termination. Read what
made of sloe juice, British brandy and
logwood—“fine old London port’ ! Gin T. R. Beall, of Beall, Miss., has to say :
“ Last fall mv wife had every symptom
was adulterated with aquafortis. Bread
of consumption. She took Dr. King's
was largely manufactured from a mixt
New Discovery after everything else had
ure of ground stone, chalk, pulverized
failed. Improvement came at once and
bones nud a little Hour. Milk was large
four bottles entirely cured her.’’ Guar*
Iv chalk and water. Sugar was mixed
Five
an teed by Chas. Clough, Drug Store. In Tillamook County, Oregon,
with sand. There was scarcely an arti
Price 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottles free. miles from tidewater. Good road. Pnce
cle of ordinary consumption that was
$1,750, on easv terms.
not rendered destructive bv the infamous
A Frightened Horse,
For further information see Countv
and fraudulent practices of interested
Running like mad down the street
persons.
dumping the occupants, or a hundred Commissioner L. Parrish. Hobsonville,
Such was the state of affairs nearly a
other accidents, are every dav occur Oregon or write to Amon Rose. Temple*
century ago in the foiemost citv of the
rences. It !>ehooves everybody to have ton. Cal.
foiemost country of the world, among a
a reliable Salve handy and there's none
I<0pie, moreover, always regarded as
as good as Buck ten's Arnica
Salve.
foremost in commercial and industrial
Burns, Cuts, Sores, Eczema and Piles,
integrity
W’hat does it prove ? Simply
disappear qnicklv under its soothing
in the words that Lincoln was so fond
effect.
25c , at Chas. Clough,
Drug H
of quoting, that ‘ we are the same that
Store.
our fathers have been." We certainly arc
All order, promptly attended to.
on worse,in this particular at least, for we »
Large Stork of Flour just Ar Phone A K. i'w when yon want to
have no knowledge ot anv modern food
frauds worse than those which we have rived at (ninglofT <8t Snuffer’s.
leave order, lor wood .awing
Harness
EUREKA
Harness Oil
FARM FOR SALE.
A Bargain.
Ranch for Sale,
FOR SALE
Dairy Farm of 120
Acres on the Miami,
W ood Saw
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headquarters for
SUPPLIES^
DAIRYMEN’S
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STEEL STOVES & RANCEg
We carry a Large Stock of
Hardware
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Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors, Windo,^
Sashes,
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GROCERIES
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Agents for the Great Western Sai/^í
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M c I ntosh & McNAIR,
the
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The Most Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County,
untv ¿«j
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E-A-XTŒZ OF
C. & E. Thayer
'The
M. F. LEACH,
PROPRIETOR
OF
General Banking and Exchange busi- I
Tillamook Meat Marl
uess.
Exchange oil England, Belgium, Ge’
many, Sweden, ami all foreign countries
DEALER
ORE.
TILLAMOOK.
IN
Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool,
TILLAMOOK
COUNTY BANK
Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel, Tillamook
( incorporated ),
CITY,
TILLAMOOK
Pacific Navigation C«
PAID UP CAPITAL, $10,000.
A GENERAL BANKING
BUSINESS.
STEAMERS—SUE II. ELMORE, W. H. HARRIS!
ONLY LINE—ASTOTLA. TO TILLAMOOK, GAM
BAY CITY, HOBSONVILLE.
DirectorsM. W. H arrison , W. W.
C urtiss , B. L. E ddy .
M. W. H arrison .
Cashier
Connecting at Astoria with the Oregon
I
Railroad & Navigation Cai
also the Astoria & Columbia Bi iver R. R. foi San Francisco, Pott.
and all [Hunts east. For freight and passenger rates apply to
SAMUEL ELMORE & CO. General Agents, ASTORIA.«
B. C. LAMB, Agent. Tillamook Oregon.
Liberal Prices Paid for gilt edge securi
ties of all kinds.
LATIMER, BROS,
.
, (O. R & N. R. R. Co , Portland.
AK“nt8 |A. & C. R. R. Co., Portland.
BAHBER AND HAIRDRESSER.
SHAVING,
HAIR
CITTIN« Sue H. Elmore carries Wells Fargo Co.’s E xjm
SHAMPOOING, ETC
Electric Baths niceh fitted up. Goodfor
persons suffering with rheumatism.
A. K. CASE,
Iron Woks
> Sewing Machines » Tillamook
General Machinists & Blacksmith
2
PROPRIETOR
I
Now is the time to buy a
uew Sewing Machine for
$22.00, with drop head and
all the latest improvements
at M c I ntosh & M c N air ’ s .
It is the B onita S ewing
M achine , and they range
in price from $22 to $35,
with ball bearings. They
are little beauties, perfectly
made and something new on
the market. These machi-
nes are a better article than
J the peddlars are charging
! $65 and $75 for.
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£
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Boiler Work, Logger’s Work and Heavy Forfig.
Fine Machine Work a Specialty.
TILLAMOOK,
OREGON.
SMITH & JENKINS
I
Successors to L. N. Barnes,
DEALERS IN
PRIME
¡g.»
MEATS,
LARD, eß
At the NEW MEAT MARKET.
COAL
Now is the time to purchase your |
winter supply, while the weather is nice. ■
We make special rtQes on 5 tons and up- ■
Only Prime Meats Handled. Give usj
Call. Hides Wanted.
Quick's Delivery Wagons deliver, Highest Cash price paid for stock. Both
wards during this time of year, There is
none better than Hetton coal mined in I
Australia.
A complete substitute for
hard coal ; low in ash, quick to ignite.
Suitable for stove, range, grate and fur
nace.
Tillamook
B
T^OR
BAILEY & WEIS
Warehouse Company
C LAMB
Telephone, Main 33.
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TRUST co .
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B. L. E ddy , Sec
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Real Estate Agents an
Timber Locators.
List Your Farm Property with^
THE
Tillamook Lumber Company
OFFICE ; NEXT TO HEINS’ PHOTO GALLERÀ I
FOR
TILLAMOOK, OREGON.
SHINGLES and BOXES.
Shingles $2.25 1000.
«M. GALLOWAY.
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TT EDGES A GALLOWAY
A ATTORNBYS.AT.LAW.
Mnke a specialty of Land Office Business
OFFICE IX WEIMHARD BVILDIXG,
Room 1 and 2,
OREGON CITY. ORE.
The Best Hotel.
THE ALLEN HOUSE
J. P. AUDEN, Proprietor-
Headquarters for Travelling
Special Attention paid to Tourists.
A First Class Table. Comfortable Beds and Accomo