Tillamook headlight., December 31, 1903, Image 2

TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. DECEMBER 31
$300 Exemption not Eftecttive.
Fighting the Meat Trust.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
(«TM1CTLY IX ADVANCE.)
1.50
()ne year..............................................
75
Six months........................................
50
Three months......................... .........
S alem . Or.. Dec. 26 -l’hHt there will
It is tun mneed from St. Louis th; t
wt stern cat'Ivineii and local capitalists be no $300 tax exemption on the ;is.*rs!»
are about to lock horns with the Meat inenl «4 1904 seems apparent from the
ti t st that now dictates the ptice of live laws as they were left I v the special se>-
stock ai d 'virtually regulates the triad >i«m. As the law stall Is now there 1*
price at which neat it: sold. 'I tie first no exemption authorized,
fhe next. «»s-
step in this direction is the proposal re MSsincnt will l>e made on March I, 1 J"*
establishment of the slock yards and file act passed by the Legislature reviv-
Fred <.’ Baker. Pubii»lirr
packing house industry on the St Louis iug trie $3Ot> exemption will not take ef­
side ot the river which is now carried on fect until 90 «la\s from December 23, <>r
in i he town of East St. Louis on the on Ma 1 ch 23. Thcrtf -ie. it would stern
Cruelty to the Horse.
that no exemption can be allowed on
Illinois side of the Mis*ippi river.
Ail independent stock yard company, that assessment
The hor*e, the most useful of all nni-
I11 examining the acts passed by the
said io be the first in the United States
mats, is the one marked for the most of to enter the lists against the meat trust. Legislature at its recent session, an Ore­
gonian
representati re noticed that the
men's ill treatment. Eor the most part 1 has been organized in St. Louis and
housed in i I lighted, ill ventilated and ill • promises to be in operation l-v the first exemption law’ carried no emergency
ot the year. The St. Louis Union Pack­ clause. This was called to the attention
smelling quarters, worked to its full
ing company, closely allied w ilh and to of Attorney-General Cra wford.
capacity, eared for only to the degree a laryc ext« nt deixmdent upon the stock
• it l«>oks as though there will be no
that selfish inter« st prompts, i he animai y ards company, will also begin operating exemption in 1904,” was Judge Craw­
is delivcied over as the unprotected of»- by January I, 1904. Coupled with this ford's comment.
“Perhaps some way
ject ol the uine-ti ained passion* of man announcement comes also the assurance I can be found tu construe the law so that
The average man fails apparently to uii
that the men at the head of these enter- the exemption can be allowed, but it
derstand that animals have a nervous ! prises have ample capital to push the • losen't look very favorable at first
system, among them in a marked degree campaign against the meat octopus to a
I glance ”
the hor-e, and that were he to govern successful conclusion.
1 he assessment of 19 ’3 was made so
his own temper he could with a little
The movement which results in the | values existed March 1st of that year.
patience g« t control of the horse's ner­ ¡formation of the independent packing The law repealing the exemption did
vous syst< in, and make out ot it a ser companies that arc about to enter the not take effect until May 21. As the
vant vastly more efficient than it is nil- lists as competitors of the allied nieat- 1 assessors listed property that was taxa­
(ler the system in which he be.ns and ; packing concerns had its inception from ble on March 1, 'hey allowed exemptions
jerks and drives it to distraction
the protest of the cattlemen of the coun­ Ion the 1903 roll. If the same rule '»e
A short walk in any citv will discover try framed at a convention held in Kan­ followed in 1904,no exemption can be
manv blind horses. Why ? There are no sas Citv to the effect that they were , allowed
In other words, the exemption
blind cows, comparatively. And set the i not getting enough money for their cat I must fail either in 1903 or 1904, and
sight of the one naturallv is as good as ' tie. Their complaint was that the nl
| apparently it mnst fail in 1904.
that of the other, Hie difference is simple Irged meat packing trust had absorbed
that the horse from the beginning has all competitors and was the sole arbiter
Must Use Water.
been abused, iil housed, overworked and of the markets of the country, thereby
worked under conditions that have compelling the cattlemen to sell at a
S alem . Or.. Dec. 26.—To authorize
driven him blind. His eves are shut in price in which there was very little or '
by blinders at each side, tor w hich there no profit no matter how high the retail the condemnation of the water rights of
riparian owners bv irrigation companies
is no u*e but to satisfy the caprice of prise of meat might be.
is the purpose of otic of the acts of the
fashion of mail
So, lias vision interfcr
The recent decline in the price of live
The
ed with, and deprived of air, the wonder stock has undoubtedly stimulated the Legislature at its special session
is that with the oth-i treatment begets movement for coinjietition and for a i act has bten filed by the Governor and
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he is not blind «.ftner. Besides this, in time at least the independent companies has become a law.
The new law is intended as a comple­
other cases his neck is almost, pulled out may be able to cope with the trust and .
of joint by overhead check reins that compel it to meet the competition in the tion of section 5030, of Bellinger & Cot-
raise his face to the air and turn his eve I purchase of livestock. It is to be feared, ! ton’s Code, which section w’as enacted
General Banking and Exchange busi­
balls to the glare of the sun unprotected. however, that the independent packing in 1899. Through some error a portion
that section was omitted before the
Or, on the other hand, deprived of check . concerns will r.ot remain independent if | ' of
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ness.
rein, he is bitted w ith a curb that pulls 1 they interfere seriously with the allied i act ol 1899 passed, and the section was
Exchange on England, Belgium, Ge“
bis jaws to his breast and tortures him packing concerns. Competition in these defective. The words that were sup­
posed to have been omitted have been tunny, Sweden, and all foreign coiinwtes
in this fashion
And then according to days is nearly always followed hv com
the spreading fashion of the (lav. he is bination whenever mutual advantage is supplied and as now amended the section
subjected to that most cruel of all prac­ to I e gained and it will be almost a reads as follows ;
“ Section 5030.
Such persons, com­
tices, docking, which not merely tortures miracle if the independent companies at
in the practice, but leaves him to the St. Louis are not swallowed up bv, or panies and corporations may also main­
tot inent of flies lor the test of his life It rather amalgamated with, the existing tain an action for the condemnation and
is the merciful man that is merciful to his meat-packing combine within a few years appropriation of the right to the flow’ of
water in any stream from which it ot
beast, and if it is the merciful that ob­ at most.
they propose to divert water, below the
tain mere«, we have, as a people, some;
( incorporated ) ,
point
of diversion vested in the owners
way to come before we get that blessing. |
The Two Canals.
of lands lying contiguous to such stream
While the completion of the Panama by virtue of their location. Such action
Cheap Power for Industry.
canal will result in very great benefit to shall be brought in the county where the
PAID VP CAPITAL, $10,000.
the coast states and incidentally, of lands to be affected or some portion
Few people dreamed, when the project course, to the whole country, a project thereof, are situated, and the maimer of
of utilizing the power of Niagara by of equal, if not greater, importance to procedure therein shall be similar to that
prescribed for the condemnation of lauds
means of colossal dynamos was first interior states whose products are ex
ported, and especially to the region pro. in chapter 2 of title 41.
seiiously considered, that the success
” Provided,that no person owninglands Directors :—M. \V. H arrison , \V. XV.
<Jucing foodstuffs, is the widening and
and popularity which it has since at­ deepening of the Erie canal, so as to lying contiguous to any natural stream
C urtiss , B. I,. E ddy .
tained were possible. It was a pioneer admit of the passage of 1,000 ton barges shall, without his consent, be deprived
Cashier r—M. W. H arrison .
enter, rise as an engineering proposition, This great enterprise, for the accorn of water lor household or domestic use,
a so as a commercial one. Several in­ plishment of which the people of New or for the purpose of watering his stock,
Liberal Prices Paid for gilt edge securi­
dustries which have profiled bv that York, a t t lie election last month, voted or of water necesrarv to irrigate crons ties of all kinds.
famous venture had not been then fore­ an expenditure of $101,000.000, will growing upon such lands, and actually
seen, and even the trolley was in its in­ when completed effect a reduction in the used therefor, nor shall the rights of any
fancy. The revelations made bv H. \V. freight rate on grain to the seaboard of prior appropriator without his consent
Buck in “ Cassier’s Magazine’’ for De- pei haps not less Ilian 5 cents per bushel. be materially affected or impaired re­
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cembei concerning recent developments
What this will mean for the grain pro
gardless of whether such appropriation
at Niagara should be viewed in the light diners of the west it is not difficult to was made for use upon riparian or non­
of these facts, and, thus regarded, arc understand. Such a reduction in freight
riparian land.”
SHAVING, HAIR CÎTT1NG
certainly amazing.
Indeed, many per­ wouhl amount to many millions of dol­
It will be noticed that under the provi­
sons who in a general way have been lars annually, a large share of which sions of this «act no owner of a water
SHAMPOOING, EÌC
fmiilar with the achievements of the would go to the producers. It is true right can be deprived of water for which
Niagara I'alls Power Company will pro­ the waterway would be closed a part of he has a use. The purpose evidently is
bably find some of his details new as the year, sav an average of four months,
to prevent a riparian owner from exer­ Electric Baths niceh fitted up. Good for
well as instructive.
hut there is reason to believe that this cising his supposed right to have water
persons suffering with rheumatism.
The first of the two power houses on w mid have no verv material effect upon
| flow in its channel even though lie has
the American side container! ten 5,000 the freight rates. If it should have pro-
no use for it
horsepower generators, and the second, ducers able to hold their grain could
Vr . V-M ■*-*-■*-Tr’«J'-«
in which eleven will be installed, is ex- do so during the closed season. As it
pected to be infii'l working order by the look to us, the improvement ot the Erie
close of the present month The capacity < ana I as pi eposed would proveofalmost
of the whole plant,
105.000 horse­ it estimable advantage to the western
Rain and sweat
have no etïcct on
power, will then be greatly in excess of country, among other tilings tending to
harness
treated
that ol any station developing electricity increase by hundreds of millions the
with Eureka Har­
Now is the time to buy a
bv either stream or water elsewhere in value of its agricultural lands.
ness Oil. It re­
sists the damp,
the whole world
Nevertheless, the de­
new Sewing Machine for
There ought to be no doubt in regard
keeps
the
leath
­
mand for current has grown so steadily
to the carrying out of the project, since
er soft and pli­
$22.00, with drop head and
that work on the Canadian plant of the it has been shown to be essential to the
able. Stitches
do not break.
same company is being vigorously
all the latest improvements (1
commercial interests of the port of New
N o rough sur­
pushed, in order to supplement this out­ York, vet efforts to obstruct the enter­
at M c I ntosh & M c N air ’ s .
fa« e to chafe
put with 110,000 horsepower more.
and cut. '1 he
prise are to be expected. The railroads,
It is the B onita S ewing
harness rot
Already twenty four customers are being having failed in their opposition to the
only keep*; J
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served at Niagara, and upward of eighty
M achine , and they range
project with the people, may possibly
looking like “
others within a radius of twenty-five or seek to defeat it through the courts or
new, but
in
price from $22 to $35,
wears twice
t bitty miles, a mi several new engage
»
at any rate to delay it. Such a course
as long by the
with ball bearings. They
meats are already in sight.
would be in accord with their uniform
use of Eureka
«
It is the character, rather than the
Harness Oil. 6
¿2
_ are little beauties, perfectly
policy toward any enterprise which is in
number, of these patrons which is chieHv the public interest and would abridge
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f made and something new on
significant. More than halt of the es­
the power of the railroads. Meanwhile
tablishments at Niagara w hich are sup­
f the market. These machi-
the New York state authorities are
Sold
/
d
plied bv this corporation are engaged i-i
? nes are a better article than
everywhere I
taking the necessary steps to inaugurate
chemical industries, one of which, the
in cans— II
the undertaking.
Jj the peddlars are charging
all sizes.
(4
the calcium carbide business, requires no
Made by
less than 15,000 horsepower. In the list
$65 and $75 for.
Debates over the vexed problem of viv.
Standard Oil
of Buffalo patrons the trolley and electric
¡section
have
been
revived
in
England,
Company
light companies stand at the head, but
one also finds there a hotel, live grain but the friends of animals in this country
elevators, two or three chemical con­ have not been moved to any extrava
cerns and uh . re than fifty firms or com­ gant outbreak of denunciation of the
panies w hich want electricity lor strictly ex|H'rimenls of physicians and surgeons
mechanical purposes.
A lew of these upon the bodies ofduin and helpless
shops and factories need only 10 or 15 creatures. It cannot be denied that in
the last century several unscrupulous in-
Now is the time to purchase vour
horsepower (and even that not continu
160 acres, over 120 rich bottom land,
ously, perhaps),
while other require vastigators practised hideous cruelties 4-0 «acreshave been slashed. House, barn winter supply, while the weather is nice.
several hundred, but all of them find it upon animals in the name of science. and other buildings ; 40 fruit trees. 8 We make special rules on 5 tons and up.
cheapr tn do their work with power These researches were carried to an tons of hay, tools stock, etc, household
wards during this time of year, There is
brought to them from a distance than especially horrible excess in Erance and furniture. All for less than $1,800, or
to generate it on their own premises. in Germany. But these old abuses have will sell land separate. Half mile from none better than Hetton coal mined in
This, in fact, is one of the most impor passed away, leaving hardly a vestige Spruce post office and school house. Call Australia.
A complete substitute for
behind, and the doctors of to-dav in all or address E. Pichereau, Spruce. Oregon,
taut discovciics of the last few years.
hard coal ; low in ash, quick to ignite.
Mr. Buck snvs that designers of en­ civilized countries, as a rule, abhor the who is wanting to sell on account of
Suitable for stove, range, grate and fur­
tirely new mills no longer ask themselves needless infliction of pain upon the lower rheumatism.
nace.
whether it is better to distribute power orders ot conscious livings, as well as
Tillamook Warehouse Company
inside their establishments by electricity upon the members of the human race.
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B C LAMB
or shafts and belling, because they tea-
“ Colonel” Ammon, who is now serv­
Telephone, Main 33.
lire the immense economy of the former
ing a term in prison for his stealings of a
system. Possibly he is too confident on
I offer for sale my place known as Ne-
large part of the plunder ot the Miller-
that score.
Still, whether or not the
T^VOR ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.
Franklin " get-rich-quick” frauds, need carnie Mountain, located north of Ne­
merit of tlie ” electric drive” for interior
halem
Bay. Thi« place consists of eight
expect no sympathy when he bursts out
service is as fully recognized as it should
hundred acres of land, over half of which
GO TO
in denunciation of his dupes and accom­
be, this much is true
A good deal is yet
plices. He was convicted upon accumu­ is open prairie, either now under cultiva­
to lie learned about the advantag« s ot
TILLAMOOK
ABSTRACT AND
lated evidence so overwhelming that tion or ready for the plow. This is good
buying power ready made instead ot
there could lie no possible doubt that he grass land, well watered bv mountain
nianutactuiring it. Mr. Buck says that
TRUST CO.
was one of the chief contrivers of this streams, and can easily be made one of
the customers of the Niagara I'alls
520 per cent system of robbery. Eor a the best, if not the best stock or dairy T hos . C oates . Pres.
B. L. Ennv, Src.
Bower Company get it for about half as
farm
in
Tillamook
County.
Price
reason
time he was bold and audacious and
much as it would cost them to develop
able
and
terms
easy.
Apply
to
defied the prosecuting authorities. But
SEE THE
it themselves, to say nothing of the
witness upon witness, document upon
P. C. W arren .
saving of space. Engines, boilers and
document, made it clear to the jury that
Warrington. Ore.
coal bins take up a deal of room. Inas­
Ammon was among the principal con­
much as Buffalo gets her supplies bv a
FOR
spirators in that scheme ot robbery.
transmission line twenty five miles in
Miller is a convicted felon also. Neither
length, she has to pay a trifle more for
('I them has the remotest claim to public
electricity
than local
consumers at
sympathy.
They plotted to s»eal the
Niagara do. It is safe to assume, further.!
money of credulous rainbow chasers,
more, that rents and taxes arc lower at ‘
and they got a gieat deal of it. Everybody
the latter place than in Butlalo, whi’e
concerned in that felony ought to serve
the facilities for shipping arc practically
out every day of confinement to which
equal. It is eas\ to understand, there­
he has been sentenced
The punishment
fore, the selection of sites near the falls
meted out to Amnion and Miller was a
GILBERT L. HEDGES.
tot manufacturing purposes during the
In Tillamook County. Oregon
Five WM. GALLOWAY.
wholesome example to evildoers.
last few years, and the increasing de­
miles from tidewater. Good road. Pncc
mand there both tor land and power.
$1,750, on easy terms.
<£be
ïillaniooh
DAIRYMEN’S SUPPLIER
STEEL STOVES &
J?
Itjcabligbt.
ol
We carry a Large Steck ot|§
Hardware, Tinware,' Q, w ’
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and China,
ss
la
Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors, Win^
Sashes,
Line of Cho
GROCERIES
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Agents for the Great Western
McINTOSH & McNAIR,
The Most
Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County'
OF
C. & E
M. F. LEACH, g
Thayer
TILLAMOOK.
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PROPRIETOR OF
Tillamook Meat Mai
DEALER IN
ORE.
TILLAMCOK
COUNTY BANK.
TILLAMOOK CITY,
Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wot
Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel, Tillamook
ORE..
A GENERAL BANKING
BUSINESS.
STEAMERS-SUE II. ELMORE, W. II. HAKIM
ONLY LINE-ASTOT1A TO TILLAMOOK, GAPJ
BAY CITY, HOBSON VILLE.
Connecting at Astoria with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation 1
also the Astoria & Columbia River R. R. foi San Francisco,hl
and al( points east. For freight and passenger rates apply to
SAMUEL ELMORE & CO. General Agents, A8T0R11:
B. C. LAMB. Agent. Tillamook Oregon.
a JO. K & N. R. R. Co, Porllni
Agents
A. & C. R. R. Co., Porllknd.
LATIMER, BROS
BÄHBER AND HAIRDRESSER.
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? ? Sewing Machines.
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COAL
Ranch for Sale.
Tillamook Lumber Company
FOR SALE
Dairy Farm of 120
Acres on the Miami,
COOKS once more happy. Gang­
loff Ur Snuffer have just received
a shipment of Spotless Flour from
Goldcndale. Wash
i
Large Stock of Flour jost ar­
rived at Gangloff & Snuffer's.
Pride Waldo Hills Pour at
Gangloff A Snuffer's
SHINGLES and BOXES.
Shingles $2.25 1000.
TT EDGES * GALLOWAY
For further information
see County
Commissioner L. Parrish. Hobaoaville.
Oregon or write to Amon Rose. Temple'
ton. Cal.
attorneys . at . law .
Make a »penalty of Landoffice Business.
OFP1CK IN WKIXHARD BCTt.DIXG,
Room 1 and 2,
OREGON CITY. ORE
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PROPRIETOR
Iron Wok
? Tillamook
General Machinists & Blacksi
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FARM FOR SALE.
A Bargain.
Sue H. Elmore carries Wells Fargo Co.’s E k
4
4
Boiler Work, Logger's Work and Heavy Fortin
Fine Machine Work a Specialty.
T illamook
oregoi
SMITH & JENKINS
Successors to L. N. Barnes,
DEALERS IN
PRIME
MEATS,
LARD.
At the NEW MEAT MARKET
Only Prime Meats Handled. Give
Call. Hides Wanted.
Quick s Delivery Wagons deliver, Highest Cash price paid for stock. Bot-
BAILEY & WEIS
Real Estate Agents
Timber Locators.
List Your Farm Property with
OFFICE : NEXT TO HEINS’ PHOTO GALLEÉ
TILLAMOOK, OREGON.
The Best Hotel.
THE ALLEN HOUSE,
J. P. flLtUEN, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Travelling Men
Special Attention paid to Tourists.
A First Class Table. Comfortable Beds and Accoffl®