Tillamook headlight., January 14, 1904, Image 1

TILLAMOOK, O
Cupid Captured an Editor
Racket Store
Is prepared to supply your
needs in"the Shoe line. We carry
the famous Washington Shoe Co.’s
Shoes for men and boy’s.
And the F. Mayer, Milwaukee
Shoes for ladies’ and children.
These Shoes are strictly first-
class and up-to-date in every respect.
Prices as low as the lowest
C
DANIEL
&
CO
One Door Noi’th of the Post Offiee
TILLAMOOK
JOTTINGS.
H. T. Botts, for abstracts.
Buy your clothing at Todd & Co’s.
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Local jottings this week are unusually
scarce.
Charles Gatchell, of Hebo, was in the
city on Tuesday.
C. A. Vogler took another business trip
to Portland on Tuesday.
Todd & Co. have just received a ship­
ment of men’s fine dress shoes.
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P. \V. Todd has won his contest on a
imber claim on the Wilson river.
Todd & Co. are the leaders in every
thing in the line of men’s wearing ap­
parel.
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If you wish to purchase your negatives,
call at once at the Palace Studio.— Mrs.
Adams.
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The senate committee has approved
the hill for a life saving station in Tilla­
mook Bay.
We are glad to hear that Chester Hol-
den, who is in the hospital at Portland,
is much better.
Todd & Co. are closing out their stock
ol groceries. Buy your winter supply
at wholesale prices.
Mrs. Adams will soon remove to
Washington, when she will engage in
the photograph business.
Nels. Nelson, a native of Sweden, was
granted his final naturalization papers
by County Judge Conder.
Too many rubbers at the store of C. A.
Patzlaff in child’s, youth’s and boy’s, at
15c., 20c. and 25c. the pair.
Albert Lucy and wife, who are leaving
the county to locate at Salem, went out
by way of Sheridan on Tuesday.
Sheriff Aiderman, who has been quite
seriously sick and had a close call, is, we
are glad to say, somewhat better.
The secrament of the Lord's supper
will be administered at the M.E. church
next Sunday morning. Regular evening
service. Non-ehurch goers especially in­
vited.
The lumber schooner Gem left the city
on Wednesday with a load of lumber
from the Tillamook Lumber Co.’s mill,
and will be towed out as soon as the bar
will permit.
T. Sarshet, the tailor, received a tele,
gram on Monday stating that Louis
Rosslett died at an hotel in San Fran,
cisco, and the parties who sent the tele­
gram wanted to be advised what to do
with the body.
The steamer Geo. R. Vosbnrg tried to
get out on Monday, but the bar was so
rough she had to turn back and returned
to this city with about a dozen passen.
gers. She went down to the bay again
on Wednesday.
The steamer Sue H. Elmore left here on
Wednesday, her passengers being G. W.
Bennett and wife. Dr. Birtch, Cora Wat­
I son, Ralph Hannenkrat. Mrs. Jos. Butts,
1 Miss Flora Bumgarner. Rev.A. R. Griggs,
Rev. Aug. Anderson.
Tilt board of county commissioners
adjourned until the 1st of February,
when the matterof re-building the bridge
across Tillamook river, which was taken
out bv logs belonging to the Tillamook
Logging Co., will be taken up, and. no
doubt, the bridge will lie ordered put in.
f. H. Goyne was round on Wednesday
with a subscription list to help defray
the expenses________________
Frank Fowler Drowned.
There was much sorrow in Blaine last
! Friday when the news was spread |hat
Frank Fowler was drowned in the river.
Frank was living with J. J. Howser.
On Friday, about 4:30 p.m., Frank and
Mr. Howser went down to the river to
put their boat up out of danger, in case
T. Sarshet, the tailor, has moved his of high water. Frank got into the boat
tailor shop into the Olsen building, and as he has often done, and Mr. Howser
c in lie found upstairs over the furniture had hold of the boat with a long rope.
•tore.
In some way thccurrent caught the boat
C. A. Patzlaff will give you a discount and pulled Mr. Howser into the river, as
of 40c. the pair on men’s, 25c. the pair he was holding his best to prevent the
on boy’s and girl’s shoes, or any pair in boat and Frank from drilling down
stream, when all at once the rope part­
the store.
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Just arrived on steamer Elmore, direct ed from the boat and set the boat adrift.
from factory, a fine line of ladies’ and When this occurred Mr. Howser, who
•children's shoes, Ultz and Dunn make, was in much danger, also turned to get
out and run to where Frank was.
at Todd & Co's.
When he looked around, a moment later,
Tillamook City is to have another
Frank had swum to the bank and was
snloon, C. A. Vogler ami W. Hamilton
crawling out on bis bands and knees and
are going to open up the saloon vacated
at that time it was thought he was sale.
by A. B. Allison.
In another moment it seemed as it he
We were misinformed last week when had cramped or had slipped back into
we stated that Mrs. Kays was cut with deeper water and drifted back into the
the saws when her went to the assist­ mainstream. As quick as Mr. Howser
ance of her husbard.
got out he ran to where Frank was last
Carl A. Patzlaff has too many boy’s seen, but no trace could lie found of him.
Long Hip Rublier Boots, sizes 5 and 6 in The neighbors were notified at once, and
the Boston Rublier Co., which we are a search has been, and is now being made
•clling at $2.50 the pair.
to recover the liody. Twenty-five men
The ordinance to re submit the bond­ hunted Saturday and Sunday. Now.
ing of the city to a vote will come up for owing to the late raise in the river, it
third reading at the meeting of the city will sot lie so easy to find the body un.
til the river falls about two or three
council on Monday evening
feet.
Everything will lie done to recover
of
the
The Young People’s Society
Christian Church will hold a business the remains.
The bov was about 12 vears of age
meeting at the home of Mrs. Schrader at
and a son of Frank Fowler, who is
• :30 p.m., Friday, January 15th.
working at Stella. Wash.
Do you need a mackintosh to protect
Yourself from the rain or mud ? If so.
Large Stock of Flour jii*t ar­
we are selling them at $1 ,U0 thegarment,
rived
at Gangloff & Snuffer'*.
ladies’ or gentleman —C. A. Patzlaff. *
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GON,
JANUARY
14, 1904.
$1.50 per year
Editorial Snap Shots.
mook's oldest and most reliable news­
Good Advice to a Young Man.
paper was the best to select, anyway.
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We have a letter from a young man
The Headlight still holds the cake for
Some of our citizens keep on chewing who is working on a farm. He likes
getting out an illustrated and descriptive
the rag about bonding the city for a new | farm life, but wants to do something
edition of Tillamook County.
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water system,and others want drainage, i better than “hired man’s work.” He has
If you’ve got a political pain in the Yet it is remarkably strange that the | a fair common school education and has
back or a political buzzing in the head, unsightly swamp, right in the heart of j saved several hundred dollars. Shall he
•ee the political doctor of the Headlight the citv, is allowed to rentain every win­ take this money and go to a “business
ter and nothing done to drain it. It is college” and learn to be a bookkeeper or
about it.
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the drainage from a number of blocks, shall he go to an agricultural college ?
If Russia and Japan don't soon get at and as it would take only a few hundred We should not undertake to answer such
it we shall begin to think it’s nothing dollars to drain. Surely the city ought to a question for another man, because no
but Tillamook “hot air” that is making be able to expend a little money for that one can really understand the feeling of
much ado about nothing.
purpose if it is able to chew off a bonded I another. On general principal we are
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indebtedness of $60,000.
That is not sorry to see a farm boy go behind a desk
How values do fluctuate. Could those all. Owing to this drainage accumulat­ as bookkeeper. The business of making
who bought John Svenson’s dairy cows ing in the grounds of the public school, figures and keeping accounts is honorable
less than twelve months ago get half the we are informed the main piers of the and necessary, but from its very nature
price for them today ?
new school building are beginning to it is limited and does not give great
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sink. The Headlight nearly 12 months 1 chances for development. The educated
Those who want to get into the Head­
ago called attention to it and suggested j farmer, on the other hand, has a profes­
light’s matrimonial band wagon had
that the school board and city council sion not only the most independent of
better hurry, for Cupid will tie the knot
put in a drain and carry the water off to any, but the one with the greatest
that binds again on Saturday. Quess
the west, thus draining the next street chance for growth. We feel suie that
who !
also. We still contend that the board of American agriculture is entering the
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If you want to buy city property wait directors and the city council could not ! most wonderful era of its history. Rich
until the bondage agitators have knock­ expend a few hundred dollars to better | men are preparing to invest money in
ed the value out of it by putting a plus- advantage than to drain that eye fcore of farm land as they would in manufactur­
ing enterprises, provided they can secure
ter on it. For it’s going to do it, sure long standing.
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trained and competent managers. Are
enough.
How strange it is, when there is a little ! our agricultural colleges capable of
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Evidently the ’Dependent man has been dab of city or county printing to be let, training men for such work? Yes, thev
aching to “de up” somebody in business, that newspaper men divert from business I are already doing it. If a boy likes farm
but is evidently making a miserable fail­ rules and begin cutting prices and do | work and farm life we should be rather
ure trying to do so. The Thayer-Tal­ work at a figure below what it is worth. ! sorry to see him top-work such stock
By doing so they only injure themselves with a “business’’ graft. Scientific ag­
mage was built that way.
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and their own business by cutting what riculture will make a better union.—
Just suppose .’ If you came to Tillamook is a fair price. For the past five or six
Rural New Yorker,
and bought a business and the goodwill years, owing to an understanding be­
in the same, what would you think of tween the newspapers, brought about
Asleep and Snoring.
the person who came back and started principally J,by R, M. Watson when he
up a store in opposition to you ?
S alem , Or., Jan. 11.—Asleep nt his
was editor of the Herald, the newspapers
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did not get into a cat hauling, cut rate ' post and snoring lustilly, a man on
There is quite a lot of gossip going on fight. The Headlight does not want to ' guard as death watch over Murderer
as to what will be the report of the ex­ get into a cut rate war, for out of all the I Egbert was discovered by Penitentiary
perts who aie auditing the comity’s businesses in the city the newspapers re­ Warden Frank Curtiss and was imme-
The Tax Levy and Taxes.
books. It is well not to form any opin­ ceive less revenue for the labor and study j diatclv discharged. For about ten days
It was quite natural to suppose that ion until there is something to substan­ put into them. R. M. Watson will coin- | special guards have been employed to
as soon as the county court made the tiate so many reports.
I cidc with us on this points—that is if it | I watch the desperado from Harney Coun­
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tax levy the “knockers” would commence
is possible for him to argee with us on ty, who is condemned to be hanged on
It
looks
as
though
those
who
get
their
to belly ache before thev know they are
any one subject. But now he has forced I January 29. One man goes an duty at
troubled with that complaint. It is true mail by the Bay City and Hobsonville us into cut rates, all we can say is “Let 6 a.m., and is relieved by his fellow
that the levy is four mill higher, but lor | stage might petition the postal depart­ her rip!” for we can produce a news, I guard at 6 p.m. The night man had
the information of our readers let us take I ment to have the stage leave later so as j paper at less cost than our competitors been on duty about a week, and in order
the tax levy for the past six years ; 1898. , take the mail which arrives in this city at and can dance to the music and foot the to see that all was going well in the in­
30 mills; 1899, 31 mills; 1900, 31 about the time that the North Yamhill bills as long as they can, or until such stitution under his charge, Mr. Curtiss
arrives.
mills; 1901, 30 mills ; 1902,27 mills; stage
I time as it is a survival of the fittest, for made a tour of the prison at 3 o’clock in
K m
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1903, 31 mills. The valuation for 1903 ■ It is well known that the Headlight most every business man in Tillamook the morning, with the result that lie
is lower than 1902, consequently it was ■ man is not in the habit of pestering the I City will admit that three newspapers found the guard sound asleep.
necessary for the county court to raise | business men for advertising and job | in a city the size of this is too much of a
Egbert is getting along first rate and
the lew, which, as will be seen, is no work. They know we have the oldest | tax upon them—and the newspaper men is in the best of spirits. He has pro.
higher than in previous years. So, on and best advertising medium and they know this as well as the business men. * fessed religion and is receiving spiritual
that score, there is no room for the ' cannot get better and cheaper job work ; Which one will give up the ghost first ? i consolation from the prison chaplain.
“knockers’’ to belly ache. And another anywhere in the county. It pays to i Not the Headlight, for it has gone thro- The gallows upon which Egbert will be
point. We believe we are correctly in­ advertise in the oldest and leading n.vvs ' ugh many a newspaper scrap and came hanged was completed today by the
formed when we make this statement, pa per.
fitting of two trapdoors, which hive
I out smiling every time.
that a large number of taxpayers who
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been tested and found to work perfectly.
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The first young woman to take the
own agricultural lands will pay less tax
The Headlight has often made the re­
ou the 1903 roll with 31 mills than they Headlight’s advice and “pop the ques­ mark that it is a dangerous precedent to
There is one fact about meat that is
did on the 1902 roll with 27 mills. Of tion, as this is leap year, to the batch of i put a person into a responsible position very plain to every one and that is that
cource the reduction will not be very marriageable young men we published i who gambles, especially in handling or the price of both live cattle and hogs are
much, This is brought about by agri last week, was Miss Hope Nolan, and the a custodian of money. The temptation out ol all proportion to dressed meats,
cultural lands being assessed $250,000 victim is Rollie W.Wa»son. Next, please. I to gamble with other people’s money is both as compared with a year ago and
less,while timber claims have been assess­ The Headlight has started in to do a i too strong for some men who have im­ when compared with normal prices in all
ed higher. Where thev paid $16.20 on a land office business, for this is about the bibed the gambling fever, and, perhaps, past experience. The prices of live ani­
quarter section last year, they will pay proper wav to populate the county, as before they realize how foolish they have mals have been going down and on
$19.84 this year.
Taking everything so many settlers have left the county in acted, they find themselves embezzlers or down, while dressed meat remains at the
into consideration, be believe that M^ recent years and so few new settlers have caught red-handed stealing their employ old level. Somebody is making more
Hare’s assessment meets with general settled in the county. Self-preservation, ers' money or that entrusted to them than their share of profit and circum­
approval, and as to the levy of 31 mills gents.
Yet for all that, and reading of such casts stances point to the packers as that
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by the county court, wc have implicit
in the newspapers every day by the somebody. They slaughter at the same
We understand that ex Senator J. W.
score, we allow, right here in Tillamook expense, we are told. If it is the old
confidence in County Judge Conder and
Maxwell has a longing to be state food
Commissioners Parrish and I Ihxlvfelt
City, places where the gambling lever is game of noncompetitive bidding at the
and dairy commissioner. If Mr. Maxwell
knowing what is the right tiling g to do
impregnated into a number of our best stock yards that is doing all this and
is a far-seeing politician he would loose
for the best interest of the county, And
citizens and young men are ruined for life the parceled-out field and noncompetitive
no time in making peace with those whom
as far as road work is concerned thev
on account of it. It is all very well for ¡ebbing to retailers, then tile producers
he fought in previous elections, for with
Mayor Talmage to try and draw a thin and consumers are the subjects of the
haye also done the liest they could with
perhaps the exception of a few, there will
the limited amount of money at their
veil over the gambling houses and then upper and neither mill stones and the
be no factional fight in the republican
disposal, and as far as we can ascertain
in his message infer that this is one of grinding is going on very fine. What
party in this county at the next election.
the best governed and law-abiding cities is to be done about it ? Well, it is a
there is very little complaint now that
It is up to the ex-senator to know where oil the Coast. Let the Headlight draw good thing to know the facts, anyway,
the money is more equally divided on
he is at, for the Headlight floes not want the curtain aside. On the night that for a knowledge of these must procede
road work throughout the county. It
looks to us that is the height of absur­ to see him left out in the cold again.
Mr. Talmage was elected mayor hv I he any remedy of the cvd. The plivsiciati
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dity to beef about the county court rais­
united efforts of the gambling fraternity, never knows how to apply remedies till
We understand that the county jud^e a number of tables were running he ha» diagnosed the case before him.
ing the levy four mills and then raise a
kick about bad road or infer that they and commissioners have about come to all night in one gambling house file general public, producers and con­
are in no letter shape than they were the conclusion that it is the wisest thing and on the floor were men who had sumers, must stand in the pl ice of the
to d<>, in regard to building a new court <lrop|«l in their tract» and were dead to physician in this matter and finally in­
a few years ago.
house, to provide temporary quarters the world. Not one word <loes Mayor voke the remedy. Publicity is a good
for the county officials, and in the mean­ Talmage »av al>out scents like this, for beginning._________________
Dissolution Notice
the reaspn, being eFcted by the support
time accumulate the necessary money the of the gamblers, he dare not do so.
The pnrtucrxliip hitherto existing lie-
next few years for that purpose so as to
tween Mrs. E, H. Lindsey ami Mrs.
avoid running the county into debt If
Notice.
John Jones has lieen dissolved by mutual
that is the idea of the county couit. we
consent, Mrs Lindsev continuing in the
certainly think it is a good one, for it is
The Palace Sdtnlio w ill » lose in about
millinery business, and who will pay all
far better to go slow then to jump into ten day«, anyone wishing work done
bills and collect all accounts.
please call at once, negative*for sale.
a big indebtedness.
M rs . A lams
Tillamook. Ore., January 12. 1901.
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M rs . E. H. L indsey .
Oh, the poor taxpayer ! When R. M
M rs . J ohn J ones .
Houses and Lots for Sale.
Watson was given a delinquent tax list
I ii Tillamook County, Oregon. Five
3 8 Roomed Houses.
to publish liefore he sold the Herald to
miles from tidewater. Good road. Price
Ilou.e.
7
Roomed
FEED. his nephew lie didn't do a thing to the 1 1 ft. Roomed House.
$1,750, on easy terms.
poor taxpayer but charge 30c. a line for
For further information «er County
I 3 Roomed House.
Edmunds Bros, are making the five insertions—the highest price paid 14 Citv Lots.
Commissioner L. Parrish, Hobsonville,
All this property for $6.(KM). All the
the following Low Prices oil for a fist. But that is not all. The two lx)U
Oregon or write to Amon Rose, Temple-
‘O are in first class repair.
commissioners objected, but all the same
on. Cnl.
VV.Vf. RYAN. Tillamook.
Feeds :
the bill was paid and the nooi taxpayer
Wheat........... #1.65 per cwt,
got it where the chicken got the axe.
Middling
1.45 per cwt
The 'Dependent man would, no doubt,
like another < pportunity to give it to
Barley .......... 1.35 per cwt
Take your»
the poor taxpayer in the neck, but finding
Bran ........... 1.20 per cwt.
that
this
is
im|x>s»il>le
he
turns
on
the
Shorts .......... 1.20 per cwt.
county judge and commissioner» and
Dairy Food
1.25 per CWt.
gives it to them in the next, which was
Grey Oats..... 1.45 per evi,
certainly uncalled for. The new law dots
Oil Cake Meal, f r 1201b. not require the county court to let the
to
Sark. We will make a red nr- contract to the lowest bidder, but to the
tion from the above Prices in newspaper that could give it the greatest
publicity. Consequently it was awarded
Dre sacks lots or ever.
to the Headlight, which was the higher
Our Dairy Food piodnces bidder by Pjc. a line. The couit. no
THE RELIABLE DRUGGIST.
: doubt, came to tl-e conclusion that Tilla-
best results for milch cows.
Married, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Wade, in this city, on Wednesday
evening, Mr. Rollie W. Watson and Miss
Hope Nolan.
Rev. E. M. Patterson,
pastor of the Christian church,performed
the ceremony in the company of a num*
her of relatives. The bride is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Nolan, an early
pioneer Jof Tillamook, where she was
born, and has a large circle of relatives
and friends in the county. She is an affa­
ble young woman and much respected by
all those who know her. The groom is
the editor of the Tillamook Herald, and
quite popular with the young people,
He served seven years in the United
States navy, and was gunner’s mate oil
the Asiatic station at the breaking out
ofthewa^ with Spain, being onboard
the cruiser Olympia at the battle of
Manila bay. He also served on the South
American station, where he received in­
juries, for which he is receiving a pension.
He was discharged at Mare Island, Cal.,
on the 17th Dec., 1901, when he came
to Tillamook and bought half interest in
the Tillamook Herald from his uncle, and
later became proprietor cf that news,
paper in buying his uncle out. He has
built up a nice business, despite the fact
that his uncle, R. M. Watson, after sell­
ing his goodwill in the Herald to him, is
running a newspaper in opposition, The
happy couple have the congratulations
of a large number of relatives and inti­
mate friends, who wish them a long life
of happiness.
And the Headlight, as the patriarch
newspaper of the county, wishes to pro­
nounce its blessing and benediction upon
the young couple, with the prayer that
nothing will mar their happiness thro­
ugh life. ________
FOR SALE
Dairy Farm of 120
Acres on the Miami,
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