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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, MARCH 10, 1904 General News. dressed Emerson was extremely weak, but is rallying slowly, and the surgeons Reports of losses from the prairie fires believe he will recover. in Kansas continue to come in, although * * * At Aberdeen, Wash., a jury in the the fires have burned themselves out. Near Holland six members of the family Superior Court fixed the rate of boomage of John McClure, a farmer, were burned, charges on the Humptulips River at 50 none fatally. At Holland the United cents per 1000 feet on logs. The verdict Brethren Church and several small build was rendered in the case of the Gray’s Harbor Boom Company vs. the Little ings were destroyed. * * * Logging & Mercantile Company. The A Lewistown, Mont., dispatch says : boom company sued to recover a boom Lewistown has been cut off from com. age charge of 65 cents a thousand on munication except bv telegraph with the logs boomed for the defendant, and the outside world for three weeks. Three defendant considered that 35 a thousand trains are buried in the snow between was a reasonable sum to be charged. here and Lombard. Nobody knows Just After listening to the evidence for two where, although repeated efforts have days the jury returned a verdict fixing been made to reach them with snow the charge at 50 cents, thereby cutting plows. the amount in dispute in two. The ver * * * dict is important as it will effect the The Great Northern and Northern charges of all loggers on the river. Pacific announces that they will offer * * * home<eekers’ excursion rates to Western That Joe Monaghan, who herded points during March and April. The cattle and rode the range about Ont; r.o, rate is on a basis of one fare plus $2 for Or., for 25 years in the guise of a man, the round trip, and is independent of the and whose real sex was not known un one way colonist rate, which went into til her death, was none other than Kate effect on March 1. The first excursion Bender, the notorious Kansas murderess, will be on March 15. is the rumor current there. While there # * * is no proof positive that this statement John Turner, the English labor leader, is true, it is a well-known fact that Joe who was arrested in October, while con Monaghan appeared at Ontario only a ducting a meeting, has since been de short time after the escape of Kate Ben tained on Ellis Island awaiting deporta der. It is also claimed that Mr. and tion on the ground that he is an anar Mrs. Bender, father and mother of the chist, was released on $5000 bail, pend notorious Kate, and as deeply implicated ing the decision of the Supreme Court of in the multi-murders at their Kansas the United States on his application for road-house, ns was their daughter, now a writ of habeas corpus. reside on Snake River, not far from * * * Ontario, However, the Bender disap* Justice Pritchard overruled the motion pearance has been one of the historic of Samuel A. Groff, one of the recently mysteries of the West, and. although convicted defendants in the postal trial, many have professed knowledge concern and sentenced him to two years’ im ing its true solution, nothing authentic prisonment in the Moundsville Peniten has ever resulted. Who Joe Monaghan tiary, and to pay a fine of $10,000, sen really was will probably never be known, tence to begin on arrival at the peniten but there is, of course, a chance that the tiary. Groff immediately furnished bond truth will at some time become known for $20.000 pending an application for a regarding her strange life and lonely new trial. death. * * * Fire insurance rates on risks in the Flee From the Flood. congested districts ol large cities are to be advanced, according to the Journal of W alla W alla , Wash., March 7.-A Commerce. The great losses in Balti cloudburst occurred above Dixie, in the more, Rochester and other cities thor foothills of the Blue Mountains, about oughly aroused the underwriters in re 6 o’clock tonight, and as a result ranch gard to the danger of conflagration in ers along Mud Creek bottom have been important business centers throughout compelled to flee from their homes to the the country and a committee of 20 was hills, and communication with Dixie and appointed by the executive committee of points intervening has been broken off. the National Board of Fire Underwriters Fears are entertained for Dixie, which to discuss the whole subject of business lies only four feet above the creek. risks. Trainmen report the water overflowing * * M Among the snow-covered slopes of the track, and rushing down the hills in Pike’s Peak, Wash., neighbors are torrents. Details of the damage cannot searching for John Montague, an aged be obtained, owing to communication Pike’s Peak hermit who has been missing being interrupted. The creek here, to for ten days, and who neighbors fear is which Dry Creek is tributary, was about lost. It is feared Montague has been three feet higher than usual at midnight. Ranchers along Dry Creek report the lost in the timber. He is nearly 70 years old, and runs a small bunch of cattle on rise of the water unprecedented. Pike’s Peak, which is an eminence in the Mob Kills Negro. Blue Mountains southwest of there. He S pringfield , O., March 7.—Richard formerly lived in Walla Walla, but re cent years haveonly seen him there when Dixon, a negro, who fatally shot Police supplies were needed or when he had man Charles Collins vesteruav, was some of the products of his mountain taken from the County Jail at this place tonight by a mob of 800 men and shot ranch to sell. * * * to death in the jailyard. Later the Secretary ol State Dunbar has received body was hung to a telegraph pole at I from the State Printer the first copies of the corner of Main street and Fountain the pamphlets containing the full text of ave me, and the mob spent half an hour the direct primacy law, which will be 1 ii idling the body with bullets from sev- voted upon by the people on June 6. 1 eral hundred revolvers. Ninety thousand copies of each pamphlet Collins was shot by Dixon Sunday will be printed. The printer has already morning while the la tter was in his roo m turned out 30,000 copies of the local in a hotel here removing his baggage. option law, and 60,000 copies of the ' He had decided to quit the place, and direct primary law. The former fills 20 fearing trouble with Anna Corbin, a pages and the latter 52 pages. In a few woman with whom he was acquainted, days the Secretary of State will distrib Dixon asked Collins to go to the hotel ute these pamphlets to the several count with him. While in his room Dixon and ies in sufficient quantities so that each Miss Corbin quarreled, and Dixon is said voter inay have one, free of charge. to have shot her in the breast. The po * * * liceman then attempted to arrest Dixon, At Baker Citv, Charles Regnier, when the latter fired into the officer’s brother of William Regnier, the clever body, inflicting fatal wounds. young forger who is under arrest await All afternoon the killing of Collins was ing a hearing before Judge Eakin, has the sole topic of conversation in town, paid al! bills contracted by the young and both Police Judge Miller and Com man as the result of his crooked work. mon Pleas Judge Mower were freelv cen William Regnier is only 19 years old, sured. They had both sentenced Dixon yet experts say he is the cleverest forger ' at various times to the jail and the who has’operated in that city for a long | workhouse from two to six months, but time. His work was so perfect that the j he was always released before the ex- man whose name he forged could not i piration of his sentence. It was the gen- tell which was the bogus and which the ' eral feeling that a trial would only re genuine signature bv comparison, The sult in an insufficient sentence, and talk ♦orgerv was detected bv reason of the of a mob was frequently heard before fact that the man knew that he had not supper. _________________ issued checks for the amounts called for, Parson is a Slugger. and for the further reason that the checks in his checkbook of the corres- 1 M ilton , Or., March 7 —Rev. R. L. ponding numbers with the forgeries had Cartwright, pastor of the Christian not lieen torn out. Church of this city, and Otis Ingle, one * ft ☆ Thomas Emerson, a colored man who of the leading members and also presi was stabbed in the heart Monday by his dent of the Christian Endeavor Society, sweetheart, has been the subject of an as well ns a leader in the temperance unusual operation at Philadelphia. His cause in this city, engaged in a fistic en heart was lifted out of the bodv «and six counter this afternoon on Main atreet. stitches were taken to close the big gash I It appears trouble has been brewing be- made by the negress’ knife. The organ I tween these two ever since the appoint, was replaced and Emerson is recovering. ment of Rev. Mr. Cartwright to this After the assault Emerson walked with- charge two vears ago, where he was out assistance to the hospital, a distance called from Kentucky. He is a single of five blocks, and was put under the man. and has won considerable favor i"fluence of ether as soon as the wound with the fair sex of his congregation had l»een examined, On the operating much to thc annoyance of Ingle, who is table the heart was exposed bv a long somewhat of a winner himself. This afternoon Cartwright calle 1 at incision which necessitated the breaking of several ribs. The operating surgeon Ingle’s place of business and asked him inserted two fingers and lifted out the to take a walk. 1 hey were noticed to heart. It was drawn clean out of the engaged in an animated conversation, trunk, vet it went on with its work in which language was overheard unbe- with almost normal steadiness and coming Christian gentlemen. When in regularity. The ent w a« a large one and front of the residence of one of thc lead- required six stitches. T1 e pleura was 1 ing physicians of the city, they were seen opened and a gathering of blood re to exchange blows. A clinch followed, moved. After thc wound had been and the reverend gentleman »flowedI.««- self to be master of the situation, and remarked : “ I will chew his face off.” It soon became evident to Mr. Ingle that he was carrying his words into effect, and Ingle's lusty cries for help soon brought assistance. Ingle, smarting from the severe punish, ment, and thirsting for revenge, proceed ed to swear out a warrant for the arrest of the clergyman, but was again outwit ted by the reverened gentleman having immediately paid his fine to City Record- er Tolen. It is learned that Cartwright has re signed his pastorate. Ingles is a nephew of Charles Ingles, the saloonkeeper of Freewater, who was one of the princi pals in the disgraceful scene at Free- water last Saturday night. B L. EDDY. E Complete set of Abstract Books in office. Taxes paid for non Residents. Office opposite Post Office. Both phones. H- COOPER, A ttorney - at -L aw , REPEAL IS URGED. Timber and Stone Act is Attacked. H. T. BOTTS. ddy & botts , A ttorneys - at -L aw Fir and Spruce Lumber. T illamook , W ashington , March 7.—The commis QLAUDE THAYER, sion appointed by the President on October 22, 1903, consisting of W. A. A ttorney - at -L aw , Richards, commissioner of the General Land office; Gifford Pinchot, Chief Fores T illamook O regon ter of the Department of Agriculture, and specialty. F. H. Newell, Chief Engineer of the Reclamation Service, to make sugges arl haberlach tions regarding revision of the laws re Orders for Lumber promptly attended to. lating to public lands, has made to the President a partial report which was attorney - at - law , sent to Congress today. It recommends Pvittochcr ¿tbuohat the repeal of the timber and stone act, and the substitution of suitable provis Office across the street and north^from ions for selling, after appraisal, the tim the Post Office. ber on public lands that is needed in I Centrally boeated. Rates, $1 Per Day. large or small quantities for industral J^JOBERT A. MILLER, purposes, The committee also recommends the re A ttorney - at -L aw . peal of the law permitting assignment of M. H. URRSEJM, Proprietor. Oregon City, Oregon. entries under the desert land law and TILLAMOOK, OREGON Land Titles and Land Office urges the importance of a more careful administration of law especially as to Business a Specialty The Best Hotel in the city. No Chinese Employed. those provisions relating to obtaining an adequate permanent water supply. 1 J-^AVID WILEY, M.D NOTICE TO CREDITORS. It advocates the restricting of the com- ■ T mber L and A ct , J une 3. 1878.—N otice F or P ublication . muntation clause of the homestead en United States Land Office, Notice is hereby given that the undersign • Oregon City, Oregon. try where such entries are located within ed has been duly appointed by the county P hysician , S urgeon and January 23rd, I904. f x , 1 ..... « court of the State of Ore* Oregon —— for Tillamook —’■ ........................ r,_____ in compliance forest reserves or where the land is chiefly C County, . administratrix of the estate of N.otice is hereby given that A ccoucheur . Henry H. Alderftian. deceased, and all per with the provisions of the act • of Congress of valuable for timber. It suggests the out sons having claims against said estate are JuneS, 1878, entitled “An act for the sale of All calls promptly attended to. timber lands in the States ofCalitornia. Oiegon, lines for a law permitting homestead en- i hereby required to present the same to me Nevada and Washington Territory," as ex properly verified as by law required at the I T illamook .. O regon . tries upon agricultural land within forest * office oi Eddy & Botts, attorneys at law, at tended to all the Public Land States by act of Tillamook City, Oregon, within six months August 4, 1892, reserves and the survey and discription from ROLLIE W WATSON, the date hereof. Of Spruce, County of Tillamook, State of /CLAUDE THAYER, Dated this February 4-th, J904. of such agricultural lands by metes and Oregon. has this day filed in this office his E dith M. A lderman , bounds rather than by the regular sys Administratrix of the Estate of Henry sworn statement No. 6354, for the purchase of Agent for Fireman’s the Nw % of Section No. 12, in township H. Alderman, deceased. tem, thus permitting the agricultural No. 3 South, Range 8 West, and will Fund and London and Lanca otter proof to show that the land sought T imber L and , A ct J une 3, 1878. — N otice F or lands to be selected along the valleys and is more valuable for its timber or stone P ublication . shire Fire Insurance than for agricultural purposes, and to establish to embrace the good tillable land with United States Land Office, his claim to said land before the County Clerk Oregon <’itv, Oregon. out taking in extensive tracts of side hill. Companies. of Tillamook County, Ore., at Tillamook City, March 2nd, 1904. Notice is hereby given that iu compliance Ore., on Saturday, the 9th day of April, 1904. The recommendation also is made that He names as witnesses : Tillamook .. Oregon. with the provisions of the act of Congress ot William L. Riefenberg, Winfield C. Trombley, when lands are restored to entry after June 3, 1878. entiled “ An act for the sale of tim Lewis H. Riefeiiberg, ol Bay City, Oregon ; ber lands in the States of California. Oregon, temporary segregation ample time Nevada, and Washington Territory," as ex Earl R. Aver, of Blaine. Oregon. pN R. BEALS, Any and all persons claiming adversely the should be allowed homesteaders to ex tended to all the Public Land States by act of above-deset ibed lands are requested to file theii August 4, I892, claims in this office on or before said 9th day ercise their rights, giving them the pre HENRY DUNSTAN, Of Tillamook City, County of Tillamook, State April, I904. REAL ESTATE, ference over persons who may wish to of A lgernon S. D rkshbr , Register. Oregon, lias this day filed in this office his select the land bv the use of script or sworn statement No. 6376, for the psrehase of F inancial A gent , the W % of se 14, Se % of Sw *4 and lot other form of entry. 4, of Section No. 31, in Township No. Spruce and Cedar Shingles. Cheese and Butter Boxes a C , TILLAMOOK LUMBER. COMPANY. LARSEN HOUSE, SOUTH PRAIRIE. Everyone is anxious to have warm spring weather, especially dairymen, as grass is short and the bad weather has been hard on stock. The new bridge across Tillamook will b • completed this week. There was an enjoyable dance given at ( the factory by Mr. Grey. Win Bibby has gone to Ashland, Or., to visit his aunt. Mr. Darby is able to be up and around, | after suffering with inflammatory rheu matism. Miss High’s school will close on the 18th of March. She has been engaged ' to teach another term. Hay is getting scarce with some of the i dairymen. Willis Powell has traded his fine draught team of horses for a smaller , team, with a good margin to boot. BEAVER. Alley Foland was seen out horseback riding a few days ago after being layed up with a broken leg. W. A. Sailing, Mr. Brown and Miss Sailing visited Tillamook the latter part of the week. Mrs. Ginn is teaching school at her home now. Mr. Bays and daughter, of Blaine, have l>een visiting his son, Marcus and wife, at the store. Fred Bigelow and wife moved out in the valley last week, Tommy King took them out. Mr. Farmer is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. West visited him Sunday. 2 south, Range 10 West, and will offer proof to show that the laud sought is more valuable for its timber or stone than for agricultural purposes, and to establish his claim to said land before the County Clerk of Tillamook County, Oregon, at Tillamook City, Oregon, on Saturday, the 4H1 day of June. I904. He names as witnesses . Charles B. Wiley, James M Morgan. Edward Morgan, Andrew »1. Austin, of Netarts, ore. Any and all persons claiming adversely the above-described lands are requested to file their claims in thisofficeon or before said 4th day of June, 1904. A lgernon S. D resser , Register. Notice, THE Red Front Shoe Store I Will SALE at I REDUCED PRICES I j on all BOOTS and • SHOES until the I 1st of APRIL. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the In erior, Lund Office at Oregon City, Ore., February 13th, 1904. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler ha- Hied notice of his intention to make final proof io support of his claim, and that said proof will In* made before the County clerk of Tillamook Co., at Tillamook City, Ore., on March 26th. 1904. viz NELS NELSON ; If E. No. 12,155, for the Se '4. «er. a, tp. 3 north, range 10 went He names the following witnesses to prove hl« continuous residence upon ami cultivation of aaid land, viz : Andrew Klein, f 'haHen A. Handy, Dan J. Handy John Ek. of Nehalem, Oregon. A lokbnom S. D hhbskk Register. To make room for a New and well Nelected Stock that is now on Its way from Chic ago. Come and get BARGAINS. I claim that there has been three dis. pensations of God’s will. 1st. To thc circumcision under the law by the Levi, ticjs priesthood known as the old testa ment from Abraham to John. 2nd. What is known as the new testament which covered the life and works of Christ and his disciples. 3rd. The age in which we live which liegan on the day of Penticost under the administration of the Holy Ghost, the conscience being our way of comprehending the true standard of righteousness The new or old testa ment has no jurisdiction over those who Now is thc time to purchase vour are led by the spirit —J. C. G ove . winter supply, while the weather is nice. V\ e make sjiccinl ra.es on 5 tons mid up WANTED. S pecial R epresentative in this countv wards during this time of year. There is and adjoining territories, to represent none better than Hetton coal mined in and advertise an old established Img. Australia. A complete substitute for iness house of solid financial standing. hard coal ; low in ash, quick to ignite. Salary $21 weekly, with Expenses ;id- v a need each Monday bv check direct Suitable for stove, range, grate and fur from headquarters. Horse and bnggv nace. Tillamook Warehouse Company, farnished when necessary : position per B C LAMB manent. Address Blew Bros. &’Co.. Telephone, Main 33. Monon Bld4., Chicago. III. CONTEST NOTICE. Department of the Interior, United Stat«-* Lund office, Oregon City, Oregon, February 2.trd, 190L cient content affidavit having t>ren fil'd in thin office by MK KF. I. MELCHIOR, contestant, againnt homestead entry No. 1.3981, made January 10th, i9oa. for s Sc *4 and he % >4. section 21 mid Nw Ne W, section 2», tp 1 south, range 10 went, byHARTttfC. a . Of.HON, contestee, in which it I* alleged that contestant is well acquainted wi h aaid tract of land mid know* the present condition of the name also that the said mtrvman ha* never established his residence 011 «aid tiact of land mid did not within six month« of the date of hi* «ai l entiy establish hi* residence in « house on Mud land , that said entryman has never built u house on «md land or caused the ► aiue to be don«- that the »aid entryman han aban doned said lands for more than six month« next prior to the making oi this affidavit lowit, since on or about January 1, 1V02. and has not at any lime since that date resided on said land or any part thereof and that the *uid slaienee. f •Hi«, entry man from said land wh « not due to his being engag* d in the Army, Navy or .Marine 1 or pa of the ( tilled state* a* a private Holder, offi< < r. seaman or marine dntiinr the < xisting war with npain, or any other war in which the United States is or has been engagwj «aid par ti« s are hereby notified to appear respond a <1 offer evidence touching sai 1 Allegation at to o’clock a hi on April 6, I904. befoietile County Clerk of Tillamook County. Oregon at Tills- mook 1 it 1 . Oregon, and that final hemlng Will tie held at 100 cl ck a.in on April 9th 1'104, le-f re the Rcgmtcr and Receiver at the United states fjind office in Oregon City, Oregon ’The said coritestMiit having, in a proper affl davit, filed January 2/>th il'oi *et lortli fn«-t« which ahow that after due diligence personal *ei vice of th I* notice can not be made It Is hereby o dered and direc ed that such notice be given by due and proper publication A lgemnon h . D rf . msem , Register. COAL V CONTEST NOTICE. Department of the Interior, United Stales Land Office, Oregon City, Ore , February 6th, 1904. sufficient contest affidavit having been filed in this office by CHARLEY A. MORRIS, contestant, against homestead entry No. 13371, made February 13, 1901. forSe‘4 Ne1^, NeV4 8w l4 and lots 2 and 3, section 7. tp. 5 south, range 9 west, by A I.VI R. DANIELS, contestee, in which if is alleged that contestant is well acquainted wit said tract ot land and knows the piesent condition of the same; also that said A I. VI R. DANIELS has wholly abandoned said claim ; that he never established residence, as required by law or at all, and that lie lias never made any improvements as I believe, nor has lie been on the claim for more than one year last past, nor lias he done any work or had any one to do so for him, for more than one year last, past or at ail. to the best of my belief and knowledge, and that said alleged absence from ttie t-ald land waa not due to his employment in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps oi the United States as a private soldier, officer, seaman or marine, during the war with Spain, or during any other war in which the United Stales may be engaged, said parties are hereby notified to appear, respond and offer evidence touching said allegation at 10 o’clock a.111 . on March 19th, 1904. before the Register and Recr.ver at the United States Land Office in Oregon City, Oregon. The said contestant having, in a proper affi davit, filed March i9, 1904, set forth facts wide h show that after due diligence personal service of this notice cannot be made, it is hrie »y ordered and directed that such notice be given by due and proper publication. A lgkknon S. D kesskk Receiver. ¡ Headlight is the l>e»t home newspnper Tillamook, Oregon. OR OF TITLE. ABSTRACTS GO TO TILLAMOOK ABSTRACT TRUST CO. T hos . C oates , Pres. B. L. E i » i > y , Sec, WM. GALLOWAY. GILBERT L. HEDGES. T T EDGES & GALLOWAY ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Make a specialty of Land Office Business. OFFICE IN WEINIIARD BUILDING, Room 1 and 2, OREGON CITY, ORE. W. SEVERANCE 2^ A ttorney - at -L aw T illamook O regon . S. STEPHENS, • Real Estate and Fire, Life, Health, Accident, Insurance. J Agent for the Northwest School Furni ture Co. and Oignns and Pianos, Notary Public. Office : Southwest from the Court House, in thc building occupied as a music store. C. F. Franklin DOES ALL KINDS OF WATCH, CLO( K AND JEWELRY REPAIRING In first class style. Engraving a Specialty Shingles $2.25 1000. Quick Brothers, HOUSEHOLD MOVERS AND DRAYMEN Heavy Teaming a Specialty with ns Our Delivery wagon delivers to country or city. 1 the UGH.
