9 TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JANUARY—5^ /! THE LEVY IS 27 MILLS. A New Court House will be Built. The hoard of county commissioners, composed of County Ju Walther for $1,200 damage*, allowed fl >() for medical aM*islaiice ami the i a ain’t* of th»* claim war» reject»» I. I i ti»e matter of the Hodgdon road and repirt of B. O (Jara, it appearing that all claims of the viewers and ap­ praisers not having been paid in full, it was ordered that said claims l»e paid e cancelled. In the matter of the county printing it was aw arded to the Herald for ll 00 io a pvrio«l of one)ear. bred Zaddach was appointed road supervisor of district No. 1. W. II Hoskins was ap|Mjinted road superviser <>i district No. 2. S. M. Dailey was appointed road HU|»»*rvisor •>( district No. 4. It O Richards was appointed road super visor of district No. 5 John Iler was appointed road super­ visor of road district No. 6. John Hickey was appointed road master of Tillamoc k county, THK TAX LEVY. The Court made the levy for the county as follows : 4. 6 Iff mills for Countv School Fund 1-20 mills for Indigent Soldiers' Fund. 10 mills for Road and Bridges. 3 mills for Court House Fund. 9. 7 20 mills for County General Fund It was ordered that the County (Jerk extend the tsx levy on the assessment roil f<>r the year 1904, ami he was fur­ ther ord»-red io place a warrant on the 1904 tax roll for collection of said taxes. T<| Bril.h A COURT HOI'MK In tin mailer of creating a building fund for a Cdurt House, it was ordered that the county judge proceed ami pro cur»* ami submit to the IwMird plans ; that for th" purjoHe of paving for the court house a special fun.I be created, known as the ('<>uit House Fund ; that Io supply that sum a tax of 3 mills be leviril for the year 1904 ; and that a like tax of 3 mills is* levied for each year of tie* succeeding years to 1904 until all the warrants issued for the payment of the court liouse, together with the interest accruing thereon, shall be ffually paid and discharged. I M. Smith professional services 6 50 F. L. Sappington, surveying... 1H 00 C. H. Woolfe's Account. 93 M F. Leach, meat........................ Todd & Co...................................... 50 C< h'i «<’ Co., rent mid inerchan- dise.................................................. 5 50 «5 Pacific Navigation Co................. J. Daley, making certificates...... 12 00 William Wood, twotnonllis care Asa Woods................................... 50 00 Yellow Fir Lumber t’o., lumbci.. 2 61 2 00 Tillamook Water Co..................... D. J. Wilev s estate professional service to A. C. Wood ............. 31 50 J. J. Hollett, mileage..................... 5 oo M I*'. Leach, meat t»»r co. poor I 50 Eddy Nr Botts, professional services........................................... 50 oo G B Lamb, filing answer.......... 2 50 () E. Quick, hauling lumber...... 75 Glass & I'rudliomme, mcirhaii- disc.................................................. 17 12 | M. Millies, wood ....................... I 00 C. W. Hogcn, road sup. No. 6... 31 25 Mis J. M. Bodie, care of George Myers............................................. I'lllamook Herald, printing...... Ios. Bixby, merchandise............. K. Mills, salary as deputy clerk. Cloverdale Merchantile Co., merchandise................................. 7 lvrnest Haag, road plank.......... 3 (} B. Lamb, salary as clerk...... 183 A M. Hare, salary as assessor.. 1(M) Telephone Co.................................. I I'. W. Todd, salary as treasurer. 91 Tillamoook Telephone and Tel­ egraph Co.................................... 1 Joseph E tie uber ger, lumber...... 81 Fred Zadd ich, road Sup. No. 1. 20 Tillamook Headlight, printing. 85 John Weiss, plank........................ 335 R. .L Wade.merchandise............. 1 W. G. Wallace, balance mileage. I Michard, lease ol land...... ....... io James Christensen...... .......... ........ 87 • > E. F Lyster, telephone message I red Davis, road plank............. M as it pleased, anvway, al out appropriating the money. Ladies! Attention ! For the most stylish tailor made sinks.go to Sa rebel 's The Fashionable Tailor. • DAIRYMEN’S SUPPLIES STEEL STOVES & RANCES Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors, Window Sashes, Fine Line of Choice GROCERIES Agents for the Great Western Saw. M c I ntosh & M c N air The Most co ., Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County. I Recitation, “ Merry Christmas,” Albert Kobitch. Recitation, ’‘Christmas,” Hattie Ander­ son. Exercise, ‘‘Christ Child,” Six Children. ' Recitation, ” Christmas Carmens,” Walter Walker. I Recitation, “December.'’ Violet Klein. i Recitation. “ Star of Bethlehem,” Claude Vedder. Recitation, ” Christmas Bells,” Emil Schollmever. Recitation. ” The Angel’s Message,” Lottie Vedder. Recitation, “ Why Christmas Comes,” Frank Thompson. Recitation, ” Scaring Santa Claus,” Esther Lundburg. Recitation, “ Night Before Christmas,” Oscar Effeiibuger. Song, *’ Christmas Bells,” School. B ertha R owe , Teacher. PORT ARTHUR FALLS Russians at Port Arthur Yield to Fate. at Itseshan and Antushan, together with other fortifications still standing are to be surrendered to the Japanese,1 not later than noon of January 8. i The people of St. Petersburg have re- seived with composure the news, known THE MOMENTOUS DISPATCH to the rest of the world a day earlier, of f Messages Between Russian and the fate of Port Arthur. The event had Japanese Generals as to been anticipated and, under official di­ Surrender. I rection, the minds of the populace were T okio , Jan 2.—General Nogi report! prepared to receive with resignation the as follows : announcement of the fact by the publi­ •• At 5 in the afternoon of January: cation of dispatches for warded last week the enemy’s bearer of a flag of true came into the first line of our posiliof by General Stossell describing the straits south of Shuishiying and handed a lettei to which the garrison had been reduced. to our officers. The same reached meal The expectation in some quarters that 9 o’clock at night. The latter is as fol the surrender of the fortress would be lows : “ ‘ Judging by the general conditJoni followed at the capital by anti-war dem­ the whole line of hostile positions hel onstrations had not been reached. So by you, I find further resistance at For Three are Dead. far as there has been any expressi.m of Arthur useless sacrifice of lives, Filled with jealous rage and thirsting feeling, it has been for carring on the propose to hold negotiations with reft ence to capitulation. Should you co for revenge, Henry H. Loomis Tuesday war with all the vigor possible. BOULDER CREEK. sent to the same you will please appoii night shot and killed Frank Fitz at At Tokio last night the surrender of commissioners for discussing the ord M. T. Snares went to Tillamook Union avenue and Davis street,Portland, ran to his own home, murdered his wife Port Arthur was celebrated bv a lantern and conditions regarding capitulatio Saturday. and also appoint a place for such co/ procession and a general illumination. Ralph Bundy was on Boulder Mon­ fired a shot at his forehead, grasped his razor from a shelf, ent his throat from The Japanese Diet will formally express inissioners to meet the same appoint day. ear to car and died with his arms em Miss Adelaide Grav walked over the the thanks of the nation to General Nogi by me. bracing the woman he had slain. “ ’ I take this opportunity to convi trail to Beaver last Wednesday, and got lor his conduct of the seige. The double murder and suicide was to your excellency assurances of I the full benefit of the storm. the culmination of a scandal involving Among the Russian officials there is respect. “ ‘ S toessel . Work is being pushed forward as Loomis' victims, and the report furnish, a feeling that any proposals of peace •‘ Shortly after dawn todnv I will (I rapidly as possible on the new road ed the husband by Henry Warne, a patch our bearer of a flag of truce wl L. P. Gray came down from Blaine to messenger boy, who had been employed that may be made must be with the fact ' the following reply, addressed to Sti spend Sun lav with his family. He finds to ’’shadow” the pair while they were in view that,in order that peace may be, sei : batching rather lonely work these engaged in their clandestine movements. lasting, Japan must - -- recognize Russia’s 1 ” ‘ I have the honor to reply to vi * •.............. ----- ------------- dreary winter days. Loomis hail learned how matters stood right to free transit of its ships through I proposal to hold negotiations regard upou leaving a hospital two weeks ago. Mr. H. L. Jensen and family, Snndav- the Far East. High Japanese officials i rile conditions and order of capitulaii ed at 0. W. Kinnaman's New Year’s During his illness, Fritz an I Mrs. Loomis For this purpose. I have appointed declare that there is no probability of ad­ had been much together, and could not Day. I Commissioner Major - Geneial lji< be found for several days after Loomis vices coming from their government . Chief of Staff of our armv. He will Mr. ..... ____ _____ , and Mrs. Harley Foland, of recovered. looking toward peace negotiations. ' accompanied bv some staff officersf Beaver, visited last week with O. W. A crises was reached Tuesday morning Kinnaman, Mrs. Poland's brother. In official quarters in St. Petersburg, I civil officials. They will meet votirci when the messenger boy reported a trip W. D. Gladwill has been building fence of Fritz and Mis. Loomis to the reser. it is said that no tender of good offices inissioners January 2, noon, at Shuis ing. The commissioners of both pat between his place and H. L Jensen's. voir, a walk in the suburbs and their from a third party would be accepted will be empowered to sign a conven Frank Dve is up from Wolfe Creek final return to her home. Loomis did not and that anv proposal for peace must tor the capitulation without waiting working on the new road. conceal his plans. He openly talked ot ratification, and cause the same to I come from Japan direct.» We regret to state that one of our murder and suicide. He even went so immediate effect. Authorization citizens, Mr. George W. Lucas,is making far as to ask Mrs. A. Ollenbeck, his such plenary powers shall be signe Summary of the Term3. preparations to leave Oregon He in­ mother-in-law, tor oil with which to get the highest officer of both the negol tends to go to California. Mr. Lucas his revolver, into good condition. He L ondon . Jan. 4.—The Japanese Lega- ing ^parties, and the same shall b has many friends here who will be sorrv told her early in the morning that he tion yesterday published the agree­ changed by respective conimissionei would kill Fritz if he met him. He left to see him go. “ ‘ I avail mvself of this opporto the house angry and desperate, vowing ment which served as the basis of the Mrs. Elsie Kinnaman was a welcome to convey to your excellency assure revenge and beside himself with rage. capitulation of Port Arthur. The agree­ of my respect._________ N ogl guest at H. A. Chopard's last Monday. ment was signed bv the Russian and Miss Sarah Gray and brother Perry Saved From Terrible Death. Blow up Own Forts are sojourning on the ranch at East | The family of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt, I Japanese commissioners, representing L ondon , Jan. 3.—The Daily Maili Creek at present. Generals Stoessell and Nogi respectfully , | of Bargerton, Tenn., saw her dying respondent with General Nogi say! Mr. and Mrs. O. and were poweilesa to save her. Ihe and later by the conimanders-in chief capture of Watiialinvolved six hou down the river last _ ~ most skillful physicians and every themselves, the final consumation of it the fiercest fighting, while the atl home in time to escape the high water. remedy used, failed, while consuinp taking place in the evening of January 2. on the forts to the southeast were ' | tion was slowly but surely taking her The agreement consists of 11 articles. ed on simultaneously. Describing 1 life. In this terrible hour Dr. King’s NETARTS. final siege, the correspondent savs Several of them are of a purely technical I New Discovery for Consumption turned “The slackened fire at the northei Ed Morgan, of Fairview, was on i despair into joy. The first bottle brought nature. The essential points ot the eastern forts seemed to show thl bay Sunday last. I immediate relief and its continued use others are as follows: The entire fortress Russian ammunation was failing, Geo Coffman went to Tillamook the completely cured ¡her. It’s the most situation was now desperate. Tl | certain cure in the world for all throat with its surrouudlng fortifications, the plosions around the forts procl last of the week oil a business trip. ships still afloat in the harbor and the Guaranteed Bottles Messrs, Matoon and Hamilton, of and lung troubles that the Russians were exploding Portland, who have been stopping on 50c. and $1 00. Trial Bottles Free at wrecks of those sunk and partly sunk, magazines. Flames and smoke i i Chas. I Clough ’ s Drug Store. the bay for the past two months made a all arms and ammunation, the military harbor were followed by explosioi trip to Tillamook Saturday. in the fortress and forts as explosion, which revealed the destr Dr. P. J. Sharp, the exper- buildings of the Russian ships. The Russian W. T. Morgan, the Barnegat mail well as in the old and new towns to- apparently blew up two of th« carrier, passed on the Netarts beach on enced dentist is located in gether with all other government prop forts. Monday with the Barnegat mail, as the Dr. Wise’s dental patr rs, and The battleship Sevastopol was , Light-house road was blockaded. ertv, are to be surrendered to the Jap is prepared to do nothing but anese. The latter agree to respect up, and the other warships w< Geo. W. Phelps went to the county troved as thoroughly as possiblt seat Wednesday on business connected first class work and give the and duly investigate all private rights battleships Retvizan and Polt«1 best of satisfaction If your and claims. with the county court. ■ the protected cruiser Pallada J. M. Morgan was seen on the bay teeth need fixing call upon The Japanese reserve the rights of free fire.” Sunday after an absence of several days. him. action relative to their claims for resti­ Sam Reading, of South Prairie, was on the beach the last ol the week. tution and indemnity in the event of it ADMIXhTKATOR'S NOTICK. becoming established that any forts, I N oticb is H brbby G iven ,— That the un­ dersigned has been, by the County Court of ships or other property were destroyed School Program. ; the State for Tillamook County, dulv ap­ pointed administrator of the estate of lifter the signatures had been affixed to The fallowing program was rendered W illiam F itzpatrick , deceased ah Friday afternoon, December 23, by the persons having CLAIMS against the estate the agreement. Impartial investigation are hereby notified and required to present of the reports alleging such violation pupils of the Nehalem school : , the same to the undersigned administrator. You can make your bar- . Song, “Old Black Cat.” School. : with the proper vouchers duly verified ac­ of the proprieties of the surrender is ness soft H3 a piovo / Opening address, Helena Schollmever. cording to law. at the office ‘ of Eddv it promised, and the Russians agree to co­ and ns touKh nswfro l»y . Uiln4 It £k.\ liar- I Botts Attornevs-at-Law, Tillamook City, Recitation, “ Decemlier,” Oscar Klein. nens Oil. You can d County. Oregon, within six operate. Recitation, “ Christ inns Carol,” Herman i Tillamook lengthen its life—make it I months from ihe date hereof. 1 ;st twice a-i long aa it I The plans of the forts still standing, Schollmever. Dated at Tillamook City. Oregon, the Sth ordinarily vi ould. I dav of January. 1905. Recitation, “Chime On,” Ethel Vedder. destroyed or in the course of construc­ DAVID FITZPATRICK Recitation, ” Christmas Wishes,” Alie Administrator of the Estate of William tion, the stock cf torpedoes and lifle n larger. Fitxpratrick. Deceased. mines, the lists containing information Recitation, “ Watermillion,” Orson Bat­ in referring to the placing ot mines on terson. Exercise, “Jack Frost,” Eight Little land or sea within the confines of Port Ones. Arthur, as well as the lists with the a poor looking bar- I Recitation, *’ Fir Tree Cross.” Grace Lise like new. M hùs of | names of all military and naval offices Veecome prisoners of the Jap­ der. .years cf increasing sales. anese. The officers and officials will re­ Recitation, ” The Reindeer.” Eunice If your dealer will not suW you write for Todd. tain their arms and private propertv, free catalogue of black or yellow water ­ Song. “ ling a Ling.” Eight Little Ones however, in accordance with the ex. proof oiled coats, slickers, suits, hats and Recitation, ‘ Star of the East,” Otto HAIR CT pressed wish of the Mikado as a recogni SIIAVINO, Effenlicrger. horse good> for all kinds of wet work. tion ot their gallentry in defending the Recitation, “ A Little Boy,” Joseph A. J. TOWBBCO. THB SHAMPOOING, El Bovahin. »CJTOM. HA1X. U 1 *. 3ICN fortress. These officers and officials are Rec'tatioii. ’’ Tie First Christmas.” TOWtH CANADIAN CO. to lie sent on parol to Russia. Electric Baths nicely fitteti up Elsie Schollmever. As a guarantee of good faith, the forts Harness i ECi’EXA Hanies^ Olì. "AU 5105 FAIL IN A DW11ME HttSKNorntFistiNEVBrAiis KAWtlHMt LATIMER, BE BARBER ANO HAIRDRES i I persons suffering with rheui