JUMPS HIS PROPOSITION. Editorial Snap Shots. It's all off—with the railroad. Simmons Wants the Subsidy and » * * Deeds for Rights of Way before Don’t get disappointed because the rail he will Contract for a Railroad. road thermometer is again down to zero. * * * Much to the disappointment of most The business man who advertise cap everybody in Tillamook county, the last railroad bubble has not turned out as tures the trade. And it pays to adver they expected. for there is a difference of tise in the Headlight * * # opinion between J. E. Simmons and the This is how a subscriberat Neskown committee having the matter in charge. It was generally understood that as writes : “We like the strong stand you Soon as the subsidy of $35,000 was take for the right on al) matters. Success raised Mr. Simmons was to place $5,000 be with you.” * * * in the bank, whereas he was wanting We wonder how many members of the last week the $35,000 and the deeds for water commission know from practical the rights of way placed in the bank be experience the life of the pipe that is to fore he put up his money. The commit be used in the new water system in this tee had a meeting on Tuesday and made country where iron rusts so quickly? a proposition to Mr. Simmons to this W * * effect, that he accept $30,000, the amount Men who wear celleioid collars and of the|subsidy already raised, and that buy cheap $7.50 suits of clothes and who the committee would do all in its power are ready to play checkers with loafers to get the rights of way to the county and others, are not the stvle of men who line, but would not guarantee them I*, build railroads which run into the mil is not likely that Mr. Simmons will ac lions. cept that proposition, and in that event * * * it is more than probable that it will “Fooled again, Dr. ?” Yes ; but the fall through until some other arrange next railroad wind bag who comes to mentscan be made with responsible par Tillamook will be tomahawked so that ties to build a railroad into Tillamook. a post-mortem examination can be held It amounts to this, Mr. Simmons wants to ascertained where so much “hot air’’ the people of this county to put up their originates. * * * money, while the latter expected Mr. Simmons to put up his money at once. Rollie has nothing to prove his asser That the citizens had faith in J. E. Sim tion that the Oregon Traction Company mons and in his ability to construct the will soon build to this county. Such road was shown in their readiness to statements, which have no foundation subscrilie for the subsidy, which they did whatever, are just a little more railroad in a most liberal spirit and with some “hot air.” That is all that it amounts amount of enthusiasm at the thought of to. * * * Tillamook's long bottled-up condition Whatever may be said about the rail coming to a speedy end. But, alas, when it comes to getting railroad connections road proposition, a vote of thanks is due or harbor improvements the people of those who subscribed large and liberal this county are doomed to disappoint amounts. For orice the citizens got to ment—a disappointment in seeing this gether and pulled togetherfor a common favored section of country, with enor- 1 purpose. May they continue to pull to mous undeveloped natural resource, tied gether in the future. up. On account of Mr. Simmons’ new * * * conditions the people have lost faith in Probably some people will feel like pull him and do not expect to see anything ing up stakes and leaving the county on come of it, unless he should accept the account of the disappointment they have committee’s offer. 1 experienced on account of the bottom We are informed there are two other ! droppingout of the railroad proposition. parties who want to be consulted should ! It was surprising how many persons the committee eventually decide to drop buoyed themselves up that it was a sure the Simmons proposition, and on that ' thing this time. * * * account there is vet a streak of light on Tillamook county during the past year the dark railroad horizon, and some thing may yet happen, but people should has reach normal conditions, depending not loose heart, for the recent agitation almost entirely upon dairying, and this is for a railroad is having a good effect, liable to be the state of affairs in this and if nothing else comes of it, it will county for a number of years. But this help expedite the construction of a rail i is hardly swift enough for some people, road when conditions become more hence the desire to sell out and locate in a place where trade is more rushing. fa vorable. When Pedagogues Disagree TO THE EDITOR TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. I MAY BE CUT OFF Linievitch Has no Report From His Army L ondon , March 29—The Tinies’ St. Petersburg correspondent telegraphs as follows : The entire absence of press and private telegrams from the front, together with a laconic message from General Linie- vitch tonight dated Harbin and saying, “No reports from the armies.” en volves fears that communications have been cut and that the Japanese have turned the Russians' flank. D ear S ir ,—The county school superin tendent, in giving the result of the ap peals of Mrs. Buel and Mr. Crowe in last week’s issue of the Tillamook Headlight, failed to state some of the causes which led up to the appeal, as well as a portion of the action of the State board, and al so some of the actions of the County Board, which most concerns the public, and especially the other applicants Jthat go to make up the many out of the twenty that failed at the recent County examination. Prisoners Arrive in Japan. Mrs. Buel received an official state, TOKIO, March 29 —Twenty thousand ment of her standings as stated in the last Russian prisoners captured in the battle week's issue. Some of the grades she of Mukden have already arrived in |apan. could not account for. A revised unofficial estimate of the I thought it would be wise to see Mrs. Japanese casualties in the battle of Muk Buel’s papers. I asked permission, which den and the Tie Pass place the number was freely granted by the Conntv Supt. at 57,000. Flags captured at Mukden I soon discovered a number where no have been presented to the Emperor. credits had been given for the answer, Generel Mayeda, who was wounded at which I considered was deserving. I asked the County Supt. if he had graded Mukden, is dead. those papers. He said no, not all ot Maker of Peace. them, but that he had gone over all of S t . P etetsburg , March 28.—Russia them very carefully. I called his atten has outlined the conditions under which tion to the above named question. He she is preparing to negotiate peace. read it a time or two, and said he did It was stated tonight, with every not see how it had occurred,but they had semblance of authority, that, thanks to made a mistake in that question. He the good offices of the United States and gave ten credits to the answer, erased France, the question of peace had assum the former grade and changed it to cor ed practical shape. respond. The County Supt. repeated L ondon , March 28.— (5:22 P. M.)—A the above stated action until he changed telegram from a Northern European the standing of the respective subjects as capital, received in London this after follows: Grammar from 61 to 71, Writ noon says : ten Arithmetic from 80 to 90, Physiol “I have just learned on reliable author ogy and Hygiene from 88 to 98, Writing ity that Russia has asked Delcasse to act from 70 to 90. The above changes were as intermediary and open peace nego made by the County Supt., acknowledg tiations with Japan. ing the mistakes or oyersights he had "Delcasse has signified his willingness, made. He acknowledged they had but considers that Lansdowne's co-oper graded Mrs. Buel a little hard on cer- ation is essential to success.’’ tain questions in U.S. History (the only subject which she had failed in, and that by five credits), but said he would REMARKABLE CONFESSION. not raise them because, they had been lenient in grading other questions. In Infernal Machines Blew Up Bat tleship Maine. my opinion he would not do so, because it would have given her a certificate. As j N ew Y ork , March 28.—That the bat- an excuse for some of his errors, he said | tieship Maine, through an error, was de- he was just so sleepv and worn out he I stroyed by a bomb of his manufacture. hardly knew what he was doing a part ■ was the statement made by Gessicr Ros. of the time. ' seau in the Tombs today. Rosseau was I w’ould advise all applicants in this ■ convicted yesterday of having sent ex- county who have not secured their posi | plosives to the Cunard Line pier, this tions through the influence of the County city, in May, 1903. He made the follow Supt. to either see their papers after the ing statement today : examination, or make sure their papers “ For several years, while the Cuban were not corrected whin the County patriots were struggling against Weyler, Supt. is sleepy. I watched the contest with deep interest The County Supt. failed to state that and sympathy. I decided to go to Jack the State Board had raised the grades sonville and do what I could to assist of certain questions that were appealed the revolutionists. I started from St. * M * to them, both in U.S. History and Or. Following is part of Mr. Simmons' Do not loose heart in Tillamook be thographv. This also proves, it occurs Louis, where I had been living during new proposition for a subsidy and the cause the prospects for a railroad looks to me,that the County Board could have the early part of 1897. rights of way : “ Before taking a train for the South 1 | gloomy. A little more patience and a conscientiously given Mrs. Buel a slight This agreement, made and entered into I little more united effort and agitation raise also on these questions and grant got together the material for the con this 24-tli day of March, 1905, by and will do wonders in bring a railroad into ed a certificate to teach had they been dis struction of two exploding machines of between The Tillamook, Railroad, or tremendous power, so arranged that f this long neglected Coast county. But posed to do so. ganization, of the County of Tillamook, they could be wound up and left in a i do not get disheartened because another There is another feature of the examin in the State of Oregon, the party of the 1 railroad proposition has jumped the ation that our Supt. has not mentioned, selected place, with the certainty that first part, and J. E. Simmons, principal they would go off with terrible destruc track and become ditched. that may be of interest to the public. tion within a few hours. place of business at the city of Portland, * * * The Supt. upon being questioned as to State of Oregon, party of the second “ At New Orleans I rented a room and Several members of the water commis who the third examiner was. said : Mr. part, W’tnesseth : put the boxes together, after which 1 sion acknowledged at the meeting the Holt, of Blaine, had been appointed. I That the said party of the first part, went on to Jacksonville. There I be in consideration of one dollar and of the other evening that the new system would had been told by another party that the ! came acquainted with a party of Cuban covenants and agreements of the party not pay for several years. That is tanta Supt. said it was not necessary, that 1 leaders who were planning a filibustering of the second part liereaker contained, mount to anadmission that it ingoing to they would have but two on the board. I expedition. They had engaged the De. Mr Crowe communicated to Mr. Holt ! stroyer, a small vessel to take them to agree to convey unto the said second be a financial failure from the start. The partv, his successors and assigns forever, city dads are kindly disposed and good and said he received intelligence from | Cuba, along with a number of American a right-of-way one hundred feet in width Matured, so they won’t object to tooting Mr. Holt to the effect that such a thing and European adventurers, who were in and oyer a certain strip of land to be ' the bills out of the city finances. They had never been mentioned to him. Our anxious to strike a blow for Cuban free County Supt. must have had a very dom Several ot the leaders of the party located by survey at the expense of |. E. can charge it up to “water sure.” sound sleep and visions passed through are men now well known and I will not * * * Simmons, being fifty feet on each aide of The oft repeated remark that “Tilla his mind in some miraculous wav to | mention their names, although I have and parallel with the center line of said atrip of land, as the same is or maybe mook w ill gel a railroad when the time have caused him to believe Mr. Holt had among my papers a list of them all. staked out and located over and across I is ripe to move the timber” is beginning lieen appointed, when Mr. Holt had no “ I suggested to them that they use the following described premises in Tilla to impress the ¡»eople that a railroad will knowledge of the fact at that time. my machines to destroy Spanish war. W. S. Bi el . mook Nr Washington Counties, State of I not be built into this county before that ships in the harbor of Havana and in Oregon, to-wit: time. And it may be five or more years other ports on the coast of the island. Afraid of His Brutal Father. Termini ground, at Tillamook City, as before this comes about, not that we They readily seized upon the idea, and «greed upon, Right of way. One hun want to blight one’s hope, but looking when the Destroyer sailed with the C ottage G rove . Or., March 27 — J. dred feet in width through Tillamook and 1 at it form a business standpoint, we see filibusterers they took iny two machines Washington Counties, to a point on no prospect for a railroad into Tillamook M. Hanson was arrested a few da vs ago with them. for unmercifully beating his 12-year-old Southern Pacific Railroad l>et ween North for several years It wes my intention to go along * * * boy Henry. He pleaded guilty and was Yamhill and Hillsboro, or as may lie, with the partv so as to direct the work fined $20. The boy had left, but after The board of county commissioners staked out by said J E. Simmons, con of sinking the Spanish ships, hut theydis necting with the Southern Pacific Rail-| will meet on the 10th April for the pur- much persuasion he was induced to re suaded me, urging that I could be of turn home the next day. After taking pose of opening bids for the construction road at any point, or any other line in- greater use in Jacksonville preparing dependent or otherwise to the city of of a new court house. It seems that the a bath he went to the well to get a I other machines if the first proved sue Portland, Oregon. Together with a sub. new court house will have to be erected drink. Suddenly he disappeared and the cessful. snlv of thirty-five thousand dollars, the on the old site, unless some other part of IMirents and officers were mvstified to “It was planned to have some mem J subsidy not payable until the road is, town is willing to give a whole block for know what had become of the lad. Henry was discovered this evening by ber of the revolutionary party join the built to Tillamook Citv, and then if funds that purpose. The present site was given Spanish navy so as to get the machines 1 arc hard to raise at that tim* will give to the county by Claude Thayer condi a little boy under Hanson's house, grab I aboard. If that failed it was decided to | bing the scraps that were thrown out to tionally, to be used for a court house, but you one year mote on ten thousand of bur _________ subsisted ____ there for of tbe boxes to the hull of a __ ____ it at six per cent per annum on good as it is a cock eved block a new court the dog. 1 The ship under the water line, for I had fixed paper. To complete this agreement, the house would look better on a full lot and three days without coat, shoes and my machines so that they could l>e ex partv of the first part shall raise the a wav from a blind street. The west end ' sc>cks, and afraid to re-enter his home on ploded under water. That was late in above suiisidv, and then the party of of town might get a hustle on and offer account ot his brutal father. the fall ot 1897. The next .ping the the second part shall have surveyed a a site for the new court house if »hev are The fate of the crew of the schooner ■ M,in * wns ‘•«•‘toyed. enterprising and wanting to improve permanent line. Then the party of the ” one of the men in the secret of first part shall proceed to get the right that end of the city. But thev do not C. A. Klose remains as much of a mys- of way over said line, and when secured want to offer a building site with a lot terr as when the water-logged and ‘be machines ever returned to America, abandoned vessel was sighted Friday. • SRW some time after the war with to l»e deposited in sonic bank with the of strings on it. * * W Shipping men generally believe that the Spain had begun. He told me he had above subsidy. Then the partv of the Here is a practical joke worth repeat, crew attempted to escape from the nothing to do with the boxes after second, J. E Simmons, shall deposit in same bank five thousand dollars in cash ing Not long since two well known per. | schooner in small boats, and that the reaching Cuba, but had l»een told a mis or bond« satisfactory to the party of sons were seen to emerge from the back . boat, were swamped in the tremendous take had been made. the first part, that he will complete the of the I'alace hotel with a Imttle ot the was running. All coasting vessels have “ The man who had been entrusted road one vrar from date of the almve “citter," and alter taking a good drink, ' been notified to keep a sharp lookout with the task of destroying a Spanish deposits, or be will forfeit the five thou hid the remainder. A woman saw what for any small boats adrift, but the [ vessel attempted to fasten a box during aand dollars on deposit, unless prevent the men had done, and after they had j chances of the crew's rescue appear the night to one of Alphonso's warships, returned inside, the woman played a ' slight. Special reports received from I and blundered into blowing up the ed by some util« «merit matter. practical joke on them bv purloining the Long Beach state that the schooner C. ; Maine. I was told that the man. im bottle. Becoming “dry“ again the men A. Klose which went ashore, is bottom mediately after learning of the error he Social, April ist. thought they’ed like another swig, but up in the breakers, and can be reached The laches' of the Christian Church their surprise was great when thev found at low tide. Her deck load is scattered had made, committed suicide." Kosseau said he had attempted to blow will give an entertainment and social at that the spirits had flown and there was along the beach, but her hold cargo is Todd’s Hall, on Saturday evening. April no telling where As spotters" had intact. The vessel is expected to be a up the statue ot Frederick the Great in 1st. to which all are invited. Ten cents liven watching the house, the whole situ. 1 total loss. Insurance Adjuster Gene- Washington because he did not wish to admission will lie charged at the door. 1 ation was taken in and wr are wonder I reaux, ol Seattle, and Mr Beadle, of see the statue ot n King in America He In additi.oi to the entertainment, fine1 ing what is going to l»e done about it bv .’‘an F'rancsco, oo account of the added that he was not an anarchist or a home made candies, cakes, pies, etc . those who boastfully belt.re election said owners, are expected to arrive to take, nihiBat. and that be bad made no effort , to supply exploding machines to the" w ill be on sale they were going to enforce the law. charge ol the wreck. Ruaaiaae. to details of the general offense. Tbii point will also lie contested in the highei C leveland , March 27.—Unless the court, as will the other points which re higher court interferes, Mrs. Cassie L suited in conviction. Chadwick will spend the greater part ot the next ten years in the Ohio State Penitentiary. A sentence of ten years was imposed on her bv Judge Robert \\ . Tayler in the United States District Court today. Mrs. Chadwick was convicted on seven counts and sentenced upon six You can tr.nko your bar- counts. For four of these counts a nv>4 ua soft ub a glove anti ns tough mi wire by sentence of two vears eacb was imposed ualiij EC It EKA Unr. non« Oil. You can and upon two counts a sentence of one lengthen Its life—make it 1..8t twice as long us 11 year each was imposed, making a total ordinarily would. sentence of ten years. As soon as the sentence was pro nounced, J. P. Dawlev, counsel for Mrs. Chadwick, took exception to the sen tences upon each count except the first. The defense intends to make the claim m’kkefl a poor looking bar- nesd like new. 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