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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. APRIL 5, 1906.
Money to Loan.
Editorial Snap Shots.
not consulted when the contract was | at against a life-record as this ?,Not that, I have money to loan on improved real
estate,
R alph A ckley .
made. A law suit to restrain the coun- 1 we have heard of.
By good judgment Mr. Aitkin has
ty court from paying the commission is
Bids Wanted.
a right move to protect the taxpayers in • made money for his company and money
for hie bunk, but it has all been ligiti-
N otice is H ereby G iven ,—That the
the future, and if anyone ought to toot
County Court of Tillamook County,
the bill for the unnecessary and uncalled matc and cleani monev—not one cent of I will receive bids to lease the Big Nestucca
employment of special attorneys it ought it having been wrung from the distress and Little Nestucca Toll Roads. The
to come out of the pocket of fudge Con ed and poverty-stricken, the pauper and said lease will be for a period oi five
»ears, under the following conditions ;
der and not out of the pockets of the the widow.
Mr. Aitkin proposes an amendment All bids must be for both roads. All
taxpayers.
payments must be made incash, >4 of
forcing the state treasurer to deposit the the first year lease to be paid when the
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A measure of some importance to the 1 funds under the direction of a state bid is accepted and the bond of the
people of Oregon is to be voted upon at board, the interest to be paid to the bidder and contract is properly ex
the election in June—that of woman suff state. This may be harking back to the ecuted • Vi to be paid on or before Sep-
rage. It ought to pass, and we hope it streneous days of the ancient Spartans, temlier 1st. 1906, and Vi payable Janu
ary 2nd, 1907. Thereafter each years
will, for women should have just as much but it is honest and the people know it. rent must be paid as follows : 14 pay
right to vote and have a voice in the All Mr. Aitkin desires is the flat salary able on or before fanuary 2nd; Vs pay.
body politic as men, in fact, more right paid by the state for his services—not the able on or before May 1st; Vi payable
when a comparison is made of a sensible, immense “graft” gathered in by the state on or before beptemlier 1st of each year.
All money paid tor the lease of said
womanly woman and mother to that oi treasurer in the way of interest on per roads will be expended oil the two Toll
the drunken, besotted, lazy men who eke sonal deposits of money really the money Roads each year under the supervision ot
out a miserable existence in our cities, of the state, and no part of their per the County Court.
All bids must be filed with the Countv
and we are sorry to say that some few sonal prerogatives.
Clerk on or before 10 o’clock a.m., Wed
are to be found in this city. Taking that
There is no question that the people nesdav, May 2nd, 1906.
view of the question, every sensible per will stand squarely and firmly by a man
The bids will be opened at 1 o’clock
son will admit that there are men who of Mr. Aitkin's character if they canonly p.m. of said day.
Every citizen interested in this matter
ought to be disfranchised on account oi know it in time. That is why this paper
their drunken depravity. It is to be is earnestly cautioning its readers to is invited to tie present on the above
date and discuss the Toll Road proposi
hoped that the men of Tillamook county scan closely the past records of the yar. tion with the court.
will show a magnanimous spirit at the ious candidates and decide for themselves
By order of the County Court.
G. B. L amb ,
June election and vote to give women a who among them all has proven himself
Countv Clerk.
right to vote also.
the real friend of the people.
Dated at Tillamook, this 13th day of
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March, 1906.
In view of the fact that previous to an
Isn’t it about time thatTillamook had
another hot air railroad cyclone ?
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Will theWater Commission please pass
a resolution asking the City Council to
appropriate $100 so that another of our
attorneyscan take a trip to San Fran
cisco. We believe in treating the gentle
men of the bar alike.
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If those who wanted a political office
are not on either the republican or demo
cratic primary ballots, it is their own
fault, for the new law gives a free invita
tion to everybody to see how popular or
unpopular they are.
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There was some little talk at the city
council meeting Monday evening to put
ashphelt paving on Main street. It looks
to most people that the first move that
should be made to improve Main street
would lie to pull down and destroy the
old shacks and fire traps on that street.
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It was stated at the city council meet
ing on Monday that it wasn't necessary
lor an attorney to go to San Francisco
to defend the city in the water suit. It
was amusing to watch the countenances
of the city dads when they saw that
another $100 of the city's funds bad gone
a-glimering without doing one cent of election there is a good deal said about
g >od. Is there anybody else who wants the salaries of county officials for cam
to take a trip to San Francisco at the paign purposes and in county officials
city’s expense ?
going to Salem whenever the legislature
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The attempt on the part of a few per- is in session for the purpose of getting
sons to create a factional fight in the their salaries raised, it looks to us that
republican party, with the Headlight it is about time to put a stop to this un-
man their storm center, lias ended up in satisfactory state of affairs by adopting
a fiasco and genuine ridicule. Republi- some uniform system to govern the sal
cans will not stand for it and resent anv aries of county officials throughout the
move in that direction, which was done state. There is no sense whatever in pay
to defeat republican candidates and to ing one official double that of the same
force the Headlight into a quarrel. It official in another countv for doing the
turned out a regular fizzle. The Head same work. Probable the counties could
light mail al ways selects his own ground be graded as to population or assess
and time before jumping into a fight, and ment and a scale of salary established in
then with persistency keeps in the fight that way. Anyway, the next legislature
ought to do something to make the sal
until the object ¡9 gained.
aries of county officials more uniform
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Frank 0. Baker, chairman of the state throughout the state, for the present
republican committee, has tendered his system is unsatisfactory to the taxpay
resignation. This is to be regretted, for ers and calls for reform.
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he was the right man in the right place.
Local option will figure in a number of
Mr. Baker has done much to heal up the
factional fights in the party, and as a re county elections next June, and from the
sult of liis work it looks as though the present outlook it now appears that sev
republicans in every counts’ will present eral other counties will be added to the
a solid front next June, when a stop will ‘‘dry’’ list, for the anti-saloon sentiment
be made to presenting to democrats some is gaining ground in Oregon. As to Till-
of the best offices, and for that reason amook there is little change in opinion,
we should have liked to have seen Mr. as those who yoted for local option will
Baker remain chairman until all the do so again. True it is that the law has
been violated in some instance, but that
democrats were dethroned.
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¡9 not the fault of the law but those
Some few persons appear to be a little whose duty it was to enforce the law,
hostile because Mayor Botts and the city consequently the county treasury has
council are running the city in the inter not been increased as it might have had
est of the whole city and not in the inter the sheriff in this county done what the
est of a few individuals, as in years gone sheriffs have done in other counties As
by. This is not to be wondered nt, but to the result of the experiment of closing
the trend of public opinion is slowly but up the saloons in Tillamook there is no
gradually coming to the conclusion that doubt whatever that it is a decided im
it is to the business interest of the city to provement over the old regime of wide
enforce the law and make it a decent open saloon and gambling joints, and
respectable town where people can do that many men and many homes in Till
their trading without being annoved by amook have now occasion to be thank
a lot of drunken, dissipated persons who ful that the county went “dry.” No one
have no interest in the city whatever.
is injured or dragged down nor nre there
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any families deprived of the necessaries
The (»range lodge in the south end of and comforts of life now there are no
the county has passed u resolution in saloons, and for this one reason alone
opposition to re-leasing the toll roads, we believe the people see it is a good
and asks the support of the people of the thing to keep the saloons out now they
comity to aid it toget rid ol the "graft.” are out.
The H eadlight contends that the proper
and most satisfactory way to dispose of
It is tn he remembered, and those par
the tollroad question is by popular vote, ticularly wlionre religiously and chnrit-
and it remains to be seen whether the nblv inclined, that Hon. John H. Aitkin,
countv court will acceded to this or igo ot Huntington, now seeking the nomina
ahead and lease the Nestucca toil roads tion on the republican ticket for state
and in that wav ignore the demand of treasurer, has liberally assisted more
the people for a direct vote,
calls upon public charity than any man
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in Eastern Oregon and also the president
The voters of Oregon have to decide of the largest commercial institution in
in June whether thev want the Whole the state of Oregon, yet his purse has
sale and Retail Liquor Dealers’ Associa always been open to the appeals ol
tion’s prohibition measure to become a misery and of distressd humanity. Soli
law Failing to bribe the last state leg citors for tlie various churches have
islature, the liquor dealers have invoked never appealed to him in vain, He gives
the initiative and referendum law with a to all of them, regardless of their faith
Jocal option bill of their own, liecause the To the Salvation Army he
has been a
present local option law is not what the friend at all times.
bon» »' dealers want, but they want a
Let us go a little further. As the rep
aw that is to make local option ridicu reseutative of a large aggregation of
lous auu «iiopcittiive, and extend an in. capital and president of one of the Inrgest
vitation to the dear people of Oregon to mercantile establishments in the North
get into iheir prohibition band wagon.
west, Mr. Aitkin has loaned hundreds of
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thousands
of dollars to home builders
We wish to amend statement No. 1 of
the primary election law, to read as fol and needy ranchers who were struggling
to get on their feet. He has protected
lows :
I hereby promise, that if I am defeated his bunk, but to his everlasting credit be
in the primary election, that 1 will make it snid he has never foreclosed a mort
a public apologv tor all the mean things gage on some poor man's meager hold
I have said about mv opponents ; that I ings nor forced a helpless debtor to the
will not allow a sore, disgruntled feeling wall. No sorrowful widow with her
to come over me ; that I will not organ
ize a faction ol mv party to ‘‘knife'' the hungry children have ever gone supper
successful candidate ; that I will not en less to lied through the action of his
ter n to a political conspiracy with the bank or his big mercantile establishment.
opposite party because I could not get a
nomination in mv own party ; and that On the contrary, the store was always
I will never run for political office again open to them and their personal credit
as long as the jKOple and not the political was extended almost indefinitely.
bosses do the nominating.
To nil of
Dining the hard times of a tew years
which I pledge my political honor—that
♦* if I ever had anv political honor—or as ago, when the prices of stock were low.
it was within his power to break large
m ich ol it as 1 posses*.
numbers ol stockmen and take advant
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When it comes Io the time of allowing I age of conditions, and several of the
Hniidlev & Thayer the 40 percent com , stockmen offered to let him have their
mission, under the famous contract that ; stock for their claim against them, but
Judge Conder entered into with that law be helped them through the hard times,
firm, «ml which we are informed that the and today those same men are among
i O timis doners hud not read until they . the leading stockmen in Eastern Oregon.
saw it published in the Headlight, will
This is the sort 01 a num whose friends
tn all probability end up in another law I have virtually forced him into the race
suit which will lay the whole thing bare 1 lor the republican nomination for state
of paying special attorneys lor doing the I treasurer, luvidious comparisons are
work for which the district attorney is , always odious, but the records can
drawing a salary. It is no fault of the 1 speak. Have the worthy gentlemen who
district attorney, however, for be was ! oppose linn in the race very ranch to offer
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SPRUCE
The Spruce cheese factory has started
up for the coming year.
The revival meetings at Spruce, which
had been going on a wreek, closed la8t
Su.iday night.
M. Woods, of Blaine, made a business
trip to Tillamook this week.
Mr. Ayers, of Blaine, went to Tilla
mook Monday.
Charley Desmond and family, of
Pleasant Valley, were the guests of
Albert Kinnaman and family Sunday.
The meetings of Spruce were well at
tended by the Beaverites.
Mrs. C. Dye is on the sick list this
week.
We have been informed that Rev.
Zimmerman, the Christian preacher of
Tillamook, is thinking of holding meet-
tings in our vicinity.
N. J. Dye and wife, Frank Dye and
Mary Tucker, of Beaver, spent Sunday
at C. Dye’s.
Mr. Charley Woole, who has been
away all winter, working at Cloverdale
and also on the Elmore, returned to his
home Tuesday.
J. P. 'fucker and wife went to town
Tuesday.
Bob Huston and family moved to the
Emdorph place at ¡Pleasant Valley last
week. They will live there all summer.
Mr. Huston will " run the ranch.”
Mr. Joseph Bixby went to the city
Tuesday.
Mrs. B. Wallace went to town Wednes
day.
Mrs. M. Woods and children, of Blaine,
visited friends at Pleasant Valley, Mon
day and Tuesday.
The baptisamal services which took
place just below the falls was well at
tended. Those baptized were : 0. Dye,
E. Haag, P. Gray.
NOTICE !
The Red Front Shoe
Store
For the Next 60 Days will SELL at
COST for CASH. Call in and
GET BARGAINS.
Beware of Ointments for Ca
tarrh that Contains Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy tlie sense of
siuell and completely derange the wholesys
tem when entering it through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never he used ex
cept on prescriptions from reputable physicians,
as the damage they will do is ten fold to the
good vou can possibly derive from them. Hall’s
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is
taken internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the sys etu. In buying
Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine
It is taken internally, and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney <k Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Drugisls, price 75c. per bottle.
Take Hall's Family Pills for conetlpation.
LAKE ERIE WINE AND CORDIAL CO,
404 Washington St, Portland, Or
OPEN PUBLICITY THE BEST
GUBRBNTY OF MERIT.
When the maker of a medicine, sold
through druggists for family use, takes
his patients fully into his confidence by
frankly and fearless!.- publishing broad
cast as well a3 on its bottle wrappers,
a full list of all its ingredients in plain
English, this action on his part is the
best possible evidence that he Is not
afraid to have the search light of inves
tigation turned full upon his formula
and that it will bear the fullest scrutiny
and the most thorough investigation.
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for tho
cure of the weaknesses, periodical pains
and functional derangements of the or
gans distinctly feminine, is the only medi
cine put up lot sale through druggists for
woman’s special use. the maker of which
is not afraid to take his patients into
his full confidence by such open and
honest publicity.
A glance at the published Ingredients
on each bottle wrapper, will show that it
Is made wholly from native, American,
medicinal roots, that it contains no poi
sonous or habit-forming drugs, no nar
cotics and no alcohol—pure, triple-refined
glycerine, of proper strength being used
Instead of the commonly employed alco
hol, both for extracting and preserving
the active medicinal properties found in
the roots of the American forest plants
employed. It is the only medicine for
women's pecular diseases, sold by drug
gists, that does not contain a large per
centage of alcohol, which is in the long
run so harmful to woman’s delicate, nerv
ous system. Now, glycerine is peifectly
harmless, and serves a valuable purpose
by possessing intrinsic value all Its own,
and besides it enhances the curative
effect of the other ingredients entering
Into the "Favorite Prescription."
Some of the ablest medical writers and
teachers endorse these views and praise
all the several Ingredients of which "Fa
BOULDER CREEK.
vorite Prescription” is composed —rec
ommending them for the cure of tho
Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Borba spent last very same diseases for which this world-
medicine is advised. No other
Sunday at the home of Mr. W. N. Bays. famed
medicine for women has any such vro-
Mr. and Mis, Harley Foland, of fesshmal endorsement—wortn more than
Beaver, came up to Boulder last Sunday any number of ordinary testimonials. If
Interested, send name and address to Dr.
to visit Mrs. Foland’s brother’s family, R. V. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Y., for his little
book of oxtracts from the works of
Mr. Oliver W. Kinnaman,
eminent medical writers and teachers,
We were mistaken last week in saying endorsing the several ingredients and
that Mr. Parmer had moved down the telling lust what Dr. Pierce's medicines
river. We learned later that he has gone are made of. It’s free for the asking.
to Tillamook.
Mr. U. A. Smith and children went to
the
Blaine last Sunday to the baptizing at
and CURE the LUNGS
Mrs. Martha Ray's.
The weekly prayer meeting will be
WITH
held next Thursday night at Mr. Chas.
Bays'.
There was quite a “ bachelor" party
at Mr. J. W. Tompkins’ last Sunday for
dinner. Those present were: Mr. Henry
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FOR
0UGH8 and
50c* J 1.01
Kunze and Mr. Charles Kunze, of Fair
V0LDS
Frw Trial.
view; Mr. Otto Walthers, of Spruce;
and Mr. Arthur Haag, of Beaver.
Surest and Quickest Cure for all
THROAT and LUNG TROUB
Mr. D. H. McIntyre, who was so un
LES, or MONEY BACK.
fortunate as to cut his knee with a cross
cut saw last week, is getting along
nicely.
Dr. Smith was in our part of the
county last week, called, we understand,
to attend Mrs. Abbie Richards, who was
quite badly hurt by a fall.
SEWING MACHINE.
Ruby Johuson, little daughter of C.
•OLLER REARING.
N. Johnson, broke her arm just below
HIGH GRADE.
the shoulder last Thursday, by falling
out of a tree. She is reported to be
getting along as well as can be expected.
H. A. Chopard is working for J. W.
Tompkins this week, moving fences aud
rebuilding them.
County Superintendent Wiley was
visiting our schools last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Nieklaus and children
visited with Mr. and Hans Jensen last
Sunday.
O. let ns all, when we begin
To slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do,
To those we little know,
Rememl>er curses, clucken-like,
Will always roost at home;
Don't talk of other* faults, until
You have none of your own
—Selected
KILL
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gallon or $1.00 per dozen.
8 years old Port Wine, Sherry, Muscat, Angelica, Madeira at $1.50 a gallon or
$5.00 per dozen.
$ .50 a gallon or $2.75 per doz.
5 years old Claret at.................................
.75 a gallon or 3.50 per doz.
5 years old Zinfandel at............................
1 00 a gallon or 4.00 per doz.
5 years old Burgundy at...........................
.75 a gallon or 3 50 per doz.
5 years old Reisling at..............................
3.00 a gallon or 9.00 per doz.
7 years old California Grape Brandy at
or 11..50 per doz
4.00 a gallon
.......................
10 years old California Grape Brandy at
2.50 a gallon or 7 50 per doz.
5 years old Kentucky Whiskies at..........
8 years old Old Sheehan’s Private Stk. .
3.00 a gallon or 8.50 per doz.
3 00 a gallon or 8.50 per doz.
8 vears old Old Malt Rye Whiskey at .
8 years old Old Canadian White Rye at.
3 00 a gallon or 8.50 per do».
4.00 a gallon or 11.00 per doz.
10 years old Standford Rye at...................
4.00 a gallon or 11.00 per do*.
10 years old Rainier Bourbon at ............
5.00 a gallon or 14.00 per doz.
15 vears old Old Private Stock at.............
2.00 a gallon or 6.50 per do*.
7 years old Old Blackberrv Brandy at....
3 00 a gallon or 8.00 per doz.
7 years old Old Holland Gin at.................
7 vears old Old Kummel at.......................
3.00 a gallon or 8.00 per do*.
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Samples furnished on application.
CLOSING
OUT SALE !
COUCH
.King’s
New Discovery
1
Chickens Wanted
Will pay the market price for nil kinds
of poultry throughout the year.—J. D.
Jones, six blocks south of court house.
I am paying 7cents a pound
for well trimmed green hides.
Leach’s Butcher Shop I
by bny'n? this
reliable, honest,
high grade sew-
ing machine,
TODD & CO
Clothing, Hats, Shoes,
and Furnishing Goods
Are still selling their Stock of
At 20 to 33/4 per cent less than any store in Tillamook
T his is a bargain sale and one that will not be dupli
cated soon.
Up-to-date goods at low prices.
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