> i ..... r»’ ♦ ■B ■■I U TILLAMOOK TTU î a nr Tnrrm TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JUNE 21. 1906 - the bar, but if the agitation in behalf of the Coast Counties can in any way re­ move the “black eye’’ the Board of Engi­ neers gave Tillamook, then this county ought to join hands with the other Coast Counties and keep up the agita­ tion until they receive some permanent government improvements. The resour­ ces of the country warrant it. and it is time the Coast Counties were given a “square deal,” which they have not had in the past._______________ _ Advertising Rates, L egal A dvehtisments : f : « The west coast harbors of Oregon and al! their commercial interests should be united in one strong pull for develop­ Fred <’. Baker. Publisher. ment. . I 1 The improvement of these Oregon har­ THE COAST COUNTIES WANT bors and the development of the country that is back of them, is the greatest issue A SQUARE DEAL.” before the people of this state. Agitation for Coast Improvements Shall they be recognized and opened —The S tuation in Tillamook— up and exploited and developed in the Engineers Gave County next four years, or shall they lie dor­ a "Elack Eye.” mant for the next forty years? The coast region of Oregon needs de­ The improvement of the harbors in the velopment, as the rapid and easy means Coast Counties of Oregon is a matter of access to the interior, and the best which ingoing to be an important issue way to develop all O.egon. from nowon, for this section of the state The coast region can be developed in­ has been shamefully neglected and its de­ dependent of the favors of the railroads. velopment and progress retarted for the There is th« richest field for the ex­ want of improvement in the harbors and pansion of all our commercial interests. bays along the (’oast. We have no fault The country tributary by water to whatever to find with the enormous each seperate harbor is an inexhaustable sums of money which have been expend­ gold mind for Portland and the Wiliam ed for the improvement ol the Columbia ette valley is developed and made acces­ and Willamette rivers, but it does look sible. to us that a few more of the crumbs that The business interests of western Ore­ fall from the rich man’s table should have gon should adopt a broad and consist­ been given to the Coast Counties, so ent policy of development work com­ that they could keep pace with the in­ mencing with a campaign for the im­ dustrial growth of the state. Local en­ provement of each one of the harbors. terprise and grit have accomplished a The people of western Oregon cannot great deal to overcome difficulties, but be too aggressive in demanding the im­ when they have Ducked up against the provement of these harbors. transportation difficulties, or a way ol The millions spent by the government getting the products of the farm or the in making a harbor at San Pedro, Cal., forest to market, is a problem which a a mere goose creek entering a shallow large number of enterprising men have bay, has made that a great port of had to succumb under, simply for the entry.—Capital Journal. want of harbor improvements. What are the conditions in Tillamook, which is Women Still on the Fight. probably the most neglected county, yet the richest in undeveloped resources, in TO THE EDITOR TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. Oregon or along the Coast ? Tillamook The recent defeat in the Equal Suffrage has the enormous amount of forty billion Amendment has by no means disconcer­ feet of merchantable timber tributary to ted its advocates. We have inaugurat­ Tillamook and Nehalem bays, yet there is ed a new campaign, and are already only one saw mil) cutting lumber for the circulating a petition for signatures, export lumber trade, and at a time when asking for the submission of an amend­ lumber is in big demand and at a good ment in 1908. We trust for the same price. The reason of this stagnation is consideration you have shown in your the need of harbor improvements, and columns in the past, and to continue to they ate urgently needed right now. lie placed on your exchange list. hat a different state of affairs would Believe me, there has been no feature exist today if the government had under­ of the campaign which was so heartily taken the project to improve Tillamook appreciated and so valued as the loyal bar, for this county would have become support of the press. We confidently as­ the lumbering center ol Oregon, torwheie sert that m no state has t here ever been there is now but one saw null engaged shown such a high standard of ethics in the export trade, seyeral dozen large and fair-mindedness as evidenced by the saw mills would he running, giving em­ press of Oregon. ployment to thousands of men. But, 1 heequal Suffrage Association is grate alas, it was not fur the want of enter­ ful for your support in the past, and prise in furnishing the government with hopetui of like favor in the future. plenty of data, nor was it because the Sincerely yours, U.S. district engineer’s office, after care­ Ojeguti Equal Suffrage Ass’n. fully looking up the resources, estimat­ A »illy notion long prevailed that Hah ing the cost of improving Tillamook bar, which reports show it recommended on were the lieat food for the brain and account ol the enormous resources and this acted an a boom for it over .the bottled up condition of the county, but meat». But it should lie clear that Tillamook was ignominiously turned what moat Mrenglhenti the body most down.^at a time when it fully expecting benefit» the brain, as that organ e»t port that Tillamook was too near the foods tor the brain and that people Columbia river for the government to who live chiefly on these are the most undertake another jetty project. To pro­ intellectual. The oonquring nations vide a 15-foot channel, the government of the world are meat enters, those engineers estimated that it would cost living almost exclusively on a li.li diet $855,789. In view of the enormous re lieittg ot no consequence. The Pacific sources of the county, this is compara­ coast tribe, used to depend altogether tively a small amount of money tor the on their salmon catch for sustenance great benefit that would be derived, and and they were inferior in all respect, as one of the long bottled up, isolated to the Indians of the plains, who ate Coast Counties, it would have been a htifTslo. rite central Americana, the godsend had the national government Patagonian, anil the inhabitants of ttie undertaken the project, which was re­ ocean island, are nil fish eaters »nd to commended bv the local engineers. We wh it do they »mount. Fish are all right will quote pait of the Board of Engl, for a change, but give us the juicy mut­ liters report to show what an absurd, ton. pork and tieef of our American illogical argument it put up against the farms for a steady diet. improvement of l'illamook bar. But there How the wealth of the South is it stands, as a black eye against any fur- growing may lie estimated from the ther effort to improve the bar, or until fact that the value of the •cotton crop such tune ns the Oregon delegation ran for tile past five years exceeded by remove the hoodoo or convince the nearly $400.000,060 the entire produc­ Board of Engineers th.it a country with tion of gold and silver in the world forty billion feet of standing timber and < during ¡that time. And this whs only other valuable resources is entitled to an I one of the great crop, of this mightv outlet and more equitable treatment at i republic. It is pleasing to know that the hands of the engineer’s department I the South has long since recovered from at Washington. I'lns is part ol the re i ' the devastation of the civil war and was port we referred to ; never so prvaperou, in all its history as “ The country contiguous to the bay is right now. rich in forest and agricultural resources, and undoubtedly tiie products of held Death from Appendicitis and forest will increase with time and with the settling up of the country. At dt*cr»*NM‘ in the snmt* ratio that the use the present time, however, the contrast ! of l>r. King i« Naw Life Pills increHwea. bet with the commerce present and rea­ , They save you from danger and bring release from consti­ sonably pr<»S|>rctive and the sum requir­ I quick hi d ed to pi oxide even the lesser of the two pation and the ill* growing out of it. channels referred to in the act is two Strength and vigor tiluays follow* their great to warrant undertaking the work. ime. (hmrantetHl by Chas. I. Clough Try them. I illauiouk H iv is about 50 miles from | OruggiNt the mouth ol the Columbia River, too There ta more Csisrrh in this vectiou of the near t«»r u second harbor ol general inter­ country thsu m H other disesput together, est. Furthermore, is case any improve­ sud unid the Isst few yvurs wm M*ppom*tt b.» UK'urablr For s great lUMiiyyeui« doctors ments were under taken at iiilumook, in be pronounced it s torni dicesse, ami pie-srllxd the a'scGcr ot a railroad, inccApuits lovrtl rvmedres, Hird by eu'istsutiy fftiling to cun* bom the oav would necessary l»e diawn with local treatment, |»iom>um*vd it incwruble. Sctcurv I mu > proven estarrh to Is* a Itotn ihh a limited section ol country. I ìoiih I dur«*«»«' sud therefore requires eoustitu- I hr Hoard is of opinion that it is not i thirl'd treatment. Hall » Catarrh t'uiv, laanii desir.ihk at llw pttMni »i nc lor the fuctn -d by F J » henry & C« . fo rdo, Ohio, i« constiiutiO' st cure un the ru.irket II I ntle.l stales to umhitakr the improve- I I lheonly is tahr u intviatdly iu doses fi»»in iodi ups to m meat ol Villantook bar to the extent ol teaapoonful. It act* directly <>•• the blood and providing «itlnr n la-loot or a UlMoot mucous mrfhecM of the sv-d -m T‘ oilrron». hoiotmt iiotlsrs for any case it lads to eure, ehunml acivss it,** | s nd tor encalar« amt testi uunwda. This is the predicament Tillamook is Add'^M, F J Cltmv ft CO Toledo. O . I• r nu. I m so lar a® securing the improvement o» I ‘ I Id ake by tlall's rattdly Pills for constipation. I ^illamooh . < -ra oos can be are nil of its wonderful agricultural re- Our charges on ooiwrage is as follows :—l gallon demiiohn. 95- . o „„ti- sources, its fruits, its hay. Its wheat— demijohns. Ph- . 3 gallon demijohn,. 50c.; 5 gallon kegs. $1.WI ; lO gaMt^ $? 25" No charge Mad tor half or who e barrels L:kÎ or dravave a KT , ' ■ ,f 1 % , 4 ' and Burbank, These will keep |w*r Address. O-.ler Department. ra^,:^Vh.O.rr^S°^Xr O^ rich ikspite »11 of old Mother Eartli'i "s W ashington Street, Portland, Oregon. ratai to , +04 irritable bumping. Cities come Mtlti SAMPLES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. go a mete matter of building, but tile soil, like Tennyson's brook, goes on forever. Centrally Located Co. Shop, Opposite ¿Ilex. Fir and Spruce Lumber. and and Butter Boxes a specialty. TILLAMOOK LUMBER. COffiPflNY. A. K. CASE, Tillamook Iron "Works T , General Machinists & Blacksmiths. TILLAMOOK, OREGON. LAKE ERIE WINE AND CORDIAL CO. 404 Washington SI, Portland, Or. Sweet Wines, Cordials, BRANDIES and CHAMPAGNES LATIMER BROS., BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER kill ™, couch Or. King’s New Discovery FOR foUGHS »T BO.Písj.0$ * voLDS Rates, $1 Per day Why «tiller f.om tins putnful malady When one applaud,,, ..( Chniulwrlaiaa f .tn Halm g,»« r-li. f ? Huiidn-is ,.f graleh.l jsmple t.—titjr Ip the magical p w Cl of this rviuHty over ritmili>atam . for sale l.y Chaa. 1. Clough's Drug Store. jdts- ' LEACH, Dealer in FRESH and CURED MEATS. LARD, HIDES, WOOL, Etc. I Corruption, deception, political trad­ ing and trickery are parts of capitalism. You judge socialists by yourselves. There would be little to gain in trading a honest man for a saloon bum. We resent the accusation. F R. Beals visited his farm last week, making plans to build a new house and barn. J. Whitney went to the south part of the county on business Saturday. Rudolph Switzer went to Tillamook on business Saturday. Smooth heads and faces around Ne­ halem town. * • M. F. GLENORA. -■. '"77 - - ' LARSEN HOUSE, M. H. LtRRSEfl, Proprietor TILLAMOOK, OREGON I The Best Hotel in the city. No Chinese Employed. fn* TftoL i