illamoük
OREGON, JANUARY 3, 19o/./7
ATTEND THE BIG SALE !
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aturdav, Jan. 5th to Jan. lltli, inclusive
This Sale mill be the Biggest money Saving Opportunity of a [life time
Every article of Merchandise in this Big Store mill be SLAUGHTERED in Price.
HALTOM’S
SHERIFF GETS BUSY
PE LATEST REAL ESTATE BARGAINS. THE
Rounds up Whiskey Sellers
Wutch this Space for New Rargains Every week.
980 acres of good rich soil near Beaver. 100 acres under cultivation. Tw
good housesand three barns and two good young orchards. This place is sup
plied with farm machinery of all kinds and has 60 head of stock, 140 head of
goats, and 50 stands of trees. This is without exception the ber-t stock ranch in
Tillamook County. Is also a tine dairy ra-'ch. Only half mile from Post Office
and one mile from school. Will sell for $11, >70 on very easy terms. $1500 will
into my office and make inquiries
make the first payment 011 the place. Come
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concerning this place. Jt is certainly a 1 L_.
bargain
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in Tillamook Real Estate. Just1
s . aa it.ksar /ivouiti
S-.M on ill«
think of a dairy ranch selling for $12 an acre, T?I
Fine
new cream separater
the I
place.
Will also rent half of tlrie place for $200 a year—renter must buy 20 head of :
cows at $32 per head to get this bargain. Will also rent whole place of 980 acres
for $400 a year if renter buys al) the at.i ck. The right party can also get the place
on the shares. ALL THIS IS CERTAINLY A MATTER WORTH INVESTIGATION.
Ackley, Tillamook Real Estate.
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TILLAMOOK
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JOTTINGS
for abstracts.
Get vajey apples nt McNair's.
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L. B. Ziemer left on Wednesday lor
the state agricultural college at Cor.
va'.lis, where he will be one of the in
structors in the short dairy course.
J. C. Bewley, real estate and rentals
List your Timber, Farm and City Pro
Japande ware for 'Xmas at King & perty at a reasonable price with me and
Mils.
I will sell it and guarantee you satisfac
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■You n get stumping powder now at tion.
King «[Mills.
At a meeting of the members of the
J- LJ right, of Portland, was in the Presbyterian church on Sunday evening,
city 0/ Monday.
it was decided to ask Rev. Dr. Baird to
Ex County |edge Conder wasin from become the permanent pnstor of that
^lf bg^P. Monday.
church.
We are sorry to hear that Mrs. J. IL
Rev. Dr. Baird will preach on Sunday
Oliver is quite sick*.
morning in -the Presbyterian church in
Dr. Ileirv E. Morris, eye specialist.
As the defendant, persisted in saying
they were not gambling at the time the
raid was made, and were simple in the
--Raids Gambling Joint. gambling room talking at the time, the
mayor consented to dismiss the case
Sheriff Crenshaw, true to liis election
against them on a plea of not guilty,
promise, who said lie would do his duty
provided they paid $50 each into the
in enforcing the laws, has been a busy
citv treasurer, and this being satisfac
man tbe past few months securing evi
tory, the matter was amicable settled in
dence against those who have lieen vio-
that way.
lating the locul option and gambling
When the would-be justice of the peace
1 laws, and it is surprising how many per.
sons he has evidence against for violating was brought before Mayor Botts he
pleaded not guilty, but the evidence was
these laws. It was no secret that the
so clear against Chase that he was
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law breakers have been violating the I
fined $100, the maximum penalty that
law for the evidence against them have
can be imposed for violating the city
been coming in thick and fast, notwith
ordinance against gambling.
standing that on two occasions the
Frank Moore, the Jap cook, pleaded
citizens of Tillamook County have voted
guilty to violating the local option law.
against the lawless element of Tilla
and this being his second offence, he was
mook City.
Wednesday night Sheriff
fined $250 and 30 days iu jail, Should
Crenshaw showed that he meant busi
ness, and in doing so made it tropical he fail to pay this flue he will bave to
spend four months in iail.
for the Jaw breakers, for before noon on
Ed Johnson and J. P. Allen pleaded
Thursday lie bad arrested 13 persons.
guilty and were each fined $50.
The first move was made on the White
Torn Borwn's case will be tried this
Corner, where it was known gambling afternoon, before a jury.
games have been running. Sheriff Cren-
Sheriff Crenshaw has three to four
sliuw and Deputy Sheriff Holden, finding cases against .he whiskey sellers and
they could not get in by the side door to another against W. O. Chase.
the gambling room, went into the front
door—and knowing the secret knocks
A RAILROAD SCRAP.
whiclB'ould admit them, had a man Jo
give them on the gambling room door.
This was partly opened, and despite the
effort to close the door when it was
found the officers were outside, Sheriff
Crenshaw and deputy pushed it open
and obtained admittance. Tom Johnson,
M. Fredenhngen, of Seattle, was in ibis city, nqd in the evening at the Bay
who appeared to be the door keeper and
City
chnrch.Xwliere
he
will
hold
several
thecityon Monday.
only to admit those who knew the ropes,
G. B. Crane, of Greenwood, N. Y., meetings next week.
made a move to gel away after lie could
M. Tolil. H. 11. Ttibbcsing, F. Lange, not keep the officers out, but the sheriff
came in on Monday.
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McMillun. the photographer, makes up L. Lundburg. F. Lundberg, Fred Zad- soon put a stop to any move in that
Inck, O. Bergman, George Loerpabel direction, and placed him ami Geo R.
to date photographs.
and Mr. and Mrs II. Tohl were down Edmunds. Howard Edmunds and M. F.
A. S. Coals, of Aberdeen, Wash., was
from Nehalem on Tuesday.
Leach, who were playing, under arrest
in the city on Tuesday.
Dr. C. S.-Kelsay, dentist, has offices in and took them to the court house. They
A revival meeting is in progress at the
the Olsen Building, where he is prepared persisted in saying they were not gamb.
JqJK-l Bretjjrtu Church.
o do all kinds ol first clnss, up-to-date ling when the sheriff entered the gamb
Harry F. Nelson, of Oakland, Cnl..
lentistrv.
Consult Dr. Kelsay about ling room.
was in the city on Monday.
your teeth and he will give you the bast
Since the White Corner, always
Harris will feed your team hay mid of advice.
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a disreputable place, started up with a
keep them over night for 50c.
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Snow fell on Christinas night, cover soft drink counter, things have been
For sale, Bay City hotel, price $2,500. ing the gronnd the next day. As snow is getting worse in thia city, both as to
Apply to D. W. Rhoades, Bay City. *
so seldom seen here, those who had high selling whiskey and as to gambling, but
Several persons were full and some of hopes for a sleigh ride were disappointed, this was not the only pl tee where the
as the warm atmosphere soon turned the law was violated.
them were rnn in on Christmas night.
Then the sheriff went and pulled
That stock of hardware at King & snow into slush.
Mills is getting more complete every
County warrants bought at face value. Frank Moore, the Jap cook, out of lied
Interest paid on time deposits.
No on board the steamer Sue H. Elmore.
day.
Previous to doing so, the Jap cook told
You can get that Jap-a-lac that you charge for collecting checks on other
another party that he had no whiskey,
have read so much about at King & banks. Exchange on all the principal
cities of the world free to depositors — for he hod sold out, but it was the whis
Mills.
key that thejap had previously sold out
Tillamook County Bank.
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Wanf^l,
a
few
choice
timber
claims,
Want*!,
which got him into trouble again. He
A. B. Allison, who was on a drunken
for wniAi will pay good price.—F. R
was taken to the county jail and locked
toot, threatened bis wile, and being
Beall.
up. Moore ha. been fined before.
afraid
that
he
would
do
her
injury
and
;the habit of trading at Fatz-
The other, who were arreited for
receive a 5 per cent discount burn the house, Mrs. Allison swore out violating the local option law were
a complaint against against him. He
for cash.
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Frank Buttz, Ed. Johnson, J. P. Allen.
was locked up in the county jail, being
D- H. Ellison, Nick Job, T. Turney, and
Snndlake school will commence next
Ixiund over in the sum of $150 to keep
Torn Browu.
Monday, with Miss Emma dimonson as
the peace, which was furnished Wednes
The last arrest of the first batch of the
teacher.
day.
law breakers caused the moat surprise.
Why leave your horses in the rain
The
new
court
house
pre- This was Ex-Councilman W. 0 Chase,
when you can lie them in Harris' Tie
sented a deplorable condition on Thurs an independent candidate at the last
Shed for 10 cts.
day. The roof was leaking like a sieve, election for justice of the place. The
Don't forget to stop at Harris' Feed swamping the court room and the water
Sheriff had hooked him by the gills with
Barn, the cheapest plttc in the city to running throngli the floor and down the
several charges against him np his sleeve.
keep your team.
k
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walls to the offices below, almost He had been running a twenty one
"*Xnrite?l<JLui>ber Clyu.-I will pay drowning out the officials. Every rain
game, turning his residence into a gam
|li for Timber. Don't seTfftrtwut.¿ZSXand windstorm the roof appears to be bling Joint, where he took the young
ge 11 ing'i^> N», let ti n g MxBtore^w a ter.
seeing me. Ralph Acklev.
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fellows, but wasn't wise enough to see
w^ngene Huntsinger has qualified for
J. L. Art tell, the bank check forger, is that the sheriff was onto his little game.
rise marshal with “Billy" Stephens and making a record for himself, for Satur This is not the first gambling that
day last he attempted tocoinmit suicide, Chase has run, for having lost money
bsanj. P. Sl|arp as his bondsmen.
Put \tf members of the G.A.R. are request- but there are those who believe it was a at the gambling tables, to get Ilia money
r *•! to meet at Todd’s hall on Saturday. put up job on his part, with the idea of back he started a game himself. Chase
the officials
by
surprise, tells this himself. When the sheriff went
an. 5, for •perial business.—C. N. Drew. taking
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and in that way obtain his freedom. The into Fred Forslund's place to arrest
oflhidjutant.
sheriff and his deputy are taking no Chase, be jokingly said that he hadn't
C,W Fred Lange caite down from Nehalem
rjLn Tuesday and is wanting the court to chances, and have caught on to^Arstell. done anything, but when the sheriff
On Saturday while Sheriff Crenshaw and told him be had a warrant, anyway,
give him a road out of bis place to the
Deputy Sheriff Holden were at work iu for his arrest, it was no joking matter.
c*inty road.
their office they heard a racket io the
Sheriff Crenshaw turned the gambling
The steamer Sue H. Elmore came in on jatl, aud open making an investigation caaes over to the rity and as Recorder
Tuesday, her passengers being Mr. Crane they found A rstcll lying on the floor of Holden was n witness in the caaes. they
and w ife. August Kinger, Mrs. M. L. Col the cell apparently unconscious. He had had to conic before Mayor 11. T. Botts,
lins and Mr. Eby.
torn up his towel and blanket, and while the whisky cast-* went before
There will be a union temperancejnte«- tied the latter to tlie cage of the cell and |nstice A. T. White.
ing at the U.B. church on StfniTav even making a noose of the towel part of the
After the arrest of Get. R Edmands.
ing, the sermon to be preached h]
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>y^A>e
' rape, placed his bend in it and then Howard Edmunds, M. F. Leach and
Av Xi imped off a chair. The blanket broke, Tom lohnaon. a preliminary hearing
-N.J. Crawford.
nt onfand <J»e" Arstellfrll it caused the racket. was held in their case late at night on
R. ¡bhnson and family came tn n
SlwriffN^enshaw losened the towel that
rday for a few weeks visit from was drawheightly around Arstell's neck. Wednesday. They claimed lhav were not
kee, Cal., where be is employed in 1 and it was At long after that he was gambling. After Sheriff Crenshaw had
' on his fret and moving about his cell, made the raid he gathered up the chips
ruckce saw mill.
none the worse for what occurred. It is ami
gambling paraphernalia
and
Akin and wiod storm on Wednesday ' evident that Amtell witends playing the ,
took them to the cossn house. Another
developed into a hummer liefors ’ insane dodge in an effort to he sent to .
thing connected with the gambling
ng. doing some damage and fiud- ! the asylum instead of to tbe peoilen-1
room, the sheriff lovud liquor there also.
1 tiary.
m.tny defects in houses
To Shat Oat from Tillamook the
Astoria & Columbia River Line.
The Pacific Railway & Navigation
Company, plaintiff, vs.Astoria & Colum
bia River Railroad Co., defendants, is a
suit filed in the circuit court in which the
Pacific Railway prays that at the filing
of its bill, included in the complaint, an
injunction may issue out of the circuit
court enjoining the Astoria road from
obstructing the Pacific Railway in the
construction of its road, or from inter
fering with it in securing by purchase or
condemnation, the right of wav. being a
strip 100 feet wide ; and likewise en
joining defendant from bringing and
from prosecuting and Maintaining any
action or action» for the purpose of con
demning any portion of the right of way
or of acquiring the same for railroad
purposes, and upon final hearing that
the same mav be adjudged as against
the defendant to be the right of way of
the Pacific Railway ; that the plaintiff ’s
location thereof may lie adjudged to be
regular, prior and effectual, and that the
defendant may be perpetually enjoined
from acquiring or attempting to acquire
any portion thereof by purchase, con
demnation or otherwise, and from in
terfering with the plaintiff in the con
struction of its railway line thereover,
and the maintenance and operation of
the same.
DEPARTMENT store
Hlim
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with a
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free f
n- Th.
Editorial Snap Shots.
and a lot more coming os the boat.'' The
sheriff, it is needless to say, arrested the
It was the unlucky num'ier, 13, to ar bottle of whiskey tor a witness. It would
rest, anyway.
not surprise us much to hear the sheriff
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From rU appearance, J. L. Arstell. was up a telephone pole getting evidence.
the bank check forger, is a bad egg.
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What with so much extra work on
Are you going to be caught in Sheriff
hand and so much Christmas truck to.
Crenshaw's n;uck rake the next few
take on board at this season cc*."
weeks ?
we have no time nor inclination to taltf
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Round up No. 1. Go it. Sheriff Cren a simp shot at the roasting we received
shaw, vou i.ave the rcS|iectable, law- by Rcllic a leg pullers. If Rollie will trot
the discredited, despised persons who ure
abiding citizens at your back.
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using him and writing for him out into
Persons who have been gambling at the open, and not allow them to shoe t
the White Corner the past month or •o from ambush like cowardly curs, the
ought to be on the anxious scat.
snap shot man will have no objection to
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measuring swords with them. It seems
Cut it out, boys. This booze selling
to be known who the parties are, and
and gambling. It is unlawful and pub the more roasting we get from that
lic sentiment is opposed to it.
quarter better we like it aud more busi
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It is reported that a newly elected city ness we seem to get.
official carried a bottle and glass in his
pocket and sold whiskey id that way.
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Sheriff Crenshaw, in the raids, forgot
to gather up the “blind pigs" as Well,
but now he's got them squealing pretty
badly.
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Tillamook has waged war on |apan
and captured the first prisoner.
The
little brown men ure no match for Tills-
mookers.
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There is another business men in this
city who ought to have been in Sheriff
Crenshaw's muck rake for selling whis
key, but wasn't.
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Sheriff Crenshaw carried out his elec.
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tion promise when he rounded up the
law breakers and milled the gambling
joints He is the first sheriff who had
the, sand so do this.
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New year's resolution by the snap shot
man : Boom Tillamook with a view to
opening up this rich and undeveloped
county, indu ing new settlers and new
enterpiises to locate here.
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So we've got a Tom Word for sheriff
in Tillamook—a sheriff who is not afraid
to do his duty. Now breath easy, for
SheriffCrenshaw is going to make as
good a record as did Word.
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It ought to be n good lesson, if you
don't want to lie pounced upon and run
in for gambling don’t frequent gambling
joints anil get lieliind closed doors where
only the initiated are allowed.
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Some people think that as soon as a
railroad makes its advent, there will be
nothing for the •teamer to do. That is
a wrong idea, We think there will be
A® Others See Vi-
more than double the amount of business
TO THE EDITOR TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT.
and it will require a number of steamers
D ear S ir .—I am afraid you people in
to handle it.
Tillamook county are making h serious i
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mistake in keeping up that mediva-al j
There is no better county in Oregon
institution, the toll roud. That is. if you 1
! for home seekers and industrial enter
want the efforts you are making to
prise than Tillamook. Tne county lias
settle your county to be successful. I
the resources, varied and extensive with
am the more convinced of thi* from |
which to iiiak^Mfioii lands of citizens rich
some correspondence I have had with
and prosperous.
a party of old friends and acquaintance
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in Kansas who ate looking for a gcod !
Twenty cows and about forty acre* of
dairy location. I, ot course, told them ,
land in Tillani-iik brings a dairyman a
of the advantages of Tillamook county!
in the cheese and butter fine, butfwlien | good and independent living, for it is no
1 uncouiinoii thing to make $70.00 net on i
I mentioned the fact jtliat l..<=
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thorouglifaie from the Sbulliern part of
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I men don't have to buy mill feed, to say
the county is a “ toll road, tliey flgura 1
| nothing of th» numerous other Item*
lively speaking, threw up tlieir hands in 1
obtained from.thing grrwn on the farm.
horror, aud declared they wouldn't he
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shut in behind a toll gate for any con
sideration ! To the inliabitants of a * If the federal authorities would Visit
Mate like Kansas where every sectioi Tillamook they could round up quite a
line is a free county road, the taking of big squad of culprits and take them out
toils on travel serins as bad as those I to Portl<",d forselling whiskey without
local taxes on traffic that foreigners so a government license. Why not ? The
object to in China. Why, it is over 30 j government officials onght to do their
years ago that the Sc. toll on the bridge | duty just as well as the local authorities.
over the Kaw, at Topeka, was abolished! Now let us see whether they will do it.
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And they . tell uie that the county '
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get pessimistic about the rail
board has actually put thff toll at twice
wbyt it «ras in th« " good old limes ";| rovT situation. It is coming anyway,
whifi* it is cooqilained that the road is , *° *
•• the use of fretting for fear it
What is W|11
’ All it wants now la 1
not nearly so well kept Up.
done with the money received for tin- 'for those who haven't done anything
but talk to put their »boulders to the
lee.se of the road '!
It is of liule
•h Ciaba, Ac , wheel and help the committee out. for ;
to try a
■xinly while the : everybody ought to be 10 tbe railroad
powers t
> Immigration ; band wagon.
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^yrgo on
by pract
Sheriff Crenshaw was on lop of a 1
travel.
pile the other night getting con
mend yoi
t evidence, when he heard a “blind .
flgurali
ran say. after he had. sold a bottle
ST*'%''l'vc got a lot of whiskey in 1
'oville, a ,
l"ee Bur
'inovi, uiy
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At thia, the commencement of another
year, there is every indication that Till
amook County, will make a decided
move in its long desired development,
and with its ruth Undeveloped resources
and possibilities, the out look is decidedly
cheering to those who have long desired
to see this bottled up county opened up.
It may vet take some united effort and
a little more Western pluck and deter
mination. but the powers that liaye
stopped all progress cannot do so much
longer, for Tillamook is going to bt-come
it great lumbering and manufacturing
center and the time is now ripe to make
a move in that direction. Watch Tilla
mook grow from a population of 4500
persons to double that number in a year
or so.
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We have lieen asked to suppress ionie
of the nami-s of the parlies who were ar
rested ort Thursday. We cannot to this,
although we take no pleasure in publish
ing that class of news, even though the
Headlight for a numlier of years waged
war on the lawless class who brought
Tillamook City into disgrace and disre
pute by those who traded here. We are
running a newspaper and Cannot dis
criminate when arrests of that character
are made. To do so would be to offend
onr constitutents and to lose their con
fidence. This we will not do for anyone,
espei-iallv i.i a fight where the lawless
class of this city are arrayed agnii-*-'
law, decency, order and til
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law-abioing citizens. _
law-abiding
Men
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. !• country are
th^
comply with the laws ol ll._. ■ re.
not good citizens, and it n>
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who are filling our jails and pc
tiaries. Thia is no new fight for the e
(orcement of the law in Tillamook, n<
ther do we expect it to be the last,
the good, law-abiding citizens ar. ft'
ting lined up more solidly, nr.d not
giving the official, their moral au|
demand that they ferret out and
the law breakers, and as far i
• Press t/i
of iiicfviiuniy
the «county is concern?!..
Headlight wifi stand by county and ciTf*.<
official.—no matter what may lie the -
color ot their political coat—if they have
the moral courage to do their .worn
duty. Sheriff Crenshaw is doing this
and is descrying ■ word of praise from
the law-abiding citizen, of the county
and from the Pre., a. well.
Needs Another Rounding Up.
C loverdale , Or., Dee. 31.—South
ern Tillamook seems to be the sporty
end of this county, at least for the pre
sent. "Kid'' Erwin is in town this week
and is staving at the Hotel Clovrrdale,
in company with "Kid" Davis, of Seat,
tie, Wash , who claims to be the champ,
ion lightweight wresllrr of that state.
Billie Bowers, or as he is better known.
''Voong Sharkey"/>f Deaver, Colo., is
also here. Bowers is no stranger in this
part ol the country, as he fished with
the bora this year on the Nestucca Bay
for tbe cannery. A fight is os between
Kid Darts and Billy Bowers, which
will come off at this place in the near
future. It is to he a 20-round fight lor
decision. Much interest is shown by
the people here io the proposed battle,
as it is something new for this coauty.
A large delegation of sports from Tilla.
mook City intend to be present. The
date has not yet been announced, but
Kid Erwin
it will.be Rome time
during the
week in January —
Telegram.
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