TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 24, 1907
PRAISES NEHALEM VALLEY.
Editorial Snap Shots.
Someone ought to be dubbed “Scare
Crow«’’ for calling one CMC of diphthriia
in the county an epidemic.
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This it to the «acred memory of a dear
old friend, the honking machine: Honk!
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Hon----- ! Ho------ !
H------ !
M * M
The snap shot man returned to bis
sanctum sanctorum and this little king-
don of Tillamook on Monday, after visit-
ing the “outside world’’ for t wo weeks.
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It speaks well for the Tillamook High
School that the graduates who have
entered the State University from this
county did not have to take any prepa-
ratory work.
WWW
To our way of thinking it looks alto
gether out of place for Senator Bourne
to offer a cash prize of $1000 for the best
third term argument. Other than a little
public notoriety, nothing will be gained
by it.
* * *
Republican prosperity is in evidence all
over Oregon, and now is the time to put
away a little money to tide over deino
cratic hard times should the unterrified
succeed in bringing wages and butter fat
down to bed rock again.
WWW
This office is in receipt of six boxes of
Copenhagen snuff, but the snap shot
man has enough bad habits without
making his nasal organ a receptacle for
ashes, even if he does sometimes make
his mouth a chimney pot.
WWW
Don’t be a “knocker” if water comes
high and runs the city headlong into
debt, for this month $687.50 was taken
out of the city treasury to help out the
city water system. Who said that the
profits from the system would run the
city government and reduce insurance ?
WWW
When people have confidence in places
with one-fourth the resources and the
possibilities of Tillamook, the people of
this county ought to rejoice that they
hive settled here, for this county will
soon emerge from its long isolation.
Then watch her grow and develop.
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It is two bits for a shave in Tillamook
City and 15c. and 10c. in most other
parts of the state. And, no doubt, some
of the barbers in this city will be voting
for democratic hard time wages at the
next election. Then the snap shot man
will have an opportunity to twit them.
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Who said that local option was going
to kill Eugene ? We didn’t run across
the ghost; but, gee, wiz ! We did run
across a must lively corpse instead. It
wouldn’t be out of place for the Eugene
newspapers to interview the cioakers
who said that local option was going to
kill Eugene, for sure enough it is a live
business town.
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It appears to us that this is the pro
per time, before Tillamook City grants
any more franchises,Hist the city should
receive some revenue or concessions
from them. For instance, the telephone
conipanv is using the public streets and
should pay something into the citv trea
sury. And. we understand, several ap
plications for electric light franchises will
be made to the city council,which should
not be granted unless the city can de
rive aotne revenue from them. By doing
so it would help relieve the citizens from
the burden of taxation.
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It is remarkably strange that so many
men who have gone into thelumber busi
ness in this county have done well for a
while and then tuet with financial losses.
The wreck of the Antelope and the loss
ol the cargo of lumber belonging to C.
H. Wheeler and the destruction of the
Tillamook Lumbering Company's saw
mill l>y lite are hard luck events to be
added to the list ol those who have en.
gaged in the lumbering business in this
county. It is to be hoped that the future
will be brighter for the lumbermen here,
and instead of meeting with so many
losses, they will meet with better
luck.
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It seems to us that it is a foolish thing
to make mountains out of a single case
of diththeria. searing people to such an
extent with scare heads that they are
frightened to come to this city to trade
Had there been a number of cases and
had the disease been on the increase, it
wonld have been different. The fatal
case of diphtheria was outside of the
city limits, and although it is wise to
take every precaution to prevent it
spreading, we do not see any reason to
cause unnecessary alarm and puldish to
the world that Tillamook is afflicted
with a diththeria epidemic because one
case developed and proved fatal in the
county. The Headlight is more alarmed
about the spread of disease from the
Slinking privys aud cesspools, for it is in
three filthy, noisome places w here disease
germs originate and bring sickness and
death to many homes.
for the journey, all wai quiet again and
nobody appearrd to be around. The
cluck told the pencil pusher what time it
was, and he, too, skidooed back to bed
again, resolved that he would keep mum
Next morning Johnny told his experience
at the breakfast table, and the snap shot
man also squealed on himself. A be
lated passenger had arrived at an early
hour to take the stage, which was the
cause of all the commotion.
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There is no reason to acme people tie
cause there was one case of diphtheria
in the county, and which lias been mag
nifled Io sucli an extent that people seem
to imagine that an epidemic is pre
vailing. One solitary case do not make
an epidemic, neither
will there l»e
one, fur immediate precaution« were
taken t J pierent this True, diphtheria
is a most malignant disease and it is wise
to keep away, especially children, from
those who are suffering with it But
why make so much ado about this case
when we can recall numerous cases in
recent years, and where a number of
children were dow n with it, which did
not cause any commotion and the news
papers did nut go off half cocked and he
come “scare crows.” All that is neces
sary is to use a little discretion an I good
horse sense ami no one need get
scared or become alarmed, for every
once in a while diphtheria will make its
appearance.
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The classic city of Eugene is by far the
best city in the state south of Portland,
for there is not a town along the Will
amette valley with as much push, enter
prise and enthusiasm in the city’s pro
gress as can be seen in Eugene. It even
surprises Oregon mossbacks to see how
this and other live towns are growing.
We must congratulate Eugene with its
electric cars, paved streets, cement side
walks, cement curbing, park like appear
ance and pretty cottages, to sav nothing
of the high school, public library, com
mercial club, hospitals and state univer
sity. With a continuance of public im
provements for another few years, we
predict that Eugene will become ane of
the busiest cities in Oregon. A great
many small towns in the state could be
made as attractive and pretty as Eugene
if the business men and citizens would
get out of the old rut9 and show’ a dis-
position for public improvements. This
19 what Eugene has done, and it is quite
pleasing to see what a transformation
is taking place in that city bv way of
public improvements and in beautifying
the city. We would like to see a spirit of
public improvement started in Tillamook
City, and with united effort this citv
could be made to rank with the prettiest
and the busiest in Oregon.
Jury List for November Term.
The venire for the November terra of
the Circuit Court « as drawn on Wed
nesday. which will convene in this city
on Monday, November 11th, with Judge
G. II. Burnett on the bench. There will
be a long docket. The jury list is com
posed of:
Arthur Hunt, Tillamook, farmer.
E. K. Scovell. Nehalem, farmer.
Harry Sweeney, Nehalem, farmer.
R. A. Crawford, Nehalem, farmer.
Jacob Pesterfleld, South Prairie,
farmer.
Floyd C. Smith, Garibaldi, farmer.
Andrew Anderson, Tillamook, farmer
lames Thompson, Nehalem, farmer.
F. M. Trout, Hoqnarton, farmer
Frank Berns. Hoquarton, farmer.
Frank Worthington, Hebo, farmer.
Wm. Fitzpatrick. Beaver, farmer.
G. W. Wallace. Beaver, farmer.
M. B. Petteya, Bay. farmer.
Dee Tomlinson, Tillamook, farmer.
W. N. Reddawav. Nehalem, farmer.
O. P. Mattoon, Hebo, farmer.
Jos. Dürrer, Hoquarton, farmer.
Alfred Carlson. Fairview, farmer.
Frank Tone, Tillamook, farmer.
W. J. Plank, Hoquarton. farmer.
Frank Bester, Fairview, farmer.
Morrison Mills, Fairview, farmer.
C. C. Jensen, llebo, farmer.
Chas. McKillip, b airview, farmer.
Geo. Watt, Bay. farmer.
Tracy R. Elliott, Bay. farmer.
Peter Nelson. Bay. farmer.
Casper Schis ppi. South Prairie, farmer.
M. C. Kellow. llebo. farmer.
Smith Elliott, Bay. farmer.
Dr. James Withycombe Telia of
Hie Visit to Section.
0 USIHESS COLLEG L
TENTH AND MORRISON STREETS, PORTLAND, OREGON
A. P ARMSTRONG. LL. B., PRINCIPAL
Educates for success in a short time and at small expense, and sends each stu
dent to a position as soon as competent. Quality is our motto, ami reputation or
thorough work brings us over 100 calls per month for office help. Individual in
struction insures rapid progress. We teach the loose leaf, the card index, t e
voucher and other modern methods of bookkeeping. Chartier is our shorthand,
easy, rapid, legible. Beautiful catalogue, business forms and penmanship free—
'“rite today. References: any merchant, any bank, any newspaper in Portland-
Assessment of Tillamook County.
Assessor A. M. Hare has completed
the assessment of Tillamook County for
the vear 1907, which figures up to over
eight millions, nearly two millions more
than last year, and five millions more
than two years agu. ’! he exact figures
being : For this *ear. $8,186.487 ; for
1906. $6.201.611 ; fur 1905. $2.961.856.
The assessor has raised the assessment
<»n timber each year. Quarter sections
were assessed at $690 when he first took
office, and he has raised the assessment
everv year since, the fir and spruce claims
being assessed this year for $2,400 and
hemlock claims for $1,500. Improved
farm lands and under cultivation are
assessed on an average of $62.37 per
acre; nontillable land, at $11.91 per
acre ; while cattle are assessed at $14.33
per head. The Tillamook County Bank
is assessed at $6,000 more than its capi
tal slock, and the First National Bank
escaped assessment this year for the
reason that it did not open up for busi
ness until after the 1st March, too late
to include it in this year’s assessment,
which will account somewhat lor the
smallness of the money assessed in the
county, and for the reason that people
who have a few hundred or a few thou
sand dollars on hand when the assessor
makes his annual rounds keep mum
about it. We are safe in saying that the
timber owners will pay from 65 to 79
per cent of taxes on the present assess
ment.
Acreage of tillable land. 12,224
acres...............................................$762,500
Acres of non tillable land, 537,•
558 acres................................. 6.401.155
Improvements on deeded land . 163,595
Town and citv lots ................. . 236,217
99,040
Improvements oil city lots ...
Improvements on land not
1,275
deeded...........................................
8,075
Telephone lines and toil roads
Steamboats and manufactur
78 505
ing machinery ........................
Merchandise and stock in trade 75,800
19.420
Farming implements .................
Money and notes ....................... 57,530
Household furniture ................. 38,320
Horses and mules............. 1,195 56.650
Cattle ................................ 9,326 133,555
Sheep and goats ............. 1.806
2,590
Hogs................... ’.............. 1,044' 3,385
Sawlogs, lumber and salmon ... 48.875
Gross value of alt property $8,186,487
Installation Service.
The installation of Rev. David Henry
Hare as pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of this city on Thursday evening
of last week was a very interesting ser
vice. The committee on installation ap
pointed by the Presbytery of Portland
were Rev. Henry Marcotte, pastor of
Westminster church. Rev. William H.
Foulkes, D.D , pastor of first church and
Rev. Harry H. Pratt, pastor of Forbes
church, all of Portland. Dr. foulkes
preached a forceful sermon on the mis
sion and commission of the church. He
took occasion to refer to his former asso
ciation with Mr. Hare in their college
days and also said that when he was
called from a church in the middle west
to the pastorate of the First Presbyter
ian church of Portland not the least of
the considerations was the fact that Mr.
Hare was already there as Assistant
Pastor.
In giving the charge to the pastor. Mr.
Pratt referred also to former years ol
friendship and said from pleasant ex
periences he knew the people of hi3 con
gregation were getting a good friend in
their new pastor.
Mr. Marcotte proposed the formal
questions which according to the gov
ernment of the Presbyterian church con
stitutes the pastorial relations. lit giv
ing the charge to the people he said he
had long wanted to visit Tillamook be
cause there were here friends ol his boy
hood day» ; it was a delight to him to
come at this time to help install a man
whom he had learned to love. He urg
ed the people to he loyal to the church
and to their pastor.
An especially pleasing feature cd the
meeting was the singing of the male
quartett made up of the visiting minis
ters and Mr. Hare. The committee left
on the stage early Friday morning so as
to be in their own pulpits on Sunday
They were very much pleased with tbeir
trip.
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City Council Meeting.
A meeting of the city council was held
on Monday evening, with Mayor H. T.
Botts and Councilmen W. C. King, A
T. White, M. Munsmn and J. P. Allei,
present. Councilman King moved that
Geo. F. Zimmerman, who was special
policeman and night watchman, be dis
missed, which carried. A resolution was
introduced to adopt a public library
also carried, Mayor Botts having to ap
point six persons to act as a library
commission, five persons being named ;
Pt of. W. R. Rutherford, Miss Lister, L
Hiner, Father Le Miller and Mrs. B. C
Lamb. Several matters pertaining to
street improvements came up and were
disposed of. The bills allowed at the
previous meeting of the council were :
Tillamook Lumber Co . lights ... $70 00
G. F. Zimmerman, marshal..........
King & Smith, globes.....................
King & Smith, nails and nowder
Tillamook Lumber Co., lumber...
Cohn A Sanders, lumber................
Wm. Kimball, work........................
E. A. Edwards, street com...........
M. M. Todhunter, hauling gravel
J. C Gove, hauling gravel ..........
jacob Schweitzer, hauling gravel
Wm. Jolly, work on streets ......
Pete Brown, for gravel.................
Tillamook City Water Works,
waler from Feb. to Oct , in
678.50
clusive
Notice of School Indemnity
Selection.
United States Land Office,
Portland, Ore., Oct. 15th, 1907.
Notice is hereby given that the State
of Oregon, on October 15th, 1907, ap
plied for the Se l4 of Se
of section 1.
township 2 north, range 10 west, and
filed in this office a list of school indem
nity selections in which it selected said
land ; and that said list is open to the
public for inspection.
Any and all persons claiming adversely
the above described land or any legal
subdivision thereof, orclaiming the same
under the mining laws, or desiring to
show said land to be more valuable for
mineral than for agricultural purposes,
or to object to said selection for anv
legal reason, should file their claims or
their affidavits of protest or contest ir.
this office on or before the 30th day of
November, 1907.
A lgernon S. D eesser . Register.
G eo . W. B i bee . Receiver.
I hereby designate the Tillamook Head,
light ns the newspaper in which the
above notice is to be published.
A lgernon S. D resser , Register.
Nobody will will have 0110 confidence
in a ’north pule expedition until Preei-
dent Roosevelt shall start one.
Irrigation has been set in motion
without mixing it with auy other sub
ject It is a good plan Io stick to tn
dealing with the lakes-to gulf deep
channel
Atrivala at Allen House
Friday —L. C. Fewman. Portlard:
J. H. McNamsr, Forest, Grove; J. C.
Creevy, Blaine.
Saturday.— C. I». Gahrielaon. Salem
Chaa. R Thompson, Portland; Jack
Kays, Salem.
Sunday.—E. W. Dingman, Portland;
L L. Skidmore. Seattle . R. M. Buttle,
Seattle; William Dieta. Seattle ; Fred H
Strong. Portland . Geo. Warren. Port
land, Wells Gilbert. Portland; L. Ossen
berg. Astoria, t'. L Houston. Astoria
Monday.— H L. Chapin, Portland ,
G. A. Jon«. Portland.
Tuesday—Geo. E. Fish. Portland
Chas. L. Lindsay. Portland; Geo. A
Peel. Portland; A. J. Kirkley. Portland ;
John E Rennington, Dallas; D. F.
Glover. Pintand; C. R Eaton. Van
This is a joke on the snap shot man couver, Wash, W. V. Sal Ion, Tacoma.
and Johnny (ones, the furniture man.
Both ivere guests at the Trask house on
Saturday night Both retired earlv with
the understanding that they would have
Good
like
to torn out before day light. After taking
their first naps there were rapping, at
for
the doors and with the usual bnstle pre
not trouble
vious to the departures of the stages.
Johnny was the first to complete his
of complaint,
toilet and emerge from his bed room,
is
only to make a bee line back again. Bv
the time that the snap shot man had
Your rrocer return« your money if you don't
Uke it: wn
him
got hn Sunday going duds on and fixed
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COFFEE
grocers
Schil
ling’s Best,
it makes
good-will and
;
in case
the
money ready.
.Opened up for Business.
SAPPINGTON & GO
A Full Line of Groceries,
Flour, Feed, Tinuuare,
and Crockery.
We CUant all Hinds of Produce
Call and See Us.
Olsen uviiivilijy
Bciildina , Tillamook
opposite th«
Hotel.
Dr. Jam« Withycombe, director of the
Oregon Experiment Station,nt Corvallis,
has last returned from a trip through
the Nehalem Valley, where be went with
E T Judd, William Schulinerich and
Frol. C. E. Btadley. assistant chemi it
al tin Oregon Experin.ent Station The
parlies held a series of farmers' institutes
throughout the Nehalem Country. Dr.
Withycombe was yerv favorably im
pressed with the development ot that
section, never having visited it before.
He said ;
“It ir simply astonishing to note the
agricultural development in such an iso-
lated district. One cannot bnt be pro
foundly impressed with the sturdy char
acter ol the men and women who went
nearly 40 years ago into the very heart
of the coast range of mountains, and
who have hewn out magnificent farms.
The valley soil is phenomenally rich and
is ideal dairy land. The farms extend
along the Nehalem River for nearly 50
mil«. A peculiar condition of the vallev
which impresses one strongly is the wall
of timber on either side.
"Dairying is the principal industry, but
they find that the mountain slopes are
not well adopted for grazing, but are
splended fruit lands, especially lor pro
ducing a very high grave of the North
ern Spy apple. The farmers are general
ly prosperous, judging from the many
splendid modern homes mid good barns.
Their greatest need is transportation.
' In addition to a large aiea of agricul
tural land,the forest wealth is simply itn.
incuse. It is not unusual to see trees
from 250 to 300 feet tall, and 175 feet
to the first branch. These trees will
yield 10,000 lei t of first class lumber.
Not a4ew, but hundreds ol thousands of
such trees stand in the Nehalem country.
•'On the farms, many forage plants
are grow n, such as clover, vetch, alfalfa,
corn, turnips and kale. All these crops
yield in great abundance. Root crops
of all descriptions do well and the po
tatoes not only grow to great size, but
nre of a very high quality. Ou the rich
bottom lands there is no difficulty in
producing from thirty to fifty tons of
kale per acre, thus conclusively demon
strating the adaptability of the whole
valley to dairying. At.present the cream
is gathered and shiptied to Portland.
This, in some instances, is hauled fifty
miles to a shipping point, but despite
the isolation the country is exceedingly
prosperous.
"One commendable feature of the im
provement of the valley is the splendid
roads that are living constructed. There
are few sections of the state that can
boast of helter graded roads than the
Nehalem Valley. The social conditions
there are also excellent. They have their
own telephone system and severalgrange
organizations. Tlie Grange of Natal sup
ports an exet Kent hnll and during the
institute the farmers made a very fine
display of the products of their section.''
Save Your
Money.....
Men Grow Rich by Sav
ing the Money they
Make.
Deposit your Money with
Tillamook
County Bank,
And it will be safe
and ready for you
when you need it. We
conduct our business
with the greatest care
and courtesy. We
carry fire, burglary
and hold up insur
ance.
offer you Secu
rity and Service.
IVe
Capital Stock, $30,000.00.
Total Resources over
$320,000.00.
everything
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Tile Home and the
What relation does theincre»
suicide bear to the increaie in i
infelicity ? It is inconceivable
child of anv home in wbicbnni
nant ol the family ideal surviia
destroy itself. And since luiciJi
the young is now reaching i
proportions unheard of and m
of before the da« n of this en
may fairly conclude that the I
a social and moral institute
greater danger now than ere
T his would be a fair concision
not fortified, as it is, by the ta
the divorce courts and by a mil
of sensational scandals. Wecov.
for our daily scandal with atari
as w e pray for our daily bread n
be giving us the daily scandal a
It ia true, as acme tortured pb
recently asserted, that we an |
more prosperity than is good lori
nothing but restless discontent r
out olmore means for serving bid
than we ever enjoyed before?
snake still in the garden of deltgk
are we yet in the midst of plretv
strained to eat of the forbidden In
Much of the speculation lostrit
causes of suicide among the n-
trivial, much of it irrelevant, n
wide of the mark. Colorediu|
overteaching, or the nervotis
modern city life, could not de
elasticity and exuberance of p
healthy and helpful eoviron«.
family life in which there are lox
bearnnee and sacrifice is indsps
to a child's happiness.
There is widespread and raw
comment as to cause of divorce,«
necessity of making divocce aoit
cult. Making marriages mon«
might be equally efficacious.
we are having a merry wm k
licensing officers ol the recordett
and a marriage broker with oSffl
neighborhood, and who has bm
the privilege of drumming !ot It
the recorders’ office doors. Tb
charges the officials with open
trust which has concerned thru
market. He fries out in a losd
a trust busting people for help
oppression. Without arguing tb<
of this case, its existence libs'
prevalent and growingevil,
has been degraded, despoiled of»
as well as of its solemnity.ssd •
gration, in conjunction with lb'
degrmtion of our courts mrin
divorce statutes, suggests * I
change in the formula.
go on as thev are now goisg **
well say, "Ur.til you change
as "Until death do you part? ™
year old girl who got her *
the other day might yet
wife and mother if she to»"
man swift enough to
lesson that love is a mutusl*"
fore she divorc« him —dob»
His Dear Old
" Mv dear old
eighty three years old. I
trie Bitters." writes W B
Dublin, Ga. " She has ,a‘' „#1
about two year« a"^ ’"■1'7 j-«
Af. W. HARRISON.
appetite feel. stro£
A
That', the way Electric £
Pres, and Cash.
the aged, and the
follow in Mil cases ot «»*•
and gen«ral debility
The surveyoss who are working no dren too. are
.JT/i <8
the Lytle road from Clatsop into the them. Guaranteed by vnre.
Nehalem, ere now working between druggist. 50c^^
How to Cur»a©*J
Astoria and Olney, and are making
great progress. They expect to com
The question
(Wt *
plete the line to Arioria In 10 days. The without unneceewryMm
survey will run along the river bank on in which we ere
the north side of Young's hay to a point «ted for the qua
rid of the lees I'*
near the A. & C. railroad bridge at and
other serleo» 3isenere
r
Smith • point. The profile sliows the lUllof
Hall, of W?wrjy._
Waverly. v
' »-;Â
'» J*wriH
heaviest grade over the divide between berlaiu'e
berlani's Cough ^2"’ J fl»»**1!
MTn "I firmly ^''¿Jstdy'iL
Astoria and the Nehalem valley to be 1.0
I Cough Remedy to be
for*^
per
cent
on
this
side
and
1.5
per
cent
on
’ —----- —
pvr vein on
® r-uion on the merset i“ ^
the south aide Rita is the beet grade found I K^Tr^oru mended it »
over the divide on the Lewis snd Clarks they all agree with m*-
Clough's Drug Store.
I river route.