TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JANUARY 23^1£0g. Advertising Rates L koai . A dvk R tismbmts : First Insertion, per line........... I 10 5 Each subsequent insertion, line.... Business and protee»ioiial cards, 1 mouth ................................... i 00 Homestead Notices........................ & 00 Timber Claims............................... 10 OO 5 Locals, per line each insertion ... Display advertisement, an inch. 50 1 month ................................... All Resolutions of Condolence aud Lodge Notices. 5c. per line. Cards of Thanks, 5c. per line. Notices. Lost, Strayed or Stolen, etc., minimum rate, 25c. not exceedii g live lines. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. .STRICTLY IN ADVANCM.) One year........................................... 1 1.50 75 , Six months....................................... 50 Three months................................... , íbt ^iliainook Fred « 1 tjcabligbt Baker. Publisher. The PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. French System Beit in the World. It is a curious fact that Napoleon laid the foundations in France of the institu­ tion that for the past fifteen years has saved France from industrial decadence, and that is to day of more interest in the United Stat»-« than perhaps any other French institution. This is the system of national loads, which Napoleon founded, which is the most perfect in the world, which made France the headquai ters of the automobile industry of the world, which keeps tens of thousands of rich foreigners in France at all times to enjoy the pleasures of touring, and which is the model on which the roads of the United States can be developed and perfected. Compared with the Ohl World, in ho other phase is America so crude as in its country roads. Recently some investi Rations have been made of the French road laws and system on behalf of the Riviera of America—Southern Cali­ fornia—ans, it presently will be dis­ covered by Californians that their con­ cession to the automobilist was of vastly greater value in its effect on internal industry. Good roads are among the asssets of any community, and the American state which first secures them in a systematic way will derive benefits which it will never fully appreciate. The Los Angeles Highway Commis. sion recently addressed inquiries to American Consul Skinner at Marseilles, asking him about Hie laws and engineer­ ing investigated and has just published a most interesting explanation of the subject. TT AX. The Best Hotel vexed at the bottom, so that the hard surfacing materials shall be of the same thickness throughout and give a surface of exactly the right curvature. This > curvature is from one fiftieth to one- forteith of the width. When the "box” ( has been carefully prepared the bottom and sides arc vigorously "tamped” to i assure that they will lx b.'ird enough to I hold the solid materials firmly. Then it is ready for the crushed stone, etc., to be | put in. THE ALLEN HOUSE, T. BOTTS, A ttorney - at - l 41 Complete set,of Abstract L J p. flbUEN. Proprietor. in office. Taxes paid { Headquarters for Travelling Men. Residents. qnecial Attention paid to 1 ounsts. ” Comfortable Beds and Accommodation A First Class Table. Roads Carefully Constructed. A. K- CASE, Every bit of crushed stone must pass through a 2*^ inch screen. Eight inches pgOPRUiTOg of this crashed material is deposited in | 4 the box, and then it is rolled with a six j 4 ton roller. While the rolling is going on large amounts of water are constantly' sprinkled on the surface. At the same time a mixture of sandy and argilla- < Boiler Work, Logger’s Work and Heavy Forging. ceous materials, equal in volume to 10 j percent of the aruouut of crushed stone Fine Machine Work a Specially. used, is sprinkled slowly on the surface, along with the water, and very evenly, and the whole is rolled down until the tire of a loaded wagon will make no track. Then the road is finished, save for the requirements that it must season for fifteen days before being opened for travel. This is a description of a crush­ ed stone surface. Where other materials must be used they are provided for in the French scheme—burned clay, gravel, etc. There is a plan for every material aud every region. When the road is built the cantonniere tramps up and down it and keeps it in repair, fills ruts with broken stone, clears the ditches, etc, Above the can­ tonniere is a for man, in charge of a larg er section : above him an engineering superintendent, and sc on up to the in­ spector general of highways and bridges, who is head of the whole system for the country. Every man in the list receives specific orders from his next superior and is ranked according to his execution of them. Besides the 24,000 miles of national roads, France has 316,000 miles of lo­ cal highways, not so good, but yet so good that people from all the rest of the world wonder at their loveliness. These are under the local administration, but the state retains a supervisory relation. Opposite the Post Offiee The state also contributes about 25 per cent of the cost of the local highways. They have no broad-tire laws in France, but that happens because the people use broad tires by instinct. They Rates, $1 Per have sense euough to know that good, Centrally Lioeated wide tires make the roads better instead of worse. Nobody else except the French seem to have learned this. Everywhere else, but especially in America, people M- H. URHSEfl, Proprietor. always protest violently against this one simple expedient that would do more fur roads of the sort made in this The Best Hotel in the city, No Chinese Employed. country than anything else. 4 4 4 Office opposite Post Ofitt Both phones. I W.H COOPER, A ttorney - at -L aw Tillamook Iron Works T illamook , O»£ta General Machinists & Blacksmiths. TILLAMOOK, OREGON. CZ/A rl I Statisticians of the future will,have trouble with 1907 when they »trike the fact that it was the year of the greater t production and of a panic. * * * F In the latest report of the Board of Consulting Engineers the estimated cost of the completed Panama Canal is $200- 000,000. If the total can be kept as near as this to the original calculation the people of the United States will be well satisfied. * * * Gov. Willson tells Kentucky that a la wless community will ruin itself unless it changes its course. So many Ken­ tuckians take the same view that the vigorous measures to enforce the laws will be backed up by the people of the state, regardless of party. * * * Whh a view to encouraging officials and workmen on the Imperial German Railways, the government has establish, ed a fund from which awards are made to men who invent any appliance which Railroads Halted Road Building. Lack in the first generation of this may be useful in railway practice; $3750 republic the right start was made in was paid to employes last year from the the matter of roads, when the national fund. highway from the Atlantic Coast to the * n * Police Commiationer Bingham in his Ohio was started as a national improve­ annual report has startled New Vork bv ment That was before railroads and ihe bold assertion that the city 1 is in before even the canals had become a the hands of criminals" and that many great factor. It w’as an enterprise of of the magistrates and higher judges the nation. About the same time are in league with politicians to protect Napoleon stalled the system of national certain offenders know to the system. roads in France, His plan was almost day He asks how is it possible for the police the same us in the United .States, but to be free from political influence when there was a difference. When the rail the whole election machinery is placed roads came along the United States in­ in their hands. Lawbreaking, lie)con­ stantly dropped all thought of national tinues, is the easiest business now con­ roads, while France went right ahead ducted in New York. with them, As a result the French * a * national road system of 23.00J miles Mr. Bryan declares that the report of represents an investment of almost estrangement between his daughter, $15 000 a mile, while roads constructed Mrs. Leavitt, and her husband has "abso­ by local administrations, supplemental In a notable article in a recent issue ol lutely no foundation ; none whatever.’’ to these, have cost still more. France The country will be pleased to rend this has the finest roads in the world, both the Youth's Companion, Grover Cleve­ authoritative denial of an unpleasant in physical form and relation to the land, theonlv living ex president of the story. Whatever may be said of Mr. national geography. The French Nation United States, makes the contention that Bryan as a political leader, he is in pri- has spent more than 1100,000,000 on the nation should grant to every man vote life a man above rebroach, and no them, to more than $200,000,000 spent who has served in the office of chief ex­ one can wish on any account to see the by the local departments. ecutive a financial competence for life. felicity ot his domestic relations iu any Down at I lie .bottom of the French He explains that he is not moved by way disturbed road system,is the bumble cantonniere or personal reason.«, as he is financially in. * ♦ * dependent and will leave his fa nilv well One of the;tirst bills which where in­ road foreman, who lias charge of one to provided for. His argument is to the troduced in the Mississippi Legislature three miles of load. He is to the roads effect that the nation exacts from its at its opening a few days ago was to w hat the “ section boss" is to a railroad's Next Door to Tillamook County Bank. ex-presidents a dignity and aloofness enact state prohibition An Noel, the organization, Up at the tup is the School from the usual occupation ol life that re­ of Loads and Bridges, u great technical the new governor, is an ardent teetotaler strain them from engaging in money there is a strong probability that pro­ college in which engineering, construe, making pursuits ; therefore, he thinks tion and every detail of road building hibition will paM. lie is to use his in­ Between these two ex­ provision should be made for them out fluence ill favor of it, and a large num­ aie taught. of the public treasury. As illustrating tier ol the numb«« of each branch ot the tremes the government controls, mana his point, he refers to the extremities to gea, regulates everything. There is a legislature are believed to want it. The which some ex presidents have been re­ Prohibitionists have just held a mass system of reqionsible supervision as duced, citing particularly the case ol meeting in Mississippi's capitol, and thev complete as that of the Standard Oil Jefferson, who was brought almost to intend to bring pressure to bear on the Company over all the ramifications of its dire want in his old age. business. A record is kept of every bit lawmakers to pass an act at the earliest * * * of 'road in the country, what it cost, possible day. Another trial for the murder of Goebel who built it and how, the expenses for * * W Viscount Aoki, the retiring Japanese maintenance and rebuilding—everything has been held in Kentucky without ar­ ambassador, in an interview at San in its history is carefully recorded. riving at the identity ol the man who Franciaco, declared in positive terms France's highway system is card-in­ fired the fatal shot. It is a deplorable that theie could be no such thing at dexed like the list of patrons of a mail­ fact that the assassin was not singled out long ago and punished according to present a« war between this country and order house. his crime. But the reasons for the failure Japan. He said the questions at issue Englishman Dea gned Scheme « are clear. The authotities charged with were nut such as would cause w ar and France docs not have the best roads the prosecution have played politics •7] that all the high officials of lapau were because it has special skill in making convinced of the good laith and friendship them. An English engineer designed the throughout, and not sought the ends ol of this country, and that wild talk of a scheme No inure so because it has cs- justice. They started out with theories war that would occur before the fleet pecially large or unusually excellent sup­ invented for partisan advantage and 126 Fifth Street, Portland. reached the Pacific Coast, and of the plies <»f matetials. The same materials have steadily followed that course Their contemplated seirure of Hawaii by can lie found all over the United States. purpose has been to benefit themselves, Keference, Tillamook County Bank. Japan as a base of operation wasen French roads are perfect because the road not to avenge the deed of blood along the litely without foundation iiud dur to la"# are near perfection, because the lines of direct testimony. It was assum. the warm imaginations of jingoes who road business is a profession and not a ed that the republicans elected to state would like to plunge the nation into “job,’* and l>ecause the men who make offices, and duly installed therein, had war. In regard to immigration Aoki themselves proficient are certain of special conspired to kill Goebel. Therefore, they must be driveu from office and put on said that all the diplomatic part ol this recognition. trial for their lives before partisan juries. question had been settled and that it te But about the physical construction maioed for Japan to devise means ot of a French load. To begin with, French A legislative reward of $100,000 was carrying out her agreement to limit ini experience proves that the deep, solid offered to ruu down the alleged murdei- migration to this country. His mission, foundations and fine surfaces are not ous conspirators, and has been spent lie said, was to talk to the Japanese and so important as something else common­ without even revelling the assassin who to explain to the people first how good ! ly over looked—drainage. It is n pri handled the gun. The excessive reward was intended to be scattered with parti­ a friend they had in this country marv and ironclad principle of French san intent, and there is nothing else to roadmaking that the roadway must re- show for the money. Lame Shoulder Cured ctive no more than its own natural rain, Lame shoulder m usually caused by fall. Every thing else must give way to rheumatism of the mux l-w and quickly this. The Pure Food Law. yields to a few applications Cham 8ecrHMry Wilton ttys, ‘ One ot tl.e ob- A standard French national road is berlatns Pain Halm Mu F H. Me- Klwee. of Hoiotown. New Brunsw ick, 46 feet wide. In the middle is the road jecte of the la* it to inform the consumer writes " Having l