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» T1LLAMÖOK HEADLIGHT, DECEMBER 2, 1909- Advertising Rates of w, not i win, th« a by th trace tbff J» mooli guarii moot •ak*. raw o after Gansl The Argo Disaster. I Familiarity with its dangers, ; » « * which are ever present, breeds con When the near beer joints close ■ Each sulMeguent insertion, line.... up their establishments for the pur tempt for the ocean on the part of Business and prole—m.iul earn«, 1 month .......................................... I pose of controling a city caucus, it Featuring men. Something of this 5 Hoaieateud Notices .......................... is time that the respectable business nature was largely responsible for Timber Claims .................................... 1 10 men and law abiding citizen woke the Argo disaster, which cost four Locals per line each insertion.. .. up and took notice. The next few lives and placed a score of others in Display •'iveiciM'iuent, an inch. 1 month .......................................... years will prove whether Tillamook jeopardy. The mariner who is do AH Kewilutions of Condolence City is to remain the metropolis of ing his best in a hard struggle with Led us Notices. 5c. per line, the county, and for that reason we a death-dealing November gale, Garda of Thanka. 5c. jier line Notices. Lost, Strav«<1 or Stolen, etc.. think that it is highly important will probably question the right of minimum rate, 25c. uot exceedu g live that the best business men of the a landsman to criticise his conduct lines. city should take hold of and direct but for all that, the Argo tragedy city affairs in the interest of the seems to come under the head of RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION city. The city is badly in need of a "preventable” disasters. Like all .STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.) live business administration, for ¡early reports from such an exciting 1.50 I One year........................................... there are a great many improve ! scene as the last hours of a vessel, 75 Six months....... ................................ 50 i ments which should be taken in testimony in the Argo case is some- Three months................................... hand if the city expects to advance ‘ what conflicting, but it has been and improve. A business men’s ad- made reasonably clear that the ministration of city affairs would be steamer very heavily loaded, -.nd a splendid thing for the city. Try it perhaps overloaded, attempted to for the next few years. But, alas, it cross one of the worst bars on is more than probable that the law I coast at half-ebb tide. Editorial Snap Shots The Argo had left Astoria at abiding citizens will remain indiffer ent and allow the lawless element early hour in the morning and There should not lie any gambling to run the city, stop its development der favorable conditions should going on in this city, but reports and growth and bring the city into have reached Tillamook bar near are pretty current that it is going disrepute and disgrace. the top of high water. Encounter- on again, which induces us to ask : ' ing a southwest gale, her speed was * * » When will the city have a set of offi A shifting bar, caused by heavy retarded to such an extent that by cials who will put its foot down on storms and freshets the past few the time she had reached Tilla lawlessness and stop the bad repu- weeks, and the poor equipment at mook bar, it was more than three tation the city has fallen into ? the Garibaldi life saving station, hours past high water and the tide st * * were the two prime factors in the was rushing sea-ward like a mill Oh, no. It wasn’t the corpse in wreck of the steamer Argo and the race. With the end of an unpleas the cemetery that needed doctors to loss of life which followed on Fri ant voyage in eight just beyond the examine it. It is now in order for day last, yet the government officials bar, the incentive to avoid a twenty- the doctors to examine those who are so short sighted and penurious four-hour wait outside, or a return started the foolish agitation to ascer that the Coast Counties have to put to Astoria, was probably too great tain ,O what degree of insanity they up with a condition off affairs which to withstand, and Captain Snyder in. The Argo have attained. We were thunder should have been remedied. It is a started -------------- „ bumped hard struck on hearing of the nocturnal shame and a disgrace for govern- I on the bar, began leaking, and dis Even in outrage, for we had no idea there ment officials to make the asser abled one of her engines. were so many crazy individuals run tion that the present commerce of thia condition, had it been half ning round lose or without guar the port does not warrant the im flood instead of half-ebb tide, she provement of the channel, when, in could have limped or drifted into dians. * * * fact, the shifting of the bar and the safety inside the bar. The small It is aaid that the Negro cook on loss of the vessel proves that even power remaining after one of her the Argo confined himself in the with its present commerce the bar engines had been disabled, left the cabin all the time the passengers does need improving. Doubtless craft at the mercy of the tide, and and crew were working like Trojans Captain Snyder took the same chan she drifted back to destruction on to save the ship, and having suc nel on Friday which he has been the bar. ceeded in getting in the mate's boat coming in on since he commanded Aside from this error of judgment, he crouched down in the bottom of the Argo. The south channel was which led him to take a chance on the boat to go to sleep, while others not there on Friday, hence the acci a bad bar at half-ebb tide, the con in the boat took the oars and kept dent, for in making soundings as duct of Captain Snyder was highly the frail craft from running into she approached the bar, the depth commendable. That the loss of life ' danger. When the Negro managed of water went suddenly from 15 feet was no greater is probably due to I t > get to fera Anna, to hear him talk, to 8 feet, and aa low as 7 feet, when the skill and seamanship of the cap- I he was the only hero. That fellow’s the vessel «yas drawing over II feet. tain and Mate Johnson, who kept black hide needed a good kicking. As the channel is known to change well clear from the beach until they « « * every winter to the north as much were picked up. Some ugly rumors There appears to be genernl regret aa two miles in a heavy storm, there ■ are in circulation regarding the in the lose of the Argo that it de is no doubt that a similar change I condition of the lifeboat which cap- prives the city of one of the trans had taken place and there was no i sized and drowned three persona in portation companies, for the Argo south channel when the Argo came attempting a landing on the beach. was a real blessing to the port, and in. Another thing, the poor equip- j Thia matter certainly demands a it is hoped that another steamer ment at the life saving station was ' searching investigation. The mem will be found to take her place. The the cause of loss of life instead of bers of the lifesaving crews along commerce of the port and the grow the saving life. When the passen the coast are all skilled men of ex- ing importance of Tillamook City gers and crew on a sinking ship are i ' ceptional courage, and until the demand another steamer line. within sight of and only between I present rumors are dispelled by an And another steamar will soon be two and three miles off shore, and investigation, the public will incline forthcoming if the business men the saving station is impotent to to the belief that it was a faulty took more interest in city affairs in render assistance on account of a , boat which prevented the crew from its administration, development old, antiquated, and evidently a rot.! I landing _ the _ passengers on the and growth. ton boat, the officials who are re- beach, M » M sponsible for it are deserving of Sea tragedies of this 'natsre are The unfortunate accident which criminal prosecution for their negli- almost invariably accompanied by befel A. Folnnd in the Iona of a leg gence. The station needs a motor acts of heroism. In the case of the while voluntarily assisting to pre- life boat, and needs it bad, for no Argo, the conduct of Captain Tom vent a bridge from going out, calls matter how brave and heroic a life. Latham, of the gasoline boat Osh- for some kind of recognition. Folnnd saving crew may be, conditions kosh. is especially commendable, is a young man with a wife and arise in the vicinity of Tillamook By taking hie diminutive craft out family depending upon him. and is bar which rnnkea it impossible to over Tillamook bar at midnight, in now handicapped by the loan of a pull a life boat in the face of a fierce the face of a November gale, to leg. He wna performing a public southwest storm, with angry waves search for the missing men. Cap service without even a thought of and a strong current to contend tain Lathatn displayed a courage recompense, and in living maimed with. and daring such as from earliest for life it looks to us that the coun ages has robbed the sea of much ty court should appropriate a sum Notice. ' of its toll of human life. —Oregonian. of motley to assist him. Thia is a Notice is hereby given that the deserving cuae, and we think that Ill Health is More Expensive Than any Core the taxpayers would approve of it. County Court of Tillamook County, Oregon, will receive bids for the l This country is now filled with * • a Talk aliout country folk being construction of the third mile of the people who migrates across the in all directions seeking called ‘‘Green 1” They could have Netarts Road, according to the lo-1 continent that which gold cannot buy. Nine- seen u lot of “Green" city folk if eating survey, and said bids to be tenths of them are suffering from they had been in the city the other in accordance with the plans and throat and long trouble or chronic night, who were foolish enough to specifications now on file with the catarrh resulting from neglected colds, and spending fortunes vainly lielieve that a woman, who had been County Clerk. trying to regain lost health. Could A certified check equal to 3 per every sufferer but undo the past drowned and in the water six hours and had been dead four days, was cent of the amount of the bid must ànd cure that first neglected cold' actually alive in her grave in the accompany each bid us a guarantee all this sorrow, pain anxiety and could have been avoided. cemetery. The theory could be that the bidder will execute a bond expense Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is for the completion of the contract made to work out in a moving pic famous for its cures of colds, and ture ahow, but the foolish escapade if awarded the same. can always be depended upon. Use All bids must be filed in the office it and the more serious diseases the other night reached the climax be uvoided. For sale by for senseless. The country- folk of the County Clerk of Tillamook may Lamar's Drug Store. have the laugh now on the city folk County, on or before 9 o'clock a.m. Wednesday the fifth day of Jan For a Lame Back. for being green. When you have pains or lame uary, 1910. The County Court «re * a * ness in the back bathe the parts Moat all the newspapers in Ore serving the right to reject any and with Chamberlain's Liniment twice By order of the County a day, massaging with the palm of gon am Isioming the State and their all bids. J. C. H olden . the hand for five minutes at each respective cities and localities. The Court. application. Then dampen a piece County Clerk. Headlight would take considerable of flannel slightly with this liniment more pride in boosting and bootn- and bind it on over the seat of pain, More Danville Proof in<’ Tillamook City if it had a city and you may be surprised to see Jacob Schrall, 432 South St., Dan how quickly the lameness dis administration composed of lead ing business men who are deter ville, Ill., writes: " For over eight- appears. For sale by Lamar’s Drug 1 teen months I was a sufferer from Store. mined to run the city in the internet kidney and bladder trouble. During Notice of Change of Name. of the city. Tillamook City will the whole time was treated by never have the growth and develop several doctors and tried several N otice ta H ereby G iven ,— ment aa long as there is a lack of different kidney pills. Seven weeks That the undersigned has made ago I commence«! taking Foley’s application to the County Court of | civic pride and lawbreakers control Kidney Pills, iney Pilla, and am feeling better thf state of Oregon, for Tillamook j some of the city officials. I.et the every day and will ...ÎT be glad tel * Comity, f. 'Y ^’ to "1' I*- changing hie y. for a decree cnnnging his ( __________ ,___ ___ business men take hold of city anyone interested just what Foley's name from _____________ that of Harrv William I- ___ Angelo to that of Harry WiLiam affairs for the next few years and it Clougi ***"" <*’” ^OT ______ _* z_- , "Z __ i Scovell. and that said Court has ap | will not be long before conditions —tinted , Monday, — the 3rd day of! Foley’s Honev and Tar is ths beet ’ Jat___ _____ _ — _ „ will change for the better, with anuarv. 1910. at 10 o’clock a. m. of| much public improvement going on and safest cough remedy f^r ehil- «aid day at ths Court room thereof, dren. zwi At uir the nr»i Brat vympton»« symptom« oi of • a ae the time am i.c<. for heart-- and i p place nearing ! and a wholesome respect for law urvn. would soon follow. The Headlight cold, fftvs as directed, and ward off objection« to said application, and danger of croup. bronchitis, aore ,n persona interested therein are is no advocate of radical reform, tint I throat cold in the head and stuffy hereby notified to be present in said ' thia is a reform upon conservative breathing. It brings comfort and Court at aaid time and place and . and .................... .. . - show cause, . if any. ones. Contain« Contains cause anr no -------- then and right lines. Try it for .„v the next I esse to the little A* nsm ■■san Aawl Awiara a »a there ahow a ■ s^ few rears, and let the buaineaa men ,*‘d------------- •**'•** J— v.. ,.h»r tr, *lwsya on hand and refuse changed as above mentioned. and citixena vie with each other to substitutes. -C. I. Clough. • H arry W illiam A noblo . L egal A d » ertwx > usts ; F uhs Inavtkili. per line................... f I give Tillamook City a good reputa tion. 10 s ( NEW HOME FURNISHING establishment The PACIFIC SALVAGE CO. Now open for Business in the Mason Buildinp.n 2nd Avenue East, carrying.a line of Parlor, Libras Dining Room, Bed Room and Kitchen Furnishings, Ictures, Stoves, Ranges, etc. N ote —We are ex]perienced auctioners and appraisers. Will buy you our sell you out. PAGE BROS., Proprieprs HEADQUARTERS IOR DAIRYMEN’ AND S SUPPLIES STEEL STOVESJ l RAIICES. XÜ of We carry a Large Stqk Hardware Tinware Glass I Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors.A/indow Sashes, 11 Fine Line of Choice GROCERIEJ Agents for the Great Westen Saw ALEX McNAIR CO The Most Reliable Merchants in Tillamook Ounty. Tillamook Lumber Manufacturing Conpy Manufacturers of H emlock LUMBER KILN DRY FLOORING, CEILING, RUSTIC 4ND FINISHED LUMBER. ALL KINDS OF MOULDINGS. We Make the Best CHEESE BOXES for Tillamook County’s Most Famous Cheese. The Best Equipped Saw Mill in the County. New Machinery, Experienced Workmen and First Class Lumber of the Best Quality. LET TIS FIGURE ON YOUR LUMBER BILL. for backache, rheumatism, kidney or bladder trouble Four. Ki^PUH p„.,yih. blood, rC3Wre Sold by Chas. I. Clough. 1A HEAD OF tf\ 4v Registered 40 HOUSTEiriS-FRlESIflHS, pounds of butter in 7 days. These cattle are from the bXt working herds m New York «nd will be sold at prices tU any farmer can afford to buy. Come and see thei or write fin description and prices of what you want. FRYAR & COMPANY, Sumner, Wash Diarrhoea When you want a quick cure wit hoe* •ny loss of time, and one that is followed by no bad results, use Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy It never fails and is pleasant to tato It is equally valuable for children, n ■ famous for its cures over a large part ■ tv- civilised world.
