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T1LLAMÖOK HEADLIGHT, DECEMBER 2, 1909-
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up their establishments for the pur tempt for the ocean on the part of
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pose of controling a city caucus, it Featuring men. Something of this
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is time that the respectable business nature was largely responsible for
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men and law abiding citizen woke the Argo disaster, which cost four
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up and took notice. The next few lives and placed a score of others in
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years will prove whether Tillamook jeopardy. The mariner who is do
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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
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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
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are a great many improve ! scene as the last hours of a vessel,
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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
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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
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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
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„ 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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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changing hie
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his (
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business men take hold of city anyone interested just what Foley's name
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that of Harrv William
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to that of
Harry
WiLiam
affairs for the next few years and it Clougi ***"" <*’” ^OT
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Scovell. and that said Court has ap |
will not be long before conditions
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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
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*lwsya on hand and refuse changed as above mentioned.
and citixena vie with each other to substitutes. -C. I. Clough.
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give Tillamook City a good reputa
tion.
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establishment
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Now open for Business in the Mason Buildinp.n 2nd
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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
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fin description and prices of what you want.
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