Tillamook headlight., April 21, 1910, Image 2

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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. APRIL 21, 1910
T. BO1T3
• A ttorney - at - l «
DEATH OF H. F. HOLDEN. | hia
family were divided, and in
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
1854 he removed north to Salem,
STSICTLV IN ÀDV4NCR.)
An interesting historic
1.50 Another Respected Citizen Oregon.
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¡event
in
the
life of Horace Holden
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an months.....................................
and Pioneer Passes Away.
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occurred July 4th. 1847, when there
Three months........................ ~—
We have to record this week the was unfurled to the breeze from a
death of one of Tillamook County s sixty-foot pole two miles from
J*illamook Ijeabligbt. most respected citizens and pioneers
Salem a flag made by Mrs. Holden
in the passing away of Horace F. from material which her husband
FrrlC K tier. Pabllahfir.
Holden at his residence in this city procured by a a|>ecial journey
The late Thomas F. Walsh lost at an early hour on Tuesday, after through the wilderness to Portland.
hie first fortune of $1.OTO,(XX) and a week's sickness, tliecause of death This was the first American flag
then made another of $40.(XX>.(XX). being erysipelas. The remains were made in Oregon, and was subse­
Oregon
His early experience seems to buried in the Oddfellows' cemetery quently carried by the
have induced him to enlarge the on Thursday, and out of respect to troops during the Indian troubles
the deceased gentleman the Circuit following the Whitman massacre—
margin for a rainy day.
Court adjourned and a large hum- known as the Cayuae Indian war.
the
Mr. Folk hesitates tietween
tier of |>ersons quit their business It ia also worthy of note that Mr.
presidency and a seat in the Senate,
to attend the funeral. The religious | Holden and his son. Horace F.,
to say nothing of the vice-presi­
services were held in the M.E. devoted much time later in the year
dency. In a case of thia kind
church, conducted by Rev. D. I.. in making rawhide ropes, which
Aesop would have advised sticking
Shrode, owing to the illness of Rev. the Oregon soldiers used for lariats
to the Chautauqua circuit.
V. E. Hoven, of the Christian during the Indian campaigns.
Mr. Taft’s condemnation for sym­ church, and at the cemetery the
There was much self-denial in
pathy strikes is sanctioned by in­ Grange took charge of the ceremony,
those days and the Holden family,
telligent latsir union men every­ consigning the mortal remains of
as well as many other pioneer
where, especially in the neighbor­ Horace F. Holden to their earthly
hood of Philadelphia. Always and resting place,which was complying settlers, lived principally on boiled
wheat during the winter months.
everywhere they are failures.
with the deceased's request, A large
When seventeen years old Horace
Missina takes its latest earthquake quantity of flowers were sent as a
F. Holden left the Sandwich Is­
tremblings quietly. When a town token of respect and sympathy which
lands and came to Oregon, travel­
finds that it cannot l>e wiped out aa now bedeck the grave of another
ing throughout the state and final­
long aa its commerce remains, it Tillamook county pioneer.
ly arriving in Idaho during the
makes the beat of conflagrations,
Deceased was born in Boston, mining excitement in 1861-65.
He
tidal waves and uneasiness in the Mass., on August 4, 1837, and he
was in the midst of the Indian
earth's crust.
and died April 19, 1910, in Tillamook troubles of 1855-56, enlisting as a
Longfellow’s blacksmith of “the City. Deceased leaves a widow and private in September, 1855, and
spreading chesnut tree” has just four children to mourn his death.
serving for six months under Cap­
died again, though lie has been
A career of exceptional breadth tain Charles Hennett. The various
buried a number of times, He ia and merit was that of Horace F. places in which his youth was
rival, in this way, of the last Holden, miner, Indian fighter, ship passed permitted of a broad and
survivor of the charge of the Six builder, freighter, daryman and liberal education, acquired in the
Hundred.
stock-raiser, and one who had held Sandwich Islands, in the public
Mr. and Mrs. lioosevelt fin<l that the majority of prominent local schools of Oregon, and at the
In the fall
one of the penalties of glory ia that offices in his adopted county of Willamette University.
Mr. Holden had pass­ of 185« he spent a couple of weeks
people who have grown great can Tillamook.
not retravel their old honeymoon ed through about all of the experi­ in Tillamook county, was well
route uh undisturbed a* on the ences supposed to accompany the pleased with the opportunities pre­
wedding tour. Even obscurity lias pioneer on his way to success, ami sented, and returned again from
that he had made a practical study the Willamette valley in 1858.
its compensations.
of the resources, conditions and Although he located a claim on the
Mr. Bryan has written to Norman
people among which he had elected Nehalem, he failed to prove up on
E. Mack, Chairman of the National
to reside,
and had become an , it, and after about a year spent in
Democratic Committee, that he
authority on all phases of weatern Tillamook he turned his attention
wants no great demonstrations
development, is evident from the to ship building, learning the useful
made on hia return to thia country.
many positions of trnat and re- occupation from the foundation up.
Mr. Bryan ia still strong enough
sponsibility which he hail been call- He assisted in the building of the
in national Democratic councils to
e I upon to till. Many of the reli­ J. C. Champion, and after its com­
have his wishes in thia matter re-
able and conservative traits of pletion assumed charge of the
a pec ted.
character which have served to es­ vessel, running it for freighting
The sixth installment of speci­ tablish his enviable reputation are
mens received by the Smithsonian traceable to liis English ancestry, purpores for about three years be­
Institution j from the
Roosevelt which recognized no limit to its tween Tillamook City and Portland.
On the 18th May, 1870, Mr. Holden
hunting party filled nearly fifty daring or endurance, and the abili­
barrela and many boxes, and thia ties of which found an outlet in was united in marriage with
Margaret Ellen Edwards, a native
is only h third of the contributions directions of activity.
Remote
to science from thia source. If the ancestors immigrated to the New of Keokuk county, Iowa, and a
Smithsonian had many such active England states, settling presum­ daughter of Joseph and Margaret
friends its enlargement would be ably in New Hampshire, where Wallace (Dinsmore) Edwards. Mr.
and Mrs.
Holden became the
necessary.
Horace Holden, the father of Horace parents of three
sons and two
Cleveland's police stations turned F., was born July 24, 1810.
As a daughters: Anna H., J. Chester,
into ethical culture clubs! Such in young man the elder Horace moved
Hattie Clara, deceased, who be­
a sense ia the plan under which to Massachusetts, where he married
came the wife of Fred Stoddard;
Chief of Police Kohler of that city Mary Millen, who was horn about
Verner E., and Arthur E. They
haa l>een working for long enough 1819, and died at Honolulu, Sand­
are also rearing
Letha Marie
to provide some figures worth con­ wich Islands, nt the age of thirty-
sidering. Within the period of three years. There were five child­ Stoddard, their grand-daughter.
Mr. Holden's family was one of the
two years and three months he ren of this union, two daughters
very
first to be represented in this
aaya tliHt not leas than 50,0(1) minor and three sons, Horace F. being the
violators have been spared the oldest child. The two daughters state, and the industry and in­
tegrity which found expression in
humiliation of the Police Court are deceased.
his aged sire have been dupli­
und publicity and have not become
More than passing mention is due
second offenders. In the
tirât Horace Holden, whose life has been cated and exalted in the life of a
quarter of 1U07, under the old an adventurous one, and who, nt remarkable resourceful and ver­
system, the |>olice had made 712« the age «if nearly ninety-four passed satile son.
He.located on hie present farm in
arrests. In the same part of 11XJH away in this county a few years ago.
they arrested 2«7U; in the tirât Mr. Holden started out in life ns a 1870, and had one hundred and sixty
quarter of last year 1405, and so seaman before the must, and at the acres four miles southeast of Tilla­
far this year, 1283. Kohler suya age of about nineteen years was mook City, where he was engaged in
they have made the police stations taken captive while shipwrecked, and darying and stock-raising, where
•‘not places where punishment held for three years by a band of he resided until about three years
hardens the heart of apparent vio­ savages on the l’elew Islands. ago, when he removed and took up
lators, making it easy for them During this time n portion of his Ills residence in this citv.
A Democrat ever since he was
to become second offenders, but we body was tattooed; but as he learn­
have made them what might be ed the language of the savages he old enough to lie interested in |M)1-
Mr. Holden’s ability hud
termed moral hospitals, where found that he could prevail upon itics,
advice, good will, protection and them to denial from tattooing Ilia drawn him into offices of large
correction, and if possible, reforma­ entire IxMly, including his face, by responsibility, including that of
county treasurer for six years
tion ia the watchword.”
threats of vengeance on the part of
during the troublous times of the
the
white
man's
God.
Through
the
The United States Department of
seventies. So successful was hia
Justice l>egan on April 2 a system- exercise of strategy he managed to
service as county commissioner
and finally
tic attack on a chain of alleged effect hia escape.
that he was elected tor an addi­
bucket shops operated in several succeeded in reaching hia anxious
tional two years, serving in all
of the larger cities of the country. and well-nigh distracted mother in
eight years.
From 18«) until 1894
In Pbilladelphia the “Consolidated Concord.
he served aa county judge and at
When the namesake Horace F.
Stock Exchange,“ run as a kind of
various times during the past
clearing house for con men, was was a year old the father took his
decade he had lieen school director
closed up and arrests were made family to the Sandwich Islands by
and clerk, also road aii|>ervi»or. He
in several cities. Secret service way of Cape Horn, taking five
had always been an advocate of
months
for
the
Ocean
voyage,
and
men had warrents for the brokers
progressive movements,
particu­
connected with the S. Hoggs A Co., once there he located on the Isle of
larly of good roads, having assisted
Price A Co. und the Standard Stock Kauai, engaging in the culture of
in the construction of many miles
Exchange of New Jersey. Five the silk worm in company with a
of the l>eat roads in the country. He
of the indicated men are reputed man named Peck, and afterwards
likewise had shown a deep interest
millionaire—Richard 1‘rueaaer of in the raising of sugar cane. His
in the welfare of schools and had
New York, lam Mayer of New York. plantation was a large one and he
always favored litieral appropri­
G*org* Turner of Philadelphia and remain«*«! there about seven years,
ations for their maintenance. He
the Celia brothers of St. Louin and finally diaposing of hia land anti
had been Master and chief pro­
Cincinnati. All were held under locating in Oregon, twelve miles
moter of the Grange of Fairview,
heavy
bonds. The indictments south of Salem on the Santiam In
and
had been an active factor in
were found m the District of Colum­ the spring of I8|| he tisik up a do­
almost every line of public develop­
bia and the accused men said they nation claim of three hundred and
ment in thia county for many
would tight extradition to that twenty acres in ua dense and inhos­
years.
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turiadictioa. In connection with pitable a region as the imagination
thia raid, the government is look­ can conceive of. and before gold or
For Constipation.
ing into the part played by the agricultural inducements had stitti-
Mr. I. If. Farnham, a prominent
Weatern Union in furnishing news ulate«! emigration to any extent, druggist of Spirit 1-ake. Iowa, nays:
to die
crooked concerns. 1 The tilled hia timtiered land until the “Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets are certainly the beat thing
He then sold out an«l on the market for constipation.” Give
company says it haa no right 1 to fall of 1849.
inquire into the pur|K>ses oi it. removed his family to California, in these tablets a trial.
You are cer­
customers.
onler to take «dvantage of the gold tain to fin«l them agreeable and
excitement, but after a brief effort pleasant in effect. Price. 25 cents.
A Healing Salve for Burna Chap­ at mining turned his attention to Samples free. For sale bv Lamar's
Drug Store.
ped Hands and Sore Nipple*.
As • healing salve for burns, sawmilling and stock-raising in the
Plenty of Trouble.
In 1830
•ores, sore nipples and chapped northern part of the state.
is caused by stagnation of the liver
hands Chamberlain's Salve is most he returned to the Sandwich Islands and bowel*. To get rid of it and
excellent.
It allays the pain of a an«! alter a brief residence in headache and billiouanes« and the
burn almost instantly, and unless
tsnson that brings jaundice, take
the injury is very severe, heala the Honolulu returned to SsuFranciseo, l>r. King s New Life Pills, the re
Kiris without leaving a mar Price, leaving his family in the Islands. liable purifiers that do the work
cents For sale by iaimar's Drug While engagi-d in business in the
without grinding or griping 25c.
Store.
California town his wife died and ' at I has. I. Clough's drug store.
Complete set of Abstract >
in office.
Steam Ship
Taxes paid fw
Residents.
“GOLDEN GATE”
Gives Quick Dispatch of Freight between
Portland, Astoria and Tillamook City.
Office opposite Post 0|
Both
phoncR.
CARL HABERLACH,
attorney - at - lxw ,
FROM PORTLAND. FROM ASTORIA.
Çenterhcr &bvoltJ
S4.00 Per Ton.
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3.75
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6.00
Office across the street and nonkJ
FEED, FLOUR AND GRAIN
CEMENT............................................
CEMENT-TEN TON LOTS....
HAY ....................................................
COAL........................... ........................
$4.OT Per ton.
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3.75
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the Post Offici.
Q^EORGE WILLETT,
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A ttorney - at -L aw .
For rates and further information, apply to agents as follows :
Next to Tillamook Count)
Bank,
D. L. SHRODE, Tillamook. Oregon.
F. O. BOZARTH, Bay City, Ore.
CALLENDER NAVIGATION CO., Astoria, Ore.
OPEN RIVER TRANSPORTATION CO., Oak st. Dock, Port­
land, Ore. Telephone Main 2MX),
Office at FRANKLIN A CO.. 134 Front st., Portland, Ore.
T illamook
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H. GOYNE,
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A ttorney - at L aw .
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HARNESS, COLLARS, etc.
You Use Them.
We Sell Them.
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Office : Opposite Court W«J
T illamook , O regom .
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T. BO ALS, KD,
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PHYSICIAN & SURGI
TELLAMUOK.
W. A. WILLIAMS & CO.,
Next Door to Tillamook Connty Bank.
Office- Olson Building.
Residence : Mrs. Wei»«’ house, wai
Mrs. Walker’s.
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The Best Hotel
THE ALLEN HOUSE,
J. P. ALiUEN, Proprietor.
M. KERRON,
PHYSICIAN
SURGE!
&
C oncrete B uilding .
Tillaincok,
Oregon.!
Headquarters for Travelling Men.
----------- It,”
j~^R. I. M. SMITH,
Special Attention paid to Tourists.
A First Class Table.
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Comfortable Beds and Accommodation
PHYSICIAN & SURGH h P
Office over J. A. Todd & Ca.
Tillamook, Ore.
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EYES AND TEETH.
You spend from $5.60 to $20.00 per year on
and think nothing of it.
Which would you prefer to loose ;
c . HAWK,
your teeth
PHYSICIAN & SURGEO!
YOUR EYES or YOUR TEETH ?
Your eyes can be looked after from *1.00 to about *8.00,
and this will be the total expense for about 3 to
5 years, and often a great deal longer.
Remember you can get NEW TEETH, but not NEW
EYES. What VALUE do you place on YOUR
EYES ? What per cent of insurance would you
pay to keep them as goo«l as at present ?
Make yourself a 'Xmas, present of a pair of glasses?
All work guaranteed to lie satisfactory in every respect.
BAY CITY, OREGON.
R. BEALS,
REAL ESTATE,
F inancial A gent ,
Dr. Henry E. Morris.
Tillamook, Oregon.
-J-y. A. D. PERKINS,
RESIDENT DENTIST.
C. S. Atkinson.
Office in Sturgeon’s Building. |
All Work Guaranteed.
TILLAMOOK.
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j~^R. P. J. SHARP,
MOLINE PLOWS,
Osborne Harrows,
STUDEBAKER,
WAGGONS AND BUGGIES,
GRAIN
WHITE RIVER FLOUR
RESIDENT
DENTIST,
Office across the street fromtM
Court House.
Dr. Wise’s office.
SARCHET,
The Fashionable Tail
Cleaning, Pressing and RepÑ
ing a Specialty.
Store in Heins Photographic j
Th« Best Bread Maker cn the Market.
Gallery.
L and O ffici B usin km
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C, S. ATKINSON,
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Fbooe A.
cowWC
LAWYERS.
R oom 334 Woscnrrxn B vilmik -.
T his » inn Oss stssbts .
II.Him Next to the U S. Land Ottre. •
Both Phones,
eaoraiBTon
S fscialtt .
PORTLAND, OREGON.
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Tillamook Iron Works 44
A Blacksmiths. 4
General Machinists &
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Boiler Work. Logger'« Work aid Heavy Forgiag.
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Fl«e laoblae Work a Npreialty.
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OREGON
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