Tillamook Headlight, August 21, IOI3, Advertising Rates. L egal A dvertisement »: 10 First Insertion. per line .... $ 5 Each subsequent insertion, line Btisiuess and profeasiunal cards, 1 monili .................. .............. 1 00 5 IM) Hornestes'i Notices................... Timber Claims ................. 10 ID 5 Locals per line each insertion Display advertisement, an inch, 50 month .................................. Al) Resolutions of Condolence and Lodge Notices, 5c. per line. Cards of Tbauks, 5c. per line. Notices. Lost, Strayed or Stolen, etc. rninimuu rate, 23c. not exceed­ ing five lines. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. (STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.) One year............ Six months........ Three month»... l.fxi 75 50 Entered as second class mail mat ter July, at the post office at Tillamook. Ore., under the act ot March 3, 1N79. J;be (/¡ilhiinoob ^rabligbt Editorial Snap Shots. surprising that there a general complaint. It is up to the Water Commission to revise the rate, if possible, or submit it to a vote of the people whether the rate should renia n the same or tie cut in two. That, we think, is a fair way of d'spos’ng of the question, as well as allowing the people to rule. II an elec­ tion cannot la- arranged for im­ mediately a friendly re call elec­ tion would answer the same purpose. One prominent attorney sind that be was iti the pavement case for the money there was in it. Another prominent attor­ ney »aid there were too many attorneys in the case who were after big fees and that it was not necessary to employ attor neys. Another surprise. One' of the jiidges of the supreme' court says that court has de­ cided several cases similar to the pavement case in this city, where the citizens cannot sue unless there is fraud. It is a matter between the c ity and tliej contractors. If this is correct then all the time and money' expended in the law suit is thrown away. Another law suit over the pavement ruction, mid amongst those who started the first tight. Sir ’em, sic ’em, sic ’em, for it 'There is one tiling about the is about time that something new- assessment law that w ill was doing. interest those who own improv­ ♦______________ ed kind, lor unimproved land is So the "gout” who was taken to be assessed tin- same ¡is the by the horns must have butted cleared land. There never was when it came to the converting any justice in assessing :is high I’erml vent il ri­ as possible a person who makes it into a may or, the gentlemen behind him dili improvements and allowing n't twist his tail enough. those who make none to get oil ¡it the minimum. 'This is going to raise tin- taxes of those who Considering that there is large amount of travel every day own idle hind and hold it for between the city ami the depot, ■peculation, but ¡it the same it would be along ttie line of time it will raise the taxes of improvement and civic pride to those who own large Lirins that have the old plank side walks are only partly improved. 'This will probably have the effect of replaced with cement. some of the speculators dispos­ ing of their holdings, ¡is well as In milking assessments in some of the farms being di vided future, the Assessor has to place up. the full value on property. We do not ei.vy the assessor Ilia job, We do not want to accuse the but he needs an advance agent city council of extravagance or to ascertain the selling price of of expending the taxpayers’ laud and property before he money wastefully, but a little tackles the owners. fair criticism will, we hope, be taken in it kindly spirit bv the We understand that visitors to city dads if we refer to one in- Seaside are less numerous this tance where the taxpavers got years and people there are won it in tin- neck. We refer to the dering why. They need not bill allowed on Monday evening wonder, for Tillamook beaches for $250 for 25 days’ work in­ lire becoming so popular they specting the work while four lire drawing the crowdtf which blocks of pavement were being laid. We wonder whether the went to other benches. city dads would have paid Unit amount of money had it come It wile reported to uh Unit the out of their own pockets ? Now city council whs going to up we want to point out the differ­ poll it mayor on Monday, but ence of inspecting similar work for some reason it did not ma in flu- city and inspecting work terinlize. An amuaing little in the county. The city paid incident was related to us as to $10 a «liiy and the count) paid $5 who the 'goat" was to be that for inspecting, the county also • will be worth repenting lit some having nil advantage in having future date. its inspector survey mid place the stakes for the contractor, We have lieen informed that while the city had to pay extra Home of the Willamette nur- for that work. In other.w ords, serie», which have formed a it cost the city more than double trust, have tieeu "Honking” the what it is costing the county for \\ In people of Tillamook. For in exactly tin- same work stance. they have tieeil Helling and for what reason is there apple treen at $10 a hundred in such a difference, gentlemen ? other place» but charge people We will leave it to the judgment here $25. And it in also report of the taxpayers whether it is cil to uh that they have been right for the city to pay double Helling «Gold apple tree at $2.5o| what the county is paving for th«* same work. < II II that in a gold biick. Coiiitiiissioner R. Holman, of The officiala of the Tillamook < ounty Fair Association are de- Multn oiuali county . wan hi the voting conaiderable time in ar 'city of Monday , ami he was »ur- ____ prised nt our splendid roadn and rimgiiig the fair mid it is pleas nig to observe Hint the Grangers the system by which they are and dairy men of the county nr«- Is-itig constructed. He »aid that t iking a lively interest in it Wei Multnomah should not get into are glad of this, for the reason the notion that that county was mill part pu, « of '.»I v/ivgeii imii that w hen nn association was pile the imh Oregon that first suggested it was hoped knew lu>w to construct good that the Grangers and dairy roads, for this comity could give men would take hold and man i Multnomah some pointers. Mr. age it. They are doing so and Hotmail was surprised to lienr the fair is going to lie the best I that Tillamook county bad only mid most interesting ever held three road supervisor», and be in the county.___________________ I was highly delighted with the i iH-rinunent improvements, for I this is what counts in road I'lllnmook City is getting n - — J; I building. Tillamook county great many compliments these jean give other counties some dins from visitor» who remem­ i pointers in road work, the most ber the citv when the streets j important of which is to rid were full of chuck holes amt ,, , , , themselves of the political m-ts mini, the side 1 walks ___ bad. ___ , ____ and . who keep sucking at the road nothing but frame buildings to fund and employ men wlm will be seen. Since the spirit of pro­ see to it that the county is re gress took hold of the city there jeriving ii gm«l .lav’s work. It is, certainly, a wonderful trans may lx- an unpleasant job for formation in its appearance.and somebody to tin* a lot of poli'i it is not surprising the citixens ’cal cronies, but when Tillamook are being complimented for the county did that and a new sys­ clean paved streets and aubatan tem was inaugurated,every Issh tial brick mid concrete build I saw at once that mon* work w as logs And we don t think there done and better roods were con F- >nylssly who would like to structed. Although Illi" im go tku k to muddy streets, etc. pnivement took years to bring about, it was shirted by a de There is a strong impressioni maud of the i>eo pie for gissi all over he city that the water r.Mtds and that every­ dollar of ratea are too high. When it i« th« road fund should l>e pro|»er taken into consideration that ly expended in road work not the rates are twice ns high as wasted by tlii>»e who bed a tn m<«st other cities, it is not litical pull i I I BRIGHTON. A C harter from ' L oafing in O regon . MAE CELESTE POST. Brighton is builded on the hills, and it s front edge is a crumpled, notched ruffled flower timbered line that follows the caprious shore line of Nehalem Bay, well, say a mile or so in length, and a right smart step back into the hills, farther than most of the residents have explored, for it is sure a wild and scary looking place, though there is a man in Brigh­ ton who has a map of it and has sold lots there, and has returned alive. It looks as though it might be the habitat of bears and congers and strange things. Now’this is to say that Brighton is bounded on one side by clams, crabs and fish, and on the other by bear steak and roast venison, and that each of the other two ends run into towns just like it. There is underbrush and overbrush and mag­ nificent forest trees everywhere (and some stumps). There are people living in Brighton, and they are very quiet nice people, though they never go to church because there is none there and they never hang around the saloon for the same reason There is no school, but as there is immediate need, it will soon come. There is no cemetery and there seems to be no need nor desire for one. But the inhabitants are’ human, so they get drowned. You almost have to be drowned in order to die there, for it is almost impossible to be sick Ami as they are human, people are born there, and wavelets play upon the sands a crooning lullaby ; the blue jays shout in glee, and flowers wild and gorgeous strew the pathway for the tiny feet Great sunbrowned men cut logs and saw lumber and fish and loaf and whistle—the store keeper spends their money for them in Portland, ami di- vides up the groceries among the different families whose women folk cook and serve it in a most delic- ions manner and smile and sing (a woman can’t loaf when she is cooking for loggers), and the young girls go to the post office. They told me that you could stand anywhere in Brighton and without turning your head you could see river, bay, sand spit and bar; wooded points, rocky cliffs, mountains and the open sea. and believe me you can. Just to the North is Mt. Neah-Kah-Nie solemn and still, biding defiance to the tumultious sea, the old Indian trail shows plainly a golden thread against its bronze green side, no wonder the Indian held the mountain sacred, it is so vast, so still, so absolute, so different from all the other hills, the white mist from the sea sometimes curtains it from view while unseen hands recolor its mighty wall, now the wind spirits pull the curtains down, sometimes tearing them in long strips and thread­ ing them out over the bay, sometimes taking them entirely into the hills beyond,leaving Neah-Kah-Nie strangely purpling in the setting sun, where now green and gold, in an instant is gray, with an Arab­ esque in browns, now black against the star decked wall of blue beyond. The bay—now a flat strerch of gray mud— bor­ dered with marsh grass and rushes (looks like an Iowa swamp.) The mecca of the loon and crane, and the clam digger Io, in an hour a calm sea, upon its bosom sail boats, row boats, saucy noisy launches, and great sea going barges. 1 have tried in vain to describ the waters restless, yet full of peace, calm, animate, endlessly dabbling the shore, now like a mirror reflecting all the colors of the spectrum, now lashed to foaming fury by a wild free breeze, lohg glassy curves whose over lapping edges are lined with a fillagree of silver -then smooth undulating swells, coaxing, calling, reaching, grasping all that comes with in their way. carrying them out over thetrcachous bar into the broad ocean, with its end­ less surf rolling against the sand Across the bay is Nehalem spit, a long lean arm reaching out, grasping like a miser all the flatsam and jetsam of the sea, pointing its long gray finger at the bar, warning all the ships to stay away until the great, red white and blue gets the jetty finished. "Haste the day." And then into the open sea. always, always with its procession of great ships, who leave no trail on its high way. I like the traffic of the sea. They cun t fence in the right of way, they can’t shut out the little boats, they can’t mar the landscapes with grades and poles and sights, they don’t roar and rumble and ring black signals and keep von awake all night, the ships that pass in the night and in the daytime, do it on schedule time, without any rum­ pus whatever Boat ahoy! Theo there is always the moan and sigh, the croonitigs and the laughter, the wailings and wild shrieking of the surf, and un­ derneath its deafening uproar, are the little songs and wavelet cry a. that von must go alone and bend your eye closely that yon may hear what Hie wild waves are saying. They told me that you could have clams for breakfast, crab for lunch and salmon lor supper roast