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Tillamook Headlight January S,
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alone, the asylum at Pendleton, the Changes in Unlit Of Pi
Advertia'ng Rates.
L egal A dvebtisembnt «:
10
First Insertion, per line .... |
s
Each subsequent insertion, line
Business and professional cards,
1 month.................................. 1
Homestead Notices..................
5
Timber Claims ...
10
Ixicals per line each insertion
Display advertisement, an inch,
50
month..................................
All Resolutions of Condolence and
Lodge Notices, 5c. per line.
4 ante of Thanks, 5c. per line.
Notices, Lost, Strayed or Stolen,
etc., rninirnun rate, 25c. not exceed
ing five lines.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
(STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.)
1.5o
One year......
75
Six months....
' 50
Three months
Entered as second class mail mat
ter July, 1888, at the poet office at
Tillamook, Ore., under the act of
March 3. 1879.
Tillamook Ijeabligbt
Editorial Snap Shots.
It is the proper thing to re
duce the water rates.
Anyone with a grouch shodld
appeal to Governor West.
Don’t be too gay, Freddie,
There’s the recall, don’t you
know.
Hit the ties is what some of
our strenuous citizens are not
afraid of doing when they get
t'ed up.
It is a pretty good thing after
all to be able to fail back on the
Sue If. Elmore when the rail
road is tied up.
We agree with the worship
ful mayor that it would be eco
nomy for the city recorder to
collect the water rents.
Business is somewhat quiet,
as is usual at this season of the
year. Yet there is a bright out
look forYl'illamook county this
year.
I industry and home attorneys,
has called for extra
city dads wereappointed on four from would provide sufficient, 4 who could have defended the t'. superintendent
-
comply with
committees. It must be that the money to run the city. What a case just as well as imported >>e»P
contrast.
Every
year
since
the
this
law
that
will
require
an addi
gentleman from the first ward
attorneys,for all the legal brains j
was not on Freddie« slate and plant was constructed the tax is not to lie found in Portland tional expense of more than $00,000.
does not ride in Freddie« band payers have been forced to pay anti other towns. We notice It is no wild guess at all that the
wagon, hence he is the victim $1,000 to $1,300 annually, not- that Bro. Trombley is standing enactment of this law will cause
■' ■ that the water
more than $450.000 additional ex
of Freddies big stick. The
---- city withstanding
by and commending citizens
dad for Freddies ward is on four rates are much higher here than who employed outside attor pense to the taxpapers of the state
committees, which is a discrim in other towns. The snap shot neys to fight the pavement case, institutions alone. And this is only
a beginning of the expense that
ination against the first ward. . man almost had a duck fit last
by home
, week when he read in the Secre- and is not standing bv
will be caused by the eight hour
! tary’s report that it will not be attorneys who were deprived of law Public work of all kinds comes
The Mayor’s message :
work
tliat
justly
belong
to
them,
i loug before the system is on the
“I note several unsightly places scrap heap. Gee, hold us while for the Portland, Salem and under it. Municipal work, road
work and even private work of
in the business districts of the city.
we do the fainting ac». Any pub Hillsboro attorneys never give
To-wit : Freddies own unsight lie institution that is bolstered a dollar nor lend a helping hand hotels, mercantile establishments, '
ly office, which is several feet upannually with taxation ought to upbuild this city.
And if and it would involve no fine point
on the aide walk and interfer to give the taxpayers a rest they hang on to the teats much to include farm and domestic help.
ing with travel, and the un when other taxation comes so longer they will have some of
cf But the voters wanted it. They
have got it
sightly shacks on the opposite high. We would like to know the citizens and city broke.
There are necessary benefits to
corners, with board side walks how much longer the taxpayers
in the business district. Com are to pay two water rates in
be derived by some from this law,
mence right at your own front this city and when the receipts
The Eight Hour Law
of course, but to the majority of
door, Freddie, for it would be from the water system is going
the laboring class no great hard
exceedingly inconsistent for you to pay the running expenses of Those voters and tax-payers ship would result by an extra one
to commence in other parts of the city.
of Oregon who saw the opening of or two hours labor when the com
the city as long as these un
a glorious elysium in the eight- pensation is commensurate with
sightly eye sores remain.
hour law adopted by the voters at the work performed. But under
GovernorWest has made him
self ridiculous in taking sides
in ti saloon keepers' tight at
Copperfield. Even saloon keep
ers have some rights, especially
when they are elected on a city
council by the sovereign will of
the people. If they have vio
lated law, then proceed against
them according to law. There
is nothing to justify Governor
West declaring martial law in
Copperfield. The governor is
playing spectacular politics at
the taxpayers’ expense, and, no
wonder, that state taxes are
becoming more burdensome,
It is unfortunate again for
Tillamook County to be depriv
ed of railroad facilities for sev
eral weeks, but it may have a
tendency to hasten the exten
sion of the P. R. & N. from this
city to Willamina, which seems
to be the most natural outlet for
a railroad from this county. It
is to tie hoped that the Southern
Pacific Co.'s officials will plan
on making this extension, as it
would afford better facilities in
the winter and avoid interrup
tion of train service. Another
thing, the railroad would go
through a section of country
that needs a railroad.
Freddie, the mayor, never did
have a very Christian spirit to
We don’t see much difference
wards those who engaged in the
real estate business, did he, between Copperfield and Tilla
mook. At the former place the
Rollie ?
people elect saloon keepers city
Notone word was said in the councilman. In Tillamook the
mayor's message about employ henchmen for the aspirant for
ing defectives. What’s the mat mayor go to saloon keepers and
ter, Freddie, that that dirty act make pre election promises thnt
they will not be interfered with.
was overlooked ?
If it is in order for Governor
West to send his private secre
That wasn’t a very good start tary and penitentiary guards to
to have the county tied up nt Copperfield, then the governor
the start of another year, but it should send Miss Hobbs to
might be worse if the bottling Tillamook City with a demand
up process came in the summer that Mayor Beals resign forth
months.
with and the henchmen told to
leave the county for the part
Freddies message was over they took in the dicker.
loaded with pavement dope and
it looked to us that it was the
Bro. Trombley has his hands
handiwork of an attorney who
full defending real estate sharks
was trying a case in a mayor's
and persons of detective notor
message;_____________
iety. For his benefit and for
With roads in the Wilson the information of the people of
river Ixittom living cut up and Tillamook county we will re
washed of gravel, the new hard publish the news article where
surface«! road north of town is a widow was sued for her pro
standing up well while the perty by the individual whom
Bro. Trombley is picturing ns a
freshets are on,
little angel when he had no
more right to the property than
We wonder how many of our the man in the moon That,
citisens who attended the recent with Carl Knudson's sweat box
taxpayers' meeting for the pur- statement redished up, will lx-
pom* of reducing taxation voted interesting reading at this stage
for the eight hour law to in of the game. And we are going
crease taxation.
to ask Bro. Trombley to publish
it, for he published several
By grace of the*saloon keep pieces from the Beals' about
ers, who were appeased by n poor widows.
pre-election promise, all hail to
Freddie, the plutocrat mayor of
It will be interesting to see, in
Tillamook, and all hail to Bro. the dairyman giving the valua
Trombley, Freddies mouth or tion of their farms to the asses
gan.
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•or, now that they have to lie
assessed nt their full value,
The buzz of the saws at the
A. F. Coats Lumber <\».’s saw whether they will value them
mill helped considerably in giv at n nominal figure, or continue
ing the city n sulmtantial pay to value them nt the intlat«^!
roll with employment to sixty valuations injected into them
men. That in the kind of home by real estate agents and land
In other words, we
industry that should lx- appre sharks.
want to see how many dairy
ciated and patronized.
men there an* who want to pay
a big amount of taxes for the
There’s no telling what Gov pleasure of knowing that the
eruor West would «Io if he knew valuation of their farms have
that the Water Commissioners gone skyward and a long way
were loauiug the reserve fund beyond normal.
So which is
to its members. It mnylte that going to prevail, the land spec
Miss Hobbs would be scut over ulators' valuations or the dairy
here with the big stick and the men's who want a fair valuation
commissioner« would hare to placed on their farms (or the
cvmply with the mandate of the purpose of paving a just propor
fair ladv.
tion of taxation, for when dairy
men are made to pay about $10
It is tile talk of the town that an acre in taxation it is proof
l'rvtldie did not give Council that they are assessed too high
man Keldaou a i*quarv deal in or hold their laud too high ?
np|M>inting committee«, for the
gentleman from the first war« I
It was predicted that when
was only named on «me com the water system was first agi
ui it tier while some of the other tated that the receipts there-,
Yes, Bro. Baker, we agree with
you that the home merchant should
patronize the home printer and all
home industries, and that the home
merchant should be patronizeil by
all. We also believe that the home
newspapers should stand by its
citizens in preference to outside
paving combines.—Herald.
And what about employing out
side attorneys and detectives,
B ro.r By their own showing in
the Hanenkratt case they have
expended $*>,500 for high priced,
outside attorneys. That does
not look like patronizing home
the last election may now have
their eyesight restored by a copious
application of financial
salve
drawn from their annual tax pay
ment. The supreme court has in
terpreted this law as applying to
all state institutions, which in
cludes the insane asylums, home
for the feeble minded, state peni
tentiary and others, and means
that an extra corps of.employees
and in some cases a triple corps,
must be paid to keep these institu
tions running. In one institution
the law no compromise may. be
made.
A violation subjects the
employer to a fine, and even
though the employee may be satis
fied the state labor commissioner is
not and he seeks his pound of flesh
as did Shylock.
No one will dispute the fact that
safeguards should be
thrown
around labor but they should be so
placed as to mete out justice to
labor and not wreck all else that
may be effected.—Sheridan Sun.
Post.
The following changes have
made in weigh» limit and w
rates for fourth class matter;
On and after Jan. 1st, 1911
limit of weight of 4th class mi.
for delivery in 1st and 2nd zoee»
to 150 miles will be increused fi
20 to 50 lbs.
Rate—5 cents for first pound ,
and 1 cent for each additk
pound or fraction thereof.
3rd zone—6 cents for 1st
and 2 cents each additional l>ov
4th zone—7 cents for 1st r
and 4 cents each additional poti,
5th zone—8 cents for 1st poJ
and 6 cents for each additi,
pound.
6th zone—9 cents for 1st pc
and 8 cents each additional poi
7th zone—11 cents for 1st pc
and K) cents each additional po.
Sth zone—12 cents for 1st pc
and 12 cents for each additi«
pound,
*
Limit up to 20 pounds.
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TALK NUMBER TWO
The Best
In
The West
SELECTIONS NOW FOR HOME
BUILDING
ARE YOU A HOME OWNER OR ARE YOU A HOME
The Best
In
The East
RENTER?
WHICH CLASS DO YOU BELONG TO?
Why Not Own Your Home in Tillamook and Help Build the town?
Look at the following lines, What line do you represent?
(From the Twelfth United States Census, Vol II, P. XCVII, 1900)
There was under the above report: 16,006,437 of homes in the
United States. The general standing of these homes as to owner-
ship was as follows:
2,180,229 of Homes Mortgaged
4,739,914 of Homes Owned Free
8,246,747 of Homes Rented
WHY KEEP PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE
LANDLORD?
WHY NOT MAKE A START TODAY TO OWN YOUR OWN HOME?
Let us close you today on a Contract to a CHOICE HOME LOT in either KING or GOODSPEED Ad
dition.
Make a start and get away from the Eight million of renters in the United States.
Terms are Easy
Prices are Reasonable
The Values There
kIVG ADDITION
Fl,r7r.C?<>iCAWr‘-i‘,eP?i>P*K.y’ 8djoin8,he',Stillwe,lp8rk’’-S''hool Chians Play Cround-ia just 3 blocks from the New High
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Every lot has 6 foot sidewalk. Nine new homes have been built in this tract thia year. Why not yours, be the Next?
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COOlWI’EEll ADDITION
Is very ehoice Eastside property, in fact there is none better in Tillamook City. This new nlattine is in that tr.nl
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KH ,5"«?" '!eposl' U"1S'7rC VO”rContracts or Deeds will be made for von February 2nd
1913. Don t wait, look alter your choice of lots before the Choice are Gone forever.
Free, Absolutely Without Cost, Your Money is Second Consideration.
-Mr 77 SttrlZh7r’ ci,hcrhi"1Ki!'i «»“'speeds Addition,, who take contract, or deed, the Architect
if von wisl7* b“ ,dhT.77drR"' y°“ •V°Ur pla0S aad ’P^tio» for a hop,«
-Xml olansbii. 7,' 'S-"n Sl’7ficat’on’ <» be of your own idea and choosing front the many
fn.m now und A rd Is
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opportunity i, offered to „cry and all purchasers
yice alone is worlhauwat d'tf ’1'" i
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,aduce,n«“
‘bosc desiring to bail,I and this scr-i
alone is worth a great deal for which we absolutely make no charge, it is free.
ALL LOTS PRICED. TERMS: 10 per cent cash. Installments: $10:00 per month
ROLLIE W. WATSON,
Ofll« In Todd Ho..«, Ground floor. Both Pho».., Open E„ry D.yJ.nd
U„,H l0:0o O’dock
1 nr. (».ur.no. |in Conn.gr.,lonlBroof Compon«..—Build(ng;.„d Mortgage Lo.n. on CH, Prop.H,
_____________________ Rent«ls and Collection«.'^Taxe» paid for>on-Residents.
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