TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT AUGUST 8. 1918
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT and it may • be. If different plans and starvation rates in other coun­ many people out of the hills
F. C. BAKER. Publisher.
be suggested, it might make another ties of the state. And Jackson is ap­ otherwise would be there if hunting
long delay before work on the road
It is a question of
economy whether it would not be a
wise thing, after the road is graded
and surfaced for the county to hard
surface It.
pealing to the people to whip the
county press and deprive it of just
compensation at a time when the
country newspapers do a great deal
of patriotic service for the govern­
ment.
were permitted. When the officials
having charge of forest fire prevent­
ion and timber protection will be as
honest and frank with the public as
they are with themselves and with
officials of the Fish and Game Com
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mission, then, and not until then,
Mexico, no doubt, now that she
One cause of the high cost of liv­
The Simon-Pure Portland Hog.
will this annual agitation for a clos­
E ARE facing the most extraor­
sets the formidable army the United ing is on account of people in cities
ed hunting season during the fire
dinary situation in the history of
There will be only two initiative season cease.”
States is sending to France, must demanding two deliveries a day.
thank her lucky stars that it did not Somebody has to pay for delivering measures on the ballot next Novem-
our country. Never before have
goods, and it is reasonable to believe oer, and it will give the people of
force Uncle Sam into war with her.
so many new problems—so many de­
Board of Equilization Meeting.
that those who purchase the goods Oregon some idea how the Oregon
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mands for re-adjustment—thrust them­
Maybe the Oddfellows could ar­ have to pay, indirectly, of course. .System can be abused and used for
Notice is hereby given, that
range a moss picking picnic and help Now we don't see why the business personal and business spleen. C. S.
selves
upon men and women for settle­
Monday, September 9, 1918,
out in the moss picking drive. They men should discriminate. People who Jackson is using the initiative law
ment.
County
Board
of
Equilization
will
will beat the record if they do is our reside in the city are given two de­ tor personal and business reasons,
Things big with fate are happening and we must
liveries a day and those who reside and to injure the country press, if meet at the Assessor's Office in the
prediction.
know how to adjust our business—our home
outside the city limits have to pack possible. One initiative measure is to Court House, in Tillamook County,
personal lives to the new conditions.
There appear» to be an impreHBlon what they buy. It must be, then, that dispense with the publication of the Oregon, and publicly examine the as­
amongst some of the citizen» of the the people living outside the city delinquent tax list, and by doing so sessment rolls for Tillamook County
This bank publishes a Monthly Bulletin Letter
and
correct
all
Little Nestucca that somebody be- are helping to pay for the city de­ the taxpayers will be deprived of tor the year 1918,
that represents a very unusual service at this time.
errors
in
valuation,
description
of
fuudled them about having the state livery. Anyway, one delivery a day knowing who are not paying their
In a clear and general way these Bulletins present
highway located there. Really was for one family la sufficient, and we taxes and those who buy tax certifi­ lands, town lots, or other property.
the pith of facts that influence your welfare.
believe they should pay a certain cates will be delighted, for they do Said board will continue In session
there a nigger in the wood pile?
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amount of money for it every month, not want publicity but an easy way from day to day until the examina­
This is one of the ways we are helping our friends
Why wouldn’t it be a proper thing the same as they do for the telephone to goble up property by the tax cer­ tion, correction and equalization of
and customers to meet the demands of the present
the
assessment
rolls
shall
be
com-
for the ladies, when picking moss, That is how we would solve the de­ tificate system. The other initiative
and assisting them in their plans for the future. We
on
""egal I Pleted- All complaints should be fil­
to have large white aprons? It 1 b livery system, and would do it right measure is to place a rate c
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will gladly mail future copies regularly to anyone
very important that strict sanitary quick. It is the most equitable meth­ advertisements, allowing Multnomah ed with the board the first of the
free for the asking.
rules be Instituted in picking over od of doing business. It is not giving county to charge double the rate of week. No changes can be made after
moss, the same as making abeorbant those who reside outside of the city other counties. Now that Jackson has the adjournment of the board.
Tillamook County Bank
Dated at Tillamook, Oregon, Aug-
pads.
.
Tillamook, Oregon
Uy a square deal to deprive them of free become rich by manipulating the use 7, 1918.
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| delivery when the city folk enjoy stock of the Portland Journal, he is
C. A. Johnson,
wanting to Injure his less for-
Notwithstanding that over 50 per- those privileges, and twice a day.
County Asessor.
tunate brothers, but I to be plain
eons went to Sandlake a week ago
It
is
satisfactory
to
know
that
about it he is using the initiative
last Sunday and picked moss for the
the troubles that have been Jaw to injure and deprive Republi-
Red Cross, the only person i who I mo8t
Notice of Administratrix Sale.
seemed worthy of mention by the Ia detrament to Bayocean are being can, as well as Democratic newspap-
Herald was a person who is not a I straightened out and the prospects era,1 of just compensation, while he I By virtue of authority given by an
look good for that enterprise to come feathers his own nest and wants ¡order of the County Court of Tllla-
resident of the county.
to the front again. Lot owners will be double pay. Most of us have heard Intook County, Oregon, on August Sth,
The hlih price of feed and h / Is | A|ad to bear this, for there are a about the Salem hog, but the big 11918, the undersigned administratrix
going to have a serious effect on large number of them who want to hog is now to be found in the Jour-I of the estate of George N. Johnson,
Block. With hay at over $30.00 a ton ¡erect good and substantial residences nal building at Portland, and the big I deceased, will offer for private sale
which will, In all probability go up I there as soon as they are assured greedy hog is using the initiative from and after the 7th day of Sep-
to $40.00 a ton, a large number of I that litigation and financial troubles law to swell his own bunk account I tember, 1918, at the office of H. T.
cattle will be dumped onto the meat have been overcome, and in future and, as we have stated before, injure | Botts in Tillamook City, Oregon, the
market, which will make a shortage | business methods will be used for the Republican and even Democratic real property belonging to said es­
of cattle In future years.
promotion of Bayocean. It is safe to newspapers in the state so that he tate, to-wit:
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say that the county will complete the can Log as much as possible of the
Lot 4 Blk. 20 in Thayer’s Addition
Notwithstanding that the United road early next year and if that is newspaper business of the state, to Tillamook City, Oregon. Said sale
States'is sending 300,000 men to done another year will see a large That is what C. S. Jackson, the Sim-I will be paid for by cash, subject to
France every month, the Germans number of visitors flocking there to on-pure editor of the Jiurnal is do-| confirmation by the County Court of
I Tillamook County, Oregon.
continue to belittle the United Staten »P«nd a summer vucation. With the ing.
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I Dated this August Sth, 1918.
army. Very soon, if it has not al- ™ad built to the shipyard and partly
ready done
so, the United States built on the bay, it is only a very
Hunters and Forest Fires.
Mary Johnson, Admin­
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army will be knocking some sense »mall job to complete the road, and
istratrix.
into the military autocrats who rule |the new managers ot Bayocean can
The Oregon Sportsman, which, by
H. T. Botts, Attorney.
do more for that place by making ar­ tlie way, is to be suspended during
Germany.
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rangements to connect with the the war, had an article on forest
Notice to Creditors.
Thanks, Sir Knights, four your county road than anything else, for fires defending hunters.. No one ever
patriotic efforts on Sunday in gath­ after all said and done it was the put up the foolish plea that fires
ering 425 sacks of sphagnum moss lack of a road that gave Bayocean a were caused by the discharge of fire I Notice is hereby given that the un­
for the American Red Cross. The K. black eye and will continue to do so.^ arms, but it is a notorious fact that dersigned has been appointed admin­
hunters do set out fires and leave I istratrix of the estate of George N,
of P. certainly showed the right
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The county officials were getting them, and in places far back in the Johnson, deceased, by the Tillamook
spirit, and It is highly appreciated
timber, and tor that reason it is per- ¡County Court of Tillamook County,
by the local branch of the Red Cross ready to sue the lumber company for
fectly proper to keep them out of the Oregon. All persons having claims
obstructing
the
county
road,
but
In
­
and the moss gathering committee.
We hope other fraternal orders will stead of doing so the district attor­ timber during the dry season. One against said estate are required to
ney has come to a friendly under­ careless hunter may start a fire that present them to me at the office of
follow the example of the K. of P.
standing
with the mill company and might destroy millions worth of tint- H. T. Botts, Attorney-at-law, Tilla-
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Oregon, within six
‘ Don’t grumble! We find a whole the lumber will be removed as soon ber as well as jeopardize the lives mook City,
lot of people who grumble and com­ as possible. This will be better than and the homes in the vicinity of the months from the date of this notice,
plain about this, that and the other Invoking the law, for that always limber, and it is also perfectly proper I Dated this August 8th, 1918.
Mary Johnson,
thing. True it is that things are a leaves more or less sore spots. We that the timber owners should take I
Administratrix,
little complicated and one meets must all admit and even the mill every precautlton and have the co- I
with difficulties, but the best way to company will do so, that the county operation of the people in their ef-
meet these war time conditions is to road made a most convenient place torts to prevent fires and serious fi­
Notice of Final Account.
smile and make the best of them, for stacking and hauling lumber, nancial losses us well. It is a wise
The man or women who grumbles and probably most of us would have policy to keep hunters out of the
Notice is hereby given that the un­
should consider for one moment what done what t)ie mill company did, forests during the dry season, and dersigned has filed her final account
on
that
account
we
attribute
less
providing
no
body
made
complaint.
the people of France, Belgium and
as administratrix of the estate of
England have gone through. When There is another way of looking at forest tires in recent years in Tilla­ Gust Nelson, deceased, in the County
Y putting up an extra amount of fruits and vege­
one is asked to do some patriotic this. Suppose some of our citizens mook county. True it is that the peo­ Court of Tillamook County, Oregon,
tables this year--Tillamook housewives will
work, don’t leave It for the other fel­ had undertaken to park their autos ple living in this county are more and said court has appointed Monday
not only reduce the cost of living for their
low to do. Get in and do your bit, and in the lumber yard and Interfered careful, but it is the hunters that September 9, 1918, at the court room
families next winter—but will render valuable aid
and don’t grumble if you have to de­ with the rights of the lumber com­ are feared more than campers. Any­ at the Court House in Tillamook
to the Food Administration—and also enable our
ny yourself a little pleasure. Just pany, why, they would have been way, with so much need of help in City, Oregon at 10 o’clock a.m., as
immediately ejected or the district at­ the prosecution of the war, this is no the time and place for hearing ob­
Farmers to market their perishable products to bet­
smile and pitch In.
torney would have been called upon time for men to waste their time jections to said account and the final
ter advantage.
The government has decided to to prosecute. It all depends as to hunting and jeopardising other per­ settlement thereof.
DIRECTORS:
A. W. Bunn. Farmer.
P. Heisel. Farmer.
abolish the spruce division and send whose ox is being gored. The lumber son’s property. The Headlight would
Dated August 8th. 1918.
C. J. Edwards. Mgr. C. Power Co. J. C. Holden, Vice Pres.
the men to France. Probably It finds I company had about uh much right to even piohibit men from going into
Luella Nelson. Administratrix.
B. C. Lamb. Building Materials. John Morgan. Farmer.
it made a mistake when it failed to stack lumber on the county road as the forest, for in these days when
H. T. Botts, Attorney.
W. J. Riechers. Cashier.
place the management of spruce pro­ one would have to park his auto In pro-Germans are sneaking around
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duction In the hands of experienced front of one of the plainers of the with sinister designs in their minds,
western mill men and loggers, for it mill company. Well, It is all going this is no time^to take chances.
Columbia in Flood.
This is what the Sportsman says: I
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seems that this Is to be the policy In Ito be settled amicable, and that is
“The dry season is on and the | I You may have noticed that
the future. It was fully demonstrat­ [the proper way, and by way of a
ed in Portland last week that the closing remark, if the snap shot man forest fires have started in with a ¡shipyards of our country doused
men now in spruce cam's would should violate some law we hope the vigor almost unknown at this season | Kaiser on July 4th by launching
rather go to France than remain out cunty will be as considerate with us of the year. Undoubtedly there will |ly ninety-five vessels (more than
be the usual agitation to close the I United States ever built before
here in the west, and they should be las it was with the mill company.
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hunting season in order to keep the I any one year!) because eleven boats
allowed to go. Under proper man­
The Oregonian only repeated what hunters out ot the forest so that for- I were held on their ways in the dis-
agement the saw mills in the north­
west can supply plenty of spruce, Is known to most well Informed per­ est fires may be reduced to the I trict around Portland, Oregon, by
and ns airplanes are going to cut a sons about when It touched upon minimum. We presume that until the I “the seasonal freshet in the Colum-
big figure in the war from now on. the initiative law In an editorial timber people realize that hunters Ibia River.” Those seven words as
do not start forest fires this annual |quoted here, give an Easterner no
there should not be any more delay when it said:
"It is that the people must take ns agitation will be kept up against I idea at all of w hat that freshet real-
or trouble In producing spruce.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
it is given to them any measure sub- sportsmen. There is no use trying tolly is. From Alberta south to Nevada
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We hope the next county budget inltted through the initiative or ref­ combat this sentiment because the land Utah the winter’s snow lies
will contain an item of from $5,000 erendum. or reject It. There is no argument is used that the timber is I packed tw enty feet deep and more
to $10,000, to be used in case of opportunity for chnnge or comprom­ of more value to the people than the ¡along the slopes and passes and down
emergency for fire protection. The ise or elimination or correction, after privilege of shooting off firearifls in I in the back-shadowed gorges of the
best way to prevent forest fires and discussion, and after it may be made the forests. Unfortunately the law Is I Rocky Mountain system, a world of
the loss of valunblc timber and farm clear that any such measure should not properly drawn. It only gives the lice and rock and drifted sleet. June’s
Warehouse and Office Cor. Front and 3rd,Ave. West, Tillamov k Or.
property is to take proper precau­ be altered for Its improvement. The Governor the right to suspend thelhot sun beating down through the
bill
submitted
in
response
to
outright
open
hunting
season.
It
does
not
give
I
high,
dry
air
of
the
inter-mountain
tions and have a fund available In
case of emergency. This is just as and unmistakable public demand him the right to keep out of the for- ¡country sets all that frozen water
much Important to the dairymen of and designed to meet a public need is ests the camper, the tourist, the ¡rushing on its way over the wind
the county as It is to the timber likely to have features demonstrat- trapper, the fisherman, the miner, or ¡swept granite of the great range. For
owners, and we believe It Is up to ably detrimental to the public Inter­ any other group of people who may lover two thousand miles, as the
the county to make proper provision est; yet the people have no alterna­ desire to enter the forests during the I eagle flies, the Columbia takes it all.
for fire protection. In fact, as the tive but to accept them or to reject forest fire period; it simply prohibits I Feeding in from countless tributaries
county develops this will become the good with the bad. Any star­ men front going into the forests with land reinforced by a million leaping
more important and it iB Just as well chamber group of back-stars politi­ a gun. This is an ’injustice to the I hillside springs, clear and blue and
—•re v.ponriag points. In Red Crown
to make a start in that direction as cians, any Jaundiced and envious hunter. Every group or class that ¡utterly cold, over a hundred feet
gasoline they form a continuous, uniform
soon as possible, and we believe thsj newspaper publisher may take ad­ goes Into the forest uses fire and ¡deep and a mile wide, running in
proper way is to create an emergency vantage of the general receptivity the fires that are set do not come I waves that would swamp a small
fund and be prepared to combat toward any proposal such, for ex- from the discharge of firearms but ¡boat, attended by the untiring wind
standard oil COMPANY
lampel, as tax reform and submit from earless handling of camp tires, I that haunts its lofty banks, carrying
(California)
some hobbyhorsical freak bill as,a throwing away of matches which are I far more flooded water than Father
With so large amount of money to substitute for needed legislation and not put out and from other causes of I Mississippi himself at his lustiest,
¡that imperial flood thrusts , its un-
be expended upon the Three Rivers the people must take it or go with­ carelessness.
The records of the Forestry Service I tamed strength past planes and
road by the state and federal govern­ out the legislation. The initiative Is
ment, It seems to us with a little ex­ legislation by first Intention. If it both Federal and State, do not dis-1 mountains and out into the Pacific,
tra amount of money the road could cures so much the better. If it kills, close any single Instance w here a I On that rush of melted snow the riv-
be hard surfaced, w hich would elimi­ what are you going to do about it?” forest fire was set by the discharge,er men tpok steamers such as the old
There are two initiative measures, of a rifle, shotgun or pistol. This is | Harvest Queen over the great rapids
nate considerable maintenance char­
ges every year. As we understand It, and the only two to be voted upon an admitted fact; then why the dis-| past The Dalles. a nd on it the stern­
the state will expend $2000 a year at the general election, which Is a crimination against the hunter, who, wheeler Telegraph made her un-
for the maintenance. There Is this star chamber scheme by the Port­ is. as a rule, the most careful man | touched record of four hours on the
difficulty in the way of hard surfac­ land Journal to injure the county who goes into the forest? The ans-1 downstream run from Portland to
F. C. BOONE, Special Agent, Standard Oil Co., Tillamook, Or
ing the road now. The federal gov­ press and monopolize the newspaper wer is apparent The timber people | Astoria. Beautiful, unhurried and
ernment. the State Highway Com­ business. Jackson, the suddenly rich want to keep as many people out of | unchecked, purifying and terrible,
editor
of
the
Portland
Journal,
has
the
forests
as
possible
during
the
fire
|
the
Columbia
in
flood
is
like
a
Puri-
mission and the county have already
signed up agreements as to the grad­ become so greedy and grasping that eason and have, therefore, had legls-1 tans’ vision of the justice ot eternity,
ing and surfacing the road, and the he has initiated a bill so that legal atlon enacted giving the Governor | For our day it is a fit symbol and
arnont each are to appropriate, which advertisements can be charged at a power to suspend the open hunting | prophecy of what kaiserdom brings
have taken a long time to consumate, living rate in Multnomah county season. This naturally keep a great (down upon its evil head.—Collier’s
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