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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1894)
Remember that tbis paper is the only one in Lincoln or Benton county that has the courage to stand for the common people. The IvEader should be read by every tax-payer o M Lincoln County. It will; cost you but $1.50 a year .J t Volume II. Toledo, Lincoln County, Oregon, Thursday, May 24, 1894. Number 12. DIRECTORY. mscolx toivrr. t Joint Senator f County Judge Clerk ; Hheriir - -I Treasurer f School Superintendent '' Surveyor Assessor Coroner Commissioners! " - C. B. Crosno 11. P. Blue B. F. Jones George Landis Ilenry Deulinjrer ('has. Booth Jos. GMeon - T. E. Parker - Jhs. Russell J. O. SteaniB M. L. Trapp TOLEDO PRECINCT. Justice of the Peace Constable J. A. Hall A. E. Altree CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES. TICETHODIST EPISCOPAL, CHURCH. Services J.U. will be held xinder the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal church as follows: First Sunday in each month at Elk City school house at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Second and Fourth Sun days at Toledo, at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Third Sunday at Mill Four school house, at 3 p. in. All are' cordially invited to attend. A. L. II.UVLEY, Pastor, Address, Toledo, Oregon. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH Protestent Episcopal. Divine service the third Sunday of every month, at 11 a. m. All are invited to attend. Itev. Chas. Booth, Missionary. Kesideuee: 'iKectury," Newport, Or. 10. 0. F. Toledo Lodjie, No. 108, Meot every Friday evening at their hall in this town. Renos Arnold, See'y. J. S. G'aiiheb, N.G. G. T.- H. Meets every Thursday evening, K, in liraays nail, tnis lown R. Fant, C. T R. E. Collins, Secretary. Y O. l 7:30 o'clock, in T. 'T Toledo Union. No. 156. Meets ' every Saturday evening, ((o'clock, In orauy s kail in this town. All members requested to attend. T, T. Reeder, President; J.J.Turuldge, Secretin y. ' x n o. F. Bav Lodee No. 116. of Yaanina Citv. I meets every Saturday evening. Visiting Brothers are always welcome. X. buurows, Secretary. J. N. Stark, N. G, T 0. 0. F. Newport Lodge No. 89, meets every a. saturaayevening. visningoroiuersarecor' flially invited to attend, Cyrus Dixon, . I. L. Smith, Secretary. N. G. 4 F. & A. M. Newport Lodge No. 85, regular -ra. convocation on paiuroay on or oeiore eacn full moon. Visiting welcomed. Jab. H. Russell, Jas. Robertson, secy. brothers are cordially v. M, 11 A. U. Phil Sheridan Post No. 24, meets VI every second and lourth Thursday evening, Geo. Sylvester, Coin. '' R. A. Bensell, Adt. ISIS 18 U.B. Vogle, PRACTICAL 1ATCHMAKEE Corvallis, Oregon I jHOTGL LINCOLN r' i i Dr. LI. VINCENT, Prop. -Everything t I ' First-class, ? Charges Reasonable. ; TOLEDO, OREGON. I J, A. HAU,, Justice of the Peace l'oledo, Oregon) ,itle!:.S,IoJtg?.,?5!, 8,,d 811 klnds ' tPM lwei Vi1 h c,"tne9. Careful attenlion glen to all business entrusted to my care, 0m n es ma,m- - $tors furtlicrou. At Elk City the sit uation is simply reversed. While Several Reasons tll'red why the that when we speak of building the upper country would be closer TOLEDO FOR COUNTY SEAT. road. We wish to digress here to state -WE HAVE NOW A- FULL & COMPLETE STOCK -OF- Dry Goods, Motions, lien's and Boy's Clothing, Boots and Siioes, Hats and Caps, O TT"iv r T--rrrc! n.TTTVf at COA.TS Seat of Business of Lincoln county should he per manently located at Toledo. -AND oiii oi-jOTni-iiisra- AEL, OF WHICH WTE ARE- Selling at Hard Times Prices. gent lor Brownsville Woolen Mills Groods. Measures taken and JTits Guaranteed, M IMi Ageats ni Mmim, HAVE BARGAINS IN Farm Lands, Tide Lands, Coal LandsIWil Property in single Lots or Blocks IMPROVED OR UNIMPROVED. AMrctofTitleto any property in Liricofri County furnished on demand. Toledo Oregon. ?r. C, SIIEPARD, Attori i'ey-at-Law, DO YOU WANT FRUIT TREES? Residence, Stanford,, Oregon. Business in any court in Lincoln County promptly and carefully at tended to.- & T. JEFFRE YS, Attorney-at-Law, CORVALLIS, OREGON. WH1 practice in Justice, County and Circuit Courts of Uncoil) CoUrty. Solicit correspondence, lull (treed. No chargea unless Oris Mb MM COMPANY, CIIAS. CLARK, Receiver. Connecting with steamer HOMER between Yaquina and San Fran- 1SC0. BAILtSft DATES: strtier love San Knndaco April 23rd, nd uuu. every wnuayt mereauer. Stemer lcvei Yiiquln April 29tb, and bout u uaja laereaiier. For Freight ud Passenger ratei apply to aof ageui. CH A i. HENURY. SOS i CO.. Not. 2 to 8 Market St., Hu Franobco. Calltornia. CnAS. CLARK, Receiver, CorrallU, Oregon roads in connection with the Toledo people, we mean working with brawn and muscle, not mass meet ings in l:alls by hot fires, where the heaviest work done is to elect a The question that is now ab- chairman and appoint committees, sorbing the minds of the voters and and we wish further to state that all others vitally interested in the Toledo worked roads by both vol welfare and progress of the new uuteer muscle and hard cash before county of Lincoln is the permanent the comity was even divided, and location of the county seat. This before it was thought of for county is one of those questions that must seat. Toledo is connected with the be Fettled by voters of the county, eastern part of the county by a aud is a question that can remain good wagon road, which ha3 been Settled only by being settled right, traveled for years. To the Drift It is also a question that in 99 cases creek and Fall creek country good out of 100 engenders a bitterness trails are already opened and work between different localities of the is progressing lapidly which will county if the struggle is long con- open them up into good wagon tinued. The question of a penna- roads. nent location of the county seat is These roads are a part of a sys not one of those obtuse questions tern of roads leading from Toledo that requires columns of type aud to the Drift creek country, the Fall keo-sof ink to elucidate and for creek country, the upper ttig Jilt thnt-TMsnn rh t.t? atjkh has not country, ana to me Upper oca continuailv dinned into the ears of country. We have every conH its readers the peculiar" fitness of dence that these roads will be com any particular place, nor the utter pleted this summer county seat or unfitness of any other, nor called no county seat. . lhey were in any person or place a bad name for augerated and planned before the desiring the county seat to be lo- county was divided, aud it will be cated to suit them. And it desires remembered that in 1891 Senator f.fc i,s. win, state- Crosno secured a state appropriation motit that- tvp imTmcrn the motives nt nn sit-; von o nf nv InrnlitV tl'llO k'A'j .... !..- vetoed by Gov. Pennoyer. are nonesuy -suiviug i" gci mc nnvnioA nriia Tt a mnttpr fnv the people to settle and calling tributed $500 in money and york names nor violent language will by rail and the Big Klk by wagon road, the upper Alsea and Drift creek country would be further than from Toledo, while the -Yaquina, Beaver, Newport, Alsea and Yahats country would be an ex cessive distance away aud acces sible only by rail. To reach Elk City by wagon road would again require the entire readjustmeut of the road system of the county, which would take years of labor aud thousand of dollars of road taxes. Another important item to be considered is the t COST REMOVAL. This, outside of every other con sideration would be no inconsider able item. The county seat is now something in the situation of a man who rents a house. It is fairly established in a good building which it gets for a nominal rent. The for this road in the omnibus road which,,. bill was afterwards 1 by Gov. P On these roads Toledo lias con- not affect the ballot box. It is now but a short time Until the people will pass upon this niat ter with their ballots, and the T.ai-it. Lnln it ie inctjflol in setting forth the advantages of PerbaPs th,e af Toledo for permanent County seat. THia -?f oi1 wi Ati t-iTmiiiAttV amnnar AUCUIOKWIU. U.v,Lr.vs.UUw.,. T,1 ...1,J'U ...J11 Hum f uui 3 oiuugu n U1VU VYUA bring the town of Lutjstis, on the of which account has been kept and fully as much more of which no record vas made as it was purely volunteer, These routes bring all portions of the county into easy means of access to Toledo, except, and Beaver creek coun try . The former will be reached by a road over these is the matter of : 'w. ' lU n. Alsea bay, within fourteen miles of . TAloHAhMWOITArirAflil Tn 1Q f All f graphical .center of the county, and ( 1 1 f , 4 L. . i K . . r is feasible, some work having al ls almost exactly in the center of 1 0 . . t. r 4 . nf ready been done on it, and it is population as a careful Canvas of ' ' nlraaHi, iicA1 ad a trail Tn Hpnwr the residents of the county is such " ' 71uu indicatioii assures usT e ,...,... XUUS II, Will parts of the county will be and is now much more ae , . ' , , s in one up Beaver creek. T that th is center of population will r f ....... ! . . . . ..1 .1 1 1 1 be seen that all parts of t not oe msiurueu uy iuc naiuwi iu- It Wllf Pay YOU to see ME before Buying. crease;, inis can De easily proven by a comparison of years gone by. The, only portion of the covintiy tha.t promises an extremely rapid in ;reasti of population is the Siletz countrv, and bv its location it yould only strengthen Toledo's position. In fact the (expected early opening of the Siletz reserva' tion is & very potent argument in favor of Toledo. There is now a good foad tJ the reservation from Toledo, aiid it taps that country at the short distance of seven miles Nw other town m the county can I CAN SELL YOU , FIRST-CLASS STOCK, Warranted True to Name and free From Disease and Insect Pests AT THE LOWEST PRICES. Home Grown and Healthy Trees . ' tT, F. STEWART, Toledo,' Oregon gST At LEADER OFFICE. THESE HARD TIMES BUYER MUST MAKE A DOLLAR cessible to Toledo than any other point, t In order to make this more clear let us make some COMPARISONS OF LOCATIONS. To get to the county seat at Toledo the people of Newport will have to travel 14 miles by boat and rail or eight miles by wagon road, soon to be shortened, to . six. The people of Beaver creek have to travel fifteen miles via Yaquina and the river or the same distance bv wagon road. The pebple of Alsea Bay will have to travel 2a m.11m nt,!1 . . I, n , .Via maA mA,u jret to the reservation line short of . ' . ' . , , . ,,. . -r u.-.Li.aJ- Jtioned above is completed will be Wu iu.ro ui r' " " shortened to iourteen miles. JThe none can tap the Siletz river short ,.- . ,.., ,, ;i.f .rr..... - a t,...- a people of Yahats will have eight aic J t L iV VUIAU, auu km; wuu be made as good as the road lead' ing from Toledo oh account of the mountains which innst be dimbed The next most important point to be considered is the ACCESSIB1XITY OF THE PtACK Again ia this respect Toledo leads all other candidates for county seat honors. But first let us re- bfthe tipper Alsea will have 18 miles to travel over the Fall creek road. The people of Big Elk will have 21 miles. . The people of Nashville and Little Elk will have 16 miles and Drift creek and Elk City ten miles each. The longest distances are for the settlement of Lobster . and Yahats, which are m a . .4 Ml. . . 4 itAVi lirrHtltf CAT TPI I tlH nTHPT - IC1T DKUtlJ tV.Wa a. M wuw mark that when the question on . .M amtnmt . , accessioui iy iscon8iuCuiuBWU . . ...,... row , Buy as much as possible. The place to do this is at "CHEAP CASH STORE" o'i T. P. FISH, where "Good Goods at Lo- v Prices" is the rule. See my Stock of FALL and WINTER BOOTS and SH OES Heady Made Clothing, Etc,, Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, N otloiis, T. P. FISH, - - Toledo, Oregon. The Leader In low Prices. people m est be taken into it. It is most manifestly unfair to argue for a place because it is more acces sible to one locality when other and more populous localities are rend ered almost inaccessible? " It is fror j a standpoint of the whole that Toledo argues Toledo is situated on, both river and railroad. The ft rmer makes the place accessible f or water craft from the west side of the county and towards the east for a distance offifteeh miles. The railroad running entirely through the county along the Yaquina river makes it easily accessible to the people along its entire line of 42 miles. It is connected with New with the heavier populated parts of the county. With the county seat at Newport the Yatiats-nd Alsea people have gained no material distance, while tipper Alsea will be 33 miles, Big Elk 40 miles and all the upper country in proportion. The only localities benefitted in distance will be Beaver creek and Newport. There are no roads leading to Newport except the Toledo wagon road and the roads leading up and down the beach. The other parts of the county would be shut off almost completely from the county seat, and it would be years before roads could be siderable expense in making aud arranging its quarters in this build- ng and has an option on the rent of the same for two years longer. A vault and many other necessaries have been built and we do not hesitate to assert that the county would be to an expense and loss for the simple moying of not a cent less than $1,500. Under this head too must be taken into consideration if the county seat is removed to Elk City or West Yaquina the expenses that must be incurred by the county before there can be any business done. At neither place is there a building at all suitable for a court house. In fact at West Yaquina there is nothing at all but three or four residence houses, none of which could be utilized at all for a court house: This would take at least an outlay of $5,000 to erect a suitable building and while , this was being done the county would have to do business in a tent. In addition to this the site for a court house would have to be purchased and it is perfectly safe to put the lowest limit of removing the county records aud placing them in a county building at either West Yaquiua or Elk City at $7,000. In addition to this the county would have to build . a wharf or some 1 kind of landing at. West Yaquina or people from the north side of the Bay and river could only visit the county seat at certain stages of the tide. To place the county seat at West Yaquina would compel the county to made au out lay of at least $8,000 at once. In the present condition of the county's finances it would seem to be an utter impossibility for the county to carry such a load. The situation at Elk City would probably be $1,000 better for the county but this would require the issuance of county warrants that the interest on for one year would pay the rent' on the present court house for two vears. At Newport there are buildings that could be Tented cheaply enough, but there are these OBJECTIONS AGAINST NBWPORT. It is situated away over to one side of the county. One of the' strongest arguments for the divi sion of the old county, and a good one it was too, was tliat the county seat was off to one side of the county aud thus imposed a burden on the people ot part of the county and yet the county seat at Corvallis 111 inc uiu cuuuiy wu ucuici uic center of population than the county seat at Newport would, be in the new. It is as we have shown almost inaccessible to a large part of the county! There are other objections against Newport, but it is useless to enumerate them, as it Is useless" to object to Elk City, as the only actual competitors in the race for county seat from now on of going out to sea which will al ways menace a ferry so close lo the mouth of the bay. On the other hand the people above Toledo are largely in favor of Toledo for many and good reasons. It is being ad mitted every day even by Elk City and Newport men, that the fight lies only between Toledo and West Yaquiua. This being the case there is a growing determination among the people to concentrate on these two points and SETTLE IT NliXT JUNE. It is to be ardently hoped by all parties that it be settled this year. It will never be settled with less undue influence than it can this year. The population of tbs county is normal. There seems to have been 110 disposition to 'colonize" or "stock up" any one place. The feelings between, the various candidates are friendly, there is but little feeling 011 the subject com pared with what there will be two years hence, should it go over this election. This venr is the time to settle it and we hope that it will be done. As between Toledo and. West Yaquina the situation is simply this: The people of the lower country want the county seat on their side of the river for the reason, as stated before, that the ferry has been a heavy burden to them. We don't blame them. It has been a heavy burden. But ' what they want to do is only to shift the ferry business" . onto a larger number of people. Some body must pay that toll. Now where will the burden fall the lightest? The only people who can reach West Yaquina without paying ferriage are this south of there on the Alsea. In numbers they are less than one-third of the comity. The movement to locate the county seat at West Yaquiua is simply a move to take the ferry toll off of less than one-third of the people and place it on more than two-thirds. That is all there is to it. Had there been no ferry to pay at Newport a large, portion of those people would still be in favor of Newport, , j ... We earnestly ask our readers to look at this question in a fair and unbiased light, you are to decide an important question It behooves you to take all parts of the matter under consideration, If you want the county scat located fairly and qually to all parts of the county) f you want to impose no unjust burden upon any part ot the countyj if you do not wish to tax two-thirds of the people for the benefit of one third; if you do not want a further debt of from $5,000 to $7,000 piled onto the county, then ponder well before you cast your ballot for county seat. After you have done so, and considered the question fairly and as a""patriotic citizen then Toledo is perfectly satisfied to abide by your decision, In mak-' ing this decision let not jealousies nor passing antipathies for any place cloud your better judgement ' Remembering that this is a ques tion that the whole county is con cerned in, and should be considered fiom a standpoint of "the greatest good to the greatest number." ( When it is settled in this way it is settled honestly and is settled in a way that the people will endorse. It is truly astonishing how many men there are in the county who can turn from twenty to two hun dred votes in any direction they may choose, This idea has been dinned into the candidates' earfl until some of them believe the comity contains a million voters and every one a political vampire. Come off the Christmas tree! j MunJ oi an entirpiv new RVHtem port by a good wagon road of eight M have tQ u ti miles length; .and Yaquina City by his fa an enoTmou9 taslc io a roaa 01 oniy six. uiusi uuiu v these roads will be shortened by at least two miles when the Dunden cutoff is completed,. which will .be at an early date. This road was laid out bv bid Benton county, and is not in any. sense a "county seat' .... , ' .' ; ' ; are TOLEDO AND WEST YAQUINA A careful canvass of the votes of Lincoln county will show that Elk City and' Newport are hopelessly out of the race. The majority of the people on, Beaver and lower this country. At West Yaquina the same situation would exist, Alsea are for Ve8t Yaquina, on except Alsea Bay would be brought account of the excessive ferriage down to 14 miles, but the upper they have been compelled JtoryTn country would average 35 miles. year9 gone by, and are now paying There are other disadvantages of to cross the bay at Newport, to this place which will be mentioned 8ay nothing of the extreme danger The steamer Homer has found it impossible to carry all the freight offered at Yaquina for the San Francisco market since the Pioneer stone quarry has been shipping its output to 'Frisco, and the steam schooner Scotia has been chartered to carry the stone and is now on her way up for her first cargo. More than 400 tons of stone are al ready .uthe wharf at Yaquina a'waHWlf transportation and the quhpiris actively engaged lu get- v out more. 6 . ..HiH -If. Blue should accidentally be elected clerk, would he keep his books under the Jacksonville system.