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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1895)
DRY GO0BS Groceries, Hats, Caps, Boots. Shoes Etc., Etc., At LIsCOLS" COUNTY. ORE- THE YOUNGEST COUNTY IN THE STATE. A Brief Description of Lincoln County. Oregon, And its Rich, Undeveloped Resources. inhabitan 9. It has three fine hotels, numer ous stores, a fine public school, one weekly newspaper, one sawmill, and man other lines of business, The government works are located hore and the town enjoys a good trade. New port enjoys the reputation of bein g the finest summer resort on the Pacific coast, and during the rammer month thousands of people visit Newport. South of Newport ten miles Is the Seal Rocks Summer Hetort, owned by James Brasfteld. Here are loca led good hotels, tine grounds and many neat summer cottages, On Alsoa Bay are located two nice little villages, one on the north side and one on the south. Good hotels and stores are found in cither town. At Waldport on the south side Is a good saw mill, now engaged in sawing lumber for the Kan Francisco market. On the north side are located the salmon canneries where annually are canned and shlpied from five to ten thousand oases of salmon of tine grade. The Alsea Bay is navigable for steam crafts for twelve miles. This part of the County is rich in lumber, both II rand cedar, and is the Ideal dairying country. The Alsea harbor although it remains today w ithout over having had a dollar of money spent on it, is a better harbor than many other harbors on the coast. Coast ing steamers enter and depart regularly with out a tug or pi ct. Cranberries raised ou the Alsea marshes b; Mr. J. U. Stearns, are pro- river, or bay empties Its sparkling waters into ' notinced by experts to be of the tlnest llavor of T IXC0LX COl'XTY was created by an act of the Legislature on February 18, ISM, and was formed from territory detached from Ben ton and Tillamook counties. It is bounded on the east by Benton and Polk, on the south by Lane, on the west by the Pacific ocean, and on the north by Tillamook and Polk. The county has a coast line of fifty wiles and an area of 1,-UO square miles, and a population of about 3,000 inhabitants. The temporary county seat Toledo. The permanent county seat location will be finally determined at the malar June election in 1896. The act creating the County provides that the candidate for the county re ceiving amajority of all the votes cast shall be the permanent county seat. At the regular election in June, 1894, there were four candi dates in the field for permanent county seat, and no place received amajority vote, hence there was no election. At the next el c ion the two points receiving the highest vote at last election will be the only candidates, and therefore a decision will be assured. The.two contesting points will be Toledo and West Ya quina. There are four bays within the limits of Lin coln County, all abo nding In tish of all kinds. Salmon river, or bay enters the ocean near the northern boundary of. the county. Along this stream are tine tide lands and rich bottom lauds, soon to be opened to settlement. Seven miles south of Salmon river the Slletx COPELANDS' STORE. . yfe have just received from the Famous I SAN JOSE WOOLEN MILLS, a fine assortment of IE 'S it m IB, FLANNELS. r w WOOLEN ALSO, A FINE LINE OF LADIES LEGAL PUBLICATIONS. Notice for Publication. LaiidOmoeat Oregon city, Oregon, April 1.', ISiij. VOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE a! following-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made be fore the County clerk ot Liuaoln county, at To ledo, Oregon, on Mav Sl.lt-Ai, vis: JOHN K1XUS1.EY, H. E. XO. 8,022, for the west half of the southeast quarter sec tion 8, and north half of the northeast quarter of section 7, tow nship 1U, south, ranxe 11 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, vis: Henry Mce, Wui. Tells.sk, Carl Schlmniel and John Uulllleius, all of Waldport, Oregon. ROBERT A. MILLER, Register, Constable's Sale. VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES, THAT BY ' virtue of an attachment and execution Is sued out of the Justice court in and for Toledo precinct No. 14, Lincoln County, Oregon, where in H. taw is was plaintiff and I). F Scott was defendant, I havo levied upon and will offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, at the front door of the Lincoln County Leader otllceon Monday, April tiai, 1695, at 1 o'clock, p. m.. the following-described personal property, to wlt: 60 cords of cord-wood, vine maple, alder and crobapple, on the farm of s. A. Logan, Said property attached, levied upon and to be sold as the properly of the above-uamed de fendant. Dated this Oth day'of April ISO.i. C. H. RtiHl, . Constable Toledo Precinct No. II. CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STQCK i .1 3 We are Selling Cheap for CASH. Remember that ve can please Everybody. C, Gk COPELAND, U -A ' TOLEDO, OREGON. the old 1'acinc Ocean. Ibis stream drains a large scope of country and ailbrds the largest oltime of fresh water of any river in the coun ty, having many feeders. For this reason it is said that more salmon enter it than both the Alsea and the Yaquina combined. The Silets river heads In and near the summit of the Coast range of mountains in Polk county and runs nearly all the way through the rich valley of theSlletz, now an Indian reservation, soon to be thrown open to settlement. Twenty miles south of the Slletz Bay the now- famous Yaquina Bay mingles her commerce- laden waters with the old Pacific. Yaquina Bay proper Is about 14 miles long, but is navig able for small crafts for thirty miles from the mouth. There are many tributaries emptying into the Yaquina, and many tine farms dot the valleys and hill sides. Eight miles above New port are large bodies of rich tide lands extend ing on up the Bay for six or seven miles, many acres of which are being dyked, reclaimed and cultivated, and when once cultivated are said to be the richest lands In the world, the soil in many places being sixty feet deep. The lands are admirably adapted to raising all kinds of beets, roots, mangel wurzels, etc., and particu larly to the culture of sugar beets. The anal ysis of beets raised on the tide-land near Tole do showed 1C per cent of saccharine matter, be ing the highest percentage obtained in the state. Leaving the tide-lands and for ten miles on up the Bay, or now the Yaquina river, are large sandy bottoms In and around Klk City, the gar den spot of the county. Above Elk City and on up the Yaquina river and alon t e line of the O. P. railroad are line bottom lands. Ou these bottom lands fruit of all kinds do remarkably well. Several hop yards have been planted on these bottom lands and tho result has been very satisfactory. Hop culture promises toi one of the prosperous and profitable Industries ot the county at an early date. At Nashville, near the east line of the county, are large or ohardspf prunes, apples and pears, showing that fruit will no w en even so near tne summit of the Coast range. Eighteen miles below Yaquina Bay the Alsea river and Bay empties into the Pacific ocean. The Bay is of a considerable size, and the en trance is deepeuough tn permit coasting veu sela to enter arid carfy away'the products ol'the fertile valler of the Alsea river. ' The country contiguous to the Alsea river resembles' that of tho Yaquina very much. It Is settled with in dustrlous and thrifty people, atid prom lues to develop rapidly its latent resources, The Dairying Industry. Llueoln county is admirably -adapted for dairying. With our mild climate, 'where snow ueverlieson the ground to exceed one day, cool nights and abundance of pure spring wa ter, It is an ideal dairying country. Tho oil mate is such that grass never dries up but re mains green during the entire year, thus at fording annual grazing and reducing the cost of feeding to a minimum. Clover Is naturally adapted to this country, growing on the high' est hills or the lowest bottoms, wherexei-.the seedilSiicattdted. Frequently our-formers ciit two cro ovlover from their meadows In one year, and have been knuwn to cut three. Silos can be built and three orops Can be obtain cd annual! for ensllarti. mens have been'tak en to establish a creamery plant at Toledo, and there is but little doubt hut "that a creamery will be In Successful operation here at an early date. With the creamery business once estab lished at some place' within the1 county, the in dustry will rapidly develop. It la admitted lu all markets that butter and cheese produced from the milk ot cows that graze upon the sue cnlent grasses rf our country excels that of any other region. Tho day Is not fat distant when tho dairying resources ot our surrounding country will be a source of Urge annual Income to our people. Timber, Coal and Oraalte, Commencing three miles north of Toledo and extending on through Lincoln county Is tho fa mous green belt of fir, spruce, hemlock, -larch and cedar timber,, only awaiting capital and enterprise to manufacture It Into lumber and nlace it on the markets of tho world Two and one half miles from' foUdo, on the headwaters ot Depot Slough are the richest un developed coal mine In the state of Oregon. local company have thoroughly prospected this coal belt, and numerous assaysbare been made the last by California experts, who pronounced it as Issing the only ooal on the coast suitable for steel works, Korth and east of Toledo are located granite mines in unlimited quantities equal In quality to the Maine and Vermont granite, with water power on the premises sufficient to run all machinery necessary to furnish ruck tor build lng and monuments. Towas and Tillages, YAQt'ISA CITY Is the termluus of the Oregon Pacific railroad. It has two hotels, three stores, a church and a school house. An academy has recently been Instituted there, and promises to be a successful Institution of learning. A eon slderable volume ot business Is transacted Yaquina City. At this place are the wharves and warehouses which are used by tho ocean steamers, two ot which ply regularly between that port and Ban Francisco. The town-site owned by the railroad company and has sever been placed on the market. WEST YAYl'INA is across the Bay from Ye qulnaclty and la well located on deep water It will make a good town as It will enjoy a part of the trade from the south e id of the county Id the near future NEWPORT, "Down by th3 Sea," Is the largest town en the Bay. It has a population of 8C0 any raided from Oregon to Maine ELK CITY is the oldest town lu the county, and is nicely located at the junction ot the Big Elk and Yaquina Rivers. It has a good hotel, two stores, a blacksmith shop and postolllce, and being the center of a large farming district enjoys a good trade. Thousands ot bushels 0 potatoes and many bushels ot fine apples are shipped annually to San Francisco. TOLEDO, the temporary County- eat, is well located 12 miles above the mouth of the Bay, on the Hue ot the O. P. R. H., and nearly in the center of the County, drawing the lines to the compass, Toledo enjoys the undivided trade of the Silcts Indian Reservation. It Is the cooler of the famous lido-land belt, and will hold her own by reason ot her splendid location. Toledo has one first-class hotel, four good general merchandise stores, one drug store, two weekly newspapers, one steam saw-mill, blacksmith shop, a line large public school building, two enureses, and other minor businesses, PIONEER, or MORRISON, Is a station on the P. R. R., about three miles from Elk City, ,U this place Is located the famous Pioneer Sandstone quarry. The products of this quarry becommiug Justly celebrated all over the coast. As a building stone it is unexcelled, Large quantities of it are being shipiied to Ban rancisco where It is used In the construction of some of the mammoth buildings of that city, The quarry employs a large number of man and Is building up a large industry. On up the railroad are tho stations of Chit ood, Eddyvllle and Little Elk, all ot them tradirig'polnts of some Importance, l,'t . ,, ' The Stieti Reservation lu the north-part ot the county lies the famous Slletz Indian reservation, now soon to be thrown ppe'A forsettlement. This reservation Is among thelast of the Indian lands to be opened to the whites, and otters about the last opportunity the prospective settler will have In securing a otue from Uncle sain. The Indiana having been allotted their lands and one hundred and eighty thousand acres remaining which will be umed back to the general government and be homesteaded and taken under the timber aot. ihe Slletz river is navigable for twenty-five miles up from its mouth tor all classes of .river boat. Along the river on either side for three miles Inland are large bodies of rich tide land, and for the next twenty miles large sandy bot ttipis extend from the rivers edge, varying In w Idth from two hundred yards to a quarter of a. mile. This territory has never been visited by a fire and there are millions of feet of fine fit;, larch and cedar timber. Large deposits of coal are known to exist, the quality of which is the same as that of the magnificent Depot Slough coal. On this reservation can be found some of the best agricultural and grazing land tin the coast. All the preliminary work look ing to the opening ot the reservation has. been done, and It is only awaiting1 the President's proclamation announcing it open for settle ment, when the pioneer's ax will startle the wild elk and deer from their natural haunts; when capital will take up the echo and soon, where but a few months before nothing but the wild animals' harsh notes and wlerd chants of a few old Indians, the remlnantsof aonce power ful tribe, was heard as they paid their tribute to old Medicine Rock, will be heard the music of the saw and hammer. Civilization shall con q'uor the earth. Jtlscellaaaoaa. Owing to the mild climate and absenee of frost, fruit of all kinds that can be raised in Ore gon do exceedingly well here. large orchards of prunes, apples and pears are being set out and so far have proved to be perfectly free from all fruit pests, common In the Willamette Val ley and California. Lincoln County will be the banner fruit County In Oregon. ' ' ' The Oregon Pacific Railroad which has its ter minus at Yaquina City, has reached the Cal cade mountains and Is operating one hundred and forty miles of road. And as soon' as tbli road makes connection with an eastern road and becomes a trans continental line opening op the great wool and wheat belts, of eastern Oregon, Yaquina Bay will then become a for midable rival of other ports on the Peclficcoast of known tame. Lincoln County offers better Inducements than any other county In Oregon for capital, Lincoln County often good Inducements for nomeseexeri. Lincoln County has many undeveloped re sources only sleeping for the want of capital. Lincoln County wants business men, working men, farmers and capitalists. It takes all kinds of people tomakeauddevelopacountry. Take Horace Greely's advise aud come west, where blizzards and cyclones are unknown; where every man's latoh string hangs on the outside : where the warm breath of the grand old Pacific paints brilliant colors on mid-winter flowers; where Ayers Ague Cure Is of no more value than a bushel ot sand ; where fever and malaria are strangers and outcasts; where an honest, In dustrlous man can make him a home and be as free and Independent aa Governor Pennoyer. If you are ao old man come aud view a sunset down by the sea, rest your mind and be care free for a while. If you are a yonng man come and grow up with the country. It yon are a mon eyed man come and double your capital. II you are a single man come and see our girls, If you are a sickly man come and get your health. II you are a tourist come and see our evergreen hills, our Newport, our Beat Rocks, come and stand on old Caqe Foulweather. the farthest point west, and cast your eye out on the loam lng, rolling, restless, dashing, breaking, roar lug, angry ocean waves, and se In them a like ness of the human family, always moving iTin Petition for Liquor License. mo THE HONOR ABLE, THE COUNTY COIRT X of Lincoln County, in the State of Oregon: We the undersigned legal electors of Yaquina Preelnet Nu. ltl. in Lincoln county. State of Oregon, respectfully petition you that a license be granted to 11, 0. Wulf, of said precinct, county ana state, to sen man, spirituous or vinous liquors in less quantities than one gal lon at Yaquina City in said precinct No 1(1, for the term of one year from the loth day of Mav. 1696; said precinct No, 10, being over one mile ui.mui tium any i-uiiege or uuiveisiiy iu lue state of Oregon ; and your petitioners will ever The expense account of Union county for .six months, from the ist day of October, 1894, to March 31, 1S95, amounts to $35,246.13. The comity owes $217,181,57, end has, resources of $172,915.64, An order has been issued by the Secretary of the Interior directing that all the whites be removed from the Nez i?erce reservation pending the openidg of the same to settle ment. This, will apply to those who have rented lamls from Indians on the reservation, as well as to others now 011 the place. ' W. D. Fenton, one of the leading attorneys pf Portland, has decided in the case wherein he acted' as referee, that the law of 1893 pro viding for homestead exemption from execution is invalid. He declares that the law as approved by the governor is not the same , "OS passed by the senate. ' )' ' nrav. . r. .... Alien ramer, John Rollins, T. W. liormaii, K. (. Johnson, II. M. Bruuk. Thomas Favey, Luclen (ilgnac, W, T. llohauan, A, II. Howe, A. K, Kmlth, Patrick Doherty, 11, ji, jwki-ukd, (ieorge II. Lambert, . Jenkins, Jonn iuenuerger, rat egie, .11, .-iiacsey, (I. C. Cnftln, Prank Parker, J. A. llearn, Jas. Robertson, chns. Anderson, L.J, Dlftenbaoher, John Haas, 11, Hansen, 11, T, Prossper, j, E, Alexander, II, I), llelnrich, J, B, Lewis. Joe Kendall, Jas, Nagle, chas. Uordon, W. II, Huntsiicker, Wm, Weaver, b, 1. , otover, J, R, Short, Wm, Stephens, Thomas Nagle, L, Y. Wilson, Rocoo Potelll, Mark Winaiit, M, Roddy, A, L. Taylor, J. C, HunlBuokor, ( has, Trask, James Beach, James Fuller, J. J, Boone, V, l), Boone, K, Harrington, H, S, Cooper, c, Hoelliue, Jesse L, Morris, B, L, Casteel, C. A, Miller. A, II. Crow tier, J. P. Simpson, II. K. Lugger, lieo. Hgelllno, Henry'Kokhart, W. P. Howell. To Whom It mo T, Harrison, J.iraig, J,M. Divine, In the circuit court at Corvallis Friday C, .H."Blanchard pleaded , guilty to a charge of larceny from a dwelling, and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. The1 liiui of A1011.0 Habkius, eiiuigeu with assault with intent to commit -, rape upon the person of Opal Wil kins, occupied the attention of the court during a greater portion of. the day. The state failed, to pre-'; seut a very .strong ,.case, qnd after being out only a few minutes the jury returned a;, verdict, of not guilty. ' VvV Cv -.'1, D. V. Scott. E, S, Harrington, A, S, Casteel, K. M. Logan, Move Ixigau, W. II. Ixigan, B, Waugh, V, llalierinan, Karl Ludwlg, W. L. Watklns, John Logan. it Concern:, ion are hereby notlhed, In accordance with 'and pursuant to the foregoing petition, that I will, oil the 10th lar ot Har. 18U5, at the hour of 10. o'clock, of said day, nresent said petition to the County Court of Lincoln countv. -Oruiron for license to sell malt,, spirituous and vinous liquors in less quantities in one. gallon, at Yaquina preelnet .no, hi, in than Yauulna Cltv Lincoln County, Oregon, lor a turin of one year irom earn aaie. , II. C. WULF Yaquina City, Oregon, April 0, 1M always restless, aiwars sir: Vaquina lie? and Uocolu Couu Kotlce. United States Land Office, '-Oregon City, Oregon, March 22, 1895. Notice is hereby given that the approved plat of survey of Town ship 6 South, Range 11 West, has been received trom the surveyor General of Oregon, and on May. o. 1BSJ5. at 9 o'clock a. m. ot said day said plat will be filed in this office and the land therein embraced will be subject to entry on and after said date. Robert A. Miller, Register, Peter Paquet, Receiver. Ipatray Notice, Notice is hereby given that nave taken up an estray on my tilace about miles from Toledo described as follows; ' One' darfe brindle cow, small white "spot on ioreneaa, up pi iau wnuc, ana a little white on brisket; about seven veaisold. The owner is notified to prove property and pay all legal charges thereon or said estray will be advertised and sold as by law required. Dated this 8th day of April, 1895 Charles E. Montgomery. to rcs-ih tLe Notice. Parties knowing themselves to be indebted to me are requested to call and settle at once. My books are closed and all accounts will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection April 15th. P, Tellefson. 1 imn. 1.1 For Rent. House and barn and five acres of garden land near the Yaquina Bay. Terms reasonable. Inquire of R. F. Baker, Newport, Ore. It now transpires that Pennoyer issued twenty-two pardons and commutations to inmates of the ... penitentiary after he made his famous order excluding reporters, and the public generally from . the . records in such cases. Many of . . the commutations were made to , take effect after his successor had taken charge of the office. This was most brazen effrontry, inas much as it was equivalent to saying , that his successor was not qualified to pass intelligently upon the matt ter. But this phase of itl.e;.aflair..;. was the least pernicious. The . worst part was the trampling down -. of the decision of law aud setting aside the sentences of judges, and turning loose upon the state a horde ' of criminals whom the courts had . ' been to great expense and troubled to convict. There is no assertion I that these sentences were unjust beoause the parlies were convicted. -It is peculiar that the rapist were not left out of. these commuted-: criminals. A, ' , Some have misconstrued the idea - of the 'LeAder, last week in refer- ence to the county money in the 'j hands of the defunct Hamilton, Job & Co. bank. We believe that the ' officers and their bondsmen should- have beeu held ' primarily for the " money deposited in the banks.' There was no business sense in the county at that time looking else where for the county money. But this was not done. The county " court took ir outf of their hands and .', assumed the burden of the same, aud started a suit for the recovery of the same. "' We don't believe that the county can now in the face of these acts of its court recover from these bondsmen, Already much money has been expended in useless court and attorney fees, and we don't believe that the county would be justified in pursuing the case further in the courts. A.11 these court, and at.torne fees must be pajd by faxes wrung from our. people, and we hejieve that enough. money nas gone m tqat direction. We will admit that the county has been wronged out of the money, and that officers aud their bondsmen should have been held strictly responsible for the funds in their hands. The only thing about ii is that it is cheaper for the county to lose the money entirely than to bear the expense of a heavy suit against the bonds of the sheriff and bondsmen with a great probability of getting beat, It is simply an experience lesson of $1,380.29, and should learn the county in the future that official bonds are made for the protection of the county, and act accordingly. The war cloud on theborizen be tween Great Britain and ?'lrara" gua has about disappeared. 1