LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER.
l.Y. SIKWABT.WItur sad Proprietor.
'ublinhed every Thursday at Toledo, Lincoln
County, Oregon.
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Business locals will be Inserted In these col
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secoud-clais mail matter.
Portland's Indebtedness.
When times were good the peo
ple of Portland Incurred an indebt
edness that is really alarming. Ac
cording to a statement of Mr. J. N.
Teal, of that city recently published,
the bonded indebtedness of the city
is $5,317,683, requiring an annual
interest payment of $273,014.64.
Multnomah county has an indebted
ness consisting of interest bearing
warrants outstanding of $197,730,
on which there is an annual interest
of $15,518. Added to this the
county owes the state interest on
state taxes a sum amounting $57,-
I 1 o
for Portland and Multnomah coun
ty, which are practically one and
the same, of $5,573. 131. This
entire indebtedness has been created
since 1887, or in less than eight
years. To offset this vast indebt
edness they have $274,201 deposited
in the bursted banks of Portland.
Some ot these funds will be realized
on, but a very small portion of
them will be. Last year the gross
valuation of city and county was
$5376.495. ad the total levy was
27.1 mills, making a total tax of
$1,456,909, to be raised, or a little
over $16 for every man, woman
and child in the city of Portland.
it is estimated tnat it will require
$1,524,000 to run their county and
city during the present fiscal year,
requiring at least a thirty mill
levy.
It would seem to the layman that
it would be nobody's business ex
cept those in the districts taxed,
but to a considerable extent the
people of the state are interested.
In the first place the same set of
debtcreating political financeers
that have brought the city of Port
land and Multnomah county to the:
verge of bankruptcy, are the same
persons who have been striving
hard to control the business of the
state, and to a, certain extent, they
have been successful. The profli
gate waste ami almost criminal
expenditures of the last two sessions
of the state legislature have borne
a similar mark of reckless financier
ing. And unless these people
loosen their fangs from the state
government, it is only a question
of time until the state will be in
the same hopeless condition, finan
cially, that Portland and Multnomah
county are.
Again, Portland is the wholesale
and distributing center of a large
part of the state of Oregon, and
when heavy taxes are laid on the
wholesaler, he in turn will add it
to the price of his goods to the
retailer, who in turn must add
the pri?? to t'-e r",i'iTier
People who file homestead claims
on the available lands of the Siletz
reservation are required to strictly
follow to the letter, the instruc
tions given in President Cleveland's
proclamation, announcing the open
ing of the reservation. At one
minute past twelve on the day of
of opening 0 the reservation, July
25th, three men appeared at tbe
Oregon City land office and filed
their affidavits and non-mineral
affidavits showed that they had
been ever the land prior to noon
July 25th, 1895, in conflict with
the president's proclamation re
quiring applicant to state that he
did not enter upon and occupy any
portion of the lands prior to the day
and hour of opening. Saturday an
application was received by mail
for a homestead entry on the reser
vation lands, but was not accom
panied by the required special
affidavit. Register Miller says that
he will not entertain any applica
tions for homestead entry where the
person has ever been on the lands
prior to the day arid hour of open
ing, and he is supported in this
ruling by a precedent established at
the opening of the Oklahoma reser
vation, and ull Indian reservations
that have been thrown open to
ceiver Paquet, however, does not
agree with the register in his ruling,
and expresses the opinion that only
those who occupied the lands prior
to the date of opening, should be
debarred from making entry on
these lands; that the instructions
has no reference to anyone who
casually passed over tbe lands at
any time in the past. Register
Miller cites an incident wherein a
man applied for an entry on lands
on the Oklahoma reservation, which
was refused because he had passed
over the lands 14 years previous,
while in the employ of the govern
ment as a teamster. But in reply
to this, Receiver Paquet asserts
that the opening of the Oklahoma
reservation has nothing to do with
the opening of the Siletz reservation.
For some reason the plats, of a
number of the fractional townships
on the reservation have not been
filed in the land office at Oregon
City, but these are now being pre
pared in the surveyor-general's
office, and the register and receiver
have posted notices to the effect
that these fractional townships will
be subject to entry on and after
August 26, 1895.
matter of fact a large portion ut i.iv.
excessive and outrageous taxes
inflicted on Portland by its ring of
political fiuauciers are paid by the
consumers of the state at large.
To the extent of these two burdens
nnd dangers are the people of
Oregon vitally interested.
Julius Iovenberg, the Portland
capitalist nnd banker, lias leased
the stove foundry at the penitentiary
at Salem for a term of ten years at
nn annual rental of $2,000 per year.
He has also made a contract with
the state nuthorities 'to employ
prison labor. For this labor lie
agrees to pay 35 cents per day per
man. He employes 100 convicts
to start with and agrees to employ
nn additional 25 every six months
until all are employed that
available. I.owenberg was
Growers of alsike clover, who are
not familiar with its habit of growth,
are surprised to find that when the
crop is cut in full bloom the plant
dies, instead of springing up into a
second growth, as red clover does.
Both are biennials, but the alsike
clover seeds with with its June
crop, while the common red clover
does not, but perfects a second crop
before any seed is formed. The
large red clover produces seed with
its first crop, and excepting the few
plants that have not seeded will not
sprout to grow a second crop. It
is this habit of alsike in drying out
after it lias been cut that makes it
so valuable to seed with timothy
lue latter plant grows slowly at
first, but after the alsike is off it
to I begins to grow more rapidly, and
Si as a j will often yield a late crop of a ton
The Omaha correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune claims to have
come into possession of facts which
show that the government has no
legal mortgage upon the Union
Pacific property to foreclose;- - that
no default in payment . of interest
can be shown, and that the govern
ment cannot if it would, foreclose
on any part of the debt prior to
January, 1898.
"If the moneys," the correspon
dent says, "which the Pacific rail
roads.claim from the government
for services rendered were allowed
and added to the sinking fund, the
gross amount would be sufficient to
meet the entire principal and
interest charges accrued on United
States bonds up to the,.issuesduein
January, 1889.
"There is no attempt made to
excuse, condone, or in any way
palliate the disgraceful manner iq
which the finances of the Union
Pacific were engineered during tbe
early existence of the company.
The question was not, so far as the
line itself is concerned, one of ven
geance or retribution for wrong-doing
in the past, but rather to save
the government as much as can be
saved from the wreck of these
properties. Whatever Tobberies
may nave oeen committed, in the
past, it is claimed the company
itself has not been benefitted there
by, but rather tbe treasury, and the
road itself" has been robbed by
individuals, many of whom have
become enormously rich and the
property has become depreciated
and has been despoiled."
Little doubt is expressed that the
United States has its remedy
against all who have in any way
profited by the despoliation of the
Union Pacific road. To prove the
foregoing assertions abstracts from
the various acts of congress, un
doubtedly furnished by Union Pa
cific attorneys, are quoted by the
correspondent, but are too volumin
ous to be reproduced.
Mr. Case, a well-known pioneer
resident of Marion county, who has
a huckleberry patch on his farm,
has sold his last load of berries for
the season. The area in huckle
berries he says, would amount to
five acres, but it is scattered in
patches over aliout 100 acres. He
has hauled away from the patch
over 5,000 pounds, and has sold
another thousand pounds, realizing
on the w hole nearlv $ 100. He looks
on his huckleberry patch as the
most profitable part of his farm,
and has had a man employed for
six weeks to watch it, as people
come from a distance to gather the
berries for him.
When in Toledo
Call on N. Snow and
get prices of Flour
and Feed. Also get
prices on Goods.
All Goods sold cheap
for Cash.
. SNOW,
Toledo, Or.
per acre. This cannot so well os
done by sowing the mammoth
clover, for its growth is usually so
heavy that it will fall down and
smother the timothy under it.
Timothy under alsike clover is
only slightly checked while the
clover is growing. Aftet the alsike
is dead its roots decaying in the soil
will keep the timothy vigorous for
three or four years, when without
it the grass would have run out in
half that time American Cultivator.
The old maids of Boston must
have taken the Oregon cherry as
sonic kind of a wonderful baked
bean, or else ha I seen nothing but
beans for so long that they were
are ravenous for something better, be
thel cause the report comes from there
former owner of the stove plant at that Oregon cherries sold at 30
the penitentiary and sold it to the ! cents per pound.
state for $!"o,ooo in 1893. The! ..
rental to be paid by I.owenberg is f It is expected that 7,000 horses
3i4 per cent, on the capital invested! WN DC shipped from Arlington this
by the state. . fall to the Li tin ton slaughter-house.
Orago:i viio i:np;acb country
but of late years it has lost its
reputation, except the southern
portion of th 2 state. The cause of
the ruin of peach culture has been
principally that drea 1 disease curl
leaf. Heretofore there has been no
remedy found for this disease, but
many horticulturists bars been late
ly experimenting with Bordean
mixture, and claim that in this
they have' found a remedy that is
effective and inexpensive. Should
this prove to be a soverjgn remedy
we may yet see peaches growing
successtully on the coast slope.
It is estimated that the proposed
v',1 rost $110,
000,000. The congressional com
mittee now investigating it will
recommend either the building of
the canal by the government of the
United States or the subsidizing of
a company to build the same. It is
hardly probable that a subsidy will
be recommended in the face of the
frauds enacted on the government
through the medium of the Pacific
railroad subsidies.
flLaiJs. TifAaM All
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'"' W. E. RICH, Prop.
I have fitted up a first-class shop
and invite the patronage of the
people of Toledo and vicinty.
CHARGES FOR GRINDING.
Razors honed ready for use 0.'J5
Razors grond and honed ready for use f0
Kazors re-srround nd honed ready for use, .75
Hazors ground half concave "5
tnree-quarier concave
" " full concave 1.00
Shears sharpened 25
I-irst-class work uaranteed or
money refunded. Interested par
ties will be benefitted by sending
their grinding to me.
W. E. RICH, Toledo,. Oregon
JOB
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John Rexford w rites from Harlan,
Lincoln county, saying they have
a fine mountain climate and raise
plenty of grain -an 1 gar 'en stuff.
I Last winter they had no snow
j their cattle kep! fat until sprin
Tolk County I'.emuer.
i,nd
The latest estimate gives 7,000,
000 pounds, as allowing the amount
of wool which has passed through
the warehouses in The Dalles this
summer.
Gov. McKhley denies that he
belongs to th' A. P A.
Aregon Central
& Eastern lily.
YAQUINA BAY ROUTE
Connecting at Yaquina Bay with the
San Francisco and Yaquina Bay
Steamship Company
STEAMSHIP FAliALLOX,
A I and first-class in every respect
Sails from Yaquina for San Fran
Cisco about every 8 days. Pas
seneer accommodations unsnr.
pissed. Shortest route between
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THE SUPREME COURT
In the 0. P. ease hns iWirlprl in fnvor
Bonner & Hammond, who will make thin
boom, and Collins JCpll JleaL;
Agents, have some m-JaVftlnis'in Fa
and City property and Tide lands, i
some places to trade and rent. To be
this great wave of prosperity, you sfe
call on or address them immediately
Toledo, Oregon.
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