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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1896)
Tender git sfw . . Trl J t4-r-T-i r -- -: ii j - r - ; blume IV. Toledo, Lincoln County, Oregon, Thursday, September 24, 1896. Number 29. BlBECTOllY. IWCOLN COUNTY. .Representative. !lj JIMS" aissionera 1 Tol. Carter E. K. Lake J. O. Steams B. F. Joticb George Lanilis J. L. Hyde 8. G. Irvin Z. M. Derrick Hilas Howell T. M. Coombs Chas. Williams 1;. A. Godwin -i fvi.rf nuto r.r WnA iriiter tte lirst Monday in February, June, Augusii u CIRCUIT COUKT. j.C.Fallerton :v.'"1"Ke Y(leJ Pros. Attorney na Alt Ath M.itiitnv hi .llllv anil nflfOIlViMUJBUi. .............. ihHonitny In January of each year. CITY OF TOLEDO. ... Mavnr '.. Recorder ."m Marshal Jrl0: . Alexander Ii1"1 Aldermen Peterson I Mtl Fit Wuijb, J mil meets on the lirst Monday evening In BlODtll. TOLEDO PRECINCT. J. A. Hall J. C.Altreo :.i of the Peace NEWPORT. ire ol the Peace ieo. F. Sylvester siiit, W. H. CrutckUeld YAQl'IXA. ;i ol the Peace, '. P. Booth .able V. L. Watkius ELK CITY. if ol the Peace A. It. Clerk uble, Alex llurkhaltor LITTLE ELK. ieolthe Peacu Chas. Henderson able Z. 8. Derrick NASHVILLE, itenlthe Peace J. S. Huntlnxton B..uUe N. I'". Edwards I1KAVER CREEK. i'sol the Peace Sain'l Mil uble Joseph (iourley TIDEWATER. ire o! the Peace N. .T. Goodman able W. A. Vidito LOIWTElt. iteolthePeacii L. A. Peek itWe V. I' Taylor LOWER A1.SEA and Y ACHATS. 'ire nl the Peace Wm. Wakefield uwe John Early SALMON P.1VER :ireol the Peace Ch.ia Rond im M. Burton ROSS. tire ol the Peace w. II. rook tt3e Geo. E. Croxford iliRCHES AND SOCIETIES. F.TIWDIPT EPISCOPAL CIIURCII-f'ervlces r n rt) inroc week's, morning and evening: MttMlne after morning srrvlec; Sablinth W. every Sabbath at 10 o'clock a. m.; prayer wngon neanesdav evenings. S. W. POTTER, Pastor. ji lilllVS CHURCH Protestant ErilBcoiml. 'iTrtneserrt'ie the third Sunday of everv , 11a.m. All are invited to attend. mil. Booth, Missionary. Residence, Mary, Newport, Or. 'rwr Saturday evening at their hall in this 1.1'ROSSO, Reu'v, J. R. TURNIDOE, N. U. .n Fii.,. t .... . ... . . ' 1In' Jaqtunacity, ik.; 1 ",es"a evening, visiting Are are always welcome. ARROWS, Secretary.' Ulli,fi'U- 'O.F.-Ncwnort Lodire No. m. mpptq fiverv trt.H.y Vmi""- visiting brothers nre cor- Onv'u '2 "Itcm1, L' - OLSSOX, X. G. ' ", cccimtirj . I.U.ll-V.,. ...j-.... . mm-. I'm i. i,uuKein. po, regular l !r?ll0S 1..? Saturday on or before each HmH '"iiuiK nnnners are coruiauy JUS BUCKLEY, fjeey" ' CntlTthimMlV. v.... , mii. -""mi i.u. ,..i iiiumiiu union, fleets on Rfunnrf an U l.-IJ -1 'month t.. "V""""11 """J1 "!""" II K pf iii, " """ menus are welcome. fc f J-AlRb, Sec. B. F. JON KS. Pres. No. 70, Kcr.e!;nh Degree, fcil m7" 111 n Md Follows hall in f'niyon Tuesdav event n .h ...t ETOru ir,v, JENNIE ARNOLD, N. G, '"ICE AKIN, Secretary. r'ni(l(Qib?''ln':olnPostNo-B8. nests i" Sitnln," , 'o nan ipu tuu 11181. anu 5'rtaysoI each month. 'H, Adjutant. STAKELY, P. C. nrit.inl .vi j V C,1UWB nan, lHiiuina, W vt.tit . Saturday evenings in each "'ng brothers are always welcome. VIS,ReCrdHe-rK'LU(i0EK'M-W- Pw .... i" C.msv'YEv,1"12 VtORLD.-Pocahontus hm.ni?i,2!?',Tule',0 Oregon, meets on teudd Fell th";,lTh,lr,"lRy in eack month in J welcome. "ng neignDors are ARNOLD, GEO. BETHERS. consul. cieri. I A- HAM,, Justice of the Peace ) l'oledo, Oregon, rii. u '"ettiied ui.k r ' ana Bl1 kinds of legal papers "'n to ail k. "eetness. Careful attention business entrusted to my care. EN'S, YAQUINA. SPECIAL SALE! Of 250 pairs of Ladies' fine Kid Shoes Patent Leather tip, Hand sewed, C and D widths.,, FORMERLY $3.50, NOW 82.25 DEXLINGmi, Attorney-at-Law, " TOLEDO, OREGON. ISUn Idea Who ean think of tome ilmpl thin (7 tn rkstAntf Attor- FALL and WIHTE DRY GOODS, OLOTHIIfG, BOOTS asad SHOES, HATS and CAPS, JUST Court House Gossip. Judge Stearns has been busy during the past week making up briefs in the various probate cases now pending in order that he may be fully informed of the status of each case. A force are at work in the county clerk s office making copies of the delinquent tax roll as turned in by Sheriff Landis. The delinquent roll has more names on it this year than ever before, but the amount of tax is not so great owing to the tact that several large taxpayers heretofore delinquent are among the paid up taxpayers this year. County Clerk Jones is busy mak ing up his financial report for the fear ending September 30, 1896. . . County Assessor Howell, assisted by Miss Effie Crosno, are at work correcting the present owner book and bringing it up to date. The present owner maps have been dis carded and will be no longer used. The reason assigned is that the maps could not be corrected to show change of ownership, as the names on the tracts and margin of the maps were inerasable. Coll Van Cleve has been awarded the contract for printing one hun dred election notices. His bid was $1.25 for seventy-five paper and 25 cloth notices. The Leader bid $1.25 for paper notices or $2.25 for cloth notices. The Newport News bid $1.00 for paper or $2.50 for cloth. The notices will only con tain the notice of election of four. presidential electors. The notices last spring that contained four times as many names of offices voted for cost $1.50. The assessor has turned over his roll for 1896 to the county. The roll shows an increase over last year in the amount of taxable property. Last year the total was $695,056, while this year the total is $856,480, a gain of $161,424. Of this gain a large part is made on the Siletz, that country showing a good in crease of taxable property during the past year. A COMPLETE LINE OF RUBBER BOOTS, OIL CLOTHING, ETC. CUSTOM TAILORING A SPECIALTY. Mail and Express Orders Promptly Filled, The prospect for litigation over the salary of the sheriff and clerk seems to be very good at the present time. These officers have been waiting since July 1st for some sort of interpretation of the amount of their pay by the court, but none has yet been made. They are now waitine till the court meets in October, and if no satisfactory ar rangements can then be made we understand that suit jvill be brought against the county. The county has just got rid of a lot of costly litieation, and the taxpayers will look with considerable dread upon another series of lawsuits. will drag through the most of the session. At intervals the legisla ture may take up a Portland charter bill, or some such measure. But there is a fervent hope among the peOple.of the. state that the legislature may bring about some reform in the method of assessments and of taxpaying in the state. In the present method of assessing for the purpose of taxation there are many, glaring defects. Much property esoapes taxation entirely, and much of it is wrongly assessed. It is expensive and cumbersotne. There is 110 use of assessing real property to owners, except for con venience in the way of notifications, etc. All record property should be assessed to the description and not the owner. The same should apply to all mortgage notes ot which there is a record. Fersonal property and improvements on real property should be assessed by pre cinct assessors. A large percent of increase of personal property would be returned by precinct assessors, owing to their intimate knowledge of the taxable nroperty in their precincts. In the matter of taxpaying there exists much room for reform. Taxes should be made payable in installments, say one-half in March and the other half in September. This might add a little to the work of the sheriff as tax collector, but it would prove a real benefit to the people, and would be the means of securing the payment of a much greater proportion of taxes. The collecting of taxes should be taken out of the hands of the sheriff en tirely, only on a warrant for sale of property by execution, and placed in the hands of the treasurer. He is the proper person to receive and disburse the taxes of a county. With these reforms in force the people would feel some needed relief. But it will probably be impossible to secure all or any of these reforms. It has become a lamentable fact in Oregon that as soon as an attempt is made by the legislature in Oregon to bring about any needed reform to cut off some of the unusual and unnecessary expense of govern ment, that some class of officials feel their pocket books touched and immediately a strong lobby assembles at Salem and the reform measure is defeated by some hook or crook. ONE PRICE O'BRIEN'S CASH STORE. Two Needed Reforms. In all our hurry and worry about free silver, sound money, McKinley and Bryan, we should not forget that Oreeon is to have a biennal session of legislature this winter. It is true, that to judge the session that is to come by those that bave gone before it, there is nothing very encouraging to the taxpayers of Oregon in the prospect of an other legislative session. About the only thing held out in prospec tive at the present time is a fight over the election of senator, and the division of spoils. Wepresume, of course, that the fight for senator Queries. Does the number of cars on a railroad regulate the amount of produce raised along the line, or does the amount of produce regulate the number of cars run on the road? Does the number of plows for sale in the agricultural houses represent the number of acres to be cultivated, or does the number of acres to be plowed regulate the number of plows? Does the amount of business done in a country regulate the volume of currency, or does the volume of currency regulate the volume of business? uregon estate fair t Opens at Salem, . Wednesday, October 7th; closes 13th. McKin-ley-Bryan debate. Pioneer barba cue. A great stock, poultry and agricultural exposition. Fast horses; great races. Grand music by Parsons. Excursion rates. $20,000 in premiums, purses and prizes.. Admission 25c. insa oar