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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1896)
Toledo .Market Report. Eggs,.. Butter, fresh 3oc, packed 25c. ranch 15c to 25c. creamer' 55 per roll. 40c to 50c per bu. ;i to ic per lb. $4-6o per bbl. $1 per cwt. $i.io per cwt. 45c per bu. $1 oer hn !arsniPs $1 per cwt. $10 per ton. $10 per ton. '$1.50 per cwt. Potatoes Cabbage Flour.... ! Bran Shorts,... ats iVhect... Carrots Hay Chittem Is coming on and will want you WANTED. One hundred bush els of good Potatoes ion subscription. Will allow the highest market price when delivered at any rail road or river point. The Clerk and Sheriff Salary. j No further comment was made upon i the subject until March, 1 S96, when Toledo, Or., Dec. 12, 1S96. in an appeal taken from Multnomah Editoi Leader- j count' tlle supreme court decided , . that the clerk and sheriff of Lin- As there has been much talk over coln county were under the sa,;,rv the matter of the salaries of sheriff law. But the legislature having and clerk during the past four , failed to fix these salaries, the clerk months, and as the action of the ' and sheriff still continted under the county court has been pending for I ee system; unl he Corvallis at ti,of a r . .. : torneys refused to file papers under hat period of time and no decision this tem aml thel ,erk WM had been reached by the county j threatened to be sued. Therefore, court, we have refrained from dis-' after consulting the county court cussing the matter, and we do not I the collrt decided that we were to now want to enter into a newspaper Sti" Contilule )mcr. ,tlie, ? V" t , , as tar as our individual fees were discussion over the matter, but as !concerned) but to accept the Newport News has seen fit to j from attorneys who wished papers take the matter up as appears from filed, as under the salary law of the following iteu from that paper of date December 9, 1896 1S95. ' The coivrt instructing us to serve under this system until our , '-'"bJouusui.-Mu uu tlme m July, l89fi tb ld salaries wil undoubtedly cut off a again Ir the matter, sav g T PPcratlc that it was best for all concerned to lt,,f n e' ta,x-ers I continue under the fee system until Stw , "S- f,OUg keeHthe meeting of the next legislature, mgthat thnigmexistei.ee.- j When Judge Stearns was ap We deem it but justice that the pointed by the Governor to fill the citizens of the county should hear unexpired term v( Judge Burt, lie both sides of question. Therefore rulecl tlult we were not properly we shall state the facts as they tH t? . appear, and for the information of w to lo, " rt ' ' , " .,, " lething To read during the long Winter evenings. You can get any Or Magazine of any note in the United States at reduced rates when clubbed with the der. AND SEE ABOUT IT. mnm 11 mm OTTO O. KliOOSTAD, Reg. Pharmacist. DRUGS, BOOKS Etc. Toledo, - Oregon Jt A. PARENT, 31. D., C. M, Special attention yircn to Dis eases of Women, and Surgery. the News man as he seems to think this is a political matter. We will only add that ever since the crea tion of the county of Lincoln the county court has been republican and the present court is all com posed of republicans. Therefore, we cannot see how the News man can take grounds that a democratic clerk and populist sheriff can be held to support a populist paper as he terms the Leader, as the system. lheretore, in Septem ber, 1896 we filed a petition claim ing the same salaries as provided bv jlaw to the sheriff and clerk of Ben ton county and praying for the court to give us a hearing at once and to answer our petition yes or no, so as to give us time to act in the matter. The judge referred the matter to the district attornev, who gave the court bis views of tho law and decided that we were not under any salary, and that the court could nx our salaries until .sticil time as Toledo, Oregon Two Good Papers FUU THE Price of One. We have made arrangements by which we can offer THE WORLD FAMOUS mylralltaPna -AND- Tlie Leader ONE YEAR for $2.00. The Weekly Free Press Is a Large Twelve Page Weekly, and Has the Largest Number of Special Contributors of any Weekly Pubished in America TWpaftnr the writings of "M. Ound." the Fa mous Humorist, will bo published Exclusively in the Free Press. It also has a special "Merry Times" Department tor the Children, and a Special Woman's Page. SPECIAL CLUBBINd OFFER. The Oregon Statesma Till March 1st for Only 35 went. Every taxpayer should read a Salem paper this winter. She Oiegon Weekly Statesman Is the blggcs, brightest, cheapest and best paper puqllshed at the capital. The legislature meets In Janhary. Needed laws are to be passed and a U. 8. senator Is to beelccted. Everybody will want to read a good paper this winter from the seat of war and to all wo ehecifully recom mend the Statesman. It is fearless and free spoken. It urges economy along alt llnesof state government, and is waging war in tko in terest of the taxpayers. Taxation must be re duccd by abolishing all useless commissions and correcting abuses. The Statesman is the only reliably republican Associated Press paper in Oregon. It consists of twolve pages weekly Its subscription price Is 11.60 per ycai , but by a special arrangement with the publishers we have arranged to supply It to our subscribers from this date until the adjournment of the legislature three month! good reading for only V cents. Forward all subscriptions to the STATESMAN, SALEM, OR. Send in your or ders light away the sooner you send, the more yoo will jet f r o ey. court get their own priming done; ! !he lesislature should meet. Clos- i , . . j mg his opinion in the follow!;"- and we suppose tha: the Leader ,s j .,And j take thelity the official county paper by reason j Gf suggesting to you, in view of th'? of its having a larger circulation ambiguity of the law relating tlicrc than the News. The clerk and j to. that you make the same reason sheriff certainly have the right orabl.y. liberal-" Therefore, after anv other citi-en to rive their wa,llnK f"r and a half mouths the , , ftUe tUe.lr : county court, at its December term, individual support any paper to fixcd the salaries as follows: The whom they please. Again, the sheriff, $150 per mouth, and the sheriff and clerk do not audit their 'clerk, $100 per month, own bills, and if they have been: Now as to the work of the county ,. r 1 . i- .,! clerk. In Kenton county the count v allowed too mucn fees heretofore it c!erUs clerk of the circuit court stands to reason that the county and receives the sum of $150 per court is certainly implicated in the month and is ah-o allowed one matter, and should bear their burden ' deputy at $2 per day for and during of the News man's spicy item. encli meeting o the county and i ,T . t, .... : circuit courts, also additional help j Now as to the present trouble in )nakin hjs a:iscssn!Cllt j over the salaries. 1 he law creat- delinquent rolls. I iug Lincoln county, Section S, reads The county clerk of Lincoln as follows: 1 county is also cleric ot the circuit "The sheriff and clerk of said : urt and also county recorders, ex county shall receive the same fees Ior '" serylc as recorder as are now allowed by law to the oft0 ""'ty the recorder r- sheriff and clerk of Benton county. " . ceivcs an nnn"al salttry r'000 ....... ., . . ... ! per year also $20 per month depntv At that tune the sheriff and clerk )lire, Therefore. it will be seel, of Benton county were working that the clerk and recorder of Ben under the fee system. Therefore, ton county receives the sum of the sheriff and clerk of Lincoln $2,800, besides deputy hire, for county commenced and continued (1'TF thf sanle wo.rk that the clerk , , r , . of Lincoln county is asked to do for to work under the fee system, being $I )200 per amlmn And th(J re. allowed by the court the same fees cord matter is as great in Lincoln as the clerk and sheriff of Benton as in Benton county. county received for like services.! The expense of the clerk's office During the last session of the legis- j ,S "e A?ty ,at ?5 P,f month' amlf , t b , , -rr , , ,, 'extra help during the term of lature, when- tne sheriff and clerk s j circuit collrts and for nwkil,B the salaries could have been fixed, assessment rolls and delinquent tax Hon. J. D. Daly, joint representa-' rolls, for which we have paid out tive of Benton and Lincoln counties, ! ?vcr $9 Per annum. Thus leav- having his attention called to this !!"g thc cf1?rk m thya,ttry fixcd h b , it . . , : the court less than $300 per annum matter, called upon the sheriff and for j,js services. clerk and also talked with many of j We believe that it is law and the taxpayers of Lincoln county precedent that the compensation of and they all agreed that the best j al,y officer cannot be lowered during . r . ... the term of office for which he was interests of the county would bei . , , . ., , , .. , , , , , : elected, and we think we are en- served if the clerk and sheriff were j titled to the sum equal to the allowed to remain upon the fee amount allowed us under the fee system. And the county court of: system. Had the salary of the Lincoln county in open court direct- clerk have been f,xed at 3o or ed the clerk to write to Mr. Daly, ' any other or less sum and we had ... rr ,, 1 it , I saw fit to have run for office and and they officially signed the letter, ! wcreck.ctedwe won,d not asking Mr. Daly to only change the 1 any demurrer. We are quite salaries of the county judge and j willing to accept the salary that the treasurer. Recommending that j legislature shall or may fix for us they be raised. And that the clerk at t,ie, coni"B session ot the legisla , , -rr . ,, , . ture, but for the services rendered assessor and sheriff be allowed to from August, 1896 until that time, remain under the same system as we shall expect to receive . a sum they had theretofore been working equal to the fees heretofore paid by under. Under that system the ' the county court. ine incws man says we are I, , .r. .; , tnreaiening to sue. 11 it is any the ones who paid for it, whereas, consulatio to hira to know we will under the salary system the tax-j say, for his information, that we payers paid for all litigation, except-1 have already placed the matter in ing only the sum of five dollars I the hands of our attorneys and it paid by the party starting the suit. I wiU .cora: 0,1 fofr 1.lcar.i,lr at ll!e Therefore it will be seen that the people, also the court, desired the clerk to remain under the fee system. I coming term of circuit court, in January, 1897. Respectfully B. V. Jonks.