The Victor and the Spoilt.
In the recent election over 13,
60,000 votes were cast, and of the
7,065,000 who voted for the win
ning ticket probably a million have
hopes, more or less defined, of get
ting offices under the new adminis
tration. At the lowest calculation these
office-seekers will number hundreds
of thousands, and the worst of it is
that they do not realize that, with
very few exceptions, their strivings
and their efforts will be more than
wasted, ior not one in a hundred of
them will get a place.
It is curious to find that the
people generally have yet to recog
nize the quiet but almost complete
extension of the civil-service law,
and have yet to know that, not
satisfied with what has been done,
the friends of the civil-service move
ment are already pteparing legis
lation that will absolutely banish
annitq froi evry dpsrtincnt cf the
government except the legislative,
this exception affecting only the
nine hundred employes of congress.
Civil-service reform began with
Grant, although it was not made
practical in its early stages. The
movement struggled along until
1883, when the first civil-service
commission was appointed. Presi
dent Arthur made the question a
vital issue, and was the first to
fully establish it. Cleveland fol
lowed in his footsteps, and under
Harrison and the able members of
his cabinet the merit system be
came a fact in this government.
In these thirteen years a revolu
tion has been accomplished. The
figures are most astonishing. All
officers appointed "by and with the
consent of the senate" are exempt
from the operations of the civil
service laws, and these, in fact,
constitute about the only spoils to
which the victors may turn. The
civil-service commissioners' in a
statement made since the election,
assert that there are at present in
the departmental service of the
United States eighty-five thousand
employes, and of these only seven
hundred and eighty-one are exempt
from the civil-service laws, nearly
all of those exemptions being con
fidential or peisonal in their nature,
such, for instance, as private secre
taries. Under the old system the
new secretary of the treasury in
McKinley's cabinet would have the
distribution of something like forty
thousand offices, but under civil
service he will have exactly two
appointments, his confidential sec
retary and one other. Within
three years President Cleveland's
orders have brought forty-two
thousand offices under the civil
service laws.
Not content with this, it is now
announced from Washington that
an effort will be made to appoint
the collectors and postmasters, like
the federal judges,. during good be
havior, and if this should be done
it would make the merit system
practically universal.
The only opportunities for the
spoilsmen now are in the foreign
service, but even here civil service
has begun iu work, because Presi
dent Cleveland not very long ago
promulgated new regulations pro
viding that in all consular positions
paying from one thousand to
twenty-five hundred dollars there
should be examination before ap
pointment. It can thus be seen
that the spoils are reduced to al
most nothing in comparison with
the demands. And it should be
added that the law has provided
against all of those schemes and
evasions which were formerly em
ployed to circumvent it and get the
faithful into office.
The change next March will,
therefore, be a change of adminis
trations, but there will be few
changes in the working torces of
the government. Islie'i Weekly.
The Washington County Hatchet
is sending marked copies of its
issues all over the state. These
marked copies contain long, hysteri
cal rhapsodies of Senator Mitchell,
and calls upon the legislature to
organize at once and proceed to
re-elect the Honorable J. H. It
incidentally calls the Oregonian a
liar, and several other bad names,
all because that paper will not join
in its wild shrieks for action. The
Hatchet should take some soothing
syrup, or it may get too hot and
lose its edge. It should also re
member that it is only one a step
from the sublime to the ridiculous,
and it takes a pretty fine mind to
judge which the following extract
from the Hatchet's highflown ar
ticle belongs: "Our states in
colossal order stand from the east,
where the star of liberty was first
heheld, unto the west where the
sunberms at the dying of the day
paint their sad imagery upon the
mighty gates to our peaceful ocean
Sualcs, Fiuiu lue north, where the
lakes are like mirrors unrolled, to
the southland, where the beautiful
summer is born, they stand in
awful grandeur dressed, proud of
tneir Heritage ot great meu. "
The refusal of the republi
cans to ratify his (the editor of the
Oregonian) nefarious schemes and
puiposes, coupled with an inter
position of Divine Providence, may
avert the accomplishment of the
ruin of the republican party in the
state of Oregon. It is fortunate
that citizens of all political parties
have discovered that the editor of
The Oregonian is a creature bereft
of feelings of that degree of shame
and that dread of retribution which
would ordinarily restrain a common
highwayman from open acts of re
proach alike to conscience and
public morality." And in spite of
all that, the Oregonian still lives.
If the mortem crp rnv law and tVio
O O " " -
t ..... . 1
iaw exempting inaeDteaness be not
re-enacted this year, it will not be
because no bills will be introduced
to that end by members of the legis
lature. There are no less than
seven members with bills prepared
on this subject.
A local in the Salem Statesman
says: "Marshal Dilley has made!
up his mind to rid the city of a lot
of worthless fellows who have been !
making themselves conspicuous of;
late." We'll bet that Salem mar-1
shal has his eve on that fatA1
legislature.
Notice for Publication.
Land Offle at Oregon City. Orepon,
January 6, 1877.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
followlng-oamtd settler bu filed notlca of
hit intention to make Anal proof In rapport of
his claim, and that laid, proof will be made be
fore the County Clerk of Lincoln county, at
Toledo, Oregon, on February 20, 1897, Til :
JOHN P. ALLEN, H. E.S.468,
for the southeast Ki of northeast ii. north M of
of southeast V.. northeast lA of southwest ii of
section a. town 11. south, rann 8. west.
He names the following witnesses to prove
Dls continuous residence upon ana cuiutbuou
oi saia lana, tu: u. a. loung, ueioen a. iei.
ton and F. A. Godwin, of NashTlUe, Oregon,
and L. C. Norton, of Norton. Oregon.
ROBERTA. MILLER, Register.
LOOK HERE
fgj. am closing out several lines of my
rAa and Turi 11 malro mntao 4-V r.4- ill i
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at Oregon City, Oregon,
January t, 1897.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
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 of Lincoln County, at
Toieao, uregon, on reDruary au. ism, tu:
MARTIN LUTHER GLASS, H. E. No. 9,517,
for the north X of southeast Si, southwest V. of
northeast Ji and northeast of southwest of
section 13, town 12, south, range 9, west.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, Tis : Irvin Magee, Marlon Hunt,
William F. Hyde, of Eddyville, Oregon, and
George Kehl, of Harlan, Oregon.
ROBERT A. MILLER, Register.
Notice of Final Settlement.
In the County Court of the State of Oregon, for
the County of Lincoln:
In the matter of the estate of George W. Jack
son, Sr., deceased :
WOTICK 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
George W. Jackson, Sr., deceased, has filed his
final account of said administration In the
County Court of the State of Oregon, for the
uraniy oi Lincoln, ana saia court nas nxed
TuMdav. P.fcjra.rv Md. ifUv
at the hour of ten o'clock, a. m at the Court
House In Toledo, Lincoln county, Oregon, for
Hearing oDjecuons mere to, ana ior tne settle
ment thereof. s
Sated this 9th day of December, 1896.
F. M. STANTON,
Administrator of the estate of George W.
Jackson, Sr., deceased.
goods and will make prices that will be
to sell them
8U?
There are six terms of the
county court each year and it usually
IUKCS aunnr inrw flave. In An V.m '
county business at each session, but !
auowing a mil week n rould be !
theretore just six weeks work for
the county judge in one year, for
which he receives 46na wr mnnm
or $ioo per week. The balance of
tne tune he may work at his private
business.
Summons
In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for
Lincoln County.
MlntilA U XmrAA tTm, T.
Arnold and Minnie M. Ar-1
noia, guaraian, plaintiff. Suit In Equity
vs. t to foreclose
William Mackay, defendant.) m0Tt-
Tn William M.nk.. tfc. .K. A A
fendant :
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON :
- uv.vu i.iuuiuina .uu nummi .O
appear and answer to the complaint ol the
tilalnllff. In K Wa.. a -.-: .. .
...ho i W muv IV VUUUCU .Ulb UUW UU UIQ
with the clerk of the above-named court, on or
hefnrA tha fourth Mnnnaw (. '. v. , .. t
uary, 1897, it being the first day of the next reg
ular term of the said court, to be held at the
court room in the court bonne at Toledo, in Lin
join county, Oregon ; and you are hereby notl-
t " v w appear ana an
swer as herein required, the Plaintiffs will ap-
yij w uv wui, iur tun reuei prayaa ior in
their said complaint, namely: for a decree
against yon, the said William Mackay foi the
sum of One Thousand Dollars In U.S. gold coin,
with interest thereon in like gold coin at the
rate of ten per cent per annum from the 28th
day of February. 18!, until paid, and for fllO.OO
as attorney's fees, besides the costs and dis
bursements of this suit; and that the mortgage
set ont in the complaint be foreclosed and that
the mortgaged premises therein described, to
wit: lots numbered i and 5 In section 18, and
Lots numbered 1, 2 and 11 in section 19, in town
ship 11 south, range 10 west, in Lincoln county,
Origon, and containing 143.42 acres, be sold by
the sheriff of Lincoln County, Oregon in the
manner prescribed by law for the sale of real
property under execution, and that the pro
ceeds arising from such sale be applied, first to
the payment of the costs and expenses of such
sale and of toll suit, andnext to the payment
of the amonnt decreed to be due the plaintiffs
herein Including their said attorney's fees, and
that if the same does not sell for enough to sat
isfy plaintiffs' demands in full thai they may
v 5e?CQtton gainst any other property for
v j . '-. ... i . ,uv aiicnii uui me pur-
c?Vr """n r-aleinto Immediate possession
iMfo'd premises, and that the defendant
and all persons claiming under him since the
28th day of February, 1895, be forever debarred
and foreclosed of all right, title, Interest and
'?'' "I" na " "1J premises, and that the
p-aintiff have the right to become the purchas
er at such sale: and for such other rule, order,
able " Court may seem meet and eqult-
Tlili tnmmnit, ! .nkll A.J . .
cocifTT Liadib, for six snccesslve and consec
ntive weeks. Immediately prior to the 25th day
oijanuary, 1897, under and in pursuance of an
order for the publication of said summons.
" 7 "D wu. . ,. runerion. Judge of Raid
Courtjat Roaeburg, Douglas county, Oregon, at
rh ?8.g,fatelec,mber8tt' xm-
J. R. BRYBON.
Attorney for Plaintiffs.
Talks
" Merit UIki"th
Intrinsic Taina of
Hood'l aaMDtTina.
Merit in rnedlciae tamm the power to
ran. nooavounptriUtfommvAxiMl
udaMiM tmUntowmnAthm.
tore it he tree nwtt. Wlea yoa br
Hood1! SemperOla.iBd Uke tt mordlaf
o dlnttlotu, to porify jou blood, or
emre any of the naany blood dlawaeee, yoa
are Mnlly eerwla to receive benefit.
The power to cure la there. To are not
ttM experiment. U erUl make you
blood pure, rich and Boortabinf ,and thai
QveoQttUnrlMotrtl.,rtrwift
Ik Berraj end balld ap the whole ijitea.
Sarsaparilla
rre pared oajy &y & i Hood Oo Lowaii m.
Hood's Pills
For Sale.
Since McKinley is elected I ha
several fine places for sale cheap.
vjuuie wen improved farms. Some
good sheep or goat ranches. If
you want good bargains come and
see M. T Attbdtw
Ivldyville, Ore.
Notice of Sheriff's Sale of Real
Property under Execution.
VOTICE IB HEREBY GIVEN THAT UNDER
tL ???fltlon. ? o"1' of sale issued out of
J. "'t. fn of the State of Oregon, for the
SSHA du v "tl nnder the seal
S!i!0JJ2JSdbJrtn imUl December 24th
,(?r7,,' foreclosure and sale render
? L ,di?.nldj5,f ne nii ourt m a suit wheie
wiVV !nd Mi??1 ' Pleintiffs and
anu, in fTor of saldplaintlffj and against said
defendanUNettie J. Baker and R. F. Bakerffor
"no' Thirteen Hundred and Seventy-rive
rUfS JPL?? nt PO'onnum. and One Hun
?nT?nllIltKrn',' ',nd the farther
Su tffTA?011. "S-Md ,urth" ert "Poo
ofi.taTJfl,A,orerid,x5cu,on order
Siufii o.?? d "oted and f flmmands me to
aeu allol the following-described real property
BaKl'pfifi dST. '.nd ""enMon, towlt:
Bakers Place, containing eight and 65-100
??rrTi: P2 BJoc,k N"h" . . . . 9.10, llend
12, all In Baker's 1st addition to the Cltr of
Lot. No. 1, a, u and U in Kock
No.l3;andLouNo..S.rV,8and. in Bock
1 Lo No. , 4, t i i. V 9 end 10 in Block
iirtSa V . ?u'ti 2Pd "dltlon to Alex
aaM..0i w',niofe. in compliance with
aherlffwrnoS"40"1" ' M ,uch
Saterday, the sjrd day at Jasuairy, ie7.
S'.J'I.Vk 'f1 ,0.o,ock; '? ,he 'orenoon of said
rft. 'i hrJfoni,ido0? oiaxt Court Houaeto the
City of Toledo Lincoln county, Oregon, offer
iSI Si!.,nd. Pblic auction tothe hlgh
V, . biddeL,.'0.I.,0' ?' ld eoln In hand, all
of the right, title, interert and estate of the said
defendant. In and to the aald above described
realproperty, with the appurtenances, .abject
ir,5p,1.onJ to.satl.fy the aald execution
and amount, due thereon a. above ateted. to
gather with cost, and accruing com.
Dated December M, IWM.
ov - ... . - A.LANDI8,
Sheriff of Lincoln County, Oregon,
By J. H. Rom, Deputy.
JT. DENLINOEJR,
Attomey-at-Law,
TOLEDO, OREGON.
For Groceries
A call will convince you that I an
selling Groceries cheaper than ani
other house in the County.
T. W. GORMAN,
YAQUINA CITY.
fojo i n o
CASH - STORE
Yaquina City, Oregon.
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Hardware, Tinware, Etc.
Goods Sold at
San Francisco Prices.
J. S. BOOTH, Frop,,
YAQUINA CITY, OREGON.
PETEK TELLEFSON,
DEALER IN
General :-: Merchandise,
Flour and Feed, Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Dry Good., Clothing:, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats.
Caps, Rubber and Oil Clothine.
BOOTS AND SHOES,
-CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
Cigars and Tobacco, FriTts and Confectionery.
Yaqulna City, Oregon.
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TUU LATE ! TOO LATE ! !
It is too late to get an Abstract of Title to a piece of
land after you have bought it and iound out that there are
judgements and tax liens against it. The Proper thing to
do is to have the
LINCOLN COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY,
of Toledo, make you an Abstract of Title before investing
your money. A business man now days never buys real
estate without first obtaining evidence of a good title.
We warrant our work to be absolutely correct. Address.
Crosno & Peairs.
C. B. CBOSNO & CO,
Real Estate Agents ill Mmk,
HAVE BARGAINS IN
Farm Lands, Tide Lands, Coal Lands, Town
Property in single Lots or Blocks
IMPROVED OR TWTVTPHnVRn.
Abstrct of Title to any property In Lincoln Count?
furnished on demand. .
Toledo .. OretfO