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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1897)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER. 1. K. NTKWAKT,t:ditornd Proprietor. Published every Thursday at Toledo, Lineo'n County, Orexun. Subscription Rates: One year, ... Six months, ... Three months. $1.50 75 50 Entered at the postollice at Toledo, Oregon, as Becoml-clnBS mail matter. Advertising rates made known on application Business lo Mils will be inserted In these ooi iinmg at live pent er line per w eek, and will be run until ordered discontinued. Every postmaster in Lincoln county is authoriz ed to act as aiceni lor the I.kadeb. Official County Paper. LOCAL. NOTES Gowell buys and sells every thing. For the best groceries and fresh fruit call at Peter Tellefson's, Ya quina City. Capt. B. F. Jones has received a license as pilot for a term of five years. Ladies! If you want a bargain in Shoes try O'Brien's special sales he is selling a $3.50 shoe for $2.25. We are prepared to do all kinds of blacksmith and wagon work, horse-shoeing, and all kinds of repairing. Give us a call. Ross & Rick, Toledo. The steamer Richardson came up last Saturday and took one of the old government scows out of the slough that has been laying here for some time. A printing firm in Portland that has been boycotted by the trades union of that city, is doing the principal part of che job printing for Lincoln county now. The tug Tonquin arrived in Si letz a week ago last Sunday, and last Thursday, she took out as cargo 850 cases of salmon, the last! of the pack of the Kernville can nery. Arrangements for the dance to be given by the G. A. R, and VV. R." C, are progressing nicely, and the prospects are that the affair will lje one of the most enjoyable events of the season. At a meeting of the city council last Monday night, R. A. Arnold was appointed marshal to fill the unexpired term of C. H. Ruhl, resigned. Anyone having a second hand tin star will do well to cor respond with the new officer. Patents for land for the following Lincoln county settlers have been received at the Oregon City land office: Abraham L. McFadden, Kdward J. Dunn, A. L. McDonald, P. N. Lathrop, Kmil G. Tracksel, Jas. E. Post, Jas. II. Norris, Marcus Rowin, Austin Howell and Karl Knudson. The settlers should get these patents and have them re corded in the county clerk's office, thus securing the proper basis for the title to their lands. Circuit court for Lincoln county convenes next Monday. The docket is a light one being com posed of only twenty-lour cases, with one or two small appeal cases yet to come in. Of these only one or two are liable to require the services of a jury to adjudicate, the most of them being law cases only. It is not probable that the court will be in session to exceed three days. Litigation in Lincoln county is limited. For two warrant books, con taining 1,000 warrants each, the county pays a Portland firm $36. The warrants are piinted on a poor grade of paper and there is an error in the form. The same work could have been done in home printing offices for less than one half, and they would have been in the right form, or the court would not have accepted them. That's a chunk of $18 economy made by sending work outside of the county. The firm that did the work pays no taxes iu Lincoln couuty. ' You can get what you want at Gowell's. Gowell has plenty of feed, seed and flour. For variety, quantity and prices, go to Gowell. Bring your produce to Gowell, to get best market price. Elmo Davis and wife were down from Pioneer Monday night. Hood's pills are prompt, efficient, always reliable, easy to operate. Judge Stearns was a passenger on the east-bound train this morn ing. Flour and feed will be sold at a low price at the store of Peter Tel lefson, Yaquina. The legislature has not organized, but Gowell does business yet, at the old stantj, for cash or its equal. Col. John Lane of the Indian de partment, arrived in Toledo Tues day night and went to Siletz yes terday. A. T. Peterson has run a tele phone line up to his house and has pat in an instrument ther own convenience. The way to cure catarrh is to purify the blood, and the purest, safest, best way to purify the blood is by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, the One True Blood Purifier. If the salary of the clerk as fixed by the county court is not changed by the circuit court, Lincoln county will be ahead all right, as the county will get all of its work done for nothing, as the fees earned by I the clerk in recording and in county and circuit courts, will amount to enough to pay the clerk's salary of $1,200, as fixed by the couuty court. County Surveyor Derrick is in town today. He informs us that the new road recently surveyed on the Siletz from the lower canoe landing to a point several miles clown the river is on an excellent route. The length of the road is a fraction over eight miles. Only two hills are encountered on the route, and the grade on neither of them will exceed eight per cent. This road will be a great benefit to the settlers on the Siletz. Pocahantas Camp No. 299, V. of W., have installed the following officers for the term: R. A. Arnold, consul; J. S. Akin, adviser; Geo. Bethers, clerk; B. F. Jones, banker; R. K. Chambers, escort; C. S. Rice, sentry; A. F. Stanton, watchman; C. L. Gowell, A. T. Peterson, J. W. Parrish, managers. The camp will indulge iu a post-installation supper at its lodge room tonight, which will be for the members of the lodge only. The county court has not yet made the levy in this couuty for county and school purposes. The levy will no doubt be heavier for county purposed this year than ever before. This will be rendered necessary from the fact that the court heretofore has never made a county levy of sufficient amount to pay the running expenses of the county. The prospect of a high tax for the coming year is not an encouraging one. County Assessor Lutz left for Salem last Tuesday morning to at tend the state convention of assessors which meets in that city this week. The assessors, if they follow a notable example recently set, will proceed to regulate the whole fabric of county affairs, save and except the office of county assessors. We have not learned the date of the state meeting of the county coroners, but presume that it will be held, or at least it ought to be, about the time that the hippodrome now playing in Salem iu the guise of a state legislature dies by limitation. All the coroners of the state should then be called to sit on its dead body, and then the stench would ba unbeatable. ' . ' t- , House Organized. Special to the Leader. Salem, Ore., Jan. 21. House organized, and elected H. L. Ben son, of Josephine, speaker. Only 32 members present. COL. JOHN KELSAY DEAD. Death of One of Oregon's Eminent Men. Gowell don't sell goods for less than cost, but he sells an average bill below all competitors. "The best goods to the greatest number," is a political saw, but the most and best goods for the money is only true at Gowell's. Do you know that if you neglect catarrh in the head it will bring on other troubles that often terminate fatally. Stop it now and be cured from that disagreeable disease, by using Prescription No, 1. For sale at Krogstad's drug store. Later reports from J. R. Bryson, in the Good Samaritan hospital at Portland, are to the effect that the patient continues to improve. Judge McFadden was at his bedside yes- Icr : terday afternoon, and "his estimate nf the patient's condition is that it is now better than a month before Jude Bryson went to Portland. A letter received from the family yes terday w as of the same tenor, and further trouble in the case is now considered unlikelv. Times. Toledo Lodge No. 108, I. O. O. F. installed officers for the term last Saturday night. Special to the Leader. Col. John Kelsay died at his home in Corvallis, on Tuesday evening, January 19, 1897, f acute bronchits. The deceased had been in failing health for the past three months, having only a few weeks ago recovered from an illness that had confined him to his home for a period of ten days. The illness which terminated fatally was con tracted only a few days ago. The end came so peacefully that the watchers at his bedside had not discovered that the spirit had fled until several minutes after life had left the body. The funeral took place this afternoon. Col. John Kelsay was born in Kentucky, October 23, 1819. From that state he went to Missouri where he acquired some little prominence, being a member of the legislature of that state in 1844. Shortly after that he came to Ore gon and iu the early history of this state he was a prominent figure. He was a member of the convention which framed the Oregon constitu tion in 1857, and in 1864 he was elected a member of the supreme court of the state of Oregon, and served one terra as such. In state ' 3 t 1 .1'. ! I . The following i ponucs ne was always a prominent figure. He gained the title of Co!onel in the Rogue river Indian war, in which war he was an active participant, and rendered signal service to his state. The death of Colonel Kelsay has removed a notable character from among the people of Oregon. He was an able jurist and advocate, his knowledge of law being pro- otice of Sheriff SaWf Property under C VOTICK IS HEREBY GIVFv t " " ee'ution and onliiS'-.THlI ft wio circuit lourt of the bw County of Lincoln, duivM 0 0t! i J seal of said conn 'J "tonal ZA of December 1K,oA .hI84' and sale rendered a"d ewS, against id S fiJIff and Martha Twomblev (JtJ?'1 ' iiuimrea and Twenty-seven ty-tive cents, with i;"!.en. wlltm, iuc luruiersuraof $7c()si. .73 .w i: upon this writ. Thu satri ' , funb reeted and command.S lowing described real nmnStV '"u officers were installed: J. R. Turnidge, N. G.; R. E. Collins, V. G.: Jos. Ewing, secretary; J. S. Gaither, permanent secretary; L. Waugh, treasurer; J. F. Stewart, warden; C. Trapp, conductor; R. A. Arnold, R. S. N. G.; N. Petit, L. S. N. G.; O. O. Krogstatl, R. S. V. G.; B. F. Jones, L. S. V.G.; T. P. Fish, I. G.; Gordon Robert son, O. G. ceremonies lodge adjourned to the Blake House, i scattered all over the northwest, where, in company with members j al,d ma"y of tllem have 'achieved of the Rebekah lodge they partook I hih honors allfl distinction in their of a well prepared supper. I professions. Kindly of nature, A rnnnlo' r,f vr ,m, i nonest 111 llls convictions, true to After the installing j I0U anci deep. He was a great were completed the I teacuel of law, and his students are decree and execuHm OSW of the southwest '. of awti. i. B,4'! south, ran 11, west. con,. nT,! Bl Saturday, the J3rd day f Janu at the hour of ten o'clock in tk. i T , ,ne frnnt 'lour of the r. , iu i.uut.uy ui loicuo, Lincoln cJnntw oiler for sale and aell i'!' frj highest bidder for l s. (in h S! 7? ? : all of the rlht, title, ii tere,t said defendanls in a, d to th.'l, seriueu real property, with thp.n .; subject to redemption, to mtuftte' cution and the amounts thereon k.L ed, toother with the t, ,nd ,J? Dated December 21th, lw, Sheriff of LSl ttiS: H.ltoMi' SiuniHow. In the Circuit Court of the State o! Om, Lincoln Cuuntv. The Oregon Central and Eastern P. Company, plaintiff, vs. Wm. M. Hour, dfendant. en,;?,;xfi,t-;,ioaBiih,!dc,,!ndtia" j.N TIIK NAME OETIIE STATE OFORE yon are hereby snimnmn-d and mr appear nmlanswer lilaintiirsenmnliim' above entitled suit, now on lilt in ih4 It the Clerk of said Court, on or More ll day of .lununry, 1X97, that Wing the k the noxt reitubir term of said Court t'V at the court house. In tit;- town of Tlti Lincoln Counti-, Sinic of Orepm; and i hereby notiiled thitt If vnufallmii,.. answ er said comprint as herein re,h: pmiuiiii wui uiKe u oecree fiKuint yoa I relief prayed for in the comnlaiiii In ui) to-wit: A decree of the said I'wrUir: anu aujuoftintr mat you nave no eh:v or interest whatsoever of, In. urtnailn'a the tide and overllowi'd lands in teen, Twenty-two, Twunty-fls, Twenty iiiiu iiiuiy-uve iu i-iwiisr.ip .to. ll t limine 11 .wvst, in Lincoln Count!, Oregon, ami that the title o! thi f. therein is (rood and valid ; and ilecwiii you bo forever enjoined and dtljtrmi asserting any claim w hatever in or to it? tide ami oversowed Ismls nilverfetotht; till', and for the costs and disburietuiu? suit against you. This Summons is published in tfc'L: County Leader for six suctenlTe itf. order of lion. .1. C. Kullerton, jwiireofih Court, which order was made at itai Itoseburtr, Oregon, and bears date Itt: loth, lwiii. J. H. llIiYSOX and W. . JItF.UK Attorneys fur YATES & YATES, LAWYERS. CORVALLIS, ore; a plug hat of the most approved style and latest vintage arrived at Yaquina from California with con-! u.'8" ,I,oramy ' ",s aeaUl siderable eclat, nnd v it n,,t ,w ! rlPe 0,(1 aSe rounded out a I his duty as he saw it, Col. Kelsay was a man of sound character and at a busy he wanted to buy up a few thous and acres of land to establish a ! colony of Californians on. As a consequence he was run after not a little by men who thought they had just the land suitable for a California colonist. The land was never bought and the colony never materialized, and several of our readers who will recognize the man without his name being mentioned, will be surprised to learn that instead of being at the head of a large and prosperous California colony, that he is running a kind of a doggery at Yaquina under a government license, and selling liquor by the gallon. ' Of such sore disappointments are our lives made up. life well spent. Notice. Those who know themselves in debted to me will please pay all accounts to my brother, Otto O. Krogstad, of Toledo. If not settled on or before February i, I shall be obliged to takejudgmeut. 2-t. Andr. O. Krogstad. . For Sale. Since McKinley is elected I have several fine places for sale cheap. Some well improved farms. . Some gooa sueep or goat ranches'. If you want, good bargains come and see ' t M. J. Allphin, -. Eddyville, Ore. IT. DEXLIXGEH, Attomcy-at-Law, -' ' ' " ' '. s tdledo, Oregon: " Nashville Notes. Fred Wagner has just returned j from the Valley, where he bought I a fine 3-year-old mare for $32. Tillie Hamar has rented her place and has moved to Dallas. ti. a. Fatnent has rented his place to L. Richards, and will start for California this week. Robert Chambers has been struck with the prosperity that the repub lican party was telling about before election. He has three men hired. H. S. Porter is at present busy repairing his fences which the late winds kindly scattered. Joe Bryant has Ray Huffaker employed, and the pair make a fine stout team. Get there Joe, you will have a farm yet. Miss Clara Benson left this week for Portland, where she will remain the rest of the winter. The stock on the range look thin as compared with the way they looked this time a year ago. WestRigdon has rented Tillie Hamar's place and is fixing it up in grand style. I wonder what will happen next, West? . '. Jas. Hamar, Sr., has returned from. Elk City ' where he has been visiting his son-in-law James Dixon. , The grip has been making its appearance in this vicinity for the last two weeks. . - We are iuformed that there", will be a tailroad survev. cowj .r.i Independence . tc; the; mouths of u"!" a month. v it U.eeVU yC SCbe .hcpts . ; ', .! : Hard Tack. 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