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DIRECTORY.
IINCOLNCOUNTI.
CIRCUIT COUKT.
foDveiieou Jth Monday In Jjily nn
jloaaay ju v
nstflf
resenutive,
Superintendent
dinners I
Tol. Carter
E. R. Lake
J. O. Btearns
B. F. Jones
George Landls
J. L. Hyde
8. G. Irvin
Z. M. Derrick
Hurley Lutz
T. M. Coombs
Chas. Williams
F. A. Godwin
i Commissioners Court meets on Wed
"r. S.. ,.t Mnndav in February,
''August, October and December.
CITY OF TOLEDO.
Mayor
.....Marshal
ism
mll
Ifllotioii Aldermen
M,-;
r:Vaugb,
Aterson '
til meets on the first Monday evening In
Month.
TOLEDO PRECINCT,
ol the Peace
Ale
NEWPORT.
Jot ihp Peace Geo. F. Sylvester
tolinereaui, Wtr.hfii.lil
J. A. Hall
J. C.Altree
j YAQUINA.
J nl tie Peace
J. 8. Booth
....W.L. Watkina
ELK CITY. . .
cl the Peace :,? T1,.
Alex Jiuriumiwjr
f ' LITTLE ELK.
ol the Peace Chas. Henderson
J, Z. b. Derrick
j NASHVILLE.
aWithe Peace 1.8. Huntington
Jl, N. F. Edwards
I ItmVKR CREEK.
Inline Peace Bam'l Hill
uie Joseph Gourley
1 TIDEWATER.
Iitii Pmcb N. J. Goodman
Ue W. A. Vidlto
I LOBSTER.
ioftte Peace L. A. Peek
pt W. P Taylor
i LOWER ALSEA and YACHATS.
feoltoe Peoce Win. Wakefield
ble John Early
SALMON RIVER,
uf the Pence Chas. Read
,ie jn. jjerion
ROSS.
olthePeaee W. H. Cook
,L!e Geo. E. Croxford
IRCHES AND SOCIETIES.
JH0DI8T EPISCOPAL CHURCH Pervices
Toledo on the first and third Sabbaths
f month at 11 o'clock a. m. Sabbath
every Sabbath morning at ino clock.
Kev. C. R. ELLSWORTH. Pastor.
I'i.' w vi.u 1.1,1 1 ii niicniail . I.I1DWMII,J
Jiiie service the third Sunday of every
'iiiiiui. All are mviiuii m auenu.
hil Dniltk llDDl.......r IlniMnniii.
$7." Newport, Or. '
0. f.-Tnledn Lndini. No inft. Meet
7Surdav- eve-ting at their hall In this
TO.See'r.
J. R. TURN1DGE, N. U.
F.-Iiar Tsirtro Kn 111: il Vimnlin Clin
p'mery Wednesday evening. Visiting
'is always welcome.
H-A- PRurrr, n. g.
Bl'RROWS, Secretary.
f '--Newport Lndire No. 89, meets every
jyeveniriK. visiting brothers aro eor
l?!j.'Jl 10 attend, L. O.OLSSON, N. G.
fUViR, Secretary
i)L.-Elk Lodge No. meets every
ynisyevenlHgin its hall at Elk City,
f? Mothers always welcome.
ill.-. V A UlUlEiH, . U.
wri.Seoy.
A. M. own.i. T r.A V ac n..l
n -""I'"' iaiiibb mi, oo, icnuinr
km? 110'1.,0? Saturday on or before each
r --. iiuuiis; iirotners are cordially
ITKLEY.Seey
MBavl'niitiMl Vn 1AK M.t 1 TTI
r'lonijcoridandfourth Friday nightsof
nsH,,Sec. N. SNOW, Pres.
'ITp10'! ?- 70- Hetwkah Degree,
iT Jft" ln the 0,,d fellows hall in
1 Teday evening of each week.
r4'. STEWART. Secretary.
Slh(toii,?Un;oln Pot No. 08, meets In
J'wdTemnlarB H.ii ti,
nSH,nAd)n?antKDEVAiT Po8tCom'
Pd SiiSJ d K'1"' hall, Yaquina,
Hi?i,L,r,1,- evenings In each
I ",mff bemhers are always welcome.
iLTRAvm K- LUGGER, M. W.
ui nworaer.
,1 mil vibruiii
,;a rellow.' kinr,V,a'" in each mo,,tn ln
MweiS haU- Visiting neighbors are
f-ARNOLD, GEO. BETHER8.
Mn'- Clerk.
ttdHVif.ond.me' 'Irole, meets on the
tlotkr V. May' of eacn month at
AB,,0LD' w- "
SE0LT5K WORLD.-Pooahontns
CorrT,!.yico';N WOMAN'S RELIEF
"fhiSiA j"?'!14!? o tne O- A. R.
F" UiM n,i?d4lh nlays in each
r""ei. O.O. F.hB 11. at 9 n l.k n m
II"5.f8e,cEW,,,a Preaident-
DELL AS8EM
havi'' L.nted Art snm aui. oa
PdlolrLblghts of each month In
UABA.8ecretr;:C,DIX0N'kA-
THE EXPERT'S REPORT.
What has Become of That Important
uocument, and What Is the Court
Going to do About it?
In the August term of the coun
ty court the following order was
made: "In the matter of the report
of Geo. R. McKenzie: It is ordered
that the journal and ledger thereof
be placed on file; that all other pa
pers and vouchers received in con
nection therewith be continued in
the c.istody of the court pending a
further settlement of accounts."
Accordingly the ledger and journal
were filed and the other papers
were still retained in the possession
of some of the members of the
county court. A careful search of
the records of the meeting of the
court for the October term entirely
fails to disclose any reference to this
important matter. Whether the
court forgot that this matter was
pending, or what they concluded to
do about it must be only a matter
of conjecture.
There is this much certain. The
court is taking a very peculiar and
unusual method of handling this
matter. According to the report
of the expert which came into the
hands of the court some time last
July, about three months ago,
there was owing to the county from
the clerk and the sheriff over $7,-
000. So far the court has absolute'
ly, so far as the records show, taken
no steps for the safety of the coun
ty in this matter. They I'ave not
even made a demand upon the offi
cers for the money which tbey al
lege to be due and owing to the
county. The only thing they have
done so far as we can ascertain, has
been to threaten and harass the
bondsmen ot the clerk and sheriff
with the threat of a lawsuit if they
do not come in and make a blind
settlement with the court upon a
report which they have to acknowl
edge themselves to be incorrect and
unjust. The court expects these
bondsmen to settle on the report of
McKenzie, when at the same time
tbey withhold from the interested
parties the vital part of the report,
and keep in their possession, con
trary to law, and thus prevent the
officers and their bondsmen from
even checking up the report to see
as to its correctness. The court
must think that these officers and
their bondsmen are fools. When set
tlement lime comes the court must
surrender the papers and vouch
ers illegally in its possession, and
the accounts will be checked up by
some competent person other than
Geo. R. McKenzie. We can assure
the court that a large majority of
the people of the county are getting
a grave suspicion in their heads
that there is something rotten
some place, and that it is not very
far from the expert's report. If the
report is all right and reliable, why
don't the court take some steps to
protect the interests of the county?
The fact is, the court knows that
when a suit is started, if one evei
is, on the report of the expert, that
the report wont amount to any
thing, and the people will speedily
see just how bad they have been
buncoed out of nearly $600 in order
that a shadow might be cast upon
the clerk and sheriff of this county.
The fact of the matter is,, the
court is in very much the same po
sition of the Irishman who had the
bear by the tail as it was coming
around the tree towards him. He
was all right as long as he held on,
but the minute he let loose the bear
would get him. He naturally
called out for help to let the bear
loose. The court has got hold of a
bear's tail in the expert business,
and they hang on because they are
afraid to let loose. They tried to
get the grand jury to help them let
loose, but that body of intelligent
taxpayers told them to file the re
port in the proper manner so that
the people of the county might
know what the report was. Did
they do this? Hardly. They filed
the ledger and the journal in the
clerk's office and filed the balance
of the report in the red leather bag.
The court knows, and knows
well, that when they once start a
suit for the recovery of the sums of
money alleged in the report to be
due from the clerk and sheriff, that
a great many things that have been
hidden must come out to the know
ledge of the people. It will then be
shown why it was that Judge Stearns
assisted in making the report; why
McKenzie worked for nearly a
month after he stated he would fin
ish; why the offices of assessor, sup
erintendent, judge and commission
ers were not experted; what author
ity the expert had to set a salary
for the clerk and sheriff from July
1, 1894; what right or authority
the members of the county court
have to have papers and vouchers
that are a part of the files and records
of the county in their possession
and keeping, and refuse to return
them to the clerk, the proper cus
todian, when demanded. These
and many other things will all come
to light when a suit is started, and
this is the bear that the court has
such firm hold on.
Meanwhile, as long as the matter
can be kept in the shape that it is
now in, these officers and the bonds
men can be threatened, their prop
erty interests can be jeopardized,
foul slanders about these officers
can be bruited about, and perhaps
if the people are big enough fools,
somebody can build up a political
road to office out of it.
But we will submit this: That if
the judge or either of the commis
sioners had an honest claim in the
sum of $7,000 against these officers
and their bondsmen no three
months or even three weeks would
pass before they would take steps to
protect such claim. There can then
be but one conclusion: Either the
Another state fair has been held
at Salem, and notwithstanding the
facts that there were large crowds
in attendance and the state extend
ed aid to the amount of $5,000, the
fair was a financial failure, there
being a deficit of nearly $2,000 this
year. There must be something
radically wrong somewhere in the
management of the state fair. A
fair that is well attended and held
under favorable auspices that can
not come any closer than $7,000 to
being self-supporting had better
close up the shop, or else take a
careful search and see if the trouble
cannot be located.
Senator McBride's statement that
Col T. J. Buford has been recom
mended by the delegation for the
Siletz Agency removes all doubt as
to that office, and at the same time
it gives no gleam of cheer to Dr.
Carter and the twelve other disap
pointed applicants. It would also
indicate that Dr. Carter was wrong
in his premises in his recent letter
to the Oregonian when he contend
ed that Col. Buford was an appli
cant for Indian iuspector and was
not a "miscellaneous candidate."
The Doctor will probably discover
in time that there was a political
deal made over this office, and that
the Colonel was on Jhe inside and
the Doctor was on the outside.
The Salem Statesman says in an
editorial, that it will only be a few
years that the United States will
have to depend on a foreign wheat
market. We will bet that the man
that wrote that editorial never was
outside of theState of Oregon in his
life, and that he thinks the little
wheat belt of the Willamette valley
raises about all the wheat grown in
the United States. In a good crop
year the stale of Kausas will raise
enough wheat to supply the home
market of this country.
INCREASED RAILROAD TRAFFIC.
The prospects for traffic on the O.
C. & E. road for the present ship
ping season are said to be better
now than they have been for years.
The immense grain crop of the val
ley is to be moved to market, and
over the O. C. & E. is the natural
outlet for a large part of it. The
company have been seriously im
peded by lack of steamers between
Yaquina and San Francisco. It
has been stated that for the lack of
steamers necessary to carry the
freight, that the company was com
pelled to refuse 2,000 tons of freight
offered during the month of Sep
tember. Recently Mr. Hammond
made a trip to San Francisco to see
if he could not arrange for more
steamers. A dispatch from Corval-
lis indicates that his trip was suc
cessful, and that the company will
not long be hindered by the lack ot'
steamers on the ocean route. The
dispatch says:
"The heavy movement of the
grain crop has inafle additional
steamer service on the route be
tween Yaquina and San Francisco
necessary, and arrangements have
been perfected for a vessel to leave
Yaquina every five days. The
Truckee and the Protection are
now doing the'work, and a third
steamer, soon to be completed in
San Francisco, is to be added to
the service as soon as she can be
in readiness for the run. The grain
movement over the Oregon, Central
& Eastern route is the heaviest
ever known at this season of the
year, out the facilities for prompt
handling are now complete."
When Armour and Cudahy raise
the price of meats, that is a corner
on meats when the Sugar Trust
raises the price of sugar, that is a
corner on sugar when the coal op
erators combine and raise the price
of coal, that is a corner 011 coal.
All the above are legitimate, but
when a lot of coal miners get to
gether and form a corner on labor
, , and say we want wages enough to
claims against the clerk and sheriff ' . 6 .
0 1 in TO f hon that 1C o visf nrA thn m.
are not honest claims, or the court
is criminally neglectful in its duty
in not protecing the intereststs of
the county. Which?
The Oregonian of Monday last
stated that Senator McBride had an
nounced that the following recom
mendations for office had been made
by the delegation: Postmaster at
Corvallis, B. W. Johnson; agent at
the Siletz, Thomas J. Buford; col
lector at Astoria, John Fox. These
appointments are not yet made and
may not be for some time. The ap
pointments recommended by the
delegation some' time ago -have not
yet been acted upon by the president.
litia is called
view.
out. Roseburg Re-
The recent municipal election
throughout the country would seem
to indicate that the tide has turned,
as democratic success in these elec
tions seem to be the rule. Indian
apolis, Ind., held its municipal elec
tion Tmesday, and the city was
carried by the democrats by about
5,000 majaority. All the wards
showed heavy democratic gains.
The city gave a large majority for
McKinley a year ago.
.There is a. newspaper war brew
ing in Corvallis, or we miss our
guess. The Gazette and the Union
of that city are making faces at
each other, and hostilities are liable
A country editor is a reliable en- L0 0pen up at any time Last
cyclopedia. A subscriber sent tins j weefs Tjnjon referred to the Ga-
query to an Enstem Oregon editor
rprentlv! "What ails mv hens?., I
find one or two of them keeled over
to arise no more." The u-ply was:
"The fowls are dead. It is an old
complaint and nothing can be done
except to bury them."
zette as the "patent medicine sheet",
and the Gazette is firmly convinced
that the Union is a hand bill for
free distribution.
We have been waiting to hear
from our republican exchanges at
Corvallis, the reason why the grow
ers and shippers of prunes at that
It cost Lincoln county $6 to get pace are receiving a lower price
thirteen ordinary claims against the under a higher tariff. We have
county passed upon last Wednes-i noted no explanation along that
'line at present.
A few weeks ago the editor was
taken with a severe cold that
caused him to be in a most miser
able condition. It was undoubted
ly a bad case of lagrippe and recog
nizing it as dangerous he took im
mediate steps to bring about a
speed cure. From the advertise
ment of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy and the many good recommen
dations included therein, we con
cluded to make a first tiial of the
medicine. To say that it was sat
isfactory in its results is putting it
very mildly, indeed. It acted like
magic and the result was a speedy
and permanent cure. We have no
hesitancy in retommending this ex
cellent cough remedy to anyone af
flicted with a cough or cold in any
form. The Ban tier of Liberty , Lib
ertytown, Maryland. The 25 and
50 cent sizes for sale by O. O.
Krogstad, druggist.
The announcement that the edi
tor of the Corvallis Gazette had
been recommended for postmaster
of his town produced the following
editorial in the Oregonian:
"No doubt the editor of the Cor
vallis Gazette is the man w ho ought
to be appointed postmaster at Cor
vallis. He supposes he has fijted
himself for it by cat ping and snarl
ing at the Oregonian. This is his
stock in trade, and he boasts of it.
He is one of those who have no
opinion till they have first seen the
Oregonian, and then they "goag'in
it." Appoint Johnson. If a boo
by can earn a place by malignity
one direction and servility in anoth
er, be ought to have it."
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After advertising a baby show
for two weeks the Hood River Gla
cier has chronicled six births, and
yet somj people say that advertis
ing does not pay, says the Milton
Eagle.