The
Dewey.
Best Brand of Brandies, Whiskies, Gins,
Heavy and Light Wines, etc.
ALBANY BEER ON DRAUGHT.
Best Brands of Cigars.
AL WAUGH, Prop.
GASH TALKS
TOLEDO COMHISSION HOUSE.
Will Sell You
Than you can expect to buy of credit
bouses, where you pay the bills owed
by the roan who don't pay.
Vonr trade in GROCERIES, PROVISIONS,
FLOUR and FEED in solicited.
T. P. FISH, Mngr, Toledo, O.
Club
Parlors.
BILLIARDS, POOL, WHIST,
FRUIT and CIGARS.
PEIDAY EVENING
Set aside for the Ladies. Only invited
guests allowed to attend.
O. W. BOGUE, Prop'r.
if 2.25
THE LEADER, and
THE OREGONIAN.
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CLVLAHD. OffO.
Cedar Mill and Fixture Company
0. It. ALT1U3E, Manager.
Ders Cedar Lumber,
SASH, DOORS, MOULDINS, SHINGLES
A.t Lowest Prices.
A. T. PETERSON, Agent, Toledo, Oregon
Goods For Cash
CHEAPER
THE LEADER.
W. L. DAVIS, Editor.
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1899.
One More New Law.
Those who attend the next term
of the Benton county circuit court
may see justice ground out without
the agency of a grand jury. In
deed it may be years before another
grand jury officiates at a court
term. At the same time the time
honored organization, with its fore
man and six grand jurors, with the
district attorney and a bailiff and 1
sundry witnesses dancing attend
ance, may continue, as in the past,
to be a part of the court system
and perform the usual functions.
A new law has been passed rela
tive to grand juries. It was adopt
ed at the last legislative session and
goes into effect the seventh of next
month. It confers on district at
torneys power to bring indictments
without the intervention of grand
j"riss, These po'.vers are identic?.!
with those always exercised by the
grand juries and include the right
to summon witnesses, to hear testi
mony and decide whether or not
indictments, under the evidence,
should be brought, and to remand
to court for contempt, such persons
as refuse to testify. It is at the
same time made the duty of the
district attorney to have every crim
inal case ready for trial on the first
day of the term. This is in order
to obviate the necessity that so often
happens of holding the petit jury
in waiting for the grand jury to
bring in an indictment upon which
inquiry is in progress, and promises
to effect a saving. The question of
whether or not it shall be a grand
jury or the district attorney that
shall bring the indictments at any
term of court is placed in the hands
of the presiding judge. The dis
trict attorney will naturally have to
arrive at the county seat some days
before the opening of court to in
quire into the criminal cases. If
the judge is satisfied that matters
are all in proper shape the usual
formality of drawing and organiz
ing a grand jury will be omitted.
If he is not so satisfied, or if citi
zens for instance should request a
grand jury, it is probable that a
grand jury would be set in motion
as of yore.
The new law is said to be in op
eration in most of the states west of
the Mississippi river. Besides the
above provisions it places Jthe dis
trict attorneys on salaries, instead
of the fee system. The salary of
the attorney in this district is made
$4,000 per year, and he is required
to pay all the fees of his deputies in
the various counties. It does away
with the usual $5 fee allowed de
puty district attorneys for attend
ance on examinations by the county
court for insane persons, and also
denies them fees for appearance in
divorce cases. The law also makes
the official terra of the district at
torneys four years, instead of two,
after the expiration of the present
term.
The following from the Oregon-
ian is of special interest to Lincoln
county and being in exact line with
1 he Leader s ideas, is copied at
length: The east section of the state
is to be congratulated upon the
steady influx of immigrants of the
thnity, energetic farming class.
The land office at La Grande shows
entries aggregating 30,554 acres for
the first quarter of the current year.
Of these entries, 125 aggregating
18,596 acres are homestead filings,
showing plainly the type of a ma
jority of the people who are being
added to the population of the state.
While not undervaluing the citi
zenship of men of any industrial or
business class, a substantial agri
cultural population may be said to
be a matter of special interest.
Such accessions mean the multipli
cation of homes, the growth of
school population, the building of
schoolhouses and churches, the im
provement of highways and the ex
tention of community life over vast
areas that have hitherto been prac
tically dead to these influences.
The loneliness of country life in
Oregon has been in the past one of
its most unattractive features.
This isloation has caused men and
women to become in many in
stances "untidy, loveless, old before
their time," and sent children into
such urban life as was within their
reach, ill equipped to meet its con
ditions and readily enticed by its
doubtful social glamors. To wel
come homeseekers is to welcome
civilization, whose advance agents
they are. At the present stage of
our industrial development any
large increase in our horaebuilding
population must be of the agricul
tural class using this term in the
correlative features of agriculture.
For these there is room and such
promise of prosperity as industry
and economy, reflected upon a
genial climate and a fertile soil, can
give. The assurance that a large
number of such parsons are seeking
and finding homes in the various
sections of the state is an assurance
of development within the next few
years that is exceedingly gratifying
and full of promise.
m
Governor Geer has expressed
sensible views concerning the re
tention of the Philippines by the
United States and the necessity for
building the Nicaragua canal. In
reply to a request for his views as
to the effect both would have on
business in Oregon, he sent to the
New York Journal the following
telegram:
"The people of Oregon are in
favor of retaining the Philippine is
lands, for several reasons, but chief
fly because it will speedly enlarge
the market for many of our staple
products, and especially that for
our wheat and lumber.
"In proportion as they pass
under the influence of modern civil
ization, which will rapidly follow in
the wake of American occupation,
will demand for and consumption
of the products of American farms
and forests increase. Since these
results are very much to be desired,
from both an'industrial and a com
mercial point of view, our people
are practically unanimous in favor
of raising the American flag for all
time over the territory secured
largely by the blood of so many of
our volunteer soldiers.
"If there are those among us
who think they cannot be patriotic
citizens without standing on a plat
form opposing the republican party,
they will be found next year de
claiming loudly against 'imperial
ism.' Otherwise, we are in favor
of expansion.
"The Nicaragua canal should be
speedily built for the reason that it
would shorten the route between
the producers and consumers of
nearly every product of civilized
nations, and especially between the
coasts of our own country.
"The American citizen living
on the Pacific coast, or any other
coast, who is opposed to this great
enterprise has been born too late
by a full half century. The people
of Oregon are in favor of the Nic
aragua canal and so-called policy of
expansion, because they take an in
telligent view of the possibilities of
the great country, and have un
bounded faith in the strength of our
government to wisely use the Ha
waiian and Philipine islands, as not
only necessary but indispensable
stepping stones to that vast field of
undeveloped commerce that lies be
yond the great ocean." Herald.
Work has begun on the L. V.
& W. R'y from Falls City to Dal
las, surveyors being on the ground
taking levels and setting grade
stakes. A. L. Porter has charge
of the work. This road will one
day be pushed into this locality and
make a mode of transport for the
Rock Creek stone and timber. The
time may not be long either if re.
ports be true. Let our people be
ready to assist it when the time arrives.
"A word to the wise is sufficient"
and a word from the wise should
be sufficient, but you ask, who aie
the wise? Those who know. The
oft repeated experience of trust
worthy persons may be taken for
knowledge. Mr. W. M. Terry
says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
gives better satisfaction than any
other in the market. He has been
in the drug business in Elkto 1, Ky
for twelve yeaTs; has sold hundreds
of bottles of this remedy and nearly
all other cough medicines manu
factured, which shows conclusively
that Chamberlain's is the most sat
isfactory to the people, and is the
best. For sale by O. O. Krogstad
Druggist.
To Those Wishing Shingles.
We will be on the market with a
full line of Dimension and Randsome
shingles about April 10 to 15th.
Altree Bros.
Stayton shorts, flour and chop at
Yaq. Bay Merc. Co.
A Shattered Nervous System.
FINALLY HEART TROUBLE.
Restored to Health by Dr. Mile' Nervint,
TH W R. EDWARD HARDY, the lollv man.
AT li. aBer of 8hePPar(l Co'a. great atore at
BracevlUo. 111., writes: "I had never
been sick a day In my life until in 1890. I
got so bad with nervous prostration that I
had to give up and commence to doctor. I
tried our local physicians and one in Joliet,
but none gave me any relief and I thought
I was going to die. I became despondent
and suffered untold agony. I could not eat,
Bleep nor rest, and it seemed as if I could
not exif t. At the end of six months I was
reduced to but a shadow of myself, and at
last my heart became affected and I was
truly miserable. I took six or eight bottles
of Dr. Miles' Nervine. It
from the start, and at last a cure, tho great
est messing or my life.
Dr. Miles' Remedies
are sold by all drug
gists under a positive
guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money re
funded. Book on dis
or. j
p Restores jl
Health!
eases of tho heart and
nerves free. Address,
DR. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart. Ind.
Z. M. DERRICK,
County Surveyor.
Solicits all work in his line. Cor
rect work and reasonable
prices.
P., O Address, Eddy vile, Oregon.
ROSS & RICE,
BLACKSMITHS.
TOLEDO,
OREGON.
General Shop and Repair work of all kind done
ttMUnmlil. niliu. TinKni',,..
niViir 7.1 "v wroaoiujjiiHu a spe
cialty. Give o a call.
rail
- HuHSSRY.
Keeps constantly on hand all the
Standard Varieties of
Fruit Trees,
Vines and
Shrubbery.
J. E. WILSON,
CHITWOOD, OREGON.