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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1903)
1. 1 : , :! 5vI' v "-.-3" ' " ' '.i Volume XI. Toledo, Lincoln County, Oregon, Friday, March 13, Number t &IUCQI1I I. it J31 1 Kii.'L "If Not, Why Not?" In lti-;t, week's Reporter an article appeared under the above caption, evi ilemly written by Mr. C. E Hawkins, , in which lie makes reference to the ". printing of the delinquent, tax rolls. Jle would luive the people believe the whole tiling to be illegal and fraudulent. The public is entitled to ihe facts, which are as follows: The law requires the couuty court to enter into contract with ihc paper which shall be "most likely to give act ual notice to delinquent taxpayers." It also determines the method by which the county court may arrive at the knowledge of wtiat paper is "most likely to give actual notice to taxpay ers," viz.: By the publishers tiling with the court, at its January term, a sworn list ot their subscribers. Mr. Hawking, is the ''business manager" of the Re porter, and being an attorney of course knew the law, but wholly ignored it, and refused to file his list, so that, of ficially, the court had no knowledge of the existence of such a paper, and could not, legally, give it the patronage. Mr. Hawkins, knowing this, saw an op portunity to give vent to his hatred for the judge aud carry out his threats to tantalize that official all be could in the discharge of Ida duties. He waited until ho had every reason to believe the contract had been let and then sent in a bid which he kuew could not be ac cepted even if lie had offered lo do the work for nothing for reasons al ready stated namely, that it would not have been legal. Mr. Hawkins did not expect to secure the contract; neither could he if he bad been on the most intimate terms with the court, under the same conditions. Such rela tions, however, do not exist, and the feeling between these gentlemen had its origin in the last campaign. Mr. Hawkins was a delegate to the Repub lican couDty convcution and helped to nominate tho ticket, Mr. Brown was the nominee for judge ind Mr. Wade for clerk. Instead of standing by bis ticket, as ho was in honor supposed to do, Mr. Hawkins went to P. II. Myers, the Socialist candidate for clerk, and tried to induce him to "draw off" in the interest of Mr. Lutz, the Democratic nominee, for the purpose of defeating Mr. Wade. Mr. Myers, being a man of honor, informed him that ho would "draw off" the day after election, and forthwith went to Mr. Brown, the Re publican candidate for judge, and in formed him of Mr. Hawkins' treachery, fyrWade being out of town at that TffL'nne. Mr. Brown, of course, informed bis colleagues of what was doing, and on Mr. Wade's return Mr. Hawkins was forced to acknowledge what he had done. From that time the relation be tween these gentlemen has been strained, and Mr. Hawkins, with some able assistance, has missed no oppor tunity to make trouble for tho county court. It was he who, in connection with others, enjoined tho judge's salary. It is he who has given the judge con stant trouble in the settlement of a number of Indian estates. It is he who, posing as a republican, puts every possible obstacle in the way of a suc cessful administration by tho man se lected by his ( ?) party a man who is trying to fill tho office of county judge with credit to himself and tho upbuild ing of the county. The Leader has no desire to devote its spaoo to the airing of quarrels within the camp of its own party, but some of our readers wish to know the cause of the uumeroiiH hot-air blasts from the business manager or tho Reporter. We have given a true explanation. - .. ' . W. R. 0., Attention.' There will bo a special meeting of Abo Lincoln W. R. C. No. 40 at tho hall next Wednesday night. Every mem ber is urged to be present. Rose Schenck, President. ' 1"- O Attention, Rebekahs. You are r(ntinntnl in mnnt. of thn Imlt t.MondaA afternoon at 2 o'clock for prac- i i se bo there if possible.' 5 U. (). K isTAo, Ada Soule, N. G. rotary. Eanki lr nod Mrs. Thomas Lcce of Corvall were among tho arrivals last nigbt. in IJattie Gillette departed thin : for a fe.v weeks' sojouiu with and friends In tho rulley. Jnornin reiativ Adrian Ford of Newport was in the city last Saturday. Miss Julia Fogarty of iSouth Beaeh was visiting in Toledo last Friday. John Stevens, a well-known Siletz rancher, was a passenger for Albany Mouday morning. ' Will Soule has been rusticating in the Alsea bay country during the past week an ideal time for an outing. Some genuine March weather pre vailed the fore part of ttie week. We got a little of everything except dust. C. 0. McBride of Eddyyille came down AVednesday evening to pay his taxes and neighbor with Toledo friends Miss Martha Wakefield who had been visiting her sister, Miss Mamie, re turned Monday to her homo ut Eddy-, viiie. Tom Coleman, the well-known trav eling representative of Wadhams & Kerr Bros, of Portland, was in the city yesterday. ' , .Mrs. George Beck departed Monday morning for her home in Michigan. Her husband will probably follow in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. McArthur de parted Monday morning for Fort Mo jave, Arizi, Mr. McArthur's uew post of duty in the Indian service. George W. Ellis, representing the BiakeMcFall Paper Com pauy of Port land, was making his regular call on Toledo business men Weduesday. Lee Williams of Newport, the retired hotel prince, passed through Wednes day morning en route to Portland. He will be back in a few days if ho bad luck interferes. We are requested to announce that the Ladies' Un-Aid Society will give an entertainment on the evening of April 1. Programs and further announce ments will appear later. Shedd Rosebrook, who has been at the Bremerton, (Wash.) naval station for eomo time, is now on tho battleship Wisconsin at San Francisco, where he asks The Leader to visit him. A. W. Rogers and his little 8-year-old daughter came up from Siuslaw on tho Robnrts a few days ago aud have be come citizens of Toledo. Mr. Rogers has purchased tho John Anderson resi dence on tho north side near Dr. Thay er's property. Dr. O. H. Davenport, the dentist, left last Saturday evening for Keruville, accompanied by W. E. Ball nud J. F. Stephens, oitizeus of that place. Tho doctor expects to spend about ten days on his cattle ranch in that country. Now is the time for your teeth to ache. As a result of attending church services, Principal George McCluskey of the Toledo schools is 11 cents to the good, to say nothing of the more im portant benefits derived. At ono serv ice lie picked up a dime which ho dis covered on the floor and on the'follow- ing Sunday his eagle eye spotted a penny. The moral is plaiu. The Laidies' Aid Socioty met with Mrs. Dorar at tho parsonage Tuesday afternoon. The few who bruved the storm were well repaid. The hostess served refreshments and the session wao a very pieumiut one. it the weather is favorable next Tuesday af temoon the society will meet in the M. E. church to tie comforters. All lady friends of the cause invited. . Each member is urged to come and bring a friend. W. E. Ball and J. F. Stephens were up from tho lower Siletz country last Saturday. They report that that snow" white calf which was believed to have been abducted from tho leased domain of the Pormele brothers has been found dead lodged in some drift on the river bank. , Tub Leader is pleased to learn this, as most of the citizens down there are its readers, and we feared some of them might bo under suspicion. J. II. Dunn, who hud been at the home of County Judge Brown for spv. eral days, died atont 2 o'clock Monday morning and was buried in the Toledo cemetery Wednesday. Mr. Dunn was in his 83d year and for some time had been helpless. He has two sisters in Portland, it is understood, but was un able to converse intelligently, and their rehires could not bo obtained. He had no relatives here, and it became necessary for the county to enre for him during his last illness. A TOLEDO BOY IN HONOLULU. Zenas Copeland Prospering in the . "Paradise of the Pacific." The Leader js in receipt of a letter from Zenas Copeland, dated "Honolulu, II. T., Feb. 25, 1903," from which we ap pend a few extracts: "Since I left, Toledo, nearly two years ago, I have waudered around con siderable, and finally settled down here in Honolulu, the so-called 'Paradise of the Pacific.' "I am working for the Honolulu Rupid Transit aud Land company, and am doing well. Since I have got used to tho climate I have beef onjoying ex cellent health, which is nothing new to me. . k "With this mail I send you two num bers -of our principal papers. . One is the "cable edition :" the other contains an article on how we.used to get news before wo got the cable." As most of our readers are aware, Honolulu was connected with the Uni ted States by cable at; the begin ning of the present year. .A portion of the article mentioned by Mr. Cope laud is here produced: "The Washington Star says: 'I guess, maybe, the cable won't be appreciated by the Honolulu folks !' said an Amer- can newspaper man who recently re-1 turned to this country after being em ployed for many years on tho staff of a Honoluln newspaper. I have knocked about the world a good bit, und I don't know of any place that has been more in want of caMo;Jcommunication for years past than 'Honolulu. The white population is codiivtfsecl exclusively of hustling men and thoroughly up-to-date women from all parts of the Uni ted State9 and Europe, and their feeling of isolation, even while living in so mod ern a city as Honolulu, has long been acute, with no other newsb.ought from the outside world than reaching them in heap&l-up form in the American news papers that wo get to the islands by steamers.,at.fr?m four to ton days' inter vals between them. They are alert people, who before eettliug in Honolulu were in tho habit of closely fol lowing the news of the world from day to day, and tho business of waiting for days at a stretch for information as to the world's doings, especially at periods when they knew something big was going on, has been extremely irksome to them. " 'To illustrate : Our first news of the eruption of Mount Pelee was brought down to us on the steamer Australia. The Australia brought the San Fran cisco papers, containing ihe bare an nouncement of the great catastrophe, published the day after the great erup tion, before any of the details of the horror were known. There wero just four or five double-leaded linos ou the first pages of the newspaper.", telling of Ihe thing, and that was all. The steamer Australia had left San Fran cisco for Honolulu just seven days be fore, and there was no other steamer from the stateB due for something more than a week. ' "'Now, if there's any one thing that the people living in the Hawawiian Islands are particularly interested in, it's volcanoes. So, when the Australia brought the Sun Francisco papers, con taining only those few lines, about the Mount Pelee affair, the people longed for cable as they had never longed be fore. The brief announcement stated that perhaps 50,000 lives of residents of St. Pierre had been sacrificed, and the Honolulu folks weren't very cheer ful just about then. " 'The Warrimoo, bound for ' Samoa and Australia, was late, and didn't get down until ten days after the arrival of the Australia, and we had to wait all that time to get tho details of ihe Pelee affair. Then we each got our big bundle of uowspnpers, ten days of them, and wc had to sit down and spend a night wading through tho ter rible history of the dreadful Martini que, calamity. Honolulu wa the gloomiest city imaginable for nevcral days after the arrivil of the Warrimoo. Whereas if the town had been in con stant daily communication with the United States by cable the now of the great catastrophe would have come out gradually and naturally, and tho shock of swallowing it all at a gulp would not iave rendered the city dismal aod depressing as it did. '''Again: Tho first wo hoard of tho shooting of President McKirdoy was contained in the bunch of San Francisco newspapers brought down to Honolulu by a steamer that left San Erancisoo on the morning following the deed of the assassin. The accounts were given in detail, of course, but it seemed certain from the telegaaphod stories in those papers that the president could not possibly live, and some of the mer chants even draped their stores in mourning upon recoipt of this first in formation. Then, about live days later, if I remember correctly, another steamer came along, and we were as tonished to find, not onlv that the president was still alive, but that there' seemed quite a fair prospect that he would eventually recover. We were rejoicing over this still when, a week later, another steamer came in. brine- 1 ing newspapers containing not only the information that Mr. McKinlev was dead, but giving in detail the accounts or his funeral. 'So that living in a place cut off i from cable communication with the rest of the world gives one a constant series of shocks. '"A mau who can sit down and read ten days' copies of his newspaper, say from January 1 January 10. and do the thing consecutively and in order, with- i out trying to nnd the outcome.of some- rinng that he gets intended in in the later numbers before he has absorbed tlra entire cputcuts of the first num bers, ij worthy to rank alongside of Job. I've tried to do it innumerable times, but never got away with the tusk. I onco knew a missionary who had spent many years in the heart. of Africa. and who only got his papers once a year, and then all in a bunch and he told me that he road them consecutively in a systematic manner, but that man was a, saint, not a human being.' " The copies of the Commercial Ad vertiser received from Mr. Copehnd in dicate that the people of Honolulu are jubilant over the arrival of tho cable. They feel that thev are reallv a rmrr. nf Uncle Sam's big and progressive family. t" to M. M. Davis of Yaquina Moiuhr nighted in Toledo. John Mioek, the Siletz moat mer chant, had business in the county seat last Saturday. Jack Cusack made proof on his home stead last Saturday and departed Mon day morning for Lakeview. Express Messouger William Toner is indulging in a lay-off and doing the state metropolis this week. Marion Hunt of Eddyvillo was in the city Wednesday night for the purpose of getting square on the tux rolls. His Honor Gus Weber of-Beuvor Creek was a county scat visitor yester day, accompanied by his little son Her mann. .Landlord Johnny Gaithcr of New port was in the city last Sunday on his way homo from a visit to his farm on the Siletz. Johu L. Anders, the moral and gen tlemanly C. &E. brakeman, is nursing a crippled hand, the result of trying to chop wood. Messrs. S. A. Pruett and S. J. Brown passed -throiiL'h Sunday en route to their home at Yaquina from a picni on theSiletz. Farmer Clyde Fox went out to Al bany Wednesday, to bo absent about six weeks. He returned Sunday from his ranch northeast of the Agency. The entertainment given by Mi ss Mamie McCIuskey't. school at Yuqui last Friday night for the tniriuis na of raising a school library fund notted th neat sum of 527.G0. Services will be held bv Rev. J Reinertson in tho Lutheran chu jrch next Sunday. The Norwegian la guage will be used at 10:30 in the mor ing nnd English at 7:30 in tho evenin J. J. Gnither went over to Silot Monday to assume the duties of clcr under superintendent McKoio. M Gaithor's years of experience in il I q ' Indian service will make bim perfectly at homo m tho position. His Tole (d friends are pleased to see him "ca :atcl on again. Attorney B. IV Jones ncconipanlo (1 his sou l-rauci" to Portland Monda; where the latter will take a course at (. a busincas college. Mr. Jones carried tl 10 proxy of F. M. Wadsworth. member tho Congicsilonal coroniitteo for th is county, and attended the meeting the committee at Portland yesterday of REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Record of Recent Exchanges in Lincoln. County. March 9 -Minnie A. Tnlfnrd in Hnu. ard Morley, 4w seotion 8, township 8 south, range! 9 wist. Consideration 2 March 1-W. ?. Slater to J. A. Rich- rard dson, IdW, atud 4 and the swT of the M ectiof 19, township 11 south,. rai ige 10 west. Consideration $1(55. March 9 Emma B.f Thompson to Mattie W. Moore. 120x40 feet in Nye t Tl lompsou s addition to Newport. Con leration SC."). sid Feb. 21 George T. Smith and Caro ne Smith to OUie J. Purdy, 20 acres in W1 of onnltnx IT 1 i " . T - - --VlU 1U lUtl iiOli 111 i i south, range 10 west. Consideration $1. l-eb. Ja1-red Joss and Anna Mary Joss to Alpheus G. Bradley, swj- sec- ion 4, townsnip lj south, range II west. Cc Linsideratioo $1750. Feb. 23-E. F. Gaar to Thomas Leese, lot 11, block 2. city of Toledo. Consid eration $325. Feb. 27-Charles Corser and Clara Corser to School District No. 6, 1 acre iu nej section 18, township 11 south, range 8 west.. Consideration $1. March 4 -Catherine McIIardy to W. J. McClure, sw section 10, township i south, raugo 9 west. Consideration $3100. - March 9 Charles Allen and Mfltnrin Allen to M. W. Simpson, se,V section 22, towDship 11 south, ran 1ft woci Consideration $275. March 12 Henry Nice and Jessie I.. Nice to Gottleib Elksnat, 4.55 acres in section 27, township 13 south, range 11 west. Consideration $15. March 12 John Loy to Howard Mor ley, yr'A of the sei, swJX of the 1104,. aud the fractional 11 wj of the ne, iu section 2, township 8 south, range 9 west. Consideration $2250. "' , W. G. Hanson, writing to The Lead pit from Jelly City, Tehama county, Cab, ' asks for information concerning the ad- vantages of this county, and say3 he would liko to hear from parlies who waut to sell property, and from real es tate agents. He intends moving to Oregon soon. J. A. Westerlund of Fruithnrst, Ala., William Westerlund of Chicago, T. R. Egertou of Shultsburg, Wis , Mr. anil Mrs. L. M. Rodman aud II. J. Kent of Monroe, Mo., are in the city. They are looking over Lincoln county with a view to becoming citizens. Hall & Auderson's delivery team in dulged in a little frolic Mouday even ing, upsetting the wagon twice, but doing no damage worth mentioning. When the horses had finished their romp they went quietly to the barn and asked forgiveness. Sam Center went to Elk City Monday to introduce his cream separators to some of the thrifty ranchmen. The separator is becoming popular in tliu county. It is a sensible idea. J. II. Doty and son Grover of Ya quiua were in the city yesterday. Mr. Doty reports that the storm Monday: night demolishtd his crabbery and alsi; damaged the cannery. Epworlh League topio for Sundav evening: "The Young Christian's Pleasures." Answer to roll-call with a Scriptural quotation on "Help." Dr. J. D. Wctmoro has been taking his own moriieine this week, but, nv orthek'SH, notwithstanding, seems to be getting better. Merchant J. R. Vant uioved into his own home on First street last Fii.lnv. '' exchansing places of nbode with R. E. Collins. Ed Swanson went to Newport thix morning. The rumor that he intend t.fl Iktll' till) lilnon linu m.f I.. .... firmed. Miss Ethel aud Edith Ross went to Ncwnort Vedneiliiv niolit. In ..ft.r.,1 .. I J t r uvicini i, meeting of tho Order of Eastern Star. If Eli (Jail her can borrow a horse wit h lmrl i.'iru ntirl n vui.iflo.l I 1 v'ni"i j7i-Airi?i' he will probably visit Newport today. , J. Hurley Lutz depurtrd Tuesday imbuing on 11 ousiiK'ss trip to Portland and intermediate points. 11. U. J5ari)r, the uonial f pidsgogue, was a count v bpuC viuif,.., inn haturday. Mrs. Hattio Ij. Tracy of Newport in win cny last emmrday, V 1 . . I r ,