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Volume XIV.
Toledo, Lincoln County, Oregon, Friday; August 31, 1900.
Number 27
Wittioln
Yaquina to Newport.
Manager Tulbot of the Corvallis &
Eastern is Riven as authority for the
statement that this road will be ex
tended from Yaquina to Newport and
will be completed before the opening of
the summer season next year. This
will greatly increase the popularity of
Newport and Nye Creek as a resort.
The large increase in pleasure-seekers
at this point during the past two
years lias taxed the capacity of the
boats connecting with the trains at Ya
quiua ami practically forced the exten
sion of the C & E. to the Resort City.
At the M. E. Church.
Texts an J subjects for services at the
M. E. church Sunday, Sept. 2. 1900.
MOKNINO
Text Proverbs, 23:26. Subject
' The meusure of interest is the measure
of success."
evexi.no
Text Proverbs, 25:23. Subject
"A back-biting tongue."
High School Principal
Joel W. Wilson of Independence has
been engaged as principal of the Tole
do District High School. Mr. Wilson
was recorameuded by Prof. J. B. V.
Butler of the State Normal School at
Monmouth,
The Toledo schools ' will probably
open September 24, instead of a week
earlier, as originally planned.
Strawherries
Half a dozen large, luscious ripe
strawberries were displayed at the Ire
land grocery store, Friday and Satur
day. They were of the Magoon variety
and came from the garden of Piess
Walten, below town. And it is almost
the first of September in Oregon. Cor
vallis Gazette. '
Not a mere "half a dozen," but a
goodly supply of Hue strawberris were
placed on the Toledo market Tuesday
by Adam llae, the well-kuown market
'gardener residing on the Yaquina above
Toledo. The September crop of siraw-
berries iti this vicinity promises to be
largo and of superior quality.
Remnant Sale
I will have a remnant sale ou Satur
day, September 8. Remember the
date the day for bargains.
Mrs. T. P. Fish.
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Call for County Warrants.
Notice is hereby given that I have
funds on hand to pay all County War
rants drawn ou the General Fund, and
endorsed : "Not paid for want of funds"
up to and including March 31, 1003.
Interest on said warrants to cease
from and after this date.
J. L. Hyde, County Treasurer.
Dated at Toledo, Or., this 3d day of
August. 1906.
Elk City 14, Toledo 4. -
The Toledo and Elk City baseball
teams clashed on the lattor's grounds
last Sunday.. Elk City lassoed 14 runs
in the first three innings aud then took
it easy, while Toledo was harvesting 4.
Toledo was outclassed thats' all; de
feated, but not discouraged. Nexll
For Sale.
A good second hand New G. Howe
eewing machine. Price $15.
Mns. Georue Betiiers,
Toledo, Oregon.
At Half Price for Cash.
One of the best stock ranches in
Lincoln county; five tous hay in barn;
plow, cultivators, harrow, etc; also
bachelor cooking outfit, garden truck
for family, throe-fourths acre rutabagas
aud carrots; 160 acres in ranch, 20 acres
improved, 20 acres good timber; best of
range; seven miles from Elk City. Call
on or address O. G, Dalaba,
Elk City, Or.
Fred Stauton, Fitd Chambers1 and
Henry Scott, who have been with the
south surveying crew of the O. C. Sc E.,
arrived home yesterday evening. They
report it all off for two weeks -perhaps
two hundred years.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Wadsworth cel
ebrated the 46th anniversary of their
wedding yesterday. A number of
friends were present Kiid report a very
pleasant time. , ' j
Dave Ross left this morning on a
business trip to Portland.
r v" t t v.. ; .. .aa :n li
city Tuesday.
W. II. Danielof Big Elk was in the
city Wednesday.
Joe Hill had business in Newport
Monday evening.
Captain Henry Nice of Lutjenshad
business in the city Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Starr returned
Sunday from a month's outing at Otter
Rock.
Mrs. H. B. Dabney left Monday
morning for Portland, toremaiu several
weeks.
County Commissioner John Fogarty
and Dr. F. M. Carter were up from
Newport Tuesday.
Captain Dick Evens and his launch
Leslie H. were up from Newport Tues
day with a bunch ot sightseers.
George Newberry returned last Sat
urday evening from Portland to resume
operations on his farm over on the oi
letz. Mrs. C. E. Hawkius, Grand Manager
of the Women of Woodcraft, went to
Portland Wednesday on official, busi
ness. Ed Greenbrook of Newport passed
through Tuesday morning en route to
Gray'a Harbor, where he has secured a
position at the life-saving station.
W. L. Dueey of San Francisco is
looking over Lincoln county this week
with a view to locating. He may de-,
cide to build a sawmill at some favor
able point.
Al Waugh arrived home Wednesday
evening from an extended business trip
through California. He visited Fred
Ross at Lodi aud reports the young
man prospering.
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Altizer of Si
letz left Tuesday for Portland, to be
absent until September 8. On the
5th of that month Mr. Altizer will make
proof on his homestead at the Portland
Land Offlco.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Grout and son
William returned Saturday to their
home in Portland, after an eight-days'
outing with The Leader at Otter Rock.
Mr. Grout is assistant superintendent
of the Portland schools. He went to
Monmouth Monday to deliver a course
of lectures to the summer class at the
State Normal.
L. C. Parme'.e and family arrived
last Friday evening from Kernville.
Mr. Parmele recently sold bis farm near
Keruvillo, to Hiram Lougcoy of Mil
waukie, Or., the consideration being
$2100. The latter will convert the place
into a park, and expects to make it one
of the most attractive s pots in Lncoln
county. Mr. Parmele is undecided as
to his future movements.
M. Wygant, the surveyor, passed
through Wednesday evening to his
home at Newport. He left the Oregon
Coast & Eastern surveying crew at
McMinuvillo and reports that all the
men in the field have been laid off for
two weeks. At the end of two weeks,
Mr. Wygant says, something will hap
pen. We hope so. Even a deluge
would bo a relief as a monotony buster.
John C. Fletcher's Homestead
After living with his family on a
homestead on part of what was the Si
lctz Indian Reservation for the live
years prescribed by law, the proofs of
ownership offered by John C. Fletcher
were refused by the general land office
because the survey of 120 acres of it
had not been approved, and the land
was declared not subject to entry. The
remaining 40 acres had been surveyed
regularly and the survey accepted, but
Fletcher was not allowed to prove his
title to them because he had built his
house on tho ground included iu the
120 acres not subject to entry.
Because of this the homestead is of
no value to the estate of Fletcher, who
has since died. The appraisers of the
estate H. C. Starr, Jaspar Ageo and
John Deakins Uled a report in the
county court this morning showing that
the property of the estate is worth f 1,
391). The homestead is mentioned in
the report, but it is appraised as having
uo value to the estate. Attorneys for
the estate declare that Fletcher's fam
ily will be able to prove up on the
homestead if they continue to live on
it until the survey is approved by the
general land office. Portland Tele
gram, Aug. 2X
i WHEN YOU REST
FROM YOUR REST j
When your brain is dull and weary aud
the world seems sad and dreary,
It is time to 6eek surcease from toil and
care;
It . is then you grasp the notion of a
camp down by the ocean,
Bathed in sunshine and caressed by
salt sea air.
There with genial friends to cheer
you not a mind-disturber near you
You may while away the golden-liuted
hoars;
While your weary frame reposes on a
couch not made of roses
You regain your erstwhile weak and
waning powers.
All too soon the outing's ended and the
homeward way you've wended
To take up tho white tuan's burden
cheerfully.
Ah, the joy and the beauty of the home
and every dutv
When you're resting from your rest
' down by the sea !
Government Experts at the Fair
Visitors at the Oregon State Fair dur
ing the week (Sept. 10 15) will not onlv
find the various lines of agriculture,
horticulture, mechanical and fine arts
exhibits of interest, but also a demon
stration of the leading topics in all of
our rural districts at this time, namely
"good roads." Just outside of the
north fence line of the State Fair
grounds can be seen from beginning to
end the building of a modern highway.
The United States government road
experts are at work upon a mile of ex
peri mem tal road.
This piece of work is well under way
and a quarter of a mile is now ready
for use. The plan is first a systematic
grading and drainage which is thor
oughly done, then a o-inch coating of
coarse crushed rock thoroughly rolled
when wet, and the final coating of, finer
crusned rock Rprinkled and rolled un
til the print of a team and wagon can
not be noticed after having passed over
the finished surface. This feature
alone is worth a trip to tho Fair.
Fall Street Hats.
Mrs. Fish has received a lsrge
assortment of Fall Street Hats and
Caps, and invites the ladies of Toledo
and vicinity to call and see them.
Epitaphs Tell Story
The following tribute to the memory
of those that pass to the beyond through
their fool acts is being passed around
the press:
"Take a walk through any of the cem
eteries throughout the country aud you
will believe with us that, fools are slow
ly but surely passing away, says an ex
change. With silent tread you pass
the last resting place of the individual
who blew into au empty gun. Tho
modest tombstone of the girl who light
ed the fire with kerosene and tho grass
covered mound that covers the mortal
remains of the hoy who took the mule
by the tail is near by. The tall monu
ment is for the man who jumped off
the cars to save a 10 rod walk. Side by
side lie the remains nf the intellectual
idiot thai rode nine miles in 10 minutes
and tho ethereal creature who always
kept her corset laced to the last hole.
Hero reposes the young doctor who
took ad iso of his own medicine, and
the old fool who married a young wife.
Over yonder in the northwest corner
where the gentle breezes sigh over the
weepiug willow lies the follow who told
his mother in-law she lied. Near by
his grave, reposes tlio mouldering dust
of the editor who starved to death try
irtg to ruu a first-class paper in a seo-oud-class
town. Further on lies the
boy who went swimming too caily in
the season, and tho lady who kept
strychnine and baking powder side by
side in tho cupboard. Aud that un
marked, weed-grown grave in the dark,
damp, dismal corner, by itself, is the
dreary resting place of the deadest of
them all the man who didn't adver
tise." George Hodges of Big Elk was in the
city last night with two Portlaud men,
whom he located on timber claims.
Miss Maud Horning is in charge of
the Bonbouiero during the absence of
Mr. and Mrs. George Hall in Portland,
Roy Case of Newport had business in
Toledo yesterday.
Warren Hall of Siletz had business
in Toledo Tuesday.
Miss Esther Copeland was a visitor
from Siletz Saturday.
J. A. J. Fleming, the Newport con
tractor and builder, was in the city
Tuesday.
Harry Fant arrived Mondav evening
from Portland and may decide to again
become a citizen of Toledo.
Thomas Anderson of Yuma City,
California, is iu the city, the guest of
his brother, M. X. Anderson.
C. M. Brown and family of Newport
passed through yesterday morning en
route to the hop fluids near Independ
ence.
Representative B. F. Jones of Inde
pendence passed homeward Wednes
day morning from a visit to tho Pacific
Ocean,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Turnidge returned
last Friday to their home in Portland,
after a visit with relatives aud friends
in Toledo.
Mrs. J, S. Akin and daughter Iris,
Miss Aunetta Lehburg and Ed Hufford
departed Saturday morning for a
week's stay al Otter Rock.
Postal Clerk J. Henry Penn of Ya
quiua has been seriously ill during the
past two weeks, but is recovering.
Dr. Burgess is in attendance.
Miss Mabel Cressy, representing the
West Side Enterprise of Independence,
returned to her home Saturday from a
vacation at the beach, accompanied by
her mother.
Lincoln county teachers receive
smaller salaries than are paid by any
other county in the state. This is uot
a "proud distinction." It accounts iu
a measure for tho difficulty iu securing
teachers.
Tom Jackson and Major Ludson were
over from Siletz yesterday. The for
mer reports that he has raised a crew
of about eighty pickers and will leave
Saturday to begin work in a 200-acre
hop held near Independence. Major
will go with him to keep hiin out of
mischief. Ned Evans of Siletz will go
out with another crew.
I will pay 3 cents a pound for old
rubber. A. RosehrUok.
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Important, if True.
Says a Washington, D. C, special to
the Oregonian, under date of Augnst'J'i:
Edmund Scribner Steveus, Ph. I.,
"great Bible scholar aud chronolugist,"
us his card puts it, uow of Washington,
but formerly of Lebanon, Pa., predicts
more disastrous earthquakes, and says
the end of the world will como in 1082.
This is the explanation he gives of con
ditions :
"The earth is out of her placo or up
right position. It is gradually resum
ing it. Whenever there is Decelerated
or faster motion, in that period earth
quakes occur. We are now in ono of
those periods, from Mount Peeleo, 11)00,
to 1915, again from 1025 to HMti, again
1905 to 2000 A. D. In 19S2 the earth
quake is to be of such extent that all
the cities of all nations will fall. From
2035 to 3144, A. I), the earth is in con
tinual perturbation and iu the latter
year settles to its upright position.
''This urings iu' the now heaven and
new earth."
Stevens says, that after the Biblical
Hood the earth slipped a quarter way
round on its axis, and declares' that
it is now regaining its normal position.
He points with gleo to th fact that
when explorers go searching for the
North Pole, up above Iceland, they are
really on tho trail of tho actual equa
tor, and it would not be the North Pole,
even if they found it.
Stevens says that every once in a
whilo some cause sends the earth about
more rapidly tliau usual, tho earth
quakes result. In his own words:
"The exoteric principle is that when
ever the velocity of the terraqueous
oblate spheriod which wo inhabit be
comes excessively accelerated in its par
racentrid deviation from its accustomed
orbit and the momentum of its revolu
tions through the atmosphere increases
in corresponding ratio, the extraordin
ary conditions onmbine to produce tre
mendous subterraneous concussions,
which necessarily execute much de
struction on the surface."
As not many of us will he here to wit
ness the big Stevens disaster, lets de
cide not to worry about itl
Leon Rosebrook in New York.
New York Citv, N. Y., )
Aug. 20, 1900 5
Dear Folks, One and All:
You have been asking me about
prices, rents and salaries in the east,
s. I will try to give you a little idea of
salaries, etc., etc.; in comparison with
San Francisco and Portland.
I am playing five hours a day aud
draw 825 per week. The samo job iu
San Francisco is 30.
Musicians on Coney Island draw $IS
to $-20 a week and work eight hours a
day. Such work in San Francisco is
$25 a week aud only five hours a day.
Room rent in New York is 85 a week
for a 2 by 4 box that a Sun Francisco
landlord would bo ashamed to use for a
clothes closet. A good front bednom
is $8 to $10 a week. An apartment
in an eight-apartment houso is $12 a
month for a seven room apartment.
You can get the same number of rooms
in a flat (which is the sumo as an apart
ment in San Francisco) for $20 to $25 a
month. Of conrp vnn can rn r liprinnr
than this, but you can't got anything
for less than that in a decent part of
town,
On Broadway you pay a dollar for a
moal that you can get for CO cents and
even 30 cents on a street one block from
Broadway.
When you walk down Broadway yon
can see half a dozen small stores that
have failed and gone bankrupt, rent be
ing so high.
It is about 00 dngroes in the shade
hore, and in the Subway (that is the
underground street railway) it is from
5 degrees to 10 degrees hotter, and tho
Subway has a very poor vcntiilatinn
systora, so you can imagino tho condi
tion of tho air down theio about 1 p. m.
Everything is pennies here. If a hill
of goods oomes to $1.97 J'ou pay $4.97
aud not 81.95. Papers are 1 cent and
2 cents each. Ferry passugo across tho
East and North Rivers is 3 cents. You
can go to Boston by steamer frr $1.75.
When I left North Adams, Mass., I
went around by way of Albany, N. T
From Albany the railroad runs right
down the east side of tho Hudson Ri
ver. It was a beautiful trip, but I was
too sleepy to appreciate it. I loft North
Adams at 2 a.m. and laid over two
hours and a half from 5 a. m. to 7.30
a. in.
I open in Maryland with tho show I
go west with. They carry about fifty
people and two car-loads of scenery aud
baggage. It is a musical comedy com
pany. Mv wife will play tho leading
soiibrotte parts. '
We go by way of St. Louis and tho
southern states to California and the
show (but not us) go back east by Den-
ver and Ogdun. I have had enough of
the east.
If you could only 6eo somo of tho
groceries here! Fruit for inst.meo.
Watermelons here 50 cents; in Califor
nia the same size melon 15 cents or at
tho most 20 cents; peaches 2 for 5
cents; poars 3 for 10 cents nnd some
5 cents straight; oranges 5 cents and
some 4 for 25 cents ; butter 35 cents a
pound, best grade 40 cents; eggs 27
cents, best grade 30 cents; chickens,
dressed, 81 for a 4 pennd one. The on
ly thing that is cheaper is clothes. I
can tin v a suit or clothes hero for flo
that will cost 822.50 in San Francisco.
Of course these prices are compared
to San Francisco prices before tho
earthquake.
Just a word in regard to North Ad
ams, Mass., and I will close: North
Adams is iv town of 22,000 people.
There Is a mill there called tho Arnold
Print Works, manufacturing cloth.
Thev employ over half the town. In
other words, thoy employ 15,000 men
! and women. Their factory covers over
2 square miles of ground. I mean their
buildings and not ono building. Thero
is a state law in Massachuotts that com
pels you to give all your prollis over a
certain fluuio to tho state, and to avoid
that the Arnold Mill owner tears down
aud rebuilds bis buildings and adds on
more ground all the time.
Oregon is good enough for me and
when I go back west I will never leave
there. I would give a week's salury for
a box of Oregon apples. The poor devil
that goes east is going to got soaked.
Give mo Oregon aud ull its rain (and
it raius just as much here in summer
as it does in Oregon iu winter.) Wo
have a thunder storm every three or
our duys. Lko.n E. Rosebkook,
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