Lebanon Egress.
H. Y. KIRKPATR1CK,
Editor - and - Proprietor.
COUNTY DIVISION.
Every two years, the old thread
bare idea of dividing the county
bobs up serenely. This year it
comes from two different quarters,
our neighbor on the southwest
Brownsville and our neighbor
on the northeast Scio each be
believing that the world should
revolve with their respective cor
porations as the center, are'
straining every nerve to have the
the county divided, but they can
not agree on the lines of division.
Neither proposed division (.an
furnish enough taxes to run even
a little county and each would be
sorry we did it, in twelve months.
With courthouse to build and
furnish and a suitable site to buy,
with officers to pay and taxes to
raise, what would become of our
secession friends. They would be
like the unfortunate soul who was
dissatisfied with the accommodat
ions of the lower regions, and who
with a little piece of real estate
and a lot of brimstone, went out
and made a hell of his own. These
divisiouists are dissatisfied with
the accommodations offered by old
Linn, so they are going to set up
county of their own. When one
man kicks sow about his taxes,
(en will have a righteous kick
when his land is doubly taxed to
jiay for the glory of Scioor Browns
ville. Some of them think it
hardship to have to go so far at
Albany to attend court, but that
they could easily tramp to Scio or
Brownsville. They forget that
there is a railroad running very
near those places, and when once
at either place they can then
take the train for Albany at little
cist. The trouble all comes in
gitting to Scio or Brownsville.
Hut possibly the new counties
will build railroads and run ex
cursion trains into the backwoods
- ti bring witnesses, jurors and
litigants to court. Soma again
kick at the hatel 'expenses at
Albany. Do these new counties
propose to furnish , meals and
lodgings free to attendants upon
o mr'.J
It 'is claimed tliaf .there is very
little litigation in the new Browns
v He county. If that be true, the
fees collected will not begin to
.pay the salaries of the officers.
A-d in cage the officers are to be
paid by fees, the income from fees
being so small, competent officers
cannot be induced to serve for so
little pay.
brownsviilc claims that they
would have very few creeks and
rivers to bridge. This may be
true, but she will not have enough
money to bridge those she will
have.
Brownsville claims that enter
prising citizens will furnish the
money to erect buildings etc.
This is merely a supposition.
Tnere is not enough idle money in
anil about Brownsville to build
even a second class court-house
and equip it.
Our esteemed-Brownsville neigh
bor, after juggling with facts and
figures, grows eloquent on the fut-
uio m the new county. He
thinks our financial and social
conditions would receive an im
petus. We had always believed
Brownsville social condition was
excellent and are sorry to bear
that a now court house there
would be necessary to give it an
impetus what ever that means.
He thinks unproductive labor,
tliat is now wasted in going to
court could be saved, Possibly It
could, but can Brownsville furnish
tli is labor any better nay than
ton cents inllo each way and tt
por diem? The result would be
to increase the number of un
employed men, if any result should
follow,
He thinks that land would ln
cruase in value, likewise farming
product, by-ttrftfnu '"""'S"-
-tijuri to the. new county. Wt did
fw fnof wet mailing a &
county with Brownsville for jthei'bqftHi, but alail the poor
filter, ireuld rslw the jdo.,j iwriityvi QuU hVf the bill
fSSSLJt St
Emigrant ere not likely
flock in numbers to the new
county if indeed they would ever
hear of it when the taxable pro
perty therein contained is not
sufficient to support the county.
The beautiful dream of a new
county with Brownsville as the
center, may be attractive to
Brownsville's merchants, hotels
and newspapers, but the poor
farmers who would have to. pay
the oiper while these men danced,
would think it a night-mare in
stead. No, we don't want any
division, we can't afford it, Linn
county is good enough for us.
SCIO COUNTY DIVISION.
Petitions are being circulated,
asking the legislature to create a
new county out of Linn with the
Ssntiam as the line. This is
another revival of an old fad, and
is instigated rather by personal
interests than by a desire for the
general welfare of the paople,
We have not yet heard the
arguments presented and we can
conceive of no sound reason for
this division. On the contrary,
every motive of economy is agaiiiBt
the ides; though strange to say,
economy is probably the argu
ment used.
Linn county is one of the most
prosperous and economically gov
erned counties in the state. There
is no destitution or want here.
Times are hard but our citizens
are not over-burdened by taxes,
while other counties are suf
fering from ovet "taxation. This
cannot be denied. Thm why
should our people, prospering thus,
seek a change that would inevit
ably involve them with oppressive
burdens? Our county is large,
but we have to pay only one
sheriff, one clc.k, treasurer ar.d
recorder and the fees earned to tee
county go a long ways toward
paving their salaries. . If W6
divide into three counties, we will
have three each of these officers to
pay and they can only be paid
by taxes wrung from our citieens,
for no one will claim that the fees
collected would pay uny consider-
abt portion of these expenses.
New court houses will have to be
built and equipped. New records
will have to be made at the cost
of many thousands of dollars.
Unlimited confusion will occur in
titles. Officers will have to be
paid and their pay can be but
little less than the pay of the
present incumbrante. The terri
tory that now supports one
set of officers, will then have to
support three sets of officers and
three court houses, thus making
each of the three proposed counties
bear alone the burdens now born
by all together, Ie there uny
economy in this; ion divide
your resources and increase your
liabilities. Ine inevitable re
sult will be bankruptcy. These
reasons apply with peculiar force
to our neighbors across the
Santiam. In addition to all
the expenses incident upon a
division, our Scio friends will
have taken upon themselves
burdens that they have never
dreamed of. It is a fact that
at least one half the bridges,,
drains and bad roads of the
counties will be in the Scio
county. If division is made,
the taxpayers of that section
will have to keep up these
roads and bridges without
the assistance of the people
on this side. Any taxpay
ing fanner who thinks of this
fact will never favor division,
for he would thus double his
taxes. There are more farm
ers in that section than busi
ness men of other occupa
tions and the farmers should
not let themselves be made a
oats-paw to pull ohesnuts out
of the fire for ft few JntereBted
persons. 8eio might reap a
temporary blessinp, but the
costs would fall upon the
country Mopla. Suio mer
ohantii hotels, livery stables,
bar-roorui and teal estate
owner would get t temporary
Hkcrktary Morton of the ag
ricultural department at Washing
ton believes that the free distribu
tion of seeds by the government
shquld be stopped, but as the cus
tom is to continue during the
coming season he thinks that such
seeds as are sent out gratis should
be given to those farmers in the
Western states who have recently
suffered from drought. This may
not lie a pleasing arrangement to
the Eastern congressmen who have
been able to maintain a cheap
popularity among the agricultur
ists of. their home districts by a
judicious distribution of seed pack
ages in the past, but it will cer
tainly commend itself to the gen
eral public Ex.
The astounding deoree lately is
sued by the Italian Government
suppressing by a stroke of the pen
all labor associations, benefit so
cieties and even co-operative so
cieties that are deemed to Social
istic ideas is merely part and par
cel of the policy cf reaction which
t' ' Anarchist outrages of last
mnter and spring have hod the
effect of bringing into force in
nearly every country in Europe.
By a strange anomaly, it is in
Kussia alone that one perceives
the dawn of a more enlightened
and progressive era, the new Csar
being apparently ' imbued with
liberal intentions and views,
The two new counties to be
sliced off old Linn lire named
respectively, Santiam, with the
forks of the Santiam, where the
democratic majorities wore so
great that tbey could only be
timated, but where now only the
wail ot the Podulist is heard in
the land, and Tumalum, witli
Brownsville for a center and with
the line running within six miles
of Lebanon. Will the people stand
it? We say no.
This iB a time when every chronic
grumbler comes to the surface and
makes himself obnoxious to others.
It mokes-no difference what may
be proposed in the line of common
sense, some chronic is ready to
make a howl about it
There appears to be no shortage
of ladies at Sa'.em, who would like
to be favored with clerkships of
committees. But the members
this session will be almost afraid
to employ them, even if they
wanted to.
The best groceries and furnishing
good at the lowest prices at FugbeY
Muneey'a. Try them.
Hiram Baker lux received bis fall
stock of ladles' cloaks, and invites the
ladles to call and examine theni.
The reason that J. E. Adcox, the
watchmaker can change a key-wind
watch to stem-wind at a less price than
others is because he does his own work
while others have to send the work to
Frisco or Chicago and pay $7 to 18 for
bavelug it done.
Prof. C, E. Chapman president of
the State University will deliver an
address on education In tub city no
Friday evening March IStb to whioh
everybody is invited.
All knowing themselves Indebted tu
me will please can ana seme at
OIICP, M. A. MILLED.
Every sash purchaser of $10 worth of
gouds at 8. P. Baclis store gets a crayon
portrateottbemselvw or friend free.
8ee sample of work In bis window.
Mrs. T. 8. Hawkins. Chattanooga,
Tenn. says, "Bblloh's Vitallzer
'SAVED MY LIFE.' I consider it tut
best remedy for a debilitated system I
ever used." For Dyspepsia, Liver or
Kidney trouble t excels. Price 7Scts.
BoldbyN.W.Bniltb.
. To Tbt Public.
Those that never have tried a good
house or a cheap bouse, can learn
where to bny a good article cheap.
Tbe celebrated W. L. Douglass shoe,
and the Barton Bros', boots and show
are known by our Eastern frieuds to
be (h very best, We nave a line of
the Brown lio psjnpsny , of 8t. Louis,
aa well at many other lines, whlob
are told down to the hardest time
prices. Our expenses are light and we
af) prepared to tell cheap. We carry
nearly every thing rrom a tootnptoa
to a locomotive. Hikau Baker.
Gtatt rails,
PinUlMet4arMla for stleebeup.
CslloBereddrMS Waller Awwa, Al
bany ottes, at frs&eWs Jewshy stun
40 tM h. A, KlektiW at Lebanon.
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Men's Shoes:
SI 50.
2 00.
2 50.
3 00.
5 00.
W. L.
But his agent for the Beat Shoe in tho World. We carry large lines of shoes from
Barton Bros., of Kansas City, Brown Shoes Company, of St. Loui, and many other shoe
manufacturers; and also carry a large line of Rubber Goods of all kinds. We have a fine
line of Dress Goods arriving from the East which will bo sold us cheap as anywhere on the
face of the earth. Remember We Carry GOOD GOODS
For the Least Money, ' ' '11.
HIRAM BAKER, Lebanon, Or.
LEBANON PRODUCE MARKET.
Changed Krery Week.l
Vbeat-38c.
Oats We
Hay-IS to $7 perton.
Flour 0 60(S5. per suck.
Chop 10 76 per cwt.
Bran 70c per cwt.
MiddlluKB-til 70 per cwt.
Potatoes 25(!,
Apples Dried, Oc per It'
Plums Dried, 6c.
Onions 2u. '
Beef Dressed, 8c.
Veal l5c.
Pork Dressed, 4.
Lard-12.
Hams 10 per lb.
Bhouldcrs-Se. '
KidisMle ?!. lb.
Geese fi 7 per "
Duok-rt8 t6 per dos.
Chiokens-42 00 00.
Turkeys 8c per lb.
Eggs 22c ner dot.
Bhttr-16 20e per lb.
Hides-Green, le; dry, 2o.
Attany Steam Laundry
RICHARDS S PHILLIPS, Proprs,
.4-lbroty, Orgou,
All Orders Receive Prompt
Attention.
Special Rates' for
Batisfaction Guaranteed or Money
Refunded.
J, R. APCDX, Agent,
InBmltli'sPrugBlore.j
Lobanon, uresron.
REMOVAL NOTICE.
Willi W,
Of Albany,
Arp now in their new store in
the Cusiok block, where hey are
prepared to meet the wunts of the
public with the finest line of jew
elry, silverware, clocks watohes,
etc, in this part of the state.
Fitting eyes with glassos and
spectacles by Prof. A. Mark, grnd-
uate of tho Chicago Opthalmy
College, a specialty,'
BMt Shoe Mid at th prlM.
SB, 4 It 83,00 Drew Shoe
ttqual cufwm warkM)Miu trvititti to $,
83.00 Polio "9 :plM
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I have a LARGE STOCK of BRICK, for sale at my-
Yard, in the suburbs of Lebanon, For Sale .at Reasonable"
Rales. All kind of mason's woik dono with, neatness and ""
despatch. D. W. HARDEN.
BARBER SHOP
Best Shaves, Huir Cut or Bhump'io nt
BORUM & KIRKS'
Shaving Parlor.
NEXT DOOR TO BT. OH A MUCH
' HOTBIj,
Elegant BathvS.
Children Kindly Treated.
Ladies Hair Dressing a Specialty,
ritoiin' piioouiiSBivE ropn.Ait
Northwest
JFlre and Marine
INSURANCE CCHP'Y
Head Office,
1209-271 Chamber of Commerce,
Portland, Oregon,
THI LKAOINQ MOMt OOMPANV.
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SUWOW'S YOUR PATpoKAOB,
Ladies' Fine Shoes:
$1 50.
2 50 v f
3 OO.
4 00.
5 00.
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with trh orrifr hffl (Mrl.
Lebanon
Meat Market,
... jtm "Si i jtj
Ed Kellenberger, Propr,-1 '
Fresh & Salted Beef Pork, V
Mutton, Sausage Bo- .
logna, and Ham,
IgrBacon and Lard Always on Hans' ,
Main 81 root, Letinnnn, Or.
The Yaquina Route. '
OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD,
hat. Clark; Raoslyer; f ;
Direot Line Quick Dispatch
Low Freight Rates,.
Connecting with summer Ho
mer between Yaquina and, IBan"'
Francisco. ;
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For freight and, pmeenger rftej
apply p any agen.
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