Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-05-18

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miles of railway track, a round
house, a machine shop, large rail-
way warehouse, allthe grounds and
right-of-way etc, of the trackage
and terminus Of the road, and there
is not scratch of pen on the roll
to show that there ever was rail-
way car within the limits of Lincoln
county. Geo, s. Coe is the owner
of over 5000 worth of property
i'll Lincoln county and his name
does not appear on the roll; neither
does the name of VIM, NJ, Hoag,
I, +, Hogs, Zephin Job, Wallis
Nash, the Oregon Development
Company, and many others, all Of
whom own thousands of dollars
worth ofpropesty in Lincoln county,
In the sheriff's office III this town
are over four hundred letters from
nonresident tax payers whose
names are not on the rofl turned
over and are certified by the clerk
of Benton county to be a true and
correct transcript, and these parties
have been paying taxes before, some
of them for years. In the same
office is list of mortgages upon
property situated III Lincoln county
aggregating oversee 900 valuation,
and not trace of them appear up-
on the entire" roll turned over to
Lincoln equity If that glaring
mass of absurd mistakes and gross
omissions constitute an entire tax
roll, tue people of Lincoln county
can thank q kind fate that they did
not get a roll that by Some mishap
was not entire. In such case the
county would have had to issue
bonds to pay its state tax,
The Gazette admits the plain
mandate OF the statute as to the
duty a the superintendent of BEN
ton county but asserts that a mis-
take was made In the drafting Of
the bill, and that no court would
sustain the act. The act will stand,
however, until higher court than
the Corvallis Gazette declares it
unconstitutional.
The labored attempt ofthe Gazette
10 create sentiment as to the
equity of claims made by Benton
county officers falls flat IN the light
of facts. There seems to have been
studied attempt to harass and de-
fraud the new county. The act
provided. for the tianscribing of the
tax roll and delivery to the sheriff
within thirty days from the time
the act went into effect, and the
same provisions was made as to
papers in circuit court cases, The
tax roll was nearly month late and
the court papers were not delivered
till the first day of the term of court,
nearly sixty days after the perscrib.
ed time. A delinquent roll has
never yet been delivered to the
sheriff of Lincoln county and we
are reliably informed that the sher-
if of Benton county is today collect
ing taxes that belong to Lincoln
county upon the delinquent roll.
They dispute the right of Lincoln
county to any share ofthe delinquent
railroad tax, Notwithstanding that
for every dollar Of railroad property
situated In Benton county. there
are two In Lincoln county. There
has been omitted from the tax roll,
property that has been discovered
by the proper officers, aggregating
over $500, 900 in valuation and
making a direct loss to Lincoln
county had it not been discovered
and assessed by the sheriff OF Lin
coin county, Of $4,000 and over.
These are facts and can be shown
beyond controversy by records and
papers in the court house in this
place. And in the face Of these
Infamous attempts at fraud and
pillage they speak Of court Of
equity to set aside the provision Of
the bill lldividing the county. These
are but few preliminary facts. II
the Gazette man will come TO the
court house of Lincoln county and
view the plain and uncontrovertible
evidence Of wrong done, or attempt
ed to be done to the county we
have the faith in his honor to be-
lieve that he will not attempt to
defame the county Of Lincoln any
longer.