Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-08
Ancient History but no Facts.

another case of a mountain laborins
and bringing forth mole.
The greater part Of the articl,
consists of ancient history. Th,
startling statements that Senato
Crosno was elected in 1890 anC
Representatives Belkuap and JEFF
frey's were elected in 1892 is a,
well known to the people of botl
counties as his next statement tina
the county was divided near the
middle IN 1898. None of these
statements have anything to dc
with the question now at issue.
The statement, however, thai
the majority of the taxpayers in
the portion cut oifdid not wish such
action taken, while not germane to
the question, is absolutely false.
Senator Crosno has a petition now
i'll his office on which there are over
600 signatures asking for such di-
visions, ana that more than consti-
tutes a majority of the taxpayers OF
Lincoln county.
He asserts that the clerk of Ben
ton county was unable to make
out the taxroll III the time prescrib-
ed by law and deliver the same to
the clerk Of Lincoln county J"for
several good and sufficient reasons, 4"
but total failure is made to men,
ton single one OF the reasons.
And when it was finally received it
was a mass of errors and omissions
that the Lincoln county court,were
fully justified in not paying for the
same. As for the papers in the
circuit court, il did not devolve up
on Lincoln county to pay for such
transcript but the litigants, and the
fees should follow the cases.
The assertion that the provisions
Of section 5, of the bill dividing the
county are difficult to construe is
absolutely untenable. English
languish could not make it palmer.
Take the clause referring to the tax
roll; "The county clerk of Benton
county shall, within thirty days
after this act shall have gone into
operation, make out and deliver to
the county clerk of Lincoln county
transcript of all taxes assessed up
on persons and property within the
said county of Lincoln which was
previously included within the
limits of Benton county" Could
language make that any plainerl
The very same clause is to be found
in every county division bill passed
i'll Oregon for years, and it remained
for Benton county to be the first
parent county to attempt in any
manner to cloud or befog the mean
ing of the clause. And again the
clause concerning the payment of
taxes could not be palmer; "And
all taxes which shall remain unpaid
upon the day this act shall become
a law shall be paid to the proper
officials of Lincoln county, And
i'll the face of as plain language as
above employed the proper officers
Of Benton county could not under
stand their duty and were compell-
ed to consult "a legal adviser" as
to what they should do. Such ad-
mission does not speak in very ex-
alted terms of the intelligence OF
the officers Of Benton county who
were compelled to seek such ad-
vice.
The statement that the roll as
turned over contains all the proper-
ty in the precincts or parts of pre-
cincts of Lincoln county is abso-
lutely untrue, as glance at the
roll will determine.
AS to the sheriff Of Lincoln coun-
ty making assessments OH property
not found OH the roll We would say
that the law makes it his plain duty
to do so. He can have no official
knowledge outside Of his tax roll
and when he finds property in Lin.
coin county not on that roll he must
assess the same or violate his oath
of Office. And when parties have
paid their whole tax to Benton
county where part Of ii belongs
to Lincoln, it seems to us that they
have proper recourse against the
sheriff Of Benton county who wrong.
fully collected the tax.
The Corvallis people are greatly
worked up over the probable re.