Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-04-27

Credit the weather clerk with a
few good days.
Larkey Logan, a Siletz merchant,
was in Toledo today after freight.
The plat of S. A. Logan's new
town up the river bears the title Of
Logansport.
Five car loads of brick for the
new depot at this place have arrived
This looks like business.
Assessor Parker is now working
toward the south part Of the county
and will be down on the Alsea next
week in all probability.
The two heaviest tax payers of
Lincoln county reside in Newport.
The heaviest is Samuel Case, who
pays this year 1857 in taxes, and
John A. OLSON comes next with
$33I.
The Benton after spending sew
eral days in repairing at Newport
has been again on the run since
the first Of the week. It's just like
missing Sunday to miss Capt. Rob-
ertson's genial physiogomy on our
streets regularly.
Corvallis has organized a law
and order league with the following
objects: The enforcement of the
laws existing upon the statute
books; the enforcement of these
laws by the officers elected for that
purpose; and the developement Of
the higher moral welfare Of the
community.
People of Toledo, what do you
intend to do with regards to open
ing up some street herer DO you
intend to progress or go backl
There is no such thing as standing
still. Whether Toledo goes for
ward or not depends upon her own
people. We can't have a town
without streets. How we get
them does not matter so much as to
get them. Who has a plan to
offerl
According to their statement
filed with the clerk of the district
court of Benton comfy the losses
and gains of the various divisions
of the o. P, road from March 6, to
81, 1898, have been as follows:
Rail division, loss $955.59; river
division, gain $24o.79; ocean di-
vision, gain $794.I5; making a to-
tai net gain for the whole system
of $77.73. This is not much of a
net gain, but we'll bet that it looks
huge to the bondholders alongside
the net losses that have been bob
bing up serenely for so long.
We greatly fear there is going
to trouble ahead between Benton
and Lincoln counties. The action
of some of the officials of Benton
county would seem to indicate that
much at least. Lincoln county has
no disposition to ask anything in
excess of its right, but unless we
are greatly mistaken the men who
are guiding the destinies of Lincoln
county will accept nothing less,
and have the courage and moral
stamina to stand up manfully for
these rights to the last extremity.
Lincoln county people have moth
ing but friendly feeling for Benton
county, bnt these feelings must not
be presumed upon in any manner.
The sooner this is thoroughly COM
pretended by all parties concerned
the better 1t will be.
Commissioner Stearns has spent
several days in Corvallis, trying to
make head or tail out of something
in connection with the two counties.
He has been very successful i'll
part. For instance the county
clerk of Benton county made out
and turned over to the clerk OF
Lincoln county what was certified
to be correct assessment roll OF
property belonging to Lincoln coun-
ty. This roll has been found to
sadly deficient, so much SO, that to
say that clerical errors, were respon-
sible for the discrepancies would be
asserting something almost incred-
ible. Mr., Stearus found that about
$500, 900 valuation had been left of
the Lincoln county roll altogether.
A good portion of these were mort
gages on lincoln county property