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io THE MORNIXG OREGOMAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER '42, 1H)7. R OD WILL FIGHT IN COURTS No Doubt About Their Pur pose Regarding the $16, 000,000 Assessment. INCREASE TAX IF THEY WIN courts during the legal holidays, tha courts would perhaps hold that the O. R. & N. could give notice of appeal within five days after judicial days shall resume. MRS. VON B0RSTEL DEAD Prominent Port'and Woman Mourned by Many Friends. In the death of Mrs. Elizabeth El Von Borstel, at her home. No. 10 Hast Fif teenth street North, Tuesday, November 19, there passed away a well-known Port land woman. Her death was caused by a complication of diseases, and she had been HI many months. Mrs. Von Borstel was born In Southern Germany, and came to the United States with her parents when a child of 5 years. She was 62 years old at her death. With her parents she lived In Tennessee and was In the South during the war. Her first husband was William H. Mall TURKEY fS CHEAPER Birds for Thanksgiving Din ners Will Cost Less. PRICES ON DOWN GRADE Defeat of Assessment Would Mean $200,000 Less Revenue, Which Other Property Would Bo Obliged1 to Stand. Situation as to tax assessment of rail roads in Multnomah County: O. B. & N. will resist J16,000,000 assess ment on its surplus. O. R. & N. and Northern Pacific will fight assessment of (44.000 a mile on track and right of way, and Southern Pacific will fight assessment of $30,000 a mile on main lines and 120,000 a mile on branch lines. Defeat of the 16,000,000 assessment on surplus would mean $300,000 less tax rev enue equivalent to the revenue from a mill extra tax. It would mean considerable shortage of revenue to county. Port of Portland, City and Portland School district. Bank holidays complicate situation, be cause law says Board of Equalization, which met October 21, shall finish work within a month. Month Is past, but Board does not know whether iu duties have ended. While attorneys of the railroads will not yet announce the plan to fight the new assessment, there is little doubt that the companies will resist, after they have finally proved the Board of Equalization deaf to their petitions. One day's ses sion of the Board remains which will be the first Judicial day after the holidays, when the Board will officially end Its work and give the assessment roll into tne hands of the County Clerk. The last day of the month allowed by law for the Board to meet was last Monday, at which time the Board went through the formal ity of bearing the railroad petitions and finishing Its sessions. On account of the perplexity presented by the holidays, the Board will have an other hearing In order to make the county safe on each end of the question. Railroads Have Plenty of Time. The railroads can have no doubt that the Board has made its mind to stand by the assessment, and force the rail roads into the courts, if they are to defeat the tax burdens Imposed by Assess or Slgler's figures. Still they profess to be lieve the Board not yet decided. County Judge Webster, head of the Board, poses In this attitude, ready until the last day to hear anything the railroads have "to offer. The railroad attorneys understand the situation and know that their only hope lies in the courts, but they will have plenty of time after the adjourn ment of the Board to announce their plans. Last Monday, when the railroad attor neys were arguing before the Board, At torney W. D. Fenton, for the O. R. & N., declared that the $16,000,000 surplus. as sessment would make It Impossible for that railroad to continue business. That assessment will impose a tax of between $200,000 and $230,000. One thing seems sure, If the O. R. & N. cannot escape this tax this year, it will certainly put Its surplus where the Assessor cannot reach It next year. Officials of the com pany aver that the surplus has been In vested largely In properties for new lines In Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and that assessment of the surplus would amount to double taxation, since the "sev eral properties are taxed where they are located. One of the Investments Is nearly $14,000,000 for the projected Harrlman line to Puget Sound, 80 per cent of which went In terminals In Seattle and Tacoma, largely tidelands. Several Methods of Procedure. The railroads can take the matter into the Circuit Court in one of Several ways either on appeal from the Board of Equal ization, under a recent act of the Legisla ture, or In a suit In equity to enjoin the collection of the tax or in a petition for a writ of review to have the assessment set aside. Should the O. R. & N. succeed In es caping the tax on its surplus, the effect would be considerable on finances In Mult nomah County, the Port of Portland, the City of Portland, and the Portland School District. It would cut off $300,000 tax revenue from those departments of government the equivalent of I mill of the tax levy. The total tax assessment for the City of Portland will amount to $214,000,000 or $215,000,000 (the county's about $211,000,000. A levy of 13 mills In Portland on $215,000,000 assessment will yield $2,76.000, but If the $1,000,000 assess ment shall be eliminated, the revenue, at 13 mills, would be reduced $208,000. The remaining $199,000,000 assessment would re quire a little more than a 1-mill additional levy to make up the loss. As a mattor of fact, the deficit would have to be met In other ways, since the levy could not then be changed. The city would lose about $75,000; the county $70,000; tho Port of Portland $20,000. and the Portland School District $30,000. Members of the Board of Equalization are puzzled hy a statute of the last Leg islature which limits the work of the Board of Equalization to one month. As the month ended during the holidays, the members of the Board do not know whether they can continue their sessions, after the holidays shall have ended. The fart that the Board Is a Judicial body, whose functions have been suspended, long with those of other Judicial bodies, by (he holiday proclamations of Gover nor Chamberlain, does not clarify the at mosphere. Question About Legal Requirement. Althougt the Board has decided to up hold the assessment, it is at a loss to know whether the law requires It to do so within the month's time or whether the Board can legally finish Its duties during the holidays. To be safe, the Board has decided to do both. The per plexing statute Is section 5 of an act un der chapter 266 of the last session laws: Said Board of Equalization shall continue Its sessions from day to day, exdutlve of Sundays and legal holld&ya, until the ex amination and correction and equalisation of the ssaesiment rolls shall he completed; but It shall complete said examination, cor rection and equalization within one month from the time It Is by law required to meet (met October 21) and unless sooner completed, at the expiration of one month from the time the board Is herein required meet, the examination, correction and .-quallratlon of Raid assessment rolls shall jf deemed to be complete. The law further says that the roll, when thus equalized, shall be returned to the County Clerk, and that "within Ave days, excluding Sunday, faom the time the assessment roll Is returned to the County I'lerk by tne Board of Equalization,'' any person assessed may die with the County Clerk notice of appeal from the Board of Equalization and within five days thereafter may petition the Circuit Court for reduction of assessment. Inasmuch as there Is no access to the mil The Late Elizabeth B Ten Borstel. who died at Denver, Col., in 1S73. She later moved to San Francisco, where she was married to C. H. Von Borstel. and they came to Portland in 1879. Mrs. Voi Borstel became known widely through her ownership of the Revere and Knick erbocker Hotels. Her Innumerable acts of charity, which was with her a second nature, were remembered by a host of friends of bygone years, who hoped long for her recovery and were stricken with grief by her death. It being to them, as to her children, a personal loss. She Is survived by her husband and the following children: W. H. Mall, of the firm of Mall & Von Borstel. of Portland; Mrs. C. B. Cooper, whose husband Is gen eral superintendent of the North Pacific Express, of Chicago; C. A. Mall, of Chi cago, general agent for this company; E. P. Mall and Herman Von Borstel, of Mall & Von Borstel, of Portland, and Mrs. B. W. Cooper, of Chicago. Tho funeral will be held from her late home. No. 10 East Fifteenth street North, Sunday afternoon, at 1:30 o'colck. The services will be conducted by Rev. W. H. Foulkes, of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Von Borstel had been a member. Interment will be In Rlvervlew Cemetery. BOYS CONFESS ROBBERY Three Youths Admit Holding Up of Subpostoffice No. 2. Fred Johnson, John Simpson and George Wilson, the three young out laws who held up Subpostoffice No. 2, at Tenth and Jefferson streets, and robbed Fabian Byerly, owner of the drugstore In which the office Is located, have confessed to robbing the Post office and are now Federal prisoners. The three boys, for they all profess to be only 17 years of age, were taken before Assistant United States Attor ney James Cole and repeated the con fession they had previously made to the police to Mr. Cole. They will be taken before United States Commission er Sladen this morning at 11 o'clock. Frank McPherson, the fourth member of the gang, so far has managed to escape. Johnson, Simpson, Wilson and Mc Pherson had planned their robberies by the wholesale, and were Just getting well strated when arrested. They made their headquarters at a poolroom kept by a Japanese on Second street. They played pool, gambled and planned the robberies during the day, and In the evening put their plans Into opera tion. Simpson, Johnson and McPhor son were the three men who entered the home of Herman Metzger, and Johnson and Simpson have been iden tified by Mr. Metzger. The boys say they were driven to crime because they were out of work , , Production In Southern Oregon Is Increased and Money Stringency Curtails Demand in the Usual Markets Outside of State. With Thanksgiving day a week off, the first consignments of turkeys for the holiday trade reached the city yester day and hereafter arrivals of deceased members of the gobbler tribe will be numerous Indeed. Word comes from the big producing districts of Southern Ore gon that the slaughter is now on In earn est. It Is known that this year's output of turkeys Is unusually large. Last sea son the demand for Thanksgiving turkeys was unprecedented and great were th profits to those raising the bird. In con sequence a large increase was provided for the present year. But in view of tho recent money flurry, there is no end of speculation and some little uneasiness about the demand that will be developed this year. The big bird has come to be the emblem of plenty, the trade-mark of Thanksgiving. The optimists In business circles are say ing that just as many people or more will eat the gobbler as in the past few years of great prosperity. The prosperity Is still here, they say, and a little money stringency is not going to prevent peo ple from having their regular Thanks giving spread, which would not be worthy of the name without the turkey and cranberry sauce. Just at this time it is hard to fore cast the possibilities of the 'situation, trade experts declare. But should the San Francisco trade fall down, the Southern Oregon poultrymen would have to depend on Portland and the Puget Sound cities to take their birds. This, of course, would affect the price to a con siderable degree. The wholesale price on the bird this year will be 18 to 20 cents a pound. Just what the retailers will agree upon re mains to be seen, although it is likely they will make a fixed rate somewhere In the vicinity of 25 cents a pojind. The wholesale price last year ranged from 20 to 224 cents and the retail price from 25 to 30 cents. Where a -fine 10-pound bird cost $3 last year, there is every likelihood, barring an unexpectedly strong demand from many quarters, that the consumer will get his gobbler for $2.25 this season. Preparations for Thanksgiving day are going ahead on a large scale in many quarters. None of the old frills are to be left off, although at least one new one Is to be added. There will be the conven tional and indispensable football game at Multnomah Field and public and private banquets and entertainments ga lore. The gridiron feature will be pre sented by the Oregon-Multnomah teams and this contest promises to be a battle royal. Something new will enliven the after-dinner hour in the form of a ballad concert and grand ball at the Oriental building. The Multnomah Club is plan ning this affair, which promises to be a big social event. Charity workers have been in the field these many weeks soliciting aid for many who have little to be thankful for. ex cept on Thanksgiving day. The Salva tion Army will make its usual disnosition of needy cases, providing the nnnr with bountiful feasts. Turkey will be the piece ae resistance at the various chari table Institutions. Prisoners at the County Jail are to get either goose or chicken and the City Jail prisoners are to be favored with an extra bean In each bowl of soup. V NAMES JOHN H. STEVENSON District Attorney Manning Appoints a New Assistant. John H. Stevenson, a well-known voun: lawyer of Portland, has received the ap pointment of Deputy District Attorney from John Manning. The selection was announced yesterday, and will become ef fective uecember 2. Mr. Stevenson will take charge of the Municipal Court work in conducting state prosecutions. Bert Haney. who has heretofore had this work in charge, will be transferred to the State Circuit Court, where he will conduct state cases. Mr. Stevenson is well and favorably known in Portland. For the past seven years he has been actively engaged in newspaper work on the staff of the Even ing Telegram. He recently took up tho practice of law. In which he has takn a keen Interest for years. Mr. Stevenson was born near Forest Grove, Washington County, 28 years ago of sturdy pioneer stock. He enjoys a wide acquaintance throughout the city, particularly in professional circles. Htm appointment meets with general approval. Needlework Guild Thanked. PORTLAND. Nov. 21. The ladles of Patton Home board wish to extend their thanks to the members of the Portland branch of tho Needlework Guild of America in grateful ncknowl- Do not be scared into thinking that every pain in the back denotes kidney trouble. It is probably rheumatism and easily curable by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Rheumatism frequently affects the kidneys, the secretion is reduced in amount,, is strongly acid, contains sediment and is of a high color These misleading symptoms disappear when the rheumatism is driven from the blood Our free book, "'Diases of the Blood " tell all about the treatment. AN IOWA WOMAN CURED "A few years ago," says Mrs. J. G. Bryan, of Woodbine, Iowa, "I had an attack of rheumatism in my back, which pained me so that I could hardly stand. For a period of six weeks I was obliged to stay in bed in order to get any relief, and although I tried several remedies, none of them gave me more than temporary benefit. I had been troubled like this for five years be fore I tried Dr. Williams Pink Pills. They helped me right away and I felt so much better that I took them until I was cured." 50c. per box; 6 boxes, $2.50, at all druggists or from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady. N. Y. SranHBVBHHHBBsBBS eilgment of the recent donations of bed linen for the home! MRS. T. NICOLAI. JOHN C. OLMSTED ARRIVES Comes to Advise City Board Regard ing Park System. John C. Olmsted, one of the leading landscape architects of the world, who lias assisted In designing most of the great parks of America and who laid out the World's Fair grounds In Chicago, Is a gaest of the Arlington Club. He is '.n Portland to consult with the City Park Board in regard to Portland's proposed park system. "I cannot as a matter of professional courteey say anything for publication un til after the Park Board has come to some delinite decision," he said last night. "Our representative, Mr. Dawson, has been here hard at work for some time and I am here to make certain sugges tions' to the Park Board. "If the present plans are carried out Portland will some day have one of the finest park systems in --merica. The time to acquire land, preserve natural beauties, such as the old trees, and to lay out the great park system of the future, is now. while the city Is young and while land Is comparatively cheip and unimproved. A dollar today will se cure to the city what ;00, or even $1000, cannot do in the future when Portland Is a great city and the land needed is covered with expensive buildings. "Take Central Park, In New York City, for Instance. See what an untold bless ing It Is to that huge metropolis and what It would cost now to buy the land and to tear down and remove such great buildings as surround it on every side. By acting in time New York secured for ever one of the grandest breathing spaces In the world, while had she put the mat tar off till the present day such a park would be utterly Impossible. "Portland. If she Is vwlse, will do today what New York did when she was young. Parks are as necessary to a city as streets." LADIES' NIGHT AT M. A. A.'C. Clubmen Will Give Their Annual Entertainment Tonight. The annual ladles' night social, given by members of the Multnomah Club to their friends, will be held tonight In thj gymnasium, beginning at 8 o'clock. A programme consisting of figure marching, fancy dancing, tumbling and pyramid work and other features has been pre pared for the entertainment of the visi tors. An informal reception will precede the opening of the programme, when President of Newly-Formed State Rifle Association. Adjutant-General w. B. Plnxer, head of organisation that will work to stimulate Interest in marksman ship among military and civilian rifle clubs in Oregon. and had no money, but little stock Is taken In their story by Attorney Cole. In their confessions, all tell the same story of the drugstore robbery. They nad previously planned to robe a fcro- ' eery store in the neighborhood. After ! talking It over, they decided that the ! Postofflce in the drucstore would he i easiest. Simpson and Johnson ulso ad mlt entering the Metzger home. GREAT WAIST SALE Now going on at Le Palais Royal, all re t.uccd for this sale. OMia nn,i smuniiv. 1 all styles and qualities, from 95c to ifli! S75 Washington street. Eye glasses $1 at Metzger's. He Knows Consult your doctor freely about medi cal matters. He knows. Trust him. Do as he says. Follow his advice. AyersSarsaparilla NON-ALCOHOLIC Talk with your doctor about Ayer's non-alcoholic Sarsaparilla. Ask him if he prescribes it for pale, delicate children. Ask him if he recommends it when the blood is thin and impure, and when the nerves are weak and unsteady. Ask him if it aids nature in building up the general health. We have no secrets I We publish the formulas of all our medicines. J. C. AYER CO.. Manufacturing Chemists, Lowell, Mass. H. B. LITT sce Fifty-dune WaaMmgtoira SSreei nd, Oar. TODAY WE OFFER ON SALE im RAINCOAT. Each $7M Aim ExcepftioEiail Cfiaansca for SuiDsftamtial Money Saving An Assoiribnmeifiitt fF 10 W&iktfcs SILK, WOOLEN, LINEN, NET AND LACE rigHraaiy $5.00 to $15.00 guests will have the opportunity to In spect the rooms. The programme, which Is under the di rection of Professor Robert Krohn, is at follows: Mass dumbbell drill, by combined classes; figured marching, dancing, calis thenics, by girls' class: horizontal bar work, by the leaders' class: tumbling and pyramid work, by the senior class; class work on apparatus, by combined classes; gymnasium games; fancy dancing. PUPILS GET A HOLIDAY No School Next Week on Account ol Teachers' Institute. In order to give the school children a holiday of a full week during the com ing Teachers' Institute, the sessions of which are to be held in the Bast Side High School, the dates for the Institute were selected partly with reference to two school holidays coming on Thanks giving and Saturday. As school work would be Interrupted on the Friday inter vening it was decided to hold the in stitute on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day and to give tho pupils a week's va cation. Jacques W. Redway, author of "New Maris of Geography," and other important educational works, Is to be one of the lec turers before the Institute. He has ar rived in Portland from New York and is stopping at the Portland. Mr. Red way was a reporter on The Oregonlan in the 60's. Club Will Tour Eastern Oregon. UNIVERSITY OF IREGON, Eugene, Or., Nov. 21. (Special.) The Univer sity Glee and Mandolin Clubs will give their first concert of the season of 1907 at the Eugene Theater on Tues day, November 26. It Is now a settled plan with the management that tho clubs shall tour Southern and Eastern Oregon alternately, going to each ter ritory biennially. Since last year's club Journeyed southward. Eastern Or egon towns will come this year. Dates for all the concerts are not yet definite ly arranged, but will probably be as follows: Albany, December 12; Salem, December 13; The Dalles, December 14; La Grande. December 16; Baker City, December 17; Pendleton. December 18; Heppner, December 19; Hood River, De cember 20, and Portland, December 21. Concerts may also be given at Walla Walla, Union and other places. LADIES' COAT SALE At Le Palais Royal. Come and get first choice. All reduced. 375 Washington street. You can rely on Hood's Sarsaparilla for every form of scrofula. It purifies the blood. WE HAVE FAILED To Notice the Consequences of the Money Shortage WHY? Because our prices are right. Because our customers are satisfied. Because we have the goods to give satis faction at from a fourth to a half less than others. Special Sale of Raincoats The brand of highest merit, Rubberized Silk Coats. Fancy stripes, plaids with inlaid collars, cuffs, but tons, pipings cut very full with ripple backs; every color, moires included. $37.50 Silk Raincoats $29.95 $30.00 Silk Raincoats $24.95 $25.00 Silk Raincoats $19.75 $20.00 Silk Raincoats $16.95 $15.00 Silk Raincoats $11.95 300 Sample Suits at Special Prices Every Suit an individual style and cloths of every color and newest creations, blues, blacks, browns, and fancy mixtures. Suits up to $25.00 $14.95 Suits up to $32.50 $21.95 Suits up to $45.00 $29.50 GEVURTZ 8 WORRELL NEW STORE WITH LITTLE PRICES 141 Sixth Street OPPOSITE OREGONIAN