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T1TE MOltXIXG OREGOMAX, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5. 1911. 1910 TAX LEV! IS SET AT 22 MILLS Figures, Highest Yet for Mult nomah County, Due to Big Improvements. 56,000,000 TO BE 'RAISED Total Valuation of County Fixed at SS01.80S.C19 Manner for Ap portioning It Is Not Vet. Known for Few Dais. Twenty-two mill is the total tax levy for 1 within the ltmlta of School District No. 1 and the Port of Portland. The levy waa fixed yesterday by the County Court. Portion of the county outride the Port mut pay according to their echool levies, the amounta ranging from I t to IS mills. A force of IS clerks will be put to work this mornlnf extending the 1910 tax roll. The levy la In reality the highest ever railed for In Multnomah County. In 14 the levy waa mills, but that waa on a system of low valuations. L. year the levy waa nxed at IS mills on the 1 roll and the year preceding at S mills, which waa then regarded aa a high-water mark. Extensive public Improvements. Includ ing the construction of a superb new Courthouse, makes necessary the heavy demands this seaaon on the taxpaylr.g pubilc Large Sams to lie raid. Approximately S.OO0.O will be paid Into the treasury. It will be Impossible to estimate the precise figure until the ro'.le have been extended. There unques tionably will be unusual depreciation from rebates, for the high levy Is ex acted to have the effect of enforcing early payments, with their attendant 3 per cent discount. The total valuation in the county Is flxd at $30!.ft6.ft. Just how this Is ap portioned will not be known for several days, a fct.756.KJ4 of the sum waa checked In by the State Tax Commission, unapportloned. The Aeseswr'a total waa tTT.OSJOS. The Tax Commission's levlea were made largely on personal property of corporations and non-resident concen. Apportioned I-evy Compared. Herewith la ahown the apportioned levy for 1910 aa compared with the levy of ast year: 1!10. I!. Mini. mi:. fat. school 1-30 l.4 4"ountjr ......... .3-70 1.- i l.tl.rary 1 ,. INrt o; Portland. ....l-rtO 1'" I'lty of Portland " School District So. 1 i" Stat- -"0 2.3' While the levies in several Instances are lower In mills than last year, the amount of revenue that will be produced l generally larger. The county will re clve In the neighborhood of Il.IOO.OfO and !.'") additional for road purposes. Fome more will be spent on roads In !11 than was used during 1910. The library will receive S43.4&9.2S. The amounts that will be received by the va rtmi school districts and the Port of Portland have not yet been determined. The state will require aometh'ng like Jj.0O. It is believed. Courthouse) Is Provided For. The levy waa made after an extended meeting;, attended by County Judge Cleeton and Commissioners Hart and Ughtner. The expenses of the county were gone Into In detail and It was found that between $750,000 and $1,000. tOO will be required for disbursements on the new courthouse, now In course of construction. No provision waa made Tor that atructure In the last levy and fully two-thirds of the total cost will have to coma out of thia year's taxes. Extensive road Improvements were decided on aa being essential. Work will be puraued on the Mount Hood toad, on the Llnnton road aa far aa the Columbia line: numerous hard-surface roads and bridges will be con structed and a number of bridges will be installed. All road Improvement and construction work not regarded aa Im perative was eliminated by the court, because of the large expenditures al ready mad necessary. All property outside the Port of Portland diatrict and where there are no achool levies, takes a rate of 8.1 mills. . Those residing in the varloua sections of the county may easily de termine their levy by adding to S.l mills the local achool and city levy. Property Inside the Port of Portland and outside the city and achool dis trict takea a rate of (.7 mills. List of District Levies Shown. Here la a list of the various school districts wlthtn the county and the levlea made In each one: Dlst. No. . lvy.Tlst. No. Ievr. 3 4 T S 1 II in 14 11 M IT Jt l J 21 Jl i: ji I ;i ........ :i 2.10 S.JV..0 ... Ill ... ".'HI IS . . . 3- 13 . . . I. ..I Jt. ; o.) -j jt. ....4.O0 IV 00 .Tl .7 jt. l.oo'.-o J i.iw l.jn -3 Jt. l.:.o S.00 :4 To It.-. .....3.)M I.OO t X'H) 1.00:7 3.t ...4.'X IS 1.00 .. . !. t . .. ...I..WIO ... ...X20II ... .., .. I5 ... ....t". 13 ... . .liO-lf. ... lit ... US ... ....Tl 11 ... ...1. J"'-.,, ... ....v'-.i ... .. .S."4 Jt. . . . .2 M ....liiO l.no 4. .. . .2. OO .....LAO . . .2 n ....l.on .... . . . . .3. HO l.n Portland doea not lead the list of cities In the matter of high levy. That distinction belongs to the town of Fair view, which has fixed the mark at 7.5 mllla The people of net locality have a much smaller school levy and no Port of Portland or library apportion ments, however, ao they will pay less In taxes than Portland residents. St. Johns has fixed a levy of i mills and Greahara 3 mllla LOGS ARE T0 BE SAVED Association of Lumbermen Is for This Purpose. The Log Pick-up Association is the rame choeen for an organisation being fnrmed by lumbermen and loggers of the Columbia River district and its object Is to recover lost, stolen and derelict saw logs. Log pirates are not uncommon on the Columbia River and Its tribtitariea I'suaJly they depend on picking up va grant logs) carried away by river cur rent from booma and sawmill, but oc casionally they open booma and tow out a few logs where they think the loss will not be noticed. All sawloss bear identi fication mark so ownership can be es tablished, an after these marks have been .obliterated the logs can easily be marketed. Freshets are common In Winter and Spring and are frequent causes of losses of logs, entire booms sometimes being broken up and swept away. Boatmen along the river are always on the watch for flotsam of thia kind and many profit able finds are made. It coots practically all the logs are worth for Individual owners to pursue and recover them, and It will be the work of the Pick-up Association to do i POLICE COMMISSION- AWARDS MEDAL TO PATROLMAN jrOR BRAVERY. r Carl I. lleosoa. Medal for bravery has been awarded Carl D. Henson. patrolman, by members of the Police Commis sion, for bis conduct in shooting an unknown Austrian at Third and Couch strees Christmas morning, following a pistol battle between the man and Sergeant Wanlesa, whose coat waa perforated br a bullet, and between the fugitive and Henson. who fired the fatal shot from a dis tance of about ten feet. The Aus trian turned, when pursued br Hen son, and fired point blank at him. but missed, and a moment later fell to the pavement with a wound from which be died In a few mlnuua. Two years sgo Henson shot and killed a negro In the North End under somewhat similar circum stances. this. Men and launches will be employed and watch will be kept fur thieves. Articles of Incorporation are being pre pared and will be filed In the near fu ture. The committee of lumbermen and loggers who are arranging the details of the corporation Is composed of L J. Wentworth. 1 C. Knapp. J. A. Byerly, S. F. Owen, W. B. Mackay and W. A. Avery. Logging camps are now practically all closed for the Winter. A few of the camps on the Lower Columbia, where weather remains favorable, are still in operation, but even In this district most of the larger camps have ahut down. The Columbia Logging Sc. Timber Company, of Goble. which was to have reopened January 1. haa decided not to resume un til next month. James Manary. one of the ownera ot the Oregon Timber Sc. Logging Company, of Clifton, and Mrs. Manary have gone to California for a pleasure trip. Tetcr Conacher, of the Twin Kails Log ging Company, came to Portland, accom panied by his wife, to attend the Tet raxxlni concert. A. W. Clark, of the O. K. Logging Com pany, will leave in a few days for the Kast on a business trip. He will go h way of San 'ranclco and New Orleans and will be gone a month. The plant of the Kast Side Mill Lum ber Company, at Sellwood. will ahut down January -1) for a short time for repairs. 50,000 WILL GOME MIDDLE WTSTEUX RESIDENTS ATTRACTED TO STATE. Railroad Officials Predict Great In flux to Oregon This Ycai Exhibit Interests. Since the Northern Pacifio exhibit car started on its trip across the con tinent last Fall, it has been the means of creating much Interest In Oregon, but nowhere has It attracted mora at tention than in the towns and cities of lows, according to a dispatch re ceived yesterday by A. IK Charlton, General Passenger Agent of the North ern Pacific. The dispatch was sent by A. M. Clcland, General Passenger Agent at St. PauL Mr. Cleland says that between 25 and 40 per cent of visitors to the car are especially Interested In Oregon as compared to those making Inquiries regarding other statea of the North west. "From these advices. It is evident that there will be a great colonist movement to Oregon this year." said Mr. Charlton. "In addition to the ex hibit car. our line has distributed tons of literature throughout the Kast and Middle West, and Inquiries have been pouring In larger numbera than ever before. There Is no doubt In my mind that Oregon will attract more home seekers In 1911 than It haa In any previous year." V. W. Graham. Immigration agent of the Great Northern: M. J. Costello, As sistant Traffic Manager of the Great Northern, and IL A. Bonn. Northwest ern Passenger Agent of the Nickel Plate line, all having headquarters In Seattle, said yesterday that from pres ent indications all of the lines Into the Northwest will enjoy the heaviest colonist travel this year In their his tory. William McMurray. General Passen ger Agent of the Harrlman lines In Oregon, says more Inquiries are being received than usual at this season of the year. He predicts that fully BO. 000 people will be brought to Oregon with in the next 10 month. Eujcne Postal Receipts Grow. EL'GENE. Or.. Jan. 4.--Special.) The postofllce receipts of Eugene for 1910 were $35.431.Ga, compared with $T0,O79.77 for the previous year, an Increase of 17.7 per cent. The receipts for December were Hl.'a.H. compared with 3ST3.23 for the corresponding month of 1909. In post office receipts Eugene ranks third among the cities of the state. Portland and Salem alone ranking above it. Foley! Kidney Remedy Aa Apprerjatloa L. McConnell, Catherine St., Elmira. N. T.. writea: "I wish to express my appreciation of the great good I de rived from Foley's Kidney Remedy, which I used for a bad case of kidney trouble. Five bottles did the work most effectively and proved to me be yond doubt It is the most reliable kid ney medicine I have ever taken and shall always have my endorsement. Sold by all drugglats. Edlef-n Fuel Company. Inc, deliver promptly, dry wood and best coals, dis played at Meier Frank's. C E. 3uX ... . . t j ' fr. J i ! V . i5"s ! ?1 ' A v -v. . " . ' f : UP-RIVER BRIDGE PLANS ARE READY Structure 4000 Feet Long at Meade and Ellsworth Is Contemplated. FLAT-DECK TYPE CHOSEN Improvement Clubs on Both Sides of River In South Portland In dorse Movement and Will Ask for Early . Vote. Plans for the proposed new steel bridge across the Willamette River to connect Meade and Ellsworth streets, were com pleted by City Engineer Morris yester day, and together with the estimates, which are not yet finished, will be pre sented to the City Council soon. Several engineers who have looked at the plans while they were in the course of preparation have pronounced the con templated bridge, excellent and of the most modern and approved type. Feel ing that they would receive much public attention, Mr. Morris has taken much care with the plans, and yesterday said that he was well pleased with the result of his work. The plans provide for a bridge the en tire length of which will be 4000 feet. It la of the fiat deck type, having all the braces beneath the roadway, and will resemble an ordinary street on the sur face. Flat Deck Means Economy. The- fiat deck pjan provides economy both as to space and cost. The height of the proposed bridge will make It pos sible for any river steamer now In use on the Willamette River to pass beneath the bridge until the water is 22 feet above lta low mark, without disturbing the movable span. Beginning at Water street, on Meade, the bridge will have an approach rest ing on a fill. Then there will be 660 feet of steel viaduct, passing over Corbett and Hood streets in a way to let cars pass beneath. Next to this viaduct will be fire deck spans each 250 feet In length, which will connect with the movable span of the same length. Connecting with the movable span on the east will first be four deck spans, each 250 feet In length, followed by one span 210 feet long. From this will run another steel viaduct for 140 feet, to connect with an approach on a fill 67 feet in length, end ing on Ellsworth, street at Grand avenue. Clubs Urge Construction. The bridge will be on a grade of 1.34 per cent, extending 1470 feet between har bor lines. The movable span, when raised, will be 95 feet above low water and 67 feet above mean high water. On top the bridge will be 44 feet be tween curbs, and will have eight-foot sidewalks. All the Improvement clubs on both sides of the river In South Portland have united in an effort to get this bridge built. It Is the plan to place the project before the people at the next election to get authority to sell the bonds neces sary for its construction. MAN KILLED BY CAVE-IN Laborer in Sewer Trench Caught by Slide of Earth. Burled 30 minutes under a caved-in bank of earth, at Patton avenue and Alberta street, yesterday morning, Odin Ander son, a Norwegian laborer, was taken out dead by his fellow laborers, after a feverish attack upon the several feet of earth that covered him. Dr. Stone was In attendance before the entombed man was uncovered, but his efforts to resusci tate Anderson were without avail. Anderson was one of a gang working for William Llnd, contractor. In a sewer ditch IH feet wide and 15 feet deep. Re cent rains had made the bank difficult to hold, and without warning, yesterday morning, a large section of the wall broke off at the point where Anderson was working and covered him. Other laborers had narrow escapes, but were at sufficient distance from the cave-In to get out of the way before the earth fell. All of the workmen at once began throwing the earth out of. the ditch, but half an hour elapsed before Anderson could be removed. ... Anderson was married and bis wife Is employed at the clothing store of Ben Selling. They had no children. He lived at 611 Clinton street DESERTED WIFE HUNGERS r Husband Xot at Address Where He I Wrote He Would Be. Weeping pitifully and almost starved. Mrs. James Seydell. of Oregon City, was found yesterday morning in front of the Everett House, Second and Everett streets, by Patrolmen Bewley and Yes Bey. The woman said that she had gone to that place in search of her husband, who had written that he waa staying there, but she found that he had not been there. She had had nothing to eat since the day before and waa worn out with grief and fatigue. She haa a child a year old. The officers took the woman something to eat. and then sent her to the Young Women's Christian Association to be cared for. The missing husband Is de scribed as tall. Blender, dark complex loned. with a small, dark mustache, and about 28 years old. The police have been Instructed to look for hlra. t . Teachers' Wages. PORTLAND. Jan. 8 (To the Editor.) Pleaae publtmh for Information. The splendid article written by Miss Anna Qulgl.-y. teacher, printed in a recent laaue of The Oresonlan. save for the (ai alignment of claesea. which plainly mowa lack of knowleds ot that part of her subject, cer tainly ton to the mark on the subject of teachers' salaries In Portland and over the state generally. She wrltea of the need of "hate, shoes and gloves," but for my part and for th party for which I choose to speak, ahe may lay aalde her gloves when ahe bandlea the subject of teachers' salaries. More rightly ahould aha have made an alignment of the Idle rich and the tax dodgers rather than the Idle rich and the taxpayers. The example at the taxpayers meeting, which ahe holds up to crltlclam. la almply an Insurgent howl from a middle cla.a politician that doea not know the source of hla affliction. He. like others of cult of misinformation, thinks to au.use.te the working people, teachers, for the aake of his petty aln. Inatead of declaring for relief from extortion that la taken from his assumed class and the ware or salary working claae of men, women and chil dren over the land from whom they acquire their Ill-gotten and unjustly-hoarded gains. dare say the writer of the article never heard a "oap-box orator" of the "antl-bolled shirt" variety utter one word axalnat the ralalng of teachers' wages. or the earning of any other worker at useful labor, to any limit. In what war. let as ask. would It affect the aoap-boxer as long aa he haa no taxes to payT True, all taxes are wrung In the form of Increase from the ef fects of his class, teachers If you please, through sroflt takea from unrtaultad toiu CIIROIHCULC INDICATE DAD BLOOD Where the blood is pure any wound or laceration of the flesh heals "by first intention." This is true becanse nature has provided a constituent to the circulation known as Plasma, which joins and holds the place to gether untilj the fibres and tissues can permanently knit and interweave. Whenever the ulcer becomes chronic it is because this healing; quality of the blood has been impaired by some impurity in the circulation, and the place remains open, infecting all sur rounding flesh, until the character of the circulation is changed. No sore can heal where the blood is bad ; be cause the morbid impurities on which it thrives are constantly deposited into it by the burdened circulation. Cleanse the blood and the sore will heal of its own accord, because then its very source and foundation will have been destroyed. S. S. S. cures Chronic Ulcers of every kind for the one great reason that it thoroughly purines the blood. It goes into the circulation and removes every particle ' lnfMHnilQ rvr morbid matter, enriches the cor puscles, and as sists nature in the formation of the necessary plasmic qualities of this vital fluid. No matter from what source the impurities of the blood came, S. S. S. will remove them. Book on Sores and Ulcers and any medical advice free to all who write. THE 8 WITT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Oa. but hl cry Is never for less taxes, but for full pay for labor. Mind you. the party who said "they had no right" was a taxpayer. Only such as he could alien the teachers with the Idle rich, and never could the In ferred class, soap-boxers, make, such allgn- "lilndly would we invite the lady to study social economics and learn to which class she belongs, as a salary or wage-earner, ere she make such erroneous statements, founded on purposely circulated false -teaching of which she is a victim. Soap-boxers declare for the giving to teachers with all other useful workers In society all they can enjoy of that which creates and they refuse to allow one Idle rich parasite to "reap that he has not sown." C. W. BARZEB. AWARD WILL BE MADE KANSAS CITY FIRM WILL GET BROADWAY CONTRACT. Bridge Committee Recommends It Be Given to Lowest Bidder at rrlce of $537,615. Contract for the substructure of the Broadway Bridge will be awarded to the Union Bridge & Construction Company of Kansas City, for $557,615. If the Exe cutive Board approves the recommenda tions agreed upon yesterday afternoon by its bridge committee which has had the subject in hand. The bids for the contract were open ed at the meeting of the Executive Board last Friday, and they were then referred to the bridge committee, which was to get the report of the engineers concerning the total for each bid. The bids were on the unit plan, and not until they were finally Bummed up by the engineers were the . totals definitely known. The result of the work of the engin eers placed the totals for five bids as follows: Union Bridge Sc Construction Company, J567.645; Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company, 565.953; Por ter Bros., $085,660: Robert Wakefield. $707,180; Bates St Rogers Construction Company, $678,287. Before the committee would decide which company should get the contract, the representatives of the Union Bridce Sc Construction Company were required to explain if they would agree to meet some minor conditions the committee Insisted upon. The company, too. want ed definite Information on certain feat urea of the work, and this caused a delay In awarding the contract. All Interested parties came to a satis factory understanding yesterday, when the committee agreed to recommend the award to the lowest bidder. "The contract will be awarded and the work started as soon as possible," said Mayor Simon yesterday afternoon. "There is nothing in the way now for completing the bridge." Bids for $500,000 worth of Broadway Bridge bonds a,re to be opened by the city on January 24. Thia will be the second issue of the bonds, as the city has sold and has In its possession $50,000 for the first lsaue. P0ST0FFICE NEEDS ROOM Delay In Selecting New Site Necessi tates Alterations. Y Continual delay in securing the ground for a new Federal building and in erect ing It has called for further remodeling of the Interior of the old structure. The Portland Postofllce is cramped for space In which to do Its work, so It has been decided to tear out part of the plumbing and to fit up another room in .the base ment for the use of the money order de partment. This will be directly under the present quarters of this department, and will be connected with a stairway. Additional shelving is to be put in, and Grape-Nuts FOOD 13 the product of A food expert. It meets the body's Requirements for those Essential elements Which provide true Nourishment. "There's a Reason" Postnm Cereal C".. Itd. Hattla o. v-rv.. ... 1 ZzSm 'Z UNION MERCHANTS' rMfWiU ICE DELIVERY CO. . "Ask the man who owns one a counter and screen are to be built In front of the money order windows. The plans for the alterations have been received by Postmaster Merrick, and he will advertise for bids at once. Altchlsoif Is Elected Chairman. SALEM. Or., Jan. 4. (Special.) Clyde B. Alchison was elected chairman of the State Railroad Commission at a meeting of that body today-to succeed T. K. Campbell. Frank J. Miller and T. K. Campbell are the other members of the Commission. George O.' Goodall will remain as secretary. The terms of both Aitchison and Campbell expire In two years. W. C. 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Guaranteed to comply with all Pure Food Laws-Pon'fy Guaranteed to please you best Satisfaction Guaranteed to save you money Economy Packard Trucks are used every day right in this city and one hundred and twenty-one other cities on work that requires greater effi ciency than is possible with horse drawn trucks MOTOR TRUCKS iKj THE MAN D VI "HO OWNS lly ONI" 1 Long Hauls Heavy Loads IB,Hjt,'.! Thirty-two page catalogue will be sent on request. FRANK C. RIGGS PACKARD SERVICES BUrXDIJfG, COBSELL ROAD Tvrenty-thlrd and Washlnartoa Streets aialn 4542 A 1137. glneer, provision for this position not having been made previous to this time. MINISTERS VISIT LOCKUP Eugene Jail In Bad Condition; Many Changes Urged. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 4. (Special.) A committee from the Unitarian Church of this city, headed by Rev. 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