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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1913)
11 800 TAX PROTESTS Crook County. Is at tho Oregon, reg istered from Prinevllle. ITER COST TOLD Free Tatting Lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays Front 10 A. M. to 1 P. M. Art Dept., 2d Floor Manicuring and Hairdressing Parlors, Second Floor Bakery and Delicatessen Depts., 4th Floor Mr. and Mrs. E. Holden .of San Fran cisco, are at the Carlton.. "W. J. Claasen. a Seattle attorney, is WILL GO TO BOARD registered at the Oregon. E. C. Kirkpatrick. a hopbuyer of We Give "S. & H." Dallas, Is at the Imperial. Estimated Expenditures of Bu reau for 1914 $936,690. The Rev. H. W. Thompson, Mayor of Olds, Wortman & King Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods Store Hours 8:30 to SiSO Dally, Except Saturday. Saturday Hours 0i30 A. M. to 0:30 P. M. Centralia, Is at the Oregon. C. I. Pendleton Is registered at the Multnomah from Roseburg. Multnomah Athletic Club to Re Dr. 1a. M. Slmma, of Kalama, and family, are at the Imperial sist Taxation on Ground of Being Educational. S. S. SomervUle. a lumberman of Xapavine. Is at the Oregon. RESERVOIR REPAIRS DUE Or. L. Paul and wife ,of Hwaco, Trading Stamps Trading Stamps Wash., are at the Cornelius. A. Chllberg and H. W. Lung, bankers "Fashion Show" and Exhibition of the New of Seattle, are at tne Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Parker, of New- Of Expenses $495,630 Will Be for IRON WORKS SHOW FIGHT berg, registered at the Cornelius. Extensions of Mains, and Approx imately $152,000 for Sites for Xew Basins. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. DeWitt, Jr.; are registered at the Perkins from Ta- co ma- Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Benn are at the THE MORXING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1913. We GiveJSLJt H." Si I AdTanc on Multnomah. Hotel Prop erty Among Objections Filed and Process of Equalization 'Will Take Remainder of Month. Yesterday was the last day for re ceivlng assessment complaints by the County Board of Equalisation. Today consideration or tne protests will be taken ud bv the board, consisting of Assessor Reed. County Clerk Coffey and Circuit Judre Cleeton. and the re malnder of the month, or as much of It as may be necessary, will be devoted to this work. The total number on file Is a few more than 800. The Columbia Laundry Company asks a cut from S7100 to 12600. The James L Marshall Manufacturing Com pany requests that an assessment 01 13000 on money, notes and accounts be eliminated. The Concordia Club is com plaining against assessment on fur nishings of its club at S10 Morrison street on the ground that It is an ed ucational and literary organization. The most important protest filed Is that of the Multnomah Amateur Atn ltirt Club, nlrendv forecasted, in which an assessment of J 2 13.000 on the club"s realty and other property is com- I it f I ' ? " : J - , i - - i I k 'iVUffifnif rin)iiri,triviriYia--t-yirriWr-r''T"f1-'MI - t J. G. Wrlnht, ex-Mayor of Salem, Who Has Beea a Reader of Tbe Oregonlaai for 60 Years. plained against on the theory that the rlub Id an educational organization and entitled to exemption for this reason. This Is one of the numerous clubs, pre . viously exempt, which Assessor Reed decided should pay taxes. Rebate Asked for Yacht. D. Jf. and E. "Walter & Co. demand a reduction for 125,600 to $17,500 on mer chandise and the wiping out of an as sessment of $5000 on money, notes ana accounts on the ground that all the books of the firm are kept in San Francisco. The T. B. Potter Realty Company says that the yacht Bayocean was sold In February and asks cancellation Of an assessment of $7600. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com pany says that the local branch is purely a selling organization and does no collecting. For this reason jauuo on money, notes and accounts should be cancelled, the protest urges. The Weyerhaeuser Land Company says it had only $3401.19 In the bank -iiarcn x ana wants a reaucimn irum $5000 to this sum on money, notes and accounts. The Enterprise Brewing Company thinks an assessment of $13,650 should not be more than $4000. The Willamette Iron and Stoel . Works, assessed $262,150. declares that -ls as much as its competitors combined are assessed, and wants a cut to $140,- 000. Iroa Companies to Fight. Last Summer when the assessments were being made the Willamette Com pany wanted to show down with its competitors on values, but an agree ment was not reached. Finally it was decided that Mr. Reed should make ar bitrary assessments and the fight would be made before the Board of Equalization. The principal competi tors Involved are the Smith & Watson Iron Works and the Portland Iron Works. The Multnomah Trunk and Bag Com pany wants $13,000 cut off Its assess ment of $25,600. The United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company, a New Jersey corporation with a branch in Portland, was assessed $18,500 on money, notes and accounts. The company contends that it should be exempt entirely, as all collecting Is done for Oregon from New Jersey, and under any theory pro tests that the assessment should not be more than $6667.68. which is 60 per cent of its Oregon book accounts on March 1, the assessment date. Assessor Reed is drawing a great many protests from foreign firms sim llarly situated. He has gone on the theory that the mere fact that collect ing is done from outside the state is no reason why taxation should be es caped. Most of his assessments against such concerns have been arbitrary and there seems to be a unanimous desire on their part to squirm out. Hotel Valuation Raised. The J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, head office Racine, Wis., is another concern on hand with a sim iiar kick against an assessment of $10,000 on money, notes and accounts. The books are kept at Racine, the com plaint asserts. The R. R. Thompson Estate Company thinks the Assessor must have made mistake when he raised the assessment on the Multnomah Hotel building from $400,000 to $500,000. A reduction from $17,350 to $8900 is demanded by the Frank L. Smith Meat Company.. Sheriff Word and J. A. Black, who own 9.81 acres on Ella Heights, want the valuation cut from $9720 to $4414.50. Studebaker Brothers Company. Northwest, want merchandise reduced from $100,750 to $52,750 and money, notes and accounts from $40,000 to The Mount Hood Railway Develop' ment Company contends that lots in Proctor, Gillis. Bristol and Talbot ad ditions are assessed much higher than lots in adjoining subdivisions. Filers' Music House is assessed a to tal of $138,100, of which $60,000 is on money, notes and accounts, which is considered much too high. Dr. William L. Wood, who owns sev eral lots on Council Crest, has filed separate protests against the assess ments on all of them. Perkins, registered from Fairbanks, Alaska- Mrs. D. E. Davis, of Brighton, Colo., has returned to her home after spend- ng the past year visiting relatives In this city. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Michaels, of San FranciBco, who have returned from the Pendleton Roundup, are registered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Klendening and two daughters, after closing, their cot tage at the seashore, have returned to Portland and are at the Hotel Portland. Harry H. Haak, after a three months' trip throughout the East, visiting par ticularly in Michigan cities and In Washington, D. C. has returned home. Among the Oregon people staying at the Portland Hotel are: Mrs. P. T. Young. Isabel Young and Mrs. T. M. Gibson, of Albany; Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Hlnton. Miss Hinton and R. B. Hinton, Shaniko: Mrs. E. O. McCoy, Mrs. H. S. Rice. The Dalles; Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Kinney, of Astoria, and James Craig, of Sllverton. WRIGHT IS OLD READER EX-MAYOR OF SALEM HAS TAK EN THE OKEGOXIAX 60 YEARS. Steward at Asylum Celebrates An niversary of Settlement ii Oregon in 1857. SALEM, Or., Sept. 15. (Special.) Today marks the 60th anniversary of the residence In Oregon of J. O. Wright. ex-Mayor of Salem, who Is believed to have subscribed for The Oregonlap onser than any other person. He be gan his subscription In 1857, when the paper was a weekly, and has been a subscriber without interruption ever nee. Though advanced in years. Mr. Wright is hale and hearty, and per forms his duties as steward of the State Insane Asylum most capably. His life has been a busy one, and during his 60 years' residence In Salem he has been a factor in building up the city. Aside from serving two terms as Mayor, Mr. Wright was a member of the City Council several terms, and was the organizer of the first fire depart ment in the city. He also opened the first retail grocery store In the city, which was In 1857. 'I was born In De Witt County, near Clinton, the county seat. In Illinois, May 4, 1837," said Mr. Wright today. My parents died when I was young. and March 17. 1853. with an uncle, I started from home for Oregon. We crossed the plains by ox team. The oxen proved better travelers than Worses or mules. Horse and mule teams overtook us at first, but in three or four weeks we passed them and saw them no more. We arrived in Salem September 15. I was In the retail gro cery business 40 years, retiring from that business In 1897;" 1 A total of $936,690 will have to be expended by the city water bureau for needed repairs and new construc tion during 1914, according to an esti mate submitted yesterday to City Com missioner Daly by Water Engineer D. D. Clarke. This figure included the cost of pipe and other fittings, the laying of mains and repairing of res ervoirs. Materials which will be needed will Involve the following expenditures: Nine thousand tons of castlron pipe, at $30.76 a ton, $276,750; 300 tons of special castings, at $50 a ton, $16,000; 250 tons of lead at 1102. ao a ton, -'o,- 550; 600 hydrants, at $27.90 each, $16,- 740: 1193 gate valves, $14,sbu. Toiai for materials, $348,700. Labor for lay ing the mains will involve an expen diture of $146,980. The grand total for water main extensions Is $495,630. Meters to Coat 122,100. Eleven venturl meters ranging from six Inches to 42 Inches in- diameter will be purchased at a cost. Including installation, of $22,100. Reservoir alterations and repair will nvolve the following expenditures: Reservoir No. 1, gate chamber and valve reDalrs. overflow recorder and renewal of sprinkling pipe. $5200: res ervolr No. 2, gate chamber and valve repairs, overflow recorder and relm ing of reservoir basin, $22,000; reser voirs Nos. 3 and 4, gate chamber and valve repairs and overflow recorders, $16,600: reservoirs Nos. 5 ana e. crane at both Inlet and outlet gate cnamoers. omitted during original construction. 32400: water proofing reservoir No. 6 and north basin of reservoir No. 6, 812.000: Vernon standpipe, bypass for automatic valve, $1200; Palatine Hill standpipe, repairs on stack, keeper s dwelling, etc., $2000. Bull Ran Work Required. Other expenditures for the year are recommended as follows: Repairs to conduit No. 1. for a distance of one mile, near Gresham, $10,560; construe tion of new dam and intake with en larged screening facilities at the head- works in Bull Run Canyon, $125,000; additional surveys to determine the most suitable location for storage basins and1 probable cost of basin, $5000; acquisition of sites for storage and distribution reservoirs adjacent to city limits, approximately 760 acres. $152,000: cost of completing contract for lowering of pipe line in Willam ette River, $65.000. CHARLES S. FEE IS IN CITY! Passenger Traffic Manager of South ern Pacific Boosts for Fair. Today on Second Floor Elevated Stage Comfortable Seats Charles S. Fee. passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific, and one of the board of directors of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, arrived in Portland yesterday and will remain here a few days before passing on to Chicago on business. By a fortunate coincident Mr. Jree arrived here at a time when William Sproule. president of the Southern Pa cific and Q. W. Luce, freight traffic manager, are here. The three San Francisco officials consulted with local Southern Pacific traffic heads yester day afternoon. Mr. Fee Is an enthusiast on the ban Francisco Exposition and what It will do for the Pacific Coast. He predicts that all the big nations of Europe eventually will conclude to exhibit He declares also that most of the exposi tion visitors will pass through Port land either going or coming. CAPTAIN B0SW0RTH DIES Former Surveyor of Port of Port land Expires In Maine. Mrs. Frederick Eggert last night re ceived a telegram from Portland, Me., telling of the death there of Captain F. S. Bosworth, formerly a resident of this city. Captain Bosworth was surveyor of the Port of Portland, Or., for a num ber of years and was a resident of this city between 15 and 20 years. He moved to Portland, Me., about 1905. Mr. Bosworth was a brother-in-law to Arthur Sewall, who ran for Vlce-Presl- dent with Bryan In 1896. He died at the home of his son, Arthur Sewall Bosworth. Mrs. Bosworth died in this city. She and her husband were close friends of Mr. and Mrs. Eggert. Waffeififl I You and your friends are cordially invited to visit the store today and view our splendid showing of The New Fall and Winter Styles in Women's Suits, Coats Gowns, Waists, Furs and Millinery Garments will he shown on walking models, in parade on an elevated platform, thus allowing every one an opportunity to observe the new fashions at close range. Our showing for the coming Fall and Winter season is the most complete and comprehensive ever attempted by any store in the West, bar none. Charming creations in suits, coats and gowns from world-famous designers Paquin, Red fern, Drecoll, Worth, Paul Pierot and many others. Exquisite Fall Millinery from Mme. Georgette, Lichenstein, Kurzman, Joseph Waters, Bendel, Marie Louise, Virot, Knox, Hyland and from our own workrooms. Grand Parade Walking Models 10:30 A. M. to 12 2 to 4:30 P. M. 2d Floor STREETS PAVED COMMISSION HAS 23 CONTRACTS TO PASS X7POST. Proceedings on Other Work Commenced and Tenders Some Will Be Opened. to Be for With the closing of the Summer sea son, street paving ana graaing con tractors are rapidly completing work on Improvements in various pans ui the city. The City Commission, at its regular meeting tomorrow, will have 23 contracts to accept, the work on all having been completed. The contracts. all of which have been pushed through in the last few months, Involve an ag gregate expenditure of $119,840.58. There are several hundred thousand dollars' worth of Improvements still incomplete. Proceedings will- De started Dy xne Commission tomorrow on the following proposed street improvements: East Third street, from weidier street to Hancock street: portions of East Salmon street and other streets as a district; Forty-first street South east, from Holgate street to south line of Henry's Fifth Addition: Seventieth street Southeast, from Whitman avenue to Fifty-fifth avenue Southeast; Forty first street Southeast, from Woodstock avenue to south line of Henry's Fifth Addition; East Fiftieth street, from East Stark to north line of Wallace Ad ditlon, extending easterly; portions of Hancock street, East Fourteenth street, East Sixteenth street and East Seven teenth street, as a district; boulevard from its Intersection with Knapp ave nue to westerly line of East Seventh street, extended northerly; Victoria street, from Weidier street to Broad way. Bids will be opened for improvements on the following streets: Fifty-fourth avenue Southeast, from west line of Sventy-second street southeast to line 291 feet west of west line of Seventy-second street Southeast; East Glisan, from west line of East Forty-fourth street to west line of East Sixtieth street; Forty-second street Southeast, from a line 100 feet south of south line of Sixty-fourth avenue Southeast to south line of Sixtieth ave nue Southeast. Military Subjects Are Topics. The programme at the Ad Club PERS0NALMENTI0N. I B. Ryan, of Pendleton, is at the Cornelius. F. R. Water, of Salem, is registered at the Carlton. V. p. Harrison, of San Francisco, is at the Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Lee, of Eugene, are at the Perkins C. L. Shear, of Washington, D. C, is at the Perkins. B. D. Macklin, of St. Joseph, Mo., is at the Cornelius. Judge R. Thomas, of Los Angeles, Is at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McElroy, of Salem, are at tbe Annex. Clarence Butt, a Newberg merchant, is at the Imperial. G. F. Nye, a lumberman of Aberdeen, is at the Multnomah. P. Connaeher, a timberman of Tacolt, Is at the Multnomah. V. A. Hancock Is registered at the Annex, from Tacoma. B. H. Byrne, of Los Angeles, is reg istered at the Annex. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Baker, of Syracuse, N. Y are at the Annex. C. T. Early, a lumberman from Hood River, is at the Imperial. Warren Brown, Count Cleric ofj Cheap Economy Is th Poorest Kind of Economy When buying a heater, do not be influenced merely by the price. Ask yourself a few questions: Is the stove heavily made t How long will the castings last T Is the stove . economical in fuel t Is it airtight f Or is it leaky t - BUY A Howari A heater -with a reputation a heater with a guarantee. Burns any fuel . (WOOD COAL BRIQUETS IT BURNS THE OAS When you remember that gas is fuel, you realize how much is saved if the gas does not escape, but is held in the stove and burned. Notice in this picture how the draft burns the' gas. This hot blast draft is not found in other stoves. GUARANTEED. ' ' We Guarantee a saving of one-third in fuel. We Guarantee that the stove will hold fire 12 hours without attention. We Guarantee that the rooms can be heated from one to three hours in the morning with the fuel put in at night. -We Guarantee uniform heat day and night with wood, coal or briquets. INVESTIGATE IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. J. X Kadderly 130 First Street. Established 1878. 131 Front Street, Very Attractive Low Rates East Every Day From This Date to September 30th ROUND TRIP -PARES TO ST. JOSEPH. . .$60.00 morrow at the Portland hotel will deal with the National Guard, the Oregon Rifle team and the recent matches at Camp Perry. General W. E. Finzer will talk on the training of the rlfje team and Colonel C. H. Martin, of the Third Infantry, O. N. G., will talk on "The Citizen Soldier." A. L. Mills will talk on the employers' attitude toward the militia. Lieutenant - Commander H. Beckwith, Oregon Naval Militia, will speak on behalf of the Naval depart ment of the National Guard. NORMAL ENROLLMENT BIG Opening Day Record Established at Monmouth School. MONMOUTH, o77 Sept.' 13. (Spe cial.) One hundred and seventy-six students registered at the opening- ses sion of the Oregon Normal School to day, and many more are ready to regis ter tomorrow. All the rooms at the dormitory are filled and a waiting list has been formed. This is the largest number of students on any opening day since the school opened. Court Opens at Astoria. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 15. (Special.) The September term of the Circuit Court was convened by Judge Eakin, this morning and a grand Jury was chosen as follows: Charles Gulllume. foreman; R. K. Mclntire, clerk; Ben Ekoo3, John Montgomery, Henry Wedekln. William Larson and George. Lindstrom. Court then adjourned until tomorrow in respoct to the memory of the late Judge Frank J. 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