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9 jiyjaijyaiiuiiamMuii5 FIRST EDITIOK-3 fc M. v v SECOMD EDITION-4 P. M. oiamal VOIj. XIX. DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1000. NO. 0. MARION COUNTY WILL RAISE $318,750,67 W "l " m i i in n .i hi in i ii i i i i i i i ii ill mwtmm i ORGANIZE TO IMPROVE AND BEAUTIFY THEIR PART OF THE CITY TIDAL WAVE AND QUAKE KILL NEARLY 1 70.000 Naples, Jan. 7. Tho following list of tho approximate losses of llfo In thcoarthquako and tidal wavo was compllod today from tho latost ostl inatos: Towns. ' DoathB. Messina 108,000 Hogglo 31,000 Palml 4,500 Mlloto 2,300 Dagnara 800 Villa San Olpvannl 3,700 1'allaro - 3300 Seylla ". . 2,800 Galileo i Cannttollo . Oazzl " Itova ..'. Villa San Gluscopo . Torro dl Faro Pellogrluo '.'. Solano ,. bomlnnru Contessn . ., Scmbntollo Santa Torcsa 800 9G0 348 380 G20 300 310 280 300 1C7 2G0 300 COST CUTS During Our It is a matter of disposing of the goods, as we don't want them to be destroyed by lime, sand, mortar and dust later on. Follow the crowds. - You I will find them all at the Chicago Store This Is How We Sell the Goods Now G and 7c pretty, light colored Percales, yard JJJic 9c Bleached Muslin, 36 hi. wide, yard, now ,5c 85c latest Silks, in the newest uhades, yard 40c 50c Wool Dress Goods, yard 23c 89c Wool Dress Goods, yard 40c 50c full size Dleached Sheets for double beds 20c Woman's $8.00 Long Coats $2.75 Ladies' Suits, now from $4.05 up; worth 12 and $15. Furs JIalf Price. Novum, Santa Lucia, Nlzza Castoroalo Cannoto Zlanfrlllna, Scola, Cumta, Cromonl, Mumlso, Glnr- dlna, Trlpolo, Mill and San Mlchelo Uordonnro Coramlta San Procoplo ,.... Plsturlno, TremuBtlorl, Gunl- bcrt and Spadafora Calllna, Lazzaro, Calotna and Rosall San Roberto Podongonl, Sallcu and San GrcgOrlo Montolla, Ionlco, Motta, San Qlovannla and Molina.... Scrozzlna and Solano 800 80 200 G50 330 10G Gl G7G 200 200 270 74 Total , 104, 8G0 This list docs not Include the deaths which may occur In hospltnls. Shooting tho Looter. Messina, Jan. 7. Legal oxeciitlou (Continued on pago 8.) NO FIGURE Alteration Sale 1 . .-. . . Come and See : And when you do como you will see this salo altogether dif ferent from any sale you have jeon beforo in Salem. It Is not a matter of cost with us now; it la a question of getting rid of tho ooods, as later on tho walls ha've to bo torn out, and the goods will bo In our way. Wo prefer dis posing of them at a loss now rath- jr than carting them to some warehouse and run a great risk. MARION COUNTY WIPES OUT DEBT 1 County Court Makes Most Economical Levy Possible . But Taxes Will Be High"First Correct Official Statement of Matter. The Marion County Court has today completed its esti mates and tax levies for the present year, and the total tax levy for county and state purposes will be nearly 11 mills, Only at the last minute was it decided to cut off one-tenth of a mill on the county expenses ,and half a mill on the road levy , making the oxact levy ten and nine-tenths of a mill, besides six mills for city taxes and four mills for the school district. The offjeial levy as made by the county court for 1909 is as follews: . - Purpose. . . ' Mills, State tax .,. 2,60 State school tax ---.?. -"- 2,63 Indigent soldiers' tax 1 0,03 State library tax : 0,04 County expenses tax.w--.- 2, CO County deficit tax ,1908, " 2.10 Roads and Highways taxc,.: 1,00 Total state and county e$&-.- 10.90 $318,750,67 Mills; TQtal county and state levy :c 10,90 City of Salem levy , 6,00 Salem school district ' 4,00 Total Salem tax County litis a Debt. Tho prosunt county court, n major ity of whom woro oleotod last Juno, soon upon tnklng ofllco found tho county was out of funds, and and nt tho end of thu first six months, no tuxes coming in, tho county Is ovor $00,000 In debt. Tit's money has been advanced upon warrants by n Salem bank, and tho court now llnds Itself compollod to levy u spoclHl tax to pay off this dobt, of two and one tenth mills, whllo tho levy for tho whole county government for tho prosont yenr Is only two and slx tenths mills. Tho J(olmt Cnirt. Tho prosont tnx collodion laws, nt iow alt who pay their tuxos in a vory short ttmo nftor thoy become duo a I rebate of about six par cent mid this j whole rebate goes to the wo 1 thy class of people and has to be made up in increased levies which In tho end fall on those least able to pay. Tho county court In nil Its ostl matos of taxos has to lovy six por coiit moro than it would othurwlso levy on account of tho rebate graft, which is taken advantage of by tho big corporations and money lending class. The Court Courageous, Tho present county court has had tho courage of its convlotions that debt must be paid, and tho county must bo got back onto a cash bus's. So tho court has levied a special tax to pay off that debt first and levied PEERY CASE TRIED AND SUBMITTED W. O. Pory, whoso trial wi held ovw from the last tonn of court, ap- IKKirwl for trial today. Peery wua,$8B on the First Nat'onul Dank In arrostod several inontlw ago on the1 Aiialln, Texus, nnd that upon Invost! chargo of obtaining money uhdor , gHtltm he found the chdok could not false pretenses, and was indicted by j bo collected, duo to 'ack of funds, the grand jury. At the last term of) The cuio was submitted to tho Jury court he pleaded not guilty, but later' th's afternoon which, after 40 rain changed his plea to guilty as charged utos' deliberation,, brought In a ver and asked the court for sentence, n- diet of guilty. Amount, $ 78,157,50 78,792,00 898,00 1,197,90 74,868,00 62j889,77 21,947,50 1 , .. 20.90 only, one mill for roads and high ways, as a new law Is to bo jnissod for building roads with state nidi1 and tho county is going slow until It knows what tho now law will be. KyMeni Changed. Up to thu prosont time drafts were made on the general fund for roads and highways, and there wan no Pin It on tho Inioads made horn this source, and tho contracts thnt woro already out whon tho prosont county court took charge had to bo met and have run tho county heavily In dobt. This system Is to bo abolished. MiiMioy IloltlN Down. In thu struggle to fix tho levies County Judge Huslioy made a hard fight to hold them down. He and Commissioner Ileokwlth stood qrm for retrenchment, mid Commissioner Qoulet VHiited a higher rosd levy. Hushey Miul IJeokwIth told him if they had not to meet that debt, that thoy coilld havo iovlod moro for ronds. Hut thoro nro some oxponslvo bridges to put In, that will take $8000. and there will have to bo a paring down all along the lino. Tho court will be able to out under tho ostlmnto for bounty oxpensoft homo, hb tho county ofllcos turn In nbout $10,000 In foes. Tho court Is de termined to run tho county on a conservative basis and get out of uout us fast as the Lord will lot them. Thoro will havo to bo ro trenahment nil along tho lino nnd moro than one petty grnft will got tho axo In tho courso of tho year lultlng In his case being held ovor to tho present term. N G, II. Van Allen proporlotor ni tho Bldrldge lodging house is the com plainant in the suit, nlloging that Peery mndo out to him u ohook fo- PUSHERS ORGANIZE EASTSALEM LEAGUE Large Attendance at Evangelical Church Meeting. All Are Enthusiastic For Better Streets, Better Sewer System and Better Conditions Generally. EnBt Salem people mot and organ izctf n development longuo on Wod noaday night nt tho Seventeenth Btroet church. II. W. Goodo wan choson chair man nnd C. L. Doty Hccrotnry. A oommltteo on conotitullon wna appointed, consisting of John Knight O. F. Royal, It. I). Goodwin. President Goodo Bpoko of tho pur poses of tho organization, to dovclop tho torrltory lying lu tho district from Fourteenth strcol oast and to Asylum avenue. Hon. Sam Hughe npoko of tho need of enforcing laws. John Knight Bpoko of tho need of opening tho croBs streets of tho city from 18th to 21bI streets, there wni no street ncrowi to State street. Mr. Mullnrkoff npoko of tho ueod of suwora nnd BldownlkB. Mr. Doty said tho club could take up any good ontorprlro. Lot uh stand ipgother and work for It. II. 10. Edwards wanted to know If tho city property ownont pnld for sowors? Ho was told that abutting property tald for sowois. ' ' Mint Htuto Htivci. Property owners on Hast Stnto stroot spoko In favor of paving. Tho street h nlattod nt CO fret wide Property 1 1 new on (ho north sldo of. tho stroot will havo to bo moved haulc eoino, tho utreot car'lfne will havo to bo put In tho center of tho street. Soino aro lu favor of a bard ourfneo pavement. Othors sny macadam Is good enough. A good macadam costs nearly no much ns pavement, BECAME SANE WHEN" HE GOT HIS MONEY (United Proas Lonsod Wlro.) Santa Hosa Cal. Jnu. 7. Aftui temporarily losing liln mind from tho shook of having his life living deetroyod by lire, Mnlln Loreuxo iuj tnlnod unothor sliock today when the money he supposed was lost wan handed to him. Lorenzo was so overcome b Joy that he refined to prosecute hi 17- year-old ion, Frank, who loo the I money, but merely ordered him to leave home. Iorenzo had made an old woodon gunrnck tho hiding plane of a thou sand dollars In eurrenoy. Frank burned tho gunraok yestorday, find tho old man, In fury, beat tho jouth Insensible Lorenzo today suspootod som thing wrong and finally forced his hon to admit that tho money was not de stroyed, and lator compelled tho lad to dig It up from Its hiding pluco under tho barn. Deputy Sheriff Voor, who went to, TomaloH yestorday to arrost tho nth or for assault, returned today with out a prisoner, bocauso of Lorenzo's refiual to prosecute for theft. o . A HORSE RACE, A FOOL AND A PRETTY GIRL lUnU'fl Press L'wuhhI Wlro.) San FranQisco Jan. 7. It w learned today that Hvan J. Collins a young mun wno nnd uen hel.1 lit dqtontlonfor threo days by the iwUpm, is tho on of a mllllouuiro monufse- turor of dental guppllosnd surglcnl InBtrumonts at Philadelphia and that nnd In tho wot season mnoadam fo muddy. Mr. JoncM, tho nureorymtm, wna at tho mooting nnd oxprossod hlmsolf favornblo to n good paving proper! tlon, Mr. Lnbreo said tho stnto prison did not uuo tho court utroot nowor, but that tho Wollor lands woro tiled into tluil oowor. This olub should stop that. Mr. Goodln cald tho asylum sow ago was not connected with tho city aoworu. Mr? Walker asked If tho old prison sower did not connect with tho clt sowor? Mr. Lnhoo Bald ho wna lu favor of extending tho pnvomont of Court stroot. Mr. Iloal spalco or tho 'ncod of getting back somo of til's street nnd poll ta money that was paid In tho ward. , Mr, Doty rpqIco of th'o heeil of unlU Ingto get rosiiltu. Iloforo going Into the city thoy usod to got a few loadi of grnvel onco In n whllo. Tho im jirovoiiKint of Twenlluth street nnd boon promised ninny tlmcB, but no re sults. Mr. Knight npoko of tho Improve ment of throo blookit of 10th stroot, nt nn oxpongo'of $250, nnd It utl Itji proved 'vnluos on that stroot for ilirf few- blocks ovor a tliounnnd dollars. Thoro was a strong determination to go after. tho llttlu things and do thorn voll. Tho club adjourned to meet njxt WednoHdny-ovonlng. ho was tho victim insteud of u mom bor of a gang of raco track crooks, Tho police arrested Dorothy Alien, a beautiful young woman, ullugod to bo an adventuress who, Collliw al leges, Induood him to bet $2100 on a horse nt Hmoryvlllo. Colllim says thu woman Introduced him to her "friends" and then ho wns buncoed. Dorothy Allen gnvo up her apart ments nt the Van Doru Hotel nnd whs about to Iohvs the city whon alio was arrested at the Southern Pnclfle station. -o ACCIDENTS CAME THICK AND FAST Dtitto, Mont., Jan. 7. Threo deaths occurred lu tho shaft of tho big mine hero early todny. Hugh Kcurney, a workman, stumbled nnd foil down tho shaft to tho bottom level, u dlntunco of GOO feet. In attempting to roscuo Kenrnoy, James Martin foil 100 feet to tho bottom, and was instautly killed. He dlslodgod a hoavy tlmbor, whlah, lu railing, struck Dan Sweony, killing; him Instantly , JUDGE ANDERSON MAY TRY STANDARD Chicago, Jan. 7. Jmla Ander son, of Indianapolis, praotloaPy has agreed to try tho Standard Oil rebat ing onse. Doth sides have expressed ntltfao'.len nt Ii'h ro'tlnu, nnd. It merely rriuulns for him to agoopt. whleh it Is xpmtod ho will do, If i,m .j)0uld deellno Judge Snnom, of Mllwuukeo. will bo skd to pros do 0vor tho sooond trial as the succtw- sor of Judge K. M. Landls.