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THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1891.
NUMBER 24.
effil e e h
IS
A DARING SCHEME.
. .
Attempt the
Bankers
. Most
in Xew York
Startling Deal Since
Great Black
Friday
bv a Nebraska
Horrible Blundering
SheriffThe Jackson
Corbett
"X Fight was " Xo Contest."
New Yobk, May 22. A financial arti-
cle in the Telearam savs : "Ten hankers
in Wall street each put up 60,000 niak-
, . , . , , i .
ing ii total of 600,000 wrih winch to pay
the interest of f 15,000,000 in gold which
they are going to buy and bold for sixty
day. This syndicate intends to compel
England and Russia to pay a handsome
premium on gold they buy or leave it in
this country . It is one of the simplest
yet most daring deals that has been at
tempted since Jay Gould and Jim Fisk
tried to corner gold and brought on that
dav which is always referred to as " Black
Friday." "
GENERAL COLTON'S ESTATE.
ms Mother and Sinter Reenter iO.OOO
tram It After Seven Year. Waiting.
Sax Francisco, .May 22. Master in
Chancery S. C. Houghton today rendered j
his decision in the case of Abigail and
Marthr Col ton, respectively mother and
sister of the late General Col ton, against
Ellen Col ton, widow of the deceased. ,
- The suit was brought seven years ago
to compel the fulfillment of the terms of
the will relating to provisions made for
the complainants." Afura considerable
litigation the matter was referred to
master in Chancery.
The estate is valued at over seven
hundred thousand dollars. The report
awards seventy-five dollars monthly to
each of the complainants for living ex
penses, and finoVthat by the terms of
the will there is due them including in
terest about twenty thousand dollars.
fKBSBYTEBIANS IN COUNCIL.
IMscnsslaa of the Confession of Faith
Is
Dodged for this 1 ear.
Detroit, May 22. At the Presbyter
ian general assembly this morning the
report of the committee on confession of
faith was read by the chairman, Rev.
William C. Roberts, president of tne
Lake Forest university. After reading
the report it was moved that it be sent
down to Presbyterians as recommended
by the committee, and - the committee
continued to make a final report to the
- next assembly. The motion was unani
N. mously adopted and the great debate is
- over this year so far as the general as
sembly is concerned.
HORRIBLE BLUNDERING..
A Rope Breaks and a Murderer has to
ae Strung up a Second time.
Bbokeb Boivk, May 22. Albert Hav
enstein the murderer of William Ashley
and Herman Bolton' was hanged at 1 :30
this afternoon. .. When .the trap was
sprang there' was a slip, a groan.- and
the body fell to the ground, the rope
having broken. Havenstein, hall con
scions at the time, was picked up by the
sheriff and depcties and brought back
to the gallows. The rope was doubled
and the trap again sprung. ; This time
his neck Vas broken and death was ap-j-orently
painless.
Failure and Suicide.
Memphis, Tenn., May 22. The Hill
Shoe company failed yesterday and
William .Vilaa Hill presideut of the
company, immediately after committed
t-uicide. He was a nephew of ex -postmaster-Genera
Vilas. The failure, of
the firm is directly due to the failure ot.
the Lynn DavisShoe company.
A Brigand Wants Cuba Annexed. j
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Lricrttnfl VannAl fiariMu ; haa idaopff a
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Manifesto declaring Cuba annexed to the ;
United States, -and setting forth the j
grievances Cuban people have against
snsJn Thnnmi lamsHon i heina idelv!
circulated here, in Florida and the At
lantic states and through Cuba.
Will Have Cash to Pay Pensions.
Washington', May 22 Secretary Fo'
ter said this morning that he did not ex
lct any difficulty in meeting the quart- j
t-rly pension payments, falling due June
4th, as the available cash balance at that
time will go beyond the amount required.
Kentucky
- Republicans.
Lexington, ,Ky -
. May 22. The repub
lican state convention nominated A.
Wood for governor. A resolution was
afljted to endorse Harrison's adrainis
iranon and party in congress for an elec
tion law which will give every citizen
r jual rights at the polls. "
The Notorious DetectiTe Arrested.
Washington, May 22. The chief
I Kist office inspector has received infor
mation ol the. arrest today of detective
ftominic : Comalley of Xew Orleans
charged with opening and
h-lters addressed to Jiminv
destrovintr i
,i" . !
Carroll the :
Ljigilist. .
The Jaekson-Corbett Fight.
San Francisco,,, May 22. The tight
l-etween James Corbet t and Peter Jack-t-jn
for a purse of ten thousand dollars
st the California Athletic club last night
was declared "no contest" at the end of
the sixty first round.
May Takes Oral by Force.
Citt or Mkxico, May 22. The mili
tary are still guarding the Pacific Mail
coal lighters at Acapulco for fear that the
Esmeralda may attempt to take coal by
I. re. '
Besflrau the Story.
Pabis, May 22. The SiecU today re
a (firms the truth of the reported Jiata
. iVement and says the Cluiian steamer
1-t to bo taken to a United States port
t nd an embargo is to be placed on her.
Oar Next President's Health.
Xgw York, May 22. Secretary Blaiue
is now able to be np and abont the house
Mad the doctor says his complete recov
ery U only a mattisr of a few days,
TICY1XG TO ritOYE A FOItG KR.
UavlH Will Contestant Claim the Writer
of the Instrument Ih Known. j
I BUTT, Mont., May 2(1. The Davis!
; wjn contest set for todav had hardly
opened when Warren Toole, counsel for !
, contestants, tiled two motions, one for a I
: continuance, the other for a suppression
i 01 ctTiaiu Hiiiuuviis mKt'u in lowa. in
j support of the first n affidavit of Henry
j A- '8 i'etl petting forth the recent
! discovery of the identity of the hand-
! writing in which the alleged will is writ-
! ten, with that of J. II. kduy, a grandson
; of James Davis, one of the witnesses to
i r.he ttHll Th wiunlm-iti- PTtAiirfa tn the
-! phraseology and spelling of the will.as
! proved bv photographic copies of the
j letters. This discovery was only made
Monday, and delay is now import-
ant to enable the contestants to secure
i fIirt.r svidence.
Eldv was a resident of Davis county,
la., in 1880 to 1S83, and did business and
carried on corresiiondence lor James
Davis. He signed James Davis name to
lutfaM aant t. tdp!.inu iiui-triln It. la al-
leged the will was not made by the late
Judge Davis, but was written sulsequent
to the death of James Davis and' Job
Dh. is, and that the will and signatures
are the work of Eddy. Time is neces
sary to complete the chain of evidence
now discovered. This whs not opposed
by the proponment of the will ana the
case was continued until June 22. The
great array of counsel here now will
leave at once. Colonel R. G. Ingcrsoll
is among the counsel for the contestants
and came here with his wife and
daughter.
REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS.
Towns
Rough Characters Rule In New
on the Great Northern Extennlon.
Mrnt M.iv -20 .Irthn wil-
son, a former resident of Helena, and n
gentleman of known integrity, arrived
From the Flathead county today and
reports a reign of lawlessness in that
section. W ithin the ast few months
3000 or 4000 people have stampeded to !
uiat country in aovance oi me ooom ex
pected tion the arrival of the Great
Northern Railway Western extension.
Two new towns, Columbia Falls and
Kalispell, have suddenly sprung np. and
a million dollars' worth of lotB sold in
them.
Among the motley population is u
large contingent of very tough characters.
Mr. Wilson reports .that acts of violence
are of frequent occurrence. Three men
were killed within a few miles of each
other, on Monday, the day he left, al
though he did not learn their names.
One was an innocent workman in Colter
Brothers lumber camp, a man having
tired at one of the proprietors, missing
his aim. The second was killed in a
stabbing affair on the east fork of the
Columbia river, and the third corpse is
that of a carpenter shot in Columbia
Falls. But one man is under arrest.
The nearest telegraph station is Ravalli,
distant from the scene of violence 100
miles, and details are meager. Officers
ol the law are few in namlter. and ran
afford little protection.
OPENED TO THE PUBLIC.
A Dakota Reservation at the Disposal
of Settlers.
Washington, May 21. President
Harrison today issued a proclamation,
opening to public settlement abont 160,
000 acres of land in the Fort Bertijold
Indian reservation in North Dakota.
This carries out the agreement entered
into December, 18S, lietween the com
missioners on the part of the United
States and the Aricarees, Gros Ventres
and Mandan trib?s of Indians on the
Fort Berthold reservation, pursuant to
an act of congress approved May 15,
lbSii. The proclamation sets forth" that
satisfactorv proof has been presented to
the president that acceptance and of
consent to the provisions of the amended
act by the different Indians has been ob
tained. - It further notifies all persons
to particularly observe that a certain
portion of the said reservation not ceded
and relinquished by the agreement is
reserved for the allotment and reserva
tion for the said tribes, and all persons
are warned not to go upon any lands so
reserved. All that portion of" the reser
vation lying north of the 48th parallel,
and all that portion lying west of the
north and south line, six miles west of
the most westerly point of the big bend
of the Missouri-river, south of the 48th
parallel' is declared opened to settlement
and subject to disposal as provided for
in section 25. act of March 3, 1891 .
FROM SPOKANE.
Dishonest Express Agent Confesses.
Spokane, May 20. Martin Wallace,
agent for the Pacific Express Companv,
ti8 afternoon vLsited Wa880n whS wa8'
arrested and committed to jail last night
on the charge of stealing money from
the company, while on the Tacoiua and
Mulhin run about two weeks ago, and
succeeded in obtaining from him a com
plete confession of his crime. There
were two packages of money stolen, he
said, one was to a Xew York firm and
the other was- to an Omaha house. He
secured ' from each package ! 600. He
??8 tnat voia oetection ne aeetroyea
emilo- at the end of hia to feoa.
i ana since men nas Deen in niaing at tne
resort of Kittv Miller. The whole
amount, he says, was spent in the house
where be was secreted.
Young Hearst's New Yacht.
Xew York, May 20. There is being
completed at tbe yards of the HerreshofT
Manufacturing company of Bristol, R. I.,
what is to be one of the most palatial
yachts afloat. It is the property of W.
R. Hearst, son of the late Senator Hearst.
It is expected she will be ready to slide
off the ways in aont ten days. The
launching is to be an important event
.1 i. : . .. i . e - i ...:h
itiiu a ujkciowu oi iM-uuie in w nurse i
the ceremony. When completed, if the i
vncht comes up lo contract papulations, i
Hearst will lake her to the Pacific coast
"nere wiinoiu uouiu, in ini oi ppeea
ana beantv nlie will stand without
lliMir
; The West (litre Company Again Kurd.
! Porti.axjj, -May 20. .1. B. Bridges,
the well-kuown contractor, yesterday
commenced euit in department No. 1 of
the state circuit court against the Wot
Uliore Publishing company and others to j
recover i2fb lor tialance dueon contract
for erecting the new HVsf ttliore building
on Water and Columbia streets, and
1 708.08 for extra material furnished. The
plaintiff states that he took the contract
for erectingthe building for ? 12,417. He
received 9,600 on account, leaving a
balance due him of $2,867. The $708.08
is for material not specified in the con
tract. Catholic Teachers Restored.
Wasaingtos, May 20. Secretary Xo-!
ble has directed the commissioner of j
inuian analrs to restore sisters Angwica ;
O'Callaghan and Xincenta Couglin to
their former duties as teachers of the
government school of the Menominee
reservation in Wisconsin. The superin
tendent and matron of the school were
not restored. It is understood that this
action was based on the conclusion
reached by Inspector Cisney, who inves
tigated the trouble, but whose report
cannot at present be made public.
STILL A PBISON'EK.
The Eomeralda not Allowed to Get Coal
at Acapulco Though her Otttcer try
to gret it by Trickery.
New York, May 23. A Washington
dispatch savs: "The coal bunkers of
the Esmeralda are still empty. Official
:idyices received by the state department
shows however, her officers still havede;
signes upon the Pacific mail steainshp
coal pile. They are growing desperate
and are uotubove trickery to accomplish
their object."
A dispatch from our vice consul at
Acapulco states that they came ashore
yesterday morning and represented they
just received word from Iquique that the
Itata matter was settled satisfactorily to'
all parties concerned, and in the light of
this information begged to be allowed
to receive coal in order that they might
return to Chili. They did not get any
j coal, however as the consul did not bite,
;
; murder will out.
Arreat of One of the Murderers of
Wil
liam Rarhour;
Portland, May 23. The police are
still maintaining a reticence about the
arrest of the first of the two men at
j Butte, Montana, for the murder of Wm.
Barbour of Lebanon, whose body was
found in the Willamette river on May
i 3d.
ti : ... . i
: chain of evidence against the men hut
' w'" not now Te lne names for the rea-
; son that the third man ia not yet appre-
bended.
I It is also thought by the police
tne men arrested are he parties
brutallv dered Greenwood and
I -
that
who
wife
' llrar ""I"- vaaiuruiu, uui wiuier,
A PROFESSOR RESIGNS.
He Takes Exception to the Suspension
of Other Minister.s
Pittsbubg, May 23. Rev. McGurkin,
of the Reformed Presbyterian Theologi
cal Seminary of Allegheny, announced
his intention of resigning the chair of
theology and history in that institution.
His, reason is that seven Reformed
Presbyterian ministers have been sus
pended for voting at political elections.
In his letter of resignation he says: "I
have been forced to the conclusion that
the individnal conscience of the Ameri
can citizen should he allowed to decide
as to his duties in the casting of his bal
lot for the right rulers."
Vigilantes Receive Their Deserts.
Dunnings, Neb., May 23. A white
party of vigilantes who have jut cap
tured a cattle thief named McAlvey,
near here, and were bringing the pris
oner to town last night, they met an
other party of vigilante. The night was
very dark and as each party mistook the
other for the thief fire was opened by both
sides and before the mistake was dis
covered Jndge Aikens, treasurer of. the
connty, and McAlvey the cattle thief
were kiLed. Xo arrests have been
made.
The Star Rubber Company In Distress.
Tbb.nton, X. J., May. 23. Tbe Star
Rubber Co., is in financial difficulty.
The counsel for the company said that
owing to the contraction of the credit,
of the company's liabilities were more
than it can meet at the instant. Secre
tary Bell, he added, had informed him
that the company could pay two dollars
for every one it owed. The liabilities
may foot up to half a million of dollars.
Will Not Employ the Leaders.
Scottdalk, Penn., May 23. A large
number of coke men have been applying
for work, but in every case where a
leader or an active agitator applied he
was refused employment. Indications
are that fully one thousand names of the
leaders will be placed on the black list
and with such a large number idle it is
thought a possible strike might be again
revived.
Revolution In Cordova.'
Bcenos Avbes, May 23. The state
ment that a revolution had broken out
in the province of Cordova is confirmed.
There was firing in the streets of Cordo
va, the capital of the province of that
name, on Thursday and Friday. It is
believed that the revolt is Instigated by
leaders of rival factions in Buenos Ayres.
Troops were engaged In quelling the
disturbance yesterday evening.
Caterpillars Stop Railroad Trains.
Mankato, Minn., May 23. All the
trains of the Milwaukee road this morn
ing were delayed seven miles outside this
city by millions of caterpillars which
crawled upon the rails. . When ground
up their remains made the wheels slide
as if the rails were greased.
Not Guilty as Charged.
Greknsburg, Pa., May 22. The jury
in the case of Captain Loar, and depu
ties charged with murder at the More-
, . . . ...
wood r,ot8 returned a verdtct acquitting
all the defendants.
Went to the Springs Too Late.
Xew York, May Ti. Henry Shelton
Sauford, ex-United States minister to
lielgium and late delegate to the Brussels
anti-slavery conference, died Thursday
al Healing Springs, Ya.
Burned to Death.
Minneapolis, May 23. This morning
a fire in the house of Felix Lawlor burned
to death his daughter aged 6 and an in
fant son. His wife was seriously burned.
Postponed Payments for Twenty Days.
BrnNos Ayres, May 23. The cham
ber of deputies has adopted a bill post
poning payments of bank deposits for
twenty days.
Returnrj to Work,
Scottsdale, F Jti., May 23. Tbe
. Blrikf, fho ihlv broken and re.
ports indicate thti ten thousand men
will go to work on Monday.
A Statue Uncalled In Chicago.
Chicago, May 23. The statue of
Lineas, the botanist, a counterpart of
the one in Stockholm, was unvailed in
Lincoln park today. - ,
A CRAZY WOMAN'S IEEI.
Hang Henelf and Four Children In
Harlan, Iowa.
Harlan, Iowa, May 25. Mrs. Christen
Peterson, a Danish woman, and her four
children, whose ages ranged from three
to ten years was found hanging in the
cellar of their house near here. It is
thought they have been hanging there
ever since Wednesday. The husband
had been sent to an asylum about a
week ago and the finding of these bodies
show that the wife should have been
sent there too as she must have been
crazy.
PLAYED IN HAKI LICK.
Variety Actor in Seattle Is Stabbed
Eight Times.
Portland, May 25. A special to the
Evening Telegram from Seattle says:
At daylight this morning a bloody fight
occured in the Elliott house in which J.
Leonard a variety clog dancer was
stabbed iu the shoulder and abdomen
eight times. Leouard is not expected to
live. His assailant is not known and
the wounded man is not in a condition
to tell who stabbed him.
THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE LAW
The Supreme Court Decides that It
Constitutional.
Washington, May 25. The United
States supreme court today upheld the
constitutionality of the original package
law passed by congress and it also held
that it was not necessary for Kansas to
re-enact a prohibitory law after the pass
age of the congressional act in order to
shut out liquor in original packages.
The Big Embesxler Is Sick.
Philadelphia, May 25. City Treas
urer Bardsley is still to ill this morning
to aDoear before the magistrate to
answer, to the charge of misappropriat
ing city money. The attorney-general
arrived from Harrisburg this morning
with a warrant charging Bardsley with
embezzlement of $446,000 of state money
and he will probably be arrested on that
charge today.
Claims More than he Will Ever Get
Portland, Or., May 25. In the
United States circuit court today: the
case of John B. Raub vs. tne Southern
Pacific was called. Raub brings suit to
recover seventy five thousand " dollars
damages for in juries received, in the Lake
Labish disaster of Nov. 12, 1890. The
forenoon was consumed in securing
jury. - -
Kentucky Loses a Suit.
Washinton, May 25. The United
States supreme court today rendered
judgments against the state of Kentucky
in the suit brought by the United States
Express company who claimed under
the state law imposing a license tax on
companies, violating the inter-state com
merce clause of tbe federal constitution
Will Participate on Memorial Day. '
Washingtgn, May, 25. The president
will take part in the memorial day exer
cises at Philadelphia next Saturday
He will leave Washington early in the
morning and return in the. evening.
. . Blaine Is Better.
New York, May 25. Secretary Blaine
was up and about the house this morn
ing. While it is believed he will leave
the city about the latter part of the week,
no definite date is yet decided on.
More Sealing Schooners Thau Ever.
Ottawa, May 25. The customs de
partment has received a report showing
the number of sealing schooners cleared
from British ' Columbia ports for the
Behring sea this spring to be forty-nine,
which is an increase of twenty-one over
last year.
Bessie Whitfield's Body Recovered.
Portland, Or., May 25.-The body of
Bessie Whitfield, the young lady who
was drowned a week ago last . Sunday
near Roes Island, was recovered this
morning at the foot of Stark street.
Took the Wrong Medicine.
Washington, May 25. A private dis
patch received here says that Congress
man Honk died at his home in Tennes
see today. A mistake in the medicine
given was the cause of bis death.'
A West Point Army Teacher Dies In
"New York. .
Nkw York, May 25. Col. H. Hen
dricks, a retired regular army officer,
died last night. For 35 years he had
served as an instructor at West Point.
Weather Forecast.
San Francisco, May " 22. Forecast
for Oregon and Washington.- Light rains
at Portland and Fort Canby.
San Francisco Market.
San Francisco, May 25. Wheat,
buyer '91, 1.75. .
Chicago Wheat Market.
Chicago, Til., May 25. Close, wheat
steady cash, 1.02; July, l.OOtf .
The regular May term of the circuit
court was opened this morning. Judge
Bradshaw, presiding. The following
attorneys are in attendance : A. S.
Bennet, J. L. Story, B. S. Huntington,
E. B. Dufur, Geo. Watkins, W. H. Wil
son, A. R. Thompson and J. K. Duncan
of Albany. The grand jury i com posed
of -the following gentlemen': John S.
Schenck, foreman, C. E. Haight, Grant
Bolton, G. B. Welsh, A. J. Dufur, D. L.
Bolton and F. C. Clausen. The forenoon
was occupied in calling the docket. -
There is a very little doubt that fall
grain between here and Fifteen mile and
for eight or ten miles back of the Col
umbia river in this - county is burned
beyond the power of rain to restore it.
There is no doubt that much of the late
sown spring never came up..: What
grain was sown early is doing well and j
with a good shower of rain within the
next two weeks may make a good crop.
But the rain must come soon or the crops
will be very light. Eastern ' Oregon,
however, so seldom fails' that we won't
give np till we cannot help it.
THE D. M. R. CO'S. LAND.
A short time ago we published the
opinion of H. X. Co pp the well-known
land attorney at Washington, on the
present status of the Dalles Military
Road company's lands. Mr. Copp holds
that these lands are now properly subject
to entry in the United States land offices
because they come under the action of
the late forfeiture bill. It is well known
that the U. S. land office refuses to
recognize applications for entry of these
lands, but Mr. Copp advises applicants
whose filings have been rejected to take
an appeal to the general land office and
offers to take charge of all such appeals.
While it is freely admitted tnat there
are few better authorities than Mr. Copp
on al! questions relating to public lands,
we think in this instance he' is entirely
mistaken in supposing that the lands
referred to have been restored to' the
public domain by the act that forfeited
the lands withdrawn for the Northern i
Pacific Railway. The fact is, the North
ern Pacific never had anything to do
with the Dalles Military Road lands.
These latter were withdrawn from settle-
I nient before those of the Northern Pa'-
cific. The grant to the Dalles Military
Road company was made in February
1867, and the withdrawal was ordered,
as will appear by a certified letter in
another column, in December 1869.
The grant to the Northern Pacific was
made in and the withdrawal was
made in 1870. The Dalles Military Road
company's land could never, therefore
have been affected by the bill forfeiting
the grant to the Northern Pacific. A
forfeiture act is not the measure
for restoring ' to the . public domain
lands already patented and the Dalles
Military Road company have a patent
for nearly all their lands. Hence Sena-
tor Dolph's bill to have the question of
title settled by the United States courts.
It ought to be well known that this
question was argued more than a year
ago lief ore Judge Sabin, in the United
States district court at Portland when
the court rendered a decision very de
cidedly in favor of the company's reten
tion of the land. The case was then
taken on appeal, as the Dolph bill con
templated, before tbe U. S. supreme
court at Washington where it was argued
and submitted on the 6th of March last
by Judge . J. K. Kelley and there is
scarcely room for a shadow of doubt that
that court will decide that the company
has a legal title to the lands. The writer
has been familiar with these facts for
a long time and it no new thing for him
to advise people, - ho desire any of the
lands in question to abandon all hope of
ever, getting them through the U. S.
government. We have "neverhad a
doubt in the world that the company
would get the lands and we believe the
Dolph bill was framed to leave the ques
tion of title to the courts where it
properly belongs because it was believed
the lands could never be legally recover
ed from the company. Besides all this'
the Dolph bill provided that in the event
of the courts deciding against the com
pany all bona fide purchasers of the
lands, to the extent of 640 acres should
have their title to the lands confimred
by the action of the United States
government. It is very evident there
fore that any attempt to secure these
lands through the United States Land
Office or to follow the advice of Mr.
Copp . is a useless wast.e of time and
money. . - -
THE SINGLE TAX.
The letter of Mr. Yates, published in
another column is a very clear exposit
ion of what single - tax men mean by
"unearned increment" or .the commun
ity value of land; that is the value that
that attaches to land by reason of the
presence of population, but it still leaves
unanswered the question that gave rise
to this controversy. What the Chron
icle still wants to know is how . can an
annual revenue of $62,500 be raised from
real estate only, without increasing the
taxes of the farming community in a
county that has a million and a half of
real estate and : a million of persenal
property ? If we ,irop the personal
property and levy the $62,000 on real
estate onhv must not land owners have
to. pay the $25,000 now levied on personal
property In addition to the $37,500 levied
on real estate? In other, words must
not this levy be raised from 25 mills to
over 414 mills, so that, the farmer or
land owner who now pays a tax of $25,
would,, under the single ' tax system,
have to pay over $41.50? This is the
question and the Chronicle submits
that neither Mr. Yates nor anyone else
has yet answered it.' Tbe argument of
Mr. Yates, if it proves anything, goes to
show that the community value of land
should be taxed. . This, the Chronicle
has never denied. What we do deny is
that tbe community value of land alone
should be taxed and every thing else go
free. Here is a man who located on a
piece of land 40 years ago when it was
a wilderness. In course of years it be
comes an important town site. The
man sold out his interest tor a cool mil
lion. It was all "unearned increment,"
if yon will- Shall we not tax him for
his million dollars? . And if . not, why
not? He never "earned" a dollar of this
money. The community made it for
him, yet tbe single tax system would let
him free while it would tax the man who
had scratched and toiled to earn the
money to buy himself a home on tbe
land so sold,- while not a dollar of the
value of such land so far as the purchaser
is concerned is "unearned . increment,"
but the fruit of his own honest labor.
There is nothing morally beautiful in
such a system.
It is needless to remind us of the diffi
culties attending the taxation ' of . per
sonal property and how much, in spite of
the vigilance of the assessor, will escape
taxation.' In our own state, we are. free
to say, the law has never made any"
adequate provisions for taxing personal
property. Meii are allowed to pile up
indebtedness sufficient to offset all they
are possessed of and it is no part of tbe
assessor's duty to see that the exemption
is taxed ; but this inimply the abuse of
a principle otherwise fair and just. Be
cause there are difficulties connected
with the taxation rf personal property, it
by no means follows that it should be
exempt. Because personal property is
sometimes concealed it does not follow
that it is right to tax only that which
cannot escape concealment. Here is a
man who has 20,000 head of cattle or
sheep feeding off the public range.- The
owner may not have so much as a rod of
land. Tbe single tax system would let
him escape taxation for everything he
owns while it would tax the homstead
of the man who is too poor to build a
pasture fence for his family cow or team,
against the depredations of his exempt
neighbor. These are not simply inci-
cidents but a part and parcel of the
single tax system and no amount of
theorizing can make them right.
Mr. Yate Tries His Hand Again.
Portland, Or., May 23, 1891.
Editor Caronicle : In considering a
simple tax on land values we must bear
in mind what these values are and how
they are created. The solitary settler iml
a wilderness might improve 160 acres to
a high degree; but to one who came
along and offered to buy him out, his
land apart from the improvements could
have no possible value wbHe along side
of him was to be bad equally good land
for the taking up. But if other settlers
come in and surround the first one, and
commence to improve, then the land
begins to acquire a value that is not due
to tbe exertions of any individual, but
to the join labors and accumulations of
the whole community. And should the
situation of the place be such that
postoffice, a store, a school house and
church be built thereon and the place
becomes a trading center, the added
value acquired by the land 'would, be
more due to the effects of human associ
ation. ; Should the state charter a rail
road to tap this point; should individ
ual enterprise erect mammoth factories,
machine shops, etc., and the day of
street railway, electric lights and costly
water works arrive, our first settler the
owner of tbe town site though he toiled
not, neither spun, might eventually find
himself a millionaire, under present
conditions, through the operation of
the great law of . human pro
gress . which finds its prime factors
in association. Yet twenty miles away
may be an individual far more energetic
and industrious than the first-named,
who has toiled early and late to improve
his farm, yet its value has come up very
slowly, because population is . scanty
there, and . land still isn't worth very
much more than the improvements cost.
There is of course a natural rent, due to
the superior fertility, the presence of
minerals, etc., but the greatest increase
of laud values is due to population and
the wealth its presence accumulates.
The presence of millionaires, their stocks
and bonds, to which tbe Chronicle re
fers, all inure to tbe benefit of the land
holders. All men know that the bring
ing of capital into a country means a rise
in land values. In 1886, the New York
Sun estimated that $25,000,000 were
brought into Kansas by the immigration
of that year. The consequence was that
lands, which, when the writer was there
two years before, you' couldn't give away,
at once jumped up to astonishing figures,
and men who sold out town property be
came rich through the "unearned incre
ment." Now the money has all left
that non-productive country, and popu
lation with it, lands have dropped again
to nominal figures. - .
The lands of, let us say, any county,
will be found on the average to have an
eqnal value with the improvements and
personal property accumulated thereon.
The reason being that they get their
value from the presence of these products
of human industry and the accompany
ing population. If assessments show
personal property much less in value
than the land, it only proves the impossi
bility of a fair and just assessment of
personal property that some of it has
escaped taxation. '. Now as it is this very
personal property and these improve
ments that give value to land, what can
be more fair than to tax these .land val
ues with the burdens of societary gov
ernment.. Tbe values cannot escape the
assessor. No man can say of the com
munity value of the land he holds : -I
made this." That value is the joint
production of all ; let us tax it for the
joint benefit of all. Wallace Yates.
.The Portland sugar merchants must
be the smallest men .on earth. A while
ago they got scared to death because the
only firm in The Dalles that buys from
the refineries was reported as selling
sngar half, a cent a pound cheaper than
they were. So they clubbed together
and sent two of their number to San
Francisco to fix things up with Claus
Spreckels and it is to be inferred that
they got satisfaction for a few days ago
it was announced that they were now
selling half a cent cheaper than The
Dalles but they are not for the firm in
question says they are able and willing
to meet the Portland merchants at any
price they may put on.
Blaine's reciprocity scheme is of a con
tagious nature. : Sow comes a represent
ative from San Domingo for the purpose
of negotiating a reciprocity treaty. As
an extra inducement his government of
fers us the use of Semona bay as a coal
ing station, etc., which has a very large
harbor. Many European nations are be
coming very anxious about their com
mercial relations with Spanish America,
as well they may.
The Union Pacific has raised the rate
on feed from an irancisco to Astoria
from $2 to $7 a ton whereat Astoria
merchants are mad and charge the thing
as haying been done at the instance of
Portland.
The Oregon Blade has a most felicitous
way of advising the- East Oregcmian to
shut its mouth. It recommends it "to
closeits extended cavity."
A PROPER APPEAL.
At the last regular quarterly meeting
of the business council of Klickitat
county grange a memorial was drawn up
to present to congress urging the refund
ing of $1.25 an acre to all persons who
had paid the maximum price for govern
ment land within the limits of the for
feited portion of the Northern Pacific
land grant. It is nothing more than
just and right that such a rebate should
lie made. The man who has paid to the
government $400 for 160 acres of these
lands has simply contributed $200 to
wards the building of a road that wa'
never built, and where the company nas
failed to build the road the $200 ought
to be returned. -We advise other grange
councils to do likewise.
Sex In Strawberries.
C. Thompson writes from Warrens-
burg, Mo.: "I understand there are,
among strawberries, hermaphrodite,
staminate and pistilate plants. The first
named will bear fruit independent of
any other. Now, will the other two
bear fruit if placed together, or will
either of them bear if not associated
with another?"
Staminate and pistilate virieties ought
to stand in alternate rows, or one row of
male blosomin? plants to four of the
other varieties will fructify all there is to
do.
Even the herm phrodite varieties in
alternate rows will produce sufficient
pollen to fructify the entire patch.
The Charles Downing is of this variety
and it has perfect flowers.
Almost every horticultural catalogue
will give the sex of sorts so you need not
err in your selection.
While bridge 113, at which the ac
cident occurred last Saturday, is being
repaired, the D. S. Baker is running
night and day.
The friends of Mrs. Isaac Joles will be
pleased to learn that she is improving.
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tion on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the
1st, 2d and 3d days of June, and show cause
why their assessment should be changed. Posi
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Wednesday, Jnne 3d.
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