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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1915)
The News For Results - - If you have lost or found, If you want to buy or Mil, If you want work or worker, Use The News Classified Ads. Daily Weather Report f air Tonight; Saturday anil Warnior. Highest temp, yesterday 89 Lowest temp, last night 67 VOL. VI. HOSEHUIIG, D0W3LAS COUNTY, OREGON FRIDAY, JULY SM, 1015. No. 221 MASS MEETING WELL ATTENDED Hundreds of Citizens Gather to Express Indignation. REMARKS MADE ALL FOUNDED ON FACTS City of Dul ulli Grasped Opportunity Offered By The Steel Trust nd Has Xeurly 100,000 '. '" i Poople Now. cBtween four and five hundred men and women of this city gathered ' ' the corner of Cass and Jackson ' at'i streets last evening In response to the call Issued by a number of the progressive citizens of this city to protest against the action of a few "'heavy taxpayers" of this city in their action in trying to block the recent bond Issue. It was In the na- !. tu re of an Indignation meeting and showed clearly the attitude of the more progressive citizens and the contempt In which they hold those few wiho by legal technicalities and litigation would prevent the majority of peODle from carrying Into effect the most beneficial move ever at tempted in the history of the city. Hon. B. F. Jones presided at the meeting and In a few brief remarks told of the cause of the gathering. Charles P. Hopkins had been asked to speak on "The bond lsue from the laboring man's stand point". He pictured the conditions as they exist ed in tihe city at the present time. Laboring men out of work with no Immeidnte prospects of better eon, ditions, "honest sons of toll" leaving the city for the harvest fields of eastern Oregon and Washington where they secure temporary em ployment. The speaker made the as sertion and rightly too, that a great tf ', majority of the laboring men had ipent morn money for living neces ties during the past six months than liey )iad earned and the chances were that the same condition would exiBt during the next six months un less something was done to relieve the situation. ' . Mr. Hopkins stated that he had pjient' the greater part of his life In Duluth. Minn., which at that time was a city of 25.000 people. A num ber of years ago the steel trust de cided that Instead of hauling the iron ore of the Lake Superior country to ' Cleveland and Ashtabula to smelt. It would build a plant at Duluth In; CAM. VALLEY ROAD m ' The Camas Valley road from the itop of the mountain to the bottom will soon be Improved, much to the relief of the residents of uhat valley. This road for a great many years has been a nlght-mare to the residents i.nd the county court hasbeer. appeal ed to time and aagln to make some sort of repairs upon it but for one reason or another it has been delay ed until a short time ago when coun ty engineer Frank Cain was instruct ed to make a survey of the road and figure an approximate cost of the planking of it. This work was commenced a couple of months ago and several lines run, after which one was decid ed upon whklh has for the steepest grade, and which is for only a dis tance of 500 feet a 7 M per cenli grade. The rest of the road Is less th.it C per cent. The county court let the contract yesterday to Shell and Shell, of Med ford for the sum of $9,000. They have the privilege of using the county grader In doing the work. The work Is to be done by the 15Uh of Oc tober. The contract calls for a 9-foot road of planks 3 Inches by 12 and when completed will be one of the best pieces of constrnctlon work in the county. All hiUs have been eliminat ed which will allow the hauling of much heavier loads than have ever been hauled over the road before. order to save the expense of trans portation. When the citizens of Du luth heard of this move they went to the officials of the steel trust and told them they would donate all the land necessary to construct such a plant In their city. At first but $10, 000,000 was to be put Into tiie plant but before the plant was finished nmrn than 1 0 1 111111 HUH wna nvnaml-. ed in tihe city and today Duluth Is a thriving center of nearly people. 100,000 f TJnnlrlna e'tntort that tha Xtnn- dalls and their' associates had plan' drawn for .a plant costing in tho . neighborhood of nearly $1,000,000 but it was his opinion (hat before the construction work was fiialied a great deal more money would be ex pended than tihat sum. The question was asked by the speaker! "Who would get the benefit of this money as It found It's way through the dif ferent channels of trade?" The la boring man first of all, after which every tradesman in the city would get his share as they In turn ex pended their salaries for the neces (Contlnued on page 5.) U.S. DIPLOMAT GETS IN BAD WASHINGTON, July 2'. lunea Sullivan resigned as minister to Santa Domingo, It Is learned author itatively. His resignation followed Investigations of tjie allegations that Sullivan was guilty of misconduct, and unfit for the office. His successor- has not yet been selected. NEPHEW 0ER.R. KILLED THE DALLES, July 23. Losing bis foothold and falling beneath the wheels, while attempting to board a j construction train, Paul Ferrell, aged 19 and a nephew 'of 'president ofi the O.-W. killed. R: .& N. Company, was LATEST NOTE BERLI', July .23 The new Amer ican note was handed to Foreign Minister von Jtgow at 1:15 this aft ernoon. The note arrived at the American embassy earlier in the day, having been delayed from Oopen- hagen, and was Immediately decoded and nronared for submission to the forelgn office. Arrangements for Its publication were made this afternoon. THEY'RE SENDING US 1 FLM-v ;-,!:-- K,f"Yr:6 ri -i s sy ? v v- 'sit Standing, left to right: Cyril Brown of the New York Times. T. K. Meloy of Chicago News, II. J. Reilly of Chi caeo Tribune, Oswald Schuette of Chicago News. Seated, S. B. Conger and S. B. Bouton, Associated Press; Carl Ackcrman, United Press, and Karl H. von Wlegand of New Y ork World. A rather small gToup of men comprise the corps of American war correspondents stationed at the Berlin headquarters of the German army. They are furnishing the most important news of the war for thousands of American readers. . 10 IS WHO" IN ROSEBURG? Tax Books ''Show" Up The Heavy Tax Payers cf City. I PIJINTIFFS P1Y i hit (IF P1TV OTNIIFQ i " - v i.i,.vl.u , : Property Increased In Viilue By Natural Growth of City, Jot Uy Any Business Acumen. Since the ten lofty minded, public spirited, progressive and heavy tax payers have started their action for an Intervention in the matter of the city of Roseburg Issuing bonds for the purpose of starting a railroad to the National forest reserve a num ber of the "less progressive and smaller tax payers" have asked "Just what per cent of the taxes of tihe city do these ten men pay?" This question was easily answered by an examination of the tax books I In the sheriff's office and this exam ination has disclosed Jho following facts and figures." ' H. Wollen'oerg ib assessed on 15 pieces of real estate within the city limits which amounts In all to $42". 190. A. J. Bellows pays taxes upon four pieces of real estate assessed at $18. 640, and upon three head of cattle listed at $110, making in all $19,750. Next in the list comes Henry Rld enour, who is down on the tax books for five pieces of property assenBcd at $13,670. John Hunter has four pl"(es of real estate assessed at $11,810. Charles Parrott, who Is credited with being the power behind the movement and the brains of the en tire organization does not have a sin gle pieces of property standing In his own name upon the tlx rolls, al though Parrott Bfos. are down to the extent of $1 2,000 upon 2 pieces of town property. George Rapp, the Sheridan street merchant is assessed upon $500 worth of merchandise, he having no real estate standing in his own name, although he is paying taxes upon $10,400 worth of propertyj whlch Is In the name of Jacob Brown.! ture of munitions was advocated by J. S. Hlldeburn, another one of Congressman Clyde Tavetiner. He the ten is paying taxei upon prop-! declared that despite the fact that erty assessed et $9,750. I a quarter of a billion dollars arc J. O. Newland comes next In the being spent annually upon ti'ie army list of land barons and Is down on and navy, the country was not pre the city tax list for $9,305, $.150 of tions with Germany and the rthaos w'hlch is represented by the new auto- pared for war. "This strained rela moliile which was recently acquired. e"nr munition workers would not The question might be'ralsed at this exist If the government had a mon tlmeUf Mr. Newland would be will- opoly of the munition manufactur ing to sell the machine for twice lt'3 era," said Tavenner. "Primarily, the appraised value. : C. W. Parks is next to the last uoon the list and pays taxes upon Just two pieces of property listed at $5,840. . . THE NEWS OF GREAT James Milliken, the Jackson street shoe dealer, Is last In the list and pays taxes upon $2,000, of which j $1,000 Is represented by the stock of merchandise In his store. the grand total of assessable prop erty upon whch these ton progres sive citizens pay taxes is il.Hl.SOR Let us organize a clans in arithmetic for a few moments ana find out what per cent of taxes teu men pay com pared to the other citkons of the city. The total assessed valuation of the city of Roseburg Is $2,969,145 .""'"B th Wiis ion mius in tue city, wnicn would have yielded $29,591.45. delinquent taxpayers, however, brought this amount down to $24,267.10. These ten men paid Into the city treasury during the past year $t,3u3.0 which Is 4 V, per cent of all of the taxes paid by the citizens of this city. The question now arises . should these men who represent them selves to be "heavy taxpayers" of the community, decide what shull be done with the other 96 per cent of the assessed property In the city. No one has ever censured or con demned these ten men because they have during their II van acquired this property, but they are censured and condemned becauflo they seem to be satisfied with their worldly posses sing and attempt to keo, others from bettering their circumstance. If a majority of the clli"eus of this city electe to Increase their taxes a trifle during the next live or perhaps ten vears and are willing to bear this burden It is not for Hyman Wollen berg, Henry Rldenour, John Hunter and others, who have made every thing they, have by the natural in crease of value In their realty pos sessions and by the growth of i town in which they were located, audi . , ... ,. ! iiui uy uuy in nit, luvy tivei u,u iu ninke them more valuable or by any particular business acumen, to say what you, Mr. Lnborlngman, who owns a smail cottage, should do with your property. ' Take this list of men who are the plaintiffs In this action against the fContlnued on page 4.1 U. S. SHOULD MAKE . ALL MUNITIONS WASHINGTON, July 23 The gov- ernnient monopoly of the manufae- ........ ,ne warfare is Intended to prevedit shlpments of munitions reaching the allies. If the govern- ment had a 'monopoly, there would be no exportation. WAR FROM GERMANY lb lf iGREAT BATTLE NOW RAGING Germans Claim Warsaw Is Half Surrounded, Must Fall RUSSIANS DECLARE IT WILL HOLD 00T Incessant Hour of Artillery lleurd At a DLttjuicc of 13 ' Miles From The City. PETROORAD, July 23.--The great battle for the possession of Warsaw has now entered the decisive stage. South of Vistula, the ltuesiani have withdrawn to ytrongly fortified posi tions extending from Novo Georg levsk to Ivangorod, 50 miles to the southwest. Along this line the Sluvs have checked the forward rush of the enemy, Inflicting heavy losses. To the north of Warsaw, the forces of von Hlndenberg are being he-Id along the Narow river. The roar of the guns 13 miles away can be plain ly (heard In Warsaw. The belief per sists In Petrograd that Warsiw can not be captured. From the Itusnlan Side. PETROGRAD, July 23. Ten strong German attacks against tho Russian lines southeast of Lublin were repulsed with heavy losses. With this official announcement, the I WO rofffna rnnnrlnfl tl,a ann-tactuf ill , . . , . , ' .. stand made by the Russians In the ( defense of the Lul lln-Cholm railway, In the .eglon w;ere von Mackenon Is endeavoring to tnvlop Warsaw through the fortress of Ivangorod. Here also the enemy Is reported as having suffered heavily. Late dis patches declare that the fighting Is within eight miles of the railway, and Is entering the decisive stage. From tho Germnn View. BERLIN. July 23. The fall of Warsaw appeared Imminent. The city Is nearly half surrounded by German forces at an average distance of less than 15 miles, while three railroads leading into tho city from the west are hold by the attacking armies, the official dlrpatch.es said. Rumors that tho main hody of Rus sians were preparing to occupy It were circulated but were not credit ed. Critics believe that a great bat tle In the jungle defenses about the city will precede the capture, unless the Teutons advance from tho south east attains an unexpected moment um. HUNG IN EFFIGY Llttlo did the people of this city realize that while they wer.j peace-j fully slumbering lust evenlr.g a ter-1 rlble tragedy was being committed In their very midst. Tls well, perhaps, that it was not known for In that case many a night's rest would have been forever banished. It all happened this way. About 11.30 laBt night while tho nearly full moon was carefully hidden be hind a dark cloud, a crowd of Indig nant citizens of this fair community (estimates vary as to tho number; some say there were at leuBt 100 In tho crowd while others say there were 200) gahhorcd at tho Inter-, section of Cass and Jackson slrppts; routed officially by Collector Mi ami from annirwiiero In the midst of. lone, of the port of New York City. their number, produced a long man llln rope nbout tho thickness of your middle finger. In the center of the crowd one could see two inert, and motinulrflt, figures who seemed to l.e at the mercy of the crowd of men which.! surrounded them, their hands were bound tightly behind them (not by railroad bonda, ihowever.) and their faces were the color of ashes. Neither one had a word to say to their cap tors but seemed to be reslpned to their fate. It was but tho work of a few mo ments for two of tho crowd to climb up the telephone poles on either corner and a moment later the two figures were dangling In tho breezes CASE IS ARGL'KD. ' SALEM, July 23. Tho suit brought against the legality of the railroad bond issue was ar- gued In the supreme court to- day. Attorney Ralph Duniway, of Portland, appeared for plain- tlfis, and City Attorney Abra- ham, of Roseburg, tor the city. Duniway represented a number of heavy taxpayers ot Roseburg, who were In hopeless minority at the bond election which at that time were gently blow ing. Between the two figures hung a sign which read "two bond knock ers." i After the crowd quietly dispersed and one then had an opportunity of getting a closer view of the tivo vic tims and It was only then discovered that Instead of being men of real flesh and blood they were only ef figies and were stuffed with straw and saw dust. A sigh of relief was expresses by a number tqf spectators who had gathered for the figures appeared so life-like and realistic that they had though the crowd had resorted to "lynch" law and had taken this' means of venting their feelings upon, two of the men who are trying 'o block the wheels of progress lu this city. This morning when the city awoke to it's usual activity the two fig ures had disapeared and It Is Inti mated that friends of the deceased gathered and 'quietly cut the re mains down and burled them In an unknown grave where they will re main "unwept, unhonorod and un sung". While coming over RobertB moun tain a large Mitchell auto driven by Dr. Dixon, of Seattle, struck a tree with the rosult that the occupans of the ar were (thrown from tho ma chine, Mrs. Dixon breaking her log, while he rest of the party were un hurt. The iarty was composed of tourists going from San Francisco to Seattle" and as they were coming down the mountain, being unfamiliar Mhe road, allowed tho machine to go too fast. In rounding a sharp curve the driver applied the brakes but as the spoed waB too great tlhey refused to work .quick enough to hold the auto. The driver then turn ed the machine lnt othe hank but the strain broke one of the front wheels and the ear shot across tho road and Into a large tree. Tho occupants were throw nto (llie road, but all man aged to escape uninjured except Mm. Dixon whose left log was fractur ed at the knee. The enr was brought to this cltr thlB afternoon. urnrnPMnr ii-t nf n, ,nt..,,o .,. (,r hs own powl!r nf(er a nCw wh(,0, ll(,d ,een pl,t 0. , BY E WASHINGTON, July 23. A sub marine, presumably a German, at tacked the liner Orduna. This was (:on-luslvoly shown In tho report sub It Is learned on high authority. Tho details of the report will not be made public. USE RECALL ON DIST. ATTORNEY SALEM, July 23. Allegation that he was "corrupt and Incompetent" were contained In a petition for the recall of District Attorney Joseph Starr, of Wheeler county, fllod with the secretary of state this afternoon.