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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1906)
f 1 4r HAY ON SALE At the coast market on ha; ia enry weak, there being no demand, and we have a iot hay bought, we offer to the home consumer TIMOTHY AT 50c PER CWT. bated , MIXED HAY 45c PER CWT. bated We want to give the home consumer the ' benefit of the decline in -the market . . For Sale at a Special Bargain Ten lets or any part of them, between Fir and Greenwood streets, facing Jefferson Ave and adjoining the railroad tracks at a low price on easy terms. . PHONE MAIN 2 I Oregon Produce Company OTTV x J. BREWERY JULIUS ROESCIV Proprietor. f.T.Wilt'lOII ' DIRta TAXAT10H 1 Largest Brewing Plant in Easetn Oregon' ' ' Ask for La Grande Beer and get the Best LA GRANDE BEER IS MADE IN LA GRANDE AND SHOULD HAVE THE PREFERENCE J. BULL &. Company Dealers in Fresh meats, Home Cured Bacon and Hams, Lard, Sausage, Bologna, Fish and Oysters' Live dressed Poultry, 'and Etc Phone Main 48.. Prompt Delivery Service. WALLOWA COUNTY We want your collections and cash items on Wallowa county, and will guarantee prompt and satisfactory service at reasonable rates. If you have no direct con nection for taking care of these items, send them to us. .". .'. Tlie Stock Growers and farmers Bank, OF WALLOWA. OREGON. We pay five per cent interest on time deposit. CAPITAL, J25.0OO.C0 C. T. McDahiku Cashier. A. K. Steunenbero, Pres. There is always a best in Everything and paint is no exception to the rule. Some claim supremacy all we ask is an impartial comparison of our paints, varnishes, oils putty, white lead, etc. with others offered you, and your orders if what 1 we show stands well with anything "else you may see in our line. f STAN1ELS & JARMAN, Paper Hangers and Decoratoratars the Pnimr toe "0OIC VOTJ WILL U If ywr llckeU mil' and H1oii' Raib LMMUU murra run r so nir i prima or lnu-nt long th ;ie CwtenOtrirn ik( Item rlitl il' U M ". bvm- tmamm Unmomm Ifrnanretoliut mS "rile tor ""'; Button and t unity bo lliel mil Irll jou ell alwal It W C McBRlDE, Agint, 124 Third St rcitiid )r BRICK BKICK Brick furnished in any quantty or any stvle. No contract too small or t o' large- See samples n our pressed brick. GEO. KREIGER. La Urande, Oregon BLUt MOUNTAIN HOTEL . J. W. O'BRYANT, Prop. -White help only. Dining Room Open. Meals 25c. Rooms 25c and EOc. Special rates by week or month ' One block from depot Cor. Jefferson Ave. and Depot St Report of Cove Public School for the menth ending Feh. 2d, 1906. Eighth grade Average daily attend ance, 25. Those neither tardy nor an ient were: Jessie Brazille, Daisy Coons. Ximena Tolly. Irene Coons, Leonard Al len, Qoodspeed Corps, Lee Motley, Glen Roberts, Rolland Ingram, Elmer Keifer. Oren Lovan, Conrad Thompson, Ray Alex ander; Frank Eckersley, Grover Duffey, and Frank Burford. Sixth grade and seventh grade Aver age daily attendanch 27. Those neither tardy nor absent were: Lois Selders, Rosa Hoatson, Katie Houx, . Oren Robinson, Clyde Robinson, Willie Motley, Marvin McNeill, Charles Williams, Manford Alex ander, Harlan Koger, Charles Kelley and Archie Burford. Teacher. Miss Eva Wilson. Fifth grade Average daily attendance 45. Those neither tardy norabsent were: Hattia DeBorde, May Wilson, Dena Lund, ;urm Thomtnn Corpe. Virsil Alex ander, Claud Martin, Bencie Cochran, Jackson Gibson, Avery Roberts, Erastus Pixton. Ray Baker, Robert Burdette, Er nest Borkgren and Orlie Lovan. Teacher Miss Alma Barnett Fourth grade Average daily attend ance 27. Those neither tardy nor ab sent were: Lela Sills, Opal Frasier, Harry Barker, Otis Kennedy, and Walter Mill man. Teacher, Miss Vestella Sears. Third grade Average daily attendance 26. Those neither tardy nor absent were: Lucille Rees, Maud Alexander, Edith Anderson. Annis Shore Dorothy Bloom, Sherman Rees, Willie Millman Frances Dexter, Joe Wilson, Paul Will iams, James Harris, Albert Miller, Frank Clark and Thomas Jones. Teacher, Mrs. Maud Rees. Primary grades Average daily attend ance 52. Those neither tardy nor absent were: Miskel Bloom, Dorothy Chadwick, Thelma Pixton, Eva Roberts, Francis Kelley, Earl Baker, Earl McMaugh, Viv ian Dextari Afton Burns, Jewel Robinson. Teacher, Miss Janette Clark. Principal, Alex Thompson. The following interview with F. T. Wrightman, of Salem, candidate for sec' retary, appeared in th Salem Journal: The following resolutions adopted by the farmers' and shippers' congress, held under the auspices of' the Willamette Valley Development League, at McMmn- ville, Or November 11, 1905, have been submitted to me for an opinion: Resolved that we as land owners and business men in mass convention assem bled protest against the continuance of the present system, and as we sincerely believe the present system is an unjust one to the producers and owners of farms. homes and personal property who produce and own the tangible wealth of the state. "Resolved that at least one-half of the state revenue should be derived from in direct sources and intangible property of corporations and gross earnings of the same, inheritance taxes. Income taxes on stocks and bonds. "Resolved that taxation should be ex tended in that direction so as to reduce the direct tax to not over three mills per annum, and that all revenues required above that limit be obtained by Indirect taxation along the lines above indicated, Resolved that the taxation committee of the Willamette Valley Development League be requested to prepare a tax code, embodying the spirit of these reso lutions to the end that instead of the tang. ible property of the state paying in five- sixths of the state taxes and the intang ible property one-sixth, that the burdens be equally divided between direct and in direct taxation, and that such bill when approved by the committee and officers of the leasua be and the same be sub mitted to the people by the initative. The question of revenue for the support of governments, national, state, county and municipal, hae always been one which taxed the brains of our law mak ers. That taxation in order to be just must be equal is indisputable, and upon this basis or foundation all revenue laws. or laws for the support of our government should and must be drawn. It has been found practicable and re sulted satisfactorily to the people that the raieing of revenue for the support of our national government be kept separate and apart from, and raised in other and different ways than that of our state re venues, and it is the opinion of many that were it possible to separate the manntr of raising the revenue for the support of the state government from that of coun ties and municipalities, the same or bet- tar result would accrue. The present system of computation of state tax due from each county, upon a proportion that a five year average of the amount of ex penditure of each county for (aid period bears to the total amount of expenditures in all the counties or me state, is uniair as in counties of the state, is unfair as in counties which happen to have extrava gant administrations, or counties which are required to build public buildings or other public Improvements, except roads. the tax payers of such counties are pena lized therefore by having to pay a greater amount of the state tax,' in addition to i. increased local taxes, than a county where the administration is more con-, servative and its public building are al- ready erected although the last named county may be far more wealthy in values of property. '( Under the old law where the amount of state tax paid by each county was estimated from the total value of tax able property, as shown by the assess- i ment of the counties, great injustice re-, j suited in counties whose assessor return- j ed a just and true assessment of the j values of property in .the county, for the reason that many county assesors, in order to reduce the amount of state taxes due from this county, would assess prop-. , erty at a very low figure, often as- low f as H or us true vaiue, ana oniy tne tangible property of the county assessed. These are the the reasons that a man. is required to pay as much or more taxes on little home, which is only a roof for himself and family, than does a wealth; GUipwAMWII vrtuw uhwh ... . .Z . T " amounts to thousands of dollars each ! month, and are only come of the outrages and inequalities of the above systems. I The foregoing shows how necessary it ! is that some way or means be devised by which the state revenues and local revenues r be separated. All property tangible and Intangible should bear its . ust proportion of the burden, either by direct or indirect methods. , And I believe it possible for laws to be enacted where- , by the revenue necessary for state gov- 1 ernment can be raised by indirect methods from intangible properties, and direct taxes will only be necessary for county and municipal purposes, levied upon tangible property and thus obviating competition between counties "in regard to state tax paid. ! The taxpayer in giving his property to the assessor places a very different value thereon than he would if he were listing it for saie, for the reason he fears the high rate. Take away the dinger of the high rate and the assessed value of prop erties will go up in every county of the state. I The first question an immigrant asks when looking for a location in our state is, "What is your rate of taxation?" '.And when you inform him that it is three or four per cent he doe not take into con sideration that the property is only as sessed at about one-fourth of its real value, but is intimidated in the matter by the high rale. Take away this danger or possibility of a high . rate in Marion county instead of having an assessment roll of ten million dollar and a rata in the city of Salem of four per cent, we would have an assessment roll of forty million dollars (which is nearer the true value of Marion county properties) and a rate in the city of Salem of one per - cent This rate wouid be etill less if the levy was for county and muncipal purposes only and the state taxes raised from other sources. The result in the eyes of a man who wishes to invest is obvious. - Tne intangible properties of the state of Oregon are of almost inestimable value, but an examination of our assess ment rolls will show that such property is not listed and does not bear any por tion of the burden of taxation. The states of New York. Pennsylvania New Jersey and other of the easten states have laws whereby the indirect taxes al most pay and in some states pays the entire state revenue. The inheritance tax law and the corporation license law, enacted by the Oregon legislation in 1 903 are steps in the right direction, and proper legislation along the linei sat fort i In the resolutions of the farmers and ship pers' congress will eventually result in the entire state taxes being raised from indirect sources, and franchises and other property of like character will bear a just proportion of the tax burdan of the state. 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NEW LIN DRUG COMPANY Fine Confectionery and Cigars VanBuren ! RAH! RAH! RAH! j UNIVERSITY of OREGON GLEE and MANDOLIN CI UBS 30, MUSICIAS The Good Old Standby. Nothing like a nice cut of juicy corned beef with cabbage or saeur-kraut once in a while! We can offer most of the time whole or half rounds, if you can use so much, or whatever quantity you require, of well fed and carefully corn ed beef-tender, "tasty" and wholesome. If you're in the notion today, 'phone us the order and we'll have the meat around in no time. ROBERT ROlfNTREE, COMEDIAN, PROf. IRVING M. CLEN, SOLOIST Opera House, Wed. Feb 14 j i Prices 75c, 50c, and 25c. : Grandy&Russeiii 1 Read the Observer i- i' f V k ( ,30