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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
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BREWERY
JULIUS ROESCIV Proprietor.
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Largest Brewing Plant in Easetn Oregon'
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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
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124 Third St
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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
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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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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
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Prices
75c, 50c, and 25c. :
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