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About The Independence west side. (Independence, Or.) 18??-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1890)
n2C2IVuO THE WEST SIDES. E t PENTLAND, Publisher FRIDAY. MARCH 1 1M0. BBSS Abovt trofUMnoet promt Beat Mlooa-taeptnof Kansas City have fcrtwd an. association for the purpose of united action npoo the fiuwiay cloainj question. The; kava pledged theuselrra to dote their mIoom on Sunday, and will nrjd other to do so, ud at the bum time sMbtthe authorities to enfore the law. AStCCSMtNTt. The Wbtt Sidi hM advocated sorts needed changes in oar assess nsent law. In order to make plain the need of such law we pointed out before an amement waa made the evils of which we complain ed. One ot these was the unequal valuation of property and the other omitting to assess property. At , the nnie time we pointed out a remedy for the evils. The assess)- ment was made and instead of as would naturally be supposed the values aggregating more than the year before, it amounted to much leas, and it waa further found that this descending scale had been go ing on clear back to 1884, when values amounted to 1780,000 more than in 1880. Furthermore it was pointed oat that assessments were made so carelessly that the sheriff could not sell the property for the taxes ss no tax title could be given f or oaring to do this we were assailed by the "hireling organ" at Dullas, and the assessment upheld and the law condemned. The law is not half so much to blame as the assessor, and the assessor evades the law, or neglects it, or whatever it may be called, just simply to allow the county to evade paying state taxes. In a communication in last weeks issue the writer says "Jlow unreasonable it is to elect a person to the office and require him to do its work satisfactorily." Of course when all of Folk county desires to see a dishonest asst ment, the assessor is bound to do as he is expected to do. In Clatsop county the assessor brought in an honest assessment and the county court cat it down one-third. Two years ago Marion county bad an assessment too high and this was scaled down. Wbyt Because the counties wanted to evade the state tax. No fault can be found with the present assessment law as far as it goes, on having an honest assessment Our county courts are the ones to blame, and it is not one court but alL The assessor plainly instructed In so many words as follows: "Assess as low as yon can. Leave oat of your assessment roll the descriptions of lands, which though the law requires, are on necessary. Do not asses the large land owners. The sheriff can vassess them, we will thus avoid the state tax. Make the1 returns as incomplete as possible so that neither the newspapers nor the state board can make head or tail of it" The pnblio naturally asks. What proportion of taxes go to the state from Polk county! The total toxes of Polk county amount to something over 142,000 snd in 1838 we see the state tax levy amounted to $13,828.72 or about one-third of the county revenue. Thus it will be seen the incentive of this county to evade the tax is considerable. If the taxes for the support of the state were raised in some indirect way our county assessments would be more honestly made. LIT PEACE PREVAIL. The Obterver, with all the and acityand effrontery characteristic of that sheet, would urge upon our county court the immediate pro ceeding ;to the erection of a new court house in Dallas, thus defying the will of the tax payers, as publicly expressed a few short months ago. That will was fairly and legitimacy expressed by count ing the names attached to the petition and remonstrance bearing upon that question, and that too, right at the threshold of the Ob terver office. Certainly the Observer was cognizant of this feet, and its attempts to Influence our county court to Induce and precipitate action in this matter, will receive the disapprobation, if not contempt which this course of action by the Obterver merits. "We have found no other paper in the county, nor have we met with any individual tax payer who has the hardihood or presumption to make this demand upon our county court. The credit or discredit which may attach to such a demand, belongs exclusively to the Obterver. The notoriety which it is gaining in this matter, as well as in denunciation of the citizens of Independence, will, in the future, redound more to its dhv comforture, than it will add In fluence to its columns through and by a reading public. , ; This county seat question should, and must be settled, and there is no surer, safer and better way to settle it, than by having an enabling act passed by our next legislature, and admitting the question to the i oters of the county, and that too - Utcct Cty!33 ct for a final and permanent location, and It also should be submitted to the people at a special election, where candidates for offices would not be in the field equipped and panalopted with all the artifices of barter and trade. This I understand Is all Indepen dence wants or asks for, a fair and honest expression of the people of the county, and for thin, aha must receive the unqualified condem nation of the Obterm. As a oltiten of the county, I would suggest a suspension of all attempts to build a court house, without a clear majority of the votes of the people eonsentingxhereto. The votes count ad last spring virtually discarded the idea of building at this time, our couuty court so regarded it. and so acted, and the only howl against the action of the court, comes from the Ooarrw, and In tones that would seem to cast re proach upon our honorable county court, but our court can withstand the assaults of such an obsequious foe, knowing that the people of the county honor him for his honest and conscientious course. The tardy Increase of population, the waut of a fuller development of our industries may In a measure be attributed to the unsettled condition of the county on this question, but to whom most we impute the con tinual agitation of it, but a few days after the settlement of the court house question lust spring it was said, "we will have a new court house next summer," and now the Observer comes out as the champion to defy the expressed will of the voters at that time. I write this, not in the Interest particularly of any one place or locality,, but with the view tlmi toe cititens of the county may, without prejudice or personally Interested motives, calmly and considerately look at the situation, and then put forth , efforts to promote our Interests by settling this vexed question. My opinion is, that it will never be satisfactorily settled, without having a fair, square vote by the people on it, and then, In harmony with the principles of our government, "that the majority shall rule," all parties will acquiese, peace and harmony will prevail among us, and old Polk will make rapid strides in the development of her resources and Industries. We do not wish to assail any mani position on this county seat, but will freely accord to them full honesty of opinion, when expressed In terms not condemnatory of all others, Let the Oktcmr take the palm of victory as the observed of all observers in its condemnatory course. . The investment of European wealth in American enterprise seems constantly ou uie increase. Nearly every day we read of some European syndicate purchasing some American manufacturing in terest that has required years of unremitting labor for its develop ment. Whether these aggressions of European capital will develop or retard the growth of our republi cau institutions is a question which time alone cau determine. And yet it is a question that should cause the deepest solitude to every true American. Moneyed monopo lies are bad enough on any footing, they can be borne when owued and directed4by Americans alone who are fully in sympathy with onr re publican institutions, but how will it be when these monopolies are owned and directed by those who haye always lived and are In full sympathy with monarchical forms of government The progress and financial prosperity of America is the envy of the monarchical govern ments of Europe. Millions of dol lars lie mouldering io their vaults waiting for investment at low rates of interest, At the present time those investments are being made in American manufacturing and mining enterprises, but when these shall have been exhausted and the attention of these syndicates shall be turned to our landed interests will it not be a blow upon our free institutions tnat win retard our future growths and progressf Money when wrongly directed can become as great a tryant as any man that ever sat upon a throne. It appears to us that these are questions that the future citizen and statesman will be required to consider and firmly decide upon his course of action. While we have a system of protective tariff for the defense of the American manufacturer and laborer. It may yet be necessary that we should adopt another system for the pro tection of American interests against the invasions of foreign capital. COUNTRY JORNALISM. Men like Dana, Bhepard, Watter- son, Medlll, Pulitzer and Hcott imagine that the influential sweep of their journals is irresistible. In a sense this may be true, provided the great metropolitan daily secures the confidence of the country press, Which will In turn filter the ideas through their columns to the voters who control the destinies of the republic, the great agriculturl heart of America. The direct influence of the great daily is Illustrated in Cecily & Vcniuyn'o. Its municipal field, where It Is often powerlea to snaps the drift of local politic. A country paper that could not exercise more political Influence within its circumscribed field than the combined dallies of Chicago on the politics of that city wonld shrink from existence as an Ill-advised bus! new venture Often disregarded in the politics of its local field, the city dally ac quires Influence abroad because Its facilities for the collection of facts bearing on public questions meet a long felt want in the country sane turn. It thus secures a long list of potential factors which re-enunciate its Ideas to the country reader. The personality of the country editor adds a weight to his opinions which association ran alone give, aud which the impersonal city daily cannot attain. Thus to their fol lowing among the country editor do the city press owe their political inlluence in a great measure. Whenever the country combine against the projected measures of the great daily the verdict can 1m announced in advance, for the people will rally around the staud ards of their local exponents of the public weal. These facta should not lie overlooked by the great metroplitan papers that fill la the daily hours of political monotony by alleged witticisms at the ex pense of the country editor. Helena JvurmK TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES. The following li lint of ettrtlflenlea grant! at the xamloatloiia of Iwt mas Klla Carpenter, no txperiemw: gen eral awjM0.: third a-rada cwrtlfleaUi. Hum Allunitauigh, Rvneral averatr vi : Mxitt gmtM vvwihsata. Ids MioU, general avernga T3,l; uiini gran tvntimnu.. (Into Cliapln. no axrwrknuw, general averaga 00.8; third grada certMoate. . itrlta Ouupbell, jretwral vtraifM.3; aaeoncl gnula cerufltwto. K h tolllnn, general averaga M.l; mini! Knui (TruiKwe, Daniel Klnley, general averaga T7 S; thirtl rra) eertitu-ate. J W lUubardaon, genera average 7!t.8; ultra gnu io ctriiii'ai. J C Kills, geueral average (HI; aceoud (ratio wrtifloat. nil. U..i, averam 87.S: third nnul ejcaie. Murii iwiitna, not oltl enough and am bh wan i cert inoata, nt. j The largest Uoeof he In the county at the very lowest price, at J. I . Stockton's. GnU (Urnlaulng gnotta fur all klml, at J. L. Btocktuu'a. HaaUa Ua. ll ton la Uw Wia batWIaa. Mala atraH, ldpJ . An samwwra couveuUou h called to ntoet at Balvnt on March 11. Mm. Al lYebfea, of MoMliinvlll, MIm Pivlilot and Mlaa Cooper, of Mi-Minn. villa, are ineata of Mi Tall l'onx this week. VAUEV VIEW SCHOOL HOUSE. March 3, 181)9. Aa thin la a new nam to the pvopl perhaps It wilt be brat to glva a abort deserlptluu of Hit plane and where lo cated. ' Valley View school famine Li located tHit three tnllra went of Hum and about Uirw nilli-a etwt of Alrlio on the King valley and Hum road about two miles north of the Ilentou county line, and la in the heart of oue of the beat grulu producing aectloua In the state. The auhool housa It bnllt on Lew In Helmicks farm (of which be duvded two acrua to the dlatrlct), and gcta Ita name from the nae view of the valley, which la to be aeeo to the eiutt, euuth and wat of the school houae. Tula dla trlct waa formed the 20th of April 18x0, by dividing dlittrlct No. 22 and taking In some new territory on the aouth, not bdng In any dlxtrlnt before, and added to thla. The director have built aa flue a country school houae aa there la in the county. At the annual tmhool meeting the following officers were elected: IUIIard Prlao waa elected director for three yean snd O. A. Wolverlon clerk for one year. ,. -. ; The board of director now coimUt of J. B. Stump, Janiea Wheeler and 1)11- lard Price. Beck & Gates, Llasoiis Plasterers and KalsOrninerH, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. , All kinds of work done In brick aud (tone, All work guarauteed. Leave orders at the West Bidr office. Thi Wratid French Cure, APHRODITINE" Z nlundi mnnj lid. li SoLa ON 4 poamvi QUARANTIB lo ear toy lorn of uwt oua dlMM, or onjr dlKirdar ol III IMMimtlvt or (al ot tlher Ml whtthor r Ului: from tkm icMlvt m ol WtmaUuU, Tobacco or Opium, or through yoathful IndlMrotlon, ortr indulf ooo, Ac, inch u Ism ot Bmln Vomn, Wakulnl- ., inranui qnwo nun in mo dock, rtomlnM WmknoH, Hattrl, Nsrvom Prmtratlnn Nocturn al ImlMlout, Uuourrhm, Uliiluea, Wruk Mim orr, IMol Powtrmd linH)Koer, which It ne- r;io omn iwin to pramturaold imrmid mun Ijr. Prloi(i.M(box,(lKiiMlor6.M 8ut bt moll on nxwlnt ot prlN. A WHITTBN OVARAMTBR for entry IMK rdir, U) refund till inonor If a Parmanan. our It not tfrMtcd. Thonundt ol tmtlmonliili from old and young, of botd mum, ixruiinimtlr earadbrArnsoniTiiii. Circular frw, AddrtM I Mt AfliRO MEDICINE CO, .: WeT RRAKCH, BOX 71, POKTI.AHD, OR. ' For sals by Buster ft Look, 5 m moasj put up 07 D.M.FERRY I CO. Wha tr ih Lorgnl IiiIikh In llu world. D. M.rniaCo'l twiuilkillr MiutniMd, l3a,crlplif 1 rw m iia rrKta sUUD kw Iko will UI mallad II IS palluinu, Hd la la huo'i tna Ion aanoa atlni Oarata, riawar arjrUldlBEDSihoaldtaadferlt. 1 tomra. 11 Mlltr inaa avar, av d. M.rsniiTco DCTPOIT, MION VTBrrauita tocura UFBIE AFTIB Csttsm Prlec3 KELS0 & CO, l!i Cms ::ii, Boots & Shoes. Mens Clothing, Spring Hats and Undorwaar etc. Silo. W.H WI1EELKR Has dlniowt of bla lurije ltulltlity j Htork, but lia a tine Una of SCHOOL BOOKS, Stationery AKI NOTIONS. II. M. LINES, Funeral Director and UNDERTAKER! A full nndooinploto lino of Tu ners! goods always on Imnd. KBLSO Si irttdJ.MA . i. fl. t Patterson.!, IndewiKlitr.ro, Orfgnn. DRUGGIST i il - pi L n J YValCneS, OIOCKS aria Jewelry. Ui o z to Q. Ui Q Z a it 1 O cau ra 91 X Id J Ul Q A3 t3 K3 . CO h ui (0 z 5 a X i 13 rid Jasperson&. Pa rker, Inileiiendence; (Irpgim. AIM'HITl'XT, nriUT.lt and CON- THAI TO It. Alwayii In their Saab and Dtwir facto ry, snd will try their Umt to tleiuc all. Give them a trial and lie itnivlnwd (bat they aro worthy of your putronaK;. Mrs. E. J. Estes, DRESSMAKER, Wishes to Inform her friemlH that hIip. cau twfoiiuil nt.her abop oiirlte the I opera Iioiiho, prepared to do hII klml of j worn 111 tier line in the moht cnrctul manner and nt reiutonalile )i'lw. JWnET, PROPRIETOR OF THK NVAY IT and Ml INDEPENDENCE, Oil. ve lmva a Complete hue of Ladies, dents and Cliildrens Shoes which 1 will sell at piioes thnt will surprise you, 1 also innke booin and shoos to onlor. Repairing: Neatly Done at the LOWEST LIVING fWCES. Cnll in snd examine them at Hori- kles old Stand ou C St. ct Chclly & Vcniayn'o. Lcrcc-t ULJllUU La II OS VJLJUUU lll ii Furniture ontl Wall Paper AT BOTTOM PRICED FOR CASH. Ib'k'til li' IVI, A. J. lmi'M'ii(li'inr, JEVJETT Of Whito Mr. M. L. WhiU', oniidi'jM'iideiirc, li;is xMiajmiiilwl nif.'iit for the ( lalmve nurseries, Which ditil exclnnlvi-ly In fruit and orniiimMilul tnj ttiul alirulM-ry. Catalogue nud jiiict tl'iu to the Hp-iil, Hmm-IiU nttt'iillini m .The: am lionio urowu trees, fti-o Nl'ItSKUII were itulilWied in tif land. IVUva rwnoimhlo mid rrtle alinnre building limm order, can pvt kjhh-IuI Ichiih. : ROCKWOOD ! Nu. Sire ot" Lady Maude, ! Black Hess, Hbck IllvSt'IillTlOX:- litik buy, 1.11 fiKit whlli', with Hlitr in furclii' ni,. tVili'iinin ICw., (iiiwlien, N, Y. ri'.IMdllEK. lty FliH'twiaMl(SS) nrd 2:'.M.j IkI dam by Alcxau ; -i s AiKUtliiu fl.i); .ml imnt by Whip; 4th dmil by lliiiiibMoiiliiii; 1 llrtppy Miiliiim by Kyadyk'a llamU ltniiiuii (Ift'jj d.im, thf f,iiuHM trotting mum rrins (HI mili wrpon wild nwtA L'0:lu ), and winner ! of a two mile men vcr Flora Teint.le, twtting the tirl mile In J;'.n, by ! A mini' lltiiuhvlloiifan, by Judxon h llaiiibelloiiiiin, by lihhni'ti Hani iH'ltmiian, by ImiKirted Mmcnger; L'ud dam by (he Itinld lloi-w, sou nl'Wgiml; liyadyk's llnmlielluiimn by Abdalhih, by Membriiio, by lm- Mttet Minwnirer; ri dam t'liaa Keitt'a mum, by imported ISellfmiiider; ; Jd dam One Kye, by HislmpV HnmhelHmiiui, sou of MesNenger. Hya ,'I.VK N IliilnlN-lloiiillll Mfetl Ih'XIei', I Alexander's AlKlalhih(Hir' of l( - 1J. ia.il in (.Ml. TliiiPllihl l2::i!;siid Almont. Fleet wwat's dam by Vernol's Wiu-k Unwk. aim of!, jtirceti' lliwlniw, (0): Veriiiil's ltl:u;k Hawk by lllaek llnvrk (2) aou I ? or a ucirew ,iucKtu t ) uy i amy uusiutw, lie uy urand It nhaa (Ara jbliin.) ". ; v '.' -. ...... ' H(K'KV(K)l) will make the rnvwau of IMS'), iHHiuneneing April I at ntul ending July lot, on Monday Tin-atluvs and Wediu-sdava at l'.li i.lohiiHm's atnbleH, liuh iH'inlemri l( Fisher) Mable, S ih-m. TKKMS:-Sliislo son,!?!.!.); Insurance, 55no. For furl her purtieulain, nddrestw A. T. HODSON, Own'r. j -:fi , HALKM, OKK'ION'J BURNS, DALTON & CO. (fu R a r Ihe Largest and Bestl Stock in the City. Call and Examine our GoodsjScho1 Books All Kinds of Country Produce Wanted. -Muke i Goods Delivered Free in Monmouth. BURNS, DALTON & CO. I The Portland Unseed Oil Go. Are In. the Market for Flax Seed and oiler to fiirnirih SEED TO FARMERS at lilwrnl rates. They also oiler to contract the crop at the highest market price. For particulars applly to POKTLAM) LINSEED OIL CO, Portland, Oregon. ndepeadence m " "II. ft tt t.- 11 eta. t'N, "1 It. .'I I HM. now 10 (!.; 15 Ha 17 rt-. W Ha, ' " '"t;i Orepm. ; WHITKAKKR I1URSEI1IES, Rilmoti. lint run lie oblaliicI iim.ii applim is 4-iilhxt to I ho lrp alwk of ni M TEEES. fitun IiiwhjIs peata. The JEWIvTT 187.H, and now wvers over fifty cr alm-k gimrautiHil to m as repn'iud. nrouml Iiil-ii-iiIini" by clubbing M. I WHITH, AroiiI. I-MiT. Nautilla, May Wintlcr, wood, Kitty Lt:e, etc. bauds, right foi fn..t ami h ll html F.ulfd in 17.1. I.iivl by ,lmfn tircv SIisatMiKcr; .id d.iin bv I'ir.iN'; FIim-IwimkI by Happy JIimIiiiiii. ' .I;I, mid .1, ullii-n in the Hal. oiKrH damlwml (Johlsmiih's maid, '!. M.I.... .I..MI. 12, 1-1..... tin rest uf Urn week at Jav Smilh's' JServloe, Son-: note of this,- C-1 fit To HorsemenndHop GrowersIiLivery ra 1 job INDETENDENCE, OR, Ts Prepared to Print IIOKmk BILLS and HOP TICKETS at the lowest, prices. . ' Printing of all kinds executed on short notice by an experienced JOB PRINTER. A, WILSON, Proprietor. In UMU'lKHtt w COOPER BROS. Evcn'o Fctcnl! Th fl fn the M'orliL Anti-rusting Tinware. For raHit ulttrs CWI For t?eUl Clrwilar. iFiililj LIIJK 0B PRDniRB 1JD 8T0YL 8H.tli flipjwr, liardrnClly Clipir, ami 01lvel, ChllM and EL llowa. CuriiPttter Tool a 8i Ulty. Mooltor Hmlers and Prills. Corner of C and LTIcIn Ctroot. da Do Inl Watch this WEEK. W. G. SHARMAN, fJerehaot Tailor. SUITS MADE TO ORDER. FIT GUARANTEED. Custom Goods for Merchants and others recut and pressed. I will open monthly accounts with Merchants at Indepeodeuoe and Monmouth for roctittlng. C STREET, 151-L JOHNSON, LIVERY, and SALE FIRST-CLASS TURNOUTS Stoek left in our rare sPEcm urauTHn MA,N STREET- V-1 w and FOIt jTho Public i Most Cot,lii S.o,t of Wrt,lng Vk4 in n Feed Young Horses. Double and Single Teams First class T,,,...... , BUSTER uregon,l ! ' THE NEW mm, mm space Oppooltol.o. FEED STABLES. AND REASONABLE RATES. will v. Httendi-d t. fob. asnwi mm INDEPENDENCE, OR. Stationery SALE 11 Y- next' "1 L0CE1E. IllVlted totll in.. I D.l. -,... T Papons, Tablets, ,Vn, Ink, ' the Stdiool Books in lullio SeliiHik ti : H II STY- HIMow Bucolit- Riding Horses. SaMafurtu "veiera. 1 rloai reasonable and oaHsiaetion Oonranteed m North End Main Sf . ve u' Main St- J.KEMIJEDY, Prop i JOS. M ARKET & Co., Prop.il"1 ' ' ' i
