OREGON CITY COURIER
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M. J. BR.OWN,
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS?
Let the state give everybody
a job. That is the newest and
latest U'Renism. It needs only
to be stated to show how far in
advance it is even of the most
statesmanlike Brownell concep
tion. Oregonian.
And it needs only to be stated to
show where the Oregonian is going
to stand on the issue.
One of the greatest needs for the
development of Oregon is good roads.
Nothine holds back advancement as
' our present roads do. Every farmer,
every business man, every real es
tate man, every speculator, every pro
spctive locator will tell you the draw
back to Oregon is the want of all-the-year-round
good roads.
But the taxpayers say we can't
bear the expense of such roads added
to present, high taxation we can't
afford to vote bonds and pay lor tne
roads a second time in interest and
contractor's profits.
W. S. U'Ken in his platform for
governor says he will urge immedi
ate action by the legislature, and
through the iniative if necessary, for
a system of hard surfaced state main
roads and laterals and that he would
have the fortunes of dead men pay
for them.
Where is the man who will argue
that bond issues, and contractor's pro
fits are better systems than that of
having the State of Oregon build its
own roads at actual cost with the
swollen fortunes left by dead men?
Where is the taxpayer who will op
pose a state system of paved roads
that will not cost him an added cent
of taxation?
On a street car the other day the
Courier editor heard a man say U Ken
would "rob the widows and orphans
to stand in with the larmers and
workmen."
The man who said it wore a dia
mond that cost more than the aver
age Clackamas county farmer's dairy
cose.
U'Ren would not rob a widow or
deprive an orphan.
He would leave thep $50,000 of the
inheritance intact, and would put a
graduated tax on fortunes over this
amount the amount to be determined
by the expense necessary for road
work.
Is it robbing the widow or depriv
ing the orphan to leave them $50,000
a year, or $250 per month interest?
Don't you imagine the ordinary
family could squeeze through on this
amount and not suffer for shoes or
something to eat ? '
The plan of Mr. U'Ren would have
the fortunes of dead men pay for the
work and no man, woman or child
would suffer because of the expense.
Money that could afford it would
pay for the work rather than higher
taxation.
And there's another side, and as
yitally important as the road im
provement feature.
He would have the state of Oregon
compelled to give work to the resi
dent men of Oregon who demanded
it, and have a minimum wage fixed
under which they should work.
Just as surely as you are a foot
high the states have got to face this
matter of giving its citizen the means
on which to live.
It's confronting us and we must
meet it. Nearly every state is up
against it, and every year the pro
blem grows bigger. Men have a
right to live: they have a right to de
mand a market for their labor and at
price that will give their families
the necessities of life. And when
men are denied this right long then
look out.
A minimum wage scale on the
public roads would guarantee every
male resident of Oregon the right to
a job and the right to live.
A man would not take such a job
unless necessity compelled it, hence
it would not be taken advantage of
it would be no soft snap.
It would absolutely weed out the
vagrant element from the men who
DO want work, and it would give
tne hum and the vagrant absolutely
no excuse to stay out of jail or stay in
Oregon.
It would give Oregon the finest
system of hard surfaced roads in the
United States, and the work would
be done at actual cost by the state
and paid for by dead men who left
more money than the needs of their
families require.
What do you men of Clackamas
county think of this proposition?
Don't you think it Is the biggest
investment, both going and coming,
that ever stared Oregon in tho face?
Don't you think plenty of work and
plenty of roads would make this old
SIMPLIED FARM BOOKKEEPING
No method of kecpiug a record of receipts
and expenditures is more coiivenient for tho
farmer than the check account, lie deposits
his money in the buok .nd pays his bills by
check. The extra n
the stubs the dep
and subtracting t.
gives him accurate knowledge .of his stand
ing with the bank all the time and does
away with a, dozen or more different sized
account books. You cannot afford to be
without a check account, it costs you ab
solutely nothing. Start one now.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
er Building, Eighth and Main streets, J
FROST, OWNERS.
Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1
Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
EDITOR
state humD itself?
And if the fellows who couldn't
feel it paid for it, don't you believe
you had better let them go to it?
Think it over, use your heads and
let the Courier hear from you for
or against.
Go into it a little deeper than the
Oregonian has.
LET GEORGE PAY IT
When a wealthy man dies his mon
ey is usually a curse to his children
If he leaves much of it to charity the
charities are as likely to be run by
fakers as by humanitarians. To say
that a man who leaves over $50,000
shall share it with the state and thus
provide employment to the idle build
ing good roads, is to make his wealth
useful and to build lasting and bene
ficial charities and monuments to him
Suppose that the genial H. L. Pittock
leaves behind him some $10,000,000
or more amasses from telling the
truth (when, and only when, it served
his purposes) in the Oregonian for
35 years. Would not a tenth of that
sum, or even two-tenths, build a bet
ter monument to his memory in the
shape of 100 to 200 miles of road than
anything his one child, or her child
ren, could do with it? It is said that
a certain unmapped region is paved
with good intentions. Here is a
chance proposed by W. S. U'Ren to
nave Oregon with something more
substantial from the estates of our
best families, whose good intentions
toward the people of Oregon have al
ways been manifest about the time
they wanted some special privilege
with which to graft upon the future
necessities of the community.
By all means let the wealthy "up
per classes furnish the means with
which to pave Oregon, and their good.
intentions can pave the other region
otnknwn bounds and meets.
Alfred D. Cridge.
A CHANGE OF MONUMENTS
In Portland these last few davs
Alfred D. Cridire, secretary of the
Home-Tax Exemption League, has
been having remarkable success se
curing signatures of taxpayers and
registered voters to his petition. He
stands just outside the courthouse
and secures them. Many show their
tax receipts and statements and are
angry at the way the figures on them
have mounted out of sight. Some of
the widows and working women have
tears in their eyes as thev contem
plate the impositions upon them for
tne artinciai crime or having a home.
Among other instructive lessons
he teaches is that of estimating what
tne taxes would be if the exemption
measure was enacted. The rate there
is 27 mills, and it is sure to go high
er next year on every home in Mult
nomah county unless the exemption
amendment passes. In that case it
will lower the taxes on fully 90 per
cent of them.
One ludy came up with a tax re
ceipt of $49.95 on a home of which
the lot was assessed at a valuation of
$2G0 and the improvements and per
sonal property at S1.G00. She was
afraid the exemption measure would
not relieve her any as she had been
told by the Oregonian that the taxes
would be put on the land to make un
for it. Cridge showed her that al
lowing a ten per cent increase on the
taxes for the lot, which is as high an
increase as reuson and facts will al
ow, her taxes would be $7.42. She
signed that petition and took a blank
book to circulate.
Another lady struirirlim? to keen
a little home was shown that her tax
es would be reduced from $440 to
$3G8. Not much of a reduction, you
may think, but her little property is
not much of a house and has a very
well situated lot. If she puts up a
house on it hereafter worth $1,500
her taxes would be $3.G8 iust the
same IP the exemption measure pass
es. Otherwise it will be over $30.
She works hard for every cent she
gets.
A workmeman who has nnrrnwnrf
the money to build a neat home on
nn outlying lot on the edge of Port
land showed $1,100 assessment value
on the house and $200 on the lot.
Cridge got him to figure it out on an
estimate of 100 per cent off the im
provements and ten per cent more on
the land. Suppose some of our small
homo owners in city and country get
their receipts and do some figuring,
do it themselves. The poor man and
small home owners and farmers of
Oregon do not own it, and they are
foolish to pay taxes on what thev do
own in the shape of home buildings,
ioois ana livestock when all they need
to do is to vote it off their backs. Let
the absentee timber, land and corpo
ration speculators pay it. Just taxes
e taken to write on
nlding the balance
mount of the check,
OREGON CITY
on water power alone in Oregon would
take up every cent now paid for im
provements, on farms in Oregon.
An Arkansas issolated community,
so it is asserted, once spent a winter
debating the question, "Where is the
best place to have a boil?" In the
spring a traveling purveyor of tooth
powder assembled the populace to
gether and got them to bury their
feuds aroused over the momentous
nnestion bv proposing to them the
resolution, "Resolved, that the best
place to have a boil is on some other
feller," which was unanimously en
dorsed. Since those who own the
greater portion of Oregon do not re
side here, and many never even visit
here, why not unanimously resolve
that the best place to levy taxes is
on some- other feller, and let these
owners of Oregon pay their just
share, which share they certainly do
not pay now. At the same time it
would ereatlv attract the small home
owner and farmer to be assured that
he was not going to be the other "fel
ler" if he made use of the great op
portunities Oregon offers. And it
would not injure some of our non
resident land grabbers to sell off what
they don't want, won't use and now
cannot dispose of to home seekers
willing to pull stumps, raise crops
and rear families.
U'Ren speaks out so plainly about
things that it positively shocks the
average politician.
Two candidates for governor in
Oregon endorse the $1,500 Home Tax
Exemption measure. Next!
Rebelling against the booze admin
istration and the bum element, Chi
cago will make a big effort to make
the city dry in April.
It looks as if the saloon was not
going to have any friends among the
candidates for governor unless they
bring out a candidate of their own.
Why should not the millionaires
dead, who will have been unable to
take their wealth with them when the
last summons come, pay for some
good roads. Since the dead can
neither vote nor kick it should be
unanimous.
There may bo, but we have
not as yet unfathomed it. Can
any learned man inform -us what
party issue there is in any State,
county and municipal affairs in
Oregon ? Woodburn Independ
ent. Will someone please jerk the editor
out of his trance and "unfathom" for
him. He wants to know if any state
in Oregon has an issue.
The Prohibition state convention
has been called for Portland for May
5 and 6 for the nomination of a state
ticket. Each county has three dele
gates at large, each county has one
delegate for every 25 votes cast for
the rrohi. member of Congress In
1912 and each county will be entitled
to one delegate for every 25 voters
who sign the pledge card before April
30.
Coxey, the general who marched
an army to Washington in 1894 says
he is going to lead another army, this
time a million men. All these dem
onstrations and idle army marches
bring nearer the day wlien the feder
al gpvernment in co-operation with
the states, will take away public works
from fat contractors and provide work
for every man who wants work and
will work. Oregon is blazing the
way.
If it hid not been for the cir
culation of some' petitions by
hired circulators there would
not have been so many candi
dates for governor. Woodburn
Independent.
Will the Independent kindly file a
bill of particulars with this state
ment. As we understand the system
the candidates go before the primar
ies for nominations, and not before
the people on initiative petitions.
March 1 the express companies are
going to give Oregon some bargain
day rates and it is' said there will be
a reduction of from 30 to 50 per cent
in small parcels the kind that are
now going to the postoffice. Ever
think WHY the express companies
are lowering rates? It is because
they are up against a competitor they
can't get into their combine govern
ment competition. And if it works
out so well on express transactions,
why not give the railroads, wire cor
porations, coal mines and other mo
nopolies a little of the same stuff?
Oklahoma, youngest of Union
states is crowding Oregon for needed
reforms. That state has a corpora
tion commission that does something
beside drawing pay, and that body
at eight cents per' gallon lowering '
nas nxea tne retail price ot kerosene
the price from 15 to 20 cents defying
the Standard Oil power. - And some
day all necessities will have retail
prices fixed by law.
Here's the list up to Thursday
noon, out mere may be a. halt dozen
more announced by the time the
Courier reaches you: G. B. Dimick,
w. a. U'Ken, lieorge U. Brownell. W.
A. Carter, Gus Moser, R. L. Stevens,
James vvithycombe, T. T. (ieer, H.
Vonder Hellen, C. J. Smith, W. H.
Hollis, R. A. Miller, H. G. Stark
weather, John Manning, A. S. Ben
nett, Tom Word, Will Purdy, F. M.
Gill, W. H. McMahon.
A couple of hundred deputies
under the fish and game com
mission of this state ought to
be called in and put to work on
the state highway. They are of
about as much benefit as the p
in pneumonia. Richmond, Cal.,
Herald.
Same in Oregon. The Courier gets
it there are 172 men who are yank
ing a salary off the taxpayers in con
nection with the fish and game com
mission, and we would like to have
someone point out the proportional
l. l.t- ii r i. ....
ucnrmti. us a commission lor lobs'
and a leech on Oregon.
A bill has passed the senate.
and is going to pass the house,
authorizing the president to
build a thousand miles of rail
way in Alaska. This means a
great deal for the Pacific west.
It will mean cheaper coal for
us and a big trade with the nor
thern country. It will also try
out the theory of a government
, owned railroad. Richmond Her
ald. Building a thousand miles of rail
road, at public expense, by the gov
ernment, to the government's own
coal mines and then leasing the mines
to coal barons, may mean cheaper
coal to the Pacific west, but we'll be
Guggenheimed if we can see it.
COURIER. THURSDAY
The sente passed the exemption
from tolls of American ships by a
vote 47 to 15. It will be some con
tortion act to see them vote against
it now.
There are over 300,000 persons
hunting for work in New York City,
yet back east they would have you
think the Pacific CoaBt was the only
part of the country crowded with job
hunters.
The house has passed a $25,000,
000 appropriation for good roads. If
the senate doesn't kill it, President
Wilson should. If carried, this will
join onto the river and harbor and
public buildings graft openings.
New York's State Grange has of
ficially declared for a reform that will
provide for uniform taxation. Every
state in the Union is smarting under
the present system that lets water
powers, franchises, railroads, person
al property and speculative holdings
slip through, and makes the farmer,
business man and home owner pay
taxes for them. ,
The Newberg Graphic says of
George C. Brownell's candidacy for
governor, that he has been "actively
engaged in politics for several years
and has always been a strong vote
getter in his home county, Clacka
mas; is a forceful platform speaker
and there will be something doing if
he stumps the state.
Every month shows the people of
Oregon City the vital need of a city
manager plan of government. Sen
timent is unquestionably for a change,
and the movement only needs a lead
er. An initiative movement would
force an election and would do away
with the present very unsatisfactory
councilmen side line administration
Let's go to it.
At a speech at Salem Tuseday
night, Robert A. Booth, Republican
candidate for United States senator,
made this ringing declaration:
I hope for a day when the
wealth of the country will be
more evenly distributed, but I
do not "want to see this distri
bution brought about by laws,
but by fair dealing between
men.
Makes one think of the fellow who
said he wanted to go to heaven, but
he didn't want to get religion to go
there. And that fellow will get to
heaven just about the time Mr. Booth
sees a more' . even distribution of
wealth brought about without laws.
VALUE WANTED
There is little doubt that the
people of this county will favor the
bonding proposition if they are as
sured the worth of their money. It
is conceded that there are vast oppor
tunities for extravagance and waste
in the expenditure of such a sum of
money, and there will be openings for
"friends and relatives on tne payroll.
But with competent men in control
on the construction work, with every
dollar honestly expended, with the
more important highways considered
without any snow oi iavonusm, we
firmly believe the proposition will
meet with the approval of a good ma
jority. All the people want is the
worth of their money. balem Mes
senger.
WHY IS A SENATE?
The following is an editorial from
the Etsacada Progress, written by the
editor, Nina B. Ecker, and from the
outlook there are hundreds of women
voters in Oregon who will look at it
as the Progress' editor and manager
does:
"It looks as though Oregon might
lose its senate. Perhaps it is well.
Arizona lost hers last year and has
not advertised for its return. The
senate was originally created for the
purpose of being used as a brake on
the other house when the latter got
too gay. The senate got so dignihed
that the common herd couldn't touch
it with a ten-foot pole and as a result
naturally degenerated into the place
that Big Business used as a play
ground. Then when the people went
to governing themselves ther re
novated the senate along with several
other places that had become filled
with dirt and muck,. and now these
same people are thinking and de
bating among themselves, "Why is a
senate?"
TO BE ACCURATE .
A reporter of The Enterprise once
upon a time wrote an article in which
he used the phrase: "in a statement
made to The Enterprise Mr. Smith
said "
Editor Brodie took him to task.
"Never say 'made a statement to The
Enterprise' or 'said to The Enter-
urise' The mere fact that The En-
terprise prints a statement or an ar
ticle is proof that it is correct."
Sunday's Enterprise, commenting
editorially upon the case of Blackie
lies, says he fled to Texas "and sev
eral hundred dollars of the county's
money was expended in an effort to
bring him back for trial."
In spite of the fact that this was
printed in The Enterprise it is not
true. Expenses of extraditing a pris
oner from another state arc paid by
the state of Oregon, for extradition is
made on a governor's warrant, and
not on a county warrant. The state
of Oregon will pay for the return of
Mr. lies to Oregon City, and Clacka
mas county taxpayers will bear no
part of the cost.
FAVORITES
Lucius N. Littaur, millionaire and
former congressman, and his brother
millionaire, William, made millionair
es by high duties on their manufac
tured product, gloves, were caught
trying to evade tariff duties onsome-
to evade tariff duties on something
thing they did not make, diamonds,
were caught with the goods on, plead-
ed Sfuilty to smuggling guilty of
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uicumiik iuws wiey neiueu w mure
And the court FINED THEM, fined
them against the protest of United
States Marshal, who pointed out to
the judge a money fine was no punish
ment. Last week the tax collectors vainly
tried to get to John Rockefeller in
Cleveland to collect taxes. They
tried for days to see him, altho they
knew where he was. J
If you had smuggled some stuff
across the big drink you would serve
it out.
If you wouldn't pay your taxes the
sheiff would confiscate your property
and sell it
There is ever a different measure
of justice for the worker and the mil
lionaire. And we wonder at the growth of
class prejudice.
FEB. 19, 1914.
THE CITY MANAGER
La Grande has been operating un
der the commission form of govern
ment with a city manager for but
a short time, though already the
system shows its advantages over the
complicated and unsatisfactory may
or and council method. Geo. E. Good,
a former mayor of Grants Pass, and
a student of municipal government,
now a resident of LaGrande, says
that the new form of city control
gives promise of the greatest satis
faction. The city manager, he says,
is the boss of the job, and is held
responsible by the commission for
the business management, of the
town. He is unhampered by political
considerations, and his only thought
is to give LaGrande its money's
worth in every department. If a po
liceman fails to give good service
there is no squabble in the council
over the matter, but the city manager
walks up and tells the delinquent that
he is ' hred, and puts another man
on the job. Of course it takes a
pretty big man to be manager of a
city like LaGrande or like Grants
Pass, corporations capitalized at four
or five millions of dollars. He has
to be a bigger man, in fact, than the
average patriot who warms the seat
of the aldermanic chair, and his sal
ary is paid according to the demands
of the job. LaGrande has a limit of
$3,600 to the salary, and is paying
$z,4uu at tne start. A city wastes
many times the amount of this salary
every year if public improvements
and municipal management are at
tempted by business men out of hours.
Few men who are competent to man
age big affairs have the time to give
to the duties of the management of a
city free of charge. Municipal gov
ernment is a science. The city mana
ger plan is the first step toward re
ducing it to a science. It is also the
first step toward the elimination of
graft in municipal government.
Rogue River Herald.
IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR US
Monday night property holders on
Main street met with the city coun
cil to discuss the proposed laying of
an adequate sewer on the chief busi
ness thoroughfare of the county seat,
and also to consider the repaying of
that highway. Save for one or two
those present condemned both pro
posls. Some few wanted to patch up
the paving, but most of them thought
it was good enough. One of the pro
perty owners present went back into
history a score of years and told of
the laying of the present inefficient
sewer and after voluminous remarks
said it was good enough for him. En
terprising citizens- who thought Main
street ought to be decently paved
were voted down by the majority.
Which reminds us of something
that happened in another Oregon
community a pioneer town, like Ore
gon City, and inhabited by much the
same sort of folks. In this other
community the proposition before the
city fathers was the appropriation of
$75 to lay two blocks of board side
walk from the post office to the gen
eral store. After it had been dis
cussed at some length, one of the
city fathers rose in his place, held his
whiskers to one side while he spat
on the floor, and then unburdened him
self of the following:
"Mr. Mayor, in regard to this side
walk matter I want to say that in
1846 I arrived at the site of what is
now this thriving community, and
homesteaded a claim. I made my
way over the plains in an ox-cart, en
dured the hardships of the Oregon
trail, fought the lurking savages, and
finally made my home here. And I
had no sidewalks.
"The good God prospered my wife
and me, and we cleared our land, and
in due time we had a baby boy in our
family, and he grew up beside me in
the wilderness and cut his home out
of the forests, just as I had done. He
grew to be a man, was elected to the
board of selectmen, and took an in
terest in the affairs of the little town
that grew up around our home and
he had no sidewalks.
"And now he has married, and has
children of his own, and they attend
the school that you and I and all of
us have founded and support, and
these children of his are hale and
hearty, yet they have no sidewalks.
Now I move that this motion to ex
pend $75 from the general fund for
sidewalks be tabled."
And the motion carried.
FOR SHERIFF
To the voters of Clackamas County:
I will be a candidate before the
May primaries for the Democratic
nomination of sheriff of Clackamas
county.
I am a farmer of Maple Lane, but
i Deneve i am oualified bv ednrat nn
and experience for the office of shir-
lrr.
ir nominated and elected I will
manage the office as I would a bus
iness concern, wherein mv tnh da.
pended on mv makiner pood.
I am out and out against the li
quor traffic. If sheriff I would vigor
ously prosecute liauor law violnt.inns
anu wnetner elected or not. I will
worn ior state wide prohibition.
If elected I will not nav nolit.
debts with office appointments, and I
will use every retrenchment consis
tent with good service to keep down
me expenses or tne sheriff's depart
ment. Democrats who can endorse this
platform I would like to have support
me at the primaries.
D. J. Thome.
WHAT BOOTH SKIPS
Like his letter of acceptance, when
pre-arranged disciples of the Oregon
ian swooped down on his Vinmo inJ
demanded he become a martyr to his
country, R. A . Booth's platform is
full of words and oratory, but mighty
sly on plain declarations.
He warbles of party, party lovalty,
and he drags the dear old flag 'in to
give his oratory a setting.
nut ne aoages the liquor traffic as
a Texas kid does a rattler.
He waxes eloquent over "content
ed homes" and "patriotic, progressive
citizenship."
- But he shuns reference to bread
lines and the unemployed as a Ha
waiian does leper.
He mildly mentions that' farmers
should be aided to find profitable
markets, but keeps fifty miles away
from a state market proposition.
He asks for "consideration" by our
representatives of some way to re
claim waste land.
But he doesn't say he would take
the unemployed thousands, and put
them to work by the state.
He says "the laborer, self-respecting
and well paid is essential to the
country's growth and greatness"
But he doesn't give one lonesome
plan or suggestion as to how the la-
borer is going to get these rights.
He says the middlemen are "essen
tial for the convenient distribution of
articles of trade, but ,
He doesn't explain why food im
portations to the value of millions
under a reduced tariff, are held up
to the extortion limit by the middle
men's combine.
He endorses woman suffrage, but,
Did he ever take the stump and ad
vocate giving the ballot to women?
He advises that immigration be re
stricted, but,
He doesn't give a definite plan or
suggestion under which he would re
strict them or state what classes he
would restrict.
What Mr. Booth DOESN'T men
tion is the material that Oregonian's
want platforms built of.
Of all the wish-washy, spineless,
mean-nothing platforms that a U. S.
senator ever stood on, Booth's is the
weakest, and has the least of. posi-tiveness.
The Oregonian is out against
U'Ren, Brownell and their platforms.
And the logical result is that one of
them will be elected governor.
Here's a prophecy that was ful
filled. "I am going to be governor of
New York," said Sulzer. "Like hell
you are" replied Murphy and like hell
he was.
THE BEAUTIFUL SYSTEM
Clackamas Reader Points out In
stances of Unjust Assessments
Clackamas, Feb. 10, 1914.
Editor Courier:
As a reader of your valuable pa
per the only paper that stands for
the rights of the oppressed taxpay
ers, allow me to state a few facts
that have come to my knowledge in
regard to the infamous, unjust, and
unequal manner in which our county
assessments are made.
V fin Pap-e 831. Line 27 of our Tax-
Collector's books you find Joe and
Barthe Bachman assessed with 89
acres; 25 acres of same cultivated,
tax $60.60; page 1096, line 26, Prop
erty and Improvements, $6.84; with a
total tax of $67.44.
A fair and impartial assessment
should have been
44 acres cultivated, at $50.00
per acre $900.00
45 acres, un-improved at $20
per acre 2200.00
Personal improvements 2.88
A 24 mill tax would be $81.24,
which shows a difference or loss to
the community of $13.30.
Page 832, Line 11 Melville, MaDel
Madge and Olive Byers:
80 acres in section 13 Tp 2.
S. R. 2 East, valuation
$4,200; taxes to pay 100.80
hage 1111, line 31, personal
property and improvement
at $330 7.92
Total taxes $108.72
On those 80 acres is one of the
best paying orchards of about 10
acres, in full bearing, of this county.
The dwelling or residence is modern
in every respect and could not be du
plicated today for $4,000. The barn
is second to none in the county and
could not be built today for less than
$1,800, besides there are, fruit dryer,
cattle, hogs, horses, machinery, etc
Land is nearly all under cultivation.
A fair valuation according to the
general custom would have been-
80. acres at $52.50 per acre, $4200:
improvements, house one-third value,
$1,333; barn one-third value, $600:
fruit dryer and personal property,
$330; total $6,463. This at 24 mills
would have been $155.10, deduct
$108.72, the present tax and it leaves
a loss to the county of $46.39.
In order to make good some of the
above losses Mr. Jack socks it onto
Michael and Anna Henrich, next
door neighbors to the above named
parties, as follows:
Page 831, line 25, Michael
Henrich, 1.37 acres at $75
tax $2.04
Page 831, line 24, Anna Hen
rich, 48.63 acres $51.60
I'age 1151, line 5, personal
improvements $6.84
Total ..... $60.48
A just and fair valuation would
have been
17 acres in cultivation at $50.
would be $850.00
aa acres un-improved at $20 $660.00
Dryer and personal property $335.00
$1,845.00
24 mill $44.28; deduct this from the
above $60.48, and there is an over
charge of S16.20.
Mr. Taxpayer, compare those few
assessments and note the injustice
Compare your own statements with
those or your neighbors and see
whether you have not been treated in
the same manner. We also would
suggest that all crooked cases be re
ported to M. J. Brown, editor of the
Courier, who undoubtedly will give
uiciii piuper attention.
I am informed that Herman Ger
hardus of Damascus, found several
such cases and that he took the mat
ter before Governor West and Tax
Commissions Galloway, who promised
to investigate, but having heard no
thing further of it I suppose it was
hushed up or forgotten. , . Header.
Get your letterheads and envelopes
printed with the name of your farm
on them. The Courier will make them
cheap for eu.
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SHUBEL
The frogs have started their even
ing songs, which means that spring
is near.
Several families have the measles,
while a riumber have recovered. The
chances are some more will get them,
as no precaution has been taken to
prevent the spread of the same.
The Misses Mary and Helen Swope
spent Sunday at home.
The Equity Society meets twice a :
month now. It has already shown
that farmers can get together if they
will. We now have motor truck ser
vice with Portland, which means a
loss of thousands of dollars to Ore
gon City, because of the difference of
prices between the two places.
John Bluhm took a load of pork to
Portland as the Oregon City butchers
don't want the farmers to get rich
too quick. Ditto the rest of the mer
chants. Rev. Mau intends making a trip to
Germany in the tfear future.
Chris. Moehnke Jr. and family, of
Ritzville, Wash., moved on their place
last week. He will start his shingle
mill in the near future.
Otto Moehnke has his saw mill run
ning again, and is ready for orders
for lumber.
There will be a meeting at the
school house Thursday evening to try
and come to some agreement where
to build the hall. At present it looks
as though we may have two of them.
Why not compromises? One would
be plenty. Now let us see how many
will show their christian spirit in this
matter and lay aside all selfish mo
tives if there are any.
BEAVER CREEK
One of the happiest events of the
season was a party given by Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Bennett to the members
of Beaver Creek Union Sunday School
and a few oher friends. The guests
from a distance being Miss . Gulich
and Mr. and Mrs. ' Arthur Bennett
with their children, Donald and Ber
nice, of Portland.
The rooms were beautifully deco
rated with crimson streamers, cupids
and hearts.
The Sunday School presented Mr.
and Mrs. Bennett with a beautiful
framed pastel painting, in evidence
of the love and high esteem in which
they are held in the community.
The gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Bennett was an elegant cassarole.
After a jolly evening spent in
games, delicious refreshments were
served, consisting of ice creani, cake'
and orange pop, and the guests re
luctantly departed, wishing the host
and hostesSj many such, happy re
turns of their anniversary.
The Beaver Creek Union Sunday
School which was organized about
three months ago at Beaver Creek
corners, is prospering and increasing
in size, and fills a long felt want for
an English speaking Sunday School
in the community. Last Sunday 55
were present. The children are so
interested no one is willing to miss
a Sunday. Mr. Jones kindly donates
the use of the hall over his store
to the Sunday School.
Rev. J. V. Milligan, superintend
ent S. S. work, Synod of Oregon, and
Rev. Hays have been holding meet
ings in the Presbyterian church the
past week. Sunday Mr. Milligan
preached in the hall after Sunday
School.
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