Ex
OREGON CITY
34th Year
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1916
Number 37
, University
COURIER
CLUB WOULD FIX
SCHOOL 1 11
MUNICIPAL ELECTION ' BILLS
ARE DISCUSSED. TWO
FROWNED UPON
LEGISLATORS TO MEET WIRES
County Budget Should be Made Up
Earlier in Year, Say Live''
' Wire Speakers
Suggestions that will form the
basis of a legislative bill to change
the school tax laws proposed by the
Live Wires of the Commercial club
of Oregon Citj formed a theme for
the discussion of the members at the
regular meeting on Tuesday, and the
legislators-elect from this, county
wil! attend a meeting in two weeks
to discuss the proposals with the
club.
Aside from the proposed bill, the
initiative measures for the municipal
election next Monday received con
siderable attention. The bill provid
ing that the city shall levy a fare for
passage on the city elevator was
not approved by the Wires. In fact,
they voted against the bill after dis
cussion on both sides of the question.
The bill providing that all public im
provements be hereafter made from
the money in the general fund was
also unfavorably received. The sense
of the meeting seemed to be that
those who have had to pay for their
own street, sewer and other improve
ments should not be asked to aid the
other fellow. The bill to 'permit the
city government to condemn private
property for public uses was so ob
viously worthy that it. was not dis
cussed. The matter of a partly paid fire
department was again presented to
the Wires, and they may take some
action on the question at an early
meeting. Some discussions on the
subject of the armory for which the
county and the city have provided
their share of cost was also indulged
in.
" In connection with the bill chang-J
ing school tax laws which the Wires
hope to see fathered at the next legis
lative session 0. D. Eby talked at
length. He said: "Under the pres
ent law each school district is re
quired to make its levy on or before
December 1, and under the present
arrangement the. valuations and
enumerations of the previous year
must necessarily be used.
"Under the present law the enum
eration of pupils is made as of No
vember 25, but the county budget is
made up and is published prior to
said date so that last year's enumera
tion must be used as a basis on which
the court must make its levy for the
purpose of raising the $8.00 per pupil
required. It follows that if the new
enumeration shows an increase in
pupils entitled to participate in the
sum raised, that the pro rata per
, pupil. will be less than $8.00 per cap
ita. ; , ; .
"Under the present law the county
school superintendent must apportion
$100.00 to each school district in the
, county before making the pro rata
distribution.
"A levy by district meetings re
quires two weeks notice while a spe
cial levy . by taxpayers, which -is re
quired under the law in order to make
a levy of more than 6 per cent in ex
cess of that of the previous year, re
quires 30 days notice." '
The suggestions which it is' hoped
to incorporate in a bill for the con
sideration of the state legislature,
and which will be discussed at the
Live Wire meeting on December 12
are:
1. That the assessor and state tax
commission make report of valua
tions to the county court by October
15th.
2. That county budget should be
made and published within a reason
able time after October 15, say by
October 20, so that districts and mu
nicipalities may have information
contained in county budget from
which to make up their budget, and
districts and municipalities should
have 30 days thereafter for their
special levy above the 6 per cent in
crease allowed. .
3. Enumeration of pupils should
be reported to county school superin
tendent by October 10 so that super
intendent may report to the court by
Ocober 15.
4. That county court levy. $8.00 per
child plus $100.00 for each district,
Sue Unknown Heirs
A suit against the unknown heirs
of Thomas Martin; believed dead be
cause he has not been seen or heard
of for 60 years, was filed Tuesday by
' Frances E. and George G. Kruse, Hel
en C. and Charles W. Kruse and
Metta F. Stone. The object of the
action is to quiet title to certain prop
erties in the Martin estate .
Edgar Caufield Tuesday brought
suit against Archie L. and Florence
W. Watt to recover on a $100 prom
issory note dated August 26, 1916
and bearing 7 per cent interest. At-
i torneys fees of f 25 are asked.
GAMBLERS PAY CITY j
n nrpiiit nr DAinfl
ho ncouLi ur nttiu
OFFICERS INTERRUPT UIET
GAME AND ARREST SEVEN.
FINES NET $125
The treasury of Oregon City has
$125 it would not have had if. five of
the city's residents had not gambled
and had not been caught at it late
Saturday night by Sheriff Wilson,
Constable Frost, Chief of Police
Blanchard and Patrolmen Cooke and
Woodward. But the game was
played and G. A. Gray, E, Parker, A.
F. Raasch, Forest DeLashmut and
Charles Straight paid the price. '
A poker game that has caused the
attention of the officers for some time
was raided at Mrs. Bell's rooming
house in the alley between Fourth
and Fifth streets at a late hour Sat
urday night. The players were interrupted-,
as they were gathered
about the table in a basement room.
Seven men attempted to escape
through a rear basement door, but
were apprehended and held. A num
ber of decks of cards were confis
cated. On Monday morning Recorder
Loder heard pleas of guilty from five
of the seven men taken in the game.
He fined each of them $25 and sen
tenced them to 30 days' each in jail.
The jail sentences were suspended
when the five players paid back to
Frank E. Smith and Lou Himler the
sums of money that had been won
from them, and upon their promise
not to play again. Each one of the
men taken in the raid said that this
was the first time he had played.
The men arrested told. of games
that have been conducted In several
places about town throughout the
past few years. The Bell rooming
house was simply one of several
places where a few men managed to
deprive laborers and others of their
pay checks. One Chinaman is said
to have lost close to $300 in the
games. Gray, one of the men arrest
ed and fined, is said to have collected
25 cents from each "pot" and in this
way made money whether he won or
lost at the game itself.
STEAL POISON FLUID
ARE FOUND BY DD0R
ALLEGED THIEVES LIVE, AS
THEY DID NOT DRINK THE
STOLEN ALCOHOL
A stolen half-barrel of denatured
alcohol supplied an odor for Henry
Cooke, night patrolman, by which he
was able to discover the hiding place
of the liquor, stolen from the Jones
Drug company's, store on Monday
night. W. W. Hamlin, John Doe
Farmer -and Paul Wyman were ar
rested on a charge of petty larceny
and officers are looking for John
Boothe, suposed to be implicated in
the theft.
Patrolman Cooke was making his
rounds when he smelled the peculiar
odor of the fluid as he paused at the
northwest corner of Sixth and Water
streets. He waited in the shadow of
the building until Hamlin came out.'
Hamlin was arrested, but the others
escaped. In jail Hamlin is said to
have confessed to the theft and im
plicated the others. He was released
upon his own recognizance. It is im
possible, doctors say.vthat the men
could have partaken liberally of the
liquor, for it is poisonous and would
have caused their death or made them
very sick. Hamlin says he did not
drink of the fluid.
The trial of the men on a petty
larceny charge will probably be be
fore Justice John N. Sievers, but offi
cers are inclined to wait until they
have arrested the fourth man. The
three arrested pleaded not gunilty in
the justice court on Wednesday. Linn
E. Jones, manager of the store from
which the alcohol was taken, swore
to warrants for the arrests.
CANNERY BURNS
Gresham Farmers Suffer Loss
Building and Their Products
Fire Thursday completely
de-
stroyed the building of the Gresham
Fruitgrowers' association and a large
amount of canned goods, which had
not been moved out. The total loss
on the building was between $10,000
and $15,000, with a loss on stock close
to $6000.
The fire was discovered by Fire
Chief Ettsel Jones and his father,
Frank Jones, and was burning in the
office room, in a front corner of the
building. They immediately .turned
in an alarm and rushed to thejmild-
ing in the hope of checking the blaze
but found when they arrived, that the
water was shut off from the whole
building.
The cannery was owned by more
than 100 stockholders, mostly farm
ers, and the individual loss is small,
but as the stock was all paid up there
is nothing left to go on except the in
surance and ground, with an indebt
edness of about $1000 against it,
Have you subscribed for the Cour
ier and the four magazines?
T
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INT!
OH
INDUSTRIAL PROJECT ENTHUS
IASM TAKEN TO SCHOOLS
BY SUPERINTENDENT
CHILDREN WILL MANAGE WORK
Many Officers Elected by Little Folk
Who Will Grow Crops and Live- '
Stock as Study
A. campaign that has taken County
School Superintendent J. E. Calavan
and L. P. Harrington, field worker
for the state department of education,
to practically all the schools of Clack
amas county within the past ten
days, has resulted, thus far, in the
organization of twenty school indus
trial clubs, aside from some already
organized.
That twenty clubs could be added
to the list or revived after the vaca
tion is a tribute to the value of the
industrial club plan, Superintendent
Calavan takes it, and all sigr.s point
to the most successful year in the his
tory of these organizations in this
county.
Most of the new or revived clubs
have already perfected , their organi
zations for the winter and have elect
ed officers. The work now to be done
will be directed along many lines as
outlined by the superintendent.' There
are to be dairy and pig feeding
projects, grain and vegetable growing
projects, sewing, cooking, manual
training and several other branches
of vocational endeavor that fit into
the modern school system, whose
chief ambition as designed seems to
be to achieve the greatest possible
result with the children in school.
The children of Clackamas county
are not as old in the club work as are
those of some other counties, but the
exhibition of their products at the
county and state fairs last fall is cer
tain indication that their inexperience
costs little in the quality of the re
sults obtained. The livestock fed by
the .school children, the vegetables,
fruit and grasses which they grow
and their domestic and manual train
ing work would in practically any
case be a decided credit to persons
much older in years and experience.
The clubs 'which have launched
already for a year of activity and
which have elected officers are given
below. The schools at Parkplace,
Oak Grove, Milwaukie, Jennings
Lodge, Clarkes and Meadow Brook
have also organized clubs, but they
have not notified Superintendent Cal
avan of the election of their officers.
Barlow President, Charles Dreg
nie; vice-president, Lyle Penniell;
secretary, Irene Wiirfel; treasurer,
Cora Ausion.
Canby President, Olive Kendall;
vice-president, Hildred Baber; secre
tary, Lucile Baker; treasurer, .Mina
Graham.
Henrici President, Earl Strong;
vicerpresident, Lloyd Henrici; secre
tary, Anna Robertson; treasurer,
Walter Henrici.
Ardenwald President, Mildred
Lynch; vice-president, Clara Bamn;
secretary, Anna Lucks; treasurer,
Maxwell Kaiser.
Concord President, Evelyn Mc
Lean; vice-president, Darwin Smith;
secretary, Mildred Deary; treasurer,
Arthur Tucker.
Harmony President, Muriel Lin-
nett; vice-president, Ruth Rubin;
secretary, Bertha Miller.
Carus President, Esther Casto;
vice-president, Minnie Edwards; sec
retary, Ruth Fisher; treasurer, Erma
Caseday. ,
Maple Lane President, Gene
Schmidtz; vice-president, G. Wesen-
berg; secretary, Ollie-Aman; treasur
er, Lois Pagunkoff.
Beaver Creek President, Tommy
Parry; vice-president, Wilber Boh-
lander; secretary, Clara Bohlander;
treasurer, Doris Price. s
Wichita President, James Gibson;
vice-president, Bessie Adams; secre
tary, Lauretta Hemphill; treasurer,
Paul Jackson. ,
Mount Pleasant President, Alene
Christensen; vice-president, Everett
Thomas; secretary-treasurer, Fern
Yexley.
Gladstone President, Eugene
Vedder; vice-president, Clinton War
ren; treasurer, Norma Leete.
Clackamas President, Orlo Hay-
ward; vice-president, Mabel Hugill;
secretary, Ernest Hugill; treasurer,
Harold Roberts.
Willamette President, Marvin
Warfolk; vice-president, Ruby Ross;
secretary, Vivian Bartholomew.
Twilight President, Elmer Nash;
vice-president, Lydon Bingham; sec
retary, Florence Bentley; treasurer,
Ermil Bingham.
Exhibit at Library
An exhibit of the work of the art
pupils of Marion Crook was opened
at the public library building today
with about 30 pictures on display.
The chief exhibitors are Miss June
Charman, Veda Lynch, Edna Holman,
Helen Lovett, Mrs. Wright,' Joseph
Gadke and R. McDowell
An Autumnal Tonic, By James Whiicomb Riles
. What mystery is it? : The morning as rare
As the Indian Summer may bring !
A tang in the frost and a spice in the air
That no city poet can sing!
The crimson and amber and gold of the leav.es;
As they loosen and flutter and fall
In the path of the park, as it rustlingly weaves,
Its way through the maples and under the eaves
Of the sparrows that chatter and call.
What hint of delight is it tirigles me through ?
What vague, indefinable joy?
r What yearning for something divine that I knew
When a wayward and wood-roving boy?
Ah-ha! and O ho! but I have it, I say -
Oh, the mystery brightens at last,
'Tis the longing and zest of the far, far away,
For a bountiful old-fashioned dinner today,
. With the hale harvest hands of the past.
BILL PROPOSED WOULD
CLOSE RIVER TO NETS
STATE SPORTSMEN GATHER TO
- DISCUSS PRESERVATION OF
FISHERMEN'S PARADISE
At the coming meeting of the Ore
gon Sportsmen's league, which will
be held at Portland on Monday, De
cember 4, thje anglers of the state
will have a good deal to say. One of
the principal topics will.be the sal
mon fishing on the Willamette river,
as the anglers of this part of the
country are determined .that there
shall be "absolutely no more net fish
ing for salmon in this stream.
The popularity of salmontrolling
between Portland and Oregon City
has spread to a wonderful extent.
Not only does this trolling furnish
sport for hundreds of local people, but
it is beginning to draw anglers from
all over the country. The enactment
of the Gill bill two years ago im
proved the fishing somewhat, but was
only a halfway" measure at best. The
net fishermen are still able to take
out nearly all the fish in a few nights'
work, with the result that the trolling
is over on the first of May, just when
it begins to get really good. By clos
ing the river absolutely to net fishing,
no one will be seriously affected, as
the net fishermen only work two or
three weeks out of the year, but, on
the other hand, it will mean grand
sport for literally hundreds of people
who love to get outdoors, says the
Telegram.
The Multnomah Anglers' club has
gone on record in favor of the fol
lowing changes in the law: The entire
Willamette river and all its tributar
taries to be closed to all salmon fish
ing except with hook and line; a limit
of six fish for a day's catch for any
angler; each person restricted to the
use of only one hand line or one rod
and line. At present there is no re
striction on the amount of tackle one
can use, and some -selfish anglers will
festoon their entire boats with short
heavy rods and hand lines so that no
one else has a chance to fish near
them. The entire Multnomah delega
tion to the legislature has been
pledged to work for the enactment of
these changes in the Willamette river
law, and in the opinion of local angl
ers there is little doubt that the bill
will go through without much oppo
sition.
Another question of great import
ance will be the commercial fishing
on the Rogue river in southern Ore
"gon. At the meeting of the Sports
men's league held a year ago a com
mittee was appointed to investigate
this problem. As far as can be
learned this committee is unanimous
ly of the opinion that whatever else
happens the seining for salmon must
be. absolutely prohibited on the Rogue.
When the river was reopened to com
mercial fishing a few years back the
commercial interests agreed that no
gear would be used which would catch
intentipnally or otherwise any of the
steelheads. Since that time it has
been proved that the use of seines has
been responsible for the killing of
hundreds of steelheads each week of
the seining season, and as the new
law permits the use of seines from
July 15 on through the season the
number of fish destroyed by this class
of gear is something enormous.
Little Girl Married
In the library vault in County
Clerk Harrington's office Thursday,
Margaret Myers Leichtweis, 15-year-
old daughter of John Leichtweis, of
Mulino, was united in marriage to
Charles Rutherford Marshall, of Mu
lino. The Rev. H. B. Mann, of Mu
lino, performed the ceremony. Miss
Leichtweis had the consent of her
father to the wedding and he was
witness at the ceremony in the vault
County Clerk Iva Harrington Tues
day issued a marriage license to Cora
Mabel Berg of Barlow and G.
Johnson of McKee, Ore.
CASE FAMILY FIGHT
IS AGAIN IN COURT
ERNEST CASE'S WIFE SUES WID
OW OF MAN WHO KILLED
HER HUSBAND
An echo of the famous Case family
feud that has been in the public at
tention for many months and has run
the course of family strife from quar
rel to murder, was heard at the court
house on Tuesday, when Mrs. Leona
Case, wife of Ernest Case, killed by
is brother, Sam, at Parkplace on Oc
tober 3, 1915, filed suit against her
sister, Mrs. ' Mary Smith, Ralph
Smith and Isaac Birdsall to foreclose
on a mortgage and promissory note
for $1200.
Mrs. Smith is the former wife of
Sam Case and is the same one who
recently attempted to have Ernest's
wife, Leona Case, removed as admin
istratrix of Ernest's estate because of
her allegation that Ernest and Leona
were not legally married. Judge
Anderson held at the time that the
contract marriage entered into be
tween the two was valid.
Sam Case was acting trustee for
business transactions entered into, by
Ernest Case before the quarrel which
ended in the shooting of Ernest by
Sam last year. As such trustee Sam
sold the Parkplace property of Er
nest to Isaac Birdsall and took a
$1200 mortgage in payment. The
mortgage was made out in the name
of Sam, although Ernest was the own
er of the property.
The present Mrs. Smith was named
administratrix of the estate of- her
late husband, Sam Case, when he died
in the hospital here. Leona was
named administratrix of the estate
om her husband, Ernest Case. Mrs.
Sam Case wrote a satisfaction for
the mortgage on the Ernest Case
property on December 8, 1915, fol
lowing the death of the two men. It
is charged that she had no right to
give this satisfaction since the prom
issory note and the mortgage are the
possessions of the Ernest Case estate.
It appears from the record of the
recent trial to set aside the appoint
ment of Leona Case as administra
trix of the estate of her husband that
Mary, the sister, had satisfied the
mortgage against the property of the
Ernest Case estate for the considera
tion of a cow of far less value than
the mortgage. Leona Case, in the
present suit against Birdsall, her
sister and the former wife of her
brother-in-law, asks that the mort
gage be cancelled and the alleged im
proper satisfaction given by Mary
Case be declared void.
TEST FOR TAX MEASURE
Commission Will Raise Levy Regard
less of Passage of Limitation Bill
It was made known Monday that
the state tax commission will levy
what the state government actually
needs for institutions, departments
and commissions for 1917,' regardless
of the tax limitation amendment re
cently voted by the people. The levy
will be made as soon as it is possible
to make it.
The commission will certify the
full tax to the counties of Oregon, and
it will then be up to the counties to
levy the tax or insitute legal proceed
ings. By instituting legal proceed
ings, all concerned will get at the
exact status of the case.
Members or tne, commission are
agreed that it would be best to get a
decision of the supreme court on the
questions involved before the legisla
ture meets.
Some insist that the state tax com
mission cannot make the so-called
levy, but that it must be made by the
counties, and also that the constitu
tional amendment does not apply to
it this year, as the legislature has to
provide more machinery, u in the
case of the bone dry amendment, to
make it effective. It is asserted that
the state tax commission is not a tax
levying body, and that the county
county court alone has the power,
JURE IS
FnCliCSHOBTflGE
"FRENZIED POLITICS" LOOKED
FORWARD TO BECAUSE OF
TAX LIMITATION LAW
FECIAL AID WILL BE ASKED
Millage Tax is Not Enough for Needs
of Two Growing State Schools.
State Threatened
The legislature faces a shortage in
money of $404,320 for the conduct of
state government, unless commissions
and boards are denied their needs or
a new source of revenue is discovered,
according to a review of the situation
at Salem. "Frenzied politics" are
looked forward to, because it is cer
tain that boards and commissions will
aim to protect themselves and to get
out of a ticklish situation the legisla
ture must find new revenue or prac
tically paralyze the government.
It is the enactment of the consti
tutional amendment limiting - the
levying of taxes' that is responsible
for the pending financial difficulty.
The state requires for all purposes
$3,368,000. Out of this there is al
ready provided by law for the Oregon
Agricultural college, the University
of Oregon and roads a millage tax
amounting to $925,000. This millage
being fixed by law, there remains
when the $925,000 is deducted $2,443,-
000 which the legislature must pro
vide for.
The operation of state, institutions
required $800,000 last year and the
penitentiary, insane asylum and the
like will need as much in the coming
year as in the past. They all are
asking more. Deduct this from the
$2,443,000 and $1,643,000 is required
for other purposes.
Under the new tax limitation
amendment, there can be raised $2,
573,680. To this can be added the
money from licenses, fees, etc., which
last year amounted to $390,000, mak
ing available $2,963,680. Of this
total available revenue, the $235,000
millage must be deducted, which
leaves $2,038,680 to be appropriated
when the legislature meets. As
shown, the asylum, penitentiary and
other institutions will need at least
as much as last year, $800,000, so
eliminating this necessity from the
available $2,038,680, there remains
available for appropriations $1,238,-
680 with which to meet the $1,643,-
000.
Arithmetic shows that the legisla
ture will not have by $404,320 suffi-
cient money for the operation of the
state government. Inasmuch as the
millage tax is fixed by law and the
state institutions cannot be cut down,
the only thing the legislature can do
to trim appropnations to the avail
able funds is to slush the boards and
commissions and to do this these ap
propriations must be cut 25 per cent.
Only one solution presents itself,
and that is new sources of indirect
taxation. This can be done by in
creasing the automobile license fee
and various other fees now collected
by the state.
The "big show" at. Salem will be
the ways and means committee, which
will have only so much money avail
able and half of the members of the
legislature will have bills seeking
special appropriations, not to men
tion the regular boards, commissions
and institutions.
OBSERVE THANKSGIVING
School Children Bring Provisions for
Boys' and Girls' Aid Society
A large store of fruit, vegetables
and clothing, in addition to $20 in
money, was contributed to tne
Thanksgiving collection gathered by
the pupils' of the Oregon City grade
and high schools yesterday. The
afternoon was in part given over to
a Bhort entertainment in each room
of the grade schools and to a general
assembly at the high school, where
programs fitting to the season were
rendered. At the high school there
were musical features.
The provisions gathered by the
school children will be turned over to
the Boys' and Girls' Aid society of
Portland and the money that was con
tributed will be used for various
worthy purposes. Annually some
money is spent for such things as
the purchase of eye glasses for those
children whose parents cannot sup
ply their needs and it is propable that
a share of the $20 will be used for
this purpose tins' year.
Circuit Court Orders
Judgement in the case of Sidney
Gordon against B.. J. Berg, dated
February 11, 1911, was reversed by
Judge J. U. Campbell Thursday and
entered as of date February 27, 1911.
Eemos Kuzminski. through his
guardian, Thursday,- was awarded
judgement against Charles F. Libby
in the sum of $526, of which $475 is
for actual and general damages, $24
for special damages and $27 costs of
action.
The suit of W W, Irvin against
LEG SLA
j Mary A. Cole was dismissed.
CANDIDATES FILE
FOR CITY CHAIRS
ALL COUNCILMEN WILL HAVE
OPPOSITION AT MUNICI
PAL ELECTION
INITIATIVE BILLS IMPORTANT
Mayor Hackettt Alone in The Field.
Recorder's Job Seems to .
be Popular
Judging from the number of peti
tions filed with the city recorder by
candidates for municipal offices at
the election to be held next Monday,
the recorder's office is the most at
tractive on the city list for three men
have declared themselves as seekers
for the glory and coin of this position.
Mayor E. C. Hackett was the only
one to file his petition before noon
Wednesday, which was the final day
for declaration.
Those who will seek the recorder's
berth are John W. Loder, incumbent;
A. S. Fuller and J. O. Lizberg. It has
been known for some time that these
three men would be candidates. In
fact there are only one or two new en
trants into the contest for the several
offices and councilmanic chairs in ad
dition to those who had announced
themselves publicly some time ago.
Christian ScMiebel will be opposed
for the city attorneyship by George
Story and M. D. Phillips, candidate
for re-election as treasurer, will be
opposed by L, P. Horton, a Civil .
war veteran and well known citizen.
Candidates for election to the coun
cil will be the incumbent from each
ward with C. I. Stafford running
against H. M. Templeton in the first
ward and C.-W. FriedrJch and Walter
Schwock opposing James Roake in .
the second ward. Isom C. Bridges
and S. MacDonald will endeavor to
succeed E. B. Andrews as the repre- r
sentative of the third ward. J. F.
Albright, F:. A. Metzner, A. B. Buck
les, Roy B. Cox, E. L. Moore and E.
D. Van Auken are the councilmen
whose terms do not expire. Indica
tions in most cases, are that the pres-:
ent office holders will be re-elected.
The ballots for the election on
Monday will also contain three ini
tiative measures upon which the vot
ers of the city will be asked to ex
press themselves. One "of these pro
viding that the council shall have
power to condemn private property
for public purposes is enjoying a very
general support , and there is only
slight possibility of its defeat In
most quarters it is considered a
worthy measure and one that should
have undivided support.
As to the other two measures
there is a varying sentiment Among
the organizations in the city which
have frowned upon both of them is
the Live Wires of the Commercial
club. Their fate will be decided on
Monday. These are the bill to put
the city elevator on a self-supporting
basis through a fare which it is pro
posed to charge all who use the lift.
One quarter cent a ride is the fee
which has been set. The measure
is fathered by James Roake, council
man, and its support was divided in
the council when the subject was
first proposed.
The last of the three proposals is
that to make all public improvements
payable from the general funds of
the city. In the past it has been the
practice to assess all street, sewer
and like public improvemens against
the property owners directly benefit
ted. But under the proposed bill, if
it is made a law by the voters, the
entire taxpaying population of the
city will have to share the cost of
each public project. A sewer is to be
built in district 10. This construc
tion, as an illustration, . will cost
each taxpayer in the city an equal
amount, whereas similar improve-
similar
merits made in the past have been
paid for by those taxpayers who get
the direct benefit from the operation
of the sewer system. Streets built
below the hill would cost the tax
payers in Mountain View or anywhere
else within the city the same amount
as they cost those who own property
facing the street '
Ten Mills for Roads
Road district number 38 has made
a progressive stop toward the con
tinuance of its campaign for good
roads throughout the district and has
recently voted a ten mill special tax
levy for road purposes. There were
58 votes polled on the measure and
only 8 were against the levy. R.
Richardson is the capable supervisor
of district 38, which is out from Mil
waukie. '
. Woman's Club Meets
The usual business and a review of
the novel "A Certain Rich Man," were
the features of the regular mooting
of the Woman's Club in the Commer
cial club rooms Thursday afternoon.
The story of the rich man was read
by Mrs. D. M. Shank and it was dis
cussed by Mrs. L. L. Porter and Mrs.
E. W. Scott. A musical program will
feature the next meeting, on Decern-
jber 14. ... -