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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1912)
1913 TAX LEVY IS BELOW THIS YEAR System of Odd and Even Year Assessments Accounts for Difference. 1.6 MILLS MINIMUM RATE Total Assessed Valuation, of State Is Placed at $900,000,000 and Amount of Taxes to Be Col lected at $1,600,000. SATRr fr. Sent 12. (SoeclaL) The amount of taxes to be raised by the taxpayers of Oregon to conoun me . . - mil will Ha nri- proximately $1,600,000, as compared to nearly a,uuu,uuu, wnicn was rio T-V. - Inirn. will Ka ftt thft OUt- Cdl 4 I. CI.. JV J . . - side 1.8 mills, compared to 3.4 for this year. rnis is accoromg which are available In the offices of the State Tax Commission. Basing: the assessed valuation of the state on a $900,000,000 roll, and the amount of taxes to be raised at $1,600, 000. the maximum levy for state pur poses will be no more than 1.8 mills, and probably nearer 1.6 mills. . Last year the State Tax Commission included in its levy the $503,000 for the University of Oregon, which will be voted on by the people In November. As a result, this money has all. been collected, and is now on hand In the . . . i eta.. T.oo.nrpr And the omce ul mo .3 Lt i.t . commission Is able to "save that much on Its levy for tne ensuing yei. v Treasury May Get College Money. In the event this referendum appro priation falls to meet defeat and the money is not allowed to the university, or in event the bill providing for six tenths of a mill expenses for the Uni- i... - ' r arJ Orncnn A ErrlCUl - versny ui w -tural College carries, this money will be available in tne treasury mi purposes. The six-tenths of a mill appropria tion bill provides for the repeal of the legislative appropriations of $603,000 for the University of Oregon, and Its passage would throw this money Into the general fund. About $83,000 additional is provided for 1 nappropriation bills which will come before the people. Some of this is already taken care of, however, as the printing appropriation has been Included In the levy. The $125,000 con tinuing appropriation for the Univer sity of Oregon will be repealed by the bill providing for a six-tenths mill levy, as will the continuing appropria tions for the Oregon Agricultural Col lege, but these will all be figured In the 1913 levy, even If that bill passes, as the repealing clause does not be come effective until January 1, 1914. Among additional appropriations that may need to be figured in will be $7000 a year for a hotel inspector, $12,000 a year for a State Highway Department, $36,000 for the Malarkey bill, and some minor appropriations, but the sum total of these would make but an exceed ingly small percentage of difference In the amount of the state levy, providing all Initiative and referendum bills pass. 1913 Lvy May Be Larjre. Should the next Legislature make large appropriations the levy following the one that will be made next Decem ber will have to care for them and, as a result. It will be Increased largely and may be as large or larger than the levy for 1912. . It was on this basis that Governor West made the statement some time ago that the levy for 1913 will be half as small as th levy for 1912. Inasmuch as It is necessary that the levies work out automatically In this manner. The levies are made In December each year. In every December In an even year the levy Is much smaller than In an odd year because It is made Immediately prior to the legislative session. In the December of the odd year the levy must be sufficient to cover all of the current expenses for the year oHow lng and to make up for all additional appropriations which the Legislature may have made for the entire biennial period. The taxes to be paid for state pur poses will be reduced to about one half, and probably less than one-half, for 1S13 than they were in 1912, in consequence of this system of making the levies. RICH MUST STAND TRIAL Klamath Man Charged With Bigamy Surrenders to Sheriff. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Sept. 12. (Special.) Testerday L. B. Rich de clared he would resist extradition, but last night he changed his mind and surrendered to Sheriff Barnes, who will arrive here with him tonight. Miss Layton was reported to have tried to withdraw her complaint, but when seen today emphatically denied the story. She says that she is de termined to fight the case to a con viction. Her mother, who is in the city. Is also in favor "ot pushing the charges against Rich. As the couple were married In Grants Pass, It may be that the case will have to be tried in Josephine County, as the crime of bigamy, if proven, was committed there. The charge of adul tery will, of course; hold against him In this county. ' LICENSE WILL BE GRANTED rnion Pacific Life Will Be Allowed to Begin Business. SALEM. Or.. SeptTlS. (Special.) It an opinion considered of much Import ance to insurance companies organized In this state Attorney-General Craw ford today told Insurance Commission er Ferguson that the Union Pacific Life Insurance Company of Portland has complied with the law and is en titled to its license. In the course of this opinion he interprets the statute relative to paid up capital. "We .understand that the only dif ference between your office and the company." he says, "Is that your of fice holds that the $100,000 paid-up capital stock should all be subscribed to be paid up before the company is entitled to transact business in the states. The law does not so provide." LARGE ATTENDANCE LOOMS Freshman Class at Corvallls May Have 600 Members. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallis. Sept. 12. (Special.) The advance registration of students at Oregon Agricultural College points to the largest attendance in the his tory of the Institution. Up to last night Registrar H. M. Tennant had on file the applications of 227 new stu dents, and requests for application blanks continue to come In. The enrollment of new students at the present time is 25 per cent in ex cess of the number whose credentials were on file at the corresponding date one year ago. In last year's freshman class there- were 4S8 new students, in addition to some who had enough back work to keep them classified as fresh men. If the present rate of increase is maintained until the close of registra tion it will mean that the class of 1915 at Oregon Agricultural College will en ter almost 600 members. Last week the principal of one of the Los Angeles high schools request ed application blanks for six gradu ates, who will come to Oregon Agri cultural College, and yesterday a let ter came from Cottage Grove, asking for JO blanks. The credentials already received are from students residing in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Colorado. Illinois, Indiana, ISwa, Kan sas. Kentucky. Michigan. Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska.Hew Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota. Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Alaska, Japan and India. TEACHING STAFF HIRED INDEPENDENCE HAS 14 IN STRUCTORS EMPLOYED. Athletics Will Be Given Attention, Manual Training and Domestic Science Included. INDEPENDENCE, Or., Sept. 12. A corps of 14 teachers- has been elected by the local board for the schools of i ' It -4 Tr J a. N Professor F. G. Chute, Who Will Head Independence Schools. this city for the coming year. They are: Professors F. G. Chute, William Ridgeway, Misses Ivy Burton and Mary E. Cate for the High School, and the Misses June Seeley, Chloe Palmer, Alice Thacker, Hazel Bohanum, Martha Gal breath, Helen Myers, Margaret Shlnk ers. Edith West, Kora Brown and Pearl Smith for the grades. The new principal. Professor Chute, received his training in the public schools and the Northern Normal and Industrial School, of South Dakota. He taught In that state for a few years before coming to Oregon. He was in charge at Clatskanle, Or., and comes to Independence highly recommended and with well matured plans for his work. Professor William Ridgeway, who has been elected assistant principal, was chosen by the School Board after a careful canvass to And a man compe. tent to do the High School work, com bined with, ability to handle the athletics. He is an athletic trainer for field and track sports, baseball, basket-ball and football. The High School has a tract of eight acres surrounding It, and plans are under way to make a first-class ground for athletic sports. A class in domestic science was or ganized last year and did successful work. Equipment is to be provided so that this department may be enlarged and Its work extended Into other branches of domestic science. Miss Mary E. Cate, of the O. A. C. class of 1310 has charge of this work. A manual training department will be added this year. All kinds of woodworking and a course in mechanical drawing will be taught. Professor Chute will have charge. The enrollment will show a large in crease over any preceding year. The term opens September 30. GRAND -JURY ENDS GRIND i Pendleton Body Returns Fifteen True Bills, One for Murder. PENDLETON. Or., Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) The grand Jury for the Septem ber term concluded its grind yester day and brought in a total of 15 true bills and six not true bills. Co lumbia George was Indicted for first de gree murder, being accused of killing an aged squaw named Tlmot , on tbe reservation last July. Less than a year ago Columbia George was re leased from McNeil's Island, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment for poisoning an Indian medicine woman. Others to be indicted were: unanes Dunavan, James Rogers and Charles Morgan, accused of robbing- box cars near Umatilla. Bert Livermore, who up to the time of his arrest, was a Deputy under the game warden, and William Scott, are charged with having killed deer out of season. Grant Selme, the Russian- Finn, who badly beat a Spe cial Officer, John Halley. Jr.. was in dicted on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Thomas Williams and F. D. Flske were charged with cattle rustling, while Charles Modrell. Lynn Hill and Clint Bailey are Indicted for larceny. Williams, Hill. Modrell, Livermore and Scott have until September 14, to answer, the others having entered pleas of not guilty. Florence Verdict Is Suicide. FLORENCE, Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) That Henry Hill committed suicide seems probable since the finding of a note In his room at i. o. r osoack s resi dence. The note was written in Finnish, and being translated read Farewell to all the world's evil doers." The Cor oner's Jury brought in a verdict of sul. Ide. Hill left the house early Thursday morning, saying he was going hunting, and in about an hour two shots were heard, but no alarm was felt until later, when search parties hunted all night. finding the body Friday morning. The stick he used to pull the trigger of the gun was found close beside the body. He had been" in this vicinity about two years, and so far as is known was unmarried. Family Earns $106.78 in 8 Pays. ALBANY. Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. James Darcy and son. of this city, picked 10,678 pounds of hops in eight days at the hopyard near Cor vallis owned by J. C. Hammell, of Albany. They were paid 1 cent a pound for picking and the wages ot the three of them for eight days amounted to $106.78. HEW RATES MADE SUMPTER ROAD State Railroad Commission Wants 4 Cents Per Mile From Passengers. LUMBER TARIFF ADJUSTED Case Brought by Baker Commercial Club Results in Suggested Scale Between Towns on Eastern Oregon Line. SALEM. Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) Holding that certain passenger and freight rates on the Sumpter Valley Ralroad are unjust, unreasonable and discriminatory, the State Railroad Com mission has issued orders in the case of the Sumpter Valley Railway taken up on Its own motion and In the case instituted by the Baker Commercial Club, these orders covering many of the Important rates on that road and are changes that have been long con tended for in that section. In the case on its own motion tlie Commission passes . on the passenger tariff on 'the road and finds that no rates are named from the stations at South Baker, Salisbury, Water Tank and Summit, where the passenger trains stop either regularly or for sig nal but the rates for these stations are' made by applying the rate named in the tariff to the more distant point named in the same direction. Four-Cent Rate Suggested. Just, reasonable and non-discriminatory passenger rates would be reached, recites this order, by computing ths same on the basis of the actual mile age traveled at the rate of 4 cents per mile. , rr U r)AMmjeefnn olfiA ' fi Tl H H that a Just and reasonable rate on green lum ber loaded in opeivcars wouiu u .v per thousand, with a minimum car load weight of 35,000 pounds, bul when loaded to full visible capacity, so that no more lumber in ordinary lengths could be loaded therein, actual loading will govern. In the order In the case of the Baker Commercial Club as to lumber rates the Commission finds "that around and tributary to the stations of Whitney, Tipton, Austin and Dixie are large quantities of merchantable timber. That at Baker there are sawmills at which logs cut at Whitney are manu factured into lumber and at whlcn logs cut from the timber at Tipton, Austin and Dixie could be manufac tured into lumber. That there is a sawmill at Austin which manufactures logs produced around and tributary to that station into lumber, which said lumber Is then transported over the line of the defendant to Baker. That the refusal of the defendant to trans port logs from said stations . . . constitutes an unjust discrimination." a o . n .MflnnnhlA mtR from Tin- ton, Austin and Dixie to Baker would be: From Tipton, $2.96; Austin, $3.40; Dixie, $4. The road is ordered to desist from falling to transport logs when offered in carload lots from the stations of Tipton, Austin and Dixie to Baker at I-Uh .? vtnt- r-ctA thnflff fflimd i.icg -i . v. -1 and also to desist from refusing to transport logs irom points on us mien west of Whitney to Baker. . . LEWISTON T0TRY AGAIN Motc on Foot to Celebrate Idaho Semi-Centennlal Xext Year. IHWISTUN "Mnho- Sent. 12. (SdO- U1 A 1U iff htn& framed bv the Lewiston Commercial Club members to be presented at the next regular ses sion of the Idaho State Legislature rec ommending that the 15th anniversary n fminiiiTiff nf Tslnlin am a. terrltorv be commemorated at Lewiston In 1913 Inasmuch as this city was the home of the first capital of the state. A bill similar to the one now being n-rTiY-A w&st introduced at the last session of the legislature, but did not til the close of the session. Governor Hawley. In order to Insure Its passage, recommenced in a special mes sage that both houses pass the measure by the needed two-thirds vote. In the ..v, nf hnalnem the bill did not secure the needed majority and was laid over until the next regular session wnicn convenes In December. A semi-centenial celebration fitting to i,a ni-poRinn will be encouraged bv the local club with the co-operation of all the bodies tributary to lewiston. A committee comprizing i. H. KH an, T-y J R. Morris. H. L. Talkington. James E. Babb and Wallace B. Stalnton will handle the introduction of the bill. LOG RATES WILL ADVANCE Astoria Camps Notify Customers of $1 Rise. October 1. ASTORIA. Or.. Sept. 12. (Special.) The local logging camps have notified their customers that on October 1 the price of logs will be advanced $1 a thousand feet above the grade rates that have been In , force for some time. This action follows a similar raise made by the upper river mills and that became effective on September 1. DEPUTY SHERIFFS WOMEN Appointees at Astoria Will Look Af . ter Humane Features. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) Clatsop County has three new Deputy Sheriffs."" They are Mrs. W. O. Barnes, Mrs. C. L. Houston and R. A. Phillips, who were appointed by Sheriff Burns today to act as humane officers. They will have authority to arrest all vlolaters of the state humane laws, and will act in connection with the work of the newly orgnized humane society, serving without compensation from the county. Fishing Trip Costs $1050. ASTORIA. Or.. Sept. 12. (Special.) A few days ago Theodore Siverson pleaded guilty In the Justice Court to a charge of operating his fish trap at Woody Island during the closed .sea son and was fined $50 and costs, which he pad. His trap was confiscated by the State Fisheries Department, and today Mr. Siverson redeemed the trap by paying the state $1000 for it. Lingenfelter Is Exonerated. BOISE. Idaho, Sept. 12. By refusing last night to return a bill against United States District Attorney C. H. Lingenfelter, the special Federal grand Jury relieved Lingenfelter of the charge filed against -him by Van S. Hasbrouck, a former deputy, of receiv ing a fee for pushing a mining claim t patent. It Is Illegal for United States ... Come Ahead, Fellows- It's Nearly School Time Here's your shop, filled to overflowing with boys' new suits; they're the smart est, most carefully tailored and durably made suits we have ever shown. The fabrics are reliable and the patterns are in good taste. Either Knickers or Norfolks ' $5 to $20 Boys' All-Wool Double-Breasted Fall Suits with two pairs of fully lined Knicke trousers for only $5.00 The Best Suits in Town at the Price Second Floor BEN SELLING LEADING CLOTHIER Morrison Street at Fourth Girls We are headquarters for "Bradley" sweater coats. The largest stock and the prettiest weaves; either "Ruffueck" or "Byrne" collars, $5 to $8.50. Norfolks at $7.50 and $8.50. Furnishing Dept., Main Floor. attorneys to appear for pay In cases In which the Government is Interested. Dr. Anna Shaw to Visit Oregon. GRANTS PASS, Or., Sept. 12. (Spe cialsWord has been received here that Dr. Anna Shaw, president of the National Women's Suffrage League, will be here some time early In October, the date to be fixed a little later. The president of the local league will make arrangements to have Dr. Shaw speak at this place. An entertainment and programme of some length will be ren dered. Invitations will be sent to the Ashland and Medford suffrage leagues. Medford and Ashland both have very active leagues and are carrying on a vigorous campaign for '"votes for women." Grain Dry, Threshers Busy. ALBANY, Or, Sept. 12. (Special.) With all the threshing crews In this part of the state running early and late now. the grain which was soaked in the recent unreasonable rains Is being fed to the machines rapidly. Virtually all the grain which was out in the fields during the rains is now dry enough for threshing. It Is be lieved that all of the rain-soaked (train will be in shape to thresh, but much of It is damaged so that it will not be marketable. It will do for feed, how- DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEART Most people who have heart disease do not know it: Most people who think they have heart disease, haven't. They only think so. Pain in the region of the heart is mistakenly supposed to be a symptom of heart disease. 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