The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957, May 28, 1908, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextHlJWlHtlUWluw.jWM'JgTWW immmmmKmBmmKmmmmmmmmmK fajggai fiwr&A'jSjEBS r wywjww'jpw winniimM mi q l THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1908. V v r TO THE TAXPAYERS I understand that there are' some who object to the method now in use In collecting taxes and keeping the accounts claiming that it is much more expensive than the old system. In the first place the present system is the cheapest and best that any county can adopt for several reasons. It can safely be said that under tho old system there was enough proporty missed each year that was not assessed, hence not taxed, to pay tho ontiro salary list of the tax de partment of tho sheriff's office if it had been properly placed on the as sessment and tax rolls. Under the present system, tho property is listed according to sec tion, township and range, if it is acreage, or lot, block and addi tion, ii'it is town lots, and if tho owner is not known it makes no dif ference, it is placed in its order and each separate piece bears its burden of taxation while under tho old method acreage, town lots and per sonal property were lumped in to gether and all tho taxes extended in ono sum against all of any indivi dual's property. In many cases, it was impossible to place all of tho proporty upon tho tax receipt (even though it was many times as large), while under the present method every parcel of land, town lot, or personal property is designated to gether with the valuation and total amount of tax on each distinct par col. Under tho present system, tho sheriff's office finds all errors made by tho assessor in placing valuations and all errors made by the county clerk in calculating and extending tho taxes. A number of tho tax payers will testify to being notified to remit anywhere from $1.00 to $120.00 even after they had ap parently paid all of their taxes, and wo refunded to just as many or more anywhere from a few cents to $108 that was over charged and paid. Tho parties in either case had their re ceipts and would never have been any wiser had we not found the er rors and notified them. Our motto is .that, "Whatever is right is right, wrong is wrong and no wrong is right until it Is made right." No man is hurt by having to pay exactly what is right accord ing to the assessed valuation and levy. The law is that tho sheriff shall correct all errors in assessment or calculation that ho may discover at any time during tho collection of taxes and to make the same con form to tho facts. Double assessments under the pre sent system of assessment are things that are almost impossible while under the old system they were things that it was almost impossible to avoid. The records show that there was not a year, but that dozens of them were made. Under the present system the as sessor can make up the rolls prac tically accurate with very little ex pense, while under tho old way ac curacy was almost an impossibility. This year it would have taken at loast two clerks in the assessor's of fice to have done tho work under tho old way, while one is doing it under the new system. So, while it costs more to collect the taxes, if it does, it costs less to make up the assessments. Taking tho last four years we find the following comparative statement which Bpeaks for itself and shows why it takes more help to handle the taxes now than it has heretofore: In 1904 there were two volumes of tho assessment rolls containing 463 pages, with 29 lines to the page,' making 13,427 lines embraced in the part used for making assessments. In 1905, there was also two vol umes of the assessment rolls contain ing 4C7 pages, with 29 lines to the page, making 13,543 lines embraced in the part used for making assess ments. In 1906, there was threo volumes of the assessment rolls containing 850 pages, with 29 lines to tho page, making 24,050 lines embraced in the part used for assessments; and in 1907, there are six volumes of the assessment rolls containing 1,478 pages, with 35 linos to tho page, making 51,730 lines embraced in the part used for assessments. A glance at the foregoing shows us that there is practically four times as many assessments in 1907 as there was for the years of 1904 1905, henco there would be four times as much labor required to handle tho taxes for 1907 as for the years of 1904-5. I will say that the sheriff's office should not be held responsible for tho rapid growth of the county, though we aro glad to see it, nor the platting of so many new town sites. There aro 32,000 town lots on tho 1907 rolls which constitute three volumes out of the six used. Our system of collecting and handling tho taxes corresponds to, and is in direct line with the lot and block system of assessment, and tho only practical method that has been recommended by the best ac countants of the state, and it is the same that has been in use for the past ten years in Multnomah county, and Beveral other of tho larger coun ties have installed it simply because it is the only absolute correct way of getting exactly what Is duo from each individual which is in com pliance with our laws and tho Cons titution that provides for equal taxa tion. Last year Multnomah county had sixteen volumes of assessment rolls and it took 37 clerks to handle the taxes during tho busy season while this year we had six volumes and used nine clerks for about ten days, the rest of the time from four to eight, which is proportionately con siderably cheaper than Multnomah County people get their taxes col lected. In the name of reason what more can the good people of this county expect? I have collected over $6,000 of back taxes for the years of 1899 to 1904 Inclusive, that was considered by the county court to bo all paid and that there was nothing on the books worth while trying to get. There are some people who aro kicking about the expense of prose cuting the open gambling cases, tho violators of the liquor laws, etc. In response to that I will say that the sheriff's office should not be blamed in any way for what violators of the law cost the county as we have only done what is by law made our duty. In the past two years, there has been paid into the county treasury in fines, which were im posed by the circuit court, $3,205 from gambling cases, violators of the liquor laws, etc., besides $1,100 from the above sources that is still in court and will come in later on. W. W. GAGE. MARSHFIELD "DRY" BY 200 COUNTY BY 500. POLITICAL ADVERTISING. MARSHFIELD WILL BE DRY Prosecuting Attorney Geo. M. Brown Says Law Is Plain On Question. Owing to tho reports having been placed in circulation that the Marsh field saloons would, under the amendment to the charter recently secured, be Independent of tho coun ty and nblo to keep open even if Coos county goes dry, official refuta tion of tho claim was securod today. Marshfield saloons must abide by the same law that governs every other city in Coos county, according to Geo. M. Brown, prosecuting attorney for this district. The following tele gram is self explanatory: Roseburg, Or., May 26, 1908. Dr. J. T. McCormac, Marshfield, Oregon. Local option law applies to all parts of Coos county alike and if county goes dry of course Marsh field saloons will be closed. GEORGE M. BROWN. HAVE MERCY ON THE SALOON MAN. By voting for Prohibition and give him a chance to earn an honorable living. Many of them would become good citizens if given half a chance. ARE SALOONS A BENEFIT TO A TOWN FINANCIALLY? If they are then Marshfield with its 13 saloons should be in a fine financial condition, with paved streets, municipal water works and electric lights, city parks, city docks, modern sewer system and everything that goes to-mako up a modern city, with city warrants at a premium. What are the facts? According to the report of Expert Squires she is in an alarming condi tion. With a city charter that allows an indebtedness of but $25,000 she is in debt to the amount of $43,000 and going still further in debt. Not a bank in the county will cash the Marshfield city warrants at par. Thero is not a single foot of paved streets. Not a single one of the above necessary improvements. Worse than all, tho city is running in debt to the extent of several thou sand dollars annually; and the city council is considering the advisability of asking tho peoplo to allow them to Incur a bonded indebtedness of $50,000. What do you think that for a "wet" town? Compare the above with the city of Eugene a dry town for two years, which is in a most prosperous condi tion as shown by tho statement of Mayor Matlock. A careful canvass of the list of registered voters assures a majority for Prohibition In Marshfield of 200 and In the county of 500. Do not worry about Marshfield. SALOONS AS AN INDUSTRY. While our lumber, coal, dairy and fruit industries are bringing money Into the county, the liquor business does not bring in one dollar, but sends out thousands every month to pay tho wholesale liquor dealers, who are fighting Prohibition in Coos county. Store your goods with tho Bay Side Paint Co., North Bend. LICENSE AND CRIME. $1.00 to $11.00. For every dollar tho state of Ore gon receives from saloon licenses it pays out over eleven dollars in the prosecution and punishment of crimes caused by liquor. Cities receive the license feo and the counties pay the bills. Farmers where to you get off? What good will Prohibition do Coos county, if we elect gamblers and saloonmen to execute our laws? Remember this when you Tote. AlV!yS4AA4yyAA . . It, s Here TEe SAMSON MARINE ENGINE Now on Exhibition at, our Sales Rooms Pronounced a Beauty by all the Local Gasoline Experts Call and inspect it Coos Bay Oil & Supply Co. Water Front Near "A" Street I Phone 33 - - Marshfield, Ore. VVVV4V4VVVVVVVVVVVV4VVV WSAAAAAASA4ySAAAVJ'AAi wAti Safety Deposit Boxes Are a recognized necessity for the safe keeping of valuables. We can care for your valuables in the strongest and best equipped vault in the county for $5.00 a year. Absolute secrecy. We invite your inspection of our banking room and particularly this department. First Trust and Savings Bank of Coos Bay, capital stock fully paid $100,000.00. JOHN S. C0KE , President. M. C. H0RT0N . Vice-pres.-manager. D. KREITZER - Cashier. .W.tV'tVV4V'WWV4VVVVVVVV4-VV4'VVVVVVVV STEAMERS. THE iJJSTSa, Steamer. Plant SAILS FOB SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1008. FROM MARSHFIELD. No reservation held after tho arrival of tho iliip unless ticket Is bought. F. S. DOW, Agent, MARSHFIELD, OREGON LINE UP. You must vote either with the gamblers, saloon men and BAWDY HOUSE KEEPERS or against them. Where do you stand? fi5S5HSZSa5H5HSSSESSS25H5HSHSESHSZSH"E5HSE5HSE5SS2S35HSSSHSHS2SaSH5SSS? Portland & Coos Bay S S. Line BREAKWATER Sails from Portland Wednesday at 8 p. m. Sails from Coos Bay Satu days at Service of Tide. S. S. CZARINA Sails weekly for San Francisco, carrying freight and combustibles only Wo will store your goods for lc cubic feet. Bay Side Paint Co., North Bend. GETV SUnOAI CMWOT AROUMD LEAD3 &. WHEELS ..!-. Allkfr-lT-Ot? Aft! J (. rwis .tvni'-r c" t. r vt.bcb'c sSPAWMlVG K.OUMD.5 i?N wxLIfjsh Wheels k, " !.. WfeZ? sssss Mo SALMOtt'&rMfo&lGut?. i v. -A. "-ov. tA.mt nooco if tirvtmtA 527WVr i .rt?jTrasxr5$s$sss :aHraff fycggw-" K'WJl'iftM!" .y..V c lead HlTE??UKiwHjraSBVi5l1Srr., tho on s?:? --mmmm3r i i rr ti " vy c r rs. n 'in 1 1 n t im 11 -t .iiii j on -i.'if.'a i smemrr m?ro' 7 '' . - ' - rs -ri-nrnr'- - ftMiKt- ar a i imiirii -mayiininiiiiiiii&HM z&zv... , vawo mo i i -r -. TTM'l-'CM IT -?; OlO J.CI --J" l"rr1ifr MI6HWATER r-isn ?-r WATS s-2J0i' WHEELS 310 X No ? crsvw.e' m&iK mr Bb .Pl JEUFERTS HIGHWATER FISH WHEELS COLUMBIA RIVER y salmon stream on Pacffio Coast whero Merciless Fishwheeu are permitted. Bnx332 now before the publio Will Correct This l?onr veam am hatcheries in Unoer Columbia caught over 20,000 salmon. FUhwhcuIs Imnroved ao now no aalnum (7 reaches hatcheries and they are ail doted. . Thus all of the Upper Columbia natural CLIP THI8 OUT iMJ.raffiSiS: Will th ulmon HUherie to all tbe people for all time. C. F. McColIum, Agt. ' Phone Main 34 - - - - A. St. Dock California and Oregon Coast Steamship Company Steamer Alliance B. W. OLSON, Master. COOS BAY AND PORTLAND SAILS FROM PORTLAND SATURDAYS, 8 P. M. SAILS FROM COOS BAY TUESDAYS, AT SERVICE OF TIDE. H. W. Skinner. Agt. Marab field. Ore.. Phono 441. Business D rectory Doctors. D OOTOK B. P. BATJMBAUGH Physician and Surgoon, Diseases of "Women and Chlldr-,, Office Rooms 209-10 Coos Building. Phono 2141 D It. GEORGE W. LESLIE Osteopathic Physician ' Gradunte of American School of Osteonatnr Klrksvllle, Mo. Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Other Hours er Appointment. Office In Nnsburg Block; Phone 1611. Marshfield, Or. DU. GEO. E. DDE ' Physieian and Snrgcox. ' New Flanagan & Bennett Bank Bldff. 'Phono 1681. DR. J. W. INGRAM j PIlVfilMnn nnil QnwfAAM " "- S-V UAWU Office oyer Sengstacken'a D.rue Stora. Phones Office 1621; Residence 781. DR. A. Ij. HOUSEWORTn Physician and Surgeon. Office second floor of Flanagan &n4 Bennett New Bank Building. Residence, two blocks north Ot' Crystal Theater. Office Phone j 1431. Residence Phone 656. Lawyers. Francis II. Clarke Jacob 11. ttlakll LAwrcnc e a. iiiijequist CLARICE, BLAKE & LILJEQVIST, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Tlmm Building, Marshfield. Ora United States Commissioner's OfflasWj J . W. BENNETT, Office over Flanagan & Bennett Bank llarshfleld, Oregon OKE & COKE, Attorneys at Law. Marshfield, Oregon. Miscellaneous MARSHFIELD DANCING ACADEKT Odd Fellows Hall. Monday and Thursday. Aftornooa and Evening. Private Instruction. Prof. O. P. SmltlP RIBBS & MASON V Photographers. Coos Bay Monthly Bldg. Marshfield, Oregon. M R. ALBERT ABEL, Contractor for Teaming of all kind,, Phone 1884. CLEARING GRADING CITY Lota, Blowing Ont Stomps. Contracts taken. Estimates' Furnished. PETER SCOTT, JR., 'Phono 538 Marshfield, Or. MUSICAL " MRS. GERALDINE MORRIS, Voice Cnltnro. Pure Italian Method, Artistic Singing Studio in Nasburg Block. ELMER A. TODD, Director Coos Bay Academy of Maafe. ' Voice, Piano. Pipe Organ. Harmony etc., from Beginning to graduation. Singers coached in style diction and intcrnretatlonn. for mum. oratorio or concert work . New O'Connoll Dnildlna, Marshfield. TH0MAS0N & HANSON -DEALERS IN- :: 'Hay Grain and feed' . . Free Delivery Phone 17S1 Flanagan & Bennett Bank F. P. Baumgartner, Agt. Couch St. Dock, Portland, Oro, k MA RQTlWTlfT.n eJvnfvr Capital Subscribed 50.000 Capital Paid Up $40,000 unnivinon crnnti iviwyi Poet a general banking buslne'as and draw ftti tho Ranlr sit PallfnnU a- n Calif., First National Bank Portland Or., iflrrt National Bank. Hoseburg, Or., Hanover N. nuu" .u.ui., neff iurJC, ti, H. HOIUCJuI A Soa, London, England. Also nell change on nearly all tha prinen.i cities ol Europe. ' Accounts kept subject to check, safe depoil lock boxes for rent at CO cents a montk a IS. a year. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS 333n,NUEF'SHB"-0- VrtSHWHEtl Dl(It V TBtCK llll H Will el oil salmon to six wheelowners aa Ions as ftalroon lasti wlirkllloaall salmon CCCtMmAH MAP OCPK ThU picture shows the long lead, extending into river, right up to falls, and tha three UTinermost VISHWIIEELS. These catch ALL Tim salmon ascendlncr to spawning grounds. To save tho Columbia Salmon Yoto 332, Yes, and 310, No The STEAMER EUREKA SAILS FOR EUREICA SATURDAY, MAY 2nd. No reservation held after tho arrival of the Bhlp unless ticket is bought. MARSHFIELD, " F. S. DOW, Agent OREGON KEE LOX Typewriter Ribbon and Carbon Paper NORTON & HANSENS The Stationers DRINK WEINHARD'S BEER, BEST MADE MARSDEN'S LIQUOR HOUSE EMPRE Fish Market A Street Wharf Freeh, Salt, Stnoked and canned flsh; in fact all Idnds of fish in 6oason. Wharf back of . . - PIONEER JROCERY. ESHSHSISHSSTLT HERE'S YOUP GOOD nEALTK Wclnhard'a Beer .WARDEN'S LIQUOR PQUSE3. Phono 481 Orders Delivered Fre