THE MORNING AS01UAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
TUKHDAY, JUNK IK), long
We Are Headquarters
Mason Fruit Jars
Pint jars, doz. $ JJ
Quart jars, doz
One-half gallon jars, doz Mjj
Jar caps, doz
Very best jar rings, 3 doz 5
A. V. ALLEN
Sole Agent or the Celebrated H. C. Fry Cut GUsi.
PHONE 711 PHONE 3871
UNIONTOWN BRANCH PHONE 713
ARE ITS TAXES LOW
Complaint That the A. & C. Gets
Off Lightly
BUT ASSESSOR. SAYS NO
Among Business Men and Others j
There is a Feeling That There is a 1
Certain Inequality, in Which the
Poor Man is Not Favored.
Is is true that some of the poor
men of Astoria, men who have mod
est little businesses and modest little
home, pay more taxes, proportionate
ly, than do some of the wealthy cor
porations? For example, does the Astoria &
Columbia River Railway Company
pay its rightful share?
At the outset it should be said
with emphasis that no one in Astoria
wants a corporation to pay more in
taxes than does any other person or
firm; each should pay exactly alike
as far as it lies in the wisdom and
power of the assessor's office to as
sess each alike, and as far as it lies in
the wisdom and power of the other
more of the big corporations is hard
ly an entirely fair one. .
Definite values of the Astoria &
j Columbia line are not readily ob
tainable. It is well understood, how
ever, that the company was bonded
for $4,000,000. When the line was
sold to the Jim Hill interests, it was
commonly reported that the purchase
nricc was anvwhere from four to six
millions. Therefore, perhaps, no one
would be likely to estimate the
value of the line in Clatsop county
at less than $3,000,000, inasmuch as
fully two-thirds or more of its entire
holdings lie within this county.
The right of way and terminals in
Astoria alone ought to be worth at
least half a million dollars. It is
doubtful if another road could come
in here and get for a million dollars
what the A. & C. now has in Astoria,
right-of-way and all,
Last year the Clatsop county and
Astoria city taxes against the road
on the hillside back of the city nre
many modest homes, tenant t;
aver, and point to their taxes in
proof, that while their houses ml
lots are worth no more than tsa i
$1500, and that at a sale in open
market they, would hardly bring that
much, nevertheless that they are a-,
sesscd at (say) from $500 to PM
that is from one-third to over on
half of the actual valuation. If thei.
their taxes are doubled this year,
it is announced the A. & C. asse
nients are to be doubled, it will mon
that they will be assessed all out or
proportion. t
It is admitted on all sides that the
system of taxation in Clatsop cof'ity
and in the other counties of the s"te,
has been for years somewhat f a
bungling system. In ottering ("
the svstem none of ihose
who talk of the matter mean tooffer
NORTH-SHORE VIEW
OF THE ROW
FISHING CONTROVERSY OVER
THE SAND ISLAND SEININO
GROUNDS TOGETHER WITH
A BIT OF SIDE HISTORY OF
INTEREST.
line launch takes them to am! from
the locations, They may all three
have ictnet licenses, as It will take
three persons to hold the cltflit loca
tions, If the nets are allowed to remain
where now anchored the leer of
the seining site named are thereby
put out of business. The lessees, the
Columbia River Packers Association
of Astoria, this month paid to the
United States Government $1294,25,
rent for the first quarter for the use
i of the seining sites, and have given
ja bond in the sum of $5175 to secure
I payment of each subsequent quarter'
rent, Jt is now tip to the United
States Government to protect the
lessee in the possession of the water
m front o( tne inland and insure
The Chinook Observer has the fol
lowing account of the Sand Island
fishing controverscy, and it makes
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"There is trouble brewing on Sand ?"'l operauo,.,, or to ucc.are n
i ... . r .! i i... it is taking from the lessees thou-
tnOtter IS''"" , AS USHHI 11 is oiinsnmcu njr
to"" .... ....... . . ... iin U of do Mars annua v and hand.
any animndversion against th men u.spui.ng ne ignt ,o nsmng m- gold bricks
' , . nffi TVv ,f np- leges and locations. Last week eight ' ,mm, mn" " m" "
now in county omcc. iney as t i he time the government pro-
parently faithfully following J - ' "" ' p0W( t0 Iea,a the Wnm, t0 lcincrs
what has been done for years, oui it - w , it contended
; n;,t .mi tint there neverwas a secured by anchors made of rocks rrc Cil" " w ti mtnueu
is pointed out that tnere ncver . , ... ,,u, that the iiovcntment cmM not lease
K .:,. .. riaht ittW tO wcigiiing uoom Jiw poiinus, io wimii , , i m,
better time tnan ngni w' . . . . ! . ... hr nw Hw water mark. These set.
straighten out certain things m the are lastenea woouen m oys. i no -
because now the strte aw ; nets run lengthwise of the island mJre, Deyn ow wa,cr ",arK
sjstem, Decausc now me u , , . , , ,f t ,e present essecs are to be
demands a new method of lUng val- a id are a few hundred feet , , , hc ffJera, governmen,
S shore at half tide. They occupy I'mieueu uic iurhh Kovmiinviu
uan L . . about a mile ofthe frontage of sites g" beyond low water mark to
For years there was a well fthned anJ 3 Kach exc , Sunda protect them. The annual rental for
but seldom expressed feeling that th are a,tcmle(, b Wahcr HussC( a I the s.tes on Sand Island is $675.
Clatsop county ought to do all that who armC(1 wi(h a ritlCi N Su. If the sctnets hold on sites 2 and 3
it could to lighten the burdens f thetMIM, am, 01W(.r ouchen M t)c. others can be placed in front of sites
A. & C, as it was looked upon a a ( licved to be 'in the employ of Mc- 4 aml S 0,ul in fultirc a" of thm
local concern, and one that had the j Gowa & Son! as thc .mcr-s Kaso. will not be worth 30 cents a year,
interest of Astoria at heart. It was- "Three years ago, on account of
not join in the hue and cry against a tween seiners, and numerous appliea-
railway company because it is a rail- tions for tideland and shoreland on
way company. All should be assess- the south side of Sand Island, the
ed just alike." federal government, at the request of
No one will question the county the U. S. hngineers Department. un
therefore hardly to be wondcrtJ af
if its assessed valuations were (lirly
low. Now, however, the A. & C is
merely a little tail-end of the girat
Jim Hill system, and apparently its
disposition, as lately exemplified in
Astoria city taxes against me roaa - - ' . . - " - - - - .
non an assessed valuation of one or more ways, has hardly beet as assessor s motives or actions m the ceremoniously drove all seiners from
were upon an as . k,j, - Ac.nrin ii Atftri.i has alwiva I ...- ... .k. fit Ulnll.l nn,l it lin Intu tii.
only $327,750, which may perhaps be
taken as being anywhere trom one
eighth to one-twelfth of the actual
value.
The new state law requires that
counties and cities shall fix the
valuation of properties at their actual
value. At the office of the county
assessor yesterday it was said that
probably the new rating on the A. &
C. will about double the value as
compared with last year's. This will
still leave the assessment surprising
ly far below the actual value, if it be
true that the road is worth anywhere
near what it is bnded at, or for
what it was reported to have been
. t i-.. .n ontireiv so rt. That is. tne new vaiuauuii
equitable levy. Nevertheless there would be still only about one-fourth
are many who have come to feel that or one-sixth of the real value.
the assessment as against one or To make a concrete comparison. Up-
fair to Astoria as Astoria has alwy
hen tn it. The A & C. should mwr
be assessed and taxed just as y
other person or firm in Astoria is
taxed, with no favors and no; Ss
favors shown.
Mr. Cornelius, the county assess,
said yesterday that the A. & C ha
never been assessed lower ' tha
others. He denied emphatically tha
it has received the slightest favor t
his hands ever." Just because it s
a corporation is no reason why t
should be jumped upon," Mr. Ca
nelius said. "I hear lots of such con-
plaints, but they have no foundation
in fact. The assessment is maot
uDon as fair a basis as it is possibk
to make, and that is just the plat!
that I have carried out ana will con
tinue to carry out. For one I wil
matter, yet at the same time a great
many seem to feel that the matter
should at least be stirred up and
looked into. If the complaints of
inequality have any basis in fact,
arising from an archaic system of
taxation, and in the case of a rail
road, of taking its valuation at mil
lions below what it is bonded or ac
tually sold for, the taxpayers at least
have a riirht to know that no in
equalities were intended, and that the
entire subject is so well understood
and annually examined by the gen
tleman in charge that inequalities, it
any, cannot exist for long. Mean
while the fact seems to remain that
i goodly number of men in Astoria
do believe that there are certain in-i-qualities
in the taxation of the
A. & C.
the island and divided it up into live
seining nites. Thi move put an end
to all disputes, and in April. 1905, the
following parties, by paying the fol
lowing sums annually, obtained
leases and enjoyed them in peace till
their leases expired: Site No. 1, W. E
Tallent, $400; No. 2. T. A. O. Stens
land (fished by McGowan & Sns),
$1920; No. 3. W. E. Tallent, $!5tX),
No 4. W. F Tallent, $600; No. 5,
Hansen & Olsen, $750. We under
stand that on account of the poor
catches last year the lessees default
ed on the last quarter's rent, and this
year a bond was exacted of the new
lessees to insure payment.
"The favorite seining grounds of
all the sites is No. 2, It was operated
by McGowan & Sons the three past
years. They were in on the bidding
this year, but their bid wu
tnan mat oi tne (Jofuiubla RVc
Packer Association. Having u.
to obtain possession of ih irr,,,,,
.by bidding thc McGownm,, thr
Steiislnnd and others, have cvld-i
determined to oppose and ten I
title of the United State to Hit j
ing privileges In front of the k
The Columbia River Packer A ,,
iatloii will bring the attention tik
U. S. Government to the clnit(fj
the waters in front of the it,Ji
nitci by the setnetters, and it r a
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uiii'ii'Minu m ii-nrii wuHl Slept
government will take to quiet
and give the lessees poised
Is presumed the Government
take speedy action on this nmu:
delay of a few days would rendu
seining sites valuelcs for thi it;
The seiner must get their omfm
men on the grounds at once,
"Fishermen using fixed applii
iook upon this new move on s
Island as a very unwise one, s
will renew the tight of the gill
teri against stationery gear, and
caute a narrowing down of traj
grounds, with more complaints t
U, S, Engineers about obstruct
drift nets and navigation. The
nctters have heretofore fought
location on th inland, tlltd lit
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pile-drivers adrift in the art of J
ing traps, iney win as vigor,
oppose the obstructions incidental
settirts, If thc new setnel
allowed to fish an entire nmon
hundreds of gilluets would ma'
impossible for them to act en
fish to nnv extieuse. T)er ;i
nothing in the business, for whtij
salmon are running in great qu
tic thc gillnctters actually cov
thc ground within a few hundred
of the shore of site No, 2 and
C hinook Observer."
W. R. Ward, of Dyersburg, T
writes: "This it to certify that I
used Orin Laxative Fruit Svru
chronic constipation, and it hai
en, without a doubt, to be a
ough, practical remedy for
trouble, and it It with pleasure I
my conscientious reference," '
Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
When tht doctor la ertd U i
"flow w th howfkt" Tbty in
trtlly wrong. Hit vUlt miiM
been uvea by timely dot of L
Family MtiW,
Morning Astorian, 60 cents pertt
Why the crowds continue to pour into the jALOFF soreto take advantage ofthemo& phenominal Cut Price Saleevei
i ,Mfn,iin Adnri'i We've toldvou before, we sav it yet. that the like has never before heen nresenterl tn tho nnl
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I and should it continue as on our opening day ana Monaay not a single garment will be here at the expiration ot m
TEN DAYS SALE
TUESDAY SPECIAL
Muslin Underwear
$1.50 Skirts go for $ jjj
3.00 Skirts go for 1-69
1.50 Chemise go for -90
2.50 Chemise go for 1-35
3.00 Chemise go for 175
1.50 Gowns go for 85
2.00 Gowns go for 1-19
3.00 Gowns go for 1-85
1.00 Drawers go for -59
1.50 Drawers go for 98
2.00 Drawers go for 115
.40 Corset Covers go for 23
.75 Corset Covers go for 39
1.00 Corset Covers go for .68
1.75 Corset Covers go for 1.10
Hosiery
15c Black Hose, sale price t. 7c
25c Black Hose, sale price 12y2c
35c Tan and Black Hose, sale price 23c
50c Tan and Black Hose, sale price 39c
75c Lisle Lace Hose, sale price 48c
100 dozen 15c White Handkerchiefs for 5c
TUESDAY
!
We offer at prices never equalled
$5.98
9.08
1.98
.99
All wool voile skirts, worthf 11.50. Tuesday
special ;
Long silk coats, man tailored, wonf 18.
Tuesday specials
Another lot of those $5.00 trimmed itit
.Tuesday special I
500 lawn waists sold for $1. Tuesday tpe.
cial ;
Underwear
The goods in our underwear department
are going very fasi Do not negle pur.
chasing now.
TUESDAY SPECIAL,
Immense Stock of
Covert Coats
Semi-fitting and box effects doomed at less thai
cost to make. We advise you to purchase at these lc
prices. First come will reap the benefits. You mu:
see these garments to appreciate the values.
$ 7.50 Coverts, gigantic sale price .$4
9.50 Knickerbocker style, only 6.3
12.50 Knickerbocker style, only 8.4
6.50 New Fancy Mixture Woolens 3.c.
Great Reductions in
Hall's noted silk gloves. Backward season demands oul
getting rid of them at a loss.
$2 silk gloves, all colors, 10 button, sale price ...$,2fv
$1,50 silk gloves, black and white, 12 button, .
go for 93
Ladies, we offer our entire lot of Wash Suits at less than other merchants pay fo hem. The Fourth
unusual opportunity to purchase one of these Tailor Made Suits less than half while they last.
be a hot one, look cool by wearing one, and don't forget thi
JALOPP
TYLE
TORE
K ANN BROTHERS, Sale Managers
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