Heppner gazette., January 24, 1907, Image 3

Proposed Oregon Tax Law
(Continued from last week)
(Statement of county expenses to be
certified to secretary of state.)
. . Section 6. That section 3088 of the
Codes ami Statutes of Oregon, compiled
and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel
linger and William W. Cotton, be and
t he name hereby is amended to read as
follows:
By the 10th of January of each year
the county clerk of the several counties
in the state shall prepare, upon a blank
form prescribed and furnished by the
secretary of state, a concise tabulated
statement of all the expenses of h is
county for the preceding year, excpet
expenses for roads and highways, and
except the sums paid for the erection of
court houses, or on account of pesti
lence of epidemics, which statement
filial 1 be certified to by him as such
county clerk and forwarded to the sec
retary of state, and a duplicate thereof
be placed on file in his own office.
(The only change is to require the state
ments to lie filed hy the 10th instead of the
15th of January, and to except costs of court
houses, pestilences, or epidemics from the
expense statement. As the opportionment
most (after 1010) be made on the basis of
these statements, as well as those previously
made, and remains to be certified to the coun
ties, and the several county courts then, at
the January term, must make a levy sufficient
to cover the apportionment, the necessity for
promptness is apparent.)
(Secretary of shite to keep record of
statement certified.)
Section 7. The secretary of state
shall immediately record such state
ment in books provided and kept in
li is ollice fur that purpose, and shall
supply the several county clerks with
the necessary forms for making such
reports, as provided for in this act.
( li. & C. Comp., section 3080, without
change.)
(Apportionment of revenues of state
among counties.)
Sections. It (-hall be the duty of
the governor, secretary of state and
state treasurer, acting joint ly, in Jan
uary of each year, to ascertain by com
putation, as hereinafter provided, the
total amount of revenue necessary for
state purposes, and to apportion the
aforesaid total revenue among the seve
ral counties in the manner hereinafter
' '
ii:. i t . C omp., section 3000, as reenacted
liy Laws of Special Session, 1D03, page 0,
without change.)
(Method of proceeding in making state
up ort ion merit.)
Section 9. The aforesaid state offi
cers shall proceed as follows:
1. Prepare a tabular statement, con
sisting of all the items of expenses,
given separately, to which the state will
be subject under existing laws for the
iscal year next after that year for
which the last preceding state levy of
taxes was computed and declared; also
all items of deficiency, including inter
est on unpaid warrants left over from
the previous year, the payment of which
litis been authorized hy law; and also
the sum provided by law for the current
expenses of the Oregon National Guard,
ami the sum of $47,500 for the support
of the University of Oregon, and the
sum of $25,0110 for the support of the
State Agricultural college; and also,
when such levy is made on the assess
ment of an even year, the estimated
expense of one biennial session of the
legislative assembly; and also, when
such levy is made on the assessment of
an even year, the estimated total cost,
not exceeding $200,000, of such addi
tional public buildings and improve
ments of public buildings of the state
us the said state ollicers shall believe it
neesei-ary to make during the fiscal
year for which such levy of taxes is
computed.
2. From the sum total of the afore
said items shall be deducted any sur
plus in excess of $5,000 remaining in
the treasury from all funds, however
derived, if not applied by law to some
special purHse.
3. The remainder so obtained shall
be the total amount of revenue to be
raised the next ensuing year for state
purposes which "re ;;;t provided lor by
a special tax duly authorized by law;
iiml said remainder shall be apportion
ed among the several counties in the
manner hereinaftt r provided, and Ik1
levied and collected in each of said
counties in the manner other taxes are
levied atnl collected, and be paid over
to the state treasurer.
4. In order to ascertain the propor
tion of such taxes to be paid by the sev
eral count ies, said state officers shall
ascertain from the rejxirt of expendi
tures of the several counties on file in
the ollice of the secretary of state the
average amount of expenditure in each
county during the period of five years;
and each county shall pay such propor
tion of said state taxes as its average
amount of expenditures for said period
bears to the total amount of expendi
tures in all of the counties of the state;
Provided, that all of the indlietedness
and expenses incurred by Baker count v
in the acquisition of that portion of
what was formerly a part of Union
count v, and known as the "Panhandle
by reason of the assumption by Baker
county of a portion of the then existing
indebtedness of Union County, and the
expenses incurred by Baker County in
obtaining from Union County the rec
ords relating to that art of Union
county added to liaker county, known
n-s the "Panhandle,' shall not le con-
Xmim Itrarrrt.
"I sec" whore I mnu my mistake,' Bid
lh( vonornble college professor, (fathering
Lis threadbare cloak around his atten
uated form. "If I had mastered one dia
lect instead of sixteen langiinse I might
I:nve gone on the stage and been worth
half a million by this time."
firnrrd Illm.
Gritty George What's de matter wld
Pusty? He don't seeni so anxious to
Bleep like he used to?
Sandy Pikes No. somebody told him
de mind works while we are asleea
strued or considered a part of the ex
penses of Baker county under this act
for any of the years in which said ex
penditures were made: Provided fur
ther, that the amount paid by any
county in reducing or discharging its
indebtedness, or paying interest on its
indebtedness, shall not be considered a
part of the expenses of a county under
thisjtct. Such computation to be made
by said state officers in 1910, and in
January in each fifth year thereafter.
Until the January, 1910, computation
the proportion of the state taxes to be
paid by the several Counties shall be as
set out in the following table, to wit:
Counties. I'er ct. Counties. Ter ct.
Haker 0234 Lincoln 00.55
Henton 0202 Linn 0520
Clackamas ... .0335 Malheur OOL'4
Clatsop 0212 Marion 0B 13
Columbia 0100 Morrow 00!5
Coos 0203 Multnomah .. .3123
Crook 0130 l'olk 0307
Curry 0040 Sherman 0087
l'onglas 0345 Tillamook ... .0087
Cilliam 0US7 Umatilla 0400
Crant 00!(2 Union 0223
Harney 0100 Wallowa 0073
Jackson 0314 Wasco 0'!34
Insephine oooo Washington .. .0301
Klamath 0115 Wheeler 0007
Lake 0107 Yamhill 03 J
Lane 0462 1
(No change from section 1, Laws 1903, page
302, except to omit two lines immediately pre
ceding the table, "which is based on the as
sessments of the several counties for the past
five years," as n"t literally true, in an act to be
now enacted. The original table was found
in Laws of 1001, and the table was based on
the assessments made during the five years
prior to that year.)
(Secretary of state to report to legisla
ture account of collections and appor
tionments.) Section 10. The secretary of state
shall embody in his printed report to
the legislative assembly an accurate
transcript or account of the aforesaid
annual collections and periodical appor
tionments occurring between the bien
nial sessions of the legislature; and he
shall also transmit immediately after
said apportionment an accurate trans
cript of it to the county clerks of the
several counties, and in no case shall
any deduction or abatement be made
from the apportionment to the respect
ive counties on account of the delin
quent taxpayers.
secriun oO-e' Without
change.!
(Numerous statutory provisions for special
and general levies of taxes by counties, cities,
towns, school districts, rond districts, and I'ort
of 1'ortland, and for the inclusion in the state
apportionment of certain sums, may be found.
Many of these provisions are to be found in
the special statutes and city charters; others
are intimately connected with statutes directing
the disposition of the funds so levied. To at
tempt to group them in a chapter dealing of
the subject of the levy and apportionment of
taxes generally would be all but impossible,
and misleading if accomplished, and is not at
tempted.) (Of the Collection of Taxes and Proceed
ings in Relation Thereto.)
(Words "tax collector" Meaning.)
Section 11. The words "tax collect
or" wherever used in this act shall be
taken to mean the person or officer who
by law is charged with the duty of col
lecting taxes assessed upon real proper
ty, and shall be held to include his
deputy.
(New.)
(Treasurer is tax collector.)
Section 12. The treasurer of each
countv shall be the tax collector thereof.
(Substitutes treasurer for sheriff in H. & C.
Comp., section IlOlJJt. The changes in the suc
ceeding sections necessitated by this change
will not be specifically noted.)
(Bond as tax collector Cumulative to
general oliicial bond.)
Section 13. Before entering upon his
duty as tax collector the tieasurer shall
give a bond, signed by some responible
surety company, or some responsible
surety or sureties as approved by the
county court, conditioned for the faith
ful performance of his duties as such
tax collector, in such amount as the
county court shall direct, and such
bond, if signed by a surety company,
shall be paid for by the county court.
Such bond shall be additional and cu
mulative to the eeneral bond civen hi
the treasurer, to which resort may be
had in case of failure or default of his
duties as tax collector if the bond de
scribed in this section be unenforceable
or insufficient.
(The last nine lines of section 3004, I!. &
C. Comp., without change, except change of
title of officer.)
(Extension of taxes by county clerk.)
Section 14. The county clerk of each
county in the state shall, immediately
alter receiving from the state board ol
tax commissioners a copy of the assess
ments of persons and property within
his county, made and certified by said
state board of tax commissioners, enter
and apportion the same in the assess
ment roll which has been made by the
county assessor, and corrected and
equalized by the county board of equal
ization, and returned to said clerk.
Said clerk shall forthwith after receiv
ing all the notices provided for in sec
tion 4 of this act, and after the appor
tionment of taxes, make a certiefiate of
the several amounts apportioned to be
assessed upon the taxable property in
his county for state, county, general,
and special school and road, military
university, town, city, port, or other
purposes for which a tax may have been
legally levied, and deliver the said cer- i
ticfiate to the tax collector of the conn-1
ty, together with the said assessment
roll containing the assessments made
by the county assessor as corrected and
notta Vy.
Fawsil (just before the banquet) I
believe I am to be the third speaker. Nok
ker comes just before me, doesn't he?
Toast master 'I think so. I heard him
ray, though, that he was goaig right
after you.
IlKvr-Havr.
Lnrry-TVus th' funniest joke Oi
Iver hur-rud In all me born days. Faith,
Oi laughed all day long,
Denny Yez did?
tarry Yis, ivery bone In me body
flit loike a funny bone.
equalized by the county biard of equal
ization, and also containing the assess
ments made and certified by the state
board of tax commissooners entered
therein, ruled with proper columns for
the extensions of tax collections and de
linquent list, and for payments, issu
ance of certificates, redemptions, issu
ance of deeds, and other entries therein
as contemplated by law, and with the
total amount of taxes properly extended
and entered thereon in one sum against
each separate parcel of real property,
as well as against the personal property
assessed to each individual. Such roll
shall thereafter be a tax roll, and there
shall be attached thereto a warrant, in
the name of the state of Oregon, under
the hand of the said clerk and the seal
of the county clerk authorizing the col
lection L said tax collector of said tax
es; and such clerk shall thereupon take
the receipt of said tax collector there
for, and duly charge against the tax col
lector the full amount of taxes charged
on such roll; and the tax collector shall
in settlement be allowed as credits
against such charge such amounts as be
shall report to the county court of his
county, as hereinafter in this act pro
vided, that he has collected on said roll,
also such as he shall find to have been
twice assessed thereon, and such as he
shall be unable to collect, and shall so
return to the court as not collectible.
All such tax rolls shall be public rec
ords, and as such preserved in the office
of the tax collector.
(Compare I!. &
3000. Omits the
C. Comp., sections 3098 and
now obsolete provision tor
computing valuations after equalization by state
board of equalization, substituting after equali
zation by the county board and entry of as
sessments certified by the state board of tax
commissioners. J'rovidts also for computa
tions of amounts to be made, and as to valua
tion and rate in the several road districts,
ports, and other municipal taxing agencies.
See Laws 1003, page 2H2.
Provides the clerk shall extend the tax in
one total sum. The separation among funds
on the roll and in tax receipts is unnecessary
when the several rates of levy are specified, as
the method of accounting and the require
ment for distribution of each payment in the
tax collector's collectinn register shows the
exact amount of taxes for each municipal
agency with which the collector is charged,
and the amount collected by him. In several
counties of the State the distribution is carried
on the receipt stub on the roll, and also in
the tax collection bonk and distribution book.
This causes much additional and Useless labor
and confusion at the busy season of the year.
In the larger counties the former practice was
abandoned from the very necessity of the case,
and no loss of accuracy or fulness in ac
counting resulted. A very large saving in
clerical force was thereby made.)
(School, town, city, port, or other tax
ing agency levy On what valuation.)
,,,' imh !. aii i tie iit?-' r.oreiiian.er
levied by any incorporated city or town,
school district, road district, port, or
other municipal taxing agency or dis
trict, shall be levied on the property
therein respectively assessable upon
the valuation of such property as shown
by the assessment roll last compiled by
the assessor, corrected and equalized by
the county board of equalization, and
including entries therein of assessments
as certified by the state b"ard of tax
commissioners and apportioned to such
municipalities by the county clerk.
And it shall be the duty of the county
clerk in each of the several counties,
upon the application of the clerk or
board of school directors of any school
district, and of any road supervisor, or
of any three resident freenolders of any
road district, or of the recorder, auditor,
or clerk or common council, board of
directors, or trustees or other governing
body of any incorporated city or town,
port, or other municipal taxing district
or agency, to furnish a certificate, under
the seal of the county court, showing
the aggregate valuation of the assessa
ble property in the school district, road
district, incorporated city or '.own, port
or other taxing district or agency, from
which such application shall have been
made.
(Add provisions as to port or other munici
pal taxing agency or district; modifies pro
vision as to valuation of property on which
levy is made old lasv provided it shall be on
assessment roll last compiled. This adds, as
corrected and equalized and including assess
ments made by the state board of tax commis
sioners. Also consolidates part of Laws of
Kin.'f. page 2Si, as to road districts, but makes
no change.)
(All taxes levied to be collected by Fame
officer and in same manner as county
taxes.)
Section 10. All taxes levied by any
school district, road district, ii.n.ii). -atett
city or town, port or other munici
pal corporation or taxing agency or dis
trict, now or hereafter, authorized by
law to levy tases, shall lie collected by
the same officer and in the same man
ner and at the same time as taxes for
county purposes are collected.
(See first two lines of H. & C. Comp., sec
tion 3100; Laws of l!io:i, page 2S4. section 7;
I!. & C. Comp., section 4ti.'il, to the same ef
fect.) (Taxes to be paid in gold and silver
coin.)
Section 17. All taxes levied in this
state by the authority of the state or
a municipal cotporation therein upon
anv person or property in this state
shall be collected and paid in gold and
silver coin of the United States, and
not otherwise.
(P. & C. Comp., section 31S7.)
(Grantor or grantee hich to pay
tax.)
Section 18. As between the grantor
and grantee of any land, when there is
no express agreement as to which shall
pay the taxes that may be assessed
thereon liefore the conveyance, if such
land is conveyed at the time or prior to
the date of the warrant authorizing the
collection of sue taxes then the grantee
shall pay the same, but if conveyed
after the date the grantor shall y
them.
(H. & C, section 3153, no change.)
(To be continued next week)
Of Conrie She Would.
"And then, mind you," exclaimed
Miss Passay. "he asked me If I wouldn't
marry the first man that came along."
"The idea:" remarked Miss Knox.
"Po.n't these obviously unnecessary
questions make you sick?" Philadel
phia Press.
Society Favorite.
Edyth They say that Percy Feath
crly is losing his mind.
Mayme Poor fellow! He'll be lucky
if he doesn't lose any more than that
DOINGS OF OUR NATIONAL
BODY OF LAWMAKERS
Friday, January 18.
Washington, Jan. 18. By a rising
vote, oi 133 to 52 the house todavradont
ed an amendment to the legislative
executive and judicial annrooriation
fin, which was taken from the stx-ak
er s table with senate amendments, in
creasing the salary of the vice rjresi
dent, the speaker and members of the
cabinet to $12,000 a year and those of
senators and renrewpntativcB, delegates
from territories and the resident com
missioner from Porto Rico to $7,500
year, the increases to take effect March
4, 11107.
An urgent deficiency bill was passed,
carrying a total of $344,650. The
house then went into committee of the
whole and passed 50 bills on the private
calendar reported by the committee on
claims.
Washington, Jan. 18 The senate to
day deferred further action on the
Brownsville matter until Monday. It
passed, a bill authorizing relief for
earthquake smitten Jamaica.
The Warren bill, increasing the corps
of the army, was passed. The total in
crease, which is to reach its maximum
in five years, is 6,197 officers and men
which, with the increase in certain sal
aries of men in separate grades, such as
electricians, machinists, etc., costs
$24:), 324 annually.
The senate agreed to the Kittredge
nxdution instructing the secretary of
Commerce and Labor to investigate the
lumber trust.
The resolution directs that the inves
tigation shall be conducted to ascertain
whether there exists any combination,
conspiracy, trust, agreement or contract
intended to operate in restraint of law
ful trade in lumber or to increase the
market price of lumber in any part of
the United States.
Thursday, January 17.
Washington, Jan. 17. The legal
phase of President Koosevelt's dis
charge of the negro troops was again
injected into the controversy in the
senate todav bv notion f.f
incut to the furuker compromise reso
lution, which Blackburn sa'd he should
press. The amendment expressly dis
claims anv intention to question or
deny the legal right of the president
to discharge without honor enlisted
men of the army of the United States."
Consideration of the resolution was
deferred until Monday at the conclusion
of Foraker's address.
Eulogies on the life and character of
the late Senator William B. Bate, of
Tennessee, were delivered, after which
the senate adjourned as a mark of res
pect to his memory.
Washington, Jan. 17. An emergen
cy bill for the relief of the sufferers on
the island of Jamaica was passed by
the house today. The bill is as fol
lows :
"The president of the United States
is authorized to use and distribute
among the sufferers and destitute peo
ple of the island such provisions, cloth
ing, medicines and ether necessary ar
ticles belonging to the sustenance and
other naval stores as may be necessary
;for succoring the people who are in
j peril and threatened with starvation in
the said island in consequence of the
recent earthquake."
Without division the bill was sent to
the senate.
The bill did not reach the senate be-
lore adjournment, tmt will probably he
taken up by that body tomorrow.
Wednesday, January 16.
Washington, January 16. Senate
leaders tonight consider the end of the
Brownsville discussion in sight, and it
is confidently expected that a compro
mise resolution offered by rWakt. just
beiore the close of today's session will
be adopted. Foraker had the tloor to
make what he today expressed the hope
would be the concluding speech on the
subject. He will proceed immediately
after the morning business tomorrow,
unless interfered with by the special
order of the day, which is the delivery
of eulogies on the life of the late Sena
tor Bate, of Tennessee. Whether he
speaks tomorrow or Friday, it
is ex-1
pected that a vote will soon fellow, al
though it is possible that other brief
speeches may be made before the end
is reached.
Washington, Jan. 16. Smokeless
powder patents were under debate to
day in the house.
Gaines, of Tennessee, told of how
Professor Monroe had patented the
smokeless powder prtvess, having dis-
Plan to Reclaim Swamp Land.
Washington, Jan. 16. An extensive
plan for reclamation of swam') and
overflow land will be considered at an
early meeting of the senate committee
on public lands. The scheme is ad
vanced in a bill introduced by Senator
Clapp, which provides for the estab
lishment of a "draining fund" from
all moneys received from the sale of
public land in Alalvuna, Arkansas,
Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iouis
iana, Michigan. Mississippi, Missouri,
Ohio and Wisconsin, except the 5 per
cent set aside for educational purposes.
Continue Cry for More Coal.
Washington, Jan. 16. Additional
complaints were received todav from
Xorth Iakota points of the fuel situa
tion and of either a scarcity or an en
tire exhaustion of the coal supply.'
Pispatches also came from President
Elliott, of the Northern Pacific, and
President Hill, of the Great Northern.
The telegrams weie all referred to Com
missioner Harlan, who tonight express
ed the opinion that loth railroads were
doing even thing possible.
covered it while filling the chair of
chemistry at the naval academy, and
also said a patent was taken out by
John R. Barnadou while the latter was
a commanding officer in the navy.
Gaines quoted the Supreme court de
cision in the Gilly and Solomon case
that a patent taken out by an officer for
a discovery made bv him in the linn of 1
dutv belnncra to tho government. Mr.
Monroe, he stated, had turned his pat
ent over to the United States, and yet
it was today in the hands of a great
powder monopoly, "and the government
is in the grasp of that monopoly."
So far as Gaines Could find out, Mr.
Barnadou had not turned his patent
over to the government.
Tuesday, January 15.
Washington, Jan. 15. The feature
of the day's session of the senate was
a constitutional argument by Spooner,
of Wisconsin, upholding the nresi
jent s ngnt to discharge the negro
troops at Brownsville. The remarks
were questioned by Tillman, and the
two engaged in a heated controversy.
Spooner made a bitter attack on the
South Carolina senator. The bitter
feeling provoked makes it impossible to
say when a vote can be had on the
Brownsville resolution. It is expected
the debate will be extended.
Wishington, Jan. 15. The house of
representatives spent almost the entire
day in considering the fortifications ap
propriation bill, and completed only
six pages of it. Amendments looking
to the defense of the mouth of Chesa
peake bay and for the purchase of addi
tional ground at Fort Hamilton, X. Y..
were voted down. The house a'so re
fused to incorporate an amendment in
creasing to the extent of $1,000,000 the
appropriation for the construction of
seacoast batteries in the Hawaiian and
Philippine islands.
Monday, January 14.
Washington, Jan. 14. Taking
only
brief time to nass the lc-Tik
executive and juaicia.1 appropriation
bill, carrying nearly $31,000,000, the
senate devoted the rest of the day to
the Brownsville affray. President
Roosevelt's message, accompanied by
many additional affidavits and a cigar
box of bullets and empty cartridge
shells, was received, read and ordered
printed. The speech-making on the
subject continued until 5:30 o'clock.
Washington, Jan. 14. The house
spent most of today considering legis
lation pertaining to the District of
Columbia and proposed a number of
bills, after which consideration of the
fortifications appropriation bill was re
sumed. The message of the president
regarding the Colorado river was also
read.
More Time for Settlers.
Washington, Jan. 15. Secretary
Hitchcock ordered that homestead en
tries on land in the former Crow reser
vation in Montana should have an ex
tension of time within which to estab
lish a residence on the land tiled upon
until May 15 next. Climatic condi
tions and the scarcity of coal in the
Northwest are given as the reasons.
Previous Rights Not Impaired.
Washington, Jan. 16. Secictary
Hitchcock today notified the geneial
land ollice, by direction of the presi
dent, that orders heretofore issued,
withdrawing brfom entry lands under
the coal land laws, have been amended
so as not to impair any right acquired
in good faith at the date of withdrawal.
Prosecute Illegal Fencers.
Washington. Jan. 1?. - Soi tetary
Hitchcock has been informed by Attor
ney General Bonaparte that, in accord
ance with his request, Harry J. Bone,
United States district attorney at Tope
k?' Knn -,ms l,oen directed to prosecute
vigorously the cases against the cattle
men w ho have raised illegal fences on
public lands.
Wants Report ou Black Sands.
Washington, Jan. 15. Senator War-
nn f Wyoming, has called on the In
terior department for a report of the
Portland expet iments in the electric
smelting of iron ores and asks an opin
ion if it should he continued.
Hawley Learning the Ropes.
Washington, Jan. 17. Congressman
elect Hawley is here to learn the ropes
and belli out with pending Oregon leg
islation. He is especially interested in
the river and harbor bill.
Confirms Two Secretaries.
Washington, Jan. 16. The senate
committee on finance bulay agreed t
rcort favorably the nominations of
Postmaster General Cortelyou to le
secretary of the treasury and James R.
Garfield to be secretary of the Interior.
The vote on both Mr. Cortelyou and
Mr. Garfield was unanimous, the
members of the committee assenting to
the view that the president should be
allowed to select his own advisers.
The committee also agreed on Arthur S.
Statter, of Washington, to le assistant
secretary of the tieasurv.
Hears Areuments for Exclusion
Washinxgton, Jan. 15. The house
committee on foreign affair;' granted a
bearing today to Representatives Kahn,
McKinlay and Hayes, all of California,
the committee named hy Pacific coast
lepresentatives to oppose efforts to
niodiyf the Chinese exclusion act and
to work for a Japanese exclusion cct.
It was stated by the Californians that
they w ill fight vigorously the bill under
?onsilerat;oti by the committee to
amend the Chinese exclusion act.
EPIDEMIC IN CHICAGO.
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Ram
pant Among Children.
Chicago, Jan. 18. With flXtf) school
children in Chicago and suburbs pros
trate with scarlet fever and diphtheria
and the announcement from the state
capital last night that smallpox and
starlet fever are practically epidemic
throughout Illinois, the health author
ities have awakened to the most serious
condition they have experienced for
years. Radical steps were taken at
once in closing many "hocl:-, and, it
the uinruse continues to spread, it may
result in the closing of all places of en
tertainment and resorts where people
congregate in large numbers.
Reports of new cases flooded into the
health office with increasing rapidity.
Seventy-six new cases of scarlet fever
and 30 cases of diphtheria were report
ed within the city limits in three
hours.
In all 118 cases of contagious dis
eases were reported to the Chicago
health department yesterday, includ
ing cases of scarlet fever and diph
theria, against 107 reported the pre
vious day.
Dr. Herman Spalding, the city's con
tagious disease expert, declared there
were about 3,000 cases of scarlet fever
in the city at present and 2,000 cases
of diphtheria. In Evanston and Oak
Park there were probably 1,000 addi
tional cases.
In Evanston 4,550 pupils were bar
red from school by order of Dr. Wil
liam R. Parkers, of the Evanston board
of health. In Oak Park 3,500 more
children were barred. It is estimated
that more than 25,000 pupils were kept
home from schools in Chicago yester
day by the parents.
SINKING INTO SEA.
Ruined City of Kingston in Danger of
Being Engulfed.
St. Augustine, Fla., Jan. 18. Wire
less messages received at the station
on Anastasia bay todav by Chief Elec
trician Elkins sav that Kingston is
sinking gradually; that many holes
and cracks 100 feet deep were formed
by the earthquake, and that grave fears
re on lrint.1l
into iLe bav.
Havana, Jan. 18. Rear Admiral
Evans, in a message to the cruiser Co
lumbia here, states that a huge tidal
wave has changed the coast line of Ja
maica, leaving the entire south side of
Kingston under water.
Xo bay is reported left, and the
whole coast line is reported sinking.
Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 18. Thous
ands of persons were killed in the
earthquake anil the dead bodies are be
ing taken from the debris by hundreds.
The whole town is in ruins and the
greater portion is still smoldering in
ashes. The smell of burnt tlesh per
vades the air,
The earthquake came as a sudden os
cillation, not from any particular direc
tion, but up and down. Thousands of
persons were on the streets of Kingston
at the time and great numbers of them
were crushed.
Many Americans in Kingston were
killed and have been buried.
TEST CASE FOR JAPANESE.
Boy
Will Demand Admission to White
School and Be Refused.
San Francisco, Jan. IS. The initial
steji in the international test case be
tween Japan and the United States over
the exclusion of Japanese children from
the public schools of this city attended
by whites will be taken this morning.
At 9 o'clock in the morning Kei
Kechi Aoki, a ten-year-old Japanese
boy, accompanied by his father, will
appear at the P"'Vj:r.2. primary school
and demand admission. His demand
being made, it will be refused by the
teacher, Miss M. F. Peane, on the
ground that she is acting under the
state law and under the instructions
from the school board. Witnesses will
be on hand to make affidavits to the ex
clusion of Aoki from the school. The
issue having thus been declared, suit
will at once be filed in the Federal
court by the United States district at
torney. Plan Car Clearing House.
Xew York. Jan. IS. Local officials
of the American Railway association
said yesterday that the reports from
Chicago that many of the large railway
systems of the country bad agreed to a
pooling arrangement for all their freight
cars was premature. What is in con
templation, it is said, was the estab
lishment of a freight clearing house,
with the object of increasing the effi
ciency of oar service. The railroads
entering Chicago have already consent
ed to the establishment oi' an experi
mental clearing house.
Tell Troubles to President.
Washington. Jan. IS. Victor
Beckman, of Seattle, secretary of
H.
the
Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers'
ass.H'iation, headed a committee of 15
from the National Reciprocal Pemur
rage Convention that called on the pres
ident today to discuss car shortage.
They went over the subject generally
and urged the president to support a
bill proposing reciprocal demurrage, it
leing their belief that this will mater
ially aid in solving the problem.
Japanese Spies at Fort Clark.
El Paso. Tex.. Jan. IS. Three Jap
anese who had been employed as serv
ant" by the officers at Fort Clark have
mysteriously disappeared. Their ac
tions in examining the fort and equip
ment, their close attention to the drill
ing and the discovery that they were
frequently making memoranda led t
tin lv'.ief that they were Japanese otfi-ceis.