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OREGON LEGISLATIVE PRO CEEDINGS IN BREVITY Friday, February 8. Salem, Feb. 8. The house this morn ing passed a hill revoking ull franchises in cities granted by the state, and plac ing the power of renewal entirely in the hands of the various municipalities. Hopes of Hood River for the creation of a new county in its terirtory went glimmering when the senate this after noon indefinitely postponed the bill creating Cascade county. Among the bills passed by the senate today were: For voting machines, making it a felony to entice a child under 18 years for immoral purposes, and appropriating f 15,000 for the ex periment station at Union. The proposed change in the primary election law will be referred to the peo ple for their decision according to a clause today inserted by Bailey, its author. By just one vote the house today granted the request for the people to again vote on the woman suffrage ques tion. The remainder of the session will be strenuous for the lawmakers. No oth er legislative session in years was fur ther behind in its work than the assem bly now doing business at the capital city. President Haines was presented with a gavel today similar to that given Speaker Davey a few days ago. In the senate today five new bills were introduced. The Benate has re ceived 207 bills and the house 309. 1 hursday, February 7. Salem, Feb. 74. The senate today voted to create a board of regents to select two normals to be continued and to abolish the others. As the house has turned down two similar bills it is doubtful if the senate bill wlil get through the lower house. The joint committee on ways and means has de cided to favorably report appropriations for the Ashland, Weston and Mon mouth schools. The Jones bill appropriating $300, 000 for free locks at Oregon City, con tingent on the United States increasing the same to enough either to buy the premsent locks or build new ones has warm sunnort in the house and the prospects of its passing are bright. The senate today refused to adopt a minority report adverse to an amend inent to statement number one. This indicates that Bailey's bill to amend the statement numler one section of the direct primary law will be passed by the senate, for the 16 votes are onoiiL'h to carry the bill. Bailey's bill provides for- a change in statemen number one so as to make it pledge the signer to vote for that candidate f United States senator who shall re ceive the highest vote for the party to which the signer belongs. During the day the house passed four bills and at a session tonight 33 were passed. Thiiteen new ones were in trod need. Representative Jones, of Polk, intro luced a proitosed constitutional amend' merit providing that the people again vote on woman suffrage at the June 190S, election. A house bill Judicial district creating the Twelfth of (iilliam, Heeler and Sherman counties was passed. Wednesday, February 6. Salem, Feb. 6. The bill appropriat ing $150,000 for the Seattle fair has leen amended to make the amount $100,000. Seventeen new bills were presented in the house and but three in the sen ate. Huntley's corrupt practices bill, to regulate elections, was given a knock out blow today in the house by indefi nite postponement. Land grabbers have descended upon 1he legislature and are determined to have measures passed which will com . pel the state to issue deeds upon the fraudulent land sale certificates and also compel the state to pay interest upon the money paid to the state by th ersons who procured the certifi cates. Normal schools are very much unset tled in the legislature and nolody has a clear foresight as to what will bo done. It seems proltable, however, that Drain and Monmouth will be abandoned. The question will come up in the house next Wednesday. The ways and means committee of toih houses this afternoon voted to ap propriate $125,000 annually for the next two years for the University of Oregon. "This is a lout $45,000 more than appropriated two years ago. The appointment of three railroad commissioners by the governor, two to perve until 1908 and one to serve until 1910, a id their successors to Ik? elected by the ieople, is the substance of an amendment which the joint committee on railroads agreed uixin today ami ! which w ill lie inserted in the Chapin j spring, 13'14; old roosters, 910c; bill before it is reported back to the pressed chickens, 1415c; turkeys, house. The committee also decided totliVe, 17 17ac; turkeys, dressed, reduce the salaries of commissioners choice, 2021e; geese, live, 1012c; from $5,000 to S4,uuu, ana 10 provi.ie for the iyment of traveling expenses, instead of having the commissioners pay their own expenses. Among the senate bills passed today were: To give laborers prior lien on logs, lumber, etc.; raising to $7,500 the j Bad Air and Not Grip. Salem Bad air and not the grip, has the house in iN clutches. For a week a majority of the house members have leen indisposed, and a grip epidemic was blamed. Returning nienitiers sniffed the air of the house chandler on their entrance and divided that it was lie cause of headaches, lame back and Jacp of ambittion. The Committee onr evolutions introduced a resolution in structing the capitol and grounds Com mittee to investigate conditions. 1 amount that may be recovered for acts causing death ; for garnishment of wages of public ollicers and employes. The senate killed seven bills and the house ten today. The majority of the bills were covered by other measures that had been previously introduced and considered in committee: Tuesday, February 6. Salem, Feb. 5. Another bill has been introduced to compel holders of land grants from the government to sell the land at $2.50 per acre and in tracts not exceeding 160 acres. The house passed a bill prohibiting the granting of a liquor license to any one who has been convicted of selling liquor to minors. Another house bill passed prohibits any but members from wearing badges of secret orders. A new bill in the senate makes the Associated Press a common carrier. I A new house bill provides that offi 'cers must not wink at violations of state laws and provides for punishment of such officers. j A gavel presented to Speaker Davey today contained live kinds of wood: Oregon grape, the state flower; apple, from a seedling planted at Vancouver in 1825; cherry, from a seedling etart- ed in Iowa in 1845 and transplanted to Oregon in 1847; service berry, from ( near Oregon City, the first territorial capital; yew, irom iiamjHg, uw eiw of the first American civil government on the Pacific Coast. The bill for the transportation of convicts by prison guards instead of sheriffs was defeated in the senate. Twenty-one new bills were intro duced in the house today and eight in the senate. Monday, February 4, Salem, Feb. 4. By a vote of 24 to 1 the senate adopted the house joint memorial asking congress to submit to a vote of the people a proposition to elect senators by direct vote. Two constitutioonal amendments were adopted by the house today. Orig inally they were those of the etate tax cornmssion providing for taxation of property hy classes of subject. The senate passed the house fertilizer inspection bill over the veto of the gov ernor. This is one of the bills vetoed at the close of the 1905 session and has already passed the house. A bill to repeal the anti-scalping law was defeated in the home by a vote of 28 to 20, six members being,absent. Two bills were killed in the senate by indefinite postponement. They were: Giving effect to unrecorded deeds, and creating Clark county. The senate passed a joint memorial demanding that granted lands be sold for not more than $2.50 per -acre. The senate sustained the governor in his veto of the board of control bill of the 1905 session. All the other vetoed senate bills were indefinitely post poned. Clatsop Courthouse Contract. Astoria John I last ie, of the firm of Ilastie & Pougan, of Seattle, has been here and signed a contract with the county court for the completion of the new courthouse for the sum of $9,599. Work is to be commenced about March 1 and finished on or before December 1. PORTLAND MARKETS. Fruits Apples, common to choice, 5075c per box; choice to fancy, $1 50; pears, $11.50. egetat)ies lurnips, firml.Zo per sack; carrots, $!( 1.25 per sack; beete, $1.25 1.50 per sack; horseradish, 7 8c per pound; sweet potatoes, 3J4C per pound; cabbage, 2,4c per pound; cauli flower, $2.50 per dozen; celery, $3.50 4 per crate; pumpkins, 2c per pound; squash, 2c per pound; sprouts, 8c p r pound. Onions Oregon. $11.35 per hun dred. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, fancy, $1.401.50; common, $11.25. Wheat Club, 68c; bluestem, 70c; valley, 6fl67c; red, 66c. Oats o. 1 white, $29; gray, $28. Barley Feed, $22 per ton; brewing. $23; rolled, $2424.50. live $1.401.45 perewt. Corn Whole, $26; cracked, $27 per ton. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $14 15 per ton ; Eastern Oregon timothy, 1718; clover, $9; cheat, $9; grain lav, 910; alfalfa, $14. Butter Fancy vreamery, 32l35c per pound. Butter Fat First grade cream, 36c per pound ; second grade cream, 2c less per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 39,la'c per dozen . Poultry Average old hens. 12l(3ll3c per pound ; mixed chickens, llje12c; ducks, 1618e tal Dressed, 5 14 f?.9 per pouno. ments added giving $20,000 fr re Beef Dressed bulls, 2(,?e per pound ; j building the lighthouse at Cape Arngo ws, 45c; country str. -VS-M,e. Und 120 DOO for i;.,hH,.,aa ,.f cow- Mutton Dressed, fancy, 88c per j pound; ordinary, 6(7c. j Pork Dressed, t58Jc per pound. Opposes Assistant Attorney General. Salem Three is one thing the secre tary of state went after he is not going to get from the ways and means com mittee. A bill was brought to the ways and means committee providing for another assistant attorney general. This came directly from the attorney general's office, but on investigation it was discovered that the attorney gener al did not especially care about this in crease in his staff, but that the request came from the secretary of state's office. OPPOSES CONTRACT PLAN. Ceief Engineer Stevens Want to Dig Panama Cana4. Washington, Feb. 8. Chief pngi neer John F. Stevens wants to dig the Panama canal, and if he cannot dig the I big ditch without the medium of a con ' tractor, there is likely to be another va cancy at the head of affairs on the isth i mus. This is understood to be the se- cret of the mysterious holding up of the award of the Panama canal contract that has excited interest and curosity for the last tWO Week. Everybody has been wondering why wieauminisirauuu- uae ureu 'y"'B hereby declared to be a lien upon SUCh action on the Olliver bid for digging real property from anci including the the canal. One theory has been that it day on which the warrant authorising was due to a fight between rival finan-: the conection 0f SU(;h taxes upon real cial interests, those represented by the;property iH jed, and from and after contractors underbid by the Olliver , the tilJie the 8aid taxes upon personal firm being credited with the efforts to I property are to charged upon real prop throw out the lower bidder and take ; ertv. until thov should be naid. or un file prize. There have beCn tangles re garding Mr. OUiver's partners. Fin ally a positive decision from President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Taft and Chairman Shouts, of the Canal com mission, baa been postponed for two weeks longer, ostensibly to complete a full examination of the Olliver bid, but in reality, it is believed, to solve the problem presented by Mr. Stevens' position. OPPOSED TO DISCRIMINATION. Los Angeles Chamber on Separate Schools for Japanese. Washington, Feb. 8. The president today received a telegraphic copy of a resolution adopted yesterday by the Los Angeles chamber of commerce upon the Japanese school question, which ex presses the belief that the public senti ment of California, especially of the southern part, upon the question of the exclusion of the Japanese from the general public school system of the state has been to some extent misrepre sented and is largely misunderstood. The sentiment is expressed that on the main question, whatever may be the diversity of opinion upon the constitu tional and legal phases, the board is assured that "the general trend of pub lic opinion in Southern California is decidedly adverse to any discrimination against the Japanese as a people in the matter of public school privileges, aud the belief that this opinion is based upon consideration of equity and justice is held altogether independent of any attitude which the Japanese govern ment has assumed or may assume in regard to the question." CALLS BOOKER SENATOR. Foraker Takes a Fling at Activity of Negro Leader. Washington, Feb. 8. Five witnesses were examined today in the lirowns ville inquiry by the Senate committee on military. ai were memuers 01 rne discharged battalion of negro soldiers except ex-Sergeant Luther Thornton, of company B. He testified that, when aroused by the firing on the night of August 13, he was under the impres sion that the barracks were being fired upon by the people of the town. The next w itness called for by Sen ator Foraker was Winter Washington, and Senator Overman asked if he had said Booker Washington. "No," said Mr. Foraker, "Booker Washington is too busy attending to his senatorial duties to come here." He referred to the interest of Booker T. Washington in the question of having a negro appointed to a federal position in Ohio, patronage which has garded as belonging to the from Ohio. Washington's idea of the been re senators Browns ville attair was that "Mexican Ureas- ers and lexas cowboys " had done the shooting in order to make trouble for the negro soldiers. Mausers Smuggled'as Books. Victoria, B. C.', Feb. 8. Mail advices from Shanghai state that, owing to an accident at the wharf there, the discov ery has been made that arms and am munition have been smuggled through Shanghai to the disaffected districts where rebellion is in progress. A Chi nese newspaper reports that 50, Ow Mauser rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition have been imported into China from Japan by the revolutionary party. Dr. Sun Yat, who is one of the prime movers of the rebellion, is at Tokio, as head of the rebel junta there. Will Tackle School Furniture Trust. Chicago, Feb. 8. The Tribune today says: Federal investigation of the American School Furniture company, reorganized nearly a year ago as the American Seating company, is to be undertaken by the grand jury now in session in Chicago. Fully 100 witness es have leen summoned from all parts of the United States, and it is under stood the campaign will be waged along the lines followed by the government in the Standard Oil and beef trust cases. More Money for Pacific Lights. Washington, Feb. 8. The senate's commerce committee reported the house omnihiin liulltllmioo hill n-itti nmcml. Oxford Reefs, R gSt of Wy Across Fort Columfc;. Washington, Feb. 8. The senate to day passed Senator Fulton's bill au thorizing the Ilwaco railroad to build across the Fort Columbia reservation and quarantine station grounds on its way from Ilwaco to Knappton. Earthquake 1 Change Island. Montevideo, Feb. 8. A report has reached here by passengers on the steamer Elka that earthquakes havec hanged the appearance of New Year's island and that a portion of the island has eunk several meters. 11 " WW t'iTTWTVVTfVlT HmTTTTt WWW WWW TtfV W W WWW l Proposed Oregon Tax Law j (Continued from last week) (Beal estate tax a lien What to ln- elude Priority Effect of sale.) Swtion $K All tmtps which mnv hft hereafter lawfully imposed, charged, or leviwl n real pr01)erty, including I taXfes m personfti property charged up- 'n rful nn,.rf. fl nrnvirlml in t.h i pm.pdin? ,,et.tioni sha.ll be and they are til the title shall be vested in the pur chaser upon sale for such taxes. Such liens shall include all costs, penalties, charges, and expenses on, of and con cerning such taxes which by the provis ions of law shall accrue, attach, or be made. Such liens shall have priority to and shall be fully paid and satisfied before any and every judgment, mort gage, or other lien or claim whatso ever, except the lien for a tax for a subsequent year; and every certificate of delinquency, sale for taxes, or trans fer of property under a tax judgment sale, whether void or ineffectual for any other purpose or not, provided only that the consideration required by law shall have been paid tnerefor, shall be deemed to assign to and vest in the holder, purchaser, or transferee the lien herein prescribed. (15. & C. Comp., section 3108, no change, ex cept to aid personal taxes which have been I charged upon real property, and to substitute tax judgment sale tor tax sale to con form the section to the tax certificate of de linquency plan.) (Foreclosure Summens or notice.) Section 39. Any time after the ex piration of three years from the first date of delinquency of any tax included in a certificate of delinquency the hold er of such certificate may cause sum mons to be served on the owner of the property described in the certificate, notifying the owner that he will apply to the circuit court of the county in which such property is situated for a decree foreclosing the lien against the property mentioned in such certificate. Such summons shall contain 1. The title of the court, the de scription of the property, and the name of the owner of the legal title thereof as the 6ame appears of record, if known, the name of the holder of the certificate, the date thereof, and the amount for which it was issued, the year or years for the delinquent taxes for which it was issued, the amount of all taxes paid for prior or subsequent years, and the rate of interest on Baid amounts. 2. A direction to the owner of the legal title of the property as the same appears of record, if known, and of any other person or persons who may have Borne interest in or lien or claim upon the property, and whom the holder of said certificate may desire to make co defendants, summoning him to appear within sixty days after service of sum mons or notice, exclusive of the day of service, and defend the action or pay the amount due; and, when service is made by publication, a direction as aforesaid summoning him to appear within eirty days after the date of the first publication of the summons, ex clusive of the day of said first publica tion, and defend the action or pay the amount due. 3. A notice that, in esse" of failure to do so, a decree will be rendered fore closing the lien of such taxes and coSti against the land and premises named 4. A summons shall be subscribed by the holder of the certificate of delin quency, or by some one in his behalf, and residing within the state of Ore gon, and upon whom all process and papers in the proceeding may be served with the same force and effect as if per sonally served on the holder of said certificate within this state. 5. A copy of said summons shall be delivered to the tax collector. There after, when any owner of real property or person interested therein seeks to re deem as provided in this act, the tax collector ohall ascertain the amount of costs accrued in foreclosing said certifi cate and include said costs as a part of the redemption to be paid. The proceeding provided by this act for the foreclosure of all certificates of delinquency issued pursuant to this act shall be commenced within six years from the date of the original delin quency, and not afterwards. (Service of summons.) Section 40. Summons shall be serv ed and returned in the same manner as summons in civil action is served in the circuit court. (Intersted persons may pay before ex ecution of deed.) Section 43. Any person owning an interest in lands or lots upon which judgment and decree is prayed, as pro vided in this act, may, in person or by agent, pay the taxes, assessments, pen alties, interest, and costs due thereon to the tax collector of the county in which the Rime aro situated at any time before the execution of the deed, and for the amount so paid he shall Running; Bank. "Ilere's a story about a new automo bile bank that has Just been started La New York." ' I wonder how much of a run a de positor gets for his money?" Cleve land Flaln Dealer. EspenlTe. Confidential Adviser Senator, how much did your campaign cost you? Senator Lotsmun It was pretty ex pensive this time, Kinsgold. It cost me or.e day's income and two or three nights' c P. have a lien on the property liable for taxes, assessments,, penalties, interest, and costs for which judgment is prayed; and the person or authority who shall collect or receive the same shall give a receipt for such payment, cr issue to such person a certificate showing such payment. - ( Appeal A ppeal bond Procedure. ) Section 47. Appeals from the final order, judgment, and decree of the court may be taken to the supreme court by giving notice thereof orally in open court at the time of the rendition of the judgment, decree or final order, or by giving written notice thereof at any time within thirty days after the rendition of said order, but not there after. The manner of taking and per fecting appeals to the supreme court and the proceedings thereon, and the determination and disposal thereof, shall conform to and be governed by the statutes for taking appeals in equit able causes, except in so far as this act may otherwise provide- But no appeal shall be allowed the defendant from any judgment, decree, or final order for the sale of lands or lots for taxes, and no bond given on appeal shall operate as a supersedeas, unless the de fendant taking such appeal shall, with in the time allowed within which to file an undertaking on appeal, also de posit with the county cleik an amount of money equal to the amount of the judgment and costs rendered In such cause by the circuit court. If, in case of an appeal, such judgment, decree, and final order be affirmed, in whole or in part, the supreme court shall direct that the amount deposited with the county clerk as aforesaid, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be credit ed upon the judgment so rendered, and execution shall issue for the balance of said judgment, damages and costs. Thereupon it shall be the duty of such county clerk to apply so much of the amount deposited with him as aforesaid as Ehall be necessary to satisfy the amount of the judgment, decree, and final order. If, upon a final hearing, judgment shall be refused for the sale of the land or lots for the taxes, penal ties, interest, and costs, or any part thereof, in said proceedings, the coun ty clerk shall pay over to the party who shall have made such deposit, or his legally authorized agent or representa tive, the amount of the deposit, and in any event shall sorefund so much thereof as shall remain after the satisfaction of the judgment, interest, and costs against the land or lots in respect to which Buch deposit ehall have been made. (Holder of certificate must pay taxes Forfeiture.) Section 48. Every purchaser of a certificate of delinquency shall, before applying for judgment and decree of foreclosure, pay all taxes that have ac crued on the property included in said certificate since the issuance of said cer tificate, and any prior taxes that may remain due and unpaid on said proper ty. If any purchaser of delinquent cer tificates shall suffer a subsequent tax to become delinquent, and a subsequent certificate of delinquency to issue on the same property included in his cer tificate, such first purchaser ehall for feit his rights thereunder to the sub sequent purchaser, and such subse quent purchaser shall, at the time of obtaining his certificate of delinquency, redeem said first certificate of delin quency outstanding thereon to the date of said redemption, and the amount so paid in redemption1 shall become a part of said subsequent- certificate of delin quency, and draw Interest at the rate of fifteen per" cent per annum from the date of payment. Said holder of a cer tieate of delinquency permitting a sub sequent certificate to issue on the same property shall, on notice from the tax collector, surrender said certicate of delinquency on payment to him of the redemption money paid by the subse quent purchaser. Provided, that this section 6hall not apply to counties or municipalities. (Publication as costs.) Section 52. Ia case any person shall be compelled to publish a notice in a newspaper under the provisions of this act, then, before any person who may have a right to redeem the lands or lots from sale shall be permitted to redeem, he shall pay to the officer who by law is authorized to receive such redemp tion money tfie amount paid for pub lishing such notice, for the use of the person compelled 10 publish sucn no tice, as afoiesaid. (Fees.) Section 56. 1. The tax collector shall, upon the issuance of a certificate of delinquency, collect fifty cents. 2. For making a deed, to include not more than ten tracts or lots, including all services rendered, including sales and posting notices, three dollars. 3. The county clerk shall, upon tiling applica tion for judgment, and for all services rendered to and including judgments, collect two dollars. 4. The clerk of the court ehall collect from each con testant at the time of filing such con- Mnrh the Same. The American I suppose you never heard a genuine Indian war whoop, did you? The Englishman No; but I've heard some of your college yells. One Discordant Note. Ruffon Wratz The idee of jour clsim in' to be overworked, ye durned old hobo ! Tuffold Knutt I am overworked, i b'gosh ! Fifty times a day I hev to ex- j plain how jt is that I don't g't no em- I ployment when the country is jlst rup'iin ver wit' prosperity. ' test fire dollars. (Assignment by owner.) Section 60. Certificates of delin quency shall be assignable in law, and an assignment thereof shall vest in the assignee or bis legal representatives all the right and title of the original pur chaser. (Taxes void six years after delinquen cy.) Section 66. All taxes heretofore or hereafter levied by any county, city, town, school district, road district, port or other municipal taxing agency or district of the state of Oregon, after the expiration of six years from the time when such taxes are delinquent, shall be void: Provided that this section ehall not be construed as affecting any right acquired under or by virtue of the issuance of a certificate of delinquency provided for in this act. (Lien creditor may pay tax.) Section 67. Any person who has a lien by mortgage, or otherwise, upon any land on which the taxes have not been paid . may pay or redeem such taxes and the interest and charges thereon; and the receipt of the person authorized to receive such tax or re demption money shall constitute an ad ditional lien on such land to the amount therein specified, and the in terest and charges thereon; and the amount so paid, and the interest and charges thereon, ehall be collectible with, as part of, and in the same man ner as the amount secured by the origi nal lien. (B. & C. Comp., section 3144, extended t include redemptions.) (Payment of tax by occupant or tenant.) Section 68. When any tax on any real estate shall have been paid by or collected from any occupant or tenant when there is some other person who, by agreement or otherwise, ought to pay such tax, or any part thereof, such occupant or tenant shall be entitled to recover by action the amount which such person ehould have paid, with in terestt hereon ; or he may retain the same out of any rent due or accruing from him to such person for real estate on which Buch tax is so paid. (B. & C. Comp., section 8145, no change.) repealing section.) Section 79. That chapters 5, 6, and 7, of title XXX of the Codes and Stat utes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bellinger and Wil liam W. Cotton; and sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of an act ap proved December 24, 1903, and found upon page 4 et sequitur of the General L aws of the Special Session of 1903: and an act entitled "An act to amend section 3098 of Bellinger and Cotton's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Ore gon," approved February 12, 1903; and an act entitled "An act to amend an. act entitled 'An act to amend eection 3098 of Bellinger and Cotton's Anno tated Codes and Statutes of Oregon, approved February 12, 1903, and to de clare an emergency," approved De cember 24, 1903 and chapters; 7, 69, 145, 156, 162, and 183 of the General Laws of Oregon, 1905; and an act filed in the office of the secretary of state December 24, 1903, entitled "An act to amend section 3122 of Bellinger and Cotton's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Oregon;" and an act entitled "An act to amend section 3091 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, as annotated by Charles B. Belinlger and William W. Cotton, and giving the apportion ment or revenues for the etate among the several counties, and defining the method or proceeding in making the state apportionment," approved Feb ruary 24, 1903; and all other acts and parts of acts amendatory of any of the acts and sections above set forth, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, be and the same hereby are repealed: Provided that the repeal of section 3086 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bellinger and William W. Cotton, shall not affect the dupli cate theteof, eection 3374 of said Codes and Statutes of Oregon, as the same is amended by an act approved February 24, 1903, and found upon page 214 of the General Laws of Oregon, 1903. (Saving clause.) Section 80. That, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this act contained, all laws heretofore in force are continued in force and effect until all things and acts in and sbout the as sessment, apportionment and levy of taxes upon the basis of ownership of property on the first day of March, '07, and the assessment, apportion ment, levy, and collection of taxes, and proceedings incident thereto, made or commenced prior to March 1, 1907, ex cept as specified in section 55 of this act, have been fully and duly done and performed as fully as if this act had never been enacted, but the taxes levied on the basis of ownership of property on the first day of March, 1907, shall be collected as herein provided. This act shall not be construed to inhibit or take away the power of counties, incor porated cities or towns, school district, road districts, ports or other municipal corporations or agencies to levy such rate or amount of general or special taxes as now or heretofore by law they may le permitted or required to levy. Vncle Allen. "It's true." said Uncle Allen 8 parks, "that a rose by any other rame would smell as sweet, but it isn't the same way with an oiJ cheese. You can shoot a lit tle green paint into it and pass it ol for Roquefort." In Liquidation. Scott (showing ring) I'd hate to lose It It's a diamond of the first wa ter. J Mott You said Just now you'd , soaked It three times. Boston Traa f soriuL