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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1912)
GRANGE GOOD ROAD BILL Review of Grange Road Bill by C. E. Sjience In Grange Bulletin—Makes Plain It’s Purposes. I do not believe that all our mem- beri understand the situation fully as it> exists at the present time and it may be necessary to give a shoo history of the bonding question initiative and referendum into opera tion in the matter of selection of roads and voting of bonds The move ment must begin with a petition from the taxpayers, then meetings are called in the road districts, rhe mat ter discussed and delegates to the county road meeting whioh in this case corresponds to a legislature After this body has decided upon the roads to be improved and the amount of bonds to be issued, a petition of five per cent of the registered voters is required to authorize the county court to call an election for the vot ers to approve or reject the action of the county meeting This bill brings road building and the issue of bonds close to the people In fact, it makes she Oregon system apply to roads legislation On the other hand if the grange bills sre defeated and the constitution be allowed to stand as it is at present, or if the Harmony bills become law, all kinds of promises may be made to different part« of the county in order to get votes for bond». There is nothing to compel the county court to fulfill these promises and it will be a mat ter of "pull" between the different localities to get a share of the funds Under the Harmony State Bonding bill we will be required to pay as high as $450,000 interest in a year, or enough to build 90 miles of good road at $5,000 per mile I believe it would be wiser to spend that amount in road building than to put it into the strong box of some bond holder State Highway Engineer. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the Stale During the Past Week. Politician Charged With Libel Oregon City. Charged with a viola Ion of section 3619 of the statutes re- Istlng to election, Gustav Schnoerr, republican nominee for representative, president of the Deutsche Vereln of Clackamas county, and vice-president of the Consolidated German Hocletfea of Oregon, was arraigned before Judge Campbell, given until June 3 to plead and released upon bls own recogni sance The specific charge la criminally li beling C. Hchuebel, of the law firm of U’Ren A Hchuebel Counties Can Vote Bonds. The voters by a majority of more than IR.tOi in the election of 1910 re moved the limit, of $5.(XM) for county m.lrt.-r.loras, AND ('.AVI'. Till' COUNTIES POWER TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ROAD BUILDING The people of Indian School Row On. Jackson county availed themselves of Klamath Falls.—Ill-feeling has de this and held a special election at reloped at Fort Klamath as the result which bonds were voted to the it an attempt by white settlers to amount of $1,500,000 Suit was then drive out of the schools Indian and brought to teat the legality and the half-breed children. courts decided the bonds would be Indians who do not live on the res illegal because they were voted at a ervation and whose children. It haa special election called for that pur been held by Attorney-General Craw pose, but would be legal if voted at ford, have the same rights In the a regular election The deciaion be schools as the white children, declare ing on the point, that the amendment they will not aubmlt to segregation. as carried did not give county courts power to call a special election. WATER RIGHTS STATED Under this interpretation by the I believe a state highway engineer State Engineer leeuee Book for Ueers* courts counties can now vote bonds If the and there are no restrictions on the will be a matter of economy Benefit. clubs, bondholders, road machinery .14 counties of the state pay on an Salem.—State Engineer l*wl» has men, and real estate boosters some average of $500 per year to a county prepared a pamphlet containing infor roads legislation will be enacted that engineer for the work required of mation for water users of the state In will be more objectionable to the I the state engineer by this bill, the connection with adjudication cf water total will be $17,000 The county farmers than the grange road bills rights. The interests that I have mentioned courts usually hire an engineer with In many Instances proceeding* have are always on rhe job, they have time little or no experience and must pay been started by users of water from and money and are willing to use him enough while at work to keep various stream* and tributaries to es- both While the farmer is busy mak him going while they do not need labllsh rights for Irrigation, power, ing a living and getting the where him A competent state highway en mining, domestic, stock and other with to pay taxes, the other fellow gineer can do this work as it should uses. is busy "making bay" for his own be done, save the counties money and I pon a final determination of these He can establish proceedings a decree is entered In the county courts as to where or how get better results the money should be used. We know a uniform system of road building circuit court denning and establishing that owing to the influence brought and accounting and can save the all rights. Thereafter certificates are to bear upon them, by road machinery counties a great deal by furnishing Issued by the state which are the men. automobile and commercial rstimates, plans and specifications for basis of title to the water and are re We have corded as are deeds to land. clubs that the average county court road and bridge building will spend this money for state high found a strong popular sentiment for The announcement lays stress on ways and leave the farmer in the a state highway engineer and it is the fact that failure to mal^e proof of mud The representatives of the quite likely that a law will be enacted the claim will bar the subsequent a* State Grange have opposed these in creating that office Then the quea sertlon of the right and it Is absolute terests for six years and all agree tlon arises Shall he have authority i ly necessary. It is stated, for the pro that the grange should submit good to select and locate the roads upon tection of whatever right may be roads measures that will protect the which our money shall be expended. | claimed, that the claimant appear and unorganized farmer, or with the in I is the Pacific Highway advocates | submit proof. ___________________ fluence and bncking of the automobile favor, or shall he be an adviser and pleasure and advantage It is neces not a dictator? Commission Investigating Railroad- The grange bills are prepared with sary that we have a law to protect Baker. —Chairman Aitchlson. of tTie the farmer and not leave him to the one main thought in view, and that Oregon railway commission, who with mercy of selfish interests and weak is to place the selection of rhe roads the commission's engineer. W. K. Karl, county courts The S:ate Aid bill of to be improved in the hands of the and Special Accountant Crosby of the Harmony Committee is the first voters. The Grange County Bonding Portland. Is making an examination of step to secure funds with which to bill offers a much needed protection the books of the Sumpter Valley rail build the Pacific Highway and other to the taxpayers in the matter of road road. Incident to the log rate case boulevards for pleasure seekers The building, and in making it a law we 1 brought before the commission by the State Aid roads in Washington were do not compel any county to issue I Baker commercial club. Is prying located where t-hey were of little bond , but it will be a safeguard in closely into railroad affairs in this part value to the farmer and it was found lease bonds are Issued, as they may. of the state. that only twenty cents of each dollar whether these measures carry or not Electric Railway Promised Soon. spent was actually used in road con There are details upon which all mem struction The man who discredited bers of the grange may not be able Eugene.—A. L. Watson, newly ap the good roads movement in Wash to agree, but the necessity of the pointed superintendent of the Port ington has invaded Oregon and is enactment of these measures should land, Eugene si Eastern railway com working for the Harmony road bills, not be lost sight of in the considers pany's lines in this city and Spring field. announces that all right of way "in the interests of the farmer ” He tion of minor details obstacles have been removed and thnt is an ardent supporter of the Pacific the company will soon begin construc A Matter of Training. Highway and an interstate bridge When Josephine was six years old tion of the long talked of electric rail across the Columbia at Vancouver, Wash., in order to complete the Pa she was taken for the first time to way between Eugene and Monroe cific Highway from Alaska to the see a trained animal show, and went City of Mexico "AU for the farmer ” home much pleased with the per HIGH-LINE DITCH WANTED THESE PEOPLE have the neces formance. As she was at times* slow sary funds to pay for the circulation to obey, her mother thought t*>is a Medford Starts Movement for Big Ir rigation Work. of their petitions, while WE are de good time to teach her a lesson, so pending upon the voluntary work of she said: "Don’t you think, Josephine, Medford.—Medford has decided to our members Personally, I do not that if dogs and ponies and monkeys hold a big Irrigation meeting In the believe in bonds and will vote against can learn to obey so well, a little near future, when efforts will be made bonding the county or state, but a girl like you, who knows much more to secure enough property signers to large majority has decided that coun than animals, should obey even more assure the construction of the high ties may vote bonds for road build quickly?" “Of course. I would, mo line ditch around the valley and make ther.” came the instant reply, "if 1 southern Oregon one of the best Irri ing. Now, worthy patron, while you and had only been as well trained as they gated regions in the state. I have our theory concerning bonds. have been.”—Exchange. The Hopkins ditch, north of Med WE MUST MEET CONDITIONS ford. is already Indorsed by ranchers AS THEY ARE, and not as we would and will be constructed. The mem Escapes An Awful Fate. have them The Grange County A thousand tongue» could not expn-*» bers of the Medford commercial club Bonding act does not compel or re the gratitude of Mr». J F. Cox. of Joli will make a house to house canvass quire n county .o vote bonds, but if et, III . for her wonderful deliverance through the valley, securing signers a county does vote bonds, this bill is from an awful fate. ‘ Typhoidpneumo for the high line ditch, so that prac designed to protect the people who nia had left me witli a dn-adfnl cough,” tically all the soil in the valley will need protection Under it the se H ie write* “Sometime* I had such awful be under water. If thia movement is lection of the roads to be improved coug dug m | h ‘II* 1 thought I would die. successful It is announced on reliable must be generally satisfactory or I could get no help from doctor’s treat- authority that Peabody. Hotightellin bonds will not be voted Under the ! inent or other medicine« till I used Dr A Co., of Chicago, will bond the Irrl- grange bill the farmer will get King’s New Discovery. Rui I owe my I'ation scheme and Insure Its construc SOME good road i at least while the | life to this wonderful remedy for I tion. other fellow is getting his boulevards. scarely cough at all now.” Quick and Debating Season to End. What Ta »he Question at Issue? n»fe, its tlie most reliable of all throat Albany.—The championship of the The question for every voter of the and lung medicin-*. Every bottle guar- state to decide is "Who shall have the . anteed. 50c and $1.00 Trial bottle free at Oregoh High School Debating League now Ilea between the high schools of power to select the roads to be im | All Dealers. Albany and The Dalles. The teams of proved.” and not whether we favor these two schools will meet In the fin bonds for road building that has been Conquered a Crocodile. al contest for the league honors for decided for us When bonds are An old traveler tells a tale of a young this year at the University of Oregon voted, shall the county courts say African girl with grent bravery and on what roads the funds shA.ll he pn*scnce of mind. While fetching wa on Friday evening. May 31. used as advocated by the Pacifiic ter from a river she was seized by the Portland Pioneer of 1859 Dead. Highway people or will we place that Jnws of a crocodile and pulled In. As Portland.—After suffering for alx quick ns a flash she rememliered the power in the hands of the voters as Wenk point of a crocodile and forced iays from heart disease. Benjamin G. the grange hills provide? A vote her Hagers into the brute's eyes until It Whitehouse, an Oregon pioneer of against the grange bills is what the let go She lost Iter left hand, but was 1859. ex manager tor the Portland Gas Boulevard people want A vote able to swim ashori- ami save her life A Coke Company and one of the most against the Harmony bills will not widely-known Masons in Oregon, died Phone l,< nls Home 1111 fur job print change the constitution. at his home her«. The Grange Ronding bill puts the «I». A RUSSIAN ROYAL TRAGEDY. Czar Baris and the “Bell With the Ear Torn Off.” Tlx- kamiioulie koloko, or "1*11 with the <-ur torn off," Imd u moat roman tic lilatory. lu Hie «Ixteentb century PHti' e Dimitri, the rightful heir to the Bus: liin throne, win deposed by a re- velt led by Boris Goduuoff, who was afterward proclaimed czar. The seat <>t government wu« then at Uglh b, and thither Dimitri win "cut In order that be might remain under the direct ob servatlon of the usurper. Boris, fearing the populace might awake to the Justice of the claims of the young prince, planned the assas*i nation of Dimitri. He was one day Stiiblxsl In a courtyard None of the bystanders ahowixl any disposition to aid him. A priest, however, from the cal hedral belfry saw the crime and immediately l*gan tolling the great bell, which was held sacred and rung only on unusual occasion«, such as a coronation or the death of u czar. Furious at this tacit expression of reproach, the ■ zar commanded that th« priest should I* tortured and executed and that the bell should I* taken down and placed Is-xlde the laxly of Its ring er. This order was fulfilled, and the bell was beaten with clubs by the en tire prpulace, the t zar Boris being at tbelr bead. The czar then decreed that the 1*11 should la* exiled to Tobolsk and that one of Its hangers be removed to Indi cate Its disgrace Harper's Weekly. Camsmbart Chaos«. Camembert Is the name of a com mune. a few houses about a Camem bert chur' h lu the prefecture Vlmou- tjer anti the department of Orne. The Cheese got Its name from the fact that It originated near there, but there Isn't a cheese factory nearer than three miles away now, and not enough peo pl« live In Cameinlx-rt to ruu one of uny size Caen, the principal Camem bert market. Is lu Calvados. The cheese Is carted to the shore and car ried across the mouth of the Seine to Haver In boats. It is made, however, on the northeastern side of the Seine and from there cornea to Haver direct. The cheese Is shlp|x-d unripe even to home markets near at baud in French cities. It Is seldom over four weeks Oh! when It leaves the factory and often only two or three.—Argonaut. Howto Win the Grand Prizes To Be Given Away by THE BEAVER STATE HERALD O The Prizes o ¡’ CAPITAL PRIZE—$425.00 Upright Eilers Piano. On ¡’ ! : Display at The Herald Office. ! 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