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4 THE FALLS CITY NEWS. charge inaccuracies or misrepresentu tious in The Observer's statements with regard to the manner in which the clerk's office has been conducted un der its present official, it has secured lucontrovertable evidence to prove it» Gross Negliganca or Incompetency allegations o f neglect, iuoompetency or to whatever cause the dilialorinesa Charged. Says Evidence is Not may be attributed. Under the new Lacking to Prove.Charge uniform system o f bookkeeping by all counties of the state, eouuty clerks From Folk County Observer. Oot. 13 are required to render to the insur Some people are wanting to put Ed ance commissioner's office at the close Smith baek into the office because ' ‘ h< of each month a statement o f financial made a mighty good county clerk.“' conditions. Following the close of This is admitted even by the demo ousincss for last December, Folk crats. But has any one noticed that county’s report should have been filed the public's interests have suffers l ,n the office of Commissioner 1 ergu since Asa Kobinson has been county »on within a few days, yet the detailed clerk f Mr. Smith held the office fo.‘ report did not reach that office until four terms and is now asking the vot -ometiuie in May. and then it was pre ers to return him there just becaust pared by Crandall and Roberts, ex he was a “ good clerk.” Mr. Robin pert accountants in the employ o f the oirnty, which paid for the service. son’s claim for re-election are base« on the same argument.— Folk County Aud this condition prevailed uotwitb- .landing the fact that the insurance Itemizer. ommissioucr made repeated requests The Observer, while cognizant o! or the reports that he might audit and obtaining conditions, had not intende 1 omplete his compilation o i figures. giving publicity to what may properl >tiU, again, we ask, does this cousii- be termed either ineompetenev or wil -ute a “ good clerk?” full neglect in the conduct o f the coui: Fails to Make Reports. ty clerk’s office under the administer On February 28, 1914, the eomiuis- tion o f Mr. Robinson, but since ou uoner addressed “ Mr. Asa B. Robin esteemed democratic contemporary i ou, Jr., County Clerk, Folk County bold enough to make the above inquir Julias, Oregou,” as follows: “ Deal it reluctantly gives one o f several it: xtr: It is now practically the fit si stances wherein the “ public’s inter ■i March and we have not roieiveo ests have suffered,’ ’ and also to sho rom you the outstanding warrants that the present encumbent’s claim fo .a your county as o f De-embei 31, re-election cannot be based on th .913. Nor have we received reports same argument advanced by Mi .«os. 2 aud 3 as o f date January 31, Smith’s friends for their candidate. .914. May we inquire just when we Supjxrsing, Mr. Voter, you were i .iay expect same? It is very e-ssen business, handling, practically speal ial that we receive these reports ing. about $100,000 annually. Suppc rotnptly aud we urge upon you the ing. again, that you employed a boo coessny o f having same uiadj ».p keeper and gave over to him the i .ud mailed to us immediately.” sponsibilil\ o f keeping youi accoui in reply to the above, on March 4, and you remunerated that employe f< i 914, Mr. Robinson wrote the following such service for ten months, durii etter to Mr. Ferguson: “ In r<qdy to which period he did not even put 1 ours oi February 28 will say that scratch o f a pen on your journal an • e have had three weeks circuit cm it ledger. Would you consider that ei - u the mouth o f February an 1 ih 'ie plbye a “ good clerk?” And, thei .as been too much extra work without after the expiration of ten month .uy extra help, and we expect to get supposing this bookkeeper engage ue books caught up by next week, and another to write up your financis end you in all the reports up to books, and besides your paying tb iate.” man whom you hired to perform th Commissioner Is Insistent. service you were called upou to pa The expectations of the over-woiked an additional fee to others for doir ouuty eierk, however, were not ical- the work. Would you still call hi .«d, and the reports were not forth- a “ good clerk?” -•ming, so twenty-one days after Mr. Supposing, too, that yoqr regularl .obinson had written the coiuunssion- employed bookkeeper during the? or on March 25, 1914, Insurance months had simply kept all the finau omuiissioner Ferguson again address- ial accounts o f your $100,000 busine i the Folk county clerk as follows, on file, subject to possible lass or di e omitting the address: placement, and not a matter o f actu " I have written you several times record, would you still persist in cal garding the amount o f your out- ing your employe a “ good clerk?” auding warrants as o f December 31, Becks Not Written Up. j 13, and January 31, 1914, but so far, These are conditions which actnal ave failed to receive the courtesy of exist under Mr. Asa Robinson, Jnii reply. Your reports on forms Nos. io r’s administration o f the elerkshi and 3 for the month of February are o f Folk county, and are suseeptibi Iso very much past due. I have been to full and complete verification. M ery patient with you in this matter, Robinson entered upon his duties a ut I mupt now innist that this sub- county clerk on the first Monday o ect be given your immediate attention January, 1913, and although there w nd the information we have asked a great volume o f financial busines or together with your February re- transacted not a single entry w a. orts be mailed to this office without made in the journal or ledger in tli trther delay. clerk’s office until in the month oi X< I f you need assistance in the way vena her in that year, when Trac f completing these reports, if you will Staats. county treasurer, was engage Jvise us, 'we will be very glad to send to “ write up” these books, for whic • «m e one to aid you. ’ ’ service the county cour allowed hi Tlie m atter was getting serious for *50 at its December term, held on tl tv clerk, and although his books were first Wednesday o f that month. Woul ot in shape to compile the reports, he this indicate that Mr. Robinson is ,.ide a stab at the figures wanted in “ good el elk ?” ae follow in g letter, under date of Following Mr. Staats’ work on tb larch 25, 1914: “ The amount o f out- clerk's books, practically the sani tandjng warrants in general fund as policy was pursued, the financial r» I FDecember 31, 1913, is as follow s: cords simply being filed, but noj ■r.ieral fund, $2(194.79 and general made o f actual record by entry on th i ( ,ad fund, *234.58. Total, $2929.37. proper boobs. Then, when Insuranc ' ,re will have other reports ready to Commissioner Ferguson requested al •I in to you in a few days.” Monties within the state to exper Reports Made by Experts. their hooks prior to their coming un«' The reports were finally made out, der his jurisdiction by reason o f th«' is previously stated, by Crandall and adoption o f a uniform system through, fofcerts, and did not get into the of- out Oregon, and Messrs. Crandall anr ice o f the commissioner until May, Roberts, expert accountants, were em nor# than four months late. And this ployed by the county court to perforn in thr Item izer’s estimate o f a “ good the necessary work, what conditio« •lerk. ” obtained? These experts, much to During the months that the tax their »wrprise, found that rfie books ro lajaers’ bookkeeping was being grosz ferred to were not “ written up,” an»! y' neglected, Mr. Robinson bad two that entries for rmfliU« past were ep uty clerks in his office, or one more lacking, this making v) necessary for * ha n Ed. M. Smith ever had during them to perform the-clerk’s work be iis encumbency. And there were no fore they couldv commence exporting m portant matters, to say nothing of his a cco trr^ Then these expert* >c ok-keeping, pigeon-holed by Mr. practic ^ p took up the work o f book- St nith, either. I f our esteemed dem- ke»^jj»g where,« Mr. Staats had left off. * ratic contemporary believes such trh*.‘ c o u n tc o u r t paid Messrs. Cran i record makes Mr. Robinson a dall an'i Roberts something like $27¿' * good clerk,” or the equal o f his re- ’ ’neir services, a portion o f w'jjch j ublican opponent in the approaching "ftis for bookkeeping that should have ul ection, its estimate o f efficiency and been done in the clerk’s office. Again, economy in public service is certainly would this indicate that Mr. Rrffiinson considerably wanting. What the ex is a “ good clerk?” Is be entitled to parts found by their investigations is base his claims for re-elwtir.n on this material for another story. It is not, argument ? how»ever, intended to here intimate that in the elect,!»» o f public servants gross irregularities existed, because ipialifie^ioA i» th« paramount issue, while there were irregularities they fo * coupled with qualification is econ were the result of negligence rather omy, and the people’s finances shonld than from any other cause. And the be safeguarded as carefully and with same i* found to be true in the investi the same esactnei.s as one’s private gation by Insurance Commissioner F e rg u s «»'« agents, now under way. affairs. I f we may be permitted to reiterate Statements Are Substantiated. Fearing that our esteemed contem previous staten.'ents, Ed. M. Smith is porary, or its constituency, mijjht given credit fo r being the best county ------------------H ------------------ County Clerk Arraigned By Dallas Observer OCT.,r 17,»11114 Tin« European war situation, in Catarrh Cannot Uo Cured clerk Folk ever hud. No man ever With I.O r'Al, A P P L IC A T I » » » « . ■ * th *» had reason to charge him with neglect cuimol reach tin' scat o f Ilio disosso, t’a* of duty or inconqw'tcncy in office. in this couutrv unti in sin li of tiiiTti ts n blood or constitutional illso«si\ nml In ont> r te euro It you must ts * " In There are hundreds o f |iersous tornili rem» -II' « Halt’s Catarri» Curo Is Europe whose tuken Internally, and »»■ ts directly upon throughout Folk county today, some Ihs liloml and mucous surfaces. Hall's escaped the severe o f whom are his political opponents, Cntsrrh Curs 1« not a quack medicina. If the was pri-scrllii'il by imo of llie host phy who stand ready to testify to this in sicians In this country for years and is likely to he a disputable fact through their personal a regular proscription. II Is cninposod of bo«l tonics known, cambinoli wltb Ino business contact with him. aud many struggle. o f a tbs best blood partners, noti nit directly on Ilia more who must acknowledge that for 1 mucous surfaces T h » prrfoot combina» i lion of I bo two Inaredlcnls Is what pro- promptness, accuracy and accommoda 1 ducos such wonderful results In citrini abandoned, unless catarrh. Hond for testimonials, froo. tien lie was ever there with the goods. V . J CHUNKY & CO. Props.. Toledo. O. tlm opinion of military experts both Post Office Time Card those of opinion« have censorship, indicate that involved powers | are in prolonged death The theory short and decisive war sc'iue now to he and con ditions m aterially change the ex perts say the contests will he pro longed, but none hazards a guess as to how l> ug. profCMtonal dart>0 PHYSICIAN W. B. Officer, M. D. PHyiloltn «nd Surg#on Olile*# '»vi’ f Thompnou'a drug «tor#. Mu tti» I phon# ¿vi Phon# Night fu ll 44| Bold by Hruiralsts. price "Be. Take U all's fa m ily PUls fur constlpallou. Notice to UectricLi^htllsers Office hours: Daily, except Sun All |u>r«ons owing tlu< Falls City day, 8 a.m. to 6.30 p.tu. After City Marshal ; Electric Eight Co. f«r Herviee prior Mail arrives, from A petition containing between to Api it 1, 1914, w ill please pay Salem 8.60 a.m., 5:H5 p.m. thirty and forty names asking I the a mori ut lo |). E. Wood at The M ail.arrives from Dallas, 8:50 for the removal o f Marshal Tup.- j News uflit e. a. m.. and 3:35 p. m. Mail closes lor Salem, 9.00 a.m., i per was presented to the city council Thursday evening and re 1 p. m. and 5:00 p. m. Mail closes for Dallas 9:00 a. m. ferred to the police committee. ! It is generally thought that the and 5:00 p. in. council will not grant the wish of Mail closes for Black Rock 11:00 the petitioners. Independence a. m. Monitor. Mail arrives from Black Rock 2 p. m. Abstracts of title promptly fur S u nday O nly Mail arrives from baleni, 8:50 nished. Rates reasonable. Brow n A ] Sibley, 610 Mill St., Dallas, Or. a. in. Mail closes for Salem, 9:00 a. m. Office hours: Sunday only, 9:30 Money to loan on approved real estât«' security. I f you have money to 10:80 a.ui: to loan, let me timi a borrower for Effective September 4, 1914. HOME-MADE CANDIES I ka 0. M k h k l in o , Fost master I you. Fhone 1021. Dallas, Oregon ELLIS W alter L. T o o z f, Jr. Fails City, Folk Co., Ore. ¡if. PII YHlCIAN F. M. H E L L W A R T H PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office one tfoor east of P. O. om. * anil tii .iitumu i none 868 rail, oit» o»«gon ATTOHNKY JAS. a . M CLTZKL, A ltern e» at Law l'rarttr» In a ll th» s ia l» couru. Sulle 11 llu -ti Hreyinaii H id , phone lu» Salam, Oregon Kt'NKKAl. DIRIKTOH 1 £u0lnc00 tlarto _______________ HOTEL HERE ARE TRUE FACTS Read through this LETTER and see if it is not fair then TH INK OUT Y O U R O W N O P I N I O N By JO H N I . TURN ER, Attorney and Ex-Councilman, Salem, O re ., Sepf. 2 1 F OR a statement concerning the effect of the dry business In real estate, and 1 asked him If ho had policy on Salem, and In answer to the article deliberately lied about tho building permits, uud ho by E. B. Lockhart, published in the Salem said (he boy who had given hltu the figures bad uindo Statesman August 23, 1914, and In tho New a mistake, and In his Btateman Sunday morning be makes n statement that tho figures of $4lu,OS6 in Republic under date of September 11, 1914, 1 sum his article published In the Statesman August 23 mit the following: December 1. 1913, Salem closed her fifteen sa should have been $219.100. lie found Ills mistake loons, three restaurants, two wholesale houses and mighty quirk after he knew I hud a check on the withdrew liquor permits from eight drug stores, thus building permits. denying herself the annual revenue of $15,400. The C I T Y IM P R O V E M E N T S S T O P P E D . saloons employed sixty-five men, the restaurants Tho $9,000 tiro engine was purchased early In twenty-five. Together they had a payroll of $5,700 1911, after tho money had been appropriated by tho per month. Practically all those who conduct» l City Council tn 1912. 'I he Cupitul Journal, the even saloons and those employed by the saloons and res ing paper, changed its location uud Installed u new taurants have left town. A ll the buildings occupied press, the Statesman is in the same old quartors, a year ago by saloons are vacant, except idx that and the only now thiugs it has are a telegraph oper have been occupied by tenants who left another ator and some type metal. One n»'W church, costing building vacant, moving only to better their location. $500, has been built since tho town went dry. T b « Several of the best buildings in town have their Capital Business College is at the old stand, while windows boarded up to serve as billboards. There Willamette University is still looking forward to are now more than five hundred modern dwellings "the greatest year in her history." Let it be noted for rent In Salem. that the enrollment at the grammar schools opening Rental returns have greatly depreciated. Store day 1913 was 1510, and for the same day this year property on State Street, which for five years had 1469. It would seem that closing tho door of the rented for $185 per month, was re-leaBed within four saloons meant closing the door ot the schools. months after the city went "d ry " for two years at the rate of $110 per month. This is but a fair sample CHERRY F A IR AND W IIO MADE IT. of the reduction all through the business section on During the campaign of 1913 a statement was property that was up for re-leasing or renting since published, purporting to come from the Ministerial the city went "dry.” Association, to the effect that If the people would vote dry they would establish u coffee club for those BUSINESS UNBEARABLE. Every merchant In town, except one— a radical who could not aUord to belong to the illihee, Elks Prohl., has complained of the poor business done or Moose, and that the churches would finance tho this year, and in order to keep going have dispensed Cherry Fair to the extent of the usual support from with all their surplus help, thus throwing a good tho saloons. Tho Board of Trade, which had al many clerks out of their regular monthly stipend. ways conducted the (.'berry Fair, being unable to ob Many of these have now left Salem, seeking work tain any nld from the Ministerial Association, re tome place el:-;e. Three shoe 6tores have been closed, fused to go ou with the Fair. The Cherrians, an organ two by the sheriff aud one voluntarily. One of the ization of 100 (no prohibitionists), rather than see -largest dry goods stores has been sued for the first a year pass without a Cherry Fair, became the spon time in its twenty years’ existence. Salem has been sors. Each member gave a week of I i I h tlnio and the closing of fourteen places of business, other than $5 In money tu order to have a Fair. The attend saloons, since the first of January, 1914. Does this ance was about one-hulf what It was In 1913. Not a concession took in enough to pay expenses. You look like big improvement? cun take It from one who knows, tho Cherrians will Now I will s’xow you how Mr. Lockhart fixed up never again finance a Cherry Fair. his prohibition article. The $20,000 public market DECREASED BAN K DEPOSITS. building had the roof on before the town went dry. The only work that has been done on the building The amount of di posits in Salem banks shows a this year was the lathing of the first story and the decrease of $309,942.69 since the town went dry. plastering of one room, which Is now occupied by and this In spite of the fact that $ 185,000 received four stalls, constituting the public market. The for bonds sold In Boston was on deposit In tho $40,000 insurance block Is being built by Geo. F. banks In January, 1914, statement. This money Rodgers under a permit which gives the estimated was distributed to Salem people and left here. It valuation at $30.000. and for which the contract was was used to pay a refund on sewer assessments aud less for less than $13,000. to cover warrants outstanding. BUILDING DURING DRY PERIOD. Compare these facts with Mr. Lockhart’s state ment: For the last wet year tho building permits from January to August, Inclusive, totaled $3x8,925, and from the first of November, 1913, to the twentieth day of September, 1914, $268.160. I start with November first In order to show some real prohibi tion facts. During the campaign of 1913 J. G. Vo- get, a howling prohibitionist, published a statement that If the town went dry ho would build sixteen new houses. So-lmmedlately after the election In November, 1913, he procured from the City Recorder sixteen permits, and under those sixteen permits he began the construction of nine houses of three and four rooms each. Only two wero completed far enough to receive the windows amt doors, and they have never been finished. No work of any kind has been done on these frames since last December. 1 met Mr. Lockhart last Saturday night In Mr. Bechtel’s real estate office, whom be was trying to Induce to give him an exaggerated statement aa to NO WAGES TO GO. A leading schoolman told rue that ho did not know how tho children would bo equipped this year, but that he expected many of them would have to be aided with books, owing to the fact that, so many parents have been unable to secure work this sum mer. The contractor mentioned by Mrs Lockhart I havo been unable to find. A prominent— but why continue? The list could bo extended Indefinitely. I have shown enough to those who will see. Clar ence True Wilson Is reported to have said in a pro hibition speech that Salem last year had sixteen po licemen and this year has only one. Common sense would tell anyone tills statement was false. Just remember that It Is th»« hypocrite, “ the wolf In sheep’s clothing," that always gets your goat. I regret very much the necessity of making public to the world the business condition ot Salem, be cause I expert to live hero for several years to com«, hut with the hope that others may he saved I cast the city’s future a sacrifice upon tho altar of the State of Oregon. jfalls Gitçlbotel Sample Room s Boat A c c o m m o d a t i o n » f . Droogo, Pr opri e t or H AItbKK SHOPS Bohle’s Barber Shops Full« C ity, O f# |# n Where you can get a Shive. Nalr Cat. Bath or ‘Shint’ A(j #nt f or Dallo# S t e a m Laundry Hun*llva iorw«rtlo*l \H*\I ui-»>loy •V' trtii- » Vi G . L. H A W K I N MAHBLE AN I» GR " Nl . IN 'O N UM EN Tc D a l l a « , ( rag« ’ 1 Che © re g o n C W . Matthews. P roo f et« r J K K A L E8T A T K F. K. Hubbard Realty Company Ke«l Entatc bought, •old. and exchanged. Collection«. Inaurance, Abatracta. Notarial work; Legal Document« Prepared. Office, in the Falla City News office. Are you going to vote to kill the Hop Industry, to bring about theso conditions? Don’ t you feel that times are hard enough now? H O P G R O W E R S A N D D E A L E R S A S S O C I A T I O N OF O R EG O N (PAIIJ ADVKRTIRKMRNT. Extra of The News are week, and will be aent any address desired, postpaid, cents per copy. Walter 1». Tnc7e, Jr., Lawyer, Nat’l Bank B’ld’g., Dallas, Ph . e : ¡Man 1621. (t, copies printed en<;h to for 2