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less, in my judgment the whole question of rriage snd divorce should be relegated to the satnority of the natioal congress. At pres ent the wide differences in the laws of the different states on this subject result in scan dals and abuses; and surely there is nothing so vitally essential to the welfare o f the nation, nothing around which the nation should so ORBGON bend itself to throw every safeguard, as the SST ACADA home life o f the average citizen. The change would he good from every standpoint. In par ticular it would be good because it would con fer on the congress the power at once to deal radically and efficiently with polygamy; and this should be done whether or not mar riage and divorce are dealt with. It is neither safe nor proper to leave the question of polyg amy to be dealt with by the several states. Power to deal with it should be conferred on the national government. Let me once again call the attention o f the congress to two subjects concerning which I have frequently before communicated with them. One is the question o f developing American shipping. I trust that a law embody ing in substance the views, or a major part of the views, expressed in the report on this laid before the house at its last session The main points brought out by the presi subject will be passed. I am well aware that in dent in his annual message to congress, dcliv former years objectionable measures have been proposed in reference to the encouragement of •red December 4, follow: I again recommend a law prohibiting all American shipping; but it seems to me that the Corporations from contributing to the campaign proposed measure is as nearly unobjectionable can be. expenses of any party. Such a bill has al as I any especially call your attention to the sec ready passed one house of congress. Let in« ond subject, the condition of our currency dividual* contribute as they desire; but let us laws. The national bank act has ably served prohibit in effective fashion all corporations a great purpose in aiding the enormous busi from making contributions for any political ness development o f the country, and within purpose, directly or indirectly. ten years there has been an increase in circu Another bill which has just passed one house lation per capita from $21.41 to $33.08. For of congress and which it is urgently necessary several years evidence has been accumulating should be enacted into law is that conferring that additional legislation is needed. The re upon the government the right of appeal in currence o f each crop season emphasizes the criminal cases on questions o f law. This right defects s f the present laws. exists in many of the states; it exists in the I do not press any especial plan. Various District of Columbia by act of the congress. plans have recently been proposed by expert I t is of course net proposed that in any case committees o f bankers. a verdict for the defendant on the merits I most earnestly hope that the bill to pro should be set aside. A failure to pass it will vide a lower tariff for or else absolute free result in seriously hampering ihe government trade in Philippine products will become a In its effort to obtain justice, especially against law. No harm will come to any American wealthy individuals or corporations who do industry; and while there will be some small wrong; and may also prevent the government but real material benefit to the Filipinos, the from obtaining justice for wage-workers who main benefit will come by the showing made as are not themselves able effectively to contest to our purpose to do all in our power for their a case where the judgment of an inferior court welfare. So far our action in the Philippines has been against them. has been abundantly justified, not mainly and In connection with this matter I would like indeed not primarily because o f the added to call attention to the very unsatisfactory dignity it has given us as a nation by proving state of our criminal law, resulting in large that we are capable honorably and efficiently part from the habit of setting aside the judg to bear the international burdens which a ments of inferior courts on technicalities ab mighty people should bear, but even more solutely unconnected with the merits of the because of the immense benefit that has come ease, and where there is no attempt to show to the people of the Philippine Islands. that there has been any failure of substantial American citizenship should be conferred on justice. the citizens o f Porto Rico. The harbor of In my l u t message I suggested the enact- San Tuan in Porto Rico should be dredged ment ot s law in connection with the issuance and improved. The expense o f the federal of injunctions, attention having been sharply court of Porto Rico should be met from the drawn to the matter by the demand that the federal treasury. The administration o f the right of applying injunctions in labor cases affairs o f Porto Rico, together with those of should be wholly abolished. It is at least the Philippines, Hawaii and our other insular doubtful whether a law abolishing altogether possessions, should all he directed under one the use of the injunctions in such cases would executive department; by preference, the de stand the test of the courts: in which case partment o f state or the department o f war. of course the legislation would be ineffective. The needs of Hawaii are peculiar; every Moreover. I believe it would be wrong alto aid should be given the islands; and our efforts gether to prohibit the use of injunctions. But should be unceasing to develop them along so far as possible the abuse of the power the lines o f a community of small freeholders, should be provided against by some such law not o f great planters with coolie-tilled estates as I advocated last year. Situated as this territory is, in the middle of Lawlessness grows by what it feeds upon, the Pacific, there are duties imposed upon this and when mobs begin to lynch for rape they small community which do not fall in like de speedily extend the sphere of their ooerationr gree or manner upon any other American com and lynch for many other kinds of crimes, munity. This warrants our treating it dif •o that two-thirds of the lynchings are not ferently from the way in which we treat ter for rape at all; while a considerable propor ritories contiguous to or surrounded by sister tion of the individuals lynched are innocent of territories or other states, and justifies the all crime. In my judgment, the crime of rape setting aside of a portion o f our revenues to should always be punished with death, as in be expended for educational and internal im the case with murder; assault with intent to provements therein. commit rape should be made a capital crime, Alaska’s needs have been partially met. but at leaat in the discretion of the court; and pro there must he a complete reorganization o f the vision should be made by which the punish governmental system, as I have before^ indi ment may follow immediately upon the heels cated to you. I ask your especial attention to of the offense; while the trial should be so this. Our fellow citizens who dwell on the conducted that the victim need not be wan shores o f Puget sound with characteristic tonly shamed while giving testimony, and that energy are arranging to hold in Seattle the the leaat possible publicity shall be given to the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition. Its special aims include the upbuilding o f Alaska and the ^ I* call your attention to the need of passing development of American commerce on the Pa the bill limiting the number of hours of em cific ocean. This exposition, in its purposes ployment of railroad employes. The measure and scope, should appeal not only to the peo ta a very moderate one and I can conceive ot of the Pacific slope, but to the people o f the ple no serious objection to it. Indeed, so far as United States at large. Alaska since It was It Is In our power, it should be our aim bought has yielded to the government $11,000,- steadily to reduce the number of hours of 000 of revenue, and has produced nearly labor, with aa a goal the general introduc $300,000,000 in gold, furs and fish. When tion of an eight-hour day. properly developed it will become in large de The horrors incident to the employment of gree a land of homes. The countries border young children in factories or at work any ing the Pacific ocean have a population more where are a blot on our civilisation. It is numerous than that of all the countries of true that each state must ultimately settle the Europe; their annual foreign commerce uestion in its own way; but a th< ugh amounts to over $3,000,000,000, o f which the cial invesigation of the matter. wim the w e ie - share of the United States is some $700,000,- suits published ublishcd broadcast, Droaacasi, wouia would greatly heip help 000. I f this trade were thoroughly under toward arovsing the public conscience and se stood and pushed by our manufacturers and curing unity of state action in the matter. producers, the industries nut only o f the Pa Among the excellent laws which the con cific slope, but o f all our country, and partic gress passed at the last session was an em ularly o f our cotton-growing states, would be ployers’ liability law. It was a marked step greatly benefited. O f course, in order to get In advance to get the recognition of em these benefits, we must treat fairly the coun ployers’ lisbility on the statute books; but tries with which we trade. the law did not go far enough. In spite of f Especially do we need to remember our gll precautions exercised by employers there duty to the stranger within our gates. It is gre unavoidable accidents and even deaths the sure mark o f a low civilization, a low involved in nearly every line of business con morality, to abuse or discriminate against or nected with the mechanic arts. If the entire in any way humiliate such stranger who has trade risk la placed upon the employer he will come here lawfully and who is conducting promptly and properly add it to the legitimate himself properly. To remember this is incum coot of production and aaaess it proportion bent on every American citizen, and it is of ately upon the consumers of his commodity. course peculiarly incumbent on every govern It It therefore clear to my mind that the law ment official, whether o f the nation or o f the should place this entire “risk of a trade’’ upon several states. the employer. Neither the federal law nor. as I am prompted to say this by the attitude far as I am Informed, the state laws dealing of hostility here and there assumed toward with the question of employers' liability are the Japanese in this country. This hostility sufficiently thoroughgoing. The federal law is sporadic and is limited to a very few places. should o* course Include employes in navy- Nevertheless, it is most discreditable to us as yards, arsenals and the like. a people, and it may be fraught with the It Is not wise that the nation should gravest consequences to the nation. To no alienate its remaining coal lands. I have tem other country has there been such an increas porarily withdrawn from settlement all the ing number o f visitors from this land as to lands which the geological survey has indi Tapan. In return, Japanese have come here cated aa containing, or in all probability con In great numbers. They are — elcome, socially taining coal. The question, however, can be and intellectually, in all our colleges and in rly settled only by legislation, which in stitutions o f higher learning, in all our pro udgment should provi provide for the wit*- fessional and social bodies. The overwhelm judgment drswal of these lands from sale or from ing mass o f our people cherish a lively regard save in certain especial circumstances, and respect for the people o f Japan, and in The ownership would tAen then remain in the almost every quarter o f tne union the stranger United States, which should not, however, from Japan is treated as he deserves; that is. mmd| them, * Ttnit them to be he is treated as the stranger from any part attempt to work but * peri ________________ worked by private individuals t under a royalty of civilized Europe is and deserves to be ______ _____government system, the government keeping keepin such control treated. But here and there a most unworthy aa to permit it to see that no excessive price feeling has manifested itself toward the Jap was charged consumers. It would, of course, anese— the feeling that has been shown in be as necessary to supervise the rates charged shutting them out from the common schools by the cotrmon carriers to transport the pro in San Francisco, and in mutterings against duct as the rates charged by those who mine them in one or two other places, because of It; and the supervision must extend to the their efficiency as workers. T o shut them out conduct of the common carriers, so that they from the public schools is a wicked absurdity, shall In no way favor one competitor at the when there are no first-class colleges in the expense of another. The withdraws! of these land, including the universities and colleges coal lands would constitute a policy analogous of California, which do not gladly welcome to that which has been followed in withdraw Japanese students and on which Japanese stu ing the forest lands from ordinary settle dents do not reflect credit. I ask fair treat ment. The coal, like the forests, should be ment for the Japanese as I would ask fair treated as the property of the public, and its treatment for Cíermans Germans or c Enelishment, French- disposal shoulcf be under conditions which men, Russians, or Italians, I ask it as due to would inure to the benefit of the public as a humanity and civilization. I ask it as due to whole. ourselves because we must act uprightly toward The passage of the railway rate bill, and all men. Last August an insurrection broke out in only to a leas degree the passage of the pure- food bill, and the provision for increasing and Cuba which it speedily grew evident that the rendering more effective the national control existing Cuban government was powerless to over the beef-packing industry, mark an im quell. This government was repeatedly asked portant advance in the proper direction. In If boys and girls are trained merely in literary my Judgment it will in the end be advisable accomplishments, to the total exclusion of in In connection with the packing house inspec dustrial, manual and technical training, the tion law to provide for putting a date on the tendency is to unfit them for industrial work label and for charging the cost of inspection and to make them reluctan* to go into it, or unfitted to do well if they do go into it. This to the packers. The question of taxation is difficult in any is a tendency which should be strenuously country, but it is especially difficult in ours, combated. Our industrial development depends with its Federal system of government. Some largely upon technical education, including in taxes should on every ground be levied in s this term all industrial education, from that •mall district for use in that district. Thus which fits a man to be a good mechanic, a good the taxation of real estate ia peculiarly one carpenter, or blacksmith, to that which fits a for the immediate locality in which the real man to do the greatest engineering feat. The •state Is found. But there are many kinds of skilled mechanic, the skilled workman, can taxes which esn only be levied by the general best become such by technical industrial edu government so as to produce the best results, cation. because, among other reasons, the attempt to The department o f agriculture has broken impose them in one particular state too often new ground in many directions, and year by results merely ia driving the corporation or year Tt finds how it can improve its methods Individual affected to some other locality or and develop fresh usefulness. Its constant other state. The national government has long by the then Cuban government to intervene, derived its chief revenue from a tariff on im and finally was notified by the president of ports snd from sn internal or excise tax. In Cuba that he intended to resign; that none of addition to theee there is every reason why. the other constitutional officers would con when next our system of taxation is revised, sent to carry on the government, and that he die national government should impose a grad was powerless to maintain order. It was evi uated inheritance tax, and, if possible, a grad dent that chaos was impending. Thanks to uated Income tax. the preparedness of our navy. I was able im The industrial and agricultural classes must mediately to send enough ships to Cuba to work together, capitalists snd wageworkers prevent the situation from becoming hopeless. must work together, if the best work of which In accordance with the so-called Platt die country is capable ia to be done. It is amendment, which was «..nbodied in the con probable that a thoroughly efficient system of atitution o f Cuba. I proclaimed a provisional education cornea next to the influence of pat government for the island, the secretary of riotism in bringing about national success of war acting as provisional governor until he this kind. Our federal form of government, could be replaced by Mr. Magoon; troops ao fruitful of advantage to our people in cer were sent to support them snd to relieve tne tain w«vs, in other ways undoubtedly limits navy, the expedition being handled with most our national eneviiveness. It is not possible, satisfactory speed and efficiency. The pro for instance, for the national government to visional government has left the personnel of taka the lead in technical industrial education, the old government and the old laws, so far to see that the public school system of this as might he, unchanged, and will thus ad country develops on all its technical, indus minister the island for a few months until trial. scientific and commercial side«. This tranquility can be restored, a new election must be left primarily to the several states, properly held, and a new government inaugu effort ia to give the governmental assistance rated. Peace has come in the island; and the In the most effective way; that ia. through as harvesting o f the sugar-cane crop, the great sociations of farmers rather than to or through crop of the island, is about to proceed. individual farmers. It is also striving to co The United States wishes nothing o f Cuba ordinate its work witk the agricultural de except that It shall prosper morally and ma pertinents of the severs! states, and so far as terially. and wishes nothing of the Cubans save Its own work is educational, to co-ordinate it that they shall he able to preserve order with the work of other educational authorities. among themselves and therefore to preserve Great progress has already been made among their independence. I f the elections become a farmers by the creation of farmers’ institutes, farce, and if the insurrectionary habit be dairy associations, of breeders’ associations, comes confirmed in the island, it ia abso ticumtral associations and the like. The lutely out o f the question that the island department can and will co-operate with all should continue Independent; and the United such associations, and it must have their help States, which has assumed the sponsorship be If Its own work ie to he dooe in the moet fore the civilised world for Cubans career aa a efficient style. nation, would again have to intervene and to Much Is now being done for the states of see that the government was managed in such (be Rocky mountains snd the great plains orderly fashion aa to secure the safety o f life through gh the development of the national policy and prop l| RO fOV- of irrigation and forest In many ma parts , . . .. of South ____ ____ America there has it of our in- been much misunderstanding o f the attitude s r s s u s t policy for the l fruitful of *nd purposes of the United States toward the * 1 conditions has 1 of the White other American republics. An idea h%d be than this. The Appalachian regions come prevalent that our assertion of the and they can not he Monroe doctrine Implied or carried with it of the states in which they an assumption of superiority and o f a right representatives In the con- to exercise some kind of protectorate over by the national the countries to whoae territory that doctrine applies. Nothing could he farther from the it ie to truth. Yet that impression continued to he a serious harrier to good understanding, to MESSAGEJN BRIEF Importait hints of President’s Cemmulcatlen te Congress Q friendly intercourse, to the introduction of American capital and the extension of Ameri can trade. The impression was ao widespread that apparently it could not be reached by any ordinary means. Jt was part of Secretary Root's mission to dispel this unfounded impression, and there is just cause to believe that he has succeeded. 1 have just returned from a trip to Panama rnd shall report io you at length later on the whole subject of the Panama canal. The destruction o f the Pribilof islands fur seals by pelagic selling still continues. The regulations have proved plainly inadequate to accomplish the object of protection and prescr vation o f the fur seals, and for a long time this government has been trying in vain to secure from Great Britain such revision and modification o f the regulations as were con templated and Drovided for*by the award of the Tribunal o f Paris. The process of destruction has been accel erated during recent years by the appearance of a number of Japanese vessels engaged in pelagic sealing. As these vessels have not been bound even by the inadequate limitations prescribed by the Tribunal o f Paris, they have paid no attention either to the close season or to the sixty-mile limit imposed upon the Cana dians, and have prosecuted their work up to the very islands themselves. We have not relaxed our efforts to secure an agreement with Great Britain for adequate protection o f the seal herd, and negotiations with Japan for the same purpose are in progress. In case we are compelled to^ abandon the hope of making arrangements with other gov ernments to put an end to the hideous cruelty now Incident to pelagic sealing, It will be a question for your serious consideration how far we should continue to protect and main tain the seal herd on land with the result of continuing such a practice, and whether it is not better to end the practice by extermi nating the herd ourselves in the most humane way possible. The United States navy is the surest guar antor o f peace which this country possesses. It is earnestly to be wished that we would profit by the teachings of history in this mat ter. A strong and wise people will study its own failures no less than its triumphs, for there is wisdom to be learned from tne study o f both, o f the mistake as well as of the suc cess. I do not ask that we continue to increase our navy. I ask merely that it be maintained at its present strength; and this can be done only it we replace the obsolete and outworn ships by new and good <*nes, the equals of any afloat in any navy. To ston building ships for one year means that for that year the navy goes back instead o f forward. The old battleship Texas, for instance, would now be of little service In a stand-up fight with a powerful adversary. The ola double-turret monitors have outworn their usefulness, while it was a waste of money to build the modern single-turret monitors. All these ships should be replaced by others; and this can be done by a well-settled program of providing for the building each year o f at least one first-class battleship equal in size and speed to any that any nation is at the same time building. Reliigoua utrife is assured in France Mayor Schmitz wants the time of his trial extended. Canada is also having trouble with Japanese coolies. The pope declares nothing will stop the struggle in France except victory for the church. John Ilarrett is almost certain to be chosen director of the bureau of Ameri can republics. Andrew Carnegie has given $32,000 towards rebuilding the college recently burned at Kankakee, 111. Mrs. Storer says she is the one who brought Roosevelt to the front and he owes everything he is to her. Lands around the Salton sink, Cal., will he flooded for a year as the result of the recent break in the dam. OFFICIALS INDICTED Harriman and Goold Unes Most Answer In Coart. 2 \o \(<i ►. ^ a . A ccu sed of S tealing T h o u sa n d s A c r n g 'o f C o a l L ard in Utah and W yom ing. (C on tin u ed from last w eek) railroad and coal corporations and their officials the Federal grand jury began the work of bringing to justice the men who are accused of stealing thousands of acres of coal land in Utah and W yoming and using their connection with the railroads to establish a monop oly of coal mining and dealing in the intermountain country. Tlieae indictments are only the first in what may prove to be a long series for the grand jury is to resume its in quisition soon after Christmas. The grand jury’s partial report was made to United States District Judge John A. Marshall.- - The indictment against the Harriman companies em brace the Union Pacific, the Oregon Short Line, the Union Pacific Coal com pany, Everett Buckingham, general su perintendent of the Oregon Short Line and a man named Moore. The indict ment ciiarges violation of the interstate commerce law, alleging discrimination against D. J. Sharp, a coal dealer in Salt Sake City, who was forced out of business after he had cut pricea below the prices charged by other dealers in coal. The indictment against the represen tatives of the Gould interests embraces the Utah Fuel company, H . G . W il liams, general manager of this company, Robert Forrester, the company’s geolo gist, W . R. Foster, secretary to Robert Forester, Alexander M. Cowie, general manager of the company’s Wasatch store at Sunnyside, Utah, Elroy N. Clark, the Utah Fuel company’s attor ney at Denver, and George A. Moore, the company’s agent at Denver. They are charged with defrauding and at tempting to defraud the United States government, the charges being based on the methods pursued in acquiring title to coal lands in Utah. T o Float Philippine Bonds. New York, Dec. 8.— An underwriting syndicate for $15,000,000 Philippine railway 4 per cent 30-vear bonds, to be guaranteed by the Philippine govern ment, has been formed with W illiam Salmon A Co. as syndicate managers. The thousand miles of railroad to be built are distributed over the islands of Panay, Negros and Cebu. W ork has been under way since June last, when a party of 15 engineers arrived in the Philippines and surveys were begun. Construction was begun in Cebu No vember 13, and in Panay November 17. P srk in s S ta n d s by S ts ts . Washington, Dec. 8 .— Senator Per kins, who talked with the president to day about the Japanese situation, claims that the people of San Francisco have not violated either 'the letter or the spirit of the law regarding the admis sion of Japanese to schools for white children. He said the president will learn that the people of the Pacific coast are unanimous in sentiment and will bow to those sentiments and short ly enter negotistlons with Japan for the exclusion of peons and cooliee from this country. ■? à 5. ponents to designate the township, range, section, part of section, distance, course, bearing, and direeetion, and also the number of lots and blocks, or part thereof. ¡T - R-O « *< is \ ® (Description book— Contents.) (N o change.) (Trust property— Representative char acter of holder designated.) Section 27. That section 3073 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. ( ha rips B. Bel linger and William W . Cotton, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: When any person is assessed as trus tee, guardian, executor, or administrat or a desingation of his representative character shall be added to his name, and such assessment sliall be entered in a separate line from his individual as sessment, and he sliall be asssesed for the real and personal property held by him in such representative character at the full value thereof. (No change, except to require that personal, as well as real, property sliall be assessed at full value.) (Assessment and taxation of undivided interest in real or personal property.) Section 28. An undivided interest in lands or lots, or other real property, may be assessed and taxed as such. Any person desiring to pay the tax on an undivided interest in any real prop erty may do so by paying the tax col lector a sum equal to sueh proportion of the ent ire taxes charged on the entire traet as the interest paid on bears to the whole. (N ew; but rompare Revenue Laws Washing- Ion, 1906, section 91.) V a lu e o f m a ch in ery and equ ipm en t __ «*■ Mr N u m ber o f m i l e s ............... 1 n Mr N um ber o f m i l e s ............... V a lu e ............... ...................... •* N nm ber of m i l e s ............... V a lu e ..................................... Mr M oney, notes and a c c o u n t s ................ Mr Shares o f s tock .......................................... (No change, except to provide that porta and other municipal taxing agenciea, If any, ahall be given columns in the roll.) (Form of assessment roll). Section 34. That section 3077 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel linger and William W . Cotton, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: The assessment roll shall be made out in tabular form, in separate col umns, with appropriate heads, after the manner specified below, with such ad ditional columns as may by law be pre scribed or as may be deemed necessary, and for convenience may be divided in to parts so that assessments of lands, lots, or other real and personal estates, appear in separate parts thereof, as nearly as convenient in the following form, varying the same as the circum stances may require: (What shall be sufficient description in assessment.) Section 30. That section 3075 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel linger and William W . Cotton, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: (To be continued next week) P a t’s S / B 3 A O A 9 3 A C f a £ 1 3 5 A r 0 » < * ri = W S ? w A o 3 6 3 O I I 3 » a üo ÌÌ % i E 3 "* H S L 3 I A I A : o 3 s >* 3 22 f, Ì . ' 3 a « $ • A ge. On a motor car tour of the County Mayo, which the Earl of Altamont made with "M alrrtln,” an Irish gos soon, for general assistant, they pass ed a neat little cottage, with a pretty bit of garden. “ Who lives there?” asked the earl. “ Is It there?” Malrrtln said, indig nantly. “ Sure, doesn’t onld Pat Mur phy live there.” "Oh, does he?” said the earl, not knowing In the least, as he confesses In English Country Life, who “ould Pat Murphy” was. “ ’Deed he does,” said Malrrtln, “ and him a hundhred If he's a day— so he LOTS. It shall be sufficient to describe lands I in all proceedings relative to the assess ing, collecting, advertising, or selling | the same for taxes, by initial letter, ab breviations, figures, fractions, and ex He V a lu e o f m erch a n d ise and stock In t r a d e ......................................................... V a lu e o f farm m a c h in e r y , im p le (Division of assessment made upon m ents, w agons, e t c ......... .’ .................. W whole tract— Payment of tax on part of traet.) H ou seh old fu rn itu re, e t c ..................... Section 32. Any person desiring to N um ber o f horses . . . .> .......................... pay taxes on any part or parts of any real estate heretofore or hereafter as M- sessed as one parcel or tract may do so N um ber o f ca ttle ..................................... by applying to the tax collector, who must carefully investigate and ascer V a lu e ........................................................... __ 1» tain the relative or proportionate value N um ber o f sh eep ..................................... said part bears to the whole tract as sessed, on which basis the assessment must be divided and the tax collected N um ber o f s w in e ...................................... accordingly: Provided, where the as sessed valuation of the tract to be divid ed exceeds $2,000, a notice stating the division must be sent to the known Gross valu e of all p r o p e r t y ................. .. •* several owners interested in the tract, by registered mail, unless they all ap ply to the tax collector to divide the as T otal valu e o f ta x a b le p r o p e r t y ....... sessment; and if no protest against said division be filed with the tax collector (Provides that the roll m a r be divided foi within fifteen days from date of notice, convenience. The form of roll used by nearly all the counties is supplied by the secretary ol the tax collector shall duly accept pay state merely because it is railed for, and it it ment and issue erceipt on the appor called for merely because it has here-to-fore been used. basedonthesch emeofassessment tionment as by him made. In eases which was It in is affect prior to tl »e act of 1901, and where protest is filet! to said division, is better designed to the old la w than the pres ent. Several counties the state including the matter shall be heard by the coun Multnomah have found in ch an j'es from the com ty court at its next regular session for mon form necessary, and pro< sure special form; o f rolls designed to meet tnei r needs and expe transaction of county business, and the rience. The forms recomme nded herein are county court shall make a final division based upon the experience of such counties compared with the present u jual form of roll, of the said assessment, and the tax col and are designed to permit a d ivision of the bock lector shall collect, accept, and receipt into parts, dividing the roll as to lots, lands, and personal property if desired.) for said taxes as determined and or dered by the county court. (Additional columns in r o ll— Entries to (N ew; com p a res somewhat similar statute be made therein.) in Washington.) Section 35. That section 3078 of the ( Lands of unknown owner — How des Codes and Statutes of O regon, compiled cribed). and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel Section 33. That section 3076 of the linger and William W . Cotton, be and Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled the same hereby is ame nded to read as and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel follows: linger and William W . Cotton, be and In the assessment and tax rolls of the the same hereby is amended to read several counties, in add’ition to the col as follows: umns elsewhere provi ded for, there When the name of the owner of shall be added columns head respective lands or lots liable to taxation is un ly “ Cities, ” “ School Districts, ” known, such lands or lots shall be de “ Amount City Tax,” “ Amount School scribed as that of unknown owner or District Tax,” and if there be a port or unknown owners, and the value thereof other municipal taxing agency in sueh set down in the assessment roll, in the county, additional columns for the name same manner that lands of known own of such port or other municipal taxing ers are required to be described, and agency, and for the amount of such port the value thereof designated. If the or other taxes. It shall be the duty cf property on such assessment roll shall the several county assessors in making be arranged in the order of its loca their assessments to enter opposite each tion, and not in alphabetical arrange item of porperty assessed, in it* appre ment by the owner’s name, then the priate column, the name of the incor lands or lots of such unknown owners porated city or town, and the number shall be inserted In their proper place of the school district, and the name of according to location. the port or other municipal taxingagen- (Omits «11 reference to the occupancy of land cy, if any, in which each item of prop to avoid “ Blackburn v. Lewix" 45 Or. 432, 77 erty assessed is taxable. Pan. 746.) (City, village, or town in which lots are situated to be named.) Section 20. When lots are situated in any city, village, or town, a plat of which shall have been recorded,the city, village, or town in which the same are situated shall be specified in the assess ment roll. H ow City o f ............................................... (N ew: compare Revcuue Law« Washington, 1905, section 47.) (Permits the assessment roll to be divided in to parts for convenience, the (orm of roll in present common use teing a blanket (orm, in cluding real and personal property, on one page, and being unnecessarily euinbersome and unweildy. Assessor may not assess more than 160 acres in a single traet.) (Permits use of a number, referring to a de scription book maintained as a permanent rec ord in the tax collector’s office in lieu o f a metes ami bounds description. This provision Is borrowed from Washington.) ............ C h aracter o f business........................... Section 3J. There shall be kept in the office of the tax collector a book, to be known as the description book, which shall be arranged by order of sections or land claims, townships, and ranges. The assessor may enter therein, under the proper numerical heading, any tract of land by a metes and bounds descrip tion thereof, situated within sueh land claim or section, and shall give to each traet of land so described and entered a number, to be designated as Tax No. ------ , and the tracts in each sueh sec tion and land claim shall be numbered consecutively. Such number sluill be placed on the assessment and tax rolls to indicate that certain piece of real es tate bearing such number in the de scription book, and described by metes and bounds under such number in the description book; and in all proceed ings for the assessment, levy, or collec tion of taxes, or sale of property, or other proceedings for collection of de linquent taxes, said designation shall be a sufficient description, and it shall not be necessary to enter in sueh pro ceedings a description of such tract by metes and bounds. (Assessment roll— What to contain.) Section 25. That section 3071 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel linger and William W . Cotton, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: The assessor shall set down in the as sessment roll, in separate columns, and according to the best information he can obtain— 1. The names of all taxable persons in his county assessable by him. 2. A description of each tract or par cel of land to be taxed, specifying under separate heads the township, range, and section in which the land lies, in trates not exceeding a quarter section according to the government survey, or if divided into lots and blocks, then the number of the lot and block. 3 The number of acres and parts of an acre, as near as the same can be as certained, unless the same be divided into blocks and lots. 4. The full cash value of each parcel of land taxed. 5. The taxable personal property owned by or to be taxed to such person as provided by law, and the full cash value thereof, and exemptions allowed. 6. The total valuation of all properly taxed, real and personal. For ocnvenience the assessment roll may be divided so as to show separate ly assessments of rial property or lands and lots, and assessments of personal property. (Real property— How described.) Section 29. That section 3074 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. diaries B. Bel linger and William W . Cotton, lie and the same hereby is amended to read as follows; If the land assessed be less or other than a subdivision according to the United States survey, unless the same be divided into lots and blocks so that it can be definitely described, it shall be described by giving the boundaries thereof, or by reference to a description thereof by number as contained in the description book as hereinafter provided or in sueh other manner as to make the description certain. j N am e o f t a x p a y e r .................. (No change, except to amplify the nermiMive abbreviations to correspond with those ordi narily used.) (B. dt C. Comp., 3156, without change.) Salt Lake, Dec. 8. — W ith the in dictment of the Harriman and Gould te si ! A .A . A - a . A A A A A . A A. A . A . A . A . A A . A A . A . A .A . A . A . A . A A . A A A A . A A . A A A A A . A A . A . A A A . A A A M FORCED SMALL DEALERS TO QUIT ington navy yard will receive an in Washington, Dec. 8.— It cost $19,- crease in wages of 10 per cent Janu 604,749 to keep the ships of Uncle ary 1. Sam’ s navy in commission during the President Roosevelt has expressed the past fiscal year, according to the annual hope that a treaty can be negotiated report of Paymaster General H . T. B. which will exclude Japanese coolies Harris. from the United States. The building of new ships, including There is little hope of ex-Senator Brown, of Utah, surviving the wound harbor and material cost, during the inflicted with a levolver in the hands last fiscal year, $31,764,566, and repairs of a woman he had wronged. to ships $5,550,309. The sum of $262,- School teachers of San Francisco have 034 was expended on the naval militia of the states. formed a union. As an evidence of the thrift of blue New York bank reserves are far be jackets, the paymaster general shows low the legal lim it. that in the past fiscal year they deposit Harriman plans to secure control of ed with the paymasters $636,980; they were repaid $734,867, which, with ac Chicago’s electrical appliances. cumulated interest on the total savings The St. Paul railroad has made offi on repayment, amounted to $951,652. cial announcement of its route to the The paymaster general says that, in Pacific coast. view of the past unsatisfactory experi Bellamy Storer has written an angry ence with commutations of rations, and letter to President Roosevelt about his particularly as the new navy ration is considered sufficient in all respects to dismissal as ambassador to Austria. Many rich men of San Francisco are actually subsist the men, it would seem coming to the front with money to that the time has surely come whon help Mayor Schmitz out of his trou commutation should cease. His report expresses gratification hies. over the practical elimination of the middleman and speculator in bidding for naval supplies. PORTLAND M ARKETS. 27%@> Proposed Oregon Tax Law (Assessor to give certificate of assess went— Penalty for refusing.) Section 24 . Any person assessed for any year may demand of the assessor an official certificate of that fact, and upon the refusal of the assessor to give the same he sliall be fined in the sum of $700, to be collected by the person of demanding the same in anuction in the name of the party injured before any justice of ihe peace in said county. C O S T O F M A IN T A IN IN G N A V Y . Young Teddy Roosevelt is having hard work these days being initiated into one of Harvard’s secret societies. N early S 2 0 . 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 S p en t on S h ip s in C o m m ie sio n . Nearly 5,000 employes ot the W ash Butter — Fancy creamery, 32 4 c per pound. Kggs— Oregon ranch, 3 5 ^ 3 7 4 ® per dozen. Poultry — Average old hens, 13(8* 1 3 4 c per pound; mixed chickens, 1 2 4 (8)13c; spring, 1 8@ 1 4 c; old roosters, 8(#i 10c; dressed chickens, 14 (8* 15c; turkeys, live, 17 (8) 1 7 4 c 5 turkeys, dressed, choice, 21(8 2 2 4 c ; geese, live, 10c; ducks, 15(8 16c. Fruits — Apples, common to choice, 50(f»75c per box; choice to fancy, $1(8) 2 .5 0 ; pears. $l(8.vl.50; cranberries, $12(<vl3per Imrrel; persimmons, $1.50 per box. Vegetables— Turnips, 00c(8 $1 per sack; carrots, 00c<8 $1 per sack; beets, $1 .25(<iil.50 per sack; horseradish, 9(X> 10c per pound; sweet potatoes, 2 per pound; cabbage, 1 q (n ilq c per pound; cauliflower, $1 .25 per dox- en; celery, 756490c perdo«en; lettuce, bead, 30c per doxen; onions, 1 0 @ 1 2 q c per dozen; hell peppers, 8c; pumpkins, 1 per pound; spinach, 4@ 5c per pound; parsley, 10® 1 5 c; squash, 1 @ 1 q c per pound. Onions — Oregon, 75c@ $l per hun- Ired. Potatoes — Oregon Burbanks, fancy, D 0 c g | l; common, 75(3|8Sc. Wheat — Club, 656466c; hluestem, 67(«1180; valley, 666487c; red, 63c. Oats — No. 1 white, $ 2 5 0 25.50; gray, $24.50(325. Barley — Feed, $21(321,50 per ton; brewing, $22.50; rolled, $22.50(324. Rye— $ 1 .4 0 ® 1 .45 per cwt. Corn — W hole, $26; cracked, $27 per ton. Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $11(3 12 per ton; Hasten. Oregon timothy, $146116; clover, $7618; cheat, $7.50(3 8 .5 0 ; grain hay, $7.50648.50; alfalfa. $11.50; vetch hay, $7647.60. Veal— Dressed, 5 q 0 8 q < - per ponnd. Beef — Dressed balls, 1 64 2c per ponnd; cows, 4 fs5 c; country steers, 6(35 q c . Mutton — Dressed, fancy, 8648c per ponnd; ordinary, 6<s»7c. Pork— Dressed, 6648c per ponnd. Hops— 1 1 0 1 4 c per pound, according to qnality. Wool— Kastern Oregon average beet, 136418c pet pound, according to shrink age: valley, 20(a)21, kecording to fine ness; mohair, choice, 2 6 0 2 8 c . LANDS < i T elegraph and tele R ollin g p hon e stock lines The Estacada News Is.” “ One hundred years old !” the earl said. In astonishment. “ Deed and he Is,” reiterated Malrr tln. “ He's been dead these three years, and he was 98 when he died.” W a r s lx g tin . “ Running for any office this year?” asked the man with the bulboui nose. “ Not yet.” answered the man with tbs cinnamon beard. “ But I’m legging for it.” S core«. Gen. French, the English officer who Bad B re a k . represented that country at the recent “ Back from de east, eh?” greeted the French maneuvers, received the fol highwayman. “ How did you make lowing letter after his triumphant re ont ?” turn from the Boer w ar: “ Pretty rough.” replied the pick “ My Dear French: You are a great pocket. “ I got snapped up an' de judge British general. I want your auto waa Just about to give me six months graph ; but. whatever you do, don't let I when I thought I’d get off by telling your secretary write i t ” him I was an iceman.” Needless to say. says an exchange, j “ Did de game work?” the boy got the autograph, and a j “ I should say not! When he heard ilgned photograph of bis hero to boot I was an iceman he gave me a year ” Battle With Pulajannh. Manila, Dec. 8.— A column of con stabulary and troops encountered a hand of Pulajanes between I.aPai and Terragnna, on the island of I.eyte, De cember 5. In the battle that followed four soldiers were killed and eight were wounded. Among the wounded was Lieutenant Ralph P. Yates, Jr. His wounds are not serious. Thirty Pulajanes were killed and many wound W i l l i s * ta S e tt le . “ Do yon seriously mean, madam.” ask ed and captured. No details of the ed tbs claim agent, "that yon are going tight have been received. to sne the company for $100.000 damages because yon were alightly injured in an Compromise on Ship Subsidy. unavoidable train wreck?” Washington, Dec. 8. — Compromise ” 1 certainly do.” on the ship suhsidy hill seems to he in “ That ia preposterous. I am authorised sight. At the meeting of the house to settle with yon. madam, for $1.000. We committee Chairman Grosvenor sug will never pay 1 cent more.” gested an amendment to the Oallinger "W ell, then." abe rejoined, with a sigh bill which will limit subsidies to the o f resignation, ” 1 suppose 1*11 have to South American and Oriental trade. compromise on $30,000.” — Chicago Trib The amended hill will be in harmony une. with Secretary Root's policy for trade The comet of 1843 was the only one extension as outlined In recent speech during the last century viaiblo la broad es In the W est. « • • liv k t S p an k er*. Francis Scott Key had just written tbo | “ Star Spangled Banner.” “ In days to come,” he said, "when peo ple hear that song they will stand on their feet and listen to tt with uncovered heads !” Yet even he had no premonition that the day would come when the playing gkf I “ The Star Spangled Banner” by a theater orchestra would make the people within hearing rise to their feet as one man. grab their wraps snd make a dive for the exits. ______ Be O th er r o a r s * . The daring explorer had reached the Mrs. Gunner— It Is queer how re m arkably good the children have been north pole. “ Well, which way now?” asked his ae- since w e returned from Cairo. I eistant. Mr. Gunner— Oh. they are wise. The explorer looked irresolutely around Mrs. Gunner— W ise to w hat? the horison. Mr. Gunner— T o the fa ct that I “ Dashed if I know.” he muttered. brought back a collection o f hard Egyp Then his brow cleared. tian sandals. “ Can’t yon s e e r he said. “ W e’ e* ! found all the north there la W e'll have O v e rs h a d o w * « tt. Mr. Jagway, who waa at the Sower to go sou th!” Merely stopping long enough to cat ■how. leaned forward to get a closer view another dog. the party started La the o f a beautiful red rote. "Ebeneiev.” sharply «poke Mrs. Jag general direction o f the sooth polo. way. “ take your ooee away front It and T he squirrel carries a chixei In bis give the roe* a chance I" ■sooth, aod the bee the carpenter’s ola ns.