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The Estacada News W RECK ON INTE R URBAN. Imtied (K h Tlwnday Tacoma-Seattle Passenger and Work Trains Meet on Curve. ESTACADA ........ OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form (or Oar Busy Readers. A Resume o f the Lees Importent but Not Less Interesting Events o f the Pest Week. Great Britain wants Gongo annexed by Belgium. Business throughout the United States for 1908 broke all former records Five tramps were killed in a freight wreck on the 8. P. near Truekee, Cal. Wholesale fraud has been discovered fn the management of an Alabama rail road. Dowieites denounce Voliva, the gen eral overseer of Zion City, as being the devil. One person was killed and many in jured by a runaway electric car at Cin cinnati. A San Francisco Japanese paper ad vocates the assassination of President Roosevelt and the mikado. The “Russian government has sup pressed General Kuropatkin’s book on the recent war with Jtt|ran. The pope expresses a desire for mar tyrdom in the cause of the church and urges French clergy to resist the state. Kvery blue law remaining on the statute books of Massachusetts is l>eing enforced by the Boston police commis sion. Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 27. — Interur- ban train No. 3, bound from Beattie to Tacoma, and a work train consisting of a motor and fixe flatcars, collided head- on in a cut about a mile east of Milton Wednesday morning. Two persons were killed, one probably fatally hurt, and 14 more or less badly hurt. The first coach of the interurban passenger was telescoped, and two of the Hatcars piled on top of it. There were about 20 passengers in the telescoped smoker, some of whom strangely escaped with only slight in juries. The car was entirely demol ished, and some of the passengers were hurled 20 feet In the flying wreckage. Train No. 3 from Beattie was late and had orders to sidetrack at Edge- wood to let No. 6, the passenger for Seattle, pass. The work train was given orders at Milton to follow No. 6 to Edgewood. C. R. Foss, a brakeman on the work train, was sent to Edge, wood on No. 8 with orders to flag No. 3 and hold it on the sidetrack until the work train cleared. He either failed to place the (lag or there was a misun derstanding of orders. Foss disap peared and cannot be found. No. 3 pulled out on the main track as soon as No. 6 pass*-d and being late, started down the grade at a good speed. Half a mile this side of Edgewood on a curve that runs through a deep cut, it met the work train. The curve is so short that it was impossible for the crews of either train to see the other until too late to stop. The trains came together with a crash that was heard half a mile. The two forward cars of the work train went over the platform of the first car of the passenger, striking it at an angle on ac count of the curve. To this fact alone is due the escape from death of every passenger in the car. The Columbia jetty is almost cet- tain to get $1,000,000 from the present THEY A L L “ C IN C H " UN CLE SAM . congress and the Celilo canal $200,000 cash and authority for as much more. Railroads Gzt Three Prices for C ar The governor of Akmolinsk province, rying Malls. Russia, las been assassinated. Chicago, Dec. 28. — Statistics com Kastern college professors say they piled by the representatives of the find the majority of athletes do not United Typothetae of America and the study enough. American Weekly Publishers’ associa Bryan has tacitly admitted hiB candi tion, organizations which are vigor dacy for president. ously fighting the movoment to increase Another murdre by a negro soldier at the postage for second-class mail mat E l Reno, Okla., has stirred up the citi ter, shew that the government is pay ing the railways three times as much zens of that town. on the average for the transportation of The Iowa State Teachers’ convention mail matter as the express companies adopted resolutions favoring simplifica pay the railroads for like service.| tion of English spelling. On the basis of the postmaster gen eral’s statistics, the publishers assert A ll nations represented at the Alge- that the government »luring the fiscal ciras convnetion regarding Morocan re year ended June 30, 1907, will pay the forms have ratified the treaty. roads almost $23,000,000 more than The administration fears there will the express companies would pay them be a revolution in Cuba before the Jan for hauling the same tonnage. The uary elections and men and ships are printers and publishers compile the being held in readiness to rush to the statistics to show tliat the government, for the purpose of reducing the annual scene. |> 08 toflice deficit, rather should reduce Commissioner of lab or N eill is try its outlay for the transportation than ing to settle the strike of railway fire Increase the rate for second-class mat men, but finds many obstacles. ter. “ One of the chief needB of the gov The grand jury investigating the New York Life Insurance company has re ernment is an expert traffic manager,” turned indictments against George W . said W . D. Boyce, a Chicago publisher. Perkins, formerly vice president of the “ It then would get us good rates as the company, and Charles 8. Fairchild, a express companies.” member of the finance committee. A grand nephew of the Pullman car IT DENIES JU R IS D IC T IO N . magnate has been found in the New York tenement district poor and hun Standard Raizes New Technical Point gry. lie is heir to a fortune. Against Government Suit. Yaqui Indians luive killed eight 8t. Louis, Dec. 28.— The Standard Mexicans in 8onora. Oil company of New Jersey and 80-odil FEAR INSURRECTION New Elections In Cubb May Not Settle Troubles. WHAT MAY MEAN ANNEXATION Farther Intervention Would Bring On Inevitable— Annexation Wanted by F* w People. Washington, Dec. 29.— Occasional rumbling or rumors of little sideshow insurrections popping up in certain provinces of Cuba are tending to keep the Unite»l BtateB from forgetting the problem it has to deal with down there. There are some angles in this problem that have received little attention as far as the public is concerned, but which liave occupied and are now occupying much attention on the part of high gov ernment officials and ailministration advisers among the members of con gress. It is a fact not generally known that our government entertains grave fears regarding wiiut may happen following the Cuban elections in January. A great many have believed that inter vention by the United States w ill have accomplished its purpose as »poll as a new government lias been chosen by the Cuban people; ttiat our forces would withdraw after inaugurating this new’ government with tranquility estab lished. That is the rosy view of the situation, anil everything would be lovely if onr high officials were sure it would work out just that way. But they are not sure. President Roosevelt, it is undersbxid, has grave doubts about the effect of the coming election on the defeated party. I f we be forced to do any more inter vening there w ill be an effort by a cer tain element to force annexation, which some of our ablest statesmen insist is something that comparatively few peo ple in this country want. The ailimn- iatration recognizes the embarassing situation that may confront it and, after President Roosevelt's warning to Cu bans to “ lie gixxl” in the future or take the consequences, the question is just what course shall be pursued if the Cubans don’ t stay good. W ILL C O NFE R ON JAPAN E SE . Bonaparte to Consult Devlin on San Francisco Case. Washington, Dec. 29.— United States District Attorney Robert F. Devlin, of San Francisco, w ho was called to Wash ington by Attorney General Bonaparte for a conference regarding the exclusion of Japanese pupils from the public schools of Sun Francisco, arrived last night and w ill be at the department of Justice toilay Mr. Ileviin refused to discuss his mission, declaring that the matter is in the bunds of the attorney general. “ Two weeks ago I had a conference with the Han Francisco trnanl of educa tion, at the re»|uest of Attorney General Mixxiy,” ho said, "when a statement of facts wus agree»! upon and forwarded to the attorney general. A few days later I was called to Washington and I do not know officially that I am here to discuss the Japanese question.” S T O C K T O O LO N G ON JO URN EY E D U C A T IO N IN P H IL IP P IN E S . Director Says Schools and Constantly Increase. Pupils Washington, Dec. 26.— The sixth an nual report of the director of education in the Philippines concerning the activ ities of the educational work in the islands for the year ending June 30, 1906, shows that there are now 3,166 primary schools in the islands, with an average of 375,564 pupils. Seven hun dred American and 6,224 Filipino teachers are employed. A ll of the school divisions, the report says, con ducted teachers’ institutes, varying from four to six weeks in the different provinces. The instruction given was divided between the common brandies of the intermediate course and special topics of instruction, such as school gardening, domestic science, primary industrial work and methixis of teach ing- There are 2,454 primary school build ings in the islands owned by the mu nicipalities and, in addition, a number of buildings belonging to the provinces but not constructed originally for scliool purposes are used. Private instruction, the report says, plays a large part in the intellectual condition of the islands. Many of these schools are supported by the Catholic churcti, with a history reaching liack several decades. Some of these institutions teach English, al though in practically all of them Span ish is the irasis of instruction. The Filipino teachers, Dr. Barrows says, continue to gain in reliability, strength of character and moral purpose. S E N T T O DUNGEON. Many Russian Officers Receive alty o f Surrender. Pen St. Petersburg, Dec. 26.— The court martial which has been trying Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and 78 officers of his squadron for surrendering to the Japanese in the battle of the Sea of Japan handed in its decisions tonight. Vice Admiral Nebogatoff, Commander Lichino, of the coast squadron; General Aprin, Rear Admiral Gregorieff, of the coast defense ship Admiral Seni- vien, and Lieutenant Smirnoff, who succeded to the command of the battle ship Nicolai, were sentenced to death, b»it in view of extenuating circumstan ces and the long ami otherwise blame less careers of these officers, the court w ill petition the emperor to commute the sentences to 10 years’ imprison ment in a fortress. Four other officer are sentenced to short terms of im prisonment in a fortress, while the remainder are acquitted. The trial of Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and the officers of his squadron began in St. Petersburg Decembers. The ac cused were divided into three catogar- ies — First, Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and the commanders of tiie battleships; second, the officers who ailvtxrated the surrender, and third, the officers who did not endeavor to prevent the surren der. M AY TIE U P HARRIMAN LINES. Firemen on Sunset Route Threaten Extreme Measure. Houston, Tex., Dec. 26.— The new feature of the strike of the Southern Pacific firemen was the assertion made by Second Grand Master Shea, of the brotherhixxl, that unless an adjustment of the differences with the men now out on this division is made, the order is to be given that the entire llarriman sys tem of railroads shall lose the services of the Brotherluxjd of Firemen, includ ing those engineers who are memlrers, he asserting t hat 86 per cent of the switch engineers and a goodly number of the road engineers w ill end their services on the r»rad. Mr. Shea insists that 625 men on the Texas and Louisiana lines of the sys tem obeyed the strike order Sunday, hut General Manager Fay, of the road, declares that not more than 400 men quit work, and that practically all of the places have been filled. There is no interference with operation of trains, according to the statement of Mr. Fay, but a number of switch en gines at division points are reported idle in the yarils. No disorder of any kind lias been reported. Proposed Oregon Tax Law (Continued from last week) 12. A statement of the number of miles of main, branch, double, and side tracks owned or letised by said company in each county in this Gate, stated sep arately. 13. A statement of the entire gross receipts and net earnings of the com pany from operation and otherwise, stated separately, for the fiscal year ending in the calendar year closing March 1, preceding the rejxjrt being maile. 14. Such other facts or information of a like or different kind as said board may require in the form of return pre scribed by it. The board is hereby given the power to prescribe such directions, rules and regulations to be followed in answering any of the requirements of this section, o { as herein authorized, as in its judg ment shall be best calculated to insuie accuracy and uniformity in reporting the facts. (Blanks furnished by board— Penalty for refusal or neglect to report.) Section 9. Blanks for making the statements provided for in section eight (8) of this act shall be provided by the sa d hoard; Provided, that the reports herein provided for shall not relieve the company from making any other report require»! by law to be made to any other officer. In »rase any company fails or refuse« to make any statement or furnish any information required by this act, the board shall inform itself as best it may as to the matters neces sary to be known in order to discharge its »lnties with respect to tire property of such company. Any conqiany which shall refuse or neglect to make the re port required by this act within the time «peci tied shall be subject to a pen alty of $500 for each day of the contin uance of such neglect or refusal to file such report, to be recovered in a proper action brought in the name of the state of Oregon in any court of competent jurisdiction. (Board to determine value and prepare assessment roll— Mileage basis of ap portionment.) Section 10. Subsequent to the filing of the reports require»l in the preceding sections, anil prior to the first Momlay in October in each year, it siiall be the duty of the said state board of tax com missioners to prepare an assessment roll, as provided in section five (5) of this act, upon which they shall assess the true cash value as of the first »lay of March at the hour of 1 o’clock a. m., of the year in which the assessment is made, of all the property of the com panies herein enumerated subject to taxation under this act, which said rssessment shall not be final until re viewed as herein provided. For the purpose of arriving at the amount and character and true »rash value of the property belonging to said companies as appearing upon the assi-ssmcnt roll for the purpose of assessment for taxa tion umler this act, the said b»rar»i may personally inspect the property belong ing to said companies and may take into consideration the reports filed un der this act, the reports anil returns of said companies tiled in the office of any prior officer of this state, or any county thereof, the earning power of said com panies, the franchises and special fran chises owned or used by said companies (said franchises and special franchises ro t to be directly assessed, but to be taken into consideration in determin ing the value of the other property), tl»e assessed valuation of any property of said companies, used in the opera tion of the business of the companies, and by law required to be assessed by county assessors, and such other evi dence of a like or different kind as may lx» obtainable bearing thereon; provid ed, that in no event slmll any report or valuation by a county assessor, or evi dence as inlhis act provided, be conclu sive upon such board in arriving at the amount and character and true cash value of the property belonging to said companies, and by this act to be assessed for purposes of taxation by said board. In determining the true cash value of the property assessable for taxation by the said state board of tax commissioners of the companies in this art enumerated, when said com panies own, lease, operatte or use rail, pipe or wire lines, or property partly within and partly without this state, if the board shall value the entire prop erty w ithin and without the state as a unit, as provide»! in the next section, the said Ixrard shall be controlled in ascertaining the property sul»j»»ct to taxation in Oregon by the proportion which the number of miles of main track (meaning thereby main, stem, ami branch lines), miles of wire, or miles of main pipe lines controlled or used by said company, as owner, lessee, or otherwise, within the state of Oregon bears to the entire mileage of main track as aforesaid miles of wire or main pipe line controlled or used by saiii company as owner, lessee, or otherwise. Railroads Will Be Prosecuted Under Spokane favors the Alaska-Yukon- other corporations and individuals al Thirty-six-Hour Law. lied with it, as defendants in the gov Pacific exposition at .Seattle. Washington, Dec. 29. — Secretary ernment’s suit to break up the allege»! Harriman’ s criticism of Roosevelt is oil monopoly, today filed a motion in Wilson, of the department of Agricul said to have caused the merger inquiry. the United States Circuit court attack ture, today transmitted to the depart ing the jurisdiction of that court to ment of Justice the nine additional Heavy snow storms throughout Aus bring in nonresiilent defendants by pro (rases of alleged violation of what is tria-Hungary have resulted in several cess, ami petitioning the court to vacate popularly known as the “ 36-hour law,” deaths. the order of service issued by Judge which provides that railroad companies shall not detain stock on cars for a A blizzard in Great Britain has Hunliorn Novemlier 15. A ll of the defemlants join in the mo longer periixl than 28 hours without blockaded trains in many places ami fix«! and water, except with the consent rural villages are temporarily cut off tion except the Waters-Pierce Oil com pany, which is a resident of the eastern of the owner of the stock, and then no from communication. division of the Eastern Judicial »lis- longer than 36 hours. The cases were one each against the P O R T L A N D M A R K E TS . trict of Missouri. Henry 8. Priest filed the motion as counsel for all the par Gr»>a! Northern, the Oregon Short Line, Domestic Fruits— Apples, common to ties. Accompanying it was the affiila- the Southern Pacific, the Union Pacific, choice, 60(<i'75c per box; choice to vit of Charles T. White, assistant sec the lake Shore & Michigan Southern, fancy, $1(«)2.50; |srars, $ 1 <n.T .SO; cran retary of the Stamlaril, who certifies anil the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy berries, $11.50(n l2 per hurrel; per that all the petitioners are non-resi and three against the Santa Fe. simmons, $1.50 per box. dents of this district. Great Increase In Immigration. Vegetables — Turnips, flOif.c$ 1 per Greatest Year Since 1888. New.York, Dec. 26. — Figures ju t sack; carrots, 90e(« $ 1 per sack; beets, No News Since September. Chicago, Dec. 29. — More miles of compiled at ElKs island indicate that $1.25(«'1.50 per sack; horseradish, 9@ Washington, Dec. 28. — Complaint railroad were constructed in the United at the present rate of increase 1,283,415 10c per pound; sweet potatoes, 2 c^f„. has been maile to the Postoffice ilepart- States during the last year than have more aliens may be expeced to enter 2$ic per pound; cabbage, 1 T«(jy2c per ment that no newspaper or magazine been built during any year since 1888, this country through the immigration pound; cauliflower, $1.28 per dozen; mail has lieen delivered at Fairbanks, according to the Railway Age. Since station on Ellis island next year. “ The celery, $3.75®4.25 per crate; lettuce, Alaska, since September. This is due January 1 last, 6,067 miles of track numtier of aliens who will land at New head, 30c per dozen; onions, 10(<ol2J«o to the fact that the mail contractor is have been laid on 388 lines in 44 states York this year,” said Immigration per dozen; bell peppers, 8c; pump obliged to carry 800 pounds of mail on ami territories, making the country’s Commissioner Wathorn, “ will approxi kins, 2c per pound; squash, 2c per each bi-weekly trip from Valdez, and total railway mileage 223,319. The mate 1,060,000 persons, as against a pound. practically this entire amount is now largest amount of railway buiMing dur total of 869,010 who landed here in Onions— 75e(S*$l per hundred. made up of first-class, or letter mail. ing the y»rar was »lone in Texas, where 1905. Using these figures as ¡the basis Potatoes — Oregon llurliunks, fancy, The government pays $1.45 per pound 701 miles of track were laid. Louisi for an estimate in 1907, we may expect $lh i!l.25; common, 75<n 85c. for getting mall to Fairbanks, and ana and South Dakota are almost tied 1,283,415 aliens to arrive in 1907.” Wheat — Club, 8fi(«»'86c; bluestem, lower classes have to wait until there is for second place. 68c; valley, 68c; red, 03c. a shortage of first-class matter. Stons Approves Roosevelt’s Act. $|Oata — No. 1 white, $28@26; gray, (Determination of value as a unit— Pay Canal Workera on Holidays. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 26.— Senator $24.50(5)25. I'eduction of property locally assess Hanrahan Will Taka Charge. W illiam Stone believes that Roosevelt Washington, Dec. 29. — Chairman Barley — Feed, $21.500822 per ton; ed.) did right in discharging the negro sol Shouts, of the Isthmian commission, Peoria, Dec. 28. — At the offices of brewing. $22.50; rolled, $230,24. Section 11. The said board, for the the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire announced today that the commission diers at Brownsville. “ I am glad to Rye— $1 400») 1.45 per cwt. purpose of arriving at the actual crash Corn— Whole, $28; cracked, $27 per men this morning, it was stated that lunl deciiled to pay the employes on the have an opportunity to say this, but I value of the property assessable by it, there was nothing to be given out rela isthmus whose compensation is fixed wish to be undersUxxl right,” he de ton. Hay— Timothy, No. 1, $13(5 14 per tive to the strike on the Southern Pa on an hourly irasis, for January 1, Feb clared last night. " I have not l»x>ked Sad R e s u lt . ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $140»18; cific other than Grand Master John J. ruary 22, May 30, July 4, Labor Day, into the legal phase of the matter. Mrs. Highmus— Tour automobile ran Thanksgiving Day and December 25 ,I’ m not reaily to give an opinion on clover, $8(«\8.50; cheat, $7.Sofa'S.50; Hanrahan would probably leave before over a baby wagon ? Horrors! What grain hay, $7.50C«8.50; alfalfa, $11.50; the latter part of the week to take per- The compensation for these employes that. But as to the sentiment concern happened? ing it so far as the offense itself is con w ill lx» on the basis of an eight hour sonal charge of the strike. Mr. Han Mrs. Showier—Just what always hap vetch hay, $80» 8.50. Butter— Fancy-creamery, 32 Cy 0» 35c. rahan has left for Galesburg to he gone »lay. This will grant pay for the holi- cerned, I am in hearty favor of the «top pens whenever I do that. Broke the lays to all the skilled mechanics em taken by Presiilent Rose volt and Secre bottle and cut the tire. Butter Fat— First grade cream, 3 3 t{c a few days, and it was state»! that he per pouml; second grade cream, 2c less had left directions to say that he did ploy»»»! on the canal zone, who number tory T aft.” T h e ir ln .p lr.tln n . not think the situation at this time about 3,000. per pound. “They say that some authors write Inheritance Tax Not Retroactive Eggs — Oregon ranch, 30(5i32c per calle»l for any public statements. most of their stories In lied.” W orld's Charity Dries Up. Washington, Dec. 26.— The Supreme dozen. "Well, the hsbit o f lying Is said to Strike Broken at San Antonio. London, Dec. 29. — Nicholas Shiss- ciHirt of the United States today de he a great help to a romance.” — Detroit Poultry— Average -ol«l hens, 13f<»>14e Ban Antonio, Tex., Dec. 28.— Lixwl koff, who was one of the trustees of the cided the inheritance tax case of Ca Free I'ress. per pouml; mixed chickens, 12fs 13c; spring. 14® 15c; old roosters, OfSilOc; 8»»uthern Pacific officials say that the Atneticaii famine fund of February, m ille Cahen and other legatees under dteesed chlckhtig, TTfSEISc; turkeys, Brothertnxvl of Firemen's strike on this 1901, has sent to Lomlon, accompanied the w ill of the late Mathias Colby, of P n r t t a n G r it . live, 17(d 1 He; turkeys, dressed, choice, division of this system ‘ is broken, that by an appeal for fiimis, an account of New Orleans, against the tax author The early Bostonians were laying out 204g22c; geese, live, ]2f$l.3c; ducks, ail freight and |xu»senger trains are the famine in Russia. “ Fifteen years ities of that city. The state law pro their town in accordance with the orig moving along with full crews, an»l that ago," said Mr. Shisskoff, “ when the viding for a tax on bequest« was at 1588180. inal cowpaths that wound in and out in Veal— Dressed, 5 t%f»»)8t^c per pouml. they have more firemen than they have famine was less serious, we had $4,- tacked as unconstitutional. The opinion derioua and incertain ways. was delivered by Justice McKenna, 000,000. Rut now, when it is great engines. A striking fireman was ar — Dressed bulls, 1 (5) 2c per ■'Externally.' they said, “ it may look Mr. who affirm»»»! the decision of the Su s bit crook«»»!, bnt we are going to build pound; cows, 4(5)5c; country steers, rested here t»xiay for entering an en er. we liave only $500,000 ” gineer's cab at the Bouthern Pacific sta Shisskoff <»st I mates that about 30,000,- preme court of Louisiana. a city that Tom Johnson won't hare the nerve to try to straighten out.” Mutton — TTfessed, fancy, 8f« 9c per tion. The order issue»I Momlay not to 000 peasants w ill need assistance. receive freight has been reecimled. Pausing merely long enough to select s Adopt Naw Piatol fo r Army. pound; ordinary, 80»»7c. Eager to Sea Roosevelt. FViik Ihaui'ii. flb» 8e per pound. Washington, Dec. 26.— Secretory Taft few eligible suburban iota for the ex Pioneer o f Alfalfa Growing Hops— 118».]4c per pound, acn>rding Manila, Dec. 29.— The Filipino peo has appninteii a bran! of officers to meet clusive cnltir.ition of beans, they pro to quality. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 28.— Ilarrision ple are elated over pres reports th a t! January 15 at the Springfield armory, | ceeded to arrange for future use a policy of Municipal tlwnership of Culture that Wool— Eastern Oregon average liest, Parkman, the man who fliet brought Presi.ient R«xx»evelt contemplate»! visit Springfield, Mass., for the purpoee of. has snccess.'ully defied all attempts to 138818c per pound, arconling to shrink alfalfa from flouth America and plant ing the islamls next summer. The na asiwrtoining a design of automatic pistol j get on to its curves age; valley, 20fa.23c, according to fine- ed It in the Unite»! States, died at tive preaa receive»! the announcement or revolver heat a»lapted to fulfill the j requirements of the military service. I I with enthusiasm. mohair, choice, 26fa'28c. Emporia, Kan., aged 73 years. ' of such notice may be made by affidavit as by law provided, filed with the sec retary of said board, on or before the first Monday in October in the year when such notice is printed. (Board to meet annually as stated in notice.) as herein provided, may value the en Section 16. The said board shall tire property, both within anil without meet at the capitol of the state ou the the state of Oregon, as a unit. In case first Monday of October in each year, it shall value the entire property as a as stated in the notice prescribed in unit, either within or without the state the preceding section hereof, and shall of Oregon, or both, suiil board shall then have before it the assessment roll make deductions of the property of made by it as prescribed in this act. said company situate outside the state, and not connected directly with the ( Review and correction of assessment roll and apportionment — Omitted business thereof, as may be just, to the property assessed). end that the fair proportion of the property of said company in this state Section 17. It shall then be the may be ascertained. I f the said board duty of such hoard to review, examine, value the entire property within the and correct the assessment roll by it state of Oregon as a unit, it shall make made, and to increase or reduce the deductions of the property of said com- valuation of the property therein as |xiny situate in Oregon, and assesesd by sessed, so that the same shall be the the county assessors, to an amount that full cash value thereof, and to assess shall be just; and for that purpose the omitted taxable property by it assess county assessors shal 1 be and they are able in the manner hereinafter provid hereby required, if the Baid board re ed, and to correct errors in apportion quest the same, to certify to the said ments of assessments therein. I f it board the assessable value of the prop- | siiall appear to such board that there erty of said companies assessable by is any real or personal property which them, but such certification of assessed by law it is permitted to assess which or assessable values is intended to be has been by it assessed twice, or incor advisory only, and not conclusive upon rectly assessed as to description, quan the said board. tity, or quality, or assessed in the (Sufficiency of description on roll— name of a person or corporation not the owner, lessee, or occupant thereof, or Mileage to be stated.) assessed under or beyond the actual Section 12. Upon such sassessment full cash value thereof, or which ia not roll shall be placed, after the name of assessable by said hoard, but which has each of the com)ranies assessed under been assessed by it, said board may the provisions of this apt, a general de scription of the properties of the said make proper corrections of tiie same. I f it shall appear to said board that companies, which siiall be deemed to include all of the properties of the said any real or personal property which is assessable by it has not been assessed companies liable to assessment for tax Upon said assessment roll, said hoard ation tinder this act, owned, leased, or occupied by them, whether as owner, shall assess the same at the full cash value thereof. lessee, occupant, or otherwise. The saiil »lescription may be in the language (Notice of increase or change in appor of this act as contained in section six tionment— Petitions to be written (8) hereof, or otherwise. But no as and verified— Time of filing.) sessment siiall be invalidated by a mis Section 18. Said board shall not take in the name of the corporation as change the apportionment of any as sessed, or by an omission of the name sessment or increase the valuation of of tiie owner, or the entry of a name any property on such assessment roll as other than that of the true owner, if provided in the preceding section w ith the property be generally correctly de out giving to the company or person in scribed; and provided further, that whose name it is assessed at least six where the name of the true owner, or days’ written notice to appear and the name of the owner of record, lessee, show cause, if any there be, why the or occupant of any property assessable apportionment of such assessment shall under the provisions of this act siiall not be changed, or the valuation of the be given, such assessment shall not be assessable property of such company or held invalid on account of any error or person, or some part thereof, to be irregularity in the description, provided specified in such notice, shall not be such description woulil be sufficient in increased; Provided, that such notice a deed of conveyance from the owner, shall not be necessary if the person or or on account of which in a contract to company appear voluntarily before said convey a court of equity would decree a board, and be there notified by a mem conveyance to be maile, reaiiingthe said ber thereof that the property of such »lescription in connection with the de person or corporation, or some specified finition of property assessable under the part thereof, is, in the opinion of the provisions hereof as in this act contain- board, assessed below its actual value, ed. Upon such assessment roll shall or that such apportionment is, in the be placed, opposite the name of the opinion of the board, incorrect. Peti company, in a proper column, the ag tions or applications for the reduction gregate main track mileage as defined or change of apportionment of a partic in section 10 hereof, miles of wire, or ular assessment shall be made in w rit main pipe line, as the case may be, ing, verified by the »rath of the appli within the state of Oregon. cant, its president, secretary, managing (Ascertainment of value of main and agent, or attorney in fart, and be filed with the board during the first week it branch lines and value per m ile.) Section 13. Said Btate board of tax is by law required to be in session, and commissioners shall thereupon ascer any petition or application not so made, tain the value of the several branch verified, and filed shall not be consider lines of the said companies situated in ed or acted upon by the board. this state, and the mileage thereof, and shall ascertain the value per mile of the said branch lines respectively by dividing the value of each of them by the mileage thereof. The said board shall thereupon deduct the total amount so ascertained as the value of branch lines from the total value of the prop erty of the said companies assessable under the provisions of this act so as certained as aforesaid; and shall there upon ascertain the value per mile of main line of rail, pipe,or wire by divid ing the remainder, after deducting the value of saiii branch lines from the to tal value in this state, by the number of miles of such main rail, pipe, or wire line in this state, and the quotient ob tained as aforesaid shall be deemed and held to be the value per mile of said branch and main lines respectively. (Apportionment of assessment to coun ties according to mileage.) Section 14. For the purpose of de termining what amount of the assess ment maile under the provisions of this act shall be app»»rtioned to the several counties in this state in, through, across, into, or over which the lines of said companies extend, the said state board of tax commissioners shall multi ply the value per mile as above ascer tained of the several main and branch lines by the nubmer of miles of such main and branch lines in each of the counties aforesaid, as reported in the statements maiie by the said companies, or as otherwise ascertained and determ ined by the said board. (Board to complete review in one month, sitting continuously.) Section 19. The said board, sitting for the purpose of reviewing the said roll as above provided, shall continue its sessions from day to day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, until the examination, review, correction, and equalization of the said rolls shall be completed; but it shall complete said examination, review, correction, and equalization within one month from the time it is by law required to meet, and, unless sooner completed, at the ex piration of one month from the time the board iB herein required to meet the examination, review, correction, and equalization of the said assessment roll shall be deemed to be complete. (Record of action of board). Section 20. Corrections, addlttions to, or changes in the said roll shall be entered in a column therein headed substantially “ as reviewed,” and the entries in such column shall be the rec ord of the action of such board. The meetings, sittings, and adjournment of the said Ixrard, sitting for the purposes of review, shall be recorded in its journal. (R oll kept on file as public record.) Section 21. Said roll, when so exam ine»!, reviewed, corrected, and qeualiz- ed by such board, shall be kept on file in the office of the said state board of tax commissioners as a public record. (To be continued next week) R e a l A th leticism . (Notice of sitting of board to review An English athletic authority saya assessment and apportionment — that 35 is the maximum age for a good Proof.) Section 15. The said board shall athlete. Perha;is most people have no give three weeks’ public notice in some ticed that professional athletes wear newspaper printed at the state capital, themselves out young. Prize fighters, setting forth that on the first Monday sprinters and circus performers quit In in Octboer it w ill attend at the Capitol early prime. But are these the real athletes? an»l publicly exaimne the assessment How much more true an athlete Is roll by it made, and review the same, and correct all errors in valuation, de the well-preserved farmer, who, at 65, scription, quantities, or qualities of \ can pitch as much hay as his son or property by it assessable and in appor grandson! tionment of assessments made by it; The best nthleticism is that which and it shall be the duty of the persons j holds through the ripe years and ena and corporations interested to appear at bles a man to sit his horse as erectly the time and place appointed. Proof | at 80 as at 20.—Cleveland Press. At the R eception . Maude— Mr. Huggins looks unusual ly happy this evening. Elsie— Y es; he proposed to me less than au hour ago. Maude— Ah, I see— and you refused him. I n f a n t i l e D is s ip a t i o n . A lw *y « a W ay. "There is always some way to over come every difficulty,” said the cheery citizen. “ Yes,” answered the sardonic per son. “ I f you doubt it you can ask any candidate just before election.”— Wash ington Star. The L im it. Willie— Gee I Do they let you go to "You say he is well educated?" swell parties? “ Yes, he can talk every known lan Grarie— Lott of 'em. I ’m getting so- guage except golf and baseball.” — Hous cieter and societer every day. ton Post. F e m in i n e W ar. “ A woman." remarked the cynical bachelor, “ seldom says wbat she thinks." “That's right” rejoined the man who had been married no long that he had to comb his hair with a towel; “ she’s only says what she thinks she thinks.” S t i ll, H e D i d n 't K ic k . Jt*< t » la T h a i. Miss Backbay— Yon are familiar, in a general way, with paleontology, are yon not? Mr. Carondelet— N o ; I don't remember that I ever happened across i t Bnt I once read Pale on ’Evidences of Chris I tianity." or something like that when I was a boy. and I found it awful heavy reading. “ 5 ou cooked a pudding for your hus A m é A r p mm T n m e. band in one of these bay stoves, did you! "Are prise fights allowed In New How did be like it?“ "Well, he said It wasn't so bad but York now? he thought the pndding aeemed to sp o il “ Y es; but they call them charity ths tsate of the hay." euchres.” — Boston Transcript