Newberg graphic., April 02, 1908, Image 1

VOL. XX.
NEWBEB&, YAMHILL OOUHTT.
>11, THDB8DAY, APRIL 2.1908.
vated farms, he would be gainer
voice and ready command of F oot w ho still held the
Interesting Odds and Eads Con*
at
the rate o f $16 a thousand as
m ost apt language alternately which he had taken the
earning the Early Days in
over present methods.
nulled the heart into pity or before, announced that
Old Oregon.
-
.
This proposition is nothing
opposition
wonld
be
kindled into resentment, while
new.
Farmers in M anitoba,
taking a formal vote upon
J. L. Parrish, the M ethodist with inimitable skill and unsur­
New
Zealand
and New South
bill. The roll was called,
blacksmith-missionary, gives an passed pow er” he attacked the
Wales have tested it out for
Sunday, August 13, 1848,
■ instructive picture o f the circuit system of human slavery. South­
many
years. Investigate it, a
long contested bill was
rider iu Oregon in tfcle forties. ern faces were blanched and lips
who
toil.
It works well to the
Snch were the m ighty throes
His circuit extended from Port­ compressed with fear and pas­
A venerable journalist accompanying the birth of Ore­ extent operated. Oregon needs
land to Corvallis on the west sion.
gon into the large and prosper­ the best.
side and was called the Yamhill present, a life-long advocate o f
This Association will send
ous family o f Uncle Sam.
Circuit. He made the trip on slavery, nervously laid his hand
speaker, if notified several days
W. C. W oonw
horseback, once in six weeks, upon a friend's shoulder when
in
advance, and show just how
University
of
furnishing his ow n horse and its Mr. Corwin had closed, and with
it
would
work. Respectfully,
lips white and quivering with 1
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keep—“ a t the end o f the lai
A. D. Caines,
rope.” There were no roads he, em otion said, “ A few speeches
Member
o
f Central Com.
says, and nothing but a horse such as that would sever the
E
ditor
G
raphic
:—In
ypur
bonds o f this Union.” Such was
trail to follow . His ministra­
the
political tension with which sue o f the 26th H ow ard
tions were both to natives and
writes concerning the tax
to the scattered settlers. He Oregon’s fate w as linked.
M m T u U IU C ou I at
BUT A t
ment
now before the voters of M p s M Sv
O m u u t . MaMiaivtlla.
The days drew on tow ard the
would ride up to an Indian en­
Fred R L&mson to Wm J Gor-
close o f Congress which had been the State. He seems in honest
campment, stake out his hoc
opposition
to
it,
and
before
con­
don;
lot 3 and part 2, blk 24,
talk an .hour or tw o to the na­ set for M onday, August 14th. demning it should investigate
Dundee;
$550.
tives w ho would gather around The opposition was resorting to
the
facts.
Simmered
dow
n
his
A E Gardner to J H & C D Ot-
him and then ride on. He gener­ debates, the offering o f amend
objections
are
all
based
on
thè
tinger;
62.30 acres in sec 1, t'S s,
ally managed to sleep in the ments and all kinds of filibuster­
assumption
that
the
farmer
owns
r
6
w;
$100.
cabin o f a settler. Sometimes he ing to prevent a vote on the bil
the land values o f Oregon. The Sam’l C Gockley & w f to Can-
would preach to a family, some­ before the close o f the session.
proposed amendment
would field Marsh; tract in Wm Jones
times to a dozen persons and The friends o f the bill, led bv
exempt
from
taxation
a
greater
D L C i n t 3 s , r 2 w ; $1.
even to as many as twenty-five. Benton, Douglas and Hale, met
sum
than
it
would
add
to
the
Geo W Martin & w f to Nelson
He speaks-of the settlements o f on Friday night, the 11th, and
actual working former o f Yam­ Anderson; e Vi sVi blk K. Cozines
Tualatin Plains, Chehalem, the decided upon maintaining “ a
hill
or any other county. This 3rd Add;
A
$1,000.
•
Hembree settlement and refers golden silence” in the face o f the
can
be
easily
proved
by
an
exam
-f
J
D
Dickev
&
w
f
to
E
P
Isrral;
to his arrival, at Corvallis as above tactics, merely voting
ination o f the assessor’s returns, 22.30 acres in Solomon Bads D
having reached the outskirts o f down all amendments, m otions
for adjournment, etc. On the The farmers of Yamhill do not L C in 1 5 8, r 9 w; $2,500.
civilisation.
other side, Davis, Calhoun, But ow n all the tillable land assessed. United States to Rosie Wache­
no; 30 acres in sec 18, t 5 s, r 7
T o close this series, if such it ler and Foote entered the Senate Much o f it is held out o f u
,
might be called, it yrill certainly Saturday girded for a last and rented to tenants and worked by w .
men
on
shares
who
do
not
ow
n
Andrew
Kershaw
to M F Mü­
be fitting to give at least a short desperate struggle. They spent
it.
Assuming,
however,
that
it
ler;
lot
8,
blk
8,
Kershaw«
Add
account o f the dramatic scenes at the day in -skirmishing in force
the Nation’s capital accompany­ as if feeling the strength o f their is owned by formers shows that WiHamina; $100.
Joo Wennerburg to Hannah L
ing the passage o f the bill which opponents. When the usual m o­ they own a little over four
quarter
millions
out
o
f
Marsten;
lots 3 & 4, blk 19,
organized Oregon as a bona fide tion for adjournment w as made
Territory o f the Union. The de­ in the afternoon, the friends o f o f seven and a half millions worth Wennnrberg 2nd Add Carlton;
scription is by an eye witness, the bill came harrying oat o f the o f land. Of the assessed values $325.
C H Robinson & w f to J W
Judge Thornton, w ho had been retiring room and voted “ No” o f Yamhill county there would
sent to Washington by Gov. with a very marked emphasis. be exempted only a part o f tbs Fletcher; lo t 15, Jno Fletchers
Aberaatbey, bead o f the Provi­ When many o f the bill’s sup­ improvements upon city lots. Add Dayton; $400.
sional Government, to work for porters left the Senate chamber Let ns assume that all o f them Geo W Massey & wf to S T Li*
would be and add to it the im- kens; lot 3, blk 4 W atts Add to
a territorial government.
jo lounge and smoke, they left a
You may wonder why there trusted sentinel on doty to watch prfivements of other lands, farm Amity; $65.
Simon T Likens to Sam’l T Li­
should be any “ dramatic scenes” the maneuvers o f the enemy and implements, furniture, manufac­
turing
plants,
live
stock,
etc.,
an
kens,
lot 5, blk 1, W atts Add to
connected with the granting o f to call them when it was neces­
the
amendment
provides
for,
and
Amity; $1.
territorial rights and privileges sary to re-inforce their friends
to a part o f the country already and rush inside the bar to vote we will still have left nearly nine J W Curl & wf t# Louis Her­
recognized as belonging to the against all m otions for adjourn­ and a half millions of property mans & wf; 127.79 acres in Hen­
'United States. But this w*as in ment. Some time after night­ to derive taxes from as against ry Warren D L C i n t 5 s , r 5 w ;
1848, when the ante-bellum po­ fall, Foote, the colleague o f Jeff. the eleven million, seven hundred $7620.
Hulda Swanson to F C Elm-
litical storm was at its height, >avis, arose, and with the re­ thousand now assessed.
T
o
be
on
the
safe
side
and
not
land & w ; 109 arcs in Claim 79,
and in his territorial bill, Judge mark that he hadn’t anything
Thornton had placed an anti- to say, but that he thought he be open to criticism, let ns as­ s 3 s, r 4 w; $3300;
dlavery clause. That was the could talk until noon on M on­ sume that it will raise the taxes Jonathan Arms W wt to Daniel
nigger in the woodpile, or rather, day, started in on a time-killing on the formers’ lands if assessed! Gibbon; 108 acres in John Wren
the fact that there wasn’t to be speech. He began by repeating as last year 25 percent. In truth D L C in 1 4 s, r 3 w; $5400. v
W P Fraser & w f to E A Ca­
one allowed there, raised a fierce thebible story o f the creation, i t could be shown onadosean al­
opposition on the part of the and started out through Genesis ysis that it would not raise them llow ; 141.24 acres in Claim 44, t
Southern poembers in Congress, as if intending to om it not “ one 16 per cent, for much ofthe value 4 s, r 4 w ; $9,100.
aessed t o tillable lands are im­ F M Townsend & w f to J F
the story of which Mr. Thornton jo t or tittle.” Seeing what was
tells so graphically, and in which before them, the friends o f the proved values, resulting from or­ Bashor; D J Townsend D L C in
Oregonians should be much in­ bill retreated to the retiring chards, drains, leveling, etc., t 2 s, r $ w; $10.
terested.
room to smoke, drink or sleep, which should not be taxed. Any J B Parker & w f to GeoC Yale;
In brief, the whole question of leaving a page on sentinei duty. farmer can take his tax receipts 9.05 acres in D D Deskins D L C
and figure out what effect the in t 3 s, r 2 w; $5,750.
human rights was wrapped up
Once in a while, Foote wonld
M C Edwards & w f to Martha
in the Oregon Territorial bill. I be “ spelled” briefly by histriends, tax reform will have on him. On
will use the writer’ s words as after which be would resume his the average it will be found that’ Sargent and J W Gant; 139.17
far as possible. The' debate was spiel. Occasionally through the the farmer is ahead, and the more acres in sec 33, t 5 s, r 5 w;
he owns o f the exempted kind o f $ 6 , 000 .
one o f thrilling interest. There
long night a m otion tor adjourn­
property the better oft he will be. Jesse Edwards & wt to Isom P
were giants in those days and
ment would be made which
t he allows a 25 percent increase W ooton; part ot nVa lot 1, blk 2,
the field on which they fought
quickly called in^tbe absent sena­
and measured strength with each tors. It happened, however, on on his land and adds that to his Edwards 2nd Add to Newberg;
other was erne on which no man more occasions than one.that a total taxes paid, subtracts from $112.
could be at a lose to find a foe- sleeping senator not quite awake, 1 this sum the taxes paid on his' A H Brown to Nettie K Saun­
man worthy o f bis steel, since even after getting inside the bar, ive stock, improvements, imple­ ders; nVt lot 4, Amity, $350.
ments and furniture he will be Jas B Hayes to Drusilla A
here were snch mighty men as
V ou ld vote “ aye,” th en /’nay,”
better off unless he owns more Hayes; 130.75 acres in O. P Tur­
Webster, Benton, Douglas, Cal­
“ aye” again and finally “ na^”
houn and Corwin. The latter to the amusement o f bis more than four times as much unim­ ner D L C t 5 s , r 6 w; $6,000.
proved laud values as the total Jesse Edwards & w f to Jas C
having given notice o f speaking wide-awake colleagues. f\
value o f t^e things he will be ex­ Duncan, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, blk
on the bill in the Senate, the.
In the course of the night a empted from paying taxes on.
word was passed throughout
36, Edwards Add to Newberg;
personal encounter occurred be­ Suppose, for argument, a tax
the city, it being understood that
$506.
tween Senators Butler and Ben­ rate o f 16 mills now, and that
the gifted orator would devote
W E Nelfion & w f to Elisabeth
ton, resulting in a virtual chal­ the amendment made it 20. A
himself especially to the support
White; lots 3, 4, 5 and 6, blk 20,
lenge to a duel by the former, armer with land, delusive o f all
Faukoner’s 2nd Add Sheridan;
o f the anti-slavery provision. At
Benton accepting the gauntlet
improvements, valued at $2,000 $6M.
an early hour the gallery was
with the admonition “ But you would now pay $32 on it, and
packed with the elite and beauty
Geo H Burnett & w f to W P
and your friends will take' n eft ice
under amendment $40. But on Vinton; small tract in College
o f the capital. On the floor of
that when I fight, I fight for a lis live stock, buildings, orchard,
the Senate were diplomatic repre­
Add to McMinnville; $200.
funeral.”
mplements and furniture he
W T Vinton to Louise Klicks;
sentatives from > every court.
Mr. Corwin arose, addressed the /Thus the long night dragged would, if not a land speculator small tract in College Add to Mc­
president, find for the tw o hours through. The light of Sunday but a real working former, have Minnville; $250.
o f his address, “ no other sound morning dawned on the scene o f values fully to $1,000, upon
F C Elmlund & w f to Niels
was heard save occasionally that struggle, finding the Southerner^ which he would ' pay $16 now Nielsen; 109 acres in Claim 79, t
o f one who seemed to catch at still in possession o f the field, and under the amendment noth­ 3 s, r 4 w; $6,000.
W R Haynes to Jennie Boyce;
his breath, and no movement but visibly weakening. About ing, leaving him $8 ahead. It his
could be seen save in the varying right o ’clock the leaders o f the his improvements, etc., amounted V4 acre in Dayton; $300.
L M Parker & wt to A M Da­
muscles of the white faces o f the opposition collected and con­ to several times the value o f the
ferred
together
in
an'
undertone
and, as is the case with well vis; 32x100 ft near College and
listening hearers as the orator's
matchless manner, melodious fo r a little drhile, after which Mr. stocked and thoroughly culti- 2nd sts, Newberg: $500.
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