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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