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FACTS FAVOR
DISIOH IME
CASE FOR DIVISION IS
' STATED FAIRLY
AN editorial!!
Ln IMno Paper Oives Mnnjr Logical
Arguments Hhowlntt Why Division
"Will Ilcnettt AH More Satisfac
tion ami liesa Taxes Assured.
(FnOMJSJHK LA l'KE INTER
HoUNTAlK.) It has boon reported that Crook
county was paying a bounty of J 5.00
for coyoto scalps. Inquiry nt tho
county fllco rovenls tho fact ttut
only $1.60 la bolng paid, and that It
will remain nt this flguro until the
htfw county Is farmed.
Tho Crook County Journal last
week dug up a Hat of about thirty
nnntcs of men and womon oppoeod to
county division. It thirty out of a
population of ttro thousand Is the
beat they can do ngnlnct county divi
sion thoro ia but little question na o
what the result will bo.
The Prlnovilla Journal snya: "If
Deschutes county Is ever to bo estab
lished. It wilt have to be accomplish
ed at tho same time as Jefferson, n
order to bo sure of obtaining tho re
quired thirly-nve per cent of votes
from the whole county." That's a
thing wo want to remouibor. If e
don't get away now, wo never will
Hut wo wilt Mill lie nUcd to ilia; down
In our own HckctA and supisirt about
thirty of the rrlncrlllc people nml
get nothing for our money.
The Crook County Journal says
that the county has paid ?G,350u
keep up her poor In olghl month.
AVo linvc paid our crcentnge of that
nniount and there Is not one person
In thli end of the comity receiving u
cent of It.
Culver Is out strong for county
division. The Trlbuno at that place
eays: "At tho various county dlvl
olon meetings, men from Prinaville
waro present to save tho 'Deer Popul,
but the people don't want to bo snv
od by Prlnoville, and tho men who
favor division presented facts that
the Prlnoville peoplo couldn't get
away from." Tho paper neatly suras
th'o entire thing up In tho following
paragraph: "Nearly all of thero 'big
hearted' Prineville citizens are either
dlrcotly or hy proxy, nost to tho
court bouso, and It is an open secret
that tho domination which has been
exercised cannot continue when the
county is divided."
Speaking of county division, the
Madras Pioneer says: "Soverr.l coun
ty division meetings ore bolng held,
ln this vicinity, tbo principal apo-ii:-crs
for tho opposition oro the came
old bunch, V: F King and C. r
Smith. They attempted to tear down
statements made by persons In favor
of division, but they were very much
out' of luck along that line. Their
line of argument was refuted In near
ly every statement. From Mr. King's
statement it Is an evident fact that
he was without any degree of hesi
tancy, endeavoring to do what ho
thought It was his duty to do as Pres
ident of the Prlnoville Commercial
Club."
Hay Creek. Gateway and Agency
Plains oro out strong for county di
vision. The peoplo of Ashwood, who have
formerly been opposed to division,
aro now strictly In favor of the move
ment. The Farmors Educational and Co
Oporntlve,JJnlon of America, down In
the Madras country, have Issued a
revolution In favor of county divislou.
In speakiing of the arguments that
ha70 so far been presented by tho
Princvlllo mn against county divi
sion, tho Madras Pioneer says:
"There was not a plausible argument
presented by them, and many of
thslr statements were acknowledged
to be wrong, as they could not sub
stantiate their correction."
County division meeting held ft
the Round Ilutte school houve was
well attended. The opponents of
county division failed to make a very
good Impression.
The following Is an extract from a
letter written by John Atkinson on
the subject of county division: I
would like to ask what was done with
the balance of the tax receipts,
amounting to $200,000, from 1908
fo the present time, it Is an evident
fact tnat ,l lB h.ar1 t0 ee any results
from tho expenditure of this
amount?" Mr. Atkinson's letter was
received tooWate for publication last
week, but we would like to have been
able to publish all of It. Whether
Or not you are In favor of county di
vision, the queatlon offered for your
consideration, is worthy of your care
ful 'study.
Palo Pinto county, Texas, wns di
vided Into seven separate counties
eoveral years ago. Each of these
pven counties, Jones, Bhackleford,
Stephens, Palo Pinto, Taylor, Calla
han' nnd Eastland, say that their
taxes wero greatly reduced Imme
diately following dlvw'on. I. u. Par
ker of Sisters and William Vande
vert of Ja Pino have both lived in
ibis portion of Texas. Ask them
about It. Mr. Vandevert was deputy
shetf of Bhnckleford county short
ly after It was divided: he can tell
veu that taxes were lowered so much
that a hundred thousand dollar court
honeo nnd a fortv thousand dollar
Jail was liujlt, without raising the
tare to their former hluli mark.
The First National Dank of Prlne
Villq has come out for county divi
sion, becauMs It will lower taxes.
Two automobile louda of Prineville
citizens, alf of whom wore big tax
pave8. attended the county division
moejjng at e-'oters Saturday night to
tcoift for lower taxes and county di
vision. If. P. Allen and T. M Ba'dwln f
Princvlllo aro out fcr county division.
OSWALD WEST
By OSWALD WEST
Governor ot Oregon
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HKGON should go dry bo
cnuso thoro does not exist
n ninulo reason on enrth why it
should stay wet-.
Tho war nows from Kuropo
strike us with horror ; yot this
grout wnr, with all Its enrnngo.
past, prosont nnd future, will
not provo n drop in tho bucket
com pn rod with -tho ravages
which are being mndo through
out the land by boozo.
Wo boast we aro tho greatest
nation upon enrth, nnd in our
efforts to preserve this position
wo bonst wo must strive con
stantly to raise, or nt least main
tain, tho standard of our citizen
ship, nnd to nooompllsh this- ond
wo must unceasingly fight or
ganized grood nnd graft, stamp
out poverty, vice and crime,
protect tho homo nml mnko life
moro plensnnt -for those who
have boon luss fortunate than
others. It is idle, however, to
talk of progress along those
hues so long as King Alcohol
Groupies the throne.
Who grabs tho pay check from tho honest work,
man on Saturday night and makes hia wifo and
little ones go hungry7
Mr. Booze.
Who sows tho sccdi of poverty and distress
everywhere?
Mr. Booze.
Who loads upon us most of our tax burdens?
Mr. Booze.
Tho Wets protest against our voting tho stnto
dry becnuse it will close Paul Wcssingor's brewery
nnd be equivalent to the confiscation of his prop
erty, but they do not toll you how tho brewery
was built through tho ruination of homes and tho
confiscation of pay checks. They do not tell you
thnt every brick in the building represents a
broken heart nnd tlte color of the building is em
blematical of the blood which has dripped thoru
from. Whenever I think of tho devil I think of booze,
nnd whenever I think of boozo I think of tho
devil, for the devil is booze and boozo is boll.
Old Boozo is an outlnw who hns boon long pur
sued but ncvor subdued. At no time nnd under
no circumstances should he bo given quart or, and
it is tho duty of ovory good citizen to stand ready
to snud-hag him whenuvor he sticks his hend in
sight. All Oregon will have a chnuuo to snnd-bng
him on November 3, nnd for tho Lord's sake lot.
us mnko a good job of it.
IF YOU BELIEYE WITH GOVERNOR WEST, YOTE-
OREGON DRY, 332 X YES
714 MwtlMemt by Ihi Commute of On Hundred,
718 Uorcsa Balldlac, PortUnd, Ortion.
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Prineville people aro agitating and
financing a road over tho desert to
the Port Rock and Sliver Iako coun
ty, for the purpoeo of diverting tho
tourist traffic that way Instead of by
La Pino. And the Ia Pino country
Is helping them pay for this road to
take business nway from our own
town.
The census shows that the propos
ed Deschutes county has almost twice
tho population of either of tho other
two. Deschutes county has tho best
agricultural area, the best timber and
the largest population. There Is no
question then, bat what the taxes
will bo lower In tho new county.
No one questions the fact that tho
new county will givo us hotter roads,
llettor roads mean more tourists.
More tourists mean more business
and a bigger demand for farm prop
erty. Statistics show that over half
of the farms sold In Central Oregon
the past year were bought by mon
who had traveled thrpugh the coun
try in automobiles. Automobiles will
not .travel over the kind of roads wo
have at present.
In the spring the Inter-Mountatn
kept count of the number of auto
mobiles that came to La Pine. The
number ranged from eighteen fo forty-one
per day. Later on, a Prine
ville man sent an article to tho city
papers saying that the roads from
Uend to La Pine were Impassable for
automobiles. This was done to bring
the trade around by the desert road
Via Prineville. Since that time La
l'lne'a automobile traffic averages less
than live cart per day.
Dllly King of Prineville. saya that
the proposed division will take away
from old Crook county over inreo
fourths of Its taxes. If this side ban
been paying three-fowrtlis of the
county taxc, vhy havn't we nt leaat
got a good road to Miow lor u.
When tho counties are divided, tho
new counties will be free from debt,
while the old Crook county will be
come the sole owner of tho court
house, high school and jail. This will
mora than cover tho Indebted ness
that old crook county will have to
pay.
According to a statement made by
W. P. King of Prineville In a public
meeting at Cloverdalo last Friday
n'ght, $160,000 has been spent on
the roads In Crook county during tho
past year. How much of this has
the La Pine section received for the
taxes they have paid'
Mr. King of Princvlllo, says that
the men In Prineville who aro op
posing division do not like tho boun
dary lines that havo bron drawn, and
that the right men In Prineville wero
not consulted when .tho lines wero be
ing established. If the lines had
been drawn differently, these Prlno
villa men would bo supporting divi
sion, because they know that n mnal
icr county incniif. smaller running
expense,
Somo of tho peoplo 1n Redmond aro
opposing county division, bcoauso
they do not Uko the lines that have
been drawn. Ono Redmond man
slated that his town would start n
movement to move the county Beat
from PrlnovIIlo to Redmond if wo
would vote "NO" on the present
county division. Practically everyone
who haa been opposing county dlv'
slon.nrt doing no ItecniiHO the linen
do not suit tliem. It Is of courso un
fortunate that lines cannot bo drawn
to suit everyone. Hut can yon afford
to continue paying twenty-six mill
tax Jwit because someone does not
like the county's boundary line?
A prominent traveling salesman
who camo through here the other day
said; "We have created hundreds
of now counties in Texas- and
taxes were iowored In every In
stance. The only opposition wo ever
had were the men who were still
fighting the Civil War and think Jeff
Davis is President."
Ever stneo Hood River county was
formed from old Wasco, the'tnlllage
has steadily growing less.
Tho criminal cases of Crook coun
ty have required the expenditure of
many thousands or aoiiars, ana or
this amount this side of tho county
has paid sevonty-nvo per cent, Hut
we have produced only nine per com
or those criminal case.
One of the many reasons why taxes
will bo less in tho new county Is that
we will havo no high school tax to
pay. Tho high school at Rend Is
maintained solely by Rend but It I
open und free to every student In
Deschutes county.
The opponents of county division
aro putting up somo pretty good ar
guments considering the cause, but
they Jiuvn't been ubio to prove that
taxes will not be n whole lot lower
after tho county Is divided,
Terrebonne Is solid for county dlvl.
slon. Some of their citizens aro go-
fng to the division meetings through
out tho country speaking in tna in.
tercst of tho cause,
uildlaw Is boosting county division
lo n "fnro-yovoll." They nro Rot
ting Hick nnd tired ot ojtoesslvo tax
ation. Bovornl ot tholr cltlttons luivo
boon through county division IiKlmi
before tuut they Know that tnos will
bo lower.
Alfalfa la IioobUhr for county di
vision. Rev. A. U. Wnllfor of thnt
vicinity. Is cnuiin1gnltK throughout
tho county, Tho following I nit In
teresting oxtrtvet from ono of his
speeches: "I have no Interest ln Red
mond, Ucnd or Prlnoville. My Inter-
est Is sololy thnt of a taxpayer. Dur.
lug tho years I havo been In tho
county, I hnvu seen taxes go Up mid
up and up. from $12 for 40 acres up
to ovor S1.00 pur acre. Those high
taxes nro tho necessary result of n
groat big lnoso-Jnlutod, loosely run
county. In n smallor county you enn
tnko tho sntuo crooked hunch of of
ficers and mnko them be good."
Mr. Dobsoit of Redmond saysi "Wo
nro too largo to administer our nf
fnlrs ocotrbmlcally."
Ono opponent of county division
nl ttnilinnnit unlit thnt Itin IirfiniMll n
tromoly high taxation Is duo In n
, great nimtmiro to the amounts wo
have beon spending on our ronds.
Thnt nmy bo true, but It doenn't tnko
much of an observer to see where thnt
I money tins boon upent nnd the sooner
l we get nvtny from n section thnt tine
our money nnd kIvm tm uotliliiv: ur it
tho sooner will our tuxes Iw lowered.
It la a notnbto fact Hint ovory tna.t
who Is rtghtlhg county division linn
somo kind of an ax to grind.
Mr. Rowman who la ln the ab
stracting business at PrlnovIIlo, Is
otinnslng county division. Hwiiuno
it will ilicrcnso his Individual IiumU
1 ncMM, lie went to Hood River to In
1 vi'Rtlgato conditions In that newly
i formed county hoping to find nomo
, thing against county division, and
f present It at the Bisters meeting Init
Saturday night, hut when lie returned
1 lie didn't hno ft word to sny.
! Two or threo mon who nro calling
I themtolvcs "Tho I.owcr Tax League '
i and aro fighting division tooth nnd
nnll, claim that It will cost us some
thing ovor $100,000 n year to run
tho new county. This figure Is ex
traordinarily high, hut It It woro so.
our taxes would bo no higher thnn
thoy-nro now because tho 111 in Crook
county tax wns 9111,1 lil.iio.
When Shermnn county wan formed
from a part ot Wasco county, tho
county tnx was decreased from 20
mills to nine and six-tenths mills.
Power county, Idaho, recently
formed from Onolda county, Idaho,
says: "Our tax In Power county lait
year had tho distinction of being tho
tnlrd lowest In tho stnto, bolng 0i
thills, whllo somo counties west
high as 20 H mills."
A lettor from Roxburg, Idaho, per
tnlnlng to another newly farmed
county says: "Wo nro well pleated
with having divided our old coun'y
nnd will bo nblo to mnko a. reduction
In tnx."
W. 1 King of PrlnovIIlo, formerly
n county offlco holdor and nu oppo
nent of division, la perhaps as woll
qualified as any one el re In tho entlro
county to sponk on tho subject t
county flnancos. At tho division
meeting nt Clovordnlo las'. Friday
nlgh'l ,ho said: "I oxpeot to oco
Crook county $120,006 In debt next
year."
Whon Dcichutes county Is formed
It can be run as cheaply ns any coun
ty In tho stnto. Wo havo moro thin
tho nvorago valuation, moro than
tho nvorago population nnd moro
than tho average agricultural value
of any of the following counties: liar,
nay, Sherman, Gllllr.m, Morrow, Cur
ry, Wheeler and flrant. If DosohutM
county can bo run at a cost equal to
nny of those countloo, It will lower
our taxes &0 per cunt.
It Is claimed by tho men who nro
nttompllng to dtvldo Croojf county
that taxes will bo lower. They will.
Now, don't shut your eyes nml
hump up your hack 111(0 n bulky i !
Ho roitiiomiblo. llo open to cnnvir
i tlon. Tnko your own potioll und
I impcr und tlguro thotio things nut In
your own way nml you will KNOW
! thnt county division will moan n big
L reduction In your tnxos,
County Valuation Tax
Harney ..$ 7.3 to.fttl? $UO.IOfi.lO
Bhormnn . fi, 7 01. 8 11 100.B86.10
(lllllnm .. U,?S1,330 110.D03.2fi
Morrow .. 11,07.1,551 110.703.43
Oltrry ... 4.107.030 55.834.71
Whnoler. . 3.307.81(1 60,203.14
(Hunt ... 5,000.s$2 118,700.30
CROOK . .$ II.OTlMfVJ IWH, 1 18.117
Tho 101 1 valuation of Crook coun
ty was 11, fll)il,nH7.
Tho go n cm I mlllago wast
Htnto l .MUls
County 1 1 54 Mills
School Hit MIIU
High Bchool U Mills
Total JJtl Mills
Tho amount mixed on this lullliiae
wan $UOH,HJi:i.(ll),
The valuation of Hct.fl in te eouii
tv on curiTiit nxn'iMiicntu would lie
SI, 100, HIT.
Its gcnernl mlll.mo would bet
Htnto to rnUo r"M)(0 1 '4
(loiicntl county to inlnei
Trniicrlblng reconli .9 tt,0i)l)
PiirnlilihtK roiut
house ii.OUO
Roadt t!IMH)(l
Salaries .Si expense . . UD.000
3tl,00 IS
neuernl school to
raic min.noo ai
HcmIiuIom total iiilllago -O
Thoc rstlinntcH for Retinites
county mo high.
Xoverthelctn they show n reduction
from the ('took county tnx of hint
year of tl mills, nnd from the tux i f
UWi of I mill.
Tho best auditor In tho world
couldn't question theso figures. Tnxns
will bo Iowored In tpllo of anything
you can do nnd In addition to llieso
figures you know that our cost (t
road malntonanco will bo less than t
Is now und tho cost of road building
will be less than It Is now, hceamio
wo havo no bad grades, no precipes
to go around, no canyons to bridge,
and no small bridges to bo washtd
o t ovory year na they have on the
east side of tho present county.
Wo will havo no county high school
tax beoauso wo get tho use of tho
Rend high reboot and wo don't have
to nay a cent of tnxes on It.
There will bo no "county poor" In
Deschutes county for you to krp.
You will not bo paying tnxos on n
PrlnovIIlo to Sllvor Lnko road to lake
traffic nwav from Ia Pino, Rund.
Rndmond, Laldlnw end Sinters.
Your tax in o any will not go to pay
Intorest on $120,000 ilnljt.
Your lax money will not bo spent
In tho criminal oourts prosecuting
criminals of whom 01 por cent come
from tho cast side.
This county division mean money
In your pocket. It moans real dol
lars nnd cents to ynu Individual.
PrlnovIIlo hns been sapping the
strength of this portion of tho oou i
ty for twonty-flvo yonrs, enoh your
she has become a little hit holdor 'it
asking for tnx money. Your tax
havo advanced from $100,000 In 1007
to $400,000 In 1013.
If you want to voto far this condi
tion to continue, that s your prlvlloKO.
Rut If you do, you aro lucking In tho
good red-bloodod manhood building
principals that nro oaioiitlnl In u new
coitntiy and yon hud bettor puclt
your trunk and move ovor to your
''dear old PrlnovIIlo."
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Clliobix.
HOitt thing (or uoiistlimtlon, noiir
stainuoli, Inxy llvor nml Hlilptsh
bowols. Htopg n slok hondnrmu iiliuost
nt once, (llvim it thorough nnd snt
lufiiolory (tuhlnK--ho pnln, no tutu.
Hoa. Ktops your systuin alonused,
swont nnd wlioloiuimo. Ask for Git
relax. Patterson Drug Co. -Adv,
Ono cent it word Is nil a llltlo want
Ad will cost you.
Try tho Altntiiont for Sunday din
nor. 0 to 7. p. in. Adv.
HOW lojOTE DRY
FOR OHEGON DRY '
VOTE 332 X YES
FOR NATION DRY
YOTE X GEO. L CLEAVER
mkh jjm H
Geo. L, Cleaver
TUB ONLY
DRY
Cgndidnto for ConvroM
Itndottted and Mipimrtrd by prom
inent leader of nil pniilm ninonpf
whom nmy lie mentioned Walter A
Pierre, ImUmndo. l-c.i.ociat: (Irorgo
II. Currey, Latlrnnde, lU'piibllrniu
Win, Miller, taUrnndi', l'mjttmkltr.
Judge Mnlonry, Pcnillctuii, Homo,
crntt W. V. Harnh. Prndlctoii, Hem.
iitrut: .1. M. I In Vj. lVndlolmi. Itpimli.
I Ileum !r. Young, Hood Ithrr, Re
1 pulillniu. nnd many oIIuth.
AImi by tbe Ivmmllteo or Oso
Hutidit'd (ii!Piiiliciilili iicnrly IWlll)
Tho HitllcNi tho tuiiHtr'nIiiiml Vun
eutlnii of Hie W. C. T, t'.t the fulled
chin-chew and Yiuug Pciplo' Kocle
Ilex of HikhI Rlvcrt by n itiaoN nuvt
lug nf 11)00 pcrftuiiR In hl liiime town,
!.r.(Jiniii!o nnd by local nrgnnlntlons
tiitiiiighout tho itlilrlct.
Head Mr, Cleat er's utalemcnt In
tho oniclal Htato Pauiphlpt of Cnnill
dates.
Niibmlltrd by Hrncwt K, Taylor,
Secretary of Cleat er Campaign Com.
milter,
(Paid Advertisement, Oregon Prohi
bition State Committee.)
Vote to Save Industrial
Oregon
VOTE "NO" 329 AND "NO" 331
The very life of the future manufacturing and industrial progress
of Oregon hinges upon the defeat of the so'callcd "Water Front bills,
to be voted on Tuesday, November 3rd.
So cunningly and adroitly are these bills worded there Is grave
danger that many people will be deceived.
If these measures become laws the result will be that the State
will take title to the tidelands and submerged lands and will be pro
hibited from selling any of these lands. They can only be leased for
docks. No more ship-yards, saw-mills, canneries or other plants re
quiring acce&rto deep watef nothing but docks, docks, docks.
Every citizen of Oregon wage earner, farmer, business man or
woman, wanti to prosper. These measures if enacted will throttle
progress at the gate. Investors will shun Oregon. This means no
work for the wage-earner, nothing to pay the store-keeper with and
therefore nothing to pass on to the farmer or producer. Let no one
think these bills do not concern him.
Before you go Into the booth to vote, read 329 and 331 carefully.
Talk to your neighbors about them.
Oregon is rich in natural resources, but poor In development,
What the state needs above everything else Is outside money to come
In and develop its resources. That means GOOD WAGES, PLENTY
OF WORK, QOOD PRICES and GOOD TIA1ES.
This is not a political question; It concerns only the prosperity
of Oregon and of you. s
Give Progress and Good Times a helping hand by voting "NO"
329 and "NO" 331.
OREGON COMMERCIAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
1208 Yeon Uulldlng. Portland, Oregon!. -
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