1 0 Ci0 CO o o oo O C3 C3 P3 C O CO VOLUME XXX BANDON, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1914 NUMBER 7 i 1 y y EXPLAINS TAX LAWS Chairman of House Com mittee Defines the Measure. Coouille. Innuarv 10. To the 1 i Editor of The Sentinel: In the issue ol your valuuble paper of the ninth instant appeared an editorial severely criticizing the tax law as amended by the Legislative As sembly of ion. As a member of j - the House Committee on Assess ment and Taxation, from which com mittee the amendments chanced to originate, I desire to take exception to the editorial in. question, and shall trv to elucidate some of its provisions. In the first instance, there are but a few minor chances in the method of collection. The principal ob jeetion seems to arise from the fact the three oer cent rebate given for cash payment under the old law has been done away with. A. proper understanding of what this three per cent rebate really meant is quite necessary before you can appreciate the benefits of the amended law. Under the old law the levy was made by the Board based on esti mating the entire amount that would be needed to pay 'he running expenses ot the county government for the current year, and to cover the rebate on f laxes anadilitionnl three per cent ol the entire amount was then added ; in other words you were taxed $100.00, which was a legitimate tax, and an extra 3 was then added, whicn would be refund ed to you if vou were fortunate enough to be able to pay all of your taxes before the first day of April. It certainly is not a hard guess to determine who was principally bene fitted by the rebate system In the majority of instances the small tax payer, unlike his more prosperous neighbor, could not take advantage of the rebate and what happened to him was enough, If he could pay but one half of his taxes he lost ad vantage of the rebate entirely, which represented to him an overcharge of three per cent on all of h! taxes, or six per cent on the remaining one hall of h!x taxc s. The following table of comparison of the old and new law will better explain the advantages in dollars and cents of the new order of things. Keep thoroughly in mind that what would have been your tax under the old law will be three per cent less under the new law. In case full payment i? made before the first day of April, Mr. Taxpayer would pay $103.00 (padded $3 for rebate purpose) less three per cent or $100.00 net; under the new law he would pay $100.00 (no padding) or $100.00 net. In case he desired to pay one half of his taxes under the old law his first payment would be $51.50, the balance $51.50 would run until October first (without interest) making a total payment of $103.00; under the new hw, his first pay ment would be 50.00, the balance, $50, would run until September first (with interest at one per cent per month) making a total payment of $102.50. Rut suppose he has paid the first half of his taxes and makes default in the payment of his second half. Under the old law, he would $51.50 before April first, and the balance of $51.50, he having failed to pay be fore October first, drew interest from the first day of April, say unti November first, which amount to $3.60; he would also pay a penalty of to per cent or $5.15, making a total tax paid of $11175. Under the new law he would have paid $50 before April first, and the balance of $50 he having failed to pay until November first would, af ter the first day of September, be penalized 10 percent or $5, and would then draw interest at the rate of one per cent per month or $1 interest, making a total payment of $106. But suppose he was unable to pay any part of his taxes before the first day of April, his total tax would then figure as follows, if paid in the month of ' Old Law. New Law. . May $114.33 $101.00 June 115.33 102.00 July 116.33 106.001 Aug. 117.33 104.00 Sept. 118.33 1 n. 00 After October first, certificate of delinquency may issue which will draw interest on the entire amount at the rate of 15 percent per annum. In this, respect the law has not been changed. y A careful study of thehw wi1' un questionably impress the tax payer with the fact that the law is not only a good one, but one which makes a direct savings to the small tax payer and does exactly what the originators of the measure mean it to do, relieve the stir" home owner and tax payer from the burden of excesive penalti . J. S. Bar;on, In Coquil'e Sentinel. AT LOW POINT Chris Rasmussen informed a re presentative of The Recorder Satur day morning that the barometer was the lowest he had ever seen it, being down to 28.79, ad the record up to that time was 28.9. There has certainly been something doing of late as the storms have been heavy and the wind has blown A gale, but with all that we have been in para dise as compared wfth the east ac enrding to reports. Farmers' Gathering is Un usually Large. The annual meeting of the Far mers' County Union, held at W. O. W. hall in this city last Saturday, was probably the largest gathering of its kind ever held in Coos county, something over two hundred per sons being present. At noon a splendid basket dinner was serve J following which the regu'ir business of the session was transacted and the following officers elected for the ensuing year: Geo. E. Henninger, Fishtrap, president; Geo. Ros, Marshfield, vice president; E. A. Howev, Coquille, secretary-treasurer E. W Ferris, Coquille, chaplain; Nick Johnson, Coquille, conductor; H. L. Masters, Marshfield, door keeper; executive committee, B. H. Burns, Coquille, O. Aascn, Fiphttap, Neal Watson, Marshfield, W. L. Kistner, Coquille, J. Finley Schroe der, Norway. Coquille Sentinel. Library News. Magazines for circulation. Do you wish to read The White Linen Nurse, The Trail to Yesterday, and Saturday's Child? Or to stfe the fine colored plates in the article on Panama in Scribner's? Are you interested in Roosevelts Life His tories of African Animals dr in Prison Reform? Tflese, anefmany more good things are now ready to go out on borrower's cards. 0 BAROMETER BIG FIND IN . PLATINUM t R. Smith Bassett Displayed $500 Worth of Pre cious Metal. R. Smith Bassett has severed his connection as manager of the Ore gon Coast Gold Platinum Dredge Co. and has gone into the mining business independently. He dis played $512 worth of platinum, in this office yesterday which he had saved in six weeks recently with only a rough cedar board for a sluice box. This platinum was taken from a mine which Mr. Bas sett has near this city and indicates that there is certainly something doing in the platinum business in this section. Mr. Bassett is very sanguine over the prospects. He also states that the Oregon Coast Gold Platinum Dredge Co. will continue to operate this summer and they wi" undoubtedly make good as there pre the best of prospec s. v Report Wisconsin Company will Develope Holdings South of Brookings Gold Beach, Or., Jan. 13. Ac cording to an apparently authentic, but unofficial report received here from Brookings and Crescent City an immense lumber mill is to be put below Brookings probably this year. The projectors are said to be the company from Eau Claire, Wis., which owns the largest single body of redwood in the world in Del Norte county, Caliiornia, and who are said to be planning a mill with 600,000 daily capacity and a pulp nill in connection, the latter to be operated like the C. A. Smith Com pany's pulp mill in Marshfield to ut ilizc the waste from the mill. BASKET BALL The Bandon High School basket ball team .vent to My rtle Point Fri day nighi where they played the Myrtle Point High School team. The game was a fast one from start to fintsh and in the first half Bandon showed up we'f, scoring n points while Myrtle Point was "goose egg ed," but in the second half the tab les were turned and jutt as time was called the Myrtle Pointers succeeded in tying the score, the tie was then played ofl and Myrtle Point scored the first basket making the score 13 to 11 in their favor, . Several of the Bandon boys were 'considerably knocked out before the game started, consequently they were not able to continue he fast pace they set jn the first half, but they will get revenge when they again meet Myrtle Point. Marshfield comes(here next Friday night for a game and Bandon jwill leave nothing undone to come out victors. WILL BUILD BANDON LOST MARSHFIELD WON DEBATE Coos.Bayites Carry off th ...County Champion '; ship. The, Marshfield High School de Bandon in bating team won from the dck-ite Frjday night by a 2 to 1 decision and thns become the cham pions of Coos county. The question was: ' "Resolved that the President of the United States should be elected to a single term of six years" Marshfield had the negative and Bandon the affirma tive, which under existing circum stances gave the Marshfield team considerable advantage, but even at mat ine acoaie was close as is shown by the fact that Marshfield did not get the unanimous decision. 1 ne marsiineia team was com posed of Lesile Isaacson and Cecil Robertson. The Bandon team was Jack Kronenberg and Pearl Craine. ILSTElNS R. Jressy and Others of Two Mile Section Will Have Them. R. M. Pressey of Twomile is in the city today and in a conversation with a representative of The Recor der, said that things were moving along nicely in his section. Mr. ressey is one of the enthusiasts ,vho are preparing to import a bunch of Holstein cattle into this section, and says that a number of dairymen in his section, have already put in orders for a bunch, and though there had been little or no canvass ing among the up river dairymen, yet some of them were sure to take a bunch of these cattle,, so that it is now a pradtical certainty that the project, which was suggested by J. L. Kronenberg of this city, will be carried out. The Holsteins are considered the very best cattle for 'lis 'country and a good start of them will insure the future prosperity of the dairy in dustry here. TOi Encampment Installs. Bandon Encampment No. 72 in stalled officers Saturday night Janu ary 10th as follows: The following officers were installed. L. I. Wheeler, chief, patriarch; A. J.j Macy, senior warden; Logan junior warden; A. Knopp, Kay, high priest; and D. C. Kay, sciibe. After installation a degree work was put on and a sumptuous banquet was served. The evening was a very pleasant and profitable one. There are somewhat more than 500 recognized tree species in the United States, of which about 100 are commercially important for tim ber. Of the 5qp recogaized species 300 are represented in 'he govern ment's newly acquired Appalachian forests. All American species, ex cept a very few subtropical ones on the Florida keys and in extreme southern Texas, are to be found in otte or anotner of tifco national for rests.' o TO BE BOUGHT "Brennan of the Moor." 'lie stole from the rich to give to the poor." This masterful pro duction featuring Barney Gilmore, who attained fame in ''Kclley from the Emerald Isle, is a story of a venture, romance and realism, fights in the dark, stage coach holdups, secret passages, flooded cells, duels md narrow escapes such as crossing a human bridge over a deep chasm, all scenes full of thrills and excite ment. A picture that will entertain throughout it entire three reels. Shown at the Grand, Wednesday night, Jan. 21st Admission 15.10c This picture is produced in America. Beef Offered For Nine Cents The Marshfield Record says: G. W. King of the Enterprise Meat Ma.ket. was in receipt of a telegram today from San Francisco in which he was ogered prime Australian beef o. b. Sari Francisco for nine cents pound. Mr. King stated he did not intend purchasing any, although the oiler was at a price three cents lowe. than the prevailing quotations on native beef in San Francisco at the present time The reason Mr. King did not desire to buy the im ported beef was a fear entertained by him that upon being taken from cold storage rooms on the importing ves sel and transhipped here without ice the beef would turn black. Although meat has dropped considerably Mr. King believes, as the tariff begins to operate it will go still lower. SAYS HIGGINS TOLD LIE A dispatch from Spokine has the following to say about the testimony of J. H. Higgins in the preliminary hearing of A. R. Cooley at Gold Beach for the murder of Thomas Van Pelt: Alfred Coolidge, Spokane benker and millionaire, accused in the pre liminary hearing of A. R. Cooley at Cold Beach, Ore., yesterday of hay. ing offered money to have Thomas Van Pelt killed, today branded the story as false. J. H. Higgins, form erly a cashier in Coolidge's bank was the witness who testified as to Cool- "Higgins is a personal enemy of mine, but I did not imagine that he would attempt to involve mi in Van Pelt's death," said Mr. Coolidge. "My brother was killed 16 years ago near Gold Beach,' Ore., after what was then called a feud. Old man Van Pelt and his sons were cleared of the charge of killing my brother. Subsequently Thomas Van Pelt was killed. The story that I hired Cool ey to do the killing is false." Forest Notes. The American forestry association has members in every sale in the union, jn every province in Canada, and in every civilized and semi-civilized country in the world. Makers of phonographs are aim ing to use wood instetd of metil in all parts of the instrumenc where it is possible in order to increase the mellowness of the tone. On the Pocatello forrest, Idaho, 230,000 trees ware planted during the pasi year, and almost half a mil lion in the past three years, fully three fuurthe of which arc alive and doing well. Experiments in the utfe of aspen for shingles shyw that the shingles do not check in seasoning, an8 'that they turn water satisfactorily, but that they are too easily broken n handling, GREAT GAIN IN COMMERCE ShippingJOver Coquille River Bar Twenty Times that of 19 00. During the thirteen years since 1900 the shipping over the Coquille River bar has grovyji nearly twenty fold and has been a gradual but constant increase as the following , figures will show. The passenger business has also been one of phenominal growth, rising from none in 1900 to 4623 in 1913. Following are the figures: PASSliNGKRS TONS FREIGHT 1900 1906 1910 11,266 57,546 110,152 147,042 172,028 217,616 407 1990 3040 3112 ' 5623 1911 1912 1913 Past Matrons Meet. Mrs. R. W. Boyle entertained the members of the Past Matrons Association at the residence of her mother, Mrs. R. E. Buck on Edi son Ave last Wednesday afternoon. Those present were: Mcsdamcs R. H. Rosa, E. M. Gallier; Steve Gallier, Fred Mehl, Matt Smith, W. E. Craine, R. W. Boyle, Rosa Bingaman, and J. G. Slagle, and Misses Mary D. Ritchie and Kate Rosa. Mrs. Tas. Cox o Lunlrii and Mrs. Chas Kime of Coquille count of the bad weather. A course luncheon was served, the place cards being small gavels, tied with purple ribbon, the color of the association. All present enjoyed the occasion to the fullest extent. Mrs. Steve Gallier will entertain the association at the next meeting, which will be February 11, 1914. Dr. Hodge on Flies. According to Dr. Hodge there is no reason for the people of any com- munity shutting themselves behind screened doors and windows all summers, with the fles left to sport as they wi'l in freedom. Oregon, Dr. Hodge declares, can be entirely freed of fles, and he plans to show the people of the state, through the school children as well as their parents, how this can be done. Dr. Hodge knows what he is talking about. He has cleaned up the flies of Wocesler, Mass., and in Balti more, Md where he worked one summer on this campaign, he had the fles so completely exterminated, there were none left for laboratory work. He directed a class in the summer school of the University of Oregon this summer in Eugene. Flie members of the class made the necessary surveys tor determining the breeding places of the flies through the city. The City Council took action in cleaning these places up. The result was, when the State Health Inspector made his usual tour this fall examining into the sanitary conditions of the various towns of the state, Eugene stood first as the cleanest from a sanitary point of view. Dr. Hodge will put the children to work, ach com munity to work cleaning out the breeding place of flies. Watch for results a year from now. Nexf Tuesday, Jan. 27th, the gfeat Qilifdrnia Round Up or Rodeo wjll be shown in motion pic tures. l altye with action, thrills and fun. Don' t fail to see this big special production in three reels. Remember, 3ts at the Grand. o o 00 co 60 1 -c o o