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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1910)
DO YOU WANT YOUR TAXES INCREASED? One of the Results of County Division Would Be to Make Assessments Larger. Many people In Oregon own pro perty In different parts of the state. Nearly every property owner, In one way and another, would be affected if the county division scheme Is not voted down. One of the results of the scheme would be to Increase the people's taxes; In some cases, taxes would be doubled. But the people will be guided by sane Judgment and will vote "No" to all these measures which, declares the Eugene Register, .were foisted upon the public by pro fessional politicians and ambltiou3 little towns, That paper says editor ially: "Nine county division schemes are bidding for enactment under the in itiative, In imitation of Hood River county's success two years ago, and the end is not yet. Here is direct legislation gone to seed and dissemin ating trouble through the fair expanse of Oregon, says the Oregonian. "The latest is Deschutes county, presenting a petition to the secretary of state and asking to be carved out Of the northwest part of Crook coun ty. Umpqua, Williams and Nesmith, with overlapping boundaries, seek In dependence from Lane and Douglas counties. Umatilla county is wrestling with the ambitious schemes of Orch ard and Hudson. Clark desires sepa ration from Grant, Otis from Malheur find Harney. A strip of Clackamas seeks annextlon to Multnomah. "Politicians, office seekers and am bitious little towns are putting up these county partition schemes. More oountles will provide additional of ficial places' and other patronage. They will also make higher taxes and more trouble for property owners. "It Is reaching a point In Oregon whore the electorate will feel obliged to vote uniformly against all these .new counties. The voters cannot in- . form themselves on the many local details Involved, in order to legislate, therefore they are likely to take the view that their safest action will be that of voting "No" on the "whole bunch." - "The Oregonlan's position on this matter is correct. It should add, how ever, that it is Important for those who oppose this wholesale formation . of new counties to be sure and vote as they feel about it, and put a "No" In front of each ono or every pro posed new county will carry. The peo ple can put It up to the legislature to frame a fair and Just division law that will leave formation of new coun ties to the territory thus affected and relieve the whole state of responsibil ity for county formations. This is what the people want and they will got it If they vote "No" on all pro posed county schemes at the Novem ber election." SELFISH MOTIVES BEHIND IT. division is heard. Only about one in ten voters would know what they were voting for. Therefore, the best way is to vote "No" to all of the measures, urges the Observer: "Two years ago the people voted to form the new county of Hood River out of & section of Wasco county. It is safe to say that 90 voters out of a hundred had no acquaintance with the conditions or geography of the county they divided. The voters will be asked next November to do a good deal more of this kind of county butchering. Peo ple who are not at all acquainted with the various territories, will be asked to slice Crook county and make a new county to be called Deschutes. It is proposed to carve up Lane and Doug las counties, and constitute the three new counties, Umpqua, "Williams and Nesmith. Umatilla is prey for two proposed new counties, Orchard and Hudson. A piece of Grant county is to be asked to make Clara county, while Harney and Malheur may be clipped off a little to make room for Otis. It is really scandalous and only possible under the initiative. The trouble is that the performance is Just commencing and it is not easy to see where it will end. The best way, the only right way, is to vote "No" to all these local measures, of which the people as a whole have no informa tion. The Observer has no idea of the rights in any of these cases, but believes they are Just selfish schemes to make little towns county capitals and supply several good county offices for the promotersc" AN ASTOR DEAL The Only Time That Old John Jacob Sold Real Estate. "One of the most stringent real, es tate rules of the Astor family is 'never sell,' anil only one sale is recorded in the entire life of old John Jacob As tor." said Niles F. Watkins, a real es tate broker of New York. "In 1830 Astor tore down his house In Broad way, cleared the whole block from A'esey to Barclay street and built the huae Qulncv granite hotel known as the Astor House, which was one of the first notable landmarks In Now York and also one of the best paying pieces of property. "A few days after it was finished the old gentleman and his eldest son, Wil liam, were walking through City Hall park, where the postofflce now stands, and stopped a moment to admire the building, the finest hotel in America at that time. " Ton. that's a mighty fine building,' said William. 'I wish to gracious it was mine. "'So?' answered the father. 'Well, BIllv. give me $1 and you can have It.' "Out came the dollar-a big silver dollar that is cherished by the family to this day and within an hour, the deed of the property was made out and rocorded. This was old Mr. Astor s only sale of real estate in his life." VT'oeViincrtnn TTavoUl f :' Office 8eekers Promoting County Dl- jf"""' vision Schemes. Avowed office seekers seem to be i among those who are promoting the ' causo of county butchering in Oregon, ' ,, according to the Grants Pass. Obscr- ' ' ver in its issue of July 29. Futher- ; . more, the people generally have no -j, 1 conception of local situations as af- ' fecting counties whero th cry fo ' Westminster Hall. Wentmlnster hall, England's old hall of the king's Justice, is one of the world's notable historical shrines. Built four centuries before Columbus sailed for America, burned, restored, remodeled, It has seen more history In the making than perhaps any other building west of Rome. Here somo of tho early parliaments met, and here the second Edward was expelled from bis throne. Here Richard II. was de posed, Charles I. condemned and Crom well hailed as lord protector, whose head, it tho legend is authentic, was afterward exposed from one of the hall's pinnacles. Westminster hall was tho scene of the trial of Warren Hast ings. In it sentence of death was pro nounced on William Wallace, Sir Thorn as More, Somerset, Essex, Strafford and Guy Fawkes.-New York World. 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