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PROVISION OF THE LAW
ON PAYMENT OF TAXES
Complicated System of Rebates And Penal
ties, Based on Date You
Pungle.
If you pay your taxes on or before
March 15th you will be hIIowocI ii
rebate of three por cent.
If you pay your taxes botweou
March loth and up to and Including
the first Mouday',iu April, there will
not be any rebate, and neither will
there be any penalty added.
If your taxes aro not paid on or
before the first Monday in April they
will become delinquent, when there
will be added a penalty of ten per
cent, ami the tax will also draw In
terest at the rate, of twelve percent
per annum in addition to the pen
alty. If you pay one-half of your taxes
ou or before the first Monday in
April then the remaining half may
run up to and Including the first
Monday In October following but if
the last half of tax duo Is not paid
by the first Molality of October it be
comes delinquent, ami there will be
added to such balance a penalty of
ton per cent, and Id addition such
will boar interest at the rate of
twelve per cout per annum from the
first Mouday in April until paid.
Ou all personal propeity taxes, if
ono-half la not paid on or before the
first Mouday in April, the law com
pels tho sheriff to levy upon and col
lect the saruo after May 1st; bonce to
proveut a levy upon personal property
after May 1st, it will bo necessary
for ouo-half to be paid as above
stated. ' '
Tho law compels tho sheriff to
sell all lands on which taxes have
not beeu paid,, and that such sale
shall not bo hold later than March
1st of 'the year succeeding tho year I
In which the tax levy is made.
Tho property will bo sold to the
porsou bidding tho lowest rate of In
terest, ami certificates will he Issued
therefor aud deeds Riven to sucb
proporty sold, unlets redeemed
within three years from the date of
such salo. Democrat.
WADE'S INDEBTEDNESS
OVER HALF A MILLION.
The list of O. II. Wade's creldtors
have been filed with the referee in
bankruptcy. Ills Indebtedness ag
gregates more than a half milllou
dollars. Only four claims aro se
cured; Ha I four, Cluthree & Co., 150,
000; V. 11. James, 110,000; estate
of U. A. CralK, f 1 4,1:10; J. R Tem
ple, 17,700. Ou the last note J. A.
Howard, of Bumpier, Is the surety.
Among the Iouk list of creditors
the following are of especial Interest
to Miner readers here In Sumpter:
i). 11. ltobblus, nluu notes aggregating
MB.UMI; ltobblus A Kobblus, (O. O.
W, V.) three notes for 1'J,000;
First National Hank, of Maker City,
M.UUU; Ultlous' National, 5,1)00;
1. llin-oho, S10.U00; D. W. French.
en. ooo.
Itegardlug Mr. WkdoM assets, tho
Pendleton llunt Oreguniau fays':
-Mr. Wade's assets make a longer
list than the liabilities, but this is
caused by the real estate descrip
tions, of which there are a great
many. The cieditors will probably
be glad to net leu cents on tho dollar
before all tho strands of the problem
are raveled nut.
Nearly every miuiuic camp in this
part of tho state Is represented In the
stock that Mr. Wado owned. He has
one aud a half million shares In the
Uoloouda, a large amount of stock Id
the Red Uoy aud scads of paper in
those which have loug since been
burled aud forgotteu.
In faot, most of the assets repre
sent this kiud of securities and prop
erty. A Rreat mauy of the "get-rich-quick"
"concerns of the east,' the
bubbles of wbiob have been pricked
by the law lu the past short time, are
represented, everything In the calen
dar nearly, is lu the list, and are
worthless lu part or in whole
TRAIN LATE ON
ACCOUNT OF SNOW.
Tho Sumpter Valley passenger
train was about two hours late this
afternoon returning from Whituey,
ou aooouut of the snow which fell
last night aud this morning. There
were about eight iuches additional.
The snow plow, was put on tho
track this morulug, but It made poor
headway, hanging up frequently, aud
It was after - tuts atternnou when
(he train reached Whitney.
T. F. Thompson, bf Durut river,
came lu last night with auother load
of beeves, which he sold at ouce to
tho Sumpter Meat compauy. Mure
liurnt river people will be here lu a
day or so.
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IN BULK ATi
F. E, O'ROURKE & CO.
! YOU CAN GET A A PINT, A QUART
OR TWENTY GALLONS '
j Fresh Dairy Butter cts.
PER ROLL
Also Strictly Fresh Eggs
Photographic Supplies
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