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Continuing the Springfield News and Lane County Star, Which Were Consolidated February 10, 1914.
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1 PRINQFIELD. LANE COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1916.
VOLiy. MOr&.
Ji I
PfONEER OF 1847
DIES HI HOME OF
IN Al LOWELL
llonry C. Morgan, fnthor of
Mrs. II. E. Walkor, died Sunday,
January 0, 1010, at the homo of
his son Ned Morgan at Lowell,
aged over 81 yearn. Ho camo
to Oregon hi 1817, crossing tho
plains by ox team.
Besides his wife, ho leaves a
numbor of children. Mrs. walk
or of Springfield, Mrs. Win nip
nUBier oi l,oh Angeies; It. - Vn nv si oTv rtnllrnn 1 on ,onB umo anu WIien ue "earu
Morgan of Eugene, Daisy L. PJ j)0 ' ill-SSSj0 SDA Jones cutting wood at 12:30 a.
Morgan of Eugono and Ned at11" rcBU" J ' oi'tlons soon on m laXQ(J h,m wUh takIng from
Lowell. '!LI0,qK (Wochmuth's) pile. Jones
Tho funeral services will be 5 "'0-3' denied It and In a scufllo tried to
held at tho family home at 10 8,,yci rcJirV, Ln. VtSLihSI n? throw Wochmuth over the rall
.! i. ,..-.i.. ...--..i..,, n..,i nut to work near hobkuib at , wM,.ti,
Interment will be made at tho
Pleasant 1 1111 cemetery.
ST PAY TAXES
ON LANl
SRANTS
Ispatch from
riio rone
TlOBCburjund
date of last Sat-
nrdav will b of Interest to the
.mn.ilsi gt T tn no imll tit. lmifr.t
lnc count
If un opinion filed in circuit
court hciAi Friday by Judge J. W.
llmnlltoi Is Hustuincd by tho su
premo court, Douglas County
will oventuully be ablo to collect
taxes amounting to $201,304
from tho Southern Oregon com
,nv ..,i.i n jr. n r.,n,.n.i
I'lll.J Milt bllU W. I. W. IHIIIUHUt
I
aimimr mruu uiuuuiuh oi iaxeaiw'":; "v:
In .llamiln In T nnn n.,,1 Of the IllOllth.
countlCB also will be collectible. I
mi t it !
uio case n wiiicn uio opinion
wim fllrwl la Hint nf flnni'lna rmin
ty vb. the Southern Oregon com-,u,u
pnny, Involving taxes duo from
that company for tho past six
years, and totaling $17,511.
" .. ..O"'" "
Judge Hamilton holds that :no
tax, being properly laid. Is a lien
against the land, and a definite
charge, not against the individ
ual owners, but against the land
Itself."
Under this decision these de
llnnuet taxes will havo to be
paid.
The same ruling would
nlso apply to the delinquent ;
uixcb uue on uie u. a; j. raiiruuu ,ton being $35,000. uonal speakers and local enter-
lands In this county for tho years I coincident with this transac-1 talners. Mr. Wilklns explained
1913 and 19Mt totaling $180,703, tjon rjenn E. C. Sanderson, of how horse racing was the cause
although tho latter was not a tno Eugene Biblo University, of the annual deficit to the as
party in tho case at Isbuc. I purchased from Mr. Hill tho soclation how nil the money so
If sustained by the higher icoleman block on Willamette I Iglven to horse racnitr went out-
courtB, this decision means that
this county will oventually re
cover the $201,304 of delinquent
tnxcB now due from these two
big corporations. Coos county
and Lnno county, which are sim
ilarly situated, will alBO be In a
position to recover almost equal
amounts each.
The lands In question are
those granted by tho government
to tho old Coos Bay wagon road
ssSioiioiiS
LUI1BLIULLIUI1 Ul WafaUlI IUUU IIUIU
Iiiuviaiuu muY Diiuiim iiui uu nuiu
.. mi
... . in
lands wore asacBBcd at a higher j
figure In Douglas county, somo
iiB high as $14 an acre. The de
fending company contended tho
land should not be assessed in
excess of $2.(50 an acre.
Tho suit was brought by Dis
trict Attorney Neuner to fore
close for delinquent taxes. In
giving his opinion Judge Hamil
ton cited a decision of tho Ore
gon supremo court' In the caso of
ilamp vs. Marlon county, which
says:
"For more Irregularities or
overvaluation in assessment the
Btatute has provided a board of
equalization from which one
who is wrongfully assessed or
unequally taxed may obtain re-
llcf.
"This Is his excluslveo remedy !
nd it Is his folly if ho falls to
avail himself of It. If her prop
erty was overvalued either by
tho assessor or board of equali
zation , it is a moro irregularity
which did not render tho assess
ment void. And her remedy was
by an application to the board 61
equalization, and falling to ob
tain satisfactory relief there, Bho
could havo brought tho matter
before tho courts upon a writ of t
rovloW and It was hor 6wn nogll-!
genceflf Bho did not do so."
This " decision,, sitys ' Jiulgo
llton. eays In so-many words
atovcr-valuation Is an Irreg
ularity, but docs not renders an
assessment void.
Tho remedy of tho property
ownorvla, to appear before the
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" m if inn
.YA .1. i,r,no'iHn Af " uo unburned portion of tho
SMPJm1 Mt. Hood saloon, reported
m? ?nnnZ$Vul t TninJ to o Bhorlff that Si Jones, who
tho proceeding. Tho tax being , u bu,idng acr0B'B m
lrTry dnSiS "SnS!" S trect, had nred a bullet through
dhJ ?.iivSJff h' w'ndow of the Wochmuth
against tho Individual but ,,,, f i,i
'fj1 Tf, KUv im,1 ahfn5S'an altorctttlon over some wood
?m0?-M0,iS Si! SS i! taton from tho race, and was
b, P,n d nLil?S?Z ST, Probably done to frighten Woch
clalmlng f lffcrcnt Interests fa1 th jho ,s an 0idbman a8 tho
tho property. bullet went high.
. Innmniith Oro! Jan.uIMio
SSi-Ww Boonj as Uie weather
i 1 VA iAVi3AAa "".something about getting a Run,
pushed to Independence. b t d,d t t ou whIle
t Is rumored that a ;atfR0,fna-i watching from his door, some
mill will be erected In Indopond-. wh hft w ,.
fence in stead of Hosklns. as was
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previously reported.
Mable Mill Shuts
Down For Repair
The Mill of tho West Coast
Lumber Co. at Mabel, closed
down Saturday night for re-
.iiairs anci win noi ue niaim in
1 .. , . . . ,
. Work of extending tK log-
fTlncr rnllrnnrl n riiatniirt nf tiirri
,.n..i;i 7i ..i Z
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'o DEALS .MADE. AX EUGENE
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Ono Corner Brings $35,000, Con
wno ,IHnr!ltnn fn Z'a
sidorntion in Socond
Withhold
Nnthan Hill, of Springfield
has purchased tho building at
the corner of Seventh and Wll-
lnmntln strnnta TCiifrnnn. fnrmor-,
iv nopnntmi hv tho ilnltoil Rtntfia1
National Bank, tho considera-
street, between Seventh and i
tlon paid for the Coleman block
was witnneiu
HARNEY SEES FIRST TRAIN
Baker. Ore., Jan. 7. Harney
County Is celebrating tho first
vlRlr nr n lopomotlve to tlioi
cuumy. " was
countv It was made near liar-
. . . , , 7 , ,T. .
i, flin lnof nt lnat wnnlr without I
formal notice
M7l, tl.n iioi.ro Irnnrthnn
Bums, 14 miles from there, that;threo years, said the horses cost
mm m n nf rn nlrnnrtv lmr infill
laid there was rejoicing in the
city that Is so anxious for trans
portation. Work is being con
tinued, on the road despite the
cold and snow.
LIQUOR CASE IS LOST
Jury at Eugene Acquits James
Randle of Violation
A jury In Eugene Justice Court
Friday afternoon acquitted
James Randle, 28, on a chargo of
having violated tho local option
law May, 22. 1915. The defense
Introduced witnesses to prove an
alibi and to show a possible case
of mistaken Identity.
j
Tho number of animals now
sustained on the National For
ests In proportion to tho area, Is
50 per cent greater than It was
10 years ago.
Tho Forest Service Is co-oper
ating In game protection under
definitely agreed plans with tho
States of ArlzQzna, Now Mexico,
California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah,
Wyoming, Colorado, Montana,
and South Dakota.
hotrFired After
TalkOverood
I Albert Wocshmuth, who lives
.cc" ."ilBsIng l,lswood for a
Wochmuth states that lie Had
refurne(1 to h,B roonif muttering
one, whom ho claims was Jones,
appeared and fired through his
window. Ho states that Jones
immediately left south on Mill
street.
HORSE RACING MAY GO
FROM COUNTY FAIRS
nl...i... -t I rr I -
uiruuiuis ui u.iiiu uuiii.jr rail
Association to Decide De-
finitely Next Saturday.
1
If the wishes of those present
at the meeting of the Lane
nnillltv
V0""1?
Fair association was
carried out at the board meeting
next Saturday afternoon, horse
rnchiK and cheap carnival shows
will be abolished In the future
from all Lane County fairs.
Directors of the association
metthlB afternoon in (he county
court room and elected the 15
directors who shall have full
charge of the fair for 1916. Im
mediately following the election,
a discussion as to the advisabll-
Ity of abolishing horse racing at
.the fair was opened,
P. M. Wilklns, president of the
association. Bald he was In favor
of nbolishinc horse raclnu and
substituting in Its place educa-
side of tho county, and usually
'niitRirm nf tho Rtnto
"I am heartily opposed to such
a.,.I,),r?gram.T;or 1Jlb:, 8ald M IS- mills on each dollar of tax
Wllklns. "If we continue It will auiB property
mean that we will have to ex-, ,For three eeks the county
pend between $3500 and $4000 court lm8 beeu investigating
more than we would if we didthe legality of taxing the incor
not have racing. Our crowds, !ated citIes 2.78 mills to be used
. '
i ueuove, wouia aim nisn, out
duced that wo could well afford
8mal,er dai,y attcnd-
.ailCe.
,
speakers reiterated Mr.
WIllrliiR' nnlninn r T
W1IK1UH Opinion. Kj, J,
Hurd,
market master, a member of the
iUUUIU VI UU-UIUIU lor III- 1H181
t 1 .11 X I 1 1 . ,
,uu, man uiu lau uoauumuun
realized from the attendance
which he drew for horse racing
purposes. "It is just a relic of
the old days," said Mr. Hurd,
"when all tho farmers were
.breeding fancy horses. This day
Mm J. tTT 1 1
ib iiuw ijuhi. vve naven t a
breeder in the county now who
Is breeding race horses only. Wo
are supporting a California en
terprise and I believe we should
abolish It."
E. J. McCIanahan said
he
wlshed to go on official record
Beaver-Herndon Hardware Company
Revise .Manner
Of Calling Fire
The matter of some Improve
ment In the manner of giving a
lire alarm will bo taken up by
Fire Chief IL E. Rice with the
fire and water committee of tho
council tonight. Vague inform
ation has too often been given
the central station, as in the
case of a flue fire In the Luther
residence on north Fifth street
a few weeks ago. All the In
formation the whistleman had
was that there was a fire In the
Luther residence, and all he
could do was to blow a general
alarm. When the firemen tried
to find the fire, there was no
glare to guld them, and they
had to hunt for it.
Some plan will be worked out
to get more accurate iniorma'
Hon to the department.
as being opposed to horse racing
at county fairs. "The trouble
Is most of the races are won be
fore the horse leaves the stable.
It Is a useless expenditure of
cpunty money, and I am opposed
to any such plan."
It was also advocated to re
duce the price of admission at
he county fair to 25 cents and
tq allow motor cars and horse
vehicles free entrance Into the
Grounds, providing that all oc-
' ... fhn mrrtltn-
,uuiiuiiu wcic uucu vuc icj,ui-
jtion admission fee.
j ' 6n next Saturday afternooit
jaL 2 o'clock at the Eucene Com-
iPDrcIal club the board of dlrec-
tors elected -will meet with rep
resentatives from every Grange
In Jhe county. At this meeting
officers will be elected and defi
nite plans discussed for the com
ing fair.
Following is a list of those
men chosen to serve as a board
bT-'-dlrectors:' P; M. -Wilklns, R
M. Harlow, Henry Stewart, R.
B. Coglon, John Villard, E. J.
McCIanahan, Robert Rae, J. A.
Griffin, Y. D. Hensill, A. E.
Young, W. B. Dillard, E. E. Hard
esty, M. H. Harlow. Amos Wil
klns and Walter B. Jones.
Guard.
LANE TAX1LEVY
IS 15 MILLS
The county court has fixed
,the tax levy for Lane County at
for the of the C00unty
uib ivuus ui me uuuuuiy,
' me question was suomitteu
to T' f Attorney GenernTwho de
wno ill on flloH no enhmltinfl
budget
was then filed as submitted by
the county court.
The following is the levy for
the various funds.
Mills
General fund 8.062
Apportionment of state
tax 3.410
High School purposes 880
School purposes 2.G00
School Library purposes . . .036
School district mainten
ance fund 012
Total 15.000
On the Alaska coast the sal
mon packers, towns, and settlers
use 40,000,00 feet of timber a
year from the Chueach and Ton-
pass National Forests
WE CAN UNFURL
OUR BANNER
moat triumphantly when wall
papor is considered. If you aro
looking for ordinary wall paper
don't como horo wo don't carry
it. Our designs aro unusual
our grado of papor Is unsurpas
sed artists of reputation havo
conceived our designs they aro
n work of art and an ornament
to tho homo,
Remnants during Sale at
19o a bundle un.
m
GRANT DECISION APPEALED
Petition Asks That Form of De
cree Be Changed, Giving Rail
road Everything Except Land.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 8. Appeal
was taken today In the federal
district court by the Southern
Pacific company from the recent
decree rendered by Judge Cbas.
E. Wolverton on the decision of
tho supreme court In the Oregon-California
land grant case.
The particular point of the de
cree objected to as stated in the
appeal was that declaring that
tho railroad possessed no prcs -
ent Interest in the grant beyond
$2.50 an acre as orginally grant
ed, and that the timber on the
lands and the minerals therein
are now subject to disposal with
the lands. The railroad con-
tenus tnat tne supreme court
did not contemplate such a con-
structlon and claims ownership
of the timber and other natural
resources on the 2,300,000 acres
of land.
In the appeal the supreme
court Is petitioned to change the
form of decree so as to give the
railroad everything but the act
ual land.
DAIRYMEN PREPARED TO
FIGHT BUTTER TRUST
Agricultural College Will Put
Staff on Men in Field to Aid
Creamerisa of the State.
flnrVflliitf. Ore., Jan., 0, "UD -
less country creameries Call udM few other Plftrkj pp his
given protection against unfair Unflv '
. f i ! .t 1 J f, ""J. -
competition uiey are uoomeu,
declared J. D. Mickle, state dairy
ottri r rrri Annimiocirtnai HaftY
and food commissioner, before
tlon, today.
The dairymen of the state are
tlon here in connection with
Farmers.' week.
in .rpsnonsn.tr,he ilairv com -
. . t i n :
llshing co-operative creameries
Mint- will "hiifk tho hnrtfir rniRr."
The formal plan of organiza-
tion as submitted admits to
membership only co-operative
creameries that Is, those or-
ganized and controlled by actual
dairymen. It provides for a cen -
tral office In Portland, and for
the standardization of butter
as to quality. A manager is to
be employed who will manage
the central office, keep in touch
with conditions, and lead the
fight against what the dairymen
call unfair competition.
The board of directors Is to
include not only co-operative!
creamery representatives, but
the dairy and food commissioner
or the head of the agricultural
missloner's assertion fliat large the circuit court aganist A. H.
city creameries represent a com- :Bossen of Springfield, for the
blnation, which intends first to coiiection of $116 whicli he al
squeeze the country creamer-, legeg is due Mm on severai as
ies out of existence, then be- signed claims. In the complaint,
come the dictator of prices to the piaintiff alleges the defend
the dairymen themselves, first ant owes M a Bressler for $45.
steps were taken toward estab- oK ariA n1sn nwi!! to at. n. Bres-
college dairy department or the to a railroad crossing accident
director of the bureau -of mar- in the two years ended June 30,
kets- , . 1 1915, despite the fact that gates
The central organization Is to ; Were down and warning bells
be a stock company with a cap- j ringing. This is shown in a re
llal stock of $15,000 to $25,000 'ort of tne Southern Pacific
and a sinking fund will be estab- company which reveals that
llshed to aid weak creameries during the period mentioned five
In time of stringency, or in the hundred and twenty-five cross
event of price cutting competl-, ing gates were broken by drivers
tlon. The extension division of ;who risked life and limb for
the Agricultural college is to put S1)eed an(i carelessness. The
a staff of men into the field to;gamuie taken by the drivers is
aid in the co-operative creamer-1 obvious. To be broken the gates
ies in standardizing their pro-j had to be down and the gates
duct. are down only when trainB are
Each creamery entering the apporaching. The railroad com
central organization Is to be le- pany spends over $100,000 annu
gally bound to stand by It. There 'aiiy to operate and maintain
are 31 co-operative creameries ; cr0sslng gates but feels that tho
In Oregon now eligible to mem- actiVe co-operation of motorists
bership. !anti other vehicle drivers is im-
It was stated that publication perative if crossing accidents are
of butter quotations of the cen- to be minimized.
tral organization on tne same
basis as present authorities will
be insisted oh.
Timber trespass on the Na
tional Forests is no longer im
portant in amount or character.
The incentive has been largely
removed by the availability of
National Forest stunipnge under
free use or reasonable terms of
sale, New trespass cases are
usually the result of uninten
tional error In regard to title or
the location of boundaries.
A million and a half railroad
ties aro now cut from tho Nftr
tlbnal Forests yearly.
ANGARY
1IPLES KM
10 DEATH
William F. Wallace, cousin of
Mrs. James Cox of Springfield,
was gored to death by a deer in
Hendricks park, Eueene, Sunday
hetweon 10 anrl 11 n'iAntr. Wnl-
!iace wh0 jjad bcen employed by
tbe park commission to feed the
deer in the enclosure, went to
the pen at the usual hour this
morning with a bucket of feed.
He was alone, and no one wit
nessed the attack, but from Indl-
ications, it appeared that he
opened the gate, set down the
bucket of feed and was struck
from the rear by the deer.
It Is supposed that he was in
the act of arising when the deer
struck him, piercing the artery.
Wallace then ran out through
the gate, the deer following him.
Prints on the ground showed:
where the man and deer had
fought all the -way down tha
hill to the gully, where Wallace's
body was found at 11 o'clqcK
by a neighbor. The toody was
warm, indicating that he had
died Only a short time before.
i A physician, who live near
the park, was called. An exam
ination showed Wallace died
lf - rtm lnaa nf Wnnrl Thnro
, Wauace's father-in-law. John
Eaton a Civll War veteran, died
. .. .
yesterday, and the funeral lsset
for tomorrow afternoon, it is
probable that both funerals will
hpW at thft RJim Hrrn
i
I A. Middlston Starts Suit
i : i i t -i i.
i uuuiu.iiiiiaixiiHiiitiiii.ifi
sler on a seCond cause of action,
r.n xt r. i i i t
sen owes him ?3 and t0 John p.
t'otoia st rk ah nf thRA nlnims
have been assigned to Jliddleton
for collection
rhrpo I immr' Dealers Pav Fines
, T c LuCkey. Chas. Hadley
ml Ppnrl r-nnrtwricht. the
Qlenada saloon men who were
arested Wednesday on the
charge of selling liquor to a
minor, Friday afternoon entered
, pieas 0f guilty in the Eugene
justice court and each was fined
:i5o and costs, which amounted
tn $M in the. three cases.
Five hundred and twenty-five
vehicle drivers on the Pacific
'r-nRt did their hest to break in
Recently the Southern Pacfic
had observations taken at var
ious crossings throughout the
state to observe how careful
drivers were in apporaching the
tracks. Of 17,021 motor vehicles
observed, 11,836 drivers or 69V
per cent looked neither way be
fore crossing the tracks; 27 per
cent looked in both directions.
The almost increditable number
or 3301 or 19.3 per cent of tho
total number of drivers observed
ran over the crossings at a reck
less rate of speed. But 35 driv
ers stopped their machines be
fore crossing the trackB to see
that 119 trains were approaching.