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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1913)
INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE —AND------- LINN COUNTY AGRICULTURALIST VOL. 32. SWEET HOME, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 4, 1913 NO. 2. 12-4 Mulligan TWO LADY COUNCIL GOVERNMENT 0. K. The authentic news that squatters MEN ARE ELECTFD on 12-4 lands will be permitted to WASHINGTONS SURVEY Lady Voters Out in Good Force—Good Natured Rivalry Rules in the Contest Sweet Home elected a full board of city officers Monday. While good-natured rivalry was evident thronghout the day, a deep interest was manifested. Because the'1 councilmen elect failed to qualify within the- time specified by the charter, it was necessary to elect a complete board of councilmen at this time. The charter requires that officers elect shall qnalify within five days after the date of election. The vote as tabulated by the election board follows: For Mayor—H. M. Myer 57, Chas. Lyon 44. For Recorder—T. L. Dugger 15, R. W. Van Fleet 78. For Treasurer—W. B. Thompson 77, Lemuel Tittle 21. For Councilmen, one year—W. H. Goings 31, Dave Doerfer 20, M. J. Nye 52, M. W. Smead 73, E. Post 55, Henry Thompson 59. Councilmen, two years—Mrs. J. A. Thompson 61, Mrs. Chas. Lyon 47, Mrs. L. K. Geil 21, W. H. Put man 34, W. H. Daugherty 59, H. R. Slavens 42. Thanksgiving Dinner G. C. Burnett and granddaughter Mrs. Smith were entertained at din ner Thanksgiving by Mrs. Philippi at the home of Mrs. Catherine Bur nett, sister-in-law of Mr. Burnett. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Slavens, Mr. and Mrs. Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith, Mr. and Mrs. Putman, Jim Walter, Mr. ahd Mrs. Geo. Philippi and daughter. Later in the evening came Lora Nye, Audera Devine, Ruth States, Goldie and Lester Burnett, Lucy McCoy, Vivian Weddle. Mr. Burnett and Mrs. Smith have spent the past six week in and around Sweet Home, most of the time with Mrs. Philippi and Mrs. Burnett. * They left last Friday for Albany and Eugene, accompanied by Mrs. Philippi, where they will spend a few days before going to California for a visit on their way to their home in Illinois. Clean Wheleseme Bed«. Menntain Air Hotel Foster Newly refurnished and painted inside. Tables are supplied with the best the market affords Feed barn in connection with the Hotel..... ........ Beds 25c. Meals 35c, F. B. K napp , FOSTER - manager OREGON $1.25 THE YEAR Holley Items STATE TAX LEVY Delayed from last week A very enjoyable dance was given LARGELY INCREASED Friday night at McQueen’s Hall file on claims to their homesteads under the management of Messrs on December 22, has occasioned Hildreth and Cohorn. First class about 80 difierent varieties of smiles The Compas Used, Though it Was an tpusic was furnished by Jess Cohorn on the faces of the boys in the? and Harley Hamilton. A large township. A glance up and down Old Timer, in Good Hands, crowd was present and the young the trails is convincing that the Did Good Work folks enjoyed dancing until a late filing is ripely deserved by the Mid hour. dle Fork homesteaders. Ye correspondent to the 12-4 Prof, C. L. Malone is attending Government surveyors, who have Teacher’ Institute this week. news column in the Tribune, is nursing his writing hand'this week, just been checking up some of the Mrs. Joe Thompson made a busi as a result of handing a “haymak lines reputed to have been run by ness trip to Sweet Home last Thurs er” on the jaw of one of his fellow George Washington in his days of day. homesteaders. Step down and out chain and compass work, have found A birthdoy party was given Sun of the calcuna, Mike, there’s a them good. day at the residence of Jess Cohorn About 1751, according to tradi new “white hope” in the township. in honor of the hosts birthday. A We hope to receive our next issue tion, George Washington, then 19 large company of friends and of the Police Gazette soon, contain years old, ran out for Lord Thomas relatives responded to invitation ing a full length likeness of our Fairfax the line between what was and did their best to help him re- pugelistic neighbor, Cheer up Chad! then to be Augusta and Frederick member his 43rd birthday. An “Ole” Johnsen has retired from counties, Virginia, this being only a excellent dinner was served. With the chicken business. “Ole” read part of a great deal of surveying music and conversation an enjoy about that Lebanon hen and got which he is said to have been en able day was spent by all. The discouraged. In place of caring gaged »upon at that time. These guests departed wishing Mr. Cohorh for his recent flock he is now nurs two counties were separated from many happy returns of the day. what was then Orange county, and ing a sore leg. Amomg those present were as fol No, Mike is not running a fire the grant to Lord Fairfax was sup lows: Messers and Mesdames department even though his papk posed to extend westward to the Homer Rice, Ecles Murphy, Pleas steeds did scatter several lengths of Pacific ocean. Subsequently these Robnett, James Putman, Roy Gar large tracts were further subdivided “hose” along the trail. rett, Roy Smead Lizzie Murphy, The population of 12-4 has in so that the “Fairfax line,” as it is Walter Yates, Misses Verne and creased considerably in the past two generally known, runs now between Edna Robnett and 0. L. McDowell. or three weeks and nearly all re Rockingham and Shenandoah coun A dance will be given at Mc maining unoccupied land has been ties, with the original Augusta and Queen’s hall Friday night after the taken up during the recent exodus Frederick counties to the south and basket supper. north respectively. of new homesteaders. In the organic act for the forma Charlie Limbrick has been suffer run so carefully in the first place tion of the two counties. or “par that but little variation has been ing from an attack of rheumatism ishes” as they were then called, it found in it. Even without instru the past month, but is greatly im- was required that the line should be proved at this writing. ments it is possible to distinguish a strsight one from the head spring Frank Botts has a new root house of Hedgman river, one of the the course of the line with surpris and a “hired girl.” The “hired sources of the Rappahannock, to the ing distinctness. From the top of Middle mountain in the Massanutten girl” built the root house and’ the head spring of the Potomac. range, the Shenandoah-Rockingham, latter works in fine shape. How Since it was required that the ever, the new “domestic” doesn’t line should be straight it was first or Fairfax line can be readily fol and Frank is thinking of seeking a necessary to get the approximate lowed by means of the. boundary fences dating from earliest days, change. course by building large bonfires on and by the blocks of timber alterna From three inches to four feet of the intervening high points. Then snow fell in the mountaing the fore starting from the top of the Massa tely cleared away or left standing, part of the week and for a couple nutten mountains, the line was run which comes up from either county of days it appeared to be the com- straight away over intervening and stop at the line, like squares in mencment of another hard winter. mountains and rivers toward the a checkerboard. Then if one turns to the southeast the same demarka- Hard rains have been the order of northwest. tions are plain across the valley of the aay since the recent snowfall. Away off across a part of what is the south fork of the Shenandoah, Foster, Sweet Home and Lqcanon now West Virginia there is a large cutting straight through the present will view quite a parade of home rock known today as the Fairfax Page county, which is made of land steaders on their way to Portland, Stone. It is the monument which formerly in Shenandoah county, 'be between now and the 22nd. After marks the southwest corner of Gar longing to the Fairfax grant, and securing a filing and haircut, all ret county, Md., the southeast cor partly from land formerly in Rock will journey back to their respective ner of Preston county, W. Va., and ingham. Thus, as far as the eye cabins and- the reign of baking prominent points in the boundaries can see in either direction, this old powder and sour dough. It - is re in two other West Virginia counties. line shows plainly. ported that an extra force of police A line from Orange court house, The Washington compass, how to have been detailed to report at coinciding with the Shenandoah and be seen at the U. S. National headquarters in Portland on the Rockingham county line, passes museum in the city named for its 22nd. 12-4S reputation for big firs through this Fairfax Stone, which owner, is presumed to be the same and pugelists has gone abroad, evi gives the name to a nearby station, one used in running this line more dently. Fairfax, on the Western Maryland than 160 years ago. The trail to Whitcomb and the railroad. It has been assumed that The Fairfax stone stands as a road from that place to Foster are in running this line, a high peak permanenfmonument. In addition in the worst condition of the season. northwest of Orange court house there are, throughout that section But in spite of this condition, travel was the starting point, and that of the country, various other records from here it was possible to see a has been noticeably heavy of late. of these Washington surveys. For distant peak in the north mountain Ralph Blanchard example, a large white oak which range over the top of the interven stands at the corner of a farm about Our County court may be cen ing Massanutten mountain. li miles from Lost City, W. Va., Washington, of course, used a sured by taxpayers for making a was, according to a persistent story high tax levy, this year. The Cotirt simple compass, and his line could of that section of the country, will not be to blame; for most of not be expected to check absolutely marked by Washington. the lqvy is fixed by legislative action. with that obtained by the govern Survey blazes cut into trees, and The special roadtax levy, is about ment surveyors who have retraced since grown over, have been cut his survey, using high-power transits all the Court has authority to fix. away, and a count of the annual and all the refined and accurate layers of growth over the old wound Agate mounting, gold filled or methods which modern instruments (Continued on page 2) solid gold. Stacy, Lebanon. allow. Nevertheless the line was Increase Due to Legislative Appropriations ‘•■Linns Share of the Burden is Over $150,000 Salem, Or., Dec. 1.—Because of the inability of the State x Tax Com mission heretofore to anticipate state expenditures and make ap proximately uniform levies, the levy this year, according to figures given out by the Commission today, will be the largest in the history of the state. The total assessed valuation of the state is $954,282,374, an in crease of $49,270,695 over last year, and. despite this increase, there will be a levy of at least 5 mills as against a levy of- 1.45 mills last year. The appropriations and other ex penditures of the-last Legislature, which must be paid from the taxes to b& collected next year, are re sponsible for the increase. It is estimated that $4,700,000 will be needed for state purposes. The amount this year was $1,122,214.48. The last Legislature, however, passed a law giving the Commission power to anticipate such expendi tures and as a result levies in the future will be more uniform. The full cash value of all public service corporations in the state is fixed at $182,117,694.58, as against $172,852,451 last year, and the tax able value as apportioned according to county ratios of assessment to full cash values $119,017,202, as against $111,916,498 last year. Railroads will pay taxes this year -on taxable value as apportioned ac cording to county ratios on $84,248,- 677.43 and electric power and street railway companies on $27,710,838.19, Telephone campanies will pay taxes on property valued at $5,233,- 429.66. Of the public-service cor- parations the O. W. R. & N. Com pany will pay taxes on the highest valuation, $35,686,715, the cash value of its property as equalized being $50,256,560. The Southern Pacific Company comes next with a taxable valuation of $25,041,789 and a cash valuation as equalized of $38,028,939, and the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company a taxable valuation of $21,185,339 and o cash valuation as equalized of $35,960,832. The Pacific Telephone & Tele graph Company is given a taxable valuation of $3,687,876 apd cash valuation of $5,916,329. Lecture Tuesday Evening Dec. 9 Rev. B. H. Neibel, corresponding secretary of the Evangelical church will lecture on the above date in the church. The lecture will be free to all. Don’t miss hearing this papular man and his great lecture. Come and bring your 'friends. L. H. Wood pastor All kinds of watch and jewelry repairing correctly done at Stacy’s, Lebanon.