i It pxge aroum Kkdfoiu) mail Tribune AN lNDKl'KNlMCNT NliWRPAI'Kn l'UHMHHKD HVRIir AKTK11NOON ISXCICIT RUNIIAT, 1IT TUB MKDKOHD I'lMNTlNO CO. tTlio Democratic TIiiipr, Tim Medford Mull, Tho Mrdfonl Tribune, Tlio Koutli trii OrcKOMlan, Tho Anlilntiri Tribune Offlco Mnll TrlliUlio lltlllUlnp. 25-37-S& Norlli Kir street; phono, Mnln 3021; Home 7S, anOHOlO PUTNAM, K.lltor mid Manner Jjflj3 Knlcrcd ns nrconil-rlftfta mattor n Mcdforil. Orison, timlcr tlio net of Miircti 3, 1879. Offlelnl Paper of tlio City of Moilfonl. Offlclnl lnpr of Jnckson County. BUBSCRxraon rater. Onn yrnr, by nmli 5.oA Ono month, It)' inn 1 1 SO Prr month, delivered ly rnrrlcr In MMfnnt. JncliBonvlllo nml Cen tral Point BO Hntunlny only, liy mnll, per yenr. . S.oo Weekly, r per yonr 1.R0 BWORS CIRCUX.ATXOK. Dully nvcrnRc rtr eleven month end" Idr November 30, mil. 2751. JTull X.nut& Wire TJnlUd Trtuu XJltpntchti. The Mnll Trllmno Is on rhIo at tho Ferry Nowa Rtnml, Run Francisco. Portland Hotel News Stand. Portland. Powmnn News Co., Portlnnd. Or. V. O. Whitney. Sattlc Wash. HEDrORD. ORXOOIT. Metropolis of Southt-rn orepon and Northern California, and Urn fastest Krowlnc city In Orcjron. Population U. 8. census 1910 8840; estimated. 191110.000. Flvo hundred thousand dollar Qrnvlty Water System completed. Riving finest supply pure mountain water, and 17.3 miles-of streets paved. Postnfflcn rKvipt for year endlnp November 30, 1911, show Increase of 19 per cent. nanncr fruit city In Oreiton Ttofruo Tllver Spltzcnncrj: apples won nwcp stakes prlzo nnd title of ' "Applo Xtns of ths World" at the National Apple Show. Spokane, 1009, and n car of Nnwtowns won rirst Prtiir In 1910 at Canadian International Applo Show, Vancouver. II. C ' ' Tlrrt Prise In 1911 nt Spokano National Apple Show won by carload of Ncwtowns, Kogue icivcr pears oroiiRni ninnem nrlccs In all markets of tho world dur inir the past sir year Wrlto Commercial Club. Inclosing cento for postoRO for tho finest commu nity pamphlet ever puuiisnca. JOLTS AND JINGLES By Ad Brown Bless 'Is 'cart, o's always 'appy. Ami 'c always wears a smile, As 'o works at doln' nothln' Down at Washington the whllo Sunny Jim Chances growln' mighty slim, Hack to Utlca for him Sunny. Jim. With 'Is .funny HtUo whiskers Comln' half way to 'Is chin, And a fnce'just Hko a full moon Ornamented with a grin. Sunny Jim! Careful,' man, there'll como a jerk, And you'll "have to go to work, Sunny Jim. C'When a man from Pennsylvania gets out on tho rear end of a train and sings 'Sweet Mario' In Mcdford, it makes mo think tho world Isn't bo large after all," says A. S. Bllton sl'act Is 1 feel so strongly tho same way that next time I go to Philadel phia I'm going to stand In front of tho statute of William Pcnn or Home Itun naker and sing the same tune back at them. Among things wo don't dare print In this littlo flresldo' department 13 Hob 'Flyun's opinion of tho crowd who sat outside the feuco and watched tho auto races. Who country is waiting to learn what affect recent events liave had on tho president's game of golf. Tho Klks have gone to Portland, And tho town seems mighty queer Yet by careful observation Ono can find, perchance, a dear. TRIAL UNDER W CHICAGO. July 9. Interest had bejen increased In the trial of Mrs. Keno Morrow when the case was called " for tho second day'B session by Judge Korston. Thirty women, friends of MrB. Morrow, wore In court and It was understood that they would continue to attend tho BessIonB of tho trial until final disposition wAh made of tho charge that Mrs. Morrow murdered hor husband, Chas. II. Morrow. Seated bosldo Mrs. Morrow, when tho examination of prospective Jurors was continued today, was Iter sister, Mra. Frederick Foster of Los Angeles. Among tho other women who at tended tho trial today were Mrs. William N. Welch of Los Angeles, Mrfi. Nevada Stono of Carson. Nov., and a number of Chicago women, club and fraternity friends of Mrs. Morrow. Tho social prominence of Mrs. Morrow has attracted a crowd of curious spectators to tho court room. "When tho testimony Js heard," doelarod Mra. Morrow today, "there Is nothing that can bo dono, oxcopt to. acquit mo. I am Innocent of this absurd charge, but 1 am glad tho trial Is started." iMpst birds oat' twpv?nn'd6uo-lialf times tJipr.ow yvefglH oyery day, MORROW ira THE REAL MUNICIPAL PROBLEM. SOI 13 few score families own most of (ho city of Nev York. Thoy arc (loseendanls of tJio early settlors, the Knickerbockers. Property to the value of several billions of dollars stand in their names, and front it them derive a constantly increasing revenue, which enables them to lead lives of idleness useless alike to themselves and the nation. The Astor family is a fair representative of this class. The founder of the familv landed a penniless butcher bow Tie was a money-making genius and amassed a great, far tune, which he invested in city property. The growth of l.lie community did the balance, and in the fifth generation we Jinn Vincent Astor, a weak-faced vouth of twentv, h.-'ii to hundreds of millions, and hundreds or thousands of people. . New York presents the incongruous spectacle in a na tion founded as a democracy with equality of opportunity as a cornei-stone. of four millions of people paying tribute to a few score win did nothing to create their property ITow can there be equality of opportunity when millions are taxed for the right of existence for the benefit of thote who are stifled and atropied by the burden of unnecessary inheritance from grasping ancestors? The spectacle presented bv New York is simply an exaggerated reproduction of the conditions in our other cities. "What is it that creates this wealth'? it is the com munity. Let the inhabitants all move out of New York or any other city and the property becomes valueless. It is made valuable solely by the connniunity and increases in value as the community' increases in size. No effort, no struggle, no brains are required by the possessor of city preperty: Just let it alone munity increases its value. German cities recognize like JJusseluort, the property owners must divide the un earned increment with the municipality. They have clothed the municipality with extraordinary power, giving it the right to condemn and seize property at a fair valu ation. The slum districts have been acquired, the unsani tary tenements razed, their sites converted into parks, and their inhabitants moved out into tracts in the suburbs acquired by the city, upon which model cottages have been erected and are rented or sold on easy terms at a nominal profit. Ownership of water, gas, electric and traction systems by the municipality, enable the city to lay out its own addi tions, to offer free factory sites, and provide decent and up-to-date homes for the employes. At the head of these German cities is a trained city manager or mayor, for the administration of municipalities is as much a recognized profession in Germain- as railroad management is in Aemriea. Politics and the spolis system arc eliminated with most beneficial results. Eventually the system will probably be developed to the point where all of the property is owned, by the community and the occupants pays rent or lease a much more equitable state than exists under present conditions. . For the foundation of our system of citv government we must go back to the barbarians of the German forests whence came the Angle and the Saxon in the fifth century. A belt of forest or waste separated each village from the other settlements and within this boundary the township, so-called from the "tun" or fence surrounding it, formed a self-governing body, linked to the tribe which sur rounded it. In the social aethel, in which resided the the clan. Around it grouped the dwellings ot the ceorls or freedmen, all equal in rights. The land in the township was held in common. Every villager had the rigl-t to turn his cattle or swine into the pasture land. The meadow land lay undivided from harvest until spring for common use. In the spring it was divided between the families. Permanent division occurred only in the plow land, but it also was community property and redivided as population increased. The government rested solely in the freemen who met from time to time around the moot lull or sacred tree to make laws and deal out justice, divide the land shares, or prepare for war. From these primitive beginnings have come the law and order of the ETTglish as well as the German race and in modified form, allot' our institutions of government. From it came popular government and representative .govern ment as we understand it. From it lias evolved our own inefficient system of city government. As government is designed and should have for its pur pose, the greatest good for the greatest number, in process of time, it seems as if we will eventually complete the cycle and return to a modified system of common owner ship of municipal property along Jines originally designed among our far away barbarian ancestors in the cradle of the race two thousand years and more ago for what is the sense of justice in taxing millions to tremendously en rich and burden a few to their own handicap and the com munity's Hardship? COMMUNICATIONS I To tlio Editer: In the Mail Tribune of Juno 'JO, tlio editor attempts to reply to u commu nication from the writer wherein the Miiil editor shows hit conception of tho ballot by the use of the follewing: "In other words, a fundamental wrong become a i'utitliinieiitnl right wjieu governments endorse it mid re ject reforms." ' lib, view, evidently, i that voting is an inherent right and Unit every country placing any leBtriction upon H is "rejecting reform." The trou ble is with the view, us voting is on'y a means to an end and that end is to secure the bent government possible, to do which U N necessary to safe guard jhe ballot by proper restraints, abridgements or denials and not n country or slate on earth wherein the frunchiso is exorcised fails Jo ' inSo suBh safeguards 'nfi ficcs adapted to their pcculiur conditions. MHRDFORD AfSTTJ TUTBUNTF), therefore to the earnings of and the growth ot the com ibis fact and in some of them. center was the homestead or aetheling or oerl, the chief of What has he to say regarding the District of Columbia, where there is 350,000 people with no vote what ever except to the few who have a residence outside und may go there to vote? What has lie to say of every equal suffrage state where every fcMinlo ot tho age of 18 becomes her own guar dian with full responsibilities, yet cuil not vote till hlie is 'J1V What cun ho say of Hungary, whcie the voting; at;; is plaerd at the age of 'J(J, or Kinlftnd at the age of 2-1, or of Amorioa at the age of 'Jl, if voting 'is an inherent right? And what could he say to every foreign country placing property qualifiea tious upon voters? What can ho say to some placing educational qualifications upon it if it is an inherent right? Ho says "wo ought to have ad vanced far enough in liberty to ad ifiit alj oili.us n ballot." ' We an swer, the hallot does not give liberty, hut j u I tho opposite, The hallot us-1 MftDFOUP, OH KAON. TUESDAY. JULY 0. 1012 Mimes rcKpoiisihiliiy, oblignlion and duly, and that is to defend llu bal lot east, which imposes all of the du ties of eilixeuship, which imisl cither lie imposed upon our women or else l exempt inns relieve them from I his burden and so eroale a "privileged class among olors," which is n io laliou of a neeessiirv fundamental principal in u representative govern ment. Again he says, "but In n slaudpat mind, who thinks the Tuft platform progressive and to whom established wrong is sacred right, it is right to deny his own llesh unit blood tho par ticipation in government which hb frcelv bestows unon the ignorant lie gro, uneducated foreigner nnd alien Chinese." We ask his authority for saying we ftrclv bestow it upon this ignorant class. ""iJight here is where we cross swords, lie favors that, we do uol. We are opposed to tho heathen Chi nese, ignorant negro, uneducated for eigner, or the uneducated white American having anything to do with the making of governments. We are suffering today from ignorance on the part of the lawmakers and if gov ernments are to ho made and unmade directly by the people, then 1 stand for educational qualifications among voters, the ipiiekcr the better. This may be too progressive for soine of mv critics. Hut to give all women the ballot just hecnusc a mistaku had been made would be like swallowing a potato bug and then taking poison to kill the potato jam. C. K. WIIISIiKII. To tho Kdlter: Will you allow mo to stand up and speak my piece. Oh but you aro such a Irrepres sible kicker. Yes I liavo beeu a kicker and a socialist all down the same old pike, but wo aro all social ists as bad as wo understand so cialism. Socialism Is democracy in Its pur ity. Socialism Is a government of all the peoplo by all the people and for all the people. Well I did not Intend to write an essay on social ism, nut we, tho voters, will next November, glvo the fair daughters of Oregon tho right to help make tho laws that control them never theless Mr. Whistler to tho contrary. My Intention of this article was to give a kick In favor of our meat market men. Would you, could you for an Instant think It right to rent a man from Talent or sonic where clso a stall In our city market build ing to buck with his low prices agalust our own city meat men. Ono morning my wife wished mo to ko to the city market and get somo mut ton for dinner, so down I goes to where thoy sell meat very cheap, so cheap, Mr. Editor that It almost makes' a person's head swim. I tells tho meat man to rIvo me 25 or 30 cents worth of the steak, llo called out 30 cents. I gave him 30 cents, placed the meat In tho basket, ran homo glad with tlw thought that wo would for once have cheap meat for dinner. When I unwrapped tho meat to placo It in tho not Mrs. Itcames says whoro did you get that meat? I says I Rot that pieco of mutton at tho city market houso whoro they sell meat so very cheap. Sho says, did you pay 30 cents for that small pleco of mutton neck? So t got the scales and wolglind tho meat, It weighed Just 2 pounds ex actly. Mr. Kdltor, do you not think our city dads oiiRbt to cancel Hint meat man's license It nppearB to bo an outraRo lo force our meat men to como down In competition with pound, especially in tbeso Reed times when It requires six million dollars to auctioneer a candidate for president at Chicago, and nearly tho samo ammint for tho samo purpose at Baltimore. Yours for Justice D, n. ItBAMKS. Mcdford, July 8. COUNTY EXPERT'S REPORT. Jacksonville, Or.. July 5, 1912. To tho Houorablo County Court, Jackson County, Or.egen: Gentlemen: I havo mndo an exam ination of tho books, accounts- and vouchers of the several county offi cers handling county funds, from January 1, 1912, to July 1, 1912, and report as follews: The County Cleric, W. It. Coleman. Tlio county clork baa earned and collected as fees and deposited in the treasury as follews: January I 413.05 Fobrtiary 370.80 March -'! April 822.35 May 4 75.60 Juno 37.1.10 Total $2265.10 The county clork has also trans acted business Jn tho offlco from Which tho county Is entitled to re ceive: Probato $10.00 Circuit 2G.0P Total - $35,00 I havo furnished tho clerk with an itemized statement of tho items mak ing this amount, to which ho agrees. Tho hunters' and anglors' llccimes Issued amount to $2190.00. which has been transmitted to tho state treasury as evidenced by receipts No. 16302 for $1321.00 and 18627 for $871,00, making tho county clork Hquaro on licenses to July i, 1012. Tho county clerk's offlco Is ex ceedingly well conducted. Mr. Cole man Is in tho offlco practically all official hours and has all county !" -InesH pertaining to jils offl'"' a :i in mind. With the annorlloiiiuciit of tin, tnv Invlf.u tho 1'Cl-lnt Hit loll Of voters, tho preparation for cU'cUoubJdow la thoroughly - fam'lUur, uud and tho exceedingly active circuit court, I ho county cerk or Jackson county has his handn mil. The County Itceonlei", l'ivl Colvlg. The recorders office took lit dur ing tho months from January 1 to July t, I lit 2. u follews: Mouth - Koch, indemnity, January $ IH2.0U $;ia.Bt) Kebruary . . (.18.85 10.00 March ., .. . SOS.75 il.RO April lino. on May r.30.70 1(1.00 June f 111.7ft l.r0 Totals ..$;trr.:t,oo $lli.r0 These fees have been deposited In tlio treasury regularly each month, ah earned, excepting the sum of f 1.00, omitted on account of an er ror In tho addition ot the May earn. Iuku. The recorder's books aie In excel lent condition, Notwithstanding be has many very lengthy Instruments constantly coming to hini for record, lift keeps the work of tho office up to date all the time, seldom a day passing In which his work Is not fin ished, or prncMcully' so. The Sheriff, Wilbur A. .loues Tlio sheriff has collected as fol fel fol eows: Mileage 71.20 Taxes lis follews: Advertising delinquent taxes : 105. IS I'g. 21 No. 2, 190!) tax Ledger, Kee. 71 SO to 75t.t 5$ J. 19 Treasurers ledgers 1 and 2 for 1011 Ditto First half S. P. laud tax.. Redemption certificate No. 00 ?.. Cert. Delhi. 1S1, ISO, 1S7 ' Tax sale rcdom. cert. 525. 526. 527 1905 receipt 5 ICC, 0170, 5171 1905 and 1900 rec. No. C5JC 1907 -Uec. 133SI to 133S7 192,397.90 12.S70.30 2I.23C.S5 10.27 37.9S 17.92 0 1.19 71.00 S.Ofl 19 OS Kee, 1909 -Ilea 2 ledger 5901 to 5972 pugs 15, No. 171.51 19.20 S09.03 3292.33 18.00 LSI. 92 2S.SI 101.09 3171.17 111.10 35.93 1910 Ilea 1910 lice. 1910 Itee, 9550 to 9595 9 COO to 9753 9S7, vol. 2. PU. 10 1911 itcc. 5001 to 5031 1911 Hoc. 5063 1911 Uec. 5050 to 5081 1911 live. 1IC11 to nou 1911 Uec. 11051 to 11091'. pg. 22, vol. 2 . 1911 Ilec. RS0. 932. 2570, pg. 60. vol. 2. ledger Pg. CO, vol. 2. IcdKor. mi-'-Ilee. S02. 2 161, 13671. 2208. 2250. 115C3 to 11597, 11000 11001 to 11010 1911 Uec. 3002 to 3199 1911 Itee. 1001 to 1721 1911 PR. SO, vol. 2, Ilec. 2512, 2595 to 2600 1911 Ilec. 11552 to 1I5S0 1911 Ilec. 1801 to IS 13 1911 Uec. 15001 to 1CC07 .'. 1911 Ilec. 002 to 009.... 5,991.98 2.350.S0 2,501.22 10.37 2.923.79 130.82 303.S5 1.27!.Slt 016.35 1911 Ilec. 1323S . . 1911 Ilec. 13201 to 'tti 'ti! tii 15701 11351 12S0i" 15719 1,703.85 1.9S1.5S 1.580.1.1 .1.879.37 5,972.53 681,60 1911 ltcc. 11100 . 1911 Ilec 12850 1911 Ilec. 3101 to 3600 1911 ltcc. 1201 to MOO 1911 ltcc. 12SD (In part) Total $671,777.91 Amount remaining In sheriff's hands Janu ary 1. 1912 $ 21,095.01 Total $692,872.95 The sheriff has deposited as fol fel fol eows: January, 1912 $ 3.811.31 February. 1912 6,318.09 March, 1912 98.636.91 April, 1912 218.202.08 May. 1912 122.78.1.65 June, 1912 31,886.86 Total deposits $513,058.16 Ilalanco In sheriff's hands July 1, 19J2.... 79,211.50 Total $592,872.96 The sheriff has shown me as fol fel fol eows: On July 2 ho deposited in tho troasury $13,100.19 Ho has shown mo bank statements 'written by tho banks to July 1, 1912. for 03,913.19 Coin and currency and checks and money or ders amounting to 2,150.65 Total $80,099.63 And ho has still other money on hands, but It Is for some Items con stantly coming In and not yet re ceipted for, Tho ten tax rolls for 1911 nnd tho manner In which tho asHessmentii ap pear thereon, scattered through the ten books, is responsible for tho do lays In making deposits, I havo gone, over this matter with tho assessor and have suggested to him tho pro priety of compiling tho assessment against each owner, on one stnto. ment and entering that against him in ono placo on tho roll, I think ho will adopt a policy like this. The shorlff has boon working un der grout disadvantages. Not only Is ho handicapped In this ten roll proposition, which casts nu Immense burden on him and on his assistants, but his qunrters are cramped and there Is Inadequate spaco to turn around in In his office. Ho Is compelled during a portion of the tax collecting pnrlod to havo a Jlno of tho work performed In his residence for want of Hpaco In the offlco. Too much prnlso for tho very com plete and careful record ho has made cannot bo given him. His collection register, on which all receipts aro entered and from which he makes bis deposits or "turn-overs" to tho troasury, Is a book to bo proud of. In tho compilation or this record there Js not a' pilstuko to he found. This Is a go.od record U cop Id pot bo hotter. During tho collecting period, Mr, Joips lias had tho asslstnuro of one (if tho iniHl coiupdcut men about the court h'oiiso, Mr, it. I), Dow, In ov- ory department of tho county Mr. quest hunt which make most persons stop aitd ponder and look )i law aie lo li m easily' answered, llo l In valuable In the sheriff's office during a tax collecting period. In tho office force Mr. Jones has luvd very competent help. , 11 Is dif ficult lo assemble skilled assistance for a short period, but ho baa been fortunate In this rcspeej and Is a good Judge of competent help. To this Is largely due much of (he ex cellent record he has pilt Up. Not only as tax collector, but as sherirr, as well, Mr Jones linn made good, llo has a Jail full of prisoners, most of the lime, and w(lh an active circuit court sending out process constantly ho has till ho ban do, The Treasurer, .lames M. Croiicmlllcr ltccolptii. Halauce on hand January ' I, 1912 t 15,151. la llecelved from Januilry 1 to July 1 us follews: Kioin sheriff, taxes $513,658 15 Mifest rent 1,507 70 Deposits . .. . .'. 17.10 1;'. 'Colvlg, error In ad dition . '.. 0 00 H, T, Harnett, ex-ro- corder 239.50 Hhorirr; mileage ' '.'. I8U.70 Indemnity, cash order 236.01 Indemnity, leeordor .... 95.50 llefuud warrants 120.11 Clerk 2.25D.IO Itecorder . 3,553.0(1 llounty 101.00 Kent, houho 32.00 Harmon, refuiul 3.029.08 Sale property 511.01 Klnos aiid cohId J.3l:.0n Coroner deposits .. . 300.75 l.lquor licenses 133.33 2 per cent Interest on treasurer's uuluucc.. 513.9 1 Total $573,001.06 Disbursements The treasurer has paid out as fol. lews: Special school orders $100,310.70 Special road orders 39,831.66 Special city orders 100,260.70 IIIrIi school orders 0.618. II Ashland armory 6,113.28 State treasurer's flues .... 326.00 One-half state tax for 1912 52,065.50 Indigent soldiers 90.00 Kxperlmeut station, poor farm 1.287.60 Iload fund 100.63 County warrants redeem ed 90.90S.ll Interest thereon 9.062.15 School superintendent n orders 30.3 10.36 Howards to Informers 101.00 Paid from treasurer's deposits 235.65 Total payments $155,5 15.88 Halauce In treasury July 1, 1912 11S.HS.77 Total . . .. $573.60 1 66 The treasurer has shown me his hank books, balanced by the several bnnks to July I, 1912. which show to his credit In banks within Jackson county, after deducting the amounts of outstanding checks: On Juno 30. 1912 $115,138.75 He has shown me and I havo counted cash anil ciirrcnrv amounting to 3,010.98 On Juno 30, 1912. Total $118,119.73 The gain Is due to making change. The county treasurer has received from three Mcdford bnnks 2 per cent Interest on dally balances, aggregat Iiir tho sum of $513.91, which amount ho has deposited In the treasury for several months past. The law does not require a fiduci ary agent of a munlc'pal corporation to exact Interest for money In his hands. The policy of tho law Is dis tinctly ngalnst this practice. Tho practice, should It become general, would probably deteriorate Into mnny abuses of a private nature, and with teas to tho public treasury In tho long run. The Portland Trust company. I am Informed, allows 2 per cent on tho dally balauccs of all depositors, which Includes the treasurer of Mult nomah county. So far as I am In formed this Is the only Inslnnco out side of Jackson counly where the county treasurer receives Interest on bank balances publicly. In stale treasury finances several stnto treasurers became notorious, and are said to linvo accumulated largo fortunes by privately loaning tho state funds remaining In their haui)s. This Is ono of tho abuses to which the practice leads, and tho pol. Icy of tho law dlMcourages this prac tice. Thoro HComB at tho first glance no good reason why a treasurer should not receive such Intorest. Jlut this proposition will not stand scrutiny. If the public money Is. to bo loaned out at 2 per cent and county war rants aro outstanding at 6 per cent, It docs not require much calculation to seo where tho county would event ually find lis finances. ..,. When tho treasurer receives $1600 In tho general fund, not otherwise appropriated, It Is his duty under tho law to Issuo a call for outstanding warrants, and Mr. Cronomlller has beeu doing this. ' , I know of ono county treasurer In Oregon who habitually calls warrantH In excesH of his general funds on hand for redemption, In order to savo his county Intorest on county orders Which aro slow in coming to Jiliu for payment; but this Is a bad practice. Tor tho reason that ho might find all his called warrnuts coming In at onco. Tho treasurer has plenty of utlvls ors who contend that ho only has to account for cash received, exclusive of lnturest. This Is corroct. Hut thoy go further und claim thut ho is entitled personally to nil ho can make nut qr tho Idle money In his hands, In tho way of Inlorest. I do not bollovo It Ih a good nor a safo practlco for any tronsurer, un less especially authorized by statute, to Jean any county funds, or to re ceive any Intorest thoreon, To Illustrate a form or tho abuse th)s practlco would load to, J will way that Mr. Cronoinlljor has boon ap proached with n proposition to place all tho county funds In a single bank Which would pay hliu $100 a month In addition to bis salary for this fa vor. As county balances aro ordi narily qulto largo, It Js oasy to boo how a bank holding all tho funds, knowing that thoy would bo reason ably Inactive, as lo a largo part of thiiin.' and gelling 8 per cent out of Ibepi, ('.oulil very wol . nuiko IIiIh kind or a proposition. Mr. Crouoinll ler promptly dcclluod this proposl. tlon, ojuKuwom)! Tho counly ruiulii'of Jaokmin coun ty ate mifldy deposited III leu dflfer cut bunks' wllhln Jackson county, K I wero to inakv n tpiggehtlnn along thin line, It undid he fur h treasurer to exact u gunrnuleo bond rroni each bauK In wliloh bo dun led county fluids, Mnny..county treanur els do Ibid, The banks tlinnlMolvcH ordinarily propose H and rurnlHh tho bonds. H In a gcnci'iil eiudoiu, Iteiqiectrully submitted, J II. WI).flOS. fi WHERE TO GO TONIGHT STAR THEATRE Under direction of l'KOPMJ'H A.MUKK.MKNT CO. Perfect Ventilation and Comfort DON'T LOOK at the theriuoiuetnr- Couio wheto It's cool ami look at our pictures, 10(10 I'Vct I'lrM Clufi l-'JItpt UHM) Complete Change of Program Today A Show Full of Action and Lots of Surprises Al Sather The Singer W'ootworths Tho Musicians MATINi:i:S DAIIiY Admission 10c Children 5c ISIS THEATRE JtOOO Keel of I.IcciimhI Pit limy JIOUO oni.v vAt'Di:viiu: in rut: city Admission 10 and 16 cents. IVcd DKSIM'A ami MKKriK - Coin In a hebrew's troubled. 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