Tillamook I. 1MBER MEN WANT THEIR TAXES REDUCED. Cruise Places County Officials in Embarrassing Position >íl. The Portland Timber Co., Luther i. Haak and the Oregon Logging nd Timber Co. presented petitions nd asked the County Court to reduce heir taxes, their reason for doing so hey clajhied they were assessed too N. I I In the I Spring of 1008 the County Zourt entered into a contract with C. I, Clemen ts of Portland, Oregon, to ruise the timber of the county, said .Wnents to employ competent and •eliablcicruiscrs, the county to em ploy checkers and in no case should the difference between cruiser and checker be more than 10 per cent. The approximate cost of the cruise was Clements began work on May, 1908. in section 3 N., R. 6 W., which is in the noitheast corner of the county. It is in this township that the lands of C. H. Wheeler, and Port land Timber Co. are located. In township 1 N., R. 6-7 and East half of 8Htnd in townships 2 N., R. 6-7 and part of 8 West. Clements in checking his cruisers considered they were too low and accordingly made the following notations in red ink on margin of cruise, and which was ac cepted t>y the County Court. “50 per cent.must be added to this estimate,” signed by C. J. Clements. This nota tion is made on each item. The red ink. figur es do not apply to T. 3, N, R. 6 W.BThis curise stands as originally made. The County Board of Equaliza tion -ini 1908, upon the protest of the timbermen affected, eliminated the 50 per cent or the entire red ink notation and also upon the protest of C. H. Wheeler that the cruise was too high, made a reduction of 25 to 30 per cent in Tp. 3 N., R. 6 W.. This continued until'I914, when Assessor Johnson made a re-assessment of the entire county, and in basing a valuation on the timber land it was necessary to rely upon the county cruise. Assessor Johnson based his valuations upon the original cruise, and also included the red ink figures, but the Board of Equalization in 1914 took the same view las the Board in 1908, and “knocked out” the red ink, thereby reducing the assessed valuation in the townships where the red ink figures were added, 50 per cent and reducing the roll $1,500,000. Since C. H. Wheel er was not affected by the red ink figures, his assessment was not re duced, in fact no reductions were made by the 1914 Board on timber lands aside from the red ink figures. The w’hole trouble of the county cruise is in the cruise and the meth- od of recommending that 25 to 50 per cent be added to certain timber sections and net to others, which places the Assessor and Board of Equalization in a peculiar position to know what is best and right to do tinder the circumstances. If these sec tions of timber should have 25 to 50 per cent added to them, then the timber men are not paying their pro portion of taxes, and Assessor John son took the right move to settle the point, but should the matter be taken ¡Oto court there is not much doubt but what the timber men would win put, unless these sections were re cruised which, under the circumstan ces, is the proper thing to do and the timber Mr. Wheeler claims have too high a cruise. There appears to be good ground that some of Mr. Wheeler's timber i« cruise' too high, but nothing can be done this year to reduce the valuation and taxes, and this is the view taken by the County Court, when it reject ed the petitions, which are-somewhat th? same. Below we will give the petition filed by Mr. Wheeler. The undersigned, Portland Timber Company, a corporation, hereby res pectfully petition your Honorable Body for cancellation of taxes, levied for the year 1914, and for its reasons lly states: iid petitioner on or about the of September, 1914, filed _________ County Board of Equaliza tion, a petition praying for a reduc tion of the assessed valuation of lands Mrned by it in Tillamook County, Oregon, and that the petition was re- j Stived by said County Board* of Equalization , but said County Board of Equilization did not notify the petitioner when its said petition would be heard by said Board, and peti tioner relying upon the receiving of guch notice, took no action thereon 1 it was informed that the said Hfounty Board of Equalization had de- ied the petition without a hearing hereon or an opportunity to be heard hereupon, said petition, acting by ^through its President, arranged r a meeting of said Board in the City of Tillamook, and on the 3rd day of Pctober, 1914. a meeting was held in the court house in Tillamook County, Oregon, and there was pres ent the County Judge. County Assess or and the County Clerk, and the resident of your petitioner; and at Headlight. April -15, 1015. I in which ! this time a question arose as to THE PROFESSOR S ESCAPADE. states of the I nion show the rural population was less than ------ o------ whether or not the County Board of 1 Equalization had met and finally ad Play to be Given ty High School at ten years previous. the Gem Theatre. I We have 3,000,000 square m<ee of journed. However, notwithstanding territory—1,903,000,000 ac a s of land. this contention, the Board held a ses- j The Senior play, "The Prcfr ssor«’ We have 878,000,000 acres of land sion, and the question of whether a proper assessment had been made on !>•..ipauv”, better known as “What within our farms, but 178,900,<00 the lands of the petitioner was thor Happe ned to Jones,” will be given acres in this area are mump.’.»ved oughly discussed, and it was agreed April JJ, at the opera home, begin and unproductive. The widespread movement from the that the lands of the petitioner were ning at eight o’clock “What Happened to Jones" is being farm to the cities and towns accounts assessed too high, and that a correc tion thereon should be made, where worked up by the Jefferson High for the decline in products of the by the assessment on the following School people of Portland, has been farm. The corn crop of 1910 was 114, I described property should be reduced given by the Baker Stock Company, 000,000 bushels less than 10 years be for the year 1914. as a comparison:— lies been enthusiastically taken up by fore; it was grown on 14 per cent less South t/s of North 54, Southwest 54 moving picture companies, and has land, 20 per cent less produce and 43 Southeast 54, Sec. 15, T. 3 N. R. 6 \\. been most successfully staged in New per cent greater value. The wheat South 54 of North 54, North 54 of York. The play, which is still under a crop was greater on account of the South 54, Northwest >4 of N. E. 54. royalty, is a high class play of two better yield, but the number of acres on which it was grown was less by and one half hours duration. Sec. 16, T. 3 N. R. 6 W. Following is a synopsis of the play: over 8,000,000 acres. South 54 of N.E. 54, Southeast 54. Ebenezer Goodly, (a professor of 1 The people are growing faster than Southeast 54. Sec. 17, T. 3 N. R. 6 w. and that a value should be placed anatomy), his wife, 'two daughters the crops. There are 1,000,000 arces of thereon which would conform to the and a ward. Cissy, are expecting a , idle lands in Ney Jersey, with 10,000- cruise made by Geo. H. \\ illiams and visit from the professor's brother, ' 000 people near by to be fed. Acres of D. Martiny, cruisers employed by the Bishop of Ballarat, Australia. It diamonds at our doors!—New York Tillamook County, Orego • And re is thirty years since the professor has ' American. lying upon said statements of said seen his brother and none of the fam- j Collier’s Caustic Critics. County Board, petitioner took no ily have ever met him. Secretly the further action. The petitioner now Bishop has been making love, by let Winter ends everywhere on the states that the records of the County ter, to Alvina, an elderly spinster, same day, according to the almanac, Board of Equalization show that the sister of the professor's wife. The professor’s youngest daughter but the almanac ought to know better said County Board of Equalization had adjourned prior to said meeting, is engaged to Richard Heatherly, ' than that. and that the said assessment has not who is supposed to be a very good ' Any American boy can aspire to be been reduced; that by reason thereof young man. When leaving the pro president; that’s the trouble. After everything else has been tried That the market value of timber fessor’s house, however, he drops a lands in Til'amook County has de card of admission to a prize fight. on a baldheaded lawn, you get it a creased and not increased. That tak The professor finds it and accuses him wig—that is, a fresh sodding; and a ing into consideration other timber After much discussion Richard per good wig is extremely expensive. properties in said Tillamook County suades the professor—"In the inter- ■ All the elements are mediums for of like value and location, the County est of science”—to accompany him. carrying on warfare now since fire During the fight the police make a grenades have been put to use has made a much lower assessment, and in levying the assessment upon raid. Richard and the professor es I Mayor Baker of Cleveland says we the property of your petitioner, the cape by crawling over a stable and arc straphangers by nature. Our pre County Assessor has unjustly dis down a water spout. They are follow historic ancestors, however, had tails criminated between the petitioner’s ed by Jones, a traveling salesman. i to help them get a sinch hold. A policeman was near enough to property and other properties of Allies have their eyes on Asia Min practically the same location in value. secure part of his coat tail, but Jones or and Japan has her hands in Asia That the agreement arrived at be gave him an uppercut and got enough major. tween the County Board of Equaliza start to follow Richard and the pro If port and starboard arc to go, tion, ahd the petitioner, was, that the fessor into their house. He demands why hang fast to knots and fathoms? total valuation to be placed upon the protection as "They are all in this”. I Sometimes it seems as if a man 1 timber lands in Section 15, Township A new suit of clothes arrives for the would prefer trying to be independent 3 North, Range 6 West, should be expected Bishop, Jones seizes on on io acres of land rather than trust $26,500.00; on the balance of the them and is mistaken by the whole to the uncertainties of getting and property described herein, the ass family for the Bishop. He thus tem holding a job. essed valuation should be $49,250.00. porarily evades the police. The real Great fault to be found with recent The total tax upon the property here Bishop arrives. Jones and Richard get ideas of peology is that the "reform" in described, according to the ass him to his room. Richard pretends to of the convicted murderer doesen’t essment as it tjow appears on the be his valet and when he is undressed, I seem to protect society from the books for the year 1914, is the sum of Richard bolts with his suit to insure murderer who hasn’t been convicted temporary safety. $3,196.65. and reformed. Petitioner alleges, that under these . A note arrives from a neighboring 1 Our "protest” made to a foreign facts, said assessment and tax was il sanatarium to say a lurfatic wrapped power is something else that doesn’t legally levied, and that the petitioner in a blanket and imagining himself to seem to be heard around the world. will have to protect itself against said be an Indian, has escaped. The Bish- | Monday is sometimes blue because unjust assessment by challenging the op, getting tired of imprisonment, al it is such an exhausting task to hunt legality thereof in the Courts, unless so wraps himself in a blanket and for amusement on Sunday. I the prayer of this petition is granted. comes down stairs. Everyone thinks Is it possible that cinema artists That your petitioner has paid the him to eb a lunatic. missed the opportunities of the Piute The right one is, however, taken by uprising? County Treasurer one-half of the tax 1 es due for the year 1914, based upon the superintendent. The Bishop, find Corporations having first fought the said illegal assessment and valuation, ing Jones’ torn suit under the bed, people to a standstill, and the people but said tax was paid under protest puts it on and being seen by the po having fought the corporations to a and solely with the idea of tendering lice, is taken to the police station. He standstill, it is time, with mutual re to the County the amount of tax tells such a plausable story, however, spect, for both to hold a friendly con- of which, in the opinion of the peti that he is sent back again by the ference. « policeman for further inquiries. tioner, was justly due the County. Love of truth doesn't compel any The professor tells the truth (that one to indicate that he has heard that Wherefore, your petitioner prays that under these facts and circum the real Bishop is his brother). Jones funny story before. Laugh and the I stances, and in view of the agree seeing the advantage, threatens to world laughs with you; say “That sue for $50,000 for false arrest of the ment that was made with the County wasn’t the way I heard it,” and your Board of Equilazation, that an order Bishop, and the policeman begs them left alone. be made and entered in this Court re to let the matter drop and goes out Billy Sunday says that a brimstone mitting to the petitioner the sum of crestfallen. Jones saves Richard and hell really exists. Well, Billy knows $1,546.90, the amount of taxes that the professor from exposure by say as much as anybody does about it. would be due under the present levy ing that he impersonated the Bishop . Could cookery be taught to all men, based upon the assessed valuation as to gain an introduction to Cissy, the some of them could make their o.vn agreed to by the said County Board professor's ward, whom he says he i strawberry short cake exactly as has loved for a long time. Cissy, who . they want it. of Equalization. I now knows the whole story, helps | Next to a good pun comes an un- him out, and everyone puts in a good conscionably bad one; it's the 50 pcr Mending. word for Jones. cent ones that get little appreciation | Cast of characters: , A woman will brave pneumonia for Mending up the old things Jones ................................ Benly Stam. the sake of dress; but a man will do Trying to make them last; Prof. Godley...............Howard Lamar. the same thing for sake of baseball. Everything we value most Richard Heatherly ....Henry Heisel. Dardanclls better take that old Is wearing out so fast. I The Bishop ................ Don Newman. hame, Hellspont. It’s more like it. Mending up the old things, Bigbce ...................... Forrest Erickson. We view with alarm the fact that Trying to make them do; Fuller ........................ Thomas Coates. "commys” and "chinys” used by the Times are very hard to buy I Mrs. Goodley .................. Helen Case. I boys in playing marbles arc smaller The gaudy and the new, Cissy...................... Ccrtrudc Ebinger. than those we used to have. Mending up the old hearts that beat Marjorie ................. Freda Schnuclle. Brotherhood of man might be more with love so long, Minerva ............................. Sylvia Rowe. inviting if it didn't require so many Mending them with laughter and the Alvina ........................... Pauline Beals rules. lifting of song! Helma .............................. Helen Stam. Chautauqu can't see Mending up the troubles, why their Miss McElvaine, who has unusual season isn’t pushed forward as the Trying to make them seem dramatic ability, is working hard with baseball season is. Once again like bubbles the cast, and excellent results arc Peace glimmers on the European Blowing through a dream. evident. horizon. That’s der Tag we’er all Mending up the heartache, waiting for. Mending up the care, Why Food Prices are High. So the spirit will not seem ------o------ So mendicant and bare. Notice to Farmers. One tenth of our total population Mending up the sunshine that used to today lives in New York, Philadel glow so sweet, The Tillamook Lime Products Co., ' And mending all the faded flowers phia and Chicago. Fifty-five per cent live in cities and towns. Of the to,- is ready to furnish ground lime stone life scatters at our feet! 000,000 living in New York State 75 to the farmers. The lime stone is Mending up the places per cent reside in cities and towns. In ground so as to pass a t-6 inch wire Rent and ripped and torn; j twenty-five years New York City in screen. Mending up the twilight The lime stone will cost $5.00 per in population, and creased 3,000,000 Till it turns to sunny morn. during that time over i.ooo.ooo less ton in sacks at the plant. A charge of Making old things over acres of land have been cultivated 3 cents per sack or (ioc. per ton extra Out of all that’s past; throughout New York State. In Suf will be made for the sacks unless ' Days that once were clover. folk County, on Long Island, 248,000 sacks are furnished by the customer I Trying to make them last. Only grain or meal sacks with a close Mending all the old hearts with kind acres have never been touched. weave should be brought as the fine In 1950 New York City will have I ness and with cheer. dust or powder will all be lost if the Mending them with sunbeams to help 19,000,000 people and the United sacks have a course weave leaving 75 per cent of States 300,000.000, to hide the tear! whom will live in cities and towns only the course grains of limestone in —Baltimore Sun. Over 22 per cent of our population the sacks. 1 A set of new grinding rollers are live in cities of 100,00 or more, to per Love, laughs at eugenics, but uphap- cent in cities ranging from 25,000 to being installed to increa' e the capac pily it is compelled to laugh at the 100.000, while over 15 per cent live in ity and produce a finer prxli.it. Address all commun: •.!’•<,m to U. law and proprieties in states where cities of 2500 to 25,000. they get such notions into statutes. all the G. Jackson, Box 413, Lilian.ool". In 1910 2491 counties TILLAMOOK TO SAN FRANCISCO AND BACK 36.50 Return Limit 30 Days. t Ninety Days Ticket, $39.50 « $58.50 TO SAN DIEGO AND BACK. Return Limit 40 Days. Call on Agent Tillamook for full par ticulars. stop-overs, literature, tfc., or on any P. R. & N. Agent for fares from other stations. Pacific Railway^ Nav- Co John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent. Portland, Oregon. uuaiuunvunnnnnilll « 11 m W RESOLVED THAT THE BIG DRoPJ COME IN OUR PRICED WHEN WE F I R 5 T MARK OUR ^GROCER IES. oVR M otto is "QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS." Special Grocery Prices This Week Rex 1(10 per cent Lye—3 cans for 25c. * White Linen Soap—6 bars for 25c. Mt. Vernon Milk—3 cans lor 25c. Burgher corn— 3 cans for 25e. Silverdale Tomatoes—3 cans for 25c. Lily Corn Starch—3 pkgs, for 25c. Royal Club Fork & Beans 3 cans for 25c. Koval Chib Popcorn 3 pkgs, for 25c. Try Ray & Company’s Special Coffee—27c per lb. RAY & CO. GROCERIES, SMOKED MEATS, FRUITS, VEG ETABLES, HAY, GRAIN, FEED. TILLAMOOK, ’ OREGON