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About Weekly Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1900-1924 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1904)
I! Notes Among; HON. B. Born . in Washington eounty, this state on October 30, 1865, lion. B. I Eddy has resided all his life among the flowers and balmy winds of the Pacific coast. After bis school days, Mr. Eddy became a telegraph operator, which pro fession he followed for af time, then, took up stenography, and biter the law. Admitted to the bar in 1894, while liv ing at Portland, be first engaged in prac tice in- that city, bat in 1896 located in Tillamook county, where he still resides, and where be has been very successful, baring. the principal legal practice in the county, lie has been twice mayor of Tjllamooki cifj', ha." served as deputy prosecuting attorney for the county and prosecuting attorney for the county .three tim"s asschool director bsidg now teh chairman of the board. , lu 1HU was elected to represent his county in the lower house of the Oregon legislature,' and was again returned iu 1102, having Served in the regular ses sionof IttOl and 1903, and the special session- of ltK3. At each term he serv ed' on. the7 committee on judiciary . and in the session of 1SX?3 was chairman of that committee. Mr. Eddy was a prom inent candidate .for' the position of speaker of the house in the session of 11K3. bot was defeated bv Hon. L. T. Harris, i Mr. EVbljy was cousiilered as the Kepublican leader on the floor of DEEDS AND MORTGAGES. HOW THE RECORDS OF TBA27S TESS OF PBOPEBTY AND . LIENS THEEEON Are Kept by the County . Recorder. Over Seven Thousand '. Instruments Piled or Canceled In Twenty-one Montbs. r . - ' .'! Tbero is" no doubt that the Kepubli rans of Marion county have reason to le well satisfied with the mauncr .in ' which the affairs of the county record era office have been looked after dur ing the past two years, and this 'satis- Hon. J. C. Siegmnnd. faction was fnUy evidenced in the re nomination of the 1 present incumbent, "Hon. J. C-Siegmund, by the Republican convention by acclamation, Mr. Sieg mund has turned into the county treas ury from the receipts of his office the sum of seven thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-five cents, representing, the fees on seven thousand-six. huxdred and sixty instru ments filed or canceled during twenty ae months of his term. The records in his office are .in fine shape, carefully and neatly kept, and no one who has ' examined them finds any fault there vith. ", - i :, Mr. Siegmuhd'a education and exper ience was of such a character as to fit him well: for this position, he having tab en tne nosmess curse at WiUamett VTiveTyity and later attended the Jef- u u u i , . , " -.' -, 1 ' ... - ' .. it- it ' . - - v - ? . : i '. 1 - - . I ." ' ; ! - . Hon. B. L. Eddy. MR STlTS DISTRICT the,Men Who Ari Asking for the Suffrages of the Li EDDY. the bouse, and framed and introduced the act known as the "Eddy Corpora tion Tax Law," which passed. . This was a new depart are in Oregon legisla tion and the result of' the law have proven well its wisdom, for it! has yield ed a revenue of over $110,000 in indi rect taxes to the relief of the farmers sad producers of the state, jllr. Eddy also fathered other inportant legisla tion, including the act providing that the statute of limitations ; fhould not rua against the state or a bounty or other public corporation, Mr.j Eddy, was chairman of the bite "Republican state Convention. , Is ; j A wtdl-known attorney of the, highest ! standing of this city, said aj f ew days ago, in tweaking of Mr. Eddy: "He is a man of exemplarv morals and character He has by careful study amT application attained an excellent' stanjding as a lawyer, and is intellectually a growing man in the prime of life, and is capable of rendering to the people valuable ser vice in the otBee for which lie has been nominated. If elected he will certainly make a good record as a ljudge. As the candidate of his party J be n de scrvelly entitled to the full .Republican vote in thin district, and his )nental and moral worth in such as to commend him to the support and mffrageis of every voter irrespective of party affiliations." ferson institute, teaching' penmanship anl bookkeepint; at the latter institu tion for: some time. Ja.lfcy be 'tOok the census" for Stay ton and Mehama precincts, and in the same ylear he was selected , by ,th"e interested farmers to take charge -tf the J effersbn "flouring mills, with a view to straightening out the affairs of that concern. J ; He was engaged for. aout seven years in the merchandising business at Jefferson with A. Tanzler p Co., and for the four years prevlo'ua Jo "his elec tion in 1JM)2 with the same firm at Ger vain. "ilr. Siegmund served as council man and city recorder at Jefferson and later as councilman at Gervais. Horn' in Wisconsin in I86li coming to Oregon in '1375, he has lived all his life since then jn Marion county. He pos sesses the friendship of all j who know him. and the rare qtialitv of retaining frieuds when he makes them. There seems no reason of a doubt j of his re election by a large majority to his pres ent position. ' J TAXES REDUCED. : - 1 THE COUNTY LEVY , IN MARION REDUCED NEARLY SEVEN MTTiTifl The Good Roads Movement Under the Tostering'Care of the County Court. Mile and a Half of ' Bridges Done Away With. ; ; The wor't of Marion county's court for the 'past four years has marked a revolution in county affairs, one might well say, because of the decrease - of the county tax levy, and the many publie improvements made in the face of this decrease: Especially is the work of the court noticeable in the matter of County road improveerant. When the present eonntv judge, Hon. John IL Scott, was elected four years eleven and ago, the county tax levy was; two-tenths mills, while in 1903 the levy lor coqnty purposes . was four and six-tenths - mills. reduced to These are figures that count. , The general state tax has been increased from Jive and seven tenths mills to ei'cht i mills, and the state school tax from fivt to six and three-tenths milbi during the same pe riod. This isin no way the fault of the county? court, as' the county ebnrt has no control at all ever state taxes. ..Imring this time the ceunfy court has kept np general improvement of the court house and grounds, ahd has eon- gj tinued-the otacr county'iniproremcnts. ejla atklttion it aaM one more road work and is .better equipped with road work- Vote Early and OUon. ' Bo NoC DGlay, 2ot nnto the ing tools and machinery than ever be fore in the history of the county. There ha been created at the initiative of, the court an enthusiasm in- road im provement throughout the county that is bringing results, and . 'will be .worth thousands of dollars to the county. As a result of this enthusiasm for good roads, there was about seven thousand dollars worth of volunteer work done upon the publie highways daring the last ear. t The court furnished about three tons of powder to the people in the various road district upon the con dition that the people-of the districts would clean np the stumps, and grade the roada t themselves, which policy proved of great benefit. - ; During the four years just ,paat fill have Seen made on roads all over the eounty shortening the bridge , by a combined length of a mile and a half, and usually by eutting down hills.. This alone, means a saving-of a large sum of money in bridge repair for the future. . A systematic i record of all imple ments, machinery and tools belonging to the eounty is kept, and each road super visor is charged with and compelled to account for alt tools in his possession. This is a great improvement over form er years in caring for county tools and machinery.! A careful oversight is ex ercised over each road supervisor, with a view to seeing that the machinery and tools in his possession are carefully housed aad protected from the weather during the riny season. . " No taxpayer of Marion eounty will fail to reeognize that Marion county's interests have been carefully guarded by the present eounty court, and that there is no reason at all for changing its personnel at 'this time. .To do so would be a slap at honest effort, fair dealing and successful attention to the county's affairs. 'The county is now on a cash basis,' and- has many thou sands of dollars in the eounty treasury. In point of fact no county in Oregon is in a better condition than old Marion. 'Judge Scott has -been untiring in his efforts-in studying . the question , of "good roads", and road inprovement, and has been particularly active in en deavoring to get national aid for better road improvement. This is sure to be accomplished at no distant date. Cramps, Dysentery, . Cholera - Morbus, diarrhoea, ami, indeed, all bowel . com plaints quickly relieved , by Perry Da vis Painkiller, a safe, sure and speedy cure, for all the troubles named. Every reputable druggist keeps a' supply.. Each bottle has fall directions. Avoid" sub stitutes, there it but one-Painkiller, Perry Davis'. 25c and 50c. AN OPEN SYSTEM. PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PUBLIC TRUST," IS. GOOD DOC TRINE. The Accounts and Records in the Office of the County Clerk Are So. Kept As to Be Plain Reading to Everyone. If there is anything the taxpayers of Marion eounty desire to keep .acquaint ed with, it is the condition of their county's finances and records, and when Hon. J. W. Koland entered upon the duties of clerk of the county he adopted a new system of accounts and records which has given most excellent satisfaction. Its simplicity alone eom mends it because any one at all. who so desires, may see by a glance at the coun ty records just how things are with the county. ' The writer called at the office of the clerk a few days since, and Mr. Roland demonstrated the entire svstem. First fit- r- .V. I- Hon. J. he produced a blank voucher form on which all claims against the country are made. Each voucher is numbered and at the end of the month all claims are pre sented to the '. county commissioners' court whieh is the auditing board. These claims are entered in a book, each' under its proper number, giving all data necessary, with the amount of the claim. On action being taken by the court the amount allowed is noted m the proper column, and at the end of the month totals are drawn showing amount of claims received, amount al lowed, amount disallowed, aad balance not artel on is carried forward. From this the amount allowed, together with the claim number goes to the warrant book, showing the aumbcr of tbe war rant, and the name of the funds against which the warrant is to be drawn. The warant then drawn bears the same war ant and claim numbers as. appear in the register, and the recipient of the OOlHSTTT GjJSn3lI).TElS People at the Forthcoming Election In June-Men THOS.. B. KAY.. WATCH DOOl OP, THE TREASURY . DURING, THE LAST LEGISLA ' UVE ASSEMBLY. , Employer of Many Hands. Large Man ufacturing Interest In This County. How He Saved Money to the Tax payers of the State. In selecting " representatives from among the people for the duty of legis lating for the people, ability, tact, judg ment and integrity are j the cardinal points looked for in the man, and .the surest knowledge of the' possession of these virtues is arrfved at by experi ence, wnen a man aas servea ms pev- pie well; has proven mat ne . true ryan. by looking, steadilyafter inose wings inwe f . i Hon. Thos. B. Kay. : - 1 : - -f : interests, and again offers his service in the same plaee, judgment should cer tainly sav re-elect that man. - - - Tfiat'Hbn. Thos. B. Kay worked like a-true friend of his "constituents, en' deavoring at every more to prevent ex travagant expenditures of publie funds, or expenditures that were nof necessary to- the publie good." while f- serving Ma rion 1-ountv.iu the'legislatnre, one neels only to look over the records of the last legislative assembly .to 'satisfy' one's self. He fought and aidel to defeat the sammer normal sf hool bill, which called for an expenditure -of $5000 a' year on warrant must 'receipt therefor on the stub of the wan-ant book. The total of warrants drawn must check with the amount .of claims allowed.! All the fund accounts must also agree with the to tals of the warrants drawn, so a balance sheet could be drewn at any time, j lhe same complete system is in use in keeping account of all' fees received, and this register shows the date such fees are received, number of the entry, and the accounts segregated under the headings of circuit court, eounty court, probate; marriage and miscellaneous. These fees are turned to the treasurer every day, and his receipt taken there for on' the margin of the fee book. A1 separate record of all trust funds in the hands of the county clerk is kept showing the character of the fund, why deposited with the clerk, and its event ual 'destination. These funds include large snis of money at times, and arc usually Deposited in the banks of the city until such time as the court or proper authority directs their pay ment." For,. th purpose of drawing, these funds Clerk Roland had made a special cheque book on safety' paper, which i . ., .: - i t W. Roland. check book also serves as a ledger ac count with the bank, showing from day to day the balances. The party receiv ing ebeqne-for any of these funds, re fipts therefor on the stub of the cheque book. A full set of double en try ; books i also - f kept covering all moneys received and disbursed by the clerk, and the actual' condition of each fond can be .had ;by, reference to tbe ledger, without referring to tbe detailed journals ad records.", , ' - ; - During hi? term to date. Mr., Roland has , drawn 6259 warrants against the connty treasurer, j He also keeps all rec ords of circuit, county and probate courts registration of voters, and has charge of all election returns, the final official count' being made in1 his office. Mr. B ola if d has given such general satisfaction .siaces; has occupied his present puaitfoa. that there -is no .doubt at all of his return It reusing major icy, an tne corning clcctiion. sum - 1 1 i "r iiii ii the ground that Oregon was sufficiently well supplied with normal school. As chairman of the ways and means com mittee be, ia his self imposed watch-dog of the treasury, saved to the state many thousands of dollars. He was most active in securing that the bill for the repeal of the "scalp bounty law under which burden the state was la boring to the tone of 500 per day be recalled from the committee, which had the bill "sleeping," aud that tthe re peal bill should pass, thus saving an enormous amount of the peogIeis mon ey. There yet remains an unpaid de ficiency of something like $33,000 under that law. He introduced and secured the passage of the law requiring sebool districts to, borrow money from the unused school funds, when such loans were necessary, thus putting underi in terest a Urge quantity of unloaned state school money on the best possible security. : Mr. Kay lo lougM ine ap- " j tm' t of am mJ ot useless clerks, ISJe-t .f Urge sum. of ! mmib. - - t to those already em ployed, when an attempt was made to pay, ieaeh clerk a day and a ! half's wages for every day's work. He op- tmsed the bill to amend the game laws, which; amendment simply increased the appropriation by the sum of f l-,uw. Had Mr. Kav been listened to in the matter of the Phelps tax bill, Jt special session of the legislature would have been unnecessary for its. repeal.; .. A native of Trenton, New Jersey, Mr. Kay has lived all but a few months of his life in Oregon, and has been : largely identified with Oregon 's intercuts. He is today the head and manaecr of the Thos. j Kay" Woolen Mills, the employer at a hundred and twentv-five bands, the ! largest; private enterprise in ; Marion eounty. He is interested in xne -weiiare of .hi employes-1"1 aU that is bene ficial to labor. He is a 3oujig roan whose character is above reproach and whoso integrity is unquestioned. On being returned to the legislature, as he no doubt will be, Marion county's in terest,, and those-of the taxpayers will be carefully looked after as in the past. He favors "raising- public money! as far as possible by indirect taxation, and believes in a corporation law that will brinsr Outside .corporations as Contribu tors to the income of Oregonj Under the present law, which he favored,- in eleven months the income to the state has been over $110,000. .; I THE CASH BOX!. IN HANDS Or. STRONG j ABLE BUSINESS MAN. AND Nearly Half a Million Dollars Handled. How the Accounts Are Kept. Divided Into Many Funds. How Cared ror. 1 Among those who have charge of tbe affair of Marion county, none fill a morel responsible position than tbe county treasurer. This post is one that requires either experience or extraor dinary abilitv to guarantee wis proper management. Few people really imag ine the. amount of work necJessary in this office to guarantee that the funds of tins eounty suau be iuiiy accounted for."H" - ' Since Hon. W. Y. Richardson took I charge f thi oftiee less than two years ago he has received into the eounty treasury the enormous sum of four hun dred and eighty-nine thousand nine hundred'and . eighty-four dollars and ninetV-tfiree . cents, and hisi disburse ments have amounted to three hundred and ninety-four thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-eight cents. ? The book keeping necessary to account 'properly for all this -enormous sura bas required t very , careful and painstaking work on the part of the treasurer;' I ' . " These sums of money have been received from taxes, fees of the clerk's office fees of the eounty recorder's of fire, in ties from justices of the peace, sales of county properties,, estrays, and other, miscelbi neons items. While the money has been disburse! for the ac cont of eighty-nine different funds, including general fund, eounty school, scalp bounty, special school districts, special cities, institutes, etc. ; ' That XI r. Kichardson is welt fitted for the post he now occupies any one can see who will take the trouble to call at his office, and note with what neatness and careful system the books" are kept. Everything is as a model of good book keeping and shows the3 hand of tbe capable business man. Mr. Richardson is a native of Oregon, having, been born near Hayton in 1864, where he lived un til his election to the office be so ably fills. I There seems no doubt of his. re election by a rousing majority. SALEM PRECINCT. A Sterling Republican Is the Nominee n of His Party for tne Office ' i f ; of Constable. ' j The candidate7 of the Republican party for the office of constable in this precinct is Mr. Robert O. Donaldson, a man who has resided in Marion eounty since 1376, having come here from his native state, Wisconsin. He settled on a farm south of this city when he first came, and has been engaged as a tiller of the soil for the greater part of the time since. Mr. Donaldson is fifty-three years of age, and a man of family, and is well known in the whole of the coun ty. He has lived in tbe city of Salem for the past four years, and has served part of that time under County A sses sor ' iembke as deputy assessor. Mr. Donaldson is a staunch Republican, and if elected to the office of constable will be found doing his duty on all occa sions. - . - - i " ' You get a vote for every :eent paid ia advance for a NEW subscriber, in the Statesman's 1904 Subscription Con test.: 1 - . liny inn nasi urn rear, and nia anm mi. mmi. i i I' - Raco afl: Once. Who Are Worthy and Well Qualified. HON. GEORGE Whea Hon. Geo."lL, Durnetf was first nominated 'for the judgeship of the third judicial district, which comprises Marion, Linn, Yamhill, Polk and Tilla mook counties, the Albany Herald said of him: "Mr. Burnett is certainly pre eminently qalified for a judge of the circuit court, and is certainly a very fit man to occupy the judges seat.'r The twelve years Judge Burnett has 1 . I s ' v- :i - .. - I-- " ' 1 . r' - ' i Hon. Geo. H. Burnett. , ; been on the bench have only served to state be -exbildted ttio?e qualities vlii.h establish more fully tbe ' fact-as set t denoted the judirial mind, by Wising but forth by the Herald twelve years. ago. ! two cacs; by the court sustaining de His erudition, his knowledge of law, I murrers to his indictments. ) He 'wit his absolute integrity and his unwaver- J first elected to his present pinition in. ing fidelity to the principles of justice 1892, and- jre-elected' in 1'.H. - - are so well recognized that there is rioj Judge Hurnett is a pat grand master question at: all of bis renomination hav-jof tbe I. ). O." K. ot OrrgonJ lm LelJ ing been not only reward of merit, but J several high masonic". oflie-s.- nnd i now alwi made with a view to maintaining Grnad Captain general of. .the tJran'l the circuit court of this "district at its . Commandery of Kuights Tcini4ar of present high standard. lOregon. j i 1 i W. J.; CULVER;; CANDIDATE OT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TOR SHERirr. IS ' A NATIVE. Born in This County. Teaches School, Serves as County Surveyor. Why He Is Pitting and Popular Candidate for the' Office. The popular candidate of tbe ltepub lican party for sheriff' is a Marion county boy lrn and brel, having leea introducol' into this world-about four miles east of Salem, on Salem prairie, therty-sevca years ago. tlucated at tUe public 'schools and at " Willamette Uni versity, Mr. Culver took up teaching for awhile, having directed the young ide-a in this and Yamhill. counties for vari- 1 - ' X- ' Hon. W. J. CulTer. - ous terms.' While' teaching Mr. W. J. Culver studied civil engineering and surveying ,and served his native county as county surveyor from 1888 to 1892. In 1897 and 1898 he accepted an ap pointment under Hon. J. W. Ivey in the" internal revenue service, as insikector of customs in the southeastern district of Alaska, but the organization of new customs districts and changing of tbe law caused a reduction of the force of inspectors, and Mr. Culver went to the Klondike and spent a winter at Dawson working in the mining camps. Returning to Salem Mr. Culver has been engaged in : the practice o( his profession, and, in the examination, of eonnty records, has been much in and about the eounty eourt bouse, which has taught him much of the routine of connty work, thereby fitting him well for tbe exacting duties of the ofljee'to hieh he will be caiiod at the coming election. -. Mr. Culver has been closely identified with the I Republican party in every campaign, and has served it conscien tiously, and laboroiisly in the nonlucra tive posts of precinct committeeman. chairman of the city central eemruittee.i and chairman of" -the county central committee, which post he occupied dur- ng rne past two years, and his orimtna -rc(c H. BURNETT. Jadge Burnett is well known by tij old timers s a son of Oregon; but sum. new comer may not know that be a, bom in Yamhill county on May 9, 185. He was edueateu at Christian collego now the State "Normal school at Moa mouth, and was admitted to the bar U December 1873. In 1S76 he was elected district attorney for this district, suj during bis service as attorney for th tion by his party was but well roeritfj recognition of his services to; his part, and of his fitness for the. otticc of sheriff- ' ' j J " , . . , - I .- "AN OLD TIGER." : J . V -t- i - - Vi' ': : LAST PRESIDENT OF OLD T1GI& ENGINE CO. NO. 2 OF .VOLUN TEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. U ' - - " , ' i ' '.' 1 - : . i j How Tigers Worked Up Entlosi$m in the Past Will Again Enthuse for Old roreman Candidate for Asses- or. . ! How. many t iincs have th boy of Salem enthused over the thrilling hjc tade'of obi Tiger engiue . ais it ' raced through , the streets, the rojs manned by . as-patriotic . a crowd y$ men aad boys, ns ever worked for tbe humans purose of saving lifctr property. Xw the' lat president f that f;imo oM organiuitiutn which helped save rjalem many IhoiiiKands of dollars: worth of projx-rty ji from dest'ruetionVj twice i' foreman and once lxefore its first assist ant. is a candidate lefore the, electors of this county for the. office off county an scssor on the 'Republican ticket, 0'1 the, old boys of "Tiger,, No. 2" will . join with! their ob vim and rigor is whooping; it up. for Hop. Fred iiice is the cami-aign just opening. Mr. Kits is an Oregon boy, born near Scio, Marb t j Hon. Fred Rice. 22, 18G2, but came to Salem with ' parents when a boy. His father opened a blacksmith shop here, and in lS- during the famous Modoc war, wa blaeksmth at the Silet reservation, helping keep the Indians there fr" joining with tbe Modocs. A few ycarj later Mr. Rice's father, who was one of the best-known men in Western Orrg''" w-nt to Klamath reservation. On tueir return to RalemvFTed began ai a bls,K smith and worked for nearly twenty five years at this trade, twelve yer "r which time he' was in partnership 1: it ... -l ; T . Tnloiln. aS'l I 1 III IU V UIIW Pll'. 1 11 . v. 7 a, candidate f flr re-election, r or th t ten vmm Mr. i; ice has neeo See Our List of Prizes cin : Another V.7 V7 V.7