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VOL. 1. THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1891. NUMBER 24.

A DARING SCHEME.

Bankers in Xew York Attempt.

the

. Most Startling Deal Since

Great Black Friday

Horrible Blundering bv a Nebraska

SheriffThe Jackson Corbett

"X Fight was " Xo Contest."

New Yobk, May 22. A financial arti- -

cle in the Telearam savs : "Ten hankersin Wall street each put up 60,000

iniak- -

ing ii total of 600,000 wrih winch to paythe interest of f15,000,000 in gold whichthey are going to buy and bold for sixtyday. This syndicate intends to compelEngland and Russia to pay a handsomepremium on gold they buy or leave it inthis country . It is one of the simplestyet most daring deals that has been at-

tempted since Jay Gould and Jim Fisktried to corner gold and brought on thatdav which is always referred to as " BlackFriday."

GENERAL COLTON'S ESTATE.

ms Mother and Sinter Reenter iO.OOOtram It After Seven Year. Waiting.Sax Francisco, .May 22. Master in

Chancery S. C. Houghton today rendered j

his decision in the case of Abigail andMarthr Col ton, respectively mother andsister of the late General Col ton, againstEllen Col ton, widow of the deceased. ,

The suit was brought seven years agoto compel the fulfillment of the terms of

the will relating to provisions made forthe complainants." Afura considerablelitigation the matter was referred tomaster in Chancery.

The estate is valued at over sevenhundred thousand dollars. The reportawards seventy-fiv- e dollars monthly toeach of the complainants for living expenses, and finoVthat by the terms ofthe will there is due them including interest about twenty thousand dollars.

fKBSBYTEBIANS IN COUNCIL.

IMscnsslaa of the Confession of Faith IsDodged for this 1 ear.

Detroit, May 22. At the Presbyter-ian general assembly this morning thereport of the committee on confession offaith was read by the chairman, Rev.William C. Roberts, president of tneLake Forest university. After readingthe report it was moved that it be sentdown to Presbyterians as recommendedby the committee, and - the committeecontinued to make a final report to the

- next assembly. The motion was unani-N- .mously adopted and the great debate is

- over this year so far as the general as-

sembly is concerned.

HORRIBLE BLUNDERING..

A Rope Breaks and a Murderer has toae Strung up a Second time.

Bbokeb Boivk, May 22. Albert Hav-enste- in

the murderer of William Ashleyand Herman Bolton' was hanged at 1 :30this afternoon. .. When .the trap wassprang there' was a slip, a groan.- - andthe body fell to the ground, the ropehaving broken. Havenstein, hall con-scio-

at the time, was picked up by thesheriff and depcties and brought backto the gallows. The rope was doubledand the trap again sprung. This timehis neck Vas broken and death was

painless.

Failure and Suicide.Memphis, Tenn., May 22. The Hill

Shoe company failed yesterday andWilliam .Vilaa Hill presideut of thecompany, immediately after committed

He was a nephew of exVilas. The failure, of

the firm is directly due to the failure ot.the Lynn DavisShoe company.

A Brigand Wants Cuba Annexed. j

XT V " I (h) 11 1iw iuu, .uny j ue vuunuLricrttnfl VannAl fiariMu ; haa idaopff aManifesto declaring Cuba annexed to theUnited States, and setting forth the j

grievances Cuban people have againstsnsJn Thnnmi lamsHon i heina idelv!circulated here, in Florida and the At-

lantic states and through Cuba.

Will Have Cash to Pay Pensions.Washington', May 22 Secretary Fo'

ter said this morning that he did not ex

lct any difficulty in meeting the quart- - j

pension payments, falling due June4th, as the available cash balance at thattime will go beyond the amount required.

Kentucky Republicans.Lexington, ,Ky - . May 22. The repub

lican state convention nominated A.Wood for governor. A resolution wasafljted to endorse Harrison's adrainis-irano- n

and party in congress for an elec-

tion law which will give every citizenr jual rights at the polls. "

The Notorious DetectiTe Arrested.Washington, May 22. The chief

I Kist office inspector has received infor-mation ol the. arrest today of detectiveftominic : Comalley of Xew Orleanscharged with opening and destrovintr i

,i"addressed to Jiminv Carroll the :

Ljigilist. .The Jaekson-Corbe-tt Fight. ;

San Francisco,,, May 22. The tight !

James Corbet t and Peter Jack-t-j- n

for a purse of ten thousand dollarsst the California Athletic club last nightwas declared "no contest" at the end ofthe sixty first round. on

May Takes Oral by Force. 1

Citt or Mkxico, May 22. The mili-

tary are still guarding the Pacific Mailcoal lighters at Acapulco for fear that theEsmeralda may attempt to take coal by is

I. re.Besflrau the Story.

Pabis, May 22. The SiecU today re--a

(firms the truth of the reported Jiata. iVement and says the Cluiian steamer

1- to bo taken to a United States portt nd an embargo is to be placed on her.

Oar Next President's Health.Xgw York, May 22. Secretary Blaiue

is now able to be np and abont the houseMad the doctor says his complete recov-

ery U only a mattisr of a few days,

TICY1XG TO ritOYE A FOItG KR.UavlH Will Contestant Claim the Writer

of the Instrument Ih Known. j

BUTT, Mont., May 2(1. The Davis!; wjn contest set for todav had hardlyopened when Warren Toole, counsel forcontestants, tiled two motions, one for acontinuance, the other for a suppression01 ctTiaiu Hiiiuuviis mKt'u in lowa. insupport of the first n affidavit of HenryA- - '8 i'etl petting forth the recentdiscovery of the identity of the hand- -

! writing in which the alleged will is writ--ten, with that of J. II. kduy, a grandson

; of James Davis, one of the witnesses tor.he ttHll Th wiunlm-iti- - PTtAiirfa tn the

-- phraseology and spelling of the will.asproved bv photographic copies of theletters. This discovery was only made

Monday, and delay is now import- -ant the contestants to secure

i fIirt.r svidence.Eldv was a resident of Davis county,

la., in 1880 to 1S83, and did business andcarried on corresiiondence lor JamesDavis. He signed James Davis name tolutfaM aant t. tdp!.inu iiui-tril- It. la al- -

leged the will was not made by the late j

Judge Davis, but was written sulsequent ;

to the death of James Davis and' Job ;

Dh. is, and that the will and signaturesare the work of Eddy. Time is neces-sary to complete the chain of evidencenow discovered. This whs not opposedby the proponment of the will ana thecase was continued until June 22. Thegreat array of counsel here now willleave at once. Colonel R. G. Ingcrsoll j

is among the counsel for the contestantsand came here with his wife anddaughter.

REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS.

Rough Characters Rule In New Towns '

on the Great Northern Extennlon. ;

Mrnt M.iv 20 .Irthn wil- -son, a former resident of Helena, and ngentleman of known integrity, arrivedFrom the Flathead county today andreports a reign of in thatsection. W ithin the ast few months '

3000 or 4000 people have stampeded touiat country in aovance oi me ooom ex-pected tion the arrival of the GreatNorthern Railway Western extension.Two new towns, Columbia Falls andKalispell, have suddenly sprung np. anda million dollars' worth of lotB sold inthem.

Among the motley population is ularge contingent of very tough characters.Mr. Wilson reports .that acts of violenceare of frequent occurrence. Three menwere killed within a few miles of eachother, on Monday, the day he left, al-

though he did not learn their names.One was an innocent workman in ColterBrothers lumber camp, a man havingtired at one of the proprietors, missinghis aim. The second was killed in astabbing affair on the east fork of theColumbia river, and the third corpse isthat of a carpenter shot in ColumbiaFalls. But one man is under arrest.The nearest telegraph station is Ravalli,distant from the scene of violence 100miles, and details are meager. Officersol the law are few in namlter. and ranafford little protection.

OPENED TO THE PUBLIC.

A Dakota Reservation at the Disposalof Settlers.

Washington, May 21. PresidentHarrison today issued a proclamation,opening to public settlement abont 160,-00- 0

acres of land in the Fort BertijoldIndian reservation in North Dakota.This carries out the agreement enteredinto December, 18S, lietween the com-missioners on the part of the UnitedStates and the Aricarees, Gros Ventresand Mandan trib?s of Indians on theFort Berthold reservation, pursuant toan act of congress approved May 15,lbSii. The proclamation sets forth" thatsatisfactorv proof has been presented tothe president that acceptance and ofconsent to the provisions of the amendedact by the different Indians has been ob-tained.

of- It further notifies all persons

to particularly observe that a certainportion of the said reservation not cededand relinquished by the agreement isreserved for the allotment and reserva-tion for the said tribes, and all personsare warned not to go upon any lands soreserved. All that portion of" the reser-vation lying north of the 48th parallel,and all that portion lying west of thenorth and south line, six miles west ofthe most westerly point of the big bend forof the Missouri-river- , south of the 48thparallel' is declared opened to settlementand subject to disposal as provided forin section 25. act of March 3, 1891 .

FROM SPOKANE.

Dishonest Express Agent Confesses.Spokane, May 20. Martin Wallace,

agent for the Pacific Express Companv,ti8 afternoon vLsited Wa880n whS wa8'

arrested and committed to jail last nighton the charge of stealing money fromthe company, while on the Tacoiua and inMulhin run about two weeks ago, andsucceeded in obtaining from him a com-plete confession of his crime. Therewere two packages of money stolen, hesaid, one was to a Xew York firm andthe other was- - to an Omaha house. Hesecured ' from each package ! 600. He??8 tnat voia oetection ne aeetroyea

emilo--at the end of hia to feoa.

ana since men nas Deen in niaing at tneresort of Kittv Miller. The wholeamount, he says, was spent in the housewhere be was secreted.

Young Hearst's New Yacht.Xew York, May 20. There is being

completed at tbe yards of the HerreshofTManufacturing company of Bristol, R. I., up

what is to be one of the most palatial asyachts afloat. It is the property of W.R. Hearst, son of the late Senator Hearst.It is expected she will be ready to slideoff the ways in aont ten days. The inlaunching is to be an important event

.1 i. : . .. i . e - i ...:hitiiu a ujkciowu oi in w nursethe ceremony. When completed, if the i

vncht comes up lo contract papulations, i allHearst will lake her to the Pacific coast"nere wiinoiu uouiu, in ini oi ppeeaana beantv nlie will stand withoutlliMir

The West (litre Company Again Kurd.Porti.axjj, May 20. .1. B. Bridges,

the well-kuow- n contractor, yesterday alcommenced euit in department No. 1 ofthe state circuit court against the WotUliore Publishing company and others to j

recover i2fb lor tialance dueon contract afor erecting the new HVsf ttliore buildingWater and Columbia streets, and to

708.08 for extra material furnished. Theplaintiff states that he took the contractfor erectingthe building for ? 12,417. Hereceived 9,600 on account, leaving abalance due him of $2,867. The $708.08

for material not specified in the con-tract.

Catholic Teachers Restored.Wasaingtos, May 20. Secretary Xo-- !

ble has directed the commissioner of j

inuian analrs to restore sisters AngwicaO'Callaghan and Xincenta Couglin totheir former duties as teachers of thegovernment school of the Menominee willreservation in Wisconsin. The superin-tendent and matron of the school werenot restored. It is understood that thisaction was based on the conclusionreached by Inspector Cisney, who inves-tigated the trouble, but whose report thecannot at present be made public.

STILL A PBISON'EK.

The Eomeralda not Allowed to Get Coalat Acapulco Though her Otttcer try

to gret it by Trickery.New York, May 23. A Washington

dispatch savs: "The coal bunkers ofthe Esmeralda are still empty. Official:idyices received by the state departmentshows however, her officers still havede;signes upon the Pacific mail steainshpcoal pile. They are growing desperateand are uotubove trickery to accomplishtheir object."

A dispatch from our vice consul atAcapulco states that they came ashoreyesterday morning and represented theyjust received word from Iquique that theItata matter was settled satisfactorily to'all parties concerned, and in the light ofthis information begged to be allowedto receive coal in order that they mightreturn to Chili. They did not get anycoal, however as the consul did not bite,

murder will out.Arreat of One of the Murderers of Wil

liam Rarhour;Portland, May 23. The police are

still maintaining a reticence about thearrest of the first of the two men atButte, Montana, for the murder of Wm.Barbour of Lebanon, whose body wasfound in the Willamette river on May3d. ti : ... . i

chain of evidence against the men hutw'" not now Te lne names for the rea- -

son that the third man ia not yet appre- -

bended.It is also thought by the police that

tne men arrested are he parties whobrutallv dered Greenwood and wife-

llrar ""I"- - vaaiuruiu, uui wiuier,

A PROFESSOR RESIGNS.

He Takes Exception to the Suspensionof Other Minister.s

Pittsbubg, May 23. Rev. McGurkin,of the Reformed Presbyterian Theologi-cal Seminary of Allegheny, announcedhis intention of resigning the chair oftheology and history in that institution.His, reason is that seven ReformedPresbyterian ministers have been sus-

pended for voting at political elections.In his letter of resignation he says: "Ihave been forced to the conclusion thatthe individnal conscience of the Ameri-can citizen should he allowed to decideas to his duties in the casting of his bal-

lot for the right rulers."

Vigilantes Receive Their Deserts.Dunnings, Neb., May 23. A white

party of vigilantes who have jut cap-

tured a cattle thief named McAlvey,near here, and were bringing the pris-oner to town last night, they met an-

other party of vigilante. The night wasvery dark and as each party mistook theother for the thief fire was opened by bothsides and before the mistake was dis-

covered Jndge Aikens, treasurer of. theconnty, and McAlvey the cattle thiefwere kiLed. Xo arrests have beenmade.

The Star Rubber Company In Distress.Tbb.nton, X. J., May. 23. Tbe Star

Rubber Co., is in financial difficulty.The counsel for the company said thatowing to the contraction of the credit,

the company's liabilities were morethan it can meet at the instant. Secre-

tary Bell, he added, had informed himthat the company could pay two dollarsfor every one it owed. The liabilitiesmay foot up to half a million of dollars.

Will Not Employ the Leaders.Scottdalk, Penn., May 23. A large

number of coke men have been applyingwork, but in every case where a

leader or an active agitator applied hewas refused employment. Indicationsare that fully one thousand names of theleaders will be placed on the black listand with such a large number idle it isthought a possible strike might be againrevived.

Revolution In Cordova.'Bcenos Avbes, May 23. The state-

ment that a revolution had broken outthe province of Cordova is confirmed.

There was firing in the streets of Cordo-va, the capital of the province of thatname, on Thursday and Friday. It isbelieved that the revolt is Instigated byleaders of rival factions in Buenos Ayres.Troops were engaged In quelling thedisturbance yesterday evening.

Caterpillars Stop Railroad Trains.Mankato, Minn., May 23. All the

trains of the Milwaukee road this morn-ing were delayed seven miles outside thiscity by millions of caterpillars whichcrawled upon the rails. . When ground

their remains made the wheels slideif the rails were greased.

Not Guilty as Charged.Greknsburg, Pa., May 22. The jurythe case of Captain Loar, and depu-

ties charged with murder at the More- -

wood r,ot8 returned a verdtct acquittingthe defendants.

Went to the Springs Too Late.Xew York, May Ti. Henry Shelton

Sauford, States minister tolielgium and late delegate to the Brussels

anti-slaver- y conference, died ThursdayHealing Springs, Ya.

Burned to Death.Minneapolis, May 23. This morning offire in the house of Felix Lawlor burned ofdeath his daughter aged 6 and an in-

fant son. His wife was seriously burned.

Postponed Payments for Twenty Days.BrnNos Ayres, May 23. The cham-

ber of deputies has adopted a bill post-

poning payments of bank deposits fortwenty days.

Returnrj to Work,Scottsdale, F Jti., May 23. Tbe. Blrikf, fho ihlv broken and re.

ports indicate thti ten thousand mengo to work on Monday.

A Statue Uncalled In Chicago.Chicago, May 23. The statue of

Lineas, the botanist, a counterpart ofone in Stockholm, was unvailed in

Lincoln park today. - ,

A CRAZY WOMAN'S IEEI.Hang Henelf and Four Children In

Harlan, Iowa.Harlan, Iowa, May 25. Mrs. Christen

Peterson, a Danish woman, and her fourchildren, whose ages ranged from threeto ten years was found hanging in thecellar of their house near here. It isthought they have been hanging thereever since Wednesday. The husbandhad been sent to an asylum about aweek ago and the finding of these bodiesshow that the wife should have beensent there too as she must have beencrazy.

PLAYED IN HAKI LICK.

Variety Actor in Seattle Is StabbedEight Times.

Portland, May 25. A special to theEvening Telegram from Seattle says:At daylight this morning a bloody fightoccured in the Elliott house in which J.Leonard a variety clog dancer wasstabbed iu the shoulder and abdomeneight times. Leouard is not expected tolive. His assailant is not known andthe wounded man is not in a conditionto tell who stabbed him.

THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE LAW

The Supreme Court Decides that ItConstitutional.

Washington, May 25. The UnitedStates supreme court today upheld theconstitutionality of the original packagelaw passed by congress and it also heldthat it was not necessary for Kansas to

a prohibitory law after the passage of the congressional act in order toshut out liquor in original packages.

The Big Embesxler Is Sick.Philadelphia, May 25. City Treas

urer Bardsley is still to ill this morningto aDoear before the magistrate toanswer, to the charge of misappropriating city money. The attorney-gener- al

arrived from Harrisburg this morningwith a warrant charging Bardsley withembezzlement of $446,000 of state moneyand he will probably be arrested on thatcharge today.

Claims More than he Will Ever GetPortland, Or., May 25. In the

United States circuit court today: thecase of John B. Raub vs. tne SouthernPacific was called. Raub brings suit torecover seventy five thousand " dollarsdamages for in juries received, in the LakeLabish disaster of Nov. 12, 1890. Theforenoon was consumed in securingjury. -

Kentucky Loses a Suit.Washinton, May 25. The United

States supreme court today renderedjudgments against the state of Kentuckyin the suit brought by the United StatesExpress company who claimed underthe state law imposing a license tax oncompanies, violating the inter-stat- e commerce clause of tbe federal constitution

'Will Participate on Memorial Day.Washingtgn, May, 25. The president

will take part in the memorial day exercises at Philadelphia next SaturdayHe will leave Washington early in themorning and return in the. evening.

. Blaine Is Better.New York, May 25. Secretary Blaine

was up and about the house this morn-ing. While it is believed he will leavethe city about the latter part of the week,no definite date is yet decided on.

More Sealing Schooners Thau Ever.Ottawa, May 25. The customs de

partment has received a report showingthe number of sealing schooners clearedfrom British ' Columbia ports for theBehring sea this spring to be forty-nin- e,

which is an increase of twenty-on- e overlast year.

Bessie Whitfield's Body Recovered.Portland, Or., May 25.-Th- e body of

Bessie Whitfield, the young lady whowas drowned a week ago last Sundaynear Roes Island, was recovered thismorning at the foot of Stark street.

Took the Wrong Medicine.Washington, May 25. A private dis-

patch received here says that Congressman Honk died at his home in Tennes-see today. A mistake in the medicinegiven was the cause of bis death.'

A West Point Army Teacher Dies In"New York. .

Nkw York, May 25. Col. H. Hendricks, a retired regular army officer,died last night. For 35 years he hadserved as an instructor at West Point.

Weather Forecast.San Francisco, May " 22. Forecast

for Oregon and Washington.- - Light rainsat Portland and Fort Canby.

San Francisco Market.San Francisco, May 25. Wheat,

buyer '91, 1.75. .Chicago Wheat Market.

Chicago, Til., May 25. Close, wheatsteady cash, 1.02; July, l.OOtf .

The regular May term of the circuit acourt was opened this morning. JudgeBradshaw, presiding. The followingattorneys are in attendance : A. S.Bennet, J. L. Story, B. S. Huntington, ifE. B. Dufur, Geo. Watkins, W. H. Wil-

son, A. R. Thompson and J. K. DuncanAlbany. The grand jury i com posedthe following gentlemen': John S.

Schenck, foreman, C. E. Haight, GrantBolton, G. B. Welsh, A. J. Dufur, D. L.Bolton and F. C. Clausen. The forenoonwas occupied in calling the docket.

There is a very little doubt that fall isgrain between here and Fifteen mile andfor eight or ten miles back of the Col-

umbia river in this - county is burnedbeyond the power of rain to restore it.There is no doubt that much of the latesown spring never came up..: Whatgrain was sown early is doing well andwith a good shower of rain within thenext two weeks may make a good crop. toBut the rain must come soon or the cropswill be very light. Eastern ' Oregon,however, so seldom fails' that we won'tgive np till we cannot help it.

THE D. M. R. CO'S. LAND.

A short time ago we published theopinion of H. X. Co pp the well-know- n

land attorney at Washington, on thepresent status of the Dalles MilitaryRoad company's lands. Mr. Copp holdsthat these lands are now properly subjectto entry in the United States land officesbecause they come under the action ofthe late forfeiture bill. It is well knownthat the U. S. land office refuses torecognize applications for entry of theselands, but Mr. Copp advises applicantswhose filings have been rejected to takean appeal to the general land office andoffers to take charge of all such appeals.While it is freely admitted tnat thereare few better authorities than Mr. Coppon al! questions relating to public lands,we think in this instance he' is entirelymistaken in supposing that the landsreferred to have been restored to' thepublic domain by the act that forfeitedthe lands withdrawn for the NorthernPacific Railway. The fact is, the North-ern Pacific never had anything to dowith the Dalles Military Road lands.These latter were withdrawn from settle- -

I nient before those of the Northern Pa'- -

cific. The grant to the Dalles MilitaryRoad company was made in February1867, and the withdrawal was ordered,as will appear by a certified letter inanother column, in December 1869.

The grant to the Northern Pacific wasmade in and the withdrawal wasmade in 1870. The Dalles Military Roadcompany's land could never, thereforehave been affected by the bill forfeitingthe grant to the Northern Pacific. A

forfeiture act is not the measurefor restoring ' to the public domainlands already patented and the DallesMilitary Road company have a patentfor nearly all their lands. Hence Sena--

tor Dolph's bill to have the question oftitle settled by the United States courts.It ought to be well known that thisquestion was argued more than a yearago liefore Judge Sabin, in the UnitedStates district court at Portland whenthe court rendered a decision very decidedly in favor of the company's reten-tion of the land. The case was thentaken on appeal, as the Dolph bill contemplated, before tbe U. S. supremecourt at Washington where it was arguedand submitted on the 6th of March lastby Judge . J. K. Kelley and there isscarcely room for a shadow of doubt thatthat court will decide that the companyhas a legal title to the lands. The writerhas been familiar with these facts fora long time and it no new thing for himto advise people, - ho desire any of thelands in question to abandon all hope ofever, getting them through the U. S.government. We have "neverhad adoubt in the world that the companywould get the lands and we believe theDolph bill was framed to leave the question of title to the courts where itproperly belongs because it was believedthe lands could never be legally recover-ed from the company. Besides all this'the Dolph bill provided that in the eventof the courts deciding against the company all bona fide purchasers of thelands, to the extent of 640 acres shouldhave their title to the lands confimredby the action of the United Statesgovernment. It is very evident there-fore that any attempt to secure theselands through the United States LandOffice or to follow the advice of Mr.Copp . is a useless wast.e of time andmoney.

THE SINGLE TAX.

The letter of Mr. Yates, published inanother column is a very clear exposit-ion of what single tax men mean by"unearned increment" or .the community value of land; that is the value thatthat attaches to land by reason of thepresence of population, but it still leavesunanswered the question that gave riseto this controversy. What the Chronicle still wants to know is how can anannual revenue of $62,500 be raised fromreal estate only, without increasing thetaxes of the farming community in acounty that has a million and a half ofreal estate and : a million of persenalproperty ? If we ,irop the personalproperty and levy the $62,000 on realestate onhv must not land owners haveto. pay the $25,000 now levied on personalproperty In addition to the $37,500 leviedon real estate? In other, words mustnot this levy be raised from 25 mills toover 414 mills, so that, the farmer orland owner who now pays a tax of $25,would,, under the single ' tax system,have to pay over $41.50? This is thequestion and the Chronicle submitsthat neither Mr. Yates nor anyone elsehas yet answered it.' Tbe argument ofMr. Yates, if it proves anything, goes toshow that the community value of landshould be taxed. . This, the Chroniclehas never denied. What we do deny isthat tbe community value of land aloneshould be taxed and every thing else gofree. Here is a man who located on a itpiece of land 40 years ago when it was

wilderness. In course of years it be-

comes an important town site. Theman sold out his interest tor a cool mil-

lion.to

It was all "unearned increment,"yon will- - Shall we not tax him for

his million dollars? And if not, whynot? He never "earned" a dollar of thismoney. The community made it forhim, yet tbe single tax system would let ofhim free while it would tax the man who anhad scratched and toiled to earn themoney to buy himself a home on tbeland so sold,- - while not a dollar of thevalue of such land so far as the purchaser

concerned is "unearned . increment,"but the fruit of his own honest labor. asThere is nothing morally beautiful insuch a system.

It is needless to remind us of the diffi onculties attending the taxation ' of . per-

sonal property and how much, in spite ofthe vigilance of the assessor, will escape astaxation.' In our own state, we are. free

say, the law has never made any"adequate provisions for taxing personalproperty. Meii are allowed to pile upindebtedness sufficient to offset all theyare possessed of and it is no part of tbe

assessor's duty to see that the exemptionis taxed ; but this inimply the abuse ofa principle otherwise fair and just. Be-

cause there are difficulties connectedwith the taxation rf personal property, itby no means follows that it should beexempt. Because personal property issometimes concealed it does not followthat it is right to tax only that whichcannot escape concealment. Here is aman who has 20,000 head of cattle orsheep feeding off the public range.- - Theowner may not have so much as a rod ofland. Tbe single tax system would lethim escape taxation for everything heowns while it would tax the homsteadof the man who is too poor to build apasture fence for his family cow or team,against the depredations of his exemptneighbor. These are not simply inci- -cidents but a part and parcel of thesingle tax system and no amount oftheorizing can make them right.

Mr. Yate Tries His Hand Again.Portland, Or., May 23, 1891.

Editor Caronicle : In considering asimple tax on land values we must bearin mind what these values are and howthey are created. The solitary settler imla wilderness might improve 160 acres toa high degree; but to one who camealong and offered to buy him out, hisland apart from the improvements couldhave no possible value wbHe along sideof him was to be bad equally good landfor the taking up. But if other settlerscome in and surround the first one, andcommence to improve, then the landbegins to acquire a value that is not dueto tbe exertions of any individual, butto the join labors and accumulations ofthe whole community. And should thesituation of the place be such thatpostoffice, a store, a school house andchurch be built thereon and the placebecomes a trading center, the addedvalue acquired by the land 'would, bemore due to the effects of human association. Should the state charter a railroad to tap this point; should individual enterprise erect mammoth factories,machine shops, etc., and the day ofstreet railway, electric lights and costlywater works arrive, our first settler theowner of tbe town site though he toilednot, neither spun, might eventually findhimself a millionaire, under presentconditions, through the operation ofthe great law of human progress . which finds its prime factorsin association. Yet twenty miles awaymay be an individual far more energeticand industrious than the first-name- d,

who has toiled early and late to improvehis farm, yet its value has come up veryslowly, because population is . scantythere, and land still isn't worth verymuch more than the improvements cost.There is of course a natural rent, due tothe superior fertility, the presence ofminerals, etc., but the greatest increaseof laud values is due to population andthe wealth its presence accumulates.The presence of millionaires, their stocksand bonds, to which tbe Chronicle refers, all inure to tbe benefit of the land-holders. All men know that the bring-ing of capital into a country means a risein land values. In 1886, the New YorkSun estimated that $25,000,000 werebrought into Kansas by the immigrationof that year. The consequence was thatlands, which, when the writer was theretwo years before, you' couldn't give away,at once jumped up to astonishing figures,and men who sold out town property became rich through the "unearned incre-ment." Now the money has all leftthat ve country, and popu-lation with it, lands have dropped againto nominal figures. .

The lands of, let us say, any county,will be found on the average to have aneqnal value with the improvements andpersonal property accumulated thereon.The reason being that they get theirvalue from the presence of these productsof human industry and the accompany-ing population. If assessments showpersonal property much less in valuethan the land, it only proves the impossi-bility of a fair and just assessment ofpersonal property that some of it hasescaped taxation. '. Now as it is this verypersonal property and these improve-ments that give value to land, what canbe more fair than to tax these .land val-ues with the burdens of societary gov-ernment.. Tbe values cannot escape theassessor. No man can say of the com-munity value of the land he holds : Imade this." That value is the jointproduction of all ; let us tax it for thejoint benefit of all. Wallace Yates.

.The Portland sugar merchants mustbe the smallest men .on earth. A whileago they got scared to death because theonly firm in The Dalles that buys fromthe refineries was reported as sellingsngar half, a cent a pound cheaper thanthey were. So they clubbed togetherand sent two of their number to SanFrancisco to fix things up with ClausSpreckels and it is to be inferred thatthey got satisfaction for a few days ago

was announced that they were nowselling half a cent cheaper than TheDalles but they are not for the firm inquestion says they are able and willing imeet the Portland merchants at anyprice they may put on.

Blaine's reciprocity scheme is of a con-tagious nature. : Sow comes a representative from San Domingo for the purpose

negotiating a reciprocity treaty. Asextra inducement his government of

fers us the use of Semona bay as a coal-

ing station, etc., which has a very largeharbor. Many European nations are becoming very anxious about their com-

mercial relations with Spanish America,well they may.

The Union Pacific has raised the ratefeed from an irancisco to Astoria

from $2 to $7 a ton whereat Astoriamerchants are mad and charge the thing

haying been done at the instance ofPortland.

The Oregon Blade has a most felicitousway of advising the-- East Oregcmian to beshut its mouth. It recommends it "to Co.closeits extended cavity."

A PROPER APPEAL.

At the last regular quarterly meetingof the business council of Klickitatcounty grange a memorial was drawn upto present to congress urging the refund-ing of $1.25 an acre to all persons whohad paid the maximum price for govern-ment land within the limits of the for-feited portion of the Northern Pacificland grant. It is nothing more thanjust and right that such a rebate shouldlie made. The man who has paid to thegovernment $400 for 160 acres of theselands has simply contributed $200 to-

wards the building of a road that wa'never built, and where the company nasfailed to build the road the $200 oughtto be returned. We advise other grangecouncils to do likewise.

Sex In Strawberries.C. Thompson writes from Warrens- -

burg, Mo.: "I understand there are,among strawberries, hermaphrodite,staminate and pistilate plants. The firstnamed will bear fruit independent ofany other. Now, will the other twobear fruit if placed together, or willeither of them bear if not associatedwith another?"

Staminate and pistilate virieties oughtto stand in alternate rows, or one row ofmale blosomin? plants to four of theother varieties will fructify all there is todo.

Even the herm phrodite varieties inalternate rows will produce sufficientpollen to fructify the entire patch.

The Charles Downing is of this varietyand it has perfect flowers.

Almost every horticultural cataloguewill give the sex of sorts so you need noterr in your selection.

While bridge 113, at which the ac-

cident occurred last Saturday, is beingrepaired, the D. S. Baker is runningnight and day.

The friends of Mrs. Isaac Joles will bepleased to learn that she is improving.

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