The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-12-14

able of q Wholesale robbery. In Multno-
half what II should be. BY fictitious In
debtedness and other means the state Is
robbed OF several thousand dollars In taxes
which the farmers of the country are pay
Ing In Marion county this year the re.
duction la the assessment was large, the
total assessment, we are informed, being
considerably less than Ia Linn county,
| whereas Il should be at least $4,000 900
more, and Linn county has to pay great
er state tax on account of IL. The present
levy OF mills would have been only 5
mills but for assessment robbery like this.
All OF this extra tax comes out OF the pock-
cts OF the masses through the country.
The next state Legislature might do well
to investigate our present system OF taxa.
ton and do something to equalize matters.
When men worth 100000 pay taxes on
only $1,000 to $4,000, while the honest
masses pay on at least two.thifds of their
wealth, there Is strong evidence that
There Is something rotten In Denmark and
| Oregon too.
The FiCuRgs.-ln corroboratlon OF The
remarks made Friday In reference to
robbery in our assessment system arc the
exact figures in Marion and Linn county
assessments. Here they arc Linn eoun.
ty SsAs4,os7 Marion, S4,4rs.4s State
tax for 1880, Linn county, S7o,,s5.34
Marion county, Si6 1878. The assess.
ment In that county, based simply on
fns.tE 81 4
county alone will be seen thus to rob the
State annually out of about Si2 600. Linn
Is considerably the heaviest tax payer In
the State except Multnomah county. Eth.
er this county Ia much wealthler, which Il
| not the case, than Marion, or else we arc
too honest or they are peck OF rascals.
Now which Il the case.
TRIED TO STAND HiM Er.~Friday even.
Ing about 6;so Johnny Halt was going
home along Ferry Street, on his Columbia
bicycle, when man stepped In front OF him
near the ditch, raised his hand and said,
"Stop, | want your money" Instead Of
stopping, Johnny added steam to his ma.
chine, and the man, rather than be run
over, got out of the way, and the blcy ciist
sped rapidly pas. followed by voiiey OF
| oaths. When out of the mans way Johnny
turned and asked tile would be Asander up
how much he wanted. These men are nat.
| urally towards but once In awhile they
strike person who complies with their re.
quest rather than ruf. any risks. The agent
of bicycles says the moral in this case IL to
always ride 4 Columbia
\ DIsTiScuIsugp LAoY.-Mrs. Henry
StockbFidge. Of Baliimors, Maryland, Is In
he city visiting her niece, Mrs. Judge. w.
r. Lori, says The .SIafesmas. She Is on her
way home from an extended tour In Japan,
from whence sine wrote a series OF letters
descriptive OF the land of the MIkado. its
customs and manners, fos the Baltimore
Amerieaa. These letters, which have been
widely read all over the United States and
copied by many leading papers, have plac.
| cd Mrs Stoekbridge In the first rank of
American newspaper correspondents. She
Is the wife of one OF the abiest members of
the bar In Maryland and the mother Of
Henry Stockbridge. Jr., Congressman.elect
from the fourth Maryland district, com.
priSing Baltimore city.
ALBANY at her city election Monday cas-.
~ s votes. In April Eagene cast 456 votes
nj the city election. We ara satisfied that
the increase in Eugene since that time would
show larger voting population than AL
bany. "-Eugene Guard.
Tho vote cast was $50. probably IS less
than in June, owing to the fac. that our citi-
zens did not turn out. This population OF
| Albany has increased several hundred during
the last year; yet the vote cas-. was sbout ! :
less than that Of the city election Of Dec
1887. Albany's population Is fully 800 more
than Eugene City's.
| ASoI HER RAnRoAp.-A railroad
contemplated from Astoria TO Yaquin
Bay. By and bye there will be "feeder'
from this city to Crescent City and from
there to Tiliamook and so on via Astoria {,
Portland. Such thirg Is not impossible
Grants Pass Courier. Wealso understan
one Is to be built from Salen, TO the moon
! Anybody can build railroads on paper, an
project TO build one from Astoria to A
bany after going the rounds of several ex
changes would be sure to reach from Coo
Bay 10 the Sandwich Islands.
Il OFFICIAL yorE.-The official count
the vote for city officers shows ] n Hof
mans plurality for Marshal to be 10 v
/ A Humphreys plurality for Treasurer, =
5 for Counciimen, p NJ French, First ware
s -: e g Burk hart, Second ward, IS L '
: Deyoe, Third ward, i. For restraining tn
cows from running at large, 6o,as follows
Yes, 2IS no, 1873. There were $50 vote
cast.
SHOOTING AFFRAY-Last Sunday c
: the lower Sinslaw w II Harrington sh.
and perhaps fatally wounded Frank Rol
j Inns. At a preliminary examination befor
Justice Mills, held there on Monday, &c
VI Miller acting as attorney for the stat
0 Harrington was bound overland sent to L,
|, gene and delivered to Sheriff Sloan o
/. Thursday and Is now in jail, whercihe wa
committed without bonds. Eugene .Joara6
ANNUAL ELECTION. The annual ele
It ton of officers of Rescue II. s. l.. Co vi
held last Friday resulting as follow,
{ President,TJ Overman Recording Seer
E tary, George Keeney Financial Secretar
I ii + Merrill Treasurer, E L Power
Foreman, + i Parker rst Assistant, A
chic Blackburn and Assistant, Ounce
Is Propst Tillerman, o II Irvine.
A Cure TRIcKA A very ni.e little tris
Z for small children's party, which DE-
: ocRAT man saw practiced few days az
= is to place some small China dolls
T. small cakes. The astonishment display,
!, when they bite into them is greater thi
= that displayed by an old maid on beir
= proposed to. Try 1t.
!. SAVE Us.-While guarding against t
smallpox something should be done to pi
= vent the Braden-U Underwood combinati
to frr,,, avtx;t1stfrxfs. 1har,, -. :.