Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-10-24
LOvELOCKs ACCUSED.
rhe People Protesting Against the
Horizontal Raise.
LOvELoCKs, Oct. 15, ]

LOvELocKs, Oct. 10, 1891.
Ed. STATE JOURNAL: Our little burg
received quite shaking up q day or
two ago. 1t was not an earthquake
like that experienced in California
about the same time, but the result OF
very large mail from the State Capt.
tai containing notifications TO about
four-ffths Of the tax-payes Of the ac-
tion OF the Star Chamber Board Of
Equalization and Assessors Of q raise
Of from twenty-five to thirty per cent
in their assessments, exclusive of the
horizontal raise on ali property-ex-
cept railroads. The Taxpayers we're
given one days notice to appear and
show cause why the raise should not
be made. The time was so short and
the raise so high that many were
stunned by the shock, and only q few
put in an appearance. The result is
that the railroad will pay less taxes
and the farmer more, though the roads
gets nine-tenths of the profits OF farm
ers. Under such circumstances we
all ought to quit farming and go to rail-
roading. FARMING.
MORE on THE SUBJECT.
LovELocKs, Oct. 10, 1891.
ED. Journal: Grandiloquent Gray
and Horizontal Horton made a short
stop here yesterday. They were not
accorded such reception as men
holding the positions they do should
have had. There was no canonading,
or any thing of that kind. People felt
more like using rope. The horizon
tai raise OF twenty per cent on every
poor devil, whether it was justified or
not, leaving the railroads out, has
caused considerable feeling to exist,
and the sentiments OF the people are
to contest this matter.
Petitions are already being circu-
lated and numerously signed, urging
every taxpayer in the county not to
pay any more than just rate Of tax
alton. Two dry seasons and a hard
Winter, has left this end OF the State
poverty stricken. Everybody is try
Ing 70 get start again and build up
the country, and place it on the same
footing it had been before those de-
seasons came and took away
nearly all they had. Stockmen have
gone in debt head over heels to restore
their ranges. Farmers have done
likewise, and all are pulling for the
prosperity Of the State. During the
last campaign last election, we were
told that the expenses would be cut
down and everything done to lift the
State out OF the rut it had fallen into.
But it seems that Twenty-per-cent
Torreson, Grandiloquent Gray, Equal
ization Egan and Horizontal Horton
have made up their minds to pay no
attention to the campaign promises,
but cinch the taxpayer horizontally,
the railroads, and when |
asked their reason, they say they |
did not understand how the railroad
was situated, and that it is now too
late to remedy the mistake.
People out this way don't think it is
too late and it is possible that in plac-
ing the individual and horizontal
raises they may have chance to ex-
plain something about the methods be-
lore taxes are collected at this end.
Let Humboldt, Washoe, Lander and
all other counties in the State contest
the action OF the Board OF State As
SCISSORS, and snow them under 80 deep
hat none OF them would ever again
raise ther heads politically, or even
have cheek enough to say that they
ever claimed a residence in the State.
SPuRGEON.