The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-11-04

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owner in the county who is paying
over IS per acre assessed valuation.
He unblushingly states that the as
sessed valuation of Kootenai county
this year is 100000 less than it was
last year, and he says that this reduc-
ton has been made upon timber and
corporation lands. We have direct
from the Assessors record the follow
ing statement, which shows the valua-
zion of Kootenai county for 1903: So
1912; assessed valuation of Kootenai
county for 1904, $6,205, 592, showing
that the assessed valuation for prop
erty in Kootenai county for 1904 is
greater by $728.25O than it was in
1908. When a newspaper makes sucn
false statements as this 1t is not
worthy of credence on any PROPOSE
ton.
Mr.. Logue should read up on the
political history of the county. He
fails to tell the voters that in 1892
a Democratic Board of County Com
missioners fastened upon this county
a bonded Indebtedness of $4,000. is
sued without submitting the question
as to whether these bonds should or
hould not be issued to a vote of the
people, as provided by the constitution
of this state and as decided by the SUI
preme court of this state. He fails
to tell the voters that wnen these
bonds were sold and when they were
offered to be bought at a premium,
they sold them to a prominent Demo
crat of Shoshone county at discount
of $4,000. He does not tell you that
when a Republican Legislature enact
ed law authorizing County Commits
sioners to issue bonds in order to put
the counties upon a cash paying basis
that a Republican Board of County
Commissioners in 1895 issued $4,000
III bonds to take up outstanding war
rants; but that before these bonds
were issued, the question as to wheth-
er they should be or should not be is
sued was submitted to a vote of the
people, and the people, N august,
1895, voted in favor of this bond issue
lie does not tell you that when this
Republican Board of Commissioners
sold those bonds they were SOLD at a
premium and that no middle man got
a commission or bonus for selling
them.
He does not tell you that there are
now pending in the courts of this
state three separate actions against
: three eX-Democratic County Commits
sioners, in which they are charged
with having taken from the county
treasury over $4,000 of public money to
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he point to any instance where any
, Republican Commissioner of or any
Republican official, since the organiza-
ton of the county, has been charged
with acts of this kind. He does not
! cell you that within the past six years
a Democratic Sheriff defaulted to the
, amount of about $4,000, which his
bondsmen had to pay, and that this
2 Democratic Sheriff is now, and has
been for years, a fugitive from the
county, residing somewhere IN South
America. Can Mr.. Logue point to any
instance where Republican officials in
{ this county have been guilty Oh such
E conduct, or where they have ever been
charged with illegal Appropriation OF
public money?
z While Mr.. Logue is harping so loudly
about the settlement of these ta1
cases by the County Commissioners, 6
settlement which fails to materialize
settlement which will ne made &C
cording to law and according to the
decision of the supreme court, which
will soon be handed down; ne fails t
! tell the voters how Democratic
, Board of County Commissioners, a few
years ago, settled a dispute with the
Northern Pacific Railroad Compan.
! about it's taxes without any effort t
' have a trial, by deliberately giving t.
, the Northern Pacific Railroad $4,000 o
he taxes due from it to the county
9 The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
, pany, according to the Assessor
books, owed $11 900 in taxes. A Demo
cratic Board of County Commissioner
stipulated and agreed with the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company that
a would accept $4,000 in full payment O
Z air taxes due from it at that time, an
did accept the $4,000, and $4,000 of tn
peoples money was deliberately hanc
ed back by these Democratic Commi'
70 sioners to the Northern Pacific Raj
Re road Company when the Northern Pr
cific Railroad Company owed ever
dollar of the money II Mr.. Logue
lie ignorant of all these facts, he is [
n be pitied, because of his asininity /
attacking the integrity of the Republ
20 can administration.
ct If he does know of these racts, an