Williams news., 1906-10-27

party voter.
 His assumption that through him ALONE Forest Reserve lands were raised from the old basis of 2Oc to $2.5O an acre is the limit of endur- ance. The Supervisors, Rabbit and Phelan, were democrats and truth ful men," according to him, but he inferentially argues that they had not brains or business sense enough to realize that the creation of the Forest Reserve enhanced these lands to marketable scrip value of several dollars an acre, and that in their ignorance they constituted him the Board of Equalization Verify, it is to laugh. Another question here: MT. Recorder, when the succeeding Board, Rabbit, Cor nish and Martin, also truthful men, had raised those lands still higher, did you not, by letter and by word of mouth, advise the Railroad off cials to resist the increase, saying that their assessment was to hieh in proportion with local assess ments? Did you consider then that you lowed the people of CoconinC county something for the confi- dence they had placed in me-" or was that another kind of "conf- dence gamer"
 In the railroad mileage matter "through me being awake" he again saved the day, "called tn, board together" we desire the ci- tation of his authority on that and got Mark Smith out of bed be- fore the cycle hit him.
 With no apologies for the rail road or its exemption, the truth i. this: While the exemption of tn, right of way of the railroad wa. never questioned, that of the su- perstructures thereon was, anC while this was being litigated, our assessment rolls will show that an assessment of $5,OOO per mile was levied and paid on for many years. In 1898 the United States Supreme Court (Terr. of New Mexico ". United States Trust Go. of New York, ct al., 19 Sup. Ct. Rep. 12SJ held that the exemption of the right of way carried with it the superstructures. The total taxes of the railroad were that year re- duced from $21, 800 to about $6, ,OOO From that year until the Ac, granting authority to sell, they paid on an agreed ASSESSMENT o1 $2, 300 per mile, and under tn, terms of the Act, they are now pay ing TAXES at the rate $175 per mile on 1O6s miles in Coconino county, a total of about $19,OOO. He wont deny those facts and figures of record.
 Competent recorders should keep a fee book, for the law says so. He admitted on the stand that he failed in this till August, 1905, and from that book, which no one bat him. self saw until last September, it cannot be ascertained what fees he received for muniments of title. Competent clerks of the Board should keep an 'Allowance Book which he did not keep, as required by law, till one was handed over to him by the outgoing Board in Jan uary, 1906, and the Cash Items of which he speaks can be found there properly itemized, showing the war rants that paid them and the claims from the Treasurer, properly approved, WERE published. And that is the identical way in which he handled them for years.
 We are surprised that in one breath he should denounce the large corporation that 'is fighting Frank Poison and myself'' and in the next, quote letter of approval (the writer falling into the usual error as to the legal fee") from the President of the Large cor poration" whose assessment was increased, and then decreased. We marvel, too, at the consistency that belabors the railroad with one hand, and reaches to it with the other for an indorsement. But, marveling withal, we are forced back to the issue. Did the Court not say that the fees BELONG TO THE COUNTY? DID TT NOT SAY TT WAS HIS DUTY TO TURN THEM OVER? HAS HE TURNED