Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-06-06

I M. 9. Cayanaugh got rake-off Of
1 ABOUT $500 per acre from his first cut
ting OF alaflfa this season after pay
ing all expenses, and still has q chance
4 fOrtr0m TWO to three more cuttings.
You wayback east fellows beat this if
you can on your 500 per acre land.
| George Chamberlain is now several
laps ahead of either Caudill or Graves
on the improvement question; last
week be had nice picket fence built
/ around his residence property. 1t will
now be In order for the other fellows to
take another hitch in their belts and
l try it again. wouldn't let man liy-
ling out at Projection beat me fixing up.
/ Robert Garvin has returned from his
i Kentucky trip in just as bad condition
as when he left here. Robert is all
/ right in business way but he Just
don't amount to anything when it comes
to capturing real nice Kentucky dam
sci. This is his second trip out there
and he has accomplished nothing so far
las we can find out. He needs some one
ito look after him next time.
/ That crack ball team at Hazelton got
hit put to them about right on Decora-
Etion Day. They matched game with
a lot OF scrub players called the farmers
nine, and at the close Of the ninth in
! ming the score stood six to six and the
farmers had just gotten warmed up so
as to begin to play. M. G. Cavanaugh,
iSDringer, George Chamberlain, Herb
Veltman and F. 8. Welsh constituted
| the farmers nine.
/ We have been hearings good deal
[ about the assessing of different kinds
i n mr. IN Gov
years but it Is not often that we hear
Ianyone talk of the real trouble in this
whole business; in the first place the
law is that everything should be asses.
sed at its actual cash value, and every
assessor when he receives his books If
Ihe will look for it will find the law stat
led just as he should do his work. When
he Is elected or appointed one of the
/ first things he has to do before he can
LIDO any official work is to take and sub.
scribe to an oath to comply with the
law, and this he no doubt does with the
lidea that he is going to do it right, but
: along about the first of March of each
/ year the assessors all oyer the state
Inject at the county seats with the COM
tmissioners and enter into an agreement
to violate the law or in other words
il they fix basis by which they will val.
/ ue all property and they agree to divide
tby three, four or some other figure and
and each assessor sets out to try and
Il get his locality just little lower than
any other fellow in the county. Now
! If we had the laws so arranged that
every assessor would either have to
/ comply with it or pay heavy fine and
.Ithen see that he lived up to his oath
siand enforce the laws not only outside
/ but right in the large cities and towns
i,there would not be half as much kick
ting about taxes as there Is now and
4Iwhile our actual values would be great
lily increased it would have the effect of
/ ilowering the rate, and in the end we
would not have to pay any more nor do
1--WE believe we would have to pay much
klmore than two thirds of what we now
E!pay. Anyway whether 1t is right or
fiwrong we ought to either repeal the law
and let the trustees and county com.
EImissioners be their own law or live up
Ito it, one or the other.