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The Dolores star., 1906-11-23

State Game and Fish Commissioners
Woodard has been informed that GER
tain hunters In Gunnison county mis-
construe the law and propose to kill
mountain sheep after January LIST. He
says that section one Of division B of
the new law expressly forbids the kill
ing Of mountain sheep at any time, and
that it will be enforced.
killed at Calnan on the 11th inst
Canute was feeding his team and was
standing In front of the animals, when
they became frightened. The horses
knocked him down and trampled his
PROSTATE body, also drawing a heavy
wagon over him. He died almost in
stantly. Of internal injuries.
A man giving the name of Jack Low
ney, aged about fifty, was found near
the railroad track, about 100 yards
from the depot at Marshall. in Boulder
county, on the morning of the 18th
inst. with both feet crushed by the
cars. having apparently been over
come by liquor. He was taken to the
University hospital, where both feet
were amputated.
John Cleghorn, warden Of the state
penitentiary at Canon City, reports
considerable decrease in the number
Of inmates. In August there were 730
convicts and now there are 603. Not
all of them have been pardoned. Some
have been let out on parole and others
were released because their terms
expired. The apparent decrease in
crime 10 attributed to good times and
"a abundance Of work.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-06
The Live Issues Of the Campaign. H.

ands of logs floating in the kenneoec OF
second growth cutting were examined.
and the average age was found 10 De
$50 years. Consider the investment
that is tied up. The whole trend ID
now toward conservation Of the for
ests by the large concerns. Forestry
experts are working on the problem.
1t means tying up tracts from the
choppers for many years. Only the
little fellows among owners Will De
driven to denude tracts. Acquisition
of Maine woodlands by few big oper,
around. They will meet the people OF
Maine half way on the taxation prob
lem and will pay their share of the
burden. But they have no time to
waste on demagogs who were never IN
cumberland tract and who make
charges without proof.
Il know of a tract of woodland con-
tanning 200 millions of lumber. on
account of natural conditions of wa
tercourses, ETC., only millions can pc
cut, yarded and driven out annually.
The timber was bought at $500 per
standing thousand. The new owners
will sell at So SO from the stump. Looks
like a good profit. But reckon the fixed
and unesca pable charges-interest on
investment, scalers' wages, pay of fore
men and custodians-all at lowest rates,
and at the end of 40 years the thing.
| figured any way you can eSClmate H.
brings the investor out about even IN
case of fire or Otner set pack ne Will
| lose.
ut Is easy to make wild assertions IN
dealing with big questions. But the
men who have invested fortunes in pulp
mills and timberlands, do not believe
that Maine is going to act on any ex-
cept sound business reasons.
LAS to this matter being one in which
politics does figure or ought to figure
or that any one political party can do
more than another to produce sane and
equitable adjustment-out upon such
demagogy!"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-06

which are perplexing factors In arriving
at valuations. There are instances where
tracts of wild land have been advanced
$500 to $500 per acre and from $50,ooO 70
s165, 900 per township in the past -FOUR
ears. These are townships which are
situated near rivers or large streams
and the lumber is easily accessible There
are other townships which have been
advanced only a small fraction, owing to
their location and condition. The board
has labored with one purpose IN View'
and that is, in making the state valua-
TONS to place upon every city, town,
plantation, and on every tract OF Wlia
land, fair and just value; and from all
the information which they are able to
obtain, the members have been unit
in the belief that the wild lands in unin-
corporated townships In the State valu-
alton of 1904 were as fully valued as the
property in the cities, towns and planta-
tons
This great question should be ap-
preached intelligently," says man
who by association in business and
professional lines, is in a position to
understand all phases of the situation.
ITO put the matter in an understand
able way, let me say that some big
dsh have been caught out of certain
holes in Maine lakes Some big fish have
been caught in Maine timberland val
ues. But the man who has now got
his money, as a general thing hasn't
got the timber. To impose equitable
taxes pre-supposes an exact knowledge
of the situation to-day.
"a tax that is so large as to endan-
ger profits means a prompt stripping
of Maine timberlands. This will be
the only resource of the owners.
Maine cannot afford to squeeze her
goose
THE timberland owner doesn't get
q crop from his acres regularly as the
farmer does. Eighty years is the
shortest time in which a spruce tree
can be brought to maturity. ThouS-
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-06

days!
Did they sheer when-the aid hav-
ing been granted-with axe and pick
and shovel with roar Of blast and
clang of hammer, the great road went
rushing through the forests into the
broad fields of Aroostook?
Do they jest because in i've years
from now, the Bangor Aroostook
road will begin to pay into the State
treasury annually, taxes estimated
according to present indications-at
$50, 10000 and over? The property Is
there waiting to take up its tax bur
den. There is good reason to think 1t
would not have been there, If Maine
had grudgingly withheld its hand OF
help in that crucial time when its
action turned the investing scales
Maine did help the Bangor and
Aroostook-even as the Democrats so
merrily cackle.
But what has the Bangor & Azoos-
took done for Maine?
The State assessors books show
that since the construction of the road
there has been added to the valuation
of the immediate country, that the
new line traverses with its life-giving
arties-a valuation accurately com
puted as a basis for State taxes that
the State treasury is regularly receiv-
ing-there has been added. the sum
of s9,556261.00
NINE AND oNE-HAI4F MIL
IIONS!!
And it's all paying taxes.
Taking in the other counties of Pc
nobscot and PiscataQuis. in which
counties the railroad is also operated,
the grand total in increase in valua-
ton is.
OVER THIRTY FIVE MILLIONS!
Gentlemen taxpayers of Maine
neighbors of Aroostook. those are the
Sfr OH about that business deal
that has been exciting so much gusty
Democratic merriment.
Men who have keen business judg-
ment and unbiased views as to what
constitutes good stroke In business.
are laughing at Candidate Davis and
his testers instead of laughing with
them.
1t naturally astonishes the people OF
Maine that they should have raised
such an issue and paid from their no
torious Doodle fund. to have 1t printed
in Maine papers.
tried to fool the people on this issue.
They printed the contract and shut
up as though that was all there was to
the question.
That is the cheapest kind of lying.
Let the story be continued-and
intelligence.
The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
was incorporated under the general
railroad law in 1891.
Aroostook County has an area Of
6,40S square miles. Up to 1891 the
only settled portion of the country
was along its eastern border and
northeastern boundaries. The only
railroads existing at that time
were the Houlton branch built from
Debec Junction in New Brunswick to
Houlton, only three miles of this
branch being within the borders of
the State of Maine, and the Aroostook
River Railroad, extending from the
Eastern boundary of the State to Car
ibou, Fort Fairfield and Pressure Isle.
about thirty miles in all. Both of
these roads were branches of the Ca
madam Pacific Railway, a foreign cor
poration, subsidized heavily by the
Canadian government and operated
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-06

The contract with the Bangor Il
Aroostook railroad has been printed
broadcast by the Democratic party
cast out like poisoned fox-bait to
catch the unwary.
First it was submitted to the read
ers of Maine papers without word
OF explanation as to the reasons that
prompted the legislature of 1891 to
make the contract 1t was accompa-
MED merely by a farrago of Josh"
written by the professional humorist
of the dem ocratic jokers-William r.
Pattangall of Machias--who is always
ready to sacrifice truth to turn joke.
That any voter in Maine could really
be fooled by this thing would be a
practical joke on the people of Maine
that ''Patt" would never weary of
laughing at.
1t is astonishing that the Democratic
campaign manager should have per-
rnitted this silly canard to be pub
lished with the party sanction accom-
panying.
Candidate Davis must have had
small opinion of the intelligence of
Maine voters when he expected to win
votes by attacking the States contract
with the Bangor G Aroostooh.
He knew the truth.
He realized-if he has common
candor-the viciousness of the attack
He was in the Maine legislature of
1903 and as a business man. favored
q similar contract with the Somerset
railroad.
AS politician he mas now pitched
into a method of doing business and
accomplishing results that every
Board of Trade in Maine has followed
uyitb gratifying SlPcpSS-that hum
dreds of Maine municipalities have
adopted in order to encourage bust
ness activity.
Here is the proposition that the
Democrats of Maine asperse:
Aroostook county was standing still
in progress and valuation for want of
a railroad. 1t was Il big proposition
that faced the promoterS-Who were
Aroostook men. 1t seemed almost a
visionary project. Outside capital baik-
ed. Aroostook County went down in
its jeans for SIPS, 00O.00-an almost
desperate venture in finance it seemed
then. The other fifteen counties looked
on with sympathy-fifteen good and
loyal neighbors of that brawny young
Farmer of the North Woods. There
was just one way in which the fifteen
neighbor counties in Names loyal cir
Gle could help their honest and hard
working friend. ArooStook. That was
by rebating taxes on the railroad so
that it's bonds would attract outside
money into Maine and Aroostook.
The legislature had to devise a
method of extending the assistance to
Aroostook that every patriotic citizen
of Maine who read the newspapers in
those days wanted to give our Neigh
Dor on the North. The legislature
after open and just hearing did devise
a way of helping. 1t was by that con-
tract that Candidate Davis and his CO.
n the Snirit of
jest that is so puerile and unfair, when
a great question is at stake.
Candidate Davis and his little bunch
of hired testers laugh at the contract
Did they laugh at struggling Aroos-
took-bound hand and foot by the
iron letters of the Foreign Canadian
Pacific-appealing AroostoolS, entreat-
ing it's fifteen nelghbor counties for
bit of help in its time of travail? Did
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-06
BY a Helping Hand ...
To the People of Ar00sf00k


INCREASED VALUATION
8
PROMOTER GOLD MINES ATTACKS
BUSINESS VENTURE oFMAINE
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-06
The DEMAGOG ABROAD

Candidate Davis in sections where
prosperity and new wealth have great
" Increased valuation, compares taxes
of to-day with the taxes of behind the
times and bewails Increased burdens"
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
The Useful Apple.

An apple eater is rarely either dys
peptic or bilious. The apple is an excel
lent dietetic remedy and corrective
acting benefcially upon the liver. II
will correct sour stomach almost i'm.
mediately. 1t is invaluable in curing
hemorrhoid disturbances, and prevents
the development of stones in the blad-
der and liver 1t is good preventative
of sore throat, and because of the
abundant amount of phosphorus that it
contains, possessing more of this ele-
ment than any other fruit or vegetable.
it is regarded as a valuable brain and
nerve food.
The "apple cure" is now popular in
many of the sanitariums of Germany.
where alcoholic and narcotic patients
are treated.
A diet of apples and apple juice is
provided for those who are cursed with
a craving for opium, drink. tobacco and
drugs, and many remarkable cures have
been reported.-The Healthy Home.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
CHURCH NOTICES,

s.,yices al the Advent church. Sunday
..hoo, ~ ~ m, preaching at 2,a0 and al
n m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening It
59O
unl,arIan church, Rev, y, y. \. osgotl.
Go, Services every Sunday at 1890 Sum
dsy school at has. Theme for next SUE.
day. The Song Of the Well All are vel.
come.
center Congregational church. Rev II R.
,tilas nastor Morning service at 1850
Tbe pastor will preach upon The Love q
Man Sunday school at ii,f5. Evening
service Of song at o'clock, The choir win
"a assisted by a full chorus. Subject Of The
address Daily Help for Daily Needs,
ue,hodlst church, Rev. A. II. Webb.
pastor. SO High street. 1880 a. m the
nasior will preach; has, Sunday school;
4 N m. Junior League; .. M, Epworih
I.earue, D. m, social meeting, preceded ~
!, service Of song. Tuesday evening esss
meeting al 7.30. Friday evening, prayer
meeting at 7.3o.
First Baptist church. George B. Lawf1n
minister. Morning worship 1880, subject u
sermon, Latent Power In the Church. Bible
s.booI 70 m. Meeting Of Juniors 4, all chill
dycn invited. Evening worship 7, subject q
ssrmon How 10 Become a Christian. Mon.
day 7.gO. meeting Of men. Tuesday 780.
Young Peoples union. Paper on Germany
Illustrated by stereopiicon. $50 classes,
Friday, service Of prayer,
The Uniyersaiist Church.
special Lenten service this evening at $50
IN which nil are invited. This will be fol.
lowed by the Bible study class which viii
,ake mn Christ's Idea Of Righteousness, as
nortrayed In the sermon on the mount.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09

have never heretofore paid an annual
! license tax, must have paid by Aprll
| /, 1906 a tax for each year from the
/ time of their organization to the pres
ent time on cease to exist as a corpora
ton on April /. The law requires that
corporation not making returns to
the state tax commissioner or not pay
4 ing the annual tax within the time re-
uuired by law shall forfeit to the state
500 for each days neglect. Mr.. Fits
! holds that this penalty is collectable,
/ hut that the commissioner has the pow
er to waive this and other penalties If
he is satisfied there is Just cause
therefor.
Among the corporations exempt from
this law are those organized solely for
charitable. religious, or educational
purposes. cemetery associations or cor
purations having no capital stock or
deposits. The word deposit is defined
in the statute as including ''all assets
held by any corporation or association
engaged in any commercial manufac-
turing, or other business, carried on in
whole or in part upon the mutual or
cooperative plan. 1t is Mr.. Fits g
opinion that the use of the words,
"other business is TO this intent:
That corporation organized or oper-
ating in this state and having and us
ing in and about the exercise of its
corporate functions any assets or prop
erty of value, and carried on in whole
or in part upon the mutual or co-opera-
tive plan. is liable TO the annual fran
chise tax, unless the corporation is or
ganized solely for charitable, religious,
or educational purposes, or is GENE.
terry association.
able, as used in the legal sense, Mr..
Fits SAYS in another brief to Mr..
Cushman; at is my opinion that a
corporation is solely for charitable
purposes when its purpose and service
is solely to help the needy. the suffer
ing, the unfortunate, to uplift or edu-
cate mankind, and even to alleviate or
prevent suffering of dumb animals, all
so long as it is free from any element
of private or corporate gain. That is,
so long ms all its income from all
sources is used either in carrying on
the work of the character indicated, or
of adding to the plant or equipment of
the corporation and to its endowment, |
which must forever be dedicated to |
the purpose of the corporation. =
The result of Mr.. Fits S opinion on |
these questions will be large increase
in the amount paid to the state treas
iry by corporations In the cases of
those organized previous to 1891, and
never having paid the tax, it will mean
he payment of $150-$lO year for
Is years-while those organized sub
iequent to that date will have to pay
so for every year since their organ
cation. 1t is understood that a num-
,er of local corporations Including the
Valley Fair association, the Vermont
Wheel club, the Wantastiquet golf
hub, and one or more aqueduct COM
'anies are included on the list of those
ffected
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION
w,,n,s.ss a, Resumed Hearings Say ola W
tenders Like the Place

The state Investigation committee ,ssa.nss
wo,L Al The house Of correction at na.'ana
wsdnesday. Superintendent d. 10 hoissS
s'sSamined some witnesses who 'eS'in Ta
:, ,hs last session Of the committee ~
brought out the fact that some had oon" MA
"a in their dates. and claimed thai they "v.
ahou, The prisoners not receiving meu'eA,
tendance. Several former prisoners "s''"''
IN favor Of the institution,
superintendent Morgan requested Mo w.
,o,s.ion Of the committee to subpoena nc',
Dr. Norman seayer Of Rutland on the sfoaha
,ha, he has made certain statements
nnbue gathering about the house OF eor'eo.
lion. which the superintendent, considers ~
detrimental 10 the welfare Of TIE hAtlu'
ION DIR. seayer yesterday refused 70 nc,
CENT the summons defying the authority W
,bs commission which, he said was mol
eour, Of record and therefore without au'
,borI,y TO issue subpoenas, NO further ~
lion was taken. but the attorney'seneral ~
lookine into the matter. DIR. seaver u saiu
10 have declared. at a mass meeting Mon'ss
ey.nIng. that some OF the treatment AZ TO-
cal institution was murderous.
Amons those who testified Wednesuhy
were Michael clifford, Vernon p. Clark ana
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
OLD TIME FORM RECLAIMED.
Athletics Won from Fast Easthampton
AGGREGATION,

The Athletics showed their old-time
form in the game with Easthampton
last Friday evening, winning by a
score of % to Is after an injury to
Ellis early in the game that made
things look rather dubious. The con
test was one of sustained interest, and
at times it was nothing if not strenu-
Gus. Ellis had to retire after few
moments of play on account of a
badly dislocated finger and his place
was taken by Riley. During the first
half both sides seemed unable to con
meet with the baskets and the score
stood to in favor of Brattleboro
when the whistle blew In the second
half the local team slipped it's clutch
into the high speed and was soon 60
ing at pace that made the visiting
quintet appear anchored. Davey and
Stafford were particularly in evidence
in this burst of speed, and the former
cOrralled several goals which gave the
pompadour effect to the hair of the
spectators. Haggerty was somewhat
hampered by the Observation-Disclosures
of his opponent Thompson, who
weighed approximately 225 pounds and
devoted his entire time to preventing
the local forwards laying hands on the
ball. The closeness of the relations
between these two led to mix-up in
the second half and the result of the
mix-up was a black eye for Thompson
"a deserved honor. the crowd seemed |
to think. The summary:
ATHLETICS. EASTHAMPTON.
Ellis, Riley, ]. f.........r. g.,Edwards
Il Inr.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
What to Teach Your Daughter

Teach her that 100 cents make one
dollar.
Teach her how to wear simple mus
lin dress and to wear it like queen.
Teach her how to sew on buttons
darn stockings and mend gloves.
Teach her to dress for health and
comfort, as well as for appearance.
reach her to love and cultivate flow
ers
Teach her to have a place for every-
thing and to put everything in its place.
Teach her to say no and mean it, and
to say yes and stick to it.
reach her to have nothing to do with
incorporate and dissolute young men.
Teach her to pay regard to the char.
acter of those she would associate with
and not to how much money they have.
News.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
Agents Wanted.

we want the Calfskins, Hides, Sheer
felts, Iallow, Bones, ETC., collected II
your vicinity.
Can you arrange to purchase these
goods for us this spring9 We will fur.
nish the cash with which to buv; we
Wili also furnish tags, advice sheets
taxing OFF directions, cloth posters to
enable you to advertise the business
etc, etc.
We pay highest cash prices and keen
our customers thoroughly posted on the
condition of the market and nav the
freight. p"' 'ne
10 any one writing us and mention.
ticulars. Address, p'i
CARROLL 5. PAGE, Hyde Park. VT
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
Truly Rural.

The l7-year-old daughter of certain
Wall street man recently visited for
the first time the fine farm in Duchess
county for the past year owned by her
father. The girl Immediately became
greatly interested in the prize cattle
that. are the especial pride of her par.
ent, and she asked many questions rela-
tive to their breeding, etc.
One evening, just at dusk, as the girl
was standing on the veranda of the
farmhouse, talking to the manager,
there came the low, mournful note of
COW.
Just listen to that poor cow,o said
the girl to the manager, "mewing for
her colt. Harper IS Weekly.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
IMPORTANT LEGAL OPINION
ON QUESTIONS RELATING TO
CORPORATION TAX LAW.
Attorney. General Fits Holds That All
Taxes Due Must Be Paid Before
April or Corporations Cease to Ex'
ist-Local Corporations Affected.

Attorney General c. G. Fits has
rendered an important opinion on CUES.
tions relating 20 the corporation taA
law in response 10 question submitted
last week by state Tax Commissioner
J. 4. Cushman of Burlington. In briei,
Mr.. Fit,s's opinion is that all corpora
tions organized under the general Jaw,
or any special law Of this state prior
"a. Feb. q. 1891, must have paid before
April |, 1906. the annual license TAX
for every wear from 1891 TO the pres,
emit time. failing in which they VIII
cease 10 exist ms corporations on april
/. Also that all corporations, organ
lied subsequent TO Feb. -, 1871, tha'
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
st. Johnsbury March 81.

The Athletics will probably play the
fifth and deciding game of the state
championship series with Company D
of st. Johnsbury Wednesday, March
81, in White River Junction A spe-
cial train will take large delegation
from here, and it is expected that more
people will go to the game than went
to Keene last evening. st. Johnsbury
is not as fussy as Bellows Falls about
the Brattleboro lineup, and Haggerty
will be in his regular position as for
ward.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-09
BELLOWS FALLS TRIMMED
ATHLETICS WON DECIDING GAME
AT KEENE. N. H.. LAST NIGHT.
Score nj the End OF the Second Hair
23 TO li-superior Team Work Won
the Game for Brattleboro-Davey
the Star Performer.

The Brattleboro Athletics put Bel
lows Falls out Of the running for the
state championship last evening IN one
OF the fastest games ever seen IN Tue
state armory in Keene, \. II, The
score at the end Of the second half was
% 20 II in favor of the Athletics,
Fully 200 people, including about 10
from Brattleboro and an equal number
from Bellows Falls, attended the contest,
and excitement was II fever heat from
beginning to end. Superior team work
won the game for llrattleboro. From
the start IL was evident that the team
from the northern part of the county
was up against better basketball than