Amador ledger., 1907-08-16


what they did not mean.
There remains but one more state
ment in the entire quoted article:
The Ledger conveys the idea that
Notice did not file two applications
because he was told it was too late.
The equaIizers claim that he refused
to file them because the board would
not listen to proposition of decker
ing to the effect that If the board
would reduce the assessments of the
Central Eureka and Wildman and
Mahoney, he would forgo the filing
of the other applications held in re-
serve. So far as the Ledger is con-
cerned this difference is not absolute
ly irreconcilable. There may be a
basis of truth in both versions. We
we're not personally present at the
time this difficulty Is alleged to have
occurred. We cannot therefore vouch
for the Ledger's version of what took
place. Our report, however, was
made on the authority OF one who
was present, and we closely followed
the wording of documentary evidence
still in our possession as to the facts
We may have been misled, but if so,
there was no wilfuI perveIsion of the
simple facts on our part. We can
only leave the attorney and the board
to settle the disputed point whether
the two applications were shut out by
time limit, or withheld because of
noncompliance with the proposition
alleged to have been made. We gave
all the material facts, as presented to
US in our version. The Statement of
the improper proposal from the attor-
ney, Is a new matter entirely to US,
One of the most unrighteous acts
we have ever known in the history OF
this county, was that at the meeting
of the equalIzing board herein re-
ferred to, when that body refused to
correct the assessment roll, by strik-
ing therefrom property that was
shown to have been non existent
dlssipated in smoke-several years
ago. This was the uncontradicted
statement of the representative of the
Standard Electric Company - the
heaviest taxpayer in this county.
How tarcial for body to meet for
correcting inequalities in assessment
matters, when such things are toIer-
ated. Where does their right to talk
of injustice and unfairness come in.
In this connection we have received
the following telegram through the
telephone Office: Ledger article on
board Of equalization substantially
correct. Will reply to boards article
on my return home next week.
w. j. MCGEE.
Finally, we leave it with the gener-
al public as to which artlcIe-the
Ledger's or the mem bers of the board
apr oximates the closest to being
totally false, malicious, and with
out foundation, and written by an
unjust and unfair man. Selah.
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The dispatches tell US that ninety
one head of Iowa steers sold at seven
cents a pound, or s95 a head, in
Chicago few days ago. Getting the
matter nearer home, the Keosauqua
"Republican'' says that John A.
Ferguson of Van Buren, county, re-
Gently marketed seventeen head of
steers in Chicago which brought him
SlO7.SO per head at 81 hundred,
while another bunch of seventeen
brought $3.50 a hundred. William
Fritz, another farmer of the same
county, recently sold single wagon
load of wool for s728.O8. There was
time about fifteen years ego when
cattle and wool we're doing pretty
nearly as good as that. Along came
lot of fellows who we're going to
give the country something better if
they could only get "a change.
Enough of the people we're fooled by
their talk to bring about the change.
The cattle fell to So and 81 a hun
died, wool from twenty-five cents a
pound to ten. and sheep from So and
81 head to 81. And it took a long
time to get prices back to those of
the good old times. ssNow there is
another lot of fellows, in these days
OF good prices for the farmer and
general prosperity, telling how they
are going to make matters better if
they can cut down the tariff and give
away home markets to the foreigner.
How many of the people are going to
be fooled this tlme?-Fairfield (Ia.
LEDGER. "