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The state herald., 1910-04-22
Land Assessed too Low.

The present manner OF assessing
property in Phillips county does an in
justice to the owner of personal prop
erty. II requires only comparison Of
the valuation placed upon the real es-
tate and the personal property to see
very plainly that the latter is bearing
more than its just share Of taxation.
Tho farmer who owns stock and other
personal property Is under the present
manner OF assessing property. paying
tax on his personal property that should
be paid by the land Of the county. The
system OF assessing particularly fayors
the nonresident land owner who is
holding land In the county for spccula.
ton. OF course he has no personal
property and the farmers Of the county
who are spending money and labor In
the improvement Of their farms. there
by increasing the value Of the land OF
the nonresident land owner. are 80 lib.
ernl that some Of them, at least, insist
on helping pay the taxes tha the non.
resident land owner by righ, should pay.
The farmers OF the county are them
selves largely 10 blame for this dserim.
inntion against them In taxation. There
was n time In the history OF our county
when land was paying more than It's
Just share Of the taxes but for the past
A. l.. Il. =
The state herald., 1910-04-22

In land values. Wherever the question
Of increasing the assessed valuation of
land has been suggested, the most Of
the farmers have ente red a strong pro-
test against such action and the result
has been that the assessor amt county
board have yielded to the protest Of the
farmers and the change has mt been
made. Last year an advance in the as
sessed valuation OF land was made but
the advance lacked considerable Of
bringing the land values up to where
they should be to correspond with
the valuation placed upon personal prop
erty.
OF course, II the farmers insist on
keeping the assessed valuation Of land
where II was last year. In all probabili-
ty their wishes will be respected by the
powers that be and they will be per.
mitted to enjoy tho luxury Of paying
tax that should be paid by nonresident
land owners and spec ulators.
The state herald., 1910-04-22


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ee',''"' 'on"''''ee III Dcn'er ias' oat'
% os,"s -, . y nave peeh no. ''he
VI '"e ''a 'o"n. b"po'ernor ihoh'
10 mas ,, .'e.e WIN cut ana uricu res
-. ~ s..'S".1..' 80. ;.'Hs ~ a.ons 'a"suase
"s ueys'a'e .'',' "'e''De'' ., inc 'es,s'
80 80 W. "e,e 'e'po''s'o'e ior 'ne
anu. VI .'e oehoe,A'ie party 70 MAKE
80 So - ~ Ia,pa's" 'a, p'.oses oy 'es's'a'
w" "' ur.'a'ns ~, " ia,o, Vi ah extra
'o n 'e"'''s Vi inc resolution
"S Wv 's"" 'o' ,"o eo'i'i'encsineh'
:. We, u "o.uS mat seems 70 nave
""seu iof most uay' several SUD
Nuu'. 'eeo'u''ons mere onerea ana IL
""'y ~ 'o'e VI % 'o 20 oaoP'eu q
''o's'O" - opposis VS. unwise inc ca'-
nns ., any extra session Oh the iegisia'
u'''' a'" u.nlahuinR 'hat u edll was
isSueu' u Shouin DC broad enough to
n'e''uc eohSiuofhuon oil Hii oil the plat
.o'1' p'a'ms' 'h"t, peiore Sueh eail IL
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The state herald., 1910-04-22
Take Notice.

AZ regular meeting Of the town
council Of Iiolyoke. Colo. held April u
1910, nll persons were requested To re.
move all hitch racks and awning post.
on lntcr'occan Avenue. c. Il. Scar.
Town Clerk.
The state herald., 1910-04-22

Mrs. Helen b. Hartford. n well known
National speaker, of Newbcrg. Oregon.
will speak at the auditorium Sunday oy.
cning April 2i. She will also hold chill.
drens meeting at the Presbyterian
church on Saturday Apr. 20. at 2.3O p.
m. women's meeting Sunday n, $3.50
p. m. A collection will be taken 10 de.
fray expenses.
The state herald., 1910-04-22

Colorado's legislature looms up as an
gels in comparison with the e. o. p.
bunch at Albany, N. Y. They are rot
ten enough to do business in Pittsburg
or Frisco. Durango Democrat.
That would be going a good long way
from home for favorable comparison
and then such comparisons are mighty
uncertain al best.
The state herald., 1910-04-22

And now Ex-Governor Alva Adams
and Double Bee Lindsey are forninst
one another. Wen copper Alva. Jun
gle Beasts did not make the hit it was
calculated to. Telluride Examiner.
The state herald., 1910-04-22

Fancy a butcher running for office
nowadays. : Pittsburg- Chronicle Tele-
graph.
The state herald., 1910-04-22

Hon. E. Z. Armour of Sterling was
in Holyoke Tuesday on business. He
has recently sold his residence property
in Sterling and may decide to try some
other climate in the hope that the
change will prove beneficial.
The state herald., 1910-04-22

A now barber shop opens to-day in
the Office pf the Morse Hotel. See the
card In ths issue.
The state herald., 1910-04-22

Patterson says that II was the demo-
cratic committee, proxies that turned
lown the extra session but, strange to
say, he does not back up his assertion
with tho figures and the roll call of the
state cssz:iittse. Ordinarily he. does
not overlook any small matter of that
kind when 1t is in his favor,
The state herald., 1910-04-22

The democratic papers Of Colorado
that have been taking much satisfac-
ton in pointing to what they have been
pleased to consider good prospects for
a factional split in the national repub-
lican party, will now have plenty Of
trouble Of their own to look after, If
they succeed in patching up the rent
made in the party by the meeting in
Denver last Saturday which rent will,
no doubt, be very considerably widened
by the extra session of the legislature
to follow soon.
The state herald., 1910-04-22

If were Governor Shafroth would
buy lot of Grand Junction smudge
pots and put them in the state house
when the pxtra meets, for there will be
great frost and lots of reformation
buds will be nipped. -Ouray Plaindealer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
MORE PLANS TO STOP
FIGHT PICTURES

SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.-The
International Reform Bureau will
take a hand in the movement
against the Jeffries-J Johnson fight
pictures. DR.. Donald Grafton,
founder and superintendent Of the
bureau, is in San Francisco today
to organize a California branch and
to formulate plans for fighting the
picture exhibitions.
DR.. Grafton was in Reno during
the fight to form a committee to oc-
operate with the branch and secure
information as to the plans of the
moving pictures. He was one OF
the leaders in the movement to
drive the fight out of California.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

The official of the water depart
ment that drafted the new set of
''Donts for Water Consumer"
must be a humorist.
Don't sprinkle the roadway" the
street department will look after
that. This is right funny to two
thirds of the great city of Spokane
that have never seen even the color
of street sprinkling wagon, to say
nothing of getting their streets
sprinkled. If street sprinkling
wagon should visit those parts the
inhabitants thereof would immedi-
ately run up the white flag and sur
render TO the water department for
all time.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

City autos cannot be used for
JOY rides decided the board Of pub
lie works yesterday. Richard
Hutchinson last Monday night took
Annie Losh, aged 10, for a ride in
civic buzz wagon, after the days
work was over and the girl didn't
get back till the next morning.
Cince Tuesday she has been in the
juvenile Jail, but she has been re-
leased in custody of her father, who
will take her away from the city.
Objections of residents against
the paving contract for Mantle
Boulevard, from Mantle Place to
Thirty-third avenue, being awarded
to H. l.. Lilienthal were filed yes
terday with the board of public
works, but no action taken.
Mayor Pratt has not decided
which site he favors for the new
city hall, but he says the location
by the Northern Pacific
is too far from the business center.
Paul Boberg, special delivery boy
for the postoffice, has reported to
the ploice that he was robbed of a
dollar watch and a jack knife last
night by two footpads, whom he
describes as Italians.
J. p. Perkins, the veteran attor-
ney, sees in the answers of some of
the west side holdover senators, as
to what they will do in the matter
of primary choice for senator, an
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
G O N N u E D
r % 49,
P A @ f 0 N E
FEMININE DEAD-BEATS

that come under the head of shady
that they like to do. They like to
smuggle, and they like to beat a
street car company or a railroad
out of their fare. | know because
| was stationed at Windsor and
Detroit about ten years ago, and
saw to what extent women will go
to cheat Uncle Sam out of even
80 cents duty.
But this gold-piece fake is be-
coming confounded nuisance.
This morning two women came
downtown, evidently shopping bent,
and one handed me a ten while the
other had the nerve to pass up a
double eagle. Now | know they
had done the trick purposely, be-
cause they had tried it before.
Haven't you anything small
err | asked them, but each looked
at me with innocent countenancc
and replied that they hadn't No,
said she had three pennies, but |
didn't take those.
And ! made them both get off
! the car. Usually, when there are
/ any men sitting around if they hear
me order a woman off the car be-
! cause she hasn't any change, some
one of them will put in a nickel.
But | get tired of this, and now
always tell the offender to get off
and tell her in very low voice, so
that she has no chance to act up
and get sympathy.
with nthe last few weeks
should say between fifteen and
twenty have tried to work the.
game on me. a regular land
slide my way, guess, for al
though | know the other boys
have the same trouble occa-
sionaIIy, ! never had SO much
at one time before, or heard
of any one else getting such
dose.
And nearly all the women who
try it are we'll dressed and prob
ably throw good many nickels
} away during the week. But they
} do like to beat the company.
Men try the same trick some
times, but not very often. It's often
} a case with them that they really
have forgotten to provide hem
selves with any change. If | think
it's a bOna-fide case of forgot
will occasionally let the passenger
ride, but no more for me with the
women. I've got it in for them
with vengeance. About two weeks
ago one of the women who | am
practically certain tries the game
regularly, was on my car, and
told her she'd have to get Off She
fidgeted around a little and soon
produced a two-bit piece. / got a
look into her handbag during the
procedure, and she had half doz.
en- pieces of small silver in her
purse
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

And again City Commissioner
George w. Armstrong has been
called to Seattle-this time, 1t is
announced, ION public business"
Last spring it got to be joke
around the city hall when one
called to see Armstrong to be
greeted with the answer, Gone to
Portland" or Gone to Seattle" At
times it was announced that it was
for the good of the cause" or at
other times on private business"
On one of these memorable visits
Commissioner Armstrong, ex-City
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
Armstrong AGAIN away
ON PUBLIC BUSINESS"

Engineer Ralston and H. D. Mer-
rift, "the boss" were seen with
their heads together iPrs Hotel
Portland at Portland, discussing
public business is is presumed
Much of the public business of
the city Of Spokane seems to be
conducted from the shores of the
sound or the ripping waters of the
lower Columbia since Mayor Pratt
went into office. The air is not SO
rarified over there, possibly, and
the surroundings are more con.
duclve to the tranquil dispatch of
public business.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

Sunday afternoon will see the
Royal Italian band, under the lead
ership of Signor Liberti, playing
their first concert at Natatorium
park. A small admission fee of 10
cents will be charged at the gate for
adults, but children under Is will
be admitted free. This is positively
the greatest band now touring
America and the opportunity to
hear this great musical organization
should not be overlooked. sac
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
BAT NELSON
TO MARRY

Bat has several close friends in
Los Angeles. They are confident
that the pilgrimage to Chicago is
destined to end at the bridal altar.
Nelson today refused to confirm
the report that he will be married.
He smilingly intimated that the rea-
sons for the eastern trip are his
own business, although he said the
trip may have results that will in
terest the public.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
RAINS HURT
FRENCH CROPS
(By United Press Leased Wire)

(By United Press Leased Wire)
PARIS, France, July 9.-Daily
rains here for six weeks have
caused heavy losses h.Srops and
many streams have 6verflowed
their banks. The precipitation is
far above normal and a recurrence
of the recent disastrous floods Is
feared.
The hay crop is almost destroyed
and grapes are suffering. The loss
in the champagne district alone is
officially estimated at 100000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
Box CANYON River Trip

Take the l. G. w. \. Box Canyon
special Sunday at $40 a. m. 60. R..
& n. depot and enjoy Spokane S
grandest single day trip down the
mirrored Pend Oreille river by
steamer lone. Call at |. & w. \.
office, 705 Sprague, for particulars,
beautiful booklet and map. Phone
Main 597.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
VILLAGE SAVED BY
DESPERATE FIGHT

(By United Press Leased Wire)
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, July 8.
a desperate all night fight
with forest fires the village of Hol-
combe, 20 miles northeast of here,
was saved from destruction, accord
ing to reports received here today.
Fires are raging today in the tim
Der lands of Chippewa, Rusk and
Sawyer counties, along the course
of the Flabeau river. The losses in
standing timber and in mill prod
ucts is enormous.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
VICE PRESIDENT OF
PRUDENTIAL LIFE DYING
INV United Press Leased Wire)

LONDON, July DR.. Leslie
Ward, vice president of the Pruden-
tial Life Insurance Co. and one OF
its founders, is reported dying to
day of kidney ytrouble at the Hotel
Ritz here. DR.. Ward became ser
iously i'll Thursday and since then
has been growing worse steadily.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
(ey United Press Leased WireD

Los ANGELES, July 9.-Battling
Nelson, former lightweight cham
pion of the world, is in Los Angeles
today, en- route to his o Bar ranch
in New Mexico.
After a three days stay on the
ranch, according to his outline of
his plans, he will go to Chicago on
a secret mission.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

Twenty-one babies under the age
of one year died during June and
five more under five years. The
total number of deaths was III, an
increase of % over June last year
Sixteen died of violent deaths,
through suicide or accidents.
Sister Flora BiIkiss is seeking a
pardon for John P. Gamble, the con-
fessed highwayman, who reformed
and then gave himself up to the
officers.
Charles S. Jackson has purchased
40 acres from Arthur w. Cowley
just north of the city, between Mon
roe and Division, for $2S,500.
r. L. Rutter says the money mar
ket is easing off and that things are
getting to look brighter in financial
circles.
Judge Huneke, sitting as juvenile
Judge, yesterday afternoon heard
the cases of 10 boys taken up for
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

Loretta Palmer charges in a di.
vorce suit that her husband, Charles
w. Palmer, used fraud and caused
her to deed away her property.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

bicycle thefts. Most of the young
sters wer first offenders, and after
a lecture by the court were dis
missed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

Judge Webster has set aside the
verdict for $4,000 damages OBJ
tanned by Mrs. Effie Spear against
the Spokane Turnverein. The judg-
ment would have put the organiza-
ton out of business.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

installation of the connections with
the buildings will begin: The sub
station on Augusta avenue, near
Monroe, is completed and another
will be built one mile east, in the
region of Dakota street.
kasper EIixman has filed suit for
$4,000 damages against A. E.
Brown for alienation of his wife's
affections. EliXman is left with
three children to care for.
A resolution adopted by the Sons
Of the American Revolution is in
favor of the erection of 100 foot
statue of George Washington on the
occasion of the twenty-fifth anniver
Sary of the state, 1914.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
STREET DEPARTMENT
AS HUMORISTS

. 9 q 90 90 q . . o 0 Z
. Don't sprinkle the roadway Z
q of the streets-the street de- 4
q partment gets water for that
. purpose.-City water rule, just Z
q promulgated
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

the Spokane postoffice in the year
ending June 80.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

Judge w. e. Richardson has con.
sented to make the race for the SUI
preme bench of the socialist party.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09
NEWS ITEMS WHICH, SHOW WHAT SPOKANE DOING

attack on thep rimary law. This
means that every candidate for rep
resentative and senator that comes
before the people in the September
primaries will be watched closely
as to his stand on the primary law.
Spokane bankers to the number
Of Is will attend the meeting of
the Washington Bankers associa-
lion at Hoquiam, July II to %.
AS there are at present no women
prisoners in the city Jail, the three
police matrons are having an easy
time of it.
A body Of an unknown man was
found under the Monroe street
bridge yesterday afternoon. Con-
trary to the first report, Coroner
Schlegel says there are no signs Of
violence on the body.
The steel and baIIasting Of the
North Coast road in the Yakima
valley will be completed by August
/. says Robert e. Strahorn, presi-
dent of the North Coast.
Justice S. A. Mann yesterday had
two family discussions to settle,
making the marital paths again
smooth for Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey
Walker and James and Mrs. Edna
Mcpherson, a girl-wife.
Nearly 10000 special delivery let
tiers and packages were handled by
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

City Engineer Maccartnew thinks
that the city will have the Sprague
avenue fill completed by fall.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

Nineteen carloads of underground
cables have been installed in the
conduits of the Home Telephone
Co. and 20 carloads more are ex-
pected by August |. At that time the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

A $50 diamond ring was found In
layer cake. mailed into Spokane
from Canada, The diamond was
thus buried to avoid paying the
duty.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

Travelling men of Spokane will
hold picnic at Liberty lake July 16.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

Teacher-Bobby you not at school yesterday.
Bobby-Nope, was paired with Skinny Jones.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

As there are at present no women
prisoners in the city Jail, the three
police matrons are having an easy
time of it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-09

The few days old infant left at
the Orphans Home of Spokane a
few weeks ago by unknown parties
died Thursday and was buried yes
terday in an unmarked grave in
Greenwood cemetery. The child had
never ben AIMED and was known as
the Little Hallway Boy"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-09

particularly a. the West - a big place
and easy 10 get lost ia Jennie. Vislhly
disappointed manages 90 express her
opinion through her -obs OF court
that can't find q poor woman husband.
When she finally gets away the pink
sailor has taken "a tacn - lrewart and
there isn't spot on her handkerchief
that hash been w"p'. on three times
Mrs Flynn. who TAX - .Iennie's place.
~ DRESSED IN deep black with an eve to
match She drops INTO the chair with
the ease 81 tho adept and begin- a long
and rambling recital IN which tho words
mixed ale and neiGhbors. wages and
neglect mIngls Tn" reason WHY she
has not -ery.,I The papers gwen her
tho week heior" when IN" made her last
call - that G,sprge Flynn her own man.
told her We didn't care to he troubled
with IN" paper and II sh" dldn' want
20 lose u she'd better take ~ hack home
and lock II up IN the upper bureau drawer.
He told her little bov the same thing.
and as she a always been a goOd, dutiful
wife what was there for her 70 do but
obey And there was some truth in
what he SAID about losing Il. ~ Mrs
Mccarthy mixed
clerk Wilson remarks blandly. I'M
moved hv Mrs F1vnns troubles a. the
black eve looms in the near foreground.
that the hardest work for a woman Ia
do - 20 do as she told and that the court
can accomplish nothing until she has
given her husband proper service.
Proper service ~ it, repeats Mrs
Flynn IN fiery haste There amt Q wife
that's ever done more for her man than
me. and look At me. now. ledge. fifteen
months that he amt CAV. me a thing
except this black eve Proper service
and me workin' me fingers to the bon.
90 make him comfortable
IL Is explained just what a proper
service implies and that ~ she deiiv cred
the paper To Mr. Flynn he will have to
appear the following Wednesday
Mrs. Flynn inquiries CoaNingly " the
paper could not he made ont for a week
from the following "Wednesday. -Flynn's
a great man To- change his mind she
explains and perhaps he might think
better 81 Il when he discovered that she
Was in earnest
The request is promptly greed 10 and
he clerk ; reckoning finger brings Agnes
Wise forward
Agnes opens fire immediately, sparing
The usual Interrogation
i don't wHnt my husband arrested
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-09

selves Hs tn had ~ anini,y vhirh
fa~'. hlA. wife -1plainsd by means Il .
dsif and dumb intsrpr~'r-. accounted
fpr tho lax - funds IN ih- family a.
chsgusr might mention that the
annuity D. al.n deaf aud dumb and that
The "onplsint against the lawful partner
- noi the v"ry urtlina Y me that she talks
top much
Many ~ tho women whp come here
Arouse Immediately m" respect and ad-
miTaiipn - the Court They do not wsep
all over Tho plac. because the maans of
support has faded They express and
feel gcEuIn" contempt for the man who
has proved himself a moral coward and
only want to be rid ~ him. to save the
children from his presence and their own
hard earned wage. from his rapacity
We have never found that a woman
with this point 81 view lacks the ability
10 stand On her own feet and what pro-
lection We can give her IL gladly &C.
corded
Magistrate Cornell hesitates to answer
the next question a. 10 neither the
man or the woman - thu oftener TO blame
Honestly. | could not say odhand
ne says finally There are Just az many
women who drive men away from their
homes a. there are men eager and ready
tn clip the moose Of responsibility For
tunhtely We don't have Ia decid" on that
side ~ the question hu, "a do legally
what societies like the charity OrganiEa-
ton, the Educational Alliance aud others
have been doing for MANY wears; that -
keep the family together for the sake
~ municipal. state and governmental
protection
The greater part Of the PROCESSION which
enters The door % he Cou-t ~ Dome~ti 10
Relations goes direct lvt q the room presided
over wv Chief ClerS Wilson and Chief clerk
treelmRn Here complaints are heard.
warrants and summonses are issued and
advice IL given ~ the visitors from rHE
SUN are welcomed the clerk - demanding
of n pretty Young woman whose excessive