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American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-10-31
BINGHAM COUNTY
TAX MATTERS
County Auditor Overlooks the
Real Cause Of Increase.
Farm Lands Increased More Than
Other Kinds of Property the Real
Cause Another Boost Made
For This Year.

]. H. Carruth, auditor of Bin
CHAM county, wades through three
columns of the Aberdeen Times in
a vain effort to show that high
taxes in Bingham county can not
be laid to the door of Governor
Hawley and the present county Of
ficials.
One of his reasons why taxes
were increased is that Bingham
county was divided. The gentle
man will hardly urge that the di-
vision of Bingham county should
increase the taxes of the farmers
of Ada county 164 per cent. nor
that it's division should increase the
taxes of Blaine county farmers 1OS
per cent; nor those of Owyhee 99.9
per cent; not those of far off
Kootenai county SO per cent.
Handy will he do this, for none of
these counties were divided. Bin
CHAM and Bonneville, which COM
bined show an increase of 131 per
cent ON patented lands, do not
show as great an increase as Ada,
which was not divided. The in
crease in Bingham and Bonneville
was largely due to the increase in
Bonneville county, which increased
it's tax per acre from "a cents to
sc cents. Bingham county's tax
per acre was increased only six
cents as against 81 cents in Bon
neville. Ada, Blaine, Boise, Can
yon, Custer, Elmore. Kootenai,
Latah, Lemhi, Owyhee and Twin
Falls counties, none of which were
divided, increased more than Bin
CHAM. So county division can not
be assigned as the cause.
The officials of Bingham county,
infected with the virus of cash val
uation, started in to uphold the
hands of Governor Hawley and to
make a record. They boosted the
values and then made the levy too
low. Their state levy was fixed at
25 cents On the 800, while the
state called for 80 cents. Their
state and county levies combined
was only 95 cents, and on a val
uation of s9,422,414 raised $S9,-I
512.93. The auditor in his state
ment says the warrants issued for
current expense in 1912 amounted
to $76,744.2O, leaving only $12,76S. |
for roads and. bridges. schools and
state taxes if the county was pay
ing it's way. He also shows that the
county this year must raise $751;
1856 by direct taxation in order TO
meet expenses, as against $S9,512 /
last year.
His statement proves what the
Press has always charged, that the I
OFFICIALS of Bingham were trying
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-10-31
Ought Not to be Elected.

After mingling with the people of
Bonner county, the home of G. H.
Martin, candidate for governor on
the Progressive ticket. for four
days. the writer is forced to the
conclusion that the people would
do themselves no injustice by elect
ing some other man for governor.
He is practically unknown outside
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-10-31

more to vindicate cash valuation
than they were to give the people
a spare deal.
The county and state taxes col
lected on the property included in
Bingham county in 1910 (being At
per cent of the total valuation be-
fore division) were $73,415. Last
year they were only $89,512. The
increase therefore was not great.
because there was a natural in
crease of taxable property of about
10 per cent. The trouble is that
the farmers and the railroads paid
big increase while some other
forms of property escaped.
When Mr.. Carruth can spare time
enough to analyze the situation he
will find the trouble in the new ad-
justment of valuation which Mr..
Hawley forced without notice, a
Ii after which in other states has
required from two to four years
work by experts in order to avoid
confusion and the imposing of un-
just burdens. In order to start Mr..
Carruth to thinking along right
lines the Press gives him the fol-
lowing facts: In 1911 he follow
ing classes of property were in
creased over 1910 as follows:
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-10-31

The Rev Sam Small the noted
lecturer and evangelist, the once
co-labored of the late Sam P. Jones,
iii address the paop.e CT American
Falls on Monday evening, Nov. 18.
in the Presby erian chur h-more
about him later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Irnaerrxnnd,. PopuInritx

The Rev. Dr. B. F. Riley of Birmingham writes to a friend from Houston, Tex, under date of January Il, as follows:
 Coming westward, 1 was agreeaelv surprised to find MT. Underwood one oi the chief topics of conversation on the trains, and in Texas, where he Is as commonly discussed as he IS Tn Ala bama. One gentleman remarked on yes terday that while clubs were being or ganized in behalf of others, the name or Underwood seems to take care Of Hselt without any organized movement An other remarked that he was a sooa' clean man, able to grapple with present conditions and was showing his apiiits in every movement made
 Both the leading Texas dailies and the country press are high in his praise' Whatever is said of him is favorable while l notice with respect to other can didates there are always two sides 10 the discussion. If the matter were taken up systematically and wrought into or ganized form there is no telling what strength MT. Underwood would develop
 "Texans make many inquiries about him and ply the visitor with questions as to whether he knows Mir. Underwood, how he is regarded at home, what sort of man he is, and much else that shows the growing interest in the Alabama states man. It would seem that an organlzed movement is all that is needed to reveal the prevailing strength of. MT. Under wood"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

other words six people out of seven in this broad country are natives.
 In Alabama there were in the cen sus year 18,946 foreign born people, or little less than 1 per cent. There is one foreigner in this state to 112 native born. The number of foreign CTS is steadily increasing in this state, although the rate of increase is not large.
 The making of America is almost a cosmopolitan task, and yet while it is going on we remain six-sevenths native. Immigrants may pour in from Italy and Austria Hungary and even from Russia, yet the predominance and control of those born here can not be questioned. The fact is and always has been, this country is ruled by about 300,000 early English set tiers and their descendants. They are on top today and perhaps will be while the republic exists. They are re- inforced year after year by English speaking people-Englishmen, Scotch men and Welshmen and Irishmen. The security of the control and of the language has never been questioned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
In France and Germany

Between the fall of the Caillaux ministry in France and the gains of the socialists in Germany, affairs in Europe are again unsettled. The Ger man chancellor, Herr von Bethmann- Hollweg, will either have to form a new bloc, or hand in his resignation.
 These changes grow largely out of the Franco-G German settlement in Mo- rocco. That settlement has proved unsatisfactory to both countries, and it has, to some extent, unsettled the close alliance between England and France. Some fear that out of it will yet grow war between France and Germany.
 The second and final adjustment of differences over Morocco will stand and the clouds of the day will pass by, leaving affairs very much as they were before they came in sight. The breaking up of cabinets in France is d part of party warfare in that coun- try and the chamber of deputies would almost consider its occupation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
Missing the Telephones

In this progressive, busy age every community, even small one, finds the telephone necessity, and in large cities any serious mishap to the tele- phone service causes confusion in every direction.
 It is safe to say that in Birming- ham no public utility, except the Bir- mingham Railway, Light and Power company's power house, affects so many people as the Bell Telephone system, and the early Sunday morn- ing fire which has put these phones out of commission temporarily will go into the city's annals as an event not soon to be forgot. The Bell Telephone company will spare neither money nor energy in repairing the damage to it's great plant, but it may be two weeks or more before the service is normal again. Long distance tele- phoning, however, will not be inter- rupted at all, and it may be that be- fore the end of the week many local phones will be in operation.
 Twenty-Five years ago when Bir- mingham was small city, the com munity was not particularly depend ent upon the telephone. It was looked upon as more of luxury than otherwise, but today business and professional men generally, to say nothing of thousands of housewives, will wonder how this town ever got along without the Southern Bell. ~-
 The Peoples Telephone company naturally will be kept buster than usual during the next two weeks, and in the meantime those who use the more extensive system will have tc school themselves to patience.
 It was furious fire that destroyed the $250,000 property on Second ave- nue, and the Bell Telephone company and the public can but feel thankful that the situation is no worse than it is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
---------sSt-s------- THE PAULIFICATION OF SAUL

From the New York Sun.
 Even if MT. Bryan's naturally tender heart has been toughened by experience,
 and though, as the wicked say, he bears no brother near the throne. surely there was grateful, moist glittering in those
 deep orbs when the other night the gov
 ernor of New Jersey made him this apol-
 ogy and gave him this certificate: With all the rise and fall of senti-
 ment, with all the ebb and flow of pro posals and measures, there has been
 one man in our party who has consistent
 ly kept to fixed stand. There has been
 one man whose broadened mind has
 been able to see what is the matter and
 to point it out to public that became
 more and more convinced. William Jen-
 nings Bryan. by his character and his teaching, has consistently pointed to the trouble"
 Handsomely said let the "cocked hat" of 1907 be deemed private and candid,
 as distinct from a candidacy, utterance. So in 1908, if Dr. Wilson, visiting the still vexed Bermoothes, is said to have referred curiously to the "one man." the reference was semi-private and can- did:
 T havefeven wished at times that every fool could be knave instead of being, as they often are, people who possess at- tractive members and excellent intentions.
 Take MT. Bryan, for example. He is the
 most charming and lovable of men per
 sonally. but foolish and dangerous in his political beliefs"
 Is there not an attractive grace in these contrasts, this rise and fall of sentiment? May we not treat ourselves to another transformation scene; go from the Bryan | ist saying his thanks at the Jacksonian meal of 1912 to a cottage of tranquility? The picture is from Trenton dispatch in
 our faithful Woodrovian contemporary,
 the EyeningS Post of July 22, 1910: l "It appears that at the conference held
 in the doctors summer home in Lyme.
 Conn, the outcome of which was his ex-
 pressed willingness to accept the nomina-
 tion for governor, there were present
 Col. George Harvey. Richard V. Linda
 bury,' James J. NugeN. Representative
 Eugene Kinkead and ex-Senator Robert | Hudspeth The two latter represented | the Hudson democratic machine; Mir. Lindabury is the New Jersey counsel of
 the Standard Oil, the tobacco, sugar and other trusts; while MT Nugent Is chair
 man of the democratic state committee
 and the political strong arm man of ex | Senator James Smith, Jr."
 | A thrill of delightful terror clothes us i with gooselesh as we read. Little Red | Hiding Hood and not one wolf, but pack. 1 Vain fear! For now Little Red Riding | Hood has swallowed the wolves. | Colonel Harvey is also remembered | by New Jersey politicians continues the | Trenton dispatch aforesaid. Not, ap- parently, now, by one of them. But all | this is inevitable metamorphosis, paulifica-
 tion, a process which may be observed
 in the political as well as the personal
 judgments of the illustrious subject of
 oGr sketch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
The Ideal Bird Dog

"The question of what constitutes an A No. l bird dog Is one that is debatable among sportsmen,' said Percy Clark.
 q do not regard the field trial win ners as the best dogs for real sport, for they are too often either over For instance. champion of field trial does not necessarily have to re- trieve Every man who likes quail shooting prefers a dog that will re- trieve dead birds, particularly when they happen to fall in rough cover or in streams of water as sometimes oc- CUTS, for quail are prone to fly across streams when flushed on the banks. "A real first class bird dog, free from fault, with all the desira hle points or qualifications. is rarity Often good covey dog is poor sin gle bird dog. Sometimes from over training-too much repression or too harsh treatment, a dog gets overcau- tious and hunts too close in. A good ranger, with sense enough to watch the movements of the hunter. or one
 
 and signals of the hand. is the ideal dog; then if this dog will work close in, after a covey is flushed, and will find the dead birds, and finally, if the dog brings them to you without even killing the wounded bird, then you I have the best bird dog possible to own. I owned red Irish setter some years ago that was absolutely perfect. He would stand snipe, woodcock, quail, wild turkeys and squirrels. He would retrieve from across small river. oft ! en with ice floating in it, and would | paddle a stream to find a floating bird amidst leaves and trash. He once | tried to retrieve a wild turkey that was just staggering to fall. Leigh never mouthed crippled bird and never killed one even in his advanced years. One winter day l was shooting in deep straw and killing them one, two, three. Leigh picked up flutter- ing bird to retrieve it and as he was coming towards me he came to a rigid stand on another bird. I flushed and killed it. He gave me the bird he had, and then dashed to retrieve the other. Well, I got down there in the straw and hugged him and any real sportsman would want to do that for such a stunt by his dog, now wouldn'V lhe?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
The Mother of Presidents

"No name in this section of the country is more widely known among all classes than that of Birmingham's favorite son. oscar W. Underwood said an old cit izen. 'rhe probability of his receiving the democratic nomination is the subject of much discussion, and 'presidentiaf talk may be Slneard everywhere-in office and workshop. in store and on the street.
 '1'wo negroes were discussing the fav- orite topic. One of them claimed Vir- ginia as his native state. The. other was born in ole Alabam.' The merits of their respective states were brought out, the Virginia negro claiming superiority over all the other states, and concluded by saying. ''Course, ole y'ginny is de bes' in de union, she has done had six sons what has sot in gle President char.
 Dat thought be so, replied the other, but it'ull be CT long time befo' de bird what de white folks calls CT stork will visit ole Missus Vglnny ergen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
INFANTILE PARALYSIS

lstence in the progress of the disease, even II we do not obtain an actual vision.
 It has been found on the other hand that a drug known popularly as urotropin mas the power when administered simul- esneously with the infection of either producing lesser period of the disease or actually preventing it's development.
 We have been engaged for the last year and half in trying to improve urotropin. It is drug that lends itself very easily to modification to increase its antiseptic or disinfectant power.
 T believe the subject is one which for the future is full of promise. What we nave already learned, I think. gives us great control over the prevention of the disease, and I am disposed to believe that before the experimntal stage of the disease is over we may even have achived that most welcome of all achieve ments, the therapeutic control of the dis ease. That, however, is more a prophecy than fact"
 pr. Flexner said infantile paralysis ia highly contagious and that the human spe- cies constitute the principal dsseminators of the disease. He declared scientists had suggested that it was in reality disease of domestic animals. but that experiments had proved that, aside from monkeys. the only animal that can be inoculated with the virus is a rabbit.
 More than 100 members of the society at- tended the lecture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

Los Angeles Dispatch to the New York
 World.
 Jimmie" Tage has quit. He decided today not 10 accept the leap year proposal Of Miss Virginia Franklin and so mo- tified her at her home, 5o4 West Thir- tieth street
 "Jimmie's' friends in the Jonathan and California clubs are somewhat disgusted with hisn and are seriously shocked, for Jimmie had bragged during the week before tho lear year was inaugurated that he would accept the first girl who had the nerve to propose to him. Jim mic" is young, handsome, wealthy-alto- gother a good catch-and no one suspected that the year would pass without his mar riage.
 "Jimmie's'' lonesome bachelorhood has been the subject of some comment in his set. for he has frequently said-his own wcrds-"single blessedness is hell"
 Miss Franklin, who is in the same set, resolved New Years Day to save Jim mie' from any further grief at his soli- tary state. The second day of January she called on him at his office and for mally proposed to him.
 Gimme time. gimme time,' gasped Jimmie" Then. recovering himself some- what, he added. "Thls is so suddeni'
 At last he told Miss Franklin that he would have to take few days to consider her proposal. He set date January 4-and said he would call her up.
 The fourth came and went, but no word from Jimmie. Today, however he weakened. He was found tonight, deep in melancholy, at the California club, and was asked about his decision.
 T can't; l can't" he whispered. q told her couldn't do it. Really now, don't you see-I don't know how to get married, anyway. I don't know whether l want to or not I'm not ready. Hon. estiy. l dassn'ti''
 Miss Franklin denied herself to all callers, and members of her family re- fused to discuss the romance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
Alabama's Big Farms

Landlordism and capitalism extend to the farms also, for there are 49,604 farms in this country that contain over 1000 acres each. Wherever one of these farms is found there tenants appear, and the black belt in this state and the Tennessee valley know what the presence of tenants involves. Tenant farming is not successful any where. As rule it hurts both the land and the tenant, and the landlord does not, as a rule, thrive,
 The south will never rise to its great opportunities until the big farms are cut up, and the ambitious small farmer is given a chance to do good farming and to achieve success for himself. No tenant farmer is full of any such ambition. He does not care how fast the soil or the build ings or the fences depreciate. It is all the same to him. He is looking for present results and the future does not concern him in the least. Alabama's tenant farmes will get jar when the boil weevil overspreads the state, and now is the time to put the states big farms on better basis. Cut them up into farms not exceeding loo acres. Fifty acre farms are better still, and where truck farm ing is conducted a 10 acre farm is large enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

From the Atchison Globe.
 q have worked long and faithfully in the discharge of my duties. and confess that I cannot understand why people continually abuse mo. I do the very best l can every hour, night and day, yet no one has good word for me. The other day the man where live came down in the basement with an ax in his hands. He looked me square in the face and said some aw- fully mean things I thought sure he was going to smash me. All the time was as busy as I could be. never before worked so hard in my life as did last week, and all the time could hear the folks above me grumb ling and swearing. l sometimes feel that I am not properly appreciated. all though there is not thing lazy about me, and I never get 8 rest. Why, a few days ago when. the thermometer was 8 degrees below and the gas pres sure was not coming good, I put on the high speed clutch and clipped off 15,- 00O, 900 feel. The next day man came and checked up my work and wrote il down in book. He did not abuse me but left with a smile on his face. don't know who he was, but I be. lieve he was a friend of mine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
 Tanning of the Sbrew.
Monument to Morgan

At the suggestion of John Craft of Mobile movement has been started by the Mobile Register to raise funds for the erection of a monument to the memory of John T. Morgan. The city of Mobile has purchased bay shore tract which will be dedicated as Morgan park in honor of the late sem ator, and in that park monument is to be erected. But for Senator Nor gan the Panama canal would not now be nearing completion. As the Reg ister well says:
 "At some time in the future proba bly, the American people will record the national debt to Senator Morgan, as the first advocate of an American built canal, in bronze or marble. In , the meantime the state of Alabama has opportunity to erect monument ! to this illustrious son at Mobile, in a public park dedicated to his memory, and where, by virtue of water side location, the sentiment that surrounds the name of Morgan as the Father of the Isthmian Canal will be fully pre- served to future generations and car ried to all parts of the world, as the commerce of Alabama is carried : through its seaport"
 The monument to be erected in Morgan park will cost, it is esti- mated, $10,0O0. While some sculptor of an inferior class would be glad to undertake the work for the amount named, the people of Mobile, with the assistance of the people throughout the state, should raise not less than $50, ,000 and secure the services of ar eminent sculptor to model heroic statue of the great statesman whose memory is to be honored.
 The south has given this country many men who have added lustre to American statesmanship, but no sen ator from north, or south has sur passed in high mindedness, capacity or influence John T. Morgan. A monument fund should be raised with out delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
Play Will Be Appreciated


 T had the pleasure of seeing Tess of the storm Country in Chattanooga re- cently. and the Bijou was packed at each of the five performances of the engage ment there," said Frank Bell, the well known advertising man. Miss Bunting, the dainty little actress who created a sen- sation last summer in Atlanta at the head of here stock company, plays the part of Tess, which she created, and 1t is indeed a wonderful piece of acting.
 "Jake Wells has surrounded Miss Bunt- ing with a company far above the ay- craze of those which play at popular prices, and the production is large and elaborate, with splendid scenic and cleo trical effects. It is one of the best att fractions of the season, and will appeal to every class of theatregoer
 'The story differs entirely from those which have been dramatized before. Grace Miller White wrote world of human interest into her book of the same. name, and Rupert Hughes strengthened the play when he dramatized 1t. Incidentally, MT. Hughes is the man who wrote the great success, Excuse Me- one of the eleverest comedies of the past 10 years.
 "Tess enjoyed the largest patronage of the season in Chattanooga, although the weather was very bad. At the Saturday matinee standing room was sold in every part of the theatre. and the audience was wild about the little actress.
 Birmingham people who were in Att lanta last summer remember the popu- larity of Miss Bunting in her stock com pany there. Seats had to be reserved in advance in order to get in the theatre. It was probably the most popular summer stock engagement of the past 10 years in the south.''