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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-11-28
ARE KICKING AGAINST
HIGH TAXES IN THIS CITY
Tax Question Has Been the Principal Topic of
Discussion in Montpelier This Week Think
Valuations were Boosted too High.

The principal topic of discussion
on the streets of Montpelier these
days is taxes" and a mighty howl
is being made by some of the large
property owners because of the
heavy increase in the amount of
their taxes this year over last year,
and in many instances the increase
does appear to be unjustly high.
All kinds of statements are being
made as to the cause of the increase
the bulk of the blame being laid
against the assessor and commits
sioners- against the former for
placing the valuations too high on
Montpelier property, and against
the commissioners for not properly
equaIizing the values when sitting
as as board of equalization.
Statements are made that values
in Montpelier are out of all proper
ton to values in the rest of the
county. This statement the Exam
iner is neither able to affirm
or deny at this time. II those who
make this statement are sincere in
their belief they should examine the
records at Paris, or have them ex-
amined by a competent person and
make public their findings, that the
people all may know the facts.
The columns of the Examiner will
be open for publication Of all state
ments that any citizen or committee
of Montpelier citizens may wish to
make after the records are examined,
One thing is certain, if Montpe-
lier has been Disseminated against
in the matter of valuations, the
error should be corrected, but it
cannot be corrected by men stand
ing on the streets and damning the
county officials. The law provides
the manner of remedying unjust
valuations, and if the commissioners
have refused to act justly in the
matter of equalization, the people
should seek redress in the courts.
AS stated elsewhere in this issue
the levy for state and county pur.
poses in Bear Lake county this year
is about on an average with the
levies in the other counties in the
state. To this levy must be added
in Montpelier, the levies for city
and school purposes. These levie.
are controlled by the council anC
school board. If they are too .higt
the commissioners cannot be blamed
But this year the city and schoo
levies are not unduly high.
The street talk on the tax ques
ton is all on the one point that val
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-11-28
CORPORATIONS
MUST PAY TAX

Foreign corporations doing busi-
ness in Idaho must pay the corpora
ton tax provided by the legislature.
So says the state supreme court in a
decision handed down on last Sat
urday, a decision of far-reaching
Importance Involving as it does an
important source of revenue to the
state and running directly counter
to a recent decision of the California
supreme court in an exactly similar
case,
In the case that came before the
Idaho supreme caurt on an appeal
from Nez Perce county the North
ern Pacific railway company attack
ed the provision of the revenue law
that provides for a corporation tax.
The suit was instituted against Viii
ferd L. Clifford, secretary of the
state, to restrain him from collecting
the tax and to compel him to refund
sums already collected in this way.
The opinion in this case is written
by Chief Justice Ailshie and concur
red in Justice Stewart and Sullivan.
Its Importance is emphasized by the
fact that the excise tax on foreign
corporations is provided for in the
same statue and it would be impos-
sible to declare the one unconstitu-
tional and void without taking a
similar action with reference to the
other.
1t is admitted that the Idaho stat.
ute on this point is copied from the
California statute. When the Cal.
ifornia statute was attacked in the
courts of that state it was knocked
out and declared unconstitutional by
the state supreme court. The state
neglected to take the case up to the
supreme court of the United States
On the contrary the governor call
: ed special session of the Legislature
and the law was modified to con
form to the opinion of the state su
preme court judges.
Z Fortunately for the Idaho judges
: however, the same question arose il
Z Massachusetts, and was taken by tina
) state to the supreme court of tn,
! United States. That tribunal up
E held the constitutionality of tn
e Massachusetts law and held that tn
s corporation tax must be paid. A
$ this Massachusetts, case was cited b
+ the attorneys for the Northern Paci
fic. before the decision Of the Unite
e States supreme court, the local cour
= feels that the decision it has jus
handed down is in harmony with tn
: highest tribunal in the land.
4 The Importance of this decesio
4 to Idaho, viewed from the stanC
lpoint Of dollars and cents. is great
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-11-28

Barber Lumber company will Gauss
operations to begin ~ les sawmili
near Boise ~ soon as circumstances
will permit their doing ~. and that
company Is required 70 run It's big
mill for at least one year after the
date Of beginning operations.
Unusual Importance Il attached
To the closing Of The big deal for i
means marked stimulant 70 trade
and business conditions In Boise and
that section u the state. the re-
sumption Of activities at one Of the
largest lumber mills In the north
west. located six miles northeast of
Boise. which has hardly turned \
wheel Tor seven years. due 10 the
fact that the Barber Lumber com
pany timber holdings In the Boise
basin have until recently been tied
up IN litigation. the employment q
from 400 70 800 laboFers and skilled
mechanics both at the mill. in ths
timber belt where that company
now controls over 10000 acres q
timber which muat BE- removed as
rapidly ~ possible and which cannot
be completely removed for from 20
20 80 years. meaning continued ae-
tivity for that period Of time. the
building Of q railroad ~ least 30
miles in length. which with tn feed
ers will traverse double that dist
anee. a. an expense Of approximate
y 81 600. 600. adding greatly 70 the
assessed valuation ard greatly en-
Sssancing state and privately owned
property aa we'll As furnishing trans
portation facilities 70 . vast mining
territory in the Boise basin.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-11-28
F. H, De PUY
GOES TO PRESTON

Thru the death of j. P. Stevens.
manager of the Preston branch of
the Sidney Stevens Implement Co.,
Montpelier will lose one of its sub
stantial families in the persons of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. De Puy, Mr.. De
Puy having been called to take the
management of that house. He
went to Ogden yesterday to consult
with the board of directors before
assuming his new duties. Mrs. De
Puy and children will not join him
at Preston until the latter part of
next month.
Mr.. De Puy came to Montpelier a
little over four years ago to take
charge of the collections and look
after the real estate interests of the
company at this point. and during
that time he has made many friends
by the courteous manner in which
he has treated all with whom he
has had business relations. While
they regret his leaving the city, his
friends are pleased to learn of hi
promotion to the management o.
the company's house at Preston
He will also have supervision of thu
branch house which the company Is
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-11-28

While the amount involved in this
particular case was but $3.50, it is
the opinion Of Secretary of State
Clifford that the annual receipts
from the tax on foreign and domes-
tic corporations is running at this
time approximately $50. 900 a year.
or almost 500. 900 for each biennial
period.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-11-28

enrolment in the high school is
now 80, which is the largest it has
ever been, and the total enrolment
in the three buildings is $40.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-11-28

Christmas win be here in four
your ahopplng early.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-07
BETTER THAN SPANKING

Spanking will not cure children of
wetting the bed, because it is not
habit but dangerous disease. The
c. H. Rowan Drug Co., Dept. 1929
Chicago, ILL.,, have discovered
strictly harmless remedy for this
distressing disease and to make
known its merits they will send
SOC package securely wrapped and
prepaid absolutely free to any reader
of the Gazette. This remedy also
cures frequent desire to urinate and
inability to control urine during the
night or day in old or young. The
c. H. Rowan Drug Co. is an old
reliable house. Write them today
for the free medicine. Cure the
afflicted members of your family,
then tell your neighbors and friends
about this remedy.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-07

With this issue of the Gazette the
publisher has changed the appear
ance of the paper somewhat. The
size has been enlarged from a five
column paper to six. The amount
of pages are eight. which will con-
tain all the general. state and United
States news, along with the local
news that we are able to gather. If
you have a neighbor that is not now
subscriber tell him to come in and
subscribe and thus help make the
paper better by his support and in
return he will get the news service
he desires. This paper is reading
and willing to help any new feature
in the town as we'll as to stand by
the ones already here. If the read
ers and citizens of this section of the
country expect to always have g
lively local paper they will have te
lend small amount of their support
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-07

The officials of Spokane are now
going from the offices they were
elected to serve into the society
realms and trying to take away the
liberties of the young of the city.
They have invented spike belts for
the young ladies to wear while dam
cling so it will be impossible for
young men to get in three rods of
their partner. They will now ask
the lady to waltz up and down the
room on one side while they do
likewise on the other side of the
room. The officials will remember
that they did not have any social
events in their lives. Another thing
is where they have now ordered out
the phones in the fire stations where
the men are paying for them them
selves. 1t appears that nowadays
it has become fashionable for men
elected to office by the dear people
to turn around and take all their
liberties away. How long are the
people going to stand for such con-
duct of the servants they call them
selves. Another thing how long
will it be before this country will be
sn empire, governed by some chronic
kicker who will take a shot at you
if he takes fool notion.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-07
Church Notice

Rev. Samuel B. Chase of Lewis
ton will speak next Sunday in the
interests of the Children's Home
Finding and Aid Society. He will
speak in the Presbyterian church in
the morning and Methodist church
in the evening. A cordial invitation
is extended to the public to attend
these services.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-07
Steele Sayings
Three more weeks Of school.

Three more weeks of school.
We understand that Fred and
Otto GLADDEN. have rented the Leon
Ingle farm for the coming season.
Charlotte Elliott of Pine Creek
bench is visiting with May Mcbride
this week.
Uncle Sam has been employed
the last two weeks by Mr.. Hecht
breaking roads.
Our mail carrier has not missed a
tip and as the prompt delivery of
reading matter during snow block
ade is quite an item, he has our Sin
cere thanks.
Luther McGraw who has been I'M
der the weather the fore part of the
winter is much better and is able to
attend Divine services held at the
Steele school house.
Jim May was seen in our midst
Thursday evening. Jim is at pres
ent head cook at bachelors restaur-
ant. but from appearances he wishes
an assistant.
w. w. Tracy's smiling face was
seen at divine service Wednesday
evening. We understand Mr.. Tracy
is looking for cook. This is GER
tainly fine opening for some in
dustrious young person.
Charlotte Elliott, Ella Whitcomb,
May and Maggie Mcbride, called on
Theresa GLADDEN. Thursday after
noon.
We are informed that one of our
prominent young farmers will shortly
60 east to take course in { &C
science. The girls are getting al
most too particular nowadays.
Alex Galloway, VIM. Whyback,
VIM. McGraw and James HARRISON,
attended the banquet at Kendrick
Saturday evening given under the
auspices of the Odd Fellows.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-07

Trade with the local merchants.
Put your money where it will be of
benefit to the local community.
Where it will be used in the building
up of your town and farms. If you
send the money away where will the
money come from to support your
schools, pay the taxes, help in road
donations. The out of town mer-
chant will not do it. If you want a
road fixed the out of town merchant
tells you to do it. The local mer-
chant helps you. So where should
your money be spent?
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-07
A. R. Schumacher spent Sunday
with his family in Pullman.
How to Bankrupt the Doctors.

A prominent New York physician says:
off it were not for the thin stockings and
thin soled shoes worn by women the doctors
would probably be bankrupt" When you
contract cold do not wait for it to develop
into pneumonia but treat it at once. Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy is intended especi-
ally for coughs and colds, and has won a
wide reputation by its cures of these diseases.
1t is most effectual and is pleasant and safe
to take. For sale by Albert Moshop.-Ad-
vertisement.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-07

toward it and by so doing help other
movements that will help the town,
so when you are doing this you are
helping yourselves ten fold. Can't
you see the point? Help boost.
Don't always be knocking.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04

TT OW far do we shape our for
/ L tunes in this world, and how
far are they dependent upon
heredity, circumstances and special
opportunity or chance?
An able professor at Princeton,
Mr. Edwin G. ConkIin. has just been
discussing this -honored dues-
ton, and applying the results Of re-
cent scientific knowledge and spec
ulation to its solution. His conclu-
sions are interesting, but ! do not
think that they are, in all respects,
convincing
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
Carpet Rags
BY MINNA IRVING.

- RANDDAUGHTE MlLLG
$NT pounds the keys
Upon the baby grand
And Mabel MARBLES foreign songs
l can not understand
s And Dolly, with dramatic aims,
OF elocution brags.
Their grandma, when I saw her first.
Was sowing corpet-rags.
She wore Il purple calico
My, how her fingers flew
Among the variegated strips
OF red and green and blue.
Not many in the state could beat
Miss Ann Serena Baggs
CThat was her maiden name, you
know
At sewing carpet-rags.
And when she changed her name to
mine
Our cottage floors were laid
With bright, clean, newly woven
hreadths
or carpet that she made.
For me" she used to say. and smile,
Thine somehow never lags,"
And rocked the cradle with her foot,
While sewing carpet-rags.
Son Roberts house is big and fine;
lie cutcrtains lot
At bridge and teas and parties,
where
Folks dance the turkey trot.
But when sit and look at them
My spirit s'lt ut la4~
INoy ou-nt 100 3u eum. u-.a uG
L.Ny sewing .a.u,.-..--
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04

responsible party so as to plead
ones case-all this is what Sher-
man called war, and in capital let
ters, too
If ever turn philanthropist on a
large scale, I'll form an employ
ment bureau to be run on humane
lines, for nothing is more worth
doing than to give willing man a
chance to earn an honest living,
Those who have never known the
bitterness of polishing pavements,'
those who have never had to put
themselves in the out o. works
place, those who have never been
made to feel how useless and un-
wanted a piece of machinery they
may become in the eyes of the
world, can not even dimly realize
how bottomless the slough of de-
spair can prove. When turned
down day after day, week after
week. usually with scant ceremony,
and oftentimes with cruel brutality.
human nature begins to look a mis-
cradle, despicable affair and the
world a heartless joke. The hours
the long, idle hours-drag pain
fully. They bring nothing out
deeper ana still deeper brooding-
oh. yes. they never stop bringing
thoughts, dun, black, bitter, CALLING
ones that thump upon one another
and make of fellows head a foun-
dry and furnace.
Gloomy, narrowing stuff, all this.
isn't it? Well, it is not written
for fun. 1t is not written simply
ito fill a column" 1t is not writ
ten to plunge any QUITO work
deeper into the mire of distress,
It is written because there is
grave danger that the experience Of
my friend may become the expe-
rience of many thousands of Amer
leans before this year is out unless
those upon whom the task of gov
eminent has fallen proceed TO dis
charge their duties with fun
sense of the responsibility attach
ing to their acts. To throw able
bodied men out of work by the hum
dreds of thousands is not the best
way to solve the nations problems.
\ hundred thousand hungry men
were an unthiukablo menace to the
peace and stability of the republic
/. uuua 10. unnecessary TO- s..
Hurt
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
Parents Should Train Their Children
in the Proper Way to Cross
the Street
the Street

Parents should ndul of the fact that children
themselves blame many instances for and
automobile accidents fatal and otherwise which they
involved.
The chaueurs and other drivers should be held
rigid accounting themselves all accidents and should
be required exercise great and crcumspecon handling
their and vehicles At the time it must be
bered that they only human beings and that they bring
disaster themselves others and then without being
altogether in part to blame
Children should be trained patiently and perssently to
the streets in a sensible and
They should be told keep going when they have start
ed and circumstances to turn back More
accidents of turning back perhaps than Of anything
a child has vacated place the street motor
chauffeur warranted in the assumption that it has
been vacated least for period of time sufficient for either to
pass.
Children should be taught to LOOK BOTH WAYS before
leaving the sidewalk and to keep their eyes the direction of
coming rafche traffic that has passed relatively unimpor
tant.
The danger of permitting children to play in streets where
traffic heavy obvious of that need not be
mented upon at length
The point this Parents by negecng to train their chill
dren in few rules of street crossing, frequently
responsible later for accidents in
which their children meet with serious hurt not death
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
The Man Out of Work

n BIG, strong, honest fellow, in
~ the prime of life, has been
tramping over New York
and Brooklyn for two months look
ing for work He has a wife and
family, has always lived in mod
est but comfortable enough way,
and had saved a few dollars. He
lost his last job through no fault of
his own. Day after day he set out
in a vain search for employment.
Night after night he returned home
with the same sad tale, AS the
days heightened into weeks and the
weeks into months he became dis
heartcned.
A friend told me OF his plight a
week or two ago. Never until now
have / realized how hard it is for
man willing and able to work to
find a job-any kind of John this
growing, progressive country Each
place to which he was recommend
ed had the same story to tell
we're not taking on any men at
present, but we may have an open
ing later" Cold comfort for man
frettng to do his share of the
worlds work i'm order to III the
mouths of those dependent upon
aim
Did YOC ever stop to think what
II means TO be unable 60 dnd work
al any wages / know of nothing
calculated to drive a robust, ener-
getic man to despair half so swift
ly. Fortunately, our worst mis-
fortunes often turn out blessings
in disguise in that they soften our
hearts and broaden our sympathies
i have been through the MILL
through il, too, under circum-
stances slightly more trying than
ordinary-in half-civilized, war
ridden, plague-stricken land
teemiug with refugees from the
sphere of hostilities, many starving
and an depressed. And alone, with
out ore friend or even acquaint-
ance
The man out of work feels that
che world is getting along very well
without him. He is useless. super
tluous needed 10y no one a nui-
Sauec. Nobody wants To- hear his
tal. uf tor. Everybody seems so
busy W.ta ... o"u affairs, -o ur,-
uayum,, su -e'f-e.nJer,5 -and -o
usH CuI thn #. Hr Imagined
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
The Luddite War
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

TIME Luddite war, so called
from the fact that it was be-
gun by a weak minded fell
low named Ned Lud, met it's Wa
terloo January %, 1872.
Ned Lud and Napoleon Bona
parte, though separated by the
whole diameter Of things intelec-
tual. the one being almost an idiot
and the other a mental colossus.
We're both engaged on a fools er-
rand, Lud in attempting to stop the
progress of mechanical science and
Napoleon in fighting against the
forward march of modern democ-
racy Ned met his fate as above
mentioned, and three years later
Napoleon met his.
Ned was one of the original
"standpatters." He had no use for
''progressives" of any sort. The
odd Guard" and the "old ways"
were good enough for him. Conse-
quently, when certain rattle
Drained insurgents came to Not
tingham with their machines for
spinning and weaving cotton, Ned
raised the war whoop and began
smashing them.
Ned's idiocy instantly became
contagious, and soon all over tho
surrounding region the spinners
and weavers We're breaking up ana
burning frames and machinery.
From Nottingham the disturbance
spread into Yorkshire ana Lancn-
shire and soon involved all the
northern and midland counties of
England Machines were 6e troyDl
wherever found MuuuIartoriae
"'r. burned down. uul m rl, .ut
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
By B. C. FORBES.

he could mold his own in the battle
of life-that his services were
worth hiring. He may even have
imagined that his departure from
his previous place Of employment
would leave little gap, whereas
everything had gone on as if he
had never existed.
To be an outcast in the labor
market first challenges and then
often kills pride, confidence, self
respect, To be wanted by no one,
stunned by all; to have door after
door slammed in ones face; to be
refused even the opportunity of
speaking to the foreman or other