The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-24
FREDERICK VOTERS
FROM MISSOURI
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WILL INTERRoGATE ALL CASDI-
DATES FOR THE HOUSE OF
DELEGATES.
TAX REFORM INTERESTS
COMMISSIONER WARNS THE TAX
PAYERS LAWS WILL BE EN-
FoRCED--spEAKER BYRD
ON THE SUBJECT.

WINCH ESTER, VA March 23,-The
voters Of Winchester and Frederick
county are evincing a determination
TO learn the attitude of candidates for
the house of delegates on various
State. questions and a movement is
on foot to ask all candidates to state
their positions in writing
This is in addition of the avowed
intention of the town and county
branches of the Anti-Saloon league to
query all candidates as to their views
on the enabling act, giving the people
OF the State the opportunity of voting
on the question of prohibition.
Sends Tax Warning.
J. f. Correll, the local commission
err of the revenues. sent out a general
warning yesterday to all persons who
are listed as taxpayers. stating that
the auditor of the State Is determined
to enforce the tax laws as they APP
pear on the statute books, and that
the instructions and explanations
are so clear that no one can offer
excuse for failure to understand the
same Taxpayers are also informed
that any attempt to evade the pro-
vision of the law will result in grand
jury Investigations, as was done last
summer in many cities and counties
of the State.
Richard Evelyn Byrd of Winches-
ter, speaker of the Virginia house of
delegates. who has been selected to
make the only set speech at the an
nual meeting of the Virginia Bar as
ISOLATION at Hot Springs this summer,
will discuss tax reform in a general
way and 1t is also stated that prac-
tically the entire session of the law
yers will be devoted to mapping out
tax reform schemes which will be
presented to the legislature.
Mr.. Byrd is said to have been Sc
lected to discuss taxation because of
his intimate knowledge Of the sub
tect. He is the author of a number of
bills having for their purpose a more
equitable system of taxation in Nir
ginia all of which passed the lower
branch of the general assembly, but
which were killed in the senate. 1t
is believed. however. that the plans
10 he suggested by the State Bar as
ISOLATION will be adopted by the gem
eral assembly.
Fire Damage Small.
It has been learned that compare
lively little damage was done recently
by the forest Ares IN the Blue Ridge
mountains in Clarke. Loudoun, Eau
quier. Warren and other counties on
the eastern and western slopes of the
ly to the work of farmers and their
employees, as we'll as men from the
government station at Mount Wealth
err, many of whom worked day and
night to prevent the fires from spread
ing. At one time the country place
of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul D. Kelly, of
Washington, situated in Clarke county
and known as the Retreat, where
large numbers OF Washington friends
are entertained at all seasons, was
threatened The fires burned some
of the trees and shrubbery. but the
employees battled with the fire with
hose and finally subdued the flames
William Ridenour, nineteen years
! old. of Trout Run Valley. w. Va, was
arrested while asleep in bed at his
home q few nights ago by Deputy
Marshall Brown, and Is being held for
trial in the United States district
court at Martinsburg on a charge of
| Illicit distilling, He is a son of Turn
err Ashby Ridenour, who was recently
arrested for the same offense but
who was discharged, the government
failing to produce evidence sufficient
to convict him. The elder Ridenour
was some years ago tried here for
numbering a farmer named Broy, was