Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-16

large Us the. state OF DttdNdft anu tut
three combined as large as Florida.
Hurley finds no trouble on this account,
all he objects to is the running for Of
flee. The territory is so big that when
a candidate starts to canvass it, the
election is over before he can get home.
Hurley broke into eastern Oregon a
number of years ago, cracking through
the ice first at Fossil. He was born
somewhere in webfoot, that is west of
the Cascades. and he went east of the
mountains with the laudable intention
Of teaching the young idea how to shoot,
that is metaphorically speaking for the
young bunch grassers can shoot the nip
pie off their own milk bottles as soon
as they are weaned from them. Hurley
arrived at Fossil which is the same as
saying he met Jim Stewart. He wanted a
school. Jim besides editing the Jour
nal, managing the baseball and football
teams, presiding over the Y. M. G. A,
running the council, leading the church
choir, and doing few other stunts, was
also one Of the school directors.
Hurley tackled him for the job Of
running the Fossil school, and began
hauling letters of recommendation and
other such elinchers.
"Never mind them," said Stewart,
"but can you play ball9"
81 sure can," said Hurley.
"Where did you play last?'
"With the Independence team down
in the valley"
"You're hired" said Jim, "the sal
ary will be all right. -
IIur1aNr rrovo5 tr ho road a faoabn
as he was ball player, and that year
Fossil 5 hated rivals, Heppner and Con
don, were wiped off the map, while Fos-
sill wore their scalps at its belt. Hur-
ley was good football player, too, and
Fossil got the pennant that year.
Since then Hurley drifted down into
the real sagebrush territory, where his
versatile accomplishments being recog.
.nized, he was elected to represent that
vast territory in the Oregon state sen.
ate. He got this job without going to
bat or tackling the gridiron-and is
making good.
More duties will be piled onto the
secretary OF states office if the bill
introduced by Representative Sheldon
becomes law in that in addition to
register automobiles and furnishing
licenses, he win be required to record
mortgages on automobiles. He will be
required to keep special book for the
recording of mortgages on this migra
tory chattel. When the mortgage is re
corded by the secretary of state it be
comes effective in any county of the
state of Oregon. The filing of such chat
tel mortgage with the secretary of state
/ is notice of the lien and it does not have
/ to be recorded elsewhere.
Representative Lewis would give thu
| landlords an opportunity to cancel lease
of tenants who do not pay rent prompt
/ ly by his bill providing a method O
cancelling such leases regardless o.
whether the lease runs from year tt
year or month to month. The landlord
according to the provisions OF house bill
No 54, can give three days notice t.
quit and be entitled to immediate pos
session of the property. He can OF
three days notice to the tenant bring
an action in forcible detainer for pos
session of the property. No other thar
! the three days notice shall be required
to terminate the tenancy if the tenant
fails to pay the rent as he contracted
to do.
Representative Lewis has another bill
which provides for increasing home
stead exemptions by providing that {
"homestead shall not exceed $4,000, mo-
exceed 100 acres in extent, if not 10
taI IN, ln.l nEG s,,4,
blocks and lots; If located in any sucl
town or city, then it shall not exceed
one block; but in no instance shall sucl
homestead be reduced to less than q
acres nor two residence blocks, regard
less of value,
In order to. divert the money paid by
the United States government for tn,
keeping of prisoners from the pockets
of the sheritfs and into the treasures Of
the counties that may keep federal pris
oners, Representative Stott has intro
dueed bill which provides that "H,
shall also receive any or all sums pay
able by the United States for the use 0.
the Jail and he shall remit the same t.
the county treasurer not later than tn,
ilfSt udf VI tue lnOulH huCCSfulHS tH'
receipt thereof" Z" The wording of tn,
law as it stands at present is as fol
lows: He may also receive for hi
own use the sum payable by the Unitet
States for the use of the jail.'
Representative G. NJ. Thomas, O
jackson county, will soon submit bill
creating o tax commission which shall
/ be composed of a tax commissioner, tn,
governor, the secretary Of state, and tn
treasurer. The three latter are to b.
ex-offieio members of the commission
The tax commissioner is to hold for
term of four years and will be requiret
| to put up bond of $4,000. His salar,
is placed at $4,000, and he is required t
be an expert in matters of taxation. Tn
proposed bin plans also for seeretar,
at $500 year, who shall serve at tn
pleasure of the commission.
4 This bill would abolish the presen
tax commission and reduce the commits
sioners from three to one.
!. Representative W. AL Jones, of Ma
lrion county, plans shortly to introdue
4 q bill to provide for medals to be strucl
off by the state in honor of the 0regoi
troops who served on the Mexican bord
or last summer. 1t is felt that the Ore
fgon boys who answered the call las