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I LET'S HELP THE FAIR 1 | THE WESTERN CARNIVAL COMPANY 5 I ML G. HUTCHINSuN AND C. f. BAKER • P Sole Owners. • &' • i m » • 5 • : ft # | : p Midway opens at 10 a. m. and 7 • J p. m. Daily. j I • : : • • ' Big Street Parade * • TONIGHT S t : • - • J Special arrangements have been J 0 made to entertain the Seattle and # J Tacoma crowds tonight, 2 S • • • • 10 Cts.-General Admission-10 ICts. • • f tee ccc •••••>«. •••«•? VIEWS OF AUDITOR ATKINSON. If Prosperity In Other Lines Con tinues, He Says, Roads Could Properly Be Advanced. llympia, Wash., Oct. 22—That some tie county assessors of the state considering the question of the state are considering the question of raising the uniform valuations placed on railroad tracks and readjusting figures on all classes of prop at the next state convention of assessors lias become known as a re of the receipt by State Auditor D. Atkinson of an invitation from Secretary Edward Meath, for the ■-'■■'< board of equalization to attend the meeting of the assessors in Spo kane next February. The invitation • s not express this as the real rea son back of the invitation, but there good authority for stating that such ' the members of the state board h is composed of Auditor Atkin chairman; Secretary of State U. Nichols, and Land Commis- S A. Callvert, have expressed pinion that much good will be -shc-d by the proposed con ;a. In speaking of the in vita- Mr. Atkinson said: is my impression that the in f to the state board is due to the intention of taking up the ques- Vl raising valuations on various of property, including that railroads. Would Bear Increase. ■ is no hesitation in my mind ; ' the uniform railroad valua neretofore adopted by the as • convention will bear an in se, provided, of course, the pres- I rosperity continues throughout state, and other valuations con their upward tendency. The 3 recommended by the assessors erhaps just to all property > at the time it was adopted. litions have changed and the g of individual property and ration property on a more equal basis is needed. While, if conditions continue the I would favor an increase in railroad valuations. I am. at this •' not able to state to what figure, arrive at an equitable basis would nre an investigation of some th and gr^a f care and I have not 'a able to devote the to it. • "The state board requires co-opera tion of county assessors before it can raise or lower a particular class, and give equity to all parties. At the last meeting of the state board I ex pressed the opinion that the railroads could justly be assessed at a higher rate, but to make a change from the figures that had already been adopt ed by the county assessors, would only have placed a greater burden on those counties having great length of railroad tracks, and the increase would not have been paid so much by the railroads themselves as by the individual taxpayers. Conditions May Change. "What the several months to pass before the meeting will bring forth no one can tell, and my opinions now are based solely on present condi tions and therefore might change, but in any event I believe much good can be accomplished by this co-operation." AFTER THE WAR. We thank the Lord our Johnny's back From living in a tent. We're glad to see him tanned so black We tnink the time well spent. He did not fight a battle, for He camped in just one spot. Yet it is well he went to war — Such discipline he g^t! We used to have to call him twice To make him rise at eight. But now it seems his only vice Is quite another gait. He's up at six: he builds the fire; He does the chores with joy; N T o work too hard, no task too dire For this our soldier boy. And food! He stows away all stuff With equal zest and ease. Except he says: Tve had enough Of beans and bacon, please." Once finicky and fussy, too, He now has not a whim, Such wonders have a suit of blue, And hardtack wrought in him. A wrinkled sheet no longer keeps Him restless through the night. From what he says we guess he sleeps In luxury till light. It tickles us that naught he finds Of which he can complain, And therefore to our humble minds. He's soldiered not in vain. the ads in :*e Statesman. THE EVENING STATESMAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1903. TO TAKE GOLD FROM STREETS A Company Intends to Prosecute the Work in Town of Sumpter, Oregon. Baker City, Ore.. Oct. 22.—Since the days of '49. nine-tenths of the seekers for gold have searched in the beds of rivers and streams and in the. gulches for the bright nuggets to swell their bank accounts. Years ago where now stands the flourisuins town of Sumpter, near the headwaters of Powder River, hundreds of thou-' sands of dollars were washed out of the gravel beds. It has remained, how ever, for modern men to placer mine gold in the city limits of a large and well-organized town. Only a few days ago General Chas. S. Warren, of Montana fame, and the father of the present town of Sump ter; Colonej E. S. Toppink, the loca tor of the celebrated Le Roi mine, at Rossland, B. C, and A. J. Stinson, organized the Oregon Blue Gravel Mi ning company with a capital stock of $200,000. General Warren was elect ed president, Colonel Topping, vice president, and Mr. Stinson, secretary and treasurer. The incorporation was made under the laws of Washing ton, which do not impose such heavy restrictions upon mining as do the laws of Oregon. When interviewed yesterday, in re gard to the plans of the company, Secretary Stinson said: "The Blue Gravel Mining company has secured 30 blocks from the Supe rior Townsite Company, which cover the course of the gravel body along and through the townsite. Sometime ago I exposed this gravel bed, anu sunk a shaft on it to bedrock, and then drifted across the gravel, not finding either rim. From this hole was taken out $200, some of the gold being quite coarse, one piece weighing over six pennyweights. Several wells have been sunk along the course of the channel through the townsite of Sumpter, and pay values have been found in each case. About three years ago Mrs. Fisher, who conducted tne Rimbol restaurant, found in the crop of a chicken which she killed $4.50 in coarst gold. Near her place in a vacant lot the Howard boys, at children's play of digging the ground, found three nuggets aggregat ing $6.50. In fact, the townsite of Sumpter overlays great values, as witness the Rimbol and Downie pla cers adjoining the town, from which in days gone by over $2,000,000 was extracted and our company proposes to exploit and work the ground within the city to the utmost extent. I be lieve this will be of the greatest bene fit to Sumpter, as we have fully lv* miles of channel, which has been fully examined and tested. "There will be another season the unique feature of placer mining with in the city. We propose to get out of the ground all there is in it. and operate our holdings in the John Day country. BY A PREMATURE BLAST. George Turner Is Instantly Killed at Sprague. Sprague—George Turner, a native of Nova Scotia, aged 23 years, was killed by a premature explosion of dynamite. He was employed in dig ging a canal on the Honeyfenger place about 15 miles southwest of here and was tamping some dyna mite in a hole he had just drilled, when in some way the explosive was discharged. His head was was with in two feet and directly above the hole at the time of the explosion, and a hold the size of an egg was blown n his forehead just above his nos<_. His skull was fractured in several places. The accident occured at 3 p. m., and in spite of his horrible injuries he lived until 9:30, and during that time talked rationally with the at tending physician and his fellow laborers. This is the second explosion in a week at the same place. The other accident resulted in the death of one man and the serious injury of another. Will Take Another Vote. Spokane. Oct. 22—The school board of this city has decided to call another special election for the pur pose of voting a bond issue of $200.- --000. A short time ago an election was held at which the proposition was defeated to issue $400.000 in bonds for the purpose of increasing the school facilities of the city. The board then decided it would be neces sary to make a tax levy of 9 1-2 mills to meet the present demands of the city. The taxpayers were frightened at this and a meeting was held at which it was decided to ask the board to call another election to vote on a proposition to issue $200,000 bonds. This the board has decided to do. The election will be held on Novem ber 7th. The tax levy, if the issue w<l? h° 7 nrHls. Tt-ad the ads in tha Statesman. CIERK arrested FOR BURGLARY William Royce Taken Into Custody While at Work In a Store On Second Avenue. Seattle. —William Royce, clerk in a store on Second avenue, has been arrested by Detectives Tennant and Barbee and is held in the city jail for the arrival of officers from Spo kane, where, it is said, he is wanted lor burglary. Royce has been in Se attle several weeks. It is said that last July, while re siding in Spokane, Royce entered a house while the family was out of the city and stole a cash register, which he sold to a second-hand dealer for a small sum. After disposing of the register, it is claimed, he learned that the occupants of the house would not return to Spokane for several weeks and at once proceeded to take possession of the place. About the first act, after going through the house, was to make an inventory of the furniture and with this list he went to a money lender, where he bar tered to mortgage the goods. The aealer, after examining the furniture, agreed to advance the money and. an agreement was drawn up and sign ed by Royce. However, before he could get around to get the money Royce was arrested by the Spokane police on a charge of vagrancy. He was convict ed and sentenced to a short time on the chain gang. The day Royce was turned out of tne Spokane jail the owner of the house who had returned to find the money-lender ready to take away his household goods, called at the po lice station, where he made a state ment of the case. From the descrip tion the police recognized Royce. whom they had just liberated. A search of the city was made but he was nowhere to be found and a de scription w r as sent to all parts of the state. Detectives Tennant and Barbee sev eral days ago located Royce but they wished to make sure they had the man wanted before effecting an ar rest. MOTHER PLEADS FOR HER BOY. Mrs. Hogue Asks That Sentence of Son Be Reduced. Everett, Wash., Oct. 22.—Mrs. Nel lie Hogue of Los Angeles is in Ever ett to make an attempt to have Judge Denny reduce -the sentence of her son, William Hogue, who was recently convicted here and sentenced to twen ty years in the penitentiary for as saulting and robbing Henry Veth near Arlington. Young Hcgue is still in jail here. Mrs. Hogue is heart-broken over the affair. She says her boy's relatives include a number of influential men, among whom are a former member of congress, Major Jennings, stationed at Denver, and an uncle of Mrs. Hogue, who is prominent in Illinois politics. The mother hopes to bring influence to bear that will show previous good conduct and thereby induce the court to reduce the sentence. IS GIVEN A VERDICT. Mrs. Loomis Awarded $500 Against Great Northern. Whatcom—Mrs. A. Loomis has been awarded by the jury in her suit against the Great Northern rail way. She sued for $2'»00, alleged to be due on a contract mnde with a detective f C r the company, whereby she agreed to and did furnish infor mation which would lead to the ap prehension of a gang engaged in rob bing freight cars. Defendant entered a plea that such a contract was against public policy and that the de tective exceeded his authority. Reducing Stock = All Boys', Youth**, Misses and Children's Shoes go at lOPERCENTOFF All $6 shoes at $5; all $5 shoes at $4.50. This in cludes Nettleton's. Must get our stock down to cer tain figure on account of go ing out of business. j The Cash Shoe Company. C. N. "HATCH, Me*. 'I****! ?*?,4i»t. *or. Third at»n *,am. S.4TS BACTERIA ARE (TEALTHFIL The Chicago Record-Herald Com ments Editorially Upon Gov. Van Sant's Theory. Chicago. 111., Oct, 22.—Governor Van Sant's discovery that river germs are fattening means much to Chicago and is revolutionizing in its effects. The Record-Herald says: "No need of trying all the new 'breakfast foods' that are dumped on the market each week In order to get healthy and strong. No need of taking mud baths or going through a 'liver laundry' to get well and hearty. Just eat a dish of river bacte ria every morning before breakfast and get husky and fat This is the advice of Governor Van Sant of Min nesota. The state board of control Is considering the proposal to construct an expensive septic tank at Anoka to kill the germs in the water supply. The governor wa s astounded at the idea of spending money to destroy river bacteria. Said the doughty ex ecutive: "You won't find a stronger( hardier clasß of men In the world than boat men. They drink river water. They Crow fat on these bacteria. Talk about bacteria. Ix>ok at the Chicago river. It never killed any one. Maybe the sewers did. but I'll warrant the people who travel on it day in and day out in tugboats and work on wharves alongside get strong and healthy and husky." "But i'sn't it rather unkind in Gov ernor Van Sant to come along and tell us that river bacteria make men strong after we have spent $34,000,000 in an effort to drive them out of our river and to purify the St. Louis water supply? Science is all against the governor, but science may be all wrong. It is remembered that one fisherman 'kicked to death' the theo ries of Agassiz regarding the size of brook trout. It i s well known that some of Chicago's oldest citizens never drank anything but lake water —into which the river emptied—and even now they defy the bacteriolo gists by drinking daily large quanties of it as it flows from the city hy drants. They have always looked with contempt upon filters and steri lizers. They are husky and well pre served. "But, of course, a man who has been fighting railway mergers and other octopi would not be afraid of a river microbe. We are not all built on the sturdy plan of Governor Van Sant or of rrver boatmen." EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE. A mission is liable to swamp a magazine. So much zeal is developed that the real function of the publica tion, which is to entertain, is forgot ten. Into this excess Everybody's Magazine, which has recency under taken a crusade against the idolatry of-riches habit in America, is obvious ly not to be ied. The November con tents-table makes a most inviting showing, presenting as it does stories and sketches by such amusing writ ers as Alfred Henry Lewis, O. Henry and Eugene There is no in trusion of a policy at all, and the reader is likely to find himself in the midst of Francis Bellamy's article about "Successful Men Who Are Not Rich" without dreaming that there is a serious moral to it. Mr. Bellamy avers that the nation is losing its ideals and that today success only means wealth. The million-ire is the modern hero. The newest creed is. he says: "Brains may be more im portant than money, but no wad a; s the best way to convince the world that you have brains, is to make money." The set of New York is frank in its exclusion of peopi*. who are not rich and has no place for statesmen, authors or scientists unless they have money. On the other hand, he instances importan' men in this coumry whose position is a splendid protest againsr the pre vailing craze. Their careers, as stated here, are certainly inspiring. The article will set people thinking about certain significant tendencies in modern life. Alfred Hodder, who collaborated with Josiah Flynt, in his series of studies of "Graft in American Cities," describes in "Reform that Reforms" what has been accomplished for de cency in New York by an honest ad ministration. There is also an au thoritative summing-up by a man the analytic capacity for the task —I. . Friedman, the distinguished Chica go novelist. Two candidates obliged us by plow ing six acres for us yesterday. Our school children have been patted on the head so often of late that every 10-year old boy in the town is bald headed. Some of the candidates for local offices in this settlement are running so fast that the sheriff can't get close enough to levy on them. 'See here!" cried the man, lositog all patience, "you'd better take in that sign 'Hats cleaned while you wait." "What's the matter with it? Wo*ro nir>~ v~*j while you wait."' Yp~ but to b° <>ract. yo*rf si«m -' v -oor' "*»ople'i hats cleaned while you wait." MAOTfOEO I^OOFITVn I For all climates j best, cold, ■ ™ n » gases, fumaa tnd firt de I not affect It. Comet k I rolls ready for laying. Low I freight charges. InexpoD- I live to apply, cheap in me I firat place and lasts tor I B«a4 for booklet. a I The Paraffine Paint Co. San Pranetoco. Scattta. Portland. Lot AtgaJas and De,,ve, • Colorado. OIGAHS T08.A.000 GEO. H. SMITH Prop ■ 3 i-a South THrd St. Livery, Feed and Boarding STABLE RUBBER - TIRED CABS BAUOAUE and EXPRESS. BRYAN BROS. S6COND St KLDER STRBBTS. Phone Mil in flit. IT'S WORTH WHILE - - - To you to visit my es tablishment before buying suit. A. MELLIN The .Leading Men's Tailor. UJ4 E,,st Ham. In Old Library Building. J. H. TIMMON9 TRANSFER All manner of freight, goods and musical Instruments handled with care. All orders promptly attend ed to. Forwarding freight a spec ialty. Office at Watson's Cigar Stor*. 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