The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 22, 1907, Page 11

io eR RE Tee 4 BS _ A WEEK Hare Rectaatye Servier.) p ANORLES Cal. May 22 ef boom started fn California T had @ tittle eb eaw a chance I tnvested | ay for the chance” sud | Sammers, who le known ee “the of! queen. hae acourn Saw Be tare work ane enrew | and tn Les Anacioe she | Benility with the city's clew- | | yim svathare Cait. | * but Mrs. Summere whe Was something Sepeculator and her bus netted ber thousands of ebrewd «men had fe the off business. To ie Known as the most tn- iat dealer in southern Cali two big of) Interests ap W dell them Der brains A Landon, Kagiand. waskea ber te take Saf thelr development work A Week, while an castorn ree her « tempting fhe businage on & better footing. She wrote both | otters | the emall dartves trom her own ago sbe sold all her Bow devotes heree'f to telling ot Recently ‘etadiiehed & paint tac te maneget by ber hee Ras tnvestments in many end te prowt of her po ered iN STREET COSTUME. fa one of the newest 24 ta votle makes up into oa ore wkirt mounted upon a ace ant cream tal the Rips the skirt ts plain | } | ieee Widely at the hem. A Pideated folie are set at Of the skirt Heb brown ta om taffeta in ting waist an Pe Dattons bold sleeves are ¢ With deep The Pineers of Alan a # the pur. Mes and tra " jon the rem we rete ‘Trial Court Room by C. N. Landon, Repectatly for this Newspaper WwoMA N REJECTS $1,000 SALARY MAS. BA. SORES, sition ae ® leader tn devatop ment of the southern Califo Thowgh past middie age she prefers to continue actively tn large business She site near two desk phones and gives y directions to = small army of workmen Weme In business T” asked Mra don't see why ht ae men they haven't as me They are quicker to see things as a rule and are generally more wilt tng to make money along logttimate Hines. The oppertunities today are Just a* great as they ever were In ony line of business. have been foremost tn that country since the first gold fever The organisation started In Nome and now has a memb Another Fairbaoke BELIEVES BOAT BROKE IN TWO Bereral coming to light in con the disappearance of Discovery off the Alaska queer developments are tion with eamer comst sev jeral years ago. In a letter to the Alaska Coast company. United States Marsha M. Lathrop of Valdes says that Bilty Johnson, eaptain Pa cific, discovered the house of the wree at Middieton ittle while arance and was ae the bedding after ite disap tonfahed to find that was be Tor ports the ve miles x believes the rock @mith declares UNITE TO BREAK STRIKE. MAYOR MAY NOT SIGN. ot sign the A unt! be comp C. SHIBAMA RECALLED. C. Shibama, formerly chancellor n this im » will be ap a government position TRACKS ARE RATSHD. hares of her THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1907. Hy Pref, Cart ©, Pew contly Releoted by the of Periury by Taxpayers. Recent sions and of reports of tax officers approximation $40,000,000 of uncoilectibie Governor Folk of relating aywtom one city alone. despaire law tax Misaourl, #0 forcemont of the thie part of the he has recommen }Of all taxes Tt tf a serious matter ty true, It undermines foundations of all civic ment lation between the ¢ government than that his duty to ¢ that the involved » the suffrage and to bh d the abolitic on personal property this RES BY LANDON OF ODD CHARACTERS MAN WHO ESCAPES JUST TAXATION i Gre el et Sei oe IN SPECTATORS’ ROW AT BOISE TRIAL IS A DEFAULTER commis soncerned with the collection of taxes tn ai! tention personal property California only from 16 to 18 per cent. of the taxes are levied on personal prop erty, although it i# well known that 50 per cent, would be a much to the rtien, The same fact is ported from Wisconsin, Ma chusetts, Missous!, Louisiana and many other states A recent re lport for New York City shows taxes vied on personal property in that ot et ny very govern There can be no closer re izen and bis in niribute to ite sup Not even the duty to exer ae eet the officers of government in more sacred than the duty to pay taxes and to pay them fairly and honeeuy PLEADS NOT GOLLTY, Taxes are debts. By the lawn of tate and the general sof mankind they are debts he . Juitus Johanec of the highest obligation. They ee . are first lens, and must be pald eullty to . prior to any and all other debts. and 1.100 rope from ihe | The man who hides hie property legally subject to taxation, or worn to makes a false return, t in order to of Bie fe a defauiter ss bad as a defaulter or or He is every whit even MUST GIVE VALUABLE ‘LANDS ® Worse one than he who conceals his property from bis creditors. Bound public BACK TO COMPANY private sentiment ought to make it possible to fol D. A. Lee, president of the low the defaulter as ensily as | American Investment and Improve. |! !# to follow and prosecute other lment Co, has been ordered by |‘etaultere, Hut public sentiment Judge Albertson to transfer back to | 40# 80t apparently regard the tax | the corporation property located on |G*faulter as am criminal, posstbly | Lake Washington north of the Uat-| there are enough of them jto make pub jon of their versity, which he had deeded to himself and to D. C. Youngs, and for which Judge Albertson found no consideration had ever been paid, The present value of the property tx about $200,000, but sub to incumbrances amounting to 00 H. & Jordan, of the company manent receiver own temporary recetver was appolated per LOTTERY OWNER JATLED, wee ar frown and lotter ¢ @ number the part t Wappenatein to ory evil It ts tmposstble to rouse grand . 4 SEAViEW TRACTS +4 01408, GREEN LAKE BLOCK @ On the Bound Fine for gar An entire block, nicely lo © ¢ening. berry raising and e788 cash and ity . 3 chicken ranching. . $260 to $760 per tract . WEST 4 WHEELER, 3 ® . oe A Good Investment Small ‘Capital If you consider it good when it looks certain that 1 can jouble your money in less than a year We consider the district in which the jes aa about the beat in Se h seeker with limited capital : © openir a few Jays ago, many lots have been sold, and already the ers are preparing f several pretty, new he Note the ¥ id f t present prices and the pr for a @ increase in value Fine view of Lake, Mountains and City Best car service of any suburb in the city will soon be fn operation on a double track, giving a 24-minute ride to the business center and free transfers to every Seattle Electric Oo. line Forty-foot lots, 16-foot alleys Desirable neighbors THE PRESENT PRICES ON THESE FINE LOTS ARE NOW FROM One-Fourth Cash, Balance Semi ually This is the best investment you can make, in view of the proposed new de tracked car line Take (old ton car to Fairview station (salesman on round from 10 t , 22t at our office McGraw Kittinger & Case IN THE COLMAN BUILDING - cannot be enforced, if supported by a| bad plead for leniency pewhaps | ford refused the request of J » Laws have been passed fo some | it is best to abolish them altogeth- Thomas Burke for a suspension of states giving the informer a liberal|er. This would take away the/ sentence natil Nolce’s case reward ab in the taxes col-| temptation w perjury and relieve | be brought before President Hooer Lis! leoted. fut they have had little | tte taxpayer of the onus of erime, | Yelt for his consideration trornia, Whe Wee Re- loffect, Men hesitate to call their HIGH WATER AT PORTLAND, tetion ae te the Amount | neighbors to account, It is an un NOICE SENTENCED comfortable and ap unpopular (Rtar Special Servier.) thing to do PORTLAND, May juries to prosecute or the courte|, Probably the solution offered by TO ONE YEAR water continues and It f to hear cases intended to enfores | Governor Falk. namely, to fag So. The resents: ee these laws, Whe r he ng | the vain effort to tax perso " _| ing for the wo by ene pelea to jail tor sicues {a \te the only one avatiable, if inwe| VN = a oie tay, |18 raging torrent at places connection with a false t turn? |Feauiring the taxation of personal cently arrested, charged with tal ha fulne tax return? | * —— He’ ling money from the ma{l that Benjamin Harrison wald of this: | p— =| passed through his hands, to which Bach citisen has « personal inter ~~ OADING SALn.” he entered a plea of guilty, waa late owt, & pecuniary Interest, in the tax yesterday afternoon sentenced by 7 at tn return of his neighbors, We are | ‘44i*s ,Gpring Mats values up | jee Hanford of the federal court members of a great partnership and it Is the right of each to know what every other member ia con- || tributing to the partnership to a term of one year at hard lv bor in the penitentiary aod given a fine of $100 The sentence waa NOVELTY SKIRT MFG. CO, fecond Ave and !\ j imposed after Our Sales Manager the First Purchaser Exposition Heights THE INSTANT HE Verdict of An Expert in. Real Estate Values e selected a staff of salesmen for EXPOSITION We picked the highest grade Last week w and a sales HEIGHTS. men in the city manager -men known for their in For sales manager A. T. McCa men in tegrity and experience. on the ground, we secured Mr. gar, Seattle, LSJ telligencer, mining king one of the best-known busincss and confidential representative of Hunt, former owner of the Post-In of Korea, and the Mr. McCargar, while of a conservative tempera commercial autocrat of the Soudan. is an expert and has been a critical Seattle ment, student of events in for sixteen years. On Saturday he accompanied a member of our firm and a staff of twelve salesmen to EXPOSITION HEIGHTS for a first He had not been on the ground ten minutes before he said: “I I do.” That was more gratifying to us thana sale of an entire block to almost anyone else. It was positive evidence of the view of the property will take this lot for my son; if he doesn't want it, high character of the property and investment possibilities. There are 1,200 lots in this plat; 900 cannot be bought Just one- fourth will be sold at present prices—$325 to $700—for introduction purposes. Then prices go up 25 to 331-3 per cent. on the next 300 lots, and so on until the last 300 will be sold at the entire value of the entire 1,200 lots at present prices. No money consid- This property is our home stake, and the first purchas- at any price. eration will change this plan, ers will get the benefit EXPOSITION HEIGHTS commands where in Seattle, and is, as an entire tract, the choicest large residence district to the The across one of the grandest views to be had any ity, There dis no flaw in it view is simply entrancing. The completion of the e will bring it in as close as Madison line the port $325 to $700—one-fourth cash 12 2, 18 cash and the balance in 6, lawyer's opinior and with a rush, an end of the line, our representatives will meet pe 1 first selections natur ning are 202 and 203 YORK BLOC Paid Up Capital Stock 8500,000 NE y W | Judge ¥. B. Sayre, Notoe’s att Ja SEES IT r K Presses @3r srt re 2 4 [OST FRECESTISL ASN TE ev4are4 ” ¥ 1 e Ps BEE 8 TFRUTERETS EBGAVESTETE