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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1918)
The Times-Herald JULIAN IIYRI) Manager SATURIMY. DtXFMBF.R 14, IBIS. SUBSCRIPTION RA.TFS One Yeir N-a Month Thr. Month Ji'.nu 1.00 Entered at the Post Office at Burns, Oregon, an Second Class Matter. ably In tlie suppression of slave truffle where no mercenary motive VMM even fnliilly perceptible. Juat t : i , 1 1 y who LUkl born Victimised by it Is bnnl ti cay. The BMOlltf of Hint mysterious exprectlon, "The frMdOM of the MMM has never been completely clarified. It doesn't need to be. We know by experience what free seas are. The seas have been free to everybody since Nonh wont nailing, and It Is rather lato to atari nn argu ment about It now. If Uncle Sam contributes his ( (M NTV COURT III'IMIKT TI1K CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY Christmas Is the only one of our holidays the observance of which id based upon love and thought lulness for other people than our Individuals selves. Other holidays are for the most part as Is fitting, in recognition of a great national event or in memory of those who hive done and suffered great things tot their country. Thanksgiving ex prMMI v. rat Untie for our blessings, and New Vein's, it' wo keep It with ttiougiittuine.ss, is an occasion for a To the Tax Payers or Harney Ceunty: Notice Is hereby given that the County Court of Harney County, has fixed Monday, December 30th, 1!)18, as the time, and the Court House ut Hums, Oregon, m the place, where Hi illmato of money proposed to bo raised by taxation for the ensuing year, 1019, may bo discussed with the said County Court, also, when and where any taxpayer subject to audi tux levy, when made, shall be heard for or against any proposed tax levy. Itemised estimates of the amount of money proposed to be raised by taxation for the ensuing year, 1919, by Harney County, Oregon, and fbe purpose for which the said money Is proposed to bo expended, to-wlt: Count) Ceurt: Salary of County Judge, per diem of Commissioners etc I 1,74.50 Circuit Ceurt: vast naval power to the policing of Salary of bailiffs, reporters, Jurors, witnesses, etc 6,030.00 the oceans no one will welcome him Justice Ceurts: more heartily than John Bull. But Fees of Justlcos, constables. Jurors, witnesses, etc 630.00 Johnny Is not likely to Junk his Sheriffs Office: dreadnnughts, and we should worry Salary of Sheriff and deputies, traveling and office expense, etc. 7,656.00 while Johnny pays i.r thorn. Clerk's Office: o Salary of Clerk and deputies, and Office expense! 6,155.00 If there was over a time when the Assessor's Office: D. 8. Senate ought to "shut up" It is Salary of Assessor and deputies and office expense 4,200.00 now. nut, on the contrary, It Is an Treasurer's effice: open season for gab. To read the Salary of treasurer and office expense, 1,500.00 School Superintendent's Office: Salary, traveling and office expenses 1,520.00 OOMMMMJ Office: Congressional Record of the doings of the II. 8. Senate one tn It Ut tie led to believe tliut the 1 1 uns had taken Ten thousand pounds of ether were shipped to Prance by the lied Cross, so our soldiers might, have re lief from pain. o Tlflrly thousand let tors a week are written by the lied Cross to the families of soldlors, answering questions. -o It la to be hoped that all the khaki colored articles In the ahop will be sold before Chrlstmaa, By next Christmas there may he nothing for them to match, In Vienna, Just before tho armlatlce was concluded, shoes sold at from sixty dollars to ninety dollars a pair. A Vienna father could quot, "Blessings on thee, barefoot boy," with genuine fervor. Mrs. William Hohonzollern, com ing to Join her husband In Holland, brought him a supply of wines. It Is not ut n ti'il whether they were French wines, but they were evidently In tended to relieve his spirits. Washington. If a private citizen gavo Fees of coroner, Jurors, witnesses, etc, voice or utterance to the views ex- Slock Inspecter: little self-examination trash resolves. But ChriatmM is rightly a day of i nerosity and love. We make the children happy with leys and candles, we think of the r.ift which will please mother, wife, sister, husband, we plan pleasant home entertainments. But Christmas lacks something if our observance of it is bounded by our family circle mid our friends. Tho festival will be an cspe tally j.iyous one for America this year. i he. shadow of a groat and cruel war I M been lifted from us. We look pi osperity. Hut at the .same time there has never been a your when generosity M more needed. Prices of all com modities are appallingly high, and the little Income of many family fa is bean tadly diminished by the absence of one or more of Its wage earners In the army, if ere consider tl : and, r.:! forp, tttlsg our own i tr ones, do what we can to bring relief and pleasure to those In need, we shall indeed feel the blessedness of a real Christmas and some pressed on tho floor of tho senate he Salary of Stock Inspector would be sent to a Federal prison. It Is a shame. It Is a disgrace. When all the world is marking time and waiting for tho day of the peace con ference when the World's Declara tion of Independence will he signed to have a lot of looso-Jawed, wind America's delegates. The situation is delicate and critical and It Is no tlmo for the Senate to give en- courugoment to the Hun, the Uotsho- Count) Health Officer: Salary of Health Officer District Scaler of Weights mid Measures: Harney County's pro rata share of expense Widows' Pensien: Allowance on account of tho widows' pension law County Charges : Hospital charges, transportation, supplies, burials, etc. Insane: (examinations, etc , Court Heuse: vie. tho I. W. W. and nil those who Salary of Janitor, lights, fuel, care of grounds, etc. are constitutionally opposed to every thing that Is constituted. At Its best the V. S. Senate Is a useless, worth less and superfluous appendage, and if it has one virtue It ought to he at least silence until the destinies of mankind are given consideration at the world conference. Hlue Mt. Ragle. QOOd to buy, good to hold, good to give for Christmas: - War Saving stamps. The lied Cross has sent 2375 women workers and 2921 men work-' As we have beon ers to France for specialized work. prospered, so let us give. ' IK CHAIXBNCm Of THK PAST. Most of us are good people. We ii.nt it. If we weren't we wouldn't admit it as often as we do. The double is to get other people to be lieve it. When a man has had a first-class opportunity of profiting by sinister P jtctices and hasn't taken advantage of it he doesn't need to toot his horn. His record does that for him. Vour Uncle Sam is in the position of that getitlemau. He has had many a chance of territorial expan sion at the expense of weaker neigh l ra, and has turned it down. Ho Isn't perfect, but his record is pretty K tod, and it will help him at the peace conference. Not many of the roiiferees will attend with a"s clear a "inscience. The world is fortunate In not hiving to depend on guesswork In siting up America's principle!). It h ts the same advantage with regard to the British navy. If England were to assure us that ii ival supremacy would be benevo lently used we might be skeptical In 'I -fault of proof. But England's maritime strength has been exercis ed with singular benevolence not- Most of them highly skilled. are volunteers, but The citizens of Dos Moines, Iowa, are obliged by the Board of Health to wear "flu" masks at all times ex cept when within their own homes. Tho city must present the appear ance af a grand masquerade. TCZ -. I uaK ''Yr!ff'ufiS'7 :TgC3ManggT '..- County Jail: Hoard of Prisoners, etc. Library: Library fund Refund of taxes .1 u-.t nlle Court i. 'at ion and Election Bounty On Wild Animals Audii of County Records Advertising delinquent tsxoa Wati r master, per diem expen - District Attorney, expense of office Incidental, and Miscellaneous expense not enumerated Proposed reduction of Ueueral Fund warrants outstanding Total to bo raised by taxation on Ouneral Fund To raise this amount It will be necessary to make a levy of 0054 Estimated State tax Levy to ralso tho amount 002 County School, apportionment of Levy necessary to raise the amount .0014 County High School, teachers, Janitor, fuel, supplies etc. Levy necessary to raise the amount 0007 ltoads and bridges, salary of RoadmaNter, survoy, Construction, repair, lumber and general ex penses. Including $33,000 00 to cooperate with State Highway Commission Levy necessary to raise the amount Statement of probable receipts of Harney County, for the year from sources oilier than by direct taxation Inti rests on County deposits Percetitum of Public land sales I'erceniuiii of Forest rentals Repayment, by the State of one half of Bounty on wllil animals Miscellaneous receipts, Total probable receipts Which sum durlved from probable receipts will he used for the reduction of Indebtedness, and for other uses to which they can properly be applied. Total amount of property Lifted on tax roll .... 200.00 400.00 100. .10 105.00 2,500.00 6.000.00 100.00 2,000.00 900.00 150.00 10,000.00 100.00 1.750.00 12,000.00 (SO 00 350.00 ' 1,600.00 100.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 STATE OF OREGON, ) v an. County of Harney j I, Mrs. M. J. Harkey being flu' duly sworn on oath say I am the same person that on or about the lo day of November 1918, purchased the dwelling bonne that I live In from H. Thels, I bought said pro perty for the purpose of having a homo of my own and for no other reason at the aame time and place I purchased the dwelling house sltuat od on the aame lot said dwelling house now being occupied by Mrs Kalston, and I further depose and say I did not purchase said property for the purpose of ousting Mrs. Kalston, therefrom, tho sole purpose of, buying sa.d property was to have a home of my own and I so Informed Mr. Thles, and Mr. Blzomore, at Ou tline I bought the same. Mrs. M. J. Harkey. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7 day of Decembor 1918. Geo. 8. Slzemore, Notary Public for Oregon. My Com mission spiral May 2, 1919. Paid Adv. " i Ban i asiaiiia m .- HssHasasssssBSBsssrf1 W' Your Holiday Menu Calls for Crescents Better Ex tracts. They are full of flav or, and the flavor does not c-iok out it's the binder. 'Get then from yo it" grocer All atari I ird flavors. I ! 9 76.059.50 l $ 28,000.00 19.800.00 n 9 240.00 ra ""T p'7" 55,792.50 UJ 0039 HI $188,892.00 H $ 400.00 470.00 2.017.74 I 6,000.0(1 ill 250.00 D 9 9,137.74 U I Thos. W. Stephens Will pay better prices than any one else for all your Furs, Hides and Pelts See him before disposing of them BURNS, OREGON l 14,132,542.00 Total amount of tax levy 0134 Total to be raised by taxation Statement of special school district levies on file with the County clerk: Dlst. No. Amount 1 1J,104.J7 4 6.600.09 402.16 7 11 &mfcymtewtt2ymymm$& S Make it a Worth While Gift ag lmm A The Stradivara Art Phonograph Uf '.:::::::. sisjj afV JV ' " - .......... Z 1 aU 256. 02 221.20 I H 10 1 d It, 9aKKss'a '. i tj - Mi ,31 -. II ,ni vJw ' rvrr t a a. 'KNOWN FOR TONi" U ) pWMJSimSSm, A Masterpiece in a musical moil u llic ill, ui No nasal, metallic or megaphone effect. C Free from all motor t trouble. Plays a 1 1 H makes of disc records f 4 and plays them better. - THE PHONOGRAPH Q WITH SILVER SPRUCE SOUND r OARD LIKE THE PIANO Cabinets, hand polish- t ed, piano finished. 4 Seven beautitulmod- Si eh. m From $60.00 to $250.00 S COME AND HEAR IT DEMONSTRATE A it C. C. Page's Sweet Shop teXMM)fXismi&&Xh&ii 1 18 I 27. 30 :l I I 32 221 20 377.74 t;ir.7o 150.00 i!ii;.ttf 936.00 li,i ! .14 iL Hi 37 44 48 50 fil b 1 r, 5 7 II No. $188,892. 00 Amount 1,206.00 671.34 146.82 622.10 2,886.80 306.63 799.63 2,600.00 736.45 1.686.70 498.22 1,906.20 1,340.72 1,016.41 N. BROWN & SONS Brown 's Satisfactory Store QUALITY MERCHANDISE Walk Over Shoes Stetson Hats Bon Ton Corsets Hunts. : ; : ; Oregon We carry good iiiImiUmiI oh the "II mm Products I'age" You will please take notice that l lie hiiioiiiiI of warrants outstanding; and unpaid uKalnst tho soreral funds on DM, I, l!ils, and the amount of cash in the hands of tho County treasurer or Harney County uvallahle for payment of smh warrants, was on December 1 I U I N : Warrants Oenerul fund II,TIS.7I Itoud fund 4, 702.91 MiKh School fund 1,411.61 Itahhlt bounty fund.. 15.20 Building lend 40.14 Dated at Hums, Orsffon. this 4th day ot liiremlier, I !i 1 1 direction ami by tbs Authority ot the county court. CHBtTBR DALTON, County cierk. Cash 186,181.10 ' 1 1,555.77 O.lOo.iMl 7,734.:i2 67.90 under tho Inland Empire Realty Co. A. A. MUtlMMMTT, lroprtcor REAL ESTATE Bought sold and exchanged Farm Ranch and Building Loans BLUEPRINTS 0A NS MA DE ON APPLICA TION DIRE CT INVESTMENT BROKER Phone 30 srG12S Barns, Oregon Buy a War Saving Stamp. Thirty-two thousand sehool child ren In the schools of Paris were re celviiiK regular lunches from the ItoU Crosa during the past year. The Red Crosa aent 16.000,60 cigarettes, 60,000 stacks of cards. 20,000,000 boxes of matches and 1,000,000 chocolate bars to BoglaoS for American so hi torn, wattles to so to Krence. Seven hundred portable houses for various MM were sent to France by the Ited Cross. Uncle Sam's best Christinas pre sent will be his boys home again. It may not be delivered, however, until lato tn the winter. The Bed Cross Is sending 1,6000, 000 pnokages of chewing gum a month to Krancs tor American ltr. Patronize WRAY'S AUTO STAGE and get a daily service between BURNS gd BEND FARE, $10.00 SO Ib. tesSgnge free HKA1XU ARTEBS AT REED BROS. Bsssaai , Vwi