LOCAL NEWS
Sheriff W. H. Singler was at Med­
ford Monday.
W. T. Grieve was at Medford Wed­
A. L. Gall was a recent business vis­
nesday.
itor at Medford.
Gus N eft bury was at the court house
Walter Bosi»ick was over from Ap-
Tuesday.
i piegate Saturday.
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Sheriff W. H. Singler was at Medford
Judge Prim transacted business at
Thuftday.
i Medford Thursday.
Clint Gallatin of Buncom was in town
John Teller of Watkins was in tAwn
Wednesday.
one day this week.
Charles Pursel of Buncom was in
Luke Ryan was transacting business
town Saturday.
at Medford Monday.
Mrs. W. T. Grieve was a visitor at
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Taylor of Ruch
Medford Tuesday.
were in this city Thursday.
A. B. Butler of Ellensburg, Wash­
Harry Luy was transacting business
at Medford Tuesday.
ington, was 'll town this week.
Fred Coppie of the Applegate valley
William Chambers of Central Point
was in town Monday.
was a visitor in town Thursday.
Mrs. C. B. Stout and daughter Ora,
Christmas postal cards and booklets
were recent visitors at Medford.
at the City Drug Store.
Teachers examinations will be held Charles Ove» ton of Butte Falls was a
in this city next week.
recent visitor at the court house.
Frank Crump of Sterling was a re­ T. M. Hayes of Buncom was trans­
acting business in this city Monday.
cent visitor in this city.
i
M. Sindley of Lake Creek was a vis­ Mrs. C. Ulrich and Mrs. H. K. Han­
na were recent visitors at Medford.
itor in this city Monday.
Mrs. A. Elmer has had a new’ roof
J. G. Hurt of Ashland was in this ci­
put on and other improvements made
ty a short time Saturday.
Horace Pelton of Sams Valley was a to her residence on Fifth street.
ChaiTes Clark of Rhyolite, Nevada, a
recent visitor in this city.
Mrs. Annie Broad visited her daugh­ former resident of this county, is visi­
ting friends in the valley this week.
ters at Medford Saturday.
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Dr. R. E. Golden made a business
trip to Medford Wednesday.
Income Tax Law Explained.
Miss Lelia Prim was a visitor at
Medford Thursday afternoon.
Portland, Or., Dec. 9 (To the Edi­
Surveyor Elksnat was at Medford a
short time Thursday morning.
tor of The Telegram)—In response to
Charles Hamilton of the Applegate the questions forwarded to this office,
you are advised as follows:
was in town one day this week.
When did the income tax take effect?
J. M. Childers a former resident of
The
income tax covers a period fr< m
this city, was in town recently.
March’ 1913, to December 31 of this
G. W. Canning, solicitor for the Red- year, and parlies making returns of
men lodge, was in town Monday.
their incomes have from January 1 to
A. S. Hubbard of Ashland was a vis­ March 2, 1914. in which to make said
itor at the court house this week.
returns.
Is a home valued at so much rental,
Miss Ellen Wells of Ashland visited
where the party lives in it, included as
with friends in this city Tuesday.
David Crocker of Medford was a busi­ income?
The way this question is worded^ it
ness visitor in this city Thursday.
is not just clear just what the party
Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Hanna were vis­ desires, but would say that where a
itors at Medford Saturday evenmg.
party lives in his own home and figures
Mrs. James M. Cronemiller was a that the home should bring a certain
Medford visitor Tnursday afternoon.
amount if rented to another, it would
Herman Offenbacher and Ralph Pit- not be included as income to party who
tock of Applegate were in town Thurs­ owns said home and resides therein.
How are mortgages, bonds, etc,,
day.
F. ClaspeU of Willow Springs was classed, and if they are taxed does that
transacting business in this city Thurs­ become double taxation?
Bonds and mortgages are not taxed
day,
under the income tax law. It is only
Joseph Goldsby of Buncom was trans­ I
the incomp derived from such bonds
acting business in this city Wednes­
and mqrtgages that is taxable.
day.
Milton A. Miller,
Col. Willi ims of the Taylor-Williams
Collector.
Co. was a Medford visitor Monday fore­ —Telegram
noon.
A crew of carpenters are busy this
Federal Road Policies
week putting a new roof on the U. S.
Hotel.
Fred ICeinhammer of Applegate bas
Thrie has been a steady movement
•old his farm to Harley Hall and E. for better roads during the past 20
Forman.
years, and today about 34 States have
Miss Nellie Collins, neacher of the highway commissions or some other
public school at Ruch, was in town State highway agency. The total an­
Saturday.
nual expenditure of the States for con­
The new school house on Foots creek struction and maintenance of roads
is completed, School opened in it De- which ten years ago amounted to but
cember 1st.
$2,000,000., has grown to $43,000,000 in
wot( 11912. The Federal Government shoulcl
Dr. O. N. Nelson of Medford was
transacting insurance business in t this
—~ take the lead in investigational and ex­
perimental work, and there is need for
city Friday.
W,W. Cameron of the Applegate a central agency which can furnish the
valley was transacting business in this best information on all problems of
road building and maintenance, Re­
city Saturday.
cently Congress made an appropriation
Frank Came.on of Uniontown was of $500,000. for improving post roads,
transacting business in this city Mon­ expenditure to be contingent on the ap­
day forenoon.
propriation of double the amount of
The Rebekah lodge had a "pie social” money by the State or local subdivis-
after the close of the regular session I ion. If Federal aid is to be further ex-
Monday evening.
j tended in highway development, legis-
Mrs. Mary Bauten and E. N. Noble i ialion to that end should incorporate
of Medford transacted legal business , tnis cooperative principle. The Feder-
: a) Government should deal with tne
in this city Wednesday.
W. H. Venable, a prosperous farmer : Stale as the luwest unit, through an
uf Ruch was transacting business with expert highway commissioner as its a-
| geniy. The plan should provide for
our merchants this week.
j maintenance as well as construction.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bailey of Eugene Preference should be given to the im­
visited at the home of their son in this provement of roads over which pro­
city several days this week.
ducts from the farms can be taken to
Superintendent J. Percy Wells was the nearest railway station. A scheme
transacting business pertaining to the of road construction and maintenance
schools, at Medford Monday.
J within a State should be developed and
Luke Ryan has moved his stock of i mutually agreed upon. Money appro-
general merchandise to Medford where I priated by the Federal Government
Wm. Ulrich is disposing of it for him. ! should be apportioned on the basis of
J. N. Bradonry plead guilty to a ¡such factors as total population, farm
charge of entering the Moore bar, at ; population, area, taxable valuation and
Medford, Sunday and was sentenced to mileage. —Dept Agriculture Report
So days in jail.
Misses Dora and Cordelia Reuter who
Irrigation Institute Planned
had been vidiing their mother and sis­
ter in thia city during the past week,
North Yakima, Wash., Dec. II —Ir­
returned to The Dalles Monday.
Lyman N. Judd, a well known real rigation in all its phases from storage
•atste man of Talent, died Tuesday of j resevoir to growing crops will be dealt
of . i
a meeting to be held here Jan­
heart failure. He was a t veteran
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the civil was and was aged about 80 uary 14 to Id. under the auspices of the
Reclamation Service. The meeting is
years.
to be known as the Columbia River ir-
James E. Tyhurst died at Medford
iigation institute, and will be address­
Sunday morning, aged 84 years. He
ed by Federal state and county officials.
was a native of Ohio and had been 'a
Commissioner I. D. O'Donnell, of the
farmer all his life. Funeral was held
Reclamation Service, recently appoint­
lav
forenoon,
interment
ig
the
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ed by President Wiison to a committee
c u.ctery at this city.
having under its supervision al. recla­
I nathan Andrew Robbins, a native mation projects, is to talk. There will
e sta.e of Indiana, died at M.<> also be an expert from the United
v
f .1, Saturday,
_. aged
_ 45 years. Funer-| States Department of Agriculture, and
rAUPEH 3M33S OF INDIA.
ROGUE RIVER VALLEY
Beggars Tiuu .Will Not Work Because
They Are Aristocrats.
The Arctic h a Deep Cup, the
Antarctic a Huge Bulb.
FORMS OF LIFE DIFFER ALSO.
In tho North Are the Eskimos, and
Plants and A lirr.als Are Relatively
Abundant, While the Couth Hae No
Human Beings and Little Vegetation.
. Oue-foin-.li of (he Anglo-Indian popu-
I latioti lb India is supported by charity.
For the Ar. lo-Indian thinks that work
is beneath him. ami really at heart he
is a born snob, it isn't drunkenness
Ulil h makes him an object of charity,
for there is comparatively little drunk
enness among tlie poor in India. Nor is
it the seasonal trades, as it sometimes
is with us. for work there is continuous
the year round. Neither Is it the mo;
uotony of a dreary home or dally toil
that drives him to drink mid then to
poverty. For there is no part of Cal­
cutta where there are people of one so­
cial grade, but the homes of the poor
aré interspersed with the licit.
He is a pauper purely and simply be-
| cause" be is an aristocrat. He has Eng­
lish blood ia his veins and be wants to
live like the English, and the English
in India are the successful and the rich.
They have their well appointed homes,
their servants and every luxury. The
Englishman who works with Ills hands,
the men in the factories, the day labor­
ers. the frontiersmen, the farmers are
not found in India. The beggar snob
does not know of their existence. He
knows only the coolies and the Hindus,
who work with their bands, and be
will not be one of them. He wishes
to pattern his life after the English­
man whom he knows. He wants to
have u servant and be waited on. and
if he cannot he will not work. To dig
with a shovel is a disgrace in his eyes
and begging is infinitely more respec-
' table.
i So the Anglo-Indian pauper is sup­
ported on a scale better than that of
i tlie faithful workmen among the Hin­
dus and coolies, and the burden of the
charity falls on the rich English. The
¡ wealthy Hindus will take none of the
i responsibilities. They say that tlie
Englishman created this class and that
on him falls the weight of support.
There is another cause of tills pover­
ty also, apart from this strong false
sentiment. That is the insanitary con­
ditions of life which cause the death
of the father of the household nt an
early age. This reduces the family to
pauperism at once, as the lines of
work open to tlie Anglo-Indian woman
which slie wiil accept are practically
none.—Chicago Tribune.
EXCURSION
TO
LOS ANGELES
The earth whirls «round an invisible
axle, one end of which trrus the deep
cup of the Arctic ocean, while the otb
er spins the huge white buttou of the
antarctic continent.
In the north the ice tloats on the sea
like a moving door. In the south it
rests like a I hiss . v shield on a vast
dome of uplifted rock.
Close around the edges of the lee
world, both north and south and even
within it. animals and plants are found
living. Hut In tlveir species these in­
habitants of the opposite poles are as
different as the poles themselves.
On and around the antarctic conti­
nent there are several species of birds,
notably albatrosses, petrels and the
strange, upright walking penguins,
with their black coats, white waist
coats and ludicrously polite bearing
There are also whales and seals, but
the human form Is absent, except so
far as It Is mimicked to the eye of
fancy by the stately penguins. The
plants are scanty in number, although
some bear Howers.
Within the arctic circle the scene is
more animated. There tire many arc­
tic plants, some bearing brilliant flow­
ers. Yellow buttercups and tiretie pop­
pies warm the heart of the explorer.
The saxifrage puts out its starry
blossoms w ithin 7'A degrees of the pole.
There are so many other species that
a very attractive bouquet of arctic
flowers may be formed. The animal
life of the arctic is also relatively abun­
dant. In the sea is the world circling
whale, the walrus with his curious
tusks and the various species of seals
On the land and snow’ and sometimes
on the icepacks are large and remarka­
ble animals often in abundance. The
great polar bear alone would suffice to
make the lands that lie tenants famous
INGENIOUS SUNDIALS.
Then there are reindeer, musk oxen,
foxes, wolves, hares and lemmings. They Were Quite Popular In Pari« In
the Eighteenth Century.
Among birds, are grouse, ptarmigans,
snew buntings, falcons, puffins and
Parisians have always been extreme­
auks. But man is there, too. in the ly devoted to sundials, nnd it is prob­
person of the but dwelling, fur clothed, able that the French capital possesses
a greater number of these time indicat­
fish spearing Eskimo.
The reason why the life around the ing devices than any other city in the
two poles is so different and so con­ world.
Even in the eighteenth century the
trasted in its forms is probably to be
found in the climatic differences, sundial was most popular in Paris,
which, in turn, are governed by the and fashion singled out for Its choice
elevation. The sea life is similar in the sundial of the Palais Royals.
both cases—whales and seals ale the Every day at noon this was the center
characteristic animals that Inhabit the of interest of an eager crowd. A writ­
polar waters. But the great elevation er of that period tells of a “grent crowd
of the antarctic continent, with Its in the corner of the Palace Itoyale gar­
eternal burden of snow and Ice, thou­ den. standing motionless with their
sands of feet in thickness, continually noses in the air." each was waiting for
sending down immeasurable« glaciers noon, having Ills watch ill hand, ready
that form vast platforms of thick ice to set at 12 o’clock.
When tlie Duke of Orleans was alter­
all around the borders <zf iix- conti­
nent. keeps the mean temperature at ing the palace in 1782 the Parisians
a low level and drives life away from were much disturbed, thinking thnt
the snow’ buried land. The atmosphere they were to be deprived of their fa­
over the south pole manufactures snow vorite sundial. But the duke not only
and ice without limit As the burden preserved the sundial, but lidded to it
piles higher at the center it pushes out­ a little powder magazine, which was
ward on all sides down the slopes of so arranged that It exploded when the
the continent until It reaches the bor­ sunlight fell upon It. thus notifying ev­
ery one who heard the explosion that
dering sea.
But things have not aiways been the hour of noon had arrived. Later a
thus. The re-ent explorers of the ant­ camion which was discharged by the
arctic have found remains of ancient sun at noon took the place of the little
life, recalling the life of the temperate powder magazine.
Buffon arranged an Ingenious dial 1n
«ones and the tropics. The coal de­
posits of the antarctic continent are the botanical garden. A globe which
believed to be of vast extent They represented the earth was suspended
could not have been formed under pre« by a hair. The hair was burned
ent conditions. They consist of the through by the sun at noon, and the
fossilized remains of immense forests. globe fell upon a Chinese gong.—St
They could not have been transported Louis Republic.
to their present location either by land
or water. They must have been form
The Greatest Discovery.
ed where they are. Consequently the
We were talking of the grent discov­
antarctic regions must once have en­ eries and wondering which was the
joyed a mild climate and atmospheric greatest, and some of us suggested
conditions very favorable to an abUB electricity, wireless telegraphy, flying
dant vegetation.
machines and microbes and anaesthet­
But if there was an abundance of ics. One fell back on steam, but an­
vegetation there is every reason to be­ other—a reticent mnn usually—remark
lieve that there was an abundance of I ed thnt the most surprising discovery
iinlmnl life also At that time the south ' of man was that this earth move«
pole. Instead of being elevnted many round the sun and is not the most im­
thousands of feet nbove the sen. may portant small holding in tlie universe.
have lain nt a low level. That. in It­ —London Spectator.
self. would raise the mean tempera­
ture. Im» It would not be sufficient to
Began to Enjoy Himself.
produce all the difference between
••He stayed so late thnt In despera­
present and past conditions of antnre
tion I brought out the grnphophone
tic life.
Either the stin was hotter In that about 11:30 and played 'Home. Sweet
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distant time, or the composition of the Home.' ”
“Did thnt start him?'*
atmosphere was such ns to retain
“Quite the contrary. When he learn­
more limit, or the Inclination of the
earth's axis was different from what ed we find n graphophone he made me
It Is today, or. as some have imagined, play about every record we had."—
the solar system was then passing ! Taiuisville Courier Journal.
through a warmer region of space.
What She Had.
Whatever the «iinse may have been,
Swnlibs married n widow on being
¡here is no doubt thnt there was a
time when the lands around both the told that she had an o- ean of money
poles were habitable by animals and He afterward found she did not have
plants, most of which have since been a bank account nt all. He bad only
been told that she had u notion of mon­
driven toward the equator.
A* the antarctic continent rose, and ey. which he found out wun enough.—
ns-'umed Its burden of Ice. the relics of London Telegraph.
Its former splendid life were buried
A Second Ediion.
almost be-ond re-overy. while In the
Farmer—Yes. sir. That hired man of
far north, where there ha» boeti no
¡•orret-ponding elevation, but possibly a ml: .<■ Is « lie of the greatest Inventors
daprosshm. more "of the ancient life ,r the < entnw. City Boarder—You
forms have lemalned. while the tmees i >,i't . ■ •■! What did he Invent? Farm
,f .vhnf the; once were are »ore eas­ ■r Petrified i.ioi loii.— Judge
ily re overed Garrett P. Servian tn
flfmknne Spokesman Review.
Rather Odd.
“It's pmtfv expensive to have one’s
f.alsw I« the renins that changes the awn lawyer "
wor'd from n-lln<~s to beauty ami the
• But It doesn't cost anything to keep
at Tuesday atternuon under »be «...»pi- rpeaKers from the State De artment, gr'-at curse to a great blessing.—J. M .»ne's own counsel.“-Bo«ton Tran«
«... of the Medford lodge I. O O. F. of the State University ond the State Col- W Turner
•crlpt.
which order deceased was a member.
December 29
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March 14, 1914
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