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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1913)
BUTTER WRAPPERS Must Be Printed We are printing more wrappers than any other two offices in this section. There is a reason. We have the machinery, type and workmen necessary and we take the same care with Butter wrappers that we do with wedding invitations. Take your next order of Butter Wrappers to the Argus Office attic Tlmea l Damaged by Flra. Seattle, Wash. Fire Sunday dam aged four large presses and destroyed 33 motors In the pressroom of the I Seattle Times. In the basement of the i Times building, causing a loaa of $76 -000, fully Insured. idonel Alden J. Blethen, editor of the Times, and Clarence B. Hlethen, managing editor, aald they were con vinced the fire was of Incendiary origin. Both recognized as best in their respec tive lines and both products of the Waet, Olcott and Kay Are Sued. Salem. Or Circuit Judge Kelly having auatalned the demurrer to the ault of Attorney-General Crawford against Oovornor West, Secretary of State Olcott and State Treasurer Kay for alleged wrongful expenditure of about J16.000 of the penitentiary re volving fund, the nttomoygeneral has filed an amended romplulnt, charging that the state had been damaged in that extent. NEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL President Wilson Signs Underwood-Simmons Tariff Bill. Municipal League After Humphries. Seattle, Wash. Without one dis senting vote among the 300 members present, the municipal league adopted a resolution to nppolnt a committee to Invest Igate the conduct of Judge John K. Humphries, of the superior oourt of. King county, who during the past week sent ;4 men nm! worDSf to Jail for terms mnglng from one day to 11 month on contempt churn''. PORTLAND Standard Oil Company 1 U ' ' K Nl SAN I KANCISCO Always on the Job If you have a Job of hauling you want done, large or small, you ohm alwHVH ilppeiKl on John LandiiiRhatu being ready for you. Call him at the Moore Hotel. For Snlc Wheat on the Riley ranch nt ( 1.50 per hundre.l. Call at Multnomah rooming house. Empire Lumber Company, Limited WHOLESALE RETAIL DEALERS IN Sash, Doors, Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster and Coal BOLE AGENTS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF Malthoid Roofing and all P & B Products The Most Complete Lino of Building Materiul. If you cannot find it any where else come to ns. We have it. BjfcBtitBlK'ByIjFv,VM-. " , w i aBaaaaaaal nLaaaaaaaPLaSraSai .aaaaaaaaa 8aW jj 1 aMaaWHaBaaW Paint Kitchen Floors Don't Scrub Them Avoid the backache and sore knees caused by scrubbing bare floors. Painted floors are easy to keep bright and clean, are attractive and very inexpensive. ACME QUALITY FLOOR PAINT gives a hard, durable, sanitary finish for floors, steps or any inside surface to be walked on, easy to keep clean and hard to wear out. You can apply it yourself. It dries in a short time. Offered in appropriate and attractive shades. McBrctney-McNulty Hardware Company Ontario, Ores on. aaaw raw a ari m of JaT Lii kW Washington. Surrounded by ths leaders of a united democracy, Presi dent Wilson Blgned the Underwood Simmons tariff bill at the White House. Simultaneously telegrams were sent to customs collectors throughout the country by the treas ury department, nutting Into actual operation the first democratic tariff revision since 1894. A luippy group of legislators, mem hers of the cabinet nnd friends encir cled the president as he signed the bill, using two gold pens. He pre sented to Representative Underwood the pen that had written the word "Woodrow," and the one which hnd completed his name to Senator Sim mons. Many Tariff Ratea Abolished by Bill. The Underwood Simmons bill brings Into effect one of the most far-reach ing revisions of tariff rates and rev ettue laws enacted for many years. A uew Income tox, applying directly to the Incomes of citizens; the aboil Hon "1 till tariff on scores of Items of Immense Importance to American In Just ry and American consumers, nnd a heavy reduction of tariff ratea on most irf the articles In general use In this conntry are Its chief feature.. While certain portions of the new law do not take effect at once, mont of Its pcvrlstona and iilnio.t a!l Hie lii. i i ii nr reiluc ilonii do. The feiii.fi, government has been sjicin! rlj .i MIIIOH dollars a m a tariff law win i iii ut thai i i nt. if.' e. nt by tariff experta In BOOST) el tbll UlS rates will raise 248 ' S yei.r, .mil thai llie . Ill raise IIST.OOO.OOO, Th remainder of the government's great taOOn Is lip prim tip illy of Inter nal revenue taxes ami ; New BUI Summarized. I i -iet iimin.n f nt' llie iii w tariff law as prepared for the senate follows: W erilge .eic enlace ill Inill'l i HeS na compared with the value of all lm ported men I'.andlse: Old law, 37 per cent; new law, 21 per cent. Value of annual imports added to the free list, IHT.mio.uuO. Kstlmated revenues from all Import ratea: Old law, $:!06,000,000; uew law, . 4U,iaM).i, ou. Kstlmated revenue from corporation and income taxes: Old law. $.17,000. iino; new law. IIIMJMii, ' iitiMimers In the United States probably will receive from ubroad, free from nil tariff, more than $l,(iiMi,iMMi.itHO worth oi merchandise during the i. Muring Ittl the amount ol "free Imported" was more (hull $XM),llii'i.ni'ii. ami when the licritl in ctilireh n- BOI Sd in III wool. Iron on- and cheap Iron and other Im portant iii-iiii-. the total Is expected to Increiihi- notably. Under Ihe old law more i liau fill per cent of all goods brought to the I nltcd States Iriiiu all purts of Ihe world paid no tariff, and that proportion will be Increased by the SOW all The free wool provision of the new law lakes effect December 1, 191:1, and the free sugar provision May 1, 1910. Congress at Work Nine Months. The new tariff law, passed four years alter I'rtsldcnt Taft signed the existing Puyne-Aldrlch law, lu i tie re ault of more than nine months of work in emigre-.- Hearings were started January 6 by the house ways and means committee. Chairman Under wood Introduced the tariff bill April 7, Immediately after President Wilson hud convened the uew congress. It MtSlJ !lu' house May 8, aud the aeu- ate Sepicmber 9, National Capital Bravitiea. June 1 has been designated as Fitth i-ri.' day. In a resolution introduced 111 the house by Representative Moore of IVniinv lvunia. He would make the rose the emblem. A bill for the creation of u public lulid court is to be advocated In SOS gress by Senator Walsh of Montana. The court is designed to save turn- 111 land caaes and to decide all points of law ut Issue Repreaeututlvea of small bauks of the middle west and south protested against the currency bill before the senate banking aud currency commit tee. The chief objection was ugainst the provision preventing the smaller banks charging for the collection of out of town checks. Ou the heels of the failure of con gr .--i- to legislate in the tariff bill to prevent gambling In cotton futures, Koiresentatlve Harrison of Missis sippi iutroduced a resolution provld iug for an international campaign agalmt such speculation. A new counterfeit, a $10 National Rank of New York, hits been disco v ered by the secret service division ot the treasury department. It la a pho tographic reproduction of fair Quality paper without silk thread., or trait Uou of iheiu. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON 1 """ liT. W. A massive oak tree, 326 yeara old, ; tins been cut down on the Vhltakor farm, In Polk county. The tree was 19 feet in circumference. Dr. B. C. Ollnger of The Dalles bna been appointed deputy grand exalted ruler of the Klks lodge for the north ern Oregon district. Oregon City and Mllwnukle are In the thick of a "dry" election. Petitions have been filed calling for an election November 4. Electors i The Dnlles will vote on November 41o decide whether or not the sale of Intoxicating llquora ahnll be prohibited. Pupils of the schoola of Polk county will study dairying. W. A. Rnrr of the Oregon Agricultural college Is working out the details of the work. The Ryers flour mill, or properly speaking, the Pendleton Roller Mills, hns been sold to a Holland syndicate, represented by L 0 Kens, manager of the Spokane Flour Mills. Alberta Dillon, owned by Joe Carson of Winnipeg, Mnnltobu. won the Lewis and Clark stoke from 13 starters, mnk Ing the third heat In 2:10, ut the atnto fair nt Salem. Under the Income tax feature of the Underwood tnrirf bill Oregon will con tribute nt least n iiunrter of n million dollars annually to the revenues of thu United States. There is liable to be considerable controversy over the recent cruise of tlie timber hinds In Clatsop enmity, made by the Nenz Timber company, under contnwt with the county court. Rusltiesi men of Oregon City are lookltv Into the plan of quitting the use nl Hull Run wad r ami obtaining h new supply from the south fork of the rim liiimns river. More than 3(M),( acres of bind In Crenli county, near l.a Pine, declared OSS iluahle for agricultural than bl purposes, iii'iii will be opened for sen h-ment on the lottery plan. In Itiiiev K. I.cah, who was de port, d because of sill IS 1 SBOrohlStiS tnleiuents at Coos Kin. has left for torts 10 1I1 liver lei tinea on socialism. MIhs Lottie !. Fleet, who has been librarian at Pendleton three years, has N Igni d to BSOSpt the position of aa Btotaot librarian of the public library at Porilaml. When an aufo tn which they were riding turned turtle at Dallas, (leorgo Krehs, Itoss Nelson, Oelievlevn Wilcox and Merth.t Potterfteld received slight Injuries. Ilnnilreils of dead female China pheasants were left In the fields of I. Inn county, na result of the shiughter on the first duy of the open season. It la said. A longer compulsory school term and a larger general school fund were recommended at u conference held under the auspices of the Cnlverslty of Oregon and members of several educational leagues, at Salem. The first fair ever held at Tygu, southern Waco county, has Just closed. The fair was a success tn very way, exhibits of fruits, vege tables, horses, sheep and swine being Of special merit. Mra. II. C. Foster, formerly Mlaa li.iitH Long of Pendleton, a bride of less than a month, has secured a war rant for the arrest of her husband at S.ui Francisco, charging him with ills appearing with $1000 which had been given Into hia care. Sec t.-tai Houston has advised Rep reaentatlve stiimut that he recom mended the elimination of 24.000 acres from the Deschutes national forest. Approval by the secretary of the In terior la needed to complete the ellm Inatlon. Under the terms of Senator Lane's amendment to the tariff bill every American farmer, if so disposed, can enter on the manufacture of denatured alcohol after securing a permit from the commissioner of Internal revenue In the treasury department. There promises to be a lively cam paign in Muxshfleld to bring ubout reform movements. While the "wet" and "dry" question cannot be brought up for some time, those who favor prohibition and reforms are working hard to get all their followers regis tered for the next city election. Sheepmen In eastern Oregon are facing a serious problem In what to do for feed for their aheep wheu they bring them In from the summer range in the mountains, us this summer and full has bean exceptionally dry. aud there is practically no grass on the home range. The senate has agreed to Senator Lane's ameudment to the deficiency bill authorizing the use of the appro priation for the Portland postofflce in the erection of a general office build- ins sufficiently large to accommodate (OS postofiue and other federal of- I flees in Portland that uow occupy rented quarters. Judge Percy R. Kelly of the Marion county circuit court sustained the de murrer of the complaint filed by At torney tieueral Craw lord, ou behalf of the state ag.i.iist liuveraor West, Sec retary of ftotc OtoOtt and State Treas urer Kuy. to rOSOVSf practical) $ltJ, 000 a'leged to have bean unlawfully SSpooOOal froui tlie peultamWry revolv ing fund. ' IlllU-o DENTIST Telephone No. 7& First National Bank Bldg. DRS. 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