m m es
u. s.
Profits from the sale of property,
09224110
real or personal.
Kents.
Interest on notes, mortgages, deeds
Lenlne and T rotik y Make Abject Sur-
o f trust or other securities Issued by
rendci to Kataer Germany Gets
Individuals, partnerships, etc.
Lithuania. Poland and Klgn.
Interest on bonds, mortgages, deeds
o f trust or similar obligations of cor
—
porations. Joint stock companies or in
The Russian Bolshevik I government
surance companies.
has capitulated and announced its read-
Interest on bank deposits, including
ineaa, although protestingly, to aign a
savings banks.
peace compact under the hard lerma
Income received from fiduciaries,
imposed by Germany.
that Is, amounts received from In
Notwithstanding this fact, Teutonic
comes o f estates, trusts, etc., through
troo|ia are advancing eastward into
trustees, administrators or executors.
Kuaaia over a front o f 400 miles, from
Dividends ou stock, whether re
Riga in the north to Lutsk, a scant 60
ceived as cash or stock. Only divi
miles from the East Galician border,
dends paid out of earnings or profits
on the aouth.
Apparently, I bus far
accrued since March l, 1913, are tax
the operation has met with no opposi
able.
tion.
Net partnership profits, whether di Events o f Noted 1‘eople, Governments
The northern reaches o f the Dvina Problem o f America’s Sky-Fighting
vided and distributed or not.
river have been crossed by the enemy:
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Campaign la Declared to Be Se
Royalties from uiluca, oil and gas
the important railroad town of Dvmsk,
Things Worth Knowing.
wells, patents, copyrights and fran
curing o f Skilled Mechanics.
whence roads run northessi ward to
chises.
Pstrograd and eastward to Smolensk,
Heavy penalties are provided for de
has been captured ami I.utak, one of
linquents. I f you are late in filing
the fainoua fortresses ot the Volhynian
Many pereona have been injured and traingle and forming the gateway
Washington, D. C. The first Am er
your return you are subject to a flue
of not less than $20 uor more than more than 100 houaea collapsed by j leading eastward to Kiev, has been ican'built battle plane* are en route to
$1,000, and. In addition, 50 per cent of earthquake shoeks at Amoy, China, entered without the Russians attempt France, nearly five months ahead of
the original schedule.
the amount ol the tax due. For muk- Wednesday.
ing to stay the force.
In msking this sniuiiineenient
Ing false or fraudulent returns the
The
only
indication
that
the
enemy
The Prussian budget for 1918 ealla
penalty is a tine not exceeding $2.000 for 2,260,000 marks to be devoted to will meet with hinderanee comes in an dsy night, Secretary llsker t t J f r
or not exceeding one year's Imprison > German propaganda in Polish terri announcement by Ensign Krylenko, the first shipment, although in
ment, or both, in the discretion o f the tory, according an official dispatch Bolshevik commander-in-chief. In hia large, "m arks the final overcom ^^B k,
court, and. In addition, 100 per cent of Wednesday from Switzerland.
order he instructs the Russians when many difficulties met in building up
they encounter German troo|>s to en this new and intricate industry.”
the tax evaded. For falltng to pay tax
"Th ese plane*," Mr. Baker said,
Women
who
can
qualify
w
ill
be
em
deavor
to fierauade them to refrain
when due. which Is on June 15, 1918.
the penalty is an assessment o f 5 per ployed as ship draftsmen in the Navy from hostilities. “ I f the Germans re " a r e equipped with the first Liberty
motors from machine production. One
cent of the amount unpaid, plus 1 per department and in the navy-yard serv fuse,” he sdds, "th en you must offer
o f them in a recent test surpassed all
ice throughout the country, the C ivil them every (tosaihle resistance.”
cent
Interest
for
each
month
during
This remnrkable photograph Is the first to arrive In the United States
Service commission announces.
As yet there is no indication from records for s|>eed and climbing for
showing the damage Inflicted upon one of the buildings of the famous Kremlin which it remains unpaid.
German sources concerning the full in planes of that ty|M>.
Government Keeps Check.
In Moscow by the bolshevlkt.
The first woman and child in the
” Engine production, which began a
The man who thluks that failure to Eastern states to be interned as enemy tentiona o f the invadcra, but it lias month ago, is now on a quantity basis
been
assumed
that
in
the
north
the
make proper returns might escape un sliens were placed in a detention camp
rapture of the provinces o f Livonia and the peak o f production will he
noticed Is making a serious error. The at Gloucester, N. Y .
They are Mra. and Esthonia is contemplated, ami that reached in a few weeks. Only the 12-
government has a checking system by Matilda Hansen and her 12-year-old
in the south, in Little Russia, aid ia to cylinder type ia being turned out. a*
which it will be informed o f delin daughter.
be
sent the Ukrainians in stemming developments abroad have made it
quents.
wise to conneentrate on the hlgh pcw-
the
tide of the Bolshevik government
Private J. W. Boucher, o f the 267th
The task of collecting the revenue io
errd engine Instead of the eight-cylin
against
them.
be derived under the war revenue act Canadian Railway Battalion, has been
Apparently all is still chaos in Rus der.”
devolves upon the bureau of internal sent home from France because he is
optim istic as the following state
sia,
with civil war in progress at var
"tiH. old to fight.”
He is 73 and
revenue. Revenue officers are visiting
ment appear, the secretary aaid they
I
ious
point*,
and
the
food
situation
fought
in
the
American
C
ivil
War
capable o f self-support because defeo- every county In the United States to
daily grows worse.
So serious has should lie considered in the light of
: tive. A taxpayer is considered to be assist taxpayers In making out their with the 23d Michigan Volunteers.
become
the
latter
factor
that Trotzky ! these faces:
I the head of a family if he is support- income tax returns. The date of their
"T h a t after three years o f warfacre
Twenty-five
thousand
Filipinoa
are
has
been
rppointed
food
controller
and
| ing one or more persons closely con- arrival and the location of their office
under arms and drilling in the hope given unlimited (towers. Already he the total number o f plane* able to take
' nected with him by blood relationship, may be ascertained by inquiry of col
of being called into the United Statea has ordered the arreat o f speculators in the air at any time on either aide o f
j relationship by marriage, or If his duty lectors of internal revenue.
These
the western front ha* not been more
Army for service in France, according foodstuffs.
j to support such person is based on government experts will furnish you
than 2600.
to C. W. O’ Brien, an attorney, who
some moral or legal obligation.
with return forms and answer any
"T h a t 46 men are required on the
Berlin, via Ixtndon — The official
has just returned to San Franciaco
Women as w »’l as men are subject and all questions as to how they
communication issued by the German j ground for every plane in the air,
from Manila.
to the tax.
should be filled out. Their services are
War office Tuesday evening says that making a total o f 116,000 men needed
The combined net income of a mar offered without cost. You should re
President W illson's intervention has from R ig * to as far south as Lutsk, I for the present maximum o f 2600
Every Married Man or Head of a Fam
ried couple living together is assessed. member, however, that failure to see terminated
the
Eastern
shipyard German armies arc advancing east | planes.
ily Having an Income of $2,000 a
If, for example, the husband earns the official who visits your county does strikes. Reports Monday night to the ward into Russia.
‘ ‘ That for every plane in the air
Year and Every Single Man
$2,000 and the wife $1,000, they will not relieve you of the duty Imposed by Shipping Board from union heads in
there must lie two replacement plane*
Having an Income of $1,-
have to pay a tax of $20, provided they law to file your income tax return all districta in which carpenters are
Isindon - Rumors are current in on the ground and one training plane
000 Must File a Return.
{ have no children.
within the time prescribed. The tax out said the strikers would be bsck at Stockholm, according to a dispatch fur every pilot, who eventually reaches
A widow, a woman living apart from payer must seek the government, not work by noon Tuesaday.
from Copenhagen to the Exchange the front, with a spare engine for each
Washington.— Seven million taxpay her husband, or a maid Is assessed on i the government the taxpayer.
Telegraph company, that the Germans j plane.
W ith the
Yolande,
Caatle
and
ers will contribute this year, In pro her net Income above $1,000.
Every effort has been made to in
" N o w that American battle planes
intend to intervene at once in Finland.
portion to their income, to the cost of
“ Net income” means gross Income. ! form persons subject to the tax of Seariea mines idle, strikes o f coal min
The belief prevails at the Swedish are going overseas, a great increase in
ers
in
the
Birmingham
district
o
f
A
la
the war. The estimated revenue to be j less certain deductions provided for by their duty, and Ignorance of the law
capital that the German action will he the volunteering o f skilled mechanics
collected under the war revenue act of ! the act.
will not be accepted as an excuse. De bama had spread to three new com directed against the unoccupied dis is both essential and ex|iected. ”
panies, with approximatey 16,000 min
October 3. 1917, is $2,500.000,000, of
In arriving at your net income you linquents need expect no leniency.
Druing the last few months, Mr.
tricta o f Courlami and Esthonia in con
ers idle. The miners claim the Gar
which $GCe,000,000 Is In individual in are allowed to deduct from gross in
If, on account of illness or absence
junction with a great naval attack in Baker said, a responsive channel o f
field
proposals
are
not
being
lived
come taxes. More than O.OOO.OOO per come all expenses actually paid during from home, you are unable to render a
communication with the allies has
the Finnish gulf.
sons who never before have paid an the year in the conduct o f a business, return within the time prescribed, you up to.
been opened, the latest ty|ics o f for
trade or profession.
These include may obtain an extension of thirty dnys 1 Count Emerich Karolyi, according to
Income tax will be assessed.
eign machines have been adapted to
American manufacture, the industry
"Liberty tax" is the designation giv the amounts paid by n farmer in pre by filing with the collector of internal a dispatch from Budapest to the Am
increased at least twenty-fold, the
en the levy by Daniel C. Roper, com paring his land for a crop and the revenue of your district a request sterdam Frankfurter Zeitung, has sub
missioner o f internal revenue. The cultivation, harvesting and marketing therefore before March 1. In this you mitted to the Hungarian m ilitary au Chamberlain Operated on For Append training plnne problem solved and the
production o f battle planes begun.
title is an apt one, fo r the revenue to of the crop, the cost o f seed and fer must state your reason why the return thorities a charge o f alleged high trea
icitis Condition Satisfactory.
American battle planes were not due
be derived under the war revenue act tilizer used, the amount expended for cannot be rendered within the time son against his cousin. Count Michael
Washington, D. C.— Senator George in France under the original schedule
and the proceeds from the sale of the labor in caring for live stock and the specified. Collectors are not author Karolyi, president o f the Hungarian
E. Chamberlain, o f Oregon, was oper until Juy.
Liberty bonds are to be used for the cost of feed. The farmer may deduct ized to grant extensions of more than Independence party.
ated on for appendicitis at Providence
lame purpose, to feed, clothe and fur also the amount paid for repairs to bis thirty days, but this authority Is
A t a private conference o f leaders hospital, this city, at 2 o ’clock Tues
nish with ammunition the American barn or other farm buildings, but not granted the commissioner of Internal
The operation was
armies. The owner of a Liberty bond the dwelling, and for repairs to farm revenue in meritorious cases. I f such o f the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League day afternoon.
is entitled to feel a pride also in the fences, machinery, etc. The cost of extension Is desired the request should in Sioux Falls, S. D., Tuesday, at performed by Drs. Thomas J. Kelly
materials for immediate use and of be addressed to Commissioner of In tended by A . C. Townley, National and J. A. Gannon, both o f Washing Opposition Said to Decrease Proposed
possession of an income tux receipt.
president o f the organization, it waa ton.
Amendments Suit Mr. Wilson.
Many persons shared in the prosper | small tools which are used up in the ternal Revenue. Treasury Department,
decided not to enter the South Dakota
The senator is reported to have sW>d
ity of 1917. Merchants, fanners, busi , course of a year or two, such as bind Washington, D. C.
primary race next May, according to the shock o f operation in a favorable “ Washington, 1). C. — Early compro
Agent May Act for You.
ness and professional men and em ing twine, pitchforl s, spades, etc., is a
manner and his condition is pronounced mise in the senate legislation for fu r
You may appoint an agent to act for reliable information.
ployees were beneficiaries. To Insure deductable Item, out not the cost of
very favorable by the attending physi ther co-ordination and reorgnniation o f
a continuance of prosperity each must threshing machines, tractors and ma you if, by reason of illness or absence
Arthur Soule, a wealthy rancher of
the government’s war-making agYncies
assume a share of the common bur chinery of a more or less permanent from home, you are unable personally Sanders county, Mont., who is await cians. They look for his complete re
appeared in sight Thursday night as
!
character.
Rent
paid
for
a
farm
may
covery.
to
render
your
return.
Your
agent
den— a burden so distributed that
ing trial at Thompson Falls for the
Since Sunday Senator Chamberlain a result o f negotiations* between
must make affidavit that he has suffi murder o f Ben Soule, his neighbor and
every man is assessed according to his ; be deducted.
Deductions Allowed.
cient knowledge to make return for nephew, last month, is charged with has been suffering more or less fr o m a Democratic ami Republican leaders for
Income. Better for the American peo
A merchant may claim as deductions you and must uccept responsibility for the murder o f his own baby daughter recurrence o f appendicitis, with which the revision of the Overman ffill which
ple to pay to their own government a
he was first afflicted last fall, hut until would give President Wilson greater
Liberty tax of $2,500,000,000 than a war ! the amount expended for advertising, and be willing to assume the penalties 21 years ago.
The information was
•
Tuesday evening he refused to place freedom o f action.
hire
of
clerks
and
other
employees,
for
a
delinquent,
false
or
fraudulent
Indemnity to Germany o f many times
filed by the county attorney.
Amendments virtually agreed on
himself under n doctor's care.
I
cost
of
light,
fuel,
water,
telephones,
that amount.
return.
The senator finally consented to an promise largely to harmonize differ-
etc., used in his place of business,
Discharge o f E. Dana Durand, for
The best advice that can be offered
Who Must File Returns.
j drayage and freight bills, the cost of to taxpayers in connection with the mer director o f the census, from his operation, was taken to Providence encea, a I lay Republican opposition and
Now is the time to file your income operating delivery wagons or trucks
secure supiairt in tho senate from all
filing of their Income tax returns Is: I position in the economics department hospital and was on thn operating
tax return.
sides except the group o f senators un
table between 2 o ’eloek and 2:46.
and cost o f their repair.
o
f
the
University
of
Minnesota
wp*
“ Don’t delay.” By prompt action you
Income tax forms may be had from
The physicians found the appendix alterably insisting upon the m ilitary
A physician may deduct the cost of are co-operating with your government demanded at a meeting o f the regents
collectors of Internal revenue. These medicines and medical supplies used
greatly inflamed, and had the opera committee's bill for war cabinet and
in the greatest task it has ever under o f that institution Wednesday by a
have been prepared in the simplest by him in the practice o f his profes
tion been much longer deferred, they munitions director.
taken, the defeat of German autocracy delegation o f representatives o f organ
form possible and with a little care sion ; expenses paid In the operation
President Wilson was said to have
believe there would have been fatal re
ized
labor
and
the
Nonpartisan
League,
no objection to the changea promoted
and attention taxpayers should be able and repair o f an automobile used in and the establishment of a world-wide a farm ers’ political organization.
sults.
and it is expected that the senate judi
to fill them out to the satisfaction of professional calls, dues to medical so and lasting peace. Every patriotic
American will pay these Liberty taxes
ciary sub-committee headed by Senator
The necessity fo r increased wages
Chinese Take Over Land.
themselves and the government.
cieties and subscriptions to medical cheerfully and promptly. The man
for railroad employes was concedeed
I f married or the head of a family, journals; expenses of attending medi
Chicago — Two big Chinese farming Overman will redraft the bill.
who seeks to evade them is not only Wednesday by representatives o f a
The amendments, however, would
and your net income for 1917 was $2,- cal conventions, rent paid for office
colonies
have been established in W is
dishonest, he Is disloyal. When dis majority o f the railroads of the Unit
retain the principal provisions author
000 or more, you are required to file rooms and the hire o f office assistants,
covered, as he will be, he will be made ed States, appearing for the first time consin, it became known Thursday, izing the President to transfer depart
with the collector o f internal revenue and cost of fuel, light, water, tele
to suffer the full consequences.
before the government's railroad wage with the announcement o f the signing ments, bureaus, commissions and other
In the district In which you live a re phone, etc., used in office rooms.
Get
in
line
early.
Remember
it
is
commission.
They said they came, not o f leases on 1480 acres o f land in Ju agencies and their personnel as he
turn o f your income fo r the calendar Amounts expended for books and surg
neau and Rusk counties by Chicago might deem necessary to effect great
cash
now
or
kalserism
later.
Whether
to
oppose
requests
o f the employes,
year. I f single and your income was ical Instruments are not allowable as
Chinese. One hundred Chinese will he er co-ordination and efficiency in prose
you
pay
a
tax
o
f
$10
on
an
Income
of
but merely to aid the commission by
$1 ,000 or more you are required to a deduction.
sent to the fsrms from Chicago early cuting the war.
$2,500 or $475,180 on an Income of $1,- g ivin g information.
make such a return. These returns
This, in a general way, outlines the 000,000 you may rejoice In the knowl
in March. It is planned to have many
must be in the hands of collectors not ordinary expenses Incurred by a farm
A big raid was carried out Wednes more follow, some from Chicago, and
edge
that
your
dollars
are
helping
to
Colleges Get Millions.
later than March 1, 1918.
er, merchant or professional man, and
day by the French southwest o f Butte some from Stockton, Cal. Options on
The normal rate of tax under the the principles underlying these allow win the war.
New
York
— Large bequest* to edu
Mesnil. The German positions were 6400 acres o f land have been taken and
war revenue act of October 3, 1917, Is ances are equally applicable In the
entered up to the third line and many backers o f the plan say 900 Chinese cational institutions were provided in
2 per cent on incomes above the case o f any business, trade or profes
the will, filed here Thursday, o f Gen-
defenses and shelters were destroyed. will be on the farms by next fall.
amount o f exemption, wb'ch is $2,000 sion. In short, all expenses connected
real Horace W. Carpentier, one o f the
In the case of married persons or heads directly and solely with an income- Connecticut Man Believed to Be Old-
Sir W illiam Goode, who, since the
original "Forty-niners” and a form er
Strike Situation Clears.
o f families and $1,000 in the case of producing business, trade, profession
entry
o
f
the
United
States
into
the
eet Bank Employee In the
Washington, D. C. — W ith striking mayor of Oakland, Cal., who died Jan
■ingle persons. The old income tax or vocation are allowable deductions.
war has occupied the important post of
Country.
carpenters in all Hffected districts re uary 31 at the age o f 92. Hia estate
under the act of 1916 still is in effect,
liason officer between the British food
You may deduct also from gross In
To Barnard
turning to work Thursday and William is valued at $3,600,000.
so that the total o f your tax will be come debts actually ascertained to be
Derby, Conn.— William 8. Browne, ministry and the United States food L. Hutcheson, president o f the Broth College waa left outright $200,000 " f o r
the sum of these taxes added together : worthless and charged off within the aged eighty, believed to be one of the administration, discussed the present
erhood o f Carpenters and Joiners, due scholarships or assistance from time to
Under the act of 1910 the normal rate ‘ year, and losses sustained in business oldest bank employees In the country food situation in an address Thursday
here to take up the situation with gov time to deserving girls, not excluding
to
the
London
Rotary
club.
o f tax is 2 per cent on Incomes of mar or trade or from fires, storms or theft, both In age and in point of service. Is
ernment officials, complete settlement Chinese seeking education there,” Co
ried persons in excess of $4,000 and if not compensated by insurance or still working at the Manufacturers’
Enthusiastic applause and cheera for o f the recent trouble in eastern ship lumbia University and Barnard to
on Incomes o f single persons in excess otherwise.
Reasonable allowance Is bank, where he has Just celebrated the
“ share and share alike” in the fortune.
America
met the declaration o f the yards seemed assured.
o f $3,000.
made for the depreciation o f property sixty-fourth anniversary o f his employ
In effect, President Wilson’s inter
For example, if you are married and on account of wear and tear In the use ment by the Institution. He went to Italian Premier Orlando, at the open
Blow Aimed at Wealth.
vention has terminated the shipbuild
your net Income for 1917 was $5,000 o f business. Depreciation of your resl- work in the bank when he was In the ing o f the parliament Wednesday, that ers’ strike.
Helena. M o n t— The Montana house
you w ill be taxed $80. This is 2 per | dence is not allowed, but if you rent local high school and has been em the war situation was growing better,
adopted, 61 to 27. a joint resolution to
cent on the amount above the exemp property to others, depreciation can be ployed under four cashiers, two presi due to help from the United States re
congress asking that the nation con
Man-Power Plan Lone*.
placing
Russia.
tion o f $2,000 under the act o f 1917 and claimed.
dents and Innumerable directors.
I/)ndon— The Amalgamated Society script all fortune* above $1,000,000
2 per cent on the amount above the
Items to Be Included.
The Stockholm Aftonbladet says that o f Engineers, according to a statement for war expenses and a resolution ask
exemption o f $4,000 under the act o f
You are required to Include under
Portable Homes for Army.
after a massacre which occurred at issued Wednesday by the secretary of ing that congress give the President
gross Income the following items:
New York.— Hundreds of portshls Kervo (K era va ) the Red Guarda wired
1916 .
the society, has rejected the govern power to fix prices on grain tacks,
Exemption for Children.
Salaries, wages, commissions or houses for the American troops In to Helsingfora for surgeons and am
ment’s man-power proposal* by 93,647 binding twine and farm machinery.
I f married or the bead o f a fam ily compensation of whatever kind for France are being built in this coun bulances. Five surgeons who le ft im
Adjournment o f the legislature, which
votes.
personal
services.
try.
The
houses
are
built
In
panels
you are allowed an additional exemp
mediately, adds the paper, were mur
The figures were: For the govern was to have come Thursday, has been
A ll profits derived from business and shipped to Europe. They are bolt dered by the Red Guards on their ar
tion o f $200 for each dependent child.
ment proposal, 27,470; against, 121,- put off by the impeachment proceed
ed together over there.
I f under eighteen years o f age or in- trade or commerce.
rival.
ings against Judge C. L. Crum.
017.
KREMLIN WRECKED 8Y THE BOLSHEVIKI
world
BOLSHEVIKI G IV E UP
OF CURRENT WEEK
ON WAY TO FRANCE
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
First Shipment Is Five Months
Ahead of Schedule.
COMPILED
BAKER STATES FACTS
FOR
YOU
7 MILLION TO CONTRIBUTE
TO THE COST OF WAR
Two and a Half Billion Dollars
Will Be Collected Under War
Revenue Act.
IS CALLED THE 'LIBERTY TAX’
SENATOR GOES UNDER KNIFE
SENATORS RALLY TO REFORM
WORKS FOR BANK 64 YEARS