Friday, Juno 30, 1922 INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE Page Two -- I I Published Every Friday bv Z. C. KIMBALL. Subscription Rates One Year $150 Six Months 75 THE STRONG AGAINST THE WEAK With unlimited financial resources and great power of authority, the federal reserve bank of San Francisco has been abusing that privilege by stooping to practices in its relations with some of the little dinkey non member banks of the district that causes a blush of shame. It has been another case of where those in the seats of the mighty have attempted to coerce the weak sisters. Independence is confronted with a like situation in its relation with the highway commission. The federal reserve bank has insisted that non-member banks of the district forget about exchange in making remittances to that bank. It was an arbitrary rule made by the federal reserve bank. The little state bank at Brookings, Coos county, insisted upon charging its cus tomary exchange of one tenth of one percent In order to make it as unpleasant and uncomfortable for the Brookings bank as possible a special representative was sent there by the federal bank, collections were sent to him. Accumulating as much paper as possible he would present it and demand instant cash payment. Fine business methods for our great federal reserve system. It seems that the Brookings bank officials had red blood. They went into the courts and the bank was granted a fomnnrarv ininnrtion arrainst the federal bank, and the other day in Portland, Judge Wolverton in United States circuit court made this injunction permanent and took the occasion to condemn in no uncertain terms the co ercion practices of the federal reserve bank. As to whether the policy of charging exchange is a sound business principle may be open to discussion. There are many good bankers who contend that it is not good business to do so. This is not the point in this matter. It is rather the case of a nation wide institution attempting to force a little bank to come to its assistance without recompense. In spite of the fact that these are times when increased taxation is not generally looked upon with favor, Dallas added $22,000 to its school budget for the coming year. A part of this, $4500, is for a fund to build a gymna sium, and the balance is necessary to meet increases in the expenses of operating the school. There was a divided opinion over the question, however, the vote being 92 for and 89 against the project. TOOZE WILL BE ACTIVE OREGON NEWS 'rfOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. In selecting Walter Tooze, Jr., to head the republican state organization distinction is accorded to one of the faithful party workers. Consistently republican all his life and active in politics since he cast his first vote, there will be no sleeping at the post by Mr. Tooze. The Enterprise is of the opinion that he has a man s size job on his hands but knows no one who is more capable of handling it. . . It must be admitted that there are murmunngs of dissatisfaction in republican circles over the outcome of the primary. There's going to be considerable staffing when it comes to the election unless there is something to change sentiment. The religious question is going to be a factor and so is economics. Party lines are torn asunder and to cement the fragments between now and November will require vprv thorough careful work and the elimination of the "bonehead" statements which characterized the pn mary campaign. Like many others you are planning a trip into the great out doors, and trying to decide on that vacation spot. Let us assist by providing you with a copy of our 1922 "Oregon Outdoors" Folder. It is beautifully illustrated and brim ming full of details, about resorts in Western Oregon. Excursion Tickets Cost Less -This Year to ( (irrNESj j Tillamook County Beaches Newport By-the-Sea Crater Lake National Park Oregon's Forest. Lake, River and Mountain Resorts Oregon Caves National Monument Shasta Mountain Resorta Yosemite National Park For fares, train schedules, beautiful folders, or other particulars, ask agents Southern Pacific Lines John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent Work has begun on the highway be tween Itarrishurg and Junction City. The Silvertou schools have pussed from secondary o first class schools. Re-establishing the mall route be tween Canyon City und Burns Is now assured. Mrs. Horace Richards la tho first woman ever to be chairman of a Bend school board. Fourteen applicants, all of whom were women, took the state teachers' examination at FosbII. Many improvements la Mount Angol during the last few months indicate a rapidly progressing town. Sale of J123.000 worth of street-Improvement bonds was authorized by the Klamath Falls city council. Dr. C W. Lassen of Pendleton was elected president of the Oregon state board of veterinary examiners. A city manager plan of government for St. Helens is proposed in a charter amendment now being drafted. The Hood River 1922 apple crop bids fair to be one of the cleanest and larg est sized harvested la recent years. Citizens of Condon at a special elec tion last week voted, about 20 to one, to authorize an issue of water bonds. The longshoremen's strike, which has been in progress since April 23 on Portland's waterfront has been settled. The contract for rebuilding Happy Canyon in Pendleton, wrecked by the heavy snows of last winter, has been let. Plans for the new highway bridge at Winchester, north of Roseburg, have been laid before the Douglas county court. The proposal to merge two Oregon City banks, the bank of Oregon City and the bank of Commerce, has been abandoned. The city council of Redmond has posted street improvement notices which call for more than five miles of cement sidewalks. Oregon will be well represented at the annual convention of the National Education association to be held la Boston July 1 to 8. Bernard O. Kempfer of Rye Yalley, Or., has been appointed postmaster at Rainbow Mine, a new office establish ed in Malheur county. Contract has been let and work started on a new three-story dormitory on the campus of the girls' college of the Eugene Bible university. George Quayle, secretary of the Ore gon State Chamber of Commerce, has submitted his resignation to the board of directors of that organization. Resumption of work on a projected rallwav line between Klamath Falls and Bend has been undertaken in a modest way, according to R. E. Stra horn. Work on the construction of a diver sion dam in the- I)eschutes river and a canal to carry water to the Tumalo feed canal is expected to be started by July 1. The general upward trend in the lumber business of the Pacific Coast has already resulted in the boosting e-f the price of box shooks from 13 to 15 cents each. Crater Lake hotel has changed hands. A. L. Parkhurst has sold his interest in the concession without res ervation, to the Crater Lake National Park company. George A. White, adjutant general of Oregon, was promoted" from colonel to brigadier general In the national guard at Camp Lewis, according to advices received from camp. Two hundred members of the Knight of Pythias lodges of Central Oregon ottonriori the decree work stassd on the top of Pilot Butte in Bend, the first j groceryman flwiirhlnir of automobile plates has become a common offense among unscrupulous motorists In Ore gon. During June a total of twenty, nine arrests were made by officers of tho state traffic department for this offenBe. C A. Sloat. Oakvlllo. Llun county, school teacher, was "dressed In" at the state penitentiary after having pleaded guilty to assaulting two small Sulem girls and being immediately sentenced to two life terms iu prison by Jud8 Percy R. Kelly. Three hundred petitions providing for 100 names each were put in circu lation by tho state headquarters of the American Legion through all local Costs, seeking to have placed on tho November ballot an Initiative net en titled "antl allen land ownership bill." The Hosewell mineral springs prop erty, once one of tho state's most fa mous resorts, has been purchased by a Roseburg company which will pro coed at once to restore the baths and develop a modem resort wttlch Is ex pected to become Immediately popular. Orepon will receive approximately $3,000,000 for road Improvement work from tho federal government during the next three years under the terms of tho transportation bill juBt signed hy President Harding, according to Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer. Tragedy marred tho Portland Hose Festival marine parade, when H. B. Conroy.boatswaln's mate aboard the battleship Connecticut, fell overboard from his vessel's entry in the parade and was drowned In the river a few feet below tho draw span of tho Morrison-street bridge. Eight crews, all said to be employed by the same interests, have begun cruising as many separate tracts of timber in the Nehalem valley. Who the crews represent Is not known but the extensive cruising Is believed to be the forerunner of the sale of some large holdings of tlmberlands In that district. Through action of the national geo graphic board, made known In a letter received at Bend Commercial club headquarters, the name of John V. Todd, early pioneer of central Oregon. rAPPlves a nermanent place on the scenic map of the state. Lost lake has ceased to be. Todd lake takes Us place. When the period for filing applica tions with the state bonus and loan commission expired, a totul of 31,971 ex-service men had applied for loans and cash bonuses. No further appli cations will be. accepted. Cash appli cations received total 18.287. repre senting 33,528,589.70, and application for loans number 13.687, requesting loans In the amount of $33,751,400. j At a special meeting of the C'anby . city council, an ordinance providing for the collection of a license fee from all stage companies stopplsg In Canby, was passed. The license fee was not set by the councllmen, but probably will be at the first meeting In July. The fact that the stages will be charg ed a fee when stopping here has arous ed public interest. A number of busi ness .men have expressed disapproval of the ordinance. According to a statement Issued by Clyde G. Huntley, 67,640 personal In come tax returns, representing net In come of $193,652,281 and normal and surtax of $6,649,011, were filed In the Oregon office of the Internal revenue collector for the calendar year of 1920. These flgares show 17,977 more re turns filed that In 1919, and a total net increase In Income of $27,411,675, but a decrease of $1,583,426 In tax col lected in Oregon. George Potter, St. Helens city mar shal and Cal Hoffmlller, deputy mar shal and city traffic officer, pleaded guilty in City Recorder Godfrey's court to charges of disorderly conduct, and were fined $10 each. Tho fines were the result of the fistic buttle In the McBrldge school shed In Went St. Helens between Officer Hoffmlller and E. E. Dewey Harrison, St. Helens The fight was refereed CRe Tndcpctidcitcc Hate! Batm INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. Member Federal Reserve System Safe Deposit Rvia fnr T?m n ft successful bii$incf career of ever $o years Officers find Directors II. Hirschberg, Pres. (j. A. McLaughlin,Vico Pres.1 I. D. Mix, Cashier, it R. Wolfe, Asst. Cashier W. H. Walker D. V. Sears Otis D. Butler o 0-e 0 0 Walker INC UKASE IN Nt'MBKKS: DKCKKASK IN INCOME outdoor initiation held in Central Ore-I Marshal Potter. I Anneals in four of the frlenrllv milt. I MJI ! .1, .4 I , slon to test angles of the bonus law were filed with the supreme court un der a' stipulation which provides for the argument of all four cases at the same time. Points involved in the four'aults include the right of a mother of a deceased ex-service man to parti cipate In the bonus benefits, the right of an ex-service man to Invest his bonus loan' in business stocks and the question as to whether bonus money was to be regarded as part of the es tate of a deceased ex-service man or went to the widow as a personal gift. David F. West, 70, a farmer, shot and killed C. M. Kendall, sheriff of Linn county, and the Rev. Roy Healy, pastor of the Albany First Christian churoh, at West's ' farm home near riaumew, wnere tney Had gone to' look for an illicit still, concerning which the sheriff had received in formation. Relatives of West tele phoned the new of what bad occurred and a posse of officers and oltlieni gathered and surrounded -the house. Weet' thereupon bade alt wife a gqod bye, Which he tola her would be hU last, sent her to the home of a netgfc feor and then shot and killed hbntelt Forty-six work horses were burned to death In the stables of James Lyons, a Portland contractor, 222 Union avenue, Friday night in a blaze that did comparatively little damage other wise. Alleged failure to enforce prohibi tion laws, and general inefficiency on the part of Ole Nelson, sheriff of Clat sop county,' are said to be the basis of petitions asking a special election to recall the sheriff. Tom Christensen, 38, prominent farmer and stockman, was Instantly killed at Haines when a hay derrick ie was moving came in contact with high voltage line of the Weetern Oregon Light & Power company. Otis Patterson has resigned aa one of the board of appraisers for Grant county, representing the world 'war veterans' state aid commission for Oregon. E. B. Moore of John Day has been recommended as bis successor. J. C. Stevens, engineer for the Kla math Drainage district, filed with the state engineer tentative plans by which the . district expects .to Issue bonds In the sum of $80,000 and to de velop aproimtely 37,000 acres of land. . The number of Federal personal come tax returns for the calend year ended December 31, 1920, fil. in Oregon was 67,640, representi net income amounting- to $193,652," and tax (normal tax and sur tax) $6,649,011. 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