WM
saying in substance that
exposition would accomplish groat
tertal benefit to Oregon if it only re
sulted ta uniting ell the elements of
the state in building tee
jective ta which they can build with
Jripcr
eras correctly quoted it is very oaay
to agree with him. U the ^xpositi
ults ta uniting all the elem ents'of
the state it will be a good- thing. No
one will deny this, but if it doea toot,
what then? If instead of uniting, it
pulls apart, if discord and contro
versies are created, if the anti-Port
land feud is renewed will it be a good
thing T
: t<-
The answer to, of course, that it will
not; and it is squally obvious that to
day tha state is rant asunder ovsff the
whole proposition. Whatever happens
to the exposition plan a breach has
created that will take years to
Portland triad to Jam a jaxs
down the throat e f the rest of Ore
gon. She failed, and ta doing so she
ade enemies everywhere. |
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the Marshfield
Tillamook county recently
150,000 of rood bonde e t s
of $8,772 60.
•old
■ - The newspaper men of O r a r » are
holding their Fourtif Animal Confer
ence a t the State Uhverisity today
tomorrow.
Th« Tillamook Headlight pay« th at
Portland la outgrowing the state. It
thinks the big state expenditures ask
ed by that city regard less o f the ever
increasing tax burden potate th at way.
=
The Annual Seport asade by W. J.
Host, of the employment agency a t the
bay, is interesting. He reports there
were 10,7(0 seen visited his oftee dur
ing the year, ef which number 84«
were given positions.
Thera wen
also MS women who applied for pod
•tions and 187 supplied.
The soldiers’ bebas commission in
this state proposes to sell (10,000,000
in bonds next Monday, which will be
the first chunk ef bonds disposed of
under the bonus act. This money is
to be used in the payment of bonus
to former service men of Oregon. Al
most 50 per cent of the applications
to the commission are for a ea
which means that aprpoximatsty $5,-
000,000 in cash will be in circulation
a s sooft as the service men can get
hold of it. What interest the bonds
win bear is not known, as the buyers
will name the interest ra te hi their
dollar spent in
tag the prohibition law in Multnomah
county by Sheriff Hurlbert’s office,
foer additional dollars rail into the
county coffers in the form of fines,
according to statistics disclosed by th e
sheriff yesterday covering the year
1881, says the Oregonian.
To handle the prohibition enforee-
mont ano apoetai deputy has boon pat
on the payroll hi the «hen IT § office
with occasional assistants, but tha
salarias of mon outside the regular
force of criminal deputies and ex
pansée connected with the work- bai
totalled only $8878.42 during 1881
while finas paid by
moonshiners captured by the
ama in that period have totalled $80,-
884. The “profit" last year r u $M,-
810. *
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H
indent Egyptians’ year, from
ura is derived, had a perfectly
beginning. It always com-
on the day when Sirus and the
run rose together.
The temples of
Egypt were really observatories, built
to fees this o r th at sta r as H rose.
They were more or lose eletooratto, but
all had aa their fundamental plan a
long, narrow passage down which the
Star’s rays came, end e dark cham
ber a t the fa r end, where the priest
the observation end where the
was kept. The Egyptians dis
covered that the year had am antra
quarter ef e day in it. They did it
by nothing th at on s o u s years Biros
aiid the sun rose almost together,
while on others there was an appre
ciable difference in time, and that
these changes repeated themselves ev
ery five y ean . They feuad the length
of the year to within 11 mtautoa of
its true value.
P U N IS H M E N T ,
1 ,
We n o ta ^ h h t some correspondent
of e Portland paper regards the stroke
of paralysis that President Wilson
erod as e judgment of God. He
says God struck him down as e pun-
Time was
taught that e stroke of this kind
a direct act ef the deity, though whan
[a tower fail on some men ta Christ’s
be asked his
kear ese U they supposed those men
ea above all who dwelt in
I n e ie lm .
' 1
When e weak or too-long used rail
breaks under ea unusual strata and
of people ere killed and ta-
one now imagines that God
he rail to break so as to kill
»pie. No more, when
old age coming on a week blood
in the brain breaks
unusual strain with ita
stroke of apoplexy, have we any lea
ses to eey th at Gad struck the victim
down. People who express such e
thought have very crude notions of
the way this universe ta run o r how
natural taw weeks.
It to truo—everlastingly true—th at
"he who sows to the flesh shaH of the
Map corruption." Wo seq that
day by day ta the life
about ue, but the punishment comae a t
the direct result ef the life ju st a t
remorselessly end inexorably aa dark-
fbOewe tha setting of the sun.
We have no doubt of tha compan-
: “He that soweth
the spirit shall of the spirit reap
everlasting," but tha fulflOmm* of
th at promise It deferred, although ft
bo foreshadowed during the
■ M ta
But of this we have no slightest
doubt, th at every failure to observe
the laws of life physical, mental or
spiritual brings Ita appropriate pen
alty. Those taws are self-executing;
to interfere
I t a eeena their enforcement.
Evil
WOND
day sines a
by wireless
from Arlington to Honolulu sad ft is
literally only a few days stoce Preel-
Harding’s message to the na-
sent from Rocky Point,
to New Zealand, more
10,000 miles distant, says the Oregon-
The hop* th at some day wa shall
be able to communicate by wir eless
with .Mars or tho moon would seam to
bo founded on tho rapidity of the pro-
r, if not on any
aetaal performance reaching beyond
tho sphere on which we live.
Tho incident at the violin solo,
which was heard in Scotland derives
Its high importance from the fact
to s t the listener was seeking to de
termine tho potency at «Sort waves
such as a n used by
th at many of tho wfa
th at he intercepted cams from in
struments «st up and used by nov
ices. The approaching universality
of tho radio, sot free from «ho access
ity for expensive high-powered equip
ment, ywhich to thus indicated, to a
to toe imaginations of men.
From the nattoiml capital yester
day ws learned that another three-
cants-«-gallon tax impends for the
motorist, who depends upon gasoline.
The dispatch says a tax of this kind
to be paid by the producer, the pro
ceeds of which would bo used for a
soldier’s bonus, to proposed ta n Mil
introduced today by Representative
Rarharsch, New Jersey.
The tax, ho estimates would yield
The ref er ent s shove to
from $240,000,000 to $960,000,000 an Ism station s t Rocky Point,
nually—-euAeisat revenue he says to
meet cash payments to former ser
vice men provided f or to the MIL
Indications were gives a t the .levclor
W hits House th at President Harding
bin a t this session of songress sad tag pf a
TWO GREAT EVENTS
Two events have already occurred
ta the first two weeks pf 1882 that
may well dim tha lustre of any others
in the past nineteen hundred years.
History will acclaim them of trass
cendont importance; and yet
have bean living* our humdrum lives
al during these fateful
weeks have been too naar these events
to begin to realise what they mean to
the world and to the future of the hu-
jwce.
Tha first of these to the
of the quarrel between England and
Ireland th at has been going an for
sevqn hundred years, until ft had be-
coms tha groat bleeding so rt of tha
Tha ratification by both
countries of tha treaty th at puts an
end to all conflict between tha two
is a step .toward brotherhood
peace and gqod will among men,
die accomplishment of which will re
dound to the glory of Lloyd George
the Britsh premier Ih ro u g h jtlT the
ages of
The second event to which we refer
is the success of the conference for
the limitation of armaments, which
has been ta progress a t Washington
for the past two months, with its
■ cement to begin the scrapping of
tha greatest machines ef death and
traction ever invented by man.
No other Christmas tim e since the
on# when the angels rang over the
Judean plains whan C hrist was born
boon so worthy of a Joyful hosan
na; and yet wo suppose there have
been hundreds o f Christina* and New
Year addresses p a d s and sermons
ashed during the past month, with
out the remotest allusion to die ful
fillment under our ayes of this draam
af universal peace and good will
chanted nierf&ssn hundred years ago.
For the fin# concrete steps toward
shutting up jpf the Devil schools of
war have been taken and no nation
can henceforth dors to face tha world
ta opening them ‘ again. , Tha five
greatest nations of die world have
got togtber and mad# a pact to learn
war no moiW. While It ia by no
millennial ora th at has
ft is the first long step toward a b e t
ter world, ta d the one- th at makes all
tha others seem not only possible but
probable.
v|
Now wa can sing, “Glory to God ta
tha highest; penes on earth, good will
to man,” t/tth’ the fall
that we are on the way to
THOSE FREE LANDS
An
Sunset, th e Pacific
“ I would
>1
to
fa r inf 1
could raise cattle with plenty of
I water. I have no objection to go-
r thirty, forty an even fifty miles
from the railroad. I would like to lo
cate where there to not to t much snow
ta winter. Any information yoq, can
give mo will ha greatly appreciated."
tinsi has always
•homestead tracts
Ws have stated repeatedly th a t ws
do not know s f any hom estead land
anywhere ta tho P er West th at can
be used for agricultural
without first Investing
for irrigation water or for clearing
And the land
aa to
comihsocially without valus to likely
s e t to hs of groat value for
You must
200,00 American farmers
into Canada to obtain free
or to buy grata land a t a low price.
If they had bean able to find farm kmd
homesteads of good quality I« tha
Want, they would have taken ft ap
ta preference to changing their slle-
You must also remember th at the
public land ta the West ha* been pick
ed over for twenty-five years. Your
own stats contains thirty million
of public lend, yet worth while
ere few and far between.
\ You qualify your choice of a home
stead insisting upon land with plenty
of range and water. Such a free gift
is not to be had. Everywhere the
public range ha* been chronically
overstocked and its carrying capacity
diminished. As for water, ft is the
most precious asset in a «took country
with mild winters end little snow.
Long ago practically all of ft was
the,lay- filed on and passed into private h a n k ,
s f parallel whras for
In ear Judgment the heat thing to
lam the ptae barrens do would hs to task round In «our vi-
for the year 1881, not
than March 1$, 1888, or suffer the
hspvy penalties provided ta the taw
for failure to do so.
' “Income tax returns ffir the year
1881 must -be filed by the following
persons," explains Colelctor Hunt-
1«JT*
0
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“Every Individual who had a net
of $1,000 or mors, if stagis.
or if married and not living with
band or wife:
*
“Every individual who hod a not
of $2,000 or more, if married
with husband or wife;
of a family who had a
of $1,000 or more, and I
Every individual who had a
income of $6,000 or more, regardless
of whether or not th at sum netted/him
s cent of profit.
mptiona are allowed os follow-
ad: 8ingle person, $1,000; hoed of I
family, or married person living wt
or wife, $2,500, unless the
to ta excess of $6,000, to
which ease the exemption Is only $2,-
h a v e trie d
th e y tr ia d to do to e moA.
it-, tk, «■•*. emit
to *
W
“
Aa little
We
th ,t* ,
aa a
pay 4 per cent on your
ask about the
sa v in g s
Ask ns about it
plan tluft meets y o u r
Farmers & Merchants Bank
of Coqihlle, Oregon
Likewise every married person,
living «Hk husband or wife, ta o r
der to ¿total the exemption of $2,600
$400 for such dependent minor
must make a return although Ms ac
tual net income for 1821 may have
I only $2,000.
a both cases cited, the taxpayer
must make a return ta order to claim
the exemptions to which hs to satftlod
under th• Uw, although th t Applica-
don of those deductions may exempt
from the payment of an income
tax.
“The baud at a family under the
taw is defined as a person who sup
ports ta one household one or mors
relatives by blood, marriage or adop-
.-f,:
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U J - J - L U J J J
e«e
You Can Cook in Comfort
- i n a Wired Home
How glad you will be this summer if your bouse has been
wired for electricity I
Aa electric range bents the food and not the cook and an
electric fan gives cooling breeze* to offset the heat of nature.
But th a t is not «11—it is only in « wired home th a t your
housework can be lightened by the numerous m otor-driven
labor-savers now in such common use.
Our estim ates will show you how really inexpensive th e
| m any advantages of electric service are.
Brand on
Speaking e f the, properties of the
defunct Dairyman’s League and By
Products Corporation. Attorney J. T.
Brand, of Marshfield, who to looking
after the esce for the trustees, says:'
«
/
N»
Mountain States Power Co.
The
tories ta
wars bought by the payment at
fsrrad stock. One-fifth of the book
ta such esse were paid down.
The original owners of the .various
Phone 7
tbs plants a t four-fifths s f the book
value and ta this way ft will not bo
nscasaary to use money on hand to
pay for profaned'stock so thors will
consequently bv more money to pay
to the dairyman ta partial sstttam snt
of the pools.
Ia other words, in
stead of losing everything, the dairy
man will got soma of the money a t
least which is owed them. Mr. Brand
states th at Ho will not Venturo to
say «sow Just w hat, percentage at
their claims tha dairymen wÿl got,
but they will gat something.
If the property wore sold a t a Junk
Mr. Brand states, ft would be
to «all aB of tha planta ta
this man r which would moaa a
stockholder* and
-groat loss
th e n would be no money with which
to pay the claims of tha fa
tha money now on hand would have
to ha used for the payment at
ferrod stock which has first claim.
In cases of this kind sf a sols the
farmer* ta many places would be a t
the mercy at those who pore]
tha plant, for the market of their
milk.
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California
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------ this Winter
-w here the tun is on the jo b ”
Four Trains a Day
Proddm a ten ice that contributes So
the traveler's comfort and convenience
Reduced Fares
t a - '
^
Ticket, good until April 8 0 -S to p o v « allowed
No War Tax on Railroad Ticket«
In tho case of tha Coquille Valley
Creamery hors ft was one-third in-
of one-fifth th at Mr. McClookey
aid down at tha time s f Its par
iate by the League,
rich to one-fifth at th,
a ju st been paid him. If he to wfll-
g to accept four-fifthe of the
price ta settlement, ft win leave
.000, Instead ef $8,000 yet due
The original MeCtoshey
s t Norway he soM to the dairyman at
that section before the
Ä
Very
find ft d
No
Southern Pacific Lines
Agent
That price of $2.18 for Ö
papers a n joat tha
people hoc«' ta Coquille nd the weekly Orogen Fi
will
t to gat dry weed a t this no^ b^ t^ T a-. K U — d for 1822, *U rt
quickly 1
•J'l k
you wish
A*
Sf*T*~rr ^i’
w*
John
Crii-
. t
f,
ko- ■ £ * ! “ “
B a t, « * . U r U d
of sgs, $400
“Do not confuse
, {¿h ita
essity of
if the nat income of a
son is $2,000 is the head of s
(not msrriod) to $1,000.
“In
claiming sum ption as the head of a I
family must fils a return If n il a
income Is $1,000 or more, wotwiti
standing the fact that u head of a ]
fam ily 'Is is entitled to an exemption
of $2,6000 M well as $400 for each
s.
:
I t b to
often, and THEN STICK TO IT.
•„r
far the
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wta-