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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1919)
4 é '¡V TKB GOQUILLB T ALLST The S en tin el Advertising Ratea. Display, 16 cento per in« g notices, 6 cento per line The name o f the Kaiser pear has been changed to the McAdoo. = i The last days o f the present winter have by no means been its best days. The recall was delayed again when the printed petitions in Mr. Seng- stacken’s office were burned in -the big Are at Marshfield. , . General Pershing stated the first o f the week that the American troops now remaining in Europe will be sent back in the same order in which they went overseas. , . * *pPT * to m* e eir score ncil has “ veneer" srete has ills here- The people o f the United States are suppoeed t o make 40 billions o f dol lars a year. This is more than three times as much as the earnings o f any other nation on earth. In 1920 the taxes to be paid the national govern ment in this country are expected to amount to three and a third billions o f dollars. One billion o f this w ill be for interest on Liberty Loan bonds. That would be 8 per cent o f our na- Uncle Sam evidently has no fears o f a hoodoo. He is now putting out a new postage stamp. It is o f the 13- cent denomination and is issued pri marily for use in preparing a single rate o f letter postage and special de livery fee, or for postage and registry foo. It may be used, however, fo r other purposes fo r which ordinary stamps are used. The new stamp bears the heed of Benjamin Franklin and is printed in yellow-green ink. Some people in Coquille are begin- on their property this year is some what lower than last year—ton per cent in caesa that have come under our observation even where the valu ation had been raised. This is due to the fact that the increased assessment throughout the county permits a low er rate. The total millage which was 64.4 in this city last year is 42.3 this pear, more than one-fifth or about 22 per cent less. The Sentinel is asked fo r copies o f the new income tax law Just enacted by congress and signed by President W ilson last Monday. They are not to be had. As soon as Milton A. Millar, collector o f internal revenue at Port land, gets, printed copies o f the new instructions he will furnish them to all applicants. Meanwhile all that wo know about the changes in the law Is that the rate o f tax on the first 64,000 o f income above exemptions is six per cent, where it was two per cent last year, W e have j H b o f last year’s income Tax catecR lpa, but they are out of date. The government, which has only had the law for four days Is now insisting that all returns must be made out by March 16, and that the tax or-at least a quarter o f it be paid on that date. A s we see it, this time ought to be extended, and the govern ment will probably have to give more time. But then it may not. SOME INCOME TA X DOPE W ork on the collection o f $6,000,- 000,000 has been begun by the Bureau o f Internal Revenue at Washington. This is the estimated yield o f the new ravenue ^ilL The incomo tax provi sions o f the act reach the pocket- book ot ever7 ■ i»«1* person in the Unlted States whose net income for 1918 was $1,000, or more, and o f ev- •rF m* rriod person whose net income wn* $2,000 or more. Persons whose pet income equalled or exceeded those amounts, according to their martial status, must file a return o f income with the collector o f internal revenue for the district in which they live on or before March 16. Here is what will happen to them if they don't; fo r failure to file a return on time, a fine o f not more than $1,000 and an additional assessment o f 26 per cent o f thè amount o f tax due. For *wilfully refusing" to make a return on time, a fine not exceeding $10,000, or not exceeding one year’s For making a false or fraudulent return, a fine or not more than $10,- 000, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, together with an additional assessment o f 60 per cent o f the amount o f tax evaded. For failure to pay the tax on time, a fine o f not more than $1,000 and ad ditional assessment o f 6 per cent of the amount o f tax unpaid, plus 1 per cent interest for each fu ll month fa r ing which it rcraainr unpaid. In addition to the $1,000 and $2,009 personal exemptions, taxpayers are allowed an exemption o f $200 for each dependent epen them T or chief support if such person is under eight een yeats o f age and incapable o f self-support. Under the 1917 act, th lj exemption eras allowed in ly for each dependent "child." The head o f a fam ily—one who supports one or more persons closely connected with him by blood relationship, relation ship by marriage, or by adoption—4s entitled to all exemptions allowed a married person. , person The normal rate o f tax under the now act is 6 per cent o f the first $4,- 000 o f net income above the exemp tions, and 12 per cent o f the net in come in excees o f $4,000. Incomes in excess o f $6,000 are subject also to a surtax ranging from 1 per cent o f the amount o f the net income between $6,- 000 and $6,000 to 66 per cent o f the net income above $1,000,000. Payment o f the tax may be made in full at the time o f filing return or in four installments, on or before March 16, on or before June 16, on or before September 16, and on or before December 16. WHY THE EMERGENCY? Th* legislature at Salem evidently had no difficulty in finding plenty of reesona fo r declaring an « B t r f t v ; on the ton million dollar road l>ond till. Haro is what they say on that subject in the 10th and Anal section o f building, is* subject to a fiso. The the act: property may bo sold to pay such Inasmuch as the condition o f the U nde Sam usually makes thorough roods and highways o f the State o f work when 1m attempts law enforce Oregon demand that road construc ment and bootleggers who dare to tion, betterment and pavement should defy him are pretty sure to be sorry be proaecuted with diligence before the inclement weather o f the Fall of for it. the year begins; and, inasmuch as it is necessary to provide the Slate THE FIRST ROAD NEEDED Highway Commission with sufficient What a difference the point from funds to construct, better and pave which we see things makes in our the roads and highways designated by opinions. Here fo r instance we And Chapter 423 o f the General i«MM of in the Port Orford Tribune the follow Oregon fo r the year 1917, and to ing editorial in regard to road im nu>lre effective the w ill o f the people provement in Southwestern Oregon: a« expressed at the special election held June 4, A . D., 1917; and, inas It is reported that Senator I. S. much as it is .necessary to provide era- Smith, o f Coos county, is working (loyynent for the Soldiers, Sailors and very diligently fo r a hard-surfac Marines returning from the service o f ed road from M yrtle Point to our Country and to provide a means Roseburg. This is all very well o f relieving the stress o f industnst but it seems to the Tribune that activities and provide employment for the Senator, who is also supposed the laborer unemployed; and inas to represent Curry county as well much ae the health, peace and safety as Coos, is getting off on the o f the people o f the State o f Oregos wrong track. depends upon immediate construction, The big thing to this section of repair, betterment end pavement of the state o f Oregon is a coast said toads tnd highways; it is hereby highway. It means fa r more to declared that an emergency exists, Coos county—more even to the and that it is necessary that this A ct M yrtle Point section, than a hard take effect immediately after it is surfaced road to Roeeburg, and passed by the Legislature and approv to Curry county— one would not ed by the Governor; therefore, this help here while the other would act shall be in full force and effect be o f inestimable value to her de from and after its passage. velopment. The coast highway is REFERENDUMS IN JUNE inevitable, but the spending o f a A bill that has passed the senate at large amount o f money between Salem with only five dissenting votes M yrtle Point and Roseburg might and will, no doubt, be enacted into delay It many years. law provides for. the submission o f The Jones bill, that provides the nine follow ing constitutional fo r the building o f a coast high way from Astoria to the Califor nia line in conjunction with Fed eral aid, is what the people of Coos and Curry county need, and want. Senator Smith should recog nise this fa ct and get behind some legislation like the Jones bill, along side o f which the Myrtle Point-Roseburg road and a crab law for Coos Bay are but as chaff in a Kansas cyclone. Commercial and Savin* Deposits OREGON COQUILLE We have just received a new stock of Bridles Halters t Collars - Sweat Pads which it will pay you to examine if you are needing anything in that line. Our prices are right Coquille Hardware Co And this after the state highway commission had pledged the state to the improvement o f the Myrtle Point- Roeeburg road, after the $6,000,000 bond bill o f 1917 had pledged the state to pave it as fa r from Marshfield as it should be put on line and grade and after that act had been approved at the June election o f that year! There seems to be no end o f argu ment* to prove that the state ought not to keep faith with Coos county; and fulfill the promises on which our support o f the six million road bond The Mortgage We m ight paraphaae the Tribune’s words after this fashion: "The paved road from Cooe Bay to Roeeburg b inevitable. Its building may promote but certainly cannot delay the build ing o f the coast highway, from Cooe county south to connect with the Cal ifornia road system ." There is no probability that any road anywhere can be built to give Cooe county connection with the Pa cific highway and the improved road system o f the outside world half as quickly as by the completion o f the road up the Middle Fork o f the Co- quille and out through Camas Valley. That is a road o f easy grades, a road that will carry us through the coast range along a water grade in fa ct There is no other way by which travel up the coast from Curry county can in the unremote future get out by auto to the main road to Portland B0 easily and quickly as this one. It is never blocked by snow and will make a year round highway—and the only practical one from the California and Curry county coast road when it is bu ilt A n electric m otor can lift anything. L et us tell you how G-E Electric Motors Quick Action on Bridge L. O. Green, from the Inman Mines Co. camp on the upper Sixes river, states that for a while during the high water the camp was isolated on a little island at the fork o f the river, the bridge having been washed away. But it didn’t take them long to build a footbridge. Drawing a cable across the river in a boat they hooked it onto a log that had been cut down and hewn flat on one side. With the pow er from the water wheel they snaked the log down to the river and set it across a narow canyon, form ing the foundation fo r a substantial foot bridge. The log was three feet in Revenue officers will visit every diameter at the butt and 127 feet It took 800 feet o f cable to Instead o f the M yrtle Point-Roee- long. Tuesday the Roosevelt Coast High country in the United States to aid way $2,600,000 bond bill was passed taxpayers hi making out their re burg highway standing in the way of handle i t — Bandon World. by the senate. Last week it was ap turns. The date o f their arrival and the construction, o f the road down the proved by the house. A fter it has the location o f their offices may be as coast from Port Orford south, its W H Y A LAM E BACK? been signed by the governor, there certained by inquiring at offices of construction will do more than any That morning lameness— those wfll be two more rivers to cross. It collectors o f internal revenue, post- thing else to promote the construction sharp pa’ as when bending or lifting, is to be voted on at a referendum elec offices and banks. Failure to see these o f that road. make work a burden and rest impor- tion by the people next June, and it is offices, however, does not relieve the Even if the appropriation o f $2,- sible. Don’t be handicapped by a bad quite problematical whether the rest taxpayer o f his obligation to file his 600,000 for the coast highway from back— look to your kidneys. You will o f the state will vote to tax itself for return and pay his tax within the time Astoria to the California line should make no mistake by follow ing this a coast highway. If they do, It win specified by law. In this case tax- be approved at the election which Grants Pass resident’s example. W. A. Trefen, 781 Highland Avo., not become operative until the federal will be held next June and the Grants Pass, Oreg., says: “ I suffered government matches dollars with the for a long time from my back and kid federal govenment should match dol state. Before L. J. Simpson began to lars with Oregon on this project, it neys and never found anything that would give me much relief until I boost for the project, however, its may be several years before the work began using Doan’s Kidney Pills. chances o f approval by the legislature is begun and a score before it is fin They strengthened my back and eased looked very slim. ished. O f course, we hope the time the dull pains that hiui settled across (Statement given will be lees but no work like that can m y ’ "kidneys." 24, 191S.) The promise so often held out to the be speedily accomplished. Meantime March On March 20, 1616, Mr. Trefen said: ear that ere should have a consolida the only outlet for Coos eou nty-an d "I am still a strong booster fo r Doan’s tion o f state commissions and a re Curry county too—that promises Kidney Pills, for I dont’ know o f any duction o f the "overhead" expenses of building o f a paved road to thing their equal fo r lame back and government has been again broken to eonaoet with the Pacific highway is kidney trouble. They always do me a wonderful lot o f good when I need the hope. No doubt the legislators X kidney medicine.” honestly tried to effect some econo Price 60c at all dealers. Don’t simply ask fo r a kidney remedy g et mies in that way, but prying a bern a-. -------- , -------------------- ------------ - -------------------------------- — ^ Doans Kidney PUla-=-' the same that cle loose from the ship o f state isn’t [dselt with as such by the commission- [the legislators that passed that ss cr.sy a Job as one might think, w o f interna’ rovenoo. T V WP - ’ «ir* “ ml tho peonia who approved H. The criticism and a boss President Wilson is receiving from some sena tors and representatives e f both par ties at Washington is mild compared with what was aimed at George Washington and Abraham Lincoln when tljpy were piloting the nation through the breakers. And such crit icism is as little merited now as it was generations ago. 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