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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1916)
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Your business will be appreciated and an endeavor will be made to please all. DOING BUSINESS? If T m W ut To Trade Tew Property . Write te E. A. B R A 8 H E M 501 - 2 Northwest BuMiag Portland, Oregon. M o ro , S h e r m a n C o u n ty , w n. F i v e Gent-n F r id a y , S e p t e m b e r 1 , 1 9 J G . PUNS TO LOWER TAX ON INCOMES OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENFRALINTEREST Members Important Occurrences of Foot ♦ of Senate * Finance Committee Would Cut $1000 Week Briefly Compiled for From Exemptions. 6ur Readers. Washington.— If the action of the democratic majority members of the senate finance committee la accepted by congress, all single persons having an Income of 92000 and parsons with dependent families having an Income of 92000 w ill have to pay a > per cent Income tax. Under the exlsUng law the minimum Is 93000 and 94000 re spectively. The oommlttee estimates that a to tal increase of 94,000,000 w ill be ob tained by lowering the maximum of exemptions. The oommlttee also decided finally to reduce the excise tax on copper and add to the list of taxable articles for excise purposes, products of lead, sine, Iron and steel, when used In connec tion with the manufacture of muni tions. May Not Adjourn Until September 16. September 16 was generally agreed on by senate leaders as the earliest possible date of congress adjourning. Despite the pressure of scores of rep resentatives and senators who have campaign business with the folks back home. It was declared It would be lm possible to complete the legislation agreed on before that time. There still remain the general rev enue bill, the government-owned ship line measure, the child labor bill to be passed by the senate. The first two, It Is agreed, easily will take a month; the last may string along un til the end of next week. In addition, there are the conference reports on the artay and navy bills, Philippine bill, conservation bill and a ra ft of local bills considered vital to political success In doubtful states. Congress W ill Not Intervene In Strike. After s conference between Presi dent Wilson and Jndge W illiam Cham bers, commissioner of the United States board of mediation and conctli- aUon, It was indicated that the federal government would take no formal ac tion to avert the threatened strike of 400,000 employes on 225 railroad sys tems of the country until representa tives of the managers and workmen had conferred In a final effort to reach an agreement Any immediate action by congress was precluded when the senate com merce committee tabled a resolution by Chairman Newlands providing for an interstate commerce commission investigation of the hours of labor on railroads and including an appegl to the railroad managers and employes to postpone consideration of their dif ferences until the Investigation was completed. Favorable action on the resolution had been urged by the chamber of commerce of the United States and opposed by the representa tives of railway employes. Linn county Is harvesting one of the best crops of oats produced In many years. Since January 1, 1916, there have been received in Klamath county 1220 consignments of Intoxicating liquor. I • Hop picking will begin te meat e f the large Oregon yards on September 5 and 6, with a sufficient supply of labor In slghL George Leach Story, Oregon pioneer and one of the foremoat In construc tive devotion to the state, died at Port land at the age ef 83. Bend physicians are busy combat ing an epidemic of cholera infantum, a large number of children being stricken in all parts of town. December 13 to 16. inclusive, have been set as the dates for tha annual show of the Central Wlllamatta Val ley Poultry association at Albany. Representative Slnnott has been ad vised that poatoffices are about to be discontinued at Cline Falls, Crook county, and Harney, Harney county. Multnomah county w ill not pay its employes thia month. The employee will get their salary warrants, hat the county will not be able to cash them. The second hand bnstneaa haa as sumed considerable proportions in Oregon, declares I^aboACommlaaloner Hoff. There are 178 frrms engaged in this line. The senate has confirmed tha nom inations of the following Oregon poet- m asters: John S. Howe, Lents; O.' Edwin Marvin, Wallowa; Mary O. Vail, Carlton. * A new* department is being added to the work of Pacific college at New berg and beginning with 1919-17 a fa ll two year course in commercial work will be given. • Succumbing to an Illness of three months, L. Samuel, an Oregon pion eer. founder and general manager Of the Oregon Life Insurance company, died at Portland. The highest price for which aa agate was ever sold In Newport waa paid last week, when 0, A. Kinsey, a wealthy Pittsburgher, bought a coral agate from A. L. Thomas for 9100. Conditions in the lumber business have been better so far this year than in 1915, reports to Labor Commission er Hoff from 13 sawmills of Clacka mas county for his annual report show. In the next firs years, according to State Engineer Lewis, the state of Oregon will receive approximately 91.* 820,000 for the building of roads under the provisions of the federal aid road act. Harvey Wells, commander of the United Spanish war veterans, has des ignated Aha heads of the various en campments throughout the state as recruiting officers for the Third infan try. W ithin the next three weeks the Bend commercial club w ill conduct a vigorous campaign among tha local business men to boost Its membership list from its present 80 members to 200. While walking from bar hems to the residence of her daughter near Roseburg, Mrs. Nancy A. Fairbanks, aged 78 years, fell by the roadside and died. She was overcome by tha heat. Optometry boards of Oregon. Wash ington. California. Utah and Montana are to meet in Portland October 9 for transaction of business and to take up the questjon of quack optometry schools. - A mountain slide last winter was the cause of a broken blow-eff valve on the South Fork pipeline which caused a water famine in Oregon City, West Linn; Willamette and Bolton Friday night. ♦ The dates for the annual "Pankin" show at Junction Otty have been changed from September 14, IB and 19 to Aeptember 21, 22 and 22 on account of the Lane county fair and round-up on the former datea. Examiner Dlsque, of tha interstate commerce commission, w ill coase to Portland on October 4. next, to «on* duct a aeries of hearings Involving rates and service affecting various local shippers and carriers. At a special election at for the purpose of voting on the tlon of issuing bonds for 9 * 6 6 6 to provide funds for a municipal iary water system, the bonds authorized by a vote of 141 to 4L After being lost in ths thickly hered districts of the W olf creek tlon of Douglas county for two d Misses Ella Dillard and Hanoi J r were found by about two miles from their The cement and lime plant of tha Beaver Portland Cement oocapany, nt Gold H ill, In Jackson county, la Installation of which a million dollars hero Is about randy for a capacity of 1666 of D e n m a rk A grees to Sail Island«. Purchase by the United States of the islands of St. Thomas, 8L Croix anp St. John, lying to the east of Por to Rico and comprising an archipelago known as the Danish West Indies, Is provided for in a treaty signed by the United States and Denmark. It will be submitted at once to the United States senate and tbe Danish parlia ment, whose ratifications are neces sary to complete the purchase agree ment. Speedy Settlement of Mexican Troubla Speedy settlement of all differences between Mexico and the United States was seen by officials here, following delivery to tbe state department by Ambassador-Designate Arredondo of Mexico's reply to President Wilson’s note regarding adjustment by a joint commission. Liquor Smugglers Taken at Astoria. Astoria, Or.—The first haul in s federal campaign to check the smug gling of liquor from British Columbia into the Columbia river was made when Charles J. Bertelsen, S- former saloon man, and Charles T. Robinson, a longshoreman commonly known as “Bumhoat Charlie,” were arrested by Special Agent McGrath of the cus toms department The prisoners were taken to Portland and w ill be charged in the federal court with smuggling and trading with foreign territory without registry. Progressives Let Parker Run Alons. Indianapolis.— Plans for the reor ganisation and perpetuation of the progressive party as a national politi cal organisation were adopted at a conference of Bull Moose representa tives here. The conference after a heated discussion decided it would he impracticable at this late date to re assemble the progressive national con vention and fill the vacancy on the national ticket caused by Theodore Roosevelt’s declination of the nomina tion. Yokohama H at Cholera. Yokohama.—There are 32 cases of cholera In Yokohama. Tokio has de clared a quarantine against this city. ♦ W OMEN SHOULD BE FOR 4 ♦ C HA RLE8 E. HUGHES, ♦ 8AYS ROOSEVELT. ♦ Mr. Hughes hns unequivocally taken the right position, and as regards all other positions he, and not his opponent, is entitled to the support of bqtli men and women, ond therefore the wom en In tbe enfranchised, states who do not In this election sup port him forfeit the right to aav fhey have done their utmost for their sisters In the non-enfran- chlsed states.”—From a le tte r of Theodore Roosevelt to Miss Alice Car] »enter. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ + ♦ 4 ♦ ♦ 4 ♦ +++++♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ WILSON ASKS LAWS TO PREVENT STRIKE -4-—— ~ R ailroads Reject Proposal and Men Order Tie-up to r » September 4. Washington.— President Wilson laid the railway strike situation before congress Tuesday afternoon in an ad dress to both houses assembled in joint session. The president told con gress of his efforts to bring the rail road managers and the men into some sort of agreement, and saying he was powerless to do more, he asked con gress to enact legislation to deal with the situation. Pointing out the distress and hard ships which a nation wide strike would bring upon the country, the president asked congress to empower him to draft into the service of the United States the very managers and men who have been unable to adjust their differences so that the government may operate the railroads in case of m ilitary necessity. Direct negotiations between the railroad executives and employes through President Wilson were prac tically dosed when the executives re fused to accede to a proposal made to them by Mr. Wilson and presented to him a statement of their position con taining another argument for arbitra tlon. 8trike Ordered for September 4. ' W hile President Wilson was an nouncing that he would lay the rail way strike situation before congress the brotherhood leaders rejected the latest proposition of the committee of railway presidents and actually order ed the strike to begin at 7 a. m* Labor day unless a settlement satisfactory to them Is reached In the meantime. The labor leaders admitted they took their action In the belief that some means was being sought to prevent tbe strike actually being called. By their action they think they have an ticlpated any legal processes which might be brought against them. Wilson Asks Laws to Prevent Strike. In his address to congress, Wilson proposed that it first enlarge the mem bershlp of the Interstate commerce commission to equip it to deal with larger situations; second, that an eight-hour day he established for all trainmen * in Interstate commerce; third, that a commission investigate the effect of the eight-hour day; fourth, that the Interstate commerce commission consider the Increased cost of the eight-hour day In making rates, and fifth, amend the mediation law to prevent strikes or lockouts while Industrial disputes are being in vestigated. The sixth proposal was that the president be empowered to' operate railways In case of m ilitary necessity. How these recommenda tions are to be carried out. President Wilson left entirely In the hands of congsess 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ^ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 DETR O IT’S IMPRESSIONS OP A MAN. 4 G overno r Hughoa' v is it to D e tro it opened the p residen tial cam paign 4 of 1916, and if wo m ay forecast tho avanta th a t ara to follow by the omens 4 of M onday w a would prognosticate an intensely w a rm , vivid and h um anly 4 in te re s tin g period in tho next few months. ♦ S e ttin g aside the auapioaa o f meteorological condition» In thia p re v i 4 sion of the fu tu re — although they are approved by num erous professional 4 augurs and by a host of com m onalty as w ail— wa baas thia prophecy on 4 the c h a racteristics of the candidate whose teo b rief etay w ith us has 4 bean enjoyed by all w ith w hom ha cam s into oontaoL 4 Tho misguided individuals w hs have bean expecting Charles E. Hughes 4 w ould prows to b e a c o ld preposition and t h e r e f o r e easy ta beat are in fe r 4 a shock th a t w ill m ake them th in k they have been h it by an uninsulated tro lle y w ire . T h ere is nothing cold about M r. Hughoa, D e tro it has le a rn 4 ed. H a is abate* as intensely hum an a piece of h u m a n ity as e v e r captured 4 the h earts of a Crowd, and tho m ore people in the U n ite d State» he meets ♦ betw een now and Novem ber tho more votee w ill be cast fo r him . Ae a ♦ c a m p a ig n er ha Is a revelatio n. Ho likeo hie fallo w beings, and they like ♦ ♦ h im bocauaa they see ha likes them . A nd w h a t hie personality begins hie re m a rk a b le powers of intellect ♦ and u tte ra n o a ISnieh. Ho drives his points home w ith trem endous force. ♦ W h a t ha says «ticks. T h e re are thousands of A m ericans today who can ♦ retail o vary step in the argum ents ha made sight years ego on the Bryan ♦ tru s t policy, yet in 1908 M r. Hughoa w as not especially a pro m inen t figure ♦ and there w as no p a rtic u la r reaaon w hy hie address more th a n others 4 should have rem ained olearly In the m em ory oxoept th e g ift of tho man to ♦ send hie own thoughts aa deep beta the brains of others. T h e y a re clear ♦ in his own mind Bret, undoubtedly. H e knows preeioely w h a t ha w ants te 4 oay because ha has reasoned it out before ho opoaks it out. P r o b a b l y th a t ♦ has som ething to do w ith tho ease w ith whioh he conveys hie meaning. 4 B u t it is a va ry ra re q u a lity ha possesses in his a b ility to m aster subjects so th o ro u g h ly as to m ake tho most abstruse sim ple to him self and his ♦ hearers. It is a q u a lity em in ently desirable in a p olitical candidate. It io 4 in fin ite ly m e re ta ba desired in the president of a g reat country tike tho 4 ♦ U n ite d Statoe. D e tro it’s impression of Charles E. Hughes la all favo rab le. T h e th o u ♦ sands of people w ho have studied him a t close range are convinced th a t -4 If ha la elected president next N ovem ber ha w ill ba a g reat president, one ♦ of tho greatest thia n ation has know n, w orthy to stand in history w ith ♦ George W ashin gton and A b raham Lincoln, a custodian of tho ropublic’a 4 fa te to w hom th a t fa ta m ay confidently ba intrusted. If th a t conviction ♦ ie shared by tho people of other states w hom he is e till to moot the o u t ♦ come of his sw ing around the great Am erican circle cannot fa il to bo p ro ♦ pitious fo r him .-—D e tro it Free Press. 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 4 O 4 4 4 4 4 4 + + 4 OUR BELT OF ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ATMOSPHERE. TURKISH ADVANCE STOPPED In^Thlokneee It Is ta tha E a rth aa tha Skin la to th e Apple. lu n contribution to the year book o f the department of agriculture Ros roe Nunn of the United States weather bureau comperes tbe thickness of the atmospheric envelope that surrounds i ho earth with the diameter of tha earth Itself. The extreme limit of tbe esrth'a a t raonphere above tbs surface of the earth Is estimated to be 180 mil««. The earth's dlumcter Is approximately 8,000 miles. But tbe density of the afmoa phere decreases rapidly as altitude In creases, so that three-quarters of the mass of the atmosphere lies below the seven mile level. Thus the solid earth has but a thin coating of air, at most only about one- fort leth as thick as tbe diameter of the earth, or If we consider only Its really appreciable extent, which Is «bout for ty miles above tbe earth, only one two- hundredth as thick as tbe diameter of the earth. It Is therefore a mere coating, not thicker,’relatively speak Ing. than the skin oo an apple of or dinary size When we consider the fa- t that storms operate only in that part of tho atmosphere which lies within about »e’ en miles of the earth, and chiefly within three miles. It Is truly wonderful what mighty forces they generate and what vast energy they expend within that thin film of gas. A storm condition may cover one- third of tho United States Tbe dis turbance may be 1,000 to 1,600 miles In diameter, but less than seven miles thick.. In other words, the body of (llr In which those tremendous force« work Is of about the same proportions as a postcard. Initiative la Regained by Czar’s Cau casian Army. Petrograd, via London.—The Turk ish attempt to encircle the left flank of the Russian-Caucasian army ap pears to have received a crushing blow between the troops of Grand Duke Nicholas in the region of Lake Van. The Turkish encircling scheme, aimed at regaining Erxerum and thus nullifying all the grand duke’s vic tories in Turkish Armenia, appeared about to succeed, but the Russian oc cupation of Mush and re establish ment of Russian positions west of Lake Van apparently have made hope less the Turkish efforts. The Initiative now appears again to be with the Russians at all important points In Asia Minor, and now that the Turiksh offensive on the left flank has been stopped, Grand Duke Nicho las can continue his march toward Asia Minor. Drive 8tarted by Roumanians. London.— Desperate fighting on the border between Roumanla and Hun gary la reported in an Exchange Tele graph dispatch from Berne, Switzer land. The Roumanians, the message says, are making furious efforts to capture the Important mountain passes. Big Cement Suit Is Filed. Portland. O r — Suit for 9L6OO.OOO against an alleged cement combine seeking absolute control or the ruin of the Oregon Portland Cement com pany, of Oswego, was filed In the fed eral court by Aman Moore, largest In dividual stockholder, vice-president A plan favored by the Oregon state and treasurer, in the name of the com grange whereby staple crops could be pany. marketed by farmers Is being discuss ed, with the possible Intention of sub Auto Bandits Get 913,000 From Banks. mitting a bill to tha. next legislature Danville, 111.— Six robbers blew the for tbe creation of a state commission safes in two banks at Homer, 111., near market. The proposed organisation ere and escaped in an automobile would carry on a business similar to 1th loot estimated at 913,000. that1 transacted In California by the recently crested commission market, Paralysis Casas Decreasing. which, according to tha enactment of New York.—The number of the legislature In June, 1915, is that cases of Infantile paralysis continues o f "receiving from producers the agri to decrease. cultural, fishery, dairy and farm prod ucts of the state of California and sell ing and disposing of saoh products on oommlsslon.” * ~ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ + + ♦ ♦ ♦ + ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ + ♦ ♦ ♦ PREPARE FOR THIS. “When we contemplate indus trial and commercial conditions we ace that we are living In a fool's paradise. The temporary prosperity to which our oppo nent^ iHdnt has been crented tjy the abnormal conditions inci dent to the war. W ith the end of the war there will be the new conditions determined by a new Europe. Millions of men In tbe trenches will then return to work.* The eneTgles of each of the now lielllgerent nations, highly trained, will then be turn ed to production.”—Charles E. Hughes. * - ’ - 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Hood River Fruit Growers’ Ex change has announced final returns on the 1915 strawberry crop. Tbe ex change handled 10,000 orates of fruit at an average of 22.12 a crate. The highest price received on any ship* ment was $6 a crate at the opening of the season. In the hope'Uf preventing the waste ful destruction of straw this fall M. S. Schrock, county agriculturist of Yamhill county, has issued an appeal to the farmers not to burn their straw. Should straw be burned Mr. Sbrock estimates 955,728 worth of fertilizer will be burned. H. L. Emerson, engineer of the American Soda Products company, of San Francisco, has just inspected the company's plant on Alkali lake, la northern Lake county. He estimates that when the company begins to take the product to market there will ba 1,009,000 tons to be shipped. , The 1916 fishing season on the Col umbia river closed at noon Friday, and while It was not so successful as last year, It was not by any means the failure that was feared for a time. Taken as a whole, the pack of the present spring season Is approximate ly 26 per cent short of the amount put up last year. Van H. Manning, director of the United States bureau of mines, with his party, passed several days in Grants Pass recently Investigating the claims of that district as a fit locality for the establishment of one of the ten mining experiment stations to be established by thq, interior department in tho Immediate future. Linn county, in common with other lumber producing counties of tbe state, shows an increase In the cut over the 1915 figures, declares Labor Commissioner O. P. Hoff. Up to Aug ust 15 the plants on which statistics have thus far been compiled, had cut more than 15,000,000 feet of lumber and nearly 12,000$00 shingles. Miss Muriel Saling of Pendleton has been elected queen of the twenty-first Astoria annual regatta, September 1, 2, 3 and 4. Mlsa Sue Schacht, of Port land, and Miss Reta GUlman, of As toria, and Miss Frances Norberg, of Astoria, were accorded places of hon or. Maida of honor from many sec- tlona of the Columbia basin will form the court of tha new queen. Clackamas county’s second stretch of hard-surface county road, laid by county employes with county machin ery, will coat between 43 and 50 cents a yard, according to figures compiled by County Judge Anderson. The first stretch of county-laid hard surface, the Oregon Clty-Parkplace road, cost 98 H cents a yard, Including grading and many new parts Tor the planL The variability in the weight of s loaf of bread at present has impelled Fred G. Buchtel, state sealer of weights and measures, to decide on recommending In his report to the legislature a law fixing a standard weight for five and 10-csnt loaves. Deputies of Mr. Buchtel’s office have
