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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1916)
C. J. B u o h t , B righ t & B ryan t. Àttorney&-aV-Law " offices at Governor, Both Senators and Important Occurrences of Past All Four Representatives to Week Briefly Compiled for Congress Elected. Gur Readers. » TM OaHts ai»4 Mora, Ora. J. B. Hosford - - LAW YER Practises in United States and State Courts also in the State of Washington. S u ite T he 1 B ank MORO, and > B u ild in g - OREGON. MnroBBnmsnwBBnBBBHBBmmBBIBnBIBWBmmmnsnHRBBImmBSBIanmmwmwBmmnHnBW Crover J. Duffey Lawyer. Office w ith W . H . Ragsdale OREGON. MORO C. M. Huddleston Attorney a t Law W a sc o , gaining control of the tore. Cart M M illiken led bis ticket, do featlng Governor Oakley C. Curtta, who sought re-election, by s plurality of approximately 13,999. United States Senator Charles F. Johnson, whose wide personal popu larity had given the democrats great hope of his return, was defeated by Frederick Hale, eon of the exsenator, by approximately 9600 votes. For the short-term seat in the senate, ex-Gov- ernor Bert M. Fernald defeated Ken neth C. M. 8111», dean of Bowdoln college, by 12,000. The closest fight was for congress from the second district, where Rep resentative Daniel J. McGillicuddj was defeated by Wallace H. White, Jr., by 600 plurality. L. B. Goodall won from L A. Stevens In tha first « te * . - O regon congressional district by 3000. Rep resentstlve John A. Peters retained his seat, defeating John E. Bunker In the third district by 4000. Ira Q. H er sey defeated Leonard JL Pierce In the fourth district by 6000. TEUTONS CAPTURE DANUBE FORTRESS - London.—The fire of Germans and Bulgarians Invading Roumanla has battered down another great Danube fortress. Overcoming the most stub born resistance by his superiority In numbers, von Ma&ensen has pushed east along the river from Turtukal, wjtichJhe captufed last week, and has selxed” atiistria — / . ~ B re n la the m eet optim ierte m ilita ry D r . C L . P o le y Physician and Surgeon. Moro, Oregon. Office in residence. J. R. Morgan ID o n tls t Brown rot baa attacked the prunes In the Roseburg section. The rainfall at Tillamook city dur ing the past year was 125.70 Inches. Plans have been prepared for the Portland, l f e — Maine republican», reinforced by returning progressives, won a victory at the election Monday They won everything, electing a gov two United four representatives 1» oongreae and circles here the fall of this second powerful link la the Roumanian bor der defenses Is admitted to he s sev ere reverse for the Roumanians. , The importance of Silistria to the defense of southern Roumanla and Bucharest has been demonstrated In earlier wars.^ With Turtukal, It form ed the bastion of the 70-mlle line of fortifications in the Dobrudjs along the southern bank of the Danube. Only 60 miles southeast of the Rou manian capital, U offers von Macken sen another base from which to launch a thrust at the heart and main arteries of the country. BULGARIANS ARE DEFEATED King Ferdinand, of Roumanla, who, although a relative of the Kaiser, has Joined forces with the allies. BRIEF WAR NEWS The French, forcing the attack in the Verdun sector, captured a whole section of German trenches east of Fleury. In an attack on the Trentlno, Aus trian forces broke through the Italian trenches, but a counter attack, Rome says, recovered a great parr of the lost ground. The German and Bulgarian forces have captured the old Bulgarian fort ress of Silistria, which lies on the eastern bank of the Danube about 26 miles northeast of Turtukal and 60 miles east of Bucharest. On the Transylvanian front the Roumanians are attacking along the whole line from Orsova to Bukowlna, and the Russians are continuing to attack to the north. On the Danube, where the Roumanians have won OT- sova. the Austrians are battling des perately to prevent a further advance. Berlin and Vienna conoede a gain of ground to the Russians in the Car pathians near Zable to the west of Shypot. The Russians, says Berlin, are on the offensive from the Baltic to the wooded heights of the Car pathians, but everywhere except near Shypot their attacks have been re pulsed. The repulse of German counter-at tacks and continued heavy bombard ments formed the chief features on the western front In the Somme region between the French and British forces and the Germans. A recapitulation by the British war office of the results attained by the British on the Somme front during the last week shows an advance on a front of 6000 yards to a depth varying from 300 to 3000 yards. SHORT NEWS NUGGETS The consolidation of salmon and French and British Victory Reported fruit canning industries on the Pacific on Macedonian Front. coast Into one big company is said to Office on First street. MORO. - OREGON Dr. Theo. Beletski V E T E R IN A R IA N . Interstate Stock Inspector of Stallions for License W ASCO. OREGON Telephone Main 502. London.—The new offensive of the entente allies on the Macedonian front has resulted in the defeat of the Bulgarians, says an Exchange Tele graph dispatch from Athens. The Bulgarians sustained enormous losses in a battle of 86 hours, the dispatch says, and are beating a retreat, French troops co-operating with the British In the new offensive on the Struma front, in Greek Macedonia, have captured a village from the Bui garians, It was announced officially. The British force« which crossed the river have seised the Bulgarian trenches on the east bank. STAMP TAX IS ENDED — — ———— — P A P E R H A N G IN G P A IN T IN G S IG N W R IT IN G Estimates Fumisaed Free. % I f him, Mm, Ire. Y o u r business will be appreciated and an endeavor w ill be mad^ to please all. DUNG BUSINESS? If Ton Want Te Trade Tew Property Write to E. A. BRA8HEM * * 5 0 1 -2 Northwest Pardead, Oregon, 4»gg Emergency Measure Passed In 1914 is Repealed. Washington.— When the new gener al revenue bill became effective Sat urday business men throughout the country were relieved of the stamp taxes which they have been paying since December 1, 1914, and which were to have continued until Decern her 81 of this year. The stamp taxes repealed Include those paid on telegraph and telephone messages, parlor-car seats and berth tickets, bonds, debentures, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of stock, transfer bills o f' sale, promissory notes, express and freight manifests and hills o f lading, bonding Instru ments, conveyances, insurance poli cies, entry of goods, passage tickets, power of attorney, protests, perfum ery, cosmetics and chewing gum. Clash In Oregon Emergency Board. Salem, Or.— A fter five hours of hit ter debate and vitriolic verbal clashes in which all members parttelpated, the state emergency hoard authorised the creation of deficiencies to provide for state institutions until the remainder of the year, amounting to 144,000. Governor WRhycombe charged Sena tor I. N. Day and Secretary of State Olcott with conspiring to discredit the flax experiment Senator Day told the governor that he was telling i have been practically effected. The treaty providing for the pur chase from Denmark of the Danish West Indies for $25,000,000 was rati fied by the United States senate. The national guard organizations recently ordered from the border to their respective state- mobilization camps will be mustered out of the federal service as soon as practical and returned to the normal status of national guard troops. Suit for $1,000,000 was filed by Henry Ford, the Detroit manufacturer, against the Chicago Tribune, in the United States district court in Chica go. Mr. Ford asks for personal dam ages as compensation for an editorial prtpted in the Tribune June 23, which, it is charged, called Ford an “anar chist.” Senator Phelan’s provision author ising President Wilson to prohibit the use of mails and the cable, telegraph and wireless facilities of the nation to foreign countries discriminating against American commerce was stricken from the revenue bill by the conference committee. Senator Cham berlain’s provision designed to pre vent the importation of Canadian hali but and salmon also was eliminated. Rich Sheepman Shot. Boise, Idaho.—R. C. Goodwin, weal thy sheepman of Boise, whose body was found floating in the Snake river near Ontario, Or., was murdered, In the opinion of the sheriff of Malheur county, Oregon. World’s Greatest Bridge Collapses. Quebec, Que.— W ith the loss of 11 lives, the second attempt to bridge the 8L Lawrence river here resulted in a failure when the massive center span, weighing 6100 tons, suddenly collapsed and fell into the river. Montana Republicans 1er Prohibition. Helena, M o n t— W ith Frank J. Ed wards, republican candidate for gov ernor, a member of the resolutions committee, the republican state plat form convention here adopted a plank for statewide prohibition. ment of the arm y and navy for de fense of the country at the unprece dented cost of $466,000.000 with au thorisations that w ill increase the to tal in three years Io nearly $800,000,- 000. W ith all otbef expenditures, ap propriations were brought to the grand total of $1,491,683,682, the great est aggregate In the country’s history and exceeding th at for the last fiscal year by more than half a billion dol lars. i Expenditures, necessitated by pre paredness snd the calling Into action of m ilitary forces to meet the Mexican emergency, demanded revenue legis lation In the closing days of the ses sion. Congress responded by doub ling the normal tax on incomes, creat ing an Inheritance tax, munitions tax snd miscellaneous excise taxes to raise $306,000,000, and by directing the sale of $180,000,000 Panama canal bonds. M any Im p ortan t Laws Passed. Most Important legislative enact ments of the session, exclusive of laws for national defense, Included the fol lowing: Government ship law—Appropriat ing $60,000,000 to operate ships in for eign and coastwise trade when unable to lease them to Individuals or pri vate corporations. Child labor law—Denying interstate commerce to products of mines and quarries employing children under 16 years of age and factories, mills, can neries and other establishments em ploying children under 14 years. Rural credits law—Establishing a farm loan board te control of a aye- tern of fa m Emergency for doubling the norm si income tax on the lowest class; making an addition al surtax ranging from 1 per cent on that portion of incomes exceeding $20,- 000 toM3 per cent on amount of in comes in excess of $8,900 ,000; levying a graduated tax of 1 to 10 per cent on Inheritances ranging from $50,000 to $5,000,000; a 10 per osat net profit tax on manufacturers of munitions, 5 per cent net profit tax OB manufacturers of materials entering Into munitions; a license tax on actually Invested capi tal stock of corporations capitalised at more than $99,000; wine, beer and liquor excise taxes and miscellaneous stamp taxes. Federal Aid for Good Roads. Good roads law—providing for co operative federal aid to the states for construction of highways and appro priating $75,000,000 to be spent in five years. Postal savings law—-Amendment In creasing the amount which individuals may deposit from $509 to $1000 with interest and an additional $1000 with out Interest. Federal reserve—Amendments, in cluding amendment to the Clayton anti-trust law permitting officers and directors of member banks to become officers and directors of not more than two other non competing banks; amendments permitting national banks to establish foreign branches, liberalizing regulations for discount ing commercial paper and permitting member banks in towns of 6000 or less population to act M agents for ---- fv Insurance companies, » is .- Railroad legislation—Creation of a joint sub-committee of senate and house Interstate commeroe committees to investigate necessity for further legislation for railroads and the inter state commerce commission, question of government ownership of public utilities and comparative worth of gov ernment ownership as against govern ment regulation. Eight-Hour Railway Day Fixed. Railroad eight-hour day law—Estab lishing eight hours as the standard for reckoning the compeasation of rail road employes operating trains la in terstate commerce after January 1, 1917, and providing for a commission of three to investigate the effects of the eight-hour standard. Tariff—Creation of a non-partisan tariff commission of five members to investigate and advlsg congress on tariff revision; repeal of the tree su gar provision of existing tariff law; amendments increasing duties on dye stuffs to encourage «annfacturing dyestuffs In the United fte te s; enact ment of an anti-dumptftp provision to prevent dumping of foreign-made goods at less than foreign market prices; authorization f©$ the presi dent to retaliate against foreign na tions prohibiting Importation of goods from the United States by laying an embargo against imports from offend tec nattsai erection of an $80,009 hotel building at Bend. Robert M. La Follette, renominated by a large majority to succeed himself as United States senator from Wis consin. INFORMATION FOUND. BY CENSORS USED W ashington—Extension of the Brit ish mall censorship from its original purpose of destroying all trade to or from Germany, to the field of provid ing data for Great Britain’s fight for commercial supremacy is seen here in admissions made by David Lloyd George, the war secretory, before par liament A statement was made during a tar iff debate in parliament recently by David Lloyd George, the British war secretory, that Buch information prop erly could be put to "any public and national use.” Discussion of the subject brought out the suggestion that although the Phelan amendment denying the use of American mail, cable, telegraph and express privileges to citizens of for eign countries interfering with Amer icas mails was stricken out of the re taliato ry l e gislation recently passed by congress, the measure as enacted contains authorization which might be construed as broad enough to allow the president to retaliate against un fair use of the eensorship. SUFFRAGISTS ARE NEUTRAL Vote Down Motion Based on Adoption of Anthony Amendment. Atlantic City, N. J.—The convention of the National American Woman's Suffrage association reelected Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt president and unanimously adopted a series of reso lutions which oontolned a series of acknowledgments that "all presiden tial candidates have declared them selves in favor of woman suffrage; President Wilson has said he would fight with us, and Mr. Hughes has an nounced his support of the federal amendment"; called upon the demo cratic and republican parties In the campaign states to take Immediate ac tion to obtain the enfranchisement of women. The convention defeated by an overwhelming vote a resolution that the association in the present national campaign support only those candidates for national offices who pledge their support to the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment for a federal constitutional amend ment Whisky Brought In Labeled as Milk. Portland, Or.—Forty gallons of fiery liquor came into Portland on the steamer F. A. Kllburn, which tied up at Columbia dock Saturday night. Never was a shipment of illicit whisky concealed more cleverly. ' Four 10- gallon milk cans, specially constructed with false bottoms, with a small quan tity of milk on top, hid the liquor. Railroads Earn $546 a Mile. Washington. — Sixty-seven of the largest steam railways earned a net revenue of $646 a mile during last July, an increase of $43 a mile, ac cording to the Interstate commerce commission. THE MARKETS Fortlsnd. Wheat— Club, $1.30; bluestem, $1.86; red Russian, $1.29; forty-fold, $1.31; rod fife, $1.32. Hay—Timothy, $18 per ton; alfalfa, $14.60. * Barley— No. 1 Feed, $33 per ton. Butter— Creamery, 34c. * Eggs— Ranch, 80c. ** Wool—Eastern Oregon. 82c; valley, Wo. Hepe—1911 crop, nominal; 1916 con tracts, $o- , Seattle. Wheat— Bluestem, $1.36; club, $1.31; rod Russian, $1.30; forty-fold, $1.32; fife, $1.81; turkey red, $1.40. Barley—$38.60 per ton. „ Butter—Creamery. 849. Harvey Shoemaker «hot and killed Mrs. Dan Davis, to whom he had been attentive for some time, and then killed himself, at Baker. Jealousy la believed to have caused the shooting. Insurance Commissioner Wells has issued fire prevention bulletin No. 2 and ln It he urges the hearty coopera tion of property owners with the fire departments so that hazards may be reduced. There will be no military drill at the university of Oregon before the second semester of school, and proba bly not until next year, according to an announcement made by President P. L. Campbell. The packers have fixed the prices for raw fish to prevail daring the fall season which opened Sunday at the following rates per pound: Chinooks, two cents; silversides, four cents; steelheads, five cents. China pheasants are scarce in Linn county this year. Some farmers as sert that there are net one-tenth as many birds as usual. Rains ln June and July, when the birds were small, killed most of this year’s crop. State School Superintendent J. A. Churchill has issued a bulletin on school architecture in collaboration with the Oregon chapter of the Amer ican Institute of architects and the schools of architecture at Eugene and Corvallis. Data assembled by Labor Commis sioner Hoff show that there are 15.- 337.809 acres of land ln the state that are subject to entry. According to figures prepared by him, there are seven persons to every square mile in the state. At a meeting of Roseburg oner chants It was decided to protest to the public service commission against the recent advance made by the South ern Pacific company on minimum freight charges between Roseburg and Portland. The official pamphlets containing the proposed constitutional amend ments and measures to be referred to the people at the November election are now being mailed to the registered voters of the state by Secretary of State Olcott. In case the taxes, three years in arrears on the Oregon ft California railroad grant lands ln Lane county, are paid to tha county by tea govern ment, a new addition, estimated to cost $23,000, to the courthouse In Eu gene will be made. Eugene Bosse, veteran flax grower of Oregon, who has been directing the flax growing experiments conducted in Lane county during the past summer by the Eugene chamber of commerce, died ln Portland, following a stroke of apoplexy, at the age of 76 years. Clifford Smith, a farmhand, waa gored by a bull near Oakville and died as a result Linn county la now shipping green prunes direct to the markets of the middle west. Taxable property in Baker county has gained $400,000 in value within the last year. Two horses were stung to death by bees at the ranch of Roy Atterbury near Hermiston. Lane county flax is being epun In to thread at the Lane county fair at Eugene this week. About 40 per cent of the hop crop of Lane county was lost as a result of excessive rain last week. The first apple packing school ever conducted in Lane county will be held at Creswell, September 21, 22 and 23 A movement has been started iu Albany looking towards municipal ownership of light, water and powei plants. Jacob Condron, an engineer In the Roaecrans sawmill at Corvallis, died from a fall in which he suffered a broken neck. John S. Herrin, a pioneer of Ash land, died there, aged 89 years. He was a native of Kentucky and came to Oregon Ln 1858. At a special election at Toledo to vote on two bond Issues for the Im provement of the city water system both proposals lost. Outside of one $200 fire ln the Ml- nam forest no losses except very small ones resulted from forest fires ln that section thia season. Not a fatality waa numbered among the 296 accidents reported to the state Industrial accident commission for the week ending September 7. Hoppicking is progressing ln the Willamette valley without much in terruption. The spread of mold ap pears to have been checked. After a shutdown of ten days be cause of inability to get bottles, the Northwest Fruit Products plant at Salem is again ln operation. The Polk, Yamhill, Marion Medical society met ln McMinnville, with a large number of the doctors of the three counties in attendance. A roundup exhibition ln McMinn vllle Is assured, and a stock show will HEA D OF M O N M O U T H N O R M A L be an important feature of it. The «A Y S O NE SCHOO L CANNOT dates are October 4, 6 and 6. • U F F L Y D E M A N D FOR T E A C H The Summit Mill company, of Sum ERS. mit, has notified the state public serv Monmouth, Ore.—“A careful aaaly- ice commission that shortage of cars ils of the situatloa will oeavteoe any has forced a closing of the plant The Athena postofflce safe was dy one 'that Oregoa needs a Normal School ln Rasters Oregon aaft also namited by robbers and about $40 ln one la Southern Oregea,” said J. H. stomps and a few cents which had Ackerman, President of the State Nor been left ln the safe were token. mal School at Mensseuth. “It la a Earl Scott, a prominent stockman well-established fact that a centrally of Warner valley, was almost instant located Normal School cannot supply ly killed when an automobile turned the needs of the entire state. The need of a Normal School ln Eastern turtle six miles south of Lakeview. A new and modern mill will replace Oregea Is readily proved by the moat cursory lnveetlgatloa of too Hat of our the Oregon Lumber company mill at students and the list of our graduate Baker, which was destroyed recently teachers. The estimated population by fire, the estimated loss being $50,- of our state ln 1914 waa 795.197. Take 000. for example the eight Westers Oregon The great council of the Improved counties, Clatsop, Clackamas, Benton, Order of Red Men, of Oregon, has Lane, Llan, Marion. Polk and Tesahill launched a * statewide membership Couaties. " Their populatlea for 1914 campaign with 20,000 new members was 214,408, or less than 37 per oent of the total population of the state, as Its goal. yet 60 per oent of the graduates from J. G. Horn of North Bend has been our Normal School for too past five awarded the contract to erect all the years are teaching school ln some one depots along the Willamette Pacific of these eight Western Oregon coun between Eugene and Lakeside that ties. There are 86 oouotiee in the state, yet eight of these counties are have not been built The value of the mine production getting half of tha benefit of the of gold and silver ln Crook county for teachers for which all of the eountles the year 1915, aocordlng to a recent pay the taxes. Here is the llsL During the past bulletin of the United States geologi five years we have supplied tee fo l cal survey, was $6894. lowing graduates as teachers to these At the regular city election in No aountles: vember the voters of McMinnville will Clatsop, 18; Clackamas, 29; Ben be asked to vote a $90,000 water bond ton, 25; Lane, 36; Linn, 2$; Marion, issue for the purpose of an additional 28; Polk. 85; and Yamhill, M . In jther words, 208 of our 407 teachers water supply for the city. The beautiful Pageant of the Sea who have secured plaoee la the public aehools ln Oregon during the pest five sons was presented at the city park at years, have gone to these eight Wil McMinnville before more than 6000 lamette Valley counties. people, under the auspices of the Civic Now take eight typienl Eastern Ore gon counties and see if they have se Improvement Club women. Multnomah county’s taxable valua cured their proper share ef teachers tion for 1916 will show a decrease of with Normal training. During the pest about $80,090,000 from 1916. The fi five years Ws have supplied Msrmsl graduates as fellows to these Bssters nal valuation of the county will he ln Oregon counties: the neighborhood of $803,600,090. Baker, 9; Omni, 1) Hersey. 4; M al Long-known deposits of chrome heur, 2; Morrow, 4; Umstilln. 14; Iron on Canyon mountain in Grant Wallowa, 7; and Wheeler, ft The eight Willamette Vhttsy seen- county are about to be developed and marketed by the Parnlah company of ties had 298 Normal lonehess M against 89 Normal teachers for tbs Ban Francisco, according to reports. Forest fire losses this year bid fair eight Eastern Oregoa cosnttsn Bhst> era Oregon reoelved lees thsn 14 psr to touch the mark set ln 1912, which oent sis against Western la a low record. In that year the dam per cent age amounted to but $460. There has been but one serious firp thia season, Making says State Forester Elliott, and that asked for year “Has occurred ln a Washington county log h sn d r ging camp and waa not strictly a lor* “No, bst I hero te ordering tea si rot ftra. tt A C E M M liF M PENOLETBMMEASORE ■n
