kw-lMB
SIENIN GBBin OBSEIvtl
«—.
The Judge:- The Groom Maj Gamble But Not The Judge
OBSERVER WANT ADS
Rat««: Under 15 word«, 35c
15 to 30 words, 50c
FOR SALE—United States Cream
separator No. 18. Very reason
able.
Mrs. Ira K. Axtell, phone
24F21, Moro.
WHEN IN THE DALLES —Visit
the Hemstitching Shop. Every
thing in Needlework and Threads.
Mail orders promptly filled. ‘ One
block from post office, 105 East 2nJ
street Myles & Woodruff, The
Dalles, Oregon.
NOTICE—The Tygh Valley Flour
Mill has closed down until July
Out of wheat. R. B. Knox.
OREGON NEWS ITEMS
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
H. H.'Corey, member of the pubi.
service commission, has returned from
Washington, where be attended a
hearing having to do with the pro
posed railroad development in central
Oregon. The hearing was held under
the direction of the interstate com Brief Resume of Happenings of
Bierce commission. Mr. Corey pre
the Week Collected for
dicted that an order in the case prob
ably would be issued within the next
Our Readers.
>0 davs.
CUSTOM
HATCHING
Will have 15 compartments
empty in our Mamoth Wish- »
bone Incubator on April Gth
making- available capacity of
3000 eggs for custom hatch-
ing.
Our price is 3 H c per egg or
$7:00 per compartment—200
eggs per compartment. Must
set in 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10 hun
dred lots.
You cannot af
ford to set your hens for this
figure.
The Pines Poultry Farm
The Daiki, Oregon
/Í4 Sweet Breath \
at all times /
WRIGLEYS
-after eitery meal!
Coos bay exported during March
lumber products valued at >137,735.
Willamette university elected Miss
Lucia Lucile Card of Dallas to reign
as May day queen. ,
A movement to have Jackson county
vote again on a proposal to remove
the courthouse from Jacksonville to
Medford is under way.
Mrs. Fred Wagner, wife of a rancher
residing at Cottrell, committed sui
cide by drinking poison. She had been
in ill health for some time.
There are 24 cases of scarlet fever
tn Clackamas county, 14 of which are
In Oregon City, according to Dr. F. R.
Wallace, county health officer .
The 8a)em city council authorized
an appropriation of >1000 for erec
tion of a community building on the
Salem auto tourist camp grounds.
Kermit Roosevelt, son of the ex
president, will attend the 1925 Pendle
ton Round-up, H. W.. Collins, pres I
dent of the show, has been assured.
The state board of control has au
thorised the purchase of 47 acres of
land adjoining the state prison prop
erty at a cost of >28,800. The land
will be used for farming purposes.
Norton Eddings, 71, next to the last
ware such picturesque and Important
figures in the early history of south
ern Oregon, died at his residence near
Gold HUI.
\ 4
A young cougar which had killed
two year-old heifers on the M. E.
Gruber farm was shot on the north
fork of the Trask river by William
and Homer Wilk* and brought to
Tillamook.
After ten years of effort directed
to obtain a district office at Portland
of the federal bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce, that goal has
been attained and the office will be
opened July 1?
A large tractor new being used bj
the bureau of publie Toads in widen
ing the McKenzie pass highway be
tween Sisters and the snow line prob
ably will be used soon Ln an attempt
to break the road over the snowbound
summit to th« McKenxie river Slope.
USE
MOTOR OIL
AND
UNION
NON DETONATING
GASOLINE
UNION OIL COMPANY
OF
CALIFORNIA
R ead & G alloway
GENERAL
MACHINE
SHOP
Repairing Truck*, Tractor*, Automobile*. ?
(’«terpillar*, ami Combine Motor*, Cylhidvr
(»rin ing. O» x-acetylene and Electric W elding
The Dalles, Ore
GIB East
h
y
\ X .
Second St
Phon* Main 4001
ADMIRAL COONTZ
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Prfnel0ir Events of the Wet
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
Statue Put to Uea
Th* statue of Berollua, th« guard
lan goddess of Berlin, Germany, in
the Alexanderplatx, has been fitted with
a false right arm and hand, which
holds a disc signal. When the arm is
extended traffic through the plat I*
held up. When th« way is clear,
the traffic man on duty, atationed In
a little sign*! box. pulls a lever, up
goes Berollna’s arm, and the waiting
vehicles steam past.
The Michigan-Oregon Trust com
Dark Honey for Medicine
pany of Ruskegon, Mich., has bought
Dark-colored
honey Is used in the
a tract ot timber one-half mile from
Swisshoma, - on the lower Siuslaw manufacture of medicinal preparations
.
river, from. Mrs. Marie White of tn England.
Duluth, i Miu*. The tract contains NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS:
about 4,000,000 feet.
Notice is h«reby given that the
George Putnam, editor and pub County Court of Sherman County
will receive bids for the grading of
Usher of the Salem Capital Journal, the “Lone Rock Market Road, Sec
has demanded that John Carson, dis tion “2,” Unit “B” up to and in
trict attorney of Marton county, start cluding 10:00 o’clock a. m., Wed
mandamus proceedings looking to the nesday, April 22, 1925.
Approximate length of roadway to
return of the state banking depart
be graded Three and six tenths (3.6)
ment to the state capital.
miles.
It was reported at Salem that an
Plans and specifications are on
attack may be launched La the courts file at the oi office of the County
to annul the so-called cigarette tax Clerk at the county court house in
Admiral Coontx, who is in command ,• law which was enacted at the recent Moro, Oregon, and at the office of
County Ro^dmaater in Wasco,
of the maneuvers of the United States session of the legislature. The re the
Oregon.
fleet in the Psciflc.
The County Court reserves the
j port indicated that th/* proceedings
right to reject any or all bids.
would attack the title of the act.
Dated this 15th day of April 1925,
The annual conference of county and published by - order of the
agents of the coast counties of Ore County Court.
Mary L. Hoskinson.
gon will be held in Astoria again this
County Clerk.
year. The meeting probably will take
place the latter part of June. Agents
SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL RTATB-
MENT OF THE
from Coos, Columbia, Lincoln, Tills
United States Merchants &
Washington, D. C.— States have the mook. Lane and Douglas counties are
Shippers Insurance Company
right to prescribe in their inheritance expected to attend.
tax laws the methods of determining
has
appointed
the
Governor Pierce
on the Slat day of December. 1*24. made
the market value of property trans members of the battleship Oregon
ferred and to provide that no deduc commission, which wai created by an
Capital -
▲mouat of capital stock paid
tion shall be made from this value in act of the recent legislature. Mem
computing the state tax for any in- bars of the commission include Cora
Net pr«*ntuT*s received dur*«g
heritance or estate tax paid to the A. Thompson, Portland; Lafe Man
th« year .................................. I
IntotMt, dividend* and rent*
federal government.
ning, Portland; Colonel Carle Abrams,
r«o«lv*d daring ib* year...
This ruling, made by the supreme Salem; Howard Q Waddell, Ro«e
tneom* from other source« r*-
oMved during th« y«*r..... 143.26«. M
court in a case brought from Cali burg; Colonel U; G. Worrilow, Port
12.75«.* I » S3
Total Income .
fornia by the executor* of the estate land. This commission will assume
of Henrietta Pierce Watkinson, was full charge ot the battleship after it
y*s.r. Includine adjuatmeeit
considered of wide importance, not arrives in Oregoh waters.
exp«M*i......................
I
Dlvidends
paid
oa capitai
only to states, but to beneficiaries
7».ISSO*
stock durlng thè vear.......
Commissiona snd sslarle* paid
under will* because of its material
821.8*2.64
COMING
bearing increasing the amount of
money states can collect under in
TO THE DALLES
Amount
heritance tax laws. It was delivered
»2.5®.»0X38
Total expenditures
by Justice Stone, among the first he
has banded down since his appoint
Val«« «f «tock* and bond« -
SPECIALIST
owned (market value).... »8 837,*20 OO
ment to the bench.
SM.37AM
Premium«
In course of colise
Explaining that the gross estate in
tion written since JHeptem
156.828 *>
question exceeded >1,800,000, Justice
Reinsurance
on
Stone pointed out that California re
57.801 78
DOES ROT OPERATE
celved >87,699 more taxes under the
accrued .
40.567 **
*08.00
Will b« at
stipulations of Its law than it would
Total
admitted
a***ts
..........
»4,978
>8« 54
THE
,DALLES
HOTEL
have received had the federal tax been
LUMDti««.
SATURDAY APRIL It
first deducted.
Oro*« elalma for loa«** un*
paid .............................
..si.oos.ni.ee
Office, hours! 10 a. as. to 4 p. m.
▲mount of un*am«d premi
ums
on
all
outstaadiac
risks .... .................................... 1 224.456 1«
THOMPSON IS SENTENCED ----------- ONE DAY ONLY
Due for'CommWolon sad bro- ----- ------ - ------
No charge for Consultation
kersge .» . ....L.
**,*2014
KU other liabilit!««...................
1*8.187 *8
Former Employe In Oregon Stste
Dr. Meiteflthin is a regular gradu
Total liabilities, «xclosive of
Treasurer's Offloe Gets 9 Years.
ate in medicine and surgery and is
espitsl stock of *1.000,-
006 ...................................... »2 *25 135 4«
Salem, Or.—Clarence W. Thompson, licensed by the state of Oregon. He
who was indicted by the Marlon coun does not operate for chronic appendi Hat premiums received dur
20.921 M
ty grand jury on a charge of appro citis, gall stones, ulcers of stomach,
Lessee Incurred darin* the
priating >3000 from the state treasury tonsils or adenoids.
He has to his credit wonderful re
department, was sentenced by Judge
UMTKD mTKS MMCHANT«' a
SHirrUU*' INSURANCE
Kelly to serve a maximum term of sults in diseases of the stomach, liver,
COMPANY.
seven years in the state penitentiary. bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart,
DOUGLAS F. COX. president.
C-
J-
RIEGLER.
Secretary-Treasurer.
Thompson entered a plea of guilty kidney, bladder, bed wotting, weak
FRED A. SCHLICK, statutory real deal
attorney for servio*.
to the charge in the indictment.
lungs, catarrh, rheumatism, sciatica,
In passing sentence Judge Kelly lea ulcers and rectal ailments.
THE ANNUAL KAT«
also revoked the parole previously z Below are the name" of a few of UTNOPSI8 OF
MENT OF THE
granted to Thompson when the de his many satisfied patients in Ore
Great Lakes Insurance Co.
fendant entered a plea of guilty and gon :
of Chicago. tn the state of IHlnols. on
Hedwick. i Wilson, Gold
Beach,
was sentenced to serve a term of
th* thirty-first day of December, 1924.
mad* to th* inaurance commirelwner of
two years in the penitentiary on a Ore., varicose ulcers.
th* state of Ortfon, pursuant to law:
charge of taking >931 from the state
Frank Koehler, The Dalles Ore.,
400.000 00
treasurer’s office. The seven-year stomach trqjiH«-/ n ;.
sentence imposed on the defendant
Mrs. E. <5. Hammock, Myrtle
Wet premiums received dur-
will start when the previous sentence Point,Ore',. gMtreiU
47*. 195 16
of two years has been served.
Mrs. JFohm#eCtfe, LakesiddrUi*.,
received darin« the year '.
appendicitis.
36.819 25
Compulsory Arbitration Illegal.
faU, Ontario, Ore.,
Henry W
Total income .......................... I 57X858 *0
Disbursements.
Washington, D. C. — Compulsory ulcer of stow
N«* losses paid dur In« the
Mrs. E. C. Bates, Baker, Ore.,
{arbitration in industrial disputes is un
year including adjustment
202.980.32
constitutional the supreme court held. eczema. >1 . f -
A89.355.4I
paid during th« year
O. M. Richey, ’ Boring, Ore., heart
The decision was rendered in two
Tawas llrannae and feei
18.623 22
cases brought by Charles Wolff Pack trouble.
ing company of Topeka, Kan., against
Louis S. Setiber, 326 E.Buchanan,
87.262 60
the industrial relations court of that Portland, Or«., adenoids and ton
.Total exp«*»lture«
498.221 55
state.
sils.
Value of «took* and bonds
•wned (market value) ...I 878.2*0 so
Klamath Falls mail carriers are
Remember above date, that consul Loan*
on mortgage* and col
now carrying pistols on order of John tation on this trip will be free and
lateral. ete..........-..............
244.000 00
Caah tn banka and on hand.
McCall, post mas tfF, because of at that his treatment is different.
Premium* In courae of col-
l«etlon written since Sep-
tacks by vicious dogs. Six carriers
Married women must be accompan
77.701. M
have been bitten during the week, *o ied by their husbands.
accrued .
they have been instructed to shoot
Address: 211 Bradbury Building,
all offending dogs.
Total admitted assets.
Loe Angeles, California.
UabUIU««.
Following a conference of official*
of the Oregon-Washington Railroad A
paid
............................................ *
5X666.««
▲mount of unearned prem-
Navigation company and of the slate
1uma on «11 outstanding
rUks ...........
573,71X7«
highway department, and an inspec
▲II other liabilities ................
lt.TM.47
tion of the ground, it was announced
Total liabilities. «xclu«iA
of capital stock of »406.-
that the rail line contemplates driving
* «35.55X92
shafts and boring tunnels just east of
Mosier, where the action* of subter
*
ixoos . m
ranean streams causes a constant
LT
2.4*9.40
settling and shifting of the earths
The Motor Market
surface over a considerable area. T!u
The Dalles, Ore
M. u PIOTROWSKI, PrwMeat
tunnels, similar to those construct**,
AAMM W. KNOX. Ám't. Saerwtary.
•tecatery raaMaat attorney for Mrvl««,
west of Cascade Ix>ckg, where ih«
w«r*Bcw Cajún I m I oo ar.
rail line had to fight these sums con
Phone 6i8 603 E imket
BRICB MORT«AOB COMPANY. T**a
-aa-aa__.
w wnn- * o na a.
—_
dftions, will control the underground
flow of water, it is expected.
INHERITANCE TAX LAW
HELD VALID BY COURT
Dr* Mellenthin
New and Used
r Parts for all Cars
6,000
H^pd Worth
Accident insurance companies aver
age values thus: On a business bssV
your arms are worth >3,000; your leg*
WXXX>; your eyes, >6,000; a Anger.
>250. According to that computation,
your head must be worth at least >15.-
(MM). Therefore, when you got up this
morning, if you did not have a dollar
In the bank, you had a’ working cap
ital of >30,000. With that much of a
start you may go far.
Plumbing and Heating
Sell* and installs the
famous Mueller pipe
or pipelen furnace.
* Wasco, Oregon
•YNCPS18 OF THE ANNUAL 8TATB-
Occidental Life Insurance
Company
OF LOS ANGELEN. IN THE STATE O»
CALJFOKNiA.
On the Slat day of December, 1024, mad«
to the Inaurance Commissioner of th«
Hüfte of Oregon, pursuant to law.
Capital.
Amount of capital paid up.»
D. LINDQUIST
$
1
Watch Inspector for the
O.-W. R. & N. Co.
Jewelr^ and Watch Repair
ing given special attention
250,000.96
Life Department-
Premiums received during
year ...... ................................ I
Interest, dividend* and
rents received during year
Income from other sources
received duiing year ., .
▲ecident Department—
Premiums received during
JEWELER
M7.0217S
1.577.824 47
Dalles, Oregon
25,515.00
ineom« from other sources
104 51
Total
income .......................
Dloburoements.
Life Department-
Paid-for loasee. endowments,
snnuitles and surrender
values ....................................... »
5*0,*72*2
Dividends snd coupon* paid
policy holflerwdurtirg-yr«!--- *8X662.8«
CommiMtlon*
and
**l*rle
paid during the year ....
494.808.08
Tax**,
license*
and
fee
81.545 »0
paid durina the year ...
Amount of all other ex
*48.4*4.82
pend it urea .......................
Accident Department—
pensee, etc.
Policy fees
retained
paid durin« year ..
Tax««,
licenses
artd
psld during yesr ..
▲mount of sll -oth*
pendituras
by
J
WHEN
IN THE DALLES
■ Royal Cafe
f
Open Day and Night
99.ZSX5I
■
. *.47L1»
............
Totsl expenditures
X0 43A50
* 1.7*5.5X5 78
Bonas .•
Cash In I
N«<
unooll«oted
f- red
premlomi
dent Department ...
Interest due and accrued
•7*,
4S7<
Bank Hotel
Formerly the Albert
1.075.»5
.» 7,470.5*1 X2
Gross assets
Deduct assets no* admitted
The Dalle«’ Newest and Best
floate! ry
—'
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Orogon
I.iablIHU».
Life Department—
Net reserve . .............,9 «.106.145 0*
All other liabilities .............. ?
864.559 «8
Accident Department—
Gross claims for Ios«ee un
paid ................. • ..............
Amount of unearned pro-
mlums on all outstanding
30.684 50
risks ......................................
10,659 M
▲11 other lisblllties................
Totsl Habllltlee ................... » 7.021,045 21
Total Insurance in force De
cember *1, 1**4. Life De- .
partment ........................... mi 408 13* 1*
Total
premiums in force
• D«ceml>«r SI. 1924, Accl-
' dent Department ...............
89,057.64
THE DALLES, OREGON
Life Department—
.Total insurance w r
received
i Orora
premi
..............
during the
Premium* returned durin*
CRANDALL
UNDERTAKING
COMPANY
9« 3M.06
.render value and divi
18.000 9*
dend* paid ...........................
9,96177
‘ Lome« paid during the year
■ Total amount of Insurance
outatanding
In
Oregon
*,756,690.87
December '»1. 1*24 .....
1
Accident Department—
Oro««
premium«
received
' during the year ..................
Premiums returned daring
*28 4*
the year ..............................
18,0*8 00
losses paid during the year
Moro. Oregon
1 H HIH I HH 4 4HHHH »
OCCIDKNTAL I JFK INHUBANC|I
COMPANY.
By H. J. Burkhard, Praaident.
Statutory O*n«ral A«*nt and Attorn«]
for *erv’
* “ ~
Oregon.
SYNOPSIS OF RHB ANNUAL STATE
MENT OF THE
Great American Insurance
Company
FOR SAU
BY
of New York, in the state of New York,
on the Xlst day of D«c«mb«r, 1924. made
to the Insurance Commtsrlonor of the
*tate of Oregon, pursuant to law:
CnpItaL
▲ mount of capital
stock
paid up ............. ................ »12.300.000 06
Income.
Net premiums received dur
ing the year ..................... 118.421 758 99
Interest, dividends and renta
received during the year.
2.47* 753 40
Income from other aourcea
148 986. «4,
during the year
Total income ..
120.613.4*9 03.
Net los*e« paid durine th*
year,
Inc’udlr.«
adjust -
ment excuses . ................... »10.788,862.84
Dividends paid on capital
stock during the year . .
2.060.000.00
Commissions
and
Salaries
paid dWrlnz the year...... S,855.178,07
Taxe*. license* «nd fee* paid
during th* yeay: ..............
604.251.40
Amount of' all other ex-
pendMures ......................
1.280,879 94
Sherman Electric Go
JO HOTEL PERKINsI
A
E. Myers, Proprleter
FIFTH AND WASHINGTON. STS.
! \ PORTLAND. OREGON
Total expenditures ..
. »20,929,171 95«
Asset«.
Value of stocks and bonds j
owned (market valuejw^. . »4 2.835.026.00
Caah in banka and on hand 1.708,077.18
Premium* In course of col
lection written since Sep
tember 30, 1*24 ..............
X 267.619 .01
Interest and rents due and
accrued .............................
*17.829.00
AH other asset* ........................
47,846 82
Total admitted as«et«. ... »48,176,197.61
IJebiliUee.
Oto«« claim* for lo«se* an-
Faid ....................................... * 2,933.187 1»
Amount of unearned prem
ium* «n all outatanding
rt*k* .................................... 17,T8* «5g.1T
Due for commlMlon and
brokerage .........................A
All other liabilities............. ~
50.000.00
57X521 9t
of espitsl stock of »12.-»
«00.006 00 (surplus *14.-
M7. 233*2) ...................... *21, *M. »6X16
No* premium* received dur-
in« ths year........................ I
Losse* paid during ths year
Losses inoarrad during year
Renovated Throughout
SPECIAL
1*2.1 IT 81
•2.C84 72
67,900 32
OH AS G. SMITH, Praaidaat.
BD V IN M. CRAGtN. Secretary
GEORGE B- KRE<"H. »tStatory raaf-
daat attorney for Barvioa, atat« laaursno*
RATES
Room with privilege of bath, aiagie,
>1.00 up; double >1.50 up
Room with private bath, aingle $1.50
up; double >2.50 up..