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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1913)
INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE «AND= LINN COUNTY AGRICULTURALIST VOL. 36. NO. 2. $1.25 SWEET HOME, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY 1, 1913 THE YEAR 22 INSANE CHINESE PAY TAXES TO THE LINN COUNTY HAS INCOME OF FARMS A DUCK’S CRAW A 53 PRECINCTS NEVER SO AMPLE SMALL GOLD MINE START HOME TODAY COUNTY TREASURER Some Odd Names Are Chosen for Polling Most Succensful Yield of Husbandry in The George Philippi Farm of North of Men Being Deported Fron the Oregon The Sheriff no Longer Takes the Money —Taxes Become Delinquent the Unitdd States-Back to Places, Such as Crowfoot, Sun Insane Asylum Will Pass This City, is the Scene of rise and Strawberry Soil Move Tells “Strawberry” was the name giv Washington, Dec. 29.—Ten billion en to a new voting precinct created dollars’ worth of products, $5,000,- by the county court of Linn county. 000,000 of cash income—a bumper The precinct adjoins the city limits year in spite of droughts and other of Lebanon on the south, east and setbacks—is the 1913 record of west sides and in deference to the 6,000,000 American farms. prominence of Lebanon as a straw The most successful yield of hus berry center this name was as bandry in the United States brought forth $6,100,000,000 worth of crop, signed. » Among other unique names given of which $2,896,000,000 were rep to new precincts created by the resented by cereals alone and $3,- county court this month are prow 650,000,000 worth of animals sold foot, Providence and Sunrise. Crow and slaughtered and animal pro foot is a precinct south of Lebanon. ducts. The value of the 1913 crop is This has been the name of a school district situated at a corner where twice as great as that of 1899; more three roads Come together in the i than a billion dollars over 1909 and i substantially greater than 1912. shape of a crow’s foot. Of all the crops, however, it is In early days in Linn county a church called Providence 'Church I estimated that 52 per cent will re was erected near the South Santiam main on farms where they were river, on the road from Lebanon to produced and that. 20 per cent of- Scio. The church has always borne the animal production will remain. that name and the neighborhood be On that basis the cash income is gan to be called the Providence estimated by the Department- of neighborhood. So when the court Agriculture at $5,847,000,000.1 created a new precinet out of por But despite a record year of crop tions of Santiam and Lacomb pre i value—although the record of pro cincts, embracing the Providence duction has fallen—and the fact neighborhood, this name was the that the number of farms has in natural selection. creased 11 per cent since 1910 until Sunrise precinct adjoins the city there are estiniated to be 6,600,000 limits of Albany on the south. A farms in the country, the depart few years ago W. E. Baker estab ment in a discussion of the subject lished a poultry yard south of the made public today, does not take city, which he called the Sunrise the view that a lower cost of living Poultry Yards. i will follow as a consequence. Linn county now has 53 election I “However desirable increased pro precincts instead of 34 as formerly. duction on farms may appear to be i from the consumers standpoint, it does not follow that such increased I production would result in any in- i crease in the cash income per - farm or per capita of farm population, or that prices paid by consumers would be any lower,” says the report. “Had the total production in 1913 equalled or exceeded the 1912 pro duction, it seems probable that the cash income per farm would not have been greater and might have been less than in 1912, but it is ex tremely doubtful whether the cost to the consumer would have been any less because retail prices are promptly raised on a prospect of under-production, but are very slow to decline if there is over-produc tion. Clean Wheleseme Beds. Memttain Air “The high prices paid by con sumers. ranging from five to Pearly 500 per cent in some cases' more than the farmer receives, indicate that there is plenty of room for lowering the Cost of farm products Newly refurnished and to consumers and at the same time painted inside. Tables largely increasing the cash income are supplied with the per farm without increasing farm production. best the market affords “This condition is undoubtedly a Feed barn in connection marketing problem which will have with the Hotel.............. to be solved by better organizations of farmers and improved methods Meals 35c, Beds 25c. of marketing.” F. B. K napp , manager Agate mounting, gold filled or FOSTER - - OREGON solid gold. Stacy, Lebanon. Hotel Foster the Find Through Portland April 1 Hereafter When Mrs. George Philippi, of across the river, was slaughtering a duck for the Christmas dinner, she investigated the contents of its craw. When the contents were panned out, among the numerous particles of gravel and other hard substances, w$re found some eight or ten small particles of gold, which the duck had probably gleaned from the bed of a Small creek which runs through the premises. Mrs. Philippi brought the “find” to town and exhibited it on the streets to various persons, causing some little exhitement and inter est. Seyeral parties went over to the Philippi home Christmas day pros pecting, but none of them proved so successful as Mr. Duck. The source from, which the gold came is near for the creek heads within a mile of the Philippi home. Portland Dec. 20—Twenty-two insane Chinese from the State Insane Asylum will arrive in Portland this morning for deportation to their native land.' The men will be taken from here to Seattle, where they will be placed aboard the steamship Minnesota, which will sail for Hong kong Tuesday. Superintendent Steiner, of the asylum, announced some time ago, when he began negotiations for re turning the men to China, that with an expectancy of life of each man of ten years, the state would save about $60,000. After the publication of Dr. Steiner’s plans, a move was started here against the deportation of the Chinese, but when it was explained that the state would save a large amount of money and that the authorities at Hongkong had ar ranged to receive the lunatics, virtually aH opposition was dropped. About six Chinese have been de ported from the institution in the last two weeks and soon will arrive in their native land. A report that insane persons were summarily dealt with in China apparently was unfounded. This was the chief cause of opposition to the state’s plan when first an nounced. Superintendent Steiner has ar ranged for comfortable quarters for the insane men on the steamer, and they will be given careful at tention. It originally was the in tention of the superintendent to accompany the men, but it is re ported from Salem that he cannot go because of a rearrangement of the force of employes at the asylum, as the result of the Supreme Court’s decision in the eight-hour law case. In case the opinion is interpreted as meaning all employes may work only eight hours daily, 90 additional ones would have to be employed and the Superintendent would have his hands full rearranging shifts. It has been the custom of the asylum authorities to deport insane persons who were citizens of other states, and the State Board of Con trol and Superintendent Steiner; after an investigation, decided-that there was no reason why the plan should not be applied to foreigners. Under the new tax law passed by the last session of the state legisla ture, the county treasurer becomes collector of taxes instead of the sheriff. The following statement of the changes and operation of the new tax law was submitted to Gale S, Hill, district attorney, and en dorsed by him as substantially correct before being published. Here are the important modifications and conditions: The most vital differences to the taxpayer is that taxes must be paid before April 1, or the-taxpayer be comes delinquent. Another impor tant change that there is no longer any discount for prompt payment. Under the ,old system, if a person naid his taxes before Apnl l, he was given a three per cent rebate, and had until October to pay without becoming delinquent. The following are the provisions of the new law relating to the time when taxes are payable: Taxes legally levied and charged in any year shall be paid before the 1st day of Arpil following. If the taxes against any particular parcel of real property, of the taxes on personal property charged against any individual, firm or corporation, are not paid before the said 1st day of April, penalties shall be charged on such taxes and added to and collected with the' same as follows: 1— A penalty of one per, cent on all taxes paid on or after said 1st day of April and before the 1st day of May following. 2— A penalty of two per cent on all taxes paid on or after the 1st day of May and before the 1st day of June following. The Canadian Pacific railway will not employ any person under sjxteen years of age in future. Farm crops in Missouri are $12,- 000,000 less than last year; the de crease would have been greater but for higher prices in 1913. There are about 600,000 more union laborers in Great Britain and Ireland although these countries have only a little over half the population of the United States. According to reports from Mon treal, it is the intention of the trades and labor congress of Canada to enter the political arena on a larger scale, and to organize a labor party on lines similar to those of the British labor party. The most important industry in New York state, measured by the number of employes, is the manu facture of clothing and milljnery, which employs 26'per cent of the factory force of the state. The Machinists’ union of San Francisco has set aside a certain sum of money to be used in provid ing the necessities of life for the 150 members of the union who are at présent unemployed. At 10 cents a drink the United States liquor bill figures $859,800,- 000 for the year. And the value of all the bread made in the bakeries of the country was but $396,865,- 000. A new law in Greece stipulates that all wages must be paid in cash either weekly of three times a week and that amounts up to one-quarter of the wages only may be deducted in payment of fines or for other purposes. The city of Milwauke is regulat ing its street car service and it has adopted a mathematical plan. Here after, in rush hours the company must run cars enough to provide 67 seats for every 100 passengers. (Continued on page 5) Save Money On Rubber Footwear When yon buy “Ball-Band” Footwear you buy so many days of dry, warm feet. “Ball-Band” gives more days’ wear than other kinds. • It makes satisfied cus- tomers—that’s why we recommend " 8 Statement of Ownership and Management of Intermountain Tribune I, T. L. Dugger, state that I am editor, manager and sole owner of aia aa the Intermountain Tribune, that it is published weekly and its address K. Scholl is Sweet Home, Oregon. Outstand ing mortgages, stock or indebted" Sweet Home ness, none. T. L. DUGGER Subscribed and sworn to this 31st day of December, 1913. J. A. Thompson Notary Public for Oregon.