INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE
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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
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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)
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Footwear
When yon buy “Ball-Band”
Footwear you buy so many days
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• It makes satisfied cus-
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we recommend
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