INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE
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LINN COUNTY AGRICULTOR AUST.
VOL. 35. 'NO. 2.
SWEET HOME*. LINN COUNTŸ, OREGON, DECEMBER 25, 1913
$1.25
THE YEAR
SAVES PENSIONS
UNN COUNTY TO
ORDERS OF POST
$137,632 CHECK
SHEDD MILL MAN
SAYS NAVY LEAGUE
MASTER GENERAL
SPEND $180,000
BUYS WHEAT CROP
TAKES OWN LIFE
Leo E. Thompson, Aged 26 Years, Com A Record Individual Wheat Deal Has Deen Changes in the Weight Limit and in the Tax Budget Shows County Will Raise $78,- Instances Cited in Which War Would Not
Have Happened if Country
000 for Schools and $4000 for
Postage Rates For Fourth
Closed at Walla Walla, Wash.
mitted Suicide by Hanging
Were Prepared
Widows Pensions
Class Matter
-173,421 Bushels
Friday Morning
Linn County will expend more
Washington, Dec. 22. :“ Four
Order No. 7706.
than
$180,000
in
road
impravement
billion
dollars that have been spent
On and after January 1, 1914,
the limit of weight of parcels of in 1914. The budget of next year’s in pensions since the Civil War,”
parcels of fourth-class mail for work, which has been prepared and says the Navy League of the United
delivery within the first and second is being published, and on which States, “might have been saved if
zones shall be increased from 20 to the tax levy to be made within a the nation had had a navy of suffi
50 pounds and in the third, fourth, few days will be based, shows that cient. size to smother the war of
fifth, sixth, seventh and eightfl approximately this amount will be secession. The largest single appro
available for the improvement of priation of the government, 'year
zones from 11 to 20 younds.
after year, is for pensions. If the
The rate of postage on parcels the country’s highways.
Of this amount $98,000 will be nation is sufficiently far-sighted it
exceeding 4 ounces in weight in the
.third, .fourth, fifth and sixth zones collected in the district road funds can save future billions for unneces
througe a 2|-mill tax levied by the sary military pensions. A navy
shall be as follows:
Third zone,'—Six cents for the County Court in all of the districts sufficient to prevent any enemy; of
first pound and two cents for each of the county. About $63,550 wifi the future from landing' on our
additional pound or fraction there go into the general road fund for shore would accomplish this desired
expenditures which the County Court result.”
of.
The nation has spent $l,373,0Q0,-
Fourth zone.—Seven cents for will make on roads and bridges.
the first pound and four cents for Approximately $20,000 more will be 000 more for pensions than it has
each additional pound or fraction raised through special road«tax spent for its navy, says the league.
levies which have been made in 10 It is spending 20"to 50 millions more
thereof.
Fifth zone.—Eight cents for the| of the '34 road districts of the each year for pensions. Had the
American navy been sufficient, the
first pound and six cents for each county.
additional pound or fraction thereof The tax budget shows that Linn commercial war with France in 1798
Sixth zone.—Nine cents for the County will raise $67,000 for its would never havè occurred; Tripoli
first pound and eight cents for each common schools next year and would never have dared to make
additional pound or fractirn there $20,000 for high schobls. A total war in 1801; the British would never
of $10,000 will be raised for the i have been able to land troops and
of.
burn the capital in the war of 1812
All regulations or parts of regu care of poor and $4000 for widows’
had not congress practically abolish
pensions.
Oteer
items
in
the
bud
lations in conflict herewith are here
get are: Circuit Court. $8000; ed the navy; thé war of the Con
by rescinded.
election expenses, $6000; County federacy would have been smother
A. S. Burleson,
Postmaster Gen. Court, $3000; Justice courts, $650; ed in six months with her ports so
Sheriff’s office, $3000; Clerk’s office, blocked that she eould not get any
$4100; Recorder’s office, $2800; ammunition. .It is these wars that
Notice of Dissolution
Treasurer’s office $2600; Coroner’s have caused the payment of $4,383,-
office $250; School Superintendent’s 000,000 in pensions and that are
Notice is. hereby given that the
office $4325; Surveyor’s office $750; now calling for the paying out of
firm of Goings, Tittle & Goings is
Assessor’s office $4300; current ex- amounts ranging from $150,000,000
hereby dissolved, L. N. Tittle re
penses, $3800; Courthouse $3580; to $180,000,000 each year.
tiring. ■ J. H. Goings & Son will
Countv jail $1700; indigent soldiers
collect all debts and pay all bills
For Sale Cheap—-An International
$100, insane $185; reform school
incurred by the late firm,
high
wheel automobile, in good con
zommitments $75; ferries $1400;
J. H. Goings & Son
bounties oh\ wild animals $200; dition. If sold at. once the price
L. N. Tittle
teachers institute $500; library fund will be right. See E. H. Billings,
tf.
$800; for Willamette Valley exhibit Foster, Ore.
on. We forget the brotherhood of
for Panama-Pacific exhibition $706.-
man, and use the fatherhood of God
19; miscellaneous expenses $2893,81;
railroad vard, John D. Rockefeller as a cloak to hide the more sinister
repayment of borrowed money
W b Recommend “Ball-Band”
worked up from poverty to stupend motives from the eyes of the trust
Goods Because We Want to
ous wealth. In fact, America offers ing one. Is it right? Surely there $10,000.
Aside from receipts foY taxes, it
See You Satisfied
is
something
wrong
with
the
system
hundreds of such instances, and it
is estimated that the county will
Every time a customer goes out
is the only nation on the globe of government that will permit the
of this store we want to feel that
receive $8800 in fees, the clerk’s
wherein such things are possible. : making of paupers that the few may
he has got his money’s worth.
office
and
recorder
’
s
office
yielding
We do not stop to think about become wealthy and revel in the
$4000 each and the sheriff’s office
the means used to gain fortune, opulence, of greed. The individuals
$800.
whose
names
become
familiar
to
neither do we consider the circum
stances that surrounded the upward every household are no more to
Every day that you wear
Ban On Spuds Holds
a pair of rubber boots,
flight in the world of finance, but blame than the rest of humanity.
you wear them out just
we point with pride and urge our We have been trained to think that
so much. But with
Washington, Dec. 22.—Secretary
‘Bail-Bahd” Boots the
young men to follow in the footsteps it is all right, and so long as we can
Houston
issued
an
order
today
con
wear and tear is lest
of the greedy. We do not look at swim even in the little puddle, we
because they are made
tinuing
the
quarantine
put
tempor
of better stuff. You
the other side of the picture which do not care.1
get more days* wear for
We worship, not the money, but arily into effect September 20, last,
is in darker and more sombre colors,
dollars out of “Ball-
forbidding potato importations from
Band” Footwear.
for here we see the pinched faces of .the power that it brings, and we
the British Isles, Canada and all
That makes “Ball-Band”
young and innocents children,, the would not like to make the posses
cheapest in the long run.
continental Europe.
Every Rubber Boot with
sion
of
wealth
a
disgrace,
for
we
anguish of the paupers, who are the
a Red Ball on the knee is
This action was modified, how
“Ball-Band” Boot,
victims instead of the beneficiaries want to taste the sweets of the
fou’ll see many of
ever, by a second order under
them because they
of such a system that will 'allow power before the change is made,
have the quality.
which the quarantine may be raised
some to grow sleek 'and fat and consequently we continue to instruct
For Sale by
the children to worship at the same under proper regulations and in
others to die of starvation.
spection from foreign countries or
shrine:
The system! What do we care
districts which can show that they
A. Scholl
for the system? The possibilities • Instead we should teach that
are
free from potato wart and
are there, and we ourselves strive knowledge^ and service to our fellow
Sweet Heme
powdery scab, the two diseases
to scale the heights and urge our man is power greater than that of
which
the
Department
of
Agricul
young to- do likewise—no matter wealth, the world would be a hap
ture aims to keep out of the coun-
how but get there. The mad rush pier place in which to five.—Eugene
Guard.
of supremacy, in money-getting is
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Walla Walla, Wash.—The largest
Slipping a noose in the end of a
rope suspended from the rafters of check ever issued in the northwest,
the barn, about his neck and jump it is claimed, in payment for the
ing from the platform, Leo E. wheat crop of an individual was
Thompson, aged 26, a flouring mill- signed today by the Jones-Scott
proprietor of Shedd, committed company and -was turned over to
suicifle sometime yesterday after George DrumhpUer. It called for
noon by hanging. The body was $137,632.24 at the First National
not found until 6 o’clock by ,'a Bank, and was in payment for 173,-
brother. Coroner Fortmiller and 421 bushels of wheat.
This is a little over 144 carloads
Dr. H. J. Kavanaugh were notified
and hurried to the scene in a rig. of grain. The wheat was club,
The body 'Jvas not removed until turkey red, bluestem and forty-fold,'
they arriyed at 7:30 o’clock. De and was .bought on the basis of 75.
spondency over ill health is believed cents for club, and 85 cents for
blueStem.
to be the cause.
.
Two years ago the Jones Scott
Thompson, with his brother, oper
ated the Boston flouring mill two company gave out a check for $65,-
miles east of Shedd, taking over the 000 to Mr. Drumheller for his
concern several years ago upon the wheat. This was the largest check
death of their father. The funeral up to that time:
The grain will go to Tacoma and
was held Monday. Thompson has
been sick off and on for four years Portland and shipment has already
and it is believed that this preyed started.
on his mind: He was unmarried.
Just when the deed was committ
The Power of Service
ed is not known. During the after
noon, Thompson was not seen about
With the passing of multi-million
the mill and was not at the house. aires it is the custom among "the
When he failed to show up for American people to call the atten
supper, the brothet conducted a tion of the young to the rapid rise
search. Entering the barn, he was and success of subh men in affairs
overcome to see the body suspended of the world. Some of these men
by the neck from the rafters.
started out in humble circumstances
It is believed that Thompson care and passed into the great beyond
fully planned the suicidé. The rope with just as little as they had upon
used was an inch in thickness. In their arrivsl upon this .earth, but
arranging the noose over his neck, leaving behind them great fortunes
he had to reach out at an angle. and reputations for mdney-getting.
Once he had dropped there was no
The recent death of Montgomery
chance to regain the platform as the Ward recalls the .fact that he was
body was suspended in mid air at one time a day laborer on t;he
several feet over a wagon.
streets of Chicago. Jay Gould Was
No other possible reason for the once a peddler, several generations
suicide is given other than despond ago an Astor was in trade. Modern
ency over ill health.—Albany Demo-1 instances are those of James J. Hill
crat.
who was once a switchman in a
As to Governmenr Ownership
In his annual report Postmaster
General Burleson strongly advocates
the government ownership of tele
phone and telegraph lines, because
the government has demonstrated
its capacity to conduct public utili
ties. He would have the postoffice
department take charge of all means
of communication at an early date.
Continuing, he says:
“A study of the constitutional
purposes of the postal establishment
leads to the conviction that the post-
office department should have con
trol over all means of the communi
cation of intelligence. The first
telegraph line in this country was
maintained and operated as a part
of the postal service and it is to be
regretted that congress saw fit to
relinquish this facility to private
enterprise. The monopolistic nature
of the telegraph business makes it
of vital importance to the people
that it be' conducted by unselflish
interests, and this can be accom-
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