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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER. ORE., THURSDAY, MAY 20. 1915 PAGE THREE White Star Flour A Home Product Made From Morrow County's Finest Bluestem Wheat HEPPNER MILLING COMPANY SIEIUST1LK OF INTEREST People's Cash Market Phone Main 73 All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Lard We pay highest cash prices paid for Stock, Hides and Pelts. HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HEPPNER We Invite Your Banking Business We pay four per cent, on funds left with us in the form of a Time Certificate, for either six months or a year. We also pay four per cent, on Savings Accounts. We rent safety deposit boxes by the year at reasonable rates. Information cheerfully furnished regarding the above. THE First National Bank OF HEPPNER FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS ! FUNERAL DESIGNS OUR SPECIALTY The Jewell Green Houses j THE DALLES, OREGON Phone B. 2721 l"H"t"Httt 1 1 ttt t $ t THE ELKHORN RESTAURANT BEN YEN, Prop. Newly Renovated. Under New Management. "Satisfactory Service" is our motto and our best efforts will always be put forth to maintain this standard. Popular prices. Your patronage respectfully invited Ldvertising Will Pay You If You Use The G.-T. April wheat shipments from Port land totalled 916,915 bushels. Silverton would improve Church street with concrete. Bandon has sold $14,000 bonds for new schoolhouse. Forest Grove will Improve streets with macadam at 1 to $1.50 per foot. Linn and Lane counties will build a $60,000 bridge at Harrisburg. Independence Valley and Siletz railroad will expend $300,000 on ex tension. To supply meters to all Portland water users calls for the expenditure of $1,000,000. Regulations of jitneys proceed along three lines: A montlily license, a surety bond to protect passengers against accidents, ana a designated route of travel. A $20,000 fish ladder at Oregon City that kills all the salmon instead of leting them come over the falls Is an example of the state doing things. Itoseburg Engineer for Kendall Bros, designing $500,000 sawmill. At Eugene two rooms and a fur nace have been ordered added to the new high school. A new St. Helens Hall is to rise on site of burned buildings at Portland. The new cannery at The Dalles is to be ready by June 10th. Portland municipal wood yard finds itself with 10,000 cords of wood on hand that competes with farmers and wood dealers. C. D. Lampson, of Gold Beach, will build a 30-room hotel at Brookings. A game warden closed the Barry crab cannery at Empire on a techni cality. More laws and officials, the less industries and higher taxes. The contract for building the new Congregational church at Condon has been let to Everett Logan for 2750. Mr. U'Ren is forcing another single tax campaign and says the four elec tions on this subject have settled nothing. He will have four more. Raising deer for the Portland market is a new Douglas county in dustry. Inman mine, Curry county, made clean-up of $15,000 in gold for the winter's run. John Roesch of La Grande plans to puild a $20,000 hotel at Union. Oregon Voter: Physical valuation of railroads as a basis for rate-making is costing the government $15, 000,000 and the railroads $35,000, 000, according to Senator Weeks. About the time this money is spent the valuations will be stale and some bright mind will discover that phy sical valuation really isn't the right basis for figuring rates. The whole performance is simply $50,000,000 added to the high cost of government by well-meaning men who itch to regulate. The Congregational church at Eugene made 250 per cent profit on a 50c. dinner. M. S. Corrignll Buys Car. Before leaving town last Friday, M. S. Corrigall, president of the First National Bank of Heppner, and a prominent Butter creek farmer and stockman, drove around in front of Vaughn & Sons and left his order, with check accompanying, for a new model Case "30." This is the second car of this model disposed of to local parties, Hugh Currin having recently purchased a new Case. Horn From Monument. J. S. Turner arrived from Monu ment on Sunday with 100 hogs which he sold to R. A. Thompson of this city for a good price. The hogs arrived in fairly good condition, after being on the road six days. Mr. Turner took the hogs to Portland Tuesday. Mr. Turner reports conditions excel lent in the Monument country and says that crops will make a good yield, having received an abundance of moisture in the past two weeks. First Wool From Spray. Clarence Robinson and Bud For rest arrived the last of the week with the first wool from Wheeler county, bringing over a part of the W. B. Potter clip. Mr. Robinson states that all the wool of that section will come to Heppner this season as in the past. Roads, according to his statement, are not in good condition at this time, due to heavy rains, but he believes they will be much better in a few wekks. He reports lots of rain in the Spray section. To the War Veterans. It Is requested by the commander of Rawlins Post, G. A. R. that all the war veterans of Heppner, including the W. R. C, meet at the I. O. O. F. hall on Sunday morning next at 10 o'clock sharp, to be in readiness for the memorial services at the Christ ian church at 11. This invitation is to the veterans of the Spanish-American war, of which there is quite a number in and about Heppner. Frank S. Glover, of Portland, rep resenting the Fire Association of Philadelphia, as its special agent of the Pacific coast department, made Heppner an official visit on Saturday. He placed an agency of his company in this city with W. W. Smead. Olln Hayes returned to Heppner last week after an absence of several days, during which time he visited through Sherman county, He says crops are looking good over there. Olln has accepted a job in The Dalles and will soon begin his duties at that place. CHANGES PROBABLE IN ME TAX LAW Washington, D. C. May '0 Be cause of imperfections in the income tax law, numerous amendments will be recommended to the next Con gress by the Treasury Department. Official experts are quietly at work on this statute, preparing a report on the crudities it contains and outlin ing proper legislative action to cor rect them. The law is honeycombed with errors. A striking illustration of this thread of weakness that runs through the whole gamut of Democratic legis lation occurs in one of the most vital provisions of the income tax law. It relates to deductions that shall be al lowed in computing gross income a basic element in this system of taxa tion. Paragraph B of the law states that "in computing income for the pur pose of the normal tax there shall be allowed as deductions" among other things "losses actually sustained dur ing the year incurred IN TRADE" etc. What is the meaning of the words "in trade?" The courts must decide. . The phrase is capable of an in finite variety of interpretations. As construed by the Treasury Depart ment, deductions from gross income for losses "in trade" can be made on ly in connection with "that which oc cupies and engages the time, atten tion, and labor of anyone for the pur pose of livelihood, profit or improve ment; that which is his personal con cern or interest, employment, occu pation, but it is not necessary that it should be his sole occupation or employment." For instance, it is said that if a grocer has invested in real estate, in making his income tax return any real estate profit must be added to gross income but losses from real es tate investment must not be deducted from gross income. From every part of the country bitter complaints have been made against this ruling, and the question is to be taken to the courts for final adjudication. Whether the ruling is right or wrong, it is the uncertainty of the statute that reflects upon the intelligence of the political party re sponsible for it. Nothing but heedlessness could have permitted it. The tax payer bears the burden of the blunder, for it is a maxim in governmental affairs that every doubt in a law is resolved in favor of the government by the ad ministrative officers. Errors in the income tax law are too numerous to mention in detail. Witness the fact that in the first few weeks of its operation thousands of applications for refund were made. One of these has just been allowed, and is a fine example of the law's un certainty. The Department refunded to one man who had paid $500 as income tax all but $12 of that amount. He had had the help of a revenue officer in making his return, yet so Indefinite was the law that for fear of violation he paid the government $500 instead of $12. Examination of the Department de cisions on the income tax law shows a mass of contradictory rulings. Over and over again opinions were re versed and rereversed, because the terms of the law did not admit of clear interpretation. Every day additional evidence is found that adds to the long list of legislative blunders committed by the Democratic administration. Future Congresses and the courts must cor rect the mistakes, and meanwhile the people must pay for them. JUST RECEIVED by Gilliam & Bisbee A carload of FAIRBANKS & MORSE Gasoline Engines direct from the factory At Greatly Reduced Prices At least 25 per cent un der last year's prices We are fully equipped for installing Deep Well Pumps and Irrigation Systems of all kinds, and guarantee all work to give satisfaction When you want water get our prices before closing a deal Rapid Transit Down Monument Hill. N. S. Whetstone and wife returned Sunday evening from their Grant county ranch in Fox Valley. Mr. Whetstone is narrating his thrilling ride down the Monument grade in his Ford car. The trouble began when the car struck a stump in the road. The jar was sufficient to throw Mrs. Whetstone from the car, badly lacer ating her upper lip, and the Ford re ceived a sprained front axlo, as well as having the cranking shaft put out of comission. Being unable to start the engine, a push again started the machine down the hill. After over taking an immigrant wagon and hurl ing a young heifer tied at the rear of the wagon, from the middle of the road, the Ford reached Mounment at the bottom of the hill in safety. The Impact of the car with the heifer smashed both lights of the machine, and she presented a rather sorry ap pearance but was soon put to rights and the trip on to Fox made without further mishap. Mrs. Whetstone is recovering rapidly from her hurts and the cut on her lip has about en tirely healed. Traveling Auditor Here. Harold A. Wilkins, traveling audi tor of the State Industrial Commis sion, spent Tuesday in Heppner on official business. This is Mr. Wilkins' first visit to this city since taking up his duties a few days ago. He is a cousin of J. L. Wilkins, the proprie tor of the Palace Hotel. DON'T RAISE WEEDS ON YOUR SUMMERFALLOW! ffff USE A Jones Weeder 'Made in Morrow County' (Patented Dec. 16, 1913.) Summerfallowing is being done earlier this year than common. Weeds will come earlier and there will be more of them. Get after them early before they ruin your Summerfallow. The JOXES WEEDER is the best and most speedy weeder ever built for that purpose. Built in sections like a harrow; each section cuts five feet and you can use as many sections as you want. The knives have a slope of 60 degrees and will not choke under normal con ditions. This weeder has been tried out on the same field with other weeders and has done more satisfactory work. The JONES WEED EK has been fully tested. Ask a farmer who useg one. For further particulars, prices, etc., write C. E. JONES, Heppner, Oregon. CITY MEAT MARKET J. FRANK HALL, Prop. Best in the line of meats handled at the lowest possible prices. FINEST HOME-MADE LARD AND FRESH AND CURED MEATS. See Me Before You Sell Your Fat Stock. HEPPNER WOOD YARD E. E. BEEMAN, Prop. Dealer In Wood and Coal Leave orders with Slocum Drug Co. or phone Main 60. Choice Flour, Feeds, Wood, Coal and Posts, for Sale by HEPPNER FARMERS' UNION WAREHOUSE CO. Handle Wheat and Wool. Highest Price Paid for Hides and Pelts. FUNERAL SUPPLIES MODERN EQUIPMENT PAINSTAKING SERVICE CASE FURNITURE COMPANY