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HOW TQ INCREASE TAXATION
wnnamiPTiott xatm
On jrrnr. by mall.... 18.00
On month, by Mnil) . .50
Par month, delivered by carrier la
Medford, Jnckftonvllle and Cen
tral Iolnt,. ......... .SO
Saturday only, by mall, per yer 3.00
Weekly, per ycnr..., . 1.50
Official Paper of the City of Mtdford.
Official t'nper of Jnckton County.
Entered a Btcond-clAia matter at
Medford, OroKun, under ta aot of
March t, 187.
With Medfoni Stop-Over
STEAM ROLLER
OF RUSSIA FORCES
WAY INTO PRUSSIA
WASHINGTON, October . Colo-iii-I
CJoIfjuw.-kf, mililnry attache of
the Itussiiui oinbu-y, issued todnv
the following official report from
l'elrefral:
"On .September 28, nfler stubborn
fighting, our troons captured the
Herman position at Awgu-towo and
Knpclz. On .September '2D wo took
the defile between the lnho of
Sinno, Servje and Lojiiuny.''
Tbe Hermans have been driven
linck into the region between Stiwnlki,
Sejny niul .Mnrinnpol. Our advance
continue.''. Oermuit siege artillery
continue the bombardment of O-ow-
jetz, but without fcuoeo. At Schul
nlkin niul Andrcjew only uuimportnnt
Hkinnishcrt nrc reported.''
PUT WAR TAX
i3N AUTO OWNERS
WASHINGTON. Oct. 1. Demo
crats ot tho senate substitute com
mittee on (tmince voted today to sub
stitute for tho tax of two cents a
gallon on gasollno In the war revenue
bill, a tax on owners of 25 cents per
horso-powor on automobiles and $1
per horse-power on automobile sales
by mnnurqeturors. The committee
estimates that would yield an an
nual revenue of $16,000,000.
An owner of a 30 horue-power car
'would pay an annual tax of $7.50
and a manufacturer selling such a
machlno would pay 30.
Senator Williams Introduced
amendments to tax all government
employes except tho president, su
preme court Justices and congressmen
' of 1 per cent of their salaries and
to eliminate the tax on casualty, dam
ago and accident Insurance. Another
amendment would tax retail liquor
dealers from 25 to $300 a year ac
cording to the volume of their busi
ness. Senator Thompson of Kansas pro
posed an amendment to Increase the
Internal revenuo tax on distilled 11
quros from f 1,10 a gallon to 11.25 on
llquorg in bond and hereafter produced.
TRYING TO HEAD OFF
FUGIT
AMSTKIU)Ar, Oct. 1, vin London,
7:15 ii. in. A dispatch to the linn
riclnblml from Mnuhtricht Kiiyn that
the florinnns in tho Helgimi province
of Lieu have iuod u piorhminlion
directing that no Jloleians between
lliu iigcH of 20 niul 'Ii) yeni, who tiro
liuhlu for military M-rvice, ediull
dox into Holland. The eomvpon
deut htalert that the Herman aie ar
resting ami hciuliug into Hermany all
the llelgiaiis in tin category whom
llii'V can find. Many, however have
eluded capture ad have arrived ai
Alacrttiichi,
UNCLE SAM'S COIN
WABIIINOTON O.I. J. KimIoiw
Inf Hi'orelaiv Ali'Adon'u notion in
WlllldlHWillg I'M!' IIIOWII" I'lllllU fiom
cfilalii IniuU, I'li'i-idi'iilWIIoon M'
cliili'd (lint llio.ii IiiiiiU went mil
iNng I la' piiiiii'v foi (lie object for
WMl'il II UMM ll'HI"lllll. Ill' IIIIIUlli-
ftl I In- minify mii (Mil put in llii'
UiU w Mn4i''ii lliu win IN."
TAXES nvo high in Orojjon pninniyly beenuso of tho
extravagance of tho legislature. This yoav four mills
of tho ton-mill levy fixed by tho oounty court was paid
tho state. It had to bo to make up tho'six millions of tax
payoi"s' nionoy spout by tho legislature.
Alany of those appropriations wore vetoed by Governor
"West and as promptly passed over his veto. The legis
lative machine never missed an opportunity to take a
slap at the governor, regardless of the merits of tho issue
involved.
In the previous legislative session, that of 1911. tho goy
oivnoi' vetoed some seventy-odd bills, saving several mil
lions of taxpayers' money. The vetoes wore returned after
the legislature had adjourned, hence wore effective. Last
year, in order to prevent similar economy, tho legislature
recessed until all vetoes had boon returned.
This legislative machine was championed by the Port
land Oregonian. Captained by lalarkoy in the senate and
AloArthur in the house, and directed by standpatters, the
public service corporations had easy sailing and land and
appropriation grabbers secured whatever they wanted.
The opposition of the governor alone prevented a still
greater raid on the public treasury.
Tn the. effort to injure and discredit Governor AVost.
nothing litis boon overlooked. .11 is reform prison policy
has been constantly assailed, his law-enforcement efforts
derided, ins road-Duiiding plans and ins program ol econ
omy belittled, lie litis boon the victim of unrelenting and
unscrupulous newspaper hostility and mendacity. His
sincere and honest efforts have been distorted. Abuse
without stint, has boon heaped upon Jiim. All this because
he did what he conceived to be his duty to the people.
The state institutions are managed by the board of con
trol, consisting of the governor, state treasurer and secre
tary of state. Since the present board took hold, there has
been an increase in work of l0 per cent. For the first
time, all state institutions tire being conducted on business
lines and within the appropriations provided. There are
no deficiencies to be met. The administration is excellent,
but it is in spite of and not because of the legislature.
The political machine that is responsible lor the leg
islature and high taxes is the same machine that is seek
ing the election of .James Withycombe as governor. The
Portland Oregonian and all the standpat, corporation con
trolled forces back of legislative extravagance are doing
their utmost to elect Air. Withcombe so that there will be
"harmony" between the legislature and the executive
so that there will be no vetoes to curb extravagance and
head off graft no business man to expose crookedness
only a smiling, affable old gentleman to nod approval to
his political sponsors.
The governor of Oregon should not belong to the same
political party as the legislative majority when that ma
jority is dominated by the .sinister motives, that it has been
ruled by in Oregon. The governor of Oregon should be a
man of nerve and backbone, a good fighter as well as a
good business man, to stand between the people and the
predatory interests. Dr. "Withycombe is none of these
things.
Ctod help the taxpayers of Oregon when they turn the
state completely over to the Portland Oregonian and it
gang of corporation cormorants, for there can be no sure'
wav to increase taxation than to vote for Vithvcombe!
P EN
WRITES
I
10 AIO ELECTION OF
IN SENATORS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 President
Wilson today opened Ills letter- ril
ing campaign for the election ot
democratic renntorn and representa
tive, lie wrote letter endorsing
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon and
Senator Shlvely of ItidhuinpnllH.
Others will be written lit the near
future.
In ItU letter to Senator Owen, on
dorslng Senator Chamberlain, tho
president declared that tho, "maln
tnluuuco of the democratic majority
in tbe yennte is of tho utmost Import
ance to tho country If the present
policies and program of tho gowrn
ment nre to bo sustained ami contin
ued, "and I take It for granted that
voters everywhere will feel the force
of that motive."
Tho letter endorsing Senator Shlve
ly was addressed to .Majority Leader
Kern of tho senate, and wax as fol
io wh:
"I am genuinely surprised that any
question should have urlmut as to
whether I want Senator Shlvely re
turned. I do most decidedly wish It,
I have admired Senator Shlvely'H
stcadfnst devotion to duty nnd to tho
standards of tho party and his un
faltering loyalty In all matters of
public policy, an all hN party asso
ciates have and I learned to liavn a
very warm personal feeling and ad
miration for him. It would, In my
Judgoment, be a very great loss to the
party ami to the senate If ho should
not bo re-elected. 1 trust that there
Is no doubt of his re-election,
"I need not tell you, my dear sen
ator, what my sentiments are toward.
ourS(ilf."
To n request by Senator I'oiucreuv
that he speak In Ohio. President Wit
son today reiterated his determina
tion not to go on tho stump. He told
the senator bo felt he must remain
actively nt the head of the govern
ment In Washington.
Secretary Urynii today announced
that he would speak during the cam.
palgn not only tn Ohio, but aluo lu
Indiana, Iowa nnd Nebraska. Ho
said he had not considered speaking
In Illinois, but added that ho would
probably speak In accord with the
wishes of the democratic congres
sional committee.
IELLS HISTORY OF
NW
GUNS
Geography of the War Zone
IIEHVE and IIATTICK Two miuiII
village in Belgium, n mile and a half
npart, the latter seven mile from the
German border, and the former fif
teen miles cast of Liege. They are
.situated amid most picturesque scen
ery, in n country dotted with busy
manufactories and pretty country
houses. The making of glnssware
and laces is engaged in to a limited
extent. The rock nenetruled by moM
of thu'rnilwav tunnel in Hik dintriet
is of u bluish limestone, frequently
veined with quartz, and often used
for building purposes.
ANT1VARI A .Montenegrin sea
port, on n strip of country running
between the Adiiatic sea ad the Su
torman range of iiouulnius with a
population of about !(.)0I). At a few
hundred yards it is invisible, hidden
among olive grove. The line bay of
Antivari, with I'rstau. its port, U di
taut about one hour's drive through
a barren and forbidden couulrv, hut
in by mountains. The town w but
twenty-three miles southeast of Aus
trian (Jattato. Kinhini; and olive oil
refining are the principal indu-dra.
SA.VOK A dMriot of Oaliciii,
Austria, on tho bolder of lltinniy.
The Carpathian mountain form the
southern frontier nnd the Snn river
rus through the district from miiiIIi
to north. Jt luu a level surface and
many salt mine, its capital of the
Mime name is on the lull bank of the
Sun, :tl) miles southeast of I'lzemyxl
and (12 miles Miiithwcit of Tat now. It
has a population of about 2.PII0 and
is the seat of an impoitimt caltle
maiket.
KAI.IK,- On Italian Poland bor
dor is Kalis, one of the oldc and
finest cilics of Poland uIiom an
liipiity is indicated bv an abundance
of objects of ancient art and com
which Iiimo been discovered on the
silo, ns well as by numerous banal
luiuiiiiU oxiMiug in the ticiiul.v, In
170(1 Augustus lliu Nliong ot Poland
decisively defeated tho Nncibts mid
scvcinl minor coiiIIM tool, plin'i) In
JH: ami the Iowa iwi the i'ciic of
lliu I'lii'iuJIy iiHinlJng ot the Kiisniaii
mid 1'nutsimi lump jn )Hllft, in iniun
my of ttlui'li mi ifun olidUli tin
IMM'i'li'tl by S')i'li"ln. I, Knlw l on
Him haul ol I be J'loiliu, ulilrli Hiimi
J'uiwt. Hie buiiiiilni) of l'uiii. Jin
population, of whom more than a
tiiird nre Jews, is about ''(l,000. Itib-
oons, clotli, sugar, leather and beer
nre its principal manufacture
IVANOOItOD On the right bank
of the Vistula, in Itiis-ian Poland, is
the fortified town f Ivaugorod,
which tonus with Warsaw, Novo
Georgievcsk and Jlrest-Litovsk, the
Polish "quadrilateral." It is III miles
(by rail southeast of Wiirsaw, at the
continence ot the Wicpr with tho
Vistnln. The town is defended by
nine forts on tho rigiit bank and by
three on the left bank of the Vistula.
The works are about two miles in ex
tent. The townV industries are few,
its activities deoending almost solely
upon garriMtus stationed theie.
Fl
SOITII liKTIIMUIKM, Pa., Oct. 1.
Thirly-seven lepreientnlivos of
American motor truck manufacturers
who have been demount rating their
t nudes here for several weeks, were
informed today by K. (. Grace, pres
ident of the llcthlchcui Steel com
pany, that lecomiiieiidatioiis for lliu
types of 1000 trucks wanted by
I'Vauce and l(usiii for use in the
present war, liavi: been made bv a
committee of Krcnclj officer- now in
South Hethlehein, but the contracts
would not be awarded today,
The Ilethb'hciii Steel coiniiaiiy, it
was Warned here, is the purchasing
agent for Itusnia and Franco for mo
tor tiuck and mine suoplios, Midi as
hIiocs, blankets and hoicshoes,
TANNEM ELECTED TO
SUCCEED WM. BARNES
NEW YOIIK, Ocl. I. Kieduiiolt V.
Tanner, pnuuiiv election campaign
liimiagoi o Pflricl Attorney Climb's
Wlillmau, wn uiiiiiiiiiiil.v I'lt'clcd
till illeiJiimii chilli man of Iho ic
lillbljIUIl "late ooiHUlillor 111 mcocil
Milium Ihiiiio.
With Mclfoid II ali Mtdford usdo
ITALY TO PURCHASE
iAMEl
IICAN AIRSHIPS
NKW YORK. 0t. 1. Willi n com
mi 'ion Irom I lie Italian government
to purchase aeroplane- and aircraft
motors of hiuli power, I'.nea lto-i,
Itailun atcut for an American uero
tdano manufacturer was it oa eager
on the steamship Tomas-o Di-Sa-voia
from Genoa, which reached New
York lodav.
''The Italian government has -evented!
dirk'ihles two of which are a
big as .eppelins, 2811 biplane- niul
seventy . hxdioplanes," Mr. IW-i
said.
"Seven of the livilrooluiicx are
complied to launch torpedoux. At
the outbreak of the war I turned over
to tho government several flying
mnchines, one of which was of six
hundred liorM- power, dc-igned for a
trans-Allantio lord."
SHORT OF FOODSTUFF
LONDON, Oct. 1, 1:.m p. in.
Hugh II. Gib-ou, secretary of tin
American legation at Hnissels, iia
just arrived in Loudon. lie says that
lirusscln is quiet, but the food Mippl,
is becoming low. The Geriunns per
mitted arrangements to bring food
from Antwerp to llms-cls, hut u the
supplies voio about to bo shipped,
military movements disarranged rail
way tiaiisportaliou making Hie mov
ing of freight impossible.
Major Hans Von Horwerih, who
was formcilv military attache at the
German embassy in Washington, was
among the first Geimau nfliccr lo
culer Itriissol-. He remained there
for many weeks cxlciufuig coiiilcmox
lo American and oilier foreigner--.
The major i now in I he war .one,
I'm It 'Jofmr
Itemlve to smokn (lov, Johnson c.
fum, the bent, urn Ibuiulty patroaltu
Iioiiio IndUHtry, If
USED BY KAISER
HKKI.l.W Oct. I, A momhor of
,t... .. ....... I,.. ..ii ...i... .
, inc viuiiiuiii I'luiiiiiiiDiu, wiiii ior iit'in -
ly ten yoarK has been eonaecteil with
tho army budget commltteo of tho
Kelchntng tolls tomo Interesting
things of the history of tho how fatu
ous -C'-rcntlmotro sbtgo guns which
served tho tlermaiiH so effectively at
LIcko and Namur.
"Tho snrprls,, that Ooriunny pos
sessed such mortars,'' ho says, lu an
artlclo published by the None Zuer
eher Zoltung, "wns as groat In flor
many as It was lu other countries.
After completion of secret tests with
these gnus some time ago, and the do.
clslon of tho government to order a
number ot them. It was a problem as
to how to keep tho matter a secret.
Secrecy Malulahuil
"Over to officers took part tn tho
discussions at which tho military bud
gut was prepared for submittal to
tho budget committee of the Itolch
stag. When a new clause waH reached
with only tho heading "Arms," the
chief of tho department of Arms re
quested thai for the tlmu being this
subject could nut bo discussed. At
the conclusion of tho conference ho
told mo In strict ronftdoiico that tho
title "Arum" Involved now slogo mor
tars. "The gonoral stnff requested ur
gently that not a word bo said of the
matter In tho commltteo; not oven
tho officers present hud any knowl
edge of It.
"Sl weeks iiro I visited an am
munition factory as moinlivr of the
armament commission nnd ancer
talued that any number of projectiles
nnd cases for those mortars could bo
produced within n very short tlmo.
In reply to my question whether these
mortars did not wear out rapidly, a
director of tho company said 'Thoro
are not etioiiKh fortresses In existence
lu the whole world to wear out a
single molar. ' As a matter of fact
our army iosesses 3(ino mortars of
(in earlier (Into, which are still
tisualdo."
Weapons Popular
Tho official North Herman (la
zctto also discusses these now mor
tars with special reference lo their
projectile. It says:
"If a weapon of tho Herman army
has a claim to popularity It Is tho II'-,
centimetre mortars which In spite of
their hugo dimensions hnvo managed
to remain concealed. In fact, the
nlck-nnme "llrummer," which has
hecnglvcn to those mortars shows
how far this popularity bns pro
grcHsed. One cannot ho astonished
that a shot which hurls with accur
acy n weight of S00 weights over n
spare of a Cermau mllo to Its goal
causes an ntmnsidierlc pressure whlc,h
for miles around hurls everything
Into tho air, Honoris hnvo shown
that the projectile, after It has left
the mortar causes a great nolso only
by cutting through the air"
Chow lentlot'v scut bv eiiruei'
pigeon to Tl Kan, ni Shun Tung
province mid thcitcc n Peking h,v
telegraph, indicates thai tho (lennaii
irtiivmciil Irom Iho second line of
del'en-es ui;otiul Tvdng Tan, which
look place Inst .Mondrtv, was due to
the o ci whelming uumtiioul -d length
ot the .liipanc-c,
Tho repoit says that the .lunatic, o
loes were 1700 killed timl Hlll
wounded, it result of (ho progress of
tin1 (leiutau wai-hnis' .illuck, cotiiiled
Willi th-' laud force- ' iiioeveiiienl.
A MS
E
HEADACH
E,
COLDS
CONSTIPATION
Hot a la cent box
Take a t'astaret tonight to cleanse
your Liver, Stomach and llowols, and
on will sitiolv (eel gloat by uturnliig.
You men and women who have head
ache, coated tongue, a had cold, am
blllouH, nervous, upset, bothered with
a sick, gassy, disordered stomach, or
haw baikaelto and feel all worn out.
Are you keeplni; jour bowels clean
with CasearolH- or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with salts,
cathartic pills or castor oil?
Cascarots Immediately cleanse and
regulate tho stomach, remove tho
sour, undigested and fermenting food
and foul kupos; take tho excess Idle
from the liver and carry off the con
stipated waste matter and poison
from tho bowels,
Iti'inomber, a Cascaret tonight will
straighten you out bv morning. A
in. cent linx from vour druggist menus
healthy bowel anion; a clenr head
and cheerfulness for mouths. Don't
forget tho chlldieu.
IT Theatre
TODAY
Final Reckoning
Two Pall lli'oui'lio I'Vitturo
Cameo of Yellowstone
Two Part Hying "A" Western Thtjl.
lor of tho First Water
An Eavesdropper
Kejslouo Comedy
1(1
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r - Always -Klc
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STAR Theatre
TODAY
KLAW
AND
ERLANGER
Presents the CliiirmiiKj
Ciidul Ivuiiiiincti
"CLASSMATES"
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
ALICE JOYCE
PAGE
THEATRE
WED. OCT. 7
WILLIAM r.LLJOTT
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A new tlirco acI comedy
JAPANESE WIN BY
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"Tho Love-Story With
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