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VIYCJK SUV.iW BILL PROVIDES "HAIL COLUMBIA" UP-TO-DATE T E L ARM U. S. SHIPS 5tEIF0TOT MSTD TRTBTJNT!, MEPFOim, ' ' 'OTiTtiONV TPESnAY, VEBUFATY '21' "till? Tho new county rond coda (n. 15. 519), pussed by tlio recent legislature, nbolishes till county road supervisors, after Jiuuiurv 1, 1918. Tho establishment, improvement nud nininteuanec of nil county rouuS art under the jurisdiction of the eoun. ty pourt, wliieh may employ n compe tent engineer or prnotical roail builder, who shall be known as coun ty roadinuster, whoso compensation fihall be fixed by the county court, lie shall take nu oath of oft'ieo and .shall furnish n bond of not less than a thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties, lie may bi removed by the county court for inefficiency, neglect of duty or mis conduct in office. The county court is empowered to employ such deputy road masters and assistants as may deem necessary for the purpose of carrying on the work. The duties of the county vond mas ter and his deputies are as follows: IUuul Master's Duties. (a) To nssi.st the county in prepar ing the specifications for road work or bridges. (b) To suieriiitcnd all mad work and bridge work done in the county; (c) To reeummend to the county court the methods to be adopted for road improvement and maintenance; (d) To keep a record of work done and make report to the county court ; (e) To investigate petitions for road improvement!! and make recom mendations to the county court; (f) To supervise and examine ami accept work done on the county roads und bridges under contract; (if) To lay out, construct and maintain county roads; (h) To establish and maintain sign hoards nt all crossroads, giving the distance and direction to the next ttfxn ; (i) To perform all duties imposed on the eounty road supervisor by any state law ; (j) He shall have charge of all county road tools and equipment. Court- Furnish Material. The. county court is to furnish the material and equipment for construct ing road, and to furnish suitable of fU: t-piiirfcrs and 'transportation fa cililies for the county road muster. The county rond master and his deputies are authorized and empow ered to enter upon any piece of land and take away stone, gravel or dirt for the purpose of constructing roads; they are also authorized to open and construct drains leading out from the road into adjoining proper ties. In ease any damage is done to the property owner, he can petition the county for payment of the same. " The county shall he divided into nl districts. L'pon petition from Twelve resident freeholders of any district for a ehnngc or improvement . of a road, the county road master shall investigate it, nnd make surveys and estimates and report to the eoun ty court. If the county court sees fit it shall grant the petition, and have the desired improvements made. Three freeholders of any road dis trict may petition the county court at any time for the purpose, of hnv- ' ing t tic eounty court call a meeting of the legal voters of such district, the petition shall state the object of such a meeting. Any person 21 years old and paying taxes in the district shall have the right to vote. The resident taxpayers in any district may have the right to vote an additional tax not to exceed 10 mills for the purpose of rond improvement in that district, a i meeting for voting such tax is to be held during the month of N'ovcmber. Due notice of such road district meetings is to he given to the tax payers. letting Rond Contracts. Any job or project in road im provement or bridge construction costing .$20nn or more shall be let by contract to the highest bidder. Jobs costing less may be constructed by day labor under the direction of the county road master. Specifications lor such construction work or im provement or bridge work shall he prepared by the county road master or some other competent person. The county court may supply the material. or part of the material, and receive bids for the labor nlonc. The county court is empowered to levy on annual county rond tax not fto exceed 10 mills. The county court is also empowered to co-operate with the federal government in maintain ing state highways, and in construct ing and maintaining secondary high ways. Seventy per cent of the taxes levied in a road district shall be ex pended in that district. Helena (Mont.) Independent: President Wilson could not have ask ed for less than lia did before eon Krenn. The fact Is that Germany has declared war on us already whether ome people believe it or not. WASHINGTON. Kcb. 27- The text of the Flood bill is us follows: "lie it enacted by tho senate and house of representatives of t tie L'uit- ed States of America in congress as sembled that the president of th United States bo and is hereby auth orized and empowered to supply mer chant ships, the property of citizens of the I? tilled States und hearing American registry, with defensive arms should it in his Judgement be come necessary for him to do so, and also with the necessary ammunition and means of making use of them in defense against unlawful attack; and that he be und is hereby authorized and empowered to employ such other instrumentalities and methods as may in bis Judgment and discretion seem necessary and adequate to pro tect such ships and tho citizens of the I'nitcd States in their lawful and peaceful pursuits on the high seas. "Section 2: The sum or one. hun dred million dollars is hereby appro priated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to be expended by the president of the Tnited States for the purpose herein stated, tho said sum to lie available until the first day of Jan uary. 191S; and the president is authorized to transfer so much there of as he may deem necessary to the bureau of war risk insurance, created by act of 'congress, approved Septem ber 2d, Kill for tiie purpose of Insur ing vessels, their freight, passage moneys and cargoes against loss or damage for the present risks of war. "Section For tho purpose of meeting the expenditures herein au thorized the secretary of the treasury under the direction of the president, Is hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of the United Stales and to issue therefore bonds of the United States not cxrerdtng in the aggregate $100,000,000, said bonds to be In such form and subject to such terms and conditions as tho secretary of the treasury may prescribe, and to bear interest at the rate not exceeding three per centum per annum; provid ed, that such bonds shall be sold at not less than par. shall not carry the circulating privilege and that nil cit izens of the United Slates shall be given nil equal opportunity to sub scribe therefore, but no commission shall be allowed or paid thereon: that both principal and interest shall be payable in United States gold coin of the presrnt standard of value, and be exempt from all taxation and duties of tho United States. as well as from taxation in any form of all state, mu nition, or local authorities; that any bonds issued hereunder may, under such conditions, ns tho secretary of the treasury may prescribe, be con vertible into bonds bearing a higher rate of Interest than three per cen tum per annum, if any bonds shall 1)0 issued by tho United States at a higher rate than three per centum per annum by virtue of any act pass ed on or before December 31, 1918. "Section 4. In order to pay the necessary expenses connected with the said Issue of bonds, or any con versions thereof, a sum not exceeding one-fifth of one per centum of the amount of bonds herein authorized to be Issued, or which may be con verted, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other wise appropriated to lie expended as the secretary of the treasury may direct." U. S. WAfJTS GUNNEPS FOR U-BOAT CAMPAIGN WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Guns and !!!eu!if: sufficient to arm any reasonable number of American mer chant ships are now stored at navy yards, it was stated officially at the navy department today following President Wilson's appearance before congress to ask authority to provide weapons and nien should tho need arise. Efficient gunners are lacking, however, unless they are to he taken from active ships which can ill spare them. Naval officers pointed out that men of special skill, trained to the minute, would tie required as gun pointers for anti-submarine work. At best a U-hoat Is difficult to hit as there is little exposed. Often a perl scope hardly is visible nt more than a few thousand yards Is the gunner's only target. Itecent figures show that 250 ships under American registry arc engaged in trans-Atlantic trade but it is estim ated that not more than 10-0 would apply for guns and take the risk of crossing the German submarine zones. There will be no difficulty In furnishing that number of vessels with weapons, hut supply ing trained gun pointers for ion guns would take just that many valuable men aw-ay from fighting ships. U'i'h .Medford trade is Mcdfonl yule TORPEDOED LACONIA! CLERKS LOCKED OUT TO GET RELIEF SOON i I . . N-ICYV YORK. Feb. 27. -Twenty- six Americans, six of whom were cabin passengers and twenty niem- hers of the crew, were on board the Cunard liner l.urnuiu, from Now incut tonlghl by tho operating corn York, February IS for Liverpool with j miitac of the Great Falls Finployers' 75 passengers and a crew of 2lli, association. Tho stores will be opened when the vessel was sunk by a tier-1 as usiutl but no employes will be per man submarine Sunday night. Onelniltted to work. The proprietors will casualty, as' yet unidentified, was of-'sT'- vustoiners who Kn to the stores ficially reported by the Liverpool of- bet no deliveries will be made, flee, of the lino to officials here. j Wholesale grocery houses, fruit and The names of the American pas-j coniiiii.sslon houses and all lumber sengcrs and their addresses as given yards will he closed, by the line here, and confirmed In J The lockout was decided upon by part by relatives in the United States 'tho employers, it was said, because arc: 'ui the clerks' refusal to handle the Floyd P. Cibbons. of the Chicago products of the Royal Milling com Trlbune. ipany, which has been voted "unfair" Mrs. F. 10. Harris, wife of I.ieuten-jby tho Central Labor Council, ant Colonel Frank K. Harris, United; Highly of the cighly-fivo grocery States coast artillery corps stationed i stores in Great Falls were closed two at Fort Uu Pont, near Philadelphia, ulays in January because of n similar Arthur T. Kir by, liainbrldgc, X. Y. I dispute involving the Royal .Milling Mrs. Mary K. Hoy, Chicago. compniu A settlement was effected Miss Elizabeth Hoy, Chicago. j but subsequently the lnbor leaders ns The (lev. James Wureliig. ' regis-: serted that the milling company hud tered from New York but said to be i "ot complied with the terms or the from Norfolk, Va. J agreement and the "unfair' order The Americans among the crew j was re-Issued, were signed here to take tho places ' of others whose terms of service had expired or who had failed to appear when the ship was ready to sail. The men were recruited mostly from ship-! ping offices and gave New York and llrooklyn as their places of residence. They were stokers, coal trimmers, wipers and seamen. RECOUNTS LOSS OF GERMAN SUBMARINEt:ilv ha nre lh ,,. ,., ,, re. HOSTON, Feb. 2 7.- The sinking of a (ierman submarine in the harbor of St, Vincent, C'ane Do Verde Islands. by two Portuguese torpedo boats on tho nisht of January 1, was described here by Arthur J. Jeffs of New York. a member of the crew of the steamer Eddie. One shot apparently pierced he submarine's hull, Jeffs said and pre vented her from suhmerfiiiic. The underseas craft then circled the Kd- dle several times, maneuvering for an i opportunity to launch a torpedo, but; tho torpedo boats finally caught the! submarino between them. They: opened up with their rapid firers. and tho U-boat, with her hull riddled, sank suddenly. The Kddie left the islands while Jeffs was on shore leave and lie was towed away on the FaKerness. He a,i detained temporarily by the im migration authorities. BILL TO REGULATE MORALS APPLIES BOTH SCXES ALIKE OI.YMPIA, Wash., Feb. 27. The house today passed the public morals bill, championed by .Mrs. Ina P. Wil liams, representative from Yuklma county. The bill raises the n-e of consent to IS years and Is applicable equally to men nnd women. It elim inates from the present Jnw the phiiiw "fteffumft of chaste rlmi'iiftcr." Xotiep war. given that a motion would be made tomorrow to reconsider the hill. t'lifOAT FALLS. .Mont.. Feb. 2 7. All retail grocery clerks in Clrent Falls will be locked out tomorrow morning, according to an nnnounce- FRENCH TO GREET AMERICAN SAILORS ISOKDTAl'X. Feb. 27. A program of entertainment lor the officers nnd crew of the Orleans at llordeaux In cludes a reception tomorrow of the vessel upon its arrival at the wharf here. A procession in honor of the American snilors will pass through ceived 'by the municipal aulhorftlcH! and tendered a luncheon. The llor deaux chamber of commerce will pive them a dinner In the evening, nfter which they will he Kuettts at u uala performance at the French theater to which all the memberH of tho crew are invited. Wednesday the chambers of oom j meree will Rive a luncheon to the jcrew of the Orleans, at hich delea jtions of Bailors from all the naviga 1 1 ion companies whose lines touch at. Bordeaux, will be present. VILLA LOSES POWER AFTER RECENT DEFEATS CHIIUrAIirA CITY, Mex., Feb. 27 -General Frandsco Murgula on his return today from his campaign against Villa in the south announced that the Villa movement, following successive defeats, had lost Its mili tary significance and the only task remaining for the ('arranza govern ment would be to police the state and clean up the scattered individual bands. Villa's whereabouts' have not yet been discovered. (Jenernl Muifiuia ftated, although ('arranza cavalry parlf0H nave marched hl old haunts and hiding place.". Most of the rebels were reported to have uone south and to be short of food and ammunition. General Murguift said that his ef fort, now would be devoted to re storing normal conditions in the state. XHW" YORK, Feb. 27. Mayor Mltohel announced tonight after the resumption of rioting on the Kast Side, which resulted in the police re serves making several arrests that a bill would be Introduced In the legis lature tomorrow to empower the city to ' purchase fooa supplies an'd sell them nt cost as a means of ameliorat ing suffering among the poor people during the, present high cost of liv ing. Govcirnor Whitman, prior to his departure tor Albany earlier in the day, asserted that he did not expect to send any emergency measure to (he legislature, as he was "convinced the situation was not critical." Jos eph Hartigaa, city commissioner of weljthts and measures predicted a mnteq-lal drop In the prices of pota toes and onions before, the end of the week. Information furnished to him by wholossilo produco dealers, liistriet Attorney Swaun announced indicated that the farmers were responsible for the Inca-ease of prices in potatoes and onions. PETITION TO .PROVE HARRY THAW LUNATIC PJIIIjA UFMMi I A, Feb. 2 7. A pe-; titiou for the appointment of a lunacy comm.1s.slon to determine tho sanity or Ia.Vy K. Thaw, confined In a hos pital hiiio as the result of self-inflicted woiuids wh n he was about to be arreste7 on a New York Indictment charRinj; hhn with assault on 19-year-old, Fredeilck Gump, Jr. of Kan sas ('it Mo., was filed in common pleas court hern today by counsel on behalf of! Thaw's mother. The pro ceedings',, it was announced, were in stituted f.i an effort to have Thaw adjudged Insane and his personal estate bnxnuht under control of the Indicia! authorities of Pennsylvania. The petition is made returnable the first week P.u April. "If Thav's lunacy In settled any where, it w?.U be in Now York." ac cording to llistriet Attorney Swann, of 'New York when informed of the latest move of Thaw's counsel. "It is our fntenlion to uko every legal means to have Thaw taken to New York to answer the charges on which he has been indft'tcd. i STEEL NETS AND Ml NFS TO GUARD iMTY OF SEATTLE FF, ATT !,K Feb. 2 7.- Steel nets and mines are to be spread across the entrance of the StT.iit of Juan I Fuca as a means of guarding Puget Sound against attach from German submarines should possible hostilities ensue, according to inf. order received here today. A gate wide enough' to permit the , largest steamers to pa through will j be open during the daV but at night this will be closed, and (he mines will be operated from Fort Worden. The nets and mines ai'e already at Fort YVorden, having bten used be fore and will be lowvtv-d Into the water and stretched acnpsH the strait, h distance of about six mile. Ily HASH, .M. MANIA WASHINGTON', I. ('., Keli. '27. Keports from every part id' the world indicate --rave danger of a short vhe:tt en ii I'ur the column year. On top of the rent wheat failure of last year, tin-, wmiltl liring the entire World elti-M' to famine. In liii-sia, uct to lite 1'nitt'd Stale- the ;;reatet wheat growing country, eo!d weather prevail with only u liht nov covering to protect the seed. As a result, the outlook for winter crops there i not -ocd, ami at the same time the storks on hand are only mod erate and the eousimipt lui for fond has been i:nusuallv heav. In France, the 1'onrlh largest wheat producer, the winter is said to be the! severest --ince lMKl, with only livht snow covering; lor the crops, as the present low teuipernlurcs followed re cent rains. The smallest crop in years U therefore expected. No Surplus (ii-aiii. The Maik.tn Stalls uil certainly pr.Mluee no sui phis grain this year, for nut only are these rotmlries rav aged I iy war and crippled liy a sear city of labor, hut I lie season has been ilelayed by wet, cold weather. In Italy the weather has been had- cold anil wet, with little snow, and (he national stocks are so small that for eign buying- is very heavy. In Australia, where the seasons are lite reverse of ours, harvesting is said to be slow, and it is wet over a very large ureu. A a re-o!l, the crop es timates are being reduced millions of l.ushe's. In the I'uiW'd States extreme cold has endangered I lie winter wheal, which throughout the great wheat belt has had only a very light or no snow eoering'. The crop experts are unan intous in predicting the American win ler wheat crop will be below normal, although a greater area was planted thi-. year than ever before. This -ii mil ion is rendered perilous because the failure of last year in practically all crops all o er the world will bring us and other count ric:-; up to the harvest with practically no wheat in storage, while in normal year there is a surplus on hand at I lie beginning; ill' the harvest of J."tl,0iMI,tH)l) hiirdi cls or mere. The I'liilcd States alone ordinarily conies to tbe barve-1 with 7."i,UIUt,tltitl bushels in-the storage ele vators or in the fanners' barns. Hunger IiicrenM'il. And the danger is being daily in creased by the submarine campaign. Kery grain ship that is sunk carries down with il thousands of tons of wheat, which is lost forever. No one can estimate even bow much wheat is being lost in this way, but there is im iUc-dioii (hat it is great cnoipjli to reduce appreciably the meager siipplv now on hand. Fortunately there is a way out, if the agricultural popululion can be aroused to the gravity of the situa tion. Tlie spring wheat i- still to be planted, and if all the available area is planted there will be enough lo save the day. Kvery farmer that cares anything about bis country, and incident ally about the ehanee of big profits which this almost certain failure of the win ter wheal crops opens to , liini will plant in wheat every acre of ground that is tillable, lie will plant close to lite fences and in the comers, in or der that not a foot of ground that can raise wheal will lie idle. Plant wheal is the slogan that ought to go out to every farm in the I'nitcd Stoics, Within six month-, un less nil signs fail, the whole world will be calling for wheat with the an guish of impending famine in their voice-. HOSTON, Feb. 2 7.-- Investigation of tho sugar shortage of last week, when the price soared to I 2 and 25 cents a pound in some plaeea, has disclosed. I 'tilted States Attorney (ieorge W. Anderson announced to night that il "was about nine-tent hs artificial and promoted, and about one-tenth due to temporary Inade quacy In transportation facilities." STOP CATARRH! OPEN NOSTRILS AND HEAD Kays Cream Applied in Nostril! lUdieves Head-Colds at Once. i' ...............'-"-.--'..-t.-.. .. .-.-i..n t Jf iair ito-ttrih are clogged and your j he:id is MulTi'd and you can't breathe j freely beeiuc "f a cold or catarrh, jut : p-t n Mnnll hot Mi of Klv' Cream Ttabu ! nt uay drug utore. Apply a little ot j tii 19 fragrant, mil inept i. crram into j vour fuiti nu tin I let it peaetratn ; throurl, cv.ry : ir I'unp i.f .mr lie Kv.tliiii" ami liiMlinir tin- inl1.iiii.-l. .!- tin tiiunxM membrane mi l ou g t iu- frtaitt relief. Alt! how on1 it fevt. Your Tio- r ilrt are opi-n, your he;id U dmr, no more hawking, tuiulllin, blowing; no inure headache, dryness or t nu,yliiig for breath. Fly' (.'ream Hiihn i-t just wliiit nutTercr from lead culJi und ca tarrh Wei. It's JL ilfligllU POliTI.AN. Feb. '27. Former Governor t tsw aid WeM has. announc ed bi resignation a agent fur the goM-rumcul in the settlement of tnxeft on the Oregon California grant lamU. Ohsiarles and dif ficulties thrown iu the way of early adjudication of these claims through the so-called Menu bill, recently passed by the legislature, have induced Mi'. West to forward hi resignation to the secretary of tho interior. This bill authorizes county asse--.oiis tp re-tore these lands to tho tax rolls, and .Mr. We-t feels that ad justment of the counties claims will now be held up until the eoitrts pass on the right of the state to tax tho lands. In view of this situation, ho cannot devote any more time as tax: agent, although practically all of tho work that was entrusted lo him has been accomplished. S. P. Did Not Pay I It l;t-)5 Taxes. Following the derision or the fed eral court, July 1, l!i:t, the Southern l'acitie eompany did not payjts taxes on the O. & ('. grant lands for tho years ItlF!, WW 4 and UH-"). Tho Chamberlain- Ferris bill, passed in June of last year, appropriated money to pay the back taxes on the lands (whieh the railroad had not paid) pending the final settlement of tho controversy between the company and the government. Some $1,70(1,(1(10 w due, and Governor West has examined claims on l:i00,000 acres. This net also ve-ted title in tho lands in I he government, and il is well known the government pays no taxes. The liean bill compels the eounty ns-ses-ors o put the lands on the tax roll for HHli. although eounty sher iffs have full power lo add to the roll at any lime, says ex-Governor West, Offered Speedy Plan, As tax agenl, Mr. West met with, county officials and advised them that it would he n better policy to ieae the laud- off the rolls, believing that speedier settlement of the claims of lIlFt, I'.H I and HU; would result. The- Mean bill, however, forees counties to put the lands on the full and ties up l!U( with I lie other yenr.-i, -Mr, West feels that until I lie (pte.stinu of whether the slate has a right to tax these lands for l'.Hl! is settled in the courts, the payment of the other a liil claims will he held tip. Tho Mean bill wn-s referred to the people and w ill be voted upon June -I. If approved by the voters, the. bill will eomplieate matters still more, says West, as the lands are now hcim? elas-ilicil and are to lie thrown oh to entry. Counties' liights Protected, Pending sell lenient of Ihe threo years' claims Ihe rights of the eoun-lic- for IDlli are fully protected, be lieves Mr. West, in the right of tho -he riff to as.-e-s the lauds at any time. .Mr. We.-t feel-thai the state should as-ume that lite Chamberlain-Fen-is hill which vests title- in the O. & C lands in the government should be deemed cou.-l it ul ional until the courts deride otherwise, and thai no compli cation, sitcJi as the Itenti bill, shoubL be injected into the matter so us to ddav payment of the claim- which are due.' AN EXPERT DN COLDS Comparatively fow people realize that a cold is a signal of physical weakness. To treat a cold with weakening physics, alcoholic syrups or drugged pills, may smother the cold hut thry also reduce the body powers still further and invite more serious sickness. Scott's I'.mulsion has always been an expert on colds, because it peculiarly enriches ihe blond, quicklytones upthe forces Hii'l strrtiKtllens both throat anil Cbcit. Try tH-ott's. Refuse SiilwtitulM. Scolt He Bowne, Ulooiuiield, K, J. 107 WESTON Camera Shop 208 K.'ist M.-iin Street, Medfoi'd The Only Kxelusive Ciiiiiincrciiil Photographer in Southern Oregon. X('",ll I Vf'S Mlldc JITIV tilllP fir I ."."It. m. UIIIL Or pi.tce i iy appoinrinein;. Phono 1 17-.T. T We'll do the rest. "I E. D. WESTON, Prop, j
