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The Parker post., 1914-11-21
STAMP TAX ON LEGAL PAPERS
effective DECEMBER FIRST
CONTRACTS AND DOCUMENTS OF VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS SUCH
AS NOTES, TRANSFERS and AGREEMENTS ARE ASSESSED
Legal Instruments Of All Descriptions Taxed Under Stamp Tax Section Of
New War Tax BBls of Ladng Cent Each Deeds so Cents
$500 or acOn Tickets to Foreign Ports 81 to- More

writing conveying lands, tenements or
other realty, value over $100 and not
exceeding $500, so cents; for each
additional $500, or fraction, so cents.
Entry of goods, wares, or merchan-
disc in custom-house, not exceeding
$100 in value, 25 cents; exceeding $100
and not exceeding $500, SO cents; ex-
ceeding $500, 81.
Entry for withdrawal of goods or
merchandise from customs bonded
warehouse, so cents.
Insurance, marine. inland and fire
Except purely cooperative or mu-
tuaD, lightning or other peril, on each
policy or renewal on amount of prem
ium charged on each 81 or fractional
part, u cent; fidelity and guarantee
on each policy, on each 81 or frac-
tional part Of premium received, II
cent.
Passage tickets by any vessel from
the United States to foreign port,
costing not exceeding $50 (tickets
costing $40 or less exempt), 81; more
than $50 and not exceeding $50, So;
more than $50, SIS.
On Powers of Attorney
Power of attorney or proxy for vot-
ing at any election of officers of any
incorporated company or association,
except religious, charitable or literary
societies or public cemeteries, 10
cents.
Power of attorney to sell or convey
real estate, or to rent or lease, to col
lect or receive rent, to sell or transfer
stocks and bonds, 25 cents. papers
used in the collection of pension, back
pay or bounty claims, or claims for
an property lost in military or naval
service are eXempt.)
Protests of every note, bill of eX-
change, acceptance, check or draft, or
amy marine protest, 25 cents.
Telegraph OF telephone messages: ::
Every person, firm or corporation oper-
ating any telegraph or telephone line
is required to make a sworn state
ment to the, collector of the number
of messages or conversations trans
mitted over their lines during the pre-
ceding month, for which a charge of
Is cents or more was imposed, and for
each of such messages or conversa-
tions to pay tax of 1 cent.
On seats in palace or parlor cars
and berths in sleeping cars Ito be
paid by the company selling them), 1
cent.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21

Taxes on legal instruments of all
descriptions, as imposed under the
stamp tax sections of the new war
tax bill. have a wide range. The vari-
Gus amounts of taxation were an
nounced last Saturday by Collector of
Internal Revenue John P. Carter.
Assessments under this section of
the bill become due and payable on
and after December 1, 1914, when all
provisions Of the new act will become
operative.
According to the announcement Of
the internal revenue collector, dOcu-
mentary taxes will be assessed as fol-
lows:
Bonds. debentures, or certificates Of
Indebtedness of any association, COM
pany or corporation, on each $100 of
face value or fraction thereof, 5 cents.
On each original issue of certificates
of stock, whether on organization or
reorganization, on each $100 of face
value or fraction, cents.
On all sales, agreements to sell,
memoranda of sales, deliveries, or
stock of any association or corpora
\tion, on each $100 of face value or
fraction, 2 cents.
Tax on Each $1o0 of Value
On each sale, or agreement of sale
of any product or merchandise at any
exchange or board Of trade, OF other
similar place, either for present or
future delivery, for each $100 in value,
1 cent; and for each additional $100,
or fractional part in excess of $100,
1 cent.
Promissory notes and for each re-
newal for a sum not exceeding $1O0,
2 cents; and for each, additional $1OO,
or fraction, 2 cents.
Bills of lading and manifests, issued
by express companies or public car
riers, cent.
Bonds, except those required in legal
proceedings, so cents.
Certificates of damage, or otherwise,
and all other certificates or documents
issued by port wardens, or marine
surveyor, 25 cents.
Certificates of any description re-
quired by law, not otherwise specified,
10 cents.
Contract, brokers' note, or memo
randum of sale of goods, or merchan-
disc, stocks, bonds, exchange, notes Of
hand, or property of any kind issued
by brokers, 10 cents.
Conveyance, deed, instrument or
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
FOUR MILLION BLANKETS
ARE ORDERED FROM U. S.

CHICAGO, Nov. ia hurry up
order for 100000 blankets for the
armies of the allies has been received
in Chicago. The average price has
been set at S. per blanket, making a
total of $2O,OOO,0OO waiting to be ap-
portioned among the blanket manu-
facturers and dealers of the Central
West
The order is in the hands Of a La
Sale street bank The same bank
has been acting as a clearinghouse
for similar orders for leather and har-
ness goods.
eve are in touch with blanket men
who can furnish immediate delivery .
declared the banker, in discussing the
large order. "These goods will be
paid for just as if they were bought
over the counter.
Everyone familiar with the situa-
tion feels that Europe has just begun
to call upon the United States for it's
army-wearing apparel and food sup
plies. The increase in exports cannot
help but contribute to the prosperity
Of our country"
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
THICKLY FEATHERED DUCKS
MEANS HARD WINTER

OCEAN PARK, Nov. 7.-Probably
William Gill of Ocean Park has shot
as many ducks in the Santa Monica
bay district as any other man who has
hunted there. He is familiar with all
weather signs, and his predictions
have on more than one occasion come
true.
Were going to have a tough old
winter" predicted Gill when he came
back from duck shooting. Duck
feathers never go back on weather
conditions, and I've never seen the
ducks so we'll prepared for winter as
those I've shot this year. Why, they
have so many feathers on them that
it is next to impossible to send the
shot through them.
''Then the breast feathers are four
inches deep, it seems to me, and when
you see ducks wearing breast feath-
ers like that you can just make up
your mind that it's going to be a
pretty stiff winter. I've never known
it to fail, and, besides this, the cookies
are burying themselves deeper in the
sand every time the tide washes them
in, and it looks to me as if they were
just trying to bury themselves for all
winter
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
|SDURCED FOR CALIFORNIA
BODY SIMILAR TO u. S. DEPART
MENT, PLAN OF FRUIT MEN
California State Fruit Growers in
Convention Recommend Improve
ment on Estate Boards" by
Grouping in One Dept.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17-With un-
divided sentiment for the creation of
a State Department of Agriculture, to
be administered by a secretary of ag-
riculture, and the purpose of prepar-
ing and presenting to the coming Leg
islature bill providing for such in
novations, the forty-ffth convention
of the California State Fruit-Growers
was brought to close Saturday after
noon in the old Normal School Build
ing.
California should have a state de-
partment of agriculture similar to the
United States department of agricul-
ture, which would combine in one
strong organization under one strong
state executive the 1S or 20 agricul-
tural bureaus now existing in the
state, according to report made by a
committee of legislation.
"There should be complete reor-
ganization of the horticultural laws
of the state.'
Zone single department should be
formed in the interest of economy and
efficiency"
"The Secretary of Agriculture
should exercise all the executive and
regulators powers, and should per-
form the duties now vested in and re-
quired to be performed by such
boards, commissions and officers, as
follows:
"The State Board of Agriculture,
the State Agricultural Society, the
State Commissioner of Horticulture,
the State Board of Horticultural Ex-
aminers, the State Dairy Bureau, the
Board of Veterinary Medicine, the
State Veterinarian, the State Board of
Sheep Commissioners, the Stallion
Registration Board, the State Board
of Viticultural Commissioners, the
State Board of Forestry, the State
Forester, the Conservation Commis-
sion of the State of California, the
State Superintendent of Weights and
Measures, the State Analyst, the Red
wood Park Commission, the Reclama-
tion Board of the State of California,
the State Water Commission and
other statutes relating to agriculture
not properly belonging to the func-
tions of the University of California.
The delegates unanimously favored
the proposed measure and authorized
the legislative committee to proceed
with the preparation of the bill.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
H.M.S. AUDACIOUS is
WRECKED BY MINE

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE British
dreadnaught Audacious, one of the
newest and most powerful ships in
the English navy, was sunk off the
coast of Ireland, presumably by a
mine.
1t is said that in the explosion LAT
men were scalded, some fatally Pas
sengers of the Olympic were not al
lowed by the government to land in
England until they had sworn secrecy.
1t is said that at the time she was
struck the Audacious sighted and
sank ship laying mines off the Eng
lish coast. She wirelessed the Olym-
pic of the danger from the mines and
short time later she herself came
into contact with one of the death
dealing machines. The explosion
wrecked her boilers.
The Audacious will probably be
raised Immediately and repaired.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
Radio Plant in Forests

@ SANTA ROSA, CAL, Nov. 1.-THE
reputed presence of United States Sc
cret service operatives in Sonoma
county in the last few days has lent
color to the rumor that there has been
an ''outlaw wireless station" at work
somewhere in the redwoods between
Cloverdale and Cazadero, sending
messages to the Japanese cruisers out
on the Pacific. The federal authori-
ties have received from amateur wire
less operators definite information to
the effect that radio messages have
been exchanged between the Japanese
warships on the ocean and some sta
tion north of San Francisco, and big
effort has been made to discover the
locality of the plant.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
WARSHIP MOVES IN CANAL
ZONE Will BE REGULATED
PROCLAMATION ISSUED PROVID-
ING RULES FOR CANAL ZONE
Aircraft Forbidden to Arise, Descend
or Fly Through Air Spaces Above
Canal-Wireless May Be Used
For Canal Business Only

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Through
the State Department President Will
son issued proclamation providing
rules for the maintenance of the neu-
trality of the Panama Canal. Sixteen
rules are laid down for the conduct of
foreign vessels of war passing through
the waterway.
A significant rule provides:
"Aircraft of a belligerent power,
public or private are forbidden TO de-
scend or arise within the jurisdiction
Of the United States at the canal zone
or to pass through the air spaces
above the lands and water within said
jurisdiction
For the purpose of the rules the
canal zone includes the cities of Pana-
ma and Colon and their harbors.
The rules of treatment provided for
vessels of war apply to transports
whether armed or not but do not ap-
ply to vessels fitted up and used exclu-
sively as hospital ships.
Vessels of war will not be permitted
to revictual or take any stores in the
canal except such as are absolutely
necessary, and their transit through
the canal will be effected with the
least possible delay. Fuel and lubri-
cants will be given only on the writ
ten order of the canal authorities. No
supplies will be furnished by or
through the United States Govern
ment. Fuel and lubricants shall be
taken only in sufficient quantity to
enable the vessel to reach the nearest
accessible port which is not an enemy
port, and provisions may be obtained
only in sufficient quantities to bring
the supply UP to peace standard.
No belligerent shall embark or dis.
embark troops, munitions of war OF
warlike materials in the canal except
in case of necessity due to accident
| and the canal authorities will be Judge
| of the necessity.
Vessels of war of a belligerent shall
| not remain in the territorial waters
longer than "a hours at any one time
| except in cases of distress.
A vessel of war of one belligerent
shall not depart within "a hours from
| the departure of a war vessel of an
opposing belligerent.
There shall not be, except by spe.
cial arrangement, at any one time a
greater number of vessels of war OF
any one nation, including those of the
allies of belligerent nation, than
three in either port and it's adjacent
terminal waters, or than three in tran
sit through the canal, nor shall the
total number of such vessels at any
one time exceed six in all the terri.
torial waters of the canal zone.
A vessel of war of a belligerent may
not leave the waters of the canal zone
until "a hours after the departure of a
private vessel flying the flag of the
adversary.
The repair facilities and docks of
the canal shall not be used by a war
vessel of belligerent except when in
cases of actual distress.
The radio of any vessel of bellig-
erent power, public or private shall
be used only in connection with canal
business while within the zone.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
EIectriquettes for Fair Grounds

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 1.-THE ideal
chariot for the transportation of loves
young dream has been invented by
Los Angeles men.
1t is the Osborne electriquette, an
electrically propelled chair for two
passengers, which has been selected
as the only vehicle which will be al
lowed on the grounds at the San Diego
exposition.
Geared so that it's quarter-horse-
power motor cannot propel it faster
than three miles an hour, the new
vehicle is claimed to require less at
tention to steer than the gentlest horse
that was ever piloted with one hand.
There is no pussy-footed attendant
to listen to the conversation of the
occupants, and there promises to be
an overwhelming demand for the new
vehicles, especially on warm and pleas
ant moonlight nights during the fair
time.
1t will run for eight hours at a three
mile gait on single battery charge,
and is powerful enough to climb a %
per cent grade. Though it travels so
slowly that a serious accident is prac-
tically impossible, further safeguard
has been provided in the shape of an
emergency pedal which shuts off the
current and applies the brakes.
The initial order was for 100 of the
chairs, which will be manufactured in
Los Angeles.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
FERRYBOAT LOSES WAY:
PASSENGERS TERRIFIED

OAKLAND, Nov. ia score of
terrified passengers and half a dozen
automobiles containing belated thea
ter parties participated in an unwill-
ing junket trip about the Oakland es-
tuary when the Southern Pacific ferry
steamer Thoroughfare ran amuck in
the fog on it's 11:15 trip from San
Francisco, plowed into two sand
banks, ran down a dredge at work in
the channel, and wound up it's mid
night ramble by smashing into a
wharf at the foot of Market street.
The passengers we're landed at 8
o'clock in the morning.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
Camille Gale in Seattle

SEATTLE, Nov. IA 64-mile
wind, the highest velocity in the his
tory of the city except one, swept
Seattle last Friday. Many houses were
unroofed, and a number of ocean-go-
ing vessels we're torn from their moor
ings or dragged their anchors, thoush
no great damage was done. Two boat
houses with several occupants each
we're blown across Lake Union. The
steamship Montare and the British
S tie amship Prince Rupert we're
dragged quarter of a mile. The fore
top mast of the British cable ship Re-
storer was blown down, carrying with
it the wireless outfit.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
VESUVIUS ERUPTION
REACHES ACUTE STAGE

NAPLES, via Rome, Nov. 16.-After
seven years of calm since it's eruption
in 1906, which was one of the longest
pauses in it's activity in three centu-
ries, Mount Vesuvius began an erup-
tion in May, 1918, which has been
constantly growing until it has now
reached an acute stage.
The crater, 1000 feet deep, is gradu-
ally transforming itself through the
opening Of new assures. These are
emitting incandescent matter known
as magma, which on contact with the
air becomes lava.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
SUPPLY OF BEET
SEED rs ASSURED

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Nov. IT,
The beet sugar industry around Hunt
ington Beach, it is declared, is sure
of another good year. The Holly
Sugar Company announces that it will
be able to furnish beet seed to the
growers.
1t was feared there would be q
shortage of beet seed on account OF
the war. Germany has supplied the
bulk of the beet seed for the world
At the outbreak of the war it was
feared that no beet seed could be ex
ported by Germany, but it now seems
that considerable quantities are being
shipped through neutral countries
like Holland and Italy. Even should
the price be higher than normal, this
will be no great handicap, it is de-
clared.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
PROPOSED TO HAVE
TUBERCULOSIS DAY

NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-In an effort
to ascertain how serious a problem tu-
berculosis is to the average church
congregation of the United States, the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis pub
fishes a report which shows that in
nearly 300 churches in thirty-seven
different states one funeral in every
ten is due to this single disease.
Because tuberculosis demands SO
much time and money from the
churches, the National Association for
the Study and Prevention Of Tuber-
culosis is calling upon all of them
throughout the United States to join
in an educational campaign against
this disease on tuberculosis day,
which will be observed during the
week of November 49,.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
SHEEPSHEAD TRACK
SOLD FOR $2,5oo,ooo

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE historic
old Sheepshead Bay race track has
been sold and is to be transformed
into a huge motordrome for automo-
bile and motorcycle races. The price
paid is reported as $2,5OO,OOO, and the
Coney Island Jockey Club, owners of
the property, took six months to de-
eide to sell at this high figure.
The tract embraces 430 acres, and
the motordrome project is said to
have been financed under the direc-
tion of an official Of the National City
Bank.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
Cutting Cocaine Traffic

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-For more
than year there has been consider
able restriction in the sale Of coca
leaves because of an improvised sys-
tenn of keeping track of the imports
into this country by customs officials.
This has resulted apparently in re-
stricting the purchase of coca leaves,
and has, it is believed by drug ex-
perts, cut down the use of cocaine and
perhaps other habit-forming drugs. In
1911 coca leaves to the extent of
1,226,000 pounds were imported into
this country. In 1912 the amount was
1,179,OOO pounds, and in 1913, 1,175,-
OO0.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
WORK STATED ON
NEW p. E. LINK

CORONA, Nov. 17.-Actual con-
struction has begun on the link of the
Pacific Electric railway between Arl-
ington and Corona. There are eight
miles of road to build. Shearer &
Company of Los Angeles were award
ed the contract. The track will be on
the east side of the center row of
pepper trees. The contractor is now
plowing for mile south of the pres
ent end of the line. The grading is
very easy and it is figured that the
line will be constructed and ready for
operation not later than January Is,
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
FRANCE MAY GO
DRY THROUGH WAR

PARIS, Nov. 16.-Permanent pronl-
bition of the sale of absinthe and kim
dred alcoholic beverages in France
may be result of the war. Transpor-
tatfon and sale of absinthe were for
hidden when the war began, but traffic
in other intoxicants was continued.
The Government has now supple
mented it's original order with another
forbidding the sale of any alcoholic
drinks similar to absinthe. There is
marked movement in all parts of
France tending to perpetuate this pro-
hibition.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
COAST HIGHWAY TO
BE OPEN TO AUTOS

VENTURA, Nov. 1.-THE coast
highway will not be closed to auto
mobiles during any period of the con
struction of the route. This was made
possible by the decision of the county
supervisors at the instance of Judge
G. J. Elliott of OXnard. They decided
to open a road via the Norwegian set
tlement, which will be but six miles
longer than the new state highway
route over the Conejo. The Conejc
section of the coast highway will not
be closed by the contractor on ac
count of construction work until Jan
uary 10, which will give ample time
for the new route to be put in good
shape by the Ventura county super
visOrs.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
COUPLE PUSH INFANT
ON 22OO-MILE WALK

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17.-B L. Holton,
thirty years old, printer, accompa-
MED by his wife, Minnie, and daugh-
ter, Eunice, seventeen months old,
have reached East st. Louis on their
22OO-mile walk from Dayton, Ohio, to
San Francisco. They departed from
Dayton September II, and have
walked 375 miles. Mrs. Holton pushes
a go-cart in which is the baby, and
Holton pulls a toy express wagon in
which is 18O pounds of ''household''
effects.
They sleep at nights in police sta
tions, livery barns Or in the open.
Holton speaks German, French, Span
ish and Italian.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
AMERICAN MARINES
RETIRE FROM HAITI

WASHINGTON, Nov. II. - The
American bluejackets and marines
who landed recently at Cape Haytien,
on the north coast of Hayti, to pre-
serve order there, have returned to
the cruiser Tacoma, according to a
message to the navy department from
Commander Twining of the Tacoma.
1t is presumed here, therefore. that
conditions in that section of the island
must be quiet again after the recent
revolution.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
Citrus Season Ends

RIVERSIDE, Nov. 1.-THE 1894
citrus season has come to an end with
a total of 1890 cars, the greatest num-
Der since the season of 1901. OF
the totals for last season, 1928 cars
were oranges, and 81 lemons.
The orange crop is pretty well up
to the normal. The lemon groves
have not entirely recovered from the
freeze, and the crop was light. The
navels are maturing rapidly, but little
fruit will be shipped before January 1.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
KEEP CITRUS CANKER
OUT OF FRUIT REGIONS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Aiming
to prevent general Introduction into
the United States of the citrus plant
canker-dangerous to orange and
grape fruit States-the Department of
Agriculture will have a hearing in
Washington December on the ques-
tion of prohibiting the importation Of
citrus nursery stock, buds, scions or
seeds.
The plant disease already has ap-
peared in the gulf citrus region, hav-
ing been brought into the country, ap-
parently on Japanese nursery stock.
In Florida a vigorous fight has been
started against the disease.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
TRICKS GERMAN AND
FLEES IN AEROPLANE

PARIS, Nov. 16.-Roland Garros
had a narrow escape from death
while engaged in an aerial duel with
a German near Amiens Monday.
When the motor broke down Garros
made corkscrew descent and when
he landed feigned death. The German
landed and approached what he
thought was the body Of the famous
French aviator. AS he did so Garros
shot him dead with his revolver and
escaped to his own lines in the Ger
mans aeroplane.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
KANSAS GRAIN FOR
RELIEF OF BELGIANS

TOPEKA, Kans., Nov. 17.-In an
appeal to Kansas farmers, Governor
Hodges urged that they donate a mil
lion bushels of wheat and more than
a quarter of a million bushels of corn
for the aid of the suffering Belgians.
He asks that Thanksgiving day be set
aside as day of giving, and urges
that every crop producer in the state
give a portion equal to one bushel of
wheat or corn for every 200 bushels
produced.
The Parker post., 1914-11-21
Denies Navy Increase

WASHINGTON, Nov. II. = There
will be no increase in the naval .appro-
priations for the coming year, Presi-
dent Wilson stated. None was rec
commended by the secretary of the
navy, he told callers. The state ap-
preparation will be necessarily larger,
owing to the added expenses caused
by the war, but there was no change
in the naval program outlined by the
administration officials more than a
year ago.