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The Parker post., 1915-06-05
CALIFORNIA STATE EXPENSES
SHOW ENORMOUS INCREASE
Will COST So, 100000 MORE TO RUN GOVERNMENT IN TIL
NEXT TWO YEARS Than WAS PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED
Made Mandatory State Board of Equalization Collection of State Tax
Must Raise $685. for the Support Of California During Next
Two Capita Increases from 3O So Ten Years

| 1903 to nearly So in 1913, and that our
California's State government costs
more per capita than that of any other
state except Nevada.
At the time the legislature adjourned
the opinion was generally expressed
that the Governor would veto some of
the salary increases and payroll in
creases provided for in the general ap-
preparation budget, but he has signed
them all. 1t has been semi-officially
announced, however, that he will veto
some of the special appropriation bills,
among which are two for 100000 each
for State highway construction in I'M
perial county. These vetoes were dis
counted, however, in the revenue bill
which the Governor has just signed.
Improvements SIighted.
Despite the unprecedented increase
in the cost of the State government
for the next two years, the present bill
carries almost $1,000,000 less for per-
manent improvements than two of it's
predecessors. The great portion of
the expense in the general appropria-
tions fund is for increased pay rolls
occasioned by the creation of new COM
missions and departments and increas-
ing the number of employees and their
salaries in departments now in exist
ence. That there is no building for
the future is plainly set forth in the
report of the Board of Control, from
which the following are extracts: "In
short, the budget as drawn and here
with presented represents the minim-
um amount necessary to keep the
States departments and institutions
from going backward, the problem of
their going ahead being left for nor
NAL times. The recommenda-
tions for institutions and departments
have been held at an absolute min
imum'
Here follows a recital that there
would be loss of revenue of $5,00O,-
| 000 The estimated loss and few
millions besides, however, are provid-
ed for by increases in taxation rates
made by the legislature.
Secretary of State Frank Jordan is
already to the front with the assertion
that at least $1,000,000 a year could
be saved in the operating expense of
the state government by consolidating
commissions and departments that
have been created during the last three
sessions of the legislature. A similar
estimate was made during the recent
session of the legislature.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
SEED FOR SOWING IN
GERMANY LIMITED

BERLIN, May 31.-No detail is too
small to be overlooked by the govern
ment in it's measures to make the most
of the food supply.
A formal order of the federal council
even prescribed the amount of oats
that might be used in sowing this
spring, setting it at about 10A bush
els each hectare, which amounts
roughly to 1-16 bushels an acre.
An appeal has gone out to the far
mers to use drills as much as possible
in sowing, since a. greater amount of
seed than that prescribed is generally
used in broadcasting, the system still
employed by the greater majority of
German farmers
Farmers who own drills are asked to
lend them to their less fortunate
neighbors.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Movie Cameras

LOS ANGELES, June Imagine
photographing moving revolver bull
let; then imagine, if you can, making
seventy-two photographs of it while
it was covering a space of ten inches.
This is a feat which has actually been
accomplished with the aid of moving
picture camera.
AS the pictures were taken at the
rate of one hundred thousand Sec
ond, and no camera shutter is made
which could attain that speed, the pic
lures we're made by means of a series
of electric flashes, each spark or flash
giving one exposure. The film used
was mounted on wheel three feet in
circumference, which was revOlved at
the rate of nine thousand revolutions a
minute in order that the pictures
should not overlap each other.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
FREIGHT RATES ON VARIOUS
COMMODITIES ARE SLASHED
CALIFORNIA GROWERS TO PROF.
IT BY REDUCTIONS STATED.
New Rate Results Directly from Pana-
ma Canal mpetition-Cut Cost
on Beans, Canned Goods, AS
phaIt, Vegetables, Fish.

LOS ANGELES, June 1.-Slashing
Of railroad freight rates from Califor-
MIA to eastern points as direct result
of water competition brought about
through the opening of the Panama
Canal has commenced.
The Santa Fe freight department an
nounce reductions on beans, canned
goods and asphalt-three important
lines of export from this state-and
other cuts are promised in other Cali
fornia products.
1t is expected that the lead of the
Santa Fe will be followed by the other
transcontinental lines about the mid
die of July.
The cutting of freight rates on the
products of this State will reflect a
direct benefit in the upbuilding of Cali
fornia industries, and will mean tre-
mendous saving to the producers in
the transportation charges on goods
shipped by rail.
Another feature of the new rates is
that they will be made to apply from
all points in California, inland points
as we'll as terminals.
Here are the reductions announced:
Beans, including limas, black-eye,
white, and all varieties of dried beans,
reduced from IS cents per hundred,
with minimum of 100000 pounds, to IS
cents, with minimum shipment of So
900 pounds. This is what is known as
postage stamp rate" applying to
practically all points east of the Rocky
Mountains, excepting some of the
Southern States, or what is known as
transcontinental territory.
Canned goods, including canned
fruit, vegetables and fish, reduced
from IS cents, with a 40,000-pound
minimum, to 621a cents, with mini
mum of 10000 pounds, to Chicago, st.
Louis and West-or to what is known
in railroad language as Group D terri
tory and west. To points east of Chi
cago and st. Louis the local rate over
the 621a cents rate will be added, not
to exceed the 85-cent postage stamp"
rate.
Asphalt, in tank cars or in packages,
reduced from 55 cents, with minimum
of 10000 pounds, to so cents with min
imum of 10000 pounds to Chicago, ST.
Louis and West.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
BERLIN CUTS CAFE FOOD
LIST; RULES INTRODUCED

BERLIN, May 31.-To further pre-
vent the waste of food the authorities
have promulgated new rules for res
taurants. They follow:
Table d'hote meals are abolished;
only special orders will be filled. The
larger use of vegetables and destricted
use of meat must be observed. Roast
meat and more boiled meat must be
offered The use of fat must decrease.
The use of potatoes must be limited.
Only boiled and fried may be served.
Furthermore, the police will intro
duce new regulations for the serving
of meals They forbid the presence in
restaurants of neutral newspapers not
friendly to Germany.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05

SACRAMENTO, June 1.-Califor-
MAS government will cost $6,110,000
more for the next two years than for
1913 and 1914, and $10,700,000 more
than for the biennial period of 1911
and 1912. This increase is made man
datory on the State Board Of Equaliza-
ton in the collection of state tax for
the next two years by the terms of
Assembly Bill No. 1892, which has
been signed by Gov. Johnson. Under
this bill the Board of Equalization is
directed to levy a tax sufficient to
raise $35,7O0,0OO ''for the support of
the state government" for the next
two fiscal years, beginning July 1,
1915. This period is the sixty-seventh
and sixty-eighth fiscal years.
The revenue bill passed by the 1913
legislature provided for the expendi-
ture of $29,667,7OO that of 1911 for
the expenditure of $25,O62, ,594. In
1909 the revenue bill amounted to but
$15,009,O52, and for 1907 the revenue
bill was but $14,777,758. A change in
the Constitution relating to the collec-
tion of taxes took place in 1910, so the
taxes for the years preceding that date
were collected on different basis
from the one followed in 1911, when
the progressive" administration be-
gins. The figures for 1907 and 1909
are not directly comparable with those
for 1918 and 1915, except for showing
the amount of increase between two
sessions of the legislature.
Some Appropriations.
In the following table, however,
there has been no change. This is
the general appropriation bill for the
cost of the maintenance of the State
government and State institutions. 1t
includes neither bond issues nor per
manent improvefents. The figures are
from the annual report of the State
Controller, except for this year, where
they are taken from the bill passed
by the legislature and signed by the
Governor.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
WAR PURCHASES IN NORTH
AMERICA TOTAL $25000O, 600

NEW YORK, June IAN order for
1000 freight cars for Russian railroads
has been placed with the Canadian Car
and Foundry company. 1t is said that
the Eastern Car company has taken a
similar order from Russia. Nathaniel
Curry, president of the Canadian Car
and Foundry company, estimated that
the total amount of ammunition orders
now being filled appreciates $150,0OO,-
900, and that others now being nego-
tiated through the British shell COM
mission in Canada and indirectly Will
total $25O,O00,000.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
PLATES SURROUNDING GAP IN
NEBRASKAN CURVE INWARD

LIVERPOOL, May 30.-The Ameri-
can steamer Nebraskan was placed in
drydock at Birkenhead, in the pres
ence of the American naval attache,
Lieutenant John H. Towers, British
naval officers and other experts.
The vessel showed a huge gap for
ward on the starboard side, twenty feet
long and twelve feet deep at the bot
tom of the ship, which at this point
had been blown away. All the plates
surrounding this gap we're curved in
ward.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Rioid Rules for Camp Fires

LOS A N G E L E S, June 1.-The
authorities in Washington have noti-
fed the local officials in charge of the
Angelus forest reserve that there will
be no modification of the rules or pros
ecutions of persons responsible for
building camp fires in the reserve.
Campers may build small fires only,
and they must be in the open, and all
leaves and trash must be carefully
scraped away first. Fires must never
be left unattended or left burning otter
the person lighting it has gone. Per-
mits must be secured from the supeE
visor.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
$15,ooo,o HIGHWAY
BOND BILL is SIGNED

SACRAMENTO, June 1.-The voters
of California will have an opportunity
in November, 1916, of approving the
proposition to issue $15,0O0,OOO in
bonds for the completion of the state
highway system.
Governor Johnson has signed assem-
bly, bill 1896, which provides for the
completion of the system and the con-
struction of seven new laterals con-
Meeting the coast and interior trunk
lines in various counties.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
DECISION Will TIE UP
EIGHT COAST OIL VESSELS

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-About
eight oil steamers will be forced out of
service between California and Wash
ington and Oregon ports by the de-
cision of the interstate commerce
commission.
The fleet of steamers, it was said,
were engaged almost entirely in carry
ing oil owned by the Associated Oil
company, the. owners of the vessels,
whose stock is controlled by the South
ern Pacific company.
The decision was given under the
terms of the Panama canal act, which
prohibits a railroad from competing
with it's own lines by water.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
JAPANESE TO KEEP
ARMY OUT OF WAR

TOXIC, May 31.-Private reports
that anti-Japanese agitation is spread.
ing through South China have caused
uneasiness here. There are fears of
rioting at Hankow.
There has been much rejoicing in
Toxic over the advent of Italy into the
European war.
There is an excellent reason for the
statement that the allies have def
nitely abandoned the project, once en-
tertained by them, to induce Japan to
send an army to Europe.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
NEW FIREBREAKS ARE
BEING CONSTRUCTED

PASADENA, June IA force of
fifty laborers began the work of
clearing the firebreaks in the Arroyo
Seco to prevent repetition of the for
est fire of two years ago. They are
working under the supervision of R..
H. Charlton.
Five and half miles of new fire
breaks have just been completed in
Little Santa Anita canyon, near Mount
Wilson.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Establishes New Bicycle Record

NEWARK, N. j., June IA new
worlds bicycle record for a third Of
a mile was established here at Velo-
drome by Frank L. Kramer, who
covered the distance in the remarkable
time of 26 2-5 seconds.
Kramer clipped one full second off
the former record, which was estab-
lished here in 1910 by Pat Hehir Of
Australia. The record was made by
Kramer in a trial heat, which he won
from Reggie Mcnamara.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
johnson Signs School Bill

SACRAMENTO, June 1.-Governor
Johnson signed the Normal Training
school bill, which appropriates $162,-
$50 for the support of Normal Train
ing schools at San Francisco, Los An
geles, Chico, Fresno, San Diego and
San Jose. He also signed the bill
calling annual conventions of high
school principals.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Poet Wants to See Eiuht

ROME, May 31.-The poet D'Annun-
zio's ambitions to view naval en-
gagement from an Italian warship may
go unrewarded. He has had long in
terviews with the ministers of war and
marine, but it is doubtful whether the
influence of the poet is sufficient to so
far relax the stern rules of naval dis
cipline as to admit his presence.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Gets $4,000 for crubstake

SAN BERNARDINO, June IA. J.
Garner, livery stable keeper at High
land, has been notified by New York
attorney that the entire estate of w.
H. Hawsnyder, valued at $4,000, has
been willed to him. Garner once
grubstaked Hawsnyder, then a pros
pector at Jerome, to $50.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
NEED 46,335 NAMES
FOR, REFERENDUM

SACRAMENTO, June Amy refer
endum petition for the purpose of re-
ferring any measure to the people. for
final decision must contain not less
than 46,335 names. These figures are
based on the total vote cast at the last
state election Before any measure
initiating a new law can be placed on
the ballot, the initiative petitions must
contain $4,000 names.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
INVENTS RECORDS
FOR TALK BY PHONE

NEW YORK, June IA 'tele-
SCRIBE an instrument by which tele-
phone conversation may be recorded
on wax record, has been perfected
by Thomas A. Edison. The compile
tion of the telescribe gives Edison the
credit for more than 1,5O0 inventions.
The instrument will record conversa-
tions 5000 miles apart.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Blames Lassen for Rainy Weather

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-Blame
for the superabundance of rain and
wind dealt out to the Pacific coast
this spring was placed upon Mt. Las
sen, California's volcano, by Govern
ment Weather Bureau Chief Marvin.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Germans Capture 100000 Prisoners

BERLIN (via London), May 81
Russian prisoners taken since May 1
number 100000, and 72 cannon and
253 machine guns have been captured
by the army under General Macken-
sen and the other German troops fight
ing in the Austro-Hungarian army.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Subterranean Flow, Report

OGDEN, Utah, June THAT drill
ers employed by Ogden city in sinking
a score of artesian wells ten miles
east of the city for a new municipal
water supply had tapped a great sub
terranean flow, estimated to be forty
feet in depth and of unknown width,
was reported to the city officials.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
May Serve Italy in War

GENOA, May 31.-The American
section of the Red Cross, which ar
rived here aboard the steamer Can
opic, may see service with the Italian
army. This section was on it's way to
Budapest, but, learning of the state of
war in Italy, the Americans tele-
graphed the Italian government, plac-
ing themselves at the disposal of Italy.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Upton Protests Cup Races

BOSTON, June 1.-Sir Thomas Lip
ton does not look with favor on the
trial races for the America cup. His
yacht is laid up in Brooklyn because
of the war;
Local yachtsmen say, however, that
the resolute and Vanitie will hold their
trial races.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
Rejects Russian Contract

CHICAGO, June 1.-The Pullman
Palace Car company refused a contract
to build $12,OOO,OOO worth of freight
cars for Russia. 1t was stated that the
czar's government was unable to OBJ
tain the cash in the United States,
and that the company refused to ac-
cept Russia's notes.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
WEEKS NEWS FROM
NE|GHBOR|NG CITIES
BRIEF outline OF CURRENT EVENTS
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Condensed Resume of the Weeks Happenings
Covering Events Of Interest from Nearby
Places ---WHl Allow Rapid Scanning
Canal Is Dedicated

OROVILLE, Cal, June l. The
Western canal, second largest in Cali
fornia, was dedicated in the presence
of large gathering.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
TARGET Shoot Record Meet

SAN FRANCISCO, June with a
record of 70 per cent of hits at a range
of 1000 yards, the target practice Of
the coast artillery, National Guard of
California, which was held at Fort
Winfield Scott, developed record, it
was said, for ten and tWelve-inch di-
rect-fire guns.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05
CONDENSATION OF
CURRENT EVENTS
CLEANED FROM NUMEROUS SECTIONS
OF BOTH HENISPHERES
Dispatches PiGtuTing Developments From the Out
side World Stripped of Unnecessary
Details and Presented in Brief
Good Friday Bill Passed

SPRINGFIELD, Ills, June 1.-The.
senate by a vote of 26 to passed the
Landee bill, making Good Friday a
legal holiday.
The Parker post., 1915-06-05

This report shows that the per cap
ita tax cost of the government of
California has increased from $4.3O in
The Parker post., 1915-06-05

One of the biggest jobs Of the Brit
ish army is that of the quartermaster-
general, whose duty it is to see that
every soldier in service is provided
with all necessities of war, from a
shoestring to big trench shelters. Sir
]. S. Cowans, who fills this highly i'm
portant position, is the third military
member of the army council and has
been working ceaselessly to supply
the provisions, clothing, shelter, and,
In fact, everything used by the three
to four million soldiers in the field.
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THINK on III.
Our Remedy Are WaNa-
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pie.
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COMPANIES ARE MERG ED
BY The Associated ,sress.

Waco, Texas, Jan. 1.-THE South
land Life Insurance company and che
Sam Houston Life Insurance com
pany We're merged into one company
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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-07-01
Any Place in the U. S. A.

It may be down in Dixie or in thu
woods of Maine,
1t may be in the Rockies, or on thu
Kansas plain,
In New York or in Frisco, Mobile OF
Kankakee;
Any place in the U. S. A. is good
enough for me.
! don't want to 60 10 Europe an
travel all aroun',
Beneath the skies of Italy or see old
London town;
I don't want to kiss the Blarnsy stone
or visit gay Paree.
Any place in the U. S. A, is good
enough for me.
What if we don't have castles with
damp and musty walls
We have the noble Rockies and grand
Niagara Falls;
We don't have to 60 abroad G d S
beauty spots to see,
Just stay at home and take trip
through u. S. A. with me.
-Leslie's.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-07-01
Real hail protection is guar.
antesd by a Hartford Hail Pol
icy. Curtis J. Miller, Agt.
Farmers Insurance Company.

The following is synopsis of The
standing and progress made by ths
Nez Perez Farmers Mutual Fire In.
surance Company in the ten years Of
its existence
The semi-annual directors meet
ing was held at Lewiston June 5th.
Eight directors were present and one
absent. At this time there we're
about 700 policy holders several
who have more than one policy. The
amount Of insurance in force was
about $3.50, 900. Losses paid since
the organization of the company, is
not quite 80, COO; some of which has
bsen paid by assessments and some
has been paid out of the expense
fund derived from premiums paid by
cd and new members. In 1913 we
paid 5000 in losses from the ex
pense fuad--all the losses that &C.
Cured that year.
We have new en- hand in the treas
ury between 5000 and $1,000. SO we
are again prepared to meet small
loss without an assessment.
The company is progressing stead
i'y and has now come TO the point
where it cannot stop, for it has been
thoroughly tested for ten years and
will before many years have covered
nearly every farm home in its terri
tory.
An estimate has been made that
over half million dollars has been
saved by our company not only
saved to our farmers, but saved to
our country.
The next annual meeting of our
company will be held at Nezperce
the second Tuesday in January,
1916, and every member who can, is
expe ed to attend.
Yours for CO. operation
S l. Rinesage. Pres.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-07-01

That next year the fair association
will add a chicken department.
That should draw a lot of old hens,
and likewise spring chickens.