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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
Cooners AImost Struck.

The coopers came near striking last
week, it seems. The millers have been
paying 36 cents for barrels. Last week
they refused to pay more than 35 cents.
Stock is high, and little is to be made
oil barrels even at sc cents, so the
manufacturers cut the price paid to
working coopers from six cents a barrel
to five cents. That amounted to re-
ducuon in wages of from 80 TO so
cents a day, according to the
capability of the cooper. The
coopers held several secret meetings
and had about decided to strike. Satur-
day night, however, the price received
from the mllers went back to So cents
and the rate to cooperS back to 6 cents
a barrel. This advance averted a strike.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
Talked 2nO Miles

CHICAGO, Feb. 7.-Dewolf Hopper,
comedian, sat down in trout of a tele-
phone in the office of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company
this afternoon and held a CONVEX
sation with Assistant Superintendent
Murray in the Boston Office of the COM
pany 1000 miles away They gave way
to Gov. Russell in Boston, and Wendell
Baker, of the telephone company. in
Chicago. The test was pronounced a
great success.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
Where Is the Boy?

Last September Walter Rutherford,
the seventeen-year-ol son of Capt.
George Rutherford. of 1906 Buchanan
street northeast. mysteriously disap-
peared. The parents have sought for
him everywhere, but their efforts have
been of no avail. Yesterday Mrs. Ruth
erford called upon Mayor Eustis and So
for her sons disappearance, and the
matter is shrouded in mystery. Any in
formation that can be given will be
thankfully received at police headQuar-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
FIRE COMMISSIONERS.
Movement for the Creation of a
Lndependent Board.

Movement for the Creation OF an
independent Board.
Minneapolis may have board of fire
commissioners to manage the fire de-
partment and remove it from the bale
fulinhuence of aldermanic traffic. The
movement for the creation of board Of
fire commissioners has been strength
ened by the recent fire de-
partmeDt squabbles. The summary
discharge Of old, experienced and
efficient firemen, the Tecrim-
nations thrown back and forth by chef
and eX-hremen, the reticence Of the
chief in certain cases, the suspicion that
aldermen have unWarrantably inter-
ferred with the fire department for
purely personal and political reasons,
all these things have contributed to the
growth of feeling that the fire depart
ment should be managed by an indie
pendent board.
This week number of Minneapolis
tans-and it would surprise you to know
the standing and influence Of the men
have visited st. Paul In the in
tereSt OF the creation Of fire
board. The particular object of
their pilgrimageS was to secure
the insertion in tie Winston charter
bin of a provision for such board.
This movement has not come to the
ears of the public yet. What
the public will say can only
be c0niectured. The men who
are behind the movement say that they
will be able to furnish good reasons for
the creation of such board when the
proper tine shall have arrived. Friends
of the project say that the insurance
men are almost TO man i'll favor OF
such an independent board.
The movement for the creation Of a
board Of fire commissioners has gone so
far with its promoters that they have
already picked out the members of the
board. The selections are said to be
Henry F. Brown and Fred Barrows for
the Republicans, and G. NJ. Foote for
the Democrats.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
The Bird Had Flown.

The police received notification yes
terday afternoon by telegram from the
Sioux City authorities that Mrs. ID. f.
Sherman, who is wanted here for abduc-
ton, had escaped. She left the Hotel
Garrets0n before the Sioux City police
were notified to arrest her. She took
little Ida Linten with her, and her
mother is nearly frantic with grief. An
endeayor will be made to trace Mrs.
Sherman
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08

WINNIPEG, Man, Feb. 1.-THE num-
Der of fatalities from the late storm IS
daily increasing, and word was received
today that Charles Merrifield, a farmer
of Broadvew, persisted while gong for
load of hay. All unknown Hebrew
peddler was frozen to death while driv-
ing along a trail near Gretna. When
found the body was sitting upright on
the seat and the lines still IN the hands
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
MoBs ANo REVOLUTIONS.
Inhumanity Practiced During the
Three French and Other RevO-
IssfiOpS

Inhumanity Practiced During the
Three French and Other RevO-
lutiors.
Blackwood s Magazine.
The three French revolutions of 1885,
1880 and 1913 furnish perhaps the best
known illustration of the danger and
the folly of allowing mobs to have their
own way at first. in the vain hope
that they will run their course and
then subside. Whatever we may think
of the vices and the abuses of the old
French monarchy, most people will agree
that it might have been either remOd-
eled or removed without the perpetra-
ton of those horrors which, apart from
their intrinsic barDaritv, threw all Eu.
rope into panic and created pref u
dice against reform i'll general, both in
this country and abroad, responsible for
half of the political and social troubles
which are now surrounding us.
And who and what were answerable
for those horrors? The government of
Louis XVI, of which the weakness and
incapacity have been sufficiently eX-
posed by NJ. Guizot in the last chapter
of his history, though it goes no further
than 1889. Had the French executive
IN liS9 Deen equal 10 the occasion, Oruer
might have been kept in the streets of
Paris, and leisure have been gained for
the consideration of necessary changes
without the intervention of ruff
fans, butchers and tigers. NJ
Guiz0t tells us quite enough. We have
no occasion to consult anybody else for
the causes which destroyed society,"
brought "a venerable throne" TO the
ground, and q yirtUOuS, inQulgeut and
liberal sovereign to the block. We will
not repeat thrice told tales. But one
fact ought not to be omitted. When the
Paris mob invaded the Tuileries on the
Goth of June. and subjected the king to
the grossest insults, their only provoca-
ton was that he had exercised the right
of Diminishing his ministers, and of re-
fusing to sanction two DEGREES of the
assembly,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
University Regents Reappointed.

MADISON. Wis, Feb. 7.-B. j. Stevens.
of this city; George H. Noyes, of Mil
waukee; W. P. Bartlett, of Eau Claire,
and W. II. Seaman, of Sheboygan, have
been reappolnted members of the board
of university regents for three years.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
IN HER MARROW HOME.

New YORK, Feb. 7.-The funeral of
Mrs. William G. Whitney, wife of the
eX-secretary of the navy, was held
today at st. Bartholomew's church.
The chancel of the church and the
space around the altar were banked
deep with palms and lilies OF the valley.
The coffin was a plain cedar casket
trimmed and interlaced with flow
ers and bearing all immense pur-
pie spray across its face. The
pall-bearers accompanying 1t we're:
Grover Cleveland. Cornelius Wander
bilt, George Peabody Wetmore, HamiI-
ton Mex. Twombley, E. Randolph Rob
inson, George &. Haven, George Fl.
Bend, Edward A. Wicks, Thomas
f. Gushing and Bucanan Winthrop.
A more distinguished gathering never
attended funeral service in this city.
Following the reading of the opening
words OF the burial service a
quartette, assisted by thirty-five
voices, sang the anthem from
39th and 90th Psalms. The rest of the
service followed the usual form OF the
Episcopal church. The interment WAS
in WoodlaWn cemetery.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
Sold to Milwaukee CAPITALISTS.

BOISE. Ida, Feb. 1.-THE Howe-Man-
haitian and Lehi groups of mines in
Owyhee county have been sold to Mil
waukee syndicate, headed by Henry J.
MILAN. The consideration is said to
exceed $3.50 0nil
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
The Old. Old Story.

HELENA. Mont, Feb. 1.-The joint
ballot today resulted: Clark, 21; Dixon.
12;'Sanders, 49, No choice.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
" AlIlAg Women,

Hear my story and believe.
al was about dead with
womb trouble when [ began to
take LyaId z. Plnhham'S VGg.
etabIe C0mb0Hnd
q did not know what rest
was for months. | was so dizzy
and faint at times | thought |
was dying. Oh! how my back
did ache! and was SO cross
and irritable!
81 am to-day a living witness
of the wonderful and almost
miraculous effects of that great
remedy. Relief came with it
at once. My appetite returned.
I am now as well as | ever was.
" If you wish for health, have
faith in Mrs. Pinkham's treat
ment and medicine" = Mrs. J.
Arthur, Taylor,
Texas. 81 81
From the ute Ga "a ~
rus and womb " W
spring nearly all g. .Jxz>
of Woman's trou- ~ ~ S63ssl-t t!!laSNs
bles. lgeggT$SS
All druggists sell it. 1ssssS III
Address in confidence, ii III, ~
LYDIA e. PIa;KuAM MED. /'3<T in 'SN@EfE-
Co., LYNN, MASS. zzzQ 2:N
Liver Pills, 20 cents. =
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
Not of CIarkson,s Mind.

iDEs MONIES, To-, Feb. THE Young
Mems Republican club last night after
a heated discussion tabled resolution
condemning the appointment Of Jack
son to the supreme court bench.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
Roslxn Bank Robber Convicted

ELLENsBURG. Wash. Feb. 7.-Cal
Hale was found guilty of robbing Roslyn
bank of $4,000 last September.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08

today ratified the Russian eXtradition
treaty, with amendments, making all
attempts to assassinate the car or royal
family an extraditable offense, regard
less of motive.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
CHINESE RAILWAY OFFICERS

They Have Little knowledge Of
Railroading and Are Indiffer-
ent.
Macmlllan's Magazine.
The Chinese officials on the railway
are the nomina!ly responsible parties,
and they are Chinese officials, a term
which to any one who has lived long in
China sums up nearly all that can be
SAID about them. The railway in all
Its parts and stages is to them 4
strange and inscrutabe thing, whose
mysteries they are slower to learn
than their uneducated fellow-country-
men, owing to their minds being already
saturated with kind of lore which has
no points of contact with the novelties
introduced by the troublesome foreign
devils. They detest the whole under
taking, which does not even provide
such means of enrichment as any purely
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
The Rates Are the Same.

When the Minneapolis Gas Light
company was awarded the contract tor
furnishing gas to the city for the next
five years it was understood there would
be a general lowering of the rates for
private consumers. 1t was this under
standing. in fact, that led the COM
mittee on gas to recommend that the
contract be awarded. 1t is now Febru-
ary of the year the gas company prom
ised to lower the rates. but there has
been no change in price. The company
states that the matter was left to Messrs.
Brown and Rand, who will undoubtedly
take the necessary action when they
return from their trip to Florida.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
Russian Treaty Ratified.

WASHINGTON, Feb. THE senate
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08

Allow per cent interest On skim onths
deposits.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-11-15

Il
transactions of the st. Louis & San
Francisco company:
Mileage Qn round numbers), main
Total cost to June so, 1890. $57656968 90
COST per mlle.. ........ .$55O65 90
4 Expenditures charged to con-
struction ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 22l,O94 90
Total cost to June 3d. 1891. 49,. s58878,O68 90
Cost pc, mile :..:a:a $56'8Sa 90
struction account during the
year ending June 30, 1892. ....... s 6602,722 90
Total cost to June 80, 1892. ..... $6548O,7S5 90
Cost per mile. ..............$ $6261O 90
"Here is an expenditure Of $7,823816
in two years by a road owning 1,046 miles
and leasing 282 miles, without any in
crease in mileage, but increasing the re.
ported cost Of the 1,046 miles $7,545 per
mile.
"It would seem to be proper query
for the public, who are asked to submit
to tolls or taxation for the purpose Of
paying interest on these investments, to
ask, when company expends $500 per
mile for construction on a road already
completed, at time when they claim q
first class new road can be built for
$500, that their reports show what they
did with the money.
"The report Of the company, in refer
ence to the expenditure in 1892 charged
to construction account, is as follows:
For right of way ...................$ 8H so
Other Items. Observation-Disclosures. 6,6O1,SH %
Total $6,6O2,799 O5
"In 1892, the same company included
in it's operating expenses"-for agencies,
advertising, commissions, legal expenses,
and expenses Of traffic associations
&191, ,449 in addition to regular salaries,
rents, Office expenses, supplies, station
cry and printing, and other general ex-
penses.
"The' question of taxation, at all times
q complex and vexatious one, becomes es
pecially 80, under our clumsy, cumber-
some and primitive methods, in season
Of hard times, and the question Of rail
way assessment has been the subject Of
protracted investigation and acrimoni-
GUS discussion in some Of the states. A
case OF this kind occurred in Illinois
twenty years ago, as result of which
the state board Of equalization ordered
an increase in the valuation Of railroads,
telegraphs. and the property Of other cor
porations Of nearly $500, 100000. Atthst
time the railway mileage of the state was
6117, Of which 705 miles were owned by
the Illinois Central, whose taxes were
paid in the shape Of per cent. on its
gross receipts. Hon. d. W. Wilder, in
his report az state auditor for 1873, al
ludes to the Illinois controversy as fol-
lows:
"In 1872, the Illinois senate special COM
mittee found that, while the capital Of the
railroads Of Illinois was $3.50, 900, 600, the
roads we're paying taxes on only $25, ,658, 7S4.
This year the Illinois railroads wore assessed
$131, ,727, and the telegraph lines 81, ,2SS,-
394. This assessment is based upon the pre-
sumption that all property in the state has
been assessed at 20 per cent. Of its cash
value.
an 1874, the Illinois railroads, exclu-
sive Of the Central, were assessed as fol-
lows:
Track, right Of way, and roll
ling stock. k................. .$4S,529,716
Capital stock. ............... Sl,Sl417o
Total. 1874 $74,s4SS91
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-11-15
HoopPN PILL Q are the best AfsoF-dinnsg kGlAl
ealN1D MRaSSaon, ease hSaAAAAO ana htllSGGPS1&

tention over this same question. In 1870,l
the state auditor, believing the valus-
tion Of the assessors on some of the rail-
roads were too low, appealed to the
supreme court, under provision Of the
laws of 1869, chapter 124, for an in
creased assessment, and the result is re-
ported in sixth volume Of the Kansas
Supreme Court Reports, page 500, as fol-
lows:
The Auditor Of State, Appellant, vs.. The
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Company, Appellee.
SYLLABUS. By THE COURT. KINGMAN, G. J.
81. The jurisdiction Of the supreme court
ia restricted by the constitution TO original
proceedings in mRndamus, quo warranto,l
and habeas corpus, and such appellate jur-I
isdiction as may be provided by law.
"2. The appellate jurisdiction can only
be given where there has been q decision by
one clothed with judicial authority, and act-
ing in judicial capacity when making the
decision.
.'3. The power 10 tax is a legislative
power, and not in any sense judicial.
"a. Inc VRluA610n OF properly TOT 6ne
purpose Of taxation is an incident to the
taxing power; and, therefore, not such judi
ciRl power az can be conferred upon the su-
preme court.
"5. Section II Of chapter 124 Of the laws
Of 1869, giving this court jurisdiction to hear
appeals from the board Of county clerks IN
appraisal of the property Of said roads, is
giving this court power not judicial in its
character, and is, therefore, not authorized
by the constitution.
AS railroad companies are agents Of
the state, exercising some Of its func-
tions, and using delegated authority in
collecting tolls or taxes for services rem
dered, it is both proper and necessary
that the state should have accurate and
detailed statements Of all their business
transactions and the result of their traffic
operations, not only for the use Of those
who are required to value them for taxa
tion, but that the authority which the
state has to establish tolls thereon may
be judiciously exercised. And We ear
nestly recommend that whatever changes
in our present law is necessary TO secure
this information should be made as soon
90 possibl@
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-11-15

I AN-e~AAAS@A
claiming to own Is per cent. Of the nG-
tion's wealth, they are practically ex-
empt from bearing any OF the immense
burden Of national taxation, amounting
now to over $5O0OO0,0O0 a year. Under
conditions so entirely diverse from those
which the farmer or merchant or lRborer
have to contend with, it is possible that
tho appreciation or depreciation Of land
or lots or crops shonld be guide by
which to fix q change in the valuation
Of railroad property; nor will the other
arguments Of the companies in support
Of their plea for a reduced valuation
bear any closer scrutiny than that based
on the depreciation of farm or town
property. 1t is true that rates have gone
down with increasing business, with
closer competition, and with q sudden
awakening Of the people to q realization
that they we're no longer able to pay the
extortionate rates Of former years. But
these conditions and changes are not a
popularity ofKsnsRs nor Of her railroads.
In the reports Of nearly every state can
be found evidence Of the same facts, the
the same condition, and, within the past
12 years, at least similar or even greater
changes"
Here the board introduces tsbulated
statistics to show the cost, operating
expenses, earnings and profits Of eastern
roads as compared with those Of Kansas.
Also showing the expenses and earnings
Of Kansas roads in 1893 as compared
with 1892, and showing the average mile
rate for passengers and ton rate for
freight, Of roads in different sections Of
the United States. The report then con-
tinues:
"The board, in studying the matter Of
railroad assessments, has been compelled,
owing to the intimate connection be-
tween the two, to also consider the gen.
ersl question Of assessment and taxation,
and we believe no satisfactory distribu-
ton Of the burdens Of taxation can be
reached until cash value assessment is
made imperative; and we endorse and
commend the recommendation Of our
predecessors in their report Of 1891, page
21, as follows:
"This board respectfully asks that the
basis Of taxation on all property in Kansas
shall be its actual value, to the end that
every incentive shall be given to honestly
acquire the blessings and equally share the
burdens Of tha commonwealth.
"In our efforts to reach just conclu.
sion on the special problem with which
we had to deal, we have been hsmpered
both by the ambiguity and the lack Of
uniformity in the reports and statements
of railroad operations. This too is a
matter that our predecessors realized
the evils Of, and, in their report for 1891,
recommended q needed change, as fol-
lows:
"But there is another item figuring in the
apparent cost Of railroads with which this
board has had to deal in arriving at con-
olusions. We refer TO the peculiar system
Of bookkeeping by railway companies, as
shown upon the pages Of the biennial re-
port Of railroad commissioners.
"The board has NO hesitation in declaring
It's belief that the system Of returns made
by the railway companies TO the Kansas
railroad commissioners is the best calculated
- ,,,salnnd Aha rpana,nl v,,,hl;n nvA 10 hs1o
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-11-15
RAILROAD TAXATION.

The board Of railroad assessors, con
sisting Of the lieutenant governor, state
auditor, treasurer, attorney general snd
secretary Of state, completed their work
some time ago, and made their returns to
the county officers in time for the latter
to make their tax levies on railroad
property. The report of their proceed
ings, however, which includes reports Of
the hearings given to tax commissioners
attorneys and other representatives Of
the different companies, is just being is
sued by the state printer. In 1t the
board gives it's reasons for raising the
pggregb to valuation some 81, ,000,O 900, to-
gether with other information, from
which the following is taken:
"The larger part Of the time at the
"heRrings" was devoted to the general
question of assessment and taxation, to
the relative value Of different kinds Of
property, and but little to the minor de-
tails or to local controversies; the gen.
erRl claim Of the agents and attorneys Of
Of the companies being, that because
farm and town values had gone down,
railroad property should be accorded q
similar reduction; and several tables
were furnished the board to show the ex-
tent Of this depreciation; the difference
between the assessed and the true value,
the wide variation in different parts Of
the state which the assessed value bears
to the selling price; also many figures to
show the present low value Of railroad
material and supplies and the conse-
quent low cost of railroad construction.
But these tabular statements, while fur
nishing valuable information, Rs they
failed to give any approximate estimate
Of the value OF their franchises, or to
furnish any figures showing the gross
earnings and the total operating ex-
penseg per train mile and per track mile
Of the system, could not be made an ab-
solute basis Of valuation; and believing
these factors should not be overlooked,
we had to resort to other sources for in
formation in some Of these points.
"In the conclusion reached by the
board, they endeavored to give TO the
facts furnished by the representatives Of
of the railroad companies their due
weight; but no reasonable view Of the
situation would permit us to sccsde to
the theory that, where two or more
great industries were working side by
side, il one should gradually become less
and less profitable until it was run at q
loss and thereby it's market value and it's
assessed value should rapidly decline, the
other should receive proportional reduc-
tion in its assessed valuation as favor.
"The products Of Kansas have been
steadily increasing for years and
the railroads have hRbituslly fixed
the price Of taking them to market,
while the farmers have not only had
nothing to do with fixing a price on
their produce or labor, but the financial
policy of the government which %
years ago was such as to insure them an
opportunity to compete in the worlds
market on fair terms with other produc-
ers and get q reasonable price for their
crops, has been gradually modified, frat
to conform to the wishes and later to
comply with the demands Of other inter.
ests; and ell the while they have been
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1893-09-27

den estar seguros de que la aproba-
ci6n anduvo con ellos.
De suerte que todos cooperaron a
que FL auilzo de hierro encajara bien
en- ell dedo respectable del p1blico.
Los coros quedaron menos NAL
que otras noches.
La orquesta, sin reproche; la batu-
ia alterno entire Marin Varona y
Campos.
FRAY COMPoNTE.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1893-09-27
IMPRESIONES TEATRALES

La concurrencia era espl6ndida !;
no quedaba un solo asiento desocu-
pado.
Los palcos de ambas flas, con el
infujo de sus atractivos, entretenfan
nuestras miradas, provocandonos al
elogio.
Ell paraiso ostentaba no escaso n1-
nero de Evas pecadoras, faciles a la
risa y al bullicio, sin tenor de las
reconvenciones al destierro que su-
fri6 la primera mujer, segdn cuenta
la sagrada fabula.
Despues do un bonito prefacio de
pssd nspienzo la representa-
ke hierrO.