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Arizona silver belt., 1895-03-02

There was filed for record with the County Recorder last week, deed of trust from the Hudson Reservoir and Canal Co. to The Farmers Loan and Trust Company, of New York City, dated Feb. IS, 1895, conveying all and every, the property and rights of said Reservoir Co.,, together with it's canals and other matters and things hereafter constructed. In considera- ton of which the Farmers Trust Co. guarantees their bonds to the number of 1000 ponds of 5000 each par value, aggrsgatlng S4,OO0, 900.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-03-02

The bill for the relief of Gila county was signed by the Governor and is now a law. It provides for the ex- change of $40, 900 of warrants, bearing ten per cent. interest, for an equal amount of funding bonds, drawing per cent interest. The advantage to Gila county is obvious, and it is no Jess a benefit to holders of warranta which are not negotiable at any price.
 Mir, Edwards has done excellent servIce in introducing and champion ing the bill for the relief of Gila coun. ty, in which he has been ably assisted by our representative in the House, Geo. W, P, Hunt, and also by the in. auence of Alonzo Bailey, ever alive to the interests of Gila county.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-03-02
SUPREME CouRF DECISIONS.

The Supreme Court of Alixonn hand ed down a number of important deci sions last Saturday, among whicl were the following cases appealed from Gila county:
 Anna Cadman, admihistratriS, ap pellant Vs. The old Dominion Copper Co.-Appeel dismissed.
 William T. Stanfield, appellant, va 0lof M. Anderson, appellee; the judg ment of the lower court tin favor ot Anderson with costs of s14735) is re versed.
 Gila County, appellant vs. J. H. Thompson, appellee; judgment of the lower court affirmed.
 The latter case is that in which Cox X Street brought suit for Gila eoanty against J. II. Thompson as tax collec- tor for failure to collect the delinquent taxes of 1892, amounting to $se6l 15, The District Court gave Thompson Judgment for costs, and the Supreme Court has affirmed the Judgment,
 The Chatauqua Circle gave Its first entertainment last Wednesday eve ming, in the M E. Church, to large and appreciative audience. It was in eommemoration of Longfellow, and the programme, comprising vocal mu- sic and recitations, was wholly made up of selections from the poets works; also an address by the president, Mrs. A. A. Ward and an essay by Mills Van Wagenen, Rev. Edwin Ward announced the various pieces and by his pleasing remarks, added Go the en- ioyment of the occasion. We regret that the crowded condition of our col umns prevents the publication of the
Arizona silver belt., 1895-03-02

Go to c. 8. Van wagenen's for furn. ishing goods.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-03-02

have a small samplS lot of the Gel. ebrated F. o. Co.'S Dioptric Spectacles. They are something extra. Do you need pair K. E HUMPHREY.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-03-02

Kenton, D. .-1 watch, furniture,
 fire arms, of thresher, farm ing tools and machineryl l wagon, harness, l saddle, 2 work horses, l saddle horse, ' stock horses. 10 graded bulls, s25 cattle, poultry, 3 tons of grain, s. E. l of N. E. l and N. E. ] of s. E. l. Sec. ton 85, Township 1, range 13, 80 acres, lot 1, block 79, taxes, 185 80 costs and percentages, IT 79 Total, S203 59 Keene, Sarah s. improvements near 0. D. Shelter, taxes, 10 % costs and percentage, %
 Total s1i %
Arizona silver belt., 1895-03-02

Tebbs, c. H. --s. ! of s. ". |, Section If N. i of N. W. l Section 23, Township f, range 12, l60 acres, taxes,
 costs and percentage,
Arizona silver belt., 1895-03-02

Tewkbbury, J. D, estate 5 sad de horses, 25 stock horses, l stallion, 175 cattle, improve ments on rsbeh in Pleassnt Valley, taxes,
 costs and percentage,
The herald., 1895-03-23
THE POMOLOGIST VISITORS

A little over month ago Los Angeles
entertained large delegation from the
American Pathological Society, which
had just concluded its annual meeting at
Sacramento. Among the number were
several noted writer's on fruit subjects,
editors of agricultural papers, pomolog-
cal experts and others who were in a posi-
ton to do this country good deal of
good.
Agreeable results of this entertainment
are already showing themselves. At the
special request of several members of the
party display of California products
was sent to the annual meeting Of the
farmers of New York state, in New YORK
City, where it is was inspected by many
thousands of progressive agricutursts,
many of whom are turning their thoughts
in this direction. One of the visitors
read an apprecatve paper on the fruit
interests of Southern California which
was the best kind of immigration matter
in the most effective place.
The issue of the Augusta, Georgia
Chronicle of March 10th contains paper
by =. j. Berckman, a member of the
party. who gives an enthusiastic account
of his visit to this state speaking with
especial commendation OF Southern Cali
fornia. 1t was read before large gath
ering Of Georgia farmers and cannot fail
to do this section good
1t is pleasant to note that visitors to
this country who are qualified by knowl-
edge and experience TO judge and COM
pare it with others almost invariably re-
turn favorable verdict on its merits.
The herald., 1895-03-23
THE HERALD IN EVIDENCE

The Los Angeles Herald is doing splen-
did service for Arizona, and is rapidly
becoming one of the most popular papers
ON the coast.-Tombstone Prospector
4 4 4
The Los Angeles Herald is so much su-
perior to the other morning paper of that
city that there is no comparison between
the two whatever. er.-Arizona Citizen.
4 4 4
Arizonans should properly appreciate
the enterprise of the Los Angeles Herald
and it's frendiness to our territory. Du-
ring the past week the Herald has de-
voted four sohd pages and more to Ar-
zona affairs. Flagstaff Democrat.
This mornings Herald has a picture of
the Allianca being fired into by the Span
ish gunboat. The position of the Herald
artist when he made the picture is plainly
to be seen. the place where he sat having
created depression in the wave.
4 4
The Los Angeles Herald has offered a
prize OF a new first-class bicycle to the per-
son who will send in within the next
three months the largest list of new sub
scribers to the Weekly Herald at 81 a year.
The Herald shows marked Improvement
under its new management and the re-
duction in the price of subscription is an
additional inducement. - Pomona Pro-
greSS.
The herald., 1895-03-23
DYSPEPSIA AND STRONG DRINK

Mrs. Ewing. q well known lecturer and
writer on the subject of cookery. who has
been paying Los Angeles visit has de-
clared her belief that there is an intimate
connection between bad coffee and beer,
and that sour bread tends to drive men
to sour mash whisky. In other words,
she maintains that good deal of drink
ing of strong liquors grows out of poor
cooking and consequent dyspepsia.
The PRONUNCIATION of this doctrine will
be hailed with Joy by the many victims
of inexperience and incapacity in the
kitchen. 1t will also meet the approval
we are bound to admit-of large con-
tingent who would cheerfully devour raw
dough, if necessary. to supply them a
good cause for a drink, but they do not
count in this calculation. Heretofore the
American people as whole have been
too busy or too careless to pay much at
tention to what they eat. We have ac-
quired throughout Europe the baeful
reputation of eating pie three times day
and of frying our beefsteaKs. The first
of these charges is base SANDER, outside
of the New England states but the second
is too often too true. We have also rep
utation for upright drinking-that is to
say, not convivial, good-natured drinking
of mild wines, but the cold-- blooded
gulping down of strong liquors, standing
up before bar.
According to Mrs. Ewing, these two
vices go together as cause and effect, and
we see no reason to take issue with the
lady. A man who breakfasts on soggy
cakes, tough beefsteak and lumpy pota-
toes, an hour or two later, when his diges-
tive apparatus begins to protest, finds
himself called upon to choose between
a cocktail and a row with everybody
about the office. Divorce statistics show
or they would show if they were any
good-that about as many separations are
caused by bad cooking as by intemper.
ance, and if we carry from one column
to the other those cases OF intemperance
that date from bad cooking, the prepon-
derance will be found on the latter side.
Another evidence of the close alliance
between intemperance and bad cooking
is to be found in red noses. Physicians
tell US these are caused quite as often by
one as by the other. This is serious fact
that may not have occurred to Mrs. Ew-
inc
The herald., 1895-03-23
SOUTH OF TEHACHEPI

There was a chicken pie social at
Orange last week.
Big improvements to the Sweetwater
dam are under way.
An Escondido man has planted 13, 600
eucalyptus trees for fuel.
Escondido has voted 100000 bonds to
complete her water system.
San Jacnto expects to be lighted by
electricity within ninety days.
A peach tree, supposed to be an orange
cling. is covered with blossoms and ripe
peaches at Gaivanza.
The tourist edition of the San Diego
Vidette was an excellent mum ber, typo
graphically and editorially
The Riverside people want ch to
vote on the proposition to issue bonds for
paving and lighting the streets.
They have commenced to haul stone
from the MentQne quarries for the new
court house at San Bernardino.
The Tucson Citizen calls it an outrage
the bill to remove the territorial peni-
tentiary from Yuma to Prescott.
A lady at National City has adopted
male attire for working clothes and may
be seen laboring on the ranch every day.
Seventy taxpayers in the Modesto lrri-
cation district have brought suit to pre-
vent the selling OF their property for nom
payment of taxes.
A new vegetable which has lately ap
| peared in Santa Barbara is Swiss chard.
| 1t has the appearance of French Cos let
tuce and the green portion has the flavor
of the best spinach, while the stem or rib
has a flavor as delicate as asparagus.
The herald., 1895-03-23
A NEW LIBRARY BOARD

During the past ten years Los Angeles
has changed from a country village to u
large city. Some of its institutions have
kept pace with the change and have TAX
Ell on metropolitan ways and methods
Some others have not. One that by gem
eral admission among Los Angeles people
and among visitors to the city has not
only held its own, but has advanced far
beyond what might be expected of it, is
the public library Among the tourists.
people of taste and refinement, who are
competent to Judge of such matters. COM
ment with surprise and qualification
upon the excellence of this institution.
Considering the limited means at its
disposal Its crowded quarters and the
heavy demands made upon it by com
munity containing an unusually large
percentage of readers, the library has
achieved a remarkable record and one
that stands to the credit of Los Angeles
all over the country.
The good work of the library has not
been done by accident. Some one with
large knowledge of books, with Il broad
general culture. "A capable grasp of de
tails and the power to get the best SER
vice out of assistants. has been at the
head OF the institution. Everyone who
patronzies the library knows who this
person is, and the fact that she is Il wo-
The herald., 1895-03-23
OPEN FOR TOURISTS.

Beginning with tonight the Cham ber of
Commerce display will be open every Sat
urday night during the tourist season.
This is a sensible arrangement. The
exhibit at the Chamber of Commerce is
one of the characteristic features of this
city. 1t is the most e ntertaining and in
structive place for visitor to go and
study the products of this section. Dur
ing the day it is crowded with interested
spectators who spend several hours in
specting the displays. Many of the
tourists, however, put in the daytime
riding about the country and in the even
ing, time hangs heavy on their hands. To
enable them and our own people, many
of whom are busy in the daytime, to
visit the display it will be kept open every
Saturday night from till 10.
An appropriation covering this special
expense has been very wisely provided by
the Council.
The herald., 1895-03-23
WAR ON OLEOMARGARINE
Gr0cerymen and Produce Dealers Will
Be Shaken Up
The Commissioners Appointed by Governor
Budd Will Go to Work In
Few Days

SAN FRANCISCO. March 17.-There
! will be lively shaking among the groc-
ers. dairy produce dealers and others who
sell oleomargarine. or "butterine, for
butter when the commission appointed
by the Governor gets to work in few
days. The commission, which was ap-
pointed in accordance with special act
upon the subject approved on the 9th
inst, is composed of Louis Tamasini of
the Dairymen's Union of this city, W.
Burbank of Marin county and Thomas
Flint of San Luis Obispo county. At
their first meeting, held Immediately
after their first appointment they decided
to send throughout the state a circular
containing the act, and If its provisions
are not observed vigorous prosecution
will follow
Mr.. Tomasini gave some points in an
interview. He said: 1T is not generally
known that more than 1000, 600 pounds
of oleomargarine-or butterine, as it is
better known--is sold in this state an
!. nually, most of it being sold for butter, at
the same price. 1t does not cost more
than cents or 10 cents a pound at the
utmost to manufacture. yet is is sold for
butter at from 25 to so cents pound,
! according to the condition of the market.
THE principal makers are Armour e
pany at Baden, who market about an
equal amount 1t is made OF tallow, lard
and butter fat, with very often very
small proportion of the latter, so it is
not always pure. The act does not pro-
hibt its sale, mind you, but it is inten-
ded to force the sale of it under its own
name, SO that the public will not be de-
frauded at the expense of the dairymen.
If it is to be sold at all, it must be sold
under it's proper name all such words as
butterine,' dairy creamery, ETC.,
used in advertising it being prohibited
under penalty of the law.
"The act further provides that no hotel
or restaurant keepers, bakers or any one
furnishing food to any one but his own
family shall place any such substitute
employees without Notifying them of the
fact. Under the act there is penalty for
selling oleomargarine in any but its un-
adulterated form. which is white so that
all attempts to color it like butter will be
an infringement of the law"
The herald., 1895-03-23
THE INCOnE TAX CASES

The New York World of the 18th instant
publishes editorially the following resume
OF the arguments of the opposing coun-
sci in the income tax cases now before
the Supreme Court OF the United States
In the direct argument as to constitu-
tionality the first contention against the
law was that it imposes direct tax. The
constitution forbids Congress to impose
any direct tax except in proportion to
population. The income tax is not levied
with any reference to population. and so
if 1T is direct tax it is clearly unconsti-
tutionai, as both sides agree.
But is it direct tax within the mean
ing OF the constitution? The Supreme
Court decided i'll the Springer case and
four Others that the former income tax
was not direct in the sense meant. 1t
ruled that direct taxes" are only those
levied either upon persons by tue head
or upon land. The attorneys for the Gov
ernment rely upon these decisions as
final. But the opponents of the law
argue, first, tnat the former decisions
were erroneous i'll the light of existing facts
when the constitution was adopted, and
should be reversed, which the court has
authority to order; and second, that
there ar features of the present law not
contemplated in these decisions that rem
der the new tax direct" The law taxes
incomes derived from land Its oppo-
nents contend that III doing so it taxes
land, Chus becoming direct tax even
under the court ) own decision.
The Attorney General replies, first, that
a tax upon incomes derived from land in
common with incomes derived from other
sources Is in 10 sense 4 tax upon land.
Second, that even if a tax upon land in
comes is decided to be ''direct' the decis
ION would not invalidate the law. 1t would
operate merely to exempt that particular
class OF incomes from taxation under the
law. He contends that this rule must ap-
ply throughout, and that whatever points
OF invalidity there may be in the details
of the law they cannot be held to invali-
date the whole.
The second contention of the obiectors
to the law is that the taxes levied by it
are not uniform"
The first clause OF section of the con-
stitution provides that
All duties, imposts and excuses shall be
uniform throughout the United States
The opponents OF the law argue that
the income tax enactment violates this
provision. They also contend that by
taxing one person unequally with another
1t violates the fifth amendent which pro-
vides that no person shall be deprived of
property without due process of law
In support OF these contentious they
cite the following facts:
l. Ihat tins law taxes only that two
per cent of the population who have in
comes in excess OF $4,000 year.
.. That t discr.minates between indi-
viduals and corporations, taxing the lat
ter III many cases where it eXempts the
former. For example, if five persons do
ing business as a partnership have to-
gether an income OF $50, 0C0 wear, each
can claim the $1,000 exem ption and
escape taxation entirely. But ii the same
five persons were conducting the same
The herald., 1895-03-23
NORTH OF TEHACHEPI
Alameda has new speed track.

The grip is prevalent in Alameda.
Berkeley wants the terminus of the Val
ley Railroad.
San Francisco has seventy building and
loan associations.
James Leakey, the Governor of Alas
ka, is visiting at San Jose.
Alameda now expects to be the termi-
nus for the Valley Railroad.
Last week GU. 600 pounds of prunes were
shipped East from san Jose
Another man killed at the Oakland
mole-run down by local train.
Oakland clergymen are trying to get the
Council to permit bicyclers the use of the
sidewalks.
Men wearing stars stand at the foot of
Market street in San Francisco and try to
cinch unsuspecting countrymen out of 81
for poll tax. They are thieves.
A bali is to be given by some San Jose
people next month for the purpose of
raising funds to defray the expenses OF a
new trial fer Herman Sparf, who has
been convicted of being one of the muir
derers of Mate Fitzgerald of the bark Hes
per.
The herald., 1895-03-23

man does not make the work less credit
to the city.
Library work has grown to be profess
sion. 1t calls for expert knowledge and
skill. The theory that anyone who can
read can run a library may be all right in
town of 1000 or 5000 Inhabitants but it
hardly applies to the Los Angeles public C
library in city of 80. 600 people. visited
by 10000 strangers every year. whose
subsequent residence here may depend on
their impressions of the culture and in
telligence of our people The judgment
OF men. about-town who read perhaps one
book in the course of a year, OIL the value
of library and the efficiency of its man
agement may be highly entertaining, but
is it valuable?
In the matter of the selection of libra
rian or on questions that relate to the
management of the library, the board in
whose hands the direction of affairs has
been placed will naturally consult men
and women who read and study, and who
are likely to make use of the institution,
and not always the people who are first
to offer their opinions.
The appointment of an entire new
board for the library has given currency
to a rumor that change in the librarian
ship is contemplated. The new board
consists of men of mature Judgment . nd
business experience, and we are not dis
posed to believe that they will hastily
take a step that will deprive one OF the
most progressive and creditable institu-
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element OF strength. Miss kelso's work
speaks for itself, and the reading ana
thinking people of the city know what it
is. The fact that she is not popular in
certain political circles can have no par
ticular bearing on the question. The
schools and the library should be kept
out OF politics. We believe that the new
board will give just recognition to the
unusual merits of the present librarian
by an unanimous vote for her re- election.
The herald., 1895-03-23

business as corporation. earning the
same income, they would have to pay the
tax. To this the Government attorneys
reply that corporate powers are valua-
ey. and that it is only fair to tax those
who enjoy them, while letting those who
do not possess them go free. To this the
reply of the opponents is that corporate
powers are the gift not of the Federal
Government, but OF the states. and that
the Federal Government has therefore no
right to tax them as privilege. N
3. That there is an enormous and una
constitutional lack of uniformity in the
law s exemption of mutual life insurance
companies, building and loan associations
and the like. They cite two great rival
life insurance companies in New York
enjoying practically the same income.
One of them must pay $500. 600 income
tax, while the other is entirely exempt
1Against all this the Attorney-General
contends that the uniformity required
by the constitution is territorial only
that the prOhibtio is not leveed against
taxation which discriminates in the ways
referred to be ween its subjects, but
against tax laws that mean one thing in
one state and another thing in another
state or.laws taxing the people OF one
state and not those of another.
The third and last ground of contention
is that the law imposes double taxes. 1t
is dTSueu tidt III taxes bne same luCuUlc
twice, in violation not only of the uni
versal principles of justice that should
govern all law, but also of the express
provision already cited of article 5 of the
amendments to the constitution. The
opponents of the law say that to exact a
double tax of one citizen where another
is taxed but once is to deprive that citi-
zen of his property without due process
of law They hold also that tax
which operates in this way is not ''uni
form as required by the constitution.
One illustrative example will suffice to
show in what way it is contended that
double taxes are imposed. If man $
income is derived wholly or partly from
corporations in the form of dividends. he
must still pay the tax upon it, though the
corporations have already paid tax upon
their earnings and deducted the amount
from their dividends.
The reply of the Attorney General and
the distinguished lawyers associated with
him is the same that was made to other
contentious already set forth, viz, that
such inequalities are not forbidden by the
constitution; that those who enjoy cor
porate advantages are in different case
from those who do not: and that even if
the double taxation be unconstitu
tional, that fact does not invalidate
the law as a whole or call for anything
more than the exercise OF discretion in
enforcing its valid provisions, leaving the
others unenforced.
The herald., 1895-03-23
John Timmons Dead

SAN FRANCISCO, March 22.-John
Timmons, one of the builders of the
South Yuba canal, once millionaire
miner, is dead at the almshouse. He was
associated with the Bonanza people in
the seventies and finally lost all his money
in stock speculations, graduating into the
poor house. In the iifties he was asso-
cated with J. S. Green, the Husseys and
others in developing Nevada county's re-
sources, building the Remington Hill
ditch and the South Yuba canal Tim
mons sold his mines to Alvinza Hayward
for large sum, speculated in stocks here
with the proceeds and ended in the poor
house.