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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
HuMoR or THE HOUR.

Mrs Gloss-''why. Hannah. Rev. Mr..
Whitecholer says he called on his bicycle
Yesterday and you said l was out.
Hannah from BostonJ-"Yes, ma am,
you tod me if any pedalers called was to
say that you were not at home. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer
The Seaside Monopoly Gone-"Johnson
has got another one of his bright new
IDEAS
ITO connect with a soda fountain and
have surf in your bath tub at home. =
Puck
Judge-"what excuse have you to offer
for not desiring to serve upon the panel?"
Talesman-.I think
s.ludge-"Your excuse is quite satisfac-
tory. You can go.''-Boston Transcript
HOLIDAYS Apart-.If you don't hurry, We
ehall miss the band, and tea at the bar
racks and not find any one to take us
TO dinner, or the theatre and supper
after" - :,
husband that it is very dull and miss
him fearfully- Pick Me-Up.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
Liverpool Wheat.

LIVERPOOL, Oct. 15.-spot wheat
firm, moderate demand; California
club, IS sgd; No. northern, IS 21ad.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
THE
STATE BANK OF UTAH
Capital, fully paid. $500, 900
Cor. Main and South Temple streets.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.
HEBER ]. GRANT, President.
WM. 3. PRESTON, Vice-President
HEBER NJ. WELLS Cashier
Directors:

Heber j. Grant Issac Barton.
William B. Preston. Charles S. Burton.
Joseph f. Smith, Philo T. Farnsworth,
Abraham H. Cannon, Heber NJ. Wells
Spencer Clawson
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
For stomach Troubles.

ST. GEORGE, Utah, Sept. II, 1886
1--WE have been taking Hoods Sarsa-
parilla in our family for the past two
years and have used a number of bot
Ties. We find it an excellent blood
purifier, and a good medicine for stom-
ach troubles, and we recommend it TO
our friends.
MRS. ALBERT FOREMASTER."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16

Total -$24, III SO
The case has been SO persistently mis-
represented and misunderstood that it
is well to explain the above figures. 1t
will be seen that for the entire two
Years Mr.. Hamer has claimed as his
own costs and fees more than 1880 The
been used by tax collectors throughout
Utah. and collectors had always issued
and charged for two certificates in each
sale-the original certificate and dupli-
cate certificate-the law being that the
collector should receive % cents for each
certificate of sale, and collectors had al
ways been credited with the two certifi-
Gates. So Mr.. Hamer only followed that
which had always been done in Utah.
Before making the tax sales, he applied
to the city attorney and received the fol-
lowing instructions from him:
In reply to your request for a state
ment as to costs chargeable for collect
ing delinquent taxes. l have to say the
collector can charge:
For serving notices, 81
For posting notices, 81.
For advertising in paper, 80 cents
For fling certificate with county re-
coFder. so cents.
For each certificate of sale. % cents
per folio on both original and duplicate
certificate"
Mr. Hamer's charges, therefore. were
IN accordance with precedent and the
city attorneys instructions, except that
he made no charge whatever for the s.
in each sale covered by the first two
items in the city attorneys Instructions
After Judge Smiths decision, the case
was appealed by Mr.. Hamer to the SUI
preme court, where his defense of the
public schools was successful. the court
holding that the legislature intended
that there should be free public schools,
and that the only possible method OF
collecting the school tax was that fol-
lowed by Mr.. Hamer. The only point de-
cided against Mr.. Hamer was that the
court held that he could only charge for
enc certificate. which decision in effect
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
THE BEGINNING.

In 1892 there was a city collector and
county collector When taxes were
not paid the city collector sold prop
erty to the city for city taxes and to
the county for county and territorial
taxes. The authority for it selling
for city taxes was conferred by city
ordinance, while the territorial statute
was the authority for the other sales.
The collectors had, before Mr.. Hamers
time, been settled with on that basis.
In 1893 it was made the duty of the
county to collect CITY taxes and city
school taxes. Before proceeding to sell
any property for taxes, Mr.. Hamer,
as collector. together with the city
auditor, asked of the city attorney an
official opinion as to how the sales
should be made. He received in an
swer the following opinion and in
struction:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
DANIEL. HAMER's RECORD.
Nearly Every one of His Contentious
Sustained BY Supreme Court-Has
Been MaIigned in the Pnst-The
OnicfaI Records.

A lie well stuck to is not as good
as the truth. 1t may answer the pur-
pose for a time but in the end it fails
and there is no better illustration of
this than the way the people of Utah
are beginning to discredit the misrepre-
sensations that have for several years
been persistently made concerning the
work of Daniel Hamer when he was
collector of Weber county. 1t has been
boldly asserted and to some extent is
yet, that Mr.. Hamer transferred not
less than $4,000 from the pockets Of
the taxpayers of Weber county to his
own bank account. AS matters of fact,
Mr.. Hamer never has. received even the
money which he paid out; and there
never has been any such sum claimed
by the collector. By far the greater
part of the money in dispute was SIM
ply dispute as to what fund the
money should be credited to by the
collector.
In order to set the matter before the
people of Utah in just form a compila-
ton has been carefully made from pub
lie records by a Herald reporter and
the result of that compilation is given
below. Every fact and every figure
can be verified by the public records
and in the name of fair play the show
ing made for Mr.. Ramer by them
should receive careful attention:
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". n. HICKS. Secretary.
til October 1O'h. 1896 at Z O'Clock N. Of
same place. Bv order Of the beard Of III
rectors. y. NJ. HICKS, Secretary.
The above sale is hereby postponed urttl
November 10. 1896. at u pciock M nj
same place. By order OF tie hoard IF ~
rectors W. VI. HICKS. secretary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
Chicago General Market.

was credited with capital. of $500, 900
The assets are not known
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
W NJ. HICKS. Secretary.

This above sale is hereby
until September 10. 1895, at
M. at same place. BY order Of j
of directors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.

GEN tlitAAi fSA NNfNNa HtSfN fISS.
Accounts solicited, large and small.
Special attention to country trade.
Collections specially. Correspondence
invited.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS.

Ogden City, Utah, Dec. IA, 1898.
Daniel Hameri Esq, Collector Of
Taxes for Ogden City, Utah
Dear Sir-In reply to your inquiry as
to what course you should pursue in
making sales of property for delinquent
taxes, with respect as to how the prop
erty should be sold in case there are
no bidders.
My opinion is, and you are hereby
Instructed, that under the law you
should sell the property to Weber
county for county and territorial taxes
and issue certificates therefor to the
probate judge of Weber county, Utah,
and his successors in Office, for and in
behalf of Weber county; and you
should sell the property to Ogden city
for city taxes and city school taxes of
Ogden school district, issuing separate
certificates therefor to Ogden city, and
showing in said certificates the
amounts due each as indicated above.
Yours 70 pectfully,
JAMES n. KIMRALL.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16

And in accordance with law
order of the board OF directors n
the 18th day of June, 1873. 50
shares OF each parcel of stock 4
be necessary viii be sold on the 4
the Office of the secretary. -
Main street. Salt Lake CITY.
pay the delinquent assessment y
together with the cost of adver.
expenses OF sale.
". NJ. HICKS. s.
Goit Lake City, Utah. July
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
RE4I, rISTSTE TRAysFERs.

Hoods Pills are easy to buy. easy to
take, easy to operate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
THE FIGURES.

Unpaid Ogden city taxes S12, SO4 10
Unpaid Ogden city school taxes 3,7S3 90
One half of publishing delinquent
notices ................. ............ 294 %
Filing certificates with county
recorder ........:.:................ 5SS 50
Collectors costs ($3 for each orig
inal certificate and SO for each
duplicate certihcate) ............ 1880 co
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16
JAMES n. KIMBALL,
CITY Attorney. >

been wrong, since he kept 10 the course
laid out for him by his legal and of
fetal adviser as collector, he stiu should
not be liable; much less should he be
held liable when his contention has
been borne out by the supreme court.
The collector followed the Instructions
The county attorney had before that
time notified him that the county would
bear no part of unpaid city taxes and
city school taxes.
suit was brought by the county to
compel the county to pay into the
county treasury funds which had al
ways heretofore been paid in cash to
the territorial treasury and which the
courts have determined in this case
were rightly so paid.
There were the same disputes in the
county case that were afterward
brought into the city case.
THE CITY CASE.
The CITY case was brought to COM
pei air. Hdmer to pay all city taxes to
the city treasurer in cash, the theory
of the city being that the county should
pay all unpaid taxes in cash.
The remarkable contention is also
made by the city attorney, Mr. Whip
pie, that the city school tax was in
valid and could not be collected Mr.
Hamer was thus compelled in the city
case TO fight for the rights of the public
schools of Utah and in the county case
to fight for the rights of the territory,
at his own expense. The school tax
question seems to have been a very
close legal question and it viii be re-
membered that Judge Smith held the
tax invalid and could not be collected
and declined on that ground to grant
any credit to Mr.. Hamer for the
unpaid city school taxes, IL VIII thus
be seen that if the city's contention
was correct it would have resulted in
absolutely destroying the public school
system of the state. Mr.. Hamer has
been criticised for defending the pub
lie school system, and those who at
tackled it have been praised. The suit
brought by the city involved the va
lidity of LIT tax sale certificates issued
for the years 1898 and 1894, which in
Guided the following items, which are
collated from the official records in the
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TABLA EXkCTA
DE CUENTAS FORMADAa

DE- VUEN AO FOhMAUAN
aplicables al cobro de jorna,
les, fraceionados estos en- c,
tavo de d(a, princlpiando pc.
un cuarto y terminando en- Z
dlas, con precios escalonsdcs
desde un real fuerte hasta tre.'
peso5, y exp esando ca1u frs
ci6n su valorintrfnseco en- pe.
sos, centavos y centimos Do
centave,
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BOLETIN lNERCANTLL DE- PUERTO-RICO.

DUuIIN 1AllUANll1 Id fULnIV-nlU
PERIODICO CONSAGRADO A IA DEFENSA LIE LOS IN
TERESES NACIONALES EN- AMERICA. ORGANC
DE LOS ESPANOLES INCONDICIONALES EN- PTO-RICU
OONDlClONES GENERATES ocordadas por la Direcci61
para todo c1Gse de renaitidos q onuncios
LA Popncacn de los anuncios medic
convenclonaes que De deerminaran en- los miamos.
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gel uo qlen asuma respnsadAd
mas con 10 de responsible de- "a pago
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devuetos snnque publquen.
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Para los no suscrpoes del BOLET escss comunica.
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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
M'KINLEY LEADERSHIP.

Since the war Mckinley has been
doing what he could to feed the great
army OF American workingmen by
creating work and wages for them, and
protecting American industry from the
competition of European labor in our
American market. His leadership
to-day rests upon the battles he has
fought and the victories he has won in
congress, and upon his patriotic devo-
ton to the principles for which he
shouldered his musket when a boy Of
II and marched in the ranks as a pri-
vate soldier, and his patriotism in
peace appeals to the old soldiers as did
his patriotism in war. Chicago Iltel-
Ocean. s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

WRIGHT COUNTY Times: In ability,
as teacher, lawyer and judge, Page
Morris is the peer of his opponent,
Mr.. Towne. Not only that, Mr.. Nor
ris has made a marked success in
whatever avocation he has been. in.
For six years he was professor in
college and a very successful one, too.
AS an attorney, he was also success,
and as a judge he was SO successful
that he would have been reelected
without opposition. It can also be
said of him that he never proved
recreant to any trust reposed in him.
In all the above he stands on higher
plane than his opponent, Mr.. Towne.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

MINNEAPOLIS Journal: Archbishop
Ireland, in reply to a request of many
prominent citizens of St. Paul to give
his views on the Chicago platform, has
replied in very emphatic terms. con
demning the revolutionary and lawless
terms of that document and showing
the blind folly Of the free silver dogma.
The archbishop hits the Bryanite rev
olutionists hard, and stoutly maintains
the necessity for every good citizen to
meet the menace with positive voting
for the public credit and the main
tenance of law and order.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

POPULIsT speakers are attempting
to array the borrower against the
money loaners. Most of the money
which has been borrowed from the
east to develop the resources of the
west has come from savings and loan
associations. These are simply organ
izations of wage-earners and in at
tempting to- array class against class
the Pops have lost the labor vote OF
New England. When western people
realize that they are not pauperizing
millionaires when they vote to cut the
prices of their products and wages in
two, they will also repudiate the party.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

MINNEAPOLIS Journal: Within the
last month very many farmers in the
west, who wanted Something done for
silver" have changed their minds on
Investigation and are now for McKin-
ley, convinced that the single silver
standard will bring worse disaster on
the country than it has heretofore ex-
perienced. This change of views is
spreading and will continue to spread
until election day. This is cam
paign of education.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

The Penny Press wants the silver
men to tell the men, who are making a
house to house canvass in Minneapolis,
that it is ';none Of their business how
they are going to vote" It further
and hints that men working for sup
porters of the Republican platform
will be let out Of jobs if they tell the
canvassers they will vote for Bryan.
As this method of securing an express
sion has been in use for many years
the Penny Press seems to have reasons
to block the design other than the
veal Of the la boring man. Perhaps il
wishes to hide awaning sentiment.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
A METEOR. THEN CAS-

Bryan, according to the Syracuse
Ne,0s, 'Sshoots across the sky like a
meteor, leaving a trail Of light that
dazzles the beholders. . But meteor
usually dissolves into gas when it
comes into contact with the earth S at
mosphere. So much OF Bryan has al
ready dissolved into gas, in the atnos-
phere of public opinion, that there will
be nothing left Of him after Nov. 3. =
Pioneer Press. .s,s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
THIS COUNTRY OF OURS.

Our country is believed to be essen
TALLY a land of freedom. The medium
through which this freedom is. exer-
cised is an untrammeled ballot. AS
long as that ballot remains untram-
meled, and citizens are allowed to vote
according to their voluntary prefer
ences, just so long will the country
continue free. So soon, however, as
any attempt is made to hamper or
thwart the full exercise of the ballot,
just SO soon does the actual freedom OF
our people become alarmingly imper-
lied 7'Gceville Enterprise,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
THE yorER's NEAREsr p1Kry.

The Importance of the national is
sues often seem to overshadow local
affairs during presidential campaign,
but the voter who is at the same time
a loyal citizen should not forget home
interests and responsi bilities. Good
home government made universal
would insure good national govern
ment. Good home rule is the basis. of
law, order and good citizenship
Minneapolis Progress.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

FOUR lives have been snuffed out
through reading dime novels and the
fifth will probably follow. The rob
berry of the bank of Sherburne, with
its three murders and suicide, is at
tributed to this vice by the parents OF
the bandits, who are respectab bic peo-
pie. If the legislature would make the
sale of this literature a criminal Of
Tense much good would result
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

MINNEAPOLIS Tribune: According to
Mr.. Bryan Mexico is the only country
within the range of his knowledge
which has made any material progress
in the past 10 years. Not only is this
a vile SANDER upon this country, but it
is an inexcusable misstatement in it
self in view Of the recent report of the
Chicago labor committee on conditions
in the free silver republic.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
LET Him ANSWER.

As long as John Lind could draw fat
fees from the settlers of Minnesota he
took no measures to protect them in
their rights. The land grants of the
Hastings & Dakota railway was a grant
made by the congress of the United
States and congress alone had the
power to forfeit it. Why did not John
Lind as congressman from the district
where the lands in question were stu
ated introduce a bill to. forfeit the
land? It's a fair question; let Mr..
Lind answer Kasota Times. s So
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
GEN. LONGSTREET made a red he

GEN. LoNGSTREET made a red hot
speech at Augusta, Ca, Friday.
Among other things he said:
When people feel the pinch of hard times,
it is unpatriotic to make incendiary appeals to
their prejudice, and seek to arouse the masses
against the mythical classes, debtor against
creditor, poor against rich, employee against
employer, and section against section, as in
times Of distress caves of Addullum multiply
and the disconnected are prone to catch at any
nostrum or remedy the blatant incendiary
demagogues may ingeniously devise.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
TILDEN's NOTION.

Samuel J. Tilden had an unpopulistic
notion that "the American farmer
ought to be secure in the tranquility
of his Preside from the curse of an I'M
stable and fuctuating currency" and
yet this same Samuel J. Tlden came
nearer being Democratic president
OF the United States than will the
boy Orator of Salt Creek. st. Paul
Dispatch.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
VERY SANGUINE.

The day that the news is flashed over
the country that Mckinley is elected,
every energy of the American people
will spring to new life, thousands of
enterprises to better the condition Of
our people will be inaugurated and in
day sixteen jobs will be looking for
one man.-Loa4sville Commercial.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

HOWARD F'ULSOM and John S1nit
have started the Friesland Journal
which is printed half in English and
half in the Holland dialect. Its salu-
tatory announces that it will support
the cause of sound money.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

The St. Paul Globe, the great organ
of Minnesota Democrats, predicts a
majority Of 10000 for Mckinley in
Minnesota. It makes further pre-
diction that but ten States will be
found in the Bryan column Nov. 3.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

TALK as they will the Bryanites
can't talk down the fact that wheat is
rising and silver is still falling. The
sympathy between the two. which has
been made stock argument seems to
have existed only in imagination.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

SUPERIOR has surrendered and the
Minnesota wheat inspection will be re-
sumed Monday. The rebellion was a
tiasco, though it damaged Superior's
business to an amount requiring six
figures to express it. "
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
FEWER THIS YEAR.

Just four years ago the people of the
country were cruelty deceived by the
promises Of the party OF free trade, for
which SO much was promised. The
same party is in the field this year
with new heresy hiding the old and
again making extravagant lpromises.
But there are not SO many people will
ing to be fooled this year. Cantor, (o.)
Repository.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

Two weeks and half are all that
remain between Bryan and the forget
fulness of the nation. He has made
his skyrocket splurge, but the burned
stick has already begun to fall.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

A BROOKLYN physician has discov-
cred the bacillus of death and hopes to
discover some method to check it's
ravages. Should he succeed ''as old
as Methuselah" will be no longer an
acceptable stock phrase. ..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

The registration in the large cities
indicates that the people are alive to
the country's desperate situation and
are determined to use the ballot box
as means of improving it's condition.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

WADENA Pioneer: It would be sad
blow to the credit and general stand
ing of Minnesota to have a free silver
man elected governor. That is one
reason why Gov. Clough will be elected
by big majority. ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
WON'T GIVE WORK.

The scheme of substituting poor dol
lars for good dollars would not help
the laboring man. Itwould not create
any moro of a demand for labor than
now exists. In fact would probably
lessen that demand and lessen the
wages Of those few who could find
work. Bldinerd Tribune.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

NEVER since the beginning OF the
war of the rebellion has political
contest stirred the feelings OF men SO
profoundly as has the present cam
paign. Abe Lincoln and righteousness
won Then and McKinley's victory on
Nov. 3 will be as great.