El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-16

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zone OF the first tax suit cases VIII be |
taken up in the disctrict court son. !
time this we-k. or early n X "teN' J
said a LAWYER t. Round About tbs 3
morning. IF the case results in favor
of the city TIL ere is going 10 gfabu
rush made by O her deliGquen;s 10 pay |
up and a OF Cd deal of ready cash WI!
be at the disposal Of the city. Most OF |
the deliuquents are heavy taH-pl5 efo
who are able to pay their taxes any |
day, but they hO onto their money az
long as po- sib1a and don't like 10 give |
it up. Some of the dednqueut9 are |
poor people ard have not pald tnfn
taxes because they were ho6 a0le' |
There is also another class OF ueIih-
uuents who refuse to pay because lhefe |
are so many of the heavy taN-paS erS
delinquent and they do not feel IKE |
sta ding the burden of heavy taxation |
unless the richer ana more able class
stand their part. 1t s Il pecuilir TACT, !
but never Lhele5s so, that just as soon
as person makes money. everybody,
ard even TO the laws, favor5 MIN ana
helps him make more. but he Is poor
and struggl ng hard for meagre eX-
istence for himself ana lam,
ily, he is locke down upon and Stunned
if he should ask for assistance enough
to keep the wolf from the doo'. he IS
not ahle to employ lawyers so he has to
pay his taxes"
81 fear" said sport this morning,
that if Dan Stuart is depending on FL
| Paso as much as he is in. other places
to furnish him an audience for the
| Corbett-titZSimmOn mill that he Will
be sadly left in his gaze receipts. Out
| of all the sports in FL PasO L doubt
whether as many as ten Will attend
| The cost Is going to be one OF the oD-
stacles. There is not much chance OF
| getting less than a SOL rate from FL
| Paso TO Carson and return; common
seats will be worth $40, while only
medium good seat can be obtained for
| $40. The cost of living in Carson will
| be anywhere from SO to $50 per day,
and the accommodations will be very
| poor at that, so taking all these costs
| and other disadvantages into consider
ton | am of the opinion that only the
''red hot" sports will attend from Ri
PasO. There is some talk about
Superintendent Dolan loaning h s
private car to a certain party in town
| to take party to the ring SIDE
| Now [ do not take much stock in such
talk. do not believe that the Next
can Central official will loan his car out
for any such purpose, nor do L believe
that the higher officials of the road
would permit it. There's generally d
good deal of loud talk on such matters,
but railroad superintendent do not
generally loan their cars out to private
parties who are not connected with the
railroad"
'Taxes are coming in twenty-five
per CEN better than they did last year,
remarked City Collector j. II. Smith,
to Round About this morning. Il
think this is on account of the tax on
the water works bonds being eliminated
from the tax levy this year. There is
no need to collect any more on those
water works bonds until they are sold
at least: there is bow 81 900 lying in
| the bank that is sufficient iOr Il sinking
| fund. The city ) rate of taxation this
year is ST ~ on the 500: . cents on the
800 goes to the arte,ian well bond
fund: this Of course has to be collected
as the money for the artesian well has
been used and must be paid TIE
| main complaint of taxpayers has been
over the paying of taxes on the water
works bonds, and taxes would have
| come in very slow this year II tax
| levy had been m ade for that purpose.
| but since the people have found out
that there was no levy for that purpose
they are paying up very lively. No,
| there would De no def lit in the city :
| finances if all the taxes were paid up,
but the city could go on cash basis at
once and have money TO pay up back
| Indebtedness"
'The printing blsiaess is on the
bum here and 50 i everything else, =
writes printer il Ch!cego to
brother in this city. III yoI want a
d"llar you have to get p ece of gas
pipe and wait in an alleY # er dark
TOR the president OF the street railway
TO come along, for he is the orly mao
in town who has morcy.'' How
sad and dreary is this TO the thou lands
of poor VIC 1--we by their day ; labO~.
Most of this property comes from the
in the large cities. While the farmer
may not be making money he is sure
| of a living and a warm ulace to sleep,
and while his work is hard it is not
nearly so bad as the Day laborer in
| large city.
The state quarantine line for
stock, design ated by the state quar-
antine officer for such p.rpo5. and
which has b zen adopted by the federal
quarantine department, does not affect
the Importation OF cattle from Mexico
into this port" said a stock dealer
this morning. "Che stO k quarantine
law went INTO effect yesterday and will
remain in force until November ID.
The cattle that are brought into +
PasO are not atfe ted with fever or
| ticks as they all come from high al
titude where neither ticks or fever
prevail. This wilt be a great advan-
| tage to Ell Paso and no doubt many
cattle will come in during the season
under the present law, and | am of the !
opinion the Dngley tariff law will net |
place the duty So high that it viii be