The herald., 1898-09-21
A HIGH TAX RATE
WHAT THE RESIDENTS OF SAN
BERNARDINo WILL PAY
Half Of the Entire Amount Collected
Will Be Used for School
Purposes

riouS one, not, perhaps, 30 much on the
| amount raised. but from the figure at
which the tax rate is fixed. The first
question asked by the tourist contemplat-
ing coming to California to reside Is.
What Is your tax rate?" This has been
run up abnormally high by the several as
SCISSORS In order to pull the wool over the
eyes of the people and that they may pose
as economists, while the lack of nerve of
the boards of equalization, from city to
state, prevents the remedy. The super
visors fixed the county rate yesterday at
S.S5, which includes the state. 1873 cents;
general fund, 65 cents; hospital, 10 cents;
road fund, 312 cents; county school, %
cents. In this city $1.53S Of the above is in
force, and added to 1t Is the city rate of
$l30; city school bonds, Is cents; high
school bonds, IA cents; graded school, spe-
| cial, IL cents; high school, special, 81 cents;
making a total for the city of $4.208 on
every 500 Of assessment. This makes the
total tax for schools 81. .856. Last year So
per cent of all the money paid into the
county treasury was for school purposes.
San Bernardino Brevities
The assignment Of rooms In the new
court house has raised trouble, as the
room allotted to department one Of the
superior court Is dark and badly ven-
tilated, with but two small windows, which
open out on an alley and upon the back
door of a saloon. where the stencil Is such
that the windows can never be opened
The bar held meeting and passed resolu-
tions against the use of the room, but the
supervisors thought 1t good enough for the
purpose.
. Veterinary Surgeon A. b. Wise has .
returned from the scene Of the preva- .
. lence of the Texas fever" among the .
. cattle on the 'Mojave river. and re- .
. ports frightful mortality Some .
. bands of cattle of 200 or 300 are en- .
tirely exterminated, and the cattle .
. are dying off in every direction. The .
. disease. which is a small tick that .
. burrows in the flesh. was brought .
. from the Foster ranch. in San Diego .
. county. located Just above the Santa .
Marguerite ranch. DR.. Wise quar- .
| . antined each band of cattle where It Q
. was and ordered the owners not to .
. move them, recommending a wash .
or spray of crude oil for the cattle, .
. which he thinks. we'll applied. will .
. remove the trouble and kill the pests. .
The tick leaves Its victim when the .
latter dies and goes into the ground, .
. where It lays Its eggs for a further .
. supply, who come out OF the ground .
| and continue the work on the next Q
. cattle. The board of supervisors au- .
thorized DR.. Wise to quarantine the .
| . whole county against any further .
. bringing of cattle into It. .
The Independent party held its house,
warming afits new club rooms last night.
The rooms were filled with enthusiastic
members Of the party. W. r. Harris pre-
sided. and Joe Israel officiated as secre-
tary. The speakers were ]. w. Curtis Of
this city, c. M. Barnes Of Ontario. T. F.
White of Chino. Messrs Henderson and
Mama OF Cotton and ]. B. Parazette, B.
+. Bledsoe, G. B. Cole and G. A. Oyler OF
this city.
The reception committee of company X
of the Seventh has planned to give the
boys a banquet on arrival, with $50 plates,
$50 of which will be soldi for so cents each
to outsiders and 100 reserved for the re-
turning soldiers The date Is not fixed
for 1t.
Immigrants are coming in. Yesterday
a family passed through the city seeking
an abiding place. The whole of the house,
hold effects were piled high OIL the back
Of a COW, which the female head Of the
family was leading, while her husband
brought up the rear, urging the COW along
and drawing two little children in a child's
wagon.
The city schools opened yesterday, with
an attendance OF over 1900 pupils. The
freshman class In the high school numbers
81. about 30 less than last year, but the
total number Of pupils is about the same
A portion Of the work done by the county
horticultural commission the past season
was the destruction Of over 1000 trees
brought in from other localities, infested
with root knot woolly aphis and other
troubles. The commission also had large
quantitise of trees stripped of their foli-
age and scrubbed with wash and stiff
brush to clean them.