Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-10
A BACHELOR TAX.
New Jersey Legislature Will Pass on a
Bill Oiscouraging Single Blessedness-
AN END TO SEASICKNESS.
Rolling Checks Being Put on Steamship
National Park at Frederick burg-Jo-
seph Smith Not "a POlygamist-
Eight Hour Law Nv Ilified.

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. Sin all prob
ability a bill providing for the taxa
tion of bachelors will make its appear
ance in the senate or house this week
The subject has engaged the attention
of the law makers in Massachusetts,
Virginia and some of the western
states, and the bill now being drawn
is fashioned after the measures that
are before the legislatures of the south
and west. The tax that the bachelors
will be asked to pay will possibly be
as high as so per capita The taxing
of single men is not an experiment in
the state. For so years the single men
of New Jersey paid 50 year for the
privilege of enjoying the sweets OF
single blessedness, but in 1887 William
McIlroy, who lived in Warren county,
became tired of paying for the priv
leges that he enjoyed as bachelor,
and had the measure repealed.
An End to seaslckness.
NEW YORK, Feb. S.-The value of the
rolling checks or bilge keels on ocean
steamships as preventive of excessive
rolling has been so well demonstrated
in the course of the past year that
nearly all the big liners will soon be
equipped with them. The Cunard
liner Lucania, while in dry dock re-
Gently, had the new keels put on, and
her trip which ended at this port Sun
day was her first trial of them. Capt
Mckay when asked how they worked,
said that the trip, although tenn
pestuous one, had not been such as to
/ test the efficiency of the rolling checks
Capt Mckay said that he believed
that the bilge keels would accomplish
the purpose for which they were in
tended.
For National Park at fredericksburg.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. s,-A bill was
introduced in both houses of the leg
islature yesterday to incorporate a
Memorial Park association to care for
the fredericksburg and adjacent bat
tle6elds. The object of the associa-
tibn in-the main is the same as that OF
the Chickamauga park commission, and
is to mark and preserve the natural
features of the battlefelds of Freder-
icksburg, Charlottesville, the Wilder
ness, Spottsylvania and adjacent bat
ties of the year 1923 and 1864. Nearly
all of the proposed incorporators
served on either the union or confeder~
ate side during the war.
Josrnh smith Was Not Polygamlst
KEwANEE, H., Feb. S.-Before the
conference of Western Illinois Latter
Day Saints, Joseph Smith, the presi-
dent of that church in America, and
son of the Joseph Smith vino founded
Mormonism. gave bitter denuncia-
tion of the practices of the church in
Utah. According to his statement his
father had nothing to do with the in
PRODUCTION of polygamy. Plural mar
riage was brought about by the UTAH
Mormons eight years after the death
of his father, he said, and there was no
warrant in the Scripture for it.
The Ei 4ht- Hour Labor Law Nullified.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col. Feb, S.
Judge Lunt, in the district court Of
FL Paso county, rendered decision
which practically nulliies the eight
hour labor law passed by the Colorado
legislature some time ago. The case
was one against the Colorado Springs
street commission for working men
nine hours. Judge Lunt threw it ont
of court on the ground that it was an
interference with persons right to
make his own contract for labor.