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The Florence tribune., 1899-08-19

fixed by pro rata distribution per mile of the whole property of said company, in the Territory of Arizona, is $e, ,09i .3S.
 GEO. W. vICKERS, Attest: Chairman. HARVEY J. LEE,
 Secretary.
 Stone, w. R., ordered raised on northeast quarter of southwdst quar- ter and southeast quarter of northwest quarter section l5. township 5, range 9, 80 acres, from 500 to $475.
 Stouffer, T. L., ordered raised on northeast quarter of section 2l, town ship 5, range 9, l60 acres, from s400 to $sOe.
 Shields & Price, ordered added to list, 10000 sacks of grain $7 ,5OO.
 Silver King and Florence Telegraph company, ordered raised on line from Florence to Casa Grande, from $l5J to $3Oe.
 Upon motion erroneous assessment to Andrew Samsky of l2 acre water right, was ordered stricken from roll. Silver King Mining Co.,, ordered raised on patented mines, Norway from SlOO to $l ,OO0, and Blk from $l0O to s1,000; also one 10 stamp quartz mill, from $l 900 to 5000.
 Smith, ". C., ordered raised on southwest quarter of section 35, town ship 6, range 6, 160 acres, from $500 to $940; and west half of northeast quar- ter section 25, township 6, range 5, 80 acres, from $4oO to $g6e, water right $5e0 ordered stricken from roll. l swingle, e. T., ordered raised on aoath half of northwest quarter and north half of south balf section II, township ', range le 32o acres. from sesO to ap6o
 stratton, E. Q, ordered raised ou 4 aorth vest quarter of northeast guar Ger and northeast quarter Of northwest quarter section 2l, tow aship 10, range IS, 80 acres, fran sI21 to $24O.
 swiagle Bros, ordered raised on north half of southeast quarter and northwest quarter of southeast quar- ter and southwest quarter of north east quarter section 6, township 6. range 16. 1Go acres, from 1880 to $48O. Upon motion Che Clerk was directed to notify the Southern Pacific company of error in addition in statement rendered by Territorial Board of Equalization. The footing, s42s 1851 45 should be, and as corrected is, s4s4,- s5i.45.
 Upon motion Board adjourned to meet tomorrow at Yam.
 R. W. KERsEY, Attest: Chairman. F. A. CHAMBERLIN. Clerk.
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east quarter of section I. township 5, range $, ls0 acres, from $900 to sl eco
 pinney, W. L., ordered raised on fractional part of northwest quarter of section l, township 5, range 3, 5 acres, from $25 to $250.
 Final Consolidated Mining company. ordered raised on patented mines, Silver Bell and oolulnb bia mining claims. from $500 to $l ,o0O.
 Phillips, R. F., ordered reassessed for the year 1898, on the southeast quarter of section ?, township z, range 6, , acres, $l25.
 Puseh, Geo., ordered added to list, lot Il, section 1, township south. range lG east, 40.l0 acres; lot 3, section 5, township 2 south, range l6 east. 55. l6 acres; lot 4, section ,, township z south, range Is east, B. .24 acres $3s7 one threshiug machine $250; also raised on improved land, west half of section 2S, township 6, range l6, 32O acres, from $960 to $l 500; west half of southeast quarter section 2S, township 6, range Is, 80 acres, from $40 to $400 northeast quarter and southeast quar- ter of northeast quarter and northeast quarter of southeast quarter section 32, township 6, range Is, l60. acres from $4S0 to $500; west half of s0uth east quarter and southwest q narter oi northwest quarter section 2l, township 6, range 16, 12O acres, from $.i60 to $500
 Upon motion, full Board voting aye, : it was ordered that the tax due on prop, erty assessed to the Ruggles estate be remitted for the years 1895. 896, 1897 and 1898, it appearing from ahidavit that the owners thereof were, during said years, minors and orphans. The Tax Collector was instructed 1o cancel tax sale certificates for said years. Upon motion Board adjourned t meet tomorrow ats am.
 k, W. KERSEY, l Attest: Chairman F. A. cHAMBERLIS, Clerk:
The Florence tribune., 1899-08-19

Ar last the people of Final county are beginning to realize that in the TRIBUNE they have friend and ad- vocate of influence. It may not be modest to mention it, but it is very satisfactory just the same.
The Florence tribune., 1899-08-19

1T love you very much, papa" said fve-year-old Willie, as he crawled on his fathers knee. "And I love you, too, Willie, when you are good," re- piled the father. "But, papa" coutin- ued the little fellow, not to be outdone, IT love you just the same even when you ain't no good"
The Florence tribune., 1899-08-19

n. OHA<- 2ADEsnA-ASB OFFICE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, -s
 FLORENCE, Ariz., July IA, 1890. Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present-R. W. Kerscy, chairman; J. F. Mayhew and c. F. Cook, mem bers, and F. A. Chamberlin, clerk
 Minutes of last meeting read and up on motion approved.
 Ritsch, c. A., ordered raised on southeast quarter section 29, township 4, range 10, 160 acres, from $500 to $7OO.
 Robles, Gabriel, ordered raised from 40 head of cattle $4s0, to 90 head $1 ,0SO. Ramirez, Stephen, ordered raised on fractional part southeast quarter of southwest quarter section 9, town ship 4, range 9, 20 acres, from $40 to $29O.
 The Assessor was instructed to enter upon the original assessment roll for 1893 the assessment of the Southern Pacific Railroad company as fixed by the Territorial Board of Equalization as follows:
 Franchise and right of way, and 69 50 miles of main track and road bed, and the ties, fish plates, bolts and any and all material used in the coustruc- tion and maintenance of said track and bed, together with the bridges and culverts, and including the telegraph line running from the western bound ary line, of Pinal county, Arizona, where the said road enters the said county from Maricopa county, Arizona, in southeasterly direction through the said Pinal county, to the southern boundary line thereof, where the said road enters Pima county, Arizona, and known as the Southern Pacific Rail- road company, of Arizona, at S4 800 per mile ......... ....... sSSS, 500 % Improvements on said right
 of way and station grounds
 being the permanent
 buildings and structures
 placed thereon and at
 tached thereto, and known
 in each and every instance
 as the improvements of
 the Southern Pacific Rail-
 road company, of Arizona,
 and more particularly
 located and describad as
 follows to-wit: Maricops. ................. sS,75o % sweetwater ............ 725 % Casa Grande. e.......... 4,50O % Picacho ,................s 525 % Red Rock ............... I,25o % At all other points ..... T50 co
  Total valuation of improve
 ments as fixed by pro
 rata distribution per mile
 of the assessed value of all
 the improvements of the
 said Company in the Terri
 tory of Arizona. ..........- $l1,5Oo % Pro rata of personal prop
 erty....................s 2S, ,l95 90 Pro rata of rolling stock.. 6l,556 20
 Total valuation ........ $434, 1851 45 !
 REcAPITULATIoN.
 The total length of the main track of the said Southern Pacific Railroad l company, of Arizona, is 6s.50 miles, l and the assessed value of the same as ]
The Florence tribune., 1899-08-19
OFFICE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS,

OFFICE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS,
 FLORENCE, Ariz., July Is, 1S99.) The Board met pursuant to adjourn ment.
 Present-R. W. Kersey, chairman i; J. F. Mayhew and Geo. F. Cook, mem bers; J. E. o'Connor, deputy Dirtrict Attorney, and F. A. Cham berlin, clerk. Minutes of last meeting were read and upon motion approved.
 The full Board and Deputy District Attorney proceeded to examine ac- counts and count money in County Treasurer's office, and after duly ex- amining accounts and counting money in said Treasurer's possession filed the following report:
 We, the members of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Pinal, Territory of Arizona, and the Deputy District Attorney of said county, do hereby certify that on this 12th day of July, 1899, we lave counted the money and funds in the County Treasury and find that there should be in said Treasury the sum of six thousand six hundred, twenty-seven and 27-l00 dollars.
 The amount and kind of money actually therein is as follows, to-wit :: Cancelled warrants. ........ $131 30 Silver .........-...-....., 9 90 Green backs .............. 2 co Total ....,....... $143 20
 R. ". KERsEY,
 Chairman of Board. J. F. MAYHEM ana GEO. F. COOK, Members of the Board of Supervisors.
 J.E. O'CoNxoR,
 Deputy District Attorney. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 COUNTY OF FINAL.
 R. W. Kersey, George F. Cook and J. F. Mayhew, members of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Pinal, and J. E. O'Connor, Deputy District Attorney of said county, being duly sworn each for himself, says that he has read the foregoing statement and knows the contents thereof and that the same is true of his own knowledge.
 K. w. KERsEY,
 J.E. O'CoNNoR,
 J. K. MATHEW,
 GEO. F. COOK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of July, 1899. fsEALI THos. q. PEYToN, Deputy Clerk of Board of Supervisors. Upon motion the Board adjourned to meet tomorrow at D. m.
 R. ". KERSEY, Attest: Chairman. F. A. CnAMBERLIN, Clerk.
The Florence tribune., 1899-08-19
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Ionicial Proceedings,l
Continued from First Page.)

Upon motion the Board adjourned to meet at p. m., July 18th, 1899, and immediately met as Board of Super visors.
The Florence tribune., 1899-08-19
Attest

h. ". kEhSE1, Attest: Chairman. F. A. CHAMBERLAIN, Clerk, By THos. G. PEYToN, Deputy.
The Florence tribune., 1899-08-19
Attest

F. A. CHAMBzRLIN, Clerk.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

pie. II he was insane at the time
let it be proven and let him be con-
fined in an asylum. To dilly.dally
over the matter is an outrage to the
community, and Mr.. Wade and the
class OF men to which he belongs
should be taught at once that Ho-
nolulu is law abiding community,
and that there is no sympathy what
ever for wielders, be they drunk
or sober or insane. A jury should
have been called upon to settle the
Wade case and the charge OF MUIR
der in the 1st degree should have
stood against him until he was duly
tried. No further "compromise"
should be made il it is the desire to
uphold and sustain the dignity and
honor of our Courts.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

We did not wish to say anything
in regard to the Wade case until the
fate OF the murderer had been de-
cided by the Court. This morning
the man was to be sentenced but for
reasons unknown the case went over
till to- morrow, and the mulatto was
returned to the prison. We fail to
understand the action Of the Attor-
ney- General in allowing a compro-
mise to be effected in a case OF such
Importance, presumably to avoid
certain Inconvenience to employees
of rich steamship company. The
man Wade was properly charged
with murder in the first degree. He
shot and killed Gillespie. He re-
loaded his revolver and shot at
police officer. Aman who does that
is not 80 drunk as not to know what
he is about. II he was drunk he
was guilty according to all ethics of
two offenses when he killed Giles
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

At the same time the service Of
the electric light company has been
criticized with good reason in re-
gard to tbe exorbitant charges and
the very poor Illuminating qualities
All this will be changed SO we are
told--and p. G. Jones and other pro-
moters interested in the new deal
will see that man who pays for
twenty pounds Of ice gets twenty
pounds, and that the man who pays
for electric lights, according to the
meter God help him-is not sitting
in the dark until the light bill is
presented.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09
CORRESPONDENTS.
That Polygamy Case.
Ed. THE INDEpENDENT:-

Ed. THE INDEPENDENT
read your bright, newsy paper
every evening. l saw your last
nights article, expressing the hope
that [ will not allow the Chinese
polygamy case to stay where it is. L
have pleasure in assuring you that
an appeal to the Supreme Court
will be duly taken. prepared the
notice yesterday and informed the
official stenographer that his min
utes will be needed. | will perfect
the appeal to-day.
This case is a very important one
more important than appears on
the surface. II woman can be held
to be wife upon her mere state
ment that she sis so and SOS wife,"
that she ''was married to him." then
there may hereafter be many Will
contests brought on by designing
women and their sharp friends,
where property interests will be
raided, and much trouble and ex-
pense will result My firm opinion
is that our Supreme Court will re-
verse Judge Wilcox.
L. MoCANTs STEWART,
August 8, 1899
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

We understand that Mr.. Irwin has
sold his shares in the old electric
light concern at $2l0 each, par being
500. The figures show the enor-
nous profits OF the combined COM
panies. We don't care whether the
stockholders make fortune or not
in their enterprise, but We think the
people has right to receive a q,id
pro quo and get the ice for which
they pay and the light the much
abused meter calls for.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09
honolulu. June I, 1899.
Just arrived from New
York per American ship
George Curtis
Black and GalYernized Gut Nails
Assorted Sizes.
Black and Galvanized Wire Nails
Assorted Sizes.

Hunts Axe and Pick Mat
tocks.
Iron City Axe and Pick
Mattocks.
Steel Horse Shoes Front
and Hind, assorted sizes.
Long Handle Hay Forks,
2 or 3 tines.
Socket Goose Neck Hoes,
}, 5 and (.
Hunts Axes 81 to 81 lbs.
Handled.
Ame's Long and Short
Handle Shovels.
Ame's Short Handle Coal !
Scoops.
Champion Handle Coal
Scoops.
Bush Hooks, Medium and
Heavy.
American Charcoal Irons.
Putnam's Horse Shoe Nails
assorted sizes.
Champlains Horse Shoe
Nails, assorted sizes.
Alden's straight yard
brooms.
Step Ladders, d, 8 and 10 .
feet high. ~
One and Two Man Cross
Cut Saws % to 6 feet long.
For sale here atlowest mar
ket rates.
Please call and examine our
goods.
TOs hawaiian HardVarS Co., ta
26S FoRT STREET,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1899
a NEW DEAL.

1t was with great satisfaction that
the community learned Of the new
deal which creates "light aud ice"
monopoly. Heretofore ice has been
too expensive and complaints have
been heard in regard to quality and
quantity.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

We publish in this issue a letter
from Attorney McCauts Stewart, in
which he states that the Chinese
polygamy case has been appealed
and will be carried to the highest
court. The case is indeed of great
Importance and involves possible
issues which cannot be forecasted
yet. We have no doubt that justice
will be done to the poor ignorant
woman, and at the same time the
laws upheld, but it does seem that
the Chinese colony which, as rule,
considers woman beyond the pale
Of law and justice, is determined
to persecute this woman who pre-
ferred a live man 10 Hawaii to a
"rooster" by proxy in China.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

How very applicable to certain
Honolulu conditions the following
is, quoted from an American writer,
with whom, OF course, all are fam
iliar: :"In our popular politics you
may note that each aspirant who
rises above the crowd, however at
first making his obedient appren-
ticeship in party tactics, il he has
sagacity, soon learns that it is by no
means by obeying the vulgar wealth
ercocks of his party, the resentments,
the fears and whims OF it, that real
power is gained, but that he must
often face and resist the party, and
abide by his resistance, and put them
in fear; that the only title to their
permanent respect, and to larger
following, is to see for himself what
is the real public interest, and to
stand for that-that is a principle,
and all the cheering and Kissing Of
the crowd must by and by accom-
modate itself to it. Our times easily
afford you very good examples
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

We are becoming civilized. 1t
must be satisfaction to our ardent
annexationists 20 learn that we have
in our midst four professional pick
pockets who are enjoying "vaca--
ton" in Honolulu. 1t will also be a
matter Of satisfaction to the "pro-
fessional" gentlemen to know that
we can boast of an efficient police
force who is "on to them" Ladies,
look outl The men need no warning
as they carry neither money nor
jewelry on their persons in this
Paradise.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

The new monopoly should en-
deavor to do the square thing to the
people. II not we predict that ar
opposition company will be organ
lied and ice and light furnished at
reasonable terms and according to
terms.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

fore a single mango went out Of the
yard. It was a question OF no work,
no mango. After three days ex-
pertinent the "kids" stayed away and
the mangoes were left severely alone.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09
TOPICS OR THE DAY.

We wonder whether il will sur
prise the demagogues to learn that
before they forwarded false inform
alton about the Galicians and the
Italians to the Mainland that the
United States Government in con-
junction with the Hawaiian had al.
ready at the request OF an induen-
tial foreign association fully investi-
gated all matters concerning them
as will probably appear in the next
mail.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

AS soon as Judge Wilcox opens
court in the morning, mechanics at
work ON the new addition to the
Station House begin to hammer and
make noise, very annoying to the
Bench and the people having bust.
ness before His Worship. This
morning Judge Wilcox sent word to
the "hammerer" that if the noise
was continued he would put the
ardent mechanic in a place where
he could make no noise.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

Let the new combination look out
for the Liquid Air Company Of
Hawaii-nei.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

10000 pieces Vslenciennes Laces,
all New Patterns, at l.. B. Kerr's
Departure Sale.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-09

A little Chinese boy and a big
Chinese orange alleged to have been
stolen were presented in the District
Court this morning. The little boy
said he was not guilty and promised
never to do it again. The fruit said
nothing. We cannot blame people
owning fruit trees for protecting
Themselves, but, at the same time it
seems harsh to run the kids in for
hooking" mango from some per.
son having au abundance OF fruit.
The writer adopted plan for the
protection OF his mangoes which
worked very we'll. In the yard are
eight fine mango trees, and during
the season "a lot OF children made
early morning calls in search OF
fruit. They were welcomed by the
"boss" who permitted them to pack
away all the fruit which were found
on the ground, but-and there was
big but-the young marauders
were furnished with brooms, water
hose and wheelbarrows, wherewith
to sweep the garden aud walks be-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-31
SQUABBLE OVER SCHOOLS
NEGROES DEMAND HIGH SCHOOL AID
VANTzGES FOR THEIR C4ILDR N
A Case From Georgia Before the Supreme
Court involving the Construction of
the Federal Constitution

Washington, Oct. 30-The United
States Supreme court today heard argu-
ment in case involving the right of t,ae
Board of Education of Richmond county,
Ca, to establish a high school for whites
in Augusta without also establishing d
high school for colored children. The
case was based upon the petition of a
number of colored people of the county,
who asked that an order be issued either
compelling the board to give their chill
dren the advantages of a public high
school or to compel the board to refrain
from carrying on white high schools for
the support of which the petitioners are
taxed. The case involves the construc-
tion of the Federal Constitution, and
has attracted considerable attention.
Former United States Senator Edmunds
appeared for the colored people and
Messrs. j. Ganahl and +. H. Miller for
the Board of Education.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-31
LOSS OF LIFE UNKNOWN
ESTIMATES OF THE RESCUED
PEOPLE VARY WIDELY.
CAPTAIN SAYS ONLY ONE OF CREW LOST
Men, Women and Children Struggling in the
Water When the Boat Went Down.
Many Boats to the Rescue.
Stories of the Rescued.

New York, Oct. 31.-The Pennsylva-
MIA ferryboat Chicago, running between
Jersey City. and New York, was cut in
two by the steamer City of Augusta, of
the Savannah Line, at 1885 this CTues-
day. morning, ON the New York side of
North river. She went down in seven or
eight minutes. There were between
thirty and forty people aboard four being
women. 1t is supposed that several per-
sons were drowned, though there is NO
positive proof of this.
Estimates made by lilv persons who
succeeded in escaping vary widely, some
thinking it possible that no loss Of life
resulted, while others believe that at
least a score of persons Were drawn into
lhe vortex, as the ferryboat sunk.
August Windeborn, of Jersey City, was
one OF those in the mems cabin. He had
just time to catch up life preserver and
leap overheard before the boat went un-
der. He sand that men and women and
some children were in the water all about
him. He succeeded in making his way
to the Liberty street dock.
Il
before 2 o'clock, found body which, it
is supposed Is that of one of the passen-
gers ON the ferryboat. drowned as the
result Of the collision.
Mr.. III. W. Bible, of this city, jumped
overheard with a life preserver. He saw
four women struggling in the wafer nea-
him, but was unable to help them. He
was picked up by a life boat and taken
ashore. Searchlights are being used i'm
the work of rescue. A number of tugs
and some boats have been secured.
Everything is being done possible under
the circumstances to pick up persons
from the water. One boat brought in
six men, two women and a child.
Oscar Watson of the Associated Press,
who was unable to secure a life pre-
server, and who swami ashore was one
of the few passengers able to give Co
herent account of the accident. He
said:
I'VE We're just about to enter the slip
when we We're rum down. There were
about forty people on the ferryboat be-
sides the crew. j saw four women and
one little boy. The latter was with his
father, who appeared to be an Italian.
Il should think the boat sank within
seven minutes. l did not get a life pre-
server, but when / saw she was going
down, plunged overheard and swan
for the shore Five men swan alongside
of me. There was strong ebb tide
The water was very cold. The current
was so strong that it almost carried us
down stream
Captain Durham commanded the Fer
ryboat Chicago. He succeeded in max
ing his escape. He says that he has
accounted for all the members of his
crew, except Fireman Fromme. He
thinks that Fromme was either drowned
or crushed to death in the stoke hole.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-31
A BATTLE WITH CANNIBALs.
Capt. Mohun Commanding Belgian Tel
egraph Expedition Routs the Foe.

,l4ondon, Oct. 30.-Mail advices from
the Congo announce that Captain Mo
hun, formerly United States Consul at
Zanzibar, who is commanding the Bel
gian Tanganyika-Congo Telegraph Expe-
dition has reached the Congo Free State,
and was engaged at the end of July
in a fierce battle at Sanguli, where the
force consisted of TEN Europeans, with
Captain Mohun commanding. Shortly
after the attack commenced Baron
Dhamis, the Belgian commander dis
patched three companies of soldiers to
assist Mohun, and the enemy, consisting
of canibals, who horribly torture their
wounded, We're finally routed. Captain
Monm did great execution with Win
chester repeater. 1t is estimated that
the enemy numbered 1,500 men, and lost
800 killed and GOO wounded The Bel
gian force lost 8 men killed and At
wounded. The enemy fled to Tangany-
ika