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The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
ARREST OF coNFIscATIoN.

HE case Of Village OF Norwood VS.. Baker,
Gently decided by the Supreme Court of the
United States will have deterring effect upon
the frauds often perpeated under the guise of
assessments. AS the law stood before this decision
was rendered street Improvements in municipalities
frequently operated as conscatons 1t has been gener
ally held that in the case Of accepted streets that is
streets not to be kept in order by general taxation
the cost OF the Improvements could be lawfully as
sessed against the adjacent property by the rule OF
the front foot In some of the States the extreme
doctrine has been laid down. either expressly or by
implication that where the cost exceeded the value
OF the property the deficit could be collected through
a personal judgment against the owner. In this
State that extremity of robbery was avoided and it
has been held that the measure of possible recovery
for street work must be limited to the enforcement OF
lien upon the property ITSELF and that when mans
land has been taken the spoation must cease. But
our Supreme Court has also declared that the right
to assess and to recover on this kind OF work is not
dependent upon any benefit to the property assessed
One lot might be injured and another lot improved
but each would have to contribute in proportion to
It's frontage
The case OF Village Of Norwood vs.. Baker lays
down an ineligible rule, founded on principle that
in respect to streets will go far to reconcile law and
justice 1t determines that when an assessment for
street Improvements IS substantially in excess Of the
correlatve benefits it IS invalid under the Federal
constitution for the that it proposes, first
to take for public without compensation property
held in private ownership and, second, to deprive
man OF his property without due process OF law.
The salutary effect of this ruling will nowhere be
more generally welcomed than in San Francisco
where over and over again people have been I'm
proved" into insolvency. The history OF street work.
like the record OF the water front in connection with
the State is repete with shameful evidences of the
OF the local government to crafty the rapacity of
contractors and of conscenceess spectators The Su
preme Court OF the United States has rendered
-aahlic service.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
PROMPT acTIoN NECESSARY.

T is sincerely to be hoped that Attorney General
| Ford will find time between now and the eXpira-
ton OF his term OF office to take up and consider
the application OF his predecessor for writ OF man
date compelling Wells Fargo & Co. to pay their war
taxes Compared with most Of the business with
which the time OF his Office is consumed this proceed
ing is of transcendent importance The express COM
pany in question is taking from the people OF this
State between $1,000 and $4,000 monthly which II
should pay to the Government. 1t is doing this by
means OF bluff, which in an ordinary poker game
would be called and disposed of immediately
The late Attorney General applied to the Supreme
Court for writ OF mandate and referred by that
tribunal to the Superior Court The latter court is
sued the writ and Mr. Fitzgerald was proceeding on
the lines OF the case lately decided in Michigan when
Wells Fargo & Co. interposed with motion trans
erring the proceeding to the United States Circuit
Court At this uncture change in the Attorney
Generals Office took place. and since that time moth
ing has been done to bring matters to issue.
Ali Attorney General Ford has to do in connection
with the motion interposed by the X-shirking
poration is to in Judge Morrow's court to dis
miss it Every lawyer knows that the Federal
tribunals do not issue writs OF mandate except in aid
OF their own process and the proceeding transferred
in this case on the ground that it involves Federal
question is bound to be defeated here just it
defeated in the State OF Michigan. The necessity OF
the case is merely an Attorney General who will
on the works OF the enemy.
In an interview the other day Attorney General
Ford said that he would take up the case as soon
possible. This is not the way to go about the bust
It should be taken up at once, since it is Of
more importance to the commerce Of the State that
Wells, Fargo & Co. should be compelled to pay its
war taxes than that almost any other principle OF
government should be enforced. The war in the
Philippines is being carried at the expense OF
the people. This tax-shirking express company is
paying single cent toward its prosecution but is
evading payment by tying up cases in the courts and
resorting to legal techncaes entirely ridiculous in
ciaracfer
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
SOCIALISM IN GREAT BRITAIN.

= OMMENTING upon the increase OF socialism
| among the working classes of Great Britain,
- and the failure OF the Liberal party to formulate
policy satisfactory to the people, the Newcastle
Chronicle recently made use of very striking com
parison 1t said: The Unionist employers in Par
lament who compacently cackle about the compensa-
ton act remind us of nothing much the Christ
mas goose which thinks it is chased for its feathers
The implication is clear. The man who chases the
Christmas goose is out for blood. He desires not a
few feathers but the whole bird The British work
ingman is pursuing the land owners and the cap
alists not for compensation for injuries received at
his work, nor for old age pensions, for any
feathers of that kind but for the naturalization OF
land and something like state socialism on a large,
comprehensive scale.
Since Gladstone retired from its leadership the
Liberal party in Great Britain has gone pieces 1t
is now even more dsorganized and demoraized than
Democracy in America. 1t has leader and no plat
form. The men who highest in its councils dis
agree among themselves, and not OF them can
rally formidable following in the country. This
collapse OF Liberalism has given radicasm a chance
to assert ITSELF and the evidences of its growth are be-
coming portentous
The Chronicle says Politics. and especially popu-
lar feeling upon politics, in a state OF lethargy
because the country is prosperous and the people
whole are slothully content and given vulgar
pleasures than to the passionate ideals of the Charst
convention But the next great economic crisis in
this country, causing much popular distress and the
reopenng Of the unemployed problem in more
serious form, will rude disturbance in the air.
Ii will probably mean socialism"
Whether this prediction is to be verified at the
coming of the next commercial depression is depen-
dent upon the ability of the Liberal leaders to put
forth policy sufficiently vigorous to draw the
masses from radcasm into the Liberal ranks Ger
tainly when hard times upon them the people
will not remain sluggish and content under Tory rule
Some opposition party will carry the country and
assume power and it appears the socialists are quite
ready accept the responsibility Clearly the British
goose is not being chased for its feathers.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
ADJUSTMENTS.

Cournba-"Robin Hood tomorrow night.
Grand Opera House-"The Black Hussar.'
Orpheurl-Vaudevle.
Acazar-"The Charity Ball"
Tvoli-"Beautful Golden Locks"
Alhambra-" Married. Not Mated"
Chues zoo and Free Theater-Vaudevie every afternoon
and evening
oympa-corner Mason and Ellis streets. specialtes.
Recreation Park-Baseball.
Union Coursing Park-Coursing to-day.
House-Sauer Recitas Wednesday afternoon
April I9.
Glen Park-Mssion Zoo.
Central Park-The Steeplechase
El CaHpO-The popular bay resort Amusements every
Sunday.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
Malice in Kansas.

An Atchison woman has appeared in a
dress worn by her husbands first wife.
and the indignant neighbors have started
the story that she goes out to the ceme-
terry and dances on the first wife's grave.
kansas City Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

After the Samoan incident it is probable that the
Emperor William will try to be good. He has trifed
just once too often with Grandma Victoria orgetful
that the hand OF that lady was ever on the nterna-
tional slipper He knows better now His expe-
rience in the back yard of nations with Uncle Sam
and the WILDLY OF Windsor" should last him life
time He'll forget it. at any rate until he has re-
covered sufficiently from the correction to be able to
sit upon that part OF his anatomy due south of the
imperial equator redeemed by the impact of queenly
footwear
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
On a Tour.

Rev. I. NJ. Atwood. DID. editor of the
Universalist and superintendent of Unit
X,ersalist 1,eI Il CHURCHES, is making a tour of
land Sunday, April Is. His Journey in
cludes the southern part of California. He
is accompanied by Mrs. Atwood.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
THE CALIFORNIA LIMITED.
Santa Ea Rn,,ta

Three times ID week; S1s days TO Chicago. Az
days to New York. Handsomest train and most
complete service. Full particulars at S2S Mar
ket street
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
FAKES, FIGHTS AND FINANCES.

y T the meeting OF the Board OF Supervisors last
I \ Monday the first steps were taken to conform
with the act enacted by the last Legislature
authorizing incorporated clubs to give public exhi-
btions OF twenty-round boxing contests at any time
upon the payment OF a license fee, the amount OF
which is to be fixed by county Supervisors. Super.
visor Perrault presented resolution fixing the license
to be paid in San Francisco at $1,000 year. and
referred to the City and County Attorney for consd
Grafton. At the same meeting the permit granted the
National Athletic Club for the boxing match between
George Green and the Mysterious Billy Smith was
approved
The meeting permitted between Green and Smith
has taken place and has furnished valuable and in
structve lesson the Supervisors in considering the
Perrault resolution. There was no boxing in the
match. Smith announced that he would not box for
the amount Of money in sight and walked out OF the
ring. The patrons OF the show got their moneys
worth in experience though doubtless many of them
are convinced they swindled.
With such an illustration of the ease with which the
public can be defrauded in such exhibitions the merit
of the Perrault resolution is too apparent need
gument Something must be done to put an end to
these dsreputable fakes Since the State law de-
prves the city Of the power to forbid prize fighting
when called "a tweny-round boxing match, '"the only
course left is to guard against the repetition OF frauds
That can be accomplished only by liking the license
high that but clubs OF financial responsibility
AN afford to undertake such exhibitions.
1t is also right that the county should derive con-
siderable from the boxing contests since the
pugs and their following put the taxpayers to good
deal OF expense for police service The amount Of
the license proposed by the resolution not at all too
high If the City and County Attorney reports favor
ably on its validity, it should be adopted at once
The people OF San Francisco have borne too long
in patience the impudent pretensions and the nsolent
fakes and frauds OF the lower class OF prize-fghers
A high license fee would exclude those fell
lows from the ring and they would have go to.wor5
or be arrested vagabonds. The ring would be rid
their trickery and the city of their presence The
irresponsible clubs that have made money out OF
such fellows would have to close UP and quit. From
every point Of view, therefore, the enactment of the
ordinance would be benefit to the community
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's) SO Mont
gonery street Telephone Main IO42
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

The formation of the proposed National Referen-
dunn party is not likely to do much more than afford
every tnhorn reformer in the country an opportunity
to blow himself and think he is beating the band
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

Treat your friends to Townsend's Cal.
Glace Fruits, soc lb., in fire etched boxes
or Jap baskets. 627 Market street
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

When we have beaten and crushed the Fiipinos
of Luzon will not have to weep for more worlds
to conquer. There about thohsand islands in
the Philippine group and it will be long time before
Othelo's occupation there will be gone
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

The Jamaican revolt against the Government is
likely to be hot stuff for the island is full of rum and
ginger
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

An appropriate salutation for yesterday was, "How
would YOU like to- be-the icemanI'
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

Mr.. Fiske concludes his confidence nv
saying: Thus we have arrived at the
goal of my argument. The
mystery Of evil remains a mystery
still. But assuredly its deem
impress upon the human soul is the in
dispensable background against which
shall be set hereafter the eternal lows
of heaven" 1t is just as we'll to LET If
go at that
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

1t is difficult to understand why the British should
have taken the trouble seize the Tonga Islands all
OF sudden unless it be that they just happened to
notice for the first time that the islands part OF
the earth.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

The disappointed patrons of the ring who after the
Mysterious Billy Smith fake were consoed by the gift
OF tickets Of admission another contest, will prob
ably find they have been provided with dissoving
view show
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

Coroner Hill readily admits that he carries super
abundance OF fat about his waistband The impress
sion is rapidly gaining ground that his head is also
acquiring excess OF ernbonpoint
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

What is good to men and women of
one level of intellectual development is
an evil to those of the next higher level.
On the highest plane OF life to-day are
those who find delight in what has
been attained for humanity by men of
genius; on a lower stage are persons
who are eager to learn all the little
scandals and petty details Of the lives
of great men, and who are not salts
fed until they have heard all the tales
of the servants and read all the private
letters and notes of the gifted ones;
lower still are those whose admiration
is for the sumptuosities of the rich;
beneath them is the class that yearns
to have a description of the under
clothes of the n1illionaires and learn
the size of their stockings. Finally we
have the class that likes to read about
murderers and to see pictures of the
weapons with which the deeds were
done. One of these classes is about as
human as another, and if we could csnlv
supplement the church, the press and
the schoohouse with a wholesome
whipping post we might do justice TO
them all without sentencing anybody to
Hades.
Another source of irritation during
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

With the marked activity in opposition to the pres
lighting monopoly in San Francisco the expires
sion How'd you like to be the gasman?' is nothing
short OF IRONY
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

Reflect upon the morals of that con
duct just long enough TO fix in your
mind the disloyalty of the Eastern
braves to the girls they left behind
them and then warm your heart with
this extract from the letter of a soldier
at the front in the Philippines:
Our lady nurse was with us in the
trenches that night. She sat right next
to me, and every time 1 took a shot she
had another cartridge ready for me.
They shot closer than they ever did
before and the bullets were just nipping
over our heads
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
THE PHILIPPINE TRADE.

The Chinese Consul General in this city has is
sued the prospectus OF the United States and
China Trading Company to be incorporated
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-01
and left this morning over the SAINT,
Fee for California,

and left this morning over the SAINTS
| Fee for California.
| W. W. Tuttle and w. n. Fenchler
! returned from Kansas City this morn
ing, where they have been on q pleas
ure and business trip.
Mrs. D. w. Reckhart and children
returned from the MOUNTAINS this
morning, where they have been for the
past few weeks enjoying an outing.
Mrs. G. F. Brown and little son ar
rived this morning from Marshall.
Texas, and were joined here by Mr..
Brown who came up from Mexico last
evening, and they will return to Qua
dalajsra in q few days.
Mrs. A. Williams and her sister, Mrs.
D. r. Jones, of Emporia, Kansas, to-
gether with their daughters, have re-
turned to the city from Ration, N. M,
, where they went to attend the burial OF
their sister, Mrs. Fred Johns.
THE HOTELS.
Center Block: r. A. Carter, J. Shol-
berg, ]. Follmsn, j. johnson, Muske-
De Muir, Las Cruces; A. M. Rowland,
Shalsm; w. T. Layer, Mexico.
Grand Central: VB Martin, Dem
ing;C Boyd, r 81 Ward, Tex; r
Powell, Denver; G W Butler and wife,
N Y; j A Jones, K G: j O James, Rus
sellville, Ala.
Pierson: w S Derbyshire, Cloud
croft; B F Shepherd. K G; o B Lee,
Dallas; S Young, Mrs Young, Mrs E
F Dilley, Washington, D G; Mrs Van
dergriff. Kansas; G A Young, ] P
Rude. K. @.
Lindell: A Hassell, New Orleans:
M Harper and wife, city; Connors,
Mexico: S o Smith, Jarills; A Per-
rett, Desert: D Fisher, Juarez; Robt
Anderson, Sepsr; J A Smith. San Luis
Potosi F Valdez, Juarez; @ Forbes,
Mex.
Orndorff: w. A. Willis, Albuquer-
que; w. E. Baum and wife, J. Malcolm
son, City: G. W. Parsons, Chicago; n.
Jacoby, N. Y; r. L. Stewart, Los
Angeles; M. A. Henley, r. P. Granger
Houston; G. w. Vickers, Prescott;
Mrs. w. o. Staples and children, Mex
leo; 81. K. Chenoweth, Nogales. r. L
Nussbaum, Mrs. G. P. Harroll. S. J.
Hunter. Fit. Worth; J. 81. Thompson,
Houston; 81. Miller, Albuquerque.
New Commercial: G. II. Davis, Chi
cago; w. Martin, City; w. r. Lang
ford, San Antonio: r. o. Morris. San
Marcial; VIM. Klein, City; G. W. Wyh-
lin, Mexico; G. r. Rippy. Lawson, Mo-;
Mrs. w. F: Berry. Chihuahus; D. F.
Raines, VIM. Prothroe, Gray; Thos.
Chicago: F. w. Hall, G. Hazeltine,
Albuquerque; J. G. Pierce, City; G.
w. Alexander, Pekin, Ill; Jas. Gull
berson. Texas; Geo. Steinkamper. ST.
Louis; Z. J. Stogper, A. T.: w. F.
Jones, Albuquerque.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-01
THE FEDERAL SHELTER.
PERSONALS.

I G. B. Martin is in the city from Dem
Ing.
]. R. DeMier came down from Las
Cruces this morning.
b. M. Rowland came down from
Shalam this morning.
Harry Alexander came down from
| Alamogordo last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. 81. P. Noake have re,
turned from California.
D, F. Raines left for Denver this
morning on the Santa Fee.
Miss Elsie Kohlberg left this morn
ing for Denver to visit relatives.
Paul Rammett has taken q short va
cation and gone to Mexico for tour.
w. r. Roberts came down from his
mines in New Mexico this morning.
G. W. Mylin left for his home in
Pittsburg Pennsylvania this morning.
Miss L. F. Chalmers left this morn
ing over the Santa Fe for San Francis
CO.
Judge Falvey returned from Cloud
croft last night and reports a fine
time.
L. Terrazas returned to Chihuahua
yesterday after q short stay in the
city.
w. G. Newberry, of Arkansas City,
Kansas, is registered at the St.
Charles.
Mrs. Greenleaf returned from Me-
silla Park where she has been visiting
his brother.
T. E. Hunt, commercial agent for
the S. P, and family, left for San
Francisco this afternoon.
F. B. Houehton, general agent for
the Santa Fe. left this morning for
Alamogordo on q business trip.
Passenger Agent Kuhn, of the Mex
lean Cen trail railway, has gone to Tor
reon on business for his company.
Mrs. Judsou and daughter Mrs. Will
son. after months visit in Fort Worth,
returned home this morning on the T.
P.
Mrs. w. r. Brown left for Denver
today to visit her sister, Mrs. More
head. Mrs. Brown will be gone a
month.
John Follman, J. Johnson, J. Shot,
berg, and Robert Carter, who have
been working for the Alamogordo Lum-
Der company, came down last night
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-01
SCOTCH WHISKEY
Increasing the Population of Scotch
Prisons.

The British Woman's Temperance
society and other organizations formed
to combat the drink evil are greatly
agitated over the steady and rapid
growth of drunkenness in Scotland.
The annual report of the prison COM
missioners for Scotland, just issued,
calls prominent atten tion to the drink
evil across the Tweed and attributes to
it the great increase of committals to
prison during the last year.
OThe number of committals exceeded
the average of the previous five years
by more than 5, 900. The total recep-
tions we're 6,561-a figure which has
never before been reached in Scotland.
During the year there was one commit
ment for every seventy-fve of the pop
ulation. In other words, the percent
age of the committals has doubled dur
ing the last fifty years, while the in
crease in population is comparatively
Insignificant.
In Glasgow, with population of
about 725, 900, about 900 persons were
taken into custody in 1898 for drunken
ness and q. 900 for breach of the peace
and petty assaults in which 80 per cent
of the offenders were under the influ-
ence OF liquor.
Considerable comment has been
caused by the showing of the judicial
statistics that out of the total of over
Sc, 900 arrests, only 1,2T6 prisoners re-
ceived sentence above two months.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-01

Telephone 156. Ell Paso Dairy COM
panV.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-01

Ell Paso Daily HERALD Coo per month
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-01

book and after clearing his throat de-
livered q verbal opinion. 1.-THE mine
belongs to my CLIENT" said he, land
we decline to move"
| Fifteen men thereupon cooked their
| Winchesters and Fitzgerald said, 81
you want your old mines come and
| take them.''
Messrs. Jacocks and Dickinson
didn It like the looks of things and de.
| cided not to precipitate bloody
ARRAY. er-
INJUNCTION PROCURED.
"We left the mines in possession OF
Fitzgerald and his backers," said Mr..
Jacocks, this morning, land retired in
good order. We procured an In juno
ton, however, from Judge Davis, al
Tucson, restraining Fitzgerald from
| working the smines or shipping ore,
but the Lord knows that an injunction
when it is resisted bys dozen armed
men with Winchesters, SO we notified
the Southern Pacific railway that If
their company shipped any ore from
the mines we would put in claim for
damages. The people at the supply
store were also warned that we would
not be responsible for any more goods
sold to Fitzgerald. AS consequence
they moved their goods. Water was
diSO oduo Oh eshe VIZ SSS| SsSFF>N
from hauling.
Leigh Clark was attorney for US,
but he asked us retainer fee of $4,000
and when we declined to pay it he was
engaged by Fitzgerald and went up to
mines, arriving there before we did.
We have since employed w. A. Haw-
kins of Ell Paso, the Judge Wright and
Marcus A. Smith, of Tucson. Mr..
Clark was attorney for both the mine
and smelter companies, which you
know are separate concerns.
WHY DISMISSED.
ssWe deemed 1t advisable to dismiss
Mr.. Fitzgerald, for reason that the
board of directors ordered him to ship
ore to New York and contrary to Or
ders he shipped it to the Ell Paso smell
ter and has not yet accounted for the
money, some $4,000.
"Six carloads shipped by him were
tied up by an injunction procured by
US. On one occasion he shipped sever
al cars to the Ell Paso smelter and after
finding that we had notified the smell
er not to pay him for the ore, he took it
from the yards and shipped 1t to the
Silver City smelter."
I'VE did not take an armed force to
hte Mines" said Mr.. Dickinson; 1--WE
only took II. w. Loomis, of this city.
w. D. Clifford, superintendent OF the
Hazel mine, and his son. They were