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The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-22
SECTION 9.

The wharis situate within said city, includ- ing the super-slructure and piles driven into the ground for the purpose of supporting the said super-structure, or otherwise, must be as sessed as whole and as real estate, and shall he deemed to ltc real estate for the purpose of taxation.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-22
SECTION r

The certificate provided for in the last pre- eeding section shall be as follows, to.wit:
 l. .... ............, of the city of Skagway, do hereby certify that have received the as- sessment roll of the taxable property of said city for the year ..., and from the assessor of said city, and on the .... day of....... ....., with his affidavit thereto affixed; that 1 en- tered upon said roll all corrections as directed by the board of equalization; thatI have reck- oned the respective sums due as taxes on sqd roll and have added up the columns of vaiu. alton as required, and that the roll to which this certificate is atii xed is full, true and cor rect, and made as in the manner prescribed by law.
 In testimony whereof | have hereto set my hand and official seal this .... day of ......
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-22
SECTION II

The city assessor must complete his assess ment roll on or before the first day of october in each year, and file the same with the Com mon Council of the said city, and must take and subscribe an affidavit substantial as fol. lows:
 DISTRICT OF ALASKA, ss
 City of SkagNay '''
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-22
SECTION 2,l

The city treasurer, or his deputy, must attend at his office during office hours to receive the taxes not yet paid, and he is also required to receive and collect, AS far as practicable, the taxes remaining unpaid and the delinquent list of any former year years.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-22
SECTION s.

The land occupied and claimed exclusively as right of way for railroad by railroad con- panies or corporations, with the tracks and all the sub-structures and super structures which support the same, must be assessed as a whole and as real estate without separating the same as lands amt Improvements at a certain sum per mile. And all such real estate situated in the city and claimed by any railroad company as such right of way shall be deemo d to he the property of such company for the purpose of taxation.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-22
SECTION 22

The notice provided tor in section 2l must be publis he'd two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city ot Skagwav,
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
Our Adopted Islands.

Thanks to the rigorous measures
adopted by General Lee, the yellow
fever at Quemandos, Cuba, is abating
steadily.
The municipality of Havana, Cuba,
has sanctioned the building of q sys'
tenn of electric street railways.
President Mckinley signed the com
mission of Joseph M. Oats as postmas
ter at Honolulu, Hawaii.
Porto Rico has been created a Gus
toms collection district by the Treas
ury Department.
The amnesty proclamation is being
published in all the places in the
Philippines garrisoned by Americans,
but as yet it has produced no appar-
ent result.
The imports into Porto Rico amount
ed to $7,S79,20S. and the exports from
the island to So, ,729,923 in the nine
months ended March 81.
One of the last acts of the old Gov
ernment of Hawaii was to destroy
$4,000 worth Of opium seized by Gus
toms authorities.
There is about $3,0ooo00 in the Gu
han Treasury.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
Domestic.

The Ohio Supreme Court has decided
that $o00,00O sought by the Toledo
Centennial Board is not available, thus
killing the project.
The schooner Alaskan was wrecked
at Nome, Alaska, her crew being saved
by the revenue cutter Bear.
Another effort will be made to OBJ
tain a rehearing in the famous case
of Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter, who
is now in prison at Leavenworth, Kan.
A terrific hail storm, during which
hailstones as large as hens eggs fell,
damaged wheat fields near Denver,
Idaho, to the extent of $4,000.
William Woodward, a farmer, shot
and killed his stepdaugnter and, in
turn, was beaten to death by his neigh
bors at Marshall, Mo.
Charles B. Snead sixty years old,
who owns an estate in Brattleboro,
VT, valued at $150,000, died in New
York City.
Accompanied by his family, John N
Irwin, the United States Minister to
Portugal, arrived at New York City
on the st. Paul. He will go to his
home in Keokuk, Iowa.
Judge L. H. Thompson, of the Yer
mont Supreme Court, died at his home
in Irasburg. Vt, of pneumonia. He
was fifty-two years old and had been
Supreme Court Judge since 1887.
An exploding boiler in grist mill
at Williamsburg, KY, killed Riley
Broyles and his fifteen-year-old daugh-
ter, Carrie.
John Whitehead and his wife were
found dead in their house near Posey-
vile, Ind, and he is believed to have
slain her and himself
Postmasters of most of the leading
cities of the Northwestern States get
increases In salaries because of in-
creased receipts.
Western Christian Endeavor dele
gates refuse to travel Sunday while
going to Boston convention.
Arthur Ledyard, one of the best
known balloon operators and para
chute experts in the country, was
from Toledo, Ohio.
On touching live wire at Galena.
Kan, City Marshal Milford Parker
was instantly killed.
To save his mother from brutality
the eighteen-year-old son of Herman
Haarmeyer killed his father at Gin
cinnati, Ohio.
The entire business section of the
village of Middleton, Wis, was de-
stroyed by fire. The total loss is
more than 100000; insurance, about
one.half.
Aaron Halle, the bartender who
killed his sweetheart Mary Branni-
gan, at New York City, has been
found guilty of murder in the first
degree.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
Foreign.

Two French missionaries and 100
converts have been murdered in the
southern part of the Province of Pc
chill, China.
The Australian Commonwealth Bill
passed it's third reading in the House
of Commons in London amid cheers.
Lord Curzon reports heavy rains in
some of the famine districts in India.
DR.. G. NJ. Fisk has resigned as Sec
ond secretary of the United States
Embassy at Berlin.
General Roberts reports the gradual
pacification Of the western part of the
Transvaal
The Worlds Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Congress. which
met at Edinburgh, Scotland, reelected
the president, Lady Somerset, and the
other officers. Mrs. M. L. Stevens, Of
Maine, was elected an additional vice.
president.
Russia has forbidden her newspa-
pers to publish movements of troops
or warships and to remember Rus
sia is preaestinad to predominant in
Asia
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Theodore Roosevelt is five feet nine
inches in height and weighs 165
pounds.
Henry Graves, the Chicago million
aire, went there sixty-nine years ago,
and for fifty years has lived in tue
same house. ~
Dr. Jameson, made famous by his
raid into the Transvaal in 1895, has
been elected a member of the Cape
Assembly without opposition.
Former United States Senator James
w. Bradbury, of Augusta, Me-, has
just celebrated the ninety-eighth an
niversary of his birth.
AS Lieutenant-G General of the United
States Army, General Miles will enjoy
the privilege accorded to no other
officer of prescribing his own uniform.
Captain Francis Martin, of Detroit,
is the oldest American naval officer
alive. He has just celebrated his Tooth
birthday. He got his first commits
sion from Andrew jackson.
Sir Richard Webster, the new En-
glish master of rolls in succession to
Sir Nathaniel Lindsay, was born in
1912, and is the second son of Thomas
Webster, the famous lawyer.
Secretary Long has sent to Speaker
Myers, of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, a handsome gavel.
It's head Is made of wood from the
Olympia, and its handle is part of the
rail of the Spanish gunboat Sandoval.
which was captured during the late
war.
Lord Roberts owed his command of
the expedition into Afghanistan,
against Ayoob Kahn. to the late Lord
Lytton, then Viceroy of India, with
whom{ he was great favorite. There
was great opposition to his appoint
ment, tbut Lord Lyrton made a per.
sonal appeal to Lord Beaconsfeld
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.

The Kansas Prohibitiohists have
nominated a State ticket.
President 4dcKinley will make only
brief speeches during the campaign.
Senator Hanna predicts the over
whelming success Of the Republican
ticket.
Representative Dolliver, of Iowa.
will take prominent part in the COM
ing campaign.
Governor Roosevelt will deliver
speeches in various parts Of the coun-
try in the campaign.
The 5000 cowboys of Western Kan
sas are to be organized into Roose-
welt Republican club.
Congressman J. A. T. Hull has been
renominated by the Republicans of the
Seventh Iowa District.
The National Republican Committee
has appointed o. J. Salisbury National
Committeeman from Utah.
s. G. Swallow, of Pennsylvania, will
be supported for the Presidential nom-
ination by Indiana Prohibitionists.
Democratic politicians are busy in
Washington securing campaign ma
terial to use in Congress elections.
Democrats of the Thirteenth Illinois
Congressional District have nominated
John Eddy, OF. Bloomington, for Con-
; gress.
A Populist Convention has been
called to meet in Jackson, Miss, Au-
gust Is, to nominate Populist elec-
toral ticket.
The Republican State ticket in Ala
bama, headed by Charles P. Lane, of
Huntsville, has been declared invalid,
and Lane has withdrawn.
Amos L. Allen, of Maine, who was
elected last year to fill out Congress
man Thomas B. Reeds unexpired
term, has been renominated by accla-
nation.
A. G. Jones, a Prohibitionist is pre-
senting himself as candidate for
United States Senator in South Caro-
lima, in opposition to Senator 3. r.
'Tillman.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
A elow at the Ice Trust.

The Ice Trust was knocked out com.
pletely in New York by a decision
handed down by Supreme Court Just
ice Alden Chester, at Albany. The
Justice refused to vacate the order
granted by Justice Chase, appointing
Myer Nussbaum as a referee to con-
duct the inquiry into the operations of
the Ice Trust, in order to enable the
Attorney-General to secure sufficient
evidence upon which to base an action
to annul the certificate of authority
issued the american. lee Company to
do business in the State.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.

Unfavorable Weather Conditions For
Both Wheat and Cotton Announced.
Washington, D. c. (SpeciaD. D.-The
weekly summary of crop conditions is
sued by the Weather Bureau says:
The South Atlantic and central and
eastern portions of the Gulf States,
including portions of the Central Mis-
sissippi and Lower Ohio Valleys, have
suffered much from heavy rains, while
the severe drought over the northern
portion of the spring wheat region con-
tinues unbrokep, only light showers
having fallen over limited areas. In
the States of the Lower Missouri VAL
ley and on the Middle Atlantic Coast
the weather conditions were highly
favorable, and generally favorable con-
ditions prevailed on the Pacific Coast,
except in the Upper Scranton Valley,
where rains caused some damage.
In Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and
portions of Missouri winter wheat
harvest has continued under favorable
conditions, but in the Central Missis-
sippi and Ohio Valleys it has been in
terrupted by heavy rains, which have
also caused much damage to wheat
in shock. Harvesting has made good
progress under favorable conditions
in the Middle Atlantic States. Through
out the South Atlantic and East Gulf
States there is also much complaint
of injury to wheat in shock.
I Spring wheat has further deterior-
ated over the northern portion of the
spring wheat region as a result Of
continued unfavorable weather con-
ditions, no rain, or only light show
ers over limited areas, having fallen.
In North Dakota the early sown is
reported as practically dead and an
other weel of unfavorable weather.
will almost completely ruin the late
sown. In North Dakota and Mime
sofa fields ara being plowed up for
other crops. ~-
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
LABOR WORLD.

Canadian telegraph liners have
struck for a nine-hour day.
Twenty-Five of the hucksters of Cam
! den, N. J., have formed an organiza-
tion for mutual protection.
Three departments of the Illinois
Steel Company, at South Chicago, en-
ploying 1900 men, have resumed work.
The Chicago building contractors
have rejected a proposition for peace
made by the unions to settle the labor
war in that city.
The International Seamen's Union
has issued circular denouncing Con-
gress for not passing the labor meas
ures put before it.
Cuban and Spanish laborers on the
Havana electric railroad have struck
because they receive forty cents day
less than Americans.
After several weeks Of idleness, the
plants of the Glucose Sugar Refining
Company at Rockford. ILL.,, have re-
sumed work. taking on 250 men.
The journeymen plumbers strike at
st. Paul, Mimi, has been declared off
after six weeks of unsuccessful eff
fort TO obtain shorter hours of labor.
The National Building Trades Coun-
Gil has issued an edict forbidding union
workmen from seeking employment
in several large cities where there are
strikes.
Henry Finehout, aged eighty-one.
believed to have been the oldest rail
road conductor in the world, died at
st. Paul, Mimi. His railroad service
extended over a period Of sixty years.
The demand for harvest hands in
Kansas Is SO great that the. section
hands on the Missouri Pacific Railroad
are giving up their positions at $1-25
per day. to go into the fields and work
for $500 day.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
NEWSv CLEANlNCS.
Lumber fires in Northern Minnesota
have caused great loss.

Lumber fires in Northern Minnesota
have caused great loss.
There is no Sunday in China.
Americans overrun the London ho-
tells.
Boston has opened it's free public
baths, and will keep them open until
after Labor Day.
The German Gas pipe syndicate has
reduced prices under the influence of
American competition.
German coal companies report in
creased earnings and the ironmakers
have unusually large orders.
Arrangements are being made for
establishing wireless telegraphy be-
tween Helgoland and Bremen.
The Peruvian Government has rec
of the United States at Salaverry.
st. Louis was the only city in the
United States that did not celebrate
the Fourth of July with fireworks.
The opening of the first American
electric tramway line in Geneva,
Switzerland, took place a few days
ago.
The wives and children of the Beers
are surprised that the British troops
do not loot, but pay for what they
get.
Ten naval cadets have been assigned
to duty at the torpedo station at New
port, r. l., for instruction in methods
of wireless telegraphy.
The Netherlands Railroad Company
has received notice at Amsterdam,
Holland, of the expulsion from the
Transvaal of 400 of its employees.
A movement has been started in In
diana to start a training school for
teachers of domestic science near the
grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother
of Abraham Lincoln.
Livingstone enthusiasts are prepar-
ing to send into the heart of Africa
| a British monument to mark the spot
where the explorer died. 1t is an obe-
lisk of concrete blocks, twenty feet
high, with metal panels on the four
sides,
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Boston Is once more experiencing
an attack of pennant fever.
Pitcher Pittenger is back in harness
again, and the Boston management is
happy. s, s,
The st. Louis team is capable of
making more noise than any aggrega-
tion in the League.
Williams has won The baseball cham
pionship of the Tri-collegiate League
by defeating Amherst.
With Robinson as his catcher, Wey-
hing will do1btless do some great
pitching for st. Louis.
F. w. Kafer, Princeton's catcher,
has been appointed an instructor in
the university for next year.
Nearly every pitcher in the League
is using the underhand delivery made
so effective by Joe McGinnity.
Fred Tenney. of Boston has made
more errors ON thrown ball this year
than he usually crowds into a whole
season
The po.r attendance at the Brook
lyn grounds is a matter of serious con-
sideration among the other clubs Of
the League.
Frank Flavell has been re-electe /
captain of the Pennsylvania team for
the season of 1901 by nearly q unani-
nous vote.
The Directors of the Syracuse Base
ball Association have declined an offer
of $1,000 for Pitcher Wiltse from the
Philadelphia Club.
Before crowd of 5000 persons Har-
ward totally surprised Yales at New
Haven, Conn, by winning the annual
class day baseball contest by score
of to O.
Tim Murnane pointedly remarks:
"The ball players of to-day have the
game in their own hands. Brooklyn
and st. Louis players are doing their
best to kill the sport"
King Dickson, formerly third base
man of the University of Pennsyl-
vania team, has been engaged to play
that position for the Philadelphia Club
unit! the recovery of Wolverton
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30

The Democratic State Convention
nominated State ticket headed by
Samuel Alschuier, of Aurora, for Gov
ernor Delegates were elected to the
Kansas City Convention. The plat
form adopted reaffirms the Chicago
platform of 1896, condemns trusts, up
holds the Monroe Doctrine, denounces
imperialism, expresses sympathy with
the Beers and instructs the delegates
to the National Convention to vote for
Bryan for President.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30

Munco Tipsward was killed by Will
lis Lilly, his brother-in-law, in London
Township, ILL.,, 1t was duel on horse
back. Both were riding at breakneck
speed, Tipsward following close be-
hind Lilly, slashing him with a knife
whenever he was able to reach him.
Lilly dashed ahead of Tipsward, and,
when a few feet away, drew his revol-
yer and fired. The ball entered Tips
wards head, and he fell from his
horse dead The murder was the cul-
mination of family feud which has
existed for several years.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
CYCLING NOTES.

Jimmy Michael has issued a ehal.
lenge to all middle-distance cycle rid
erS.
Century riding and mileage mad
ness" have had a big boom during the
past two seasons.
It is estimated thot about 1000, ,000.-
900 bicycles have been made in Eu-
rope and America.
The national meet of the L. A. w.
at. Milwaukee will be open July 10
and will close July 10.
The racing men are hard at work,
and the clubs and promoters expect
a lively season for the speed mer-
chants"
Automobiles. four-wheelers, gaso-
lene driven and carrying two persons,
have been formally recognized as BIZ
cycles.
1t is more than probable that Arthur
A Zimmerman. the retired champion,
will never again appear in open COM
petition.
The Side Path Commissioners of
Long Island have decided to build ad-
ditional side paths on both tie north
and the south shores of the island.
With the dealers busy working night
and day, the general trade conditions
in cycling were probably never better
at this time of the year than they are
at present.
At Salt Lake City, Utah, John. Chap
man and Iver Lawson rode one mile
on a tandem in competition in one
minute and fifty seconds, beating the
tandem record.
The South Carolina Division of the
L. A. w. is preparing to introduce
side-path and wide-tire laws at the
next meeting of the South Carolina
State Legislature.
The full bench of the Supreme Court
of Massachusetts has just decided that
bicycle is not a carriage. but ma
chine, and that therefore owners of
bicycles cannot recover damages from
towns in Which the roads are so bad
that bicyding cannot be pursued with
personal safety
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
THE NEWS EPlToMlZED.
Washington Items.

Secretary of the Treasury Gage has
called on the depositary national
banks for S5,0OO,O0O more of the Gov
ernment funds deposited with them.
The Naval Board of Construction de-
cided that the six submarine torpedo
boats authorized by Congress, two
shall be constructed on the Pacific
coast and four on the Atlantic coast.
The Secretary of the British Lega-
tion, Reginald L. Tower, has sailed to
accept appointment as British Minister
at Pekin.
Three of the battleships just author
lied by Congress will be provided with
superimposed turrets and two will be
equipped with the Quadrilateral turret
system.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
Rush For Bride. in oonnsll.ville. Penn
No GIRL HERoINEs.
T. Prompt Action Saved 600 Passen
gers Near Birmingham, Ala.

Birmingham, Ala. Speculative
daughters of Isaac Ledenderff, Of
Fayette County, saved an excursion
train from Columbus, Miss, bouno
for Birmingham a few days ago. Tht
rain was coming down in torrents, and
the young women, who resided near
a culvert, saw that the waters had
risen above it and were rapidly un-
dermining it. Knowing that the train
would be along soon, they left the
house in the drenching downpour and
ran down the track a mile to the
nearest station, where they Informed
the trackmen of the condition of the
culvert..
A danger signal was put out, the
train stopped. and after several hours
of hard work repairing the damage,
the train proceeded to Birmingham, de-
livering it's 600 passengers several
hours late.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
BOYCOTT ON IN ST. Louis.
Street Cars Running, But Citizens Do
Not Ride in Them.
rHEPOSSE COMITATUS DISMISSED

Strikers Run Buses In Opposition to the
Transit Company-Persons who Ride
in the Street Cars Are Boycotted-
sherif's Armed Force Disbanded-
Cost of the Posse Comitatus to the City
st. Louis, Mo- (SpeciaD.-Cars are
operated over the Transit Company's
lines without interference by strikers
or their sympathizers, but the passen-
ger traffic has dropped to insignificant
proportions on a majority of the lines
because of the boycott.
The last of the posse men have been
mustered out, and the Transit Com
pany must depend upon the regular
police force for protection, supplement-
ed by such assistance as the 125 en-
ployes who have been sworn in as
private watchmen can give.
President Harry Hawes, of the Po-
lice Department, gives out his esti-
mate of the cost to the city of the
posse, emergency policemen, guns and
meals for the force to date, placing it
at $157,O00.
MACk l1sSlCh, SeCIctdIy VI tuC
Street Car Mems Union, made public
the disposition of money contributed
to aid the strikers as follows: Re-
ceipts to date, 33,O51.64; relief dis
bursed, $32. 2.657.79; balance on hand.
$1257.S5 The fund is distributed at
the ratio of 81 week to married men
and 81 to single men.
Eight hundred strikers are now en-
gagged in running bus lines in oppo-
sition to the Transit Company, and it
is expected that as many more will
be employed, as number of buses
have been purchased in the East for
immediate delivery.
Because she rode on a Transit Com
pany car to the residence of her fam
lily physician, whose services were re-
quired by her aged husband, Mrs.
Joseph Madole has been placed under
the ban of the boycott. She says that
her druggist refused to allow her to
use the telephone in calling up the
physician and also refused to fill a
prescription he had left on his first
visit; that the butcher and the gro
Ger with whom she had traded re.
fused longer to sell her provisions,
stating that boycott had been placed
upon her and her family because she
aad ridden on Transit car.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
FORTUNES MADE IN A DAY.
Chicasoans Who Profited Largely by the
Rise in Wheat.

ChicaSoans Who Prof1ted Largely by the
Rise in Wheat.
Chicago (SpeciaD.-During the recent
rise in wheat small fortunes were
made by many members Of the Board
of Trade.
John Cudahy, who was long on
wheat when the rise came, is said to
have cleared $350,00O.
James Patton is credited with hav-
ing made 100000 on corn, provisions
and wheat.
Members of the firm of Bartlett.
Frazier & Company have come out of
the wheat deal from $15O,000 to $780,
600 to the good.
Leopold Bloom made about 100000.
John Barrett, formerly of the firm
of Barrett & Farnum, is said to have
made $4,000.
o. H. Roche, veteran trader. cleared
about $4,000.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-30
General Chaffee ordered to China.

Orders were issued by the War De-
partment, at Washington, to Briga-
ier-General Adna r. Chaffee to take
command of the forces in China and
to proceed at once to assume his new
duties. while the Fourth and Twen-
tieth Infantry were directed to pro-
ceed from Manila to Taku at once.
These, with the Ninth Infantry, which
is also ordered to China will MAXI
) brigade.