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The Jersey City news., 1902-11-14
FACAN's TAX
INFA|hY.
The Board Of Fiddlers
Complete the Work
Of lacking Up
Values.
FIKEDAT 28.7O
Very Slight Reduction Gain
ed bv Increasing
Assessments Of
$4,000, 600.
CORPORATIONS VICTIMS
Valuations of Trolley Lines
and Industrial Concerns
Sent skyward With
out Reason.
DISASTROUS RESULTS
E. F. C. Young Says Such
Work Will Deter Manu-
faoturers From Lo-
eating Here.
DISASTROUS RESULTS
E. F. C. Young Says Such
Work Will Deter Manu-
faoturers From Lo-
eating Here.


The jumping jack-up Tax Board es-
poets to finish its. fdaling today. The
Republican Commissioners were still
adjusting their assessments this morn
ing, but they hoped to get through with
their work in time to strike a rate at a
meeting called for this afternoon.
The State will be $3.50 per $1,000
worth of ratables, and it viii be made
up as follows:-
City purposes. ................ ~ 81
County purposes 5.52
State school tax. LII
q. 50
The rate for the present fiscal year,
which will wind up on Dec. 1, is $28.
The Board, or rather First Fiddler
Degnan and Second Fiddler Lindsay got
the rate down by jacking-up by over
$3,000,000, the returns originally made
by President Hoos to the County Board
for the Equalization of Taxes before the
death of Commissioner Charles n. Day
ton. The total assessment returned for
the ciyt by the Republicans was arbi-
trasily placed at 500, 100000.
DO SOME "REvISING."
Having guessed at what they consid-
cred would be necessary figure to keep
the rate down the fddlers started in
their funny work of revising the assess
ments. They called it adjusting,
which the majority Of taxpayers con-
slider misnomer.
Obcdient to the wishes of Mayor
Pagan the fiddling twain Soaked the
corporations regardless of consequences.
They ioted down lot Of figures oppo-
site the names Of big concerns and il
they liked the looks of them they lei
them stand. They Disseminated in q
reckless fashion, it is said, and made a
bluff at what they termed the equaliza.
tion Of values Their principal thought
was to put as big burden on the cor
porations as possible.
Here are some of the results of theil
figuring, as announced by their press
agent
RESULT OF THE BOOSTING.
North Jersey Street Railway Company
lacked from $593, 800 to s1,o43, 800.
Hudson County Gas Company increas
ed from ss29, 500 to 81 POS, 400.
Sugar Trust plant at Washington
street from 5000, 100 to 81 ,102, 100.
Lorillard Tobacco factory, owned By
the Tobacco Trust, from $669,600 tt
S1,35s.soo
Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson
Street Railway Company, which includes
tile North Hudson County Railwa,
lines, from s37s,45o to s543.95o.
New York & New Jersey Telephon'
Co., $40, 900 to s255, 600
Lembeck & Bets Eagle Brewing Co.
from S21s,5oo to s26s 800.
United Electric Co, from S163,575 t
s4aax.o75.
The Jersey City news., 1902-11-14
MATTERs OF FACE

Pavonia Brand of Fine. Early June Canned
Peas. for sale at nearly all good grocery
stores. and wholesale Ut the D. E. cleary Co.'S
The Jersey City news., 1902-11-14

r. II. DUFF, Undertaken, now at No.
544 Jersey avenue. Tel. 5S1.
The Jersey City news., 1902-11-14

GEORGE STEVENS. Underta ker.
No. Cos Jersey avenue. Tel. 124.
The Jersey City news., 1902-11-14

Choice selection of Cut Flowers ane
Funeral Designs,
At COLES. the Florist,
No. 146 Newark Avenue.
The Jersey City news., 1902-11-14

WILLIAM ]. MORAN. Undettaksr.
lat Montgomery street. Tel. BAT.
The Jersey City news., 1902-11-14

Happiness is the proper goal OF human effort,
and health Is Indispensable to it--take Hood >
SaraanariHa.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
GREAT IS MoRcoNl.
solves the Pr0bIen Of wIreIess Trans.

serves the PROBLEM OF Witches iEahS'
oceanic Communication.
Halifax, N. S., Dec. 23.-After eight
experiments conducted with the great
est secrecy, Marconi announces that he
has solved the problem OF wireless
transoceanic communication and has
successfully transmitted messages
from the shores of Canada to the coast
of England The formal announce
ment of this achievement was made by
the inventor himself yesterday when
he stated that wireless messages had
been successfully transmitted and for
warded from the governor general OF
Canada to King Edward VII. OF Great
Britain and to the king of Italy.
DR.. George r. Parkin, principal OF
Upper Canada college, trustee of the
Rhodes scholarships, was present
when one of the successful tests was
made. Prior to December, 1901, the
greatest distance covered
BY Wireless Telegraphy
scarcely exceeded 100 miles. Early in
that year Marconi visited Newfound-
land and from Signal Hill commenced
experiments with Cornwall, and on
Dec. IL and 10 of that year, faint sig
mails of the letter IS" repeated several
times, were caught by ear only with
the aid of telephones. Later on Mar
conf, on board OF the steamship Phila-
delphia, bound for America, succeeded
In establishing communication with
Cornwall, a distance OF 2.100 miles.
Transoceanic messages also were re-
ceived on board the Italian warship
Carlo Alberto while that vessel lay at
anchor in Sydney harbor on Oct. 81,
and since then Marconi has been per-
fecting the apparatus at Table Head.
He met with innumerable difficulties
there, but at last has succeeded in
sending transoceanic wireless mes
sage from Canada to Cornwall, dis
lance of $4,000 miles. The Carlo Al
berto soOe days ago, was ordered to
proceed to Venezuela, but as her i'm
mediate departure would seriously de-
lay
Marconi' operations,
the order was modified and she was
held at Sydney until transatlantic COM
munication was successfully accom-.
plished. She has sailed for Venezuela
TO take part in the blockade operations
London, Dec. 23-The London Times
confirms the receipt Of a message by
wireless telegraphy from Marconi at
Cape Breton.
The text OF the wireless message
from the Times correspondent, which
was transmitted from Glace Bay, N. B.,
to Poldhu, Cornwall, is as follows:
Being present at its transmission in
Sig. Marconi's Canadian station have
the honor TO send through the Times
the inventors first wireless transatlan-
tic message of greeting to England
and Italy"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The bill inhibits the introduction
into any state or territory or the DIS
trict of Columbia from ally other state
or territory or the District OF Column
bia, or from any foreign country. or
the shipment to any foreign country,
of any article of food or drug which Is
adulterated or misbranded.
The above inhibition is made to ap-
ply to any one shipping. delivering, or
receiving within the regions named
any such food so adulterated. Adulter-
ations in the bill are defined as fol-
lows:
In the case Of drugs. II sold under a
name recognized In the United States
pharmacopoela and the drug diners
from the standards of strength, quail
ity or purity as determined by the
test laid down in such pharmacopoeia
at the time of the investigation so that
its strength or purity falls below the
professed standard under which II is
sold; IL it be
An Imitation OF,
or offered for sale under the name OF
another article, and in the case OF a
confectionery II it contain terra alba,
tale, chrome yellow or other mineral
substances, or poisonous colors or
flayors. In the case Of foods, when
any substance is mixed with 1t so as
to lower or injuriously affect its quail
ity or strength so that such product
when offered for sale shall tend to de-
ceive the purchaser.
IL any substance or substances has
been substituted so that the product
when sold shall tend to deceive the
purchaser.
If any valuable constituent of an
article has been wholly or in part abb
stracted.
If it be an imitation or offered for
sale under the distinctive name OF an
other article.
If it be mixed, colored, powdered or
stained in a manner whereby damage
or inferiority is concealed.
If it contain any added or poisonous
ingredient which may render such
article
Injurious to Health.
If il is falsely labeled as a foreign
product or imitation of another sub.
stance OF a previously established
name, or which has been trade-marked
or patented.
II it consists in whole or In part of
a filthy, decomposed or putrid animal
or vegetable substance or any portion
of animal unfit for food, or If II is the
product of a diseased animal or one
that has died otherwise than by
slaughter.
The last section OF the bill provides
that any article OF food or drug that is
adulterated or misbranded within the
meaning OF this bill and is transported,
or being transported from one state to
another state, or il 1t be sold in the
District of Colombia or the territories,
or II it be imported from a foreign
country, shall be liable to confscation
by process of libel for condemna-
ton in the United States courts. Such
goods, it is also provided, shall not be
sold in any state contrary to the laws
thereof.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
DEATH IN A WRECK.
Sixteen Persons Their Lives as a Re-
suit of a Collision

Sixteen Persons Their Lives as a Re-
suit Of Collision
Martinez, Cal, Dec. GAS result
of a rear-end collision between the
Stockton flyer and the "owl" train on
the Southern Pacific at Byron, twenty
deaths have already been recorded
and there are indications that the total
will soon be raised to twenty. Most
Of the wounded passengers who were
too severely injured to be taken to
their homes were taken TO the South
ern Pacific hospital at San Francisco,
and on the way to that place five vic
Tins died. Twenty-Five of the injured
reached the hospital, where 1t was an
nounced later that two would prob
ably succumb. OF ne twenty-five pa
tients only three were permitted to re-
ceive visitors, so seriously were they
suffering. 1t was a rear-end collision,
the engine of the local
Flowing Its Way
into the last coaches of the owl"
which was filed with Fresno people.
The passengers who escaped death
were hurled to the fore part of the
coach and crushed in the mass of
debris. Their sufferings and danger
were intensified hundred fold by the
clouds of scalding steam that poured
out upon them from the shattered
boiler of the Stockton engine.
After the "owl" left Molite It was
noticed there was leak in the flue of
the boiler. This increased to such an
extent that it was decided to stop here
and take on fresh engine for relief
The train known as the Stockton local
was following half mile behind, and
a flagInan was sent back down the
track
To Give Warning
of the presence of the Fowl" II is said
that the Stockton train, in charge of
Engineer Mcguire and Fireman Joyce,
got the warning signal in due time and
gave the usual responsive whistle
LASTS. Why the incoming train was
IT checked, however, has not been
thus far explained. the men who could
give the facts being numbered with the
badly injured On came the train with
apparently scarcely any diminution of
speed, and the Fresno coach was com
! pletely telescoped. So forcibly did the
local meet the rear end of the "owl"
that the second car the dining car,
was smashed in and tho three cooks
were seriously hurt The penned-up
| passengers were spared from fire be-
cause the oil burners were ex.
| tinguished when
The Crash Came.
Relief quickly came to the passen.
| gers who were pinned in the wreckage,
axes and saws being brought into play
and passengers and train crews lend
ing every aid. Messengers were sent
TO Byron Hot Springs, a short distance
| away. and Dr. Bird of the Springs.
with Or. j. ID. Davidson of Fresno, who
was a guest, came quickly to the sta.
ton. A trained nurse accompanied
! them and first aid was at once given to
the mangled, bruised and crushed suf-
ferers who We're lying near the track
Every effort was made to alleviate
their sufferings,- and those who were
unable to proceed on their Journey
We're taken to the Springs hotel or to
the church in Byron, which was tenn
porarily transferred into a hospital.
None of the passengers Of the Stock
ton train were injured, and ali of the
crew of the "owl" escaped unhurt.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
IN DREAD OF PLAGUE.

MeSiosns Fcsr Il Is the Bubonlc
Disease.
Mexico City. Dec %. - There "a
much alarm on the west coast over the
reported appearance Of bubonic plague
at Maatlan The local doctors assert
that II is the true form of the Asiatic
plague, but the doctors of the British
warship Grafton decided that ~ 10
something else. However. the Grafton
has left the port. The governor OF the
State of Sinola is investigating.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
Natural Gas Exnlnslnn

Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. 20. - An explo-
sion of natural gas in the boarding
house of Mrs. Laura Richards, on Nc
Kean street, early yesterday resulted
in the probable fatal burning of one
man and the serious injury Of two 9TH
erS
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
Charned Mith ninamu

Chicago. Dec. %. Frank Bernard
Cooper, said to be the Western agent
Tor several large publishing houses in
the East. was arrested here yesterday
on warrant charging him with big
amy The warrant was sworn out by
j. A. Yorston
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
Gran Game Ends Fatally.

Terre Haute, Ind, Dec. 20. - In a
quarrel over crap game in a gam
bling room last night Kennon j. New
lin assaulted Walter Crossman, crush
ing his head with a cuspidor. Cross
man died later. Newlin escaped.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

A physician declares that people,
who sleep with their mouths shut live
the longest. To this might be added
that If they keep them shut while
awake they live the more comfort
ably.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
DE Rvdzewskl la Eree.

Paris, Dec. 23,--The death of Mrs.
Ellen Gore, the woman who was shot
In the rooms of Jean de Rydzewski,
Russian singer, having been medically
certified as accidental, the judicial au-
thorities have abandoned the prosecu-
ton of DE Rydzewsld.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The painter Verestchagin 81 I s143,.
o45 worth of his paintings in one day
at New York recently. In order 10
bring the millennium 1t only remains
now for somebody to get rich writing
poetry.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

A dead Indian is not the only good
Indian after all. Twas redskin who
gave the information that led to
the discovery of the Alaskan boundary
monuments.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The Cleveland Plain Dealer spoke
of the growing disuse OF the high
silk hat and the New York Sun
wants to know what SILK hat" is,
anyway. Maybe the Sun would call
81 a plug hat"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

Resume of the Weeks
Proceedings.
In the Senate.


Washington, Dec. 16. - The senate
yesterday discussed the bill TO pro-
mote the efficiency of militia and also
the omnibus statehood bill. After
agreeing to the concurrent resolution
OF the house for an adjournment from
Dec. 20 to Jan. 8, Mr.. Proctor called
up the militia bill An amendment by
Mr.. Pettus striking from the bill sec
ton "a, having particular reference to
the reserve force of trained men, pro-
voked some discussion. The bill was
laid aside for the omnibus statehood
bill, Senator Dillingham; of Vermont,
who Is opposed to the bill, occupying
the time of the senate for the remain
der of the day in rehearsing the tesu-
mony taken by the subcommittee OF
the committee on territories during its
tour of inves tigation in Arizona, New
Mexico and Oklahoma. After a brief
executive session the senate ad-
journed.
In the House.
The house passed the senate bill for
a union railroad station in this city
to cost 100000. The house also
passed an urgent deficiency bill which
carried among other items an appro-
priation Of $500. 900 for eradicating the
foot and mouth disease in New Eng
land. A bill was passed to provide for
the allotment in seyeralty of the lands
of the New York Indians.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
Section Men Injured

Oskaloosa. Iowa, Dec. 22.-In rear
end collision on the Rock Island road
between a work train and a freight
train four section men were injured
and two locomotives were demolished'
yesterday.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
Seminary seorehed bx Elre.

New Milford, Conn, Dec. 23.-Ingle-
side school, large Snd fashionable
seminary for young ladies, conducted
by Mrs. William ID. Black, was partly
destroyed by FIRE of unknown origin
yesterday. and caused $4,000 damage.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

A physician says that habitual lying
in boys is due to poor circulation.
The same thing may be said of GER
tain publications, and the remark will
not be speculative, either.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

King Leopold says the anarchists
can't scare him out. but it is reported
that he turns pale whenever he hears
the cook making the steak tender WITH
the potato-masher.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

Uncle Sam is mounting a gun that
with 1000 pounds of powder will send
a projectile weighing 1870 pounds
distance of twenty-one miles. This is
putting the strenuous life into metal
with a vengeance
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The Doukhobors or Russian Quak
ers who are thinking of migrating
from Russia to Turkey have presum-
ably never heard the adage about the
fryingpan and the fire.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

Mrs. Nation was shocked at the ex-
trayagant display made by New York's
400" at the horse show The New
Workers can return the shock when
Mrs. Nation appears on the stage.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

Herr Krupp had a system of PEN
sioning his employees. His system also
embraced plans and specifications
whereby the employees footed the pen.
sion bills.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

Sioux City, iowa, Dec. %. - At
George, Iowa, August Bunge shot and
mortally wounded Helmer Deboor
yesterday as result of quarrel over
rent OF land. Bunge Is under arrest
Both men are farmers.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
Indian Slain in a Quarrel.

Sioux City, Iowa, Dec 23.--In quar-
rel on Winnebago Indian reservation,
across the river from here, Little Jim,
an Indian, was slain yesterday. James
Davis and Howard Mckee, Indians, are
under arrest.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

A French scientist has found way
to make alcoholic liquors harmless.
But the trouble is people will go on
using the other kind.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

A Philadelphia wife carelessly left
$500 In stove. II her husband had
borrowed 10 cents from her she would
not have forgotten 1t for minute this
side of doomsday.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

Hetty Green is seeking to foreclose
on a Chicago church. Is this to be
construed as an effort to lay UP some
treasure In heaven?
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The Maine bride who stopped the
marriage ceremony in order to pin her
veil on straight should certainly man
age to get along through this matter
of-fact old world.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
La the House.

Washington, Dec. 20. - The house
yesterday passed the pure food bill by
a vote of 70 to 81. There was not a
quorum present, but the point was not
raised by the opponents of the meas.
ure
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The sultan contributes HIS mite to-
ward advancing the millennium by
buying 100000 worth of Krupp
peace-makers.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
BUS MEN TO FEAST.
Baron RothschiId Gives Each a Brace
of Pheasanfs

London, Dec. 23.--The bus men OF
London yesterday carried whips dec
GRATED with purple and orange, the
racing colors of Baron Rothschild, II
recognition Of the great bankers an
nual present of a brace of pheasants to
each driver and conductor of London
bus. Many displayed their birds in
front of the vehicle to the front row
of passengers and talked of the merits
of their previous presents and the
prospects Of the coming feast.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The American Federation of Labor
is to hold its convention next year in
Boston-where it can get nearer
view of President Eliot.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

In the death of Herr Krupp 1t may
truthfully be said that Emperor Will
lam has lost one Of his best fortiflca-
tons.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The laws of hospitality have had E
good many amendments since the days
of scattered population and stage
coaches.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

II has been found that many of
New York's churches are unsanitary
1t will be a wonder If they get any of
the men into them after this.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

They are actually scrambling in
Germany to see who viii be chosen as
ambassador to this country. Uncle
Sam will now order still larger hat.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

II certainly can do the Boer cause
no harm to note that Chamberlain and
Botha are actually growing chummy.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

La Soufriere is just like profess
sional pugilist. The foolish old thing
doesn't know when to stop.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

Wizard Edison is said to be absent
minded. What if be should forget to
turn on the electricity some day!
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

Papa's pocketbook is in the very
midst of the strenuous life we hear so
much about.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

A treaty OF peace has been signed
In Colombia Both the revolutionists
and the government have agreed not
to throw any dirt on the canal.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The man who invented the fiat" is
dead, and a good many people who
live in them would about as soon be.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25
CAR RAN AWAY.
1t Slips Down Grade and Kills TWO
Enqineers.

Bradford, Pa, Dec. ga car heayi.
ly loaded with lumber on Mays siding.
near Wetmore, on the Philadelphia r.
Erie railroad, ran away down a steep
grade and rushed into a double.header
freight going east. The lumber on
the car showed forward and pinned
both engineers In the wreck. killing
them instantly. Three others were in.
jured.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

The oil brick did not stay with us
90 long as the gold brick.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

Slenkiewlez always uses red ink
IL writing his MSS. And his books are
read.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-25

John L, Sullivan is now firmly con,
WINGED of the ingratitude of republics.