Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-08
Non Patented Mining Claims Come in for Share of Discus sion - Caught by the lm- migration Officers.
Gaines Loses Suit for Increase in Salary, Date Being Set by the Court as to Time It Should Take Effect,
Especial to Review.)

sSf supervisors met last evening as beard of equalization and will meet as such day by day until they have gone over the assessment rolls Tor tats year and made such changes as they deem best in the amounts as ra- turned by County Assessor B. J. 0,Reilly. At the meeting last even ing no raises were made, the board <z.iker going over in informal man. ner the values placed on reai estate in the main portions of the towns oi Bisbee, Douglas, Lowell, etc.
 The rolls this year show a consider able increase over last year, but the exact amount cannot be determined for few days until the footings have been gone over again. The matter of putting the non-pat- saIed mining claims on the list was discussed at some length by the mem bers of the board, but no conclusion wzs arrived al. Supervisor Riggs staied to the board the arguments that were presented to him by Attor- ney General Clark at the recent meet ing of the supervisors held in Phoe- nix why the claims should be put on and also that a resolution was adopted at that meeting that they be put on at rate of 500 per claim, which is the value they are put on m Graham county, which county was | adopted as a standard. MT. Riggs op- posed this resolution and with one or tso others voted against tine measure.
 The general opinion is that non- patented mining claim cannot be as seSssd, as the owner is only on the IaRi by permission of the government, in reality a squatter5 and if he fails 50 do his annual assessment work loses the ground and it can be taken up by anyoN else or it reverts back to tbg Government. The improvements placed on this sort of property have always been assessed, but never on the mine itself. It is doubtful if the board will take any action in the mat ger.
 One of the members of the Tomb stOhe hose team that went to Doug las was compelled to dig up the sum ot S2 to the United States Immigration inspectors at Douglas, as he went across the line into Aqua Priet2 with d number of other Tombstone people and upon their return they were stopped by the immigration insp2c- tors at the line. The victim, Tommy Cowan, happened to be the first one that was stopped by the inspector, who asked his place of birth. He re- piled England" and he was then informed that he would have to pay the head tax of g before he could re enter the United States. He inform cd the inspector that he had been resident of the United States for over thIee years and had taken out his first papers and declared his intention b become an American citizen, but ahe inspector said that maGs no dif- ference whatever, and that he would have to pay the head tax required Of all foreigners that enter the United States. The matter has caused con siderable comment, and iL is the opin- ion of number, and among those IllaI have considerable to do with the naturalization laws, that the in Spector exceeded his authority in making Cowan pay the head tax after he had been a resident of the United States for three years and had taken Sut his first papers.
 Tommy has his receipt to Show for the money that he paid. but that does rot pay for the amount of joshing that he has been getting sInce he was con- pelled to dig up, and no doubt will get for sometime 10 come.
 Clerk of the Court George B. Wilcox has received orders from the govern Eseut officials at Washington to the effect that hereafter all clerks of the United States courts will be required SO make out a quarterly report, show ing all the msney that they receive during that period and from what source, not only from the United Safes court, but from the district court and any other. The salary or fees of a clerk of the United States are supposed not to exceed s3500 a year, which amount is fixed by the United States law. The clerks have always been required to file a quar- Ieriy report of the money collected by them in the United States court, Ilse new order compels them to give the amount from every source.
 Big Lion Skin.
 H. ". Merrill, an old tTapper, was Iz the city today from the vicinity of Hooker Hot Springs. where he is employed by the cattlemen to trap and kill such animals as are likely to feed upon young cattle and colts. Be. sides being rewarded for each animal killed by the catIlemen, he brings the hides and scalps into the county seat in which they were killed and obtains the bounty allowed by the law He brought with him this trip one mountain lion skin that measures eight feet from tip to tip. eight skins of timber wolves. These are rather N large. some of them measuring from