The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-03-01
LEGAL-cR1M1NAL
Colorado Tax Invalid.

Colorado Tax Invalid.
Colorado's annual tax Of 4 cents a
thousand dollars of the capital stock
of foreign corporations doing business
in that state was held invalid by the
United States supreme court, the
court being divided 5 to 4. The test
case was brought by the smelling
trust,
Decision For Three Cent Fares.
The street railway monopoly of
Cleveland. O., was virtually put out
Of business by the decision Of the
United States supreme court that the
Cleveland Electric company does not
hold perpetual franchises. Although
the franchise Of the Forest City cor
poration, or municipal line, Is also rem
lered invalid. it's rival is to have no
rights except those that may be grant
ed, and it goes without saying that the
municipality headed by Mayor John
son will grant the necessary franchises
exclusively to the city owned corpora
ton unless the opposition company &C
cepts his ultimatum of a three cent
fare.
Stock Transfer Law Upheld.
The New York stock transfer tax
law was held valid by the United
States supreme court on a test case
brought by Robert j. Hatch. a New
York broker.
New York Anarchists Arrested.
Another meeting of. New York an
archists was broken up by the police.
and the anarchist leader, Emma Gold
man, who was making a speech. tell
ing why government should be over
thrown by force, was again arrested.
although she was already awaiting
trial on a previous charge. Along with
her the police took into custody Alex
ander Berkman, the man who shot II.
G. Prick fourteen years ago and with
whom Miss Goldman is living. al
though neither of them recognize the
formality of the marriage relation.
The chairman of the meeting, John Il.
Coryell, a middle aged man Of consid-
cradle wealth and education, was also
arrested. All were released on bail.
Bank Bomb Thrower Known.
The man who threw the bomb in the
offices of the Fourth Street National
bank Of Philadelphia, thus killing him
self, Cashier Mclean and a colored at
tendant, and injuring fifteen other per-
sons, was subsequently proved to have
been Rollo Steele. who lived for years
at Garner. Ia. and subsequently in
Chicago, where a wife and child sur
vive him. 1t Is the opinion of the de-
tectives that Steele's purpose was to
secure money as he threw the bomb.
after the officers of the bank had re-
fused to make him m unsecured loan
Of 5000. The bank building was much
damaged by the force Of the explosion.
Flower Fights E%xtradition.
DR.. r. C. Flower, the mining stock
fugitive from justice, who was arrest
cd at Philadelphia after a chase lasting
two years and reaching over South and
Central America. has announced his in
tention Of opposing extradition to New
York. where he skipped $4,000 bail In
1904. When arrested Flower was pos
ing as Professor Oxford and promoting
: new process for making artificial
diamonds aud rubies.
Held For Railroad Disaster.
The %coroner's jury at Washington
has held eight railroad officials and
trainmen responsible for the wreck on
the Baltimore and Ohio at Terra Gotta
which resulted in the death Of forty
three persons. The chief criminal re-
sponslbility is placed upon William
Outrow. the telegraph operator at the
entrance to the fatal block.
Iron Mountain Wabash Assailed.
In the Missouri supreme court At
torney General Hadley began suits to
annul the merger Of the Wabash. Mis-
souri, Pacific and Iron Mountain COM
panies and the Pacific Express com.
pany and to revoke the charter Of the
Pacific Express and the coal and ele-
vator companies Of the same group.
These suits are based on. the alleged
restraint Of trade. It being held that
the stock Of all the companies named
u owned by the Goulds.