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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07

The house OF representatives has
fallen into line with the senate aud
passed a nakeshift anti pass bill.
1t permits. the railroads TO issue
passes to almost anyone. We are
pleased to announce that Represent
alive Adams voted against the
bungle. He voted in favor of the
Stone bill, which was a good bill,
but when it got back from the senate
it was railroad bill and Adams
would not stand for it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07
Notice

The Southwest Telephone Co. de-
sire all accounts settled with them
the first of the year. Their terms
are payable quarterly in advance
and must be complied with. Call
and settle.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07

While Chas. E. Moore, of West
Plains twp. was burning tras in a
field last week, assisted b IL
year old daughter, the young lad, IS
clothing caught fire and by great
presence of mind saved herself by
lying down and fighting. the flames.
The girls hair was badly burned and
her clothes almost burned from her
body.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07

w, E. PlJts, formerly of this place,
has been assistant secretary of the
state senate. Bill seems to have a
good pull as he has had a job in the
senate for several years.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07
MEADE
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
KANSAS

State of Kansas, Meade county. S. In the
Probate Court in and for said County, in the mat
ter Of the estate Of Joseph H Peat, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters of Admins
tration have been granted to the undersigned, on
the estate of Joseph Peat, late of said County
deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court Of
the County and State aforesaid, dated the 18th
day of January, A. d. 1907. Now, all persons
having any claims against the said estate, are
notified that they must present the same to the
undersigned for allowance within one year from
the date of said Letters, or they may be preluds
from any benefitpof such estate; and that il such
claims be not exhibited within three years afte
the date of said Letters, they shall be forever
barred. NANCY S. PEAT,
Administrative
Of the estate of Joseph II Peat. deceased. fp214
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07

The Meade Gram & Seed Co.
have a good stock of oil cake.
See Fees wall paper stock. The
newest and finest in the city.
We have just received some of the
Finest Chinaware ever seen in
Meade.-The Model.
Tohn Block can be found at the
Owl Restaurant, ready to clean or
press your clothes. He guarantees
his work.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07

Good seed barley for sale.-B.
BUS.
For plastering and cement work
call on A. JACK BYRNs, for lowest
prices.
WILSON has Cheap Corn. Come
ana see at Red Feed Barn, east Of
Carthage Avenue.
For insurance on your property
call on Griggs & Wehrle at the
News building.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. Druggists refund money if it
fails to cure. E. w. Groves sig
nature is on each box. 55c.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07
Fer Sale

Three residences in Meade all
nice l.r' p-r;y well /, ca,.d, call on
or address, Farmers Land Co..
Meade, Kansas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07
AUCTIONEER.

" YOU are thinking of having public ale
see J. w. KENNEY. l will sell your pr err
ty for as much as any one and CHI rye ri a
great deal less. If don't give satisfact On
will not charge you one cent. 1 have been
IN business for sixteen years. Terms can
be had atthe National Bank, of Meade, or
the State Bank, of Plains, nans
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07
w. III. Tracy
The Live Stock Auction
Pratt Kansas

If you contemplate having public sale at
any time or any place don't fall to write or
wire w. H. Tracy at Pratt, Kansas. He is
an up-to-date auctioneer and has no other
business, consequently he devotes his entire
time in keeping himself posted in all lines of
property he may have to sell and is COM
petent Judge of valves of all classes of live
stock. No man is fitted to sell your stock un-
less he is posted on quality and values. Is
the high dollar for you means reputation
for him, end, he will work for you from tn
time your sale is billed until the last article is
sold. His terms are reasonable and can be
had at The Meade State Bank, First Nation
al Bank or Fowler State Bank.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07

John Kibby shipped car load of
cattle this week. 1t was "a mixed
bunch.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07
Congress has adjourned.

Ex-senator Burton will be out of
Jail March a2nd. He gets thirty
days off for good behavior.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07

WANTED AT ONCE-I75 acres of
sod broken, SITS per acre. Enquire
of ]. f. MCKINNEY, Meade, Kas.
WANTED-Lady to advertise our
goods locally. Several weeks home
work. Salary SI2.oo per week,
81 day for expenses. SAUNDERS
ECo., Dept. w, 46-4S Jackson Boule-
ward, Chicago, Ill.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07
COAL! COAL!

l have coal on hands at all times.
See me for prices.
A. o. ROSENBERRY,
Meade, Kansas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07
Basis OF Assessment For 1907.

Meade, Kansas, March 4th, 1907.
Township of Meade County Kansas
County h 1907 and organized by electng
Judd Chairman ]. c. Hall, Secretary
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29

An old traveller tells of an experience
81 his in midocean. The day was fog
gy, and most Of the passengers were
below listening to two evangelists
who were holding particularly fervid
gospel meeting in the saloon. Suddenly
and without the slightest warning
there was terrific crash and the en-
gines stopped. Every one rushed on
deck. The steamer had run into an ice.
berg.
Nobody knew what damage had been
done, and everybody was ready to fly
into panic. The boats were lowered,
and then for the first time the two
evangelists, who had been forgotten In
the saloon, appeared on deck. They
wore their overcoats and their hats,
and they carried rugs and handbags.
They elbowed their way rudely to the
rail, with the evident intent of secur.
ing for themselves first places in the
boat. 1t was just at time when a
breath would have sent the passengers
panic stricken into the boats.
The sight of the two evangelists was
about to undo the work of cool headed
officers when a pert little cockney
stepped up to the gentlemen with the
rugs and handbags.
beg pardon" said he, tipping his
cap, Gave a cab, STRIP
And in the general laugh the danger
of panic was ayerted.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29
lndeakruckibIe Cat,

While expounding to his wife thu
alleged fact that men can control theil
tempers better than women can, Mr.
Kinks fell over the cat and nearly
broke his nose.
THAT settles itv' he Kissed. "I've
often threatened, but now I'll drown
the brute!"
His wife begged him to be merciful
but his mind was made up.
Accordingly he placed the offending
feline, along with two large bricks
in an old flour sack and fastened upon
his murderous errand. On reaching
the canal he threw in the bag with
such vigor that he overbalanced and
fell into the muddy water. After strug
Cling for half an hour and incidentally
drinking half the water in the canal
he returned home wet and weary.
At the door sat the cat.
well, of alp exclaimed Kinks
why, drowned the brutet'
II don't think So" said his wife az
she let him in. you didn't give me
time to tell you that there was a hole
in that bagl"-London Answers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29
He Picked Than.

An English commercial traveller Wis.
iting a large Glasgow warehouse made
a bet with the manager that he could
pick out all the married men among the
employees. Accordingly he stationed
himself al the door as they came back
from dinner and mentioned all those
whom he believed to be married, and
in almost every case he was right.
How do you do it?" asked the man
ager In amazement.
"oh, it's quite simple" said the
traveller, quite simple. The married
men all wipe their feet on the mat
the unmarried ones GLASGOW
Times.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29
WaNaa of Wafar.

Waves are deceptive things To look
at them one would gather the impress.
sion that the whole water travelled
This, however, is not SO. The water
stays in the same place, but the mo.
ton goes on. In great storms waves
are sometimes forty feet high, and
their crests travel fifty miles an hour
The base of wave (the distance from
valley to Valley is usually considered
as being fifteen times the height OF
the wave. Therefore a wave twenty.
five feet high would have base ex.
tending 375 feet. The force Of waves
breaking on the shore is seventeen
tons to the square inch.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29
Whisky and Typhoid.

1t may be interesting for you to
know that habitual whisky drinkers
never recover when once attacked
with typhoid fever or pneumonia. The
whisky makes the system unfit tc
Withstand the ravages of the disease,
and death is always the result. Emf
nent physicians all over the world
have noted and studied this fact.-E
V. Conden In Nashville Tennesseean.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29

First HANDWRITING must have been
very expensive in the middle ages
They used feathers for pens Second
Man-Why should they be expensivei
First MAXWELL, was only judging
from my wife's hats.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29

Ella-I have seen twenty-five sum.
mers.
Stella-I wish We're as nearsighted
as you are.-Illustrated Bits.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29

nOnn To women for collecting names
FnN and selling our novelties, we
give big premiums. -
Send your name to-day for our new plan
of BIG PROFITS with little work.
Write to-day. Address
G. r. MOSELEY,
Premium Department,
80 East 23rd Street, New York city.
june 2l-v
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29
Furnishing Department

This department shows Manhattan" Shirts "Aders" Gloves
E W" and "Aw" Collars and Cuffs Norfolk and "New
wick" and "Wrights Health" Underwear
apr'l9june l4M
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29

HAVING LAID IN THE LARGEST AND
IL most fashionable stock of furniture ever
in Montgomery county, am ready to rye
customers in the Humphrey Building, Rock
willie. large rear addition to which has re-
Gently been made and used BY me in this line,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-11-29
tine payments as they become uut
The real estate man hesitated.

The real estate man hesitated.
Il should want to be sure of you
paying for the property in the stipu.
lated time" he said. 81 should feel like
criminal If l had to foreclose the
mortgage at any time-and yet bust
ness is business. I shall have to SO.
your daughters"
She brought them to his Office the
next day.
Madam" he said. shaking his head
"you will have to give me some ad.
ditional security. Your daughters are
too handsome. They will marry and
lose their jobs long before the FIVE
years are up"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-14

All stocks Of corporations organized
under the laws Of other States than
Illinois, that are owned In Chicago, are
taxable here.
But through some oversight of the
Board Of Assessors and Board of Re
view. a majority Of the most valuable
escape taxation.
The Chicago Eagle has been looking
up the facts In this matter, us 1t IL
of paramount Importance to every man,
woman and child In the city.
Already enough valuable stock In
outside corporations has been found
omitted from the tax schedules to foot
up a good total In taxes alone OF $oO,.
100000.
Twenty millions Of dollars!
Just think Of 1t.
Why, that sum would buy all Of the
street railroads in Chicago, equipment
and all.
II would raise the salaries of the
Rrcmen of Chicago, and they ought
to be raised.
1t would raise the salaries Of the
school teachers and they ought to be
raised.
1t would give us the best lighted and
best paved and cleanest streets In the
world, and a lot Of other good things
besides.
The Chicago method OF taxation Is
TO take the total valuation and then
make the owner pay on one-flfth Of that
valuation.
The tax Is about Z per cent on this
fifth.
Where taxes have not been paid on
any foreign capital stock, the Supreme
Court has decided that the authorities
can 60 back and collect taxes for five
Yeas.
This is where the twenty millions
will come In.
Let us look at few corporations,
for example, and see what we can fig
ure out.
Here Is foreign corporation to
commence with that we don't find on
recent tax hooks:
Swift's Refrigerator Transportation
Company, organized under the laws of
the state of Maine.
Capital stock, $5O0O,C60.
Every cent OF this stock Is owned In
this city.
How much OF 1t Ia taxed by the
Board of Review?
If, as Is alleged, this stock has es-
capped taxation here, then there Is due
the people from this source alone, for
five years, at $4,000 per year, the fine
sum of $35O,00O, enough to raise the
salaries of fremen and school teachers.
Under the decision Of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, you can 60 back five
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-14

years In each and every case for back
taxes and all stock Of foreign corpora.
tlons held in Illinois. Is taxable, the
rate being Z per cent on one-ffth Of
the par value.
Governor Denecn is now going after
the Illinois Central Railroad for its
back taxes for five years.
In this connection he should not
overlook the Chicago Junction Railway.
Neither should the Board Of Review.
The Chicago Junction Railway Is
capitalized as follows:
Common stock, $8,50O.O0O.
Preferred stock, $6,50O,OOO.
Total stock value, $13OOO.OOO.
The Chicago Junction Railway Is In.
corporated under the laws Of the State
Of New Jersey, and every dollar of Its
stock IL owned In this city.
And every dollar Of 1t Is taxable
here. Don't You forget that.
Let us see how the taxes of the Chi
cago Junction Railway figure up for
five years:
The tax is Z per cent on one-ffth Of
the valuation.
One-ffth of S13,OOOOOO Is $4,000. 900.
and the taxes on this for one year
amount to $4,000.
For five years this reaches the re-
spectacle sum of 100000.
What do you think of that?
How many school houses would this
sum build?
How many flremen, school teachers
and policemen would 1t pay?
How many electric lights would 1t
put In service?
Where is the Board Of Review?
What Is the Board of Review going
to do about 1t?
The North American Transportation
and Trading Company Is capitalized
for $5,OOOOOO.
Let the Board of Review get busy In
this direction and add $35O,OOO more
In taxes to the credit Of the people.
The stock Of the Union Stock Yards
Company of South Omaha, a Nebraska
corporation, Is all owned In Chicago
and taxable here, but 1t seems, like
others, to have been overlooked.
The Union Stock Yards of South
Omaha, Is corporation capitalized at
$7,50O,0OO.
The taxes on this stock, II collected
for five years, would put $525, 900 in
the peoples treasury.
Where Is the Board Of Review?
Why Is this concern overlooked?
Libby, McNelll & Libby Is New
Jersey corporation capitalized Mt $2..
100000.
Every dollar of 1t owned in Chicago
The taxes on this for five years foots
up $4,000.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-14
)R THE PEOPLE TO DEMAND AN ACCOUNTING

Libby, OF Maine; John p. Squire &
Company, New Jersey corporation,
with big packing plant In Cambridge,
Alass.. and branches oil over New En-.
gland; Boston Packing & Provision
Company, of Massachusetts,; New En-.
gland Dressed Meat 4 Wool Company
Of Maine; North Packing 4 Provision
Company Of Maine; Sperry & Barnes
Company Of Connecticut; SturteSant
& Haley of Boston; p. Merwln Com
pany. Worcester, Mass; Springfield
Provision Company, Springfield, Mass. (;
White, Percy 4 Dexter Company,
Worcester, Mass; Halstead & Com.
pany, New York; G. II. Davis & Co.,
Norwich, Conn.,. Blmbler, Van Wagon.
en- 4 Company, Newark, New Jersey.
The capital stock Of all Of the above
corporations being owned In Chicago.
Why don't the people Of Chicago get
the benefit of It?
The Board Of Review certainly ought
to get enough out Of them to enable
the city to equip a good street car line.
Armour & Company, a big Chicago
and Illinois corporation, owns a great
deal Of stock In outside corporations.
Among others Armour Il Company
OF New Jersey.
The following taken from pages 201
and 202 Of the report Of the United
States Commissioner of Corporations,
tells us something upon this subject: !:
"The New Jersey corporation was
formed for the purpose OF transactlng
certain business which tho Illinois
corporation was not authorized to
transact. Armour & Co. of New Jer-
sey operates practically all the branch
houses for the sale OF beef and other
packing house products supplied by
Armour Il Co. Of Illinois. 1t also owns
the Armour packing houses Mt Sioux
City and Fort Worth. For cOnven-
lence the accounts Of Armour & Co. of
New Jersey are carried on the books
Of Armour & Co. OF Illinois. 10 ascer.
tain the business transactions Of the
New Jersey corporation, 1t Is merely
necessary to take the accounts relating
to the branch houses and those relating
to the Fort Worth and Sioux City
packing houses. The company, how.
ever, Is a genuine one, having large
actual assets Of Its own, not a mere
paper name. 1t has no separate books
and no profits separate from those ap.
pearlng In the accounts Of Armour &
Co. of Illinois"
After reading the above from the re.
port of the United States Commissioner
OF Corporations, we would like to ask
where our Board of Assessors and
Board of Review have been?
BY going back for Ave years and
collecting the taxes on the stock OF this
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-14

The Kansas City Stock Yards is an.
other outside corporation.
1t Is from Missouri, but every dollar
Of Its $0.OOO.OO0 capital is owned In
Chicago.
We have failed to find where the Chi.
cago men who own this stock have paid
any taxes on II.
The taxes on this fine bunch for five
years, II collected, would net the peo.
pie OF Chicago $G30O0O.
Swift & Company, Of Illinois, that
great corporation capitalized for $5O,.
100000. should pay taxes on every dol.
lars worth Of stock 1t owns In foreign
corporations.
Has the Board of Review ever taken
any steps to ascertain how much this
corporation or its officers own In COR.
poratlOns outside the State?
Perhaps we may help them by quot.
Ing the following list Of outside corpo.
ratlons owned by Swift & Company, Of
Illinois, according to the report Of the
United States Commissioner Of Corpo.
ratiOns:
Swift & Company, Of Maine, corpo.
ration which sells the output Of Swift
& Co., OF Illinois, in the New England
States and parts of New York and New
Jersey, and owns controlling interest
In the firms of the Swift Beef Com
pany, of Boston; G. +. and Il. c. Swift,
Boston; G. i. Swift s. Company. Bos-
ton, and n. u. Hollis & Company, Bos-
ton, Massachusetts.
Swift 4 Company, of West virginia,
which operates many branches In sew.
eral different States for selling beef,
pork, mutton, canned goods, ETC., etc.
Swift & Company, Of New York,
which controls large number Of
branch houses In the State of New
York, all doing big business.
Swift Fertilizer Works, engaged In
manufacturing fertilizers In the State
of Georgia.
Swift Refrigerator Transportation
Company, and Swift Live Stock Trans
portation Company, corporations Of
the State of Maine.
Swift Beef Company, Limited, doing
business In Great Britain.
Swift Packing Company, selling
agents for Swift & Company of I'LL
nOis, In Germany.
Swift Il Company Of Illinois are
said to own large blocks of stock in the
Union Stock Yards Company of Oma-
ha, the Kansas City Stock Yards Com
pany, the Fort Worth Stock Yards
Company, the st. Joseph Stock Yards
Company, and the st. Paul Union Stock
Yards Company.
Besides the corporations already
named, the Swifts are said to own and
absolutely control Libby, McNeill &
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-14

baggers who are claiming TO have done
all the work, literary and otherwise
which elected Russc, but whose chief
claim to fame lies In an extraordinary
ana fearfully developed case of Elc-
phantIasls Of the Head.
~kS2A
When one thinks of the fact that
the packers have raised the price
Of food on every man, woman and child
In the country, the wonder Il that any
Official would have the temerlty TO over.
look their taxes,
&e~
The Eagle will keep up the fight for
honest taxation, II it takes years TO
bring about reform.
~
II that big Armour estate, estimated
at one time at S2j,COo,OCO has been dis
trbuted In Chicago, the result does not
show on the tax books.
%c5sA
The recent great increase in the
price Of meat alone, ought TO have fur
nished the packers with enough money
TO pay their taxes upon all Of their
persona! property holdings, stocks,
bonds and everything else.
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We are surprised at the Swlfts and
Arnours hesltat!ng a minute about
handing over millions In taxes. Just
= cents pound on spare ribs alone adj
vanred In price at the right time,
would realize fortune in a day.
~E>
What Interest has always derived
the greatest benefit from the police
force In times OF strikes; The packing
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-14

interest, Of course. And yet this In.
terest owes over twenty millions Of
dollars to the people for back taxes.
%eSM
The poor man and the man In me-
dlum circumstances must bear the tax
burdens. The rich corporations and
their stockholders escape.
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The Board of Review will be held
to a strict accountability for Its fail.
ure to make outside corporations own
cd by Chicago packers, pay their just
share Of the taxes.
The people are talking more and
more about Armour and his taxes.
Lake Forest Assessments have been
made public. Miss Helen Culver
leads with SG31 900 worth of personal
property. Delavan Smith Is second
with $4,000. Carter ii. iFtZhugh Is
third with 100000. Where, oh,
where, Is Louis l.. Swift? Can 1t be
possible that he is among those who
'also ram?
How have the packing interests man.
aged to get so many representatives on
grand jurles in the past? This Is a
question that is frequently asked.
How Armour and Swift would hail
war with Japan! The market for
canned goods would get a great boost.
When millions Of taxes are wiped off
the books 1t must be for some cOnsid-
Grafton. What is this consideration?