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dred and forty citizens who in list
ing their property for taxation have
kept off the books ninety-four thou
sand dollars worth Of property
which should bear its part or the
burdens of state, county and city
government, but does not pay one
cent thereto. If one county SHOWS
this ascertained delinquency what do
our readers suppose would De the
sum total for the whole state OF the
property which does not, and has
not for years, paid any part OF the
taxes required to support the state,
the counties and the cities? Were
all of this property which escapes
taxation forced to bear its proper
tional part how much lower would
he the annual tax bills of those hon.
est people who give in all their
property.
Ananias and Sapphira are the
| progenitors of a host of property
| owners of the present generation
. VINO are not DiI uOiC II loSAh III eA~
were this couple of their ancestors.
There is, and always has been,
| something radically wrong in our
system of listing property for taxa
ton. This is known of all men who
have paid any attention to the sub
| iect or who have glanced over the
| tax books as the property returns
have been made year by year. This
statement from Greensboro Is pos
tive proof of this fact, so far, as
one county is concerned, and when
YOU take into consideration that, in
proportion to the amount OF taxable
property in each county in the state,
the same thing is done the state
over, one can realize what burden
is put on the honest tax payers by
the dishonest ones. Surely there
is reform needed in this matter
and the people should see that there
- is assembled in Raleigh next win
} ter body of legislators who have
the ability and the courage to give
. the people a fair and just law al
7 to taxation.
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ablest text writer's In support OF the
opinion. The court lays down this
as an undeniable principle OF law
since King James time down to this
date and recognized and acted upon
bv all courts and text writer's, viz:
That where a statute creates lHl
offence, which was not an oftoxe
before and imposes a penalty for its
violation and provides how that pen
atty shall be recovered. the party
shall h. punished By that means only
and not by indictment and that the
remedy by indictment is forbidden.
In support of this a great array OF
text writer's and judicial decisions
from the earliest time TO the present
is quoted. Four decisions of the
supreme court OF North Carolina ex-
pressly so decide, beginning with
Judge CASTOR and running down TO
very recent years. The opinion
quotes from Judge Rufnn In State
VS.. Snuggs in 1851. as expressly de-
claring that no indictment will lie
in this case, but the only remedy Is
by suit for the penalty.
In response to the contention OF
the state that the corporation may
be convicted as an accessory for
aiding and abetting and advising its
agents to violate the law. the GeMf
saws: This is a very strange ~
TO our minds, n very illogical arg~
ment and a palpable nonsequiter.
The Judge who presided at the trial
evidently did not take this view. for
he "harged the jury upon no such
theory" The court holds that
corporation can act only through.
and by means of, agents. and IL can
not be an accessory TO the act OF
its own agent. The president, direc-
tors and other officials, ticket agents
| and other employees, are agents
| within the meaning OF the act and
that all are indictable for a misde-
| meanor, but when IL comes TO pun
ishing the corporation itself, the gen
eral assembly had plainly provided
system OF heavy money penalties
and excluded the remedy by indict-
ment. The court says that the gen
| eral assembly is presumed To nave
known what the law is In such cases
as expounded in the previous decis-
| ions of this court, and that II II
intended the railroad corporation TO
be subject to indictment in addition
to the heavy penalties imposed by
the act, il would have so declared
in plain terms and not LETT the mat
ter open to construction.
Chief Justice Clark dissents from
the conclusion OF the court that
there is no indictable offence so far
as the railroad corporation is con-
cerned He does not contend that
the act Of the legislature makes the
corporation indictable, but claims
that. under the common law. the
CORPORATION may be indicted as an
accessory for aiding and albeit y
and advising it's own agents. TNe
chief justice cites little or no author
ity for his position, but contends
Continued on Page -
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WILMINGTON. y. c.
THE RAILWAY CASE DECISION.

In another column we give Spe-
cial dispatch from Raleigh giving
an account of the decision OF the
state supreme court in the case OF
the state against Green and the
Southern railroad, an indictment IN
Wake superior court in which the
defendants were convicted and the
Southern railway company fined
thirty thousand dollars for violating
the passenger rate law of the last
legislature. The supreme court has
held this case under Amusement for
over two months 1t involves
very important federal and state
constitutional question. The decls--
ion of the court Of last resort In the
state is in favor Of the defendant
and the much discussed decision of
Judge Long "upholding the dignity
and fundamental state rights as
against the encroachments of the
federal courts has been overruled
and the indictment has been dis
missed, the state supreme court de-
claring that the railroad companies
were not indictable for obeying the
order of the federal court judge that
the new rate should not be put in
effect pending the suit in the fed
eral court to determine the validity
of the act of the state legislature.
What now becomes of the hue and
cry of those politicians against the
railroads who claimed that the rail-
ways had gone into the federal
courts because they were afraid to
have the cases determined in the
courts of the state? How about that
open letter of Governor Glenn to
the judges of the state superior
courts instructing them to see that
all railroads were indicted where
they refused to put in force the two
and quarter cent rate? This pa
per said at the time that the gov
ernor was transcending his duties
and powers 1t seems that we were
right; that when he Instructed the
superior court judges to charge
grand juries to indict railroads and
their agents for their conduct in this
matter he was not only going out
side the constitutional provinces OF
his office, but was, according to this
decision of the supreme court, lay
ing down mighty bad law to the
Judges He instructed the judge!
and jurors to. indict right and left
he told them that was the law ant
that they should follow it. The su
Dreme court says that was not th'
law and that such indictments can
not stand. Whether or not the gov
ernor knows more law than the fou
associate justices Of the suprem
court combined or only thinks b
does has no weight in this case
What a majority of that court de
clares the law to be is the law. Tn
highest state court has decided l
favor of the railroad. 1t can't b
charged by those political trickster
who have had so much to say a5ou
the railroads being afraid of tn
state courts that there was any NJ
due influence or political bias in 81
curing the unanimous decision
the four associate justices again:
. the contention of the governor an
of the states attorneys.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-12-06
FOR THE RAILROAD

The Four Associate justices Agree ON
the Decision-Chief Justice Clark
Dis~ents-Opinion OF the Court
Written by Justice Walker-The
State Loses on the Point That In
der the Statute the Company N1o-
Iatine it Is Made Liable to Suit for
n Penalty Only and Not TO Indict-
mcnt
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-12-06
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-17

gled Banner up to where his voice fiz- zled out on the high notes, which Is all an. American can do, ever used favour? No onei But into the list them words went, says Jarby, so that folks would say What difference? Half the words is such as we use anyhow: the list can't be so bad after all" It's as if, says Jarby, "a man should come to you with a plan for simplifying your face and had a list of four things for you to &C., cept. Item one, to wear one nose. Item two, to wear one mouth. Well, why not you say, T do that already, so where can be the harm of the rest of the list?' and the rest of the list is: Item three, to wear but one ear Item four. to wear but one eye. And, says Jarby the sane way these fellows hand you favor and jail. and then when you are not looking they stick thru into your back Says l, Jarby, there's sense in what you say, but you go ahead and print the new edition in the simplified D
 T guess" said Mr. Gilthorp, "that you was thinking of selling the book to these here ignorant foreigners that's coming
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mess section, and from 4 to 6 o'clock every day it Is filled with people buying and selling. The best shops are only along the north side of the street. They have plate glass store windows, filled with beautiful goods, and the avenue walled in by pillars, looks like a mu- scum.
 On the Rue Rab-Azoun.
 The promenaders are stranger than any to be found at any national exposition on earth. They comprise men and wo- men of all classes from the islands and shores of the Mediterranean sea. as well as the oriental characters of the Desert of Sahara and the Atlas mountains. Eu- rope is well represented. There are French officers, in their gay uniforms; jaunty French soldiers, in high red caps, bIue jackets and fat zouave pantaloons the color of brick dust; and French la dies wearing the latest costumes from Paris. The French dandy is here, also the grizette
 The Mohammedan world walks along
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among refined ladies in this country would take it into the dressing room and pin a skirt around 1t. When a word has appendicitis he says, Pm not the one to say the appendix should not be re- moved. My own has been. But to take a healthy American word, one that our ancestors fought and bled for in the Dec laration of Independence, and chop off it's hind legs and graft on boiled cauli- Howe. instead is against my principles. An right, Jarby.' l says, but print 1t In simplihed, just the same
 You must have had some good reason to make you stick out so,' said Gilthorp, with growing interest.
 T did," said Eliph Hewitt. What's three hundred worlds? I says to Jarby. Throe hundredv says he. three hundred. Who says they simplified three hundred? Nc here near it. he says. That's the deceitfulness of them; half the list is words everybody uses. Use jail instead of gaol. say they. And who in the last hundred years ever used gaol, anyhow? Ds~ favor instead of favour, says they. And who that ever sang the Star Span-
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American spelling are keeping out the Chinese, who hate to leave their native land and their simple spelling, in which a map of the railways of Ohio, a wrecked chicken coop and stroke of lightning, together with the other symbols met with on the tea chest, spell the word eat You see how the Japanese refuse to attend the schools of San Francisco although the San Franciscoans beg them to, and just because the spelling lessons are so hard. Yes, I thought of that but 1t was not my reason for saying to Jarby. Print it simplifed. Jarby.'"
 If you had such good reason," said MT. Githorp, why didn't he print out the whole book simplifed instead of just the appendix of the Rooshun war;"
 Just what I said to him." said Eliph' He llltt. "'Why not?' I says. but says he to me. Hewitt, go up and look at the simplihers, and then say what you think of it. This book he says, is the foremost volume in the world. and In the new edition Is brought up to the latest minute of time, with the dying thoughts new dying thoughts added as fast as other great ones die, up to the time of going to press. They can't die too fast
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continually passing, and for one cent a man may ride in them and have mag nificent view of the harbor and shipping.
 Modern Algiers.
 Beginning with tie Boulevard de Ia Re- publique is the French quarter, or what might be called modern Algiers; the white catacombs containing the Moors and Arabs are on the hill higher up. Indeed, the streets near the harbor would not be out of place in Paris nor in any other city of France. They are smooth and paved with wood blocks. They are walled with French buildings, nearly all of which extend out over the sidewalks. so that the shoppers are protected from the fierce rays of the African sun. This is the case with the Rue Bab Azoun, which runs just behind and parallel with the Boulevard de la Republique It is the fashionable promenade of the bus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-17

pany, and I understand that 1t pays big dividends today. It is a wide avenue facing the busiest part of the harbor with 0 stone balustrade running along it. On the other side of the Boulevard there are buildings which contain some of the chief banks, shops and business establishments of the city. The stores are on the ground floor only; above them ara apartments with iron balconies along the front. The buildings are of yellow stucco of the even height of six stories, and they are so constructed that the ground floors open upon an arcade, like that of the Rue de Rivoh in Paris.
 Foot passengers climb to this boule- yard from the wharves by stone steps which wind their way up, and at each end of it are long inclined roadways, up and down which a stream of wagons and buggies steadily moves.
 On the boulevard itself gayly dressed Europeans, mixed with stately Arabs in turbans and gowns, walk to and fro. Street cars filled with passengers are
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understand they pay dividends. although the fares are cent and upwards per trip, according to the distance. In each car there are first. second and third class compartments, the difference of price being regulated by the part of the car in which one rides.
 France Educates Arabs.
 African France is doing much along educational lines. Algiers has universi- ty with the departments of law, medi- cine science and letters. This institu ton is magnificently situated on the hills overlooking the harbor. It has about thirteen hundred students and is patron ized not only by the French but by the Arabs and Moors. There are also agri- cultural schools and technical schools of various kinds throughout tho colony and Mohammedan high schools. where Arab pupils are prepared for native em
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shrines and mosques everywhere Ihe French have cathedral in Alglers, and the Roman catholic church has an arch bishop. There is 8 Scotch Presbyterian church in Mustapha Superieur, and there are twenty-one Protestant pastors who share in the government grants for re- ligious support. There are a number of libraries and museums in Algeria. Here fin this city the university has one of each and there is also n national library sup ported by the French.
 Old Aleers.
 One might think that these modern in- novations might change the character of the Arabs, and that they would throw off their customs and costumes of the Arab ian Knights and adopt those of our mod ern world. They do not. Come with me into the native quarter, which joins the French section as closely as patch on
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to America by shiploads. wasn't you? That was what made you stick out, wasn't it?"
 That's your benevolent spirit, Mir Gill thorp," said EliDh Hewitt, "and it's kind in you to think of that, for all the me, women and children of Europe, Asia and Africa. full descriptions of all which continents, together with maps and tables of their flora and fauna are given in this useful, moral and entertaining volume, the price of which Is bu.. 8, neat ly bound in cloth, $1 down and $1 a month until paid. The thought does you credit. You think of the poor MT. Czygykowtz from Wzluckgzzbg. and of the little Wild llsllffs from Bnnyrbryggln, and you con- sider how hard it is for them to learn a spelling like the English. You see how the difficulties of the English Tpelling book are keeping thousands of emigrants from our shores and depopulating Baxter street. You see how the cruelties of
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ployment There is a normal college in Algiers, and not far from it a military school like that at West Point. All the children of French citizens. and. indeed, all children except those of the Arabs, are compelled to attend school between the ages of eight and fourteen. and there are common schools everywhere. I have found them on the edge of Morocco, far down in the Desert of Sahara, and also in Grand Kabylia. high up in the Atlas mountains In most of the native schools both French and Arabic are taught, and in many cases the little ones write texts from the Koran on their wooden states and commit them to memory.
 As to foreign and native religious houses these are found in all of the large settlements. There are Moslem
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a quilt. We climb to it by stone steps. We go up q staircase and enter another world.
 Here the streets are too narrow for carriages or horses. With the exception of d few cross roads, the walls are so close together that 1 can stand in the middle and reach them on both sides. SomC are so small that the fat Jewesses are squeezed as they go through. In places such the Rue de Diable or street of the Devil. the houses are built over the streets. and one climbs through dark pipes. as fl were, from one level to another 1t makes me think of the cave dwellers or the catacombs.
 The French city was gay and noisy. This old quarter is sulen and silent. So- ber-faced men in turbanS and gowns, and
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A True Siqn.

From the Cleveland Plains Dealer
 Your right ear is red. Somebody's talking about you"
 Probably It's the boy who hit me on that ear with snowbalL"
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How the Capital of African France is Booming-t Has
 Forty T1illon Dollar Boulevard and Many Improvements
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Forty.MilIion.DoIIar Boulevard.

Now turn your back to the sea, and take look at the city as it climbs the hills all about you. You must throw your head back and rest it well on your shoulders or you can't see it at all. The city begins with a wall about one hun dred feet high; 1t consists of vaults and warehouses. with one of the fine streets of the world over them. The pavement of the street forms the roofs of these buildings, and back and above it rises the rest of the city. The street is the Boulevard de la Republique. With the warehouses below, its cost was more than S40,000,0OO. It was constructed on a long time concession by an English com-
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I from the interior come right down to the sea so that freight can be taken on
 board the ships almost irect from the
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fix r Aw," said Gilthorp. the butcher
 I'M at Gallup's Junction, Iowa. Il 1 don't want no books, and if I
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-24
FAMOUS TRIAL
 ID START TODAY
meyer, Haywood and Pettibone,- Off clals of the Western Federation of Miners, Defendants on Charge of Murder, at Caldwell, Idaho.

what is expected to be one of the most noted and sensational trials ever H'o m the United States is scheduled ,' begin at Caldwell, little town in Idaho, today.
 'harIcs II. Mover, William D. Hay "oo' and George 4. Pettibone, all of 'n'nl officials of the Western Federation '' Miners, will be placed in the dock '' stand trial on charge of compile 'F m the murder of Ex-Governor Steu- 1'noerg. The trial will take place be- ,o't Judge Ed L. Bryan of the Seventh J"'''ial district of Idaho. Judge Bry ""' Who IS Democrat, was elected to 'n' bench last November. Before his T,e'uon Judge Bryan was attorney for "arrl Orchard, also accused of com r''''y m the Steunenberg murder, and IHoSe confessioz resulted in the arrest
 Ine other three.
 n ne arrest of Mover, Haywood and t"'Done was the continuation of the ,''DeS attending the strike of western ''neFS Tn 1905. On the evening of De- " r'''ner 30 of that year Ex-Governor rank Steunenberg was murdered. The 'u'uer was a most atrocious one. The to'u was committed by means of a '0"'o' A string was attached to the
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-24
|B|G DEAL 0N
 1 IN COPPERS
!, ci0antic Combination of Producing companies Is Being Formed--All Cop pers Rising
tBy I. x, Kinsey)

croRE January 23-The whole cop ,,or,et today was better. Every lr;or ;s centered in the outcome of the ,,.ossful consummation of plans for 2 ,i,,rtir holding company to take ovel -h,rt dozen of the producing com n.pic, in the Lake district. A rumoi o hitch between the Copper Range ,,,,lc and those negotiating for con ,,I;Jotiou made Range weak, but the Selling was we'll taken.
 Io Salle was the feature of the curh ..pIipp up to s2S. The general market ,,,s onitc broad but it is thought that shares are sale on all bulges. In Risher. Denn-Arizona maintains it's ,rs,t strength, advancing six points to Jay closing at ST bid. American has ,s,keued and closed at SIG bid. GI,br Consolidated was again strong ,r t,J,y. closing at sl2.S7 bid. The .t,,k will sell full paid saturday and .a0 is predicted for the stock in a very ,L,rt time. Superior X Boston was also |, little stronger today, closing at Si.62, Another new stock was put on the bosrI today, being that of the Calumet |, Globe Development company. The company has 6o,OOO shares, par value ., of which S2.5O will be called. The stock opened at S3.25 bid and closed ai <4 bid. In view of the low capitalism
 
 erty. the stock should sell much higher, Inst when Globes allotment will be made and how, has not been learned, al though advice is expected in few days
 New Works were quite irregular today land the trading was mostly professional. .Thirty.two railroads second week of Ianuary show gross increase of S.42 per
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-24
un.,amped Letter. In England.

Many people are unaware of the fact that the sender of an unstamped let ter can be proceeded against for the postage. The moment person posts an unpaid letter he becomes debtor to the postoffice. If 1t Is refused by the addressee the sender Is liable for the postage. An enormous number of un- stamped letters are posted every year No record Is kept of the exact number. Many large firms give instructions at the postofiice that unstamped letters are not to be delivered to them. They are then returned to the senders, and in the case of frequent offenders legal steps are taken.--London Lady.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-24
rrnm rr,lne Pnn to Fire.

Life is full of contrar.ness and non payment of almony," complained the woman as she took her seat reluctantly at her desk on the morning after the dance. "When I was married and had more leisure than anything else the days were long and deadly, but now that I am free and life might be one endless dream of gayety have to work."-New York Press.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-24
Safe.

Now, dear,' said the hero of the elopement as they boarded the train, i've are sare from pursuit" And also," said the young girl radiantiy, "safe from starvation. Here's check pa made out to your order.'-Ex- change.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-24

Life is such a poor business that the strictest economy must be exerc'sed m it's good things. -Schopenhauer.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-24
DUCHESS DE LA R0CHEFOuCAULD WHO ADMITS SHE IS
 BEAUTIFUL

Duchess de la Rochucauld
 Mitchell or Oregon once remarked when she merely Matte Mch T know perfectly well that My perfect exqustey beautiful of Mitchell married the happily a