The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-23
BRADY RESIGNS
AS PRESIDENT
Republican State Chairman
Lacks Time to Look After
Commercial Club.
FIGHT ON OCCUPATION TAX
EDITOR ARRESTED AND THE
LAW INVOKED.
FIGHT ON OCCUPATION TAX
Especial to The Herald.)


Pocatello. Ida. Jan. Estate Chairman
James H. Brady of the Republican state
central committee has resigned as pres
ident of the POcatellO Commercial cub,
pleading that a pressure of private bust
ness and the fact that he viii be away
from the city a great deal this yeaT in
his capacity as state chairman, VIII pre-
vent him from deVoting the requisite time
and attention to the position, which he
has ably filled for so many years at
the head of the Gate City business men
He requests that his successor be named
at once.
The first arrest Tor nOn-payment Of the
new occupation tax. levied by the Cltl-
zens' party coIncil of Pocatello, was made
last night when Chief Of Police Ellis
served warrant on IruXton talbot. pup
Usher and editor of the Pocatello Ad-
vance. The editor was Immediately re-
leased on his own recOgnizance, to ap-
pear and show cause why he should not
be fined the maximum for failing TO OBJ
serve the law of the city and take out
a license 10 conduct a business in the
Gate City. MIR. Talbot announced his in
Iention, in repeated issues of his paper,
OF fighting the enforcement of the new
tax ordinance. which he claims, his at
tOrneys tell him, is illegal on account Of
It's discriminatiVe features. The ordinance
was passed by the council to create suf-
ficient revenue to make up for the deficit
IN the municipal budget caused by the
closing OF the restricted district. All
classes OF business are made subject to
a license tax ranging from $50 per quar-
ter to 500 per quarter. The Short Line
railroad is listed as required to paw $50
per quarter, while the Franklin & Hayes
brewery, owned by Robert ]. Hayes
chairman of the Republican county cen
tral committee. TO down whom as the
recognized leader of the Republican party
in Bannock county. the Citizens party
was formed. Is assessed at $500 per year
Inc railroad has refused emphaticallV to
pay the tax, on the ground that most of
lts business Is Interstate, and therefore
not subject to taxation. The council has
tentatively agreed not TO attempt TO en-
force the tax against the railroad but
recently ordered the chief of police to
houIy All others that unless the tax was
PAID by today they would be subject to
arrest The chief announces his inten-
tion or swearing out as many warrants
as there are delinquents Mr. TaIbof
whose intention it is to fight the first
test case, will appeal to the district court
IN case the decision in the police court
goes again him, but the tendency of the
appeal VIII in no wise affect The plan
of the council to force collections from
others. -0--9 - Oiii
The Oregon Short Line railroad yester-
day completed its annual ice harvest and
announcement is made that 3s 00O IONS are
now stored in the mammoth ice houses in
Pocatello and at various stations along
me system The Short Line anticipates a
heaYy fruit crop in Idaho this wear. and
as Pocatelio is one of the most Important
icing stations along the Hartman lines
the Ice houses here have been crammed
full. The ice was harvested from the
company's ponds near the Idaho-AIontana
state line.
Plans are being perfected for a transfer
OF the travelling Masonic silver troweL
Whlcn has been in the custody of the PO-
catello lodge for some time, on its tour-
ney around the world, to a committee
from Baker City, Ore. into the CUSTODY
OF lodge at which place the emblem will
be placed with due pomp and ceremony
The trowel viii make its journey within
The next week or ten days
Half a thousand Eagles are expected IN
Pocatello on Feb. 6, on which date Grand
President Theodore A. Bell. of California
ana Grand Treasurer Frank E Herring
or Indiana, viii visit the local aerie 10
assist in the initiation of a class or 100
candidates. 4 delegation of PocatelIo
Eagles viii go to Ogden To meet the dis
unguished grand officers, who will be ac-
companied by a large delegation from
Utah towns. Eagles will be here from
practically all the aeries in Southern
Idaho.
The body of hrs. Mary Argus. who died
suddenly on a Short Line train between
Lava and Pebble last week, has been
shipped to her family home at Nampa.