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The Detroit times., 1908-08-14
100000 To COME
OFF TAX ROLLS
BIG ERROR MADE BY ASSESSOR
MARscHNsR's CLERKS
OTHER MISTAKES.

A reduction OF 100000 in assess
ments is asked in petitions presented
TO the council tax committee, Friday
morning.
Most OF these petitions will be
granted, and there will be conse-
quent shrinkage OF approximately
1900 In the years tax levy there
from. One OF the errors In assessment
amounted To almost 100000. while
two others total more than 100000.
X. Arlington Newman claims that
his assessments were wrongly checked
up by Assessor Marschner's clerks
this year, and that by reason OF this
error he is taxed on valuation of
s662 900 instead Of $4,000. The
books apparently bear out his asser'
ton and the matter has been referred
back TO the assessors. This change
may be contested because the present
board Will take steps TO learn whether
the property Is not really worth much
more than the lower assessment.
Williams Bros. pickle manufacture
ers, confess that they made an error
in their tax statements, including IN
their return the value Of large guam
bisANo Va PAthAto httd a. 'oh AcAS NON''
try stations These stocks are also as
sessed at the smaller places and so
they claim that their assessment
should be cut to the value OF lO4.355
bushels OF pickles. or $l30,443.75.
Morgan e. Wright, tire manufacture
ers. claim that their real estate was
assessed at '$330,000 when the asses
sors had agreed to cut 1t to $255,0OO.
This was allowed.
Mrs. Ellwood II. Hance asked that
she be allowed TO pay back taxes ON
a residence in Brady-st. with only 5
per cent interest. The taxes were
not paid In 1872 and 1873 and have
not been paid since 1891, during
which time the amount OF original
taxes. exclusive OF interest, has run
up to 1910.
Mrs. Nj. j. Ward showed that her
property had been assessed in her
own name and also in that OF her
hbausnd. and $4,000 Of assessment
was therefore cancelled.
Some 80 other petitions for reduc-
tons or cancellation of assessments
were brought up before the commit
tee. Many were denied, but large
proportion were put over for further
consideration.
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14

comes shift in the class OF creditors
who will have voice, at least, in
settlement OF the firms affairs. The
claimants who have been heard In
the state court SO far have been those
who claimed to have purchased stocks
outright and, therefore, had preferred
claims
In the bankruptcy proceedings,
which come to their second stage In
the arguments before Referee Davock
Friday afternoon as TO the appoint
ment of receiver, IL Is the general
creditors who have all to say. There
are the margin spectators and others
who could not show preference OF
any kind.
With the new light that was shed
on the business OF Cameron Currie &
Co. in the hearing before Judge Man
dell Thursday morning, such as the
fact that the stocks paid for in full
were really purchased on margin, II
becomes probable that many OF the
creditors will give up their claims to
preference and come In TO vote and
share with the general creditors.
Individual Accounts Not Swollen.
The rise in stock prices during the
past month will not swell the individ-
ual accounts OF the firms customers,
rs many OF them have imagined. That
has been one reason, not openly ex.
pressed, why so determined a fight
has been made by various creditors
to get possession OF their individual
stocks. All transactions with Cam
eron Currie & Co. ceased July IS, and,
no matter what the stocks realize now
for the fund in the hands OF the re-
ceiver. the creditors will be paid on
the basis OF what the securities were
worth when the firms doors were
closed.
A stipulation has been made be.
tween the attorneys FOR the receiver
and the counsel for Hayden. Stone &
Co. by which any trustee elected in
the bankruptcy court, may continue
the suit brought by Receiver Austin.
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14
MERCHANTS ON
SIGHTSEEING TOUR

Hundreds OF outside merchants
with their wives were guests OF
Parke, Davis & Co. Friday morning
Guides showed them through the big
rlant and every process OF pill and
extract making was shown. after
which there were refreshments on the
lawn.
This Is one OF the last events on the
list OF entertainment furnished by
tho Detroit wholesalers and manufac-
turers to the buyers who have been
their guests this week. During the
afternoon and evening the steamer
Britannia takes the visitors out for
river and lake riding.
A special bill was put on at River
view park Thursday night which was
greatly enjoyed by the 1900 persons
who filed the big space reserved for
the Detroit wholesalers and their
guests. For some reason this River
view park function was referred to as
a Dutch lunch.
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14
ANARCHISTS PLOT
STORY A CANARD

LONDON, Aug. 14.-At Scotland
yard it is declared that there Is no
foundation for the story sent out from
Geneva today, to the effect that a plot
TO assassinate King Edward and En-
peror Francis Joseph during their con-
ference Wednesday, at the summer
villa of Emperor Francis Joseph had
been nipped In the bud by the arrest
OF two desperate anarchists.
According to the Geneva story, the
two anarchists, heavily armed, were
arrested at small station on the
Tyrolese frontier. while on their way
TO Ischl. where the two monarchs
were inconference. Although the two
men were rigidly examined by the
police authorities. nothing important
was learned and the supposed desper'
ate characters were released.
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14
POPEADDs|OOM|LES
TOH|S 0WND|OCEsE

ROME. Aug. 1.-THE pope has de-
change which will add over a hundred
square miles to the territory Of his
own diocese OF Rome, which, until
now, has been limited to the city
proper.
To effect this change Pope Plus has
clipped the territory OF the six card
inal-bishops, including Cardinal Sa-
TOLL, who is bishop OF the suburban
diocese OF Frascati. Moreover, his
holiness makes the six cardinal-b ish-
ops only titular. that is, without any
jurisdiction over their sees.
simultaneously the pope intends to
greatly reduce tho number OF bishops
in Italy. There are now nearly three
hundred OF them, but when this latest
reform Is affected they will be reduced
TO about two hundred. A serious re-
duction Is also to be made In the
number OF Spanish bishops. One OF
the results will be that for the future
Catholic bishops In the English speak.
ing world will have a larger voice in
the general council OF the church.
Ii H. almost certain that the diocese
of Cleveland is to be divided with tho
new see OF Toledo, Ohio, OF which
the first bishop will be Monsignor
Kondelka, auxiliary to the late Bishop
Hortsmann. The Propaganda is en-
gagged now in discussing its last ap-
pointmepts 10 the American hierarchy
A bishop is 10 be appointed to the
newly created diocese OF Rockford,
formerly part OF Chicago. and sue.
cessor Is to be appointed to Bishop
Hortsmann, OF Cleveland. A new arch.
bishop is to be named for Santa Fee.
a coadjutor for Archbishop Riordan.
OF San Francisco, and coadjutor for
Bishop Ludden, OF Syracuse.
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14
I'd TIME THEY REGISTER
IT'S AS MAN AND WIFE

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 14-When David
Wood. OF Washington, d. c., and Mrs.
Adele Burke. OF Geneva, Switzerland,
registered about the same time at the
Terminal hotel yesterday. the clerk
thought nothing OF 1t. When few
hours later they came into the hotel
again and registered as Mr. and Mrs.
David Wood. he opened his eyes and
after recovering from his astonish
ment congratulated the couple.
why Mr.. and Mrs. David Wood
came to st. Louis to marry is n mys.
terry.
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14
FIVE A DAY CONDEMNED
TO DEATH IN RUSSIA

ST. PETERSBURG. Aug 1.-THE
Rech today publishes statistics Of
the number OF persons who have been
CONDEMNED to death between January
/ and July l OF the Russian calendar
The statistics are compiled from
reports The total OF con-
formations Is SIC, an average OF Ave
day. In January there were 1ls,
February, 1872: March. 1S4; April. loo;
May. 217. and June. 13l. II Is not
known for what crimes these sent
ences were passed
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14
BIRTHS
BOYS.

BOYS
Joseph Swiczkowsky, 3s2 Thirty
.ourth.
Edward Hill, 20 Annetta.
stephen Weller. l7OS Russell.
Joseph Petrskey 3l3 Garfield.
John Burke, 10 Rose.
William Hoefier. 343 Orleans.
William Ross. 56s Vermont
Emil Hahn. ll6 Twelfth.
Charles Colin. 2S3 Twenty eighth.
Samuel Bingham. ASS Lafayette.
Anthony PETE. 1888 Townsend.
GIRLS
John Cram. 100 Harrison.
Robert Stusfski. 4i4 Tillman. (boy
and sirD.
John Wanderser, 9S Grummond
william Myles. 624 Williams
August Junkrowski, $50 Jos. Campau.
Joseph Sloat 43 Lacrosse
Joseph Hogan. SO Leverette.
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14

Augusta" said Mr.. Wyss when
the quarrel was att its height. ''you
have devised great variety OF ways
to call me fool"
Merely matter OF necessity" re.
piled Mrs. Wyss. You have devised
so many ways OF being one."-The
Bohemian.
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14
Train Kills Babe.

ERIE. Pa, Aug. 14.-Mrs. Daniel
thinner. while returning, this morn
ing. from visit to her parents IN
Erie. was driving across the Philadel-
phia & Erie railroad tracks at Roots
crossing about one mile from Lang
don station, when westbound freight
train struck the vehicle In which she
and her four children were seated, IN
stantly killing her eleven-months-old
babe and so severely injuring herself
and her six-year-old son that 1t Is not
expected they can live the day out.
The other two children escaped with
out injury
The Detroit times., 1908-08-14

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v brick fat, hardwood throughout.
Z range, furnace, laundry. etc. so.
WEBER, goa Grstiot
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DENTISTS.

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Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
BANKERS OWN FIGURES SHOW
HOW THEY USED THE PANIC

PASADENA, Oct. 12.-[Editor Her
oldl: see by the morning papers that
Morgan and other big bankers are ex-
pressing themselves as to. the conse-
auences in case of Bryan's election
1t is time, or rather it was time, for
them to consider consequences of the
late panic before 1t came.
In the Daily Banker and Stockholder
published Oct. 2, 1908, at Denver, Colo,
the big bankers themselves supply some
interesting figures. On page 30 they
show that more than double the amount
in clearing house certificates was is-
sued during our present panic than In
any previously. You can get copy
from any of your banks.
] attended the meeting OF Republi-
cans in our city Saturday evening and
listened to the talk of Senator Flint
Could he speak in many communities
there would be no question but that we
would elect our United States senators
by popular vote. That man, in dis
cussing the guarantee of bank deposits
displayed more ignorance of the sub
feet than I supposed it possible for one
to possess.
I feel ashamed that Southern Cali
fornia should be represented in the SEN
ate by a man of no more intelligence
than this man Flint. How he got his
position cannot understand
FRANK w. HILL.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
ADMINISTRATION ALREADY
DlSGRAcED BY MACON CASE

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.-TEditor
Herald: In your excellent editorial of
18th instant on the incarceration of Ri
cardo Flores Magon notice the ex-
preston, 'If Magon dies in the Los
Angeles county jail as a result of i'm
prisonment the Roosevelt administra-
ton will go out in disgrace"
Apart from what is to me the patent
fact, that monopoly and Capitalization
have reached an undreamed of develop
ment under Theodore Roosevelt, VEN
ture to think that your expression fails
to meet the case.
Probably Magon is done for. Whether
he dies in jail or not is now a mere
detail. The wrong has been done long
ago. The man has lain nearly eighteen
months iii durance of the vilest, and
every self-respecting American has
been outraged by the exhibition of his
country being in league with perhaps
the cruelest military despotism In the
world, and apishly initiating it's bar
barous methods in the autocratic i'm
prisonment of men for unlimited peri
-ods of time without due cause of Of
tense being proved.
In mass meetings and in hundreds of
articles labor has protested against
these more than Russian measures. and
in vain.
1t is not that the Roosevelt admin
istration twill go out in disgrace" 1t
is that the foul blot already has been
smeared all over and rubbed deep into
the national escutcheon.
For thislI, an American citizen, re-
gret that am not under the English
flag. Beneath it's protection no such
tyranny is possible. T. X. G.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15

FTI HE laws of this state are for rich
and poor alike, and should be
- enforced with equal impartiality.
We stand for the impartial enforce
ment of the laws. We stand for the
prosecution of men under the law.
We question the sincerity of those in
charge of the prosecution. We Ques-
tion their sincerity, judging them from
their past. The records of the courts
during the last two years show re-
peated failures upon the part OF
Heney, Spreckels and their associates.
The district attorney and his assistant
have not followed the law. They have
deceived the public. They have made
vain and idle boasts. They have gone
UP and down the state publicly assert
ing that they would send r. II. Har-
riman, Patrick Calhoun, William r.
Herrin and many others to the state s
prison. They knew that they had no
intention of proceeding against any of
these men. Their harangues were
made before each state and municipal
election and with the evident purpose
of influencing the masses, says the
San Francisco Globe.
They promised speedy trials of So
called "higher-ups." In public
speech, made prior to the election of
1907, Mr.. Heney said: 'T will try Pat
rick Calhoun before the first Of the
year, so help me Godl" He has not
only failed to put Mr.. Calhoun on
trial, but has denied that gentleman's 9
persistent requests for a speedy trial.
The graft prosecution, as now con-
Quoted, should be over with. The peo-
pie of San Francisco have been SIAN
dered throughout the country. They
have been charged with lack of in
tegrity and good citizenship, If the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
Graft Prosecution FiZZIe
Gives Rise to Suspicious

graft cases have not been tried. where
Is the blame? The people have given
to Mr.. Heney every opportunity to
make good his promises. He has had
behind him unlimited wealth and COM
plete control of the machinery of the
law in San Francisco.
1t has been clearly demonstrated
that the prosecution talk is campaign
talk, nothing more, nothing less. The
people can no longer be deceived by
promises of future performances. They
cannot be forever deceived.
Many people doubt whether at any
time the prosecutors were in earnest.
Did they ever intend to convict Abra-
ham Ruef? Ruefs dramatic plea of
guilty; his shedding of tears; his show
of penftence; Heneys surprise; the
actions of the judge, were all the de-
liberate result of a dress rehearsal, of
which Heney, Spreckels, Burns and
Biggy were the cast. For more than
one year Mr.. Ruef held q contract
giving him complete immunity for all
crimes, past and present. Neverthe-
less, the very men who gave him this
contract were protesting to the press
that they would send him to the states
prison. They solemnly denied that
such a contract existed.
Those In charge of the prosecution
started well, but soon went wrong
Thep promised to convict all that were
equally guilty, but selected as victims
those who were apparently in the way
of their political and financial plans
They gave immunity in defiance of
reason and common sense. They kept
In office self-confessed felons. They
permitted these wretches to keep their
ill-gotten gains and finally gave inn
munity contracts to the guilty.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
SHOWS THAT GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES ARE BETTER PAID

LOS ANGELES, Oct 13.-[Editor
Herald: Trades Unionist makes Sc
rious mistake when he prefers private
to public ownership. OF course the
public employment is far from what 1t
should be, but that is because the
workers have not yet learned to take
an Independent part in the political
side. When they do they can make 1t
what/they will, but even now it is bet
ter than a private master.
Prof. Commons in the ''Ciyic Fedora
tion Report on Private and Municipal
gives a table of ten representative
American cities which shows that on
public works common laborers receive
on an average 81 cents day more for
one and a quarter hours less work.
Other carefully compiled figures show
that railway mail clerks and postal
carriers are better paid than are tele-
graph operators or street railway en-
ployes, the difference being an average
of over $500 year more and two and
a half hours less for day. With
publicly owned railroads, too, wages
are higher, hours shorter, employment
steadier, holidays and vacations more
regularly provided. In many instances
workers are insured against accident,
sickness, old age and death. Much
might be said along this line and COM
parsons might be made with our pri-
yately owned railways which kill and
MAIN their tens of thousands. with
practically no atonement.
In England, where trades unionfsm is
more mature than here, there is a
unanimous demand for the extension
of municipal ownership. A, H. d.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
Corporate Interests Unite
In Opposition TO Dunno

inal nearly always receives deferential
treatment from courts and is acquitted
in most cases as a matter of course,
regardless of the evidence, says the
San Francisco Bulletin,
Judge Dunno has given great oifense
to a number of powerful maiefactors
by taking literally and applying i'm
partially the doctrine of equality be-
fore the law. He refused to permit
counsel for distinguished crooks to
play monkey tricks with the law In his
court. He gave a higher-up on trial
no greater latitude than Is usually al
lowed to an ordinary lower-down.
For this he Is to be punished IL the
bribe-giving corporations have power
to punish him. The allied boodlers in
tend to make dead set against him.
For q start, they are endeavoring to
prevent his name from going on the
ballot in the Good Government column,
They have jockeyed with the Republi-
can and Union Labor conventions with
a view to prevent him from winning.
They have enlisted the purchasable
portion of the press for the campaign
against him.
Do the people intend to lermit the
corrupt special interests to make an
example of Judge Dunno in this way
as deterrent to other judges that may
be inclined to serve the people rather
than the crooks?
Judge Dunne's candidature has no
partisan aspect. He stands before the
people not as Democrat, not as q
Republican, but as a just and fearless
Judge beset by many enemies and
marked for slaughter because he has
served the people well.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
SOCIAL QUESTIONS

TN THE rank of offenses for which
residents of the United States are
Il committed to penal institutions,
vagrancy stands second. A prominent
railroad man says tramps and va
grants cost the railroads $25.OoO,0oO
year, and their cost to the commu-
nifty must be prodigious. Vagrancy,
therefore, has become a serious and
costly problem in our country. If 1t
cannot be cured, it must be endured,
because no amount of fines Clancy
fining homeless trampsD and no term
of Imprisonment will make a vagrant
respectable and producing member
of society.
1t strikes us that no effort worthy
the United States to cure vagrancy,
even as no effort worthy of the name
has ever been made to cure poverty,
or that middle state between poverty
and vagrancy, that Vagrant-making
condition called lack of employment.
No man who is constantly at work
will become interested in the gentle
art of getting along without working.
The toilless life will not appeal to
him-indeed, he will not dream it is
possible-until he is "up against it,"
Present conditions therefore produce
tramps, and the great increase in the
number of tramps in the United States
during the long Republican reign Is
a part of the vast mass of overWhelm-
ingly convincing evidence which has
been accumulated to prove the Re-
publican party has not made good,
that it has not kept the dinner pals
of the workers filled, and that it has
not educated the children of the ma
ton. The treatment of the children
during the years of Republican rule
will be referred to by future historians
as the blackest and most stupid crime
In American history. and it should
is vet being committed fagrantly, in
spite of special state regulations here
and there, and few struggling, local
efforts to end it. 1t is useless to look
to the Republicans for a remedy. At
present they are so worried over the
outlook for their disgraced party that
they have even abandoned the discus
sion of practical social questions. Like
Delivers, their oratory consists Of a
great deal Of sound and perhaps a
little simulated fury, but signifies
nothing.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
TAFT'S NEW BLUNDER

an THE basis of straw votes taken
in Union League clubs, Taft
" clubs and federal offices, Republ1-
can newspapers announced the seer
tainty'' of Mr.. Taft's election! So cred
ulous Mr.. Taft has decided to abandon
the doubtful states and visit the
south, which never in its history was
more solidly and impregnably Demo-
cratic than it is now. A Republican
contemporary is so certain, from straw
votes, that Mr.. Taft will be elected
that in one of it's news dispatches
appears the following statement: 1.-THE
national chairman is convinced that
the sooner Mr.. Taft gets into New
York state the better, but he had to
give in and plan short trip in the
border states of the SOUTH" 1t is evil
dent Mr.. Taft believes the nonsense
that has been printed in some Repub-
lican papers about the certainty of his
election, and thinks he may vary the
monotony of an easy victory by maxi
ing a little trip to Democratic strong
holds. He knows he cannot win a
single vote in the south. He knows
that even the colored vote is no longer
! Republican, and yet he will fritter
away time which he might devote to
New York and the doubtful states OF
the middle west! Evidently Mr.. Taft
does not realize his position. Republic
can newspapers and campaign manag-
ers have been fooling him, and now
when they try awkwardly to maLo him
realize the truth, he won't listen! He
is deliberately throwing away his last
forlorn hope of possible success. His
trip to the south, from a Republican
point of view. will be another blunder;
while Democrats may we'll be satisfied
over the earnest zeal with which Mr..
Taft is working for the success of Mr..
BRYAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
JUDSON RUSH

TUDSON RUSH, candidate for con-
gress in the Seventh district, found
- that a statesman is not without
honor in his own country. The town
of Ell Monte, we are told by witnesses,
nearly went wild over the homecoming
of the manly successor of ''the round
faced boy who drove the butchers
wagon"
Mr.. Rush's view of a congressman s
duties to his constituents is clear and
practical. If he is elected he will go to
Washington, not with the aim of be-
coming an orator of national reputa-
tion, or of gaining personal political
glory and promotion, but for the pur-
pose of representing Southern Califor-
Mia and demonstrating what can be
done for the benefit of the people of
this section by a live and energetic
man, devoted to the greatest good OF