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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
They're Embryo Westons.

About so of the students Of the
Dickinson county high school &C
companied by about two of the in.
structors, arrived in the city this
morning on the early train. From
here they walked to Fort Riley and
will spend the day there. For some
time past a number Of students have
been going on walking tours through
the country surrounding Chapman,
and they have been so enjoyable
that they concluded to try a walk
from here to the post and back. They
will return tonight to Chapman
Junction City Union.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
WAGES AGAIN GOING UP
EMPLOYEES OF BIG IRON AND
STEEL COMPANIES GET RAISE.
About $4,000 Men Will Be Effected
Scale the Same As Before
Financial FURRY.

Pittsburg, May 1S.-Announcement
is made here that $4,000 employees Of
iron and steel companies having head
quarters in this vicinity, will receive
an advance in wages averaging ten
per cent the first of June or the first
of July. Some Of the manufacturers
have already posted notices of the in
crease and others, it is said, will do so
within q few days. The United States
Steel Corporation has made no an
nouncement Of an increase in wages,
but 1t is said the Jones & Laughlin
Steel company, the Republic Iron &
Steel company and other independent
companies will restore the wages paid
prior to the first of last April when
general cut was made.
At the general Offices of the Re-
public Iron G. Steel company notices
have been posted Of revision Of the
wage scale on June 1. Thk Republic
Iron G Steel company employs about
ten thousand men at Chicago, Mas
sillon, Youngstown, Birmingham, Mo-
line, III, East St. Louis, Muncie, Ind,
Gate City, Ala, Thomas, Ala, Sharon,
and Newcastle, Pa. The Jones &
Laughlin Steel company employs
10000 men in this vicinity and their
wages, 1t is said, will all be increased.
1t is also announced that after June
1, the independents will not accept
any orders for steel at the present
prices.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20

Wise ana uSeleSb' Inc mUI0 ihpOl
tant arguments given against taxa
ton of mortgages follow.
BY means of an increased rate OF
interest the lender shifts the tax to
the borrower who Is least able to
bear the burden Of taxation thus i'm
posed by the state. Every mortga-
gee feels that he must receive so
much income from his money. II
that money is taxed his net income
is decreased, and therefore he raises
the rate OF interest on his loanable
capital.
Again under the general property
tax the mortgagor must pay taxes on
the full value of the property in his
name in addition to the indirect tax
on the mortgage. For instance: II
mans property is mortgaged to
one half its value, he will have to
pay taxes ON at least three times as
much as he really owns; /. e. while
he owns only one-half of the piece
of property in his name, he pays tax
on one and one-half times its value.
A third objection to taxing mort
cages is the inability to reach them
by any just method Of taxation. Al
though assessors may find the record
Of mortgage he can not compel the
original owner to tell in whose pos
session 1t now is If he has sold 1t.
Thus many mortgages escape assess
ment. Michigan made a law which
required the Recorder Of each coun-
ty to send q record of mortgages
owned by citizens Of other counties
to the recorders Of every other coun-
ty in the state. The immediate eff
feet Of this law was, as had been In,
tended, the disclosure Of large num-
Der of untaxed mortgages; but the
ultimate and unforeseen effect was
the exchange Of mortgages on Michi-
gan lands by citizens Of Michigan for
mortgages in other states. Another
scheme to find mortgages and make
the lender pay the tax was formulate
ed by the same state. By this the
property holder paid the full tax up
on his property but was enabled to
use his tax receipt in making interest
payments to the amount Of the tax
on the mortgages. The immediate
effect Of this was a rise Of one per
cent in interest rates, while the ulti-
mate effect was the wholesale evasion
Of the law, made possible by chang
ing the form Of mortgage contract
90 that the borrower could not use
his tax-receipt to pay interest. Many
other attempts to tax mortgages as
personal property have resulted in
failure.
Although these and various other
good reasons are urged against taxa
ton Of mortgages, 1t still remains
that, at the present time. 1t would be
unwise to exempt mortgages from
taxation. The popular voice de-
mands that they be taxed. and even
the borrower who must bear a double
burden Of taxation feels that such
discrimination would be unjust. It
Is doubtful whether q legislature
which would pass such a bill would
receive the support Of the people At
the ensuing elections. Thus eremp-
ton would BE- practically impossible,
Is long as the public feels about the
matter ss at present
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
LINCOLN NEBRASKA A FLOOD
A DOWN POUR OF RAIN SENT
STREAMS OUT or BANKS.
A Woman Was Drowned While Her
Baby Was Being Rescued
Other Places inundated.

Lincoln, Neb., May ia down
pour Of rain sent Salt Greek and An
telope Creek out Of their banks, and
residents living in low land sections
along the two streams were forced to
call for assistance to get their be-
longings to places Of safety. Mrs.
Stella Cole, wife Of the keeper Of city
park, was drowned while trying to
escape with her baby from her water
surrounded home to that Of q neigh
Dor. A man named Kelly, who swan
to her rescue took the baby to a place
Of safety. Returning for the woman
he was himself carried into the main
current OF the Antelope and barely
escaped with his life. The woman
was missing when he managed to get
to shore, and her body was recovered
later.
Some minor damage was done in
the business district A bad food IL
reported at the town Of Rokeby, on
the Rock island railroad a few miles
from Lincoln.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20

Abilene highs WIN Give clay Csntsi
Game.


Manager Sommers, Of the local
high school baseball team, has ac-
cepted the bold challenge Of the Clay
county high school team and game
undoubtedly will be arranged. The
Clay Center bunch claims to have lost
but one game and to have played bet
ter bail against junction City than
Abilene but. Is IL to such bad
score? If Clay Center thinks It has
q tooth to pull when 1t completes with
the Junction City squad, the Abilene
InyincibIes wish to extend their sim
cerest sympathy. The Abilene aggre-
CATION has played and defeated all
the fast high school teams In the
vicinity and expects to make clean
sweep Of the remaining five games
scheduled. The local highs still hold
up their reputation as being invinci-
BILE and having a clean slate. How
ever, Abilene did lose one game, but,
was 1t with a high school or a bunch
Of would-bes? No indeed, 1t was
the Kansas University Freshmen
crew on cold raw morning, the tenn
perature registering 80 above zero,
and after a ride Of 1876 miles without
breakfast, after getting up at $3.50
to catch their train. The score book
plainly shows that the local squad
played equal ball but had hard luck
at the bat. Clay Center has the tie
merity" to say that Abilene having
a heavy schedule is a tame excuse
for not playing them. The manager
wishes to say that he has five games
to be played within the closing two
weeks and five members of the team
during commencement week. The
Abilene team will have its hands
are Seniors, having important parts
full and also a very heavy expense.
the Abilene team IL not
a bunch of pikers, but, If game
can be scheduled, Clay Center will
see an exhibition of classy ball.
COMMITTEE.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
SHIFTING SOIL.
Real Estate Transfers Reported By
J. e. Keel, AbstractOr.

George w. staatz and wife to Fred
H. staatz, 2 and S-1OO a in pit I
AswN, 5-14-5, $1.0O.
Jas. s. Elston and wife to A. A. Tay-
lor, south rs feet off lot Is, on
Buckeye ave, Lebold & Fishers
add to Abilene, $500.
John G. Erick and wife to Frederick
Father, lots Z, 9, 10, Is, blk B.
Prather's add to City Of Enterprise
$500.
Joseph W. Howe, single to John A.
Flack, lot 2, Henry, Hodges q
Reeds sub-div OF lots 2, 4, 9, 8, 10
on Ord st, Thompson & McCoy's
add to Abilene. $4,000.
Sarah Alexander, widow, to The
United States Gypsum Co., e Y
s2-15-S, $4,000.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
THROUGH HERE JULY 30.
Glidden Tour Plans Are Officially
Given Out.

The secretary of the Glidden tour
has sent to the press official notice
Of the itinerary. The start is at De-
troit July ~ and the end at Kansas
City July 20. The checking stations
are; Detroit. Kalamazoo, Chicago,
Madison. Lacrosse. Minneapolis. first
Sunday stop. Fort Dodge. Omaha,
Kearney Julesburg. Denver, second
Sunday stop. Colorado Springs, Pueb-
10, Hugo, salina, Kansas City.
The pathfinding car which left
Colorado Springs Saturday Is ex-
pected to 60 through her tonight.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20

/ the lee egalsm tpmprpm'1s Be-.
| tween public 1enl|lnenl ord he veil
founded Views oE economists. Is IN.
doubtedIy q slap in the right dlrec-
tion; and therefore the Bill as pass
ed by the legislature should have be-
come a law. The public would not
object to this Law as It would to ex-
emption. New York state has such
law and has found that . fee Of
one-half Of one per cent charged for
registering mortgages brings in more
revenue than was received from
mortgages under the old methods Of
taxation. Therefore II borrowers
see that smaller tax on mortgages
decreases their own burdens. there
will be but little opposition to such a
law.
1t is said that the principle Of this
law Is unjust because under 1t the
man who has money invested in real
estate will have to pay at least dou-
BILE the amount Of taxes the one who
has his money invested in mortgages
will pay. However, since 1t is
fact that the tax on mortgages is
shifted to the borrower, the favor
is plainly shown to the holders Of
mortgaged real estate and not to
the lenders.
The contention is likewise made
that our present system for taxing
mortgages Disseminated between
money lenders outside Of the state
and the home money lenders, where
as all whould be reached equally by
the fee system. Some seem to think
that because of competition with un-
taxed money, the local lender must
take a lower rate Of interest than
he would were outside money lend
ers taxed. 1t is altogether probable
that the local lender gets the same
net gain under the present rate OF
interest; and that, instead of de-
pressing the rate, the foreign money
lender takes advantage of 1t. Never
theless the fee system would bring
the whole tax to the state instead
of letting outside money lenders re-
ceive great part Of 1t because of
the high rate of interest.
The argument is also advanced
that Kansas has no moral right to
tax the money of man in another
state, New York, for instance; that
New York and New York alone
should receive the tax. However the
moral right of New York men to take
take taxes from Kansas people be-
cause of faulty system Of taxation
is quite unquestionable. But since
the borrower will undoubtedly pay
the fee New York will not be de-
prived of her deserved revenue.
Some would amend the law by
making a graduated tax; increasing
the registration fee in proportion to
the length Of the mortgage. This
however would be useless as mort
cages can be made for one year and
then renewed indefinitely without
further record.
Others advocate an annual regis
tration fee; that is making the mort
gage, invalid If not recorded every
year. This was tried in New York
and pronounced failure, for 1t Grip
pled the loan business by greatly de-
,reasing the negotiability of the
Ioans.
Therefore, because at the present
lime it is impossible to exempt mort
RACES from taxation because OF public
mortgages should be tax
ID; and moreover, because both OBJ
ections offered against the registra-
ion fee law and amendments offered
or the same will not bear the test
II analysis, the bill as proposed
Ihould become a law in Kansas.
SHIFTING SOIL.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
Advertised Letters.

Following is the list of letters for
week ending May IL, 1899;
Letters: @. W. Adams, Mrs. Bet
tie Broaddus, Samuel Farnsworth,
J. +. Huizda. Miss Matte Llpscombi
Harry maynard, J. H. Sermon,
Edith Smart, Mrs. G. A. vanBuren,
sig. weinberg, W. W. White.
Cards: Miss Ellen Berry. Char
encs Bliss. chas. Bushnell. Miss Jane
Walters
R. WARNa. p. ~.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
nlll.a !. nunnmItn ErpIo.lon.

Key West, Fla. May 15.-Three men
we're instantly killed and u others
badly injured when 700 pounds OF
dynamite exploded aboard a Quarters
Boat number 3, at Goddess Key, on
the Florida kast Coast Railway extern
sion. II Il believed that other men
ahoard the boat were blown to atoms'
re injured vers brought here.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20

washington: Nay ls.--A reductions
Of custom duties Of hve per cent an
nuaIly Is proposed By Senator over
a All amendment to the tartR blil %
tered b HIN IN TIE senate. Ins
snsnduient proposes that this reduc
tIos IL u.ao annually until q les.eaet
rSvsaus fIom each article = shosa
~ n rrch 4 case he president 4
authorirsd % Ak TIE duty ct = r.ia
thnt h believes YIN produce N
yroatsss rsveuua
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
TINS WAS THE WINNING
ESSAY ON MORTGAGE Tax
Miss Bessie DewoIf, It's Author, Re
ceived sB In Cash.

The following essay was awarded
lst prize, IS In the contest inaugural
ed BY ]. B. Case for the best papers
BIZ the high school students on this
question:
Should . fee be charged for the
taxation Of mortgages upon real es-
tate in Kansas, said mortgages to be
eexmpt from further taxation9
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
Another Good Rain.

About an inch of rain fell this
The past week has put the
wheat and spring crops in excellent
condition and the farmers look for
a good crop.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
VOL scalps PLENTY.

Thee Andrews Of Jefferson today
brought % the county clerk nine wolf
spalp5 and R. A. HARE Of Union
rashsa. n four. Not very goOd day
either.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-20
speeI.l Meetlng d - Bid.

A called meeting Of the members
Of the fair association board viii Be
held Friday evening at o'clock at G.
Q. wyandrs office. BY order Of
J. ]. KUaLER. Pres.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07
SCOTT LOSES FIGHT.
The Kansas Congressman's Tariff
Amendment Is Defeated.

Washington, April TN the house
a lively discussion was participated in
late yesterday over an amendment by
Mr.. Scott (Kansas). fixing a duty Of
ten per cent ad valorem on raw hides,
which was finally lost on division, 106
to 1876.
Among those supporting the Scott
amendment was Mr.. Burleson, Demo-
crat. Texas, who said that evidently
the amendment suggested the only
way to get cheaper boots and shoes.
Referring to Mr.. Clark of Florida, but
without mentioning his name. he de-
clared that the position such as he
had taken meant: 'That If you take
care of my district you may pilfer.
you may rob, you may plumber the
American people and I will stand by
and not raise my voice against it."
An amendment to the Scott amend
ment by Mr.. Underwood, Alabama,
including skins weighing more than
one pound on the dutiable list, was
defeated, Is to 1873.
Discussing the Scott amendment.
Mr.. Hill, Connecticut, declared that
the proposed duty on hides was SIM
ply "a surrender to a Chicago mo-
nopoly.''
Rank nonsense" shouted Mr..
Mann, Illinois, all the way across the
chamber. 81 am for free hides my
self" he said, but that is rank nom
sense"
After the Scott amendment was lost
an unsuccessful attempt was made by
Mr.. Clark, Missouri, to put leather and
all products of leather on the free
list, the chair deciding that the special
rule did not apply to that section.
Through proposed amendments Mr.
Miller, Kansas, sought to have the
barley schedule changed from Is cents
to rs cents per bushel, and Mr.. Alex
ander, New York, offered a substitute
fixing that duty at ten per cent ad
valorem.
These amendments, relating to the
barley schedule, were still under dis
cussion when the bill was laid aside
and the house adjourned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07

Rev. J. G. Dukes, Pastor of the Uni
tartan Church of Pinetown, N. c.,
writes:
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nothing seemed to do her any good
until she began to use Peruna one
month ago. Since then the color has
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MY little boy, ten years old, was
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out in the yard running and jumping
with the rest of the children.
Stomach Trouble Relieved.
Mrs. r ]. Ballard, Pryor Creek,
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07
MOUSE A BURGLAR.
Noise Made by Its Revolving Cage
Wheel Draws a Fusillade of Shots.

st. Louis. April 7.-Mistaking a
mouse for burglar, Harold Stout, of
East st. Louis. shot his bedroom so
full of holes that he will have diff
Guilty in avoiding draughts for the re-
mainder of the chilly season.
Stout boards with the fatmily of
Edward Flanders at No. 434 North
Thirty-seventh street.
When he went to his room to retire
he failed to notice set and baited
mouse trap which Mrs. Flanders had
placed on a table near his bed.
1t was a small trap, modelled after
a squirrel cage. The mouse, when
caught, would find himself in a re-
volving wheel which would go around
faster and faster the more it would
exert itself in an effort to escape.
Without making a light, Harold
Stout rolled into bed and soon he was
slumbering peacefully.
Then enter Mr.. Mouse. The odor of
he was trapped.
"Zing'' whent the little wheel as
Mr.. Mouse landed on the tread~mi1l. 1t
made a whirring noise which gradual
Haroldd Stout. Still half asleep he
listened with vague sense that some
thing was wrong. The movement of
the wheel and the frantic effort of the
mouse to escape caused the trap to
slide over the smooth top of the table
tobacco jar, which slipped over the edge
of the table and fell to the floor with a
great clatter.
Harold was now wide awake. He
was sure there was burglar in the
room. With feverish haste he pulled
his revolver from under his pillow and
fired. The bullent went through the
foot of his bed.
He fired again. directly at the table.
He emptied the remaining fur
shells at random. in the hope that if
he scattered his fire he would sure hit
the burglar.
Flanders, aroused by the shots, re-
manned in the hall until he was sure
Stout's weapon was empty. Then he
ran in and grappled with his panic
stricken boarder. overpowered him
and put him back to ben.
When the gas was lighted Harold
Stout saw the cause of his alarm-the
1ittlep risoner mouse, which was still
busy trying to establish a new wire
trap Marathon record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07
SOWED CARPET TACKS.
Attempt Made to Prevent Use or
Automobiles at Polls.

Leavenworth, Kan, April IA
large number of the automobiles with
which the Leavenworth clubs cam
paign managers had planned to carry
voters to the polls were punctured as
a. result of what the hackers of the
business mems ticket believe to be
the work of persons interested in the
defeat of the ticket 1t was dis
covered that the streets had been
strewn with tacks, apparently with
malicious design. e -
The pavements in the vicinity of the
polling places and the principal streets
of the town were swept and flushed
to clear them of possible sources or
nuncture. and consequent delay in the
use of automobiles in the work of the
election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07
HAIR
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07
WRECKED BY TORNADO.
Collapse of I. c. Depot Kills Five and
Injuries -Four Persons.

Aberdeen. Miss, April Five per-
sons are known to have been killed,
four injured and others are buried
among the debris of the Illinois Cen
trail depot which was demolished by a
tornado which swept through the city
of Aberdeen. The dead:
w. c. M'MILLIAN, president of the
bank of Aberdeen
T. c. M'MILLIAN., cotton buyer.
THREE NEGROES, unidentified.
Those known to have been injured
include George Franklin, telegraph
operator in the employ Of the Illinois
Central railroad and Messrs. Ray,
King and Winburn, also railroad en-
p1oyes.
The storm while of short duration,
was of great velocity and demolished
the depot and damaged a number of
other buildings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-07
THE GERMAN CARP MUST GO.
of the Fish Kingdom to Be
Eliminated.

Coffeyville Kan. April IAN effort will
be made by the state fish and game war,
den and his deputies to rid the streams OF
Kansas of the German carp and other
fish that are detrimental to the food fish
of the state The plan that will be used
will be to use traInmel nets and catch
ell the fish possible and all of food fish
will be thrown back into the streams.
Deputy Warden Fleeman is now plan
ming on starting this work in this locality
and is now arranging for nets to begin
the work He will use probably four or
five nets and several men, and If the ex-
pertinent proves successful the work will
be kept up. This move is In the right
direction as these fish eat many of the
smaller ones and in this way rid the
streams of good food fish,