Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-16
ALL GET LESS THAN THEY HAVE EARNED
 DURING THE WEEK
Two Dollars Held Out of Pay Checks of Men
 Getting Wages
GREAT HOWL GOES UP

The street tax hold up is abroad in
 Bisbee this week. Every man who
 is on pay roll is getting something
 more than pay check though some.
 thing less than his usual pay check
 in the shape of a little Nile green
 paper slip, which states that the re-
 cipient has paid to the city Of BisIee
 the sum O. two dcilars for stree:
 taN. Just nice way of explaining
 the dent in his pay check. As d mat
 ter Of fact the street tax has been
 paid but the recipient had 10 hand in the ceremony. except 10 dc witSout
 the thing that he had counted Cn spendinS the two sollars for
 There is no warning that the tax collector is coming and there is no show Of escaping. Like a bolt of lightning out of the clear sky, and the taxpayer, or the man who walls the street is the better term. knows no more He cannot even exercise that sacred privilege of ''bawling out the tax collector. for the collector is at home reading the evening paper when the recipient is handed the Nile green slip They ion't do that way back east eN-easterners say in deprecatior of the tax grab. But just look at the streets we have built" the patriotic westerner says.
 There are many. however, who are Rot foregoing the kick pTerCeatiye even if it is too late. Yesterday a negro who had been "docked' two dollars for street tax went to the city marshal's office and tried 10 fud out what he was getting for his money but he was told that he could not even vote-tO spend his money on the streets or anything because he had not been in the state a year The logic of the remaTl, hit the econ on inc bean and bounced of and one Of those little curly question marks tha, adorn the head or little Jeff in the funny parer stood cut wUnderinglg from the kiniSy poll.
 Still another victim" showed for ward hIs green siiu with one hand and pointed to a bum optic with the other, claiming exemption. Others sung other GolefUl tunes with the green slip as tho music sheet AI number claim that they are exempt under the age limi- and all sorts Of excuses. some of .hcm valid ones, are registered at the office Of tho city But m the majority or tho . ,ases the money mas gone forever ill., . 10 the street tax" hole.
 It is the belief oi many that if they 1.
 aid street tax they are entitled tJ vote in the coming city election b.. . he ,ax has nothing 10 do with vC-- ne. in Arizona at least The la
 resumes that the resident has pail . hc stree, taN-ahd in BisbeC th3 laws presumption is moral certain y. There are many who ~ill pay he street tax who will not have 1 right to vote in the coming city cleo ! ion. That's the law
 The formal business Of regIsterinG . voters for the city election Is not without its aidelights of interest and . lumOr. A number of residents have presented naturalization papers in . duplicate. the originals having been destroyed in a the great fire and . -arihquake of San Francisco.
 The colored part of the population !. furnished the larger part of the IUmCr. Several days ago a middle 1 aged negro, an eX-Nirginia slave, ap- peared at the office Of the registrGr 1 and asked 10 be allowed to enroll ais name lie passed the preliminary examination and then signed his name, CT what purported 10 be a name As a matter of .act it did a great ;n- justice 10 the scratching or hen You'll have 10 do better than that, said the registrar. "I sho aid leave out a p and a Y, didn't ! Loas?" he said with feiGned surprise.