Weekly journal-miner., 1912-08-21
PHOENIX. EQualisera Restiye.

Equalisers Festive.
 The State Board of Equalizers is worrying along the best it can, seeming to suffer more from lack of diversion than anything elce. The Representatives of the mines and railroads have failed to appear and protest against valuations tentatively placed. in anything like the numbers expected.
 Ii was stated by the members of the board yesterday that while they have not yet begun the establishing of the final figures that will com prise the rate in each fund for which taxes are raised. they have proceed cd far enough 10 state with certainty that the total rate for the state tax will no, exceed sl per sl0O valua- ton.
 It has been assumed in some quarters that the state tax would be considerably over s2. That was arrived at by adding the totals of the maximum amounts the board is allowed by law to fix as a rate in each of the various funds for which money appropriations were made by levy. The board states that while it has authority to go to that length If it chooses it has no notion of doing SO and is certain that the aggregate of all the fund rates will be under $l. That makes the rate but little different from that of last year, although. of course, the total taxes will be much greater because of increased valuations. It IS the valuation of properties therefore that is of more interest just now than the rate.
 Murderer Captured.
 Lore,a Verdugo, believed to be the man who on Saturday night, May II, shot Mike Baltz and Come cinda Ozuna at the Gold hotel causing the death of the latter, was captured today by Sheriff James F.
 McGee of Florence, according 10 a telephone message received at the shcriffs office this afternoon. A local officer will go to Florence 10. morrow morning to bring the pris' oner 10 this city.
 Until one week ago the assassin of Ozuna was unknown to the loca officials. and the case remained ;
 big puzzle. At the time the officer,
 received a tip that Verdugo was th' 5 man who had done the shooting. New Bill in Effect.
 The enforcement of the provision l of the new weights and measure 2 bill began Friday IL is estimated
 that the saving in actual money
 both to the seller and consumer. il c Phoenix will be something nor ' than S20.000 per annum. In a pre- Il liminary report on the condition o Q the scales and measures used in tn h city of Phoenix ii is estimated tha '. nearly every one is wrong, and tha
 either the scale is giving wrongfu ! weigh, to the consumer to the bene ,. fit of the seller or that the revers d is true. The percentage in favor C n the merchant after an inspectio l. made in 1911 was estimated 2, |, per cent. while the other l4 pc
 cent of those weighing wrongful
 was in favor of the consumer. O Busch May Build Hotel. e With the intention of inspectin ia the various sites that have bee y submitted to Adolphus Busch as tf y, probable location for good hots in Otto Mathi of St. Louis. confident
 representative of the S,. Louis be-
 magnate. is in the city and will r iy main here for few days. Aecor' K ing to Mir. Mathi, Mir. Busch hi m had his eye on Phoenix as pos' yh ble location of a first class hot n- that will cater to the wealthy iouri y, trade for number of years, and
 is only as part of the eonsumm
 ton of that plan that Mir Maihi S. now in the city
 as It is the intention of the Bus II, people to erect a perfectly mode us hotel. equipped with all the luxuri as that have made the Busch hot, nd elsewhere in the country SO VI ct known and popular, and in doi'
 this no expense will be spared T
 initial estimated cost ranges betwe CT S6O0,00O and N0O,OOO