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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04
Library Must Pay Inheritance
Tax

The Maryland Court of Appeals in a
decision rendered recently upheld the
Washington County Orphans Court in
the case of the Washington County Free
Library and the Washington County
Hospital against the estate OF the late
Edward w. Meaey, the wealthy Hagers-
town banker, who left several hundred
thousand dollars to the library and the
hospital. The library and the hospital
held that the money left to them was ex-
empt from the S per cent collateral
inheritance tax. The Orphans Court de-
cided otherwise. The hospital and the
library appealed.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04
Horses Much in Need For U. S.
ARMY.

The army is now short at least 1000
horses-a greater shortage than ever be
fore has existed The War Department
already has expended 500, 600 allowed
by Congress March A last, and while an
other appropriation Of $4,000 will be
available July I, at present prices not
nearly enough horses can be had to meet
the need Fortunately, however, prices
are somewhat lower than last year.
Most Of the horses purchased are from
the Missouri markets, although efforts
are being made to gather some horses at
Winchester, Va, for the cavalry camp to
established there next month
The quartermaster corps is trying to
meet this need for horseflesh by estab
fishing breeding stations on Indian reser-
vations, and Major G.. X. Paxton has just
organized the first Of these at the Chey-
enne agency in South Dakota.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04
Deed of Trust.

Edward ". Woodruff and vile. execu.
ted to w. s. Mccarthy and E. l.. Cob
lentz, a deed Of trust, deciding to them
several lots at Braddock Heights and a
six acre tract Of land. The deed of trust
recites that Edward w Woodruff is in.
debted to L. Fl. OFT for 81, 200 and de.
sires to pay the same and for this reason
the deed Of trust is given The instru
ment was executed at Washington, d. c,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04
on1cers of Frederick Council.

AT the meeting OF the Frederick Coun
Gil, No u.s. Jr. O. u A. NJ. the follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
term: Councillor, VIM. d. Grove; VIC
councillor, Edward NJ Dyer; assistant
recording secretary, George NJ. Nixdorfi
conductor, Edward c. Lease. IT.. war
den, Francis S. Gather. inside sentineI
Eugene H. Albaugh; chaplain, Robei
A. Bennett An interesting address wa
made by Deputy State Councillor Rober
a. Bennett, during the meeting of intel
est TO the council
Hurry up and save that girl, )" bawle(
the fire chief 'Why don't YOU hurrv2
The fireman bent over and whispere
down three stories:
"lll have her on the ladder in min
ute chief Pm waiting for her to curl he
hair. louisville Courier-J Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04

The Fourth of July is again here.
The greatest day that our nation ever
saw, or perhaps ever will see; the day
that instituted the liberty and freedom
hat all now enjoy. and thus laid the
foundation for the greatest republic on
the face of the earth. delegaiug to us
all equal rights, equaljusiice. life, liberty
and the pursuit OF happiness, so let the
welkins ring, the cannons boom, the
rockets fyand the banners float, and My
Native Country, Thee, Red, White
and Blue" and other patriotic songs
well up from every true American
heart, and the "StarSpangled Banner, -
never cease to wave DER this land OF
the free and the home of the brave.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04
Montgomery Tax Rate Lower

The Montgomery County Commission
ers signed the annual levy, fixing the
general tax rate for the county at SIS cents
on each 500 of property, which is a de-
crease of a cents from the rate last year.
AS the State tax rate has been increased
from 234 to 81 cents, however, the com,
bined State and county rate this year is
50 cents higher than that Of last year.
The taxable basis Of the county is now
S2o,7I2,3 sos, of which $I7.5o3, $40 is real
estate and S., 2oS, SIS personal property.
This is an increase Of about S44G. 600 over
last years basis. The assessment OF
stocks and bonds shows a decrease OF
S3II75 and is now 81, OIL $50
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04
Sinking Fund Bonds Transferred.

The SI27.7oo worth Of civ bonds in
the sinking fund were turned over to City
Register Nicodemus by former Register
McCaffrey, and were placed for safe
keeping in the vault of the Farmers and
Mechanics National Band, where the city
funds are now deposited The bonds
were formerly at the Citizens National
Bank The transfer was made by the
two registers aud Mayor Fraley.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04

Words of cheer are words of help.
Words of gloom are words of harm
There is a bright side and a dark side
to every phase OF life, and to every hour
of time. II we speak o the bright side
we bring the brightness into prominence:
five speak of the dark side, we deepen
It's shadows It is in our power to help
or to hinder by WORD any and every
person whom we are with. If we see a
look OF health or hope in the face of an
acquaintance whom we casually meet,
and we tell him SO he goes on his way
with new life in his veins If we see a
look of failing strength and of heaviness
OF heart in one to whom we speak, and
we emphasize the fact that he looks
poorly, we give him a push downward
to the forces which effect his course.
A look or a word can help or can harm
our fellow men. 1t is for us to give
cheer or gloom as we pass on our way
III life; and We are responsible for the
results of our influence accordingly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04

The mother heart does not need soft
satin and lace and embroidered linens
and rose hooded candles to make itself
felt. 1t beats Just as devotedy and hap
PLY under cheap cottons as well as
under silken folds; it watches III the
silence of the night by the lowly couch
of some little sufferer as tenderly as it
does by the side OF some other little pa
tient in the splendid mansion; it reaches
out to the convict behind the prison
doors with the same love that glories in
the success OF some renowned statesman.
Mother love in its countless combina-
ton furnishes a theme as old as the hills
perhaps, but one from which the noblest
of Inspirations are drawn. In nearly all
the relations of life, from those of blood
to those Of friendship, wonderful comb-
nations can be made - combinations
which illustrate to the world the great
heights which a pure love can attain, and
combinations which act as gigantic re-
Electors and which only send light into
dark places, but which draw all within
reach INTO the circle oftheir brightness.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04

1t it pleasant TO go into the country at
this season Of the year. There are cattle
on a thousand hills. There are many
herds of swine by the road side into
which the evil spirit has not yet entered.
There is a cordial greeting when you
meet the farmer, the merchant or the
mechanic. There is a welcome if you
enter the farm house, and there is always
a hospitality, which it is a delight to
share. Truly God made the country
and man made the town When you go
into the country you view Gods hand
work you behold His bounty. You see
the beauty with which He has adorned
mans habitation. You have more rev.
erence for Him because of His manifold
goodness to the goodness in the children
of men. If you want to feel young
again; if you want to forget care and let
your thoughts gambol; if you want TO
learn anew the lesson of the Fatherland
of God; if you would commune with
nature and learn her message, get YOUR
self out into the country. Seek the SOL
itude of the everlasting hills, and a day
so spent will be TO you real Thanks
giving Day.
Take time, young man, to go out with
your sister. If she is a good girl she is
much more desirable company for YOU
than that other girl who ffirts with you
so desperately.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-07-04

Two persons will not be friends lorg
fthey cannot forgive each others little
fallings.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
FOREST FIRES RAGE
 ON SEWARD PENINSULA

SEWARD, Aug. 15.-Forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Kenai lake, twenty-five miles from Seward. A gale is blowing, and the fire is be yond control. An Alaska Northern railway motor car was caught last night between fallen logs across the track, and the crew barely saved the car after a desperate fight with the flames.
 The fire threatens the Kenai Alaska Gold and Silverman Syndicate plants. Crews were called from the mines and mills to fight the flames.
 Two tons of powder just delivered to the Silverman warehouse was threat ened The crew dug a hole and buried it just as the fire passed over. Three miles of track of the Alaska Northern was badly damaged. It is impossible to tell how bad at present. Many cab ns were consumed.
 The fire was started by campers. A small blaze, supposedly extinguished by forest rangers, but sparks smolder- ing in the moss were soon famed in to flame.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23

missions in affidavit form, made in 1907 and 1908, do not support the charges of fraud.
 The case was conducted by H. Stan ley Hinrichs and NJ. A. Arnold for the government and by A. c. Shaw, of Portland, and John Arthur, of Sc attle for the applicants.
 The decision made today is directly opposed to the decision made by the same land office in the Wardell case in the matter of what constitutes the opening of a coal mine. The local of flee was. however, reversed in the Wardell case. In the Wardell case the government made no charge of fraud whatever, but rested it's demand for the cancellation of the entry on the ground of not complying with the law in the matter of opening a mine. The charges of fraud being unsub- stantiated by evidence in the CheZum case reduces it to practically the same status as the Wardell case.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
ALASKA COAL CLAIMANTS
 ARE TURNED DOWN
O-O

Register c. B. Walker and Receiv- er Frank A. Boyle. of the local land office. have found adversely in the ap- plicatiOn of s. C. CheZum ct al for patent to the Chezum group of coal claims in the Boring river coal fields. The area claimed contained II claims approximately 17OO acres. The claims were located in 1904 and a patent ap- piled for and money paid in, in 1909, to the amount of $17,O00. The gov ernment still holds this money.
 Charges of fraud in making the To- cations and also that the law was not complied with in the matter of open ing up a mine were preferred in 1912 and the matter came on for a hearing in the local land office on May 26 of this year. The decision on that hearing was rendered today
 The local land office finds that the government has failed to prove the charge of fraud, and that under the Cunningham decision, the applicants have failed to comply with the law in the matter of opening a mine.
 The evidence submitted was in the form of dispositions taken in San Fran cisco. Portland and Seattle and is very voluminOus. The evidence shows that the applicants acted in good faith in making the locations, and that they expended about S2,00O in surveys, de velopment work and other incidentals; also that they put in a number of open cuts on the coal deposits from which coal could be taken. but not ecOnom- ically.
 The decision finds that alleged ad
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
DeIegate WCkerSham
 Seeks Money for Alaska

tax added to other burdens which already exist will shut down many mines.
 "Of course, an income tax must be uniform, and 1 realize that nothing can prevent the levy and collection of this tax on the mines of Alaska. I am told that Alaska will be treated just as other non-continguous territories are, and it is that suggestion which wish specially to call your attention.
 Alaska was given an elective legis- lative body on August "A, 1912, and the legislature held it's first meeting in March and April, 1913. Effort was made to get an organization of her f. nances-to get start at hOusekeep- ing. We need money to organize gov ernment in the Territory. We need every dollar of the income tax to be raised by the tariff bill, and every dol lar thus placed in the Territorial treas ury is a dollar less for the United States to appropriate from it's Treas ury.
 We need to be treated, in the tar if bill, just as you are treating Porto Rico, and the Philippines. In sub-di- vision N, page POT, the bill provides that: all revenue collected in Porto Rico and the Philippine islands there under shall accrue intact to the gener- al government thereof, respectively
 Now, if the Senate will amend that paragraph by inserting Alaska just preceding Porto Rico it will be of great aid to Alaska, not cost the United States a cent, and leave the tar. if bill as sound as it now is.
 Wont you please offer and sup port such an amendment in aid of the development of a Territory which needs your help?"
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23

Delegate James Wickersham is seeking to secure the adoption to the
 income feature of the tariff bill that will give to the Territory of Alaska the revenues that are derived within the Territory from the tax on incomes. AS the bill now stands it provides that the revenues from that source collect ed within the Philippines and Porto Rico shall be turned over to the gener- al government of those countries, and Delegate Wickersham has written a letter to each United States Senator asking that the bill be amended to in- clude Alaska with them.
 Judge Wickersham's letter was dated at Washington, August 18th, and one was addressed to each United States Senator The letter was as follows: My Dear Senator:
 The income tax provision in the tar if bill will work a peculiar hardship in Alaska.
 Tn the general sense the people there have no income. There is no ac- cumulated wealth there, which, from profits, interest, or. rents pay the own CT an income. An Alaskan's income is generally the difference between the gross amount of the output of his mine, and the amount he has paid to the merchant and laborers during the year This difference is his wage for a years work in the mine.
 Transportation into that distant and almost inaccessible region takes fifty per cent of the entire output of the mines, and thus a $1O,OOO income is only one-half as valuable as the same income in the States. One per cent tax there would be equal to two per cent in the States,-and more. Such
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
PACIFIC COAST COMPANY
 THANKS JUNEAU PEOPLE

$. II. Ewing, agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company today re- ceiyed a cable from G. II. Higbee. vice president and manager of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. extending the thanks of the company 10 the city officials. merchants and other citizens of Juneau for the sympathetic atten- ton and assistance rendered in the care of the surviving passengers. of- ficers and crew of the State of Cali fornia after the wreck. The cable gram was dated today, and is as fol- lows.
 "S H. Ewing, Juneuau Alaska:-
 "On behalf of this company please express to the city officials. merchants and other citizens of Juneau our ap- preciation of their kind and sympa- thetic attention shown. and assistance rendered to the surviving passengers and officers and crew of the State of California while they were at Juneau.
 "GEORE H. HIGBEE.
 "Nice-Pres. and Mngr."
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
LACK OF MONEY MAY CAUSE HUERTA TO CHANCE
CALIFORNIA HERO
 PRAISES TREATMENT

"Too much praise cannot be given Dr. l.. 0. Sloane, the nurses and the sisters in this hospital, for the kind ness and refined treatment we are re- ceiving," said Thomas Blankenhorn, nightwatchman and hero of the Cal ifornia wreck, last night "'I am sure that all my companions on the ship feel the same way about it. All that can be done is being done for our comfort and toward hastening our recovery
 There are three men in room four at St. Ann's hospital being treated for injuries received in the wreck of the State of California All of them are members of the ships crew. Strange to say each of them have been in three wrecks, not so remote but that they will be recalled by many. Thomas Blankenhorn, nightwatchman on the State of California, was aboard the San Bias when she was wrecked. and also aboard the Spokane when she struck in Seymour narrOws and sank C. Machio, the injured seaman, was through the terrible experience aboard the Walla Walla on the California coast and also wreck on the Santa Rosa. c. A. Andrews, the veteran mail clerk in the steamship service on this coast, was in the Cottage City wrek at Seymour narrow and was also on the Ramona when she was done for
 BlankenhOrn's companions in room four endorse all that he said about the attention shown them. All of them are getting along fine.
 Thomas Blankenhorn, after forcing A. N. Floyd and Mrs. Floyd into a life boat, which unfortunately was cap sized almost immediately, went down with the ship. His right foot was caught in a small wire cable which held him fathoms beneath the sur face. He seized a part of the rigging and by exerting almost super-human strength twisted and tore the flesh of the entrapped member until he was free and could rise to the surface. He destroyed several toes and part of his foot, but saved his life.
 Rising to the surface he found him. self in the midst of a pile of wreck age and immediately climbed on part of it. A boat came along and wanted to take him in, but there were many others still in the water and he felt safe enough and held to his perch say ing that he was all right to pick up the others. He never felt any pain until he was taken out of the water, and did not realize that he was ser iously injured. He was one of those sent away from Gambler Bay on the Lucca F. for medical attention by Capt. Cam.
 q am proud to be in the hospital un- der the conditions that brought me here,' said Blankenhorn. 'I am proud of being a member of a ships crew that behaved so well as my compan- ions on the ship Every officer and every man did his duty. I observed it all as l lay on the wreckage watch | ing the attempts to recover those in the water and l saw the work that was done in the brief time allowed us. If the ship could have stayed afoat ten minutes every soul aboard would have been saved The discipline was per feet and the crew worked quickly. Capt. Cam gave his orders calmly and decisively, and every order was carried out unquestioned and without confusion"
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
Washington Advised that
 Gen. Huerta is Bending

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-Informa- tion has reached officials at Washing ton that Gen. Huerta, who has main tained a stiff upper lip thus far in his negotiations with Gov. John Lind, has begun to bend, and that he may de- eide to reconsider the attitude that he has taken and give a favorable de- cision to the peace proposals of the United States. The stress of the f. nancial condition of his administra- ton is such that a crisis is imminent, and is it believed that he will be forced to take some action immediate ly that will restore confidence in the
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
MRS. |. H. MOORE AND MISS
 HELENE MOORE GO SOUTH

Mrs. l. H. Moore and Miss Helene Moore, wife and daughter of Dr. I. H. Moore, who have been spending the summer at Juneau, will leave on the Alameda this evening for Seattle Miss Moore will resume here work in the University of Washington where she will enter the junior year of her course Miss Moore is specializing in journalism at the university, an excel lent course in which is given at that institution.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
STREET SPEAKING CASE
 SET FOR MONDAY

Judge k. k. Robertson, special Unit States Court Commissioner, has set the street speaking case for trial next Monday at 10 a. m. The case will come up as a charge against Charles w. Carter, as mayor, and w. NJ. Me Bride, as a police officer, for interfer- ing with a lawful public meeting. The mayor and police officer, in enforcing a city ordinance, stopped Billy" East man, the ex-convict from holding a religious meeting. Attorneys for MT. Eastman advised him that the ordi- nance under which they were pro- ceeding was invalid, and to test its validity the mayor and police officer were arrested as stated.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
LOST MEMBERS OF
 CREW IN FORECASTLE

It is believed that most of the mem bers of the crew of the State of Cal ifornia that are missing were in the forcastle at the time the ship struck, and they did not have time to get out before the boat sunk. This con- clusion is reached because none of their bodies have been recovered. If this theory is correct it is more grim testimony as to the suddenness with which the big ship went to the bottom after she struck that uncharted rock.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
JEFFERSON SAILS WITH
 JUNEAU PASSENGERS

SEATTLE, Aug. 23.-The steamer Jefferson sailed at 10 o'clock this fore noon with the following passengers
 For Juneau-H. A. Nicholson, w. H Iugton, H. E. Wood. Miss C. SeymOns T. l. Smith, John E. Anderson and wife. Mrs. Sarah Brown, Misses Helen and Dorothy Troy, Mamie Williams Mrs. F. J. Jamart and six steeTage.
 For DOuglas-H. Lindsay, S. Jack son, Mrs. J. o. Kirkman, Elva Kirk ham, Mrs. Ida Hewitt and three chil dren
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
OVERS BODY GOES SOUTH

The body of w. A. Dyer, the young medical student from Marquette, Mich igan, which was brought from the scene of the wrecked State of Cali fornia last Wednesday, has been em- balmed, and will be shipped to Seattle on the Alameda tonight.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
ACCUSER OF PRINCE
 MAY BE DEPORTED
O-O-

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23.-Mrs. Mel cher, the Vienna laundress who ac- cused Prince Stanilaus Sulkowski of sending for her to come to America to be his mistress, and who, after her ar rival married Miss Freese, a Los An geles heiress, has been arrested and asked to show cause why she should not be deported.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23

SEATTLE, Aug. 23.-The three un- known bodies recovered from the wreck of the State of California and which arrived on the Northwestern yesterday at noon were identified yes tcrday as follows:
 MISS LILLIAS B. NORMAN. pri- yate Secretary to General Manager Featherstone, Iron Ore Railroad, Longview, Texas.
 MISS MARY R. DIXON, school teacher. Seattle
 MISS MANNETTE B. HARLAN. school teacher, Monmouth, Oregon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
REPUBLICAN LEADER WAS
 IN MULHALL EMPLOYE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. - H. E. Miles, of Racine, Wis, today confirmed the testimony of Martin NJ. Mulhall that former Representative James E. Watson, for many years Republican whip in Congress, was employed at S250 per week to work for the tariff commission bill.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
ARMOR PLATE CONTINUES
 TO GET CHEAPER
o-o

WASHINGTON, Aug 23.-The con tract for the armOr plate for the new dreadnaught for the United States navy was let at a reduction of nearly SlOO a ton less than the last contract This means a saving of close 10 $400.- GOO in the cost of one ship. The say ing is due. according to the opinion of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. to the agitation in favor of a government factory.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
CHAUFFEUR WANTS
 TO GET MONEY

SHERBROOKE, Canada, Aug. 23.- Gentleman Roger Thompson, chauf- feur, who is held charged with having aided a legally determined lunatic across the Canadian line, announced from his cell yesterday evening that if the Thaw family does not come to his rescue he will tell all that he knows about the escape of Harry Thaw.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
Mexieans XII Peace EnvoYs.

NEW ORLEANS. La. Aug. 23.-A dispatch to the Picayune from Mexico City says the bodies of Gen. Pascuai Orozco, senior. and the other peace commissioners who went to treat with representatives Of the federal govern ment, were found in the streets Of Huantala riddled with bullets. Guer- rero Seapata slew the commissioners with his own hands according 10 state ments made by his soldiers Co the fed eral authorities.