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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-01

5OOD HOME WITH ACRES OF
land near 18th South and State SITS
1890. Call Murray S4l-W. c466O
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-01
Abstracts-Title Insurance
Real Estate-To Exchange

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LEASE OR TRADE 80 ACRES: l5 IN
fruit u IN choice apples. should yield
At least 5000 bushels: ceres apricots
and small fruit: broom house. good wa
ter. ; acres In alfalfa. owner. Address
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For Sale-PianOs
Par Sale-Miscellaneous

4 r.syA REFRIGERATOR. ALSO
A mn SHOW CASE, As GOOD AS
a. roR 500 III TAKEN AT ONCE.
4 -rrRNITURE Co. 209 s. w. TEN
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MORTGAGE SALE.

-Nri' 'thRts % st.
MORTGAGES SOMETIME
FORCE PEOPLE To SELL.
EALUABLE PROPERTIES AT
SACRIFICES.
We have Tor sale Just such
piece OF property. as acres of
land. all fenced with exception
ally good fence. cross fenced into
nelds. iQ0 acres I'm alfalfa. 5s
acres I'm wheat. 81 acres In oats.
acres N peas. making 1859 acres
~ crops. and these crops are
good. This 100 acres r. worth
500 per acre. Then there are Sc
acres IN sngebrush. with water.
then there are $50 acres of dry
farm lard. worth $50 per acre.
This land Is two miles from Mo-
roni. y miles from Mt Pleasant.
surrounded bv highly developed
farms and well settled. II Is with
out doubt the greatest snap we
nave ever offered.
We must sell this within : few
days 10 save the present owner
small equity. and for this reason
are In position 10 offer the land
for few days only a. $40 psr
acre.
The crop is looking nne. and will
be worth. on a conservative csu-
mate. $4,000 Where car YOU beat
IL? The land can be cut Up and
sold in pieces and make 4 hand
some profit
There is fine water right for all
hu, $50 acres.
II you want a farm where you
can be sure OF making good. here
ls your chance.
PAVANT VALLEY LAND COM
PANY,
r r EXCHANGE DEPT.
Was. 1851. Judge Bldg.
caeS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22

apply to himself the equitable principle
which lies at the base of the statue OF
limitations. We do not plead the stature
to avoid. simply on the ground Oh lapse
of time, a conceded debt. but to escape
the demand that we produce legai cyl
dence of a fact of 1873 which we have De-
lieved to exist and which Uncle sam mas
treated as if it existed for thirt!-hVe
years, this fact being the settlement, eA-
press or implied, of this interest claim
In the adjustment of 1873 The evidence
which has caused Uncle Sam to refrain
from making any claim against the DIS
trict on this account for thirty-nve year
mas been in his possession since 1878. II
In the lapse of years it has been &c
stroycd Uncle Sam cannot, We THINK III
common decency take advantage OF TINS
loss of evidence. BY his acts and by his
inaction for thirty-five years Uncle sam
has declared every year of that period
that this claim was Cancelled in lSaS
Wren Accountant IIodgson first discoN-
cred this mares nest in 1856 and reporter
to the controller of the Treasury that Of
fetal. on the precedent established by
Uncle Sam. treated the claim as merged
in the settlement of 1878 and refused TO
consider claims prior to that date.
And so matters rested until 1915, Whon
Accountant Mayes, with his own version
of Accountant Hodgsons discovery. in
diets the Secretary of the Treasury III
1S16-1S7S for violation of the law in max
ing advances of United States money for
payment of interest on :.65 bonds when
conditions existed which forbade such ad-
vances and made them unlawful.
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any opportunity or power 20 control me
or my agents I'm collecting o. spending
Your money, or in making or paying YOU
debts \ can imagine or discover debts
for you and pay them from your funds
in my control with impuniiy. was once
foolish enough to think that the Ncfy fac
that my ward YOU We're helpless, aud
that no responsibility for any bluudcr
which I might commit ia handling Nour
affairs could fairly bc fastened upon yoI,
imposed an obligation upon me not ID
punish you for my own faults. but 10
penaliZc myself as the responsible wrong
doer. But | know better now. All
have to do Is to drop confession OF isly
own laundering stupidity into the House
District committee slot and there issues
for my benefit an cdict OF couiiscation
against the District trust funds IN nav
possession. You Mashingtonians have.
know. no representation In Congress.
no voice in the appointment of Secie
taries of the Treasury, or Controllers "r
the Treasury. not even Of District Com
mssioners. and no control of any sort
over the acts OF anybody " no decides Tor
YOU all questions OF taxation and gov
eminent. l know that i. through nav
agents, am solely responsible for what
ever has been done or left undone Ia this
respect in the last forty years. But | VAS
hypnotizcd 10y YOU, and my successive
Congresses, Secretaries OF the Treasury
and Controllers have for forty years been
thus hypnotized. Or ii that solution
does not seem plausible | suggest a. IA
alternative that you cunning malcfactors
Of Washington have puncturcd my ska
with a drug-laden, poison-tanted needle.
producing imbecility or insanity. and that
this is my first lucid intern al in forty
years
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Revival of Sixteen Million Claim.

III any claims and equities against the
District prior. to 1873 are to be viewed as
surviving the Districts bankruptcy set
Element of 1873, then claims and equities
for the District must be treated as SINH
iariy endowed with continued life or with
like possibility of resurrection If the
District OF today is 10 be held responsible
Tor any neglected debts of the District
prior TO 1873 ii must also have the benefit
OF old WashinGton'S unsa listed equities
and partly unpaid credits
III Uncle Sam as d creditor can. convey
himself thirty-five years or a half century
or a century back into the past he must
go back similarly as a debtor and meet
now the unsatisfed equity against him
which arose from the circumstances of
the founding of the original city The
original owners of Washington donated
nve-seyenths of the city's soil and yielded
the right OF self-government to the nation
OH the understanding and implied agree
ment that ~the nation was to build up
here magnificent capital Mt it's own
expense, reimbursing itself. in part. from
the proceeds of the sale of donated lots.
i pretentiouS city was planned and lots
were sold by the govern uent on The
strength Of this understanding. For
IL. -four tbs Of ii century the nation v'o-
lated or neglected the onlisationa pn.ii
1t had thus incurred. In 1873 the govern
ment. Which had in the beginning i'm
p,iedly Undertaken 10 meet eli the eX-
penses of capital-making and then shifted
that burden. in the nIains upon private
citizens, decided that justice required il
to pay one-ilalf of the Districts expenses
From these facts two equities in favor
OF Washington people and against Uncle
Sam arise: O. For the payment of much
more than one-half of the local commu-
nity's capltal-malsing expenditures. from
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board should be reduced TO the extent of
the amount to be apportioned to the
United States government III the manner
indicated in the act of Congress of June
% 1874 The President of the United
States who signed the act of June 20,
1874 and who thus participated in franz
ing it. declares III these words I'm a formal
message to Congress only a few months
after the enactment of the act of June
20 1874, that this act SO thoroughly com
mits the United States government to
pay some substantial portion of the prin-
cipai and interest of the 800 bonds that
il is no longer proper to include these
bonds in formal statement of the cx-
elusive debt of the District. The proper
tomato amount of this debt to be paid by
the United States was fixed by the law of
1878 and by the practice under the law at
~ per cent During the interval between
1874 and 1873 when the United States
government was under obligation to pay
some percentage of the principal and in
terest of the 800 bonds, but the exact
figure of that percentage had not been
fixed, the interest payments seem to have
been made one from current revenues OF
the District. two from appropriations by
Congress and four by advances from the
United States Treasury with a provision
for reimbursement. In 1878. when the
percentage of national contribution was
fixed at 80 per cent the United states
might eauitably have charged against the
District whatever 1t had paid more than
one-half on this bond interest. But in the
adjustment and offsetting of claims and
equities I'm 1878 this possible charge
against the District disappeared. All the
surrounding facts and circumstantial
evidence suggest that this claim, like all
other claims on both sides. was merged
in the compromise bankruptcy settlement
of 1878 But il it survived and Is paid In
the period between the enactment and
the repeal of the organic act 1t must of
course, be paid on the half-and-half
basis as provided in that act and in the
sinking fund legislation of 1879.
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EASTERN HIGH REUNION.
Alumni Meet Tomorrow. Following
Annual Christmas Play.

Following the presentation OF the an
nual Christmas play at Eastern High
School tomorrow afternoon the Alumni
Association of that institution is 70
hold it's reunion. II was decided to
mold the reunion in the afternoon this
year instead Of al might. as IL Was be-
lieved this time would prove more pop
ular. Many of the alumni visit the
school on the last day before the holi-
days to witness the play which is a
regular feature Of the schools actiyi-
ties.
This year the play is to be An MAS
Box Those who are 10 take part are
Ada Howell. Evelyn Naylor. Margaret
King. Raymond Clark. iona Farnswortn
and Harold Williams.
Officers for the ensuing year are to
be elected and few brief addresses
will be made The renewal of old ac-
quafntances and dancing will occupy
the larger part of the afternoon from
$50 O'Clock until g.
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U. s Claim. Only Halt 4 Million.

President Grant in his sixth Gs34 mes
sast discusses the District debt and gives
the Sonfenporaneous construction of the
act 81 june ~. 1871, in it's application to
the de0t and to the $50 bonds which
formed a part of the debt. lie states the
items Of the nominal District debt, includ-
ing the 3.65 bonds. and deducts assets He
then says. The aggregate sum. thus
stated. includes something more than the
funded debt chaTgeabic exclusively to the
District Of Columbia. The act Of Con-
gross of june "a. 1874 rontemplates an
appcFtiGnmcuf between the United
>,ntes cosernmept and the District Of
Columbia TN respect of the payment Of
the principal and interest of the 1855
bonds. Therefore ia computing with pre-
ci-iou Tho bonded debt OF the District the
a-%rtSstte sums above stated as respects
81, bonds now issued. the outstanding
certificates of the board Of audit and the
Uuacjusted claims pending before that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22
SEES NO INDICATION
OF SEVERE COLD WAVE
Weather Forecaster, However. Pre-.
diets Unsettled" Conditions Dur
ing Christmas Week.

The one best bet for Christmas wealth
e.. according to the weather bureau, is
unsettled" over practically all of the
United States. Unsettled" according to
the officials. may mean anything from
clouds 10 heavy snow, including the en-
tire range of rain, sIect, hail, high winds
or any other unpleasant climatic condi-
tons.
The bureau, however, doesn't threaten
anv such dire combination for the DIS
tIict. The forccaster contents himself
with that mcaningful word unsettled,
and as the forecast is for the entire week
this may mean bad weather for Christ
mas day or it may allow sufficient lati-
tudc for al crisp. bright sunshiny day
The ONLY thin. the forecastcr seems Ger
tain of Is that temperatures are to range
rather low, being, as he says. near or
below the seasonal average generally,
with overcast skies throughout almost
thu. entire week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22
FIRE FROM OvERHEATED PIPE.
First Precinct Station Policemen De.
ceived for Time by Odor.

Policemen on duty ut the first precinct
station are SO accustomed to unusual
doors in the building that last night
when they detected the odor of smoke
they paid no attention To it until Lieut.
Harrison reported for duty. lie suggested
an investigation, and il was found thai
an overheated pipe had set fire 10 the
flooring of Capt HolIinbergers room.
Several policemen attacked the fire bit
it had gained SO much Roadway THAR
they found ii necessary to call upon No.
IL engine company FOR assistance. Dam
age done by the fire is estinat q at so.
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Disturbance" in Southwest.

~ disturbance now developing i'll the
southwest" the forecaster says, will adj
vance northcastward, attended by rains
and SHOWS and will cross the great cen
trail valleys about Tuesday and the east
eru states Wednesday or Thursday
Another disturbance off the north Pa
ciffc coast will cause general rains and
SHOWS on the Pacific slope during the
next several days. 1t will reach the mid
die vest Thursday or Friday ana the
eastern states near the end OF the Week.
60 MI, ne preceded by a general change
- warmer weather and be followed by
considerably colder weather.
There are at present no Indications Or
a severe cold wave during the week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22

If the evidence that still remains OF the
merger of this claim in the settlement of
1873 is only circuinstantial and not direct
proof, the question arises whether Uncle
Sam in violation of the equitable prin-
ciple in which the statute of limitations
is rooted win compel the production of
this direct proof If he were not Uncle
Sam he would be barred from attempting
to collect this stale claim by the statute
of limitations. This statute could not be
pleaded against him by an Ordinary
debtor, but in this case the alleged debtor
failure to pay the alleged debt and has
no voice i'll determining whether 1t shall
now be treated as debt and paid. Uncle
Sam, as trustee. has had the District
funds in his exclusive possession and
control at all times since 1874, and has
had the power to decide how they should
be disburSed. The question is not whether
the statute of limitations could be plead
ed against Uncle Sam by the ordinary
litigant hut whether Uncle Sam, having
the whole matter in his control, will take
advantage of his exemption from this
statute; whether il will be fair, manly,
equitable and honorable to take this
course and to visit the penalties of his
own sin as neglectful, Iaw-violating
trustee on the local taxpayers of 1913,
who are not responsible directly or in
directly either for the creation of this
alleged debt or for the failure TO pay it
in the seventies in accordance with the
law when Unce Sam had the District
money in his hands TO pay it, or with
failure to pay it since. They are not re-
sponsib.e for its existence and derive no
benefit from il.
The House District committee chal-
lenges the production of direct legal
proof that this claim was thus Cancelled
in 1878. 1t is in connection with this de-
mand. made in Uncle Sans name, for
legal proof that he treated this debt in
1873 as offset by some surrendered equity
of the District or discharged in bank
ruptcy that we call upon Uncle Sam to
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To. Subscribers:

Subscribers 10 The Star
who are served by the route
boys will confer a favor by
promptly reporting to The
Star Office, either III person,
by telephone or by mail. any
negligence on the part of the
route boys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22

Elder Thomas NJ. Paulson. a ministeF
of the Primitive Baptist Church. died
at the age of eiGhtythrcc years at
New Church. Va.
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A SQUARE DEAL
FOR WASHINGTON!

continued from FRS. Pase.)
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Discharged in Bankruptcy.

I'm the interval between 1874 and 1878
the Districts affairs. taken away from
the previously existing territorial form
of government, were in the hands of Of
ficials of the United States, receivers i'll
bankruptcy. the so-called temporary
Commissioners of the District, to wind
up the affairs of the pre-existing mu-
nicipal government. The moneys of the
District We're in the possession of the
Secretary of the Treasury, subject to the
direction of Congress. AS We have seen,
the United States had conceded in 1874
its obligation. to pay an unsettled per-
centage of the sO-called District debt.
The four years between 1874 and 1878
were spent by Congress as constitutional
Legislature of the District in working
out equitable readjustment of the So
called District Indebtedness (Which was
in truth national indebtedness). in fixing
as a part of this reaGjustment the per-
centage OF payment to be made by the
United States on capital-making eX-
penses past and future, and in establish
ing for the future wise permanent
form of government of the District.
Final action was taken b. Congress in
ISIS on the facts reported by the ma
tional receivers placed in temporary con-
trol of the affairs of the bankrupt Dis
trict Pending the permanent readjust-
ment of the Districts affairs, attained in
1878. Uncle Sam i'm absolute control as
receiver of the District, and under obl-
CATION by the legislation of 1874 to meet
some portion of this so-called District
debt including the $50 bonds, could have
paid all of the 3.65 bonds interest or
none of 1t, as he pleased. under a strict
construction of the statute and it's literal
application in accordance with the facts.
In either case the final division of this
interest expense would naturally be set
tied in the final adjustment of the Dis
trict's finances, and in accordance with
the terms of proportionate contribution
then fixed. 1t is alleged that in respect
to a portion of this interest the United
States advanced not merely one-half, but
nearly ali; in doing SO even violating its
own law, which contemplated a primary
advance from the revenues of the Dis
trict, after few specified municipal OK
penses had been deducted.
Our contention is that in 1878, through
the reports of the national receivers of
the bankrupt District, the so-called Dis
trict Commissioners. and through the
reports of the Secretary of the Treasury,
who had the custody of the Districts
money, and through its own protracted
Investigations. Congress was in posses
sion of all the facts concerning pre-eX-
listing claims and equities of all descrip-
tons ON both sides. and that by the COIN
promise settlement OF. 1878 the slate was
wiped clean.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-02-28
WOODLAND


Miss Annie simmersiA sojourning in PhiIa.
dclphia.
Mrs q Tyson has been spending few days
with Mr. and Mrs Elmer Janney Of Andora
Miss Helen jackson announced her engage
ment to Mr. Clayton Mcdowell at q dinner
given BY MT and Mrs E W jackson. OF Aiken,
on Saturday. The wedding TO be in the near
future
Miss Ida Thompson is spending some time in
Chester
Miss Grace Lindale entertained the Girls
Embroidery Club. Saturday Afternoon in her
usual delightful manner. Each one was given
q George Washington favor
Miss Annetta Phillips. OF Wilmington has
been recent guest Of Miss Leila Thompson
Mr. George Bryde, Of Wilmington spent
Sunday with his mother
Rev } M Lindale entertained Mr. and Mrs
Kirkus Dugdale Of Washington from Friday
to Monday
Mr. and Mrs Charles Gibson, Mr. and Mrs
Carroll Tyson were well serenaded Monday
evening
a double wedding was s0lemnized in Hope
well M r church st nine O'Clock, Saturday
morning, Feb. 22nd. when Mr. Charles & Glib
son and Miss Lula Thompson ana Mr. Car
roll 3 Tyson and Miss Lau ra G Thompson
We're married by Rey n Eindaie
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-02-28
Navajo Blue spots.

&c has been noticed by scientists who
have been studying the interesting and
mysterious Navajo indians that the
Navajo baby invariably has blue spot
at the base Of It's spine. The spot is
sometimes as small as dime and
sometimes as big as ones hand. II
closely resembles bruise, but It IL
due entirely to an extraordinary pig
mentation. The spot may disappear
before the child is 1--WE years old, but
always returns later In life when this
b the case. The scientists have come
to the conclusion that this spot is proof
positive Of the Monaghan origin Of the
Navajo. And they also make the as
tonishing assertion that It Is present in
many European and American children
whose parents can trace their geneal-
ogy for generations back and are GER
tain that there has been no admixture
Of Monaghan blood. Exchange
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-02-28
Girls Compete In Corn Growing
Contest.
Contest

Last season few Oklahoma girls ex-
pressed q desire to enter a statewide corn
growing contest in which more than 500
boys were engaged. The judges admir-
ed the girls pluck and granted the re-
quest. The result was that one of the
girls. Esta Beaman, seventeen years old.
won the FIRST prize Of $500 II gold Her
acre. On which she did all the work alone.
yielded ninety-five bushels Of corn, which
is about six times the average Of Okla
homa. TWAS one Of the best acres in
all the states where contests were held,
although Il was onsa hillside where there
are srumps and rocks. and where the soil
conditions are distinctly unfavorable.
TO show that there was nothing acciden-
tai in her victory, Miss Beaman raised
two acres Of corn near BY as good as her
prize acre. and also half an acre Of fine
tomatoes.
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o YESl Q YFSl o YES
HlNDMAN. AucrioNEER
PUBLIC SALE ON THE FARM OF
w. Z. B. r. Robertson
TUESDAY, MARCH III, 1913
Commencing At 10 a. m.
Commencing at 10 .. m.

1
i The owner having leased his farm, will sell
on the premises, situate about q mile from
Rising Sun, Nd. on the pike to Calvert. as
follows;
s HEAD OF HORSES No L sorrel mare,
3 yrs, sound, good worker and driver: No. 2,
good work horse Nos. 5 and + pair OF blacks,
8 and yrs.s hard to beat, will do everything
No. 3, bay horse, good single line leader, can't
hitch him wrong No. 9, gray mare. his mate,
| good work animal Nos. and 8, pair Of gray
colts. coming and YRS, have been hitched;
one of them Is now broken and a fine driver
70 HEAD OF CATFLE-l9 are mich cows.
with calves at side; springers. balance In
good milking profit. These are fine herd of
Guernsey and Jersey cows They showed best
average test in COW testing Association last
spring, two Of them being heaviest mixers in
association Thoroughbred Guernsey Bull,
entitled to registry. 10 Hogs and Shoats, rs to
100 Chic6ens, some Thoroughbred Qrpingtons
I WAGONS, IMPLEMENTS AND HAIR
NESS p farm wagons milk wagon with lock,
z two-seated carriages. one extension top,
Burns make; hay loader, binders, one nearly
new; new corn planter with fertilizer attach
ment; mowers. 51s rift. cut; hUrse'rake, Tiger
with shafts; 2 two-horse Iron Age cnltivatnrs,
harrows- disc. Osborn combination, spring
tooth and spike; left-hand Wizard plows,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-02-28
.chautauaua Assoclaflon

Prot. Paqi N. Pearson. Of swarthmore
College. president Of the Cautauqua As
|sociation Of Pennsylvania, has Announced
his plans for 1913 season. Last summer
forty-one Chautauquas were organized
and conducted in towns ID Pennsylvania.
New Jersey. Delaware and Maryland.
For the summer Of 1913 ninety towns will
be organized, seventy Of which are al.
ready under contract.
The Board Of Managers of the Chaut-
auqua Association is As follows: Charles
F. jenkins, E. Pursey Passmore and Roi-
ard Comfy, Philadelphia; DR.. William /.
Hull, Of Swarthmore College; Dr. George
E. Reed, former president Dickinson Col
lege. and T. H Dudley Perkins, Of
Mooretown, N. J.