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Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-12
UNITED STATES COURT
 DECISION IN MINE BACK
 TAX CASE INTERESTING
HIGHEST TRIBUNAL SUSTAINS CONTENTION OF COPPER QUEEN-CASE IN COURTS FOR YEARS HAS ATTRACTED WIDE ATTENTION

The first of last week the United States Supreme Court rendered decis. fen sustaining the contentious of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. in it's tax suit. filed in 1908 in the Su- perior court of this county and sub- sequently carried to the Supreme court of the territory and thence to the United States Supreme Court The de. cision just rendered. as learned by Fl linwood & Ross. attorneys for the company in this city, represents a dis tinct victory for the legal department of the Copper Queen and the establish ment of the right Of the position of the company in the action from the beginning The filing of the suit for the collection of the back taxes al- legged due was attended at the time by much public interest and a great deal of publicity. The succeeding steps have also occasioned much at tention from time to time in the view of which the following resume of the action from the briefs filed in the case will be of general interest at this time:
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The suit was a special statutory proceeding brought under Act No. 92 of the Laws of 1903 Of the Territory of Arizona, which was adopted from the statute of the State of Missouri to enforce the lien for territorial and county taxes for the year 1901 on the property described in the complaint said taxes amounting with interest and costs to the sum of s120,039.35 on June s, 1904 together with interest thereon since that date, at the rate of 10 per cent per annum. and the further sum of per cent of the amount found due as the taxcollect
 or's fee and the further sum of 25 per cent of the amount found due as the tax attorneys fee. The case was
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tried in the lower court without jury.
 Judgment was entered in favor of the defendant. appellee. to the effect that the plaintif. appellant, take nothing by it's action; from which judgment the appellant appealed to this court This court. on appeal. at- firmed the judgment of the lower court. The facts as found by the Court are as follows:
 The appellee. the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, in 1901 listed and returned to the Assessor Of Cochise County for assessment cer- tain patented mining claims belong ing to 1t. being sixty.fve in number. Said list as returned, included among other property the aforesaid sixty. five patented mining claims as one tract, which tract was stated therein Co comprise 636 acres and was valued at S3.1S0.00. and the improvements thereon valued at s55,431.76. Other real and personal property was re- turned in said list, and all said prop crty, including said patented mines, vas listed at total valuation Of $36S,- 13976.
 Al a meeting Of the County Board Of Supervisors sitting as the Board Of Equalization for Cochise County held on July 17, 1901. the Board of ECualization raised the assdssment upon eight of the group of sixty-fve claims originally assessed en masse. in amounts varying from $50 00O. % 70 S1 900 OO00O each The action of the Board of Equalization in making this raise is disclosed by the minutes following:
 "ln the matter of the equalization of the assessment of the properties belonging to the Copper Queen Con. 7olidated Mining Company:
 This matter coming regularly to be heard before the Board of Equal ization pursuant to a notice served Tn writing which notice appears in the minutes of the board, and in which it was proposed to change anu
 
 property as the same appears upon assessment roll. by adding thereto the sum of s3.464 ,s95.00; for the reason that the sum fixed in said assessment roll appears to be too small; and this being the day fixed for the hearing, and pursuant to a notice so given. Walter Douglas. Superintendent and Agent of said company. appeared be- fore the board in behalf of said com. pany and made statements regarding said valuation and his arguments in reference thereto, and the board being fully advised h the premises, finds it necessary to add to the assessed valuation of the property of said com. Dany on the assessment roll as fol lows .to-wit:
 Silver Spray mine .. ...sl ,000 0O0. % Hoisting Works and i'm.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
HOW DISPUTED POINTS WERE ADJUSTED

The following changes affecting points at difference between the
senate and house were made in conference:
Comptroller of currency and secretary OF agriculture reA1eo as
members of organization committee.
Comptroller Of currency made exOhco member OF 1edeIal reserve
board and total membership retained at seven and the term OF ONCE fixed
at ten years. 4S
Alaska excluded from provisions Of act.
After federal reserve district are established, national banking asso-
Citations shall have 30 days in which to subscribe for capital STOCK OF e
serve banks. $500
individuals may purchase up to $4,000 stock in federal reserve bank
instead of $4,000, as provided In house bill. s
Stock not held by member banks shall not be entitled to any voting
power whatever.
Number of regional reserve banks to be mot less than e1sht nor more
than twelve" as provided by the senate.
The minimum capital of regional reserve banks fixed at $4oooOoos
No senator or representative can be an officer of q federal reserve
No director of Class C directors Of fedora. reserve boati shall be an
officer, director, employee or stakeholder Of any bank.
Each member bank Is permitted to nominate one canolcate Ior OassS
A and one for Glass B directors. -
Subscription OF member banks 8 per cent of capital and surplus Of
subscribing bank.
mated.
Use of federal reserve notes as part of reserves of member banks
stricken out. I
At least onethird Of. the reserves Of the country banks must be held
in the vaults Of local banks. a #
House provision for collections at par practically restored, banks to
be permitted to collect only actual expenses.
Retirement Of 2 per cent. bonds aggregating $SOOOOODOo within "
ears provided for as against retirement Of $125OO00O0 in senate bill.
Gold reserve behind the notes remains at ~ per cent, Wth q eIaou-
atd tax against any depletion. # #4<
Salary of members of the federal board increased from $4,000 to
$4,000. 4
Members Of reserve board shall serve two. four. SIX, eight and ten
years instead Of one to five years.
Reserve board can lquidate or reorganizs reserve banks.
COMPENSATION for directors. officers and employees of federal reserve
hanks shall be subject to the approval Of the federal reserve board.
Recess appointments to reserve board snall expire ~ DAYS aINr q
following session Of congress opens.
Net balance of amounts due to and from other banks shall be taken
az the basis for ascertaining the deposits against which reserves shall be
determined.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
FEDERALs EXECUTED MANY
Many Bodies Strung to Telegraph Poles
Along Railways.

Washington.-Details Of atrocities
charged against federal troops in recent
military maneuyers in Mexico, are com-
ing .-ere to representatives of the con-
stitutionalists.
Brutal murders of innocent women and
children and of unoffending poems and
Indians, as well as of active combatants,
are charged. The federal commanders
are said to be stringing such Mexicans to
telegraph poles along railroad lines to
terrorize sympathizers with those oppos-
ing the Huerta regime.
The state department is keeping Off
cial register Of Americans and other for
eign residents in Mexico who. have been
killed, injured and despoiled Of their
property. Consular officials are making
regular and full reports.
A partial list Of Mexicans, brutally
murdered or attempted, compiled by
sherberne G. Hopkins, legal representa-
tive of the constitntionalists, was given
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
CIVIL WAR N
COPPER COUNTRY
DEPORTATION OF MOYER CULMI
NATION OF MUCH VIOLENCE.
LABOR MEN ARE AROUSED
Citizens Say Mine Leader Has Stirred Up
Ill Feeling - Calumet Buries Its
Dead-Strikers Garry Collins
Through Snow.Clad Streets.
Houghton, Mich.-What is the mattss

Houghton, Mich.-What is the MATES
with the copper country?
To the outside world it begins to look
as though civil war or even anarchy pre-
vailed in this region.
Many people and even some in con.
gress have rather Indicated lately that
the United States ought to leave Huerta
and the Mexieans alone until we have iu-
teryened in the copper region of Mich.
gan.
Ever since last July, when the big
strike in the mines in the Calumet re-
gion began, there have been sensational
incidents that have set the country agog.
The dramatic appearance Of Charles H.
Meyer int Chicago Saturday with his head
badly beaten and q bullet in his, back
md his story Of his deportation from the
copper region has again made this little
snowclad spot on the shores of Lake SUI
perior the center Of interest to the whole
country. Meyer asserted that reputa-
Bile citizens Of Hoaghton, the capital Of
the district, calmly took him out Of a ho-
tel at Hancock, across the river from
Houghton, at an early hour Friday even
ing and without. the slightest attempt at
concealment marched him to the depot
and before putting him on a train set
upon him and beat him without mercy
and then ireu q bullet into his back. At
ter this armed guards accompanied him
on the tram and escorted him to the
state line.
.uoyer's story has been denied by
every one he implicated in his recital, and
people who saw being taken down to the
train Friday say he had received no beat
ing or gunshot wounds. Just the same,
he had All the marks OF very rough hand
ling when he arrived in Chicago and .
doctors letter written by q surgeon in
Winona, Mich, who dressed his wounds,
testified To + hs. bullet, whici, he said
was still imbelled IN bis back.
Whatever the merits Of Meyers story,
there is no doubt but that its publica-
ton has aroused the country and there
is a general demand to know what is
the trouble up here and why lawlessness
is not put down.
Previous to the Meyer incident other
events Of a most bloody and sensational
nature occurred. Just before Thanks.
giving three miners were killed in their
beds and a child seriously wounded at
Painesdale by men who had fired into
the house at night time, a practice which
has been Of daily occurrence for two
months. Il
Just after this a deputy about to serve
. warrant was shot to death by 10 strik-
ing Crotian miners. Other incidents Of
a similar nature occurred, but nothing
SO terrible as the awful tragedy of
Christmas Eve at Calumet, when " per-
sons, mostly women and children, and
belonging to miners families, were tram
plec to death in = panic in . public hall.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
Magnetic Survey Almost Complete.

Washington.-When the non-magnetic
yacht Carnegie dropped anchor at Brook
lyn, N. Y, Dec. 10, concluding a voyage
Of more than three years, the gigantic
task undertaken by the Carnegie Insti-
tute Of Washington eight years ago to
make a complete magnetic survey of the
globe was two-thirds accomplished. Al
ready virtually all the data gathered IL
nearly 10000 miles of voyagiug is IL
the hands of photographers and much OF
it now is in use by shipmasters OF ali
the seven seas.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
CURRENCY BILL
IS NOW A LAW
THE PRESIDENT SIGNS GLASS.OWEN
MEASURE AMID ENTHUSIASM.

Washington. - President Woodrow
Wilson, signed the GlassOwer currency
bill at Sol o'clock Tuesday night in
the presence OF memoers Of his cabinet,
the congressional committees on bank.
ing and currency and Democratic lead.
ers in Congress generally.
With 4 few strokes of the pen the
president converted into law the meas
ure to be known as the federal reserve
act, r%eorganizing the nations banking
and currency system and furnishing, in
the words Of the president, the machin.
cry for free and elastic and uncontrolled
credits, put at the disposal Of the mer.
chants and manufacturers OF this coun.
try for the first time in fifty years.
Enthusiastic applause ran through
the ceremony not only as the president
affixed his signature, but as ne delivered
an extemporaneous speech characterizlng
the desire of the administration to take
common counsel with the business men
of the country and the latter's efforts
to meet the governments advance IS
the constitution of peace"
The strat uaste aattEe close Sof asrdsss
of rejoicing in the %nationa. capital, for
Congress had recessed for two weeks
for the first tine since it convened last
April. The Democratic leaders were
jnbilant because they had completed two
big pieces Of legislation-the tariff and
the currency reform-in nine months, ;
performance which they considered UNI
%precedented in the history Of the II
try.
Il need not tell YOU" said the presi.
dent to the assembled group as he took
up his pen, shat | feel a very deep
qualification at being able to sign this
bill and l feel that | ought to express
very heartily the admiration / have for
the men who have made it possible for
me. TO sign this bill. There have been
currents and counter-currents, but the
stream has moved forward. / think we
owe special admiration to the patience
md the leadership and the skill and the
force Of the chairmen Of the two COM
mites; and behind them have stood
the committees themselves exercising .
hdegrec Of scrutiny and Of careful thought
in this nRtter which undoubtedly has re.
bounded to the benefit Of the bill it.
self.
Organization Of the new banking sys.
tenn will be undertaken Immediately by
Secretary McAdoo Of the treasury and
Secretary Houston Of agriculture, two
Of the three members Of the committee
charged with the task by the law. The
comptroller of the currency is named as
the third member, but this office is now
vacant and cannot be filled until the
president sends a nomination to the Sen.
ate upon his return to Washington after
the holidays. It is agreed in official cir.
cles, however that a majority is author.
lied to act, so the two cabinet officers
are preparing to proceed without waiting
for a full committee.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
MANY WILL LOSE POSITIONS

Fort Smith, Ark.ATwo thousand
clerks employed by the Frisco Railway
will lose their positions Jan. /, it as
authoritatiyely stated, az a result of a
new system of auditing accounts that
becomes effective on the same day. Tn.
der the new system the station agents
of the road will make a daily instead
of a monthly report. The force Of clerks
% be retaintd will be compelled to work
eleven hours under the new system,
whereas at present they work nine.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
This Age Of Luxury.

One thousand dollars seems a good
deal to pay for a doll, yet this sum has
been paid by a city magnate for a doll
to present to his little daughter. The
doll In question had q complete trous.
sea,,, containing dozens Of miniature
fashionable costumes, complete In
every detail, and was q marvel Of
workmanship.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
ply Of the notes will be placed in his

ply or the notes Will De placed IN nls
custody.
Should q regional bank desire to
pay out more money than Its cash re
sources will permit, The law provides
that It may put some Of Its rediscount-
ed commercial paper into the hands
Of the federal reserve agent" and re-
ceived in return the new treasury
notes.
For each note that 1T puts out into
circulation. the regional reserve bank
must set aside In gs . per cent. OF
the value of the note as a guarantee
for its redemption. This gold, with
the commercial paper held by the
federal reserve agent" is the pro-
lection behind the new money; but
| these notes will also be guaranteed by
the government and may be redeemed
In gold In the United States treasury.
Reserve Required.
Each regional bank, under the act,
must keep a reserve Of IS per cent. Of
the deposits 1t has received, besides
the 40 per cent. gold reserve behind
the treasury notes 1t issues. II the
gold reserve behind the notes falls be.
low 40 per cent. a heavy tax is I'm
posed on the bank. which in turn adds
the tax to the rate 1t charges member
banks for %rediscounts. This was dc.
signed to stop an overexpansion of
currency. In times Of sudden stress
| the federal reserve board can suspend
these reserve provisions. in order to
furnish quick relief to any conmu.
nifty.
Take Up Bonds.
None Of the existing forms Of cur
rency except the national hank notes
will be disturbed by the new law. The
United States bonds, now used to Sc
cure the issue of national bank notes.
are to be taken up at the rate Of $685.
100000 a year by the regional re.
serve banks and new treasury notes
or short term three per cent. bonds
will take their place. National bank
currency is expected gradually to re-
tire.
The federal reserve board will exer.
else final control over the entire op.
Grafton of the system. It 4 compel
one regional bank to loan to another
in time Of need; can suspend all re-
strictions surroundings the reserves
which regional banks must hold, and
can remove directors. of regional re-
serve banks whenever 1t is believed
necessary.
Banks in Control.
While the banks retain control Of
the boards Of the regional reserve
banks. their connection with the fed.
eral reserve board is only through
an advisory board Is only though
an advisory council. made up Of one
representative from each federal re-
serve district. This council will meet
In Washington to confer with the fed
eral reserve board ION general bust
ness conditions and to make recon-
mendations and suggestions concern
ing discount rates, note issues, and re
serve conditions.
An important change In national
banking methods embraced In the new
law will permit all national banks ex
cept those in New York. Chicago and
st. Louis to make direct loans on five
year farm mortgages up to rs per cent
of their capita! and surplus. or up te
J one.third Of their time deposits.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
President Will Rtnt.

Washington.-President Wilson in,
tends that his vacation at Pass Christian,
Miss, shall be a complete rest from
official activity, but in leisure moments
he will apply himself to the task of
choosing tentatively members of the fed
eral reserve board to be created by the
new currency law.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
Kuerta Must Be Banished.

Chihuahua, Mex.-@Nothing less than
the fall Of Huerta and his Punishment
from the country will ever be considered
as . preliminary toward peace in Mex
leo" said Gen. Francisco Villa. ANY
overtures for a compromise would be
treated with contempt by the revolu-
tionists."
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
Comet Grows Brighter.

Cambridge, Mass.-Obseryations of the
Delevan comet received at the Harvard
observatory from Cordoba, Argentina,
and from the naval observatory at Wash.
ington, indicate that the celestial visitor
is increasing in brilliancy and now can
be seen through a small telescope.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-03
PANIC AT CALUMET
CAUSES MANY DEATHS
MANY ARE INJURED AND SCORES
ARE TRAMpLED UPON.
.capynxhL,

Calumet. - Seyenty-six persons are
known to have beer killed, half q dozen.
seriously injured and more than q score
trampled upon and bruised in . panic e.
resulting from a false alarm Of fire in =
hall where 700 women and children Of
the striking copper miners in Calumet
had assembled for a Christmas entertain.
ment.
While several hundred miners and
! their wives looked on, the children press
ed eagerly, toward the stage to receive
Christmas presents. At this point a man
nut his head in at the door Of the hail
and yelled fire.
The cry was taken up by those in the
hall. Every n started for the doors.
The weaker were thrown to the floor and
those behind tried to climb over those
ahead of them. 4
The stairway and other venues Of
egress were blocked so efectually that
those inside could not get out and those
without could not get in to aid the
] palnic.stricken crowd in the hall. It was
konle time before The panic snssiaiV.
The alarm was spread outside the hall
by a few persons who had been near the
! door and escaped unhurt. A crowd soon
assembled and the work Of clearing the
hall was begun.
The principal exit was . narrow STAIR
way at the back OF the hall. When this
had been cleared of the bodies that filled
it to the top and a quick accounting had
been made, it was found. that seventy.
four corpses had been piled up beside
the hall building. 1t is thought that q
dozen others were carried away by
| friends.
The dead that were piled up beside tho
hall included 81 girls, 10 boys, Is women
and 5 men. Excited men and women
stood about the building, some dazed by
the sudden change from holiday festiv
tiles to tragedy, others calling hysteri
cally for a missing child, and a few
even threatening violence to the recuer'
for keeping them back from the long row
Of bodies.
There was s not much work, for the
many doctors who hurried to the scene
as soon as the alarm was spread, TO,
those who were not killed in the first
rush were held upright and saved BY
the very force Of the onrush toward tn,
exit. Only three injured persona swert
taken to the hospitals, and a few went
home assisted by friends.
For many days the children Of the sop
per mine strikers had waited expectant
ly for the Christmas tree exercises that
had been arranged by the womens' aux
iliary of the Western Federation o.
Miners. The entertainment was set fol
the early evening, and the hall, which 's
on the second floor, o vas filled to it,
limit. The children selected to recitt
Christmas selections and sing carols hal
finished their part Of the programme
and the ma selected to play the part o
Santa Claus had appeared to distribute
the presents that were piled around tn
large illuminated tree.
The children were instructed to marcl
up the aisles to the tree, so that tn
presents could be handed to them. Tn
aisles were filled with boys and girls
when a large, bearded man thrust hi
head in at the door OF the main hallwa,
and shouted "fre."