Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 25, 1902, Page 3

Tickets 1324 Farnam $t., Omaha. DR. McGREW (Age 53) SPECIALIST. cured by & treatment which s the QUICKEST, | that has bee; ana not intericre wiih work or b In-."’?mlmnl At office or at home and & permanent cure guaranteed. Hot Springs Treatment for Syphilis And all Blood Diseases. No “BREAKING OUT" on the skin or tece und all external Qisease disappeur at once. A tment that in more successiul and far | Usiactory than the “old form“ of Treatment and dt less than HALF THE m‘l‘. A cure that s guaraniced to be Fr-uunt 10r life. vfiu 20,0“0“"- cured of nervous debility, loss of yitality wh af weaki ture, Giloel, M, wanutural nesses wnd Bladder ydroce! rman: Klane = by over 16 Lt sam and Douglas 3is., O Intereated “PRRKLESS" H BVERY WOMAN i3 ‘wondertul HY T ¢ ié?éiimi 5 ASSESSMENT 1S INCREASE ‘otal Taxable Valuatien of Stats Raised Five Millions of Dollara. THREE-FIFTHS OF AMOUNT IN DOUGLAS Lancaster Shows a Decrease of & Million—HRural Counties Make Up the Balance of the Increane. (From a Staft Correspondent.) LINCOLN, July 24.—(Specia he total assessed valuation of all property in the state, as shown by the returns of the va- rious counties, together with the ment of railroad, Pullman and tel property, made by the State Board of Equalization, is $179,877,814.97, which Is $5,638,219 greater than the assessed valua- ton of last year. Douglas county comes forth with over $3,000,000 of this increas while Lancaster, the next in importance, shows a decline of nearly $500,000. The Board of Equalization will not in- terfere with the valuation of any prop- erty, but will exercise jurisdiction only in equalizing the rate of the levy among counties. Tomorrow the board will hold its first regular meeting and If all mem- bers are present and unhindered by other business, it s likely that the work will be completed by evening. The governor, however, has another matter requiring his attention and may not be able to sit with the board, in waich event an adjournment will be taken. The figures as computed will be changed, of course, if the supreme court orders a reconsideration of the assessment of r road, Pullman and telegraph property. Following is a comparison of the total valuation in the various counties for the two years: Valuation of Counties. SiEEsAd 33 PSP LEE g832 Ezzeae £ B 2o p0r0pe £ S g ESEaBE2RS s 32N LREIRLSIRS2228I2S 10139000 2 3 853 E2225 g8 g53 i 30909001 £33 £2 55 B8:5E IBSER H gors Boom pursronosss ® BREIRSET HER LTS £ Suls B s e £l orrarase R TR RErd BLT 82 ) e 2-23328232838283 ,. Sg38: §§§§§§§§ ZsgazEsnsssa i SEERIZRE aopors 3o o o HREa ittt 5253 o010 o BESEY i}‘ 2EREZIAEEEEEE: 2523 25242888 032323888232888 833! 5 H PSS A R N A spaporars o o o 28 53 22 S3shpes 3oggsns sopene 23 52 S sizizs 5225 e Sa8358 52 38 EE8 292FRI28 o .... = aESRERRSERESE o por povorey RESEaZS 23558282282 nT8TR2E: 4ss588ss EHERSE: 4.462.59 2,209,621.00 weenees SITHOTT14.97 $174,439,006.49 Lindsey Den! a Fake. Enterprising newspaper correspondents In this city who write so-called news at space rates succeeded In flooding the coun- try last week with the startling informa- tion that the republican state central com- mittee had administered a rebuke to Sena- tors Dietrich and Millard. Some of the published reports even went so far as to say that the committee had declined to ac- cept the proffered services of th sentle- men during the campaign. “Please make my denial as prominent and emphatic as you can,” sald Chairman Lind- say today. “We want their stance and we are getting it. These reports bave Dbeen circulated throughout the country and do not ounly the two senators, but the republican committee, & gross Injustice. The statement is entirely unwarranted and unfounded. We expect to make a clean sweep in Nebraska this year, electing our entire state, congressional and legislative tickets, and the actl asy ance of our senators on the stump and oth+ erwise 1s expected and desired by all Ne- braska republica Mr. Lindsuy » g 2 & 8 bard at work with the pre- B | liminaries of the campalgn. He has a small usi- | force of clerks already employed in the state headquarters. New poll books have been recelved and will be distributed among the county workers. An entire new list of voters will be made. These articles of incorporation were re- corded In the secretary of state's office: The Hume, Robertson, Wycoff company, Omaha; capital stock, $40,000; imcorpor- | ators, James B. Hume, David K. Robert- son, George R. Wycoff, Thomas H. Prather and Willard Jones. The National Land company, Beatrice; capital stock, $150,000; incorporators, R. TurningGray? Why not have the early, dark, rich color restored? It’s easily done with Ayer's Hair Vigor. Nearly every- body uses it. Ask your own friends. Probably they know how it always restores color, checks falling, and keeps the hair rich and glossy. 1 Bave used Aver's Hulr Vigor and bave found great remedy, It checked the & of air 'hcl“ ~ Mrs. all other remedies G. A. Morrison, Millinocket, Me. A Alldrgpisis. 5 G, AYER CO., Lowelt, Mase. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1902. R. Kyd, B. 8. Mili W. Boswort] C. E. Smith. DO HONOR TO FATHER BEX Basiness Henry Fishback, W. J. B. Smith, 8. C. Smith and Men 4 Parishioners at s City Celebrate Divine's Stiver Jubllee. FALLS CITY, Neb., July 24.—(Special)— Rev. H. Bex of the Catholle church at this place was surprised by his parishioners to- day. Twenty-five years ago Father Bex was or- dained a priest of the Catholic church in Holland. Without his knowledge the women of the church arranged to celebrate his sil- ver jubilee. With the assistance of a number of the neighboring priests a jubllee mass was said at 9 o'clock, and at 7:30 In the evening the church members, together with most of the business men of the town, were recelved at Father Bix's house. Refreshments were served and during the evening Father Bix was presented with a silver teaset by his parishioners. The following visiting priests were in at- tendance: Rev. Fathers Sproll of Rulo, Feeney of Auburn, Canovian of Dawson, Bradley of Tecumseh, Roasch of Fairbury, Hoffman of Bellwood, Canaraher of David City. Father Bex has been a resident of this | city and in charge of the Cathoile chureh for about six years. He is a highly re- spected ecitizen and admired for his many goood qualities, not only by his church peo- ple, but by the general public. The business men, at this anniversary, presented him with a handsome gift as a token of their esteem for him. AGED WIDOW DISAPPEARS Burt County Woman Cannot Be Found and It is Belleved She is In: LYONS, Neb., July 24.—(Special.)—Some time during Tuesday night Mrs. E. Crowell, an elderly widow, disappeared from her home, leaving no clue to her intentions or destination. She was last seen In her room by mem- bers of the George Crowell family, who live with her, about § o'clock in the evening. At that time she conversed ratfonally with the family and no suspicions were aroused. She has been in fll-health for some time and it s feared that she bas wandered off while mentally deranged. The Crowells were among the earliest settlers in this part of Nebraska and the husband of thr missing woman, Eilsha Crowell, was the first sherifft of Burt county. A searching party has been formed and 1s hunting for the missing woman. Prosperity at Laurel. LAUREL, Neb, July 24.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Harvest is here and the crop of all kinds of grasses and grain Is extra heavy and excellent In quality. Corn is making an unusual growth and will be an immense crop. Weather s excellent for ripening the crops and for the harvesting. The Farmers' State bank has & mew bank bullding In course of erection. It has finished stone base and the main walls are solld pressed brick, full two stories high. It will be a handsome bullding. The president of the bank is Colonel D. B. Wilson, U. 8. A. formerly stationed at Omaha. The Mittlestadt Bros. are bullding & fine, solid, two-story brick, 200x80. b Youthful Rover Found TABLE ROCK, Neb., July 24.—(Special.) ~Bdgar Jobe, the 1l-year-old lad who, as detalled in these dispatches, was in the bands of an Iowa tramp at Emerson, has finally been located at Atchison, Kan., at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Bdward Wheeler. He put in an appearance Sun- day, after having been two weeks om the road. He was hardly recognizable. His mother went from here today to bring the rover home. WACO, Neb., July 24.—(Special)—J. M. Ameberry of York, who ran a printing office in York, has moved his plant to Waco and will publish “The Waco Guide.” It is something like ten years since Waco had & newspaper. Mr. Amsberry ran a populist paper at Ansley, Neb, and it is supposed that his new publication will be of the same politics. Kills Game Out of Seasom. ALBION, Neb, July 24.—(Special.)— James Campin of Shenandoah, Ia., came into town Monday night and offered three prairie chickens for s Deputy Gam Warden McConnell arrested him and he was fined by Judge Roley. Beatrice Expense Bill Passed. BEATRICE, Neb, July 24.—(Special.)— The annual expense bill, appropriating $60,020.50 for the oity’s expenses t! ing year, was passed by the city council last night, Allows Gage Bridge Claims. BEATRICE, Neb., July 24.—(Special.)— The Board of Supervisors met yesterday and allowed bridge claims to the amount of $5,000 and general fund claims aggresating $11,500. Woman’s Work in Club and Charity The members of the household economio department of the Omaha Womans club held its long-delayed and frequently post- poned plenic at Courtland beach on Wednes- a 0od representation of the member- ship that is still in town belng pi nt. The affair proved most enjoyable and the women hope to repeat it before the summer is over. The Northeastern Federation of Womans clubs, the annual convention of which bas recently closed in Brooklyn, N. Y., repre- sented over 100 clubs of Afro-American women from the Dorthern and eastern ates. Fully two hundred delegates, to- gether with other club women, were pres- ent from Bosion, Springfleld, Worcester, Newport, Philadelphla and New Haven and other places east of Pittsburg and north of Washington. The federation,.which is a part of the Nat onil Federation of Colorel Womens clubs, is the most important of the dis- trict federations &nd is well organized and well oficered. Mrs. Dora A. Miller, proe’dent of the Afro-American Womens Business league of New York City, Is presi- dent of the federation and presided during the convention. Of the many matters which ere dis- cussed relative to the betterment of col- ored womer those concerning educational advancement took precedence. A subject of especial interest was that pertaining to the establishment of a retreat or rest at Northfield, Mass. Northfield ected on account of the Mood confereces that are spaually held th in the hope that they may prove am in- spiration to the women who journey to the retreat. biiss Eitzabath C. Carter of New Bedford, esstern organizer of the or- ganization, is chalrman of the retreat com- mittes, and presented the report i bebalf of the plan. Mrs. Josephine St. Plerre Rufin of Bos- ton, 80 widely known as the women over ‘BOND DEAL IS STILL OPEN Osunty Osmmissioners Unsettled as to What They 8hall Do, | BROKERS SAY UGLYTHINGS ABOUT MATTER ‘ ty's Proposed Course Ree man of the finance committee of the board, favors declining to longer pay & per cent Interest on the refunding bonds issued in 1887. He would ofter the holders thereof the choles between exchanging them for new ones to run twenty years from this last June a. 3% per cent or going Into the federal courts to sue the county on the old bonds. In the latter event Harte be- leves the county could win because Attor- ney General Prout has declared the lesue of 1587 to be illegal by reason of its having been made under the act of 1885, which was vold because, he holds, it sought to amend the act of 1877, which had been re- pealed by implication by the broader act of 1883, Bond dealers hold that this attitude of Harte' is practically one of repudiation and insist that If adopted by the board | officlally it will work to the extreme detri- ment of the county's standing In financial circles, which has always been high, they say, because of the fact that never has the county defaulted or repudiated. So far as the Prout opinlon 18 noncerned, they say that it cannet offse. the fact that for fif- teen years the county has acknowledged the valldity of these bonds by paying the interest on them twice a year. Board Lacks Information. Members of the board say that something will be agreed upon in time for formal action by the board at its Saturday meet- Ing] but there seems some reason to be- lieve that conclusions will be difcult ot attainment, because of the absence of knowledge of the present status in the process of exchanging the new bonds for the old. Kelly & Kelly, with whom the agreement was made, stated that they had all but about $40,000 of the $268,000 of the issue of 1877, and consequently that firm was expected to corral the rest and make the complete emehange by July 1, yet up to this time the county treasurer has received only $84,000 of the old bonds, cancelled. These came with three letters from the bond clerk in the office of the auditor of public accounts at Lincoln. The letter stated that forty-seven were exchanged on July 1, twelve on July 9 and twenty-five on July 11. Where the other 184 bonds of $1,000 each are held meitber the board nor the county treasurer know. They assume that they are generally scattered and will be coming in later and on the accuracy of this assumption appears to rest the county’s immunity from a law- sult. It some of the holders thereof de- clde that it is more desirable for them to get 5 per cent for five years tham 3% per cent for twenty years, and if the board’ takes Harte's attitude, declaring it a case of “exchange or get nothing at all,” there will be no other way out than through the courts. Harts seems in no way alarmed by this prospect .and Connolly seems rather to relish the idea of fighting Ferson Leach sgain in court, but a local finanolal man makes the prediction that in such a suit the county will be “whipped out\ of its boots and suffer heavily iIn standing besides.” Bond Dealers’ Views. “The board members,” he sald, “are be- ing influenced too largely by their disiike for Farson Leach and the previous victory company, . This isn’t a parallel case and a great miany people. beside Far- son Leach are probably concerned.” Tho latter part of this statement is ygri- fled to some extent perhaps by information in the possession of the sounty treasurer who has observed on some of the coupons pald In the past the stamp of a bank in Barneaville, O., and others who seemed to be hegotiating wholly through Kountze Bros. of New York, which firm is the fiscal agehcy for Nebraska and some other we ern states. And here again is trouble and contusfon. The agency is reported to have declined to pay interest on the old bonds due July 1 and nobody about the court house knows why. The attorney for Farson Leach re- ported to the board that when his clients sent in thelr coupons the agency sent them back accompanied by the board's formal declaration that the issue had been fllegal and by Attorney General Prout's opinion to the same effect. George W. Hoobler of Omaha bad a client who owned $9,000 of the bonds and who was treated in like manner by the agency. Board M Inguire: The board doesn't know and hasn't writ- ten to learn why thie occurred, but con- siders that it is free from responsbllity because the county treasurer has sent the money with which to make the payment it the flscal agency is so disposed. At the | Ha! end of every six months the county pre- pares to pay $36,427.50 interest on bonds. Of this, $11,000 is sent to the state treas- urer and $1,876 to the Merchants National whom the color question controversy of the' general federation arose, is also & delegate and a member of the program committee. Among the and discusse venlle Work,’ “Schools and subjects presented in papers by the meeting were: “Ju- ‘Village Improvements” and Kindergartens." One of the features of the meeting was music that has been a part of each session, particularly the singing of the federation song “Advancing,” to the tune “Ameries.” The federation is being enmtertalned by the Dorcas Home Mission soclety of the Baptist Church of Christ of Brooklyn. The mwission is a charitable soclety composed of the lesding colored women of Brooklyn, Mrs, Alice W. Wiley belng its president. All the delegates were entertoined in pri- ‘vate homes through the efforts of the Dor- cas soclety. A good deal of attention has been at- tracted recently by a mew decoration upon the walls of the Young Womens Christian assoclation parior in the shape of a huge thermometer painted on canvas. ‘What does it * is the gemeral question. The decoration is a unique scheme adopted by the membership committee to call at- tention to the fact that they have deter- mined to raise the membership of the asso- clation to 2,000. The number of members new and renewals that have come in sioce the annual /meeting in April is indicated by the heighth of the mercury and as the number increas the mercury is belng raised. The scheme has created gemeral interest and many renewals are coming in to belp raise it to the 2,000 mark. In making up the membership list for the manual of 1903-3 it is found that the membership of the Omaha Womans club has decreased by about ffty from its num- ber at this time last year. This fact has excited no apprebension om the part of County Commissioner A. G. Harte, t‘hlh-’ | bank of Omaha and the rest to the fiscal sgency in New York. Direct payment |to the wstate treasurer and to the [local bank 1 made in order to save the one-elghth of 1 per cent that the agency at New York charges for | transacting the business. The county treasurer has the agency's acknowledgment | of the receipt on June 26 last, of $11,486.82, all but a few dollars of which were to pay ths interest on the bonds. Apparently that | money now lles idle in a Gotham vault, | waiting for the commissloners and the county's ereditors to settle their differences. &SAVAGE WILL TAKE A HAND Governor to Arrive in Lincoln Friday and Take Up Omaha Police Board Matter. | LINCOLN, July 24.—(Special Telegram.) —Governor Savage has notified Private | Secretary Clancy by telegraph from Denver | that he will be in Lincoln tomorrow morn- \ ing prepared to give his attention to the | Omaha Fire and Police Board matter. Heavy Wheat Yield at Cozad. COZAD, Neb., July 24.—(Special)—The wheat harvesting here is about ended. The acreage of winter wheat Is larger this scason than ever before and the average | yield per acre s also greatest. Reports | are coming in of early threshing, showing | ylelds of from thirty to fifty bushels per acre. The quality of the grain is excellent. Corn is growing very fast these hot days and will soon be tasseling. Infant Injured st Fairbury. FAIRBURY, Neb., July 24.—(Special)— E. L. Cline’s little son, 18 months old, met with a serious accident last evening, sustaining a fracture of the right thigh and severe bruises on the head. He was found lylng in the street in front of the house, but as no one saw the accldent it is impossible to tell how it happened. It fe supposed he was run over by a bicycle. Gala Day for Weodmen, LAUREL, Neb., July 24.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The Modern Woodmen will hold a picnic on August 7 and 8. Laurel’s business men have ralsed $1,000 to be expended* in entertainments. Candidates Thompson ard Mickey are billed to be present, also Hc John 8. Robinson and J. J. McCarthy. Re and base ball and a musical entertatnn are on the bills. Library Board Names Architect. BEATRICE, Neb., July 24.—(Spectal.)— The Library board met last night to con- sider plans and specifications submitted by various architects for the construction of the new Carnegle library building. George A. Berlinghot of this city was selected as the architect to draw up the final plans for the new building. FORECAST FOR NEBRASKA Falr in West and Showers Portion of Nebraska Fridayj Saturday Fair, WASHINGTON, July 24.—Weather fore- cast: For Nebraska—Fair in west; showers in east portion Friday. Saturday, fair. For Iowa and Missouri—Showers and not 80 warm Friday. Saturday, fair. For North and South Dakots—Showers and cooler Friday. Saturday, fair and warmer. For Kansas—Fair Friday and Saturday. For Illinols—Showers and not so warm Friday. Saturday, fair; light variable winds, becoming west. Local Record. OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU, OMAHA, July 24.—Ofcial record of tem- perature an n;uclpl!lllon compared with the corre ing day of the last three years: 1902, 1901. 1900. 1898 84 105 80 88 77 8 6 s 2 17D Precipitation 00 .00 .01 .08 Record of temperature and precipitation -:nmn-hn for this day and since March 1, 1802: East Normal temperature. Fxcess for the day.. Total excess since March 1 prctc(pnnlnn, day. since March 1. Deficlency since March 1. Deticlency for cor, period, Deficiency for cor. perl Reports from .40 inches lons at 7 ¥, M. 5 2 EEiH CONDITION OF THE - 3 WEATHER. *“wopwdPaIg ~ea0dwe)_wmuwixel 83332325823383888 Bismarck, cloudy Galveston, cloudy ERRBERTRIBIRRRBY EERTBRPBRRBBLLY T indicates trace of precipitation. L. A. WELSH, 1 club members, however, for in considering the personnel of the list that is to be dropped the club is, for the most part, losing little save from a financlal stand- point, and of course the prestige that each individual adds to an organization, for with few exceptions, the list is composed of women who have taken little If any ac- tive part in the affairs of the elub. “The drones are being sifted out each y sald one of the directory members the other day in speaking of the decrease, though each member who falled to renew costs the club $3, we are gradually get- ting down to the real working strength of the organization and I do mot know as we will suffer in-the end from & decrease in numbers, for it is the quality of the work- ers that counts. It is expected, however, that the mem- bership will come up to its usual number #8 800D as the work opens in the fall. Miss Edith Tobitt, librarian of the Omiaha Public lbrary, delivered a course of three lectures on Thursday and Friday of last week before the summer school of library science, a department of the summer school of the University of lowa, at lowa City, her subjects belng “Practical Book Rind- ing” and “Book Trade Bibleography.” There are thirty-six students in the sum- mer library school this year, twenty-four of which are taking the regular library work and twelve the children’s work. The school is being conducted by the secre- tary of the lowa Library commission and bas among ite instructors this summer Miss Annie Carroll Moore, who has charge of the children's work course of Prait in- stitute, Brooklyn, N. Y. On Saturday the students and teachers visited the library at Cedar Rapids, which s recognized as a | model institution, though it has as yet | no bullding of its own. Miss Tobitt b been asked to aecture before the school mext year Millions of Women Use Cuticura Soap. IONS of Women Use CUTICURA SOAP, assisted by CUTICURA OINTMENT, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of ceusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings, and chafings, in the form of baths for annoying irritations and inflammations, o too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and many. sanative, antiseptic purposes which, readily suggest them- selves to women, and for all the purposes of the toilet; bath, and nursery. CUTICURA SOAP combines deficate emollient skin cure, with the purest of cleansing fo- refreshing of flower odours. No other medicated soap ever i to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying OINTMENT, CUTICURA gredients and the most derived from the skin, scalp, bair, and bands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, how- expensive, & to be compared with it for all the mwr-ry. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at of the toilet, bath, and PRICE, the BEST skin and complexion soap, and the BEST toilet and baby soap in the world. Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humour, $1.00. Conslsting of CUTICURA SOAF, 3., 40 cleanse the skin of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle, CUTICORA OINT- MENT, 000., t0 Instantly sllay liching, inflammation, and irritation, and #ooth ©001 and ol and heal; nee the blood. A SINGLE SET s often suflelent to and CUTICURA RRSOLVENT PILLS, 360., 10 cure the most torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, and sealy humours, eczemas, rashes, and irritations, with loss of hair, when All oles falls. Sold throughout the world. British Depot: 97.98, Oharterhouse 8q., Londos. Freneh Depot: 5 Bue de 1a Palx, Parls. POTTER DRUG AXD CHEM. CORP., Solo Props., Boston, U. 8. A. ning 80 CUTICURA RESOLVENT. PILLS Sfersrete doses, Are & new, tasteless, wabetisate for the cele: purifiers and humour A PILLS Are altera. most question the purest, swoetest, d Under Authority of the Railroads of Nebraska.) will it Pay to Attempt ‘‘Freak Taxation?” Reason for Com- parison With Other States. In the advertisements which have fmme- diately preceded this, we have given the detalls of taxes pald by the rallroads of Nebraska, and the amounts they have pald in the several counties of the State, and it will be noticed that in the footnotes which accompany the figures given, there 18 & line of comparisons, showing what Other states have done In regard to the taxation of rallroads which run through their commonwealths. In the matter of taxation, as in any other business matter, the people of Nebraska desire to, and na urally should keep in line with what is done in other states. No greater disaster could oceur to the State of Nebraska, than it, by ill-advised action, it should throw itself out of line regarding matters of tax- ation of corporate property or of any property. It may be a taking proposition for a demagogue to advocate the over taxing of railroad companies and thereby work a hardship against them that would not ac- crue to other lines of property within the State, but it would be an advertisement that would pass through the whole United States, proclaiming that the people of Ne- braska did not intend to be as fair with capital as other states of the Unfon. It would reproduce here in MNebraska that prejudice which took Kansas a term of at least ten years to dispel. The comparisons which we have made in these foregoing statements include every state in the Union, with the exception of Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, New been passed which work a hardship rallroad corporations. In New York the onerous tax pald by the New York Central rallroad is belng tested in the courts; its ill-advised law is working a hardship agalst that road, while not in- juring the others in the State to any ex- tent. In Massachueetts, through a con- tract made in the early days between the corporations and the Stal and their ex- cjse laws, the taxes are out of line with what is done in other states, and there is a genmeral movement among the business people of that State looking to the cor tion of this abuse. In Harper's Weekly of February 15, 1902, the following is an extract from an ‘edi- torial in regard to this matter: here is a very strong movement in the State of Massachusetts for rational corpo- ration laws. The commonwealth is wak- ing up to the fact that, under its present laws, large modern corporations cannot be organized In the State, and Massachusetts capital is seeking investment elsewhere. Not only the corporation law is restrictive and narrow, but the tax laws are as unreasonable as those of New York. Both States taxes all the property of a corporation wherever it ituated, and this is double taxation. ® ¢ * An effort is being made in New York and will be made up in Massachusetts to put an end to this system of double taxa- tion. There is a feeling abroad t! combinations which ment.” In Wisconsin it appears that they have an entirely different form of taxation for raliroad corporations from other states, as the taxes are collected in the form of an excise tax, being collected on the gross earnings of the companies in such a way that while the tax is heavy on those roads which have a large earning capacity, it is very light on those which are operat a loss. This form of taxation looks fair, but it would not be popular in Nebraska, because all of the taxes charged against rallroad corporations in Wisconsin are turned into the State Treasury and they are relleved from paying taxes locally along their lines. In the poorer counties of Nebraska, thie would mean practically bankruptey. In Wisconsin there a gen- eral movement looking towards a change in the form of taxation. After having tried a law something of the same character as tl of Wisconsin, Michigan has returned to the direct form of taxation. ‘This whole subject of the payment of taxes on the part of the railroad corpora- tions resolves itself into a question as to how much of their revenue should be di- verted to this purpose. If the taxes were out of reason, it would place Nebraska in an uneviable light be- fore all Investors. For political reasons, a few men have made themselves prominent by advocating a system of double taxation of railroad property in the State, but when the people once understand what fe done, and how it 1s done, we do not belleve their efforts will avail. The railroads of Nebraska, up to the present time, have not earned an undue amount on the Investment made; for a series of years there was no profit derived from the investment as a whole on Ne- braska railroads, and while during 1900 two of the rallroads pald a fair dividend on the capital invested, very many of the rallroads In the State falled to render any returns whatever to their bwners, Nebraska has not as yet got the popula- tion, nor the completed system of rail- roads which would warrant this State in imposing such obligations on the corpo- rations which now exist, that would drive all future investors in such property from the Sgate. 3 ‘The figures which have been given are all from reliable data which can be inves- want liberal treat- ages per mile being from the r Inter-State Commerce Commi the detalls of the business of the different roads are taken from their official reports, while the figures here in Nebraska are taken from the Auditors' offices of the Qif- terent rafiroads. We will now continue our comparisons with other property in the State, show- ing some remarkable facts concerning the changes in values in various counties, and how by these changes, the railroads have been obliged to carry more than their pro- portionate share of taxation. ; ‘in the world AH | Here's sport for old and young, Not found elsewhere. July I4th to 3ist, 1902, Round trip frem Omaha $17.90 To Hot Springs, S. Dak. Tood Imspector. Deputy State Veterinarian Rlu H. L. RAMACCIOTTI, D. V. S, CITY VETERINARIAN. Ofics and Infirmary, 3th and Mason Sta Omaba, Neb, - Telephone 6%, UN N r"g D l Shorman & MeCoanell Drug Co., Owals, Neb.