FREELAND TRIBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon -nv- TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, ] EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. Address all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, PA. ODioe, Birkbeck Brick, 3d floor. Centre Street. Entered at the Freeland Postofflce as Second Class Matter. FREELAND, PA., APRIL 16, 1891. THE Baker Ballot bill passed the House on Tuesday by a vote of 17.8 j to 10. Those voting against the bill i were Republicans. The pressure brought to bear on the members of the House the past week was too much for them to stand. GitovF.it CLEVELAND celebrated liis 54th birthday anniversary last month. Ten years ago, when he was 44, Mr. Cleveland was Mayor of Buffalo. At 45 he wns Governor of New York, and ; at 47 President of the United States. He will serve another Presidential term and still be on the sunny side ; of (10. THE American hog has not yet been readmitted to Germany, but prepara- j tions are being made for taking down : the bars. In the meanwhile it has ! been suggested to the German Gov- ; eminent that, while looking so care- j fully after the character of the Ameri can hog, it might be well to turn the j miscroscope on his Schleswig brother. IT may he that nature will help out , the Mckinley law by reducing the j wheat crops of France and Russia! and thereby increasing the price of j wheat. The logical sequence remains j tiie same, whatever may he the facts. I No one can be enriched by the Mc- j Iviuley act except by the impoverish j ment of some one else. High pro : tection must always have its victim. THE Senate Committee has granted | a hearing to the committee represent- j ing the Philadelphia Single Tax Society, which was to meet at Harris | burg yesterday. The committee is | composed of Messrs. Stephens, Shoe I maker, and Mr. A. J. Moxam, of 1 Johnstown, has been invited to join | them. They were to oppose the rev j enue bill, passed by the House, from the Single Tax standpoint. THE TRIBUNE is in receipt of a copy of the Factory Times , published by Wm. Horan. 1841 Arch Street, Phila delphia. The paper is, as its name indicates, devoted to the interest of the factory workers and the working j men of Philadelphia, affording them a medium of their own, whereby I they can make known their grievance. j We trust Mr. Horau, its publisher, j will he successful in the enterprise. PRESIDENT HARRISON made six little speeches from his observation car yes terday; and all the day as be rode along through Dixie he was the re cipient of flattering and respectful at tentions. The President showed j while he was a candidate that he was an adept in the delivery of short; harangues. He seldom puts his foot | in his month, confining himself to trite and indisputable observations which sound pleasantly anil signify nothing disastrous to a second term. GREAT BRITAIN'S LABOR COMMISSION, appointed to inquire iuto the relations existing between capital and labor, and into the cause of strikes and the best means of preventing, has three or four members who may be more or less capable of representing labor by j familiarity with workmen and their j conditions of life, but the greater I number are capitalists, aristocrats | and close students of political econ- I omy, who have no sympathy with, I and therefore no real knowledge of, j working people, their prejudices, their j aspirations and their environments. | THE practiee of coupling cars by | hand has resulted in maiming and | killing thousands of brakenien in the United States. But an improvement is noted. According to statistic given j by the Engineering News, railroad companies that practically own half the track in the country and that j operate 700,000 cars are now putting ' the automatic coupler on all their new cars. On the Ist of January, 1891, j 99,000 cars, or about one tenth of the whole number in the United States, were equipped with the safety coupler. ' Twice as many roads used the system in 1890 aH in 1889, and at the present rate of progress it will not he Ion" before all the leading roads will be using this life saving device. THE very contrast between Mr. Cleveland's honesty and openness and the politic reserve, not to say craftv shiftiness, of some other candidates for the Presidential nomination, can not fail to tell in the end, as indeed it is telling every day, in his favor with the great body of his countrymen. Mr. Cleveland, it is understood, is not, the favorite of the machine politicians He never has been. He is probably also especially distasteful to a few Democratic leaders who would much prefer to seo the President selected from their number —some one whom they konw well, and who is hound to them by ties of long and intimate as sociation and comradeship in political affairs, and who, in the White House, could lie relied upon to "stand in" with them and gratify their wishes in the matter of the distribution of col lectorships, postmasterships and mar shalships, and Federal patronage gen erally in their respective States. The Personal Tax 11111. (Continued From First Page.) j any values are to be aflixeil to these enor- j i mous inventories, for the bill regards : ] every taxable as a rogue and will not j | trust him, but it imposes on the assessor J \ the impossible task of affixing to I | every item "the price or value ] j for which the same would sell if such I I piece or parcel of the same were sold i | singly or separately at a bona fide sale i after full public notice." It seems incredible that so pre-1 posterous a suggestion should be} made to a legislative body, but I | suppose the framer of the bill had in j view only the simple contents of a ] barn or farmyard, with their eompara- j tiyely easily ascertainable values, and j never contemplated the consequences of j 1 applying his plan to the complicated j interests of a large city. Even he, how- I | ever, I suppose, can imagine what would j I be the task of the assessor on whom j [ would fall the valuation of the inventory I of Wanamaker's Grand Depot, or Cramp it Son's shipyard or the Baldwin Loco- i | motive Works. Such a system as this, i would be inoperative through its cum- ? | brous impossibility, and it would disap- j j pear under a Htorm of public ridicule and i detestations, but not before it had had | time to work an imaginable annoyance to the people. i | A minor evil would be the swarm of as ! sessors let loose upon the community, ! ; I like the locusts of Egypt, for it would require several hundred in our own city ; ' to value tiie contents of the houses, stores j and factories of Philadelphia, which are estimated, I believe, at between 175,000 ] ' and 200,000. Another evil would be j the necessity, under Section 5, of pre ! serving ail these voluminous invent l ories, the accumulation of which in a few years would require vast storehouses, i To crown the offensive absurdity of all i ! this, Section 21 requires that all these I | lists with their valuations shall be j ' I printed, and a copy be delivered to every ; | taxable. With the obscurity customary j in the bill it is not stated whether all the j ( I items in the several inventories of each ; ; i taxable, with their valuations, are to be ' j printed in full, or only the totals, but the ! I former is presumably intended, as the | ! latter would fail in the manifest object of : setting every man as a spy upon his j I neighbors. Ineitbercase, many volumes would be annually required ina city like > ] ! Philadelphia, and as there are 225,000 i i taxables in the city to be supplied, the •} printing bill would exhaust a notable I i percentage of the revenue accruing to j ! the city. 1 will in conclusion call your atten- I tion to one characteristic peculiarly dan- I ' | gerous—its obscurity. The drafting of a 1 bill requires a thorough knowledge of the subject and a capacity for clear | thought anil expression. The framer of I this measure unfortunately possesses | none of these faculties, and his I work in consequence is almost j unintelligible. If enacted it will till ' ! the State with confusion, for its I j obscure and doubtful points will be in terpreted differently by the authorities | of different counties; taxables and us- , sessors will inevitably take antagonistic views; the Courts will be burdened with j ! the questions at issue, and, if it is left on ! the statute-book, years must elapse be j fore the Supreme Court will interpret its numerous doubtful clauses and establish a tax system which will he judge-made, ' and not the work of the Legislature. Section 21) is devoted to raising the poll tax to $1.25, but it requires thiß payment to be made by "all natural male persons over 21 years of age," thus including all strangers who may chance to pass I through the State or to reside here tern- j porarily. Fortunately the complications ! which the enforcement of this curious 1 regulation would create are avoided by | 1 the precaution of omitting all penalty I j for nonpayment and all instructions as | | to how such a tax is to be collected, j . whether from strangerH or citizens. It will not do to disregard all this as captious or verbal criticism Such is i , precisely the criticism to which all laws j are subjected, and which they must be ! drafted to meet, first from the officials | . entrusted with their execution, and then j , from keen lawyers and able judges, when doubtful points require to be j settled. The bill fairiy bristles with j obscurities and incongruities, and tiiis is the more inexcusable, as it effects . every household, every store, every factory, and every corporation within | j the boundaries of Pennsylvania. The effort in the hill to make the I "transportation and transmission" com-1 panics pay their fair proportion of the ; public burdens is a move in the right di- j rection; but I would suggest that much j more could be accomplished for the relief of tiie taxpayer if the Legislature would J devise measures for preventing the dis- j criminations in transportation which ! exercise so baneful an influence on the prosperity of the public for the enrich- j ment of the few. To Knock Out the Tariff Policy. j A high tariff has now become uu | popular everywhere, unless it possibly jbe in Pennsylvania. Even Ohio isaban | doning its support, and New Jersey has j ceased to uphold it. But the most fatal | blow of all lias fallen upon this ex i pluded and defunct tariff policy at the ! West. At the very time that Mr. Mc- Kinley is starting on his preposterous! i crusade in this section, there is called a j convention of the Western States, to be j I held in Kansas City, that is to deal a ! I blow to the McKinley policy which can I hardly fail to convince even the Bour- I bons themselves how futile are their efforts. It originates with men who have been Republicans. The chief mover ill it is a member of tiie Kansas Legisla ture, who has been among the most prominent partisans of that party. It j invites the entire West to join in a con j sidcration of the commercial, agricul- I tural and mining interests of that sec | tion. It is aimed directly at the high j i tariff Republican policy of the Rehubli- j can party. — ltoston Globe. Special Announcemeut. We have made arrangements with j j Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., publishers of "A Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases," which will enable all our | subscribers to obtain a copy of that j valuable work free by sending their address (enclosing a two-cent stamp tor mailing same) to Da. It. J. KENDALL , I Co., ENOBBURO FA LIS, VT. The book is now recognized as standard authority ■ j upon all diseases of the horse, as its 1 ■ | phenomenal sale attests, over four mil- j i j lion copies having been sold in the past j ten years, a sale never before reached by I any publication in the same period of ' I time. \\ e feel confident that our patrons j will appreciate the work, and be glad 1 j to avail themselves of the opportunity . of obtaining a valuable book, j It is necessary that you mention this j paper in sending for the "Treatise." j | This offer will remain open only a j : shor ttime. I Subscribe for the TRIBUNE. Financial Statement i OF THE AUDITORS OF FOSTER TWP. ON ROADS. Jacob Fox, collector of road tax, in ac count with Foster Township. DR. i To amount of road duplicate.. .$7907 35 j To am't of supplemental tax... 74 12 ! Total 87981 47 CR. i By am't of 4 4 4 4 abatements.. G5 16 j " " seated land I tax returned 357 66 , By ain't of abatements of I unseated land tax... 117 32 1 By amount of errors in assessment 25 40 Paid treasurer... 6511 05 'Collector's commission. 324 70 Wm. Gallagher, treasurer, in account with Foster Township. DR. To amount received from Jacob Fox, collector of 1890: Regular tax 83830 05 Special tax, by order of court to pay debt, 1632 00 i Due Supervisors of 1889, 1149 00 From County Treasurer, for license account, 1519 25 From County Treasurer, unseat ed land tax, 503 54 Total $8533 84 CR. (Hugh Brogan, New I Supervisor, $2935 73 Orders. 1 Wm. Jenkins, I Supervisor,. 2596 54 f Patrick O'Donnell, © Supervisor $219 00 o- | Joseph lies, Super e, ! visor 395 10 2 jJo h n Cartwright, T Supervisor, 263 75 ? I Robert Bonner, Bu [ pervisor, 479 66 Paid marshalled indebt edness SIO9B 78 Treasurer's commission, 239 65 Balance due township $ 305 63 Time worked on roads of Foster Town ship, Hugh Brogan, Supervisor. Names. Days. Rate. Am'ts. Hugh Brogan 303 ®s2 00 $606 00 " horse, 254 1 200 509 00 Wm. Brogan 260 1 25 325 00 Bernard Brogan... 62 1 25 77 50 Jos. lies 2011 125 251 87 Jas. Cartwright.... 2051 135 277 42 Edward Brogan 41 1 25 51 25 John McNulty 5 1 25 0 25 Pat'k Maloney 148 1 25 185 00 Thos. Brogan 172 1 00 172 00 Robt. Rinker 4 1 25 5 00 Condy McGill 9 125 1125 Denis O'Donnell... 3 1 25 3 76 Barney Gallagher. .12 100 12 00 I I John Ferry 191 125 24 38 ' Jacob Berry } 125 94 ' | " " horse,. 1 200200 I Robert Handlong.. 1 1 25 1 25 Fred Black 1 1 25 1 25 ..ohn Metzgar 34 125 42 50 " team.. 4 4 00 16 00 1 George Wise 11 125 13 75 I Fred Metzgar 13 125 16 25 H. Markcs, team .. 1 400 200 ! Daniel Purcell 2 1 25 2 50 ! Frank Kock 5 125 625 ! " " team .. 1 400 400 Abel Letenstein ... 6 1 25 7 50 John Murrin 3 1 25 3 75 John Metzgar, team 9 400 36 00 | Richard O'Connor.. 61 125 813 | John Evarts 4 125 500 11. Ilegetschweiler. 11 125 188 Wm. Wise 41 12$ 563 I Chas. Miller 101 125 13 13 Samuel Miller 3 1 25 3 75 1 j John Waldron 61 125 812 1 (ieorge Gower 41 125 562 John Falcon 3 ] 25 3 75 1 Albert Wagner ... 2 125 260 Kob't Handlong.... 6 125 760 ! Wm. Mason 2$ 76 204 John Fairchilds.... 2 1 25 2 60 'Z. Fairchilds,team. $ 400 100 j Owen Moyer 7 125 875 : Fred Haiges 2 1 25 2 50 i Abe Bush 2 125 250 I " " team 1 400 400 j Harry Blakeslee... 2 125 250 " " ... 21 100 250 | " " team, 1 400 400 I C'has. Boger 1 1 25 1 25 $2,772 16 : Lumber, supplies and other expenses, account of Hugh Brogan, Supervisor. Expense of auditing last year $ 55 50 John D. Hayes, costs paid by in suits against twp 23 80 T. A. Buckley, pub lishing notice 3 00 John I). Hayes, part salary 37 50 Alfred Widdick, wit ness in regard to special tax levy 3 00 Jos. Birkbeck, witness j in regard to special i tax levy 3(0 j W, B. Boons, witness j in regard to special ! tax levy 300 W. B. KoonH, part salary 10 00 Frank Sweeney, writ ing duplicate' 26 00 Wm. Williamson, sup plies 14 62 I Upper Lehigh Coal . Co., lumber 38 03 ; Sandy Run Coal Co., lumber 49 87 J. P. McDonald, sup plies 1 00 Jacob Fox,blacksmith \ ing 18 80 Alderman Parsons, i cost of suit, Raskin vs. Foster twp 38 00 Joseph Shatzle 2 15 $ 327 27 ; Time worked-on roads of Foster Twp., Wm. Jenkins, Supervisor. Names. Days. Rate. Am'ts. Wm. Jenkins 297 @s2 00 $594 00 " " horse. 263 2 00 526 00 Jas. Wilson 252 1 36 340 20 Harry Jenkins 105 1 25 131 25 Robert Jenkins.... 256$ 100 266 50 ! Fisher Bros., team. 7 400 28 00 i Theophilus Gibbon, 3 125 375 John Kelioe 30 125 37 50 | John Ferry 64 125 80 00 Wm. Smith 1711 125 214 06 Benj. Gibbon 93$ 75 70 12 j Pat'k Boner 2 125 250 | Condy McGeehan.. 8 125 10 00 Jos. Birkbeck 2 1 25 2 50 John Metzgar 57$ 125 71 87 " " team. 6 400 24 00 | $ 300 150 Robert Handlong.. 24 125 30 00 ' John Fairchilds 1 1 25 1 25 l Charles Boger 0$ 125 11 87 i John McGinley-. . 79$ 125 99 38 j John lies 61 125 76 25 John Tully 36 125 45 00 I Pat'k McFadden... 11$ 125 14 37 S John Evert 3 125 375 j Fred Metzgar 15$ 125 19 38 ! John Felton 5$ 126 656 Ziba Meixell 3 1 25 3 75 ! Isaac Moyer 7 100 700 | | Adam Deckart 4$ 125 596 W. H. Davis 24 100 250 | Fred Mitchell 2.j 125 312 Daniel Horn 7 1 25 8 75 Thomas Wise 2 1 25 2 50 George Wise, 10 125 12 50 William Davis 2 1 25 2 50 George Wise 3 1 26 3 75 J OS. McDonald 8 125 10 00 Richard O'Connor. 5 1 25 6 25 Chas. Lilly, team.. 2 400 800 " 3 1 25 3 75 Wm. Meyers 34 125 438 Pat'k Campbell.... 44 125 563 Owen Fowler 3 00 $2,794 98 j Lumber, supplies and other expenses, Wm. Jenkins, Supervisor. I Paid to Mrs. Feter j Burns balance com mission due Peter I Burns, ex-Treas.... S4B 19 j To rent of room 6 50 j John D. Hayes, part salary 37 50 Freeland TRIBUNE, publishing audit... 30 00 W. B. Koons, part salary 65 00 W. B. Koons, books and stationary 7 23 C. L. and A. S. Keck, slabs 60 C. O. Stroh, taking testimony in regard to special tax 6 00 John Quigley, serving subpoenas 3 00 G. B. Markle, lumber 3 42 David P. Jones, sup plies 5 22 T. A. Buckley, order book 1 50 Jacob Fox, black smithing 22 75 Upper Lehigh Coal Co 13 24 C. D. Rorhrbach, sup plies 2 55 Coxe Bros. & Co., lum ber 1 90 Wm. Eckert, supplies 4 34 Wm. Diehl, water trough 5 00 James Evert, water trough ... 5 00 Lewis Stringers 1 00 Joseph Shatzle, black smithing 2 15 $ 272 09 OUTSTANDING ORDERS. Outstanding Orders of Outstanding Orders of Hughßrogun: Wm. Jenkins: Order No.— Order No.— 2U $ 5 00 77 S 2 60 42 1 H8 87 10 02 49 3 75 90 3 12 : 50 12 601 04 2 50 61 25 02 96 4 00 i 62 29 02 110 46 00 72 42 45 118 5 (10 ' 73 7 42 121 4 38 | 83 1 25 130 3 42 86 2 50 134 50 00 i 88 260 140 16 25 I 112 28 35(141 1 60 ' 118 3 75! 145 7 50 ! 120 6 55! 146 8 00 125 10 25:147 5 76 129 5 25 148 5 00 | 130 88 00 150 44 00 137 2 151163 46 00 138 2 50,157 1 00 I 142 9 37|158 48 00 5240 00 102 11 25 1163 6 25 $375 (U OBJECTIONS FILED. Object to all pay incurred relating to special levy as ordered by court 4th day of June 18' JO. To C. O. Stroh to witness in said case and to all expenses therein included, viz: C. 0. Stroh, commissioner, $6 00 John Quigley 3 00 Joseph Birkbeek, 3 00 Alfred Widdick 3 00 , W. B. Koons, 3 00 i To pay of Auditors of last year as ex l cessive to the amount of $lB. i j To pay of Supervisors as being exces i j sive to the amount of 50 cents per day, 1 ! and receiving pay for the work done by I i their own horses, also the pay of same II as excessive to the amount of 50 cents ! per day. To pay of Supervisors Jenkins ! and Brogan for the months of Decern > ber, January and February. > To any one man working as laborer to receive more pay than any other. To the making out of the road dupli cate by Frank Sweeney, $20.00. To pay of any of the minor sons of any of the Supervisors. Recapitulation of the financial condition of Foster Township. DR. By am't of debt at close of last audit $ 3785 43 By am't expended on roads by Hugh Brogan, supervisor .. 3099 43 By am't expended on roads by Wm. Jenkins, supervisor... 3007 07 $9,951 93 CR. By am't paid out as per vouchers pre sentdd 88228 21 i Cash in hands of I Treasurer 305 63 i Total debt including the out i standing orders of Super visors Brogan and Jenkins.. $ 1418 09 i We, the undersigned Auditors of Foster j Township, being duly sworn according to law, | do certify the foregoing statcmett to De true and correct. ALFRED WIDDICK, I FRANK DF.VER, Auditors. JOS. BIRKUKOK, j Execution of Maximilian. ' At sunrise on the morning of June 19, 1807, the Emperor and his gen erals, Miramon and Mejia, were led out to the Cerro de las Cam/ianas for execution. Maximilian yielded the central place, that of honor, to Mira mon as a testimonial to his bravery, ! and took hia place at the left of the lino marked out. He gave gold coins to the soldiers detailed to fire the fatal volley, and begged them to aim di ! rootly at his heart and avoid mutilating bis face. He hail directed that his body bo sent to Europe, and he wished hiß mother to see his face without any marks of the fearful death he was to die. He took pains to wrap a handker chief around his long blonde beard to prevent its being burned. Then, ad dressing the soldiers of the Republican army and the immense crowd standing in sorrowful silence upon the hillside, said, "Mexicans, I die for a just cause— the independence of Mexico. God grant that my blood may bring happi ness to my new country. Viva Alex icol" Miramon echoed hia Viva Alex ico, and the loud report of muskets rang out over the hills and valleys of Queretaro. The threo men fell heav ily. Maximilian was not instantly killed, and sprang to his feet at once, uttering the most agonizing cries. A soldier advanoed and gave what is called the golpede gracia (the blow of mercy)—a well-aimed shot which pierced the heart of the Emperor and stretched his lifeless body beside those of his companions-in-arms,— Arthur Howard Noll, in the American Mega mi ll & —A line line of ladies summer Caps, Blazers and Keefers, just arrived at Neil burger's, and are being sold at very low prices. TJVJB SALE.—One lot on Chestnut Street, -I South Heberton, size 60x150. For terms I apply to T. A. BUCKLEY, Freeland, Pa. rpwo LOTS FOR SALE, SITUATED ON 1 Washington Street, Five Points, Freeland. For terms apply to PATRICK MOFADDRN, Eckley, Pa. T?OR SALE.—A property in South Heberton J? consisting of a lot 60x100 feet with a dwel ling of six rooms and large storeroom thereon; also a large barn and all necessary outbuildings. Will be sold on reasonable terms. Inquire at this olfice. "OKOPOBALB.—Propositions for furnishing X the Hazleton State Hospital with supplies from June 1, 1891, to June 1, 1892, will be re ceived by the undersigned during the month of April. A cony of specifications will be furnished on application. HENRY M. KELLAR, Hazleton, April ., IH9I, by Charles Dushek, John Dushek, August Wolf, Alois Heinsel and Albert Clause, three of whom arc citizens of Pennsylvania, under the Act of Assembly en titled an Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations" ap proved April 29th, A. I)., 1874, and the supple ments thereto for the charter of an intended corporation to lie called "The Freeland Explor ing Company," the character and object of which are the exploring for gold, silver and copper: mining said metals, preparing, ship ping and selling the same, leasing, purchasing and holding real estate by purchase or lease, and disposing of the same for purposes con j nected with such business, and for these pur poses, to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges, conferred by the said Act of Assembly ana the supplements thereto. JOHN D. HAYES, Solicitor. COTTAGE HOTEL, Cor. of Main and Washington Streets, 3P-A-. MATT SIEGER. Proprietor. Having leased the above hotel and furnished it in the best style, I ain prepared to cater to the wants of the traveling public. &T GOOD STABLING ATTACHED. DANIEL J. KENNEDY, DEALER IN FINE CIGARS AND TOBAC CO, TEMPERANCE DRINK, CONFEC TIONARY, ETC. Centre Street, Freeland, Pa. Where to Find Him! Patrick Carey has removed fro in the Ameri i can hotel to John McShea's block, 95 and 97 Centre Street, where he can be found with a full line of Medical Wines, Gin, Brandies, Hum, Old Rye and Borbon Whiskey. Any person who is dry and wants a cold, fresh large schooner of beer will be satisfied by calling at Carey's. Good Accommodation For All. J BIX DIFFERENT KINDS OF BEER ON TAP. DTLORENZT E=ractical -33-u.tclier. BEEF, PORK, VEAL, LAMB, MUTTON, PUDDING, SAUSAGE, &c. No. 135 Centre Street, Freeland. (Near Lehigh Valley Depot.) Wm. Wehrmann, WATCHMAKER, Moran's Block Front St., Freeland. Cleaning 8 Day Clocks, 50 cts. " Alarm " 25 " " Watches, 50 " Main Springs, 40 Cts, to SI.OO Jewelry repaired at short notice. All Watch Repairing guaranteed for one year. Washington House, 11 Walnut Street, above Centre. A. Goeppcrt, 'Prop. The best of Whiskies, Wines, Gin an