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THE BILINGS GAZETT VOL. XVII. BILLINGS, YELLOWSTONE COUNTY, MONTANA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1901.

NO.54. BIG SALE LADIES' WRAPPERS ALL THIS WEEK A SCome and See Them $1.00 .75 1.25 90 1.50 .10 1.75 1.25 2.00 1.40 2.50 Wrappers .75 0.4 3.00 rappers 2.00 We Have These in All Sizes Watch for Special Sale of Our Stock of Ladies' Suits. McCormick Company We lose our store every evening (Saturday excepted) at 6:30. SOputo.Date Depoptment Store Real Estate for Sale. Yegea Bros.

Savings Bask OF BILLINGS, hnONTANA. Attractive north side home, 5 rooms and bath, two lots, $2,600. Desirable residence. 6 rooms, two lots, Tranqact a General Banking north aide, 42,000. Busminess.

Administer Batades. Neateottage, rooms, north side, $750. Buy and Sell Real Rotate and Live Stock. Six-room house, three lots, north side, $1,200. Four-rnor dwelling, ta two lots, south ble side, flq Capital, Eight-room fSroished house, south side, $3,000.

160-acre ranch, MO acres cultivated, alfalfa and timothy, all uncer ditch, good Collect Beats water right, livslg springs; two hours and drive from city, $500 cash, hal- Take Charge of Business Afance five years" time at 8 per cent. fairs for Non-Residents. T. J. BOUTON.

Room 3, Belknap Block. G. F. BURL Cashier. i IMPORTANT TO SHOE BUYERS THIS is the season of the year when all wise shoe buyers are looking about for the best 4' place to purchase footwear for winter.

Absolute comfort, solid wear and guaranteed satisfaction is what you get at LOSEKAMP'S The E. P. Reed Fine Shoes for women, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50. Wide, Easy Shoes for $2.00 and $2.50 W. L.

Douglas Union. Made Shoes $3.50 and $5.00. All Solid Work Shoes for Men, warranted, $2, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50. D. 'LOSEKAMIP, SA wOUTFiTTER.

TAX DODGERS MUST PAY UP VALUE OF STOCK AND FRANCHES MUST BE ASSESSED. SUPREME COURT DECISION Illinois Will Be Richer by Eight Million When State Board Takes Proper Acton. Springfield, Oct. supreme court this morning affirmed the judgment of the circuit court of Sangamon county in what is known as the Teachers' Tax case. This in effect awards a writ of mandamus against the state board of equalization to compel it to assess capital stock, including the franchises of twenty Chicago corporations.

Two hundred and thirty-five mnillion dollars is said to be a fair estimate of the cash value of the capital stock including franchises, over and above the value of the tagible property of these corporations. The corporations directly affected are the Chicago City Railroad company; West Chicago Street Railway company; North Chicago Street Railway company; Chicago Union Traction company; People's Gas Light Coke company; Chicago Telephone company; Chicago Edison company; Chicago Consolidated Traction company; Chicago Electric Transit company; Chicago Jefferson Urban Transit company; Evanston Electric Railway company; Cicero Proviso Street Railway company; North Chicago Electric Railway company; North Side Electric Street Railway company; Ogden Street Railway company Chicago North Shore Street Railway company; South Chicago City Railway company; Chicago West Division Street Railway company; Chicago Passenger Ralway company and North Chicago City Railway company. This case was instituted by the states attorney of Sangamon county at the instance of the Chicago Teachers' Federation. It was for a writ of mandamus to compel the state board of. equalization to assess the foregoing corporations which it was alleged ik ad hitherto escpaed taxation by the I oardt The court holds that the board in assessing corporations does not act as a board of review, but as original assesor, and that the performance of its duty to assess, the fair cash value of capital stock including franchises, over and above the value of the tangible property, may be enforced by mandamus.

"In stead of making a proper assessment," the court says, "the board arbitratrily and wilfully failed to follow the proper and legal established rule in force in this state, by refusing to take- into consideraton, in making such assessments, the bonded indebtedness of said corporations. They also disregarded all other rules, for the making of such assessments, in forcel at the time of the filing of this and for the pupose of evading their duty sought to pass new rules for their government in making said valuations and assessments, and refused to consider the information furnished to them by assessors, and assessed the capital stock and franchises of said corporations at a nominal sum instead of at the fair cash value thereof. "While it is true that fraud will be presumed and that the discretion of the state board of equalization in fixing the value of corporate property, for the purpose of taxation, is quasi judicial in its nature, still when it is apparent to the court that every well known rule for the valuation of capital stock, including franchises has been violated and arbitrarily disregarded by the board and such board has refused to consider the statements as to values, prepared by the assessors under the statutes, for its use and has refused to consider information as to the value of such corporation property submitted to it by interested parties and has arbitrarily fixed such at a grossly inadequate sum under rules paksed by it for the occasion, the court is justified in holding that fraud in the making of such assessments has been established and that such pretended assesments may be properly disregarded and treated, as no assessment and such board be coerced by writ of maudamus to assess such property. Will Have Squeezing Effect. Chicago, Oct.

tax decision given today by the Illinois supreme court relates to 23 corporations enjoying municipal franchises, including traction companies, gas companes and electric companies whose total capital stock was estimated to be worth $378,000,000 all of which had escaped taxation previously anti was likely to be omitted again by the state board, which adjourned last December with. out assessing this vast amount of property. Mayor Harrison said: "The decision adds $8,000,000 to the funds of the state and of this $2,000,000 will come to Cook county, the teachers started the fight. It is now up to the boar dof equalization to bow to the! dictates. One effect it willl have probably will to squeese part of the water out of the stock of various corporations." ELECTRICITY IS ORDERED CURRENT WILL BE TURNED ON TUESDAY MORNING.

Inr the Death House at Auburn Peni. tentiary for Leon Czole gosz. Auburn, N. Oct. will be electrocuted at 7.

o'clock Tuest day morning, October 29, at Auburn prison. Warden Meade has selected Tuesday so that the final arrangements may be made on Monday. In doing this he is following the custom in the 0 state prisons relating to electrocuI- tions. It does away with the necessity of making final arrangements on Suny day. I- The sentence of the court was that 1- (zolgosz should be executed during the week commencing October 28, 1- leaving to the warden of the prison 1- full power to select the aay of the week on which to carry out the man5- date of the law.

The latitude is given the warden to secure secrecy as to time, and to de it lay against accident, such as in 1891 i 5' caused a day of horror in the execu1- tion "fter' the condemned man hsd )f been taken intc. the death house at Auburn penitentiary. 'Witnesses will assemble at the prison at 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning. There have been 26 invitations issued and they are non-transferrable. a Each witness must present his invita5- tion to the warden of the prison and if )f not satisfactoryly identified will not ve be admitted.

BROKE AUTOMOBILE RECORD. yI a Fastset Time Ever Made for Froml One to Ten Miles. 1 Detroit, Oct. automobile records for from one to ten miles were broken at Grosse Point race. 1- track today by Aleander Winton of Cleveland, who covered a mile on his racing machine in 1:06 2-5, lowering Henri Fourniers record two-fifths of a second.

The latter was made on the Empire City track Octoberl0. Winton covered ten miles in 11:09 fiat and three times during the afternoon clipped two-fifths of a second from Fournier's record. This mark of 1:06 2-5, caught three different times by expert timers, is the fastest ever made on any track by any manner of vehicle. NEGRO BURNED AT THE 'STAKE Offered No Resistence When Being Bound and Admitted He Deserved His Fate-Made No Outcry. Colombia, Oct.

24-The negro ed to his body. Pine knots and pine named Bill Morris, who assaulted Mrs. straw were piled about his body and John Ball at Balltown, was burn- saturated with' coal oil and the whole ed at the stake today. After being set on fire. The negro made no outcr Swhen the flames first reached him and captured he made an effort to impl- only when he was partly consumed cate others but they soon proved their did the spectators notice any moveinnocence.

He was taken to the ment on his part. He made no resistscene of his crime, tied to a pine sap- ance when being bound to the stake pling with chains and his hands chain- and said that he deserved his fate. OVER NIAGARA FALLS ALIVE WOMAN MADE THE JOURNEY IN A BARREL. MRS. ANNIE EDSON TAYLOR Age Fifty Years Ran the Rapids and Plunged Over the Canadian Falls.

Niagara Falls, N. Oct. Annie Edson Taylor, 50 years old, went over Niagara Falls on the Canadian side this afternoon and survived, a feat never before accomplished and indeed never attempted except in the deliberate commission of suicide. She made the trip in a barrel. Not only did she survive, but she escaped without a broken bone, her only apparent injuries being a scalp wound 114 inches long, a slight concussion of the brain, some shock to her nervous system and bruisds about the body.

She was conscious when taken out of the barrel. The doctors in attenidance upon her tonight said that though she was somewhat hysterical, her condition is not at all serious and that she probably will be out of bed within a few days. Mrs. Taylor's trip covered a mile ride through the Canadian rapids before she reached the brink of the precipice. Her barrel, staunch as a barrel could be made was twirled and buffeted through those delirious waters, but escaped serious contact with rocks.

As it passed through smoother, swifter waters that rushed over into the abyss it rode in almost perpedicular position with its upper half out of the water. As it passed over the brink it rode at an angle of about 45 degrees. PLOT ACAINST THE SHAH CONSPIRATORS HUNG, BANISHED OR IMPRISONED. Higher Priests Were in the Plot and Will Be Beheaded-People Scared. London, Oct.

has been received here from Teheran says a dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Daily -Mail, of the discovery of a Arious plot against the life of the shah. The leaders of the conspiracy were the shah's two brothers, the grand vizier Sarraasam, and the shah's sonin-law. The two brothers have been banished for life to Ardebil. The sonin-law was sentenced to death; but on the scaffold his sentence was mitigated by thei shah's firman to flogging until he had revealed all the names of the The shah's favorite, Gavame, who was also concerned, was pardoned on the scaffold, but died subsequently in prison.

The whole revolutionary party together with the high priests, were in the plot; and all will be or imprisoned for life. There is a veritable panic among the people of Teheran. BRIGANDS HEARD FROM. Missionaries Are Expected Expe. ite Negotiations for Release.

Constantinople, Oct. les who are operating -from Samakov, Bulgaria, are at last in touch with the brigands who abducted' Ellen M. Stone and her companion, Mme. K. R.

Tsilka, according to dispatches received here today, though whether negotiations for the ransom have act- ally been opened is not disclosed. The missionaries on spot are expected to conclude the business with the utmost dispatch. No News at State Department. Washington, Oct. that missionaries operating from Bulgaria are in touch with brigands who abducted Miss Stone, is highly gratify.

ing to officials here. They hope information is correct. No news to that effect, however, has been reoeived at the state department. PASSENGER TRAIN DITCHED WENT DOWN A FORTY-FOOT EMBANKMENT. Cars Splintered Into Small PiecesSeveral Passengers HurtSome Will Die.

Ottumwa, Oct. Chicago Burlington Kansas City passenger train number one' was wrecked two miles east of Exline today. The entire train consisting of coach' and mail and combination cars, with engine was thrown down a forty-foot embankment. The cars were all splintered. in small pieces.

There were nearly 30 passengers inthe coach. Three were probably fatally injured and five others badly Following is a list of the ij'ured so far as known: James Mace, Unionville, hurt internally, will die. Wyman Z. Wright, injured interna'ly, will die. John Z.

Wright, Kansas City, breast and back hurt, serious. Sophie Peterson, Cedar Rapids, limbs broken badly injured. Geo. Freeland, Browning, back badly injured. M.

M. Freeland, Browning, injured internally, serious. Mail Clerk Moore, Bloomfield, injured about face and head. The wreck is thought to have been caused by a rail turning where the track had been torn up. Exline is a small waystation a few miles from the Missouri state line.

MAN FROM NORTH NABBED COLLECTOR FOR BUTCHER FIRM ARRESTED. When Taken Had Sack of Gold Nug. gets on Person Worth Thousands of Dollarsi Seattle, Oct. the steamship Portland reached her dock today from the north, Georeg E. Daniels, the first passenger to land was arrested.

Danells, had a sack of nuggets on his person worth thousands of dollars. Danells, while acting as collector for Carstens brothers local wholesale butchers, who had 'pened a branch house in Dawson. is alleged to have visited Bonanza, Grand Forks and other mining camps, collected large sums of money and failed to account for it. COULD NOT LIVE APART. Woman Is Dead-Man.

May Live to Be Tried for Murder. Denver, Oct. Nellie Hard. ifer, wife of Philip Hardifer, tractor of this city is dead from morphine poisoning and W. H.

Flaner a Lyons, hotel man is II hospital and may die from the cause. "We fied it up to die we loved each other live apart." said Flan married tan. ou er be will- be cbar ee4.