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NOON EDITION ONE CENT READ CHAS. RUSSELL'S WAR STORY ITALY WAR DECLARATION EXPECTED AT ANY MOMENT STUDENTS AND TEACHERS CLASH THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL'. 4, NO. 201 Chicago, Saturday, May 22, 1915 398 HLDEN GOT OFF DIRT CRTAP IN TAXES BANKERS HOWL -ALDERMEN ASK WHY Aid. Alex, A. McCormick: I voted to order'Corporation Counsel Folsom to start forfeiture suit against the Chicago Tunnel Co. I shall vote that way again. Let the courts construe the forfeiture clause in the automatic franchise. I am not voting either for or against confiscation. Are the peo ple the legal, rightful owners of the automatic phone system? I want to see that question tested in the courts. Aid. Rodriguez: What are the bankers ad money-grabbers afraid of? We order this question to be tried in the courts. The bankers howl. Why? Let the courts say whether Armour or the city of Chi cago is the rightful owner of this telephone property. I shall fight to a finish for court action on this. According to News From Assessor's Office Estate Worth $8,000,000 Paid Taxes on $5,000. During the last five years of bis life in. the city of Chicago, Edward Til- den, millionaire, paid to the people of Cook county a personal property tax amounting to less than $75 a year. He scheduled personal property -worth ?5,000. A few days ago an inventory of his estate was filed in the probate court. It amounted to more than $8,000,000. Twenty-nine printed pages, neatly fixed in pamphlet form, showed he held large blocks of stocks and bonds in more than 100 'different' firms. mgsmmmjmm AUitttttir sgl