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and on many articles the discount
is more than 20 per cent. We
have a good line of overshoes,
leggins, duck coats, fur coats,
sweaters, caps, and mittens; 20
per cent discount on all dress
goods, underwear, linens, fancy
china and notions.
Don’t forget this discount is on
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REMEMBER THE PLACE
IJ. P. Gallagher
Bryan Hu a Granddaughter
William Jennings Bryan last week
visited his daughter Ruth at New
Orleans for the first time since her
romantic marriage to William Homer
Leavitte,|a portrait painter of Boston.
He went there especially to see his
2-months-old granddaughter. A
reconciliation was effected between
the distinguished Nebraskan and
his son-in-law. The families
became entranged by the
marriage, and for the past eighteen
months have barely been on speaking
terms. The birth of the child work
ed on the sympathies of Col. Bryan
and induced him to visit his daughter.
The baby, which is Mr. Bryan’s grand
daughter, has been christened in
honor of|its mother.
Atkinson Boy Attempts Suicide
A Lincoln special of January 1 says:
George Jonas, jr., a student of the
agricultural college and the son of
wealthy parents at Atkinson, was
prevented from taking his own life
tonight by the policj. He lay down
before an approaching Missouri Paci
fic passenger train and was seen by a
policeman, who pulled him from his
perilous position and saved his life.
At the station Jonas said he had taken
a suit of clothes belonging to a fellow
student, and, fearing arrest, decided
to kill himself. It is thought he is
temporarily unbalanced. .
Disregards Politicians
President Roosevelt is said to ha'
selected the men for the vacant pos
masterships in the Southern citle
and most of the appointments are e
pected to be a surprise to the polit
cians, notably to the leaders of tl
two republican factions in New C
leans, where there is a vacancy in tl
post office. It is said the Preside)
will act as he did in the Baltimo
case and appoint men whom the polit
cally wise ones don’t know. There
deep interest in the southern appoin
ments, for it is believed that the sele
tions will show the nature of Ther
dore Roosevelt’s Southern policy.
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colors, showing the United State
Alaska, Cuba and our island posse
sions. The original thirteen state
the Louisiana purchase, the Orege
Territory, etc., are shown in outlin
with dates when territory was acqui
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Dr. Corbett will be in his dent
office and gallery from the 23d to 301
of each month. 17-tf
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THE FREIGHT RATE QUESTION
New York Tridune: A valuable
contribution to the current
discussion of railroad rates and federal
supervision over them was made in
The Tribune yesterday by a number
of leading railroad managers. Its in
terest was enhanced ■ by the circum
stance that on the same page there
appeared a summary of the Interstate
Commerce Commission’s report which
corrected some erroneous impression
and contained much important infor
mation on points to which the spokes
man for the railroads did not allude.
It is, perhaps, less surprising that
many railroad managers are opposed
to a bestowal of larger powers on the
commission than that others are in
clined to favor such action by Congress
in conformity with the recommenda
tion of the president’s message. It is un
iversally acknowledged that extreme
ly intricate questions aifc involved,
and that no legislation relating to
them should be adopted in haste, and
for that reason it is gratifying to ob
serve that the discussion is not only
arousing wide interest, but is being
conducted in a dispassionate manner.
In the statement which he obliging
ly made for publication in The Tri
bune, Mr. William H. Truesdale,
president of the Delaware, Lackawan
na and Western Railroad company,
said:
To take away from the railways the
right to establish, in lawful manner,
what they deem are reasonable rates
and charges for the service they will
render the public, and empower a com
mission to do so, and require the rail
ways to make effective the commis
sion’s rates, denying them the right
to appeal by giving proper bond, is in
effect a denial of justice, the taking
of the property of the railways
without due process of law, a
denial of the right which our con
stitution guarantees absolutely
to every one of its citizens. Neither
the existing general business condi
tions of our country nor those of any
particular section or community war
want or justify any such radical depar
ture from our past policy in dealing
with our great transportation problem.
It was for the purpose of correcting
just such a misapprehension as is in
dicated in the foregoing quotation
that the commission pointed out that
the proposed amendments to the law
would confer upon it no power arbitra
rily to initiate or make rates for the
railroads, and that no such power was
seriously sought, but merely such a
measure of authority as the commis
sion was supposed to possess and actu
ally exercised for ten years without
causing alarm or doing mischief. It
is important that this misapprehen
sion, whether disingenuously or mis
e takenly fostered, should be dispelled.
To frame a general schedule of rates
5, is one thing; the revision, subject to
t* judical review, of a particular rate
*' after full investigation, though possib
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r_ ly objectionable, is a very different
ie thing.
it Railroad managers who object to
:e the proposed legislation seldom or
J‘ never attempt to justify rebates.
Their argument is that such arrange
ments for the benefit of favored
o- shippers have been almost wholly dis
continued, and that there is an ample
remedy in tire courts for any wrong of
:y that sort. Technically, their state
1, ment of the case may be correct, but
11 the commission clearly shows in its
g
' report that conditions resulting in
s what is equivalent to a rebate may
n and actualy do exist, and asserts that
Si the evils so created are constantly be
r" coming more serious. Such conditions
f arise when small terminal railroads
3 are owned or controlled by ship.
7. pets whose profits from the high
rates allowed for the use of theii
property amount to a heavy
(! discrimination against everybody
else. These practices, __ already
harmful, may grow to unmanagable
dimensions unless congress interferes,
and the commission believes that a n
adequate remedy needs to be found at
once. Similarly, the operation of
privately owned freight cars, though
certain general benefits may results
secures extraordinary advantages to
individuals, and insomelinstances has
created a practical monopoly. A remedy
for discriminations of this character
would be furnished, in the opinion of
the commission, by investing it or
some other tribunal with power to as
certain and fix a reasonable rate
for a special equipment service,
though making the common
carriers responsible, if they are
not now, and bringing the car line
companies furnishing such special
equipment service within the jurisdic
tion of the act amended as proposed.
In thus giving emphasis to the lead
ing propositions of the commission’s
report we do not mean to imply that
its judgment is conclusive. There is,
on the contrary, need of just such an
illumination of the subject as rail
road managers, taking different sidesj
shippers and officers of the govern
ment are supplying. It is readily
demonstrable that the average of rail
freight rates in the United States is
extraordinarily low, but that fact does
not prove that they are universally
equitable. There is indisputable evi
dence that devices exist which practi
cally establish an oppressive discrimin
ation. The question is how to get rid
of them without doing more harm
than good; but we have little doubt
that at this stage of the debate the
public is inclined to run the risk of
bestowing larger powers upon the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
Our esteemed contemporary an
nounces that “the railroads are again
in control of both branches of the
legislature.” Sure. The railroads
own and control every voter in the
state except the editor of the Inde
pendent whom somehow the public
lias neglected to incorporate in the
legislative body. All the same when
Farmer Rouse, who has been chosen
speaker of the house, was defeated for
this position on a former occasion, lie
was held up by newspapers of the In
dependent stripe as a martyred hero,
a friend of man and an honest states
man. _ _
Congressman Kinkaid says there is
no use of prospective homesteaders
under the 640-acre homestead law
looking for an extension of time in
which to take up their residence- on
their homestead, as the department
absolutely refuses to extend the time.
It is the opinion of the department
that bonailed homesteaders have been
allowed ample time under the act to
get onto their homesteads and that
an extension would be largely in the
interests of the speculators.
With a clear plurality for Adams of
nearly 10,000, there seems to have
been no occasion for a contest for the
governorship in Colorado.
After all Mrs. Chadwick is just an
ordinary woman. She fainted when
told of the doctor’s arrest.
Speaker Rouse gives promise of
making a presiding officer on the Roose
veltian plan.
Football Harvest
The football season this past year
was directly responsible for 11 deaths
and 121 serious injuries. The game
ranks away ahead of boxing as a dan
gerous sport. Of the 11 deaths only
one was that of a trained athlete, two
were schoolboys, and the remaining
eight belonged to minor or unattclied
clubs which were unable to have the
assistance ‘of a physical instructor
Not an athlete on any of the big east
ern or western elevens was injured to
any serious extent. Last year there
were 12 deaths and 70 serious injuries.
Saved From Terrible Death
The family of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt of
Bargerton, Tenn., saw her dying and
were powerless to save her. The most
skillful physicians and every remedy
used, failed, while consumption was
slowly but surely taking her life. In
this terrible hour Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption turned
despair into joy. The first bottle
brought immediate relief and its con
tinued use completely cured her. It’s
the mo st certain cure in the world for
all throat and lung troubles. Guaran
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