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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
Aug. 17, 1899 y
ACRftWtNT WITH TCE CfiOWS.
A Keport that Tbay Hawe DecUUe M
gall Part of Their Af eney.
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 14. A
Journal special from the Crow Indian
agency, Montana, say a:
"Government commissioners hay
effected an agreement with the Crow
Indiana which will become a treaty
when ratified by congress. . About a
million acres ot land will be purchased
on the northern end of the Crow reser
vation from Fort Custer to the Yellow
atone river and from Pryor creek to
the astern boundary of the reserva
tion, embracing the lower Big Horn
and other smaller streams. This leaves
the Crows, 3,600,000 acres and will
make them independent In time and
furnish homes for thousands of civil
lied people. The price to be paid la
about $1 per acre in payments. Con
siderable land Is arable, but most of it
Is excellent for grating, with timber
on the streams. The Northern Pa
cific railway runs along the nerthern
border and the Burlington diagonally
through It from east to west"
TIE! TREATY WITH JAMAICA '
No roondatlaa f or the Assarttoa that It
Is Aataf aalatlo.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. H.-Ths
Chamber of Commerce here has re
ceived a communication from John A.
Kasson, one of the commissioners ap
pointed to arrange a reciprocity
treaty with Jamaica. Regardln g the
treaty he saylJ ...-.
"The treaty, although signed by the
president of the United States, does
not become operative until ratified by
the senate. There is no public know
ledge of Its provisions .now, hencj no
Intelligent foundation for the asser
tion that the treaty Is antagnolstta
to the interests of the United States,
Personally I do not consider It so."
Big Bedaotlon of Wat .
JOHNSTOWN, , Pa., Aug. 14. What
Is probably the record for a big reduc
tion of wages goes Into effect In the
structural department ot the Cambria
Steel company this morning. The re
duction ranges between 70 and 80 per
cent The straighteners of the large
beams will have their wages cut to
about 13, while the holdups will be
paid on a scale that will average them
about $1.50 a day. The workmen de
clare that straightners had been mak
ing an average of $15 or 16 per day,
and that the holdups averaged from
$8 to $7 per day for their work. They
claim that they were not overpaid
even at that rate, for the beams are
very heavy and the work is so severe
on the men that they can endure It
tor only a few years.
May Tat Load to Trouble.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., Aug. 14. The
trouble that is brewing between the
Delaware, . Lackawanna ft Western
Railroad company and its miners,
threatens to assume serious propor
tions. The big meeting held in Scran
ton last night In favor of a reduction
In price of powder, Is to be followed
by similar meetings In Luzerne county.
The price paid for powder has been a
matter of contention for twenty years.
Officials ot the coal companies say
that to reduce the price of powder
would mean increased cost to the com
panies for mining coal, or as one prom
inent official of the Delewafe, Lacka
wanna ft Western company sal& "It
would mean an increase ot wages, and
this we are not prepared to grant" .
Pensions for tha Veteran.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 14.
The following . pensions have been
granted:
Nebraska Charles Edgar, Emerson;
Benjamin Rogers, jr., Stoddard; John
B. .Murray, Soldiers' and Sailors' home,'
Grand Island; Matilda Bondurant,
Norfolk; Lena Nagle, Mlndon.
Iowa William R. Balrd, Dubuque;
Alexander McNab, Blairsburg; James
M. Frame, Des Ifoines; Andrew W.
Ufford, Sheffield; Levi Gallanar, Vll
lisca; Henry Grim, Toledo; John Bam
mer, Hamburg; Samuel P. Watkins,
Fort Madison; Andrew B. Shakespeare,
Central City; James M. Mershon, Des
lloines; George Reld, Bedford; Will
lam Morehead, Ogden; Nancy Huhn,
Delaware; Elisabeth Mulford. Gravity.
Will Release tha Boats.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 14. The re
cent seizure ot six Canadian fishing
boats near Point ' Roberts by the
United States customs officers will
probably be settled In a day or so by
the release of the boats. The matter
has been the subject of diplomatic dis
cussion and was finally referred to
United States District Attorney Gen
eral Griggs. Gray reported that the
seizure was made so close to the line
and at a time when It was possible
to be deceived In location that it might
be advisable to release the boats. The
attorney general wired him yesterday
to proceed as, he thought best Mr.
Gray Immediately wrote Collector
Huestia, advising him to let the brats
go. ...
BwlndVr TJader Arrest.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 14. Thos.
A Bean, the notorious swindler, who
about two years ago was arrested by
the United States authorities for using
the United States miii and sentenced
to eighteen months In the penitentiary,
Is, together with three accessories, un
der arrest on the same charge. The
men are charged with representing
themselves as school teachers, receiv
ing large consignments ot books from
firms at St Louis, Chicago, Cincin
nati and Taylorville, III
Mount Vernon we their headquar
ters. Bean's confederates are Jesse
Brady, jr., Rufus Brady and Walter
G. Williams, all of Mount Vernon.
a Majsmasunanafs' '
Will Ask Its relief.
' PARIS, Aug. 14. M, Denys Cochin,
monarchist and on ot the deputies
tor the 8elne department has written
to the premier, M. Waldeok-Rousseau,
announcing his intention to Interpel
late tha government when parliament
reassembles, regarding Its general po.
tor. -
When answering advertise
ments mention Independent.
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Tak lb lxikPkSiUKMT I your, $1 00.
THE BANKERS KNOW
All Their Talk About "Basle Money" -lm-trlnsla
Velo"ate.,Js Pore Hypocrisy
A friend and myself have at hand the
published doings of the American Bank
ers' association from its organization.
I11 the Chicago report for 1893, page
78, we read: "Only those who . have
some special reasons for Watching tbe
proceedings ever find access ' to these
printed report. They are sealed books
to tbe multitude."
And the Detroit report, 1 897, page 89,
declares: "Tbe ignorance which sur
rounds the currency question is pro
found."
We now propose to tarn these annual
reports inside out for the benefit of tbe
reading public Bankers know the
truth and in their close counsels state It
most frankly. Tbe Chicago report, 1893,
page 45, says: "The products of the
labor of the neonle reDreeent all there is
ot financial value (wealth) in a nation."
Then where can be found a better defi
nition of money than is given on page
80 of the San Francisco report for 1892,
towit: "Money to that article in a na
tion with which a debtor can extinguish
bis debts without tbe consent of the
creditor, at a fixed unit ofvalu. In
other words, a legal tender by the su
preme law of the land." Also on page
81 we read: "This flat on tbe gold, the
silver or tbe paper makes money. Noth
ing else does or can make money." And
again: "Money has no intrinsic value,
it only represents laoor in someiorm.
Tbe gold in the mountains has no in
trinsic value.? Then on page 82: "We
are safe, in view of the foregoing facts,
in asserting that only the general gov
ernment can issue money, That all
other efforts are delusive substitutes
that build up Indebtedness that they
cannot legally extinguish and have prop
erly been termed paper lies." ;
This of course does not apply 10 we
original greenbacks.; Tbe Chicago re
port, 1893, page 42, declares that tbe
icreenbacka are and always have been as
Kood as gold tbe world around. Under
the statute authorizing them and its in
terpretation by the supreme court of
the United States, the greenback was
simply defined as "one dollar," abso
lute fiat, legal tender money, ana me
phrase, "Promise to Pay, was put
there by the treasury department with
out any authority whatever from con
it ress or any one else. To teaoh other
wise than the foregoing is wilful igno
rance or malicious deception. But is
there money enough in the country?
The Han Francisco report, lawa, page
77, asserts: "There can be no permanent
(irospeuty until our volume of available
money is Increased. Increasing disas
crs are abundantly stored in tbe future
on the present relations between the
volume of money and business." The
-time report, page 75, gives a table cora
tiiled from the comptroller ot tbe cur
rency for 1891, Vol 1, pages 155 and
H2, showing the actual available cash,
ty states, per capita: "Missouri 29
wrote, Kansas 99 cents, Iowa 69 cents
and Nebraska $1.40, which last is the
verage per capi ta in the nation. Now
does this compare with statements
made by political hirelings on the
tump? Under thin condition the money
harks have done an immense business.
Tbe Chicago report, 1893, page 102,
fmm tbe comptroller of the currency for
1891, September 2d, shows that the na
tional banks, with 842,000,000 cash, re
ceived 92,310,000,000 of deposits and
loaned 92.171,000,000; while trust
ompanies and banks with $540,000,
000 loaned it nearly ten times, produc
ing over 5,000,000,000 of deposits, and
5,000,000,000 of loans. This is as
tounding, and it shows the awful power
of this oligarchy. It compelled to meet
tneee obligations all at once these insti-
ntions could not pay ten cents on tbe
lollar. M. N. Butler in Valley Demo
crat
FLOUR SACKS,
A housekeeper cannot usually make or
ave large sums, but tbe little savings
vount in time, enabling us to provide
extra comlorts for the home, and to get
many articles that we could not afford
t It were not for the money obtained in
1 his way. It may seem a small thing to
save all the flour sacks and use them in
virions ways, but it pays to do, so.
They may be used to line tbe waists of
dresses made ol wash goods, or the lit
tle boys' trousers. They are nice tor the
children's every-day underclothes, for
they are cool and easy to wash, for
Meeveless waists ot children's skirt, for
dish towels and wash rags.. 'Four
flour sacks sewed together, with the
warns nicely felled, are nice for a cover
to spread over a small dining table that
it kept set all the time. Six sacks
would be required for a large table.
They also make good quilt linings, and
when you have need them for theee and
many other purposes, you will agree
with me tliat they are wortji saving.
Of course it is necessary to remove the
Utters before the sacks are need. Tbe
best way to do this is to keep tbem un
til you have halt a dozen or more, then
rip the seams and shake them well to re
move as much of the flour as possible,
wash them through one water, then pre
pare a strong suds of soft water and
pearline, and boil them in It ten or fif
teen minutes, stirring occasionally; take
tbem out into the tub, poor cold water
on them until they are cool enough to
handle, then rinse and hang In the sun
shine to dry. This wilt remove the let
ters and leave tbem like new pieces of
muilin. It they are done on the regu
lar wash day the flour will spoil the
water for tbe other clothes, hence it is
tetter to waeh them alona. K. J. C.
Vncf?A,"Aug. 14Tt isre ported
that the Imperial heir presumptive of
Austria, the Arch Duke Francis, is
betrothed to the urand Duchess He
lens Vladlmlrovna of Russia, who was
formerly afflinced to Prince Maxima
Urn ot Bade
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AFFECTED BY TRUSTS
Among tbe disturbing consequences of
the rapidity with which tbe great mon
opoly corporations are forming is the
change that has come about in the
method of selling commodities. Under
the old system it was indispensable to
keep on tbe road an army . of traveling
salesmen. These men had to be of su
perior business experience and ability,
ot tried and tested qualities of character
and ot presentable and tactful address.
Tbe American commercial travelers,
taken as a body, are a most creditable
factor in our national life and citizen
ship, Mr. P. E, Dow, president of the
Commercial Traveler's National League,
testified before the Industrial- Commis
sion at Washington on June 16 that not
less than 85,000 commercial travelers
would be thrown out of employment as
tbe result of the American trust move
ment up to date. This, he explained,
would mean a loss to the men of $60,
000,000 a year in salaries. An almost
equal amonnt, he further explained,
would be lost to the railroads and hotels
ot the conn try by tbe disappearance of
all these commercial travelers from their
accustomed routes and stopping places.
Mr. Do we might also have mentioned
the fact that tbe livery stable business
as well as the hotels will suffer to the ex
tent of many millions a year in tbe west
and south, where tbe commercial travel
ers have been accustomed to do a great
part of. their work by driving from con
venient railroad points to numerous
small places in the vicinity. Theoretic
ally, of course, the relief of the distribu
tive process from the burden of salaries,
rrilroad fares, and hotel bills of a great
army of traveling salesmen ought to re
dound to tbe benefit of the consumer.
But at present tbe saving of these ex
penses moans not a cheapening of the
goods to tbe buyer, but an enhancement
ol profits to the monopoly. Moreover
the beautiful theories of a more perfect
mechanism for the distribution of profits
furoisb cold comfort to tbe men who
have lost their jobs as salesmen and the
hotel keepers whose only reliable source
of patronage was the drummers' trade.
All this does not prove that the monop
oly corporations ought to be crashed
ont. , But it certainly does go very far
tp prove that it is the business of the
publio to see that the benefits of such
economies as may result from monopoly
methods are shared with the community.
Review ot Reviews.
HE'S FOR A FARMER:
Please allow me space to urge a few
reasons why the populists in the big
Sixth should nominate a farmer. "
First it is a farming or stock raising
country. Second, the populist party is
principally farmers and I believe a
farmer can better represent their inter
ests than a lawyer. When binder twine
goes up, or nails or machinery etc., be
realizes keenly his servile condition to
trusts and corporations and a farmer
congressman can better know the farm,
era hardships than a professional roan.
Nebraska is a farming state and still we
have only lawyers in congress why is
this? Because tbe lawyer is more intel
ligent and 'honorable? No sir. For
rugged intelligence and manly honor
give me a farmer. Besides I am tired of
seeing farmers rake chestnuts out of the
Ore lor tbe fine haired, kid gloved gen
tlemen of leisure. Let us have at least
one farmer in congress from Nebraska.
Give us a farmer.
! A Son op Mr. ToIl.
RENTING PUBLIC LANDS
The proposition to allow the western
states and territories the control of tbe
public lands situated within their bor
ders, with tbe privilege of leasing them
to stockmen and expending tbe revenue
derived for state improvements, is not a
new one. It is, however, equitable, and
would vastly benefit the states availing
themselves of the privilege, and it finds
very general favor and endorsement
among men who have given the condi
tions in the weet any serious thought.
"The policy of leasing the grazing
lands ot the west by the states," Secre
tary Wilsou ot the Department of Agri
culture said, "cannot but operate very
beneficially to those states, and would
eliminate much ot the trouble which the
west is now having over tbe range ques
tion. Let the title to the land remain
in tbe federal government by all means,
but give tbe states the use ot the lands
i. e., the money which would be derived
from their rental. Most of the western
states have comparatively small settled
areas, and theee roust bear tbe burden
of caring-tor the remainder ot the state
which is government property. It would
be a very dangerous move to give the
land itself to tbe etates, because before
losg there would then be neither
state nor government land: but it is
simply a qntin of th state disposing
oftbeauuual income Imin ruta!, a
proper system ot expenditures would
soon become established. This would
practically dispose of tbe range question,
as leases could be made for terms of
years, and there would be then no con
flict of right."
Nothing eould more forcibly Illustrate
the absolute necessity for the inaugura
tion of such a leasing system as above
advocated by Secretory Wilson, for the
ntter inadequacy of the present land
system in the arid region, than a recent
Cheyenne, (Wyo.) dispatcq in which it is
stated that open war is threatened on
Wyoming ranges. Tbe most strained
relations exist between cattlemen and
sheepmen. "Especially is this true,"
the dispatch says, "in Converse and
Carbon counties. Near Saratoga,
masked cattlemen forcibly removed tbe
beep from certain mountain ranges,
and fear is felt that open war will soon
break ont. Between Illegal fencing and
j false pretense homeeteading, with cor
ralling ot water rights, the general wel
fare of the bona-flde stockman is being
greatly damaged."
I This dispateo shows the serious eon
dition which exists to a more or less ex
tent all over the west through the over
crowding of ranges, and emphasizes the
statement that It Is time and past time
for the enactment otlaws which shall
provide equitable rights for legitimate
stock rakers and do away with the dan
gerous controversies which now exist la
every grazing section.
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Annual Encampment G. A, B. at
Philadelphia Low Rates
Stop-Overs.
Here is a popular excursion for yon by
the Northwestern Line. Pretty nearly
everything you want 's granted. '
For tbe round trip same route going
and returning, continuous passage,
$52.85; going and returning same route
witb one stop-over in each direction east
of Buffalo, Niagara Falls or Pittsburg,
$34.05; going one way and returning
another, with one stop-over as above,
$36.05. Tickets will be sold September
1, 2, and 3. Extreme limit September
30. For other information plnase call
at city ticket office, 117 So. 10th St.,
Lincoln, Neb.
Cryptic Masons at Pike's Peak.
On tbe occasion 0! the above meeting,
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Aug. 7 to 12. the Denver & Rie Grande
railroad will make a rate of one fare for
the round trip from Denver, Colorado
Springs, and Pueblo to all points
in
Colorado and to Salt Lake City. This
will be an excellent opportunity for an
outing in tbe Rockies. For particulars
call on agents or write S. K. Hooper, O.
P. Sl T. A., Denver, Colo.
Proposals For Hospital at Soldiers' aad
Bailors' Homo at Mllford.
Praled proposals will bs rlTl at this offles
until t o'clock, p.m., Saturday, Anno.t 19, 1MW,
for all labor and material required In tbe erec
tion and completion of a hospital at the soldiers
and sailors boms at Mllford, Nebraska, tn ac
cordance with ths appropriation therefor In
chapter MS, session laws of lfttv. and In accord
ance with plans and specification on Sis In ths
office ot the rom miaslooer of pnblle lands and
buildings, at ths Builders and Traders Exchange,
Omaha, and at the soldiers and sailors home,
Mllford. Each bid mnst be accompanied by a
certified check for not less than two per cent of
the amonnt bid as an earnest of cood faith. The
rlabt Is reeerred to reject any and all bids, or to
walre anj Informality In any bid which It may.
be deemed la the Interest of the state to do.
W. K. PORTER,
Secretary Board ot Public Lands and Buildings.
H;me for Thousands.
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new state of Utah. No climate In the
world is more even tempered and no
conn try offers greater natural resources.
There is much land to be bad cheap.
Take advantage ot the half rate In effect
on the first and third Tuesday ot each
month to go to Utah to look over ths
flaM In wnnMalf. . Da that inn, llr SJ
read via the Rio Grande Western By., .
which will carry you through the center
and most favored part of toe state. For
copy ot "Pointer to Prosperity" write to
Geo, W.Hsuti, Salt Lake City. tl
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