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That ready-to-wearclothing is profitable to the wearer. Every .
garment that IcaTes this house, carries with it a mark ef indi
viduality. It ia unlike the ordinary ready-to-wear clothing
. unlike it in many ways. We place our cothing on a par with
...the best of merchant-tailored styles. Their graceful ; fashion
-ia design of cut, the superior .trimming and perfect fitting .
' qualities justify this.
Eight ' :
lars
7 Ail Wool Kersey Overcoats 1
! "Perfectly tailored, velvet collar j reinforced with same cloth as
body of coat, fine quality lining. ; It is the same quality, same
style, same workmanship, as Mr. Merchant Tailor gets 825 for. ' '
Its a peach of an overcoat, for the money is the way one man . . , ,
put it Saturday after the price tag was removed and he
looked at himself in the glass "I say it's a peach.", ; -. -
" - Catalogue Ready Soon.
Pfoaea Mention The Nebraska Independent when answering
that the silver question Is dead. If the
silver .- question . is dead then why
worry any more about gold?. Why
bother congress to make any more
laws about the stanuard. If our oniy
mortal enemy was dead we would not
skulk for fear of being hit, v
That old custom house deal, of treas
urer Gage, looks darker than nignt
stealing. It appears he sold the prop
erty, foe $3,205,000 to the National
City Bank, The bank paid all but
fifty thousand In a check, which was
deposited in the bank of purchase.
Cage promised to pay two hundred
thousand, annually for rent of the
building until the new, custom house
was completed. Now is it not a blacic
transaction to sell property, let the
purchaser kep the purchase mofley
and pay him full rent on. top of that.
Darker yet, the. title was left in the
government bo no taxes for city or
state could be collected. .
What next will .happen under the
state house dome to clog the wheels of
reform? "Why is it. that every how
and then one office holder has 'war
troubles with other office holders all
of the same party? Rogues often fall
out and it is said that honest men
then" get their due. Rogues often have
it hot with honest men too, but honest
men jeldom quarrel with each-other.
how happy the republicans were
.nder the, dome with thieves and rob
pbersr - r ' ' ;
The bubonic plague seems to be. rag
ing in several places near and between
the ; tropics.. . In Honolulu they have
burned whole blocks to eradicate the
disease... The disease seems to be con
fined to. the glans of the throat, and is
more fatal than cholera. Natives are
more liable to contract it than people
from 'the temperate 2ones. It. is not
contagious as smallpox and yet It
- often, takes a whole family and a
, -whole neighborhood. The term is from
vfi'-ubo a glan.
V .
. Direct legislation or referendum, is
the most important political doctrin
now under discussion. Iet the ques
tion be referred to a vote of the peo
ple, shall the greenbacks be retired,
-I not' one-voter in five would vote for
it. The same would be the outcome ot
v several other measures vthe east is try-
ing to force upon the west." "Whenever
the'peoplo Fpecify by their vote what
they want there would be no kicking
but when a president jumps his plat
form as MeKinley has there is reason
for dissatisfaction.
Xet the state of New .York lay out
half .the money for a double track rail
road from Buffalo to New York that
Bhe has expended on her canal, ana
then give the free use of it to any
Xbody who lesired to run a train, as
she does tue free use of the canal to
liny who wish to run a boat, and trains
Would run In sight of each other all the
" Way going and coming. But no, tne
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The whole has been stirred and ex
cited by the news from South Africa.
The London Times. say that it is the
worst disaster that England has suf
fered since the surrender of Cornwallis
at Yorktown and all the. continental
fully coincide. with that opinion. 'j.ne
whole plan of the British campaign
in South Africa has been a failure.
Durin that campaign the British have
lost , in killed, wounded and prisoners
more than one full division. and. have
not yet been, able to reach' even the"
borders of the two little' republics. An
the fighting so far has been on British
territory. . . ..- ' , r '
In these notes last week It was
stated that the British had crossed the
Tagula river and were facing the
Boers in an effort to relieve. the-imprisoned
garrison of 8.000 men at
Ladysmith. Now the British army is
back across the river after1 having
been completely whipped and losing
at least 13,000 men killed wounded ana
prisoners. Gen. Buller.has seit no de
tails of the figb?. lie has simply said
that a division of his army assaulted
a Boer I nftenchmeht, called Spibn"Koif
and were forced to retreat and that his
whole army was back across the river.
On Wednesday there was a partial list
of killed and wounded", officers pub
lished amounting to abotit fifty. Of "
the rest he says nothing. From an
other source, . and one which has .al
ways proved reliable comes the follow
ing account of the fight.
Pretoria, Jan. 24, via. Lorenzo Mar
ques, Jan. 2S. "The battle between the
upper Tugela bridge and Spion Kop is
still raging desperately. Four times
the British infantry have charged, and
each time the Boers have ? repulsed
them, although the British each, time
have brought up fresh " regiments to
participate. " ' -
"By order of Gen. Joubert the Britisn
position on Spion ; Kop has been
stormed by the federals, who have
reached the top, almost annihilating
reprlment after regiment of the British,
who finally hoisted the white fig. Two
hundred British prisoners are now be
ing disarmed.
"Gen. Burger reports a fresh attack
on his positions. . .
"While I am sending this dispatch a
message has just arrived from Gen.
Erraelo's laager. The commando there
is In the thick of the fight.. Tons 'of
shells and shrapnel, ' the message says,
are pouring into the . Boer position,
while British battalions In endless sue-,
cession are coming up;, yet one alter
another is forced to retire, wavering
and confused, under the fearful rifle
fire from the Boers' kopjes -and
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TThe casualties due to Brtusn sheds
thus far have been amazingly smalt.
"The federal cordon around Kimberr
ley .Is drawing closer. Many Kaffirs
are arriving inside the oer lines irom
the besieged 'town, where they say
they were starving.' .
- "Stprmberg, Colesberg, and Mafe
king are . reported quiet. T ; . .
. ','Cppies of "The Chicago v Record ,ot
Deer 5, recounting the alleged mis
deeds ; of ; " Mr-, Atterbury, in " whose
hands Mr;,Macrum left the United
States Consular affairs ' here when he
returned" to the United States,: have
just, been .received in , Pretoria,! where
they have produced a sensation. Mr.
Adelbert Hay,, 3Ir. ; Macrum's suc-ces-sor,
is expected here the last of the
month. fc : .. LEO WEINTIIAL'
The opinion of every one now, even
the leading newspapers of London, is
that, the British garrison at Ladysmith
will now have to surrender. The Brit
ish cannpt bring any aid . to them for
weeks and :the garrison Is nearly out
bf provisions and amunitlon. Wiien
Ladysmith surrenders that will, belhe
second division of British troops that
have been captured or killed. Mean
time the "representative of .. the Beer
government in Europe is being enter
tained -'at" semi-official . banquets and
give all sorts .of encouragement.' In
the United. States Immense meetings
are being held in many ditferent places
audacities to express sympathy with
the South African, republics. The op
position to the war in England, and
the common people there have always
been opposed to it as well as the schol
! ars. and thinkers seems to be 'growing
from day to day. parliament meets
this week 'and an exciting time is ex
pected. -' ' r - - ;j
s The board, of; transportation held a
meeting last Tuesday to consider the
resolution xf Mr.1 Porter; the Secretary
of - State,-demanding the resignation
of the secretaries of, the board. - Nearly
the whole afternoon was . devoted to
discussing th question. The resolution
was3 finally- voted down," Messrs.
Smyth, Meserve, Cornell, and Wolf
voting against the motion and Mr.
Porter for it. A full report of the
work of the secretaries is soon to be
made up' and' published by the board
after-which the people can judge lor
themselves . whether the secretaries
have done their full duty or not.
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NO END TO IT
Imperialism Demands ' Ex pendlt are After
: ,i xpead4tare and no Man Can See . .,
; f.Yi ,;,; . the.End v ;v
Rerhaps-we; were rash in buying the
wagon, , and perhaps we ought not to
have bought the horse; but having
made those investments frfr better or
for worsen let-, us., not now hesitate
about . buying . a set of ; harness. The
way to justify, expansion is to make
the. most effective possible use of what
wq have acquired. . Our altered posi
tion in both oceans, coupled with the
enormous recent increase of our for
eign - trade must require a larger and
more expensive navy; henceforth than
we; have maintained in the past. A
canal on our own soil, making it pos
sible for ua to use 'the Gulf of Mexico
and the' Carrlbean Sea as great naval
centers from-which our ships can have
a quick and. safe -passage to the Pa
cific, will almost double the efficiency
for defensive purposes of a given num
ber ;. of .war;, vessels.; and will accord
ingly, .save, us enough on our yearly
naval bills to meet all interest and
sinking-fund charges on the cost ot
the canal. From "The Progress or the
World," in the American Monthly Re
view of . Reviews for. February.
THEY ARB ALL IRISH . . . .
Iord Roberts,'' the new commonder-
in-chief pf the4 British array in South
Africa, like all the other great British
generals, Is an Irishman. Lord
Kitchener, who accompanies him, al
though not an Irishman, was born In
Ireland. Lord wolseley, the commander-in-chief,
is also Irish, and
General Buller, the late commonder-
in-chief in . South Africa, is Irish
born : and - bred. - Lord Roberts 1 was
summoned to the command . of th?
troops in South Africa from command
ing the British forces in Ireland. His
vacant post has beeti filled by the Duke
jof Connaught; who Is the only one of
the Queen's children who is connected
with Ireland by ties of birth. Lord
Roberts is sixty-seven years of age,
and hardly expected to be called once
more to the field of bnttle. "When he
returned from India and published his
book of , reminiscences he regarded
himself as having seen the end of ae
tire service; but he still is hale ana
strong, and. when .General Buller met
with his disaster on. the bank of the
Tugela, the government instinctively
turned to the gray-haired general who
twenty years before had converted a
disastrous campaign in Afganistan
into a. brilliant success. From "Field
Marshal Lord Roberts: A Sketch of
the Commander-in-Chief of the Brit
ish Forces in South Africa," in the
American Monthly Review of Reviews
for February.
ENGLISH MURDERERS
Morton Frewen Charges the Kngrllsh Gov
ernment with the Murder of Millions
: . andot One of Them Bcpllea
X serious famine has again, over
taken, some millions of pur fellow-sub
jects' in India, and the public are ap
pealed to for, funds to assist the gov
ernment of India to fulfill its duties.
- - . . - . a.
What is wanted is not food, but money
to ouy iooa. xnanus to tne liberal
railway1 policy Of the past fifteen years;
supplies can be obtained from districts
within India ..which enloy a surplus.
in order Jto feed sufferers .within the
famine areas." It was the same with
the famine of two years since. Lord
George Hamilton asked our communi
ty for money subscriptions for cash
and not for kind on the ground uiat
there was no real scarcity of food any-
wnere. Dut ; xne money was . soroiy
needed; The official figures, published
a little .later, showed that he was riarnt.
and thaln the worst, famine districts
the price of a pound of tlco was at no
; ttmo so high as the price of a pouarS
I It would not be becoming to mince
matters . merely to avoid . ruQlng .the
snsceptlbtlitles of ol3clal vivisection
ists; and I wish to be permitted ' to
record my con victioa that the closing
of , the Indian mints by our , govern
ment is murder. - With mints closed.
whenever there is a local scarcity.
whether in the Deccan, the Punjab, or
elsewhere, white individuals will
starve to death, vast numbers of peo-'
pie are : going to suffer horribly, and
this reduced vitality , makes them the
easy., victims of, the ordinary Indian'
fevers. When we accuse official India
of this odious crime, one official and
then . another gets up and splutters
rage, and denial; but. not one of these
has ever found any reasoned rebl V to
our repeated statement that the clos
ing .of the mint involves the -death.
after cruel suffering, of our. fellow-su ob
jects, and that then real famine , re
serve fund, accumulated during cen
turies, Is In their ornaments and their
hoards of silver bullion. Let me once
again quote the ; evidence of an eye
witness (Mr. Forbes Mitchell, a well
known Calcutta- merchant). Mr. Mit
chell wrote to me during the last fam
ine that he had seen a peasant from
one of the worst famine districts ar
rive In Allahabad with bangles, and
other ornaments, which, had tha
mints been open, would have coined
into i Rs. 1,980; but , the mints, were
closed, and accordingly this poor man
had to part with his little hoard of un
coined silver for Rs. 600; so that the
closing of the mints took from this
one; man Rs. 1,380, and reduced this
famine fund, Vin a village where peo
ple were dying of starvation, by just
mat amount, uoes this justify my
assertion that this precious scheme of
tampering with the Indian silver cur
rency is murder; and if it does not;
then why not? And so I ask why we
here are to subscribe those Rs. I,i80,
when the government of India can it
self subscribe them by merely opening
Its mints and coining them, and why
again we are to put our hands in our
pockets, not to help people who with
mints open are well able to help themselves,-
but that we : may prolong the
life of a , currency . experiment which is
not merely unscientific, but is shame
fully immoral Is an experiment in hu
man suffering.
Well did Mr. David Yule, the presi
dent of the Bank, of Calcutta, declare
of this amazing trick "enforced scar?
city of money Is the only hope on
which the famine-begetting gold stand
ard , depends. To become wealthy the
government of India is endeavoring
to render itself and its trading com
munity destitute." Such, then, is the
position: We are once again being
asked to give our sovereigns for these
poor. Indian sufferers. v
May sot last year, M. Georges Bout-
my, of Odessa, said of Russia's varia
tion from her silver standard: v
."During ; the five years ;which pre
ceded the famine of the year of x?s)'
98 Russia exported 503,000,000 poods
more and obtained in exchange 84,-
000,000 roubles less than during the
five years . which preceded the famine
of the year 1891-92. If we had kept
our legitimate silver standard these
503,000,000 poods of food and 84,000,
000 roubles, lost to us through ine
gold standard, would have been saved
to us, and would have sufficed to have
spared. Russia the . frightful famine
r.f. ilsT.n r,t.A -'MAfiio'lltr hltiataAn'
provinces, with a population of 30,000,
000, cruelly . decimatea' by the typhus
and by the ' scurvy,", those satellites of
famine. The famine of 1891, claimed
C5G.000 ' human victims.' . These hun
dreds, of thousands' of men, who were
swept off by actual famine, are the
human sacrifices, " sacrincea to tne
golden calf by the fanaticism of its
worshippers." -Morten Freemen. ' " -
HORACE WHITE'S LOGIC
It Seems to This Literary Sycophant That
,it Is Sufficient to Cry "Yellow Press"
. . ,' to Any Chargre . v" '.'
That the New York daily press is
withotit conscience, is wholly mercen
ary, that it is devoted to the advo
cacy of every scheme of the million
airs and trust magnates, is perhaps
made more plain .by the . writings of
Horace White than in any Other way.
He is a man with a good deal of lit
erary skill, and when a man of his edu
cation and ; accomplishments cannot
make a better defense of Gage and the
National City bank than he has been
able to give to the public, it shows
that-there is no real defense to be
made and that he is writing for the
profit there is in it. Horace White
lias been Gage's special defender and
the administration seems to'rely updn
him more than any other man. That
being the' state of the case editorial
writers, who are opposed to the gen
eral looting of the people.for the bene
fit of the banks, are every where pay
ing a good deal ; of attentionr to Mr,
Horace White. .The Washington
Times goes after him in the following
fashion: 1 '
Mr. . White begins his argument with
the statement that the Gage answer to
the enquiries of congress "is so clear
and complete that little needs to be
said in addition." Continuing, he ob
serves that "the .. yellow press, which
started the cry. for an Investigation,
will, of course, continue it , till some
new sensation is discovered." Any
exposure of public Irregularity which
happened to hit in directions Interest
ing- to the "Evening Post" writer
would, of course, appear "yellow in
his eyes, but he will hardly succeed in
convincing the country that : even if
the original allegations and proofs In
the Standard OH Bank and , custom
house case did happen to be first
printed in the "New York Journal" and
the "New York World," that the are,
therefore, unworthy of , attention.
Neither Mr. Gage nor his apologists
have answered them, and' tho partic
ular one under discussion, least of alL
- In order not to waste tlmo and pa
tlence over the attempts of the Hon.
Horace White to meet the charges
against his client by (lodging complete
ly around them, It Is only necessary to
ummarlivo his argnmo&t jin- a few
words. It Is that tha secretary was
compelled to descend to the level of
congressional Intelligence, and to
make his retponse a kind of Under
Srtsm betera. It had been aasomod
it hs CU wromjf In aliowlna tea IVm
their coiiveiLience. and; profit, and , so
Then Hon. ; Horace White 'seems to "
forget that this act of 1864 was citea
by Mr. Gage not only as authority for
his free money counter' practices, out
as actually applicable to the yet un
explained Jugglery of the custom
house transaction. Relatively to its
proper object and meaning, there has
never -been the slightest doubt ex
pressed or implied, In or outside of
congress. The secretary or the treas
ury unquestionably has ; the . right to
designate certain banks as depositories
of public money. . There is no doubt
that this risht has been construed, to
mean' that he may," at his discretion,
lend millions, wlthoutr interest, to in
stitutions with wSich he; may be in
sentimental . or other ; connection, for
the purpose of their loaning the same
money to the public at high interest,
and that, "hence, it is - right to give
them as . a- gratuity such valuable use
and usufruct of public funds. Thusr
in the case of the Standard Oil Bank,
it is admitted that " on June 5, 1897,
the vice-president of that -institution,
wrote to Mr. Gage, asking for govern
ment, favors on the. ground , of past
campaign services, and said: "If you
will take pains to look at our list ot
directors you will see that : we also
have .very great political 'claims in
view of what was done during the can
vass last .year." Less than a month
before this letter was written, the gov
ernment deposits in the Standard Oil
Bank aggregated only $200,000. Later,
in the same year, they amounted to
$24,000,000. On July 14, 1898, the gov
ernment cash balance in the concetn,
without interest, was $19,579,000. It
also : received as & deposit in June,
1898-$14,000,000 of the $200,000,000
war loan. On January 7, 1899, the
Standard Oil Bank had the free use of
$20,565,000 of government money, and
on September 20, 1S99, the balance had
increased to $29,000,000. , In other
words, calculating tile changes, this
favored depository had the nse, with
out interest, of an average .balance of
$10,000,000 for six : months, or- the
equivalent of a cash gift of at least
$300,000. This suggestive fact illus
trates to us the strong reasons Wail
Street" financiers have for declaring
that the government ; should forever
keep out ot the banking business, .and
leave It to private enterprise only
furnishing capital without -charge to
the lrivate'enferpHseri:v-::;:.v -'
If the-act of 1884, or any other law,
confers the power upon a secretary of
the treasury to assist business; asso
ciates or political friends in such ways,
it; ought to be repealed; sincejt is evi
dent,' enough that considerations of
duty or ethics are quite inadequate al
ways to prevent abuse of the power.
Perhaps-the editor of the "Evening
Tost" regards this edifying statement
as a kindergarten recitation, and it cer
tainly is much like the Gage defense,
which Mr. White regards as a work
of that kind. However that may be,
it Is absolutely without a vestige of
foundation in fact. - Money in a desig
nated .depository ; is ,not :"money. in
the treasury" in any legal sense' of the
term. : In 1S79 ChiefJustice White,
speaking for the supreme court of the
United States, decided that money de
posited with a bank that was, a des
ignated depository ; was-not paid Into
the treasury. " Again, in October, lsy'J,
the same court decided. " Mr. Justice
McKenna reading .: the decision, that
money placed in a regularly designated
depository, could not be held to have
been ("covered into, the United States
treasury." ' . " ' -
In the law providing; for. the saleof
the.New.YoTk custom-house (chapter
337, statutes enacted by the Fifty-fifth
Congress), the. following mandatory
language Is used:
"The secretary of the treasury is
hereby " directed r to
deposit the proceeds of the sale ;:
In the" United States treasury, as mis
celleaneous receipts." Section 5490 of
the revised statutes; reads: VEvery
officer or other person charged by any
act of congress with the safe keeping
- of the public moneys who fails - to
keep safely the same ; : without
depositing in banks or exchanging for
other funds than as specially allowed
by-law, shall be guilty, of embezzle
ment of the money so . de
posited or exchanged, and shall be lm
prisoned not less than six months nor
more than ten years, and fined In a
sum of money equal to the amount so
embezzled.". t o ......4. .j
, In view of all the,: foregoing, the sit
uation of. the. unfortunate matter or
the treasury scandals is, -as the Hb'n;
Horace White remarks, in a different
vein; Vso clear and complete that little
needs to be , said ; in addition," ; rJut
something remainsto be done, ought
to be done, and, we are confident, will
be done. - " - "
Live Stock Brands ;
The Nebraska Brand and Mark Com
mission, composed of . J. . H. Quigley,
Valentine, Neb.; M. J. Blewett, Harri
son. Neb.; S. : P. .Delatour, Lewellen
Ne,b. ; and Hon. W. F. . Porter, Secre
tary of State, convened at Mr. Porter's
office, adjourned last Saturday after
having - considered 1,6 1 0 brand appli
cations of which 1,425 were allowed,
275 rejected and 80 passed until next
meeting of the commission to be held
March 19. Applicants for brands that
were rejected will be given the privl
lege of filing substitutes with no addi
tional cost. Since January 1, certifi
cates of county clerks are not neceS'
sary on the application. y
BOARD OF TRANSPORTATION '
Xhm Ofllelal Becord of the Praeeedlncs la
''''' Bogard to Hates oa X.lvo Stock
X Whom It May Concerni ' ' ' :
In compliance with the demands of
the World-Herald that tho State Hoard
of Transportation should immediately
Investigate tho alleged failure of tho
secretariGJi of the Board of "Traaspor
tatlon to tcrro tho - rftllroads . with a
copy of tho order restoring tho cor load
rate on live etoclt end remove tlio see
rotary rasponsible for said alleged fail
ure, We, tha undrrifrtipd mettbsrs of
the Board of Transportation have care
fully investigated the charges made by
the Worid-Herald and flndi
' That on the 20th day of November,-
13T,- tra the recommendation ' of tho
srttarlw, the following order was
nade. It la therefcra. . uy th 6 tots
iiocrd 'of VmiOorta of tlis State
Of Nebraska,: considered, adjudged and
ordered that the defendants railroads
herein shall, on-or before the 5th uav
of December, 1897 restore the car load
rate in force prior to, the 10th day of
August, 1897." , . . .
JOHN F. CORNELL, Pres.
W. F. PORTER, Secy.
We further find that on the 27th ot
November, 1807, the following certified
copy of the order was made out and
mailed to each of the defendant roads.
It lis therefore; By tne State Board or
Transportation of the . State ; of Ne
braska, considered," adjudged ; and or
dered that the defendant railroads
herein shall, on or before the 5th day
of December, 1897, restore the car load
rate in force prior to the 10th day of
August,' 1897.
: - JOHN F. CORNELL, Pres.
. W F: PORTER, Secy.
"State of Nebraska, : - r '
Lancaster County, - ' - .
S. - " -
I hereby certify that the' above and
foregoing is a true and correct 'copy
of an order made by the State Board
of Transportation in the case of Tib
bies vs. The Chicago, Rockr island &
Pacific Railway Co.-et al., on the 26th
day ; of November, 1897, relative - to
rates on live stock. .
In testisoony whereof I hereunto sub
scribe my name and ' set the seal of
the. State Board ; of Transportation
this 27th day of November, 1897. v
(Seal) J. W. EDGERTON,
' Secretary."
We further find that the Burlington
is the only road that has claimed that
they did not -. receive - a copy - of said
order, and that the Burlington, through
Its representative, immediately after
the making of the order applied to the
secretaries for an -extension of time
for the taking effect .of the order mat
they might notify the Inter-State. Com
merce Commission ten days before.
change of rate, as required by the Inter-State
Commerce Law; ' " - ; ; ; -
We further find that on'the 4th" day
of December the following recommen
dation was made by the sectetaries :
In the matter of the" order made by
the State Board of Transportation in
the case Of Tibbies vs. The Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railway Com
pany et al. requiring the defendants to
restore the old car load rate on or
before December" 5th, 1897, we 1 learn
that the roads, or a part of them, have
notified -the Inter-State Commerce
Commission as required by law,, ten
days notice being necessary before : a
change in rates can be put in force,
and ; finding that it will require until
the 16th" of December to complete said
notice, we would therefore recommend
that the date for the taking effect of
said order be extended until the 16th
dajr, of December, 1897 '
Dated at Lincoln, Nebraska, this 4th
day "of December, "1987. '
' G7 L. LAWS. "': ' "-. -
. . J. W. EDGERTON,
, ; . J. C. DAHLMAN.
We further find that on the 16th day
date the following order was made:
"It is - therefore, -, considered adjudged
and ordered ; by" the State Board : ot
Transportation that the day ,for the
taking effect'of said order be extended
until the 10th day of December. 1897.
: JOHN FT CORNELL,
f - . Chairman.
" r. i.-.;t,M; w. f.;porter. .
Secretary."
We urther find that on the 16th day
of December all the roads doing busi
ness in the state-returned to the car
load rate in compliance with the or
der of the. Board.
' J. F. CORNELL.
-'-J. V. WOLFE.
: .--;:S: . J- J. B. MESERVE. '
v W. F. PORTER
REPUBLICANS FRIGHTENED
Warning: Notes of Alarm are Heard From
the Leaders all the Way From . New
, York to Oregron .
' We quoted", not long ago, the remark
about the approaching Presidential
campaign with which' a shrewd Repub
lican politician from a state in the
Central West surprised an Eastern ac
quaintance. The New Yorker -'had
said, almost as a matter of course, that
he supposed his visitor thought that
MeKinley had "a sure thing" in 1900.
"I'm not so sure about that," was the
unexpected reply. T can forsee con
tingencies under which it seems, to
me that Bryan will have more than a
fighting chance of being elected., 1
. t Evidence ' accumulates each- week
that this excellent party authority Is
by no means alone in. his apprehension
of .' possible Republican" defeat " next
November. The chairman of the Indi
ana Republican state committee ' is
quoted as saying that the campaign ot
1900 "is going to be the hardest cam
paign in many years," and : that "the
Kansas
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more state prise winniars and Imposition winnertW
horsemen with best harass, Wee. prices. B$g
stallions must be sold. : No pets. -
JAMS RECEIVED S1v32ll WWSSgSi
IAJ8' "BOK TON aad "AQTJES C03TO!l,-keSi la TJ. fl.wtfc 50B mileS trie to eee. IAH
tO salMtcan im. eeuntry, Sayemoorf )or gtln$t direct to lama' baran and buy a winner b
iruarftnteeQ te afemr yoa ore atallieas tha ell otfer importers in Nebraska Good gaaranteee.
aad lams pay freih, Goed tersas t rii
4fl HEAD OF 1400 TO lOOO POUND CHUNKS and DRAFTERS for SALQ ,
OaVi Pip. Glitlty.
H. C. Youyp nf tl F8TATF Q
Do you want to, BUY a
Farm T Do yon
want to
ml - Do jroa want a farm LOalf
XULi root rarml . XN roa
at 5 per centl If yon do, see. me.
H. e. Young Uloek,Uneoln
118 NORTH: ELEVENTH STREET.
state can only be carried by the most
thorough organization." Tha . Wash
lngton correspondent X of . that proml- ,
nent Republican organ the Iowa State
Register ' reports- "one of the oldest
and ablest of the ; Republican Sono
tors" as sounding a note of alarm,
Twelve states beyond tbe. Missouri are
yet to elect United States Senators for
the term beginning March 4, 190L ,p
Eight of the men whose terms expire
are Republicans. "There must bo
great care taken in some of theso
states," is the warning of this veteran V
politician, "or we will lose . strength,
and have either Democrats or. Popu,-,
lists sent to ,the Senate. If we lose Jive
of those. stateSa we will, lose cbntrol'
of the Senate. - The Republicans, who
are now over-confident, may. as well
look the situation squarely: In the face, ;
and . prepare to meet ' It. While I do
not believe In alarmist statements; I do
believe that the Republicans of the.
whole country should be cognizant of
But there Lis still; higher ; authority
than "a shrewd Republican politician,'
whose name cannot be . published, or
"one of the oldest and ablest of the
Republican Senators.", whose Identity
is not revealed, even if he seems to be
W'illiam B. Allison. The great Hanna
himself openly' confesses that the. Re
publicans mast do the hardest kind of .
work; from this time on. If they expect ,
tQ carry the , country next fnlL ' On a
recent trip to Philadelphia he im
pressed upon the Republican Mayor
"the exceeding importance" of the
'.'immediate furnishing" of . at least a
portion of - the $100,000 for the Repub
lican campaign fund which Was prom
ised from that city, when it made tha
successful bid for the national conven
tion. . He added that this fund is ,
"needed at.;once," and declared that
"one dollar of campaign funds today ia
worth five dollars three months hence."
Senator Hanna's Idea Is that the im
mediate and energetic opening of , work
by the Republicans is necessary, be
cause the coming campaign which, in
his opinion, ; will turn upon the two
questions of the . prosperity: of tha
working: people and the retention of
the Phllippines-r".will be. an exceeding
ly, vigorous one;" because the Demo- '
cratic party has already "engaged nu
merous labor; agitators to foment
among the working people of the en
tire West as much dissatisfaction with
existing conditions as lies in their
power,", and . has supplemented f their
work by the distribution of great quan
tities of campaign literature.; and. be-H
cause; tne Republican campaign man- !
agement must meet these agitators by
the employment of men and the distri-.
button of Republican i t literature to s
coupteract their influence, f Mr. Hanna
thinks that "our men are the better in
character - and . of - higher - standing,"
and "our literature," too equally su
perior f but he holds, nevertheless, -that ; j
"only ' by the utmost intelligence and.
assiduity" can the ; efforts of the
wicked Democrats be thwarted- ,
' The fact must now be accepted that
the MeKinley administration contem
plates the possibility of defeat for the
Republican party next November. Its
recognized spokesman admits that the
utmost efforts must be put, forth to
ward off this danger. The STraring
feature of the situation Is that nobody "
In the Inner circle sees either the real
cause of the danger, or the true policy
to adopt that it may be . averted.
Whence comes the chief ammunition
used by the Democratle agitators?
The most effective weapons have been
forged by;the familiar friends, the au
thorized representatives, the special
champions, of the President himself.
New -York -Post.'--' ) - '
Young men before', entering one ot
the principal medical schools of thia
country are examined as to their gen
eral knowledge. . One of the queetlona
given to the candidates . for. one ot
these schools last year was: "What are
the names of the books of the Bible T
Of one hundred : and , twenty, answers,
only five . were correct. - ; Among the
names of. books given werev "Philis
tines," "Marcus AureUusw and "Epistle
to the Filipinos." February Ladles'
Home JournoL 1 A
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One packet.' 25 G. three packets Uc BpeeiaJtlest
AlfalJa,Kamr -era, Siberian Millet, Forage Plants
and BREEDER
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SH1RES-CLYDES
and COACHERS,
IAM3' liorje Show at the Omaha
Expo, bad all the people Jud-ML
Superintendents and all ON T2ju
RUN 1 see the largest exhfjrt t of
horses on the grounds. MORJ3
BLACK STALLIONS thanall ex
hibitors; more 2,000 pound Horsea,
wUr 18 years ' lams hak led all
bargains for next 30 days. All
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