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LANCASTER COUNTY EDITION. VOL. XIL LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 30, 1900. NO. r. Lincoln and Vicinity Tfce motive power department on thl division of tl Barllrgton I kept Lustlinr tL days furnishing easier for tie tx3ber of train ran. On Mon- ; day lajtt twenty-four extra trains were run oat of Lincoln. The company Is sbort of motive power at the best, and , riet on the Burlington became effec tive esgin are worked to tfarlr ca- j tive yesterday. By the new scheme pclty. This laered demand on the j No. 3 and 12 give a regular railway cUve power makes more work for null service, with full postoffice car the hcp men trause of th irreat j acd crew, between Pacific Junction and amount of repaJricg to be done. A j -McCook. Formerly the Trice on Unre numUr f cn have tn put on ! thes trains extended west to Hast in the differttt d"Pr?m-nt vt the only. No. 1 will carry a mail car road Is this rttj and more will be I through from Pacific Junction to Den- . hired as tire rsh cf businrs tom ver. Formerly the car brought in on great r. It It stated at the tound S N- 7 was picked up here by No. 3 house that tRe ir-oilve power cow in ; carried to Hastings and there picked cse oct rf U&roln is belt work-! to j -P taken on by No. 1. its capacity, ard that with more trains j to Laiii core motive power mart b It is announced that the Burlington tm-vt here- Inuring th fair the csjjsc- f will run seventeen extra trains from Jty of almost r-rr departmeit ol the different points in the state to Lin road will be taxed to Its utmost. coin during state fair week, and these . , ... ! with added equipment to regular trains Chrr eld friend Jel Ixnihard of are expected to handle all the traffic. Omaha who represent the Peca?jl- i Tae Missonrl Pacific will run two or crania railway Is that city whn b is ! three extra trains to this city from tot singing, was in at the opening of j the southeastern part of the state, the great hal! in Chicago where tt- G. j while the other roads announce that A. R- business meetings were held, j they will be prepared to take care of aod h saxg lb "6tar-6pangl-d Dan- j all the traffic offered. ner from the oHrlnal marutrript. He ! cot only had a trained chorus and a state fish commission will have lizam ba&d of a hsndrd pieces to help ; a rreat exhibit this jear. The fish la the chores, but his assistant were ; exht)!t has always been a feature of is costume ard arranged to reprint j our 6tate faIrg but this year Mr. Ober a living f-MU No man since Carl feMen who is a new broom, is going Zhras could iaie tU-r filled the i to makp the effort of Ms life to show phre aid Bryan's state Is proud of th- ernhing that wears fins and has a record made by her great uzz-r who j nome jn Nebraska waters, from a flf stUl retains his wonderf ul voice in ; tr-round catfish to a minnow so small if f ( K mmrT.f-r fMrl i - . . - t The state fair grot: ad have bo very busy thie -ek and tL re is v ry fhoeid ir.trfr- that the exhibits will t-e generally in ta FrVas Jy. that ! tary tat , pctio a. jsf-rrtary th uck -iirl- are far in -xe-jm of what Le ha-i antlrlpatM atd that much ttork from out:!- of this state has ! ?lf-a1y !-ran to arrive. Every inch j La he-a talc a fend oar folks will Late a chant to compare Use prod irt of ti: ri.t i-art tf the Mate. If at -r If .'! text vek we shall i o&lr -e the gri.tet fair in our Lbf'trr, but. the greatest crowd of ; ! tc it. Or. f the !ndla41es of the tender "ois was before police court for selling '-t m jthwi & iicea. and was fined ?1 frr the o!!-s-. wtlle three girls ere ad $i each fur brlu? inmates rt fcer ho"ue. V.'tes it rmti a&y other t roi 1 1 . a year"." caln In advance, to sell Leer in I-isrola. we are at a Iosji to cr.'i rrtand mhy this class of jiKj!e are permitted to escape by the !atiret.l of an oecasio&al nominal fine. Erery time that sach a fie is made. C4ili OI J r:iT announce in j The heirs of Carl E. Carlson, the lb sneer torses that 'the chief has put j tailor who committed suicide last his fuot down acd this thin has rot .; Juc hare Bued Charles Schwartz, to step." ard the omen go home and j yrtA iugenslck and Peter Grass, sa crdr a r.ew stock of beer. j ioonkeepers for $15,000 damages, al- odds and ends f street paring at pres ent seem to te as good as any brick ever ued in the city. It is claicuf-d by experts irjtt it is isot ocry tec wary to hare good material. bt that the heal murt be mai&tained without var iation ia order to secure the be?t re- ' salts. Coffey v1il is in the Kmui ratnral gas belt and gas Is the fuel tised to ham the brick, which ought to famish the requisite conditions. Till was the brick ia the original eon- j tret for pavtnt O street last year, but au Interested kick caused a change to ss Ioa product. Th city Improvement socier ! ft 111 mos-keyisg with the street ru. iw and the city co--!icii which seem to have time to do anything asked -xs pro vide for cheaper telephon-. cLaper ligtt. etc.. Is evidently In a mooi to dUpe&se with the simplicity tf the or tne alphabet as a t of stre a the centre of town and pass acy i ordi- uar asxci. Tte city lmp-ovment society Is ail right, and has i se tae gooa work, but there are tbr-e things they should leave alone, te ftreet names, the federal constitution and the leciaratJoa ol Ic4epea3e:.--. "As a compromise. Matt !irrrk-o taken jrO from the city a pay his damages when his hvt! was tarred Into a pest hotise ai.d finally i hct up entirely. Mr. Ilrac kea had the t srnitsr Is a camber of rooms burned and his actual loss was more than 100. ict while the city Is no doubt lia ble for the actual lorn to him. it meant a long rnd expensive lawsuit to tol led It. and the city officials seem to hare taken all thinxs into ronsidera tion la forcing him to take the least set possible. At present there' Is no smallpox in tie city, and the facials hope tui it is permanently stamped st. The library board is getting through with the preliminary suits to secure pofse-aelon of the site for the Carne gie gift. It refused two or three free locations which were as good as the one ptirrhased. and bought a lawsuit along with some high-priced lots. The wind has blown down the old black ash trees which were the ornamental feat a re of th site: Sir. Zeimer refuses to more and proposes to get an order from the supreme court before he does, aad the sxpreme court Is four years be hind with its tmsinesa. The library hoard Is a peach. Among ail the otter attractions hilled for the fair next week will be a competitive drill. Thursday afternoon, among the fraternities. Lincoln has several crack drill teams, and while there ar going to be several outside teams of great renown some of our folk ought to get a place for a piece of the hundred dollars offered. There will be three prizes. $3C. $30 and $20. The D. of II. team of ladies who re cently downed the men at Louisville will be in evidence, and some of the will have to get a cake walk move on them to secure first money. ! Th new extension In the mail ser- . - - - 1 tit 1, ii:ei iuauuu t iuj, p.! an a win uc ucv- rtsary for his observation. Superintendent Griggs gave the Cen- j tml Christian Sunday school an out- ! Cit 11 s1 4 Ua rvrlr a Ky-kiit & W- to ar Creek sL8tion where boating, fishing and bathing filled the time between meals. : From the looks of the rinds there ' mtist have been half a carload of melons uith the party. Harry Harley was firmed $5 and costs last Tuesday for having a dead prairie chicken in his possession. The game association of this city has been very active this year and if the members do not sit in the shade next year and brag over the work of 1900 they ma; succeed in having the game law re spected. Louis Poska seems a favorite victim for burglars. They went through his house again last Tuesday night and carried off a collection of watches. Jew elry and small change. The last bur glar who disturbed Poska is In the pen. and Mr. Poska offers $50 for the capture of this one. j lering that they were responsible for Carlson s death, because they sold him liquor. IJncoln is getting to be a great pub ! lishing centre, and the work of the pot toffice shows it, In addition to the j new German paper referred to else ! where a new monthly magazine of j short stories called "After Dinner" and ; which will undoubtedly succeed, will appear early In September. There is a dive or two on the reser vation which could be suppressed If a strong pull waa made by the police. Almost every week some stranger is robbed la one of them, but generally he refuses to prosecute, or even give his name. One of the Lincoln druggists has decorated the sides of the entrance to . nls store witn the oiQclal popular vote i for McKinley and Bryan in 1895. given i by states. It is a new deal In Lincoln , advertls ing and the long columns of j figures seem to have quite an attrac- lion for all sorts of people, The eixth annual meeting of the Ne braska ohilantellc society is due to meet in this city September 8. The has j meeting was called at the Capital ho for i tel. but the place will probably have j to be changed owing to the disman tling or that historic ruin. W. H. Hackett of Chicago secured the contract for repaying the govern ment building. His bid was 12.400 aside from the court room, which; was bid on separatlvely. his bid for- that work being $275. and the lowest made. Mr. C. E. Mayne of Omaha will be come secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in this city and attempt to revive that institution. He has been assistant at Omaha for several years and is re ported as very popular there. The Hickman Enterprise is going to let its subscribers have ten lines each to tell why they are going to vote for Bryan, or McKinley, or any other man. tor president, we await the first in stall ment with fevered Interest, Lincoln has a new German weekly paper, wnich starts off with a cir culatlon way up in the pictures and advocates imperialism and everything eise republican. Fred Winch, who lives between here and Hickman, seems to have a corn prospect this year at least he recent ly tougnt twelve hundred pounds of nails with which to build new corn cribs. Miller & Paine have opened areas on Thirteenth street and let the lignt into the basement of their building, which is ;ach day becoming more and more crowded by the increase of busi ness. The city attorney finally decided that there was no law or ordinance against hanging flags across the street which bore pictures of "candidates, and so the mayor signed the resolution to have all banners taken down though there are none up. Then the city council decided that It wa-nted the stars and stripes to float all the way from Lincoln to Pekin and passed a resolution to that effect. Taken altogether the flag episode has been about as foolishly funny a farce as the city dads have regaled the pub lic with far some time. If Hoyt could have studied our council a month, the "Texas Steer" would have been sur passed easily. MR. BRYAN. Mr. Brjan will leave Lincoln tomor row for an extended speaking visit to the east. He will devote Saturday to two or three point In Illinois and will be In Chicago Monday, where he will speak at the Labor day celebration. From Chicago he will go to St. Louis for a meeting and later In the week return to Milwaukee to the big picnic. On the 13th he will be at Fort Wayne, Ind., and from there his dates aro not fixed, but he will speak In West Vir ginia, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Min nesota, New York, New Jersey and Maryland before the 10th of October. This is the first announcement that he will make a speaking campaign. Jennie C. Bell got a jury to give her a judgment against the city because of personal damages from a defective walk. That was several months ago. Her attorney appeared before the council and offered to compromise the judgment for $200 less than Its face, which offer the council accepted. Be fore the payment was made that emi nent body of business. men took back their order and instructed the city at torney to appeal. The papers were all lost and no appeal could be made. Now the city is struggling for a new trial. What the city needs is a new set of of Jeers. It now seems probable that the date for Governor Roosevelt to speak in i Liincom wm do eiiner ine arternoon of October 3 or 4. Whichever the date his two hours' appearance in Lincoln will call out a big crowd of all par ties, and it is probable that many people will be astonished to find that he is a polished gentleman in appear ance and that his facial features do not exhibit half a hundred teeth the size of clam shells. - : Chicken fanciers are going to give great show at the state fair next week, and the premiums hung up are sufficient to lead them on. Nebraska has the best lot of chickens in the world and expects to hold the ribbons. though competition is open to the world. The Lincoln Degree of Honor drill team won the prize at Louisville in a competition with D. of H. and A. 0. U. W. teams. The fact that they won was because they did the best workJ and not from partiality of the judges. The Nebraska chess association will hold. its second annual tournament in the senate chamber next week, Sep tember 4, 5 and 6. There is prospect of a good attendance and some stiff games. It Is going to take some tall rustling to finish the street around P and Elev enth and Twelfth streets before the fair opens, and that is where the street car crowds are going to congregate. The city secured the stone in the walk around postoffice square at its bid of $25, and the material will be used around the city hall. The new walk will be laid next month. Sam Hall of Bennett had a good horse standing near a wire fence last week when a bolt of lightning chasing along tbe wire jumped off and instant ly killed the brute. Harry H. Park, who was injured while bathing at Grand Rapids, Mich., three weeks ago, died Tuesday. His father and mother were both with him before his death. The republican committee which met yesterday was made to feel good by re ports or gains of from five to twenty seven votes for McKinley in each pre cinct ol Lancaster county. A large crowd of excursionists left over the B. & M. for Seward this morn ing. This is Lincoln day at the fair and Lincoln is there in force. The damage to the court house by last week s tornado was settled for $1. 500. which will not cover the bill for repairs. 'iMr. Bryan has been at home this week, but will leave for Chicago Fri day night. He will be in that city over Labor day. The members of St. Theresa congre gation will give their second, annual Labor day picnic at Lincoln park next Monday. The Workman lodge at Havelock is going to put up a building to accom modate all the lodges in that village, The latest paving district is Thir teenth street, between O and N, which will be laid with asphalt. Somebody stole a team from J. E. Hutchlas .t Havelock last Tuesday mgnu - AGAINST THE SWEAT-SHOP EVIL. Club women who go shopping for white muslin underwear nowadays are pretty apt to ask if it has a "consum ers label," says Bertha . Damarls Knobe in Woman's Home,Companion. This is a stamp which shows the ap proval of the national consumers league and bears the two printed in scriptions, "Made under clear and wholesome conditions," and "License to use this label is granted after in vestigation." Indeed, many club wo men have taken a pledge to purchase no other muslin. Their attention has been first directed to muslin because both the producers and consumers of it are largely women. They aim to down the sweat-shop and support the factory which, among other things, is both .sanitary and fire-proof, employs no child-labor, and has a reasonable limit on hours of labor. This move ment started in Massachusetts several years ago, and in that state today two thousand women are organized for bet ter Industrial conditions of women and children. It has spread to New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. These four states make up the national con sumers' league. The women's clubs have become actively interested be cause "industrial ..problems affecting women and children" are now recelv- ing attention, and by individual pledge and united effort to secure better laws the fair . ones or leisure are doing a vast amount of good for their sisters of toil. There is a large acreage of broom corn in the immediate vicinity of Lin coln and this year the crop has been- excellent in quality as well as of more than average yield, but the late rains have Interfered much with, the har vest and "every day sees the color changing and the quality deteriorat ing, ii good weauier prevails for a week there will be 'ots of No. 1 brush harvested, otherwise ' most of it will go as No. 2 and No; 3. The labor organizations of Lincoln decided not to hold a celebration this year, but to take as many members and friends as . want a day's outing and go to Omaha where an inter-state abor day picnic will be held on the 3d of September. The excursion will be over the Rock Island, leaving Lin coln at 7 a. m. and returning by the B. & M., leaving Omaha at 9:30 p. m. There , will, be quite a large number go on the excursion, - .. , ' The Nebraska Christian missionary society is having -a "largely attended and profitable session at Bethany this week. There would hre been a larger local attendance if ' it had been gen erally known that the- Missouri Pa cific stopped its trains at the grounds and that hacks met the street cars at University Place, but the attendance has been very good all the same. The Bryan club met last night and completed a permanent organization by electing J. F. Bishop president; J. "I. Ayress. vice president: Mrs. Belle Bigelow, secretary, and H. F. Rockey, treasurer. The first meeting will be held In the hall on South Ninth street adjoining the Lincoln hotel, on Fri day evening, September 7, when some of the best speakers in the state will be present, and an interestrng program will be presented. President Bassett of the state board of agriculture took the wrong team to drive to the fair grounds yesterday and had the whole police force and an irate norse owner looRing ror a horse thief. It cost him three livery bills to get out of the mess, and hereafter he will have a tag put on any rig left at the LIndell for his use. A young ladies McKinley and Roosevelt club was organized Monday with Miss ''Ella' Robertson captain, Miss Eva Irwin, first lieutenant; Miss Florence Lylee, second lieutenant; Miss Florence Brockway, sergeant. They will drill and participate in the campaign as a marching club. A committee of prominent Missouri democrats came in yesterday to see Mr. Bryan and extract a promise to speak at St. Joseph during the cam paign. It was a round dozen of solid business men and they got their prom ise, but no definite date. Having the streets torn up for- re- paving or something else has always been an incident of a state fair at Lincoln. This year is no exception to the rule and the city will seem natural to those who have not been here for several years. A cIud of Roosevelt rough riders has been organized and the boys hope to secure a hundred members, mounted who will make Rome howl. They will also attempt to secure regular army uniforms to add to their effective ap pearance. George Tate, a traction motorman. was taken sick last Monday and went to the home of his parents six miles south of Lincoln. He grew steadily worse and died Wednesday. He was twenty-two years old. Every little bit somebody tries to mail a letter in a fire alarm box. The last case was yesteraay and a young lady was badly frightened when the fire department came so promptly af ter her letter. This has been a busy week for Sec retary Furnas of the state fair. He opened an office at the Lindell Mon day and the local exhibitors have kept him on the rustle. The campaign committee of the women s bimetallic league meets to morrow (Friday) evening at 1145 L street. , Village News HICKMAN. Miss Birdie Larsh returned Satur day from Pleasant Dale where she has been visiting friends for a week. , On" Monday morning at 5:30 a heavy wind, storm swept this section of the country about a mile . wide. C M. Jaques' cob house stands two - feet from the west side of the elevator, was blown down. Several barns were moved off of the foundation and chim- nies blown off houses. Mr. and Mrs. James Kunler of Platteville, Wis., arrived Monday night and will visit Theodore Liesvield about two weeks. J. M. Hemingway, who has been sick for a week, Is able to be around again. Hickman school will begin Monday, September 3. The Bryan club will meet Thursday eve to transact business ana aiscuss issues of the day. W. P. Dawes, who worked for Cyrus Black last winter, came in Thursday from Auburn on a visit. BETHANY. Mrs. M. W. Mills and Miss Little Tipps were in town Friday. Miss Tipps, recently from Fremont normal, re mained with her friend, Mrs. O. A. Reddick, for a few days after which she will go to Ulysses, Neb., where she will teach in the Ulysses high school the ensuing year. Mr. L. L. Turner is painting his resi dence In the north part of town. He will move here from Elmwood, Neb., before college opens. William Sumpter has recently beau tifully painted his residence. Rev. Sumpter is chosen pastor of this congregation for the next year He is a. man who is ably fitted for the place he will hold. Being a resl dent of Bethany for some years he best knows the needs of the people here. Harvey Johnson, one of our young ministers, is in Kansas at the present holding a protracted meeting. He will be home at the opening of school. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Mills and fam ily visited in Bethany Sunday with Mrs. Mills' sister, Mrs. O. A. Reddick. W. W. Bertram has moved into his new home in tne nortneast part oi town. Mr. Trowbridge Is on the sick list. A. E. Evans returned home last week from South Dakota, where he has been canvassing this summer. Miss Martha Evans, who has been spending the summer with her par ents here, has returned "to Sheridan, Wyo., where she will resume her work as teacher in the school this year. Levi Morton is at home with his family this week. Prof. H. H. Jones Is at home again after a short absence. J. C. Nelson Is building an addition to his residence. We are pleased to note this kind - of work . in Bethany again. W. J. Hanna is spending this week with his family here. Ross Henderson and Arthur Turner have gone to Elmwood to work in the broom corn fields. PANAMA. Wheat, 54; corn, 29c; oats, 10 17c; hogs, $4.50; eggs, 10c; butter, 12c; chickens, 7Hc. The farmers are busy plowing for fall wheat. A large acreage will prob ably be sown. Mr. T. Hedge, grain dealer, had his power house rebuild, which was blown down by the storm or tne l&tn. i ne addition to the school house in Pan ama is nearing completion and will be ready for the fall term of school. The storm of Monday morning blew down one of Mr. M. McCarthy's grain stacks. The extreme wet weather is hinder ing threshing. Mr. Forrest is putting up a new wind mill. Mr. Hamilton Is building a new resi dence in town. Mr. Worthing Is moving to Burr. There will be a quarterly meeting at the United Brethren church Sunday, September 2. Elder Buswell from Bea trice will officiate. NORMAL. Mr. Joseph Redfern of Exeter, Neb., visited his sister, Mrs. Gertain, during the past -week. Miss Maggie Lewis has gone to Den ver. Mr. J. V. Wolfe, commissioner of public lands and buildings, in com pany with Secretary of State Porter, has gone to Wyoming on a hunting expedition. Mr. D. C. Doan, who is doing car penter work for the B. & M. railroad outside of town, was home last week Miss Annie Sidwell returned from Vermont, 111., last Tuesday.- Mr. Lewis Foss will begin building his new house next week. Mr. Sol F. Wolf of Sullivan, Ind., with his wife and child have been vis iting his brother, Mr. J. V. Wolfe, for the past few weeks. They have now gone to Denver for the health of their child. The Methodist quarterly conference will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gertain Friday afternoon. . Crops in this section are good this year, naving escaped an tne hail storms of the season. Mr. George Bak er reports one field of wheat to have yielded 37 bushels per acre and a field of oats 55 bushels. Hog cholera is reported very near our neighborhood. Farmers should use every means to prevent its getting started here. UNIVERSITY PLACE. A severe storm ? visited this place last Thursday nignt. The rain, ac companied by a terrific wind, fell In torrents, but no serious damage re sulted. A liberal attendance greeted the Hon. J. S. Bradley Thursday night. A larger audience than was anticipated, despite the inclemency of the weather, listened to the eloquent address. Mr. Bradley spoke upon the great issue of imperialism. . He told of McKlnley's decision on the "Chinese exclusion act" in its relation to the Philippines and quoted from Lincoln who in 1864 had said a great crisis more destruc tive to American liberty than any war was discernable through the mists of futurity. This, said Lincoln, was the tendency to subject Tabor to capital. That crisis, said the speaker, was now upon us and unless Its advance be checked we would soon be its helpless victims. The Porto Rican tariff bill was merely a test case; it undoubted ly would be declared unconstitutional. Then if we annexed the Philippine isl ands gigantic combines planting them selves in these possessions could, by utilizing the 7-cents a day labor and throwing their cheap goods upon the American market, compel home Indus tries to compete with their labor or suspend business. The decision on the Porto Rican bill would render them safe from any tariff laws. Mr. Brad ley spoke with an intense interest and was heartily applauded. A Bryan club was afterwards organized with the fol lowing officers: President, Mr. Rude Daily: vice president, Mr M. Caldwell; secretary and treasurer, Mr. G. S. Al len. Meetings will be held every Fri day night in Beecher's hall. Some long needed alterations are be ing made in the postof.flce. A private room is now alloted to registered let ters and money order business. Miss Macy will soon supercede Mr. Charles Brown as postal clerk at this place. Mr. A. F. Wallace and family from Kansas are new. residents. Mr. Frank Swartz of Chicago Is vis iting friends here. He will return the 1st of September. Mr. W. C Atkins, who lately pur chased .the residence of Professor Cline, has erected a frame barn be sides somewhat remodelling the resl dence. Professor Stuff, who has during the summer had charge of the English de partment at Boulder, Colo., returned Friday. He reports a: most enjoyable time among the glaciers and snow peaks of the Rockies.. He accepted a pressing invitation to lecture four hours daily in a rich'. Catholic con vent, his work.belng xnost highly com mended. , v - ' -" , , Owing to the failure of congress to make the necessary appropriation, Doctor Fordyce will not aid In the pro posed examination of 'Lake? Erie fish. He has gained wide popularity through his course of lectures atthe assembly. Chancellor Huntington; is outing at Ocean Grove, New JersSy&,i,f Janitor Brown is visiting relatives at Agency, la. He will return August 30th. Professor Kirk's residence has re cently been papered. Rev. ephthae Marsh and wife cele brated their golden wedding anniver sary at the home of their son, Rev B. W. Marsh of this place, Sunday. It was accompanied by a family reunion in which six sons, all ministers, par ticipated. They are: M. D. - Marsh, Gibbon, Neb.; Rev. B. W. Marsh, J. E. Marsh, DeSoto, 111.; Rev. R. L. Marsh. Burlington. Ia.; Rev. W. J. Marsh, Albuquerque, N. M and Rev L. J. Marsh of Lincoln. In the even ing the family attended services at the Grace M. E. church of Lincoln, of which the elder Mr. and Mrs. Marsh are members. . T. J. Fritz has closed his fruit stand Ice cream and cake were served Monday evening by the Degree of Honor In Beecher's hall. A liberal pa tronage is reported. Local Broom Corn It is a little bit peculiar that the State Journal of this city right in the midst of a big broom corn, district should lend Its editorial sanction to the statement of the trust representa tives, but it does and it denies that there has been any considerable dam age to broom corn in central Illinois, where the finest brush in the world is grown. It says that the trust is caught with 15,000 tons of old brush, and is trying to keep up prices in order to unload it. Such a statement is non sense, and the Journal knows it. Last year it aided the trust by similar ar ticles and not only fooled the farmers but fooled local broom makers who were not in the trust, hurting the bus iness of Lincoln thousands of dollars. One of the leading members , of the trust Is a Lincoln firm which has with in the past year closed down its fac tory in this town and moved its en tire nlant to the penitentiary, and which Is doing its best with prison- made goods to drive out local manu facturers who give the nearby farmers a competitive market and give free labor in Lincoln a chance for employ ment. Last year this firm bought all the brush It could at low prices, aided by the Journal, and then forced the price skyward on all the brush it did not want. If the broom corn growers follow the lead of the Journal this year they ought to be swindled again. Fire Sale of Shoes V Our entire stock of shoes was dam aged by fire, smoke and water Satur day, August 18, and now we are clos ing out the entire stock, 120,000 worth of shoes at great bargains. It will pay you to come and get your shoes for fall and winter wear. Everything at one- half regular price. Fire -Shoe Sale of the Western Shoe Co., 1126 O St., Lincoln, Neb. Uncle John Walker of Humphrey, Neb., returning from Kansas City was the guest of Mr. Jewell In Lincoln this week. He brought with him a large club of subscriptions for The Inde pendent. The Capital Hotel Roy For a long time the Capital hotel has been owned by the estate, of W. M. Brown of Syracuse, N. tY).,;andJ the furniture by Emily Dilworth of Oma ha, and 6: C. Bell has Heen managing the hotel, Mrs. Dilworth has not been pleased with the Income from her fur niture for some time, and when the house was recently leased to John Harrop she tried to sell to him. He was not wanting to buy, and on Tues day the inmates of the house were surprised by a force of men and drays who proceeded to move out "every Item of furniture without asking the con sent of any guest of the house. Even the furniture of the republican coun ty committee rooms was taken with the rests. Guests who were out during the day returned to find Ihelr personal baggage the only furniture in the rooms. The hotel is closed and bo rar Mr. Harrop has not made any definite arrangements about opening the house and it is said that the lease was con ditional upon the furniture not being removed. The ' representatives of the owners of the building say that the property will pay better shut up than it has while the hotel was running as it took all the store and concession rentals to make up the losses in the hotel. U. P. Troubles From the statements of some of the railroad men in this city it seems that there is a good chance for a bit of trouble on the Union Pacific railway In the near future. President Burt ! seems to have done some things which ' the employes of the company . resent, j and they resent it to such an extent ! that their grievance committee has been kept very busy for the last sixty I days. When the recent change was, announced ' to the merit' and demerit i' mark system, it was given out by the company that the men at present em-' ployed would have promotion just as rapidly as they showed fitness for higher duty. One employe voiced a1 big sentiment among the men when he said: " " , It doesn't look to me like the state ment- is being . lived ; up to, and I do not believe it was ever made In good faith. . The company wants a man for an important position in the passenger department. It has many men in its service who are fit and capable men, and, who would do the company bet ter service than a stranger from the east who " is unacquainted with the needs of the system. But that makes no difference. They want a man, and Mr. Burt is tied up with railroad mag nates who really dictate what he shall do, and he manages the road to suit mem, although of course, it may suit him. . If . present conditions obtain, much longer on the 'overland' the offi cials will wake up some night and find the system tied up "from one end to the other in one of the biggest strikes that has occurred in several years. The men are restless, and ' the grievance committees are meeting and conferring; with the officers of the road about half the time now." Railroad ' men who are acquainted with Mr. Burt and his methods say that he is the hardest manager in the country to get along with. . He. is not only an autocrat upon his own line. but he Is overbearing and dictatorial to the managers of other roads with whom he comes in business contact- so much so that he has very few friends in the west. He has recenthr attempted to dictate to the Alton and run against a snag as that road h at! found another way to Denver and tho west than over the Kansas Pacific. The blow which Mart Howe received at the reunion left him In a semi-dazed condition "and ' it has not yet been possible to give Gant a preliminary trial for assaulting him. His examin ation has been set twice without re sult, and the third time will come on the 30th, when it is hoped that Mr. Howe will be able to take the witness stand. Gant Is going to make a vig orous defense. .., - v. ... , During the week several stationary engineers have been fined $5 each for running engines without a license. Local Shriners are going to Topek next Tuesday to help install a big new lodge of sand-waders. " Lancaster county people can nowhero get so much reading for the money as in The Independent witn the Lancaster County Supplement. , From now until November 10 for 15 cents. -GOOD THINGS TO EAT IN -at- MERCHANTS' DINING HALL 3 timet atfar. CORNER 11th and P LINCOLN. , IOC I I C V E Mrs. T. A. CarotHers, ! Phone 478 Lincoln, Hayden Photographer 1029 0 ST. 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