The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, April 11, 1901, Image 1
fit mm VOL. XI L LINCOLN, NEBKSKA, APRIL 11, 1901. NO. 46; GO If DEMOCRATS TUHKED FOPS They Wm Kuoafcfrfti Meal I pal Oi bi-rre4Ie the Phillip ! r rergery Ie- Washington. D. C April. IS. 1&0L Tt tprizs election showed that the democrats all ever the country arc in rood fighting trim and working for U. improvf-Rcnt cf local condition in the tia when national issues are of ec cdary importance. The remit of the municipal elections was a t erprtee to the republicans. They hate teen coins along on a comfort able thory that the democratic party hai gone oat cf bujines since Bryan's the democratic party is always capable of putting the principle abOTe the Individual. There are always prin ciples to be fought for, no natter what the fate of the individual standard ly are r. it is s of the most encouraging Ixs of th time that the democratic victories is municipal elections were in nearly every case oa platforms which called for municipal control of public utilities such as waterworks, heat and lighting plants and railways. We are rapidly coming to the point where the people will demand that the municipality apply water, light and local transportation for the public at the lowest possible cost instead of giv ing away veluabi franchises to pri vate individuals for such purposes. Ia hundreds cf cities and towns the democrat are carrying on this agita tion for municipal control and right there U the germ cf a national victory four years hence. The citizen who finds that the democratic party is his local champion against the franchise grab bers is going to trust that party with the management of national affairs. The election of Tom L. Johnson as mayor of Cleveland and the re-eiection of Carter Harrison as mayor of Chica go are two good illustrations of the popular feeling about municipal con trol of public utilities. Johnson has teen for years a single taaer and aa advocate of municipal ownership of street railways. Some rmarkt. reforms may be expected usder i 1 management of the city of Cleveland. j Mayor llir?mn has always hea la faror'of short time franchises to street j railways and timilar corporations in order that the people may often have : aa opportunity to say whether they de sire psMic or private control of such functions. The campaign against Har rison wsls practically oa this issue. The result gives new life to the ru mor that beta John33 and Harrison are candt&at for the democratic nom ination for the presidency in 1304. It is a little early to con ider that matter seriously, but both men are in a posi tion to make good records and let the lt man win. Major Jones scored again in Toledo. By the way. what a big vote the demo crat can pile up in Hanna's state. The fact is that the margin is so narrow between the two parties that the demo crat misht wia Ohio at any presi dential election only the republicans have the money and the corrupt ma chine with which to count themselves la fcy fake majorities. Anyway the democratic outlook is very encouraging. The real party workers are ieavicg old dIfTerenc-s to heal thenuteites and paying attention to sound local issues and consequently building up the local organization which spoils victory ia the -neat presi dential election. The Associated pre managed to get an uscn0nNi dispatch through from the Philippines the other day. showing that certain Chevaliers l'lndustrie, othr:e quart ermasters and army oarers. hd been pilfering from army stores to the tune of about $lt0.000 a month. Of course the war department hastens to say that the nress dis patches were incorrect and that the shortage -souid easily be accounted for; but the fact Is that such Incidents are sly illustrations of the general rot tenness that already prevails in the management of iauiar affairs. Not only are the natives to be fieeced. but the stores and vessels and equipment from this country, paid for by our own people, are shamelessly looted- The administration depends upon a fctrict reorhjp and the dUtance of the Philippines to keep the people in ignorance for the next fonr years at any rate. At the end of that time the country will be ready to turn It out of pomer anyway and then the democrats will be left to deal with the result of republican extravagance and dishonest adminlrt ration. Fccstoa has been made brigadier general and the administration or gans are printing columns of fulsome laudation of his exploit. la reality the capture of Aguinaldo merely aa incident and does not af frt the principle which underly the tepatiiran policy of imperialism to ward the Philippines. while the republicans are talk ing about the exploit it might be well to look at it from the side of decency and hoao. There is uch a thing as a code of honor erta In warfare. Mr. Grammoud Kennedy, an author ity oa military and international law. calls attention ia one of the Washing ton papers, to the fact that Funiton uved both perfidy and forgery la order to entrap Aguinaldo and that his methods are receiving very severe con demnation from authorities on such matter ia other countries. Krmston ueed the forgery and trans mission of two letters purporting to be writtea t j General Lacuna to Aguin aldo. Then he disguised the soldiers who effected the capture. Mr. Kennedy quotes half dozen In ternational authorities on methods of war showing that such devices are con sidered so disgraceful that they can be excused In no degree by the success attending them. But Funston is made a national hero just the same. UNCONQUERABLE BOERS There Was bat Haadf ul Is the Beginning, bat the Mere That ere Killexland Taken to Prison the More There re to Fight. Judging by the reports of British correspondents, the Boers are no more. At the beginning of the war they were a "mere handful." They "sufferc. severely" before Ladysmith. Buller slew them in hecatombs. Methuen's march "cost the Boers heavily." They lost "half their army" with Cronje. At Mafeklng their thinning ranks were rent by Baden-Powell's well-directed shot. Their trail from Pretoria was marked with blood. Often in guerilla operations they have met British forces, never without many of them biting the dust. The other day in at tacking LIchtenburg they "were badly repulsed, "upward of seventy burgh ers" being shot at one spot. 1 At Vaal bank Delarey has just been defeated and "many Boers were killed or wounded." Yet the remaining warriors who, if there's anything in arithmetic, should be by this time a minus quantity are raiding more territory all the time. LIchtenburg Is in the other direction from the Zoutpansberg region into which Roberts "drove the demoralized Boers." Queenstown. 100 miles south of Aliwal. as near Capetown as it is to Pretoria, is tinder arms against an expected raid. Thus Great Britain, after expending hundreds of millions in money and wasting thousands of Hve3, has been humbled into offering terms and an in demnity and further humbled by hav ing those terms rejected in warfar with a foe that can be mathematically demonstrated not to exist at all! Truly a wonderful race whose very memory can work such havoc! In toe beginning the Boer census showed that there were only 250,000 of them, all told, counting women and (hlldren. A London newspaper man has recently collated the official lists of killed and wounded and taken pris oner by the British forces, excluding all rumors and taking only the reports of the commanding generals. He finds that these British generals officially report that they have already rendered hors du combat considerable more than five hundred thousand able-bodied Boers. This writer has the Im pudence to insinuate that censored dis patches from South Africa are unrelia ble. A TRAMP MANUFACTORY J. Plerpont Morgan' t Scheme Well I'ndar wVjr It Is More Far Reach ing Then the Steel Trust Some of the eastern papers are giv ing details of Morgan's next great en terprise. It may be called a tramp manufactory of huge proportions. It will certainly turn out more tramps than anything ever before invented in that line. It is to be a coal trust. Ac cording to the Philadelphia North Am erican Mr. Morgan's plan contemplates the following general propositions: First The elimination of all small coal dealers in every city of the state and eventually throughout the coun try. In Philadelphia alone 576 small coal dealers will be forced out of busi ness. Second The establishment of one central coal station in each city from which all coal will be supplied. Third The elimination of 10 per cent of the number of employes in the anthracite coal mines and of the rail roads carrying coal from them. Fourth The elimination of railroad competition. The anthracite territory will be so apportioned that one road will serve a given district. Fifth The elimination cf many col lieries. Only the best paying ones will be kept In operation. Sixth The reduction of clerical for ces In mining and transportation of fices. Seventh The total elimination of tales agents. When all the retail coal dealers, 10 per cent of the employes of the coal railroads and anthracite mines, thou sands of clerks and all the sale agents are thrown out of employment and go to counting ties, won't we have an era of prosperity? When one hundred thousand more men are thrown out of work and tens of thousands of happy families are broken up, won't the world be made happier and better? Ghengis Khan wrought no more ruin nor caused no more suffering than this man Morgan. The power of wealth is greater than the power of an army. But Morgan is a republican. He and the president have been holding long and secret conferences lately. No doubt he got the presidential sanction for the establishment of his tramp manufactory. The steel trust Is to be worked upon the same plan. Tramps will soon be gin to pour out of the great buildings where busy men have provided for wives and children. Carnegie libraries will come In handy If the tramps are allowed the use of them. There they can indulge in the delights of litera ture between their rounds for back door hand-outs. But the women and little children, what will become of themt The Doings Partner J. H. M. Dropped into the lap of a republi can legislature redeeming Nebraska. Result Long term in the United States Senate as a reward for nego tiating the sale of state warrant for 1180,101.75, drawn April 10, 1895. How They Did It, In 1894 the Capital National bank of Lincoln (Mosher's bank) failed and tnc state school fund lost $180,101.75 in that failure. The legislature of ib95 in accordance with the constitution ap propriated the same amount from the general funds of the state to be trans ferred to the school fund. The appro priation was approved on the 10th of April, 1895, and the state treasurer, J.. S. Bartley, secured the same day a warrant for this amount from auditor of public accounts, Eugene Moore. The warrant reads as follows: $180,101.75. No. 95241. State of Nebraska. Officer of Auditor of Public Accounts. Lincoln, Neb., April 10, 1895. Treasurer of Nebraska: Pay to J. S. Bartley or order one hundred and eighty thtusand one hun dred and one 75-100 '.onars for to reim burse the state sinking fund in ac cordance with legislative appropriation approved April 10, 1&95, and charge general fund. EUGENE MOORE, Auditor Public .j.ccounts. P. O. HEDLUND, Deputy. Countersigned: J. S. BARTLEY, bcate Treasurer. On left hand margin: "Treasury Warrant." On the back of th.s document is written: "Presented and not paid for want of funds and registereu for pay ment. April 10, 1895. No. 27932. J. S. THE PORTO RIGANS Taxed to Death by McKlnley's Carpet Baggers They are Fleeing From the Country by the Thousand A correspondent at San Juan, Porto Rico, in a special to the Cincinnati Enquirer, says: I was here before the war with Spain and most of the time since and must admit that, while sanitary and otner reforms have been worked out and other beneficent reforms project ed, unavoidable disasters and inexpe rienced administration have caused the material condition of the people to be worse now than under Spanish rule. In a number of districts the people are actually starving. There is no work; the planters have no money to undertake cultivation. The banks will not lend them a small amount. "Stories are told of the immense op portunities for capitalists, but some way they do not seem to come here. The municipalities have no funds and have failed in attempts to borrow the necessary money to conduct affairs or undertake improvements. The markets are paralyzed. The warehouses are full of tobacco and there is no sale for coffee. The people are denied citizen ship and are left like prisoners on the island to starve. These things appeal to the people more than implanting schools and other reforms. Utterly heart-sick the people gather at the wharves, gaze out on tin water and beg of shipowners to take them any where. - "Thousands are going to Hawaii, Cuba, San Domingo, Ecuador, and other islands. Agents are picking up skilled young men and women. The local press urges the government to take action at once to stop the exo dus. The emigration to Ecuador has been practically stopped because of the Ill-treatment' received by those who have sought refuge there. . Shipload of Destiny Redeeming Bartley, state treasurer, Lincoln, Neb." The warrant is further Indorsed as follows: "J. S. BARTLEY. J, H. . ILLARD, Pt." The legislative appropriation men tioned in the abovo warrant is con tained in session lavs of 1895, page 386, chapter 88, and provided: "'For state sinking fund,, one hundred eighty thou sand and one hundred and one and 75-100 ($180,101.75) dollars, to reim burse said fund for same amount tied up in Capital National bank." The wording of s appropriation makes it clear that it was Bartley's duty only to transfer this account from one fund to the other. The whole transaction ought to fc .ve appeared in the books of the state treasurer onlr. Instead Bartley took the warrant and sold it to the cnemica. National bank of New York. The supreme court in its decision in the case, of the State vs. Omaha Na tional Bank says: "For some time Millard had possession of the warrant and indorsed it as president of the bank." It is not clear when Millard took possession of the warrant, but is presumed that the Chemical National bank would not have bought it with out the indorsement of its Nebraska correspondent. In October or November, 1896, the Chemical National bank sent this war rant to the Omaha National bank, J. H. Millard, president, for collection. On January 2, 1897, Bartley, as state treasurer, in payment of said warrant drew a check upon the funds of the state on deposit in the Omaha National bank. The check was made payable after shipload the people are leaving for other places. "As a result of the trip of the Porto Rico commission at Washington, own ers have been allowed to place their own valuation on property, and the bill has been otherwise modified and less opposition is now made. The peo ple object to continuing the payment of 15 per cent of the Dingley tariff." The Associated press does not send out t-ny news like that. If any paper gets anything like the truth it must come by mail or in a special dispatch. The following Is the way the Asso ciated press talks: "Governor Allen said the taxation under the Hollander law was lower than in any of the states of this coun try. " 'The administration of the island,' continues the governor, 'has in all re spects desired the co-operation of those who aspire to insular office that they shoula be loyal to the American gov ernment and that fitness for office with such loyalty should be the fundamen tal indorsement rather , than of some political leader. Some disturbances have occurred in the United States. Hooting and howling crowds on the streets, a few stones thrown, some rat tling sticks along the palings, have been sufficient to occasion sensational cables to the north, which, though promptly denied, have been circulated to the discredit of the island. " I understand that several thou sand people have been employed by agents to leave Porto Rico for Hawaii, some few for Cuba and a few more be ing engaged to work In Ecuador. But compared with a million people the percentage of emigration is so small as not to be worth consideration. If these people can benefit their positions by emigrating they should be permitted to emigrate, care being taken to see that they are not led away by misrep resentation or against their will." ' That declaration of Governor Allen, who is on a visit to the United States, that taxation is lower in Porto Rico Nebraska. Partner J. S. B. Fell into the hands of a fusion attorney general. Result Twenty years in the peniten tiary for embezzling state funds through the sale of state warrant for $180,101.75, drawn April 10, 1095. "To the order of J. H. Millard, Pt." and called for the amount of $201, 884.05. The check was delivered to the payee who surrendered the warrant to Bartley. The state's 'money to the amount named was turned over to the Chemical National bank of New York and the Exchange bank of Atkinson. The Chemical National bank asked only the collection of $180,101.75 and 6 per cent interest from April 10, 1895. Bartley's check covered the amount of the warrant and interest at 7 per cent. The Omaha National bank, J. H. Mil lard, president, handed over to the New York bank the 6 per cent and something over $3,000, being interest at the rate of 1 per cent, to the At kinson bank. Attorney General Smyth brought suit against the Omaha National bank to recover the money which the bank had transferred illegally from the state funds to Bartley's personal account and Judge Baker, a republican judge, ordered the jury to bring in a verdict for the heavenly twin. The case is still pending in the courts. At the criminal trial against Bartley which ended in Bartley's conviction and sentence to twenty years' impris onment, Millard as witness testified that he had indorsed the warrant with out reading the same. A little matter like a warrant for $180,000 is of course too small a thing for an Omaha bank president to pay any attention to. The end of this tale is that Bartley was sent to the penitentiary for twenty years and Millard was elected by a re publican legislature to the United States senate. than in the United States needs a little explanation. The readers of The In dependent will remember the article that was printed in this paper some time ago, giving the list of officers and their enormous salaries that the re publican congress had provided for Porto Rico. That little island has an area of only 3,600 square miles and a population of less than a million, but the government provided for is more costly than many of the larger states in the union. When Governor Allen says that taxation is less than in any state in the union, he should not be surprised if some man called him a liar, for the thing is utterly false on the very face of it. The Independent pointed out what would be the fate of the Porto Ricans when this "insular government" was promulgated. Nothing but the greatest distress could result from it. The president's "plain duty" as revised and corrected by the trusts, seems to be skinning them both going and coming. Heavy direct taxation and a tariff that destroys their trade in the products of their farms. No wonder that the inhabitants are fleeing from a carpet bag governed country like that. THE ASPHALT WAR The Trust Is Publishing Hostilities by the Aid of the Associated Press Lively Times Ahead Some weeks ago The Independent gave a history of the beginning of hostilities by the Asphalt trust on the republic of Veneuekt. Now McKin ley has recalled out minister and broken off diplomatic relations. That is what it is, although the state de partment gives out that Minister Loomis is only coming home on a va cation. First McKinley tried to bluff the little republic, but the bluff didn't wfh out. A squadron of the United States navy was sent there, practically under the command of of the attorney of the trust, who was taken on board contrary to all the rules and regula tions of the navy. When the bluff failed the state department immediate ly sent some drastic instructions to Minister Loomis in Caracas. These In structions Loomis carried out to the letter. This precipitated the present trouble in Venezuela. Meanwhile, it is said by excellent authority that each of the entire diplo matic corps in Caracas is posting his government daily regarding the state of affairs. Then the Asphalt trust called upon the Associated press to help it manu facture some public opinion in the United States and an article was writ ten up charging the government of Venezuela with all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, from robbery to whole sale murder and torture of innocent victims who refused to give up their money. Scnor Augusto Pulido, charge d'af faires of the Venezuelan legation at Washington, examined the article with considerable attention. He said: "I believe this article to be greatly exag gerated. During the troubled months when the whole country wras in a state of siege, extraordinary measures were necessary to preserve any semblance of order.' If these' things, did occur, it was long ago and much less harrowing than portrayed by your correspon dent." Gonzales Esteves, the consul of Ven ezuela at the post of New York, re fused to discuss the contents of the ar ticle, saying there was no truth in it. Minister Loomis will arrive in Washington some time - during the week. Many of the trust's big men men that contributed to the McKinley corruption fund are already in Wash ington awaiting his arrival. The toc sin of war will soon sound. The As phalt war will be on. Hurrah for As phalt! My country, right or wrong! THE SCOURGE OF THE WORLD The People Die Under Imperialism in In dia and Flee by Thousands From It in Porto Rico The depopulation of India through famine and cholera Is assuming alarming proportions. The latest ad vices from Simla say that the census returns of the central provinces show a decrease of over 1,000,000 since 1891, when, under normal conditions, an In crease of 1,500,000 might have been expected. It is expected that 5,000,000 have died in India since 1896 from causes directly due to the famine. In western India things are even worse. The Coudeypoor state returns show a decrease of 84,000, or 45 per cent of the population. The state ofBhopaul show-s a decrease of 808,000; the district of Banda shows a decrease of 124,000, and so on. . In Bombay the city popula tion has decreased by 50,000. While the whole world was sending money to India to relieve the distress of the starving millions, the govern ment was collecting in taxes enough to produce a surplus of large proportions in the government treasury. The show ing may speak well for" the financial management of affairs, but it is a sad commentary on their humanity. The curse of God rests upon South Africa today where a desperate at tempt to spread imperialism is occupy ing all the energies of the British gov ernment. The bubonic plague is de vastating Cape Colony and from the latest reports it seems that it is be yond all quarantine control. The Orange Free State and the Transvaal republic were inhabited by a prosper ous people and constantly increasing in population until imperialism laid its blighting hand on the country. Population decreases in India, in South Africa, in Porto Rico, in the Philip pines and in China. In fact every where, in all parts of the world where imperialism rules. From the days of the Greek and Roman republics, deso lation and death has marked the prog ress of imperialism. The laws of God and nature are unchangeable and the same results will follow in the 20th century that have marked all the ages of the past. The villain of the ages reigns at Washington and death and depopulation follows his rule the same as it has the rule of all such men in the past. There could be no other re sult. A Dirty Trick It is a low-down, dirty trick for this generation to attempt to load the next generation with 4ebts, Interest and obligations of any sort, and we hope our posterity will have spunk enough to throw the whole contemptible busi ness into the ditch. Pittsburg Kansas. Army Chaplains McKinley has pie for all, ; including his church supporters. The only trou ble is that there is not enough to go around, and preachers scramble for their share like all the rest. More than 500 applications for chaplaincies in the army have been already filed with the president. The army reor ganization bill provided for twenty three additional chaplains. The pay and rank were fixed at that given a captain of Infantry, together with the usual extras and allowances, of about $2,000 a year. While the position of post chaplain was abolished,; each reg iment of cavalry and infantry is to have a spiritual adviser, and the artil lery crops is to have twelve. Nearly every denomination is represented in the list of applicants. Two dozen ne gro clergymen are among the-number. Only twenty-three places and al ready 500 applicants. The preaching business seems to be as much over stocked as any of the professions. MUST GET RID OF IT. "You are awfully, foolishly extrava gant," said the matronly friend. "1 know I am," replied the girl. "Papa never will let me have money as long as I have a cent." Indianapolis Press. . ' REPUBLICAN APPROPRIATIONS They Get Away With, Nearly Two Hun dred Thousand More Money Than Any Legislature That Pre ceded Them A compilation of the appropriation bills passed by the last legislature shows a tdtal appropriation of $2,789, 590.01 for the biennium, or $187,334.43 more than was appropriated by the former legislature. Nearly all of the state institutions were given an in creased amount owning to the claim that the number of inmates demanded greater appropriations, except the state university, in which there has been the greatest increase of any institution in the state since the populists got con trol of it. In that institution, be cause it was under fusion control, Diet rich knocked off $90,500. He played the same sort of a game with the Peru normal school which is under the con trol of a board not of his appointing. Nearly a million is appropriated for salaries of state officers and employes. The redeemers' legislature also cost th.e taxpayers the unprecedented sum of$7S,OOt; whlc2rt2ey put into three separate bills. . f The following is a list of tne appro priatlon bills: w'v.. House roll No.436, salaries of state officers and em- . ployes $ 961,920 0(J House roll No. 477, cur- rent expenses, state gov ernment 1,409,440 3Q House roll No. 321, re funding money advanced to return the First reg. . 36,330 23 House roll No. 79, for the purchase of state fair gr. 35,000 00 House roll No. 317, to pur chase land for institute for feeble minded. 15,000 05 House roll No. 142, for the relief of state treasurers 5,000 0Q House roll No. 437, defic iency claims.. . 149,112 03 House roll No. 478, miscel laneous claims......... 33,623 93 House roll No. 20, library commission 4,000 0Q House roll No. 130, to Frederick Uhlrich 55 33 House roll No. 200, relief of Sherman county 601 II House roll No. 4, building of asylum, Hastings. . . . 50,000 00 House roll No. 216, relief. German Evangelical Lutheran church.Lincoln ' 500 0Q House roll No. 11, inci . dental expenses -of the , " legislature 30,000 0Q House roll .No.-484, Inci dental expenses ; of the legislature ............. 18,000 GQ House roll No. 13. salaries of officers and members of the legislature . .. 35,000 OQ House rolls Nos. 352, 215 and 208, $2,000 each, to pay expenses of three state boundary commis- ' sion , 6,000 00 Grand total. ......$2,789,590 Ot SALARIES. Auditor Weston's office force Tues day finished the work of computing the amounts appropriated by the sal aries bill and the bill appropriating funds for the current expenses of the state government. House roll No. 436 appropriates $916,920 as follows: Governor's office $ 15,480 00 Adjutant general 6,300 00 Commissioner labor...... 6,680 00 Secretary of state ; 16,280 00 State auditor i , 29,760 00 Treasurer , 15,780 00 State superintendent 8,680 00 Attorney general.......... 12,280 00 Land commissioner.......! 26,880 00 Department of banking...: 6,680 00 Board of irrigation.......: 10,480 00 Fish commissioner 6,600 00 Supreme court. 93,400 00 District court , 224,000 00 Home for friendless 6,500 00 Normal school, Peru 47,500 00 Hospital insane, Lincoln. 14,000 00 Asylum, Hastings 10,400 00 Asylum, Norfolk 8,000 00 State university...: 275,000 00 Industrial school, Kearney 18,000 00 Industrial school, Geneva.! 9,400 00 Deaf and dumb, Omaha..., 30,200 00 Feeble- minded, Beatrice., 12,400 00 Blind, Nebraska City , 16,000 00 Industrial home, Milford.: 8,600 00 Soldiers home, Gr. Island. 11,960 00 Soldiers' home, Mllford...: 3,980 00 State veterinarian 4,000 00 Food commissioner....... 4,200 00 System transfer land titles Torren's system 2,500 00 Total $ 961,920 00 CURRENT EXPENSES. House roll No. 477 appropriates $1, 409,440.30 for the current expenses of the state government. The items are as follows: Governor's office $ 9,575 00 Board of public lands & buildings 29,500 00 Board educational lands & funds 5,000 00 Board purchase & supplies 400 00 Board public lands and buildings 2,300 00 Secretary of state ......... 2,750 00 Attorney general.... 2,800 00 State auditor 4,700 00 Auditor, insurance depart ment 2,100 00 State treasurer 1,500 00 Board of irrigation 3,100 00 Commissioner of labor... 2,700 00 State superintendent 10,000 00 Banking board 1,300 00 Supreme court......'....'.. 3,700 00 State library 10,000 00 Hospital insane, Lincoln. 142,675 00 Asylum, Norfolk 93,375 00 Asylum, Hastings . . i . 199,500 00 Industrial school, Geneva. 23,775 00 Soldiers' home, Gr. Island. 85,850 00 ' Soldiers' home, Milford.. 16,900 00 Industrial home, Milford.. 12,550 00 Industrial home, Kearney., : .74,700 00.