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News of the Week
The coal famine In the east is caus
ing much distress. Fuel of all Borts is
so scarce In Washington that the citi
zens have called a public meeting to
bring pressure 10 bear upon congress
to take extraordinary measures to
bring coal into the city. At the house
end of the capitol cordwood was used
n the furnaces at the opening of the
session, and at the senate end there is
not coal enough on hand to last more
than three days. Ten carloads have
been promised the sergeant-at-arms of
the senate by the Reading Railroad
company, which will last 15 days, but
the house must evidently depend upon
cordwood for a while The fuel fa
mine is serious throughout the crvi
tal city. A special committee of lead
ing citizens of the city appointed by
the commissioners have been making
energetic efforts to get coal into the
city for .several days without success
The news from Washington is to
the effect that Oklahoma and the Ind
ian Territory will be admitted to the
union as one state and that New Mex
ico and Arizona will remain "appurte
nances," without any rights except
what congress is pleased to grant them.
The anthracite coal commission is
grinding away at the effort to get evi
dence upon which to make a decision.
The commission shows a good deal of
irritation at the dilatory tactics of the
great corporation attcrneys who are
representing the barons and more thar.
once the intimation has geen given
that if these tactics were not aban
doned the commission would promul
gate a few rules that would summar
ily end them. The barons after mak
ing a tentative agreement to settle
the dispute outside of the commission
backed out and the miners proceeded
with their testimony. The great dail
ies give scant space to this testimony,
which shows up the horrors of the
lives of the wage slaves who toil for
the barons.
The railroad magnates feel more
confident than ever that they can beat
the isthmian canal measure. It is
their "fine Italian hand" that have
prevented any treaty being made with
Colombia, and they think that they
can kenp the whole matter in abey
ance until the appropriations made
to build it will lapse. After that they
look for hard t.'mes rvad reduced gov
ernment revenues when the whole mat
ter will be dropped. Old reader of
The Independent will remember what
it said about that matter two or three
years ago.
The Standard Oil company and the
Union Pacific railroad decided that the
Wyoming oil fields must close up bus
iness and a republican federal official
promptly put that decision into effect
The Wyoming field produces superior
oil superior to that found in any
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other part of the world and the
Standard Oil people did not want it to
come upon the market in competition
with the stuff that they have been
supplying the public with. What
Rockefeller says goes. The govern
ment took prompt action in accord
ance with his wishes.
The anti-imperialist league held a
large meeting the other day in Boston
and Governor Boutwell and other
speakers declared that the only way
to overthrow imperialism was to over
throw the republican party. A large
number of leading men and women
were present.
A newly married man in Missouri
told his bride how bad a man he had
been, but declared that he would be
bad no more. The bride straightway
went home to her mother. That man
knew little about women. He should
have been good to his wife and said
nothing. Then if she ever did find
out how bad he had been she would
not have believed it.
The other day a republican who had
to make a very heavy contribution to
the coal trust, expended his rage in
cursing John Mitchell and the striking
miners. His charge was that the min
ers struck just at the beginning of
winter when they knew that it would
produce untold suffering. "Why,"
said he, "didn't they strike last spring
and get the matter settled before win
ter came on?" When informed that
was exactly what they did and that
the coal barons refused to take a step
toward a settlement until cold weather
approached, he said that the whole
statement was a pop lie. That shows
how much the average mullet head
knows, even though he owns a farm
and has a hard coal stove.
The first legislation of the house was
to pass a bill appropriating $50,000 to
pay the expenses of the anthracite ar
bitration commission. The speakers
all acknowledged that the action of
the president was without authority of
law, but the bill passed by an unani
mous vote.
There was a spot of ground down in
Oklahoma which one day was part
cornfield and part prairie. The next
day it was a town of 2,000 inhabitants
with a complete municipal organiza
tion, a bank in operation, a daily
newspaper established, a hotel, four
restaurants, seven saloons, at least a
score of mereantila establishments
and no end of gambling houses. Each
boomer paid in $25 and for that was en
titled to draw a lot. Before night some
of these lots sold from $500 to $1,000.
What would citizens of the old world
think of building cities in a day after
that manner?
The regular army is getting very
tired of imperialism. It has not turned
out as was advertised. The pressure
for leave of absence to return to the
United States from officers stationed k.
the Philippines has been so great thai
if has driven the authorities to pro
mulgate orders regulating that mat
ter. Permission to visit the United
States will not bo granted except un
der very extraordinary circumstances,
unless the applicant has been in the
Philippines three years, of which time
two years immediately preceding th'.
application shall have been continu
ous, f.nri in such cases only when the
office's services can be spared and
conditions warrant. After two years'
finJimious service an officer whose
services can be spared may be granted
two mouths leave to travel in the
O-, icnt. the leave to begin and end in
Man'la. Officers in poor health may be
sen, to Sin Francisco for treatment,
provided the medical board report'
that such change of climate is neces
i ai y.
Ex-Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed
died of Bright's disease last Sunday in
Washington, where he had come on
INDEPENDENT.
business. The remains were taken
back to Maine for burial. Mr. Reed
had recently made his home in New
York city. Hi3 name i3 inscribed per
manently In the Tobtical history of
this country. Without his energetic
work in the house of representatives,
the republican parry would never have
achieved what t has in its monetary
policy. He was the czar that ruled
things for several years in that bouse
and enabled the republicans to force
through a great many measures that
would never have jecn enacted into
law without the Rep rules. Whether
those rules, which put all legislation
in the control of the speaker, will per
manently remain, we will have to wait
to see.
A thing without a precedent has
happened in one of the courts at Den
ver. The history : as follows: A
constitutional u-.iendnent was about
to be proclaimed which forever pro
hibited the giving away of franchises
and making it necessary before a city
franchise was issue! to submit the
proposition to a vote of the people for
rejection or approval. The city coun
cil of Denver aai-rembled just beforo
the issuing of the proclamation and
proposed to pass an ordinance giving
a franchise for a street railway line
to which was attached an amendment
relinquishing the right of the city to
regulate street car fares. Great indig
nation was expressed by the citizens,
an injunction was secured prohibiting
the city council from passing any such
ordinance, and the mayor from sign
ing it. The council paid no attention
to the injunction, passed the ordinance
and the mayor sigr-d it The court
thereupon held eleven of the council
and the mayor In contempt and sen
tenced each of them to pay a fine of
$500 and suffer four months' imprison
ment. An appeal Las been taken to
the supreme court. The private own
ership of street raiw.ys has resulted
in many strange and criminal doings,
but none more strange than the sen
tencing a mayor and a majority cf a
city council to jail and none more
criminal than the ai i lor which these
men were sent to jail.
Most of the comment on and criti
cism of the president's message has
come from papers of more or less in
dependent character. The partisan
dailies coirtent themselves by declaring
that it is a great state paper and the
greatest message of modern times,
which is neithe criticism nor com
ment One thing in :t has attracted
some attention. There is a sort of
"cocksureness" aboot some passages
that is amusing and an unconscious
egotism about others that is diverting.
Take for instance this passage: "No
policy ever entered into by the Ameri
can people has vindicated itself in a
more signal manner thau the policy of
holding the Philippines." That is to
say that he is a bigger man than Jef
ferson and the arquirement of the.
Louisiana purchase was not of so much
importance to the people of these
states as the purchase of 10,000,000
Orientals at $2.5d per head.
Major Glen. w!io vvas court- martialed
and found guilty of torturing the na
tives, was given a month's leave of
absence and finod $50, which wa
looked upon by the army and every
one else more of a vindication tha
anything else, has bern ordered to ap
pear before another court and answer
to the charge of murdering a lot of na
tive guides, all of which occurred in
that famous Samar campaign which
did so much for Christianity and civilization.
Genera Corbin came back from his
hobnobbing with the military aristo
crats of Europe. v,,ith several old worid
notions which he forthwith proceeded
to publish in his official reports and
among them was the recommendation
that officers holding the lower ranks
in the army should not be allowed to
marry. Some of the eastern dailies
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The Eiperience of a Woman fko
Could not Sle:p
To lie awake and count the hours,
with never a wink of sleep, or at most
only a fitful doze, till it is time to
get up most people have gone
through the experience once in a
while. But to have it keep up night,
after night then it is wearing and,
in the end, will undermine the strong-'
est constitution and reduce the vital-'
ity to a low ebb.
Sleeplessness has always something
of disease or undue excitement in it
The excessive use of tea, coffee, to
bacco, or any narcotic, may bring it;
on. In such cases, if the patient stopj
the use of, or use more moderately,'
those stimulants, he' can overcome the
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to be and now I am sleeping well
and feeline: well."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
Peonle are sold only in boxes at fifty
cents a box or six boxes for two dol
lars and fifty cents, and may be had
of all druggists, or direct by mail from
Dr. Williams Medicine company,
Schenectady, N. Y. Be sure you set
the genuine substitutes never cured
anybody.
have quickly taken ,ip this notion and
others declare that ' it is vicious" and
tends to social degeneration.
Commissioner Allen of the patent
office in his report for the year ended
June 30, 1902, shows that there were
received in the year 45.5G2 applications
for mechanical patents, 1.807 applica
tions for designs, 139 applications for
reissues, 1,849 caveats, 2,400 applica
tions for trade-marks, 1,020 applica
tions for labels, and 270 applications
for prints. There were 27.387 patents
granted, including reissues and de
signs, and 1,864 trade-marks, 750 la
bels, and 163 prints were registered.
The number of patents that expired
for non-payment of the final fees was
4.123. The total receipts of the office
were $1,491,538.35, and the total ex
penditures were $1,323,924.63.
The statistician of the department
of agriculture estimates the growth of
cotton in the United States in the year
1902-3 as 10,417,000 bales, of an aver
age net weight of 490.7 pounds. The
area is estimated at 27,114,103 acres,
a reduction of 764,227 acres, or 2.71
per cent from the acreage planted. Th3
total production of lint cotton is esti
mated at 5,111,870 028 pounds, an av
erage of 188.5 pounds per acre.
The United States bonds at present
amount to $782,924,330. Of this amount
only $16,022,850 is held by foreigners.
This goes to prove the fallacy of an
impression that seems to prevail
throughout the country, that a large
proportion of United States bonds are
in the hands of foreigners. A number
of inquiries regarding this matter
have been received at the department.
Practically the whole policy of the
postoffice department in its recent
classification reforms is involved in
three decisions rendered lately by th
district court of appeals. In two of
the cases decisions are against the
postoffice department, and in the other
the government is sustained. All thre
cases will be appealed to the Unite!
States supreme court, pending whose
final action the classification reform
policy under which many publications
have been excluded from the second
class privileges probably will remain
in suspension.