THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT,
FEBRUARY 19, 1903.
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Every one of the great bonanza for
tunes of California have been years in
the 'courts and now it seems that the
Fair fortune will have another grind
of some years in the same old mill.
Young Fair and his wife were killed
in an automobile accident near Paris.
The destination of the fortune depends
upon which died first. Fair had be
queathed his fortune to his wife. If
he died first the fortune goes to his
wife's relatives and it is how claimed
that she lived 30 minutes longer than
he did. These great fortunes have
proved to be as much a bonanza to the
lawyers as they were to owners of the
Comstock l0'1
That the long continued car famine
ia the result of inefficiency in man
agement since the railroads have been
combined in great systems no one can
doubt,- when he reflects that not only
thousands of freight cars have been
added to the equipment of the roads
in the last three or four years, but
the speed of freight trains has been
greatly increased. In former years
freight trains crawled across tn
country at the rate of fifteen or twen
ty miles an hour. Now the througn
freights make forty miles an hour
and one engine hauls double the
amount of tonnage. Yet with all
these increased facilities the great
Wall street gamblers who control and
manage these systems can't do the
business. Railroad combinations are
a failure as far as serving the pub
lic is concerned. It was much better
served before the combinations were
made.
Jim Hill has been telling the peo
ple of New York some truths lately.
Among other things he said: "We
are coming to a grave industrial re
verse. It is hard to tell just when it
will come, but it is approaching. It
may come next presidential year. It
is indeed a grave crisis we , are ap
proaching, although few seem to ap
preciate it A few years may see the
closing of many factories and the
throwing out of work of hundreds of
thousands of men. We have reaped
the harvest and the reverse is com
ing. How quickly we recover from it
will depend largely on who is at the
head of the country when the break
comes." It is evident that Jim has
been reading The Independent, for he
says that watered stocks is one of the
things that will produce the calami
ties which hePJjJJ2JNN
News of the Week
Some time ago The Independent ad-
vised the people to be patient with the
dailies and after a while they would
uv a A,.t that there was a car famine,
through which business was thrown
into confusion and much loss and sut
' " fering was caused the farmers who
"' could not ship their grain, and meet
' their obligations. Sure enough one ot
,' them did find it out and last Satur
x" day published the following: "De
? spite all efforts to relieve the situa
tion, the shortage in freight cars con
" tinues with all lines in and out of
Omaha. Where one road today has a
' eallfor 1,000, it is able to produce
1 100 good cars. All other roads re
port demands for hundreds more of
ears than they can supply." Mean
time the whole population has been
" kept well posted on ail the murders,
burglaries, divorce cases aad scan-
dais in high life.
S. Darrow in his argument for
the miners before the arbitration com
" "mission said: "New Jersey has is
sued its bogus charters and sent them
broadcast over the United States,
which have been simply letters of
, marque and reprisal for every pirate
that sails the high seas of commerce
to capture what he can get" That
is adopting the manner of speech that
The Independent uses. For a long
time the scoundrels who have oper
ated under these New Jersey charters
have been caMed "pirates" by The In
dependent, because that word fitly and
accurately described their occupation.
President Roosevelt's letter advo
cating large families was most sensi
bly replied to by Dr. Cornelia Debey
of Chicago. She said.- "It is easy
enough for the president with an in-,
come of $50,000 a year to sit back in
the executive mansion and criticise
young people for their indifference in
this matter of marriage. It is an en
tirely different proposition for the
young men and women affected by this
sweeping declaration. The young
man of today is simply afraid that he
will not be able to carry the burden.
It is the awful dread of not being
able properly to support a wife and
family that makes him hesitate taking
the final step. That is the underlying
cauM of the whole condition.1 These
young people are not shirking mar
riage. It is ridiculous for people liv
ing in luxury to take this view of the
matter. They should study the under
lying causes." That is in accordance
with the argument of Chancellor An
drews in his address ou socialism in
which he pointed out that an increase
in wealth among the common people
twould result in an increase in the
population, a proposition that ,is de
fended by every economist of author
ity in the whole world.
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ment with one of the largest paint manufacturers in the west that we re
able to quote such value in this line as you see here. We are out for busi
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The satisfactory results following
arbitration between employers and
employed had another demonstration
last week in the settlement made be
tween the printers and their employes
at Omaha Both sides to the dispute
claim that they are perfectly satisfied.
There were two instances last year
in which millionaires undertook; in
their wills to provide for the necessi
ties of the very poor. Stratton in
Denver and Mrs. Appleby of St. Paul,
Minn., whose will was probated last
week. In both instances the matter
has been thrown into the courts, and
from the way that our courts handle
such matters it is far more probable
that the lawyers will get the millions
than the poor. Our courts are a dis
grace to civilization.
HMftllTl'l.
This congress is creating new offi
ces, cabinet departments and commis
sions by the wholesale besides raising
salaries. It adopts the railroad pol
icy of taking all the traffic will bear.
Among other things it has increased
the salaries of the plutocratic, trust
protecting, injunction-issuing federal
fudges from top to bottom. Hereaf
ter district judges are to receive $G,
000 instead of $5,000, circuit judges
$7,500 instead of $6,000, the associate
justices of the supreme court $12,000
instead of $10,000 and the chief jus
tice $13,000 instead of $10,000.
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The censor at Manila must have
been drunk, off duty or attending a
dance last week for a dispatch got
through saying that a force of 100 of
the constabulary had been attacked
seven miles from Manila by a body of
100 "insurgents," and the American
commauder, Colonel Harris, was
killed. According to the dispatches
for the last year there have been no
"insurgents" in the islands, only "la
drones" being left in the field. The
next day after this dispatch was re
ceived another was sent saying that
the "ladrones," not insurgents, were in
possession of a large part of the island
of Mindanao, under the command of
one of the old Filipino generals who
had never been caught and who
claimed that when Aguinaldo suv
rendered that he was the next in au
thority and represented the Philip
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President Roosevelt, who has a
personal knowledge of Indians, is
treating the delegations that go to
Washington with the greatest respect
He invited Chief Joseph to receive
with him at the White house. Chie
Joseph has a high reputation among
military men, as being a natural born
commander and able tactician. The
dispatches say the Indians were ar
rayed in full aboriginal costume. The
old chief must have felt very queer in
that kind of toggery for he has worn
the civilized costume for more than
a quarter of a century.
The Chicago Record-Herald says
that freight equipment has been in
creased 400 per cent during the last
few years. That is a fact, and yet
under the merging, combination policy
adopted, the roads refuse to furnis
cars to move the crops. Corn lies
piled up all over this state and will
soon be ruined unless cars can be ob
tained. The editor of The Indepen
dent knows of one pile of 4,000 bush-
rure House Paint, per jslios 135
Standard Barn Paint, per gallon 65
Pure White I,ead, per lb 06
' We guarantee the ebpve paints with
two coats for three ytt.
Floor Paint, pel gallon $1.15
Wagon Paint, per gallon 1.20
Carriage Paint, per gallon 1.80
Graphite Paint, per gallon 90
Shingle tain, per gallon; 60
Wood Filler, per gallon 1.25
Oil Stains, per gallon 1.20
Light Hard Oil. per gallon 1.55
Wood Alcohol, per gallon 1.25
Best Grade of Scheliae. per gallon. . . 2.10
High Grade of Exterior Varnish per
gaUon 1.60
Medium Grade of Exterior Varnish,
per gallon 1.45
High Grade of Interior Varnish, per
gallon
Furniture Varnish, per gallon 1.25
Japan Dryer, per gallon 65
Boiled Linseed Oil, Woodman Brand
per gallon 55
With five gallon order one new fifty
cent oil can free.
One 4 inch China Wall Brush all
Bristles 6.
One 3 inch China Wall Brush all
Bristles 5
One 3 inch China Wall Brush all
Bristles 4"
Genuine English Venetian Red, per
pound 2hc
American Venetian Red, per lb ic
French Yellow Ochre, per lb 2c
French Gray Ochre, per lb , 2c
Putty, per lb 3
Lowest prices on colors in oil. Color cards free.
FARMERS
GROCERY COMPAN?
226-24o North 10th Street, Lincoln, Neb.
$15.00 To Billings.
$20.00 Butte, Helena, Salt Lake and Ogden.
S22.50 To Spokane.
$25 Portland, Seattle, Taeoma, San Francisco and
Los Angeles, via the Burlington daily February
15th to April 30th, 1903.
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City Ticket Office
;Cor Tenth and O Streets
Telephone No, 235
Burlington Depot
7th St., between P and Q
Tel. Burlington 1290. ,
els, a considerable part of which is
soft corn, where the farmer has got
oVfiiioi- twirp and after shelling a
few loads has had to stop because the
elevators were full ana no cars iu u
had. The sheller stands there Idle
now, covered with snowK and the
of hard work
may lose his crop and be bankrupted.
If we had a decent government
roads would be made to furnish cars
or pay the losses caused by a refusal
to do so. Let us nave govuiuiucui
ownership of the railroads and stop
this foolishness.
Tho spnat.fi will likely confirm the
Panama treaty in spite of Senator
Morgan, not because it wants a canat
built, but because- it. wm luuu&u
$200,000,000 of bonds for the use of
the bankers. They want bonds and
on thpm hnd uDon which to in
crease their circulation. So the bank
ers are for ratification and wnen tney
go after anything congress always
gives it to them. There will be plen
ty of other ways to prevent tne cum-
pietion oi a cauui.
All the plutocratic dailies are rejoic
ing over the increase in tne suianea
of the plutocratic federal judges. If
paying them even $100,000 a year sal
ary would make just judges of them,
The Independent would be willing
that they should get it, but it fears
that it will require something else
besides that to transform the federal
judiciary from injunction-issuing, corporation-favoring
judges into men who
will administer the same sort of jus
tice to the wage-worker that they do
to the "captains of industry."
Reports come from two or three
states where the republicans have re
warded their ward heelers and vote
fixers by putting them invcharge of
patients in insane asylums, and in
two or three cases patients have been
beaten to death by the guards. There
is nothing more inhuman than that
sort of government. Guards placed
over insane patients should be men
of the very highest character. Every
one who has had charge of the in
sane knows that these men and wo
men, suffering from delusions of ev
ery sort, often act in the most irri
tating way that a human being can
act. and those in charge are apt to
lose their temper and in fits of anger
Ranches and Farms
We have a large list of ranches and
farms for sale and trade it will pay you
to investigate. Write for. full informa
tion. No. 646 Farm in Butler county worth
$10,000 to trade for suitable cattle raoch.
No. 633 Choice farm in Lancaster
county, 200 acres worth $65 per acre
mortgage for 83000, and will trade equity
for desirable ranch with some stock.
No. 644. Relinquishment on one quar
ter in Dundy county, fairly good im
provements, first-class free range, $500,
Will talre good team in trade.
No. 043 Some first-class bargains ia
farm land in Billmore county, in Saun
ders county, and other eastern Nebraska
counties.
No. 634 182 acre farm one mile from
Hubbell, Thayer county, good improve
ments for $5,000. Will trade for Lincoln
property.
No. 639 Blacksmith property in good
Iowa town. Lot, building, engine and
all tools with $400 stock on hand for
$1,700. All the work two men can do
the year around. This is a great snnp.
No. 638 Best Knox county farm, 240
acres at $30 per acre This will bear
closest investigation.
No 637 160 acres all under irrigation
ditch, in Colorado, water right, paid up,
price $3000. No improvements except
fenced.
A few Colorado cattle ranches with
stock and equipment, at prices that are
tenpting to men with some ready money.
If you are interested write for full infor
mation. Reduced railroad fare to look
at this property.
Unimproved land in Minnesota, North
Dakota and Canada at prices from $4 to
$20 per acre. $2 per acre cash and bal
ance on easy terms. The price of land
in these communities is raising at the
rate of $1 per acre every three months.
Don't wait a minute to investigate this.
Reduced rates to go and look at this
land. Write for full information.
Nebraska Real Estate and Exchange
Agency
WEBER &FARRIS
1328 O Street, Lincoln, Neb.
do the most cruel things. To place
ward heelers and vote fixers in such
places is worse than barbarism. Three
or four instances of patients having
been beaten to death or very badly
injured have been reported from the
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