The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, April 02, 1903, Page 4, Image 4
4 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. APRIL 2, 1903. HAIL INSURANCE The United Mutual Hail In surance Association the larg est and most successful hail in surance company in the state. ALL1 LOSSES PAID PROMPTLY AGENTS WANTED. Insuring crops against losa by hall Is becoming more popular every year. The United Mu tual Hail Insurance Company organized in 1899 is the largest, best and most successful hail insurance company doing busi- ness in the state. It pays all losses promptly. Since its or ganization it has written 9,066 policies of insurance aggregat - ir.g ?5,210,C00 of risks. It has paid 1,949 loss claims amount ing to $147,315.10. The insur ance has cost the policy holders only one-half as much as old line fire insurance companies receive proportionate to the amount of losses paid. No one raising crops can afford to take the risk of losing his crops by . hail when he can get this pro tection with thousands of the best farmers of the state. Last year the United Mutual carried $1,740,694 insurance and paid $27,710 in losses. They paid in losses more than four times as . much as the combined payments tpf all other hail insurance com -. panles doing business In the state. Good, reliable representatives are wanted in every township United Mutual flail las. Association, n6 So. ioth 5t, Lincoln, Nebr. ONE-WAY RATES To Many Points In Cal ifornia Wash- ington and f- Oregon. nirnv nnv L V Ln I LM T The Union Pacific will sell One-Way Colonist Tickets at the following rates iii ran urn uiitL7 From Missouri River Terminals $25 to San Francisco, Los Angeles and many other California points. Tickets on sale Feb. 15 to June 15, '03. $20 to Ogden and Salt Lake City. $20 to Butte, Anaconda and Helena. $22.50 to Spokane and Wanatchee, Wash. $25 to Everett, Fairhaven and New Whatcom, via Huntington and Spokane. $25 to Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. $25 to Ashland, Rose burg, Eugene, Albany and Salem, via Portland. Tickets on sale Feb. 15 to April 30, 1903. E. B. SLOSSON, Gen. Agt, 10.44 O sk, Lincoln, Neb. Handy Economical Patat. The rich Tuscan Red Mineral Paint, mixed in Colorado and shipped with all charges paid and safe delivery guaranteed by the B. M. & Paint Co., Railroad Bldg., Denver, - Colo., is handy, in that it requires no oil, only water, to prepare it for use; is econ omical because of its little price and great spreading quality, and is also one of the best preservative paints for Indoor or outside work that can be had at any price. The advertisement of this paint appears elsewhere in this Issue, and will repay perusal by all of our readers. Certificate of Publication State of Nebraska Office of Auditor of Public Accounts Lincoln, February 1st, 1903. , It is hereby certified, That the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, in the State of New York, has complied with the Insurance Law of this State, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the bus iness of Life Insurance in this State for the current year ending January 31st, Jim. Summary 0f Report Filed for the Year Ending December 31, 1 903. INCOMB Premiums 56,874,002.15 Allother sources.... 16,430,960.59 Total 73,305,022.74 DISBURSEMENTS Taid policy holders.? 29.071.358.02 All other payments. 15,078,949.58 Total 44.150,307.K3 Admitted assets .'. ..$3S2, 432,631. 30 LIABILITIES Net reserve $311,303,247.00 Net policy claims.... 1,68,186.20 All other liabilities. 69,441,248.10 382,432,(581.30 Total f 582,432,61.30 'Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. Charles Weston, Auditnr of luhlic Accounts, J. L. 1'IEBCB, Deputy. "Casting Pearls," Etc. Readers of The Independent are fa miliar with the history of the case against the Standard Oil trust, brought by Attorney General Smyth and lost by the combined efforts of Referee3 Tibbets and Wright and Attorney Gen eral Prout George Rice of Marietta, O., was the principal witness. ' His deposition, taken by Attorney General Smyth, was sufficient to win the suit for th? state. A change of administration came. A democratic, anti-trust at torney general was succeeded by a re publicanwhose chief - distinction is that like "Necessity,"-he knows no law. The case hinged upon Mr. Rice's deposition. Objection was made that It had been mailed by the notary to Clerk Herdman instead of. direct to the referees. At first these referee i supposedly democrats held that the deposition might be admitted, it was admitted, emasculated, however, wher ever it tended to show that the de fendant Standard Oil company of Ind iana was in fact a part of the Stand ard Oil trust Afterward the referees saw a great light. They discovered that Clerk Herdman -was not the clerk of the referees, and hence, the whole deposition must be excluded. So they reversed their former ruling. With Rice's testimony excluded, the referees then very properly reported that a matter of fact the state had adduced no evidence in support of it contention; and that as a matter or law the defendant was entitled to a judgment of dismissal. That was what "Necessity" wanted. He made no objection to the report of the ref ereessimply stood mute; and as the court couldn't act as judges and prose cutor, the case went by default. In a late letter to The Independent, Mr. Rice encloses a copy of a letter he has send to, the attorney general. The enclosures he mentions are pamphlets containing facts and figures regarding the trust's latest operations. It shows Mr. Rice's good intentions but he's rather extravagant with hi3 pearls. His letter follows: "Astor House, N. Y... March 26, 1903 Hon. F. N. Prout. Attorney Gen eral, Lincoln, Neb. Dear Sir: Per mit me to submit the enclosed to your consideration. Should you desire fur ther Information upon the subject of the Standard Oil trust, oh which I feel myself to be wen posted, I am yours to command. Present address as above, or Marietta, O. Truly yours, "UUU. K1U1S.' SPECIAL MARKET LETTER FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO., LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MER CHANTS, SO. OMAHAr NEB. This week is brinsine a little bet ter cattle market thus far. Rereints have been moderate and Wednesday's market is 10c higher than last week's close. We expect a little stronger market for a few days now. Stock ers and feeders strong. WTe quote good beef steers $4.60 to $5.00, fair $4.10 to $4.50, warmed-up $3.85 to $4.10, choice cows and heif ers $3.G0 to $4.10, fair to good $3.00 to $3.50, canners and cutters $1.75 to $2.50; choice light stockers and feed ers $4.20 to $4.40, good $3.75 to $4.20, stocker. heifers $3.00 to $3.25; bulls slow at $2.60 to $3.80; veal $4.00 to $6.00. Hog receipts fairt Range $7.00 to $7.35 Sheep receipts moderate. Market steady. Killers. Lambs . $7.00-$7.25 Yearlings 6.25- 6.75 Wether3 6.00- 6.50 Ewes 5.25- 5.50 Good Road Currency Editor Independent: It is enough to astonish the civilized world to face the indisputable fact that the United States sustains an an nual loss of more than ten hundred millions of dollars for the want of good roads. But if all of the counties in the United States were to issue bonds bearing the usual rates of interest to borrow enough money to pay for dig ging the hills down and filling the low places and thoroughly macadam izing their roads the taxpayers would be called upon to pay more than ten hundred millions of dollars in inter est before the work could be half completed. Not one dollar of which would be used to improve the roads. Good road currency would save the people from paying this enormous and unnecessary tax of more than a billion of dollars. We submit our plan: By appro priate legislation let the treasurer of the United States issue good road cur rency, made receivable for all pur poses for which national bank cur rency is receivable, to the amount of fifty thousand dollars for each thou sand square miles of land or frac tional part thereof or over in each county, , to be Issued to the country treasurer on condition that the county vote a special annual good road tax of not less than half of one per cent on all of the taxable wealth of the coun ty, to be continued for ten years, or so long as needed for good road pur poses. And the fifty thousand dollars of good road currency should be increased or diminished from" time to time as In the judgment of congress the pros perity and general welfare of the peo Die demanded. Good road tax and currency should be Dald out only o"n contract witn ananlfiKtlnng f)ra wn Hd Ifit by COIH- petent engineers and approved by the county courts. woric snoum com mence in each county on the road where the lareest amount of private subscription could be obtained, all of which and the good road tax snouia be made payable in labor If made satisfactory with the contractors. J.T.RAWLINS. I Buffalo, Mo. v Morgan's Corral t toiled up the mountain asthmatic and wheezy, To get a clear view of the bright rising sun, I panted for breath, exhausted, un easy, f My diaphragm seemed ttf be queer J ly undone; - I sought for the cause and Anally found it. The rarified air was elusive as dust. I found that the magnates had cor- raled and bound it, Yea! robbed the whole world with a Morganized trust. On reaching the summit I looked for the gleaming, Intent on the glory the dawn would unfold: Enraptured, impatient I sought for the beaming - - That heralds the daybirth with ar rows of sold. The gloaming enwrapped me, the hours were passing, High noon came apace yet dispelled not the night: (A wireless Marconigram (tod of the Of millions by Morgan to corral the light.) L'ENVOL Poor fool! ye may struggle however ye list. May threaten and storm as your starveling fare, Figure out for me how. jou can hope ' to resist Deprived of your life-giving sun light and air. You are bound hand and foot, your liberties gone, Your doom is decreed and to you is the crust, Plutocracy reigns and your rights are undone; Poor victim! poor slave! of a Mor ganized trust. J. Gouverneur, N. Y. Maintain the Organizatioa Editor Independent: I admire your courage -and truthfulness in The In dependent and hope you God-speed in the discrimination of the truth in the interest of the common people. Let us all try to maintain the peo ple's party as an organization. We have advocated nothing but right principles. Others are seeing the truth as time passes, and the atroc ities of the present and past systems are being revealed. It needs courage and persistence in advocating any re form movement The people move slowly partly through ignorance, pre judice, party issue and selfishness mis guided. But only persistence in ex posure of wrong and . an appeal to right with "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little," will eventually result in revo lutionizing thought and sentiment as it always has in the past. It is God's way and the true way, and in this way when reforms are ac complished they are permanent. All honor to you for courage and hard labor and fortitude. The goal of righteousness will be reached some time, and the accomplishment of good achieved for humanity will be your's and many others' crown of glory. B. F. WHITNEY. Ashland, Neb. FARM LANDS in the 4ooc Mountain Dist., CANADA. 200,000 ACRES of the choicest virgin lands for sale at from $8 to $12 per Acr Fertile Valleys, Open Plains, Luxuriant Grasses, Pure Spring Water. It should interest every farmer in Nebraska to know that be can sell out his high-priced lands and move to the fertile valleys of East ern Assiniboia and buy land at from $8 00 to f 12.00 per acre, with an expenditure of very little cash. It must certainly be of interest also to know that the taxes on improved farms in this famous district are from $2.50 to f.5.00 on the quarter section. Hundreds have come into tins district from Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska at my instigation and have found district just aa fertile, and the winters just as p.casaui, fcs u the Western States, and prosperity more generally prevailing. Poor men who came to this district two years ago and purchased land at J8.00 per acre are now prosperous and contented. In 1901 Areola shipped 500,000 hnshels of wheat, being an average of 29 bushels per acre, and in the season just passed 000.000 bushels of wheat being an average of 33 bushels per acre, be sides 200,000 bushels of flax. Write to your friends in this district, or send to me for my map and pamphlet showing the lands I still have for sale at the above prices. You cannot help but be impressed by the prospects. It is worth figuring out. A. B. COOK, Areola, Assiniboia, Canada. There was a flamboyant editorial in the Lincoln Star concerning Roose velt's triumph in securing the ratifica tion of the Cuban treaty. It did not mention the fact that the house has to vote on it yet and that trick played by the senate was a defeat for the president That is a fair sample of the information generally contained in republican papers. Half Rates VIA Wabash Railroad The WORLD'S FAIR LINE "Last to leave, first to arrive." Leave Omaha 5:55 p. m. Arrive St. Louis 7:00 a. m. SPECIAL RATES . New Orleans and return, $29.50. Sold April 11, 12, 13. St. Louis and return, $13.50. Sold April 26, 27, 29, 30, May 1. New Orleans and return, $29.50. Sold May 1, 2, 3, 4. Smoothest, shortest and quickest "south and southeast All information al city office, 1601 Farnam st, or address, HARRY E. MOORES, G. A. P. D. Omaha, Neb. P H A Fl ffl GerJinS Bargain U U ifU fl J V9 Hundred of Upright Piano Joriffhte ae - lnw Utiful New TJr-Sl&OendSlW.Afin returned from renting to be) diipoeed of al one. They inclode Steiaway, Knabee, Fiechert, Sterling! and other well known maka. Kany eanDot be die tinguiehed from new MB emg. -aav fa ff yet all are offered at a great dieeount. . M 9 I ' Up at 1100. aleo bean. rla-hUat126,$m, Instrument at S3), i" fully canal to manr f 400 piano. Monthly payment! accepted. Freight only aboak $6. Write for liit and partienlari. Ton make a great eating. Piano warranted a represented. Dlmtrated Piano Book Free. LV0W & HEALY IOO Adams St.. CHIC ACO. Varld'a turgest mnic hone; aell Iverything known in Vnain, for your Farm, Business, Heme. or properly of any kind, no mat ter where located. If you desire a quick saie. send . us descriotion and price. Northwestern Business Agency, N 313 Bank of Commerce Bldg.Minneapolis.Minn GASH Doyle & Berg Attorneys at Law NOTICE OF PARTITION SALE Notice is hereby Riven that the nndersiirnprt. as referees, duly appointed by the District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska, in aa action pending in said court, wherein Mary J. Canfield Taylor and Cleora Wilkinson are piamtins, ana wenry M. sanford. Kebecca San ford, Alonzo D. Wilkinson and William Q. Tay lor are defendants, to partition the lands of tha parties to said action, and on the 4th day of March, 1903, the report of said referees to tho efieet that said real estate could not be parti tioned without great prejudice to the owners thereof, was approved, and said referees wr ordered by said court to sell said lands at nnh- lic sale, as upon execution, at the front door of the court house in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, for cash. The said referees, pur suant to said order of said court, and their powers as such referees, having given the bond prescribed by law, and taken the oath of their office, will on the 7th day of April, A. D. 1903, at the east front door of the court houre in Lin coln, Lancaster County. Nebraska, at the hour of 2 o'clock p. m. of said day, sell for cash, to the highest bidder, at public auction, the fol lowing lands, to-wit : Lot twenty (20) in Fairbrothers' Subdivision of part of the northeast quarter (N. E. J4) of section twenty-four (24) township ten (10) range six 16) east of the 6th P. M., and lot four (4) in Harley's and McFarland's Subdivision of Block thirty-six (36) and part of lot thirty-five (35) in Fairview, as described in the recorded plat thereof. Said Fairview being on a part of the southeast quarter (S. E. M) of section thirteen ( 13)township ten (10)range 6 (6) east of the 6th P. M ; also lot seven (7) in block live (5) in Mechan ics' Addition to the City of Lincoln, all Lancaster County, Nebraska; also the southeast quarter (S.E. M)of section twenty-seven (27) in town ship six (6) north of range twenty-five (25) west in Frontier- County, Nebraska, containing 16!) acres; also lot twelve (12) and the east one-half (E. Vi) of lot eleven (11) all in block one hundred-eighty-three (183) in the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska; also lot six (6) in block two hundred forty-three (243) 1 in the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska; lot "B" of Brock's Subdivision of lots thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) in block fifty-six (,16) in the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska. O. S. Warp, Nicholas Rkss, Carleton E. Loomis, Referees. Dated this 4th day of March 1903. The new assessment law is a stem winder, and makes the railroads shriek for very joy. It is tco long to be printed in full, but it compels every citizen to list and swear to all his property, down to the most unimport ant article he possesses, all of which is to be taxed. The assessor is to be elected as a county official and will hold his office four years. The asses sor will have the power to appoint deputies in each precinct, who will receive $3 per day. Property will be listed at full value nnd assessed. at one-fourth.- Dakota City Herald.