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' THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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A lUAuMYIANd blUhl
The Experience Which Came to the
Man on the Box
The coachman can tell many an in
teresting story. All sorts of experi
ences come to him and the long fcours
cn the box are not so monotonous as
one might suppose. , When he
chooses, Austin Roe, a coachman, liv
ing at No. 20 West Liberty street.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., can entertain a list
ener for hours, telling in his original
way of the things that have happened
to him. .
, "It is a hard life," he says, "and it
is no wonder when one of us breaks
down. For myself, the exposure ana
lack of sleep ran me down in health
last winter till I became a shadow.
Oftentimes I had to take to. my bed
with a fever running my temperature
way up. 1 had a cold a good part of
the time, my "head was always dizzy,
my Stomacn was OUl oi oruer auu my
limbs stiff. I grew thin, was tired
out all the time and felt generally
jnisGTciblG
; "No, the doctor didn't seem to help
me very much and I didn't get any
better until, upon the advice of a
friend, I began using Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People. The first
box made me feel better and a few
more made me all right. Now I am
strong and healthy again and I rec
ommend Dr. Williams Pink Pills to
all my friends who seem toneed a
tonic."
; The best tonic medicine in the
world is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People. Mr. Roe is only one
out i of thousands all over the world
, who have found this out by personal
experience. This medicine, unlike any
other, acts both on the blood and
nerves, builds up the system and cures
where ordinary preparations fail. Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
are not only a tonic, but have cured
such diseases as locomotor ataxia,
partial paralysis, St Vitus', dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, ner
vous headache, the after-effects of the
grip, palpitation of the heart, pale and
sallow complexions and all forms of
weakness in either male or female.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie are sum uy mi ucaicio
sent postpaid on receipt of price, fifty
cents a box, or six boxes for two dol
lars and fifty cents, by addressing Dr.
. - . . . n OA.
Williams Medicine vxuupauy, ocue
nectady, N. Y. They are never sold
in bulk or by the hundred. Avoid
imitations; substitutes never cured
anybody. .
. PAUPER RAILROADS
Making the Customary Poor Month Before
Stat Board of Equalizatioa
The annual farce has begun of pre
1 ending to assess the railroads of Ne
braska. Under date of May 5 the
World-Herald's Lincoln correspondent
says:
The state board of equalization be
gan its session this afternoon at 2
o'clock. Nearly a score of representa
tives of Nebraska railroad interests
were present and the time was given
over to allow them to present their
claims for consideration, as the first
business of the board will be to. can
vass the returns made by the rail
roads as to the value, of their prop
erty and fix their assessment accord
ingly. Without exception those representa
tives who spoke asked a reduction in
their assessment of one-half and over.
The extreme poverty of the roads
, coupled with the prosperity of Ne
braska farms and property was deftly
argued.
- Frank Crandon, representing the
Elkhorn, made the first . argument in
behalf of the board. He stated that
the values of the railroads as fixed
by the last assessment are represented
to be one-seventh of the value of all
the property of the state. Then he
proceeded to show by a map that all
the railroad property of the state could
be included within the area of five
townships and insisted that it was
impossible for one-seventh of -the
property of the state to be included
within that area, in fact, that not
more than one-twentieth could be so
incorporated.
Mr. Crandou stated that with the
exception of the depots at Omaha and
a few other structures, the railroad
buildings of the state were little bet
ter and in some cases no better than
buildings erected for the accommoda
tion of cattle. He stated that any
one who took the value of the stocks
and bonds of a road as the criterion
of the taxable worth of that road did
not know his business, as the stocks
and bonds simply represented the
right of the holder to receive a per
cent of the dividends declared.
The Elkhorn, he said, is simply
keeping even with its earnings, they
being sometimes even less than the
operating expenses. He did not deny
that the state had a right to tax the
franchise value of a road, but insisted
that the right understanding should
be had of what a franchise is, merely,
that it is the opportunity which the
charter to do business gives a corpora
tion to make profits.
The road which he represented, ho
said, could be reproduced for $10,000
a mile. It was assessed last year at
$3,w a mile. Taking the average as
sessment of other property on tho
actual value he figured tha,t the road
was assessed on a value of $25,000 per
mile. The $6,C00 difference, he said,
represented the franchise value, which
was altogether too jncli. Would th?
board please cut down that assessment
materially. -
Manager Bidwell and Mr. Whitney
of the Elkhorn spoke briefly corrobor
ating the statements of Mr. Crandon.
S.L. Higleyman appeared for the
Missouri Pacific and asked that the
assessment of last year of $10,000 on
the belt line at Omaha be reduced to
the former figures of $6,200 as this
was satisfactory to the county com
missioners of Douglas county and the
road was worth very little and did no
business to speak of any way.
R. D. Pollard appeared for the Bur
lington and quoted at length from the
statements prepared some time ago
by the railroad and published in the
daily papers.. He argued from these
ttiat the railroads were being grossly
abused, and mistreated, while the peo
ple shirked the great burden of taxes
which they should bear. He asked
that the assessment of that road be
reduced from the $4,500 of last year to
$3,000 per mile. '
A. W. Scribner presented the claims
of the 'Union Pacific and insisted that
that was a much abused and misrep
resented road. He showed how the
figures which had been returned as
the value of that road, including real
estate and rolling property, was fixed
at the highest possible value. By
these figures he showed that the act
ual value of the tangible, property of
the main line of the road amounted to
$32,354 a mile, while the road was as
sessed at $9,800 a mile, one-third; of
the value, while th people only paid
from one-seventh to one-eleventh e-i
their property. He showed that the
branches were assessed at the same
rate and askid that these amounts be
very materially decreased.
On the real estate of the road, he
said that the returns had been made
from examination of tax commission
ers' reports in - the several counties
and fixed the value of the railroad
real estate from the value of the ad
joining property, raising it a bit. , He
showed a map which indicated what
property was taxed locally and ques
tioned if Omaha had a right to tax
locally the shops located in that mu
nicipality. Other railroad representatives who
were present were Cooper of the Rock
Island, B. G. Hoyt of the Elkhorn, F.
C. Uhlman of the St Joseph & Grand
Island, Charles Hayden of the Great
Northern, T. H. Benton of the Pull
man companv and Horton of the
Western Union Telegraph company..
Eclipsing in Superlative Splendor all the Grandest Faults of Gigantic Genius
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Metropolitan Shows
J. A. Bailer. W.W.Cole,
Lewis Sells 4 Peter Sells,
Equal Owntr.
With an aKjrregate of
experience and wiealth
In w in ,Mnf (nm
blued capital of all other shows, they
co?3S5OL World's Show Markets
And thus compel other shows to be content
with only things, whether animals, acts, act
ors or features, that are not wanted lor THE
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THE BIGGEST AND BEST IN ALL THINGS, THE NEWEST AND MOST UNIQUE
No fake figures, false facts, silly statements nor self-made press quotations employed ,
with which to delude and deceive the public.
Mammoth Consolidated Doublo lonagorios
, ffk Containing splendid specimens from every family in the Wild Animal Kingdom, a .
V COLOSSAL COLLECTIONS OF CHAMPION CIRCUS CELEBRITIES IN THE v
EU0RU0US COMBINED DOUBLE CIRCUSES
BIGGER AND BETTER TITAN EVER, with an All Star Programme of NEW and EXCLU
SIVE NOVELTIES AND FEATURES, including, among others,
TL. minnrjl a7flllllllfBC retained from a Triumphant Conquest of
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IIU HUllVlin faWWnibW Royalty to be the best drilled soldiers in the world.
MINTING, The Marvel, World's Only Unlcycle Spiral Ascenslonlst
STARR, The Shooting Star, Sensational Dash Down a Ladder on a Bicycle
Famous Eddy Family, World's Greatest Acrobatic Champions
The 24 Champion Equestrians. The greatest aggregation DCUflWMCn I AW All (ICC
of bareback riders the world has ever seen, Including THE 0 nLilUlllIkU LUllAilULd
""hStS'trf ROOSEVELT ROUGH RIDERS $2ER?$i&
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JACKSON FAMILY, CYCLING SEPTETTE
RYAN, WEITZEL & ZORELLA, Flying Aerialists Beyond Compare
The 5 LACARMENS, Invincible High Wire Champions
A(k ALL-STAR CLOWNS Af
TW INTERNATIONAL LEAPING CONTESTS, and
DARIN Q RUSSIAN COSSACKS
4 HERDS OF ELEPHANTS V
SENSATION'S LIMIT REACHED AT LAST !
Deriding; Danger, Defying; Death. - .
DESPERATE ft I All I O L00PS
DARE-DEVIL 1fiHVVLV THE LOOP
ON A BIOYCLEs
The Supreme Arenlc Feature of the Age.
Simply without parallel In all the annals of
circus history. Positively the only per
former who ever accomplished this ex
ceptionally wonderful feat. ,
All kinds o! thrilling, exciting races in the
B. H. ROBISOII, PRESIDENT
OFFERS A FEW SUGGESTIONS TO
THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT
AND GROWING WEST
REGARDING
THE BANKERS-JESERVE LIFE
In An Interview Which It Will Pay
All Insurers and Would-Be In
surers to Read.
Huge Double llippotes
GRAND NEW STREET PARADE
On the Forenoon of the Exhibition Day. Admission, 50c. Children under 9 years, 25c.
Two Performances Dallv, Rain or Shine. Doom open at 1 and 7 P. M.,fortheMenaj?erlee
and Promenade Concert by Merrick's Msrolflcent Military Band. Circus begins 1 hour later in the
"Inirs, 2 stages and the vast enclave. Numbered Coupon, actually Reserved Beats, sold on
day of exhibition at regular prices at
Harlev Drug Store,-1101 0 Street
"Yes, I believe the Bankers Resetva
Life association will have $10,000,000
at risk upon selected lives in the west
by the close of 1903," said B. II. Rob
ison, president of that vigorous and
successful life insurance company.,
"You see the people of the west
learned a lesson during the panic
which they are .not likely to forget.
Practically all our savings drifted to
the money centers of the east during
the prosperous years preceding 1?'J?.
"We were not only large borrow
ers, paying immense interest charges,
but practically all our insurance In
vestments were with eastern compa
nies. "They collected $15,000,000 in prem
iums during ten years. This large
sum was made up of the savings of
our policy holders. The bulk of it
was loaned back to us at high rates
of interest In other words, we were
paying interest on our own money.
"This constituted a double draft
upon our resources. We first sent our
savings east We then paid Interest
on the same money and sent that
east. When the panic came we were
called upon not only to repay the
mortgages, . but the interest charges
as well. We all know what hap
pened. "The organization of great fiduciary
institutions in our midst became a
commercial necessity. We must have
within our own control the ,surplu3
which balances trade and prevents
nandal stringency.
"In these years of great plenty we
can hoard o ,r own savings and when
times of dbhess come the simple
process of transferring our money
from one pocket to the other will
make a panic less destructive.
"The Bankers Reserve Life Asso
ciation sends no money to the Atlan
tic seaboard. Its surplus remains in
this state and ' financial cataclysms
cannot put it into money vaults whero
no benefits can be enjoyed from it
"On this theory of home patronage
we are inviting western people to help
us while we help them in return
"It is a straight business proposi
tion, and the people are becoming ea
lightened upon the subject. Henco
the Bankers Reserve Life writes mere
business in Nebraska, its home state,
where It is best known, than any com
petitor. "Nebraskans especially should placo
their life insurance in the Bankers
Reserve Life."
WONDERFUL RESOURCES OF
THE WEST
If you are looking for a home and
want to visit the west you'ean do so
with very little expense as the
UNION PACIFIC will sell one-way
colonist tickets EVERY DAY at the
following rates from Lincoln:
UNTIL JUNE 15
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles
and many other California points.
$20.00 to Ogden, Salt Lake City,
Butte, Anaconda and Helena.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wanatchee.
$25.00 to Portland, Tacoma, Seattle,
and many other Oregon and Wash
ington points.
ROUND TRIPS
May 12 to 18, inclusive.
$45.00 San Francisco and Los Angeles.
July 1 to. 10, inclusive.
$15.00 to Denver, Colorado Springs and
Pueblo. '
June 1 to September 30, inclusive.
$16.75 to Denver.
$17.35 to Colorado Springs.
$17.50 to Pueblo.
For full information call on or ad
dress, E. B. SLOSSON, .
General Agent
Farm Bargains.
We have for quick sale at a bargain
a 240-acre farm 6 miles south of Lin
coln, and another of 160 acres near
Pennett. Terms easy. If you want a'
farm you cannot afford to overlook
these opportunities. Write today for
particulars. Williams & Bratt, 1105
O st, Lincoln, Neb. .
Do not fail to read the full page ad.
of Fred Schmidt & Bro. in this issue.
The firm has been more than 30 years
in business in this city and the bar
gains offered are genuine. Mail or
ders are promptly filled. - .
Names of Farmers Wanted
The Missouri Valley Farmer wants names and
addresses of farmers anywhere in the west,
They went to get them interested in their biff
farm msgasine which now has a circulation of
over 100,000 copies and is acknowledged to ba
the best farm paper in the West The subscrip
tion pries is SOo per year, bnt if yon will send
them five farmers' names and addresses and ten
cents in stamps or silver they will enter yon a
a subscriber fully paid for a whole year. Ad
dreis Mo. Valley Farmer, Topska, Ks.
