JUNE 11, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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Health Food.
Friday Morning, June 5. Millers
national federation in session at De
troit adopt resolutions demanding
reciprocity, especially with , Canada;
recognizing right of laborers to o
ganize but denying right of labor or
ganizations to compel individuals to
join or that only union men shall be
employed, S. T. Ballard of Louisville
Ky., made a bitter attack on labor
unions and urged employers' associa
tions in every town. Millers claim
they are not prosperous.
Dispatch from Monaster, Europear.
Turkey, gives details of slaughter of
inhabitants of Smerdash village,
south of Lake Presba, May 21, by
Bashi-Bazouks (Turks). Three hun
dred houses burned and 200 persons
killed mostly women and children.
Novoe Vremya, leading Russian pa
per, in signed leading article headed
' Russia and America" resents Ameri
can criticisms of the Kischineff nor
ror. Says the Americans are "carried
away by the successes of their ne
imperialistic policy" and refers to
"Secretary liay's stubborn anglophil
ism." The editor of the Syromiatni-
koff suggests that the Russian foreign
office should publish . in English a
sketch of Russo-American relations
since the time of Catherine and send
the book to 3,000 American newspa
pers for review, averring that Ameri
can school histories contain nothing
to show Russia's uniform friendship
for the United States In every time
of need.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Lord
Spencer, Lord Ripon, Lord Tweed
mouth and other liberal leaders ar3
.out with letters denouncing Joey
Chamberlain's imp' ial zollverein pro
posals as merely veiled protection. The
London Daily News says Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach, Mr. Goschen, Duke of
Devonshire, Chancellor Ritchie, Lord
Landsdowne and Lord Selborne are all
against Chamberlain's scheme.
-Acting Secretary of ' Agriculture
Moore is taking steps to enforce th-i
pure food law against " foreign Im
porters. At Argentine, Kas., 4,500 people are
homeless and in need of food and
clothing. Supplies should be sent to
the mayor, Dr. C. E. Clopper.
rDrouth and forest fires afflict the
east while the . west is flooded Forest
fires are raging near Glens Falls,
Saratoga and Plattsburg, N. Y.; Mon
treal, Canada? Long Island, N. Y.;
Mt Holly, N. J.; Moulton, Me.; St.
John, N. B.; Halifax, N. S.; Burling
ton, Vt; and Manchester, N. H. The
loss is almost incalculable.
Western trunk lines have decided to
abolish the "bridge arbitrary" at
Omaha, June 15. This will let Iowa
coal into Omaha $5 a car cheaper;
live stock, $4; packing-house products
into Iowa, $8 a car cheaper; and mer
chandise 5 cents A hundred weight
cheaper.
High water at St. Louis threatens
great damage. Situation improving at
Kansas City.
Ohio republican convention alleged
to be a "love feast" with Mark Hanna
cs Cupid. Myrcn Herrick gets his re
ward for carrying a lot of past due
paper. The ticKet is as follows:
Governor, Myron T. Herrick; lieut.
gov.. Warren G. Harding; auditor, W.
D. Guilbert; treasurer, W. S. McKin
ncn; attorney general, Wade H. El
lis; judge of sup -jme court, A. N.
Summers; school commissioner, E. A.
Jones; member of board of public
works, George H. Watkins. Guilber;
is the only "third-termer." The plat
form, aside from "taffy" for Roose
velt, Hanna, Foraker, et al., asks for ;
removal of the double liability of
stocAholders; improvement of the
Ohio river; extension of labor laws;
better roads; a bigger navy; favors
"stimulating local bank circulation,"
and lauds "protection."
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railway company was held Thurs
day at Chicago. The annual state
ment submitted to the stockholders
showed gross earnings for the year of
$50,041,118 with operating expenses,
taxes, interest, etc., amounting to ?45,
246,314. The surplus for the year
over all charges (land incomes not in
cluded) was $519,502. Prior to the
meeting of stockholders there was a
meeting of the directors at which a
quarterly dividend of 2 per cent on
the preferred stock and a half yearly
dividend of 3 1-2 per cent on the com
mon stock payable July 1 to stock
holders of record June 10.
The Chicago, St. Paul: Minneapolis
& Omaha bridge over the Missouri
j-iver at Sioux City has been adver
tised for sale at public auction June
10 at South 'Sioux City, Neb. Tha
action is result of refusal of the road
to pay taxes. It is expected that the
rfilrod will secure an injunction to
prevent the. sale. And,this, after the
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properly trimmed and rightly made.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 13th.
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Fancy Worsteds and Nobby Cheviots. Their retail
value is $7.50 to $10.00. You can take your choice
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Orders by mail will receire preference and be fitted the day of receipt of order. We cannot
send samples, but if yon will state your choice of color, whether light or dark, and nive breast
measure, waist meaeure and length of inside of leg, yonr heigth and weight, we will send you the
very choicest of these suits. A deposit must accompany each order.
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stories told last year about the rail
roads always paying their taxes!
Federal grand jury taxes up Mach
en's case.
Omaha will be headquarters for ru
ral free delivery after July 1. Re
moval from Denver.
German financiers have secured con
cession from Turkey to continue the
Anatolian railway, now running fron)
Constantinople to Konia, Asia Minor
Extension will go to Bagdad and
eventually to Koweit on Persian gulf.
Thus John Bull's nose i3 out of joint,
as 50 per cent of present Asia Minor
trade is in English hands.
Cotton bulletin reports a million
acres increase, but only 71.1 crop a:?
compared to the 95.1 same time last
year.
Peace, is established in Colombia
until the next revolution!
A million natives are starving in
Kwang Si, China, and Governor
Wons appeals to America for help.
A receiver is asled for the Cam
peche Lumber and Development com
pany, capitalized (on paper) at a mil
lion dollars to exploit lumber land3
in Mexico.
The U. S. general land office has
taken in $8,127i cash receipts
first three-quarters of current fiscal
year.
President at Danville, Springfield.
Decatur and Lincoln, 111.; and Ind
ianapolis, Ind.
Nooraska state board of public
lands and buildings appoints James
Tyler, jr., state architect at $2,500 a
year.
Governor Mickey appoints H. L.
McC'onnell of Albion, deputy game
warden.
Judge Wilbur F. Bryant has ground
out another supreme court report
Volume C3, now ready.
Sunday Morning, June 7. Spartans
burg, S. C visited by a terrific rain
storm, resulting in loss of life and
property.
Fifty thousand acres of timber land
near Glens Falls, N. has been
burned over by forest ires. The loss
in Aroostook county, Maine, is over a
million dollars, and three millions in
northern and eastern Maine.
C. Ellsworth Upton and Thomas Mc
Gregor arrested in Baltimore charge J
with conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment; both are in postofflce depart
ment and were immediately dis
missed. President Roosevelt tells Payne to
LJ on with his postal frauds investi
gation. The president held a cabinet meet
ing Saturday.
Georgia peach growers' association
files complaint with Interstate com
merce commis!on that present high
railroad rates on fruit shipments to
northern and eastern markets wili
practically destroy the Georgia peach
business.
Wednesday Morning, June 10.
(Mr. Tibbies having resumed his in
teresting and altogether unique pre
sentation of "The News of the Week,"
The Dyspeptic has taken to gardening
for his "stomach's sake," and for tha
past several days neither reads the
morning paper at "The Breakfast Ta
He" nor eats the cereal health fodder
of Battle Creek, Niagara Falls or Col
l3ge View; but has been enjoying a
diet of "garden sass" and has ceased
to grumble.) THE DYSPEPTIC.
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taxers, 5 months. 23c.
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