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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1904)
NEWS OF THE WEEK s The M an who . 4 Weekly Resume of the Really Vital News by the Editor p 1 v"CCCS5C Dun and Bradstreet keep their dan ger signals displayed. The railroads those great employers of labor, are laying off men. The mills and fac tories of the north are feiving work to a smaller number of hands. It is probable that the southern cotton mills will be forced to curtail produc tion before long because the demand fails to keep up with the supply. The Pennsylvania railroad uas decided to reduce running expenses for the cur rent year about $10,000,000. As a re sult, in the neighborhood of 5,000 men will be laid off. It is reported that the Vanderbilt lines will drop 2,000 employes. No doubt other roads will do likewise for the same reason a conviction that the volume of traffic during the year will not be so great as was hoped for. The business men in .Lincoln say that collections aie slow and small. rTbe experience of this office is that collections were never so hard to make, not even in the ears of drouth and panic, as they have been for the last month or six weeks. Great houses, whose names are household words, are behind in their payments. The same old process is under way that has cursed this country ever,- ten or fifteen years fof the last century, and as long as the government will be stow special privileges upon the rich, the process will continue. We were told that "trade foUows the flag" and that imperialism would make the country rich. But that Philippine business does jot seem to work out that way. American capital cannot be induced to go there even with a gov ernment guarantee of A Per cent in terest on railroad bonds. ,The Phil ippines are simply a costly appurte- ,T,fooi fnr thft benefit of a few carpet-bag officeholders. When times get bad and taxes press hard on the people, there will be a cry to get rid of them. Monuments Beautifully illustrated Catalogue, showing all the newest designs, mailed free on request. The raftroads' hired men continue to appear before the board of equali zation, but they are singing a differ ent song from the one they piped be fore the federal court when the pop ulists tried to ffcwer freight rates. Then they declared that the construc tion of a railroad cost millions dn millions and that the lowering of freight rates would be confiscation. The federal court and mullet heads replied: "Yep, that V so," and the rates were not lowered. Now these same authorities declare that one of the principal roads cost only f 12,000 a mile and should not be assessed for more. The mullet head will answer: Yep. that's so," and if the matter gets into the federal courts they will make the same reply. Rosewater was beaten at the repub lican primaries and is not even a dele gate to the state convention, not 10 mention the national convention. He wrote one editorial about the defeat in which he said: "The recently closed Diamond pool room was charged simply with being a resort lor betting on horse races, and while betting on horses is doubtless a violation of the anti-gambling law, it is no more so than gambling on the board of trade, or gambljng in the bucket shop, or gambling in stocks on wan street, and it is infinitely better and more honorable than selling fraudulent mining stock and fraudulent oil stocks and other schemes of confidence with which some reform factionists have been identified." After some musings he added: "Let it be distinct ly understood that the Bee is no apol ogist for vice and crime." The clos ing of the Diamond pool room Dy eaici of the supreme court after the Rose water officials at Omaha refused to do it, was a severe blow to the machine and doubtless was the cause of the defeat. V We have the most complete as sortment of Monuments to be found in the west. Only the best material is used and tbe workmanship is of the highest quality. ' WE PUT THEM UP - in your cemetery, wherevei it may be, much cheaper than youi local dealer tan furnish you an inferior stone. We mean It A BETTER MONUMENT FOR. LESS MONEY By purchasing granite and stone in enormous quantity wc savo a large percentage of the ex pense. A part of the saving I yotm if you will Investigate. Hundred of finished menu inputs can be eu on our floor at any time. Write for Fre Catalogue l!ir.MLL BROS. I46SO St., Lincoln. Neb rio MtmUn The IndrAin 1 The Russians, according to the dis patches, scored two. successes during th wtc nnft of which was a notable affair and disclosed as much skill and bravery as anything that the Japs v,aw Hmio a voune Russian navy officer took an ordinal y launch, put aboard one small rapid fire gun 'and frrt .tm-nednAs. He cot out of Port Arthur, stole through the line of tor pedo boat guards ana torpeaoea h. j nonn rrnispr The shiD was not sunk, but was taken in tow by a sister ship and disappeared below the norizon. The brave Russian navy officer fought his way back in, his launch to shore. He was not able to get back into the i,n.. voirhrt the boat and he UIUUU1) wvv vv and the three sailors 5 who were with him got away. Another Japanese uh- v, was sunk bv running on a mine in the harbor of Dalney. while it was engaged in clearing the place of mines preparatory to landing troops there; : ' ' ; The Japanese seem to be rapidly ad vancing through, Manchuria, the Rus sians having been outflanked on both .i..!- fli,a qtH nhlieed to keep constantly retreating. New Chwang on the west coast of: the Port Arthur peninsula and on the railroad has been evacuated ana xne cutaij dismantled. Dalney, a tittle northeast Arthur wh re the Russians VS. It'll. uuv..,- - ,,.. had spent many millions m buuuinfe docks and forts, nas ucju ' . I k An rj-vAn Fiftv miles of'tne rauroau torn up ana 1'ort Anuur most constantly bombarded. tj,a mtYirt rptreat and constant ., ,st tho mis-dan atuiy can be ac counted for by no other theory than that the czar had very lew troop m Manchuria. The dispatches say the ml will even evacuato Mukden and retreat still further Into the Interior. The papets say mai uie tn Moscow to pray m the great church there for the success of hh armies, aud r.enerai awes mum a that battle are not won by prayers, but by rood gene-alahip and brave flehtlnn. (Icncral Miles should re member lhat the UrwK church i the rr.ftt iKipr in UuHMia ana tu.t mindful of it Uturj;ey and form ha would u have mure trouble at home than he tx& ua mu .lapH. rat rimlfrf nee. Ill" ,1IIU"IHI r. --- - - now In Hoashm at U AnKfl". i-t.. Iv Anilrriw. Incrnt, Lfiii.tutt Fim and N aldrn. It .... i w.i t .a ,'t miet new onea. 1hT was ionsidi-raUS optUlon to tb rrllrfmeit of Ubhup Fow, is Looking For an opportunity to better bis condition is the man who some daywill succeed. If this man will apply to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway he will receive information regarding lands located on or reached by this railway that will aid him in his hunt for happiness and prosperity. Booklets on request. F. A. NASH, General Western Agent, 1524 Farnam Street, OMAHA. The Burlington ' Is the World's Fair Route. Only 14 hours and 54 minutes Lincoln to St. Louis. Keclining Chair Cars and Pullman Sleepers. No change. Leave Lincoln 4.25 p. m., arrive In St. Louis 7.19 a.m. ' - $15.50 Round Trip for a 10-day ticket, and 817.20 for a 60-day ticket, Call asd get fall information. ' 3 mm City Ticket Of Acs Cor. 10th and O Street Tel. 235. Auto. 3111. Burlington Depot 7th St, bet. P and Q Tel. Burlington 1290 V TAKE THE WABASH RAILROAD To St. Louis , The Only Line to THE WORLD'S FAIR Main Entrance All Wabash trains stop at their own station at jnain entrance World's Fair. Greatly reduced rates now on sale. Stop overs allowed at St. Louis all tickets. Your local agent can sell you via. mil! WAoASli. For mtiful World's Fair folders, time tables and all information, address HARRY E. riOORES, Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept., Omaha, Neb. on beau V V V V V V ft is still active and energetic, but he had to go with the othds. Heretofore the bishops, who are elected ior me, were allowed to retain their positions as long as they lived. Now there is a great cry for younger men for bishops. The Independent . net er had any faith in Webster Davis, who left the republican party cm account of the portion of the Koernnunt In regard to the Hoer war. There Is now a great row on. General Plenum, who served tn the Iioer war, and C. W. Vander hoolt of Baltimore, chiiige that Web ster Davla got hold of $2u0,000 of IJoer war fund for which he never ac counted and Davla ha:i had them ar rted for libel. A man who wa fU enough to the money power to obtain 04 hlsh an offlee a M'x un,u't the auspices of the republican party, nover bad the llborty and welfare of tho vcrumon people at hrart. Ananhy MIU rtlKtxi triumphant In Colorado. The lhl' and tUiw In IVnver canlH the flection by a tna jorlty of thourunda. It U anHrtl that over 2.0tvo rrilrM voters wrrn rtlBfranrhlMHt throuch havlnR bad Itiflr nanPH piriwly omitted from the lists and that thousands of oW were cast by repeaters. The supreme court has the election under Its juris diction and will receivo a report re garding the conduct of the election commission and those under It. Tha action of that tribunal will determine the first steps to bo taken In the courts regarding tho election. Ovet a million dollars of bonds were also or dered Issued. A utiange Btory comes from Llao Yanqc by way of St. Petersburg. It la said that the Japanese officers who wero fchot here as spits, bequeathed $"00 to tho Uuasian lied Crm In con sideration of their kind treatment. The Japaneso have abandoned thdr line through Korea and have made Antting their base of supplies. Borne correspondent lalted the- Ilusalan wounded there. The Ilusslani said they were well treated and had no complaint to make except that they received no bread, the Japanc army tttippMes not containing that article of diet. The report f Uie approach of a Japanese armr to the northeast of Mukden astonUbm the military critic) the world over. They cannot conceive