JANUARY 19. 1903
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Eft Nebraska. Independent
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1 A WeeAly Resume o the Really Vital News by the Editor
The spoils of war captured by the
Japanese at Port Arthur prove to be
very large. The official government
renort shows the captures to be: Per
manent forts, 50; guns, 546, of which
54 are of large caliber, 149 of medium
caliber, and 343 of small caliber; shells,
82,670; powder, 30,000 kilos; rifles, 35,
32; rifle ammunition, 2,2C6,800 rounds;
horses, 1,920; battleships 4. except the
Sevastopol, which , is entirely sunk;
cruisers, 2; gunboats and destroyers,
14; steamers, 10; besides small steam
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pendent and Watson's Magazine in
clubs of 5 or more is only $1.40. Every
reader should send in at least one
club.
The Springfield Republican, in speak
ing of Roosevelt's recent demands, re
marks that it is iirltating for a minor
ity to have its thunder stolen by a
party in power. The populists are not
irritated at all. They became used to
that a , long time ago. ,
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crs. 35 of which will he, seryicjblel W((MWivi'5S'-t
'5.-.-': TZ?rzzzra arr The remiiiiicans in congress
BARGAINS IN WATCHES
... ...FOR 3o DAYS........
These watches have to be sold to make room for spring stock. They
have to go, at any price. I am giving wholesale prices on these watches tor
the next THIRTY DAYS. This is a chance youSrill always regret if you
do not take advantage of it. N
18 SiZK-larse rise-OENTLI MEN'5 watch-Elgin or V"J&
Urexuet Lair springs-ncHei movemeni-siem bci-.u u iuw.i g;i7 75
James Boss case, closed lace, lor 9 '
tur I lahow that the Russian iorce was
u wiarger in the beginning than was
rstJ iffted. there being not less than
CO.Cv 1; Anting men in the fortlfica
W'.!a dispatch from the Russian
ea f iarters at Mukden says that
liar! itl.Oyama has been reinforced
&lt 88 siege guns and 32,000 infantry
ell t which have come from Port Ar
thur . ,
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New York Herald's poll of the
konrilputa down all tne weDrasna r
nulill-ih members against tariff revis
jnniljThe whole "push" are for the
ir, r trust, the steel trust and every
othw tariff trust.
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ir re was "a high old time" but in
? Derx.L$last week in other fields than
boIC'-a The stock growers convention
netk lere. The packers and railroads
'- otH itrol of the convention, and the
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toe i growers refused to De resum.
Dlted. The packers with a mi
J of sheep, cattle, horse and pure
Erret 1 Hoes growera have an associa
tion, Hd the other fellows another. It
ia'tv I same'" old game of plutocracy
'filviiv and conquer.
unanimously opposed to making the
banks pay interest on government de
posits. They are so besotted and dom-
nated by the money power that they
see nothing wrong in taxing money out
of the people and then giving it to cer
tain favored banks to loan and pocket
the interest. There never was a more
damnable thing done by any govern
ment. The gifts and monopolies of the
divine-right kings of old were never
as "bad as that. - They never publicly
taxed ! the people and then gave the
mnnev to their favorites. Not one of
them wa3 as hard-hearted a thief as
this republican majority in congress.
The New York Independent says:
"Just now, there seems to be no real
reason why democrats and republicans
should not come together." . The edi
tor of the Independent must have been
nRlppn for more than six months. Did
he not know that thing ' was accom
plished more thaa six months ago at
a convention held in St. L6uis.
large size, .Uantlen.,.'. w.tcb. ?B1n Waitt
with raueo- torn sellings, uouoie rouer escnycuic-., .4.v,- "-r.L r"Zi: .en ch at nn
spring! hardened and tlrnpered in !onnf finely finished thronjshout, it ""gJffi&'J
jewelri store lor movement alone. I can Rive you this watch in a earrt ""ft 5
teed as years, James boss case, open lace, with jointed back and bezel , complete 'or
Cr in a io carat, guaranteed Bye, gold filled James Boss case with snap back Bel,
complete 4. ...i "
... . u u'oith.m 7 1p wp! Breeuet
1 size sraau size utniucmM a whcu-hifui j i,rmM
hairspring-nickel movement-stem set-in a guaranteed 20 year-hand eagraved-Jmes
Boss Case closed face..
G 8izE-large size LadUa watch-Elgin or Waltham-7 Jewel-Breguet hair spring-ck '
el movement-in a guaranteed 20 year-hand engraved James Boss case-closed tace.$13 OO
. ........ ivitkni 1 4trnl Prpp-net halrsDrind
OSizk-small size Laaus- waicn jigm or f s phsp (closed
nickel movement-in a guaranteed 0 year-hand engraved James Boss ease.iciosen
THKSK ARE 'WHOI-KSALK PRICKS.
I can send you a watch by cxprcss-C. O. D., enbkct to your exa "inaUon-and if alter
having seen the watch you do not want it, you can return it to me at m expense.
1847 Rogers. K doz..De.Mrt size, knives and doz., De...rt size, iorks, guaranteed
12pvdt,for " '
These will be sent at once on receipt of '25c
. .. STEPHEN W. BROCK. .... .
VATCHMAKKR AND MAKUFACTCRJ5E:Ki2
Care Of Herpolshcimer Co., JeWelry Dept?rOiox 338 Lincoln, Xebr.
- Another . of the celebrated "five to
"four" decisions was handed down. this
week.. This one reverses tthe finding
lEUiity agamsrSenp.torTrJurtbn o't Kan-
The solid republican senate of the 3as and sends the case back for a new
state of Nebraska, : which is to econ- trial. -nmU
rofnrm rfirtuce' taxation and the i ;
onfQ am' hftran operations last week In southern California the capital!-
Mfh Kft Plotfid eniDloyes. The ,"cus- zation of air and sunshine has added
or. niimproua enough to care millions to bank clearings in Los Ah-
i for all . the public buildings in. the geles, San Diego and other, points, and
' state, while the stenographers, copy- has swollen to- an enormous extent
lsts, clerks, proof readers and "sich the taxable property in that portion o
' like,f could not all be crowded into the state. "
oonflto rhfltnhpr at one time.
The legislative rebbery that is going
-.''..u.. .....m- m a t non vpr to nn in nnnerress this wintei is greater
rne came giuwcia mtv
organize an association to fight the than ever known ir the world before,
beef 'trust. The bef trust set up the All the old soldiers now, get what is
na t ndmitted to the organiza- practically a service pension under the
nn tho.-'was to'fieht them. When a imperial order issued last summer by
.0 wired -hv Drlvatelv owned Roosevelt. Why should hundreds of
1 railroads there is not much use in pensions be granted by special act or
.v flriit it - ThA rattlfi srowers congress? One day last week the house
can n6w go, homo and either let the took up the private pension order of
th. ra'irnads take all the business and. a new speed record was
'traffic will bear, or join the people's made by passing 459 special pension
onr. flsrht for the government bills in 108 minutes. iiimK or, xnai:
- nnhm"- nf the railroads. There is Did any parliamentary bouY on earth
wnv nut. . , . ever steal nt that rate before? With
: -7, - rare exceptions, everyone of these bilte
I vmirth Assistant Postmaster Gen- is a steal, to pay off some political
t t. nHstow. who conducted the debt. Not a daily in the United States
rrosebution of" the postoffice thieves, says a word about this enormous cor-
; bas been relieved and resigned. s He ruption. All the notice Uken pt this
is appointed a commissioner to look sort of business, wa3 the- 'bare state-
tWt transportation in connec- ment of the fact that 459-pension bills
,.,ht, ih Panama canal. As the were passed in 108 minutes and that
', canal iwill not be opened for business was printed in the smallest, type used
;t'iQaf n peroration to come, this in a newspaper and put Jn the most
" gtppoihtment seems rather peculiar, inconspicuous place that' could be
trkn Ai'cf otcn in ibis business was the found in the great 16-page paper. jA
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Transfer of the pestoffice inspectors murder or "a divorce case, would have
Urom the control of Bristow to another been announced u type uuw m.u-
division of the service. Then followed leng and perhaps printed ,m reu imi
irjfiafnw'a rpsltrnation and the appoint-! ; ;v
It"""1"' " - - -- , .. . ... rl. TT lAr.
Acrordinc to tne iNew iuik nciaiu s
canvas of ' the United States senate
there are just seven .republican Sena-
tons who favor a tariff revision Lodge
and Crane of Ivlassachusett3, Spooner
and Quarles of-Wisconsin, Dolliver of
Iowa and Hopkins of Illinois. It says
that there are several more who can be
Vwhipped In" by the president by re
fusing them, patronage. '
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The life insurance companies are
lcoking out ,for seats in the United
States senate. They have thus far se
cured two, Dryden of New Jersey and
Rnikeiev" of Connecticut. The rail
road seats are too numerous to men
iton while the express companies have
quite a bunch with Tom Piatt at the
head of the list.
. n W.tfl.lilj. Attnrav'' " '
To Weber Gas and Gasoline Englae Company,
Walter, non-resident deiendants: . : ?
T? m.r fnn ta Kort.hv nnt1ftp(1 thf OTI th 6 '
23rd day of December, iat Henry A Somers be-
gan an aeuon agDst jrouBwi MirK ucicuumna
braska. to foreclose a tax : sate- certificate and
taita paid tnerearmer, naiuuffr- ijjodo,
August' 20. 1902, .-on the, south east quarter of
block 12, in Bethany Heights, in Lancaster
county, Nebraska. , Plaintiff prays lor decree of
loredosure ana saie oi umiu imiu iu
liens found, due thereonand for general relief.
Yon are reauired to ans.weiv plain tiflis. petition.
on or beiore February 6j 'cn-a
By I. U. Hatfield, Attorney
practice. That ta the kind of work
the grand old paity is engaged in all
over the country.
General Kuropatkin has been send
ing his Cossack cavalry on raids in
the rear of the Japanese lines and they
have torn up the railroad in one or
two places. Such raids never have
any' effect upon the result of the cam
paign. . They furnish matter for the
poets to write about and the historians
to comment upon and that is all. Jeb
Stuart, on the part of the confederates,
and Kllpatrick, on the part of the fed
eials, performed just such exploits dur
ing the civil war. Except to ride
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lot of 'good cavalry horses to death,
nothing resulted. . "
A lot of Russian priests were driven
off the battle field in the Russian lines
who were administering to the wound
ed and dying because they belonged to
a sect of the Russian church which in
sisted on crossing themselves with two
finsers instead of three. The soldiers
who -belonged to that sect refused the
administration of the regular clergy
who insisted on the three fingered
crossing. From accounts in the papers
this' seems to have stirred up a great
row, not only in the military camps
but all over Russia. v
ment to this sinecure.
headache"
According to the evidence so far put
in, republican ; votes in a caucus in
Connecticut ranged" from $5 to $75
When an insurance' company can get
a United States senator at that cheap
rate7 there is nothing to hinder the
great life companies from running this
government. Thesa votes were bought
I by fiulkeley, the great Hartford life
insurance man, and he defended the
h.ivW of them . ODenly and above
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board before an investigation commit
tee of the legislature. ThT two grea
dailies of Hartfo'd openly defend the
New birds of prey are constantly
gaining root in the senate. . More and
more, great interests are getting rep
resentatives there. During this week
the life insurance companies have se
cured Buekeley of Connecticut, the
brewing intefest Neidringhaus of Mis
souri, while the railroads have added
another to their -long list of senators.
by the election of Burkett of Nebraska.
Depew goes back, after having changed,
his service from the Vanderbilts. to
Rockefeller and Harriman. The sen
ate becomes more and. more simply a
nest of agents- of the great corporations.
The first two bills passed by the Ne
braska house of representatives ap
propriated $100,000 for legislative sal
aries and incidental expenses. That
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