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Taxing Now York Peasant
"111 fares the land .
To hastening ilia a prey
1 Where wealth accumulates
"""And men decay."
The Mongolian farmers have no
money to pay their taxes (but Shylock
must have his pound of flesh), and
after tying old rags upon their pigs'
feet-to keen them from getting sore,
they drive them many miles to Pekin,
where they are sold and the money i3
turned into the imperial treasury, in
Turkey the sultan's tax collectors
watch the farmers' crops to see that
they are not removed from the neiu
until one-tenth " is taken away "for
taxes. '
In France, during the reign of Louis
XIII, the farmer's wife could not get
' Into the city with a basket of eggs
without paying a tax.- If a farmer was
seen talking to any well dressed per
son that farmer's taxes would be
doubled the next year. Two years ago
I painted the eld farmhouse and put
in new windows. The assesors raised
the valuation $300. The New York
peasant who milks cows thinks he is
better off than his European neigh
bor, but let us investigate. If he
draws his milk to a cheese or butter
factory before he receives his check
one-tenth of his income is taken for
making and selling. If cheese sells
for less than ten or butter for less than
twenty cents more than one-tenth is
deducted.
The exchange (trust) price for milk
in New York is at present 3 cents
npr rtuart: If the neasant sells his
milk to a shipper the railroad company
charges 30 cents Der can or more man
two-tenths of his income, for hauling
the milk. A republican legislature in
Albany is racking its brains to find
new ways of raising more revenue
arious kinds of mortgage tax and
dog tax bills are in process of incuba
tion. The New York peasant will prob
ably have to pay a heavy fine for keep
ing a doe. but no one expects to see a
mortgage taxed in old plutocratic New
York.
On with the stick,
Let greed be unconflned.
A. Lv HEMENWAY.
DeKall Junction, N. Y. .
Kansas Establish an Oil Roflnory-
EASY TO QUIT TOBACCO OH
CI6ARETTES.
Each of the Undersigned, fof Himself,
Freely arid Voluntarily Testifies
as Follows:
I hereby certify that I was completely cured of
tne iodbcco ijauu morn uiaii iwo yenrsagooy
Eosers' Tobacco-Specific. I liave not used to
bacco in any iorm since nor had any desire to
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iorHv hurmlfs! hilt nf irrpflt. hpnpfit tn m rf n
eral health.- Before taking Tobacco-Specific I
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Itev. W. W. Glenn, Meridian, Miss., 45 years
t xj T C4mmAnn.rinn A In O 1 1
- Green V. Joiner, Atlanta, Ga. - 50 . '
I. A. gancicr, Nugent, Miss. 40 '
. H. J. Herrick, Att'y, Houston, Mo. 45 '
James Lilley, Bangor, Cai. 45 '
J. A. Kos, Beaveniam, Ohio. 63 '
T. B. Sharp, Uniontown, Ark. 32 '
J. H. VVebster. Manchester, N. H. - 40 '
, A. M. Wells, JCinsley, Kans. 50 . '
' J. B. Murray, Camden, Wash. .. 40 '
Henry Bowen. Topsham, Vt 80 1
Allen lryer, DeWltt, Mich. 40
Dan Makinster, Redfu'kl, Iowa. '45 '
J. T. Saunders, Bushville, Ind. , . 25 1
James A. Ward Delta, Idaho. 35 '
Thos. J. Kitchens, A vera, Ga. 35 '
- H. W. Hann, StevetibvlUe, Onf. 25 '
C. C. Jobes, an Diej?o, Cal. 87 '
' T. H. Olson, Gunder, Iowa. 31 1
W. M. Jones, Alexandria, Ind. 25 1
- ,i..v. ringer, aiervins, wasn. zo
Hundreds upon hundreds of people In all parts
ot the country have been cured by Tobacco
specific. It is a harmless vegetable remedy
made bv a noted chemist of Uncinnati, and is
practically odorless and tasteless. It can be
given in food or drink ntmenl time, and will
positively cure any cas2 without the patient's
knowledge. ""
Taken by the patient binwl fit Is just as cer
tain to enre. It cures all forms ol tobbacco
habit, Whether that ot pipe, cigars, cigarettes,
snnft or chewing.
The Rogers Drug and Chemical Co. , 4026 Fifth
. and Race Sts, Cincinnati, Ohio, will send you,
iree, in plain wrapper, a trial package of Tobacco-Specific,
and the most valuable book on
- the subject ever published, it you will send your
name and address. ...
Railroad Employes
There is no large railway system In
the United States that will employ any
man who is over 35 years of age and
some are discharging all men - who
have-become employes after they were
25. years of -age. The various railways
won't hire a man who has lost even
one joint of a finger' or toe regardless
of the fact that he lost the same in
railway service. They make th em strip
and pass a physical examination, ana
if there is the least defect the appli
cant is rejected. Yet the railroad men
will vote for the railroad manager s
party and oppose the government own
ership of railroads, which if once es
tablished would give them life appoint
ments under the same favorable condi
tions that exist in the postoffice depart
ment. Every railroad employe in the
United States, if he knew -what his own
Interests were, would be a populist.
The policy of the railroads is to em
ploy a man during the few best years
of his life at wages that will barely
support him and then as soon as the
vigor of his youth is gone, blacklist
him and turn him out to die. mat is
what the private ownership of rail
roads does for its employes.
- Flexible Currency
Editor Independent: You will find
enclosed a silver certificate calling for
sixty cents worth of silver under prop-
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er treatment, or one aouar s worm oi
most any old thing you may want. Yet
vou can't be wronged much as the six
ty cents worth of silver will buy as
much paper for The Independent now
asthe dollar did when the order on
the treasury vas issued.
Wonder" if this is what is meant by
"flexible currency" that the banker
talks about? I did not want any dis
count on Watson's magazine, so I sent
an order on the same financial institu
tion for another sixty cents' worth of
silver. - G. W. WAY.
Globe, Arizona.
A New Party
When President Roosevelt undertook
his campaign for federal supervision
of railway rates and federal regula
tion of corporations, he :s reported to
have said to an apprehensive senator,
"I have no intention of being an . An
drew Johnson and splitting my party.'
Is it not possible that out of this storm
and stress of presidential activity
there will come a new party. New
York World. - : ,
SPECIAL MARKET LETTER
South Omaha, Neb., Feb. 16, 1905.
The storm has made very light re
ceipts of cattle and the market is 10
20c higher. It is a good time to get
in if vou can make It, as receipts are
likely to be heavy just as soon as
conditions are better. We quote:
finnd to choiee steers. $4.755.40:
fair ta eood. $4.004.70: cows and
heifers, $2.504.00; choice feeders,
$3.40i.80; light feeders, ?3.0U(8.5u;
e-nnri vfiarlines $3,250)3.50: canners,
$1.502.40; bulls, $2.003.50; veal,
$3.505.75; -milkers and springers, $zo
The hog market is up to about the
highest point of the season. Receipts
are lieht.- Range S4.705.00.
The sheep market has made a new
high record lambs selling for $$7.85. '
It is how 1525c above tne best pre
vious time. : p , V
The lower house of the Kansas leg
islature, yesterday passed by an over
whelming majority a bill locating a
Btate oil refinery at Peru in that state
and appropriating $410,000 for that pur
pose. This is the same bill that re
cently passed the senate and is in line
with the recommendation of Governor
Hoch In his messase to the legislature.
The effect of this legislation will be to
double the price of crude oil and more
than double the profit of production.
The Bueno-Ventura Oil & Gas com
pany of Lincoln, Nebraska, has un
developed oil and sas lands within
three miles of Peru where this great
Kansas state oil refinery has just been
located. To drill oil wells on this land
the company is now offering for sale a
limited amount of its stock at twenty
cents per share, fully paid up and non
assessable. For every $25 Invested in the stock
oi this , company the holder has the
best of prospects for realizing $500
within the next eighteen months. This
is no idle dream. It has been done
in Lincoln within the past year in the
same oil territory as this company's
lands are located and with less favor
able surroundings. It is needless to
sav the Lineoln companies that have
made such strikes have no stock for
sale. They made slow progress in
selling stock when it was for sale..
The public was waiting for a dead
sure thins: with spouting oil wells
The companies now have the sure
thing. Men are telling how they
misht have owned stock in them.
oN oil company ever offered a bet
ter opportunity for a rich paying in
vestment than the Bueno-ventura un
& Gas company now offers. As soon
na sufficient funds are raised drilling
wells will be commented. As soon as
a cood oil well is drilled no more stock
will be sold. There are fifty chances
of striking a big paying oil well to one
chance of failure. A good oil wei
will increase the value of the stock
from 500 per cent to 2,500 per cent
He who invests now with a minimum
of chanoe will get the maximum of
profit. ,
Below we give a map of Peru where
the great Kansas state refinery is to
be built. The map is sectional and
accurately shows the location of tha
lands of the Bueno-Ventura Oil and
Gas company, with reference to the
town of Peru. The lands are east
half of the northwest quarter and west
half of the northeast quarter of sec
tion 33, lying immediately north of
Peru and less than three miles from its
northern boundary. No wells have yet
been drilled on this land, but stock i3
now being offered for Bale for that
purpose.
The Independent rcrarda this stock
as offering cs safe a speculative invest
ment as any that can be made in mat
class of investments. With oil wells
almost surrounding this tract of land
it would seem certain that a well suns
to the proper depth would strike the
same oil lake and be a great producer.
However, lw commending tnis stoat
as a speculative Investment to those
of its readers who are looking for
something of the kind The Independent
can not guarantee a producing on
well. It will guarantee that the money
received from the sale of the stock will
be honestlr an! judiciously expended
for drilling the well and ror tne pro
duction of oil if it is under the land 1
described. The speculator who asks a
greater guarantee will usually fall into
the hands'of some fake promoter who
will promise anything necessary to
make the sale and then disappear from
sight forever.
The Beuno-Ventura Oil and Ga3 Co.
has been organized for the production 11
Of oil and its funds win. De economi
rallv . expended to that end. Every
stockholder will share alike according
to the amount of his Investment,
If vou have a little money for specu
lation send your order for as many
shares as you desire. There is a good
chance that a small investment now
may afford you a handsome Income all
your life.
25 shares $ 6 00
50 shares 10 00
100 shares 20 00
250 share ; 50 00
5.) shares 100 00
If further Information Is desired it
will bj furnlstnd on application.
Maka your lemittances and'drafts or
money orders payable to The Inde
pendent, Lincoln, Neb. Wj will see
to it that your stock is properly issued,
recorded and forwarded without delay.
Map Showing Location of the Lands , of the
Bueno-Ventura Oil & Gas Company
Near Peru, In Chautauqua County, Kansas.
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T5he INDEPENDENT,
Lincoln, Nebr.
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Enclosed find $
for which send me,
shares of non-assessable fully paid stock in the Buena Ventura
Oil and Gas Compauy. ;
Name
1 20 cents per share.
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The above is a photographic reproduction of the standard map of
Peru, Kas., and its vicinity. The circular black dots represent oil
wells now producing. It does not represent all producing wells on the
territory included m the map as they are constantly increasing. Tl he
town of Peru alone has 130 producing oil wells. Ihe lanas of . the
Bueno-Ventura Oil & Gas Co. appear on above map as owned by G. W.
Sharp, who is lessor to the company.
For convenience in- remitting ise order
blank in other column.
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