lATRIL IS, 1905
&3 Nebraska Indopondont
rAOB 15
NEWS OF THE WEEK
A Weekly Resume of the Really Vital New by the Editor
The liar that for. a long time resided
at Che Fop seems to have taken up his
residence" at- Singapore. During the
last few days he has cabled that the
Russian fleet passed, that place headed
for the Yellow sea that it consisted
of 45, 52 and 30 warships; that the
Russian warships were not there and
had gone off to find some other strait;
tbat the bottoms of the Russian fleet
were so foul that the seaweed could
bo seen streaming out behind; that
ten fast Japanese cruisers were always
a few miles ahead of the Russian
squadrons. That has been the run of
the dispatches and every man had tc
make up his own mind as to how much
tiuth there was in them. It seems true
that the Russian warships are moving,
but where they are going no one
knows. The admiral evidently wanted
to convey the impression that he was
on his way to Vladivostok, so he sailed
by Singapore in plain view that it
might be cabled to all the world.
Where Togo and his fleet is no one
knows. Four Japanese cruisers have
been seen since Togo left Japan two
months ago and that is all that any
one knows about the Japanese fleet.
possible to argue for the Russians at
any conceivagle point in strategy, tac
tics and fighting power. For,-while
Oyama probably had a numerical su
periority, Kuropatkin was on the de
fensive. That the Russians fighting a
aerensive battle could have suffered
losses about twice as large as their
enemy's would have been deemed im
possible before the war began.
The Chicago & Alton railroad is
sued an order declaring any employe
would be dismissed that visited race
tracks, dance halls or saloons. The
employes of the road, while not deny
ing that such a rule would be good for
the road, said that it should apply to
all alike and that no discriminations
should be made, that the rule should
apply to the officers as well as other
employes. There was shortly after an
order issued that officials must quit
carrying liquors on their private cars
or entering saloons along the line.
What little news that has come from
Manchuria is to the effect that the
Japanese are planning to invest Vladi
vostok on the land side. It has long
' been blockaded on the sea side., . The
Japs have captured over twenty
steamships, heavily loaded, that have
tried to enter that port Vladivostok
can never be fortified In such a man
ner as Port Arthur was and if the Jap
: anese ever get an army in the rear of
it, it. will not take them long to cap
ture it . If that were done, it would
, be a much more severe blow to Russia
than- the capture of Port Arthur. It
, would cut Russia' entirely off from the
; Pacific, and make the millions- spent
c in building the Siberian railroad al
most entirely unproductive. The value
to Japan in the capture of Port Arthur
was the destruction of the Russian
fleet harbored there.
They have been having some sort
cf a "doings" in Ireland over a co-
coanut that was found on the shores
of the Emerald Isle before Columbus
, 68 lied for America and which has been
- preserved ever since. . It is not re
corded that Columbus ever heard of
that cocoanut.
Meager reports have come from In
dia concerning an earthquake there,
which, when we get the whole story
may turn out to be an awful disaster.
It is said that a large chimney fell
down in the house in which Lady
Curzon was sleeping and fell through
the roof directly over her but was
stopped by the floor and ceiling of
the room Just above her.
'. The president created the office of
' consulting engineer and advisor to
; the directors in the irrigation service
and attached a salary to it of $10,000,
;all of his own sweet will and by his
own imperial authority. Congress has
. never created such an office, indeed, it
-refused at the last sesstion to create
It. If the president on his own initia
tive can create $10,000 places in this
; cff-hand style, over a century of Amer
lean constitutional law must now be
' quickly rewritten.
; Young Phelps Stokes, the million-
- aire who has been devoting his life to
'settlement work is very much aston
. ished at the space that has been given
1 in the newspapers to his proposed
'marriage to Miss Pastor, who once
worked in a cigar factory and later
' The reason of it is that a millionaire
;who does not marry a chorus girl or
:who is engaged in-any work for the
benefit of mankind is one of the great
est curiosities in the whole world.
Official returns by the Russians,
which seem trustworthy, now fix their
total losses in killed, wounded and
prisoners at Mukden at 107,000 men.
The Japanese have acknowledged total
lesses on their side as about 57,000.
These figures contrasted make it im-
Roosevelt, the republican candidate,
carried Chicago by one hundred thou
sand. Five months later, Mr. Harlan,
he republican candidate lost it by
25,000. Here is something to think
about - - ' -
Theordinary man in this country
will be inclined to smile when he hears
that the Russian. police got after the
lawyers the other day. The lawyers
undertook to hold a convention in St.
Petersburg. They had just got well
started in passing resolutions denounc
ing the bureauocracy and demanding
a representative government when the
police pounced upon them and ran
them all out of the hall. Afterwards
these same lawyers got together again
and adopted still more radical reso
lutions, -among which was one advo
cating the arming of the people. In
the early years of this country lawyers
did noble work for freedom, but of late
years they have become the most dan
gerous element in society. They are
makers and defenders of trusts, the
very basis upon which rests all the
evils of which the people complain.
Under their shrewd management the
rich commit crime and escape all pun
ishment, while the innocent poor for
want of money to pay fees are often
sent to prison.
SPECIAL MARKET LETTER
From Nye &. Buchanan Co Live Stock
Commission Merchants, South
Omaha, Nebraska
South Omaha, Neb. April 12.
. The cattle market has held up very
well under liberal receipts so far this
week and the prospects seem good for
a further advance as soon as this run
lets up. Many cattle have come on
the market this week that parties did
rot intend to market until June, and
this will lighten receipts later on. We
look for the highest prices before June
1 We quote:
Choice steers, $6.006.50; fair to
good, $5.005.90; cows and heifers,
$4.005.00; choice feeders, $4.50
5.00; good feeders, $4.004.40; good
yearlings, $4.004.50; canners, $1.50
3.00; bulls, $2.504.00; veal, $3.50
6.50; milkers and springers, $3045.
The hog market has been about
steady for the past week. Range,
$5.255.37. .
Sheep and lambs fairly active and
steady.
Cotton Mill Slavery
I know the sweatshops of Hester
street, New York; I am familiar with
the vice, depravity, and degradation of
the.Whitechapel district; I have vis
ited the Ghetto of Venice; I know the
lot of the coal miners of Pennsylvania,
and I Iknow somewhat of Siberian
atrocities; but for misery, woe, and
hopeless suffering, I havo never seen
anything to equal the cotton mill slav
cry of South Carolina this in my own
America, the land of the free and the
home of the brave!
For the adult who accepts the life
of the mills I have not a word to say
it is his own business. My plea is
ind efenso of the Innocent; I voice
the cry of the child whose sob is
drowned in the thunder of whirring
wheels. Elbert Hubbard.
Want to Fuse With Them?
No democrat wants to follow Tom
Watson as a leader. Mr. Bryan knows
more in a minute than Watson would
know in a lifetime. Besides Mr. Bryan
has all the qualities of statesmanship
while Watson is a mere buffoon a
sort of a clown in politics, with neith
er great principles nor following.
True, he quotes from Jefferson and
other great democrats but he doesn't
follow the teachings of those great
men. So, too, did the Devil and Bob
Ingersoll quote the scruptures but no
body ever accused either of them as
being Christians. Brazil Democrat,
IG MONEY IM OIL Will
Many Nebraska People Receiving Handsome Returns
for Money Invested in the Kansas
Oil Fields.
Roosevelt is out on a hunting expe
dition, the sickening details of which
no one is forced to read unless he
chooses, although there are columns
of it in the dailies. We are told
how he ran down a wolf with a pack
of dogs and then Jumped on it and
captured it alive and lot more such
stuff. He has een in Oklahoma,
Texas, where he had a Rough Rider
round up .and a hunt in a big pasture
on the public domain all fenced in, and
has gone on to Colorado where he is
going to kill more wolves, jack rabbits
and bears. Men have been sent on
ahead of him to round up the- game
and drive it before him, just as is done
when Emperor William hunts. Great
is Teddy. He was going to have those
fences taken down before the election
Now he goes hunting in a pasture on
the public domain all of which is
fenced in.
The Russian lawyers got together a
second time in spite of the grand
dukes and the police and were joined
by all the professors. They passed
the following resolutions:
"The whole of Russia awaits impa
tiently a complete reform in the orga
nization of the government. We be
lieve it to be our duty to declare that
the country is on the verge of a preci
pice. The poverty stricken Russian
people are driven by the malevolence
of the government into agrarian and
industrial revult. The social and eco
nomic questions can not be solved by
the bureauocracy. Political reform is
mperative. Each minute of delay in
creases the anarchy and revolt. The
government should be reformed in ac
cordance with modern principles, rep
resentatives of thep eople should have
he principal influence, and the bu
reaucracy snouid be relegated to a
minor role. .- "
"The reformed government should
be absolutely democratic The people's
representatives should make the laws
and control the administration and the
budget. All class privileges, political
or religious, should be obliterated. The
principle of universal suffrage should
be adopted which will never be ac
complished through the bureaucracy.
Consequently the abolition of every re
striction on liberty of speech, meet
ings and the press should precede the
convocation of the representatives of
the people."
In all lines of business those who
are quick and prompt to act as a rule
are the successful ones. The "early
bird catches the worm" . is the old-
feshioned way of telling the story. The
early settlers in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska and other states, were bold
enough to -risk the hardships and dan
gers of pioneer life.: In it all they sue
ceeded because they, took chances that
their weaker brothers feared to tatte
In their courage was their success.
The same is true in the Kansas: oil
fields. Those who are investing now
will win on a large scale. There are
many citizens in Lincoln who have in
vestments in the Kansas oil fields that
have already paid t $20 for every dol
lar originally invested. We will fur
nish their names ,11 you want them.
The same opportunity Is presented
by the Bueno-Ventura Oil and Gas
Co. for those who-will make invest
ments for developing the property.
It owns 160 acres of oil land three
miles from Peru where the great state
refinery is to be located. In, plain
sight less than a mile distant are the
Alford : wells, the most profitable of
any in the district
The Bueno-Ventura Oil and Gas com
pany has been organized for the pur
pose of sinking wells for the produc
tion of oil. Its funds Will all be used
to that end. Every stockholder will
receive the same consideration, and
the dividends will be paid according to
amount invested. Mr. J. C. McNerney
is president of the company. Col. J.
H. McClay, who is : now serving his
third term as a member of the Ne
braska legislature ' from Lancaster
county, is secretary and treasurer, and
Col. F. D. Eager, of The Independent,
is vice president. Before taking any
part in the organization of the com
pany or opening the columns of The
Independent for its advertising Col.
Eager made a trip through the Kan
sas oil fields and visited and Inspected
thoroughly the Bueno-Ventura Oil and
Gas Company's property and its sur
roundings. He was convinced that the
opportunity for producing oil upon this
land was excellent and became an of
ficer in the company. Independent
readers who wish to invest may be
sure that their interests will be care
fully guarded and protected In every
way, .... . r. , , j -
Only sufficient stock will be sold to
put down the wells and procure the
necessary . pumps and storage tanks.
No construction-work will be com
menced until there is sufficient money
in the treasury to carry it to comple
tion. Nearly two-thirds of the amount
necessary is now on hand. When the
sinking of the wells begins the stock
will be taken off the market. None
will be sold after that. This is to pre
vent anyone from buying the stock at
a low figure after striking oil. Every
provision has been taken to protect
the small investor and secure to him
his rightful share of the profits. The
Independent believes this stock is as
good a speculative investment as can
be found in the oil "fields.
The stock is fully paid and non-assessable.
There is absolutely no lia
bility of stockholders beyond the
amount paid by them for their shares
of stock and they can not be called on
for payment of any sum after they
have received their certificate of
shares.
Twenty cents per share is the price:
25 shares . . , . . . . ... $ 5 00
50 shares 10 00
100 shares 20 00
250 shares . . . . . . . ............ 50 00
500 shares ......... .100 00
If further information is desired It
will be furnished on application.
Make your remittances and drafts or
money orders payable to F. D. Eager,
care of The Independent, Lincoln, Neb.
Bueno-Ventura Oil & Gas Company
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15h INDEPENDENT.
Lincoln, Nbr.
Office Phoc;
517
Residence Phone
497
Dr. J. ML Birkner
Physician and Surgaon
929 0 St : : : : : Lincoln. Neb
Captain.
Commanding Hospital Corps
fiebraak -
,1905
Enclosed find $...... for which send me ........ . .
shares of non-assessable fully paid stock in the Buena Ventura
Oil and Gas Company. .
Name : .
20 cents per share.
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