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Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo,
New York, May 1 to November 1, 1901.
". Japan isembarassed for want of toads.
Hox. W. P. Fbye baa been re-elected
U. S. senator from Maine.
. William A. Clark has been elected
United States senator from Montana to
succeed Senator Carter.
The cotton crop of this conntry as
estimated by a cotton statistician for the
last year is 9,750,000 bales.
The British war office will invite the
enlistment of 5,000 additional yeomanry
for service in South Africa.
. F.-H. Miller, a prominent citizen of
Crete, Nebr., has donated $10,000 to his
city to be nsed in the erection of a
public library.
As the result of a drunken row Sat
. arday Henry Whetstone, a resident of
Bellevue, is lying fatally injured at the
South Omaha hospital.
The late Philip D. Armour once said:
"I am no talker. I made my fortune by
learning to keep my mouth shut. When
the teeth are shut the tongue is at
home."
A fourth pair of twin boys were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Sherman McKinnis in
Farmington township, Illinois, last week.
-All the children are living, and are under
8 years of age.
On January 25th the Thirty-sixth
Regiment of Infantry, United States
Volunteers, will sail from Manila, P. L,
on their return to this country. They
come over on the Pennsylvania.
All preparations are being made in
England as though the death of Queen
Victoria was sure to happen in a few
hours, notwithstanding the bulletin of
Monday evening that her condition was
slightly better.
A ship has arrived at New Orleans that
can carry 28,000 bales of cotton in one
cargo. It is an indication of the demand
for the Nicaragua Canal and a ship
channel in the Mississippi. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Hazino of any kind or degree, whether
at West Point or elsewhere, is simply
bullying, cowardly brutality. Amer
icans love fair play,a and. will, soon or
later, stop hazing by whatever force may
be fonnd necessary.
QnEEN Victoria lies in a comatose
state, and it is said that life is now pro
longed solely by a method of artificial
respiration. A cablegram from Cowee,
Jsle of Wight Jan. 21, 3:45, a. m., said:
"The queen still lives, and there is no
change in her condition."
M. S. Quay, after a bitter fight cover
ing a period of over two years, has been
elected to represent Pennsylvania in the
U. S. senate. Thomas M. Patterson is
the new Colorado senator. James Mc
Millan has been elected senator from
Michigan. North Carolina re-elects B.
F.Tillman as its representative in the
IT. S. senate.
One of the successful and noted men
of the Nineteenth century prophesies
that "fifty years hence the great men of
t,he world will be numbered by fifty
thousands, and of course the mothers
of these men will be equally great, if
they have "rocked the cradle of their
children in the right way. This is a
wonderful world, as wo can- see judging
from the past, and the boys of today and
tomorrow have wonderful opportuni
ties before them, which, if rightly im
proved, will make them great men.
Wallace's Farmer.
Col. It J. ?Polk, general manager of
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, is au
thority for -the statement that the oil
well recently discovered at Lucas, Texas,
is a world beater, and is only the begin
ning of many equally as wonderful wells
which will be brought out in the same
locality as rapidly as drilling rigs can be
shipped there and set to work. Col.
Folk says that the daily output of the
well, at the most conservative estimate,
is 15,000 barrels of oil, and that many
reliable oil-well experts who are on the
ground assert that the How is' as great as
a&VOOO barrels daily.
Tax congressional committee inves
tigating the cases of the deaths of Cadets
'Boocaad Breth and making inquiries
regarding the practice of hazing at the
military institute at West Point, decided
that every witness called must answer
all qBestioM put to him. Congressman
Driggs of Brooklyn said during the
coarse of the bearing: "We are here as
representatives to get all the facts, not
only in the cases of Cadets Booz and
Breth, but.in every particular regarding
hazing in the mess hall or in other
places in this institution. The academy
a trial and every one connected with
it, and we intend to show' the country
the truth of the matter and hazing must
"Casper is the largest wool market in
the United States. Last year 6,000,000
' H poinKlBof wool were brought there for
- eaipaieat. About 5,000,006?. 'pounds of
" this wool' were sent to various eastern
'poiats and 1,000,000 pounds are still in
warehouses awaiting a change in the
market, said C. H. King of Casper,
Wjeaoiog; who. is at the Her Grand.
'Mr. King is a banker in Casper and has
been insasrtinir irnnlrn mills and study
ing the wool market. He has many sheep
of his own and deals largely in wool.
S iTttwi weather has caused a slump
- "the price of wool, Mr. King says, and
the amoant of woolen goods which is
still ia the hands of dealers has a ten
deacy to hold down the price. Omaha
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A young Iowan declares he has a new,
sure cure for consumption, having already
effected ten cures.
Ai to U. 8. Senators.
Under this heading we purpose giving,
from week to week, such information and
speculation as may be of current inter
est Ed. Journal.
Practically all of the political seers
have reached the conclusion that a long
fight is on, with the chances in favor of
ending in a deadlock. They do not look
for Thompson's men to desert him, be
cause he is backed by the strongest or
ganization in Nebraska. More than
that he is a man of iron determination.
His candidacy two years ago, which
everybody admits was weaker than it is
this year, prolonged the fight for weeks.
It is not expected that either Thompson
or Bosewater will give in short of two
months, and the fight cannot come to an
end unless one gives in or the two form
a successful combination. But Thomp
son cannot throw his votes to Bosewa
ter, and that fact sews up the game
tighter than ever. Lincoln Journal,
Jan. 19.
FACTORIES-HOW MANY?
ffnwiMr Factories are am Uaieahtoi
Gee Taiac if Rightly Maaased.
Thi Eatire Western Coaatry Might Safely
be Challeaged for a More Favorable Lora-
tloa, all ThiRgx Considered.
Editor Columbus Journal, Dear Sir:
As the question of locating and building
a canning factory is being agitated, I
desire through your columns to say a few
words regarding it, and more especially
as to the advantages which our irrigation
facilities will have upon the results of
the products raised for and marketed at
a canning factory.
Speaking from a twenty years expe
rience in Colorado and Nebraska in farm
ing by irrigation, I have no hesitancy in
saying that the lands covered by the
Great Eastern Canal are as well adapted
to irrigation as any I have ever seen, and
under a system of good, thorough farm
ing by irrigation, will show results that
will more than astonish the owners in a
financial way.
I am well aware that the average Ne
braska farmer does not take kindly, to
irrigation farming, due mainly to the
mistaken idea that there is too much
hard work about it, and that there is a
certain knack about it that they cannot
master.
Any farmer with good horse sense can
irrigate his crop if he goes about it with
the same ideas that he goes about the
cultivating and raising of a crop without
irrigation, that is, that he will hammer
away at all sides of it and do his best.
There is no hidden art or mystic scien
tific principles that must be applied to
accomplish the desired end, and any one
who is truly interested and anxious to
accomplish the best possible results from
his farming can very easily learn to irri
gate his land and his crop. He will un
doubtedly sooner get it down to a fine
point by questioning an expert or thor
oughly examining his methods, but he
can also learn it by experience and in a
short time.
The location and operation of a well
equipped canning factory means more
for the community of farmers who sup
ply it than any other industry now
operated for the manufacturing of farm
products, the main reason being that
there is less expense in preparing and
delivering the crop than for any other
market.
Sweet corn is "snapped" green and
delivered in the husk by the ton. Peas
and beans in the same manner. Toma
toes direct from the field to the factory,
and all products so delivered need lesj
preparation than for any market using
them in a natural state, and when time
is worUi as much money as it is today,
all these items mean a long string of
figures on the profit side of the pro
ducer's ledger.
Any person who will take time to in
vestigate will find these figures correct
Tomatoes well cared for under irrigation
will produce from 250 to GOO bushels per
acre. They are worth at the factory 20c
per bushel, which means a return of $50
to 120 per acre. Thirty dollars per acre
will cover all expenses, which leaves a
clear profit of $20 to $90 per acre. Any
farmer single handed can until picking
time handle 10 or 15 acres of tomatoes.
Sweet corn will give a profit of from $15
to $25 per acre. Any farmer in Nebraska
knows how much corn he can handle
when he only has to snap it and haul it
to market direct from the. field. Peas
and beans will give a profit of $35 to $60
per acre, and the same ratio holds good
lor any proanci nanaiea by a canning
factory. It is also a well-established
fact that the growing of tomatoes, peas
or beans, or nearly every crop grown and
harvested in a green or unmatured state
and the vines left and plowed under
while green, are of great fertilizing value.
The fact that any and all the reliable
wholesale houses who handle canned
goods are willing and anxious to contract
in advance for the whole output of the
total capacity of all canning factories,
needs no further comment, as to the
question of overdoing the business, or as
to stability of prices in future.
Nebraska canned goods stand at the
head of the list as to quality as relating
to products now canned in this state,
and some of the wholesale firms even
offer a boausover regular prices in order
to control the pack of some of our beet
canneries.
This would be the only locality in this
state that I know of where a canning
factory would be located, that the prod
uct would be raised entirely on lands
under irrigation. As contracts for the
pack are made prior to the manufacture
of the product it is very essential that
the contractor be fully satisfied that the
factory can carry out its contract and
this is only certain where the liability of
drouth to destroy the crop does not
exist And this can only be aamred
where the product is raised by irrigation
So there can be no doubt'as to the suc
cess of a canning factory in this locality,
if competently managed and operated.
As to location of the first factory in
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this vallej, everything considered,
Oconee is undoubtedly the best point
for the following reasons, viz: The canal
is constructed to this point large enough
and is in shape to furnish an ample
supply of 'water for lands in this imme
diate vicinity without further expense
to its owners. We have a diversified
soil entirely adapted to the growing of
all kinds of products for a canning fac
tory, and a good site for the buildings,
embracing suitable and adequate railroad
facilities which can be obtained here
easier and cheaper than at any other
town in the valley.
As to the question of help necessary
to operate the factory while running
(which is from 50 to 75 days, and requires
a force of 60 to 90 persons), it is true that
Oconee has bnt very little resident help
that can be utilized; it is also true that
an establishment of this kind can always
obtain all the help needed when they
pay cash; that help will seek the labor
when they know where it is, and any one
who has had any experience, knows that
a force of non-resident help is more
desirable, easier handled and more relia
ble as to punctuality and every day
attendance than a force whose homes are
where the plant is located, especially
where they are only employed during a
short season of the year.
There is no reason however why fac
tories should not be entirely successful
located at Columbus, Oconee and Mon
roe, as 1500 or 2000 acres of crop is about
the limit that a plant could handle at
either of these points.
The growing of products for scanning
factory fits in perfectly with the growing
of field and garden seeds which is being
very ably and successfully carried on by
many of our farmers, and there are sev
eral products now raised for seeds that
can be utilized, by a canning factory,
after the seeds have been extracted.
Several varieties of squashes and pump
kins can be so utilized. Hubbard
squashes will yield from 10 to 20 tons
per acre, and after the seeds have been
extracted, are worth for canning pur
poses about $2 per ton, which means
from $40 to $75 per acre for squashes;
and there are other products that can
be so treated with like results.
A few of the most prominent reasons
why a canning factory should be built
are:
1st It furnishes a cash market to the
farmer at a season when no other ordi
nary farm product can be marketed.
2nd. It will pay the stockholders,
whether there be one or forty, ten to
twenty per cent on the investment
3rd. It will furnish the local banks an
avenue to handle funds on short time, at
a fair rate of interest on gilt-edge secu
rity, at a time when there is generally a
slack time in the money market.
4th. It will increase in value from $5
to $10 per acre every acre of land within
the limit of the plant It will build up
your town. It will help your canal
interests, will furnish employment to 75
or 100 people while the factory ib work
ing, and many other reasons that time
and space forbid to mention.
There are a great many other details
bearing favorably on this question, one
of which would be the building and oper
ating of a local manufactory for the
making of tin cans to supply the several
millions of cans needed should there be
two or more factories built in this valley.
Also a label printing establishment, etc.
Of course the success of the plant, aside
from the growing of the product, de
pends entirely on its management and
operation. A thorough and experienced
manager of every detail must be had, and
just as essential is a first-class "process
man, who is master of his part of the
business. With these two men at the
head, there is no such thing as fail, for a
canning factory in this locality. I do
not own a foot of land in this locality
and have no ax to grind, but submit
these facts, only because I am always
interested in ihe betterment of the com
munity I am in.
Very truly yours,
E. C. Luce.
Oconee, Jan. 14, 1901.
Capital City Letter.
Lincoln, January 21. (Special cor
respondence). The legislative work is
now at a standstill, practically, depend
ing upon the settlement of the senator
ial contest and so far as can be seen
from the outside there is very little
prospect of an early settlement It is
quite evident that a determined fight is
being made, not so much for two men as
against two men, and the public busi
ness suffers in consequence.
This being the fact it will not be long
until it will be the duty of the republi
cans of the state to 'make a united de
mand for the closing up of the contest
One week more will determine whether
this can beet be done by demanding the
withdrawal of the candidates who are in
any way objectionable to any part of
the state or to any considerable number
of republicans, and then unite in calling
for the election of two men from among
those against whom no objections are
being urged.
Those who are watching the fight
which includes practically every repub
lican in the state, are likely soon to con
clude that the interests of the state and
of the party are of more importance than
the personal ambitions of a few individ
uals, and that unpopular candidates
ought not prolong the struggle.
The governor has announced to a vis-,
iting delegation that the state oil in
spectorship will be given to one of the
members of the legislature in case the
inspection law is not repealed. He does
this to carry out a promise made elec
tion week, and declares that' the ap
pointment will be made without refer
ence to the pending senatorial contest
The various candidates for the chief
place are now hustling for deputyships.
The new normsl school bills are not
making surprising headway, and it is
not believed that even the "log rolling
process will get any of them through.
Many of the members declare that
there will be no extravagant appropria.
tions this session and that they will see
to it that the institutions are provided
in such a way that the pop system of
wholesale deficiencies will be impossible.
Adah Gsanoxk,
Cedar lapide.
From tho Outlook.
The school house in Mike Lamb's dis
trict up the river about ten miles, was
burned to ashes yesterday aaorniag. It
was seen burning soon after daylight,
indicating that it had been set on fire by
someone. '
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George Andrews, who Jives on No. 6,
of the Allerton ranches, met with a
shocking accident last Friday. He was
at the top of a windmill trying to make
somerepairs when his hand was caught
in the cogs and mangled fearfully. At
last reports he was doing well and it
was hoped he would be able to keep his
hand and fingers.
It is not often that we are indebted
to the undertaker for a cheerful piece of
news, but so we consider the remark of
Mr. Beardsley, that few undertakers in
the state have had lees occasion than he
to purchase coffins for children in fact
his orders in this gruesome line during
the past few years have been few of any
kind.
The merchants in towns adjacent to
Fuller ton have had largely increased
trade during the smallpox scare at that
place. Belgrade and Cedar Rapids are
among those who have been benefitted
through the misfortune of our neigh
boring town. The authorities of Ful
lerton are to be commended for their
unselfish effort to keep the full facts
constantly before the public and' for
guarding the public health even at a
sacrifice of busiuess interests. This
will, we believe, prove to be the better
business policy. '
Heal Estate Transfer.
Becher, Hockenberger & Chambers,
real estate agents, report the following
real estate transfers filed in the office of
the county clerk since our last report:
Ida L Bobbins to H E Bobbins,
bw4 sec 2 and nw4 nw4 11-18-
4w,wd $5120 00
G B Speice to C E Pollock, pt
lot 9 blk 1, Turner & Hulst
add to Columbus, wd 1 00
Frank Buggi to Mary Bogus,
sw4 n w4 17-19-2w, qcd 100 00
H E Ayres to B Hassmann, pt
sw4 sw4 17-20 3w, wd 1000 00
M Prorok to OT Boon, sw4 se4
1518-2w, wd 500 00
Catherine Lackey to F J
Stracke, n2 se4 31 and n2 sw4
32-18-lw, wd 6400 00
W H Illian to Addie Stocksla
ger, undivided i of s2 ne4
20-19.3w.wd..... "....'. 1000 00
Jacob Libs to Thomas Lisa, s2
sw4 31-17-1 w, wd. 1000 00
E H Chambers et al Referees to
Mary Horalek. s2 nw4 1019
3w, Referees deed 1950 00
S W Lightner et al to D F Slay
ton, lot 4 sec 7-17-2w, wd . . '. . 150 00
Ella S McDowell to Elmer C
McDowell, se4 27 and nw4 33-19-3w,qcd
100
Pius Peffel sr to Pius Peffel jr,
w2 se44-17-lw, wd. 100
August Sneper to JohnSneper,
e2 nw4 and ne4 sw4 23-20-3w,wd
4900 00
Harriet R Anderson et al to
David Wilkinson, w2 sw4 2
and nw4 nw4 11-18 4w, wd. . . 3000 00
Total $21123 00
Tred Alexander, the negro who
attempted to assault Miss Eva Roth, and
who was supposed to have assaulted and
killed Pearl Forbes in Leavenworth,
Kansas, in November last, was one day
last week taken from the sheriff's guard
and burned at the stake at the scene of
his crime, half a dozen blocks from the
center of the city. Probably 8,000 peo
ple witnessed the lynching. Alexander
was tied to a railroad rail placed upright
in the ground; then coal oil was poured
over his body and 6et on fire. The
wretch protested his innocence to the
last AH violations of law are detrimen
tal to the good of the country, but laws
should be made in the general interest,
and this is tho reason why, in a conntry
like ours, the whole body of intelligent
people should take a lively interest in
public matters, and if objectionable laws
are sometimes enacted, it is best to suffer
their ill effects until they can be repeal
ed. This course will make the individ
ual sovereign voter more careful in his
choice of law-making and law-interpreting
officials. Every violation of law and
good order weakens the bond of society.
There is no doubt but there are some
who show, by criminal acts ot various
grades, that they are unsuited to live
with civilized people, but such brutality
as shown at these lynchings, is itself a
gross violation of law on the part of the
lynchers, the tendency being to brutalize
the community which tolerates them.
Cornelius L. Alvord, jr., the de
faulting note teller of the First National
bank of New York City, was last week
sentenced to thirteen years imprison
ment. The amonnt of his defalcation
was $690,000.
Real Leiioa of the Eleetlea.
Take the free trade states from the
Bryan column, and the latter would
disappear. Not a single manufacturing
state gave him its electoral votes. p ',
This shows that despite the furore
over prosperity on one side and trusts
and imperialism on the other the real
issue with the masses was protection.
Until manufacturing obtained a firm
foothold in Maryland, Delaware and
West Virginia they were reliable Dem
ocratic states. Today they seem firmly
fastened to the Republican column,
and every hive of Industry added
serves to increase the Republican vote.
Increase of manufacturing has also
changed Indiana from a debatable to a
sure state.
The lesson of the recent election Is
that no party can prosper that opposes
the protective tariff. So long as De
mocracy flirts with the free trade Issue
It will have no standing outside or the
south and not a ghost of a show of win
ning a presidential contest Philadel
phia Item.
Where the Tfceerr Baaed.
What more consoling phase of the ef
fect of a Republican administration
upon national conditions could there be
than the haste of the college officials
to declare that they favor the re-election
of McKinley? In the first Cleve
land campaign a majority of them
were for the apostle of free trade. That
was theory, and they got their fill of
what they asked for. Under McKinley
they got fact and they liked It so well
that they are demanding more of It
with a unanimity which, considering
their abstract vocation, is more than
remarkable. The theory ended In the
souphouse. The fact stopped at the
busy mill and savings bank. Philadel
phia Inquirer.
SHIP SUBSIDY BUI.
WHY OUR MERCHANT MARINE NEEDS
. GOVERNMENT AID.' 1
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Rate, That Ce-uta. j
Some sort of ship subsidy bin wfllj
undoubtedly be passed either by. the
Fifty-sixth congress at its last or the
Fifty-seventh at its first session. It
may not be that now before the bouses,
vastly Improved as that measure has
been out of its original speed premiumi
shape. Warned by the experience e
the St Louis convention In declaring,1
for the alluring and logical but imprac-'
tlcable revival of discriminating navi
gation laws, the body which met at
Philadelphia committed itself only to
"legislation which will enable us to re
cover our former, place among the
trade carrying fleets of the world."
Such place would not have been re
gained merely by the building of "ocean
fliers," as planned in the first Hanna
Payne bill Nor is It certain that it will
be even now by the Inclusion of vessels
down to the 12 knot capacity. The
bulk of the world's commerce Is car
ried at nine knots, and not until some
quite unforeseen economies In the fuel
ing and manning of ships are devised
will it be carried faster. A great many
nine knot ships could be put out with
the subsidy of a very few 21 and 19
and 17 knot ships, and when they were
our $700,000,000 agricultural exports
(ten months of 1900) would travel in
American bottoms. Some such law as
that outlined will be passed. It will
not be because the Philadelphia plat
form declares for it This legislation
Is matter of party policy and not nec
essarily party principle, and party faith
would not be broken by a. failure to
enact it It will be passed because
there is no other possible way ot reviv
ing our shipping, and it is unbusiness
like, wasteful and extravagant to al
low our shipping to languish further. V
This truth Is nowhere so plainly;
demonstrated as in an examination ot
the arguments against such a measure.
Not one, so far as we have been able to
observe, fits existing conditions. Each
is beside the point is aimed In the air.
For instance, the New York Times,
stretching its limbs and rubbing its
eyes after a nap in the Catskills, mum
bles drowsily the old formula of "free
ships." Let the American who wants
to freight goods be permitted to buy
his freighter abroad Is its time honored
recommendation. But if the American
bought his ship abroad he would have
to have a subsidy to man it at home.
It Is not the cost of building that keeps
American vessels out of the foreign
trade. Thanks to protection and do
mestic competition, the price of an
American ship is no longer so largely.
In excess of that of a foreign ship as to
make the difference between profit and
loss In the shipping trade. The in
creased Investment owing to the em
ployment of American yards by ship
owners will not, to meet its Interest
charge, call for an appreciable portion
of the subsidy. It is not the cost of
making, but the cost of running a ship
at the American wage rate, that counts.
It Is that whiph gives a foreigner the
advantage of at least one Atlantic voy
age a year. The "free ship" shibbo
leth Is as anachronistic a survival of
good old colony .times economically as
was "God save King George!" of good
old colony times politically.
So the smug, self contained observa
tion of the Boston Evening Record as
"to the time and period of our lead in
the abundance and cheapness of fuel
and steel" being the "least logical" of
all "occasions for the passage of a
ship subsidy bill" Is for the same rea
son merely inane. We are not to sub
sidize shipbuilders, but shipowners. It
Is wages and not material which sup
ply the prohibitive obstacle to their
pursuit of foreign trade which the sub
sidy would overcome.
The great Increase in shipbuilding is
taken by other journals, notably The
Evening Post, as an argument against
the bill. But this not merely misses
the mark, it rebounds in boomerang
fashion. There is no increase worthy
of mention, as we have before demon
strated from the commissioners' report
save In the protected shipping trade.
Cuyahoga creek, not the Delaware, is
the Clyde of America. The fresh wa
ter town of Cleveland has taken the
palm from generations of Philadelphia
shipwrights. Our great steel tonnage
is being laid down 500 miles from the
ocean. It is there and in the increased
coasting trade to Hawaii and Porto
Rico that nine-tenths of our unsubsi
dlzed Increase of shipping is found.
The other one-tenth Is due to the ex
pectation of the subsidy. The big Pa
cific freighters were ordered as soon
as the 12 knot amendment went Into
the bill.
No one, we fancy, today gives much
heed to the parrot cries of "Steal!" at
this appropriation of public money.
Every one interested in the subject
knows by this time that no nation's
commerce has been developed except
by such a "steal." This is the single
industry which universal experience
has indicated as the proper recipient
of a bounty. Germany may subsidize
beet sugar, Japan cotton manufactures,
Canada beef cattle, but all countries
except the United States subsidize
ships. In consequence international
commerce has grown In the last cen
tury 1,233 per cent while international
population has grown 135 per cent
If one cannot indict a people, how can
one indict a world?
A policy against which every shaft
aimed falls with such' foolish futility
to the ground is certain of adoption
through the Intrinsic cogency of its
merits. New York Press.
pOUBSE0F C0NGBESS
THE WINTER SESSION WILL BE AN
IMPORTANT ONE.
t
leslsIatlYe a Exeeatlve Depart
aacata Prepare to Carry late Ef
feet the Policies Reaafc
lleaalaaa. t
The(general elation which has been
Canifested throughout the Industrial
id commercial centers of the country
over me results of the elections has
found a complete reflex in the political
world of the nation's capital. Mem
bers of the administration and the
representatives and senators are de
lighted that the Republican victory
was so emphatic and that the BeDub-
lican majority in congress was Increas
ed. This means that the policies of the
administration with respect to econom
ic questions and the relations of the
country to the Islands wrested from
Spain win receive fair consideration at
the hands of a friendly legislative body.
The affairs of the nation in respect to
economic and financial laws will be
conducted upon sound principles which
have given the country prosperity dur
ingjtbe.past four years, and which will
Increase the prosperity and well being
of the people during the next four
years..
It hi also gratifying to everybody
that the result was so emphatic in
upholding the present policies of the
nation. It leaves nothing to be desired
In this regard. The people spoke plain
ly m favor of continuing the existing,
status. They want no departure from
the policy of protection to the Indus
tries of the land; they want no change
In the financial laws that would tend
to debase the nation's currency; they
want the Philippine question decided,
so far as present conditions are con
cerned, by. the establishment of the au
thority of the United States In those
Islands and the Immediate putting
down of the Tagal insurrection, the
question as to what is to be done with
the Islands to be determined later by
the chosen legislators of the country
In congress, but the plainest point de
termined by the elections is that the
people believe in the soundness of the
present economic policy of the country,
which Is based upon protection to the
Industries of the United States and
upon which the prosperity our people
now enjoy Is securely based.
Everybody, Democrats as well as
Republicans, Is looking for a tremen
dous Impetus In industry and trade,
foreign and domestic, as a result
of the great Republican victory. Mil
lions of dollars of capital that were
held In idleness awaiting the result of
the elections will now be let loose into
the channels of trade and industry.
Contracts for machinery, rolling stock
for railroads, Implements, manufactur
ed commodities and farm produce
which were held back In fear that the
unexpected might happen will now be
carried out with the result that busi
ness everywhere will Improve. There
is every Indication of an improvement
In foreign trade, and shipments of
products from this country abroad will
rapidly Increase.
The status of the federal revenues is
very satisfactory and certainly gives
promise of a speedy lessening of taxa
tion a part at least of the taxation
that was made necessary by the war.
Notwithstanding the heavy drafts up
on the treasury Incident to the begin
ning of the fiscal year. July 1. when
millions of dollars are required to meet
Internal Improvement contracts, the
treasury Hnancial statements begin to
show a surplus. The customs tariff
law, that sound piece of Republican
protection legislation known as the
Dlngley law, Is meeting the expecta
tions of its friends in the most ad
mirable manner. The October receipts
from customs aggregated more than
$20,000,000. This is a splendid show
ing and, taken in connection with the
great good which the protective law Is
doing in preserving the markets of our
country for domestic producers, brings
unexampled benefits to the whole coun
try. The receipts from customs during
the month were only seven millions
less than those from Internal revenue
taxes, Including the great fund drawn
to the treasury by the war revenue act
It is possible that there may be a
slight Increase in the expenditures on
account of the war department during
the next few months, as a result of ac
tive efforts to put down the insurrec
tion in the Philippines. It Is stated at
the department that every effort will
be made to that end, and confidence is
expressed that a peaceful situation will
be produced in the islands very soon.
The problem will confront congress at
this session bow to provide against the
enforced decrease in the army. The
volunteer, troops now serving in the
Philippines will soon be on their way
home, as .their terms of service expire
next July. It will be necessary for
congress to meet this emergency and
to provide for such effective force as
may be required to preserve peace and
protect life and property In those dis
tant islands.
The Vote la the Seath.
The southern states polled less than
one-fourth of the votes cast in the 45
states In the Union, although they must
have about one-third of the population
of the country. The average propor
tion of voters to population Is about
one in seven, or an average far below
what prevails In the northern states.
This absence of interest in national
political questions Is not healthful, but
it will doubtless continue as long as
present conditions prevail In the south.
Philadelphia Press.
A Reaalt ef Presvexitr.
The publishers of the Buffalo Morn
ing Express are so confident of pros
perity now that McKinley has been re
elected that they announce the price of
the paper will hereafter be only 1 cent.
East Aurora (N. Y.) Advertiser.
What Attracts Theam.
. "It Is perfectly natural," said one
whose own business takes him about
more or less, "that a man should be In
terested wherever he may be in things
pertaining to his own business. I know
I am ln-mine. When I strike a strange
place, I like to go through the quarter
where they carry on the business that I
am engaged in and see how taey run
things in It there. But I have lately
met with two illustrations of this sort
of thing that seemed to me to be rather
curious as well as Interesting.
"Talking with a New York paint
manufacturer about paint of a certain
kind, the paint man said Incidentally
that he had seen paint of that color on
walls in Pompeii. Oddly enough, the
other curious illustration arose out of
the same ancient city. A New Yorker
engaged In the manufacture of lead
pipe said, incidentally to something
that he was telling me about lead pipe,
tfiit be had found in Fompell lead pipe
In fair condition, this pipe, while cov
ered with an Incrustation that had
gathered upon It in the long time It bad
been buried, yet cutting with as bright
and perfect a cleavage as though it bad
been made yesterday instead of many
centuries ago.
These two things Interested some
what the paint man and the lead man
respectively, and they certainly Inter
ested me." New York Sun.
Ta a it Dltat Kmw.
"Oh, my dear daughter," to a little
girl of 6, "you should not be frighten-.
ed and run from the goat. Don't you
know you are a Christian Scientist?"
"Tin momma " av-MtcLrtltr "th hlllc.
goat doesn't know It" Trained Moth
erhood. $600 far Letters About V ebratka.
The Burlington Route offers twenty
prizes, aggregating 3500, for letters
which can be nsed in encouraging immi
gration to Nebraska.
The firat prize is a round trip ticket
from any Burlington Route station in
Nebraska to Yellowstone Park, and a
complete trip through the Park, includ
ing stage transportation and fire and a
half days' accommodations at the hotels
of the Yellowstone Park Association
value $100.
The second prize is a ticket to Denver,
thence to the' Black Hills, and $25 in
cash value $75. i
Particulars can be obtained by ad
dressing J. Francis, G. P. A., Burlington
Route, Omaha, Neb. 2jan8t
lUmLIIGTOW 10UTI.
Lew latas, Waft and Mertawest.
At a time of year when thousands will
take advantage of them, the Burlington
Route makes sweeping reductions in its
rates to the West and Northwest to
Utah, Montana, Washington, Oregon and
British Columbu.
Dates: February 12, 19 and 26.
March 5, 12, 19 and 26.
April 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30.
Rates are shown below:
To Osdea. Salt Lake, Kattr. Hel-) 40
eaa, Aaacoada aal Jl imeala ) ()
To All feiatft ea the Northern 1
Facile Ry.wert of Miwoala.
Iaeladiag Saohaae. Seattle,
$28
TacoBM, Portlaad, aa well aa
Vaacoaver aid Victoria. B. V. j
To All Poiata oa the Spokaae 1
Falls Xarthrra Ky.aad the
Washiactoa Colaartte River .'
.$28
K.R. - - - J
Never has the Pacific Northwest been
as prosperous as now. Labor is in con
stant demand and wages are high. The
money making opportunities are beyond
number in mines, lumber, merchandis
ing, farming, fruit raising, fishing, and
all the other industries of a great and
growing country.
Literature on request free.
J. Francis, Gen'l Passenger Agent,
Omaha, Neb. S-jan-14
-WANTED-ACTIVE MAN OF GOOD Char
actor to deliver and collect in Nebraaka for.okl
established manafactorioK wholesale hooae.
SKJU a year, aura pay.. Hoavoty inoiv than ezpe
rienctt required. Our reference, any bank in any
city. Enclose aelf-addreeeed stamped envel
ope: Manufacturers, Third Floor, :B1 Dearborn
St.. Clu'caid Knicli
IFGOING EAST
or south of Chicago ask your local
ticket agent to route you between Omaha
and Chicago via the
CHC
'Milwaukee
fi
the shortest line between the two cities.
Trains via this popular road depart
from the Union depot, Omaha, daily,
connecting with trains from the west.
Magnificently equipped trains, palace
sleepers and free reclining chair cars.
Dining cars and buffet, library and
smoking cars. All trains lighted by
electricity. For full information about
rates, etc., address
F. A. Nash,
General Western Agent, l.r04 Farnam
St., Omaha.
H. W. Howell,
Trav. Freight and Pass. Agt.
The Journal
For all kinds
-of NEAT-
Job P&INTIXn.
ESTRAY NOTICE.
Taken np, at my place seven miles north and
four miles ent of Colambas, December '1, 1HU).
ONE SPOTTED RED AND WHITE; HEIFER
about two years old. The owner will please
prove property and pay expenses.
I9nn! I.
23jan5
John Ahbzns.
LEGAL NOTICE.
The Htatk or Nebraska,
tfennty of Platte,
In the matter of the estate of Thomas If. Parrr.
deceased, late of said county.
At a tteHttion of the county court for said coun
ty, holden at the. county judge office in Colnm-
bn, saul county, on the l.th day of January.
1901: nreeent. T. D. Kobison. count v indim. Ob
reading and tiling the duly verified petition of
(irim'th Parry, administrator, praying that au
thority be granted him as such administrator to
mortgage the south weat quarter of section thirty
one, township nineteen north, range two west of
the 6th P. M., for a sum sufficient to redeem said
land from a mortgage now due and unpaid.
Thereupon. 'it is ordered that the'JSthday of
February. A. D. 1901, at 2 o'clock, p. in., be
assigned for the hearing of said petition at the
county judge's office in said county.
And it is further ordered, that flue and legal
notice of the pendency and hearing of said
petition be given by publication in Thk Colum
bus Joubxal for fourconsecntive weeks prior
to said day of hearing.
f.SKAL.1
T. D. KOBIHON,
County.Jndge.
PROBATE NOTICE FOR EXTEN
SION OP TIME.
In the county court of Platte county, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of John Wise, de
ceased. Notice is hereby given to all persona interested
in the estate of John Wise, deceased, that Charles
11. Wiset administrator of said estate has made
application to said county court to have the
time extended for paying the debts, and settling
said estate to the 8th day of June, 190L.
Said matter will be heard before the judge of
said county court, at the court house in Colum
bus, Nebbraaka, on the 21th day of January, 1901,
at 2 o'clock p. m., when and where all persons
desiring to oppose may appearand be heard, and
this notice is ordered published in Thk Colcx
bus Journal, two weeks successively prior to
wild day of hearing.
Columbus, Nebraska, January 8. 1901.
SEAL.
T. W. KOBISOX.
16jan2
County Judge.
M. C. CASSIN,
PKopBirroa or thk
OnukMealU
Fresh, and
Salt Meats.
Game and Fish in Season.
JavHighest market prices paid for
Hides and Tallow.
THIRTEENTH ST.,
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA
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