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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-02-01
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subsistence and the pay departments
Of the army. Responsibility for army
supplies is no longer to be divided
among several departments. Hereto
fore the quartermaster's department
has provided furniture for the mess
rooms. the ordnance department the
mess kits. but not the ovens, the sub
sistence department the food. while the
cooks enlisted by the adjutant gener-
ais department. received their pay
from the pay department. The subsist-
ence department did not feed the
horses The same arbitrary division of
functions which may have had Il rea-
son for being some time but has none
now has made confusion and defeated
attempts to locate the responsibility
for mistakes.
Secretry Roots plan substitutes one
partments whose functions are confus-
three separate and inharmoniOus de
parements whose functions are confus-
ingly mixed and overlap one another.
In the new classification one branch
will supply clothing and subsistence,
IA second will have charge of the dis
bursements, Il third of transportation
and Il fourth of construction. Each
division is headed by u brigadier gen
eral, and at the head of the whole is
Il ma general The simplification of
the present system is apparent to those
who studied the reports and complaints
of the bad hospital conditions ut the
time of the Spanish American war.
Last year Secretary Root made the
first step in the moderniZation of the
army when staff officers We're detailed
To their positions instead of holding
them permanently in accordance with
his recommendation. The Sun says
that The detail system applied to the
new supply department will keep its
officers in touch with the needs of the
line of the army. as they vary from
time to time. and can be applied To the
new bureau as to the old staff.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-02-01
Camilla Uno

Born at Nantes in France on June
IL, 1912, and died at the New York In
Urinary on January 90 1902, Camilla
Urso. In the sixty years that lie be
tween these dates Camilla Urso became
one of the few great violinists of the
world. Her father was a fiutist in the
opera at Nantes. When she was six
years old she began the study of the
pearance a year later. Her work
showed the unmistakable signs OF
genius and she was sent to the Paris
ConServatOire. When she was ten
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-02-01
City Council

The citizens of Lincoln are more and
more suspicious of a council whose
members are afraid to wait for their
opinion upon a measure so important
as the cessiOn of a part of one of the
down town streets to a railroad. At
recent meeting the city council grant
ed leave to the Elkhorn railroad To lay
a track on Ninth street. Anticipating
objections from the property owners
and the citizens whose property they
gave away the usual procedure was ig
nored and the bill was read and re
read and voted for all in one evening
The ruse recalls the gas contract
which Mr.. ID. f. Thompson induced
the council to accept in the
same way. without allowing time
for discussion. The salary of
twenty-five dollars a month which
councilman receives is trifling
and he has just as much right to piece
it out with the price of concessions as
the state treasurer has to loan the
school money and keep the interest on
il. 1t is unreasonable to expect great
er scrupulOusness of city cOuncilmen
than of state treasurers. But the city
taxpayers seem to be hypnotized.
There is Il picture on the billbOards
representing four men resting on one
man whose head and heels rest on
chairs. The subject is supposed to be
unconscious and to be held rigid by
the will of the operator. The burdens
carried by the taxpayers of this town
are as burdensome and as unneces-
sary. The catalepsy of the citizens
who supply the tissue on which the
confirmed office holders stand is com
plete.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-02-01
A Reorganized Department

In case of another war and sudden
mobilization of troops it is not likely
that there will be so much trouble
about the hospital supplies, fodder and
food for the volunteers Secretary
Root will soon recommend to congress
the abolition of the quartz, masters.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-02-01

The report of the Interstate com
merce commission addressed to the
congress of the United States alleges
that five OF six shippers of packing
house products get large rebates from
the railroads that distribute their
goods over the country.
Railroads are Incorporated for the
purpose of making money. There is
no historical reason for believing that
the men who built and have operated
them are philanthrOpists who consider
that by means of railroads the human
race is to be introduced to each other,
Chinese walls broken down and fra
ternity firmly established. Neither did
they build the railroads to give a large
number of men employment and save
them from the DEVILS trap for idlers.
The railroads that lace Nebraska have
brought settlers to the state and the
settlers have plOwed, seeded and har-
vested the state, hauled their grain to
the stations and sent it from coast to
coast of this country. The relations of
the settlers and the railroads are inter
dependent, they are internationally, I'M
changeably mutual Although railroads
and steamboats, are mixing races and
removing prejudice, although they give
employment to millions of men, they
We're built because men who had money
thought they could add brains. brav-
nd hi
make the consolidation earn more mon
ey than the government was willing to
pay on its bonds. Men build railroads
for the same reason that they dig for
gold and for no other, but they are
much more likely to find gold in the
dusty cattle. coal and grain cars than
in the virgin Lodges Of Colorado and
California
There is a difference the world over
between the wholesale and the retail
price of articles. The poor woman
who goes to the coal dealer carrying a
bushel basket to be filled with coal
pays larger price for her busheI than
her more prosperous neighbor who
the poor woman soliciting her custom,
while the man who pays half as much
but buys a great deal is besieged by
dealers offering a special rate. The
coal dealer is in business for money.
The large advertiser can buy fifty
thousand inches in the newspaper
cheaper than the man who wants a
hundred. But if there were no com
petition the man who had to have a
hundred inches could get them as
cheaply as the man who had to have
fifty thousand. Just remember this
Everybody is in business for money.
for all the money it is possible to make
and stay on this side Of the peniten-
tiary walls.
The report of the interstate com
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-02-01

ing more unpopular and disgraceful.
The constant enunciatiOn of an idea
and of earnest convictions produces
conviction and a change of conduct in
the erstwhile careless. The w. c. T.
u. is somewhat of a busybody. The
members are strenuous minded women
with a conviction that continual reso-
buttons, Investigations, speeches and
objections will lessen the amount of
whisky men drink and eventually pre-
vent it's being offered for sale. Since
the society was organized, there is no
doubt that drinking has steadily lost
caste. Whether the efforts of the so
ciety have accomplished this result or
whether it is the effect of u slowly de-
velOping public opinion, of which the
w. e. 4. U. is "a part, nobody knows.
We have certainly progressed. A hun
bred years ago it was not disgrace
to get drunk. 1t was expected that
gentleman would freely imbibe and
when he drank more than he could
walk straight with, it was a peccadillo.
In the case of the young man whom
whisky inclined to murder. he had
been drunk before and had learned the
effect of the drug upon him. He knew
that as soon as he had swallowed
certain amount that he should want to
kill someone. The murder, therefore,
was not the fault of the rumseller or
of whisky but it was the fault of the
youth who drank the whisky. The w.
&. T. U. creed blames the rumseller or
the whisky.
In the commons newly built and in
stituted by Harvard college beer is to
be sold by the authority of the govern
ors: of the university. The institution
is intended to bring the students of the
university together in sOciable recogni-
ton of their college fellowship. 1t is
hoped to produce the same fraternal
spirit on tap in the beer halle fire.
quented by the university students of
Germany. Cambridge is prohibition
town and it is claimed as great hard
ship that the Harvard students can
not get a drink in Boston later than
IL o'clock p. m. The commons will
be organized as a club and the stu
dents can get all the beer they want
at any time they want it. The atten-
ton of the w. C. T. U. is directed TO
this matter. There is no Harvard pre-
cedent for the innovation and the time
to break up a habit is before it is
formed.
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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-02-01
The IsthmiAn Canal

In all the continents isthmuSes CON
China when the two words Isthmian
canal are spoken, the Chinese know
the projected canal connecting the At
lantic and Pacific and dividing North
from South America is referred to.
Not the least of the advantages of the
Panama site over any other is the fact
that the area has been thoroughly sur
veyed and experimental upon for
nearly a quarter of a century. The
engineering difficulties are appreciated
and mapped. The contractors by con
sulting the elaborate specifications and
maps prepared by the De Lesseps' en-
gineers can approximate within a few
thousand dollars the cost of the fin
ished canal. The Nicaraguan site is
untried. 1t has its advantages. The
disadvantages and problems are I'M
known. But we do know that the
Nicaragua canal must be more than
twice as long, more tOrtuous, and at
each terminus a harbOr must be built
The recommendation of the Isthmian
Canal Commission since the offer of
the French owners to sell right of way,
machinery, maps, plans and the record
of all experiments to the United States
for s4O.OO0,00O in favor of the Panama
route should have a strong influence
upon the senate, in spite of the Nicar-
aqua lobby that pushed the Nicaragua
bill through congress. Every great
enterprise is paid for in the blood of
human beings. 1t is as though an
angel stood at the gate and demanded
his price in life. Hundreds of men
have died in the great trench which
extends a third of the way from the
gulf to the Pacific in Panama. The
dusky men who dug and operated the
machinery of digging in the Panama
route have paid the price. Their flesh
is dust. Climatic conditions have also
been studied and conquered in Panama.
1t is now possible to go on with the
work in comparative safety. Cheap
ness, sanitation, directness. expert
mental treasure, all are on the side of
Panama. On the Nicaragua side is an
impalpable something of which the peo-
pie are very distrustful. At any rate
the congressman refused to listen to
the reasons for selecting the Panama
route and passed the bill locating the
canal in Nicaragua. The wisdom of
an upper house is never more apparent
than on such occasions as this where
the lower house alleges as sufficient
reason for ignoring business consider
atoms that the French company had
once asked too high a price for the
property.
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The Advantages of Competition

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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
A STEAMSHIP TRUST.
All the Great Transatlantic Lines
Controlled by ]. P. Morgan.
e Is 10 Be American Pool with the Con-
trolling Interest in New York
Capital VIII BE $780,
0DO.oC0.

New York, April ELI. p. Morgan,
who is now abroad, has practically
contaminated plan to combine all
the leading transatlantic steamship
lines London dispatches to the Assoc
ciated press announcing the combina-
ton were confirmed at the Morgan
banking house. The companies to be
consolidated will, it is understood, in
clude the American and Red Star
lines, White Star line, Dominion line,
Atlantic Transport line and the Ley
land line. Probable additions to this
list are the Cunard, Wilson and Hol-
land-American companies, and it is
understood that a working agree
ment" viii be reached with the other
leading transatlantic companies.
Mr.. Morgan has given the matter
much of his time since his arrival on
the other side. 1t is too early yet
to give the exact scope of the scheme,
but as now outlined there will be an
American holding company into which
all the steamship companies which
propose to enter the combination Will
put their stock holdings-',pool their
issues"-in exactly the same way that
the various concerns embraced in the
United States Steel corporation threw
i'll their holdings, receiving in return
stock of the main parent company.
Just what the capitalization of the
company will be is not yet known
but the amount is likely to be well
in excess of S15o,OOo, 600. This phase
of the project Will depend entirely
upon the number of steamships taken
into the combination.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
A PoSTMASTER'S DISCOVERY.

Lancaster, n. Y, April 21st.-Mr.
John Remers, postmaster OF this viii
lage, was taken with Diabetes four
years ago. For two years he doc
tored with local physicians as well as
several specialists from Buffalo, but
got no better. Indeed hewas gradually
growing worse.
He stopped taking the doctors med
icine and commenced treatment OF
Dodd's Kidney Pills. He. used in all
about ten boxes and is as strong and
well to-day as ever he was.
He attributes his recovery to noth-s
ing but Dodd's Kidney Pills and says:
IF could only talk veminutes to
every one who has Diabetes I am sure
I could convince them that they
needn't suffer moment longer when
Dodd's Kidney Pills are on sale in
every drug store. >.
81 will cheerfully answer any letters
from sick men or women, as L think
every Diabetes sufferer should be told
of DOdd's Kidney Pills the remedy that
saved my life"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
OF MINOR MENTION.

In 1871 Germany had only eight
cities with over 100000 inhabitants
Now she has 80.
A palm-tree which grows on the
banks of the Amazon has leaves 50
feet to so feet in length and ten
feet to IL feet in breadth.
Engaged girls in Denmark wear q
plain gold ring on the third finger
of the left hand. When they get
married the ring is moved to the
third finger of the right hand.
The cows in Belgium wear ear
rings. The law DEGREES that every
cow when it has attained the age OF
three months must have in its ears
a ring to which is attached a. num-
bered metal tag.
The oldest steam engine now at
work is believed to be the. New
comen winding engine at Farme Col
Eery, Rutherglen. near Glasgow. It
was built in 1909, and has worked
continuously to the present time.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
TO DECIDE BY BALLOT.
eB0ers Will Take Three Weeks Time t.
Dispose of the British Propositions
for Peace.

London, April 19.-The government
leader, A. j. Balfour, in the house OF
commons Friday made the following
Important statement: "After two
conferences between Lord Miner, the
British high commissioner of South
Africa and Lord Kitchener and the
Boer delegates at Pretoria, Lord
Kitchener, while refusing to grant
dn armistice- on military grounds,
has agreed to give facilities for the
election and meeting of representa-
tives of the various Boer commands
to consider the position. The Boer
leaders have, therefore, left Pretoria
to- carry out this plan" Mr.. Balfour
added that it was not expected that
communication between the British
authorities and the Boer delegates
could be resumed in less than three
weeks times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
LEADERS DEFEATED.
Democrats and "Insurgent'' Repub.
licans Overthrow House Speaker.
Cuban Reciprocity Bill Was Passed, But
Not Until the DinerentIaI on Sugar Had
Been Removed-Climax OF Sem
-sationaI Struggle.

Washington, April 19.-The demo-
Gratis and the republican insurgents
rode rough-shod over the house lead
ers yesterday when the voting began
On the Cuban reciprocity bill. They
overthrow the ruling of the chair in
committee of the whole on the cues
ton OF the germaneness of an amend
ment to remove the differential from
refined sugar during the existence
OF the reciprocity agreement pro
vided for in the bill. The vote to
overrule the decision of the chair.
made by Mr.. Sherman, of New York
was III to 100, republicans to the
number of 81 joining with a solid
democratic vote to accomplish this
result. Having won this preliminary
victory, the amendment was adopted
in committee, 1854 to III, and later in
the house by still larger majority,
100 to los. On this occasion Ga re-
publicans voted with the democrats
for the amendment. The bill then
was passed by an overwhelming ma
jority, PAT to SO.
An analysis of the vote shows that
124 republicans and 1913 democrats
voted for the amended bill and AZ re.
publicans and ten democrats against
it. The voting on the bill was the
elimination of long struggle which
began almost with the opening of
this session of congress and after two
weeks of continuous debate, during
which much bitterness was aroused.
Yesterdays debate was of an exceed
ingly lively character, the feature be-
H. ~ i
cratic caucus. To that caucus the
defeat of the republican leaders who
sought to pass the bill without
amendment is attributable. Previous
to the holding of the caucus the dem
ocrats were very much divided and
the opposition of the republican beet
sugar men showed signs of disin-
tegrating.
The bill MS passed authorizes the
president, as soon as may be after
. the establishment of an Independent
government in Cuba and the enact
ment' by said government of immi-
grafton, exclusion and contract labor
laws as restrictive as those of the
United. States, to negotiate a recip-
rocal trade agreement with Cuba
by which, in return for equivalent
concessions, the United States will
grant a reduction of 20 per cent. from
the Dingiey rates on goods coming
into the United States from Cuba.
such agreement to continue until De.
6 cember j, 1903. During the existence
of such agreement the duty on re-
fined sugars and all sugars above
No. 16 Dutch standard is to be 1927
per pound.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
CUBAN POSTAL SERVICE.
or the 71S Persons Employed in Handling
the Islands Mail Only 90 Are
Americans.

Washington, April 1s.-The postal
administration of Cuba, according to
report Postmaster General Payne
received yesterday, is in a healthy
condition, and established firmly upon
a basis of permanent success. The
revenues approximate $1,000 day.
There are us persons on the postal
pay rolls, including star route con-
tractors. Thirty-three employees are
Americans. American employees,
however, are resigning, and the serv-
ice is becoming more completely Gu
BANKED. Except for the American
postmaster at Santiago, the service
outside of Havana already is wholly
in the hands of the Cubans.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25

scurvy and Typhoid Fever Taking OF
Peasants In the HighIands-No Grain
for Seed and Fodder Scarce.

St. Petersburg, April 19.-Reports
received here from the famine-strick-
en- districts of Russia more than JUS
tify the anticipations of acute suffer
ing in those localities. Scurvy and
typhoid fever are devastating the
peasantry throughout the whole of
the Altai Highlands of Siberia) re-
gions, formerly the chief granary of
Siberia. The starving people there
have consumed even the last rem
nants of their seed grain and no
spring crops have been sown. In
some places the scarcity of fodder is
SO great that half the houses have
been unthatched to save the lives of
the cattle and horses.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
STABLES BURNED.
Nearly Fifty Horses Lose Their Lives ir
Fire at Kansas City-Much Hay
and Feed Consumed.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 19.-Be-
tween 40 and so horses were burned
to death, several others were so
badly scorched they had to be killed,
and hundreds of tons of hay, with
several thousand bushels of oats and
other feed, were consumed last night
by fire which 81 ed shortly after
six o'clock and totally destroyed the
three-story brick building on Seventh
street between May and Central, oc-
cupied by the general offices and
stables of the Depot Carriage and
Baggage company.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
Steamer on the Ohio River Near Cairo
Burned and Only Half of the $50
Passengers Were Saved.

Cairo, ILL.,, April 21.-One of the
worst disasters in the history of river
navigation occurred shortly before
four o'clock yesterday morning near
Ogden's landing, near this city.
While almost all aboard were asleep
the steamer City of Pittsburg was
discovered on fire and in few mo-
ments was burned to the waters
edge. The loss of over $4,000 on the
steamer does not include the cargo,
both being a total loss. The latest
estimates are that there were $50
persons on board and that no more
than half of them were saved, many
of the latter being burned or injured.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
RESERVATION TO BE OPENED.
-Four Hundred Thousand Acres of the Rose
bud Indian Lands for Settlement
This Coming Summer.

Omaha, Neb., April 19.-Defnite in
formation of the extent and loca-
ton of that portion of the Rosebud
Indian reservation to be opened for
settlement the coming summer was
received yesterday by General Pas
senger Agent Buchanan, of the Ere
mont, Elkhorn &c Missouri Valley
railroad. There are 100000 acres in
the part being opened, located in the
southwest corner of the reservation
and in Gregory county, S. D. 1t is
oblong in shape and it's longest di-
mansions, north and south, are Sc
miles and from east to west &c miles
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Little Girl Killed In Chicago.
COULD NOT AGREE.
The Jury In the Case Against William
Strother, Charged with NJ llionaire Coop
er's Murder, Discharged.

ST. Louis, April 21.-The jury in
the case against William Strother.
the negro charged with the murder
of A. Deane Cooper, the millionaire
who was killed in a bath house sew
era1 months ago, was unable to agree
on verdict after being out all Sat,
urday night, and at an early hour
yesterday morning was discharged
by Judge Ryan. The jury stood seven
for acquittal and five for conviction.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
w. Fl. Means Hold for incest.

Muscogee, I. T., April 19.-W. 81.
Means, the Lexington, Mo-, farmer
who killed his niece, Miss Lydia
Means. at .Henryetta early Tuesday
morning, was discharged yesterday
at Wewoka. The evidence showed
that he killed the woman in self-de-
Tense and after she had seriously
stabbed him. Means was held, how
ever, for incest. Relatives from Mis-
souri, were present and furnished
bond
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Sunday Laws in BOSTON Enforced.

Boston, April 21.-Never before has
Boston seen such a vigorous enforce
ment of any law on the statute books
as that given the Sunday laws yes
terday. Drug stores, fruit dealers,
bakeries and laundries were the OBJ
jects of the police attack. From one
end of the city to the other soda
fountains were silent, candy counters
covered and idle and fruit stores
closed. On the other hand the ho-
tells did a rushing business, as liquor
could be sold by them to patrons or
dering food.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
A Beef Trust, Says rammany.

New York, April 21.-After making
a thorough examination of the evil
dence of the existence of conspiracy
among the beef trust concerns, the
special committee appointed by the
executive committee of Tammany
hall came to the conclusion that
ample reason had been found for de-
handing action on the part of the
federal and state prosecuting au
thOritieS.