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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21

FTNHE subscriber hereby gives notice that
trix of the estate of Thomas Manchester, late
of Mount Desert, in the county OF Hancock,
deceased, and given bonds as the law direcJs.
All persons having demands against the es-
tate of said deceased are desired to present
the same for settlement, and all indebted
thereto are requested 10 make payment inn
mediately. LoRA WHITMoRE.
October 8, 1908.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21

land with coal for Black | and Granite
c.. Oct. 8.
Inc heavy gales u ce October c., me In
nsVe done much d mage to the lobster
s''ps of the fisherme. here Tn are
replacing the loss by new gear as last RS
possible.
Oct. 10. f,r,,s
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21
STATE OF MAINE.


Collectors Advertisement of Sale of Land
of Non-R. sident Owners.
Unpaid taxes on lands situated in the town
of Eastbrook, in the county of Hancock, for
the year 1902.
TINE following list of taxes on real estate
i of non resident owners in the town of
Eastbrook. for the year 1902, committed to me
for collection for said to- n, on the 25th day
of April, a. d. 1902, remains unpaid; and no.
tice is hereby given that if said taxes, interest
and char. es are not pre- viously paid, so much
of the real estate taxed as is sufficient to pay
the amount due therefor, including interest
and charges, will be sold at public auction
at the town hall in said town, on the list Mon
day of December, 1908 at 9 O'Clock a. M
Name of owner, de-
scriptiun. Value Tax.
jeremiah Giles & Co. $3.50 acres
in north half of town of East 49,.
brook, SS,43s 500 ~
JAMES R. BUTLER. Collector of taxes
of the town of Eastbrook.
Eastbrook. Oct, 10, 1903.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21

L. ~ boNhCh CskG vi Ill
known, land on road to
Penobscot, near town
line,
Brown, McAllister & Co,
or unknown, land and
quarry on Long Island,
bounded north by land
of G w GrindIe, west
and south by land of
Henry Bridges and bay,
east by land of Stephen
r Chatto,
Mrs Lizzie G Carter. or
unknown, house and
land at East Bluehill,
Lewis Candage, or un'
known, land near Jo-
seph Candage,
Joseph Emerson, or I'M
known, woodland.
ELS and East Bluehill
Granite Co, or unknown
granite land at E Blue
hill, east by Bluehill
bay, south and west by
Collins Granite Co,
north by land of G H
Curtis,
Isaiah j Gray. or IN
known, the David B
Gray lot,
Augustus P Grindle. or
unknown, woodland,
Mrs Melvina Gray, or IN
known, 70 Samuel Her
rick lot,
Edward A Grindle, or un-
known, house and land
near G J GriDdle's,
John McNama est, or I'M
known, meadow,
John McNama est, or I'M
known, the Greene
pasture,
Aaron Page, or unknown,
land near NJ 0 Palmer,
on town line, south by
highway, northwest by
Penobscot line, south
east by land Of Ma
thanie1 Bowden,
Abel Towns est, or un-
known, house and lot
on Main street,
FRANK A. DAVIS.
of the to
Bluehill, Oct. II, 1908.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21

Collectors Notice and Advertisement of
Sale of Lands of Non Resident Owners.
Unpaid taxes on lands of non resident owners
situated in the town of Verona, Maine, IN
the county of Hancock, for the year 1902
YJNHE following list OF taxes on real estate
i of non resident owners, situated in the
town of Verona, aforesaid, for the year 1902,
committed to me for collection for said town
on the 18th Gay of July, 1902, remains unpaid;
and notice is hereby given that if said taxes
with interest and charges are not previously
paid so much of the real estate taxed as is
sufficient and Necessary to pay the amount
due therefor. including interest and charges,
will be sold without further notice, at public
auction, at schoolhouse number one in said
town. on the first Monday of December, 1903,
at O'Clock a. m. .
Amt of
tax due
Name OF owner de- incld int
scription of property. chgs
Moses A Bridges, one house, value
S25; one barn, value S25; ten acres
of land. value 800. ~
Mckay T. Dix, mill and hosting
gear, value $500; Trunnel shop,
value, $50; draughting building,
vaIne $50; two blacksmith shops,
value sos; wharf. value 500; ship
yard land, value 1900, Al AZ
CHARLES F. HEATH. G Hector of taxes
for the town of Verona, Maine.
Verona, Maine, October 10, 1903.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21
STATE OF MAINE.

Collectors advertisement of Sale of Lands
of Non r esident Owners.
Unpaid taxes on lands situated in the town of
Surry, in the county of Hancock, for the
year 1902.
THE following list of taxes on real estate
i of non resident owners in the town of
Surry, for the year 1902, committed to me for
collection for said town on the 18th day of
April, 1902 remains unpaid; and notice is
hereby given that if said taxes. interest and
charges are not previously paid, so much OF
the real estate taxed as is sufficient and neces-
sary topay the amount due therefor, includ-
ing interest and charges, will be sold at pub
lie auction at town hall in said town, on the
first Monday in Dece mber, 1908, at O'Clock
a.
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Oct. 10

The conversation Of some people is so
unimportant that when they stop talking
you fail to notice 1t.
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lraal Nutirrg.
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STATE OF MAINE.

STATE OF MAINE.
Collectors Advertisement of Sale of Lands
of Non-ftesident Owners.
Unpaid taxes on lands situated in the town Of
Mount Desert, in the county of Hancock
for the year 1902.
I,HE following list of taxes ON real estate Of
L nonresident owners in the town OF
Mount Desert for the year 1902, committed to
me for collection for said town on the twenty
ninth day Of May. 1902 remains unpaid; and
notice is hereby given that IL said taxes, in
terest and charges are not previously psid. SO
much of the real estate taxed as is sufficient
and necessary to pay the amount due there
Tor, including interest and charges, will be
sold at public auction at Masonic Hall, in
said town. on che first Monday in December,
1908, at O'Clock a. m.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21


tax oue
Name OF owner. de- incld int
scription OF property. & chgs
B Brewer. 10 acres land in No 1,
Beech Cliff, $50
Heirs Isaac 4 Abel Bartlett, acres
land on Tinker's Island, 203
Charles H Bunker, "A acre land in
James Clark, 2 acres lend in dis
No 8, old homestead lot, 152
Neal Dow. acres Iand in dis No IL, 152
Lnciliu, Emery, 2lie acres land at
Ship Harbor Dix Point lot 10 acres,
Beech Cliff 10 acres, 1907
Arthur M Foss, acres land in Nos,
Heirs Lewis Friend. le Canada lot
A acres. Tinker lot 81 acres, ia
acres called Joy lot, 2447
Arthur Foss. lie acres from Wasgatt
heirs, 1I3
Everard H Greedy, 81 acres in dis No
5, As acres Ship Harbor, d Point
lot 20 acres, Beech Cliff 10 acres, 80 "a
Myra Hodgdon. 20 acres in dis No12,, 45s
Andrew Haynes, 1l3 acres, Ship
Benjamin Hodgdon, land in No 12,
CLARK estate, acres, 22S
Nina Blanche Lacount, 12 acre from
Charles 3 Mitchell, Tinker estate, II
acres land and buildings, 16 81
DR. Geo Phillips. acres land in
Edwin Reed, land and buildings,
No 10, wharf lot acres, Luat lot
Bion B Reynolds. land and buildings
in dis Mol, IL ~
John Runkle, Bar Island from ]
Gott, 100 acres. 81 IS
Abisha Smith, Is acres land in NoI2, 1872
Maurice Rich heirs, land and build
ings in dis No7, II 80
Arthur l Saunders, Latty estate 60
acres, Rumill lot 80 acres, 20 so
James SOULS, lis OF Dolliver lot
IL acres. Whitney estate Al acres, 4s3
Heirs Saran Stock bridge, land and
buildings at Bass Harbor, fish
stand 81 Is
Heirs Samuel Whiting, Island
house and lot and staole, Mt. lot
800 acres, Dix Point, 10 acres, A I
Ober lot % acres, 1872 SO
Frank Wood, land in No g. Bass
Harbor Head 81 acres, 1851
Alice Wetherbee. d acre land, Clark
lot No2, &c
James Lawton, land and build
ings in dis No2, Gilley lot 2ai acres,
Young lot 1l2 acres, 81 81
ARTHUR L. SoMEs Collector of taxes
October ~, 1903. of the town of fremont
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Name Of owner, de-
scription of property.
Stafford Brothers, j w

Stafford Brothers, j w
Davis farm,
Cushman, Linwood or I'M
known, wild land, bounded
on the N w by road leading
to Ellsworth, on N E by the
Ellsworth and Surry line, on
the S by land of the inhabi-
tants OF the town of Surry,
and on the w by land of w
K Milliken.
Hagerthy. Alex c, homestead
OF Mary r Hagerthy.
Clark, Chas K, Rich Phillips
wood lot,
Morrison. VIM w, cottage,
CHM. Maurice, Weymouth
Point lot,
Curtis, David H, farm at South
Surry.
Jarvis, Chas heirs, or un-
known, land lying between
county road and Mann's
meadow,
Land adjoining land of o N
Fowler,
u. 1 Curtis. Collie
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STATE OLE MAINE.

STATE OLE MAINE.
Collectors Advert cement Of Sale of Land
OF Non-Resident Owners.
Unpaid taxes on lands situated in the town Of
fremont, in the county OF Hancock, for the
year 1902
rIYHE following list of taxes on real estate of
Il non resident owners in the town of Tre-
mont for the ear 1902, committed to me for
collection for said town on the first day of
May, 1902, remains unpaid; and notice is
charg are not previously paid, SO much Of
the real estate taxed as is sufficient and neces-
sary to pay the amount due therefor. includ-
ing iuterest and charees, will be sold at pub
lie auction at fremont hall in said town, on
t first Monday in December, 1908, at
o'c ock q. m.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21

STATE OF MAINE.

D. j. CURTIS, Collector of taxes
Oct. 10. 1903 of the town of SurTy.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21

Balance due, SO "a
JOHN w. SoMEs Collector OF taxes
of the town of Mount Desert.
Mount Desert, Oct. II, 1903.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21

FRANK A. DAVIS. Collector of taxes
of the town OF Bluehil, Me.
Bluehill, Oct. u, 1908.
The independent., 1903-06-18

which says: "The course of the oper-
ators is one of inconsequential quib-
bling" and "they are demonstrating
their unfitness to be charged with the
control Of this invaluable store Of ma
tional wealth." There is very swift
and sure way fer force Baer and his
confederates out of the control of this
invaluable store of national wealth
II is simply to enforce the law against
illegal combinations to restrain COM
merce and trade, and the laws and
constitution of the state of Pennsyl-
vania forbidding railroads to own or
operate coal mines.
The independent., 1903-06-18

I,tion, las tillable, Is acres rough, IL
miles from McCook. Price $1,700.
No. 74S. 480 acres, 4 miles from
Indianola, 200 acres cultivated, bal
ance pasture, frame house 24x24, all
necessary farm buildings, well, wind
mill, etc. A choice farm nicely To-
Gated. Price $4,000.
No 749. 1,72O acres, all fenced with
4 wires, 200 acres cultivated. 21-2
miles OF timber along the creek, tim
Der enough ii cut into cordwood and
posts to sell and pay for the farm;
good house and barn that cost $1,000,
Watered by wells and wind mills, L.
080 acres decided land and $40 acres
school land leased with an annual
rental Of $57 per year; an assignment
OF the lease goes with the place.
Price of the whole property $10,800;
low interest and easy payments IL
one-half or more is paid in cash.
No. 750. 800 acres nearly all
smooth, 220 acres in cultivation, all
fenced, 7-room house, we'll and wind
mill, stable for IL horses, corrall, 100
acres fenced in pasture, miles from
McCook. Price $1,000.
No. 751. 100 acres in cultivation,
SO acres in pasture; frame house lex
"a with sod addition 15X5 staDe or
8 horses, corrall, granary, well, wind
MILL etc; 8 miles from McCook. Price
81 800
No. 753. 160 acres all level, all
forced, 100 acres cultivated, story and
half house 36x40, 7-rooms, brick foun-
dation, well and wind mill, storm cave,
stable for 10 horses, chicken house,
double corn crib and granary, half
mile to school, 3 miles to church.
Price $2,100.
No. 754. 100 acres. SO in cultivation,
155 tillable, frame house 16x18. we'll
and pump; miles to McCook. Price
s1,4OO.
No. 755. 100 acres, 100 cultivated.
13o tiiiable, small house, well ana
wind mill. 9 miles from McCook.
Price $1,000.
No. 756. 800 acres, all fenced. 230
acres cultivated, 80 acres in pasture,
rough: frame stable for 8 horses.
granary, cribs and 5-acre hog pasture,
5 miles to Danbury; church and
school house across the road from the
house. Price $4,000.
There is a heavy acreage of suga.
beets in Red Willow county and a
good many thousands of acres of al
falfa. Land is advancing rapidly in
value, and every one of the above
pieces is an especially tempting bar
gain, considering the prevailing prices
and demand for land. These are all
offered suject to prior sale-the first
man on the ground and prepared to
close deal gets the land. For fur
ther information write Weber & Far
ris, Lincoln, Neb.
The independent., 1903-06-18
Why Pay Rent

Why pay rent when you can buy a
good farm, a farm that will make as
much money per acre as the farm
you are renting, and pay for it with
the money you pay out in one year for
rent. The following is list of cool
land bargains in Red Willow county.
We are safe in saying that the crop
this year on every acre of this cul-
tivated land will sell for as much as
the land costs.
No. TAI. 81 1-2 acres joining the
town of McCook; ~ acres in orchar /,
IA years old apple, CHEEKY and plum
trees with small fruit. Splendid ga
den; acres in alfalfa; some forest
trees; 16 IL acres in pasture; frame
house one story 22x22 with kitchen
12x14, stone foundation, cellar, chick
en- house 16x18, coal house, barn 20y
80, with basement, two wells with
overshot irrigation ditch one mile
from the postoffice. Price, $3,750.
No. 742 $50 acres, 110 acres in cul-
tivation, balance in pasture, 160 acres
smooth, balance rolling; sod house
14x32 with shingle roof; outside Gel
lar; frame stable for IA head Of
horses, granary, well and wind mill
chicken house, corn crib, etc.. seven
miles from McCook and 2 miles from
church. Price $2,20v.
No. TAB. 240 acres, 100 under culti-
vation; 1S0 smooth land, balance roll
ing, all fenced; one and half story
house, well and wind mill; 9 miles
from McCook, three and half miles
from railroad station. Price, $500.
No. 744. 400 acres, 10 miles from
McCook, miles from railroad sta
ton, 125 acres under cultivation, sod
house, frame granary and stable. well
and wind mill and two cisterns; this
farm is rented for 1903 Will sell
share of wheat if the farm is sold.
rrice, $4,000.
No. 745. 100 acres, three and half
miles from McCook, 70 acres in culti-
vation, 60 acres first bottom, 80 acres
second bottom, land all fenced. A
splendid alfalfa and sugar beet farm.
Price s2,25O.
No. TAG. 221 acres, all bottom land.
100 acres under cultivation, nearly all
fenced; frame house 24x24, one story,
watered by well and river; Is acres #
hay one mile from railroad station,
7 miles from McCook. Price $15 per
acre.
No. TAI. 100 acres, 80 in cuiltiva-
The independent., 1903-06-18

A COM MODIFY

DR.. Edward Aveling in 1.-THE Stu
dents Marx" an introduction to the
great socialists monumental worl
"Das Kapital," thus defines a com
modify:
"a commodity G) is an external oh
iect; (2) satisfies human wants; 60
has human labor embodied in it; "a
is not consumed by the producer, but
by some other person" (p. ~
Now, the question arises, To whom
is a commodity an external object
the producer thereof or the consumer?
This because
Still seeking the origin of surplus
value, it is not in the money itself. (.
The change cannot be in the value Of
the commodity, since equivalents are
exchanged. :. The change takes place
in the use-value of the commodity, that
is, the consumption OF the commodity.
"a commodity has therefore to bn
found, whose use-value has the prop
erty of being source of value, whose
consumption creatcs value. The com
modify is labor-power.
'The free laborer must there
fore be obliged to sell his only com
nIodity-labor power" Up. 3S, 39.)
Is the laborer's labor-power an "ob.
5ect" external" to himself? If not,
how can it be "his only commodity?"
Aveling points out three kinds of
value-value, "the amount of abstract
human labor embodied" in a commod-
ity; use-value, something Intrinsic to
commodities forming ''the basis
<~Pn .Ixr1a
and 'the material repositories of the
third kind of value -exchange-value:"
and the latter he calls "the ratio in
The independent., 1903-06-18

which use-values exchange" And
sums up by saying that "a commodity
contains use-value and value, even 4
it stands alone. Its exchange-yalue
can only appear when 1t is brought in
relation with some other commodity
Now, if exchange-value is "the ratio
III which use-values exchange" and
since equivalents are exchanged" it
must follow that the use-value of the
wages paid the laborer for his labor.
power is exactly equal to the use
value of that labor-power Ii so, how
could there be any surplus value"
for the capitalist?
Again, if every commodity has hui
man labor embodied in it" and has
'use-value intrinsic" to it, which
forms the "basis of commerce, the
substance of wealth." and if human
energy or labor-poWer be "a commod-
ity, then labor-power must form part
OF the basis of commerce" and "the
substance Of wealth." Is this true?
Will some socialist enlighten The
Independent on these points in the
Karl Marx Edition?
Notwithstanding the innumerable
strihes and the vast efforts of the la
Dor leaders, the cold hard fact is that
the wage-earners receive less than
they did before. The increase in the
cost Of living has been greater than
the increase in wages in the most fav-
ored trades. All this was foretold by
The Independent to men who carried
torches and shouted for the full din.
ner pail. Will these men after a
while stop and think a little? AS
long as franchises VIC ~th millions are
given away and after ownership is
acquired by private parties are al
lowed to escape taxation, as long as
the means of transportation and COM
munication remain in private han Is
and by this private ownership, con-
crosses and legislatures are controlled
in the interest of the few, just that
long will the producer of every sort |
contribute "all the traffic will bear
to rapacious cap -talism.
The independent., 1903-06-18
THE ruNDAMEsrAL QUESTION

One thing more tLan any other,
shows that the top of tie boom which
Legan with the law authorizing the
coinage of the silver seignorage, the
increased output of gold and the in
crease in the national bank circulation
has been reached, is the sudden res
olution of the managers of several of
the large railroad systems to stop
all further extensions and betterments
Until the cost of labor and the price
OF material is largely reduced. Such
orders will curtail purchases of iron
and steel and many hundreds of var
icus commodities and reduce the de
mand for common and skilled labor to
a very great extent. That will react
upon the sales of a vast amount of
manufactured goods and lessen the de-
mand for labor in those lines. When
the downward movement begins after
boom, no man in the past has ever
been able to predict where it would
end.
The whole world has been subject
to these disasters ever since commerce
became factor in the life < man
kind. The foundation of it all is the
money question. The fact that panics
occur with never-ending regularity no
one denies. There is rise in prices
and everybody gets to work Then
one after another of the different lines
o. manufacturing finds that the cost
o. raw materials and labor has be.
come so great that it must suspend
production until there is fall The
of ,tc off pc
of living of those engaged in it, they
cease being purchasers of the products
of other manufacturing plants, and so
it goes until the bottom is reached and
all the surplus saved up in better
times has been consumed, and the old
and bitter experience is all. gone
through with again.
Whatever injustice and wrong the
common people suffer from trusts, pri-
vate ownership of railroads and tele-
graphs and exorbitant tariffs, the mon
ey question is always the great funda-
lrental question of all. Stable prices
would prevent these ever recurring de-
pressions and booms. AS prices rise
and fall according to the increase and
decrease in the volume of money in |
SlCuIdIlOH, lu0y ASFGT can DeCOUlC |
stable as long as single set of mines |
II relied upon to furnish that volume |
That is not to deny that from psychol |
ogical reasons affecting the conduct of |
men, that prices go way above and |
fall far below what the volume Of |
rroney would justify in times of boome
and in times of depression If prices
were kept stable for a considerable
time, the want of confidence and the
hope of suddenly accumulating for
tunes would not sweep over the coun-
try at stated intervals.
&SSSSSS$
In private letter to the editor of |
The Independent Senator Allen says
II have never lost faith in the pop
ulist party and it's ultimate triumph.
believe that the republican party
as now organized will disintegrate and
he destroyed and that a peoples party
will be ultimately enthroned in pow
Ell. The populist party should be
speedily revived in every state ani
territory and prompt steps should he
taken TO have an organization we'll in
hand for the national campaign next
year" To all that, The Independent
gives a hearty approval.
A COMMODITY
DR.. Edward Aveling in "The Stu
a. 49, |
The independent., 1903-06-18
w HO DID IT?

OF course it was the votes of the
wage-earners and common people
that turned the state of West Viz
ginia over to Elkins and the rapacious
greed OF the republican party. What
these people have received for their
votes has been few dollars in mon
ey, many promises of Office, govern
ment by injunction, forced labor in
isolated mountain camps, and now
comes Judge Kellar with heavy fines
or $l00 each and six months imprison-
ment for a large number Of these
same men VINO nave been Whoosi4
it up for the monumental thief AMI
great republican, Elkins. The injunc-
tiors issued in West Virginia were
the most infamous in all history. The
suffering among the women and chill
dren of those fined and imprisoned by
Judge Kellar, who is one of the mod
ern Judge Jeffrys of America, can
only be understood by those who have
for years been allowed only enough
of the wealth that they have created
to keep them from starvation. The
Independent expresses it's sorrow for
the inhumnnity that these Wace-
workers suffer and the deepest SYM
pathy with the wrecked families and
broken hearts that this Infamous
judges orders have caused. 1t can
only say that in the future as in the
past, it will continue to fight that
liberty and equal rights may be ac-
corded to all men.
~>~~~$SSSS
Russian cruelty is not confined to
the persecution of the Jews. The stor-
les that come from Finland, show that
the cruelty there is just as barbarous
1t does not consist in wholesale mas
sacres, but in the Imprisonment of in
nocent men while their wives and
children are left to die of starvation
In Finland it is not the acts of mobs
but of the government officials them
selves. The base of these inhuman
prosecutions in Finland is the same as
that which resulted in the slaughter
of the Jews. While the Fins are
Christians, they do not belong to the |
Russian Greek church and that is a |
sufficient reason in the eyes of the |
Russian officials for their extermina-
ton. While the Jews are forbidden |
by law to follow most of the occupa- |
tions by which men make living, the
situation in Finland is practically the
same, although such laws are not in |
force against the Fins. If the rapac-
ious Russian officials desire to op-
press protestant or Catholic Fin.
they simply demand his discharge by
his employers and when such de-
mand is made by the police, no en-
/ loyer dare disobey.
SS$SI
1t Is preposterous that the welfare
of millions of people should be in the
control of a few law-breakers like
the managers of the anthracite coal
trust. Their recent contention with
the miners about the selection of the
members Of the board Of conciliation
is denounced by many papers, the
Springfield Republican among them,
The independent., 1903-06-18

The theory of Surplus value"--see
Karl Marx Edition, July %, 1903.