The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
They are starting out right over in
Illinois. The town of Milton, Pike
county, held a town election the otn-
|er day and there were three straight
4lckets In the field, populist, demo-
cratic and republican. When the votes
we're counted the result was that there
sWere three populists and three demo-
lcrats elected and the republicans did
not land q man.
When the republicans carried Colo
isado they declared they were going to
have business administration
and SO they have. Business is always
lconducted for profit. From the con-
,dition OF the Colorado treasury some
Hody has been making big profits .out
there. The state debt has been IN
creased $188, 900 and besides that there
{ $780, 900 of military expenses to pay.
THAT much more money will have to
BE put up than for the preceding stale
government. Somebody is getting
nearly a million dollars profit. Thass
business.
Colorado is one great country
sure enough. Down at Pueblo the
f mayor, three present members OF tie
I city council, the city treasurer, the
street commissioner, two members CT
/ the police force, a former city clerk
and former alderman are under in
dictment. Besides these there are
enough other "prominent citizens" in
] dicted to bring the count up to Il.
These eminent gentlemen who have
been running a business admins
kration" for Pueblo, are not held on
!. one indictment each. There were rs
indictments returned against one, and
against the others from three to ten.
sRcre.
A bill has passed congress allow
4 nng hOmesteaders out in the cattle re-
zion Of Nebraska to take homesteads
81 $40 acres, 1and another bill has
passed opening up something over
100000 acres of land on the Rosebud
Preservation. The lottery system Will
! BE used in regard to the settlement On
the Indian lands. The price Is "a per
7pcre.
& Since the first Of the year there has
7. been an advance in the price Of axes
and hatchets of rs per cent and in 9TH
III edged tools from 30 to 40 per cent.
The trade has been informed that
fhere will be another advance on the
LIT Of July and Still another on the
3st Of October. Here Is another trust
and where is the trust buster?
On next Saturday President ROose-
welt will touch a button in the White
house that will start the machinery
sfof the Worlds fair at st. Louis to
revolving. For seven months it will
continue to revolve and then what?
4AChicago had a worlds fair and the
result was $4000000 of debt on which
She is annually paying $4,000 in IL
terest, with no prospect of paying
The principal during this generation.
The fair at St. Louis is larger than
that at Chicago and without doubt the
debt will be in proportion.
B This country now consists of forty
I'VE states. four territories, two or
three thousand islands and st1ip
across the Panama isthmus ten miles
wide. The papers have been signed
IN Paris and the canal and that much
of Panama is annexed.
Bourke Cochran got very indignant
the other day when he was accused on
!. The floor of the house OF being paid
by the republican national commit
tee for his speeches for Mckinney III
the last presidential campaign and he
lenied the charge most yehementiJ.
II is positively asserted that he re-
ceived 81 900 a speech for fifteen
speeches. pot from the republican
committee. but from the Palmer ard
Buckner committee, and that Mr..
Hanna furnished the money.
Some names. very familiar In the
da,p of the Grover Cleveland bond
deals. are again appearing In the IL
nanclal columns of the New York dali
ies In connection with the payment
Tor the Panama canal. They are a
queer lot OF names. but they represent