The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-06-09

the Philippines. WHAT uoeS .he
United States get in return for that
kind of slaughter? Killed-Georse
Wachter Ewing CULLEN, Benjamin b.
Nolde Ebert w. Osborne, Martin
Einert. Amos J. Gillian. Owen
Hughes William Luitjens, John
o,Cennors, Leonard C. Smith, William
A. Wallam Charlie Cole, Frank y.
Meredith, the last named having
transferred from company Il, Seven
teenth infantry. Wounded-Thomas
II Beckett, George r. Humphreys,
Henry ID. Shaddeau, John l.. Barn
house. Francis M. Davis, John +. DE
Ionge. All wounded doing well.
These men belonged to company I,
Seventeenth infantry.
J. p. Morgan & Co. announced that
the transfers of gold incident 10 tue
payment of the $40,OOO,OOO purchase
money to the Panama Canal company
in Paris have been completed. Inc
firm shipped about $18,0O0,OOO gold III
connection with the payment What
became of that other $l2,000,0OO.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat Gays:
"When in doubt, play trumps, is ole
OF the rules in the game OF Whiee.
I When the democrats are IN doupl lney
invariably lnInk of Cleveland. Ihdl
is what The Independent has been
saving about the Wall street demo-
Gratis and Cleveland for a long time.
There has been no news OF import
ance from the seat of war during the
week. There have been frequent
skirmishes. some of them rather
bloody affairs. and that Is all. Ad-
miral Togo reports that he mas ireeu
the port of Dalney from mines.
While the scientists have failed 10
proye that man is immortal, thcy
have come very near proving that mi
crohes are. Some French scientists
recently opened tomb in Egypt ina.
was hermetrically sealed at least zoo
vears before the Christian era began
They found remnants OF goats ano
dogs that had been buried Win tux
corpse and when these were examined
they were found to contain largt
number of living bacilli. Their con.
clusion was that as this tomb nae
certainly been hermetricaliy sealeo
for more than 1000 years, there was
practically no limit to the life OF
microbe.
The Lincoln Wageworker, labor
union paper, calls attention to the rae
that Colorados corporation republi
can governor took $4,000 that had beef
appropriated to make an exhibit o
Denyer's Juvenile court at the World Z
fair and spent it in making show Q
himself and his colonies at st. Louis
There is no sort of stealing that cor
4 poration governor will not indulge j
4 he has chance.
The official report of the loss by tn
Japanese at Nan Shan hill puts then
at 4.3O4 killed and wounded. Thirty
one officers, including one major an
five sergeant majors, and 7l3 non
commissioned officers and men killed
one hundred officers, including on
colonel. one major and twelve sci
geant majors, and $3.50 non-commis
stoned officers and men wounded.
About this time of the year the r.
publican papers always nave gres
deal Of taffy for the farmers. Th
Star speaks of 'our man Mickey" as
farmer of long standing Mickey
banker and about the only thin
that he ever had to do with farm
was to foreclose mortgages on then
The fight against nookmaking ar
betting on horse racing IN being ca
ried on In vigorous fashion by u
police in Chicago. Two things 81
this DEVILS business life. reports fro
the race track and the tremendo
amount of free advertising given Il
the great religious daIlies. for the pu
pose OF selling their papers. III
Western Union, through theflnilucn
OF Helen Gould. cut of the telegraph
reports. but messengers aud tol
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