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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30
Notice Of Sole Under Chattel MORTGAGE

Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of .
certain chattel mortgage executed and deliver.
ed to A. w. Stevens Co. by Andrew Zurich and
Adolph Schnase on the 25th day of June A. d.
1901, said Andrew Zurich and Adoiph Schnase
then and there being residents Of Lancaster
county Nebraska and said mortgage being duly
filed or record in Lancaster county Nebraska
In the office of the county clerk of said county
on the 29th day OF June 1901, said mortgage being
given to secure the payment OF the sum o! -Four
Hundred (siO0.00) dollars, evidenced by two
(S200 O0) dollars each signed by the said Andrew
Zurich and Adolph Schnase, and payable to
said A. w. Stevens Co.. on the 1st day OF jan
uaTy 1902 and the first day of December 1902 re.
spectvely with interest from June 25th 1901 Mt
6 per cent per annum.
Default having been made In the condition of
said mortgage, and no suit or other proceedings
at law having been Instituted for the recovery
of said debt or any part thereof, and there now
being due to said A. w. Stevens Co. thereon the
sum of Three Hundred and Sixty Four dollars
and eighty four GEMS ts364.S4,) the said mort
gagee will on Friday the 14th day April 1906 at
the hour of 200 p. m O'Clock of said day sell at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash
the following described goods and chattels, be-
ing the property described in said aforesaid
mortgage to wit
/ One Stevens is H. P. Traction Engine No.
2135; one water wagon plain with fOrcepu
and hose with all attachments and fixtures
belonging thereto and to said machinery; one
J. /. Case separator with u I. stacker
Said sale to take place at the time aforesaid
in Lincoln Nebraska in the presence of the
property to be sold at the S. E. Cor. of 10 and
"W'' Sts., Lincoln Lancaster county Nebraska.
A. w. Stevens Co.,
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30

body and Bell possible in an American
commonwealth have not been changed.
Such disgraceful rumpuses will occur
again and again, worse and worse, I'M
til at last the economic intelligence
of the American nation will see that
this land of ours "is" ours. Until we
abolish special privileges in land, as
we have already abolished special
privileges in the chattel ownership Of
human beings. Then let the land,
which is ours, pay our cost of govern
ment by deviating enough of it's earn.
ing power to public uses (taxes) to
sustain our society. All over and above
that small amount needed should be.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
The Public Suspicious.

In view of the thousands of cases
brought against the street railway COM
panies of this country principally
through the efforts of "scab' lawyers
who haunt the streets like hungry
wolves looking for a morsel. in their
case, however, for a few dollars dis
honestly made. the public is prone to
look askance upon such actions as that
brought by Inga Hanson against the
Chicago company Nevertheless, the
facts once clearly known tend to show
that the Salvation Army girl Is more
sinned aginst than SHINING. Today she
enjoys q moderate use of her eyes, but
there is a number of reputable physi-
clans willing to swear that she has
been the victim of temporary blindness
during several periods of long duration.
Today. though she is by no means able
to get about as a woman in perfect
health, she is not paralyZed, but again
there is the testimony of physicians TO
the fact that at several times she was
completely paralyzed in both her legs
and her left arm. Was 1t possible for
this girl to thoroughly deceive men who
had for years been trained to siagnosie
injuries to the human body? Was il
possible for her to feign blindness and
paralysis so perfectly as to deceive sci
ence? Who knows?
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
A Valuable Worker.

Inga Hanson soon proved to be such
a valuable worker that the English
army, which operates in the neighbor-
hood of South Clark street, solicited her
services, and she became interested IN
sIum work This girl from the old
country, new and unsophisticated and
learning the English language as slow
" as q child, did nat only march on the
streets, playing her guitar and singing.
but she tried to save SOILS among the
fallen creatures with whom she came
IN contact.
In 1884 Inga Hanson went into camp
with the Salvation army at Lake Bluff,
small town on the Northwestern road
about forty miles from Chicago. While
there she was taken I'll and instead of
returning to Chicago with her co-work-
ers she decided to remain in Lake Bluff,
and for a time worked at the home of
Horace Tsylor's family. In 1898 she
came back to Chicago in company with
DR.. Messenger. a woman physician. who
| had treated her during her Illness.
Then early in March came the acct.
dent which made cripple for life and
| has resulted in one of the hardest
| fought litigations in the history of The
/ Cook county courts.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
A Wastaee TO Be Saved.

The wastage. of heat energy under
present methods Is appalling. About 30
per cent of the heat energy or coal can
be put into the steam boiler, and from
this only is per cent Of mechanical pow
err is obtained. Thus about nipe-tenths
of the original heat in coal Is wasted
Proceeding further and putting r1echan-
icai power into electricity, only from
to per cent is turned into hight; or, in
other words, from coal to light we get
on an average only about one-half of
per cent of the original energy, q vast
age Of rinety-nine and one-half OF every
100 pounds OF coal used. The very best
possible with largest and best machinery
Is a little more than one pound from
every 100 consumed.
Prof Matthews, he who, with Prof.
Loeb, at Woods Hole, is imparting life
to sea-urchins through electrical reae-
lions, declares that certain chemical
substances coming together under GER
tain conditions are bound to produce
life. All life comes through the opera
ton Of universal laws" We are but
young In all this mysterious business
What lies behind and probably near al
hand may not merely revoiutionize ma
| teriaI agencies but human preconcep
| tons as well There are more thing
| In Heaven and earth than are eve
| dreamt of in your philosophy"
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Possibilities of Turbines.

Watt, of course, knew nothing OF the
tl4ermodynamic value of high tempera-
ture without high pressure. although
sures. This had not been even mag
ined by either philosopher or engineer
until discovered by Carnot as late as
1924. Even II he had known about it
the mechanical arts In his day Were in
no condition to permit it's use. Even
high Dressures were impraeticahle TO
any great extent.
It is only during the past few years
that turbines and superheating, having
long been practically discarded. show
encouraging signs Of revival. They give
great promise of advancement, the
hitherto insuperable difficulties of lubri-
cation and packing having been over
come within the last five years. Super
z,eatsng especially promises TO yield sub
:,tantial results as compared with tbs
practice with ordinary engines, but the
margin of saving in steam over the
best quadruple expansion engine cannot
be great. Lord Kelvin, however, expects
it 10 be the final contribution Of science
to the highest possible economy in thu
steam engine.
In the January 0965) number q
stevens Institute Indicator" Prof. Den
5 ton has an instructive resume Of recent
steam engine economies. He tells u
that steam turbines are now being ap
piled to piston engines to operate witt
the latter's exhaust, to effect the SAINT
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
ENaA TlAN5 ON

wear steel corset. But the relief was
only temporary.
When at last the damage suit was
tried for the first time, IN 1901, there
was a great amount of expert testi-
mcny that Miss Hanson had been both
blind and paraIyzed-@ So strongly was
the jury impressed that when the bal
lot was taken the jury stood eleven 10
one in favor of s5G,000 damages
In December, 1902, the second trial
| vas had It lasted for nine weeks and
three DAYS. Evidence Of the physicians
| was again introduced, together with
x-ray pictures of the girls spine, show
ing it to be out OF place. This time tie
i,1rv was out eighteen hours The jury
| stood six TO six.
After losing both cases Miss Hanson
went to Lake Bluff for q time she
hoped to spend her time quietly and
in regatning her health, if possible But
a suspicion evidently lurked IN the
minds of the managers Of the chicago
City Railway Company that she mad
sworn falsely as to her physical conoi-
ton in prosecuting her suit against the
company, and, not content WITH having
escaped the payment OF damages, the
cornpauv decided to ascertain, II pos
sible. if the girl had not been shammins
and to prosecute her for perjury II sne
had sworn falsely.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Hallelujah Lass at Thirteen.

Inga Hanson was only thirteen years
old when she donned the blue bonnet
and uniform of the Salvation Army in
Irondale, Norway, where she was born
in 1914
a year later she was confirmed in the
religious faith of her parents and be-
came a member of the Lutheran Church
Her father tried To dissuade her from
continuing in the Salvation Army. but
he girl liked the work and thought she
had q mission to perform. So she car
ried her guitar and sang on the streets
of lronGale until in 1892 she came to
America alone to try her fortunes in q
new country. She was eighteen years
of age, a large, robust-looking, rosy
checked girl of the type which on many
another occasion has found the way to
his country.
There was one event in the child
hood of the girl which stands out in her
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
The Fuel of the Future.

Whether the steam engine has reach
ed its climax, and gas, oil, or other
agents are to be used extensively foE
power. In the near future, is a question
now debated IN scientific circles. Much
progress has been made in using these
substitutes, and more is probable, as
one obstacle after another is overcome.
Gas especially is coming forward, and
oil Is freely used. It seems to the
writer that, where coal Is plentiful, the
day is distant when steam will not con-
tinue to be the principal source of
power. It will be world surpriser that
beats one horsepower developed by one
pound of coal. The power to do much
more than this, however, lies theo-
retically in gas, but there come these
wise words OF Arago TO mind: Per
sons whose whole lives have been de-
voted to speculative labors are not
aware how great the distance IS be-
tween a scheme, apparently the best
concerted, and its realization" So true.
Watts idea in the brain, and the steam
engine that he had to evolve during
nine long years, are somewhat akin to
the great gulf between resolve and per-
Torrance, the good resolution" that
soothes and the ''act'' that exalts.
Who shall doubt. after finding the Sc
cret source of force in water. that some
future Watt is to discover other sources
of power, or perchance succeed IN
utilizing the superintendent power
known to exist IN the heat of the sun
or discover the secret of the latent
force employed by nature in animals
which converts chemical energy direct
! ly into the dynamic form, giving much
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Science Predicts Return of Black Dealt
Tu.red Into a Restaurant.

In 1899 several cases Of plague broke
out in Manila. The government sought
to hide the facts. Next year there were
S99 cases and PSI deaths, and In 1901
there were 497 cases and 375 deaths; all
this in spite of a rigorous quarantine
maintained by a military government
and the utmost that the army and navy
surgeons could do. Since this the gov
eminent has suppressed the statistics.
Every returned soldier is a menace to
his countrymen.
Let us look a little nearer home In
1893 two cases reached New York The
men came here on board the coffee
steamer Santos, from Brazil The plague
stricken men We're detained at Quaran-
tine The following year two more cases
reached here, and one died at Quaran-
| tine Again, In 1901, a stoker on a steam
! er from Calcutta was taken to Quaran-
| tine. These cases were heard OF. Can
| there be any doubt that others among
these mysterious cases hurried TO Quar-
| antine are bubonic plague cases? Re
| Gently d series of very significant deaths
| occurred among passengers on steam
CT detained at Quarantine.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Continued from First Page.)

pitside, and just ready to throw them
IN, and this confusion was greater in
city because they had fiattered them
selves with hopes of escaping, and
thought the bitterness of death was
past"
A celebrated bacteriologist. speaking
of the plague in America said:
'Undoubted bubonic plague vas I'M
covered In the Chinese quarter in San
Francisco, in 1900. A large area was
found to be infected. The Chinese had
hidden their i'll in the dark alleys OF
Chinatown. as is their habit. Extra
ordinary efforts were made by the
special committee OF experts to stamp
out the disease. Nevertheless next year
in 1901. there were forty-two fatal cases
Of plague in San Francisco, and since
then the authorities have not allowed
the statistics TO be published Yol
can't stamp out the bubonic plague by
1 concealment.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
The Prosecutions of Inga.

Miss Hanson was lying in helpless
condition in small house IN AaAo
Bluff. y.tan, in August Of 1903, hooolurns
stoned the house, fired shots into the
air overhead, and carried on TOUR
days' bombardment, with the idea or
ascertaining whether or not the girl was
shanming. They expected her TO rise
from her bed and run out into the
streets. but she did not do so. She lay
blind ard helpless and gave no response
to her prosecutors.
This was only the first Of series
OF prosecutions which, by means or ae-
tectiyes. the railway company inIiIcfeo
upon lrga Hanson. When she went 10
Richmond. Va, travelling al the way
on a stretcher in baggage car a young
man from Chicago turned M and De-
cana very friendly to her and her SIS
ter with whom she was He afterWard
nrovad 70 be q detective in the employ
81 +ba railway company. He worme0
So u-av INTO the confidence Of the help
Iacs eir1. wrote her letters for her. But
~ discovered no more than was already
known
In 1901 when she had partially recoV-
cred Miss Hanson Went back 10 ner
Salvation Army work. this time IN the
streets of New \ Ork, NneTe q niue A>sh-
Che was arrested on the charge OF per,
inry. But the grand jury did not nfld
. 1rue bill and sac was released but "a
SaDte-nber 1894, she was again afIeSeeo
and this time tried ,o,ax,
! Inga Hanson, penniless, had no hlo 'l
TO pay even her attorneys She n nag. nov nov
no funds with which 10 carry ng ne, 1p+
PEAL to the higher court. II WIN e coss
! S. coo TO make an abstract OF lhs $500
| alone and it Is estimated tnS.t ~ ne :
! the appeal is completed the sum u et.V'o
| Will be required Mr.. Parker, VINO Was
! assisted by Patrick Cary III oe re ll-
| the girl asked for 4 new trial. nut was
| denied il. An arrest OF judgment WIS
/ also denied by Judge herSteh aAo me
| girl was sentenced in January 20 an IN,
! definite term in the penltentl2ry' WHICH
| NAV be fourteen years or less
A number of prominent women IN Shl-
| caco have started Il fund which may en-
| able Tnga Hanson to continue FER hgh
| in thes courts. The ScandlnaviaEs in tbs
| city Interested in the case have alst
| sfarted . fund. Senator NielS jun ha:
| secured the passage by the lllinoi:
| senate Of a resolution requesting Cover
nor Deneen to make special fnveSuga
! ton of the case and TO paaion the CIR
il ne finds that the Chicago City Ran
way Company has spent large sums o
money 10 secure nor conviction. or II ii
ff-,fs that there is doubt of her guilt.
! is Inga Hanson guilty OF perjury @
the victim OF a persecution equal u
those OF the 1nquisitlon 4eo Years asoE
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

Copyright, 1905, by D. T. Pierce.)
row much further the steam en-
IL CINE is to be the handmade of
electricity cannot be told, fer
it seems impossible to set limits
to the future conquests OF the latter,
which is probably destined to perform
miracles undreanat of today, perhaps
coupled in some unthought OF way
with radiur1, the youngest sprite of the
weird, uncanny tribe of mysterious
agents. Uranium, the supposed basis OF
the latest discovery, radiuIn, has only
one-millionth part OF the heat of the
latter.
The slow-moying earth takes twenty
four hours to turn upon its axis. Ra-
dunn covers an equal distance while
we pronounce it's name. One and one
quarter seconds, and % 5000 miles are ira
versed. Puck promises to put his '-gir-
die round the earth in forty minutes"
Radium would pass the fairy girdlist in
the spin round sixteen hundred times.
Thus truth, as it is being evolved In
our day, becomes stranger than the
widest imaginings Of fiction.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Salvation Army Lass Is
Suffering Incurable
Injuries
But in Her Damage Suit
She Is Convicted of
Perjury.
Case Appealed on Claim
That She Has Been
Wronged.
NGA HANSON. Hallelujah Lass, of

= NGA HANSON, Hallelujah Lass, OF
the Salvation Army. sits day after
day in the hospital ward Of the
Cook county fail, convicted Of per-
Jury. With her spine incurably injured.
and unable to use her eyes much Of the
time, she waits patiently for the action
of the Supreme Court, which Will either
release her. her reputation cleansed, or
condemn her as did the sentence of the
lower court to fourteen years imprison-
ment.
Seven years ago Inga Hanson, well
and happy in the work she was doing
IN the slums Of Chicago. was boarding
surface car, at State and Randolph
streets, when the car started with a
jerk, she lost her footing and was drag
ged for a number of feet hanging by
the right hand, her body humping
against the rear end of the car until II
was brought to a standstiil. There was
every evidence that the girl rad been
| severely injured. Blood came from hel
| mouth and her body swelled III so short
time that it was necessary to looser
her clothes that she might breath freely
/ Ten days later notice was given tht
| Chicago City Railway Company Of {
damage suit for $4,000 in Miss Hanson:
name. The railway company Offered
first to settle for s25 and later for 81 200
But the girls attorneys refused settle
ment on this basis and as the results o
the accident had assumed more serious
proportions, the measure of dana ge
asked was increased to $4,000
Since that time two long trials of tn
damage suit have been had in each, o
which Inga Hanson lost by a small mar
gin; twice she has been arrested for per
jury, the first time The grand jury foun
no true bill agains+ her and the secon
she was brought to trial and afte
| many weeks during which she was car
ried into court on a stretcher to give he
| testimony and to be cross-examined. sh
was sentenced to jail on the charge c
having sworn falsely.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
No Bounds to Future Wonders.

In 1910 Britain had only 10000 horse
power nominal; the United States $50, 0oo;
the whole world had only 1,650,00 horse
power. Today it has 75,000,0OO nominal,
sc rapidly has steam extended its sway
over most of the earth in less than the
span Of q mans life. There has never
been any development in the world s
history conpa rable to this, nor can we
imagine that such a rapid transforma-
ton can ever come in the future. What
the future is finally to bring forth even
ina gination is unable to conceive. No
bounds can be set to its forthcoming
possible, even probable, wonders, but as
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

Vandalism Has Ruined
Another Priceless
Treasure.
Florence. April Is.


r. OR centuries conspicuous object
- on the beautiful hill Of Arceti, |
above Florence, the famous Star
Tower of Calico, where the
great astronomer made many of his
most important discoveries, is now prac-
ticalIy destroyed What goes by the
name of commercial enterprise is re-
sponsibie for this act OF vandalism which
robs the world of another OF its historic
places of pilgrimage.
For some months past the picturesque
structure has been swathed in scaffold-
ing while workmen nave been engaged
IN raising the quaint castellated tower
by third of it's former height pierre
Ing it's walls with two new tiers of win
dows and adding a loggia. When the
vulgar desecration is completed in place
of the venerable tower surrounded by
luxuriant masses Of wild flowers, will
appear an ugly conglomeration CT ana
chronisns, standing in the dreary waste
of new made garden and devoted to
the purposes of d cafe and restaurant
ITO the AngIo-Saxon race" says one
writer who has protested too late against
the destruction of the historic monu-
ment. Galileo's tower possessed a special
interest, in that It was the scene of the
classic meeting between John Milton
and the great Italian astronomer In
deed in the whole history of science
and literature there is no incident moe
picturesque or affecting than this intro
duction OF the Puritan poet, young ard
vigorous. with his brain teeming with
! conceptions for his mighty epic, to the
/ Florentine sage. blind, old. and perse-
| cuted for affirming the great truths Of
| the solar system"
Another place of pilgrimage in italy,
| which on sentimental grounds make q
far stronger appeal than the Star
! Tower to popular ina gination will
soon vanish entirely If something is
not speedily done to preserve what re-
mains OF 1t. This is the house in Verona
from the balcony of which Juliet cried,
20 Romeo! wherefore art thou, Romeo?"
The mansion is crumblng to ruins and
on the point Of collapse. 1t is probable
however, that only the facade of the
building formed part of the original
structure
The arms Of the house of Capulet
, however, still brave the weather owe,
The entrance gate in the interior court
t and an inscription placed there reads
This Is the house Of the Capulets
: from which sprang Juliet for whom 81
many poets have sung and tender heart.
have weot"
{ Though shoals Of pilgrims have visited
the shrine consecrated to two immorta
t lovers, the shrine itself has been pu
5 TO strange uses. It has served at va
: rious times a cabmans lodging house
! ! Il restaurant. a warehouse for carts an,
: q farrier's shop.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Greater Discoveries Coming.

Our century seems on the threshold
of discoveries and advances, not less
revolutionary, perhaps more SO, than
those that have sprung from steam and
electricity. '-Canst thou send iightnings
TO say .Lo,' here L ann . silenced man.
1t was so obviously beyond his power
until last century. Now he smiles as
he reads the question. Is TyndaPs pro-
phecy to be verified that 1.-The potency
of all things is yet to be found In mat
ter"
We may be sure the searching, restless
brains of Franklin and Watt would have
been neditating upon strange things
these days if they were now alive.
We must not permit ourselves to for
get that it was not until the Watt en-
CINE was applied to steam navigation
that the success OF the latter became
possible. 1t was only by this that it
could be made practicable. so that the
steamship is the product of the steam
engine, and it IS to Watt we owe the
modern 23,0O0-ton monster tand larger
monsters soon to Gomez, which keeps It's
course against wind an tide, almost "un-
shaken of motion" for this can now
properly be said. Passengers crossins
the Atlantic from port to port now
scarcely know anything Of irregular
motion, and never more than the gen.
TEST of slight keaves. even during the
gale that
Catches the ruf1ian pillows by their
tops,
Curling their monstrous heads
The ocean, traversed In these ships
is a smooth highway nothing but z
ferry-and n week spent upon 1t has be
come perhaps the most enjoyable anc
the most 1healtiifGl CT holiday excursions
provided the prudent eXcursionist ha:
left behind positive Instructions tina
wireless kilograms shall not follow.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

life When she was twelve years OF age
she sustained a severe fall while sliding
down hill. She and her sled went over
an ernbankment many feet below, and
while the girl was able to scramble TO
her feet, she found later that her right
hip-bone had been atsjointed. Nor
wegian physicians were never able to
quite cure the physical defect, and thus
it came about that The Salvation Army
girl who worked first In 1892 with the
Swedish army on tie South Side in Chr
cago umped little. She did not suffer
otherwise from the old injury.