The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
a weekly Resume Of tho Really vital News by


of Vladivostok and the line of railroad
leading to it from Hardin.
The war correspondents have been
giving us more of their personal ex-
periences during the week than news
about the movements of the troops and
the fighting. The rapid abandonment
of one position after another, caught
most of the correspondents mapping
and they were taken prisoners by the
Japanese or hiked away in such a
hurry that they had no time to gather
up the news, give us any estimates OF
the losses of men or material. AS
soon as they got to place of safety
they sent dispatches telling OF their
experiences while on the run or how
they were treated when taken prison
ers. The Japanese gave those cap
tured a hearty welcome and started
them in a hurry for the rear and on
toward the ports of Nippon, where
they will be kept until all danger of
their making anything public that
would give information to the enemy
has been passed Those who escaped
the Japs had the hardest time. Their
outfits had to be abandoned, and the
Russians that were ahead Of them gen
orally gobbled up everything that was
eatable before the correspondence got
a chance at them.
Alfred j. Boulton will deliver an
address, "The Trades Union and Poll
TICS" under the auspices OF the Brook
Ign Philosophical association, at the
Eighth street, near Bedford avenue, on
Long Island Business college, South
Sunday, April 2, at o'clock.
The first effect OF the calling the
grand jury in the Chicago case of the
beef trust was sprinting for Europe
by lot of high-up trust employees that
were wanted for witnesses. AS Proc
tor Knott said on different occasion,
'tThe gang-planks of the steamers
starting across the sea were crowded"
Four half-constructed skyscrapers IN
New York fell down last Sunday
There was no great loss OF life be-
cause it was Sunday and no one was at
work on the buildings. Much damage
was done to adjacent buildings by the
falling walls. The Tammany building
inspectors are getting too big a graft
and are doing too little inspecting.
The contest in the Missouri legisla-
ture which has just ended was very
similar to the one in the Nebraska leg
islaturef two years ago. The Missouri
patriots fought over the office of Unit
ed States senator until the very last
hour before adjournment and then
elected Major Warner of Kansas City,
one of the true and tried republicans
that has never failed to be regular
in all the vicissitudes Of political
career that has lasted over quarter
of a century. The Elkins gang in
the senate now has another member,
who will stand for the railroads as
| long as there is hair on his head.
The Nebraska legislature is SO bust
| ly engaged in paternal legislation OF
all kinds that it has had no time to
bring up the bills regulating freight
rates or any other bill to which the
roads object. 1t inclines to make one
laugh to think that there are severa
thousand voters in Nebraska who hon
estly believe that the republican party
has nothing to do with railroads. The
people meet in primaries, send dele
gates to a county convention, and the
county conventions send delegates t
the state convention, all Of whom pa!
their fare and hotel bills and the rail
roads have nothing to do with thu
tmatter at all. Then when the honest
lpure-hearted patriots whom they have
THUS nominated and elected get dowl
to Lincoln, they find there a wicked
lobby, that will not let the noble, pure
hearted men make any law to reliev'
the people from railroad extortion. |
is all the fault of the lobby. The mem
Der of the legislature is not to blam
at all.
| Ida Tarbell gave the Kansas oil Pre-