The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK


The liar that for long time resided
at Che Foo seems to have taken up his
residence at Singapore. During the
last few days he has cabled that the
Russian fleet passed that place headed
fol- the Yellow sea-that it consisted
of As, SO and 80 warships; that the
Russian warships were not there and
had gone off to find some other strait;
that the bottoms of the Russian feet
We're so foul that the seaweed could
be seen streaming out behind; that
ten fast Japanese cruisers were always
a few miles ahead of the Russian
squadrons. That has been the run OF
the dispatches and every man had t6
make up his own mind as to how much
truth there was in them. It seems true
that the Russian warships are moving,
but where they are going no one
knows. The admiral evidently wanted
to convey the impression that he was
on his way to Vladivostok, SO he sailed
by Singapore in plain view that it
might be cabled to all the world.
Where Togo and his fleet is no one
knows. Four Japanese cruisers have
been seen since Togo left Japan two
months ago and that is all that any
one knows about the japanese feet.
The Chicago e Alton railroad Is
sued an order declaring any employee
would be dismissed that visited race
tracks, dance halls or saloons. The
employees of the road, while not deny
ing that such rule would be good for
the road, said that it should apply to
all alike and that no determinations
should be made, that the rule should
apply to the officers as well as other
employees. There was shortly after an
order issued that officials must quit
carrying liquors on their private cars
or entering saloons along the line.
What little news that mas come from
Manchuria is to the effect that the
Japanese are planning to invest Vladi-
yostok on the land side. 1t has long
been blockaded on the sea side. The
Japs have captured over twenty
steamships, heavily loaded, that have
tried to enter that port. Vladivostok
can never be fortified in such a man
ner as Port Arthur was and if the jap
anese ever get an army in the rear Of
it, it will not take them long to cap
ture it. If that were done, it would
be much more severe blow to Russia
than the capture of Port Arthur. It
would cut Russia entirely off from the
Pacific, and make the millions spent
in building the Siberian railroad al
most entirely unproductive. The value
to Japan in the capture of Port Arthur
was the destruction of the Russian
feet harbored there.
They have been having some sort
CT "doings" in Ireland over CO.
coanut that was found on the shores
Of the Emerald Isle before Columbus
sailed for America and which has been
preserved ever since. 1t is not re-
corded that Columbus ever heard of
that cocoanut.
Meager reports have come from In
dia concerning an earthquake there,
which, when we get the whole story
may turn out to be an awful disaster.
II is said that a large chimney fell
Gown in the house in which Lady
Curzon was sleeping and fell through |
the roof directly over her but was
stopped by the floor and ceiling OF |
the room just above her.
The president created the Office of |
consulting engineer and advisor to
the directors in the irrigation service"
and attached salary to it of $4,000,
all of his own sweet will and by his |
own imperial authority. Congress has
never created such an Office, indeed, it
refused at the last session to create
1t. If the president on his own initia-
tive can create $4,000 places in this
pff-hand style. over a century of Amer