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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-09-28
EUROPE FAST FORGING AHEAD
Municipal Ownership Progress More
Rapid Than in United States

Mrs. Raglan, wife of Judge Ragan,
of this city, one Of Nebraska's prom
inent and learned club women, who
has recently returned from a three
months tour of Europe, says that
while the up-to-date American will
find the people in many of the Euro
pean nations following old methods
and customs, that in the matter of
municipal ownership European cities
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-09-28

Every man owes it - himself and
his family to master a trade or pro-
fession. Read the display advertise
ment of the six Morse Schools Of
Telegraphy, in this issue and learn
how easily young man or lady may
learn telegraphy and be assured q
position.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-09-28

fact that diseases
peculiar to the
female sex are
OF commonly
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
BRITISH SAILORS MISSING
About Two Hundred Left Behind When
Squadron Sails
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov 20.-About 200
sailors from the British squadron COM
manded by Prince Louis of Battenberg
were missing from their ships when
the squadron made ready to sail to-
day. Several of those who had over
stayed their leave were turned away
when they tried to board their ships
this morning AS 1t was within few
hours of the fleets sailing time when
they made their belated appearance,
the officers treated them as deserters,
refusing to let them step aboard.
The officers said they were willing to
lose these men on the principle that
they are worthless and their loss is
good riddance.
Many of the rejected sailors wept
Their uniforms in some cases had been
taken from them in Bowery resorts
and they had spent all their money
before returning to their ships. Many
of them Immediately applied to the
immigration commissioner for their re-
turn to England. Commissioner Watch
ern said that a fine of 50 a head will
be levied on the princes fleet for every
sailor who appears to have been left
stranded In New York, the same as is
imposed on captains of transatlantic
steamers for every immigrant Snug
gled into the United States without an
examination.
The British ships weighed anchor
shortly before noon and proceeded
down the Hudson river, bound for Glib
raltar.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
SHAW WILL NOT LEAVE
THE CABINET AT PRESENT
WILL REMAIN UNTIL END OF
SESSION OF CONGRESS
Two Other Changes Which Had Been
Expected viii Not Take Place.
Both Moody and Hitchcock Agree
ing Not to Leave
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON Nov. 20-Secretary
Shaw will remain as secretary of the
treasury in President Roosevelt s
cabinet until the conclusion of the ap-
preaching session of congress and per-
haps for several months longer. 1t has
been understood that Secretary Shaw
about the first of February or sooner,
with view to greater freedom in pro-
noting his candidacy for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination, although
the secretary himself never has an
nounced his intention to be a candidate.
President RooseveltS attention was
attracted to some recent publications
that Secretary Shaw had presented to
him his resignation to take effect next
February or earlier and today he had
a conference with the secretary about
the matter. After their interview to-
day 1t was stated that at the urgent re-
quest of the president Mr.. Shaw had
consented to continue as secretary of
the treasury until the close of the ap-
preaching session of congress and per-
haps sometime afterward.
At least two other changes in the
cabinet have been in contemplation, but
1t can be said authoritatively that they
will not occur soon. Attorney General
Moody, having formed a law partner
ship in Boston, expressed a desire to
retire from the cabinet last July. The
president persuaded him to remain for
another year and hopes to have him In
the cabinet until year from March 4
next. He has not yet received a definite
answer from Mr. Moody on that point.
Secretary Hitchcock of the interior de-
partment also has indicated his wish
10 leave the cabinet before the con-
clusion of President Roosevelt's term
of Office, but he has Informed the presi-
dent that he will remain with him
through the present fiscal year and
perhaps longer
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
REFUSES
TO RECEIVE WHITNEY
Replies Sharply to Letter of Massachusetts,
Former Candidate for Office
Latter Writes Asking for Personal Interview and
Asserting That He Has Been Done Great
Injustice by President

self and my assistants touching the
matter of our interview with you last
winter. which perhaps you may not
have seen, and remain,
Yours very respectfully,
HENRY NJ WHITNEY"
The Presidents Reply
The letter from the president to Mr..
Whitney is as follows:
November 10, 1906
Dear Sir-I have your letter of the
18th inst. In view of my previous ex-
perience with you 1 am obliged to state
with regret that it is out of the ques-
tlon for me to grant you another inter-
view. In this letter of November II,
in which you make this request, you
furnish additional evidence of the wis
dom of my refusing to communicate
further with you, my refusal being
based upon your evident inability to
understand or determination to misrep-
resent what | say. In this letter you
state that you regret more than any
thing in connection with this matter
that the righteous cause of reciprocity
with neighboring countries, with so
much value to the people of your coun-
try, is not to have the Endorsement
of your (my) great name and the bene-
fit of your (my) potent aid
Nothing that L have said at any time
has given you the slightest warrant
for making this assertion, and when,
in the very letter asking for an inter-
view and denying that you ever will
fully mfSrepresented my previous re-
marks, you incorporate another delib-
crate misstatement you can hardly
wonder that l decline to see you; nor
would there in any event be the slight
est point in such an interview. In your
ca
memory certain statements made in
the course of long conversation oc-
curing nearly a year previous. You
quoted portions of what I said. Even
as to these portions your language was
inaccurate, and all the context was
suppressed. AS result you have COM
pletely misrepresented me, as in the
sentence of your present letter which
| quote above. 1t matters little wheth-
er this was due to deliberate purpose
of deception or to a lack, in both your
companions and yourself, of a nice
sense of propriety and of the power of
exact thinking and of correct Hppre-
hension and repetition of what. was
said. In either event 1 feel that II
would serve no useful purpose again
to see you or further to correspond
with you.
You are at liberty to make this cor
respondence public If you choose. Yours
truly,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The Enclosures referred to by Mr..
Whitney were copies of letters from
Andrew G.. Webster of this city and
]. M. w. Hall of Cambridge, who went
to Washington with Mr.. Whitney as
members of the committee, in which
Messrs. Hall and Webster state that
Mr.. Whitney's public account of what
occurred at the interview was In agree
ment with their memory of what was
said.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
Calm PrecedeS Awful
Storm
Deluge of Blood Threat
ems RomanOffs
Conditions Throughout Empire Are
TerribIe-Every One Goes Armed
in Cities and Few Venture
Out After Dark
snecIal Cable 10 The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
ST, PETERSBURG, Nov. 20.-Despite
the apparent lull the clouds are thick
ening and a deluge of blood may yet
drown the empire of the Romanoffs.
Conditions everywhere are dreadful
Life and property are unsafe. In the
cities everyone goes armed after dark
and nobody ventures into the streets
unless necessity compels him to do SC.
Murder and incendiary fires are null
tiplying at a fearful rate. The unem-
ployed go about in droves, menacingly
demanding aims. In the factories
laborers go armed and in not few in
stances proprietors have been shot
down for refusing to accede to the de-
mands of their men.
1t is conceded by the employing class
that the Introduction of the eight hour
work day, considering the unproduc-
tiveness of the Russian workman, Is
an economic impossibiity Therefore,
since 1t is impossible futher to increase
the tariff on account of existing treat
les, the factories cannot be opened to
eight hours labor.
Prophets of evil declare that starv-
ing laborers will plunder the cities
while famiShed peasants, melted by
agitators, will burn the manor houses
and kill the inmates and then will
threaten If they do not invade and ram
sack the town.
The horrors of Kronstadt and Vladi-
vostok show that the army is unre-
liable. The government has instructed
Gen. Linevitch to give paying employ
ment to the Manchurian soldiers, in
Guiding those released from Japanese
prisons. as their return to Russia would
be dangerous.
The transport that is carrying Ad-
miral Rojestvensky and other Russians
home from japan has requested a Jap
anese escort for protection against the
mutinous crew. A military insurrec-
tion is feared at Harbin because an
enormous percentage of the garrison is
composed of Poles.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
GOULD IS BACKING THE
NORTH COAST RAILROAD
LINE TO BECOME PART OF HIS
SYSTEM
Projected to Run From Seattle and
Tacoma In SoutheasterIy Direction
to Connect at Snake River With
Road Building Westward
By Associated Press.

SEATTLE, Nov. 20-The Times is
authority for the statement that the
North Coast railroad, projected from
seattle and Tacoma in a southeasterly
direction across the state to connect at
a point on the Snake river in Idaho
with road building westward, is
financed by the Gould syndicate and is
10 become a part of the Gould trans.
continental system as soon as the con-
Meeting links can be built. Papers have
been sent east for signing, and as soon
as tney are returned the capital stock
OF the North Coast road will be in
creased to make 1t possible for the To-
cal corporation to build the expensive
cascade mountain lines and to cross
the state. Construction work in Wash
ington, at least, will be done under the
name of the North Coast.
An option taken by the Gould lines
on the Tacoma Eastern will expire Jan
uary L and by that time it will have
been exercised If southern pass is
chosen the Tacoma Eastern will give
the North Coast an immediate means
OF forwarding construction materials.
If northern pass is adopted the Ia
coma Eastern will be used as a feeder
II VIII be extended to tap the rich Big
Bottom country. A party of Gould
financiers and railroad men is expected
here within week or ten days. It
may be at that time a definite an
nouncement Of the local roads iden-
tity will be made known, says the
Times, but no secrecy is attempted
even now.
1T is stated that there is no COM
munity of interest between the North
Coast and the Pacific railroads, the
latter being the extension of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
PRINCE FAILS
TO PAY DENTIST
ROYAL VISITOR THINKS $1,000
BILL is TOO HIGH
offers 5000 In Settlement, but This Is
Misunderstanding Scene Between
the Two In the Hotel
Netherlands

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2O.-When Prince
Louis of Battenberg sailed with his
squadron today for Gibraltar he left
behind an unpaid dentist bill of $1,000
Wilbur NJ. Daley, a dentist recon-
mended to Battenberg by Mrs. John r.
Drexel, filled four of the royal visitors
teeth and then presented the royal bill
Of $1,000 for his services. Prince Louis
offered 5000 in settlement, but the dem
tist refused to accept it.
There was an exciting scene between
the admiral prince and the dentist at
the Hotel Netherlands before the ad-
mlral sailed. The dentist appeared
there to collect his bill. The admiral
was amazed at the figure and sent his
flag officer, Lieut.. Sowerby, to tell
Daley he would not pay such an
amount. Daley is said to have refused
to treat with an ordinary lieutenant
and demanded to see the prince him
self.
The prince really has comparatively
little money and he told Daley he was
an ordinary sailor drawing ordinary
pay and he wouldn't accept such an
excessive bill Very pointed remarks
were made on both sides. The prince
went away without paying, but he in
structed Sir Percy Sanderson, the
British consul general here, to COM
promise the matter If he could.
Several friends of the prince said
this evening the bill would never be
paid unless a reduction was made.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
TWO MEN
KILLED
CHASTITY Crime Comes
to Light.
Brothers Brained With
Huge Club
o. 3. and {. s. Emmert Of Bakersfield
and Tehachapi Slain at Strath-
earn Station, Near
Ventura
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
VENTURA Nov. 20-Two men, who
from papers found upon them are sup.
posed to be o. B. and E. S. Emmert
of Bakersfield and Tehachapi were
murdered by unidentified persons at
Strathearn station, on the main coast
line of the Southern Pacific, in Smi
valley, Sunday night
The perpetrators of the crime and the
reason for it are not known. No one
was seen around the station before or
after the crime save the two men. The
station is about three miles from the
town of Simi. There is no depot there
and passengers and mail are taken by
stage to the little town.
Sunday two men who were beating
their way we're put off the train near
the station. one was elected from the
train and the other jumped from the
car. They were seen by residents of
the valley to camp for the night near
the water tank, and it is said they went
to sleep beside their camp fire. Both
men were well dressed.
This morning George Sawtelle, mer
chant at Simi, made his usual trip to
the station with the mail. Approach
llS lHS ldIh lie saw lHe DOuleS Ol lHt
men lying across the switch. An alarm
was given at once and the coroner was
notified. On investigation, it was found
they had been Drained with a big club
which was found lying near the bodies.
Death must have came instantly, for
there was no evidence of a struggle.
The identity of the men was made clear
by papers found upon them.
1t was also learned by the papers that
they were blacksmiths and were in
search of work; also that their mother
resides in Bakersfield at 2019 I street,
and that the wife of o. B. Emmert re-
sides at Tehachapi.
The sheriff has notified all officers in
towns miles around to be on the look
out and arrest all suspicious characters.
Coroner Beckley will leave for the
scene of the murder in the morning to
hold an inquest.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
BOSTON, Nov. 2O.-Henry M. Whit
ney, Democratic candidate for lieuten-
ant governor at the last election. to-
night made public correspondence
which had been passed between Pres
ident Roosevelt and himself concern
ing the statements made by the pres
ident during an interview last winter
which was granted to a committee
from Massachusetts on reciprocal trade
relations. The president informed a
Massachusetts committee that called
on him last week in favor of free hides
that Mr.. Whitney had deliberately
misrepresented what had occurred at
last winters conference. With these
experiences in mind the president de-
clined to enter upon a discussion Of
free hides with the free hides COM
mittee, the chairman of which is Gov
ernor w. l.. Douglas. The statement
of Mr.. Whitney during the recent can
vass in Massachusetts that the pres
ident told him he favored reciprocity
with Canada was that to which the
president took exception. After the
president had made public his address
to the hides committee charging Mr.
Whitney with misrepresentation, Mr..
Whitney maintained that the president
had certainly spoken in favor of re-
ciprocity with Canada on broad lines
during their interview. Mr.. Whitney's
letter to the president follows:
Mr.. Whltney's Letter
Boston. Dear Sir: You may have
done me a great injustice in publicly
asserting that l have wilfully misrep-
resented your attitude on the question
of reciprocity with Canada, and that
this was done in a cowardly fashion,
by saying at the time 1 did so under
conditions when the dignity of your
high office prevented you from deny
ing. l think 1 am not open to this
charge. 1 claim in my humble way to
be fair fighter. l believe 1 have
well established and well deserved rep
utation in this community for fairness
and justice. | may have misunder-
stood you and may have been led into
error. You have charged me with an
offense of which l am not guilty; you
have condemned unheard. l appeal to
your sense of fairness for a personal
hearing. My public utterances touch
ing your attitude on this question are
very few and very brief.
81 will bring them with me if you
grant me this request. L will have the
passages marked, and it will not take
you two minutes to read them. trust,
therefore, that you will grant my re-
quest: but whether you do or do not,
I shall regret more than anything in
connection with this matter that the
righteous cause of reciprocity with
neighboring countries of so much value
to our people and to the whole of the
human race Is not to have the indorse-
ment of your great name and the ben
eft of your potent aid.
81 take the liberty of enclosing here
with a public statement made by my
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
HIGGINS AT WHITE HOUSE
Takes Part In Conference With Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Root and
CorteIyou
By Assoclated Press.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2O.-Governor
Higgins of New York was a dinner
guest tonight of President Roosevelt
at the White House. Invited to meet
and dine with the Governor were Sec
retary of State Elihu Root and Post
master General Cortelyou.
The conference, admittedly impor-
tant, began at the dinner table and
continued until late hour. The pres
ident invited Governor Higgins to come
to Washington to discuss with him the
New York political situation. The
whole situation was considered with
special reference to the disclosures
made before the insurance investgat-
ing committee, but details of the con-
ference We're not made public The
evidence taken at the insurance in
quhv has involved several politicians
and that subject was discussed thor
oughIy at the conference.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
POOR PARADE IN LONDON
Course Chraity, We Want Work." Cry
Thousands of the Unem-
pIoyed
By Associated Press.

LONDON, Nov. 20.-There was an
other poverty parade" in the streets
of London this afternoon. Some 5000
to 5000 unemployed men and a sprink-
ling of women marched along the
Thames embankment to Hyde Park,
where they listened to speeches and
adopted resolutions condemning char
ity as a cure for lack of employment,
and demanding the summoning of par
lament to initiate works of national
utility.
Red flags were seen and banners
bearing such devices as Course your
charity; we want work." and "There is
limit to human endurance" indicated
the temper of the processionlsts. The
march, however, was quite orderly and
the strong force of police on duty had
little to do.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
Is Guest Of Honor at Banquet Given by the Com
mercial Club-Governor HOch Also
Delivers an Address

States increase from less than $4,000
tons, as it now is. to 100000 tons, it
Will not affect the price at which su-
gar will be sold in the United States.
But it is naid," he continued, "that If
you open the markets of the United
States 70 Philippine sugar the increase
in It's production will be unlimited and
no one can say how enormous the
Philippines production will become.
The greatest amount of sugar ever
produced for expectation in the Phil
ippines was in 1893 when the totai
expectation reached 100000 tons. The
total consumed in the Philippines is
about $4,000 tons. Now the proposition
that the American market is going to
offer such a motive for the production
of sugar in the Philippines as to in
crease it's expectation from 100. 900 tons
year to 100000 is palpably alb
surd."
Governor e. w. Hoch responded to
the toast, "There Is Nothing the Mat
ter With Kansas" made in reply to
Will Allen Whites famous utterances
under the caption, Whats the Matter
with KansaS?"
He said:
Governor Hoch's Address
kansas was fashioned in a heroic
mold and it's life has always been in
tense. In the battle of ideas, as well
as the battle of bullets, Kansas has
ever been far out on the firing line
Kansas is neither eastern nor western
northern or southern it is the central
state, the hub of the Union 1t is the
rich, juicy meat in the national sand
wich.
There is nothing the matter with
Kansas materially" said Governor
Hoch, who. after enumerating the
great resources of the state, said:
But the real greatness of a state
is not measured by it's geographical To-
cation, by it's territorial extent or by
its material resources. The real great
ness of a state is measured by the
character of its people.
Kansas" he said. could make the
same proud boast made once by a cit
izen of Maine, that we raise men
here"
Men whom the lust of office does not
kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can
not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will:
Men who have honor-men who will
Men who can stand before demagogue
And down his treacherous batteries
without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above
the fog.
"In public duty and in private thinking. :"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
WHALER REACHES PORT
John and Winthrop Arrives With Big
cargo-captain Denies Accu-
aakiaAa
BY Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 2O.-The
whaler John and Winthrop arrived here
today from ten months cruise in
the Okhotsk sea with $50 barrels of
oil and 5000 pounds of bone.
Captain Shorey denied a report that
he had marooned Cassius. a seaman, at
the Russian settlement of Deobere and
said that the man was put ashore at
his own request on account of sick
ness. He denied also reports that his
men had mutinied on account OF the
provisions furnished them.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
BAKHMETIEFF'S RANK
Goes to Toxic as Russian Minister
but Will Later Be Made
Ambassador
BY Associated Press.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2O-The
question of the rank of the Russian
legation at Toxic Is practically settled,
Japan agreeing to accept M. Bakhme-
tieff as minister with the understand
ing that the legation later will be raised
to an embassy.
During the negotiations now in prog
ress at Peking between Baron Komura.
the special envoy of Japan and the
Chinese officials Russian diplomacy has
simply been directed to safeguarding
Russian interests at Peking. The Chi-
nese government has already given
Russia assurances that China will NOT
enter into any secret treaty with Japan
covering Manchuria and that Russia
will be entitled to the benefits of any
privileges Japan obtains.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
PART I

PART
1.-Two men killed.
2-Storm carries ship on shore.
3-Official list of dead is 1873.
4-Editorial.
5-City news.
6-7-Classifed advertisements.
9-"Ben Hur' thrills great audience.
PART n
1--AIlows church to change name.
2-3-Sports.
4-5-6-Public advertising.
I'm arkets.
s-southern California news.
EASTERN
Taft is guest of Kansas City and speaks
President Roosevelt declines to give
Henry NJ. Whitney personal interview.
FOREIGN
Formal offer of Norway's throne to
Prince Charles and accepted by King
Christian.
Total number of deaths in wreck Of
steamer Hilda reaches l2S.
Terrible conditions exist in Russia and
Romanoffs may be drowned in torrent Of
blood.
Alaskan convention adopts resolutions
framing certain demands to be made OF
Whaler John and Winthrop reaches San
Francisco with big cargo.
Two Bakersfield men are mysteriously
in Simi valley.
LOCAL
Salt Lake and Santa Fe railroad Of
hcials disagree regarding switching
and freight rates.
Methodist ministers listen to lecture
On sound health
Police are inclined to doubt Mrs
Walters was robbed Say woman
merely tainted.
How to care for consumptives is
problem confronting county hospital
Judges of the superior court grant
eight divorces In one day.
Supervisor Charles E. Patterson
elected chairman of the board of county
supervisors.
Church fight settled by Judge Wilbur
of the superior court.
Widow of Senator Myron files contest
TO his Will
Chinese learns OF Thanksgiving but
attacks Irishman who told him the
story
Santa Ana knights OF Pythias team
confers third rank on four Esqulres at
Gauntlet lodge, Banquet at Paelic
Electric grill
Pico Heights people still actively,
hght proposed crematory.