The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-04-22
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TESTING THE INCOME TA1.-A number OF
prominent and wealthy citizens of New York
have organized under the name of the amt
Income Tax Association" for the purpose of
resisting the collecting Of the burdensome and
unpopular measure known as the income ta1.
Men Of both parties are engaged in the move
ment, and among its officers we find such
names as William and John Jacob Astor, VIM.
Z. Dodge, Jonathan Sturges August Belmont,
VIM. G. Bryant, VIM. II. Guion, aud Others
Of the best known citizens Of New York. An
address mas been issued, in which the princi-
pal objections to the tax are recited, and the
grounds given upon which it is believed TO be
unconstitutional. The object Of the Associa-
ton Is stated to be. to bring the question be-
fore the courts, so as to test the constitution
atty Of the act imposing this tax, the power
Of Congress to make such tax, and the au-
thonty Of the assessors and collectors to levy
and collect il. The address expresses conf
dence in the success of the undertaking, by
which the people will escape the tax for the
current year, and will prevent its further re-
newal by Congress.
The NORTHERN PAcIEc.-Inquiry is made
here, says the Omaha Herald, quite frequent
ly OF the condition Of affairs and progress of
the Northern Pacific railroad. Information is
reliable to the effect that the great enterprise
Is being pushed with remarkable energy and
vigor. The grades are completed for 266 miles
west of Duluth, through Minnesota and to the
eastern border of Dakota. By September
trains will run to Red river, and they are al
ready running $50 miles from Duluth. The
grading will De completed, in all probability,
to the Great Bend Of the Missouri the present
season. Besides all this, work has com
menced in the valley of the Columbia.
TIE REAL KU-KLUx KLLs.--ConRress is
busy devising plan for REFRESHING the al
al INF in tha n Al
celebrated Ku-KluI Khan. The object is a
praiseworthy one, but the efforts by which it
Is sought to be obtained are misdifected The
real Ku-KlnIes who ought to be put down by
national legislation are not the ruffians real
or imaginary, whose exploits are made 30
much of, but the living flesh and blood scoun-
drels in official station, who are doing their
best to impoverish and destroy the whole fab
rio of society in the South.-N. Y. Sun.
A very rich discovery of silver ore has been
made in the Ord district, 60 miles southeast
Of San Bernardino, California. Three mines
were first found about six weeks since, and as
says OF the surface rock go as high as S377
per ton. One lode is eight feet wide and ex-
tends two miles. a0ETHN
A project for constructing a Canadian Pacific
railway is now before the Dominion Parlia-
ment. The cost of such u road is estimated
at one hundred millions Of dollars, but Il is
argued that it is necessity, in order to make
the Dominion great power on the American
continent.
HARRow GAUoE.-We learn that il has been
determined to make the Utah Southern a thir-
ty-inch gauge, which facilitates its construc-
ton very materially, requiring much less la
Dor in grading and less expense in iron and
rolling stock.-SdH Herald, april 12h. ID, -.
DUNNO the month of March the number of
through passengers that passed East by the
overland railroad was 1853, and the number
that passed West, ,2,086. The arrivals by sea
during the month numbered 779, and the de-
partures, 597. ar r.FfE Hy'
"MILLIoSs of seals on ice" was the gladden.
ing cry Of seamen in the sealing ships of the
North Atlantic, early in March, and fortunes
were made in q few days killing them and &C.
curing their skins.
MADAME JENNY LIND GoLDscHMIpr and her
husband have mulGted publishers in England
TO the amount OF SIC, 900 damages for libel in
falsely stating that their welded life wac infe-
hcitous.
The Denver News boasts that the street gas
lights in that city are visible fifty miles away,
and so plain that the line of the streets Ia dis
cernible by them. ..ns -aa ~. -
a largo cavern containing many interesting
remains Of the aboriginal Inhabitants of the
country, has beon discovered in Columbia
county, Ga. f.iT moa E.