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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18

This morning - Gabriel Cohu and J
II. Bacon.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18
hfnre nnrnrinrrs.

This moining-A, T, E~isepbaoi. r.
Hammond, James Jones.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18

HUSYADI JASos MrSEult wArER. The
bcs. natural aperiont In the world. at
the Gem!
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18

A INC invoice OF the celebrated
White Rye Whisky just received ct the
Gem Saloon.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18

stHEc Departures.
This mornipg-Faiher o'Donneil and
Al; Baker.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18

FtsS old ooCnso at Reohhat. 4 ftOOi
tehS
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18
Hotel Arrivals,

J. A. Hudson. New York.
Gabriel Cohn, Eureka.
John II. Brady. Wells.
James Kyle. Ruby Hill.
d. II. Haskell, San Frrncisco.
NJ. 4. Murphy, Carson.
J. +. Hallcck, Carson.
Geo. q Dwight, San Francisco.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18

This morning &C. =. orehorr.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18

Booths celebrated oval brand oysters
received at tho Gem Restaurant daily
by express.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-13

Pardon me for troubling you, sir
but did you drop twenty dollar gold
pieceW asked man with an earnest
look on his face and memorandum
book in his hand, of a welldsessed
individual on the corner Of jefferson
and Woodard avenues.
The man addressed ran his hand
nervously into various pockets, aud
replied:
We'll, now, | declare! Can it be
ponsible that was so careless as to
drop that coin?" Yes, it's gone. |
must have lost it right here, near
where we stand"
The man opened his memorandum
book, took from his vest pocket the
stub Of a pencil and said:
"Will you favor me with your name
and address?"
They were given and the question
er started on, when the welI-drcssed
man cried:
"Hi, there! Wher's the money?
Give me my gold piece"
"Oh, | didn't find any money. |
took notion this morning that in
city like this, where thousands of dol
lars are handled every hour, there
must be great losses, and started out
to investigate the matter. Between
here and the river | found sevep men
that lost twenty dollar gold pieces,
and | expect to run the list up to two
hundred before l reach the city hall.
Good day, sir"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-13
Custer County Notes,
Yankee Fork Herald.

The County Commissioners on ap-
plication Of Col. WIN. B. Hyde, reduc-
eu the assessment on the Custer mill
and what appertains thereto from $7O.-
900 to $35, 900, and the assessment on
the bullion was reduced from $l7O,-
600 to $4,000; total 100000. When
the Assessor visited the mill early in
the spring, the month of May, we
think, he found the $4,000 worth Of
gold and silver bullion OH hand and
assessed it as he should have done.
But the Commissioners have since said
by their act, that that amount Of gold
aud silver is not worth more than $25,-
900. How such a reduction can be
made on bullion ready for shipment we
cannot understand. The mill was as
sessed at $4,000, and the assessment
Of it was reduced to $35, 1000. It's cost
was $l35,0n0. How a Board can place
its value at not more than $35 900 we
cannot see either.
The mines at Sawtooth all continue
to develop wonderfully Besides the
justification of mill by these Lucky
Boy, Columbia and Beaver mines, 9TH
ers III the same canyon are looking
way up" The Pilgrim is one of the
mining wonders Of the season. Be-
ing struck by tunnel recently at con-
siderable depth it shows feet solid of
fue ruby silver ore, and the Sciota,
Little frankie and others in the same,
canyon are attracting considerable at
tention.
The parallel vein that was struck
toward the foot wall of the Charles
Dickens in the cross-cut nearest the
face of the main tunnel has also been
tapped 200 feet further west. It's av-
erage width is % or % inches, and
the ore is working $500 per ton with
out asserting. We have seen speci-
mems that were covered with gold and
native silver. The vein has been fol-
lowed for distance of fifty feet fur
ther into the mountain, and the ore is
steadily improving.
Smiley canyon is destined ere the
end of another season to create quite
furore as the locations are numerous
and all show well, many new oues be-
ing made this season. Among the
more prominent of which are Czarina,
Fortune, Veteran, Bessie, B. & B.,
Wisconsin, and Hidden Treasure.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-13
Where PorterhOuse steaks are Cut
from.
D,I,
Bob Bnrdette'

"This is the porterhouse, is it!'
asked the sad passenger, sitting at
the corner table in the restaurant.
Eyes, sir" said the waiter, with the
weary air of man who was tired OF
having to tell the same lie a thousand
times day; "porterhouse steak, sir,
same as you ordered, sir"
"Do you cut porterhouse steak from
between the horns, this year?" asked
the sad passenger, with the intonation
Of a man who wanted to know.
"Sir?" said the waiter.
at seemed to be trife tenderer
last year." the sad passenger went on
with the air of a tired man indulging
in pleasant "reminiscences of the past,
"but remember now; it was cut a
trife lower down then. Last year you
cut your porterhouse steaks from the
curl in the forehead, and the siroins
from the shin. But | think this comes
from between the horns. | used to
live in a boarding house where they
cut the porterhouse from between the
horns, and this one reminds me Of
them. What do you do with these
steaks when the guests are through
with them.'
The waiter looked puzzled. "Why,
sir" he said, "they amt nothing left of
'em when customers gets through with
'em, sir"
Possibly" said the sad passenger;
"what becomes of them?"
The waiter looked nervous. 'What?'
he said; "the customers eat them up
The sad passenger looked up with
an air Of interest. "incrediblew he
exclaimed; Cannot accept your state
ment without proof. They may hide
them under their chairs, or secrete
them in their napkins, or they may
carry them away in their pockets to
throw at burglars. but | cannot be
lieve they eat them. Here, let me
see one of them eat this, and | will
believe you. Trust me, good waiter,
L"
But the waiter pointed to q placard
inscribed, Positively no trust" and
went to the cashiers desk to tell the
boss to look out for that man at the
corner table, as he didn't seem to he
satisfied with his steak and asked for
trust.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-13
The Poetry of Motion.

A young man from the city, while
visiting friends in the country, be-
came interested in the lnvigorating
spectacle of the farmers hired man
cutting weeds with scythe. 1t sug-
gested to his inexperienced mind the
poetry of motion" When the hired
man laid down the scythe and went
into the barn few minutes, the city
youth picked up the utensil and made
a lunge at a group of weeds. TIE
point OF the scythe struck the earth
with such unexpectedness that the
youth fell over the handle and ploved
up the earth with his head. He was
a little discouraged, but it looked so
easy that he got up aud essayed an
other stroke. This was disastrous.
The blade appeared to coil around his
legs like serpent, cutting through
his hip pocket about an inch, ampu-
tating a portion of his coat tail, and
then threw him off his feet and cut
slices of flesh out of his calves. He
is now convinced that it is easier to
fall over whcebarrow than to
swing scythe without any previous
instruction.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-13
Notice,

In the matter of the estate of Michael Nolan, de-
ceased
In the Probate Court of Boise county, Idaho Ter
ritory.
Pursuant to an ooder of said ceurt made the
Goth day of August, 1881, notice is hereby given
that Saturday, the 10th day OF September 1881. at
O'Clock p. NJ, at the court room of said court in
Idaho City. Boise county, Idaho Territory, have
be en- appointed as the time and place for proving
the will of said Michael Nolan, deceased, and tor
hearing the petition of Margret Conners, one of
the heirs of said deceased, that letters of adninis-
tration with the will annexed issue to sidor
Smith when and where any person interested mas
appear and contest tbs same. I. s HART,
Probate Judge.
Idaho City, August 20. 1881
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-13

In olden times women never appear.
ed on the stage, their parts being per-
formed by boys and young men. Pepys
in his inimitable diary, under date
May 3, 1850 mentions that he saw
the ."Beggar's Bush" acted, and notes,
Here, the first time | ever saw a wo-
man come upon the stage"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-13
SOLDIERS

A A. THOMAS, corner Ninth and F
streets, Washington, d. c., attends to Pen
sion and Back Pay. Bounty Claims col
ected. Contested Land Claims, Mineral
and Agricultural, attended to before the
Department of the Interior and Supreme
Court. Land Warrants, Land Scrip, and
sold. #.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-13
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09
Another New Steamship.

BY dispatch dated at New York,
Sept. 9Th, we learn that another iron
steamship, built for the Oregon I'm
provement Company by John Roach /,
of Chester, Pa, arrived there on the
5ih inst. She is named the Wdlla
Walla, and will start in a few days
for Portland, Oregon, with q cargo
of railway material for the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Co. The
new steamer, says the account re-
ceived by telegraph. has seven water
tight compartments. She is 1886 feet
long 404 feet across beam, and her
displacement capacity is 500 tons.
Both her decks are of iron, the upper
one being three-fourths of an inch
thick and covered with wood. Her
deck houses are of iron and the main
deck is guarded by high iron bull
warks, which run the entire length
of the vessel. Her engines are COM
pound and Of the very best make.
Her saloon, which will accommo-
date 80 first class passengers, is aft
on the upper and lower decks. En-
frances to it are on either side of the
after deck house. The staterooms
and dining saloon are we'll fitted up.
The main deck house is covered by a
hurricane deck, ut the forward end
of which is the pilot house. The
captains rooms arc just aft of the
latter, and above them is the officers
bridge. The galley, officers quar-
tiers, etc., are in tue main deck house
forward of the engines. The fore
castle is at the forward end of the
ship under the topsallant forecastle.
Two large life boats hang in davits
over the hurricane deck. The WdHa
Walia is pierced with four large
matches, eoch of which has large
iron covering and is supplied with a
patent steam winch. The model of
the new vessel is graceful one.
Her bows are sharp and she has an
overhanging stern. She isschooner-
rugged with square sail on her
foremost. She resembles the Una
tilia Of the same line, which started
for the Pacific Coast during the past
Sumner. The Watla Wdlla will ply
regularly between San Francisco
and Seattle. She will carry coal
from the latter port, and will go
back in water ballast, for which she
has large tanks in her hold. She is
the third steamer of this description,
which has been built for the Oregon
Improvement Company. Her COM
mander is Captain De Wolfe.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09
An Interesting Comparison.

The following extract is taken
from lecture delivered in London
by the Rev. Joseph Cook to show TO
unprejudiced readers that toe claim
for the superiority of Champions of
the Red Gross insurance over all
other plans and systems, is no vain
boast, but demonstrated by facts
and figures:
"Since I came to England I have
been studying the history of some of
your life assurance societies, and I
hold in my hand literal extracts
from their own documents mot tenn
perance publication at ALL and the
great outcome of the experience of
these societies, recorded in these Of
fetal statements, is that the total
abstainer is paid from Z or 10 up to
Is and II per cent. bonus over aud
above the moderate drinker. That
is al actual result; that is not the
fancy of sentimentalism; that is
y broad indisputable fact, which
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09
A loot from Gabriel's Horn.

EDITOR STANDARD: Wake up the
people. Talk to our city fathers,
ere we perish of inanition. Why
don't our town iaddies suggest some
means and take some active steps to
benefit their people? Was it 10:
for some such purpose they were
elected? NJ we must have water
supply, All proper deep water
Wharfage. IL lis the duty of lis city
to turrI.i Il csc two necessaries to
its PEG. .e. The city has ample pow
er to do all that is requisite to Sc
cure and provide for public wants.
Such things of nece: sl,y are Fart of
the objects of municipal incorpora-
ton. They are pub ic uses, public
necessities, and the city has the
right and should provide them.
The time has come when as a town
we must move forward or die.
Within the last year there has been
tide III our favor. We have rested
on our oars and pri,ied ourselves on
our buoyaucy and forward motion,
without any calculation upon an ad-
verse wind, and counler-tide.
The present is the time to act. If
we want any legislation in the prem
ises, our city dads ought to be pre-
pared with the mondus operandi for
presentation to the Legislature,
when it meets next month, otherwise
cover themselves with mud, prepare
tory to future sepulture; for We al
ready hear the echo from the tomb.
| Turn out, citizens, and see what the
dads are doing to immortalize them
selves. Make them fit up proper
Council room, where the people can
assemble to hear their dads discuss
public matters. Attend the Council
meetings, and hear what our grand
fathers have to say in regard to the
good of their impecunious wards.
Throw Goals on their heads, and see
them put the fire out. Blow smoke
in their eyes, and see them turn on
the water. Ask for sealed bids, and
see them dance around the circle.
Cry out "Clams," and see them
draw into their shells. Raise dust,
and hear them sneeze. Go to the
meeting, boys; 60 to the meetings
and learn that one swallow don't
lnake-a drink; not by a iugful.
Cr.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09

FEARFUL reports of ravages by fire
come to us from Michigan. Along
the Saginaw Valley & st. Louis roe d ,
twenty-one miles are burned over on
both sides of the track, and thirty
or forty buildings were destroyed, in
Guiding household goods, grain and
stock. In Tuscola county tho dam
age is to the extent of $4,000, and
fires are still sweeping over a large
area. Hundred of acres are already
reduced to blackened desert, stock,
crops, fences, and all farm buildings
swept away, and absolutely nothing
left. Several lives are known to be
lost. Men, women and children,
overtaken by the flames have been
suffocated by sitting heat. 1t is
feared that when full accounts are
received the losses may prove terri
BILE. The little hamlets of Ander.
son, Richmondville and Charles, in
Samlac county, are all wiped out,
while Port Hope, Verona Mills and
Badax, in Huron county, are reported
wholly or partly burned up. People
are focking 10 the shore of Lake
Huron from the interior of these
counties as the only refuge from the
flames and are sometimes oyertaken
by the spreading fire. Not less then
twenty deaths have been reported.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09

Bi ph> ou4ht t. !r-l'r- a. 'h' f'-
sat 81 'X.''i.tL--. Vt ~ 4 "
OF, Of tine :.>.Y.n:, sc c.i's w'>
;.:,.ie.~,a - III po.a', .:r' ''.',.'',
,h.on-:. j. :-.rre:tt; ls~ io.i"H' 'e-
porn q have TIN Original 'c,'e' III ny
:. -.,..um} d ring tie past -iXte' II
,e,r, sc lave i4>ueI 1915 :'o;cies
on ,ne i.v,. ol nn.!-alS:airtrs Five
hundred ana twenty four Of III" for
mrr have died: but uiue:v-oh" Only
of the latter, o: less tlan half The
p.oportlcnatr number, Which, u
cou,.e, is 100. Le-, ;haa hal the
uuinlsr e nb';ai.tIs have died,
compared with tha LuLiGer that have
died among ..e nun-abstainers wEo
were stric;ly -temp.ra'c; and this l.
after al experience of sixteen year..
Since July LIST, 1919, every me'n-
Der Of the Champions OF Red Cross
has held Il life policy for 81 600.
70 kcep that policy in force each
menb,r has been obliged to Fay
fifty cents per month dues to the
Encampment, and an assessment on
each death in the order equal to one
dollar on every death in one thou
sand. Tie total cost per member
for the last twenty-six months has
been exactly S22.
Will some posted member Of the
Workmen phase to give us the
exact figures of tue cost for his in
surance of $1,000 for the twenty-six
months ending August 31st, 1881
We Can then divide it by two, sub
tract our $22 from the quotient and
find the price which the A. 0. U. W.
members have paid during the TWEEN
ty.six months for the privilege of
taking an occasional drink of
beer"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09

III" ira. 49, :: jj4c.h. % PH..ei
Sound hA%p ben much abused for
III II surpassed ton-r:oauctiNrnr>S,
/ ' i ci@ss OF ,tt:.cis WHO, oH.nG to
he lL'oai~ ot mortality, re last
Passing AWAY. Ne lc!.sve God
kew what lie va. ,in;ng when lie
cica'c,l all lands, a,..; i. l. rot bc-
coming III u, % qle ,tinu, III our O:,n
hort >Igh:clnes~, the availability Of
our imrehrtr;tble forests, sagchlu~h
plains, o: 4ravelly prairles. Ii Is not
beyond the memory OF old men IN
Western Pennsylvania, when TIM
mountainous regions Of that portion
OF the Stale were considered Of little
u 10 value, comparatively speaking,
md it WAS L foregone conclusion
among the wisest pioneers of that
once fo.biddinS district, that the
centuries would come and 90 without
leaving any marked changes in the
aspect of the country.
But 10. in the fullness of time,
those wonderful deposits Of oil Were
found to underlie the poorest and
toughest lands. During Il quarter
of a century, hardy adventures have
been pumping it up out of the bowels
of the earth like SO much liquid gold,
aud the consequence is that the en-
tire region is now dotted with thriv-
ing towns and villages and network
of railroads is required to carry on
the commerce that has sprung up
like magic where once was only a
bowling wilderness.
Thus, slowly but surely. all lands
are developing, and we have no rea-
son to suppose that our upland
prairies are any exception to the
rule. Those who have the most
roundly cursed these verdant plains
have either left the country in dis
gust or gone down into the silence
of the grave, where their murmurings
will no more trouble the march of
enterprise and industry. Year by
year, our people are making the dis
covery that Puget Sound prairie
land is not such a worthless expanse,
after all. 1t is found that reason
able amount of labor expended upon
it is abundan,ly repaid by forth
coming crops OF grain, hay, fruits
and vegetables.
A well.to-do farmer, living abou.
six miles from Olympia, informs us
that he has raised. this year, thirty
bushels of wheat TO the acre on the
same kind of gravelly prairie land
that his indolent neighbors have
been all their lives condemning to
the eternal bowwows, aud he says he
can do this, year after year, without
failure, by paying proper attention
the rotation of crops and expanding
no more labor than other people put
upon lands much richer in fertilizins
elements.
Let incoming settlers make note
Of these things, aud in the end they
will profit by the suggestion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09

The negroes of San Francisco have
become disguised with the bypocrit.
ical professions of friendship made
by the Republican party, and are
openly leaving it and declar.
ing themselves independent in poi.
itics. They say that with all the
feigned love of the Republican
party, the negroes of San Francisco
have never yet had single repre-
sentative nominated on the city
ticket. They are getting tired Of
being thus humbugged, year after
year, by the Republican party, and
they don't propose to stand it any
longer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09
Whittier are we Drifting2

EDITOR STANDARD: Is this o gov
eminent of the people and for the
people? If it is, why don't the peo-
pie look after their government?
Are the officers elected to attend to
tbeil own affairs, or are they elected
to look after the affairs of the peo-
pie? Do We elect legislators to be
led by the nose up to political
maDger, to eat the hash of the po-
litical hostlcr and pull his dog-cart
through the meshes and mire OF
special legislation, that he may be
kept at the stall; or do we elect men,
American freemen, to Office, to per-
form in good faith, and in an intel
lgent manner, the duties resting
upon them as representative public
men? Will the people permit their
rights to be trampled upon2 Are
we going to stand idly by and wit
ness INSCRIPTIONS politicians and
dishonest officials, barter and traffic
in The trusts of Office? If this is
government of the people, let us
then govern ourselves. If we must
have officers, let us employ citizens
worthy of the trust, and also, let US
give such officers to understand that
they are servants of the people, who
have condescended to honor them
with public station and public trust.
If we would protect our rights, If
we would transmit our Republic to
our posterity, We must purify So
called politics; we must crush dis
honesty in public Office; We must
cut off the head of nepotism in pub
lie station. Yes, official aristocracy
and bureaucracy must be buried
out of sight. The laws Of our Re-
public deny their pretensions. Then
let the plain American citizen. the
grandest sovereign Of the world, deny
them social recognition. If they
will play shoddy, let them 60 out
aud lord it over the Senegambians,
the Sandwich Islanders, the Patago.
mans, or some other grand aristo-
cratic tribe. If they will have lucre.
let them earn it like other honest
folks. STALwART.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09

The St. Paul Pioneer Press of the
29th alt. publishes an interview with
a member of the Cakes party, in
which the following significant Ian
guage occurs: "On the Pacific end
OF the line, the road is finished from
Kalama up to Tacoma, w. T., thence
there is branch thirty miles to
Puyallup coal mines, and branch
sixteen miles to Olympia" If this
interview is correctly reported, oui
go. t." has been absorbed by the
great moneyed corporation which
controls the northwest.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-09

The transfer of the President from
Washington to Long Branch was
effected last Tuesday, without ma
terial injury to the patient. In fact
the trip seemed to improve his con-
dition, the pulse falling from ia on
starting to 1O2 on arriving at his
destination. The passage was made
in seven hours, the distance being 24O
miles, an average of "a miles an
hour, although portion of the route
was traversed at the rate of a mile a
mir ute, the disturbance to tho Pres.
ident being no greater at a high speed
than at the ordinary rate of travel.
The journey began at $50 A. NJ. and
ended at 1.2O M. Soon after ar
irving at destination the patient s
pulse arose to 129 and temperature
to 101 Clio, but the fever gradually
abated, and was no more than the
physicians expected as a result of the
Journey.