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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1884-10-19
A u TO CRACK.
Is. Y. WORLD. O.toh.r 7Ilh-,

~. Y. world. October ma,
We tender the galiuu; William D. Lee,
the defender of Sir. Blaiue's yeracity, a
nut to crack on his own account, with
our best compliments.
Mr.. Blaine bought and paid S25, 900
for his Hooking Valley share in Deem
Der, 1850. Mr. Lee, in his Tribune let
ter, says: 'At the end of two year, Mr..
Blaine notified me lac preferred not to
take the share. and demanded repayment
OF the money which | promised to make
AND GIVE HIM SECURITY"
That must have been in December.
1882. In May, 1882, Mr.. Blaine rcc.iyeG
in exchange for his original share 500
900 of the consolidated Hooking Valley
bonds. Mr. W D.. Lee says. that these
bonds "were deposited 10y Mr.. Brooks
and myself as collateral security TO secure
the payment Of the amount advanced or
loaned to me by MIR. Blaine, and COR no
other purpose, and are so Leld today"
Now will Mr.. Lee please explain why,
in December, 1882, lie promised to re-
turn Nj. Biaine's loan and to give him
security" il Mr.. Blaine had already re-
ccivcd $4,000 security in May previous
and holds it still? Is there not an error
i'll the second letter OF Mr. Lees name?
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Democrats, while the Republicans are re-
sponsible for every ai and uttercnce
hostile to that interest. 1t wal n Re-
publican Congress which in 1873 demon
etized silver: that metal remaining de-
based and would doubtless LaSe 30 con-
tinued Until this time, had not tie DEM
ocrats acquired supremacy in 1873. and
overriding determined Republican oppo-
sition secured a partial recognition of
justice ia matter. by forcing ~repionetiz-
alton. In consequence Of a small Re
publican majority in the Senate, how
ever, :he biz o: the Democratic House
was sborn Of some OF It's important feat
ures. among which was that Of free COIN
age, and to that Republican Senate Of
which our " Jones Mas u member, the
mining men of Nevada are directly in
deb;ed for the presen; uinous discount
on silver, to which the present dcpres-
sion IL business throughout the State
is very largely attributable.
With these facts staring them in the
face why should the people OF Nevada
assist il electing Republicans to either
House of Congress? No matter how
faithful or talented the candidates in
themselves may be, what can they ac-
comp!ish for their cons. ituencyI II
their party il Congress il III n majority
the mos; vital interest Of this State is
either ruth.essiy stabbed or hearilcssly
Ignored: ana II in 4 minority, they are
entitled to no share in the credit If hay-
ing secured legislation favorable to the
interests Of tAeir constituents. Our
great need in Congress is not; friends
!scm Nevada, but friends from every
section East OF the Rockies, and no.
yhr=s syyS=a -" pale OF a.. National
Democracy have they yet been found.
The local Republican clamor for PRO
lection of Manufacture" without a word
III behalf OF III unprotected down-trod-
den, ~lanSuishinG silver industry, is abou;
as humillatingly sacriGciRl as the tender
solicitude of the tattered hungry tramp.
for the spiritual welfare AMI physical
comfort of the well-to-do citizens Of the
town whose pampercd ours comes bark
inS 81 his heels.
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Prank Leslie. Sunday Magazine

For November will prove Of equal inter
est to the young and the old. the reader
for amusement only, and the thinker
in fact. to all classes; Tor in it may be
found something to interest all. The
opening is u careful study by the Rev.
Geo. L. Rider. of the University system
Of education as illustrated in the English
Universities Of Oxford and Cambridge.
An article ON Hymns and Hyuan
Tunes" by l.. +. Heryey, is both his
torieal and critical. DR.. TaImgSe has Il
trenchant expose ofthe impos;urc OF spir-
itualism, and in The Home Pulpit he
breaches ON the Cnristanized vote. The
Carter family, Joseph Barnby, and John
Barnett, are treated in tue Sacred Musi-
clans Series. 4 charming Southern story,
entitled ''Sophy," is contributed by Mrs.
Adelaide c. Waldrou; and there is q not
able Article, ''TToubadours and Trouvc-
res" with a portrait of Frederic Mistral.
The Rev. Geo. W. Nichols contributes "a
twelfth letter to The Collection Basket.
this time treating Of the remarkable
changes in New York since his boyhood.
The number is prUiuseiy and haudsomcly
illustrated as usual. Price - cents q
number. $3.50 a year. NrS. Prank
Leslie, Publisher, So, 90 and 81 Park
Place, New York.
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BLAiHg'g TRICKERY.

a plot to dciIhud the Democrats by
excluding from the Boards Of Election
Supervisors, any member of that party,
has jupt ON 60 light In Chicago. The
scheme was TO eyadc the provisions of
law by calling Butterflies Democrats and
put them in the places belonging 10
Cleveland men, bnt Federal judge Blod-
gctt, before whom the case VIVA taken on
appeal, decides that such proceeding is
not lawful. This scheme discloses one
OF the advantages derived from Butlrr's
candidacy by the Republican party.
The United States la provides for the
appointment ii Election Supervisors by
the United States Mnrshals, tho only re-
stricton being that both National parties
shall be represented on the Boards. A
Chicago dispatch says: Az both United
States Marshal and Chairman OF the
Republican State Central Committee are
General Logan's personal right bowers.
1t IL to be presumed that the United
States Marshal will make the appoint
nients ms recommended. There is q
shrcwd suspicion that the United States
MHrsbnls who are not Chnirmcn Of State
Committees will 10 called on elsewhere
to do n like favor, aud thereby shut out
the Democratic party all over the coun.
try from having Supervisors OF Election
in its behalf.
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~ea4re oopnr oorvnr1os.

The .conrenden assembled at the
lcoutt,house and WAC called to order at
10 0sloek A. NJ, by S. s. Sears, Chair
man Of the Democntic County Central
Committee.
Il. Battles Of Tuscarors, nominated
John II. Dennis Of Tnscarors as Tempo
.nry Chairman. Geo. Il. shepherd
OF South Fork, nominated s. S. Scans OF
Eako.
Mr.. Dennis declined the honor anI
moved to nominate S. S. Sears By ac-
sbRAtion. Motion cenied.
For Temporary Secretary. Z. j.
Helms Of Cahin, was elected by ACCLAIM
alton.
For Assistant Secretary. L. Henderson
Of Elko. IA elected by reclamation.
On motion, II. Monahan was elected
Sergeant-at-Arms by acclaination.
On motion OF Geo. II. Shepherd. the
GLOWING Committees were appointed Ly
the Chair:
On Credentiols:-Geo. II. Shepherd.
Bepben Battles, Geo. Mcintosh.
On Permanent organization:-Geo.
Russell, E. II. Brags. Max sehoen, Dave
Casper, John Payne.
On Platform and Resolutions:-Mart
Smith, Stanley Rigsby, c. Ii. Hale, d.
W. Rench, Lee Scranton.
On motion, the Convention adjourned
70 ! o'clock p. NJ.
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nomination was made by exclamation.

nomination was made by reclamation.
For the Office of Pubic Administrator
several names were presented. bat all
nominees declined until the name of L.
j. Helms Of Cariis was placed before
the Convention. when Mr.. Helms was
nominated by acc,ama:ion. and the Con-
Nention refusing to accept his resignation
lie Was declared the nominee Of the
Convention.
Mr.. j. L. Gignoux was placed in nom
instion for the Office of County Surveyor.
but respectfully declined.
On motion. the nomination Of n
County Surveyor was passed, and left to
be filled b. the Central Committee.
On motion, the Convention took a re-
cess of ten minutes for the purpose Of
perfsetins Il Central Committee.
At the expiration OF the recess the
Chairman announced the following
names as members of the County Cen
trial Committee:
Eiko,--GeOrse Russell. John Payne,
George Tucker, S. S. Sears.
Tuscarora.-Mar Smith, G. W. Pei
tier, A. J.. Dallas.
White Roek,-E. II. Bragg.
Wciis,-Dave Casper.
South Fork,-Geo. Shepherd.
Carlir,-E J. Helms.
North Ruby,-I. p. Woolverton.
Llmoillc.-Jud Dakin.
Ca motion, it Vas ordered that the
names given. compose the Central Com
mIttee for the ensuing two years.
With three cheers for the success of
the National, State and County Demo
cratic ticket, the Convention adjourned
sine die.
TOWNSHIP TICEEr.
The following nominations were made
for Township Officers.
For Justice Of Peace, J. l.. Kcyser.
For Constable, Ii. F. Thurman.
Fol Road Supervisor, Ben Yates.
Fo- School Trustees, Tom. Hunter,
Long Term: +. +. Muller, Short Term.
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Kelley IL creating n sensation in New
York 10y exhibitions Of his motor, which
is reported as being u most c1traordi.
nary invention.
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mans CpIsr Oill and llOpf Ointment Tor Tho
1851 six years AID hayo found the above RENE.
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St'r ns"d hId recommend them 10 ont
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TIE GREAT SPRING MEDICINE.
Puflhcs The Hood and regulates tho sYstsm
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candidate for United States Senator
solely upon his ID mocratic silver record
and in thu sane breath urging The ele-
vAtion to the Presidency and Vice Pres
idency two men whose records are pre-
cisely the revere.
That the Democracy Of Eko
county favors such modification Of
the ballion tax Law IS viii be equitable
aud just to all of the mining districts in
this STATE. II urs $ sneh changes rs
will afford relief to the workers of mines
in Eastern Nevada as well as to the DO
nanza kings of the Comstock. but not
such amendments as will lessen til.
burden of the latter at the expense OF
the former, in common with all other
industrial and property interests in the
Stte.
That we most s;renuously urge upon
the people the necessity for a Constitu-
tioaal Convention, rs the only means by
which the needed reforms can be inaugu-
rated in our State and County Govern
ments, and such legislation effected rs
will place proper restraint upon the acts
OF railroad monopolies.
That while we are opposed to any di-
vision Of Elko county, we as s~;rcnuous!y
obj ct to its consolidation With any other
county.
That in view Of the unnecessarily
heavy expense incurred in the nainte-
nance Of ouE Stale Government, we earn
estly urge upon the Legislature the abo-
litiun of nil but Constitutional and nee
essary offices, and the cutting oT Q. ali
unnecessary deputies, in both the State
and County Government, also the con-
soiida;ion OF such State and county oai-
ces AS may be consistent with the proper
administration of public affairs.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-11-12
Umbrellas To Let.

1t suddenly began to rain, ana
young man in new suit and wearing
4 hat evidently bought that day darted
INTO the corridor Of an uptown hotel
lie waited five minutes, and then look
ed out on the sloppy sidewalk.
81 suppose Ill havc 70 take a duck
ine,"he remarked, rucfully, to a gen
.leman by his side. "This cane oil
mine isn't of much service in rain
storm"
"Why don't you hire an umbrella?'
the other inquired.
"Where can hire one?'
"In the corridor near the Broadway
entrance"
The young man lost no time in find
ing the man who rented the umbrl'
las ch c,ied his cane, and went out
into the street beneath a very respect
able looking gingham.
They keep umbrellas for rental in
most hotels now," said the man in
charge of the umbrella stand, "and
lots Of them are rented on rainy-days.
The general price is twenty-five cents
A day for the use of the umbrella.
When we let them 60 out we require a
deposit of $l.5), which IS what the
umbrellas sell for. They are of glng-
ham, which will not run when we.'
Our customers are mostly out-of-town
folks, who come away from home
without an umbrella, or pers)ns who
are caught in rain storm that come;
up suddenly"
GLOW long will one of these sl.5C
gingham umbrellas last?'
about twenty renting5. Aftcr that
they begin to wear II very una'lrac
tive asp9ct-in fact, most person:
don't care much to carry them then"
"Do you ever rent silk umbrellas"
"Yes; but they don't pay. You see
most persons dou't care to make s.
large a deposit as is required on sill
umbrella. We chNrge forty cents
day for silk umbrellas"
"Do the persons who hire the UNI
brellas ever keep them?'
Often. Bat, then we like that, 70
they have already nude deposit, an
in most instances the usefulness Q
the umbrella is drawing near is end.
-Ne,O York san.
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Hare is q true story of successful
energy. A young drug clerk wrote
from the Far West TO a prominent
pharmacist in New York, saying he
would like to come to the city and enter
store. lie came, but when the
pharmacist questioned him personally
he found that his visitor hal never put
up prescriptions written in Latin; con-
se1uently he could not get a situation
He did not know q soul in the great
CITY, not even the gentleman to whom
he had written (until he met him at
his store). He sought in vain for a
place, and finally found subordinate
position, where he was given five dol
lars a week and had to board himself
He was a studious, pushing, active
Young fellow. AMI soon managed to at
tend the lectures at the College of
Pharmacy. The gentleman with whom
he had corrcspondel took an interest
in him, and invited him to come to his
store and assist in the manufacturing
of nuid extracts. Once he showed his
EMPLOYER what he could do in that
line The man was surprised. "Why
can't you do something OF that kind
for me?' he askcl. The clerk said he
could, and his salary (Which in the
meanwhile had been slightly increased
was raised to very respectable proper
tions. lie worked for time in thu
way, eventually receiving salary oI
$50 week; finally he opened alaoora
tory of his own, and to-day he employs
forty or fifty "hands.' Andy wheI
he arrived in New York. he did moi
have a dollar, and was without in
nuence and without friends. .-'Sl
Nicholas.
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John Quincy Adams and His Mother.

The mother of John Quincy Adams
said in letter to him, written when
he was only ten years old:
81 would rather see you laid in your
grave than grow up a profane and
gracales' boy
Not long before the death of Mr.
Adams a gentleman said TO him, "a
have found out who made you
"What do you mean?' asked Mr.
Adams.
The gentleman replied, al have beer
reading the published letters of YOU
mother
"lf," this gentleman remarks, q.
had spoken that dear name to som'
little boy who had been for week
away from his mother, his eyes coul'
not have flashed more brightly, NJ
his face glowed more quickly, thar
did the eyes of that venerable Old MAJ
when l pronounced the name of hi
mother. =. lie stood up in his peculia
manner, and said:
'"Yes, sir; all that is good in mo
owe to my mother"
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Origin of the White Man.

There may be remains OF Stone Age
whites, but there are no certain re-
mains of white savages Of low order.
We may we'll doubt if there ever were
any white savago5; it is more likely
that the white men were developed
late in the history of the world from
ancestors already far on in civilization;
in fact, that this civilization, with its
improved supply of food, its better
housing AMI clothing, its higher intel
lectualitv, was on main factor in the
development Of the white type. Here,
however, it NUT be remembered that
there is not white race in the sense
in which there is u Carrib race or an
Andaman race. 1t includes several
race types, and even the same Ian
guages, such as English or German,
may be spoken by men as blonde as
Danes or as dark as Sicilians. The
fair-haired Scandinavian type has
something of the dednitenoss of a true
race; but as one travels south there
appear, not well-defnel sub-races, but
darkening gralations of bewlldering
conplexity.
The most reasonable attempt tC
solve this intricate problem is Prof
lIuxleys view that the white race /:
made up of fair whites of the northern
or scandinavian type, and dark whites
who are the results Of ages of miAtur,
between the fair whites and the dark
er nations, though it is perhaps hard
" prudent to limit these dark ances
tors to one variety as he does. If nov
we cannot tra,e the white man dowl
to the low level OF primitive sayagery
neither can we assign to him the grea
onward movement by which the bar
barian passed. into civilization. 1t il
not to the Aryan of Persia nor to tn
Semitic of Syria that the art of writing
belongs which brought on the new er
of culture.-Ndture.
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WHOLE NO. 2l94.
Stats les Of tie Deaf a I'd Dumb.

The numbers of deaf-mutes in tho
world are roughly calculated TO bo
from 100000 to 100000, and Of these
63 per cent. are said to be born deaf,
the others losing their hearing by dl'-
ferent accidents. The numbers OF
deaf-mutes in Great Britain amount
probably to about 10000 To meet
the educational wants Of these there
are on the face of the globe 397 in3ti-
tutions, containing 26.473 inmates Of
both sexes and employing over 2,OOO
teachers. Australia has 2 institutions,
Austria. Hungary II. Belgium 10,
Brazil l, Canada 7, Denmark 4, France
81, Germany 80, Great Britain and Ire
land 46, Italy 35, Japan 2, Luxem-
burg /, Mexico 2, Netherlands 3, New
Zealand l, Norway Z, Portugal Il
Russia 10, Spain 7, Sweden II, Swift
zerland II, United States s., Bombay
|. The causes of deaf-mutsm are,
according to the Abbe Lambert and
other authorities, damp atmosphere,
uncleanliness, bad air in dwellings,
certain occupations followed by the
parents such as laundresses, eXcaVa-
tors, miners, weavers, and all who
have to work in damp and badly ven
tilated places; the age of the parents,
either when one or both are too young
or in cases where the mother Is much
older than the father, (the opposite
does not matter developing in, rare
" the first, but often the second anc
third generation Of deaf-mute progenL
tors, scrofulou5 and nervous tempera
ments, marriages Of consanguinity,
fault in the construction Of the ear
fright, grief or ill-treatment of thi
mother before the birth Of her infant
awkwardness Of midwives at tht
birth, exposure to cold directly atfej
birth, and the innumerable maladie5 tt
which children are subject durin;
teething, convulsions, fevers, ant
many oSher causes, soma OF whcf
have not yet been fathomed. Drunk
enness in one or other of theparent5 /
also u predisposing cause, and on thl
point Swiss collector of statistics, NJ
Merkle, says that lie found the fewes
deaf-mutes or half deaf in the win
districts and the most in the district
! where spirit (oau de cte) was the Ia
vorite drink of the inhabitants
Canon Moufang, of Mayence, says tina
more than one-fourth of the deal
mute chill lren admitted to the in5titC
tlonsaro the issue Of marriages be
tween relations.
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All Smith Sound explorers have
something tosay of the Eiquiman with
the wooden leg. Everybody knows, of
course, that timber does not grow in
that part of the world, anl the .maa
with the wooden leg must be quite a
curiosity to the EIlGsmcro Land Es-
oumaux, who occasionally visit their
friends on the Greenland coast. His
name is Arr1wtah. One day, when he
was quite a boy, he was out on a hl'
hunting birds, when a great stone
rolled on his foot and crushed it. His
mother, TO save his life, cut off his leg
about six inches below the knee with
n knife made of bone. ArrOwtah sur
vivel the rude surgery, and grew up Il
stout young man, blt he was almos.
entirely helpless to his tiibc, because
he could only hop around on one leg
In 1919 the surgeon of the North Star,
one of the Franklin search vessels
made him a wooden leg which was re
paired and renewed by DR.. Hayes
eleven years later. Twenty-four years
after he first put it on The Polaris par
ty found him still stumping around or
his good, stout oaktn leg, and he coult
hunt aulls with the bHst of his tribe
though the difficulty Of travelling owe
the rough ice made him useless as
walrus hunter. Arrowtah at last ac
counts was very anxious to cross owe
to Ellesmere Land in search of a wife
He said none of the ladies in his owl
tribe suited him.
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1t seems absolutely impossible for
the men who advertise on Broadway
to attract the attention Of the public,
says a New York letter to the Chicago
Tribune. They have tried so many
schemes and experimental so exhaust
lively that people now have a sublime
Indifference TO the unCouth or glarlnS
figures on the highway and walk by
without paying the slightest attention
to them. Even DR.. Mary Walker
strolls down Broadway without being
unduly stared at, because every one
thinks she is an advertising dodge.
Huge Indians and negroes, dressed in
the widest sort Of toggcry, gaudl!y-
dressed dwarfs and men who walk in
side of champagae-bottles, big tin
shirts, and mammoth cakes of soap
wander along Broadway unnoticcd.
They hold haudbills pa35ively out to
the crowd, but the c.owd rushes by
them without glance. A horse and
rider compar,soned IN steel moves up
and down Broadway unnoticed, and
two giants, dressed as grenadierS, with
bearskin caps, stalk along arm-in-arm
yelling the name of the article they
alvel tse on needless ears. A squat
and happy negro dressed in harlequin
with a sign painted across his shoulder
blades, dances before the Fifth Ave
nue Hotel wdrbling as Fritz Emmet
never did in his palmiest days, and lie
has olly IN occasional lettering tele-
grAph-boy AMI one or two men who
carry signs on their backs for an audi
encc. Gangs Of rough-looliing men
wearing prison garb '.nl chained to-
gether tramp along one of the fashion
able thorough(arej to advertise Il play
and occasion no remark, and huge ad-
vertising wagons are dragged drearily
about without noticeable effect. The
sidewalks are often Uttered with bills,
and when horn blows and Sitting
Bull and his tribe of paintel warriors
roll by or gyuly hotel-coach scarcely
head is turned to look at them.
And yet if man should walk down
Broadway with one side of his mustache
shaved off or q woman should stroll
along with lighted cigarette in hel
hand a mob would spring up from the
earth, and $4,000 people would betalk
ing about it all within twenty-foul
hours.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-11-12
PEARLS OF THOUGHT,
Pea and ink are the best witnesses.
Little boats must keep near shore,


Little boats must keep near shore
Life is not so exclusively charged
with sweetness that one needs to DO
continually throwing In acids or bit
ters.
If we could only make the world
think as much of us as we think OF
ourselves we should then be properly
appreciated.
A more glorious victory cannot be
gained over another man than this,
that when the injury began on bis
part, the kindness should begin On
ours.
Insult not misery, neither deride in
trinity nor rdicule deformity; the
first shows inhumanity, the second fol
ly, and the third pride.
We ought to regard books as we do
sweetmeats, not only to aim at the
pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the
wholesomest; not forbidding either,
but approving the latter most.
Infinite toll would not enable you tc
sweep away a mist; but by ascending
little, you may often look over it alto
gethcr So it is with our moral i'm
provement; we wrestle fercely with
vicious habit, which would have NJ
hold upon us if we assembled into
higher moral atmosphere.
A feeble and delicate exterior is no
unfrequently united with great force
Of intellect; and it would appear as II
occasionally, the energies of the on
Increase in strength as the powers o
.he other decline. Would Moscow
nave illumined the sky with her thous
md fires had she been built OF NOR
durable material.