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MumbOIde House.

Having resumed the management of
this popular Hotel, / desire to inform
my old customers and the public gener-
ally that good accommodations at rea-
sonable prices will be maintained.
The BAR
Is stocked with fine Wines and Liquors
which will be sold only by tho gallon or
bottle. Hybschman's Beer be the bot
tie or quart; Milwaukee Beer ty the
bottle: Fine Cigars.
JOE. LANG,
Proprietor.
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can be made will pay SO well in horse
breeding as tho investment of securing
the best strains of blood that can be
procured in the stud. While It may in
the first instance cost ton or even twenty
times more than more common stock, in
the long run the better the blood the
better the pay.|Ex.
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NOTICE TO STAR CLIO
YER and RUBY VAL
LEY HORSEMEN.
The following Stations will stand at
Oasis RANCH, season nj 1888:
GAMBETTA.

A full blood Norman-Percheron No.
1866.
Observation-Disclosures is II
hands high. q dapple gray. proud spir-
tied, rangy stallion, gifts feet, weigh
now 1875 pounds, has full expressive
eye, proud arch neck. strong high back,
high in front, good breast, broad, fiat
bone in leg and fine action.
PEDIaREE:-Gambetta VAS sired by
Keno No. 1920, dam Piciola No. 1,8O4,
and was bred by F. M. Adams, of Nor
NAL, Illinois, is recorded in Vol. 8,
page 44O, National Register of French
Draft Horses.
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@. W, IRISH.
q. E.. Surveyor General.


A number of the ettlers on public
Lands in the valleys adjacent to Elko
having inquired of this Office as to the
locality of the rejected surveys, We pub
lish General Irish's letter complete for
the benefit of all.
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Painting.

Having located in Elko 1 am pre-
pared to fill orders 70 Painting, Graf n
ing and Paper Hanging. Ceiling Deco.
rations specially. All work first
class Leave orders ut the INDEPEND
ENr Office.
G. f HARVEY.
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taHG Received.

Two car loads OF Salt, consisting of
stock salt and fine Liverpool salt which
will be sold in quantities to suit.
III. CHASE.
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ME.iys nna A.atLIxo.,,

Those who desire topurchase the best
quality of Groceries and Provisions are
referred TO the above reliable house
where fair dealing and courteous treat
ment is the :ule. Glassware, Tinware,
Stoneware, Nails etc. ALWAYS in stock
IL H. CHASE.
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Have you seen those new Furniture
Coverings, Gimpe, etc. at Rsinhart
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ned Rock sn,oon.
UNDER MASONIC HALL.
II. Nc ADAMS. Proprietor.

This popular resort has recently BIZ
placed in first class repair and
THE BAR
stocked with the finest Wines, LiqOd
aud Cigars.
lyon want something Mild or 20
srful give the Bed Rock q call.
81
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Approaching age and bodily Infirmity
have rendered me- unfit for the active
duties of ranch life, hence have deter.
mined to sell my home place situated
two miles
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All under fence, together with Farm
ing Implements and Machinery. The
lanch liz we'll watercd by first right to
two streams of
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LIVING WATER

Passing through the premises, upon
which from
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Can be cut each year. The residence is
substantial building of six rooms we'll
furnished, near which is highly cult
'ated vegetable garden, and the grounds
about the house are planted in fruit
trees and shrubbery making it al attrac-
tive and
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five years after, vicksburg is high and dry at

five years after, Vicksburg is high and dry at
low water.
In the mud and malaria Grants soldiers
wrought at the canal from january, 1853 till
March q Grant lost faith in it himself soon
after coming to Vicksburg, but kept his men
digging still until he could project new plans.
His idea now was not to attack in front or
on the well fortified heights, but to take
Vicksburg by great fanking move, getting
in its rear either above or below the town.
Many plans were thought out Several were
tried and abandoned.
One was the Lake Providence scheme. This
was point some miles above Vicksburg on
that canal might be cut from the Aissis-
sippi into Lake Providence This would let
Grants transports and gupboats into the
Tensas river, thence through the Black and
Red river they might get into the Mississippi,
$50 miles below Vicksburg. The Lake Provi-
dence canal, mile long, was actually dug,
then the plan was given up. The canal served
one purpose only, that was to flood and de-
stroy thousands OF acres Of cotton.
The Yazoo Pass route was next tried. A
few miles below Helena, Ark, but on the op-
posite side of the Mississippi, and near that
river, was Moon Lake Yazoo Pass, 50 called,
was a stream running from Moon Lake into
the Coldwater river, thence into the ITALIA
hatchie, thence into the Yazoo.
The route was thus: Moon Lake, Cold
water, Tallahatchie, Yazoo. 1t can be traced
upon the map. Could not way be found
thus to strike Vicksburg above and behind
Haines' Bluff, on ths Yazooa
According canal from the Mississippi to
Moon Lake was dug. But it was work of
frightful difficulty to get into the Coldwater
river through Yazoo Pass. Trees and stumps
INSTRUCTED the channel, and great branches
locked arms overhead, as if to prevent the
gunboats from passing. The vessels were
only able to make mile in four hours.
The Confederates meantime had caught
wind of the plan. AID were fortifying with
might and main at Fort Pemberton, on the
Yazoo. When Grants gunboats reached
that point the Confederates were ready for
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bslching from her pork barrel chimneys this
diam tronclad was set adosA just in time TO
make her appear on Vicksburg at daylight.
Round after round Of shot from the batteries
was poured into her, which naturally went
IN at one eide and out the other. Not a soul
was on board. The dummy passed on her
way calmly down the river until she
grounded q considerable distance below
Vicksburg.
This dummy was joke partially balancing
the modification occasioned by the loss of
the Indianola, especially when the conse-
quences to the Confederates come to be
noted.
After capturing the Indianola the Queen
Of the West proceeded On her way up the
Mississippi till she reached Warrenton, seven
miles below Vicksburg. But at Warrenton
she caught night Of the pork barrel monitor.
Her officers fancied It was . huge and ter
rible new kind OF engine Of war. Dispatches
were sent east to Richmond about the ap-
pearance in the southern waters Of ''tur-
reted monster
The Queen Of the West stayed not on the
order Of her going, but turned and fed to
Red river. For fear Of capture by the same
''turreted monster" the Indianola was blown
up at once.
A short time afterward the Queen of the
West was herself blown up in Red river to
avoid capture.
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III. Parkman some days ago wrote to
Senator Plumb explaining the status of
the natural gas well and the desire on
the part of the directors to sink it to Il
depth of two thousand feet, at least.
Senator Plumb promptly replied ex-
pressing the hope that the work would
be carried on until that depth was
reached, and to aid the prosecution of
the work enclosed check for 500.
Mr.. Parkman was unstinted in his
praise of the Senator's liberality under
the circumstances, and declares that
the we'll shall go down as contemplate
ed. The Senator is entitled to be
gratefully remembered, not only fol
his timely donation, but for his words
of hope and encouragement.
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THE LAND FORCE.

Grant had attempted to move his land
forces down to Vicksburg by the route before
described as the Yazoo Pass way. The pas
sage was made, as narrated, by some of the
gunboats that were stopped at Fort Pember-
ton. This fort was so adroitly located as to
command the three rivers, Tallahatchie,
Yallabusha, and Yazoo. Gen. Loring had
command of the Confederate troops here.
March IL Ross division Of McClernand's
corps appeared before Fort Pemberton, 1900
men in all. McPherson's corps was ready
and waiting to follow them, and Grant hoped
from this side to be able at last to get into
Vicksburg. But this navigation against
nature, as it were, that he had attempted was
attended with extraordinary difficulties. No
boats could go through the Yazoo Pass and
Coldwater, except those of very light draught.
Moreover, the country was overlooked and
was one swamp, so that there was no resting
place or camping place for an army anywhere
in the lowlands above Vicksburg.
March IL the Union gunboats began their
bombardment Of Fort Pemberton. March Il
the land force erected battery and fired at
Fort Pemberton awhile. Finding it could do
no good, the expedition started back up the
Tallahatchie. Half way up the river they
met Gen. Quimby coming to REINFORCE them
\ with brigade, all the men he could transport
through the difficult passage in time. Being
] the senior officer, he ordered the troops back
| to Fort Pemberton. They returned. Another
| fruitless attempt was made on the fort March
| 3. Quimby was about to build a bridge to
move around the east side of Fort Pember-
| ton, when, April 1, he received orders for the
whole expedition to return to headquarters,
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Clearly Chilly.

ST. LOUIS, April 9.-The trial of the
chief of the Ball Knobbers, Dave Walk
er, began at Ozark, Mo-, to-day. All
the jurors are from the northwestern
handle of Christian county, and the
chief says there is not a familiar face
in the lot. His first witness for
the state was old William Edens,
whose first recollection of the
case was the cry of his
small boy who said: Pap get up we
are surrounded by Bald KnObbers.''
AS he sprang from the bed three
shots were fred through the window,
the front and rear doors gave way to
heavy blows from outside, and the
next instant masked men knocked him
senseless. When he recovered he
found he had been shot in the head
and otherwise injured and his
SONS and son-in-law were killed, Other
witnesses who had been members OF
the Bald KnObber organization testi.
fed to the important position in the or
ganization held by Dave Walker, and
said he was present at the killing and
was known as their chief and was un.
uueStionablY their leader.
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BILE for large boats. Thus Grant hoped to
sheer around Fort Pemberton and still get in
the rear of Vicksburg.
Grants headquarters at this time were at
Young's Point The map will show the route
taken at this new and last attempt at q
thanking movement"
Once more hundreds of faithful workmen
began cutting trees and widening the chan
nels of Black Bayou and Rolling Fork.
March 10, the work began, and the next
day, March IL, the Confederates heard of it,
and commenced to make ready to receive
them at the junction of Rolling Fork and the
Sunfower.
Admiral Porter went ahead, with a force
Of both land and navy, to prepare the chan
mel The gunboatS were so INSTRUCTED that
they could only advance through Black Bayou
at the rate Of four miles in twenty four
hours. Sherman also sent land force for
ward by another route, from above Millikenis
Bend. Sherman himself, after hurrying the
rest Of his forces onward, followed after Por-
ter on tug, through the timbered channel.
The history OF the Steele's Bayou expedi-
ton is that of the Yazoo Pass expedition over
again. After blowing through almost super.
human difficulties and reaching within a few
hundred yards Of the Sundower and cleaI
sailing, on the 18th of March the workmer
saw puff Of smoke from the woods in ths
direction of that river.
The smoke was followed by stray shells
then more shells, and more. Then bidder
sharpshooters began to pick of man by mai
i those on the gunboats, until every one whit
| showed his head dared certain death. Tn
Confederates were ready for them.
What was worse, the defenders of Vickz
burg were already well nigh in the rear o
| Porter's gunboats and just on the point o
| obstructing the narrow channel, thus cut
| ting him OF from Sherman and the Lam
forces and rendering certain his capture. AN
that Of all his men It was q desperate case
Porter sent negro through byway i
the swamp to inform Sherman. Immed
ately Sherman hurried forward the 10 me
with him He himself went back alone in
canoe to get the rest.
Porter had started to retreat as soon as b
| saw his critical situation The gunboai
were obliged to return up through Des
Greek stern foremost, the channel being tc
! narrow for them to turn. March 81 he ma
| Sherman's advance Of 500
The same day, March 81, Shermanis secon
column had Q skirmish with the body of Coz
Aderates who had come around in Porter
rear to block the channel. The Confederat
retreated-
Not till they reached Steeles Bayou d
| the gunboats find room to turn around The
had backed down Deer Greek for thir'
miles It required three days. March
the Union troops were back in their o
quarters at Youngas Point,
One more Iaborious attempt to dai
Vicksburg had ended In failure.
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IRON CLAD rNp1ANoLA.

Once more he went out to destroy, accom-
panied by the coal tender DeSoto. Down
the river he captured two steamers loaded
with Confederate provisions. Further on
he destroyed wagon train. Then he started
up Red river. One OF the steamers he had
captured was the New Era. Ellet took her
pilot on board to steer the Queen. He ran
her aground under the guns of the Confeder-
ate Fort Taylor, on Red river. The fort
opened on the plucky little steamer with
four heavy cannon. A shot cut her steam
pipe, and the scalding yapor poured through
the boat, fatally burning many Of the crew.
Ellet and the rest OF them jumped into the
water upon cotton bales and foated down
the river They boarded the New Era, one
of Ellet's prizes, and mace their escape in
haste.
Some months later, after the capture Of
Vicksburg, Col. Ellet applied for and re-
ceived permission to go home on sick leave.
He died at Bunker Hill, Ills, in October
Admiral Porter says: "Ellet was gallant
young fellow, full of dash and enterprise"
Once more Admiral Porter sent gunboat
down past the Vicksburg batteries. This
was the Indianola, a fine new iron clad, with
two 1I-inch bow guns. She foated down
past Vicksburg IN the night, just in time to
meet the New Era coming up the river with
Col. Ellet on board. The Era was chased by
a Confederate ram, the W. II. Webb, from
Red river. The Indianola in turn gave chase,
but the Webb escaped
Meantime the Confederates had rapidly 70
paired the lost Queen of the West and turned
her against her own people
Feb. "a the Indianola, in charge OF Lieut.,
Commander Brown, who had run the bat
teries with her, was at the mouth Of Big
Black river, forty miles below Vicksburg
Suddenly the ram Webb and the now Con
| federate Queen of the West came up the
river in pursuit of him. With them were
| two steamers ''cotton clad" so called, that il
| to say they were piled with cotton around
| the bows and sides. This was perfect pro
lection against shot, though very uncertain
one against fire.
| All four vessels opened on the IndiaDoia
| the cotton cladsn attacking with their small
/ guns, the rams endeavoring TO run the In
dianola down with their iron prows. ''Botl
vessels came together, bows on" said Lieut.
Brown, in his report
The Indianola received seven crushing
blows from the rams, and began to sinl
rapidly. Then Lieut.. Brown threw his sigma
books and his 9-inch guns overheard, disable'
his 11-inch bow guns and surrendered
The Indianola was blown up on the nigh
of Feb. 25, ''by Yankee ruse," as Admira
Porter calls it. What that ruse was, how
ever, he does not tell in his naval history
although it is well worth telling.
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supre.ne court pee,rion..

TOPEKA, Kas., April THE follow
ing opinions were rendered by the Su-
preme Court to-day:
Horton, G. J.-Jno. A. Chrusty VS..
Harry Jones; error from Allen county.
Reversed.
The state of Kansas VS.. James
Blakesley; appealed from Saline coun-
Louisa Pfefferle VS.. the state of
Kansas; error from Lyon county.
Affirmed.
Joseph McCreary, ct al, VS.. T. F.
Hart, ct al; error from Montgomery
county. Affirmed.
George West VS.. Western Union
Telegraph company; error from Shaw
nee county. Reversed.
Valentine j.. Board of commits
sioners Of Sumner county VS.. Yelling
ton township; error from Sumner coun-
ty. Reversed.
N. 81. Ives VS.. E. j. Addison; error
from Greenwood county. Affirmed.
G. e. Godfrey VS.. Robert Black, er-
TOR from Sedgewick county. AT
firmed.
n. D. Stark VS.. J. v. Barr; error
from Shawnee county. Affirmed.
Geo. Sill, ex rel VS.. Rebecca Sill,
error from Marion county. Affirmed.
S. B. Bell vs.. Jno. Keepus; error
from Wyandotte county. Modified.
In re, George w. Morris; original
proceeding in habeas corpus. Judg-
ment for respondent, A. B. Evrett,
ct al.
Auchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe rail-
road company VS.. Lee Dongan ct al;
error from Mcpherson county. AT
firmed.
Sam1 D. Sawyer, ct al VS.. A. B.
Simins, ct al; error from Atchison
county. Affirmed.
a. C. Boyle VS.. John c. Gordon:
error from Allen county. Affirmed.
Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe COM
pany vs.. Calvin p. Townsend; error
from Jefferson county. Reversed.
Per Curtain. the state of Kansas, ex
rel, VS.. J. r. Stocket, ct al. proceedings
for alleged contempt.
In re John w. and n. r. Simmons
hab@s corpus petitioners. Dischared
Charles Tobing VS.. Jacob McPhurn
ct al; error form Butler county. AT
| firmed.
Cole VS.. Martha Hoeburgh. Motion
| for re-hearing overruled.
James ID. Reese VS.. John HaZeltOn
Motion for rehearing overruled.
John Reed ct al. VS.. NJ. A. BullarC
ct al. Motion to set aside dismissed
and reinstate cause overruled.
| Hannah Richie ct al. VS.. John r
| Mulvane ct al; error from Shawnee
county. Affirmed.
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until an independent command was given to
him He commanded at Vicksburg al
through the siege. After the war Gen Penn
berton became farmer in Virginia, remain
ing there till his death in 1881
Great Importance had been attached TO the
canal across the loop in the Mississippi river
at Vicksburg. Diggers were again set to
work early in january. Instead, however,
Of following exactly the line OF the Williams
canal, which went directly across the bend,
they began at point above, so as to make
the canal slant across. and thus take adj
vantage OF the assistance Of the current 1t
was hoped thus that the Mississippi would
choose the canal for its bed and leave Vicks-
burg ON dry land The river did not do so
In 1853, however, although it has done so
since, cutting new channel across the bend,
or peninsula, in 1879. So that now, twenty
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Gen. Grant was by this time in command
of the Army OF the Mississippi, which was
known as the Thirteenth Army corps.
Grant and Porter met at Cairo. In an in
terview, which the admiral in his naval his
tory tells US ''lasted Just half an hour" these
two soldiers and patriots planned the cam
paign which, after weary months, was to re-
suit in the downfall OF the Gibraltar of the
Coufederacy
But ere that downfall was accomplished
--
many plans were to be tried and were to fail.
The scheme Grant and Porter formed in their
brief interview was this: Grant would march
from Holly Springs, Miss, to Grenada, Miss,
in the rear of Vicksburg, with an army OF Co.
OOO Gen. John c. Pemberton was the Confed-
crate commander at Vicksburg. He would
naturally march out from his citadel to stop
the march of Grant at Grenada He being
thus away from Vicksburg, Sherman and
Porter, coming down the Mississippi by water,
while Grant attacked Grenada, would be able
to attack and gain possession of Vicksburg
Such was the plan
The first part of December, 1862, Sherman
and Porter set out on their combined expedi-
ton against Vicksburg. Memphis was the
starting point.
Part of the squadron went first, under su
pervision OF Commander Wake, of the Ca
rondelet Their destination was the mouth
| Of the Yazoo river, above Vicksburg. They
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OIeomargerine Decision.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 9.-The
United States supreme court rendered
decision to-day in what is commonly
garine cases. This case brings up for
review a judgment of the supreme
court of Pennsylvania sustaining the
validity of a statute of that common
wealth making it unlawful for any per-
son to manufacture, sell or offer for
sale any butter or cheese, or article de-
signed to take the place Of these arti-
cles produced from any compound 9TH
er than unadulterated milk and cream.
The plaintiff was convicted OF
violation Of this. statute and took an ap-
peal, basing it on the ground that the
statute was in violation of the four
| tenth amendment to the constitution
and that the article sold was new In
vention, not deleterous to the public
health. The cotzEE holds that it is en-.
tirely within the public powers Of the
state to protect the public health and
| that the question whether the manu-
facturer of oleomargarine is or may b
| conducted in such way as to involve
/ such danger to public health as to re
Quire a suppression Of the business
rather than its regulation an
/ questions of fact and Of
| public policy which belong Il
the legislative department TO determ
| inc. If all that can be said OF this leg
/ iSlBtion is that it is lInwise or uneces
sarily oppressive their appeal must b
to the legislature or to the ballot box
| not to the judiciary. The court furthel
says it cannot assent to the argumen
that if this statute is sustained theI
i nothing stands in the way OF deStruc
ton by the legislative department o
constitutional guarantees of liberty ant
property, the answer TO this argument
holds is that the judiciary department
Is bound not to give effect to staeutor.
enactments that are plainly fo<biddel
. By the constitution. The objection tina
tie statute denies equal protection Q
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him, Feb. 9, down the river to destroy the
City of Vicksburg. The Queen was wooden
steamboat with long iron bow. Cotton
bales were piled around her amidships to pro-
tect her machinery from shot.
1t had been expected that the Queen of the
West would steal down the river at night
and attack the City of Vicksburg unawares
in the darkness. But she was delayed. At
sunrise, in full view of the Confederate bat
teries, the Queen passed down the river and
made straight at the City of Vicksburg.
Shot and shell came thick and fast from the
batteries. The wide guards of the Vicks-
burg prevented the Queen from ramming
her squarely. Col. Elet therefore began
firing explosive shells at the Vicksburg.
But the shells from the batteries set fire to
the protecting cotton bales, and Ellet could
do no more He therefore passed on down
the river, leaving Vicksburg and the City of
Vicksburg behind him. A barge of coal
was fioated down to him in the night.
Ellet descended the Mississippi to the
mouth of Red river. On the way he de
stroyed three steamboats, loaded with sup
plies for the Confederates at Port Hudson.
Thence the Queen of the West steamed up
Red river, spreading panic at her approach.
By this time Ellet was out of coal again and
returned to Warrenton, just below Vicks-
burg, to get a supply.