Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-04-24

which may be remedied by the use OF
Ayers Sorsaparilla. II is the most
powerful, and, at the same time, most
economical blood purlfyer known.
Mount Vesuvius serves as a gigantic
barometer and Thermometer for Naples.
The direction in which the smoke from
the crater blows indicates unerringly a
coming change of weather twenty-four
hours in advance. Also, the approach
of the hot and depressing sirocco.
Boston Globe:-Claus Spreckels has
just made a "dear' by which he can
ship California sugar to the East at q
low rate of freight and thus undersell
the Sugar Trust. What the trust needs
is line of custom-houses along the
Rocky mountains to protect it against
the pauper sugar Of California.
New York Star:-The speech of Mr..
Mills in opening the great congressional
Eight against surplus and monopoly is
the subject of euIogistic comment on all
sides. Even Republican organs admit
that the case for tax reduction and rev.
enue reform was never more cogently
and succinctly presented.
The we'll known advertising Agency
of j. II. Bates will be removed on the
LIST Of May from IL to 3S, Park Row,
New York. This is one of the oldest
and most reliable Agencies in the Unit
ed States whose business through the
newspapers of the United States and
Canada amounts to almost q million
dollars annually.
John Bates, who is living at the age
of sc in Chicago, was deputy postmas.
ter Of the Lake City in 1928, under
Andrew jackson. Business was not
heavy, and Mr.. Bates used to carry the
mil in his pocket. In those days it
required Is cents to get a letter, and
the reports made to the department of
the business done were made in pounds,
shilIings and PENCE
I
! Hugh J. Mohan may be very talent
ed Irish orator, but he is . very poor
political prophet. He might ms we'll
undert Ike to tell where lightning will
strike next, or the number of the ticket
Tint will draw the capital prize in the
next drawing of the Louisiana lottery,
ss to predict who will be elected to any
ufice in this, or any other st tie.
The Oil City Blizzard says: A letter
bearing the following address is men,
toned al a re cent addition to the litera.
ture of the Dead Letter Office:
Sylvester Brown, a web-faced scrub.
To whom this letter wants to go,
IL choppinR cord cd for his grub
In Silver CIV, IDAHO"
:. E. G. Hardy, Manager OF the Oasis
Ranch Co., came down last evening
from Toano in charge of stallion
which he sold to J. w. Dove. of Tusca-
rora The horse is the full blood Nor.
man Chartres and, thirteen yenrs old
and probably the largeet draft stallion
in Elko county. he and his family ot
Ave colts having taken premiums in
Illinois. Mr.. Dove pnys $1,000 for the
horse which Re will tuke to his ranch
near Tusoarora.
The celebrated troti;ng horse De ter
whose r. cord of 2l7H a few years
since was considered 80 remarkable,
died last Saturday. For many years
he has been owned by Robert Bonner,
of the New York Ledger, who paid
$35, 200 for him. Dexter has not been
in harness for several years and had the
best care and attention, but like a
other living things he had to ,succumt
to old age. He died the property Of
Mr.. Bonner who gave him decent burr
al.
( Belmont Courier:-The Barcelona
: mine never looked better than it does NJ
, present. All the slopes are showing
fine ore, and the Monitor-Belmont mil
ought to make profitable run thii