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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-09-11
County Official Paper.
TREASURY STATEMENTS.

United States Treasurer Huston
deserves credit for any honest efforts
he may make to simplify the methods
OF Treasury bookkeeping, but he
would do we'll to contine his attention
to his own improvements without be-
ing seduced into absurdities by his
anxiety to make a point on the late
Administration. Mr.. Huston is right
in some OF his ideas-for instance, in
thinking it time to stop considering
all outstanding fractional currency a
liability. But when he says that
Secretaries Manning and Fairchild
purposely swelled the column Of liza
bilities in order to increase the ap-
parent size of the surplus he is mere
ly silly. Such q course would have
precisely the opposite effect. The
larger the liabilities the smaller the
surplus.
1t has been said that the $64 ,623,-
512 of Pacific railroad bonds should
not be included in the column of
Understanding debt, since the Gov
eminent is merely an indorser of the
bonds and the liability is only con-
tingent one. Unfortunately the con-
tingency arrived about the time the
bonds were issued, and has stayed
with us ever since. The Government
has always paid the interest on the
bonds, and will probably have to pay
the principal. Certainly the roads
have not been making any violent
efforts to meet it. Under the Cir
cumstances the Government might
as we'll call itself debtor and indorser.
Il Examiner.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-09-11
Wire Fences and Snow.

It would scarcely be thought that
tho Winter SHOWS could be harder on
wire fences than on those made of
boards, and yet such is the fact. All
tho mountain dairymen go around
their ranches and draw out the staples,
thus allowing tho wire TO fall to the
ground, to lie until Spring, when it is
raised to it's place and tackled fast
again. But for this precaution tho
snow would load the wires until they
wore n foot thick and weigh ton to
tho rod, breaking down the posts and
rIining the fence. Boards stand up
much better, as they do not seem to
hold the snow like barbed wire.-I Re-
no Gazette.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-09-11
A Young Giantess.

The most famous child in the Ger
man Empire just now is Elizabeth
Lyska. Every German daily has told
its readers how she looks and acts,
how much she eats and drinks and
what kind Of clothes she wears. All
Berlin is calling upon her, as all
Vienna called upon her few weeks
ago when she was at the Austrian
capital. Professors and officers and
doctors and Privy Councillors, and
othor German big wigs are received
b. her daily. Even the great Virchow
passed several hours with her, chatted
with her Familiarity and eventually
wcote an elaborate description and
biography of her, which he will read
soon before the ARCHAEOLOGICAL
Society OF Berlin. Elizabeth is get
ting all this attention, not because
she is pretty or clever, but because
sAo is big. According to Virchow,
she is the biggest girl of her years
waom Europeans of modern times
hIvo seen. Though but II years old,
the is six feet six inches tall and
.we CHS about 500 pounds.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-09-11
Equal to the Geaasion.

IL say, dear boy, must be going
I'm late already. You haven't got
five cents about you for car fare, have
youP' asked one Bohemian Of an
other.
mo. nothing but dollar, assure
you. dear boy" ........
"All the samo-Til borrow that, and
take cab. Judge
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-09-11

DEPUTY U. s. LNND AND MTNEPAL
- Surveyor for Nsvoda, Mines laid ont
and Surveyed fer Patent. Land surveyed, mp.
plicstions, contracts, payments on land, ANA
opp raining to fixing up or holding lsnd 81
thc State or Cove nm.nt att ndsd %. shall
t'ap fully postsd as to all land. 1st,n up snd
vacant In We eastern part Of Nevada. AZ
dress, Eks, Nsvada.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-09-11
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

Depot Hotcl--Clark & Green, Pro-
prietOrs.
S Gregory, a w Pfaff, Thos H
Haskins, S +; II II Harris, Hunting
ton; M Shearer, North Fork; NJ K
Eager, Lamoille; 2 Hansen, Wells.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-09-11

THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ESTABLISHED H
accordance with Act the Legislature
IAN Act provide for the Agcu
Society OF the state,'' approved March z,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-09-11
1855. ass
STATE FAIR OF 1889 |
will be held
AT RENO.
Commencing September 80 and ENDING October 5, la
LIBERAL PREMIUMS
For Live Stock Department and Exhibits in PaviIo

Trials of Speed to be Conducted Under the Auspices of
Directors Of the State Agricultural Society
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
AN INsTRUCTIVE CONTRAsT.

While Pittsburg is enjoying a business
aspect of almost unalloyed prosperity
with the exception of the merely local bank
failure in Lswreneeville-Wall street is dis
playing a panicky feeling. The reason Of
the difference is not hard to discover. nor is
it without sound business instruction.
Pittsburg's prosperity is based on the
legitimate supply and the country's demand
for iron and steel. 1t is based on conserve
tive prices for whatever Pittsburg sells, and
as result the demand is expanding to an
extent in excess of immediate supply that
forces prices into an advancing tendency.
New York, on the other hand, has been
plunging into the trust speculations.
Founded on equal disregard of the laws of
trade and the laws of the country. these
concerns were successful for a short time in
getting up an imitation Of their stocks and
persuading the Wall street public to en-
bark in them. The inevitable collapse has
been hastened by the discovery that the
laws do not permit themselves to be nulli-
fed without protest, and the shrinkage in
four trust stocks alone during the past few
months is between 500, 900. 600 and $780,
100000.
1t is fashionable among Wall street organs
to ascribe the panic of 1873 to granger legis-
Istion. The fact is, however, that it was
caused BY the reaction from an era Of the
widest railway nfation-building roads on
a capitalization of three or four times the
amount of bona .fde cash cost. The same
feature has produced financial reVerses both
before and since that date. We presume, if
any serious complications arise from the
collapse of the trusts, Wall street will make
haste to lay the responsibility somewhere
else than on the dishonesty and imitation of
those schemes.
Nevertheless it will be worth while to
bear in mind the fact shown by the contrast
between Pittsburg and New York, that when
legitimate business is kept up panics do not
come. Those reverses are invariably prod
uced bv speculation and imitation,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
ONCE MORE ON THE SHELF.

1t is not the fault of the real estate agents,
or of the reporters of the city press, if the
Pennsylvania Railroad does not eventually
get new and handsome depot in the heart
Of the city. For three years or more the
newspapers have been planning for that
convenience. They have selected this site
and that; they have purchased property for
the road, drawn up designs for the new
buildings-done everything in fact that an
enterprising press, conscious of the require
ments of the situation, could be expected to
do; and finally when the prospect seemed
most hopeful, and even the real estate agents
began to believe in the transactions they
were themselves represented as making, lol
there comes a cold, unsympathetic denial
from the highest local authority of the road
so inclusive in its negation as to shut out
pretty much all such depot projects, past,
present or Immediately prospective.
However. this would but make more mys-
terious the recent unusual activity of real
estate at high prices IN the district in ques-
ton, were there not one evident reason to
give for it. That is simply the pressure for
business room in the old part OF the city.
The tremendous rate of growth here for the
past few years has compelled merchants to
look out, not only for present accommodation,
but to take into account also future neees-
sites. This condition of things will Of
itself keep the real estate men and report
ers active, even though the cherished depot
project is laid away once again on the shelf.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

MARY ANDERSON is again visiting Lord Ten
nyson.
SECRETARY NOBLE left Washington yester.
Cay for his home in st. Louis. He is expected
to return the early part of next week.
MINISTER wHITELAw REID and Mrs Reid
have gone to the South of France. They viii
also visit Rome. They will be absent from
Paris for month.
MISS HATTIE BLAINE, the Secretary's
youngest daughter, who is to make her
debut in Washington society this winter, is
described as the beauty of the family.
JAMES s. CARLTON, an aged man now living
in Baltimore, Md, claims to have been the
first discoverer of the peculiar effects of CO
caine. He says that as early as 1S49 he knew
the properties of the drug and made use OF
it in his own family.
BRONSON HOWARD. the successful play
wright, is q small, clean-cut man in middle
life. He wears eyeglasses and mustache.
He does not look any more imaginative than
does William D. Howells. In tact, these two
successful wielders of the pen look more like
brokers or bankers than like literary men,
THE Rev. R. Heber Newton is 40 years of
age and has been D. d. during nine and a
quarter of them. His face is thin and guilt
less of hair, yet he has a grown-up son study
ing art in Paris and three others whom he
scrutinizes through pincenez. His sermons
are published in cold type II times year, and
he wears rundown collar.
Nor everyone knows that the Hon. Chauncey
NJ Depew has brother who Is prosperous
business man in Detroit There this brother is
affectionately known to everyone as Larry, -
and for the same reason that someone was
called Peter in one of Gilberts comic poems,
because Peter was his name" When the
father of the two Depew boys planned to give
them both collegiate education. the idea was
for them to lay the foundations Of the higher
studies in the local academy. At the end Of
the first term the father got bill lor Chaun-
ceys tuition, but none for -Larry's. Lawrence
had not been to the academy at ALL 1t was
found that he was clerking in store in the
village. That ended the attempt as far as Law
renee was concerned. He was permitted to
stick to business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
TIE PITTSBURG STAGE.

NAT G. GOODWIN, in his new play, "A Gold
Minen will appear at the Grand Opera House
next week. The comedy was written by
Brauder Matthews and George Ii. Jessop, and
contains bright and clever plot. II is pro-
nounced one of the funniest and best plays Of
the season. Nat Goodwin is always welcome
here. Seats are now on sale for this engage
ment.
THE BIiou has a great attraction next week
Clara Morris and competent company in an
excellent repertoire. On Monday and Thurs
day sCanille" will be presented; Tuesday and
Friday, the new play, "Helene;' Wednesday,
Saturday matinee and Saturday evening,
"Renee de Moray" Miss Morris has not been
in Pittsburg for several years, but she will be
none the less welcome.
H.MY PARTNER" an old-time favorite, Is the
attraction at Harris Theater next week. The
company is said to be a good one, and every
body knows that the play Is always pleasing.
LESTER & wIInIAMs' London Speciality
Company. which is made up of the best variety
talent in the country, will be at Harry Will
Jams Academy next week.
THE Worlds Museum and the Casino have
attractions that are drawing crowds daily.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05

a srNGnIAR SELECTION.

The announcement of the appointment to
the Supreme Bench, of Judge Brewer, OF the
United States Circuit Court, is an extremely
disappointing one in many respects. The
passing over of the names which have been
presented for the position, in order to ele-
vate Judge Brewer, suggests a principle oil
selection which can only be to the discredlt
Of the administration.
The main quality which has made Judge
Brewers name known beyond his clrcult
has been the remarkable facilities which the
most INSCRIPTIONS corporation manlpuiators
have had for securing from his court what
ever action they might desire. This was
especially brought out in the case OF the
Wabash receivelship. and second time IN
the case Of the Iowa railroad law, in which
the State supervision of railroads, previous
ly declared by the United States Supreme
Court to be the exclusive jurisdiction OF the
States. was held by Judge Brewer to be
subject to the review of the United States
Circuit Bench on which he sat.
The corporation questions which are
likely to come before the Supreme Court
are among the most vital at stake In this
country since the war issues. To make ap-
pointments for the purpose of insuring de-
cisions favorable to the corporations would
be distinct betrayal of the public rights
Yet there is little assurance that such is not
the case, when the Judge who exposed and
removed Jay Gould's wrecking receiver OF
the Wabash system is passed over in order
to promote the Judge who appointed and
upheld the wreeker.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
REpUBLIC MAKERs WANTED.

The United States have always been
ready to give the people of the old world,
who still retain the burden of royalty or
imperial despotism, the benefit of their e1-
perience in self-government, but now the
time seems to have come for more practical
aid in the transformation of institutions
which is taking place slowly but surely in
Europe. What we mean is that company
of experts in Republic making-combining
bright minds of this continent with the
more fiery spirits of South America-would
find field for remunerative labor in several
parts of Europe. Talking of SOuthernR E.
publicans the accomplished revolutionists
of Brazil, who turned monarchy into Re-
public with no more fuss than if they had
been breakfasting, ought 20 be very much
sought after when the Latin races of South
ern Europe determine to rule themselves.
Aside from the philanthropic aspect oi
the enterprise, it ought to be profitable.
People oppressed by effete or any other kind
of undesirable Kings, Emperors OF
Princes surely would be willing to pay fol
the rapid. easy and safe erection of Repub-
lies. In England, and we dare say in other
countries, skillful hands could put up Re
public, while you wait, as it were. There
is money in it and honor, too.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
NEW YORK NEWS A0TEs.
4 sHusrIs win I Maduau.


NEW YORK, December "A tan, lean, we'll
dressed man entered the furniture store Of r.
@. Cashin, in Sixth avenue, this morning, and
quietly asked the proprietor: "WhY dc you per-
secute me9' 'Tpersecute youf' exclaimed Mr..
Cashin, ''you must be crazy Without reply
ing. the young man drew a 3Scaliber revolver
from his pocket and pointed it at the furniture
dealer. Before he could pull the trigger Cash
in grabbed the weapon. In the struggle the re-
voIVer was discharged, the bullet passing dag
onally through ths furniture mans right hand
near the wrist Mr.. Cashin, who is strong
man, WrestIed with his assailant and threw him
upon lounge The stranger struggled away
from him, however. and knocked down. with
the buttof his revolver, the bookkeepeT, who
hurried to his employers assistance. The
stranger raised the weapon 70 shoot again at
Mr. Cashin. but was caught and thrown By two
clerks before he had time to pull the trigger.
He was sent directly to police court, where he
was held in 5000 bail. He gave his name as
Frank Melen. He believed that Mr.. Cashin.
whom be met in 1886 in boarding house, had
ruined his life by hypnotizing him almost daily
for the last two years. He was formerly an ex-
pert draughtsman, he said, but his ability to
work had lately been destroyed by Cashin's. in
q uence. Melen acted in an altogether rational
manner. Cashin says he is crazy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
JAPAN WANTS INFORMATION
A. to the Proper Mode of Stock Gambling
and Speculation.

A to the Proper Mode of Stock Gambling
and Speculation.
CHICAGO, December At. Ogawa, = member
Of the Organization Committee Of the Toxic.
japan. Bourse, Is at the Grand Pacific, on bis
way to New York. Heis on an important mission
to the United States. Said he to reporter:
There are at present in Japan IL rice and five
stock exchanges. The licenses under which they
are now operated expire June l, 1891, after which
time it is desired by the Japanese Government
and the principal exchange managers
that certain improved methods should
be introduced, and for this purpose the
aid and earnest cooperation of leading
merchants and business men of Japan
were invited. In order to better bring
about the result it was thought best to instr
tute inquiries both in Europe and America as
to practical methods, both present and past,
of conducting exchanges there In vogue;
and 1 was appointed one of q commits
sion for collecting such data. My questions
would be based upon the practices of the ex-
changes in Japan, for which reason many in
dications Of dissimilar methods observed in
American exchanges will be found. Much is
expected by my people as to the result of the
report which my commission will make, and
for this reason respectfully go about bother
ing your board of trade and exchange people,"
Among the things Mr.. Ogawa will ask Chi
ca9o business men will be those concerning the
capital stock and share holders. the steps to
secure permission from the Federal or State
Government for the establishment of ex-
changes and the relations which exist between
the Federal or State Governments and the ex-
changes in regard to the business of the latter;
members Of the exchanges, departments of the
exchange hall, terms for future or direct
delivery price, and Limitation of amount of
transactions; securities breaches of contract
and penalties the relations between members
OF brokers OF the exchanges and principals
who delegate business to them, and kindred
subjects. Mr.. Ogawa will occupy year in
America gathering his information.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
BURNING UP FOOD.

The report that Kansas farmers are burn
ing corn for fuel is regarded by some of our
cotemporaries as indicating an economic
saving. Itmay be so in one sense, as it is un-
derstood that the price of bushel of corn in
Kansas is actually less than the cost of q
bushel of coal; but it is, nevertheless, an
economic waste which is indicative of
something wrong.
While it is natural, under certain cireum-
stances, that an abundant yield of corn might
make its cash market value so slight that it
cannot bear the cost of transportation to
market, and therefore cannot be promptly
turned into cash, it ought to be worth more
as the raw material which can be converted
into staples that can be transported, such as
pork or beef, THAI it is to burn up as fuel.
What all the circumstances may be which
subject the farmers to this loss may not be
clear; but in the combinations which on one
side sustain the cost of anthracite coal, and
on the other are alleged to keep down the
price OF cattle and hogs, partial explains
tion may be found of the circumstances
under which Western farmers finding coal
too dear to buy and corn TOO cheap to sell.
are using the latter as fuel.
illustrations Of this sort, balanced by the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
pREMoE1TloEs OF cHRIsTMAs

The time is approaching when we shall all
have that delightful duty of buying Christ
mas presents forced upon us. The premoni-
tions of that joyful period are plentiful.
The mails are full of circulars, announcing
store openings for the season, and the
peculiar suitability of this or that article
for the seasons gifts. A man writes all the
way from Chicago to suggest to US the de-
STABILITY of letting our friends taste
Slaughterem's Extract Of Meat at this glad
festival; and there are not wanting happy
beings who confront us with the astonishing
aptness of clothes hooks, meat grinders,
secondhand lawnmowers, tool chests, false
teeth, ink and unbreaksbl. cuspidors, as re-
minders of universal good feeling at Christ
mastide.
We quarrel with none of these good pro-
ponents save one. She is a woman, too, and
we would have welcomed her little offer if
we could have done so in fairness to our
selves and our friends. She wants sub
scribers to a cheap funeral company, and
she offers extremely reasonable rates for
sepulture. 1t may be as she says that the
winter season is opportune for such over
lures, but the man who would send even to
an enemy, coffin for a Christmas present
deserves to need one instantly himself.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
COMIC oULL1NGs.

Democrat-This has been a pretty hard
year for the Republicans in the United States.
Republicsn-Yes; but we carried Brazil.-LVs.
Still Ahead.-He-I'vs got brother
perIiceman..
she-Dat's nufnn. I've got 'r brother uangel.
-Ltfe.
In q Bowery observation-disclosures
This Is vegetable soup. ordered chicken
Waiter examining the soupJ-Dat's so, sir; my
mistake. Is'ought dem celery tops Wuz feathers
Life.
Honor and shame from no condition rise,
Nor poverty th' aspiring youth debars,
The boss his brains and bank account may prize,
But his clerks smoke the Decent cigars.
-Drdks's AagGsins.
In Drygoods Store.-"You want posi-
ton as floor walker, do your What experiences
Applicant-I am the father Of nine children.
He was engaged. Minneapolis Times.
"Can you use these poems?" he asked, a.
he laid large roll the table.
ssWhy, certainly, - said the editor cheerily.
''Just the right length for pipe lighters. Most
all the poems we get are on note paper, and
they're very Inconvenient. Call again Draks's
Magazine.
Ladies' and gentlemen, /" said the profess
sor ssI find that I cannot perform the expert
mcub VI AuAatAOAf - tno WIN HeSAAAS - S1t "
order.n
There was great Eroan Of disappointment.
However - added the professor, II may be able
to provide a substitute. Is there gentleman
from Chicago in the audience2-Drdks's Maya
zine.
-"Are you still taking painting lessons,
mo; quit yesterday. don't like my teach
err
'why nOt2''
s'He has such disagreeable way Of talking. He
told me that II kept on for some time longer
might be able TO Whitewash fence. WGshtn0-
ton Capital.
Biter-say, this sIotmachiue is a swindle.
I've dropped Ave niekels into 1t and haven't got
owner Of the Machine-Did you read whast
says on top?
Biter-NO.
Owner-Well, do 50, then.
Bitter reads. sDrOD q nickel IN the Ilot ana
confirm the statement that all the fools are not
dead yet. ''-Lal0rsnes Amsrteaa.