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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-11-16
Idiotic Democratic Central
Committee.

"1f it had not been for that id
Central Committee which put up n
Legislative ticket Il few days before
election, l would have boon elected"
Such is tho common expression OF
those candidates on lhe Democratic
county ticket who were defeated
last Tuesday. Let US soc how this is.
Elkn county gave n Republican ma
jority OF just 100in 1888. In spite OF
this, AM the action of that Id Con-
trail Committee, the Democrats elected
the County Clerk and the two Com
missioners.
Storey county, which is ordinarily
Republican by 200 majority, did not
put up a Democratic Legislative
ticket ut all, and tho result is that
tho Republicans carried tho county
by 400 majority, while the Democrats
elected N county officer, the Re.
Gordon.
But here is Humboldt county, the
only straight Democratic county in
the State. Tho Democrats Of Hum
boldt nominated q full Legislative
ticket ut thoir Convention, and what
did they do? They elected the
Sheriff, and probably the Clerk and
Recorder, though in tho Ease OF tho
latter it will probably require the
Official canvass to determine tho re-
suit.
10 those Democrats in Elko county
who chargo that tho notion OF tho
Central Committee in putting up n
Legislative ticket at tho eleventh
hour Defeated them, wo can only say
that we elected three Democrats in q
strong Republican county. Those
who say that it would have boon
bettor TO nominate tho Legislative
ticket at tho Conventions, are recon.
monded to study tho returns from
Humboldt county. Defeated candi-
dates must have some excuse, and
the Democratic Central Committee
will bear chcerfully all tho abuse that
can DO henpod upon tholn, believing
as they did that they were doing what
wus best under the circumstances.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-11-16

Following Is d list OF letters remain.
ing IN the Postoiilco nt Elko, Mon.
day, Nov. 10, 1890;
Carlson, $ = (2) Conner, Clark
CLARK, Rosa Conror. John
JohDeon.J Lomax, j -
10 ldick, Jacob Strcotor, S NJ (2)
Wnlsor, Frank Wells, j l. Mrs.
Persons calling for any Of the above
~lottcrs will please say advertised"
E.wAnp Il. BiLKEY p. VI.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
Clippings.

George thinner, a Clark County Und.)
farmer, has discovered a radical, though
somewhat expensive, remedy for vermin-
infected cattle. A neighbor told him to
rub the animals thoroughly with kero-
sene and they would no longer be
troubled with the vermin. thinner
saturated the hides Of eight cows with
oil in the morning and in the afternoon
he took a red hot iron and started to
brand one of the COWS, and in an in
slant the animal was enveloped in
flames which speedily communicated
to the others and the animals rushed
into the barn setting it on fire. Vermin
and cows were all killed.
Henry Strauss, of Chicago, recently
purchased the wife of Fritz Lander of
Salt Lake City, for s1oO Mrs. Lander
and Strauss were sweethearts in Ger
many, but became separated by circum-
stances. Lander is saloon-keeper and
says that the money more than COM
pensates for the loss of his wife.
Miss Mabel Jenness Miller says: "A
woman would go to the ends of the
earth to find nostrum to make her bet
ter looking, and yet very few ever take
= the trouble to even learn how to stand
correctly"
Pope Leo has just passed his eightieth
birthday.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
A TEXAS HURRICANE,
Two Persons Killed and Several Injured By
Falling Buildings.

Two Persons Killed and Several Injured BY
Falling Buildings.
WILLS POINT, Tex, May 5.-A hurri-
cane struck here at 1890 o'clock Satur-
day and every house in town is more OF
less damaged. Two persons were killed
outright and several injured. The
killed are: Mrs. Bowen, caught under
falling wall and crushed to death:
negro girl, fourteen years old,
daughter of Tom Mitchells.
The injured are: Jack" Ballard, in
jured internally, dangerous; son of NJ.
E. McManus, arm broken in two places:
Mrs. Mitchells, ,colored, mother of the
girl killed.
Mrs. Freeman's residence was blown
over, the family getting out just in time
to escape the fall. The Methodist
Church and public school building were
completely, demolished, while other
churches were blown off their founda-
tions, A number of stores and resi-
dences were blown down, and nearly all
business houses unroofed and all their
goods badly damaged.
The hurricane also visited MESQUITE,
Thornton, Terrell and other points in
its track, doing great damage.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President has refused to pardon
Lafayette Tell and Jason Sti11ey, In
dian Territory murderers under sem
teuce of death at Fort Smith, Ark.
THE United States Supreme Court, on
test case from Iowa, has decided that
liquor in original packages shipped from
one State to another can not be inter
fered with under State law Justices
Gray, Harlan and Brewer dissented.
THE President on the Goth vetoed the
bill for an additional wing to the public
building at Dallas, Tex, which was to
have cost $500, 900. He thought the ap-
preparation extrayagant.
The President has respited for four
weeks Benjamin Hawkins and Lewis
Williams, sentenced to be hanged in
Washington for murder. ..
EX-PREsmENT CLEVELAND appeared
before the Supreme Court at Washing
ton on the 1st and on motion of Mr.
Garland was admitted to practice before
that body.
THE public debt statement showed a
decrease during the month of April of
S7,6S6, ,9Oi. ..... .. -r.. .-.. ..
The President on the I'd approved the
act for Territorial Government in Ok
lahoma. Another error has since been
discovered in the act, the date of the
Presidents proclamation being given as
April l, 1889, when it should have been
March %, 1889.
SECRETARY WINDOW states that his
silver measure did not contemplate a
contraction of the currency as had been
alleged.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
NOTES FOR GARDENERS.

PLANT the garden so that you can
have regular succession of vegetables
Plant small fruit with, the same end in
view. h
PANsIEs are hardy, and few plants
set out in bed will thicken to com
pact cluster and produce large flowers
until late in the season. ~
ROSE bushes thrive better by being
well cut out and the old wood removed.
For Towering plants wood mold makes
an excellent fertilizer, but it should be
used freely. ass = ID
!. THOUGH not considered a sure remedy,
fhe free use Of lime around cabbage
plants will assist greatly IN keeping the
maggot away. Scattered literally over
onions, lime checks the ravages of the
onion fly.
Work between the rows of the straw
berries, keep the weeds down and the
soil loose. Plant raspberries early, so
as to give them good start. II the
canes are to make good growth give
them manure IN the hill.
THOSE who desire to ''bag" grapes
that is, to cover them with paper bags
to prevent grape rot-should remember
to do it as soon as the grapes are visible.
The mischief, if done at all, is done in
the earliest stages Of grape growth.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
DEATH OF esESatoR BECK.
He suddenly Fails Dead Afeer slight Ex-
ertion at q Railway station In Washing

He Suddenly Fails Dead Afser a sIlsht Ex-
ertion at . Railway Station In Wnsliing-
ton. l -
WASHINGTON, May 5.-Senatorl James
B. Beck. of Kentucky, dropped dead in
the Baltimore & Potomac station at four
o'clock Saturday afternoon. He had
just arrived on the limited express from
New York and was accompanied by his
daughter, Mrs. Goodloe, wife of Major
Goodloe, of the United States marine
corps. He got of the train with the
rest of the passengers and walked with
his daughter the entire length of the
platform and through the gate leading
to the platform proper. He seemed to
walk with an effort and to breathe with
labor. These symptoms were the usual
accompaniments of exertion with him
for some months past. - 4 "a
After passing into the station, the
Senator and daughter were joined by his
private secretary who had brought a
carriage to take him home. A few
words were exchanged with regard to
the care.of baggage when the Senator
suddenly turned pale and with the re-
mark: 81 feel dizzy" fell into the
arms of his Companions. They could
not support his weight and he dropped
to the floor where he swooned away. -
His daughter was naturally alarmed
and screamed for help. Willing hands
were numerous, as the station was
crowded at the time, and the limp and
helpless body was borne into the Office
OF the station master, about twenty
feet away. Great excitement ensued,
and although it was apparent that the
Senator was dead, half a dozen messen-
gers were Immediately dispatched for
physicians, and all the remedies at hand
were applied, but to no effect. DIR.
Chamberlain was the first physician to
arrive, and he was soon followed by DIR.
Wells and others, but there was nothing
for them to do except to examine the
body to determine the cause of death.
BIOGRAPHICAL
James Burnie Beck, United States nator
was born in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, Febru-
ary 15, 1922. He received an academic edu-
cation In his native country, and coming to
the United States with his parents, settled
in Lexington, Ky, and was graduate at the
law school of Transylvania University in
that place In 1886 He then practiced law in
Lexington and In 1866 was elected to Con-
gress, serving four successive terms,
from 1867 till 1875. In May, 1876, he
was appointed a member of the COM
mission to define the Virginia and Mary
land boundary, and in the same year was
elected to the United States Senate. He took
his seat on May 4, 1877. and was re elected in
1882 and again in 1888 for the term expiring
In March, 1895 During his Congressional
career Mr.. Beck has served on important
and has often been prominent
In important debates He has been specially
Interested in questions relating to the tariff
and the currency
The Iola register., 1890-05-09

By the explosion Of a furnace at the
Edgar Thompson steel works at Brad.
docks, Pa. four men were terribly
burned by molten iron.
ADoLPHUs RoBETY and Frank Wells,
each aged seventeen, were drowned in
the Redhawk river near Schenectady,
n. Y, while returning from fishing
trip.
PowDERLY, of the Knights of Labor,
is out with his views on the eight-hour
movement. He thinks good deal OF
the profit-sharing scheme.
SEVENTEEN Italian laborers at Squires'
packing house, at Boston, were savagely
attacked by the strikers, and several OF
them were seriously wounded.
The New York Assembly has adopted
the report exonerating Judge Book
staver from the charges of improper
conduct in the Flack divorce case. The
vote 20 to SO.
BosToN longshoremen have refused to
handle the boycotted pork of John b.
Sauires & Co. intended for shipment
abroad.
THE grand jury has indicted the pro-
prietors of the New York World for
criminal libel on Judge Henry Hilton,
growing out of the recent newspaper
articles accusing Hilton of disreputable
acts in connection with the A. I. Stew
art estate.
THE Bank of America, one of the old
est in Philadelphia, has suspended.
The Pennsylvania railroad directors
at meeting in Philadelphia declared a
dividend of 3 per cent. ..
The lower house of the New York
Legislature has passed bill abolishing
capital punishment by the vote of IS
to 80. ,.....
THE body of E. d. Walker, editor of
the Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York,
has been found floating in the Roanoke
river in Virginia with his hand grasping
a ishing rod. ..r... .,
The Merchants Bank at Atlantic, n.
j., has suspended.
The Baptist and Catholic churches and
the Catholic parsonage at West Boylston,
Mass, were burned to the ground re-
Gently.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09

SPOKANE FALLS, Wash, May 4-The
melting Of snow in the mountains has
caused rapid rise in Cour d'Alene lake
and Spokane river and its tributaries.
Many families have been compelled to
move out of their houses on the low lands.
In this city there is not drop of water i,
the mains and no protection against
fire, the high water having washed away
the mains, which were laid at the bottom
of the river. A large force of extra
policemen were on duty all night. The
mayor has advised property owners to
employ watchmen to guard their prop
erty ell. -
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
THE SOUTH,

SOME excitement prevailed at Noting
ham, Ala, over the disappearance of
Garry Pittman, cashier of the Bank of
Nottingham. Pittman was also treas
urer Of Albany, Ga. The loss of the
bank was not known.
ONE convict was killed and another
fatally wounded in trying to escape from
the convict camp south of Black Jack,
Tex, the other day. Two others got
away.
The steamer b. B. Plant was burned
recently on the st. Johns river 1Os
miles south Of Jacksonville, Fla Three
colored men were drowned.
JAKE ACKERMAN, notorious thief,
was shot dead recently in police court
at Memphis, Tenn, by his wife, whom
he had been beating.
c. L. maxwell, a young farmer living
near Forestburg, Tex, who went into
the Indian Territory several days ago
with considerable money, has not been
heard from since and it is feared he has
been murdered for his money.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
THE EAST.

THE cotton brokers of New York have
signed protest against the proposed
Butterwortk Anti-OpGion bill now be.
fore Congress. . ... .. g.. ..... ...,..9
The big anthracite coal mines near
Mahanoy Plane, Pa, have closed down
for an indefinite period.
FIRE at De Ruyter, n. Y, DESTROYED
four stores and eighteen dwellings, caus-
ing SIS, 600 loss. rs
The Superior Court of Massachusetts,
has virtually decided in test case that
compulsory vaccination is lawful.
The Homestead Bank of New York
has closed its doors.
A BOAT containing four men was cap
sized on the lake at Newport, VT, the
other night and three of the men were
drowned. They were Ed Foss, clerk at
the Memphremagog House, Ned Green
and Joe Robitaile.
THE failure of the Keystone Watch
Company, of Lancaster, Pa, is expected
TO cost the stockholders half million
dollars Frauds are alleged.
The New York Independent publishes
returns from 1893 Presbyteries in the vote
on revision of the Westminster confess
sion of faith. OF these I27 have voted
for and 81 against revision and five have
not voted at all. There are yet twenty
Presbyteries to be heard from.
DANIEL ROGERS, ordained for the Ro-
man Catholic priesthood in Philadel-
phia, but expelled for scandal, fatally
inhaled gas from pit in Pittsburgh,
Pa, recently. Eft
VESSELS arriving at Gloucester, Mass,
report that the Newfoundland bait law
is enforced with the utmost strictness-
A FLEsHLEss skull, supposed to be
that of Hiram Sawtelle, has been found
between Cornish and Limerick, Me.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
THE LATEST.

GILDoA, n. Y, was ravaged by fire re-
Gently. Loss, S15O,OOO; insurance, $50.
900.
INSPECTOR BYRNEs, of New York, has
refused to apologize to the Woodruff
sisters for disparaging free love state.
ments in his book.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May 8 showed an average in.
crease of GIG compared with the corre-
spending week OF last year. In New
York the increase was $50.
The remains of the murdered DR..
Cronin were laid to rest finally at CAL
vary cemetery, Chicago, on the 4th.
THE net decrease in circulation dur
ing the month of April was S499,72l
BUSINESS continued to expand on the
London Stock Exchange during the week
ended May s. In Paris business was
fairly active and prices firm. Securities
were strong at Berlin and Frankfort
Sugar was quiet at Havana. .'
Mrs. GENERAL GRANT declares that
she has never heard of proposition to
remove her husbands body from New
York City to Arlington cemetery, Wash
iington.
TIE building operatives of Ottawa,
Ont, have obtained a nine-hour day.
A TRAIN went through burned trestle
on the Stickney branch of the Great
Northern between Holly and St. Francis
stations, MINI. No one, fortunately,
was hurt. .,r
ABOUT half million people were
said to be in Hyde Park, London, on
the 4th, attending the labor demonstra-
ton.
The session of the Senate on the Sd
was cut short by the announcement of
the sudden death of Senator Beck. The
House passed the Diplomatic and Con-
sular Appropriation bill.
1T is positively denied that there has
been any robbery of an express mes
senger at Eagle Lake, Tex, or any other
point.
THE captain and four seamen of the
British ship Inchcape Rock, from San
Francisco for Liverpool, were washed
overheard and drowned off the coast of
Peru recently.
AhE IreSiuent mas uOmiHdtu DdNlu
E. Bryant as United States judge for the
Eastern district of Texas.
THE British East Africa Company has
abolished slavery of all kinds.
A SIMULTANEOUS strike has occurred
in the state railway factories in Vienna,
Prague, Pesth and Temesvar.
A SAILOR named Joruan, who tried to-
desert from a vessel near Beaufort S.
C., was seized by two man-eating sharks
and torn to pieces before he could be
rescued
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
Bishop borgess. Dead,

KALAMAZOO, Mich, May 4.-Bishop
Casper Borgess., who was stricken with
paralysis at St. Augustine's deanery last
Sunday night, died at 1:1O o'clock this
morning, aged sixty-two. Bishop sBor-
CESS was born in Kappenberg, Germany,
in 1884, but came to this country with
his parents when quite young. He
received his education for the
priesthood in Cincinnati and for
many years was pastor of
st. Philomena's Church in that CITY. He
was chosen to succeed Bishop Lefevre,
who died in 1870. Bishop Borgess., dur
ing his administration, established nine
charities in Detroit. In the spring of
1877, knowing that he was subject to
heart disease, he sent in his resignation,
and Rev. John Foley, of Baltimore, was
chosen to succeed him. ''-'''sr 7a'''r''
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
Cost of Service Pensions.

WASHINGTON, May I'm a letter to
the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives the Secretary of the interior esti-
mates that it will require Ss3, sO6, 752 an
nually to give service pension to every
survivor of the late war not now on the
rolls, S6,642,s17 annually to increase the
pensions of those now on the rolls to Ss
a month and s9,776, 76s to the widows of
deceased soldiers; a total annual ex,
penditure of 500, 226. 337.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
The Iowas Ready.

GUTHRIE, Ok, May 2.-The fact that
the Cherokee Commission has been or
dered here to treat with the Iowa In
dians as to the sale of their surplus
lands has to great extent created the
impression that very soon their lands
will be thrown open to settlement. w.
P. Thompson, attorney for the Iowas,
said: ''The tribe is ready to treat with
the Commission and will gladly meet
the Commission with that purpose in
view. At recent council of the chief
and principal men of the tribe, held
near this city, it was determined that at
the next meeting q proposition would
be made"
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
ExOdusters Die.

RALEIGH, n. c., May 4.-Letters re-
ceived by. negroes living at Tarboro
from other negroes who last November
went to Louisiana from -Edgecombe
County, this State, say that seventy
eight of the latter have been drowned or
died there in the past fortnigbt t, caused
by floods. This will do more than any
thing else to check the exodus.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09

THE survivors of the TERRIBLE Sultana
disaster on the Mississippi river near
Memphis, April 81, 1865, held their an
nual reunion at Adrian, Mich, on the
Goth.
A HURRICANE passed through Bloom
ing Grove, Tex, on the 1st. Many resi-
dences and the Baptist Church were de-
molished.
THERE was report that the Wells
Fargo messenger on the Southern Pacific
train had been robbed of $4,000 at
Eagleville, Tex.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
Railway surgeon. Meet.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 2.-The third
annual convention Of the National As
sociation of Railway Surgeons as
sembled at the Gillis Opera House.
About 100 of the leading railway surgeons
of the United States are in the city
in attendance upon the convention.
The session was opened by prayer by
Rev. DIR. Vassar, of the First Baptist
Church. Mayor Holmes welcomed the
visitors to Kansas City,
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
Labor Notes

During the labor demonstrations at
Pesth, Hungary. on the 1st riot oc-
CURED at the rolling mills. The mob
was charged by the military and several
persons received bayonet stabs. The
demonstrations in Germany Ewere ex-
tremely quiet.
Fifteen hundred bricklayers, stone
cutters and masons of Ottawa, Ont,
struck for nine hours work and ten
hours pay. The carpenters threaten to
strike for similar end.
All the carpenters of Knoxville,
Tenn, struck for eight hours work and
ten hours pay.
At Johnstown, Pa, the ezrpenters,
the bricklayers and the stonemasons
struck for nine hours and an increase in
wages. n
In Youngstown, O., the painters,
plumbers. bricklayers and masons were
all granted advances in wages and nine
hours work.
Only one master csrpentar at Lancas-
ter, Pa, refused the demands q she
union His men stracE The hod Gar
riers received advanced wages.
The carpenters of Fort Wayne, Ind,
have struck for nine hours day and IS
cents an hour. The stonecutters were
given eight hours without trouble.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
Emin Claims INSTRUMENTATION.

LONDON, May "A private letter from
Emin Pashs has been received at Cairo
giving his reasons for joining the Ger
man expedition with which he is now
returning to the interior of Africa.
Though he gives variety of eYplaua-
tions of his change of plans, the prin-
cipal reason given for his acceptance OF
the German offer was Stanley's unwar-
rantable and inexcusable action in mix
ing his (Emin's) name in the civil pro-
ceedings against Tippoo Tib, an affair
with which he had no connection what
soever. Emin claims that he has been
the victim of misrepresentation at the
hands of Stanley.
The Iola register., 1890-05-09
DETROIT CARPENTERs OUT.

DETROIT, Mich, May 2.-Ful1y 1000
carpenters are out in this city. The
strike is expectedto be short7lived how
ever, as the principal contractors are
conceding the mems demands and it is
thought work will boz pretty generally
resumed to-day. The strikers have
pickets posted throughout the city to
watch for new comers. the Windsor
boats being watched to prevent the i'm
portation of carpenters. No trade ex-
eept the carpenters has been affected by
the movement. a -r Nf.A
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-03
ASTOUNDING STATEMENT.


THE following appeared In th'
latest issue Of the EGsdfch Ware
published at Heber City, wasatch
County:
Hon. A Hatch was home from the
Legislature Sunday. He arrived Sat
urday evening and returned yes;er-
day. He delivered discourse In the
Stake House Sunday, to good sized
audience. He seems TO be in good
spirits, and from the tone Of his re-
marks. we should Judge that he does
not anticipate any serious damage TO
Salt Lake City during the next two
years by reason Of the Liberal victory.
He said a grea; many thought that
Salt Lake was irretrlevably lost to the
Peoples Party, politically speaking,
and great many accused the Liberal
party Of fraud in the election. He
was unable to say whether this aocu-
safi0n was true or false, "but," he |
said, 1--WE know the Peoples Party got |
badly whipped in the late election, and
when Sullivan licked Kilrrin in Louis
lana last summer the friends Of Kill
rain sad he was sick or Sullivan could
not have licked him so easily, When
sver party gets beat it always has
some excuse for IT,"
The foregoing Is, to say the least,
The charitable view
o take Of it is that the expressions
f the gentleman, alleged to have
,een made in q meeting held for
livine worship, are not properly
represented. 1t may be stretching
point to take that position, how
yer, because Of Mr.. Hatch being,
8 we have been informed,
the owner of the Wdre.
nd that the vulgar comparison
( the Louisiana Mississippi
rize fight is given in wha,
to be verbatim shape.
eng within quotation marks.
aside from tie fact that for th,
gure TO have any application to the
ecent contest, it would have to b,
iown that Kilrain was actually in .
he controversy with his hands ano
ct tied while his antagonist shouted
Come on the reference u,,,s lox.,. .
ned as well as unjust. 1.-THE Ware
as misrepresented the honorab,
entleman from Wasatch, 1t should
Ut delay in setting itself and him
sht before the people, as the latter
ould not like Mr.. Hatch to be
acsd in the position Of one who
ounds them with insult after they
ave been deeply and cruelty in
red.