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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-10-13

Leaves Elko every morningyat7:38
o'clock.
Arrives from TuscGTora every evon-
img in time To connect with EypFess
tlains goiug both Fast and Wesf-
OitiIe next door to tho INnErh.1r...
E;,l office.
.- G. L. .HoLLhMDsA.sasa
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-10-13
ADVERTISING RATES.

: I'LL be made az low az is consistent With
sud business principles. Apply at the Of
Tor terms.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
aniner.
He Was Not Mean.

We had an hour to wait at railroad
junction in Louisiana, and four or five of
US sat down in the shade on the edge of the
platform and hung our legs over.
While we were talking a man with a rope
in his hand, evidently looking for a stray
mule, came out of the bushes opposite US.
and stood looking up and down the track
BY and by he directed his gaze toward
our feet, but we didn't mind him until he
drawled out:
You all, there
"Well:' qUeried one
Hist up your feet.'
We "h'isted' without waiting to ask
why, and then looked down to see a big
rattlesnake just coiling himself for Il
strike.
\ handy grindstone was dropped on the
snake, and when some one thanked the ma
tive he called back:
Some men who hev lost a mule and
hunted fer him three days would have
been emery about it, but thar's nothin'
mean about mer'-Albany Argus.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
A Comfortable summer Button.

''The people down around Cap Cod are
queer characters, remarked the woman of
fashion. Il went down to South Var
mouth one day to buy some thread which
l happened to need very badly. There was
only one clerk in the little shop, and he
was busy with Il customer. So l had to
wait and, of course, couldn't help over
hearing the conversation. The customer
was an old woman and she was inspecting
some buttons preparatory to purchase.
She found 1t hard to decide, and at last
asked me to give my opinion upon three
or four different kinds I told her /
thought certain cloth button was the
prettiest"
WAL, she replied, 1T be pretty, but
for raal comfort in the summer time give
me thin bone button Chicago Post.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
Rather Hard NIedicin. to Take.

MY cook and the young girl who serves
as parlor maid in my modest establish
ment," said a Brooklyn housekeeper one
day, have both been complaining of head
ache and listlessness, and last night told
them 80 take a good glass each of Hun
yadi water, giving them at the same time
a bottle duly labeled and marked. This
morning both were i'll, quite severely so,
and each unhesitatingly put her distemper
down to my prescription. How odd
said; 4 never knew that to create such n
disturbance before. Let me see the bottler
1t was brought, and when l poured out
some of the remaining contents found, to
my amused CONSERVATION, that it was to-
mato catsup! And those girls, in docile
obedience, had each drank cupful of it!'
Her Point of View in New York Times
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25

The people at the Worlds
Dispensary of Buffalo, N. Y,
have stock-taking time once
a year and what do you think
they do? Count the number
of bottles that've been re-
turned by the men and women
who say that DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery or
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrio-
ton didn't do what they sad
it would do.
And how many do you
think they have to count.
One in ten? Not one IN 1f1s
HMnarcd !
Here are two remedies
one the Golden Medical Dis
covery, for regulating and in-
MIGRATING the liver and purify
ing the blood; the other, the
hope Of weakly womanhood,
and they've been sold for
years, sold by the million bot
ties; sold under a boata0e
guarantee, and not one in FIVE
hundred can say:
1t was not the medicine for
me
And-is there any reason
why you should be the one ?
And-supposing you are what
do you lose 4? A6soluteLy
nothing !
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
THE END.
Puff! the Fires Out.

An effective sulphur fire extinguishing
apparatus can be made of a large iron box
of moderate depth and open at the top 1t
should be hinged at one end or the side to
q protected ceiling and kept close thereto
by cord or wire connected with a wire
or strap formed chiefly of cadmium fusible
at IA degs. Fahrenheit. Inside the box is
placed a considerable quantity of cotton
wadding well saturated with powdered sui
phur. On the heat of nincipient fire melt
ing the wire or strip the box drops short
distance; by a simple device the cotton
wadding is ignited at the same moment,
and a strong cloud of sulphurous acid gas
is instantly evolved which extinguishes
the fire by rendering the air unfit for COM
bustiop--New York Journal.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RV,.

The Direct Route to and from Chicago Joliet otth wa
Peoria, La Sale, Moline, Rock Island in ILLINOIS:
Davenport, Muscstine OttuInwa, Oskaloasa Des
Mones, Winterset, Audubon, Harlan and Council
Bluffs, in IOWA; Minneapolis and St. Paul. in MN
NESOTA Watertown and Sioux Falls in DAKOTA;
Cameron st. Joseph and Kansas City. in NILSSON RI;
Omaha, Lincoln Fairbury and Nelson, in NEBRASKA;
Atchison, Leavenworth, Horton, Topeka Hutchin son.
wichita, Belleville, Abilene, Dodge City, Caldwell in
KANSAS; Kingfisher, Ell Reno and Miuco, in INDIAN
TERRITORY; Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo,
in COLORADO Traverses new areas of rich farming
and grazing lands aording the best facilities of il ter
communication 10 all towns and cities east and vest
northwest and southwest Of CHICAGO and TO Pacfc ond
t-ans-oceauic scaports
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
"a MANI

u@cQuETE0wTH The GEOGRAPHY OF THIS cousTsYwL oer,N
rucS VALUABLE IMPORTATION STUDY OF THIS NAP or the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
Live Bats 81. Hundred Feet Under Grouna

When workmen were drilling the arte-
sian well at Centerville, Ia, they tapped
subterranean passage which seemed to be
completely filled with bats, not dead or
petrified bats, but those of the real live
kind: this at a depth of nearly 600 feet be-
low the surface. Twenty-Five or thirty of
them were brought out alive and well.
They seemed to be of the common gray
species, but were much larger.-St. Louis
Renublic
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
A Question of Average.

Doctor-Umi Cold no better? Strange
Been taking cod liver oil? That's right.
Been wearing medicated understanding?
Patient-Well, yes; that is, / had very
light suit and very heavy one
Doctor-Don't mean to tell me you've
been wearing one and then the other?
Patient-Yes. l thought they would
average up all right.-Clothier and Fur
uisher
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
MAGNIFICENT
VESTI5ULE EXPRESS TRAINS

Laains all competitors in splendor Of equipu ent,
between CHICAGO aud DIES MONIES COUNCIL
BLUFFS and OMAHA and between CHICAGO and
DENVER, COLORADO SPRINGS and PUEBLO. win
KANSAS CITY and TOPEKA and via ST. JOSEPH
I.sst.Closs Day Coaches, FREE RECLINING CHAIR
CARS, and Palace Sleepers, with Dining Car ser~!ce
Close connections at Denver and Colorado Springs with
d!verging railway lines, forming the new and
picturesque
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-25
STANDARD GAUGE
TRANS ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROUTE

~ = y ~ 1----' TO II
Over which superhly-equipped trains run daily
THROUGH WITHOUT CHANGE to and from salt
Lake City. Ogden and San Francisco THE ROCK
ISLAND is also the Direct and Favorite Line to and
from Manitou, Pixies Peak and all other sanitary and
scenic resoand cities and mining districts in Colorado
DAILY FAST EXPRESS TRAINS
From ST. Joseph and Kansas City to and from all i'm
portan towns cities and sections in Southern Nebr. ska
Kansas and the Indian Territory. Also via ALBERT
LEA ROUTE from Kansas City and Chicago to Water
town, Sioux Falls, MINNEAPOLIS and ST PAUL.
connectOng for all points north and northwest between
the lakes and the Pacific Coast
For Tickets, Maps, Folders or desired information
apply any Coupon Ticket Office in the United states
or Canada, or address
e. ST. JOHN, JOHN SEBASTIAN,
Gen1 Manager, GenT Tiki. & Pass. Ag.,
CHICAGO. ILL.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-26
After the News.

Salmon, pike and goldfish are the
only fish that never sleep.
This year farm products outvalued
last years by over S7OO, 100000.
The telephone has been known in
India for thousands OF years.
Lobsters greatly fear thunder.
When thoroughly frightened they drop
their claws, but new ones begin at
once to grow.
OF the 5OO,OOO,OOO persons who
were carried last year on steam ves-
sells but sixty-five were killed. This
shows that this means of travel is the
safest in the world.
DIR. Albert Shaw in a recent lecture
at John Hopkins university predicted
that the adoption of General Booth s
methods would result in completely
stamping out the slums OF London
within twenty years.
Washington's old headquarters at
Valley Forge will soon pass into the
hands of a patriotic association. A
body of patriotic Philadelphians
headed by Postmaster General Wana
maker, and the Daughters of the Rev
olution both desire the property.
A philanthropic farmer of Mt. Car.
mel, Conn, offered some time ago to
''deliver free of expense during the
month of October fifty bushels OF good
apples to deserving poor families pro-
viding the members of those families
do not use Intoxicating liquor or to
bacco or keep dog" Nine got theil
| apples.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-26
Mckinley and he Future.

New York Sun: The Hon. William
Mckinley is one of the most eminent
men in the Republican party. He is
able, vigorous, high-minded, old
enough for all public honors, and
young enough for ambition to rock
his hopes with it's most irresistible
power In the Republican national
convention of 1888 he became recog-
nized as one OF his party's available
statesmen. But for his stalwart vir-
tue the name of the candidate present
ed before the convention by the Ohio
delegation, of which he was chairman,
would have been withdrawn and his
own offered in it's place, with the GER
tainty of powerful support from other
quarters. He refused to reach out for
honors rendered across his loyalty to
the gentleman he had been commits
stoned to support, and so kept his
self-respect and the respect of every
citizen of the United States.
Mr.. Mckinley has just been elected
governor of Ohio, the prolific mother
of Republican presidential candidates.
after an issue made directly against
himself as the representative of the
present tariff policy fastened upon the
country through the ambitious folly
of Grover Cleveland. The circum
stances of his latest success point tc
him as inevitably candidate OF the
first rank before the Republican ma
tional convention to meet in 1892
And yet as loyal partisan he must
face the by no means trifiing posi-
bility of being called upon to stoI
short of the highest honors and b.
nominated for vice-president upon 4
ticket headed by the Hon. James G
Blaine. 1t was Blaine who in no un
friendly spirit gave the slant to tn
new tariff bill which conferred upoi
the protective system the offensive
and defensive powers that make it to
day reflect so amply the traditiona
and expectant American sentiment.
Blaine and Mckinley would be
Republican combination OF extraor
dinary power and quality.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-26
The Lady Of Tears.

Through valley and hamlet and city,
Wherever humanity dwells.
With heart full of infinite pity.
A breast that with sympathy swels
She walks in her beauty immortal,
Each household grows sad as she nears,
But she crosses at length every portal,
The beautiful Lady of Tears.
II never this vision OF sorrow
Has shadowed your life in the past,
You will meet her, know, some tomorrow
She visits all hearthstones at last.
To hovel, and cottage. and palace,
To servant and king she appears,
And offers the gall OF her chalice-
The unwelcome Lady OF Tears.
To the eyes that have smiled but in gladness
To the souls that have basked in the sun
She seems in her garments of sadness
A creature to dread and to shun,
And lips that have drank but of pleasure
Grow pallid and tremble with fears
As she portions the gall from her measure
The mereiless Lady OF Tears.
But in midnight, lone hearts that are break
With the agonized numbness ofgrief, fling
Are saved from the torture of breaking
By her bitter-sweet draught OF relief.
Oh then do all graces eDfold her;
Like a goddess she looks and appears,
And the eyes overflow that behold her
The beautiful Lady of Tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-26
Depew, the Younger.

New York Press: When Chauncey
Depew wishes to recall a portion of
Lord Salisbury's speeches, or to be
perfectly sure as to what Mr.. Blaine
SAID on a certain subject, he does not
have to look through lot of news
papers or ask his secretary. He calls
his fourteen-year-old son, Chauncey
Jr., and gets the heinformation instantly
and accurately.
The boy is a born politician, and
gives his reasons for his very decided
opinions with an ease and fuency in
herited from his silver-tongued father,
and with a power OF argument that is
convincing. HIS special fad is the Beh-
ring Sea question, and there is no
point, however complicated, that he
can not satisfactorily elucidate. Mr..
Blaine he reveres, and is never tired of
praising his adjustment of the diff
Guilty. Young Chauncey has already
begun the study of contemporaneous
and ancient civil government, and
spends many an evening in his fathers S
study discussing questions OF admins
tration till nine O'Clock, at which time
the young gentleman retires, for burn
ing midnight oil does not form part OF
Mr.. Depew's theory OF education.
Naturally the boy is his fathers
idol, and he makes him his constant
companion. Whenever the elder man
gives an interview at his home the
quiet, keen-eyed boy is sure to be pres
ent, sitting "A little apart in a corner,
but noting everything that is said and
fixing the interviewer's face firmly in
his memory, and months afterward in
some crowded hall he will point out to
his fat her as the man who called upon
this or that, and it is a fact that Mr..
Depew, even with his marvellous mem.
ory for names and faces, places more
confidence in the boys power of recol
lection than in his own.
In appearance young Chauncey is
tall, slight and fair, with very clear
honest blue eyes, hair with a bit of g
curl in it, and slender hands and feet
His forehead is broad, with a strongly
developed bump OF concentrativeness
the chin is firm and the whole head IL
well balanced. He still wears knicker
bockers, and is as devoted to all out
door sports as any boy who runs away
from his books to go fishing. He is es
pecially fond of cycling, and has mad,
some very good time with his wheel
He is, in short, everything that New
Workers would wish to find in hi
fathers son.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-26
No Credit to America.

1t is not flattering to our national
pride that Josie Mansfield, Cora Pearl
and Fanny Lear, the three queens of
Partisan gallantry, were all Ameri-
cans. Cora Pearl was Emma Couch,
daughter OF the composer OF "Kath-
leen Mavourneen." Fanny Lear, TAX
ing her war name from Melhac and
Halevy's comedy, was Hattie Black
ford, of Philadelphia. Josie Mansfield
is now Mrs. Robert Reade. Fanny
Lear and Josie Mansfield were close
friends. A slight, willowy, vivacious
creature, Miss Blackford had been ex-
pelled from Russia for persuading
Young Grand Duke Nicholas to steal
Jewels from his dead mothers shrine.
Josie Mansfield suggested that Hattie
should weave her Russian experiences
into an autobiography. The book
appeared and the French police
swooped down on Hattie and drove
her out of Paris. Her yellow equip
age, with its driver from st. Peters.
burg, and it's two scarlet clad runners
was seen no more on the boulevards
After Fannie Lear's departure Josie
Mansfield lived a precarious existence
She had nobody to blackmail, for tht
police kept an eye on her. Her mar
riage may save her remaining year.
Iron even greater degradation.-Ex
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-26
wARsHIPs FOR chill.
She Will Be Convinced Shortly That Uncle
Sam Has Navy.
Msn-of.war to Be Masssd at Valparaiso.

Washington correspondence New
York Press: 1t is quite evidrnt that
the president and Secretary Blaine do
not propose to let Chilli long remain
in norance of the fact that the
United States has made substantial
pr ogress in the building of navy.
The news leaked out today that there
is to be a change in the assignments
of number of vessels, which will re-
suit in the concentration of such q
feet of war ships in the harbor OF
Valparaiso as to amount to a naval
demonstration. Orders have been
sent, it is said, to Rear Admiral Cher
ardi, now on board his flagship, the
Philadelphia, at st. Thomas, to pro-
ceed at once to Valparaiso and as
sumo command of the South Pacific
station. Real Admiral Brown, now
in command of that station, will be
detached and placed on waiting or
ders. Acting Rear Admiral John G..
Walker will retain his flagship, the
Chicago, and relieve Admiral Gherardi
in command of the North Atlantic
station. This fleet, however, will be
cut down from the imposing proper
tions of the White Squadron to the
Chicago and the old Kearsage. Rear
Admiral A. Z. K. Benham will be sent
on board the Newark to take COM
mand of the South Atlantic station,
with headquarters at Rio de Janeiro.
The Atlanta, Concord and Bennington
are all to sail on Sunday or Mon
day for Chilian waters. The Charles
ton has already been ordered to
return from the Asiatic station to
the South Pacific.
These orders will result in placing
under the command of Admiral Cher
ardi at Valparaiso fleet composed
of the PhiIadelphia (fagship), San
Francisco, Charleston, Boston, Balti-
more (now already at Valparaiso)
Atlanta, Yorktown, Concord and
Bennington, while the Newark will be
within comparatively easy call at
Rio. This concentration of warships
will bring together a formidable array
of guns and men. The Philadelphia
carries twelve guns in her main bat
terry, the Baltimore ten, the San Fran
cisco twelve. the Charleston eight, the
Boston eight. the Atlanta eight, the
Yorktown SIX, the Yorktown six, the
Concord six, the Bennington six.
These guns are all new six and eight
inch rifled steel breech ioaders, and
each ship carries a powerful secondary
battery of rapid firing and machine
guns. Each ships company will av-
erage 800 or more men. Officials OF
both state and navy departments
deprecate placing any warlike mean
ing upon this demonstration, and in
sist that there is no special significance
in the concentration of q powerful
fleet in South American waters. The
selection of Admiral Gherardi to COM
mand the South Pacific station is
sure, however, to be regarded as sig
nificant. Ghcrardi is known as the
principal diplomat among the officers
of the navy, and it will be remembered
that he, in sense, superseded Minister
Douglass in the futile negotiations
with Hayti for the possession OF Mole
st. Nicholas as q coaling station.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-26
TWAS A BIG GAME.
Each Chip Was Worth $1,000 and the Pot
Iaelf Was Worth s42,0

The most famous gambling house in
Nevada in the old days was operated
by Gentry & Crittenden. The house
had line of credit of S25O,OOo in
San Francisco. This firm every month
set aside $4,000 for table expenses
alone, for wine flowed as freely as
spring water at Saratoga.
A bettor did not ask if there was a
limit to the game, says the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette. A sport who had
cash enough might bet $4,000 on
single card. The banks hackers
counted their millions as eastern game
sters counted their thousands.
In October, 1868, a burly ranch
man, John Timberlake. worth 81 ,OOO,-
600, came up from New Mexico. He
was known as a millionaire in good
standing with the San Francisco banks
and bankers, and his telegram was
good with Mackay, Flood & O'Brien
for S5OO,OOO.
The old ranchman, with his cordu-
roy trousers tucked in his boots and
smoking stogy cigars, was a welcome
guest anywhere in Nevada. Hechatted
an hour with Gov. Nye, and after get
ting two bottles of Pommery Sec in
side of him he sauntered into the faro
room.
"Give me a stack of 81 900 fish"
(chips), said Timberlake. Certainly,
all you want" replied the suave Crit
tenden, nephew OF the Kentucky
United States senator of that name.
One thousand went on the jack and
was lost. Timberlake lost $4,000
without winning bet. He swore and
got outside another bottle of Sec
Luck changed, at a. m. the old cattle
man was $4,000 ahead OF the game.
Flushed with victory, Timberlake
ordered case OF wine for the house.
But the genius of faro is tickle. The
old man made call with 81 900
bill and picked up $4,000.
Luck failed him from that moment.
At break of day the burly ranchman,
without handing in a dollar, had
blown in lust SAL 900. He was cross
as bear with q sore head, but tried
to smile. "One thousand on the ace"
1t lost.
Old dTimberlake rose and said, slowly,
as if each word weighed a pound:
"Crittenden, / reckon I've had fun
enough for this one jamboree," and,
ordering a basket of wine for the
house, he seated himself at Gentry's
ebony desk, and cool as a cucumber.
drew a check on Mackay's bank for
$4,000.
When the wine was opened the
dealer said, in q soft voice: "This game
is now closed"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-26
SHELBY Ellis BAD BREAK.
billiard Goes on q Spree and Makes a Gun
Play, Shooting Joe McAnelly.
TBilliues Gazette,1

Billings Gazette.
The career of the eccentric editor of
the Red Lodge Picket seems about to
close in gloomy chapter of time SER
vice in the psnitentiary Did he have
q presentiment of the enactments one
day would bring forth when he penned
this startling valedictory, appearingin
the last Picket: "The Republican
party has touched our spinal column.
God and his angels will do the rest"
Be that as it may, after the edition
was gotten out on Monday, he straight
way loaded him with valley tan and
like beverages and crowned the events
of the evening by taking a shot at two
striking printers, missing them but
taking effect in the hand OF one oftheir
companions, Joe McAnelly, a brother
of the Justice of the peace of Red
Lodge, and probably friend to the
excitable journalist. Judge McAnelly
declares that he proposes to fully pros
ecute billiard, who gave himself up and
is now IN custody. billiard has had f.
nancial trouble with his printe ers, two
of whom attached his Office and the
case was to come up Tuesday. There
was some technical illegality In the
service and the attachment was set
aside. However, the Picket did not
appear last week. About SIX O'Clock
Monday evening billiard dropped into
Hendricks place, where the printers and
McAnelly were refreshing themselves,
and was invited to join. He walked
outside, pushed 45-calibre revolver
through the window, remarked that
he wouldn't drink with the -
-, and blazed away. McAnelly
was in direct line of the gun and the
bullet struck his left hand, badly shat
tering it. The wound is not danger
GUS, but may necessitate amputating
of at least finger.