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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-15

There's a good deal of
guarantee business in the
store keeping of to- day.
It's too excessive. Or too
reluctant. Half the time it
means nothing. Words -
only 10ordS.
This offer to refund the
money, or pay a reward, is
made under the hope that
you won't claim the money
or the reward. Of course.
So, whoever is honest in
making it, and works-not
on his own reputation alone,
but through the local dealer
whom you know, must have
something he has faith in
back of the guarantee. The
business wouldn't stand a
year without it.
What is lacking is conf
dence. Back of that, what
is lacking is that clear hon.
esty which is above the
average practice"
DIR. Pierce's medicines are
guaranteed to accomplish
what they are intended to
do, and their makers give
the money back if the re-
suit isn't apparent.
Doesn't it strike you that
a medicine which the makers
have so much confidence in,
is the medicine for you?
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-15

DFSBURS GMENTS
General Fund warrants
redeemed ....... .......$ 5,l1978
ImdigtnI Fund, warrants
redeemed ....--.. :. ..... 1886 %
Contingent Fund. warrants
rrdct med! $50 80
State Fund, warrants re-
deemed. ......... ........ 10 90
SALARY Fund, Warrants re-
aremcd. 49,. ........... 1855 SO
District Judges sslary 900. 1916 %
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-15
JOINT STATEMENT
OF AUDITOR AND TREASURER
OF ELkO COUNTY.

For the Quarter Ending March 81,
1891.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-15

STATE CoEn OF Of FEEIXka A. ISIS.
AUDITORS oFFlCE.
April g. 1891.
To the Honorable Board Of County Cominis-
sioncrs OF Elko County, Nevada:
GEHTLENEN: We herewith submit our Quar-
tclly Report OF the Finances of the County
for the quarter ending March 81, 1891.
GRespect1uliy submitted:
GEO. Ii. MEIGS,
Auditor,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-09-26
The Inhaler OF Tobacco Smoke
Cannot Be Cured.

It is not the cigarette smoked in
the ordinary fashion that does
harm; it is in the inhalation of the
smoke. This introduces quickly
and delightfully."- a narcotic poison
into the system and awakens in the
habitue sensation as delightful as
that produced by opium. The Sc
riousness of the cigarette to inha-
lation lies not alone in the fact that
it involves a steady absorption of
poison, but in the utter hopeless
ness of the habit aud the entire
inability of the indulger to give it
up. Once q cigarette inhaler, al
ways one. In this respect it resem-
bles with painful similarity the
opium habit, to which it has many
points of resemblance. One may
stop the use of the pipe or cigar, or
the use of tea or beer or whisky,
but the morphine and tobacco in
halation habits, if we'll established,
are practically incurable.
Tobacco smoke contains aqueous
vapor, carbon SCOT, nicotine, traces
of certain organic acids and Of such
hydrocarbons ae creosote, and OF
products of the aniline series, such
az pyroline. It is the nicotine,
however, which probably does the
harm.-Medical Record.
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Once in q Lifetime. :

Once upon a time there lived a
Yorkshireman who had never been
washed in his life. He was poor
withal-so poor that he was obliged
to go to the workhouse. Once there,
he was informed that washed he
must be, and washed he should; to
which he replied that he knew not
the taste of soap or water, and that
at his age it was all too late to take
on bad habits, and start on the ca
reer of vice. But the smith, the
butcher, the local policeman, and
the publican-all good tall men,
and men of their hands-took
a tub, with much hot
water and soap, and for all his
struggles, which were dreadful, and
his language, which was worse,
him to let himself be
washed. He died that night; and
while the official persons said 1t
was rage, there was not wanting
from it-who avowed 1t
was violent attack of cleanliness,
and whose sympathies went out to
him in death, as in life they would
have We'd with him in virtue-had
they but dared.-National Observer.
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Teu.Tale Noses.

Already the claim is made that
ones disposition is outlined by his
nose. According to the Buffalo
Commercial, large nostrils show
courage. People Of fearless dispo-
sition breathe fully and freely. All
the fiercer animals have dilated nos
trils. The dropping nostril shows
historic talent. If the nose also
droops, it denotes a tragic power,
and if only the nostril the capacity
is marked for the Interpretation of
comedy. Where the nose is thin at
the bridge it shows generosity,
while a nose that is thick at the
bridge argues acquisitiveness. When
it is 'stip-tilted like the petal of a
flower" the person is inquisitive.
A projecting nose argues a disposi-
ton to investigate. 1t is ahead OF
the person, as it were, and wants to
scent out things. Look at your nose
in the glass and see what sort of a
person you are any way.
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A Hint to Athletes.

No one who frequents the gym
nasiums during the summer season
can have failed to notice men tug
ging and straining at their flannel
shirts in a vain endeavor to get them
off. A flannel shirt, especially an
undershirt, when wet with perspi-
ration, sticks considerably closer
than a brother, and hundreds Of
them have been torn this summer
by trying to remove them in the
manner that is usual when they are
dry. But wet shirt has no terrors
for any one who knows how to ham
die it. Cross the arms, take hold
of the left side of the shirt with the
right hand, and the right side with
the left hand, and the garment can
be pulled off with ease.-Ex.
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Reserving Seats on Trains.

Owe read a good deal aboat the
hog as he is called, on railway
trains," remarked an old traveller to
New York Tribune reporter, "but
there is one thing that | have no.
ticed in my journeys that seems to
me to deserve more attention than
it receives. That is the regard that
travellers show for the rights of
others. | never go on trip that l
fail to notice it. tits the universal
custom to recognize the right of
person to seat if he or she has
pre-empted it by leaving valise or
other property in it to indicate that
it has been reserved, so to speak.
In all my experience never saw
any one seize upon such a piece of
baggage and eject it, and then sit
down and occupy the seat. That
seems to me to be really remarka-
BILE. And then how rarely does it
happen that a passenger loses any
baggage that he may have left un-
garded in a seat. A man may go
into the smoking car and remain an
hour or more, and on his return he
will find his property intact. At
stations where there are eating
houses passengers get out by the
score, reserving their seats with
bags, overcoats, books, magazines,
ETC., and on coming back will find
everything undisturbed. This re-
gard for others rights is one of the
characteristics Of American travel
ers that ought to be emphasized. /
have seen numerous specimens of
the genus hog and nobody can be
more disgusted than l at the exhi-
bitions they make but over against
them I like to set the other quality
of which l have spoken. There is
a good deal of unselfishness in the
world, after all.
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A Dainty Device.

1t originated with a gracious lady,
whose hands are skilled in cunning
work, and who has, in addition,
heaps of friends. Very often they
send to her fowers-the choicest,
shyest and rarest of the season.
She so loves the sweet blossoms
that she cannot bear to have them
fade utterly out of her life. By con-
sequence she makes of them silken
immortelles. 1t is done in this
fashion. Setting the flower at ease
in some dainty vase, with her needle
she sketches it accurately upon
background of firm lustrous satin,
delicate in color, and chosen to har-
monize with the tints of the BIOS
som, which is wrought with pre-
Raphaelite fidelity. Then, under
meath or above, at one side or in
the corner, she writes a bit of verse
chosen with special reference to the
flower, it's giver, or the occasion Of
giving, and embroiders the words
in gold or silver thread. This par
ticular woman keeps her achieve
ments hidden in a napkin-other-
wise box. There is no reason,
though, why the same thought
should not make walls and couches
and draperies blossom with more
than the rose. It is quite possible
thus to achieve panels for a boudoir
that will have the charm for senti-
ment and association, or to pillow
on poppies full of more than slum-
ber's balm-in fact, to fill many
things of daily use with the SAVIOR
of friendliness and the enduring fra
GRANGE Of remembered good deeds.
Bazar.
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CHINESE DETECTIVES.
They are Said to Be the Shrewdest
in the World.

A Frenchman naturally thinks
the Partisan detectives the best.
The English swear by the shrewd-
ness of Scotland Yard men, and
Americans, of course, by the New
York detectives. After three years
residence in China l do not think
either of the three bodies are enti-
tied to the credit given them. The
Chinese beat them all. They are
at one time the most expert thieves
and at another the most skilled de-
tectives in the world. A Chinaman
can steal your watch while you are
looking at it, and he can catch the
man who stole it, if it happened to
be some other than himself, when a
French detective could not. l have
seen evidences of detective ability
among the Chinese which would
startle even Zola. 1t is impossible
for an evil-doer to long elude the
Chinese detectives. They scent a
crime and follow it to the last before
civilized detectives would know of
it. In a country of so many people,
who all look alike, this is remarka-
BILE. I heard of one case which will
serve TO illustrate their shrewdness.
A family in Tonquin was murdered
and there was no apparent clew to
the murderer. The entire detective
corps Of three provinces were placed
upon the case, and in three weeks
the murderer-none other than the
chief Of the secret police, who han
died the case for the murderer-was
arrested and beheaded. Think of
that. The Chinese detective force
is a secret body, and the best organ
lied in the world. They have an
eye upon every man, woman and
child, foreign or native, in China,
and in addition whatch over each
other. Informers are encouraged,
and collusion is impossible. The
head of the Chinese police is not
known, but there is one, and very
active one, too. I have heard that
the present head was once an en-
bassador to a European country,
but really do not believe that any
one knows who he is. There are
said to be over 100000 men under
him and his assistants, who control
the various districts.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
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A Modern Messiah.

A Judge in Hungary was petit
toned recently by members OF the
Nazarene sect in the town of Gyoma
for permission to cruelty one Of
their number, "who was Messiah,
and had been called by Heaven to
save men," The Judge, for a mo-
ment was dumbfounded. "Friends." "
he replied, after recovering his
senses. II do not wish to interfere
with your religious practices. II
your Messiah wishes to be cruclhed
let him prepare himself for death.
Remember. however, if he does not
rise in three days | shall cause every
one OF you to be hanged" Ine
Nazarenes, it is almost ncedless to
say, allowed their chief to live
Philadelphia Ledger,
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The KEYSTONE has long been acknow
edged to be the sole representative OF the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and, located as it is in the
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face OF the earth, and leav
ing nothing undone to present its readers q
complete synopsis of all mining news and
developments, as we'll as matters Of local
importance in the growth of ketchum the
future metropolis of Idaho, tits aninvalua- :
bic guide for capital and inform ant to the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it, read it. and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
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NOTICE
Of Application for q Permit to Cut
Timber Upon the Public Mineral
Lands Unsurveyed.

Notice is hereby given that the under
signed will, in compliance with the Act
cfCorgress approved March 3, 1891. apply
10 the Honorable Secretary OF the Interior
OF the United States for a permit to cut
timber upon tract of public mineral land
situated about six miles, in a westerly
course, from the town OF Ketchum. Alturas
county, Idaho, IL miles from sawm.ll; on
the leit-hand fork of what is known as l,ry
gulch commencing at a stake marked NO:
at point about 50 rods from mouth OF
said Dry gulch, in westerly course from
stake; thence in a southwesterly course
25? rods to a stake marked No. 2; thence
in course about 90 degrees south of east
ery course 200 rods to summit OF noun
tain to stake marked S. E.; thence east OF
north about 20 degrees. a distance OF 2o2
rods; thence 20 degrees north OF west to
point Of commencement, a distance OF 253
rods. Also, to cut timber on creek about
tSo miles from sawmill, in a westerly
course, estimated amount of timber to be
ABOUT 800 600 feet, and no more.
A. ADAMS.
Retchum, August T. 1891.
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A Breech-Loaded Boy.

A boy living near Salina, Penn,
went home recently with box of
toy pistol cartridges in his hip
pocket, and having aroused the ire
of his mother that estimable lady
proceeded to apply the sole of her
slipper where it would do the most
good, when striking the cartridges
an explosion occurred that caused
an immediate cessation of hostili-
ties. It also wrecked the boy's pan
falcons in the region of the catas-
trophe, besides demolishing 9 large
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with his majesty and demanded an
indemnity for damages of $40, 900
a broad smile went around the world,
for it was we'll known that the
treasury of Samoa had never had,
and in all probably never would
have, sum half SO large in its cof-
fers. Yet the King of Samoa is
addressed by the president as "Great
and good FRIEND" and the president
signs himself, "Your good friend, %
and when Queen Victoria receives
a letter from the president he treats
her with precisely the same formal
ity and no more.-Washington Star.
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Life in Siberia.

Only one white man, so far as is
known, ever travelled across Asia
from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific
Ocean. The man who made that
perilous trip is julius NJ. Price, a
special artist for the Illustrated
London News, who left home fifteen
months ago. In a recent interview
Mr.. Price said:
"My experience in Siberia was a
most interesting one. The people
there and the officials always seemed
to be on excellent terms with one
another. Almost every person /
met was either a political exile, a
time-expired criminal or a descend
ant Of one. Most Of the officials
are made up from the latter class,
time-expired criminals not being
barred from holding Office. The
director of the prison at Yeneseik
is political exile. In the larger
towns of Siberia life is not dull.
There are excellent clubs and hotels
which political exiles and even GRIM
inals are allowed to use. When l
was at Yeneseik there was a Rus.
sian theatrical company performing
at one of the theatres, and every
body was permitted to go, to the
show, which was good one. When
balls are given at clubs or hotels
the exiles may take their wives and
daughters to dance, but are not al
lowed on the ballroom floor them
selves.
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section of his rear cuticle. A doc
tor was called ia and dressed the
burned and lacerated anatomy Of
the victim, who is said to be in Il
fair way to recover. The mother
did rot know he was loaded, and
so was frightened nearly to death
when he went off. Moral: Investi-
gate before you castigate.
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Tax on Bachelors.

Georgia is going to tax bachelors.
A bill for that purpose has been
brought into the Georgia Legisla-
ture, and the House Committee on
hygiene and sanitation has reported
it favorably. Under its terms it will
cost a Georgian $25 to begin the
bachelor business at thirty years Of
age, and on rising scale of $25 for
five years a man of sixty and over
will be at the expense of 5000 per
annum for the privilege of going
without wife.
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oNPOAAutCAOCAU VI OlIc VI Vic Vul1-
sylvania State Prisons boasted
through the public press that he
maintained discipline in his prison
by beating the convicts with leath-
ern strap. Moreover, this Superin-
tendent said that he did not allow
anybody to do the beating but him.
self. A reporter who saw him de-
scribed him as being a stalwart man,
and assevsrated that "no doubt the
blows were we'll laid on"
They have preaching at the pris-
on. Philadelphia would repudiate
with scorn the idea of not having
services for the benefit of. the pris-
oners with whom the State is deal
ing-but how is that preaching con-
Quoted, and how do Bardsley and
his miserable fellow-convicts get
any benefit from it?
In this way: Each prisoner at a
stated hour on the Sabbath day is
allowed to stand as near his door
as possible; a concealed slide in
said door is then withdrawn, show
ing an aperture of several inches.
The preacher stands in the guard
room, which is situated at the CEN
ter of the varions "wings" of the
building.
The minister stands here alone
without any perceptible congrega-
ton and hurls out the word of God
into an echoing prison space. If
the solitary prisoners Gagged in their
solitary cells wish to, they may
stand near their strong doors and
by listening intently catch a dis
connected idea of the Chaplain's
remarks.
Visitors to prisoners in the East
ern Penitentiary are allowed to see
convicts only tor few minutes at a
time, and then in the presence of a
guard, who must listen intently to
every word uttered. There are none
of the little "privileges" allowed
which in other communities tend
to tighten the burden of prison life
and which do no harm.
Prison life in the prison to which
Bardsley has been sentenced is pris-
on life ii truth. England's jails at
the time of which Charles Reade
wrote in his "It Is Never Too Late
to Mend" were not much severer
than they are in the Keystone State
to-day. ssls
About the only single advantage
which | could discover in this sys-
tenn, which the convicts might re-
ally claim as an advantage, cropped
out in the closing words of the con.
versation which / had with the pris-
on official of the Eastern Peniten-
tiary. AS l was going away he said ;
"We once had a man in this pris-
on who was a well-known Philadel-
phia merchant, with excellent con-
nections. He had gone wrong, was
arrested, tried under q wrong name
and convicted. He came here,
passed ten years in solitary con-
tinement and finally went forth,
having had not one human being
visit him during all the time of his
long sentence. In those ten years
he had seen absolutely no face ex-
cept the faces of his different keep
ers. He re-entered society when he
was released, nobody knowing that
he had been in prison. He to-day
stands high in the community, and
| believe and he believes that he
owes the fact of his not being dis
graced ex-convict to the solitary
system which prevails here"
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Notice for Publication.
Land Office at HALEY. Idaho,
May 5. 1891.

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF his inten-
uon 10! to make final proof in support OF hls
seiaim, and that said proof will be made be-
lore the Register and Receiver at Haley,
Idaho, on June Is, 1891, viz: Abilan
ADAMS, for the SW "A Sec. IL and w "a NV
Sec. IA, Tp. n, r. IL E. <A
de names the following witnesses TO
prove his continuous residence upon, and
euitlyation of. said land, viz: II. N. Stew
SiI John Monks, Frank Mats of ketch-
I'm I,n; Idaho; Louis Bourgeois, OF Haley,
W. T. RILEY, Register.
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Mining Experts.

10 tne average PIOSpeCtOI auu
mining operator the services of an
intelligent, experienced, liberal, hon.
est and self reliant mining expert
is always hopeful and ofttimes con-
ducive of great results, but the die
tum of one protesting adequate
qualifications and wanting them is
most disastrous. Geology and min
eralogy are progressive sciences, if
it can be conceded that the facts
deducible from the knowledge thus
far obtained form sufficient founda-
ton for science. Prof. Clayton,
than whom no other man ever more
closely studied the facts disclosed
by nature as to formation and STRAIT
ifcation, only few months before
his death, stated that continued and
close investigation into the existing
conditions of the earth's crust con-
stantly necessitated the entire re-
versal of theories formed years ago,
which the present generation of
students had, through the books,
accepted as facts and the substitu-
ton of other theories more in har-
mony with the recent discoveries.
And his was the experience that has
and will continue to come to all
earnest truth seekers. The first
lesson to be learned by the expert
from the schools, coming into a
mining district, is that rare jewel,
so seldom acquired by the bookish
man, modesty. Through its pos
session some men have acquired
fame, wooed and won treasures in
the realms of the heart and the
business of life, when the fussy, ar
rogant self-assertion of all acquira-
BILE wisdom has met with life
depressing failure. This arrogance
of opinion is not confined to the
young graduates in the schools of
mines in Europe and America, but
it is a disease, it may be dag
nosed as college malaria, no re-
specter Of persons, it attacks the
scientific, law and medical graduate
with equal virulence and there is
no corrective that acts with such
radical effectiveness and efectuates
so speedily permanent cure as the
free ozone of the air of Montana.
Another example of experts is the
man who mined in California and
Nevada in the fifties and sixties.
Broad minded his advice is most
valuable and should be needed
narrow minded the farther he is
kept from the mouth of shaft the
better for the miner, he is a "hoo-
doo," and his opinions snare.
Another cause of erroneous opin-
ions is that many practical miners
narrow their deductions to the linn
its in which they have engaged in
successful mining. If successful
gold mining has been had in gran
ite, then they will see no future for
a prospect in slate, no matter how
promising. There is not known
formation where gold has not been
found and pro6tably mined. The
"signs" of one district giving favor
able readings have a Numerically
opposite meaning in another, SO
that to form an opinion of reason
able probability the development
of given district must be known
and studied. The industry of min
idg to reach the best attainable re-
suits, must be conducted with
breadth and liberality, no man has
ever yet entered the inner recesses
Of its temple of knowledge, and
but few pass far beyond its thresh-
old.-Helena Mont. Journal.
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"Drop me a line," yelled the
drowning man. whats the use2"
said the humorist on the dock.
"There's no postofice whore you
are going"
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