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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-15
,cE LOCOMOTIVE,
Description or . Machine Inventod by q
New York Boiler Inspector. ~ @

DeacP3ptIou or . Machine Invented by q
New York Boiler Inspector.
At Fishkill Landing on a freight car
Is a so-called ice locomotives. It was
built by a New York boiler inspector
as an experiment for navigating the
Hudson on the ice. It is about six feet
long, with cab attached, The boiler
head, inside the cab, is supplied with
trottle valve, steam gauge, reverse
,ever and steam cocks exactly like
locomotive. Under the center of the
boiler connected with the steam chest
by side rods, are two small cogwheels,
twelve OF fifteen inches in diameter.
Under each end:of the machine are two
steel runners each q foot long and fash
toned like circuit runners. The cogs
are expected to dig into the ice and thus
move the machine along over the ice on
the runners at rate of speed not yet
estimated by the inventor. The cab is
not large enough for a person to get in
side. but the machine will probably
draw, on is intended TO draw, a small
platform car behind on runners, and
from this car the trottle inside the cab
and the reverse lever can be handled.
The whole machine weighs one thou>
sand pounds. a Pa-t ~
Some years ago Mr.. Dodd, of Dodd's
express, built a machine at Fishkiu
Landing for travel over the ice. All
machinery attached to it was of pom
derous character, 30 that when the
steam iceboat was completed it weighed
five. on six tons. 1t was placed in the
ice at Fshhill Landing to test it's speed.
The steam was let on, but the big cogs,
which were TO force the boat along
over the ice, instead of doing SO, dug
down into the ice and almost cut the
mass of iron and wood through, and Mr..
Dodd came near losing his machine.
After the invention had cost him many,
hundreds of dollars it had to be aban-
dOpcd. s- Fy.s...."s +
The later invention Is the only thing,
of the kind that has come before the
public siuce. It remains to be, seen
what ii will amount to. 1t has one adj
vantage over the Dodd inVention-it
does not weigh much more than an ice
yacht. ......,..
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-15
SWALLOWED A HORSE.

a Marvellous snake story That Comsa Az
the Way from Georgia.
Rev. DR.. G. w. Parker, respected
preacher of Bremen, GAY is authority
for the following tale, according to the
Atlanta Constitution: ''Dr. /. n. Chan
ey used TO practice medicine in Carroll
ton. He now. keeps hotel in Bremen.
He went to Carrollton the other day in
his buggy and while there traded an
old debt EQS good horse, aPd started
out for ,;oston in his buggy, leading his
new horse. When he was nearing the
Little Tallapoosa river bridge at Kings.
ber'y's mill ne sTddenly heard O. roar
Ing among the trees which he supposed
- DC storm. Looking up the hill he
Jaw the forest IA commotion and the
trees falling and bending toward him,
and i'll the midst of 1T huge body which
proved to be snake. The doctor put
whip to his horse and was quickly on
the bridge. Feeling the buggy jerk he,
looked and saw the snake swallow the
horse he was leading and plunge into,
the river just above the bridge, and as
the snake poked his. head out on the,
other bank of the stream, his tail still
upon the side Of the hiaf, his body.
reached clear across the river The
horse, having on new shoes, kicked
through the stomach,of the. snake, and
the snake stopped and the stream was
damned, and the water rose and float
ed the snake to level with the bridge,
The doctor jumped out Of the buggy
took out a big knife, and cutting. the
hole larger where the horses feet were
sticking ont of the snakes body, the
horse houuced, out and mounted the
bridge. The doctor secured him to his
buggy and drove on, but by this time
the water hpd backed till the horse had
to swim to low ground, but they made
their escape" -J'...
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-15
A Georgia story.

Ben. Pierce, colored, while fishing in
the run Of Clyatt's mill creek. near Val
t!ovta, Ca, caught a small Dream and,
;.s usual, when he pulled the fish he
torked 70, hard. THAI the fish. went fif..
teen feet above his head and lodged in
thick cluster of bushes ABOUT five feet
from the, ground. just as. Ben looked
t,p for his Ash he saw a; large rattle
snake lodge on the bushes. Ho threw
lis pole down and stepped off few
feet to got his gun. But on his return he
found, the, snake had swallowed the
Ssh audi come, down from the bushes
and was, crawling off with fish, line
aud pole. But Ben spcqce He'd IN, killing
bin The shake measured seven feet
aine ipohes,. ppd. had, &i;;ttqS4 rqttlss. epd
ARnttoa,, --~----,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-15
JOINT STATEMENT
OF AUDITOR AND TREASURER
OF ELKO COUNTY,. rl lts,

OF AUDITOR AND TREASURES
... OF E4KO COuNT3. rIa
For the. Quarter Ending pec.. 81
STATE OF NEVADA, I'D. ai1oA
County of Elko. gsg..a
AUDITORS OFFICE;
Pin g.. JAR 5. 1879
Bioners Of Blko County, Nevada
GENTLEMEN: We herewith submit our Quar-
teIly Report of the Finances Of the County
or the querter ending Dee. 81, 1901.
ako, IL. Mx1Gs.
ID JAS. CLARK,
TTeRsuFeR.
Bye. w. HULL, Deputy
E REcEIPTs FROM ALL SOURCES.
Bal in Treasury Sept 80, 81 81, $40. is
Fees col, by officers. 688. so
Gen license. Sheriff 1897 30.
Gam e. $40 90
Per prop, 81 Assess'r. 306, 60
Poll. 81, Assessor -. 3l8 90
Elko spec school 81; h#"
Assessor ..... !. ktg GA
Penal Fines. $50. 60 CO.
Tuition Non-Resi-
dents Elko s. Dist SO so,
Tax on Net Proceeds
Mines, Assessor. 1881 80,
Poll tax, III, Il Rec'r 1,644 90
Real & Per prop tax
81, Tax Reo'r 49, 32 81
Elko SpSchool 81, by
Tax Reo'r a.. 9i5 5is
County Prop'ty Sold 6p on
AdS del'qt tax 1891 2 90
Del. r & p Tax 1891 1917 70.
10 t,nr nf Haltnf 1901 100 OE
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-15
spMMARY.
Total Diabursements.s5a,5eo 0s

Bal in Treasury ...... 62,1SR u
The above amount stands to the
credit OF the several funds as per
tFreasurer's Bal. Sheet, dated JAM /.
1892, hereto attached.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-15
TREAsuRER's RALANcR SHEET.

Cash in Treasury to credit of various
funda, Jan. i, 1892, as follows:
State Fund .,.... 1888 916tO2
JUDGES Salary Fund -. ,076 rs
Gen County Fund. :. -. 2S,443i 81
Cash Contingent Fund -. :. ,042. g.
INDECENT Sick Fund. 3,619, 10
Officers Salary Fund ...... 1853. 25
Total. -. ......... :. $4l.3s1 OF
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-15

Total -. 265 A
Net receipts. % ,17o 70
Total receipts 80. ....li6,710 IS
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23
several stranra Dreams.

A farmers wife dreamed that she was
walking near the house of rejected
iover-one O'Flanagan-attended by q
beautiful hound, of which she was fond,
when raven dashed at him, killed him
and tearing out his heart flew away
with it. She next imagined that she
was running home, and met funeral,
and from the coffin blood flowed upon
the ground. The bearers placed it AT
her feet, opened the lid and exhibited
her husband, murdered and his heart
torn out. She awoke, as might be ex.
pected, in great terror. But here fol.
lows the most incomprehensible part OF
the narrative. Her husband entertained
an idiot cousin in the house, and he in
doggeral rhyme repeated the very same
dream to a gossip to whom the farm
er's wife had related hers.
That very night the farmer was muir
dered. and the next morning the poor
idiot, to the horror of all, exclaimed, as
he rose from his bed: "Ulick'-- Uhck
Mcguire was the farmers name-''is
kilt! Shamus dhu More kilt him.
[Shamus dhu More OFlanagan big
black Janesl land buried HIM un-
der the new ditch at the back of the
garden. | dreamed it last night-every
word of it," Search was made at the
spot indicated by the dream, and the
body was found with the skull nearly
cleft in two. In tho meantime O'Flan.
agan absconded and enlisted, but was
subsequently arrested. confessed his
crime and was executed. Pail Mall
Gazette.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23

A cheerful creature, who deserves
more credit for her courage than many
heroes who have died on the field of bat
tie, gave detailed list of her "econom-
les" to reporter few weeks ago
''Shoes are the greatest expense, she
said; 'they cost fifty cents, and my boy
has to have new pair every week" 1t
is pitiful, when one reflects that for two
dollars the boy might have pair of
shoes which would last him four monthsl
These are the economies of the very
poor. They buy worthless things, and
are obliged TO do SO often, for the simple
fact that they have not enough ready
money to buy good ones.
They cannot lay in quantities of pro-
visions nor buy healthful ones for the
same reason, and are consequently kept
poor and poorly clad and nourished be-
cause they cannot afford an outlay. In
furnishing their houses it is the Same
thing. A cheap stove and cheap chair,
which wear out and break down shortly,
are the only ones that can be got at tho
moment Mary Abbott in Chicago Post.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23
PronnneiatIon OF Stage People.

Mr.. G. w. Dancy complains very
bitterly of the disregard by actresses of
the value Of the vowel sound.
He says that POETRY" (oi dipthong)
was the sound recently given to poetry, +"
and Immediately diary" became "diry,"
while that pitfall of cockney rhyme
sters ''sure' inevitably delights the ex-
pectant ear as .shore" He has also
heard "obsurd" given for absurd"
while commission" .'comission" and
occur are frequent rendering of ''omis-
sion,' commission" and occur" and
''secret" masquerades thinly disguised
as ''secrit." Elisions and clippings are
favorite errors, particularly among rapid
speakers. Take as recent illustrations
"intimit" for intimate, ''s'port" and
"s'pose," for support" and suppose"
In the matter of chs" actors and ac-
tresses are commercially sound, and
'the very rare lapses in that quarter are
invariably duo to nervousness. London
Telegraph.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23
Thanksgiving I'm India.

The native servants Of India are said
to be courteous in the extreme, and when
they learn of any particular festival
which their masters desire to observe
they always make 1t a point to offer
their congratulations, accompanied by
presents of flowers, fruits and sweets
tastefully arranged in fantastic baskets.
They know all about Christmas and
New Year, but it was the United States
consul at Calcutta who first enlightened
them regarding Thanksgiving. There
after the diplomat and his successors as
we'll have been appropriately honored
on the Yankee holiday"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23
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b AssgaO
SENT LeHt''@'
WE PAY FREIGHT
fyou do not keep it.
We think you will keep it.
1t pleases everybody.
1t is an honest piano.
It is the WING Piano.

You may have preference for
some other make. Still you are a
reasoning creature, and open to
conviction, no doubt.
The question is too important to
be settled without due thought.
Years of satisfaction or of regret
come with a piano. Does it wea,-
we'll? The WING Piano does.
Look before you leap"
Whatever piano you buy, there
are piano secrets you ought to know.
Our free book tells them. Send
postal card for it. 1t may help you
to buy different piano. We take
that risk. We also tell you the
nearest dealer where you can see a
WING Piano. 1t is worth boxing
at. = So is the price. WING &
SON, 245 Broadway, New York.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23

A Stone Image Sixty Feet Under Ground.
Years ago, probably as early as 1881,
when workmen were excayating cut
ON the Humeston and Shenandoah rail
way, they found stone image about
eight inches in height imbedded in the
clay at depth of about sixty feet be-
meath the surface. In general attitude
the image may be said to be in squat
ting or sitting posture, the right elbow
resting upon the bent knee. Two horns,
each about an inch in length, adorned
the head. The mouth, and in fact the
whole face, was very large for the size
of the image. The main question is,
How long has it been since that image
was an object of worship?-St st. Louis Re-
public.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23
A NeonI,yta,s Answer.

At confirmation at Strassburg the
bishop asked of pretty soubrette the
usual question of the Heidelberg cate
chism:
"What is your only consolation in life
and deathg' fsk4f
The neophyte blushed and hesitated.
The first question was repeated. and
then she stammered out;
The young shoemaker in the next
street, London Tit-Bits.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23

If it weren't the most certain and effective
remedy in the world, do you think 1t could
be sold In any such wayl
Every overworked and rundown wo-
man and every delicate and suffering woman.
needs it 1t builds up and invigorates the
whole system, regulates and promotes the
proper functions, and restores health and
strength. It's legitimate medicine, not q
beverage; purely vegetable, perfectly harm
less, and made especially for woman's needs.
In every disorder and arrangement pecu-
liar to the sex, periodical pains, weak back,
bearing down sensations and kindred all
ments, (" Favorite Prescription" is giiaran-
money back.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23
WEDNESDAY,. NOV. %. 1892.
TlNTAGEL.
Tow Is iaid Artbur,s bead

LOW IS IhIu ArLhurs mead,
Unknown earth above him mounted;
BY him sleep his splendid knights,
With whose names the world resounded
Ruined gloriesl flown delightsl
Sunk mid ACmors Of old warsI
Where they reveled, deep they sleep,
By the wild Atlantic shores.
On Tintagel's fortressed walls,
Proudly built, the loud sea scorning,
Pale the moving moonlight falls;
Through their rents the wind goes mourn
ing.
See, We knights, your ancient home,
Chafed and spoiled and fallen asunderl
Hear We now, as then of old,
Waters rolled and wrathful foam.
Where the waves, beneath your graves,
Snow themselves abroad in thunderl
Laurence Binyon In London Academy
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23
Ancient wira.

Wire is no new thing; specimens of
metallic shrcds dating as far back as
100 B. e. are stated to have been dis
covered, while a sample of wire made
by the Ninevites some 1900 years B. c.
is exhibited at the Kensington museum
in London. Both Homer and Pliny al-
lude to wire. chambers Journal
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-11-23
THE
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PROSPECTUS FOR 1892.

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force, and our large staff of special con-
tributors, to treat any subject which may
present itself during the year. Our plans
for 1892 contemplate an enlargement of
our news department; perfecting of the
other departments and the bringing I'D of
the entire paper to s;iIl higher standard
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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-04-02

although beng the longer. simply kept
lower and avoided much of it. All he
outgoing Indian fur traders
advised us earnestly to take
the lower trail which we did.
! I'll ere was but little trouble in finding
it, but as the upper one was the palmer,
signs had to be let SO that Paddy"
! would not go astray. That afternoon l
shot dushy grouse. and about the
same time we lost the new trail for
quite a While.
We now crossed many boys or swan p
that half n foot or so below the surfa: c
We're solid ice. The bunch grass in
them gave the hardest walking of all.
The black, swollen ankles at night
showed plainly how it told ON the
heavily laden packer. Rabbit signs
being numerous brought out the
curious theory from the Indians that
about every seven years these little
animals have IL period of maximum or
minimum numbers. Ii this is SO, we
had probably struck the minimum
period, not only for the rabbits, but of
all other game that INDUCED in varia-
BILE quantities; and that the signs hung
over from the maximum. We hal real
ly seen game Signs enough to have sup
piled Il battalion by fair hunting, and to
justify keeping ont guards TO prevent
them running over the camp, but cut
side of the gutta-percha goat and some
wrought iron grouse we had tasted no
fresh meat SO far.
Before starting the next morning the
Indians sent up signal smokes to guide
Paddy" on the trail. The third pole
bridge, over a most furious cascade was
Of
were blowing throagh moose brush
and flonndcring through marshy parks.
The Indian trail seemed to prefer the
boys TO the solid ground with its
matted brush. Along the way, at
for Paddy, the packs mostly covered
with waterproof canvas suffering
seven al holes AS the result of the falling
sparks. We now encountered low. trail.
ing plant. known as Hudson bay tea,
that aftcrward remained abundantly
with us. 1t is said that it makes an
infusion similar to cl elp tea favored
with nutgalls but this fiatterinp de-
scripiion did not tempt us to try it.
That night we camped in forest of
dead. burnt timber which. rotting rs IL
stood, showed that the LEGALITY was not
given to gaze. Just as IA couple of In
dlans w'rc starting la.lS to look nm
Paddy that individual. covered with
| smiles. hove in sight. lie had easilv
guided himself by the smokes and fires
and was loaded with '.grub"-the In
alan only iCca of The English language
FOR TODD. That night the camp was n
happy one. FREDERICK SCHwATKA.
comd'g \. Y. Ledger Expedition.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-04-02

unless very we'll travelled. In another
hour the moose-bush had disappeared
AMI beautiful park country stretched
out ahead of us. II was on the summit
between two forks of the Takou and,
willie pleasing to the eye as 1t broke
on us, we found it marshy enough un-
der foot. Here is a large sha low lake.
dra ming both ways, and on its shores
Wee camDed Indians who were out
ward Eound to trade furs at juneau.
Near them our own Indians had camped
in order to trade for mo :casins with the
others, their own being about orn out.
For some me there had been grow ng
compla .nts in anticipation of the Indian
food supply running low. They had
brov ct on'y abouta weeks supply, an
amount which they can easily dispose
of in half that time, and certain kinds
were now running out. They were
espe tally pathetic over sugar, a luxury
that they seldom had but which now.
singularly enough, seemed ipdispensa-
bic. A moose. or a couple OF caribou,
which we had every right to expect,
would have settled the question for
probably the whole portage, but the
chances for game seemed to be fading
faster every day. So when Robert"
asserted that it would yet take six days
to reach the big lake, where the pack
ers' contracts ended. they decided to
send one member back to the head OF
canoe navigation after food, while they
would divide his pack among them and
follow the trail until he overlook them,
while agreed to feed them from my
own supp les until then. paddy" a
good-natured Takon of fat, squatty
proportions was selected for the r>turn
and l curlcd up the corners of his
mouth by giving him an extra pair of
moccasins to make it in. He got away
carly next morning but the packers
were much slower in getting "a move
on them" They were back in less than
two hours, having made only IA short
distance, ''Paddy's" load appearing
extra burdcnsome divided among
them. They reported number of
white grouse (partridge) as hay
ing been seen in the open places,
but we saw none later. Near
the trail we saw a beautiful. bubbling
spring boiling two or three inches
above the level in its center. Its water
was ice-co'd, however, and it was the
only one OF the kind that we saw in the
whole trip.
About the middle of the forenoon we
again came to large party OF fur
traders on their way to Juneau, and
there was no installing their errand,
for every one of them was loaded with
furs. There was an Indian boy about
IL years old, who had pack OF them
nearly as big as himself. l estimat ted
its weight at a fair forty pounds, while
others thought it might be even fifty.
The little fellow seemed proud of his
burden as we inspected it and even his
father seemed happy-though married,
for he had three wives just before
noon we reached the next fork of the
Takpu at n second pole bridge, it, too,
being thrown over foaming cataract.
From this point on there were two
trails that rejoined before the big Lake
was reached. The usual one led over
q high ridge of IN ,untains that at this
time of year was liable to be seriously
DISTRACTED with snow, while the other,