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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
GREAT LAWYERS OF THE
SENATE.

Ta, great lawyers OF the Senate are
no longer ON the Republican side OF
tho chamber. "Grandma" lloar is
easily first OF the ~iurists of that side,
and he is scarce knee bigh to such
Lawyers ms Carlisle, Gray, Morgan ard
George on the Democratic side. A
fuw yours ago the Republicans had
Edmunjs aud Carpenter and Conk-
ling and Ben Harrison, and was able
10 count these against the Demo
cratic side, on which sat Thurman
aud Mcdonald aud Hill and Lamar.
Wuen Thurman left the Senate and
Hill died and Lamar was promoted TO
the Supreme Bench other great legal
luminarits stepped into their placcs.
Not SO with the other side, which will
miss Edmunds and Evarts and
Spooncr this session. II is the fashion
to say that lawyers are made, not
born; that there is no royal road to
distinction in tho profession, but tho
lawyer is born just the same as the
general, or tho poat, or the inventor
Ask any littlo lawyer i'm Kentucky
what lno '.ruie in Sholiy's case" is,
aud no will at once answer that it
settled TINT tho wor "heir" wac to 10
construed ~ u term Of purc'"a and
not of limitation, or some suci. largo.
that he no moro understands than
you do. lie will refer you TO the
books, and yo'i search them, especial,
IL Kent, and s':udy them TO- months,
auu road volumes about the rule in
Sheileyis casr,'' and you know no
more than when you first began I'M.
less you have II legal mind like Gov.
Knott or Judge Lindsay.or Bill Du
lnncy or ono OF half II dozen other
fret class Kentucky lawyers.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
A FREE n BILL.

Tho Coinage Committee OF the
House, yesterday, reported a bill for
tho free coinage Of silver. Its pro-
visions are Substantially ms follows:
Section l providcs that tho unit
value in the United States shall be
the standard silver dollar as now
coinod, 1925 grains OF standard sill
ver OF tho gold dollar 2JS grams OF
st ,adard gold, tine standard gold and
silver CONS OF the United States TO DO
legal tender in payment Of all debts.
A y holder Of gold or silver bullion OF
tho value of 500 or more Of standard
~iiueDess, shall be entitled 10 have the
Same struck iutu any authorized
standard coins OF the United States
fres Of charge, ut tho mints OF the
United States, Or may deposit The
same at such minis and receive there
for legal tender coin notes OF denomi-
nations or not less than 81 nor
than $1,000.
Section , provides for the retire.
mont of the present gold and silver
certificates aud Treasury notes, and
the substitution of coin notes for
them.
Section 3 says coin notes ut any
time outstanding are not to be great
er or lees than the value OF coin aud
bullion ut coinage value held in the
Treasury, said uotes to DO redeemed
in coin OH demand.
Section . provides for tho repeal Of
the present law.
Section 9 provides that IA soon us
France shall reopen her minis to the
free and unrestricted coinage OF silver
at her present ratio, l5tS 60 /, it shall
10 tho duty OF tho President ot the
United States to mako n public proc
lamatjon OF that fact, whereupon SAID
ratio is to be the legal ratio Of tho
United States and Thereafter tho
standard silver dollar shall consist Of
400 grains OF standard silver aud the
dollars outstanding shall be rocoined
at that weight.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
Chicago Cattle Market.
CnicAoo, Fen. D, 1892.

CHICAGO, FEB. D, lSJ2.
Following is the report Of tho Chi.
cago cattle market for the week end.
ing February 8, 1892.
Receipts OF cattle for tho week
$500 head
Wo quote prices Mt the close Of the
market;
Prime Export. $500 % 1875;
Rougbish Dxport, eI25 ~ $3.50;
Good To choice, iri50Y1,JOO los, $3.50
Usl.TD; Medium 10 good, l,ldDW 1880
los. S3.76@S1Goi Common, l,01OWl,.
80 TBS. a525@E3T5; Fat pony,
smooth, t,iOQ@lrOO Bs., aiC0@8L15;
Ghotce hciferp, 90 2UgtSib0, Good
COWS and bcifers, s255@$3lO; Fair to
good cpws. Soo4i 1860 los, 81 l00s2Ao;
Common 10 fnir cows, Sl.5OG.12.cO;
Stock stnors, GQ0@srO Ds., Sl.7ja
S2lr,; E,oedina riters, &5O9l,2jo lbs,
1Ooelskt0; Veal cilyea, l0GM3OO lbs,
E~SLUeIsG.O0; Springer and Mich
COWS, per houJ, sl5O0e3oOI
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
a resnn clouh.nnrs,.

| WINS riding in the smoking car Of n
Texas Pacific train, when Il Texan
who sat opposite mo seized the sleeve
OF his coat and began to wiring und
twist it az il 10 clear il OF water. 1t
wns such II queer move that l asked
for an explanation, and no looked a
bit confused as he SAID:
ats a habit I've fallen into. l did
1t wit! out thIIkiug."
But your sleeve isn't wet"
"Oh, no. ] just imagined il. l
was in 4 cloud burst about two ycans
ago nrd l got SO wet that it took me
three months to dry out. I got in
the habit OF w~ringing my clothes out
every hour or two and / still keep it
up"
Can you describe the cloud 5urst?"
l asked.
powerful easy. In the first place
l had 5000 sheep fcedin' on my ranch.
The IL began TO pump up water
about noon, and at , O'Clock when she
had about 100000 barrels ON hand.
she pulled out the plug md let the
whole biliu' oil it como kersquGsh
down on my land, and in ten mlnits !
hasn't II sheep alive. Ali the build.
ings vent, all tho hcrders went, the
old women and children went, md |
was lung asnore ten miles away.
Coin to live in Texas!"
mo"
iii you was, I wanted to tell you
hat you kin play w,:h cca;ipedr,
fuss with IL tarantuia, joke with Il
catamount, and make up faces with II
cowboy: but when il comes To cloud.
bursts you want to let right up and
begin on the Lords Prayer."-tN y.
] World.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
THE WARDS OE lime.

Nlhs EAEDALL. Y c ninety years old,
VINO dug and picked up q barrel of ,po.
tH'ocS in one day this fall, Is Champion
among the smart old people Of Caribou.
Me ~
HfSJAMtN TroNusoS. OF Kcnncbunk.
port Me-, who Is nincty.cight years
OH. owns and manages II large farm.
Last s'iinincr he rukcd hay every cay
during the harvest and pitched OF two
loads uDnidcd.
AMOS a.. PARKER, OK Fitzwillintn, n.
~ recently passed the century mark.
lie IS The oldest living college graduate
in America and has been "A sneccssful
editor. lawyer, author and poet. lie
was on intimate friend OF the Marquis
dc Lafayette.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
n S.rnurc Mineral.

a p~rospcctor in Montana has found a
strange mineral that takes fire and con-
sumcs itself when exposed to tic air.
when taken from the ground IL has
inuch the appearance of iron orc end Is
quito rs heavy. Tho first that waa
taken out was piled up near the shaft
one evening" and thc next morning was
found to he smoking. 1t c.ntinucd TO
grow hotter until IL arrived at almost n
white heat, r2tnnining In that condition
several days. after which IL ~grudunllv
cooiEi or. II was then found TO be
butt.Lif it, FIRST weight, and rcscmblcd
imnch The fragments Of rictcors that
are found oii The surfuec.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
From TiiSht-lianGcd to Lcri-lIanG-
cd.

Some time ago n young lady 70 Fall
River, Mass, was struck on the left
side of the head and seriously injured.
y brain fever wns the result, and
when she recovered the curious fact
developed that she had become left.
handed. All operations, rs writing
3c|iug, cutting, etc, that she had for,
merry performed with her right hand
she how does with her left, and with
as much eaeo and grace as though
she had been accustomed to tho use .!
that hand all her life. Her right hand
IL about as useless lis the left was be.
lore the injury.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
a HEROIC COUPLE
Tho Wonderful Performance of u S
Captain and Ills Wife.

Tho Wonderful Performance OF n Sea
Captain and Ills Wife.
News comes from Honolulu that ship
ping men i'll that port were recently
surprised to sec the brig c.. ii. Douglass,
supposed 10 have been lost on q coral
reef at Butaritari, sail into port with
master and crew in the last stage of cy-
haustion from ovcrwork and hunger.
Capt Holland, the master at the time
OF the wreck, sold the vessel for five
hundred dollars to T.. d. Reid, master
OF the trading schooner Reid. lie rot
Tho vessel OFF the reef, patched up the
bottom and then started with her for
Honolulu. His voyage was rcmar,Ia-
bic. lie had to make it. without chro-
nometer or log, and with brolicn
pumps. The vessel was leaking badly.
BESIDES this, half of the provisions were
lost, and FOR the last four days before
reaching Honolulu Capt. Reid and his
wife went without food. They did no
manual labor and gave their share to
the men working the pumps.
II voyage lasted thirty-two DAYS.
During this time the men were Mt the
pumps day and night. The water rose
Six and a half inches an hour, and this
increased ut the latter end OF the trim.
when the men were weakest and could
barely keep the vessel from becoming
w~atcr-loggcd. Capt. Reid was nearly
dead from hunger and exposure, but he
brought the supposed wrecked vessel
into port. The vessel was examined
mt Honolulu, and was pronounced only
slightly injured.
whisky In IA Whale.
a sperm whale forty feet long rot
over the bar Mt Ocean City, Nd, during
the high tide several nights 10 and
was left high and dry on the beach bv
the rcccding water. All night loDr his
struggles could be heard by tho crew OF
the l~ifc.snving station near by. They
sounded like the heavy beating of the
SURF After the lcviathau was dead the
residents in the ncighhorhood gathered
nnd cut away the blubbcr. In cuttinu
open tho monsters stomach there were
found u number Of empty bottles and n
fivc-gallon dcmiiohn, corlscd and scaled.
OF excellent rye whisky. IL Ia supposed
That the whale followed in the wake of
the United States steamer Dispatch.
which was wrecked more than n .onth
ago, and swallowed the dcmiiohn as il
was Heated out Of the wreck.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
Dissolution of partrcrship.

Notice IN hereby given that the firm
"t Kelly & Mccain is this day dis.
solved by mutual consent. u. Kelly
r"tiring from tho firm. n. Ncr,nin
MI pay ~ bills against aaid firm and
collect all bills due tho snnic.
Il. nE6LY.
ULMuToG aCCAiS.
Hallcck, IAN. II, 1892 In
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n Physicians Gift tn Humanity.
Weak men restored TO perfect man
hood by the Great Australian rrmeIy.
Tree. Address, Box 1861, Sau Fran
cisco, Cal.
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Notice Of Forfeiture.

To DAN AYERS. or ms HpIpp on A.
! ttf"s: ioh ar" hereby friiG,d that {
hay" Z tndoI ono iundfn 81 dollars ir Labor
anil improvements for tho year isNs. ui.rn
each oI III" following mlnIng claims Coppcr
kins TO. 2, Copper KirG. Alien no. q, 10
Lac" No.. !. u" Lane No. ,. md A,rr's, Hit.
un'cd In Srimcn RIVER Mining District. L.Iso
county SiHic - Scvada, aud described IN tho
records ~ Flo county ~ hcing about ono
mile In a westerly direction from n pDInt Of
rocls, kn"wnn NJ The Birds Most. situated ON
Sairmon r!'r. Eikoconnty. sialc ~ hoynda.
Aud II within ninety days from tho Gtsi pnbli.
cation 81 this notice y"u fail az refuse % con
tribute y"ur proportion OF such expenditure.
ogcthof with the cost OF Advertising ~ co.
owner, your interest Ia said claim will become
tho property Of tho subscriber nndc' Section
232I Of The United stS'Cs Mining Laws.
i1ARRY !. ALLEN.
Bcllcsuc. Idaho. Noy..2.tb, 1891.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-02-14
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Han;o. violin ana guitar Strings, !.
fine assortment. at Mullcr's. =
\ fine stock OF fresh French can
dies and stationery just received ut
Reinhart's.
Protect your weak eyes from the
Injurious effect uf sun and suow glare
by getting a pair of dark glasses al
Muller's.
a fne display Of silver ware, fancy
dishes, lamps, knives, forks. spuyns
etc, Mt the EFT. NJ. Co.'S. Cali anG
inspect these goods, which are the
E!ko. =
III timo is money, you can aaye i,
by having !onr watch, clock and
jcwolry repaired by Sam Ncusch.
wander, at Nyc's old stand. IIo is al.
ways ready {" pieaso you.
Orphan Tom and George Grant
have opened the Elephant Stable
formerly run by u. T.. Wore. Tom ia
h"stlpr, will guarantee sntir
faction, AMI feed horses at rcdu" d
rates. If
When SO much g being said and 50
many crs" ~ nIg passed
to disc ADVERTISE un,..
ctnm ADV EkflSE eth pmrc
ancll' SO ADVERTISE old pa
hst cuieer DIN ynrdc
sheet OF beautiful ling water and
uGth TO Io9 : ~rcgoyls To /,
S-f. IN VY.TE al -
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soulhd DO dcon in ho cxn, ]neinctcu
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rwg.d'lz INDEPENDENT hrw Inn
tIndfi INDEPENDENT 'ot
S%S.SiTos.os~y BIB ghss',oi Ts"a'4 "
M. Reinhart has
lust received his
Fall and Winter
samples for custom
1iaNo clOCnlnS. Ii
you want your
clothes made to or
der, give him a call
and see as fine a
line of samples as
has ever been ex-
hibited in Elko.
You can get a suit
Of clothes made to
order from SCI 90
up. Fit Guaran-
iced.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24
A Journey TO tn. SON.

Stop and think moment what the SEN
tence "a journey 10 the SUM- implies. A
cannon ball could hardly complete thctrip
in fifteen years going at the rate such mis-
siles arc known TO travel. Take the fast
est express train AS another illustration o.
that unthinkable distance. Had one Of
these trains left the earth at the same mo-
ment the Mayfiower sailed for America.
and bad it Travelled ~ the rate Of = mile a
minnie day ard night since that time. 10
would still be several miles from It's ceics
tial destination The fare. at the custom
ary rate, WOGid be s. $50 600
Again. IL hal been found that sensation
IS NOT absolutely Instantaneous. but that =
very minute time eiapses as 10 travels along
the nerves. Therefore II a person put his
finger to heated iron or in the blaze Of a
candle there Is a certain almost iucOnceiv,
ably small space ~ time. say the one-thou.
sandth par Of "a second. before the brain
knows Of the burn Now suppose a man
with an arm long enough 90 reach ths sun.
From the known rate a scnsatory trans
mission that man would have 70 live more
than 100 years after touching the grens
lurninary before he would know that bis
fingers had b.en scorchcd,-St. Louis Re
public
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24
THE WYOMING KILLERS.

CHEYENNE, Wvo., April 23.-The cap
tured stockmen are at Douglas tonight.
They are in charge of Major Egbert and
two companies of the Seventeenth United
States infantry from Fort Russell, having
been turned over to him by Ma ior Fechet.
The party are in good health, but suffered
much from the blizzard. There was some
talk of rotten-e egging the prisoners, but
this was discouutenanced by the majority
of citizens, and no demonstration was
made. Majo Egbert and party will stay
over night at Douglas and leave on the
morning train for Cheyenne. There are
runIors that an attempt will be made to
ditch the train containing the troops and
prisoners, but no credence is placed in
them.
On the arrival Of the prisoners at Chey-
enne they will be kept at Fort Russell
which is just outside the city until the
time for their hearing, which Will prob
ably be before Judge Blake at Laramie
City. A perpleXing question about their
release on bail presents itself. The stock
men themselves will find no difficulty in
furnishing bonds, but no one will want to
90 bail for the twenty Texans who We're
hired for the trip. They were selected
specially for their toughness, and il re-
leased on bail viii lose no time in getting
out of the jurisdiction of the Wyoming
courts. To discriminate between the cat
tlemen and the men who were hired gill
create an unfavorable impression towards
the stockmen.
X. L. Snyder of Buffalo reached here
today, as the representative of the john
son county people, to secure counsel for
the prosecution of the stockman. He will
also 20 to Washington to present the facts
of the situation to the president.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24

81 can tell you e1metbiug amusing about
a case ~ ambition 0'crvaultinR itself T
said NM s. who has just returned
from a to8r abroad We were travelling
in Germany nod wanted the compartment
20 Our-eltcs AZ station where wo
stopped There was party with a crying
baby fcsldF .e come aboard and ! told ou r
youu-est lfti girl. ~ho b a great mimic.
that IL ,he ...lld roll hersef up ia a rug
and cry thfg "sald probably pass On and
leave u- 10.
"Aul dII r9rk5f
''You s1a sad rolled herself mp
head and a.l. q when they locked in ~ .
screamed at tLe top of her voice ezarfiy
like q pee~i-h 4afaut The mother aud fa-
thsr ibF1et tAe.r heaas in while their .a-
fsut reared al.o. ia wss sespe g, ~
besian AaI to complete it tie fst5cr,
who Was sn iaE.i-l.a.s.u. ssfd.
'EFs you bare Mar TLers's another
'osrisT in there. ami theg wout nslud
svin2 Hs and iu tArF g1t fhe Who!s
fsfu.ig ~ fa~fa. and our cat Eas 0gl u tbs
bSz -Detfc.t Free Prsst.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24

An Eastern traveller who has had many
and varied encounters with wild animals
in the heart of Africa and has walked
through many jungles says that he con-
ours in the opinion commonly held by the
natives of the countries he has visited that
the leopard Is more dangerous than either
the lion or the tiger. Its noseless approach
may be imagined, he says, from an incident
which occurred 10 him in 4 Abyssluia.
/ was watching pool by moonlight in a
deep bend OF the river Royan during the
dry season. Hours passed. but nothing
larger than an antelope appeared.
We were sitting beneath large tree.
completely denuded Of lcaYes, and the
moon was shining brightly. throwing into
sharp outline every bough. suddenly my
wife pulled my sleeve and directed my at
tcntiun to large animal cruuched upon
the branches exactly above us.
might have taken a'splendid shot, but
at first imagined it To- he docfaccd hab-
Don that had been asleep tn the tree. |
stood erect 20 obtain "A clearer view. and at
once the creature sprang TO the ground
within "a fcW feet Of us and bounded into
the jungle.
II was leopard, which had probably
reached the tree by means of some neigh
boring branch. and 80 nuselossly that wa
had not discovered its presence. The All
NAL had evidently winded and was de-
termned 10 rccounOlter our position
Youth 5 Companion
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24
A RYNAMlTER'S DEN

NEW YORK, April 23 23-George Staley, an
Anarchist, living in Hoboken. was arrested
last Tuesday on the charge of drunkenness
aud disorderly conduct. He was sentenced
to thirty days in the county Jail by Re
corder McDonough. Today. to the au-
thorities, Mrs Staley said that her hus-
band had made threats to annihilate Re-
corder McDonough and the police and TO
blow up Wagner'S saloon, when he got out
of prison. She was in great fear that he
would carry ont his threat. She also iu-
formed the police that her husband had
been engaged in making dynamite bombs
and other deadly engines, aud offered to
convince them that such was the fact if
they would accompany her TO the house.
A policeman went TO the house. and there,
IN Il room occupied BY Stsley as "A work
shop, were found explosives, pieces OF gas
pipe with triggers attached for bombs,
swords, revoivers and two boxes of cart
ridges. These were seized and sent TO the
police headquarters, and some white
powder, the most dangerous explosive
known, was thrown into the river The
grand jury viii take action in Staiey's case.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24
hIestrle Light in African Mines.

Working by electric light in the desert
of Africa, with power furnished BY coal
costing sixty dollars ton. was the novel
subject discussed by George ID, Longstreet,
an English mining engineer. During a
long residence in south Africa. Mr.. Long
street travelled rs far into the interior Hs
Livingstone aid, visited n number of places
which have never been seen by a dozen
white men. .nd i'm many regions found that
he was the iirst white man the natives had
seen.
The control al the diamond mines by
the RoihSchilts' saws Mr.. Longs; rect. is
entirely dGe tN the oVcrcap taliEation Ct
the original companies Some Of them
were capitalized a. high as g., 600 coo
They are BOW limiting the production Of
gems 10 the demand. Diamonds viii never
go down Ia price, and the days of romance
in south Africa diamond mining are past
forever. ln early days the mines were al.
yided into li;tle alloIments OF thirty fces
square, and each of these was sold TO = cor
poratiOn for $3.50, O,000-a neat sum for a
little land scarcely large enough TO put
shanty on.
Il have seen working for one company
and in one mine IS many a. l0.000 naked
Zulus, whose work, oddly enough, was
carried on 10y electric light within a year
after il was invented. In those days our
chief officially was to prevent the thefts
of the worlmen. We had an overseer for
every five men. and yet they managed to
steal large numbers OF diamonds. TfS>c
Zulus are horn thieves. All the tales of
Rider Haggard, whom | knew in south
Africa. have heard often from the lips u
the ZuluS. Chicago Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24
ElILEY KNOCKED OUT.

ST JOE, Mo-, April 23- The Republican
county convention of Buchanan county,
held today, to elect delegates to the state
convention and the Fourth district con-
yention, developed into n square fight
between the Filiey and anti-Fillev men,
and the result WAS the defeat of the tilley
men. The convention endorsed Mayor
Warner for governor aud S. 2. Auston for
supreme Judge.
ST. LOUIS, April 23-A primary election
was held i'll this city today to select deli
gates to the state Republican convention
at Sedalia, and to the various congress
ional conventions in which the city is en-
titled to representation. The fight was
between two wings known as the Hood
lums," under Chauncey |. filley,
and the SILK Stockings" led by
the friends of Secretary Noble. 1t
was purely local in character,
both factions entertaining much the same
views regarding national matters. The
result was as follows: "Hoodlums," 20
state and 14S congressional delegates;
''silk-stockings." IS state and IS con-
gressional delegates. Despite his victory
in the aggregate, Filley was overwhelm-
ingly defeated himself in his effort TO get
to the state convention as d delegate.