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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-02
Last Years Record.

Following are the births, mar
siages and deaths IN ElSo county for
le93, 80 far as recorded:
BIRTHs.
'ASJsn 2-To the wife Of VIM. Gard
nar. . daughter.
Ssz ll-Co the wife Of Luther
BsSfer, q, leon.
Jan e-To the wife Of Dave Haines,
adaughter.
Jan Ito the wife of w P Young,
q daughter.
Jan l5-To the wife OF n Guernsey,
sdaughter.
Jan 9 10 the wife OF Webster Pat
serSon, a daughter.
Jan M--To the wife OF Silas Rose
berry, q daughter.
Feb 23-To the wife Of L r Bolt,
q daughter.
Maych 24--To the wife OF Frank
Cowells, q son
March 23-To the wife Of J. Con-
rad, a daughters.
March S-TO the wife OF A J
ThoinGs, q SOM
March 70 = 10 the wife OF jas e
Penrod, u daughter.
April 2-To the wife Of Henderson
Greens a son.
April $50 the wife Of Knox A
Crane, q daughter.
April 8--To the wife of John T Mo.
Dermott, o son
April 20-To the wife OF John Dob
erty. a daughter.
April 30-To the wife OF III w
Schmidt, q daughter.
May 1s--Eo the wife Of Paul Schii-
lerstrom, a On.
May Ito ting wife OF II Brooks,
q SON..
May $40 tho wtss OK L e Ken
bricks, q daughE cor.
Juue 28-To tho wife of w w
Weathers, q daughter.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-02
DEATHS.

Feb 23-Warren Shoecraft, aged q
years.
Feb 15--Infalt son Of Darrell Cole
aged / honr. '
March 2--M J Curley, aged 81 years
March DOWN E Argyle, aged So
years.
May 16-Ah Yon. aged 48 years.
May 18--Howerd L Riddle, aged 10
months and II days.
June I2--James Hubbs. aged Sc
years.
June 1s--Juan Telling, aged Q? years.
June 27--Geo F. Gedney, aged 20
years.
June 2e-Vincent Martin. aged 10
years. .
Juno 1s.-AJ Thomas, Jr, aged 8
months and 10 day.
July 2I-Iung Yon Tod, aged 40
years.
July 2--Ah Coon, aged SIS years.
July 22--Morgan Merle Ouderkirk,
nged 8 years and Z months.
August 4-Ernest Wm Ratfelt, aged
50 years.
/ August 25--Frank Smith, aged %
years.
August 15-Wm Hoar, aged 81 years
Sept 3-Yoke Chue, aged 40 years.
Sept 2I-Mrs Polly Shines, aged Sc
| years, 4 months and 3 days.
Oct 12-Jos z Lang, aged II years.
Nov wv N McAllister, aged 81
yenrs.
Nov 19-Peter Munson, aged 70
years.
Dec SIS B Mcdonald, aged 80 years.
Dec SWIM B Vosburg, aged IS
years.
Dec fitzpatrick Moran, aged 60
years.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-02
The New Officers.

The lei officers were installed this
morning. They ara as follows:
Lou Henderson, Sheriff.
E. 10. Bilkey, County Clerk.
M. FL. Miller, County Treasurer.
Geo. H. Meigs, County Recorder.
Webster Patterson, District Attor-
ney.
Stanley Rigsby, County Commits
sioner.
Fred Wilson, County Commissioner.
j. VI. Mateer, Deputy Sheriff.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-02
Painting and Paper Hanging

Ferd. A. Sloss, late of San Francis
cisco, IN Interior Decorator, Painter
and Paper hanger, is, for tho presout,
located in Carlin where he will at
tedd to all work in his line. He will
make occasional trips to Elko. Flo
ie highly recommended by tho citi-
zens OF Carlin and guarantees salts
faction. -
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-02

Owing to the rush of work DR..
Moore does not know when he will
leave Elko on bis professions trip,
but requests all having work they
wish done to Gull and make an ap-
pointment before it is too late.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-02

Protect your weak eyes from the
injurious effect Of sun and snow glass
by getting a pair OF dark glasses at
Muller's.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-02

Banjo, violin and guitar strings, a
fine assortment, Mt Muller's.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-02

u oOus r. s.
Aug 24-ro tho vife of Chas High
tower, a son,
Sept 2s-ro tina wife of D E Rogers,
q son.
Sept3-To the wife OF Fred Bertsch,
a SON..
Oct 2I-To the wife of Jas Dewar,
a son.
Dot 21-To the wife of Roger Doh
erty, a son.
Got 25-To tho wife OF J W Camp
bell. a daughter.
Oct30-To the wife of M. Chaser, a
son.
Oct SOTO the wife OF ] G Lee, a
son.
Nov 2-To the wife OF A H WISE
man, a daughter.
Nov. ITO the wife Of Geo Over
man, a son.
Nov $40 the wife Of J N Dock
ham, a daughter.
Nov 19-ro the wife of Jas Murphy
q daughter.
Dec $40 the wife OF A. Mayer, a
son.
Jan 2-John A May to Mrs s M
Freeman.
Jan 27-Hugh w Nelson to Ger.
trude A. lillian.
Feb 7-Richard Kleitz to Addie
Walls.
Feb 1o-J B Fitzgerald to Matte
Hogle.
Feb25-L L Bradley to May Arm
strong.
March 1o-Frank Victor Burner to
Matte Clemens.
March 29-Taylor Allen to Mrs
Hilda J Lowe.
April 3-Dillon Roberts to Mrs Ma
linda Winchell.
April3--W II Needham to Addie
Burchfeld.
April 1l-John Henderson to Maud
Henley.
April 18--Geo Thomas Brandt to
Mary e B~ellinger.
May III M Morrow to Abbie
Sheehan.
May l8--John H Watson to Mollie
I Tanner.
Juno IA Edward Cozzsns to Lizzie
Murdoch.
June 30---W e West 10 Maggie
Burchfeld.
August 2--David Kinnell to Lola
Belle Roach.
Sept 10 HI Oliver to Emma Gard.
ner.
Sept 7--w D Martin to Misa A E
Stone.
Sept 1s-.w D Fuller to Mamie
Shearer.
Sept 22-Jobn s Jewett to Birdie
Jewell.
/ Oct i2-v A Wallace to Miss A 7
Waters.
Scb S1O1eSC SlfnUO9 70 GGta
Kennedy.
Oct los p Howard to AMMO J
Jones.
Nov. 2--Jas T Ebert to Mrs e I
Harmon.
Nov G--Reid Jackson TO Clara B
Prentice.
-
Nov. Coco Blasdell to Title Nelson
Dec. 1-Alvin Milton Harris to Ellen
NJ Thomason.
Dec 3-TJ Brown to Bertha Barrett
Dec 15,-William johnson 10 Mabel
Maud Wood.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
FIVE KILLED in A MINE.
Loss Of Life Caused by tae Explosion of
Fire Damp.

CoNNFLLsvILLE, Pa, March 13, 1892.
Five men were fatally injured and as
many o seriously wounded by an
explosion Of gas this morning in the
Whitsett mine of the Rainbow Coal
and Coke Company. near Perry opOlis.
These men we~refatally injured: Br ant
hoover, Oliver, Duncan, William, mine
inspector, Goldsborough, William, Har-
rington, Edward, Rose, Josiah. In
formation regarding the explosion is
very meagre as the mine is located in
Franklin township, six miles from the
main line Of the PiJtsbur@, McKeesport
and Youghiogheny railroad. Fire
damp vas ignited by a blast two weeks
ago, but as it was after working hours
no one was injured. No further pre-
cautions taken. Open lights we're
in use and it is supposed the gas which
accumulated since then was fired by a
miners lamp.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
OFFICIAL CIRCULAR NO. 7.
OFFICE OF MARION BUTLER,

II0Slu0uG, IN. ~. L. o.. IA
G~OLDsBORO, N. O., March IL, 1898.
To the Members Of the mb-AUtGnce8 Of
North Carolina:
On Feb. 10Th the State Executive
Committee and State President of the
N. g. f. s. A. sent out for your con
sideration and action a joint address.
Recent events make it necessary for
me to supplement what was then said.
The Executive Committee, l am sure,
would j )in in this address if they were
in session. All of you have, no doubt,
learned through various sources of the
attempt of the legislature to repeal the
charter of the State Alliance. This
action was taken by that body without
cause and without evidence or ever
the shadow of proof that the Alliance
had in any way violated the terms Of
it's charter. To say that this is the
most high handed, unjust and cow
ardly piece Of legislation eve attempted
by any Legislature Of North Carolina,
is to state it mildly. And as your chief
officer, l feel that it is my duty to give
YOU the inside of this matter as l see
it. We think we state a fact that no
one will question, when we say to be-
gin with that the majority of the mem
bers of the legislature Of 1898 were not
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21

started by farmers. It is more than
probable that they originated from
sparks carried to the grass from CHM
neys, as the weather has been cod and
the wind blowing a gale
The estimated loss viii reach nearly
half a million dollars, with but little IN
As farm implements and
stock have been burned, there will fol
low much suffering among the pioneers
who have settled that section of the
State. The ground has long been bare
of snow and the constant winds have
dried the grass until it is dry and brit
tie, rendering it like finder. Forum
ate}y much of it is almost as short as
buffalo hair, orthe damage would have
much more.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
H LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week

HALIFAX, N, s, March 15.-The
North American squadron Of war ships
Will leave Bermuda on April 9Th for
New York to take part in the Column
blan review. Besides other British
ships to take part in the demonstration.
will be the Blake, Australia. Magicienne,
Tartar, and Partridg sc fromthis station
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March ID A
sensational shooting has just occurred
in the Davidson courthouse in this
city. Anderson Winters was fatally
injured by Tom Jones. Winters was
on trial for the murder of Jones father
last fall. The case was continued and
as the defendant was about to leave
the court house young Jones drew a
revolver and shot him.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, March IA
special to the StGr from McCallister,
Indian Territory, says: Mine No. /,
Owned by the Ch0ctaw Coal Company,
at Anderson. Indian Territory, six
miles east of here, on the Choctaw Coal
COmpany'Sp property, Is reported tOhave
exploded this morning, and nine men
is said to have been killed and several
Injured dangerously.
EXETER, N. H. March IA Fire
broke out IN the Exeter cotton mills
about 4 o'clock this morning, It started
in the basementand burned up through
the building, destroying the engine
rooms of the older part Of the mill,
which was destroyed once before. The
new part of the mill was saved. The
fire was under control at $50. Loss
estimated at $3.50 600. Two persons
injured Two hundred an forty hands
thrown out Of employment,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
BIG BOSTON FAILURE.
Atkinson House Furnishing Company
Makes an Assignment.

BOSTON, Mass, March 10 The At
kinscn House Furnishing Company,
with fourteen branches in other New
England cities, has made an assign
ment to Charles F. Libby, of Portland,
and Costello @. Converse, Of Boston.
President Isaac N. Atkinson says the
liabilities are 81, 500. 900, and the assets
are estimated at So, 600, 900.
The trouble was caused by a strin
gency in the money market and ina
bility to meet the call loan on SatUr-
day. Last year the company did a
business Of three million dollars.
President Atkinson says the firm will
probably pay it's debts in the fall.
While the greatest portion Of indebt-
edness is to firms in Boston and vicin-
ity, there are a number of creditors in
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
STREAMS STILL RISING.
Factories Shut Down in Michigan---Cat-
tie Star ding in Eighteen Inches
of Water.

CHICAGO, March 1.-The situation
in the flooded district of the West is
practically unchanged to day, except
III Michigan, where the reports are of
steadily rising streams and great dam
age. At Grand Rapids the river is
still rising and is now at the highest
point reached in forty-twO years.
Scores of factories aud mills have shut
down, throwing a large number of men
out of employment. On the west side
one hundred houses are surrounded by
water. A number of families have
moved out in boats and much suffering
prevails, as the weather has changed
and a blizzard is blowing.
In Kalamazoo the rain Of last night
has turned to snow, but the river con
tinues to rise. 1t is six inches higher
than last night, but has not yet reached
the mark caused by the ice gorge of
1887. All Streams running into the
Kalamazoo river in this vicinity are
higher thanfOr years. Several factories
are shut down and undermined with
water. The dams at HOwlandsville
and at Plainwell and OtsegO have gone.
Thousands Of acres Of lands are mum
dated and many lives and much prop
erty are no doubt lost. The Kalamazoo
river was eve before known to be so
high.
The Illinois river has been rising I'm
til now it is nearly as high as during
the big floods of last season. The
damage done by the flood is far greater
than that of last year. Great damage
is also reported along the Mississippi
river throughout Iowa and Minnesota.
At KeOkUk the pressure of rising waters
in the Mississippi river caused the
levee which protects the land on the
Illinois bottoms in Lima Lake district,
opposite Canton, Mo-, to break last
night, and the lands are being over
flowed to a depth of two or three feet.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER has worked
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
THE PRAIRIE FIRES IN KANSAS.
Many Lives Lost and a Large Amount
of Property Destroyed.

Topeka, Kansas, March 14.-Later
news confirms the disastrous results of
the prairie fires yesterday. In Rocks
county in the north and Finney and
Hamilton counties in the south part of
Western Kansas, eleven lives are known
to have been lost, while the more $50
lated sections devastated by fire are
yet to be heard from.
Dwellings, barns. haystacks and
other property destroyed will reach
into six figures. Four school houses
are reported burned, but fortunately
none Of them were in use at the time.
Advices from Garfield, Rusk, Hold
man, and Kiowa counties are to the
effect that the fires last night and this
morning destroyed much farm prop
erty and burned several men seriously,
but none fatally SO far as can be ascer-
tanned at this time. In Norton and
Stevens counties, situated in the south
west, the fire destroyed thousands Of
acres Of pasturage, but as the dry grass
was short, farmers were able to save
their property by putting out back fires
except in a few instances. In Stevens
county three houses are reported
burned, while in Norton along the
streams a dozen or more families have
been rendered homeless. In Seward
county a wide strip of country was
burned. In the bottoms where the dry
grass was long the fires were most
fierce, and three persons have been re-
ported as burned to death, but, as their
names could not be ascertained. it is
believed the rumor grew out of the ex-
element incident to the fires.
1t has been charged in Rocks and
Finney counties that these fires were
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
CALIFORNIA LEGIsLAToRs MAD
To Spite a Newspaper they Vote to Re
move the Capital.

SACRAMENTO Cal, March 12-The
State legislature last evening passed
through both houses a resolution to
submi6 to the people a constitutional
amendment removing the capital to
San Jose, provided the latter city shall
deed to the State ten acres of land and
a bonus Of 81, OO0O, OOO- The action,
though ba3ty, appears to have been
earnest.
The immediate cause of the resoIu-
ton was an article in a Sacramento
evening paper headed, THANK God,
the Legislature will soon adjourn" and
protesting to recite various misdeeds
and mistakes Of the legislature. The
article was read in the Senate and the
resolution passed promptly.
Being transmitted to the Assembly
it first failed of the necessary two
thirds majority, but a call of the house
was ordered, the doors were closed, and
the sergeant at arms dispatched to ar.
rest absentees. A number were routed
from bed, brought to the assembly
chamber, and the required vote was
finally obtained.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
LYNCHED BY HIS OWN RACE.
Desperate in Tennessee Lyrched
by Negroes.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 13-Rufus
Haywood, a colored planter, was as
-aslnated by Lee Walton, a notorious
negro desperate, Saturday night at
Rittay una, Miss
After robbing his victim Walton fed,
but was run down and captured by
he was being guarded by the sheriff
ing Fork, the county seat. Just before
the train arrived a mob Of five hundred
negroes overpowered the sheriff, took
the murderer to the cen Of his crime,
where he vas hung TO q limb aud his
body filled with bullets
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
THREE VESSELS WRECKED.
They are a Total Loss and a Number of
People Drowned.

Three wrecks are reported One is
the schooner Lille Schmidt, which
stranded ten miles south of Ocracoke,
n. O.
Another Was the Kate V Aiken, at
the entrance to Charleston harbor-a
total loss. Each of these vessels car
ried a crew of seven men. AL were
saved.
The third wreck was the British
bark, Alice M, Craig, which fUundered
$50 miles from Bucnos Ayres. She
foundered in a gale, and Capt Ross,
his wife and eight of the crew were
drowned.
The White Star steamship, Naronic
now out from Liverpool IS days is still
missing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
WAR
BonilIa's Army Under a Siege--A Force
of 5000 Ready to Attack Him.


SANTA BARBARA, Honduras, via Gal
weston, Texas, March Is POlicarpO
Bonilla, with an army of one thousand
revolutionists, is now encamped at
Taringla. Around the town are in
trenched the forces commanded by
General Vasquez. General Bonilla's
position is a STRONG one, and al hough
the besiaging army under General Vas
quez is report ted to contain 8, 500 men,
more than three times the number of
Bonilla's army, the revolutionary gen
eral stubbornly refuses to surrender.
a rumor has just reached here hat
q division Of Bonilla's army attempted
to cut It's way through the Ii 3es Of the
besiegers. a holly contested skirmish
was the result of the attack, but it is
not known how many were killed and
Injured or which side was successful.
General Rasendo Aguero, Minister of
War, who has been dt clared acting
President. IS expecting to receive de
tails Of the fight at any moment
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21

THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER has worked
hard for you. Now send IN what you
owe so we can pay u debts.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-08-21
A Private Roof Garden.

Those who I'D the city hot, dusty and
intolerable lave probably never spent an
afternoon OF evening amid the many
''roof gardens that are really the sum-
mer quarters Of numerous Bostonians.
One Of these gardens was recently visited
when the rays OF the western sun were
the longest There. under wide spread
ing awning the hammocks swung. and
steamer chairs with head and foot rests
were most invitingly scattered about.
There was q little table covered with
novels, and stacks Of papers were wei glt-
ed down with souvenir stones that told
stories about Block island, Nova Scotia,
Montana and Colorado. Another little
table was well supplied with delicious
drinks and dainty edlbles Around the
edge of this aerial abode boxes of flowers
bloomed in profusion.
There were quantities of sweet peas Of
every hue, and the chimney was covered
with trellis of scarlet runners. Backe-
lor's buttons gayly 1irtcd with the mod
est pansies. There We're gorgeous mas
turtiums and Il long box of mountain
ferns; also @ cluInp Of morning glories
that had climbed skyward to the top Of
the trellis Bat it is at evening that the
roof garden is pleasantest, especially
when lighted by the moon and when dis
lance lends cnchaDtment to the nun2er-
Gus street bands.-Boston Courier.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-08-21
Board on mississippi Steamers.

The great Mississippi steamers which
used to run as far as New Orleans and
the accommodation on board, which vas
simply magnificent, had ceased to Ily
when the war broke out, but on numcr-
Gus occasions was able to avail myself
OF the elegant comforts to be found on
board a river steamer. The fare On
board the American steamers J always
found plentiful IN quantity and toleTa-
bic in quality; still it must be admitted
that there were many stock jokes CT
rent as to the meagerness Of the pro
visions supplied 10y the steamship com
pany to their guests. and among thf -
was a story about Barnum, who, G
handing once a beefsteak at supper, hs.t.
handed over his shoulder by the negro
waiter a piece of rather thin and ceT-
tainly overgrilled flesh, which ne dc
scribed as resembling in form and color
an Ethiop's car. That's what I mean.
quoth the great Snowman; bring me
some" He professed to regard the
Ethiop's ear as only sample Of the
steak that was to cone.--G. A. Gala in
London Telegraph.