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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-16

SHOCK wnen uney read the new rules the
president established at the White House
They give citizens who want Office just
three hours a week and even members of
congress only eight hours per week. This
proves very depressing and many are con-
templating early departure. Then the
postmaster general has notified senator's
and members of the house of representa-
tives that hereafter he will require in ad-
dition to their recommendations some local
expression of the patrons of the Office as
to the fitness of the applicant.
Some Hopes and Expectations.
The president told Busey of Illinois that
he would not appoint pension commits
sioner for at least two weeks. Busey
wants it. Louis Jordan, of Indianapolis,
has strong hopes of being first assistant OF
the treasury, while "Gil" Shanklin, of the
Evansville Courier, has a cinch on for
eign consulate, the choice being left to
sioner of labor is Robert III. Coudrey, sin
He is a Chicagoan.
Officers on duty at the navy department
are much pleased with the selection of Mr..
McAdoo as assistant secretary of the navy.
His congressional career and his service on
the naval committee, they say, show him
to be a good friend of the navy. He as
well as Secretary Herbert are known to be
in favor of increasing the navyN\lnd their
extensive acquaintance with members of
congress, it is thought, will advance naval
matters, especially appropriations.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-11-20
The Teachers Institute.

We have received a circular from
State Supt. Ring stating that Il Joint
State and County Institute will DO
held in Reno, beginning Monday, the
9th instant at 10 o'Jlook, and con-
tihuihg until Wednesday, the Goth,
at 9o'clock p. N. Many Of the ablest
educators Of the Stale aud elsewhere
will be in Attendance to conduct the
exercises. Lady teachers wiIl be
entertained free of charge. The
Southern Pacific Company had made
no reduction IN rates up to the 10Th
when the circular was issued.
The law requires that sail teachers
shall be required to attend and par
ticipate in the proceedings Of the Iu-
stitute, WHOM held in the Section of
the State wherein they nay be- en-
gagged in teaching, and without loss
Of salary for the time thus en-
ployed."
1t is urged upon the several School
Boards in the western part of the
State that 4hey grant a weeks vaca-
tion and request their teachers TO, at
tend the Institute. ~ & g.
, The Committee Of Arrangements
will take charge Of all visiting delega-
tions upon theft arrival in the city,
and try to make their stay pleasant
and profitable,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-11-20
A Fatal Accident.

Last Tuesday Hugh Macnamara
left Taft's ranch ir this county, for
his home at Halleck, Elko county. He
was accompanied by his eldest son,
on horseback, while the father drove
the team. The morning was chilly.
and Mr. Macnamara's feet becoming
cold, he got out of the wagon and ran
alongside Ut it for the purpoge, Of get
ting them warm, and while doing so
his SON. rode up on a gallop and started
the team to running, when MIR. Mac
ramara ran up to the wagon for the
purpose of getting hold of the reins,
and was struck by one Of the front
wheels OF the wagon and knocked
down, the wagon running over him
and breaking his right leg aud other
wise bruisrng him badly. EGe survived
his injuries until 8 O'Clock the next
morhing when death relieved Fim OF
his suffering. AS soon as the news
of the acrideut reacted here a team
was sent out tn bring him to towni for
surgical treatment, but when tie
team arrived at the scene of the acct
dent it was found that Mr.. Mac
namara had been dead for several
hours. He leaves a wife, three sons
and a daughter to mourn his loss.
His remains were brought to this
place on Wednesday aud inferred
yesterday go.
u Deceased had been an old resident
OF THE place until within a yea or
two, when he removed TO Halleck.-
Eureka Sentinel.
7. tI'bis is the accident, mention of
which was made in Fridays INDIE
PENDENT. Our informant was unable
to'giVe the correct name Of the party
killed or his place Of residence.--ED.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-11-20
Gone to Rest.

Bya notice under the appropriate
head It VIII be seen there is "a vacant
place 10 the home Of Mr., qnd, Mrs.
Themas +. Brennan oftF6;fft TfaHeck.
Their infant daughter has closed her
eyes on the scenes OF earth and opened
them in the biissful realms of The
hereafter
May the memories OF the little
ones stay on earth cluster around
their bruised hearts, andbs'a shining
star TO guide the parents safely
through LIES wilderness.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-11-20
District Court.

The District Court convened at 10
A.. N, Judge Talbot presiding. . A
Grand Jury, with w. T. Smith rs
foreman was empanelled and sworn.
The Court then adjourned to aYnit
the action Of the Grand Jury. Fol.
lowing is a list of the jurors: "a
Thomas Griffin, F. J. Frank,
T. e. Drown, ~ HE ~. Jonef,
w. II. CotHut, d: V. Johnson,
John Hahkins,'f Frank Honeyuan,
j. j, Hamilton, Yves. Johnson,
r. r! Hamill, iE! Pepfod,
J.,F. Parsons, r. M. Catlin,
T.: A. p. Johnson, Henry Voigt
w. Il. Smith. !.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-11-20
SALNfAGbNDI.

" ... ...''.: ~ - o.,
GsELMayer was on the street to-
day. .,. /
The Episcopel church is reaching
Sky ward. =. w st. -.
: Els. Harrington is cdnfihed to the
house with an attack OF grip. -.
MI. Brain has a full line of fur and
plush buggy robes, just the thing for
this cold weather.. =.
Don't forget the dramatic enter
tainment mt Freeman Halt Saturday
= night: The reserved seats are going
OF like hot cakes. "
1t is not true that Senator John P.
Jones has left the Republican party
aud linked his fortunes with the
waning PopLlists.-Carson Tribune.
With but littie care and no trouble
the beard and nlustache can be kept
q uniform brown or black color by
using Buckingham's Dye for the
.WhlEkers. ...,. q 80.
+, NJ. Badt, of Wells, G. f. Drown, of
South Fork, and w. H. Cotant, OF
Halleck,' gave the INDEPENoENr OF
flee a pleasant call to day. They re-
portquiet times in their sections.
The Grand jury ID composed of
IeadinR citizens from all parts of the
county. Ihe INDEPENDENTsuggests
that they discuss the Midwinter
Fair and tho ways and means of ex-
hibiting Elo county's resources.
Mr. and Mrs. James Talbot; fomer-
lTnf Elko, are now living at Paradise
Springs, Monterey county, California.
Mr.: Talbot writes that he expects to
make California his future home.
'He'sends kind regards to all Of his
Elko friends. "
Or INTEREST To LADIEs.-The scalp
may be- Kept white. and clean, and
hBir soft, plant, and glossy, by the
use OF Ayers Hair Vigor. This prep
aratiou mover fails to restore to faded
e and gray hair it's original color. Suld
by druggists and perfumers.' p
The Journal says Manager P. H
Mulcahy will arrange to exhibit a
model Of the State Capitol at Carson
At the Midwinter Fair made entirely
Of potatoes from every county in The
STATE; making it II special feature for
january and February. =,
The fall OF the year ia a trying sea-
son FOR elderly people. The many
cheerless, dark, dismal dayb act de-
,pressingly, not to say injuriously, on
both old and young. Now is the
time to re- enforce the vital energies
with ayers Sarsaparilla-the best
Of ell blood medicines.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-11-20
SETTLED AT LAST.
Worlds Fair Jury Finally Decides
In Favor of DIR. Price.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2o.-on the analysis
and recommend alton of DR.. Wiley,
Chief United States Government
Chemist ut Washington, and greatest
living authority on food products,the
Worlds Fair jury to. day gave the
highest award to DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder for strength, purity
and excellence. This cobolusively
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-11-20
NOTICE,

Notice is hereby given that / will
not be responsible for any bills con-
tracted by any member of my family
on and after this date. -. =;
49,. -. LLOYD BUTLER.
Elko, New, Nov. IL, 1893.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-11-20
Keene, N. H. July "A, 1891

Norman Lichty, Esq, Des Moines,
Iowa. Dear Sir:-I enclose 50 cts.
in STAMPS for two Boxes Of Krause's
Headache Capsules, same as last
Work like magic. Send at once, as
[ am out. ' '' .''.
Respectfully,
A A Bnors1DoN.
For sale by +. II. Muller.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-11-20

! A fine dieplay Of silver wNre,tahcS
dishes, lamps, knives, forks, spoonk
etc, at tho EFT. NJ: Co.'S. Cali and
inspect these goods, which are tkf
finest in their lins ever brought t.
Elko.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07

of his death rs years and II months
old.
In his early manhood he was mer-
chant in Barnet. When the news of the
discovery OF gold in California reached
New England he was residing in Mcln-
does Falls. He was among the earli-
est to start for California, leaving New
York on ship taking the route around
Cape Horn. On the coast of South
America the ship was wrecked, causing
a delay to the impatient Argonauts of
several months.
He reached the Golden Gate and land
ed in Yerba Buena, the site of San
Francisco on the twenty-frst Of Octo-
Der, 1S49.
He went at once to the mines and later
returned to San Francisco, where for
several years he owned a Bulletin
route" which brought him large reve-
nue..
Allured by the prospect oflarger returns,
he gave up this business and invested in
a mine that proved to have great capac-
ity for absorbing what he possessed,
without yielding any returns.
Throughout his later life his fortunes
huctuated. The speculative spirit of the
early Californian was his in large meas
ure He was by nature an optimist,
and seemed seldom discouraged by the
frequent reverses which he experienced.
But alike in prosperity and in adversely
he was man of generous heart and of
Christian faith. His business for many
years past has called him into various
parts of the state, but wherever he
might be, he was found on the Sabbath
and on Wednesday evening in the place
of Christian worship. He was a men,
Der successfully of the Congregational
church in McIndoes Falls, the First
Church in San Francisco, and the Second
in Oakland, where he had been superin-
tendent of the Sunday School and at the
time of his death held the office of deacon.
On the Dist of June, 1859, he was mar
ried to Miss Catherine Beattie OF Rye
gate, daughter Of James and Margaret
Beattie. Mrs. Jewett and their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Jennie ,Jewett Nicholson sur
vive him.
Mr.. Jewett will be recalled pleasantly
by the elder citizens of ST. Johnsbury
and Barnet. He leaves many warm
friends in California and an honored
name in the Christian church. His fun
eral service was conducted by Rev. John
Kimball Ia native of Barton) and Rev
Henry E. Jewett.
H. Ell.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07
A BIG SCHEME EMBARRASSED.

The Nicaragua Canal Company
has taken its place among the finan-
cial unfortunates, receiver having
been appointed. President Warner
Miller short time ago sought to
set forth the condition of the COM
pany's affairs in an easy light, doubt.
less hoping even against hope that
1t might work out of the difficulty
which threatened; but he now adj
mits that the company can not meet
its obligations. 1t will be recalled
that an organization was perfected
in 1887 for the purpose of building a
canal through Nicaragua, connect
ing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Its authorized capital stock was
$4,000, 900, all of which was paid
up. Afterwards it became associated
with the Maritime Canal Company
with the same object. 1t is sur
missed that the late Panama scandals
had a bad effect on the American
company in the creation of prejudice,
and that this, with the general tight
ness OF the money market, brought
about the failure. The late Gov.
Horace Fairbanks and the late
Frederick Billings were among the
original incorporators, and Col.
Franklin Fairbanks is one of the
directors. 1t is to be hoped that this
financial embarrassment will not
mean the complete failure of the en-
terprise, for the Nicaragua canal is a
scheme which, successfully compass
ed, would prove of great commercial
value to this country.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07

ty of the laity are not inclined. DR..
Hall is 46 years of age and was for
some years in close fellowship with
the late Bishop Brooks, being
especially earnest and successful in
missionary work. He is member,
says the Burlington Free Press, Of a
celibate religious order tolerated in
the church of England, their head
quarters being at Cowley, near Ok
ford. His devotion to Bishop Brooks
while in this country cont1icted
seriously with the peculiar ideas of
the order to which he belongs, and
resulted in his being peremptorily
called home-though in explanation
to his chief he asserted that his sup
port of Bishop Brooks did not i'm
ply approval of that clergyman's
low church views and practices.
1t is certainly to be hoped that if
DR.. Hall accepts the position at the
head of the diocese he will come pre-
pared to labor in close harmony
with the parishes under his jurisdic-
ton and thus be able to do success
full work among them.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07
IN CONGRESS.

Neither branch OF congress has
done much save to talk during the
past week. Senator Pfeffer of Kan
sas on Friday introduced bill pro-
viding for the free unlimited coinage
of silver and gold bullion. Senator
Stewart on Tuesday made a long
speech against repeal, and the coun-
try is still waiting for the senate to
follow the example of the house and
stop the purchase of silver. 1t is
claimed that the friends of repeal
are sure of a majority in the senate,
and effort is being made to bring the
matter to vote in the near future.
A large number of bills are to be
introduced in the house, touching
pensions, the national banks and in
come tax. Hearings on tariff revi-
sion have already begun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07
JARVIS JEWETT.

In theinteresting "reminiscences ofearly
st. Johnsbury that have appeared in the
CALIFORNIAN from the pen of Rev. S.
Graves, mention has been made of Rev.
Luther Jewett, M. D., and Calvin Jewett.
M. D.
These brothers were sons of Daniel
Jewett, who came to Vermont from
Connecticut, bringing, according to ira
dition, one hundred silver dollars with
which he bought one hundred acres of
Vermont land.
The children of Luther Jewett were
ten in number, none of whom are now
living. The children of Calvin Tewett
who survived infancy were eight. OF
the daughters three survive. Jarvis
Jewett, whose death occurred at San
Francisco, Cal, August %, 1898, was
the last of the sons. He was born in
St. Johnsbury in 1917, being at the time
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07
THE WHITE CITYS FATE.

The approaching close of the
Worlds Fair at Chicago is empha-
sized by dispatch announcing that
the Exposition buildings are soon to
be advertised and knocked down to
the highest bidder-in short, treated
as junk, to be sold for a mere song.
Think oft The white city," over
whose architectural beauties many
writers have raved and countless
sight-seers gone into ecstasies, to be
thus desecrated Buildings within
whose confines the wonders of the
world have been shown, after months
of arduous labor and the expendi-
ture OF great sums of money, to be
torn down at the close of the Fair
and sold for what the steel arches,
the iron and the timber will bring
But, their ambitious purpose serv-
ed, the management can make
no further practical use of the struc-
lures. Chicago has no further ambi-
ton in that direction, and the drop of
the auctioneer's hammer will signal
ize the closing of what president
touched electric button set in motion.
The Exposition is an immense and en-
PERTAINING toy; but the public can not
always amuse itself with Chicago's
big show.
tits estimated that not more than
one million dollars can be realized
from the auction. The Manufac-
lures and Liberal Arts building alone
cost one million six hundred thou
sand. 1t will be no light task to
tear down and carry away what it
took so long to erect and beautify.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07
CURRENT COMMENT.
NO POLITICS IN 1T WHATEVER.

v
President Cleveland has actually
appointed republican to office, and
it is lucrative place, too. But it
should be added that it is the chief
justiceship of Samoa, and that since
Mr.. Ide's nomination was requested
by Germany and Great Britain Mr..
Cleveland could not decently refuse
it. Boston Journal
HERE'S POLITICAL INTEGRITY.
The spectacle of David Bennett
Hill posing as champion of honest
elections and denouncing the feder-
al election laws as an attempt to
override the will of the people at
the ballot box is enough to bring
tears upon the cheeks of a craven
image. Since the days of William
M. Tweed and his gang of ballot
box thieves and suffers, no man in
the United States has done so much
to debauch political morals and de-
fraud the electors of their rights as
the ex-governor and present senator
of that state. The Infamous theft of
the returnsI from Duchess coun-
ty two years ago was of Hills con-
irving and it was by his direction
that the chief agent in that outrage
was given position upon the bench
OF the highest judicial tribunal in the
state St. Adams Messenger,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

The New York Recorder cites an
instance of mistaken identity which
occurred among congressman in the
house the other day. 1t will be en-
joyed by the Caledonia county
friends of Congressman S. w. Nc
Call of Massachusetts:
Hello, Bill How in the world did
you get on to the foor?" exclaimed
Amos Cummings to tall, slender indi-
vldual, with preter-naturally solemn
visage and head as bald as baby's,
who was strolling leisurely down one of
the aisles of the house. "My name is
not Bill, v the person accosted replied
with great amount of dignity, land
nobody ever had better right to the
floor" Well if you're not Bill Nye you
look enough like him to be his brother"
retorted Amos, slightly taken aback.
My name is Mccall" said the stranger,
and | represent the Sth Massachusetts,
district
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07
WORKING WELL.

1t is gratifying to note, at the
opening of another school year, so
hearty an acquiescence in, and so
favorable disposition towards, the
new educational system which was
put in operation in this state five
months ago. The adoption of the
town systematic turning over Of
the control of the schools and their
property to the town authorities
meant great deal to the longtime
devotees of the district method of
dispensing knowledge, and it is not
to be wondered at that, in few in
stances, the surrender was made
somewhat reluctantly. Some little
time was required to adjust matters
between the town and the old dis
tricts, and the school directors, in
most cases, have had plenty to do
in settling educational estates and
getting things ready for business
like beginning of the fall term. Sup
erintendent Stone stated, the other
day, that so far as he had been able
to observe, the people of the several
counties had fallen gracefully into
line and were disposed to give the
new law fair chance.
This is as it should be. Already,
during the short time in which the
law has been in force, some evils that
had flourished like a green bay tree
under the district system have been
rooted out and more wholesome
order Of things instituted. In Gale
donia county, for instance-and we
hope this may be but a sample of
what has been going on all over the
state-school houses that were not
fit for bright-faced, ambitious chill
dren to stay in have been thorough
ly renovated and made proper places
for the imparting of knowledge,
with no risk to the pupils health;
thinly-attended schools, where lack
OF numbers made impossible any en-
thusiasm on the part of the teacher
and precluded the doing of effective
work, have been merged into larger
schools, that individual benefit
might be more marked. Add to
these and other changes more care
in the selection of teachers, and the
workings of the new law cannot fail
to make favorable impression.
The town system is decided inno-
vation-for this state; but there is
every indication, at the present
writing, that it will prove worthy
its place on the statute book. A
cordial cooperation on the part of
all concerned in the carrying out of
its details will certainly tend
towards satisfactory results.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07

Two serious railroad accidents
have claimed attention the past
week, the one involving the loss of
seventeen and the other of thirteen
lives. Following as they did so
closely after the two cyclones that
swept the Atlantic coast region at
such fearful cost oflife and property,
they give additional emphasis to the
list OF horrors already recorded the
present year.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-07
THE NEW BISHOP.

The selection of Rev. DR.. Hall of
Oxford, Eng, as bishop of the bio.
cese OF Vermont, to succeed the late
Bishop Bissell, will not be received
with much enthusiasm by the
churches of the diocese, since the
newly-elected bishop stands for a
line Of policy along which many
Episcopal churches in this state have
OF been moving, and towards which
,ortion of the clergy and a major