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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-05-12
giving Dupont a basis for. a contest
before the United States Supreme
a pourla.. conn,, Muraer.

CARSON, New, May 9.-Mn. Sars-
man, wife Of a Douglas county farm.
er. was murdered yesterday afternoon
and the house set ON tire in the alb
sence of her husband. He returned
to the house, which is six miles north
o; Genoa, from his work and found
the house ON fire. extinguished it and
discovered the body of his wife under
the bed. She had been killed with "a
Ratchet. 1t Ii suspected to have been
a tramp. No robbery was committed
30 far as known.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-05-12
win M.h. N.y.s. Pr..psroa..

William E. Smythe, editor OF th.
Irrigation Age, in the folling inter
view published in the Carson Appeal
tells why he is visiting Nevada at thi
time:
Il am here to seeif / cannot un
load some OF the surplus population
OF the East onto Nevada. / want tc
benefit them and you. BY bringing
a few thousand energetic and indust
rious families in contact with your
soil 1 think the very best results will
follow.
The cities Of the east contain
thousands Of people who lead a miser.
able hand to mouth existence. The,
are good, industrious capable people
and able to work, but the avenues
of employment are closed. We pro
pose to move them out here where
they can develope a new country. We
cannot recommend these people to &c
where land is 800 an acre as it is in
California. but We can safely recon.
mend them to Nevada land which is
as good as California land and ten
times cheaper. 1 am one of those
people who believe that Nevada
apples are better than California or.
anges.
Everything You raise here will
stand long shipments. You grow hay,
grain, fruit ETC., and all took first
premiums at Chicago, and you sur
prised the world. With population and
irrigation Nevada ought to be one of
the leading States Of the Union. You
can support a population OF a million
people here and it is high time you
found it out.
But this is the thing you people
have to learn. and that is hat the
success OF a new country's prosperity
is Home Industry spelled with big
capital letters.
Look at Utah, which hasn't the
natural advantages of Nevada, but it
is way ahead in enterprise. Why?
because a Utah man never buys any.
thing made outside OF Utah il he can
help it. all the money stays at home
and this brings good times.
why rs | walk along the street 1
see at a glance why times are hard.
l see wagon loads OF California flour
piled up in front OF the stores, yet you
have several flour mills here. l e
big invoices OF ham and bacon, and
canned goods, and Utah eggs for sale.
This Is what keeps your people poor.
Make your own flour; never eat a
pound OF ham or bacon raised outside
OF Nevada; raise your W peas and
beans, for all the canned goods you
buy here would run a cannery. Never
touch n egg not laid by a Nevada
hen and presently you will see the
change in the times, the money a
ket will loosen up and you won't be
growing about the State"
Il am teaching irrigation to men in
the East. The regular rains are not
good as irrigation and they are
finding it out. Give me n dry country
there is water to irngate and
there Is nothing the soil will not pro-
duce. Nevada has the greatest adj
yantages OF soil and climate and il
You want to combine your soil and
with population it can be ar
ranged. am deeply interested in
this problem worked out and /
want to see you all put your should
ers to the Wheel
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IlOIiS

kEsSEDT:-In North Ruby, Elko
county. Nevada. April %. 1895, TO
the wife of d. G. Kennedy. a daugh.
ter.
CorAsr:-In Elko. Nevada. May 4.
1873, TO the wife Of Al. Cotant, a
daughter.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-05-12
a. o. y. W. Grand omeer..

Tie A. o. U, W. Grand Lodge has
concluded its business and adjourned.
The following Grand Officers we're
elected:
Past Grand Master Workman, w.
L. Taylor of Carson; Grand Master
Workman, G. 4. LaGrave OF Carson;
Grand Foreman, NJ. G. Cecil OF Elko;
Grand Oyerseer, W. j. Mooney OF
Virginia City; Grand Recorder. j. E.
Gignoux of Dayton; Grand Receiver.
+. NJ. Edmunds OF Reno; Grand
Guide, j. j. Quinn OF Reno; Grand
inside Waterman, ]. a Wall. OF Car.
son; Grand outside Waterman. r. l.
Bunceil Of Reno; Grand Trustees. F.
NJ. Reynolds of Carson, long term.
and w. c. Pitt OF Loyeiock fshori
ternl; Supreme Representatives. L
NJ. Gle OF Virginia City; +. McRac OF
Reno and WI. Taylor of Carson.
The next session OF the Grand
Lodge will be held at Virginia CITY
on the second Tuesday in May
1897. =
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-05-12

Immediately after the exercises in
the Hall, the Marshal will form a
procession and proceed to the GENE.
terry and decorate the graves in ac.
cordadce with the ceremonies adopt.
cd by the Sovereign Grand Lodge.
At the conclusion OF the ceremonies
at the cemetery the procession will
reform and return to town.
All visiting or sojourding Brothers
and the public generally are cordial
ly invited to join with tho Lodge in
the observance Of the day.
BY order OF the
COMMITTEE.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-05-12

AFTER 1iM GRIP. Gphtheria
ppenmonia-feafie fever. tythoid fe.
yer. etc, Hcod's ~Sarstlhrilla Is Of
wonderful benefit in lmpartlng tho
strenath and Sisor 90 much desired
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-05-12

Hobbs PiLrs Tor the liver and bow.
els' hdt easily yet promptly and II.
fociiyely.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-05-12
THE HIGH SCHOOL VOTE.

Following is the vote cast for and
against the County High School at
the special election, held April %,
1895:
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-05-12
MaERtIp.

FERorspS P"RTFR ~ tho resi-.
dehSr Of the bride rsreBif. pecsh.
Hfo comfy. Neyad, &sYG 1895,
ibJ sRey. NJ s Riaiif Sir. GtDfge
safs| Fereueon - Mss h.nmn Ger.
nSde Porter; 0,ai1d Detii.
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RATES.

Will be m.dsi As. low al Is epniiS,ent with
sound business prineipies- Apply At the Of
ace for terms.
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DAILY l%RpEpEsDtHI
PAPER,

I..uea every day. ::sanday.s..e.p,ea.
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MARKET REPORTS.

zoos arc going down-in the "ham.
'orH n rnstcndv- tyho, r t,,,...,
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w RooHER, Eduur and PRO.

prie,or.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
WILD WEST WAITS.

A spar, LA feet long, without a knot
or blemish. As inches in diameter at the
big end and % inches at the small end,
was run into Lake Whatcom, Wash.
Troops and X of the Fourth cavalry
are camped at San Jose. They are on
their way to the Yosemite, where they
will be employed in keeping cattle and
sheep-nen out of Sequola and Yosemite
parks.
A Nevada man, writing from the
lately discovered mines in Cagiboo, B. c.,
gives the price of miners supplies, among
them flour, SIS to 10 per hundred; pork,
% cents per pound; eggs, $1.25 a dozen;
chickens, SO each.
1t is reported that Ansel White the
man for whom a 100000 estate in
New York has been waiting for several
years. years: and who is ascertained to have
died IN Clallam county, Wash, in 1883,
made a will devising all of his property
to a neighbor named Wooding.
The husband OF Mrs. Hannah E.
Helm of Pueblo died some time ago,
leaving an insurance policy for $1,000.
The policy was forwarded to New York
for collection by the United States Ex-
press company, and was lost in trans
mission. Mrs. Helm sued the company
for the $1,000, and has just recovered
judgment for that amount.
Illuminating a citizen is serious
thing to do in Fresno, Cal. The water
company turned off the water from Z. II.
AuStin'S place because he owed a month S
rent, and he sued the company for 'hu-
initiating him. A verdict was given him
of $3.50 for damages.
During the past two weeks about
twenty families have arrived at Kalis~
pell, Wash, from Nebraska and other
Eastern states, all of whom have come to
make the Flathead valley their home
They are all delighted with the climate
and the general character of the country,
which is so different from the drouth-
stricken districts they have deserted. The
newcomers have means and are buying
farms
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
SOUTHERN FORESTS DISAPPEAR.
Millions of Acres of Pine Lands D. nuded
by Makers of Turpentine.

4 report in the Proceedings of the
American Forestry association, just
published, states that turpentlne orchard
ing. which has caused the devastation of
millions of acres of long-leaf pine forest,
is in the gulf region confined within its
eastern part. 1t can safely be mann
tanned that the aggregate production of
the 361. 800 casks (of so gallons EACH
of spirits of turpentine for the period of
eleven years, including the year 1880 to
the close of 1891. reported as received in
the Mobile market, has involved the utter
devastation of not less than 2,200OOO
acres of timber land. Under the present
system of management. the bled timber
from the abandoned turpentine orchards
of former years is speedily disappearing.
Conveniently situated along the railroad
lines and rivers, they are being rapidly
cleared. OF late years tuDentine or
charding is brought IN immediate cOnnec
ton with the numbering business, and
this practice will receive a powerful slim
illus, since it has been demonstrated by
the United States timber tests that the
timber is found in no way impaired in
its physical qualities by the bleeding.
There can be no doubt that in the near
future the forests will invariably be
worked for their resinous products imme-
diately before the timber is to be fefled
for the saWnill.
For the spontaneous renewal of the
long-leaf pine in the Gulf region there
appears to be no hope under the existing
management. Carried on under the high
pressure of large investments of capital
in large manufa curing plants, with Il
daily output all the way from $4,000 to
100000 feet board measure. the supplies
transferred from the forests to the mill
by costly steam power and in connection
with the modern dry kiln permitting the
sappy stuff of lower grades to be turned
into a merchantable article. the forests
are almost completely cleared of their tree
growth. The scanty remainder, If bled
for turpentine. is laid low by storms
destroyed by fire. and, often in districts
where it has not been subjected to this
infiiction, amounts to little as 4 factor
OF future increase. The second growth of
the long-leaf pine on the denuded areas,
exposed to the periodically returning fires,
which, east of the Mississippi, originates
in connection with turpentne orch
arding. and elsewhere from accident,
carelessness and design, is doomed to de-
struction. Although the fiat woods are
less liable to this danger, the renewal of
the forest by natural seeding is here rare
~ found to take place, the cold soil,
soaked with water for the greater part
of the season, being as unfavorabe to
the termination of the seed as it is to
the growth of the seeding. The fiat woods,
stripped Of their timber during the last
twenty-five years, are over-grown with
tall broom sedge grass. and present most
" the aspect of savannahs, nearly or
quite destitute of trees.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
SAW CANADA IN THE SKY.
Mirage of Lake Ontario's Further Shore
at Rochester.


BY mirage which appeared over the
northern horizon at Rochester, \. Y,
a few mornings ago the Canadian shore
across Lake Ontario, about eighty miles
distant, could be distinctly seem There
must have been big sea on in that part
Of the lake, for the white caps could
be distinctly seen. At the extreme east
ern edge were the white sails of schoon-
or. The mirage extended about five miles
east and west
On the eastern edge of the mirage
was an outlet. Several wooded islands
occupied the foreground while behind
them the water stretched away until
it seemed lost in the sky. A little fur
Their to the east were two high wooded
bluffs, gray in hue. Their tops were
covered with trees and glimpses of the
sky could be seen between their trunks.
In the middle ground was a high hill
topped by several buildings, one probably
with metal roof, for it glittered like a
star Then came a series of lower hills,
all heavily wooded. Further east was
a sandy bluff and then low shore lands,
with here and there spaces of light vel
low. which were probably cultivated
GoiI
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
we'd His Pennies.

Lewis Bates, the wealthiest colored
man in Chicago, and believed to be worth
half a million dollars, has just ce4ebra t.
ed his SEVENTEEN birthday He made his
money in real estate bought with the saw
ings from his work as driver of an eX-
press wagon. and though he has been well
supplied with this worlds goods for a long
time it was only year ago that he gave
up driving the wagon. He owns two fine
apartment houses which are rented to
white people, while he himself lives in one
dingy room in house he owns on Dear
born street, does his own cooking and has
nothing to do with the other colored peo-
pie because they laughed at him for keep
ing at work so long when he did not need
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
Classics.

An ancient controversy has recently
been revived in England by the question
as to what really constitutes classic.
Some define it as IAN ancient author.
highly approved, who is an authority on
the subject he treats Of Goethe, on
the other hand, protested against the con-
fusion of what is classic with what Is
merely old and declared that all healthy
work." not matter whether modern or
ancient, is classic. The French Academy,
speaking ex-cathedra. defines classic au-
thors as those who have become models
III any language" while Sainte-Beuve de-
clares that a true classic is an author
who has enriched the human mind" In.
deed. no two opinions on the subject seem
to coincide, and what appears to be a
classic to one sort of people is refused that
qualification by others.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
Mapy'S Husband.

A lady in whose service was maid
who had been trained as q nurse granted
her leave to go to a neighboring town
to attend to a married cousin who was
very unwell Mary departed according
ly, but only to write at the expiration
of a few days that her relative had died,
and that she proposed returning immedi-
ately after the funeral. On her arrival
she startled her employer by resigning
her situation and asking to be permitted
to dispense with the usual notice, as she
was going to be married.
But to whom, Nary said her aston
ished mistress. Il was not even aware
that you had a sweetheart"
If you please, ma'am," replied Mary,
giggling, with her apron corner, ito the
corpse's husband. He said at the funeral
that | was the life and soul of the entire
party."-London Weekly Telegraph.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
POTATO-DIGGING.
How Southern Farmer Makes Good Use
of His Porkers.


X G. Mason, prosperous farmer liv-
ing down in the piney woods country be-
low Sparta, La, has for the past few
years been turning his attention almost
exclusively to the culture of sweet pota-
toes, growing the largest and finest tu-
bers to be found in the whole section.
As labor down in Mason's neighborhood
is scarce, for some time he had consider
able difficulty in getting his crop gath
cred, having frequently to lose a good
part of it each season. Nowadays all
that is changed, however, thanks to Ma
sons ingenuity and patience, and the
kindly assistance of a herd of razor-back
hogs. These hogs, about twenty in num-
Der, have been trained to gather the po-
tatoes, roofing them up and collecting
them in piles more carefully than would
be possible by human agency. In fact,
scarce q single root escapes their keen
scent and persistent snout, and Mason de-
clares the animals are worth a small
fortune to him. At first he had some diff
Guilty to keep them from eating the pota
toes as they gathered them, but in
short while he made them understand
that it would be better for them to wait
for the reward of their diligent labors
in the shape of a generous supply Of
potatoes for each meal, and now they
work faithfully and well, resting from
their eXertions only when the entire crop
is o3rnered
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
HER DEATH FoREToLD IN A VISION
Strange Case of Young Lady Afflicted
With Consumption.

With Consumption.
Recently Miss Annie E. Bennett daugh-
ter of Rev. A. j. Bennett of Hinton, W.
Va died of consumption, aged a years
She was a member of the Primitive Bap-
fist church, of which her father is pastor
and was a devOut young lady. Three
years ago, just as it was becoming appar-
ent that he dread disease had fastened
itself upon her, she made the statement
TO several of her fellOw-students at the
Baptist academy that she would die on
May %, 1895. The statement was record
ed by several of the girls as a joke. and
that it might not be effaced. one Of them
scratched it on the woodwork of the room
in which it was made at the school, An
examination shows the date to be still
plain and distinct. Miss Bennett had
stated to her friends that she had been
warned and given to know of the date of
her death by vision, when she was
walking alone in the wood near the
school in broad daylight. A few hours be-
fore death Miss Bennett became appar-
emily lfeiesS the breath leaving her
body After a short time she regained
consciousness and stated that she had
been to heaven and had conversed with
her brother. Abner Bennett, and her sis
ter. Mrs. Ida Lamb, both of whom have
been dead for several years. This con,
verSation was detailed and a description
of heaven was given those about the
bedside She died smiling, and the last
words were that she hoped those about
her might be allowed to join her soon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05

average about two and one-third inches
in length.
The nest is a frail and almost perfect
piece of bird architecture. 1t is COM
posed of MOSES, vegetable fiber and
wild cotton, with a delicate lining of
spiders webs. In gathering the latter
material it is no uncommon occurrence
for the little birds to become ensnared
in the webs of the larger spiders, by
which they are killed.
The size of the vervain's nest is three
fourths of an inch in diameter across
the cavity and slightly more than an
two in number, are pure white. They
never measure more than one-third of an
inch in length by one-ffth of an inch in
width.
These diminutive birds are found only
in the Island of Jamaica.-Philadelph
Times.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
BICYCLES AND THEIR COST.


Interesting Facts for the Study of Buy
To the doubling "Thomases" who are
ever asserting that the cost of a bicycle
is consequential compared with its sell
ing price, the following brief sketch of
the material that enters into the integral
parts of wheel are here enumerated:
A machine was recently ''dissected''
and in the bearings alone 160 miniature
steel balls were found. The chain pos
seSSed 13S pieces, comprising Inks riyets,
nuts and bolts. The two wheels had six
ty piano wire spokes, each of which was
fastened to the rim by nipple and wash
er. The saddle cantained eighteen parts
exclusive of the rivets that help to fasten
the leather to the metal cantle. The
valves in the pneumatic tires contained
four individual mechanical contrivanceS.
Each pedal had ten separate parts and
the brake and connections ten component
parts; add to those already mentioned
Sproket wheels, crank shafts, chair adj
juStments. grips. handle-bars, tires, rims,
frame, forks, hubs, aXles, cones, washers,
etc. Il grand total of over 500 individual
parts is easily arrived at.
In a thoroughly high-grade bicycle each
one of the integral elements is made by a
costly piece of machinery operated by
skilled artisans, whose attention to detail
and accuracy are assured facts. The
machinery employed in the majority of
cycle factories today is of an automatic
nature and the cost of some runs up into
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then
take into consideration the capital invest
ed in buildings and material in conjunc-
ton with the necessary expenditure for
the proper marketing and selling of the
product, such as advertising, clerk and
salesman hire, depreciation of machinery
and tools and other innumerable facts,
it will be readily seen that a frst-class
machine costs far more than the average
huvar i'm 0inpS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
Killed a Famous Bear.

Cummings, in Mendocino county, Cal,
has shot and killed 'tOld Four-toe," one
of the largest cinnamon bears ever seen
in the country. For over twelve years
the bear had been proving on stock in
the northern portion of the county, and
damage to the extent of over $4,000 is
directly traceable to his raids He was
freed early one morning and was killed
while descending a pine in order to do
battle with the hounds. The brute
weighed over 900 pounds and it required
three saddle horses to bring the carcass
into camp-Omaha Bee
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
BEST IN THE WORLD,
More to Come.

AS [ have previously observed, says a
writer in Town Topics, there has been
an unusual number of marriages during
this month. Perhaps this means the dy-
ing out of the popular superstition that
May maria ges are unlucky. This super
stition seems to be modern and it's origin
curious. May used to be called the mer-
ry month, and we find it's name in such
Anglo-SaXon words as "mayd" and may
den," and their derivati tons, which are
surely neither unpleasing nor unlucky.
But, anciently, May came from Maia, a
goddess, who was the daughter Of Atlas
and the mother of Mercury, and the mod
ern church has made it ''the month of
Mary" By both of these derivations the
idea of unhappy motherhood is suggested,
for Maia's son was thief and the son Of
Mary was martyr. Hence. doubtless,
the superstitions as to the matrimonial Ill
luck of May. Or, it may be possible that
the objection of modern women to mother
hood in general was the cause, and now
that children have once more become
fashionable, the superstition is being lost.
June, the month of Juno, has been for
many years the proverbial lucky time for
weddings, but Juno was by no means
a happy wife. | fancy that the changed
conditions of society have had more to do
with the May marriages than any of these
musty considerations. There being no
fashionable season in this country after
Easter, many people are anxious to get
away to Europe or to their summer re-
sorts, and those who are engaged nat
urally desire to go together. Hence the
present rush to the hymeneal altar.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-05
Wisconsin Patents.

Patents for the following Wisconsin
inventions are reported this week by Err
win. Wheeler & Wheeler. IS and SO
Loan and Trust building, Milwaukee,
Wis. These attorneys will furnish the
Inventors Handbook" free on request.
EIymos H Brooks, JanesvifIe, station in
dicator; Andrew S. Mitchell and T. K.
Ewing, Milwaukee, porous earthenware;
Herluf A. F. Petersen, Milwaukee, closed
conduit system for electric railways; Will
lam NJ. Phillips. Milwaukee, tally check;
Matthias Schneider, Campbellsport, harves-
ter reel; Matthias Schneider. Campbellsport,
reel for harvester; Ferdinand NJ. Theisen,
Independence, steering device for traction
engines. Design: Charles E. McGonigle,
West Superior broiler and toaster. Trade
mark: f. Mayer Boot & Shoe company, Mil
waukee. boots, shoes and analogous foot
wear. Trade mark: William Horlick, Ra-
cine. matted dry food extracts.