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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-03-08

Alphens Vaughan has been taken
to Reno. whoro no will DO tried the
third time for tho murder OF tho Lit.
ster boys.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-03-08
CARD on

Tho undersigned cXtcndth their grato.
ful Thanks Ia the people OF Elko for
their sympathy and assistance during
tho sickness, death and burinl Of our
only sou. Words cannot express tho
gratitude We feed toward you for your
kind and lowing tenderness in our
hour Of need. May you all meet with
tho same sympathy and assistance
when tho Angel Of Death crossca
your ihrcalioids.
Ma. AHD Mis-. j. l.. FRESCu.
Elko. Nov, March 3, 1896.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-03-08
Will 1t &c War:

ish-American situation growing outot
the riots at Barcelona and other cities
OF Spain was regarded 30 seriously by
the President that a special meeting
Of the Cabinet was held last last night
though the call was issued under the
guise OF Il dinner at Secretary o.
,.-y's.
Secretary Olney read letter from
Minister de LONE, inclosing a cable
message he had received from his
Government, directing the Spanish
Minister to inform the United States
Government that Spain was cvsrt:ng
all in her power to amply rgo,ttt tine
United States Legation and Consais.
and he could give assurances they
would be protected from any harm,
and also Americans visiting and resi-
dent in Spain would DO safe from the
attacks of mobs and other riotous rs
semblies.
Another communication created
profound surprise. 1t was n message
from the Spanish Minister OF Foreign
Affairs at Madrid, insisting that the
United States Government disavow
the action OF the Senate rs Il condition
precedent to continued friendly rela-
tons between the two Governments.
The President and Cabinet Ministers
were inclined to excuse the message
to some extent upon the basis Of iguo.
rance OF the United States and their
form OF government. The only result
OF the conference was practically nm
agreement that the Secretary OF State
should promptly respond in kindly
terms to the communication OF Minis
ter de LONE and thank his Govern
ment for its readiness to protect
Americans and American interests in
Spain. The demand for u disclaimer
OF the Senate's resolution will be ig-
nored.
The Secretary of the Navy, purely
rs a measure Of %precation, will bring
an efficient fleet Of war vessels near
enough together to mass them
promptly ut any point that may be
threatened.
a cablegram from Minister Taylor
reached Secretary Olney early yester-
day evening. 1t was as follows: aThe
Minister of State has just called to ex-
press deep regret Mt the Barcelona
Consulate breaking of windows, and
offered complete satisfaction. He in
formed me the Government on it's own
motion had had taken every precau-
ton to guard the Legation and my
residence. | have asked for no pro-
lection"
1t Is perhaps in part owing to these
political advices that the excitement
In Spain over the action OF the United
States Senate leading up to an insult
to the United States Consulate ut Bar.
c%elona, fails to find a corresponding
reflex i'll Washington. mt least in ofi-
cial circles. Almost everywhere the
feeling is that the affair is not one
which necessarily must lead to hos.
~tilities.
Madrid, March 2.--The cable dis.
patches fran tho United States are
increasing the feeling Of indignation
aroused among the masses when it
became known that the United States
Senate favored the recognition OF tho
Cuban insurgents as belligercnts. The
newspapers here confirm the report
that a Spanish naval squadron con.
sisting OF four cruisers and a dispatch
boat, Is to be sent to Cuba without de.
lay. In addition Spanish naval Off
GERS and marines are to be attached
to Spanish mail boats, which are to be
cleared and equipped rs auxiliary.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-03-08

Tho case Of John L. Jones, charged
with stealing gold bullion from the
Mint, began in tho u. S. ristrict
Court at Carson yesterday.
Attorneys Coffin, Woodburn and
Dennis represented the defendant
and General Clarke looked after the
interests OF the Government, District
Attorney Jones being absent.
Tho selection OF n jury was begun
and the following ten jurors we're nc.
copied and sworn: Jolse Lawson.
Lyon county; i'll. McF'arlin, Reno;
q. a. Wilcox, Carson; Harrison Der
ry, Douglas county; J. b. Whitcomb,
Carson; f. I. Morton, Douglas coun.
ty; Will Elliott, Carson; 9. Blythe,
Empire; Walter Morton, Douglas
county; John Hamm, Douglas coun.
ty.
This exhausted the regular panel
and Il special vcniro was issued for
twelve tnlcsmcn returnablo at 10 u.
clock to-day.
Judge llawley placed tho accepted
jurors in charge Of Marshal Humph.
rey md Court adjourned to 10 o'clock
to. day.
Tho Ncws says that the drift of the
qicetions propoundcd 10y tho progecu
ton we're about the reading OF cor.
tain newspaper articles. talking to
tho defendant and whether tho per.
son under examination belonged to
my society Of which Jones is a mem
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-03-08
d Mines "f Chicngn nmd I%'hIIndcI-
phin.

Through the courtesy OF George
Fairchild Of Tuscarorn. We have tho
pleasure Of laying before our readers
the following choice bit OF informa.
ton regarding tho capacity Of our
people To take ARE of tho gold pro.
duccd in the United Stntcs. Tho
item first saw the light in tho issue Of
November 30. 1895 Of the Standard
and Diggcrs News. published at 10.
hanncsburg. South African Republic,
md received by Mr.. Fairchild's father
II short time ago. II ia MS follows:
"Thc Director Of tho United States
Min, predicts Il food ~ American
gold III tho next few years; and his
chief rcnson for this IL that Cripple
Creek is alleged 10 he producing over
onc'qnartcr of the output Of the South
African liclds. while steps ARE beng
taken to revive interest in tho mines
Of Chicago and rhilndclphia."
While the ignorance Of this cJitor
of tho resources aud extent Of Uncle
Sam's dominions may not loo as dense
as II milestone. il might add To his
stock. Of information regarding this
country to have tho cathode ray Of
common sense turned on the opaque
substance in his head that docs duty
ns n brain.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-03-08
L 7 TO PARENTS.

Tho breaking out Of scarlet fever
i'll "a virulcnt form III town is II matter
that should have the sober consider.
alton Of III people. and prompt meas.
urcs should he taken To prevent it's
spread, People who visit those who
have the disease should take every
means possible to prevent the spread
OF the cOntagion. and all children
should he kept at II safe distance from
those who are sick. II has been sug.
gcstcd to tho IHDEpESDFHT that those
who visit those who have the fever
should quarantine themselves for the
protection Of others. Unless some
measures are taken 10y those who
visit the sick To prevent the spread Of
the contagion. the public school will
be compelled to close.
This is Il matter that especially in
tcrcsts every parent in the commu.
nifty, and the INDEPENDENT hopes
that they will keep their children
away from those who have the scarlet
foyer, and, II duty calls them 10 the
bedside OF tho sick, 10 take every pre-.
caution to prevent the spread of the
disease. This should not he dclayc ed.
but should he acted upon at once
One precious life has already been
lost, and others incy he unless proper
steps arc taken. Act in time.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
HETTY GREEN.
Says Her Son Is Not Eligible for Gov
 ernOr of Texas.

NEW YORK, July 27.-Hetty Green, who is worth somewhere in the neigh. borhood of $40, ,000, 900, Is not particu- larly elated over the prospects that her son may be the fusion candidate for governor of Texas.
 "Why," che said today. "the boy is only 27 years old. He is not eligible tor the ofice."
 "But he will be the next time," Mrs. Greene added.
 When asked for her views on the cur. rencv question the richest woman in America seemed inclined to straddle. Shedismissed the subj ct with statement that she had formed no definite opinion and added that she did not know whether young MT. Green had joined the free silver band or not.
 "There is some sort of @ movement in progress in Texas" she said, land maybe it relates to money. 1 believe the party they call the Populists and the Republicans want my son to run for governor, and that he is trying to reconcile their differences of opinions on matters of policy. But, as said be fore, the boy is too young and the peo- pie will have to wait.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28

which convicted murderers are con- fined" said he. When I first went to the Indian territory l settled in the Choctaw nation, and hearing that cer- tain Indian was an excellent hand on the ranch, hunted him up and asked him if he would work for me. T will work until the 20th of next month"; he said. Why not longer?' I inquired I am to be hanged the 21st,' was his re- ply, in an unconcerned way. I hired him, and upon inquiry learned that what he said was true But one man has ever failed to return for hanging after he has been sentenced, and my Indian did not prove an exception to the rule. On the day before the execu- tion was to take place he left as calmly as though going on visit, and the hang ing took place at the time appointed. Notwithstanding his approaching doom the Indian made one of the best ranch CTS l ever saw, and regretted to lose him.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
One of Lincoln's Answers.

Speaking in a recent speech of cer- tain Washington experiences in Lin coln's time, Mir. Depew said: "While l was there MT. John Ganson, of Buffalo, was member of congress. His face and his head were hairless and polished like a billiard ball. He was demo- crat, but supported the president. The conditions of the army were very blue in the east and in the west. Ganson came in one day and said: MT. Presi- dent, I am rislzing my reelection in sup porting your war measures. The cam paign seems very unsatisfactory. Of course will not give out anything you tell me. What is the situation at the front?' MT. Lincoln, in his searching and sad way, looked at him for mo- ment as if he were about to reveal the secret of the whole army, and then tumbled Ganson out of the reception room by saving: 'Ganson, how clean you shave"
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
Wn,oNcno rnCmi 1rE SEA.
Something Concerning the Formation or
 8 Curious Marine Growth.

Something Concerning the Formation or
 Curious Marine Growth.
 There is marvellous marine growth called sertularia which has the appear ance of a delicate bush, although its slender stalks or fibers are built up by thousands of minute animals, some thing as the coral polyp builds up the coral. It is found, says the New York Sun, in clumps and punches on wreck age and stones and elsewhere, and sometimes it is torn loose in storms and driven ashore. The many thousands of tiny creatures which have built it up and inhabit it die, and the dead bush is called skeleton. Its fibers shrink some now and they are even finer than they were. They may be foot in length; sometimes nearly two feet. They are brown, some punches being dark and some of lighter shade.
 As the children of the carpenter adorn themselves with shavings from their fathers workbench, so do the children of the fishermen with the ser tularia cast up from the sea. Its tibers are pretty nearly straight, so they can not be made to serve as ringlets, as curly shavings do, but the girls take the longer, finer punches, which are us- ually the lighter in shade, and make of them long brown tresses. The boys make great mustaches of the sertu- laria, and flowing Dundreary whiskers and sober boards. In wandering along the shore one might come upon 6 stranded boat hauled high above the tide with her side stove in, perhaps, so by adreaming youth in sertularia beard and mustache, who imagined her a gal lant ship and himself her bearded com mander
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
IN LUCK.
A Springfield Lad Who Has Discov-
 cred a Millionaire Uncle.

SPRINGFIELD, O.. July 27.-Wesley Stratton, young man employed ss boiler maker at Armstrong Bros, left yesterday for Colorado Springs. Colo, to visit his uncle, James Stratton, owner of the Victor Gold mines. They have never seen each other and it was only recently that the boy learned of his uncle's whereabouts. He wrote him letter and was rewarded with an answer acknowledging the relationship and an invitation to come to Colorado Springs and make his home with hlm. Mir. Stratton, the mine owner, is a bachelor and very wealthy. He refused $7,000.0C0 for the Victor mines rece ently, the offer being made by syndicate. In his letter he states that Wesley is the only relative he knows of.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
RUINED BY A CONTRACT.
An Iron Founder Undertakes Something
 Outside Of His Lire.


 Outside Of His Lire.
 The founder of the Vendome column in Paris met with financial ruin in his contract. The French government, when it decided to erect the notable column, entered into a contract with an iron founder, says the Philadelphia Record. He knew nothing whatever of modelling or casting in bronze. The government agreed to supply him with cannon captured from the Russians and Austrians during the campaign of 1905, in quantities sufficient to found the monument. The contractor, know ing nothing of the phenomena which the fusion of bronze offers, found when two-thirds of the column was com pleted that he had used up all his metal. Sufficient bronze had been given him to complete the monument, and he was responsible for the entire amount. Finding himself face to face with bank ruptcy he melted up his scoriae and mixed the metal with cheap refuse which he purchased, and so completed the founding. The castings, however, were found to be so full of flaws that the work was stopped, and the founder ruined. The holdings of the different parts of the bas-relief were so badly executed that the chiselers who repaired the defects removed no less than 70 tons of bronze. They received for their labor $ 12,000, to which was added the 70 tons of bronze, which became their perquisites. The whole transaction was very, very French.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
THE BUCKET SHOP.
A Woman Who Wanted Large Lots of
 Buckets, But No Grain.

A Woman Who Wanted Large Lots of
 Buckets. But No Grain.
 A well-known citizen who resides in Northwest Washington is patron of a certain bucket shop, says the Wash ington Star. His wife was informed of the fact and accused him of it with so much dmectness that he could not deny it.
 "You made $2O0 on buckets in some shop, didn't you?" she demanded to know.
 Certainly, dear. You see the war in Cuba creates a great demand for buck cts, and there is place where you can give your orders and sell them again at profit"
 Nothing more was said, but the wife concluded to make some money on buckets and not let her husband know it. In some way she learned the location of the bucket shop, and going down town told who she was, and said:
 q want s1oO worth of buckets. The same kind my husband bought
 Ut is little risky to-day, madam" said the proprietor, who did not want to explain the operations of the place.
 q don't care," she urged. Here's the money. I'll come after the buck cts tomorrow"
 The next day she appeared and was informed that the buckets had been | bought and sold at S1OO advance. but that the supply was exhausted and they were going into the wheat and corn business until more could be manufac- tuned.
 T don't want any wheat or corn,' she said; but ain't it mean. I can't buy any more buckets?" And the husband congratulates himself on how he sue ceeded in getting the bucket shop pro prietor to stop his wife's dealings with out revealing their nature, while she is a spring hat and a dress ahead.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
GENESIS OF A "CRANK."
The Effect of Large Ideas Upon Small
 Minds.

One of the most interesting of psy- chological studies, says the Century, is the effect of large idea upon a. small mind. A large idea entering a large mind balances and dignifes it; it's eff feet upon a small mind is often com pletely upsetting. The man becomes intellectually top-heavy and unsteady.
 When one becomes observant of this phenomenon he finds much to amuse and again much to deplore. He is amused, for instance, to notice the re- suit of this overlooking throughout a long career. Where a subject is thus acted upon by succession of ideas, each embodying an important truth which the man is incapable of carrying. his receptivity to impression proves to be his bane. The sudden realization for the first time of fundamental prin- ciple makes a monomaniac of him. An other sudden realization of still another fundamental principle and he IS spin ming off at new tangent.
 But there are times when this effect of large ideas upon little minds is most mischievous and deplorable. Thus is bred the race of incurable cranks in philosophy, theology, art and politics The word ''crank" has been maliciously misused for purposes of cynical ridi- cule, but it is too descriptive a. namc to be set aside. The congenial crank is always started on his career of in utility by this application of big idea to small brain. The most tirine thing about him is his self-compla cency, owing to his knowledge of the fact that better men have been mis called By his own accurately descriptiv' cognOmen.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
The Farms of Denmark.

Out of 226, ,00O farms in Denmark only 1900 are over 250 acres in extent and most of them are worked by their own CTS. By their great technical knowl- edge of their business and the gradual change from growing grain to breeding cattle and dairy farming the Danish farmers have suffered less from trans atlantic competition than those of any other European country.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
INDIAN STOiCISM.,

Choctaw Works Right Up to the Day of
 His Execution.
 The stoicism of the North American Indian is proverbial. In the long ago when one tribe warred against another, Indian prisoners were accustomed to stand torture without finching. The race may have degenerated, but it's re- markable characteristic is still con- spicuous. A story told by western citizen to a Washington Star reporter furnishes a good illustration of the in difference with which even the Indian of to-day views death: "In the Choc- Jaw Indian nation there is no iail in
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28

from beginning to end, without friction or dissatisfaction of any kind"
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
The Most Crowded Spot.

It is stated that the most crowded spot on the earth's surface is the "Manderaggio," in the city of Valetta, in Malta. Upon spot in this place. about 21a square acres in extent, no fewer than 2,574 live. This is at the rate of 636,OOo per square mile, or 1,017 tc an acre.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28

M. ANAToLE LEROY BEAULIEU, the French political economist, who is not radical, proposes that a tax be put on the French ''rentes" as concession to the socialists. The "rentes" are the equivalent in France of registered gov ernment bonds.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-28
VERY LOW.

That is the only way to express the prices marked in plain figures on the trunks and valises at Alkire's. Re- member that they are going out of the trunk and vaise business and are bound to sell. ,Alkire's always Edo what they say. Investigate and see if they don't.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
Supply of Live Stock Decreasing.

Dies MONIES, July 27.-The state au-
ditor has issued, from the reports re-
ceived from the county auditors, state
ment of the number of head of live
stock in the state, with comparisons
with the report of year ago. 1t is
found that there has been a large de-
crease in the number Of cattle, hogs
ard sheep in the state and only a small
loss of other kinds of stock. Cattle have
dropped in the year from 3, 273, 900 to g.
272,o0O; hogs have fallen from 1896, 900
to 1855 900. The falling off is surpris-
ingly large, due of course to the low
prices, which have caused raisers to sell
out and discontinue breeding. The in
dications are that the next year will see
a still further decrease in this industry.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
Not ShiDpipg All the Grain.

Dies MONIES. July 29-The car fam
inc, incident to the immense shipments
of grain in this state, is fairly on. The
reductions of the last few days in rates
to the seaboard have started the move
ment, and it is becoming greater every
day. P. D. Armour has about 1000, 900
bushels in cribs on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul system,
which he is not moving,
and this has encouraged other
speculative holders who have altogether
probably 25,0O0,000 bushels in the state
to hold for still better prices. The fact
that the corn and cat crops in the state
will not be nearly so good as expected
two weeks ago has encouraged farmers
greatly and where possible they will
hold still longer. Indications are. how
ever, that the next three weeks will see
practical blockade on account Of the
movement.