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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-10
Sixteen to One.

Mint Director Preston has made the
following simple and comprehensive
statement in regard to the coinage
ratio between gold and silver in re-
spouse to frequent inquiries on that
point:
All standard silver dollars coined
by the mints of the United States
since the passage OF the act of Jan. 18
1887. have been coined in the ratio of
to 15.9984, generally called the ratio
to 16-15.9S84 being very nearly 16
Still, to reach accurate results. the
former and not the latter figure must
be used in calculation. The ratio is
obtained in this way:
The silver dollar contains 371.25
grains Of pure silver and the gold dol
lar 1922 grains Of pure gold. If you
divide 371.a5 by 1922 you will get the
ratio OF weight between gold dollar
and silver dollar-that Is Is 1884. It
is true that to be on par with gold
silver would (at our ratio) be worth
Sl,2929. The reason is this: A gold
dollar contains % % grains of pure
gold. In an ounce, or 480 grains of j,
gold, there are as many dollars as
1922 is contained times in 480 or one
ounce. If you divide 4sO by 1922 you
get $40 81, the number OF dollars that
can be coined out of an ounce of pure
gold. In other words, the money
equivalent of one ounce of gold or of
15.98S4 ounces Of silver at the ratio OF
to 15,9884. Now. if 15,98S4 ounces
Of silver be worth $2O.67, one ounce
will be worth $l,2929. as you can
prove by simple division. The same
result is obtained by dividing 4eO
grains or one ounce Of silver by 371.25
the number Of grains of pure silver in
standard silver dollar. at the ratio of
to 15,9s84, which gives 1929.
Sixteen ounces Of pure silver will
coin n little more than one ounce of
gold; 15.9S84 ouncee Of silver will
coin exactly the same amount OF
money as one ounce Of gold-that is
s20.67 You can prove this by divid-
ing 15.98S4 ounces by 37l. 25 grains.
The operation is as follows: 1598S4,
multiplied by 4SO, divided by 37I %
equals 20. 674.
1t is not true that sixteen ounces of
silver will coin only BIG. 80 at the ra-
ito of to 16.
AS will be seen above, one ounce of
silver will coin s12929. Multiplying
e1.2929 by 16 gives 500 68. You can
make the same result in another way:
Sixteen ounces Troy. or 1880 grains,
divided by 371.25, gives the number
OF silver dollars that can be coined
out Of sixteen ounces OF silver; 1881,
divided by 371.25, equats 2O.68.
Mr.. Preston has also furnished an
swers to the following important
questions:
First-What is meant by the free
coinage Of Silver?
Answer-The right of individuals
to deposit standard silver in any
amount Mt the mints and have it COIN
cd into full legal tender coins.
Second--What is meant by the ra-
ito Of is to 12
Answer-The ratio in coinage of 16
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-10
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Feeling by great force Of will. But
this h unsafe, a. it pulls powerfully
upon tho nervous system, which will
not long stand such strain. Too many
people work on their nerves." aud
:he result Is ruined health and ner-
yous prostrat;on. That tired
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-10
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Extreme tired feeling attlicts nearly
everybody ut this season. The hus-
tiers cease to push, the tireless grow
weary, the energetic become eneryated.
Some men and women endeayor tenn
porarily to overcome that
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-10
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcements under this head will m
published up to the General Election for
$40, payable invariably in advance.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-10
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ing is proof of thin, weak, impure
blood; for, IL the blood is rich, red,
vitaIized and vigorous, it imparts life
and energy to every nerve, organ and
tissue OF the body. The necessity Of
taking Hoods Sarsaparilla for that
tired feeling is apparent to all, and the
good 1t will do you is equally beyond
question. Remember that
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-10

MONDAY. 49,. AUGUST 10, 1895
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06
LIQUOR DEALERS TO SUPPORT
 BLOOM AND HAVIS.
Matter Brought Up and Discussed at Meeting of the
 Association.

The GRAPHIC has information from source entirely reliable that at meeting Of the Liquor Dealers Association, held last Thursday a week ago, a resolution was passed by the Association appropriatin g $75. co out of the Association s treas ury to be used in the municipal elec- tion in behalf of the candidacy of Buck Bloom for City Clerk, and Ferd Havis for Alderman from the Fourth Ward
 This resolution was not passed by a unanimous vote, because some of the liquor dealers do not think that way, but majority voted for the resolution and it was passed
 Now, why do the liquor dealers, or at least majority of them, favor Buck Bloom and Ferd Havis?
 Because they think it to their ad- vantage.
 Ferd Havis is engaged in the li-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06
THE CITY COUNCIL.
A Short Session Last Night.--lt Adjourned After Allowing
 Monthly Accounts.

The meeting of the City Council last night was exceedingly brief. Aldermen Howell, Hightower, Mil Ter, Atkinson and Veil were pres ent, with Mayor Goldsmith presid- ing. Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved.
 The usual monthly accounts against the city were allowed and the report of the police department, which showed the revenue derived from that source to be $808. .85 cash, $337.65 committed, and $15 appealed. was read, and after the reading of other monthly reports the Council adjourned.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06

was copied from the bill filed against the city for the month of February, and if it is not plainly written "brooms" on the bill. we are unable to read the chirography of the May OTIS accountant. The Mayor wisely refrains, however, from telling Us what the item is, which hecould have easily done by reference to his books
 The Mayor also uses this language: '.Fhe record shows that it has been the custom in buying supplies for the city to purchase them from the diff ferent city officials. :" etc This is a very startling confession, and the one about which we now complain Why should city officials, the Mayor at the head of them, be the sole fa- vorites in furnishing supplies for. the city? If this then, be true, all of the city officials are taking advantage of their positions for private profit, and it is additional evidence that there should be a general change in the city government. Under the laws, city officials have no right to sell goods to the city and then sit in judgment and allow their own ac- counts. This is q startling and un- preeedented .irregnlarity, and one that should be rebuked at the polls. According to this statement there is a general division among the "city officials of the spells of office, and it is high time this policy was being rebuked and changed
 In conclusion we desire to say that every statement presented to the voters of Pine Bluff ill the Sun day GRAPHIC was taken from the off eial records of the city. and they disclose sufficient "irregularfties in the administration of city affairs" to warrant all charges we have made.
 Instead of heaping abuse upon the head of the editor of the GRAPHIC, who is discharging a public service in be- half of the people of Pine Bluff, the Mayor would do well to defend and explain his official record and his violations of the laws of the State, which he has sworn to support.
 The Mayor has made record during his brief term of office, and by that record he must be judged.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06
sy Lame Excuse for the lrregulari- ties in His Administration of
 City Affairs.

fifty dollars" In printing the law the sections in the digest were marked and turned over to the printer, who by accident set it $25, and when the proof came to the editor in the "wee small hours of morn,' after eighteen hours of continuous labor, he failed to ofl- serve the error fnot reading the proof by copy) and the error crept into print. However, the next section of the digest, relating to the same subject, contained the amount cor rectly, and the error in figures was palpable to the observing.
 But this is simply a typographical error and a technicality.
 Why does the Mayor sell goods to the fire department out of his store in express violation of the law-the same law he has sworn to support?
 The law says in effect that the Mayor shall not be interested with in the SIXTH degree of consanguinity or affinity or associated in busi- sness' with any person entering into contract with the city.
 But the Mayor sass he has no contract.
 Then he is violating the law.
 He also says that he has "never given acquisition for feed wherein the amount purchased exceeded $1500."
 Then this is simply asubterfuge to evade the law. His bills against
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06

quor business himself, and in the City Council would be the champion of the liquor dealers in all measures affecting their interests. He has been in the Council before, and the whisky men have always found in him strong friend and sympa- thizer.
 Therefore those who are not en- gagged in the liquor business, wheth- CT white or colored, should see to it that vote does not go in for either of the pets and favorites of the liquor dealers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06

We beg to warn the Commercial to keep out of this fight or else it will get its fingers burnt. A few days ago the editor of the Commercial privately appealed to us not to drag him into this controversy, and we beg to admonish him that scHr- rilous and contemptible allusions to the editor of this paper will not always be permitted to go un- noticed. Verbum sat sapienti.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06

#ayor rushes to his own de- ] Communication in today's Aial.
 aele is more remarkable for aloes hot say than for that
 Contains.
 h is one of confession and
 q.
 s not meet the issue, but ] avoid it and explain it Ikes no reference whatever ssection of the statutes of l which says: But they the Public Affairs of which the # ex-offico ehairman) shall power in any case, except sIVertisement and to the 5dder, to make any con ath any person ASSOCIATED jSs WITH OR RELATED WITH ATH DEGREE OF CoNsANGUIN- zFFINlTY UNDER THE CIVIL slNY MEMBER OF SAID BOARD 8lR OF THE CITY COUNCIL. and |htract in which any such sperson shall have an in- ERECT or INDIRECT, shall be VOID.
 lyor calls attention to an she GRAPHIC in quoting the we thank him for calling Hntion to it. The law says lses where the amount of ex- I involved may exceed
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A Burglar Captured

Monday Constable Joe Pilkingtoa, of Washington township, after a chase lasting three days, captured Phil. Williams, colored, who on the night of the Both ut. burglarized the residence of Mr. Hallie Miller, who lives on the McFadden place. A quantity of the goods stolen by Williams was recovered. The burg lar is now an inmate of the county jail.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06

La dies shirt waists, ladies hose, full line of corsets, black satin, black lawns, and such a line of shoes at 90 cents on The dollar, at our bankrupt sale.
 461tl GoULD-GALRRAITH Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06

The Worlds Fair Tests showed no baking powder so pure or so great in leav- ening power as the Royal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06
AND AVOIDANCE s PLEA OF THE LORD
 HIGH MAYOR.
s A SUBTERFUGE IN A TYPO GRAPHICAL ERROR AND
 TECHNICALTlES

to Explain How He Sells Goods to the Fire Department in Defiance
 of the Statutes
The herald., 1896-12-02
HOMES ON THE HILLS
How the Water Company Has Kept
Property Down and Insurance Up

To hill property owners After weeks
of maliciousness and abuse by the Los
Angeles Times (the organ of the City
Water company, the election of the
champion of the peoples rights, M. p.
Snyder. is absolutely assured.
For this result every owner of home
on the hills should be grateful but the
object of these words is to impress upon
every voter the Importance and neces-
sity of having a representative in the
council who is no less a champion of OuI
rights than the mayor-to-b be and who Is
unqualifiedly. pledged to support him in
his battle for the municipal ownership
of water on the peoples terms
Ask yourself, why has the most beau
tiful section of our city always been in
disrepute with homeseekers? Why has
property remained stationary in value
here while it has advanced rapidly in
all other parts of the city?
What has caused insurance compan-
les to regard hill risks with disfavor?
Are not our homes now. and haven't
they always been absolutely at the mer-
cy of the flames, in spite of an efficient
fire department?
Fellow citizens, this is not question
of politics: it is question that involves
the preservation of our homes, which are
at the mercy of that most heartless and
selfish corporation-the City Water COM
pany.
Vote for honest N. p. Wynne, and
thereby elect man to serve you in the
council who Is uneQuivocally pledged
The herald., 1896-12-02
NEWSPAPER WAITS

After the Razzle-"Brace up, old man,
I'll have to be off or my wife won't speak
to me when / get home" Lucky dog.
Mine-hic!-'ll talk to me all night. -
Sydney Bulletin.
Superstition Foiled-"Somebody has
invented a mirror that will not break =
Gracious! Now how are we going to
tell when there is to be death in the
house ?"--Chicago Record.
Aesthetic Wife (sobbing) Dearest,
I'll see that your grave is kept green, but
not one of those horrid bright S-eea< A
nice olive-gray green, with an old bronze
tombstone. will look to awfully lovely
for anything. It'd Bits.
A PerpleXed Caller-Mrs. Milligan:
do yez feel better this morning Mrs.
O'Toole?" Mrs. O'ToOle: II do, an then
again | don't" Mrs. Mulligan: That's
bad, fur it's harrud to know whether ter
say Dim sorry or glad. ."-Harpers Bazaar.
Still Dissatisfied--'Well," remarked
the wife of the man who has changed his
mind about going to congress. you have
a clear conscience, anyhow" Il know
that" was the comfortless reply, but a
clear conscience isn't what was run
ming for Washington Star,
Elder Keepalong-"You ought not to
let the political situation disturb you a
single moment. my brother Providence
Is watching over the affairs of this coun-
The herald., 1896-12-02
WAYS OF ENGLISH ORATORS.

In his interesting account of the lines
on which Mr.. Bright prepared his
speeches, Mr.. Chamberlain might have
added that he wrote out and read a
great portion of them. In his best days
he used to stand, when delivering them,
with large number of pages of paper
in his hand, and he put by his side each
page when he had exhausted it, making
no sort of concealment. I remember
once talking to him in the house of COM
mons smoking room about notes a
little before he delivered one of his most
admired speeches. He had his notes"
before him, and, as an illustration of his
mode, he handed them to me. There
were passages fully written out, which
I afterwards heard him read verbati TIM
A man, he said, has no right to make a
speech in the house of commons without
careful preparation.
Mr.. Disraeli who, like Mr.. Bright
could make debating speeches without
notes, used genrally to learn by heart the
speeches which he delivered at public
meetings. He would have down the gem
tleman who habitually reported them
to Hughenden and make the speech to
shorthand. When delivered the reporter
had the speech before him. and he used
to say that Mr.. Disraeli hardly altered
in the delivery single word. Lord
Randolph Churchill also had this gift
of memory. He knew speech by heart
by writing it, nor did he require to go
over it after writing it, so sure was he
of his memory. Talking once with him
The herald., 1896-12-02
ON ALASKA'S COAST.

Whatever may be said-and much can
be-of the beauties of the Alaskan
coast, it is not inviting to the seafaring
man, and especially the master who
is taking his ship by the inside route
from Puget Sound to Sitka or Juneau
for the first time, a feat, so 1t is claimed,
impossible of accomplishment by con-
tinuous voyage save through the assist
ance of good pilot. This passageway-
formed by the mainland coasts of Brit
ish Columbia and Alaska, and a chain of
islands ranging in length from 5 to 25O
miles-is from 100 yards to several miles
in width The channels proper are of
unusual depth. In places from 300 to
400 fathoms of water are frequently
found. From the smooth. CLASSY sur
face lodges and reefs, assassins of the
sea- lurk, ready to send some ship, hui
manity-laden to the bottom. In these
waters the lead is supplanted by whis-
tie echoes from the land, this being the
only method during a fog by which the
captain or pilot guides his vessel along
d safe way.
Old sea captains say there is no water
course in the world where in unfavor-
able weather such skill is required as to
guide a ship via the channels on voy-
age from the sound and return, the round
trip to Sitka being more than half the
distance of a voyage across the Atlantic
The Pacific Coast Steamship company's
vessels running to Alaska are always
manned with two pilots each in the
winter and spring and are never with
out one pilot. With at least two of this
companys vessels now running to Alas
ka the captains themselves served an
apprenticeship of many years at pilot
ing.
The outside passage, the one by the
open ocean, is seldom used, on account
of the unfavorable winds which prevail
for a distance of over fifty miles out
to sea- rendering a vessels progress
much slower to say nothing of the
danger of ships being caught in a gale
and driven ashore. With the danger
from wreck being almost eliminated by
the employment of professional pilots,
the inside passage is rendered most
delightful voyage, as 1T abounds in
beautiful scenery and is free from
,v;p1c Saattla Post Intelligence
The herald., 1896-12-02
RATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT

We did not approve of the action of the
constitutional convention of 1894 which
made it impossible to cut or sell any
timber on the state lands. We have
never ceased to plead for the preserva-
tion of the north woods, but we have
urged that they should be made to
yield revenue and grow more product
i've every year. This constitutional pro-
vision. 1t is true, put stop to the selling
of standing spruce above certain size,
which was practised under the form of
law, and which might easily have ru-
ined large areas of forest but 1t seemed
to us, and still does seem, short-sight-
ed policy to provide for a thriftless pro-
lection of the forest by sacrificing its
usefulness
Absolute prohibition of the removal
of wood. including even wood that is
dead and down, from the state preserve
simply means waste. but the conven-
tion, impressed with the shameful abuses
which have been practiced under the
name of forest management. felt Justi-
fled in withholding from the people of
the state the right to use what is their
own, because they feared that tlVugh
ignorance or greed they would not use
it to the best purpose. So apprehensive
were they of the dangers of misman-
agement that they voted unanimously
to prohibit any management whatever,
trees must grow to maturity and die,
and fall and rot. instead of being encour-
aged to develop into marketable tim
ber and bring an income to the state.
This means either that the convention
did not know that there is such thing
as rational forest management, or
that they were convinced that the peo-
pie were so ignorant or vicious that they
could not be expected to adopt any sucn
system.
We believe that fundamentally the in
terest of the people in the forest and
the interest of the lumbermen are one,
and that no advantage will accrue to
either by leaving the products of the for
est to go to waste. 1t is our opinion
that the cause of forestry was not
helped by the dissemination of such
ideas by the constitution makers. and
that the revised constitution was based
on serious misconception of the true
relation Of the forest to civilized soci-
ETY.. 1t may be that our legislators are
not vet to be trusted in so delicate a
matter. But when we read Sir Dietrich
Brands account of what has been ac-
complished in Burmah in administering
forest lands in which half-wild and wan
dering tribes hold prescriptive rights,
it is not creditable to our enlighten-
ment that such an admission must be
made.-Garden and Forest
The herald., 1896-12-02
-. IN THE SEVENTH WARD.
Enthusiastic Gathering Addressed by
Messrs Snyder, Hance and Others.

Democrats and Populists united last
evening in a mass meeting held at 61O
East Fifth street. A. NJ. Bragg presided
over the gathering and r. w. Ready
acted as secretary.
During the evening the prominent
municipal questions agitating the pub
lie mind were discussed by several Of the
candidates, who are appealing at the
present time for the suffrages of the
people.
Capt. Hance, nominee for the office
of city clerk, defined his position in a
brief speech and was followed by James
F'Ashman, candidate for the council, who
Wan the confidence and good will of the
audience by the arguments presented
in support of the contention that the
city should own it's own water works
and electric lighting plant.
A. M. Salyer, candidate for the office OF
tax collector, pledged himself to GER
tain reforms if returned to Office
The popular candidate for mayor, Mr..
M. p. Snyder, was received with enthus-
iasm. He made strong address and
held the closest attention of the audi
ence for half an hour. He announced
himself as opposed to buying the plant
from the water company at the present
demands, and much preferred that the
city build its own plant as the proper
alternative. He said the company
wanted three and a half millions for
their property in the face of the estimate
by competent engineer that the plant
can be duplicated for over 81, 500, 900 less
than that amount. While not in favor
of a commission of arbitration, he was
in favor of a plan whereby the city
could obtain correct estimate of the
value of the water company's complete
plant, and he thought the best way in
which to arrive at this would be tC
advertise for bids for the building of a
plant to suit the needs of the city.
j. E. Frick, candidate for superintend-
ent of streets, made a brief speech in
which he appealed strongly to the labor
element, by condemning the action of
certain employers whose first and last
thought seemed to be cheapness.