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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09
Now Light on w..hipEton.

Colonel Lee was once dining at Mt.
Vernon. and in the course Of CONVEX.
satlon Washington asked him il he
knew whore he could purchase g: pair
OF good carriage horses. @Why. yes,
General" answered Lee. IL have a
fine pair, but you can't get them"
@Why not?" demanded the astonish-
ed Washington.
because you never pay more than
hat price for anything, and I want
full price for them."
Mrs. Washington was go tickled at
the banter that she fell to laughing
and was Joined by her favorite parrot
perched lei by.
@Ah, Lee" said the General not at
all ruffied @you are a funny fellow.
See, e that bird is laughing at
YOU"
That there was a suspicion of truth
in Lees implied accusation of close
ness at a bargain is borne out by the
"OnnAO"h IdSL ILdb aSHluRUOD
was n of the keenest men at a horse
trade.
at is also told Of him that, having
settled for a job OF plastering at his
home, he afterwards found that he
had overpaid the lsborer by Is shil-
lings. Meanwhile the man had died
and his widow had married again, hut
the General collected the surplus
from her second husband.
One had to be careful in marrying
widows in those days. II a widow
wished to clear herself Of all her de-
ceased husbands obligations the sec.
ond time she must be married with
nothing on her but her shift. 1t is
supposed that this unfortunate wo-
man wore something besides at her
second nuptials.--Bayonne Herald.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09
The American EaHle.

In 80 far as the eagle ls the symbol
OF the independence and freedom OF
men' let us accept him. In 30 far as
he represents the idea and sublimity
OF height and flight, let him soar.
The eagle rs a sign OF the free voyage
OF tile human mind triumphant over
nature, visiting on strong wing the
tar and otherwise inaccessible heights
OF escape and glory, is the noblest of
all the totems ever discovered by
man; for flights is the noblest and
most sublime OF earthly action.
Height is the sublimest Of all earthly
stations. Height and fight are pre.
cisely the dream which we would GO.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09

A stove has been invented to cool
rooms In summer. Salt, a small
quantity Of ice and a patent chemical
are used, and the stove becomes 60
cold that il the hand be placed upon
it, the skin will instantly blister. As
salt is cheap. the chemical not dear,
and as the stove q make itr own ice
in the oven. the device is n that will
be likely to come into general use in
warm climates.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09

Exchange:-A newspaper man in
Ohio recently brought suit against
43 men who would not pay their
subscription and obtained u iudg-
ment in each case for the amount
claimed. OF fbeses % made afi-
dsvit that they owned no more than
the law allowed, thus preventing at.
tachment. Then under decision Of
the supreme court they were arrested
for petit larceny and bound over in
the sun of 5000 each. All but elk
gave bonds, and six went to Jail The
new postal law makes it a larceny to
take a paper and refuse TO pay for it.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09
A Household Necessity.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the
most wonderful medical discovery OF
the age, pleasant and refreshing to
The taste, act gently and positively
IN Kidneys, liver and bowels. cleans
ing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual con-
stipation and biliousness. Please
buy and try a box of @. @. @. today:
10. %, 30 cents. Sold and guaranteed
tocure by all druggists.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09

A fine suite of rooms for rent in
the Webster building opposite the
church. These rooms are light and
airy and just the thing for a law Of
flee. dressmaking shop or a small
store. For further information call
at the INDEPENDENT Office
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09
BIMErALLIsM ABANDONED.

The expected has happened. 1t
ca ne soon and in plain shape. Pres
iient Mckinley has completely
abandoned bimetaIlism. His cur
rency message to Congress was not
the makeshift and shutting affair
that the country had lroked for. 1t
Is Il straigbt-out declaration for the
maintenance of the single gold stand
ard, without ANY cantiDg palaver
about international agreement or the
coinage of the home product.
The presidents frankness is as re-
freshing as it is startling, Hereto
fore he has obecured his Intention
and wish with regard to currency re-
form in Il haze Of ambiguity and pre-
tense. To the weak-kidneyed BIZ
metallist bis talk and promises
meant ~bimAtallism and tx, the bigoted
II a%tallist they meant monomet-
allism.
The only importance attached to
his currency message is contained in
its political effect. The document
merely commits the presidents party
to open and avoweL hostility to an
independent American monetary sys-
tenn and promises the full strength Of
the organization to the support of a
financial policy through which old
world creditor nations have grown
rich at the expense of new countries
with new civilizations and new re-
q%ulrements. The me merely
asks for executive authority for the
appointment Of "a commission
@whose duty it shall be to make re-
commentators o. whatever changes
in our present banking and currency
laws may lie found necessary and ex-
pedient, and to report their conclus-
ions on Or before the first day of No.
vember next. in order that the same
may be transmitted by me to con.
gress for its consideration at it's first
regular session."
The president also tactitly indorses
the action taken by the national
monetary conference held at Indian.
apolis last January, and attempts to
advise in advance the commissioners
be will appoint that they should de-
clare allegiance to the doctrine cnun-
ciated by the Indianapolis confer
ence. He thus discounts the work
of the proposed comm zsion by pre-
scribing conditions and re !, rictions.
But the details Of the message are
OF secondary Importance only. Tie
chief point OF interest is the presi-
dents desertion of bimetallism. This
makes the issue between democracy
and republication clear cut. It
leaves the democratic organization
the party Of bimetallism and the re-
publican organization the party of
gold recommendation. There a no
longer be any shutting and evasion
in the republican party. Republic
cans who are bimetallists must now
come to the democratic party. There
ls no longer the faintesS glimmer of
hope for them or the triumph Of thair
cause outside Of the democratic
party. The democracy can accept
the issue with renewed hope and
courage. Republican defeat, if not
complete annihilation, and democratic
victory are now assured In 19OO.-
st. Louis Republic.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09
Your VITALITY?

The essence of life is
force. The measure of
force we cali vitality IF
this is lacking there is loss
of flesh, power, especially a
tendency to Consumption.
For low vitality nothing is
better thanS eott's Emu1 ION.
It supplies force by furnish
ingthe nourishing ,strength-
eaing elements Of food in an
easily digestcd form; en-
riches the blood, and builds
up the system. When Or
diaary food Is of no avail,
SCOTS Emulsion will Sup
ply the body with all the
vital elements OF life.
Two sizes, Soc. and 500. All
druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, New York.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your
Life Away.

If You want to quit tobacco using
easily and fore YER. be made we'll.
strong, magnetic. full Of new life and
vigor, take No-To.Bac. the wonder
worker that makes weak men strong.
Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 100000 cured. Buy No To.Bac
from your own druggist, who will
guarantee a cure. Booklet and sample
mailei free. Ad. Sterling Remedy
Co., Chicago or New York.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09

Cascraets stimulate live kidneys
and bowels, Never sicksn, weaken
or grippe. 10c.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-08-09
Repairing promptly. attended to
Needles of all the leading sewing ma
chimes constantly on hand.

Agent for the Eureka suspender.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-14

parlson with the genial air outside. The
perpetual dripping OF the water forms
masses of ice near the mouths of the tun-
nels, which remain the year around. En-
tering one of the lower tunnels bright
morning in July an overcoat is needed by
one rot used to the chilly air. The veins
dip into the mountain and appear to be
inexhaustible. Although they are very
rich the cost OF working has been so great
that the mine has had its ups and downs
like most others.
After climbing up through the old work
ings and Slopes. We at last emerge far
above on the cliffs overlooking the camp
From this point we still climb upward,
but in the open air, and at last, reaching
the top OF the precipltous portion of the
mountain, have an easier path until the
very summit is reached, where some time
is needed to recover breath. We are now
almost on the summit of the Sierra Ne
vadas, at an altitude OF 1880 feet. Even
here we are not out of the mineral bear
ing region, for a vein. standing verti-
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of size for long stretch, an the morni n
was awful warm, an Pete was tired-born
so, you know.
lie sprawled there an smoked till the
shadow of the tree crawled away from
him, an then he crawied into it again.
This exertion made him think of h is wife
an what he had come out for, an how he
did hate to get up. So he thinks TO him
self that he'll stake claim right there in
the shade an then go home an get a bite
to eat.
Now, here the luck comes in. Layin'
there on his side, pickin' away at the
ground, without thinkin' thing about
what he was doin', that chap struck vein
OF quartz just lousy with gold. an no
trouble a all to work.
He did get up steam enough to make
pretty good time stakin' it an gettln' it
recorded, though l guess it was his wife's
head that managed it an made it public.
Soon's it got out there was big company
wanted to buy it out for more money than
Pete would be willin' to count, but his
wife wouldn't let him sell it all They
fixed themselves up for life with the price
OF half an they're maxim money hand
over fist out of the over half.
No; Pete he don't do nothin' but sprawl
an smoke same's ever, only now he
sprawis in his own carriage an smokes
imported cigars. He'd be stuck up if he
wasn't too lazy to put on airs for more
than minute or so at time.
But his wife, she's a sensible woman.
She's seein' that the kids have good
schoolin an raisin' an she don't forget
folks that's down on their luck. guess
we don't none of us begrudge her the
money, or Pete, either, for that matter,
only it does seem as if bein rustler DOM
count for much against such blind luck as
Pete's. OLIVE HEYDEN.
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Fatal Fiftu-Six.

Fifty-six years seems to be a fatal age
for people OF genius. Among those who
have died at that age may be mentioned
Dante, the Italian poet; Hugh Capet,
King of France; Henry XIII, King of
England; Henry ". Emperor of Ger
many; Paganini, Italian violinist; Alex
auder Pope, English poet; George Sale,
English orientalist; Marcus Aurelius EN-
peror of Rome; Frederick /, King of
Prussia; John Hancock. American states
man; Maria Louisa, Empress of France
Philip Messenger, English dramatist; !;
Saladin, the great Sultan of Egypt; Rob-
ert Stephenson, English engineer; Scipio
Africanus. Roman general; Helvetius,
French philosopher and author; Henry
III, the first of the Plantagenet line; the
elder Piiny, Roman naturalist ana au-
thor; julius Caesar; Charles Kingsley,
English author; Juan Prim, Spanish gen.
eral and statesman; Henry Knox. Ameri-
can Revolutionary general; Thomas Milf
fin. American patriot; Won Tromp, Dutch
admiral; Abraham Lincoln; Marryatt, the
novelist; George Whitfield, English
founder OF Calvinistic Methodism; Robert
Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favorite of
Queen Elizabeth; Johann Gaspar Spurz-
helm, German physician and phrenolo-
gist, and Frederick ii, Emperor of Ger
many.
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cally, runs over the very highest point
and has been worked to some ex-
tent.
The view is unsurpassed. The rolling,
plateau-like SUBMITS of the mountains
about US have been gashed deeply by the
canyons, so deeply in fact that from our
point of view we cannot begin to see their
bottoms. Away TO the southwest are still
higher peaks, among which are Mounts
Dana, Conness, Warren ana Gibbs. The
beautiful lakes, with their green meadows
ani piny forests, are mainly out OF sight
because of the sharpness of the canyons,
and nothing but bare rock and immense
snowtields greet the eyes. We know, how
ever, that every canyon is dotted with
glacial lakes and that beautiful cascades
and picturesque scenes lie all around and
Imagination supplies the detail of what is
out of sight.
The investigation OF Mount Scowdan
showed that it is intersected in every di-
rection by gold-bearlng quartz veins, and
the time may yet come when it will be
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surrounding US on all sides. Here and
there they are enlivened by the reddish or
yeNowish tInts Characteristic of mineral
iTegions. Tne primeval beauty is gone
Forever. TIE trees nave been fel.ed, the
lake is partly filled up with sickens from
the quartz mills, and the cold, desolate
cliffs alone remain beyond the Eower of
man to seriously mar.
Above the town on the left is the strik-
ing granite front of Mount Scowdan, that
great mass of rock which hides so many
millions OF shining gold, and in the search
for which tbe beautiful valleys have been
despoiled. The northern face of the
mountain bordering Mill Creek has been
nearly all located by mining claims.
These are reached by long and steep zig
zGg trails over the bowlder slope at the
base of the mountain proper. Over these
sweep the winter avalanches, often carry
ing away rocks, trees and every vestice of
the trails. The veins outcrop in the al
most vertical face of the mountain and
the miner who spends the winter here is
obliged to place his cabin under the pro-
tecting points OF rock TO avoid the con-
slant danger from the avalanche. The
ore from the more accessible mines is
packed down on mule back to the mill
near the town. but othsrs cannot be
reached in this manner. Daring mee
. have elm bed around the precipice and
carried wire bic to connect with the
workings of some small rich veins. This
enables them to let down the ore in buck
cts to a point at the bottom of the cliffs
whence it can be taken to an arastra on
III e creek
I In Mill Creek Canyon, about two miles
above the town of Lundy, there lives one
of these free and Independent miners. He
takes out the ore from his mine III the
clouds only as fast as il can be ground in
the arastra, not troubling himself with
fortune which he cannot use. For a
hermit he has most enviable home. The
arastra has been built under one wing Of
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his ca bin and is so conveniently arranged
that he can sit in his door. smoke his pipe
and watch the slowly circling mill grind
out the precious particles. When the rock
is all ground a few more days work with
the aid of the cable and he Is prepared for
another run His cabin Is In the center
OF the valley, which is little wider here,
and the avalanches do not reach it. Thus
he passes the years perfectly contented
and happy.
On the same side of Mill Creek Canyon
and in the great granite wall cas-. of the
mouth OF Lake Canyon lives another of
these hermits. His home is situated very
differently, however, being perched so
nigh in the crags that q field-gass is
necessary to bring it into vision. The
cabin appears as d tiny speck in a little
rece, 8 nearly 5000 feet above the town.
Puffs of smoke ana echoing reports are
occasionally heard as this lone miner fol-
lows up a pocket-seam whence he
obtains nuggets varying from twenty TO
several hundred dollars in value.
But what about the May Lundy mine
the most noted one of the district? 1t is
not in sight from the town, but is situated
two miles away on the face of Mount
Scowdan, opposite Lake Canyon and 1000
feet a bove the town. The latter canyon en-
ters Mill Creek Canyon opposite Lundy, but
with a scarp 1000 feet high. Lake Canyon
is also bounded by precipitous walls 1000
to 5000 feet high, and contains several
lakelets, originally very beautiful, but
now, alas, marred and partly filled with
slickens from the stamp mill OF the May
Lundy mine. To gain the mouth of this
canyon steep and zigZag trail leads upt
side Of Mill Creek Canyon. and then gen.
tie grade brings us to its head, near which
the mill is situated. One of the lakes lies
higher still and the stream which flows
from it is used to run the mill. The alti-
tude here is $500 feet and snowbanks lie
scattered around even in July. Although
the snow drifts here in the winter so as to
almost cover the trees the mill is kept
running the greater part OF the time. A
wire cable 2500 feet long stretches upward
toward the higher cliffs OF Mount Scowdan
until it is lost 10 sight, its presence being
marked by the little buckets which come
slowly down loaded with ore, and return
either empty or filled with the provisions
necessary to keep a large number of men
in working condition at an elevation of
over ! l. 600 feet.
The climb from the mill to the mine is
long and laborious, as the Iightness OF the
air becomes very noticeable. The habita-
tions OF the men, a. well as the superin-
tendent's office, are gathered in little
notch in the mountain near the openings
OF the main tunnels. The immediate sur
rOundings are rather cherries, nothing
but bare rock and snowdrifts, for at this
great altitude the snow stays on in pro-
tected spots all summer. A great bank of
icy snow lies between the tunnel from
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which the ore is delivered TO the cable
ana the quarters, and across this the men
nave worn a deep trail. The houses of
the men are much like those of other
mines, II anything less pretentious. They
are perched upon spots which have been
partly leveIed off and are often sunnorte6
oy props from below to keep them from
tipping over and rolling into the depths
OF Inc canyon. Above them the mountain
still towers nearly 1000 feet, and in the
spring when the SHOWS are melting and
the rocks loosening boulders freou ntly
come down in the most dangerous fash
ion.
Everything which is used here costs as
may be imagined. a good round sum.
With the exception of veeets bles which
are raised in favorable years around the
shores of Mono Lake, everything must be
obtained from some point on the Carson
and Colorado Railroad and freighted som.
100 miles to Lupdy. From there. unless
the road happens to be in repair, which ia
not generally the case, they are packed on
mules to the mill and then raised bv cable
to the workings. Thus deprived of all but
the necessities of life and almost as iso-
lated as the sailor upon the ocean, il is not
to be wondered at that when holiday
comes the men leave what is virtually a
prison, and relaxing in tie temptations of
the mining towns below, have to be al
most carried back TO work when their
time is up. 1t would seem that mining at
such spot, at an elevation of Il, 600 feet
would not be attractive, but plenty of men
are always found.
There Is a marked contrast between the
open air and the interior of the mine both
In winter and in summer. In winter it
must be relief to escape from the arctic
storms and freezing temperature outside
TO the drifts of the mine, hundreds of feet
from the surface, where there is but little
variation in temperature the year around.
In the summer, on the contrary. the drifts
and tunnels appear cold and damp in COM
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Several jockeys at Newmarket earn
$4,000 year.
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HM4TEUR VS.. PROFESSIONAL
Baird Throws Light on Question That
Agitates the HthIetic World

SANE OF the subjects that is absorbing
f&HE the attention of tie public at the
SN present time, and particularly
young men engaged in athletics, is What
is an amateur?"
When athletics were organized on per-
manent basis in this country in 1878 one
OF the first acts performed by the newly
organized National Association of ANA
teur Athletes was to formulate detini-
tion OF an amateur This decree was COM
prised in six or seven lines and was more
important and far reaching than all the
other articles of the constitution put to-
gether. The definition of an amateur was
not only the cornerstone of the editice
that has since grown 10 such stupendous
proportions, it was the Samson's pillar
bearing the weight OF the entire structure.
The ideas therein contained were bor-
rpwed from England, the mother of anna
teur athletics, revised, modified or i'm
proved according to the judgment of the
legislators on amateur law.
When the influence of the National As
sociation began to wane and the Amateur
Athletic Union rose TO its present posi-
ton OF power an idea was circu ated that
it might be well to substitute conditions
OF competition" for the old definition of
an amateur" On the reorganization of
the cons titution Of the union upon its
present basis the two greatest changes
made We're: The partition of the country
into associations" of which there were
to be six, and (second) the adoption of the
new conditions of competition.
1t has been stated that We are indebted
tn E,nUIand for nj
The origin of the idea in that country
arose from their aristocratic establish
ment, which, as every body knows, is very
elaborate. In that country the people are
separated into two classes-"gentlemen
and commons" This division is not
clearly defined; however the line of de-
narration between the ''aristocracy" on
one hand and the laboring and artisan
classes on the other Isl so sharp that no
one can possibly make mistake. Dis
putes to the claim of gentiliIy arise
chiefly from what is termed the middle
class.
The better element of society recog-
nized the fact that there was vast differ
ence between the runner, walker and
priZe-fghter who expended all their
efforts aud most of their character on
making money, with little or no regard
for the rights of Others or their own good
name, and those who did not. True, there
were some honest men among them, but
they made very little money compared
to their dishonest brethren, and the
struggling and lonely light which they
shed only served to make the surrounding
blackness more profound. At that time
even more than at present pedestrians
slipped bit of soap in their mouths and
fell down at the critical point in race be-
fore the sympathizing spectators, foam
ing at the mouth; sprinters sold their