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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05
STATE NEWS.

Beaumont is to have a milf
tary company.
Bell county has called q
road overseer's convention.
Gonzales is to have a new
$4,000 public school building.
Tyler has organized demo-
cratic club with a membership Of
$50.
-Yoakum celebrated her 10th
birthday in grand style on July
18th.
Panhandle farmers are hold
ing their wheat for an advance in
price.
There are now 16 machinists
at work in the Santa Fe shops at
Cleburne.
Martinez, the Mexican rape
fiend, was hanged at Floresvil1e
last Friday.
Rev. Abe Mulkey is storm
ing the citadel of sin at Manor
and great interest is being taken
in his meetings.
Harvey Montgomery, of
Corpus Christi, has been re-
instated as chief clerk of the rail-
way mail service.
Cotton worms have made
their appearance on Colorado
river bottom farms, but as yet
have done little or no damage.
Efforts are being made at
La Grange to re-organize the
Fayette Light Guard under the
leadership of Capt. Geo. Will
rich.
The San Antonio and Gulf
railroad has reached Alum creek,
our miles from Stockdale, and
will be completed to that place In
line for the fall shipments.
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Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way to cure Deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infsmed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustschian Tube.
When this tube gets infismed you have a
rumbling sound er imperfect hearing, and
when il IS entirely closed Deafness is the re-
suit, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its norma
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of tea are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed condition OF
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness caused by catarh)that can
not be cured by Halls Cstarrh Cure. Send
tor circulars, free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Ha Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

TEXAS Farm and Ranch thinks
that if the real object of the
party in power was to raise rev.
enue, as they declare, without
hurting anybody, they would
and could and should raise all
that is needed by a tax on whis-
ky, beer and tobacco. But there
is a whisky trust, a beer trust
and a tobacco trust, and hence
these sources of revenue are left
as they are. 1t is not at all like
ly that government expenditures
will ever decrease-ever fall be-
low $500, 100000 a year. On the
contrary, it is as certain as any,
thing in the future can be, that
these expenses will increase, IN
til the full limit of the peoples
ability to pay is reached. Con-
gress will appropriate all they
can get, and when not busy ap-
propriating will be devising ways
and means for getting more. 1t
is now the most perfect spending
machine ever invented or con-
ceived, but containing undevel-
oped possibilities for still greater
working capacity. Whisky, beer
and tobacco taxes, even if put on
thick, would be felt less by the
people than any other.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05
BALL HITS THE TARIFF BILL.

THE republican experiment OF
confidence and prosperity by
raising taxes is an effort to cross
the modern faith cure with the
ancient school of blood-letting
surgery"
That truthful sentence, says the
Waxahachie Light, was uttered
by Congressman Thomas H. Ball
of the first district of Texas in
course Of his speech on the tariff
bill while that measure was under
discussion in the house. 1t was
the first speech of Mr.. Ball since
entering congress, and it has at
once made him a reputation as a
bold and earnest exponent of the
rights of the people. He closed
his speech as follows:
"When this bill is passed your
gold standard democratic allies
will say that the campaign won,
the money question has been
converted into a feast of tariff
debauchery. Gold standard tar
if reformers will not be satisfied
with tariff robbery; organized
labor has not realized on repub-
lican profits of more work at bet
ter wages; business interests,
pressing for a bankruptcy bill,
are not jubilant over the exploits
of our 'bimetallic rovers,' or the
belated message favoring a far
cical currency commission; de-
layed pension claimants will not
glory in the invasion of Europe
by Gen. Miles; striking miners
find no consolation in the queens
jubilee, or Whitelaw Reid's nap
in Windsor Castle; lovers of lib
erty will not accept the acquisi-
ton of the Hawaiian lepers as
atonement for the betrayal of
Cuban patriots. The wrath of an
outraged people in 1900 will
cover the republican party as the
molten lava from Vesuvius did
the ancient cities of Pompeii and
Herculaneum."
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THE Southwestern Industrial
News is the name of new paper
soon to make its appearance at
Waco, with Mr.. George Byrne,
one of the brightest photographers
on the Texas press, as editor, and
John Hoeny, Jr., as business
manager. 1t will be devoted to
the upbuilding and industrial in
terests of the Southwest. We
wish the projectors abundant
success.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05
All who are afflicted with
Scrofula. Eczema. letter.


Scrofula, Eczema, letter,
Cancer, Carbuncles, Rheumatism.
Contagious Blood Poison,
Catarrh, or any other form of blood
troubles, will find in S. S. S. a prompt
and permanent cure; it matters not
how deep seated the disease, or what
other treatment has failed. Carbuncles
are the result of an impoverished con-
dition of the blood, causing depressed
vitality and such low state of health
that it is difficult for the system to with
stand even the mildest illness.
MIR. Joseph c. Mygatt, OF No. 400 Han
cock Ave, Athens, Ga, says: 90 1 con-
tracted blood poison from dye, which
developed such alarming symptoms,
that my life was almost despaired Of
At one time there were fourteen car
bunc1es on my body, and my suffering
was such that for months was unable
to do any work. The best physician
in our city treated me constantly, but
his efforts were of no avail, my coudi-
ton growing worse all the while.
as. S. S. was recommended, and after
had taken the first bottle, an i'm
provement was noticed. grew better
every day, and after taking six bottles
was entirely cured. The carbuncles
all disappeared, leaving my skin ger
fectly clear, and have never had one
SINCE
There is not disease of the blood,
it matters not how severe, which s.
S. S. will not cure. 1t is guaranteed
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

VERY few white men are said
to be able to endure the severity
OF the climate, with the great
scarcity of food and other neces-
sites, in Alaska. They have
from nine to ten months of Sc
we're wintry weather in that
country, with snow from eight to
ten feet deep, which virtually
shuts off all communication with
the outside world.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05


A CORRESPONDENT of the New
York World, in discussing the
marriage problem, says "The
real trouble about marriage is
the artifciality of modern life,
and both men and women are to
blame for it. The principal cost
of living is money paid for abso-
lutte superfluities that bring no
comfort and no real pleasure to
anybody. Fine clothes, fine
houses, display of every kind,
false pretenses, social fads-
these are the things that make
living too expensive for most peo-
pie. Our grandfathers and
grandmothers had no difficulties
of that kind to contend with, be-
cause they lived naturally.
When we learn to live naturally
again we shall have no further
trouble of this kind. Isn't all
our trouble due to the fact that
we buy things that we don't
want q? 1t takes very little to
support a family if you only buy
the things you do want. It's the
shams, not the pillows, that
counts"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

"A conference of all the lead
ing Baptist ministers in the State
is called to meet at Temple on
Monday, August %, 1897, for the
sole purpose of discussing thor
oughly the subject "The
Work of the Holy Spirit. The
meeting will last three days and
from 100 to 200 ministers are ex-
pected.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

A TOPEKA, Kansas, dispatch
of the Goth inst, states that a
movement is on foot among the
insurance superintendent Of the
Western States to join hands in a
wholesale investigation of the
financial condition of the various
Eastern fire and life Insurance
companies. 1t is said that al
ready things have progressed to
such a point that an investiga-
ton is assured. Capt. McNall,
of the Kansas insurance depart
ment, whose fight on Eastern in
surance companies has brought
him into prominence, is one of
the prime movers, and it was
through him that the informa-
ton became public. The object
is two-fold, one is for the protec-
ton of Western policy holders
and the other is to try and find
some irregularity in the manage
ment of the big Eastern concerns.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

AS EXPECTED England now
lays claim to that portion of
Alaska territory in which the re-
cent rich gold discoveries have
been made.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THREE government surveying
parties are now in the field max
ing an official survey of the
Chickasaw nation. This force
will be increased as the work in
the Chickasaw and Creek nations
is finished.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

FARMERS of the Indian Ter
ritory report a good yield of oats.
The crops have threshed so far
from fifty to eighty-five bushels
to the acre. This is far above
the ordinary yield.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

SECRETARY JENKINS, of Okla
homa, has chartered the Navajo
Mining and Townsite company,
with capital stock of $1,000, to
build towns and operate mines in
Greer county.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05
IA
CarbunCleS!

It's the same story. The experience
of all sufferers with blood diseases IS
identical. First the doctors are con-
suited, and their prescription of potash
and mercury is taken faithfully, but
without result. Months pass, and the
mercuria1 dose is continued, until
finally, his condition being no better
or often worse, the patient becomes
discouraged and decides to change
treatments
Patent medicines are then taken,
but until the right one is found the
results are the same. S. S. S. Is the
only blood remedy on the market
which is guaranteed purely vegetable
1t is the only one that contains no
mercury, no potash, or other mineral,
and therefore is the only one that
promptly gets at the bottom of an
blood diseases and cures permanently.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

OWNERS of Southern cotton
mills are preparing to put in
looms for the production of a
finer line of goods.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

JOSEPH hartley, ex-Treasurer
of Nebraska, has been sentenced
to thirty years in the penitentiary
on account of crookedness re-
sorted to in handling the States
finances.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THE Alaskan gold mine fever is
spreading all over this State, and
hundreds of our people are pre-
pairing to leave for Klondyke as
soon as they can get off.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THE editor of the Houston
Press seems to have become
monomaniac on the subject of
bicycles and base ball.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THE democrats of Indianapolis,
the home of Mr.. Bynum, have
nominated municipal ticket, en-
dorsed the Chicago platform, and
expect to elect all their nominees.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

Mr.. PowDERLY is said to favor
immediate arbitration on the OBJ
jectens to his confirmation urg-
ed by the members of the
Knights of Labor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

GoLDBUG democrats in Bosque
county are said to be woefully
disappointed over their failure to
receive an equitable distribution
of Federal pie.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05
Purely Vegetable

and is 4 real blood remedy for real
blood troubles, promptly reaching the
seat of the disease, and forcing it out
permanently.
Books on cancer, and blood and skin
diseases mailed free to any address.
Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THE Cuba and Hawaiian ques-
tons have both been carried over
until the December, or regular
session of congress.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

HON. CARL SCHURz is said to
have been seized with a fresh
attack of office seeking minia;
and he has it bad, too.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THE railroads of this State have
very wisely decided to have
nothing to. do with the Steamship
rate war now on tap at Calves
Ton
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

WHAT Texas needs just now to
aid in developing her natural re-
is a heavy immigration
of sturdy, energetic, industrious
farmers. She already has
enough professional men and
dead beats to subserve present
purposes.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

A SCHEME is now on foot hav-
ing for its object the building of
a railroad to the Yukon country,
in Alaska. The road is to be
$50 miles in length and is to be
capitalized at So, 100000.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

SEVERAL failures of bicycle
manufacturers have occurred as
a result of the recent decline in
prices of wheels.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THE Houston Light Guard won
the Infantry camp prize at the
San Antonio drill, valued at
about $500.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THE latest rifle for army use
shoots so shots a minute without
removing the gun from the
shoulder.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

THE United States coined dur
ing the past fiscal year S95, $685.
DOL; of this S71, 646, 705 was gold.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

A GOLD brick worth $4,000.
weighing 260 avoirdupois,
reached New York last week.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

LARGE petroleum deposits have
been discovered IN Venezuela.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

TWENTY thousand delegates
attended the Epworth League
Conference at Toronto, Canada.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

JAPAN is evidently attempting
to run a big bluff on Uncle Sam
in that Hawaiian matter.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

OUR exports of both wheat and
corn are reaching phenomenal
proportions.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

IT is said that Oregon will har-
vest the largest wheat crop ever
produced in that State.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

Brennan, Thursday, August ), 1897.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05

SPEEDY trials and severe pun
ishment should be given all rape
fiends.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05
The Weekly Banner.

JOHN G. RANKIN, Editor and Proprietor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-05
AN OLD WAR LETTER.

In looking over his fathers
papers and letters the other day
Lowndes G. Smith, Esq, came
across the following letter written
during the war by the late H. D.
Donald, Esq, which letter the
Citizen has kindly been permitted
to reproduce. The letter was
printed as extra by the Citizen in
March, 1865, and is as follows:
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-24
MILLIONS IN PAINTING.
The Hertford-WHIince Collection Is
Worth SiY,50O,GOO.

Worth &Y,5OO,GO0. b.,
The celebrated Observation-Disclosures col
lection Of pictures bequeathad to the
British nation by Lady Wallace is esti-
mated 10 be worth 81, 5OO,0GJ. Ter mag
ranimity, says the Boston Transcript,
- all the more noteworthy because she
IYas struck off the queens visiting list
many years ago.
Sir Richard Wallace died on July 20,
1880, leaving behind him the most IA
mou@ art collection of any Englishman.
The whole of Sir Richards great wealth
and the peerless collection of pictures
(Which includes 10 examples of Nelson
icr and Is of Greuze) were given to his
wife for her own free disposition. Prior
to his death, however, he expressed his
wishes to his wife that after her death
his superb collection of works of art
Should go to England's national gallery
and that his wish in this respect should
be carried out she arranged several
years ago.
The magnificent Hartford collection
comprised when it passed into Sir Rich
ard Wallacc's hands splendid assort~
ment of paintings, porcelains, bronzes,
decorative furniture, jewelry and other
works of art. His own purchases dur
ing the past 80 years included many Of
the choicest examples of old japanese
art, which he was one of the first to
bring to the attention of European
connoisseurs; Of the masters of the
Italian renaissance, notably the produc-
tions in silver of Benvenuto Cellini and
his immediate followers and Of modern
French painters.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-24
A DOG THAT GAN TEST METALS.
silver TtD Knows Good Money from
Bad, Every Time.

Ba0, Every Time.
No bank teller in Iowa has .trller
instinct for real, genuine cart-wheel
silver dollars than has Rock Rapids
dog called Silver Tip, says the Chicago
Times-Herald. Silver Tip is tan-colored
and weighs about ten pounds. All his
two years of life he has been the prop
erty of Landlord Barber, of the Lyon
hotel, at Rock Rapids, but it is only
within the last year that his power Of
immediate insight into the nature of
metals has become known to his owner.
The waySTip manifests his powers,
as his owner puts it, is as follows: If
one takes pile of ccins the size of an
American dollar-say a trade dollar
Mexican dollar, a five-franc piece and
some counterfeit dollars-and puts one
genuine dollar piece in the center of
the pile, Tip will rummage around
among them for an inxtunt end ther
snatch the good coin and proceed to
take care of it in approved deg fashion
to an accompaniment Of growls and
bites. Or il one rolls a coin along the
floor Tip can tell every tine whether
it is good stuff to be chased.
Tip never makes mistake, and there
isn't d bit of doubt about lis powers.
He has been tested by Cl.icago bust
ness men and by committees of Iowa
scientists. He gets no human ''clY IN
his work. The good coin is not marked
in any peculiar way for his benefit.
nor is it scented. Anyone can use his
own coin in the experiment. 40" does
Tips powers depend on sigrs frovn his
master. The latter leaves the room
without detracting from the dogs abil-
ity in the lenst
Mr.. Barber has refused all offers for
the purchase CT Tip.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-24
OIN7 STATEMENT

IF AUDITOR AND TIsEASUiikIt
OF ELKO COUNTY. .
For the Quarter Ending Juno
30, 1897.
TATE OF NEVADA, "a.
County OF Elko.
AUDITORS OFFICE.
To the Honorable Board OF County Commls.
sioners Of Elko County, Nevada:
GENTLEMEN: We herewith submit our Quar-
erly Report OF the Finances Of the County
tor the quarter ending June 80 1897.
Respectfully submitted:
GA. WATKINS
Auditor,
IA. MCBRIDE. .a...
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-24
S23,56s 80

IRbh6Ohhft y nNLhNOH ShEETs
Cash in Treasury to tie credit Of the
various funds, June 30, 1897:
In State fund. ............S 800 81
Judges salary fund. ....... -
In general county fund.-. 555 IS
In cash contingent fund.-. 8 20
In INDECENT sick fund o D.. 16 30
In county school fund. 80. 90 65
In officers salary fund. -. ei2 10
In road fund. .......... :.
In County High School fund 534 Is
Elko Go. Spec. H. S. fund o
d ...... ........... -. 253 o6
Elko Go High School bond
redemption fund. ....... 1856 II
Total. ...-............ S2,308 70
The herald., 1897-06-02
INSURANCE

What Is "the amount Of insurance writ
ten In a policy" Of fire insurance? This in
quiry is provoked by the bill now before
the Illinois legislature-uness II has
passed-which has the above wording.
There is no fixed amount Of insurance
written In a policy, the policy being one
Of indemnity. in which the only amount
fixed is the actual cash value of the goods
destroyed. not exceeding certain
amount Mr.. Trousdale said that 1t was
high time that the people should take
them (meaning the companies) ''by the
throat, and make them disgorge, or at
least stop stealing" Another statesman
argued that If companies insured property
In excess of its value. let them abide the
consequences. The trouble with that is that
the consequences fall upon the rest of US
and not on the insurance companies. It Is
premiums that pay losses and not the
companies. They are only the agents Of
the public In that matter. and need not
The herald., 1897-06-02
California Fruit Sales

NEW YORK, June 1.-California dried
fruits steady; evaporated apples. wire,
prime 4AG4A; wood dried, prime Az;
choice 41a@4a; fancy, 1905; prunes. 21sG7,
as to size and quality; apricots, Royal, so
10; Moorpark 12Q14; peaches, unpeeled, GO
10; peeled, 11@12.
CHICAGO, June 1.-The Earl Fruit COM
pany sold California fruit today as fol-
lows: Apricots, Seeding, $1.00q1. .65 per half
crate; Pringle, $105Q1.S5. Cherries-Black
Tartarian, 5Oc@s1.OO per box; Bigareau,
S1.00; Royal Annie. S0c@$1.00.
Porter Bros. Company sold: Apricots,
seedlings, s1.4O per half crate; Pringles, SIC
& $1.20 Cherries-Royal Anne, 35c&s1. 35
per box; Tartarians, 15c& $115: Bigareaus,
S0&S5c; Centennials, 40&65c: Governor
Woods, 20&65c; Pontiac. 55c: Black Repub-
licans. 40&55c; Rockports. S0&45c
NEW YORK, June 1.-Porter Bros. COM
pany sold today: Tartarian cherries, So. &c
&S3.75; Royal Annes, s1.00&2.05; Bigareaus,
$110; Belle Crowns, $105&2.00; Governor
Woods, 95c&$1.40. Apricots-Pringles, 81 65
&S1.70 per half crate.
The Earl Fruit company sold: Apricots
-Pringles, $1.50G1.70 per half crate. Cher
ries-Royal Anne, s1.O0@1.75 per box: black
Bigareau, S5c@s1.25: Black Tartarian, 75c@
$1.S5. Some in poor condition sold for less