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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-21
Timely Topics.


In pace para bellum. In
the time of peace prepare for
war, You can't fight with
out light, and when our reser-
voirs are dry you can't rely
upon our electric lights. Semi
occasionally they will leave us
in terrible darkness and at
most inopportune moments.
Take our advice before the
Jubilee and 4th of July cele-
brations, and inspect our
DIETZ LAMPS. One of
our large square barn lamps
will re fleet as much light over
your garden grounds as q
locomotive headlight, while
our little corner lamp is just
the real exquisite necessary
for the lanai. A tubular street
lamp is a gem for the lamp
post or yonr gate, and will
prevent many accidents, Use
your common Kerosene oil
for the above md don't be
scared about the oil famine,
we have plenty. Then for
your interiors we have some
beautiful CHANDELIERS,
two, three or four burners, to
suit any taste, also some
exquisite HALL LAMPS in
which you can use oil instead
of Pickering candles, and
standing ornamental or
PIANO LAMPS of every
size, shape and price. Come
and inspect them and don't
trust to the tickle moon or
electric light.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-21
Prevent a Crush.
D. The INDEPENDENT

I'D, ] HE INDEPENDENTS
As the Executive Committee OF
the Victorian celebration meets this
evening, let me beg Of them to see
that every precaution is taken to
prevent a crush at the dance at Ia
dependence Park. We must have
no fear OF accidents there, although
double the number of invitations,
it is said, have been issued than the
hall can accommodate.
PATERFAMILIAs.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-21

What have the watchmeD on the
towers to say of the present condi-
ton Of affairs. Are life and pro-
perty safer to-day than they were
under the old order Of government
We trow not. To what influences
shall we ascribe the decentralization
that is upon us7 Can it be checked?
These are questions that good citi-
zens should consider.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-21
TOPICS or TIE DAY.

THE INDEPENDENT believes that the
man who is to be appointed resident
superintendent at the Leper Settle
ment should be person, willing to
reside there and at tho same time q
man for whom the lepers will have
respect and in whom the Board of
Health can place the utmost con-
fidence. We have not yet heard
about any suitable nominee from
the Government side. Please re-
member dear b. OF II. that the feel
ings OF the thousands of lepers on
Molokai should also be considered
before making the appointment.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-21
Born.

KNUDsEN.-June 81, in this city, to
Mrs. Knudsep, widow of o. Knud-
sen, a son.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

from taxation. In every state in the
union the wealthy money lenders have
escaped fair share Of the burdens OF
government by concealing their wealth
from the tax gatherers. AS result,
the owners of landed property and per-
sonal property that cannot be easily
placed out of sight have to bear an un-
just proportion of taxation.
The Kansas law is a move in the
right direction, and is worthy of imita-
ton in every state in the union. If all
the states were to treat the money lend
ers all alike they would gain nothing
by withdrawing their capital from one
state to place it in another where their
operations could be more easily hidden
from the assessor.-Walla Walla States
man.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

Some member Of Congress, who no
doubt reads the NUGGET, has taken our
advice and introduced bill to put a
stop to prize fighting, by prohibiting
pictures and literature relating to such
disgraceful affairs being sent through
the mails, and making it violation of
interstate commerce laws for railroads
or express companies to transport such
matter. Tally one for the NUGGET for
suggesting the enactment of such
law. When the brutes are prohibited
from using the mails, the work of their
jaws will not avail.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05
A New Source of Wealth.

Eastern hat manufacturers have re-
Gently discovered that the fur of the
american hare" is quite as good as
that of the Australian rabbit for stock
for felt hats, for which the skins of the
Australian quadrupeds have been ex-
tensively imported. The skins go
through shaving machine, and the
fur is shaved off very close. 1t is then
cleansed and subjected to variety of
processes until it comes out perfect
head covering, shapely and stylish and
ready for the bandbox. 1t requires
about half a dozen rabbit skins to
make one hat.
Now here is a newly discovered
source of wealth which may be en-
ployed by the people of the southeast
ern counties to make good the losses
incurred by the Bunting failure. All
winter they have been taking their re-
creation in organizing rabbit drives and
shooting contests and boasting how
many of the pests they have destroyed,
and kept the county auditors employed
counting scalps and paying out boun
ties for the same, when they might
have been gathering in dollars by the
sale of the skins. The hungry cayotes
have had nothing to do this winter but
pick up the carcasses of rabbits where
they have been dropped by the hunters.
Dressed rabbit meat, instead of going
to the cayotes might have helped to
feed the starving poor of the great
cities of the east. Cauldrons of delic-
ious stew or soup made from the by no
means to be dispised meat of the fe-
cund long-ea would be welcome ad-
dition to the menu served up for the
unemployed.
Start canning establishments or en-
ploy refrigerator cars tc transport this
great food product from the western /
plains to the starving east. Out of our
abundance let us feed the people made
poor by the monopolists and managers
of trusts, even though those same mon
opilists continue to call us bad names.
At the same time let us supply them
with material for the manufacture of
nobby hats and rake in as many of
their dispised silver dollars for our
rabbit skins as we may.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

To be sure it is no great thing at a
rabbit drive to round up, corral and
kill few thousand jack rabbits, but
for gun exploit, the following from
the Idaho Falls Times rather staggers
US:
The rabbit hunt Monday Was parti-
pated In by about 35 gunners and a
large number of spectators. About
1900 rabbits we're killed, besides large
lumber, which it is stated, were car
ried of by boys for their ears before
the count took place Several Grant
men were chosen on the Idaho Falls
side to fill out the ranks. The battle
for the championship was won by the
I laho Falls side by 10 rabbits, or a
gain of one in every hundred, Pretty
close shooting.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

AS will be seen by their advertise
ment in another column, the DeLamaI
Thespians will produce, for the enter
tainment of DeLamar people, that
beautiful Irish Drama, by Dion Bouci-
cault, entitled "Kathleen Mavourneen"
or "St. Patrick's Eve" The society is
sparing no pains to produce this drama
in good shape, notwithstanding the in
convenienees under which they are
laboring and, judging from their work
in the past, we can promise all who at
tend, rare treat. The proceeds, after
deducting expenses, will be donated to
Mrs. Valverde.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

We understand the receivers in the
Bunting failure have stated that the
assets are s496,OO0 and the total liabili-
tiles s284, 900. If the properties repre-
sent the above amount there will be a
surplus of s213,OO0.
1t is also stated that there are county
warrants to the amount of 1927 900
which must in time be taken up at par
by the counties. The overdrafts and
bills receivable amount to $4,000, a
good portion of which they claim as
good. The merchandise and store
buildings amount to $4,000. There is
besides five mines, one of which is said
to be a very promising one, and which
will in the near future contribute large
ly to the csncelling Of the firms in
The receivers we under
stand say, that hundred cents on a
dollar or all Indebtedness will be paid
and good surplus left to resume bust
ness with.-Idaho Falls Times.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

Only few months ago, we were
boasting that the Missouri river found
its source in Idaho. Now an explorer
says that its source is at the crest of
the Rockies, 5000 feet above sea level,
just within the boundary of Montana.
The stream is two feet wide and two in
ches deep, its waters coming from melt
ed snow. The source is 1921 miles
from the gulf and 2,945 miles from juno
ton with the Mississippi, making the
river the longest unbroken current in
the world.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

Here is a state of thingsl A ram.
bustious populist member of the Idaho
legislature has owned up to accepting
a bribe for voting for Heitfell for sena-
tor and has made oath to the fact that
he is scoundrel. His name is JONES,
and Gilmore county has to bear the re-
prosch of electing him. He wanted to
be. postmaster at Mountain Home, and
wanted to stand in with the republi-
cans to defeat Dubois, for that reward.
There will be consistency in giving him
the appointment. Boss Hanna, please
see that he gets his reward.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05
No Room for Doubt.

When the facts are before you, yop
must be convinced.
The facts are that the Union Pacific
is leading all competitors, is the 30
knowledged dining car route, and great
through car line of the west.
The line via Denver and Kansas City
to Chicago in connection with the Chi.
cago & Alton Railroad, with its excel.
ent equipment Of Free Reclining Chair
Cars, Pullman Palace Sleepers and
Pullman Diners, demands the attention
of every traveller to the east.
Ask your nearest agent for tickets
via this route.
E. L. LoMAI,
Gen. Pass. and Tiki. Aga
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

Denver to Chicago via Kansas City u
given via the Union Pacific and Chicago
& Alton Railways.
Through Pullman Sleepers, Pullman
Dining Cars and free Reclining Chair
Cars leave Denver daily. The Union
Pacific is the great through car line Of
the west. Ask your nearest ticket agent
for tickets via this line.
E. L. LoAAx,
Gen. Pass. and Tiki. Agt.,
Omaha, Nsh
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05
The DeLamsr, New. Shut Down.

The action of Captain De La Mar in
closing his great mine and mill at De-
Lamar, Nevada, because a Miners
Union had been organized there, was
not only taking the bull by the horns
with vengance but he even went into
the corral to catch the bull. He as
serts that his camp shall not be made a
Leadville if he can prevent it. Con-
ceding that the miners have better
right to organize for their own protec-
tion than capitalists have to organize
trusts, we must contend that the stu
alton in that camp did not justify the
men in preparing to make demand
for an increase of wages, provided that
was their intention; and unless Cap
tain De La Mar has some means of
knowing that such was their intention,
his action must be viewed as at least
hasty, in giving up the receipt of so
large revenue on the mere surmise
that the men proposed to combine
against him. His action will work a
great hardship upon the business men
of the camp, and their isolated situa-
alton will increase the hardship. On
the other hand De La Mar has the ex-
periences in the Ceur d'Alenes and at
Leadville to teach him what the situa-
tt, mi ,ht be if he awaited the action
of the miners. He made great camp
out of a desert, gave employment to
hundreds of men at wages which were |
to them or they would |
not gone across wide desert to accept |
such wages. He has, as he formerly |
did in this camp, done all that could |
be expected for the comfort and con-
venience of employees, and he must
have changed most wonderfully since
be left Idaho if he is not still one of
the most obliging of employers. He
Justly claims that be went to the New
ada camp when there was scarcely
shelter to stop in over night and spent
100000 there before he received dol
ar in return, considerable portion of
hat sum in providing water, electric
lights, a telephone and other conven-
ences for the camp and that if the en-
oloyees are now organizing to make
demands on him, he is justifable in
hutting down and, to quote his own
angusge, "giving the miners time to re-
ieet."
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

News comes from the Pacific coast to
the effect that the big powder compan-
les operating in San Francisco, have
signed agreements whereby a mammoth
powder trust has been perfected. For
several years past there has been a war
raging between the different manufac-
turers, and it is said that the powder
consumers have profted thereby, and
that the profits to the shareholders
have been but slight. If this combina.
ton carries out its designs, the price
of powder will be advenced two or three
cents per pound, all of which will fall
on the consumer. We have no doubt
as to the results. We don't think that
the large mining companies will stand
such sudden and big advance in their
powder consumption. 1t was just
about such an unreasonable demand
that led them to go into the lumber
business and the coal business and sew
eral other branches of commercial busi-
ness. 1t would not be unreasonable to
expect them to branch cut still further
and go into the powder manufacturing
business. If they do, it will be safe to
say tLat they will be able to make
saving just as they have done in other
branches, and that the sale Of the pow
der companies will be next to nothing
in the mining districts and states.-
Butte Mining World.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

Quite a party of gentlemen came
down from Silver City last night, to
visit the Odd Fellows Lodge meeting.
The NUGeFT acknowledges pleasant
call from Messrs. Theo Nette and L. A.
York. The former gentleman was OBJ
liged to own up that this was his first
visit to DeLamar for four years.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05
One Good Kansas Law.

The Kansas legislature has passed
one measure, at least, that appears to
have some merit. 1t provides that all
promissory notes made in that state
must be stamped by the county asses
sor in order to make them collectable.
This law will make it very difficult to
hide this class of personal property
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

1t looks as though the God of War
was Greecing up his chariot for bust
ness in Europe. The combined powers
have not been able to frighten the
christians in Crete and King George, of
Greece is showing that his spinal col
umn is not in need of porous plaster.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

1t is President Mckinley now. Now
look once more for that business con
fidence which was to have appeared i'm
mediately after bis election but failed
to arrive.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

The NJ. E. church, from now until
further announcement Is made, viii
hold services with preaching every Sun.
day evening. Class meeting from 6:4o
until 7:15; regular service begins ~
7:30, p. IN.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

We learn, just as the paper goes to
press, that the infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Carpenter died this morn
ing, about three O'Clock.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

The Owyhee Bakery, at Silver City
is delivering bread at Isay & Gombris's
DeLamar store daily. Four loaves
graham, wheat or rye bread, made By
white expert baker for IS cents. Leave
orders at the store.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

Did you feel any particular jar or
bump of the continent, about twelve
O'Clock, Atlantic time, yesterday
Probably not. Good bye, old Grover,
good bye
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

Shea & McLain have just received
the largest and best line Of Boots and
Shoes ever shown In DeLamsr. Give
them call.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

Now for new deal in Hiwaiin and
Cuban affairs, but-Sherman is Secre-
tary of State. A war with Spain might
affect the interests of the sound money
crowd.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

AS will be seen by advertisement in
another column, Henry Warren has
purchased the Richards boarding house
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05
LOCAL NOTICES

Shea & McLain have been appointed
distributing agents for the Brown Shoe
Cos celebrated *5* Boots and Shoes.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05
LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining unclaimed at the Della
mar post-office, February %, 1897:
Banat Richard Beale Ames
Best H A Bake VIM D
Caffee J NJ Dooley John
Dolin Hank Lattimer
Williams F J3 Mcclure Charles 9
Parties calling for any of the above
letters will please say "advertized,"
giving date.
Mrs. S. F. CRossoN, Postmistress.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05
Dissolution OF Partnsrship.

The Copartneship heretofore exiattng BE-
tween Woo King and All Kaw IN gardening
at Trout Creek, has been dissolved this day
by Woo King transferring his entire interest
to All Raw, who has sole authority TO settle
all accounts and collect bills OF said co-par-
nership.
All KAW.
Trout Crock. Idahs, Fsby. lS ~.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05

HoI Ye hungry and wesFyi Come
unto me and I will feed you and give
you rest.
Having purchased the above named
Boarding and Lodging House, am
prepared to give accommodations to
limited number Of boarders and will
strive to merit share Of the public
patronage.
Respectfully Yours,
HENRY WARIxN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-06
HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL,
Project to Connect New York and
New Jersey Revived.

New York, Aug. 6-The Hudson Riv-
er tunnel project to connect New York
and New Jersey has been revived
Plans are now being perfected to re-
sumo construction where it was drop
ped five years ago. The first step will
be the filing of the foreclosure papers
by the law firm that represented the
English bondholders against the tun-
mel property.
1t will be sold and bid in by the
stockholders and then everything will
be legally cleared for a reorganization
and a new issue of bonds. Engineers
say that an expenditure of $500. 600
will complete the work. Four million
dollars had already been spent before
the work was abandoned at which time
there We're 1916 feet of completed tun-
mel going east from the shaft in Jersey
City. One thousand feet of this distance
extends east of the middle of the Hud-
son river.
In addition there were IFS feet COM
pleted westward from the New York
shaft at the foot of Morton street, leav-
ing only about 1000 feet to be con-
structed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-06
The Combination Invades Kan.
sas Once Again.
Will Establish a Big Plant Out
at Hutchinson.
1000 BARRELS DAILY.
Move Means a Bitter Fight For
Supremacy
Between Kansas and Michigan
Manufacturers.

Hutchinson. Aug 6-The Michigan
Salt association, commonly known as
the salt trust has at last decided to
invade the Kansas field, and will con-
struct manufacturing plant at Hutch
inson with a capacity of 1000 barrels
daily.
Joy Morton of Chicago, the general
sales agent of the trust, is engineering
the deal. and has just purchased a tract
of 40 acres adjoining the city as a site
for the new works.
This new move means a bitter fight
between the salt trust and the Kansas
manufacturers for supremacy in the
territory west of the Missouri river
Heretofore. excepting a few short per
iodS of contest, there has been a quasi
agreement to some extent enforced by
the railroads, that the Missouri river
should in a general way be the divid-
ing line between the Michigan and the
Kansas salt manufacturers, the KAN
sas people in the main supplying the
packing houses at Kansas City and
Omaha
Four years ago Morton came here and
then owned by Ely & Easley, and
on their own ground for a few months
but finally abandoned the field, be
cause it was understood, the Santa F'e
and the Missouri Pacific railroads gave
the Kansas producers such rebates in
freight that he could not compete Now
that his brother, Paul Morton, is a vice
president of the Santa Fe. it is under
stood that Joy Morton believes he can
have a fair show at the trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-06

Richard Davey, in his book. "The
Sultan and His Subjects says:
LAS to the sultan himself, his life is
Of the simplest and most arduous. He
rises at 6 and works with his secreta-
ries until noon, when he breakfasts
After that he takes drive or a row on
the lake. within his vast park When
he returns, he gives audience to the
grand viZier, the sheik -ul-islam, and
other officials. At 8 O'Clock he dimes,
sometimes alone, not infrequently in
company with one of the ambassadors.
Occasionally his majesty entertains the
wives and daughters of the ambassadors
and other Pera notabilities at dinner.
The meal, usually a very silent one, is
served in gorgeous style, la Franchise,
ON the finest of plate and the most ex-
quisite Of porcelain. The treasures Of
silver and the Sevres at Yildiz are hors
de ligne, both in quantity and quality
Very often in the evening Abdul Ham
i'd plays duets on the piano with his
younger children. He is very fond of
light music, and his favorite score is
that of La File de Nine. Angot.' He
dresses like an ordinary European gen
tleman. always wearing a frock coat,
the breast Of which, On great occasions,
is richly embroidered and blazing with
decorations -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-06
STOLE HER OWN DAUGHTERS.
Tennessee Woman Goes to Wichita
and Kidneps Her Two Little Girls.

Wichita, Aug. 6.-Mrs. Mary Ticher
yesterday afternoon kidnapped her two
daughters, Pearl and Edna : and g
years old, respectively, from her former
husband, Gordon Hill, proprietor of the
Douglas Avenue hotel
Mrs. Ticher arrived here Wednesday
night from Woodbury., Tenn. and stop
ped at the City hotel Yesterday morn
ing she went to Mrs. Jane Everett. who
claimed friendship with both former
husband and wife. Mrs. Everett sent a
note to Mr.. Hill. asking him to let the
little girls spend the day with her Hill
complied with the request, and their
mother ordered buggy and, taking the
two girls, drove TO Greenwich and
caught the Missouri Pacific train there
for the east Mrs. Everett waited until
o'clock this evening, when she rushed
to NTH and told him that his daugh~
teTS had been carried away by their
mother. Mr.. Hill notified the police and
kilograms were sent out to arrest Mrs
Ticher-
Two years ago Mr.. Hill was divorced
and given the custody of the children
He remarked, as also did Mrs. Hill
she becoming Mrs. Ticher. Mr. Hill is
frantic over the affair and vows he will
kill his former wife if she is caught.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-06

Many years ago the farmers of Aus
tralia imported bumblebees from Eng
land and set them free in their clover
fields. Before the arrival of the bees
clover did not flourish in Australia,
but after their coming the farmers had
no more difficulty on that score. Mr..
Darwin had shown that bumblebees
were the only insects fond of clover nee
tar which possessed a proboscis sufh
GENTLY long to reach the bottom Of the
long, tubelike flowers and at the same
time body heavy enough to bend down
the clover head so that the pollen would
fall on the insects back and thus be
carried of to fertilize other flowers Of
the same species. According to writer
in Popular Science News. the humble
bees sent to Australia cost the farmers
there about half a dollar apiece, bus
they proved to be worth the price