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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-29
AFTER THE'pAT1I,E.
A Domestic. InfeIieity hn.a4y WI ~ y +

Domestic, Infelicity. hnd4yPha az HEapr
pened to the essSf TT
A Washingt6 ton lawyer ssflife fs:aHt er en-,
tirely without agreeable 3eatSSfk b., Ill
though possibly the first syllable ;oS
that word is not always spelled led,
says the Star, of that city. s,t,s
Recently one had client, 3 y6hy thatiief,
unobtrusive young mark 81 in4 10
owned and cont uct4d a. Iaa ets sSaisdeS y,
somewhere beyond the ietitY II ta 81 sEt
seems that the young ,feii low s4 sd At SilsSs
trouble with his father ill., q
Adlesome old man who had aIy
posed on tho husbands of his dauah VI ~
and after it was over he cameto consult
the attorney, whom he he'd, known for u
long time. wv 81
"Um-um," said the attorney, thought.
fully, after hearing part Of the story,
your father-in-law charged you with
treating your wife harshly2"
eyes, sir" was the brief answer.
what did you do?"
ITO ber?" &f& s ~ :
mo; to him. $3.50
II denied the charges from start to
finish, and so did she"
"Whnt did lie do then2f
81 "Callcd mo n Harsn Is -
What did you do2'
''Hit him one-LiuBt one, sir
what did he do them"
Nothing, sir. The doctors done the
rest"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-29
There Was No Foul.

a New York dispatch says: Monday
Bob F'itzsimmons witne sed the vera
scope pictures of the Carson fight for
the first time. He made excited COM
ments on the blows as they repeated
on the canvas. After the exhibition
when asked for his opinion Of the
verascope pictures, Fitzsimmons said:
@They are excellent. They show. no
foul, and I am going to sue the World
md Journal for damages.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-29
1T WAS A. COLD DAY. g.
Had to Heat this Ice to Get water-A
Modern Ananina.


Modern Annnina.
"B-r-r-r-r!" said the man from Potato
Creek, crowding UP to the stove, ac-
cording to the Indianapolis Journal:
Purity cold"
"Yas," said the grocer, sit is purity
frosty fer the time of year. I see it
went 25 below in Helena, which think
it n good thing that the town has them
last two syllables in it's name, or it
would be about as hard to believe Us
some of them yarns of old AnaDias over
there" ...
The man with the ginger beard looked
up and said: "Who you calm old Ara
nias2 Any of ye ever ketch me in lie2"
No. said the grocer, 81 guess you
never was ketched in lie yit. Anyone
that kin lie as fast ez you kin amt liable
to git kctche - ;,,at fsls 4 .;r.,f.
"9ut, speaking of cold s1e9thsr,s said
: the man with the ginger beard s..i guess
it was about as cold in Winnipeg, in the
I fall Of ii65 ash ever see IT,. eF any Body
else"
"How cold was ,it3" asked ths man
from Potato Creek. s,tSS. - #s
Il wal, ez fur, ezI degrees below zero
goes, I can't tell you nothin, about that, 9
said the man with the ginger beard,
FER they wuzn't no monetefs long
enough fer to measure it but BI 40
know that when we wanted 10 gitkgater
to drink the ice was froae soharl that
we had to heat it red hot 'afore 1t would
begin to melt" 81 Is. - s,4H h I. TN. Z.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-29
AT THE
Hall of E1kO Lodge, No. Is
At 1880 p. IN. sharp.
MAY 50, 1897.
PROGRAMME:

Immediately After the Exercises
in the Hall the Marshal viii form a
procession and proceed to @iei ceme-
terry to decorate the graves, in accord
ance with the ceremonies adopted by
the Sovereign Grand Lodge At the
conclusion Of the ceremonies at the
cemetery, the procession will reform
and return to- town. ftSfi fs5iaSAs'
All visiting or soinorning Brothers,
all Societies, and the public generally
are invited to join with the Lodge in
the observance Of tho day.
BY order Of thu Committee.
5.26.td.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-29

WHEN bilious or oostive. eat a
Cascaret, candy cathsrtic, cure guar.
anteod, 10c, 25c. ..
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-29
Don't Tobacco spit and Smoke Your
Life Away.

|. If You want to quit tobacco using
easily and fore YER. be made well.
strong, magnetic, full Of new life and
vigor, take No-To BAG. the wonder
worker that makes weak men strong.
Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 100000 cured. Buy No To BAG
from your own druggist, who will
guarantee cure. Booklet and sample
MALE free. Ad. Sterling Remedy
Co., Chi .ago or New York.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-29
/, Collection Agency

Ifdor,sd By the Leading Firms Of IN
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what isY
The INTERSTATE CoMMERcIAI.
AND COLLECTION AGENCY. 8i,65,
Send your slow accounts TO them for %,
cotton. 1 81 f3,
Once, 30 Fifth Street. Sacramento, Cal
Don't delay. Call ~ once and lot us have
ysur besinAss
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-29
Fourth Of July Committee.

L uo OuTLu u July LOuuulGtSo IuoL
at the courthouse Friday evening and
transacted the following business:
The sub committees wero called on
for reports.
The committee on literary exercises
submitted the following program,
which was adopted: g..
ELKo, New, May %, 1897.
To Committee of Arrangements.
Fourth of July: Your sub commit
tee on Literary Exercises beg leave
to submit the following program Of
literary exercises:
I. Music by the Band.
2. OPENING address, President of
the Day.
8. Song, aAmerica," Audience and
Choir.
4. Prayer. Rev. John Dawson.
S. Music by the Band.
6. Reading Declaration OF Inde-
pendence, j. T. Wheeler.
7. Song, "Star Spangled' Banner"
Choir. .....
8. Grafton. e. S. Harrington.
9. Song..aA Thousand Years My
Own Columbia" Choir.
10. Benediction, Rev. ]. M. Don
aldson. ...
IL. Music by the Band.
..... G. H.,SPRouLE.
Chairman sub committee.
The committee on printing re-
ported that the cost of advertising in
each of the town papers and the
printing of 100 half sheet. posters
would he S4450. The report was
adopted and the.comulittee instructed
to have the work done. .'
The committee on music submitted
bids from the Elko and Eureka
Bands as follows: Elko band to fur
nish music during the day for $50 for
twelve pieces; the Eureka band TO
furnish music during the day and
night for $3.50. On motion the bid of
the Elko Band was accepted. The
committee also submitted bids to
furnish music for the dance from L.
Winhamantel for $50 and Womack &
Rodgers for $40. including four pieces
and caller. The bid If Womack &
Rodgers was accepted. .,
The committee on car Of State re.
ported that the expense of getting it
up would be- s35 and that the God
dess of Liberty would be chosen by
ballot at five cents per ballot. Tho
committee was authorized to prepare
the car Of State and $35 was appro-
priated therefor. '.....
On motion $40 was appropriated
for decorating the fire apparatus for
the boys between the ages of ten and
ID years.
The committee on refreshments
reported progress. After some dis
cussion Of this feature of the celebra
ton the sum Of $50 was appropriated
for refreshments. 1t was the. sense
OF the committee that the children
be furnished ice cream and lemonade
free on that day. - -,
On motion the following appropria-
tons we're made:
Fifty dollars for the horrible spar.
ade; 300 for the pavilion, $50 fo& the
base ball game; $3.50 for salutes. On
motion the chairman appointed G. n,
Sproule, g. w. Bruce and E. H.
Mead to prepare programme of the
entire celebration and submit. il to
the committee at a meeting TO be
held Monday evening.
1t was announced that Edgar
Relnhart had rendered his resigns.
ton as President Of the Day. On
motion the matter was laid over un-
til mex. meeting. ..,., .,...3 .y1A
The chairman. and secretary were
instructed TO invite the different So
cieties to join in the parade. .,
The committee then adjourned til;
Monday, May 3lst, at s p, M.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
The Postal Service.

For the fiscal year just closed the re-
ceipts of the postoflice department
amounted to Ss2, ,665, 462 and the total
expenditures to S94 ,O77,242, leaving a
deficit of S11,411,7SO. The bulk of this
deficit came from the Improbable
handling of second class mail matter
books issued in magazine form, fake
advertising schemes, and papers rep
resenting the frayed edges of Journal
isra. If there were a reclassiflcation
Of this class of business, which in bulk
and costlness of handling is the de-
partment's great bug-bear, it is the
opinion of experts that the annual de-
felt, which is now growing instead of
shrinking, would soon disappear
In the forthcoming report of the
third assistant postmaster general will
appear the recommendation that pre-
payment in full of all mail matter be
required hereafter. The report says
the department is and has for years
past been suffering a heavy loss of
revenue from the failure of postmasters
to rate up and collect postage on first
class mail matter not fully prepaid.
Very little loss of this kind occurs in
connection with the mailing and deliv-
cry of third and fourth class matter
because the law requires full prepay
ment on these classss. The bulk Of
such loss is in the first class matter
The government, General Merritt
thinks, is losing enough money in the
way indicated to warrant it in chang
ing the present law so as to require
full prepayment Of postage on letters
and other first-class matter, the same
as on all other classes, and he so rec
ommends. Unquestionably the recon-
mendatiOn is timely and in the line Of
business prudence.
AS the one department of the gov
eminent which comes into most fire.
Cuent and most direct contact with
the people, the postoffice department
should be conducted first of all with a
view to the greatest possible efficiency.
The people should not be permitted to
get the idea from n slipshOd postal
service that the government itself is a
'i'h7H'' "lI"ii' "ilNoitH VI respect
Therefore it is not absolutely essen
tial that the postal service should be
self-sustaining, provided that to be-
come so would necessarily involve a
curtailment Of efficiency. But there is
no reason why in every branch Of the
service there should not be applied the
most rigid business principles. If con-
gress would show a greater willingness
to heed the departments expert ad-
vice in the regulation of postal affairs
there can be little doubt that still fur
ther improvement would result.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
A Matter of Life and Death.

One of the things of which the late
eX-Congressman Amerman was proud
est was his part in framing a law
which became operative on March q
1893, and which required that all COM
mon carriers should by Jan. /, 1885,
equip their cars with safety appliances
in order to afford adequate protection
to trainmen and passengers. The rec
ords Of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission covering period Of years show
that on an average one trainman in
about every 400 is killed each year be-
cause Of negligence which proper safe
guards by the railroads would to a
large extent prevent. The same rec
ords show that one trainman in every
80 is injured The proportion of risk
run by passengers Is very much small
er, only about one passenger in 5000, 900
carried being killed on an average and
one in 100000 injured.
The law TO which reference is made
specified that cars should be provided
with automatic couplers and continu-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
THE FOLGER REVOLT.
From the Washington Star.


Some very sharp criticism is heard of
Secretary Bliss for declaring in favor of
General Tracy in the New York mayor
atty contest. His letter is characterized
as a repetition of the blunder committed
in the gubernatorial contest of 1882, when
Judge Folger was nominated through
national administration influences and
overwhelmingly defeated at the polls
General Tracy, it is held, will lose rather
than gain by the championship of his
cause by a member of the present ma
tional administration.
There were two phases of that Folger
incident; if one is worthy of citation the
other is also. The one that has been re-
called simply deals with the defeat of
Judge Folger, by the active cooperation
of some Republicans with Democrats
and by the indifference of others, re-
senting the means by which he had been
made the party's candidate. Against the
man himself no word of censure was ut
tered nor any distrust entertained. He
was a very fine type of both citizen and
official But he went down under an
avalanche of opposition, largely Repub-
lican, and he did not long survive his
undoing.
And what followed? The Republican
party in the state which had been so
strong in the presidential campaign of
1885, lost heavily in the way of prestige,
and for a time tottered on the very brink
of collapse. new leader for the Democ-
racy was raised up, and by the time Of
holding the next Democratic national
convention he was strong enough to Sc
cure his party's nomination for presl-
dent, and to be elected. He carried New
York Through the weakness of the Re-
publican party i'm the state he defeated
the most brilliant and magnetic man of
the generation.
hot an
volt against Judge Folger in 1882 cost
New York state and the country? Grover
Cleveland and all the woes that since
have followed in his wake. 1t stands as
the most expensive political revolt in
American history. Is it possible that a
repetition of this experience awaits de-
Velopment through Republican dissen-
slnnS In Non.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
DANA's RULES OF JOURNALISM.

First-Get the news and get all the
news and nothing but the news, SO help
you God.
Second-Copy nothing from another
publication without complete credit.
Third-Never print an interview with
out the knowledge and consent of the
party interviewed.
FOurth-Never print a paid advertise
ment as news matter. Let every adver-
tisement appear as an advertisement
no sailing under false colors.
Fifth-Never attack the weak or the de-
fenceless either by argument, by invec-
tive or by ridicule, unless there is some
absolute public necessity for so doing.
+ SiXth-Fight for your opinions, but
don't believe they contain the whole
truth or the only truth.
Seventh-SuppOrt your party, II you
have one, but don't think all the good
men are in it and all the bad ones out
side of it.
Eighth-Ahove all, know and believe
that humanity is advancing and that
there is progress in human life and hui
man affairs. and that, as sure as God
lives the future will be greater and bet
ter than the present or the past.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
Stand by LanpStaff.

VIC have information that some Of
the -professed Republicans who have
accepted commissions from the Bailey
Boland- Schadt combination to try to
stir up trouble in the Republican camp
are circulating false reports in parts
of Hyde Park against w. S. Langstaff.
The man who engages in any such
disreputable work should promptly be
called down by the loyal and aggres-
sive Republicans of the West Side. Mr..
Langstaff's honored and useful career
in this community as a leader in edu-
Cational activities and as a foremost
member of the poor board requires no
explanations or defence. It is proof
against the hired slander of his enc
mics. But out of justice to themselves
the sturdy Republicans of Hyde Park,
who never yet, when properly warned,
have denied any man fair play, ought
to consider it a pleasure to stamp their
heel on this new form of attack from
ambush.
We take this occasion to assure all
whom it may concern that there is not
a candidate on the Republican ticket
FOR whose election more should be done
than for the election of broad gauged
and liberal Will Langstaff. AS man
he is fit to be honored, and as a Re-
publican his loyalty and active party
service entitle him to his party's
utmost support. What is more, he is
going to be elected and his cowardly
assailants can't prevent it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
The Luetgert FiaScO.

The Luetgert murder trial in Chicago,
now ingloriously concluded with a dis
agreement of the jury, supplies the
most modern instance of justice gone
wrong. We have not at hand an esti-
mate of the money cost of this bitterly
contested trial. The total is undoubt-
edly formidable and it represents now
just so much money wasted. But the
worst consequence of this case is not
the expense that 1t involved to no prac-
tical purpose, but the part which it has
played in undermining public conf
dence in modern judicial processes and
in encouraging the whole brood Of
criminals from Maine to California.
Two features Of the trial condemn it
chiefly. One was the demonstrated
eagerness of the police and detective
officials of Chicago to construct a case
against the defendant regardless of the
facts. Starting with the theory of his
guilt, it seems from the published tes-
timOny to have been the governing
idea of the officers of justice in Cook
county to manufacture or distOrt facts
to confirm that theory, instead of using
their energy and ingenuity for the sole
purpose of ascertaininE as nearly as
possible the cold, plain truth. 1t may
be that the published versions of the
testimony upon which this opinion is
based have done these officials an in
justice, but if they be accurate and
fair, the Luetgert trial was first of all
ity behind forms of law.
The second Objectionable feature in
this case and probably the one which
has Occasioned and not unjustly the
prOfoundest dissatisfaction has been
the humiliating showing made under
cross-examination by the so-called ex-
pert witnesses. The radical divergence
of these experts upon all material
points concerning which their sup
posedly superior knowledge was sought
may have obfuscated the jury, but it
has not blinded the public to the fact
that the whole process of hiring eX-
perts to testify as one would hire a
mason to build wall or a hack writer
to pen an article to order is disrepu-
table, vicious and hereafter intolerable
Courts We're established to inquire into
plain questions of ordinary fact and
probability with view to ascertaining
innocence or guilt to the satisfaction
of the common sense of the twelve good
men and true seated in the jury box;
they were not meant to be turned into
forums for the exploitation Of incon-
elusive pedantry and the splitting Of
hypothetical scientific hairs.
That in face of these inexcusable
characteristics in particular, and Of
some others that might be mentioned,
the jury should find its judgment so far
rolled as to preclude the possibility Of
an agreement is very unfortunate, for
Cook county and the country, but it is
not surprising. 1t is what well-in-
formed students of the printed testi-
mony have for weeks been expecting
There must be a radical readjustment
Of processes in criminal Jurisprudence
and an emphatic return to the whole
some traditions Of the jury system
when in its purity if our courts of law
wish to sustain themselves in the esti-
nation Of the people and keep pace as
they should with the volume of crime
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22

Gus brakes, and locomotives with driv-
ing wheel brakes. For each violation
of the law after the time limit for prep
aration of equipment had expired a
penalty Of 500 was provided. The In
terstate Commerce commission was
empowered to grant to the railroads an
extension of time II convinced that the
roads had used due diligence in their
efforts to comply with the law but the
act also distinctly specihed'that IL any
railroad after Jan. /, 1898, failed to COM
ply with the law and also neglected to
get an extension of time Il would be-
come directly responsible for the death
or injury Of any employe in conse-
quence Of the lack Of a safe equip
ment
Announcement is now made that on
Dec. ! at Washington the Interstate
Commerce commission will give a hear
ing to such railway interests as desire
an extension of time. 1t is to be hoped
in the interest of humanity that the
commission will not grant any extern
sions except upon ample proof of good
cause. There should be no more tri-
fling with this subject.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
Line Up.

The brief but crystalline speech Of
Governor Black at Lenox lyceum re-
ported in Yesterdays Tribune deserves
TO be read and reread by every citizen
In it the executive Of the Empire state
points out a duty as applicable to
Lackawanna as to Gotham.
1T is" says he, "a strange element
In human nature that cements together
those who pursue an evil object while
the friends Of a just cause will soon
grow weak and scatter. Less than a
year ago. he continues. the whole
country was engaged in a political con-
test almost the gravest in it's history.
Men were then aroused as only war
had ever aroused them before. The
menace uttered at Chicago in July had
before November driven thousands
from the-association of "a lifetime, and
had forced-them with new alliances to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
BUNCoERs ABROAD BEWARE

1t is the trick of the Organized De-
mocracy this fall TO make 1alse
charges against Republican methods,
raise a big dust hire Republican mall
contents to organize Republican bolts
and then coax individual Republicans
to desert their party on the represen-
tation that party ties needn't count
for anything in an off year" BY this
trick, if it shall work. the Bryanites
will get foothold for hopeful fight
in national campaigns, and make just
so much more trouble for Mckinley,
the Republican congress and the cause
of sound moEey.
You now see through this trick. Are
you going TO let it work?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
SInie.

State.
State Treasurar--J. S. BEACON, Of
Westmoreland.
Auditor General-LEVI G.. MCAULEY,
OF Chester.
County.
Sheriff-CLARENCE u. PRYOR, OF
Scranton.
District Attorney-JoHN r. JONES, of
Blakely.
Prothonotary JOHN COPELAND. OF
Carbondale.
Treasurer-W. S. LANGSTAFF, of Scran-
ton. a....
Clerk Of the Courts-TIOMAS p. DAN
1ELS, of Scranton.
Recorder - CHARLES HUESTER, OF
Scranton.
Register-WILLIAM X BECK, OF Mos
Jury Commissioner - CHARLES WIG
GINS, OF Scranton.
Eleclon day, November ..
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-22
FIN s
Great
Linen
Sale,
Saturday, Oct. 23rd will in
augurate a
Great Autunln Sale of
Housekeeping Linens.
Housekeeping LinenS.

The character of our
Linen Stock is too we'll
known to need much talk on
our part. We merely say
that having purchased
largely i'm anticipation of
the advanced prices CON-
sequent on the new tariff
schedule, we can offer ex-
traordinary values.
1t is impossible to EMU
merate the different lines
and prices, therefore we
mention only a few items:
One case silver bleached
German table linen, 81
inches wide, ten different
patterns. soc a yard, good
value at 75c.
100 dOzensilver bleached
napkins.
so pieces Scotch and
Irish danlasks, from 25c
to $3.50 per yard. 200
dozen napkins to match.
Linen sheets, pillow and
bolster cases, counter
panes, bureau sets, etc.