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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-04-07
D1NGLEY's CURE FOR FITS.

L. -sy.
The Dingley bill as it passed the
House Of Representatives contained
a clause making all importations af-
ter the first day OF April subject to tho
duties named in the bill. The object
of this clause is to prevent heavy i'm
portations under the Wilson law be-
fore the Dfngley bill could get'in it's
deadly work on the pockets Of the
American consumer. This clause
was stubborn. resisted by the mi
nority and just as persistently urged
by the Republican leaders and final
~ passed with the solid vote of that
party registered in its favor. This
clause of the bill is meeting with a
great deal of criticism from the i'm
porters. The Philadelphia Times in
commenting on this clause of the bill
says:
Apologies for the retro active clause
Of the Dingley bill do not n:prove it.
The most that can be said is that some
lawyers perceive grounds on which to
defend it, or Mt least to maintain that
it has not yet been judicially con-
demned and that there is a chance
that the supreme court might not
overturn it.
This is very unsubstantial ground
on which to base legislation so init
mately affecting the commerce of
the country. Que would think that
even a congressional lawyer would
like to feel little more certain be
fore undertaking an experiment like
this. But the very language Of the
section and the manner in which it
is defended show clearly enough
that it is only designed for present
effect.
Dingley is not confident that his
nostrum will cure the patient of his
depression and he wants to throw
him into fits. Then he will have him
where he wants him. Dingley is
death on fits. f'''.'
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M others

Anxiously watch declining health
Of their daughters. So many are
cut off by consumption in early
years there il real cause for anxiety.
1nearly stages, when not beyond
the reach Of medicine, Hoods Sar
saparilla will restore quality a.:
quantity of the blood and give good
health. Read the following letter:
"It Is but just to write aSont my
daughter, Cora, aged 10. She was all
run down, declining, had that tired
feeling, and friends said she would MT
I've over thrSe months, She had . bA6
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-04-07
SHERIEE;S. SALE.

in THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
Fourth judicial District of the State of
4 Nevada, In aud for the countytof Elko
RACHEL SSARLES, Plaintiff,
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Cough

and notRinEseemsd 20 DO .hef any
good. I happened to read about
Hoods sarsapariIls and had her give
it a trial. From the very hrst dose
she began to get better. After taking
afew bottles she was completely cured
and her health has been the best ever
since" Mrs. adobe PECK, II Rail-
road Place, Amsterdam, N. Y
"I will say that my mother has not
stated my case in as strong words az I
would have done. Hood'sSarsaparills
has truly cured me-" CORA PECK,
Amsterdam, N. Y Be surs to got
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-04-07
BILLS ALLOWED.

Following is list of the bills al
lowed by the Board Of County Com
missioners at their regular meeting
on Monday, April 5, 1897:
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-04-07

Vt You cannot fool the ladies; they
will, and must have the Trojan Shirt
Waists.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-04-07

Mild, yet strong. Trib does not
hurt baby's skin, pet penetrates a
horses's leg. -
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-04-07
THE SUN CREEK LAND AND CATTLE

COMPANY, Ia corporation) Defendant.
By virtue OF an execution issued out OF
the said District Court of the Fourth
Judicial District OF tho state OF Nevada, In
and for the county Of Elko, on the 10th day
ofMaroh, 1897, in the above entitled aoticn,
wherein Rachel Searles the above namep
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.. h'i' 'N''. '. .H' ...'..' 1..| '''. 'sl
-" ~ CIT toca,i We, ,,ss tax 80 gtrats,nr
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river, where have established posts. /
know that they are competent to do the
required work
THE reindeer scheme / regard as en-
tirely impracticable. 1t sounds very plauS-
ible, but II is about as visionary as one
or colonel Selers's enterprises. Over the
Dyea or Chilcoot pass there is no moss
for the reindeer at all and but little over
the Chilcat pass The horse is the most
available beast of burden, as any man
who has had any experience in Alaskan
matters will declare.
AS regards the men up on the KlcndilSe,
those VINO are out on the mines are in bet
ter shape than those in Dawson. The min
ers, Tor the most part have fairly good
log nuts, and they have been more pFovident
In the way of storing rations for the WIN
ter. In the town there are more tents than
nuts and the food supply is shorter.
think II safe TO say that the pinch of hunger
will come to a good many unless the gov
eminent gets in its charity work very
speedily. 1t is going to cost lot of money
70 transport comparatively small amount
OF ratons, but the very conditions of the
case make transportation costly matter.
The rush next season to the Yukon val
ley will be something unprecedented in the
history of the world. / think the vast ma
JOr1ty Will go by steamer to the mouth of
the Yukon and thence up the river but a
great number will go over the passes. My
belief is that the gold supply has hardly
been touched. In the rush for the Klondike
some of the richest diggings in the world
nave been run over. In the Circle City
country pIacers of untold value exist and
next season there will be thousands of OPP
orators in that territory which was aban-
doned in the mad fight to get to the other
camps. BY next year or, at farthest the
gold than is now produced in all the United
States"
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TO MEET ENGLISH ATHLETES.
Pennsylvania University Will Send a
Track Team to Cambridge.

MILWAUKEE,, Dec. 24.-The first intima-
ton of what will be the greatest athletic
event of 1898 was given out to-day by Alvin
c. Kraenslein, who is attending the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, and came to Milwau-
kee to spend the Christmas. He gives out
the information that the University of
Pennsylvania will send track team to
England to meet Cambridge University in
dual track contest to be held in London
next year. The two universities have been
CORRESPONDING for some time, ana every
thing has been arranged except the de-
tails. pennsylvania has never been repre-
sented in athletic contests in England be-
fore. The Pennsylvania team will be a
strong one, made up from number of the
prominent winners in the intercollegiate
championship teams of this year. The
makeup of the Pennsylvania team will be
as follows: Captain, James Winsor, broad
Jump Tewkesbury and Caldwell, sprlnts;
Hoffman, 440-yard dash; Grant, mile run;
Lane, half-mile run; hraensieln, hurdle and
high and broad jump; Felerman, mile
walk; McCracken, throwing weights.
Kraenslein was the star performer this
year in hurdles, and is holder of American
championships, and in the high and broad
jumps Captain Winsor carried off the hon
ors Murphy will handle the team.
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DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.
AcetyIene Works Wrecked and Two
People Killed.

NEW YORK, Dec. PA succession of
explosions at the United States Acetylene
Liquifying Company. in Jersey City, to-
day, caused the loss of two lives and $4,000
damages to the works. The dead are:
Thomas Fowler, the assistant engineer, and
Max Grim. There were only three other
employees in the building at the time of the
accident and they received greater or less
injuries. Their names are Fred Burr, Fritz
Epzol and Charles White. j. Leek, who
was working half block away, was badly
injured by piece of the boiler. a frag-
ment of the boiler tore the roof from a
trolley car some distance away. 1t is said
that the first explosion was due to the
boilers bursting, and as the fire spread to
the various. acid tanks there was a sue
cession of deafening reports. Nearby
buildings, as well as the central railroad
Of New Jersey trestle, caught fire, but the
losses were not serious in these instances
The machinery of the local electric lighting
company was affected by the jar, causing
the electric lights in various buildings to
go out Max Grims body was blown
through window and torn to pieces. The
body Of Assistant Engineer Fowler was
found in the ruins of the wrecked building.
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UnknoMn VesseI Wrecked.

HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. A-The govern
ment steamer Newfield returned tonight
from the visit to Sable island and brings ad-
vices of a disaster to an unknown vessel,
wreckage from which drifted ashore there
during the first week of December. The Of
ficials at the island believe that the vessel
was a bark or ship of about five hundred
tons, but nothing was found that gave a
clew to her identity or the nature of her
cargo. No boats were found among the
wreckage, which all drifted ashore at the
east end of the island. On Nov. a large
barkentine was seen to run on the northwest
bar, where she held fast in the sand for
two hours and then drifted away. A strong
gale was blowing at the time and the sea
was so high that it was impossible to launch
a lifeboat and go to the vessel. The barken-
tine was partially dismantled, having lost
her foretOpmast and headgear, and was evil
IDENTIFY in bad condition Nothing more
was seen of her after she got off the bar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
PHoTOGRAPHING THOUGHT.
Young MIR. Edison Unwise in Disclos-
ing Ills Plans.
New York Tribune.

New xOrk 1TlDuHe.
If Thomas A. Edison, jr., has really under
taken to photograph thought it is a great
pity that he did not conceal the fact from
the newspaper reporters. The announce
ment of such attempts as have recently been
imputed to him is calculated both to in
lure the young mans reputation among
scientific people and to mislead a credulous
and already too much befooled public.
Two years or more ago a Frenchman
named Baraduc tried something of this sort
and achieved an ephemeral but unfortunate
noToriety thereby. Almost simultaneously
a photographer in England, one Rogers. told
a more plausible. though equally impossible.
story. He pretended to have copied, with
an ordinary camera, an impression retained
on the retina of his own eye forty-five min
utes after looking inteEtly at coin. He
was supposed to have sat in dark room.
facing his instrument, ana to have kept his
thoughts concentrated OH the coin during
this interval. Dr. David Starr Jordan, presi-
dent of Leland Stanford, jr., University,
was moved thereupon to satirize these un-
dertakings in the pages of the Popular
Science Monthly His task was performed so
cleverly that there would remain no occasion
for further remark if his article had only
been read as extensively as could be de-
sired. 1t would seem. however. that there
yet exists some uncertainty in many people 5
minds to the possibility of doing what
Baraduc and young Edison propose
The vital questicn 1t should be remem-
bered. is not one o. methods or apparatus.
IT relates to the nature of thought. Is this
phenomenon material or an immaterial
thing? Thought is accompanied by chemi-
cal changes In the substance of the brain;
1t is more or less localized in that organ,
too. now occurring in one group of cells
and now in another. Moreover, 1t is pro-
voked by external stimuli touch. taste.
smell, sight and sound. Nevertheless.
thought Is still believed by the philosophers
to be an intangible. immaterial product, no
more susceptible OF producing an image on
a Photographic plate than the attraction
Of gravitation or a moral impulse And
81 the philosophers are correct one might
aa well try TO depict In this manner ones
conviction that a given act of Congress is
unconstitutional, or his understanding of
the binOmal theOrem, as an image excited
in his imagination by showing him post
age stamp.
1t does not follow because q man is an
expert In physiology that he understands
mathematics. A mastery of political econ
omy does not qualify one to elucidate nice
questions in theology. And IL is not safe to
assume that one who knows several things
about electricity. and whose father knows
a good deal more, is an accomplished psy-
cnOl0glst.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
A RAILROAD AND IT'S wORKMEN.
What the Illinois Central Is Doing for
Those I'm It's Employ.
Chattanooga CTenn.) Times.


The Illinois Central Railroad Company
has done more fer its employees than any
other similar corporation in our country
except, possibly, the New York Central, in
the way of giving the workers fair play
and share in that propertys prosperity,
which the workers labor to promote. Some
years ago the Illinois Central perfected and
put in operation plan whereby the subor-
dtnate officers, mechanics and labOrers on
the line could acquire shares of the COM
panys stock. Pursuant to this scheme, sew
eral hundred of the men have become own
efs or shares, are voters at stockholders
meetings, draw their dividends and many
Of them are adding to their boards. The
stock pays regularly per cent. 1t is an
investment" stock, and steadily sells
to become interested in the property has
worked extremely well. has improved the
general morale and promises to solve for
ever the matter of strikes on that road.
Now the directory has put into force
regulation giving suspended employees a
better show, and to prevent hasty dis,
charges. No man may now be discharged
without investigation of his case by board
OF inquiry, a majority of SUCH board being
department in which the man is employed
and the action of the board must be APP
proved by the general superintendent before
any action can be taken.
In the matter of suspensions the manage
ment has inaugurated what is called book
suspension" The party loses no time.
There is no real suspension. The man goes
along. And then If he does any act of hero
ism or does something that he ought 20 lie
commenced Tor the marks that are lg alnSt
him are offset by the good marks that are
credited to him: So that man may at the
end of the year have done several bad things
and a great many good things, and come
out without any dement's against him.
This is an elaborate system of reform in
railway service, that might well be adopted.
in part, at least, in the government civil
service. 1t Is well known that the illinois
Central has the best set of railway oper-
atives TO be found in all the territory be-
tween the Mississippi river and the Appa-
lachian range, and we have here given the
main reasons why this is so. The company
TO start with, pays the most liberal wages
and this policy attracts good men from
lines that pay less. Then the company en-
courages thrift among the employees, by va
ricus devices, one of which we have briefly
noted. Finally, a man with good intentions
when employed on the Illinois Central is
very sure of absolute fair play; no brutal
foreman can abuse a laborer or other sub
ordinate with impunity. He-knows his treat
ment of the men under him will be search
ingly investigated. and this prompts him to
be patient and just
II all these methods combined did not give
the road a superior force, then humin ma
ture would be a hopeless thing, indeed; but,
In fact, it has just the effect the wise head
Of the great corporation desires and expects
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KILLED BY AN ENGINE
MARSHALL NEWELL, wELL-KNOWN
FOOTBALL PLAYER, MANGLED.
Run Down in the Freight Yards of
the Boston & Albany Road at
Springfield-Other Casualties.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. 24.-Mar-
shall Newell, the well-known Harvard foot
ball player, for the past year employed in
this city as assistant division superintend-
ent Of the Boston & Albany Railroad, was
instantly killed in the freight yards here
tonight at $3.50 o'clock. How the accident
occurred is not known, but it is supposed
that he was walking along the track to-
ward his office, with his coat collar turned
up to protect himself from the severe wind,
when he was struck by a switch engine
or a yard engine He was horribly bruised
and mangled and it was with some diff
Guilty that his features could be recognized
The body had remained unnoticed for over
an hour before found by two trainmen.
Mr.. Newell was born in Great harrington,
the son of Samuel Newell, a prominent
lawyer of that town. Young Newell was
unusually athletic and in his younger days
was one of the greatest football tackles the
world ever produced. He was graduated
from Harvard College in 1894. He leaves a
mother, sister and two brothers.
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brokerage House Closed.

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-The World this
morning says: The banking and brokerage
house of T. E. Ward & Co., at Nos. 81 and
80 Broadway, was closed by the sheriff yes
terday afternoon on attachment of the Su-
preme Court, issued on the complaint of
H. c. Morse Squyer, Of Auburn, N. Y, for
a claim of $5,576.96, alleged to be deposited
with the firm The firm did a general brok-
erage business in stocks, bonds and other
securities, and when Deputy Sheriff Levy
made the seizure the customers who were
in the offices at the time asked for their
money, but 1t was too late. An attachment
Was also served on the Western National
Bank, Sixth National Bank and Wells.
Fargo. q Co.'S Bank for moneys deposited
there to the credit of the firm, and also
against the firms uptown branch office, at
No. 1870 Broadway.
Mr.. Ward, who lives at 251 West Nine
ty-thtrd street, said the concern would re-
sumo business in a few days. Il. e. Ward
d Co. failed a few months ago for $400, 900,
but settled with their creditors.
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BRAVE WOMAN REWARDED.
Medal Presented to Mrs. Reid fol
Steering a Ship Into Port.

HAVERHILL, Mass, Dec. 24.-The clos
ing chapter in the celebrated case of the
ship T. F. Cakes, of which Captain Z. w.
Reed, of this city, was the commanding Of
ficer, brings with it honor to Mrs. Reed,
who. when her husband was ill, together
with the largest part of the crew. steered
the vessel safely into port, there to meet
charges of mistreatment which the crew
preferred against her and her husband and
of which they both were honorably acquit-
ted after a legal fight that lasted ten weeks.
Reed has just received the following let
ter:
'Lloyds of London have bestowed Lloyd s
medal for meritorious service on Mrs. Reed
as an honorary acknowledgment of her
extraordinary exertion on the occasion of
the disablement by sickness of the crew of
the United States ship T. F. Cakes, on a
voyage from China to New York July 4,
1896. March q, 1897. BY order of Committee
of LloydS
''H NJ HOSIER Secretary"
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RELIEF FOR KLoNDIKERs.
A Juneau Man Tells How 1t Can he
Given.
WASHINGTON Post.


Mr.. ]. F. Mahoney, of Juneau, Alaska,
is at the Ebbitt. He has been in Alaska
many years. though still a young man, and
knows nearly every part of the Territory.
He is business partner of the noted Jack
Dalton, who with Lieutenant Glare. first
discovered and rode over the Chilkat pass
in 1887. Mr.. Mahoney left Dawson City last
September, and will go back as early next
season as practicable, for he has a num-
Der Of valuable claims in that region.
Il am glad to see Congress coming to
the aid of the unfortunate people up on
the Klondike," said Mr.. Mahoney, be
cause they will undoubtedly need help be-
fore the winter is over. 1t isn't an easy
thing getting in supplies to them, but it
can be done even in dead of winter. l have
come over the Chilkat pass myself in win
ter The most feasible method to employ
is to establish posts, say at distance
of twenty-five miles apart, beginning at
the \head of either the Chilcoot or Chilcat
pass and take the food In on sleds drawn
by horses. Dogs might answer, but they
require a tremendous amount of feeding
and the right breed of dogs isn't always
easy to get. Ponies from northern Mon
tana can stand the climate, and l have
used them for the last six years in this
same sort Of business along the Alsec
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WOULD-BE ROBBERS FOILED.
Attempt to Burn IL Department Store
Filled with Shoppers.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Two men made a
bold attempt, shortly after noon to-day, to
fire the large department store of A. NJ
Rothschild & Co.. while the place was
crowded with Christmas shoppers, their OBJ
ject evidently being to make a raid during
the excitement on the deposit bank con-
Quoted by the firm for it's employees and
others, in which there was about $40, ono.
One of the men touched a match to a
parcel saturated with kerosene and threw
1t in a telephone booth few
yards from the entrance to the
bank. His companion stood near the door of
the bank, but was unable to make an en-
trance because the cashier carefully locked
the door behind her when she joined other
employees of the store in extinguishing the
fire. which did very little damage. The cul-
prits quickly mingled with the crowd after
the fire was out and have not been caught
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the board of directors of the Trust Conn
pany. The deed unreservedly conveys all
the property OF the company to the as
Mr.. Singarly's statement comes as the re-
suit of a conference of the directors or the
defunct concerns held to-day and it is gem
settlement on a l00-per-cent. basis will be
realized. A statement will be issued within
a day or two showing the exact condition
of the companies affairs.
The only other embarrassment thus FAR
resulting from the crash was the assign
ment to-day of the Philadelphia Binding
and Mailing Company. a small organization
incorporated In Maine.
The bank examiner and his assistants
spent the greater part Of the day going
over the books of the two companies, but
decline to make any statement. 1t is said
the bank had about 1890 deposit accounts
and the trust company 5000 State Banking
Commissioner Gikeson and Attorney Gen
eral Mccormick were engaged to-day In
curing into the condition of the states de-
posit in the bank and looking after the In
terests of depositors in the trust company,
which Is Incorporated under the state laws.
Rumors concerning the Trust and Lie
Insurance Company, of which Ex-Governor
Robert E. Pattison is president, are entire
~ unfounded. Clarence +. Cook, secretary
and treasurer of the company, stated to-
day that the company had had a small de-
post in the Chestnut-street National Bank,
but that 1t had prepared itself for the emer-
gency and anticipated no trouble. Mr.. Sin
gerly is director and a large stakeholder
In the security company
When the news of the closing of the
Chestnut-street National Bank reached
ElktOn. Md, yesterday afternoon it had
disturbing effect on the depositors in the
Second National Bank of Elkton, of which
Mr.. Singerly is vice president and heavy
stakeholder. The bank opened its doors as
usual this morning for business and
steady stream of depositors filed in, anxious
to withdraw their accounts. The officials
of the bank had anticipated run and made
preparations for 1t. The depositors were
assured by President William T. Warbur-
ton and Cashier Isaac d. Davis that the
Institution was solvent and fully able to
meet all its outstanding obligations. AS a
result many depostors decided to retain
their funds in the bank. 1t is feared the
financial failure of Mr.. Singerly will close
his paper mills near Elkton.