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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-06-20
A railroad Situation.

The Denver News Of tie l2th con-
tains an interview with Judge Denne
ON The mining outlook Of Gold Creek.
Lone Mountain and Tuscarura. AZ.
ter speaking OF the prospects Of
those sections, the Judge speaks as
follows regarding the railroad situa.
ton:
What is needed more than any.
thing in that region is Colorado
p.ospectors and a north and south
railroad. The Colorado prospector
is the best in the world, because he is
familiar with all conditions under
which mineral is ordinarily fund
and Is accustomed to go to work ms IL
he meant TO find something. The
different formations Of Colo, ado
cover 30 many combinations that a
man who is familiar with the ores Of
this Stale can 20 anywhere iu the
world with the certainty that he will
not be second to anyone.
The railroad situation is a dampcr
on the development Of the So .,,ou.
Tho supplies have 10 cume from the
coast. for anything that is shippe,i
from the East ia carried ON through
TO San Francisco and shipped back
at the convenience Of the Central
Pacific. 4 line ia nov projected to
run north to a connection with the
Oregon Short Line. Going south il
will cross the Central Pacific a little
west OF Eiko and eventually form u
connection with either the Ric
Grande Western or the Utah Cen.
trail which is pushing 10 make n con
nectioD Sitll the coast ut Los Anee.
les. So far nothing has been done
except cYe.surveying. but a corps will
be in the field this fall 10 survey the
route TO The north. In the event Of
The construction OF this road the trade
OF the district will very largely come
to Denver. not only because Denver
Ia the center Of mining operations in
the West, but because the greater
part Of the people there are Colorado
There are a great many
prospectors going in there now, but
the Held is very large and there is
room for all who want to come.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-06-20
Ahead of His Show.

The following from Chadridge's
Texas Stock Farmer seems to prove
that tine Advance Agent o: Pros
perity- is a good ways ahead OF his
show in the Lone Star State:
Down TO three or four years ago
while the people who owed money in
Texas were sometimes a little slow
with their interest. a foreclosure was
a most unusual thing. Wander into
Bexar courthouse today, and you viii
see the walls and the bulletin boards
plastered with constable, sheriff and
trustee sales. Happen along the first
Tuesday in each month, most any
time OF day-they begiu early and
work late now-ard you will witness
things that would make anybody sad,
except. possibly, u half crazy news
paper ruust about, under the in
huence of blue ruin and sugar and
free lunch. l generally hurry past n
courthouse, but l stopped long
enough the other day to hear them
sell for $500 $4,000 worth OF land
upon which they had loaned $4,000.
They have got the mans land and
still he owes them $500. The
wolves that gather round when they
smell a financial cadaver seemed
happy enough. Even the remains
who were present tried to look cheer
full. but not beng duly sober. the
effort reminded one OF patience
roosting on a mesquite tree waiting
for il to ram.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-06-20

The Hoffman ipqupet is dragging
its slow lengths nlong in San Francis.
co. Nothing 81 Importance was de.
v'loped Thursday except that ont
witness sworo that Mt G:25 on tho
evening Hoffman wa killed he saw
two men outside the door OF Hot.
mans Office. ono Of whom was talI md
stout and woro a beard. while tho
other was smaller md had nm auburn
mustacbc. The taller OF tho two in.
vited the other into the office, saying
he would explain. both seemed to be
excited. AT the entrance Of the Of.
flee ON Bush street tho witness no.
ticed a woman heavily yelled walking
up and down and apparently waiting
for somebody inside.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-06-20

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re.
ward for any case OF Catarrh that car
not be cured by Halls Chtarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & co.
Toledo, Ohio.
We. the Undersigned. have known
r. j. Cheney Tor the last ID years and
believe him perfectly honorable i'll al
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their trim.
WEST a TRUAx. Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, Ohio.
WALDING. KISHAS a MARvIS, Whole
sale Druggists. Toledo. Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure taken Internal
~. acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price 7jc.
Sold by all Druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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He Wanted Information.

According 10 the American Field, n
bicycle company recently received
the following letter FROM : Kansas
man.
DEAR SIRs: / live on my farm
near Hamilton. Kan. am 81 years
old and Just a little sporty. My
neffer in Indiana bot hissclf a new
bisicle and sen me hIs old one by
frate, and i've learned To ride sum-.
Its Il pile of fun. but my bisicle jults
considerable. a fellow came along
here yesterday with n bisicle that had
hollow injun robber tires stuffed with
wind. He let Inc try hissen and mi.
it runs like a kushion. He told me
you sell injun robber just the came as
hisscn. How much will it be To fix
up mine like hissen? Mine is all iron
wheels. Do you punch the boiler
through The injun robbcr or will |
have to do it myself? How do YOU
stick the ends together after you get
it done? IL your iDjun robber is al.
ready boiler will it come any cheaper
empty? ! n get all the wind I want
out here i'll Kansas free.
EEERSEEzER Y. JENSEN.
=. Slow much do you charge
for the dOodad you stuff the wInd
into the r0bber with and WHARF do
you start?7
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-06-20

Now is the time to provide yourself
and family with a bottle OF Chamber.
lain's Collie, Cholera md Diarrhoca
Remedy as a safeguard against nm at.
tack OF bowel complaint during the
summer months. 1t coste but %
cents and is almost suro to nc needed
before the summer 10 over. This rem.
edy never fails, even in the most sc
we're casos. and is in fact tho only
preparation that can always be de-
pended upon. When reduced with
water il is pleasant to take.
For salo by NJ. II. Miller.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-06-20

FIFTY DoLLARs \ WEEK EASILY MADE
hgcn's wanted in every locality for
Hon. W. j. Bryan's gent md only
book "T1o First Battle Tho beat
seller over produced. Agents nre
taking as many ns 200 orders pcr
week beware Of fraudulent imita.
Tons Send for outfit and begin work
at once. W. u. CoSKEY CoMpAYy
publishers, 81 Dearborn Street
Chicago.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-06-20

Mothers will find Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy especially valuable
for Group and whooping cough. 1t
will give prompt relief and is safe and
pleasant. We have sold it several years
and it has never failed to give tho
most perfect satisfaction. G. W Rich
ards, Duquesue, Pa. Scld by VI II
Miller.
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Attention.. EVERYBODY!

In pursuance OF the request OF the
chairman OF the Democratic State
Central Committee. We hereby call 4
meeting OF the citizens OF Elko at the
courthouse on Monday, the DIST OF
June, at s r. NJ, for the purpose OF
making arrangements for the proper
reception Of Hon. William j. Bryan.
at Elko. on his trip through the State
on the ID Of July. Everyone. ire
spective OF party name, is requested
to meet at the courtroom on the
above date.
J. +. TRIPLtTT.
Chairman OF the Democratic County
Committee.
W. W. BooHER, Secretary.
JoHS S. MAYuUGH.
Chairman Of Silver Party County
Committee.
II. PATTERSON, Secretary.
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T'ltOGRAA NJ:

l.. Music by the Band.
.. Opening address. President OF
the Day.
g. Song, America Audience and
Choir.
1. Prayer. Rev. John Dawson.
3. Music by the Band.
6. Reading Declaration Of Inde
pendcuee, j. L. Wheeler.
7. Song. Star Spanglcj Hammer
Choir.
8. Grafton. f. S. Harrington.
0. Song. a Thousand Years Ny
Own Columbia Choir.
10. Eencdictiun. Rev. J.. VI. Don
ddson.
IL. Music 10y the Band.
Refreshments at booth for children
from IL Il. IN. to I p III.
Ball game from i:2U to 3:20 p. III.
Main street at p. TIL
Bicycle race for girls. purse $50 30
Bicycle race Tor boys go. = 30
Bicycle race for men -. - 30
Foot race for boys between the
ages Of 10 and j., purse So. . 90
Foot race for girls between tho
ages Of 10 and IL. purse. -. . 90
Sack race for boys between the
ages Of II and iG, pursc.... . 90
Potato race for boys, any age. = 90
Race for Indian boys aud girls. . 90
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-06-20

Special reports on wheat are nil
very favorable as the stage OF Spring
wheat averages about a. follows: In
Douglas, Ormsby and Lyon counties
from four to eight inches high and in
-.lko and Humboldt four to six in
ches in height. Winter wheat is
from II to IS inches high in Washoc
aud YER heavy rye is heading in
White Pine county.
Corn is t~nsscling in Lincoln
county and the second crop of alfalfa
is from three to four feet high. In
Nye county wheat varies III height
from fonr inches to two feet, accord.
ing to time sown. Barley and oats Ii
inches and corn about s inches high.
Alfalfa cutting is in progress in
Elko, Douglas aud Humboldt coun-
ties and will begin the present week
in Lyon, Nyc and washoe counties -
Carson Appeal.
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TIE Carson Appeal says: Some Of
the notes which Ioncy sent TO tho
jurymen in his first trial have been
discovered. There is music in the
air.
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Clothes cleaned, repaired and press.
cd. Gents laundry work neatly cone
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Office.
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Invitation Committee:
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AN EVENING PAPER.
Issued Every Day, Sundays Excepted.
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prietor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-30
Mckinley, The Practical Civil Service Re
former

An avowed and inveterate enemy of
given it a more vicious stab than did
President Cleveland when he stretched
the law to cover as many as possible Of
the Democratic incumbents and in
competents just before his term ex-
pred. Yet the very men who were
quick to excuse this act were also the
first to assume that President McKin-
ley, Notwithstanding his former cham
pionship of civil service reform at a
time when it needed champions, was
yielding to the opportunities of its
enemies and was in conspiracy to
vitiate it if not destroy it altogether.
There have been many, however, and
we believe the great majority is in
ing to believe the President sincere in
his pretensons and innocent of desire
to injure the system. Accordingly a
source of qualification to all but the
carpers and the enemies of the reform
is found in the amendments to the law
which have just been announced. A
Washington correspondent, who has
been giving currency to the reports
that the opponents of the merit system
were weakening the Presidents deter
mination, says they are "grievousiy
disappointed on account of the
amendments. He then tries to excuse
his former reports by saying: Until
| this morning each side had steadily
claimed that the President was with
| them
Speaking of the gain the reform
| makes by these amendments he says,
THE distinct gain which the reform
makes is in the amendment to civil SER
vice rule 2. which provides that no re.
movals shall be made from position
| subject to competitive examination, ex-
| cept for just cause and upon writer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-30
Silver Undermining Business Confidence in
Mexico.

The dispatches from Mexico relative
to the effects of the great tumble of
silver and rise of gold in exchange.
state that "the fiuctuation in exchange
does more harm than low prices, as it
makes impossible all calculations"
This fuctuation under silver
standard is one of the evils to which
attention was called in the campaign
last fall. 1t was urged that a coun-
try having for it's currency standard a
cheaper than the standard recognized
the world, would be subject to all
the mischief of a widely and frequent
~ huctuating medium; that this
would be especially disastrous with
silver as the standard owing to its
tendency to depreciate on account of
greatly increasing productions also
that it would be especially suscepti-
BILE to manipulated fluctuations be-
cause syndicate of a few men are in
control of the great silver mines of the
world and would be able to bull or bear
the market as they chose. All this was
based on sound argument, much of it
the argument of experience. 1t WAS
unanswerable except one should accept
the wild theory of Bryan that this
country could force silver upon the
world as standard of value, an idea
which is absurd in the extreme.
Precisely the same conditions would
have been brought about in this conn
/ try had Bryan been elected, as now
exist in Mexico. We should TODAY be
on the As cent dollar basis as is Mexico.
Gold would no more circulate along
side such dollar than doughnuts and
dollars would remain on a parity at
IL to l. Few of the leading advocates
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charges filed with the head of the de-
partment, or other appointing officer,
and that the accused shall have due
notice and an opportunity to make Il
defence. This does not take away from
the department officers the so-calle1
open door for dismissals, which it has
always been maintained was necessary
to prevent the public service from be-
coming clogged with sluggish material.
The order simply aims to prevent re-
moval for reasons which are purely
political. The department officer is still
the sole judge of when the cause is
just and of the value Of the defence
which the accused presents. This IS
similar to Mr.. Bissell's order in regard
to letter carriers, which for three years
has been in successful operation. In
cases where it is necessary to drop enn-
ployees because of a reduction in the
service, il will not then be necessary to
prefer and maintain charges. The en-
ployee will be dropped simply because
the appropriation does not permit his
being retained. 1t is said that Secre-
tary Gage has been very active in urg
ing the Incorporation of this principle
into civil service. He first desired to
apply it to the treasury department.
when the President said that if it was
good thing for the treasury, it had
better be applied all around, and that
he was unwilling to diminish the num-
Der of employees covered by the classI-
| fed service as he had found it, without
| compensating the cause of the reform
| by an advance step III some other di-
| rection
| Another slight advance is made IN
an amendment to rule three, extending
| the classifications to the employees #
| all custom houses. Heretofore only
custom houses having five or more en-
| ployes have been included. This change
| extends the system to g. more officers.
| The exceptions from the classified ser
| vice in the custom house and internal
revenue service, which the President in
| his new order makes, do not seriously
| disturb the civil service reformerS in
| Washington. In the case of the prin-
! or station, it was agreed when the
classification was made that this might
! not prove practicable. The deputy in
| charge of the SUPPORT is the admins
| tratve head of an office. and charged
with similar executive responsibilities
! to the collector himself The same
! principle has been applied in the
| changes made in the internal revenue
| service
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in-the-wool Popocrat as when it was
urged on previous years that the fail
in the price of wheat was cue to an
exceptionally large production. Mr..
Bryan's school of philosophy could not
afford to admit that increased produc-
ton had any effect upon any COM
that immensely increased production of
silver had lowered the price of silver
So, although the worlds wheat yield Of
1894 was 121, 100000 more bushels than
in 1892 and over $4,000 more than in 93,
the free silver advocate would not adj
NIT that this fact had anything to do
with the lower price Of wheat but at
tributed it solely to the fall in silver in
1894. But when the price of wheat
rose owing to shortage in the crop, this
they attributed to the money power. ;"
AS well say the money power" had
caused the crop shortage.
Now all this may seem like threshed
straw to some of our readers, but the
recent fall of silver to a lower point
than ever before known attracts at
tention to these old Popocratic theories,
theories those Missionaries have not dis
avowed and which they must be sup
posed to still hold. 1t is even now said
by them that the present fall in silver
is due to the combined effort of the
money power" Why do they not
say that the high price of wheat is at
tributabe to the same influence? They
said SO last fall and why do they not
now contend that the money power
has kept the price up? 1t needn t
| trouble them to do So for browning an
absurdity and kneeling before it in
| alteration is enc of the easiest of the
many things they are accustomed 10
do. If they will but declare through
! the mouth of Mr.. Bryan that the
''monopolists'' are keeping the price of
wheat up just to tickle the farmer
there will be thousands ready to say
| amen.
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not contain duty on hides ana some
other provisions which were quite as
distasteful to New England. These
two allies however, were not enough
to give us working majority. or to en-
able us to pass bill at all If we were
to discuss it's details in open Senate.
I'VE were. therefore, obliged in eau
GUS to agree that we would delegate
differences of detail to the Republican
subcommittee of the committee on
finance. and would support their con-
clusions without regard to individual
opinions or special State interests.
That agreement was the price Of the
tariff Without it we must have gone
on for an indefinite period am
afraid. for years-without changing the
existing law in the direction of protec-
ton. So those persons who are disap-
pointed in regard to particular sched-
ules must consider whether they would
have preferred to have the present con-
dition of things remain. or get what
could be obtained in this way. The
committee.to whom the matter was SO
referred consisted Of two New Eng
land men-Senator Aldrich Of Rhode
Island and Senator Plat of Connecti-
cut-and Senator Allison of Iowa.
During Mr.. Aldrich's illness Mr. Bur-
rows of Michigan took his place"
What Senator Hoar has to say re-
speeding the attitude of the Demo-
Gratis toward protection is amusing in
the extreme-to those who are not
Democrats. An idea of his opinion of
them may be inferred from this, his
closing sentence. THE Democrat who
holds protection unconstitutional, and
at any rate, as tending to monopoly of
public plumber. or the benefit Of the
few at the expense of the many. will
soon be as extinct as the dodo or the
Megalosaurus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-30

The New York Post can hardly ex-
pect in its calmer moments to greatly
affect the minds of its intelligent read
ers with it's recent basis of attack on
the Dingley law. We refer to the de-
ductiuns the Post assumes to make
from the fact that revenue receipts
fell off the day the Dinghy law went
INTO effect. Because this happened the
Post iufcrs that the Dingley law is a
greater deficit measure than the Wilson
law. OF course the Post makes no
mention of the fact known to every
man. woman and child, who reads
current events, that for the two months
prior to the passage of the Dingley
law everything which might be ex-
pccted To afford government a revenue
under that law was rushed into the
country with all possible haste and
that this was kept up until the mo-
ment the new law went into effect To
assume at this time, because imports
are less than under the Wilson law
for July. that the Dingley law is to
prove a deficit breeder is unworthy the
name of argument.
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OF Cecil Rhodes, who brazenly de-
clared to the investigating commission
that he was the instigator of the
TransVaal raid Mr. Chamberlain said
in Parliament the other day while
eulogiZing him, that he had done
nothing to affect his personal character
as a man of honor" and that his insti-
CATION of the land stealing raid was &
fault rather than crime, and one not
sufficiently fragrant to require his re-
moVal from prominent office. Pretty
bold words those and bald assumption
that might makes right so far as Eng
lands policy toward weak nations is
concerned Possibly the defiant state
ments of Mr.. Rhodes solicitor that ne
would make public the whole shameful
deal had much to do with Secretary
Chamberlain position. Certainly the
best excuse for him is that he was
forced TO make such statement which
amounts to official recognition and en-
dorsement of the utterly INSCRIPTIONS
land grabbing policy with which thai
country has so often and justly been
charged
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Of what they termed "bimetallism" be-
lieved for minute that there would be
anything but silver recommendation.
And that was what they wanted, the
silver syndicate, the debtors who wish
ed to settle in cheap dollars, the en-
ployer who wanted to see wages cut
down in this indirect, but surely effect
i've manner. Those who believed that
bimetallism would result from unlim-
country, alone. were Of the same class
as those who thought free coinage
meant coinage by the government for
free distribution among the people and
fancied that somehow, with free silver,
dollars would be free and that they
could get them without working for
them.
Some of the employers of labor in
Mexico have reaped certain advan-
tage where they sold their products to
gold standard countries in competition
with gold standard wages and PAID
their own laborers in the As cent dol
lar. But this advantage is being offset
by the fluctuations of their cheap cur
rency and the lack of confidence such
changes inevitably give rise to. 1t Is
a serious matter to have enterprise
waiting in uncertainty as to what the
row