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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-02-08
Quorum present. ~,
Prayer by tho chaplain. ~
Journal Of yesterday reSd and APP

i n -
Journal Of yesterday resd and ap-
proved. 81 Nh
A B No. 86-Allen-An Act liceno-
ing tho sale OF cigarettes and cigar.
cite paper and other matters relating
the reto. Referred 70 Ways and Means
Committee.
A B No. 37-Anen-An Act to pro-
vide for the treatment and care of
habitual drunkards. Referred to
Committee on Public Morals.
Alb No 38-Bradshsw-An Act to
amend An Act defining the rights
Of husband and wife. Referred to
Judiciary Committee.
A b No Oiver-An Act for
the protection of fish in Lake Ia
hoe. Referred Committee ON Agri-
culture. s-. .-....
s B No. 19-Mills--An Act fixing
fees Of County Clerk Of Ormsby coun-
ty for making out naturalization
papers. Referred to judiciary Com
mtttee. ~.
A B No 30-Foster Act to
provide for the protection of the in
digent sick in the several counties of
this State. Bill considered engross-
ed and lost by vote Of 20 to 9.
McNaughten gave notice that on
some day be would move to recon-
slider the vote by which A b No 30
was lost. ..-..
A b No. 11-Ferguson-An Act
to provide for the maintenance of
Public Schools. Considered eneross-
ed.
Recess.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Assembly called to order by Speak
er Allen.
A b No. 1I-Read third time and
passed by a vote of "A to5. -.
SPECIAL ORDER.
Substitute for A B No. 3-Gilbert-
An Act providing for the copying of
the Journal Of the Assembly by G.
Il Ford for $50. Motion to indef-
nitely postpone bill was lost.
A motion by Garrard to amend bill
by striking out worlds @. F.. Ford and
Inserting words Mrs. j. E. Miller was
carried by vote of of Is to II. Bill
ordered engrossed.
Substitute for A B No Is Commit
tee on Agriculture)-An hct to pro-
vide for the incorporation Vi mutual
fire insurance companies Made
special order for Wedres hy at 2
o'clock.
A B 36-Stoddard-An act provid-
ing for tho appointment of inspect
ors OF apalries. Indefinitely post
poned.
Assembly Joint Resolution No. l.
MISUNDERSTANDING to the abaa-
donment OF portion of the Walker
Lake Indian Reservation. Passec,
% too.
Substitute for A B No. 5.-Agricul-
ture Committeeman act for the pres-
ervation Of fish in tl,a waters of this
State. Ordered eng,oesed.
A resolution by Trembath that
when the House adjourn it do 80 till
Monday at the regular hour was ca
riel. &c.,.
s B 14-Committee on Claims
An act to pay the deficiencies in the
appropriations for tho years 1865
Referred to Ways and Means Com.
1ittee.
Substitute for s B No. 5-Commit-
tee on Judiciary-An act to provide
revenue for tho support Of the Gov
ernment Of the State of Nevada.
Referred to Way and Means Com
mittee. tS'-tta' 'E
Adjourned until Monday.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-02-08
AFTERNOON SESSION,

Assembly called to order by Speak
er Allen.
A B No. 1I-Read third time and
passed by vote of "A to5.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-02-08

Assembly called to order at IL o
clock by Speaker Allen.
The evening times., 1897-04-02
The TruSt HoodoO,

Chairman Dingley and the other tariff
1obpers Of the House could not be content
with a general measure designed to wreck
theconinerce ofthe country and impoverish
its people, while enriching the trusts. They
needs must add to their criminality 10y
pretending TO enact legislation in con-
pection with it, Of character so clearly
unconstitutional and so suhlimely ridicu-
Ious as TO bring the blush Of shame to the
cheek Of a fourth-clasS police court lawyer.
Nobodv needs 10 he told that reference
is had to the "opera bouffe" retroactive
amendment to the Dingley bill.
This precious piece of partisan folly is
so transparently Illegal and harmless that
we are lost in wonder at the thought that
1t should be anywhere taken seriously; but
IL has had the effect of cyclone upon
business interests in every part of the
United States, and the Treasury officials
are being flooded with letters and tele-
grams from customs officers and mer-
chants asking instruction or advice.
The position which even Republican lead
ers in the Senate will take in the matter, is
now known throughout the country, and
today the furry viii tie over, aud the work
of anticipatory importation Will he re-
sumed with renewed vigor.
We almost could drop a tear TO think that
the trust representatives in the upper
house are not quite idiotic enough TO let
the retroactive provision stand, and try
60 fight il through. Because, whatever
chance the DinCley infamy might, or may,
have TO pass the Senate without that
feature, positively there would he none
az it were included.
The evening times., 1897-04-02

somes sday be in position to give away
half a million dollars n one slice. Mr.. Rock
efeller says that the poorest man he knows
is the man WHO has nothing but money.
Money is eocd," be says, IF you know
how TO use it,
Now, what's the reason that young men
of today do not follow Mr.. Rockfeller's
advice, or if they do, they don't get richr
One reason IS that there is not so good Il
chance for the fellow who has saved up a
81 900 as there was then. A $1,000 is
hardly worth mentioning in the race with
the big monopolies and trusts. The small
business man, the young fellow who has
his way to make in the world, and wants
TO make il independently. is just the man
they do not want in tile field. In the
the country was new, aad mea were more
independent. There were small ventures in
which a man could use his individual judg-
ment without alashing with anyone else's.
and if his Judgment was good, he could go
on slowly and sagaciously, making more
and more money. But now, when he has
reaped the fruits OF one lucky deal, some
big combination steps in and wipes him out
And he has to start all over again.
What is to be done about all this? And
aren't Mr. Rockefeller and his fellows,
with their big fortunes, the men who will
think out some way to help it,
The evening times., 1897-04-02
Mr.. RockefeIler,s speech.

MIR John d. Rockefeller has been max
.ng a speech. 1T only on rare occasions
that MT Rockefeller makes a speech He
prefers making money. He always makes
sure that both the audience and the sub
5ect with which he has to deal are serious
and weighty before he ventures on this
enterprise The other day, however, he
found an audience and subject after
his own heart He talked to the Young
Mems Bible Class of a New York church
Oh the way in which he made his money
Mr.. Rockefeller's opinion on this subject
Is that il is a religious duty to get all
the money one can thonestlyl, to keep all
one can, and to give away all one can.
How he reconciies these last two duties
he does not explain. But he says that
when he was young man he used to
make it a practice TO give one cent to
the Sunday school every Sunday. This
got him into the habit of giving, SO that
now il doesn't hurt him. Giving is a
valuable habit TO get into.
He was also saving money all this time;
and i'm the course of a few years, out of
salary ranging from S15 to S25 a month,
he had saved 81 900 Somehow or other.
tbereis a mistiness about the way in which
shis was managed. 1t is a pity that this
was not made clear, for it was one of the
most interesting pontsin the whole speech.
But one thing which may help to make it
clear is the statement that Mr.. Rockefeller
spent ia the course OF five months just
twice as much for his clothes as he did for
charities, which were organized on the
one-cent scale. So be. couldn't have In
dulged in any dress suits or patent leather
shoes during that period. This is one item
sbout which many young men are careless.
The moral seems to be that be who, In
his youth. saves all he can and gives a
cent every Sunday TO the Sunday win
The evening times., 1897-04-02
Plants and Persons.

One of the household suggeStionsina in New
ing plants in a bedroom are unhealthy, and
that they take more vital gases away
from the occupant than another sleeper
in the same apartment With all due re-
spect for this journals scientific man. he
must have been asleep or day-dreaming
when he wrote that paragraph.
Any biologist will tell you that the plant
and the animal kingdoms are essentially
different, in that the plant absorbs car
bonic acid gas, while the animal gives it
out. Thus the gases which the plant ab-
serbs are just what TO the animal are
poisonous: and the air of bedroom, or
any other room, is actually purified by
the presence of growing plants
That is the scientific side of the ques-
tion. There is common sense side.
which anybody ought to be able to see
Perhaps the critic is a Darwinian, and per
haps he is a believer in the Garden Of
Knocked to the other side of sunset by
little reflection. II his theory were true,
the best place for Adam and Eve to live,
thrive and be innocent would have been
not in a garden, but in some arid desert, or
on top OF Ararat. II he traces his an
cestry back TO the arboreAl ape, his case
is still worse; for why should the ape have
survived at all, living as he did in tree,
if that tree gave forth noxious gases
ape before he had chance to develop any
sort OF human characteristics. This scien-
tific gentleman should take time 10 live
with plants little; camp out and grow
wise. He would find that dense forest,
instead of being a silent and miasnatic
tomb, is the most populous OF places; more
populous than any room in house is likely
to be; and that the inhabitants all seem 10
be alive and healthy, though they sleep
with growing plants every night of their
lives. OF course, IL the forest is thick
enough TO shut out the sun and shut in
mists from a river, it is not best to sleep
there; but even then, there is plenty Of
life in it, especially in the tops of the trees
If this scientific gentleman really thinks
that he would develop more health aid
less germs on bare rock ia the middle CT
the ocean than he would in some pleasant,
CLASSY meadow, he might 20 there TO spend
his next vacation. He would certainly
learn something.
The evening times., 1897-04-02
save Gen, Rivera!

1t is satisfactory 10 see that the Senate
rs inclinedto do something TO save the hfe
Of the gallant and unfortunate Gen Ri
vera In the ordinary course Of events he
would have been murdered ON his cot be-
fore this That he staI lives seems To. US
70 Indicate fear an Meyier's part that
there might be trouble in case he should
order his throat cut in the customary man
ner.
In the April number of The Forum Sena-
tor Hear has an interesting paper, in
which he discusses recent popular criti-
cisrns of the Senate as body, and, conn
pairing the virtue, dignity and decorum Of
the institution, as at present consul
tuted. with what il has been in the past,
he concludes that we have much to be
thankful for.
We quite agree with him as TO one phase
of his opinion Indeed, we have a great
deal 70 be thankful for when we see in the
Senate a few good, brave Democrats like
Senators Morgan, Daniel and Mills, able
Co stand out against and 10 defeat the at
taoks of the Salisbury y-Rothschild-Olney
combination on our Institutions and lib-
critics Again, We ought to be thankful
that we have the same men 10 voice and
chamnion the rreedonl-loying, despot- hating
and humane sentiment OF the American
people III connection with the horrible
Spanish atrocities in Cuha. IL there were
more like them. ami II there were not 80
many gentlemen ou the other side of the
chamber who are never 50 active or SO
eloquent as when striN ing to crush out any
expression OF sympathy with neightoring
Americans. struggling for liberty against
a nendish and huJcheriy tyranny, there
would he less public distrust and suspi-
cion Of our upper House.
There is not fragment Of doubt that
this Government could save Gen. Rivera S
life, if prompt and imperative demand
were made, and the Senate ought 10 have
Influence enough Ia SECURE just that action
The evening times., 1897-04-02
RECALLS A TRAGEDY.
Box of Gold Was Hidden by Mus
dercd Man.

Washin Cton N. D., April 2.-While Charles
Blazer. a we'll known farmer, living just
beyond the city liinits, was razing an Old
house on his farm day or two ago he
discovered in the recesses of the chimney
a large tin box. He could hardly believe
his senses when he saw that the box was
filled with money7-baaknotes and gold
and silver coin. The coin was covered
with rust. showing that it had been stored
away for years.
The finding of the box recalls a terrible
tragedy. In the spring of 1S43 the
Castner family, of eight people, and Peter
Parks. who lived with them at Changewater
were all murdered, with the exception of
two infants. The marderers were Joseph
Parks. a relative OF Peter Parks, and
Joseph Carter They killed the inmatei
of the house by Draining them with axes.
afterwards throwing their bodies in an
old well.
Parks was considered the richest man
in the county, who kept ali his money in
a tin. box, and was known to have had
at times as much as 100000 in it. He
ALWAYS placed the box under his pillow
upon retiring. On the morning after the
murder the treasure box was missing,
and it was generally believed that the
murderers knew OF its whereabouts. They
were hanged at Belvidere in 1S45, but
never revealed its hiding place
The house which Blazer tore down last
week was the home of Carter at the time
of the murder. 1t is und doubtedly old
Peter Parks treasure box which Blazer
found The latter, however, is reticent
over the affair, and will not disclose the
amount the box contained tits said thai
The evening times., 1897-04-02
CUPID AND THE PRESS.
Staunton school Teacher Advertised
for a Husband and Found HIN.

York, Pa, April 2.-Dr L. s. K. STAN
baugh, Of Penn Township, recently an
swered an advertisement in a Baltimore
paper advertising for husband. An ad-
vcrtisement said that the young lady was
about thirty-two years of age and wanted
a husband who would love her and take
care of her.
Letters were exchanged, and the woo
ing went ON for five weeks. Photographs
Were exchanged, and few days ago the
doctor paid his would-be bride a visit.
Compliments were exchanged, and the
pair, satisfied with each other, match
was at once made, and now the Baltimore
school teacher will shortly be q resident of
Penn Township, York county.
The doctor recently secured a divorce
from his wife, with whom he had been
living for the past sixteen years The
Young lady,s home is in Staunton, Va.
She is a school teacher anC musician of
ability.
The evening times., 1897-04-02

kind OF Reed that is shaken by the wind
1t will take cyclone Of public indigna-
ton 70 move him. Having accomplished
what he and his friends want. he does not
propose that the Administration or any,
body else shall have further favors al his
hands. He refuses to appoint COM
nittees, even that OF Foreign Affairs.
and coolly blocks the business OF the
nation He is the Corbett of the situa-
ton, and we venture Go suspect that there
is Fitzsimmons for him at the other end
Of the Avenue, who one day will hit MIN
over the heart.
The evening times., 1897-04-02
FALSE STATEMENTS CHARGED.
Answer of Attorney j. j. Darlington
in the Adriaans Case.


in the Adriaans Case.
In the answer filed by Attorney j. j..
Darlington, in Justice Hagner's court, TO
the charges put upon record ny Attorney j.
H. Adriaans, as refutation and offset TO
the previous allegations in the case, 1t Is
shown that the attorney for the heirs-at-
law OF e w. Leach had come 10 Mr..
Darlington and said he was convinced that
Mr Adriaans had made misrepresentation
of the facts. MI Darlington was asked,
lie saws, whether or not the beneficiary
under the will would pay for the attorney S
visit in case the heirs withdrew from the
suit.
The proposition, Mr.. Darlington says, was
agreed to by the beneficiary at his sug-
gestion Charles r. Burr, executor, and
Samuel Lucas, the beneficiary, both
deny that there was contract with Mr.
Darlington on the basis OF percentage, and
allege that the statement made by Adriaans
to the effect that he had been informed Of
such a proposition is wholly untrue.
They cite these charges for the consider
alton OF the court in determining the pro-
priety Of Mr. Adriaans' remaining at the
the bar as practicing attorney.
Justice Hagnerissuedno rule, asrequested
by Mr.. Adriaans, requiring Mr. Darlington
to show why he should be diSbarred, the
answer of the latter being voluntarily
placed on record
The evening times., 1897-04-02

From Havana we have the interesting in
tellgence that the Spanish authorities are
in possession OF the telegrapMc code used
by our State Department, and are
fully informed Of the contents of ever,
dispatch passing between our consulate
general and this Government. 1t is evi
dent that, under the late administration
'Mr de LONE was not spending $50, ,00l
a month in Washington for nothingl''
The evening times., 1897-04-02
A HINDOO SALvATIONIST.
Ensign Gunsehava Delivers Lee
ture at the Army Hall.

ture at the Army Hall.
Ensign Gunsekava, high-caste Hindoo.
who was converted from the Buddhist to
the Christian faith by Salvation Army
workers at his home in Ceylon, is in Wash
ington, the guest of the local Salvationists
He is the son of wealthy and refined
parents, his father being professor of
English at the government college in
Ceylon. His family is of the chieftain
caste, next to the highest in India.
The ensign was educated at the Ceylon
college, and it was during his collegiate
career that he first wandered into Sal
walton meeting and became converted. As
is always the case in India, when young
Gunsekava left the Buddhist religion it
caused a breach between him and his
family and the latter has cast him off.
This was eight years ago, and since that
time, having proven one of the ablest
and most intelligent of the Hindoo con-
yerts, he has been sent all over the world
by the army to show to its supporters and
sympathizers the work which it is accom-
plishing in that land of many religions
Ensign Gunsekava, in company with
another Indian convert, Major Devosurah,
reached the United States five months
ago and has since been touring the country,
conducting meetings and delivering illus
trated lectures on the salvation work in his
native land.
The first of the lectures was delivered by
him at the Salvation Army barracks, No.
e42 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, last
night and another will be given this evening.
Before beginning his address the ensign
sang the Salv Army song, Il
am clinging to the Cross in the five
Hindustan dialects into which it has been
translated by the Salvation Army soldiers.
Hislecture treated oflife and the salvation
work in India and was profusel yillustrated
by colored stereopticon views.
The evening times., 1897-04-02
TRYING TO COMPROMISES.
Propositions in the Van Riswfck
VIII Case Now Considered.


Mr.. Wilton ] Lambert, who was recently
refused a new trial Of the Van Rlswlck
will case, in which verdict was obtained
by Mrs. Martina Carr, has Offered 10 cohr
proujse the matter with Mrs. Carr, upon
condition that the bequests to himself anu
his sister are permitted 20 stand, tne re-
maindcr of the property TO be equhiiy di-
vided bet ween his mother, Mrs. Lambert,
and Mrs. Carr There was counter prop
osition made, and both are now under con-
sheraton.
The estate is understood to be valued ak
5000. 900, and under the VIII dated Ia
February, 1898, there was LETT TO her
grandson, Wilton j. Lambert, a suDuroan
seat known as Van View, estimated Go DC
worth S25, 900, and to his two sisters
three houses and lots Mrs. Carr was 10
have premises No. 1413 X street north
west for life, with an equal division De
tween her and Mrs. Lambert OF the income
and profits Of the remainder OF the estate,
the remainder to go finally TO their chill
dren. The counsel for Mr.. Lambert de
clincd this morning TO state the terms OF
the counter-proposition.
The evening times., 1897-04-02
Parliament of Patricians.

A certificate of incorporation of the
parliament of the Prudent Patricians OF
Pompeii," the objects OF which organiza-
tion is to associate white people OF good
moral character and good physical condi-
ton in fraternal gatherings for mutual
assistance of moral, social, intellectual,
and pecuniary nature, was filed with the
recorder Of deeds today. The incorporators
are: William s. Linton, william j Palmer,
David swinton, Henry IL. Mckee, Henry
F. Thomas, Philip Walker, Marguerite
McCutchen, Martha j Peabody, Warren
w. Blackmer. william T. Cooper, Georg'
The evening times., 1897-04-02

1t is highly appropriate that this Gov.
eminent should invite Spain TO send a
warship to participate in the Grant monu-
ment ceremonies. and we beg to suggest
that the Queen Regent might select al
most any OF Clevelands white squadron
Spanish police patrol for the service, with
propriety and effect. 1t is true that
they dld not fly the Spanish ensign, but
they might as well have done SO. While
we are extending these International cour
tesies, we ought TO do the complete thing
and invite Weyier, too. He could bring
some Of the bodies of the women
and children he has butchered, and the
machetc with which he did it, and the
new journalism" could make a great
feature of it.
The evening times., 1897-04-02
NAVAL OFFICERS DECLINE.
secretary Long Having Trouble To
Find Navigation Bureau Chief.


Two more naval officers have declined
to accept the office OF Chief OF the Navi-
cation Bureau, and Secretary Long is
beginning to find out that he may have
trouble in getting the man he desires.
Commodore Sicard, commandant of the
New York navy yard, and Capt Sampson,
the ordnance chief, were each offered the
place and both declined, the latter on the
plea that he wished to command the battle
ship Iowa in May and the former that he
preferred to continue in his present duty.
Commodore Sicard is looked upon as
probable successor to Admiral Bunce this
spring or early summer. Comm Odore
Miller of the Boston yard, Is said to have
withdrawn his candidacy. Capt. j. W.
Miller of this same yard is still strongly
urged, but his lack OF familiarity with duty
atthe Navy Department makes his selection
somew hat improbable. Capt Crowinshield,
of the hattle-ship Maine, is the latest
candidate for the office.
The evening times., 1897-04-02
KILLED IN A CLAY PIT.
several worknen Caught by IL Cave
in at North East, Md.

Elkton, Nd, April 2.-While John T.
Biddle and John McGuirk, of North East,
were working in kaolin pit OF the Mary.
land Company yesterday, at that place,
the hank caved in, burying the men under
tons of clay The accident was witnessed
by other workmen, who began at once 10
rescue them McGuirk was first taken
out alive, but badly injured, and may die.
Biddle was dead when found Coroner
Dean, of Elkton, went to North East, and
took the testimony of several witnesses
but did not deem an inquest necessary.
The evening times., 1897-04-02
POISON IN GARDEN TRUCK.

discovered in Time TO Prevent
Wholesale Destruction Oh Le'
New Castle, Pa, April New Castle
had a narrow escape from wholesale poi'
soning Yesterday. A firm of grocefs on
one of the principal streets have in front
of their store u chestin which is keptgreen
truck.
One of the clerks noticed that the veg
etables appeared to be covered with some
kind Of green substance It was founo
that some one had thrown large guam
t;ty of poison among the garden truck
There was enough of the poison In the
chest to kill many people.
The police authorities were at once hoti'
fled. The members of the firm have ho
idea who did the act, neither can Ihey
imagine what it was done for
The evening times., 1897-04-02
Young ohioans Arrested.

Columbus, Ohio, April 2--aIiss Imogen
Lettsoin, daughter of Asher Lettsom, pres
ident of the enton, Ohio, National Bank,
and w. L. Baekenstoe, young tailor of
this city, are under nominal arrest, and
detained at the Chittenden Hotel, on tele-
graphic order from Banker Lettsom Back
enstoe and Miss Lettsom admit that they
came here to be married, well knowing
that her parents would Lot consent TO
their marriage.
The evening times., 1897-04-02

nurses will be allowed complete freedom
of motion in going anywhere they wish to
on the island. Under present conditions
Gen. Weyler will not allow them beyond
the lines of the fortified seaports, and has
not the slightest Intention of changing
that policy.