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Cincinnati. April 23.-Results at New
port: Seven furiongs. Standardization
won, Loyalty second. Bill Dawdy third
time. 1:30%. -Four furlongs. s~elling-Lucy
Biazes won. Bessique second. Ed Upton
third: time. son. Mile and a quarter. sell
ing-Rockwood won. Kinsgtone second.
Friar John third; time. 2:14. Mile-Eddie
Burke won. Panchita ii. second. Horace
third; time. 1:44k. Six furlongs. selling
Maxeppa won. Albert s. second. Marta
third: time. 1:l1. Six and a half ~furlongs.
selling-Meddler won. Allie Belle second.
Bertha Nell third; time. 1:2i.
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Communication Abandoned.

Key West. Fla. April 23.-The gov
has taken control of the tele-
graph wires at this point and all press
matter will he handled subject to the
decision OF the censor. Telegraphic
communication with Havana has been
Abandoned
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Gomez IL

New York, April 2s.-Thomas Els
trada Palm of the Cuban junta has re-
ceived a letter from General Maxine
Gomez. containing the following:
Great things nave been done. The
essential thing now is to triumph.
which will be great glory to the victor.
who. like David of Biblical fame, de-
stroyed Goliath with only his sling and
stone.
"Blanco and Pando a sent me
emissaries with presents. The presents
/ burned before their eyes n told
them II they should ever return / would
hang them. The poo men were most
astonished. and ! have since learned
hat they refused to come back a sec
ond time unless they would be permit
ted to remain with my army.
Il hasten to tell you this so you can
know the infamy of the Spaniards. one
year ago there was no clemency, no
quarter. Women. mothers and chill
dren were made victims of the Spanish
The soldiers of Weyler We're taking
with them everywhere desolation and
ruin. BY means OF the h~eliograph the
Spanish generals sent soldiers every
where through the island. Generals
Luqui. Ruiz n others destroyed cat
tie, horses and ever the palm trees.
The 200, 900 men then in this island dis
puted the privilege of who should Kill
the most. Not one peace commissioned
came then.
But all to no purpose. We made
their troops useless. the Photograph and
enemy's cannon of no cot All our
fields have given us bountiful fruits,
while hunger reigns i'm the cities. We
do not know where the Spanish army
has gone.
81 was then mentioned as the so
called To-day they address me as
distinguished adversary Why this
condition? The answer Is simple. II
Is that the ~Spaniards see that their
cause is lost and they are trying to gain
time to postpone the inevitable. l shall
continue to fight with the same energy
as In the past. Victory will crown my
/ affortS"
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Key West. April 2;.-The captured
Spanish steamer Buena Ventura Is still
aground and leaking badly. There Is a
strong suspicion the ship was scuttled
by the Spanish crew.
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Key West. Fla. April $3.50 p. M
The torpedo boat Ericsson arrived here
from the fleet on Havana this after
noon. She reported that when she left
Havana at 10 o'clock this morning there
had been no bombardment and that the
fleet had established a peaceful block
a1a
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Washington. April s-The Post will say
tomorrow that the resignation OF Hon.
John sherman as secretary OF state Will
he placed i'm the hands OF the president on
Monday
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Ordered Ont az Once.

Detroit. April 23.-Commander Gilbert
Wilkes OF the Michigan naval militia re-
ceived orders To proceed at once to Nor
folk with his command.
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rimhernne Abandoned.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Washington. April sS-The postofice at
Timberline. Galiatin county, Montana
has been discontinued. Mail goes to
Chestnut
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At THE GATES or HAVANA
CONTINUED from Page One,

city's defenders. Havana's weak point
lies dead ahead OF the American fleet.
The course OF the ships In In direct ac-
cordance with the plan of war which
the Herald first published. II Means
and everybody here admits 1.-THE bonn
bardment OF Havar unless the city
~surrenders In sight of Q superior force.
General Blanco. In the full uniform
which he has worn about two days In
the last w months. In at h Santa
Clara battery. the strongest OF the city's
defenses. with him are all the ON
GERS of his stan and the chief officers
Of all the regular n volunteer regi-
ments Orderiies are rushing through
the city shouting the call to arms, and
carrying orders to the batteries and
reports to the captain general.
"Ominous Is the situation. Everybody
ants the fact, but everybody is rush
ing out Of the city or to its fortifica-
tons. The numbe who nave sought
the latter places to fight Ia enormous.
The United States ships could not pos
sibly select a better place for land
ing men than they can find I'm the
neighborhood to which they are point
ing.
"Blanco realizes the danger, and has
rushed large bodies of troops to the
Santa Clara battery. He has sent 9TH
ers in a hurry by railroad to Vedado
and Carmelo. The garrisons are weak
there. n even with the reinforcement
could not last long. because the defens-
es are not strong. Troops could be
lande there with but little more han
q. skirmish. and 1t is thought this will
be the first place at which the Ameri-
cans will strike.
Then. too. Blanco Is fearful lest first
the invaders come up the little river
Almendares. where they could make an
undisputed landing a few miles to the
westward OF the city. The armament
there is insignificant. The chief defense
Is the old Castle de AIares. Several
regiments have been sent to the Playa
de Mariana, where there Is an import
ant but undefended landing place.
From that point a railroad runs tn Ha-
vana.
Arolas. the military governor. is act
ing with Blanco, and both went out and
made a reconnaissance In the direction
Of Mariana. The two. after leaving
Santa Clara. ven to the Relana bat
terry. All the guns at all of the forti-
fications are manned. The men have
orders to stand by them all night. The
attack Is expected at daybreak."
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Milwaukee. Wis. April 3-The Oregon
Iron and Steel company will not be al
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-24

Neutrality Proclamation. h
st. Johns. N. F., April Ex-Governor
Murray has issued a neutrality procla-
nation.
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Hts Reawest Granted.

Chicago. April 23.-Father Maurice j.
Dorney. pastor of st. Gabriel's Roman
Catholic church, Chicago, to-day Sc
cured a commission from the United
States government as chaplain. and will
leave to-day to Join the lighting men
with Captain Robley d. Evans on the
battleship Iowa in front Of Havana.
Father Dorney il widely known
throughout this country n ireland.
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PhiIadelphia-N York.

Philadelphia. April 22HNew York sue
ceeded in winning the closing game of the
series by better all-round work. Doheny
was hit hard In the first inning. after
which he settled down and kept the hits
well separated. New York hit Donohue
very hard i'm the first inning and in the
second ne was retired I'm favor of Dunkle.
The fielding of Gleason and Davis was
the fnntnre Abundance 10 400 Score.
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An Eng1tsh ship.

New York, April sc. v. Dearborn.
agent Of the American ship Shenan-
doah. said that he had heard from
trustworthy sources hat IL was not his
ship. but the British ship Shenandoah.
from Newport News April Is for Liver
pool. that had been boarded and exam
med by the Spaniards. The American
ship, he said, should be due in Liverpool
to-day or tomorrow at the latest.
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New York. April 23.-A dispatch to
the World from Madrid says: A minis
teriai crisis has added a new danger to
the situation In Spain. Premier Sagasta
went to the queen regent and rendered
the resignation OF the whole cabinet
He aid this. he explained. in order to
make Il easter for her to consul the
leading statesmen. generals and ad-
mirals OF all parties, so as to judge
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Washington. April 23.-The Senators had
every prospect of winning to-day mp to
the sixth inning. when six hits for bases
gave the victory to the visitors. Score:
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MISUNDERSTANDING. Donohue. Dun
kle. Murphy and Mcfarland; New York.
Doheny and Warner. Umpires-Snyder
and Currie.
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-05-27
JOINT STATEMENT

IF AUDITOR AND TKEASUitEi:
OF ELKO COUNTY.
For the Quarter Ending Dec.
81, 1907.
ATE OF NEVADA, [.
Comfy OF Elko. o.
AUDITORS OFFICE
To the Honorable Board OF County Commls
sioners OF Elko County, Nevada:
GENTLEMEN: We herewith submit our Quar-
erly Report Of the Finances Of the County
Tor the quarter ending Dec. 81 1897.
Respectfully submitted:
c. A. WATKINS
Auditor.
J. A. MCBRIDE,
Treasurer.
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THE NEwsPAPER Law.
All Subscribers Should Road the

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Following Law aud Avoid Trouble.
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Usher may continue to send it until
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to take their periodicals. from the
office TO which they are directed, they
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tied their bills and ordered them dis
continued.
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former address, they are held re-
sponsihIe. =.
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of intended fraud.
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end of the time they do not wish to
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that newspaper publishers can arrest
anyone for fraud who take paper
and refuses to pay for it. ia
Under the law the man who allows
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-04-28
A FIGHT FOR LIFE.
Queer Spectacle Witnessed at the
Cincinnati Zoo.
a Hungry Indian Boa COnstrictor Dis
poses of a FerOciOus Bulldog
I'm the Space of Twenty
Seven Seconds.

The sight of lifetime-a spectacle
wherein horror, breathless surprise,
demoniac action and terrible death
combined to make a tragedy beyond all
scription-occurred recently at the
Cincinnati (O-) Zoo. a desperately
ugly big bulldog that several masters
had been unable to do anything with
had been sent TO the gardens Ito be dis
posed of for the benefit of the animals"
He was SO miserably devilish that he
was brought to the Zoo between two
men, each of whom held him from the
other by means of chains fastened to
each sioe of his collar. The moment the
ferocious gift was received Superintend
end Stephan decided as to its disposal.
The Zoos monstrous boa constructor
Zalphrazia had not fed for nearly 90
days.
Dog is the most tempting of all NOR
sells in the boa constructors bill of fare.
When. as often happens, fat puiiets,
rabbits or rats won't tempt boa to
feed a dog is the thing that Will keep
hilh from starving himself to death.
When these latter extreme times occur
Superintendent Stephan, old animal
man that he is, says that he would
rather let boa die than throw a dog
to him. But as the boaS are Zoo prop
erty, he hasn't the say in such matters.
After receiving the vicious bulldog
the superintendent sent word to few
friends, an Enquirer man included,
to be at the Zoo at four o'clock.
When the party had assembled the SUI
perintendent announced that a bull
| dog was to be turned loose in the great
| glass den of the boa constructor, Zal-
| phraZia.
What did the boa ever do to you,
That you want it torn to pieces by a
bulldog?" asked one of the party. The
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-04-28
LoNDoN's sPooKY HOTELS.
Rooms That Are Useless Because of
Murders and Suicides Conn
mitted in Them.

With the exception of fire, perha ps
the worst piece of bad luck which can
happen to an blishment of this
sort is for a crime to be committed on
the premises, remarked the proprietor
of q large hotel to the writer. I often
hear people, when commenting on such
an occurrence, allude to the splendid
advertisement it gives the place, but
l can assure you that the publicity is
anything but splendid.
A little thought will easily show the
harm such an occurrence does us.
Would you yourself care to sleep in a
hcuse-let alone the room-where a
man had cut his throat, or perhaps
been done to death, shortly before? Of
course not, and very few people would.
A robbery is almost if not quite as bad,
for the effect of it does not die away so
quickly.
/ have a room in this very building,
which however full we may have been,
has not been opened for six months. A
man murdered his wife in it, some IL
months ago, and since then no one has
slept there for two nights in success
sion. Is it haunted? I can't say, but
guests who have occupied the apart
iHeiit, anu VIII apparently never mean u
of the real tragedy, have complained of
being awakened by dreadful screams
and thuds on the floor, though on a
match being struck. nothingwas visible.
All the versions are the same, even that
of a Frenchman, just arrived in the
metropolis, whom I put there out OF
curiosity.
There are several other hotels in Lon
don with similar useless rooms. One in
particular had an Extraordinary expert
ence some years ago. Three successive
occupants of a certain room were found
dead in bed in the morning. All three
had committed suicide in the same way
by cutting the throat with razor, but
in no case could reasonable motive
for the act of self-destructlon be ad-
duced: the victims were all prosperous,
and, according to the evidence, free
from worry or anxiety. The proprietor
had the door of the apartment nailed
up. and as no one has entered it for
years, its secret will probably never
be discovered.-Tit-Bits
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NOT OF GLACIAL ORIGIN.
Fregh Government Reports ON the
Rich Gold Deposits Of the
Alaska Territory.

Two papers containing important
contributions on the gold-bearing re-
,ions of Alaska, papers the publication
IF which has been awaited with great
interest for nearly year, have just
been issued from the government print
.ng office. They are both advance chap
ters from Part of the eighth annual
report of the director of the United
States geological survey, not yet issued.
The papers entitled Reconnaissance
of the Gold Fields of Southern Alaska"
a pamphlet of Sc pages Of text, with
number of maps and other illustra-
tons, records the result of observa-
tons by DIR. George Becker in 1896 and
treats of the principal developments of
the coastal region of Alaska, among
the islands of the Alexander archipel-
ago and on the adjoining shore of the
panhandle strip of southeastern Alas
ka.
The report of J. E. Spur (392 pages of
text, with maps and other Illustrations,
which treats mainly of the valley of
the Yukon, is of more immediate inter
est at the present time, since, although
the Klondike region did not come with
.
ognized the probable Importance of
that region, as a result of his studies
of the districts of Forty-AIile and Arctic
City, within American boundaries. In
spite of difficulties of travel and short
season of work, Mr.. Spur was enabled
to get a bird's-eye view of the broad
general features of the geological struc-
ture of this immense interior and to de-
termine the position and characteristic
features of the gold-bearing rock for
nations from the wearing down of
which the unusually rich placer de-
posts were derived. These rock for
nations, which he designates as the
Birch creek, Forty-Mile and Rampant
series, are of immense thickness and
very old, dating back beyond the pale
ozoic era and resting on fundamental
granite or gneiss. The richer placers
are all found among the smaller gulches
heading in hills formed of these rocks
which are very full of gold-bearing
quartz veins. There are also gold-bear-
ing conglomerates, formed in a former
geologic period by the wearing down Of
thin rocks along an ancient set beach
and since consolidated into hard rock
furnished gold TO some of the placers
| and which may prove themselves to be
series of wealth in the future.
Mr.. Spur effectually disposes of the
statement made by the late director o.
the coast survey, Gen. Duffield, that the
placers are of glacial origin, by show
ing that the region where they are
found in great richness was never Gov
! cred by the continental ice sheet.
OF each of these papers the geological
survey has about 1 200 copies for gen
eral ibution.-Chicago Post.
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worst thing he ever did shallremember
10 my dying day.
''Bill, that was his name, was with a
lot of us fellows one day when we were
talking about a heavyweight game
cock that had been beating everything
in the pit. oh, that rooster amt so
warm said Bill, in careless fashion.
I've got little game bantam that will
Kill him in the first round This made
the sport who owned the chicken mad.
He and Bill got to gassing and passing
gags until they made up fight. The
sport he said he would bet $500, but
Bill he said that $500 was too small
and that he wouldn't 60 in for nothing
less than $1,000.
They fixed up the scrap and one
Sunday a lot of us sports met behind
an old stable. Well. sir. you ought to
have heard them fellows laugh when
they seen Bills rooster. He was a
stumpy little bantam, hardly high
enough to touch the other ROSTERS chin
comb unless he jumped. We laughed
and laughed and guyed Bill, but Bill
he didn't say nothing. He was just
holding his little bantam under the
stomach and rubbing him on the head.
Who's holding the money! was all
that Bill said
''Well, sir, / wasn't a member of the
society that tries to stop roosters from
being killed, but did think it shame
to let that little rooster go up against
the big fellow. Bill and the rich sport
first held the chickens together to let
them peck at each other and get their
spunk up, and then they put them on
the ground. The big rooster looked a
the bantam a minute as if he would fall
on him and crush him to death. Both
of the birds wore those long gaff like
needles. Well. sir. the big rooster made
pass and missed. and then suddenly
we seed bantam dig left handler in the
big birds wing. Nobody thought moth
ing of that, but when time was called
the big rooster put his head down and
Just keeled over. Bantam stood up on
his body and crowed.
''Well, Bill took the money; but we
got to thinking that it was mighty
funny that rooster could be killed so
easy, so we looked at him, picked off
his feathers, and found he was turning
black. Bill had put strong poison on
the bantam's gaffs, so that the least
swipe would mean good-by. We tried
to find Bill, but he had taken a trip for
his health"
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had fallen into slumber, when he YVES
awakened by shouts that seemed to
come from the tent, where two negro
cooks were preparing supper, 4 min
ute later the mastiff, half as big as n
calf, came running toward the recum-'
bent Mr.. Wetmore. The dog was mad,
as could be seen by the foam at his
mouth and that peculiar swinging mo-
ton of his run. Hecame directly toward
the big tobacconist, who had neither
stick nor stone to lay his hands upon
in defense. A thought struck him.
He might catch the dog by the hind
legs and swing him in a circle, as he
had playfully done with the dogs of
his fathers kennel when he was a
boy. 1t was not a very difficult JOB to
catch the animal and give MIN a whirl,
but it proved more than tedious in five
minutes.
Mr.. Wetmore felt his grip weakening
and yelled for help. His party of
friends were way down the river fish
ing, and the two negro cooks were too
scared to come near.
''Just as my last bit of strength
waned," said Mr.. Wetmore, in recount
ing his experience, ct loosed my hold
Op lHS Jug anu ISli DdCAWdhu- -AS Niu
so he shot out into space, and, with n
howl of despair, disappeared over the
cliff to certain death below. Now, that
brilliant thought of mine to swing that
mad dog in a whirl until help came
would have been the ruination of me.
What saved me was letting him go,
but it wasn't my fault. 1 guess 1t was
Providence, for L never once thought
of swinging the brute over thespreci-
pice."
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object of the young mems visit to the
Imperial.
EAST Lynn" is play which ought to
make all women cry, they reasoned,
for it makes even mems Threats grow
thick. They sent tickets for reserved
seats to the girls under discussion, beg
ing them to invite whomsoever they
pleased of their acquaintances, as they.
the donors would not be able to escorts
them.
The ruse was successful. In an upper
box sat the young men ready to win
or lose the wager, and right below, in
the parquet, where they could see
their faces and every move of their
hands, were the young women. There
were six of them, two of whom shed
copious tears, and hesitated not to
wipe them away with their handker-
chiefs, while the other four never
WINGED. Among those who did not
cry were the girls suspected Of laying
on the red pigment, and it was on just
that evidence that the bet hinged. That
night the wager was paid with q supper
at the University club