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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-12-01
Notice to Taxpayers.
COUNTY TREAsURER's OFFICE,
or Elko County, New.
ELKo, New, Nov. |. 1899.


ELKo, New, Nov. /, 1899.
Please take notice tha. the State
and County Taxes for the year 1899
are now due and payable at my Of.
flee. All Taxes (save and except
amounts due upon 2nd mstallmente)
remaining unpaid at 6 o'clock p. NJ.
on Monday, December !, 1899, will
then become delinquent and 10 per
cent be added thereto.
Parties paying in semi-annual in
stallments are required to pay on 1st
installment the full amount Of Poll
Taxes due, i'll addition to = OF their
Real and Personal Property Tax.
All checks not payable in Elko will
only be received at = per cent dis
connt. A. c.. DAwLEy,
County Clerk and Ex OHicio Treas
urer and Tax Collector.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-12-01
IN TIE MATTEa OF THE ESTATE OF
MANY a. BLACK, FORMERLY MARY A.

IS THE MATTEa OF THE ESTATE OF
MARY a. BLACK, FORMERLY MARY A.
MOORE, DEcEASED.--NoTI Ap-
POINTING TINE FoR PROBATE OF WILL
a document. purporting to be the last
Will and Testament OF Mary A. Black, for
mcriy Mary \: Moore, deceased, having on
ihc :,th day or November, a. u. 1879, come
into the possession OF said District Court.
and petition for the probate thereof, and
Tor the issuance OF Letters OF Adminlstra-
ton with the will annexed TO Charles II
Henderson having been filed with the Clerk
OF said Court,
NOTICE Is Hereby GIVEN, That Saturday.
the ninth day OF December. a. D. 1893, nt ID
O'Clock n. IN. OF said day. Mt the Courtroom
OF said Court. at the town Of Elko, in the
County OF Elko. be. and the same IS hereby
appointed the time for proving said will
and hearing said application when and
where any person interested may appear
and contest the said Will. and may file OBJ
lections In writing to the granting OF Let
lers OF ADMINISTRATION with the VIII An.
neXed to said petitioner
Dated, ELKo, November "a, 1859.
SEAL. A.G. DAwLEY.
t0~g Ciesl.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-12-01

Tho costs in legnl fight over the
title to 800 mulo in Churchill coun.
ty last week footed up 1850 assessed
to tho loser.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-12-01

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
q Fourth Judicial District OF the State of
Nevada, in and for the County OF Elko
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-12-01

Tho receipts Of tho Stntc Land Of
lico last week were 32G9.T5.
The daily sentinel., 1899-06-06
A TREASURY THIEF.
Recent Reminders of a Robbery in
washinGton Twenty
Years Ago.

The Keck smuggling case, lately de-
cided in favor of the defendant by the
supreme court of the United States,
presents a phase that recalls cele
brated robbery of the treasury in Wash
ington nearly 20 years ago. In the
Keck case the diamonds are in the pos
session of the government. AS Keck
has been acquitted of the offense of
smuggling by the highest federal court,
some good lawyers who heard the de-
cision hold he can recover possession Of
the jewelry. The case in one phase re-
sembling this was the theft by treas
ury employe in Washington of pack
age of currency containing 100000 in
$500 bills. The package was abstracted
at the noon hour, when the clerks are
allowed time to leave the building for
luncheon. The thief carried it to a
nearby saloon and hid it, the keeper
of the place being supposed to stand in
with him. The loss, of course, was soon
discovered and everybody who could
have taken the package shadowed. Sus-
picion quickly settled on a certain en-
ploye, who was known to freuqent the
saloon in question
The large size of the bills gave the
conspirat tors trouble. Finally they sent
one of their number to Saratoga to play
the races with part of the money.
The rest-$12, ,000-they deposited in a
bank in Alexandria, Va, eight miles
down. the river. The man who went
to Saratoga was of the 'tin-horn' gam
bling class. He lost his head and
played the races so badly. putting up a
$500 bill every time, that the detec-
tives soon took him in. Arrests were
made, indictments found, but nobody
was convicted, for the simple reason
that the government could not prove
that the II morey found on the Tin horn
was a par, Of ;he identical money that
was stolen from the treasury. So like
Keck, they went free. The money in
the Alexandria bank remained there
several years until finally the Late
George Bliss, of New York, came to
Washington in 1882 as one of the gov
ernment counsel in,the star route cases.
He was employed to recover this money.
His contention was simple. The gov
ernment could not prove its title to
the money. 1t did not belong to the
bank; it must belong to somebody;
therefore, it belonged to the person who
had deposited it. How much that per-
som go, of it is not known, but Bliss was
a high-priced lawyer.-Chicago Post
The daily sentinel., 1899-06-06
Her Humble Bextnnine.

Rosa Bonheur earned her first money
in copying the paintings Of old mas
ters, working early and late, helping to
support her family. Her first animal
picture was goat, which pleased her
SO much that she gave up copying and
took up animal painting. Models being
too expensive for the slender purse of
the young artist, she would tramp miles
to farm, carrying a meager lunch in
her pocket, to sketch an animal. When
only 10 years old she sent her first pic
ture to an art exhibition, and at once
was pronounced a genius.
The daily sentinel., 1899-06-06
srOcKHOLDER's MEETING.

Grand Junction, Col, May 90, 1899
To All Stockholder
The regular annual meeting of the
stock holders of the Deer Pars Mining
Company will be held at the office OF
the company in the city of Grand juno
tion County of Mesa and State Of Colo
rado, on the Fifth day of June, 1899, for
the purpose OF electiug five directors to
serve for the ensuing year and to trans-
act any other business Tat may COM
beflre the meeting
L F.. INGERsoLL,
Sec.
The daily sentinel., 1899-06-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A Chinese woman has applied for a di-
vorce in Oregon.
A German Methodist church building
in Milwaukee has been converted into
beer garden.
A Boston man who refused to pay
II fine of five dollars for splitting in u
street car went to Jail for 30 days.
Funny names are borne by the two
hotels in Sharpsburg, Ky. One is the
Ware house and the other is the Wood
house.
The railroads in the United States,
give employment to about 100000 per-
sons. Nearly 10000 of these are locomo-
tive engineers.
Four new teeth lately appeared in the
gums of Mrs. Julia Spence, of Claiborne
county, lcnn. For six years previous
she had been without teeth. Her age
is GO.
Four cities in the United Statea have
each an average of over 100 square
miles. G''s'rr New York, POS square
mites: New orleans, 1861 Chicago. 1S9;
Philadelriia, 12o.
In Portugal when a child of poor
parents dies. the mother converts
plain box into Il coffin with glass top.
At the funeral she conveys the coffin to
The cemetery. carrying it on her head.
y Chicago syndicate owns a ranch in
Texas which contains 5000 square
miles. Its herds of cattle aggregate
100000 head, besides 1,5OO horses, and
the calf crop branded in 1897 exceeded
81 600.
A new trunk, designed especially for
ladies use, has several trays, which slide
in and out from the front, so that the
contents of any one may be removed
without disturbing other articles in
the trunk.
The daily sentinel., 1899-06-06
HALF RATES EAST.
Colo ado Midland Railway

Colo ado Midland Railway
To Greeley and return, June / and 2
Sl710.
70 st. Louis and return, June 1S and
10, $3.50.
To Detroit, Mich, and return, July 2,
and 4, S5l.OO.
3 To Ricnmond,' Va, and return, July
8, 10 and IL, $5975
TO Buffalo, N Y, and return, June 1C
nd II, $56 80.
To indianapolis, Ind and return, July
II, 1S and 10, $4,000.
To Columbus, Ohio, and return, May
81, June l and 3, $3.50.
For tickets and other information call
Mt the Colorado Midland City Ticket
Office, Chapman Block, Main street, be
tween 4th aud 5th streets.
w. r PECK, City Ticket Agent.
The daily sentinel., 1899-06-06
p.tent,ns an Invention.

It costs about $4,000 to patent an in
vention all over the world. There are
Ga countries in which patent can be
protected.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
TRIAL OF CAPTAIN DREYFUS.
Three of His Opponents on the Stand-An
Important Admission.

Three of His Opponents on the Stand-An
Important Admission.
Rennes, Aug. 21.-Three opponents
of Captain Dreyfus testified at Satur
days session of the court martial.
Major Cuignet, General Boisdeffre and
General Gonse each proclaimed his be-
lief that the prisoner is guilty. The
alleged forgery of the Schneider letter
was discussed by Major Cuignet, who
insisted that the REPORT as he called
it, must be genuine. He said that 9TH
er documents on file would prove the
department in the right. Attorney De-
mango showed that Cuignet was con-
tradicting former statements and sew
eral times he had the witness per-
picked
An important admission was made
by General BOisdeffre. Replying to
questions by the court he admitted that
the leakage at military headquarters
continued after the condemnation Of
Dreyfus. 1t ceased for year, but in
1895 a paper was discovered proving
the communication to a foreign gov
eminent of a document relating to the
distribution of the artillery and show
ing that foreign government was per-
fectly acquainted with the changes
made.
1t is probable that a formal contra
dictiOn of the statements Of the French
generals at Rennes regarding the
Schneider letter will be communicated
to the French government from Vienna
with request that the generals in
question publicly withdraw them.
Such action by Austria-Hungary would
break the ice for the German and
Italian governments. And then the
whole thing would come out. perhaps
correctly. Emperor William is repre-
sented in the dispatches as holding off
because he does not want TO even ap-
pear to interfere with the international
concerns of Erancn
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25

capped and called the police and Repub-
lican Guards, who promptly arrived
with many constables. They were COM
PEELED to fall back in order to form up
into line of defense, as the anarchists
attacked them viciOusly with knives.
At length the officers began to gain
the mastery. A score of anarchists took
refuge in an adjacent house. Others
entrenched themselves in the belfry
and fiercely defended themselves by
BhOwering missiles on the Republican
Guards; but finally these were dis
lodged.
Twenty anarchists were arrested,
taken to the police station, searched,
and found to be carrying revolvers,
loaded sticks and knives.
When the police entered the church
the anarchists had just set fire to the
pulpit The interior of the edifice was
a complete wreck. Several valuable old
pictures that can never be replaced
were ruined.
The demonstrators, SO far as Care de
PEste, have been repeatedly driven
back by police charges, the crowd cry
ing "Vive parmee" and "Vive la Re-
publique" About 10 p. m. disorders
OCCuIIOu Ou LuC DOulCN oil VI uC 4hoSuCCcA
and Boulevard de StrasbOurg. Several
revolver shots we're fired, but nobody
was injured. Two newspaper kiosks
were burned and several arrests were
made in connection Herewith.
There is no change in the situation
at the building in the Rue de Chabrol,
where M. Jules Guerin and his anti
Semitic companions are entrenched in
state of siege against police, and cut
off from all communication with the
balance of the city-even their water,
gas and drainage being cut off. Shortly
after midnight noisy crowds began
demonstrating in the Rue de Chabrol,
but they were soon dispersed by the
police. Fifty-six persons have been
reported injured, including several po-
licemen. No one, so far as known, was
injured by firearms. Nearly all were
hurt by being crushed or trodden under
foot. A body Of rioters who had taken
refuge in the court yard Of the Care de
PEste was expelled by the police, who
made twenty-five arrests. Quiet has
now been restored.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
Monday, Aug. 81

There was a report in London Sun
day paper yesterday that General Mer-
cier was to be arrested by the French
authorities.
A number of American theatrical
agents are already striving to secure
Dreyfus for q season of lectures in the
United States.
At New York prices for all meats for
the eoe o4nauG were raised ,ds from to
of the Retail Butchers association.
Assistant Comptroller Mitchell has
decided that officers on the retired list
of the army are entitled to the full pay
of their rank when detailed at institu-
lions of learning.
Relief for the Porto Ricans left des-
titute by the hurricane was dispatched
from New York on the steamship Eve
Ign.
The Transvaal has received no reply
to it's dispatch to the authorities at
Lourento Marques regarding the stop
page of consignment Of stores now
in DelagOa bay.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
Saturday, Aug. 10.

The Dewey home fund now amounts
to $1S,S00.
President Diaz promised the Chicago
committee Saturday that he would at
tend the Chicago fall festival if the
Mexican congress would let him leave
the country.
The president and Secretary Root
have each given $3.50 to the Porto Rico
relief fund.
Fire at Cincinnati destroyed the five
story James l.. Haven building on Sec
Ond, near Plum street, occupied by ma
chinery manufacturers. Loss, $3.50, 900.
The fourth-class postoffice of Toluca,
Ills, will be advanced to the presi-
Dental grade Oct. 1.
Prince Henry of Prussia will return
from the far east in December by way
of the United States.
All the steamships that were overdue
at Atlantic ports because of the West
India storm have arrived safely.
Miss bessie Garrett was struck by
street car at Columbus, O., and injured
so that sc died within an hour. .y,'7
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
Chicago Postofice Record Broken.

Chicago, Aug. 21.-More mail is be-
ing sent out of Chicago at the present
time than at any other time in
the citys history. Postmaster
Gordon finds that, owing to re-
newed activity in business, it is neces-
sary to increase the collection forces
The total is about II per cent. greater
than it was at this time last year. The
heavy mail season does not begin I'M
til next month and the force of colIec-
tors will probably be increased to the
extent of fifty men before that time.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
MAITRE LAHORE IS IN COURT.
He Appears Eittle the Verse for His
Wound and Is ApnIauded.

He Appears Eittle the Verse FOR His
wound and Is Applauded.
Rennes, Aug. 22-The second day Of
the third week Of the second trial by
court martial Of Captain Alfred Drey-
fus on the charge Of treason began at
$50 O'clOc this morning. Maitre
LabOTi was present. He drove to the
court in carriage. The audience
greeted him by standing I'D and by
general cIaDping Of hands. Maitre
Labori walked quite briskly, but hold
ing his left arm close to his side, in
order not to disturb the wound.
He met General MERCER and General
BillOt in the middle Of the court room,
stopped chatted and smiled. Labor
looked very we'll. He was given a
cushioned chair Madame Labor,
looking we'll, was also in court. Labori
was warmly congratulated by friends.
Captain Dreyfus on entering shook
hands with LabOri Colonel JOuaust
addressed q few words of cOngratula-
ton to Labor, and expressed the pro-
found Indignation Of the tribunal at
the attempt to assassinate the counsel.
LabOri was much moved, and thanked
Colonel JOuauSt in an elOuQunt speech.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
Friday, Aug. Is.

Miss Julia Dent Grant will become
the wife of Prince Michel Cantacuzene
Sept. %.
The Ward line steamer Vigilancia,
which sailed from New York Wednes-
day for Mexican ports by way of Ha-
vana, is missing with fifty passengers.
Roosevelt is reported as emphatical-
ly declining in advance a vice presi-
Dental nomination.
The steamer Clutch arrived at Van"
couver, B. c., with 103 Klondikers.
Purser Turner reports $500, 900 of treas
ure on board.
1t is stated at Havana that Jiminez,
the Dominican revolutionist, has left
that city en- route to San Domingo.
The part taken by the troops in sup
pressing the street railway strike in
Cleveland cost the state of Ohio $685.
600
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
Tragedy in an Ohio Town.

Newtown, O., AUG. 23,-An attempted
murder by man aged 81, followed by
his suicide and the burning of his
house, startled this village. Jacob
Christman saw Mr.. L. D. Drake, a
farmer, with whom he has had much
trouble about money matters, standing
across the street. Christman rushed
out and fired q shot at Drake, but
missed him. He then rushed back into
his house, from which a pistol shot
was heard and simultaneously flames
burst out and the house was con-
sumed. It is thought that the old man
supposed he had killed his enemy and
preferred death to the penalty Of the
law.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25

Laporte, Ind, Aug. 23.-Ex-Senator
Morgan H. Weir Of this city has been
elected vice president of the Northern
Traction company, which is composed
Of Pittsburg and South Bend capital
lists. A dispatch from New York re-
ceived here says the money has been
secured for the building of the road
connecting Laporte and Michigan City
and large force of men have begun
grading for the electric line. A sur
vey is also being run to South Bend.
1t is stated that cars will be run over
the Laporte and Michigan City line
within sixty dayS
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
Tuesday, Aug. ~.

AS the result of a bicycle collision at
Chicago Albert Hickman will lose his
nose.
Bishop Anthony KozIowski, of the
Independent Catholic church at Chi
cago, declares enemies of the move
ment he is heading are plotting to kill
him.
Three fresh cases Of the bubonic
plague are reported from OpOrtO. They
are said to be of mild character.
A riot occurred between soldiers of
the Thirty-second regiment and North
LeavenWorth, Kas., negroes. One
man was wounded on each side.
The general conference of Christian
workers closed it's seventeen annual
session at Mortified, Mass, Sunday.
The State and Interstate Good Roads
association has called conventions to
urge state legislation for good roads.
Berlin papers state that the two
German branches of the Standard Oil
company earn dividends Of G612 and
At per cent.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
State Notes.

Conrad Elmer, a farmer living near
Monroe, Wis, was run over at the neck
by wagon wheel. He died shortly aft
erWards.
A little son of Theodore Gebo, of
Peshtigo, Wis, drank carbolic acid and
died in six hours.
Thomas Meany, of Reedville, Wis,
had three blooded horses killed by the
cars. They were valued at $1,000.
John Weis was found dead in bed
at Hartford, Wis. He worked hard in
the heat, which, it is thought, caused
sunstrOke.
Storm damage to farms in the vicini-
ty Of Chippewa Falls, Wis, last Sun
day aggregates 100000.
Twenty Oneida Indian boys will go
this year from the Wisconsin reserva-
ton to attend school at Carlisle.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
COMMUNE IS REVIVED
Paris Has a Few Dark Hours of
Bad Sort of Renais-
SanCe.
ANARCHISTS GO ON THE RAMPAGE.
Windows in Several Churches Broken
and One Wantonly Wrecked
as to It's Interior.

Paris, Aug. 18.-The Figaro has re-
ceived from Colonel PanizZardi, former
ly Italian military attache in Paris,
declaration denying General Roget's
statement in his evidence at Rennes
that he (PanizzardD addressed a re-
port to Signor Ressman, formerly Ital-
ian ambassador to France, to the eff
feet that Colonel Schwartzkoppen,
former German military attache in
Paris, had relations with Dreyfus.
Panizzardi adds that he never heard
the name of Dreyfus until the latters
arrest.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25

How They Line Up for the Pennant-Latest
Base Ball Scores.

Chicago, Aug. 23.-Following areyes-
terday's League base ball scores: At st.
Louis-Chicago 1, st. Louis 5; at New
York-Philadelphi 10, New York 2; at
Boston-Brooklyn 5, Boston g. at Lou
isville-Cleveland 6, Louisville Is; at
MISUNDERSTANDING 1, Cincinnati q
eleven innings; Second game) Pitts
burg 4, Cincinnati 4; at Baltimore
Washington 5, Baltimore Is; Second
game) Washington 5, Baltimore 6.
Western League: At Minneapolis
Buffalo 4, Minneapolis 9; at Milwaukee
Detroit II, Milwaukee 4; at ST. Paul
Grand Rapids l, st. Paul 5; at Kan
sas City-IndianapOlis 4, Kansas City 8.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
NINE SOLDIERS DROWNED.
A ccident TO a Accommodating Party In
the Philippines

Manila, Aug. 22.-While a recon-
noitering party of the Twenty-fourth
infantry under Captain Crane was
crossing the Moriquina river on
raft yesterday the hawser broke. The
current, very swift at this point,
caused the raft to capsize, drowning
nine enlisted men.
The United States transport Tartar,
from San Francisco July p with GEN
eral Joseph Wheeler and daughter,
troops of the Nineteenth infantry and
more than $1,300000 in coin, has ar
rived
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
GERMAN CABINET RESIGNS.
of the Canal Bill Causes Crisis
the, Ministry.

Berlin, Aug. 22.-During yesterday
afternoon a cabinet meeting was held
at the residence of Prince Hohenlohe,
the imperial chancellor, and the whole
cabinet agreed to resign. The accept
ance Of the ministers designations is
uncertain.
The newspapers Of this city recog-
nize the fact that the rejection by the
diet Of the canal bill marks an epocn
in the political history of the country,
and point out that the Conservatives,
for the first time since the formation
Of the empire, have openly deied a
mandate Of their sovereign.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
Wednesday, Aug. 23.

The bubonic plague has at last
reached European Russia.
The body Of Sol. Granular, 100
years old, who disappeared from Ran
dolph, Wis, was found in mill pond
four miles from Grand Rapids, Wis.
Forty thousand persons are said to
have died from famine on the east
coast Of Africa.
The army worm is creating havoc
with the crops about Burlington in Kit
Carson county, Colo.
The American challenger Genessee
won the first race for the Canada cup
yesterday at Toronto.
Sixteen women have filed applica-
lions for the two farmers who applied
for wives last week at the north side,
Chicago, free employment bureau.
General Daniel 'ButterfeId, who has
been seriously sick at Cold Spring, N.
Y, is now out CT danger.
Since 1880 the total value of the
production of this country has
increased nearly so per cent.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
Bicycle Accident Is Fatal.

Sidnaw, Mich, Aug. 22.-Mrs Gus
Kaiser, Of Rockland, Mich, while rid
ing a bicycle on the street near her
home, lost her balance and fell off,
striking her head on the end of a
plank, crushing in her skull near her
temple from which she never regained
consciousness and died later.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
He Will Fight the Case.

Madison, Wis, Aug. 18.-Dr. E. L.
Rivenburgh, who has been in the city
about six weeks advertising as a curer
of stammering and suffering, was ar
rested on complaint of Secretary Lud-
wig, of the state medical board, on the
charge of practicing medicine without
a license. Rivenburgh says he does not
profess to be a regular physician and
does not use medicine and will fight
the case
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
Farmer Loses His Buildings.

Racine, Wis, Aug 23.-The farm
house,two hay barns, horse stables, a car
riage house and several other smaller
buildings on the farm Of r. P. Gordon,
located seven miles west of this city in
the town of Mt. Pleasant, and owned by
L. Frobicias, were destroyed by fire.
The loss will be about $4,000, with
about $4,000 insurance in the Mount
Pleasant Fire Insurance company.