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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-04-24
MUNICIPALITIES.

Senator Bate, Of Tennessee, is an ex-
pert fencer. having used foil since
his early boyhood.
Lord EalIam Tennyson. son OF the
late poet laureate. has been appointed
governor OF South Australia.
Joshua NJ. Sears is the biggest indi-
vidnal taxpayer OF Eosion. aud annual
~ puts $4,000 into the municipal treas
ury.
81 am a short. broad man." said Sem
ator Vest the other day. but ny enc
mics say my speeches are both long
and narrow"
The youngest captain in the army
during the Spanish war was j. ID. q.
Oglesby. aged 1S.who commanded troop
K. First Illinois cavalry.
Henry Watierson was once engaged
to lecture on Mind and Matter" Ir an
advertisement Of his lecture in his own
paper, the Couricr.Journal. The com
positor made ii read wind and Water"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-04-24
IN THE LOWER KINGDOM. -r

The smallest biri In the world is the
gold-crested wren.
The cheese mite Is more tenacious Of
life than any other insect.
The strongest animals in the world
are those that live on vegetable diet.
With moderate care and good usage
a horses life may be prolonged TO IS.
35 or As years.
The yellow silk spider of Ceylon is
perhaps the largest of his species. His
average weight is nine ounces.
Snakes in South Africa fear the secre-
tary bird. and will even crawl away
from its shadow. The bird can eas.lv
Kill a snake twice Its size.
Many birds vary the composition OF
the outer layer of the nest according
TO the circumstances. If the nes1 is TO-
Gated among growing leaves The outer
layer Will be of green moss, If OF a dark
branch. OF neutral-colored IcheIs.
The king of Australian fishes rs the
schraPper. IN spite of the fac; lid. LeI.
most ugly TO look upon He Lal +
strange lump on his head. which gives
HIM startled appearance. Els Lr:..,
is IN The deep sea penerany ccL-IGer
able distance from the shore and II. IT.,
immediate neighborhood of shelving
leef.
There is in India horse which is wei,
bred ard fast and will run good race,
but only with onr certain rider Gu ;.,
back. If any other Jockey m-ur:< he
leiuses 10 bulge one sIep IL, :.urar
has even been biindfoIded ard .I...;;.r.,
locHey OF the same weight PUT cr.. but
he knows the dIfferen nee III minute. L,
seems to show that the sympathy be-
tween the horse and the man is very
subtle.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-04-24
THE NEW SCALP LAW.

CHAP. XLV.-An Act to amend An
Act ~ntitle,i @\n Act tO prnvide
Tor the de4truc ION of nox,nus
ANIMALS. and to repeal an Act re-
latrnv the rsto," approved Frbru-
arr 3. 1887.
lApproved March 0. 1901
The P.."p.e f he ) ut OF NevadI,
represented III The Sen ,te and As
sembly. Il" enact ,ls follows:
SECTION |. = 'nc me Of said Act
ls hereby amended M as m read as
follows:
Sr"tn'n one. II any pers m shall
take and kill within this State any "
the following noxiou. animals, he
shall be entitled tn :. ceive on, of the
treasury "f the county wiGhln which
such m"xi"ns animals shall have been
taken. the following bonnties, to vii:
For every coyote or prairie wolf,
nifty cent; for every lynx .r wildaat,
one dollar: for every California lion.
one dollar; all m which hounties
.hau h+ subj CT to the provisions of
thIs Act; provided, That no pers ~
rhall i'e entitled D apply for or re-
c-ive bnniy uoney for any number
m pa less than ten at any one
time.
SEC. 2. Section four is hereby
amended sn as to read as follows:
Sec'mu fonr. II it shal appear to
the Ju|tice that tue noxlouI ami nals
have been taken and killed with n
the county, he shat cut off the ears
from the scalpS and give to the per-
sOn 80 sworn II certificate stating the
number and k.nd Of s,alE Ea de q. ,sited
with said Justice. The Justice shall
within thirty days thereafter send to
the Sheriff Of hIs county til scalps
Deposited with him, nge her with a
statement naming the person depns-
ItInH the same. the time Deposited,
and the kind Of scalps. Upon receipt
Of sdi.l scalps ana statement, the
Sheriff, County Clerk nnd District
Attorney, as part Of their official
duties, .han compare the number
and kind nf scalps received 10y the
said Sheriff with raj statement. and
Immediately the reafter said officials
shall destroy sai sr:alps and file the
said statement wi htl,e Clerk of the
Board Ut Connty Commissioners.
Tie said .ju 'tice shaIl re .eive for
ea III OnIh ad minister Il twenty-five
cents, and h.r each certificate twenty
tive CENTS, to be paid ny tie party
applying Tor said bounty, and ~ no
CASE to be a charge against the
county.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-04-24
To Whom It May Concern.

The reward offered by me in Sep
t.nber, 1879, for the arrest and re-
turn ot Mike Hartman. who broke
j'ii in Elko ON tile 13.h day Of Sep
telnber, 1893, is hereby wi,ndrawn.
j. NJ. MATER.
Ex Sheriff Of Elko county, Nevada.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-04-24
NOTICE.

Ey order of tie board OF County
COnIl'issIoDers of EikO County, Stato
OF Nevada. made tlIis 6tl, day Of
February, 1922 notice is hereby
given thai all persons v ho are chaTg-
es upon the county must come a. the
County Hospi,al, or all claims for
their support will be disalIowed By
said Board except in cases Of extreme
emei gency.
Attest: A. @. DAwLEY,
County Clerk.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23
Fattening Lambs,

The lamb that goes into the market
plump and in good general form is
the one that brings the money. In
this age of competition it does not pay
to raise mutton when lambs can be
turned off at a higher price and at
much less expense. In feeding lambs
that have had summer or part of a
summer on the range, the winter
ration preparatory to marketing should
be as inexpensive as possible, and yet
secure the desired result. The use Of
grain is essential in fattening lambs,
but it is more extensively used than is
necessary. A food made up into ra-
tions experience has proven profitable
and composed mainly of corn. barley,
oil cakes, hay and liberal supply Of
mangels and sugar beets will produce
better results from a market stand
point, than more grain without the
roots. Small, unstable potatoes may
also be fed, although mangels and
beets are preferable. AS a matter of
fact the feeding of roots to stock of all
kinds is yet in its infancy and farmers
are daily learning their great value.
They are no longer used exclusively for
mich cows, but are fed to all farm an
imals as part of the regular ration.
Atlanta Journal.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23

years, and in whose hands the disposal
of these charity funds had rested, the
courts of justice decided that the
money should be regarded as the per-
sonal property of her heirs. This led
to split among the Doukhobors. who
numbered about 10000 at that time.
A considerable majority of them re-
garded Peter Verigin as the new leader.
His conduct at this trying time ap-
pears to have been remarkable. He
refused advantageous offers made to
him, and set himself energetically to
work to revive the old faith and the
old custom of the Doukhobors. He
and they returned to vegetarianism
and total abstinence from intoxicants.
They left off smoking. They redivided
their property voluntarily, so as to do
away with the distinctions between
rich and poor, and they again began
to insist on the strict doctrine of non
resistance. The Government felt that
Peter Verigin had better be removed,
especially as the conscription was then
being introduced into the Caucasus.
He was therefore, about twelve years
ago, banished to Lapland. 1t was a
matter of political expediency."
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23

Some 1900 Doukhobors are prepar-
ing to migrate to Canada, where free
land has been granted to them. Their
new home is where the Territories of
Assiniboia and Saskatchewan and the
Province of Manitoba meet. In Rus
sia, and also in England, money has
been collected to enable them to be-
gin to cultivate the land granted them
in the country of their adoption, and
in the United States also, "Tolstoi
Fund" has been raised with the sam
object.
The man they look up to as their
leader is Peter Verigin. In his younger
days he is said not to have been as
steady as he should have been. Those
were days when the Doukhobors, hav-
ing been exiled by Nicholas I. to the
Caucasus, had settled on the lands al
lotted to them, bleak as those lands
were. Conscription had not as yet
been introduced into the Caucasus to
trouble them, and they waxed fat, for
got to obey the precepts of their
fathers, smoked. drank strong drink,
ate meat, accumulated private prop
erty, discussed their religion as a
matter of intellectual interest, and
eased their consciences by being very
charitable. They founded ''Wid-
ows' House," for the aged, the or
phans, or such as by any misfortune
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23
Managing Dairy Cows.

The farmland who knows how to
milk properly is more valuable to the
careful dairyman than any other help.
To milk COW requires time and pa
tience. The milk should be drawn slow
ly and steadily. Some cows have very
tender teats, and ifyou want we'll dis
posed COW be gentle in your treatment
toward her, as she is naturally impa-
tient and does not like rough hand
ling. With constant irritation she will
fail quantity of milk. AS the adder
becomes filled with milk she is anxious
to be relieved of it's contents, and will
seldom offer resistance without a
cause.
When patient COW becomes frac-
tious we can always trace it to the
mixer. Note this: We should not
allow cows to stand long time wait
ing to be milked. When COWS give
large quantity of milk it j. very pain
full when the udder has filled to the
utmost; therefore causing them to be-
come very nervous and restless. To
delay milking at the proper time will
do more to cause COW to go dry be-
tore her period than anything else.
She should also be MIXED to the last
drop, if possible, for the last portion
of milk is said to be the richest. Still
another point: There are many ways
of conducting dairy. Among them
is feeding wholesome food, such as
wheat bran and cornmeal. Always be
careful to keep the cows we'll salted,
protected from bad weather, giving
kind handling, careful milking, regu-
lar feeding, clean stabling, good yen-
tilation and plenty of pure water. In
some sections we have what is called
bitter weed, which cows are fond of,
causing the milk to become so much
affected that it is hardly fit for use. 1
find that by giving the COW about two
tablespoonfuls OF sugar at each meal
for two or three days the milk is en-
tirely relieved of the bitter taste. &c.
B. Dillon in Nebraska Farmer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23

A large body of sturdy men and
women, exiled from their native land
on account of their religious opinions,
consisting of 1000 of the 1900 Russian
Quakers, known as Doukhobors or
'Tolstoi's pets" who are settling in
che Canadian Northwest, arrived at
St. John, N. B., few days ago and
Immediately proceeded by rail to their
new home.
When the Doukhobors landed on
Canadian soil they were greeted by q
party of their representatives in
America, among them being the Rus
sian Prince Hilkoff. Their arrival
was made the occasion of a service
consisting of prayer and supplication
in which they gave thanks to God for
having brought them safely to land
of freedom.
The Universal Brotherhood Chris
ians, as the Doukhobors ii. g., 'Spir-
-Wrestlers'') prefer to be called, have
suffered terrible persecution, especially
since June, 1895, and many of them
have died for their faith.
The Russian Government has ban
ished the men of these people by
scores to distant parts of Siberia. 1t
has used its .arbitrary power to send
Cossacks to attack and fog large num-
bers of unarmed and unresisting men
and women; to quarter Cossacks on
villages where they outraged women;
to uproot an industrious settlement of
peaceful people; to oblige them to
abandon their cultivated lands; to re-
duce many of them to the verge of
starvation; to confine a population,
accustomed to the cold climate of a
district lying 5000 feet above the sea-
level, in hot and unhealthy valleys,
where out of 1000 people about 1000
perished within three years; to do
men to death by flogging, underfeed
ing, and physical violence in the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23

been OF great advantage to the other.
Plums repay we'll, for the poultry
droppings work into the soil, and the
fowls help materially in the working
of the ground. The sell grows rich
and mellow, and plum curcnlios can
not live where fowls have full sweep.
This insect pest is dislodged by fire.
quent heavy jarring of the trees, and
the fowls are ever at hand to pick them
up; and all in all, better quality and
greater quantity of fruit is the result
of the plum and poultry combina-
ton.
The trees furnish shade for the
fowls, and make yarded life endurable,
and plumage more beautiful for the
shade from the summer sun. An oc-
casional tree we allow to grow bushy
about the base, for the sake of the
wide shade and cooling effect upon the
ground. Fowls will dust underneath
these low hanging boughs, and are
very grateful for the cool earth to sit
upon. And these same low limbs
will often produce large and perfect
plums in quantities. Cherries and
other fruits of tree varieties are also
to be exceptionally vel grown when
grown in poultry yards; but such
yards must be ample in size. In truth,
there are many pretty and pleasant
and profitable combinations for the
farmwife who wills to exert herself in
money-making lines, and why so many
fail to see it is always a mystery.
With some it is lack of strength and
physical inability. With others it all
comes from a lack of ambition and
care and from an Indifference. Nellie
Hawks in Practical Farmer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23
wisconsin,s swiss Cheesemakers.

It is a peculiar feature of the cheese
business in Wisconsin that it is entire
ly controlled by Swiss cheesemakers
(cheesers), the greater number of
whom are young men who are trained
in Switzerland and who apply the most
approved methods in use there to the
making of cheese here. Hence the
quality of Wisconsin Swiss cheese is
equal in most respects to the imported
article. 1t is frequent practice for
these young cheesers to return to the
old country at the end of each season
to come back here when the season
again opens. 1t often happens that
they have induced sweethearts to ac-
company them as wives, when, of
course, their migrations cease. This
practice is not so extravagant as it
seems. The idle six months would
nearly consume the summer earnings
of the cheesemakers at the cost of
board and amusements here. and at
the cheap rates of ocean passage pre-
vailing they figure out little profit in
addition to the pleasure of meeting
friends and relatives.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23
vines over the ONO River in Abys.

vines over the ONO River in Abys.
sinia.
In most parts of Africa bridges are
undreamed Of; big rivers are crossed
by RATS and little ones forded. But
in the mountains of Abyssinia the
torrents that pour down to joiL the
Nile are not SO lightly stemmed. Over
one of these the Abyssinians, who have
something like settled country and
stable government, have thrown the
bridge.
Unlike the Brooklyn Bridge or the
Suspension Bridge of Niagara, these
Abyssinian engineers had no cables,
no scientific bands of steel. Instead
they had only natures growth with
which to withstand natures force.
But ingenuity succeeded in the
absence of other resource.
1t is built upon the suspension
plan, hung from big cables made of
twisted creepers; from these depend
the uprights bearing the floor sup
ports. The roadway is very narrow,
for no one ever travels across the hills
except with caravans of porters bear
ing trade goods.
The skill with which the bridge is
built is something marvellous. The
Bonvalot de Bonchamps party set
out from Djiboutti, on the Red Sea,
and travelled across the Somali desert
and the Abyssinian hills to join
Marchand at Fashoda, which he
reached from the west coast. Thus
they planned 10 throw a strip OF
French soil right across the Dark
Continent. It reached the head
waters of the Sobat and went boating
merrily down the river; but mean
while the British gunboats reached
the junction of the Sobat with the
White Nile and the expedition is now
toiing back to Djibouti. The road
going out is good deal longer than
it was going in.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23
Forests and Soil Moisture.

We do not yet know with sufficient
exactness the magnitude of the infu-
ence of forests on the humidity of the
air to say in how far the moisture they
throw into the passing winds may be
helpful to the crops which are grow
ing in their vicinity. But we have
shown by experiments conducted on
the sandy soils of Portage county in
this state that groves of second growth
black oak there do affect the rate of
evaporation in the adjacent fields to
the leeward of them in so marked
degree that when at 800 feet from the
margin Of the grove, in a wheat field,
the rate of evaporation from wet
sheet of ~. 06 square inches of white
filter water was ] 1.13 cubic inches OF
water; at 200 feet it was 90 cubic
inches; at 100 feet, c.87 cubic inches,
while at 20 feet away it was only 0.67
cubic inches. That is to say, at dis
tance of 800 feet from the grove the
rate of evaporation was 17.7 per cent.
more rapid than at 200 feet and 6e.6
per cent. more rapid than at 20 feet.
SO, too,i the case of single scanty
hedge row along line fence we found
that while the rate of evaporation 800
feet away and to the leeward was 0. 80
cubic inches, at half that distance it
was 7.2 per cent. less and at 20 feet
away it was 30. per cent. less, and as
these observations were made i'll the
open fields of a prairie section it seems
fair to pre- sumo that in wooded coun-
try, where tall trees rise into the air
100 to 200 feet and where they cover
quarter to n half of the whole sur
face, the loss of water from the sur
face of the soil on the intervening
fields would be very materially less
ened over what it must necessarily be
with the forests entirely cut away.
Now since our studies regarding the
influence of the right amount of water
applied to field crops at the right time
in Wisconsin prove that very seldom
if ever do we have soil moist ture enough
under the best possible treatment yet
devised to enable our soils to produce
their maximum yields, l shall be very
much surprised if, when we do come
to know definitely the influence of
forests upon the yield of crops on the
soils of intervening fields, we do not
find their effect is to make the average
of the whole field quite materially
larger.
The groves whose influence has just
been cited were small in extent and
the trees were low, not rising to
greater average height than Is to 20
feet and hence their influence could
be neither as intense nor as far-reach-
ing as it would have been had the
areas covered by trees been larger and
their height five to eight times as
great, OF 100 to $50 feet. If heavily
forested areas do exert an influence
upon the rate of evaporation to the
leeward of them which is anywhere
nearly proportioned to the height of
the trees, then cearings as wide as
80 and even 100 rods would have the
rate of evaporation quite sensibly modi-
fed by them, and the clearings and
forested areas could be so related as
to give large fields for the purposes of
tillage and yet have them well under
the protection of the forests. Prof
F. H. King in American Agricultur-
ist
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23
Canada,s Famous Horsewoman.

Miss Elsie Jones, of Brockville,
Canada, is noted as being the only
lady in Canada who ever personally
superintended the training of horse
for racing.
Miss Jones is a magnificent horse
woman, a member of the Montreal
Hunt Club and knows more of
horses points than most men. Over
three years ago Miss Jones came into
possession of young thoroughbred
colt, sired by Wickham, dam Fanny
Carter. She thought the colt showed
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23
Restoring Exhausted Land.

When piece of land has become so
far exhausted that it no longer pays to
crop it, no time should be lost in re-
storing the elements of fertility that
cropping has removed. The old prac-
tice of letting the soil lie idle until
nature restores fertility re 1uires too
much time. 1t is far better to apply
enough phosphate and potash to make
sure of good catch of clover, and then
rely on that to trap the nitrogenous
fertility required. One good clover
crop, even if only the sod has been
plowed under, will do more to make
the land fit for cropping than dozen
years of barrenness and trusting to
the weeds and brush which nature
will supply to unoccupied land. In
the thousands of years that our forest
land has remained uncropped. much fer
tility was stored in the soil. But when
this is exhausted, it takes too much
time to try to restore soil fertility by
the same slow means.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23
Insect Pests.

Insects of various kinds lay eggs
upon the stems and canes of currants,
raspberries and other plants, the larve
of which bore the canes and cause the
shoots to wilt and die. There is no
wholesale method of destroying these
pests. The only remedy is to cut the
stem off a few inches below where it
is bored and burn it. This necessi-
tates going through the patch occa-
sionally, watching closely for wilted
canes. In many sections these pests
do considerable damage, and by watch
ing their appearance and destroying
them as fast as found great deal of
trouble may be saved in future. Never
allow any kind of an injurious insect
to become established on your place,
if you can help it.-Mirror and
Farmer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23

promise and undertook to train it for
racing. How we'll she succeeded is
shown by the fact that when the colt
Wicker was two years old he weighed
$50 pounds and stood 15.2, color of
glossy, golden chestnut When he
was eighteen months old he was put
in training, and in a months time he
worked one-quarter in 0.24, one-half
in 0. 53a-no whip or spur used.
Miss Jones's splendid riding is so
widely known that she was asked to
ride one of the horses exhibited at
the horse show by New York man.
She is slight, fine-looking girl, with
a pretty figure and clear, well-cut
features. Her admirable management
of her horse attracted much attention
at the horse show. She is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. e. NJ. Jones, who owns
one of the best herds of Jersey cattle
in Canada, and who in her youth was
one of the best horsewomen in the
country.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23

''penal battalions;' and finally, as an
act of mercy, the Russian Government
has consented that these ruined peo-
pie may leave their country, provided
that they go at their own expense,
that they never return, and that they
leave behind those of their number
who have been summoned for military
service.
The strangest fact in this drama of
Russian life is that it was mainly
through the influence of Russias
greatest philosopher, Count Tolstoi.
that the Russian authorities permitted
these people to leave their native
land. This fearless man of peace,
whose Punishment the Government
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23

farm engaged in the peaceful pursuit
of tilling the soil, the Russian Gov
ernment fears his power more than
that of any other man.
The Doukhobors believe in the pre-
cepts, "Resist not him that is evil, !" but
''love your enemies;" and they be-
lieve in overcoming evil with good
They refuse to enter the Russian
army, believing that it is wrong to
prepare to kill meu, and the question,
therefore, 'What is to be done with
men who would rather die than kill?''
has made its way into practical politics.