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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-07-29

Following is the weekly crop bulletin
for the week ending July %, 1901.
High temperature prevailed over the
Statc during the past week, especially
III the 10Th and 10Th. when the mercury
reached and passed the 100 mara IN
many localities. Thunder storms oc.
cured over the weptcrn division on the
2lst. lirlsk tO high winds were OF nj.
most daily occurrence.
Tho warm weather during the week
was highly favorable Ia growing crops.
Over tho northern halt al the State the
wheat and barley arn maturing rapidly
and will soon DO ready to- harvest. Hay.
ing continues with aattsfactOry reeuI,e
in quantity and quality, reports indicate
q favorable outlook for u good second
crop OF alfalfa. except IN II TOW southern
localities where il will DO light owing Ia
a ehortagc OF water. Potatoes and gar.
den truck are dong we'll and look prom.
isiug according TO reports. Tho rangc
feed continues quite abundant and
stock 0f all kinds are ~ excellent con.
ditiob, Water is still plentiful over
most Of the State Tor tho requirement
OF crops.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-07-29

Lou Bnrkhart vas arrested yesterday
afternoon on the charge u burglarizing
the Club saloon. mud taken before Jus
tice Morgan who fixed his bail ut $500.
Not being able to give tho required
bond. he was turned over to the
custody Of Sheriff Clark. lila cIamina.
ton is set for 10 o'clock Monday. LOUIS
friends hope he can clear himself Of the
charge,
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-07-29
STATE CONVENTIONS
OF The Respective Parties BE Held II
Winnemu'ci, Nevada, Monday.
August q. 1904.

OF The Respective Parties BE Held u,
Winnemu'ci, Nevada, Monday.
August 2, 1904.
at the hour Of ! O'Clock y. m. for the pur.
POSE 0i nominating i ticket tobr voted for 81,
the next general election 10 be held on
tuesday the Sth LAY of November, 1905,
consisting II:
THREE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS,
ONE MEMBER OF CONGRESS,
ONE JUSTICE OF HE SUPREME
COURT,
ONE REGENT OF THE STATE UNIvER
SHY, (L0ng Icrm,)
ONE REGENT OF HE STATE uNIyEp.
SITY, 'Shor: Term.)
Also Tor HE appointment OF STATE Gem.
trdi Committees OF the respective plrti, :
and the transaction Of such Other business
as may properly I've presented To e,ch of
such conventions.
Inc basis Of representation from the r..
SreItlNe counties jU . ith of said rnuyrn.
ions snail We the same ana shall tc hlSrI
upon the vote for the Dcmocri i,.SIv,r
nominee iOr Attorney General 1t the l,,t
general election rs follows, tO.wit;
One delegate fof every sixty votes m!
one delegate tot every fraction over thi-t,
votes, the nutnhe! Of delegates to r,,h If
said conventions hclng los anI To i've m.
portiOnri Is follows: >
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-07-29

HE various County Central Commit
lees at The Democratic and silver PARTIES
respectively will separately call primary
elections Of the People for the purpose Of
cIcct!ng said delegates to each OF said ION.
veniiOns
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-07-29
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.

SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Deposits will be received In sums
from One Dollar up and put at interest
on thcIfrst day Of tn, following month.
The rate Of interest Will he fixed by the
directors after this year, but for this
year FOUR1 yer cent. per annum Is
guaranteed. a bank book Is given
each deposition.
Deposits sent by mail will receive
prompt attention.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-07-29
RENO, Nevada, July 6, 1901.

KENO, NcVlda, July 9, lgOl.
Al 4 regularly called meeting Of the
Democratic ana Silver Party State C-ntriI
Committees held At Reno April 70, 1905.
said committees having first met separate.
~ then jointly for the ratification OF the
action taken by the respective bodies /,
WIS nrIrrrI tint
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-07-29
CALI. FOR CONvESrIoS.


Democrat" aud silver Party state Cen.
traI Committee.
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Subscribe Tor the TsDEPEHDEST.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
THE INTELLIGENT FARMER.
Mr. Babcock and Other Republican
Congressman Bothered with Awk-
ward heterogeneous.

Giving the farmers taffy before cleo
never was intended to materialize, is q
favorite game of the republican leaders.
1t is therefore not an unexpected pleas
ure to read the first installment of CUFF
and bluff given out by Hon. Joseph
Weeks Babeock, chairman of the re-
publican congressional committee, in
which he brings in the Intelligent
farmer" as the standby of the G.. o. P.
Mr.. Babcock says he has implicit faith
that the Intelligent farmers will vote
the republican ticket, for they have tele-
phones in their houses and read the
daily newspapers. That Mr.. Babcock
really believes the Intelligent farmer"
will support the party in league with the
trusts and corporations is doubtful, for
he is evidently much exercised, though
he says he is not worrying over the out
look for a republican majority in the
next congress. Yet Mr.. Babcock evil
IDENTIFY is alarmed about what the Gin
telligent farmer will do, for he also
says: 1T keeps a member of congress
busy all the time to answer the questions
they ask him about public affairs"
May be, when he gave out that interview
Mr.. Babcock was thinking of the un-
comfortable questions that many of his
W constituents have been asking him,
about the charges of his too close con-
nection with the railroad corporations,
the padding the mails in the interest of
those institutions and his failure to push
his Dill to reform the tariff schedule
that shelters the steel trust, though he
declared the tariff must be reformed.
Or possibly he was thinking of the
charges made by Secretary Bristow that
over 100 republican congressman, in
Guiding himself, had been mixed up
with the post office grafters, if not in
league with them.
The Intelligent farmer who reads
the daily newspapers could hardly have
missed knowing about those charges
and a number of other scandals that Mr..
Babcock and his party are responsible
for, and it is hardly any wonder that it
has kept those members of congress
DNSy "S 4 u "a ooDIOIh- loI lC tC1lo
us so-explaining and twisting and
turning, to answer the questions, of not
only the Intelligent farmer but Of
others of his, and their, constituents.
No more favorable news for the demo-
Gratis has been published than this ac-
knowledged interest the farmers are
taking in public affairs. No doubt they
are inquiring about republican extrav-
agance, about the enormous increase
m price of what they buy and the cause
for it. They doubtless want to know
why the packers combine is paying less
for cattle and hogs and yet the price
of meat to the consumer is relatively
higher than it was. There is no end
to the questions that intelligent farmers
will ask candidates for congress that will
puzzle the republicans to evade, let
alone to answer. That is just what the
democrats want, full and free discussion
!, and intelligent inquiry by all voters.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26

bullets in her hand would quiet her,
and she would sit for hours with it,
whispering softly: God Is good. He
is very good in a gentle, uncomplain-
ing tone which would bring tears to
our eyes. l cared for her in her last
illness and she gave me the charm as
the choicest legacy she had to be-
stow. I think she was quite sane for
the few minutes before her death. The
vacant, troubled look was all gone
from her eyes, and they were perfect
ly radiant with joy at the last as she
reached upward with her thin, wasted
hands, crying: My boys, my boys in
thrilling tones of joy"
The sun was dropping westward as
the ladies rose to go. Mrs. Kenneth
had replaced the charm upon her chain
and Mrs. Warner wiped away the tears
of sympathy which had gathered in
her eyes, and as they left the grounds
she looked back. The monument
stood bathed in the glowing sunshine,
a shining finger pointing upward out
of the grave of the dark and terrible
past.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
Electricity and Magnetism.

Concerning the fundamental nature
of electricity itself, there is still no
certainty, but there are several hypoth-
eses. There are several theories for
explaining both electricity and mag
netism in terms of the ether. None
Of these theories seems capable Of be-
ing submitted to experimental demon
stration. 1t is certain, however, that
since the interconnection of electricity
and magnetism is known, a demon
stration of the nature of the n must
by corollary, include a disclosure OF
the nature of the other. Moreover, ii
would not seem likely that the COM
plete unraveling Of the nature of cleo,
tricity would necessarily include a rev,
elation of the nature of both matter
and gravitation Electrical World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26

that dreadful day when they wero
brought home, and the nightmare OF
dread and terror which mad lowered
over her so long seemed to be dis
PEELED almost entirely"
What a mercy" Mrs. Warner ex-
claimed, fervently. But what of the
bullet charm? Your friend said it
was connected with the story"
Eyes, quite remarkably so. Here it
is on my watch guard at this moment,
a souvenir so precious that nothing
could replace it.
"Mr. Rolf told us that he had picked
it up but a little way from where
my uncles were lying, and grand
mother seized upon the fact as a proof
that if her boys, in the excitement of
the battle, had really shot at each
other, Gods own hand had caught the
missiles and welded them together, as
the hearts of her sons were united in
their life and in death. Mr.. Rolf never
took back the charm but gave it to
grandmother, and she cherished it as
her most valued possession as long as
she lived"
81 do not wonder that you cherish
it." Mrs. Warner turned over the
curious relic re%verently. The gold was
worn and the ring almost black with
age, but the leaden bullets, fattened
by the force with which they had com
together, were perfect as ever and
worn very smooth with constant veal
you said your grandmother never
fully recovered"
mo, not fully, but her later years
we're comforted. If she grew wear!
and excited, the touch of the welded
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
FRESH POLITICAL NOTES.

Senator Fairbanks, who has 3d.
900 ,OOO, wants to know, before this vice
presidential business proceeds, whether
they admire his purse, or his person.
Albany IN. " News.
ETThe best that can be said of Can
didate Parker is that it has been said
that a reputable authority has said to
have said that he has said what he has
said.-Cincinnati Times-Star.
Representative Hit is the latest
republican to break out with ~vicepresi-
dentitis, a contagious malady which
seems to be spreading through the re-
publican ranks.-St. Louis Republic.
When the irrigation bill was pend
ing in congress it was promised that the
desert could be made to blossom as the
rose for about five dollars an acre. Later
the country was Informed that this was
the cost to private water companies.
| which had taken all the easy jobs, and
that government irrigation would cost
ten dollars an acre. The statement Just
made by the interior department is that
$27, 600, 900 will suffice to irrigate !, 900 ,0OC
acres.-Philadelphia Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
CHANGING THE BOUNDARIES
Great Britain Has Men Constantly in
the Field in African Ter
ritory.

Every new edition of African maps
shows shiftings of boundary lines be-
tween European possessions. Some
times the boundary is shown on one
side Of a river or mountain range, and
in the next edition on the other side. II
the boundary is a parallel or a merid-
ian, it may be shown on the later map
so far from it's earlier position that
the change is noticeable even on a map
Of small scale, q
These changes, states the Chicago
Daily News, do not mean that the boun-
DIARIES, as described in treaties, have
been altered, but merely that delimit-
ing commissions in the course of more
accurate surveys and explorations have
discovered that our previous knowledge
was so far one that the stipulated
boundaries could not accurately be laid
down on the map.
The report of the mixed commission
on the Anglo-German boundary in East
Africa is a case in point. In 1890 the
Germans and British agreed that the
pOuLuai pSINGCh lhCll pOootoolOAl
should cross Victoria Nyanza in one de-
gree south latitude and go on to the
Congo State, except that when it reached
Mount Mfumbiro, which Spoke had
placed n degree south of the equator
on his map, it should skirt the mountain
so that it might wholly be included in
the British domain.
The maps accordingly showed the
mountain as a British summit till it was
discovered that it really stands far &c
existing treaties could not possibly be-
long to Great Britain. 1t was found
later that Mfumbiro is about so miles
south of the latitude Spoke assigned tic
it, so that, ven if his longitude had
been correct, it would have been a Ger
man, instead of a British mountain;
and now come the latest results of the
mixed commission, bringing both glad
and sad news to Great Britain.
The Kagera river, the largest affluent
of Victoria Nyanza, and the ultimate
source of it's waters, has been assigned
on all maps since the treaty of 1890 tc
German East Africa; but the mixed Gin.
mission has decided that the lower
} fourth of this river, from the point where
, 1t turns sharply east to the lake, is nortl
of the boundary line; SO the only par
of the river offering excellent facilities
for navigation is now proved to belong tt
} Great britain.
But what the British have gained IL
the south they have lost in the west, fol
the boundary surveyors have found tina
a long strip that the maps have included
} in Uganda is really in the Congo State
For years we have seen the eastern wa
: tiers of Albert Edward Nyanza lappins
t alleged British territory, but now we ar
told that every drop in the lake belong
to the Congo domain; and we expectfur
, Their revelations of this sort until crud'
t surveys are replaced by the scientific
t delimitation of all African boundaries
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
QUARREL OVER PICTURE.
Sweethearts Sometimes Raise Per-
picking Problem for Photog-
raphers to Settle.

When s~weethearts get photographed
together, and the man pays the bill
and keeps the coupon which entities
its bearer to receive the goods paid
for, to whom DO the pictures belong,
if the couple afterward quarrel? This
is a question which the head of many
a popular photograph gallery is often
called upon to decide, says the Chicago
Tribune,
I'VE are always getting into trouble
owe this matter" one of the managers
confessed. THE man and the girl come
in and have their picture taken to-
gether. Possibly they want to be posed
in a sentimental fashion, looking ten
derby into each others eyes, for instance,
The nan pays the bill and pockets the
coupon. About the time the goods are
ready for delivery the girl comes back
alone, without any coupon, and asks for
them. Sometimes she pretends that she
has lost the slip of paper; sometimes
she tells the truth. In the former case
we can usually guess from her manner
what the state of affairs really is. Then
it Is up to us to settle a difficult mat
ter. We know that if we give her the
photographs, the man will come in
presently with the coupon and demand
his property. And if he has been Tilted,
he will be hard to deal with, for he
wants to get even with the girl some
way, and he thinks the pictures may
be a means to that end.
Who do we give the photographs to?
That depends upon circumstances. We
always insist upon hearing the story.
If things look as if the couple care for
each other, we tell the girl that we can
not give her the pictures without the
mans consent and advise her to corr
to some understanding with him about
it; often in talking it over they become
reconciled and come in together to get
the pictures. If however, the girl can
give us a really good reason why she,
instead of the man, should have the
photos, we generally hand them over to
her and fight it out with him when he
comes in. But sometimes she gets here
too late, and then, of course, there is
nothing to be done. How do we manage
the man who gets left? o, we put hin
out, If he makes trouble. No, usually ne
doesn't come back. He doesn't care to
generally, when he thinks it all over
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
THE WELDED BULLET
A Story for Decoration Day
By MRS. F. M. HOWARD.

such was the case, she took it for
granted that they had met and killed
each other, and for years she nursed
the idea in her poor, crazed brain I'M
til it seemed as if we should go insane
with her."
"And did she never recovery
mot entirely. The sequel is the
strangest of all. Several years after
peace was declared we were entertain
ing a friend, a newspaper man, who
had made a success in his profession.
He had on his watch chain a peculiar
looking charm and l, with the curios-
ity of youth, noticed it.
1.-The charm has a singular history
he said, detaching it from his chain
and handing it to me. It was two bull
let's, welded together as they met in
the air, hot from the muskets' mouth,
and bound with a golden band and
ring.
"'Will you tell it, please?' | asked
as l examined it with interest before
passing it On to my mother.
"I was a reporter then said Mr..
Rolf, and had been detailed to de-
scribe the field of Gettysburg for my
paper At the name of Gettysburg,
which we never mentioned in her
presence, grandmother's sunken eyes
began to kindle, and her frame to
culver with eager, strained interest.
The horrors of it had sickened me
until l was about to turn away from
it all, faint and weary of my task,
when a singular sight arrested me.
Out e. little from the rest were two
bodies, one wearing the gray, the
other the blue, an officer, and what
was %strangest of all they were locked
in each others arms, their lips al
most touching, as if in The very mo-
ment Of death they had kissed each
other a last, fond farewell
Grandmother tottered over to him
trembling in every limb. She had
heard and c~omprehended it all, and she
grasped his arm, her poor face work
ing convulsively. Who was it?' she
demanded. Tell me quick. Who
was it?
"'Really, Mrs. Gordon he replied
confused by her abrupt demand; Their
a sudden light broke over his coun'
tenance. 4 believe, upon my soul, tbs
name was Gordon. | was go interested
in what was evidently a bit of family
history that l searched for the EVIL
dence of their identity, which l read
lily found on letters in the pockets.
"I remember writing up the Incl
dent for the northern paper l was en-
gagged on, but of course you never saw
that. Yes, I am almost positive thu
name was Gordon, but car make SURE
by referring to the article in my
scrapbooks at home. Any relative O
yours, ma'am?' for grandmother wa
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26

still looking at him in>an agony OF ef-
fort to comprehend all he was saying
h'Tell it to her again. said mother
In q low voice. They were her sons;
I knew they could never harm one
another, my dear, dear brothers, and
mothers voice broke in a low sob.
"He told the story over in clear,
gentle tones, dilating upon the ten
derness of that last embrace. Grand
mothers face grew white and at the
last word she tainted, something
which had never occurred during all
the dreadful days Of her insanity. She
was like a little child when she came
out of that long, deathlikc swoon. Her
mind seemed to have gone back to the
days when her sons were boys at
home together, and she talked OF them
more naturally. than she had since
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
Evils That Demand Remedy.

The weakness of the republic at pres
ent is its practice of substituting n
class at the expense of another; its
enactment of unwise legislation as the
price of imperative legislation; its dis
honest compromises with the agents OF
one class of one section to the cost of the
masses, or of the country as a whole;
the purchase of political preferment by
official favors; the employment of arbi-
trary machine methods to establish,
maintain and %perpetuate political oil
garchies in the state and nation, often
to the defeat of popular will. These are
some of the conspicuous evils. They
are not new, but the country has been
aroused as never before to their ex-
istence, and public sentiment is more
potent than in times past to effect their
eradication,-Kansas City Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
THE RETIREMENT OF WARE.
Will Leave the Pension Office to At
ford MI. Roosevelt a Chance
to Square Himself.

No explanation is made at Washing
ton of the report that Commissioner
Ware, of the pension office, is soon to
retire from office, but anyone who has
given attention to public affairs will un-
derstand that the move is connected in
some way with his offhand way of grant
ing service pensions to civil war vet
Grams.
This service pension order has met
with more general and more scathing
condemnation than any other act of Mr..
Roosevelt's administration. Nearly ev-
cry newspaper in the United States
has denounced it not only as a danger
Gus usurpation of power, but as a piece
of el%ectioneering demagogy, and the eli
max came with Bourke Cochran's great
speech, so eloquent, so logical, SO sim
cere and so alarming that it practically
silenced all opposition.
The probability is that from the time
that speech was delivered the admins
tration determined to withdraw its
service pension order. The first intima-
ton given of this was the admission of
the government supporters, in a debate
in the house of representatives that
both of the service pensions which had
been ordered in this way, and which had
been ostentatiously paraded as the justi-
fcation of Commissioner Wares order,
never really became effective, but were
Cancelled and withdrawn soon after they
were made.
The rumored retirement of Commits
sioner Ware is the next intimation OF
the proposed backdown, and it is not diff
ficult to continue the story into the flu
ture. The new commissioner will hap
pen to be a man who cannot approve
of the service pension order, and at
whose request it will in due time be can
celed and withdrawn. Mr.. Ware will
drop into obscurity for a time and then
reappear in some still more responsible
and lucrative position.
The Chicago Chronicle says that in
this episode we see how people in power
can take the back track and unload their
responsibility on Others so smoothly
as not even to attract attention, though
a larger turn-basin may be required for
such a monumental blUnder as this serv-
ice pension order than ir the case of
smaller mistakes.