Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-04-01
A BURGLARS CONFESSION.
Women and Dogs Bother Him Moro Than
Men Who Try to Shoot.


Women and Dogs Bother Him More Than
Men Who Try to Shoot.
A man signing his name "E. Ran
dolph Higginson, of Boston," who ad-
mits that he has been committing bur-
glaries in Atchison of late, sends the
following card of thanks to this office,
says the Atchison Globe:
although my receipts In Atchison
have been comparatively small, would
not have the citizens think me ungrate-
full, and hereby extend thanks for what
little take away from the town. NV
stay in your city has been pleasant, and
1 have been treated with such courtesy
by the best people that may return at
another time. I have enjoyed very
much the visits to some of your homes,
and my only regret is that 1 did not
have my wife a long to enjoy the fun. 1
regret to notice that Jim Waggener
values the watch took from his resi-
dence at fifty dollars. If he really paid
this amount for the watch he was
robbed and ought to crack down ON the
dealer who sold it to him. I tried to
pawn the watch in st. Soc, but was
only offered two dollars and seventy
five cents for it.
''It is a shame for good citizen to
be robbed in this manner. I was talk
ing to policeman few days ago who
informed me that the ladies of Atchison
do not bring flowers and pie and cake
to prisoners in the county Jail. Ac-
cordingly gave the officers no oppor-
tunity to arrest and keep me in the
county jail for time on suspicion.
don't know whether I ought to give
away professional secrets or not,
but will say that the cleaning dagger
some claim to have seen me brandish-
ing was really an icicle. During the
twenty years have been in the busi-
ness 1 have never injured a human
being. have too much respect for the
teachings of the Bible to do such a
thing. never have any trouble from
the men, notwithstanding their talk of
shooting me full of holes. The only
trouble 1 ever have is from screaming
women and barking dogs. Before clos
ing must say that the people should
not censure me too severely. They
must remember that all the goods I
take are second-handed."
A MOTHER-IN-LAW STORY. -
She Caused u french SchOolmR5ter TO tIeo
to the Forest and Subsist on Herbs.
A schoolmaster at Amiens, France,
married, but after a week of welded
life his mother-in-law, who made her
home with them, became so insupport-
able that, unable longer to endure her
tyranny, he resolved not only to desert
the conjugal roof but to break with
| civilization and return to savagery. So
he fled to dense forest not far from
Amiens, and there lived for three weeks
on roots and apples, says the New York
World.
He said afterwards that whenever
the picture of his home and wife rose
in his troubled brain there stepped be-
tween the scepter of his implacable
mother-in-law, guarding like the angel
with the flaming sword the gate of par
| adise, and the thought would send him
fying into the depths of the forest
again to escape fancied pursuit and re-
capture.
Atlast hunger drove the vegetarian to
desire another roof than the trees afford
ed, and more tempting food than herbs
and apples, so he decided to seek refuge
! with his own mother, and at her home
| found awaiting him papers in a suit
for divorce brought by his wife on the
ground of desertion. Now the courts
have freed the unhappy schoolmaster
who deemed conjugal happiness toc
dearly purchased at the price of such
motherzin-law.
Gold In the Ocean.
That gold should exist in the ocean Il
an induction that DIR. Henry Wurti
/ nlaims To have presented in 1866, and il