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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28
ruE INDUSTRIAL coMM,ssroS

The work of the Industrial Commits.
k.en has been completed and it's final
work Is being turned over 10 Congress
as fast as it can be prepared. The wide
scope covered by the commission is evil
dent from the recommendations it
makes.
Regarding iDjunctions, the commits.
sion says:
The Injunction is a high prerugative
writ, and should be awarded only after
the most careful examination by a tri-
bunal thoroughly competent.
Statutes should prevent any intimida-
ton at federal elections, and the imlor-
tation and sale OF convict made goods
from one State INTO another without
agreement; and q consistent code Of law
regulating all matters concerning en-
%ployment in railway labor should be ell
acted.
The recommendation OF the commits.
sion on the subject OF immigration:
General revision and codification OF
immigration laws.
Increasing the head tax FROM 81 to e..
Effective inspection along the Cana.
dian and Mexican borders.
The exclusion and deportation OF M.
archlsts.
Renewal md continuance Of the Chi.
nese exclusion laws.
The period Of deportation. it is 70.
commended ehould be extended five
years
AS to taxation the commission re
commends:
That the States abandon the regular
property tax md raise their ever ues
by taxes on corporations, inhentances
and incomes, supplemented when neces
cary by indirect taxation.
That corporations, public service and
other, be taxed by State boards ut rates
fixed by legislation upon the value Of
their franchises, assessed according to
the actual value OF their real estate as
assessed locally, and that the real estate
owned by them be taxed locally as other
real estate il taxed.
That the system of levying graduated
taxes upon inheritances be adopted by
those States which do moi employ it,
and that it be abandoned by the federal
government.
Tho taxes upon corporations, inheri-
tances, otc, be supplemented By a
graduated tax upon incomes, to be
levied and collected by the State.
That notes, mortgages and other like
property be taxed by the State at full
value, but at low fixed rates, through
appropriate listing and recording sys
TENS.
Not all Of these recommendations will
reach the point OF being seriously con
sidered by Congress. Not all Of them
may DO right. They serve, however. to
chow that there 10 a wide opportunity
for reform in the industrial affairs Of the
country. The commission has heard
many witnesses, has visited many sec.
tone, has gone deeply into the subject
1t was authorized to investigate. It's re-
port affords m opportunity for non
partisan legislation that may be Of great
value.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28
Lawyers who DO Good.

The New York Legal Aid Society. OF
which arthur Won Brieeon. q wealthy
lawyer with II lucrative practice ia
president, IL wholly supported from the
purses Of wealthy mon interested in the
work. and it has accomplished a
marvellous amOnnt OF good. "a poor
man or woman" said Mr. Won. Briesell
recently, "mny have honestly rarnod 10y
hard labor au amount Of money. Pay
mcnt 10 refused. A lawyer in consulted,
mud II the sum is uot promptly oh
tanned the coat NJ redress IN most cases
exceeds tho sum due. Thousands 0i
such chace urcur In New York yearly
Right then M anarchist 10 made. Wa
take such cases up, accept a retainer oi
10 cents Ia help our elem" self rcspcci
and collect tho money. That represent
the total charge, md even that is not
always cxactcd. TO date NO have
collected over sSG5,0)0 Tor 10000 IN.
d~ividuhlp, who otherwise would have
been deprived Of TINT vast amount OF
money
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28
'lirads Like - Fairy Tale.

a rumor wa about this nor ling tn
the effect tina, 1870 pounds OF ore we're
quietly brought into town last evening
from the mountains west OF this city
and that the 1870 pOuuds would net
about $4,000 in gold. Tho story il that
the ore is found on ground owned by
n timber company which will not make
reasonable concessions to the die.
coverer. who IN return reiusea to die.
close its location. Tho company FOR The
last few years haa employed men to find
this treasure. but II in unable to do go
Notwithstanding porsisten: report that
the d~iscovercr brings IN D sackiul occa.
sionally. There Ia said TO be quite n de.
posit OF tho ore md TINT IL averages
$4,000 per ton in mn assay crucibIc.-
Carson News.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28

Some moons & a number OF Car.
sonites secured some oil stock in a Reno
concern known as the Sunset Oil Com.
pany. 1t was touted to the skies and
the stockholders were assured that oil
was fairly sepiDR ont Of the ground, and
all that was wanted was the Carson cash
to produce "A gusher. Tho gusher has
not gushed M yet and the Stockholders
are anxious to know just how many bar
rcls oi the fluid has been extracted
from their holdings. Carson is alwRyf
very ready to help the poor along bn'
her people would like to know just how
Tar the charity has gone. Appeal.
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constitutional Amendments.

The present session OF Congress is re-
marketable Tor The number OF proposed
amendments to the Constitution which
have been Introduced. Their number
is about fifty. and the following is an in
complete classification;
Election of Senators by popular vote.
Federal regulation OF corporation
and co.partnerships.
INAUGURATION Day IL Apli.
Taxing power Of Congress enlarged or
restricted.
Income Tax sanctioned.
Woman's suffrage.
Anarchy a high crime.
Fifteenth amendment repealed.
Treason defined.
~POlygamist disqualified for Congress.
Congress to regulate the factory hours.
No Federal or State aid to sectarian
institutions.
Uniform qualifications in all States.
Assaulting high Federal officers Il
special crime.
Limited terms for Supreme Court
Justices.
Federal jurisdiction over use NJ water,
Six year Presidential term.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28
Tnlo or u Manila Bean.

Quit" AZ 'xcitment has been created
IN Ken "S by so small II matter rs a
bean, says the Philadelphia Record.
Tho bean was brought from Manila two
years ago by q travelling agent FOR d
large mandatory, who had seen "a tree
covered with beautiful flowers and
beans while travelling In LuZon, and had
secured one OF tho pods, Fearing that
II he confled it to a profession II h,r.
ist, he would lose the honor Of intro.
ducinR a new flower to Philadelphia, he
turned over the bean to a Kensipgton
woman. agreeing 10 pay one dollar u
month for its care md culture until it
produced flowers. Tho bean has been
two years growing. but is not yet over
two inches in height. Local botanists
say it is not bean, but Gate seed,
which has been planted in mistake.
Tho owner, who paid sl2 for one years
board for the bean, thinks the care.
taker should now keep it for company,
but Rhe says che has had three door
bells worn out by curious visitors. Re.
Gently the owner dug the plant up to
zee what the root looked like. aud found
that while there were only three inches
OF stcm and leaves, n large lG.inch pot
was filled with fbrous roots. He
thought 1t would be a good plan to clip
The roots, since which timo the Munila
bean Inns been but a little faded flower
Tho care taker asserts that in two years
che has nerved tho bean with l,l00 gal.
lone OF water and taken 10000 steps in
carrying It around the house. to give il
tho full benefit Of sunshine. IT was af
much trouble and care rs a baby. only
II did not cry ut night.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28
LESSONS BY PHoNOGRApH.
n new Device In Teaching Correct
Pronunciation In Foreign


reaching modern languages by
means OF the monograph is a new
device. II is employed by some OF
the many correspondence school,
that have sprung up all over the
country in the last year or two.
Az the headquarters OF the school
the teacher speaks the lesson into
the funnel of the machine. Thea
arc then mailed to the stu.
dent who may live n thousand mles
away, together with n phonovrnph
and several blank records.
In his w home tho student act.
She phonograph going and Iistcn,
whlie II repeats rs pure German,
italian or French IA tho teacher
knows how to speak. Having learned
n lesson he repeats 81 to the talk.
ing machine and sends the record
back to the school. where the teach.
er criticises IL for his benefit.
Printed Lessons are sent ont nI,o
but from the monograph IL ia as.
serted the pupil learns correct pro.
nunciet'on as no never could from
books. md almost as well as ho
would from II Instructor Mt 1rat
hand. -
PRETTY MARRIAGE CUSTOM.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28

i have lately been much troubled
with dyspepsia, belchmg and sour stom.
ach.' writes NJ. s. Mead, Leading pharm.
acist nf Attleboro. Mass. Il could eat
hardly anything without suffering Ser.
eral hours. My clerk suggested | try
kndol Dyspepsia Cure which ! did with
most happy results. | have had no
more trouble and when one can 60 t.
eating mlnce pie. cheese, candy and
nuts after such a time, their digestion
must he pretty good. 1 endorse Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure heartily" Yor don't
have to diet. Eat all the good tood you
want, but don't overload the stomach
Kndol Dyspepsia Cnre digests your
food. Elko Drug Company.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28
CORK LEG.
Denver Canine of High Reputo j,
Measured for an Artineial
Member.

Jim" the pet of the Union depot,
is TO have a new leg, reports the Den
yer Republican. For the past year
Jim. u brindle, part bull and the rest
plain dog, has hobbled around the
baggage room at the Union depot
on three legs. All he has left of the
fourth is II stump. Jim was sleeping
on the railroad track about a year
ago, AMI befsrs h. could 81 ont 81
the way n passing train ran over his
leg. The men at the depot now think
Jim should have n new leg.
. The manner in which the injured
member healed makes il hard for the
dog TO wear an artificial leg. Ere
qnent trips have been made to a
veterinary. 1t has been decided to
have ar operation, so that Tho leg
may properly heal. Jim is then to be
measured for n cork leg-best leg
that money can buy.
Though Jim has few tricks, he Is
a dog of extraordinary intelligence,
He is the friend OF every man in the
depot. His headquarters are in the
mailroom OF the depot. Every truck
which is rolled to the incoming and
outgoing trains finds Jim perched
upon it. His chief duty is TO guard
loose sacks, which are sometimes left
on the platform. anu to look after
the mailroom when the clerks are
away. No one dares to enter the
room while he Is on guard. An at
tempt to go near a mail truck while
proper guardians are away rouses his
anger and his voice. Some time ago
he drifted into the depot and took
mp quarters in the maiiroom. He has
been there ever since.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28

A variety OF both musk and water
mclops imported by the agricultural de.
pnrtmcnt from Asiatio RGssia which
will keep all winter is proving a great
success in Utah. These mclons are
picked in October and require two
months TO ripen after picking and are
nj their bes, in January md February.
They are said Ia be equal in flavor TO
the summer moIons and ARE becoming
very much sought for. They were I'm
known in this Country ave ycsrs ngo.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28
saved him From Torture.

There IL no moro agOnizing troubl,
than piles. Tho constant itching auC
burning make lie ]intolcrablc. No posi-
ton IL comfortable. Tho torture is I'M
ceusInV. DeWitt's Witch Hazel SaIv v,
curcs piles at once. For skin diseases
cute, hutne. bruises.uIl kinds oi wound,
II ia u%nrqualled. j. S. Gerrall. st. Paul
Ark, Gays: @From 1865 | suffered will
p%rotruding, bleeding piles and coult
find nothing to help mo until | used De
Wits Witch Hazel Snlve. a few baxc.
completely cured me-" Beware Of coun
t%ericits. Elko Drug Conn any.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28
lust BusInrEs.

Politics is no longer a %science; it il
nov a business, and within the last few
years 1t has been legalized, il not legiti.
matized. About ten years ago Mr.,
Flanagan Of Texas asked n Republican
convention. aWhat are we here for, il
not for the OIL :es?' II shocked the un
initiated, created a laugh amongst the
others, and was accepted rs a sell evi
dent proposition by the more advanced
thought. We have progressed so far in
civilization that very few deny it. W.
refer to John Sorgham from Reno as q
politician. and to Geo. Meyers OF Carson
rs a merchant. and the reader under
stands that both are business men. II
is barter and tra 10 with botb.-Ourl'
quefois IN Courier.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28
ONCE M 8 R e
We are going to tell you about
OUR

You know we make a spec
ialty OH good coffee and once
you buy coffee from us, you
will always come again and
say, "Givc lie some coffee the
same as I got last time; il is
the best I can get in town."
Uyou arc not a customer
at our store, give us a trial OIL
coffee; we are satisfied that We
can please YOU.
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DIED.

PowELh~At the White Sulphur Hot
Syringe, Elko county. Nevada Feb.
ruary q, 1902, Mr.. Van Powell, II
native Of Hamilton, White Pine
county. Nevada, aged 81 years, s
montba and % dnye.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-28

PHILLIP G.. cowLING. PUBLIC SCHOOL.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-22
THE FINLAND FAMINE
A Terrible Story Showing That Re-
lief Is Needed at Once.

st. Petersburg, Dec 22-The. average
grain crop gathered in Finland is valued
at s30.000000. The estimated value Of the
1902 crop is $20,0OO.OOO The loss is almost
Where are the provinces of UleabOrg
kuopio, Vasa, ST. Michel and portions of
Viborg. Peas and beans generally have
failed and the potato crop has not been
gathered; the hay has rotted or been
swept away by floods. The disaster is due
to the late spring, the nearly continuous
chilly rains and the early frost, which was
recorded Aug. 10. In the north there have
been only half a dozen days when it did
not rain. The rains also spoiled the fish
ing So complete was the failure Of vege-
tation that dead birds by the hundreds
have been found in the forests. The pres
ent crop failure is the worst that has
been experienced for the last fifty years.
There are all told about 500 parishes in
Finland; 1914 of these parishes are now
nearly destitute. The agricultural board
has received reports from 14O of the 1874
parishes showing that 106 have food sup
plies which will suffice them until Christ
mas only. The unripe rye and barley
which the people are forced to use make
bitter bread which even the hungry
horses refuse to eat. In. some parts Of
the country bread is baked from barley
llusks and straw mixed with a little flour
and is purchased by the needy people with
their boarded savings" Such bread con-
tains very little nutrition and is extremely
unwholesome The peasants have ex-
pended all their money for flour, and con-
sequently are unable to buy clothing.
The senate has decided to construct
public works at an expenditure Of 1915, 900.
and it has allotted 100000 for the purchase
of grain, which will be sold to the people
at cost. Seventy-fve thousand dollars
will be used to encourage cottage indus
tries The provinces and certain cities Of
Finland have voted various sums for relief
work, amounting in all to half a million
dollars. The voluntary relief committee
has received $125, coo, but 1t is understood
that all this sum has been already ex-
pended Pastor Kilburn Of st. Petersburg
has Just returned from a sledge journey
through kuopio province. He found 1900
school children who were in need OF food.
Of this number LIS were totally desti-
tute It is estimated that 100000 will be
without food after Christmas. y.%f
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-22
TO KILL THE BUGS
Bill Providing for Pasteurinzing: of
Skim Milk Nav Be Passed. 80

A law requiring creameries to Pasteur-
lie SKINNED milk by subjecting it, under
certain conditions, to a temperature of
$50 degrees, may be passed by the next
legislature The measure will be advo-
Gated by the state dairy and food commits
sion. Various details will be provided
for in accordance with conclusions ar
rived at recently by the state convention
of dairymen and ,buttermakers. The OBJ
ject Of the Pasteurization is to prevent
the sperad OF tuberculosis.
Minneapolis club the last of the week. :
The milk from a single animal suffering
from disease may contaminate the prod
uct of many hundred other COWS at large
creameries. Whether the germs Of .tu-
berculosis could thus be transmitted to
customers of a creamery is still a dis
puted question. But there is little doubt
that the milk may convey tuberculosis to
other CATTLE Hence the Pasteuriza ton
of SKINNED milk is desirable whenever the
milk is likely to be used for, feeding
calves.
A second bill to be presented by the
dairy and food commission will limit the
proportion of water in butter to 16 per
cent: The restriction has become neces-
sary. Certain butter makers have con-
trived to adopt the Wall, street method so
successfully that their butter contains 40
per cent of water. =. !; -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-22
CALLED ON CARNEGIE =
DR.. Hosmer Received by the Library
Founder Last Week,

Dr j. X. Hosmer returned this morn
ing from New York, where he attended
a meeting of the executive board of the
American Library association of which
he is president, planning in outline the
program for the great meeting to be held
in June in Niagara Falls. During his STAY
Andrew Carnegie arrived from England
and DR.. Hosmer wished to pay his re-
spects to him. Owing to Mr.. Carnegie' s
indisposition. resulting from poisoning, he
was assured by his friends that this would
be impossible. A request to Mr.. Carne-
gie's private secretary, however, resulted
in an invitation to call upon the benefact-
or OF the public library sysem in his mag
n1f1cent new home Oh Fifth avenue, of
which he had just taken possession and to
which he had not yet wholly accustomed
himself.
The: canny Scotchman received DR..
Hosmer in the most friendly and informal
manner and showed him his library and
Work-room presenting him on his Pc
parture with copy Of his rectoriaI ad
dress duly inscribed and Autographed In
behalf of the library association, Dr. Hos
mer expressed his appreciation of the gifts
Mr. Carnegie has made to the association
and to the cause of lihrar yextension. !
Mr.. Carnegie was obliged to decline the
preferred invitation to attend the next
A. J.. A. meeting as steel association
meeting will take him England in May.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-22
SALT The SUCKERS.
Catches Made incidentally in Fish.
ing for Pike Will No Longer I
Be Wasted. s
The Fish Warden Will Have Them
Packed and Sold-Good Re- !.
turns Expected. +

When Samuel r.. Fullerton, the state
game and fish warden, goes up to Tower
next spring to gather pike eggs with
which to replenish the fish supplies of
many Minnesota lakes, he will be accom-
panied not only by his deputies. but: also
by two or three expert fish salters and
packers. - Irs crS s. 3
These men will go with him for the
purpose Of utilizing the waste product
that has heretofore been a, source" of cons
siderable annoyance to the egg-gatherers
and also a positive menace to the increase
of the pike. After the camp has been
made at the mouth of Pike river, on Yer
million lake the packers will be employed
in sailing the suckers that are invariably
caught with the pike and which outnum-
Der them in the ratio of twenty to one.
Every time the seine is drawn it brings
in at least half a ton or more of suckers,
which have generally been considered Of
no value and have been dumped in some
nearby slough. Last season these fish
lay two or three feet deep in a slough
near camp, when the wardens had finished
their task. and complaint was made when
warm weather came, that they were alto
gether too fragrant for either comfort
or health of the settlers in the vicinity.
Fullerton expects to sell the suckers for
a sum sufficient to pay not only alt the
extra expense that will be incurred, but
also a large part of the expense Of gath
ering the pike eggs.
Although suckers are not considered a
delcacy by gourmands, they are palata-
BILE and are eaten by thousands of people.
They will bring, when salted, or cents
q pound in the open market.
The suckers accompany the pike to their
spawning ground, and when the pike
deposit their eggs. Immediately gobble
them up. Although no appreciable diff
ference in the number of suckers has yet
been noticed, the annual seining must soon
reduce their numbers. and III the mean
time those that have been caught Will
not be wasted. .l..--. =,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-22
PRESENTING THEIR DEMANDS
Wisconsin Central Trainmen and
Officials Hold a Session. !,

The grievance board of the fremen and
engineers of the Wisconsin Central road
are meeting with the officials of the road
to-day at Milwaukee to demand an in
crease of 10 per cent in, their wages. 1t is
statedthat the demand will affect 5000
men. The engineers will ask that the
minimum wages be fixed at $685. and the
maximum at $3.50 day. The firemer
want 1925 as the minimum and $2.75 as
the maximum wage.
The demand to be made by all the train.
men of the Minneapolis Chicago roads is
believed to be not from any special dissat
isfaction on any particular line, but &C.
cording- to an agreement to make a genera
demand.
Some of the Minneapolis lines, the st
Louis for instance. not long ago made ar
advance ranging from per cent upward
according to the occupation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-22
AWFUL REVELATIONS -
They Are Promised by the Notorious
,-~-Hunbert Family,

Madrid, Dec. 22.--When Nine. Hum
bert and other members of the Humbert
family. who became notorious in connec-
ton with the great safe frauds in Paris,
were arrested Saturday one of the family
handed a package, containing $4,000 t.
some people who lived in the same house
with. them r; The package has been sent
to the French consulate.
Y According to published interviews
Frederick Humbert declares that the rev.
Citations Of himself and his confedertes
will rival. the. Panama scandals and show
they were the victims Of robbers who ex
plotted them. He says that all classes
in Paris, from ministers down. will be
involved Nine. IIumbert claims to have
in Paris documents which compromise
prominent personages.