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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-02-24
Ribbon for Life Savers

The ribbon of the French Legion OF
Honor was recently bestowed by Ad-
miral TuDcrrc on n sailor who. In con-
nection with the llfcboat service, had
saved 34S lives in thirty-hve years.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-02-24
J. W. straughtee,
Clothes
Cleaning,
Pr essing'and
Repairing
Establishment.

Work promptly done strictly fir ~st-class
| cave 'r!er' at leaning establishment
South ut Clinton's blacksmith shop
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-02-24

International Botanical Congress.
Tho International botanical contros.
VIII meet ut Vienna In 1905 from .Iuns
- ~ i""" 70.
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JOINT STATEMENT
Auditor and Treasurer OF
ElkO County
-)Y Thu

For the Quarter Ending Sep. 80 1904.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-14
NUDE FAMILY PARADES CITY
Members Believe They Are Fulfilling
Divine Prophecy of Worlds
End.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Believing that
they were fulfilling a Divine prophecy,
Mr. and Mrs. James Sharp, their 14-year-
old son Lee and young Scotchman
whose name is not known, paraded
through the streets here the other day
as naked as the day they were born
AS they marched they shouted hallelu-
jahs and warned the people that the
j world was coming to an end in three
days. The police placed them under
arrest and escorted them to the police
station, where they were locked up
pending an Inquiry into their mental
condition.
When he was led into the police sta
ton the Scotchman, who appeared to be
the leader, announced to the captain
that he was God, and it would be useless
to arrest him.
I'm three days." he said, 1--WE will be
found dead, and then will occur the
resurrection"
James sharp says he was converted
two years ago. when huge star fell on
his farm in Woodward county He said
that he had been preaching for two years
that god would appear in the flesh. He
said that as soon as ne appeared he
knew him and would follow him. All
three of the Scotchman's followers de-
clared they had never known such per.
feet peace before.
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gers shanty, from the chimney of which
he saw smoke ascending. On his ar
rival he was so weak that he could
scarcely speak. His condition was
more eloquent than words, and he was
put to bed. rubbed with stimulants and
fed. During the rest of the day he
was in stupor, and it was night be-
fore the lumbermen were able to find
out the name of the visitor and get
an account of his adventure.
They then went back up the gulch
and recovered the grip. On the way
they discovered that the lynx had
trailed the boy to the edge of the
forest, and that near the spot where
he had crawled into the hollow log the
lynx had been joined by two other ami
mails of the same species. The grip
was ripped open and it's contents
strewn over the snow.
The following morning young Casey
was able to be moved, and he was
dragged to the village on an OK sled
where he was turned over to his par
ents and local physician The physi-
clan said that the lads great vitality
alone saved him from succumbing to
exposure.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-14

q novelty as an elephant would be in
Lapland The 10000 900 punches of the
yellow fruit which now are pouring
into this country every year were not
to be found at that time even in the
West Indies and Central America, where
shrewd Yankee trader discovered the
succulent fruit. Such bananas as New
York did see were from Florida
Ten million punches seems a big lot,
and when we remember that generally
there are over 100 bananas in bunch,
we find we have something like 100
times 100000 of single bananas COM
ing yearly to our markets. No wonder
the American apple protests, that So
cieties are formed for the restoration
to favor of this product of snowy hill
Sides
Conditions surrounding the culture
of the banana are strictly of the trop-
ical order, and a banana plantation,
with it's wide-spreading leaves, grow
ing palm-like, presents tropical pic
ture Of beauty and luxuriance. Not
few jewellers in the tropics and SUBJ
tropics plant near their bungalows
groups of the most beautiful of the ba-
mana. trees, desiring to have them close
to their verandas, to impress the ap-
preaching visitor with picture of
unique attractiveness. The life of these
trees is only of Is months duration, but
when they die others can be ready to
take their places.
A banana tree grows from Is to 20
feet high. Its trunk is green and sappy,
its leaves great, dropping banners at
the top. The latter are of lovely, soft
green color of soft. thick texture. The
fruit, as all know in these days of many
pictures, of much travel, does not grow
here and there about the trees, but is
grouped in compact, orderly manner
along a stout stick of stem of much
thickness and strength The bud.
tight-folded, purplish affair of several
inches in length, protrudes from this
stem, fruit and blossom both to be seen
as the fruit approaches maturity
In lands where the banana grows, the
fruit, as rule, believe, is not allowed
to ripen on the tree as is the popular
belief l know in Hawaii the punches
were picked while still green and hung
on the veranda to ripen. This may
have been done because of those little
thieves, the mynah birds, but l know
it was the custom and can bear witness
the fruit was delicious
On the plantation where / made an
extended stay, there were IA different
kinds of bananas; the kind usually best
known in the United States was looked
upon there with no great favor, spoken
of as the Chinese banana-perhaps be-
cause it was the one variety the poor
celestials could afford A delicious and
rare banana was the apple banana, q
small, light yellow fruit with the flavor
and fragrance of an apple The cook
Ing h&uaua was substantial fruit With
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of-fare. That IS, generally speaking;
am told that in rural districts they
are not yet in daily use-doubtless ow-
ing to the fact that when ripe they are
very perishable fruit. But in cities
and towns they are perhaps the most
common of the fruits, and have crowded
he apple into the background.
Sometimes late in the day they sell
for penny apiece; and the investment
of a penny in this amount of food is a
wise investment, from the standpoint
Of nOurishment; one gets great deal
for his money. l heard the banana
spoken of in tropic land as the per-
feet food, and was told on good author
ity that there is an island down in the
South seas where the banana is the
only food, and that the natives SUBJ
sisting on it are fair physical specimens.
To be sure their banana is not quite
the same as the ones we are used to
in this country; it is larger, fleshier.
more starchy sort; but still near rela-
ton.
Speaking of the change that has taken
place in the popularity of this fruit, we
quote from an interesting article in the
New York Times: Fifty years ago
bananas in New York were as much of
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A BANANA PLANTATION.

with eagerness. The enterprise proved
great success, but before the pioneer
could repeat it he and his vessel were
lost at sea.
Presently another adventurer took
the matter in hand, one Capt Baker
from Boston. The banana trade was
begun. AS the Times correspondent
says: Presently the West Indies were
toiling on the abandoned estates,
planting bananas; later on one schoon-
er became ten schooners, ten schoon-
ers became a dozen steamers. A great
fruit company sprang up, with Baker
at its head. The British islands still
flew the union jack, but the circula-
ton was of American capital and the
natives forgot pounds, shillings and
pence, and calculated in dollars, bits
and cents. This is the queer situation
to-day in the West Indies. With
! American money the islands pay
| tribute to Britain"
Though there is big money in
bananas, the cultivators and those that
| transport the fruit have troubles of
their own. 1t is no easy matter to get
this cargo safe and sound to it's north
ern destination. The fruit is expected
to ripen on the way, greatest care
must be taken that it experience
neither undue heat nor cold. The first
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Feathered Fury
exposure,

A more vicious enemy than an angry
ostrich cock would be hard to find, for
that 400 pounds of sinew and temper
backs kick that can split an inch board
with one blow of the powerful toe, tipped
with nail like the end of a steers
horn The keepers now and then get
sharp blow for all their care, and q
Mexican who thought to take a short
cut across the farm through the breed
ing yards had to go to the hospital for
repairs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-14
BRITISH FARMHOUSE
HAUNTED BY WITCHES
Strange Tale of Dead Hare That
Dances = Other Extraordinary
Occurrences at Place.

London.-A strange story of a be-
witched farm house comes from Bin
brook, village on the Lincolnshire
wolds. The house, which is known as
the Walk farm, is tenanted by a IA
nous Lincolnshire ram breeder, Will
liam brakes, and is occupied by his
foreman, man named White. The
foreman and his wife, according to a
correspondent, tell weird tales-of a
dead hare which detached itself from
a hook outside the house, ran about
and went back to the hook again; of
plants in pots on the window sill
which mysteriously tilt on one side
and then resume their former position,
and OF brooms which came dancing
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red skin and orange-colored pulp, good
only after it was cooked, either boiled,
baked or fried
But to live up to our title and tell
something of the story of the banana.
from Florida, but now the West Indies
furnish us with big part of this de-
sirable fruit. And very glad are the
West Indies that Uncle Sam has shown
such a fondness for the product that
grows so we'll in their confines, very
glad that now big fruit steamers are
needed to carry away the export.
When England, so years ago, plunged
its British colonies into the sugar
crisis" by means of an act eQualizing
the sugar duties on British and foreign
went to pieces. All the available land
was in sugar cane, and when the act
worked changes numbers of the es-
tates had to be abandoned, the once
prosperous land became a place with
past, but no present, and little hope
of future. One day along came q
Yankee trading schooner, the skipper
casting his eye about for what he might
devour. That eye lighted on bananas,
and though at this time it was food
the West Indians fed to the pigs, he de-
cided to take cargo of it home, re-
marking that he needed ballast anyway.
He offered the people something like
five cents bunch for cutting the fruit
and bringing it aboard, and the power
ty-stricken residents accepted the offer
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across the middle of the floor while
the family were at dinner
Then one day the clothes of the
servant started to burn, although she
where near fire at the time. The
girl was so severely injured that she
had to receive medical attention. The
WITCH" in whose existence the neigh
bors are firmly convinced, is said to
have commenced her visitations by
breaking the legs of number of fowls
at different times.
Mr.. White has given correspondents
an account of the most recent extraor-
binary occurrences. His story was
corroborated by his wife, children,
mother and servants. When Mrs.
White saw bottles topping over one
by one and falling from a shelf to
break on the tiled floor she called her
husband and the servants, and they
also watched the completion of the
astonishing spectacle.
Two dozen bottles leisurely went to
destruction in this way. Some of them
contained paint and other OIL In the
dairy three strings Of homemade
sausages were hung on a line. but
refused to remain there, and after
being hung for the third time they fell
and broke into small pieces. A dozen
large dinner plates moved from a high
shelf and were deposited unbroken in
large earthenware dish. A dish of
milk set for cream overturned. and
large pot of cream ready for the churn
performed a similar feat When the
family were having tea, water poured
into the kitchen from under the store
house door until the floor was COM
pletely flooded. Investigation showed
that a large fat-bottomed tub had
emptied itself. Offers to clay the
witch" have been received from all
over the country, and Mr.. White
has accepted that of John Dunn Of
Grimxby.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-14
EXPERIENCE OF A
HOMESICK BOY
CROSSES sNoW-CoVERED NOUN.
TAINS IN STOCKING FEET.
LYNX FOLLOWS IN HIS TRAIL
Fifteen Year-Old Lad Almost Over
come by Cold and Exposure in
Desperate Effort to Reach
His Parents.

Cambridge, VIA fit of inconsistencies
nearly cost Verne Casey, a 15-year-old
/ boy, Of this village, his life recently. AS
it is he will be confined to bed for a
month or more.
Young Casey went to work about
| three weeks ago for farmer in Cam
| bridge, Is miles distant, and on the
other side of the Green mountain range.
and seemed contented until one day,
when he was attacked by inconsistencies.
and declared his intention of returning
here. He had little money, and started
| to walk.
He was told that he could shorten the
distance by cutting through Smugglers'
Notch, and set out in that direction,
| carrying his so pounds of effects in
| grip. For several miles he followed
the lumber roads, and struck into the
forest at a point where the Notch be-
gins. Immediately the SHOW deepened,
and when he had gone two miles further
1t was up to his thighs. Still he kept
on, but soon found himself in an ex-
hausted condition. AS he was halfway
through, he decided to push ahead, rath-
er than return, and he sat down to
rest.
The day was warm, and while this
prevented his freezing it softened the
snow and made progress all the more
difficult. little lunch the boy had
brought was soon disposed of, and he
again took up the trail. At nightfall he
was still in the deep forests and getting
weaker and weaker, and when he finally
fell in swollen brook and his rubber
boot was filled with water, he threw the
boots away and continued in his stock
ing feet
When the moon came up he was so
tired that he could hardly move. and.
scooplng out place in the snow, he
lay down and was soon fast asleep. He
says that he never expected to awaken,
but at daybreak next morning he came
to his senses, and, though numb with
cold and weak from his exertions and
lack OF food, he felt rested. He still
mad ten miles to tramp, and he started
out, desperately clinging to the grip.
In the night he had heard the baying
of Canadian lynx, and he had not pro-
ceeded far before he found fresh
tracks. The animal had circled close
to him in the darkness, but had evil
IDENTIFY kept at a respectful distance.
At the end of eight miles the boy
again lost strength. and, leaving the
grip, he wrapped his oyeralls about his
feet and crawled to the mouth of the
gulch. Here he found hollow stump,
and, crawling into it. took a short nap
1t was about noon when he awakened.
and continued crawling toward a log
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cargo brought to this country arrived
half rotten; now a large part of the
import comes in excellent condition.
The temperature is taken frequently of
that part of the ship where the precious
fruit is stored, and after Cape Hat
teras Is reached the matches, which
have been left open to allow OF free
passage of air about the ripening
bananas, are closed down. The cold
chills the fruit, retards its ripenine
and gives 1t an unpleasant taste. From
the Bahamas to within 100 miles Of
Cape Hatteras (which some Of us NAV
have forgotten Is OF North Carolinal.
all goes well; after that, utmost care
must be used to keep the fruit prom
erly conditioned.
KATHERINyE nrp1
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A CHARMING PLAY-COWN.
Built on Simplest Lines and Construct.
ed of Durable Material Is This
Mothers Delight.

There is no more charming little
lady in the land than Miss Simplicity in
her play-a-day frock, anticipating no
end of fun and ready for anything which
may come to interest her active little
senses. The little play-gown must be,
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Live Man Mistaken for Dead One.

LIV6 V06u Ills hcH IUI OSdQ OIS.
Kittanning, PA grewsome Incl
dent occurred here when six shoe
makers went across the river for the
purpose of having good drunk. Clark
e. Cochrane, while walking home, fell
dead. Jim Sweeney. companion,
much intoxicated. fell over the body
and lay still Word was teIephoned to
Kittanning for an undertaker's wagon,
and John Rhodes drove over. 1t was
his opinion and that of those who
gathered that Sweeney was really the
dead man and he was loaded on the
dead wagon. Rhodes did not discover
the mistake until he reached his I'M
dertaker shop. He then went back to
get the real dead man.
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first of all, simple. in order to be serv-
iceable. The dress shown here is just
the thing for playing about the house
and yard, wearing to school, or serving
any little lass upon ordinary occasions.
1t may be easily made and is suitable
to any material. For a medium size
three and one-half yards of 36-inch ma
terial are required.
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ATTRACTIVE HOMES
WHOLLY AGREEABLE ROOMS
NEED FEMININE TOUCH.

individuality in the Arrangement Of
Trifes-A Woman's Peculiar Love
for Particular Chairs and Tables
Simplicity, Not Quantity Of Fur
niture Should Be Desired-Let In
Plenty Of Light-Furniture Ac-
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The Story Of That Now
Common Fruit the Banana
Yankee Began the Exploitation of 1t Down in the
British West Indies-To-Day Very
Important Export.

OST of us can remember
when banans were much
more of a rarity than at
present, when they form the
basis of every picnic party,
appear on everybody's bill
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-14

The other day l spent a half hour
in a woman's own private sitting
room, which seemed to me to be char
acterized by everything such a room
should have. The walls were neutral
tinted, and formed the best of back
grounds for few well chosen pic
lures. A rug in dim. somber colors
covered the floor. There was large
table. and a bookcase well filled stood
at one side in an alcove; there was a
divan and there were few easy chairs.
The outlook was over bay, where the
green waves were ruffied by the spring
wind. and the ships went to and fro,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-24
DAILY oUsrEp FROM BOAT.
Yale Onrsman Was Accused of "CriE
 binx0 in Examination.

haIe Onrsm0n was Accused or "CftD-
 bIng" in Examination.
 New Haven, Conn, June 23.--Corne- Illus E. Daily, the Yale Varsity oars- man who was charged with ''cribbing' In an examination of psychology was mayer of the Varsity four given his place.
 The announcement of Daly's removal was made by Julian W. Curtiss. grad uate coach, who said the action was taken in accordance with a decision of the faculty. Continuing Mir. Cur tlss said:
 "The examination under discussion was held last summer at Gales Ferry. At that time I investigated tha matter f.lly and, to put 1t mildly. there was an honest doubt in my mind in regard to the same. The course under Pro- lessor Ladd (the psychology teacher) is a peculiar one and the students are given latitude unheard of in other courses. The questions are given them nearly a month beforehand and other special privileges conceded, including liberty to bring in papers. I am con vinced that Daly thought he was act ing we'll within his rights. Had be- lieved otherwise I most certainly would have taken him out of the boat in- stantly. as would far rather lose the race than have any man in the boat who had done any cribbing in the ex- animation room. feel that this sort of cheating is one of the worst evils in college life today. I regret more than I can express that this should have happened Mir. Daily has worked his way thorough college and my ad- miration for such man Is unbounded."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-24
NEWSPAPERS CALM.
Berlin Journals Seem to Have no
 ThouGht of War.


 Thought of War.
 Berlin, June 23.--The evening news papers frankly express their disap- pointment with the French note. Much had been staked upon Premier Rou- vier's ostensibie wish to come to an understanding with Germany, but the vossische Zorlung, in the note says that Rouvier Is continuing M. Delcasse's policy without M. Defcasse.
 The newspapers all emphasize the fact that the French note leaves the differences where they were before re- garding their hearings upon the pro- jected Moroccan conference. It is re- marked that M. Rouvier has succeeded in leaving the room for an acceptance of the conference if this becomes abso- lutely necessary, but as The Post re- marks. the French premier takes a stand that looks strikingly like a polite but shamefaced refusal and The Vos- sische Zerlung agrees with the The Post In saying that his answer comes nearer a refusal than an acceptance of the conference.
 The National Zerlung in an evidently inspired statement calls attention to the warlike aspect which the British press attempts to give to the situation. whereas Germany does not believe that the present complications are such as to justify thoughts of war This newspaper foreshadows Germany's re- jection of M Rouvier's. suggestion that France and Germany reach a separate arrangement on certain points before submitting the Moroccan ques- ton to a conference, asserting that Germany maintains her opposition to any separate arrangement.
 While the newspapers plainly show disappointment. they all maintain a calm tone. There is no threatening and nothing Is said which is calculated to wound French sensibiIities.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-24
An Attarner nisharrea.

New York. June 23.--George A.. Lamb, who as attorney for Peter Pow CT sued to prevent the turning over of the Northern Pacific Railroad stock to the Northern Securities Company. was disbarred by an opinion handed down today by the appellate division of the Supreme Court.
 Proceedings were brought against Lamb after he had lost the suit on the ground that Power was not genuine ly a plaintiff. but had been induced to act in that capacity. It was alleged that neither Lamb nor Power were damaged by the proposed transfer and that the suit was brought with an im- proper object in view.