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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23
m lst he performed, and the democratic
party is ready to undertake il.
CoMMIssIoSER GARFIELD.

The decision OF Judge Humphrey i'll
the case Of the government against the
Chicago packers places Commissioner
Garfield in II very embarrassing position
The defendants set up the defense that
they were immune from punishment be.
cause Garfield promised them immunity
il they would show hun their books.
This claim was combatted by the gov
erument attorneys and denied on the
witness stand by Garfield. Judge Hun
phrey, however, sustained the claim Of
the defendants. This comes very near
convicting Garfield OF perjury.
Gartield's connection with this case is
not one to Inspire confidence i'll tue peO-
pie rs to his integrity and honesty N an
official. He WAS semi to Chicago for the
express purpose OF investigating the
r~ascally schemes ~ the beef trust to rob
the American people. Instead Of lay ing
bare It's lniquity, he ma |. a report hiy hly
favorable tn the trust III which he I'M
dert"ok TO show that the packers WERE
reapIng very small returns On their in.
vestments and were really conducting
their business rs philanthropists in
stead Of the rascally robbers the people
supposed tibet To be.
10 order To get this false Information
f1on' the packers, Garfield promised
them Immunity from punishment and
wrote a highly complimentary report OF
their business methods. But when tho
storm broke, he denied under oath that
he made promises Of immunity to an,
OF the packers. 1t is evident, however
from Judge Humphreys decision tina.
his denial o. the packers claim of im
munity is about as worthless as hi
whitewashing report ~ the beef trust
business methods. Neither has an,
weight with the people.
To tie candid observer it looks rs i
Commissioner Garfield WAS between tn,
devil and the deep sea. The devil Of tn,
beef trust and the deep sea OF public
opinion. IL he Is apes the one, he vii
surely be cngulfcd BY the other.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23
STILL TRIMS HUSBANDS HAIR.
Aged Millionaire Keeps 10 The Custom
Of His Poverty Days.

OF tiIS Poverty Days.
In brooklyn there lives a millionaire
well along in years, with Il wife from
whom also youth has long since fed.
From the old days before wealth
came to them the couple retain one
custom which has passed. as the years
have flown. into a sort Of sacred rite.
ihc old lady cuts to old gcntlcman's
hair. Once a year the millionaire
goes 10 n barber shop and has his
sca"tv locks trimmCl. That s"ts the
style for the cnsuiHg year. When he
comes home the vito carefully stud.
les the cut, and after that II Is her
work Of love 10 reproduce It until
another year rolls around and the an
nunl visit to the barber takes place.
The old gentleman also shavcs him
SELF.
Economy in tho matter Of barbcrinr.
which was FIRST 4 matter of stern no
c"ssily, IS o tho one little thing that
the couple refuse to give UP out OF tn.
days of poverty. as they are a child.
less couple, thcr" Is nobody to hector
the old man into c~ngaring n valet
Really the old man has his hair cut
more often than Is necessary. for
sometimes when the worries o wealth
and socinl duties are more than or
dinarily oppressive the good wifo will
say: Come dcar-COmo up to my
room. ! want to cut your hair" And
while the scissors snip the old couple
Ia~u"hingIy ro back To the old happy
days Of youth and struggle once more.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23
REDWOOD TREE HARD TO KILL.
Has Given Proof Of Wonderful Vital.
ity and Reproductivenes5.

ny anu
An illustration of the wonderful
vitality and rcproductivcncss OF the
redwood is reported from Ukiah as
existing In the forests of Mcndoclno
county. 1t consists OF the trunk Of n
redwood tree fellCd for the manufac-
ture of shingles. which. after lying
on the ground undisturhed for several
months, sprouted 4 number OF young
trees whose roots had developed in
It's own body. This development Is
enormously reported, however, as the
first case on record where redwood
completely severed from the stump
has produced 4 new growth. Instances
have been frequently recorded of fcllcd
redwood trunks reproducing n growth
of young timber all along the line of the
PROSTATE log. and travellers through
the coast forests have frequently oh.
served the phenomenon OF W. of
wcll.dcvcloped trScs growing out Of
the bodies of those that have lain long
enough on the earth to perish and
decay. Some years ago a newspaper
correspondent reported the strange
phenomenon of new redwood growth
on n bridge built of redwood logs
across Il humboldt county stream.
The sides OF this btidge consisted OF
two large rcLwOuds. which had been
fCllCd 50 that the ends rested in the
soil on each bank. All along the up.
per side OF each log a row OF sturdy
redwood saplinGs developed shortly
after the bridge had been finished.
proving that life was not cX~,inguishcd
in either, although totally severed
from the original stumps.-San Fran.
cisco Call.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23

All over the United Stntcs mon nrc
talking Of graft and grating and graft
ora. They don't have to explain what
they mean; everybody kuowa. wrhsicr
may be ignornnt Of Shc worIs. in the
nov American mso which makca thom
so useful: tho Century may acknowlcIgc
thcn not; It isn't Of the slightest con.
sequence. They are fresh from the
peoples mint, they were needed, they
pass current md they have come 10
stay. Only the other day the intcrdcno.
mtna,i"p conference III Now York
refused To weaken one II it, resolutions
10y striking out "grnit- aud putting
"~dish0nesty' III ita place. aBui il is a
slang tcrm," obi 'cicd Row. n. II. ObcrIy
" Now Jersey. What IL it IL? \ work
that "makos good" IN tho common
speech Of today will he in the diction.
aries tomorrow.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23
THE DEMOCnATIC PARTY

Occasionally republican organ
blind TO the disruption, decentralization,
disintegration md decay OF tho party
to which it gives allegiance, expresses
grave concern us to the iuturc 81 the
democratic rnrty, Recently such mn
organ, published in a city which at tho
last election topudirtcd a republican
ring and elected u democratic mayor
by a plurality Of more than 10000
votca, Propoundcd this interesting Inca.
ton:
what is going TO become ot the dem
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23
Notice Of Application Tor Permission to
Appropriate the Public Waters OF the
State OF Nevada

S"ticC IS hereby given that on the sth day nf
February, $500, In accordance with Section ~
chapter SlsN1 az tho Statutes Of TIi, T. u and
;. y. NHiN'r, ui TuSCarurn. County uf Elko md
NlAt" "i N"ihdh, made application To tho
STATE Engineer ~ Nevada, for permission la
appropriate ~" public waters of ~" state az
M,,''hI' Su"hl appropriation IL To l." made from
INu" Jacket Furk ~ 1iuil Run Greek. nj tniuia
about !,i"r feet nb"vc Waller ]Iiruth"rs 1unrtl
mil, im Township 10 Surih. Range ~ East. by
means ~ "A uhiu. nud ten tluD cubic feet Der
second ~ To- ~" conveyed to Walker I,rnth,ts
quartz Mil 90 Hlu" Jacket Greek, hv mCnng of
q hiicll. ana ih"f" used for mining. milling aud
domestic purposes.
IN" con ,truciiur ~ said works shall begin
hcluT" May list, 1904. and shall ho committed un
ur irfur" January list. 1871. the water shall nn
n%riuIlly applied Ia u hcuonrini use on or hrfnro
March iyt. 1891. SIGNED.
HEStY THTrTEfI,
state Engineer.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23

There arc still heads Of old and
wealthy Scottish families who would
not ON any account allow n billiard
table to be placed in their houses.
Among these may he mentioned Lord
Mansfield. Though Il good sportsman
ana devoted tn country pursuits.
especially curling. he will not have n
billiard room cited up In his magnin.
cent old mansion. SCOuc Palace,
I'CrthshlrC.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23

The pr"c"city ~ the late President
Harper WIS sumo:hug cxlraorliuar, ,
but not wholly * 'cptiourl. The lat"
John fIskr WA reading Ctcs,r at !
~ 3 h" wa fHuili IT wi l. Pinto uuu
had read all Of Sirakospcar,'a plav,
nnd r~r"p"nudcd "A ncv hyro.hrsis
concerning III" authorship Of H." SON
nets At . la spoke G.c"k nIrulIy
Vt 10 hc wrote n history u the world
from the time Of M0ws At - h,
had virgil, SrlIust, TL.itus. OH.
Juvcnal aud Chtullu-, had mn ,trr.d
t~rIgnnornctry, sur Toylug. go Dmo'rY.
aud diiTcrcntinl CHiculus B,'nr, dia.
carding knee brCcrhos ho kept u III
III Spanish. spoke Ger nan at table md
rend Ghrmnn philus ,phy IN the Original
At IL he wrote poem after ID ante
IN itnlim nnd translate C~crynntrg
int" EuSli-h. At II no road Hebrew
Scriptures lik" n rabbi and WA f,uIIi,,
with Sannkrit. II" WA admitted H.
HARVARD without examination. Tor h,u
fame m a scholar had ur"ccird hIm
there. Srudcula aud professors nike
looked ut hin il wonder.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23
labor Scnrcn in Wn.t-

There IS u great scarcity of common
labor all oyer the Wcs'. and II threat.
ems to become II serious problem ucyI
spring with 80 many biz ]ontcrprIycs
being projected. There f. certain Ia
DO a very largo mount 81 railroad
WORK. Government work will require
thousands, and priyu'" capital rs bc.
Inr invested In 50 many schemes that
III" East must contribute heavily or
many great works viii hs hold back.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23
POSSIBLE TO READ THE MIND
Performance with Seeming Impossible.
itY of Collision.

Performance with Seeming Impossible.
ity Of Collision.
Il have never taken much stock In
the m~ind-rcading business one occa.
sionally secs upon the stage. but re-
Gently | was brought up against the
fact that there is such Il thing as mind
reading, second sight, or something
of that kind" said Charles Bradford.
at the BlatZ hotel. according to the
Milwaukee Sentinel. IL have always
believed that demonstrations OF mind
reading ordinarily seen were mere
matters of code arrangement, certain
questions indicating the answer and
all depending upon the form of the
question.
The other day, however, I was
given an exhibition OF mind reading
that was something out OF the usual
run II could be explained by no set
Of questions and The test
was too severe TO permit OF anything
Of thLs kind. for entire sentences were
read from books indiscriminately Sc
lcctcd by people in the audience. and
transmitted to the blindfolded opera
tor upon the stage. There was no
possible collision in the matter, for |
m?sclf fixed my mind upon a passage
In m open book before me while the
iGird reader assistants only contact
with me was TO press his hands upon
my head. ] know that no signal or
couc could have been arranged. for
the assistant did not see the sentence
and | took pains to select one indis-
criminatcly from II email volume |
carried in my pocket and which | had
that evening purchased at n book stall.
There was nothing mechanical
about this and no possibility of a code
or signals. There Is no doubt much
Of the fake about some OF these dem.
OnstratiOns. but in this ease there was
an actual test OF thought transmission.
At the AIN performance there were
many other features fully as puzzl!ng."
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23
Goodness and S,ou,r,.-

Do goodness and g~ourmnndIzIry nj.
WAYS accompany each other? BE good
anu y"u1l b" fat" might almost seem
TO be The" adaEc of some pcoplo.-TL.e
GontlcwOman.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23

FoR RESr Single fIrnigNcI flame
Tor gentlemen. Euquiro II Constable
". u. Wore.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-23

IIESnY TnrrTEfI,,
state Engineer
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-15
Picked Up in the Orchard

era Grain crops IN the orchard harbo-
u YOU 1--we near Big te,yr ..,,
frnit direct o. tho consumer De- 49,
OWN miidiemon. r. Won have TO chin
stanro. first be sure your co-or,s-
then sDck 20 him
II you want cheap nursery stock -
sire tlc nrrscryman WIN give 70 10 Won
But YOU viii be sorry afterward tbet ,or,
aid not ret the best 70 always oavs
We are not planting frees cro.e,, %
make uD for tho loss from NEGLECT ana
old age Ine Western competition I'm
apple production must 10 r7e+ IN W.
rinia by apples OF Nigh quality We r,1sr
plant ON cheap land o. large areas cS
THAT production can De- chcaDeuc7 along
All Ines There is no good reason vbv
PARTNERSHIPS cannot be formed os In
other lines % business. This would unifo
specialists IN all specialties. from, fbe
nUrscrymen TO cold storage rooms ana
get the best talent in each step OF pro-
duction and marketing.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-15
TO VINDICATE BISMARCK.
Relatives May Publish Memoirs
in Reply to Hohenlohe DiarY.

BERLIN Octohcr I4--TIcre is soon o.
De- a conference of members or tlc H.--
nlarck family ana " tAc intimate friends
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03
OPEN RIVER SAVES MONEY
Many Farmers Send Their Wheat
Down The Columbia
MORE STEAMERS NEXT YEAR
GREATLY HANDICAPPED THIS
YEAR PORTAGE ROAD is
STILL SUCCESS

In an interview given out to the
Oregon Daily Journal Saturday, Cap
tain Frank Smith, traffic manager of
the Open River Transportation COM
pany, concisely sums up what the
association and portage railway have
accomplished the past season. Captain
Smith said:
Operation of the Open River Trans
portation company's steamers on the
upper Columbia river has ceased for
the season for a number of reasons.
Much work has been done in moving
wheat down the river and merchan-
disc up. Owing to the delay in con-
structing the steamer Relief, and Sc
curing the Mountain Gem, large guam
titles of wheat that could have been
moved by the water route were not
secured for the reason that arrange
ments are made early in the season
for sheltering it from the elements and
hauling 1t TO water pOiulS.
For over 80 years the upper river
has not been in use and there were no
facilities for storing and handling
grain along it's banks. During the
past two months the boats of the
Open River Transportation company
have carried $4,000 sacks of wheat,
aggregating 1000 tons. During this
period they have distributed along the
upper Columbia 500 tons Of merchan-
disc Three hundred tons Of way
freight has been cared for also.
Saving of 40 Cents Ton.
ION grain for export a saving has
been made of from 80 to 40 cents a
tor. Wheat has brought a higher price
per bushel on the bank of the river
than at points the same distance from
the market that had no river competi-
tion. On merchandise the consumer
has saved from 80 to so per cent on
freight received by the water line.
The company has demonstrated fully
that the river is navigable at all the
seasons of the year from Cello to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03
POKER LOSER KILLS WINNER.
After Going Broke He Gets Shotgun
and Murders Man with Stack.

LINTON, Ind, Dec. 3.-William
Waters, one of the best known mer-
chants of this city, was murdered at
2 o'clock this morning while in a
poker game in the saloon of Otto
Davis by Louis Shulley, a coal miner,
more than 70 years of age.
Shulley got his pay check last night
and after casning it went to the sa
loon, where he took a hand in a game
Of poker in which Waters and two
others We're playing.
Waters and Shulley had a quarrel
some days ago, but it was supposed to
have been amicably settled. By 2
o'clock this morning all of Shulleys
money was gone and Waters was the
chief winner. Smiley sat around for
a few minutes and then left the room.
Within half an hour ne knocked at
the door, was admitted by Davis and
was led upstairs to the room where
the game was in progress. Unknown
to Davis, he carried a shotgun con-
cealed in the folds of his OvercOat.
On reaching the door of the upper
room he opened it about six inches
poked the barrel of the gun through
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03

clean, clear-cut victory through a diff
ficult field goal kicked by Marshall.
Marshalrs performances before that
day and in subsequent games in kick
ing goals from the field, demonstrated
that it was not a f1uke. Chicagos
two points in the game Of Nov. 10
were on a fiuke. a mistake of the
gopher quarterback. Chicago's sport
ing writer's are hardly showing
sportsmanlike spirit in keeping up
their running fire of small talk, mean
ingless explanations of how the ma
rooms might have won on dry field.
Naturally, not seeing any of Mime
sofas new football" of which there
was a plentiful store, they give the
maroons credit for having versa
tility superior to Minnesota, which
was hardly the case. 1t will be re-
membered, too that Chicago's press
was in no way hesitant about award
ing Chicago the western championship
last season when victory came through
a meager two points, not gained by
maroon power or speed, but through
the mistake of Clarke in attempting
to run out punt from mis- own goal.
Chicago's victory over Michigan last
year was much more of scratch than
linn TO- iofn
this season.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03

missed summarily because she was
seen frequently in the company Of
young men
Miss McGraw went to Hammond ar
the beginning of the present school
year from West Superior, Wis, with
a flattering recommendation from
President 1 c. Mcneil of the Superior
Normal school and was given a posi-
ton as teacher in the sixth grade.
She at once won a host of friends and
the best young men of the city
shOwered their attentions upon her.
The superintendent and principal Of
the school frowned on her social tri-
umphs and she was the object of con-
siderable criticism on the part Of
some of her less fortunate coworkers.
Finally, Miss McGraw was called to
the Office of the principal and there
was informed that she must resign.
She told her friends about it and they
at once rallied to her support. Even
her school children circulated petitions
asking that she be reinstated and her
influential friends denounced the ac-
ton of the school officials.
The attitude of the townspeople has
put the superintendent in hot water
and he is undecided whether to stand
by his first decision or not.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03
Chicago UngPacl0us|y Yields Foot
ball Title.
HER VICTORY WAS NO SCRATCH
MAROoNs EXPECTED TO WIN
CHAMPIONSHIP HoNoRs
AND ARE SORE.

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec 3-The good
die young, they say, and the Chicago
newspaper writer's, in passing Mime
sofa the western championship, died
hard. King Football ended his reign
las week and abdicated in favor Of the
lesser sports, but the aftermath is
on in all of its interesting detail.
Western football has it's peculiari-
ties. In years gone by it was some
thing of a habit to figure the standing
of teams, not by the clean slate, but
by the number Of points against OPP
ponents. This idea gained prominence
in the days of the Yost ascenjancy
at Michigan, when the powerful VOL
VERNE teams, gathered from the four
points of the compass, smashed over
the weak Ohio teams for tremendous
scores. The Ann Arbor scribes made
much of it, much sandwich money, in
relating the terrOrs of the Yost yam
merers and their topheavy scores. Min
nesota not having a game with Michi-
gan, and being classed out of the run
ming on account Of geographic isola-
tion,' took a notion to do a little Of
this sort of thing, and in 1904 piled
up a grand total of 724 points against
opponents, with only II points against
them. These Minnesota Michigan
scores really showed nothing save IN
feriority Of the weak teams encoun-
tered. The big scores only served to
furnish demonstrating material for
the rival followers of the teams.
In the east the coaches went upon
was required, and no attention was
paid to the size Of scores. 1t was
and is still figured that the best team
wins the game, no matter what the
score may happen to be.
Teams Equaized.
Then came along football reform,
with the new rules. The ten-yard
experiment, fostered and fathered by
Walter Camp, has had year of trial.
1t has made for low scores and scores
upon flukes. 1t has equalized the
strength Of teams to an amazing de-
gree. Minnesota went through the
season with a victory over every west
ern team and a defeat by Carlisle.
Minnesota and Chicago had the only
real football schedules in the west
this year, and in the test of strength
between these teams Minnesota won a
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03

and deliberately fired a load of shot
into the back of Waters head.
The murderer then ran to the home
of his son-in-law and with the gun
presented at his breast made him give
up IS. Then descended the shaft and
from his position at the floor of the
shaft told the officers who had pur-
sued him that he would kill any one
who attempted to descend. AS the
mine could be entered only with a
light to show where Smiley was, the
officers determined to try other means
Of capturing him.
The shaft was filled with straw,
which was set on fire with a view to
smoking him out, but he is still in the
mine and the attempt may fail. The
murder of Waters is the seventh in
this .Green) county within the pres
ent year.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03
A Western Wonder.

twice as big as last year. This wonder
is w. L. Hill, who from a weight of
80 pounds has grown to over $50. He
says: Il suffered with a terrible
cough, and doctors gave me up to die
of consumption. 1 was reduced to 80
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. Now, after taking
IL bottles, I have more than doubled
in weight and am completely cured
Only sure Cough and Cold cure. Guar
anteed by E. L. Smalley, Druggist. soc
and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03
THE WISE YOUNG MAN.

Most young men do not want to
work for salary all their lives, but
have in mind that some day they Will
embark in business for themselves and
finally have their name stand for some
thing honored in the world OF COM
MERGE The wise young man realizes
that to accomplish this end heSHOULO
BEGIN NOW. Life is too short to put
off beginning to save. He lives on less
than his income, and puts every cent
he can spare where it will grow.
This bank welcomes your small de-
posts as we'll as the large, allows you
FOUR PER CENT on your savings ac-
count and affords a place of SAFETY
where you will take pride in watch
ing your account grow.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03
NO SOCIETY FOR TEACHERS.
Illinois Principal Dismisses Too Pop
uIar Pedagogue.

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 3-The people
of Hammond are arguing the question
of the right of G. NJ Mcdaniel their
superintendent of schools, to deter
mine to what extent a school teacher
such association does not interfere
with school work and the young men
are of unQuestioned character The
discussion was precipitated when Miss
Genevieve McGraw, the prettiest
school teacher in Hammond, was dis
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03
WHISkEY AND WATER TO BABY
Milk Gives Out on Train and lnfanvS
Have "Nice" Time.

FORT WORTH, Tex, Dec. 3.-Har-
rowing experiences were reported by
the passengers when the Fort Worth
and Denver passenger train arrived
here from Denver over five days late.
The train left Denver last Saturday
night, and was delayed by repeated
snow storms in sparsely settled Sec
lions of the Texas panhandle.
Eight babies on the train were near
ly starved, the supply of milk having
been exhausted. They were fed on
whiskey and water.
The other passengers suffered great
ly for want of food, it being impossible
to obtain supplies.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03
THAT'S IL!

Cough yourself into fit of spasms
and then wonder why you don't get
well. If you will only try a bottle of
Billiards. HorehOund Syrup your cough
will be a thing Of the past. 1t is a
positive cure for Coughs, Influenza,
Bronchitis and all Pulmonary dis
eases. One bottle will convince you
at your druggist, Csc, soc, $1.00.
Sold by A. B. Shelton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-03

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