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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-09-13
Salmalundi.
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY

Attorney henderson returned from
Carson this morning.
Oscar Strecter IL very SICK I"
Tonopah. Ills mother lett Tor ma oo"'
eide Sunday night.
Mn. Roscn5tock and Mark lett LOT
their homes in Chicago this morn'he'
Their mnny friends wish them " s"'o
Journey.
Tho e,rikiug miners returned 70 worn
Yesterday morning and everything ID
lovely in GuliRcid once more u
mining made no discrimina'
lion npainSi the mon who walked mt
II thcto IL any II event thai SHOWS
,ho ]ircnpacity Of tho republican phr'y
!, "a Tim, tho momcn, the Panama C"naI
u ,al,cp on, Of tho II lnds o. politicians
and given 10 the engineers OF tho army
~ control, tho dirt bcgina \" Ny nn" 'hc
inlk Of grnft rcmce.
A CODY Of the special report OF 'nV
insurance commisaioncr Tor l9O0 'ea'"eo
,his Office thin morning. Tho report
con,oina n list Of tho insurance 10"
-,,rico DIN business In Nevada hno
aivcs n history Of their settlements VIII
.ho San francisco fire and earthquake
onrcrc,a. Tho report Ia 10y ES'Com"'H
| eioncr Davis
When God created this part OF 'h'
Oorib flo must have had M idea to com
/ hin%,,iops and tho eternal Illness o
,h,nos, liorc, on n hand IL coil Gu"
IA The making u the finest farms ID 'n'
IT,, aud nm tho other mountains o
copper that will take yO"rS to o'""""''-
| ycrlnRtOn Timee
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"aNO %s and wear.
Levi Strauss sco. and wear.
- WHoESAL DISTRIBUTORS Ell
IN IA RANcEScO. #
Passing Of a Hero.

DIR. Powell OF New York died at his
OF his efforts to increase the SUN total Of
useful human knowledge. lie sacrificed
his life to his work. D.. Powell SLOWLY
poisoned himself in nm attempt to lind Il
sure antidote fer carbolic acid poisoning.
And he did find it. Ills experiments
demonst rated to his own satisfaction
Il To the satisfaction Of the medical
fraternity thai pIre alcohol is the sfTec.
tive antidote.
DR.. Powell did not experiment upon
guinea pigs, rabbits and other lower
animals lie experimental upon him.
self. lie would drink the acid and theI
take the nntidute, and every time he do
so he risked his life. The final result
was that the continued use Of the poison
and the antidote Undetermined his healtl
and caused his death. The value of his
discovery Is beyond estimation. Car
bnlic acid il one OF the commonest Of
deadly poisuns. 1t is found in some
form in nearly every household.
Hardly II week passes without it's re-
corn, somewhere i'll the country, OF
deaths through tile administration OF
this poison. 1t is a favorite method Of
committing suicide, but very often it is
taken through ignorance or ca]relesuess
But when pre- alcohol is administered
in time the patient mas at lenst q light
ing chance Tor recovery. And that If
the record DR.. Powell mas lefs as his
monument, TO stand for all time to the emo
hat he may he remembered and his
memory honorrd. In the truest sense
Of word, DR.. Powell died the death Of 4
hero Salt Lake Herald.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-09-13
Rockefeller Lives in Fear.

Probably the most complete burglar
alarm Rystem in the world is installed
in John d. Rockefeller's house at
Cleveland. Both the burglar alarm and
an intricate signaling system are tested
nightly when the master ia in the house,
and il Il defect is found nm expert ia
Immediately summoned to repair it.
1t is reported, but nc: confirmed, that
MIR. Rockefeller sleeps in IA room on the
top floor, the only entrance to which
Is through several other rooms in
which trusted lieutennnls are stationed.
At night brilliant arc lamps illuminate
the grounds around the Rockefeller
house, and at least three men are al
Ways On duty patrolling tie premises.
MIR. Rockcfeller's fear OF assassination
is such that even in his own house he
will not sit with his back to Il window.
When forced to travel no will never, il
1t can bc avoided, inter the public
whiting OF a railroad station, pre-
fcrrinR to sit III the baggage room or
some other secluded place. II was not
vanity, it is said, which prompted him
to buy his now famous wig, but the
the fact lhnt his badness made him too
easily recognized. The oil mngnate has
two trusted ~bodyguards, one mn Irish.
man and the other Il Swiss. a century
or more ago IRISH and Swiss bodygunrds
were the favorltes Of royalty.-Ex.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-09-13
Salmaqundi.
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

Mrs. Frank Miller will leave for
Mountain City tomorrow morning.
william f.. Pruitt, a graduate OF the
Indiana university, has beer elected
city superintendent OF the Reno schools.
photographer Ramsdell is busy max
ing photographs of Elko to be used in
the next booklet 20 be issued by the
chamber OF commerce.
Chester b. Runyan, the paying teller
who stole 100000 from the Windsor
Trust Company OF Sew York, WIS SEN
fenced yesterday to serve seven years III
Sing Sing prison.
or the great cities New York has
the smallest ratio Of population to the
acre. Its 3,7lG,000 inhabitants have AN
area OF 2G3.gGG acres Thy far the largest
territoriaIly in the WORLDLY so that there
are eighteen people to an acre.
There is a big demand for the booklet
Issued by the chamber OF commerce.
Several small coneignments have been
received by express from Salt Lake, but
the bulk OF them are coming from that
city by freight. Get ono OF them and
send it to a friend in the east.
The Humboldt Star says that work
on the Western Pacific roadbed ia pro-
crossing rapidly both east and west OF
winnemucca. The Illinois Copstruc-
ton company has IA large force at Vim.
ncmucca making the cement tubes for
culyeris. Already a large lot OF these
pipes have been made and are being
hauled along the line.
4 Chicago attorney, ) q the Keno
Gazette says, tcld Judge Mack Sunday
that Pcitibone would never be tried for
the crimes 81 which he is accused. Ac-
cording TO the attorneys story, Petit
bone was i'll the employ OF the nine
owners and had been sent To Denver to
open Il st for the mine owners so that
he could introduce Orchard to Haywood
and MOy cr. 10 carrying out his work,
Peitibone implicated himself and the
authorities found it necessary to arrest
him. The Chicago attorney claimed to
know what he was talking nbout.
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Tench the Hands.

lis an old cry that most boys about
to &c out into life would choose 10 be
ten dollar a-week bank cIerGs rather
thar tive-dollgr-a-day mechanics. Tho
fault Ii not with the pupil, but the tutor.
The dignity OF rolled hands is uotunder-
stood
The man who makes things adds 10
General wealth. When all of us have
surplus we need the banker. He is
h~umanlty's pocketbook.
But when questions Of creation and
u~pbuilding come we need the artisan.
Despite it's alleged downfall tile Tower
OF Babel was something Of won Ter.
The boy OF today who wishes 10 get 10
the real top OF things must learn the
use OF his hands first. After he hae
become a craftsman he may stay for the
big show ind be a brainsman.
Ihore is M teacher who cnn point ont
roads for the mind. But the roads the
mint may follow and in Which II NAV
pick up stones OF value can be indicated.
Ii Thos. Edison had not beou a tels.
graph operator no would not have be
come II wizard OF electrical application
The mere school man can't invent q
new appliance. That tho dies stistied
mechanic does.
Brains help. Hands are vital. Teach
the hands. IL Napoleon hadn't learned
how to load a cannon at Baionne he
wouldn't have been able 10 come back
from Italy n dictator instead 81 a sub.
altcrn.-Exchange.
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InyO Farmers and Ii. I. ". y.

-. Il. Bingham, who hasj st returned
TO Reno from a trip to I.,o county.
caiisornia, gives the Journ the follow
.nH interesting account Of the manner
IN which the farmers OF tina, section met
the l. w. W. leaders OF G IdHeid who
went TO Bishop to organize IL union there
among the laborers cupl yed by the
Elec'ric' power company that furnishes
power for the southern CAM:
They formed the union a fright said
MIR. Bingham, but someht W IL don't
seam to work according la plans and
specifications.
The organizers came 10 Bis hon md
vent up to the plant, where they formed
me union, formulated their lemands.
md called a strike the nexl day, when
me men quit work. That 10, some of
;hem quit.
when tho strike was cal. .. them an
pcnred sundry notices OF, the street
orners and various parts 81 the town,
calling for a citizens meeting IN
consider the labor question. No one
seemed to know where the nLtices came
from, or anything about thu ~, but when
The time for the meeting came, the hall
was well filled, the old timers IN the val
icy being there in large nu nhers. The
l. w. w. organizers were thas. with uiIes
NJ statistics md reference literatnne
hat would have taken a ' mr. IN rood
out winch was never heard from.
v Ill.,
NIhe meeting WIS called la order, a
chairman selected who was given
powe: to appoint a committee OF 81 Of
winch he WIS II member, to act in the
matter on behalf Of the meeting. the
committee was appointe d and an adjourn
ment taken, while the organizers were
unable to get a word 10.
"A peculiar feature OF this whole az
falr ID the fact that OF the committee OF
Il men appointed. there is hardly one
who has not either led, or served on a
vigilance committee at some time COM
men"ing with the hanging Of the es-
capped convicts from the Carson pepiten-
eary i'll 1872, and ending wi u the last
popular demaud tor some su h action.
All nave at come time or another, been
active in law and order measures, and
always when the matter has beer set-
tIeo, the persons labored with have for
ever ceased to argue that or an, other
question.
when the committee had gone about
their business, the strike was practically
a thing OF the past. The men who had
remained at work were reihfor ,ed with
fresh applicants, the company Disregard.
ed the demands made-and the newly
formed union alike, the organ izers left"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-09-13
4 Rank Fake.

According to n story publis he'd in the
Carson News, the reported gold strike
at Millers on the fouopah IL Goldlicid
railroad Inst Sunday WIS a rank fake.
The excitement was caused by two
Greeks who PINNED a joke ON their
companions. They got some rich sand
that come from Nome and put it In u
beer bottle ana reported that it came
from the well. They showed the sand
To u woman aud she took some Of il to
mn assayer. When the assayers saw il
he went through the roof. lie staked
about everything in sight around the
mouth Of the we'll. Then come OF the
men in the Tonopah mill at Millers got
net to the {, CT that there was something
doing and they quit work in swarms and
staked about everything that tue aseayer
badn't touched. Next came the butcher
and grocer OF the town, all OF whom
widencd tho circle OF the gold zone, and
finally the find was whispered over the
phone and clicked over the telegraph
wires north md south.
People rushed TO Mi!lers b, The
hundred and the surrounding counlr,
resomblcd pin cushions, no numerous
were the staked claims. The jok,
resulted in the discharge Of tho Greeks
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Salmagundi
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY.

Miss lrcno Able III holding down II
casc in thu office.
j.. J. Campbell left for Reno last
night To take in the race.
Mrs. Andre, nee Misc. BcatriS
Thompson, arrived from White Rock
this morning on u viait to her parents.
Tho program for tho Elko races will
appcar tomorrow. \ press Of other
work prevented its appearance todny.
Tho proportion OF insanity among the
North American indians is the smallest
among the worlds races d per lOc ,OOc'
There il n Spanish provcrb TINT "On
Tuesday one should never travel or
marry and this superstition III 80 IN
grained TINT even in Madrid there are
never any weddings III TucednyF, aud
trains are almost empty.
When English capitalists wcro Trying
to establish Ahgora goat raising IN
South Africa they paid NJ much M
1900 apiece for goHts, 10 induce the
Turkish owners Of fine Hooks to risk
%pcpnliice OF tho sulinn's laws f%orbidd,ng
the expectation OF Angoras.
THO hla2c this forenoon cmPhasiIed the
fuc, thnt people caunOt To too careful
with fire. Had tho fire occurred ut night
with the stiff breeze that WIS blowing thus
forenoon several residences might have
bccn dcet royc cd. No ono shonid take
any chances " burning their Neigh
boris property. A little caro- mnI cave
tho town n heavy lose.
Lust August the railroad company
reduced tho ratcs on coal from Coai'ilIe,
Utah, to winncmucca, SID per Ton
Tho dealers purchased u supply mud
| sold il nj tho reduced rate. Now comes
tbo rniIroad company and notifies the
dealers that the reduced rnte was q
mistnko mud domabdinR sl'D per ton III
addition to the freight nlrcady paid.
IIarys McAdams, Carlin's Joker, 10 II
town. Ito told the reporter that n maj
was killed in the Carlin yard last night
IIe Ind been employed hs n swi'chmni
for n Tow days, but had been discharged
Since his discharge no had beef on
drunk and Inst night no wandered III tn
yntd and was run down bya tram III
body wa badly mnnglcd. We were TN
lila IN Ionrn tl1 mnn'R name.
Dnrktown was all excitement tbi
morning over n ehooting and cntiinI
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all ray which ocurred at the Psllman
lltU', b"tlI c"lored, the partici patti,
received wounds OF u painful but not
serions natures. Brun has a bullet in
his night side whIls Halls left shoulder
and chest show slashes from Il knife.
The row was over n crap gaur.-Topo-
Dah Sun
An alarm Of fire startled the town
shortly after IL o'c ock this forenoon.
Ii lire boys were soon out with their
hose carts and ran to the alley back OF
Ms. Sheldon's residence where they
found a woodshed smoking at a lively
pace. Water was soon turned on andthe
lire was exiting uished before any damage
OF consequence w6s done. The fire was
the result Of thoughtlessness on the part
OF Mrs. Nelson, who occupies the
premises. She was burning rubbish in
the yard and raked 1t against me wood
shed thinking the fire was out.
y stampede is on for Nillers, the
milling town and future ia lroad town.
fourteen miles north Of Tonopab. At
o'clock Saturday aiterno placer gold
was discovered just outside the town,
and before nightiall it was II booming
mining camp. Two men were en-
gagged III boring II well, md they
brought up i'll the gravel coarse gold.
They were surprised, and after the
excitement Of their discovery, went after
more. Before they quit they had Il beer
bottle full OF nuggets, some Of them
nearly half an inch III diameter
nnnnnah Rnnanza
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y little girl came home flushed with
indignation because h had been sept
IN To correct Der cxat..p l.s, Mamma,
I'll never speak TO JEANNE Smith again
as long as | i've she exclaimed. .why,
what nus Jeannie done To deserve that?'
-Because-wetl, because | copied all
her arithmetic, and every sun Of hers
was wroug"
Airs jennie X. Logan, one Of the very
best teachers Ill this Slate, has resigned
her position in the Reno schools. Mrs.
Logan claims thai toe much politics en-.
tereinS.the schools is responsible for her
resignation. This she charges is due to
the work OF COLI MaxCn. Whether poll
tics or come other T, asoD Ii the eau e OF
Mrs. LIgans resignation the Reno schools
have lost the services Of a teacher whose
whole heart was III her work, AS a
teacher she has few equals in this or any
other state.
The P"nama canal cost America SSI,-
$4,000 up tn December 81, l90G. accord
ing to u statement OF the audited expeu.
dtures made rs OF hat date and Just
published. The bulk ~ this expendi.
ture was s5C, O0& 900 the French COM
puny and the Panama government Tor
canal property, right OF way and franz
chisee, and S3,4i9,c33 vent for material
and supplies. For general administrn.
ton there WAS expended 81 ,l24 200:
government and sanitation, si,2Sl ,Os9,
and construction and engineering,
s9,I29,5G. Other expenses include
81 ,3JO,5S2 for rolling stock, machinery,
second main track, buildings, water
works, etc.
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Further Enforcement Of Conditions
on Western Ranges.

Further evidence Of the governments
concern over the improvement of range
conditions IN the National Forests is
shown i'll the announcement Just made
that stock owpcrs will be furnished free
Of charge supplies OF vaCcine for the
treatment Of stock afflicted with black
leg, tuberculosis and other animal
diseases. This arrangement has been
made 10y the Forest Service with DIR.
\. u. Melvin, chief Of the Bureau Of
Animal Industry.
SrockmeD holding permits for grazing
in the National Forests will now be
furnished with an effective means Of
com Batting without cost all Of the most
%dangerou discusses to which stock is
subject. The vaccine can be obtained
simply by applying to the supervisor OF
the Forest upon winch the stock is
grazed who will Mt once forward the
OF Animal Industry where it will be
filed Full Iii ,ec.ions viii he furolshed
for it's use.
The Forest Service and lhs Bureau OF
Animal Industry are working hard III
nm endeavor to eradicate OF diminish
the common forms OF stock disease
found on the western ranges and their
efforts IRE meeting with mach success.
1t is anticipated that n large number Of
stockmcn will avail themselve yes OF this
latest offer Of assistance and as II result
the loss Of stock will be greatly reduced
md range conditions improved.
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Spain Far Behind Nations.

Or the 20,OC0,0 goo people inhabiting
Spain, ouly about 80 per cent con read
and write; another two and one-half per
cent Of the population can read without
bong able to write, but the remaining
62lS per cent are absolute illiterates.
In the south OF Spain It is impossible to
got a servant who eau rend mud write,
and many OF the postmen arc unable to
tell to whom the letters are addressed.
They bring a bundle Of letters to u house
and the owner looks through them and
takes those which are Tor which he
thinks hre) addressed to him. The
Spanish postmon are not paid by tho
ststo; the recipient OF the letters have TO
remuDeIa,e them according to the
amount OF their correspondence, and
| each letter costs the ad1resssc ut least
ono cent. II Ia n joke among tho casy-
going Spaniards that he who treats the
poIsmen best r~eceives the mos, letters
whether they arc intended Tor him OF
not.-EXchange.
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File Replicauons.

Tho railroads yesterday filed replica.
tioDs in tho suits brought by them
against the Nevada railroad COtumis-
ion. Tho raiironds filed n %compIniut
several months ago and the attorneys
for the state answered; now the rail
roads lille a replication which simply
agrees to tho issue rs presented by the
%plcadinRs. Owing to the absence Of
Judge Harrington ut Seattle, whore nc
Ia holding court, the case has been set
Tor September 3Osh. When Judge
farriugton left the city no WINS informed
there were u few cases ut Seattle TOR him
TO hear, but upon his arrival discovered
Tint tho "tew" consisted ot hfty-onc
cases, This will require his remaining
come time at the northern city. -Carsoi
| Ncwa.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-09-13
W Kuew The Game,

Jewe!er You cay You want some
name engraved on the ring2
Young man-Yes; I want the words,
"Gcofge to his dearest Alicc,r engraved
on this ring.
"ls the young lady your sis terT"
"No; che IL the young lady to whom I
attn engaged
swell, IL were you, I would not
have "Georgo to hs dearest Alice,'
engraved on the ring. II Alice changes
her mind, you can't uso the ring again.
"What would you suggest?'
Il would suggest that the words be
"Gcorgc, 70 his fret and only love-"
You see, with that inscription you can
use the ring halt a dozen times. I have
had experience Ia such matters mysoli."
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iho C"nnelly, Mclutosh end S,.,s.uy
'e"eir! store in Reno WIS burplariz.d
'''ihaS night nud 800 worth of . yo,
ware va" taken. Entrance To th, s,or.
WIS gained by breaking the shu,,a, IN
Tie oack door and then breaking the lock
op Tue door. \ brace aud bit and other
"o"is we're left uehiuh by the burp,ars.
Inc police have no ciew to the buryIa,s
someone interested in statistics bas
compiled a list 81 the Dames M tbs
possessors OF the 100 largest fortunes
Vi the world. John D. Rockefeller
heads the list, and is followed by Belt
anu Robinson, the South Africa mill
llona'res or the 100 largest fortunes
II Is found that 81 Of them belong to
tie United States, II to England, 6 in
kussla, i'll Austria, and in Ger I'M
With The rest scattered over the globe.
those pennsylvania state house graft
ers are certainly strenuous fellows,
Having stolen everything .hey could
ID! 'helr hEnds on they are now trying
to steal the evidence Of their s,eallnps.
winch has been collected aud fled Mt
Harrisburg Those people OF Penn
syiTanla calling themselves republicans,
however, consider all this excusable, or
they would not continue to vote to keen
the rascals in power.
lhe board Of dental Examiners met
III Carson last Friday. Henley Miller,
an Elko boy, was one OF the applicants
for a license to practice.
The Ethiopian method OF detecting
crime is quick and effective and has the
great advantage OF always cathcbinc
some one. \ priast is called, and by
his rShurtatioD, prayers, sorceries and
drugs a youth is sent to sleep with .he
Command 10 dream Tho person he
dreams of liz the criminal. No further
proof Is sought or needed. The sanction
OF the church is quite enough. II by
chance the boy fails tu dream, he is
i''omptly put Ia sleep Hgaiu 10y the same
Process until he does. 30 that he usually
manages the att 10 Il short time.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
Pat-y Dryer, wlo siio' and killed A.
&. Williams in Austin on the 3lst day
Of July, 1906, and WIS subsequently
found guilty OF murder aud sentenced
TO be hung, and then granted Il new
trial by the supreme court, returned t.
Austin Wednesday in charge of Sheriff
Murphy. Dwyer has crown stout since
be left Austin and don't look as IL his
Imprisonment disagreed with him.
Revcillc.
The Lyon County Times claims that
IerinRtOn will be the largest city i'll the
State in a few years. Iermgton is i'll
Mason valley, one OF the richest and
most productive ~valleys in the State,
and the mountains surrounding it are
full Of copper and other metals. IL lie
ui'"'hk ''''''''" P'''C 10 E'o"'
agricultural OF the valley IN
which it is situated, Yerington will
certainly be a large and prosperous city.
Thomas Foley and Joo Williams, con
fined i'll RenO's new city Jail III the
charge Of burglary, sawed their way
out SuD!"y night. They procured Il
saw from the outside and saved nway Il
portion of two bars in their cell.
This let them into the corridor and they
sawed a bnr, an inch in diameter, on II
of the outside windows and crawled
through. They were facing a term III
the peuitcniiary.
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an Undesirable Citizen.

"Pop!7
"Yce, my SON.
"a man that manages q balloon ia
called an a%eroDaut2"
ayes, my boy
"Aud a man who runs M automobile
ia called n chauTcutY7
"Yes, my boy"
swell, what would you call u man who
runs a %phonoStapb, pop"
"Oh-an undesirable citiz, -, my son
--Yonkcra Statesman.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-09-13

The programs Of the Elko race will be
found IN this issue. In addition 10 tho
racing purses, prizes are offered for
FLOODED stock md other exhibits. Tho
races and fair should attract a largo
crowd. Everything possible win DO
done by the management 10 insure three
days OF genuine sport. Road the pro.
gram and SEQ what IL offered,
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S%almagundi.
FROM MONDAYS DAILY

Attorney henderson loft for Carson
City yesterday.
dans and Britt pumnielled zach other
'oday. Hope Cans put him 10 elocp.
Tho Noyada-Bunkor TIN Mining
ompAny shipped two cars Of Bullion
ore 10 day.
Tho public school opened this morn
Ing All the teachers wcro on dock and
The youngstcrB were ont In force.