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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-11-19
] SAIMAGUNDi..

Bread tickets good for scent ioayes
at Cochrane's Bakery.
The W. +. Smith Company has some
thing new in this Issue. Read it.
The Ladies Guild Of the Episcopal ii
Church will take in plain sewing.
Only one s week to thanksgiving. Get
your turkey ready and remember the
poor.
Wanted "A position on ranch by q
man and his wife. Inquire at this
Office. ... ..,
Attention is called to. the Free.
Reading Room notice in another
column of this issue
Mrs. I. H, Pogue returned from Mis-
souri, ON No last night and left for
her home at White Rock this morning.
Save those natural teeth, thereby re:
tain your facial expression. DIR. Gill
land the dentist" Office over the Drug
Store. Elko
Miss Eva Thompson, the INDEPEND-
EMIT typo, was taken sick. this forenoon
and had to quit work She will be on
deck tomorrow.
A lady's veil was picked up ON the
street this morning and brought to this
Office. The owner can get the same by
paying for this notice.
Fifty Thousand coyote skins wanted
by April 1, 1909. Address J. D. Per-
kins, Branch Fire House, 910 w. 18th.
street, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Sheriff Clark returned from Monticello
this afternoon with Judge Hogan. who
is charged with receiving goods stolen
from the railroad company.
Judge Lawlor overruled all the
motions of Ruef's attorneys and the
trial of the curly briber is now under
way. Things begin to look very blue
for him.
Surveyor McClellon and wife will
leave on No. this afternoon for Eureka
where Mr.. McClellen will be engaged
= for about two weeks, making mining
surysA at patents.
Tonight will be your last opportunity
to ste "a Romance of Slavery Days.
a new feature subject, at the Bradley
Opera House. Mrs. J. C. Gardner will
sing the illustrated songs
Governor Dickerson, State Engineer
P1l1i TDI1
ley arrived on No. last night and left
for Ely this, morning. They were de-
layed by the wreck yesterday and spent
the night here in preference to stopping
at Cobre. .... ~,
E. S. Van Leer, successor to N. P.
Guldager, practical horse sheer, with
years Of experience, will conduct a
general blacksmithing business at the
old shop, Mr.. Rigsby will remain
and attend to the wood work. A fair
share of the public patronage is solic-
itcd
Incomplete returns from the fourteen
counties in Nevada give Francis G.
Newlands, candidate for United States
Senator, 1885 votes and p. L. Flanagan
S,917 votes, total of 1,702 cast and
counted. 1t is said the total registra-
ton was over $1,000. The vote for T.
@. Lutz, Socialist candidate for the
ROffice has not yet been announced.
The wreck east of Winnemucca Tues
day night was more disastrous than was
reported here yesterday. A westbound
freight train, going at the rate of twenty
miles an hour, was derailed by broken
axle on q coal car, three cars from the
engine. Six cars of coal and ten cars
loaded with oil, dressed poultry and
machinery were piled up. One car of
oil is u total loss and several cars of
machinery were damaged. Brakeman
l.. A. Glaves was slightly injured, re-
coivipg u small cut over the right eye,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
CHINESE WILD OVER BAcKDoWN.
Fifty Thousand Attend Indignation
Meetinq.

Canton, March 24.-The greatest in
dignation prevails here against the
government for yielding to the Japa-
nese demands in the Tatsu Maru case,
1t being considered that the govern
ment's action In this matter has
brought disgrace upon this province.
The Self-government society of Can
ton has organized several monster in
d%ignation meetings, at which resolu-
tons were adopted that the %anniver-
sary of the release of the Tatsu Maru
be observed as a day of public mourn
ing. The resolutions also declared a
boycott against Japanese goods.
More than 10000 persons attended
the mass meetings held yesterday;
buildings were draped In mourning
and twenty or more orators delivered
denunciatory speeches. A great num-
Der among those who had assembled
thereupon Invested themselves of Jap
anese-made garments, including caps
and handkerchiefs, and made a huge
bonfire of them. One dealer in Japa-
nese goods offered to sacrifice his en-
tire stock.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
KILLS CHILDREN AND SELF.
Husband Awakes &c Find Wife and
Children Dead.

S~1S
Fall River, Mass, March 24.--With
a cruciflx clasped in her right hand
and with a rosary hanging from her
arm, Mrs. Florida Terrion, aged TWEEN
ty-five years; her f~our-year-old daugh-
ter Mary and two months old son 10
seph were found dead in the kitchen
Of their home yesterday by the WON
ans husband, Joseph Terrion. The cor
oner said after an examination that
the woman had killed herself and the
two children with Illuminating gas.
Two gas jets and the cocks Of the gas
stove in the room were turned on.
According to Mr.. Terrion, he and
wife, with the children, had passed the
evening with friends, returning home
at l O'Clock yesterday morning. He
went to bed Immediately, taking with
him his daughter Mary.
According to Terrion's story. he left
his wife and the little boy, who slept
together in another room, in the kitch-
en-. At about 7 o'clock yesterday morn
ing Terrion said he was awakened by
a choking sensation and detected the
odor of gas. His daughter Mary was
not at his side. Rushing into the
kitchen. he found his wife in a chair.
c~lasping a crucifix, with the children
wrapped in blankets lying at her feet
All three were dead. Mrs. Terrion had
been in good health, but it is thought
that family cares had unbalanced her
mind.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
People Talked About.

The Right Rev. Gustav A. Rouxel,
auxiliary bishop Of the archdiocese of
New Orleans, is dead after an illness
OF several weeks.
The Duke de Chaulnes, who recent
1y married Miss Theodore Shonts,
sailed with the duchess for Europe on
the steamer Teutonic.
s. Decatur Smith, a member OF a
prominent Philadelphia family and a
talented musician and composer, died
from shock received by being run
down by a carriage.
Judge Charles ID. Clark of the Unit
ed States district court for Tennessee,
IL dead at Chattanooga. His death
was due to Bright's disease. compli-
Gated with consumption.
Maj. william w. Rowley, quarter
master at the national soldiers home
at Milwaukee for the last eighteen
years, died suddenly from an attack
OF pneumonia after a brief Illness.
F. w. Foster. machinist and gunner
on the Confederate cruiser Alabama
during the Civil war, and one OF the
forty men who escaped when that ves-
sci was sunk by the United States
cruiser Kearsarge, is dead at Atchi-
son, Kan. Foster kept his connection
with the Alabama a secret until less
than a year ago.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPITOMf
Important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
WASHINGTON.

The navy department received word
thar the old warship M~onongahela
hat burned to the waters edge at her
ste lion at Guantanamo bay.
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
John p. Edwards has accepted the re-
ce.vership of the New Amsterdam Ma.
tional bank OF New York. which re
Gently suspended.
A secret investigation by a com.
mittee from Washington has been in
progress for several days In the Office
Of the surveyor of customs at st,
Louis, and II Ia said that a shortage
of between $4,000 and s 6 1000 has beer
found.
The state department has beer in.
formed that the Mexican government
has granted the extradition Of VIII
liam r. Walker. the Connecticut
banker, who absconded several
months ago and was located In South
ern California.
A bill to create a national univer-
sfty At Washington has been offered
the house by Representative Nc
n nley the measure Is the n adj
voca.ed by the National Association
OF State University Presidents, and
was Introduced at their request.
congressman Beal of Texas has in
troduced a joint resolution authoriz.
ing he secretary OF war to loan $500
tents to the Benevolent and Protect
I've Order OF Elks for use at the ma
tional convention OF the order to be
held at Dallas. Tex, IN July, 1908.
After undergoing a lot of criticism
pro and con as to its artistic merits,
the heroic Greenough statue Of Wash
ington. which for sixty-seven years
has stood in the plaza of the east
front of the capitol at Washington,
has been ordered by the house Of rep
resentatives to be removed to the
Smithsonian institution.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
General News Items.

United States Senator William
Pinckney Whyte died at his home In
Baltimore.
The Jefferson street public school at
Little Falls, N. Y. was damaged by
FIRE to the extent Of $4,000.
Traffic Director Stubs Of the Har-
riman lines declares that no reduction
of the operating forces is contem.
plated.
John Evans Of Neosho, Mo-, was
shot and killed and George Ryan Of
Norwood, Mo-, was dangerously
wounded by an unknown robber.
The Guatemalan congress has rati-
fed the treaties adopted at the Gen.
trail American peace conference held
some time ago In Washington.
Emma Goldman was stopped by the
police when she attempted to speak
at a meeting in Workingmen's hall
at Chicago. Her subject was "An-
archy and What 1t Stands For"
Billy Papke of Spring Valley, Ill,
was awarded the decision over Hugo
Kelly of Chicago In a ten-round bout
at the Hippodrome In Milwaukee un'
der the auspices of the Milwaukee
Boxing club. The bout went the limit
Edward C. Heferman. a special po-
lice oficer, was shot and killed and J.
L. Morlin, a bystander. was seriously
wounded by Donald Starr, whom the
officer had elected from the elevated
station at Jackson Park avenue, Chi
cago. starr, who was intoxicated
then shot himself, inficting a wound
which win probably prove fatal.
It ID predicted that the cut Of tim
her in Upper Michigan this year will
show little If any decrease from 1907
At Iron Mountain alone the railroad
has handled $50 carloads daily fol-
the last several months.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
KILLS MOTHER THEN ROBS HER
Indiana Young Man Confesses to Strik-
ing His Mother Down With
Hammer.

Fort Wayne, Ind, March 24.-Grover
C. Blake and Orsel Reynolds of An.
derson, Ind, were arrested here yes
terday on the charge Of numbering
Blake's mother Saturday at Anderson.
Young Blake made a confession after
his arrest, duplicating Reynolds. He
said he had been drinking with Reyn-
odds and they both needed money He
went home and entered the kitchen.
where his mother was cooking dinner.
according to the confession, and Reyn-
olds was standing guard outside. Blake
says his mother accused him of hay-
ing been drinking, and he went into
another room and got a hammer. He
returned noiselessly, crept up behind
her and struck her ON the back of the
head. h fell insensible.
Accuses His Pal.
He says he then opened her dress
and grabbed a bag she had fastened
around her neck, which contained
money and jewelry. While he was up-
stairs changing his clothes he heard a
scream. He returned to the kitchen
and found Reynolds standing over his
mothers body, hammer In hand. He
says Reynolds admitted having struck
yer when she moved. The two young
men then came to Fort Wayne, spent
the night in carousing and were arrest
ed just as they were about to board a
train for Michigan yesterday. Blake
says he secured $3.50 in money and
some diamond rings.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
DUKE SEEKS KINGS CONSENT
Abruzzi BUSHES Back to Italy to Secure
Permission to Marry Miss
Elkins.

Rome, March %. - The duke OF
Abruzzi Is returning to Rome, accord
ing to a report in wide circulation
here last night. to obtain the full con.
sent of King Victor Emmanuel to his
marriage with Miss Katherine Elkins.
daughter of Senator stephen b.. Ri
kins of West Virginia. Although con
firmation of the report is lacking, the
fact that there has been no official
denial given out in Rome, and tho
statement made in Washington that
the duke would again visit America
in the near future seems to lend con-
siderable weight to it.
Washington, March 21.-After a Nv
ing visit of three days to Washington.
the duke of Abruzzi left at 10 o'clock
Yesterday as unceremoniously and as
mysteriously as he came to the city.
1t is said that he will depart from
New York to-day en- route to Italy.
Practically all the information obtain
able at the Italian embassy regarding
the dukes future movements is that
he will return to the United States in
the near future. His leave Of abb
sence from command of the warship
Regina Elena has expired and he is
returning home to again assume
charge OF the vessel.
Whether an engagement between
the duke and Miss Katherine Elkins,
the daughter Of Senator Stephen B.
Elkins of West Virginia, has resulted
from the royal visitors trip to Ameri-
ca, no one at the embassy is willing
to say.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26

The fnal reply from Washington re-
garding the immigration question has
greatly pleased Japan.
The Spanish steamer Villa Real has
been wrecked, according to word re-
ceived at Valencia. and her crew Of
nine men drowned.
The dominion government ratified
the agreement between Fort William,
Ont, and the Fort William Car com
pany, allowing this city to make on
cessions that will open a factory en-
ploying 1900 men and costing $1,000
900.
M. Chchegievotoff, the minister Of
Justice, has asked the duma for ST..
100000 for the enlargement of Rus
sian prisons, which are overcrowded.
There has been an increase in the
number of prisoners Of Ill per cent
since 1906.
It is reported at Honolulu that the
crown prince OF Japan will make his
long contemplated tour OF America
and Europe this summer. German
Professor Beltzolong of the Toxic Of
fee has been recalled from Germany
to accompany the crown prince.
Lieut.. Gen. Smirnoff was probably
fatally wounded I'm a duel fought in st.
Petersburg with Lieut.. Gen. Fock.
The duel was caused by the memoran-
dun written by Gen. Smirnoff on the
siege OF Port Arthur, in which he
questioned the courage of Gen. Fock.
The emperor has confirmed the
death sentence passed upon Lieut..
Gen. Stoessel and the courts recon-
m~endation for communication Of the
sentence to ten years imprisonment
in a fortress. The former command
er Of Port Arthur Intellectually petit
toned for a full pardon.
Discovered In the nick Of time. a
plot which had for its ultimate pur-
pose the establishment of a military
dictatorship has been nipped in the
bud at Lisbon. According to the re-
port the i~nstigators Of the plot were
to have the assistance Of several
crack regiments and many army Off
GERS were to lend their aid. All the
officers concerned have been cash
tered.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
DEATH CLAIMS NOTED BISHOP.
Charles n. Fowler of the Methodist
Church Passes Away.

Church Passes Away.
New York, March 22.-Rev. Charles
H. Fowler, bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal church, died at his home
here yesterday.
Bishop Fowler has been critically
i'll only since last Wednesday,. His
death was due to heart failure, result
ing from a complication of diseases.
He had been in i'll health for two
years, but during nearly all that time
he took a more or less active part in
the affairs Of the church.
AS late as two months ago he felt
able to make a journey to Minneapo-
lis, where he presided at the dedica-
ton of the Fowler Memorial Metho-
dist Episcopal church. His last public
appearance was at Metropolitan tenn
pie on Sunday following Washing
toms birthday, when he took pant in
a Washington memorial service. His
last visit to his Office In the Metho-
dist building in Fifth e n was
made last Monday. On Wednesday he
was stricken with the illness which
resulted in his death early yesterday.
Bishop Fowler's long life was filled
with activity for the church and the
cause of education.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
BIG FLOOD CHECKED BY FROST,
Except for Cleaning Up, Pittsburg Is
THROUGH With Second Flood.

Through With Second Flood.
Pittsburg, Pa, March %. - Except
for the cleaning up process, Pittsburg
Is through with its second flood this
spring.
A sudden change to colder weather
at the headwaters of the rivers and
In the Pittsburg district Thursday
night froze up the small streams and
stopped the torrents that were pour
ing into the lower Allegheny and low
er Monongahela rivers.
The crest of the flood reached the
city shortly before daylight, at 27.3
feet. At 10 o'clock yesterday the wa
ters began to recede and by night the
stage was below twenty-five feet, the
danger line.
Many manufacturing plants were
shut down yesterday, but the flood did
no infict great damage upon indus
trial interests. Most of the resi-
dences surrounded by water Thursday
night are again upon terra firma.
Steam and electric railroads have
returned to practically normal sched-
ules.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
Crimes and Criminals.

Marguerite Borden, fifteen years old,
daughter of Henry l.. Borden of Tren-
ton, N. j.. shot herself in the heart as
the result of grief.
James Johnson, capitalist and lead
ing politician of Chattanooga, Tenn,
committed suicide by cutting his
throat on an Alabama Great Southern
train.
William Carton, an elderly resident
OF Fort William, Ont, quarreled with
his wife. and pulling a revolver, shot
her through the head. He then shot
himself dead. Mrs. Carton will die.
Angered because of a scolding for
not having sought employment, Mat
thew Kraschefsky. aged seventeen
years, deliberately shot and killed his
father, Louis Kraschefsky, at their
home in Wilmington. Del.
Mrs. Helen Daenzer, who conducted
a school of instruction in embroidery
and other fine needlework In Brook
lyn, shot herself to death in a tele,
phone booth after summoning an &C.
uuaintance to care for the body, Ill
health was the cause
An Intellectual attempt was made to
wreck two Chicago & Northwestern
trains when some unknown man plac-
ed a boulder weighing over 200 pounds
on the North Western tracks south of
Waukegan, Ill. The stone was seen
by the engineers of the trains.
/ Following a murder and several at
tempts at highway robbery by negro
desperadoes at New Orleans, the po-
lice raided many dives and saloons
frequented by members of that a C
At one saloon alone los negroes were
placed under arrest.
James Simpson. former paying teller
OF the Farmers and Mechanics Ma
tional Bank of Philadelphia, who was
charged with embezzling $4,000 from
the institution. pleaded guilty in the
United States district our and vas
sentenced to five years Imprisonment.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
Accidental Happenings.

The larger part Of the business dis
trict of Shoshone, Wyo.. was destroy
ed by fire. Damage about 100000.
The pickers' building. warp and ma
chine room of the Coolleemee cotton
mills In Davis county, South Carolina,
were destroyed by fire. entailing a
loss OF $125.000.
De Witt Fuller. who IT Is said was
private telegraph operator for Presi-
dent Lincoln during the Civil war.
was killed on tho Erie tracks at Mar
~rowsburg, N. Y. Mr.. Fuller was sew
enty years old and was employed by
the Erie ms o telegraph repair man.
Mrs. William Mills was killed and
her mother. Mrs. Newcomb. was fatal.
1y burned at Fldorado. Ill, by an ex-
plosion or coal oil which Mrs. Mills
was pouring on the FIRE. Mrs. New,
comb was burned while trying to ex
tinguish the flames from her daugh'
ter's clothes.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
TO JOIN WATERWAYS TALK.

Burlington. Iowa, March 22.-Thom-
as Wilkinson Of Burlington, president
of the Upper Mississippi River I'm
provement association. yesterday re-
ceived a personal invitation from
President Roosevelt to come to Wash.
ington and meet with him and others
In a conference on the waterways oil
the country and their improvement.
The corf renee viii be held in May
and win supplement that in which the
governors OF various states partici-
pated some time ago.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
FUNERAL OVER, WIDOW DIES.

Logan, Iowa, March 90. - Within
twenty minutes after the family had
returned from the cemtery, where ii
had buried the venerable Christian
Ehrhardt, the wife of the deceased ex-
PRED and a second grief was visited
upon the household. Christian Ehr-
hardt died Sunday at the advanced
age Of eighty. The funeral was held
yesterday and 1t was followed imme-
diately by Mrs. Ehrhardt's death.
Bot. were long residents here. They
had a family of five children.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
Crimes.

The Illinois Central Railroad com
pany entered a plea of guilty at Lo-
ram, Iowa, 10 the charge of illegally
selling liquor on a buffet car. A fine
OF $500 was imposed.
Robbers who recently secured $685.
900 from the Banco Minero at Chicua-
hua, Mex, have been arrested and the
stolen money has been located. but
not We recovered.
Alfred J. Thornby, sub-foreman In
one of the departments of the Fore
River S%hipbuilding company, hlew out
his brains at Quincy. Mass. No cause
for his act is known.
Despondent because of his transfer
from n substation to another In
Washington, William A. Ridgely. for
twenty years assistant superintendent
of carriers. jumped to his death from
the fourth story Of his home.
Frank C. Marin. alias Franklin
Stone, who was convicted OF using
the mails to defraud In connection
with the Storey Cotton company Of
Philadelphia. has been sentenced to
four years Imprisonment and to pay
q fine Of $1,000.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
iMIKADO INVITES
THE "BIG SIXTEEN
Secretary Root Accepts Invita-
ton for Battleship Fleet
to Visit Japan.
IN CORDIAL TERMS
Regarded as Demonstration of Good
Feeling Existing Between Two
Countries.

Washington, March 22.-The Amer
lean battleship feet is to visit Japan.
The desire Of the emperor Of the isl,
and kingdom to play host of the big
sixteen" was laid before Secretary
Root Thursday by Baron Takahira,
the Japanese ambassador. The invi-
tation, which was couched in most
cordial terms, was made the subject
of extended consideration by Presi.
dent Roosevelt and his entire cabi-
net yesterday. Secretary Root was
! directed to accept the invitation and
the acceptance was laid before the
Japanese ambassador late yesterday.
Next Bid From China.
It is regarded in official circles here
as more than likely that China will
be next to bid for a look at the feet,
and that should this be the case the
invitation would be accepted.
Secretary Metcalf and Admiral
Pillsbury, chief of navigation, are ar
ranging the details Of the new itinera-
ry. With the exception of China, it Is
believed to have been determined that
all other invitations, should any be re-
ceived, will be declined, for at best
the fleet will not now be able to reach
the Atlantic seaboard before the first
Of next March.
itinerary Of the Fleet.
The itinerary which seems TO be
the most direct includes stops at the
Hawaiian islands, Samoa, Melbourne.
Sydney. Manila, Yokohama-should
that point be selected as the stopping
point in Japan-possibly a Chinese
port, back to the Philippines. and
then home by way Of the Suez canal,
with only such stops al are neces-
sary for coaling.
The acceptance of the Japanese in
vitation is regarded in official circles
as Of considerable Importance in the
way of a demonstration of the cor
diality existing between the American
and Japanese governments. The add
ed trip is nearly equal in distance to
a voyage from New York to Europe.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
DEATHS BIG HARVEST.
Total of $50 Lives Lost On North At
sntjc Coast.

Boston, March PA review of the
marine casualties of the coast of New
England and British North America
during the fall and winter season just
ended shows that about $50 lives were
lost.
OF this number 251 persons persisted
in the wrecks of ten vessels belonging
to the French fishing feet OF st.
Pierre, Miquelon, last fall These YES
sells f%oundered in heavy gales which
swept the Grand Banks. About TWEEN
ty-fve Newfoundland fishermen were
also lost in these storms.