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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
Deserved Tribute To Miners.

DIR. Mcintyre. Il prominent Chicago
divine, recently paid the following
worthy tribute to the men who dig
from the hills their stores of precious
metals:
Il admire the miners wealth. 1t is
clean. There is neither blood o
tears IN it. Ii is acquired away from
the scheming and cut-throat cornDe-
tition that characterizes ordinary
ventures where the success Of one man
often means the downfall of ONE
other man, Or perhaps Il number of
men. Nobody has been pinched, no
body has been wronged. The miner
who digs a fortune ont of the ground
has the satisfaction of Knowing that he
has not robbed Il soul, ever though he
becomes Il thousand times a million
aire. The nan who makes Il fortune
on the board of trade or stock ex-
change, or in buildings mp a gigantic
business, adds nothing to the worlds
store of available wealth. The world.
in other words. is no richer because
he is richer; he is richer because some
other is poorer.
THE miner, on the other hand,
whether he digs out $40, or 300, OOC
adds that much to the worlds wealth.
As ! look at the matter, there are few
producers of wealth. The only mar
comparable with the miner is the
farmer. He gets what he has direct
from nature, but he produces perish,
able wealth. While he meets a want
his contribution to the worlds wealth.
therefore, is not Il permanent one like
the miners. The miner is today the
king of wealth producers of our coun.
try, and I honor him above all others.
1t is no dishonor, it needs no apology tC
emulate his example, or assist him in
his efforts"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
What $1,000 OO,O o Means

The announcement is made that the
appropriation of the present session Of
congress will he over Il, 600, 600, 600. Do
you know how much cash a billion isl
Here's Il little illustration that will help
you.
Adam, the original Adam. is said TO
have lived 5000 years ago. If he had
started working at $40 a day when tho
angel drove him out of the Garden Of
Eden, and il he had worked every day
from that time down to the present. in
Guiding Sundays and holidays, he would
have earned a little less than $22. 900. 900.
That would he but a starter. If, after
working the 5000 years no started in at
this time mt the rate Of $40 Il day. Sun.
days and holidays included. and if Eve
started in with him ut the same wage
scale, it would take them both 1873. 0SG
years yet to make up the balance Of
that billion dollars.
SO you can see from these figures
what II great organization of men the
Congress of the United States is.-Og.
den journal.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
Will Show No Quarter

The following notice signed by
Sheriff Owens and Chief of Police NAL
ley, appeared i'll the Tonopah Bonanza
yesterday morning: Notice to Citizens
Hereafter all persons leaving the
business section are cautioned To take
the center of the street, as all officers
are instructed to give quarter to no
one caught lettering around buildings.
The business portion of the town will be
patroled after dark and any one not
Known to the officers and who cannot
give Il good account of themselves will
DE arrested. All business men should
place their safes in such Il position that
they a be seen from the outside. \
reward Of 500 is offered for infurma-
ton leading to the arrest and conviction
OF the party or parties whose set fire Ia
the buildings on upper Main street Oh
the nights of May 18th and Goth. Same
reward holds good in the case of fire in
the future" The notice was caused by
several attempts made recently to set
fire to buildings in Tonopah.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
Terminal Case Friday

The hearing in the case of the APP
plication of Reno shippers for terminal
rates and other reducti lns in the
freight tariffs from and To that own
by the Southern Pacific road, has been
postponed until next Friday by the
Nevada railroad commission. The
hearing was set for Yesterday but owing
TO the death of Governor Sparks the
matter was postponed until Friday Mt
which time the compliments will appear
before the commission, the road refusing
to appear because the matter is an
interstate and therefore not within the
jurisdiction of the Nevada commission.
The Reno people will introduce a
considerable amour of evidence and
the commission will also make Il report
of its findings in the case relative to
rates. etc.-Carson News.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
Legal Status OF Lieutenant
Governor Dicker son.

SNNsh DhNhSt oSus
The question of the legal status of
Lieutenant Governor Dickcrson since
the death of Governor Sparks, has al
ready been raised, and as a similar
question was raised, oncc before in the
state and decided by the supreme court
q precedent is set. The case grew out of
the death of Governor John +. Jones
April 10, 1895 and the taking of the
g~overnorship by Lieutenant Governor
Reinhold Sadler.
In the election following the death
both parties selected candidates for
lieutenant governor and Senator c. II.
e. Hardin was elected to- the Office Of
lieutenant governor on the theory that
when the lietenant governor assumed
the duties of governor that thereby the
office Of lieutenant governor became
vacant. Sadler refused to issue a certif-
icato Of election to Mr.. Hardin and the
latter Immediately instituted manda.
mus proceedings in the supreme court
to compel him to do so. The court held
that under the constitution there was
no vacancy In the Office Of lieutenant
governor: that Mr.. Sadlcr remained
lieutenant governor clothed with the
additional duties Of governor. His
official acts were thereafter signed with
the designation Of lieutenant and
acting governor" and this will consc.
qucntly he the little of Atr. d. s. Dick.
crson. present lieutenant governor.
In another opinion rendered by the
supreme court it was held that upon
the death Of the governor the licutcn.
ant and acting governor was entitled
to draw the salary attached to the office
of governor hut not that Of lieutenant
governor.
In the absence Of Lieutenant Gov.
ernor Dickcrson from the state or i'm
case of his disability Senator j. d..
Campbell, president pro tenn Of the
senate, would he acting governor.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
A TRUST WARNED.

The tobacco trust is reported to be
about to dissolve. Friends in Wash
ington-apparently republicans-are
said to have advised such actions on
the ground that the officials of the
trust are liable to prosecution under
the antitrust law. Ever since 1909 the
department of justice has had on file
the evidence to convict tho trust Off
Gals, but has refused to prosecute.
Now at this late day. just before q ma.
tional election, evidently for political
effect, the administration is beginning
to get busy. But apparently the trust
officials need not be alarmed, they
have the tip to prepare for the inevi.
table and by dissolving the present
trust IAN organize in secret. and un-
der q gentleman's agreement can still
plumber the tobacco growers and the
tobacco consumers, Ms the beef com.
bine is doing. g 80
1t is believed that the entire Ameri.
al Tobacco company, the American
or United Cigar Stores company, the
American Cigar Stands company, the
American Snuff company, the Ameri.
can Licorice cohnpay, together with
many other. underlying and subsidiary
companicsfif composing the American
Tobacco company, will undergo re.
organization, and that a number Of in
dependont companies controlling the
tobacco aud paper cigarette, boxes,
licorice, Russian and Turkish cigarette,
leaf export, and other companies, win
be r~eorganized under separate heads.
How kind and thoughtful our re-.
publican friends arc to trusts and cor.
porations, especially when the con.
trlbution box Is about to be handed
around for campaign fluids.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
NOTICE OF AssEssMEsr
NEvADA.FArRvIEw MINING conpAsr


Principal place Of business, Elho, EIio co,D.
". Nevada. General once outside oil Nevada
s4 Atlas Block, Salt Lake City. Utah. Loc,.
ilon OF mines. Fairview Mining Dix,ric,
Churchill county, Nevada.
Notice ia hereby given that at = meeting n,
the board Of directors OF NevadnFairyi.v
Mining Company. held on the 18th day OF NAV
1908. Assessment No. 3 OF one. half UO cent ne,
share was levied upon the capital stock OF Tho
corporation. issued and outstanding, payabl.
Immediately to the Secretary ut the once n,
the company, PA Atlas Block, Salt Lake Civ
Utah.
Any stock upon which this assessment NAV
remaln unpaid on Saturday, tho sOth day OF
juno. 1905, will be delinquent and advertised
for sale NJ public auction, aud unless paymen,
Is madn before, will be sold on Monday. thu
9th day OF July, 1908, a. 4 o'clock Il. NJ. ut tho
conipany's once. 2l4 Atlas Block, Salt LAX.
City, Utah, to pay the delinquent assessment,
thereon, together with the cost Of advertising
aud expense OF sale.
GIDEoS SNYDER, Secretary
by order OF the board OF directors. the date
when stock shall DO delinquent pursuant TO the
foregoing notice Is changed to and inclndIuy
July Q. 1908. aud sale day to Monday. Augu.t
II, 1908, 1T O'Clock p. m. ~ the company
once, 2ii Atlas Block. Salt Lake City, Utah.
GIDEON SNYDER.
Secretary.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
THE DEGRADATION

The following editorial is from the
Chicago Evening Post, u republican
paper:
"To what depths of degradation the
house OF Representatives in the congress
of the United States has sunk John
Sharp Williams effectively showed his
80. 600, 900 countrymen yesterday, even
though he chose to do 50 with III i'll.
timed and uniting b~uffoonery.
For Mr.. Williams forced upon the
republic the almost incredible spectacle
of 184 duly elected representatives of
the people pleading in vain for the mere
opportunity to present to their fellow
Legislators i'll any shape or form a legis-
lative proposal which they unitedly
favored.
Zone hundred and siIty-four servants
of the people demanded u right which
the constitution gives them and which
their oaths of Office oblige them to use.
One insolently self-made master of the
people ignored hat demand and render,
ed it futile. Could travesty of demo-
CRITIC government go further?
THE very fact that so vital Il protest
as that made by the minority was pre-
s,nted with the clownish trappings of
u mock revival meeting gives startling
evidence of the vicious thoroughness
with which the regime of Joseph G.
Cannon, Serene Z. Payne and John
Dalzell has stamped out in the lower
chamber of congress the sense of polit.
ical morality, the habit of common de.
cency and the ideals of representative
government. 1t is today astoundingly
clear that the things which America
hold most high have become in the
house of representatives merely the
objects of u cynical and contemptuous
pity.
With solemn huinbug, with party
~buncombe, with ancient political cant
Speaker Cannon has completed the
wretched work of turning the free legis-
lative assembly of a democracy into Il
shameless autOcracy. He himself,
singly and unaided, now dares to speak,
think and act for 1856 men whom the
people hade laboriously chosen to make
their law for them. Tho rule of the
majority, a fundamental principle of
the nation, he ~disregards with q cool
impudence that would not be tolerated
in tha Pnaaion 1p,no
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
ALWAYS READY FOR BUSINESS.
Real Estate Man Evidently Never lie,
Opportunity Slip.

There was n bccfstcak party In
liealys Jungle room In West Sixty.
sixth street recently. says a New York
exchange. After the festivities. which
were unusually Jolly. two o: the guests
got mixed mp OH Columbus avenue,
and Brady, the 'cop from Kerry" was
on the job in a minute. IIo took the
two to the West SIxty.eIgh,h Strecs
Police station, where they were In.
voiced aud consigned to the night pa.
lice court. Tho magistrate was I'm n
benevolent mood and sent them ON
their say with n lecture.
Brady. the cop, called on Tom
iiealy bright and early to-day.
"Wor thin la.ads I TUX I'm last night
all rlght?" he asked.
Sure they were" replied IIcaIy.
why do you ask?"
We'll. while I was riding thin Ia
the court In the hurry.up wagon ono
OF Thin sold me n piece OF ground In
Astoria. l.. J., for $500. and he got mo
dough. too"
lilo was looking his bargain up this
afternoon In the Queens county ar
chlveR.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
Escaped Bad Wreck.

Providence WAS with the train on
the Las Vegas line aS 20 miles south
of Beatty, the rear trucks on the
sleeper, the final a in the train.
parted company with the Pullman
and the rear end of the latter was
left to thump along for considerable
distance before the train was brought
to a standstill, 1t seemed miraculous
that the sleeper did not leave the
rails, but such was the case. There
were ten passengers in the Pullman,
and the only Inconvenience they suf.
fered was IL severe jarring. The pat.
rons were transferred into the day
coach preceding and the disabled
sleeping car was left on the tracks
while the train proccedc northward
Carson News.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
State Convention Delegates

The democratic coupty committee met
last evening and canyassed the returns
of the primary election and issued
certificates to the following delegates:
District No. &c. l.. Woodward.
james Martin and p. a. Lcainy.
District No. 2-Tlum;us Hunter, W
G. Owens. J. +. Holland. George
Mcintosh.
District No. 81. l.. Hudson
District No. w. q. Grcathousc. "
5. Griswold.
District No. "A. w. Goblc. u. s..
Triplctt.
There were no primaries held in
district No. q, and the committee ap-
pointed +. II. Winter.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29

box nailed to u tree the newspaper. 1t
tells him Of home and friends and il all
are well; it tells him of sickness or of
fortune, or of the condition of the
market. 1t is food and thought and
joy to him; he welcomes it rs his
teacher and his friend. 1t gives him
and every intellectual man, woman and
child Il sort of hand-hold ON the doings
of the day and the pulse of the country.
And yet you will steal that little budget
of news and sell it. or trade it, q r
exchange it, with all its teachings and
benefits, for II drink of whiskey, for
that which only blights. destroys and
brings more darkness and more ignor-
nee and shame.
I'm kindness. Mr.. Warburton. and
sincerely hoping that the experience
will be helpful to you and others, l will
allow you to 10 your way, for we have
no punishment quite commensurate
with the offense. An rs long rs mercy
and justice 60 hand in hand, and this
matter presents itself rs it does to me.
l an going to give you Il larger measure
of mercy than justice.
Il hope your case may serve as II
lesson to others, for while you have
been let off easy other offenders will not
he dealt with so leniently. This matter
of stealing newspapers must be stopped,
and this court will aid i'll preventing
further acts of the nature which has
brought you into this court"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
Jim TAYLOR Killed

jim Taylor. the desperate, who shot
Mr.. Edison. the partner Of John q.
Taylor in the horse business on the
Button ranch in Humboldt county in
n dispute over u horse. about two
weeks ago, got his meetings about
0 o'clock Saturday night at the hands
of Sheriff Lamb.
Sheriff Lamb fonnd Taylor's camp
OH tho head Of the Little Humboldt
and watched II. About o o'clock Satnr.
day night Taylor came TO his camp
ann Lamb ordered him to throw III
his hands. Taylor instead of obcying
the order reached for his gun, but
Lamb was to quick for him and got in
the first shot and Taylor fell dead.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
A BUREAU OF MINES

The Washington Times of recent date
pays the following compliment to Con.
gressmcn Bartlett for his work in pass.
ing the bill through tho house for the
establishment Of n mining bureau:
In the face Of an unwiso opposition
from Mr.. Tawney and other leaders
probably an unthinking opposition, us
welll the friends Of human life have
won n distinct victory In the house by
the passage yesterday Of u bill establish.
Ing n bureau Of mines In tho interior dc.
partment. The measure is now before
the senate. There It Is feared IL may
meet with defeat on strange grounds:
That the creation Of this bnrcau may
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
Geld Circle Notes

The following items are from the Gold
Circle Miner:
Just think of It'll Seventy different
sets of leasers at work in Gold Circle
district.
Pure mountain spring water will he
piped into the houses of Midas within n
few days.
There is more real work going on now
than ut any other time i'm the history of
the camp.
Two shifts are at work on lease No.
. on the Elko Prince, and there are ten
inches of ore in sight, which averages
so in gold per ton.
Postmaster Leamy advises us that the
mail of this section is rapidly increasing
in amount. This would Indicate an in,
terest on the part of the outsider.
Work will soon commence OH the
active development of the Spotted Dog.
This property WIS So named from II
spotted shepherd dog oxped by William
Menking. ...
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
Mysterious Figures

Put down the number Of your living
brothers.
Double the number.
Add three.
Multiply the result by five.
Add the number of living sisters.
Multiply the result by ten.
Add the number Of dead brothers
and sisters.
Substract 100 from the result.
The right hand figure will he the
number of deaths.
The middle figure will he the number
of living sisters.
The left hand figure will he the NUN.
Der of living brothers.
Strange freak of figures. isn't it
Word and Way.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
VERY PROBABLY HE WOULD.
Peg9y's LScus Almost Enough =
Make Any Man Swear.

Peggy was the new telephone piIl /,
an Indianapolis hotel. The second;
night after Peggy went To wort u
guest left a call with the clerk In;
2:i5 a. IN. The call was turned over
to Peggy with instructions not To for
get IT,"
Hotel life was new to Peggy, and
h became so absC bed In things that
went on In the Office during the night
that she forgot her duties.
About four Il. III. Peggy woke M
from a nap with n start. She felt as II
something awful had happened.
"Grac!ous.' she declared. Il forgot,
TO call that mnn-whutever will ] do?"
Thu clerk glared ut Peggy and would
have sworn at her had he dared. But
Peggy did not lose her head. She
'ahS the telephone in the guests
ITS four o'clock" she said sweetly
Gnd gently.
What's that?" roared the guest
'oiGn't | tell you to call me at 2:i5?"
Yes replied Peggy. with exasper'
aiainS GOODNESS. You did"
Then why In the devil didn't you
do it?" retorted The irate guest.
Because" said Peggy. Il Gidn't
think IL was good for you to get up 81
early"
We'll. I'll be - but Peggy
snatclicd the receiver from her ears
before tho sentence was finished.
II really believe lie would have
sworn at me-" said Peggy innoccntly
to the clerk.
And Peggy continued to hold her
Job.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29

Sheriff Lamb arrived in Winnemucca
Sunday afternoon with Taylor's re-
mains.
The above information is contained
i'll a letter received this morning by
Sheriff Clark from Deputy Sheriff
Muller of Humboldt county.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
Not In His Linz

WHO discovered steam" asked tho
man VINO Is always looking for in.
formation. I"
"l'oht KNOW answered the man
VINO Is abnormalIy chilly. "but 7 nm
willing to bot II was not tho ion,,n'
IN our apartment house."-Washlng.
ton Star.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29
A TERRIBLE PICTURE

The president paints II terrible picture
of the dcmorilizing influence Of ll.got.
ten wealth. He pictures the multi mil.
lionaire who has grown rich by immoral
NEAR as ''the least admirable Of oil on
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29

entered at the ElKo pos,omce for transmissio.
through the mails as second-elass matter.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1908-11-14

G. b. Rowan made a trip to
Boise yesterday to meet some
old friends from Colorado.
VIM. Sweet, who lives in the
Big Bend, vas seriously gored by
a Jersey bull Yesterday. Hewa
badly cut on the left leg and in
the groin.
A. j. Horr, the Ontario Congre-
gational minister, was in town
today with the football boys.
Midland Jubilee Singers, at the
opera house, Tuesday evening,
Nov. II. They are all fine sing
ers and their voices blend in
splendid haemony. They are
high-class college people and do
not eondesend to the trashy
music SO often given by jubilee
singers. Tkese people made a
hit here last year. They are bet
ter than ever and have an entire
" new repertoire, Get your
seals early.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1908-11-14

II is atsnmed that Iatah couu-
tn viii have the usual delegation
IA Boise when the legislature
meets. asking Tor liberal appro-
priation for the state university.
Pete Orcutt should lead the pro-
cession. Caldwell Tribune.
The University Of Idaho is a
non political school, in which
every citizen of Idaho NAV well
take pride 1t is not built for
democrats or republicans, but
for the higher education uf the
youth oi the whole state. 1t
knows no county boundaries; no
religious sect, and no politics.
Latah IL no more Interested in
TINT school thah CANYON, except
That tue major portion OF the
appropriation is necessarily ex-
pended there. There should be
no need for a lobby from Latah
county or elsewhere to induce
the legislature to mike ample
appropriation for thecarying on
OF higher education IN Idaho. A
simple statement OF the amount
necessary from the board OF re-
gents shonld be all that is necec-
essary. The yelled threat Of the
pribunc that because Latah
county went democratic the wei.
fare Of the State University is
endangered is unworthy the pen
of any Idaho editor. Latah
county has a perfect right to
work for the University OF Ida
he, and SO ought every good
citizen. We don't believe that
the unkind remark came from
the Tribune editors heart. We
prefer to believe Tint, when the
time comes, he will be found
working shoulder with every
other paper in the state for the
good d the University Of Idaho,
as well as all other state institu-
tons.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1908-11-14

Next Friday night a ball VIII
be given at the opera house ior
the benefit Of the Parma Bapo'
Tie boys are not getting TINS
dance up themselves and have
not asked that it be done but
their friends are doing ton then
own iniative.
Eveyope who appreciates the
value Of a band in ParlnasFould
buy a ticket, whether he wants
to use it or not. The band boys
have worked faithfully end sue
ce ssiully to get up a good band
an d everyone should be glad 70
contribute a dollar tohelp pay q
D ortion OF their expenses. lhey
have willingly and impartIally
donated their services on every
occasion, and it's time our citi-
zens showed some substantial
appreciation other work. Let's
all get in and help the boys make
the band one OF the best in the
state. i.