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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-29
APPLICATION NO. 831.

Notice Of Application for P"rmfssIon to
Appropriate tn. Public Waters
of the state of Nevada.
Notice is rereby given that on the Goth day of
February. 1913. in accordance with Section 25
Chapter XVIII. of the Statutes of 1907 one J.
a. Erickson of Grantsville, County of Tooele
State Engineer OF Nevada for permission to
appropriate the public waters of the State of
Nevada. Such appropriation is TO he made from
Choke Cherry Springs. situate on the east side
of the East range. about 3mileS southeast of Nor
gan Pass about 10 miles west of Utah State line,
and about 40 south of Mantella Station at points
ut issuance of Springs by means of trench and
pipe line into troughS and one-half cubic feet
per second is to be conveyed to points of use by
means of pipe line and there used for domestic
purposes. Water to be returned to stream no.
Date of first publication, Feb. %. 1908.
Date of last publication, March 26 1908.
Signed
FRANK II. NICHOLAS.
State Engineer.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-29

To stop that pain in the back, that
stiffness Of the joints and muscles. take
Pmeule. They are guaranteed. Don't
suffer from rheumatism, backache,
kidney trouble, when you get 30 days
treatment for S100. A single dose at
bed time proves their merit. Get the
today. Sold by Elko Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-29
Keeping Open Hous-

Everybody If welcome hen we feel
good; and we i""l thnt way only when
our digestive orgara tre working prop
erly. DIR. King'e New Lfn Pills regu-
late the action Of stomach, liver and
bowels go perfectly one can't help feel
ing good when ne usa these pills. G5c
at Elko Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-29
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-29

Rings Little Liver Pills wake up lazy
livere, clean the system and clear the
skin. Try them for biioueness and sick
headache. Price 25c. Sold by Elko
Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-29

1t will be unnecessary To go through Il
painful, expensive operation for piles il
you use M"nZan. Put up in n collapsi-
hle tube with nozzle, ready to apply.
For any form of pilee, price Soc. Sole
by Elko Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-29

PiDeealve Carbolized acts like q
poultlce, draws out inflammation and
poison. Aptiseptic healing. For chap
ped hands, Gpe, cute, hurns. Sold by
Elko Drug Co. sr
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-29

u. S. Mineral Survey, No. 3l36.
U. s. LAND OFFICE,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-29

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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
An Ode to His Washerwoman.

Even in the face of financial embar-
rassment the Yale student refuses to
be downcast, for when the florist
threatens suit IL his bill liz not paid or
when in walking through the city
streets the student sees his newest
shirt adjoining the grinning face Of
his washerwoman's young unhopeful
It is not his nature to spill bottle OF
ink on dissertation on the subcon-
scious relationship Of poverty to vice.
More likely he Will go whistling back
TO the campus and put to the tune
some such verses as appeared In the
Yale Record Of years ago under the
title Owed to My Washerwoman:: -
] promise thee that some day i win come
In answer to thy Oft repeated dun.
And In thy eager hands then will lay
The dollars ten I've owed for many day.
will not censure thee for rips and tears,
For cen the socks that now thy husband
wears. +
Yes. some day in the dim futurity
III pay It all. ] promise thee.
And SO he will set the whole campus
laughing. II not to paying their bills
u. r. Embree In Bohemian.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
PAY Of Army Officers.

When young man becomes cadet
at West Point, he enters upon gov
eminent allowance of $6O9.5O year.
On graduation the West, Pointer is
commissioned second lieutenant and
receives a salary of $1,4OO If unmount-
ed or $1,000 if mounted Increases at
each five year period bring the pay at
the end of twenty years up to $1,000
in the one case and $500 in the
other.
The pay Of first lieutenants begins at
81, 500 and $1,000; captains, $1,sOO and
$4,000; majors, $500; lieutenant colo
nels, $1,000; colonies, $500. Each Off
Ger attains a 40 per cent maximum in
crease in twenty years.
On the average the salary of the
army .officer is higher than that of the
college professor, the minister or the
graded civil service employee. The Of
ficer has allowances for residence and
personal attendance. He may buy
household supplies from government
commissary at cost. - Detroit News
Tribune.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
Too Much at Stake.

The question for discussion before
the debating society that had met in
the little schoolhouse belonging to dis
trict No. 10 was this: Resolved, That
the works published under the name
of William Shakespeare were really
written by Lord Bacon"
The debate was fierce and prolonged
but. as frequently happens in such
cases. the disputants on one side had
Informed themselves thoroughly. while
the others, relying upon their having
the popular side of the controversy
depended solely on their oratory; hence
the Baconians, having learned all that
could be said in favor of their con.
tention, made really a very plausible
case and had decidedly much the bet.
ter OF the argument. At the close OF
the discussion the three judges who
had been selected held brief consul
tation and decided in favor Of the neg.
alive.
why did you decide against u.s.
subsequently asked one of the dispu.
tants. "You know we presented good
arguments, while the other fellows
didn't show any"
THAT'S all right" answered the
judge to whom this question was ad.
dressed. "but two Of us had just
bought expensive copies of The Works
OF William Shakespeare that cost us
$15. Do you suppose we were going
to acknowledge that Shakespeare didn't
write emp Youths Companion.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
Could We Live on Mars?

The physical conditions on Mars are
in many ways intermediate between
those found upon the earth and the
moon, and it seems plausible that the
life existing upon it should similarly
be Of higher type than that found on
the moon and Of lower type than
that found at present on the surface of
the earth. Even If the physical condi-
tons, as we understand them, were
equally favorable with those on the
earth, civilization would by no means
be necessary consequence. Had it
not been settled by Europeans the
United States would still be wilder
ness. How much less should we hasten
to accord civilization to a planet of
which we know little, except that If
we were transported there ourselves
we should instantly die. PROFESSOR w.
81. Pickering in Harper's Magazine.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
It Didn't Come Natural.

II have heard that man tell the
truth once or twice." said one Wall
street man talking of another. HE
can tell the truth, admit, but 1t does
not come natural to him. He reminds
me of the Russian moujik.
"a Russian moujik sat one day in
the anteroom of the military commits
sioner of his town. There was an
anxious frown on his face. A friend
approached and said:
"sWhat is the matter, Piotr?'
II am worried Piotr answered,
about my son. l don't know what to
say when the commissioner asks me
about his age. You see, If make him
younger than he is he will be sent
back to school, and If l make him out
older they'll stick him in the army.
What the deuce am to dor
How would it do said the friend
thoughtfully, If you told the commits
sioner his exact age?
.Piotr slapped his leg and laughed
delightedly
" The very thingp he cried. i new
er thought of that!','' -.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
distributed the cakes. Then all fell

distributed the cakes. Then all fell
to.
There were dozen chiefs at the
table in the back of the store for
the dinner. Forks had been provided
and each chief clumsily but reli-
giously ate with the unaccustomed
implement until by accident one of
their number dropped his fork and
picked up a morsel in his fingers.
Then every chief laid aside his knife
and fork carefully and went in with
his fingers.
When in 1879 Mr.. .Casselberry and
Mr.. Grant sold out their rights at the
post to Col. Thompson Of Dubuque,
Ia, Mr.. Casselberry received a letter
from the Interior department COM
mending his work while at the post
and regretting his leaving. He had
been responsible for the closing up
of Brule City, the groggery of the
post, which had kept the Indians
+, (.
supplied with liquor, and therefore
in trouble.
Mr.. Casselberry had seen President
| Grant about the matter of the liquor
business and had suggested that the
government extend the reservation
fourteen miles to Beaver creek,
which would take in the objection
able Brule City, consisting only of
saloons where bad whiskey was sold.
The extension was made and the
saloons were torn down.
Mr.. Caseslberry tells his friends he
has little use for the traders who
swindle the Indians.
There was enough money in In
dian trading in those days to satisfy
a decent man without swindling
them,'' he says.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
Wise insects.

In his experiments to determine
whether it is the color or the odor of
flowers that attracts bees and other
insects M. Plateau, the Belgian szbolo.
gfst, bethought him Of trying mirror.
He selected flower Of striking color
and strong odor and placed it before
an excellent glass In which the refec.
ton was perfect. All the insects went
straight to the real flower, and not a
single one approached the reflection in
the mirror.-Yo uth's Companion.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
JOINING the Great.

An Oxford undergraduate was recit-
Ing a memOrized Grafton in one of the
classes in public speaking. After the
first two sentences his memory failed,
and look of blank despair came over
his face. He began as follows:
Ladies and Conference.-The is dead.
Fox Is dead. Gladstone is dead
Then, forgetting, he hesitated for a
moment and continued, "And-I-I-I
am beginning to feel pretty sick, my
self."-Lloyd's Weekly.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
Evenina presa.

Mans evening dress is monstrosity
composed Of some dingy material cut
In meaningless angles, relieved In the
middle by one large sheet. OF raw
white cardboard. Lloyd's weekly.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-02
s.nd and LIN. Bricks.

Bricks made Of sand and lime and
hardened In the air are used largely In
communities where there - no clay
from which clay brick can be made,
but where an abundance Of sand can
be found.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
Christmas Things for Womankind Show Endless Variety and Beaut

few settings have had, Anything in cameo
is counted good" and some exquisite spe-
cimens are offered among the holiday nov
elites. Brooches, rings, stick pins, caring
and bracelets with these settings are
among the choicest novelties. While the
better canoes are expensive, there are
many inexpensive canoes that are nice.
The silver and gold beauty cases carried
from a chain on the wrist are still good
this season. They are practical and so
convenient that women are reluctant to
give them UP. They include the powder
sheets or chamois, a little glass and a bit
of powder. The newer ones have space
for the court plaster, which has come back
into fashion. These are expensive in the
better samples ranging from So to s25.
Hat pins are huge this season and are
ornamental to the extent of being a nul-
sance as they are Obstructive to wells and
everything else that comes in contact with
them. In addition to being large they are
studded with jewels. In the more expen-
sive goods the fine workmanship redeems
their gaudiness, but in the inexpensive
goods they are cheap in every respect. A
perfect craze, exists for enamel. and 1t ap-
pears in many of the handsomest belt
buckles, pins and other articles OF adorn-
ment worn by women.
Bracelets are Just as good as ever in
spite of the temperance OF the long
sleeve. In fact, they aid materially in
covering the slovenly wrinkled expanse of
cloth between the elbow and knuckles.
They are pushed up over the sleeve to
about the place they would nave on the
arm with the short sleeve.
Taafhar Qnods nffar Soma NJ tho most
attractive novelties for women this season.
The bags are of all sizes. extremely large
and extremely small. They are also in
many shapes, long. square and p~ronouncely
rounded at the corners with satchel
bottoms or envelope bottoms and the ma
terial is as varied as the style.
1t is in the mountings that these things
are handsomest. gold and silver being used.
Enclosing is used in some OF the more ex-
pensive goods in seal and 1t gives the effect
OF stripes or sun rays" Walrus and
alligator are especially good, but the alli-
gator bags are not so handsomely mounted;
in fact, they have little visible metal about
them, Gunmetal is a popular mounting for
the bags in seal and walrus or the black
feathers.
Card cases, change purses and novelty
bags come in all kinds OF leather. but
these smaller purses have little metal trim.
ming unless 1t be the etched silver or gold,
and there is little of that.
Hair ornaments in the way of back
combs, side combs and barettes are so elab-
crate they are almost gaudy. 1t is notice
able, however. that elaborate decoration
prevails only in the cheaper things. Tur-
toise shell with gold mountings or carved
is one OF the best of the better combs. The
mounting is plain and usually etched
where the surface is decorated at all. The
gray bone and pearl combs are among the
handsomest OF the nice hair decorations for
elderly women. The back combs are ef-
fectively carved and sometimes mounteS
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

stiff linen cuffs and collar. or the tailored
stock, has brought back the old-fashioned
cuff button and cuff and collar 2ins.
Plainness Is characteristic of the smartest
of these sets, although they are hand
somely enameled and most of them jew
eled. 1t is noticeable, however, that the
enameling is set in lines usually forming
a border at the edge of the piece, while
the Jewels are embedded in the metal. A
pin in form of a buckle, almost square, to
be worn at the back of the collar, is one
of the most effective of several designs in
the collar pins. Little bar pins, enameled
and studded. are also used to fasten the
cuff in the long cloth sleeve. These are
the very newest things, though they are a
revival of a style of many years ago.
The bar pin is very popular and it comes
in the eechend or the perfectly plain.
The lavelier is still counted good and
many Of them are being sold this season.
1t comes in a variety of styles, dainty and
heavy, jeweled or of the afternoon style.
Corals nave never been more popular than
they are this season. and they are more
effective when worn in the string as beads.
These necklaces are frequently composed
OF two and three strings but they are
daintier in but one.
Canoes are enjoying a popularity that
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

'kerchief and possibly a BIT of change and,
It may be added, it is worn on the wrist
at afternoon affairs or Wherever it is car
ried. This style OF wearing the bag
is undoubtedly due to its value as we'll as
its convenience. for these trifles range in
price from $50 to $3.50.
The same sort of Tags, only a little
larger and of less costly metals, are very
popular for street and afternoon use.
These, too, are studded with jewels, but
they are imitation. Their mountings are
also etched and they cost from 50 to SIS.
Afternoon" jewelry. or 'shirtwalst"
jewelry is one of the most popular novel;
ties; in fact, the jewelers. pronounce 1t the
only new thing this season. 1t is made
of the dull gold or silver in oriental styles
and serves as mounting for semi-precious
stones. The shirtwaist ring is one of the
very best examples of this jewelry and by
far the best seller of the season. Jade,
coral, turquoise in the matrix. lapis lazuli
and fine agates are set in the large, high
mounting, perfectly plain and of the style
ordinarily worn by men rather than
women. The stone is the conspicuous fea-
ture OF the ring and it is popularity worn
on the little finger.
Signet rings in the enamel are also pop
ular.
The return Of the tailored waist with its
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

one night with a cousin, who could no more
sleep than /, and looking out across the
cleaning fields, white under the winter
stars. We both gazed long over the billow-
ing hills for a sight of the sleigh-driver,
reindeer and all. We were no such little
children, either-but with a moonlit scene
spread before us, it took very little imagina-
ton to hear the sleighbells and the hoof
beats on the roof. In the morning there
were queerly lumpy stockings and piles OF
presents. Such presents as they were, too.
And then came the sleighing TO a small
country church, and the midday dinner, and
the long afternoon skating and coasting.
At dusk they lighted the tree in the
stable. There was another smaller one at
the house later, but the big one was for
the children in the village, to each of whom
were given two presents. one of clothing
and one a toy, besides nuts, oranges and
candy. 1 remember the array of dolls and
toolchests, tin kitchens and grocery stores.
go-carts and skates piled along one side OF
the harness room; the other side was
equally heaped with caps, gloves, mufflers
and Jackets. The smell of wooden things
and of the tin and paint of the toys to this
day Is almost as strongly associated with
my thought Of Christmas as it the aromatic
spruce.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

with silver. Side combs are delicately
mounte Jet is also very fashionable and
expensive, but hardly practical, for 1t is
heavy and hard to keep in the hair and
breaks easily. 1t may be well to add that
only the extremely full couture will con-
slstently carry one of these full sets, in
Guiding back and side combs and the
barette.
The linen departments abound in pieces
that must delight the heart of the house
keeper. Lunch cloths. tray cloths, carving
cloths, doilies, centerpieces, table cloths
and napkins, beside drawn work. embroid-
cry and the many linen laces and other
fancy pieces for the table, are to be had
this year at prices at which they have
never been sold before. Although 1t is not
generally realized, the linen departments of
the big stores afford some Of the most at
t~ractive novelties offered for women.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

enclosed by glass and an hall,
and with the biggest fireplace that 1 had
even seen. The dining room had high
backed chairs that seemed to stand in
solemn military file against the wainscot,
and on the table, 1 remember, were pink
fluted finger bowls Of a fine ribbed glass.
And there were dollhouse grapes and mar
rons deguises and iced cakes, which Thomp-
son, the butler, used to save for us children
when we had supper In the school room.
On the day before Christmas each after
noon train brought to this house a new
group of cousins. II was a rour-mile drive
from the station, and we children were
crowded into a sleigh, with innumerable
express boxes packed around, underneath
and on top of us. The sound of the sleigh
bells and the long white road up the hills
our own noisy chatter and our speculations
as to what could be in this and that par
t~icularly delightful looking ~package-are
the impressions that I keep most vividly in
mind. In the huge hall great Christmas
logs blazed-probably they blazed every
afternoon-but those especial logs in that
especial fireplace are indissolubly con-
nected in my mind with Santa Claus and
the 25th of December.
It was an ideal house for Santa Claus.
and 1 remember sitting on the window sill
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

also those made in the United States.
Aside from these lifelike little animals
there are others, whose distinguished
characteristic is their lowers of locomo-
ton and, sometimes, of speech. Mechanical
toys are being improved each year, and
now some of them are endowed with
powers which are so natural and so like
real life, as to be little short of wonderful.
There is the big frog which sits in solemn
and passive gloom until you touch a spring
which he has concealed inside of him and
then he makes a jump which is real enough
to give one a start. The beetles, bugs and
grasshoppers, some of them of immense
size. have only to be wound up with a key
and they walk across the floor in a deliber-
ate and digpified manner and some of them
flap their wings with great rapidly, adding
much to the realism of~the effect.
The flying man hangs from the ceiling
by a string. From his back there projects
a pair of wings which move with more ease
and rapidity than did ever those of
Darius Green whose flight ended so dis
asterously. If any real man could learn
to manage a pair of wings as does this
new and interesting toy, the problem of
flight would come to a quick and easy
solution.
This calls 70 mind the toy flying
machines. They are of two types, the
Baldwin d~irigible ballon sort and the
Wright aeroplane. Like the flying man
they are suspended by a string and are
equipped with propellors which revolve at
great speed and give a good presentation
of the real a~lrships.
The bucking broncho is another new
mechanical effect. A rider sits in the
saddle and when the broncho is set in
motion he is thrown high over the animals
head. but he always returns to his seat in
the saddle and the contest is kept up untn
the spring runs down, and has to be wound
again. Another feature is the horse and
buggy which moves across the table or
floor. the horse prancing and the wheels
turning like a real vehicle.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
Fashions in Toys Run to Practical Ideas Without Neglecting Novelt

you want which open their hugh mouths
and gulp in the water and then spout It
through the top Of their heads Just as the
real animals do when they are making a
meal Of fish and want TO get the sea
water out of their mouths. The motor
boat is also interesting. II is equipped
with a screw propeller and. by placing the
rudder at an angle can be made to re-
scribe circles of any desired size. They
move with considerable rapidity and with
proper care will last a long time. Other
water toys are the ducks and geese which
can win and will also give a startled
squak or duack IL they are pressed on the
sides.
For the boy who thinks he would like to
be an engineer or conductor of a train
there are toy railroads of all sizes and
kinds. Trolley cars. with tracks and poles
may be had at small cost. In the line of
steam railroads there are some which have
a full train and tracks with switches. The
mechanical arrangement is very ingenious.
All that is necessary is to open and close
the switches at the proper time. The en-
CINE will move out and pick up
the tender or tank as railroad men call
1t. then the baggage car will be added and
finally the three will back down to the
passenger coach, which couples auto
matlcally, as do the others, and behold,
the train is made up and Is ready to
start for any part of the UBited States.
Some of the tracks are arranged with a
long gap. supposed to represent a river
which must be crossed by a ferry. The
train runs onto the ferry which immedi-
ately crosses to the other side and tho
train resumes It's trip. Sometimes, how
ever, the ferry stops too soon. Then there
is a realistic train wreck all for the same
price,