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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-19
Kangarooed

This forenoon the editor of the INDEP
EVIDENT visited the sheriff's Office tc
make inquiries regarding the shooting
scrape at Elburz last night, little think
ing OF what Deputy Sheriff Harris and
Jaller Elmore had in store for him.
After concluding the inquiries, Joe
and Walter, the deputy and taller,
extended a pressing. invitation to us to
visit the Jail. After some parley be-
tween them as to which one should
have the honor of escorting US through
the Jail, it was finally decided that Joe
should be our escort. Joe took his
pistol from his pocket. Walter unlocked
the iron doors and Joe and the editor
stepped into the Jail and Jailer Gilmore
ratified the keys and locked the doors.
AS the deputy and his victim were
walking around the cells, they were
met by the officer of the Kangaroo court
and placed under arrest. They were
then hurried into the presence of Judge
Carey, long termer from Wells. With
the dignity that would grace a court
under more favorable circumstances,
Judge Carey commanded the prisoners at
the bar to sit down. The deputy sheriff
interposed a demurrer to this and the
prisoners were allowed to stand. 'Read
the complaint, Mr. District Attorney
said Judge Carey and Elmer Fulton,
held to appear before the grand Jury
on the charge of forgery, began reading
the rules of the Jail. AS he concluded
the reading of the rule providing a
penalty for anyone breaking into jail
without the consent of the inmates.
Judge Carey said: THAT is enough
and turning to us said: ''You are
charged with breaking into jail what
is your plea2" AS we were trying to
tell him that we were the innocent
victim of a job put up on us by the
deputy sheriff and jailer, he broke in
with 1--WE find you guilty and fine you
one dollar" Then began a rustic to dig
up sufficient money to pay the fine as
we had no desire to serve out the
alternative sentence imposed by the
court upon those who can't pay thei1
fines. After searching all our pockets
we dug up So cents, all the money we
had, and passed it to the court. The
Judge closed his paw over our hard
earned coin and ordered us discharged
from custody. He was more mercifu
with Joe and let him off with 80 cents.
This little incident pleased Joe and
Walter immensely. They had got ever
with their teacher Of twenty years age
for some of his ''meanness' to them
While we enjoyed the affair as much a.
they did, we could not help but thinl
of the days passed in the schoolroom as
teacher and pupils.
Boys, its long lane that never turn.
and you may once more be in oul
power. If you are, your pleas fol
mercy will fall on deaf ears. We shall
never forget the time you had IL.
Kangarooed and hope that it will al
ways remain green in your memories
But look out if we ever get a chance tx
even UP the score.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-19
Christian Science Notice.

December 90, 1908.
Sunday II a. m. Subject rs the
Univ including Man Evolved by
Atomic Force?"
Sunday School 10 a. IN.
Testimonial Meeting Wednesday 7:3O
p. m. Room 3 Mayors Block.
A free Reading Room is also open to
the public daily, except Sunday, from ,
to 4 p. M.
All are cordially invited to attend
these services.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-19
Christmas Flowers and Greens

The Trustees of the Presbyterian
church are the Elko county agents for
the Hendershot flowers Orders for
Xmas flowers or greens will receive
prompt attention by Mr.. Lambert
Henderson. Prices reasonable.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-19
SALMAGUNDI

ReafFur business locals elsewhere.
Ten = kgrees below zero this morning
in front of the Club saloon.
Miss Hattie Clark returned from Reno
last night. She will remain here until
after the holidays. ..~ ..
Miss Alma Goble, teacher in the pub
lie school left for her home at Wells
last night to spend the holidays. -.
Miss Neva Dewar, who has been at
tending school at Salt Lake, returned
yesterday afternoon to spend the holi-
days. ..... 81 .....
Assemblyman Mcintosh of Carlin
took in the county seat today. He says
he wears the same size hat he did before
the election. $685.. ... ...-.....
Attorney Henderson, children and
nurse left for San Francisco this after
noon. Mr.. Henderson expects to return
i'll about ten days. ,.
Rev. w. S. Holt, D. D., of Portland,
secretary Of the Board of Home Missions
will occupy the pulpit of the Presbyter-
ian church tomorrow morning and
evening.
A report comes from Gold Creek that
there was a free for all fight at the
Coleman mine yesterday. An investi-
cation is being made and arrests may
follow. s
Mrs. J. P. Slaughter, who has been
visiting her sister Mrs Mcbride for
several weeks will leave for Pueblo,
Colorado, tomorrow morning. After
visiting friends there she will return
to her home at Oklahoma City.
Wanted-Informatio farm
or business for sale; not particular
about location; wish to hear from owner
only, who will sell direct to buyer give
price, description, and state when pos
session can be had, Address,. Darby
shire, Box 203O. Rochester, N. Y.
About half an hour after the INDIE
PENDENT appeared last night Mrs.
Greenfield received notice as to where
the fffFic lights for the Christmas
tree kSere. That little item saves the
decorating committee several dollars.
Who says advertising don't pay even if
it is id free of charge. .....
Tracklaying on the main line of the
Western Pacific stopped at noon yester-
day, but will be resumed as soon as the
side track in Mr.. Wright's field is com
pleted. This will probably be sometime
this afternoon. The outfit cars will then
be moved to this siding from Elburz,
10 OF IL miles east. This will save the
time that is now lost in going back and
forth
Frank Brennan returned this morn
ing from Reno, where he has been at.
tending the university. He has been
named as principal by Senator New.
lands in the competitive examination
for the Annapolis cadetship The alter
mates are Harold Evans of Goldfeld
and Joseph Redman and George Girls.
void of Reno. The examination will
be held in Reno on the Sd of April
Frank is splendid boy and his appoint
ment is an honor to the county.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-19
ST Paul's Church.
December goth

December 10th
Holy Communion ut ga. IN
Morning Prayer and Sermon I I a. IN.
Sunday School, 1890 p. III.
Evening prayer ZOO p. m.
Friday Litany and teachers meeting
Sp. m.
All are cordially invited.
REV. PERCIvAL $. SMITHE.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-19
Heaven and Earth.

Nothing is further from earth than
heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven
to earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
THE ONLY PIRATE.

Pouring oil upon the waters
Once was thought certain way
To piacate old Neptune's daughters
When their anger had full play
Now that notions a back number.
For the waters rage and boil
When awakened from their Slumber
By a dash of Standard Oil.
In a calm the craft lay drifting
On the Great Sea of Campaign,
Their position never shifting,
Showing neither loss nor gain;
When a Pirate bold appearing
Set them all in a turmoil
With his scoffing and his jeering
And his wicked Standard Oil.
For he SCATTERED Campaign Ocean.
And he spatted all the craft,
And he raised a great commotion,
And he raked 'em fore and aft.
Captains called each other craven;
But they all began to toll
To get to a quiet haven
Where there was no Standard OIL,
Each one took the others measure,
And the lie passed freQuentlee;
And a purser with his treasure
Walked the plank into the sea.
But the Pirate stood a-grinning
AT the way he had embroiled
Both the sinned against the shining
On the sea he'd Standard Oiled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24

innate use of the congressional frank
ing privilege for a political committee
of any party to send out campaign lit
erature of this sort or anything else,
for that matter. is ridiculous. Here is
a piece of matter mailed in Kansas
which was inserted in the Congress
sional Record by an Iowa congressman
and mailed here under the congression-
al frank of Congressman Loudensla-
ger, who represents the First New Jer
sey congressional district in the house
of representatives. If that is not
stretching the Thanking privilege be-
yond all semblance of the bounds which
were in mind when it was inaugurated,
and which are reasonable, what is it?
If it did not cost money to handle
every piece of mail why it wouldn't
cost anything to run the postoffice de-
partment, and then, of course, criticism
would be out of place regardless of the
activities of political parties in prosti-
tuting the ranking privileges of con-
gressmen. But every piece of mail
does cost something to handle and the
ordinary mail of a congressman in
sending letters, pamphlets, books, doc
uments of all sorts, seeds. and what
not to his constituents, is an onerous
enough burden for the government to
assume. This mailing of matter
in one state for political purposes under
the frank of a congressman from an
other state is something which ought
not to be tolerated And there are 9TH
er ways in which the ranking privi-
lege might well be curtailed for it is
most outrageously abused.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
The Fool in the Forest.

Something more than mere senti-
mentalism will move the Californian
to rejoice that 1.-The Mother of the
Forest of the Calaveras grove of big
trees still stands in columnar majesty
with her stalwart family of great
girthed, russet-mailed, emerald plumed
giants. For a time it was feared that
these trees were fated to perish from
the earth; that the flames creeping
out from a sheep-herder's pot-boiling
campfire or the embers of fool
campers" bacon-frying contrivance
would destroy the only living survival
of the age beyond 1.-The dawn of his
tory" Happily this disaster was avert
ed, and only the bald and ragged crest
of 1.-The Mother was scorched; only
another scar added to those already
inflicted by time and the hand of God.
Better by far, that these age-defy-
ing monarchs should perish by the sill
vering stroke of the thunderbolt than
that they should waste to cinders and
ashes in the ignoble flame of fire
kindled by a Slavonian goatherd or
a grocers clerk obtruding his puny
presence upon nature in her solitude.
When Abraham fed his flocks on the
scant pasture of Ur in the land of the
Chaldees, the giant redwoods of Cali
fornia were vigorous shoots not yet
bafked to record their age in annular
growth, though centuries had elapsed
since their seed had thawed from
the cold embrace of the ice drift;
while the armies or SeSoSIrlS were de-
vastating the world from Ethiopia to
the Indus the last of the post-Plio-
Gene mastodons may have rubbed his
gigantic tusks against the rough bark
of 1.-The Father of hte Forest" now
PROSTATE and dry-rotted in the CAL
averas grove.
Dynasties founded to outlast the
memory of man have passed to OBJ
livion since the seed of the Sequoia
winged its flight on the northwest
wind to find it's final resting place on
the slope of the California Sierra; ra-
cial types have changed to fit their
shifting environment and mingled to
produce a hundred new phases of hu-
mainly since our redwood began to
grow.
So old are the everything redwoods
of the Sierran forests that they have
outlived the use of commerce. The
centuries have eaten their hearts and
they are no longer timber, they have
ceased to be appraised in the lumber
market; they are Interrogation marks
and exclamation points on the pages
of the Book of Time.-San Francisco
ArROnaIIt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24

summated the capital of France will
probably soon cease to be the mecca
of the frivolous tourists who descend
each year in hordes to whisk away their
time and. cash in the gay metropolis.
There's an annual deficit of consider
able size in the funds for the admins
tration of the affairs of Paris and it
is proposed to make this up by levying
a tax on the foreign visitors to the city.
This will likely result in soaring all
but the really wealthy visitors away
and Paris will find herself just as bad
off financially as ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
NYHAWKER JOTS

A paper is issued by the pupils in
the Russell high school which is
called 1.-THE Bugler." And many a
wall is footed through it.
This from the Lawrence World is
as good as any Irish bull as was ever
heard: Being afraid of mob. the
officers at Kingston, Mo-, hung muir
derer Filley to save his life.
I'm not very wise" a Sabetha
woman told Ralph Tennal, but when
see a bunch of my friends grouped
together earnestly talking, 1 always
join them. In this way I'm sure that
1 am not the subject under dis
cussion."
At Emporia the church social
is so strong that the Presbyterian
ladies have already inserted this ad-
vertisement in the Gazette: "Remem-
Der, you can buy your Christmas
presents at the bazaar and eat your
Presbyterian church, December H."
A candidate at Paola went into a
drug store and asked a voter to take
drink with him at the soda fountain.
mo thanks" the voter said, 81 have
just had an ice cream soda well,
take cigar, them" the candidate in
sisted. IT don't smoke" the voter
then ?" asked the obliging politician.
well, if you insist upon my taking
something" said Mr.. Voter, ''Tll just
take a good lead pencil"
ct had hope to land an appointment
of some kind after the election"
mourns "Si'' Chestnut of the Sedgwick
Paragraph, but it's all off now.
While helping the old lady fill the
lamp the thing slipped and she
spilled oil all over the only pair OF
pants 1 have. 1t was Standard oil and
of course 1 can't get rid of the faint
until it is too late. I will not en-
barrass the candidates, so have de-
cided to tender my resignation as an
applicant for appointment"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.


When a man asks your advice, he al
ways tells you just how he expects you to
decide.
When a barber shop porter shines a
BARRIERS shoes. does he get paid for it?
Or does he do it as a professional cour-
tesy?
1t must be a satisfaction to a woman
who has been stiff and well-behaved all
day. to get her corset off at night, and
scratch like a man.
An Atchison married man says: 81 love
nv wife. but we are approaching a crisis:
she makes me button her dress in the
back every morning"
A great many years ago, Daughter
dressed by little cracked mirror in the
kitchen. so small that she couldn't see
both her curls and her mouth at the
same time. and she never did see the
back of her head. or her dress below the
neck. Now Daughter has mirrors full
length, and has become clever contor-
zionist in getting all views through them.
If Daughter had to go back to the cracked
mirror, would it be better for her? (Sug-
gested to the Lancaster Literary society
for debate)
The steak was burned. the potatoes
were cold. the bread was soggy, and a
certain Atchison man had to wait half an
get such fare. Then. when he tried to
read. the lamp had not been cleaned, and
the baby had torn up his paper. In dis
gust. he threw himself on the lounge,
and found he had thrown himself on the
pet dog. which howled. and the women
folks screamed. Then he scolded.
Father" a woman's voice said in the
WAYS looking for something to scold
about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24

testimony. Aunt Beth must certainly
De very, very sorry indeed if her pres
ent apparent misery were any indica-
tlon OF the depth of her penitence.
having fully satisfied herself upon
this point, the aggrieved one, again
on tlptoe, retraced her way to the low
er hall, listened at the farther end
until the rattle of pans and kettles
proclaimed the resumption of Norahs
interrupted duties, then sped swiftly
down the path to the barn and through
a paSSageway into the alley Nor did
she stop until she had traversed a dis
lance of some blocks.
The door of the ornate garage which
was her destination stood open. Uncle
Larry and the chauffeur were doing
something to the big machine
"She didn't mean it, Uncle Larryi
She truly didn't mean itl''
Uncle Larry brought a gloomy gaze
to bear upon the small, painting figure
which confronted him.
Presently the gloom gave partial
way to a look of bewilderment, and
this in turn to the dawn of half COM
prehension; which kaleidoscope point
being reached. he stopped. caught the
aggrieved one in his arms and set her
in the tonneau of the machine.
NOW, tell me all about it, he said.
who doesn't mean what. and what
authority have you for supposing she
doesn't mean t?''
auII DClA. 4NOAdh Soiu SAiC 0ldA l
mean it,
The big wrench in the hands of the
chauffeur suddenly ceased manipula-
tions, an intricate part of the machin-
cry seeming at the moment to demand
close and silent scrutiny.
"Norah said girls were all like that;
they'd be dying to make up, she said,
and wouldn't. An she said the men
ought to make 'em; an If they had
any sense they would. She said she
knew Aunt Beth would be crying her
eyes out; an she was, Uncle Larry,
for I slipped up stairs an she was on
the bed with her handkerchief up to
her eyes an she was crying like any,
thing. An Norah cried so hard her.
self you'd most think she was the one
that had quarreled with you an want
ed to make up an wouldn't. An
please, Uncle Larry. won't you make
Aunt Beth let you keep on being my
uncle? An she'll go to the picnic
too, if you'll make her. Norah says
that's all she wants-just to have you
make her"
Master and man exchanged dart
ing glance-a sudden illumination on
the face of each.
"I'll drive the big car myself this
afternoon, Nolan" said Uncle Larry
"And if you care to come over to the
picnic later in the afternoon and stay
for the dance in the evening you may
take the runabout." = copyrighted,
1908, by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
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Wroten ad Looie Linkenfusser. In
der Dry Districk.
Merry Xmas, Looie. Skince wroten-
ing you lasd, Looie, hat peen wreck
ing my brainss NIT a effordt to find
you a chob. Der besd / can tink uf,
is chob es night rider down in Ten
nessee. Ven 1 say might rider" UT
course 1 ge-speak nit conserfatis-
sums, because 1 apprehension dot you
couldn't ride anything smaller den
streedtcar mid der gates shut, but
odervise 1 tink you would be all to der
candy You ISIS veil qualified in Won
particular vot l know uf, viz, to-wit;
you are lacking in common intelli-
gence, und hat absolutely no respect
fer der law. Also you ISIS planned
coward, und would nod do any dirt
mitoudt hellup.
Der chop, Looie. iss a easy Won. All
you hat to did ISIS to go oudt NIT der
gang vonce in vile, rob a hen roost
er kill some innocendt skittizen. Uf
course, you might be called upon TO
burn a barn err so in der meantime,
but dot ISIS light egsercise und easy
hours. 1 don't know vot ISIS der seiery
vot goes NIT der chob, but der Bible
sayss Something's aboudt der wages Ut
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE.

The inaugural address of President
Harry A. Garfield, of Williams college,
was remarkable for the ringing an
nouncement it contained of the chief
end of the American college. which was
described as the training of citizens to
citizenship. Scholarship is good, health
full sport is good. excellent also is the
stimulus to moral and spiritual culture,
but the sum of these elements of train
ing is the high conception of individ-
ual and collective responsibility OF the
well being of the nation.
The education which the modern col
lege confers is a great privilege, but the
best part of it's value is lost by the
Individual that regards it as only a
privilege. The worlds greatest scholars
gave to education more than ever they
had received by devoting their splendid
powers to promoting the growth OF
knowledge from more to more How
closely allied the love of humanity has
been to the love of learning is made
manifest in the achievements of the
wise and learned in enriching the
worlds stock of that power which is
derived from Observation-Disclosures Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
Apnoratus for Cleaning Horses.

The vacuum machine as used for
cleaning the furnishings of homes and
office buildings has become a familiar
sight in nearly all parts of the country,
but such a machine used for cleaning
horses is new to most people. The ap-
paratus consists of a vacuum pump, an
electric motor or gasoline engine, a
steel vacuum tank, a vacuum gauge
containing a separating diaphragm, a
number of vacuum combs and various
connecting pipes and tubing.
horse can be thoroughly cleaned
by the machine in from three to five
minutes. while with the ordinary cur
rycomb and brush the task takes from
twenty minutes to an hour of vigorous
rubbing. 1t removes all dirt on the
animals skin, cleaning both the sur
face and the pores.-Popular Mechan-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
At the Four Hundreds Feet.

At the little party the stylish new
conner juggled with great names so
recklessly that by and by all the rest
sat by silently listening. There seemed
to be no member of the Four Hundred
with whom he was not Intimately ac-
quainted.
Who is hep" whispered one, that
he knows all these splendid people :?
Does he belong to the Four Hundred
himself. do you Think"
well, not exactly" explained an
other who was in a position to know,
''but 1 understand he has been CHR
opodist at the Waldorf-Astoria for a
number of years.-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
FRANKING PRIVILEGE ABUSED.

It's about time that restrictions of
some sort were placed on the privilege
that is generously accorded to con-
and large quantities carried hither and
thither throughout the country free of
charge.
This thought is suggested by some
large post cards which are being re-
ceived these days by Topekans and on
the back of which is an extract of a
speech delivered in house of representa-
tives by Congressman John F. Lacey
of Iowa which is an extensive quotation
from a speech by President Roosevelt
on the trusts and tariff revision. On
the face of these cards besides the ad-
dress is notice that it is part of the
congressional record. free" and in the
upper right hand corner is the frank"
of H. c. Loudenslager. NJ. c., which was
same time that the rest of the matter
was put on it. These cards have pro-
badly have been sent out by some
agency of the Republican national com
mittee, possibly the Republican state
or county committee. and were evil
IDENTIFY mailed here in Topeka because
there is no postmark on them Certain
ly one of them was mailed here because
it was sent to man at a new address
which could be secured from no other
place than a local telephone direc-
tory.
To argue that it is a proper and legit-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

TFrom the Chicago News1
Some specimens of the fair sex are most
unfair.
Men with long heads seldom possess long
tongues.
The man who marries for money de-
serves all he doesn't get
What is the matter with cold cream as
the cream OF society?
A small boy isn't necessarily impecun-
ious because he is strapped.
Persistency may be a virtue, but 1t Is
hard to admire it in a fly.
A man is never sure a woman is his
friend because she says she Is
A tender conscience may be one that Is
not used often enough to harden it.
BY working for her husband eighteen
hours day a woman fails to earn lot
of money.
If a man is honest because 1t Is the
best policy he will be dishonest for the
same reason.
The love of a man for his wife may be
the real thing. but 1t doesn't seem to in
terfere with his appetite.
Before taking the bull by the horns you
should complete satisfactory arrange
ments for letting 20 at the psychological
moment.