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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-06-26
Forty Years Age

The Carson Appeal is publishing the
news of forty years ago taken from its
files. The following will prove interest.
ing:
The Appeal for June %. 1869, con-
tains the announcement of rates from
San Francisco to the East. All tickets
we're paid for las far as Promontory.
New, in gold coin, greenbacks at the
current rate of exchange were accepted
for the part east of that point. From
the notice it seems the trip from San
Francisco to Sacramento was made by
boat. The trip is described as of five
and third days to Chicago. Break
fast atSacramento, dinner at Cisco and
supper at Wordsworth the first day.
"The night is passed in the cars be-
tween Wadsworth and Carlin, where
q stop is made of twenty minutes for
breakfast Dinner at Toano, $3.50 miles)
at 3:15 where stop of 80 minutes is
made, and arriving at Promontory at
1856 p. IN. where they change cars to the
Union Pacific road" y
The notice goes on to say that the
same accommodations for eating are
to be had on the Union Pacific and
that. the two routes are open from
Omaha to Chicago. Meals along the
road are usually rs cents"
Sleeping car berths as far as Prom
ontory were $5 coin. A stateroom in
which was room for four, $12, coin.
From Promontoly to Chicago, double
berths, through, $40.
A table of expense is published for
that part of the trip outside the rail-
road fare. To Promontory this amount
was 1925 coin. From Promontory to
Chicago the amount was $11, currency,
this latter amount included single
berth, S..
These prices were cheaper than the
rate paid nowadays, but the time has
been cut to 62 hours and the accom-
odations are luxurious to a degree never
dreamed of by the old time managers.
Fare to Omaha was $133; Chicago,
$15s; New York, $173; Boston, $176.
Time, Chicago, days, hours; New
York, days.
California fruit was carried from
Sacramento to New York in eight days
and was placed OH exhibition there
Government receipts exceeded ex-
penses by $32, OOO,O Tin these days of
Republican misrule the expenses exceed
the receipts about the same amount
annually, in one department.
Treasure Hill, White Pine county,
employed 1853 miners who took out
435 tons of ore a day worth in the mill
from 800 to $500 ton.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-06-26
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infiamed condition of the mucous
lining Of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is infiamed you have
a rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it Is entirely closed,
Deafness is the result, and unless the
Inflammation can he taken out and
this tube restored to it's normal con-
dition, hearing will lie destroyed for
ever: nine cases out of ten are caused
by Catarrh, which is nothing but an
inf1amed condition of the mucous
surfaces,
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case Of Deafness (caused by
cGtarrh) that cannot he cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free.
+. j. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family pills for con
|stipation. ~
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-06-26
.6ALMAGUNDI

Read our business locals elsewhere.
Attorney Caine left for Ely this morn.
ing.
Mrs. Reinhart went to Wells this
morning to visit Mrs Badt. N....-
Mrs. Hennen and Joe returned from
Salt Lake yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Pearson arrived from Mardis this
afternoon. He reports everything
quiet in that section.
Miss Beulah Bardley and Miss
Mildred Armstrong left for Starr valley
this morning to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Riddell r%&>..
:, The only. clothing worn by tribe of
Brazilian Indians who inhabit an island
at the mouth of the Amazon river is a
sort of earthenware apron. '.H
Rev J. B. Charlton of Battle Noun
tain, recently of Boston, will occupy the
pulpit of the Presbyterian church. to,
morrow morning and evening. -. ::
Assistant Attorney General Fowler
will deliver the grafton on the 4th of
July. Mr. Fowler is said to be an
eloquent speaker Be sure to hear him.
Regardless of parties" said Uncle
Eben, "dar is jes' two kinds of politi-
cians-dem dat wants to make de
voters think an dem dat wants to keep
'em from it,"
Scientists say the white ant lays
$4,000 eggs month. Would it, we
desire to ask, would it be possible to
cross the white ant with the Plymouth
, Rock hen?-Topeka Capital. e.
Mrs Anna Miller was taken to the
Hospital for Mental Diseases at Reno
last night by her brother. We hope
Mrs. Miller may soon be restored to
mental and physical health.
From this date until July 10th, Mrs.
Curieux will sell her line of stock and
pattern hats at a reduction of one-third
from the present price. This is an
opportunity to secure bargains.
Mrs. Howard Gould was granted a
divorce yesterday and alimony of $780,
0ala year. With that sum, she can
by all the cocktails and brandy she
can consume. The trial of this case
stirred up a nasty mess.
The introduction of fried straw
berries marks the furthest reach of
civilization. When people crave deli
cacy' that is Dissertation of all that is
fresh; and sweet and wholesome in the
natural life, they are far, far gone in
civilization.-St Louis Post Dispatch
At the close of heightened and bit
ter wFangle between the Judge and a
promihent counsel the former said;
well, sir, if you do not know how to
conduct Yourself as gentleman, I'm
sure I can't teach you" To which the
barrister mildly replied: THAT is So
your honor
The carnahuba palm of Brazil is said
to be the worlds most useful tree. 1t
gives the people everything from drugs
to food. A blood purifier is made from
the roots The timber is in demand by
cabinet makers. The sap becomes
wine or vinegar, according to the way
it is prepared. Sugar and starch are
also made from the sap. A nut it
bears is q good substitute for coffee.
Corks are made from the pith.
Edward Payson Weston, the pedes-
TRAN, left Deeth last night at 1905 and
reached EIko at 1880 this morning. rHe
; headed straight for the Commercial
Hotel, ate his breakfast and continued
his westward journey about 8 O'Clock.
He was laid up at Deeth yesterday by
the extreme heat He is said to be ~
hours behind his schedule. He win
walk until IL O'Clock tonight and en-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

The Duchess of Somerset is the lat
est member of the highest circles of
British nobility to join in the crusade
against rats and puffs in the hair,
which was recently started by the
Duchess of Granville.
While her grace of Somerset always
has frowned on the style which makes
a woman's head resemble a stack of
hay, heretofore she has been only a
passive opponent. Now she plans to
aid other fair members of the a%ristoc-
racy in fighting the style as insanitary
and unhealthful.
She declares she believes the masses
of filling and puffs used to build out
the hair are responsible for the great
increase in headaches among ONE
in the last two years. which has been
the subject of much study and discus
sion by many doctors.
Many women have been made in
sane by these headaches, and the
Duchess of Somerset says she is GER
tain that they are caused by the pres
sure and heat ~engendered by the extra
head adornment.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
WITH THE sAGEs.

1T is better to fight for the good
than to rail at the ill.-Tennyson.
Be not exacting in your justice, lest
you be unjust in your exacting,-Bail
ley.
A man who does not know how to
learn from his mistakes turns the
best schoolmaster out Of his life
Henry Ward Beecher.
A man must stand erect himself,
and not be kept erect by others
Marcus Aurelius.
There Is nothing noble in being su-
perior to some other man. The true
nobility IL In being superior to your
previous self.-Khryter.
Never esteem anything a OF advan-
tag to thee that shall make thee
break thy word " Loo they self.rs.
spoGE-NasSus AnrslinA
AAA-<LraA ALs - ~
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
nutritive elements and the quantities
given are what the normal soldier

nutritive elements and the quantities
given are what the normal soldier
should eat.
Company Fund at Regular Posts.
The company fund is another way
in which the ration may be improved,
especially at regular-army posts.
There are many sources Of revenue
for the company where there is plenty
Of ground at the post. Many OF the
companies have vegetable gardens
and keep pigs and COWS. The pigs
are fattened on the leavings from the
kitchen, making their feed cost moth
ing. They are fattened and sold, the
money going to the company fund, or
they are killed n the meat turned
over to the mes. Where COWS are
kept a good sum is derived from the
sale of milk to the officers at the post.
This money, which all goes into the
company fund, is used to buy the
luxuries not obtained in the regular
issue-to improve the ISSUE" as it
lie termed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

ounces Of beans or peas or one and
three-fifth ounces Of rice or hominy,
and either sixteen ounces Of potatoes
or twelve and four-ffth ounces Of
potatoes, together with one and three
NTH ounces Of either onions or to-
mAtoes, n and three-ffth ounces of
dried fruit, one and three-ffth
Of coffee and three and one.ffth
ounces Of sugar. The ration also In
cludes very small quantities Of vine
gar, salt, pepper, soap and candles.
Nowhere except In the army can the
food supply Of 10000 men be managed
by 12O men. This can be done with
the army on the march, changing sta
ton every day. The unit OF admins
tration il the corps, supposed to cSn-
sist Of 10000 men. The brigade com
missary in turn issues to each regt-
mental commissary, also In bulk, and
the regimental commissAry Issues to
the companies. The rations are usual
" computed BY the hundred and are
issued for ten days. A company@of
100 mon would. ~therefore, be Issued
1000 rations. n the field each sol
dier u supposed to carry one regular
ration and emergency ration all
the time. Tho emergency ration Is
never eaten except In case OF emery
ency and the regular ration Is issued
everyzdAy.
Can ExuAango Mls ssSavings.n
The army retion, Il viii u seen,
annkaina ffnSagnf Sthona thinRa which
ale ordinarily considered Injuries
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

For instance, there IL no milk in
cluded in the ration. and the soldier
must take his coffee black unless he
Is able to purchase a can Of condensed
milk from the sales store with his
savings" Congress has authorized
the commissary department to keep on
hand other articles Of food that are
not included in the regular ration.
These are kept In the "sales stores"
and are issued to the mess steward in
return for savings from the regular
rations. Out Of a company of 100
men there are a number who do not
eat all Of the articles in the ration.
These would be wasted IL drawn by
the mess steward; therefore, when the
1000 rations are issued to him he re
turns to the commissary that part Of
the various components that he
thinks will not be used. This, In the
language of the army, is making a
Saving" IN the rations.
The value Of the articles returned
to the commissary Is computed and
the mess steward is allowed to draw
from the sales stores" a suficient
quantity of Injuries that are not in
the regular issue equal to the value Of
his saving" The government, how
ever. will not allaw a Saving to be
made on certain articles Ia the ration.
Fresh meat, dried or preserved fish,
potatoes, onions tomatoes, prunes,
apples and peaches must be used; 4
Saving" cannot be made on these ar
J ticles. They contain just the proper
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

minute but the average speed IA &C
tual work is about $50. This Is an
average OF $4,000 or 10000 cards in a
working day of seven hours, includ-
Ing ~stoppages for reading dials, etc.
AS the census returns come in from
the enumerators all over the country,
in this shape of tilled-in blanks, the
facts they contain will be transferred
to cards-each card representing one
person. The facts in question are
copied on the cards by punching holes.
and the position of each hole indi-
Gates It's significance, SO that no writ
ing is required. Thus for example, a
few holes will tell that the individual
represented by a card is white, of
male sex, 40 years old, married, a
teacher by profession, able to read,
write and speak English-with the adj
ditional information that he was born
in England, that he has been in the
United States ten years, that he is a
~naturalized citizen. and where he
resides. Some of the new tabu-
lators have adding machines at
tached to them to prepare sta
tistics of agriculture and certain
other arrangements of figures infor-
national. Another novel device is an
automatic sorter, which separates the
cards into classes, electromagnetic
controlling their passage through d
series Of chutes. Indeed, all of the
mechanism from beginning to end de-
ponds upon electricity, the current be-
ing made and broken by little metal
rods which pass through the holes in
the cards.
The enumerators employed to gath
or the facts for the census Of 1917
from all parts of the country will
number G5, 900. and all of them will be
men-sav perhaps a few, who, for
some special and particular reason,
will be of the gentler sex. Some wom-
en- did this kind of work for the last
census very efficiently, but ordinarily
1t is too rough, not ~infrequently in
volving quite a little hardship of one
kind or another. The business of put
ting the facts together, however, after
they nave been collected, will be in
trusted mainly to women.
The Census Bureau is now a per-
manent establishment in Washington.
IT is kept running, with a compare
lively small force of clerks, all the
ttme--whereas it used to go out of ex-
istence after each enumeration of the
was accomplished, spring
ing up anew and suddenly every ten
years, like a gigantic mushroom. AS
things are at present arranged, how
ever, the plant is always in existence
on a small scale. There is a skeleton
organization, SO to speak, and this is
expanded, when the occasion
arrives, into a huge and effective ma
chine for the gathering of facts. Such
an expansion is now beginning to take
place, and within a short time the
machine will be in full operation for
the taking of the thirteenth census of
the United States.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
WOMEN VAN BALLOT.

Sfxty-hve Thousand Illitcrate Male
Voters in the Way.
When the next ensus is taken in
Kentucky the State will have come
along about fifty years, says Mabel
Potter Daggett in the D%elineator. And
coincidentally with the educational
awakening, another cause %bespeaks
legislative notice. The women who
gave Kentucky it's new schools want
the ballot. They say that it took a
long time to accomplish what they
did. Next time they would like to be
in a position where they will not have
to beg for what they want. They
would like the ballot so they can de-
mand it.
when the county school district bill
was prepared it contained a clause
providing for school suffrage for wom-
en-. Heroically the women submitted
to its elimination, lest their insist
ence on the ballot should ~jeopardize
the whole school movement. After
ward they got a special bill prepared
to grant school suffrage to women.
The gallant legislators s~idestepped it
by getting it politely smothered in
committee. This year the women will
ask again for school suffrage. They
have an idea that Kentucky needs
them to help in the direction Of it's
school affairs. Kentucky men, on the
other hand, have old-fashioned no.
lions that women aren't qualified to
vote. Still, you see, there are those
5000 male voters who an neither
read nor write, and there are the
5000 illiterate school trustees. It's
very awkward. So Southern chivalry
usually says mo- to the women ask
ing for a vote by urging that they
ought to stay at home and be shell
tered.
Kentucky women are replying that
they've been out a good deal in all
kinds of weather the past few years
on this school question. They say, in
fact, that if they only had the ballot,
1t would save them a lot of this going
out and about and up and down the
land. The State doesn't yet seem to
see the obligation. But n would
think that Kentucky women had done
enough for the public good, so that
the men should hand them on a plate
anything they ask-even to a half of
the kingdom through the forbidden
ballot.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

en-a number much greater tina the
entire population of New York and
Boston combined at the time of the
taking OF the first census
a baby is born every twelve Sec
onds, and, thanks to this fact, about
100000 fresh citizens will be added
to our population in the census year
1910. The passing bell will toll every
twenty-three seconds, ushering 1885,
600 Americans out of the world dur
ing the twelve months. Every twenty
four seconds a marriage will occur,
giving expectation of filed cradles,
and five of these latter will be sup
piled with occupants every minute
during the year..
So huge has the population grown
that the taking of the census of 1910
would be a job nothing short of APP
palling. were it not for the recent
Introduction of machinery into the
business. 1t is reckoned that the
mere tabulation OF the sex, age, ma
tivity and occupations of the people,
IL made by hand, would consume, for
those four items alone, the entire time
of 100 clerks for eight years. But
most of the work is now done by ma
chimes which may almost be said to
think. and which, when the facts are
once gathered by the enumerators, at
tend to the task of putting them to-
getler.
The Census Bureau is buying a
large number of machines of entirely
new patterns, which are a great i'm
provement or any apparatus of the
kind hitherto known. They are run
by electricity, and S o perfect is their
operation hat if the clerk makes a
mistake. the contrivance stops auto
matically. The tabulating machine
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

These clerks, three-fourths Of them
women. will be appointed through the
Civil Service Commission, which will
hold examinations for the purpose be-
fore long in everyState and Territory.
Any person, male or female, who is
afflicted with tuberculosis, will be
considered eligible. AS a matter OF
course. there will be a tremendous
scramble for the jobs, which pay
from 5000 to $1,000 per annum.
When the first census OF this coun-
try was taken. in 1890. the work was
done by $50 employees. To gather and
put together the data of the census OF
1910 will require the services of an
army of nearly 10000 men and wom-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

While revival services were in prog.
ress in the Free Methodist Church at
Decker, Ind, a panic and fight for the
door followed the setting off by q
small boy of a giant firecracker in 4
drain pipe leading to the baptismal
font. Several persons sustained severe
injuries. 1t was thought at first that
dynamite had been used. The minis
ter, who was near the font, cleared the
pulpit in a backward jump.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

One hundred million Of inhabit.
anfsl Such is the advance estimate
made by the Census Bureau Of the
19pplation Of. the United States in
1sy90. eccerding 70 an article by Rene
6aph - the 81. Louis Globe-Demo-
zo ceu9t thu and reckon up their
= 1Hlfold sctiyfties-giving. as q prop
GE1y%tAke6 census must. a complete
pscfure OF the people and their do
n0-wM BE- an enormous task. There
WIN bes3So su~pervisors. appointed by
the Preasdent = look after as many
lgeograph3cal districts and In Washing
lon alol4e - least 5000 additional
slsrke WIN employed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

Germany is freely Initiating Ameri-
can patterns IN the manufacture OF
farm implements and machinery, al
though American hArvesters still pre-
dominate.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

SpLINTERS.

Stage hands-Hack drivers.
The upper crust never live IN tAo
top nat.
What the little dog lacks IN bite u
makes up In bark.
Those who dodge work shouldn't e1-
pect . share Of the reward.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

There is an average of nearly two
persons killed each day in New York
City by falling from windows, down
steps. into excavations or in some sucil
manner.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

After working for Heathcoat Z Co.
lace mAnufacturers. OF Tfverton, Eng
land. for ssvsnty-one years. william
Htxtab1e has Just retired.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
GOODSHORT


"A ShiSdSo JuuSC SSShSiJ Duh
q person who was sitting in the court
room with his feet placed upon the
table by sending him, through a bailihf,
a piece of paper on which he had writ
ten the following query: What size
boots do you wear?' The feet were at
once withdrawn.
The story is old of the Rev. James
Patterson of Philadelphia that he once
said, in a circle of his brethren, that
ne thought ministers ought to be hum
BILE and poor, like their Master. Il
have often prayed" said he, that |
might be kept humble; l never prayed
that l might be poor-I could trust my
church for that!"
1t was Senator Evarts who paid this
compliment to the police of New York
at an annua dinner of the force: AS
compared with the press you exhibit
a striking contrast. You know a great
many things about our citizens that
you don't tell, and the press tells Il
great many things about our citizens
that it doesn't know
The house bill of the Imperial The
alter of La R~oche-sur-Yon announced
for the evening performance La Tour
de Nesle,' a iVe-act performance, and
La Sour de Jocrisse," a one-act farce.
The drama had been disposed of, but
the low comedian was missing and
could not be found. What was to be
done? A luminous idea finally en-
tered the managers mind. The or
chestra played an overture, then an
other, then a third, then a polka, and
finally a quadrille. At last, when the
audience had grown quite obstreper-
Gus, the stage manager appeared. He
to the spectators and said: Ladies
and gentlemen: You are anxious, l
know, to listen to La S9ur de JO-
%crisse'; the piece has just beer acted.
but through an u~naccountable over
sight on the part of the stage hands,
they forgot to raise the curtain.
When King Gustavus III. was in
Paris he was visited by a deputation
OF the Sorbonne. That learned body
congratulated the king on the happy
fortune which had given him 20 great
a nan as Scheele, the discoverer OF
magnesium, as his subject and fellow
countryman. The King, who took
small interest in the progress Of
science, felt somewhat ashamed thai
he should be so ignorant as never
even to have heard of the renowned
chemist. He dispatched a courier at
once to Sweden with the laconic Or
der, "Scheele is to be Immediately
raised to the dignity and title of a.
count" His majesty must be obeyed,"
said the prime minister, as he read the
order; but who in the world is
Scheele?' A secretary was told to
make inquiries. He lam back to the
premier with very full information.
"Scheele is a good sort Of fellow"
said he, "a lieutenant in the artillery,
a capital shot, and a first-rate hand
at billiards." The next day the lieu
tenant became a count, and the illus
trious scholar and scientist remained
a simple burgher. The error was not
discovered until the King returned
home. His majesty was indignant,
"You must all be FOOLS" he exclaimed
mot to know who Scheele isl"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

Tunnels IN course Of construction
an nov prsssde4 With medical air
sloekA w1gEe wUrI1h6n aflicted with
"benaI o. - treated under pres
8 1891 ofk druggist. Who has been
n o. basansss for forty years, says
- S6sls ~ q. 900 proprietary nsdi.
: - san4sA - city.