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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-11-30
DECREASE In
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS

The best safety records made public
by the big American railroads are now
coming to light month by month. The
Pennsylvania Railroad set the example
by announcing that not Il single pas
senger had been killed on it's rails in the
II months that ended last December.
And now follow various others.
The Erie railroad, probably the mos t
decried of all the big trunk lines. claims
the unique record of having carrie &
more than 0,00O,O 900 passengers in the
last five years without killing single
person in q preventable accident.
The Lehigh Valley makes u similar
report.
Four western railraod-the Burling-
ton, the Rock Island, the Atchison and
the Northwestern-claim that in the
past year they killed not passenger in
any accident chargeable to the railraod.
This is matter of the greatest import
ance; for the western roads, with the
Lighter tracks, new construction,
rougher methods and more rapid
growth, haye long had an unenviable
record. The new announcements from
this half of the country are especially
significant.
And there is new spirit in the rail
road world. In the passenger depart
ments of our railroads a deep impress
sion was made year or SO ago by the
announcement from England that all
the railroads of that island had been
operated for IL months without killing
a single passenger. The Pennsylvania
took pride in it's record of last year in
equalling the English record; and there
is no doubt thaG the other railroads are
engaged in a contest of this excellent
sort.
We have seen in this country for
years Ia mad struggle for supremacy in
speed, in luxury, in comfort, and in
excellence of the menu in the dining
car. Now these struggles give place to
contest for supremacy in safety
which the public gladly Welcomes
Worlds Work
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-11-30
RETAIN LONGING FOR ROMANCE.
Frequent Cause of Tragedy In the Life
of Woman.

1t Is because women are always
striving to keep love at some emo
tional height, while men, after a few
years OF marriage, are quite content tc
let romance die out and settle down
10 placid, comfortable, hu,ndrum ex-
lstence, writes Mildred Herbert Urner
in the Red Book.
How often does one see woman
past her first youth, and yet with her
unsuitable longing for romance still
stronS within her, striving with all her
arts and wiles to make Of her stolid
prosaic, middie-aged HUSBAND an ar
dent, romantic lover. Usually the man
is DIandly unconscious Of her efforts;
OF at most mildly wonders why Mary
a1ter all these years, could not take
MS love for granted and not insist
on being constantly told Of II.
And there lies the tragedy of most
women's lives. They want to be, told
constantly, repeatedly told that they
are loved. They can never be recon
lied to taking it for granted. However
faithful and devoted they may know
their husbands are at heart, they want
It IN words They want, through all
their married life, all the little love
phrases and tender attentions Of their
noneymoons And not one woman in
ten thousand gets them! Yet with
what pitiful persistency they keep On
wanting!
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-11-30
The Passing of an Editor

An editor died and. slowly wendell
his way to where he supposed q warm
reception awaited him. The devil saw
him and said: For many years thou
hast borne the blame for the many
errors the printers made in the paper.
The paper has gone, alas, for 81 and
the 81 has often failed to come in.
The printers have deviled thee on Sat
urday night for wages when thou
hadst not one cent to thy name. Men
have taken the paper without paying
for it and cursed thee for not getting
cut better one. Thou has been call
Ell a dead beat by passenger conduc-
tors when thou hast shown thy an
nual pass to envious gaze. All this
thou hast borne in silence. Thou canst
not come in here" And he fired him.
Heaven is his home; and besides if we
let him come in here he will continu-
ally dun delinquent subscribers for our
habitatiOn is full of them, and thus
create disorder in my kingdom. FIX
change.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-11-30
For Sale by S. JAG, b, Co.
Elko, Nevada
GUYS A NEW CLOCK,
Then He S: o,:2 !se Economy Of
Keeping C!1 re Too Long.

AT last" s" :. Quillback, I'VE
have bought *, and good
ness knows " -.
Inc old q small, round,
liclel-plated -. we had had
jr 'ome yea :. the. course of
time 1t begGT g.. y signs of wear.
But we hated -: 10 tie expense Of
new clock as long as we could make
that one do, so we kept 1t, shaking her
up most every day for something like
year until finally it got to be so tire
some that we mustered up courage
and bought new clock. :
And then did little figuring. In
the course Of year I had spent an
average Of five minutes a day shaking
up that old clock on, say, 300 days,
making, to save the cost of a new
CLOCK, gross total of time spent
amounting to 1900 minutes. You d.
vide this by 80 and you find that had
spent in shaking up that blessed old
clock little more than 25f hours!
Now, in the way of income, you
know, don't pretend to class up with
the Rockefellers and Carnegies and
that sort of folks, but figuring my
earning capacity on the modest basis
of 80 cents an hour l find that have
spent in shaking up that miserable old
ticker time to the value of $3.50! And
the new clock cost only SO cents!
"Of course, buying the new clock
when we did instead of year sooner,
we saved the wear on 1t in that
period, and If we count the life of
such clock at say ten years we find
that we Lave thus saved about seven
cents worth of wear on the new clock
and this, properly, of course, should be
deducted from the $3.50, but even at
that, in the best showing possible we
find that to save SO cents we have met
with net loss Of S12.43, to say moth
Ing of the wear and tear on us caused
by the aggravation Of having to shake
the old clock up every day and make
1t go!
We had been, as in 80 many ways
we are prone to- be, penny wise and
pound foolish, but we are learning
wisdom and. We haven't got to shake
the old clock up any more, anyway"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-11-30
lsEAI.l
AnueI Rolls.

This recipe will make thirty or
thirty-flve rolls. Bake an angel food
cake in pan about twelve by six by
three inches. Let cool cut in slices as
thin as possible, trim of the brown
edges spread each slice with icing,
sprinkle with chopped nuts, roll it up,
stick through with toothpick, and
stand on end. When all arr done In
this way begin with the first one and
ice the outside, rolling in chopped
nuts. A drop Of icing and half a nut
makes a nice finish fo:, the top of roll
When icing has set take out picks. A
half pound OF shelled almonds will
make this recipe.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-11-30
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 80. 1909
THE STANDARD OIL DECISION

While every law abiding citizen will
! rejoice that the United States court of
I the Eighth District has decreed that
. the Standard Oil oligarchy shall dis
t member itself in the next thirty days,
b there will not be that gusto to the JOY
which would come were it known that
. the decree of the court was not suscept
able of misconstruction. and, further
might as well be stated here and now,
E will not be done--for the present at
!, least. No monopoly which has de-
bauched courts-defed the law--con-
trOlled legislation at naught deci-
) sion and gone on its way deliberately
plundering and robbing, will ever obey
the Judgment of this court until after
every legal technicality has been ex-
hausted. and by that time the present
{ generation and their children may all
b. in their graves.
!. Still there is u good side to the de-
!, cision. 1t discloses the fact that the
people have awakened from the spell
: cast over them by these corporations in
the past decade. Following the period
OF the Spanish American war people
were educated to the belief that it was
time of evolution and that the great
. mergers and consultations and COM
=, binations of capital were all in the
nature of development of the country
and its resources, and therefore was a
benefit to them and not an evil.
= Before this spurious doctrine could be
combatted by the few who recognized
the dangers ahead, all of the available
0 interests of the country had been
gathered in by the shrewd and far
seeing minds which now control the
u trusts, and the people, when they found
! out that they had been fooled and
, rob bed, were powerless, until up to the
present when the thinking mind of the
: American people has returned to it's
normal reasoning powers and means
I are being devised to put Il stop to the
high handed reign which the trusts in
their power have asserted, and by
: means of which fortunes as colossal in
extent as to be almost beyond concep.
tlon-so large that the owners cannuv
give them away--have been wrung
from the people through means that
would put the feudal pirates of the
middle ages to blush.
The people have learned in the past
few years not to call piracy, evolution,
'lnd to call it crime, which is one step at
least in the right direction.
But should this great trust be dis
membered and destroyed, it will not
restore to solvency the thousands up
on thousands of ruined independent
operators who through the debauch-
ing methods of Standard Oil have lost
their all, nor will it give back to the
public one penny of the money stolen
from the pockets of the people that
Standard Oil might pay 100 per cent
per annum, the Indiana Pipe Line Co.,
POI per cent per annum, the Southern
Pipe Line Co. 27S per cent per annum,
and the numerous other controlled in
terests percentage that was never
dreamed of by the blood-sucking Shy
looks of olden times. 1t can never atone
for it's commercial piracy on the high
seas or for the thousands wrecks along
their shores.--St. Joseph Observer.
--
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-11-30
In the District Coat OF the Fourth Judicial
District OF the State OF Nevada, in
and for the County OF ElkO
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Gladys
MchIahan, having Iiled in this Court her Final
Account as EXccutrix. and the report accom-.
panying the same. of the Estate of f. l..
McMahan, deceased and having also filed here
in her Petition for the Distribution of said
Estate. the hearing of the same having been
the 18th day of December. 1909, at 10 o'clock In
the forenoon of said day at the Courtroom
thereof at the Courthouse in the Town OF Elko.
County OF Elko, State of Nevada; and all,
persons interested in said estate are notified
then and there to appear and show cause, Ii any
there be, why the said Final Account should
not be allowed. approved and settled. and the
said Petition for Distribution should not be
be granted. and the estate of said deceased be
distributed as prayed for in said Petition.
Dated at Elko. Nevada, this soth day of
Noeember. 1909. .... ~ =.
, A. q. DAwLBY
lSEALI | Clerk
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-11-30
Worlds Oldest L,febos+

The oldest fifeboat in the world ia
at Redcar, England. She was one of
the first built by Greathead, and in
her active. service of g. years was
used to save 500 lives.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-04

The twenty-ninth annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor
meets in Toronto, Canada, next Mon
day. 1t is said that there is no doubt
Of the reelection of Samuel Gompers
for president and Frank Morrison for
secretary.
The present federation is the latest
and by far, it is said. the ablest ex-
pertinent in combining the organized
trades that has been made by the
unions on this continent. In 1866 about
sixty labor unions met in Baltimore,
Md, and formed what was known as
the National Labor Union. This or
ganization lasted six years, the last
convention being held in Columbus, o.,
in 1872, where the delegates unwisely
deserted the safe mornings of pure and
simple labor unionism and, nominate
ing a candidate for President of the
United States, embarked on the stormy
seas of party politics. Torn with dis
sensions, factions arising in ranks. the
larger organizations withdrawing their
support, the National Labor Union
passed into history without having ac-
complished its mission. The Knights
Of Labor succeeded it in the realms of
organization, and for a time gave
promise of being of value to the work
ing people. However, the knights of
Labor committed the fatal error OF
denying trade autonomy to it's affiliated
organizations, so that on this rock 1t
split and was destroyed, to be G
ceeded by the present organization that
will meet in Toronto, Canada.
The American Federation of Labor
was organized at Pittsburg, Pa, in
1881. In response to a call from a con-
ference of men dissatisfied with the
constructive policy of the knights of
Labor 107 delegates, representing 200,-
900 organized men, met November Is,
1881, and formed a federation of the
organized trades and labor unions of
the United States and Canada.
Labor conditions at the time We're
the most oppressive in the history of
this country. In general, twelve hours
constituted a days work, although in
special cases thirteen, and even four
teen. hours were exacted. There was
not a single law CT the statute books
of States or nation for the protection
of youth or womanhood.
Samuel Gompers was the first presi-l
lent elected. and he has occupied that
position continuously. with one years
exception, since.
He has but recently returned from
Europe. where he was sent by the fed
to study labor conditions abroad.
His report shows the American wage
sarner enjoys living conditions vastly |
superior to ~thoseethat prevail in Eu- |
rono Tn Amorica The iahoS .tnfo. A. /
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-04
Quickly Cured at Home
Instant Relief, Permanent Cure
Trial Package Mailed Free to
All In Plain Wrapper.

Piles is a fearful disease, but easy ia
cure, IL you go at it right.
An operation with the knife Is danger
Gus, cruel, humiliating and unnecessary.
There Is just one other sure way to
vacy of your own home-tt is Pyramid
We mail a trial package free to all who
write.
1T win give you instant relief, show
you the harmless, painless nature of this
great remedy and start you we'll on the
way toward a perfect cure.
Then you can get q full sized box from
any druggist for 50 cents. and often one
box cures.
Insist on having what you call for.
If the druggist tries to sell you some
thing just as good, t is because he makes
more money on the substitute.
The cure begins al once and continues
rapidly until It IS complete and per-
You can 20 right ahead with your work
2 b easy a comfortable all the time.
It ~ well worth trying.
just send your name and address to
Pyramid Drug Co, % Pyramid Building,
MarshAli, Mich, and receive free by re-
turn mail the trial package in a plain
Thousands have been cured in this easy,
p~ainlsss and Inexpensive way, in the pri-
vacy OF the home.
No knife and it4 torture
No doctor and Is bills.
Al dxueqisfs, 80 cents. Write today for
<e
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-04

NEWS OF b CIRCLES


directed by practical w-age-earners. In
Europe so-called 'intellectuals' keep it
in a political ferment hat so far has OBJ
scured the real purpose of its existence.
So far the affairs of the working peo-
pie have been well managed and the
future appears safe in the hands of
this federation. 1t has presented the
cause of labor with less of bias ana
bitterness than any that has preceded
and it has gained in respect and con-
fdence in thoughtful quarters accord
ingly. It's membership is about two
millions and ~one-quarter. Each mem
Der pays six cents per year dues, which
provides a working fund.
Trade autonomy, which means the
right of every national or International
union to regulate its own domestic
affairs. is the leading principle on which
the federation is founded. This right
of Internal management allows unions
to fix due rates. make apprenticeship
laws. contract with employers on mat
tiers pertaining to members. establish
a trade union label and determine con
ditions under which 1t shall be used.
in fact. to do all those things that may
be of favorable concern to members.
and to refrain from encroaching on
reciprocal rights of other afiliated
unions endowed with similar privileges.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-04
BELMONT SCHOOL ALUMNI
CHOOSE NEW DELEGATES,
Plans Are Also Made to Give En-
tertainment.

At the regular monthly meeting Of
the Belmont Avenue School Alumni
Association last night Charles Foster
and Manasseh Mendelssohn were
elected delegates to the Inter-Alumni
Association for terms Of three years
and one year. respectively.
It was decided to hold an entertain
mont and dance in the neal future, and
for this purpose the followinsr commit
tee was appointed: Charlie Foster.
chairman; George Frank, Bertha
Frank, Elizabeth Warshawsky and
Moilie Mandel. Manasseh Mendelssohn
was appointed chairman of the press
committee, Michael Stavitsky of the
auditing committee, and Dora Schaff-
man Of the attendance committee.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-04
ray srAR CLASSIFIED ADS.
TO SPEAK ON WATERWAYS.

Congressman J. Hampton Moore. of
Philadelphia. viii speak at the next
meeting of the Board Of Trade on the
proposed connection of the Delaware
and Hudson rivers. Congressman
Moore Is president of the Atlantic Deep
Waterway Association.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-04
BUTTER JUMPS ANOTHER
CENT; MEAT MAY GO UP
Plentiful Supply Of Jersey Gram
berries at Low Prices at
Local Market.

Jersey cranberries of a very fine quail
ity are coming to the market now, and
are selling at from ten to twelve cents
a quart.
There was an advance of n cent a
pound in butter this week. and it is
said that it is likely to go higher in a
few weeks.
While there are reports that the price
of meat is to advance none of the local
butchers have raised the price as yet,
Inc they say that they do not expect
to do so uniess the wholesale men do,
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-04
mitchell VIII Keep Up Fight.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-John Mitchell,
vice-president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, whose sentence to nine
months Imprisonment for contempt of
a Federal court has been upheld, said
today: 1.-THE matter will undoubtedly
be taken up by the convention of the
American Federation of Labor, which
opens In Toronto Tuesday. Trial by
jury is the traditional and constitu-
tional right of a free people. The agi-
tation against the decision viii be of
national scope, and will be kept up.
Meantime every legal remedy win be
tried to have the sentence set aside.,,'
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-04
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY.

Mr.. and Mrs Adam Manns celebrated
their twentieth wedding anniversary
IN their home, 20 West street, last
night. and were serenaded by the Nj.
9. " Hcssischer saeneerbund In honor
Of tha event
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-08
Swiss Society of Walters.

Geneva, Switzerland, which has just been celebrating in honor of John Cal win, has the distinction of lending it's name to the great international so- ciety of walters known as the Gen eva union The headquarters of the society are in Dresden, but branches flourish in all the big hotel cities of the civilized world The aim of the Geneva union is to organize all classes of walters with a view to ma king their lot as happy as possible. f. opens up to members special facil- flies for tr2yeling, for learning Ian GUaSes, for gaining a knowledge of their duties, and generally looks after t.eir interests
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-08
CUSTOM OF HIS PROFESSION
Girls Reasoning That Convinced Her the Young Lawyer Was Really
 In Earnest.

He was bright young lawyer, but very bashful in the affairs of love, though he was deeply in love with a young woman who was celebrated among her friends for her repartee. The only obstacle in the way of the young man was his exceeding shyness; for, while always in perfect command of himself in the courtroom, he be- came almost speeches. in the pres ence of his adored one. As one method of showing his affection, it was his custom to shower her with presents.
 The mother of the young woman was not at all satisfied with the status of the case, and spoke to her daughter about the matter.
 My dear she said, you have let MT. Burnlight practically monopolize your society for a year, and now you have scarcely any other callers. Has he ever given you to understand that his intentions are serious?"
 No he has not said anything, ma ma; but l know they are"
 How can you know it, child, when he has said nothing"
 The girl smiled, self satisfied Well. mama" she replied, you know he is lawyer and lawyers always begin a contract with Know all men by these presents "-The Sunday Magazine
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-08
Prosperous old Nuren,bera.

Tn recent years tho most prosper ous city in Germany has been Nurem- berg, where the consumption of fresh meat for 1908 was more than 9e.O0O,- GOO pounds This was an annual per carita consumption of fraction over 121 rounds or about one-third of g pound day for man, woman and child. The population of Nuremberg is largely of the wage-earning class. Tn many of the manufacturing towns of England the working people do not eat beef once a week.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-08
W. C. /. U.
Jennie Carr Pittman, Editor
Encouraging

The city of Omaha must have presented a picturesque scene in the recent days when the clans Cd the " ( Y U met in annualcon- vcntiOn.
 The city council appropriated $500 for special illuminatiOns and It is said that the letters W cru Ft'9od out in geaming points of fire above the word "Wercome
 The governor of thestate was one among many who extended words of welcome to the women.
 This man was brave enough to say that his party's, Democrat. ,Ai -ar~' Wa> lG raise a high stan daru on moral questions in the past had been responsible for it's .hck O. prestige and preferment
 In referring to the Daylight Sa. Saloon Bill which closes the sa4 loon ih Na'Taska at o'clock in th2 evening and which he signed
 ' 'iance of the united protests or the iiquor interests, the gover.- nor said; When l went into Of- flee it was with the determinatior to do nothing that I should oa ashamed of when l went out of Offfic2!" In answer to the crit'- icism of his friends that the g O'clock closing law was inconsiH- tant with his declarations on the subject the governor replied; that the law was entirely in accord with his principles inas- much as it gives notice to the world that after s o'clock the home rules in Nebraska instead of the saloon"
 So far so good. We have hopes Of this good man even making greater strides in reform as he admitted on the platform of the 0nv ntiOn that he had wife that ''was just like you white ribbon women" In behalf Of the church the convention had the distinction of being welcomed by a Bishop of the Methodist church.
 We wish we might print his ad Gress in etters Of gold but we hay IlOl llIG SDdCt VI IItC iiiNS'llo- it 3 extract will have to suffice
 We all know that the liquor men and their friends are always de- crying the work of the women and preachers so this good bishop ln an exclamation of derisiOn which we can almost hear as we read it said; "The women and the preacht' CTS! Well what do they amount to anyway? The women cannot vote and the preachers merely talk. Friends, the time for cheap sneers at the Christian women ana preachers is past. Let me say as emphatically as possible that our
 lGticians, our public officers in villages, cities and states are fast .rarning the lessons that the moral principles for which the church stands and for which the w CT U stands must be recogniz> ed" And further he said; We cannot fulfil our mission to the world as long as wa tolerate traffic, of which it has been we'll said there is no law it will keep and no pledge it will honor, no child it will not taint, no woman it will not befoul, no man 1t will