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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-08
FOR SALE
SITUATED AT ALPHA
3S miles north of Eureka on the L. Sc p.
Ry., Eureka Co. Nevada.

$50 acres patented land, 40 acres of
contract land (most all fenced and in
hay). Good range for horses, cattle and
sheep. so head of good cattle; IS head
Of which are cows and heifers broken to
milk. % head of horses and some wild
range horses. l Auto Fedan hay press.
Machinery and wagons. Corrals, Barn
and Furnished House. 100 Fruit trees
out this spring. Chickens, turkeys
and pigs. Water rights good
Pleasant place to live. Reason for
is lack of school.
For further particulars address
A. w. CLAYTON,
Alpha via. Palisadc,
Eureka. Co., Nevada
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-08
Watch Charm in Wood Rats Nest

jim Burke and Mr.. Calvin got in
from Bullion last evening. They tell
the following story and vouch for its
t%ruthfulncss: While mt Bullion Mr..
Calvin came across what looked to him
as an old tunnel on one of the mining
claims. He cleared away the dirt
sufficiently to crawl into the tunnel IL
short distance. He wore his gold
watch with an elk's tooth hanging to
the watch fob. After Il short stay i'll
the tunnel, he backed ont and reported
his find to Mr.. Burke and others. That
night he wound his watch as usual and
placed it uudcr his pillow, but did not
notice that the elk's tooth was missing.
Three days afterward the men went to
the old tunnel and cleaned out the face
and Mr.. Calvin entered it with n
lighted candle. He wen some dis
lance and found his way blocked by
some boulders that had fallen from the
roof of the tunnel. On the top of
these boulders, he found n wood rats
nest. While looking ut the nest, he
noticed something glisten and on pick
ing it up found that it was his watch
charm. The charm must have been
torn from the fob the day he first
crawled into the tunnel and had been
fonnd by the wood rat and carried to
its nest. He had not missed the charm
for three days and vas very much
surprised to find it in the rats nest. He
and Jim Burke declare this to be n true
story in every particular.
They also report mines ut Bullion to
he looking well and the mountains
covered with snow.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-08
Advice Worth Hoedinu.

Let us labor TO make the heart
grow larger M we become older. as
the spreading oak gives more shelter.
Richard Jeffries.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-08
WARNING

All persons are hereby warned not tC
fish, hunt or trespass upon either OF
my ranches, above and below Carlin,
under penalty of prosecution to the
limit.
THOS. GRIFFIN,
Carlin, Nevada, May 4. 1909
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-08
Warming

All persons are hereby warned not to
hunt or shoot on my ranch west of
Elko under penalty of prosecution.
GEORGE MOODY.
Elko, Nevada, Sept, "A. 1903.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-08

oysters, SPRING cnicken. cnJp suey.
China noodles, or anything to be had
in II first class restaurant, will be
served our patrons. Give us a
trial. On & Co.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-08
THE TROY LAUNDRY

The Troy Laundry Company informs
its patrons and the public in general
that they have secured the services of
some fancy ]ironcrs from the hest laun.
dries In SanI'ranciSco. alsoa first. class
collar and shirt man and will hereafter
bc able 10 turn out work of the highest
quality. A trial and You will DC ron
WINGED. Troy LAUNDRY Co,
LOUIS NOUSSEILLETES. MANAGER.
Elko. Nevada. Sept. ~. 1908.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Stopping Over.
brownsville Charity and Children.

l. tx Il nr1at pity that SO many
otherwi~s. bright men do not know
" hen and where to stop in their
;,dula'is,n uf IL friend they admire.
We all remember how Jacob Riis
faded out Of the public eye because
on his "XtravHyant and ridiculous
Dr.iis.. 81 Mr. Roosevelt: and so able
!, man us Dr. Albert Shaw, the editor
OF he Review OF Reviews. discredited
his good Judgment and injured his
great magazine because he acknowl-
edged no fault III the President A
Southern man, editor Rufus Rhodes
OF the Birmingham News, on a recent
visit to Mr.. Taft made himself the
laughing stock of the country by his
silly twaddla in his address inviting
the President-elect to Birmingham.
He did Mr. Taft no good and himself
discredit in prOstrating himself in the
dirt at the feet OF the big man. We
have seen a few people who thus
made themselves the sport OF the
scornful about their preachers. They
90 into ecStaSies sometimes over a
man of very common attachments
whom they happen to fancy, but
here is the rub; these silly gushers
soon give out. Mr. Rhodes will
be the loudest mann in his neighbour
hood, as like as not, in his abuse of
Mr.. TAFT year from now. Extreme
men are seldom reliable. They either
blow very hot or very cold. The
man who ties to them is sure to be
disappointed. Nobody is free from
faults, and the wild partisan who
makes this claim for his patron saint
bases his opinion not on calm reason
but on passing emotion. He who
slops over does not deserve the
serious consideration of the public,
for the very fact that he does SO
proves that his opinions are worth
less. The worst part of the whole
business is the slop-over is a toady>
and a toady would be better named
to leave Off the ''y''
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Oil Trust Wins Bio Fine Case.

Denial of the federal governments
petition for a review Of the Stand
ard Oil company's s29 100000 case up
holding Of the action OF President
Roosevelt in discharging the soldiers
Of the Twenty-tifth infantry for par
ticipation in the riots at Brownsville.
Tex. and also the upholding of the So
cent gas ralc in New York, were three
important decisions by the United
States supreme court.
There was NO opinion read in the
Standard Oil case. The chief justice
merely announced that the court had
decided not to grant the application of
the government for writ of GER
tiorari.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
THE GOLD LEAF.
THURSDAY, JANUARY FL, 1909
Sisters Acquitted Of Murder.

Mrs. NJ. Florence Erb and her sister,
Mrs. Catherine Beisel, who were ac-
quilted of the murder of Captain J.
Clayton Erb at his home. Red Gables,
have made no plans for the future 1t
was a trying moment for them when
the jury filed into the Media, Pa.
courtroom to deliver their verdict.
mot guilty" said Charles w. Dick
inson. the foreman, in a husky voice,
when questioned by the court crier.
Mrs. Erb, the slain mans widow
and Mrs. Beisel, her sister, who fired
the fatal shots, were leaning forward
to catch his words. They turned TO-
ward each other as the import sanl,
into their minds. Before they could
obey the impulse to fly into each 9TH
er's arms, Harry Beisel. Mrs. Beisel 8
husband, was between them. with one
arm around each woman and smother
ing their faces with kisses.
From the excited group Mrs Eds
tall figure emerged. With her widows
veil thrown back. and elbowing aside
those who tried to grasp her hands.
she flew across the room to the jury
box where stood twelve men. grinning
Ike schoolboys.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
AS to More Judges.
SSatesviIle Landmark.

, oatesV1lle Landmark.
Anent the effort to increase the
number of Superior Court districts
and Judges the Mt. Airy News says:
eve are not familiar with the con-
ditions in other counties but here in
Surry what we need is to get the peo-
pie to use the courts we now have.
At this time there are probably more
than 200 cases on the docket, and
some Of them have been there for
years. The calendar for the court
that adjourned Tuesday, when it
should have been held all this week,
shows 146 cases and not two dozen
were tried Yet the jurymen and the
Judge and all the officers of the court
were there at the expense of the State,
ready to do business. Rather than
make more officers we need some way
by which man can be made to come
to the court and have his case tried
when once he has entered suit
The lawyers and litigHnts are pri-
marily to blame for this state of af-
fairs, but the real fault is with the
Judges. If it was known that a Judge
would force cases to trial or throw
them out OF court, lawyers and hti-
giants would be ready But the Judge
is usually willing to shirk the work.
Therefore he allows the cases to be
continued, often without good rea-
son, and thus days and weeks that
are for the trial of causes are wasted.
The congestion of the dockets in
counties embracing the large towns
can only be relieved by an increase of
court facilities, for the congestion is
mainly due to an increase of criminal
business, but a sharp stick after the
Judges who waste time would relieve
such a condition as the News says ex-
lists i'll Surry, and similar conditions
exist in many other counties.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Merry Teacher Saved Pupils Lives.

The pupi3 OF the Mount Carbon,
Pa. school were. with their teacher,
Miss Laura )eisher. overcome by coal
gas caused by leaky stoyepipe and
IT was only the pluck OF the young
and pretty teacher which saved the
lives OF her charges. Noticing several
Of the children falling to sleep and
herself becoming stupefed. Miss DE
sher quickly comprehended the cause
and, picking four Of the children up
Al time, she carried them outside,
and when, In carrying out the fifth.
she was herself overcome and dropped
over unconscious. Several women liv-
Ing In the neighborhood saw the four
little ones lying on the school porch,
and upon investigation found the en-
lire school of thiry-f're children in a
eomatose state. Physicians were sum
moned from Pottsville and succeeded
in resuscitating all OF them after cons
siderable trouble.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21

dreeuyilIe Reflector.


1t is human nature to let people
wear out their lives in service for US,
accepting it as matter of course,
without showing our appreciation
until it is too late for the intended re-
cipient to be encouraged or strength
ened thereby. We do not realize
their value until after they are gone,
then we rush with praise and/fiowers
to a silent and nnresponsive tomb,
when these same tokens by sooner
bestowal might have cheered a ilfe
Poe. one of the worlds greatest
poets, suffered for want of the neces-
saries of life and died in poverty, yet
a hundred years later great sums OF
money are spent in celebrating the
anniversary of his birth. How help
full little of that money would have
been in his life, and how comforting
would have been some OF the praise
now lavished upon his memory! This
is lust one instance in millions that
are similar, not alone in ages past
but in the present, and doubtless the
future has as many in store. Yet we
dare not hope that these lines will
make any deeper impression upon
those who read them than does the
mere telling OF some news event.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Discovery Of Great Value to the
Medical Profession.

A recent discovery that promises to be
of great value to the medical profession
is that OF process enabling oil to be put
into powdered form. Practical use has
already been made of this discovery by
German scientist who has succeeded in
reducing castor oil, that wonderful, but
generally disliked. aperient to a tasteless
powder.
Castor oil was first discovered in 1894
by Peter Canvane, when it was immedi-
ately hailed by the medical world as one
of the greatest discoveries. 1t is the best
aperient or purgative, but its nauseous
taste has prevented it's universal adop-
ton. The new discovery has made it
possible to eliminate the Objectionable
features of ordinary castor oil, without
interfering with it's restorative virtues.
In fact, it is claimed by physicians that
in the powdered state it is even superior
to the oil, as it does not decompose in
the stomach and does not repeat or grippe.
Another great advantage of the powder
ed castor oil is that it can be mixed
with milk or other liquid or any cereal
food or pudding without being detected.
and can thus be readily given to children
when it cannot be in the ordinary state.
Castor Oil in powdered form is now
sold in the United States under the name
of Castor Lax" and is endorsed by the
highest medical authorities.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Bride of a Month Dies Suddenly

Following an investi CATION made by
physicians at Millville. N. j.. Coroner
Charlesworth announc ID - that Mrs.
Meta DEM. a nineteen year-old bride,
who died suddenly, was the victim of
ptomaine poisoning
Mrs. DEM. who was married only
month ago. was visiting her parents,
together with her husband, and va
riety OF dsinties had been prepared
for the cou .)le. Mrs. DEM became sud-
denly i'll during the evening and died
In great agony within few hours.
II was at first believed that her
death was due to poisoning. and ru-
mors of the revenge of a former sutton
were circulated
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
WomaD's Home Companion for
January.

The current issue of this most progress
sive wOman's publication contains two
unusual art reproductions. At tbs Royal
academy last summer, a painting OF
Christ, entitled 'Follow Me-" by
hitherto unknown woman painter, prov
ed to be the sensational canvas OF the
exhibition. SO remarkable was this IN
usual spiritual picture that it was at all
times completely surrounded by groups
of interested and reverently people,
"FollOw Me" is reproduced in America
for the first time in the January JTOnan'S
Home Companion.
Howard Chandler Christy's 1.-The Woo
ing of Lorna Doone," also in the Janu-
AIRY IVOnan's Home Companion, is the
first OF series OF love scenes from ia,
nous novels that are being painted for
this magazine by the most celebrated
artist OF the day. Another attractive
and unusual art feature consists of pOr-
traits of the beauties of a Thousand
Years. collected all over the world for
'FOman's Home Companion by William
Armstrong.
In addition to the continued stories by
Anna Katharine Green. Florence Morse
Kingsley and Juliet Wilbor Tompkins,
there is a story by Annie Warner, entitled
Dan Rabbit, Cupid Marie Manning's
The Scandal OF the Bottle Boy" The
Pride of a Girl by Mary Hastings, and
charming baby story, entitled "The
Story of a Very Little Person" by Albert
White worse and Mary Heaton Worse
Lucy Green, a seventeen-year old girl
who landed in Philadelphia one day not
long ago, looking for work, with only
five dollars in her pocket, relates her eX
periences in the Quaker City
Everett Il. Tomlinson, one of the most
expert trainers of boysin America, writes
on the habits of the boy.
In addition to the many special articles,
there are contained in this issue dozen
complete departments, including dress
making, by Grace Margaret Gould; cook
ing recipes for mid-winter receptions. by
Fannie Merritt Farmer, and problems
OF the Business Girl by Anna Steese
Richardson.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Gets Prize For EATING 20 Pies.

Bloomfield. n. J.. ian. 11.-Sy!vester
Pollitt was declared the champion Eie
eater of Essex county in a contest in
the rooms Of the James Boyd council,
Jr. o. T. A. NJ. Pollitt, who Is of me-
dunn build, inclined to leanness, ate
twenty-nine pies of different kinds and
was declared the winner. He psed
cider for q chaser.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
A Religious Authors Statement.

For several years was afflicted with kid
ney trouble and last winter | was suddenly
stricken with a severe pain in my kidneys
and was confined to bed eight DAYS unable
to get up without assistance Nv urine con
tanned thick white sediment and | passed
same frequently day and night | commenced
taking Foley's Kidney Remedy. and the pain
gradually abated and finally ceased and nv
urine became normal. | cheerfully recon-
mend Foleys Kidney Remedy Sold at Par
ker's Drug Store
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
CHURCH COLLAPSED
BURYING WORSH|PPERS
Nearly the Whole Congregation
Killed or Injured.

Berne, Switzerland, Jan. 11.-During
divine service an ancient church near
Sion suddenly collapsed, burning the
worshippers in the ruins. Practically
all the members OF the congregation
were Killed or injured. A wild panic
followed. those who escaped rushing
through the fields shouting that an
earthquake had overtaken the village.
Other villagers joined in the outcry
and were with difficulty Gained.
After an hours exertiCn the fire
company of the place extricated forty
corpses. but it is believed that there
are still a number under the timbers.
Sixty persons we're badly injured. The
collapse OF the church was caused by
the time worn pillars in the under
ground crypt giving way.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
HELD FOR WOMAN'S DEATH
Body, Burned About Face and Skull
Fractured, Found In Her Home.

Asbury Park, y. j.. Jan. il.-FOur
arrests were made in connection with
the death of Mrs. Sarah Custerlin,
ninety-seyen years old, whose body,
burned about the face and breast was
found In Der home at Neptune City.
The burns on the body were not sufi-
cient to have caused death. but close
examination is said to have shown
that the woman's skull was fractured.
The persons arrested are the dead
woman's two daughters. Rose " Lay
ton. twenty-six years old, and Name
GunsOn, thicty-seven years old, and
two young men, James Layton and
Erwin Hoffman.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
EIcht Night Riders Guilty of Murder.

With a verdict Of guilty in vary
ing degrees the jury in the nignt rider
trials at Union Cit.. Tenn. found
Garrett Johnson. It'd Burton. Boy
Ransom. Fred Pinion, Arthur Cloar
and Sam Applewhite guilty of murder
in the first degree. with mitigating cir
cumstances, and Bud Morris and Bob
Huffman, the other defendants, guilty
of murder in the second degree, and
fixed their punishment at twenty years
IN the penitentiary. The punishment Of
the first six named defendants was
left to the court, and may be death or
life imprisonment. The defense filed
motion for a new trial. Six of them
were sentenced to be hanged.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Brakeman Met Horrible Death.

Edward Stivers, of Pittston. aged
twenty-five years. a brakeman on the
kehigh alley railroad. met with a hor-
rible death at Wilkes-Barre. Pa. He
attempted to jump upon q moving Ca
boose in the Coxton yards. and in do
ing so he fell and rolled under the car.
The brake beams struck him, and
when removed every bone in his body
was brok en-.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21

The iii; council of Charleston has
appropriated 81, 900 for the relief of
the Italian earthquake sufferers. The
appropriateness of this action will
strike one with full force when it is
recalled that the outside world at
one time proffered the helping hand
to Charleston when it was suffering
from the effects of an earthquake. 1t
is an evidence that the nobie-spirted
people OF that city are not addicted
to observation-disclosures Chroni-
cla
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Physics Says He Can Cure /,

Physicis Says He Can Cure leprosy.
DIR. J. T. Wayson. a member OF the
Honolulu. Hawaii Islands. board of
health. made definite announcement
that a cure for leprosy had been dis
covered ad that patient afflicted with
leprosy had been restored to health.
DR.. Wayson said that the course of
treatment pursued would not be made
public at this time. as he and his as
sistants were DESTROYS OF observing
other cases.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Light Punishment.
Statesville Landmark.

SIaUPbFlIle lSdnuiHoih-
Young Lance, of Buncombe county.
who On Christmas eve n year ago
fired his pistol from train ana Killed
81 little girl vino was watchin" tile
DassiDr train, will serve his term OF
nine wears in the State prison. the
Supreme Court having affirmed the
Judgment OF the lower court The
Asheville Citizen says: -,
1.-THE defendants friends have all
along contended that Lance had done
very wrong in his reckless shooting
to make a noise to celebrate Christ
mas a year ago, but that he was in
nocent of any bad intention and that
it was but a chance in Il million that
this bullet struck any one, and II 1t
had not the matter would hav" gone
unnoticed except possibly for IL small
fine for shooting firearms from
train"
But Lance took the chance and
lost. He fired. his pistol recklessly
and wantonlyand the life OF an inno-
cent child, who ran to view passing
train. was the cost 1t makes no dlf-
ference that he did not intend to
shoot the little girl. Under the cir
cumstances shooting at all was a
criminal act. He didn't take the
pains to look and see If there was
danger. Doubtless he would not have
fired had he known in advance what
the result would be. But he fired,
wantonly, reckless of the result. He
took his chance and when serious
consequences resulted he should pay
the penalty. Instead OF Lance or his
friends making complaint they should
be devoutly thankful that he is get
ting off with SO light it punishment.
especially when it is remembered that
it was not the first time he had used
firearms recklessly.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
AGED Man Frozen 70 Death.

Michael Niedemeir. eighty years of
age, a Pennsylvania Rrailroad COM
pany pcnsioner. and q veteran CT the
Germany army, while on his way to
his clearinghouse In Altoona, Pa, fell
into ditch along the sidewalk and lay
there all night unnoticed by passersby.
His body was found frozen stin.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
tuberculosis Is Costly.

Considered from an economic stand
point, the annual cost of tuberculosis
in New York is estimated by the state
board of charities to approximate over
500 900. 900, which includes the value
of workers prematurely lost to the
state.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Too Cold For Jail Delivery

Forty-five prisoners in the city Jail
their way to freedom Upon getting
a breath of the icy air all but three
voluntarily returned. They declared
they preferred prison to freedom in
zero weather
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Accused of $1,000. 900 Foroeries,

F. B. Signor, a real estate pro-
moter and mining broker of Oakland.
Cal. was arrested on a complaint
sworn to by James H. Murray, a multi
millionaire banker and mining man,
charging Signor with forgeries aggre-
eating nearly 100000.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Brave Fire Ladies'

often receive severe burns, putting out fires,
then use Bucklen's Arnica Salve and forget
them. 1t soon drives out pain. For Burns,
Scalds, Wounds, Cuts and Bruises it's earth's
greatest healer Quickly cures Skin Erup-
tions, Old Sores, Boils. Ulcers, Felons: best
Pile cure made. Relief is instant zoe at
Melville Dorsey's drug store.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
w. c. Brown Heads New York Central

At the meeting of the directors of
the New York Central & Hudson River
Railroad company the senior vice pres
ident of the road, William c. Brown,
was elected president, to succeed Will
liam Fl. Newman who resigned on
Dec %
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Simple Remedy for La Grippe.

Hacking la grippe coughs that may develop
into pneumonia over night are quickly cured
by FOleys Honey and Tar. The sore and
infamed lungs are healed and strengthened,
and a dangerous condition is quickly averted.
Take only Foley's Honey and Tar in the yell
low package. Sold at Parker's Drug Store.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-21
Slayer Of Grandfather Must Die.

Guilty in the first degree was the
verdict found by the jury in the case
of Walter Zeller. charged with the
murder of his grandfather, William
Read. at Bridgeton, N. J. He will be
sentenced on Jan. IS.