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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Johnnie's Essay on Cats

The Cat is u conivrus beeste with one
tale and four legs. He is a good singer,
espheshully on moonlite mites, when he
clines up the back fence and pores forth
the burden of his hart to an ongrate-
full wnrld. Sometimes Il boot Jack
overtakes him somewhere in the middle
OF his 'naterny and his song of luve
then changes to er yell of defiance. He
is very etfecshunate in his disposishun,
and likes ter 'Sociate with people and
other animels, Some cats has kittens
and some has fees, but my paw SEE
there all Il worthless lot and er affiik-
shun to tn urth. Most cats eat mice
and some cats eat beef stake when the
cook fergits ter put it away in the ice
box. Last mite my paw got up to get a
drink OF whiskey for his rumatism an
slept right on the cat with his bair feete
sn' the cat bitt his toe and skracthed his
leg dredfull, and when paw grabbed a
chair and throwed it at tn cat it went
rite through our forty dollar plait glass
winder, and wen NAV herd paw argnin'
with the cat she SEE, people orter be
thankful that THAR sound in wind an
linn, 'thout temptin tn devine provid-
ance with such awful languidge.
guess this is all I kno bout cats.
Johnnie Jones.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
On 4 Modern Warship

How the commander of a modern big
American battleship can feel is disclos
Ell in the following, taken from letter
written by such an officer; -
There are more than 900 men on
this ship. and on the theory that an
official of the government is servant
of the people am the servant of these
900 men and am bound to see that they
are kept in food and clothing and base
ball bats and abundantly supplied with
occupation. Perhaps 1 should feel more
independent if didn't have to listen
respectfully to the orderly every time
he comes in and makes one of his in
finitely numerous reports and put men
in Jail when I don't want to.
Some of these men look more dig
nified and independent than feel. I
wonder whether look digniied and
independent. suppose ought to do
so, for to- swing u steel mass 504 feet
long successfully around like monsters
and to make $4,000 tons writhe around
the corners of narrow channela is some
thing of ;lnsart, after all, and one not
possessed by many of the inhabitants
of the globe
with all that swinging of steel
monsters around there go the RESPONSE
bility and the knowledge that if the
ship runs aground the whole civilized
world will be acquainted with it inside
of twenty hours"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Caramel Cake.

Two squares chocolate, one-half cup
sugar, three tablespoons of sweet
milk. Beat these together until
smooth. Cream one-quarter cup but
ter and one cup sugar, add two eggs,
saving white Of one, one-half cup sweet
milk, one-half cup pastry flour, one
good teaspoon baking powder. Mix
'hese together, then add the other
chocolate mixture, and teaspoon vanil-
Ia and beat well. Bake in two layers.
Don't be too generous with butter or
the cake will be too short.
Frosting-Boil one cup graduated
sugar and three tablespoons water un-
til 1t strings well. Pour into the
beaten white of egg and pinch of
cream of tartar. Beat until it will
spread.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Business Locals.

Furnished rooms, coy and comforta-
BILE, to rent. Inquire of Mrs. Kennedy. y
Fresh Oysters and Spring Chickens
at the Palace Restaurant. Regular
Sunday Dinner 25 cents. On g.
Company. '..~-.-...r
Save those natural teeth, thereby re-
tain your facial expression. DIR. Gill
land 1.-THE dentist" Office over the Drug
Store. Elko i. ~. -
A gold cuff button engraved with,
the letters &C. D. B." has been found
and left at this Office. The owner can
get same by paying for this notice. n
Shoes repaired by first-class shoe
maker and work done on the shortest
possible notice. Bring On your shoe re-
pairing everybody. A! L. MAUK, The
Shoe Man.
Our best So and Sc, cabinet photos
reduced to $3.50 untibJune 1st Now
is the time to bring the babie to the
big Tent Gallery, opposite the Court
House, Johnson photographer
The Presbyterian church will take
orders for flowers for Memorial Day
through Mr. Lambert Henderson. We
order fresh flowers direct from Ogden.
Ice cream and cake also for sale on
Memorial Day at Mizpah Hall. X
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Prompt.

Two young men once wrote a joint
humorous prcGuction-at least, they
thought it was humorous-and sent
l. TO Life. They did not see each 9TH
er for "a hours.
When they met, Joint Author No. 1
remarked to Joint Author No 2:
Since writing that thing I've
thought Of some awfully funny twists
that we might have put in 1t. Too
bad we sent it away so hurriedly. I
should have liked to make certain
changes and additions"
With a sardonic grin Joint Author
No. put his hand in his pocket, pro-
duced an envelope addressed to him.
self. and drew therefrom the manu-
script of the joint production.
Here il u.s." he said 1T has Just
come back. Make all the changes you
want" ITO
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
. Rose Cake. 8

Here is a cake to serve with the
Ice at luncheon. Bake In a brick loaf.
cover with a white boiled icing and
serve uncut on a handsome platter
with single pink rose laid on each
side. Let the hostess cut the cake
and serve 1t on small plates. The
recipe reads: Cream one cup OF but
ter with two cups of sugar, mix one
cup of corn starch with one cup OF
milk and stir into the butter and
sugar; beat until smooth, add one.
third teaspoon of rose flavoring then
stir In two cups of -four sifted with
four level teaspoons of baking powder
Beat just enough to mix well, fold the
stili1y beaten whites Of four eggs In
lightly, and turn into the buttered
and Toured pan. Bake in a moderate
oven.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Business on the Clyde Good.

Contracts TO the aggregate of 100.
600 tons were placed In October w.th
Clyde shDbuideTs. Ills being the lar.
gest total for two years. Three
months, however, must clarsc before
the work people can benefit. \ good
deal OF naval work is on the tapis.
British shipbuil0Crs have either tho
prospect of becoming buster or are lay.
ing in stocks OF material aqains, a
probable ria".--Nrw York Journal OF
Commerce.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Public Credulitv,

After making full allowance for the
increased spending power OF the
masses, figures prove conclusively that
Notwithstanding the wide diffusion OF
knowledge. the spread Of education
and the raising Of the standard Of in
'eI'igence among the people, the ap.
peal of the quack and the charlatan
TO the credulity OF the public meets
with reader response than ever
London Hospital.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Woman Pastor of Church

Rev. Gertrude Won Petzold, pastor
Of the Free Christian church of Lei.
ccstcr, Eng, mas accepted d call to the
p&storate Of the Unitarian church of
5treator, III. She is the first woman
preacher appointed to any church IN
england. Miss Won Pctzold, who is SO
years old, was born in Prussia. She
spent four years at Edinburg uni.
versity and ihrcc years at Oxford. and
was ordained in 1903.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1909
TARSUS and PAUL.S MESSAGE

The town Of Tarsus, near the Medit
rerreanran sea, is being mentioned in
the newspapers daily because of the
Turkish massacres there. Tarsus once
had Il famous citizen named Saul, later
called Paul. Paul didn't know there
was any United States, or any America,
for that matter. The world, as he knew
it at that time, was small But Paul,
of Tarsus, had suddenly driven home
i'll his mind the fact that the brother
hood of man was the truth by which
civilization could survive andlthe world
he happy.
Paul tried to tell this to his own city
-Tarsus Tarsus wouldn't listen. Paul
went to imperial Rome. Paul breasted
the tide of his times and carried to tho
great proud city the message that all
men are brothers. Rome heard. And
today there sits in Rome man who is
the head of the great church which from
that day has borne PauPs messag
through the centuries and into ever,
land. But Tarsus wouldn't listen.
The world grew wonderfully after
Pauls time. Bat the wonderful thing
of it was that each new nation, if it was
destined to become great in it's govern
ment. recognized the great truth that
Paul taught. They became known as
Christian nations. They heard what
Tarsus would not listen to. Forward
whirled the nations that had heard
PauPS message. Smaller and more
~hrunken grew Tarsus, until under
Moslen rule, it became the tiny shrivel
'M village of today. 1t sank into dark
ness that raised the pity of those in
Christian lands. III lands that Paul haG
never known. From these new shores
Christian nations sent messengers to
Observation-Disclosures to repeat to it
again the message it might have receiv
ed from it's own citizen, Paul, twenty
centuries before. Bnt the message. only
makes it angry: it tried to kill the mis-
sionaries, as if it thought their deaths
would silence Pauls III nssage that has
rung through the centuries men
are brothers"
The telegraph wires of IL Christian
civilization bring us the news that in
the filthy heather streets of Tarsus and
in the squalid heather homes. men are
killing each other and women and chill
dren because Tarsus is still trying to be-
We've that Panl was wrong when he
said. 'all men are brothers." Paul's
message still rings from the streets of
Tarsus. They may kill the followers of
Paul, but other missionaries will take
their places and Tarsus will never es-
cape the message until it fades off the
worlds map. News Press
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
High School Social

There will be Il social at the High
School Friday night, May 18th. for the
benefit of the Athletic team. There
will be music, dancing and games.
Light refreshments will be served and
a pleasant time is guaranteed to all who
attend. Admission so cents each.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Tried the Dou on Him.

The woman who hit her husband
with dog is unrepentant. 1t would
have been more effective had she used
q poker, but she 7lories in her orig
inality and the husband is inconsol-
able.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Like Shop Windows.

We are like shop windows, wherein
We are constantly arranging. hiding
ar exhibiting those supposed qualities
which others attribute to us--and all
in order TO deceive ourselyes.-Fried.
sich Nietzsche.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
WARNING

All persons are hereby warned not to
hsh, 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.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Drdying Business.

Chris Eshleman has started draying
business. He is prepared to do all kinds
OF hauling, delivering freight and all
other business in the draying line. Prices
reasonable and strict attention given to
all orders. Office at the Old Lumber
Office.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-10
Milkl Mkt

Milk Milkl
From May 1, 1909, I will furnish
milk as follows: One quart per day for
one month, $3.50; gallon per day for
one month, $3.50; one gallon per day
for one month, $3.50; from five gallons
up per day 20 ceuts gallon.
EUGENE L. CIPRIANI.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-09

FORT Decentralization Bros. a large
plumbing concern, reorganised today and
iir,s L. ,r delsh' c1 The senior sPs srsner' rs sSv
Fort Dodge men are interested in the re-
organization which will be on a basis OF
t1s5,00 capital stock.
FORT DODGE.-If the Des Moines Life
Insurance company which owns the prop
erty where the recent Midland theater fire
ragged, decide not to rebuild, John
has decided to erect a $4,000 structure on
property Just adjoining the main business
locality and 14Oxl2o feet in size.
MASON CITY-Asa r. Hubert, a prom
inent and wealthy farmer living near Clear
Lake, committed suicide shortly before noon
today by hanging himself in the barn. II
is suppose he had become mentally UNI
balanced because Of a deep interest in
religion and because Of financial troubles.
He leaves a wife and three children.
FORT DODGE.-The memorial service for
the late Thomas d. Healy held Saturday
afternoon in the Webster county court
house, with Judge r. NJ. Wright presiding,
was attended by crowds of Fort Dodge
also present and brief and appropriate
speeches were made by various members OF
the bar. and resolutions were passed.
CREsToN. -John shatto, a blacksmith.
OF Lorimor, while engaged in grinding a cir
cular saw on an emery wheel Thursday, sus-
tained a dangerous injury, when the stone
broke into many fragments, one OF the
larger striking him on the jaw and shatter-
ing the bone and badly mangling his face.
on account OF his extreme age much fear
is entertained that the injury will prove
fatal.
MASON CITY-Because of the frequent
robberies which have been successfully
pulled Off In this city during the last
few weeks, Chief of Police Lock today Is.
sued an order that all persons found on
the streets after midnight must either be
known to the police to be of good character
or else they must be able to give a salts
factory explanation of their presence abroad
at that hour of the night.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-09
EXTENDING OKLAHOMA ROAD
French Banks Are Furnishing the
Funds TO Build the p
Line.

MUsKOGEE, Okl., Feb. S.-Authorative
announcement was made hero today by
Vice President and General Manager ID.
p. Dewar of the Missouri, Oklahoma &
Gulf Railway company that this new line,
which has just been completed from Was-
oner to Calvin, Okl., a distance of Ill miles,
will Immediately be extended on from
Calvin to Denison, Tex, ninety-two miles
farther. This announcement was based on
a cablegram received yesterday by William
Kenefick, president of the road, from the
president of the Franco-American Bank
OF France, which, with the Societe Con"
trale du Province bank. both located in
Paris, has financed the building of the
road from Wagner to Calvin. The cable
gram announced the acceptance Of the
bond issue of $2.oOo.0o necessary for the
extension of the road to Denison. Work
will be commenced at once.
The announcement was further made that
several French financiers will come here
during March to look over the ground and
decide upon the Feasibility of extending
the road north from Wagner to Kansas
City. Mr.. Keneficks will proceed to New
York and sail within the next ten days
for Paris to- formally complete the deal.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-09
NIGHT OF GRIEF AND ANGER
s. S. Peters, Veteran Newspaper Man,
Tells of Lincoln's Assassination.
NEWS HEARD AT OLD HARDWOOD
With Sons of Postmaster Genera1
Omahan Was Spending Evening
In Washington and Got Near
Bedside of President.

at was either in the latter part of 1859
or early in 1860 that / first saw Abraham
Lincoln at Columbus, o., where he deliv-
cred an address before one of the Ohio
literary or school societies." said S. s..
Peters, a civil war veteran and newspaper
man. He was just then fresh from his
laurels in his debate with Stephen A. Doug
las.
II next saw him at Columbus in Febru-
airy, 1861, while he was enroute to Wash
ington to be inaugurated president of the
United States. He spoke in the state cap
itol building, and with other high school
boys I was permitted to shake hands with
him.
Il saw him next in May, 1861, in Washing
ton, when he visited the camp of our regi-
ment, the Second Ohio infantry of the first
three months men, and then, saw him
again after the battle O.: Bull Run, in
Washington, IN July, 1861. In all of my
subsequent service during the civil war /
was connected with the Army of the Po-
tomac and saw Mr.. Lincoln frequently.
Particularly during the times he reviewed
the army, after the battles of the PENN
sular campaigns Antietam. F~redericksburg,
Charlottesville, Gettysburg. the Wilder
ness campaigns. the Shenandoah Valley
campaigns and at City Point. in the late
summer of 1864. and in the winter and early
spring OF 1866.
II was with a detachment of my regi-
ment, the Sixth United States cavalry,
that participated in the peace jubilee cele-
bration in Washington on April II, 1865.
President Lincoln, General Grant. General
Meade, General Halleck, General Hancock
and a host of general officers of the Army
OF the Potomac were on the reviewing
stand as were most of the members OF
the cabinet. including Stanton. Wells, Den
nison, Seward and Chief Justice Chase, as
the military column passed in review. We
cheered the president as we passed him,
and It was the common remark of all that
the president looked extremely worn and
haggard. There was an infinite sadness
In his face that left its impress upon us
long after our portion OF the line had
passed. During that night many of us had
received passes to remain in town.
Among old school friends in Washington
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-09
PACKING INQUIRY BRoADENS
others Besides Nelson Morris said TO
BE In Line of Investisa-
ton.

CHICAGO, Feb. T-Following District At
torney Sims return TO Chicago today from
Washington. where he was in conference
with Attorney General Bonaparte it was
reported that the grand jury investigation
Of the beef packing industry, begun some
weeks ago by the summoning of the en-
ployes of Morris & Co, is to be extended
SO as to include most of the big packers In
the stock yards.
1t is said that the interstate m
commission is to take a hand in the in
vestigation and that action is to be swift
and The rebate question is the
basis of the proceedings. The testimony
in the Morris case likely will be COM
pleted within a week and then the alleged
practices by other firms will be taken up.
Mr.. Sims declined to discuss details.
1.-THE attorney general was informed OF
all that had been done in the affair SO
far" he said, IT have come back with
several suggestions and particularly In re-
gard to the Standard Oil case"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-09

other cabinet officers. We were told that
Secretary Seward and Secretary Stanton
had also been assassinated and that Grant.
Meade and Chief Justice Chase had also
been killed.
Grief and Revenge I'm the Air.
shortly after reaching the hotel Post
master General Dennison CAME there, and
Vice President Johnson who was in the
hotel, was sent for to take up the office
of president the moment OF the death of
President Lincoln. The rest of the story
IL history.
But one thing that has always impressed
me with that tragic night was the awful
intensity of grief and the unquenchable
fury of the soldiers of the union army and
desire to inflict the most terrible vengeance
upon any and every person against whom
there was the slightest suspicion of exuita-
tion over the assassination of the president.
Scenes were enacted in Washington that
night that have never been written. Sum-
mary vengeance was visited upon many.
and but for the paralysis OF anger occa-
stoned by the. thought that Eswhat would
Lincoln have men do in this crisis2' stayed
a saturnalia of blood that would have had
no equal In American history
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-09

at the time from Columbus, o., were
Erastus Dennison and William Neil Dem
nison, sons of Postmaster General William
Dennison. We were at the Kirkwood hotel
during the early part of the night, when
about 10 O'Clock a messenger came hur-
riedly into the hotel lobby and asked II
Postmaster General Dennison was there,
that he was wanted Immediately at the
Ford theater, Nas President Lincoln had
been shot. The Dennison boys and l hur-
ried out Immediately to find the postmaster
general, and accompanied him to the vi
entity of the theater. The street was
densely thronged with an excited moi
calling for instant vengeance upon the as
sassin of the president.
"A detachment of troops had been hurried
TO the spot and a line was opened from tie
theater to the Peterson house across the
street, and Postmaster General Dennison
was permitted TO pass through the lines,
we following him. The body of the presi-
dent was carried across the street into the
Peterson house and taken w the steps into
a small room off the hallway. Mrs. Lin
coin, frantic with grief, was being cared for
by the presidents personal aide, Major
Rathbone, VITO was with him in the private
box when he was shot and was himself
wounded in the arm by a knife thrust from
Booth. One or two other members of the
presidents official family were with the
party, including the surgeon general of the
army. who had been hurriedly summoned.
Mrs. LIncoln's Grief.
THE body Of the president was laid on
the bed and Mrs. Lincoln, in spite Of the
remonstrances OF those who sought to COM
fort her. threw herself across the expiring
president and moaned most pitifully. She
was finally persuaded to stand aside and
went around to the back side of the bed,
which, l think, had been pulled out slightly
to be nearer the window, that the dying
man might have air. She grasped his hand
and stroked 1t, moaning in anguish, and
kissed his forehead repeatedly. The blood
was still clotted In his hair and beard, but
his face wore an expression Of extreme
pallor. accumulated by his dark. struggling
beard. His eyes were closed and to all
intents he wa dead.
Postmaster General Dennison cried like
a child, and others in the room sobbed in
the deepest grief. He called to one of his
sons, where we were standing in the hall
way just outside the door, to go back at
once to the Kirkwood hotel and walt there
for him.
Going out of the door after descending
the stairway We could but notice the omin-
Gus silence OF the great crowd, in the i'm
mediate vicinity. 1t was the silence OF
reverence. but beyond, at the outskirts
there was a deep growl of savage intensity
that BODIED the direst consequences for any
human being who dare express one thought
of exultation over the death Of the presi-
dent. When we reached Pennsylvania ave-
nue. we first heard of the attack upon the