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The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-07-09
By John F. Cunneen.

forests which furnish the for building houses and
cars and making furniture and supplying the wood pulp
for paper mills
Saloons manufacture criminals paupers and insane
people, but cities that maintain saloons 90 not take care
of the finished product Of saloon but them
to the county and state and farmers heavily taxed to
pay for the expenses caused by saloons Where saloons
exist taxes high and keep going up.
The claim that the saloon helps the farmer dsposing
of his grain easily dsproved. The total amount Of the
farmers grain used by the liquor traffic amounts to only two
three per of his total output The liquor traffic kills
at least $4,000 persons year Eminent physicians state
that the average drkard shortened by at least
ten years That makes 100000 people dead who would
be living except for the liquor traffic.
How It Would Help
1t would keep good many farmers busy raising the
food to supply needs Of 100000 people, and also the wool
the cotton to cohe them 1t would take good many
and shoe Makers clothing makers and house builders
to supply the needs Of 100000 people.
Then the drunkard his wife and children do not get
enough to eat Many drinkers spend money for
drink that ought 60 for the necessares OF life Ii all
of these people would get enough to eat it would demand
more Of the farmers products than used now by the
LIQUOR traffic If all the people Of the country eat
an pound of meat each week. which would be only
slight increase allowing bushe of to produce
five pounds beef by feeding to CATTLE it would require
SOOOOOOOO bushels of the farmers to produce that
extra amount meat and according to the liquor racs
own figures it uses only 100000 bushels Of the farmers
When the liquor traffic is wiped out the question will
he with the farmer not what will he do with his grain but
how will it be possible for him supply the demands that
will be made upon him for the products of the farm
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By John
Good made the country, and man made the town" is
good old saying. Farmers living in Gods country
strong mind and body and the bulwark of nations
liberty and nations greatness Even in the larger cities
big percentage of the leaders in business politics and
society are men who raised the farm in small
farming towns.
Farmers longer and harder for the money they get
than almost any other class in the country They work
from early morning until late at night the greater part OF
year There eight hour day at five or six dollars
day for No child labor laws for their children.
The pioneer farmers who cleared the forests and opened
the prairie lands civilization proved that the saloon
not necessity AS the saloon became OF gigantic
evil the farmers fought harder against and the sweeping
ansaoon Of the country today must be credited
chiefly to sacrifices made in it's behalf by the farmers of
the land
Why They Fight It.
The chief why the farmers fight the saloon is
because of the moral degradation it spreads in the
muny that which morally degrades people also Injuries
them materially and that which tends to the moral elevation
of people also helps them materially. The liquor traffic
is especially enemy the farmer the following table
will show:
OF 800 spent for clothing and Shoes cotton and
wooden goods leather -four and liquors sold at
tail the following go back to the farmer:
Money Spent. To Farmers
Clothing ............... $lOOOO $24.oo
Boots and shoes 10000 3OoO
Cotton goods 1OOOO 4loO
Wooden goods ......... 10000 $3.50
Leather ................. lOOOO oO.OO
Egour 10000 61OO
Meat OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10000 oo.oo
Liquor .................. lOOOO ooo
What He Would Get.
The following table shows that if the two billion dollars
spent for liquor expended instead for either cloth
inc and shoes, -four meat, there would be an
enormous increase of revenue to the farmer
To Farmer.
Clothing ..............$ 49OOOOOOO
Boots and shoes ........... 100000
Wooden goods ............. 926,0OOOOO
Cotton Goods ........... 952 100000
Leather ...............1 OOOOOOOOO
Flour OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ,22OO 900
Meat ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1,32OOOOOOO
Liouors ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100000
When money is spent for liquor the farmer gets back
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When money is spent for liquor the farmer gets back
less than when money is spent in any other way The
farmer only feeds the people, but he raises the cattle
which furnish the hides from which leather made which
in turn is made boots and Shoes harness and other
kinds of leather goods He raises the wool and cotton
from which Clothes carpets upholstery and other goods
made He does great deal of the work in clearing the
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He Would Get.

The following table shows that if the billion dollars
now spent for LIQUOR expended instead for either cloth
inc boots and Shoes flour meat, there would be
enormous increase Of revenue to the farmer
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To Farmer.
49O,O0O,OOO
61O,OOO,OOO
926,OOO,OOO
952,OOO,OOO
1,OOO,0OO,OOO
1,22O,0OO,OOO
1,32O,OOO,OOO
100000
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-12-27
PRESTON AND SMITH

The article from the Carson Appeal
in this issue should receive the thought
full attention of every citizen of Nevada
who believes in the enforcement of the
law against all classes of citizens
Preston and Smith were convicted Of as
cOwardly and brutal murder as ever
disgraced the State of Nevada. Pres
ton, at least, was lucky that he did not
pay the penalty for his crime on the
scaffold. Thirty years in prison is a
long time, but it is none too long to
teach some men that they ale not above
the law.
If politics are to cut a figure in the
action of pardoning board, it is well
enough to remind it's members that the
membership of the Western Federation
of Miners and 1. w. w. do not compose
the majority Of the citizenship of this
state, and that any member of this
board who yields to political pressure
from those quarters and votes to pardon
or parole these murderers must reckon
with the law abiding element when
they again came before the people for
the ir suffrage.
Preston murdered Silva, restaurant
keeper of Goldfield, because he (Silva)
saw fit to feed men who were not
members of the Western Federation of
Miners and the 1. w. w. ~ Three years
have not passed since this atrocious
crime was committed and their pardon
or parole at this time or any time in the
near future would be travesty on
Justice. -.
The INDEPENDENT calls upon the
good. people of Nevada to protest
against the pardon or parole of these
men. Neither of them deserves mercy
at the hands of the board of pardons.
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Some even 60 80 80 far as TO state that
the shootingaf Silva by Preston was not
u crime against the law but merely.
against so-calied society which exists in
this country.
Probably the most important factor
in this case is the political influence
that is being used by some of the
hackers of these two men.
The claim is made that if he MEM
bers of the board whose term expires
this year refuse to favor these two men
that their p ,litical doom is sealed.
They even go farther than this, they say
that the pr :ssure will insure the
freedom of Preston and Smith.
What Foundation there is to these
rumors it is impossible to state but it
simply shows 81 what sextent the ques;
tion of their freedom has been advocated
by their adherants.
Another report says that Smith will
ask for an unconditional pardon and
Preston a parole. Along with this
statement is the belief that Smith, at
least will. be successful from the fact
that he was only indirectly connected
with the. crime and had not public
feeling been at such high pitch at the
time of the trial would have stood very
good chauce of being acquitted.
|: Judge Hilton, who will present their
case, is a man Of recognized legal alb
ility and will come prepared to make
one of the stron yest fights to secure the
freedom of his clients as was ever made
before a meeting of the pardoning
board.
It is not improbable that the applica-
ton will be opposed when it is pre-
sented to the hoard but by whom no
one seems to know exactly although
many reports are being heard regarding
this phase of the story.
The crime f II which Preston and
Smith are serving time in the Nevada
penitentiary is for the killing of a
restaurant keeper by the name of Silva
at Goldfield during the trouble in that
camp in the spring Of 1907. Preston
received a sentence Of 30 years and
Smith of 10. From the time the yer
dict was rendered efforts have been
made to have them released by every
known means hit so far their efforts
have been unsuccessful ....
Now that politics is said to have been
injected into tn, case harder fight
than ever may D: looked for from both
sides.-Carson Appeal
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=
= Many Lynchings In 1909

Lynchings in the United States in
1909 have numbered seventy, the high.
est number recorded since 1904. The
victims numbered II whites and SO
negroes. The lynchings occurred in
twelve states anu one territory-New
Mexico. AS in previous years, crimes
or alleged crimes against white women
and murderers caused most of: these
summary executions. One case, occur
ring in Cairo, ILL.,, combined both
causes and resulted in the placing of
the city under military control for
several days. The Cairo lynchings
were the only CASES of the kind that
occurred north of the Ohio river dur
ing the year. Several double lynch
ings occurred at various points in the
south, and Oklahoma furnished quad.
ripple lynching, with four cattlemen as
the victims
In the following record the word
"1ynching" has baen held to apply
only to the summary punishment in.
ficted by mob or by any number of
citizens on person alleged to have
committed crime. By states the
seventy lynching cases here recorded
are classified as follows:
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The |. W W. Murderers Want Liberty

On Wednesday, January 5, 1910, the
regular session of the State Board of
Pardons will be held in the Office of
Governor Dickerson and already many
applications for both parole and pardon
have been filed with the clerk of the
board
More than ~ week yet remains in
which applications can be filed with the
board and by the time the board meets
the usual number will probably be on
file. Many will ask for release under
the new parole law passed by the last
Legislature hut which has proven a
failure in some cases already, two of
those paroled at the last session of the
board having been returned to the
state prison to complete their original
sentences.
One of the cases that will be heard by
the board that will attract general
attention is the Preston. and Smith case
which will be presented with an applica.
tion for either parole or full pardon
by the board.
1t is understood that Judge Hilton of
Denver, head counsel for the Western
Federation of Miners will present their
case to the pardoning board and the
papers in the case will probably be filed
the early part of the coming week
Friends of both Preston and Smith
have been actively engaged in their
behalf for many months past preparing
for their application to the board and
petitions are coming in from all parts
of the country some asking and some
demanding that the men he released.
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c.. GOLD
Next door to Pioneer Saloon. Elko
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE
OF NEVADA, IN AND FOR THE
COT INV nc ETKO


w: T. Smith Company "a corporation) plaintiff
Against p. r.. wore Defendant, Action
brought in the District Court Of the Fourth
q and for the County CT Elko and the Complaint
filed in the ofilce OF the Clerk Of said District
Court,
The STATE OF Nevada sends greeting to:
p. e. Wore Defendant
You are hereby required to appear in an
action brought against you by the above named
Plaintiff 10 the District Court of the Fourth
judicial District OF the State OF Nevada. in and
Tor the County or Elko, and to answer. the Com
plant filed therein, within ten days, exclusive
Of the day OF servioe), after the service on you
OF this Summons-tf served within this County:
or If served out OF this County but in this DIS,
trict within twenty days; otherwise within
forty days-or Judgment by default will be
said Complaint
The action is brought to obtain Judgment
Defendant for the sum Of sal 80, prinoipsl and
interest due on June 9, 1909, on two certain
promissory notes; one for $3.50, dated January
est thereon at one per cent per month from
June 10, 1909; the other on that certain pro-
Voigt for 500 on which principal and in tsIest
tss been paid, leaving q balance due Of 1923 IS
June 8, 1909, with interest thereon at eight (D
note being duly endorsed and delivered by
Henry Voigt to the plaintiff herein for q valua-
PIE Consideration 1s and the plaintiff herein
which will more fully appear by reference TO
the Complaint on file herein. certified copy OF
which has been served upon you, atteohed TO q
copy OF the original summons 10 said action.
AND you are hereby notified that II you fail TO
required, the said plaintiff will take Judgment
against you for the sum Of SAL 30 with interest
on tl3O.O0 at one (D per cent per month from
June 10. 1909, and with inherent on t9e8 as at
eight (8) per cent per annum from June 10, 1909,
and with reasonable attorneys fec ana plain
tins costs and disbursements Incurred herein
Given under my hand ard the seal
OF the District Court Of the Fourth
lsEAbl judicial District OF the State OF
Nevada, in and for tho County Of
$50. Elko, this lth day Of June in the
year Of our Lord 1909.
A. @. DAwLEY CLERK.
by l.. o. HENDERSON Dep
CHARLES b. HENDERSON
Attorney.
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ECO Soup.
JHAHbES Is. HBNDEHSON
Attorney.

One tablespoonful of beef extract,
stirred into one quart of boiling water
until thoroughly dissolved. Add a
grated onion, a dash OF celery seed,
two sssNspoonfuls of salt and one or
pepper Stir until boiling, strain and
add tSa beaten yoiks OF two eggs.
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Electric Flatlrcns Universe,

The first application OF electric hen.
ing for household use was the eIootri,
fistiron. Now there are ;,undreae =,
thousands OF electric natirons In use
IN private homes and laundries.
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brought on deck while the vessel was
still at anchor in Etah, and below all
was prepared for the expected storms
Of the return voyage.
Starting For Annootok.
Late in the evening Of Sept. l the
entire village Of Etah was taken
aboard, the anchor was tripped, and
soon the Bradley's bow put out on the
waters of Smith sound for Annootok
The night was cold and clear, bright
ened by the charm of color The sun
had just begun to dip under the north.
ern horizon, which marks the end of
the summer double days of splendor
and begins the period Of storms lead
ing into the long night. Early in the
morning we were off Annootok
The weather was now changed. A
strong wind came from the sea- With
shallow water, unknown rocks and
much ice drifting about no comfortable
berth could be found for the yacht. II
the overloaded decks were to be clear
ed at all it must be done quickly.
The launch and all the dories were
lowered and filed. Eskimo boats were
pressed into service and loaded. The
boats were towed ashore. Only a few
reached Annootok itself, for the wind
increased and troublesome sea made
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FIRST PART.

which all slept. The edge Of this made
a seat, and on each side were placed
stone lamps, in which blubber was
burned, with moss as a wick. Oyer
this was drying rack, and there was
other furniture.
On board the yacht there had been
busy days Of barter. Furs and ivory
had been gathered in heaps in ex-
change for guns, knives and needles.
Every seaman from cabin boy to cap
tain had suddenly got rich in the gam
BILE of trade for priced blue fox skins
and narwhal tusks.
The Eskimos were equally elated
with their end of the bargain. For q
beautiful foxskin of less use to a ma
tive than q dog pelt he has secured a
pocket knife that would serve him half
a lifetime.
4 woman had exchanged her fur
pants, worth hundred dollars, for a
red pocket handkerchief, with which
she would decorate her head and igloO
for years to come.
The midnight tide lifted the yacht on
an even keel from her makeshift dry
dock on the beach, and she was pulled
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Transportation which the Eskimos Of
fered hoped to carry ample supplies
over Ellesmere Land and along the
west coast Of the game land
There was reason to suppose that
we would avoid the troublesome pack
agitated by the Greenland currents.
The Eskimos were willing to trust to
the game resources of this region to
feed and fire the expedition en- route
TO the lands end.
Splendid Advantages Offered.
II their faith proved correct, it Of
fered me a series of advantages de-
MED to every other leader of polar
expeditions, for the movement would
not only be supplied at the expense OF
the land which it explored, but men
and dogs would be taken to the battle
ground in superb training. with their
vigorous bodies nourished by whole
some fresh meat. not the nauseating
laboratory stuff which is usually
crowded into the unwilling stomach.
Furthermore, it afforded me chance
to test every article of equipment in
actual field work, and, above all, after
hard campaign Of this kind could
select with some chance Of success the
most likely winners for the final race
over the circCmpolar sea.
A compact was made with the little
men Of tho farthsst north to push the
venture into the boreal center. When
it was noised about at Etah that prepa-
rations were in progress to try for the
pole most Of the men on board the
yacht volunteered to serve
Captain Bartlett, skipper Of the John
Il. Bradley, said that he also would
like to stay; but. if compelled to re-
turn. he required at least a cook and
an engineer to take the yacht back to
Newfoundland.
The situation was eased when the
captain was told that but one man was
wanted. No group of white men could
possibly match the Eskimo in his own
element. The willing hands of a tribe
of $50 people were at my disposal.
More help was not required.
But companion and a general over
seer was in demand for this post
Rudolph Francke was selected. An
noOtok was to be the base of opera
lions.
But there is no harbOr near this vii
lage to facilitate rapid landing of
supplies, and to hasten the departure
of the yacht on her homeward run
everything for the polar campaign was
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lights of fisher folk.

uSntS OF nSner IOlk.
A photograph sent music, classical
and otherwise, into the arctic air from
the cabins. At table there was a kind
Of continuous performance with a
steady hand and receptive stomach.
During two days Of stormy discom-
fort several important meals had been
willingly missed. But in the arctic
food accounts pIust be squared as
quickly as possible.
On the following morning we passed
Cape Alexander and entered Smith
sound. Half a gale came from the sea.
and we entered Foulke ford. The
town of Etah was composed of four
tents, which for this season had been
pitched beside a small stream just in
side of the first projecting point on the
north shores.
Inside this point there was sheltered
water to land the EskimOs' kayaks
It also made good harbor for the
yacht. It is possible in favorable sea-
sons to push through Smith sound.
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Pellagra.
'esDondence News and Observer.

CORRESPONDENTS News and Observer.
To the Editor: Caused, it is sup
posed, by poisonous food, some say
damaged corn meal.
What would the disease be called
caused by eating damaged -four
which has been bleached and weight
ed? What is the name of the disease
produced by damaged meat, the odor
of which has been removed and fur
Their decay prevented by chemicals
that are themselves injurious? What
shall we call the various diseases pro-
| duced by those canned goods that
are kept from decay by those preser-
vations that are SO injurious to
health?
What disease shall we call that
produced by vegetables and especial
ly melons grown from fertilizers that
make them unwhOlesome?
What effect does too great a guam
tity of nitrate of soda have on the
human system? l quit using it on
vegetables and grain raised for table
use because [ found them less pala
| table when I used the soda.
Pellagra, only pellagra, one new
disease, when the people have been
eating poisons enough to produce
many diseases and then physicked
with medicines that are likewise adul
terated and poisonous or worthless
to cure disease.
The pure food and pure medicine
law was not enacted too soon and
now it's faithful enforcement cannot
be too rigid.
J. II. FLEMING.
Raleigh, Sept. %, 1909.
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out into the bay and anchored for
few hours. Oomanooi was but one OF
six villages in which the tribe had di-
vided its $50 people for the current
season.
To study the people, to further ell
courage the game of barter and to en-
joy the rare sport of yachting and
hunting in mans northernmost haunts
we prepared to visit as many villages
as possible.
In the morning the anchor was rails
ed, and the yacht set sail to Il light
wind headed for more northern vii
lagos.
Ducks were secured IN abundance.
Seals were given chase, but they were
able to escape our craft. Nearing
Saunders island herd of walrus was
seen on pan of drift ice far ahead
of the yacht.
Two with splendid tusks were OBJ
tanned. and two tons of meat blubber
were turned over to our Eskimo al
IT.
An Eskimo Widows Story.
among the Eskimo passengers pac-
ing the deck was a widow, who, in
tears, told us the story Of her life-a
story which offered peep into the
comedy and tragedy of Eskimo exist.
ence. She had arranged q den under
a shelter of sealskins among the an
Choir chains. We had offered her a
large bed, with straw in it, and a
place between decks as a better nest
for her brood of youngsters, but she
refused, saying she preferred the open
air on deck.
She had come from American shores.
and, as foreign belle, her hand was
sought early. At thirteen Ikwa intro
duced her to welded life not strewn
with blubber. He was cruel and not
always truthful
Two girls graced their home. One
was now married. When the young.
est was out of her hood. Ikwa took
the children and invited her to leave,
saying that he had taken to wife
seamstresS.
Nance had neither advantage, but
she knew something of human nature
and soon found another husband. Il
good deal older. but better than the
first. Their life was Il hard one. for
Sordingwah was not a good hunter
but their home was peaceable. quiet
and happy. Two children enllvened
1t. Both We're at her side on the
yacht. boy OF eight. the only deaf
and dumb Eskimo in all the land. and
a thin, pale weakling of three.
Both had been condemned by the
| Eskimo law Of the survival of the fit
test, the first because of insufficient
| senses and the second because it was
under three and still on its mother:
back when the father passed away
They were not to participate in the
strife Of life But an unusual mother
loved them.
few days before the previous win
ter the old father, anxious to provide
warm bearskins for the prolonged
night, had ventured alone far lap int,
the mountains. His gun went off acci
dentally, and he never returned.
| The executor of the brother of Ma
nee's former husband was kind Il
her for the long night and kept fam
Inc from her door. In the summer
day she had been able to keep herself
but who could provide for her fol
the night to come? Her only resource
was to seek the chilled heart of bel
former husband, and we we're per
forming the unpleasant mission o,