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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-12-01
Pianos

For the next thirty days, will sell
pianos at prices never, offered before.
Buy at home and save money and avoid
trouble.
J. D. MARINER Music COMPANY
1913 North Virginia Street.
...... Reno, Nevada
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-12-01
SALMAGUNDI

} December comes in as q lamb, hut
hoH;A ill it go out1 Rain has fallen all
dayN:and there, are no signs of its
quitting.
Mr. Mcbride received Telegram
from Rev. H. E. Henriques this morning
that there would be no services at the
Episcopal church tonight.
Anyone turning in any yearlings
branded "a on the left ribs with crop
off the left ear and waffle on left hind
leg will please notify r. G. Bellinger,
Smith Creek, Elko, Nevada.
The sewer bonds will FLOAT" all right
if the people will get move on and
vote them. Elko's credit is good in the
financial world and the bonds will be
snapped up in a jiffy Just vote them
and see.
Woodmen's entertainment drew a fair
sized audience at the Opera house last
night. Some parts of the entertain
ment are said to have been good and
other parts not so good. This is the
opinion of some who attended as given
to the writer.
The Woman's Guild give list else
1here of the good things they VIII have
Sfor supper Saturday night. 1t will
make your mouth water. Read it and
90 to Leonard Hall Saturday night and
Jill up on the good things.
Billy Wore received notice this morn
pg OF his fathers death at Logan, Iowa
he old gentleman was over So years of
ge and was one of the early settlers of
pwa From scant population, he
wv Iowa grow to an imperial common
health.
Stanley NJ. Wilton, Who recently took
e examination for the Rhod es scholor-
ip with another young man of Reno
been dec Jared the successful appli-
mt. He has accepted the scholarship
d will soon leave for Engla nd to begin
studies in Oxford university. &c.,.
After an absence of two nights from
cabin, Happy Hooligan returned
= morning and found that it had been
ken into and his bedstead stolen He
nks this is pretty bad luck and is out
orts with the world generally, and
Elko officers in particular. He seems
= blink THAT he has no protection from
90
rs. Lee Hardin received telegram
forenoon conveying the news of her
her's death at Smithton, Missouri,
morning. Mrs. Hardin will leave
xiv SmithtOn tonight to attend the
md Fal. She has the sympathy of a
les' circle of friends in her bereave-
mos Eschwarrin, who was re-
find from the state prison here but
will time ago will be placed on trial
raIy urglaIy this week in Dayton.
,avs his release from the prison here
fnt into the employ of Sheriff
I'll at Dayton, but the lure of his
Fofession was too much for him
- e entered the Cooper residence
W It place and purloined every
Pf value he could lay his hands
As result he will probably be
time at the same old stand in
rder.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-12-01
One Lat

Claus brought me o little baby
T. Christmas" confides the
from next door.
b? That was finei" answers the
m it's tn only present me an
got that papa hasn't broken
Tindin' 1t up an showing as
ns."-Judge's Library.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-12-01

be for the INDEPENDENT.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
Governor Brady Booster for Northern
Idaho.

We would like to call the attention
of the people of northern Idaho to the
fact that upon the ordinary sized map
of Idaho child can span with his tiny
fingers the space between the extreme
north and south terminal of Idaho rail-
roads, distance of some 100 miles, and
if those people who are bent upon foist-
ing political schemes upon the people at
a time when they should be giving thanks
to the Almighty for bountiful crops,
would follow the lead of Governor Brady
and the Lewiston Teller and many
others in advocating a north and south
railroad, they would come nearer merit
ing the respect and confidence of their
fellows.
Governor Brady is strong believer
and booster of the open river from
Lewiston to the sea, and it is reasonable
to believe that he also has in mind this
link of railroad, which would revolu-
tionize transportation rates to the
Pacific ocean in the event that congress
appropriated sufficient money to open
the Columbia river.
The governor in the past has borne
the reputation of getting what he goes
after, and has financed many large pro-
jects which had for their basis and
foundation natural resources which
many had overlooked. He is giving
the state capable and fearless admin
istration of its affairs, but aside from
that, if he can interest capital in this
worthy enterprise of north and south
railroad he will have earned the ever
lasting gratitude of the people of Idaho.
Instead of hunting up candidates for
the nomination of governor who cannot
ask the suffage of the people for a
year, they should support the governor
in his very laudable ambition of getting
acquainted with the resources of north
ern Idaho and trying to reach them
with railroad. Weiser Signal.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
Going Back to Barbarism.

Two or three of the tobacco-growing
counties of Kentucky seem to have
adopted the customs of Naples as de-
scribed by Forsyth about the beginning
of the last century. He tells of a mat
tress maker who related the circum-
stance of the killing of man by his
son. When asked if he was an ac-
cessory, he answered. "Nay, | only
held the rascal's hands while my poor
boy dispatched him." Then in a sor-
rowful tone he related how it had cost
him 200 ducats "to accommodate this
foolish affair" He further explained
that all were reconciled except brother
of the deceased, "a malicious wretch
who will listen to no terms. :" And
when told that the brother was right,
the mattress maker replied: ''Not if he
consult his own safety. My Gennarro,
can assure you, is lad of spirit. +"
And when asked if he would murder the
brother, too, he answered: 'If it be
the will of God, it must be done. am
sure we wish to live peaceably with our
fellow citizens, but if they are un-
reasonable, if they will keep honest
people away from their families, they
must even take the consequences, and
submit to Gods holy will" The ac-
count concludes by saying: "My land
lord on repeating this to me, added that
the mattress maker is much respected
in Naples, as an upright, religious,
warm-hearted man, who would cheer
| fully divide his last ducat with friend. I"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20

The governor of Kentucky seems to
be doing his best to reduce the state to
the rule of order and law, but he is
having a task that seems to be too
much for him. Those upright, re-
ligious, warm-hearted' constituents of
his, "who would divide their last ducat
with friend" have never learned that
society must be founded on law, and
are determined to be law uhto them
selves. and the injury they are doing
the state and themselves and their
children does not seem to be factor in
their calculations. They represent the
barbarism of the middle ages rather
than the enlightenment of the goth
century. -Goodwin's Weekly
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
A SPELLIN SKULE.
Ignorance of the Average Citizen
to be Exposed.

The Presbyterian circle will conduct
a spelling bee at the vacant room ad-
joining the First National bank, next
Tuesday evening. In doing so they
will necessarily expose dense ignorance
on the part of several business men who
are IN the babit of blaming their type
writer's or stenographers for errors in
their photography. This is not the
chief object of the evening, however.
1t is to raise money, and the entertain
ment preceding the serving of ice
cream, cake and coffee and homemade
candy, is merely to draw crowd. You,
everybody, are invited and urgently re-
quested to be present.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
REASONS FOR BEING THANKFUL.
Governor Brady Gives List of Sew
eral Good Ones.

In reply to kilograms received from
the New York World asking for a
statement of the particular reasons
Idaho has to give thanks this year,
Governor James H. Brady yesterday
wired a message to be printed next
Sunday, together with those of COVER
nors of the various states, as follows:
Some of the many reasons why our
state should give thanks this year are:
We have had no great calamities, and
our people have prospered beyond mea-
sure; our crops have been abundant,
and prices satisfactory. We have had
no labor strikes whatever, and the
laboring men have had employment at
good wages. We are thankful for our
direct primary law, passed by the last
legislature, that gives every man and
woman the right to go into the booth
alone and say who shall be their officers
and lawmakers. We have reason to
give thanks because of the effect upon
our civic life, of our laws giving women
the right to vote.
''We have every reason to give
thanks because our last legislature
passed a local option law, and since
that time 10 counties have wiped out
the saloon, and that we know before
another year 80 per cent of the counties
in this state will be without saloons.
''We have reasons to give thanks be-
cause we have larger rivers with more
water in them, more arid land and
greater use for it, and you can see
farther and see more than in any state
in the union. The nation as a whole
has cause for giving thanks for the
safe return of our president, unharmed
and in perfect health, from the most
extended trip ever made by a chief
executive of the nation, because the
work on the great Panama canal, that
will be the great regulator of freight
rates, is progressing as fast as is con-
sistent with good business methods.
Because our crops are abundant, the re-
sources in our western states being
rapidly developed and because there is
peace and plenty in our land.
JAMES H. BRADY,
Governor of Idaho.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
1t Means Something.

During the past two years $50 600 of land have
been taken under various forms of filing in the
Falls country. This means something. 1t mighty
agricultural development. 1t 1900 homes
sections of land 1t that the
sive farmers OF Washington Oregon South Dakota Min
nessota Kansas Nebraska and Colorado have the seal
of their approval upon this locality and uniting their
efforts Transforming landscape of unproductive gray
of waving green. 1t bounteous harvests and
general prosperity in the future 1t coming
increase the value of every of land means conf
dece the country 1t school houses churches
good social conditions the introduction of bene
fits and conveniences which belong thicBy settled we'll
developed communities
Notwithstanding this great influx of people, 1000 de-
srahe homesteads invite settlement 1000 quarter sections
ofland which will yield from onethird one-half more
bushels of grain per than the average states of
Iowa Kansas Nebraska 1000 homesteads where an
abundance of the purest of for domestic may
be obtained and in in sufficient quantity ir-
rigate large garden orchard Mr.. Homeseeker this
OPPORTUNITY for YOU, RIGHT Will you be one
of the thousand?
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
Albert H. Gould. 81 Sc or BLOB and

Albert H. Gould. 81 Sc or BLOB and
lots GLIB.
Jas. w. Gould, sw or sw or 32-10-31,
lot a and sw or NV or sec and Sc or ne
or GLIB.
Peter Nelson, lease sw or Sc or 23-9-
30.
Alva M. Fentress, 81 ne or, na Sc or
23-10-28.
Edward G. Johnson, NV or 13-10-28.
Adolf Claasen, lease ne or 2l-6-30.
Roscoe G. Tuttle, n Sc or 14-12-31.
W. Leroy Pearce sw or 26 and ea
Sc or 27-12-28.
Orville Lalchow, ne or 11-11-31.
j. F. Hantzinger, na Sc or sec 80, NV
or Sc or 10-18-30.
Calvin M. Quigley, Sc ga Sc or sec 21,
na ne or, ne or NV or 28-1030.
John Brown Sc or sw or, sw or Sc or,
sec 22, NV or ne or, ne or NV or 27-13-
%.
William F. Glasscock, lease ] sw or
3-12-31.
Heber C. Wood Jr., lease ne or NV
or NV or ne or 1880.
Geo. Mayer, lease all 37-8-30.
R. L. Stewart, lot 3, Sc or NV or, ne
or sw or, NV or Sc or 3-10-3O
John M. Crowley, VIZ Sc or, Sc or 81
1921.
John Mortenson, lease lot and Sc or
ne or, ne or Sc qe sec 1-13-28 and lots
5 6 6-13-29.
John Mortenson, desert entry, ne or
13-13-28.
Jacob and John New, NV or 2-8-29, W
line or, W ] Sc or 2-7-29.
]. H. Franklin, sw or, NV or, VIZ sw
or sec 10 and NV or NV or 25-11-32.
J. H. Franklin, lease $ } Sc or sec "a,
n3 ne or 25-11-31.
E. c. Wood, na and Sc or ne or sec 27
and sw or NV or 26-9-30.
P. G. Scott, sw or ne or, NV or Sc or,
ne or sw or, Sc or NV or 1882.
K. D. Houtz, desert entry, Sc or NV
or, lot 2, 18-1O-31 and Sc or ne or 1910
30.
Frank Kluck, lease NV or Sc or 23-S-
30.
Frank w. Collins, Sc or sw or, sw or
Sc or sec 5, NV or ne or, ne or NV or g.
11-31.
John Leischner, nj ne or, n3 NV or
25-S-30.
Charles E. Cantrell Sc or 11-12-33.
Harry E. Chapman, Sc or 14-12-33.
Marcus E. Hooker, So Sc or sec %, n
ne or 27-11-33.
John Dedg Jr., nj ne or, n1 NV or 23-
1923.
John Deeg Sr., Sc or Sc or sec %, e5
ne or, ne or Sc or 26-7-29.
Chris Stickel, sw or sw or sec "a, VIZ
NV or, NV or sw or 25-7-29.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
NEW REAL ESTATE OFFICE
Earring Realty Company Erecting
Building Near Press Office.

The Earring Realty Company began
work on an office building for its own
use, Tuesday, on lots south of the Press
office. Contractor Ewing is putting up
the building, which will be 24x4O feet,
frame. The Office equipments will be
complete, with Accommodations for pat
rons that are rarely found. These will
include table supplied with papers
from all parts of the country and writ
ing desks. The Earring company is
establishing connections in localities
from which most homeseekers come,
and will be factor in the settling of
the vacant lands here with a desirable
class of people.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
FOUR COUNTIES DRY.
Wednesdays Local Option Elections
Very Satisfactory.

Kootenai, Lincoln, Twin Falls and
Washington counties all went dry Wed
nesday by majorities ranging from $50
to 900. Gooding voted dry five to one
and Shoshone broke even. Twin Falls
and Weiser both went dry by large
majorities. Nearly every precinct in
Twin Falls and Washington counties
went dry. Lincoln county had but one
precinct which went wet with a sub
stantial majority.
Twelve counties in the state have
voted on local option up to the present
time, and ten of them have voted dry,
and one of the wet ones was so by only
thirteen majority.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
CHURCH CONVICTED
OF SELLING LIQUOR
Liquor Traced From Defend
ant to the Court Room
Jury Voted Five to One For Con-,
viction and Defendant Fined
Fifty Dollars and
Costs of Suit.

In jury trial before Village Clerk
I. E. st. John, Monday, Asa Church
was found guilty on a charge of selling
liquor to Asa Pierson of Rockland, and
fined $50 and costs. The transaction as
developed at the trial is as follows:
On the afternoon of November 9, Mr..
Pierson, in company with William Tip
ton, stepped up to the bar in Doc
Vests ''place" and ask for drink.
What will you have?" asked Church,
who was behind the bar. 'T'll take
whiskey," Pierson replied; 81 don't
know what this man CTipton) wants.
''Whiskey or some of that other thing" f"
Church answered. Pierson testified he
was served with whiskey, and Upton,
asking for near-beer, got something of
that nature. Pierson paid 25 cents for
the drinks. Turning to Church, he
said: 'Give me bottle of whiskey."
Church wrapped up bottle and handed
it to Pierson, who paid 25 cents for it.
Thoreupon, Pierson and Upton left the
''place" and started across the rail-
road. At the stockyards Pierson sam
pied his purchase. Stopping into the
Oliver & McKown hardware store, Pier
son, who was noticably under the in
fuence of something stronger than
near-beer, was arrested, and two bot
ties of firewater taken from him. One
was nearly empty, the other nearly
full. Village Marshall Barnard took
Pierson to the office of R. o. Jones.
where he was liberated on bond to ap-
pear later for trial. Justice Jones
turned the bottles over to Wilford Ben
Mon and o. H. Barber, who had them
sealed, and delivered them to Judge
Oliver, who placed them in his safe.
At the trial the bottle was traced
from the time of sale until its appear
ance in the court room. The defendant
offered no testimony, basing his defense
upon the plea that the bottle contain
ing the liquor had not been sufficiently
identified to make it admissible as evil
dence.
L. E. Sigmond prosecuted the case
and was warmly congratulated upon his
success. The prosecution was both
clean and able. The defense of Attor-
ney Winter was clever and adroit, and
made the most of the minutest circum-
stance which would least doubt upon the
damaging evidence.
The jurors were w. H. Dexter, W.
0. Garrett, Lester Thorn, Bert Houtz.
w. w. Beckstead and J. B. Brokaw.
The jury voted five to one for con-
viction.
While the defendant and the pro-
prietor of this ''place" have been per-
sistent and fragrant defers of the law,
this is the first conviction that has
been had. Papers have been served in
a county case, however, and Mr.. Church
will be taken to Malad to appear before
the County Judge.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
14.OOO ACRES co
in FORTY DAYS
Vacant Land Here Will Last
Little More Than a Year.
Al Present Rate a Tract Of Land Equal
in Area to the Largest County in
Iowa Will Be Taken in Less
Than a Year From Now.

Below will be found the land filings
made during the past forty days. They
embrace Ia, 900 acres. While the filings
are not so numerous as they have been
for an equal period during the past fif-
teen months, they show steady influx
Of new people. AT this rate the settle
ment is truly wonderful. A tract OF
land equal in area to the largest county
in Iowa, at this rate, would have fam
lily on every quarter section of land in
319 days. The mere statement of this
fact will convey to the land-hungry
people of the middle west warning
that the lands of the west are being
settled upon at an unprecedented rate,
and with settlement and development
will come great appreciation of val
ues. Four hundred and twenty days of
such filing will exhaust the free lands
in this immediate section of the state.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation.

In faith and humility our forefathers
set apart day and gave thanks to
God for deliverence from Indians, pes
thence, and for bountiful crops in the
fall of the first year of the history of
New England.
The custom was adopted by all the
States of the Great American Union,
and, like all of our National customs,
its observance, with each succeeding
National success, danger, or general
continued prosperity, has been more
and more deeply imbued with the ad-
vances of our Union and its civilization.
If each one of US can, aside from Civ
ing praise to our Creator for our own
blessings, make lighter the burdens .of
others and give them reason for re-
joicing, we are showing in a substan-
tial way the appreciation of our own
prosperity.
Therefore, |, James H. Brady, Gov
ernor of the State of Idaho, do hereby
designate Thursday, November twenty
fifth, Thanksgiving Day, and request
that the people refrain from their usual
vocations, and, so far as possible, Of
fer in prayer to God and charity to
others their gratitude for past blessings
and hope for continuance of His
favor.
In Witness Whereof, | have here
unto set my hand and caused to be af-
fixed the Great Seal of the State of
Idaho. Done at the Capitol, in Boise,
Idaho, this sixteenth day of November,
one thousand nine hundred and nine,
and of the independence of the United
States, the one hundred and thirty
third.
JAMES H. BRADY
By the Governor:
ROBERT LANDsoN,
Secretary of State.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
HOME TALENT ENTERTAINMENT
Bachelor Girls Preparing to Put on
Another PLAY.

The Bachelor Girls club is preparing
another play, to be given about Decem-
ber 20. Professor Thompson, who
drilled the performers last year and
took leading role himself, will per-
form like service this time. The en-
tertainment given last year developed
some good talent and was one of the
most enjoyable of the season. The
proceeds will be donated to the Syringa
club for the benefit of the public read
ing room.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-11-20
A LIKELY PAIR.
Two American Falls Citizens Go East
on a Joyful Mission.


t. E. st. John has gone east to get
married. This appears to be unreason-
able, because it is much against his
habit. He is not accustomed to doing
such things, and the statement would
be more easily believed of anyone else.
/ Mr.. st. John has lived here a long,
long time. Tradition says he came
here with Judge Oliver, and when the
Indians swooped down from Ross Fork
on sealping expedition, Judge Oliver
made furious drive in the night.
There is no record that st. John went
along, and there are certain evidences
which lead one to believe he did not.
The Judge did not go alone on futher
occasions, however, and st. John has so
strong an aversion to Indians that he
has never since been known to associate
with them.
That Mr.. st. John has remained
single so long, when there were so
many charming young ladies around, is
probably no fault of his. The Press
credits him with too much judgment to
believe that he is lacking in apprecia-
tion of the joys of life Whether or
not he had to leave home to get mar
ried will not lessen the warmth of his
welcome home.
J. V. Dawson is the other member of
the pair. Mr.. Dawson looks like he
might be quick tempered, and the
Press, for various reasons, does not
care to say much about him. Suffice it
to say that he came here in the night,
and up to date has behaved like a gem
tleman. He is of a sociable disposition,
with no prejudice against the ladies',
and no particality to any of them.
His associates include DIR. Nee, DR..
Finnegan and Mr.. Walworth, but per-
haps the less said about this may be
the better. Possibly he would not like
it to appear in print.
1t is believed Mr.. Dawson was not
under the necessity of buying a high
priced railroad ticket in order to get
married. He might not have had to go
away at all had he manifested a spirit
of earnest determination. But per-
haps he is able to afford it, and needed
vaction, and should not be censured
until all the facts are known. He will
be cordially welcomed, for the sake of
good breeding, and his home coming be
made as pleasant as possible.
The Press wishes them and theirs all
the joys of life. They are both men of
character and force. and goods posts to
tie to. Not only does it congratulate
them, but their ladies as well.
Dawson is goner all right, but St.
John will have to show up with the
goods before people will believe he is
really married.