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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15

Have you cvcr u Il furnace through
the dark and Silly night? Have you
sought TO poke and strokc'cr in your
mighty? What Il sight Have o
padded down the stairway on the cold
and shiny stair with the slccp-ticks in
your peppers and the tOuslcs in your
hair? Have you bumped your toe agin
it-that there Cusscd rocking chair2
Have your Well, of course you didn't
-cr-hum. that is. You didn't swear
Have you tiptOcd in the basement where
the floor is cold us ice and discovered to
your horror that the fire is Out2 How
nice! Have You stepped upon a clinkcr
on the clamny cellar stair and Just
turned a little handspring in the vapid
midnight air? Have you hit in forty
places ere You found II place TO light,
falling madly down tic bumpers in the
cold and Silly night? Have you
shivcrcd by the furnace with the PIN.
pies III your flesh big rs berries on Il
platter and q dcuCcd sight more frcshT
Have you daubcd your nice white
mighty with tic coal SCOT and the CRIME
and just frozen stiff and hoary rs you
watched tho flight of timer Have you
raised your voice in anger and just
sw0rc by saying: "FicT" All. I thought
you must have said IL, in your anger.
So have Western Publisher.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
KnudSon-Mallc

y very quiet, but pretty wedding
ceremony was performed last Saturday
night ut eight o'clock at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. K. II. Mallctt when their
daughter, Miss Dora. was given in
marriage To our popular hotel manager,
Mr.. AdOlph Knudson. Only the inn
mediate members of the family were
present to witness the The
parlor was beautifully decorated with
carnations and smilax. At the close of
the ceremony Il very Hastily prepared
wedding supper was served. Tho ccrc.
mony WINS performed by Rev. Geo. II.
Greenfield. Both bride and groom are
well known in Elko, the bride being
II OF Elko's most esteemed young ladies
and the groom II of the most proinis-
ing business young men Of Elko. They
will make their future home in the
Mitchell house near the Commercial
Hotel.
The INDEPENDENT extends its ron.
gratulations to Mr.. and Mrs. Knudson
and wishes them II long, happy and
prosperous married life.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
HISTORICAL RECORD OF RINGS.
Have important Part in the Annals OF
the World.

The ring began when man thrust
his finger through Il hole In Il pretty
shell. and later learned TO make rings
OF jet. The ring is very magical.
Lord Ruthven. who helped TO kill RiZ.
zio. gave Queen Mary Il ring which
was ''sovran' against poison, and She
generously replied with the present OF
her fathers wonderful jeweled dagger
of French work, no longer In exist
ence. Whether Ruthven fooled with
this magnificent weapon in the affair
OF Rizzio or used n cheaper article is
uncertain. At all events Mary based
on the ring that vas an antidote TO
poison a charge q sorcery against
Ruthven. The judges OF Jeanne dare
regarded with mich suspicion her lit.
tie ring OF base metal, a gift from her
parents. inscribed with the sacred
names Jesus Maria.
II was usual to touch the relics of
saints with rings: Jeanne dare said
that her ing had touched the body OF
St. Catherine. whether she meant OF
the acual saint or n relic OF the saint,
brought from Sinai to Fferbois. The
ring might contain n relic. or. later. n
miniature. fear hat | do not believe
in the virtues or vices OF poison rings.
cur ancestors practically knew no poi.
'cn but arsenic. and C~arthaginian
science can scarcely have enabled
Hannibal to poison himself with a
drug contained under the stone Of a
ring.-Andrew Lang. In London Post.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
THE LADY AND THE UMBRELLA
Not Every Woman So Lucky as the
Heroine Of This Tale.

In he storcroom that every rail.
o maintains for the safe keeping
OF lost articles left In its care by for.
Eetful passengers there are always TO
be found hundreds OF umbrellas. But
not every umbrella left In the cars
Is lost long enough to find its way
10 the lost department; II may fortu.
nately be recovered sooner.
Here was a woman who had Just
stepped from an elevated railroad
train, To find |, raining, and thus re.
minded:
oh! my umbrella" she said. and.
turning to the train, which had al.
ready started along. she added: Wait
a minute a request by the train un.
hccdcd.
And yet this woman recovered her
umbrella In a moment.
Here II Is" said another wo-.nn.
who was travelling with her, had got
OF the car after her, and had
gathered up her friends umbrella
with her own as she came along.
So this forgctful passenger O
cred her umbrella promptly, but not
all are so fortunate; thousands OF UNI.
brellas left behind by passengers 30
TO the lost departments every year.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
M4RKEI AND MINES

The following excerpt Is from Good
wins Weekly and it will be of interest
to the mining fraternity of this section:
The plot thickensi Over the eastern
hills the hrimming wires bring word of
the arraying' of the forces of war-mod.
ern financial war-captain of millions
and captains of tens of millions and cap
tains of hundreds of millions. And on
the other side can be seen the prepara-
ticns for defense-growins redoubts of
longtime contracts and breastworSs of
money bags. One day we read of the
incorporation of a hundred million dol
lar smelling corporation at Trenton, y.
j., and when we notice that Johnny
Jones and his sister Sue are the direct.
ors, we know that the high gods of f.
nance are forging their thunderbolts-
mayhap other things. The names of
Astorbilt and Harrigoulds ut the head
ola corporation mean nothing-great
names are frequently loaned through
courtesy. The weaker the company the
greater is its necessity for an imposing
front. The time 10 sit up and take no.
tice is when Watkins drops his arInful
Of cuspidors long enough to assume the
presidency, and Paddy Murphy lets his
elevator stand AT the fourteenth floor
while he qualities as secretary of a
prosaic-named octopus.
Next day, perhaps, Father Guggen-
helm appears on the b~attlements, wiggles
his fingers at the Cole-Rvan cohorts.
To the Scribes he deigns to explain that
the Cole-Ryan expedition IS just going
hunting for copper smelling business
and that the copper plants OF the Gug,
genheiIn interests are infniiesimal parts
of those interests-parts that could be
extracted almost without pain and
thrown away without regret. But II
his underlings. Father Gurgcnheim
speaks in a different strain. Go after
longtime contracts for the treatment Of
both copper and lead ores. is the sub.
stance of his commands. The mine op.
orator who Is willing to tie up his pro.
duct for n term Of years can secure gilt
edge rates from the American Smelling
& Refining company these days.
Next 10 the grim preparations Of the
smelter kings, the most interesting news
from the wires Is OF the proposed copper
producers union Hgars and wages are
satisfactory. int the conference wants
10 k=@p The feilq~ around the corner
from working 0ye-Time and feeding toe
mrch c2H'r 70 the market. Ostensibly
the of~gs-lEzI5ya intends 70 do no more
than uralutsia a h7raauo Of statistics, but
TTs 81 Eoy% b9w long a society for the
~prgEagzi5ea q statistics will continu,
iaSi 55=aa4nt and innocent diversion
wEtnygs c1bs- exercise"
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is LABOR TO BE "fRGFEcTED"?

The following article from Senator
La Follettc's Magazine throws {. strong
light on the plea that the tariff
protects labor. 1t shows how the steel
trust works the men i'll its employ and
rohs the public under the sacred tariff
schedules:
If there were any thing needed to
clinch the argument for Il tariff com.
mission of experts, it is tine controversy
between Andrew Carnegie, the bond
holder, and Judge Gary, the chairman,
of the steel corporation.
Gary gave the tariff committee care
fully prepared figures of the. cost of
production of pig iron and steel in this
country and i'll Europe, and Carnegie
laughed his figures To scorn.
What we want is to take Gary ut his
word and open up his books to experts
so that congress and the people can lie.
cide-between Gary and Carnegie.
Gary pictures the steel corporation rs
Il big. fond brother. throwing its loving
arms about its weak competitors, who
would be ruined by reduction of the
tariff, Neither Gary o Carnegie calls
attention to the conditions of labor in
their powerful combination, for whose
protection against the paupcr labor of
Europe the tariff is supported. First
under Carnegie and afterwards under
Gary, trade unionism WAS smashed. and
then the hours Were heightened. Sun
day work was extended. and speeding
up to the limit Of excrtion was reduced
TO a system, until men are working
twelve hours Il day, seven days a week.
and twenty.four hours at a stretch every
other Sunday.
II this Is the necessary fruit Of pro.
lection, it might I've better 10 admit free
of duty the pig iroa of England whose
''pauior' labor only works eight hour.
\ day. If the steel corporation worked
its thousands of employees under the
humane conditions Of its British com
petitors, it might possibly need a tariff
to protect 1t against the increased
cost.
y tariff commission would cnlighter
us on this important side Of the qucs,
ton. and might suggest some way by
which protection 10 American labor
would cease 70 he a mOckcry in the
steel business, and the blessings Of the
tariff would be passed along from Carne.
gle and Gary to their dear working,
men,
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States for an enormous sum anu then
crowned their irfamy by beating the
French Individual investors IL of all
the: LID plt into the canal proposition.
In order 20 show how the French people
feel, it Is but necessary to reproduce the
following taken from one of the leading
Paris newspapers:
prominent men in Paris who figured
in the Panama canal deal laughed when
they were shown President RoOSevel'ts
S:rSag and nueiuivocal statement deny
Ing the report that certain Americans
got a ''rakeoff' from the sale of the
Panama canal
y do not are to have myself enrolled
in the ANIMALS Club" said one OF the
best known newspaper owners of Paris,
and therefore do not care to he quoted,
but l know 4 thing or two about the
subject under discussion. President
Roosevelt doubtless is perfectly sincere,
but at the same time he does not know
the details, nor would he he likely TO.
In fact, they are not particularly the
presidents business. l am willing to
repeat; and can prove if necessary, that
the United States bought the canal from
a gronp of its own citizens, who, through
clever marleuvering, acquired either the
canal outright, or the privilege of sell,
ing it ut any figure not below II certain
sum. There are at least n score of par
sons in Paris who know this. More,
over Mr.. Roosevelt shows his lack of &C
quaintance with the subject in tht
language he uses. He speaks of dis
tribution by the French government tc
certain individuals
"All this is wrong. There WAS III
distribution. There was a certain sun
turned Over TO the directorate of tn,
Panama company. There was no iii
dividuals' Is such, concerned IL tn,
matter. The official liquidator received
$40, 900, 600, but Immediately transferred
a substantial part of this sum 10 tn,
American syndicate, whose energy ant
perseverance had made the transaction
possible. The books of the Panam;
company would easily prove this, ant
If congress really investigates the stor,
II a get plenty of evidence Of all kind.
right here, to the effect that the presi
dent is not we'll informed on the subjecr
of this historic deal."-St. joseph mo.
Observer.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
ONLY FOR TABLE OF EMPEROR.
Tea hat is Worth Much More Than
Its Weight in Gold.

The tea looked like golden floss silk
like shredded golden satin-like the
fluff of dandelion dyed go!a. AID
Is this tea?" said the reporter.
That" the tea merchant answered.
us the best tea in the world, and II
Is worth $40 or more "A pound. For
this. sir, is the famous Golden Tip.
I'll tell you why it is so costly.
Every chest of the best $3.50 tea
contains some handfuls OF ~undcycIoped
leaves, Of small. guld.tipped leaves,
called Fiowcry Pekoc. Sort out from
a chest these leaves; wrap them-a
handful at a timc-in n squared of satin:
shake the satin lightly; empty the
leaves back into the chest. Clinging
to the satin remain a few golden
shrcds. Il golden fun. Il golden lint.
You brush II OF carefully into n jar.
You Gull more handfuls OF undeycloped
leaves from another chest. and shak.
inS them up in the satin, you are
again rewarded with aome more gold
en- fun.
That is Golden Tip, and by the
time o have obtained In this tedious
manner a pound OF it Il Is no wonder
that the exquisite product Is worth
$50 or 800. is it?" lie shook the tea
about in its Satsuma jar. The fluny
golden stun shimmered like satin.
only cmpcrors drink IT," he said.
"a cup costs more than Il bottle OF
champagne"
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An Earnest Purpose Finds Time.

Is II asked how can the luburing
man find time for s%elf.culturc? | an.
swer. that an earnest purpose nnds
time. or makes II. 1t scizcs on spare
moments, and turns fragments 10 gold.
en- account. \ man who follows his
calling with Industry and spirit and
uses his earnings economically will
always have some portion OF the day
at command. And Il Is astonishing
how fruitful OF Improvement a short
season becomes. when eagerly seized
and faithfully used. a single hour
In the day, steadily given to tho
study Of some interesting subject,
brings unexpected nccumulations OF
Observation-Disclosures Ellery Claiming.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
LAUGH AT ROOSEVELT

PItsi5Eni Roosevelt has not made
himself very strong with the French
Isafds 0Ter his mix-up with the
HAESEla canal scandal and his strenuous
denial coupled with his Ananias char.
arz@fiZation of those who state that
American citizens did not profit by the
purchase and sale of the canal. In fact
he has made himself Il laughing stock to
the French nation who all know better
and who are acquainted with the inner
details Of the workings of the syndicate
which made q sos, 600, 900 profit on a
10000, 900 deal. and then not satisfied
with that enormous margin Of profit
made II few million incidental on the
side.
When President Roosevelt published
his famous denial, it was tclegraphed to
that country and promptly caused a
roar of laughter which has not yet sub.
sided. Paris finanCiers who were inter
cstcd III che transaction were not as dis.
Greet evidently as were those on the
American side who profitcd through the
Vaccinations Of the American high
priests of finance, for they talked and
thc French newspapers promptly took
up the matter and exploited it to the
fullest degree. Tho French people
knew there was nothing in the idea that
no One had prOfitcd rs President Roosc.
volt had said. and especially did those
who had invested in Panama canal
bonds under the French management
know this to he the case for they not
only lost their Investment. but were
placed in the hnmiliating position of
Knowing that that not only was their
money gone hut that Il smooth set of
manipulat0rs hal made IA very large
amount Of easy money" ut their OK.
pcnsc.
The French individual purchasers.
Panama canal bonds were the ~laszas.
losers. The distribution which Prc.;.
dent Roosevelt talks so much Of. was
never made and there was no money dis.
TO the French stockholders.
Tho distribution" was to tho American
"hnancicrs," who worked the deal
through and who by the means of an
incipicnt rebellion which Is openly
acknowledged by them and which they
'omcnted and caused, robbed the
government Of their tor.
'itory and then sold il TO tho United
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
ONE MORE SHORT STRING

President Roosevelt, if he is nothing
else Is verbose, and gifted with u rc.
markable faculty for using phrases and
adjcctives. no matter whether they III
the case or not, says tho st. Joseph, Mo.
Observer. When no secs Il thing his
way, he sees il, and there is no vituper.
alive phrase that hc will not use in
order to convince from his Standpoint
the offender that he is wrong in his
view Of the case.
When the president decided that
there was no need TO investigate the
Panama canal charges. bc sent q mes.
sage to congrcss declaring that such was
the case Just because he believed It
and possibly did not care that the world
should knowtho true inside of the affair,
In this message, he used the following
phrases and adjcctivcs which do moi
need n dictionary for their explanation
or Interpretation:
'Scurrilous and libelois."
False In every essential particular.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
Alleged lie Was Dcported

Chas. n. Plat. a miner working for
the Esmcralda Water IL Milling Com
pany at Candclaria. arrived in GOldfcld
on Saturday and sworc to u complaint
charging j. a. Lawlor. NJ. Walsh.
Patrick COOncy. Robert McNcT and
John Collins, fellow workmcn, with
abusing him and dcporting him from
the camp Of Candclaria. lie alleges in
the complaint that because he wit.
messed some trouble between the five
mon and +. $. Grublc. agent for the
company, and spoke Of what lc had
witnessed. the met went to his cabin.
aud after beating him marched him
seven miles ont into the desert. where
they made him kncel and take AN oath
that lie would never return to Candle.
laria, that they then gave him u bottle
Of water aud ordered him to hike. He
waited until the mon returned 10 camp
and then returned 10 his cabin. where
he stayed until the next morning when
he boarded n stage and left Candclaria.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
Character Mods the Face.

IL is not In words e%Xplicablc with
what divine lines and lights the exer.
else Of godllncss and charity will mold
and gild the hardest and coolest coun-
tcnance, neither to what darkness
their departure will consign the love-
Hest. For there Is not any virtue the
exercise Of which. even momentarily.
will not impress II new fairness upon
the features; neither on them only.
but on the whole body the moral and
intellectual faculties have operation.
for all the movements and gestures,
however slight. are different In their
modes according TO the mind that gov-
erns thcm-and on the gentleness and
decision of right feeling follows grace
of actions. and. through continuance Of
this, grace Of fOrm.-JOhn Ruskln.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
Fish Chased Ashore by Whales.

A serious II TO health Is
threatened at Nahant by the large
quantity OF fish which have been
thrown up on the beaches and rocks
following. It is believed, the appear
ance OF porpolscs and large fish, sup.
posed to be whales.
Although the fishermen gather them
as fast as the tide recedec, many are
overlooked. II Is the opinion OF the
natives that the fish. which Include
%mackerel, hake. pollock and herring.
all small In size. have been forced
ashore by the larger fish, which have
invaded the waters recently.-Boston
Transcript.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
EXPERTS FOOLED BY mAs7r.
Are Not Always Able to Judo. A..
thenticity Of Pictures.

n hears so much abou, ,o,.. -,
masters" and fake art treaspro. r..
10 interesting TO recall the followIn,
ahecdoie. which is vouched for by Ne
Jean Bernard. 50 well Informed nm an
INA concerns art and artists IT,
S'cry concerns Il Rembrandt wh,oL
formerly figured ut the Antwerp m,
scum. under the description OF The
Jeune homme a la cuirasse," durIn.
me exhibition OF Rembrandt's works
Today the canvas belongs to tho CO.
man emperor. Twenty years ayc tho
owner OF the picture went IN . oI
ector NJ. Seldemeyer. and showed
MIN the Rembrandt, Offering to sell n
TO him for $1,000. NJ. Seldemeyer In
turn showed the picture to his usual
experts. who declared II 10 be an Int-
tation. and the next day II was ro.
turned TO the owner, with the remarL
that he could not get a coupIe n,
suineas for II In Paris. The possessor
or the "Jeune homme a in cuirasso,
said nothing, but took the picture IN
NJ. Antonin Proust. who at once recoy.
nizcd II to DO one OF the hest nrempIs-
OF the great Dutch painter. The Ger.
man painter Knauss. purchaser for the
imperial museums. happened to be in
Paris ut the time, and when the Rem.
brand; was shown to him he immedi.
ately offered TO buy 1t, md the deal
was concluded for 81 900. The trans.
action was one which the German elm.
peror has never had any reason to re-
greet. for II he wished TO sell the pic
ture today he could easily obtain
800, 900.
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IEslray Notice.

y gray gcldinE, & or o years Of
age, branded r with bar below with
hook curving downward on ends Of liar
and II diamond bench upside down on
left shoulder. and n bay gclding about
10 years old. branded X with 2 dots
above the iron ON the left hip. came to
my ranch on South Fork about the 10th
Of last July.
The gray gclding has a wire cut across
the breast and left shoulder and weighs
about 1850 pounds Tho bay gclding
has u little white on tho left hind foot
and weighs about 200 pounds.
The owncr cun get these horses by
proving property and paying all OK.
pcnscs for keeping and advertising.
AN. GRTSwoLD.
Lee. Elko County, Nevada
Elko, Nevada. November @, 1908.
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,'tsrmn iniivilmas l;noxn ~ BE Of
ha,latharp.psS
II heywic;sednrs bf the slir6a-e->
',FaG-aenrsngn purposes
'tGtncottea with IA view al possible
ihaSt:miiI
'tNeeaInoi Investigation whatever.
String of inhunnrs 1ifaiS.'
Lying and llihalnrs editorials
Real offender = MIR. 5asHFh
Pulitzer"
'fIc should h~e prnSecu;cl fHr higA 10y
ShH government authorities
Encouragement of iniquiCy.
anfany Of wrong dninE.'
Guilty nf harkmGl.r
Nilihar ~ Ths American people
NGiItdrty ana TiaEsaly-"
SlhGEen the Charactar-
W-mrd0las ID fhe haSaSf and foul
.eSz kind.
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Fire al Wells

Tuesdays Ogden journal Y Ac.
cOrding to reports received here today,
n fire started in the oil house Of the
Southern Pacific railroad nj Wells.
Nov, this morning at 5:i5 o'clock,
which for Il time threatened to do Con.
siderable damage to the cOmpany's
property. II started inside, tho cause
being unknown. The bnilding was
insured for 300. about 300 damage.
lcinB done to tho house alone. aud about
800 loss was sustained IN oils.
There were az gallons Of engine oil.
30 lbs Of lubricating oil, 10 gallons of
coal oil, $50 lbs. Of carbide and : large
oil drums completely destroyed. Tho
building Is in ruins and some little in.
convenience will bc felt until "A new oil
house can hc erected.
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a %splcnetic Engllshman. trying to
badger n Scotchmnn who was some.
thing of II @ag. declared that no man
of taste would think Of remaining any
time In such u country as Scotland.
TASTES differ replied the Scot,
suavely. "Tll take ye TO n place In
Scotland not far frae Stirling whaur
thrctty thousand OF your c%ountrymen
ha' been for 500 years, an they've nae
THOUGHT o lcavln' yet"