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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-12-10
Salmagund
r. DAILY

Inc Ioskery has u holiday adj in this
issue. Read it.
l.. NJ. Howell left for Las Vegas this
morning.
Inc Tuscarora stage went out on
runners this morning for the first Tina
this winter. The snow ut the snmm;,
Just north of town, was said TO be two
feet deep.
congress met yesterday. Both houses
were in session just long enough TO
notify the president that they wera
ready for business.
While the snow is OH the yro,rd
think over the proposition, Tall
It over with your wives while sitting
sitting around the fire these cold nights
Owing to the storm. but slow pro.
gress Is being made on the new school
house and the Western PLciic passen.
ger depot.
The 10 cent monthly social Mt the
Guild will he held tomorrow afternoon
at 2:3O o'clock 1T the residence of Mrs
George Moody. An invitation is ex.
tended to onr friends to meet with us.
Treasurer Miller is busy writing tax
receipts for those who settled OH the last
day. 1t will be two or three DAYS vet
before lie will b. able to make M the
delinquent list.
William J. Calhoun IF Chicago has
been appointed minister to China. He
VIII probably profit by the experience
OF Mr.. Crane and keep his mouth closed
on Chinese affairs, at least, until he gets
out of the country.
The trial of Patrick Calhoun, San
F~rancisco's boss briber, was resumed
before Judge Lawler yesterday. This
looks Ike Il PLAY of iiency's to put
Fickert i'll a hole. Thu case will be in
progress when Fickrrt steps into Lang,
don's shoes.
D.. w. Puett, the Carlin merchant
wandered around town today. He
says that the Southern Pacific is laying
II pipe line in Carli1 tn he used for fire
purposes. The line connects with the
big water tank aud will cover all the
company property. 1t will furnish
CLriin with excellent facilities fol
lighting fire.
y Chicago man unkindly asks the
courts to order the taxing authorities
to compel certain men in hat city t.
pay something like $50. 900, 900 in back
taxes which he allrgc, thIy have dodg
Ell on their stock and bond holding.
for the last ten years Evidently this
individual does not realize there arr
privileged persons in this country.
In Sweden recently an exact model o.
Noah's Ark. rs described in Genesis
was completed. The vessel is claimed
to Ike exactly like the one mentioned
in the Bible. Ii is 80 feet in length
five feet wide and four feet deep. the
measurements being about one-tentl
that Of the original ark. The vesse
will probably be placed on exhibition il
Denmark within: the next few months
Ii WAS manufactured by professor il
one of the Danish colleges.
Joe Tabsr has on exhibition in the
drugstore window Il wisdom tooth
said to Il ircn pulled from Ra,
Harris jaws by DR.. Alexander. He alsC
exhibits the blacksmith tongs, chains
and levers with which the tooth wa
yankcd out. The tooth is about
inches long, two inches wide and hall
an inch thick. As Ray claims tn,
tooth and Joe Tabcr swcars it's no fake
no II has any right to doubt that il
came from Rays jaw. We have al
ways looked upon Ray rs Il wise guy,
but never thought his wisdom came
from such an . tooth.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-12-10
Would Moan Enormous SAVING.

,hs,o "p''eht engineers estimate tim
coma z'ooO'O 600 horse power which
loso, w. easily developed from water
saw This country. This would
annually $4,000. 900 tons OF coal
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-12-10
BILLS ALLOWED

Following are the bills allowed by the
commissioners ut their meeting Mon.
day, December 8:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
When the Wood Is Gone.

From the Success Magazine
DO YOU begin to see the picture? Can
you imagine what it will be in thirty
years?
The lumber business now the fourth
largest in America, will be the first to
fail. Thirty-three thousand establish
ments will Immediately close their doors.
At the same moment more than half
million employees will be thrown out of
work. They will be Joined by a million
in the allied tradeS-coopers, joiirerS. car
penters. planners, wall paper makers; then
another million from the trades lndl-
rectly affected. IT will be such an army
of unemployed was never dreamed OF
In the worlds history.
The mines will fail. There Will be no
coal no iron. no steel for the skyscrap-
ers no steel for rails The railroads will
go out of business. Without transporta
ton facilities the farmers will be unable
to market their crops. already diminished
by uncomfortable drought and food. AS
our national prosperity depends upon the
railroads and the crops, there viii be no
prosperity. In its place poverty-the pow
erty of China. Greece, Syria. Dalmatia.
This or something very like ii is the
picture of this great land of ours when
the forests fail. And it will be more than
a mere picture Unless you decide 10 act
il will become grim reality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
Our Supply Is Limit1ess.
From the Success Magazine.

FROM the success Magazine.
Take the thing we need most-food. We
have not yet begun to scratch the posi-
bilities of the food in America.
The state of Texas could supply food,
home and luxuries to every man. woman,
and child OH this continent AS for cloth
ing. there is material enough in this coun-
try to clothe all it's inhabitants in purple
and fine linen. We have not begun yet to
touch the possibilities of our clothing and
dress supply. The same is true of all
other necessities and luxuries.
When the whale ships in New Bedford
harbor and other ports were rotting in
idieness, because the whale was becoming
extinct, Americans grew alarmed lest We
should dwell in darkness: but the OF, wells
came to our rescue with abundant supply.
And then. when we began to doubt that
this source would last. science gave US
the electric light. The possibilities of find
ing heat, power and light in chemical
forces should the coal supply fail are
simply boundless We are still on the
outer surface of abundance q surface COW
ering kingly supplies for every individual
on the globe.
No matter which way we turn. science
matches our knowledge with her marvel
Gus reserves and nowhere is there sign
of limit.
Write 1t in your heart that one of the
most vicious ideas that ever found en-
trance to the human brain is that there is
not enough of everything for everybody
and that most people on the earth must be
poor in order that the few may be rich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
Origin of meal Time"

From the London Chronicle
With regard to the difficulty of defining
a meal which has been exercising the
house of commons, 1t may be observed
that. originally, a meal meant repast
taken a a fixed time. 1t is the Anglo
Saxon mael, a mark, sign, measure,
fixed time, and SO food partaken of then.
and has no connection with meal of the
oatmeal kind, except by one of those YER
bal condolences in which language
abounds. All the other senses of ''mael'
but that of repast have vanished ex-
cept in the word ''piecemea'. but German
has still both NAL time (as in 'ein-
NAL" once) and 'mahl," meal
Of mahl.' however. tourists should be-
ware. There is a story of a fatigued
English pedestrian staggering into a Ger
man inn with demand for "Abendmahl.'
What he wanted was supper c.Abendes-
SEM; what he got was a clergyman
ready to administer the holy sacrament
(Which "Abendmahl' in practice means),
under the impression that he was dying
Meal time has got into the German
language of greeting. 1t was the cd fash
ion after supper in the home to shake
hands all round and say 'Gesegnete
Mahlzeit'-a blessing on the meaI-tme
And the German digestion is so vigorous
that the students at the universities part
from each other. not wieh goodbye or
adieu or any such supraterrestrial allu-
sion, but-"Mahlzeft"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
ROAD OF SAND AND sAWDUST.
Minnesota Experiment That Appears
to Be Successful.

From the ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
4 road made from sand and saWdust
is the latest style of roadmaking designed
by George W. Cooley. state highway en-
gineer. Last spring he made a section Of
road with clover and rye on sand
foundation. This has been very success
full. The road made from sand and saw
dust is at Cambridge, in Isanti county.
Four inches of sawdust was raked on
the sand road after being graded. This
was worked into the sand by passing
teams. and as fast as ruts were formed
the sawdust was raked into the r,lts, to
be further mixed with sand. This Is a
new road-making material, and II success
full will make an exceedingly profitable
means. Of using the immense quantities
of sawdust from the mills OF the state.
In those counties where there is MOTH
ing but sand in the roads good roads
are impossible without the addition Of
other material. Mr.. Cooley Is now ex-
perimenting with various means Of turn
ing the sand into vegetable loan which
can be worked to advantage. The idea
is that the sawdust will rot and mixing
with the sand will form a loan suitable
for roads.
Such a small amount of money is ap-
propriated by the state for the construc-
ton OF roads that the experiments have
been on a limited scale and the construc-
ton of roads proceeds slowly. This state
spends only One-tenth as much on state
roads as does New York in relation to
the value of the property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
THE MEASLES CANNIBAL.
Method of a Vancouver Island Tribe
to Drive Away Disease.

From the Scientific American.
few years ago an epidemic OF
measles broke out among the Indian
tribes living on Vancouver Island in Brit
ish Columbia not far from Fort Rupert
and the shamans or medicine men came
to the conclusion that cannibal sorcerer.
whom they termed the ''hamatsu
(measles cannibaD, was Staying their
children to eat them, and that he would
continue to do so, until he was killed.
As they could not Stay a ghost in his
own person they arranged d ceremony in
which one of their number posed as the
cannibal and was treated as they would
have liked TO treat the real foe. This
fact of substitute was. of course, not
made public. only the medicine men know
ing the truth of the matter.
Against a wall of rock was painted an
imitation opening, in the center of which
the 'cannibar wass fastened At the
proper time, after going through various
lamentations. covering was jerked away,
exposing the cannibal apparently spring
ing through the solid rock. He was
promptly grasped by two of the priests
who dragged him out and rushed him
through fire which was burning in front
of the place and which was surrounded by
all the members OF the tribe. beating
drums and singing at the top of their
voices BY some jugglery the canniba
was got rid of. and the people were told
that he had flown away through the air
and would not come back
After this ceremony had been repea ted
several times to put an end to other cpl
DENIES which were only too prevalent
among the Indians, it grew into a sort of
annual affair. managed by the members
that the supposed ''hamatsu' was only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
THE THREE-NoTcH ROADS.
Origin of System Of Travellers
Guides in the Ozarks.

FROM me haNSas lily
Three-notch roads are numerous in the
timbered parts OF southern Missouri and
northern Arkansas. Any one who has ever
travelled in those sections Of the country
will know that a three-notch road Is
public highway as distinguished from a
road leading to sawmill. church or a
schoolhouse back in the woods or to a
farmhouse. A three-notch road goes
somewhere. If the traveller follows it he
will reach a town in time, if the streams
are not too high or too swift to be
forded.
1t seems that among the offenses of
George III. King of England. not men
toned In the Declaration of Independence
was that he required all public roads to be
marked with his name In England and its
colonies public roads have been known as
the kings highway so long that nobody
knows when the custom began There
have always been private lanes and rights
of way. but an authorized public road was
always the kings highway. When King
George required his name to be posted at
convenient points on the kings highway in
the colonies the people of that time were
not particularly proud of their duty, and
wherever they could they adopted the pol
lev of cutting three notches on trees along
the road and emitting the reference to
King George.
After the revolutionary war the name
was omitted altogether, but the three
notches proved a useful way of marking
the public roads. The Virginia colonists
carried this system to Tennessee. Ken
lucky and Indiana, and their children
brought II to Missouri. In early days
the roads In Missouri were built first by
the territory and then by the state.
There were two reasons for this pro-
cedure. At first there were no counties.
and later the state realized that if the
matter were left to counties there would
be very little road building. So the state
built roads and marked them with three
notches. Later when the counties began
to build roads they were marked i'm the
timbered 1untry with two notches.
Before and during the civil war this
distinction was preserved and three-notch
roads were always through roads. leading
from one town of some Importance to
another. '.wo-notch roads were less i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01

use Of the appointing power and that of
far greater Importance than the question
of compensation is the proper recognition
of the dignity of public service. He fur
Their said:
Government is merely an organ OF the
community to secure a basis of peace
and order essential to individual liberty
and opportunity. and also to maintain the
collective rights which cannot otherwise
be safeguarded. Our dependence for prog
ress is not chiefly upon governmental
agencies, but upon the virtues of sobrie
ty. industry. thrift and moderation. upon
the realisation of our mutual dependence,
and upon the gradual supplanting of mo-
tives of mere self-interest by those in
spired by the appeals of brotherhood. The
influences contributing to this develop
ment multiply more rapidly and are more
potent than those to which they are op-
posed. In many groups, notable in their
variety but dominated by the same spirit.
our citizens are devoting themselves to
the endeavors of philanthropy and to the
work of education and moral enlighten-
ment. 1t Is through these efforts, so
largely humble and obscure. that the
community is vivified by wholesome in
huences and that truth and justice ex-
tend their Victories
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01

Quotations given below are for large
lots. Jobbers' prices are higher.
EGGS.-Nearby fresh Virginia. 80;
west Virginia and southwest Virginia,
90: Tennessee. %
BUTTER.-Creamery, fancy. 31ka32:
process, fancy. 25a26: fair to good. 19a
20. Store packed. fresh. 16
CHEESE.-New York state factory.
new, large. 14a14k.
POULTRY.-Chickens spring, per h..
IA: hens, per h.. 13: roosters. per h.,
7as; keats. per h.. 10: turkeys. hens.
16a17; ducks, per lb.. 11a12.
DRESSED POULTRY. - Turkeys.
17a20; hens, choice. per lb.. 1oa11; roos-
tiers. per lb., 7as; chickens. per h..
10a12: ducks, per h.. 10a12.
vEGETABLEs.-Po per bbl..
No. l. 2.ooa2.50; northern, per bu.. s5a
sweet potatoes per Per b DBL; I;7Sas;oo 90;
box. 25a30; per bbl., 50a1. 90: rutabagas.
per bbl.. 1.00a1.25: cucumbers. per bas-
ket. 2.oOa3:e0; onions. per bbl.. .S5a2 90:
Per 9u S01 pef S per hunsssn
sprouts. per qt., 1Oa12; eggplant, per
crate, 4O0a5.o0 squash. per crate. 2.OOa
2.25: snap beans: basket: Fla. 2O0a
80: peas. Florida: per basket, 200
II.
per Dbl. 1.ooal.o5; lettuce. Fla. per
basket. 1.O0a2.25; tomatoes. Florida, per
crate. 3.0Oa4.00; radishes, per 100. 1.OOa
200; celery, per bunch, 25a1.10; okra,
per crate. 2.O0a2.50.
GREEN FRUITS.-Apples per Dbl.
3.00a5.0O; oranges. Fla, 225a3.o0; lem
ons, per box. 3.OOa3.25; grape fruit. per
crate, 20Oa3.00; pineapples. per crate,
1.75a2.25; cranberries. per Dbl, 13.0oa
100: per box. 3.5oa5.00; tanserines.
per strap. 3.00a350.
HAY AND sTRAW-tIay, western.
mixed, 110Oa13.50. Straw, rye. bundle
17.o0a1s.o0; rye. machine thresh. 11.00a
1l.50. Wheat, per ton, S.00aS.50. Dat,
straw, per ton, 10.O0a10.50.
SEEDS.-Alsike. per bu., a0Oa9. %:
clover. per bu., 5.70a615; timothy. per
bu., 1.sOa1.90..
GAME.-Rabbits, per doz.. 1.5Oa1. so:
kits, per doz.. 1.O0a1.5O; quail. per doz.
3.OOa3.50: quail. small, per doz.. 2.O0a
$50; opossum. each. 20a40; squirrels,
each, Gas.
LIVE STOCK.-Cattle, extra, per cwt,
5.25a5.75; medium. cwt.. 3.4Oa4. 90; ordi-
nary. per cwt.. 2.O0a3.0O. Hogs, per
cwt.. gross. 5.75a6O0. Sheep. per lb
3ka4: spring lamb. choice. per lb,
61aa7; medium, per h., 8. Calves, choice,
per h.. SASH medium, per h., 7a1h :.
BEEF CUTS.-Ribs. No. l. per lb.. IA:
No. .. II; No. 3, 10. Rounds, No. l. per
per h.. IA: No. 2. II; No. 8. 10 chucks.
No. i, per h., 8: No. 9. Z; No. 3, 6.
WOODS and HIDES--Wool. washed
free of burrs, per h., 23a25; unwashed,
per h., 2Oa21. Hides. green, per h., II;
dry. per h., 10a12. Sheepskins. green.
each. scars; dry. each. 25asO. Calfskins.
green, each. 1.3Oa1.5O. Dry flint hides.
per lb. 12a13; dry sailed hides. per h..
1Oa12; minks. each, 1.5Oa4.o0; muskrats.
2Oa23; opossum. 12a14; gray fox. 25a6o;
skunk, 25a1.25; Red fox, 1.50a2.O0; rab-
bit, OF; raccoon, 25a1J.
GRAIN.-Wheat per bu., 93a1 90.
Corn. shelled, per bu., 63a67; per bbl..
351a3.7J Oats, western white. No. >,
per bu, 63a6s; mixed, 62a64. Bran, per
ton. os.OOa3O.OO. Middling, per ton.
SO.OOa32.OO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
Why His Advertising Did Not Pay

From the Success Magazine.
He adopted the policy of running down
his competitors.
He did not make his advertisements in
teresting, attractive or convincing.
He was conscious of the superiority of
what he had to sell. but did not know
how to bring it to the attention of others
effectively.
He did not know that a fatal reaction
always follows deception.
He did not know how to write an adj
vertsement that would pull
He did not know that a brief, graphic
description, In a few short, pungent tell
ing sentences that will attract and hold
the attention. is more effective than a
whole page of fine print. written in a
loose jointed. haphazard way.
His advertisements 'pu led: but the
effect was lost in bad handling afterwar d
in careless, inefficient correspondence.
He never learned that many good Gus
toner has been lost by a careless letter.
He did not follow up his advertisements
until he got the ear Of the public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
Scylla and Charybdis.
From yirrIs Aenid. Davidsons Translation.

middle: her lower parts are those of
a hideous sea monster, with the tails
of dolphins ioined to the wombs OF
wolves. 1t is better with delay to
coast round the eXtremities Of
Sicilian Pachynus. and steer a long,
winding course. than once to behold
the misshapen Scylla under her
capacious den. and those rocks that
roar with her sea green dogs.
Further. if Helenus has any skill.
il any credit is due to him as
prophet. if Apollo stores his mind
with truth. will give you this one
previous adlnonition. this one. oh.
goddess born. above all the rest, and
I will inculcate it upon you and
again and again: Be sure you. in the
first place. with applications worship
great Junos divinity: to Juno cheer
fully address your VOWS and over
come the powerful queen with humble
offerings. thus. at length. leaving
Trinacria tSicily). you shall be dis
missed victorious to the territories of
Italy. When waited thither, you
reach the city of Cumae. the hal
lowed lakes and Avernus resounding
through the woods, you will sec the
raving prophecies. who. beneath
deep rock. reveals the fates. and
commits to the leaves of trees her
characters and words.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
Routes Explored by Champlain.

rom the Dglneer1nG magazine.
Champlain founded Quebec in 1908 and
his followers Immediately commenced
working their way westward by way of
the Ottawa River, choosing this route be-
cause that via the ST. Lawrence River
was barred by the hostile Iroquois from
their settlements in what is the state
of New York: this accounts for the early
use of the northern route just as at q
later date the hostility Of the United
States to British interests accounted for
the building of the Rideau canal in pref
erence to the opening up of the naviga-
ton of the ST Lawrence river. BY 1878
Champaign had penetrated inland as far
as the present town of Pembroke, and
in 1915 he made his memorable journey
to the Georgian bay and thence via the
Trent canal route to Lake Ontario. Today
the canalization Of the Trent waters.
commenced by the British government
about 1885 and then abandoned on ac-
count of political disturbances in Can
ada, is repidly approaching completion.
and the canslization of the waters OF
the Ottawa and French rivers Is one OF
the major projects under consideration
by the Canadian government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
Big Salt Farm.
m the New Orleans States,

From the New Orleans States.
One of the strangest farms in the world
is situated in southern California, 265 feet
below the level of the sea. The place is
known as Salton. 1t is a salt farm of
about 1000 acres. Here the salt lies, as
deposited by nature. from six to sixteen
inches In depth. The salt farmers are
busy harvesting this crop the year round,
and though the harvest has continued for
over twenty years, during which time
more than 10000 tons of sat have been
harvested, only ten of the LOCO acres of
the farm have been worked.
The salt is first ploughed up into fur
rows; ii is then thrown into conical piles
by men with barrows, after which IL Is
taken to the reduction works near by and
put into marketable condition. The work
is done by Mexicans and Chinese, the in
tense heat being more than Americans
can endure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
Bread Like Grandmother Made.
IN the Topeka Journal

From the Topeka Journal.
Gov.-elect w. r. Stubbs when lie start
ed out on his campaign eight months ago
was entertained at a Kansas home where
salt rising bread was served. 1t was like
the salt rising bread his grandmother
used to make. When he came home from
trip he called his daughter. Lenora into
the study and closed the door.
Just what the gOvernor-elect said to his
daughter is not known except that they
entered into A little private contract
whereby Lenora was to learn to make
him Yalt-rising bread and in turn the
father was to give her a valuable present
The result of it all is that Miss Stubs
went to work at her task. At first, of
course, she had To throw out several ':bak-
ings'' to the chickens. but she soon
learned the art and now, when the new
governor takes possession of the executive
mansion, he will have good salt rising
bread three times day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01

But when. after setting out. the
wind shall watt you to the Sicilian
coast. and the straits of narrow
Pelorus shall open wider to the eye,
veer to the land on the left and to
the sea on the left, by a long cir
cult: fly the right both sea and shore.
These lands, they say. once with
violence and vast desolation con-
vulsed (such revolutions long
course of time is able to produce),
slipped asundcr: when in continuity
both lands were one. the sea rushed
impetuously between. and by its
waves tore the italian side from that
OF Sicily: and with a narrow firth
runs between the fields and cities
sepa III by the shores
Soy guards the right side, i'm
pl. Charybdis the left, and
thr with the deepest eddies of it's
81 .,wallows up the vast pillows.
he, long in. and again spouts them
out by turns high into the air and
lashes the stars with the waves.
But ScyIla cave confines within
its dark recesses. reaching forth her
jaws and sucking in vessels upon the
rocks. First she presents a human
form, a lovely virgin down to the