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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-05-19
Application No 1887.

Application No 1887.
Notice of Application for Prmission
to Appropriate the Public Waters
of the State of Nevada.
Notice is hereby given that on
the 18th day of May, 1910, in ac-
cordance with Section 25, Chapter
XXI, of the Statutes of 1909, one
John H Luhman, of O'Neil, County
of Elko and State of Nevada, made
application to the State Engineer of
Nevada for permission to ap-
propriate the public waters of the
State of Nevada. Such appropriation
is to be made from Cotton Wood
Creek, at points in approximately
the NW4 of NW4 of Sec. So, T. 45
NJ, R. 60 E., M. D. NJ, Elko County,
by means of dam and twenty-one
cubic feet per second is to be con-
veyed to points in 81, NJ & NJ of
NE4 of Sec 81, & SW4 of NW3 &
NW4 of SW4 of Sec 80, T. 45 NJ, R.
81 E., M.D.M. by means Of bitches,
and there used for irrigation and
domestic purposes.
Water not to be returned to stream
Date of first publication May ID,
1910. ..r.f..
Date of last publication June 21,
1910.
Signed:
Emmett D. Boyle,
State Engineer.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-05-19

When the baby takes too much
food the stomach turns; the result
is indigestion, sourness and vomit-
ing. Frequently the bowles are in
volved and there is collie pains and
diarrhoea. McGEE'S BABY ELK
1R is grand corrective remedy
for the stomach and bowel dis
orders of babies. 1t is pure,
wholesome and pleasant to take.
Price Csc and SOC per bottle.
Sold by Elko Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-05-19
ROMANCE OF SPAlN's RULER
According to This, His Choice Of Life
Partner Really Was Dictated
by Ris Heart.

Like his father before him, Alfonso
Kill. when his ministers began to
hint discreetly about possible ALI.
ances. contented himself with reply
ing: .. ..
Il shall marry princess who takes
my fancy, and nobody else want
to love my wife" UH-
When the king went to England no
one doubted for a moment he would
return engaged-and engaged to Pa.
trtcia Of Connaught. AS a matter of
fact. when the two young persons met
they did not attract each other. But
Mt the ball given in the kings honor
at Buckingham palace. Alfonso never
took his eyes OF a fair haired young
princess. whose radiant beauty shed
all the glory Of spring round her.
who Is that?'' asked the king.
Princess Ena Of Battenberg," was
the reply.
The two were presented, danced and
talked together, and met again on the
next day and on the following days.
And when the king returned to
Spain he left his heart In England.
But he did not breathe word about
1t. He who had once been 80 expan-
sive now became suddenly contempla-
tive and reserved
Soon after HIS return he ordered a
yacht, and when the time came to
christen her he made the builders
paint on the prov In gold letters:
PRINCESS -. -"
The comment aroused by those
three little dots may be easily i'm.
agined.--McClme's.
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Prosperity Shown in Diamond Imports

this year collected $2,500,0OO in duties.
Belgium and the Netherlands are the
countries selling most of the stones to
the United States.
More than $40,000,O00 worth of dia-
monds and other precious stones were
imported the first IL months of 1909.
These are the correct figures and rep
resent an increase of $4,000, 900 over
the total of 1908 and more than
$S.000,000 over 1907, this country's
record year for imports of jewels.
During the calendar year the for
eign commerce Of the United States
exceeded In value that of any earlier
year with the exception of 1907. I'm
ports were larger than in any previous
IL months. but exports will fall some
what below those of 1906 and 1907.
A subject of interest in the report fl
the statement that expectation of food
stuffs, both raw and manufactured.
has fallen lower than any other time
for decade. This gives rise to ap-
prehension, especially as it is accom-
panied by the statement that, while
other countries are selling to the Unit
ed States. this nations trade with 9TH
er lands has suffered
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WASHINGTON. - The comprehen-
w sive economies in the executive
departments of the government which
the administration Is seeking to ap-
ply, will penetrate to the remotest
sections of the country. Not only
is the work of the departments IN
Washington being analyzed, but every
public office in every state will receive
the same treatment. This will include
every mint, especially the big mint at
Philadelphia. every custom house, ev-
cry internal revenue office, every post
office and all other offices where the
public. money is expended. The prom
ise was made by Senator Aldrich, dur
Ing the tariff debates, that a saving
of from 25 to 40 per cent is possible
and the administration is aiming to
reach those figures.
This means that preparations are
being made to make many consolida-
tions where work heretofore has been
duplicated. In fact, some of these
consultations are accomplished al
ready. Also 1t means that the bust
ness of each borough and Office is be.
ing scanned, all with a view of in.
creasing their efficiency and at the
same time reducing the cost The ad
ministration has gone far enough to
know that this can be done.
The Work of investigation is under
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Mince Pie Story Interests DR.. Wiley

thirst for opulence seizes him the
temptation to sophisticate his product
becomes irresistible. His first false
step may seem harmless-it may be
nothing worse, indeed, than the addi-
tion of some sterilized wood pulp to
his pie filling-but that first false step
is fatal Ere long he is launched upon
dizzy career of chicanery and sub
terfuge. Abandoning apples and
peaches entirely, he begins to fill his
pies with carrots and turnips. Instead
of flour, he tries plaster of paris; in
stead OF soup meat, cat meat; instead
of sugar, New Orleans molasses; in
stead of magnesia, manganese Final
ly, instead of baking his pies, he mere
ly varnishes them with shellac.
No wonder the ordinary mince pie
of our hostelries and eating houses.
our public banquets and our cook
stands bears an evil name No wonder
1t is avoided as a pestilence, even by
shoe drummers. And yet mince pie,
per Sc, Is not nefarious Made at
home, and without too great depend.
ence upon left-overs and other culin-
ary debris, 1t may be both nourishing
and palatable-a sound and even de-
lightful Wand, with something of lob
ster salads hearty solidarity and
something Of the wiener schnitzePs
haunting mystery. Made upon the east
ern shore of Maryland, where pieology
is an art as noble as piano playing or
therapeutics, 1t may rise even high
er than that. becoming true victual
Of the first-class and ranking with
Smithfield ham salad and fried
smelts. =
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R. HARVEY w. WILEY, govern
- ment chemist, was greatly inter
ested in the story which has reached
Washington, of a Polish coal miner in
Ohio, who, biting onto a slab of Pitts
burg mince pie, struck a rivet and
broke off seven teeth; but, being ex-
tremely hungry and having no money
to buy actual food, kept at his grim
task. A minute later he struck a stick
of dynamite in the core of the same
pie and was buried from his late res
1dence the next day, leaving a wife
in Poland and another in Ohio.
Thus lives are wiped out and homes
are made desolate by the ordinary
mince pie of commerce-a dubious
and sinister victual, in whose dark
depths a million dangers lurk.
The average mince pie manufacture
er. we have no doubt whatever, starts
out in business with high ideals and
real love for his art 1t is his firm
intent to devise only the best and
purest pies and to use in them moth
ing but genuine fruit, honest soup
meat, choice brands of fourth-rate
flour, clean bacon rinds and chemical
ly pure glucose. magnesia and anitine
dyes.
But as he goes on and the mad
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Woman Makes Bugs for the Government

gigantic scale in comparison to the
life size insects, close microscopic
study of the subject and the ability
to shape the different parts on iden-
tical lines are details of Mrs. Heide-
mann's work that must be followed
each time she molds a reproduction.
Mrs. Heidemann as a sculptor has,
produced busts of some of the oleb-
rites of the day, but she says her art
has never been more severely taxed
than it is through her employment for
the bureau of entomology of the de-
partment of agriculture The models
of insects cover virtually every known
form of life In the world of bugs.
The models are true reproduction,
fantastic in some cases and hideous in
others, and they furnish exceptional
means for persons interested in agri.
culture to study both the insects that
destroy crops and the others that pre-.
serve agricultural products.
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AtH9 I'm / I lee z1zT
%AfH4Al5A Hl5lAM|B AM|B5%~%.


, charge or Charles d. Norton, assist
ant secretary of the treasury, who
handles the annual estimates for all
departments. and he has not yet ex-
| amined single public Office without
| finding faults to be cured and the ex-
pense to be cut of. The trouble lies
largely In an unnecessary number Of
employees and consequent system Of
loafing and shirNng that would not
be tolerated in any private business.
Much Of the investigation so far
made has been the personal work Of
Mr.. Norton. Thus In an offce under
the treasurer of the United States he
| found the work far behind and an ap-
| plication for more employees on file.
Mr.. Norton went to this office at nine
in the morning, when business is sup
posed to begin, and found it empty.
Presently few of the clerks arrived,
but it was ten o'clock before all of
them were there and at work. At
80 some of them went out to lunch,
and it was 1870 before all of them
were again at their desks. Shortly
after four they begin to leave the
place, although the days work Is not
supposed to be over until 4:30. At
that hour not a soul remained in the
Office
After satisfying himself this was the
daily routine in the Office Mr.. Norton
sent for Charles H. Treat, then treas
urer, and exploded his bomb. He or
dered that instead of increasing the
force in that Office it was to be re-
duced. This was done and the office
has so increased in efficiency that 1t Is
doing more work than it ever did be-
fore, and is fast catching up on its
back business.
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ROSPERTY has returned. accord
i ing to import and export records
for 1909, published recently by the bu-
reau of statistics of the department of
commerce and labor The surest in
dication of ready money, officials de-
clare, is the diamond market, and dur
ing the first IL months of 1909 this
has doomed. the importation of cut
diamonds amounting to $25,214,541,
three times as much as during the cor
responding period last year, and near
ly $6,500,000 more than during that
time in 1907.
Imports of cut diamonds this year,
with December omitted, amounted to
more than s1,000,000 above those in
the IL months of 1907, this banner
year in the importation of cut gems.
On these diamonds the government
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SYNOPSIS.

Miss Patricia Holbrook and Miss Helen
Holbrook, her niece, We're entrusted TO
the care of Laurance Donovan. a writer
summering near Port Annandale, Miss
Patricia confided to Donovan that sne
feared her brother Henry. who, ruined Dy
a bank failure, had constantly threatened
her for money from his fathers Will, or
which Miss Patricia guardian. They
came to Port Annandale 10 escape Henry.
Donovan sympathizcd with the two
women. He learned of Miss Helen s an
noying suitor Donovan discovered and
captured an intruder. who proved TO be
Reginald Gillespie. suitor for the hand OF
Miss Helen HOlbrOOk. Gillespie diSap-
peared the following morning. A rouSh
sailor appeared and was ordered away.
Donovan saw Miss HolbroOk and her IA
ther meet on friendly terms. Donovan
fought an Italian assassin. He met the
man he supposed was Holbrook. but who
said he was Hartrdge, canoe-maker
After short discussion Donovan lett
surlily. Gillespie was discovered by Don
Ovan presenting country church with
$1,000. Gillespie admitted he knew ot Hol-
brooks presence. Miss Pat aCknoWleuSed
20 Donovan that Miss Helen had been
missing for a few hours. While riding
in a launch the Italian sailor attempted
TO modest the trio, but failed. Miss Pit
announced her intention of fighting Henry
Holhrool, and not seeking another hiding
place. Don0van met Helen IN gardtn az AT
night. DupHcitv Of Helen was confessed
by the young lady. She admitted connlVlng
with her father despite her aunt 5
precautions, in night meeting with Don
oVan. The three went for a long ride the
following day. That night. disguised as a
nun. Helen stole from the house. she met
Reginald Gillespie who told her his love.
Gillespie was confronted by Donovan.
Helens lover escaped. At the town post
office Helen, unseen except by Donovan,
slipped a draft into the hand of the Ital-
jan saFlor. She also sgnaled her father.
Miss Pat and Donovan took in the
canoe carnival. A young lady resembling
Miss Helen Holbrook was observed alone
in a canoe, when Helen was thought to
have been at home. Donovan met Gill
leSpie.
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perfect health and in full control OF
the button market of the world"
"You have undoubtedly been sorely
tried" / said as he broke off mournful-
ly. In spite of myself 1 had been en-
tertained. He was undeniably fellow
of curious humor and with unusual ex-
perience of life. He followed me to
the street, and as 1 rode away he
called me back as though to impart
something of moment
Did you ever meet Charles Dar-
VIM"
He didn't need me for proof, But
TONS"
Il wish I might have had one word
with him. It's on my mind that he
put the monkeys back too far. 1
should be happier if he had brought
them little nearer up to date l
should feel less lonesome, Irishman
He stopped me again.
Once l had an ambition to find an
honest man, Donovan, but gave it up
its easier to be an honest man than
to find one. l give you peace!"
l had learned some things from the
young button king, but much was still
| opaque in the affairs of the Hol
brooks. The Italians presence as
sumed a new significance from Giles
| pies story. He had been party to q
conspiracy to kill Holbrook, alias
Hartridge, on the night of my adven
ture at the houseboat, and I fell to
wondering who had been the shadowy
director of that enterprise-the COW
ard who had hung off in the creek and
waited for the evil deed to be done.
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CHAPTER XIII.
The Gate of Dreams.

In my heart 1 was anxious to do
justice to Gillespie. Sad it is that we
are all so given to passing solemn
judgment on trif1ing testimony! 1 my
self am not impeccable. l should at
any time give to the lions a man who
uses his thumb as a paper-cutter; for
such a one is clearly marked for bru-
tality. My prejudices rally as to a
trumpet-call at the sight of a girl
wearing overshoes or nibbling bon
bons-the one suggestive of predatory
habits and weak lungs, the other OF
nervous dyspepsia.
The night was fine, and after re.
turning my horse to the stable l con.
tinued on to the Glenarm boathouse.
was strolling along, pipe in mouth
and was halfway up the boathouse
steps when a woman shrank away
from the veranda rail, where she had
been standing, gazing out upon the
lake. There was no mistaking her
She was not even disguised tonight
and as advanced across the little yer
anda she turned toward me- The Ian
tern over the boathouse door suffused
us both as l greeted her.
Pardon me, Miss Holbrook; I'm
afraid l have disturbed your medita
tions," 1 said But if you don't
mind
"You have the advantage of being
on your own ground" she replied.
81 waive all my rights as tenant il
you will remain
1T is much nicer here than on ST
Agatha's pier; you can see the lake
and the stars better. On the whole, u
she laughed, 81 think I shall stay a
moment longer, if you will tolerate
me-"
l brought out some chairs and we
sat down by the rail, where we could
look out upon the star-sown heavens
and the dark floor of stars beneath
Helen bent forward with her elbows
resting on the rail, her hands clasped
under her chin. The lamplight fell
full upon her slightly lifted head, and
upon her shoulders, over which lay a
filmy veil. She hummed dreamily for
a moment while l watched her. Had
she one mood for the day and another
for the night? l had last seen her
that afternoon after an hour of ten.
mis-, at which she was expert, and she
had run away through Glenarm gate
with a tarnt for my defeat; but now
the spirit of stars and of all earth's
silent things was upon her. 1 looked
twice and thrice at her clearly
outlined profile, at the brow with it's
point of dark hair, at the hand where
on the emerald was clearly distin-
guishable, and satisfied myself that
there could be no mistake about her
You grow bold" I said, anxious to
hear her voice. You don't mind the
pickets a bit"
mo. I'm quite superior to walls
and fences. You have heard of those
East Indians who appear and disap-
pear through closed doors; well, We'll
assume that / had one OF those fel-
lows for an ancestor! 1t will save the
trouble of trying to account for my
exits and entrances. l will tell you
in confidence, Mr.. Donovan, that ]
don't like to be obliged to account for
myself"
CTO BE CONTINUED
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M AKING models of bugs for Uncle
IVA Sans use in teaching agricultur-
lists and "bugology" students how to
distinguish between insects that are
harmful and those that are useful is
the novel occupation of Mrs. Otto Hell
demann. well known as a sculptor in
Washington.
1t is no easy task, that Mrs. Heide-
mann has. All the skill of the sculp-
tor is necessary in the dexterous
fashioning of the queer looking mod
els. for although they are made on q
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CHAPTER XII-continued.

81, myself" he continued, taking
chair near me and placing his feet in
an open window, "am cursed with
rugged health. l have quite recovered
from those unkind cuts at the nunnery
thanks to your ministrations-and
am willing to put on the gloves with
you at any time"
You do me great honor; but the
affair must wait for lower tempera-
ture"
"As you will It is not like my
great and gracious ways to force a
fight. Pardon me, but may 1 inquire
for the health of the ladies at Saint
What's-her-name's?
"They are quite well, thank you"
81 am glad to know it;"-and his
tone lost for the moment it's jaunti-
ness. Henry Holbrook has gone to
New York"
Good riddance!" 1 exclaimed, hear
tily. And now"
And now If 1 would only follow
suit. everything would be JOY plus for
you!"
He laughed and slapped his knees
my thoughts exactly.
"You certainly are the only blot on
the landscape!"
'"Quite so. And If l would only go
hence the pretty little idyl that is be,
ing enacted in the delightful garden,
under the eye of friendly chaperon,
would go forward without Interrupt
ton"
He spoke soberly, and I had OBJ
served that when he dropped his chaff
a note of melancholy crept into his
talk He folded his arms and went
on: "She's a wonderful girl, Donovan.
There's no other girl like her in all
the wide world. l tell you it's hard
for girl like that to be in her posi-
tion-the whole family broken up and
that contemplate father of hers hang
ing about with his schemes of plunder.
It's pitiful. Donovan; it's pitiful!"
tits a cheerless mess. 1t all came
after the bank failure, 1 suppose"
practically, though the brothers
never got on. You see my governor
was bit by their bank failure; and
Miss Pat resented the fact that he
backed OF when stung/ But the Gil
lespies take their medicine; father
never squealed, which makes me sore
that your Aunt Pat gives me the icy
eye"
Their affairs are certainly mixed, "
replied, non-committally.
"They are indeed; and have studied
the whole business until my near
mind is mussed up, like scrambled
eggs. Your own pretty idyl of the
nunnery garden adds the note pi.
quante. Cross my palm with gold and
I'll tell you of strange things that lie
in the future. l have an idea, Dono
van; singular though it seem, I've a
notion in my head"
Keep it," l retorted, ito prevent a
cranial vacuum
Crushed! Absolutely crushed" he
replied. gloomily. Kick me. I'm only
the host"
We were silent while the few sounds
OF the village street droned in. He
rose and paced the floor to shake of
his mood, and when he sat down he
seemed in better spirits.
"Holbrook will undoubtedly return,
said.
yes; there's no manner of doubt
about that"
And then there will be more trou
ble."
"Of course"
But suppose there's no guessing
when he will come back"
HE will come back as soon as he's
spen& his money"
| felt delicacy about referring tC
that transaction on the pier. 1t wa:
a wretched business, and nov
realized that the shame of it was moi
lost on Gillespie.
How does Henry come to have thai
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italian scoundrel with him?" 1 asked
after a pause.
He's the skipper of the Stiletto," I"
Gillespie replied, readily.
He's a long way from tide-water,"
I remarked. "a blackguard of just his
sort once sailed me around the Italian
peninsula in a felucca, and saved me
from drowning on the way. His hero
ism was not, however, wholly disinter-
ested. When we got back to Naples
he robbed me of my watch and money
belt and profited by the transaction,
having intended to give him double
their value. But there are plenty of
farm boys around the lake who could
handle the Stiletto. Henry didn't need
dago expert"
The mention Of the Italian clearly
troubled Gillespie. After moment he
said:
HE may be holding on to Henry in
stead of Henry's holding on to him. Do
you see?"
mo; l don't"
well, 1 have an idea that the dago
knows something that's valuable Last
summer Henry went cruising in the
Sound with a pretty rotten crowd
poker being the chief diversion. A
man died on the boat before they got
back to New York. The report was
that he fell down hatchway when he
was drunk, but there were some ugly
stories in the papers about it. That
Italian sailor was one of the crew."
Where is he now?"
over at Battle Orchard. He knows
his man and knows he'll be back. I'm
waiting for Henry, too. Helen gave
him 100000. The way the market is
running he's likely to go broke any
day. He plays stocks like a crazy
man, and after he's busted he'll be
back on our hands,"
It's hard on Miss Pat"
And it's harder on Helen. She's in
terror all the time for fear her father
! will go up against the law and bring
further disgrace on the family. There's
her Uncle Arthur, a wanderer on the
face of the earth for his sins. That
was bad enough without the rest of it.
That was greed, too, wasn't it?"
No, just general cussedness. He
blew in the Holbrook bank and
| skipped"
You told me that Henry Holbrook
found his way here ahead of you. How
do you account for that?"
He looked at me quickly, and rose
again pacing the narrow room.
Il don't! 1 wish 1 could!"
IT'S about the last place in the
world to attract him. Port Annandale
is quiet resort frequented by western
people only. There's neither hunting
nor fishing worth mentioning; and a
man doesn't come from New York to
Indiana to sail a boat on a thimbleful
OF water like this lake"
you are quite right"
IF Helen Holbrook gave him warn.
ing that they were coming here
Don't you dare say it, She couldn't
have done, She wouldn't have done
1t! tell you l know, independently OF
her. that he was here before Father
Stoddard ever suggested this place to
Miss Pat"
We'll, you needn't get so hot about
it"
And you needn't insinuate that she
is not acting honorably in this affair!
l should think that after making love
to her, as you have been doing, and
playing the role of comforter TO Miss
Pat, you would have the decency not
to accuse her of connivance with Hen
ry Holbrook."
| You let your jealousy get the better
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Rivers Immense TRAFFIC.

In the River LEX, Holland, and its
connecting canal to Amsterdam the
traffic amounts to over 10000 vessels
of all kinds per annum.
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Most Obstinate Thinns.

A bachelor says mule is the most
obstinate thing on earth, but married
men know better.-Chicag Daily
News.