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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
CROP LOSSES CERTAIN TO
REFLECT ON CONSUMERS

1t never rains but it pours. In
the east, recently the scene of
rebellion againt high food prices,
Tho weather has just conspired with
the trusts and the marketmen to
add another burden upon the con-
suming public. The frost, rains
and SHOWS of last week reduced the
nations wealth to $50, 200, 900 so the
estimates run. The loss in cotton is
1925, 600, geo, tobacco S50,000,000,
fruits Sl25, 100000 vegetables $5,-
600, 200, wheat S1OO,OOO,OO0, oats
$40, 900, 900.
This is an appalling loss for the
country to suffer at one fell stroke,
loss which the consequent raise in
prices will hardly replenish.
The direct and heaviest sufferers
are the growers and after them the
public, says the Sacramento Bee,
which must pay still higher prices
tfian have Oeen the rule for every
necessary of life.
AS usual, this is the i'll wind that
blows nobody good. What is the
casts misfortune may be vests
fortune. The deficient market on
the other side of the Rockies must
now look to this side for its supply
of fruits and vegetables.
The other products are not raised
in quantities big enough to export.
Wheat and oats we import to add
to our own like crops, and cotton
and tobacco are but experiments in
California.
The tremendous shortage will be
reflected here, in high prices, too,
although they will not match those
in the east.
Since the conditions are so bad
all around, raise in railroad rates
appears to be the only thing left to
make the consumers state of alb
| lection complete.
And undoubtedly the railroads
will get in and do their share of
uplifting.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
BIG TAX PAYMENT BY
THE CONSOLIDATED

Bullion taxes amounting to S3d,-
99i.2i from the Goldfeld Consoli-
dated Mines Company and S341. 20
from the Goldfeld Alamo Mining
Company for the quarter ending
March l have been received by
Sheriff Bradley The Consolidated
statement shows a production Of
74.56d.99 tons, the gross yield of
which was s2,374,O6.S7. Cost of
extracting was s54,S7O.96; trans
portaton. Sl9,6ll.2i; reduction,
1914. .306.l 10; the yield or net value,
S1,1s6, ,245.50.
The production of the Alamo
Company from the Mountain King
claim at Lucky Boy was 1,10S.S1
tons, which gave gross yield Of
$50, ,032.s5; cost of extracting.
transportation and reduction was
s3S, ,523, leaving a aet yield of $15,-
5O9.S5. -Goldfeld Tribune.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
HER ONE WISH

The wandering peddler stopped
at the southern cabin and opened
his pack.
Nanny let me show you some
self raising umbrellas" he began.
mo use man; no use," inter-
rupted the old coiOrci woman, as
she busted herself about the pot of
clothes. "Cyan't use muffin lax
dat"
How about self raising window
shades?
mo good he1h, kase deh amt no
windows wuth talkin' about"
Self raising buckwheat?"
No good to me-we eat cohn
ponc, But, mister!"
We'll, nanny"
If yo'll tell me how to tuhn desc
heah fohteen bad chillun into self
raising pickaninnies Ah'n be yo'
friend foh life, dat All will, sab. ;
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
STEINETz THE
ELECTRICAL WIZARD

The greatest expert on practical
electricity in this country is the
man who is least connected with
that science in the popular mind.
He is Charles Proteus Steinmetz,
who receives $3.50 yearly from
the General Electro Company for
teaching and directing its force of
men. Twenty years ago Steinmetz
was walking up Broadway practic-
ally a pcnnilcss immigrant, al
though his expulsion from his
native country, Germany, had been
because he had edited socialistic
paper at college too successfully
In spite of his education he had
a long and discouraging search be-
fore he got work. He found 1t as
craftsman in the shops of a great
electrical company at Yonkers.
In two years he had pushed his way
into the experimental staff and a
little later was drawing a large
salary. Finally his company was
absorbed into the larger company,
and he with it.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
THE CzAR'S SOLILOQUY

After the cars morning bath it
is habit to mediate an hour before
dressing himself. Londcn Times
Correspondence.
(Viewing himself in the pier
glass; Naked what am /? A
lank, skinny, spider-lcgged libel on
the image Of Cod Look at the
waX-wOrk head-;hc face, with the
expression of a melon the project
ing ears-the knotted elbows the
dished brcast-the knifed-edged
shins-and then the feet, all beads
and joints and bone sprays, and
imitation X-ray photograph
There is nothing imperial about
this, nothing to invoke awe and
reverence. Is it this that hund-
red and fifty, million Russians kiss
the dust before and worship?
Manifestly mott No one could wor-
ship this spectacle, which is Ne.
Then who is it, what is it that they
worship? Privately, none knows
better than |; it is my clothes.
Without my clothes | should be as
destitute of authority as any other
naked person. Nobody could tell
me from parson, a barber, a
dude. Then why is it, what is il,
they worship?
As Teulfelsdrockh suggested,
what would man be-what would
any man be-without his clothes?
AS soon as one stops and thinks
over that proposition, one realizes
that without his clothes a man
would be nothing at all; that the
clothes do no merely make the man,
the clothes are the man; that with
out them he is a cipher, a vacancy,
nobody, a nothing.
There are twenty-five million
families in Russia. There is a
man-child at every mothers knee.
If these were twenty-five million
patriotic mothers, they would teach
these man-childrcn daily, saying
Remember this, take it to heart,
live by it, die for it if necessary
that, our patriotism is medieval,
out worn, obsolete; that the
modern patriotism, the true patrio-
tism, the only rational patriotism,
is loyalty to the nation all the time,
loyalty to the government when il
deserves it," With twenty-five
million taught and trained patriots
in the lands a generation from now,
my successor would think twice be-
fore he would butcher a thousand
helpless poor petitioners humbly beg
ging for his kindness and justice, as !
did the other day.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE

While walking across foot log
that spanss slough while on her
way TO visit a neighbor who was
sick Mrs. d. Wennhold lost her
balance and fell headlong into the
stream which was running bank
full. She had her little boy in her
arms and in the fall she lost her
hold on the little fellow. In her
struggle to save herself from a
watory grave, her hand came in
contact with the child and clung
tightly to him. The swift current
carried them down stream and
when carried near the bank she
grabbed branch of willow bush
with her free hand and with a
supreme effort dragged herself
from what came near being her
grave. Gardnervillc Courier.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE:-7-room bungalow
on Court street; strictly modern, 8
lots. II. S. Taber.
FOR SALE: -- Groom frame
building with bath and electric
lights, 3 lots on Court Street. H.
S. Taber.
FOR SALE or RENT:-6-room
frame building with bath and cleo
trio lights, lots. close to school. H.
S. Taber.
FOR SALE:-2-story frame build
ing on Idaho Street, a bargain,
must sell. II. S. Taber.
For Sale:-Lots on the south side
of the Western Pacific depot
suitable for business or residence.
II. S. Taber, Elko. Nevada.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
TEN MEN TAKEN 10
JAIL FROM TRAIN

Ten men were arrested at the
Union depot Saturday morning as
they stepped from an eastbound
train, on suspicion of being counter
feiters. They were taken to the
station and searched for bad" coin
A five dollar gold piece was found
on one of the men that did not
seem to have the right ring" to 1t,
but the local bankers stated that it
was full weight and would have to
be accpeted as good money. The
men were all released.
The arrests were made upon the
advice of Nevada officers to the
effect that bad coin had been circu-
lated in that state during the past
few days, and that the men coming
to Ogden on the early train this
morning were suspected of being
the men who were turning the
trick. The alleged bad coin passed
IN the Sagobrush state was five
dollar gold piece and so perfect
imitation of the real coin that it
was almost impossible to detect
the difference.
The officers here, and the special
officers of the railroad company,
were so sure that they were about
to capture notorious band of
counterfeiter that the South
ern Pacific train carrying the
men was intercepted and stopped at
Seventeenth strees, where the men
were taken into custody Ogden
Examiner.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
ALFALFA IS OLDEST
OF THE FORAGE PLANTS

, The word alfalfa is from the
Arabian and means "the best fod-
der" The plant ranks among the
eldest known products of cultivated
fields. 1t may have formed the
food of Nebuchadnezzar and there
is historic evidence that it was
carried from one ancient country
to another. but it is only within a
decade that its remarkable adapt
ability to conditions in the West has
become evident to all. When Xcrxes
invaded Greece in 400 B. C. he
carried this plant, or the seed with
him, and il was taken to Rome in
lac B. c.
The Moors carried alfalfa to
Spain and from there it was taken
to South America by Cortcz in 1919.
1t has been grown in California
since the mission fathers, but the
areas devoted to it formerly were
small.
In spite of the fact that millions
of acres are devoted to the cultivation
of this plant the price of alfalfa on
the open market is steadily rising.
Alfalfa is called the poor mans
friend and the rich mans best in
vCstmcnt.
Its friends call it the greatest of
all mortgage lifters. the best of the
"gct-rich quick" schemes. When
the Mormons, who were the first
white irrigiators in the United
States, began work in Utah. Brigham
Young gave them as a text:
"Plow deep and plant alfalfa"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
FURTHER PARTICULARS
OF THE MURDER
OF A BOY BY INDIANS

From District Attorney Taber
last night, we learned the following
particulars regarding the killing of
a boy by the Indians in the north
eastern part of the county on the
25th of April:
When the man whose name is
given as Gay Tenley, first saw the
Indians they were branding horses
in corral at the foot of high
hill. He and two companions were
on top of the hill and started down
to where the Indians were when
enc of them told them not to come
to the corral, but to go to the
camp. They started for the camp,
but before reaching there they
were halted by another Indian with
pistol who said to Tenley, Il am
going to kill you," Tenley ask him
why he wanted to kill him as they
had always been friends. The
Indian replied that he had no
friends and w"S like a wild horse.
The Indian then fired in the direc-
tion of Tenley, but did not hit him.
Tenley and his companions then
started back up the hill. AS they
were going along one of them
happened to turn around and saw
one of the Indians a short distance
behind them raise his gun to shoot.
The white men lost no time in get,
ting behind a big rock. The
Indian also got behind a rock and 8
regular battle ensued. None OF
the whites were wonded, but it is
thought that the Indian who began
the fight was killed or so badly
wounded that he has since died.
When the firing ceased, the white
men escaped to their camp. TIE
Indians then got their horses and
rode to the top of a hill overlooking
the camp and fired several shot:
into the camp, but did not hit any
one.
While the battle was going on 8
white woman and a boy were in the
camp. The boy told the woman
that he would go after the horses
belonging to the camp. He
mounted his horse and rode away
and that was the last seen of him
alive. After he had been gone for
some time, Indians were seen rid
ing around on the top of hill al
the foot of which the lifeless body
of the boy was found. We have
been unable to learn the name OF
the boy.
Excitement was at high pitch in
Contact when the news reached
there and eight men volunteered to
go with Deputy Sheriff Grim in
search Of the Indians. Had they
found them it is not likely the
county would have been put to any
expense in trying them.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
DEAD INDIAN STOPS
BIG TRUCKEE PROJECT

A Washington dispatch says that
a kinless and we'll nigh friendless
dead Indian, Hair Forehead Brown
by name, stands in the way of a
clear title to the land sold within
the great Truckee Carson irrigation
pojcct in Nevada, and Secretary
Ballinger, by direction of the presi-
dent, has submitted to the house
bill designated to blaze the way by
cancellingi Hair Forehead's patent.
Mo-So-To-Be. for this is the
Piute's Indian name, was allotted
No. 8 on the public domain in the
Carson land district. He died and
the twenty year period in which the
land had been held in trust has not
expired.
Both the president and Secretary
Ballinger believe that on the death
of an Indian allottee during the
trust period without heirs, the
equitable title in the allotment
reverts to the United States, vest
ing there by full title in the gov
ernment.
Under a statue of limitation,
however, it was felt that the Piute's
title could not be cancelled without
congressional authority.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
MONORAIL TO ALASKA GOLD

Louis Brennan's gyroscopc mono
rail system is to undergo a prac-
tical test. A contract signed grants
the exclusive rights for the use of
the system in Alaska to an Amcri.
can syndicate headed by John Bal.
lainc of Seattle. New York bankers
are backing the syndicate, which
undertakes to build 100 miles of
line within year.
Mr.. Brennan will complete two
cars, orders for which were by Mr..
Ballaine who has seen the gyroscopc
car undergoing practical tests, in
which il carried over 100 passcn-
gers, at the rate of 26 miles an hour.
Mr.. Ballaine said: 81 estimate
the cost of the 100 miles of line we
are going TO build from the Mata-
miska coal fields toward Fairbanks
will not exceed SO, a mile, com
pared with at least double track.
The ability of the gyroscopc car to
take curves will obviate most of
the engineering difficulties. If the
initial road proves a success, which
/ fully anticipate it will, branches
will be laid to the various gold
fields. greatly increasing the Al
askan gold output.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13
TWAIN'S CABIN A MYTH

Since the death Of Mark Twain all
kinds of stories have been printed
about his cabin at Aurora most of
which are clearly and purely rot"
Mark at one time lived at Aurora
and had cabin there, but there
has not been enough of Che aforesaid
cabin there for years to build fire
TO cook breakfast for a jaybird.
The late Hank Blanchard for years
used to present every tcnderfoot
coming into this section with
piece of wood from that cabin all
of which came from a fence that
once adorned the roadside near
Sunshine. Bodic Miner.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-13

Sweet, & Orr Co.'S. corduroy
trousers and overalls the best in
the world at Engler Co.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-11-18

President David Starr Jordan al
leges that we ourselves and all the
worlds inhabitants are paying now in
increased cost of living for the wars
of the last decade and a half. With
in a@period of seven years the world
witnessed three expensive wars, the
Spanish war, the Boer war and the
Manchurian war. These three burned
up capital measured by the billions
of dollars. They also consumed a
great deal of social energy. The ma
tons whose soldiers did the fighting
suffered the sacrifice of lives, but
those nations did not alone foot the
bills. The capital of the world is now
international. The money market of
one continent is quickly affected by
that of the other. We are all paying
day by day those war bills.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-11-18

balance of the ticket on the hit or
miss plan. 1t may be imagined how
much more of an uniformed vote
might be cast upon propositions so
complex as laws.
In modern business, the specialist is
permitted ITO do the important things
because he can do them better than
the Jack of all trades. The manager
of a big corporation will hire special
ly trained men to do their various
work, and will hold them responsible
FOR the results. The man who at.
tempts to take care of the multitude
of details, soon finds himself swamped
and nothing done as Il should be.
It's good deal the same in the
referendum ballot. The average citi-
zen under our present system employs
specialists to Ilake the laws-men
who have time to concentrate their
attention upon the intricate PROPOSE.
tons arising. 1t is difficult to imag-
inc how intelligent legislation can
arise from submitting mass of tech.
meal reading matter to the voter for
decision. The voter hasn't the time
and won't take the time, in the aver.
age case, to intclligently cast his bal.
lot upon these propositions.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-11-18
THE REFERENDUM BALLOT.

glance at the yards and yards of
ballot used at the recent election in
South Dakota, where the initiative
and referendum prevails, is enough to
make even the most ardent referen'
dun supporters skeptical over the
practical results of such plan.
To a casual observer it would APP
pear that not one man in fifty would
ever read the great quantity of fine
print on the ballots, giving the laws
that are to he decided upon. And
surely not one man in hundred
could give the time and thought for
intelligent investigation that a vote
upon such a proposition should re-
quire.
1t has been proved that in Nebras-
ka primary campaign, where a multi
tude of candidates are to be voted on,
the average voter will be acquainted
with but a very few and will vote the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-11-18

trap is arranged Immediately beneath
the spot where speakers stand to ad.
dress the house. beneath which is n
receptacle into which the members
who have had enough of the particular
style of oratory dealt in by the speak.
err can roll a little lead ball, with
which all the members are to be pro-
vided, through a tube, leading under
the floor from each members seat to
the trap upon which the speaker
stands. When a certain number of
Legislators have voted enough" by
oepositing their leaden balls-it re.
quires more than half the number of
the full house-the trap descends auto
matloally carrying the speaker with 1t.
No point of order is necessary-all is
silence and de corum. The will of
parliament has been registered with
out waste Of time, the INSTRUCTOR dis.
appears from view and better yet from
sound. This seems to us to be great
invention for conserving the time and
temper of congressman, and we think
machine of this kind should be i'm.
mediately installed in the congression-
al halls in Washington. II would be
sure to attract crowd to see the
grand disappearing act" too.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-11-18

II. Band 2. Band to be worn after sec
ond month. 3. Stockings. T. Shirt. S.
Pettcoat. g. Nightgown, T. Cambria
slip.l
with many dishes on which generous
helpings of food are served to take
away the patients appetite before he
has tasted mouthful A well filled
tray may be gratifying to the person
convalescing from a long illness when
food was limited to liquids, but as a
rule it is unappetizing almost to every
person. Before taking the tray to the
patient make sure that his room is in
order and that he is ready for the
meal. Freshen the air in the room for
few moments, wipe the patients
hands and face with a dampened CLOTH
straighten the bedclothes and rear
range the pillows. Then bring in the
tray with the food on it freshly pre-
pared. Serve hot things hot and cold
things cold. Have everything as near
ly perfect as possible. Place the tray
within easy reach OF the patient II he
is able to feed himself and then while
he eats talk to him of interesting.
pleasant things, which will cause him
to forget himself and what he is do
ing. Do not sit down beside the bed
and watch every &nouthful he takes,
occasionally remarking on his i'm
proved appetite or the lack Of It. Such
a procedure is very likely to make the
patient feel he has eaten enough be-
fnrn 9 rlNr Ctn rtn
The patients diet is naturally some
what limited, There are Il great many
kinds Of foods that he is not allowed
to eat, and even those that are per-
mitted cannot be cooked in all sorts
OF ways. The physician in charge of
the case will give list Of foods a.
lowed, and in some cases he will state
how they are to be prepared, But his
directions are often general, as give
him soft cooked eggs" or "let him
have bit of chicken or a nice cream
soup" Any specific instructions re-
garding recipes or different ways OF
serving the same food are not often at
tempted by the doctor. II the nurse
be she wife, mother, daughter or pro-
feSSionai-d does not know how to serve
eggs I'm variety OF ways. how even
beef tea and gruels may be given new
forms and tlayors, then the patient
Will probably weary of them. perhaps
refuse to eat them. Fortunate is the
woman who knows how TO prepare
simple foods attractively. making old
friends appear as new acuuaiutanres.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-11-18

A great Improvement is observable
in the people of Porto Rico since it
came under American control. Ignor-
ance, idleness and poverty were then
well nigh universal. Eighty-three in
every hundred inhabitants were I'M
able to read or write and a condition
similar to the slum districts in great
cities everywhere prevailed. During
the last decade school attendance has
quadrupled, population has made a
gain of 16 percent and wealth an in
crease of % percent, but there is still
great room for improvement The
land is only half of 1t cultivated and
with a dense cultivation the entire
possible production is needed to sup
port the people in comfort.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-11-18

The military appropriations during
ed to $1,454,3;7.66S which was more
than the value of all the gold silver
and other metals oils and minerals
including coal and petroleum for the
year 1908. Suppose this vast sum
which was put into machinery which
is never likely to be used, before it
will be obsolete. had been spent in
the development of the country, in
proper housing for the poor of the
cities, in good roads or thousand diff.
ferent ways where it would have been
permanent benefit to mankind. What
might not have been accomplished?