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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-07-01
CUTOFF CAN RESIST A STORM

That the Southern Pacific COM
pany has completely conquered the
Great Salt Lake in the matter of
the fierce storms doing injury to
the fills nd trestles, is the opinion
of Superintendent Thomas F. Row.
lands VINO has returned after having
spent two days on the lake in a
storm making observations.
When Superintendent Rowlands
left Ogden Monday for the lake he
did not know that a windstorm was
on. He went for the purpose of
making an ins pection in the gasoline
launch of the new trestle that is
being erected upon the east side
of the cutoff. Upon his arrival on
the west shore of the lake, Mr..
Rowlands found that the wind from
a northwesterly direction had in.
creased to such a velocity that it
would be dangerous to attempt the
trip.
While on the west shore the
superintendent had a splendid op.
portunity Of observing the effect of
the wind and waves upon the new
fill and ballasting that has been
recently completed between the
station Of Rambo and the west end
of the trestle. The wind according
to the barometer at Rambo, was
blowing sixty-two miles an hour
and the waves were rolling from
Is to 20 feet in height. At the
point between Rambo and the west
end Of the fill the company has
recently put in thousands of car
loads of rock. The roadbcd or fill
has becf raised about four feet
higher and the sides of the fill are
protected by great rocks brought
from the Lakeside quarry.
1t was found that during the
windstorm of Monday afternoon
the big rocks on the side of The fiji
broke all the strength
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-07-01
DAVID STARR JORDAN
FLAYS THE DRINK SHAM

Epitomizcd in the simplest and
briefest style. DR.. David Starr
Jordan. president Of the Leland
Stanford University. thus sums up
the danger in the liquor traffic and
liquor habit, in an address, delivered
in California. April p, 1910. which
is reported in detail in the Union
Signal of May %:
"Alcohol serves no useful purpose.
1t has no medical value.
1t is a dangerous element, in that
it teaches the nerves to lie. 1t
derangcs the nerves.
ITO be able % take a consider
able amount of alcohol without
becoming intoxicated is an evidence
of weakness instead of strength.
THE saloon is a stepping stone
to infinitely worse. The saloon
and the rcd.light traffic are in.
sporadic. The saloon is the center
of corruption and vice. In prohibit
ton states. the young people are
growing up without the ~dcpraving
and destroying influence of the
saloon. Saloons would not exist
were it not for the power of money
behind them.
The greatest factors in the ad-
vancement of civilization at the
present time are:
The movement for sobriety, and
THE movement for peace"
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Nstie. ior Puh.ie,,io,

L. = LAND OFFICE AT CARsoS City. Sxx.
April q. isiO
NOTICE Is hereby given thai S,Sr,
PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. OF T !,
County of Shawnee. State of Kansas has'sfa
in this once his application to select under ~
provisions OF the act of Congress, spnso !.
June 4. 1917 Go Stats. liz and Act of Cnpy,"'uo
approved March 5. iv6 CS Stats istsl az -
lowing described land. viz. The South.a.,
quarter OF the Northwest quarter CSEl OF SHft
and the Southwest quarter of the Son,h.u
quarter (Swk of SwAl of Section Trhir,,
t3o). Township Eorty.two LtsD North. RAM.
eighty acres
Any and all persons c'a'ming advcr,ry ID.
Lana, G-~"fit.d 90 uesttlnE u" vgJvyl .sra.,,
the mineral character of the land. or ,or -.
other reason. 10 the disposal TO applicant So,
nle their aridayits OF protest in this orics ~, ~
4 before the 18th day of June. 1910.
LoCIS J. COIN.
Rcgi,te
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We r again told that a way has
been found to economically convert
corn stalks into print paper. As
the same thing has been said more
than once in the past it is possible
that the last statement is also pre-
mature. Still there is every reason
to believe that sooner or later corr
stalks and other substances now
wasted will be made into paper to
the no small joy of the farmer and
printer Ultimately, no doubt, corn
stalks will be ,as valuable a by
product for the farmer as cotton
seed is to the cotton grower of the
south.
We arc compelled to apologize
to our readers today for the lack
of fresh matter III this issue. Our
machine acted badly yesterday al d
much worse today. Old Nick has
had it in full charge all day.
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NEVADA Wins RATE CASE

The interstate commerce COM
mission filed decisions Wednesday
that mean much to the Pacific coast
and inter-mountain states. The de
cisions arc in what are popularity
called the Pacific coast 5 which
were heard last autumn by the COM
mission onits trip to the coast and
intermountain states.
In every instance reductions in
the rate complained of were made
and in some instances they amounted
to nearly so per cent. The COM
mission found a remarkable rate
situation existing on the Pacific
coast and ever a more remarkable
one in the inter-mountain territory.
This is notably true of the rates to
and from Spokane, Washington, and
Reno. Nevada.
The Spokane rate case had been
before the commission in one form
or another for several years. The
shippers of that city complained
insistently of the rates they were
charged on freight classes and COM
modities from eastern points Of
origin. because they werc1 required
to pay the Pacifi coast terminal
rites, plus the local rates back to
Spokane from those terminals,
although the freight was discharged
at Spokane by the railroads on the
western trip.
Substantially the same state of
affairs prevailed at Reno and other
points which had to pay the rates to
San Francisco and the back haul
local rates from San Francisco or
Sacramento to the poin Of ultimate
destination. These local rates in
every istance amounted to two-ffths
or o of the entire rate from
eastern points of origin to Pacific
coast terminals. In the Nevada.
Arizona case, including the Sacra-
mento Reno case against the
Southern Pacific company, the rail-
road commission of Nevada against
the Southen Pacific company and
the Maricopa County Commercial
Club against the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe and other carriers, the
decisions were prepared by Com
missioner Franklin X. Lane.
In each of them a heavy reduction
in class rates is ordered, some of
them being as high 33 1-3 per cent.
The commissin finds that the existing
rates are practically without pre-.
cedent or parallel in the United
States. The average rate Iper ton
per mile ION classes from Sacra-
mento to Reno is 0 1-1G cents. an
unprecedented figure. The class
rates between Sacramento and Reno
are reduced approximately 30 per
cent, tho rate on first class freight
being lowered from $l.29 per hun.
dred pounds to IS cents. Similar
reductions in the class rates are
made from Sacramento to other
points in Nevada and Utah.
In the case of the railroad com.
mission of Nevada against tho
Southern Pacific company, the com.
mission condemns the existing
! westbound class rates from ess,ern
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been guilty of but advertising for
dago red. never-Churchill Standard
THE RED DAB OF DEATH

See that big blob of scarlet
paint?" said the engineer as he
| pointed to a girder high up in the
skeleton of a new sky-scraper. That
red spot means that one of the men
working on tile building was killed
by the girder sweeping him off the
structure while being put in posi-
tion."
The visitor GRAINED his neck and
saw a patch of vermillioa paint on
the floor of one of the girders upon
the sixteenth story. 1T must be a
dangerous life" he said to his
engineer friend
Yes, those men up there are
working under the chance of instant
death at any moment. They'll walk
along the topmost girder, 800 feet
above the sidewalk little path of
slippery iron five inches wide-and
will lean outward against the wind.
You or ! c couldn't do it for a second.
Now and again there is an &C
cident. A chap slips. A worker
gets hit by a swinging girder and
flung off. Another man takes an
incautious step and falls off into
eternity. The men working near
do their best to get him, if he
manages to grab the girder he is
falling from, and there are some
swift and reckless races with death
to get to their CO mrade at any cost
in the five or ten seconds allowed
them while strong fingers are slip
ping away from a slippery beam
flange. If the worst happens and
the man falls in spite of their
efforts, then they apply the dab of
red paint, and the iron workers call
it a day. They don't speak much
of the man that is gone, as a rule.
The e consider it fate.
You'd think. by the way" went
on the engineer, that the higher
up these men worked the more care
full they would become. They
aren't particularly careful but they
do guard against the hypnotism of
height. One of the men working
on a high girder becomes paralized
now and then by a sudden fear that
holds him motionless and still on
his iron beam.
THE men look out for this sort
of thing. and the remedy is to dis
tract his attention by a rough blow
on the back or in some cases by
exciting him to anger through any
means in their power. When the
man gets fighting mad he is freed
AiOhh IHS pa dIySlS VI leTTOT OF
whatever you may choose to call it.
He gets up from his girder to make
a rush for the other fellow to dc
him up and the moment he is safe
he is restrained by the other men.
Whenever you see a skyscrapeI
framework" concluded the engi,
neer, leach dab of scarlet paint or
the iron means that some mar ha.
come to his death. Every sky,
scraper and every bridge is a monu.
ment to some little group of un,
known workers. laboring at dizzy
heights and dallying with sudder
death as a part of their daily work.
New York Press.
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Serial No. OFTis
NOTICE roE PUBLICATION
CARSON CITY, NEVADA.

April. -, 1910
Notice Is hereby given that Santa r.. ~.
citc Railroad Company. Of Topeka. COUNTY n,
hawne State OF Kansas. has filed 10 thi, ~
nee his application To locate under the proyis
ions of IA" Act of Congress approved March A
1910 ti Stats. ~ so. and Act of COnsrrss an
proved March 3, 1896, (S Stats. 1890, the follow.
ing described lands. viz:
The Northeast quarter of ihe Northeast qua,.
ter tSE1l of SEAD of Section Twen,y-.iyb,
(sS). Township FOrty-thrrc tgJl North. Rang,
Fifty-siN go East. Vi. Il. NJ. containing foTf,
(tUD acres.
ANY and all persons claiming adversely The
lands described or desiring TO object because "A
the mineral character Of the land. or Tor mr.,
other reason. to the disposal To applicant
should file their afidaYtts Il protest iu This a
flee. on or hcior" the S2nd duy OF June. rlu
Louis J CORS.
kegfsra-
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to Winnemucca $2.75.

to Winnemucca $2.75.
Toledo and Cincinnati TO Reno.
group f, $500 toWnnemucca 81. 80.
Buffalo and Pittsburg, group F.,
to Reno, 1929, to Winnemuccs.
3.O4.
New YORK. group f, to Reno.
SO, to Wnnemucca, $3.33.
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THE DAILY INDEPENDENT

riered At the EIEo postonaee for Transmission
through the nails as seeond-elaSs matter.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
BAKERS ELECT OFFICERS.

The Bakers union, at recent meet
ing, elected the following officers for the
ensuing six months:
President. Chas. Reynolds; vice-presi-
dent, Herr. Walters; financial secretary
and business agent, Frank Hafner; re-
cording secretary, Ed. Herbst; treasurer,
ID. L. Miller; ergeants-at-arms, G..
Younger, F. Berthold, N. Wyler; trus-
tees: Nick Wyler, Ray Lowderback,
Ernest Erickson. The executive commit
tee is John Mengheni, A. Obrist, L.
Mayeaw, Ray Lowderbach, ]. Brodbag
and e. Erickson. D. L. Miller, Edward
Herbst and Frank Hafner are the dele
gates to the Trades Assembly and Label
League.
Business Agent Frank Hafner reports
that the Bakers had a nice crowd at
their picnic at Dome Rock and that 1t
was a great success. A large program
was gotten out by the picnic committee,
and judging from the amount of adver-
tising in it it was paying venture.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
GET THE HOSPITAL COUPONS.

The voting contest of the Denver
Unions Hospital association is progress
ing nicely; and H. b. Sutton, the bust.
ness manager, is placing the coupons in
large number of stores in Denver and
is just getting started. This is one of
the largest things of the kind that has
ever been undertaken in Denver, and is
for worthy cause, the placing of a
Union Labor hospital in Denver 1t
should receive the support of every
union man and woman in the city. You
can assist the cause materially by ask
ing your merchant for Union Labor Hos
pital coupons. If your merchant does
not handle them, send his name to $40
Fourteenth street, to the contest commit
tee, and they will call on him and have
him place the coupons in his place of
business. Get in the game-get the
coupons and vote for your choice. The
coupons will be valuable as the contest
progresses.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14


are no insignificant parts in the person
mel of the drama, and this will give
splendid opportunity to the other men,
bers of the company.
The usual matinee of "The House of a
Thousand Candles" will be given on
Wednesday, and the holiday matinee on
Saturday. Childrens day on Thursday
will have all the usual joys dear to the
heart of young Denver. and it will be
enhanced by special costume dancing in
the Trocadero. Elitchs is becoming the
great center for the children of Denver,
and Mrs. Elitch-Long is doing everything
in her power to make the Gardens en-.
joyable and profitable to the children
Sunday will be the usual big day at the
Gardens. The usual ball game will be
played on the Glitch diamond in the
afternoon at $3.50. In the evening Sat
riano will give his band concert in the
lobby of the Monitor and Merrimac
building from $3.50 to $50, and during
the afternoon Cavalo will give his de
lightful weekly orchestral program. On
Saturday, July %, the Ladies of Macca
bees will hold their annual picnic at the
Gardens. The Monitor and Merrimac
is daily showing to larger crowds than
ever, and the spectacle is bigger aud
better than ever before.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
CONFIDENCE SHOWN IN OFFICERS.

The recent meeting of the Cooks
union was enthusiastic. 1t was the reg
ular election of officers, and the result
showed that the membership is alive tc
the interests of the organization. Busi
ness Agent Parish was reelected by a
vote of 81 to IA over Albert Black Dick
Croskey was unanimously elected treas
urer to succeed himself. The other off
GERS elected follow:
President-H. ]. Tranell
ce-President-Peter Granger
Recording Secretary-Bert Young.
Chaplin-Joe Holestein.
Inspector-Sam. Connely.
Inside Guard-Geo. Miller
Trustees-Bert Chapman, George
Knell, Chas. Sampler.
Trades. Assembly Delegates-Albert
Parish, Bert Young, AL Black.
Label League Delegates-Albert Par
ish, Bert Young, AL. Black.
State Federation of Labor Delegates
Albert Parish, r. e. Croskey.
Four new applications were received
and three members were reinstated. The
finances of the Cooks are in most ex-
cellent condition, and the affairs of the
organization are kept moving in a busi-
ness way under the management of their
live workers.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
LUNCH AT THE FACTORY.
How the SILK Mill Girls Partake Of Their
Midday Meal.

I have implied that the eating of the
midday meal is a very haphazard opera
tion. Only in the rarest cases is a sep
arate lunch room provided. In study
|of 80 factories in single industry we
found just two that did SO. The dinner
hour" is almost universally half hour.
SO that only the few girls who live prac-
tically at the factory door are enabled
to go home. Those who are left have
at their disposal within the mill seat
on the oily floor or on bobbin tray in
a room which often reeks OF ill-smelling
raw material. In the summer 1t is pos
sible to go out of doors. and where the
location of the factory makes 1t practi-
cable this is the general rule. But some
times this wholesome alternative is not
offered.
I recall one factory situated on a bed
Of fine coal dust between two railroad
tracks. The sole choice lay between a
seat on the coal heap In the blaze of the
sun or on the oily floor OF the mill in an
atmosphere where the noise Of the ma
chinery gave no possibility of rest. Some
Of my most vivid and painful recollec-
tions OF the noon hour call up pictures
OF weary figures crouched on heap of
spools their heads sunk between their
hands as If to shut out the clatter of the
machinery-on account Of the short lunch
period some factories keep their machin-
cry in motion instead of shutting It down
their shoeless feet on floor strewn
with the remains Of their own and other
uncheons.-F1orence Sanville. Secre-
tary Of Pennsylvania Consumers League,
In Harper's.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
sARTENDERs GROWING.

The Bartenders' union met in Eagles
hall last Sunday morning and transacted
the usual amount of business. Business
Agent Lynch reports that cards were
placed in Van Gorder's buffet, 1646 Lari.
mer; The Symes buffet, Sixteenth and
Champa, and bar at 2516 Larimer; and
that cards have been removed from 1922
Fifteenth street, 1717 Larimer street, and
1912 Curtis street.
Six new members were initiated at the
last meeting and nine applications re.
ceived. David Lynch was elected as a
delegate to the State Federation of La.
Dor convention at Grand Junction, Colo
Aug. 8. Edwin Savage, the president
received the second highest vote. there.
by being elected alternate.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
ELITcH's.

"The House of Thousand Candles"
The very name suggests mystery; and
everyone who has read the novel of the
same name from which the play is built,
knows that no story has more dark do
ings and suncanny happenings than this
story by Meredith Nicholson. The dram
atization of the novel is the play that
is announced for Sunday night and the
coming week at the Gardens theater.
Laid as 1t is in the state of Indiana,
one would hardly expect to find in the
play so many novel situations and
strange incidents. The story is one of
the adventures of the prodigal son, John
Glenarm, Jr., and his chum, Larry Don
oyan. in the house of mystery, The
uouse of a Thousand Candles" which
has been built by Johns eccentric grand
father and In which John must live for
4 wear in order to inherit the fortune
NJ the paternal ancestor. In addition to
"a being a mystery, the play has that
wor,d-old attraction, the love of man
Tar a maid. One of the things that will
nrove especially attractive is the delight
ful setting OF the piece. The settings
AZ the Gardens are always punctiliously
correct and artistic, and this play will
give the management an unusual oppor-
tunity. The Glitch patrons have been
thoroughly pleased with the work Of
sS,s. Kershaw and Mr.. Waldron this
season and they will surely be well cast
IN the leading parts in this play. There
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
PUBLICITY FOR TRADES uNloNlsM
(By Rev. Charles stelzle.)

(By Rev. Charles Stelzle.)
Ordinarily trades unionism is judged
not by its true principles, but by some
extraneous matter which is merely in
cidental to the movement. While it is
true that opposition to organized labor
is gradually diminishing on account of
the greater familiarity with its purpose,
nevertheless there are still large num-
bers of people who need to be convert
ed This is true not only with reference
to the outsider, but as a matter of fact
there are many in the organization itself
who never have quite caught on to its
true inwardness. Even to many mem
bers of organized labor the labor move
ment is merely an effort to secure larger
wages and shorter hours.
If one were to go through the minutes
of the annual conventions of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor it would be a
revelation The subjects discussed at
these conventions and the actions taken
by that body would convince any fair
minded person that the American FEEDER
alton of Labor is one of the most import
ant reform organizations in America.
Working men need to know this as well
as professional men and others who are
not-and probably never will be-identi-
fed with the trades union. For, after
all, the grip that organized labor has
upon the workers depends upon its value
to the workers. A coerced member is
never of any real benefit to the labor
movement
Organized labor, however, is quite
ready to take its stand upon the princ-
pies for which it has been long contend
w
the trades unions do so because of their
environment They have always lived
and moved and had their being among
a class who seemed naturally to be op-
posed to the trades union, and they can
not conceive of anything good coming
out of the movement. There are many
others whose opposition is based upon
mere trifes.
The one great thing that organized
labor needs today is the widest public
ity. Everybody else depends upon this
method for the advancement of their
business, for it must constantly receive
new members as well as break down the
prejudice of outsiders. Organized labor
may thrive in spite of opposition, but it
is sure to die because of Indifference.
And Indifference to organized labor is
found very largely among the very men
and women who should be most closely
identified with it.
There should be in connection with
every central body an educational or
publicity committee which should make
1t it's business to spread the gospel OF
organized labor. 1t should be prepared
to furnish the ministers, public school
teachers, college professors and stud
ents, and all other persons who have to
do with the making of public sentiment,
with exact information regarding the
aims and purposes of organized labor.
This should be done Systematically and
persistently. Discussion should be
aroused in the press, in debating clubs
and in public forums on the questions
which have to do with labor
There are any number of organiza-
tions in the field who are furnishing ma
terial on the 6ther side of the question.
Why should not organized labor be pre-
pared to ably defend its position?
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
"HuNrlNe AND FISHING GUIDE

Have you seen the Hunting and Fish
ing Guide" published by G. R. Bryant
and P. M. Natteman? You haven't?
Well, if you are fisherman, and want
to know where you are going to fish and
if you are a hunter and want to know
where the big game spend the hours of
leisure, you should always have it at
hand. 1t is published by these staunch
union men, the former a member of
Typographical Union No. 40, and the
latter a member of Pressmen's Union
No. /, every Friday, at Eastwood &
kirchner's, Eighteenth and Champa
streets. 1t is first-class publication on
game and fish, telling each week where
the fishing is the best, the time of all
trains both going and coming, and every
thing the fisherman wants to know. The
game and fish laws are appended. Get
copy and be enlightened.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
JgweLRv WORKERS oIssANoED.

The Jewelry Workers union, Local
No. 20, has disbanded, owing to the little
support they have had for the label on
their work, or demand for union men.
and have withdrawn from all central
bodies.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14

The best in the U. S. La Belle 81
cigar.
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14
oxx1cEzs OF TIE UNIoN LABEL
LEAGUE.

Stereotypers.
Vice-President .........Y. r. HARRISON
Bookbinders.
Secretary-Treasurer EDW. ]. HINES
Typographical.
Subscription Solicitor DAVID LYNCH
Bartenders.
Secretary Complaint Dept. GEO. ALLEN
Reading Clerk MRS. ALICE KELLOGG
woman's Auxiliary to Machinists;
Sergeant-at-Arms 49,. FRITZ HENNING
Bartenders.
BUSINESS C01fnf1TTEE.
J. w. WHITE, Chairman .Stereotypers
EARL HOAGE, Secretary. Press Assistants
GENEVIEVE MILES Garment Workers
N. A. TUST1SON Machinlsts
JAMES RODGERS .......... .Stereotypers
United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14

La Belle sc cigar. the best union-mads
sc cigar in the United States.