Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-04-01
Salmagundi
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

80 VI Ihc HISu SCHOOL,, lell IOr nSr
home at Reno this morning.
The ladies of the Dorcas Society
Will serve ice cream. cake and
coffee ut Mizpah Hall tonight from
z till 10 o'clock at % cents each.
All are cordially invited.
We acknowledge the receipt of a
copy of State Treasurer Ryan's
annual report. 1t is full of statistics
showing the financial transactions
of the state government for 1909.
Judge Morgan is celebrating his
S5th birthday today. He is hale
and hearty and seems good for
many more birthdays. His many
friends hope he will be with us
many more years.
Uncle Sam is practically saying
to France and Germany, Give us
your lowest duties and take our
highest, or I'll raise the tariff on
you by % per cent" Do we
expect to build up our foreign trade
by such methods?
Now that the senate has passed
Mr.. Aldrich's bill providing for that
business methods commission,
congress may feel that it is so far
advanced toward saving that $780,
GOO, 900 a year it can make a little
larger appropriations.
As we understand the packers,
they can't be guilty because they
were not present when the consumer
was being robbed. If the consumer
a only prove an equally good
alibi no harm has been done.
President Taft is distressed that
anyone should doubt the good faith
of Aldrich and Cannon. He has
their assurances that the brick is
solid gold, and they even took him
out in the woods and showed him
the Indian.
Two of the men who blew up the
safe of the Richmond, Virginia,
p~ostoffice Saturday night and got
away with $50, 900 worth of stamps,
we're arrested in New York Tuesday
night with their booty. One of
the men is believed to be Eddie
Fay, a much wanted criminal.
The Pythim Sisters will give a
social for the children of the
Knights and Sisters under ten years
of age, Friday evening, April LIST,
at Castle Hall at 6 o'clock. A
committee has deem appointed who
will have the entertainment in
charge and parents are not obliged
to stay at the hall.
DR.. Pritchctt, president of the
Carnegie Foundation, is in Reno.
1t would be a good idea to have DR..
Pritchett stop here and look over
the necessities of Elko in the public
library line. Perhaps he could be
prevailed upon to establish a
Carnegie library here. 1t is
certainly worth an effort on the part
of our people.
A wealthy land owner in Alaska
has made an offer to pay the govern
mcnt 80 cents a ton on the coal to
be mined from 5000 acres and
estimates that the royalties would
amount to more than $50, OOO, 900.
Yet the politicians probably will
dispose of the land at about $40 an
acre, as proposed in a bill which
has been prepared, to some patriots
like the Guggcnhcims.
Four operations were performed
at the State Prison Monday after
noon by Drs. Huffaker, Pickard,
st. Clair and Kebs on convicts
there. All were capital operations
and all believed to have been sue
ccssful. John Doyle had a leg am
putated. VIM. X. Bruce was ope.
rated on for appendicitis. Potsy
Bonner and William Lynch for q
complication of troubles.
When we celebrate prosperity We
seldom save anything for a rainy
day. The man who works for the
best generally gets it while the
other fellow is hoping for it. The
mar who al make a pillow of hii
conscience need not envy the mil
lionaircs Of the world. When yo,
lay up treasure in heaven the onl,
way to be happy is to forget tina