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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-01

George Hail. who has been visiting
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-01
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A New Store

with new goods. new
ideas, and new ways.
Of doing things. !.
Everything new
but the time oldpriin.
ciples Of Integrity,
Sincerity and Cour-
tesy, which, COM,
bined with a stead.
fastruleof unequqaI|ln|e,,dl d.
Y e:..'giy.i|n'1g,. will. r.. ]!
govern the conduct.
of this business at all
times.
WE ASK YOUR
INSPECTION
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-01


e discriminating with dependable merchandise
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19

once more and consult a barber.
That the change was made is SELF
evident and had the Judge APP
peared on the street with an entire
new outfit different from what he
is accustomed to wear. it is dout-
full if a dozen of the Judges
friends would have recognized
him. AS it is the family dog looks
askance but instinct tells the
animal that is yet well and he
follows behind deep in thought
over the sudden change in the out
ward appearance of his master.
AS he meets his friends the
Judge is informed of their opinion
of the change but as the majorit,
has decided that his appearance
has been improved the well-knowr
resident is expressing no regret
at his action Appeal.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
The WESTERN PACIFIC

In an interview with Superin.
tendent Ogilvie this afternoon, we
learned that a train composed of
newspapermen and passenger
officials of the Western Pacific
would leave the Oakland mole at
0 o'clock p. m. of the 18th. This
train will consist of a buffe car,
two standard sleepers, a diner and
a compartment observation car.
The train will run through to
Salt Lake arriving there at 8 o'clock
a. m. of the 18th. At 7 o'clock
the next morning, the train will
leave Salt Lake for a daylight trip
over the road to San Francisco =.
II is scheduled to reach Elko at
$3.50 o'clock on the afternoon of
the goth, and will stop here ten
minutes, leaving at $40 for Win
nemucca, where il will lay over for
the night. At 7 o'clock the next
morning 1t will continue the trip.
AS the train stops here only ten
minutes, II will be impossible TO
arrange any formal reception. We
would, however, suggest that as
many citizens of the town as can
make 1t convenient be at the train
to give the visitors a cordial
welcome and make them feel that
Elko is wide awake and fully ap-
preciatesthe opening of the Western
The advertising the
town will get in this way will
more than pay for the time lost
greeting the visitors. In fact. II
would be a good idea for the entire
town to be at the Western Pacific
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
PEALY FOR SPOILS

In a recent issue Golfers Weekly
published a letter written by a
subordinate of Secretary Ballinger
of the interior department which
probably shows the spirit of the
Ballinger administration of that
great branch of the national
government. The writer of the
letter is w. H. Batting, a nephew
of Senator Hepburn of Idaho, and
the interior department official in
charge of the land office at Occur
d'Alene. The epistle is addressed
to the editor of a ne wspaper which
had formerly been a warded adver.
Using patronage at the disposition
of the land office.
The letter was sent in explain
alton Of the withdrawal of advertis-
ing patronage from the newspaper
in question. Naturally" writes
Mr.. Batting, under a Republican
administration such notices go to
the Republican newspapers" Tha.
S a frank presentation of the
spoilsman's view OF politics that
might have passed muster in the
day of Andrew Jackson and Andrew
Van Buren, but it was scarcely 10
have been expected from an official
of the Taft administration. But
Batting goes further, making the
test of Republicanism support of
the standpat group as represented
by Ballinger and Cannon. Two of
the specific counts against the
offending editor are as follows:
Il. At the time of the hearing
of the case against the Washington
Water Power company, the Spokes-
man-Review published an editorial
in which the good faith of Secretary
Ballinger, Senator H and myself
was questioned in connection with
that case. This same editorial was
copied verbatim. ! b~elieve) by
your paper.
"2. At the time of the contest
in the house of representatives f,
against Speaker Cannon you
published an editorial attacking
Cannon and also our representative,
Hamer.
The letter closes with the follow
ing remarkable words:
THE above constitutes the busis
Of my action in not having recog-
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
DIGkERSON AND THE GAMBLERS

In commenting on u article in
regard to Governor D%ickerson's
alleged alliance with the gambling
fraternity of the state, the Reno
Gazette submits the following
evidence to sustain its charge that
such an allsance has been made:
A careful poll of the gamblers
of several towns in the state taken
a few days ago showed that almost
without exception they were for
Dickerson and Sprague. But that
in itself may show nothing. How
ever, there is stronger proof at
hand that Governor Dickerson is
playing for the support of the
gamblers, and if Editor Booher
wishes to verify the Gazette's
statement he ear readily do SO by
making an inves tigation in his own
town, uneless orders are suddenly
issued to cover up the tracks.
In Reno it is public property that
DR.. Ascher was drawn into the fight
for state senator against Huskey by
Dickerson and the gamblers.
Ascher's petition was signed by
every gambler to VIII ON it was
presented. 1t is also stated that
Ascher did not want to be drawn
into this fight, but he is anxious
to get the job now held down by
DR.. Gibson at the state asylum, and
the price demanded for it by
Dickerson was that he should get
into this fight against Huskey in
behalf of His Accidency and the
gamblers. That is the story that
is being told of Ascher's candidacy,
and it comes from a source that is
absolutely reliable.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
A REVOLUTION IMPENDING

How wide the chasm is that
separates the two factions of the
republican party is clearly shown
by Senator Cummins ia his speech
to the Iowa convention. OF the
new tariff law he declares: 1T
is not a republican measure,
although passed by republican votes,
for the men who are chiefly
responsible for it thought more Of
swelling the overgrown fortunes of
their intimate friends than they
thought of the party principles,
the party pledge, or the welfare of
a long suffering people"
That is the most severe indict-
ment of the Aldricb-P Payne tariff
law that could be made by a
republican. A large majority of
the members of the convention
endorsed wha: Senator Cummins
said and app,a.ded when he
refused to name President Taft
because he has trained with Can
non and Aldrich and the stand
patters.
Kansas has gone the same length
and has endorsed its insurgent
leaders and overwhelmed the
reactionaries.
The insurgent revolt in other
states may not be as potent, but
it is certainly lusty enough to
defeat many a standpat congress-
man and replace him with an in
surgent or with a democrat.
The "long-suffering people" of
the western states have evidently
discovered that what the democrats
have heretofore told them is true,
that protection cannot protect
those who have to sell their
surplus products IN the free trade
markets of the world in COM
petition with the surplus of the
same class of products of other
nations.
A revolution on the tariff issue
is evidently impending, and
honest people will get their dues
instead of being plundered in the
name of the law by the unscrupul-
u be~neiciaries of the protective
system.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
Baker and the defendant by P. z.
Keller. -Tonopah Bonanza.
THE FRIAR LANDS

There seems to be something
queer about the sale of the friar
lands in the Philippines. Con-
gresham Martin charged that a
vast tract was sold for the benefit
of the sugar trust-or it came to
that. He denounced the sale as
against the spirit of the law of
1902, which restricted the sale of
public lands to small tracts and for
the benefit of the people at large.
Our government meant that public
lands should not fall into the hands
of a few individuals or corpora
tions as has happened so often in
u country. Our government
meant to take opportunity by the
forelock in this case and the public
lands were to be saved to the
Filipinos- But there came this
application for more than SO, 900
acres of the friar lands and the
question arose: Did the friar
lands come within the public land
law? We think most people will
agree that there ought to have
been no legal question about it, as
there is no moral one. The Philip
pines are Of limited area; we
started in to preserve the public
lands thereof free from monopoly
and then we have the question"
whether certain lands owned by
the public are public within the
meaning of the law!-Exchange.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19

nized your paper as a proper
medium for the publication notices.
Ii, however. in the future conduct
of your paper these political
acrobatics are eliminated, l will
be glad to reconsider the matter
and extend to you the full con-
sideration to which you may be
entitled"
This letter was written as late
as April Is last, when the Ballinger
in, estigation had been under way
for months. Oilers makes the
comment hat subordinates of his
may be discharged by Secretary
Ballinger for too N lch zeal in the
public service, but that nothing is
likely to happen to Batting for
writing this disgraceful letter.
Whatever may be the measure of
Ballinger in such matters, the Taft
administration ought to be too
sensible and too honest to tolerate
such a petty and yet such a
dungeons application of the spoil:
idea. Batting's effort to contro
the editorial expressions of small,
newspapers through advertising
notices at the disposal of the lane
office division of the department is
simply vicious .--Chicago Daily
News (Ind. Rep.)
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
NO REFORM IN EITRAVAGAVCE

All the promises of the Admins
tration that the government eX-
penses were to be reduced have
turned out to be Boosting for
partisan purposes. The official re-
ports of the appropriation commit
tees of Congress shows that there
is no reduction in the aggregate,
though there has been some
cheese-pating in some of the De
partments. The Roosevelt policy
of extravaganza is one of my
policies that has been faithfully
followed by President Taft, and
includes the creation of new COM
missions and e offices to be filled
by Republican partisans.
True retrenchment will have tc
reform the systems aad policies
that have been so wasteful so
that even new taxation was re-
quired to meet the increased ex.
penditres.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
Assessment Notice No. (,
american Flag Mining Company

a SlullnE COmuanN
l.ocation OF principal place OF ba.r
Titan. slS Ne~hous- Building, Salt TaLasE
Utah. Location OF mines. Uintah Mil. Nnl.
trict. Park CITY: summit County, Utah Vs.
Notice IL hereby given that AZ "A ,r..
the boaru OF directors of American EI,. ~ ~
Company. "A Nevada corporation. hsSr Hm.tMg
ONCE OF the onpan Ne. sl5NewhonSa nr,a1t We
Saltl.ake City Utah. on the 18Th daV n, iD'rriNI,lh..
an assessment OF three Gel cents Der 49,
levied upon all the issued and uts;antip- 49,
OF the corporation. payable iinme,iiatsII ,aIHA
Cain. Secretary. No. SIS Newhou>. ItyJTJSsh
Salt l.aL. city. Utah. ANY stock ut..n In,
this assessment shall remain unpaid ON M
day. the LIST day of August. 1910. will ~ d ~
uuent AMI advertised for sale. and uni.>, ,
ment Is sooner made, ~ much If each ,s1c'pTAS,,
lax "~ Nnas. 90 gsN .E.t. 80 I.A a.. "a 80
IuUul assessment. WIth Inc tXpru.s> an -
Using and sale. Will Oe sold AT public ,ur, ~
To the highest bidder nj the cOmpanNs. ~
No. SIS NewhOuse Building. salt Iak. S,ss'
Utah, on Monday. the 5th day of STrt,rhtl'
1910. at II o'clock \. II. "'E'
By order OF the board OF directors
John Cain. Secretary
BY order OF IN board OF directors Tho 5,,.
when the stock under the above nmttce -,
assessment becomes delinquent. is uo,trnr., ~
Monday september >. 1910, and the date of al
II postponed to Monday. October = 1910 Al n
OiclOCK. 4. NJ. y
JOHN CAIN.
Secretary
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
OWENS CASES IN COURT

The cases of the Nevada Ma.
tional bank and the county of Nye
versus Jack Owens, late sheriff.
were up in the district court yes.
terday IN a motion of the defend
ants attorney to set aside the
attachment now prevailing against
the real and personal property of
the defendant. Arguments were
made by the attorneys on all sides
and lasted until late in the after
noon, when the case was submitted
and the matter taken under advise
ment by Judge Averill. The bank
was represented by Key Pittman,
Nye county by District Attorney
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
SUPPLY AND DEMAND

When a Chicago pork packers
pew rent was raised during a de-
pressed condition of the market he
despair: 1.-THE Gospel
up with pork going down!
What are we coming to? Well,
we may be coming to a condition
in which the supply of clergymen
will he so short that their price,
like that of corr or COTTON when
the harvest is unfavorable. will
advance. Within the last few days
two clergymen have left the pulpit
on the ground that their incomes
were insufficient. One minister
gave up a 5000 a year to become
hoor-walker in a Boston store, and
the other has resigned a %pastorate
with a salary of $1,000 without
making any arrangements for his
future. Nearly all the denomi,
nations have ben complaining that
the attendance at the theological
seminarics has been falling off. II
the supply of new ministers be
reduced and the number of those
already in the pulpit be depleted
by designations, the time will soor
come when the churches will have
to raise salaries or go without
\ pastors.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
ELEVEN TONS OF DIAMONDS

The days work at the mine was
over ard Fredick Wells, the surface
manager, was making his usual
rounds. CHANGING along one side
of the deep excavation his eye
suddenly caught the CLEAN of a
brilliant object far up the bank.
He lost no time in climbing up to
the spot, where he noted the CLINT
of light. He had not been mistaken:
il vas a brilliant crystal. He tried
to pull it out with his fingers and
as this proved impossible he sought
to pry it out with the blade Of his
per knife. To his surprise the
blade of the knife broke without
causing the stone to yield. Then
he knew II was a large stone So
large and brilliant was the stone
that he feared he was either dream
ing or was insane.
Determined to test the stone on
the spot before proceeding further,
Wells rubbed off the dirt from one
of its faces with his fingers and
soon convinced himself that it was
not a lump of glass, but a diamond,
apparently. He finally succeeded
in prying out the stone, and bore
it away with him to the office of
the mine. Here it was cleaned. and
to the establishment of all, was
found to have a weight of 1929
karats. more than three times hat
of any other diamond that has been
discovered. Before many hours
passed the telegraph carried
tidings to all parts Of the world
that the greatest diamond of this
age or any other age had been
brought to light.
IL haS Oeen t~hirty-nlne years,
since July -. 1871. since the dis
covery of diamonds in South Africa,
Do you know how these great mines
ere discovered? A trader stopping
over night with a Dutch farmer
saw the children playing with
-
brigtq marbles. The trader took
the white stones to Cape Town and
found they were diamonds of
wonderful beauty and great value.
In these thirty-nine years about
eleven tons Of diamonds have been
taken from Kimberly mines.
Think of eleven tons of diamonds
like eleven tons of coal being
dumped into your cellar.-Ex-
change.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
RENO,S FLY TRAPS

1t is stated that the appearance
of the giant fly traps in Reno, which
r now becoming quite numerous,
is only the first signs of the ap,
pearance of a new trust in thi:
city. This is the new Dried Fly
trust and it is claimed that the
men who sell the fly traps are
agents OF this famous trust which
will soon be known the world over
and which will result in the doing
of much good in all lands.
This trust it is claimed secures
flies which it dries and sells to
German chicken raisers in Germany.
The flies are used as chicken food
and therefore they must be caught
alive and allowed to die and are
then dried out and shipped TO
Germany for the chickens to eat
According to the best informsaon
obtainable the men who sell the fly
traps will go around and collect
the flies after the traps r full
and will then ship these flies to the
central drying plant in the east,
where the flies will De put through
the curing process. They will
then be stored and at intervals big
loads will be shipped to the German
chicken ranches.
Only last week a whole ship load
of dried flies sailed for Germany
and another n is preparing to
sail later this month. Many people
will doubt this and viii ask, How
could they ever get emugh flies to
load a ship?" Now me of the
giant fly traps will iold manv
thousands of flies and { you will
only observe these trips are all
over the city. At first they were
sold to stores and othr business
houses but now they aorn the back
porch of many a hom, and stand
on the stree. curbs, ad each trap
is swarming with file. N ow each
trap will hold more nan a water
bucket full of flies md say that
there are 1000 of iese traps in
Reno alone. Tha means more
than two ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS full Of
flies will be caugh'in Reno at one
setting of the trap. Then again
the traps become filled in a very
short time, whid e that the
process of fling the traps will
occur over uncover again.
While this going on in Reno it
is also goingon in other parts of
the state AID in all the cities of
the United States, both large
and small. When the reader takes
into consideration the fact that flies
will be sent from all towns in the
country to the central drying plant
the reader must conceive that tons
and tons of flies will arrive weekly
ready to be dried and sent to Ger
many for the chickens. IL is a new
industry and one that is said to be
profitable.
Now in regard to the fly traps it
is said that these traps are manu-
featured by a man who is backed
by a member of the firm of a San
Francisco grocery company and
that there is a patent pending ON
the same. The traps are sold for
agood price and according to report
it costs about 30 cents to manu-.
facture ttem.- Gazette.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19

and General u. S. Grant was not
long ago a guest at a dinner given
by certain college and school
teachers. The chairman rose to
introduce him. He had hunted up
an old story about the Grant family,
and was much pleased with himself
that he had something so interest
ing to say.
when Fred Grant was a boy at
West Point, " he began, his father,
the famous general. wrote to the
commandment inquiring how the son
was progressing.
You need not worry the
commandant wrote back. Your son
is getting better marks in every
thing than ever you had in any
thing"
The gentleman was not quite so
sclf-satisfcd when General Grant
rose to respond.
THAT isa perfectly true story"
he said smilingly. 81 remember
the incident perfectly, but there
is a mistake Of one generation. !.
and not my famous father, am the
general who wrote to the com
mandant; and my son is the one
whose father had such poor marks.
But never mind Mr.. Chairman. it's
all in the family. Tho Christian
Herald.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-19
OUR FIGHTING GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR ickerson has assumed
q new role, that of purifier of the
press of the state by methods re-
sorted to only by DULLES. Angered
by an article that appeared in the
Reno Gazette, which purported TO
give the inside history Of choice of
the new prison site, Nevada's
governor entered the Carson News
office Tuesday night and assaulted
q. A. MOntrose, the editor of that
paper, while seated in his chair
conversing with friends. Montrosc
resented the governors attack and
was in a fair way to severely
punish him, when friends inter-
vened and saved his excellency.
The story is told elsewhere by the
News.
In a statement, concerning the
affair, published in the Reno
Journal, Governor Dickerson init
mates hat what he attempted to
do to Editor Montrose will be the
fate of all editors who criticse him
during the campaign. If he really
means that. he had better go into
training at once. There are some
pretty husky editors in Nevada
that would just dote on whipping
two or three governors before
breakfast, just for the purpose of
working up an appetite for their
morning meal. The editor of the
Independent being past the fighting
age and being somewhat crippled
with rheumatism proposes to install
a gatling gun or two and man il
with experienced gunners so as to
be ready for any attack the COVER
nor and Jimmy Finch, his ready
letter writer, may make on its
editor. Faithful s%entinels will be
stationed up and down the rail
roads to warn us by telegraph of
the approach Of the fighting COVER
nor. Other precautions not no
dreamed of will probably be taken
to save our scalp from falling into
the governors possession.
But seriously we think Govern or
Dickerson has made a grave mis-
take in resorting to such methods
in conducting his campaign. When
a candidate for office resorts to
brute force to defend his official
record, people are very apt to
think that he is trying to conceal a
'arge sized African in his political
wood pile. For the last year or
more, the governors own paper
and other papers that are now sun.
porting him have ridiculed and
abused men of all parties who did
not fall down and worship at tho
governors feet. II his political
'nmies now resort to the same kind
IF warefarc, Governor Dickerson
should not forget the dignity due
% the position he holds and
attempt to win success by wbin.
ping editors. II he makes bis
campaign along that line, he have
scraps galore.