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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-03-15
EXERCISE JOINTS AND MUSCLES.
Novel Machines Installed In a New
York Medical College.

The 30 steel machines, with their
complicated mechanism, which will be
used in the new department of me-
cnanlcotherapy in the Vanderbilt
clinic of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons at New York have been
placed on public exhibition. The ma
chlnes are gift of Mrs. Ray Mat
shak, in memory of her husband. who
was prominent merchant. Arranged
IN long rows in room OF the clinic,
they look like gymnastic apparatus of
intricate design.
Dr. Charles II. jaeger. one of the
surgeons of the hospital, explained
the machines would give strength 10
the tissues. bones and muscles of pa.
tlents convalescing from operations.
Inc principle of the system is to ey-
ercise The joints and muscles to re-
store them to their normal condition.
These machines are so planned +"
Dr. Jaeger said, that there isn't q
joint or muscle in the entire body that
cannot be exercised by one of them.
Inc system might be called medical
gymnastics, By means of which anv
workman who has suffered q fracture
OF other Injury which has disabled q
Joint or muscle can have the stiffaned
JOINT or muscle restored TO full work
ing capacity in the shortest possibIe
time"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-03-15

The dust is carefully put aside, and
scraped from every flue is transferred
to the same spacious dust heap. This
is then burned. and from its ashes the
government derives no inconsiderable
income. The earthenware crucibles
used i'll melting are employed no more
than three times. They are crushed
beneath heavy rollers, and in their
porous sides are found flakes of the
precious metal.
In the smelling room when the cast
ers raise their ladies from the melting
pot shower of sparks fly from the
molten surface of the metal For the
most part they are bits of incandescent
carbon. but clinging to the carbon is
often a minute particle of metal.
Lsst such particles should escape.
the ashes and clinkers below the fur
naces are gathered up at night. This
debris is ground into powder by means
of steam crusher and then is sold to a
smelter, like ordinary ore, at q price
warranted by the assayer. p, .
The ladies' that stir the precious met
al. the big iron rods, the strainers and
the clippers, all are tested in most
curious fashion. After considerable
use they become covered with thin
layer of oxidized silver. closely resem.
bling brown rust. The implements
ara tban Ibid in |ofbe of q eol,4;o,> &c
sulphuric acid, which eats away the
iron and steel and leaves the silver
untouched.
Gradually the ladle, or whatever the
implement is, will disappear, and in
its place remains hollow silver coun-
terpart of the original, delicate as spun
glass. These fragile casts reproduce
the ladle with perfect accuracy in all its
Details although their surfaces are
perforated with innumerable little holes.
Scarcely have they been nodded, how
ever, before they are cast into a cruel
BILE to become i'll time dollars, quarters
and dimes.
In one corner Of the melting room
there is large tank into which newly
cast silver bars are dropped and left to
cool. InfiniteStimal flakes of silver
scale off and rise to the surface of the
water, which acquires the metallic
luster of IL stagnant pool. Here is
silver that must not be lost. so beneath
the pipe THROUGH which the tank is
enptied is banked Il thick layer of mud.
As the water filters through it the mud
retains the precious residum. Four
time year this mud is removed. and
elch experiment discloses the fact that
some $50 has been saved. Baltimore
American.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-03-15
Caution Ia The Mint

1t has been aptly said that no miser
guards his treasure more religiously
than Uncle Sam watches over the pre-
cious metals that pass through his mint.
Then, too, the precautions against
waste are almost innumerable.
Every evening in each of the minis
of the United States the floor of the
melting rooms are swept cleaner than
New England housewives kitchen.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-03-15
Proof.

Biggs-Attorney Coke is one of IT,
very best men at the baT. He's tho,
oughly honest and conscientious. TAX,
your damage suit to him. Wigs
did, and he said he wouldn't touch
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-03-15
Felt Bound to Make Good.

woman in trig riding habit. whip
in hand and dog at side, was stepping
breezily along the tagging around the
White House ellipse. Her hair was
tucked under her derby; her tight
jacket opened over a white shirt, with
mannish collar and tie, and the lifted
skirt revealed glimpses Of patent
leather boots to the knee To the
party of tourists who had filed out Of
the gallery across the way the woman
possessed all the value of free show.
The half dozen members followed and
stared until she had outstepped them,
when one of the party, who was evil
IDENTIFY undecided whether the trig,
breezy figure was a he-woman or a
sherman, asked a passing native:
us that DR.. Mary Walker?"
The native answered with the au.
thority Of one who knows:
why, no, madam. That Is Mrs.
Roosevelt"
and you could tell by the way the
native said 1t that he knew It wasn't
Mrs. Roosevelt, still
All OF us have our temptations.
Orange Shortcake.
Pare six sweet oranges, remove In.
pith and seeds and cut into sms,
pieces; cover with a cupful OF DOW
dered sugar. Make the pastry as fol
lows: Into a quart Of flour sIft a scam
teaspoonful OF salt and two teaspoon
fuls OF baking powder, then rub I'm
three tablespoonfuls OF butter and mix
into soft dough with sweet milk. But
ter tin plates and on each place two
layers, with thick layer Of butter be.
tween each. When brown spread the
orange between and on top. Serve
with whipped cream favored with or.
ange.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
Teeth Kew TO Character

In Paris the theory that mans soul
and also woman's, is revealed by the
length, shape, inclination and spacing
OF the teeth has been put forward
by certain neutrality-suspicious., and so
ciety is greedily grasping at the nov.
city. The new method of dental di.
Nination" is declared to be much more
certain than palmistry, mind reading
chronology or such old-fashioned di
versions as fortune telling by cards:
and teacups. One newspaper an
nounces that invitations are alread,
out for a "detonacy seance." Herr
are some of the secrets which the
new science" processes to lay bare
Long, narrow teeth indicate vanity
teeth small, separated and very white
are a certain sign of Inconsistency an(
aickle character; long, irregular teeth
projecting forward, are an index o
Rvarice and egotism; small, uneven
seeth indicate an uncertain disposi
tlon, with tendency to nervousness
lntruthfulness is shown by teetl
which crowd and overlap.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
a Preaching Cross Restored.

The preaching cross in the village
Of burlington, situated amid romantic
surroundings on the northern side o.
the Mendip Hills, has, by the generos
lty of Col. Evan H. SIewellyn. beer
restored. 1t is recorded that early
In 1905 the handsome fifteenth century
base of the cross-all that then re
manned of twas removed and util
tzed in building a new house for the
then parish clerk. Happily, the orna
mental dial stone did not share the
same fate, and this has been incor
porated into its original position il
the new cross. Three broad and mas
sive steps carry the old socket, upor
which rests a tall monolith shaft
which is crowned by one of those Ian
tern shaped canopies so peculiar te
abe west country.-London Standard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
Unwelcome Notoriety.

Gracious! That's a peach of a
black eye. Where did you get it?"
Got it on the left side of my nose.
Where did you think | got it-over the
ankle bone?"
Don't get heated. How did it hap
pen?"
That's different 1t was all a piece
4of my COMPOUNDED tough luck | was
up on the Blue Cliff road looking at
piece of real estate, when along came
IA coatless and bareheaded fellow run.
ming for dear life with a lot of pant
ing pursuers stretching in a long line
behind him. l Joined in the chase
Being fresh, l rapidly overhauled the
fugitive. I had nearly collared him
when a big ruffian grabbed me and
profanely told me to clear out. l spoke
Tudeiy to him and kept on running
hnd he suddenly reached out fist like
Ia ham and knocked me into the ditch
And what do you suppose it all was?
Give it up"
1T was a rehearsal for a moving pic
lture film; and now my portrait will go
iall over the country and be seen in
thousands of theaters as a bruised ano
battered butter-in who got just what
WAS coming to him "-CIeveland Plair
Dealer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18

Nine. Sarah Bernhard, who Is sup
posed to be something of an artist as
well as an actress, was recently called
upon in one of her marvellous crea-
lions to enact the role of a sculptor,
and to model a certain bust in view of
the audience. This fairly electrified
the critics, but when going into rhap-
sodies over the technical skill in han
ding the clay which Nine. Bernhardt
exhibited they showed that they knew
little of the artistic tricks of actors
and actresses; az a matter Of fact she
does nothing of the kind. The bust
is modelled and baked and over it is
placed damp clay of the same color.
This the talented actress merely pulls
off, exposing the beautifully modelled
head underneath.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
WHO is THE SOUNDING SHAD?
tHs Is HabituaIly Merry and Bright
Affords Interest, Amusement
and Some Sport.

We note with profound sense of
qualification that the sounding shad
has arrived Who is the sounding
:shad? some may ask. We answer
that he is a fine old sport whose
presence in this country causes a
lfutter in the breast of every suscep-
ltible ichthyologist. Let there be no
Hnisconception about the sounding
shad, says the London Globe. He is
not billiard-room guy that one may
casually challenge to a hundred up.
or low comedian, or new thing in
Hrombones.
No The sounding shad is a regu-
lar and welcome visitor who arrives
when the song of the nightingale is
heard in the Surrey lanes, and the
liquid notes Of the American tourist
percolate through the atmosphere of
bloomsbury. He is a fish-just a
fish, but one OF the right sort
AS the Birmingham Post tells us,
he comes "tumbling and gamboling
up certain Of our rivers, affording in
terest, amusement, excitement and
some sport" He is not occasionally,
he is habitually merry and bright. He
is, say the naturalists, "anadromous, ;"
but he does not let little thing like
that bother him. He tumbles and
gambols just the same, and livens the
cold monotony Of our rivers.
BY day and night" we are told,
the saltations of the sounding shad
suggest the gambolings of dolphins
or PROPOSES"
To this merry fellow we extend a
cordial welcome, though we know
there are churlish anglers who, hear
fng of his arrival, will only say: Get
the hook"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18

Manager Of Armour & Co. 40
cused OF Perjury.
BOOKS DESTROYED, CHARGE
Packers Chief Counsel and Others Are
Summoned Before Probing Body
In Report Presented TO
Judge Lands.

Chicago. = Thomas G. Lee, man
ager of the dressed beef sales de-
partment OF Armour & Co., was In
dicted for perjury by the federal
grand jury. a bench warrant was is
sued for his arrest.
The grand jury sent report to
Judge K. NJ. Lands. IN which 1t was
charged that stenographers' notebooks
Of Armour & Co., containing informa-
ton which the grand jury wanted, had
been destroyed. The report also Sc
verely arraigns A. r. Urion, chief
counsel Of the packing company and
president Of the board Of education,
with other officials.
Judge Lands issued an order COM
handing A r, Urion. George M. VIII
lifts, assistant Office manager, and W.
w. Shaw and w. A. Helander, en-
ployes of the concern, to appear be-
fore him Monday morning and answer
the charge.
Henry Edmunds, chief Of the sta
tionery department Of Armour & Co.,
appeared before the grand jury August
8. He stated that he was unable to
produce the books.
Attorney Urion Is charged by the
grand jury with saying that there were
no books and that If there were none
Edmunds could not get them.
Lee is charged with perjury in his
testimony before the grand jury on
July %. He is said to have made false
statements regarding weekly meet
ings of representatives of the packing
corporations, at which, the grand jury
declares, prices were fixed and agree
ments were made regarding the guam
tity of fresh meat each company was
to ship in interstate commerce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
Barker Formally Named.

Barker Formally Named.
State Senator Henry w Barker of
Sparta qualified to be a candidate for
the Republican nomination for COVER
nor OF Wisconsin, when petitions in
his behalf we're filed in the office of
Secretary of State Frear, bearing the
Endorsement of 2,843 voters.
Second Assistant Attorney General
Frank T. Tucker of Neillsville filed
petitions, with 6,0S8 signatures, quail
flying him as a Republican candidate
for the Office of attorney general.
Other petitions for Republican can
didates for state Office were: Julius
G. Rowland of Chippewa Falls to be a
candidate for state treasurer and Levi
H. Bancroft to be candidate for at
tofney general The petition of the
former had 5,95S signatures and of the
latter 1908.
Petitions for the nomination of AS
semblyman Wallace ingalls, of Racine
to be Republican candidate for mem
Der of congress in the First district
were filed. This is the district repre-
scented at present by Henry E. Cooper.
Petitions for senatorial nominations
we're filed for Christian F. Mohr of
Portage, Republican in the Twenty
seventh district; for George E. Scott,
Republican of Prairie Farm, in the
Twenty-ninth district; for Charles S.
Douglas, Republican, of Walworth, il
the Twenty-third district; for Emery
w. Crosby, Republican, of Abbotsford,
in the Twenty-ffth district.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
HARMONY Is SOUGHT
AT MINERS MEETING
and Unsatisfactory Perry
Opposes President.

Indianapolis special eocven.
ton Of miners. called by President
T. L. Lewis Thursday took up the
controversy over the Illinois conpro.
mise agreement.
At the opening session President
Lewis counseled harmony In speech
to the delegates. His report on the
strike .s.tuation In the entire country
brought boots and Kisses, when he
mentioned the recommendation to the
Illinois strikers to pay all over IA
cents ton Of the cost Of shot-frers.
Secretary Perry Of the miners came
out sc an opponent Of President Lewis
and recommended that the convention
make the Illinois etrike the main Is
sue OF the international union to be
fought until all the demands of the
proposed Peoria agreement have been
accepted by the operators.
In his report President Lewis said
that It would require $500, 900 a week
to pay benefits of three dollars a week
to those on strike in the country. BY
the rs cents week assessment only
$4,000 could be raised.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
"LoseY" e.ce.7a eAng,,
indian Land Deal Evidence sheWs
msMurray sa Have Operated
Telegram CAMPAIGN.

MeAlester, Okla, While ]. +,
MeMurray, described by Senator Gore
as the king pin Of them all In
tracts by which be and his associates
would be able to obtain ten per cent.
attorneys fees On the sale of $50, 1000.
600 worth Of land owned by the Indi.
ans, the Indians themselves were be.
Ing urged to send kilograms to Wash.
ington recommending the sale,
A few days before May 6, on which
date Senator Gore charged be was OF.
fered a $4,000 or $4,000 hrihe TO IN
duce congress to approve the con,
tracts. McMurray telegraphed to Okla,
homa: Send not less than ffty let.
ters and kilograms and keep up tina
work fer week at different towns !;
looks better here, We viii win, :
know"
This evidence was brought out in
the Investigation OF the land deal be,
fore the congressional committee;
Senator Gore said he introduced 1t to
show the activity of the lobby at
Washington at the time the hr!be Is
alleged to have been made.
References 10 Vsce-President Sher,
man and Senator Charles Curtis of
Kansas were made In letter intro
duced by Senator Gore. It had been
explained by Congressman c. F,
Creager that he and Richard Adams
had called upon President Taft and
that the president had announced his
disapprcvsl Of plan to reopen the
tribal rolls so that more claimants
might enter, ard his approval Of set
Ting the Indian land question.
President Taft. 1t was eaid, wrote a
letter to that effect and declared his
willingness TO have 1t given wide pub
Gcity. After the letter was made pub,
lie George Scott wrote to Mr., Adams
at Washington: please say to the
president that his course is to be CON-
mended. He has placed himself on
record IN his letter to you as against
the reopening Of rolls and for a set
Element of our affairs. His office will
give prestige to our demands. With
Mr.. McMurray there to state our
claims, with Mr.. Curtis and Mr.. Sher-
man, who understand better than
others what we want, and with the
assistance of the president. 1t begins
to look like we are coming into our
own"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
KNIGHTS DRILL, RAPE7 VICTOR.
Indianapolis connandery Carries off
First Aonors at CHICAGO.

iE(-aHApCitS SCfgaI:anoCfy S6fiISS oi'
First Honors at Chicago.
Chicag 60 Raper commandery
No !, OF Indianapolis, captured
first honors in the competitive drill
open to all Knights Templar CON
manderies outside of Cook county.
Hanselmann comman derry, No. 16, of
Cincinnati, was awarded second prize,
and Or.-ntal commandery, No. IS, Of
Kansas City, took third prize.
Raper's trophy is an immense silver
Hbation fountain with silver cups.
An international concordat between
Knights Templar organizations OF
England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada
and the United States was formally
ratified and adopted by the grand COM
mandery of the United States at the
first real business meeting Of the six
ty-frst triennial conclave.
The agreement prescribes the jur1s-
diction of the bodies In different coun-
tries.
1t Is agreed that no commandery or
other branch Of the order IN one coun-
try shall be organized In another
country which Is In the alliance. Each
grand encampment, or grand prlory,
as they are termed In other countries,
Is given exclusive Jurisdiction in its
own country, AID no other Templar
body may be organized or conducted
therein.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
FREAR DEFENDS
STATE ECONOMY
Says Wisconsin Is in Lead of All
States.
PAMPHLET GIVEN PUBLICITY
Secretary of State Made Answer to a
Recent Charge That the State
Has Suffered by Reason of
Extravaganza.

Madison.-In speech at the annual
Woodmen reunion and field day here
Secretary of State James A. Frear
made answer to a recent charge Of
E. L. Phillip of Milwaukee that the
state has suffered in past years by
reason Of extravaganza in the admin
istration of its affairs, the charge be-
ing aimed more particularly at Sec
rotary F'rear.
The celebration here was unique
from the fact that political candidates
Of every party invited to be present
and many accepted the invitation.
Secretary Frear was the chief speak
er Of the day In a statement which
was non-political in its nature, Mr.
Frear cited particularly the fact that
the reform laws affecting taxation of
public service corporations and insur-
ance companies had enabled the state
to remit millions of dollars to tax
payers, and, at the same time, carry
on all the business of the state with
out the imposition of a state tax for
any purpose, except the small mill
tax for graded schools Beginning in
1903 state taxes were RENTED an
nually.
'The record of state finances under
progressive legislation in recent
vars has placed Wisconsin in the
forefront of all states" said Secre-
tary FTear. $50 far as can be ascer-
tanned, no other state has handled its
fund to better advantage or with
greater economy in the conduct of
administrative expenses.
"a pamphlet against political re-
form in Wisconsin has been given
some publicity and exploited for po-
litical purposes. In order to correct
erroneous conclusions that have been
drawn, a few facts are presented from
the state records and the same years
of 1899 and 1908 are used in compari-
son, as these years are the ones used
in the pamphlet.
Tt should be understood that state
administration expenses are all paid
out of the taxes and licenses received
from corporations and other sources
of state revenues, but that no state
taxes were levied during the ten-year
period named, excepting for educa-
tional purposes The reform law
which changed the method of railway
taxauon, passed in 1903, together with
other recent laws, materially in
creased the state revenues"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
Quaint liable Manners

Jerome S. McWade, the Duluth mil
lionaire, talked at a dinner about the
delights Of backwoods vacation
Il go to a quaint backwoods village
every summer" he said, and number
less are the quaint people | meet
there.
"Old Boucher. for instance, the jan
itor of the village church, is moe
amusing with his quaint ways. | had
old Boucher to lunch one day, and
the cold lobster was served with
mayonnaise sauce. When my servant
offered this sauce to Boucher, the old
man stuck his knife in it, took up
little on the blade, tasted it, then
shook his head and said:
Don't choose none
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
FOUR SHOT IN FAMILY TRAGEDY
Husband, Wife, Son and Woman's
Father Killed In Chicago.

HUSBAND wire, son ana Womans
Father Killed In Chicago.
Chicago. = The neighbors of F.
S. Bouton were Mortified when they
discovered the dead bodies of Bou-
ton, his daughter, her husband and
his little grandson in Bouton's home
at 2934 Cottage Grove avenue.
Each of the four had been killed by
a bullet and the police are convinced
that all of the fatal missiles were
fired by W. ]. Myers, the proprietor
of a shooting gallery, crack shot. All
the bullets had penetrated the brains
Of the victims.
The victims of the shooting are:
w. ]. Myers, forty years old; his
wife, Grace, twenty-six years old;
Ralph Myers, their seven-year-old son,
and F. S. Bouton, father of Mrs. Myers.
Myers had been living apart from
his wife and child and this circum-
stance, together with the fact that the
revolver was found beside him, con-
WINGED the police that he shot the
other three and killed himself.
Myers and his wife are said by the
police to have quarreled and separated
several weeks ago and the woman is
declared to have caused his arrest re-
Gently. He is said to have been placed
under a bond to keep the peace. Since
that time he had not been living at the
family home.
Only four chambers of the revolver
were empty and this established that
each of the victims was killed by one
bullet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18
Try This, This Summer

The very next time you're hot, tired
or thirsty, step up to soda fountain
and get glass of Coca-Cola. 1t will
cool you off, relieve your bodily and
mental fatigue and quench your thirst
delightfully."-. At soda fountains or
carbonated in bottles-5c everywhere.
Delicious, refreshing and wholesome.
Send to the Coca-Cola Co, Atlanta,
Ga, for their free booklet THE Truth
About Coca-Cola." Tells what Coca
Cola Is and why it is so delicious, re-
freshing and thirst-quenching. And
send &c stamp for the Coca-Cola Base
ball Record Book for 1910-contains
the famous poem Casey AT The Bat
records, schedules for both leagues
and other valuable baseball informa-
ton compiled by authorities.