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Putnam patriot., 1911-05-26
Advent Christian Church Notes,

Services will be held on Sunday at l0,30 a. m. and ?. m. The pastor, Rev Thomas Feltman, will speak at both services. The singing will be in charge Of Evangelist sJoseph A. Pa quette.
Putnam patriot., 1911-05-26
pipehek All Round.

Shelly new gown is just lovely, It's perfect it He-Sa tisted on that point. eh? Sha-Yes. know its a good fit because it pinches me 90. He Well. 1t doesn't pinch you half as nuch as 1t does my pocketbook.-Phil- adelphia Press.
Putnam patriot., 1911-05-26

Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil Is the best remedy for that often fatal dis ease-eroup. Has been used with suc- cessin our family for eight years. h- Mrs. l.. Whitacrel Buffalo, N. Y.
Putnam patriot., 1911-05-26
St. Philips Church.

On Sunday Morning Prayer and ser. mon at l0,3o, Dr. Hanchett officiating, Sunday school at l2 m.
 Evensong and sermon at o'clock Rev. F. \. Irwin in charge.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21
PEOPLE WIN IN
FIGHT FOR LARGE ACREAGE

o. j. Gutke, a former railroad
man. and well-known in REM. now
with the Monteilu Salt company,
is IN Reno in the interest Of the
company he represents. When
the new salt fields at Montello were
opened up Mr.. Gutke, with many
other raiir raders. stampeded to
the scene and was among the first
locaters of the salt lands. Over
40. 900 aces of land were taken up
under placer locations.
Title to the property was dis
puted by the state of Utah, but
after carrying the fight to the
higher courts the original locators
won out the final decision having
heen handed down by the United
States supreme court on May %.
The salt beds, which lie on the
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21
TAFT IND CONTROLLER BAY

A good deal has appeared in the
press lately about the Morgan
Guggeenheim syndicate obtaining
control of the water front of Con-
t%rolier Bay, Alaska, and President
Taft's connection with it.
Senator La Toilette in Il speech
in the senate on the 18th of this
month umercifully criticised Taft's
Alaskan policy. After comment
ing on the dismissal Of CLAWS and
Pinchot and the presidents
approval of Secretary BaIlinpcr's
action in the Cunningham coal
claims, Senator LaFollcttc said:
The failure of the administra-
ton to take action in the Cunning
ham claims became a subject Of
public concern. the Interior De.
partment was as silent as tn"
tomb. The country never
suspected that any thinp involving
the future of the Alaskan coal
lands was quietly finding its way
igto the records of the General
Land Office.
March 3, 1911. came the treat of
democratic congressional investiga-
ton into the Department Ct the
Interior and the Impeachment of
Ballingcr.
March Z. RallinRcr resigned as
Secretary of the Interior. He
took with him to private life the
highest cncOmiums Of President
Taft Upon his patriotic devotion to
public duty. Waiter L.. Fisher
was appointe I as his successor.
jane q, 1911, Fred bennett.
United States Land Commissioner
announced his decision holding
that the Cunningham coal-land
claims were fraudulent.
While the Interior Department
was withholding its decision in the
Cunningham claims, parties inter.
estcd in the Alaskan coal fields
were active.
Bsficd in acquiring the owner.
ship of the coal lands, those in
interest planned to secure control
of the water front commanding
approach and access to the coal
lands.
President Roosevelt, fully
realizing the Importance of this
water front 20 the public, upon
discovery of the preliminary
by II. S. Ryan and the
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21
FARMERS PAY TRIBUTE

Few persons realize what high
prices for barb-wire mean to the
farmers and stockmen of this
country.
The outlay for such fencing in
the United States is more than
$lIO, 600, GOO q year. at Wholesale
rates.
Barb-wire is an American
invention, and is made at less cost
in this country than in any other.
Yet it is protected" by a tariff
duty of IS cents on the 100
pounds. which is about one.third
of the wholesale price in the
United States.
This duty is wholly needless
for protect on, itfcrds practically
no revenue TO government and
serves merely to enable the Wire
Trust to keep up prices to the
cXtCrrionatc figures long ago
established by that combination.
Tie tribute thus paid by the
farmers and the stOckmen to the
trust amountc to upwards of $50,
600, 600 a year.-SacramentO Bee.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21

For to DeWet had come
the news that his son standing in
the doorway of the little home in
Elizabeth Street. Bloemfontein, had
been shot through the head and
killed instantly. His daughter,
seeing her brother fall. bad gone
insane, and within three days had
died in the British hospital from
congestion of the brain. His wife,
ereft at one blow of both her
children, had been taken away to
the Cape and there. in the British
lines. she too had died.
Christian DeWet turned such a
face on the messenger as | hope |
may v see on any human being
again. For a moment he stood
thus with lines of horror frozen
or his vistagc and figure. Then
e raised his hand with the Bible
in it and hurled the sacred book
from him with all his strength.
and with a terrible voice cried
out. God, There is no God!'
And cursing God he fell on his
face into the sand.
! do not know how long he lay
there. | only know our whole
commando stood as silent as the
veldt itself. Now and then there
was a rustic in the close packed
ranks rs some n in the rear
raised themselves on tip-toe to
look over the heads Of those in
front at their commander fighting
out his passion on the earth.
Minutes went by and still he lay
face down motionless except for
convulsive heaving of his broad,
strong shoulders.
When Christian DeWet arose
the face that lie turned OF us was
not that Of q man. His lips were
drawn back into the snarl of a
c~arnivOrous beast. His voice
fairly Kissed the torture Of his
heart. To what he said the whole
commando roared approval am
again it was as if the river-bed
held hangry wild beasts growing
ominousIy 70: what he said was
this, From this moment | live
only to kill Englishmen. Slayl
Slay!"
From that moment the rifle of
Christian DrWet spoke first in
every battle, and every time it
spoke an English soldier fell.
From that moment he became the
Black Angel, the Black Killer.
The Black Devil. the British
soldier called him. 1t was a sad
day for the English treasury and
the English Army when my uncle's
family was wiped out.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21
WESTERN PACIFIC TO
Make IMPROVEMENTS

Following the visit Of Edward
7. Jeffrey, president of the West
ern Pacific, to the coast, it is
reported that vast Improvement
work will be started Immediately
upon the Western Pacific, and that
the next few months will witness
the expenditure of large sums in
the Feather river canyon.
The plans for the worI; lave
already been maue, and it is under
stood that several months ago the
directors of the Missouri Pacific,
which is behind both the Denver
and Rio Crandc and the Western
Pacific authorized the expenditure
of 50, 900, 900 in putting the West
ern Pacific into condition for the
winters operations.
This money will BE- spent chiefly
in the Feather river canyon and
in the Niles canyor, the former
getting by far the major portion
of the appropriation. The plan
decided upon by the engineers for
protecting the raid against the
slides, which worught such havoc
with the service of the road last
year. is to build a concrete wall
where such slides have proved to
be continuous in their character
and from this wall to build a roof
across the track. The loose
material will thus simply be IT.
ried over the roof or chute into
the river.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21
BEES TAKE ABSOLUTE CHARGE
Of COUNTY COURT HOUSE

The bees are becoming quito
civilized in this po.ahCad town.
They have persisted in taking
charge of the court house, have in.
vaded the Williams store, and
finally reached the point where
they were driving Peter Cook and
family from their home on
Williams avenue. Mr.. Cook had
the weathcr.boarding torn off and
found that the bees had filed The
space between two studdings nea.
the front door from the ground to
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21

relation to thr successful grabbing
of the Controller Bay lands may
appear when all the facts have
been uncovered by the investi-
cation.
But, Mr.. President, there Is
absolutely no doubt that parties to
the coa!.land frauds well know that.
next to securing the Cunningham
claims title to the lands on Con-
trolier Bay would place them in a
commanding position o,er all the
coal fields in question.
According TO the Reveillc there
are now eight persons confined in
the county Jail at Austin. bearing
the following names: Shoshone
Charley, Six-Toed Pete. Butter Nut
Jim. Coal Oil Tommy. Doughnut
Bill, Slap Jack Johnrcy. Three
Fingered Jack and the Great North
American Pie Bitter.
The Reno Journal set ID neat trap
10 catch the Gazette which il
claims has been rewriting the
Journals dispatches and publish
ing them as original news. The
Gazette fell into the trap and was
caught with the stolen goods. If
the Journal will nov reform and
quit publishing items from the
State papers as dispatches it will
set a good example to the
Gazette.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21

a height of about six feet. When
this honey was removed it was
discovered that another swarm
had taken possession of another
corner of the building. A large
supply of honey was secured
Bonanzs.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21
JUDGE BREEN INTERVIEWED

Considerable has been published
ir the state press about the
prejudice of Judge Brccn in the
Eureka County Bank matter, in
which the judge has been put in
an unfavorablc light before the
public, and ii is but fair that his
side of the controversy should he
placed before the people.
Judge Breen was interviewed by
the Austin Revcille on the 18th in
regard to the statement made
recently before the supreme
court by an attorney for
certain Of the old officers Of the
Eureka County Bank, to the effect
that a conspiracy etc, existed
among certain Eureka county
officials to get the Smiths to
Eureka for trial. In reply he
said:
That the statmcnt was too
frivolous, too silly for considcra-
ton, and that the complaints
now being considered by the
Supreme Court were made and are
now pending in the Justice Court
Of Eureka township and not before
my court. In any event. the
public know that If or Is months
ago, | announcer my dIsqualifca-
ton TO preside at the trials Of any
indictments which might be found
against the officers Of the bank.
When the bank closed its doors
some IS months ago ] determined
TO protect the unfortunate
dcp0sitors, many Of them poor men.
women and children, who had
been my friends for 80 years. To
do SO, was compelled to make a
close investigation into the affairs
and management Of the bank.
The result Of this investigation
so affected my mind as to n~eccssi-
tate the calling in Of other and
perhaps ADLER officers to preside in
my court. That is all.
AS to the malicious statement
of a certain precOcious youth and
cX-OiicCr Of thai sw~cct-scBted
bank, concerning me. ! am not in
position 10 notice the same. for
the present at lest. The Grand
Jury of Eureka County, which
adjourned last Saturday week. has
fully replied for me by handing in
six indictments against this
prococious young man and I would
not for Che world prejudice any
one Of his six coming trials by
speaking out in mcctin.' Once
in the hands Of the district attor-
Dcy, and there they should remain
nntil called for in court.
IL paid out to deposItors 80
cents on the dollar within seven
months Of the closing of tho bank
and beyond doubt used every iota
of power the law gave me TO make
some people disgorgc: to make
others stop fighting me with
Injunction suits. restraining orders
and other implements Of dcIay
and worry, in which may included
a writ Of hcbeas corpus or two.
II have demonstrated that the
winding up Of the affairs of nm
i%nsolvcnt institution need not bc
attended with greater delay nor no
more expensive than the admins.
tration Of the aGsirs of II deceased
person, old notions Of the con.
trary. notwithstanding. and on this
record | stand
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21
THE BLACK ANGEL
OF THE Beers

When President Joubert died,
Rudolph DeWet's uncle the famous
Bonr leader, called him to his side.
He spoke from the depths of his
soll and told him the cause of the
wfr, of the ideas, and traditions
for which they we're fighting of
tn, ir ultimate chances of success.
He explained that each gap in the
raj ks must he filled anu that
JoUbert's place could be filled by
noie better han he fighting as a
sol iier. q volunteer. And as the
i'm Mediate result. says Mr.. DeWet
in the London Daily Nail:
rode with my uncle into the
ba tie of kroo1spruit, where he
IA rly earned tie title of general.
We harried anG drove the British
Xix sheep. We fell On them from
secret places. With surprize and
panic we burst upon them. We
shot from n thousand little fort
resses. Brave r1en they were. too.
Blu. when every rock spat death
at them, when every bush volleyed
destruction Tor their, with never
a living visible enemy to fight,
we ! might they be forgiven for
she citing in he pless rage at the
gr' at hard b.ue Afri IAN sky-for
SIX, and rock and vsldl were all
thu I they bel ell while death was
tai ing them of.
There was n tall young trooper
riding well in front. l had his
raj &c for alonI' while before we
got ready to fire. | think he fell
fret of all. but / car not be sure.
for at the sa lie tine our four
thousand riff es broke loose. and
the British 20 umn ahivered and
tore apart as valdt dcst before the
blast of storm.
after the first volIey there was
no instant when the air was free
from the cracl,Ie of the guns and
the flashes Of fire RI lning zigzag
like lightning TO and fro along
u hiding places. Some there
were in that slaughter pen, in the
riv sr-hed below us who came
savagely upward charging now
this rock. now that, as they caught
the rattle or fash c. the Mauser.
Many there were WHO stood nigh
am straight searching in vain for
a foe. Like British q~renadiers Of
old they took what was to be and
died with their faces toward us.
Inc EhIlish 5Ildier3 began their
retreat to BioCmfon:ein, and we
vel satisfied that we had given
them what Crcnje G1t st Paarde-
bu e let them go. They left in
on trap a hundred wagons full Of
SUI piles, six hundred prisoners,
and seven beautiful guns. The
whole command) was Jumping for
JOY. Men were hUgging each
otl er like a iot of girls, and
hundreds danced and skipt like
CHI ldren.
Ny uncle called his mon to-
ge her and STOOD within their
circle and offered prayer to God.
| nav read o. old Cromwell's
Ro 1ndheads doing this, and the
thought of them came to mo
standing there in the dry river
bottom with the simple, sturdy
- i!IID3 al, InliIl ~
GU Dutch prayer of thanksgiving.
Wien the bowed heads Of the
co nmando hat been raised he
OPP ned his Il bio ard read a psalm:
an ! then just al we we're about TO
die perse. q messenger came
ga Looping in.
He rode straight up to General
DeWet, and no man who was there
can recall the words he said. But
we all remember that from four
thousand tlrohts there came a
growl of rage as If the spruit
was filled with great wolhsh
animals instead of c
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21

NAN $3.50 -
incl Iding. it in the Chugach
National Forest.
On the Goth of April 1911 the
country was shocked to learn that
or the 2Sth of October. 1910
President Taft had signed an
Executive order reversing the
action of Presiden' Roosevelt,
and. throwing oven 1880 acres of
land. covering the water front Of
Controller Bay, the only avilable
natural harbOr affording DIN
approach to the coal fields in
which were located the fraudulent
Cunningham claims.
1t was the usual practice OF
President Roosevelt and of other
Presidents, whenever they restored
public land to entry and sale, to
do so by proclamation, not by
Executive order, and to include in
such proclamation a provision that
the land thus restored to entry
and sale should not be subject to
entry for 80 days after the date of
proclamation restoring it to entry,
thus giving ample public notice TO
all people who Nigh desire to file
on such lands.
These Executive presidents
were violated in reversing Roosc-
velt's order and restoring the
Controller Bay lands to private
entry. This the President did by
secret Executive order and not by
proclamation.
Mr.. Fred bennett, Commissioner
Of the General Land Cf.cc, test
flied Jdly 10. 1911, before the
House Committee on Expenditures
in the Department of the interior
hat the Executive order as
originally prepared for the Prcsi-
dents signature, contained the
usual GO-day notice to prospective
settlers but was omitted from the
Executive order when finally
signed by the President.
An Executive order restoring
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21

interesting Suicide Fact.
tIi'y'seY'n unmarried people com
~ suicide TO only 80 married.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21
DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE
wa,a,ch Utah Mining Company,

Locatgou Of principal place Of business. salt
NOTlCE-Thrrc arc delinquent upon the
following described stock on account OF aNSN
inrnt M. : levied on the l2th daN Of June 1911,
m. several amounts set opposite the names OF
Tho respective shareholders ~ i"IOMS'
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21
sUBscR i'TioN RATES

nt,red at the r Eo Iostoma, for transmission
through the mt ils IS second-elass matter.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21

D~ucTiilHEyT. Charles
Duu,. William r.
DUlICk John
DTuNS. GuStINe
DICK.
L-IuyIChyT. Henry
Erickson. Ernest A.
Z .y',r. IuvU H.
John a
Nj X.
NJ
E~yIChtWriT. Amelia
Ir'~CuyT. Lille
Raymond
Tyl a.
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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-21

BElmcr. Earnest
Crown. Culs r
~ChiricUpuOhS, John
Crughlus i'yluT
GuTlyy. Geo
Christensen, J "
X l.
DpTu and Thomas
D~Tyymll.yr, " M
Dti.rf JulVus
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-20

has been taken since DR.. Elliot first
opened the floodgatcs of electives and
made four years of any sort of intel
lectual browsing in q university SUI
ficient to get an academic degree.
giving that of Bachelor of Liberal
Arts 10 those who knew little about
d lot Of things and not much about
anything. Doubtless the old curri-
culum was entirely too rigid in the
face Of growing knowledge in vari-
Gus branches Of science and philuso-
ply, but the alternative chosen of
permitting a young man to SELECT his
own intellectual fare resulted in most
of them following the line of least
resistance. of taking those courses in
volving the smallest amount Of work,
fondly imagining that there was
something sacrosanct in u degree and
that il was the substance and not
the symbol
This change was brought about by
a petition of alumni of Amherst old
enough to have their own sons pass
through the new dispensation. Re
suits have not been happy. Four
years are all too short for young
men under q to secure mental disci-
pline, and if a college education has
any value at ALL it is in training
young men and women how to think
clearly and how to apply given
store OF knowledge to practical bene-
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-20

fit. A course in chemistry, cleo
tricity. steam or civil engineering is
all well enough as Il substitute for a
long apprenticeship. though it does
not wholly displace it, but this tech
meal education is for a definite pur-
pose. and as "a rule, no more broad
ems the mind than a practical course
in blacksmithing or carpentry
1t is admitted that the classics in
and of themselves offer little, Of in
trinsic value to the average man.
but he who can learn to read Horace
and Terence. Aeschylus and Demos
themes in the original, has passed
through a mental discipline which
will be of value in hOcing corn, build
ing railways. or preaching the- Word.
No substitute has ever been found
for the classics, and the efforts to
make modern languages or smatter-
ings of science and philosophy do so
have broken down completely. Am
herst is to he congratulated on de-
termining to go back To first prln-
cipIes and develop all-arOund men FIT
for any sphere of lif" rather than
turning out uncultivated young minds
with the valueless benson of a
meaningless Observation-Disclosures
! Inquirer.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-20
PHOENIX SURVIVOR
OF MONITORS CREW
ONLY MAN NOW LIVING WHO PAR
TICIPATED IN FIGHT WITH
MERRIMAC.
n. c. Smith, whose Life Has Been One
of Travel and Adventure.

A dispatch reports the death in the
soldiers home at Sawtelle, Cal, on the
14th inst, of Michael Mooney. said to
be one of the two survivors of the crew
which manned the Monitor in its fight
with the Mcrrimac at Hampton Roads.
during the Civil war The name of the
other survivor WAS not given in the dis
patch. but if there is only one other, il
is H. c. Smith of this city, better
known as Charlie Smith, who resides
on East Monroe street, between First
and Second.
Mr. smith when seen yesterday saic
ne did not know how many Survivors
there are. if any. except himself, but
he has a very vivid recollection of his
own survival and a lot OF things that
have happened to him since then. Mr..
Smith is of German birth and is now
76 years old He enlisted in the Amer
lean navy at the outbreak Of the war
and served all through it and since the
war has been a globe trotter until he
settled down in Phoenix j number Of
years ago. having passed the age Of
further notable activity.
Mr.. Smith says he was gunner on the
cheese box as the Monitor was then
called. After the fight with tho Merri-
mac they had an engagement with the
Virginia which with the help Of the
Merrimac had sunk the Cumberland
Shortly afterward Mr.. Smith went to
Governors Island where he was de
tailed to the KearsarGe. ON that YES
sci he says they chased the Alabama
practically all over the world. in the
sea of Japan, the sea of Mamora and
in Brazilian waters. finally engaging
and sinking it in French waters seven
miles off Cherbourg.
Returning to Governors Island the
term Of his enlistment having more
than expired. he left the vessel before
he got his discharge. but received it n
week later In 1867 he went To San
Francisco and spent a number Of years
in sea faring life with that port as
headquarters. He served as an able
seaman on a dozen or more of the bet
ter known and larger of the old time
ships. most Of his service being trans
Pacific to China and Japan. He made
seventeen trips in the Orizaba. a not
able vessel Of other days.
firing Of life on the water and he
ing attracted by the gold discoveries
of the west, he quit the life Of a sailor
and engaged in mining which has been
his occupation ever since. He has min
ed in California. Nevada. Idaho. Utah
and Arizona.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-20
A STRANGE SCENE
IN THE COFFERDAN
tumble of Masts, Corner Groceries
Saloons and Drunstores.

\ Phoenix afternoon paper yestcr-
day reprinted an Associated Press
dispatch from The Republican yes
torday morning concerning the prog
ress in clearing up the wreck of the
Maine and headed the story, Looks
Like an Exterior Explosion" as the
dispatch said it did, by reason Of the
fact that the bottom Of the ship was
found to be tilted up about forty
feet out of position.
The afternoon paper prints al IL
lustration doubtless intended to show
why 1t looks like an exterior ex-
plosion The illustration seems to
be, instead Of "secondbottom p, a
fighting top or at least a section Of
a mast whose surroundings give rise
to suspicion that it must bc a part
of a wreck of some other vessel. In
the back ground is seen a structure
which may be a saloon, a drug store
or "A corner grocery and SO far as
the dispatches relating To the resur-
rcction Of the Maine have disclosed.
none Of these convcnicnceS of life
have been established within the cof-
fcrdam where the wreck Of the Maine
lies