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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
POISON KILLING HORSES

A. D. u :um, one of orr promi-
nent ranc lers south Of town. lost
four or FIVE horses the past week
from a ather peculiar disease.
DR.. T. +. Richardson, state
veterinari i'm, was called and dag
nosed tl:s disease as forage
poisoning.
The animal will be s,en in the
all in th@ evening. to all iatents
and purpo 'es, SCUM 1 ami we'll The
next NOR ing he will be found
down and unable to rise, an d if
food or water is prose nted to the
patient it will be found that it
cannot sv allow. II is a disease
that has baffled the veterinary
profession so far. though some
claim the poison is due to q mold
or funguj in the hay which is
cumul att, In its action.
DR.. Ric lardson had 45 cases of
this disea @ at one time in Gold.
field and only Is got veil. What
really cur I'd them is hard to say.
He trieC every remedy in the
pharmacopoeia. The first thing to
do in II ese cases, the doctor
advises. to put the patient in
sings, ard then by physic and
diuretics try to eliminate the
poison from the system, and by all
means, change the hay Fallon
Eagle.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24

There is more Catarrh in. this
section of the country than all
other diseases put together, and
until tho last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease and pre-
scribed local remedies. and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local
treatment pronounced it Incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to he a
constitutional disease the therefore
requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured
by F. j. Cheney & Co.. Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market. 1t is taken
internally in doses from 20 drops
to a teaspoonful. 1t facts directly
on the blood and mucous surface
of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send of circulars
and testimonials.
Address: j. f. CHENEY & co,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for
constipation.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
SPUD PRODUCTION

Just what the potato production
of Mason Valley was for the last
season we are unable to estimate
but there were shipped out over
the Nevada Copper Belt railroad
last fall. winter and spring ZIG
cars of the tubers or 3,421A tons.
This means 6.843,OOO pounds. or
over $4,000 sacks Of ITO pounds
each. and at the average price of
$l8 per ton the value of the ship
ment would be SCI. 587. This is
not the full crop of the valley SIS
many spuds were hauled by wagon
from the lower end of the valley
and shipped direct from Wabuska,
on the S. P. Taking into con-
sideratiun what is consumed at
home it is safe t. say that the
spud crop of the valley was close
to 100000 in valuation. -Yering-
ton Times. ..........
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
All 10 Not Lost.

The Khan OF Khiva IL no more.
OF him weeping worlds bcreft;
but Boston should not be cast down
For still tho Khan OF Beans 10 left.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24

A Fool Rushed In.
She might have known
She would get hurt,
FEMINIST
In n hobbie skirt
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24

Taft's Canadian reciprocity bill
was passed in the scnat e Saturday
by democratic votes. Only three
democrats voted against it on the
final roll call. This bill is, the
first successful assault that has
been made on the tariff wall for
many years. Other assaults will
be made and if the insurgent
republican senator's are in earnest
the citadel of protection will he
badly riddled before congress
adjourns.
Investigation Ct the damage
done to the local telephone service
by the running riot of the high
voltage on Thursday. shows II at
80 pairs of wires burned in the
cable on G street, and lUO pair
leading from the telephone office
switch board to the box on C
street. Wires were also burned
in the cable leading to B street.
Temporary lines have been strung
about town, and nearly all of the
lines out of commission are now
working again pending permanent
repairs to the cablc.-Virginia
Chronicle.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ELKO co.
Monday, July "a, 1911
OYNAMITING GOLD At
THE WAR EAGLE MILL

Tho report Of an explosion in
the War Eagle mill Friday morn
ing startltd passersby. and upon
investigat on, proved to be an
extraordinary affair. A stamp
stem had broken, and upon open
ing that artery. the outer edge
was so rmly packed with hard
gold amelgam that stick of
dynamite had to b. used to
loosen it up in ordt' to remove
the broke stem. Great chunks of
nmalgam. half gold and worth
thousands of dollars, were re-
moved. Tut that below the top
of the die. was not disturbed.
The stamp was soon in place
again. Gri iding away en- Biz Four
ore. Th,y have already milled
over $50, GOO during the past two
weeks and will clesn up the bat
teries, as he War Ia Gle company
wishes to dill some of is own ore.
The BIZ Four lGatcrs will COLI
tinue thei" milling as Joon as they
cln secure thu mill again. In the
meantime they will continue taking
out the ore and pushing
their development work into new
Observation-Disclosures Post.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
NEWSPAPER GHOST STORIES

1t is interesting to note the
apparently everlasting life of
newspaper ghost Stories" In
some cases they have been going
the rounds for half a century or
more but evoke as much interest
today as they did at the time of
their origin. One of them
especially has caught the eye of a
writer on the New York Herald
who gives little of its history.
The item follows (it came over the
wires as a fresh piece of news
from Greeley. Colo.):
After lying in the tomb of an
Egyptian mummy for probably
thousands of years ten grains of
wheat sent to a Greeley farmer
and planted west of here
terminated.
From them eight stalks of
wheat have grown. This promises
a variety Of wheat superior to any
growing in this locality and may
supplant American wheat"
This story, says the Herald,
which was first printed in James
G. Blaine's, Portland (Me.),
Advertiser in 1851, has REQUIRED
with remarkable regularity in the
press of the United States for
sixty years. Sometimes IT comes
from lniiana, but in recent times
its habitation has shifted farther
west.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
LIFE ON LONELY ICELAND
People In Bleak Northern Country
Know What's Going on In
the World.

A traveller in Iceland says that he
1ourneyed more than fifty miles from
the capital. Reykjavik. and saw but
two or three farms in all that die.
lance.
During all this time" he says IN
the Youths Companion. II had not
seen n saDling as big as n stalk Of cat
o-ninetails. Extinct volcanoes sur
rounded us on every side. Dust storms
swept down from their Scared sides
Distant CLEANS OF glitterlng Ice from
the glaciers dazzled us when the sun
shone upon them.
but here, In land where there f.
almost no fuel. and where few crops
besides hay and turnips Ldn be raised.
In the land Of the midnight sun In
summer and the midday moon In win.
ter. ] found books and cheerful con.
vcrsation. an outlook on life. and n
knowledge OF current events which !
hove not always found In popu'ous
cities
There arc no schools to be sure.
outside Of Rpykiavlk and ono or two
otter small towns. for children cannot
walk ten miles each way to school.
house. and even such n schoolhouse
would accommodate but two or three
families. But the itinerant peda.
gogue goes about from house to house.
carrying his store OF learning with
him. and leaving behind much intel.
lectual stimulus and a desire to know
what Is going OF beyond the bounds OF
the island.
They wel> great chess players In
the lonely farmhouse where we stayed
| and they were keen to play with us
Although my companion considered
himself n fair CHESS player he was liz.
ANONYMOUSLY beaten by the angular
lady OF the household. They had a
Bible too and an 1celandic hymn book
We went away from our short visit to
the lonely farmhouse of the Sog with
the impression that the home life In
the typical farrss OF Iceland might
well be envied by jewellers in more
favored climes."
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
H)W ABOUT JT2

The question has been raised as
to whether the reward offered by
the State If Nevada can Re legally
distributed. II is cited that the
proclamation Offering the reward
s:ated"for the arrest an / conviction
Of" etc. o. course 1t IL known that
this was not carried out TO the
letter. and again II has never been
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24

proven that the Indians killed
were the murderers Of the shee p
and cattlemen. circumstantial
evidence was strong against them
as the guilty parties. but that is
not proof positive.-Appeal.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
How to Mend an Eao.eeater.

Don't throw away your Dover egg.
oeater Just because II "skips" If II is
otherwise good. Take some soft
twine and twist tightly around under
the head Of tho screw in the center OF
the wheel, until you have enough on
10 make II run firmly II may wear
on IN week or two, but ls easily 70.
placed. and have found that II pro.
longs the working life OF tho egg.
beater neutrality-suspicious. Home
Companion.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
& Rebuke to False Pride.

"The late John 8. Huyler," said a
New York confectioner, was, for
all his millions and all his phiian.
thropy. a man Of shrinking modesty.
Though he came of IN excellent
family. Mr.. Huyler laughed at+hsAo
persons who, In democracy like
ours. boasted of their ancient line.
age.
"A banker once declared in Mr..
Huyler's presence that he was de-
scended from the princes OF Powys
Wales. seventh century. you know.
"'ls that So drawled Mr.. Huy.
Ter. Yet heard a man tell your
brother the other day that he could
trace his family back to the days
Of armor and shirts NJ chain mail
my wife made me stop my ira.
cling when got back to shirt sleeves
and overalls'"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
WESTERN PACIFIC TIME CARD

A new time card will go into
effect tomorrow on the Western
Pacific by which the trains will
arrive and depart as follows:
West bound: No. / arrives at
1850 p. m. departs at 1901 q. m.
West bound: No. 8 arrives at
9:25 a. m and departs at 9:35 am.
East bound: No. 2 arrives at
S:l5 a. m. and departs at 1926
a. m.
East bound: No. 4 arrives at
Fl2 p. m. and departs at 1922
p. m.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
Chinese Compressed Seed Tea.

OVH'PTEsseu oceu ca.
Ihe Mandarin or virgin tea OF
China consists Of the leaves and
twigs OF the tea.plant. which are tied
mp In little silk bundles. But the com.
pressed seed tea Of the Chinese is
even more remarkable. II Is tea pre-.
served with its seeds and pressed into
compact mass under the bare feet
OF Chinese damsels, thousands OF girls
being employed for the purpose on the
reat tea plantations. II Is consid.
cred great delicacy in the Orient.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
THE WORLDS GREAT CITES

| WIN q pOPuidilOH VI pEOG, WV
London maintains its lead as the
worlds largest city. This is for
1911, the count having been made
a few weeks ago and now an
nounccd. New York in 1910 had a
population of 4,766, 900. which is
close to 100000 now. With the
recent annexations Of populous
suburbs, which have added over
100000 to its total, Berlin has
$500, 900 inhabitants, and is thus
the third city. 1t has jumped not
only above Toxic and Chicago,
which were only a few thousand
ahead Of it in the census, hut by
taking in Suburbs it has, gone
beyond Paris. which was more than
100000 in advance of it few
months ago. Unless Paris annexes
its own immediate outposts,
which in the aggregate, have 400,
600 or 100000 people. she will
have to surrender the leadership to
the German capital.
1t must be understood that the
term London, when used in the
population figures. means much
more than the city Of that name.
The city and county of London
have fewer people than has New
York. Greater" London COM
prises many suburbs which have
only very tenuous connection
with the big city. If there were a
"Gre. ter" New York in the
sense of the "Greatcr" London it
would have over 5000, 900 people.
This would cover the entire
METROPOLITAN district and
extend not only into Westchest e:
county but cross the Hudson into
the State Of New Jersey. State
lines and even county lines furnish
obstacles to the extension of
municipal limits which are I'M
known to European countries. A
simple act of the Prussian Diet
added 100000 people t. Berlin's
total. The consent of ncither the
old city nor the suburbs was asked
regarding the annexation. By the
mere process If accretion and an
occasional moving of boundaries
outward London may ut some time
comprise half or & third of Eng
land.
But while New York is only the
the second city in the world in
population, it is the first in
wealth .and the first in the volun G
and variety Of its activities. As a
port New York passed London in
1908. The transactions of its
banks exceed Lund0n's by 80 per
cent and The numuer of passengers
carried on its street cars and
other public vehicles is 40 per
cent ahead Of London's. Moreover,
while the gain in population of
Greater London was only 10 per
cent in the last decade, that of
New York city VAS SO per cent.
Even within its present boundaries
New York city will pass London
before 1925; but there are prcjsct
on foot which will add much
more than 100000 to it's popuIa-
ton by annexation. New York is
the financial metropolis of a
country which has double the
population, almost double the
wealth, and many times the re.
sources and the room for growth
lof Great Britain. The world has
ten cities Of over 1000, 900 popula.
ton. and three IF thcse-New
York, Chicago and Phil adelphia--
are in the United States 'Russis
has two such cities, and England.
France. Germany, Austria and
Japan have one each II the an.
nexation project Of Boston goes
through, the United States will
have fourth city of this. class =
st. Louis g lbe.Democrat.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-07-24
Those Hata.

Hello, Jack!"
"H.Sow.do.youdo.er; by Jove. your
hat Is very familiar. but I don't be.
lieve ! can call your namo."-Life.
Smyrna times., 1911-03-22
GOVERNMENT COSTS
HALF OF ALL WAGES
Expenses Per Capita is SI2.IO
Per Annurl.

It has cost more than $22,000,000,
900 to run the United States govern
ment since 1875.
1t costs per capita of S12.10 per
annum from every man, woman and
child in America to pay the costs of
the government.
Every voter in the United States
contributes $75.35 to the support of
the government.
These are three of the points made
by Representative John G. McHenry,
Democrat, of Pennsylvania, in a
speech which has just been published
in belated issue of the Congressional
Record.
Figuring that the wage earners of
the United States earned S2,611, 540,-
532 for 1910, Mr.. McHenry points out
that it takes nearly one-half of all the
earnings of these wage earners to run
the national government.
The farmers of the country ought
to realize, says the member from
Pennsylvania, that it takes the whole
hay crop and corn crop of the United
States to pay the present running ex-
penses of the nation. He says the sys-
tenn of government and the conse-
quent burden of taxation is growing
out of all proportion to the produc-
tion and earning of the people.
He figures that if, to the cost of the
national government there is added
the cost of the state, county and NUM-
cipal governments, the cost of gov
ernment per capita is s25 for every
man, woman and child, or S125 for
every family.
Smyrna times., 1911-03-22
DOCS FOOD OF
STARVING CHINA
Million Natives Will Die Unless
Help Comes at Once.
ARE PRAYING FOR FOOD

Missionary Says Crops In Famine Dis
trict Will Not Be Ready For Har-
vest Until June.
Pathetic details of the sufferings
from famine in Anwhei and other
provinces of China reach the mission
boards in New York in every mail.
A letter came to the board of for
eign missions of the Presbyterian
church from Rev. Thomas Carter, a
missionary stationed at Hwai Yuen, in
Anwhei province.
81 never really knew what the
Lords Prayer meant until today" he
writes. I'VE came to a village where
some Christians gathered for worship.
To hear that company of men say
Give us this day our daily bread had
a strange sound when we knew that
not one of them had so much as seen
bread for many day, unless you call
pressed sweet potato vines bread.
Somehow that prayer must be an
swered. We cannot let these people
starve."
A million persons in the region just
are to die of starvation before sum-
mer unless help comes from outside.
He writes of the scene, as it i'm
pressed him, in the following terms:
"It would be hard to draw, a picture
of the famine district that would not
be altogether misleading. The coun-
try looks much the same as any
stretch of country looks anywhere in
China. Long stretches of good rich
fields are just beginning to be green
with winter wheat
"It is only as we look closely and
ask questions that we find out the
real state of affairs. We look at the
fields that looked so prosperous with
the winter wheat, and we realize that
those fields were all under water last
summer, the fields of over 2,000,000 Of
people, and that the wheat that we
see will not be ready until June, and
before that time, unless help comes,
the larger part of the people that
planted the wheat will be beyond u.s.
ing it. %
''And now we look again at the peo-
pie who have come down to meet us
with their rice bowls; in the bowls
there is no rice. The bowls contain
chiefly hot water and some weeds
gathered from the fields, mixed with a
few grains of precious wheat bought
with the relief money just given by
the government, relief that amounts to
about three cents gold given only to
the very poorest, that is to about half
of the population.
"This is something of what famine
means now. What it is going to mean
soon we scarcely dare to think, for ii
is still five months before wheat har.
vest. Already in many places the bark
is taken from the trees and eaten.
''The country is perfectly peaceful
more so than usual it seems to the
stranger, for there are no dogs to barI
/ at the passers-by. They aer all starved
or eaten, or both. The same is true o
| all the animals"
Smyrna times., 1911-03-22
WILL CONTEST SETTLED
Woman Claiming to Be Widow to Get
Share of Pettebone Millions

Share of Pettebone Millions
Announcement was made that an
agreement was reached between the
lawyers representing Mrs. Minnie Har-
ris Pettebone, who declares she is the
widow of the late Robert Pettebone,
of Wyoming, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa
and his other relatives, by which his
$12,000,000 estate will finally be di-
vided.
1t is stated that the widow will re-
ceive a goodly sum in cash and that
the child will get an annuity. This
agreement is said to be satisfactory
to the young woman.
When Pettebone died several
months ago his near relatives and his
attorney said his wife had died six
years previous. consequently there was
much of a sensation when, on the day
of the funeral, young woman of
Wyoming, Minnie Harris, who has liv-
| ed with her father In a house in the
rear of Pettebone's, announced that
she and Pettebone were married and
that they had two children, one OF
which had died.
| She claimed one-third share of the
estate for herself and two-thirds fol
her child, five-year-old girl. She also
claimed that there was a will, which
has never been found, and which sh,
says Pettebone frequently read to her
in which he made many charitable be
| quests.
Smyrna times., 1911-03-22
ARREST BRIDEGROOM
FOR BREACH PROMISE
Taken From Wedding RGcep-
tiOn to Enter Bail.

In the midst OF a wedding recep-
tion fifteen minutes after his mar
riage in Trenton, N. j., Thomas Fos-
ter excused himself to his bride and
their friends and went to the Office of
Justice Naar, where he gave bail in
the sum of $500 on breach of prom
Use charge preferred by Miss Annie
Dixon.
Miss Dixon claims that Foster had
been paying her marked attention for
some time and that in June last he
promised to marry her.
The guests had just begun to make
merry when the officer, armed with a
warrant for the arrest of the bride
groom, appeared. After giving bail
Foster returned to his bride and the
festivities we're resumed. He married
Miss Ida G. Eggert, a well knowr
young woman of Trenton.
Smyrna times., 1911-03-22
WAR TO CONTINUE
Rebels Say Diaz Must Get Out as First
Peace Move.

nCICio Gay Oldz MOSL Get OuL dS lTSl
Peace Move.
Leaders of the Mexican revolution
lists in El Paso, Tex, declare that the
fighting will continue, despite assur-
ances that Senor Limantour, Mexican
minister of finance, now on his way
to Mexico City, had started plans to
terminate the rebellion.
There will be no pause in hostili-
ties" said Gonzales CARA, insurrecto
secretary of state with the threat
of the government hanging over us
that we will be shot without trial, our
fight for liberty, and for the setting
up permanently of the Madero govern
ment, will continue. No overture for
peace will be considered official by us
unless it has come from Mexico City.
1t must come with promise that Diaz
will retire on the ground that his elec-
tion was not regular"
Notwithstanding this assertion, the
report of Limantour's exertion in be-
half of peace has created a profound
impression in the insurgent ranks. 1t
is known that a courier has been dis
patched to the field to inform Fran
cisco l. Madero. the revolutionary
president, of the latest phase.
Madero has already been made ac-
uuainted with the preliminaries. 1t is
said negotiations will be undertakes
without his approval of the terms OF
an armistice. The terms must be such
that if peace plans fail the insurrec'
tos will not have lost any strength by
the effort
Smyrna times., 1911-03-22
DEMONSTRATION
AGAINST DIAz
Official Palace in Mexico City
Stoned by Mob.
REBELS SAY HE MUST GET OUT
No Negotiations For Peace Possible
Unless Diaz Admits His Election to
Presidency Was Irregular.

Unless Diaz Admits His Election to
Presidency Was Irregular.
Authentic report of a serious de-
monstration against the person of
President Diaz, of Mexico, which took
the form of the stoning of his official
palace in Mexico City by a mob of
insurrecto sympathizers, became pub
lie in San Antonio, Tex.
The stoning of Diaz's palace came
so suddenly that the police, utterly
unprepared for the demonstration,
were unable to disperse the mob be-
fore much glass had been shattered
and the guests of the president who
were in the palace at the time had
been badly frightened. 1t is said that
there were not many whole windows
left on that side of the palace exposed
to the stonethrowers.
AS the details were recited, the de-
monstation occurred about o'clock in
the evening, when the streets center
ing about the official residence were
filed with people. Suddenly there was
a movement in the crowd, and out of
cafes and adjacent places there poured
as if by preconcerted signal several
hundred men and young boys.
With shouts of viva Madero." they
let fly first one shower of rocks and
then a second. The whole thing was
over in five minutes. There were sew
eral arrests.
The significance of the report lies
in the fact that this is the first demon.
stration against the Diaz government
and Diaz himself that has occurred in
the federal district of Mexico since
the present revolt against his rule
began.
Smyrna times., 1911-03-22

The u. S. Government in its "Pure
Food Law does not Endorse" or
guarantee" any preparation, as
some manufacturers in their adver-
tisements would make it ppear.
In the case of medicines the law
provides that certain drugs shall be
mentioned on the labels, if they are
ingredients of the preparations.
EIy's Cream Balm, the wellknown
family remedy for cold in the head,
hay fever, and nasal catarrh, doesn't
| contain single injurious drug, sc
the makers have simply to print ths
| fact that it complies fully with al
the requirements Of the law.