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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
TRUCKEE-- WATER
PROJECT ORCHARDS

telegram from Washington
concerning irrigation matters in
this state says:
On the Truckec-Carson Project
active work on the Lahontan dam
has begun. A large force of men
is now employed on this structure
and first class outfit has heen
installed. The work will be pushed
actively all winter and is expected
to be completed in the spring of
1918, when 100000 acres will
probably be added to the open area
of the project. A good share of
this additional land belongs to the
governmen and it includes some of
the choicest tracts on the project.
One of the interesting things on
the Truckee-Carson project has
been the planting of considerable
acreage in fruit. Horticulturists
predict that the Truckee. Carson
section is going to be a second
Yakima Valley. Some of the trees
which where planted when the
project was first opened in 1905
are now in bearing and the fruit
is Of excellent color, fine flavor and
perfect shape. Apples, pears and
cherries are the principal varieties
of trees planted. There are also a
few peaches. The apple crop is
especially promising.
This is the first year of sugar
bccts in the Truckee-Carson sec
tion. The sugar factory has just
been completed at cost of 5000,
600 and several thosand acres
were planted in beets this year.
An interesting feature on this pro-
ject has been the successful farm
ing of the Indians on their all ote j
lands. For the first time they
have been induced to plant alfafa
and their crops this year were
good.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
WILL Be INVESTIGATED

A thorough and careful investi-
gatiCn of the killing of the
portuguese named Joseph Mortly,
by Constable Wolf of ,Lovelock
three week ago, will be had by the
coming grand jury which will
meet. in Winnemucca. on next
Tuesday, October 18th.
District Attorney Callahan has
spent several days in Lovelock
interviewing witnesses, and gather
ing evidence that will be presented
before the inquisitorial body.
. Deputy Sheriff Muller is in town
today summoning witnesses to ap-
pear when the matter comes up.
These witnesses will include those
who testified before the coroner's
inquest, as well as several others
who possess some knowledge of the
case Among the latter is Mrs.
John Beaudine, who is now in
Reno. Mrs. Beaudine was driving
down past the vicinity of the
unfortunate affair, just about the
time it happened.
The investigation has been
urged by number Of people who
believe the constable was rot war
ranted in the killing of the Portu-
guese. Constable Wolf, on the
other hand is just as anxious that
the grand jury give the matter n
thorough investigation, believing
thereby that his justification for
the deed can he more clearly
established. .-Lovelock Tri bune.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
MAKE INTEMPERANCE
INEyCUSABLE

One Of the most effective means
OF cheching intemperance is the
severity of Treatment now ac-
corded the drunkard by the United
States government and for some
years a conspicuous feature of
railroad discipline.
Presindet Taft has just approved
the dismissal of four West Point
cadets for intoxication and ordered
the Imprisonment of four others in
barracks until May 81 next. He
is determined that officers of the
army and navy shall know that
they cannot drink to excess and
continue to wear the nations s
uniform.
The presidents action will be
applauded by all right minded
Americans. By making intoxi-
cation an ineXcusable offense in the
government service sharply jars
the liberal notions of those who
have contended that mans
personal habits are nore of his
employers business.
They assuredly are mis- en-
pIoyer's concern and if all employ
ers would be as uncompromising
as Uncle Sam. Young men inclined
to drink themselves silly would
find reform a necessity, a simple
question of earning living.
The railroads have no use for
drinking man. They discharge
him without delay or undue
ceremony. And since they have
been doing so they assert that the
personnel of their operating forces
has been greatly improved lire
sponsibility has given way to
reliability, the men being aware
that the least lapse will be fat al
an that no quarter will be given.
If all the industial organizations
of the country would adopt the
same policy there would be a
surprising decrease uf intemper-
ance. Men have to live: they
desire to live comfortably, and if
they are made to realize that
heavy drinking ipse facto dis
qualities them for employment,
they will not be SO eager to keep
up the goodfellowship which leads
so many to ruin.-Tonopah Bonnza
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
A CITY CAT IN THE COUNTRY

I'VE took our cat to the country
with us lis summer" sid the fiat
dweler. just back from vacation,
"and that cats education was
expanded thereby. Puss had never
been anywhere out of our apart
ment except once. when he fell
from the fourth.story window to
an awning below.
"Our apartment is about GO feet
long over all. For the first few
days that he enjoyed the unknown
freedom of n big yard up in the
country the cat puzzled us by its
antics. He would make short
run of so feet or so and then stop
abruptly and looked worriedly at
the lawn ahead Of him. Finally
we guessed what was the matter.
That cat didn't care TO run too far
for fear he would fall off the lawn"
N. Y. Sun
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
CURIOUS TREE

The rain tree of Peru grows very
large is rich in leaves and is called
by the Indians tamaicaspi. 1t has
the power of collecting the damp
ness of the atmosphere and con-
densing, it into a continuous and
copious supply of rain.
In the dry season, when the riv-
ers are low and the heat great. the
trees power of rondens1 q seems
at the highest and water falls in
abundance from the leaves and ooz.
es from the trunk. The water
spreads around in veritable rivers
part of which filters into the soil
and fertilizes it. These rivers are
canalized so as to regulate the
course of the water.
1tsis estimated that one of the
Peruvian rain trees will on the av-
erage yield nine gallons Of water
per diem. In a field of an area
OF one kilometer square, is
$3.50 feet each way-can be
grown 10000 trees separated from
each other uy twenty-five meters
This planation produces daily $685.
600 liters Of water. If we allow
for evaporation and infiltration we
have 1876, 900 liters or 29,531 gal
Ions of rain for distribution daily.
The rain tree can be cultivated with
very little trouble, for II seems In.
diffrert as to the soil in which 1,
grows. The tree increases rapids
and resists both extremes OF eli.
mate. Espana Moderna.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
BUILDING LARGE
CONCRETE DAM

Tayor and Shechan are making
extensive improvements il 81
nection with their large ranching
interests at Golconda. AT the
present time this firm has large
force of men at work constructing
a large concrete dam in the Hum.
boldt River east of Golconda, that
when complete, will form a large
reservoir for water that is to be
conveyed through a long ditch TO
their ranch which is situated a
short distance west of town. A
number of men with teams and
scrapers are at work on the ditch.
whicn, when finished. will be five
miles in length. Three miles of
the canal is to be finished this
year. With this greater project
completed Messrs. Taylor and Shee-
han will put under irrigation g.
500 acres of land besides the large
acreage that now comprises their
ranch at Golconda, the most of
which is under cultivation. Hum
boldt Star.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
RANCH PROPERTY BURNED

A fruit train on the Western
Pacific Saturday forenoon started
several fires on the ranches east
of town that destroyed good deal
of property. On the Henderson &
Griswold ranch fifty acres of
pasture were burned over, twenty
five tons of hay, over quarter Of
mile of fence and stock and hay
corrals were burned. On Mrs.
Green's ranch 25 acres of pasture,
25 tons of hay. fence and corrals
were destroyed. On the Bruce
ranches, 25 acres of pasture, a
house, 10 tons of hay, hay derrick,
fence and corrals. Mr.. Fernald
suffered less than his neighbors as
he lost only "a acres of pasture
The fires started about 10
o'clock in the forenoon just after a
fruit train passed east. AS soon
as the fire were discovered, the
ranchers and section men began q
fight that lasted until after 3
o'clock in the afternoon. A re-
quest for help wss sent to town
and three or four automobile loads
Of fire fighters responded.
The fires started outside OF the
right of way and were caused by
sparks from the engine Of the fruit
train. The Western Pacific
engines are not provided with
hoods or screens and Goals of fire
are thrown from the smoke stacks
into the grass and dry stuff along
the track. This is not the first
fire that has started from this
source and il may not be the last.
but to an outsider II would seem
good business for the railroad
company TO properly equip its
engines with the necessary ap-
partus to prevent the scattering
Of ,fire-branda and the consequent
destruction Of property.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
SUDDEN DISASTER
AND CONSTANT DISEASE

The nation has been shocked by
another appalling disaster. this
time in Pennsylvania. A dam,
built across a narrow gap between
two hills to hold back a vast
volume of water suddenly gave
way. The food poured down the
valley, carrying deatll and des-
truction with it. About 40 lives
were lost in a few minutes. A
wave of sympathy swept over the
country. Red Cross physicians
and nurses fastened to the srene.
Food, clothing. hospital supplies
and money poue1 in to the death
swept valley. Special trains loaded
with supplies and men started for
the town almost as soon as the
news of the disaster was received.
The State of Pennsylvania and
the entire nation. if necessary,
stood ready to relieve suffering
and to save life without regard to
the cost in labor or money. All
this is right; nor should it be
otherwise says The journal of the
American Medical Association.
Yet how strange that our sympa
thies should be aroused to inn
mediate and purposeful action by
the loss of 40 lives in sudden and
unusual. when we are callous and
Indifferent to the fate of thous-
ands who die from preventable
but familiar causes. A Johnstown
flood, an lroquois fire, San Fran
cisco earthquake, will CONFUSE
the word with horror, yet the
death from preventable diseases
of over 100000 people in the
United States each year excitles
little interest. The newspapers
announced the Austin disaster with
front page Stories and enormous
headlines, yet the United States
Census report for 1908 (the last
one available) shows that in that
ye.r in Pennsylvania alone, 2,450
people died of typhoid. 1920 of
diphtheria, S.703 of tuberculosis,
and that 9,026 infants under 2 year
of age died of infantile diarrhea,
tot ! mortality of 222,G99 from
only for preventable diseases in
only one state. So accustomed
are we to these enormous losses
thr ough familiar diseases. that we
accept them as matter of course
and a the inevitable lot of man.
kind. Yet each of these diseases
is as preVentable as was the Austin
flood.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
EVERY WATCH IS A COMPASS

Most men who own a watch
think they know all about it. They
have the number fixed in their
memory in case 1t is stolen They
could probably pick out from fifty
other watches with their eyes shut.
But how many men know that
theii watch is compass and will
tell north from south as accurately
as it will the time of day? Stanley,
the explorer, did mot know it
until he had groped his way
through the dark continent and
met a Belgian sailor on the coast.
Every watch.iis a compass. II
you point the hour hand to the sun
the south is exactly half way
between the hour hand to the sun
the south is exactly half W ay
between the hour and the figures
XII on the dial. Suppose for
instance, IL is q o'clock. Point
the hand indicating the 4 to the
sun and the XII on the watch Is
exactly south. II It is 8 o'clock
point The hand indicating 8. to the
sun and the figure X on the dial is
due south. No man need get lost
IL he carries a watch and can see
the SUM- Exchange.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
PONY EXPRESS RIDER
DIES At POOR FARM

The last of the old time pony
express ridsrs has gone. Tom
Costello who has been a resident
OF this section since long before
there was City Of Carson, passed
away at the County Poor Farm
yesterday after a short illness.
For some time the old man has
been ailing but with the gameness
that characterized him when he
rode across the plains in the DAYS
of the Indian troubles and carried
the important letter and dispatches
that were the bUr,'en of the pony
express. he held grimly on and
refused to acknowledge his illness
until flesh succumbed and he was
forced to take 20 his bed. He was
removed tn the Poor Farm short
time ago so that he would receive
proper care and attention.
He was kindly old man and
one who counted his friends by the
score. He loved a horse as he
loved his fellow mar and was
considered one of the best judges
of horsefiesh in the country. For
number of years passed he has
cared for the horses of Dick Bright
and Henry Rosenbrock and was a
trusted employee. May he rest in
peace. carson News.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
SAYINGS OF WOODROW WILSON

The only permanent thing we
have is change.
Everything that has ever hap
pened in history has happened
because large number of men
kicked.
do not fear revolution.
do not fear il even if It comes. |
have unshaken faith in the power
of America to keep its self-posses-
sion.
have no objection to the size
and beauty and power Of the
automobile. am interested,
however in the size and conscience
of the mn who handle it, and
what object to is that some of
these corporation men are taking
JOY rides in their corporations.
While you are walking around
with your hands in your pockets.
whistling. thinking the world is
going on as usual, there is little
group of gentlemen in some room,
somewhere, putting mp. job. on
you.
II you are ever temples to let a
government reform itself, ask
you to look hack in the p ges Of
history and find me governmt mt
that reformed itself.
We did not start out to show the
world how those things that the
world has always been doing could
he done over again upon a slightly
larger scale. That does not satisfy
our ambition. That is not what
America is for.
That a peasant may become a
king does not render the kingdom
democratic.
We are not going 20 break faith
with the past or with ench other,
but by the elements of persever-
ance We are going to get what we
want. Success Magazine.
.-~-~~s-~.-----
Corrobofstive Detail.
Has ne secured a footing in trader"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
HAMILTON M'CAIN

Hamilton Mccain, who passed to
the other side Friday afternoon,
was burn in Maine. May 5th, lS4S,
He came to Nevada when a young
man and lived at Mineral Hill,
Eureka County. before coming TO
this county. He WIS at Mountain
City in its boom days and then
moved to Halleck, where ke lived
35 years. Three years ago last
April he moved his family to Elko
and made il his home.
He had been in poor health for
several years, and during his
residenc" here he was confined TO
his house most of the time.
Pneumonia finally attacked him
and his weakened constitution
could not resist its ravages. His
wife peceded him to the unknown
land.
Six children. Mrs. Harry
Miller, Mrs. Ha ry Mayer, Mrs. f.
A. Burke. Misses Leila and
Marian, and Arthur survive him.
In addition to these children eight
brothers six living in Canada, and
one in Maine and one in Oregon
mourn his loss.
During his long residence in
Elko county. Mr.. Mccain made
and retained many warm frien, s.
He was an unassuming and pleasant
man. a loving husband and an
indulgent father. He loved his
home and family above everything
else in thcworld In his business
and social relations, he had the es-
TEEN and confidence Of those who
knew him.
His death leaves another vacancy
in the ranks of the pioneers o Elko
county. He did his part in re-
claiming the wilderness and MAX
ing Elko county what it is today.
AS q pioneer and as n citizen Ham
ilton Mccain did his duty. May
he find sweet rest in the spirit land.
The family has the sincere SYM
patby of this community in their
bereavement.
The funeral will take place from
the family residence at o'clock
tomorrow Sunday afternoon.
Friends and acluaintances are re-
spcctfully requested TO attend.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20

Associate Justice John NJ. Harlan
the oldest member Of the supreme
court of the United States died
Saturday at his home in Washing
ton. He was 7S years old last
June and had been on the supreme
bench for nearly 81 years. His
death was caused by acute bron-
chitis.
Justice Harlan was without
Doubt he best loved man on the
supreme bench.
His course in the Standard Oil
and other trust eases endeared him
to the masses OF the people. He
was above the clamor Of the multi
tude on the one hand and the power
of wealth on the other. He held
fast to the truth as he found IL.
His death removes an honorable
upright man and true patriot from
the service Of the people.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20

Editor-."We are sorry to lose
your subscription, Mr.. Jackson.
What's the matter? Don't you
like our politics?"
Mistah Jackson -"Tain't dat,
sab: 'taintt dat. Nah wife jes'
been an dun landed job OF wuk
foh M by advertisin' in youh darn
old papah. Puck.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
A Word Ia IN, WI,

When your friend calls himself a
iooi. II Ia better to disagree with him
tnhn TO lose his friendship. Walter
Pulitzer
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-10-20
Corrobofatlve Detail

Corrobofstive Detail
Has ne secured footing In trader"
-He ought to He's In the wholesale
shoe business"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-05-10
To Exclude Diseased Animals.

HELENA, May 6.-Discovery OF dis.
ease among animals shipped into Mon
tana, whose soundness had been certi.
fed to the deputy state veterin arians
of other states, has led to the promul.
CATION OF a new order by the Montana
livestock sanitary board. The follow.
ing order becomes effective May Is:
at is hereby ordered that from May
Is until this order is rescinded, no
health certiAc atoms, mallein or tuber.
culosis tests, will be accetped by the
Montana livestock sanitary board IN.
less the came are made by official fed
eral, state, deputy stste, or veteri.
narians approved by the United States
bureau of animal industry of Cana
dian testing, and that no deputy state
veterinarians certificate of health,
mallein or tuberculin test chart will be
accepted, save when unquaii6edly in.
dorsed over his signature by the state
veterinarian of the state in which said
shipment originates"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-05-10
Public School Roll of Honor.

The following are the students of the
Fort Benton public schools who made
the highest averages in the respective
classes during the month of April:
lB. Veronica Sullivan, first, 50 5
per cent. Alice Morrison, second, So
per cent.
Ia. Kathleen Fgan, first, SO per
cent. Winnifred Joyce, second, 95
SO per cent.
2. Walter Meyer, first, 96 per cent.
Reuben Archer, second, "a per cent.
3. Dorothy Ragland. fret, 95 IL
per cent. Christine Muir, second, 80
s 7 per cent.
4. Edith Raglsnd, fret, So 81 per
cent. Lawrence johnson, second,
IS 81 per cent.
S. Marguerite DeLorimer, first, 905
per cent. Natalie Townsend, second,
695 per cent.
6. Mary Rowe, first, 81 9 per cent.
Irene Rsgland, second, SO 1.9 per cent.
7. Arnold Westfall, first, 96 20 per
cent. Idabel Ragland, second, 95 7 9
per cent.
8. Roy Tobey, fret, 81 2 7 per cent.
Gladys Fisher, second, 90 6 7 per cent.
9. Minnie Ludtke, first, 924 per cent.
Avis Allen, second, Oh per cent.
10. Genevieve Carter, first, 81 l 5
per cent. Harriet Lee, second, 95a per
cent.
IL. Nora Harder, first, 96 is per
cent Agnes Matthews, second, 9ls
per cent.
IL. Isabelle Morrow, first, SO per
cent. Mary Green, second, SO 2 5 per
cent. j. W. LENNING,
Superintendent of City Schools.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-05-10

teau county, one OF them being altoona
about twelve miles northeast OF here
with Robert A. Lee, as postmaster.
Utopia, abou: eleven miles north OF
Chester, xi:h Mrs. Hea.on in charge
and possibilities a. Gold Stone and
Omho.t, ai.o appear on the Chouteau
county map.
Tue Fort BeL.ou high school will
be represented ut the Montana Inter-
Scholastic meet Al Missoula by .
tr ack t. ALL consisting of Chas. Car.
roll, Frank Stevens, Charles BARLEY,
hiram Bickle, jos. Tope and Edward
RUSSELL, who have been training for
the OCCASION. They will leave for
Missoula TOMORROW, accompanied by
c. NJ. Luce, principal OF the high
school, as q aperon.
Several VI the Eew settlers In this
vicinity are reported to be planting
trees on their claims, with . view TO
improving their surroundings. Pro-
fessor Shaw, 10 q public address de-
livered here last fall. advised agains,
planting trees 10 prairie cod because
Of the remote possibility OF success,
and stated tha. better results would
follow planting in soil that had been
properly cultivated.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-05-10
Kind Act Brought Fortune.

BOHEMIAN, May "A fortune of
s53, 600 for having performed 40 act
of human kindness in the bleak snow
fields of Alaska in 1901 ia the lot Of
William A. Wiley, formerly a truck
gardner at Bozemsn. Wiley went to
Alaska in 1898 and drifted about the
different gold felds for several years.
He came across Jsck Davis, a fellow
miner, out in the mountains prospect.
ing. He had fallen several hours
earlier and broken his leg and when
found was nearly unconscious. Wiley
carried him more than two miles on
his back to medical aid and saved his
life.
Wiley then returned to the states
and came to Bozeman to engage In
gardening for . year. Later, be
drifted back to the gold fields and was
lost eight of by friends. In the mean
time Davis struck it rich and sold out
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-05-10
Queer Church ornamentation.

The chancellor Of the diocese who
refused to sanction the design for q
memorial window in a Carlisle church
on the ground that an angel is depict
ed wearing the coat Of arms Of the
dean and chapter of Carlisle would
assuredly make short work of the Lin
coin cathedral Imp" which finds a
place among the angels forming the
angel choir In that building. Up and
down England are to be found hun.
dreds of examples Of the humor OF
ecclesiastical architects of a past age,
from the snarling grifins worked into
the stonework of Henry Wis chapel.
Westminster abbey, to the dun COW
and milkmaids in Durham cathedral.
A cat playing a violin can be seen in
Wells cathedral, and in Hereford ca
thedral two cats, apparently perform
ing a violin duet. Boston 'Stump" Is
crowded with fantastic carvings,
among which may be mentioned q
wife chastising her husband, a teacher
Gaming a pupil and an orchestra com
posed Of bears playing an organ, q
bagpipe and a Observation-Disclosures
Gazette,