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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-03-17
MOMAN SOLE SURVIVOR
OF.JORDAN SNOWSuDE

The Carson Appeal says: Word
was received in this city Saturday
evening from Bodies that the
rescue party working at Jordan
had recovered the body Of K. H.
Mason. While working in the
shattered building where Mason
was buried groans were heard and
il was fuond that Mr.. Mason was
alive, but PINNED under the beams
and snow She was taken from
the perilous position and It was
found that the lady was alive and
was practically uninjured. She
was ut once taken to the Conway
ranch ard medical assistance
summoned 1t Is believed that she
will recover. Her husband was
smothered to death in his bed
while the lady was moved from the
bed and held under an arch formed
by the broken timbers In this
manner she lived for sixty hours
and aside from her terrible ex.
perience and lives IS the sole
survivor Of the terrible disaster.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-03-17
NEVADA PAYS HIGHEST
WAGES TO FARM LABDRERS

According to statistic just
made public by the Department Of
Agriculture, higher wages ERE
paid to American farm laborer:;
during 1910 than at any time il
the last as years. The averap.
wage for the country was $27.5G
per month during 1910 while 20
years ago they were only $18.33.
In Sumo parts of the country tn.
rate of wages of farm laboreI:
was higher than in others. TIL,
highest was in Nevada where tn
rate was $54 while in Montana an
Washington it was $50.
South Carolina paid the lowes;
rate. $16.50.
In the New England and Nortl;
Atlantic states the average wa,
$3.50 with Massachusetts, payin.
the highest, $37 65.
In the South Atlantic states tn
average was $19.75 with We.
Virginia paying the highest 81!
In the northern centra ] state E.
West Of the Mississippi, tn
average was $35.35 wit.
the highest, $37.25. With boar.
the average was $22.49. In H..
north Dakota paying the higbes!
$42. With buard the average WI
$25.10. In the Southern Centr..i
states. the average was $21.9 Wit,
Oklahoma paying the highes
$28.l0 With board the averar >
was $l5.28.
In the far western states Il I
average was $4G.48, with Nevada
paying the highest, $50. With
board the average was $685.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-03-17
POPE'S HEAVY MAIL BAG
His Holiness Gets Greater Number 81
Missives Than Any King or
Executive.

r. one were asked 10 speculate az to
the sovereign whose daily mail bag
was the greatest ono would hazard
tic kniSer. But no. Then most will
Soy It ought to be. On on unim.
peachable authority OF q Paris con.
temporary we learn that the pope 10
the recipien, Of the greatest number
Of m~issives.
Tho mail Of his holiness consists
or the average Of $4,000 letters. neHs-
papers, etc. To go through this a
IS secretaries are kept employed.
The president OF the United States
receives nearly 1000 letters daily and
about 1000 Journals aud books.
The kaiser's mail consists Of 1000
letters and frequently the same mum.
b. OF books and papers. Our king,
We learn, is favored with 1000 letters
q dny and over 1000 newspapers and
books.
The czar is not overworked In this
respect for a sovereign. his majeSty's
mui! being given at $50 letters. etc,
per day. The kings Of Italy and
Spain have to deal with about 400
letters each.
Queen WllhelmIna 10 still moro 70.
vored with 100 letters. etc. But Pres.
ident Fallleres Is still moro fortunate,
for we are told that he receives few
letters and hardly any papers.-Lon.
don Globe.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-03-17
BOTTLE new FORCE
TO PROPEL WORI5

A London paper recently
contained an article which stat, !
that a group Of financiers in Il,
city of London had completed u
scheme Cor preopelling tt.
world with nitrogen; that a sum ::
$3.50, 600 had been set aside {"
float the scheme and that when i
was crowned with success the nj :
force would be offered to the void
at a capitalized value Of 81. 500. 00o.
The article explained that the,
is a master patent for the p, .
daction Of nitrogen power al i
Harvesting Il as q driving force.
The promoter. it appears, explains
that il is proposed to take & e
smoke which comes out of the
chimney from an ordinary fire %!
furnace, refine the gases by bio i.
ing them upon metallic copper in
a fire retort, take away the
caYbbonic acid in liquid form.
remove the black carbons atoms.
and that there would then be lrr
pure nitrogen, a colorless n.
explosive gas which is. "infinit, IS
more powerful than the ste"n
which drives tn G steam engine"
The pure nitrogen is then to /,
compressed In cylinders up to -
0u0 pounds per square inch, I'd
the nitrogen thus compressed is the
motive force referred to. MOT "
carr are to be constructed viii IA
will carry two long cylinders full
Of nitrogen compressed to 1900
pounds, and tho gas will drive
engines built upon the pr inciplt e
the steam engine.-Salt La
Herald.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-03-17
S~almagundi
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY

Mr.. Newman left this morning
on a business trip to Chicago and
Grand Rapids. He will buy a fine
line of furniture and other stock
while away and will then visit his
people at Ithaca, New York.
The assembly has passed the
bill making the eight hour day for
women employed in offices, stores,
laundries and other similar lines
of employment.
The ease of the State against
Hall and Vincent is still going on
before Judge Klatte. They a re
charged with obtaining money
under false .pretenses from Hong
Lee, the Gold Creek merchant. 1t
is said that they got over 500 of
the Chinaman's coin. ~
The legislature has two more days
to finish up its work. Assembly
man Mcintosh will then have time
to train badgers and arrange
badger and dog fights. He is sal d
to be a cracker-jack of a referee.
II his right to the title Of boss
referee is disputed, he can point
with pride to Ex-W Warden Maxwell
and others in Carson.
A passenger on No. 10 named
Walker had the misfortune to be
run over by the train at Inlay
Monday afternoon. The wheels
passed over both legs below the
knee. He was taken to Winnemucca
and placed in the county hospital.
One leg will be amputated near
the knee and the other at the ankle
joint. The Star says that the mar
is In a precarious condition and
that he has relatives IN Spokane.
Last evening as the writer was
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-03-17

hundred yard, ahead. Both were
bound for Albany. New York. The
Conductor Of the milk train. who
noticed that instead Of going at
ten miles an hour the train was
travelling seven times as fast.
climbed into the tender and dis
covered that the throttle IVES wide.
open and that the driver was lyinr
on the floor Of the cab with bloot
flowing from a wound in the side
of his head. Fhe conductor ant
the fireman tried to reach the
throttle, when the wounded mar
sprang to his feet and fought
furiously to Illustrate their plar-
For five minutes the extraordinary
struggle proceeded. The driver
was only overcome when the danger
of a collision with the crowded
train was imminent.
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before the women of Nevada can

before the women of Nevada can
vote.
If the present divorce law
remains unchanged it is a safe bet
that the next census repo.t will
show for Nevada ten d vorce
ecrees for every marriage license
and there will be more felonies
committed by way of perjury right
ia the sacred prec;nts Of Nevads's
courts in any m yrar than the
state could properly punish without
charging her prison capacity
three fold. Goldfeld Tribune.
Sergeants Hewsard and Stone of
the state police who came GOWN
from Carson City yesterday con-
tinued on to Winnemucca last night
where they will install the
Der tillion system for Sheriff Lamb.
They will then go to Elko county
and perform a like service for
Sheriff Harris. Later the system
will be installed at Tonopah and
Goldfield. At state police head
quarters there are now complete
records of q 5000 criminals
Gazette.
Two boys. Id or Is years of age,
who ran away from their homes
at Hanford, California, were taken
in charge by : eriff Harris this
forenoon. The boys started out to
beat their way cast, but tired of
the hardships and asked Sheriff
Harris to Telegraph their folks for
money to take them back home.
He sent the telegram and received
a reply that money had been sent
to them al Wells. The sheriff will
get the money Oh his return from
Cobre tonight. and viii send the
boys home.
Governor Cd lie has notified both
branches of the legislature that, if
his new water law is not amended
so as to place the appointing power
IN the governor. he will veto it.
The bill createstMa--fat-- positions
which the governor sense anxious
to give to republicans. The
assembly favors the governor, while
the senate opposes him. 1t is not
likely that the senate will be bull
dozed by the governors threat.
Governor Oddie seems to think
more of fat jobs for republicans
then he does for the states
welfare.
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Assemblyman Arnold of Es-
meralda county made an attempt
Wednesday to drag the treasury
for an increased allowance to he
members for stationery. His hill
provoked a bitter debate and
Ayers Of Washoe called the act to
secure the extra money as one of q
bunch Of thieves. He was repri-
manded by The speaker. but refused
to retract his statement. Mr.. Ayers
may not have been parliamentary
in his remarks. but he certainly
told the truth. Arnolds attempted
steal as defeated by the honest
members.
Governor Oddie is having hard
shedding with his "policies".
Three republicans of the assembly
joined with the democrats and
passed the governors pet water
bill as amended by the senate. The
bill as passed places the appoint
ing power in the hands Of the
governor. lieutenant governor and
secretary of state. AS the lieu
tenant governor and secretary Of
state are democrats. the COVER nor
could make no appointments. The
patronage shoe is pinching him and
he threatens L veto the bill. If he
does. he places patronage above
the welfare of the state.
Isn't it strange how liberal
Legislators get with other peoples
money? The present legislature
has raj ed the salaries Of all tho
state officers $500 a year, except
the superintendent Of schools and
he gets a raise of $1,000. The lieu-
tenant governor is given $500
additional as adjutant general. 1t
is suid that Governor Oddie will
veto the latter bill. If he carries
out his retrenchment policy as
annu1ccd in his inaugural address
he will veto the increase in his
own salary and that of the other
state officers.
H. D. Walker the young man who
was ran over by the cars at Inlay
Monday afternoon, died in the
county hospital Mt Winnemucca the
same evening while the surgeons
were amputating the badly
mangled limbs. Walker had been
a switchman at Inlay and was on
his way to Ogden when he met
with the accident that caused his
death. The train was pulling into
Inlay when he jumped from a cal
and fell under the wheels. The
Star says that the coroners jury
found that he came to his death by
his own careleSsness.
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Salmagundi
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY

Attorney Caine will leave for
Midas tonight on business.
There are thirteen prisoners in
the county Jail.
Mrs. j. C, Harris entertaind a
number of her lady friends this
afternoon.
Just rest your optics on the
Seymour Jacobs Company's new
ad. 1t will pay you to read and
study what this company has to
say about bargains in clothing,
shoes, etc., for men and boys.
Watch the ads.
Allen Fisher and Sheriff Harris
were passengers OF No. 4 this after
noon. Mr.. Fisher was bound for
his home at Wells and the sheriff's
destination was Cobre. He expects
TO return on No. 5 tonight.
Steward Taher reports SO
boarders at the County hospital.
Four or five of these will be dis
charged the first of next month.
The assembly yesterday refused
to sanction the use of hydrocyanic
acid in disposing of murderers.
Condemned murderers however ran
take their choice between hanging
and shooting.
Senator Hunter returned from
his Sanwich Island trip this after
noon. He wear the same old smile
and looks as if he had enjoyed the
good things of life while away. His
many friends are glad to see him
back.
A man who gives his name as Ed.
Fatt was run over in the Carlin
yards last night and one of his feet
was badly crushed He was bought
to Elko on No. a this afternoon
and taken to the county hospital.
DR.. Hood attended to his injuries.
The Wctern Nevada Miner calls
our governor Trickster L. Oddie.
The Miner did its level best to
elect Governor Odde and its change
of heart is due 10 the governors
appointment of county commits.
sioners for the new county of
Mineral.
There arc no friends like old
friends that we knew long ago;
they never fail to tel us things we
do not care to know. They tel us
we are getting bald or my you
are awfully gray! And Goodness
you are looking bad! That's what
old friends say.
The amendment to the consti-
tuition giving women the right Of
suffrage has passed both branches
of the legislature 1t will have to
pass the next legislature and
receive a majority of the votez
cast for and against 1t in 1914
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~Salmagundi
FROM MONDAYS DAILY

Thursday will be the last day
the Legislators can draw pay from
the state and It will doubtles be
the last day of the session.
A postal. received yesterday from
Miss Ernie Robinson, said that
Harry was very weak, but she
thought he would recover.
G. Gold, the tailor, has moved to
his new shop next door to the Hay
Company's store. He has q large
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number of samples Of suitings and
is prepared to make suits to order
at living prices. See his new ad.
After experimenting severa
years a chemist in an English
brewery claims to have produced
a dealcoholized beer, free from
intoxicating properties but retain
ing all the flavor CT other beer.
Electricity will be furni sid t.
Seattle by power derived from the
largest water wheels ever built,
each of the three monsters produc-
ing co. 400 horse power.
Sheriff Harris returned last
night from Wendover, where he
went to close two saloons near the
Nevada Utah line. He found the
saloons running full blast and
closed them in accordane with the
order OF the commissioners.
The preliminary examination of
Hall and Vincent, the young men
who claimed to represent the West
ern Buyers Association of Omaha,
is going on before Judge Klatte.
Several of the men who paid them
for groceries. etc, are here as
witnesses.
J. M. Blanchard Of l'arIin will
go to Monticello this evening to
teach school. Mr.. Blanchard will
fill the vacancy caused by the
illness of Mrs. A. B. Godfrey Mr.
Blanchard is a graduate of
Bowdoin College in the State of
Maine.
Attention is called to the state
ment of the Henderson Banking
Company in this issue. Note how
this institution is forging ahead in
the business world. Its prosperity
is a good index of the prosperity of
Elko county. Read the statement
of its condition at the close. of
business on the seventh of March.
C.rson seems to be considerably
excited over the constitutional
am endment removing the capital to
Winnemucca. kilograms were
received here today asking for
pressure to be brought up on
the assemblymen from this county
to stand by Carson. If the amend
ment passes both branches of the
legislature at this session it can
not be voted upon until 1914.
Carson is safe until then.
Reports from Carson are to the
effect that Governor Oddie and the
senate are at outs. The governor
it seems wants all the new positions
created by his progressive" leg
isation filled by republicans and the
senate wants the democrats to get
some of the pie. State Engineer
Boyle's re, ignation is said to have
been caused by the failure of the
governor and senate to agree.
Some charge that the governor is
attempting to build I'D a political
machine 1t the expense of the
people.
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MAOMAN At THROTTLE

An exciting ad, enture with q
mad engine driver on q mill train
occurred recently, in which a
disastrous collision WAS avertcd.
When his condition was discovered
the train wss travelling GO miles
an hour with another train carry.
ing 400 passengers only a few
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euSrANeT anu Optlclan. OdlId-
faction guaranteed. One block
north of the Overland Hotel.
Dr.C. J. Hood and wife arrived
this morning after an absence Of q
year or more. Their many friends
throughout the county will be
glad to learn that they are well.
The legislature has raised the
state school tax from 6 to 10 cents
on the 500. This is to provide
funds for free text books.
The legislature has fixed the
state tax rate at 60 cents on the
500 valuation. This is the same
as last year.
The D. McElroy company is now
located at its old office. just east
of the Pioneer saloon.
G. Gold. the tailor. has one Of
the neatest little stores in town.
H. Morgan Hill arrived from the
west last night and left fer his
N ,rth Fork ranch this morning.
The Western Pacific is now
running freight trains. but the
road will not be open for passenger
traffic until the 25th.
Governor Oddie has signed the
Mills fish law which makes the
open season from May 1st to
October
Some of our citizens are wearing
shamrocks today in honor Of the
good St. Patrick. May his
memory die.
Bills raising saloon licenses to
$500 a year and taxing druggists
who sell alcohol $500 year in ad-
dition to their other taxes have
passed the assembly.
Wireless warnings of approach
ing storms and ice pack movements
for vessels in the Artic seas are
contemplated If weather bureau
stations are established in Alaska
as planned.
Mike Mccormick, one Of the old
timers, is said to be in a serious
condition at his cabin in the
southern part Of town.
According to the snowfall
bulletin Of the weather service,
fifty three inches Of snow fell at
Summit in the Sierras during
February. this with the previous
snow fall made a depth Of 215
inches on the first Of March.
|. In life troubles will come which
look as II they would never pass
away. Tie night and the storm
look as II they would last forever.
but the coming Of the calm and
the morning cainot re stayed.
According to reports Cunning
hams capture was due to his
failure to black his neck below his
collar. He was asleep on the train
and a passing brakeman noticed a
white streak under his collar.
This white streak or v him away.
Badly" should have bla cked
himself from head to foot and no
tell tale streak Of white would have
given him away.
Intentional binding to escape
CONSUMPTION for the army Is still
met in Egypt. The means
employed are either placing Of a
hot needle on the cornea, producing
q dense white leucoma, OF punture
often involving the lens or by the
introduction Of lime or an irritant
vegetable juice in the eyes.
What has become Of the old.
fashioned boy who referred to his
knife as a, frog sticker?" And
what. ty the way has become Of
thr I'D fashioned Barlow knife?.
The legislature has treated the
state university literally. AM p-
preparation Of $4,000 Is made for
an electrical building and another
Of $172, 900 for running expenses
for the next two years. That Is at
the rate Of $500 4 year. an
increase Of nearly $60.000 a year
over the greatest amount allowed
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-13
CLOSING THE GAP.

The progress of man is marvellous.
When the Pilgrim Fathers crossed the
Atlantic in the Mayflower in 1920 their
tempestuous journey consumed time to
the extent of sixty-three days. Less
than three hundred years have passed
since then, brief spell in the aeon of
the ages, and a plan is now proposed
whereby the same great ocean can be
traversed from shore to shore in Nd
more than three days.
Sir Edward Morris, premier of New
foundland, is the protector of it, He
proposes the building of a railroad from
Quebec to a point on Cape Sir Charles
on the coast of Labrador. This road
would connect at it's Labrador terminal !
with a proposed new line of steamships
to run from Sir Charles to Liverpool.
and if these steamships were of the
type of the Lusitania, the sea voyage
from North America to the British Isles
could easily be made inside of seventy
two hours. This would mean that
passengers from Europe could be land
ed in lower Canada and In the central
United States a full twenty-four hours
quicker than is now possible, even with
the biggest of the transatlantic liners
now MAKING the journey from New
York to England in from a trifle less
than five to six days.
How is that for closing the gap be-
tween the old world and the new? If a
prediction to this effect had been made
no longer than sixty or seventy-five
years ago, when the journey across the
Atlantic by sailing vessels took from
three to four weeks. its prophet would
have been called a lunatic. But today
Sir Edward Morris plan is accepted on
all sides not only as a possibility but
also as one that will likely become an
actual realization before many more
years have passed.
Mans progress in all things has been
marvellous. But in no one human ac-
tivity have such strides ahead been
made as in the saving of time for
journeys by land and by sea. Nor has
the end come yet in this particular.
And this elimination of time in getting
from one place to another means the
more rapid development of the civilize-
ton that is worth while. 1t stimulates
trade and social intercourse between ali
tn : peoples of the earth. They are the
harbingers of a higher universal cul-
tIlro
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-13

proportions which would have neces-
sarily dragged along for many years.
But with the railroads helping out, ii
is believed that it will be accomplished
inside of two years. 1t is a big un-
dertal.ing, but one that ought to he
worth to the people of Kansas and the
railroads, too, all the time it will take
and the money it will cost.
The railroads and especially those
operating in this state, have insisted
all along that there is nothing of
water in their capitalization3 and
bonded indebtedness. They have
claimed that their own estimated val
uation of their property is a reasonable
one, and they are sanguiue that some.
at least, of the railroad baiters in the
state will be surprised at the actual
valuation of the property when it is
finally made by public authority.
But ;he contentious of both sides
will all come out in the wash and the
settlement of this question will be
good thing for all parties concerned
1t can be used as basis for the as
sessmept of just taxes and for the
proper regulation of rates. IN the
latter connection with roads doing an
interstate business, however, the
trend seems to be these days that the
regulation of their rates will event
ually become a matter for the exclu-
sive jurisdiction of the interstate COM
merce commission.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-13
QUAKER MEDTTATTONs.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A fish story consists largely Of hooks
and rs.
Any old maid will tell you that it's
never too late to men.
Hoax-'"There's millions in it," Joax
I'm what?" Hoax-'In debt"
Many a ball player who played right
field last year got left this season.
A bad liver refuses to act. in which
II is more considerate than bad actor.
Would you say that a man who
pawns his high hat is putting up a
stovepipe?
The most gulhble people in the world
are often those who believe in them
selves.
Even though he conducts business on
a large scale the coal dealer may givs
short weight.
I'm union there is strength quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes, but in divorce
there Is alimony," added the Simple
Mug.
Muggins-"C may be stingy.
but he is always ready to take a
friends part"
Blobbs-"well. poor old Bjones has
Joined the silent majority" Slobbs -
''Graciousi When did he die?'' Blobbs
He isn't dead. He's married"
Wigg-'I wonder why that Camden
friend OF yours is so ili-natured.' y
Wagg-'I suppose every time he gets
on a ferryboat IL makes him cross"