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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-05-03
SALMAGUNDI
Freight Agent Gill of the South.
err Pacific is in town:

Freight Agent Gill of the South
err Pacific is in town:
Watch the Commercial Tailors
window for Saturday specials.
J.,A. Bielar and j. w. Puett,
two Carlinites, are in town.
For Sale-A New Home sewing
machine. Inquire at this Office
The grand jury is still working
away with prospects of being in
session all week. IS
See DR.. Gilliland when needing.
dental work. Office over drug
.I0re.,
Tne CO II Mss oners finished the
blsiless before them this morning
and took a recess.
For Rent IA fve-room house
partly furnished. Inquire at this
Office.
Howard Riddle arrived this
morning. He will take a position
in the Free Press office.
A cold wave swept over Kansas,
Missouri. Nebraska and Oklahoma
yesterday. In some sections the
mercury fell fifty degree.
Hesson & Co.'S. delivery horse
took spin un his own account this
forenoon. The result was badly
damaged wagon.
The Fourth of July will soon be
here. If Elko is going to celebrate
Ii is about time her people were
waking up. There'll be no celebra-
ton if all of US go to sleep.
If you want the best cleaning
and pressing in Nevada call up 1856,
the Commercial Tailors, we will
call for and deliver your work.
c. j. Nelson, the Jarbidge
booster. arrived last night. He
reports everything on the upgrade
in that camp. He will remain in
town few days.
Dean Harrison. jeweler and
optician, has moved one door
east Of the drugstore, where he
will be glad to see all wanting
TX in his line. ...s,-',
Thompson & Smiley have given
up the Nevada Feed Stable aid are
no" doing business at the Elephant
Livery Stable. where they are pr.
pared to care for all their old Gus
toners. Satisfaction guaranteed.
The following students of the
high school will take part in the
acade mic meet at Reno on the 18th
and 18th: G. Cazier. L. Hylton,
H. Angel, J. Wright. A. Dewar r.
Bryant A. McFnrlane. Miss
Dorothy Patterson and George
Anderson will compete in the
defamation contest.
A rich old n an was asked how
he made his norty. "Sin p'est
thin. in the world" he said 81
always did the reverse of what
everybody else was doing. If
everybody bought. | sold prices
we're high. If everybody sold. ]
bought. prices W ere low"
We again suEgrst that the new
COURTEOUS be dedicated with ap.
proriate ceremonies. When the
furniture is all installed the build
ing should ne thrown open and the
public invited to inspect it. When
all have viewed the building, they
should he gathered in the court.
room to listen to appropriate
exercises. We suggest that
Chief Justice Sweeney be invited
to deliver the dedication address.
We have received Bulletin No. 2
Issued blythe Rureau ~ Aor;o,,I,,ro
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
Boon for Winter Wheat

One by one the winter wheat states
seem to be winning out in their con-
test with the weather man. oklahoma
is the latest victor Its farmers. who
had begun to lose hope entirely, are
now jubilsnt over the prospect Of a
good crop. counting on favorable
weather hereafter The prolonged
drouth. dating since last August, has
just been broken by a heavy rain.
People have a right to become dubious
under such conditions as prevailed in
that state Unfortunately. or fortu-
nately, as the case may be. Oklahoma
is not favored with any great amount
Of snow so that Il must depend on its
rains entirely. II is different with Ne
brsska and other more northern states
that produce a great deal Of winter
wheat. Our farmers had begun to get
uneasy ten days ago because their
ground was getting very dry and the
late snow and sleet came Just in time
to do a vast amount of good. Then
nature became doubly bountiful and
added a good rain to the other ele-
ments, giving us a precipitation that
will do much to counterfeit the effect
OF the dry period We may now look
forward with much more complacence
to the remainder of the winter and
spring. Oklahoma had very little time
of grace left, however, for a drouth
OF six months duration is a very
serious thing and the farmer there has
a right to rejoice at it's termination.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
JABs OF THE PARAeRAPHERs.

Boston Transcript; Don't" SAYS the
colonel to young men attempt TO reach a
high station bv climbing up on other neo-
Pile The backs Of the pews win do.
Chicago Rccord-Hcrald. Miss Margaret
Damn. an American girl who created
furore when she sang In Berlin Is comine
home. By a supreme effort we are able
20 refrain from making the obvious com
ment
Philadelphia Bulletin: pr Eliot Of Hsr-
ward Is % the opinion that a normal family
should consist Of eight children although
he is silent on the question OF properly
rearing the eight with food and clothes at
top-nc'ch pr'cer
Cleveland Plain Dealer: An apparatus
for eNtermlnatlng the housefy has been
invented by a Massachusetts, college pro
lessor. BY and by one microbe will kin
another unti there's nothing left but pro-
fessors. and they'u be easy to fix.
Baltimore American; Colonel Roosevelt
has been advising young men not to climb
up on others 20 success This advice might
be interpreted In differtnt ways as to what
climbing Up on others means. but the col
onel himself is a very striking instance OF
the survival ~ the fittest.
New York World: Governor Baldwin's
idea Of a newspaper as proof. one-ouapter
OF column; probability. one column posi-
bly, little more; and lies, the rest Of the
Sheet Is scarcely suggestive Of judicial
calm and fairness or the wisdom ordinarily
expected from the governor Of state.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
Exnsnsive Vanity.

One Of the most menacing faults Of
the day is the tendency to live beyond
ones income II cuts a much larger
figure In the mooted matter Of cost
Of living" than the average person
thinks AS people we have got into
the habit of living we'll. and that is
right, for our supremacy as a race re-
quires that we live we'll But there are
numerous vague and wholly fallacious
ideas of what living we'll really means
II should not mean living beyond ones
income. When It does it means trouble
for the person who does II.
Young people starting out in life
find the expense OF maintaining a
household very heavy and sometimes
let the disbursement of II weigh
them down into serious error. They
complain that their income is not
large enough for their outlay and
doubtless they are right, but when
they cannot increase the income the
only thing to do is to diminish the
for which there is no legitimate ex-
cuse. Expensive habits that are not
essential are the ones to cut of BY
applying the pruning knife intensively
and extensively most any couple, with
out regard to age, might effect a salts
factory equilibrium between revenue
and expenditure. And that is generally
the only way they can do 1t.
Nothing is more pitlable, not to say
ridiculous, than the spectacle OF a
proud young pair striving against in
superable odds to keep up with associ-
ates of unlimited means. Such mis-
guided people have no right to com
plain OF the times or the cost of living
There never we're times that would
enable an impeeunious man to keep
up with the pace set by a man of un-
limited means.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
Reoinrooitr In the senate

The fate OF the agreement for reci-
procity with Canada now turns upon
the action OF the senate on the bill.
which has passed tho house by such
decisive majority The overwhelming
preponderance in favor OF the measure
recorded in the house cannot fail to
exercise a powerful influence upon the
senate and yet II IL we'll known that
the opposition 70 reciprocity is much
more strongly entrenehed in the upper
branch OF congress. and. furthermore.
enjoys there parliamentary advantages
for obstructive tactics which do not
prevail in the lower house. u is
known. too. that while the democrats
in the house we're unanimous in carry
ing out their caucus decree for rect
procity no such unanimity OF party
discipline exists among democratic
members OF the senate. and the demo-
cratic side on the final vote may be
expected to be as badly divided as the
republican side.
In one respect. at all events the
president has made a tactical stroke
in so arranging the reciprocity agree
ment that II may be put into effect
by the enactment Of legislation rather
than making 1t in the form OF a treaty
which would have 10 be ratified by
the senate. Treaty ratification requires
two-thirds majority of the senate,
while an ordinary legislative majority
in each house may enact the measure
TO put the agreement into effect II
two-thirds vote of the senate we're
needed in this case II would be an al
most hopeless task TO secure II, but
IL may be possible. n a vote on the
proposition can be forced, to prevail
on a majority OF the senators, quite
irrespective Of party lines. to record
themselves in its favor Until the time
for a vote is agreed on the danger will
remain Of postponement and filibuster-
ing over the 4th of March, when con-
gress expires by limitation. Fortu-
nately. the friends Of reciprocity in the
senate include as good tscticians and
as experienced parliamentarians as are
to be found among it's opponents, and
they should be able to force a show
down which alone will gauge the
strength Of the reciprocity proposal
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
MR.. BRYA> NEXT YEAR.
4 Democratic Convention wonId Not
he COmpIct- without Him.
Washington Star

y
he COmpIct> without Him.
Washington Star
Victor Rosewater. republican national
committeeman from Nebraska. expresses
the opinion that Mr. Bryan will head the
delegation from that state In the next
democratic national convention and prac-
ucally decide the delegations course there
The peerless leader has not been as much
injured at home by recent events as his
opponents at a distance have been led TO
believe. His party friends are stil proud
OF him, and still disposed to follow him.
Let us all hope that Mr.. Rosewater's
Judgment may prove correct The next
democratic national convention would not
be complete without Mr.. Bryan. 1t is GO
ing to be an interesting body, but his
presence will add to the interest What
he shall have to say both as to candidate
and platform should be worth the atten-
tion of every delegate IN the hall
There are those who will believe that
Mr.. Bryan will journey thither with only
purposes of "scrapping;" that he will pre-
sent himself a trouble-ma<er. and that
II turned down. either as to the nominee
or the platform, he will sulk or bolt
But there is nothing to warrant this
Mr. Bryan was turned down at ST. Louis
in 1904 on every proposition. and yet sup
ported the conventions action He
stumped a wide section Of the country for
Judge Parker. and said what he could for
a ticket and a deverance OF which he
did not approve. It is to be presumed that
he would be regular again under similar
circumstances
Mr. Bryan probably has some very pro
nounced views as to what his party should
do next year. He may be more anxious
than in the months preceding the St. Louis
meeting seven years ago The situation
now is more promising for the democracy
than then. And so he may be In even more
aggressive form next year than when op-
posing the nomination of Judge Parker on
a platform which he knew Wall street was
debating.
But even so, Mr., Bryan should be at
next years convention, and accorded a re-
spectfui hearing. 1t is not believed that
he desires the nomination for himself,
though should he take the stage at
critical moment in a clash of aspirants
he might. as at Chicago in 1896, create a
frenzy. He is neither as young nor as
handsome as then but he still knows the
art of playing upon an audience, and es-
pecialIy one torn with differences, a little
weary from efforts to settle them. and
in such a state, somewhat at the mercy OF
a star performer.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
People Talked About

Directions that her body be cremated
her husband at Bergen, Norway, are con-
tanned in the will Of Birs. Sara c. Bull.
widow Of Ole Bull, the violinist which
has just been filed for probate In Bldde-
ford Ne.
During the year 1910 s. w. Hogan. a
farmer. living near Monticello, la. shipped
221 carloads Of hogs. In all there were
1873 animals. for which he was paid $780,
SS4O4 This does not include two carloads
that were shipped on the last day OF De-
cember nor a great many hogs that were
supplied to the local butchers during the
year
General Alexander Stewart Webb who
died In New York the other day. is the
last Of the group OF division commanders
OF the civil war. Grandson OF an officer
OF the revolutionary war and q graduate
OF West Point his record as a soldier was
worthy OF his forbears. Tie participated
in the battles Of Bull Run. Yorktown
seven DAYS. Mechanicsviile, Hanover. An
tietam. shepardstown, sniekers's Gap and
Charlottesville and was awarded the
congress medal OF honor for bravery In the
Bloody Angle" at Gettysburg when
Pieketts charge was checked and de-
stroyed After Gettysburg he fought in the
battles OF Bristow Station. Robinson's TaV-
ern. Mine Run, Wilderness. spottsylvania
and Petersburg, being brevetted as major
general OF the regulars after the latter
action.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

The problem OF providing proper
election machinery to facilitate voting
and prevent fraud in thickly popu-
lated cities Is not exclusive TO Omaha,
but is present in every large city. 1t
has been tackled, and in large
measure solved, by legislatures Of
other states. The election laws Of
Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota will
doubtless furnish all the necessary
raw material to frame a satisfactory
law for Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
Problem Of CITY Government.

With all the proposed and accepted
reforms in state and national govern
ment the one common demand of the
present is for better system Of NUM-
cipal control, a system more responsive
to the real needs OF the community
This is the meaning OF the embrace
by 50 many cities OF the commission
form Of government This particular
form is as yet experimental and has as
strong opponents as II has advocates
The first city in the country to adopt
It has, after about fifteen years, re-
jected It, But that may OF may not
constitute an argument against the
system. The central fact is that other
cities are willing to take It up In the
hope, more than the assurance, that
It will offer the solution of the prob
lem.
But in the meanwhile the demand
for larger local self-government goes
on and must go on until II has been
reasonably supplied. In several states
~" AN6AoAaNAANe gig bAaRpAAnk Win
this matter. Legislatures seem to have
a natural aversion 10 enlarging NUM-
cipal self-eontrol, evidently in the fear
that IL will detraet from their authority
over the separate municipalities. The
problem lie an old one in Nebraska.
Omaha has long sought relief from
legislative charter tinkering and il
would undoubtedly be better OF from
every standpoint IL It could get the
relief. Il is peculiar fact that in
Wisconsin two bills for a broader
measure OF home rule have recently
been defeated by the legislature. In
Connecticut a similar bill is pending.
While, Of course. IL Is desirable that
the state exercise a restraining in
fuence over the smaller units OF popu-
latton, II is nevertheless true that
greater freedom OF action by cities is
necessary to insure their normal
growth and development. The city is
In the end responsible for its progress
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

Nobody would propose making up
an election board by shaking names
out OF a wheel for a rural voting dis
trict because the main safeguard OF
honest elections consists in personal
acquaintance OF the election officers
with the voters The same principle
holds GOOD In city elections where
strangers in the election booth would
be even more exposed to being fooled
and imposed upon. The requirement
that every election oficer must have
resided at least one year in the voting
district in which he serves is salu-
tary one.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

The Omaha AID club thinks the COM
mission form OF government would be
a good sd for Omaha. SO it would IL
It gave us men to manage our city gov
eminent OF real business ability and
integrity. It would be a bad ad II it
simply changed the oficial titles and
increased the pay of incompetents or
time-servers. who now hold down too
many soft berths in the city hall
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
A Reflection on the Nation.
PhNnAnInl,ln Rncnrh

In an opinion OF Judge Laeombe. OF the
United States court in New York, on the
immigration laws he said that il was a
cause Of regret that such DracOnian pro-
visions could be found in the code OF IA
Christian land. While the law is bad
enough. It's administration by the bureau
Gratis on Ellis Island in arbitrarily separat-
ing immigrant families is more barbarous
Yet there are people who think a few more
turns should be given to the screw OF the
immigration laws.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
LINES TO LAUGH

Doctor ann sorry. dear madam. but I
have bad news about your 20 Gle ! must
prepare you Tor the worst
Prospective Heiress-Oh. doctor you do'F1
American.
strange how some people are ready At
any time TO chase after fires"
Look isn't that fire engine crossing
The square,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
"First they compel us to gi,e up our
money said the vociferous aKitator and
then they compel us 20 put ur with such
venient TO provide"
About whom are YOU talking asked
or the street car conductors ~ aarupton
star.
First Fish-tets go down 10 IN, Ms
sissipi and wash
Second Fish You're on.-st Louis Pest
Dispatch.
And why Tommy 10 ynr Sl,,oso ~.
oEenCs was so anxious to find an honest
PA saws he probably wan ID 'o cell hih
a gold brick. "-Houston fo0j.
1T was cicero. believe who said that
whatevcr one does one should do with all
was il. ! wonder II he would recon-
mend that man who was falling down
stairs ought 10 fal down with all his
might?'-ChicaCo Record Herald
- sec that Emma Cslve is quite IN A.
Eohr. japan"
That's too bad Some idiot will AZ ontu--
,esi'v'r tNat fNi.. fg n~Ntre~ wood rea aon
for starting the Japanese Wsr"-Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Two oysters were in a Mig ro' I'm ~
milk getting ready for stew sand one
oyster to the other:
Where are we9'
AT church Rupper" was the reply.
Whereupcn tho little oyster said
what on earth do they want " both
OF us?'-Milwaukee Free Press.
"Do you get out of life all that Is in ~"
II fear not. only belong to four bridge
clubs. Two Of my afternoons absolutely
go TO waste each week. '-Pttsburg Post.
The family man was passing through
the market when sign attracted his at
tention II read: Poultry Dressed IN the
/ attest style"
What do you mean by poultry dressed
in the latest style2' he asked the mar
ketman.
why are you blnd?' said the dealer,
pointing to the plucked chickens with their
legs tied. Don't Won see they are all
obbled?'-Yonkers Statesman.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
A SONG FOR sOLONs.
Portland oreRonlan

Portland Oregonian.
Ho. gallant solons, meath the state house
dome,
And a thousand institutions throughout
our mighty state
Are urging on a thousand claims and none
of them can walt.
And a thousand Things divert you from
other legislation,
Demanding several thousand each for their
appropriation;
Then for these impecunious Institutions,
small and big,
Dig deeply in your Golfers, but rememberI
as you dig:
CHORUS.
To keep your foot on the soft, soft pedalE
Go slow. don't dig too far;
For cash has legs, and it surely can ske-
II the lid is left ajar.
Munificence is lovely, but don't give II too
much slack;
volume Of his stack.
So keep your foot on the soft, soft pedal.
And please don't dig too far.
Perhaps the time may come some day
when, In the poets words
We win be rich enough to heave our lucro
And the Golfers OF the commonwealth will
compass an amount
That would put the tabled Croesus on his
back TO take the count,
Perhaps when UBen's master mind the
nutty problem cracks,
And we sit impaled In paradise upon the
single tax,
But until that millennium, Oh, gallant
solons all,
What time you dig, responsive 20 our
many-throated call:
CHORUS,
Just keep your foot on the soft, soft pedafI
Go slow, don't dig too far;
For cash has legs, and II surely can ske-
daddle,
II the lid Is left ajar.
Love the impecunlous wherever you can
spot 'em,
But while you love remember the cash
box has q bottom,
And keep your foot on the soft sofP
pedal.
And please don't dig too far.
IN. B.-The melody should wax the more
fOrtissimo,
The deeper in the cash box the appropria-
lions go,
And should make brave crescendo on
the diapason stop,
As the bottom OF the coin case comes the
nearer to the top.)
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
Philadelphia Record.

Strange things happen. The one democrat
in the ways and means committee who
voted against reciprocity represented a
Louisiana purchase constituency! And
Lorimer falls back into the arms OF a
Texas senator as a fororn hope! And
Johnny Dalzell locks horns with Secretary
Knox!
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

President Taft has vetoed the resolu-
ton to reinstate the West Point cadets
dismissed for hazing. The presidents
service as secretary of war evidently
failed to predispose him toward elem
ency for such culprits. It is a safe
guess, however that the punishment
will be more far-reaching by reason OF
the inability of the expelled cadets to
crawl back under the tent.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

According TO Cardinal Gibbons,
Wizard" Edison's mind is manned.
He refers. of course, to Edison's mental
attitude toward religion. although a
few more manned" minds able to
apply science successfully to the prac-
tical problems of life might be toler-
afad
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

That Danville grand jury seems to
be able to get along Just as well with
out the aid OF prosecutor. Which
goes to show that under certain condi-
tions the helpful prosecutor Is a him
drance to the finding Of true bills.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

sprInEtleld RepublLean.

The return of the state of Alabama to
the local option system is the logical out
come OF the failure Of the antisaloon forces
to carry a prohibition constitutional
II seems clear that the anti
saloon movement In the south and west.
which was so formidable a few years ago,
has passed through the period Of It's great
est strength-at least. for the present.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

Omaha has furnished presidents for
a number OF big railroads. and all Of
them have made good, A requisition
on Omaha from the Missouri Pacific
for a suitable successor to President
George Could could be easily honored.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

King George might help pay ex-
penses tor his coming coronation from
a new and untouched source of revenue
by subletting aviation privileges over
the route OF the royal procession.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

With so many statesmen eager to
throw the constitution into the discard
Il is not strange that play for motor
iety should be made by calling the
Declaration OF Independence historic
garbage"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

Preparations for the banquet to cele-
brate Mr., Bryan's birthday are going
forward We would wager that we
could name at least ten distinguished
democrats OF national reputation who
will not be invited.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

The railway mail service unrest has
been allsyed by adjustment OF the
complaints Of the men by the postal
authorities. This viii be sad news to
political agitators trying to keep the
controversy stirred up to make polit-
teal capital out OF II.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

Candidates for the mayoralty nomi-
nation in Chicago are using up columns
of space apiece to tell why they want
the job. II they would only say they
need the money the other reasons
might be foregone.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17
A Model OF It's Glass.

In the interest OF economy the legisla-
ture thinks seriously of abolishlng the
school Of medicine at the University OF
Kansas. This Is the same legislature that
adopted a resolution urging congress to
pass the sulloway bill. which will add $780,
OO0.OO0 a year TO the pension role.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

The National Piano Manufacturers
Association of America is in session in
Chicago with more than 1000 mem
bers and camp followers in attendance
Harmony or diseord?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-17

Our old friend Jim" Hill is out
publicly for Canadian reciprocity. The
agreement ought to be ratified II only
to make Mr.. Hill take a more roseate
view of the future.