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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-05-10
SHOOTING SCRAPE AT OSINO

Joe Mini"hetti, a Section mar at
Osino. attended the Wild West
Show Sunday and returned Monday
morning. on No. 4 we'll loaded with
dago red. Last night about 8
o'clock, he took his shot gun.
loaded with No. 4 shot, and as he
says. Started out to hunt rabbits.
He went a short distance and saw
Louie Michelli standing in the
door of the cook house. By some
means, unknown to Joe. his gun
went off and some of the shot
struck Michelii in the breast and
right hand. A. Michelli who was
standing by the stove in the cook
house was struck in the groins by
some of the shot.
Sheriff Harris was notified this
morning of the shooting and he
and DR.. West went to Osino. They
were unable tu learn much from
the Italians and it was not until
the sheriff threatened to arrest the
whole bunch that he learneh who
did the shooting All said that Joe
was hunting rabbits and that his
gun was accidentally discharged.
Joe was brought to town and
locked up. The wounded men
were attended to by DR.. West.
Neither of them is seriously hurt.
From a boy at Osino, Sheriff
Harris learned that the men had
accused Joe of Stealing their socks
and it is quite probable that the
shooting was the result of a
quarrel owe that charge. The
Italians, however. stick to the
rabbit story, but fail to explain
why Joe started out at night to
hunt rabbits and how he
came to mistake a man for a
rabbit. The rabbit story will pro-
badly stick as no outsider saw the
shooting.
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HOW COLOMBIANS VIEW II

When President Roosevelt con
spired with the Panama canal
syndicate to rob the republic Of
Colombia of the state of Panama,
he committed one of the blacklist
crimes that ever stained the fair
name of the United States. Not
long ago he made a speech in which
he said he took Panama from
Colombia. What he meant by
took" he did not say, but the
people of Colombia know what he
did and put their own interpreta-
ton upon his act.
Their Interpretation il printed
in the official text book Of history
used in the public schools of that
country and ull school children
are required to learn it by heart.
Following is the Colombian view
Of the shameful transaction:
ION the third Of November in
the year 1903, Jose NJ. Obaldia,
then Governor Of Panama, TO-.
gether with Tomas Arias, Nicanor
Obarxio and other less prominent
Panamanians, some Of whom held
public office and all bribed by
Yankee gold, proclaimed the re-
pubic of Panama, to be made up Of
what was then the Department of
Panama, an integral part Of the
Republic Of Panama
The United States. whose then
President, Theodore Roosevelt. was
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value must run up into hunirehs
of thousands of dollars.
In order that the watch may be
kept up to a r: gular STANDARD /
must be inspected regularly.
There is not only a general time
Inspector on most railroads. but a
staff IF local inspectors who are
placed along the road at convenient
points. and to whom the men may
resort when they wish TO compare
their time with the standard at
that place. Once every two weeks
the railroad man submits his
watch to an inspector usually q
jeweler OIL matchmaker by profes
sion). The Inspector gives his eX-
pert opinion on the condition of the
time-piece. If it needs cleaning
he says so and does it; If il is
fast or slow he regulates il, and
not until il is running with sutli-
cient accuracy is it allowed to
escape from his care. A watch'S
record is kept as if it were a thief
S" far a S repairing goes. the rail.
road man is under no cOmpulsion.
He need not hand over his watch
TO any particular Matchmaker or
Inspector for repair, hut he can
give it to any matchmaker in
whom lie has confidence. 1t must.
however, be submitted to the
Inspector before it can be Used in
actual SERVICE Western Railway
News.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-05-10
HOT AIR DEVICE

Working on the well known fact
that the heat from a cows body is
enough to warm a large area,
John N. Ventor of Jayport. VT,
has evolved a scheme which has
saved him a winters coal and
which robs the threatened fuel
famine Of all its terrors for him.
MIR. Ventor foun1 that the heat
of his herd of cows was enough to
keep his stable at a comfortable
temperature during the coolest
weather and decided that he
needed heat in his house more than
in the barn. He rugged a sheet
iron room for each COW. the only
opening to which we're those for
ventilation and through a pipe
which led t. his house. These
pipes were attached to his furnace
connections and the heat thus
generated was enough to warm his
rooms thoroughly.
The only drawback to the scheme
is the odor that comes through the
pipes from the stable. Mr.. Ventor
will obviate this by feeding his
COWS breath perfume mixed with
their food.-Rochester Times.
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ALL, ALL TAFT LIARS

A Washington dispatch Of the
9TH contain, tn" following interest.
ing Information for the American
people:
The Taft and Roosevelt national
headquarters FLASHED today over
the Maryland primary result. The
word "lie" was used freely by
Senator Dixon head Of the Roose.
welt committee. Early in the day
the Taft headquarter put out a
statement ION the Maryland results
part of which follows:
More than half Of Mr.. Roose
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MAKES
TOBACCO BETTER

4 ness use is said to have been
found for alfalfa. and a, Che uses
~ "r article multiply and price
-n"".I increase corrcspondinmy.
DO IoDas like there are great posi-.
hl.I''cs ahead for tie alfalfa
farmer, and the Zig alfalfa ruiscrs
"i the I"9c'"k valley and Paradise
valley should share in the benefits.
Press dispatches announce that
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-05-10

The Palisades on the Hudson are
slowly changing To the traveller OF
a hundred years ago they were a
sheer cliff OF clean rock rising in a
perpendicular line from the waters
edge nearly a thousand feet. Now
they are buttressed at the foot by i'm
mense deposits of broken rock which
trosts have peeled from the cliff
Gradually this buttress is growing
higher The upward growth OF this
auITorting pile is due to the trees
svcrsrccEs Of various kinds-which
nave grown seemingly right out OF the
rocks
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-05-10
WHAT IS A BANK DEPOSIT

The deposit in the banks r l6
billion dollars.
The money in the banks amounts
TO ID billion dollars; the money
outside the banks, 2 billion--3A
billion of money in the whole
country.
Bank deposits. then. are more
than 10 times al large as the
banks money holdings; they are
nearly 3 times as large as the total
stock of money in the country.
For evrey dollar the banks owe
their depositors they have less
than a dime in loney. The savings
banks have less than one cent in
money for every dollar they owe
their depositors.
Bank deposits are not money.
What, then lis a bank deposit
Only one dollar in twenty of the
deposits the banks receive every
day (they run about a billion a day.
are in money. All the rest are in
the form of orders or promises to
pay money.
If you go to 20 ur bank and bor-
row $1,000 the bank credits you
with $1,000 on its books. This is
a Deposit If you draw a check
against this deposit for 81, 900 to
pay the mortgage on your hone,
the man who gets your check puts
il in his bank. This is a deposit.
If you are a manufacturer. you
get from a customer, in payment
for goods, his written promise to
pay you the amout in 80 days. You
put his note in your bank, which
credits you with the amou It, less
interest. This is q deposit. Or,
you draw an order on your
customer to pay you the amount
in 80 days; he accepts the
darft; you put it in your bank.
This is a deposit.
In such ways the great bLlk of
bank deposits arise. Modern bust
ness makes actual money of less
and less Importance in the ex-
change of goods between producers
and consumers. Nine-tenths of
all our business is now done with
bank credit.
The farmer who has wheat and
wants to buy shoes and meat gets
the currency with which to make
his purchases by getting a bank
deposit against his wheat. He gets
this deposit represents, in fact.
the coming of property into cur-
rency. A deposit is a liability Of
the bank lit is a sum the bank
owes the depositor. The chief
resources of a bank are, in addition
to the securities it has purchased
for investment, the loans il has
made on property ESPECIALLY goods
moving in the channels Of trade),
which are 500 to be paid by the
borrowers.
No bank is ever in a position to
pay any large number of its de-
positors on demand cash in full.
But every sound bank in a sound
banking system has its in
such form that II can obtain cash
on short notice to meet the most
extraordinary demands OF its
depositors.
Every great commercial nation,
with the exception Of the United
Btates, has provided a means where.
by sound banks can always con-
vert prime assets into currency
a nix ing Reform.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-05-10

agent Grady informs us that
freight business on the Western
Pacific is increasing steadily. The
INST carIoard Of wool to be shipped
over the line from Elko will be
'"adcd tomorrow and several more
carloads will follow. Passenger
tr"iIic is also increasing. Three
special trains of Shrincrs will pass
through nest week, ]on.routc from
LOS Angeles TO their homes in the
rs {.
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~Suffragette Meeting

An invitation is extended TO the
ladies Of Elko, aid Elko County
who are interested in the organi1a-
ton Of a branch Of the Equal
Franchise Society IF Nevada. to
meet at the Elko, County Court
House Thursday, May 10th at 2:30
z. NJ.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-05-10

Mrs, Hopcly left this morning
for Ely TO visit her son
Mrs. f.. e. Lytton and dapphtor.
Bernice returned yesterday from
their visit to California
Mrs. James Medcll viii leave
tonight for Salt Lake 10 be with
her sister WHO'S quite in.
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THE DAILY INDEPENDENT
SUBSCRIPTION a T

One ~
For any period under six months. IS cents
per mouth. Payable in advance Delivered by
carrier in Elkc at rs cents per month or rs
sents per week. Issued every Afternoon. sun
days excepted.
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Catered at the ElKo postonroe for transmission
through the mails as second-class matter.
Evening star., 1912-11-17

being placed on the table it should be
sprinkled with nutmeg.
For those who object to anything con-
tanning the slightest semblance of alcohol,
however, there is another German soup
declared by some to be even more deli
ciOus than the one just descrbed-but
which is also considerably more expensive
This is called mark kloese. In making
it one buys an ordinary soup bone and
carefully extracts all the marrow. The
soup bone is then put in the pot and a
broth is made in the regular way. While
the broth is being cooked the marrow is
beaten up with about a cupful of cracker
dust, one egg. a dash of pepper, another
of salt, pinch of parsley and a little
nutmeg. After all have been beaten to-
gether, the resultant mixture is rolled
into little balls about the size of a pigeon
egg. Then when the houillon is almost
done, drop the balls in it. Let them cook
there five minutes and then serve The
only fault that can be found with this
dish is that it is difficult to get enough
marrow to give every one as much as he
wants-for those who try it always want
more.
Weinerschnitzel is another typical Ger
man dish that has won a regular place
on the menu cards of all the ultra-fash-
ionable restaurants of the city. Trans
lated it is nothing more nor less than the
fatherland method of preparing our own
American dish of Dreaded veal outlets.
Most people who have tried both how
ever, say the German way is by far the
better.
When the German gets ready to cook
weinerschnitZel he first of all picks out
a piece of veal from a calf that was
seven or eight weeks. old when it was
killed. If younger than seven weeks he
will shun it as being too fresh. II over
eight weeks old he will reject it on the
ground that that single extra week has
spoiled the peculiar delicacy of flavor in
the raw meat necessary to allow the
preparation of the perfect dish. Given a
calf of the proper age however, he will
select a outlet from the leg. take it home
and put it in the icebox and keep it for
at least twentv-four hours, to give it a
gamey tang. Then he is ready to cook.
First the cutlet is rolled in cracker
dust and egg. previously beaten together.
and this mixture is kneaded into the meat.
The whole is then placed in a skillet and
fried in butter. While the meat is fry
ing tomato sauce is made. any one
of a number of common household recipes
being answerable This is poured over
the outlet just before it is done. When
the outlet is ready to be taken from the
fire it is placed in an oven that it may
Evening star., 1912-11-17

In Washington the most typically Ger
man cooking can probably be found in a
little restaurant far removed from the
downtown section. Everything about the
place breathes of the fatherland The
walters are German, speaking for the
most part in their native tonsue-this be-
cause most of the patrons are either
Germans or have visited the place so
frequently that they have picked up
enough phrases Of the language of the
versation in it. The pictures on the wall
are German. Even the crockery sug-
gests the fatherland
A fat. beaming proprietor. with fierce
mustaches turned up at the end, after
the fashion set by his beloved kaiser.
half waddled to greet The Star man.
When the latter explained his mission
he at first looked puzzled. 'Jaded appe-
tite helm? Vos is dot?' he asked. Then
when the term was explained his beam
grew positively effulgent. You can't
have him here. he announced positively.
You can't have him no blace we're dere
is der real Cherman cook who does tings
right" Whereupon he proceeded to tell
of half a dozen dishes, brou;At here
straight from the fatherland, which he
guaranteed .'all boobies must like"
Probably the most typical of the Ger
man dishes is beer soup, the chief in
gredient of which, as might be guessed
from the name, is lager, and which is
served steaming hot. 1t must be admit
ted that the idea does not sound particu-
larly attractive Nevertheless the soup
really is delicious, nor need one have
any qualms about partakng of it. One
could not possibly consume enough of it
to become intoxicated. The cooking kills
that feature-besides beer is only one of
the ingredients. 'Cnd." explained the
proprietor, .'he is fine for der cold. You
haf a bad cold, und you eat dot soup
und right away your cold he ISIS gone!"
In its preparation beer soup is SO sim
pie that any one can make 1t. Also it is
essentially cheap. To make enough for
the family of. say, seven persons, get
half gallon of stale beer Fresh beer
might be used perhaps, but the stale beer
is not only cheaper. but gives far better
results. Place the beer i'm jar and then,
in another jar, beat three eggs into a
pint of milk stirring in a pinch of salt
Mix the beer and the milk and eggs and
stir about two minutes. Then put it all
on the stove and let it come to a boil
The soup should be removed from the
stove and served the minute it comes to
boil. At that time it is a delicious
creamy color. is about the thickness Of a
thin gravy, looks and smells most appe-
tizing and tastes still better. Just before
Evening star., 1912-11-17

this much still another coat has been de-
signed which when buttoned gives every
appearance of being fur lined but IS not.
Instead only the edges are trimmed with
fur and there is a big fur collar. The lin
ing OF this coat is of velvet, coiored 10
match the fur trimming. An exceptional
ly handsome coat OF this sort can be
bought for as low S35-a coat that
when worn gives every appearance Oh
having cost several hundred. 1t is
brand-new innovation. and one, the deal
ers believe, that is certain TO become in
tensely popular particularly with the
man of moderate income.
Side by side with the coat for the man
with whom cost doesn't figure is another
variety of coat designed first, last and
solely for the man with whom cost is
everything. This is a combination over
coat and raincoat 1t is made of goods
which has been waterproofed, yet is
heavy enough to keep out the cold. 1t
is possible to get these coats in any
style in which other overcoats are made.
with the possible exception of the extreme
English cut In addition, they are also
made after a pattern their own This
last pattern is what is known as three
quarter length, term which means that
it extends halfway between the knee
and the shoe tops. 1t is close fitting about
the collar, and rather loose than tight,
the looseness applying both to shoulders
and body. Altogether, il is e,.le essen
TALLY comfortable without losing any of
ltS QFeSSineSS. In some iueiiI abit man
ner 1t suggests college campus. and
for this reason it is probably destined to
become exceedingly popular with the
younger set.
There are several new features connect
ed with it, too, which should tend to in
crease it's popularity. One of them IS the
changeable collar, fastened to the coat by
means of a device which allows i, 10 be
worn fiat and low in mild wea her: loose
and rolling. in unsettled weather; high.
and military shaped in rain or SNOW;
turned up around the ears case of eN-
treme cold. In other words, merely by
changing the collar the coat may be made
suitable for business. dress or converted
into a storm garment, though the fact is
regrettable, even the dealers admit, that
Evening star., 1912-11-17

by an inexorabe Beau Fashion which must
be obeyed The coat lapels must be wide
and rolling The collar must be rather
broad the length must come considerably y
below the waist Vet above the knee. The
skirts must be haring, or. at least, semi
farng, and most important of ALL the body
must give the appearance OF being loose
yet fit tightly enough 10 disclose the lines
of the form. Material and color depend
entirely on ones own individual taste and
purse.
But there is one word more. which. Beau
Fashion probably would prefer To keep
secret, but which the Goddess OF F,cono-
my insists be told AT the beginning OF
this article the usual lack of care given
an overcoat was mentioned. together with
the declaration OF one of the citys most
prominent tailors as to how valuable
such care, if given. would be- Added to
this is the fact that the person who buys
an expensive oyercoat, If he is really
careful Of it. may, by keeping it packed
away in moth balls. save himself the
necessity OF buying any overcoat at all.
some winter a few weeks hence. For in
stance, there is certain man in Wash
inston, notably particular about his dress.
who went TO smar. i street mems out
filter few days ago and demanded that
he be shown the latest and best in an
overcoat that was the latest and best in
the house. The clerk who waited on
him promptly showed him short coat Of
dark blue chnchilla.
'Chnchllla, the clerk explained, Is
going to be all the rage this winter. It's
the SWEETEST thing you can get It's
been out of style several years, but it's
coming back with a rush"
The man did not buy.
Instead he went home, dug down into
his cedar chest, hauled up a tar-lined
bag opened it and took out coat he
had bought ten years ago. 1t was of "A
length reaching just above his knees.
broad of collar, rolling of lapel and with
semi i-fiarin skirts. Also, il was made Of
dark blue chinchilla. The coat went TO
the cleaner to be gone over and pressed.
and today the man is wearing il,
Fashion, always, had moved in it's
inevitable circle, and the coat he bought
ten years ago is today "the latest and
best thing out
Evening star., 1912-11-17

They come in red brown, mud yellow.
green, violet and black-and-white, on
backgrounds of every conceivable color.
All these as already stated are intend
ed primarily either for young men or for
men who wish to dress young" They
range in price, consequently, from mod
crate amount suitable to the purse or a
father who has to outfit several children
to amounts double triple and quadrupie
as much for the well-to-do bachelor who
has no expenses to meet save those iE-
dividually his own
Briefly, it is possible to buy a semi-rag-
Ian coat OF the very latest cut and in at
most any imaginable pattern of goods
for as low as $l2, From this bottom
price they range UP the scale, at So. then
$3.50, then so. and then to $500 and
$50 More coats are sold at these latter
two prices than any others-although 1t
is rapidly becoming the custom for a man
to buy two coats at $15 each-acting on
the theory that since constantly changing
styles will make the coat serviceable for
but one winter anyhow, and since the SlJ
coat of today will easily last that long.
it is better to have two. and thus secure
variety.
This custom does not apply altogether,
however. Next to shoes the overcoat
is perhaps the most noticeable of all
mans attire. It, is an axiom that, given
a man faultlessly dressed from the ankles
up, yet wearing a "shoddy' pair of shoes,
the entire effect will be absolutely spoil
ed. All the correct things will be over
looked. Every one will notice the shoes.
And just about the same thing applies
with overcoats. Be man ever so fash
ionably dressed underneath, yet wearing
a shabby overcoat. he will create that
most unhappy of ag<impressions-fad
gentility. On the other hand. as man
may wear suit that has seen long
service and which lacks several months
of being the latest thing as to cut dor
so changing are mems styles nowadays
that their life can be reckoned by months
only. yet so cover 1t with handsome
overcoat that, II his trousers she pressed
and his shoes proper, he will create an
impression of elegance.
Many men Of reasonable income realize
this fact, with the result that they cut
Evening star., 1912-11-17

lection to the ears. These new styled
REFERS. if such they may be called, are
made of the heaviest, thickest. Warmest
of materials obtainable. In addition they
have heavy Innings the blanket lining SO
fashionable in the semi-raglans also being
frequently used with them.
This coat is ideal for the man who
believes in taking long constitutionals for
it's length or rather it's absence of length,
gives the limbs absolutely free swing. 1t
is a coat however. more apt to be seen
in the suburbs than part of the IF
street parade" A great many people
are buying them, but most of the pur-
chasers are of the type known as fam
lily men," who live the outskirts of
the city. In price these coats are essen
TALLY reasonab BILE. the best being obtain
able for SIS or SIS.
The fur coat, of course, is the quintes-
sence of elegance. Styles may come and
go, but the fur coat remains the un
changeable symbol of good taste, solid
comfort and luxurious appearance. Their
cost of course, depends solely on the
fatness Of the purse of the buyer. 1t is
possible to buy a fur coat lined with
fox, for instance, that will cost up in the
thousands, and coats lined with otter and
mink, and costing several hundred dol
lars, are finding such ready sale that
they no longer arouse comment. One
can see any number of them in the
downtown section any cold day.
There was a time when fur coats were
only worn by the very rich. But of late
years there has arisen a demand for fur
coats on the part of men of moderate
income. Always, where there is a demand
there comes eventually a supply, and
this case has been no exception. For
the past five years coats lined with cheap
fur dyed and treated into an almost
unbelievably exact imitation of more ex-
pensive varieties. have been placed on the
market. each year a little cheaper than
the year before.
This winter bids fair to witness the
fur coats acme of cheapness. 1t is now
from rabbits, muskrats or skunks, but
dyed and treated to represent either OF
ter or mink, for low as $50 And for
the person who cannot afford to pay even