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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-28
SERVE FOR OTHERS

IF every one had his deserts then
q great many would he doing
time" is a very common saying.
One might add that large num-
Der Of people deliberately undergo
Imprisonment in the place Of the
really guilty. deliberately" you
exclaim. Yes. Proxies for crimi-
mails are not so hard to find in Eng
land as you might suppose. says
Answers.
A few years ago a magistrate
was amazed when a Or osecutor
went into the witness box and
swore positively that the prisoner
was not the man who had assaulted
him. On the other hand. the pris-
ner asserted that he was the guilty
party. and gave a detailed and
circumstantial account of the VIII ole
affair. 49,.
Time, place and every other par
tcular fitted il with the prosecut-
or's story. The only difference
was about the man. The magisE
trate, however, inflicted fine of 80
shillings and cost, whatever he may
have thought about the puzzle. AS
a matter of fact, the accused az
gressor had paid proxy to plead
guilty" printing him in all the
little necessary facts.
One Of the most out-of-the-way
occupations in England is finding
proxies. Out-of-the-way because,
naturally, if such mothod of liv-
ing became known. the police would
be making unwanted inquiries.
Many man who has been released
on bail is approached by one Of
these proxy agents. who offers to
find substitute as like him as two
peas. The unfortunate man jumps
at the chance, for he knows full
well that if he steps away from his
situation he may lose it as we'll as
losing what reputation he has got.
In nine cases out Of ten the de-
ception is never discovered, though
very often the police suspect that
they are being hoodwinked.
l is not very difficult to dis
cover people who will 60 to prison
for you for a consideration. Es-
pecialiy is this the case in "com-
INITIAL orders" where people refuse
to pay thier just detbs. A case in
point happened quite recently.
A debtor had defied the law, and
the officials went to his house and
took him away-at least, they
thought they we're taking him away
In reality however, the man they
arrested was substitute, who had
been waiting for them to com. and
take him. The actual contemptu-
Gus debtor "a commercial traveller,
by the way was doing his usual
business in theprovinces.
A case of substitution of more
risk than usual came to light few
years ago. A Hebrew was charged
with crimianl libel. The accused
man was let ont on bail, after a
short hearing. When the case came
up for trial another Hebrew ap-
peared in the defendants place.
No only was he very similar in
face and build, but he was wearing
the actual clothes Of the real de-
PENDANT. This substitute was SEN
fenced to six months Imprisonment
neither the prosecutor nor any of
the court officials suspecting any
thing. For the six months retire
men the received the nice little sum
of 600.
MANKIND is STILL MEDIEVAL
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-28

Mrs. Conrad Smith of South
Fork: was a visitor to this office this
forenoon.
In area. Nevada and Italy are
nearly the same Nevada 10000
square miles Italy, 110,550 square
miles Italy has a population of
80, 420.000; Nevada, 81,875, a.
cording to some enterprising Stats
tician.
The Baltimore hotels have raised
rates for the democratic national
eonteation. twenty dollars a day
with a fiveday contract seems to
be the ruling rate. These exorbi-
rant rates will prevent many people
from attending the convention.
After sizing up the whole
meowing, Kissing. paving, clawing
outfit IF presidential candidates,
one turns with relief to the atti-
tude of Champ Clark OF Missouri
calm, serene, dignified-pursuing
the even tenor of his way, unruffied
and undismayed by the frantic
antics of such candidates as Roose-
welt, Taft, and Willie Ragtime
Hearst. AS a politician, a states
man and a candidate his demeauor
is so far ahead IF the boisterous
vaudeville performances (sume of
whom are mentioned) that it is
really a sinful waste OF time at
attempt to draw conparison.-
Clark County Review.
Patrick Lavelle, the machine
buster of the Combination mine at
Goldfield who was shot as he was
coming off shift on Friday, March
9th by Fred Burnham, who a mo-
ment later committed suicide by
shooting himself, succumbed Sum
day night at st. Mary's hoispital: to
his wounds, one of viii ch complete
ly paralyzed his body below the
point in his spine where one of the
bullets lodged. Lavelle was 45
years old and is survived by wife
and four small children. Money
matters in connection with mining
claims at Lee near the California.
Nevada line, in which Burnham and
Lavelle had been interested togeth
err, as said to have been al the BOT
tom of the trouble which resulted
in the tragedy.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-28
sALMAGUNDI


this afternoon.
Rev. H. F. Henrilues Of Battle
MouHIa ain was passenger for Tus.
car Cd on this mornings stage.
Courthouse, Highschool. and
grammar School. souvenirs at
Wintermantel.s Jewelrv Store.
Dean Harrison. Jeweler and
optician. has moved one door
east of the drugstore, where he
will be glad to see all wanting
work in his line.
For Sale-A lot of fine posts and
several cords of good wood. Will
be delivered in O. antilles to suit.
Inquire of George M. Clayton
Elko Nevada.
EGGS FOR SALE Thorough
bred White Orpingtons, $500 per
setting. Thoroughbred Buff Orp-
ington, Sl.50 per setting. Young
stock for Sale, A. D. Taber. EIko,
New.
E. S. Reader, formerly Western
Pacific agent at Elko, has been ap-
pointed travelling freight agent for
the district between Winnemucca
and Salt Lake City. His many
friends here wish him success.
G. Gold. the tailor, can be
found at the Remnants Company's
store. until his former place of
bushes is rebuilt. He is prepared
to do all work in his line, just as
reasonable as he did before he was
burned out. Give him a show.
Mrs. E. Wallace wishes to an
nounce to the public that she has
moved her Massasge Parlor to
~Epom 62 in the Commercial Hotel
where she will be pleased to see ali
who need her services. En-
terance to Office on Idaho st.
Office open for business on and
after Wednesday. March 10.
On account of the many calls
M. H. Cooper. the tailor. has been
persuaded to put in a line Ct
Ladies' Tailoring. The samples
are on display and are of very
excellent design and pattern.
Special attention given to cleaning,
pres g and dying. None but the
latest methods used.
The regular Meeting Of the
Parents & Teachers Association
will be held at the grammar school
tomorrow Afternoon at 3 o'clo ok
Mrs. Lothrop will exhibit the work
in sewing completed by the girls of
the grammer grades. A cordial
invitation is extended to the pub
lie.
The NewY ork republicans gave
Teddy terrific drubbing Tuesday.
The Taft delegates were successful
W most of the congressional dis
tricts. The big buffer and his
friends now cry "fraud' and
threAten to contest tho delegation
at the Chicago convention. "Prac-
teal men" like Roosevelt should
take their medicine without squeal-
ing.
: G Gold, the tailor, is now To-
Gated at his former shop. next door
north of the Hay company's store,
where he met large number of
patrons before fire destroyed his
shop and stock. He has bright,
clean. up to-date tailor shop and is
prepared to do all kinds Of work
in his line from making new suits
to cleaning and pressing old ones.
He invites all his old customers
to call and resume their former re-
lations; and solicits the patronage
Of all who want stylish clothing at
reasonable prices. Remember him
when YOU have work in his line.
A man representing himself as
sheriff in charge of prisoner
whom he claimed to be- taking from
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-28
EmanafA chaar

II you cannot lift people cut of their
woes, you can cheer them on By max.
ing them forget, for at least q little
while. there is such word az trouble,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-28

The biologists tell us that the
orobippus, the ancestor of the no.
BILE horse Of today, was but little
larger than the common rabbit of
today and that each had sIxtee
toes, four on each foot, the same
as the cattle of today. After the
lapse of ages this sixteen hoofed
equus shed a toe or hoof from each
foot and thus became a twelve
toed animal. The sixteen hoofed
variety is first found in the eocene
period of geological epochs.
Electrocutiop caused the death
of several hundred trout in the
Orr ditch at the University of Ne
vada Tuesday. The waters of the
ditch were turned off during the
morning and at that point where
the power wires that furnish cleo
tricity to the university are ground
ed in the ditch nearly 200 speckled
beauties were discovered dead and
an equal number were found in q
weakened condition from the effect
of the electricity.
The man who sometimes spoke
his thoughts aloud had been more
concerned with the things Of this
world than with things spiritual.
One day by chance his hand fell up
on book containing the catechism
of a certain Protestant church, and
he was soon earnestly engaged in
reading the Ten Commandments.
For some time he pondered over
Thou shafts and Thou shalt nots"
which had been forgotten almost
since childhood. Then laying down
the book with sigh, he muttered,
"Well, I've never killed anybody,
anyway GhCHduSc
The Nevada Sugar Co mpany,
through W. S. Wall, its attorney,
has filed suit against j. w. VannUy
to enforce the payment Of $3.50, al
legged to be due On a subscription
for $500 Of its stock. 1t is UNDER
stood that it is the policy of the
sugar company to enforce pay
ment of stock subscriptions wher-
ever possible, and that several other
suits will follow shortly Church
i'll Standard.
Governor Oddie has filed charges
ag ainst Ray Baker, warden Of the
penitentiary. A year ago the gov
ernor and the warden were as close
to each other as men could well
be. Now they are enemies and the
governor charges the warden with
extravaganza and making false
reports. If Baker is removed from
the wardenship for extravaganza
what will the governor do with
Charley Norcross, president Of the
publicity commission? Will he still
feed from the public trough?
-e--SsO~-~
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-28
Not MaIIoIotIa

Hewitt-Gruet isn't malicious per.
son. Jewett-No: he's we'll mean.
ing liar
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21
INDIANS
DESTROY
VILLAGE
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Dec. 81. -
The town of San Marcial, so miles
south of Hermosillo, in Sonora,
has been completely wiped out
by Yaqui Indians, according to
belated dispatches received here
today.
The population of the town was
more than 1000. Few are said
to have escaped.
According to the earlier dis
patches the Indians, 500 strong,
besieged the village Wednesday
night, the inhabitants resisted
until yesterday morning when
their ammunition was exhausted.
The Yaquis paid no heed to white
flags that were displayed and
rushed through the streets butch
ering and pillaging.
No mention was made in the
dispatches of the American resi-
dents. The American quarter
lay in the hills just outside the
town proper, and hopes are held
here that all Americans escaped.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21
by FRED l.. BOALT.

Ortis Hamilton, former adju-
tant general of the Washington
National Guard, convicted of EN-
bezzling huge sums of the peo-
pies money and sentenced to 10
years in the penitentiary at
Walla Walla, has been pardoned
after two years of Imprisonment.
C. d. Hillman, prince of swim
dlers, who was convicted on 13
counts, was given the minimum
sentence-two and half years
ON one count only, and has had
that sentence commuted to one
year, and will soon leave McNeils
island free man.
Bill Jones, of nowhere in par
ticular, sentenced to the peniten-
tiary at somewhere or other, for
burglary or something else-it is
difficult to remember which, it
happened so long ago-is still in
durance.
Bill Jones is a composite type
of the unimportant men who
break the law and pay the pen
atty.
Hamilton and Hillman are spe-
cial types. They are brilliant,
brainy men. Hamilton was an
embezzler from choice. Hillman,
rich, swindled in order to be rich
er. These two didn't need to
steal.
No sooner were they behind
the bars than their relatives and
vi II Jaf.nn 1,N
able pressure to bear-political
financial and social-to secure
their speedy release.
They had been punished
enough" They had repented and
were determined to redeem the
past. Mothers, wives, children had
suffered social ostracism. No
good purpose could be served by
keeping the men in prison longer.
Ordinarily, in the cases of or
dinary men, the law is an auto
matte machine, merciless, not al.
ways just. For a certain crime,
of a certain degree, you get SO
many years. You are dropped in
the hopper. The machine grinds.
You wear stripes. You are known
Dy number. Automatically you
get so many days off for good
behavior"
You serve your term, and then,
and not till then, does the law
consider that you have been pun
fshed enough"
1t is, however, a cunning ma
chine, which works with intelli-
gence in special cases. 1t can, on
occasion, reach down and pick up,
as the arm" of linotype picks
up fistful of type, convict and
set him free.
The "arm" at Wall WaIla pick
ed out Hamilton-missing the
hundreds of Bill Joneses-and
set him free. The "arm" at Nc
Neil's island found Hillman,
whom the courts had treated so
kindly, and commuted his sem
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21
FARMLAND POSTOFFICE
SAFE BLOWN BY CROOKS

Prying their way through the
front door of the mercantile
store of W. r. Thomas at Park
land, safe-crackers early today
blew open the post office safe
with nitro-glycerine and MADE
good their escape with the con-
tents of the safe, amounting TO
about $275 in cash and $3.50 In
stamps.
The robbery occurred about 8
O'Clock this morning. The ex-
plosion wrecked the corner where
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21

band and wife, but the husband
was busy and he gave more and
more of his idle time to the
woman. Soon he became a rec
ognized tame cat" attached to
MS mistress, silent, purring, SER
VlceaDle, never showing his
claws. y
In November Mrs. Nowill and
her mother went to Newquay.
and she wrote to her husband
that Delay also was there. He
answered that he was glad of it,
Tor then she would have pleasant
company.
Three weeks ago Mrs. Nowill.
after tea with Delay, disappeared
from the hotel. Delay rushed
out, came back and went to his
room, and was found dead the
next day. Eight days later the
woman's body was found at the
base of the cliff. Delays will.
bequeathing Mrs. Nowill all his
property, was found clutched in
her dead hand.
Coast guards say that on that
iaIai afternoon tney saw the two
walking along the cliff arm in
arm, and that at times Delay
would stop and seem to plead,
grasping his companions hands.
And she seemed to repulse him.
The tame cat showing his
claws!" observed Londoners. And
thereby hangs the problem that
makes this tragedy full of mean
in the thousands of English
homes-and perhaps in many an
American home.
Are tame cats ever safe?"
That question is agitating Eng
lish society. Is it ever safe for a
young married woman to have a
special man friend, even though
he is also her husbands friend?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21
WHAT ABOUT
BILL JONES?

tence.
Ordinarily, when a convict petit
tions for pardon, parole or
Communication, the president or
the governor asks for the records
of the case. They are sent by
mail. They are reviewed and
returned by mail. Ordinarily
the mail is considered fast
enough.
But the machine can be speed
ed up in special cases. In Hill
mans it was put on the high
gear. They burned up the
wires between Seattle and Wash
ington. Taft and the attorney
general at Washington wanted all
the facts in hurry. And the
commutation order was tele-
graphed.
1T was" states the news dis
patch, "the first time the tele-
graph has been used in such
cases."
Mighty nabobs must have got
busy in Hillman's behalf-finan-
ciers and politicians whom a eau
tious administration cannot af-
ford to offend.
Taft says a year of imprison-
ment is punishment enough for
Hillman. Perhaps he is right.
The chances are he is right. Per-
haps it would be an injustice to
Hillman to keep him in stripes
longer than a year. His is Ma
poleonic intellect, and could do
as much good for society as in the
past it has done harm. Perhaps
he is truly penitent, and when
given his liberty, will live honor
ably and honestly all the rest of
his days.
Hamilton, too, may have suf-
fered enough. He is young; he
may live down the past.
But what of Bill Jones?
Is anybody burning up the
wires for Bill? Is anybody be-
ing seen" in Bill's behalf? Has
any congressman or senator or
lobbyist approached" the admin
istration and explained that Bill
has been punished enough, :"
that he has repented, that his wife
and family need him?
It's fine for Hillman, and Ham,
ilton, and Parker of wireless"
ill-fame. It's fine for their
families.
But Bill Jones must serve his
time to the end. You will find
him in any penitentiary-a pal
lid, striped, numbered creature,
numbed and hopeless, one of a
thousand pallid, striped, num-
bered creatures following the
routine of toll and discipline as
automatically as the machine
that keeps him there.
Some time, when the machine
has licked off the years and
months and weeks and days that
he has been sentenced to serve
for a certain crime, of a certain
degree, it will automatically cast
him out, broken, helpless, brand
ed-as punished enough"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21

City commissioners were
inclined TO be disgusted with
the flounting before the out
side world of the reports of
the health authorities thar
Green river water Is not
good.
The city has not yet start
ed on the work of purifica-
tion which ii has provided
for. Concerning the whole
matter the commissioners
expressed themselves as fol-
lows:
Mayor Seymour: ~ would
not be afraid to drink Green
river water"
Commissioner Mills: "I'lI
tell you, the chief of police
sent out an order to muZzIe
all dogs, but what | want is
an order to muzzle all knock
ers i'm Tacoma"
Commissioner Lawson:
Green river water is the
best i'm the world. The hand
ling of the contamination is
up to the health department
and il is dead easy. All they
have to do is go up there ana
stop the pollution"
Commissioner Woods:
"There is no better water I'm
the world than flows down
Green river"
Commissioner FreeIapd:
II have seen no official re-
ports but | think il is taken
for granted that the city is
going to get good water no
matter what has 10 be done
to get it,
business men generally cor
emn the reports being sent OF
yer the world that Tacoma waite
5 not good. No Green river waite
as come into town yet, the cit
as not yet started its work G
reventing pollution and citizen
re inclined to resent the infer
nee that the city water suppI
going to be had and likely {
lunge the people into an ep
emic.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21
The Report

DIR. Edwin James, city
health officer - "The raw
water of Green river is un.
safe as public drinking
supply"
DIR. {. Stuart Wilson, city
Observation-Disclosures sam
pies taken from the intake
nearly every day from No
Vember to December O, in
most instances showed dis
ease producing bacteria from
the intestinal tract of man
TO be present in large num-
bers."
DIR. Eugene Kelly, state
health offiCer-"The waters
of Green river as they are av
present do not constitute n
satisfactory source for a pub
lie water system from II sani-
tary point of view"
Prof. Il. j. McCausland, U.
of W.-"Green river WATER
shed is now more or less
contaminated and the future
is certain to bring increased
pollution and danger"
The reports of various investi-
gators, including the city and
state health authorities, into
Green river water, which it was
known for some time indicated
pollution of the water, was made
public by Mayor Seymour yester-
day afternoon.
DIR. Kelly, state health officer;
Prof. McCausland of the state
university. DR., James, city health
officer, and DR.. Wilson, city bac-
teriolog!st, all report the water
polluted.
Colon bacilli, showing the GER
talnty OF human pollution, DR..
Wilson reports in the water. No
typhoid fever germs were devel-
oped but the presence of co,on
bacilli he figures present an ever
present danger that typhoid fever
will be developed.
DIR. James recommends immedi-
ate steps for thorough filtration
OF the whole river supply before
the water is used.
City officials are not inclined
to be alarmed over the reports.
Practically all water is pollut-
ed more or less. The mayor SAYS
he would not be afraid to drink
Green river water as 1t is and
Commissioners Woods and Law
son insist it is the finest water In
the country.
The city has not as yet done
anything to clean up the water
shed and stop pollution but police
VIII go up soon and get very
busy on this Job.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21
CITY WANTS
TO SELL POWER

The city commission wants a
bill from the coming legislature
to permit Tacoma to sell water
and light outside of the corporate
limits.
Judge Stiles drew up a bill to
present to the Pierce county dele
cation this afternoon but it was
this morning laid on the table
and they will consider the mat
ter next week and plan what they
want.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21
That Educational
Movies Theater
Robbed of $40

The Educational theater on
Sixth avenue near Anderson St.
has the unqualified approval of
an unknown youth who is enjoy
Ing life on the Thursday night
receipts of the institution.
He-the unknown burglar
walked up to the box office
Thursday night and got away
with about $40 in coin which
stood in neat little piles in the
cashiers window.
The theater is owned by the
Tacoma Educational and Amuse-
ment company, which is headed
by School Director e. H. Hoyt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21
THIEF In SCHOOL

(By United Press Leased Wire.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 81.
That a "Raffles" is operating
at Harvard university was reveal
ed today in the announcement
that President Taft's son Robert
and other students were robbed
of valuable articles of jewelry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21

The phrase has been a good
natured joke. A woman spoke of
her own tame cat" with a smile.
But the humor has gone out of
it since the bruised and battered
body of beautiful Mrs. Marian
Nowill was dragged from the sea
at the base of a frowning Corn
wall cliff, and James Delay, mil
lionaire globe-trotter and gentle
man of leisure, hanged himself
in his hotel at Newquay, in a
room overlooking the cliff. Delay
was Mrs. Nowill's tame cat"
There is mystery in it, as we'll
as horror - such mystery as
might tempt the pen of Poe, who
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21
NORDYKE TO
PLAY 1ST BASE

Manager McGinnity this morn
ing concluded an important deal
to strengthen the Tigers for the
season of 1913 by coming to terms
with Lou Nordyke.
Nordyke will play first base for
Tacoma and serve as field cap
tain, assisting McGinnity in run
ming the team.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-21

wrote the first black cat" tale.
Did Mrs. Nowill jump from
that precipice? Was her death
accidental? Or was she pushed
off? If she was murdered, what
was the motive?
And Delay himself - what
feline secret lies back of the
coroner's verdict of suicide by
hanging?"
Mrs. Nowill was the wife of
Sidney Nowill, well-to-do Shelf
field man, much older than she.
They had met Delay in Egypt.
and the three became warm
friends. Delay apparently divid-
ed his friendship between hus-