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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01

of the revolver into his mounth
and fired a bullet into his head.
The ball shattered the lower jaw
and passed around the back of
the skull. The force of the shot
caused a partial paralysis of his
body. He was taken to the Miners
hospital, where he now lies in a
p~recarious condition. and it is
thought that he cannot long
survive his rash act.
The woman shot formerly earned
her living as a piano player in
different resorts in this city, but
has been a cripple for the past
three years and a county charge.
Hadlock had been calling upon
the woman for the past two ye ars
claiming to be an old-time friend
of hers. and his rash act is mysti-
flying to her. The wounds of the
woman will not prove fatal. it is
thought. The bullet entered the
breast but did no touch any of the
vital organs.
Hadlock had been employed for
a number of years in the variou:
mines of this camp and was always
looked upon a a peaceable man,
and his act of Sunday is thought
to have been Icaused by excessive
drinking.-Tonopak Bonanza.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01

next regular session, have deemed
it to be for the best interests of
the state to limit the consideration
of matters as far as possible to
those contsined in the original
ctlI.
At the next regular session of
the Legislature when there is
ample time fer conducting of such
Investigations as they should be
made, l will De pleased to renew
ms former recommendation.
The matter now before the legis.
lature and which made its calling a
necessity doubtless can shortly be
disposed of and the expense of a
protracted session avoided.
Very respectfully,
(Signed)
TASKER L. ODDIE,
Governor
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01
CELTIC ARITHMETIC

Into the general store Of a town
in New York state there recently
came a big good natured Irish
woman who wanted to be weighed.
She stepped off the scales almost
as soon as she stepped on.
"Shure. these scales is no good.'
was her Disguised comment.
They only weigh up to wan
hundred. an | weigh something
loike wan hundred and noinety
pounds"
IT s easily discouraged We are.
Mrs. Casey" said a friend. "Just
step onto them twict, me dear.
and let Mickey here do the sum
for We E"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01
HOW'S THIS

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case Of catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. +. j. HENEY &
co. Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned. have
known F. j. Cheney for the last
15 years, and believe him per-
fectly honorable in all business
transactions, and finanially able
TO carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
Waldings. KInnan & Marvin,
Wholesale DrugGits, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucus surface of
the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con.
stipation.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01

OE III e
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01

STATE OF NEVADA, p.
County of Elko. }"
|, Hayden Henderson, Cashier OF the
a~boye-named Bank, do Solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the
best OF my knowledge and belief.
HAYDEN HENDERSON,
Cashier.
Correct-AtteSt:
ions HENDERSON,
l.. O. HENDERSON
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
10th day of February, 1912.
lSEALI Edwin E. Game.
Notary Public
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
Bond Issue Election

jefferson county will vote today on
two propositions submitted by the
Board of Revenue-one for a bond
issue of $1,000,000 for courthouse
buildings and Jail, and the other for
bond issue of 100000 for an addi-
ton to the Hillman hospital. The
hospital proposition will carry by a
large majority. The Hillman is main
tanned by the county as free insti-
tuition. 1t. is admirably conducted and
is doing humane work that cannot
be overestimated, but it is not large
enough for the community's needs 1t
is distressingly inadequate, but with
100000 the adjoining property can
be acquired and an additional struc-
ture erected that will almost double
the capacity of the hospital as it
stands today.
AS to the courthouse bonds, there
is considerable difference of opinion.
The courthouse in this city is hand
some, we'll built edifice, but SO great
has been the county's growth that the
court rooms and the record offices are
far too small for the public needs. The
Jail is congested and the county should
have a, new one, constructed on mod
ern sanitary lines. Bessemer asks for
court building and it is entitled to
a handsome structure.
The $1,000,O00 proposition is to
cover therefore the cost of court
house and Jail in Birmingham and a
courthouse in Bessemer. If it fails
to carry today it cannot be submitted
again for two years. 1t is a reason
able proposition and should win at
the polls.
You can vote for the hospital and
vote against the courthouse PROPOSE
ton; but it is hoped that majority
will see their way clear to vote for
both.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
$4,000 FOR HE CAPTUR

4 the August American Magazine ap-
pears an article about Harriet Tub
i man, nesress, now nearly 100 years
oid' who escaped from slavery before the
civil war, and with price on her head
guided hundreds of negroes by the I'm
foreground Railroad" to Canada. She was
appointed scout in the war and draws
pension. Following is an extract from
the article:
no one knows exactly when Harriet
Ross was born, but 1t was on the eastern
shore or Maryland. and not much less
thah 100 years ago She knows that her
mothers mother was brought in a slave
ship from Africa, that her mother was the
daughter of a white man, an American.
and her father a full blooded negro.
Harriet was not large but she was
very strong. The most strenuous slave
labor was demanded of her-summer and
winter, she drove oxcarts-she ploughed-
with her father she cut timber and drew
heavy logs like a patient mule About
the year 1874 she was married to a freed
man named Tubman. He proved Unworthy
and deserted her. She determined to try
and escape from slavery and induced her
two brothers to go with her: The three
started together, but the brothers soon be-
came frightened and turned back Har-
riet went on, alone. All through the night
she walked and ran-alone. When she
reached a place of safety 1t was morn
ing. She says: L looked at my hands t.
see If was the same person, now I ws
free-there was such a glory over ever
thing. the sun came like gold through
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
Educational Problems

At the University of Texas 600
students kept themselves by their own
labor, or about two out of five. To
some extent this is still true in even
the large eastern colleges, and it
seelns altogether harsh to say that
the colleges have become the abode
of luxury and idleness.
But the most distressing fact in
education can be found in the public
schools right at home. Out of 100 in
the elementary schools only seven
reach the high school. The education
of SO is stopped for one reason or
another in the elementary school
when perhaps the pupil cannot even
read and write with facility.
It Goes seem as if parents should
endeayor more rigidly to take advan-
tage of public education. The boy OF
girl who goes through the high schoo
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
LIFE IN THE BRONX

New York cor. of the Cincinnati Times
Star
We used to think that the Bronx was
New York Citys poor relation-inhaoited
only by wops stick-up men and pushcart
dealers, who lived entirely upon spoiled
fruit and delicatessen. But, shucks! The
Bronx is the real class nowadays. IL
YOU do not believe it, spend an hour In
one of the innumerable movies" in the
Bronx ATTITUDES. Between the films the
uniformed caller will mount the stage
Carriage Number Four" the caller will
announce.
Somewhere in the half-darkened house a
woman will rise. You can hear her gar
ments sweeping up the aisle. sometimes
she trots along rs though she We're IN
hurry. Sometimes she moves leisurely,
and YOU get the fragrance OF gum as
she passes you. simetimes the caller will
announce half dozen carriages at once.
Numbers Five. Three and Eisht,' he
will soy. And Number Ten in hurry
The management respectfully asts the
lady of Number Ten to come turrible
quick"
1t all sounds odd to the person unfam-
iliar with the little ways of the Bronx.
That person had not previously suspected
that the ladies of the Bronx ride to the
movies In their own broughams Nor
had he observed a line of private car
riages at the curb when he put down a
dime for an allday privilege at the pic
lures. So that on his way out he looks
about a little. And he observes the lady
of Carriage Number Three trundling that
carriage away, while within 1t sleeps an
infant, berating that air of well-fed con-
tent which can not be counterfeited. And
the old man in charge of the cab-stand
is looking with obvious discomfort at the
three pennies which the lady of Carriage
Number Eight has given him for sootn-
ing its Drawing occupant while she
waited for the end of the "fillum.' While
the lady of Carriage Number Ten-that
lady whose immediate presence was so
urgently required by respectful man.
agement-'I sent word in for her, dang
it." says the old casekeeper of the baby
layout 1T asst her to hurry. 1t want my
fault"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
Governor Wilson on Finance

In his acceptance speech Governor
Wilson does not so much distrust the
bankers plan for reorganizing our
banking and currency laws, as he does
the fact that it came from a small
class. He thinks a plan is needed
that will help the business world and
the farmer and the plain, everyday
man in any other calling; and that all
thoughtful men should be consulted in
matter so complex, touching all.
Governor Wilson has no definite plan
to offer. He plainly says that our
banking and currency laws should be
reformed, and he is unwilling to ac-
cept a plan from limited class until
very many other persons have been
consulted.
This means that banking and cur
rency reform will be live issue in
case of Governor Wilson's election.
He will be open to convection. lie is
not tied to any plan, simply because
no plan is before the country bear
ing a general Endorsement of the bus
mess men of the country, the farmers
included, for they conduct a business
upon which all else depends.
Governor Wilson will no doubt ask,
when elected, "the general body and
authority of the nation" to consider
this subject with view to the presen-
tation of plan that will be acceptable
to business men in all parts of the
country. What he has to say on this
difficult subject is sound and reas-
surfing, and it promises to lead to re-
suits.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
A SILLY CANARD

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A cock-and-hull story is going the
rounds of the newspapers to the effect
that the name of woodrow Wilson was
proposed for membership of the Man
haitian club in New York and subse-
quertly withdrawn on account of rea-
sons which upon their face are wholly
absurd.
It seems that Governor Wilson was pro-
posed for membership in the Manhattan
club on July by Major James Otis
Woodward. As seconder of the noinina-
ZION there appeared on the club books
the name of William F. McCombs, the
democratic campaign manager. Before
any action had been taken, or could be
taken, the nomination was withdrawn.
The following statement made by Mr..
gives the actual facts of the case
Upon the discovery by some of the
officers of the Manhattan club that
Governor Wilson's name was proposed
without his request. knowledge. ac-
quiescence or consent, and after learn
ing that the name of william F. Me-
Combs. as seconder to the nomination
had been used without authority, they
insisted upon Mr.. Woodward withdraw
ing his proposal of the name know
that every member of the board OF
governors would feel both grattfied and
honored by the. opportunity of votins
for Governor Wilson as a. member OF
the club. There would have been nc
meeting of the board of governors I'M
til September to act upon Applicant tons
and .none of the influences mentioned
in the newspapers I have SEEN had the
slightest influence in the Withdrawal
of the nomination"
No part of the fol-de-rol of the
space writer's remotely touched thu
truth. Judge Parker is not, as giver
out, president of the club That he
or any member of the Manhattan, could
object to the membership of the demo
cratic nominee for President lis incon-
ceivable. The story was purely mares
nest
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
Business and the e. o. P.

The markets are cheerful. Even
the stock market is again the theatre
of higher prices. Steel products are
being marked up, and the closing
months of the year promise to put the
iron and steel industry on profitable
footing. Railroad earnings, too, are
improving, and large crops will soon
be ready to be moved-crops of spring
wheat. corn and cotton. A car short
age before Christmas is by no means
impossible, although 10000 new grain
cars are being built.
From all parts of the country re-
ports have been received containing
assurances that better times are COM
ing. All accept the probability of
Governor Wilson's election without a
word of distrust. All have confidence
that he will prove to be a sound, safe
leader. His friends think he will be-
come one of the greatest Presidents
the country has ever had.
But the real basis of prosperity is,
of course, the crops. Good weather
will yet produce fine cotton crop,
and the estimate now is that the total
wheat crop will go to 707,0O0,0O0
bushels. A probable corn production
of 100000, 900 bushels is now widely
accepted.
1t is singular fact that business
improves just about as rapidly as the
g. o. P. goes to pieces. The latter
is no longer the custodian of pros
perity. There is little relation be-
tween the two The split in the party
goes on, but business moves steadily
up all over the country. It's indif-
ference to the condition of the re-
publican party is indeed a sign that
all business men are. convinced that
the administration of Woodrow Will
son will be one of wise and prudent
reforms, and that nothing will occur
in it to injure general business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
FEWER CHILD WIVES IN INDIA

Basanta Koomar Roy in the American
Review of Reviews.
Early marriage is one of the greatest
evils of Hindu society. The girls are gem
orally married and become mothers, in
many cases. at an age when they SHOULD
be in school. The boy husbands are ham
pered in many instances in their future
careers by the responsibility of supporting
a family, and quite often are obliged to
subject themselves to drudgery. which,
but for their marriage, they could have
escaped. Early marriage stands in the
way of education. especially of the girls
|. The custom of early marriage is chang
ing fast Now the Hindu boys refuse to
marry until they have finished their ed
ucation, and made start In life, although
such refusal is thought very improper.
Consequently the girls have to wait until
the boys are ready to marry. So mar
riages are getting late nowadays.
Among some of the reform societies,
such as the Brahmo-SomaJ and the Arya-
Somaj, you will find maids Of 20, %, 30 or
even IS. They are very few and far
between, however. But on the whole,
the age of marriage has been considerably
raised The girls of these societies are 60
ing in for education with vengeance.
There are scores of graduates Of univer-
sites among them. On account of de-
ferrsd marriage the women Of India are
beginning to have a wider view of life
and civic duties.
Caste rules prohibit marriage between
members of different castles and sub
castles. This leads to marriage relation
ships within very narrow circles. which
result in physical degeneracy. The social
reforruer knows that this is source of
social and national weakness So he has
been agitating marriage between different
castles, at least between the sub-castes of
the same principal castles. The reform
societies of the Brahmo-samaj and the
Arya-Somaj are doing ye0mans service
in this as in other social reform meas
ures. Intermarriages are going on, under
their auspices, between different original
castles. sub-castes and even between DIFF
ferent provinces.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
Pig Iron and Panama

The Iron Trade Review thinks the
railroads are injuring themselves
when they oppose free tolls in the
Panama canal for American vessels.
1t reaches this conclusion through a
consideration of the iron trade on the
Pacific coast. At present the pig
iron used on the west coast is made
in England, and when pig iron can
be shipped from the Birmingham and
Chicago districts through the canal
the price of iron will be reduced and
there will be a great development in
many industries on the west side of
the country. The railroads will lose
but little when they lose the tonnage
of pig iron and they would gain from
the general development of the west
coast.
1t is safe to say that what is true
of iron and its products is true in
many other lines of goods. The gen.
eral increase in tonnage will make
good any losses they might sustain
by reason of the free passage Of
coastwise trade through the canal
The railroads overlook the develop
ments that will assuredly follow the
opening of the canal.
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From the Baltimore News.
Some unkind person has been making
a list of actors and actresses who are
still favorites and very attractive to
audiences, but who are growing old.
Among those mentioned as so years
old, or nearing so, are Maxine Elliott,
Viola Allen. Olga Nethersole, Annie
Russell, Virginia Harmed. Lillian Rus
sell Mrs Fiske. Marie Tempest, Mrs.
Patrick Campbell and Henrietta cros-
man. These ladies all look young, but
the playbills of the past betray their
real age.
Some of the most prominent men are
nearing 60, as, for instance, Forbes
Robertson, Robert Mantell. Francis
Wilson. Nat Goodwin, Robert Hilliard
and DeWolf Hopper. Certain well
known people have passed so and are
verging toward 70--for example. Sarah
Bernhard, ELLEN Terry and w. H.
Crane Yet they are all bright and
youthful, and promise to reach so or
30. Life on the stage seems to con-
duce to longevity.
Science has prolonged human life
generally, as statistics show; the opera
lions in surgery and the discoveries in
medicine have done much in this direc-
tion but more has been accomplished
by proper sanitation. better methods of
living, greater care in eating and
drinking and a sufficient devotion to
exercise and recreation.
But even when there was much less
of this, as the biographies show, the
people of the stage reached for the
most part r. good age. Maxim, the
famous Shylock, wha 80 or more when
he died; David Garrick lived to be SO;
John Kemble to be 66; his sister, Mrs
Siddons, was still older; Macready
reached an advanced age; in fact, few
died young But for dissipation Ed
mund Kean would have achieved years
Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, Charlotte
Cushman, Davenport, the Wallacks and
may more attained length of life.
There appear to be some SPECIAL
causes why the players should continue
young for some time after other people
have virtually given II up. They must
make themselves feel young in order
to impersonate youthful characters.
There is the accomplished Miss Mar
lowe. for example. still appearing as
Juuet-a young girl of 1s-and making
charming one. and there is Forbes
Robertson figuring as Prince Hamlet,
the glass of fashion and mold of form.
Annie Russell is playing the same in
nocent ingenue roles that so pleased
the public more than a score of years
ago. And there are many more of
these anomalies.
The truth is the players take the
most particular care of themselves for
youth is a large part of their stock in
trade. They practice moderation and
watchfulness in all the incidents of
life--food, sleep. exercise. vigilant care
of the body and mind. Moreover, the
constant travel and change may have
a share in keeping them thus young
long after the usuel period.
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comes out pretty well equipped for
the work of a lifetime, and it is Of
fered free of all costs to all.
II all children that enter the ele-
mentary schools would stay in school
until they had rassed through the
high school, we would soon see the
latter expanded into colleges, and
then a fine education would be within
the reach of all. Ie, haps that is what
the high school means fifty years
hence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
ENJOYABLE Outing

The Southern clubs entertainment at
Roebuck Springs Saturday was said 10
nave been exceptionally enjoyable. bar
becue dinner served by AL Campbell was a
feature of the occasion and all the mem
bers Of the club who attended spoke or
the outing as the stag event Of the sum-
mer
II never in my life enjoyed barbecue
dinner moro than that given by the
Southern club Saturday" said A. J. Reii-
~, "and have attended many In this
part Of the country. 1t was splendid
barbecue. The meats we're of the choicest
quality and everything was we'll cooked.
The showery weather may have kept some
Of tho members from attending. Those
who missed the outing certainly missed
great treat"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
THE SHIP WITH TWO SKINS


Rare promptness is shown by the
White Star line in adopting the sugges-
tor OF the Mersey commission that liners
be constructed with double skin or hull
extending we'll above the water line.
This would involve an extra cost of some
Ss5o,o0o for ship of the Olympic type
and with the two skins three feet apart
would take up a great amount of I'M
disable space.
But the Titanic disaster taught a greater
lesson than this. The double hull might
give saving protection in a glancing col
lision, which Tears open the ships side.
it could not certainly avail against the
fead-on crash of an ocean giant at high
speed.
This new type of ship will still demand
careful navigation. 1t will not be proof
against speed madness 1t will not bear
a 20 knot rush against icebergs. 1t will
no. be unsuitable. If It is to create new
Illusion of unsinkability it had better not
be built
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-12
WANTED-A REAL STEAK

From the Los Angeles Examiner
New York-Somebody for the love
of Mike dig up a steak in this town that
Fred L. Boruff of Los Angeles can eat
without feeling he is doing an injustice
to a COW who died in the old women's
home.
Yeah, steak about two inches thick
and foot wide and cooked so the blood
follows the knife; that's what Mr.. Boz
ruff wants. He's been in New York
quite a few days now and his public
opinion is that this is the last place in
which a healthy man can get a meal.
II sit down in hotel dining room
here and ask for a NEAL he said, in a
voice that carried from City Hall park
only to the Battery. land they bring me
what?
why, some weak kneed soup with a
notherless clam floating around in the
middle of 1t; something they call a chop,
which is only bone with paper pa
jamas around the end of 1t; some po-
tatoes all gummed up into what the
bin of fare says is au gratin, and five
leaves of understood lettuce with a
baby tomato squatting in the middle
that's a salad.
What | want is a real steak. If !
don't get 1t I'll starve to death before
get back to Los Angeles. My rancho for
a steak,
| Los Angeles and San Francisco are
the greatest little towns for grub in all
creation" he admits. I'D rather have
a clam in grill there than 10 course
banquet in New York. That clam and
would thoroughly understand each 9TH
er, at least