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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-19
1850 LIVES LOST

The Titanic, the largest steamer
eve build, struck an iceberg off
the coast of New Founulsnd Sun
day night and sank. She was
launched in May and this was her
maiden trip. She carried 400
passengers and a crew of 500.
A dispatch from the Reno
journal, received at $50 this
afternoon. gives the MURDER of
lost at about 1850.
The accident occurred about
1925 Sunday night about 400
miles south of Cape Race. New
Foundland, and about 100 miles
east of New York. Several large
liners picked up the wirless
messages from the Titanic and
went at once to her assistance.
Among the passengers were
many distinguished and wealthy
people. W. 7. Stead, the English
Journalist. G.. NJ. Hays. president
of the Grand Trunk rail way,
Assessor Dodge and wife of San
Francisco and many others whose
names are familiar to the public
were on the passenger list.
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BIG WATER SUIT
HAS BEEN STARTED

One Of the most important water
suits in the history Of Nevada
was instituted in the Sixth Judicial
District Court here Wednesday
evening when the complaint was
filed in the case Of the Lovelock
valley ranchers against the Pacific
Reclamation Company, the concern
that is booming the town Of Me.
tropolis, in Elko county, and is re-
claiming and selling laid to set.
tiers in that vicinity.
The contention of the Lovelock
ranchers, whose water rights TAT.
back for forty or fifty years, is
that they are being deprived of
water to irrigate their crops by
the Pacific Reclamation company,
which has built a large reservoir
at the hcadwaters Of the Humboldt
river and is storing therein the
entire flow Of Bishop, Burnt and
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STEAMER FOR 1912

January 10, 1912, there was
launched at Glasgow, on the Clyde,
a little wooden vessel 40 feet in
lengh and 10 feet 6 inches in
breadth, says a London dispatch.
She received the name Of Comet
because just at the time when she
began to be built in the summer
of 1911 a remarkable comet was
visible in the heavens. That
comet is still referred to in
astronomical books as the great
comet of 1911.
The owner of the little boat was
Henry Bell, originally a working
mason. who had seen at Carron in
1889 the first attempts at steam
navigation on board a vessel which
was built for the purpose Of tow
ing bargcs on the Forth and Clyde
canals.
Henry Bell was certain that il
was possible to employ steam for
vessels intended for passenger
trade. But the difficulty was to
find the money. In 1900 he laid
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A 5000 TAX ON LOAFERS

In Peabody, Kansas, loaf ng is
now classed as an occupation the
city council by ordinance, having
classed loafers among those who
must pay an occupation tax of
$500 a year, and 10 cents on each
$1,000 of assessed valuation. The
ordinance a all persons who
spend part or all of their time in
dleness at some recognized place
which includes all persons who
hang around saloons, pool hall,
cigar stores. corner groceries, fire
department and livery stables"
Furthermore" the president
of the council says, I'VE will
enforce the ordinance, or take the
person failing to pay the tax, be-
fore the police judge, where the
penalty will be $500. in addition
to $1.00 penalty for failure to pay
and $500 for the tax to which will
be added the costs
Locks like working is easier in
the peck o. trouble for the idler".
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~Salmagundi
X FRIDAYS DAILY

The attention of the Masons is
called to a notice elsewhere.
The dance advertised for tonight
has been postponed until next
Friday night. See the notice.
Courthouse, Highschool. and
grammar School. souvenirs at
Wintermantel.s Jewelrv Store.
The flag on the courthouse and
Masonic Hall were at half-mast
today as a tribute of respect to the
memory of Mr.. James Clark.
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.
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.
We have devoted considerable spac
today to the memory of our friend,
Mr.. James Clark. Several years
ago we promised him that when he
passed away, we would publish n
sketch of his life. That promise
is partly fulfilled in this issue.
Instead of improving as the days
pass by, the weather gets worse
and worse. This is n regular
winter day and the outlook does
not give much hope for improve.
ment tomorrow. April weather
in Nevada is as perverse as a
Missouri niue.
Judge Quicker finished his court
WORK this forenoon and left for his
home at Winnemucca. He over.
ruled thess m~otionlto set aside the
default in the case Of Mrs. Skaggs
against W.. f. Bridgeman The
case against Mrs. Garecht will
come up again or June 3rd. Judge
Quicker honored this office with n
call this forenoon.
The force with which the Titanic
struck the iceberg is estimated
an army engineer to be as great as
the simultaneous FIRE of thirty
l2-inch projectilcs or the concen.
trated fire Of three such
DreadnaUghts as the Florida. The
fire Of ten l2.inch guns such as the
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WILL THE BOB-CAT
KILLER BOLT7

The continual howl that is going
up from Roosevelt and his boosters
over the primary "~eutrages' and
the steam roller brigade methods,
says the St. Joseph Gazette, mean
that preparations are in progress
for a bolt at the Chicago conven.
ton.
Every time anything goes wrong,
and pretty nearly everything seems
TO go wrong. the colonel md his
chorus break into violent ~invective
that augurs i'll for the harmonics
at Chicago.
1t is true that Mr.. Roosevelt has
siven out that he will not bolt the
convention. But what does that
signify? He several times said
that he would not run run for
president again. Circumstances
alter cases and T. RS promise is
not ir~refragihle.
In Washington the belief is
strong that Roosevelt is bent on
defeating Taft and will not hest
tate TO bolt the convention if il
goes against him, or rather when il
goes against him. There seems
now no possibility of is going any
other way. Washington CORES
pondents are frankly discussing the
prospects just as II Mr.. Roosevelt
had never said that he will not
bolt.
From the indianapolis News, an
independent republican paper, is
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money in this campaign by the
hackers of former President Roose.
welt has led to the question being
raised:
We're the victories If Roosevelt
in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma due
TO Il great popular demand for
his nomination. or to the use of
money!"
Further along MIR. Mckinley
says:
I'm no pra.cOnvention campaign
in the history of the country has
muncv been used in such la ge
sums, amounting, in l Of the
general verdict of the country with
respect to certain expenditures hy
senators of tho United States To
plain bribery and corruption as has
heen expended by the hackers of
| Colonel Roosevelt"
Mr.. Mckinley declares that the
Roosevelt forces spent large sums
in Oklahoma; that they distributed
500, 600 in Allegheny county.
Pennsylvania. including Pit:sbur:,
by issuing 20, 900 pieces of scrip
in So denominations to "mcssen,
gers" that the total Roosevelt
expenditures in Pennsylvania were
bewean $3.50 600 and $500, 900; that
in New York county alone $500,
600 was spent in enhcavor tC
influence the primaries, and tina
efforts were made To- buy out
pccinct captains in New York.
In this Connection said the Nc
Kinley statement. "onc dist ric
captain in New York did sell GU
to the Roosevelt managers. plain!
showing that MIR. Roosevelt wa
not the candidate in answer Ia
great popular demand but IN.
beneficiary Of a bag of good, har,
dollars"
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and desire to do never abated.
For several years, he took care OF
the old courthouse, bat his
strength was not equal TO the work
of caring for the new bull ling
and he vas given the position OF
gardener. This position he held
when his tired spirit left its worn
out tenement for the hlissful
realms Of the Great Beyond.
An only daughter, Miss Hattie
of Elko, and a sister. Mrs. Mary
MrMichel Of Topeka, Kansas, the
last of a large family of brothers
and sisters. survive HIM. Mrs. Me-
| Michael was Informed by telegraph
several days ago of her brothers
serious condition, but was nuable
To he with him during the last
days. She was informed this
morning Of Mr.. Clark's death. TC
The daughter and sister. we extend
the sincere sympathy Of the entire
community.
MIR. Clark was an honored mem.
Der of the Masonic Order. IL
became a Mason in 1871 in Rene
and ia 1877 he irinei Elko Lodge
No. Is. The fJreral services viii
he held in Masonic Hall Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock. The
remains will lie in state from |,
O'Clock to the time of the funeral
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IN THEIR OWN LITTLE WORLD

There is a little island in Chesa-
peaks bay, l25 miles south of Balti-
more. where the world has stood
still for more than 100 years.
Tangier island is five miles long
and much less than a mile wide.
without sidewalks. and the houses
are all built along this street with
narrow CANALS pf the deep water
of the bay between each two
houses. There is only one church.
presided over by a Methodist
minister, and only one doctor, and
there is nc cemetery, the dead of
each family being buried in the
yard. There is no newspaper, no
Jail. nc Lookup and no lawyers. nor
any need for them. Everybody is
deeply religious, and profanity is
punished with a fine imposed by
the deacon of the church.
Tbs men 60 fishing and grabbing
in sail boats early on Monday
mornings and do not come home
until Saturdays. when they have
marketed their sea harvests in
towns on the mainland. There
r no gardens, no horses or cows,
but plenty of chickens are raised.
Fuel is supplied to the islanders
by sloops which come every month
or so loaded with wood and anchor
off Tangier, sending small boats
piled with cordwood and kindlings
to every house by means of the
little canals. The women wear
s%unbonnets and go barefooted,
and there is an organ in nearly
every home. TanRer was first
settled by white people in 1866.
and before that time was occupied
by the Indians Exchange.
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REPUBLICAN R0TTENESS

The Roosevelt and Taft boomers
arc accusing each Other Of all
sorts Of sculduggcry to corrsI dele.
gates. The Taft mon say Tcddv,s
supporters are usiog money to
beat the band and are buying state
after state and Tcddy's boosters
charge Taft with using federal
patronage and the steam roller
between the two, tho American
people should get . very clear idea
OF The ]rottenness Of the republican
party This is pretty clearly
shown in the foIlowing.statemer,
issued Thursday by Director Mo.
hihIcy Of the National Tar,
bureau:
The lavish expenditure 81
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1886 LOST ON TITANIC

Reno, Nevada, April 10, 1912.
Special to Independent
Elko independent
The Carpathia reached Ne"
York dock last night at 9 oclck
Total persisted 1885; total saved
passengers and crew 7l5. At the
time of the accident the Titanic
was racing to make a rercod. The
list of prominent persons lost
stands as previously reporte p.
Every woman end thild. except
those who refused to leave, were
saved. Mrs. IsadOr Strauss re.
fused to leave her husband and
both were drowned. The Titanic
band played as the steamer sank.
Nevada State Journal.
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GRAPHIC STORY Of ICE
FIELD IN MIO-OCEAN

4 New York dispatch Of the
18th SAYS that Captain J. p. Barker
Of the LorilIard liner Cromar.
which arrived in South BrookIyn
a week ago from England has given
the following graphic dssrript,on
Of the ice field his vessel arcour-
tered during the las, week in
Marcn which almost sent the shin
10 the bottom:
1T was on March II hal We
ran into the ice pack. For four
hundred and fifty miles We could
see nothing bat ice. We were
just in tho position the Titanic wag
when % foundcrcG On all sides
If US doomed the huge masses Of
ice.
Finally We were caught 81 thar
We could not move n vay cr
the other and were comrcII,d IN
drift with the ic foe. II vas on
March 81 that we eventually
loosencd ourselves. We turned
due south into safcr seas.
During the imnrisoum.or among
the irchcrgs. sixty plates on the
port side were b, Mt and more than
two hundred rivcts torn loose.
have been among icebcrgs. but
lhose | saw last month were thr
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Trout Creeks. three important

Trout Creeks. three important
tributaries of the main stream.
The plaintiffs in the suit that
has been instituted are the Union
Canal Ditch company, the Last
Chance Ditch company, the South
east Ditch Company. the Lovelock
Land and Development company.
The humboldt-Lovelock Irrigation.
Light and Power company and six
teen individual ranchers of the
Lovelock valley, and the defend
ants are the Pacific Reclamation
company and George Nj. Bacon.
who is THE chief official of that
company.
In accordance with the prayer of
the compilation in the suit, a tenn
porary injunction was granted
Saturday evening bv Judge
Quicker, restraining the defendants
from impounding or divertirg. the
waters of the Humboldt river
Bishob Brunt and Trout creeks or
obstructiny the flow of laid streams
along their natural channels. The
temporary injunction is effective
until April %. the time set for
the hearing. The temporary
injunction was issued upon the
plaintiffs filing a bond in the sum
of $3.50
The complaint sets forth that the
plaintiffs have more than 35, 700
acres of land under cultivation,
and that on account of the present
shortage of water in the Humboldt
their crops are suffering from the
ack Of water and that while this
condition exists the Lovelock valley
appropriations Of water, with
rights of from forty to fifty years
standing, have not enough water
to carry on their necessary bust
ness The pl ainifFs allegs that
this shortage is due 10 the water
being impOumded by the defend
ants in a reservoir Of 1880 acre
feet capacity, which has been built
about twelve miles from Wells in
Elko county.
The plaintiffs ask that the
temporary injunction be made per-
petuaI and that they be given
judgement and decree adjudging
that they are ent tiled to all the
waters hnwing in Bishob. Burnt
and Trout creeks and in the Hum
bOldt river near its head during the
irrigating season, from February
| to October ! of each year.
The attorneys for the Plaintiffs
in this big suit are MessrS. Cheney,
Downer, Price and Hawkins Of
Reno. -Humb oldt Star.
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taken. as u sample of many utter
ances of the kind in the press of the
country. the following sent by its
Washington correspondent:
THAT there is a conspiracy on
foot to wreck the republican party.
if possible. is confidently believed
by many prominent members of
the party. 1t is only within the
last two days that men influential
in the party have been expressing
this view aloud, although they
have suspected suc'I a movement
for weeks. The refusal of the
Roosevelt managers to abide by
convention and primary results
anywhere is pointed to as a proof,
seemingly sufficient. that a bolt at
Chicago is contemplated. Many of
the men connected with the Roose-
welt movement from the outset of
the contest have been TALK & third
party.
The La Toilette republicans have
nothing in common with the
rebellion within the party. The
Wisconsin senator's friends intend
to support the nominee of the
Chicago convention. He intends
to carry on the fight for the
principles for which he stands
within the party.
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THE TITANIC'S CAPTAIN

a New York dispatch Of the
18th says.
a deep sea tradition that a
masters career is ended when his
ship meets with serious disaster
was shattered in the pivirG Of the
Titanic to Captain Edurd Smith.
Twice while Captain Smith com
manded he Olympic she met with
misfortune and when ne was
given command Of the larest ship
atloat surprise was expressed at the
action of the White Star Line
company.
Captain Smith has been in the
service Of the White Star Line
people for IS years. He has com-
mauded the Republic -OII Re-
public, not the one that the Florida
sank off Nantucket ~Iightship the
Britannia. Germaric and Majestic.
He brought over the Baltic
when she was the largest vessel on
the s.as. then the Adriatic and lastly
the Olympic. In the White Star
service he was known as the Old
Man"
Trouble came to the veteran
commodore only at the climax Of
his career. In 1907 when he came
to this port in command Of the
Adriatic on her maiden trip, be
said:
When any one asks NE how |
can best describe my experience in
nearly forty years at sea, / merely
say uncycntful. Of course there
have been winter gales and fogs
and the ike, but in sll MY tx.
pcricncr | have never heel in n
accident Of any sort worth even
speaking Of. have seen hut one
vessel in distress in all my years at
sen n brig, the crew Of which
~as taken off in a small boat i'm
charge of my third officer. | never
saw a wreck end never have been
WRECK Cd rtv uau .r,. IL. .r..
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before the British government of
the day his plans for the construc-
ton OF n vessel that could carry
passengers. But after waiting for
SEINE years he found there was
no help to be obtaind from the
government. IL there had been
some f~ar-seeing man about the
admiralty at that time the inven-
ton might have been taken up. and
Nelson in his later years would
not have had to wait on the winds
when he went to attack the French
fleet.
Henry Bell did not lose heart.
He went TO Helensburgh, on the
Clyde, and there built ii small
hotel which still stands, with ad-
ditions to it. between uelensburgh
and the North British railway
station at Craegendoran. lie made
some money at this hotel. and in
the summer of 1911 he gave an
order to Messrs. John Wood & Co.,
shipbuilders at Port Glasgow for
the construction of the Comet, the
first passenger steamer. The same
shippingbuilding firm that launched
the Comet in 1912 launched for
the Cunard line in 1889 Acadia,
the second steamer of the famous
line, the Britannia being the first,
so that from port Glasgow there
came the first passenger river
steamer and the second Atlantic
liner.
At length all was ready, and in
the autumn of 1912 the Comet had
the sole passenger traffic on the
River Clyde. She was pronounced
a great success. But her success
brought imitators ard rivals, and
in The next year, 1918. there were
three other steamers on the Clyde.
all of them larger and swiftcr
than the Comet. So that the first
passenger steamer in the world was
already left behind. as a result the
passengers chose t. go with the
faster steamers and poor Henry
Bell met the fate of many another
inventor. His vessel was a success
from the point Of view Of the
engineer, but she did not bring
the money to her owner.
AS the Comet had been beaten
in speed on the Clyde, she was
sent TO the Firth of Forth, and
for a time made better speed there
than on the Clyde, because the
water was deeper. But after a
while rival steamers appeared On
the Forth and the poor little Comet
the pioneer of the steam passenger
ships of the world, came TO an
inglorious end. She had not made
a fortune for her owner, but left
him to be dependent in his old
age on an annuity Of so pounds
ganted by the Clyde trustees.
Though there is a monument to
Henry Bell on the north bank of
the Clyde at Bowling about half
way between Glasgow and Green
ock, probably very few of the
many thousands who go up and
down the Clyde every summer take
notice Of the weather stained stone
pillar at Bowling. Fewer still, are
var that the monument COM
memorates the man to whom the
River Clyde and every navigable
river and sea in the world owe so
much
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RATS RUN S15,OOO,OOO

In Farm and Fireside this state
ment is made:
Strange as the statement may
at first seem, it is conservative to
place the damage done yearly by
rodents in the United States at
$l5O, OOO, 900.
The economic loss due to such
common rodents as rats, mice,
ground squirrels, chipmunks,
prairie dogs, gophers, muskrats,
woOdchucks and rabbits is astound-
ing. Exact data are, Of course,
not obtainable.
A writer in tho The American
Agriculturist once estimated that
rats caused this country losses of
$40, 600, 900 year. France loses
$40. 600, 900 annually from rats
and mice, according to estimates.
DR.. ID. T.. Lantz of the biological
survey. considers this country's
losses several times greater.
Sir James Crjchton.Browne of
the English Incorporated Society
for the destruction of Vcrmin puts
at $73, 900, 900 per annum the
damage done by rats in Great
Britain and Ireland, in the rural
section alone.
The bulk of this loss falls or the
farmer"
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Florida carries is supposed to be
sufficient to put any battle ship out
of business if the broadside should
strike simultaneously. The force
of the Titanic striking the ice
berg must have been equivalent to
her being struck by thirty such
nr~oiectiles.
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MR.. JAMES CLARK

ing. while his nurse was taking a
needed rest. Mr.. James Clark, a
pioneer Of the Pacific Coast and
one of Elko county's most
respected citizens, passed from Il
peaceful sleep into the sleep
eternal. He had been confined 10
the house for a week or so and 10
his bed for several day.. While
the end was not unexpected, yet
when it became known that he
had passed away there was a
universal expression OF sorrow
from our citizens. He had no
particular disease and his death
was due to old age.
From a letter enclosed in an
envelope addressed to the writer.
we take the following brief
history. 1t was dictated by the
deceased:
IL was born October II, 1926.
two miles north Of GrcenvillC.
Pennsylvania. On December II.
1851 in company with 4. Sheakley
and Jake Rittcnhanncr and his
sister, Mrs Woodwork, | struck
out for the gold fields Of Cali.
fornia by way Of the Isthmus,
going up the Chagres river rs
miles in skifTs loaded with 600
passengers. and propelled by
natives to GOrgOGa; thence by mule
train % miles to Panama and
landing in San Francisco on the
18th day OF March 1852. On the
9th day Of March, | arrived in
Sacramento, Just in time for the
spring flood, the water being from
four to five feet all over the city.
After living in the second story
of n hotel for 30 days, | struck out
for lone valley. where ! followed
ranching until September 1862:
then | camc 70 tbo ri,ro Trn.Loa
Meadows, 20 miles east Of Reno,
where I foIIowod rarcbiro onI
keeping stage station until 1879
coming from there n Flko |
arrived here on February 22 1874
and | now find only three ar f,ur
men in Elko that were here when
came, and only one man older than
myself. Judge Morgan.
While | was crossing thc Storm
Nevadas on the 27tl Of Scptemb, r
1862, the first drought telegram
from the seat Of war pas.od
over the mountains. We used Ia
have an election precinct at Little
Meadows. but what is now krowr
as CIark's, where there were nino
votes cast every one for Abraham
Lincoln For several years after I
reached California, it took thir.
teen weeks for me to send a letter
back home and get an answer"
The history If Mr., CIork,s ia
in EIko COUNTY vos an onoa
For many years he conducted ,bc
old Depot Hotel and the Railroad
House at Humboldt. After n fcw
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bccause Of the death Of Mr..
James Clark the Pohob dance
"nlch was to have been given to.
night has been postponed to next
friday April 2Gth out Of respect
TO the deceased. Tickets hcret o.
FORE sold will be honored un that
night.
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DIEO

Clark In Elko. Nevada, April
49, 1912, Mr.. James Clark. a
native OF Pennsylvania, aged So
years, 6 months and 2 days.