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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-15
Salmagundi
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY

The Southern Pacific announces
that on and after March 18th,
passenger train No. J., the west
bound limited, will stop regularly
at Elko.
The Sentinel is authorized to
make the statement that the +. &
P. railroad will be completed to
Eureka by the first of April.
Eureka will then be on the map
once more.
What is believed to be the loves
type of humanity in the world to-
day has been discovered in the in.
terror of %Sumatra, a people with
ont property, religion, superstition
or idea Of a future state.
Hayden Henderson received a
dispatch this morning from Harvey
Rutherford saying that Mrs.
Rutherford was very low. Her
many friends still hope that she
may pull through.
The Reno Journal pats Ray
Baker on the back for his refusal
to resign as warden of the peni-
Tertiary. Why the Journal takes
such an interest in Baker is not
difficult to see, providing the
Carson News has the right dope
on Baker. So far as we are posted
on prison matters the fght be-
tween eddie and Baker looks like
a case of dog eat dog.
The United States grand jury
meets in Carson City on the 18th
of this month. 1t promises TO be
a prolonged session. There are
already twenty-five cases on the
calendar. Nearly all the de-
PENDANTS are charged with swing
whisky TO Indians.
The heaviest snow storm Of the
season hogan last night and this
morning the Humboldt valley in
this section was buried under six
or eight inches OF snow. Reports
from Gold Creek are that the snow
is about 8 feet in that section.
Lamoille reports a foot or more,
while in the Ruby mountains the
fall was much heavier. This storm
settles the question II water for
the irrigation season and is worth
millions to the ranchers along the
Humboldt and in the valleys Of this
county.
The earliest use of asbestos was
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-15
Salmagundi
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY

If the tramp printer who
worked at thiG office yesterday
will call tomorrow, he can learn
som athing that will interest him.
We call the attention of our
readers to Judge Somers' remarks
in sentencing Jack Maher. There
is food for a good deal of thought
in what he said.
Mr. j.. G. Lowe, district
passenger agent Of the Western
Pacific is in town. He will be at
the meeting tonight, ready to
answer questions that may be put
to him.
Mrs. Kate McAuliff, one of the
oldest residents of Virginia City,
was found dead Thursday night in
: the hallway of a house on b street.
II is supposed that she entered the
house by mistake and fell down
stairs.
Captain Roald Anundsen has an
nounced that he reached the South
Pole on December J, 1911.
Wonder if there will be another
Cook and Peary fight over Amund-
sens discovery What's the South
Pole worth anyway? It's too for
away for Taft to send Teddy.
Everybody interested in building
up klko county and making it the
most populous and wealthy county
in the State should be at the
Courthouse tonight. Let us all
put IA shoulders to the wheel and
boost along the car of progress.
Get out and do your share of the
good work.
Mr.. McElrOy informs US that a
party will be here next week TO
size up the town with "a view TO
organizing a company TO put up "a
modern flour mill. The party has
some capital and is a thorough
mill man. II is said that a modern
mill, with sufficient capacity to
supply the wants of q large ter
ritory car be built for $4,000.
Last December a pleasant con
test vas inagurated between the
male and female members Of the
Baptist Bible School and congrega-
ton, Whit was to last for three
months. The attendance the first
week was made the basis which
gave so counts for the men and 90
for the women: thus on the ration
Of 5 to 9 the male side has won the
contest. II was the understanding
at the outset that the side which
gave the best attendance should be
given n reception by the other
side. Therefore, the ladies will
entertain the men Tuesday after
noon and evening March ~, at the
home Of Rev. and Mrs. Wilbert X.
Howell on Mt. Pisgah. The
younger members Of the school
will be received in the afternoon
from 8 until 8 80; all others will
be received in the evening. The
writer being of the male pCrsua-
sion cannot tell the nature of the
entertainment; but the Baptist
ladies have established the record
Of being good entertainers. 50 rs
to hold all in plea ant expectation.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-15

1t is reported that the warden
ship Of the State Prison was
rendered to Ex-Governor Denver S.
Dickerson a few days ago, and it
is also reported that the ex.Gover-
ernor absolutely refused to con-
slider the appointment at all. The
matter of Bakers resignation at
the present time seems to be in
the air. 1t is stated that Brodi-
gan will agree to asking him to
resign and vote with oddie in the
matter providing that he 10 per.
mitted to name the next warden.
This the Governor is reported to
have refused to agree to, as he is
rather fond Of power himself, and
does not desire to give up one bit
of IL that he can hold on to-
Sparks Tribune.
DR.. c. r. Nugent viii address
the Baptist church and friends
tonight in Keyser's Chapel on the
subject "observtions in City Mis-
sion Work in New York" The
public is cordially invited.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-15
the woods.

the woods.
Squirrels are fallin' an possums
are skeered,
Rabbits are hikin' an coons are
afeared.
Down through the bottoms he
ambles along,
All of the echoes repeating his
song:
Chorus.
Take a Missourian, mortgage his
farm.
Threaten the man with a bushel
of harm;
Steal his potatoes and then steal
his wife.
Keep the poor sucker afraid Of his
life.
You might take his COW or you
might take his hawg.
But nobody can ever get to his
dawg.
The two of 'em stick to the very
last thing.
You hear the dog howl and Mis-
sourian sing.
Chorus.
A Version Nearer the Soil.
This Missouri song" appears to
be a dilution of the real thing.
author unknown, which reads:
Wurst me n Lem Briggs n OIL
Bill Brown
Tux a load Of Gavin to town,
An oil Jim-dawg the onry cuss-
He jes. nachully follered us.
Chorus.
Every time | come to town
The boys keep kickin' my dawg
aroun';
Makes no difference if he is a
houn'.
They gotta quit kickin' my dawg
aroun'.
AS we driv' past Sam Johnson's
store
PaSscl o yaps KEN out tn door
When Jim. he scOo Is behind a box,
They SHE'D at him a bunch of
rocks.
Chorus.
They tied a tin can to his tail
An run apast the county Jail.
N that plumb nachully makes me
sore,
N Lem he cussed n Lem he
swOre
Chorus.
Me n Lem Briggs n Of Bill
Brown
We lost no time ajumpin' down
An we wiped them ducks up on
tn grOun'.
Fer kickin' my Of dawg aroun'.
Chorus.
Folks say a dawg KANT hold no
grudge.
But wunst when | got too much
bulge
Them town ducks tried to do me up
But they didn't count on OF Jim
pup.
Chorus.
Jim seed his duty thar an then,
An he lit into them gentlemen,
An he shore mussed up the cote
house square
With rags n meat n hide m
hair.
Chorus.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-15

On February I'd, n stipulation
was flied in the clerks office
continuing the Primeaux cafe
from March 18th to November
18th. The stipulation is signed by
all the attorneys in the case.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21


IT beats all what little things will
sometimes spring into nation wide
popularity. That Democratic cam
paign song is good illustration.
The song, of itself, don't amount to
very much. aside from the moral it
expresses. There are any number
of far superior songs on the market
whose composers have literally
sweat blood, and in vain, to make
them popular. A short time ago
the Democrats of Missouri went On a
hunt for campaign song and a hill
billie" down in the Ozarks scrib-
bled off little ditty about his houn'
and sent it in. He probably didn't
think much of it himself, but it APP
pealed to the popular fancy and
within few hours the whole coun-
try was singing "Yuh gotta quit
kickin' my dawg aroun'. !"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21
acteristic point in which it differed
from all others. 81
{ should feel particularly

WE should feel particularly
obliged" states one of our ex=
changes, If someone could inform
us what secret charm the nasty
cigarette we SO frequently see be-
tween the lips of certain class Of
young gentlemen is supposed to po-
ssess.''
It certainly may sometimes be
adopted on economical principles,
but there are, alas, too many who
fond]y imagine that it adds a grace
to the exterior man. Our own
opinion of the matter is that such
ideas are mere sham, and that the
sooner these young gentlemen aban-
don the cigaretts the better it will
be for their personal bloom.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21


He'd be in the Garden Of Eden
eating strawberries" answered a
voice from the gallery.
Sacred Heart Journal
The second course of the table
d'hotel was being served. What is
this leathery stuff?'' demanded the
corpulent diner. That, sir, is fillet
of SOLE" replied the waiter. Take
it away said the other, and see if
you can't get me nice tender piece
of the upper, with the buttons re-
moved. Short Stories.
If>you happen to wear number
12a shoe it is very favorable sign
or indication that somewhere in the
innermost recess of your Uranium
there reposes large quantity of
gray matter, or in other words
brains,' according to noted sci
enlist.
This scientist tells us to cultivate
big feet and the mind will grow au-
tomatically; in other words, Bless.
ed are those who have Big feet
Also says the scientist, do dot wear
shoes any longer than is absolutely
necessary So A. f. B., you need
not be ashamed of those No. HIS,
as it is most emphatically a sign
that you have a great intellect.
By the way, / should like to sug-
gest that if the Physical Culturist
who occupies the apartment above
yours truly, would kindly remove
his Holland Sandals" before he
begins his three hour and forty-five
minute walk on Sunday afternoon,
he would be comforting one of the
greatest favors which he could pos
sibly bestow on suffering humanity.
He would also be giving his feet an
opportunity to enlarge, thus increas-
ing his supply of gray matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

49,
neither do they care to tell it. But.
you still expect, atleast the most Of
US DO, to go out and begin over again.
Perhaps you have one or more
aliases. There may have been a few
shadey transactions in your past that
you do not want to tell. If so remem-
Der that you cannot be square until
you start square.
Go back where you came from and
start your business. Everybody there
knows you. But when you start do
not try to hide the fact you have been
in prison-let them know it. Then
settle down and show them you have
the making of a man in you whether
they think SO or not. In time they
will be forced to belive it.
II you are released on parole, at
the flrst opportunity tell your en-.
pioyer just what you have been. Do
not keep anything back. He will GER
tainly think none the less of you and
any right-minded man would think
even more of you.
If you have not had fair chance
in the past you may have a better
opportunity in the future if you
want it, by starting right.
Remember when you leave here
you will have another opportunity to
be useful citizen. But you will have
to start right, stay right and be right
to succeed,
If you aOant to be square, you 7oilk
haze to start square.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21
Health Department.
The Prison Night School.
W. c. Van D.

This may seem to some not
proper subject to take up under the
Health Department, but it really Is,
as mental exercise is, in great many
cases, far more necessary for men
undergoing confinement than bodily
exercise. Besides the practical ben
eft that is obtained in the shape Of
acquired knowledge.
The mental stimulus that exercises
in the night school afford are bene-
fetal in various ways. Men are
broken of the habit of introspection.
that is, roughly speaking, brooding.
over their own thoughts and emo
tons (not always of the best). Men
are given taste of the pleasure
there is in acquiring knowledge of
new things or new modes of thought;
the pleasure that there is in solving
a knotty problem in arithmetic, or in
taking to pieces and analysing a
complicated sentence; mems minds
are turned in direction away from
themselves. [ see on every school
night, men march back to their cells
with brighter eyes and more hope
full look in their faces than / have
seen at any other time.
Then again, an hour or two in the
school room vastly improves mans
taste for reading. 1t is fact that
the men who attend school draw less
cheap fiction and more of the really
solid material that is in our library
than any of the other prisoners.
Men who attend school get a taste
for higher class reading, and that
alone is valuable asset which will
remain with them all their lives.
The night school has, IN my opin-
ion, done more for the mental and
moral welfare of the men than any
other thing in our penal system. 1t
has done, and is doing, more to pre-
vent mental deterioration or actual
insanity than all the drugs that were
even prescribed by any prison physi-
clan. It has and does give men con-
fidence in themselves and hope for
the future aud enabled great many
men to make out Of a prison SEN
tence (which would otherwise have
wrecked their lives) an actual gain.
There is nothing for which the
prisoners shonld SO thank the pres
ent administration for as the Prison
Night School.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21


A NEW fad, evolved by a certain
society in New York, seems likely
to prove valuable addition to the
Bertillon system Of Identification.
1t appears that the above mentioned
society desired to hold long dis
lance kissing parties and hit upon
the plan of making lip prints on let
ters or valentines aud sending same
through the mails. 1t was discov-
cred upon comparison of a number
of the lip prints that no. two were
alike, each print having some char
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21


THE textile workers strike at
Lawrence, Mass, has served to open
the eyes of the American people to
several things. 1t has brought to
light, and stronger than ever before,
the abominable conditions which
surround the workers, and under
which they are forced to struggle
for bare existence. 1t has shown
the manner in which our modern
millionaires are made, and the man
ner in which they use their wealth
in times of stress.
The recent Mcnamara trial and
its succeeding events undoubtedly
created bad impression against the
labor unions throughout the coun-
try. and with this in mind, perhaps
capitalism aud it's minions consid-
cred themselves strong enough to
carry things to the length they did
at Lawrence, but it seems just pos
sible that they overreached them
selves a trifie, and their arrogant
methods may prove to be the great
est blunder of the age.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

from newspapers.
tits certainly truth that the world
is made up of lots of peculiar people.
But for regularity, craziness, or just
plain ignorance the contributor who
penned those lines certainlywins the
prize.
At one time, a good many years
ago, there were no newspapers, and
it was very little anyone knew about
what was going on in the world. II
there were no newspapers today
would there be such thing as steam
and electric locomotives, automobiles,
airships etc, ETC.? tits very doubtful,
and even if there were, in all proba-
bility they would be nothing but play
things hardly fit for use. At that
though the newspapers do not des-
erve all the credit for our progress,
but they certainly deserve share.
If there were no newspapers would
the farmers, and it is the farmer we
all have to depend upon for our liv-
ing scattered over the United States
be able to tell to their own satisfac-
ton. just what the market price is
for the products they have to dispose
of?
There are numerous things one
can learn every time they read a
newspaper and anyone who makes
statement like the one before men
toned must be an unsopbistieated
ignoramus of the worst kind.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

AMERICA has no privileged classes
we are told; no titled gentry; no ar
istocracy. All men, (outside of
jaiD are equal in this great free
land. But, Are we told the truth?
1t must be admitted that we have
not quite reached the titles of nobil-
ity as yet, but that is an easy step
and there is plenty of time, but the
other two we have already achieved,
or rather, THEY have done the
achieving.
Aristocracy and privileges are nee
essarily synonymous, and the read
er shall Judge from the following
clever description from the pen of
a Frenchman, whether or no there is
an American aristocracy:
Aristocracy is the the league,
the collation., of those who would
consume without producing, live
without toiling, fill all Offices with
out capacity to perform their duties,
and monopolize all honors without
having deserved them. This is ar
istocracy."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

IT is reported that a publican in
Milwaukee recently guzzled one
hundred glasses of beer between s
o'clock in the morning and 10 o'clock
at night of the same day. He pro-
posed to repeat the swinish deed or
forfeit fifty dollars and the price of
his beer.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

A YOUNG lady in Virginia discard
ed her lover for his small size, and
in his resentment he burned her
fathers house. Commenting on this
New York reporter says: Lo,
what big fire a little spark kin
dlethr'
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

THERE are today, only three
things which every man in the coun-
try feels himself competent to un-
dertake without the least previous
experience, namely: run the govern
men, sell real estate and edit news
paper.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21
Be Square.

To be square one has to start
square. In other words if you want
to live an honest and moral life you
will have to start honest.
This looks like hard propositihn;
and to be honest. for some, it is.
A great many menin here do not care
to have their past investigated and
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

Briggs: have made will leav-
ing nv brains to the Red Cross
Hospital and have just received an
acknowledgment from the authori-
ties.
Smith: Were they pleased?
Briggs: They wrote that every
little helps.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

THE proverb that coming events
cast their shadows before is ver-
flied by the fact that several news
papers had the story of the south
pole discovery in type before Capt.
Amundsen reached Tasmania.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

A BOOK on physiology states that
in the anatomy of the hand we find
that the muscle by which we shut it
is much stronger than the one by
which we open it." This also holds
true as 70 giving and receiving
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

THAT "a man is his own best
friend,'' is perfectly true, and it is
just as harmful to parade your own
shortcomings as it is those of an
other.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21
BY THE RIGHT OF WAY
Chuzzlewit

Where asked the female suf-
frage orator. would man be today
were it not for women2''
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21
EDITORIAL REMARKS.

If it is polite to remove the gloves
when shaking hands, would it not
be equally so to remove the shoes
before kicking?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21
TO SUBSCRIBERS

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eastern writer who had his eye on
the -Four Hundred" at the time.
But he forgot to add, while the
people starve and die
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21
My Guest.

A thought had with kindness FULL
I sent it forth with prayer,
To who sat in sorrows gloom,
Its joys she could not share;
But cast it from her with sigh;
Still weeping in the gloom,
The thought uncared for fingered by,
Then fled that dreary room.
1t foated in the ambient air,
A dream, quiverng SPELL
An angel met the little thought,
And guided it full WE'LL
To where poet dreaming sat-
He caught the wanderer fleet,
And bound it in little verse.
A sonnet strong and sweet.
And now it wings it's happy way,
To many weary breast;
Who thank the poet for his song
The thought was but my guest
Lille Barr Munro IN March Nautilus
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

THE topmost bells on Folly's cap
still jingle most merrily, says an
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21


desiring send The MIRROR
following
and
placed
this whether sending
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21
CHURCH NOTICE

Protestant
chapla
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21

Minnesota Prison.
lin by
entirely dependent public fol
WILDE n the library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-21
Behind the Mask
By Gayhoppin.
An Ignoramus.

THE writer did not have
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-11
COMMERCE CHAMBER
TO BE REORGANIZED
More Than 100 Homestead
and Desert Claims Re
claimed in q Year.

Las Cruces. n. ~, March 1.-THE
work being done BY the various com
mittees I'm charge OF the reorganization
OF the chamber OF commerce gives
promise OF an early solution Of the
situation which resulted in the tenn
pOrary closing OF the office Of that
body.
The work Of making abstracts OF all
lands patented during 1911 In the Las
Cruces land district has been going on
for some time, and the abstract Just
completed for Luna county shows a
total of 102 hOmesteads and desert land
claims that have been reclaimed during
the past year and passed TO patent
These claims VIII average a little bet
ter than 100 acres There were eight
desert land claims OF approximately $40
acres each, 81 homesteads and desert
land claims OF 16O acres each. and seven
claims Of an average OF so acres each.
making a grand total OF T,040. acres
patented to the residents Of Luna
county during the months last past
As the lands at a nominal value Of
$40 per acre means an Increase IN
the taxable property OF this one county
Of S1I0,400 in II months from this
cource alone Yet many OF these claims
are being sold at prices which range
from $40 to 500. per acre as soon as
title can be passed.
In the - months from March J. 1911
20 March ], 1917, there have been more
than 1890 entries made under the
homestead, desert land and scrip pro-
visions OF the land laws, and with an
average acreage OF but $50 acres to the
land acquired BY the people. and the
ADVENT OF more than 1000 new families
IN the southwest portion Of the new
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-11
ONE MILLION DOLLARS FOR
A GOOD STOMACH
This offer should Be Warning to
Every Man and Woman.

The newspapers and medical journals
recently have had much TO say reiatlFe
to famous milliOnaires ofIer OF
million dollars for a new stomach
This great multi millionaire was too
busy to worry about the condltlon OF
his stomach. He allowed his dyspepsia
TO run from bad to worse until IN the
end II became incurable.
dis misfortune serves as a warning
to others.
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