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

A light fall Of snow last night
and showers today make up the
record for the first day Of March.
There will be q social dance at
Hunters Hall, Saturday. evening,
March 2. Admission 81, ladies
free.
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.
j. c. Yore, the Lone Mountain
miner, received the returns this
morning from his second shipment
Of ore. He shipped q tons that
netted him over $500. Mr.. YOre
says he has plenty more Of the
same kind of stuff.
the supper given by the ladies
of the Presbyterian church last
night was well patronized. The
generous stock Of good thing pro-
vided by the ladies were nearly all
slowed away by the hungry crowd.
The receipts were in the neigh
borhood of $l2O.
EGGS FOR MATCHING A few
settings of thoroughbred Buff
Orpington eggs at $3.50 per set
| ting. Bred for size, laying and
meat qualities. Also young Buff
and White Orpington stock for
sale. AID. Taber.
G. Gold. the tailor, can be
found at the Remnants Company's
store. umtil 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. .
You'll make a hit with a tailor
made suit, especially II made by
NJ. II. Cooper, the tailor. We
make u clothes according to New
York's latest style, ard guarantee
satisfaction or money refunded. We
have one Of the best cleaning
machines in the State.
There will be a free dance at the
Telescope Hotel Saturday night,
March 2nd. Everybody is invited.
No disreputahle characters will
he allowed at the dance. Care will
be taken to see that noEe but re.
spectacle people are allowed at the
dance.
The special session of the legis.
%lature came to an end at 3 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. The assembly
finally concluded its talk fest at
SO per day and adopted the senate
resolution for adjournment. Gov
ernor Oddie is doubtless happy
that he is rid Of the hungry crowd.
The taxpayers have cause for
rejoicing also.
Two years ago this morning the
people Of Elko were very much
excited owe the big food that was
said to be coming down the Hum.
boldt river. Some moved their
families and household t~easurres
to the hills. 1t was a very excit-
ing time in town.
The compilation of the new code
by the supreme court has been a
very costly affair for the state.
The total expense u, to date
foots up s35, 1898. sc. The original
appropriation for the work was
SIS, 900. The regular session APP
propriated $4,000 more and the
special session just closed added
S7,998. &c. or this last amount
$4,000 go into the pockets of
Judges Sweeney, Norcross and
Talbot as extra compensation The
code sells at 81 n volume AID it is
estimated that the sales will
! amount 10 SAP. 900.
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Tanr nNIrnlnoH
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01

NEvNpA.FAIWyIEw MINING COMPANY
PRINCIPAL pl1eo ufhu,jncSs. EIko. Elk Couu-
Is. Nevada. General uIlyD outside OF Nevada.
li Iuisn ButIdIur. sat Lake CIJy. Utah. I.o-
cation 20 mines. Fairyi"w Mining District.
Churchill DrIal5. Nevada.
NuI.rw.-IuHrH ara delinquent upon the fol.
lowing described stock ON account ~ assess.
Iarui $50 g. % pUH-tDurth cent uyr share. levied
"u j IuuHr1 90 1912. the several amounts set OPP
IN7.'r fHw names 90 the respective shareholders
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01

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through the mails as second-class matter.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01
THE DAILY INDEPENDENT
KArEs

One ss o
SIX Months. IS 90
For any period under six months. rs cents
err mouth. Payable in advance Delivered by
arrler in Elko ut 70 cents per month or IS
ents per week. Issued every afternoon. Sun
ays excepted.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01
Delinquent Notice

JAMES tbtLENS.
Secretary Of said Company .
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
Reclaim Desert by PUMPING.

Brandon.-More than 10000 acres of
arid land between Denver and Bran
don. now good only for cactus and
sagebrush. are to be reclaimed by the
pump irrigation. A beginning is to
be made with 1,120 acres one-half
mile east of the towns of Brandon
and Chivington and sixty miles east
of Denver, owned by F. A. Often, a
wealthy Neb-askan. Often has let a
contract for the largest oil irrigation
pump installed in this section Of the
country. The one pump will be used
to irrigate the entire tract. The tract,
with the exception of the ten acres ls
now nothing more than stretch Of
desolate cactus land, but within a year
Often predicts that 1t will be as fruit
full and fertile as land in the Grand
vallev and will be fully twenty times
as valuable per acre as it is now. The
pump will cost s22,500. Often counts
that in year he will have a sufficient
crop to make up for this expenditure.
The pump will raise $500 gallons of
water per minute.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
News Summary of the Past Week

The federal grand jury which has
been investigating the dynamite con-
spiracy in Indianapolis begun what 10
expected to be the last week of its
work. Reports about the district at
torney's office are that at least thir-
ty indictments have been drawn up.
District Attorney Miller said the in
dictments, II any are returned, will be
secret, the names Of those indicted
being withheld until arrests are
made.
One of the most notable achieve
ments of American foreign commerce
in recent years, according to state
ment by the bureua OF statistics OF
the Department Of Commerce and La
Dor, was in the automobile business In
1911. More than $20.000,00 worth of
automobiles were exported from the
United States. During the year. twen-
ty times as much as a decade ago. At
the same time the importations have
decreased from year to year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
SERIOUS RioTINe Ours
AMONG TEXTILE WORKERS
LONE WOMAN SLAIN.
II COMPANIES ARRIVE.
WHEN ANGRY Moes HOLD UP
STREET CARS, BULLETS STICKS
AND KNIVES FLY.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Lawrence, Mass.-The worst rioting
in the fortnight of the Lawrence tex
tile strike. involving 10000 persons,
occurred when street cars were held
up and stoned by mobs which refused
to let operatives go into the mills.
One woman was struck and killed
by stray bullet, patrolman was
was badly cut by brick and several
others hurt by stones as well as by
the clubs of the police and militia
Governor Foss ordered twelve addi-
tional companies of infantry and two
cavalry troops to proceed at once to
Lawrence to reinforce the nine com
panies already there. All the troops
have arrived.
The state police, who Investigated
the finding OF dynamite in different
sections of the city, and decided that
the explosive was planted" arrested
School Committeeman John ]. Breen,
n son OF former Mayor John Breen.'
and one of the most prominent citi-
zens of Lawrence.
Governor Foss Issued an open letter
"to mill operatives and mill owners"
in which he says:
"The situation at Lawrence has be.
come so serious that every possible eff
fort should be made by all parties
concerned to adjust matters; and
therefore request all workers to go
back and resume their places in the
mills for period of thirty days, pend
fng the efforts which / shall make to
get all the differences adjusted.
'Tn view of the fact that no notice
was given to the mill operatives Of
proposed reduction In wages when the
change in hours went into effect, on
January 1. l request all mill opera
tors to give fifty-six hours pay for
fifty-fCur hours work during that pe-
riod without discrimination"
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02

A painting by Corot sold in New
York the other day for $4,000 to a
western collector.
are planning to boycott butter in an
effort to bring the price back to nor
NAL
Charles Schultz, his wife and their
foster son were found dead late at
their home in Milwaukee from ahphyx-
iation
Cyrus E. Woods of Greensburg. Pa.
has been nominated by President Taft
as minister to Portugal to succeed Ed
win v. Morgan.
DR.. Harry Elgin Webster, who con-
fessed to the murder of his wife, Bes-
sic Kent Webster at Oregon, H., was
sentenced to life Imprisonment
Albert W. Wolter. the youth who
murdered and burned Ruth Wheeler
in New York nearly two years ago,
was executed at Sing Sing prison.
An investigation will be made Of
the charges that the price of butter
is being manipulated by a combina-
tion In New York and other large
cities.
Shoemakers in washington who ca
ter to the fashionable set are busy
making the latest creation in foot
wear. This is silk slippers with cut
glass heels.
That $4,000 consigned by Pitts
burg bank to bank at Butler, Pa,
through the Wells Fargo Express Com
pany, mysteriously disappeared recent
ly has become known.
Her pilot lying dead on the bridge,
the victim Of sudden attack Of heart
failure, and with no guiding hand at
the wheel, the giant Hamburg-Ameri-
can liner Cleveland, carrying hundreds
OF round-the-world tourists. left her
course In the harbor at Honolulu and.
after veering about for several min
utes, rammed the United States ar
mored cruiser Colorado, lying at an
chor. The Colorado was damaged.
but no lives were lost
Fort Logan, Colorado, and Fort
D. A. Russell, Wyoming, are un-
der prescription by the War De
| partment, and are doomed to abandon.
ment If the plans announced by Secre'
tary Stimson are carried out. The sec
retary. acting upon an exhaustive re-
port by the general staff. has decided
upon the concentration of the United
States army in eight posts, instead OF
the forty-nine now in operation. BY
this means. he believes that the eff
cheney Of the army will be multiplied
while at the same time the govern
ment will make saving Of $5.5oO.ooc
a year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
Minor Mention.

Seven inches of snow has fallen at
Ouray.
A campaign is now on to incorporate
the town OF Austin.
Mrs. Anna Wood, aged eighty. an old
time resident. died recently at Boul-
der.
Mat Grurrich. miner, was almost
instantly killed at Rugby in rock
slide.
The death rate in Colorado Springs
last year was GIL per 1000 inhabi-
tants.
The title to the Durango postoffice
site has passed to the federal govern
ment.
Pueblo has a new ordinance which
is intended to control all motor-driven
vehicles.
The nine miles of road between Fort
Lupton and Hudson is to be i'm
proved.
Durango and the San Juan basin
are experiencing the mildest winter in
their history.
Twenty-seven car loads of potatoes
were recently shipped from Denver
to Wichita, Kans.
The La Junta High school basket
ball team defeated the Rocky Ford
team by score of "a to IL.
Tha cornerstone of the new Metho-
dist church being constructed in Den
yer has been laid.
A movement has been launched to
secure the Democratic state conven-
tion for Cripple Creek.
Greeley is making an effort to get
the Christian Endeavor congress to
meet there in February.
A blind pig" operated by a wom-
an, has been discovered in Marble and
Mrs. J. Gurley was fined 5000.
The Fort Lupton town hall has
been completed at a cost of $4,000.
1t includes jail and fire house.
The twenty-fourth annual Farmers
Institute closed at Longmont after
three days successful session.
Roy Paul, who was found dead re-
Gently at Delta, is said to have been
the victim Of headache powders.
The Evans Improvement Society,
composed Of women, has decided to
purchase and install fire alarm sys-
tenn.
The breaking of a twelve-inch water
main in the city of Gunnison, has
caused shortage in the supply of wa
ter.
The city of Greeley has set aside
$4,000 for improving a vacant tract for
park and also $1,000 for improving
an old park.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
Sheriff Captures Bandits.

Walsenburg. Playing brot tn g r
against brother. John Wright, a deputy
sheriff. brougt to dramatic close an
eleven-day man hunt. Harry Hill and
Frank Baldwin, members of a bandit
gang which for five years has operated
in southern Colorado. were captured
in the shaft of the old Occidental mine
in a cafion west of La Veta. They
had escaped from the Walsenburg
Jail on January 10 by digging through
the concrete floor of their cell and
cutting a passage through the twelve
inch stone foundations of the Jail.
Wright arrested two of Baldwin's
younger brothers and. using them as
shield. invaded the rendezvous of
the fugitives. The pleas Of the cap
tive brothers induced the bandits to
lay down their arms.
Baldwin and Hill were arrested sew
eral weeks ago after a series Of rob-
berries in this county. Since their es-
cape a night and day search under
the direction of Sheriff Brown has
Teen kept up. Twice the posse came
upon their hiding places when the
fires were yet warm.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
L.oafs While Family starves.

Pueblo. ]. Brown was sentenced
to one year in the county jail by JUS
tice of the Peace Corson for cruelty
to his wife. seven children and his
livestock, during the recent cold
weather. Brown resides on a dry
homestead ten miles east of Pueblo.
1t is said that while he spent several
weeks in this city. his wife and chill
dren came near starving to death on
the farm. and were almost dead from
exposure. Several of his cattle,
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
WASHINGTON.

Representative Rucker has intro
duced bill appropriating $4,000 for
the purpose Of supplying seed to farm
ers of Colorado in drouth-stricken Sec
tions.
Aerial mail carriers are entirely
practicable, in the opinion of Joseph
Stewart, second assistant postmaster
general. who has charge OF the trans
portation end of the postal business.
Farrell, president of the United
States Steel Corporation. surprised the
Stanley steel trust" investigating
committee with the statement that the
Steel corporation and the International
Harvester Company have had no busi-
ness dealings with each other for five
or six years.
After an Intellectual effort on the
part of some members to place steel
rails and pig iron on the free list and
to increase the proposed duties on
lead and zinc, Democrats of the House
In caucus ratified the iron and steel
tariff schedule drafted by their col
leagues on the ways and means COM
mittee. adding an amendment to In
clude baling wire in the free list
President Taft consulted with Secre-
tary Knox and Secretary Stimson and
Attorney General Wickersham for
more than an hour over the vacancy
on the bench of the Supreme Court.
1t was common report that the names
of Justics William G. Hook Of Kansas
and Charles Nagel. secretary OF COM
merce and labor. were considered a.
successor to the late Associate Jus
tics Harlan. No decision was reached.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
SPORT.

Jimmy Walsh, English bantam
rounds in Milwaukee.
James Mature has again won tho
state billiard championship of Colora-
do from Arthur Endicott, by score Of
so to SO.
Jack Ward. the English lightweight,
was completely outclassed by Packy
Mcfarland in six-round bout in Phil
adelphia.
Eddie Johnson, Rocky Mountain
champion, and Rudey Unholz. the Boer
fighter, will go ten rounds February
10th at Pueblo. Colo.
Jack Curley, manager Of Jim Flynn
and promoter of the fight for the
heavyweight championship between
his man and Jack Johnson, is in Salt
Lake City making preliminary ar
rangements for the battle. Curley
says that no site for the fight had
been selected and that the date had
not been definitely settled. There is
possibility that the fight may go to
New Mexico, in the event that no ac-
ceptable proposition is forthcoming
from Nevada towns.
zone Round" Hogan, the crack Call
fornia lightweight, who recently hand
ed out fine beating to K. o. Brown
and Battling Nelson in New York, IS
now hotfoot after the scalp of Pack
Mcfarland. the Chicago boy. Hogan
| figures that victory over Packy
would make him the best lightweight
in the country now that the champion
Ad Wolgast, is laid up.
Willie Ritchie of San Francisco
knocked out Yankee Schwartz OF
Philadelphia in the second round Of o
proposed twelve-round fight in Cleve
land.
A twenty-round bout between Frank
Klaus. the Pittsburg middleweight
ind Ed Petroskey. a navy seaman will,
has done good work in the ring, will
be staged in San Francisco next
month If negotiations begun by Pro
moter Jack O'Connen are consummat
ed. O'Connell holds the February fight
permit.
Harry Trendall will fight Willie
Ritchie, the Chicago bear cat" IL
Pittsburg. February 8.
William (Billy Delaney. known al
over the world as famous trainer O
pugilists. died in Oakland. Cal
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

Over 1900 people attended the
Farmers Institute at Loveland on the
last day. Gov. Shafroth was the prin-
cipal speaker.
Mrs. B. F. Thompson, aged fifteen.
of Durango. has been given divorce
from her husband, B. F. Thompson.
aged twenty-one.
While lighting fire with kerosene,
Rose Amicarelli, aged twelve, of near
Glenwood Springs. was so severely
burned that she may not live.
For returning a pocketbook, which
he saw woman drop and which con-
tanned $3.50, John Wilson, of Colorado
Springs, received reward OF 25 cents.
Now that one-quarter of the educa-
tional appropriation is available. much
work will be done by the Gunnison
Normal in the way OF improvements.
A new law in Pueblo makes 1t pos
sible for drug store to dispense
liquor for license of $400 a year
while saloon is required to pay
$1,000.
Because her husband refused to ac-
Minnie Wright of Montrose. attempted
to commit suicide by drinking car
bolic acid.
Paul v. Maris. dairy expert of the
State Agricultural College. has ac-
cepted position with the Agricul-
tural College of Oregon at an ad-
vanced salary.
After having mourned the loss of a
$500 diamond for several days, Harry
Swanson. of Greeley, ran his hand
into his coat pocket and found the
stone where he had put it.
Thirteen thousand new ties, two
flat cars and a tool shed were burned
and 200 new rails were ruined, en-
failing loss of $4,000 to the Colo
rado & Southern at Argo.
The Old Soldiers Home at Monte
Vista recently received from Wash
ington s5,125, being the governments
quarterly payment of their regular do
nation of 500 per year per inmate.
The farmers in the Greeley district
and Weld county are buying milch
cows, building silos and working to es-
tablish condensers and creameries.
Hereafter they will combine dairying
with forming.
The Fort Bent Ditch Company OF La
mar. announces the sale of a $4,000
bond issue. The proceeds will be used
to build a dam across the Arkansas
at Prowers and for canal repairs.
The Steamboat Springs Creamery
Company has filed articles of incor-
poration. 1t will engage in the cream
cry business on an extensive scale and
run big storage plant in connection
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
WESTERN.

Neis P. Anderson, keeper of the zoo
in Riverview park. Omaha, was gored
to death by buffalo bull.
The third International aviation
meet at Dominguez field. Los Angeles,
has closed, having lasted nine days.
Senator Guggenheim offered an
amendment to the agricultural bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to suppress the al
falfa weevil in the Western states.
Assistant Fire Chief Robert Wolfe
was killed. one fireman was severely
burned. and property loss totaling
100000 resulted from a downtown
fire IN Walla Walla, Wash.
Decrepit with age and crippled so
that he had to be lifted into the ma
chine, A. w. Smith. Wyoming cattle
king, went up with Phil Parmelee in
his biplane at Dominguez field, Los
Angeles.
j. Ross Clark, second vice president
Of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake railroad, has announced that the
branch line being constructed from
Moapa. New, to st. Thomas, New,
would be extended to st. George.
Utah.
One Of the biggest swindles ever
perpetrated in the country has just
come to light in Omaha through the
discovery by local jewellers of the
manufacture and sale of bogus elk
teeth. Thousands of the teeth sold
throughout the country are made OF
walrus tusks.
Tormented by killing done. he
says. rineteen years ago in Kentucky
J. w. Gray, who went to Eureka, Cal
recently from Texas, has surrendered
to the police. BY a strange chance q
man was found who had knowledge OF
the tragedy and he identified Gray by
scars on his back. Word was sent tc
Kentucky officials.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
received letter from patron named
P. Pike, in Colorado town, who com
plains that the postmistress has
threatened to blow his head off and
he is afraid to go to the postoffict
for his mail. He says also that the
postmistress horsewhipped his brother
and chased him out of the postoffice
He wants the matter attended to a
once.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
Army Post Fight Coming.

Washington.-The letter of Secre-
tary Stimson recommending reor-
ganization of the army garrisons of
the United States has reached Con-
gress and senators and congressman
from at least five states have begun
fight to avert the action he requests
of Congress.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
sanItarIums May Lose Licenses.

Denver-The annual licenses of the
Oakes home, and of a score of minor
institutions for the treatment of tu-
berculosis. were held up by the State
Board of Health pending the adoption
by the board of rules that will ccm-
pei all hospitals to burn garbage or
lose their licenses. This Is culmi-
nation of the fight against feeding
infected garbage to hogs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
parrow is Indicted.

Los Angeles.-Two months of uncer-
ence s. barrow. the, noted union labor
Attorney. when the county grand jury,
which for four weeks has been investi-
eating allegations of corruption in
connection with the trial jury in the
McNamara dynamite case. returned
two indictments charging him with
bribery.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
Tb,nk Bic, loaded with eourbon.

DEVILS Lake. N. D.-County Off
cials are investigating the heavy sale
OF mince pies. alleging that the bak-
ers are violating the prohibition law
In selling pies loaded with Old Bour-
bon"
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
KLAUS Leads Brown.

Pittsburg.-Frank Klaus of East
PIttsburg and George ("Knockout'')
Brown of Chicago. middleweights,
Fought six rounds before the National
Club of this city. Klaus had the bet
ter of the bout from beginning to end
but was unable to land knockout.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Live Stock.

Kansts -Cattle-Market steady
to 1Oc higher. Native steers. $3.50
500; Southern steers, $5.0O@6.50;
Southern cows and heifers, $1,000
500; native cows and heifers, $500
@6.25; stockers and feeders, $4,000
6.25; bulls. $3.75@5.50; calves, $500
@S.O0; Western steers, $5.00@7.40;
Western cows, $3.00@5.00.
Hogs-Market steady to &c lower.
Bulk of sales, $5.90@6.35; heavy.
s6.25@6.35; packers and butchers,
$6.1OQs.35; lights. $5.5OQ62G; pigs.
$4.25@5.25.
Sheep-Market 10c higher. Nut
tons, $3.50@4.75; lambs, $500@6 80;
fed wethers and yearlings. 1880
$50; fed ewes, s2.75@415.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
Western New.paper Union News Service.
official Bids Opened.

Montrose-Official bids were op-
ened at the office of the United States
Reclamation Service here for the CON
struction Of the west canal and tunnel
OF the Uncompahgre project. The con-
tract will call for ten miles OF open
canal and 1880 feet of tunnel The
lowest bid was $7S.363.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
Eastern Produce.

Chicago. = Butter-Steady; cream.
cries, 2s@36; dairies, 25@33c.
Eggs-Ffrm; at mark, cases includ-
ed, 1914 @2s1sc; ordinary firsts.
27h 629hc; firsts, 321kc.
Cheese-Steady; daisies. 16X @17c;
twins, 16@16Ac; Young Americas.
16% @17c; Long horns. 1870
Enthusiastically; 95c@$1.02.
Poultry-Firm; turkeys. 1301sHc;
chickens. 12c; springs. 12kc.
veal-Steady. 7Q10c.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-02
Fruita Wants Another Count.

Fruita.-Fruita intends to ask Con-
gress to order new census for that
town, claiming that the figures given
out do the town gross injustice.
Fruita is given a population of but s91,
while at the last election there were
over 700 voters registered. and Mayor
Osborne says the city should be given
credit for at least 1000 people.