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The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-24
sh. ecttssTart

Edith. aged Evc. watched her mother longingiy as she look the toothsome tarts from the oven.
 "Mamma sbe said, wont y7u play you are my rr5ndmaT'
 "Certalnly.- 1n svered the mother. EdHh went out 5u the porch and then quickly returned
 "Gaudma. she said beZriliugly. "may ] have taftF"
 "No. dear. they are for supper
 But don't you know J0u said y0ud play being my grandma, and grandmas always give Htte glrs what tbay wantT
 She got tbe tart -woman's Home Companion.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-24
TWO BAry noYs ARRIVE ~
 sKACWAY THIS NOHViSG

Two babies arrived in skagaay this morning to permanently add their preseuce to our population Dr. Brawand reports that a boy of regulation weight vas born to Mr and Mrs John EcEert at their home. af 6st0 a. m.
 Four hours later. at i0:i0 Mr and Mrs A Fl. Joy became the parents Of 4on. born at the White Pass hospff1i
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-24
DRUDGERY.

The everyday cares and duhes which men call drudgey are the weights and eoun,erpoises oi the clock ol bme, siNns it's pendulum a true vibration and it's hands a regu- lar mO6On, and when they cease to hang upon t, wheels the Pendu- hun no longer swings, the hands no longer move. the clock stands shll. -LongieLsw.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-24
TWO KINDS or LABOR.

There r one sort oi lsbos which adds to ihs value ol the mbpci upon which c u bestowed There r another son 5i laboi wdth has no such saect Ihe iormer. ss ( produces a vaiue. may be eslied productive, the iauei unprodUeiiys. labof Adam Smfl
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-24
JUNEAU VOW AHEAD ~
 INTERNATIONAL CONTEST

Fnday 6lrhts eamss in the inter- national bowling contest changed the standing somewhat. by ssas way dropping Into sscoBd place and giving Co lead to Juneau The re- spita were as follows.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-24

L. B. Adsit and wm. Ferguson of Juneau arc in the city.
 F. F. Parsons, salesman for the Wester. Dry Goods company, Is in the city visiting the trade
 D. J. Rich has received the sad word that his mother, who was al- most s5 years old, had passed away at Buffalo, N. Y., on Jan, 3l last. For the past 22 years she had made her home with her daughter, Mrs Wallace Ruger, in Buffalo. Oi a family Of seven only two now re- mains
 E. L.. viual, representing the Bend Park Co. arrived in Skagway from Juneau Saturday for week S stay. Mir. vinal has spent the past seven or s,ght months in Alaska selling Bend, Oregon City property, and is now on his way south for a visit with his family He says that Bend, is the coming Minneap- oils Of the west, as 1t has wonderful water power and Is surrounded by wheat and agricultural lands.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
From Fridays Daily
THE BOY AND THE GARDEN

The boy usually looks at the garden
as a place of confinement. where DAD
imprisons him for an hour or two q
day. at the precise times when the fel
lows are playing ball.
Dad thought The youngster might
well pull q few weeds as his contribu'
ton toward the cost Of the family. This
does not appeal to him. Just as people
feel they have right to sunlight, and
would not like air put on metered SER
vice, so Boy feels his trousers and bread
and milk are his by right, and he need
not make any special return.
As modern Ffe goes, he needs the
same personal incentive that the man
gets. Just give your boy a corner of
the back yard. and tell him hat what
he gets for his potatoes and his beans
is his, and see how the weeds will fly,
and how he will improve in industry
and application. 1t may not be theo-
retically training, but actually it will
help him.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
Notice to Lien Claimants

In the District Court OF the Fourth Judicial
District of the State OF Nevada. in and for N.
County Of Elko.
G. A. slough. +. X. Hull. G. w. wriRh,
Thomas shepard. Rudolph Homma. burton
Hurd. l.. Bonnafoux. I. S. McDougal. less
Thomas. Stacy Humphreys. and John G. Bliss
plaintiffs.
VS..
Esmeaida Mining Company. George n
Davis. ID. w. Virgin. Louis A. Finnegan. ID q
Eccles. John Doe. and Richard Roe. Defend.
ants.
G.. A. Slough. F.. Il. Hull. C.. w. Wright
Thomas Shepard. Rudolph Homna. Burton
Hurd. l.. Donnafoux. II. s. McDougal. Jess
Thomas. Stacy Humphreys. and John @. Bliss
having this day filed in the ONCE OF the Clerk
OF this Court. their Complaint against the De-
PENDANTS. Esmeralda Mining Company. George
II. Davis. ID. w. Virgin. Louis A. Einnegan, ID.
e. Eccles. John Doe. and Richard Roe. wherein
they claim Liens. aggregatinR One Thousand
Forty-eight and 50 100 Dollars Cti. Ols. SOY. against
the following described property. situated in
Gold Circle Mining District. County Of Elko.
State OF Nevada. towit:
"~ESMERALDA No. -. "EsMERALDA NO.
g.. ESMERALDA NO. 81. "ESMERALDA NO.
g.. "ESMERALDA NO. s.. "ESMERALDA
FRACTION. WEDGE FRACTION. and
DON FRACTION Lode Mining Claims. 4
more particular description Of which said min.
ing claims Is contained in the respective Cert.
! ncateS of Location thereof. now on nle and Of
record In the ONCE of the County Recorder Of
! the Couty OF Elko. State of Nevada. reference
TO which said records is hereby made. and the
same are hereby made a part hereof for the
purpose OF description, as II here fully set out
And that certain mill and mill site known as
the Utah Mill Site Mining Claim. together
with the buildings, improvements and fixtures
thereon. which said Mil Site Mining Claim Is
recorded in Book 10 Of Mining Locations, pages
i63 10 iGi of the Records OF the County OF Elko.
State Of Nevada. reference TO which record Is
Greby made, aud the same II
hereby made a part hereof. for the purpose OF
description, as II here fully set out: and against
the entire group of Lode Mining Claims and
Mil Site Mining Claim, known as the Esmer.
aida Mining Claims, in Gold Circle Mining Dis
trict. County OF Elko. State Of Nevada:
And Summons having been issued this day on
said Complaint, by the Clerk OF this Court;
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN TO all persons
holding or claiming Liens upon said premises.
TO be and appear before said Court. ON Monday.
the 9Th day Of June. a. ID. 1913, at ten O'Clock.
In the forenoon OF said day. at the Court
room thereof. ut the Courthouse
In Town Of Elko. County of Elko. State of Ne.
ynda, and TO exhibit them and there the proof
of their said Liens.
Dated this list day OF May. \. ID. 1918.
(SEAL) FREE c. voIGHT.
County Clerk.
First Publication May :
Last Publication May Nv.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
"A MAN WHO GETS THINGS
DONE"

He is q Canadian AMI Is known as "a
nan who gets things done" This
Canadian is William Bruce Ellison, aud
he has been asked to draft u standard
fire policy for New York State. Gov.
ernor Sulzcr of New York has chosen
this Canuck as commissioner to make
y report Of Fire Insurance conditions
in that state. and 20 draft legislation
to simplify and improve the Nav York
Standard Policy. He was born in ST.
Thomas, Ontario; was admitted to the
bar in Ontario in 1880, aud practiced
in the Office OF Messrs. Ross, Macdonald
e. Blackstock. He was elected Corpora.
ton Counsel Of New York In 1907. The
secret Of his splendid progress Is that
he finishes things. Every nan is good
on tho first half Of any work but few
are good nnishers OF the second half.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
THE WILD ANIMAL MAN

Carl Hagenbeck, who died a few
days ago. may not figure much. if at
all. in the encyclopedias of ten years
hence. But for all that a great many
children and grown-ups will always
think of him as the king of all wild
life. and the master of the mystery
and ferocity of the jungle.
The first day that the child attends
the wild animal show is an epoch of a
life time. His usually dreamless slum-
Der is ftful the night before, under the
strain of anticipate on. He rises a few
times to see if the clouded heavens pre-.
sage enough of n storm to give Mother
an excuse for not taking him.
Arrived at the show, even the most
confined little ring seems a vast arena
af barbaric monstrosities. The simple
tricks of way-worn and shabby bears
or panthers suggest to him all the fas-
sinations of the unknown tropics.
Interest in wild animals is by no
means confined to the youngsters, and
it was on q perception OF this instinct
that Hagenbeck built a great business.
His results as a trainer may be attribut-
ed partly to his feeling hat one must
be kind even to the cruel savage of the
forests. The ordinary elephant seems
like a pathetic disinherited prince,
amid the buffetings of the ordinary
side show, but great trainers have al
ways known that wild animals had a
dignity of their own that appreciated
friendliness.
When you think that Hagenbeck in
one recent year shipped 234 specimens
of lions, tigers. panthers, bears, ele-
plants, and camels alone, not to speak
of great numbers of other specimens,
one sees toe size of theopportunity that
he grasped. AS an everyday lion is
worth $1,000, a hippoptamus $4,000, it is
a variety of stock raising calling for
capital and courage.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
Y SOLVES THE


When the political economists are en-
d~eavoring to settle the high cost of
living by putting more gold in the dol
lar, or more crumbs in the sausage,
Secretary of State w. j. Bryan has
solved it by n demonstration
The other day Mr.. Bryan and his
wife found themselves at dinner hour
near a market, but n long distance
from home He also found seven cents
in his pocket. SO w. J. went into the
market and bought two buns at a cent
each, and five cents worth of cheese.
On this food the Secretary of State and
his wife lunched satisfactorily. At last
we have the solution. Here was a meal
for three and a half cents, or board at
the rate of thirty-eight dollars and
thirty-two cents per year.
Of course Independent readers must
ask IL question before accepting this
solution of the problem. First when
and where did Mr.. Bryan breakfast,
and what was the menu for dinner
that awaited the Secretary and his
wife when they reached home? If we
knew this we might find that the two
buns, and five cents worth Of cheese
was a superfious luxury.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
THE NEVADA PRESS

z V Stalnaker, of the Nevada
Press, of Reno is in town today.
The Press has one of the complet-
est printing outfits in the State
and "Stally" is there with the
goods when it comes to commercial
and fancy printing. Next to the
Independent office his company
is the leader in Nevada. The
Nevada press has purchased the
Sierra Engraving" plant in Reno
and is prepared 10 make all kinds
Of fancy cuts and half tones at
popular prices. Their work in
this department is strictly first
class.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
From Saturdays Daily
H BACK YARD

A Boston man once remarked that
you could always tell the difference
between a New Yorker and one of his
own townsmen by the way they black
cd their boots. The New Yorker
BACKED them all around, while tho
Boston man never touched the heels,
seemingly thinking that ma one ever
looked at him from behind.
Whether or not the foregoing criti-
cism was Just to Beantown, it fairly
hits the ideas of most people about
their back yards. When the rage for
elaborate and angular houses was at
height n few years ago, someone TO.
marked that tho popular house fronts
were OF the Queen Ammo style,
while tho rem with It's garbage pals
and ash heaps was Mary Ann.
Most people who live in individual
houses keep their front yards in pretty
good condition nowadays, just as most
people wash their faces and hair. But
their feeling about tho back yard is
like the Boston man and his boots.
In q country village or settled subur.
ban district, the back yard is almost as
conspicuous as the front. No matter
how many gcrauiums and hydrangcas
you put next tho side walk, If you have
ash barrels. garbage pals, unsight1J
Chicken coops at the rear. tho whole
place wears an air OF irayed decadenco
Years ago, when high tight fences
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
SORROWS OF PAPER-HANGING

The spring job of paper-hanging used
to be comparatively simple. You look
ed over a very restricted lot of speci-
mems, and when you found one that
You liked fairly we'll for it's qualities,
you bought it.
Today mother has peer reading in
the women's journals about harmony of
color and design. Sister, too, has been
fed the same teachings at college or
high school. If they had my definite
opinion or conception of what consti-
tutes harmony, it might not he so bad.
1t now takes the entire family to
pick out a wall paper. Very consider.
able stocks are overhauled to harmon
ize a brown woodwork, cherry or
mahogany furniture, n blue carpet. and
buff curtains, or whatever color com
binations infest your home.
AS no human combination would
harmonic with such n setting, the
dealer may have to send away for ex-
haustive sample books containing all
known varieties. After long and pain
full cogitations, some nondescript design
is finally selected that does not jar at
its surroundings, simply because it
hasn't life and originality enough to
make itself felt or noticed.
One fine morning in May, with birds
tuning up. flowers budding, and all life
singing its song of elysium, father
walks in to perceive a ~desolation at
variance with all this glad peace. In
the place of his favorite chair is a
mouldy heap of paper remnants, while
the mawkish odor of the paste pail fills
the air.
Next something may come up which
it necessary for the paper.hanger to alb.
sent himself for u day or two, while he
is planting his dominions of disorder
over some other home. Then it is usu,
ally found that you need just one hall
roll more to complete the Job, which
necessitates several more days delay
Still when it is over, and all things
end sometime. can anything In the
landscape beat the sunshine in the
faces of your women folksT
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
THE KIDDLEMAN AGAIN

A long named organization called
the National conference on marketing
and farming credits" which has just
been meeting at Chicago, has been
studying the everlasting problem of the
middleman. Said Edward Kone, com
missioner for agriculture of Texas,
"The railroads aren't getting the
money. the farmer isn't. It's the mid
dleman. We're after him"
President Radford Of the Texas Far
mers' Union wants to know why the
Northern consumer pays 81 a bushel
for potatoes, while his farmers get but
80 cents.
Yet somehow the farmer prefers the
middleman. A great many dairymen
living near large cities say they would
like to deliver direct to the Consumer.
But they usually find they would have
to advertise for customers, would have
to put up product in fancy bottles,
have no way of getting receptacles
back, etc.
Yet it seems like national inefficiency
oppiOo NV VII buo BiouIiu III tue
country, while in the cities inferior
fruit sells for FIVE cents each.
Politicians and ministers and
women's organizations have tried tc
break prices by selling direct to the
Consumer. But they get free advertis'
ing, they pay nothing for clerk hire oil
rent, they have no taxes and no debts
Goods can be sold cheap as long as tn,
distributor is willing TO work for moth
ing.
The writer's grandfather used t,
make trips through the retail district
or his way home from business. II,
would gather in at low prices a marke
basket of brown paper parcels. Few
business men would do that today
They could not spare the time ant
someone might see them carrying
bundles.
No doubt many farmers could deve
lop profitable direct relations with in
town customers If they were not afrai
to spend a little money on advertising
1t would take a little time. But ono
q few customers were secured and sat
isfaction given to them, the busines
would spread of itself.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
"IF | BE |, AS | SUPPOSE | BE!'

The dramatic qauilty of this story
will be recognized by the victim if not
by the readers. Here is a fine instance,
no less poignant, because it happens
to be true.
\ certain Eastern ' puth went out to
Nevada, a year ago, TO seek his for
tune" as they say i'll those historical
romances. Last weekh he returned. His
father had sent him forth TO stand on
his own legs, and neither father nor
son were paupers by any When
the boy returned East he told his
father that he had bought a fine silver
mine for $4,000.
81 knew they'd get You, you unquali,
fed dub" stormed the father.
But, dad, 1 didn't lose anything on
it, answered the SOIL.
You didn'tT Well, you will. But
why do you think you won'tT"
Il formed n company and sold it out
for $50, OOO.".
"YOu-you-where did you get the
stockT'
Here in this town
"Great snakesl I'll bet a million
that I'm the man that bought it,
Don't bet dad. You'd win, and
can't afford to let You do that"
DOC"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
From Tuesdays Daily
ANNUAL
RUMPUS"

The Daughters of the American Re.
yolutlon recently held their annual
Continental Congress in Washington.
and certain sons Of Uncle Sam have
christoned the gathering as the Daugh.
ters' Annual RumpuS. The biennial
election to the general Offices of the Ma
tional society of the D. A. II. came
this year. The three rival candidates
for presidential honors. from Buffalo,
New York, and Tennessee, established
regular campaign headquarters at
Washington. This ci'npaign, minus
noise, and strong cigarJ, seems to have
had the earmarks Of the genuine politi.
cal convention.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
A PARADOX

Cumberland Co. Maine has purchas.
cd q large pisce of property TO be used
as "a county farm for inebriates.y
Now Maine has been under prohibition
for forty years, and tho necessity for
such an institution raises the question
Does prohibition really prohibitSo II
occurs to us that forty years abstinence
ought to eliminate tho alcohol out of
any mans system. Perhaps this bad
cropof inebriates has been produced by
bad whiskey drunken clandostinel out Of
pocket TASKS. Perhaps the inebriates
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
THE ADVANTAGE OF


The world gains a big asset by our
power to forget. not to speak of the
happiness added. April 18th a year
ago, the Titanic went down, with
about 1900 passengers. 1t gripped the
world with horror. and drove sleep
from many eyes, that had suffered nc
loss. Most of us forgot the the four,
teenth of April 1918, but is it not well
that this should be sor II all our sorrows
in life were piled up it would be a heart
sick world.
PLUCK from the memory u rooted
sorrow.
Rae out the written troubles of the
brain,
And with some sweet oblivious
antidote.
Cleanse the stuffd BOSOM of that
perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart"
Macbeth.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
THE CENTENARY OF THE HIGH
HAT

Sartorial and other experts have
figured it out that the year 1913 ends Il
century during which the high silk hat
has been in style. One sees consider
able discussion as to the origin Of this
fashion.
According to one authority It all
comes from London, where a black
frock coat and high black hat seemed
the form of attire best suited for an at
mosphere that was filed with smoke.
According to others, the real origin
of the plug" hat dates to n far earlier
period. They attribute il to the Assy-
rians, and consider that the inter and
robe of high p~riestly authorities were
really the parents of the high hat and
frock coat of today. The I~sraolites ac-
quired the custom when they were cap.
tives of the Assyrlaus and in the mid.
die ages they brought habiliments some.
what suggesting present styles, to the
Rhettos of Eastern Europe.
According to this theory, when later
tho Jewish people entered the great
centers Of population, and by their
hereditary instinct for business became
bankers aud iinanciers, they still car
riod the custom OF the high hat, derived
from the inter of the AsSyrian priest.
Thus a high hat became in the world.
capitals the symbol Of financial sue.
cess. II was not long before not mere
ly the bankers. but the bankers custo.
mers, and all who hoped far a bank dc.
post, began to wear them
Tho high hat custom has seen some
decline OF recent years. Business men
woro them very commonly 20 years
ago. Travelling statesmen used to feel
that they added imprcssivencss and en-.
HANGED the idea OF their Importance
entertained by the prospect"
Today high hats are used principally
by the three classes Of people. Publi
dictionaries Of prominence, Indian doc.
tors and circus press agents, and youth
fnl male persons who wish TO impress
the other sex.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09

were the rule, q mar was king over his
w deminions. II he preferred to be a
sloven. no n was offended except
such neighbors as looked ont of the
second story windows.
The modern American town is TAX
ing down its fences and turning itself
into q park. One tousled back yard
throws its blot of frowsiness over a
whole neighborhood, d~iscourasing neat
ness and impairing real estate values.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09
From Wednesday sDaily.l
IF JAPAN FOUGHT US

Some of the people who are worrying
about the drubbing the little brown
men are going to give Uncle Sam
might feel different would they make n
study of the hard times now prevailing
in Japan.
After the war with Russia, the Jap.
anese government set ont to create
economic independence, partly through
a protective tariff and ship subsidies,
but more particularly by direct gov
eminent aid to manufacturing. Com
panies with capital aggregating humid
reds of millions were organized. The
government guaranteed the interest
payment on many of these.
For the time being this created a
Fictitious appearance of prosperity.
Within the past year, however, it is
seen that IA nation, like an individual
can't lift itself by its own bootstraps.
The growth of manufacturing towns
has led to the depletion of agricultural
districts. There are great sections
where there are abandoned farms like
those on the worn out hills of New
England. The result has been a dis
tressing advance III the cost of rice
and half rations among the poor.
The conditions Of the japanese
farmer has became pathetic. In bad
years his rice fields brings him 81 per
acre, which it cost $50 to produce
Even in exceptionally good years, he
does not clear more than $3.50 per acre
Eighty-fve per cent of the farms are
mortgaged.
The income of the Japanese people
averages about $23 per capita Their
taxes take $40 out of this 1913. They
are not i'll very good shape to invest in
the costly playthings of war. 1t will
take Japs u generation to carry off the
burdens of the Russian war, and to
adjust themselves to the costly scale Of
living of modern civilization.
Won Moltke once said that he knew
1000 ways to get II German'a army into
England, but not one to get it out.
How mach more true this would he in
case of n japanese attack on this coun,
try.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-09

hood of toilers everywhere. The angel
that watches the worker. and stands
beside him speaks forth with sincerity
and truth
Tell the rich man in a Christian pew
that for the cotton mills Of New Eng
lind to pay enlarged dividends on q
special privilege tariff is FlLCHING
from the public.
Tell the stakeholder in the south
ern cotton mills that for him To receive
dividends taken from the lives Of little
children is MURDER.
Tell him that his automobiles and
yachts taken from the narrow margin
between a mans wages and his living
is LARCENY.
Tell him that to sendthe women and
children of the laboring man into the
mill to make up that which he took
from a mans output is embezzlement.
Tell him that unless lie comes down
and restores fourfold to every operator
and consumer, all his gifts to missions
and colleges will never bring salvation
to his house.
Tell him that to build u baronial es-
tate on New England soil with porce'
lain markers for every shrub, "A $3.50
600 rockery, while his Italian workmen
live in the dog kennel and chicken
coops is INFAMOUS.
Tell him ma any kind of business
is 10 be measured not by the kind oi
goods it manufactures, but by the kind
of MEN it turns out"
DOC