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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
HUMAN SYMPATHY AND
THE FLOOD SUFFERERS.

1t is a common feeling that the human
heart is a pretty well dried up and des-
sicated affair nowadays. The quick re
sponse offered TO the flood and tori ado
sufferers suggests that there is more
kindliness abroad tnan one realizes.
At the time of the San Francisco fire.
in hundreds of towns in the distant
east businessmen gave up work TO go
from house to house begging for silver
coins. Many families who gave were
not one square meal ahead of the daily
game. In loss of life these floods are a
much moro tragic happening. and the
generous offering SO sor,ly needed will
not be lacking.
Probably people have little concep-
ton of what generous gifts are being
made all the time to single cases of
misfortune that never gets into the
newspapers. The people who are Civ
ing to Dayton and Omaha are no doubt
giving all the time to suffering rs il
claims attention in their own neigh.
borhoods. Real misfortune still find,
the helping hand.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04

haired anarchists. their heads stuffed
with dream PHILOSOPHERS. as from plain
men Of the earth.
Tho danger to the president Of the
Uuited States is not so much from long
every day fools. The shutting. sham
bling down-and-out of the curbstone,
who apparently wants nothing better
than to swipe a square meal from your
refrigerator, may he Just the man who
carries the gun that may upset business
and s~tatecraft by a successful assassina,
ton.
The higher speed Of labor and bust.
ness, the growth of enfeebling voices, is
filling the insane asylums. Witha con.
siderable proportion of these unfortu,
mates, the mania is homicidal. Any
such who in more normal days were in
terested in politics, are first impelled to
right popular wrongs by killing n Roose,
Welt or a Mckinley. Violent news.
papers who paint opposing politicians
as traitors, are the fuel from which
these reptile deeds may spring.
President Wilson has given signs OF
feeling the constraint of armed guards.
Let him not yield to such sentiments
Under present conditions, it is ordinary
business horse sense for the president
to have stiff secret service protection al
the time.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
TO THE TEMPTED

You can put your money to work any
where you please, for any sort of master.
But-you must learn to choose the master
who handles your money with as much
care as you choose your own employer.
II you are 4 competent worker in any
established industry you know there is a
standard OF wages. And If an employer
offers you twice that he is either such 4
fool as not to know his business or rogue
who does not intend to pay you what he
promised.
Your money has absolutely no more pur-
chasing power than any other money used
in the thousands OF industrial operations
Of the world; and if man asks you to- let
him use your money and promises to pay
you more than the easily aScertained rate
you must conclude that he is either ignor-
ant or a knaye. In either case your money
is not safe with him.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
APRIL FOOL

Who can count up the generations OF
youngsters that on this ancient festi-
val have travelled far in search of
strap oil or have bitten into wool
doughnuts2 Some people say the Gus
tom goes back as far rs Noah, com
m"emorating the blunder he made i'm
sending ont the dove before the waters
were dried up from the face of the
earth.
Youth acquires some valuable infor-
nation on April 1 and gets 1t very
cheap. The time that is spent in going
to the neighbor for the round square
Is not very costly. But the fruitless
trip was we'll worth while if it stamp.
ed the fact clearly on the boys mind
that there are n great many iokers i'm
he world. Some of them even get into
tariff bills.
Many people do not cease being
April fools when they attain the sta
ture OF manhood. They are ready to
pick up bricks done mp in neat pack
ages 305 days in the year. During
their life time they acquire I'm inter.
esting and extensive collection of left
handed screw drivers, for which they
have paid down large amounts of good
money.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
From Tuesdays Daily
MAN MADE FLOODS.

Just as the recent tornado losses have
been at least aggravated by the tenden
cy to erect unsubstantial buildings, sc
the awful foods Of the Ohio valley
may DO largely traced to the works Of
man. Whenever the balance of forces
is upset, nature sooner or later takes
revenge.
That occupation b, man tends to in.
crease disastrous freshets is suggested
by the commission that studied tho
flood problems at Pittsburg. It was
found that in five years from 1871 10
i115, there were but two floods passing
danger point. In the Ave years from
1905 TO 1910, there were eleven such
dangerous floods.
The ruthlesssacrifce of forest growth.
turning vast acres Of soil sponge into
hard runways, is q familiar cause Of
flood damage. But even u the losses
at Dayton and other cities were not due
to any large extent to this reason, other
consequences OF mans acts do increase
hazard.
Men build factories and railroad
trucks and bridges and dams along a
stream tending to restrict the natural
outlet OF the water. Their mills let
loose debris and silt that fills up the
river beds. A still greater factor is the
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
From Saturdays Daily
A COMMENDABLE ACT

The rapidity with which the town of
Elko responded to the call of relief.
through the prompt action Of Messrs
Henderson, Reinhart and Mcbride Is
most commendable and worthy of
emulation. Dollar diplomacy and COM
mercial supremacy is the handspring
of action. in the minds and hearts of
most men, who have the commercial
instinct developed to an abnormal de-
gree. The fact that men Of means for
get, for the time being. the desire to
accumulate wealth and heed the flag
of distress, shows, i'm no unmistakable
manner, that the spirit Of humanity
still lives in our midst, and that the
milk Of human kindness flows through
the veins of Nevada business men.
In cases of this kind promptness is
the very essence of relief. A few days,
or ever a days delay may defeat the
very end sought to be attained. When
a sister State is in the throes of an
awful calamity, Nevada goes to the
rescue in such n manner as to give a
thrill OF pleasure, 10 every citizen of
the State, when he realizes that the
principle of the brotherhood Of man
has kindled the fires of brotherly love
and that God still rules and reigns in
the minds and hearts of the people.
Reno, Carson City, Sparks, Fallon.
Wabuska and probably every other
town in the State were equally en-
thusiastic and prompt in responding
to the call for aid. All honor to Ne
vada and may she continue to per-
petuate and cherish such lofty ideals
of mans duty to his fellow man.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
HAZING, NOW AND FORMERLY

Four months Jail sentences have Just
beer handed out to three University
of North Carolina students, convicted
of m~anslaughter of a fellow student
whose death came by hazing. Not
merely is such a fatality very unusual
but one hears almost nothing now
adays about hazing of any kind in col
leges. Are the ancient terrors disap-
pealing that once surrounded the fresh
mans entrance to the classic shades of
alma mater?
Probably old fashioned physical haz-
ing is pretty much gone by. 1t seems
as antiquated as the ancient town and
gown fights. Once the sophomore
dearly loved to range himself in hattie
against the ~ug-uglies of the town
slums. An exchange of bloody noses
was looked at us the Germans regard
student duels and their resultant scars.
Today the college youth is too
splendiferous n creature for such demo-
cratic .brawls. His way of getting
even with the "mucker'' is to pOintedly
cut him OH the street.
Similarly, taking the luckless fresh
man from his downy bed at dead of
night and giving him II bath. meath
the icy waters of the town pump, would
be considered a prep" school trick.
The n thing which the college stu
dent is most anxious today to demon
strate to the world is that he is u man.
For hat reason he has a dignity which
must be maintained. That dignity
would be very much Jared and denied
by the hazing pranks of former years.
AS the lower schools initiate college
fashions and attitudes, 80 even they
show a tendency TO look at old time
hazing as too kiddish for men"
Hazing exists in colleges today Just
as it exists everywhere in social life,
but it is more subtitle. 1t lies in wait
for any individuality on the part of
the student, and pokes barbed arrows
of ridicule ut his last years hat, or his
association with the wrong set of fell
lows.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
THE END OF A SPECULATOR

The death of Deacon White, who
won and lost several fortunes ON Wall
street, brought out n few days ago the
fact that although he once stood to win
$1,000, 600 in corn, he died with only
just enough money to pay his debts.
The case of MIR. White is somewhat
unusual. Although he failed several
times, he always paiG his debts in full,
though he could never get permanently
ahead of The game. Pretty heavy bag
gage in the way of a conscience
The manufacturer who produces a
useful article mt n fair price can be
satisfied, that if his customers are
honest and Industrious, the probabili-
ties of trade assure them success.
The speculative broker, on the other
hand, must realize that the chances
of the game are about five to one
against the ''piker' or 'lamb." In the
long run, the kitty" must win. The
broker must he always making new
customers. The cordial handshake with
which he groets the new face Mt the
door must be much like the greeting of
the undertaken to- the consumptive.
"Deucon" White, no doubt, as not
the only honest person i'm business.
There Is plenty of room for men of high
sense of honor, who shall study earn
ings and expenses rather than the
eighths and quarters Of the black.
boards. They will persuade investors
to pay down only real money for high
class securities, lock them up, and read
the stock market reports only at off
moments.
Many men go into brokerage bust.
ness with firm intentions of that kind.
A great many Of them come out about
like the fellow in the mining
camp who asked where he could find a
faro layout. He was directed, but
warned that the game was crooked
Shortly after he was found bucking
the tiger.
Didn't l tell you the game here was
crookcdf' whispered the man who
directed him.
Yes replied the stranger, but you
also said IL was the only game in
town.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
From Mondays Daily.)
THE DECLINE OF THE TAIL COAT

The average man reads with some
complacency that President Wilson
wears his grew sack suit every day to
the office, instead of the traditional
frock coat.
a few recent presidents have soften
ed the rigors of dress in recent years by
the slightly less formal cutaway. But
the sight of a president debating letters
in a sack suit must nodoubt shock cere-
monious Washington.
How a a nan do q days work in n
"jim-swinger' coatr
A Prince Albert envelopes a mans
limbs like a shroud, its wide and far
reaching tails swathe the alertness OF
his motions. The bigness and con-
straint of the thing must dampen his
ardor and blur the joy of quick active
endeavor.
Men are growing less conventional in
their dress. 1t was not many years ago
that the majority of those having any
society affiliations used TO wear ut least
a cutaway coat evenings and often dur
ing the day time. To call on your next
door neighbor with a simple business
sack coat on was about like going in
your shirt sleeves.
Man is a working animal. The de-
mands of his labors grow more and more
exacting every year. Efficiency schemes
and systems have arisen by which he
is trained to avoid every useless motion.
He is taught how TO sort the papers
on his desk, how to handle the raw
material ut the machine TO avoid the
loss of even q second by doubling on
his track.
Under Those conditions he must strip
to his task. The mechanic reduces his
impt dimenta to overalls and shirt
sleeves, like n unne in the race. The
business man is not often permitted to
20 as far as that. But at least he has
become welded to the swift adjustable.
ity OF the sack coat. Meanwhile the
cutawav i'll which he used to do his
counting, or the frock coat in which he
was married, repose in their moth balls,
reappearing at longer intervals. Let
them rest!
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04

the intense mental activity found an outlet
in all kinds of agitationS labeled under the
names of so-called reforms
To certain types the question is not so
much as TO thoroughly understand the
nature OF the proposed reforms" as to
secure something to agitate about. As 4
consequence the reaction is a harvest OF alb
solutely silly legislative proposals. Too
often these proposals blacken the pages OF
the statute books.
In the state of lndianna it is 4 crime to
smoke a cigarette. one of the most Sooth-
ting forms in which tobacco may be used.
This is but one of the fool enactmentS that
so often vex travellers west OF the Allegha-
MES.
Recently, in all seriousness, the most
egregiouS measure yet presented to a leglS-
lative body was laid before the Ohio State
Legislature, by Representative Chapelle OF
Cincinnati. Hear it We suffering women'
He proposed to regulate the dress oi
womankind. The soft, white cuticle OF the
fair sex is repulSive in his eyes, and 'the
cause of the wave OF immortality. II there
is such 4 wave, it has not been seen &c
surge in Nevada, though some few have a
morbid Authorization that il may exist in
Elko.
So it came TO pass that Mr.. Chapelle pro-
posed a state commission composed OF
three members to prescribe the fashions
to be worn by the women OF the state oj
Ohio" One of this elect body must need!
be 4 clergyman, another 4 mere HUSBAND
with at least three children, and the las
member OF this moral trio, 4 Social settle
ment worker.
Ii occurs to me that Mr.. Chapelle doe
not think that young men could be trusted
to this noble work OF covering up ieminin
charms, for ZACH commiSSioner must be a
least thirty years old.
The woman proud OF her white an,
Shapely neck is to be suppressed. mot NOR
than two inches below the chin shall b
uncovered" Thus saith the bill. Then
too, the peek-a-boO waist shall be baniShe,
for lit shall be unlawful to display or wea
any outer garment trimmed or combine
with lace, Insertion, or any kind OF EN-
broidery, mesh or net through which tn
color or texture of the skin may be dis
tinguiShed without having the lace or othe
material backed with opaque material"
A few long haired men and short haire
women will probably advocate Chapelle'
reforms. While the proposal is as laugh
able as it IS impossible, it is a shame t
think that the man who devised il wa
elected by the voters OF such A wealth
and important state as Ohio.
Ah-men,
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
ANARCHISTS AND CRANKS.

The CHASTITY death roll of assassinated
rulers, published in connection with tho
killing of King George of Greece ought
to be read with more than a personal
interest by the a who sits in the
White house.
To II king or president, the shackles
Of official restraint must weigh hoayily.
From Haroun AL Raschid down, mon.
archs have enjoyed incognito mingling
with people. Probably they have done
1t more than most people realize. FL.
bowling along the sidewalk with Tom.
Dick and Harry, they feel like the
school boy on q vacation.
The hysteria OF modern life bids fair
70 end all this Kind Of play for the great
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
THE MINES CO..

Another fake news item was given this
paper, in reference to the Buckhorn Mines
Co., by a professional man of EIko, who
vouched for the truth Of the statements, is
so distorted and exaggerated as to bear little
Semblance to the truth. Mr.. Wingfield
himself is authority for the statement that
MIR. Frick is neither an officer. director nor
Stockholder in the Buckhorn Mines Com
pany. The capacity of the new mill at
Buckhorn will not exceed 800 or $50 tons
per day. The amount OF ore blocked out
is not 100000 or anything like it. How
ever, there is enough ore in sight to pay
for the mills and plant at Buckhorn and
Beowawe and give the stockholders a nice
profit on the investment. This paper will
not, knowingly, disseminate any false or
misleading statements. The truth Is good
enough about Buckhorn and il is a splen-
did property, worthy of most favorable
mention. Mr.. Wingfield needs no boost.
ing and the fact that he is the leading spirit
at Buckhorn may have had something to
do with our informant drawing the long
bow, in telling his Storyt to the independent
man. There is no stock for sale In The
Buekhorn Mines Co.. and our informant
probably acted in good faith. but his de-
sire to boost a good thing" was much
greater than his knowledge of mining at
Buekhorn. The Independent desires to tell
all the truth, all the time, and is glad to cor
rect all misstatement OF facts whenever it
has knowledge of inaccuracies, which may
happen to creep into these columns. The
whole truth, exact and even handed justice.
and fair treatment will be our watchword
all the time.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
From Fridays Daily
SAVE THE U TREES

Anyone who lives in a city or in a
t~reeless region must be astounded to
see how slowly sentiment in favor of
encouraging woodland growth spreads
in sections that have always had for
ests. This means a steadily increasing
cost OF lumber.
The farmers boy starts out on one
of these mild days of early spring, to
see if his fences are standing. Follow
ing along the scraggly old brush fence
that some shiftless farm hand laid, he
finds various gaps.
A few strokes with his keen and
shiny axe, and a hundred or two nice
young oak, maple, or chestnut trees
have been slaughtered. The fence is
tight for one more year. But a future
bank account has been sacrificed and
he has helped make building material
costly.
The writer once spent some time in a
fairly well wooded district where there
was a large factory operated by a
wood burning engine. 1t might be
supposed that a plant would have a
liberal price to neal by lumbermen and
farmers for wood from well matured
trees.
On the contrary, the wood burner
was put in because the farmers of the
neighborhood were willing to sacrifice
young growth, about IL to 20 years
old, for a song. They called it trash
wood" The p~ittance of money that
the mill paid them tided over their
slovenly farming me more year.
Meanwhile the whole section was i'm.
poverished of building material and
taxable woodlands, while the only in
terest that profited was the factory cor
poration, which saved half it's normal
fuel cost.
Many people have the idea that the
increased use Of brick and cement is
setting lumber aside as IA building ma
terial. But If they will but cooperate
with the Lord, and cherish the young
trees, they will find that His stores of
oak, chestnut, and pine will cost much
less than man-made building com
pounds at s. n day union labor.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04

Wonder if Loyelock points with
pride, to the fact that some of her
ranchers stopped the wheels of pro,
gress, in the development of Nevada
arid lands, and put the Pacific Recla.
nation Co. and the Pacific Improve.
ment Co. in the hands Of a receiver. II
is hoped that the receivership is only
temporary. Vacations, lawsuits, bel.
ligerant clients, and INSCRIPTIONS law.
yefs sometimes stay the hand Of pros
pelity, during the innumerable delays
of the law, to the detriment of the
general development of the country.
What Is one mans meat is often an.
others poison. 1t is quite difficult to
make a man, who is at the losing end
OF an important law suit, believe that
the scales of justice are as evenly bal
anced rs the legal profession would
have us believe. The people
are gradually losing respect and con.
fdencc in our judiciary. Is it any
wonder?
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04

erosion from cult, ated fields, which is
far greater than that from the original
uncultivated soil.
Flood damage is an enormous annual
drain on national wealth. The rail
roads are said to have lost SEA, 900. 600
by the floods of March 25th and follow
ing dates. The Ohio river floods of
1907 cost 300. 900, 900. When the Mis-
sissippi river gets on a rampage, it is
likely to do equal damage.
Calamities like these quickly pass
out of mind except in localities imme
diately affected. Meanwhile such IA pro.
ject as that for reservoirs controlling
the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers;
involving a SEQ, 900, 600 expense, is re,
garded as ~eXtravagant.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
MEETS RESCUER
AFTER % YEARS

That the world is small and men
Unexpectedly meet i'm strange
places friends whom they knew
years before in far distant climes il
apparent to all who have travelled
and one of the m ost peculiar re.
unions which have been told of. oc.
cured in Reno a few nights ago.
Twenty three years ago, F O
Mcmillan, who is known to many
Renoites as a musician. and who
has been Il sailor, soldier of fortune
and wanderer upon the face of the
earth. was s~hipwrecked near the
Caroline group If islands in the
South seas.
( He managed to reach land, which
was held by the S~paniards, who BY
a show Of force. overawed the
natives and KEEP, them in subjec.
tiUn.
A few days after McMillsn's ar
rival on the island the natives re.
VOTED and attacked the garrison.
In the melee many were killed
and Mcmillan was wounded in the
leg. When the natives had been
driven back to the hills. Mcmillan
was arrested and charged with in.
citing the people to rebellion.
Wounded rs he was, he was thrown
into a shack which served as a
hospital. II was the intention Of
the Spaniards to keep him confined
until he could be court martialed.
After lying in that noisesome
hole for several days he was found
by a party of American sailors
from the gunboat Alliance.
Those men took pity on Mcmillan
and braved the possibility Of
trouble with the Spariards by TAX.
ing him on board ship.
The Spaniards protested hut the
Alliance captain believed McMil
lan's story and refused to surrend,
or Fin.
Since that time Mcmillan ha:
been in many parts of the worlt
and has had many peculiar exper
fences.
a few days ago he met IA man IL
Reno with whom he entered int
conversation.
II was not long before he discoy,
cred that the man he was talking
TO was Charles G.. Winters, a busi
ness man of Jarbidge and Twir
Falls, who was one Of the sailor
that took the wounded McMilla
, from the island in INC south seas
Thus did two men meet again al
ter the lapse Of twenty-three years
Reno Journal.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-04
From Thursday Daily }
FREAK LEGISLATION

Have you ever considered the excessive
amount OF freak" legislation proposed by
various states Of the Union during the last
few years. 1t surely would fill a large vol.
ume. What Is the explanations
One OF the most brilliant OF American
%essayistS, MIR. Henry James, attributes this
tendaney. to the energies which we're lett
without occupation after the battle Of
abolition. After the slaves had been freed.