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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
when THE WORM TURNS

Every paper has corked up in it
bitter, burning wrongs, which it
never airs. Some day when the
time comes, we propose to get out
a special edition and for once in
q long and useless career tell the
truth about grating church work"
ers who think That the advertising
Of their enter tainments TO steal and
cheat and graft for the Lord is a
pioDs act; in that editorial we pro-
BOSE to tell how many dollars the
various busted fai' associations
eve Us for advertising which never
was paid for; how many men the
Gazette has supported for office
who went around declaring that
the Gazette did them more harm
than good; how many times we
have got behind the town booming
proposition, wasted our time and
space and good black ink and white
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
Coal Consumers orrantzs.

Recent developments In the coal ut.
uation in the Philippines. Including .
shortage In the supply Of fuel for the
archipelago during the last few
months and the Increasing use Of fuel
in the islands for industrial purposes
In which fuel costs are OF prime Inn
portance. have led to the organiza-
ton Of an association Of large coal
consumers in Manila which Is likely
to be Of great Importance In indus
trial matters in the far east.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
WITHOUT FOOD FOR
SEVENTEEN DAYS

About three weeks ago Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris Raycraft left the
springs for brief visit to Califqr-
mia. Nothing was thought of their
little dog, valuable Boston ter
rier, it being presumed that he was
about the grounds when they de-
parted. After their departure the
dog was missed, but the people at
the springs thought the Raycrafts
had taken him with them so no
more attention was paid to the
matter.
On tie Raycrafts arrival home
their first inquiry was for the dog
and after explanations search be.
gan for him resulting in finding
him locked up in one Of the upper
rooms of the house, which no one
had entered for weeks. He was
alive, though for seventeen days
he had been without water or food.
In appearance he was an almost
skeleton, but his vitality was SO
strong that he readily responded to
the nourishment that was given
him and will recover.-Carson APP
peal. ,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
GOLD CIBGLE 4
WINNING CAMP

Writing from Midas in the Gold
Circle district in northern Nevada,
in private letter to Salt Lake
friend, James Quinn, a we'll known
mining man of Utah and the sage
brush State says:
Among the big properties here
is the Eastern Star. 1t is situated
about four mil to the east of Gold
Circle, and is separated from the
district by an intervening noun
tain range of malapai. It's forma.
ton, veins and ore however, are
Similar to the other veins Of the
district, being a quartz assure in
rhynlite.
During the whole of the devel-
opment Of the property it has been
productive of high grade ore along
with bodies Of ore of milling grade.
The average values according to
Charles A. Liddell's report in July
last, ran S35 a ton, with an aver.
age width Of four feet. Mr.. Lid
dell is the consulting engineer Of
the United Comstock Pumping ss-
sociation of Virginia City.
"The present management hs.
sunk shaft 300 feet and now il
drifting on various levels. car
easily imagine that the gross ore
development will aggregate ST..
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BEQUEATHEO 500

In the early COS Rev. F. S. Wit
ter was the Presbyterian minister
at ElHo. He was here several years
and was we'll liked as the old-time
citizens will remember. He is call
ed to mind today by the following
telegram received this forenoon:
Buffalo, N. Y, Dec. 80, 1918.
Independent, Elku, Nevada. -
The First Presbyterian church at
Elko is bequeathed 500 by the will
Of the late Mary Witter, of Leroy,
New York, which was probated to-
day, Other Nevada churches be-
q Ieathed $50 more.
VIM. H Kuhl."
Mary Witter was sister OF
the Rev. +. s. Witter He died
several years ago in New York,
we think at his sisters homp. 1t
is evident from the sisters will that
MIR. Witter had a warm place in
his heart for Elko.
The church will doubtless take
steps to get the bequest and pay q
proper tribute to the memory of its
benefactrcss.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
ow. Wilson and corrigan Of 1,7s6,
HUMBOLDT FOREST
GRAZING RECORD

First in grazing and one of the
most completely self sustaining of
eny forest in District No. d is the
record of the Humboldt National
forest located in the northern part
of the state uf Nevada. This is
quite a record when the fact that
the timber is of poor quality and
Of little use for numbering purposes
is known. The forest is located
around the headwaters Of the Hum
b2ldt, Owyhee and Bruno rivers in
Elko county and comprises approx
imately 100000 acres. Tie specie
of the tree that is the most COM
mon is the aspen. with a small
amount of fir and pine.
The forest at present is OF little
pra stical value except to the ranch
ers and mines in the vicinity fc"
there is no good means Of access to
the timber bodies. Transportation
in this part Of the state is very poor
and there are no good roads. The
coming year the forest will be al
lowed $4,000 for the construction
of public highway extending from
Goldcreek, the headquarters of the
forest supervisor, to Jarbidge, the
nearest settlement of any size,
which will then give out an outlet
from EIko ,ountv to Twin Falls in
Idaho. This road will greatly in
crease the value of the forest and
will open the way to market for
the timber.
The forest holds the first place in
grazing with in annual average of
100000 sheep and $4,000 horses
and cattle. The sheep have to 60
from 200 to 800 miles eacn fall for
wintering purposes in the southern
part Of the state and return the.
same distance III the spring. No
machinery for the shearing OF the
sheep is used, all the work being
done by hand which requires a
large force of men. In the opiniun
of the old cattle and sheep men of
the vicinity the range which was
run down a few years ago is rapidly
rejuvenatiDg and at present pre-
sents the best appearance it has
| mad in many y sars.
The forest grlwth on Independ.
ence mountain which comprises a
large part of the district is rapidly
taking on the appearance ii had be-
fore it was thinned out at the time
of the Tuscarora boom for mine
timbering and building. But little
of the timber is worked locally. A
few saw mills at Jarbidge cut up a
small quantity of fir and pine tim
boring and some is used for build
ing purposes on the ranches.
The country has been opened for
DEMONSTRATING and at toe present
time there have been $50 home
steads taken up. Last year there
were Is homesteads taken in this
vicinity and many more applica-
tons made .-Odgen Examiner.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
The Division,

Three Germans had been doing an
odd Job OF repairing and agreed to
split the pay evenly. They received
"a, and, after several unsuccessful eS-
forts Of two Of them to hit upon the
correct division OF the amount the
third settled the business transaction
thus: Here iss II, two for you two,
and here ISIS It, two for me. too. Amt
d?"-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
HOUSE FOR SALE
A 5-room house in Elko with.
cellar, outbuildings and shade trees.
Price $1,000. Inquire at the In
dependent Office. Advt.
Habeas Corpus.

Habeas corpus is a writ directed to
a person OBTAINING another and com.
handing him to produce the body Of
the prisoner to do, submit to and re-
ceive whatsoever the court or judge
Issuing the writ shall decree. 1t is
applicable in all cases in which per.
son in custody claims to be illegally
detained or wrongfully refused bail,
or wishes to be removed from one
court to another.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
New EXnIoaFV6

Trotol Is the name OF a new expo.
sive said to be the safest high ex-
plosiVe known. It's formula was
worked out by Lieut. Harold @. Wood.
ward, an officer in the New York Ma
tional Guard. Six ounces Of trotol. It
is said, will do the work Of IL ounces
Of dynamite.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
PrehIstorIe EnalI,h ouarrx.

A prehistoric quarry, believed 70
have belonged to the ancient Britens.
was recently unearthed by accident at
Gaping Hills, Hitchin, Hereford, Eng
land. A pillow horse was walking along
deep furrow in a field when he. step
ped into a circular hole about two feet
in diameter. Two flint implements
were found, such as were used IN an
cient Quarries.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
Paying Toll on rIarle River

At one FERRY on the Tigris rive tn
toll Is as follows: For poc- ..
two cents; for prosperous ?,
cents; for a soldier, ten Ger.
pilgrim, twenty cents; for /.
eighty cents. The scale OF p
nearly everything along the
similar. But many Of the A'
30 poor that they prefer
across in the ancient MANI,
bind several old gourds toG,
then, sitting upon them, /"
way along.-Christia Hera!
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
WouIda't Want Him.

A distinguished French authorizes
(who for obvious reasons must be
nan1eless, but who lately was intro
daced to one Of the most important
ard least imposing. personally, of the
European monarchy was asked o day
Or Two ago what she thought Of him.
Hel' reply was unexpected. "If were
out fishing and caught him. she 10.
plis6. Il should put him back"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30

paper aid IN the end a lot Of ivory.
headed chumps hold lodge Of sor-
row over typographical error and
moan about the fact that the Ga
zette never does get anything right.
-Emporia (Kan.l Gazette.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
Cover the FInaers.

Take lady's handkerchief by
diagonal corners and bind around
baby's hand and forearm, allowing
the last corner to project past the lit.
tie hand an inch or SO. So wrapped,
the hand easily goes through sleeves
and little fingers do not catch in the
gathers. The handkerchief may be
removed by pulling out the projecting
corner.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
Thought for Women.

"In the whole feminine creation are
there any happier women than the
deformed wife who is not crooked for
the eyes she loves, the lame woman
when her husband would not have her
other than she 10; and the wife grown
old and gray who Is still young for
him ?"-Balzac.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
Taking No Chances.

Dinny was taxing dinner gsEE zs6.
gan at a brilliant cafe. They werSslk
accustomed 20 eating at sach piaees
but they got along fairly weit8oytssa
they had finished. the waiter said:
"shall I bSkng you eoupas Of dsnaf-
tasses?" mot on yer life," exclaimed
Dinny. Our wives might come in
an see us sittin' wild them."--San
Francisco Argonaut.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
New InciC

Two tramps. arrested for vagrancy,
were set free by g. Porter, constable.
because the lock on the town jail had
become so rusty that he couldn't open
1t. Some OF these fine days Porter
will have murder case, then the town
will be compelled to buy G brand new
lock.-Youngstown Telegram.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-12-30
sALMAGUNDI

Jailer McMullen has % boarders
&c feed at the county's expense.
The little girl that had her feet
frozen yesterday is getting along
Snicely.
A acton Ear of Bullion ore wac
shipped last night and another car
will go tonight. Tive 8-horse teams
got in this forenoon and other
teams are expected this afternoon.
A total IF 1O2 carloads of spuds
have heen shipped out of Mason
valley to date. Shipments are said
to be sluggish due to the revival
of the eel worm bugaboo at San
Francisco.
) The Carson Appeal is still urging
the waste of $4,000 on the San
Diego and San Francisco exposi-
tions. 1t may be that the Appeal
sees great benefit to the state as
a result of this graft, but such has
MT been the history of past exposi-
tions. Relief bills have been the
harvest reaped in the past and
doubtless will be in the future.
At recent eXecut We session of
the State Board of Pardons the an
plication of parole of M. R. Pres
ton, serving a fifteen year sentence
for murder committed in Goldfield
during the labor troubles in that
camp, was turned down. This
makes the fourth or fifth time that
Preston's application has come be-
fore the board, but in each instance
it has been rcfused.-Appeal.
P. Indart, one of the prominent
sto"kmen of Northern Eiko, made
a shipment IF beef cattle from Iron
Point to San Francisco Sunday
The cattle were driven across the
country from the White Rock oh
to the railroad. 1t was a hard trip
as the snow was a foot and half
deep on the level in that section
Mr.. Indart told. the Humboldt Star
that one night last week the mer
curry stood 20 degrees below zero
at White Rock.
Officer Erway arrested a Piute
by the name of Johnny Stear or
Monday of this week and placed
'@him in: the CITY Jail. It was first
supposed that the Indian was sir.
ply drunk but it later developed
that he was crazy as a loon. He
was given an examination by the
county clerk and a physician yes
terday afternoon and the Indian
was adjudged insane and headed
for the asylum at RenO.-Yering
ton Times.
A committee of experts saws The
Constantinople correspondent Of
the Pail Mall Gazette has recently
valued the Shah's kitchen outfit al
100000. 1t is probable that M
other court has such elaborate pot;
and pals as the Persian. They are
all gilt on the inside and the
plainest that are in use in the kit
chen are of solid silver only. The
kitchen salt and sugar canister!
are of massive silver, but thu
spoons and fJrks, plates and dishes
are OF pure gold, while the major
ity of the knives have handles en-
crusted with precious, stones. -Th'
Caterer. 4.
-S.-~e~ooe-s-o
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
PICKS UP FORTUNE
Oil Lease Cost $500; Sold it For
$4,000

J. E. Moseley, manager of the
Cooperative Drug Co., of Jack
son, and who at one time was
cashier Of a bank at Mckenzie,
had some good luck last week. In
fact be had both good and bad
luck. He bought an Oklahoma
oil lease four years ago for $500
and several days ago sold the same
for $4,000. There is where bis
good luck came in.
Last Saturday Moseley received
a wire from parties in Oklahoma
who offered him $4,000 for his
land but he had already closed the
other deal. Here is where his bad
luck came in. Right in the cen
ter Of this land, which lies near
Nowata, Okla, has been discover
ed a we'll that sends forth $50 bar
rels Of oil per day.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
Mrs. Kate RUSSELL

Mrs. Kate Russell, widow OF
Wyatt Russell, died at the home
of S. L. Peeler in Camden last
Wednesday morning. Her death
was caused by a complication of
diseases incident to old age. She
was Is years old, a member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church
and is related to a number Of
people in this county. She was the
mother of Mrs. S. L. Peeler. with
whom she has resided since Mr..
Fussell's death. She was an aunt
Of Prot. B. ID. johnson. Of Hunt
ingdon. She lived a beautiful
christian life, and for many
months has been patiently waiting
for the end to come. The burial
occurred yesterday, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. t. Peeler attended.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
THREE PER CENT.
Increase in Acreage OF the cot-
ton Crop

Reports of correspondents to the
Commercial Appeal of date May
20 and q indicate a probable In
crease in the acreage planted to
cotton this year of 3 per cent. over
last year, based on the revised fig
ures of the government. These
figures, while subject to slight
changes on account of late plant
ing, are more than usually COM
plete, owing to the favorable sea-
son for planting that has prevailed.
The condition of the crop as
compared to normal is 1928 per
cent. according to an estimate
based upon reports of correspond
ents, compared with 1873 last year
and 87.8 year before last.
The crop is earlier than lastyear
in all states except Texas, and in
the eastern section of the belt,
where dry weather has changed an
early start to a late one. Over the
entire belt the land is in almost
perfect state Of cultivation, and
fields are universally clean.
The plant is generally healthy
and vigorous. The principal draw
back is In the way of imperfect
stands, which farmers are striving
to remedy BY replanting.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
A NEW ENTERPRISE
Mckenzie Is to Have an Up.tO-
Date Laundry

Papers of incorporation were
filed with the register of Carroll
county last Monday for the Nc
Kenzie Steam Laundry, to be To-
Gated and operated at Mckenzie.
The incorporators are John Cos
ton, w. G. Coston. r. B. Moore,
H. A. Jacobs and q. M. Wrinkle.
The capital stock is fixed at So, 900,
all paid up.
The company proposes to do q
general laundry business, cleaning
and pressing. These are all fine
business men and they will no
doubt make a success out of the
enterprise. Mr.. Jacobs will have
charge of the plant.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
Against Riding Astride

The official order prohibiting
women from riding astride during
the reunion at Chattanooga brought
forth some criticism. DR.. Lyon,
of Nashville, prominent in U. O.
Y, circles, is quoted, among other
things, as saying in justification of
the order:
Women have been encroaching
on us poor fellows for years; they
have robbed us Of our hats, coats,
shirts, collars, top boots; have
long been tugging at our trousers,
and | understand they began a
short time ago to tinker with our
socks. But, worst of all, they
have jumped astride our saddle
horses.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
M'MILLIN GETS JOB
Will Go As Minister PIenipoten-
tiary to Peru

A Washington special to last
Tuesdays Tennessean and Ameri-
can gave the following bit of news
that will be interesting to Gov.
McMillin's Carroll county friends;
Ex-Gov. Benton MeMillin. OF
Tennessee, will be appointed envoy
extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary to the republic Of Peru.
This announcement is made on
high authority and it may be stated
definitely that Mr.. McMillin will
accept the posts and leaves for Lima
Immediately following his con
firmation BIZ the senate, which will
be expedited Just as soon as the
president sends in bis nomination.
The Peruvian post pays salary
of $4,000 a year and in many re-
spects is one of the most desirable
assignments at the disposal of the
state department. 1t is now held
by H. Clay Howard. a republican.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
NEGRO ROW
Causes Two Irrelevant Bucks to
Land in Jail

Albert Bryant and Orene Ban
kin, two colored sports, Of Tree
want, were brought here last Mon
day and placed in Jail. They were
the principles in Sunday row
against the dignity and general
quietude of that goodly town, 1t
was an all round negro rough and
tumble fight, in which whisky and
pistols played an important part.
Bryant was drunk. had a pistol on
him and was shot through the leg.
He claims he shot himself acci-
dentally, but the wound hardly
bears out that contention.
Bankin, it seems, was the dis
penser of the booze and was taken
in under the charge of bootleg
ging. The local officers, Messrs.
Jones, Yancy and Argo made the
arrests and the magistrate bound
them over to court.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
COUNTY SCHOOLS
Something Of Their Cost to the
County and People

There is much interest being
taken in the public schools of the
county. Teachers are being urged
to more thoroughly qualify them
selves for doing efficient work.
This is correct and proper. The
schools cost a large sum of money
and, if the very best service is not
rendered, the children will not get
what is due them, and an injustice
is not only done the taxpayers,
but the patrons of the schools as
well. Much responsibility rests
upon the board Of education and
also upon the county advisory
boards.
The public schools of Carroll
county cost last year from July /,
1912, to June 80, 1913, a total of
$31, 906.02. This outputof money
was distributed as follows: Teach
ers' salaries, $25, O3l.34; new build
ings and sites, SO, 1888. IA; furniture
and fixtures, $931.12; apparatus,
globes and charts. $685.; county
board Of education, $3.50; school
census, $142.14; fuel, $1.602. 10;
all other expenses, $888.84.
The number of schools sustained
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
Decree Friday

Announcement was made Mon
day morning by the chancellor that
the decision il the state election
board case would be handed down
next Friday morning. An unusual
amount Of interest has been arous-
ed by this case and many inquiries
as to when it would be decided
have been made.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30

Irrelevant Hotel, which burned
some two or three months ago.
Mr.. Morris is having the old walls
Of the burned building torn down
preparatory to letting a contract
for new building. He plans to
build two-story modern brick
building of about twenty rooms
and a basement.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30

was l07 and the number Of teach
ers employed, 1876. The schools
we're in session FIVE months. The
average attendance was not so good
as it should have been, as many
parents do not realize the import
ance of having their children in
school all the time possible.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
Institute at Milan

Mhas been named by State
Btendent Brister as one Of
the places for the state institute
for West Tennessee. The insti-
tute will be held from June 8 ia
July 4. H. Z. Waters, of Martin,
Tenn, has been named as conduc-
tor, Prof. j. B. Cummings, Of
Trenton, H. H. Ellis, Of Milan,
J. w. Forbes, Of Huntingdon,
Miss Mary Hastings, of Big San
dy and Miss Pritchett, of Hunt
ingdon, as intructors.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30

A tea will be given at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. E, Carver this
Thursday afternoon, from 4 to Z
o'clock. Everybody is invited.
The tea is given by a number of
the girls Of the Methodist church.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
Hotel at Irrelevant

Irrelevant is to have a new hotel
in the near future, according to
the announcement of w. L. Nor
ris, owner and proprietor Of the
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30

Miss Gussie Sedberry, since her
return from Memphis, has been
kept at home on account of the
measles. Three members Of the
family have that disease.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-05-30
Barn Burned

Willard McCaslin. of til e
Twelfth district, lost his barn and
contents by fire last Monday night.
The stock was gotten out but
about forty barrels Of corn and
some hay were consumed. If is
not known how the fire originated.
1t was discovered shortly after
feeding time.