Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1914-06-05
A SLICK SCHEME


IDENTIFY kicked himself out Of bed
yesterday morning and struck on
his head, injuring his brain to such
an extent that he slops over in last
nights issue of his paper. Instead
of pointing out any %utterance of
the write. either in the Independ-
ent OF in private conversation, up
holding in anyway the action of
the Bell Telephone company in put
ting ITS line through town before
obtaining a franchise, ne lets his
imagination run riot and works
himself into a frenzy. Again We
challenge the Free Press to publish
any expression Of this paper that
justifei the telephone company in
taking possession Of Court street in
the manner 1t did.
True, we called the meeting of
citizens a Teapot Tempest" and
reported it just as it appeared to
US. We thought then and think
now that the result Of the meeting
showed it to be a very small tenn
pest in ii very little teapot, consid-
ering what was accomplished by
those responsible for the meeting
For what we said, we have no
apologies to make to anyone.
Nov, let Us see what caused the
editor of the Free Press to make
his charge in Mondays issue. The
article On which he bases bis silly
charge against che Independent was
published in the issue Of May 2Sth.
May 29th passed and nc charge was
made. Monday the county com.
missioners nat and he had a claim
before them for SIP for publish.
ing the ordinance for the number
ing of the houses of the town fol-
the free delivery service. Know.
ing that bill would call forth criti.
cism from the taxpayers unless
something was set in mutiun to
distract! their attention, he Jumps
onto the Independent and attempts
10 take the attention of the taxpay.
ers of the town away from the SIC
steal in his bill. a very slick
scheme. but it will not work.
According to his bill, the ordi
nance took less than a column ol
space and was published for ont
week. The rate charged was ST.
per square of ten lines nonparei
type for the first insertion and 5.
per square for each of five subse
quent insertions. The law undel
which he made the charge says:
"All advertising ordered or re
quired bv the state of Nevada OF
by the respective counties of thu
state shall be paid for by the state
or the county ordering or requiring
the same Mt the rate of two dollars
per square Of ten lines nonparei
measurement for the first insertion
and n dollar per square for eacll
subsequent insertion; IN insertion
to be held to be one publication
per week whether the Newspaper in
which such advertising is ordered
to be done be published daily or
weekly"
Mark what the law says-"an in
s~crtion to be held to be one publ,
cation per week whether the news.
paper in which such advertising il
ordered to be done be published
daily or weekly"
Under this law the $50 charged
for the five insertions after the
FIRST was an illegal charge. justly
characterized by Com missioner
Peck as daylight robbery.
Now look upon this great dc.
fender of the rights of the people,
With one hand he reaches into the
pockets of the taxpayers and takes
$50 to which he is not entitled and
with the other sings taAfy to the
same people through the columns
of his paper.
Are we not justified in saying
that his attack on us was for the
purpose of directing public a,ten.
tion away from what Commissioner
Peck characterized as a daylight,
steal?