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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09
BELGIAN KING
APPEALS TO u. S.
y

Albert, king of the Belgians, has
asked the American people through
the American commission for relief
in Belgium to help feed his starving
people during the coming winter.
The kings message written under
fire in the battle before Dunkirk,
follows:
II am informed that American Of
fic:,as and citizens in Belgium and
England aye working to save my peo-
pie from the horrors of the famine
whiun now threatens. 1t is a great
comfort to me in this hour of sor-
row and misfortune to feel that a
great hearted, disinterested people is
directing its efforts to relieving the
distress of the unoffending civilian
population of my country.
Despite all that can be done the
suffering in tlSsF coming winter will
be terrible but the burden we must
bear will be lightened If my people
can be spared the pangs of hunger
with it's fruitful consequences of dis
ease and violence.
II confidently hope that the ap-
peal of the American commission will
meet with generous reponse. The
whole hearted friendship OF America
shown my people at this time always
will be a precious memory.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09

claims will be derived through their
passage. The recommendations are:
One-The adoption of the short bal.
lot.
Two-Extension of the duties of the
board of regents: to give the board
the power of appointment and SUPER
vision of all charitable, educational
and penal institutions out of partisan
control.
Three-The appointment by the
board OF examiners of a purchasing
agent, whose duties will be the super-
vision of purchases of all supplies and
materials for all state offices. institu.
uons and departments, which will
permit of the application of modern
business methods in the purchase of
state supplies.
Four-A' reduction in the member
ship of the legislature.
Five-The immediate consolidation
of the railroad, public service and
tax commissions, and the abolition of
those commissions, departments and
offices which at the present time are
not believed to be giving the state
value for the money expended in
their upkeep.
SiX-Such amendments to the work
mems compensation act as experience
and justice demand.
Seven-The adoption of a measure
which will provide for a speedy, legal
and inexpensive method of adjudica-
ton of water rights
Eight-Amendments to the primary
election law, which has proved ex-
pensive and unsatisfactory.
Gov.-Elect Boyle discussed all of
these proposed recommendations
briefly this morning. He took them
up separately and gave an outline of
just what he would recommend and
how he felt they would benefit the
state and the taxpayers.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09
DEAL MADE FOR THE
SALE OF MASONIC MINES

A deal has been made by Receiver
Saford of the Pittsburg-Liberty min
ing group of Masonic for the sale OF
the property for $4,000 TO be paid for
within two years. The matter will
be taken UP by Referee in Bankrupt
cy Poujade on the il inst at which
time 1t is more than probable the
papers will be ordered signed.--Car-
son News.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09
RENO )EPORTS
UNDESIRABLE:
TROUBLESOME GUEST WHO Al
MOST CAUSED PANIC IN RENO
RE-APPEARS IN CALF.

A call for help from Fresno, Cali
fornia, disclosed yesterday that Cicer-
iano Velasquez, the Mexican leper
who threw the Reno and Washoe
county officials into a panic a month
ago by appearing on the streets here.
is abroad again. making sport of
whatever city he chooses to trouble
with his presence. AS the result of
his appearance in Fresno it has been
learned that, week ago, the Washoe
county authorities took matters into
their own hands and bundling the
leper, who had been kept at the coun-
ty hospital, into an automobile, took
him to the California road beyond
Lake Tahoe, where they deposited
him in the middle of the road with
his face turned toward the ocean.
Under a different name, but with
the same arrogance he displayed here.
Velasquez appeared in the California
city Monday evening. After causing
a panic on the streets he went of his
own volition to the county hospital
where he demanded food and admit
ance. To prevent him from walking
about the city he was Accommodated.
Fresno county then faced the same
problem as that which had bothered
the Nevada authorities, the disposi-
tion of its unwelcome guest.
October 9th the man was picked
up in Reno streets. An examination
by DR.. Johnstone, conducted in his
meteorological laboratories, revealed
leprosy in its most advanced form
The man was taken to the county hos
pltal by order of DR.. G.. S. Gibson,
county physician, and held there
while various efforts were made to
get rid of him officially. While the
disease is not normally contagious,
the dread of contamination by the
general public is such that it was
deemed impossible to allow the suf-
ferer to be at large. The federal
government was appealed to, but aft
er negotiations lasting two weeks, the
federal officials declared they could
do nothing.
After exhausting every effort to
get California authorities TO relieve
Nevada of the mans care the at
taches at the county hospital decided
to take the matter into heir own
hands. Two attempts were necessary,
however, to get the leper started to-
ward California, from which state he
had come into Nevada. Once the at
taches took him in an automobile to
the road beyond Tahoe and left him
without money. When the automobile
party returned to the hospital they
found the leper had caught q train
and arrived ahead of them. The next
day, which was election day, the leper
was taken over the same route, but
given a few dollars and pair of
blankets, with the injunction not to
return for fear his reception might be
made unpleasant. He evidently stole
his way to Fresno on a train
For more than a year Velasquez
has held up" California towns,
frightening their authorities into Civ
ing him money to get rid of him. Eff
forts to have the state authorities
take care of him have been unavail-
ing. Los Angeles is held responsible
for his wanderings, as his condition
was officially discovered first in that
city.-Journal.
--.-O--
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09
Blows OFF Finer

Charles Blanchard, an Ely lad OF
ten years, accidently shot off one of
his fingers recently while handling a
shotgun at the home of his sister sew
eral miles from Ely. The sister had
left the house, and the boy, taking ad-
vantage of this fact started to expert
ment with the gun. He pulled the
trigger with his finger on the end Of
the barred, with the above results.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09
COMMISSIONERS
CANVASS RETURNS

The board OF county commission
ers of this county are busy at the
courthouse today canvassing the re-
turns of last Tuesdays election. The
job is long and tedious one and will
not be finished until sometime to-
morrow. A full account Of tho ofic-
ial vote will be published in tomor-
rows issue of the Independent
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09
Drank Toast to Vanquished

In these days of political feelings it
is meet that ONE men should show a
little feeling for the under dog. This
spirit was eXemplified Wednesday
evening at the Arlington bar when a
prominent democrat made the follow
ing toast: Let us dring now to our
chief executive, Tasker L. Oddfe, a
pioneer of Nye county, an officer and
gentleman" And the glasses clink-
ed.-Carson News.
D.
Howard Holland, of Lamoille, is
spending the day in the city today
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09
UNCLAIMED LETTERS
IN POST OFFICE

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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09

In fast game of football the Ely
pigskin artists defeated their neigh.
bors from McGill by score of 10 to
6 on the Ely field recently. It was
the first defeat the McGnl eleven
suffered this year
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09

1t is announced by Western Pacific
officials that passenger trains Nos. 3
and 4, which were discontinued yes
terday will be running again in about
three months.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-09
Comsock Millman Dies

Patrick McNally, a resident of the
Comstock for over fifty years, pass
ed away at the hospital there recent
ly, at which institution he has been
an invalid for the past five years
The deceased was a native of Ireland
aged eighty-siX,- and is survived by
Tveral nephews, whose whereabouts
$ffe unknown. He came to Virginia
City in the early sixties, where he
followed his occupation as a millman.
Marriage License Issued
a marriage license was issued to-
day to John w. Clark and Sadie Burk
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-05-08

miles. How these women overcome
the laws of gravitation is a mystery.
They never spill anything and yet they
swing along with burdens that seem to
be dangerously near the falling point.
This meanest kind of drudgery has
one advantage. The women OF ia
maica have a physique and grace Of
carriage unsurpassed by any country on
earth. The free, swinging, athletic
strides OF these ebony creatures is a
delight to the eye. No curvature OF
the spine here, and no fiat chests; no
hobble skirts. nor tango steps needed.
In the matter Of skirts there is little to
be said and the same applies to sleeves.
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PICTURESQUE BEAUTY OF HAWAIIAN BUILDING AT THE
PANAMA.PACFlC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION

%RANSPORTED spendors Of Its majestic
visitor the Panama
Exposition. Francisco, 1915 find
luxurious anguoous and delightful at
southern isles of the Pacific He need only step into
the eisurey restful
of the architect Hawaiian
that it will the double OF
The architecture suggested
The of the building is in the
intersection of the of which there will be
and
rooted with glass and through the
of Hawais "Aoha" the
exhibit will be the aquarium, which will
equipped beautiful fantasicaly
o the tropics
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Bare footed, bare armed; balancing a
burden which would make a man
stagger, they swing into market with
the early morn, and at night they re-
turn. The long, graceful strides with
which they cover territory seems easy
and tireless, but I don't want the task
of attempting to keep up under the
glazing rays Of their tropic sunshine.
Next week we will be in Colon, the
American entrance to the Panama
canal, and so we will have to leave
Jamaica, although somewhat reluctantly,
for to me at least it is the most in
teresting island in the West Indies,
and the most desirable.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-05-08

from five English shillings per week up
to fifty cents per day, this latter being
considered high. They will figure
your cost of production all the way
from six to twelve cents per bunch,
and the beauty Of the whole scheme is
that in eleven months from the time
you lay the jungle and plant your first
crop you will begin to cut your fruit,
and one planting lasts from twenty to
forty years.
There is the banana scheme as it
appears on paper and there are plenty
OF successful planters on the island to
whom you can refer for verifcation.
The banana plant is not tree, it is
perennial, growing from a bulb, like
giant tulip. When the stalk bears
its fruit it dies like the blackberry.
This is cut away and another shoot al
lowed to bear. These shoots come up
from the bulbs and grow to height OF
fifteen or twenty feet. The leaf is
something like Indian corn only cross
ribbed and growing to great length,
giving the plant the appearance OF a
palm. The suckers are cut back at
the roots and only three to five are al
lowed to live, according to the strength
of the soil and the amount OF rainfall,
for the banana is a water plant and
thrives best where the precipitation is
greatest, as in Honduras, where in the
course of a year the rainfall is over
hundred inches.
But there is another side to this pic
ture. There always is. In the first
place no northern man can stand the
climate, and even if he can ne can not
work under the tropic sun. Another
thing and paralelling the last state
ment, nobody else will work. Labor
is cheap and the quality cheaper.
Again, one must have care in select
ing banana land, not only for its quail
ity but its accessibility to railroad and
wharf.
Enterprising promoters have sold
thousands of acres of the richest kind
of banana land to northern suckers,
land that for growing purposes could
not be surpassed, but unfortunately for
the investors was lying back OF strips
owned by rival fruit companies and no
right-of-way obtainable. In Jamaica,
land can be bought for song, and the
reason is that it costs more than the
bananas are worth to get them to the
wharf Again the dubious nature of
the plant does not admit Of its roofing
deeply, and thousands and thousands
OF acres have been destroyed by hurri-
canes after all the labor of bringing
them to bear. Another fly in the
ointment is the banana disease which
has made its appearance lately in Costa
Rica, and the United Fruit company
have lost thousands Of plants on that
account. Still another drawback is the
enormous waste. We perhaps never
stop to think that we buy more ba-
-nanas in the summer time when we
see luscious bunch hanging in front
of fruit store, but the tropical planter
knows this and the United Fruit COM
pany also know it. They buy on con-
tract, from the planter, taking so many
punches per year, but they take more
in the summer than in the winter.
The only party to the whole transaction
who knows no difference is the banana
plant. 1t goes on cheerfully bearing
fruit at about the same ratio, year after
year, in season and out. The loss is
enormous.
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believe if we had a problem OF
that sort we would figure out some way
to take care of the waste, but as yet
little has been done in the tropics.
There is some talk of a banana -four
and banana vinegar, but il such things
exist they are in small quantities and
cut no figure as a commercial posi-
bility
Returning to Jamaica we will briefly
review her varied products before
crossing the Blue Caribbean to Panaa.
The diversity of production in this
island is surprising. For instance, in
the public market we find peas, beans,
corn, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes,
string beans and many other products
with which we are familiar. Side by
side with these we find grape fruit,
oranges, breadfruit, yams, ginger, su-
gar cane. tobacco, cocoa, cocoa nut,
pine apple, casava, mangoes, pawpaw,
and hundred other fruits and vegeta-
bles which we never head Of. Cotton,
coffee, logwood and bee keeping are
among the profitable products. A
growing industry is the manufacture Of
Jippa Jappa hats, which is another
name for the Panama hat, which is
made from variety Of palm.
All these things grow in Jamaica,
an island little in itself, but big in its
range Of products and bigger in its
opportunities. They raise cattle, hogs,
goats and sheep, and the growing in
dustry is more or less profitable. Milk
retails for II cents a quart, while beef
steak sells for only lie pound. Eggs
were 81 cents a dozen on the market
on the 18th Of March. I am told the
price ranges from 25 to so cents a
dozen.
But to the northern eyes there is
something ludicrous in the way they
go at things in Jamaica, although they
themselves are serious enough. The
primitive weapons with which they at
tack the soil would give the northern
husbandryman the heartache. They
would rather carry a wheelbarow on
their heads than to propel it. They
would prefer FIVE pound grub hoe
with crooked helve to pillow. They
would prefer single acre and carry all
they raise to market on their heads,
than an estate Of larger magnitude
which might require some effort to
cultivate. The land is either owned
in immense tracts, plantations, or in
little patches by natives. But in
either case they only work enough to
settle their meals.
Jamaica is land OF woman's rights.
That is, the woman is born to an in
heritance. She inherits all the work,
and the older she gets the more they
pile on her. I once asked native to
show me the hardest, toughest job on
the island.
"What do you want to see it for9"
he said.
II want to see the oldest woman on
the island" l told him.
While waiting for man in down
town office l saw across the street
new building going up. A woman was
mixing the mortar and another was
carving the hod, on her head of course,
and on the walls woman was laying
the brick.
One of the sights in Jamaica is the
morning visit Of the women from the
country districts bearing produce to
market. It all comes in on their heads,
sometimes from a distance OF ten
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-05-08
Public Library

The library is open every Wednes
day and Saturday afternoon from tire.
m FIVE.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-05-08

Get butter wrappers atlEchO Office.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-20
1nnanese Seek namages.

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-George s.
Kunihiro. representing the Growers
Association, filed suit for 100000
Damages in the United States district
court against nine corporations and
II defendants affiliated with the
Western Cantaloupe Exchange. whose
members were indicted by the feder-
al grand jury in August. charged with
operating a monopoly in restraint OF
trade.
The japanese, according to the bill,
produce so per cent Of the cantaloupes
grown in the Imperial Valley. Cali
fornia. The defendants. It is alleged,
controlled 80 per cent OF the market
and acted as distributing agents. In
August, 1911, the defendants entered
into a secret and unlawful combina-
ton TO obtain exclusive control OF the
cantaloupe production in the Imperial
valley. according 10 the petition
Through this contract, II is alleged
the japanese were defrauded out oi
100000 through false accountings &c
growers.
The japanese assert the fraud wa'
easily practiced on them because OF
their lack Of knowledge Of American
business methods.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-20
PERSONAL MENTION.

w. IT, strayer OF Baker is at the
Pendleton.
]. A. Ready OF Umatilla was a
guest OF the st. George yesterday.
Jerry Stone, prominent Athena pi-
oneer, is a visitor in the city today.
Jack Vincent. Athena jeweler came
Gown yesterday and spent the night
here.
w. NJ. Goodnight was In from HIS
country home yesterday on a bust
hess visit.
Mrs. James Mclaughlin OF Duncan
was In .Pendleton yesterday on shop
Ting expedition.
Asa b. Thomson, prominent Echo
telephone magnate, is making Pendle-
ton a visit today,
r. 1. Davis, well known Hermiston
civil engineer, made a short visit in
Pendleton today.
Louis Muller, one Of the prosper
ous grain growers OF Helix, was here
this morning collecting bounty upon
coyote scalps.
James II. Sturgis arrived in the
city this morning from Portland and
Seattle where he had been visiting
and Is spending the day here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-20
NarnI Prlze Given Woman.

LONDON, Nov. 1s.-Another tri-
butte to the gallantry OF Captain Won
Muller, OF the German cruiser En-
den. which was badly battered recent
ly by the Australian cruiser Sydney
and forced to run aground on Cocos
Island, in the Indian ocean, is con-
tanned in a letter received by a Glas-
gov woman from her son. who is
member of the crew Of the steamer
Kabinga which was captured by the
Emden in the Bay OF Bengal. The
letter says:
1.-The Emden captured the Kabinga
in the Bay of Bengal. but when Cap
tain Won Muller learned that our
shippers wife and children were
aboard he presented the ship to the
lady, remarking TO the skipper: You
can inform your owners that as Far
as they are concerned the Kabinga
has been seized and sunk"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-20
MOTHER! is CHlLD'S
STOMACH SOUR, SICK7
If CROSS, FEVERIsHI, OONsrrRKr-
ED, GIVE CALIFORNIA
SYRUP OF FIGS"

Don't scold your fretfuI, pesvish
child. See II tongue Is coated; this 10
a sure sign It's little stomach, liver and
bowels are clogged with sour waste.
When nstiess, pale. feverish. fun
OF cold. breath bad. throat sore, does
not eat, sleep or act naturally. has
stomachache, indigestion. diarrhoea.
give a teaspoonful OF california sy-
rup OF Figs" and In a few hours all
the foul waste, the sour bile and fer
menting food passes out OF the bow
els and you have a we'll and playful
child again. Children love this harm
less fruit laxative" and mothers
can rest easy after giving H. because
It never falls to make their little In
sides clean and sweet.
Reek II handy. motherl. A littio
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row, but get the genuine. Ask your
druggist for a so cent bottle OF "cal-
Ifornia Syrup OF Figs" which has di-
rections for babies. children OF all
ages and for grown-ups plainly on
the bottle. Remember there arc
counterfeits sold here. so surely look
and see that yours Is made by the
california Fig Syrup Company
Hand back with contempt any other
fig syrup.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-20
nnmdums AraIn DenIed.

LONDON, Nov. 19.-The war OF
flee issued a statement denying Ger
man allegations that the British
troops have used dumdum. OF soft
noced, bullets, but maintaining that
these missils have been used BY the
Germans.
The statement describes the British
and German service ammunition as
similar. the bullets being pointed with
steel and the envelope coated with
cupro-nickeI, covering the core except
at the base and conforming with the
provisions OF The Hague convention
In the opinion OF Sir Victor Horsley
a widely known surgeon. this bullet is
probably the most humane projec-
tile yet devised for the reason that
the long. solid point, consisting al
most entirely OF a hard nickel sheath
precludes as far as possible any ten
dency toward reformation OF shape.
while the strength OF the sheath pre-
vents the bullet from breaking up in
to fragments except in exceptional
circumstances"
Concluding the statement says:
There is. however. clear evidence
that Germany has not confined her
self solely to the use Of this unob-
jectionable ammunition. Her troops
both in Togoland and France have
been proved to have used bullets with
soft cere and an envelope not en-
tirely covering the core. which type OF
bullet is expanding and is expressly
prohibited by The Hague convention. ="
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-20
BOYS BURN SCHOOL
To "GET EVEN WITH
PRINCIPAL THEY SAY

Los ANGELES. Cal. Nov. 19-Nine
boys OF ages from to 16 were held
in the detention home here follow
ing their confession that they burned
the Thirty-fifth street school a week
ago to get even" with Principal Rob-
ert ]. Emery. They also confessed to
several small burglaries.
The boys told the police that they
had formed an organization called
The Secret Seven" the CHIEF qualifi-
cation for membership in which was
a reputation for not Switching" when
other members got into trouble.
The police professed to believe that
the lads under arrest would be able
to give information regarding the re-
cent destruction by fire OF two other
school buildings.