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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04

Piano for Sale. Price reasonable.
Write Box II, Deeth Nevada
AdVt. 1wk.
fOST-A rouad open face gold
locket about the size of a quarter
containing a lock of white hair.
Finder please bring tn the St. Pauls
2ectory and be suitably rewarded.
-Advt. lwk.
WANTED-Horses and cattle to
pasture at 81 per head per month.
Apply to A. S. Jones, Ten Mile,
Elko c,dnty, Nevada. .-Advt.
See B. Critchley when your lawn
mower needs sharpening. He has
an up-to-date grin Il r.-Advt.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
AN EFFECT OF THE KNOCKER

The following is taken from a
paper published within the Ele-
plant Butte project. 1t is so graph
ic and withal SO true that it is re-
published herewith in the hope that
it may greet the eyes of sumo. who
are of good intent, but do This sec
tion harm by damning with faint
praise.
Don't finish that deed; | shall
never want it. I have gone out
among your people and I do not
want to live here now. l went to
them man to man, took them as
they came, and they are a disap-
pointmeDt. They are pessimistic
and have no hopeful outlook. They
tell me of a drouth last summer
and of q frost last spring, of rains
on their last crop of alfalfa, and
they seem to set SO little store by
this magnificent work that the
government is doing in building
the great dam at Elephant that it
makes me sick, and l don't want to
live among such a pessimistic peo-
pie. It's too depressing. lam tir-
ed with years of steady application
to business, and want to live,among
cheerful people who look forward
to good times and stable conditions
and who are satisfied in some meas
I'm at least with their surro ind
ings. do not want to fight the
windmill of pessimism and neigh
borhood contention, which | have
encountered here. / have earned
my money by hard work and | in
tend to make it buy me q home
amid hopeful confident people to
whom the trials Of every day exist
ence are trials merely, not trag-
edies.
II want to live in an atmosphere
of hopefulness where development
of a great valley like this, while a
task, a pleasure also, to those |
work with and meet daily. l have
met 9 few such here, but this visit
off dress parade has discouraged
me and l do not want to stay. Your
country will be developed into the
splendid class of assured profits,
but not by the men l speak of as
pessimists. They will Hrowl and
grumble, and knock over what ]
find is their Encouragement or
their lack of means, or lack of
energy till some man pays them the
fine price they, after all their COM
plant demand for their lands, an,
they will move into some Other
country aud do the same thire
over. l have no less faith in your
country and its prospects but l wi
not experience for myself and fam
ilv the years that must be spent
with these knockers before they al
get out. Life is too short. I'm
glad to pay you for your time spe t
in my behalf" he said to the agen ,
but have decided to try for a
better local condition elsewhere"
-~-o0-1-~-
Em.tions Expressed In DANCING.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Fuiness OF Life.

Every year l live | am moro con.
vinced that the waste of life lies In
the love we have not given, the pow
ers We have not used. the selfish pru.
n that will risk nothing and
which, Sinking pain, misses happi-
ness as we'll. No one ever yet was
the poorer In the long run for having
once In q lifetime "let out all the
length OF the reins"-Matthew Ar
mold.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Universal Goat.

After all, the most compialsa OF
individuals Ia the taxpayer. Ha will
roar like a lion at an increase of a
fraction Of a cent In the taA rate, yet
fawn like a kicked cur before n Iegis.
lature that shovels his good money
into the sea SO the legislature should
Yorry.-BRltimore American.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Many Good New T6Inus.

There is nothing new under the
n" is a statement true only of evil
tngs, tho fruits of ignorance and In.
perience. Good things that are new
me in with every generation. never
such abundance az In the cvening
ars of the twentieth century The
lristian Register.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Largo Closed Country.

Afghanistan, the buffer state be.
tween British India and the Russian
possessions In Asia, with an area OF
about 100000 square miles and a pop
ulation of probably about 5000, goo
Mohammedans tno census has ever
been taken), 10, with the exception o.
Tibet, the largest closed country d,
the world.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Alas, How Truel

This doctrine Of the excellence Of
woman, however chivalrous. is COW.
.ardly as we'll as false" says Steven.
sor 1t is better tc face the facts"
and know that though she may have
angelic features, eat nothing to speak
Of and sing ravishingly In church she
may he a little devil aftor all"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
ATTENTION CREDITORS!

All parties having claims against
the Kerr & Peterson lease at Bull
lion Z hereby requested to file an
itemized statement of the same at
once with the undersigned.
l.. o. Henderson
EIko, Nevada, May 8, 1914.
Advt l mo.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
DiscourEuinn.

Her admirer swallowed hard, pulled
t his collar. and finally made up his
lind. Lillian he said desperately,
let's get married." Lillian's bored ex-
ression vanished. "All right" che
greed; but who car you marry?"-
udge.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Rabbit Stopped Train.


An inquisitive rabbit held I'M tina
traffic at Fraserburgh Railway station.
In Aberdeenshire, Scotland, for is
minutes the other day. When Signal.
man Morrison pulled the lever to low.
er the, signal for an incoming train
the switch failed to act. Investigation
was made, and after Is minutes,
search the rabbit was discovered in
the detector box. It had been trapped
when the lever was pulled, and one
leg was firmly fixed between the goy.
erninE points.
Wafies with Boiled Cider.
Allow twice az much cider az sugar.
and let boil unta Of q strip consta-
fancy.
Dancing Once Part Of Worship.
We read In the Book Of the Dead"
which contains the papyrj of Egypt's
most ancient seers and scholars, that
dancing was a part of Egyptian wor-
ship. In fact, tho hieroglyphics them.
selves, d~enoting alteration, triumph
after battle, gloom at the death of .
monarch or a high priest, were often
figures of men OF women In dancing
pastures.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
To Clean Mood

Wood that is grained or vanished
\ imitation OF hardwood is best
~leaned~by rubbing it wei! with cloths
'rung out of scapsuds, 20 which some
oraX has been added As a finish
ub hard with q soft cloth dipped In
erosene.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Need for Special Breed.

Above and about Hudson bay there
are enormous deposits Of copper, gold,
and silver. but only an Indian can live
there. He has-grown up there as a
polar bear grows up amid ice. 1t is
thought a special breed Of Indian and
Chinese might meet the needs.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Truly *,

That old ne .rr Seller is a good
'ort. There is I'll old widow who
n afford to in the paper, so
very morning as be passes her room
he stops and reads her the serial
Story."--F1iegende Blaetter.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Exception tU e Ruio.

C%ountryman Cat the National &c
lsry)-"Why, them's the very sam
pictures I saw here the day befoI
yesterday" Attendant (dryly)-
quite likely" CONFERENCE.-The,
that clerk at the hotel IL an awft
lair. He told me that the picture
was changed daily In all the leadin
picture houses"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Quite Reasonable.

$50 you don't call on Miss Butte any
more. Quarreled?" well, I told
her I prferred to have her kiss me
before and not after she kissed her
pet dog" And what. did she say?"
"she said l evidently forgot that the
dog might have his preference, too."-
Boston Transcript.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
she Knew the Game.

Nov, children" said the teacher to
the junior clnss in arithmetic, az I
had nine yards OF cloth and used FIVE
to make n ekirt AID three to make
a>jacket WHIT would I ha@o left9" "a
lot OF scraps" rrsmptly answered the
little girl at the foot.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
shakcspehroan clossary.

Macbeth stroGe down Upon the
What make you there?"
be. "scrapplc," replied she of
dor. and Macbeth strobe off the
lie the cold wind howled upon the
rd's bonnie blue knees.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
For State Superintendent
of Public Instruction

EDWARD E. WINFREY hereby an
nounces himself as q candidate for the
nomination of State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, subject to the
decision of the Democratic voters at the
Primary election.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
em:tIons Expreseed IN pancino.

In the Vedas OF the Hindus. &c
OF which date back 5000 years Def;
Christ. there is steady reference {
dancing as an expression of triumt
worsblp, and even the deepest 81
1t Is the same in the Zendavestas
the Persians. Dancing with cymb:
and tambourlnes, with bells tied
their ankles and wrists or ayou..
their waists. was an art that H.
~prtestssse1 in the temples must vi
dsrstand.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
proof of Lack CT Humor.

"You think the American people
ack a sense of humor?" Eyes" re-
lied the frank visitor from abroad;
otherwise you wouldn't find 80 many
ople weighing yer 200 pounds who
nee the tango."-Washington Star.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Why tio went.

Jones, who doesn't a motor car.
and is never likely tc. was met at tho
motor show by a friend, who ex-
PRESSED surprise 10 sec him there.
We'll" said Jones, tits lovely once q
year to come end look at a whole
mass of cars that you don't have to
dodge."-chrlstian Register.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
instantaneous Hnusekseninn.

i see a pror" mt New York club
woman says You - 10 n days house
keeping in ten L ...te=." Something
in that. Every notice the housemaid
in a play? One swipe, and the room
'is In order.".-Judge.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Qeen-Seatcd lhLsctinn

Our boy has such a refined sense
{ humor!" Eyes; I've noticed he
vinces the greatest dislike to any.
hing resembling the slapstick."-
Judge.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Feminine Ealth.

A woman is perfectly willing to In.
Ist her 1ife's happiness to a man,
It she never has faith enough In him
) permit him to pick out a S22 rug
jpeka Capital.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
Comnlimcnfdru.

jack was just sdmiring Mabel's
air. How rrctty it is" Mabel's Rival
oh, She has some prettier than
hat N0ston Transcript.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-06-04
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcement of Candidates at
the Primary election will be made
under this head for $40 each up to the
primary and for IS additional from the
primary to the November election.
Payment strictly in advance. ,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18
BROWN MAY MEET
WELSH FOR TITLE
Range Battler Negotiating for a
Scrap With Worlds Light
weight Champion.

CHISHOLM, Sept. 17.-If negotia-
tions being carried on between Pal
Brown and Winnipeg athletic club
are satisfactorily concluded, Pal will
soon fight Freddie Welsh in the Ca
1S#dian city for the championship of
thSs;world. Pal was to have met Win
nipeg O'Brien at Winnipeg some time
this fall, but when the Canadian pro-
moters heard that Welsh had landed
in New York, and that there was a
chance to secure him, they Immediate
ly bent all efforts toward that end.
The result is that Brown is in re-
ceipt of query as to what terms he
will make for a battle with Welsh at
Winnipeg. Pal Immediately wired his
reply. If the conditions stipulated are
accepted the Chisholm boy will be due
for the biggest event in his career.
He believes that he will surprise the
world when he enters the ring with
Welsh. In this opinion, Stanley Yoa-
KUN heartily concurs.
''He is the hardest hitter I ever
saw" he said of Brown recently. "He
is as strong as an OK, packs an awful
wallop in either mitt, and lands hard
er and oftener than Charlie White
ever did. Over the long distance
route he would slip the sleep slap to
any Of the lightweights that I can
think of, or have ever met"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18
HEARS HlBBINC
CASE TOMORROW
Petition for Injunction to Stop
Building of Courthouse on
Before Judge Cant.

Assistant County Attorney Edward
Boyle has been subpoenaed to appear
as witness in Judge Cant's division
of the district court at Duluth at 8
o'clock tomorrow night when the ap-
plication of w. S. Hardy of Hibbing
for permanent injunction restraining
the village council at Hibbing from
entering into a contract for the pur-
chase of tract Of ground designed to
be used as courthouse site will be
heard.
The matter has given rise to some
heat at Hibbing and the outcome is
awaited with interest. The council
bought the site and had intended to
build the courthouse in response to a
report made by the grand jury at the
April term of the district court in
Hibbing, which declared that the dis
trict court quarters in the city hall
were cramped and inadequate, that
the petit jury room Yas so located as
to be annoying to both the court and
the jury when it was occupied and
that the ventilation of the entire build
ing is bad.
Hardy, who brings the suit is a
contractor at Hibbing and has large
operty interests there.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18
MADAME SMITH
WAS WIFE OF A
WINNIPEG MAN
Arrested Yesterday Charged
With DESERVING Husband and
Family in Canada.
IMMIGRATION OFFICER
FINDS HER AT EVELETH
Formally Charged With Being
an Undesirable Alien; Faces
Deportation.

Mrs. Rebecca Itskovich, alias Ma.
dame Heine Smith, fortune teller
seeress and palmist, who has been op.
Grating in Virginia and Eveleth fo1
several weeks, was arrested at Eve.
leth yesterday by Chief Of Police
Thomas Finnegan for the irnmigra-
ton authorities and last night was
taken to International Falls where
she will have a hearing today on a
charge Of being an undesirable alien
living in state of adultery with one
Morris Brekiz, who has disappeared
and with having deserted her husband
and two little sons in Winnipeg. Mrs
Itskovich will undoubtedly be ordered
deported to Winnipeg.
The woman came to Virginia sew
eral weeks ago and was granted a
license to engage in the telling of
fortunes and palmistry by the city
council. She had several encounters
with the city police and Mayor Boylan
ordered her license revoked. On her
arrival here she was accompanied by
her little daughter and man she de-
clared was her husband, who worked
for a time for the Oliver Iron Min
lilS SOIIl 1CC1 11CI 11COllo0 W
work here was revoked she went to
Eveleth and her supposed husband,
who is also wanted, disappeared.
A short time ago. Chief of Police
Gately received communication
from the Winnipeg police asking him
to arrest Mrs. Rebecca Itskovich, who
was wanted in Winnipeg for deserting
her husband and two little sons. Mr..
Gately's interest resulted in her be-
ing taken into custody yesterday.
Mrs. Itskovich declared last night
he would sooner die than return to
her husband, whose conduct she says
'orced her to abandon her home and
two little boys. She will fight depor-
tation and tells a pitiful story. 'Vir-
ginia people interested in<her case
last night took up a purse for her
which she received just as she was
boarding the D. w. & P. train for the
north with an immigration officer.
She declared she would fight deporta-
ton as far as possible.
In Virginia Mrs. Itskovich had
apartments over the Gold Star cafe.
where she piled her vocation as for
tune teller and at several other To-
cations on Chestnut street. Those
who have heard her story are inclined
to sympathize with her, but with the
police Of Virginia she has an unfavor-
able record.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18
GERMAN DEATHRATE is
HIGHER THAN FRENCH

PARIS, Sept. 17.-Out of 76O
wounded Germans who arrived at La
Rochelle yesterday ISL were in such
a grave state that they could not be
transferred from the station to the
hospital, and several died during the
day.
The mortality generally among the
German wounded is much higher than
that of the French. Of 1000 French
wounded in the hospitals at Vichy
since the war began, more than $500
have been cured and have returned to
the front, while many more are on
convalesence leave. Most of the
French wounded are suffering from
bullet wounds. Most of the Germans
have shell and bayonet wounds.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18
GERMAN HOSTS ARE AT BAY ON THE BANKS OF THE
RIVER ASNE; GIVING GROUND SLOWLY TO ALLIES
new 0FFlCERF0R
THE NORTH SIDE
Complaints From Residents to
Police and Fire Commission
Allege Bad Condition.

That conditions on the Northside of
the city of Virginia are bad because
of the numerous unlicensed drinking
places, that the night is hideous with
the noises of orgies, that children are
allowed to run about the streets in
the altogether nude and that while
the officers on duty there are doing
everything in their power to proper
ly police the district, more police pro-
lection is necessary is the substance
Of complaint made to the police and
fire commission which has resulted
in an order for special officer to be
placed on duty in that section of the
city, while the police matron will be
required to make such visits as are
necessary to instruct careless mothers
that their little ones should not be al
lowed to run naked or nearly so in the
streets. The city authorities are con-
vinced that the blind pig evil is res
ponsible for the condition, but admit
disappointment at the outcome of such
efforts as have been made to correct
it through the failure of juries in the
municipal court to convict, when
charges have been brought against
proprietors.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18

R0USlNC Time
Virginia Boys to the Number of
152 Join Local Corps of
Organization.

The democracy of American boys
has seldom been better demonstrated
in Virginia than at the meeting helc
last night at the Guild hall of St
Paul's Episcopal church for the pur-
pose Of organizing local corps of the
American Boy Scouts.
There were good boys, boys not sc
good, barefoot boys, boys as imma,
,ulate in dress and appearance as
Little Lord Fauntleroys and boys rep
:esenting every nationality in the city
md in the bon homme and camraderie
displayed David and Jonathan hac
lothing on the bunch. Altogether 25(
)oys attended. Of this number 15z
igned the muster roll and are now
members of the Boy Scouts organiza.
ion.
The entire crowd gave the Boy
Scouts yell and apparently enjoyed it
It made the windows rattle and the
walls quake and the volume of sounc
Produced would have been a credit tc
football crowd pleased with a touch
.lown.
Captain Anderson outlined the work
f the organization to the boys and
everyone of them was much interest.
d. Temporary scout quarters are now
pen at the Guild hall of the church
rom 8 o'clock a. m. until 9 p. m. ex.
ept Friday evening when headquart-
RS will close at 6~o'clock. Permanent
headquarters will probably be at the
,ublic library building.
Fifteen patrol leaders we're appoint
ID last night and received their first
Instructions from Captain Anderson
which they in turn will communicate
their respective squads. All boys
lesiring to join should give
heir names to Captain Anderson
t scout headquarters. The fee for en-
ollment is SO cents of which rs cents
;oes to the national and rs cents to
he local organizatiin. The dues are
cents month. All boys who so de-
ire can purchase the regulation uni
orm of khaki at small cost.
Another meeting will be held to-
light at temporary headquarters and
IN Saturday evening there will be a
school for the patrol leaders and ar
angements will be made to organize
band from among the membership
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18
AURORA TO have
ALICHT PLANT
Village Council Votes to Pun
chase Necessary Machinery
at Meeting Last Night

The village council of the village of
\urora at a regular meeting last night
lecided to purchase the machinery
ecessary for the installation in that
own of a municipal electric light
liant. The cost Of the equipment is
approximately $40, 0,405.
Mining companies in the vicinity Of
aurora, who are among the heaviest
taxpayers had opposed the municipal
liant idea for the reason that avail
BILE figures on the cost of operation
md maintenance convince them that
he service will be more costly than
it had been installed by the Great
Iorthern Power company, who guar
nteed to build line furnishing cur
'ent from the Virginia plant for 2.2
'er kilowatt, while it is declared the
ost of operating the municipal plant
will be at least 1-2 cents kilowatt
The firm who we're successful bid
lers, however, are said to have guar
nteed the council the service will
ost less than the figure named by
he power company.
The construction and equipment OF
he Aurora plant will begin at: once
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18
SPEEDER MADE
TO PAY A FINE

Gilbert Nylund was fined SIS and
costs by Judge Carey last night on a
charge of recklessly driving a motor
cycle. He was arrested on Mesaba
avenue by Patrolman Elmer Cross
land, who declared he was "going
some.' Chief of Police Gately has
issued instructions to all the patrol
men to be on the lookout for automo-
bile and motorcycle drivers who are
exceeding the speed limit within the
city. Reckless driving of automo-
biles and motorcycles in the city must
STOP" said Chief Gately last night
eve will arrest and prosecute every
driver whom we find breaking th@
speed ordnance
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18
FRED BESSETTE
IS CAMPAIGNING

Fred Bessette, candidate for the
the lower house of the legislature
from the Sixtieth district, which in
cludes West Virginia, and Mountain
Iron, is in the city today returning to
MS home from three days. trip over
the range in the interests of his can
didacy. II feel that my chances for
election are excellent" said Mr.. Bes-
settle this morning. "In Hibbing my
friends assure me Of large vote and
in Chisholm I have developed some
strength had not expected. Mr..
Bessette is state forester at Orr and
has a large and favorable acquaint-
ance throughout all the range coun-
try.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-18
SCHOOL WORK IS
DELAYEDBY WAR

The European war, because it has
resulted in cutting off imports of GER
tain materials that enter into the
construction of the new -Southside
school floors, has considerably de-
layed the work on the building. At a
special meeting of the school board
to be held tomorrow night matters
pertaining to the finishing Of the con-
tract will be before the board who are
urging the contractor to complete the
building at the earliest possible date
as it is badly needed to relieve con-
gested conditions in the Central and
Johnson schools at present.