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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1914-03-13
A BASELESS CHARGE

The statement was made at the
meeting the other night that a
free water system had been offered
to the town Of Elko d few Years
ago and the people had refused it.
This being news TO US We traced it
up yesterday and found that a pro-
mnter, agent or something else,
representing Chicago capitalists
had made some sort of a ~ater pro-
position to three OF possibly four
men in town and they kept the good
thing, If it was a good thing, un.
der their hats. The reason given
at the meeting for the rejection
of the scheme was that someone
was making money out CT the pres
ent water system" As this reason
was given by one Of the mcn 10
whom the free water system pro-
position was made, the question
naturally arises was any money
made by the rejection Of the
scheme by the three or four men
to whom the proposition was made.
They should consult and make the
fellow that got the swag divide it..
The free water system offer is
said to have been made at the time
the movement was made two or
three years ago TO incorporate the
town and was made to the leaders
Of that movement, one Of whom
made the statement at the meeting
the other night and who also gave
us the facts about the offer Of a
free water system TO the town
While we do not believe either of
the men to whom the offer vas
made received any money for keep
ine it from the rest Of the citizens.
we do think it lily becomes ans cf
them to charge the whole citizen
ship of the town with turning down
u good proposition that they
knew nothing about, because
Somebody was making money out
Of the present water systcm."
Such statements reflect upon the
town and create friction among the
people. They certainly serve no
good purpose, especially If, when
Investigated, they contain no more
truth than the statement under dis
cussiOn. No three or four men
have the right to act for the peo.
pie OF Elko without being authoriz.
ed by them to do so and when tho
arrogate to themselves that power
they should not blame the people
for their own private action.
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. NO. II.
WASATcH UTAH MINING CO.

Principal place OF business. Elko. Elko Coun-
-. Nevada. General once outside OF Nevada.
Suite ai KearuS Building. Salt Lake City.
Utah. Location Of mines. Little and Big Cot
ion~Ood Mining Districts. Sal; Lake County.
Utah.
Notice Is hereby given that At meeting of the
Board Of Directors OF wasatch Utah Mining
Company. held on the 9Th day OF February.
1911. Assessment No. II. Of one O) cent per
share was levied on the capital stock OF the cor.
p~oration. payable on or before Monday. the 9Th
dIy OF Apfil. 1914. TO +. l.. Pnlmauisi. Secretary
and Treasurer. Suite sol EeaEns Building. Salt
Lake Ci!y. U;ah.
Any stock upon -hIch this assessment may
remain unpaid on Monday. the 9Th day o, April
1915. will bc delinquent and advertised for sale
a. public auction. ord unlcs, payment Is made
before wlll be sold on Monday. the Iiih day Of
May. 1911 al O'Clock p. II. AZ the eompany's
OG'Cc. Sgite sol kcarns Building. salt Lake
City, Utah. 10 pay he Delinquent assessment
thereon. together With the cost Of advertising
aDl ,AI-AsC u 5l.c.
I. l." PALHgTiST.
Secretary aud Treasurer.
Suite 25l HcarEs building, Salt Lake City.
Utah.
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A CRIMINAL MENACE

Carefully avoiding churches
which had provided shelter for the
homeless if needed. two /. ". W.
agitstors Sunday night ed a COM
pany Of men to the Fifth avenue
Presbyterian church and extnrted
money by threat, which is a crime
Tn weak yielding of the trustees
increased whit was already a grow
ing danger to the order Of the city.
AT the moment nhen this de-
mand was made, contractors and
city officials were seeking men to
work at snow removal, offering
food in advance and wages at the
end of each day. |. W. ". leaders
not only advised men in the lcdg-
ing houses not to accept work and
wages, but they were to be seen
on the streets yesterday urging
shovelers to quit and leave the city
defenseless against the worst snoW
storm Of years. The wealthy
must take care of the unemployed
said one of them.
Labor unions have Indignantly
~disavowed such tactics. Not fol-
them is the deliberate preference
Of beggary or the extCrtion OF
money under threat to honest work
but there are charactcrless men il
town who will be quick to see tho
opportunity and unless energeti,
measures be used we may eXpecI
gangs Of professional gunner ant
thugs to join the professional IN
employed in terrorizing public as
semblies from the Battery to Har
lem.
Not since the first snowstorn
more than two weeks ago, ha
any man able and willing to wielc
n shovel needed to lack steady worl
in New York. The /. W. ". lead
ers who are inviting the worst Gle
ment of a great city to plumber d,
not want work; they do not wan
their dupes to accept work. The
seek a social revolution" an
society should know now to NEE
tho challenge. Work for those VII
want it and the rigvr cf the law 10
criminals will meet the situation
New York World.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1914-03-13
PANAMA CANAL TOLLS

In the discussion of the Panama
canal tolls question we have, of
late, seen no reference to the Bard
amendment to the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty, which the Senate voted
down, says an exchange. Here is
the amendment:
"rhc United States reserves the
right 10 the regulation and manage
ment of the canal to discriminate
in respect Of the charges Of tariff
in favor of its own citizens engag-
ed in coastwise trade"
What was the need of this amend
ment IL the treaty in its original
form permitted such discrimina.
tion7 Senator Bard, Of California,
did not SO interpret it. or he would
not have offered his amendment
IT was voted down, and the treats
was ratified by a vote of ~ 10 &
Nov, in constituting legislation II
Is very important to know the in
tent Of tho body that enacted it
We have 1t here in the defeat O
this very amendment deiPned Il
make possible a policy Of discrimi
nation that would not, It wa
agreed, be permissible under tn,
treaty itself. The treaty was assail
ed because it forbade the doing o
the very thing that il is now pro
posed to do.
But this is not all. Senator Baco
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PRICES IN NEVADA

Copies of the crop report for
March /, 1914. for Nevada and
the United States have been receiy-
ed from he bureau Of statistics nf
thu department of agriculture,
showing crops bring mole money
in Nevada than elsewhere except
IN the case Of hay.
Potato prices r given at 72
cents a bushel in Nevada as COM
pared it'll SO cents this time last
year and a five year average Of IS
cents. For the United States the
price is 70.5 cents, with an average
price of 6S.8 cents.
Hay is 5000 a ton in Nevada.
Last year il was $3.50 a ton and
the average is Sl0.34 For the
United States this year the price is
Sl2.37, last year il was SlI.34. and
the average is sl2.S2.
Eggs average 3S cents in Neva-
da and 20.7 cents elsewhere. This
year the price is 80 cents and for
the whole country the price is 24.2
cents.
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moved to strike ont the section fer
bidding discrimination in tolls. Tit
Senate refused to sustain him
thus again committing itself to the
principle Of equal treStment for al
users of the canal. Now we art
asked to do the very thing which
the Senate that ratified the treaty
admitted that We had no right to
| do. and refused to make it possible
for US to do. Finally equal treat
ment of all shipping was the price
or a part Of it, that We paid
for getting rid of the C~lsyton-Bul-
wer treaty, under which Great
Britain was made a partner in the
canal enterprise. Whiting on this
phase of the question years ago,
George F. Edmunds, former men,
Der of the United States Senate,
and a most distinguished one said:
Il believe that 10th the language
and spirit OF heHay-Pauncefote
treaty compel us to subject our own
coas,wise vessels to the same tolls
established for the commerce of
all other nations making use of the
canal. Such equality Vas as every
body knows, the consideration
made from the supposed obligations
of the Clsyton-Bulwe treaty Of
1850"
Yet there are those who now ar
que that we have a right to repud-
late the bargain: that, having got
what we covenantod for, we may
now refuse to make the agreed pay
ment.
If the Democratic party really
does, in spite of all its protesta-
tons, believe in the ship subsidy
let it honestly make a
direct grant out Of the treasury to
our coasting lines.
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RECORDS EARTHQUAKE
NEVER TOOK PLACE

May years ago when Cha LIS
Friend was the state weather OBJ
server he Rad a siesmograph set
up in the tressurer's Office to re-
cord earthquake shocks. There WAS
a night Waterman who guarded
the treasury and he slept in the
office. One night some wags slip
ped in and by artiicially s~gitatink
the siesmograph made q tremend-
Gus earthquake record while the
Waterman slept.
Then thew quietly laid some of
the furniture down on its side and
made a general confusion and lit
ter about the place.
One Of them go, under the sofa
where the Waterman slept and with
a big upward heave turned the
sofa over and spilled the Waterman
On the floor. 1t was about ( in
the morning.
AS soon as the Waterman hit the
carpet he looked about and seeing
most of the furniture down rushed
over and made an examination of
the sicsmograph. When he saw
the tremendous record Of the ear:h's
oscillations he made a bee line for
the street thinking that there might
be a series of shocks and bring
down the building.
He met the wags on the outside
and they were apparently scared
out of their wits.
The whole town is gone"
shouted me-.
worlds coming to an end
yelled another.
The Waterman insisted that he
was wide awake at the time staLd-
ing close to the siesmograph and
saw it work.
He admitted he was scared how
ever. and refused to 60 back into
the capitol building.
Friend was posted on the joke
and when TIE watchman brought
the siesmogrsph record over to
show to him he had a bigger one all
ready. Il was two days before
the Waterman got sober enough to
understand what had really hap
pened to him. Ca son Appeal
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tx" Lists A-i2I7, -i257, -i2e7.-t31o
OeS. Restoration to Entry Of Lands
IN National Forest.

Notice Is hereby given that the lands descriO.
ed below. embracing 461.C9 acres. within tho
Huby and Humboldt National Forests. Nevada,
viii be subject TO settlement and entry under
the provisions Of the homestead laws o; the
United States and the act OF June u, 1915 (3I
Stat. ZID. At the United States land ONCE a,
EiGO. Nevada, on MaY ~. i9lL Any settler who
was actually and In good faith claiming auy Of
said lands for agricultural purposes prior TO
January l. 1910, and has not abandoned same.
has a preference right 70 mako "a homestead en-.
try Tor the lands actually occupied. Said lands
were listed upon tho applications OF the persons
mentioned below. who have a preference right
subject 60 the prior right OF any such settler.
provided such settler or applicant is luaiined 10
make homestead entry aud the preference right
Is exercised prior to May II. 1914. on which date
the lands will be subject TO settlement and entry
by any qualified person. The lands are as fol.
lows: Lot =. the SEt SWI Sec. -, r, % ~, Il.
% h.. hDM except n strip of land | chain
Widcon tho west side thereof. the net area being
'H.O acres. liS;cduron application Of MIS-. Kath.
Tyn Terry. box 3is. Elko. Nevada; List li7I7.
y tract OF la9.iS acres. within what will probab-
~ he when surveyed SCcs. 90. 81. 2s aud %. r. 10
~. II. ~ y. described as follows: beginning az
Corner No. !. u lawn rock. whence Forest Ser.
vice Monument hereinafter dcscrlbcd) bears
-. % ~ W. 1.ij cha: extending thence N. ss'
W., u chs: thence n. I7' ". "a. - chs: thence
y. s'lJ T.. al u chs: thence & is' ~ H., 5su
chs: thence 3. 81 IS w. 1925 chs. thence s. s.
D.. 10 chs to the place Of beginning. Forest
service Monument consists Of u solid column OF
p0fphJty rock marked F.S NJ H.. located on the
left hand side Of wagon road approximately 1 mile
below the Edward y. Butler house on CaIIfor.
MA Creek. listed upon application Of A. II, How.
man. Mountain CITY. nevada: List Iias7. 4
tract Of loo acres. within what will probably be
"icn surveyed Sec. 2. r. n ~. r. 81 H.. dcscrlb.
cd as follows! beginning n. Corner No. 1,
whence tho southwest corncr %. SOC. |, Il. ~ NJ,
H. 81 T., bears l.. - che: extending thence N.
Dchs,ithcnco W. 90 chs; thence s. 10 chs:
thcrce t. chs, 10 the place Of beginning. list.
Cd upon application Of Henry 4. Davis. Wells.
nevada: List iiss7. 4 tract OF cSoii ncros.
"lthIn what viii probably be when surveyed
Sees. and 3. r. &c N. Il. 81 t., described as FOL.
lows: beginning az Corner No. 1, Identical with
Forest Service Monument. consisting OF n gran.
tic rock. marked FSMH/I. whence Merritt
creek bears ". is' r.. $50 chs: extending
Thence :. 8 IF, 70 chs: thence $. 30 H., ID. 20
chs thence 8. 90 80 T.. y chs: thence ". 49, a.
w. T0.Si chs. thence 8. a. w, s chs, Ia tho
place OF beginning. application OF A. l.. McCrny.
Mountain City. Nevada: List t.i9io. February
~ iiPt Q. NJ. Bruce, Assistant Commissioned
OF Tho General Land once, c.ii DcS,
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SHINES
IN TOnOPAH

This is pay day and the enter
prising advertisers of the camp are
gathering in the golden ducats at
a rate that shows the boys have the
money to spend and are willing tU
jar loose in a liberal manner. The
postal savings bank found many
depositors and the counters of the
other banks were monoPolized by
employees drawing down their
regular stipend. The amount is
about the same as in former
months, or $3.50, 600, with a great
er outlay for skilled mechanics
than usual. This was owing to the
large amount Of installation going
on.
The tonnage output was less than
former months b. a thousand or
fifteen hundred tons, but this loss
to the underground force was more
than offset by the larger checks
for top men such as machiEists and
carpenters. The month OF March
will show the greatest tonnage IN
history, unless all signs fell. The
diversion created by the dispute
between the Butler and West end
does not affect the prodVct of either
property as the West end has
enough ore in sight west of the
main working shaft to keep the
new mill going for a period of two
years without doing another stroke
of development. Yesterday the full
thirty stamps of the West end re-
modelled and enlarged mill went
into commission, and after a short
stoppage caused by changing q
chain drive. the mill ran smoothly
and satisfactorily. The Merger
has mastered q flow Of water ard
IS sinking on the Wine from the
ITO and will resume shipment
this week after a couple of weeks
Strengthening the shaft and pre-
pairing for installing the pump
which had been delayed in deliv-
cry. The Halifax is stoDing and
T is going into the bins as a fore
runner Of shipments.
The Miners Union reports delin-
qucnt members paying up freely
and the meeting this evening will
see a larger percentage of paid w
members than has been noted for
sometimP.-Bonanza.
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MOUNTAIN or ASBESTOS
FOUND NEAR GLOBE

A mountain Of the finest asbestos
in the United States is situated IS
miles northwest Of Globe. Ariz., in
the Ash Creck. district, according
to a report sent TO Globe, recently
by Mr.. West and his sons. Tom and
Albert, Hho brought in a quantity
of the remarkable substance for
shipment to New Jersey. They have
already q contract with a manu-
featuring firm in that state to buy
the product Of their mine at the
price Of S275 o ton +. o.. b. Globe.
Specimens Of the asbestos given
to friends here recently by the
Vests created n great deal of cx-
element throughout the city,
particularly in view Of the state
mcnt OF tho men that they have
located a mountain of the sub
stance, giving them a practically
limitless supply. The asbestos runs
from 2 to 6 inches in length and
is very easily mined.
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SHEEP QUARANTINE

W. H. Bell and D. d. Ogilvie,
State Sheep Inspectors. were sent
to, Eureka by the Nevada Sheep
Commission TO quarantine and as
sist sheep mcu in this section in
eradicating a disease among sheep
known as necrobacillOsis, an ulcer
alton OF the lips and legs and gen.
orally considered to be an infect.
ious disease. 1t is also called the
mouth and foot disease. The in.
spectOrs arrived here on February
IL and since have been giving this
matter their whole attention. The
disease first mad its appearance in
this section about a year ago, wher
few cases were noticed. The in,
fected hands will be kept under
quarantine until May when they
will be Inspected by inspectors OF
the Nevada Sheep Commission
Any Of the animals found diseased
at that time will be killed. Mr..
Bell estimates there are now be.
tween 100000 and 5000 O heat
Of sheep within the infected dis
trict.-SentIncl.
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tions of this idea. In the minds Of
physicians and nurses who see
every day the administration OF
anesthetics, such stories only excite
miIth. Any one who knows the
difficulty and labor of securing
unconsriousness through the use OF
anesthetics. even under the most
favorable conditions and with every
possible means of restraining and
controlling the patient. knows how
absurd sucn stories are.
4 latter day variation of these
popula- beliefs. says tie Journal of
the American Medical Association,
may be found IN the poisoned
neeole" stories which have been
going the rounds of the press re-
Gently. a woman gpes to a moving
picture theatre, enters a crowded
elevator, a street car or is caught
in the press of a crowd. Suddenly
she sees, close beside her, our old
friend the mysterious stranger"
With the piercing black eyes and
the compelling manner. At the
same time. she feels a sting and
knows she has been stabbed with a
poisoned needle. She Immediately
becomes unconscious, dazed or
irresponsible for a greater or less
period of time, during which she
experiences a number of marvellous
adventures or hair-breadth escape.
II is not possible to say that no
mi was ever without her know
ledge given n drug hypodermically
which produced Inconsistencies.
1t can, however, be said very posi-
lively that there is no drug known
scientific men which could be
administered in the manner or
which would produce the effect de-
srribed in recent newspaper re-
ports.
One of the laws of hystcria is
that when any peculiar phenomenon
is reported, similar instances i'm
mediately appear throughout the
country. We may now expect a
spring crop Of magazine stories
and popular novels based on the
poisoned needle as a motive. Scien-
tificallv, the thing is as ridiculous
and impossible as hypnotism of an
unwilling subject or instantaneous
anesthesia. Popular beliefs travel
in ave and h~ysteric and cxcl'ed
imaginations help them along. The
history Of popular delusiUns, from
Salem wltchcraft to present day
sagaries is fall Of such instances.
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same line of work. During thi:
time he has killed tens Of thousands
of natives, who succeeded, before
they turned up their toes. in kill
ing a good many of the American
soldiery. He has spent a good
many hundred of millions of money
and is still a.. It. He has on his
hands as a result of the mercensry
visit of the first American military
expedition to the Orient, an archi-
pelago uf a thousand islands. in
hsbited by nearly as many mon
grel breeds CT humanity, whose
antics will cause him ceaseiess
worry so long as he attempts su-
peryision oyet their affairs. In
short Uncle Sam has had abundant
reason since Dewey's fasco in Ma
Mia bay on May LIST, 1898, which
is recorded in American history as
a battle of nsvies, but which in
reality, was nothing but q perfume
tory act on the part Of the Amrri-
can ships, which sunk a fleet Of
obsolete and r~nsea~orthy tubs. to
regret his sally into the far east.
II has been shown thar there
was no good reason for the dis
patch Of expedition after expedi-
tio.I of the American military to
the Philippines. There was no
deep principle underlying the
policy; American honor not i%nvolv-
ed. Most people will be pardoned
for their suspicious that the game
was one purely Of capitalistic ag-
grandizement. The same forces
are at work for Mexican intrrven-
ton. Billy Hearst. the biggest
lingo Of them all, has land hold
which would be multiplied ia
value many times by the interyen-
inn of Uncle Sam in the affairs Of
Mexico but aside from this there
S no cause at present to warrant
he loss of American lives south Of
ne Rim GraEde.
The Democratic policy of waiting
or the outtone Of the internal
Mexican troubles, before proceed
ng with 4 definitely defined policy
meat with the approval Of
lair people. Plainly. the Mexican
is not a menace to this Gun
No causes for war lie deep in
national or racial competition.
There is nothing between the two
countries that is not recGnciliable.
We trust that, being forced into
Mexican war, Uncle Sam will
head his armies with the blood
thirsty newspaper writers of the
Standard.
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An UNJUST CHARGE

The Wells Herald charges sever.
al times in the course of an article
on the temporary defeat of the sale
Of the Wells High school bond!
that those who oppose the sale OF
those bonds are opposed to the edn.
cation Of the children Of Wells and
vicinity. In making that charge
the Herald knows that no one IA
miliar with the rethods pursued
in fastening those bonds upon the
county will believe that the opposi-
ton to them is based upon any such
ground.
The writer was not in tie state
when the act bonding the county
without a vote of the people was
passed by the legislature and is not
as familiar with the method
employed to obtain the sanction of
the legislature on the scheme as he
otherwise would be. But from what
appeared in the papers at the time
and from what Assemblymen Fer
nald, Russell and Mcbride have told
him, he has no hesitation in say ing
that the legislature was not cor
rectly informed as to the sentiment
Of the people of this county toward
the PROMISED high school. They
were led to believe that the senti-
ment was almost if not unanimous
in favor of the school.
Further we are told by the as
semblymen named that neither one
Of them was on the floor of the as
sembly when the bill bonding the
county for the Wells high school
was passed, yet all of them, and in
fact the entire membership of the
assembly, are recorded as voting
for the bill. This alone raises the
suspicion that crooked work was
done by someone in the passage of
that bill. But be that as it NAV
there is a stronger ground for the
opposition to these bonds and that
is the right Of the legislature tc
saddle bonds upon a county
without a vote of the people who
must pay them. If the people in
terestsd in this school had submit
ted the question of the bonds to
the voters, it might have received
a majority # the votes cast, but
they preferred a different course
and now should not complain il
their scheme is defeated in the
courts. There is nothing gained
by disappearing those who are
honest and sincere in their opposi-
tion to the right Of d legislature to
fasten bonds upon a county without
the consent Of those who must pay
them.