Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-19
SUGGESTIONS FOR
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Reporter Visits Institution at Time
When Boys Are Caught Smok-
ing contraband of War

a representative of the Independ-
ent yesterday paid visit to the Ell
ko School of Industry.
When he arrived General Kyle, the
superintendent, had just returned from
a trip of inspection around the farm.
He carried in his hand samples of oat
stalks that when measured stood n
little over four feet high.
This is fine growth of oats. Gen
eral Kyle will cut the oats for hay
and expects to get better than two
tons to the acre. Not all of the five
and half acres has an equal stand
A part wa sirrigated a little too much
and the growth was stunted In this
there is lesson.
Then the gophers attacked the crop.
General Kyle says he must have killed
more than 500 gophers. He kept track
up to $50 and then lost count.
Then, too, the rabbits made inroads.
General Kyle said. "The rabbits have
nearly eaten us out of house and
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place is protected with wire screen
from the rabbits.
So altogether that is fine stand of
oats. but the alfalfa planted with the
oats did not do well.
All the other vegetable are doing
fairly we'll. The early potatoes were
frosted and will make half crop.
But the eight rows of the second plant.
ing are all doing fine.
There is a fine stand of rhubarb,
and the strawberry plants are strug-
CLING along but did not do very well
this first season. The carrots, onions,
lettuce, radishes and other plants in
the garden are all doing we'll
The hundred or more apple. pear,
plum and cherry trees in the orchard
are all growing nicely. And so are
the shade trees of poplars and locusts
People thought trees wouldn't grow
there but are mistaken. General Kyle
has one cherry tree three years old
transplanted from Reno that seems to
be doing all right after il was cut
back
The general is clearing the sage
brush from most of the eighty acres
and today will start in building a
stable and barn. The lumber for this
structure is now on the ground.
And Saturday the school desks ar
riveG, but the school year does not
open till September There are forty
Of the desks, that being the capacity
of the school. But it may be the
school will never have more than eight
pupils, the present number.
When the reporter arrived Mr..
Thompson, the instructor had come
up from the recreation room in the
basement on an errand He stood
talking for perhaps five minutes. Dur
ing that time something happened
When Mr.. Thompson returned to his
charges there was an unmistakable
smell of tobacco smoke. The odor
came from the lavatorics where four
of the lads had thought they would
not be detected. But the instructor
has keen scent. Tobacco Is contra.
band of war in this institution.
When the reporter and General
Kyle in their round of inspection came
upon the boys they were undergoing
punishment for their infraction of the
rules. They were made to stand for
twenty minutes on the guard line with
their faces TO the wall.
This is practically the only form of
punishment in the school. except to
lose credits and privileges for miscon-
duct. There is no strap and no dark
cell. The general says he may have
to resort to these in time but so far
has not needed them.
Two of the lads in the recreation
room were busy and contented plating
hair ropes. They had evidently tired
of playing checkers and the men lay
scattered about.
Sunday Is the time for writing let
ters and thirteen letters addressed but
open lay on the generals desk for him
to read and pass.
How did the boys get that tobacco?
And how did they get a light? They
are not supposed to have matches.
They used to stead a coal from the
Kitchen stove but this has been for.
hidden.
The boys will do most anything for
smoke. They will pound up coffee
and make 1t into cigarettes, and they
use sagebrush and tea leaves. A ci-
gar stump thrown away from pass.
ing automobile is treasure.