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and, being so, it's clues of definite organiza-
ton and responsible leadership are corre-
spondingly difficult to disentangle. They
do exist, however, and wherever | found
them they were Chinese influences
through and through. Thus little or
ganization in Picking with the startling
title of the "Chinese Suffragette Society"
owes nothing more than its name to origins
of the women's movement outside of
China. None of it's members were Chris
tians, only one could speak English, and
it's foremost leaders We're middle-class
women out of the very womb of Chinese
middle-class society in interior provinces.
The president, Miss Tang Chiin-ying,
was remarkable woman. She had been
educated in Japan, and as writer and
speaker of great magnetism had attracted
to her cause young girls from almost every
province in China. She edited two jour
nails one written in the language of the
people, and the other in the literary
tongue, both of which had wide circu-
lation, though they were never profitable
commercially.
THE constitution of the Chinese Suffra-
gette Society was a most fascinating
document. Its members were pledged to
work for the equality of women, monog-
amy, free feet, the love marriage, women's
education, propriety in dress and CONVEX
sation, reform among victims of the social
evil, and social reform among the poor.
This broad program, it will be noticed,
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The time was full of excuses; but
nothing shows more clearly than these
very excuses that a new social order was
being born among Chinese women. A
spirit descended on schoolgirls and mar
ried women, on foreign educated students
and women who had never before been
out of their native city, such as has never
been seen in any Eastern country. The
"dare to die" girls, the kuo Ming Tang
spies, and the "suffragette society speak
ers all focused into activity for the first
time genuine awakening of patriotic en-
thusiasm and social consciousness among
hundreds and thousands of Chinese wo-
men who had never dreamed of these
things before.
This is the atmosphere that has seen in
China the birth of the most interesting
women's movement in the world. Atmos-
phere is the word that best fits the undis-
ciplined enthusiasm of the Chinese Revo-
luton.
There was something in the air by
which the Reputation of age-long social
customs, particularly in relation to wo-
men, became an everyday occurrence.
The results of years of slow and unseen
development We're precipitated in that
bold air into fresh and tangible change.
1t seemed as if perfect torrent of women
poured into the nations life, resolutely
and imperturbably setting aside usages as
ancient as their civilization. These wo-
men We're the agents of revolution rather
than it's creators. They saw the thing to
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it is as imperative demand as it is today
in your country"
Societies similar to the Chinese Suffra-
gette Society exist under various names
in Tlentsin, Hankow, and Nankin. AL
most all their leaders profess themselves
strongly favorable to Shou Hwei Tang, or
the so-called constructive socialism of DR..
Sun Vat Sen. by which Young China
hopes to disarm the menace of modern
industry by the ancient communism of
the Chinese state. The Chinese Women's
Cooperative Association of Shanghai is
however the most political and influential
of all the women's movements in the large
cities.
Under Miss Sophia Chang, like Tang
Chin-ying typical mddle-class Chinese
woman from Honan, this energetic or
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"HE Chinese Revolution struck
two chords in the American heart
of generous and romantic SYM


Il pathy. 1t stirred us on the one
hand to see the oldest nation in the world
rising to the struggle that is ever young
for popular liberty and social self-relance.
But it stirred in us a more intimate SYM
pathy still to see in China the first great
movement among the peoples of the East
to strive to do justice to women according
to modern standards. This more than
any other factor threw over the cause of
Young China the spell of great spiritual
change in the heart of a people. 1t was
not merely a revolution, but renaissance.
The cause of justice for Chinese women
was not merely movement on behalf of
women: it was living and spontaneous
women's movement. initiated by women,
and understood and fought for by women.
1t came with the turbulence, even the ex-
cesses, of a truly spontaneous movement.
As part and parcel of the revolutionary
cause it was too unprecedented in tradl-
ton and too vague in its particular OBJ
jective for anything like solid and in
telligent direction of its own. But its
amazing vitality is at once its fascination
and it's promise.
With the great wave of patriotic en-
thusasm that came to China in the
Revolution of 1911 small army of women
appeared, many of them hardly more than
girls in age and philosophic balance, but
devoted to passionate spirit of national
ism which China had never before seen as
"A collective impulse in women. Some of
them were even measured for uniforms and
went to the front to fight with the men.
Thousands of them packed revolutionary
meetings in the southern cities, and show
cred their trinkets and jewelry to many
their entire savings, on the Republican
cause. Green young girls volunteered as
Red Cross nurses, and a never-to-be-for-
gotten band of them served with the
southern troops through the sanguinary
battles round Hankow while the foreign
accredited Red Cross was still unraveling
red tape. When Yiian Sh-kai appeared as
the obstinate factor it was band of women
who proposed to 60 unaded to Picking
and bomb him off the face of the earth.
To the horror of the cooler-headed patriots
they actually started, and were brought
back only by some peremptory diplo-
matte notes from WI Ting Fang himself.
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does not include votes for
women. Outside of the
agitation in Canton. where
four women were elected
to the provincial Parlia-
ment, political rights were
never considered for wo-
men during the Chinese
Revolution, and except
where a band of Amazons
marched into the provi-
sional Parliament at Nam
kin one spring morning in
1912 were never seriously
asked for. Marriage re-
form and education are
elemental demands: they
aim to rectify real condi-
tons on which political
inequality merely depends.
Nevertheless" said Miss
Tang, political equality
is just, and we shall claim
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The New Women
of Old China
By C.. L: HARDING

VWE want to choose our own husbands, we're
going to unbind feet, and want one
husband apiece !" That's the kind of talk with
which the women are stirring up Old China.
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ganization maintains school, news
paper, cooperative store, and a lively
propaganda of meetings and political in
fuence." The latter they use to try and
modify in as many specific cases as come
to their notice the still cruel laws of the
Treaty Ports in relation to women.
THE English assessors, or co-magistrates,
agree with them in theory, but in prac-
tice have lent their authority to perpetua-
tingevery evil of the old Chinese code until
native revolutionary sentiment has forced
them to observe new ways. A typical
case happened in Shanghai last year,
when wretched little slave, who es-
capped from her master after having been
cruelty beaten and i'll used, was actually
handed back to him by the Mixed Court,
which ruled that concubinage was still
binding status and claimed that it was
especially merciful in not condemning the
unhappy victim to the whipping pre-
scribed for her by the savage Chinese
usage of old. Five years ago that sem
tence would have passed unnoticed; but
in 1918 there was not a Chinese paper in
Shanghai but backed the women up in
their energetic campaign of protest,-a
campaign that, though unsuccessful,
brought home to thousands of women in
that city deep-lying social injustice to
their sex which they had never faced as a
public fact before.
1t is amazing, l might say in passing,
how little foreign sympathy Chinese wo-
men like the leaders of such movements
as | have mentioned received or even ex-
pected. As matter of fact, of the ten or
dozen really capable and influential
Chinese women leaders | remember meet
ing in China, not single one was on terms
of intimacy with a foreign woman, not
even with a missionary Without excep-
ton these women were sympathetic to
Christianity, and were keenly interested
in the social customs and progress of wo-
men all over the world. They read and
translated for their papers with the ut
most avidity all the scraps Of articles and
literature on women in other lands that
came their way. Yet among the repre-
sentatves of those Christian lands in their
own country there was literally no one
to give them sympathetic enlightenment.
THRUST back on the resources of their
own race. the classes of Chinese women
most directly affected by the Revolution
reacted to the ardor of the time as Chinese
have reacted. Especially they resorted to
militancy. Foreigners read with amaze
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BIDS FOR DOING OF ROAD WORK
AND ROCK WORK ON NEW
SECRET PASS ROAD

Sealed proposals endorsed "Propos.
ais for Road Work and Rock Work
on the New Secret Pass Road" will be
received by the Clerk Of the Board
of Highway Commissioners, or any
member Of said Board, up to the
hour OF 10 A. M. of the 9th day of
July, A. D., 1915, at which time said
bids will be opened and read publicly.
Said bids shall be given for the road
work and rock work to be done on
the new Secret Pass road from the
Forest Reserve line in n westerly di.
'rection to connect with the road now
In the course Of construction.
Said work shall consist OF and bids
will be based upon work to remove
rock and dirt and make a nll in the
manner following, to-wit:
One bid shall be under the follow.
ing specifications:
A solid road bed twelve feet in
width, strictly confronting with the
present survey as laid out upon the
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BATTLE MOUNTAIN GAMBLER
JAILED FOR MAKING GUN PLa

Marion Sanders. a gambler of Bat.
lie Mountain, is In Jail at that place
or making a gun play. The Battle
Mountain Scout says that the other
afternoon he appeared on the street
n a drunken state and lourishing a
evolver, talking in profane language
about a man with whom he had some
rouble about ten days ago. His
riends tried to get the gun away from
lim Tut he would not give it up. La
.er he appeared at the home of L..
Andrus and with the gun in his hand
threatened to kill Mrs. Andrus.
Deputy Sheriff Hash was in the
rouse at the time, and Sanders also
pointed the gun at him and using vile
anguage he threatened to kill Hash.
While he was talking to Hash. Mrs.
Nndrus raj into the kitchen, where
ianders followed her. Hash was able
o take the gun from him and when
lie resisted Hash struck him on the
read with the gun. The deputy sher-
II ,hen took him to jail.
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TAO YEARS SINCE
BUNKER HILL

BOSTON. Mass. June 17.-Bunke,
Hill day was celebrated today with /
program that opened with salute.
fired by the warships at the Charles
town navy yeard and from the bate,
les of Fort Warren. The festivitie
conferred, as usual, in C~harlestown
The big feature of the day was ;
naval, military and civic parade.
Bunker Hill day is the Massachu
sets Fourth of July. 1t is observe,
nowhere else. but here it is celebrated
with n vengeance. AT midnight the
church bells chimed, the whistles
blew, the giant crackers exploded
huge bonhres were lighted, and thu
panttenlonium of noises made in tn,
Challestown district might have beell
heard around the world. This morn
Ing tbs sun rose on a city smotherec
In hunting. The patriotic colors
abonnded everywhere. All business
was suspended for the day, and every
many, woman and child In Charles
town wore badges, carried flags or IL
some manner aided in the enthusi
astic manifestations.
h battle Of Bunker Hill, the mem
DRY OF which is kept fresh in the pub
lie mind after lao years, was remark
able tor many reasons. 1t was the
first important engagement of the
Revolution, and demonstrated q resist.
ance made by the militia against the
veteran troops that was astonishing
About 5000 Americans engaged 4,OO9
Britieh and the fight was fierce for
an hour and a half. The Americans
were driven from their position with
a loss of $50. The British lost 1.O54
OF the American leaders. Gen. War.
rem and Col. Prescott were killed In
the battle, and a monument to tho
former and a bronze statue to the lat.
Ter, erected where they fell, help to
commemorate the event.. Towering
high above all the buildings of Char.
iestown stands the great Bunker Hill
monument to mark the battle-ground
where the officers of the American
army Issued the orders: RESERVE
your fire; wait until you see the
whites of their eyes" The monument
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Read the Daily Independent.
PROTECTION OF GAME AND
ENFORCEMENT OF GAME LAWS

Arrangements have just been com
)leted whereby agreement is made
'etween the game departmnts of Utah
IDAHO and Wyoming, and the district
orester of District 4, for co-opera.
ion between the state and govern.
nent officials in the protection OF
game and the enforcement of the
game laws. The national forests arc
he natural habitats of big game ami.
ials and it is there that protection is
specially desirable and essential.
The agreements set forth hat all
crest officers on the national forests
d District 4 who can be of assist
tnce In enforcing the game laws will
je appointed deputy state game war
lens to aid, as far as is consistent
nth their regular duties, in ENFORCING
he game laws. Forest officers will
llso make an effort to ascertain the
lumber of big game animals killed
Zach season and to obtain a census OF
The number of deer, elk, moose, noun.
tain sheep and antelope within their
respective districts. They will re,
port the condition Of the big game
and make all suggestions possible fol
its pcrpetuation.
In turn the state game warden will
assist the forest service in discover
ing, reporting and extinguishing for.
est fires. Therefore. 1t Is evident that
much mutual good should result
through the cooperation of state and
government officials.
The wild game is a very material
asset of the states, supplying as 1t
1oes not only a considerable amount
OF food of great intrinsic value, but
also furnishing sport and recreation
to thousands. 1t is therefore econ.
omically important that 1t be con.
served. The forest service is inter.
ested In the conservation of all the
natural resources OF the areas over
which they have Jurisdiction, timber.
water and forage and in addition
game animals.
In carrying out his agreement with
the states, the district forester has
already recommended for appointment
as deputy state game wardens 179 for.
est officers in District 4, Of which 60
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ground by Government Engineer Mr..
Brown. At Dorsey Creek a I'LL is to
be made not less than twenty feet in
width across the top. On each side
OF said MI steel ratings are to be set
In n foot In from the outer edge of
the I'LL. said ratings to consist of
three-inch wrought-iron pipes, connec
ted by T"S every ten feet to posts
four feet high and extening FIVE feet
into the all, said posts to be bound to-
gether two feet under the surface of
the road bed OF the I'LL with half-inch
square steel rods, adjustable by turn
buckles. Said steel ratings shall have
a additional pipe two feet from the
grouhd all connected up and securely
screwed together and said rails to
have one coat Of black paint in the
fill after erection. Road to be smooth
ened up and not to contain rocks or
other obstacles in size to exceed two
inches on any one edge.
Four culverts are TO be put In rlace,
which, together with all wrought iron
pipes, rails and steel braces shall be
furnished by the County and laid down
upon the work.
A second bid shall be received con-
forming with the above specifications,
with the exception that a deviation
from the above mentioned survey may
be made at Dorsey Creek provided the
new grade as thus established shall
not exceed ten per cent, and provided
further that the length Of the new
survey shall not exceed one thousand
feet from the point of departure from
the old survey to the point of regain
ing the same; said one thousand feet
may be taken on either or both sides
of Dorsey Creek in any proportion
deemed necessary by the contractor.
Each bid shall be accompanied by a
certificate check of ten per lent of
the amount bid, to be held by the
board for the satisfactory perform
ance of the bid.
The successful bidder will be re-
CURED to furnish a good and sufficient
bond in the amount of half the amount
bid FOR the faithful performance of
said work, which bid shall be approx
ed by the Board before any work is
done after the awarding of said con-
tract, providing that on the giving of
this bond the certified check OF the
successful bidder shall be returned to
him.
Said Board hereby reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
BY order of the Board of Highway
Commissioners. this 9th day of June,
A. D. 1915.
H. j. JONES,
Clerk of said Board.
First publication June 10, 1915. -. . .
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are for Utah 90 for Idaho and "A for
Wyoming. These accessions will con-
stitute a very big addition to the num-
Der Of men OF the game department
in the employ Of the states.
There is a very healthy sentiment
among the people in favor OF a strict
enforcement Of the game laws. The
public generally appreciates that only
through good game laws and their
strict and impartial enforcement can
the early extinction of the big game
animals be avoided, and in view OF its
great economic Importance to the
states they realize that the disappear.
ance OF the big game would be a ca.
lamity to the west, robbing it of one
of its interesting, valuable and distinc-
tive features.
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At the Commercial

William Despres; F. NJ. Donnelly,
Western Pacific; Roy L. Primeaux,
Fuscarora; Mrs. T. G. Hetherlin, Lou
isiana, Mo-; F. Leppert; j. ]. Burns
John Grieser and wife, Reno; B. An,
1erson; A. S. Evans, North Fork;
Miss Leah Fletcher; w. j. Patton
P. A. Bliss. Ogden, Utah; John Cohn
md wife, Carlin; E. H. Majors, Elko;
Clyde Walker, Erie, Pa; John Nc.
Crimmons, Tuscarora; E. H. Cowling,
Elko: r. w. Sterling, Salt Lake; Mrs.
r. d. Render, Lagrange, Ca; Mrs.
Albert Dunson, LeGrange, Ca; ]. w,
Allen, LAGRANGE, Ca; w. S. Spiney,
LAGRANGE, Ca; Chas. T~rescartes, La.
noble; G. w. Skene, San Francisco;
H. H. Wells, San Francisco: jeff May.
hew, Sixteen Mile; AL Thatcher, Pail.
sade; E. Armstrong, Ogden.
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49,
Churchill. State Of Nevada. has nled In
this office his application to enter.
under the provisions of Sections 2soS
and 1907. U. s. r. 8. the following
described land. viz:
Lot One (1) OF Section A. Twp. SO
N, Range IS e, M. D. B. & NJ, con.
tanning 2o.66 acres.
ANY and all persons claiming ad-
versely the lands described. or desir.
ing to object because Of the mineral
character Of the land. or for any other
reason. to the disposal to applicant,
should file their atidayits of protest
In this office, on or before the soth
day Of June. 1915.
JOHN e. ROBBINS,
Receiver.
First publication May 20.
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MAYER AND COMMERCIAL
HOTEL ARRIVALS
At the Mayer

G. H. Asbury, Reno; w. S. Lake,
Reno; A. P. Flanagan. Reno; Mrs. l.
II. Pogue, Whiterock; Miss May Noon,
an, Nioberly. Mo-; Miss Mae Andrae,
Nioberly. Mo-; C. o. Won Waller, Reno;
Karl Smith, Reno; Mrs. H. B. Willard
Carson City; F. B. Findley, San Fran.
cisco; Mrs. NJ. G.. Hinkley, Beowawe;
G.. B. Stewart, San Francisco; G. NJ,
Brookbank. Salt Lake; Mrs. Frank
Mahoney, Deeth; j. N. Davis and wife,
Kimberly, Idaho; Mrs. D. ]. Bousfeld
NEW YORK; H. w. Beuesfield, New
York; Mrs. c. T. Cabaniss, New York
j. Hunter, Eureka; w. Handley, Eu.
reka: F. B. Smith, Lone Mountain
Jay Clemmons, Reno; A. Will, Sacra
mento; NJ. Jacobs, Salt Lake; ely &
Walker, Erie, Pa; T. P. Clarke, San
Francisco; Jas. E. Macy, Sacramento;
J. d. Reed, Chicago; 10 Nichols, San
Francisco; A. T. Heiser, Denver; G
w. Hogue, Sacramento; Mrs. Kings.
ley, Oakland; Mrs. Buckles, Silver
City, N. NJ; Mrs. McConaghy, Bull.
lion; Jno. McConaghy, Bullion; w. B.
Armstrong, Deeth; Nunica Brady. Bat.
lie Mountain; Ellen Kelley, Battle
Mountain; Elizabeth Kelly, Battle
Mountain; F. a. Roth, Battle Noun.
tain
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FLORIDA DESPERATE TO HANG

MIAMI, Fla, June 17.-John Ashley,
a desperate who for years t~errorized
4 large section Of Florida, will forfeit
his life On the gallows here tomor-
row. The murder OF a Seminole In.
dian was the crime for which he is
to pay the death penalty. Ashley's
career has been marked by a trail of
blood to the very last. Two weeks
ago. In an effort to rescue the despe.
radofrom Jail, his brother. Bob Ashley
killed two police officers and was him.
self shot to death.
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JOE TAeER, JR. OPERATED UPON

A telegram received from ]. NJ.
Taber, steward of the county hospital
received yesterday stated that his son
Joseph Taber, Jr. had been success
fully operated upon and has recovered
from the anaesthesia without i'll eff,
fects.
His many friends here will be pleas.
ed to know that he will probably be
out again in a week or ten days.
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PERSONALS.


A. 8. Evans. a prominent North
Fork rancher. was a north-bound pas
senger this morning.
Mrs. NJ. G. Hinkley of Beowawe, is
an Elko visitor.
Jay Clemens of the Union Cattle
company Of Reno arrived last night
from Deeth.
Several more auto loads OF tourists
to the exposition arrived last night
and today. All report the roads
around the north side OF the lake
from-Ogden to Elko to be in nne con.
dition.
Mrs. I. H. Pogue returned from a
trip to San Francisco this morning &C.
companied by her niece. Miss Mac
Andrae. Homer Andrae Is expected
from Whiterock this afternoon will
his auto and they will probably re
turn tomorrow.
Mrs. Joseph E. Muller of Carson
City who had been the guest of her
sister Mrs. ]. C.. Harris for q week
departed yesterday for her home &C
companied by her daughter Miss Ii
Verne.
AS e result Of an o at the
Toggery today John Cohn of Carlii
has sworn to a complaint agains
Pinkus Sax and H. Sutton charging
them with assault and battery.
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is a granite obellsk 221 feet in height.
The cornerstone vas laid by Lafayet-
te, June II, 1925, and II was dedicated
June IL, 1884, Daniel Webster deliver.
Ing the Grafton.
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FOR SALE-A fine high grade up
right Plano good as new at a bargain
II taken Address Box 422 Reno,
Nevada.
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Russ LANGUAGE spreads.

Russian ID already the dominant
tongue OF 17o.o00,000 people, and the
statisticians declare that by 1850 Il
will be spoken by no less than 500.
100000.
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v. X. McGINTY

House Cleaning and all kinds o (
job work. Carpets ana rugs cleaned
on the floor. House No. 127 Fifth St,
Phone 174. z to 8 a. m, 5 to 8 D. m.
m22 GREEN & DAVIS.
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FOR RENT-Two small houses
close to town, one Of four rooms and
n Of three Dom For further in
formation call at this Office.
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A. j. Dubois, sales agent Southern
Pacific lands, office S. P. Freight Of
nee. adv.tf
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WANTED-CIean, White Rags at
the INDEPENDENT onice. Five
Cents per pound.