Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-10-31
FROM MONDAYS DAILY
SALNlAGUEDl.
Grant is improving.

Mrs. Herman Sadler is expected
from San Francisco tonight.
Governor Sadler Came in from his
ranch yesterday and remained III
town today. lie reports his nephcw's
condition about the same.
There WAS considerable excitement
i'll Lovclock Saturday over the at
tempted outrage of little girl by
Marion Howell. Howell was mr.
rested.
W. u. Anderson, Jr. got i'll from
Gold Creek last night and left on
No. for New York, in response to Il
telegram from his father stating that
his sistc: was very low with typhoid
fever.
Coyotes are becoming quite
troublesome around the County hos
pital aud Mr.. WOmack is killing
them with poison. lie has poisoned
meat scattered around the premises
and warns everybody having valuable
dogs to keep them away from the
hospital grounds.
Ii is Il pretty well known fact that
most Of the deaths that occur on the
field OF battle result from bleeding
to death before surgical aid arrives.
The French Government has under
consideration "a scheme for tattooing
the soldiers OF tho French army with
Il certain mark over each artery. so
that n wounded man would be able
to stanch the flow OF blood himself
and thus increase his chances for
living.
The United States gold dollar con-
talns 2j.S troy grains. 4 troy pound
contains 800 troy grains. but the or
binary pound Of currency. avoirdu-
pois, weighs 1000 troy grains. There
fore 81 100000 in United States gold
coin weighs 3,GS5.7 pounds OF avoir-
dupuls. \ United States silver dol
lar weighs iI25 troy grains. and ST.
100000 i'll United States silver
coin Of the present standard weighs
G.93l pounds ~avoirdupois, or nearly
2SLf tons.
The News Miner tells Of "A tramp
who struck HALEY last week and OBJ
! tanned ten or II dozen square meals in
one day at a restaurant kept by n
Chinaman. The proprietor Of the
restaurant III speaking of the circum-
stances, said: -iiim come eat; some
other Mclean man he pay; all light;
plitty Don Inc come eat; same mother
Mclean man he pay; he come eat
lots time; some other Mclean mar
he pay each time. lie cat alice tim =
Heap good for lestnuIant; hell on
Mclean men,"
Articles of Incorporation of tho
Rcirhnrt company have been filed
The capital stock 81 the corporation
Is placed at $4,000. The object al
the company is to carry on general
merchandise and cattle business
Elko il named rs the principal place
~ business. Tho first officers uf the
corporrtipn nrc B. Rcinhart. Prcsi,
dent: NJ. Rrinhart. Vicc-Prt Gidcut
Il. Rcinhart. Secretary and Manager
The Nevada Bnnk OF San Francisco
Treasurer.
Saturday = Gazette has the follow
ing: Tho remains 81 iInllic BigclDw
passed through Reno on Yesterday
delayed train, mud viii he crcmatcd
next Tuesday in San Francisco
Particulars OF hor death have bccl
received in Reno and are M follows
She took a bath at night mud rctircG
with the window opon and when RhC
got up in the morning was a little
hnnrsc. Inter III the day congestion
Of the lungs sot in and physician:
were sent for. but in less than three
hOurs she was dead.
Sill G Staic..=I1e Virginia Re
rort is run by printers. Tho Elkt
Argonnut in evidently III by II Chin
unap. from tho tenor OF some OF TIN
silly telephone" illusions that hav
lntcly appeared in the paper. Undo
the circumstances we wonder II tn,
} Report will continue prnising tn
Argonaut. Anyone has II pcrfcc
, right TO start Il newspaper anywhere
but when "scab- tactics are ~rosortc,
to for tho purpose OF injuring con
tcmporarics, il has no right to OK
, pcct recognition except from those o
ita uwn ilk.