Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-08-18
IRON SATURDAYS DAILY.I
SALNIAGUNDI

babe Mayer returned from Gol.
conda last night.
John Mexico has accepted the DO.
sition OF night clerk and bartender at
the Depot Hotel.
DIR. w. ii. Hood was up from Bat
tie Mountain this morning and re-
turned on No. l..
Assessor Esgers returned from a
trip through the northern part OF the
caunty last evening.
Ed kavanaugh, who for the lust Is
years has been foreman for the Rus.
sell Cattle Co, has resigned his po-
sition.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Carroll, Miss
Myrtle Ouderkirk and Frank Robin
son left for North Fork this morning
on Il camping trip.
Mrs. Tay lor Allen and daughter.
Miss Alice Lowe. returned from San
Francisco last night and will remain
in Elko Il short time.
Tho electric light plant at Tallac,
Lake Tahoe was totally destroyed by
fire Thursday; loss $1,000. 1t was
with difficulty TINT tho large hotel
was saved.
The suit OF washburn Moen e Co.
vs.. w. L. Smith and the Elko-Tusca-
rora Mercantile company is still &C.
cupying In attention OF Judge Tai
bot i'll tho district court.
The White Pine News says that
during the haIlstorm la5t Saturday.
hailstones fell Mt Senator Comln's
ranch that measured one. and one.
sixteenth inches in diameter.
The baseball gIme between the
EIko and Tuscarora mines will be
played here On the 9th. Tho boys
iinrc succeeded in collecting S!S 10
defray tile expenses Of the game.
The Reno Wheelmen have issued
1900 shares Of stock, at d par value OF
$40, to build d club house and bi-
cycle track. Tho stock ls being sub
scribcd for at 81 per share.
Lieutenant English closed the re-
cruiting Office here today and left for
Mnrysrille. He recruited but three
men from Nevada and but one OF
them claimed to be- "a native OF Ne
vada.-GaZettc.
The Reno Gazette says it is rumor.
ed that DIR. j. T.. Stubbs has been
unanimously elected Chancellor of
the Nebraska University. The Ga.
zcttc i%uclincs to the belief that the
rumor Is correct.
Copper Canyon IL producing S,mc
very line copper orc and Mr.. Bios
SONS teams are said to be busy hnul-
ing the ore to tho depot at Brittle
Mountain for shipment to Golconda
About thirty men are employed on
the wOrks.-Golconda News.
Three officers OF tho U. S. army
were in Battle Mountain today pur-
chasing horses for the cavalry. The
horses were subjected to rigid eI-
animation. Out OF a band Of -, ten
were accepted. The hoises were
purchased from Henry Whitc.-Cen-
trail Nevadan.
Tho sessions Of the United Stntes
Senate were held with closed doors
,,,N,l llA.. ,.. II IL
Congress, representatives OF tho peo-
pie at that time not having got rid OF
the idea that their constituents Ind
no right TO know what their servants
were dong.
\ San Francisco young man has
been arrested ON the charge OF msan-
ity, because he Rugged md kissed
two young ONE on Suffer street.
IL every man guilty Of a similar OF.
Tense were Ia be sen to n lunatic asy-
Tin, there wouldn't be enough men
left at liberty to run ranches and con.
duct the Govornment.-Bee.
Mr.. and MR. I}onher went out to
South Fork this morning on u fishing
trip. Before starting the editor took
g. from the safc, saying that il he re-.
turned with that much il would bc
proof That lIc hadn't bought any tlsh
from Indians. But then, ~you can't
always sometimes tell"-he might
have had n couple Of dollars in his
pocket beforehand.
Zinc, locally known NJ "jack," Inns
dono wonders Tor tho Kansas. Mis-.
souri, mining country. Bctwocn
Springfield, Mo-, and Empire, Kan,
cities and towns lRyo sprung up rap.
idly, steam and electric railways TO
connect them hnvo been built; hun.
drcds OF poor farmers have suddenly
been raised to- allucnce; industries
allied to mining arc everywhere
nourisliing and this summer mt lcnst
100000 persons have Hooked into tho
district.
Mr.. j. H. Spur, representative in
the field OF tho United Statcs Goo
logical survey, stopped hero yester-
day with his wife and party Of assist.
nnta mud cannp1 nypr NIGHT. Mr..