Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-06-30
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
SALAIAGUNDI

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he says everything is lovely up that
way.
Benjamin Lang, a Bostonian "a
years OF age, killed his wife with m
axe yesterday.
A train load OF cavalry passed
through this morning enroute to the
Philippines.
MB. j. W. Thompson and family
will move TO their ranch i'll Pleasant
Valley tomorrow.
Dan Stocker, Sheriff OF Alpine
county, Gala, vas found dead in his
bed Sunday morning.
McCune will be the name of the
station on the Utah Pacific railroad
at the Nevada boundary.
The New TofN Journal makes tile
total capitalization Of all the trusts i'll
the country, May 81, s7,416,935, 100.
Tho Kentucky Democrats are hav-
ing a monkey and u parrot time Mt
their State convention.
California is in great need OF men
and it is estimated that 5000 could
find mployment during the harvest
easo
y four-mOnths-old lamb tipping the
scales at % pounds is the latest
achievement OF Il Douglas county
sheep raiser.
The schoo! census for Reno dis
trict shows 1000 children who claim
school money, which is an increase OF
lSS 4 last year.
Emmit Boyle, who recently gradu.
ated from the State University, has
secured n lucrative position Mt Ross
land, Il, C., and left for that place last
Saturday.
Frank lIetrick, who has held the
position OF Assistant Melter and Re-
finer at the Carson Mint, has been
transferred to New Orleans, where he
will hold a similar position.
Colonel Sutherland is quoted as
saying that 400 men will be working
in Belleville and Candelaria next
month i'll handling ore tailings with
the cyanide process and in the extrac.
ton OF ore.
Tho railroad company has gathered
up the coal and cinders and hauled
them out OF town. The INDEPENDENT
hopes no more will be dumped in the
streets.
Galileo's manuscript OF the treatise
on "Ihu ebb md flow OF tho sea-"
written in 1916, has been discovered
in the Vatican library by Father
Luzi. the sub-librarian.
Chicago'H population, according to
Chief OF Police Ripley, has finally
passed the two million mark and is
now ., 0SS,043. The figures are the
result OF Il census taken by tho police
force.
The Colossus copper development
company OF Chicago is negotiating
with the Southern Pacific company
for land for "A TOWNSHIP at Iron Point
on the line Of the Central Patio rail-
road rs a shipping point for ore from
Iyrn,tla ,lteIr,,N ITn..Inllt ......
a little girl lately wrote to her
friend, Yesterday n little baby sister
arrived, and pm was on Il journey. 1t
was just n piece OF luck that mamma
was home to take rare OF it,"
~Be God jack, an insane man, cs-
capped from the Asylum last Sunday.
He lahors under the hallucinatIon
that no has worked twenty years for
the Asylum authorities and claims
that they owe him $4,000. He Says
he will work no more until no gets
the amount due hun.
Horses are reported to be dying on
the northern Arizona ranges for the
want OF water. WATER ia selling in
Williams for 75c a barrel, Tho Sag.
NAV Lumber company is working
only one shift and hauls it's water
eve miles on its own railroad.
Tho INDEPENDENT ia informed that
n certain party in town is permitted
to do business without Il license OIL
tho ground that no is too poor TO pay
This is all right from q charitabl,
standpoint, but it 10 hardly fair I,
those who pay their licenses. Thu
officers should have no iavorites il
enforcing the law.
In the Govornorslip contest yes
ter lay the ballots Of Churchill ant
Ormsby counties wcro counted. III,
court adjourned until July 9th, whor
White Pine county will DO counted
Tho Gazette says that Mcmillan
gained four net yesterday, maxim,
his not gain so far from five to ton Il
tho State.