Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-08-18
K o THURSDAYS DAILY.
SALAIAG UNDI.

ClsSos
Admiral Dewey is recovering from
the attack OF fever.
Mrs. E ii. Mead and children lef
for Salt Lake this morning.
a heavy rain this afternoon lait
the dust and gave the hay sllovelers I
rest.
William Robeson, u fifteen ycar-olo
boy has been arrested in Reno fol
selling whiskcy to Indians.
The toll of nm ordinary ship passing
through SueZ canal averages about
Si00C. The distance is ninety-two
miles.
Mrs. Slaughter and daughter OF
Denver. who have been visiting Mrs
j. a. Mcbride, departed for their
home this morning.
November 18Th is fixed rs the date
OF the destruction OF the earth by col,
lision with the comet OF 1866 by AS.
tronomer Falb OF Vienna.
The structure built at Mecca by
the Turkish Sultan's orders for the
accommodation OF pilgrims furnishes
free lodgings and meals for 6,0OC
people.
1t Is now estimated that the loss
occasioned by the recent food in
Texas amounts to SIS ZOO, 900, one
third OF which sum represents tho
cotton destroyed.
Dick Dorsey had the chain gang at
work today cleaning rp the baseball
ground. The boys VIII have their
ground in splendid shape for the
match game with T%uscarora.
ii. S. Start, the new principal of
the high school, and his mother will
arrive in Elko tomorrow night or
Saturday. They have rented the
Craighead residence on Piety Hill.
Three hundred and forty.eight re.
cruits for the Thirty-seventh Voluu,
teer Infantry passed through this
afternoon for Manila. Two hundred
and fifty Of them were from Tennes.
see.
General MacArthur's forces had q
sharp engagement with the Filip;nos
yesterday on the outskirts OF Angeles
General OTIS telegraphs hat 200 OF
the Filipinos were @~beneyolently as-
simulated" Our loss was two killed
and twelve wounded.
Admiral Dewey's salary amounts ia
$3.50 per day, reg Irdless OF the
weather; President McKinley's is
equal to sl3l per day, cabinet officers
the Vice President and the Speaker
OF the House each get s22.22 a day
and the Chief Justice OF the Su.
preme Court $50 a day.
Illinois leads all the States in the
amount OF internal revenue paid into
the treasury of the United States.
During the fiscal year ended June 30
it contributed Si7,350.523 to Uncle
Sans exchequer, overlapping New
York 10y abOnt 100000 and Pennsyl
vania by s2l. O00, COO.
William Waldorf Astor's annua
income tax rs a British subject vii
be over 100000 and when he dies the
English "dcath duties ON his estat,
will amount 10 more than 600.
This scion of a "bustcd7 pedigree viii
find That ii costs something for {
millionaire 10 10 u Britisher.
y Washington dispatch Of the lGtl
says: Tho appalling conditions exist
ing in Porto Rice we're made full,
known to the War Department to
day by General Davis in n dispatch
which says the deaths outright in th,
island will reach 1000, while man,
are dying daily from injuries md pri
vations.
DIR. J. r. Stubbs returned thi
morning from the west. lie has u,
thought OF leaving the University 70
Nebraska or anywhere else. Ito ha
cut out important work for two years
to come, and as the Doctor las neve
sliRhtcd II task III his life, tho peopl
may rest assured that he will no
slight this onc.-Gazoitc.
a Gallntin county farmer hired
boy from the city to help him throug'
tho summer. Tho farmer told the XII
> to go ont to the barn lot md salt On
calf. Tho kid took n quart OF cal
, and industriously rubbed IL into tn
I, calfs hide. Tho colts got after tll
calf Tor tho salt and had about Ina
tho hair licked off OF tho calf befor,
lis condition was discovercd.-Mon
gomery News.
Tho Hon. Joseph ID. SayCrs, Govcl
, nor OF Texas. who was tho chief prc
| motor OF the nti.trust movement.
= said by his friends 10 bc II man OF N,
l croscoPic ]protcntious aud giganti
ability, lilo is n native OF MississipI
and first saw the light Of day at Gre
NADIA % ycars ago. Whom a boy OF /
he became Il resident ot Tcxas IN
before he was out Of his teens Inc In
u enlisted in tho Confederate arm,
i When tho wat was over aud ho IN,