Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-07-14
lFRoM MONDAYS DAILY
SALMASUEDl,

WI. weston team look q lively
spin around town this morning. No
serious damage was done.
y train load OF Uncle Sans engi.
neers passed through today, bound
for the Philippines.
People cannot be too careful about
fire these days. A blaze once started
might sweep the town.
Subscribers who do not receive
their papers regularly, by carrier or
mail, are requested to notify this Of
flee.
Joe Lang says he will have his
coal mine in full blast before snow
fiies. Joe is Il persistent fellow and
deserves SUCCESS.
A. NJ. McAfee got in from North
Fork yesterday. tie is OH his way to
Redding, California, to take the posi-.
ton OF assayer in u mine.
james Holland is in town today,
lie sayr there will be a splendid hay
crop on North Fork this season. but
that it will be rather late.
This years production OF beet eug.
ar III the United States is esti mated
at $4,000 tons from l44,l0O acres, a
fourfold increase in one year.
Mr.. Harbin's coal bin caught fire
ut noon from the sparks OF a passing
engine. a few buckets Of water put
it out before mnch damage was done.
The imperialist press of this coun-
try goes off every other day in a
spasm nbout the death or silver"
which, according to these papers oc-
ours nine times each week.
Major Stephen w. Groesbeck,
Judge Advocate OF the United States
Army, has completed his inquiry in
to the ontragcs by the colored troops
at Winncmucca and returned To San
Francisco.
The Government is going to try
the experiment OF owning and operat-
ing its W telegraph line ia Porto
Rico. 1t fell heir tn the line from
Spain and Is going Ia try SPANS way
OF operating it.
According to a prominent annual
cyclopendia the amount OF gifts for
charitable purposes in the United
States during the past six years was
1903 100000, an average OF nearly
S3I 100000 a year.
4 good deal Of building is going on
in ElkO. Beside those heretofore
mentioned Frank Sharp is building n
new house just west OF the high
school building and Mrs. Henley is
putting another story on her dwell
ing house.
That a great many people enjoy
rending what the newspapers have to
say about them il demonstrated by
the fact that today 10000 prsons and
$4,000. 900 are employed in the bust.
ness OF making and distributing
newspaper clippings among those
whom they
Comfy Superintendent Wilson has
the following applicants for teachers
certificates on the grill at the high
school building: Grammar grade
Miss Pearl Lindsay, Miss Rosie d.
McMullen and Claude Sohoer. Pri-
mary grade Miss Rosie McMullen,
Miss Katie Murphy and j. S. Moore. |
DIR. j.. r.. Stubs, president OF the
Nevada University. was elected pres
ident Of the Associated Agricultural
Colleges and Experiment Stations in
San Francisco Friday. DIR. Stubbs
has been a prominent worker in the
Association for years and his election
ms president was a nIeritod honor.
School ma'ams galore arc passing
through town these days. They are
rather Il homely lot compared with
their sisters OF Nevada. One OF our
prominent citizens who has kept tab
on the aggregation OF wisdom Bays
the farther cast they como the home.
lier they are. He will probably re.
pent when his wife returns from her
far Eastern trip.
Out OF the regiment which left
Sioux Falls. South Dakota. in May.
1893, 1000 strong, the lntest report
gives the fighting strength M only
300. And this terrible sacrifice il
duplicated in other States, and all to
s%ubjugate a people who are contend.
ing desperately for political liberty,
even ns our foreiathers fought Great
Driiain's sovereignty IN "ye olden
time"
a mnu living i'm Sanford, Me-, has
this statement sewn to his under
shirt, "Niy appendix has been cut
out" and no explains his a s in this
way: You sec, these arc tho pnlmy
knitting days oi the surgeon. IL
man falls in II TT, iainls or happens
TO lose consciousness for any reason,
they cart him of to The hospital and
operate for appendicitis without
waiting ior him 10 come to md suy
what ails him. I've been sliced open
once, and | don't banker after On.
cores
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