Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-01-26
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q OAhAS SNft
Tom Hunter went west today.
g. G. Wallace was in town this fore.
noon
The receipts OF the State Land
Office last week were 1902 03.
Mrs. Mary Couch OF Reno has been
committed to the Insane asylum.
Bishop Whitaker, formerly OF Ne
vada, has gone TO Cuba to look out
for the Protestant Episcopal schools
in that island.
An effort is to DO made to have Il
United States Commissioner appoint
ed at Ely, White Pine county, to hear
cases Of persons charged with selling
whisky to Indians.
Prevalence Of smallpox at Ogden is
causing II boom in the vaccination de-
partment Of the physicians along the
railroad.
While practjcing on the horizontal
bar in Virginia City Friday evening,
Cecil Loughran fell, striking his neck
on the floor producing paralysis OF
the body fr, IN the neck downward.
His recovery is doubtful.
The Beers aud British have been
fighting continuously since last Fri
day. The Beers are stubbornly
contestlng Buffers advance. The
latest from the seat OF wal is that the
British are slowly crowding the Beers
back.
The printing OF the complied laws
has been completed and now there
only remains the index which will al
go be of the press in n very short
time after il is submitted to the prin
tcr.--News.
Sheriff Campbell left for Brigham
City, Utah, Saturday night to bring
Ham Blame back. lie returned last
night with his prisoner and landed
him in jail. The preliminary exam
ination on the charge at murder is
set for tomorrow at | o'clock before
Justice Morgan.
PAUL. md Ju5ti, ~lossces OF the Gig
noux ranch on the Walker River.
raised last season over 1000 tons Of
hay, 300 tons OF potatoes and 100 tons
az hurlnp l1,nu ,.nntrnRfnI iLn pnnla
to Bodic. Bridgeport and IIaw-
thorue consumers for S2S per ton lie
liyercd, and therefore will make Il
nice little cleanup Oh the crops
Lyon Co. Times.
An exchange says that owing tn
the many packages that puss through
the p~ostolice marked falsely us to the
contents, all suspected packages will
be examined tins year with Il view Of
determining the postage. In many
cases the packages are marked mo
writing and contain letters, with
photographs and articles OF mcrchan-
disc. And the government will catch
you il you don't watch out.
In the pRst % years several rewards
have been offered by Douglas county
for the arrest and conviction OF Grim
inals, but none OF them have ever
been claimed or paid. IL is probable
that the reward offered for Joe Pete
will soon DO paid, and it will he tho
first one ever paid by Douglas count!
Tho rewards offered for Pete are MS
follows: The county, $500; State, $500
Fred and VIM. Danberg, 900; and
tho citizens OF Gardneryillo and
vicinity, between 800 and $780,
Courier.
Some days ago n stranger VISITED
this town anu in "A few days made the
acquaintance Of Carson business
man. Tho stranger pulled out u
Wells, Fargo money order for $50 and
stated that the only hindrance to
cashing il WIS lack OF identity. Tho
Carson merchant obliged the stranger
by identifying him, and now tho or.
der proves to DO a forged one. Tho
busincss man il out 900 and Wells.
Fargo in OH tho trail Of the confidence
man Appeal.
a grcwsomo discovery was made
Saturday on an old abandoned road
neal North Snn Juan. John Fuller
found n heap Of human bones and
the iron work OF 81 doublo-barreled
gun That had evidently been burned
by tho forest fro which swept TINT
section Inst summer, Tho gun had
apparently been inlaid with gold, per-
haps with tho owners naiuc but only
n iow letters can DO made out. Ono
hammer rested on tho tubc tho other
was standing and both tubes wore
capped, but both barrels ure empty.
IL in supposed TINT II barrcl wns
discharged 10y the man, tho otbor be.
ing exploded by tho hcnt Of tho fro
-Wudsworth Dispatch.