Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-27
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
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al sOElS Oh Weather tOuds.
Two OF Rev. Mitchell's children are
quite sick.
Attorney Brown returned from Te-
coma last evening.
We are glad to report Mss IIattie
Clark rs improving.
Shorty Simpson. we'll known here
rs IN all around nuisance, stole IL
pair of blankets in Reno the other day
and was sent to Jail for 80 days.
The Boer losses, including prison.
ers, are estimated to be 1900 since
the beginning OF the war. The Brit.
ish losses foot up over $4,000.
Is. a. Leak, veterinary surgeon,
went to Tuscarora this morning, and
will return "a week from tomorrow.
Those needing his services will please
bear this in mind.
The Judiciary Committee OF the
House has directed u favorable report
on tho bill providing means OF in
Identifying foreigners injured in per.
son or property through mob violence
or otherwise in this country.
John Henderson Is very proud OF
the new Mosler screw door safe Just
put i'll the bank. II is a marvel OF
mechanical skill and is absolutely
burglar proof. Our reporter exam
ined it this afternoon and concluded
he would not attempt to crack it.
Pat Reddy, the attorney for the
Western Federation OF Miners, has
been employs to defend Richard
Tubin who shot the foreman OF the
Hale IL Norcross mine in VirLinia
City last week. To0in has been ad-
United TO bail.
An experiment III education is be-
ing made mt Ithaca, New York, winch
will interest educators elsewhere. 4
class of Il 5.year old children was or
ganiZed and n teacher put in charge
to give them instruction Ter one hour
each Gay, the rest Of the time being
given to play. So far the experiment
seems tn be successful.
Nearly d quarter OF a century ago a
wagon hauling ore from the Comstuck
to Ophit yer the grade, WIS capsiz-
ed and the contents together with the
wagon EEL over the grade. 4 Span
lard has brought up the ore, some
thing like 1900 pounds, and will have il
millcd. He expects to get several
hundred dolls out Of it and has been
keeping the ore all these years.-Car-
son News.
General Weyler's brutality to the
country farmers OF CUBA was the di-
rect cause of the desperate insurrec-
ion in Cuba which led to the Spanish
war. That war cost the United States
tbO,uC0,OoO. The cost TO Spain was
E}j,OOO,OOO exclusive OF loss OF terri
tory. The cost to Cuba in the way OF
wrecked plantations and loss OF COM
mercc, especially her tobacco trade,is
roughly estimated at E2O,OO0.OOO.
So Wcyler came istin ;tly high.-An.
swcrs.
One OF the recent discoveries in
Idaho IL a pccL liar formation on the
summit Of Thunder mountain at an
elevation Of 1900 feet. The mount
ain is 2x3 miles in extent and on top
OF the mountain, extending it's full
length, IL IA great dyke, or hossback.
IOh feet high and "a half mile thick.
1t is said that the dyke is nothing
more than IA peculiar quartz, or por
phyry, bearing gold, Good values
are obtained by washing or placer
mining the decomposcd surface Of
the dyke while the snow ia melting.
Tho editor OF tho Virginia Report
says what the editor of the ISpErEY
Dent does not know al on: the poll
ties of Nevada would fiji a big book.
Right you are. sonny. We never cx.
pcct 10 know as much M you think
yon know aud don't know. not even il
we lived to be older than MethusaIa.
what little we know palcs into insig
n%liicanco when compared with the
wisdom Of the young man who dishes
up drivcl for the readers Of the Re.
port. There was never anything like
him since the world begun and we
sincerely hope nothing like him will
ever appear on the earth again. Make
faces at us M much MS you plcasc,
Johnny, but don't sit on your bruins
too much.