Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-11-23
IFRoM TUESDAYS DAILY
SALMAGCND

Sb"hat ~ AhoulbLiCN ruON
. storm set in this morning aud con
tinued most Of the day.
. George Putnam was hanged yester.
day at Folsom prison for the murder
q. OF II fellow convict named John
Showers u year ago.
Miss Middlemnss, who was the
night operator here before and dur.
ing the big strike, died in Ogden last
night.
Trial jurors are in town from every
J section OF the country. They all
look as il the world EGs waggiug
ABOUT right Tor them.
The trial jurors in town arc cor
dially invited to pay the INDEPEN-
DENT office u visit aud look over our
plant. Come and see US.
The German National Bank OF
Newport, Kentucky, closed its doors
} esterday Oh the order OF the Comp
troller OF the Currency. a thieving
cashier and not Mckinley prosperity
Ii the cause Of the failure.
Hon. Thomas Wren and Webster
Patterson are defending "A. Schole.
Mr.. Wren is a veteran attorney who
knows all the ins and outs Of a MUIR
der trial. II the jury ~conyicts his
client, it will be because the evidence
Is overwhelmingly against him.
Students Of heredity will note the
fact tl:at the father OF Alvord. the
New York bank de:rauder, was $780,
900 short in his accounts while CASH
Ter OF a bank i'll Syracuse. forty.oLe
years ago.. The money was made
good by bundsmen, and there was no
prosecution.
Messrs. Bell and Hatch. potato buy
ers, were here from California this
week looking after spuds. They both
secured several carloads ut Sl4 per
ton. The Italian ranchers are not
anxious TO cell all their spuds ut these
figures, rs they expect to get better
prices.-Lyou County Times.
The mangled remains Of an I'M
known man were found on the rail.
road track near Verdi yesterday
morning. His face WIS bruised be-
yond recognition aud there was moth.
ing about his clothes by which he
could be identified. Portions of his
body were strewn along the track for
u distance OF two miles.
The -raIny day skirt made it's APP.
pearence i'll Carson yesterday after
noon and gave play for a remarkable
diversity Of opinion NJ to the proper
length. 1t appeared all the way from
two inches to eighteen inches from
the grouud-was sometimes graceful
and sometimes wasn't.-News.
About l o'clock yesterday morning
while Mics Minnie Robinson was re-.
turning to her home ON the Divide
she WINS striker with paralysis. She
WINS taken to her residence and nm OK.
animation made by a physician dis
closed TINT her left side was COM
pietely paralyZed. Miss Robinson
WIS unconscious nearly all day yes.
ter acknowledgements.
Mr.. j. a. Mason. one OF the Tusca.
rora jurors, gave the INDEPENDENT
Office a pleasant call thus morning.
He informed US hat II. c. Plunkctt
and j. G. Doughty would take charge
OF the J imes-Review today and run il
IN tho interest OF the Republican
party. Tho Bingham brothers and
their mo,her, he said, would go to
Butte City, Montana in n few days.
W. were in error yesterday III 81 nj.
ing that Major Miller would manage
tho business OF the w. r. Smith Com
pany III tine absence Of Mr.. Smith.
MIR. Miller merely takes the place,
temporarily, OF Mr.. Wallace, who has
resigned his position to go INTO the
butcher business with George Hun.
ter. Mr. Fitzgerald will manage the
business during tho absence OF MIR.
Smith.
DIR. Leonard returned from his
Mound Valley trip last evening. IIe
says it stormcd like blixcn in shat
section Saturday and Sunday. When
he left there yesterday morning, the
snow was about four inches deep and
coming down at n lively rate. Tho
weather was so stormy that he WIS
unable to cnlighten the people on
politics and religion.
Tho Silver State says that tho man
Perkins, suspected by the Sacrameto
police OF beng n Of the Winnie.
mucca bank robbers, was not n party
10 the bold.up, but may know one Of
the robbers. Perkins wns living in
Winnemucca at tho timo and myster-
iously disappeared a few days after
tho bnnk was robbed. The Silver
State says Perkins ia q worthless. lazy
fellow who lived of tho scnnty earn.
iDgs OF his wito during his residence
in Winnemucca.
BOnS.