Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-27
lFROM TUESDAYS DAILY.l
IA ID

h grippe.
Sunday nights storm is said to be
the heaviest Il: the season il the
mountains.
The House yesterday set May LIST
and 2nd for the consideration OF Hep
burns Nicaraguan canal bill.
Joaquin Eslabe wns hanged at San
Quentin yesterday for Il murder
committed in Oakland, California.
Attorney Brown went up to Teco-
ma last night on legal business. lie
will return on this evenings train.
The case of the. State W. Frank
Stone, Indicted for stealing horses,
WIS dismissed at Wjnnemucca y,ster-
day.
BossQuay will not hold down 4 seat
III tile United States Senate on the
appointment OF the Governor ofPcnn-
%sylvRnia. The Senate today by u vote
OF 81 to p refused to seat HIM.
Pierce Wore and Charley Oarduer
put the new safe Tor the bank in
place today. We Will worry no moro
over the probability Of bank robbc,.
carrying oil the millions we have On
deposit at the bank.
Richard Tobip, who shot Foreman
lliggisOn OF the Hale ~ Norcross
mine ut Virginia City the other day,
has been held under 5000 bonds TO
appear before the Storey county
grand jury OF the charge OF assault
with intent to kill.
The little locomotive. G. =. Hunt
ingtOn. that was brought around the
Horn III 1863, aud frightened the In.
dians when che was landed in Cali.
fornia, is 10 become a relic and is to
he preserved, not for the good she
will do, but for the good she has
done.
The barn On County Treasurer
i'Ni ihiI-h III L M tiSt wiley
accidentally caught fire from "A burn
ing pile Of rubbish last Friday and
was totally destroyed, together with
ito contents. Three horses which
were III the barn were burned to
death. Tho loss WAS about Si00; no
insurnncc.-Silvcr State.
MIR. Schirley is moving ont Of the
old frame part OF the Commercial
hotel into the rooms made out OF the
hall. He expects tO have everything
moved by Wcdnesda night md on
Thursday the tearing down OF the old
building will begin. When tho new
hotel is completed, it will be Que Of
the finest III the State.
w. &. Gayhari. cx.principal Of the
Austin school, has begun IA $4,000 Ii.
bel suit against Robert Pohl, one OF
the school trustees. Mr.. Gayhar,
charges III his complaint that Mr..
Pohl published false slanderous aud
libclous words against HIM. charging
him with having committed adultery
in the school building nj Austin on
March %, 1900.
Tho Senate COMMITTEES on Priri.
lcgcs and Elections Yesterday sub.
united their report in the Clark casc.
The committee tiud that the election
OF Clark IL null and void on account
of bribcrics, attempted bribcrics and
corrupt practices by his agents, and
Of violations Of the laws OF Montana
defining and furnishing crimes
against the elective franchise.
The Populist Stale Central COM
mittcc met i'll Reno Saturday evening
The following delegates were elected
to the Cincinnati National Couven.
ton: j NJ Mccormack, II IL Hogan,
Waslioe county: II = Beck, w II
Coffee, Storey; j & Doughty. Elko:
q ] LGvctt, Lyon county. The po.
litical situation WAS talked over and
the committee then adjourned.
Tho latest reports from the famine
districts OF India say that the misery
existing there is iDdcscribablc and
unparalleled an that the present re-
lief is quito inadequate. They ndd
that the mortality among cattle in 80
sever thRt the authorities are trying
to adapt farm implements so TINT hu.
man power can replace that OF bul.
locks. Such a 'drustic measure has
never before been necessary. even in
tho greatest scarcity Of animals. IL
is announced that tho natives are dc.
ycloping ugly feelings aud urc attack.
ing the Europeans.
Tho rod mills OF the Illinois Steel
Go. at Joliet. suspended operations
yesterday, Between 800 aud 700 men
nrc thrown ont OF employment, Il il
rumofrd that the entire Illinois steel
plant at Joliet, which IL CONTROL cd
by the Federal Steel company will
shortly bu ClOacd down. L. this
another evidence Of McKinlcy's won.
dcrful prosperity
DIR. H. j, Gatling has just Invented |
nm automobile pillow. II IL built on
tho principle Of the ordinary automo
bile With disc plows 80 arranged MS 10
do tho work Of tho implements now
in use. The idea IL to operate Il ma
chine 10y Il single man. II IL claim.