Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-06-08
lFRoM MONDAYS DAILY
SALMAGUEDl.
Col. Maxon is in town tcdan.

turn to Pocatello, Idaho. in a day or
two.
Miss Ethel Smith and her cousin,
Miss Nellie Treat OF San Francisco,
arrived from California Saturdu,
evening.
Mr.. and MH. George BrowE re.
turned today from Bullion, where
they had been on a fishing and hunt.
ing trip.
II you want to purchase a frat.
class piece Of property in Elko, call
on or address l. +. Morgan. See his
notice in this issue.
Commissioners Reed and Weathers
are attending u meeting Of the board
today. They report everything love.
ly in their sections.
Charley Mayer returned from the
State University Saturday night.
He will spend his vacation with Col.
MaIson's surveying party.
Miss Jessie Koyser and Miss Fern
Gedney returned Saturday evening
from Reno, where they have been
attending the University.
Harry Mayer has received "a new
census outfit to replace the M lost
last Friday in South Fork. lie
started out again this afternoon to
take tho census OF his district.
The lSDEpENDNSr extends It's SYN.
pathy to Mr.. aud Mrs. George Jones
III the death OF their infant son. MIR.
and MB Jones recently arrived from
Golconda and take to up their resi-.
dence here.
Mrs. Chesley Woodward's team
broke loose this morning and started
on Il go.as. you.please gait for home.
Jim Hayward took after them on
horseback anu caught them about
five miles ont on the T~uscarora roa.l.
No damage was done to team. wagon
or harness.
In the examination papers OF Ii
lot OF young men who were applicants
Tor positions on the New York police
force, II wrote that the five original
New England States were England
Ireland, Scotland. Belfast, and Cork"
Another eclared that New York
WAS ruled by the tire department in
the absence Of the Mayor.
Mrs. May Gibbons. Williams de-
parted this afternoon for Mnrysvillc,
California where she will visit friends
before returning to her home at
Byron. Mrs. Williams has made
many friends during her stay here,
who will always be glad to hear or
her SUCCESS. May good fortune and
happiness attend her.
The committee to canvas the town
for subscriptions to tho Fourth Of
Jily fund worked the town this after
noon. When seen by the reporter
they had owe 1900 pledged, with sew.
sral business houses yet t q see.
There should he no difficulty III rails
ing a sum sufficient t. de!raY the
expenses Of a first Glass celebration.
Mr.. j. i. Porter arrived from Or
den last night and put in the day
shaking hands with his Elko friends.
MIR. Porter informed us that he was
putting up a fine brick building in
Ogden about two blocks up the main
street from the Union depot. lie
looks ms IL living among the Nor
mons agreed with him.
The three judges OF the appeal tax
court in baltimore were recently
required TO determine 10y lot their
terms for one, two, and three years.
One OF them is opposed to games OF
chance md was unwilling to draw.
He was persuaded To hold tho hat
and found in it, after the others had
drawn, the slip limiting his service to
~ year
+. a. Bristol, one Of Ncvada's sterl.
ing young men, arrived this morning
from Johannesburg, South Africa, on
his way home to visit his parents at
Reno. lie came on tho flyer last
night and was taken to Carlin and
came up from there this morning.
Mr.. Bristol left Johannesburg shortly
after the wal broke ont. lie gradu.
ated from the School OF Mines OF the
Stnio University three years ago,
which time he has held u fat
position ~ Il mining engineer at
Johannesburg. lilo llps u brother
living on North Fork whom no may
visit before he gocs To Reno.
What rich picking some OF those
carpet.baggcrs arc having down in
Cuban a dispatch IN speaking Of
ono Of tho men who was sent down
there for tho United Statcs on II snl.
ary Of $1,000 per year. had tho further
sum Of sl7,3i3.13 charged TO himself
ns "pcr diem expenses. lie hadn't
been tliotc more than u year. and mt
tho same rate tho "pcr diem would
not only have bnnkrupted Cuba but
taken u good slico Of the u. =. trcas.
ury, in u few years.