Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-03-23
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.
SAIiMAGUNDI.

NS Ss'SoS hCNSA SAW
Elko any quieter than it is now.
Harry Dunn and wife arrived from
Redding. California, this morning.
Tom Hunter and Major Miller re.
turned from San Francisco last night
Joe Long, an employee OF the
freight department OF the Southern
Pacific at Reno, won $500 in the lot.
terry last week.
Colossal crosses are to DO erected
this year on 10 mountain peaks of
Italy to commemorate the nineteenth
century Of the Christian era.
The Ladies Aid gave a dime social,
whatever that is, this afternoon at the
residence OF Mr.. and Mn. Pullman.
Our reporter could not muster up
courage enough to take it in.
The Senate has passed a bill to re.
imburse certain people who expended
money and furnished services and
supplies in repelling an invasion and
supprcssing Indian hostililles within
the territorial limits Of the present
State Of Nevada.
A dispatch from Krooustadt, Or
6nge Free State, under the date OF
the 10th says the Beers commanded
by General Oliver have engaged tile
British troops under General Cat.
acre i'll the vicinity of Bethulie, re-
pulsing them with heavy loss and
capturing many Of them. Tho dis-
patch is not credited in London.
Mining suits between Marcus A.
Daley and Senator Clark OF Montana
are on trial in the United States
court at Butte. The question OF apex
Is involved and the determination OF
the matter will mean millions of dol.
lars to the party getting a favorable
decision.
The exact geographical center OF
the United States, calculating be-
tween longitudinal md latitudinnl
extremes, ls a spot in Kansas about
twenty miles north Of the point
at which the boundaries OF Kansas,
Oklahoma and the Indinn Territory
meet.
y petition is now beng circulated
IN San Francisco for the pardon OF a
Federal prisoner now doing time in
the Carson State Prison, and it is
rapidly being signed by Come OF the
best known e~x-Nevadans. The wife
and children are destitute in that
city.
Mrs. Calvin Zimmerman. Miles burg
Pa.,says,-As Il speedy cure for coughs
colds, Group and sore throat One Min
ute Cough Cure is unequaled. 1t is
pleasant for children to take. /
heartily recommend it to mothers.-
IT ID the only harmless remedy that
produces Immediate results. II cures
bronchitis. pneumonia, grippe and
throat and lung diseases. II will pre.
vent consumption. Elko Drug Co.
Fortified wood is often encountered
III the Red Point mine, above Forest
Hill, Cal, and many huge logs OF
wood resembling cedar are found in a
fair state OF preservation. Tho length
OF tho period the wood has lain sealed
in the channel is hard TO estimate.
The logs are found on the bedrock in
Il tunnel driven over two miles into
the divide and loco feet below the
surface, which is LOT covered with n
forest OF massive cedar, spruce aud
sugar pine.
Before you listen to the complaint
OF your children about their teachers,
and get all worked up over them
says an exchange. at is better for you
to reflect Il little. Remember that
your one mud one-half dozen cherubs
drive you crazy about half OF tho
time. md bear with the tnucher, who
is making for you men and women OF
ns unpromising material rs you were
twenty or thirty years ago. Remem.
Der that, besides your own boy, who.
OF course. everybody knows is mn mn.
gcl,shc has Ia contend with that awful
boy OF y"ur neighbor's and YOU know
full well what a terror he is"
NJ. S. Anderson. n colored man.
saved the lives OF six people during
a fire in n flat house in New York veg.
terdny, Tho flames had gained con.
siderable hendway and in It window
on the second story stood a man
named Nelson with his six little chill.
drcn lowering about him.their escape
having been cut of by the flames.
With two passorsby Anderson ran in.
&c The building next door and up TO
tho third floor. With his two com.
panions holding his legs, Anderson
hung face downward and swayinp
his body backward and for ward,man
aged to reach the children us they
were held up TO him ~ tho father.
All were taken out safely in this
manner. Tho fircmcn brought tho
other occupants OF tho building down
the ladder.