Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-09-21
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Mrs. john Murphy OF Fort Halleck
died i'll Salt Lake yesterday. The re-
mains arrived on No.3 this Afternoon.
DR.. Tryon's free lecture attracted Il
large crowd last night. The DIR. has
m interesting nd elsewhere in this
issue.
George Start. wife and mother mr.
rived from the East yesterday after
noon. Mr.. Start intends to go into
business here.
w. d.. IIiggmbotham came up from
Galena last night. He reports good
prospects in the Grand Prize mine at
that place. lie is on ms way to Salt
Lake.
The State fair opened at Reno yes
terday with 4 big attendance. The
exciting event OF the day WIS a BIZ
cycle race between the Olympics OF
San Francisco and the Reno Wheel.
man. Reno won the race.
The Journal claims to have intor-
nation from a reliable source that
Reno will be made II freight and pas.
sengcr division terminal and that the
Central Pacific shops will he moved
there from Wadsworth.
The Supreme Chancellor Of the
Knights Of Pythias has Issued an ap-
peal to the Knights to contribute
money for the relief Of their suffering
brethren i'll Texas.
The Bryan Club at Reno TO- num-
bers $50 members one hundred
stronger than the Mckinley Club Of
town.
Ancestors Of Presidents Tyler, Lin
coin, Hayes aud Cleveland we're
among Major John Mason's band OF
% pioneers vino founded Norwich,
Conn.
Theodore Brown left Sunday night
for ms home at Franklin. Pennsyl-
vania. He took wish him pleas
memories OF Nevada md twenty
seven pounds OF flesh more than he
came here with. Nevada's climate
did it.
Coal has been discovered at Grassy
about thirty.tive miles
Of Phoebe. Mcssrs. James
rullock and |. y. Garrison have been
working ont there .or the past month.
The coal is of the anthracite variety
and il good coai.-PiOchc Record.
II the citizens Of this country at
the Forthcoming election shall ratify
and confirm the prescriptions
stretches Of authority that have
characterized the conduct Of this nd.
mlnistratiCn. then We shall not be
i'll danger Of establishing an empire.
Empire will have been already es-
tablishcd.-C. \. Tuwne.
The delay III No. 1 today was caused
10y an accident ut LOvelock last
night. \ freight tram ran into some
cattle. derhilmg the engine and tear
ing up the track. The track was re-.
paired, but when No. 1 came along
the engine went oil the track causing
the delay.
The new smcltcr at Reno seems to
have fallen upon evil times. The
Nevada Bank has levied an attach.
ment on it for $500 and George
Ilolcsworth has filed u mechanics
lien on it for $1,000. \ misunder.
standing between the managers and
the local stockholders is said to he
the cause Of the attachment.
John Payne, a former resident OF
EIko, but now Of Port Townsend,
Washington, arrived Saturday night.
lie III the same genial fellow ~ OF
old. lie told the INDEPENDENT this
morning that tile chanccs 81 Bryan in
Washington were Frightening and
that the prospects were good for his
carrying the State.
"%SpcnkinR Of shooting Filipinos for
missionary purposes" said the cyni-
cal commercial traveller, 1T reminds
inc uf what q native Hawaiian once
said 10 me: Tho missionary came
here and told us la look up to the
sky where God was. So we looked
up, and while We were !ooking they
stole our lnud out from under our
feet. When the Kanka looked down
again the land was gone"
a special dispatch was sent to the
Salt Lake Tribune stating that Hon.
j. ". Reid, one OF the lIr, nm Presi.
dentinl Electors in Idaho, had come
out for Mckinley. When Mr. Reid
was asked by parties in Boise il the
report was true he tclcgraphcd that it
wns totally fHlsc. This is II favorito
pastimo Of Republican papers about
this stage OF the campaign, but il is
the cheapest kind OF political capital.
There il q melody in Andrews
burg, Prussia, in the llarz mountains,
than in my other town III the world.
There 10000 cannrics are annually
reared. aud iifths Of thom arc
sent to the United States. "Proicss.
or birds,- perfect singers, are placed
among the young birds. 30 tlIut the