Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-05-18
WEDNESDAYS DAILY
3ALMAGUNDI.

Rather u disug7ecable day.
District Attorney Bartlett of Eure-
ka was II visitor today.
The receipts OF the State Land
office last week were 2,l09.
Mr.. ~IIaires is wallrnc the cellar i'll
the rear of the INDEPENDENT Office.
Never in the history Il the State
has the 'lamb crop OF Tie wool clip
been SO large rs it is this year.
1t was rumorcd in Lisbon yester.
day that President Kruger had or
dered the Portuguese consul to leave
the Transvaal Republic.
Mrs. Jay Clemens, ice MISS Maud
Bradley. is the proud mother OF IL
daughter. The INDEPENDENT hopes
Miss Clemens may grow up to be the
delight Of her parents.
4 lawyer on his death.bed willed
all his property to a lunatic asylum,
giving as II reason for so dong that
he wished his property to return To the
same liberal class who had patronized
him.
1t is now reported that McKinley's
postal officers i'll Cuba have stolen
ove SJ00,0O0 of Cuban funds. The
Cubans will have to keep their eyes
open or those fellows will carry oil
the island.
The Odd Fellows of Elko will not
have memorial exercises on the Both
Of May this year. Tue Sovereign
Grand Lodge has fixed tie 10Th day
Of Jun. MS the day for Odd Fellows
to observe. 3
Elko needs a pulic hall and needs
it badly. Won't some enterprising
citizen take the matter in hand and
build one or organize n stock COM
pany with sufficient capital to build n
good hall? We should have one before
the summer IL over.
This item is travelling the rounds of
the State papers: Experienced en-
ginccrs are in demand on the rail-
road. The last batch Of firemen pro-
NOTED we're lircmen who went to
work during the strike Of 81, and
proved failures rs engineers
District Attorney McNamee, last
Saturday filed three suits in the dis
irict court against the April Fool
Cod Mining and Milling Company
to recover in the aggregate some
$1,000, alleged to be duo the State
and county for bullion tax for the
quarters ending September 80, and
December 81, 1898. and June 30, 1900.
DIR. Gardner left for Carson last
night, having received word that his
mother was very ill. The DR.. will
return i'll II few days accompanied by
his mother, If she Is strong enough to
make the journey. Tho Carson ply.
ician say they a do nothing more
for her, and DR.. Gardner wishes to
have her here under his special care.
While riding after Wild horses in
the Como range of hills last Tuesday,
Les Douglas had Il narrow escape
from serious injury. The horse he
was riding fell and threw him of,
shaking linn up considerably. The
animals neck was broken in the fall
and he died Immediately Dayton
Times.
a Cape Nome correspondent a y
the climate is rigorous in the extreme
and That 1t is practical suicide for any
one OF a weak physique AMI delicate
health to attempt to live there "A few
months. \ year up there racks the
hardest ution, and two years
will wreck any but the most ALBANIAN
tine. The wind blows Il hurricane all
the time.
The icrington Rustler says that
Frank Cameron, one OF a party on
the way from ruscarora to Bodic, WIS
arrested for beating his s~tepdaughtcr.
Rosa AguillH, convicted and scn;cuc.
ed to pay a fine OF 800 or spend 1915
days in the Lyon county Jail. Cam.
cron took the latter. but escaped from
the deputy constable and at last &C.
counts could not be found.
Tho following companies have in.
corPoratcd under the laws Of Nevada
and incorporation papers have been
flied with the Secretary Of State:
Elko Southern Telephone Company,
Hartford Oil Company. Indiana Rub.
her Company, and tho Great Western
Compound Development Company.
Tho latter company will transact
business at Steamboat Springs,
Wnshoc county, where the mineral
wnter will be bottled aud shipped
aud tllo property placed in excellent
condition. 20