Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-11-23
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
saI.MAGuNDl.
+. j. Franks is in from Bullion.

C.J. rhuke 10 III from Bullion.
Attorney Cooke OF Tuscarora Is in
town.
There are fifteen patients in the
county hospital,
Judge Fitzgerald and family will
move to Carson about the first Of the
year.
j. L. French is down from Gold
Creek. He reports lots Of snow up
that way.
You should not forget that State
and county taxes are nov due and
payable to Treasurer pawley.
.. NJ. Bowen. the thieving cashier
OF the German bank at Newport, KY,
has made his escape to Canada.
Mrs. Gurrecht wants everybody to
come to the Hot Springs on Thanks.
giving day. Don't forget it.
There ID a Chinese voter in Esmer-
aida county George Sue Of Cam.
bridge precinct.-Hawthorne Bulle-
tin.
The trial Of Harry Brooks for the
murder Of Frank Darrah at Paradise
last summer is in progress before
Judge Curler at Wmnemucca.
The snow has nearly all melted and
the streets are in a condition to make
the gods weep. This. would be a good
time to fill up some OF the mud holes.
Passengers from the west yesterday
morning told the Reno Gazette that
there Was a very heavy fall OF snow
in the mountains. there being about
Il foot at Truckee and three feet at
Summit.
Minnie Adams. a clerk in the New
York p~ostofice was overcome by the
heat yesterday while at work. The
heat also caused much distress in
Pittsburg among the mill-men. One
case OF prostration was reported.
Several OF the State papers are ad.
visIng the members Of the next legis-
lature what to do and how TO do il.
The only advice the INDEPENDENT
has TO givethe Elko delegation is to
obey their pledges and elIoot the
members that attempt to legislate on
fish. game or wild horees.
Chicago's public school teachers
payroll has more than doubled in
nine years and is now u little more
than soOO,O00 n month. There arc
G,200 teachers, principals and super
intendents on the city's payroll.
Charley May has severed his con.
nectioD with the Depot Hotel and
will take the evening train for Reno.
Charley has added many new friends
to his list during his stay in Elko.
The INDEPENDENT joins with them in
wishing him prosperity and happiness
i'll the future.
The Silver State classifies the next
State Senate rs follows: One Demo.
crat, Z Silver party, l Democratic.
Silver, l Independent aud five Repub-
licans. In the Assembly there will
be 10 Democrats, s Silver party, 6
Democratic. Silver, . Independents
and 3 Republicans.
It is related of Ex-Governor Robert
Stewart Of Missouri, that, while in
office, he was asked to pardon a man
whom he sent for prison and then
recognized as q river steamboat
captain who had treated him brutolly
while he Was a cabin boy. He
recalled the fact TO the prisoner and
then pardoned him.
The announcement that nm Ohio
widow, with a fortune OF go, 900, had
advertised for n Nevada husband.
caused some excitement here yester-
day and two young men started for
that State on last nights train. It's
fuSotiOb VI WIZ Belb lhcIc nIot.
The Cometock never hacked enter
prise.-Report.
a lump OF gold worth s5l4,900 a
sent overland lately from British
Columbia to New York, and, oddly
enough, nobody even tried to walk
away with it during the transfer.
The TACT that It weighed 753 pounds
may have had something to do with
the atmosphere Of honesty which
everywhere surrounded il.
Frederick Layton, a Milwaukee
beef and pork packer, who has been
in active business in that city for
fifty years. has retired. On a recent
Saturday no called his cmplo, ca TO.
gether to bid them good bye, and
presented each ono OF them with a
dollar Cor each year the recipient had
been iu the employ Of the packing
house. Several OF tho mon received
siO.
Tho Postoillce Department received
a c%ablegram yesterday announcing
tho death Of Letter Carrier Joel
Mayor, who was assaulted by An
tonic Quinones, a native, last wook in
San Juan. This is the first trouble
OF the kind that has occurred under
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