Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-11-30
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SALMAGUNDl.

Sheriff Campbell will not take In,
prisoners to Carson this evening.
; The time for passing sentence OF
a. a. Schole was continued to-day up
til IL o'clock tomorrow.
Thanksgiving Day is drawing car
Remember that there will be lots o
sport at the Hot Springs.
Tom Jewell is up iron, palisade to
day. lie seems to have had a pleas
ant trip up Salt river.
Harry Brooks, who killed Franl
Darrah at Paradise last August, wa
acquitted by the jury. The verdic
WIS reached OH the lirst ballot.
The first installment OF taxes !.
now due and will be Delinquent mex
Monday evening ut = o'clock. /
not paid before that, 10 per zen vii
he added.
y new figure has !oomed up in tn,
pugilistic horizon. Herman J Witte
a lawyer from Cincinnati, has called
upon Corbctt and Champion JetTries
with an offer OF $4,000 for "a twenty,
round bout, to take place on OF before
February II.
Miss NJ. f.. Iiough received "a tele.
gram from Connellsville. Pernsyl.
vania, yesterday AFTERNOON annOunc.
ing the sudden death of her brother.
j. w. HOugh, Saturday night. The
INDEPENDENT extends it's sympaty 10
Miss Tough III her cad bereavement
y Chinaman fell or the turntable
at Carl:n Saturday night and broke
his neck and this morning one OF the
machlnists WIS found i'll the railroad
yard unconscious. Our informant
could not tell how he was injured.
Hon i. l.. Flanagan has returned
from IA visit to San Francisco. The
Senator Gays be thinks beef will be 9
cents = per pound hc;e before sixty
days. aud mutton will he ten cents.
lie bases his judgment on the short
age Of both products.-GaZcttc,
Tho dog rUisoncr was busy last
night and as Il result Mr.. Browns
dog, "Laddic,' aud Jake Nelson's big
pug dog have gone to the happy
hunting grounus. Putting out
poison to kill dogs il low down work,
but EIko has people equal to it.
Tho Ninth National Irrigation Con
grcss Saturday decided to hold two
congresses next year, the first ut Col
orado Springs, Colo, either just be
fore or just after the Trans lssis.
sippi Congress. ami the second at
buffalo III October. duriug the Pan.
American exposition III that city.
We have it from good authority
that a bill To prohibit gambling i'll the
State Of Nevada will he introduced
in the legislature at Carson this Vim.
ter. IL the bill il introduced. and we
have no reason to believe that il will
not be, there will be "A lively time at
Carson for a few weeks during the
session OF the Lrcislaturc.-RcnO
Ledger.
Indiana has a curious bribery law,
and one that would probably be more
effective than the existent one in Ne.
yada. Under it II person receiving Il
bride for voting is liable 10 imprison-
mcnt from two 10 five years. while
the bribcr escapes punishment. The
person who offers the bride may even
collect 500 reward winch. the law nj.
lows rs inf"rmcr, III he chooses to
give away the voter he has bribcd.
Japan is going ahead rapidly. Her
eYpOrts nave gained mOusly in
the last ten years, the increase being
from Il.0OO. 900 yen III 1890 To 2i7,.
O0O,GC0 yen last year. \ yen is
about half a dollar in American
money. Tho production Of japanese
elk has doubled III the Same period
and that Of tea has increased fifty
per cent The expenses Of the Govern
ment, largely for military and naval
purposes, have likewise largely in
creased, being nov about Sl25,u0O,.
coo a year. Tho population shows no
great gain, which could scarcely he
expected. sccmg that the empire is
already crowded. But yet ii inCrcas.
I'd 10y about 5,OOO,OOO in tho last dc.
cRdc. being now upwards OF 10000.
900.