Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-10-19
lFRoM TUESDAYS DAILY.l
SALnACCNDI

ID. hylton and family returned
from their Texas visit last night.
There IL no change in tie Penn
%sylyania strike situation.
Congressman Newlands will ad.
dress the people OF Carlin Friday
night October l9;h.
4 Young Mems Newlands club WAS
formed i'll Reno last Friday night.
One hundred aud twenty one voters
signed the roll.
1t is reported TINT 'Pinkerton's
men are hot on the trail ut the VIM
nemucca bank robbers. They are
following them through the jackson
Hole country i'll Wyoming.
Henry Godfrey, night Waterman at
the Osbiston shaft Virginia City. WIS
found dead about D o'clock Monday
morning. He vas "a native OF Eng
land. ugei G2 years. lie was the
father of Mrs. Bradish Of Wells.
Sheriff Campbell will start IL to
deliver the ballot-boxes to the various
precincts as coon rs the necessary
supplies arrive from San Francisco.
Tho funeral OF the late Patrick b.
McDermott will take place from the
Episcopal church tomorrow, Wedncs-
day, afternoon at = o'clock. The
services will be conducted 10y Rev.
George -. Plummer.
Mr.. Mayer has added baths and
patent water closets to the Depot
Hotel. Tho travelling public will
find the hotel ~stuctiy first class and
up-to date. See the change in the
al.
-Four male students were expelled
from the State university early this
week. The term of expulsion ex.
pires next January. that is il the con-
due, is everything that is exemplary
during the interim.
Mr.. keyser is putting the finishing
touches IN the INDEPENDENT office.
Tie makes such a racket that il is
almost Impossible to do anything 10
day.
U. ). Commissioner Archer OF
Winncmucca has held Willie Wlnes.u
haif.brccd Indian. to appear before
the U. S. grand jury To answer the
charge of furnishing liquor to the
Indian, on the Duck Valley rcscrva-
ton.
Tclcgrams received this afternoon
state that Congressman Ncwlands
Will speak here tOmOrrrw night. The
meeting will be cnlivencd by the
Comstock Glee club. although the
notice is short, the courtroom should
be packed. Turn ont everybody and
hear the issues of the day discussed
III II statesmanlike mal ner.
According To the census figures
for the states SO far given ont, the
west Is gaining much faster than the
east III population. That means that
under the new aprortIonment they
Will have IA much larger representa-
ton II Congress and IN the electoral
college four years hence.
DIR. Leonard says lie is receiving
the Gazette regularly, but il it hopes
for his conversion to the gold stand
ard ranks 1t is away of. lie ii too
thoroughly grounded in support Of
the white metal and the principles of
Declaration OF Independence to he
swaycd by the moving arguments Of
the Gazette.
While Mark Hanna is engaged in
what he calls tearing the mask from
the face of that hypocrItc. William j..
Bryan he might take IL snatch at the
mask on the lace Of the hypucritc who
declares that there Is not a trust in
the entire United States" and then
holds up tho trusts Tor $50, 0UO,C1O.-
ST. Louis Republic.
Joe Halls store and warehouse at
Mountain City were destroyed by
fire early Monday morning. Particu-
lars are rather meagcr, but from
what we can learn II man was sent
from the saloon to the store nbou;
midnight for something To ont Tor the
crowd ut the snloon. This man was
the last one in the store before the
lire broke out about 4 o'clock in the
morning. Report says the stock was
injured. Tho loGs is not known.