Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-03-30
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Bill Burt and Fritz Molt OF Column
bIa have started for Cape Nome.
We are glad to learn that Mrs. j. L,
Kcyser is recovering from her reccn;
illness.
The preliminary examination o!
the Goebel suspects began at Frank.
fort yesterday.
Nate Is. Kendall, Oh" Of the early
conductors on the Central Pacific,
died yesterday morning.
Attorney All Chartz has been
elected chairman of the Democratic
county committee OF Ormsby county.
John Il. Bradley has returned to
Reno from Southern California. The
Gazette says his health Ii much i'm.
proved.
Chairman T0Yuc OF the National
Silver Republican party has called Il
national convention to meet at Kan
Aas CITY july ith.
&. l.. Jones shipped four carloads
ot horscs, purchased from Governor
Sadlcr and Voight * Rcinken to
Sioux City, Iowa, today.
The Gazette il informed that eight
or ten new BUSINESS blocks will be
built i'll Reno this year. one Of them
to cost III the neighborhood OF S3Q, 600.
Nothing has been seen or heard u
Collins, tile prisoner who escaped
last Tuesday. lie is supposed to
have been hidden by friends in Silver
City or Virginia.
ID. Downen Of Salt Lake shipped
U head OF ycarllngs aud twO-ycar
Odds today. These cattle were pur-
chased from various parties i'll the
county at from S13 Ia SO per head.
The year II Is. &. WAS the longest
on record. BY order % Julius CD.ar
it contained 40 days. rhe addition
al days were Put III To make the sea-
cons conform as nearly us possible
with the solar year.
Tho Silver State says AN effort is
being made ut WaLsworth 10 cocrce
the railroad employees To become
members OF the new relief scheme.
Several machinists have already been
discharged and serious trouble is
burwing.
y Massachusetts Judge holds that
n Sunday night contract Of marriage
IL not void under the general Sunday
law. I'm TINT part OF the country
where my youth was passed" says
this very human and sagacious Judge
" used to think that such engage
ments were among the things that
Sunday, and especially Sunday even
ings, was instituted for
Several Of our Carson river ranch
crs have clipped number of carload
OF POTATOES from this point this week
Potato buyers are now only paying
from eli t. el6 Il ton. Lust year at
this time potatoes were bringing $50
to S3J "a ton, and our Italian friends
were told that these were Mckinley
prosperity prices. They are wonder
ing why Mckinley nns lowered the
price Of spuds this ycnT.-LyunCoun-
ty Timts.
There is Il city in Africa where lead
is used successfully for building pur-
poses. Byra il the name Of this rather
extensive town, which has over 300
buildings built OF pure lead. Three
very tinc public buildings. with boau.
titul concentrations. have been con-
structcd from pure lead. Besides
durability, the %chcnpncss uf the min.
cral il Il great consideration. Thus
tho construction OF amy Of these very
elaborate buildings never exceeds the
cost Of $4,000.
To enable tOuriHts io croRs the
English channel without the incon.
venience Of s~casickucRs, u French.
Uan has designed n submarine bont
to DO propelled by cable traction. II
will Accommodate about 80 passcn.
gers and will make the journey in
aboit IN hour, and should any acct.
dent happen To the motive power OF
the bont II will nj once he detached
when 1t will nj once rise to tho aur.
face and continue tho journey in tho
ordinary manner.
According to n report isRucd TO tho
California Fish. Commissioners by
Wells, Fargo IS Co, there were lG. 0OO
pounds Of trout shipped ont Of Reno
during the fishing scason last year
Most OF this amount WA consigned
to Snn FranCiacO. II In estimated
ilnt the people Of Reno uso ON the
average about four POUNDS ot trout
zach. which mean n total Of 10000
pounds Of trout that are annually
caught IN tho Truckcc Mt tina point
Journal.
Clay Irlnnd tells w TINT tho snow
10 about two fcct deep on the level nj
Columbia and in somc places in tho
mountains 1t Ia piled up in drifte over
twenty feet deep. There will bc Il
scarcity Of watcr in that section this
sonson. Work on tho placcrs OF
Mountain CITY md Van Duacr Crcclt