Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-06

Joe Taber is wrestling with the
grippe.
Elko will have quite II building
boom this IN
y cattle association has been organ.
lied i'll Llnder county.
Mrs. Dawley 10 on the sick list.
She is wrestling with the grippe.
Bryan addressed 1000 people at Ia
coma, Washington, yesterday after
noon.
The Supreme court has set May
18th rs the date for examination Of
applicants for admission to the Ne
vada bar.
a caboose and two freight ARE
were burned in the wreck at RiDdon.
Tho wrecking train went up this
morning to clean up the ~wreckage.
Joe Pete was still at large at latest
accounts. The commissioners Of
Douglas county have offered n re
ward OF $500 for him dead or alive.
Charley May and Alex Dromiack
are going to build n first-class hotel
in Reno. The ho.el will be a four
story brick I5kIOO feet. 1t will cost
over $4,000.
Col. MaXson came down from Wells
last night and remained in town to.
day. He says he is looking out for
his surveying outfits, but then the
Col. is such a slick article TINT one
cannot always tell what he is up to
on the eide.
Director Friend gives the precipi-
tuition Of yesterdays storm rs rs OF
an inch. The actual snow fall was
nine inches, the largest fall in April
for 20 years, with the exception OF
1880 when there was IL inches.-Car.
son News.
State Printer Maute has our thanks
for a copy OF the new compiled laws
The book Is geographically neat and
will doubtless fill that long.fclt want
OF the legal fraternity. Whether 1t
does or not, the taxpayers will foot
the bills.
a short time ago we nske6 the Car
son Appeal to inform us what ser
vices Attorney Sadler had performed
to entitle him to receive $50 from the
State treasury. The Appeal has evil
IDENTIFY overlook the request rs it has
not furnished the information. The
Appeal will please look it up.
The mammoth auditorium at Kan.
sas City, in which the National Dem.
ocratic convention WIS to have been
held, vas destroyed by fire yesterday.
1t will be rebuilt in time for the con-
vention. The fire spread to other
property and the loss is roughly esti.
mated at from S3J0,0O0 to $3.50. 900.
Ex-Chaplain Wells says there are
300 saloons IN Manila, that women sell
whisky OF the streets as peanuts are
sold III this country, and that the city
Is IL grand. sweet gang OF booze.
lighters. The cr.chaplain must be
an emigrant agent. Since hearing
thus story we have thought Of pack
ing up IL newspaper and treckking
across the Pacific ourselves.-IIarde
mau Free Press.
IL is denied that Lord Salisbury
has apologized for opening the Amer.
lean consular mail. One can we'll
believe from the throne ioafing OF the
Mckinley administration, that Great
Britain is immune from II apology
To this country for anything it may
do. When slapped on one cheek. we
meekly turn the other cheek to be
slapped also. This beautiful spirit
grows out OF benevolent assimilation,
The Senate yesterday passed the
Porto Eican tariff bill by a vote Of 40
W We "'ilN hIu AOltN ART NOlttl lbT
the bill. Senator Davis OF Minnesota
offered n FREQ trade amendment.
which was defeated 10y "a vote Of 30 to
10. The Porto Rican's benevolent
assimilation will now be accomplish
ed by taxing them to iepth.
Homer. tho San Francisco CORE.
spondcnt Of the Carson Weekly, says:
II is reported on good authority that
prominent capitalists. who are inter
cstcd III the advancement Of Reno
have entered into negotiations with
parties Of that city for tho erection
and operation of one OF the largest
iiOuring mills in Nevada. Tie mill
will cost 100000 and il ia to be erect.
cd near the Truokoo river come time
this spring.
The Nevada Experiment Station ID
digging n vol at the station seventy.
eight feet in depth which takes lis
water 81 far below tho surface tia,
surface water is almost mn impossi
bility. The winter from the lower
strata raises within twenty-five feet
of the surface. THIS afternoon they
put in a pump aud now tho UniYer
sity con have pure water without
hauling it. a Reno Gazattc reporter
visited tho we'll this afternoon. The
water is pure aud sweet and a careful