Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-20
lFROM TUESDAYS DAILY.l
SALMAGUNDI

Mr.. Carroll has closed his barber
shop and taken the position Of night
bar tender at the Club saloon.
Tho Supreme court OF the United
States has set April Beth. MS the date
for hearing the Kentucky Governor.
ship case.
Mrs. Mary II. Hardy, formerly OF
Elko. died ut the home OF her daugh-
ter, Ms. George Baumau, at Palisade
yesterday afternoon. Rev. Mitchell
went toPalisade this afternoon to con-
duct lie funeral services.
Assessor Eggers is getting ready to
build Il fine brick residence iii the
vacant lot east of Mr.. Sproule's
Part OF the material is 0n the ground.
When completed il will be the hand
soonest residence in Elko.
The United States Supreme court
yesterday decided the cases involving
the stamp tax ns it applies TO express
packages, the question being whether
the shipper or the carrier email pay
the stamp charges. Tie opinion WAS
handed down by Ju.cice White AMI
IL favorable to the express companies
Miss Fanny Smiley returned Sun.
day from Los Angeles, where she has
been for the last five months with
her little brother who is suffering
from heart trouble. The little fellow
accompanied her and seemed TO be
much stronger aud better than when
he went away.
The Virginia Report, whose editor
Ifs Il member Of the Silver party State
committee, thinks the election Of
three Silver party men as delegates
To the National Democratic conveB-
tion was n graceful act" lies, gra-
ciOus to the Silver party, but a
damnable fraud upon the Democracy
of the State. Smoke that.
William Pearl dropped dead III
Gold tn this afternoon. about two
weeks ago Pearl and Leo Blake had "A
fight. Pearl struck Blake with a beer
bottle on the face and Blake return
ed the blow by striking Pearl over the
head with an iron pipe. Whether
Pearl died from the effects of the
blow or other causes is not known.
Virginia I hroniclc.
y rumor has been floating around
for some time that r.. Gibson, who
figured i'll the Durrant murder trial,
had, upon his dcathbei. confessed to
the murder 81 Blanche Lamont and
Minnie Williams. The Salt Lake
Tribune puhlishe | an article to that
effect ON the llth. from a Wyoming
paper. In its issue OF the 10Th, in
answer to a correspondent, who asks
for Information regarding the truth.
fulness OF the item taken from the
Wyoming paper, the Tribune says:
i" i'i'Ni' fiII'tb III" SNOTy
merely as IL clipping, crediting the
Wy"umg paper with its authorship,
and not Knowing but there might he
something III it; but we are now con-
vInced that there was no foundation
at all for the story"
Secretary Dennis Of the Democrat.
&c StHtc Central COMMITTEES stated
ut Saturdays meeting that he
had apportionco the delegates
to the State cU]nvcutiLO Ia the various
counties upon the basis adopted by
tho committee. Tho request was
made that il be read for tho informa
of the Committee, but for some reas.
Oh the reading wRs refused. The re-
quest was repeated and again refused
Tho chairman refused to order the
reading Of the apOrtiOument and as q
consequence no n outside Of the con.
tidcnce of the secretary knows what il
contains. ThclSDErENDENT looked the
matter up and finds that Elko county
Gust 99j votes for Bryan in 1896 and is
therefore entitled to II delegates in
the Stnte convention. This result il
obtained by adding the highest vote
received 10y tho Bryan and Scwall
electors to the highest vote received
by the Bryan and Watson electors.
How'a This.