Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-06-15
IRON SATURDAYS DAILY.1
SAIIAIAG USDI.


Mrs. NJ. -. Gardner, mother Of DIR.
Gardner, arrived this morning from
Carson. She Ii III rather poor health
and will remain here some time.
Willie Andrews, mn Indian, has
been sentenced To eight years in the
State Prison for burglariz.ug the
store Of Adam & Miller ut lIaw-
thcrne.
Constable Triplctt had a racket
with three drunken Indians at o
lle finally succeeded in persuadmg
them with "a club to leave town on a
freight train.
j. Il. Gignoux, NJ. G.. Cecil and l..
VI. Gile passed through last nigh; on
their way to Sioux City, South Da-
kota, to attend the Supreme Lodge
Of the 4. o. y. w.
The Argus says eighteen white men
arrived in LovelOck Thursday Ia
work on the railroad. They were
shipped there 10y the railroad com.
pany, but most OF them jumped into
the hay fields.
When we wrote yesterdays squib
q tho RAIN, 1t did not look It's
II it would be much Of a shower.
After il WAS written, the iluudgntUs
were opened aud nearly an inch OF
water fell. II was Il splendid rain
and will do II vnst amount ~ good.
Everybody IL smiling today on dc.
count III il.
Tho Dispatch says theories are aI-
vanced in Wadswnrth that Al
Fcathcr5touc, who WIS killed in the
Wadsworth yard the other day, WIS
murdered und his body afterwards
placed on tho track in such II position
that when the cars were moved To the
east the body would be mangled.
The cOroncr's jury 70 md u verdic; of
accidental death.
Tho Lovclock Argus says TINT
while Miss Nora Gross Was gong out
to the ranch Of George Pitt last Sun
LAY abe held tho halter rope Of II
horse which WAS being led behind
the buggy. In some way the q u
became twisted arouul the Young
lady's arm and suddenly the horse
pulled back, with the result that her
arm WIS broken.
Notwithstanding the rain II big
crowd gathered at the A.OU.W. Hall
last night Ia take IN the festival and
salc. The ladies' were ont in force
and n goOdly sum Wa realized for
the GuIlh treasury. This rs an evil
dcncc that the people Of Elko know
a good thing when they see 1t.
Two Spanish cannon passed east
on Il freight tram this morning, con-
signed tn the Smithsonian Institute
at Washington, ID. e.. One wRH u e.
inch brnss gun ubom: twelve feet long
cast III 1879. and Ouco did duty Tor
Spain at Manila. Tho other was a
modern steel gun ahoui fourteen feet
long, and was taken from the Maria
Christina after Dove! sent her to the
bottom Of Manila Bay.
The most expensive manufactured
product III .hc world IL charcoal
thread, used for incHndcsccnt lamps.
/: IN made III France and sold 10y
the grnmmc-l5L grains lirduc.
ing its price Ia the basis of pounds.
il appears that the tilamlcnts for
lamps % twenty candles are worth
$4,000 per pound. They have II Iii.
amcter Of 0039l nf nm inch: II would
take about 100000 OF them to weigh
a ponGd.
II IL evident that Rathbunc - Cuba
has u metaphors mind 81 rare qu Il.
ity. His reported threat la Heath
hRs n scripiural aud picturesque
beauty: "If," he wrote, al am arrest.
ed, Or II am mOlcstcd, | will pull
down the columns ~ tho temple, and
although | perish IN the ruins there
will bG others vino will go down with
me- This illusion tn SamFon's cclc-
brated feat as II temple wrcckcr may
vol have given Hanna Il bad quarter
OF nm hour. Hanna il among the
"othcrs" referred to.
a corOncr's jury, summoned to IN.
quirc into tho death Of W. Crownin.
shield. the Como hermit, returned
Il verdict Tint tho dcccaecd came To
his death as tho result Of n fall from
a saddle horse which Ie WA riding.
Tho dead body was found about 30
feet from the cabin and was in such IA
frigbiful state Of decomposition that
cremation was dccidcd upon Ms tho
only method to dispose II IL. \ fun.
eral pyro 81 sagobrush and pinc
boughH WINS spread over tho corpse Mt
the placo whore il VIVA found and tho
remains were reduced to ashes
Pending the process OF cremation u
funeral service VIVA rcad. Enter prise.