Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-07-20
IRON SATURDAYS DAILY.l
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Tuscarora yesterday to meet his
brother. who is expected to return
from the Kansas City convention in u
day or so.
Richards IL liandley report bust
ness coming in very nicely. Relnem-
her their stay il short so do not wait
for come II else to come. l.
Thomas HUXLEY, II prominent min.
ing and millmuu Of the Comstock
died in Virginia City yesterday sitter.
noon. He was native OF England,
aged over GO years.
The Census Office has issued a
bulletin giving the population of the
District Of Columbia ut 27S,7l
This Id an increase since the last
censu OF 1926, or 20.9S per cent.
MIR. Morgan has purchased two lots
Immediately south AMI adjoining the
residence Of Walter Kline and will
build "a tine residence on them. Mr..
Matthews has the contract and will
begin work ut once.
Guesscs ON the population Of the
United States returned by the
Twelfth Census range all the way
from 7o,00O.0l0 100000, 600. The
Treasury Department figures the per
capita circulation Of money on the
estimate Of 7I,Or0,O00 Of population.
a Butte City, Montana. correspon.
dent OF the Carson News States that
every Nevndun who las bc,tcred his
condition 10y cmigratung IL that hust
ling mining center, owes his SUCCESS
to the fact that some one with IA pull
Tas behind him.
a SedgwIck man has discovered a
small fair-haired eisht-ycar. old. WAC
asked her mama il she could take her
best doll to heaven with her when
she died, and when she answered ia
the negative. che at once said:
well. II | cant take my dolls to
hcaven with me | will take my little
black doll and go to hcll-Scdgwick
Paragraph.
The town Of Fay. Lincoln county,
winch now numbers 400 souls, has
drawn go heavily upon the town Of
D~ccrlodge, which il but two miles
distant, that the later is practically
dopopulated, and 10y August first Il
~p0stoilice will have been established
at the former, with facilities for the
daily transmission Of mails.-DcLa.
ma Lode.
Tho Gcrmanic, u very well.knUwn
steamer Of the White Star Line, has
made more than 800 trips aCross the
Atlantic. She and her sister ship,
1he Britannia, built in 1874, have
each travelled considerably over two
millions Of miles, a distance equal to
eight and thrcc.quarter times that
bttwecn the earth and the moon.
Between them they have carried
considerably over 100000 saloon and
Btceragc passengers HCrUss the At.
lnntic.
Congressman Ncwlands returned
from IuscaroTW yesterday afternoon.
lie WAS shown the report OF his
epeech delivered here Wednesday
night aud after reading it, said it was
the best report Of a speech that
no had ever had i'll tho State. lIc
pointed ont II or two slight in.
aCcuraCies but ON the whole was
highly pleased with it. lie left this
afternoon for winnemucca, where he
speaks tonight.
Tho Republicans now say TINT the
tremendous production OF gold in the
last fonr years has satisfied the do.
mands 81 the country for money. Is
this not nm admission that il the pro.
ductiOn Of gold had remained station
AIRY that the demands Of tho country
for money would not have been sat.
isiicd? Tho truth IL that those who
make money by handling money are
Scry sorry that the demands ot the
country hive been satisfied by the
production OF gold. because the value
OF money has been kept down to some
extent by IL nnl prices of ng~ricultur.
al products have III like measure
kept mP.-Quelqurfois in Gnrdneryillc
Courier.
Tho uows from China is very con.
Trajectory. 4 news ngcncy in Lon
don st0ied yesterday TINT I'm official
message bnd been received which
stated TINT tho foreigners in Pekin
Ind been murdered on july 9Th. a
dispatch received yesterday by the
State Department ut Washington
from Consul Gnolnow stated that the
Boxers aud soldiers were bombarding
the legations for II final attack on
July It'll. Tho COnsul adds that
fears OF tho worst are generally en-.
tcrtaincd. Tho dispatch from Good.
now depressed the Washington
officials. 81 the rcgmcet of Secretary
Hay, Minister Vic lIns undertaken to
open communication with Minister
Copgor at Pckin. Two days have
elapsed einco the message to ConRcr
went for ward anil II is confidently
believed TINT IL il nov on tho way
from Shanghai tO pCkfn, surrounded