Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-06-28
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.
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Judge Bonniieif returned to Win
nemucca this afternoon.
Ham Mcttain's little daughter
broke one OF her arms this morning
No particulars.
The News says the various com
mittees will have over $4,000 to spend
on the Carson carnival.
Wyoming is to have the first auto
mobile stage line in the country. Il
will be operated between Sheridan
and Buffalo. the vehicles making the
round trip OF 100 miles daily.
Mise Nellie Epstein has been
chosen queen OF the Carson carnival
She had 329S votes more than Miss
Katie Schultz. her closest competitor
The contest turned SS6225 into the
carnival committee.
Col. Maxsop, Mt the head OF the
Government survey forces in Nevada,
says he has recently put three corps
of engineers in the field in Lander,
Eureka and humboldt counties. He
now has 40 men at work.
Sixteen people were killed and
about fifty injured by a train on the
Wabash running into u culvert near
Peru, Indiana, early yesterday morn
ing. The dead are MI Italian immi.
grants en- route to Colorado.
There was a riot at Rochester, New
York, yesterday. between 1000 strik-
ing laborers and the police. No ono
was killed. but many OF the rioters
had sore heads after the scrimmage.
None of the police were hurt.
The grand jury Of Lander county
ignored the charge of poisoning
against LOUIS Bozzini and he was
discharged from custody. Bozzini
was charged with attempting to
poison an Iuiian who was working
for him.
The Texas Supreme Court Mt Aus
tin has rendered an important decls-
ion affecting the oil industry. The
Court decided that the State has no
interest i'll mineral lands sold to act
ual settlers from the school land do
main.
Their is nothing new from thu oil
fields. The failure to begin boring is
said to be duo to the scarcity OF drill
ing machines on the market. The
Texas and California demands used
up the supply and the strike has pre-.
vented the manufacture OF new ma
chimes.
The mining case TINT occupied the
attention Of Judge Bonnifield and a
jury since last Saturday went to the
jury late yesterday afternoon. The
jury wrestled with it until about IL
o'clock last night when nine of them
agreed on q verdict for the plaintiffs
K. g. O'Neil and others.
DR.. Stubs wishes tile INDEPEr.
DENT to state that owing to the fact
that no applications having been
made to take the examination for the
Cadetshlp mt the United States Naval
Academy from the Eastern counties
OF the State, the examination to be
held IN Elko, July first and second, is
recalled.
Latest reports from the coal mine
say that a station has been suit out
on the incline and that a drift ia be-
ing run to connect with the old work
ings and the incline is beng extended
Fourteen feet OF coal formation WIS
uncovered in making the station.
The coal continues to improve in
quality.
For the first time in years the Pull
man Car Company will file state.
ments with the assessors according
to law, and this will enable tlom to
be assessed. Conductor Davis re.
ceived a dispatch from the Governor
last evening, dated San Francisco
stating TINT the Pullman Company
would lille their statements inside Of
ten days.--CarsOn Appeal.
1t il reported that Il fight occurred
between two we'll known Willow
Point rauchmen yesterday. They
had n disagreement over water rights
and concluded to settle it by n 70.
sort to tisticutfs rather THAI choose
the moro expensive method OF taking
it into tho courts. Ono OF the com-
batnnts was rather roughly handled
by his antagonist,-Silver State.
John a. Anderson OF Philadelphia
and a. o. Turner OF Grass Valley,
Cal, have bought the Tonapah
minea. Tho rrico is ss9G, 900, OF which
$4,000 Inns been paid, slO0, 900 to be
paid in nincty days, aud s3sb,O0O be
fore January lat. The deepest SHIFT
is ninety feet aud shows four feet OF
ore that averages $1,000 per ton.
J. Z. Doughty, Tuscarorn's now
postmaster, ia in town. lilo bears his
new honors meckly. He will take
charge Of the p~ostoIlicc rs soon as
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