Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-03-15
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Mr.. Morrow is improving steadily.
Mr.. Litton is reported better today
MD. Keith is reported us being
quite ill.
Tom Stinion came to town yester.
hay afternoon.
Mrs. J. +. Holland Of North Fork
is visiting friends in Carson.
j.. G. Mccoy and family left last
night for their new home in Colorado.
Mrs. I. T. Harris departed last
nieht for Ruby Valley to visit Mrs.
Gedney.
Pitts Revenue bill providing Tor u
State Board Of Assessors passed the
Assembly unanimously Tuesday.
Eiko's flag iloatcd mt hal, mast to.
day rs Il taken of respect to the
memory Of Ex.Pr:sident Harrison.
Mrs. A. Roach has sold her bust.
ness and property in Carlin and
taken up her residence in Elko.
Reports from Carson cay the
chances are favorable for the legisIa.
ture to adjourn tomorrow.
Commissioner Clark WIS taken
quite i'll last evening. lie is much
better today and Will soon bo out
again.
Constable Mccoy returned from
South Fork last evening. lie sue
cerded III persuading Mr.. PAttini To
give W the South Fork bridge aud to
permit MIR. Yates to drive acrcss his
meadow alter it.
The Supreme Court manufactured
several brand new lawyers Wedue--
day. Z. II. Mcintosh Of Lovelork,
n. \. ilummeI of Wadsworth and
Frank ID. KING Of Reno passed the
tests satisfactorily.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to
give $4,000 to The Ogden Library
issbci ,tIon. lie asks that the city of
Ogden furnish the site FOR the build
ing aud guarantee S2,5U0 d year To
MAINTAIN it. The proposition will be
accepted.
e. III. Hale returned from Color
ado Yesterday. He has purchased Il
ranch in Morgan county, near Cor
ona, and will move his family there
next moth.
An editor newly married asked:
~What is the difference between a
~honeycomb, II honeymoon and Il
pretty girl? \ honey comb Is a small
cell, a honeymoon Is IA big cell, and Il
pretty girl is IA damsel."
John Henderson. the negro who
on ragged and murdered Mrs. Youn-
ger several days ago, after making II
,omPIete confess on. n burned at
the stake yesterday afternoon. at Cor
sIcdma, Texas, by II mob III the pres
ence Of more titan 5.OUO people.
Carson aud Reno got their fingers
III the State Treasury aud hautd out
S3IG0 Of the peoples money for scrub
horse races this fall. Carson gets
$3.50 of the loot and Reno takes the
balance, $3.50. The two towns pooled
issues ~ order to draw the $1,000 ont
OF the State Treasury. The State mt
large Will receive no benefit from this
appropriation.
Some Missouri newspaper man has
figured oul that Noah WIS the earliest
advertiser. That he advertised the
date on which he would sail for l2O
days, and those who dill not believe
IN advertising failed to get tickets
and were left III the wet during lie
forty days rain, without umbrellas or
bathing suits. As most Of theru
couldn't swim it is thought they took
to the trees ana became monkeys.
Benjamin HARRISON. Ex.Pfesident
at the Unitcd States. died at his
home III lndi napnIis, Indiana. at 4:4j
"Wednesday afternoon. His death de.
priYea the country Of one OF its abiest
II priest statesmen. He won fame
ON the battle fields Of the civil war.
III the senate chamber, in the Presi
dental chair and us IA private citiz, IN
ut the expiration of his term. Ills
record as IN official is above re-
pro"ch mud ns " c~ItIzcn purc mud
blninciGss. Wherever placed he OK.
allied American citizenship.