Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-08-02
iFRoM SATURDAYS DAILY.l
SALMAGUSD

Judge IaIbDt returned from Ken
last night.
The Elko baseball club will lrnye
for Tuecarurn curly ~ the mOrpimx.
Willie Critchiry will carry the In
DEPENDENT hereafter Willie IL u
rustler ami he will no his icvri ht +,
to get the paper around "n time.
Bob Rice WIS able to leave IA.
hospital today and meet his friends
on the streets. T." Is still very acre
from the injury Il" received at Skri-
ton some time ago.
Allen Fisher is III town this after.
noon he wears tho same genial
smile he wore seventy years ago and
tells Hs many big stories as he did i IA
Ins younger days.
Paul Schillerstrom came IN from
South Fork this afternoon with his
little girl who is suiTcr ny with "a
nervous disorder. lie says the earth
quake shock was not felt on South
Fork.
Fred Beck 81 Virginia C.ty. who
attended the big shooting carnival at
san Francisco, won II handsome silver
trophy for his excellent rnarksman.
ship. He made IS out OF \ possible
~ points.
The United Srnrca gr md jury re.
turned eleven indictments Yesterday.
l'uur cases were ignored. All the
parties from this county charged
with selling liquor To Indians have
been indicted. Deputy Marshal
Humphrey will take them to Carson
tonight or Monday afternoon.
AbOut the warmeBt town in Nevada
Tcrms Ia he Itioville. Lincoln county.
where the Thermometer at midnight
~ the 18th. stood ut lGj. while dur
ing the day it has reached 100. This
IL probably the hottest weather Ne.
vnda has experienced since it wns in.
haDited 10y white people.
President Hays has ordered al the
s%alnons in Palisudr, located ON the
right of way Of the railroad. to stop
selling Intoxicating liquors on and
after August lst. This will compel
the saloons mud hotols To close their
hnrs or move outsidr The railroad
limits. \ letter from Paiisadc, .r-
c"ivrd last night. gives us the news
Rev. IS j. Durnriilc will leave
Monday Tor 1t trip tn Austin, Bel
mont. Eureka. Ely. Piocnc md De
Lamar and all the other towns III
southern Nevada. IA all the trip
from AUSTIN will be by stage. the
itcYcrncd gentleman does not look
forward to II pleasure trip
The unique distinction Of housing
more persons than ANY other binding
III the world belongs to the big
douhlrdcckcr tenement at 10 Essex
street, New York. ln this house iI2
pcnou@ find shelter, and ;hc dwcilcrs
embrace Jcws, Russians. Poles. Hun.
garIRns, linliaus. with a sprinkling 0f
Iri-hmcn, Il FrcnChman or two and u
number Of ~polygl"is who claim ,n bc
Greeks or Turks are to he found, and
even an American in not wanting.
The Tuscarorn basc bull boys have
kept themselves busy for several days
in wctting down every iuch Of the
ground within one hundred yards of
the diamond. The Il. Is Is are de.
i"rmrnCd Ia spare neither labor nor
expense III providing Tor the comfort
Uf their visitors and friends. Elko's
three Bs are nssurcd of u good time
and II square deal in the game to bc
played on Monday mcxt.-Tincs lie.
view.
Ahout n month and u half ngo Ham
MCCaiu,thn llnilrck weather prophet.
struck the towr and prophesicd that
nn the following Monday II long
rainy spell or a hot dry spell ~
weather would set in. Tho Monday
am and with il II cold wave that
lastcd II week or mOrc. aud not Il drop
AZ water fell from the clouds for
nearly = month. So sure WIS he tint
his prophecy would como true that
he ngrCcl t0 treat the whole town II
hc failed to call the turn on the
weHthcr. Yesterday he struck town
Hgaiu md vent for the editor Of the
lsDErEEDEST. The editor went aud
mot him and after the usual formal.
ties were Ovn Ham snid: "Mr.
B"olIcr. ! owe yoh IN apology. |
lied lik" II coyote about the weather.
Late tn2c n smile and forget IT," lie
called up everybody in eight and aa
the beer disappeared everything was
forgotten lIn will makr no more
rash prophecies.
Tho Sentinel learns TINT MCsars
Harrington. Henderson, Russell md
other citizens u Elko arc having tho
nascamcnt work done on some 1900
mcrca ~ petroleum lhud situated in
Union pisiriCi, scvcn milce east Of
Mineral IIill. in Eureka county. II
IN understood that boring machinery
will goo 10 placed on tho ground
and work commenced Ia determine IL
oil ~ rayiug uItantiIies cnn Inc found.