Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-07-12
4FR0M TUESDAYS DAILY
SALMACCNDI

e'iSntlS under the weather today.
Lieutenant Governor Judge and
Controller Davis left for Eureka on
last evenings train.
Henry Jones aud S. G. Garcia have
returned from California, where they
went to look over some oil land.
Martin Brown, proprietor Of the
Jackson house at Eureka. arrived
last evening and is hobuobbing with
luis many Elko friends.
Nearly all the ranchers in this &c.
ton commenced cutting hay this
week. Tho crop generally will be
small compared with last year.
The story that J. Pierpont Morgan
hti acquired the Washington monu-
ment and wuuld chop it up into fence
posts for his estate in tho country il
denied.
VIM. Hooper. assessor Of Eureka
county arrived last night and will
leave for Carson in u day or SD on
business connected with railroad tax
mnttcrs.
james OIBrien, aged 81 years died
at. the hospital yesterday AFTERNOON
from enteric fever. Mr.. O'Brien was
brought up from Carlin, very i'll.
Sunday night, and WIS taken to tho
hospital.
Attorney Geo. S. Brown departed
Tor Eureka last night. where he will
stage it fifty miles south 20 some
mines. returning To Austin. to attend
to legal matters i'll an Injunction suit
We don't envy him OF his trip any in
this kind Of weather.
4 report WAS in circulation on
Thursday evening that I. j. McMa.
o persisted on the desert while on
his way To Tonapah. Rumor stated
that his horse had gotten away from
him, and after e~ndenvorng To catch
1t, he persisted from heat Lincoln
COuUty Record.
n woman got oil the westbound
tram while II stopped here last even
ing t" make some slight purchases,
leaving her little baby in the car.
While III the grocery store the train
pdlled ont. Luckily for her the
trainmcn raw her ana stopped at the
water tank. She got aboard, ami
will doubtless know better next time.
IL wRs funny, very funny, for the on
lockers, but judging from the
mother's gestures and the expression
on her face. she didn't enjoy the stu
alton III the least.
U. Consul Clifford. stationed mt
Baslc, says that the trade figures
show this dinnutive republic, which
Is abnnt halt III large as tLe State OF
Maine, to he commercially the most
highly developed part Of the world.
IL show the astonishing figure Of
el3O Of foreign commerce for every
unit uf IT. pupulGtinu Of three mil
lions. And these results have been
attained 10y ii country without ed
ports, without coal or iron. and with.
ont ANY considerable quantity Of raw
material for the manufactures i, has
to sell.
y Washington dispatch says: Mr..
l rHcewe!i. the Comptroller Of the
Treasury. has decided that the Secre.
tary 81 the Trenrury has authority
under the law tn refund to Lascellcs
Il Company. of New York.. the duties
paid them on sugar imported from
Port" Rico between the date the
trraty Of Paris took effect and the
date ri the approval NJ the Foraker
act. The duties su paid amounted
{" over SITO.000. This decision If
'''"'t Hl'Oll thc ISIChN InsulHI ueClS
ions of the. Supreme Court. Other
claims are on file for refunds amount,
ing Ia about Sl.5OO.O0O.
Miss Florence Hammond arrived
from San Francisco Sunday evening
to visit Mrs. G.. g. Henderson. Miss
Hammond just before coming Ia
Elko met with an exciting experience
at her home in San Francisco when
a we'll dressed burglar entered the
house. aud held up the occupants, II
full account 81 which appeared in the
city papers which reached here yes
tcTday morning. The burglar came
in through a back window after the
family lIHi retired. and in the most
gcntlcmaUly manner, ut the point of
II pistol, awukc tho s%lccrcrs and com.
PEELED them to hand over what
money there was in tho house, stat
ing nc did not want any jewels Hs
they were liable to lead to detection.
After securing all tho money he
could, he chattod pleasantly Tor Il
while. saying lie Tocdcd money very
much, shook hands with Miss Ham,
m0nd and told her not to bc fright,
cncd ~ he had sisters ~ his ~
md would not harm her, bid the
Young lady and her mother a VERY
polite good night, and requested
them TO have tho mnid lot him out nj
the front door, which roqucst wa.
complied with. lie then removed th,
handkerchief he had tied around his