Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-06-07
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Virginia City haa raised e400 for
Fourth Of July celebration.
Slime Merkeley came in iror
Mound Valley yesterday. He report,
the crops looking well In that section
Tho cleanup from the .Klondiks
gold mines this season viii reach the
enormous sum Of s25,0O0,00O or $780,,
COu,OO0.
All but two Of Elko county's tax,
payers paid the second installment oil
taxes. Tho delinquency is in the
neighborbood Of as.
James Holiand is down from North
Fork. He ss.'s there s splendid
feed on the rauIe and that cattle
never looked better than they do now
The 18th OF June, 1901, will be the
irst Flag Day Of the Twentieth
century. That beng the day III l777
when Congress adopted the Stars aud
Stripes ~ an emblem.
The Virginia Report Gays: There
seems no longer TO be any doubt but
that John p. Jones will be a candl
date for reelection to the United
Statea Senate next year.
The two Indian boys who shot and
dangerously wounded John Baimpl
on White River. NE county. F-bru.
airy 18th, have been cent To the State
Prison. Ii for q months and the
other for "a months.
Jailer Beveridge has four prisoners
to look after. One ia held u appear
before the U. s. Rr md Jury. one To
appear before the ElRo county grand
jury and the other two are serving
seutenc%s.
y. D. Van Duzer is engaged IN the
compilation OF a handbook Of the
counties Of Nevada and their re.
sources, The book, which will b.
soon issued. will have a great value
for reference and advertising pur.
poses.
William Kennedy, Sr., il in from
Mound Valley. The old gentleman
f hearty and spry and looks rs II he
were good for d number of years
more. He will remalL in town a dav
or so taking IN the sights and shak.
hands with his many friends.
Governor Sadler has received a
box nj cigars from Manila as u pres
ent from Captain Bennett Of the U s
Artillery. Each cigar WAS lone up
in u small glass bottle and was about
five inches long.
DIR. Leonardo who has travelled
through the northern part Of the
county, reports splendid feed on the
range from Mrs. Wrilaud's AZ fns
north rs Snake nver. He says the
northern country never looked bet.
ter.
Mr.. Penrod. who has been quite
sick for several weeks. has recovered
sufficiently to go to his home Ills
sickness NEARLY cost him the sight OF
one eye and left him very weak. He
is on the up grade now and the INDIE
PENDENT hopes that he will fully re-
cover.
An Indian was poisoned the other
day near Austin by eating a meal
prepared by him self. He claimed
that the poison vas in the salt and
sugar and That n white man he WA
working with placed it there. The
white man also got n dose the next
day and a third party happened along
und IN made very sick. The white
man frat mentioned has been arrest
ed.
Oscar Darneilly was terribly in.
inred in p mine near Tupapah the
other day. lie had put In several
blasta and set them off. Thinking
that ull had exploded he returned to
his work aud 5egan removing the
hose a tn when Il fearful explosion
took place. The lower por iou Of his
fee WA LITERALLY blown of and his
arms and chest were decorated in a
horrible manner. IL ia Thought his
injuries will prove fatal. Darneilly
ID but nineteen years old.
Here. says the Boston Herald, ia a
sncieiy note Tint is worth while.
Prof. Clark Of the North western
University Of Chicago Is reported to
have said to his class in liierat urp:
The society girl is u parasite. She
lives 0n her father. md in return. che
gives him nothing, She IL of no
benefit 10 tho world. and there is no
need Of our keeping eucb n Eeirht
with us. Tho ,oupg /, who seeks
Il society girl for a wife in. on tho
wrong track. May God help him
That mRrries ono Of them, for he Ia
tying a milestone around his neck
VI Of which is English literature
with a vengence.
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