Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-07-05
lFROM TUESDAYS DAILY.
ALMACCN ID

Fork this morning with u big lead OF
ranch supplies.
Dan Mahan and wife and Pedro
Altube and Jules Altube are in from
Independence valley.
Between forty and fifty Elkoites
started for Eureka this afternoon to
spend h Fourth. They we're a jolly
set, bent Oh having II good time.
John Henderson. George Hunter
and Charley Moody returned from
their fishing trip last n,ght. They
tell big stories about the fish they
caught and ate.
George 4. Nourse, formerly Attor.
ney General Of Nevada, WIS found
dead in his Office at Fresno. Calisor
mia, last Friday afternoon. lie WIS
Il native OF Maine.
c. ID. Alexander is III from North
Fork. He reports that two OF the
prominent residents OF Deeth wcre
fined $50 each last week for violating
the game laws.
IL il rumorej that the nine owned
by the late &. T.. Wallace and located
IL Marlposa county, Cal. has been
sold 10 IN Eastern syndicate for Il
consideration Of s200,OOO.
The miners inch is being abolished
us a legal measure for water. Arr
IONA, California aud Montana have
each passed laws making the cubic
foot the standard measure.
At ten, child; at twenty, wild;
At thirty, tame, il ever;
NJ forty. nch; at fifty. wise
(.And all because he advertised);
Al sixty. good, or never.
John Carroll, a prominent mem Der
OF the Virginia Miners Union. died
Sunday morning. He was unani.
mously elected secretary to till the
vacancy caused 10y John +. MELON.
nell skipping the country with the
| Unions cash.
The hot gave continues throughout
the East and many people are dying
from the heat. Al Lancaster, Penn
sylvania. yesterday the thermometers
registered 100 degrees in the shade
and at several other places they reg
istered over 100.
Eleven boys were killed and one
fatally injured atChicago yesterday al
ternoOn 10y a single bolt OF lightning.
The boys rushed to "a pier at the foot
Of Montrose Boulevard to seek shel
ter during Il heavy thunder sho wer.
The bpIdt demolished the pier and
threw il into the water.
Tragedy seems to III III the family
OF Secretary Hay. The accidental
death Of his sOn AIDE bert recalls the
fact THAI id, ibrri's uncle .AdeIbeGt
Stone. wis drowned and that his
grandfather committed suicide III the
bathroom -. his hom. at Cleveland.
OHIO.
Last Saturday Detective Fitzpat-
rick caught ii tramp gong through
the rnilrGad camp at iIolborn and
arrested him. lie was taken before
Justice COngor Of Wells and given
fifty days III the county Jail. Con
stable Moore brought him down Sat-
urday night.
Paul Kruger lost no time IN deny.
ing the ST ateInent that he had sent a
wreath to place on the grave ~ Abel.
bert Hay. Those conversant with
the history Of the Trausvaal for the
past two years would not have he.
lieved the statement even il Dom
Paul had q taken the trouble to
deny It.--Bec.
John Daniel, at one time a promi-
nent gambler Of the Comstock, died
at Carson Saturday night. Last Tall
he announced himself ms an indepen.
deuI Republican candidate Ter Con.
grcss, but drew out OF the fight. lie
made several fortunes during his life.
time. but the last turn Of the cards in
the game of life found him poor. His
remaIns were taken to Virginia City
for burial
a family Of father, mother aud i've
children, travelling overli md from
Amador county, California, to Mis-.
souri,. campcd just below town Inst
night and continued their journey
this morning. They gave California
a hard name and hal no words OF
praise for Nevada. They are "a
happy family and make tho most OF
the hBrdships Of a trip across the
country by wagon.
Tho examination for the naval
cadetehip begun in Reno yesterday.
Timothy j. Mccarthy Of Virginia
City, Henry 9. Guild OF Dayton. md
Herbert B. MaSson OF Reno are the
applicants. Mccarthy failed to piss
the physical examination md Guild
appeared t. have a slight deficiency
in vision. MaXson passed the physi.
cal test. All throo are trying to m.
swer the queslione suhmItted by their
tormcntora.
Or. George Goughlin, a dentist Of
Indianapolis, has caused sopethine
Of n sensation by declaring TINT the