Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-08-23
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
sALMAGUNDI.

q OF night operator here. MIR.
Eaton. whom he succeeded. has been
transferred TO the Stone House, west
OF Battle Mountain.
j. "a. Bacon. secretary and treas
ure- Of the Elko Coal Company. ar
rived from Salt Lake yesterday after
noon. He visited the mine today and
was well pleased with what he saw.
Myron Pixley and F.. Dotta have
purchased the Bakery Saloon prop
erty Of Frank Reckhart. The on.
s%ideratlon is said to be upwards Of
$4,000.
Lyle, the little eon Of Sheriff Nc.
lnnis, is recovering from the pistol
wound he received last Saturday.
The ball was from a Al calibre gun
and fortunately was merely a flesh
wound. He was painfully burned by
the powder.--Reno Journal. D.
w. W. Roben was yesterday held to
appear before the grand jury on the
charge Of selling whiskey to Indians.
lie entered a plea Of guilty. There
are now four of these cases III Jail
awaiting the action OF the grand jury
Constable Mccoy is watching other
parties engaged IN the same business.
There are one or two young men in
town whose mission it seems TO be to
drink all the whiskey their hides will
hold and then kick up a rumpus.
This il to warn them that the next
time they get into trouble their
names will appear in these columns.
Turn around short, boys, or take the
consequences Of your conduct.
Tom McCool, :he Lamoillc rancher,
met with quite nm accident Monday.
He was moving when his team ran
away throwing him from the seat.
HIS back was pretty badly bruised,
but he thinks he will be all right in n
Few days. The tongue of the mower
WIS broken and it WAS otherwise
damaged.
The largest diamond ever seer in
this country is now on exhibition at
the Pan.American Exposition. II 10
canary color and weighs in its finish
ed state 20Iai carats. As a yellow
diamond 1t is perfect. being hawIess
aud OF a brilliant Iustre. 1t was
fonnd in tile Kimberly district, South
Africa.
Charley Waller is in a serious con.
dIiion. tie ran away from the hos.
pital yesterday afternoon and refused
TO go back. He was finally taken to
ii room at Mrs. Sangumet's and put
to bed. His mind wanden and he
imagines all sorts Of things. lie is
quleter today, but has to he watched
ill the time.
The Silver State says a japanese
section hand was killed by a freight
train at Wolseley, near LcveIock,
yesterday morninR. 4 gang Of the
Japs were working on the track and
all but one got out Of the way Of the
approaching train. The warning OF his
companions came too late and he was
struck 10y the engine, thrown high in
the air aud instantly killed.
An exchange tells OF n lady who
decided to scare her husband. who
was quite Il hard driuker, so that he
w0nid reform. To do this che pro.
cured Il costume OF his Satanic mai
csiy, previously worn at a masquer-
ade. The next time the errIng spouse
came home feeling happy she quickly
donned the costume. AZ no opened
the door che stepped forward. and, in
Il sepulchral tone, said "Come with
me; am the devil The result
rather startled her. as the response to
her greeting was, -Zat eoY Shake,
oil boy. l'm your brother in.law. |
ulhrrlcu your slSier.
Some peculiar facts are being
brought ont by the 18th census con.
corning the counties, says the New
York Sun. For instance, the ehortest
OF a county is | in Oklahoma.
while the longest If Saiat John the
Baptist, a parish in Louisiana. Mon.
tana has the coupIy with The largest
area, Custer, which covers 2Q,i9O
square miles. the second largest ia
San Bcrnardino county. Cal. with
1927 square miles. Tho smallest
county 10 Bristol. X. l., which has
only - square miles.
An exchange gives the following
cheap receipt for cxtormiDating flies:
4 half teaspoonful OF black pepper,
finely ground, should be mixed with
double tho quantity OF brown sugar
md the compound moistened with
cream. Tho iiie will generally eat
greedily 81 this mixture. IL placed
where they Il easily reach il, but
il will be their last meal; tho least
tasto to a fly is rank poison. IL
wat shed they will often DO O 70
drop dead within a few feet OF the
place winch they had just left, and
some Of tho hcalthicst eatop do not
leave the place.
a stranger attempted 10 commit
suicide at Lovelock Monday by
throwing himself in front OF a train
entering tho yard. Tho engineer saw