Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-12-20
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
5AIIMAGUNDI.

SGctk.
The Hesperian sater well was
down sixty feet Sunday.
Lee Hardin departed last evening
for I'M extended visit to Missouri.
Four eases OF rlague have occur.
red III annila since the first Of
October.
George Moody shipped four car.
loads Of horses to Livermore, Cali
~tornia, today.
Richard White, president Of the
Hesperian Oil Company, las return.
ed To Chico, California.
1t lis estimated ,l,at 5000 head OF
cattle aud 2p."CU sheep are being fed
on the Truckeo meadows.
The reported illncss Of Mrs. Nc.
kIulcy Is denied by tYo sisters uf th,
late President Sho arc visit my her nj
Canton.
DR.. and Mrs. Hood returned from
their eastern trip today. They both
look ia il they lad enjoyed their
Vacation.
Monday night one man WIS frozen
10 death in Omaha and two others
we're so badly frozen tIiSt they may
lose their hands and feet.
s"yeai irri. t cays innpe the ;racz
lH-t Ia II, ~ ia. umi eat we, IF
ta'hn. ron What We ARE abe Ia
either no one WIS hart.
Otto SuliH, sent To the ~peuitcrtiarS
trom this county three lear- ago for
highway robbery committed ~ Ruby
valley, las applied for ii pardon.
The discussion of me Philippine
tarili hill began yesterday. The bill
Will pass the House today. but it's
course III the Senate will not be su
rapid.
Lowell Spence, Il Pinkerton detect.
i've has identified tie man under ar.
rest at Knoxville, Tennessee. az Har.
vey Logan, II Of the alleged Great
Northcru rXpr, 81 robbers.
Tie Reno star people haye. ship
ped l. lar Of bullion weighing thirty
Six pounds To san Francisco. Tie
Ouiiion WAS the product Of ten tons
Of ore reduced i; the iieuo reduction
worHs.
II You wan good things for your
Christmas or New Year, table, rem.
cmOer that Hunter ~ Wallace are the
headquarters for just such articles.
they tell yon all about it III their
Dew ad.
y letter received this morning
froLI Tom Tenant states that he is
we'll and having a way up time il
San Francisco. He has steerrd clear
OF the bunco man and the other pit.
falls Of the city.
4 report was circulated early this
morning that a freight tram had been
wrecked last night near Oslno and
the fireman. brakeman and Engineer
killed. Investigation proved the re.
port To toe without n foundation.
Mrs. Annie Markry, nn old resident
of Virginia City, was found dead III
her house last Saturday. lier death
was probably caused 10y rXro4urc and
lack Of care during tine very cold
nights III the early part Of las; week.
Ia 1873 Fred Wcllhouse, the Kan
sas apple KING" was ii wage.carner.
lie knew Il good deal about orchards.
however, and began on IA small scale
t0 raise fruit. Now he has Lao
acres Of orchards, and his apple crop
this year il G0,0UO bushels.
RsulutiOns thRnRing Admiral
Schicy and the officers hui men Of
his command for their splendid vic.
tory over the SrnnIsh fleet Mt Snnti.
ago have been introduced into both
branches Of Congress. They should
he passed unanimously.
The floods in New York end Penn.
syivIria have been checked by q
cold wave which has cniailcd great
suffering on the two Thousand or
moro persons rendered homeless by
the Hoods. Conservative estimates
pace the loss from The floods nj from
S3.00u.t00 10 Si,000.UOO.
Ila. infant, the steel trust. whose
industry Ia protected 10y the tariff
from competition, managed to wrlng
from tho American people the com.
fnrtnbIo sum of S~Ai.9Jt.S7l during the
first six months OF its history. or
for the year.
George S. Nixon pissed through
today OF, his way home from 81 Louis
where he hnd been to identify Ben
Fitzpatrick. one Of the men who ruhbcd
the wnncmucca bank on September
~. 1900. Mr.. Nixon positively idcn
titled Fitzpatrick IN II " the bank
robbers.
Postmaster General Snith has re.
signed aud Henry {. Payne of Wis.
consin has been appointed to til tho