Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-07-19
FROM wEDNEsDAY's DAfLY
sA1iMAGuNbI.

Mrs. Ed Martin are down from Gold
Greek.
Constable Mccoy went out to
Mound Valley this afternoon to sub.
poena witnesses in the cattle killing
case.
U. $. Marshal Emmitt sold the
Eureka ana Palisade raiiroSd today.
Ii was bid in by Attorney Abbott Ter
s3O0.O00 fot the reorganization COM
mittee.
Geo. Russell shipped ITO head Of
horses from Lander county to Omaha
Monday. They were purchased by
the Siegel. Cooper company 81 Chi
c8go.
The last OF the Epworth Ledgues
passed through last night and the
town has settled down to its usual
quiet. Between forty and fifty trains
carrying about 21.0OO people passed
through here.
The reported sickness Of Judge
Bigelow i'll San Francisco is true.
Judge Talbot has received a letter
FROM Col. Moore stating that Judge
B~igelow's condition was such that
the physicians would permit no one
10 see him.
Constable Mccoy returned yester-
day afternoon from Van Duzer creek
with Mr. S%anguinet. The prelimin-
airy examination was set for next
Monday at 10 o'clock. The defend
ant was admitted To bail in the sum
OF $1,000.
Bert liaWcroft dropped IA letter
into the p~ostoilice yesterday which
bore a couple Of stamps that will
doubtless have a pleasant time swap
ping lies while ell transit. One Of
the stamps was issued in celebration
OF the Pan-American Exposition and
the other is the Columbian stamp, is.
sued in lS93.-Reno Journal.
An Indian who arrived in Eureka
this week from Duckwater states that
tile Indians AVE for years been doing
most OF the work i'll the hay fields at
Dnckwater and Currant Creek, but
this year the MOrmons from White
Pine county have underbid them and
secured the work. Eureka Sentinel.
Two queer specimensOf humanity
pnssed east on this mornings train.
They were said to be two Hindoos.
Their heads were Il little larger
than Il big orange and their
bodies III proportion. The man is
about two feet tall and weighs
eleven pounds. The woman IL some.
what smaller. Their complerions
we're something like that OF Il smoked
herring. They speak three different
languages.
Deputy Marshal Humphrey came
up from Reno this morning. lie ia
"n hi way to the Reservation to ar
rest PARTIES for selling whiskey % the
ludiuus. lie will emain in this sec.
'i"' until after the meeting OF the u.
. S'and jury on the 9th Of this
month a. l.. SnIder and other
Prisoners will not be taken to Carson
t" appcnT hefore the grand jury. II
they are not indicted. they will be
discharged here.
Instructions have been received
from the P~ostoffice Department that
on anal after July LIST domestic orders |
should he used IN money order bust.
hess between Canada. Cuba and the
United States, aud that domestic
rates would apply thereon. This will
he Il great convenience to the pdblic
III quicker service, ~ the advice will
be sent direct instead OF having to
pass through an exchange Office 40
heretofore.
\ Prospectus Of the Miocene Oil
Company OF Stockton. California. has
found it's way to this Office. The
company claims to have 500 acres of
land at Bullion on which work will
begin Some OF the statements
contained III the prospectus show
TINT the writer thereof had an imug.
nation more icrvid than that that got
.Anah,as of old into such serious
trouble. Tho prospectus may sell
stock, but IFS glittering promises may
not be rcaliHcd.
The saloon Keepers OF Reno Motif.
ed District Attorney Pike that some
OF the merchants Of that town we're
violating the retail liquor law hy sci.
ling whlskey in bottles holding less
than ii quart. The district attorney
gracefully passed the notification
over to the sheriff and requested him
to enforce the law. The sheriff Just
ma gracefully passed il back and cal.
led upon the district attorney for in
siructions aud ADVICE! While these
officers arc passing the buck To each
o,hrr. the sale Of liquor goea on by
the merchants.