Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-11-15

ley's eDterprising farmers, is in town.
He reports the beef cattle in that
section nearly all sold and shipped.
Theodore Winters Las eight
thoroughbred runners in training at
lurleside Park, San Francisco. Mr..
Winters does not propose racing the
colts himself, but will shortly hold
his annual sale and ID preparing his
stock for that purpose.
Elko's Knight OF Pythias will give
a grand ball at the Deuot Hotel ON
Thanksgiving. A full list OF the com.
mitiees and all OF the particulars will
be found in the nd. Don't forget
the bali.
don: watch the clock" was MIR.
Edison's advice to a young man Who
asked him how to. succeed. Pro-
f"undly significant is the story of the
laborer who left his pickax hanging
in tile air Mt the stroke of nom. A
hanging picknx is the fittest emblem
0t the confirmed clock watcher, and
the pickax always hangs in the air
and never descends to earth to hew
out = pathway to SUCCESS.
The inevitable result OF the i'm
perinllstic tendencies Of the govern
ment Is found III the annual report of
tile heads Of bureaus Of the army and
navy. They all demand moro Ollie
ers and more men and tell OF the
great danger to the country il their
demands are not complied with. As
the army has been raised TO q maxi.
mum OF lOO.OOG men aud the naval
force largely increased by the last
Congress, the former ut all events far
beyond what is necessary, these de-
mands for u still greater increase are
pretty good proof that the Demo.
cratic charge of militariEm ia rapidly
beng accomplished.
The following Oliughouse canyon
notes are from the Wadsworth Dis
patch: There is Il deal ON the Cabin
No. = claim The owners OF IL half IN
terest ask $4,000 for it. They were
offered S35.WO lhoy fell to $4,000
and are offered S33,UOO. and there
negotiations have ceased for the
present. At l6O feet in the Slip they
are taking out specimens OF ore again.
There Is q much OF that kind, but
o gold than rock. They are also
taking out other high grade ore.
From the first one hundred tons OF
ore plOWed up by w. G. Williams
and milled he received 1869 from
tile mint, winch are pretty good
returns from plo we'd ground.
Lombroa. the famous Italian ex-
pert in crimmology, is reported to
have said in n lecture in Paris "a few
days ago that the Gar OF Russia Is
merely m animal md melancholy
idiot and not Ii criminal lunatic,"
that KING Edward is a general de.
generate or mediocre intelligence,
incapable OF sound thinking" and that
the Emperor OF Germany liz an q ir.
responsible and irretrievable Grimm
nj. a brawler who wonld have gone 10
Jail and died on n scaffoId had he not
Deen saved by the accident OF being
born to n throne"
Lord Kitchener Las over 100000
british troops in the field. The
Hoers, he saye, number 10.0G0. Yet
there ia n somewhat tiresome monot.
oDy in his complaints that the BrItleh
are 20 Frequently surrounded on TN.
favorable ground" In his latest dis.
patch we tind that, after the usual
heroic resistance. in which @one man
was killed and four wounded, three
British officers and sixty five men
s~urrendered.' Lord Kitchener ulpo
complains that In some cases the
Bocrs murder the wounded British
soldicrsj but there 10 something very
suspicious i'll his own figures. which
put The number Of Beers killed far
ahead OF the number wounded, At
the battle uf Omdurman the killed
amounted to some thousands; thore
were NJ wounded.