Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-03-01
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
sALMAGUNDi.

days Ill town.
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector
Blakeslee is in town.
John Sparks; W. S. Sparks and
Sam Wheeler arrived from Reno this
morning.
g. y. Kyle. one OF the earliest
settlers OF Humboldt county, died in
WInnemuccaa Monday night.
Washouts on the Nevada Central
RAILROAD have been repaired aud the
road is again open for business.
The fact th9t salt dill not prove n
good thing for Lots wife simply
shows that everything can be over.
donc.-Ncw York Press.
w. W. Booher departed for Reno
this afternoon to attend a meeting OF
the Board OF Regents OF the State
University to be held tomorrow.
Rehearsals are now being held for
an amateur PLAY, AN Autograph
Letter" to lie presented some time in
the neal future for the benefit OF the
high school piano funG.
Geo. Ward, Il negro. was shot, hang
ed and burned 10y a mob at rerre
ilaute. Ind, yesterday FOR the murder
OF Miss Ida TiDkleStcin, a school
teacher.
y Nevada "fossilized man is beng
exhibited to Open.mouthed San Fran.
cisco crowds. The State has u few
others i'll various stbgcs Of fussiliza.
ton who might be spared for exhibit
ton as curlusities.-Silver State.
The Pacific Mail Company yestcr.
day definitely located the exact posi-
ton III which the wrecked steamer
Rio De Janeiro is lying, but the
exact depth of water over her has not
been determined. Divers will be
put to work To recover the bodies re-
manning i'll the ship.
Fire broke out IN No. | mine
OF the Diamond Coai and Coke Com.
pany at DIamondvllle, Wyoming
about ! o'clock Sunday afternoon
About 40 or 30 men were below the
fire and all were lost. They were
mostly Italians and Finlauders,
their being only two Americans III
lot.
y verdict for $500 in Il b~reach.of-
PROMISE suit II Southern California
and a iiue Of SO for snatching a
young laiy's purse on tile streets of
San Francisco justify the conclusion
that the courts OF the State regard
the stealing Of "A girls heart aS beng
an hundred fold more r~epreheusible
than the stealing oi her purse.
P'ckled railroad ties are now being
used all over the country. y soIu.
ton OF chloride 81 ENC Is applied 10y
Il specially arranged process. The
ties are put III large air-hght cylind-
ems, the air pumped out, and the ties
y heated by steam. The chemicals are
then pumped in and the ties kept III
the solution under high pressure
until they are saturated
Bear i'll mind the poverty supper
to be served by the Young Ladies'
Guild Ill the new hall tomorrow after.
noon. They are sparing no pains in
the arrangements and the many good
plain things they will have To eat
will gladden. the eyes and digestive
apparatus Of any pcrsun-hungry or
otherwise. They will be lust like
your mother used to make"
The Carson Weekly says that owing
/" the absence Of the chaplain in the
Assembly Tuesday morning. Brother
Allen OF Churchill offered up tine
following prayer: ~Oh, Lord. watch
over us md make US serve Thee rs
well as we serve the state Of Nevada.
Amen IL the prayer be n wored it
Is safe to say that they all realize
where they will spend their eternity.
Lew Wallace has taken the agency
for Eiko and vicinity for the US
lire cxtinguislIcr, and will call on our
citizens i'll II ,iny or so nnd explain the
merits Of this excellent cOntrivance.
Sit uatcd as EIko is without adequate
fire protection. OF these machines
should bc in every business house
and home. Mr.. Wallace will give a
practical test Of tho cXiingutshcr in
the Main street at Z o'clock this
cvenins aud invites the citizens OF
Elko to be present and witness the
work these macb,ucs can accomplish.
u pays Ia bo the son Of Il great
General and something Of n Republi.
can politician besides, remarks the
Boston Herald. In the recent army
promotions Frederick ID. Grant has
been jumped over 81 Captains. 277
Majors, % Lieutenant. Colonies and
II Colonies in the regular army. The
great General Grant - his promo
tinus III II different manner, being
taken at the beginning Of the Civil
war from u humble position in civil
life, and lighting his way up to all OF
them by successive steps.
\ good story il iold on 81 maD who
had Il quantity Of limbcrgCr cheese he