Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-08-09
tFRoM FRIDAYS DAILY
sALMAGUNDI,

Deputy Internal Revenue Collector
Blakeslee is in town.
All kinds OF fruit in season Mt the
Postofice stand, also mute, candies
cigars. tobacco. etc.
a cloudburst at Berlin, Nye county
last Saturday flooded stores and
swept away two new dwelling
houses.
A drunken tramp went INTO the
Depot Hotel this forenoon and tried to
run the place. He was promptly
kicked out by Mr.. Mayer.
Judge Hawley sentenced George
Murray to serve n year and a day in
the ~peniteptIary for selling whiskey
to the Indians Mt White Rock.
Ossie Miller will leave for San
Mateo, California, tonight to enter
st Matthew's school. Ossie's health
is not very good and tho change OF
Climate may benefit him.
Graphophones aud talking machine
supplies for salu at San Francisco
prices. Write for catalogue and in
formation. +. l.. LYNps. Sole Agent,
Virginia City Nevada.
The Selby Smelling Works now OF.
fer $4,000 reward for the arrest OF
the men who robbed their valut Mon.
day night. The exact value OF the
bdllion taken is now given by the
company at s2s3,O05.Ol.
Denver has a pretty young woman
so charmlngly cross eyed that she
can entertain three young men at
once and send them away each think
ing that he monopolized most OF her
attention during the evening"
Denver Post.
r. W. Parry is said to hnve bonded
the Laughton Springs property for
$4,000. 1t will he extensively i'm
proved md made "a sanitarium Us
we'll as a health resort. The Springs
will be the western terminus of the
Reno Electric street railway
journal.
The Gazette is informed that a Syn
dlcate has purchased the property
OF the Sisters School ID Reno and will
shortly begin the erection OF a four
story brick hotel. The lot comprises
over half a block and the hotel build.
ing will be put in the center Of the
grove Of cork bark elms that now
shade the grounds.
There will be a meeting OF the.Uni-
~versity Regents at Reno tomorrow to
open the bids for building a chemi-
cal laboratory and a hospital for stu
dents. II the bids come with the
appropriations, the contracts will be
let and work on the buildings begun
rs soOn as possible. The editor
leaves tonight To attend the meeting.
Phoenix, A~rizona, once n sage-
brush desert, has y. ZOO inhabitants
and an assessed valuation Of 10000
600, all due to irrigation canals
brought from distant streams. Dur.
ing the Inst ten years 5i5 miles OF ir-
rigation bitches have been opened in
Arizona at II cost of sl,50S. 4G9, and
the Territory would not part with the
system for ten times tho money.
Yesterday another victim of small
pox wtss reported. The unfortunate
IL a brother or the young man
confined in the pest house. The first
case ID getting along nicely and the
yOnng man is on the road to recovery
Their is no danger OF the disease
spreading rs the second case occur.
red ut the pest house, where the
patient has been taking care OF his
brother Carson Appeal.
Ben Wool Terton is in town hob.
bling about on crutches. While
greasing n wagon Mt his ranch in
Ruby valley last week, he raised one
Of the wheels with his left knee, dis.
placing the knee.cap. He did not
teci the injury at the time, but later
i'll ho dry the knee began itching
md 10y night he was unable to bend
it. He came to town aud placed hin.
self under the care Of DR.. Gnrdner.
llc lis i'm proving, but il will be sew.
cral days yet before his knee will he
all right.
skinny" Williams, one OF the ez tra
gaug on tho railroad, filed up Oh red.
eye yesterday and made himself n
general nuisance. lilo wandered into
Chinatown md found a female celcs
tails wig hanging out to dry. Al.
though skinny has q fine crop oi
hair he appropriated the China NO.
mans wig to his own use. lie was
afterward arrested by Constable Nc.
Coy md squared the matter by pa,.
ing the celestial 81 80 for her head.
gear. lilo was then locked up to
sober off. Late last night his friends
secured his r%oleRso and he left with
tho gang. skinny should let liquor
and women's wigs alone after this.
Some n last night entered Pete
DiSon'e cabin and carried Off his
clock. y mau was sleeping in tho
cabin ut tho time, bnt was not dis.
tnrbed. Pete missed his timeplocc
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