Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-03-07
FROM wEDNEspAYs DAILY
Salmagundi.
Miss cotant is rapidly improving.

."hh AoPNty '"PiONiuR.
Wadsworth has two cases OF small.
pox.
Tho tax rate in Humboldt county has
been fixed at 81 90 ON the slOO.
MISS Della Wilson came down from
Tuscarora last night and is visiting EIko
friends.
Fifty years ugo Yesterday Commls.
sioner james Clark landed in San Fran
cisco.
Constable Wines Of Ruby Valley is
IN town. lie reports plenty Of snow in
that section.
Storey county's tax rate this year is
si.I5 ON the sl0O. a reduction OF p cents
from last years rate.
The Philippine edition Of the Bulletin
will be issued next Sunday. Send in
yonr rders for extra copies.
Iohn. W. Mackey is in San Francisco
and is said to be in very puor health. 1t
II also saih that since the death Of his
old friend. J. \. Fillmore, he has been
failing rapidly.
Ham Mccain wants to know how the
dry bacGs' feel since the last storm.
Ham is rolling In clover now, but
Just wait Until he makes another predic.
uoD and see how far he misses it.
| One year z there were 1929 cases OF
smallpox III the United Staies. Today
there are II l223, an increase OF T7G3 cases
In nearly every instance the patient had
not been vaccinated. Yet vaccine physi-
clans continue to find it .Iecess airy to use
force to no their work.-Dallas News.
!. +. Tobey, Superintendent OF the
Oregon ChIldren's Home Society, mott.
lies the people OF Nevada that anyone
soil :ting funds in this State for tina,
society Is d fraud. 1t Ii said that n
woman is 10 canvascng the State and
this item is published to put people on
their guard.
FIX Sheriff Bar: ard came down from
Iuscarora yesterday. lie reports the
new mill Mt Edgement crushing ore
and turning out bullion. Mr.. Barnard
VIII remain III Eiko a day or two and
then leave for Tonupah. where he homes
to make his fortune. The good wishes
81 a host Of friends will go with HIM.
According to the reports from wads.
worth md Wmnemucca, the small .pox
ID coming this way. As the cases at
Winnemucca are all railroad men, would
it not he wise for the yonng aud old OF
tItko To remain away from the trains,
unless business calls them? This is not
thrown out because the INDEPENDENT
believes there is any immediate danger
OF the di 'ense breaking out here, but
merely as a precautionary suggestion.
Brown Doris, an Indian, went gun.
nrng in Modoc county Sunday night for
big Mouthed Charley" an Indian
doctor, but shot and killed George Har-
ris. another Indian by mistake, big
MOu'hed Charlie attended a sister OF
Doris who died, and Dorns according
to the custom OF the Modoc county In.
dIans who kill their doctors after they
have lost Il certain number OF patIents,
set IL to kill the doctor. ~
Samuel Findley OF Bakersfield. Cal
WIS shot through the head aud killed at
Tono1ah Sunday morning by VIM.
Lavella OF British Columbia. FiDdley
Tried to kill Lavelle with a pistol which
he had concealed in his o~vercoat pocket.
Lavelle held Findley's wrist and shot
him dead. FIndley said he was n son.
in.law Of James Garfield, an oil. mill
ionaire Of Bakersfield. This tragedy il
the tirst in Tonopah. .FindIey had posed
rs II abnd man." The Coroner's jury
r1oncratcd Lavelle.
Tuesdays Silver State says that
Brakeman SOrey, Conductor Pease and
Fireman Joyce have the smallpox at
Winnetnucca. The State Board has
been notified, but up to the time the
Silver State went to press M instruc.
mons Ind been received from the Board.
Joyce was around town Tuesday morn.
ing with his face oil broken out, lie
came in contHct With a good many
people. fle was finally placed in ii
cabonse and run out to tie mill side.
truck, a hal mile east OF town, and a
nurse wns hired to take care OF him.
! All three OF the patients were exposed
TO tho diseaso at wadsworth. The
disease is in n light form, but there is
no doub: about its being the smallpox.