Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-08-01
tFROM FRIDAYS DAILY
Salmagundi.

Mrs. II. j. Allen and Miss Alice Lowe
Departed for San Francisco Inst night.
John A. Fitzgerald has purchased the
Palace Hotel property at Reno for sl5,.
500.
Carnation chocolates. hand made
creams and coda water right from the
fountain at Garrecht & Nulty'e.
Fox SALE-Several thousand brick.
Will be sold at a bargain. For further
particulars call Mt the INDEPENDENT
Office.
y rumor comes from Wadsworth that
Frank Siss6n Of the Dispatch Ilas dis.
uppeard. lie has been gone for over Il
werk.-Reno journal.
For SALE-Two pairs Of platform
scales, 5000 and 5000 pounds. For fur
Their particulars call on or address j. W.
Puett, Carlin. Nevada.
DIR. Q. h. Wilson has returned from
the northern county and will be ut his
Uilice until about the 18th, when he will
make Il tour Of the county fulfilling the
duties OF his office as game warden. =
Two regiments OF militia have been
sent to Shenandoah, Pennsylvania to
keep the striking coal miners III order.
Operators i'll the coal regions think tho
backbone OF the strike is broken.
Blue Front Restaurant, next door to
the Old and Even Saloon. Meals at all
hours Of the day and night. Strictly d
first class short order house. No Chinese
employed. Schultz and Brothers,
proprIetors. y
l.. Ii. Taylor has been making tx.
aminations OF reservoir sites on the
Walker river, and will make surveys
later on. The same work will he done
on the Carson river, This work is
preliminary to the building OF irrigation
reservoirs.
Roderick Gunnoni, a former guard at
the Nevada State prison at Carson who
was presented with a watch for. bravery
displayed in an attempted prison break
many years ago, died in San Francisco
July the oath.
Scventy-tive destinct shocks OF earth
quake have been felt at Los Alamos,
California. since the % OF July, The
people are terror stricken and are flee.
ing from their homes. No loss OF life
has been reported, but property loss Is
fully S50.0DO.
y movement has been started to
organiZ- n jockey club in Elko. The
club will ma%terialiZc in time to have
some races at The o track in Septem-
Der. Good purses will be offered and
some last horses are expected. The full
particulars will appear later.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
judgement Of the District Court Of
Washoe county IN the case Of Taylor va.
the Nevada, California aud Oregon
Railway. Tia, lor recovered n judgment
Of $500 against the company for in.
juries received in nm accident caused by
a detective engine.
\ Fresno, California, dispatch OF the
3ist gays that what is undoubtedly the
largest known tree in the world has
been discovered far up i'll the Sierras
i'll that county. The monster was
measured six feet from tho ground and
il took n line l54 feet and 8 inches long
to cncircle it. making it over 81 feet in
diameter. This tree is on the govern.
ment reserve aud will escape the wood.
mans axe.
Tho Board OF Pardons met yesterday
aud restored VIM. Black to citizenship
und pardoncd T.. B. Fuller. Black WIS
sent to the penitentiary from Douglas
county for selling whiskey to Indians.
Fuller was sent from Lander county
for seven years for grand larceny. He
served ten months of his sentence. The
Carson Nows intimatos that Fuller was
unjustly dealt with by the trial Court.
From present indications u portion OF
the Reno street car limo will DO con.
structed this season. Tho starting poinI
will DO the Riverside hotel and the asy.
lum the first destination. Later the
road will be extended to tho site OF the
Southern Pacific shops, thence to We'd,
ekind City and back to Reno via the
State fair grounds. a line will bo run
to tho western addition and another tt
tho ~niyeraity -Jnurnal.