Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-08-29
FROM wEDNEsDAY,s DAILY
Sa1maaundi.

TA- puerlu DeTnhru II Ill Town.
1t is estimated that Mt present there
are about $50 voters in Tonopsh.
Mrs. Alfred Bruce and daughter. left
for Wells this. morning to visit relatives.
FoR SALE-A carriage in good coudi.
ton. Call ouor address John NJ. Morrow.
Eiko. Nevada.
Candidates in Eureka COUNTY nre
circulating petitions to get their names
on the ticket.
Maj r John II. Dennis has returned
to Reno from San Francisco much
improved in health.
Attention ia called to an important,
notice OF the Water Company in another
column. Read the notice und govern
yourselves accordingly.
Carlin Aerie No. 900, Of the Frnternal
Order Of Eagles, will give an enter
tainment and ball on some date the
early part OF noxt month.
Sam Small the noted temperance
lecturer failed to speak at a temperance
meeting in one OF the eastern States
Monday night owing to his being drunk
at the time. 81"
Locators OF oil land near S~earchlight
Lincoln county, have levied an assess
ment Of two dollars per acre to pay the
expense OF TN expert to examine the
property.
Sam Watson has been engaged the
last week or so in thoroughly cleaning
the High School building, and when
school opens everything will be us fresh
and clean rs n new pin.
a hold up occurred i'll Reno Monday
night in which a railroad employe was
knocked down hy a fellow and relieved
OF 50. The police happened to be near
and succeeded in capturing the foot.
pad.
That moldy old chestnut about you ng
ladies forming clubs to defeat single
men for candidates for ofice-revived
every political campaign Cor many years
is again oil duty and this time is
located On the Comstock.-Reveille.
Shortly after the adjournment of a
meeting held by the citizens OF Berlin
last Monday all the Chinese in that
camp had Immediate occasion to vacate.
There are some sixty miners and com.
pany employees in the camp, and it APP
pears that their action was taken in be-
half OF the girl walters. to whom the
Chinese had become ~insolent and Of.
f~ensive.
Constable Mccoy left for the MaIdis
today to be gone about a week. About
800 head Of sheep were stolen from a
shcepman in that section sc veral days
ago and it is supposed they were taken
over the Utah line. Mr.. Mccoy will
endeavor to recover the animals and
arrest the guilty parties,
The building boom continues accord.
ingly with the arrival OF material 10
supply the demand. Lumber has risen
to S85 per thousand Over fitiy lota
were a.aked ont Inst week IN the south.
ern portion Of town. where the new
buildings are Of a surprising number
Bonanza.
MIR. Greenfield returned from the
northern part Of the county last night,
Sunday he held services in the morning
at North Fork, and III the evening at
Jack Greek. Next Sunday services will
be held in the morning at Shelton and
in the evening OH the South Fork. Tie
first Sunday in September services will
be resumed in Elko.
We have received a letter from Mr..
9. O.. Truett Of Decth Stating that we
wereip error when we published the state
mont that n OF Mr.. Truett's horses ran
Il stake race in Elko against Babe Mayer
recently. We were so informed ut the
time, but have since learned that the
horse belonged to Mr.. George Gilmore.
Superintendent Y%erington and Mas,
ter OF transportation Ardery Of the Y.
and I. went to Virginia on a special
train Saturday. They inspected the
Gold Hill Tunnel, winch was dest royed
by fire several weeko ago. the repairs to
which have beer completed, md were
greatly satisfied with the -work.-News
The society papera are filled with
touching articles concei ming tho "Levo.
tom Of Mrs. John Mackay, who stor two
weeks after Mr., Mackay's death visited
every day the vault where her husbands
coffin was temporarily placed md prayed
With the nuns for hours" Probably ole
man Macka, wonid have been better
Satisfied had she displayed moro "dcyo,
tionT during HE life and given him tcwor
pray ors after death.-Bcr.
An FL Reno, q. T., dispatch OF yteter
day sage;
Tho decipl n Of tho Supreme Court
attaching n strip of land four mile!
WIDE to Oklahoma from the Chicksaw
Nation has brought thousands OF people
here to file Mt the land office, and today
moro than four hundred filings were
registered. Special trains arc bringing
In additional crowds. The rush for
thesc lands promised to no nlmost n,