Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-05-16
FROM THURSDAYS DAiLi.
Salmagundi.

neV. y. w. Lyon departed Tor Wells
this morning.
Don't forget the entertainment mt the
high school Monday night.
Mr.. Mayer is able to be around the
house today. lie will lie all right in u
day or two.
\ train loaded with machinery, tools
and materials for the Osiuo cutoff lass
ed through this forenoon.
Trenmor Cofiu. the Carson attorney.
arrived from Eureka last night md left
for Carson on No. 3 this forenoon.
Governor Sadler has appointed Josiah
r. Duflsld, notary public at Tonopah,
aud Charles 4. Walker. notary public
at Ely.
Spiro D~ocklestich. aged - years, q
business man Of DeLamar, WIS thrown
from r horse at Tonopah last FRIDAY
and killed.
MH. Richardson and daughter. who
have been visiting Rev. George +.
Plummer. left Tor their home at Ely this
morning.
The debating team OF the Nevada
State University will try conclusions
with the University oi Utah boys t"nirh,
at Salt Lake.
Samuel Hendra, who has 5een mining
III the vicinity OF Uniouville. Humboldt
county, since 1867. died at Dun Glen.
May 8, aged GO years.
Talk abont cruelty in the Philippines!
Think OF the cruelty Of muzzling Fred
Funston, when he hasn't said half he
wants to!-Albany Angus.
Reno has only two smallpox patients
i'll the hospital. The Gazette says the
disease has cost Wasloe county in the
neighborhood Of $4,000 up t O date.
There il a universal complaint heard
among Reno merchants, says the Ga
zette TINT business il not as good now
as it WAS in the corresponding month Of
last yenr.
Monday noon a fire was discovered in
tue Dexter Company's office mt Tusca.
rora Just i'll time to save the town from
almost total destruction, Gays the Times
Review.
The Silver State says TINT a stabbinR
atfrsy occurred in Battle Mountain Yes.
terday afternoon, but no particulnrs
could be obtained further than that one
man WA badly cut in the abdomen and
that his condition was very serious.
The defendant in the 4O0-yard limit
case filed an appeal bond yesterday in
the sum 81 5000 aud the case now goes
to the nirtrict Cont. F.. Nj. Gutridge
and George Bruce are the sure:ies on
the bond.
The search Tor the bodies of the young
ladies, drowned in the Carson river,
continued all day yesterday without
success. The Young ladies' are nicces of
State Printer Maute and he is directing
the search. y reward Of $500 has been
offered for the recovery of the bodies.
Don't forget the dance ut the Depot
Hotel tomorrow night. The ladies will
be ont IN force TO see that everything
moves along smoothly and that you
have mn enjoyable time. Remember
TINT the ladies will servr n splendid aup
per at the Commercial Hotel from $50
to IL o'clock.
The University truck team passed
through this morning ON the way to
Salt Lake to compete with the team
Of the University OF Utah. The follow.
ing compose the team: Barker. Hart.
Luke, Mayer. Hoffman. Kearney, F..
Smith, @. Smith. Heller. Taylor and
Catlin. DR.. Sickle, coach, accompan.
led the team. Tie bOys all seemed to
he III good condition aud looked ns il
they would give the Mormons a run for
their money.
a custom house decision on fleas has
been rendered in Switzerland. A pack.
age marked Trained Flcas" reached
Geneva. The nearest analogy the col.
lector could find was that OF June huge,
which had been ruled To he sedihles.'
Ii case vent from one official to I'M.
other till it reached headquarters at
Berne, whence after much investigation
and deliberatiOn the conclusion was
reached TINT tho iieas came under the
head OF wild animals in Il menagarie.-
Hereatte, only smooth faced mon will
be allowed to milk cove md deliver milk
to tho milk depots Ia this part Of the
State, says tho Now York Sun. In a re
cent report the milk commission OF Ne "
York suggests the ~innoyatj on the
ground that u mau with whish .rs milk.
Ing n COW was liable to imprcgnato the
milk with germs, because whiskers ar,
or may be tnicrobo collectors. Tho yari.
ons managers OF the milk depota have
decided TINT the suggestion was a good
one. and will issue ab order that all mill,
delivered to them must DO drawn by
beardlcss mon. They cay tina. with
ordinary cleanliness the dust from the
stable in liable to infect tho beard, and
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