Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-05-23
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
Salmagundi.

Joe Carroll returned last evening from
IA business trip to Salt Lake.
Arguments in the Mound valley water
cases have occupied the attention. OF
Judge Talbot today.
\ telephone message from Hunting
ton valley this forenoon said it was
warm and raining there. Different
here.
Judge Mack has gone to Silver City,
New Mexico, TO look after some mining
claims belonging to his brother i'll Flaws
estate.
h school election will be held next
Monday. \ full board is to bs elected
in this district. Those interested should
not let the election 90 by default.
fom liunter and John T. Wright left
this morning on II cattle buying trip
through White Pine, Lincoln, Nye and
Eureka counties. They will be gone
about three weeks.
Mr.. j. II. Philips is III from the oil
well. He ia crippled up with rheuma-
tism and will leave for his home at
Montpelier, Indiana, this evening. He
reports everything moving along
smoothly ut the well.
III" town is rapidly filling up with
lille men. Some Of them have the ap.
pcafnncc Of being tough characters. 1t
might save the loss Of yonr personal
effects il You keep yonr doors Hud win.
lows locked.
The body Of Miss Ada Vonderhyde
was still IN the river Yesterday afternoon.
HE cannon was fired over the river sev.
"r"l times yesterday. but il failed to
Iaise the body. although fieh were
brought t" Tie surface by the concus.
sion.
Is. W.. baltimore, Stat. Organizer Of
tho Modern Woodmen Of America, will
Organize ii camp OF TINT order at Mizpah
Hall tonight. The ala will start with
nineteen charter members. Another
camp will be organized in Carlin about
N' Hl7i VI ItAN Inbltl.
Tie farmers uf Colorado are using
their sugar berIs to fitten their beef
cattle and claim that alfalfa md sugar
bects combined give better re. ults than
corn. Sugar bccts can be- grown in
Nevada Ia perfection, md although we
have no factory to turn them into sugar,
~ ,,ltyht h. lao ~, a.,, ,.,N.. " ---
them into bect.-ierington Times.
Tie hatcher shop Of the Dixon Bros,
Keno was bnrglnrzed MONDAY night
and none! and ~inwelry to the value OF
about s5O0 taken. Seq mour Williams.
the ~bOOkkccper Of the establishment
mOurns the loss 81 a lot OF oil stock, tIIat.
though vnlu"lrss now. he would moi
have taken S5U0 for. The Gazette eays
the officers arrested fourteen men, but
do not think they have the man who did
the job.
About DO this afternoon us the
writer Was pussing the alley back OF
the Bakery saloon on HE bicycle he no.
ticcd n blaze III the alley and rode down
To m~ve1rigate. Back nf the Elko res
tauran: he found three men sitting
around II fire cooking something in u
tin can. To the order to put ont the
tire ut once. one OF them replied. atherc
il no danger" They were then told to
put out the fire Immediately or the
oii!cers wonld bo notified. Constable
McCOy was found and went at once to
the alley and stayed there until the fire
WIS put out. The wind was blowing
hard at the time and a serious fire might
have resulted from the criminal care.
lcssness 90 these men.
Erickson IL Peterson, the railroad con-
irHct"rs at Osinu, have rather a novel
way nf paying oil their men. !As soon
rs Il man quits, he Is given a time check
stating the amount due, but which is
not transferable until signed by Erick.
son Il Peterson in the town OF Elko, Ne.
vadI. The object of this Ia to prevent
the men from spending their money mt
the saloons that have sprung up where
the work is going on. Tho lSDEPESpEsT
learns that several OF the time checks
were cashed at the salOuns before being
signed III Elkn and Tint the parties cash.
ing them are ont and injured. This
means tho circulation Of ~ good deal Of
money in Elku in the next Tow months.