Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-08-01
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
Sa1maaundi.

8 thus evening.
Charley Keiser returned to his home
in Reno last night.
Tom Harvey has been appointed con.
stable at Tonopah ut IL salary OF 1900
per month.
Tho INDEPENDENT ia ~creditably
informed that Commissioner Clark will
DO Il candidate for reelection.
Andrew Francis is very low at the
residence of his daughter, Mn. Baum.
bach. The old Rentleman's recovery is
doubtful.
The next Congress will contain
twenty nine additional members, and
that means a large widening OF the pork
barrel at future sessions OF the body.
Returns from Starr Valley indicate
the election Of w. w. Weuthers and W.
{. Griswold % delegates from that
district to the Democratic State con.
vention.
There are forty prisoners in the couu :
ty jail, or this number twenty are
charged with felony, This is the great
est number OF alleged criminals that
the Jail has ever hell. 1t ensures long
sessions for the grand jury and the Dis
lrict Court.-Reno journal.
Vermont is enjoying the political di-
version OF Il regular Republican-Pr ohibi-
ton State ticket aid "A bo.ting Repub-
lican high-license ticket. It is IA ques.
ton with the Vermont farmers whethe
they shall drink their hari cider under
high Ii rnse or prohibition.
At about midnight Sunday u fire
broke out i'll the bunk house Mt Edge.
mont and before the sleeping inmates
we're aroused had gained such headwsy
that they had little time TO save their
personal effects until the entire building
was consumed.-Reno journal.
The sentence pronounced recently by
Il Scotch Judge is typical OF Scottish
thrift. He said, ~. did not only kill
and murder tie man but ye did push,
thrust or impel the lcthal weapon
through the belly. band OF his regiment
nj trousers which were the property OF
his Majesty"
Born with the nation on July 4. l776,
Perry Chesney died at his home on
Copper ridge, IN the Tennessee
mountains, Oh J uly 4. He was the old.
est man in the United States and was
excessively proud that the Declaration
OF Independence was adopted, az he
expressed il. "in honor OF his BIRTH"
The mineral wealth Of the new min
ing district in Nye county, christened
PGctolus, ia said to have been greatly
exaggerated, and prospectors are leav.
ing there. All Of he mincrs employed
at Berlin, who stampeded for Pactolus
on receipt OF the news OF it's marvellous
wealth, have returned to work.
tlambletOnian was the most noted
sire America has ever produced. or
his 1888 collie 40 were III the 2:30 class,
lao Of his son produced l.I78 trotters
Of standard speed. 80 of hIs daughters
produced ITO trotters in the $50 list,
and it is estimated that $4,000 of the IT,.
C25 t~rotters now in the 2:30 list trace
blood back to this famous horse.
There was something Of Il ructiop in
front Of tho Silver Brick saloon during
the noon hour. A big husky with his
hat and coat off hurled vile epithets
from the sidewalk at some one in the
saloon. Presently two men came out
and a few blows were exchanged and
much vile language was used. There
promised o he Il general mix-up, but
something quieted things down before
any blood was spilled.
Tho lumber industry stands fourth
among the great manufacturing &C.
equations Of the United States, accord
ing to n receu. census bulletin. Tho
steel industry is first, the textile second
and the meat packing third. The lum-
her industry employs a capital OF s6Il,.
COO, ZOO, men to the number OF 2}3,260
and turns ont n yearly product valued
al sjG6, 800, LOCO. This ia ten times the
lumber product turned out 80 years
ago.
John Hogan, one Of the men arrested
Sunday Tor selling whiskey to Indians
applied to Judge Talbot today for II
writ Of habeas corpus. On tho showing
made by the United States Commission.
or, tho hearing OF the writ was continued
until Saturday by consent OF Nj. s. Will
SOD, tho defendants attorney. After
the caso had been continued n complaint
WA sworn to before Justice Morgan
and Hogan was taken before him and
demanded IN immediate examination
This WIS granted him and he was
discharged. Constable Mccoy being
the only witness against him that was in
court.