Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-03-14
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY.
SaImagundi.


John Henderson is under the weather
with II severe cold.
Attorney Brown and the editor Of the
INDEPENDENT returned from Reno last
night.
Government bonds to the extent Of
EG1.iOO wer" purchased for the State
School fund Friday.
John Sparks and 4. G. Cleveland have
been selected as Nrvada's represent
ativcs in the executive committees O. the
American Cattle Growers Association.
The i;cbekah Lodge will give a dance
on Friday cvenmg \ pril 9th. III honor
1T the S3l anniversary Of the institution
NJ Odd Fellowship in America. Full
Information will he given in these columns
III due time.
The world has never seen such a
rapid accumulation 81 vast fortunes as
are amnssed in this country every yenr.
IL IL n shame and II di-grace that IN the
midst OF all this excessive opulence my
worthy person should suffer from
poverty, says the Kansas CITY Star.
The funeral Of John Craig took place
yesterday afternoon from his late res
ldcncr. R.v. GtorIe +. Plummer
conducted the scrvi'"s ut the house. md
at the grave. 4 large number Of Elku'a
80 80 ma F,Il.u,.l 49,
cemetery. May hc rest in eacc.
\ teacher asked a little boy to spell
-re-ponsibIliry." which he iii /. Now
Tommy" s,ii the to ,chcr. -cau you tell
me the meaning of that biz worJ?"
-iIs num-" an.wer"d Tommy. II had
only four buttons on my pants md two
"ntne oil. all the responsibility wunId
hang Un the other two Exchange.
The room in which Prince Henry ~
Prussia slept mt the \ uditorium hotel in
Chicago. WIS entirely Tor the
"crhsinn, from carpet to curtains. The
wall paper WA even new and made Tor
The purpose, containing IL design Of the
'ta bitLD ttstts w TIE ldDlt lHDtl.
Londun'e official census fixes the BOP.
ula'Inn ~ the wurld'- metropolis ut
i,j36jil. which Is nearly tive times what
IT was in 1901. or l0J years ago. The
dnt citywurh was . world wide phc.
nnmennu throughout the nineteenth
century.
Charles T.. Maynard. nm engineer. was
run over i'll the Ogden Yards yesterday
md instantly killed. lie was literally
cut to pieces. Mr.. Maynard was n
member in good stnnding Of Elko
Lodge No. Is F& \. NJ. Ills remains
will toe buried in Ogden. The Masonic
Il ~ ia fipnt,ng at half mast today as a
token of respect Ia hIs memory.
In q letter to tl.c Now York World.
George Rice NJ Marietta, O.. IA gentle.
mau who appears Ia Ec we'll informed
I'm the affair Of the STANDARD Oil trust,
declares tina, the capitalization ~ the
tIusi. instead 81 being Slt0,N 0.COD ms
uopularly supposed. is S~201iOl.0nO; and
he also advances the information that
the recent 20 per cent dividend irst de
lnred, instead 81 am mm'rnG to S2u.Nt0,.
900 np reported IN the n]owspapors, really
Amounted to Si0.U0O,00J.
Tho Rocky Mountain OIL Company is
having considerable trouble IN getting
their heavy boiler 10 the site Of the
proposed vol. II started f,om town
saturday with eight hOrso' hitchcd tn
tho Wagon, Int tho ground was 30 soft
thni the wagon went in to the hJbs mud
The horIcs were unable To. pull il ont
Yesterday sixteen horaPs woro taken out
and the boiler was pulled ont OF the
mud and taken to within II hnlf milo oi
the derrick. 1t will br put III place to-
,lny and boring will noon begin.