Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-08-15
FROM THURSDAYS DALI.
Salmagundi.

lie reports good weather during hayrng
and the crop nearly gathered.
w. s. Griswold and +. Z. Lutts came
in from Ruby valley yesterday to
attend the funenal OF Ross Wright, their
old friend aud neighbor.
Marysville, California, had a slOO, 900
fire yesterday. The Garrett Grocery
Company lost s75. 600. Several f:remen
were injured. but fatal results are not
anticipated.
Reno is getting to be m up.to.date
city. The Gazette says mt present there
are twelve or thirteen regular officers on
the police force, including the day and
night service.
There are close to GOO horses hauling
ore from Tunopah to the railroad. Tho
%Fonopah Company Is extracting more
ore in doing development work than the
teams can haul ont at present. and there
are fully 10000 tons piled up on the
dumps.
In the pnst thirty days there hive
been hut three deaths OF adults in To.
nopah and the Miners hospital contains
only one patient. Rumors OF the sic'5.
illness OF Tonopah seems to have been
~gronndless or grossly exaggerated.
The Gazette says thnt a telegram WIS
received there Tuesday stating that DR..
Stubs was critically i'll in San Fran.
cisco. Another received at 7 o'clock
Tuesday evening said that he was rest.
ing easily. He is suffering from stomach
trouble that affects his heart.
The following from an exchange has
II particular local application: Don't
kick Mt the editor il he misses n personal
occasionally. lie cannot be everywhere
Mt the same time. aud likewise does not
know everything that is going nn. Per-
sonais for the local columns are not in
tentionally omitted. Bring in the news
when you have it.
S. n. Nicholson, Supreme Deputy a. 0.
U W.. ID in town I'll the in ter at Of the
'iNFi Abc IN JhSl lIOUl Ely "lbTo lie
organized "A Lodge OF tittv.two Charter
members. He reports the camp in a
fiourishIug condition and says that il
will some day equal Butte, Montana, in
copper production and their gold mines
also show up we'll.
Mr.. J. T. Wright arrived from Salt
Lake last night with the remains Of his
his brother. The remains we're taken
to Mr.. Wright's residence and the
funeral took place from there Mt 3 o'clock
this afternoon, Rev. George IL. Green
field officiating. May the last sleep of
the deceased be peaceful.
The Times Review says that Tusca-
rora wns waited Moniuy afternoon with
the most violent thunder storm that
ever occurred there within the memory
at the white man. Rivers OF water
rushed down the ravines and gulches,
filling cellars and doing considerable
damage tc them and their contents.
h. A. p. johnson has had the editor
OF the Times-Rcview arrested on he
charge Of libel. The ofTense is alleged
to have been committed when the
Times-Review published the report OF
the case OF the State vs. p, Dory. In
the report the Times-Review criticized
MIR. johnson for unprotessional con-
duct.
a small party OF Moros surprised an
outpost Of the 9th infantry Ut Camp
Viscure, Tuesday morning. 1t was darl,
and foggy and the attacking party
crawled to With. d Paw Feet ct the een.
tinels and then sprang upon the IN
suddenly, Two Americans wore killed
and two wounded. The Moros escaped.
although possibly a few Of them were
wounded.
A reward OF siO0 is offered Tor the ap
prchensioD OF the man who held 10 and
robbed "A tourist named o. w. Street
near Tahoe Tavern, Lake Tahoe, las,
week. Tho only description furnished
by the California authorities is that "the
robber carried a shOrt.bandled axe il
n hand Pnd a revolver in tho other
Nevada authorities should keep a shnrI
lookout for n man carrying II short
handled axe and a revolver.
Work Mt the now coal fields thirty-fv,
miles southwes Of Tonopah is progress
ing rapidly. y force Of men in mt worl
getting things in shape and sinking in
clines on the vein. In u Tow month
this development work will have pro
gressed far enough to prove the value
OF this coal in depth. II win be n grea
boon to Tonopah and viii PRACTICAL,
solve tho smsltor question ,us il ia n con
TINT will produce II good quality OF coke
Il. r, Young, or Younes. was ioun,
dead in his bed at tho Palace Hotel
Reno, yesterday morning. lie Ind CON
United suicide 10y taking morphine. Ii
loft n note saying that no was seventy
sovon years Of age, and sickness I'm
driven him to take his own lilo. II
also stated that no had no relatives thu
he cared to notify, but wanted n rotic
OF his death sent to the Omaha bee
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