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

Onoo' 'ne niue rrlcRe who
was injured i'll the powder explosion in
Sheridan Wednesday. died from her
injuries Thursday.
Friedrich Davis, the civil engineer.
Inns his professional card in this issue.
lie Is prepared to all work in his line
that may be intrusted 10 him.
Tailor Beyeridge has como TO Lake
Tahoe for the benefit Of his health
The INDEPENDENT sincerely hopes that
he will bc benefited by the trip,
The Salt Lake Tribune says that, a
mating furnace will be installed Mt
Spruce Mountain. Nevada, by the own
ers OF several properties III that vic.
unity.
Eleven or twelve trains Of knights of
Pythias passed through yesterday and
three or four this %forenoonI The Depot
Hotel dininR-room WIS kept pretty well
filled yesterday by hungry knights.
Attention is called to the ad OF the
Engler Company. 1t tells all about
shoes OF all kinds and where they can
be bought for the least money. Read
the al and be wiser ana happier.
The Federal BrigIde- got AWAY with
the regular organization at the Rcpub
lican primaries III Reno Saturday. The
journal predicts That the breach be.
tween the two factions will grow wider
before election day.
DIR. Hood received a telephone mes
sage from Gold Creek this morning that
"A hoy had been severely %injurre thereby
u hOrfc yesterday. The message also 1t
that h boy WIS being brought To Elko
and asking the DR.. to meet the party mt
Wcildnd's. We were unable to learn the
boys name
y representative Of the Scoialist
party has been in town several days
"ndcavorinp Ia perfect an organization
81 tie party IN this county, but uppar
"ntly without success. He announces
that tho Socialists wall hnve "A ticket
in the Held in Washoe county this year.
Reno serms tn he ihr Nevada refuge OF
Ill the "tsms.- Virginia Chronicle.
II appears hat The oil wells in Texas
arc affected 10y the noon and tides.
When the q is full, the tides RUM
ing unusually high and the 20 is "a heavy
southwest wind the wells improve. The
pumping wells do better, nnd the dead"
rnrs comr. to life again. The Tea pres
sur" theory wns advocated for II time,
hut g~enlngIs,s do not take much stock.
in it.
Two men giving their names ns Charles
and Willard Gentry stole two
horses yesterday at the II ranch and
out for Ilallrck. They w~ercfollnv.
ed last night mmi raught at IIaIlrck this
morning AISLE cp il Il hoIcar by George
~iiutlcr. The: W. brought to Err
%forcnoon and laced IN Jail.
Durinl i've ,!rrr '..r st ,rn ' ser H.,
afternoon n valuable hnr owned h;
Fritz D,phnrg w. -tru" hy T.h.L',n
aud instantly i ID. Ino ami - ...l
just been In. ,ud into 49, &, raj ~
Jim MuTp'',, vino stood ,hont .1T f"et
away at thu Il ne, and mario ,ly rr'uIcI
u similar lat. Tho shoe pnraly zri him
for some time after the uccurcuce.-
Carson News.
Saturday afternoon Thomas Malloy,
II OF the prisoners i'll the chain gang,
got some whiskcy aboard and became
very mean. lie wRa finally sub1ucd
with n Cluh and taken to Jail. While
the officers were busy with him. -Cas.
tirun," Sent up from Carlin for ninety
days. took leg bail and got away. He
took his chain oil at Mr.. Clinton's
blacksmith shop and made FOR the
willows. Tho officers io .kcd Tor him ~
soou ia no was missed, but he could not
be found. !
Some cowboys at Dccth treated the
Knights ycsterday Ia a Wild West
show. Mounted ON their bronchos they
gall"pcd up und down along the train.
firing pistols and yelling. Then to make
it appear genuine they had two "deRd'
men covered with blankets lying i'll tho
streets. Men with pistols stood guard
over them and threatened to kill any
tcndcrtOot that came near. Tho knights
mud their ladies' scRmpcrcd to the cars
and some Of them. it il said, crRwlcd
under their scats.
| Who Gays that woinhn's influence il
not becoming stronger? AZ Il result OF
the persuasive powers Of three girls
twenty five farmers in Kansns are in
danger Of losing their wheat crop. Tho
girls wore employed IN the iiclds, and,
having become dissatisfied with tho
long hours und email wagcR. organized
n union and vent on Il strike. Tire,
hundred mon nlso quit work md now
the farmers will loso crops valued nj
I thousands OF dollars unless they yield.
ns they cannot obtain harvest hands I,
replace the strikers.