Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-09-12

:hS Ia visit a sister.
Mr.. md Mira Rsink.n Of Lamoills
valley were i'll town this forenoon look.
'ng for n house.
Tho Gazette rays the prospects are
good for Reno to get a wooden mill in
the near future.
MB. J.T Wright and Cleve left this
afternoon for Oakland. where Gle We
will enter the high sci, oil.
Jailor Is, veridge returned Saturday
afternoon from Lake Tahoe. lie enjoy.
ed the trip and comes back with his
health improved.
The Presbyterian Church choir had a
watermelon party at Mizpah Hall Satur-
day night. a very pleasant evening was
spent and all the members OF the choir
were present.
The high school opened this morning
with Prof. Ca inc, Miss Eide and Miss
Swyney ut their posts. Thirty .nine
pupils we're enrolled. an increase over
former years.
Six construction trains are now at
work between Ogden and the lake on
the Lucin cutoff aud three ON the Lu-
Gin end Fully $50 men are EN- ployed
the work.
The Christian Endeavor Society will
give a socihI and entertainment at
Mizpah Hall next Friday night. No
charge will he made. The students Of
high school and all strangers are
specially invited to be prese mt.
An English traveller Who has visited
every nation in the world il authority
Tor the statement that one food il
universal throughout all countries.
.Ihore is not Ii part OF the world" he
-where you canno get an egg
william Stoker. last Saturday after.
Wa kicked by Il colt which he WIS
attached to a hayrake, and ~ II
he suffers a painful wound gu
the leg. Tho cut WAS BE wed up and the
wound dressed by DR.. Ascher.-Love.
lock Argus.
Virginia City hnd a $4,000 tire Satur.
day morning. Tho fire broke out on b.
bet ween the small buildings III
ear OF the City Bakery. Tho res.
licences of Peter Shiny and James Spar
go and the old Mcmillan store were bad.
was flooded with water.
rhe report that Governor Sadler had
appointed AttoTney.Gen WOodburn
J Judge Of the Supreme Court il denied
by tho Carson papers. Tho L
got its information from the
Chronicle and Report. 1t
that they were somewhat
The primary election passed off quiet
.y Saturday, only tweuty-three vote.
being polled. Rel orts from other pr"
cIncts throughout lie 80 m'y show 'im'
were Generally hrl /. AZ
H. tin retu.ia me in trnm tlrr
precinct , list ne L'ir-"ir'
will 'r publish" l..
EOnnclly Mountain has iurIc ! out 10
I've somewhat ~ II disH ppnInim' at I" the
p rospector- who flocked the re with the
expectations OF making it fortune in Il
day. There are only three or iour men
at TINT camp now, and the formation has
to be very different from that
which WIS described in the first wild
Supervisor Holland nf the Indian De
partmant in in town investigating sites
Tor the proposed Indian school. He was
taken in charge this afternoon by Mr..
Mcbride. Mr.. Rcinhart and MIR. Nc.
Clollan and shown tho proposed sites
near town. IL the people Of Elko want
the Indian school, they had hotter begin
to hustle.
In Cuba cabbnges frequently weigh
as much ~ twenty pounds. All vcge'
tables do we'll. Radlshes may DO eaten
from fourteen TO eighteen days after
sowing, y lille corn produces three crops
per year. Sweet potatoes are perpetual
Tho natives dig up the tubcrs, cut them
oil and plant tho old vince, which pro
duce n new crop IN three months. Al
sorts OF fruits, horticultural and green
house plants and dubious stock are alFr
grown.
Twenty.fou billions OF stamps vii
TO printed Tor Uncle Sam during thu
| next four years under the contract jue
let to the bureau Of engraving an'
printing. II MI thus east mum Der wer
printed in u single row on one strip o
paper, that paper tape would bo NOR
thnn 3s5, 900 miles in length and woul'
pirdle tho earth 10 times with some
thing oycr
Tho freight on macaroni and cheee
from Genoa, Italy, to San Francisco |
1870 per ton. Tho distance Ia 7,8O
niles. From Tlono to Purdy n distnnc
OF seventeen miles, the freight on barlr
and oats In 1850 per ton. a residcn
Of tho latter plRco wants TO know VIII!
there should 10 such n disparity |
rateR.