Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-04-17
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY.
Salmaqundi.

'phi ~ 'iuo'. phhSSN tHIouRn lhot FNc-
ming in hIs special car.
One hundred and seven thousand
tons 81 american peanuts were bought
Mt Mnrseilles in 1902 for use i'll making
olive oil soap.
lI"velock will have a great wheat crop
this ear. Ii is estimated that it will
be 80 per cent mor than any year in it's
history and fully doubled that Of the
past three years.
The STANDARD is informed that the
Marine Bros, the musicians who de.
lighted the EIkO people a year ago. will
locate i'll Lovelock. They having been
engaged 10y the proprietor Of the Europe
saloon.
DR. Hood rrpori- the case OF diph-
thena ut t'arlin getting along nicely
with no danger 1T the disease spread
ing He ala 70 Inrts the two smallpox
p%ati'ntS at 'r. y" stii"use doing HI we'll
NJ "G:u ZEE xl.r"'"''.
The milrrad Company has huIlt II
station house and a. new iron rater innk
at Valmy, west nf Battle Mountain.
Water is fouGd at a depth Of eco feet
and machinery Tor pumping il into the
tank is upon the ground.
Gus. the six year.old son 81 Mr.. and
Mrs. Fresia, died from dipLtheria at
Winnemucca Saturday I iyht. Acting
under DR.. Samuei'r Instructions the
child was buried IA quickly ms the prep
a~rations could be made. The disease is
said tn he under control, but the schools
have been closed until al! danger ia
passed..
The journal shy + hat there are seven.
ty-twn saloon licenses now e1tant in
WashGe county. OF tins number Reno
has fifty seven, Wadsworth seven, Verdi
four and iour are m country districts.
weniy two gambling licenses were
taken ont this m0Lth, nineteen OF which
are III Reno and three in Wadsw Jrth.
Tie Reveille Gays that Miss Laura
Anderson, IS yenra Of age and domestic
employed in the family Of p. S. Jensen
Of Birch Creek, committed suicide FRI
day night 10y taking poison. No cause
can he assigned for the act ~ the girl
WIS IN the best 81 spirits at the time oi
her retiring for the night.
\ German professor has been inyesti-
nutipu lh.. pn. ,a..G al inGunity un,nnu
women and has come to the conclusion
that II women are admitted into com
petition with men tho inevitable result
will be a tremendous increase OF in
sanity among the women. lie finds that
the percentage al women teachers who
become insane is almost double that Of
the men teachers.
The coal supply 81 the Southern Pa.
c:tic Company west Of Reno has been re-
duccl Ia such a state that orders have
been issued To rush fuel supply west as
fast Ms possible. The Salt Lake division
officials are instructed to endeavor to
turn over to the Sacramento division
about thirty cars Of coal per day and
rush the empty cual cars back to the
mines in Wyoming aud Utah for car
g0.s.
Manager Merritt told the reporter
this morning that he was getting things
in shape at the Rocky Mountain we'll AZ
fast III possible and that d%rillinR would
he resumed in u day or two. lie also
snI TINT he was getting the machinery
ready to begin work on the Burner
basin we'll. lie intends to push the
work on both welis IA rapidly rs poss.
ible.
The entertainment given to the SUN
day school children aud the young peo.
pie Of st Pauls Episcopal church ut
Mizrnh Hall last night Wa a success in
every way. The children enjoyed them.
selves playing games etc, and everyone
had Il good time. The ladics deserve
credit Tor 80 kindly remembering the
little ones this bright and glorious Eas.
ter season.
The Harris Organ company at Los
Angeles. Cal IL building n pipe organ
Tor cOr vcntiOn hall at Kansas City,
which will he the largest in the wrld,
II will be- exhibited mt ;lP ST. Innis
| worlds fair. the organ will br equip.
pei with 10 speaking stops. cluiyalen,
tn mn orchestra Of 40 pieces. II will
cost sG7 400. II is Ia he placed in the
north end ~ Convention hall. and il il
expected will he installed by March |,
1901. Work upon the instrument wat
begun last December.
4 Zig strike has been made in the
tunnel in tho Weston mine at Lone
Mountain. a large vein has boed cut
at tho depth oi 300 feet that carries the
same quality ~ copper orc, carrying
poll and silver. M that found on the sur
face. b1tcet reports say .liat the tun
mol has pierced the orc vein ton feet and
the re- urc M signs oi it's giving out. MIR
Weston IL naturally clRted over the fine
and predicts grent things for the mine
tt il pans out M lac iliiuks IL will, i
mcnnsa stncltCr and increased prOapeni!
for Elhn
We notice that ono u the mos
lcarnci physicinns in the world say