Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-01-09

Friends OF Governor Sadler state
upon the authority of the Ex.G Governor
himself, that he is still in the fight for
the appointment OF Warden of the State
prison. and Is in to win. In other words
he will be IN the contest ut the finish.-
Carson News
The coal situation in Toledo Ohio, haa
reached the point where physicians GER
t~i'icatea are required by dealers before
they will sell eveu a ton .! coal. The
certificate must chow hat there is ill.,
ness III the house of the would-be pur.
chaser and that coal is necessary M a
safeguard foi the patient.
Constable Lewis brought james Muir
ray from Deeth last night to serve four
months in jail Tor stealing a case of
merchandise from Tie railroad company.
Murray was discharged from the Jail on
the Pod OF December after serving a six
months sentence for slashing a man in
Elko with n knife. He is a tough cit
izen.
Herbert Burdeti, representative of
The Colorado State Realty Association,
visited the oil well and coal mine yes
terday afternoon. He told the reporter
last evening that the surface and forma-
ton OF the Elko oil fields closely resem.
bled those OF the Florence fields in Col
orado. MIR. Burdett was very fayorably
impressed with the EIko fields. He left
for Reno last night.
From 10 ON the freight trains from
Sacramento to Truckee and irou True
kee to Sacramento will have three
brakemen and a conductor, instead OF
two brakemen and a conductor. The
freight trains going and coming over
the ahIllr so are large that two
brakemen handle them only with diff.
iculty. This new rule will require the
employment Of about twenty-five extra
men.
The Director OF MINIS estimates the
production Of gold for the year just
passed at $685. ,O7O, and increase OF
9 ,is6,370. The silver yield is placed
at s3l ,Oio,025. a gain Of over three mill.
ion dollars Colorado heads the list
with something over seven million in
gold and nine million in silver. Calitor-
mia has seventeen million IN gold. Ne.
vada has 1854. 900 in gold and s2.12o,.
900 in silver. The Klondyke output
was fourteen million and one half.
Two Of Bodies dead game sports en-.
gagged in a poker game with two of
B~ridgeport's dead drunk tin horn men
a few nights ago. The %deadgamers of
Bodie thought it a snap, winch in re-
atty it wac for the farmers. After a
very short while the Bodie sports we're
down to q sight, while the Bridgeport
ers were flush; that is, they had all the
money while the wise men from Bodie
had a patent deck with 81 cards and 8
aces bridgeport Chronicle.
Will Blake, son OF Coun y Commission
er Blake, met with a serious injury last
night. He had a bottle containing
black powder and poured some ON a pa
per and sprinkled il on a tire. In some
way the powder in the bottle ignited
and exploded the hottie in his hand in.
fieting an ugly wound DR.. Pickard
was called and, assisted by DR.. Sullivan
put the young man under chlorotorm
and dressed the wound. They found
his hand terribly lacerated and the flesh
literally torn away from the bone. The
thumb was broken and the flesh under
that member was blown away. 1t re.
quired forty stitches to draw the torn
flesh togcther.-Virginia Enterprise.
Governor Sadler refused to approve
the bond Of Secretary OF State Douglas
as ex-otficio clerk OF the Supreme
Court on the ground that that office Is a
constitutional one, and therefore not an
ex.ollicio position. " was pointed ont
to the Governor TINT he had approved
tho bonds Of the previous Secretary Of
State Tor tho same position. TO this the
Governor replied that he had a different
Attorney. General then. MIR. Douglas
was not worried over the Governors oh.
lection and fled has bond with the Sec.
rotary Of State. The Supreme Court
posed upon the point raiBed b, the
Governor several years ngo and he'd
that the Secretary OF State was the ex.
onicio Clerk Of tho Supreme Court.
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