Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-01-30
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last night.
Miss Nellie Sheehan left for San
Francisco yesterday.
The storm still continues md the
prospects look good Tor Il heavy fall Of
snow.
Tie White Pine News says That Miss
Belle Butler, who has been very sick at
Ely with typhoid fever. is now able to
be ont OF bed.
\ horse buyer is i'll Wadsworth look
ing for 800 head OF range horses, $50 to
weigh 1000 pounds each and the balance
from 1850 to 1900 sacb.
According to it's annual statement the
business transacted 10y the Western
Union Telegraph CompRn, i'll Nevada
during the year ending Dec. 81, 1907,
WIS: Total disbursements. S24, 9li. 10;
total receipts, s9,Il92l.
Out Of IA population Of 10000 i'll Wa
tcrhurry. Conn, from $1,000 to 10000
are Irish or III Irish drsr"ut. They pee
dominate i'll municipal affairs and their
societies are the strongest in the city.
II is one OF the few cities in the coun.
Try where Gaelic is taught III night
schools.
Tho INDEPENDENT hopes the "ommis-
sioncrs will see their way clear this
summer Ia 10 scratching toward putting
the streets ~ Elko in II decent condi.
tion. One thing :ncy should do il to
pass an order prohibiting my citizen
from putting the dirt from cellars ~
other excavation nL the pnblic streets.
Here is "a little gem clipp ii from a
small boys essay Oh parents: Parents
are things which boys nave Ia look after
thcM. Most girls also nave parents.
Parents consist Of pas and mas.
Pas talk Il good deal about what they
are going to do, uu, mostly it's the mas
.!:". MAKE . mind"
The Democrats uf the Colorado legis.
laturc succeeded in getting their forces
together Saturday evening and elected
Senator Teller To succeed himself. Tell.
er received fitty.one votes the necessary
number to elect. Not Il single Rcpub
licaD took part III the joint session. The
Republicans will contest Teller's cleo.
ton to the bitter end.
This III the way an EASTERN exchange
puts the tariff situation to the farmers:
The farruer who has 10 buy coal at
the present price and sell fat cattle at
the present price and can smiliugly Rd-
init that these prices are regulated by
-the natural supply and demand" is 50
full Of political prejudice that he hasn't
may room left for the thinking apparatus
to work.
E1.Constable Ward McNeilly OF Reno
Inns been appointed Proctor of The State
University. His duty liz To take notice
OF all serious violations 81 the rules OF
the University AMI report thu same to
the Committee un student affairs for
their action.
II WIS learned yesterday evening that
the burglar who entered Chas. kcmler's
store at Paradise has been captured.
He liz nm Indian boy not over Is years
old. He wns discovered 10y means uf a
cut he sustniued on the hand when he
broke the glass IN the door. The goods
he took were all recUvered.-SiIyer
state.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor IN believed Ia
own the most costly rug in America. 1t
was made i'll Paris and has three large
cmernlds surrounded 10y diamonds.
The entire circle is cncrustcd with tiny
diamonds and the rmeralds arc declared
tn be MS nearly perfect m my ever seen
in Amsterdam. \ ilawlcss emerald is
the rarest of GENE. Tho ring is valued
Mt 10000 by experts.
Sheriff Clark returned Inst night from
Cherry Creek. to which place he accom-.
panied Trnylor and Gaskill. the men
held Ia appear before tho White Pine
county grand jury Tor killing three mon
and w%ounding another ut Keystone on
tlt III W tuls lIlOltl' ~ SucIIg STcck
Deputy Sheriff Weldon OF White Pine
county met Traylor and Gaskill and
accompanied them To Ely.
iIard coal had u hard time in it's in.
funcy. In 1912 it was tested to see il il
wonld burn. but failure after failure
was the result. \ furnace was left Tor
several hours with II large amount of
hard conl in it.. \ workman had left
liie cont n ou returning for il he fOnnd
the furnace red hot. Since that time
its usefulness Inns grown To such nn
extent That it 10Y rulCs the human race.
Prof. O'Ncii finished ilis work here
Saturday afternoon and returned To
berkeley Saturday night. lie told tho
reporter TINT lac was vol plcnscd with
what he saw ~ the ehalo deposit and
tho oil well. Ito took with him several
specimens oi ehalc, which no will test
Tor their different products. II the re-
suit in what hc expects II to bc, no will
scnd for several hundred pounds of
ahnlc aud work II on n largcr scale. lIC
promised to send tho INDEPENDENT n
n full rpbOrl OF lIa pxuprimcntp.