Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-07-03
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY
Sa!magundi.

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Austin since 1852, died last Monday.
f.. l.. McMahan came III from Tusca
rOrn Saturday to meet his daughters wh,
arrived from the west this morning.
There is no change in Mrs. Chapman.
condition since yesterday. She contin
ucs la hold her own.
Hereafter the Sunday school Mt IN,
Episcopal church will he held at ter
o'clock on every Sunday morning
Every one IL cordially invited.
There will be u game az baseball to,
morrow afternoon Lciwecn the regular
EIkO nine and the TAT mems nine rau
tanned by Jim Campbell mud managed
10y Joe Carroll.
Rev. Geo. II. Greenfield will return
from his trip through the northern part
81 the county tonight and hold regular
services III the Presbytcrinn Church To.
morrow morning and evening.
Mr.. Wimple. a Grnughteman in the
employ 81 the Western Pacific Railroad
Company, Is making cOpitA 81 the town.
chips between EIkn nui Carlin. lie
thinks the new railroad is Il sur 90.
Not "A passenger WAS killed on the rail.
way -: Grcat Britain last yaar. In the
United States for tho year just ended 3I5
passengers were killed and Gi33 injured.
That this difference IL partly due Ia
lack uf care il undcniahlr.
The bid FOR painting the high school
building were opened last night and The
contract was awarded la the Stcninger
Bros. Mir. Sherwood bid sI75. and the
bid q: S%t"ninrcr Bros. was Just "A few
dollars less.
The Carson Appeal says thu. tho peo.
pie OF Carson are canning tn the con.
c'usion TINT il Blue Ind not killed the
thinanan the Chinaman would hive
killed him. Blue il confined in tho
comfy Jail awaiting lIis preliminary cx.
animation. Tie is over sixty years Of
age.
y report recently made 10y the Bur
emu Of forestry shows that on mn average
each year sixty lives arc lost III forest
tires and that go 600 600 worth Of prop
rrty il destroyed. More than 100000
acres 81 timber lanG are burned over
and Young forest ground worth at the
lowest estimate sT5,OOo, 900 liz killed.
One 81 our subscribers looked
through the Bible to find scripture To
Justify him in using tobacco and found
but passage. 1t in found in the last
chapter ~ Revelations mud il tho second
clause 81 the eleventh verse. We'll bot
thnt every onc Of the old SINNERS who
use tobacco Will rcnd TINT verse within
m hour after rcading this paragraph.
"Wednesday thcSrcrrtary OF State filed
one Of the largest incorporation papers
TINT has come into thiR State in n num-.
her ~ years. The Western Pacific Con.
struction Go filed articles Tor a cap.
italization IT $1,000. 900 aud the fccs TO
the state amount 10 $500. Tho in.
corporation nnmcs Reno M tho principal
place ~ bueinCsa and intends to con.
duet tho construction ~ railroads, mills
and other undcrtakmgs-Appcnl.
MIR. Krysrr received u telephone mes.
sagc from Skrl'on This afternoon stint
ing hat Mrs. Ruby Blank died this
murninp at II O'Clock from hcart dis
ease. MB. Blank wHs the daughter Of
Mr.. anal Mrs. David Lindsay and WAS
we'll known md highly esteemed by a
lnrgo portion 81 Tho people OF Elko.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lindsay are now some.
where IN the Enst. where Mrs. Lindsay
in undergoing medical treatment. Tho
rcnIain 81 the deceased will he brought
Ia Elko Tor burial.
Sheep Inspector Stins0n IL in
fr0m nn official trip through tho eouth.
crn part NJ the county. lie informed
the reporter that there nrc about 500.
900 sheep in the county aud all 1T them
ara in good condition except now and
then u little Rcab. There Ia no "hig
head" among tho sheep in tho county
and no iIoCts infected with lint disease
will bc permitted Ia cro@ the State
limo. Several Idaho ilocks infected will,
tho discasc hnvo been prohibited from
crossing the State line into tlis county
\ six.iIorsc team belonging 10 Mr.. J
u. liyrno ~ Independence valley start
"l Ia run away lhia forenoon whiIt
crossing tic railroad by tho freight
house. Tho driver plnckily kept hi
scAi md switched the team around tho
freight house and against tho long plat
form rna, 81 the building. Tho Tor war,
teams wore wcdgcd IN n cornc mud hNc
to atop. In dong 40 ono ~ tho whcc
horscH wn thrown down md the iongu,
u the wagon broken. II was II yer.
lucky outcome 10 what promised tc "
u vtry disastrous runaway.