Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-06-26
lFROM FRIDAYS DAILY.l
Salmagundi.

tllS hIOrhlnP.
Edgar Sadler arrived from Eureka
this morning.
An equestrian statue uf General 10.
seph Hooker was dedicated at Boston
yesterday.
Tho ornrsmen Of Yale University won
all three events in the annual regatta
with H. var! yesterday.
A carlo al nf Anheuser Bush key beer
just reserved Mt the Club saloon will be
retailed in quantities to suit the trade. =
II. II. iIamlin and T. Magill the OPP
ticians have become associated in the
optical business and are now in Wnnc-
mucca.
Mrs. Chapman continues to hold her
" and seems Ia he gaining slowly.
Her condition. now gives hope ri her re-
covery from this attack.
The Reed ijroticrs have started "A dray-
ing business IN Elko. They will do
all Work IN their line on short notice.
y share Of the public patronage is so.
liCited.
y French clergyman issued a pamph-
let justifying lying under certain cir
cunstancc<. giving a list OF conditions
under which it is permissible. That
hook will undoubtedly have II wide cir
culation.
w. l.. Butler, principal Of .he Eureka
schools. will connect Winnemucca with
G"lconda and Paradise with a telephone
line. All the materials have beer re.
ccivcd at Winnemucca and work will
begin by next Monday at the latest.
In describing "a commencement. the
Huntington Va. Herald said: The
stage presented Il very pretty scene. In
the first row the graduates, ten young
girls dressed i'll white earring u large
bunch Of carnations and one Young man.
III, Reno city council has passed nm
ordnance taxing every business carried
on i'll the city except practicrug law.
This, the journal says, is because IL
lawyer drew the ordinance. The ordi-
nance seems Ia be very unpopular and
nearly everyb body is jumping on the
council.
f. j. Fitch Of Warren, Ohio. and NJ.
&. krarrep, Of New York City. who are
making II transcontincntnl trip III an au-
tomObile were i'll Reno Yesterday. They
left San Francisco Inst Saturday even
ing and crossed the Sierras 10y the
Placcrville route. The trip from Carson
to Reno was made III two hours. They
left the Riverside city yesterday after.
noon aud are now somewhere between
WadswOrth and Elko.
Charley Waller and Joe Henry have
joined the Western Pacific survey party,
which will work between here and Og-
den, and started on their duties today.
Mr.. liarlowe who Inns charge Of the
WORK for the company in this section
has purchased Il number of horses, wag.
ons, and supplies in Elko for the party.
1t now looks rs though the Western
Pacific railroad is a SUR 20, and we all
sincerely hope SO.
y Rawlin's, Wyoming, dispatch Of the
22nl says: y large number Of cattle
are dying in the SnaEc river section.
Tho cause has not vet been discovered.
but the deaths are caused by some kind
OF hinat poison, resembling very much
that Of poison from green alfalfa. II is
believed that it il due to rank vegcta
ton. One man who took u short trim
over the country u few days ago, count.
ed - dcad animals. Nearly every stock
man has suffered some loss 10y reason "
tins poison.
NJ. G.. Cecil formerly Of IGlku arrived
from the cast last night and spent to-
day visiting relatives and meeting his
old friends here. Mr.. Cecil represented
Nevada Mt The Grand Lodge 4. o. T..
W. which was in session III st. Paul re.
Gently, and is now on his way home.
While CnrOuto he was in a railroad
wreck OF the Rio Grandc road. in which
the engine aud n number of cars burned
and the passengers were couei lcrably
shaken up and frightened. int no one
was killed.
\ professor OF lioDn Univcrsity III
tracing the postcrity Of hnbitual drunk.
nrds has found S3i descendants from n
woman who Tor forty years was a thief.
n drunknrd and II tramp, and whose mis-
cradle life cninc to mn end i'll tho last
year of tho eighteenth century. The
professor has traced the lives Of 100 Of
this womau's descendants from youth Ia
old aye. aud of these li2 were bcggcrs
anh 81 more lived on charity. There
we're in the family seventy six convic,s
including cvc murdcrcrs. Tho pro.
fcsaor estimates that in seventy five
years this family has cost the German
authorities in nlmahousct, law courts
prisons md other institutions about al..
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