Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-05-01
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY.
SalmaQundi.


this afternoon.
Attorney Williams leaves for Eureka
tonight III legal business.
The r~nscarorans are still in town,
They nave been on their good behavior
81 far.
Congressman Van Duzer has gone
10 New York to finance a million dollar
mi"ng deal. Van is a hustler.
Governor Sparks and p. l.. Flanagan
Of Reno will meet President Roosevelt
at Sacramento and escort him into
Nevada and ont again.
&. \. Bradley, who embezzIed some
money from the n. e. y. railroad, was
sentenced in the District Court ut Reno
Thursday tn serve one year in the State
Prison.
Ii Eagles are spnring no efforts or
expense to make the ball Oh Friday
evening a success. They want you and
your u~eighbors to enjoy II pleasant
evening with then.
James McCarty, who was arrested at
Renu and taken to i%eriugton for stating
a horse and buggy broke out Of the YER
lngton Jail Wednesday night and got us
far IN Wellington before being recap.
tured.
The reinains Of the late John +.
Thorpe were laid away this forenoon in
tho presence OF a large number Of sym.
pathiz;uR friends. Rev. Geo. II. Green.
field conducted the servise-. May the
old pioneer rest III pea.e
Hon. w. f.. Bprah nf Boiss, Idaho
and G.. &. Leonard. II mining man from
Albany, New York. are III town settling
up some mining business. Mr.. Borah
came very near being elected United
States Senator at the last session oi the
Idaho Legislature.
Next Saturday live athletes nf the
Uniyer- ity OF Nevada will 20 To San
San Francisco To contest with all the
crack athletes Of the coast in the Pa
IillS nm .NSSDCtdlIJu ny hIl. Itt
winners Of this try out will represent
the coast in athletes at the worlds fair.
DIR. G.. &. Price. a Carson veterinary
surgeon, who was arrested for I btHining
money under false pretenses and whose
case Was dismissed. has brought suit
10: 10000 damages against George j..
Ilrnu-n thA IlnY,,tu, ,,tDfy ran,l,.r ,,I-.
preferred the charge.
Tickets are selling rapidly for the en-
t"eTtainmeut to he given at Mizpah Hall
on the evening Of May sth. AS the pro-
ceeds 81 the entertainment will be ap-
piled toward building IA NOM for the
Episcopal Sunday school, there should
be "A large attendance. Get "a ticket and
assist the Woman's Guild III this worthy
enterprise.
or the list OF about 1000 known met
ais the most important Ia the miner are
tile following: gold, platinum, iridium,
silver, copper, cobalt. nickle, iron, man.
ganese, bromine, tungsten, tellurium.
sulphur, bismuth. coal, anthony. water,
lead, tin zinc, carbon, potassium, cal.
cium, sodium. quartz, granite, slate,
mica, fcIspar. mercury, aluminium, ar
senic, silicon. lime, boraK. diamonds md
the other precious stones.
An American has invented mn envel.
ope which records 81 itself my attempt
tn tamper with its ccntentr. The flap
is imbued with some chemical compost
ton which when operated upon by Il
damPening process or any other means
81 penetrating TO it's Enclosure, records
tho transaction 10y causing the words
Attempt to open" to appear. 1t is
thought that the inquisitive will think
twice before pursuing their researches
in the face Of such an invention.
Georges Bertrand has just finished
the largest picture in the world, writcs
the Paris correspondent OF the Chicago
Record. Herald. Tho eubject il the iu.
neral OF Caruot. II was ordered in 1898
b. the state for the historic galley of
Versailles. II measures $50 square
yards. The artist built an immense
shed especially for the work. The can
vas confirms 100 portraits. including
those " Casimir Perier, Felix Faure,
numerous ministers md Lord Duncrin.
The subject 81 %dispUsinV Of the ice
plant at MuDiln has been under con.
sidcration 10y the authorities and M Of.
Ter u! 100000 wna made tor j. by the
Swift Westinghouse Syndicate. Gov.
erDment ~oiliciale Mt Manila an! II is
worth one million. Tho plant ~ owned
by the lnsulsr government, but II ques.
ton Inns arisen concerning the advis.
ability OF the government continuing in
private business not Notwithstanding the pro.
fts Of operating the plant Tor the post
ycar were sli5.000.
Attempts have recently been made To
~measurc memory" Ono Of che expert
mcnis coneiste in reading II series Of
figures to the subject at n regular speed
Of about two per HccOnh, and observing
how mnny no can repeat without error
in the order ~ which they aro given.
Tho faculty ~ voluntary attention IN,
OF course, called iuto Ilay in this CT
pertinent, Children from elk to eight