Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-09-04

! ieux and John Murphy came down
from Tuscarora Yesterday.
MIR. Mayer has gone to Sacramento to
engage "A house mover to move the De.
pot Hotel from it's present site to his
lots ~diasonally across the street.
One nf the scars made by the recen,
Dire Will Soon be- hidden from sight us
Carpenter Stewart is rebuilding the
porch in front OF the Elko restaurant,
Mrs. Ray Harris and child left last
night for II visit to Mrs. Harris home at
Quincy, Illinois. The INDEPENDENT
wishes her Il p!cisnn: trip aud II safe re.
turn.
Monday afternoon ~l5abe" Mayer and
j. Stewart. a !onng man from Cnlifor-
MA, Will run n foot race for 500 a side.
The rnce will take place in town about
2:3O o'c'ock. The race will give on
sports a opportunity 20 guess The
winner.
Sunday Il iierc" fire WIS reported q
be raging at the Rock Creek ranch of
the ti"lconda Cattle Co.. The tire had
been burning since Il. III. and mt last
reports had c'nsumed about 100 tons Of
hay mud was still hurninp.-Silver State
Tho indictment FOR murder against
lie men accused Of tn" murder nI Jack
WEIGH WAS set ;.-:.!. Yesterday 10y Judge
Bnnniicld and the case Was raEubmiitcd
to the grand jury Ilr. court ordered
the grand jury 1" incc, at 10 o'clock this
morning I" coHsidcr TIA. case.
Constable McAdams was W from Car
lin this morning. lie coniidentially told
the reporter that none but GOOD people
lived IN Carlin and thai all wonld move
move up here III soon As the drugstore
was completed. Ii llarve ever told the
truth, we might believe hat he sHid
abont the people 81 our sister town.
Miss Flossie Ford Of Eureka, vii" r.. =
Gently went to San Francisco to have
nh operation performed for appendicitis,
II taking preparatory treatment mt the
ST Helena sanitarium. Her phy sicians
have stared that II return OF the trouble
is not Improbable, and will perform the
operation before the condition OF their
patient again becomes serinLs.-Sen.
tinei.
The Tyler Bros. shipped two carloads
of honey last week from Lovelock to
~iiavre, France. The honey vas put up iu
cases, each case holding two live gallon
tin cans, weighing twelve pounds each.
The price paid on board the cars at
Lov"lock was 51G cents per pound or
clio n ton. The two carloads we're
worth S2Gi0. by the time the honey
reaches thet tables OF the French people
it will be worth % cents u pound.
Chief Engineer Harlow has returned
from his tOur 81 inspection OF the West
ern Pacific surveys in the eastern part OF
the Siatc. He Informed the reporter
this afternoon that the survey Of The
rC ute from llalleck west to San Fran
cIsc CO WIS now completed. lie also said
that there would be considerable tnn.
neling between Pnlisade and Carlin mud
or not the road would pass through Elku,
he said depended a good deal on the die.
position Of the people toward the road.
There are over $780, COO, 200 II half
dollars, quarters, dimes. ~niclicls aud
cents i'll circulation, about $50. 100000
~ silver dollarc, sT5,O00,C00 in one dollar
bills and as, ZOO, COO in two dollar billie.
\ nj still the cry is for change. change.
In New York the street ear companies
instruct conductors to refuse anything
lnrgcr than u two dollar hill for tarr,
owing tO the impracticahility ~ carry
ing enough change tn break up the iivcs
aud tens that would he forced upon
them. \ majority Of farcs are paid in
niCkcls.
1 Tho News says the rifle Carried 10y
convict Woods i'll his long jaunt from
Folsom prison was found Sunday under
a Culvert about three quar- tors of n mile
frnm Carson b. Arthur fi%ayCrhf, and
Will Epstinc. Wood told Deputy Shcr.
iT Maxwell Of Reno where the gun was
hidden and gave il to him ia n mcmcnt".
a belt we'll Tiled with cartridges was
found with the gun. Woods now sa, q
he was in Cursor one ,lay ahcnd Of Muir
ply md Miller ind won't to Reno from
there. lie says the report TINT he went
to Reno 10y way 81 Lake Tahoe md
Truckrc il n fake.
Two men, supposed To- no Miller aud
l'ahcy, escaped convicts. were n, Sloan's
ranch seven milcB cnsi Oi Wiuuemucca
last Sat urdHy. Tho one Ruppopt Il Ia bc
Falley was sccu III the willowa near the
house about . O'Clock IN the afternoon
by the Chinese cook. When In" bell
rang calling the lIny hands Ia supper nc
boldly walked Ia the house harchCndcd,
and without saying II word to anyone,
seated himself nj tlciRbloHnd ate u hear.
IS meal. When he had finished he asked
The cook for M old Int aud wnR given
ono. The WiuncindItR ,;..;Gss 20 arc sure
tlr mon were Miller and Fntlry mud