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

Miss Selma Hardesty's cousin from
Chicago is spending a few weeks in
Elko.
This wonld he "A first class LAY fo-
December, put it Is very much OIL color
for the Inst Of April.
Billy Yates, the Pine Valley cowboy.
came to town Saturday night. lie is
putting in his time shaking hands with
has old friends.
District Attorney Henderson, will
leave for Eureka tonight. lie goes ON
legal business and expects 4" return he.
fore the end Of tho week.
The spr nv session Of the District
Lodge II Good Templars convenes ut
Mound valley. May It'll. The Elko Lodge
IL entitled to tour delegates.
Dispatches from Paiisqde state that
the body ~ john -. Brnoks WIS found
this morning. III the Humboldt river
about four miles below that town.
Judge Breen has committed James
Laity. Il miner Of Ruby Hill, tn the asy-
lum ut Reno. The unfortunate man is
we'll known throughout Eureka and Nye
counties.
Tie Utah Legislature has passed a
law which provides for a fine Of dive dol.
lars or five days imprisonment for any
person under IL years Of age who has in
his possession "a cigarette. cigar. tobacco
or opium.
There are a lot OF T%uscarorans in town.
Among them are Attorney johnson,
John Murphy. VIM. Bentley, Kit Bull.
lard, Steve Ferguson and Charles Creek.
Honest EIkoites should know what to
do while they are in town.
Lieutenant Governor John \. Lee Of
Missouri has resigned and his resigna.
ton has been accepted by Governor
Dockery. Lee is badly mixed up in the
alum" scandal Of the recent Missouri
Legislature.
TOuUpah. Tor its age has not II rival IN
the history Of mining camps, as for the
time it has been i'll eIIste ace it has pro.
duced more wealth than the lannon's
COmstoc!: or Cripple Creek did dr. ring
the first Fix years 81 their existence.
Saturday afternoon William Brooks,
the opium smoker. plead guilty md was
fined s40 or 20 days in the cooler. lie
N,AI, a.. ..l.. ~ ,...,. 900.
tencc Of 10 days and Nelson. the third
member Of the gang. has been run ont
ri town.
Bert Campbell slashed W. II. Russell
with Il knife at a dance in Eureka the
other night. Russell narrowly escaped
serious injury. Campbell wRs arrested
aud held to appear before the Eui
county grand jury to answer TO the
charge Of assault with inten: to kill.
Dan McAllister md T.. Gordon, who
were indicted 10y the wnshoe county
grand jury for selling liquor to Indians
plead guilty md Judge Curler gave
each Of them three y'nrs in the peniten.
tigry. The sentences are the heaviest
over imposed in this State for that Of.
Tense.
Once an editor printed nn item stat.
ing that the man who WA hugging the
hired girl bad better stop or his name
would be published" In Il short time
twenty five citizene paid up their sub
- GIl a..
attention Ia fo"lish stories going
around.
Clyde Lang and Benny Henry hive
taken the place Oi the Dewar boys as
carriers Of the INDEPENDENT and Bull.
lctin. They will do their best to give
abstraction TO the patrons Of the papers.
II will take thom u few days to get
accustomed to the route. IL any OF the
subscribers IRE overlooked, they will
pleasc repor: to this Office.
Mcssrs, Mcbride, Rsinhnrt and l~lesson
local trustees OF the Rocky Mountain
Oil Company. and Senator Hunter visit
I'd the oil well Saturday afternoon.
1hoy apent come time on the ground
and were we'll plenscd with the progress
Of the work under Mr.. Merriu's n
ngemcnt. All the lnrgc casing will 10
in in q dry or so and the we'll will then
bo pumped out and drilling resumed.
q. lIcnsley, q man working with tho
| Taylor sheep OMIT Mt Squaw valley.
nbont forty miles west OF Tuecarora,
died suddenly TTesday evening, Com.
missioner Snyder was notified and pro.
cured a team aud coffin md won't to the
camp, Finding that lIensley's death
was caused by pneumonia, he buried
| tho remains. No vnluables OF any kind
we're found IN hie body or among his
~eiTcrtR.
Saturday night some petty larceny
thief entered Constable McCoy'e stable
mud carried of II hnir rope and Il hack
more. Tho rope in made Of brown und
| black name aud lie twcniy.ninc feet long
Tho constable H. II little wnrm over tho
loa Of his property aud will give u re-
ward NJ 81 Tor Information TINT will lend
10 tho nrrcat and conviction 81 the THE
aud az 80 more for the recovery ~ tie