Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-05-29
FROM THURSDAYS DA,L,.
Salmaqundi.

morning.
The recnrter's and assessors offices il
the court house are being papered anu
painted. Tho Steninger Brothers are
doing the work.
Ii is reported that engineers Of the
Western Pacific railroad have been il
this section the past week looking ovel
the country for the best route for the
new railrOnd.
District Attorney Henderson returned
from Eureka last night. file had a
severe attack NJ tonsilitis while away
and Is now confined 4 his house. Tie
hopes to be ont attending to business in
a few days.
In excavatinR "a road down the street at
at Silver Reef, Utah to the Leeds mill,
a trunk Of & large tree thoroughly car
BOMBED. was fouud. On being assayed,
moro for curiosity than anything else, it
was fOlnd to carry owe 100 ounces Of
silver per ton.
\ dispatch from Santiago De Chill
says: The report that cases Of bdbonic
plague have been discovered at the sea
port OF IIuique is confirmed. The.a
were ten cases Monda!. six OF which
were fatal. The disease was brought in
a car load ~ rice from India.
The Lincoln County Record SAYS:
Work TN the Grassy mountain coal
mine has been prosecuted with vigur for
the past three months and will be CON-
tinned The coveted coal seam has not
yet been reached, but the indications
continue as strong ms ever.
W. &. Clifton. the murderer of Mr..
and Mrs. John w. Church. was lynched
by d mob mt New Castle. Wyoming,
Tuesday night. The moi battered
down the jail and held up the sheriff
and deputy the while. and hung Clifton
to a bridge. His head WAS cut OFT by Il
fall Of fifty feet.
A detachment of cavalry from the reg
ular army passed through this city Sun.
day for Big Pine. Inyo county. They
are gong down to persuade the sheep.
herders to keep of the government re-.
serves. the local authorities having been
unable to do so. The men we're ac-
companied b! their horses.-Careon
News.
Ii has heen the rule i'll town for sever.
al years Tor all the business houses,
except the saloon To close on the
afternoon Of Memorial Day. The IN
would suggest to the saloon-
keepers the propriety Of closing their
business places during the exercises on
thGt day. This will enable their en-
ployes to take part in the observance Of
the dry.
Hurry Smith and Rnth Butler, charg.
ed with smoking opium, demanded n
jury trial yesterday. AS they we're not
smoking opium when arrested, the cvi.
dence against them was not cOnsihered
strong enough TO convict and the cases
were dismissed on condition that they
leave town. Both left for Reno last
night.
a certain lawyer, who is now IA very
able Judge, was, when he first came to
the bar, a very laundering speaker, says
Youth. On one occasion, when he was
trying a case OF repleyin, involving a
right OF property to Il lot OF hogs, he
said: Gentlemen OF the Jury, Their
were just twenty-four hogs in that
drove-just twenty-four. gentlemen
exactly twice rs many rs are in that
jnry box" Tho effect can be imagined.
DR.. >. K. Chameley md his wife. who
advertise themselves as expert cancer
doctors, have been sued in the sap nor
court Of San Francisco for 80 600. J.
NJ. Neven OF Wells. New, alleges that
Chamley accepted $50 from him in
1901 to cure Neven's wife, Katherine, Of
cancer The Third street physician per.
formed 1--we operations on Mrs. Ncven,
alleges the husband, but SO negligently
and unskilfully that che died from the
effects.
One OF the new fads is mems socks for
women. There is q rumor prevalent
TINT some wives wear the trousers, but
no one imagined that the socks would
DO appropriated. II tho women cor
tinue the invasion OF the wardrobe Of
the men there will be mighty few ar
ticles OF wearing apparel that n man can
call his own Ills hat, shirt, vest, cont,
collar, tie and cocks are gone. The Red
Bluff Nows ia thankful that he yet has
remaining his chewing tobacco aud sus.
penders.
Some Remote has located u group nf
mines somewhere between here and
Mexico. md called his place Southern
Touopah.7 lie is 80 far from the genu
inc fonopah that the uso OF the name
must be expected merely to draw flies in
the form Of purchasers 1T stock. Some
thing over ninety miles " hot sand in.
ter venes. Tie News in informed
Southern Tonopah" is a woDdrous
cnmp--tho country rock assays $50 per
ton md the fac, TINT il Inns fallen into
careful conservative hands il the only
thing TINT nr%pycnta N thrpuInncI manic