Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
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The TeacheB' Institute will lie held in
Elko the last Of April.
Mn. W. Il. O'Neil OF Tonopah i. visit
ing her Elko friends.
Mr.. Greenfield will hold services to
night at the Lano;lle School House.
District Attorney Henderson returned
last night from San Francisco.
Prot. A. f. Chandler Of the S,stion
Staff will attend the Farmers Institute.
His name wa ommitted from the list
yesterday,
j. o. Payne, alias Sterple Jnr, is paint.
ing the flagstatfs around town. He
painted the n on the |. .. q +. and
Masonic building this afternoon.
Washoe county loses twelve miles OF
railroad by the recent recon structiop OF
the Southern Pacific. That will mean
the revenue on $4,000 worth OF prop
efty at the present rate Of taxation.
Reno has n man who waylays women
and chokes them. They call him Jack.
the choker. IL caught. the people Of
Reno should hang him to the iron
bridge.
J. b. Abel, Weeley Merritt and Geo.
II. Greenfield went ont tn Lamoills
with the intention Of forming an /. o. G.
L. Lodge there tonight.
ii. NJ. YerinRton has sufficiently re-
covered from injuries received in a fall
at Carson several weeks ago TO resume
his duties rs general manager OF the V,
II i. Railroad.
John ID. Rockefeller has announced
tina ton every dollar given to a North
Carolina Baptist University he will
give another dollar. That means that
we'll have to quit using coal oil entire.
ly.
The Farmers Institute committee IN
tervieweh II portion Of the business peo.
pie today and will finish the work to-
morrow. II is not their intention to
overlook anybody.
\ combination Of oyster growers aud
dealers, representing invested capital OF
about S3.0O0.OOO, has been formed at
Providence, e. |. The announced pur.
pose OF the new concern is to lessen en-
Penses. it beng asserted that prices will
not he advanced.
George Young. formerly j ust ce of the
Peace Mt Lovelock. committed suicide
the re- Monday by shooting himself i'll the
left breast with a charge from a shotgun
lie leaves q wife and four children. No
cause is given for the act. He was 10
years old.
Alex Twaddle. IA prominent farmer Of
VTashoc valley, committed suicide yes
terday morning. at his ranch about five
miles from Reno, by shooting himself
with Il revolver. Sickness and litigation
with Theodore Winters over water
rights preyed upon his mind and drove
him insane. lie was "A native OF Salt
Lake, aged - years.
within ECur" II miles ~ Reno and
close I" i,r Nevada. talifnI ia.Oregon
rail" u! hrs hc"u discovered II deposit OF
mn.cral ,'timt sufficient tn supply the
cnti-" w"~' lrr Irad II nearly 300 feet
wide and 3to !""t ~ length. 1t con
taIns no GTii or ntimr ~rxiraneous mat
ter. \ >pnr will he run from the NC
d and Il mrlI erected III Reno # market
Ia. the rln' can he fnuud.-Journal.
The Democratic state ~ Missouri has
paid every hollir Il it, bnn led indebt
cdncss. Under he last Democratic
Governor Of the state II New Yorkevery
dollar Of it, Indebtedness was wiped
ont. Ten year. later, as the result Of
Republican c~Xtraragances, the Empire
State is $4,000, 900 IN debt despite the
annual increase " millions in receipts.