Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-06-05
tFRoM FRIDAYS DAILY.I
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morning.
Mrs. }, i. Gardner is reported quite
i'll. We trust che will soon recover.
Constable Mccoy arrested three
opium smokers last night They were
caught in the act.
Do not fail to hear the e!ocutiop ist at
Mizpah Hall to night. Admission only
% cente, children 10 cents.
The Gazstte Gays that 4. u. Smith Of
Tuscanra has purchared a residence in
Reno md viii make That place his IN.
ture home.
DIR. W. W. Head ~ Chico. Califnr mia.
arrived this morning aud spent the day
III town. lie is interested in the Elku
oil tieids. He will leave for the East
tonight.
MIR. and MR. W-uthers and Stanford
returned from r ,no this morning. Mr..
and MH. wcathers continued on to their
home in Starr valley and Stanford re
tlhiucN III tpNO up VISIT Ills DTOtuer.
There will be Il social dance mt tue A.
o, U. W. Hall on Saturday evening
June Oh. Dancing will begin promptly
at 8 o'clock. \ collection will be taken
up Ia IA, the expenses. Everybody
cordially invited
Senator Stewnrt has appointed Rich
ard Beckert ~ Virginia City az princi-
pal for midshipman i'll the Annapolis
Naval Academy. Beckert failed at the
competitive examination recently held
IN Reno.
The body Of an insane Chinaman was
found between Carlin aud the Railroad
tunnel yesterday, The body WIS en-
tirely naked and very much decayed.
The Cinnamon gathered it up and bur
ed it.
The school trustees held a meeting
last night and unanimously reelected
Miss Matte Keith and Miss Rose Carl
ner to the positions held by them last
year. In this the trustees did well.
The school will close for the present
term on the 18Th.
The ). p. depot and eating house at
Terrace, Utah, caught fire abont l
o'clock this afternoon and burned to the
ground. The immense coal bunkers
near Ii hotel were probably saved. Al
LOO everybody was leaving the hotel,
after taking ont the telegraph iustru-
ments and whatever could he moved
quickly.
Superintendent Asbury anu family
got in from the Duck Valley reservation
thus forenoon Mr.. Asbury has been
transferred to the Careon Indian school
and will leave tonight to take charge.
Mr.. II. II. Miller, who has been Mt the
reservation for a number OF years, will
succeed Mr.. Asbury. He WAS transfer
red from the Indian School : ut Fort
Bidwell.
The Railroad Hotel at Carlin narrow.
ly escaped going up IN smoke yesterday.
4 gasoline stove III the dining room
exploded and set the hotel on fire. The
citizens worked like beavers and eoon
had the fire under control. The furni.
ture and other personal property wRs
moved into the streets. The hotel was
badly scorcheh, but no serions damage
was done.
The latest and most novel way of bur.
ial has just been brought ont through
the application for n patent. 1t consists
OF n large cylinder. which the corpse is
placed in. a pointed steel cap is placed
over the head and tle body is Their shot
into the ground, head first, by com
pressed air, burying il some twenty feet
deep. The invention is the work OF one
Of Elko's scientific men hid no no PES ia
realize a fortune from it.
"Yee," said the old man. addressiIs
his young visitor, a Hm proud Of my
girls and would like to zee them com
fortably married, and as | have a lutte
money they will not go to their husband
penniless. There's Mary, she's twenty
five years old and a real good girl.
shall give her $4,000 when she marrics
Then comes Bet, who wont SEQ - again
and | shall give her $4,000. and the
man who takes Eliza, who is forty, will
have Sl5, 900 with her" The young man
reflected n moment or SO, and then in
inquired: 4You haven't one about Rfty
have you?"--EX.
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