Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-04-24
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY.
Salmagundi.

wills on one OF the
~ No 8 last night and that the car was
Ride-tracked at Golconda.
Three freight ears jumped the track
last night at liyndon. The Carliu
wrccker went up this morning and
cleared the track. No one WIS hurt.
The Walker Lake Bulletin tells of the
discovery Of II two-ioot vein Of gold
bearing quartz averaging $500 to the ton
on Cottonwood creek, Esmeralda
county.
Parties who have returned to 'rono.
pah from the east, report that there will
be II big rush Of eastern adventurous
md ~ capitalists to TOnOpah by the first
~ June.
The people u Eureka and vicinity are
hoping and praying that the supply Of
old stngs and dry cows that has been
foisted on this market for several
months will soon he exhaust ed.-Sen-
tincl.
Near Rochester there III an eccentric
old fellow who lives along side of d
an unpleasant location. mos said he,
Il never Tined places in all my life. with
a set Of nei8 hhors uIat mind their own
business as stiddy III they do.
James BENTLEY. alias r. =. Smith. was
indicted by the WasIoc rounty grand
jury for assault with intent Ia Kill. lie
IL the fellow who escaped from tine Reno
jail nficr shooting Sheriff Hayes. tie
vas "nught at Fl paso, Texas. aud
brought back tai Reno - few weeks ago.
CITY Mnr-iiHI +. j. Packard. who WAS
wounded in tlIe tight ~ Rakcreii~Ii I've
tween the officers aud Outlaw McKiu-
ney and his ronpiniuu, 4! ~lIulse. died
yesterday mornmr. Packard WIS the
9th victim of Mex nuey's m%urderous
career. lie WIS president " the local
A"ri" Of Eagles ami II prominent mem.
her "f the Elks and other societies.
la" Department Of Agriculture ms
Issued Il comparative statement 81 h
wheat crop nf the world, showing that
the total Of 3,l22, AZ, O0n bushels i'll 1902
was distributed rs follows: North
America. Isl. 100000: South America.
I9.9Si 900; Europe. l,~I95963,000; Asia,
3I6,i2s 900; Africa. $4,000, 600. and Aus
tralia. 43,927, 0O0. Tho crop in the I'm.
tied States was 81. OG3.0OO
The LUvelock Tribune says that the
water situatiou there last week WAS very
satisfactorily. The rise n the river
hrs continued aud the valley now has a
full supply. About twelve Thousand
inches OF water was gGIng over the Un.
canai dam Friday evening. The
Of the Lovelock Land and
Development Company was about half
full and it IL expected that the water
will soon bS running into the lake.
According to the Engineering and
Mining journal OF New York. the in-
corporhted mining companies Of the
United States paid to their stock hold
during the first six months Of 1900
the enormous sum Of SA0.O52, i2I in iii.
vidcnds. besides putting millions Of
dollars in the reserve iunu, paying mil.
lions more for labor. salaries, supplies,
machinery. etc aud investing heavily
in more mineral lands. or the forty.
odd millions mentioned above as paid
out Ill d%ivideuds, copper mines paid
over ]eventeen millions.
y civil suit between Mn. Nulty and
Shorty an Italian, occupied the atten-
ton Of Justice Morgan and Il jury yes
afternoon. Mn. Nul!, sued to
recover about SlGO. claimed 10 he due
for boa!d and lodging. The defendant
put in % counter claim and the jury
when they reported II disagree
and were discharged. Three Of
them wanted to give the plaintiff s3l
and the other three stood ont for 81.
Being unable To agree upon Il compro.
mise verdict, the jury agreed to dis
Henry Schonerd, a graduate of the
ElkO county high school, won onc Of the
Naval cadetships nt the Reno cxamina.
ton last week. There was u tie between
George Palmer ~ Reno and yuung
Bcckcrt ~ Virginia cIty for the other
cadctahiv. MIR. sichnncrd IL M EIko
county boy and the lNDLrENpESr con.
graduates him on his success. lie
graduated from the high school Inst
year and is now u freshman nj the State
University palmnt il also u member
OF the freshman clnsa Mt the University
and licCkhrt il u srnior IN the Virginia
CITY high school.
IN ubcdirut husband up IN Franklin
county. Maine. wa objccting to doing
certain work about the house, and he
quoted Scripture Ia his wife, showing
TINT the household dutiCa ehould he
assigned Ia the woman. Tho good wife
replied hy reading Ia her Hslonishcd
licge II. Kings. xxi. Is; II will wipe
ont Jerusalem ns II mlu wiprtlI u dish.
wipinV II aud turning II upside down.
j hat hushlud Inns wiped ihr dishes