Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-09-18
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
Sa1magundi.

johnson Sides. the Piute peacemaker,
died Mt P~leasantou, California. Monday
night.
Il. f.. Lutts and Wits are in from Ru.
by valley. Mr.. Lutts says everybody is
happy in that section.
Mn. Clinton and her little daughter,
May, are confined to their beds. Their
many friends hope they will DC around
soon.
George Bruce's team ran away this
forenoon and all that IA left OF he
wagon was three wheels. The rest OF it
WIZ badly smashed.
TN county commissioners IL Storey
county have let u contract Tor 90 cords
0f nut pine wood Mt sl2 80 per cord.
Coal must he pretty high ON the Com.
stock. il wcol ut this price Is cheaper.
Ming, Il VI the proprietors of the
Elko restaurant. left for Chinn this
Afternoon. He told the reporter that ne
wOrld stay one month ~ San Francisco
and II" II leave Tor u years visit Ia the
old folks in China.
Saturday afternoon, in Il row. mn In
dian known as Wippiirld Keyscr, was
shot 10y another Indian near Gardner.
willie. The bullet entered the abdomen
and was extracted hy III" physIcinn from
the back; still it is said TINT he will live.
Carson News.
Sheriff Clark lett Yesterday afternoon
for Carson with Hughes md Reeves, the
men who broke into Wintermantel's
jew"lry stor". Hughes will hoard Mt
the pen for three years and Reeves will
eat prison grub for four ycnra and six
months.
Mrs. \. G. Cleveland, Mrs Clara Dun
woody, Il. N. Peters and Prince Peters
left Tuesday morning for the Cleveland
ranch in Spring valley, says the White
Pine Newa, where they will remain
some time i'll perfecting arrangements
for the disposition Of the property.
Owing Ia the l~atencss ~ the season
and other obstacles the Elko Drug Com
phnv will not build until next spring.
The old walls will be torn down. the
rubbish cleaned away and the ground
put III condition for building as soon ms
the spring storms are over.
Shortly after II o'clock tins forenoon
ii fire broke ont in G. J. SANKEY'S hotel
at Dccth md III a few minutes the build
ing and contents were a mass of ruins.
Mr.. Stanley estimates his loss ut $500,
insnred for $500. Tho origin oi the
fire is unknown, but it is supposed to
have been started by "A Chinaman emok.
ing opium in n room upstaira.
Another consignment Of specimen orc
from the new strike made recently
down the river reached this city yestcr-
day. The rock is fairly nlive with wire
gold. Claims have been stakcd ont for
miles, md the work Of development is
going on steadily. \ number Of miners
ar" cHmped on the ground end tn. roar
OF giant powder III sounding like The
rattle OF artillery IN the camp. People
who have visited the strike say that il
looks like Il second OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
journal.
The Irrigation Congress was called to
order yesterday by President w. 4.
Clark. Delegates were present from
eleven States west OF the Mississippi.
Governor Wells welcomed the delegates
to Utah and Mayor Glassman did the
same for Ogden. President Clark re-
sponded on behalf nf the Congress \
trained chorus Of two hundred voices
sang the National Irrigation Ode, writ
ten by Mrs. McCIurg OF Colorado
Springs. The usual committees were
appointed nui mn adjournment was
taken until | 30 T.. NJ.
". 4. Richards, Commissioner Of
General Land Office, has prep ned n
statement showing the amounts covered
into the treasury TO the credit Of the re-.
cIamntiou fund from the sales ~ public
lan,ia in the several States mud Terri.
tories during tho iiscnl years Of 1901,
1902 aud 1903 II is shown that Mt prts.
ent there in Ia the ere dit oi the rcclama.
ton fund in the United States treasury
sGl. lgl .S53, ~ which amount sS,iGl ,i9S
resulted from snlrs of public lands dnr-
ing the present year To dnic. Tho
amounts received in 1903 was nearly
domblc that Of 1902. The amount con
tributcd Ivy Nevada IL 1909 was sl2,.
4Gj.
Since the gfasshoppcr bounty law
passed 10y tho Legislature Of Utah went
| MO effect, lG5. 50 tons ~ those pests
have been caught, weighed and destroy.
cd in Snupctc and Utah countiCa. The
State and county combined nre cup.
posed Ia pay n cent per pound bounty
upon the hoprcrs So Tar the coat has
been s3,33l.07 Of which sum the state
pnys two thirJa md the county one.
! third. Tho state Auditor received u
bill from Utah county Tor 81 800 so, paid
on ~grnsahoppcrs caught 10y farmers bc.
tween July " and Sept. 9, a little over
ono month. Tho bounty rcptcscnts
22l 300 pounds Of those ~fcllowa, one
Al 1890 80 49, .. .ra.I,.