Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-09-11
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
Salmagundi.

hungry people.
Tho Ryudon and EIko clubs will play
a match game OF baseball in Elko next
Sunday for slCO n side.
\ telegram from Rochester. New
York, received this morning, stated that
Mrs. Booher and her mother had arrived
safely.
Sheriff Clark's father, mother and
sister have returned from Snn Francis
co. They will spend several days in
town visiting the sherin's family.
Mn. 81. Clair gave this office today n
generous supply Of excellent eating APP.
piles grown on her Starr valley ranch. The
apples were highly appreciated by the
whole force.
Manager johnson OF the Hobart Mills
Mt Overton eloped the other day with IA
buxom widow OF the camp. The lie
serted wife is a daughter Of Judge
Jnnes o; Austin.
Hon. W. f. Sharon hns leased the
Virginia City Chronicle. The Reno
Gazette is wondering what Mr.. Sharon
wants the paper for, unless 1t te that he
intends to enter the Senatorial race.
Major Charles Il. Boyd, military in
structor at the State University, has
passed "a very successful examination
before the Supreme Cont and hns been
admitted to practice before the courts
Of Nevada.
II is estimated that 1000 men will be
employed On the new irrigation ditch
near Wndsworth for two years. There
is Il persistent runo going the rounds
tn the effect that negroes will he III
ployed IN the work.-Enterprise.
Judge Fitzgerald, Of the Supreme
Court, has written n book on the silver
question and it is now IN the hands OF
nm Eastern publ, hang house. The
volume will contain about 36O
pages.
Charles Peters, u negro. assaulted
Mrs. John Dotta, white woman, in Reno
Monday morning. lie was arrested and
locked up in the city Jail, but was soon
removed to the county Jail as there was
considerable talk OF lynching.
|. The U. S. grand jury ut Washington.
d. C., yesterday returned seven indict-
mcnts against six defendants in the
postal casea. Tho names Of the defend
ants were not divulgcd. 1t is dollars
to doughnuts that all are small fish.
Webster Dor sey md Andrew "IIarrell
are i'll town today settling up the estate
Of the late jasper i~iarrcll. Judge Brown
heard the matter in his chambers and
ordered "A decree issued closing the es-
tate and distributing the property in
this county to the lawful heirs.
started of i'll Il buggy este day after
noon Pnd the report started Tint they
were going doNn The river after escaped
conviCiI. y big crowd gathered on the
freight platform to- watch the officers
take the cons into camp. After waiting
sometime the crowd quit rubbering and
skunk off. the victims Of "A cruel steam.
boat hy some ronscienccl,ss wag.
According to n cross complaint filed
ut Kokomn. Indiana, Mrs. Sarah Pohl.
man OF that city is the possessor OF thir.
teen hu. hands. Husband No. l3 de.
clares TINT the Oma ~ forming a mat
rimonial trust with the purpose OF cor
nering all the available men OF the
country, md TINT her ambition is to
break the worlds record IN mari.
mODy.
The police ~ Paris, France, recently
arrested three men. each Of whom pre-.
tended tai he an angel and to have rob-
bed NoIh's ark. There was u semblance
OF truth in their statement, rs each had
q bag iu winch there was a parrot, sew
eral chickens. Il cat, II dog, some pigeons
and a duck. Thoy happened Ia he in.
mates OF mn insane asylum who had cs.
capped over the walls and gone ON n
promenade through Paris.
Tho Labor Day celebration in Reno
passed oil without n hitch md Is said to
have been the Crlndcst celebration ever
held in tho State. Twenty-Five hundred
union men were in line and the parade
was fully a mile and n halt in length,
Governor Sparks and staff, mounted on
beautiful horses, wore n feature OF tho
parade. All the labor unions in tho
western part OF the State took part in
the celebration. Attorney General
Sweeney delivered the principal
address.
Martha Snipes, wife Of nm cmployc Of
tho Southern Pacific. has brought suit
against the company IN The U. 3. Court
ut Salt Lake for 100000 dnmnges. Slo
alleges that she occupied n portion Of
one 81 The boaidiug cars IN the cutoff
nj P~romoDtory point. On August 10 the
car wns standing Un n side truck when u
freight traiu collidcd will, IL, badly
damaging the car and seriously injuring
her. She allcgca that her injuries On.
title her to Sl0.000 dana yea mud eho
asks for that sut.I.
An unexpected hitch has occurred in
the ]cItrhdition Of Murphy mud Woods.