Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-20
[FROM FRIDAYS DAILY.l
Salmagundi.

MIR. Mayer went tn Salt Lake last
nigh.
No work is being lone at the oil well
Guy wcathers came down IRON Deeth
today.
Remember that Ramsdell wants tn srp
you at Mi@puh Hall tonight.
John Crusson is down from Starr Val
ley, He reports about ak inches of
now in that valley.
Ten United States prisoners we're
sentenced to the Storey county Jail.
Their sentences range from two to
eight months.
Don't forget to spend two hours with
Ramsdell the wizard on Friday eve
March 20 for you will get the worth of
your money.
The first installment OF the titles Of
the laws passed by the recent legisla.
turc appears in tins issue. More will
appear daily until all are published.
Adolph Kuehnhaeuser, where art
thou? Ii this should meet your ewes
read the al "Erben-Aufruf,- elsewhere
III this issue, and learn something that
viii interest you.
Tho Elko Bakery is now running in
first class order under white manage
ment. Fresh bread every morning
Coffee and cake a specially. All orders
promptly attended to-.
y cold wave struck the northern part
Of the county last night. This morning
the thermometers showed 10 below zero
at Hollands, . at North Fork aud . at
Weiland'-. Here it was 10 above.
George T.. Allen of San Francisco has
purchased the Ormsby House ut Carson
lie will take possession. on the first of
May. Mr.. Allen Intends to put the
HO'ol in order and run it as a first class
house.
Al inter Stats water suit over the
right TO the flow OF the west fork OF the
Carson river, the headwaters OF which
are IN Alpine county, California. and
the flow in Douglas county. is to be
tried i'll San Francisco.
Prraident Roosevelt's aDecial train
will arrive in Reno ut 7:39 a. tn, May -,
aud in Carson at S:55 a. IN; leave Carson
at 9:55 a. IN. and leave Reno at 1910.
Unless this time schedule is changed
the President will not have time to visit
Virginia City.
While the people talk mockingly Of the
Weather Bureau, that institution TAX -
itself seriously and points to itself with
pride. Just now il is busy circulating
a story i'll the east that warHings Of the
February cold wave saved $1,000. 900
worth OF p%erIshable freight.
The latest report OF tile mass OF gold
in the United States Treasury puts it at
SG33 ,000, 900, the greatest hoard OF the
yellow metal that war. ever collected in
one mass iii the history Of the world. or
course a good Geal OF this is subject to
demand, being special deposits.
The Virginia City papers speak in tho
kindliest terms Of Mr.. Mauser, whose
death we chronicled yesterday. Ie
leaves a widow, one son and ono
daughter, Mrs. Ed. Monahan. He was
II member Of Escurial Lodge No. 7,
f.. & A. NJ, Of Virginia Lodge No. 3,
|. 0. o. T., and Storey Lodge. A. ..
U. W., all Of Virginia City. He wac n
native OF a ~ustria, aged 60 years.
A Reno man named Kilkline was mr..
rested the other duy for stealing q ring.
While on bail he remarked that no
would not have been pinched had it not
been for another inmate Of tho red light
district. Tic latter individual pro.
cccdcd to resent the accusation md in
the course Of hIs argument rscd the
butt end %; his revolver To such splendid
effect that Kilklino is lowering between
life and death md his assailaut ia in
prison awaiting the result OF his in.
jurics.
One nan was killed and three serious
ly injured yesterday morning by the ex.
plosion Of n blast in tho tunnel about
three milcs cas-, OF Ityndon. Tho night
shift pit in a blast and set it Off. After
waiting about fifteen minutes the men,
thinking that all the charges had OK.
ploded, returned to their work. when m
explosion occurred resulting III tho
death Of Il man named johnson and tho
serious injury Of three others, among
them the foreman. Later IN the day
there was II similar explosion in another
tunnel IN which the eyes Of two men
were seriously injured. This explosion
occurred in about tho same way ma the
other.