Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-05-20

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the new telegraph Office this Afternoon.
When the operators get in the new OF
flee they will be TO high toued to look mt
any body.
The carpenters are putting the finish
ing touches on the new depot and the
painters are putting On the second cout
OF pant. They are sanding the outside
to n height OF Tour or five feet to pre-.
vent Logs and .honghtless men from
cutting the boardc. The new building
will be ready for use ns soon us the
paint dries,
Things do not look very harmonious
IN the Republican ranks. In Illinois
they are still fighting over the nomina.
ton ii Il candidate for Governor. and in
Wisconsin II faction bolted the State
convention and organized another con-
vention. In Iowa the stand pattcrs"
sat down heavily upon reciprocity and
tariff reform. Verify, the e. o. p. is hay
ing troubles Of its own this year.
AS an instance of the occeniricitics Of
al law and politics, Nebraska has d mos
reculin- case. \ district attorney had
ii U. >. senator Indicted Tor selling post.
offices The senator demanded u trial
and the took advantage of II technical.
lily III the indictment, and was discharg.
ed without going into che charges
against him. The president then re-
moves the ~attotney from office and the
senator Claims to be indicated (?)
The item about Dan O'Doan in last
nights issue caused considerable COM
ment and there was much speculation MS
to whether or not it was the Dan O'Doan
tine brick mason. whe worked here last
year, that had thrust his head into the
matrimonial moose. From what the Is.
DEPENDENT has learned today it Is safe
in saying that the Dan O'Doan WHO
committed matrimony in Reno the other
night is the man who laid brick here last
summer.
From Washington the an
nouncement that George L. Moore and
Karl +. Kcllerman of the Agricultural
Department have discovered Il copper
solution that will destroy typhoid and
other germs III large bodieo of water.
The expense attending the operation is
said never to exceed IS per million gal.
Ions Of water, including the cost OF
labor. Experiments have shown that
this solution, very much diluted, will
eliminate from water at any ordinary
temperature virulent cholera rs well ut
typhoid.baciIli.
Local pride" said Lieutenant-Com-
mandcr Lucien Young Of the United
States navy, sis all very well, but it can
be ~overdOne. Admiral Dewey recog.
niZed the fact during the wal with
Spain. He heard that certain new war
vessels were to be named respectively
Yale and Harvard. Good idea, he de-.
clared; let us have more of the same
evidence Of pride in ON institutions.
Why not name he next one the College
OF Physicians and Surgeons aud then
give us the Massachusetts Institute OF
technology. Success
State Detective Jackson of New York
and j.. W. Travis, corresponding ser-e-
tary Of Sing Sing prison, New York, de-
parted for the East last night with the
prisoner Joseph Pankuck, who has been
confined III the county Jail and who will
he placed III Sing Sing as sOon us the OF.
fr,rs nrr,vn q, N,u, Vol, ,,;.I, H.. H.,
Tm handcutfcd and shackled when the Of
fiCers boarded the train last evening with
him. Pancuck has been out OF prison
for nineteen years bnt he boosted OF his
escape aud he will now have to spend
two years and six months at hard work
in the great prison OF New York.-Rcno
journal.
Officer MciIlcy Of the Reno police force
is charged with receiving IA bnbc from a
Chinese opium joint proprieto tor. Mcf-
iley found the Chinaman smoking OPT
um and placed him under arrest. Tho
ChinlS said he wag too sick to 60 to Jail
and the officer mHde him dig up $40,
which he took and put i'll his pocket.
This happened last Friday and the Of.
ticer said nothing to anyone about it.
The district attorney is now after him
and threatens TO prosecute him on the
charge OF bribery. The officer admits
getting the money, but claims tina, he
intended to turned it over t. The proper
officials rs eOon ms lie could consult with
Chief Lecper, which he had not been
able to do on account OF the chief being
buoy searching for the bodies OF Tins
maj and Jacobs.
An inquest was held Wednesday on
tho remains OF Mrs. Eide and Miss Nc
MILAN, two OF tho unfoT Inmates who lost
their lives III the Truckee river last Sun.
day. Mr.. Morris Il ditch tender nj
Laughton's stated that hc was on the
bank and cav the four people enter the
car. Mr.. Tinsman united tho car aud 1t
shot out about LOO feet before it hit the
water, where the party was throS n into
tho river. Morris was within twelve
feet OF Jacobs and Miss Mcmillan as
they were struggling in the water, but
was unable to help them. 10 had n
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