Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-05-27

everybody should take i'll the enter.
tainment to 5e given by the public
cchoolc children Friday night. The I'D.
INFUSION has beer reduced to 80 cents
for reserved seats and 30 cents genera al
admission.
Only fourteen votes were cast at the
school election yesterday and all Of them
were for Webster Patterson, long term
and 9. +. Hickey short term. Measured
10y the unnnimity OF the vote cast these
gentlemen arc very popular.
Chairman Cowherd, OF the Democrat.
ic Congressional committee, gives notice
that the Democrats expect to carry
New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Indiana and Illinois besides thos Sc states
winch Mr.. Roosevelt comedies. All vi
them ara warming up.
That part Of the Squaw Valley ranch
lying III Humboldt county was sold
Monday at shentT's sale at Winnemuc.
ca to K. D. Bliss for Sll.l45. Enough
was realized from the sales ut Elko and
"mncmuccn l." satisfy the mortgage
held 10y the German Savings aud Loan
SncIrt! Of San Francisco.
In his last stump III Congress General
Grosvcnor declared the hysterical or,
OF imperialism has been laughed out oi
court by he people us unworthy OF con
sideratioD." Has the fact been laughed
ont OF conrt THAT Imperialism has thu.
lar cost the people about $500, 900 COZ
with II" dividends either in Republican
preferred stock or steal Common?-
liabitual d%runkards after conviction
III Montreal, Que. are given the option
81 paying Il tine. undergoing imprisun,
ment or taking Il certain cure. Al pres,
cnt there ere 30 under treatment, 10 al
their homes and II at the Jail. Each
patient is expected tn take III doses OF
the prescribed medicine each day and is
warned not Ia drink any Intoxicating
liquors during the Tina uf trial.
In his speech before the New York
chamber 0f commerce last week, Score.
tary TAFT declared, rs reported by that
thick. and thin administration organ,
the Tribune that .Aguinaldol and he
forces were our allies during the contest
with Spain. Let's see. isn't tlIGt one Of
these truths which were recently CLASH.
lied as anti imPrrialist lies? Perhaps
Secretary Taft will nov tell us how we
came to tire upon our allies?
In Brazil and other parts of South
America the natives know and fear a
certain condition 81 the air, which they
call suicide wind" 1t is not IA super.
stItiOu but an actual condition Of the
atmosphere which seems To drive people
to madness, and during its continuance
SELF inflicted deaths are numerous.
CriminologIsts and scientists all over
the world are interc0tcd in this peculiar
atmospheric influence, which is midi
Gated by n soft, moist, warm air that
settles heavily on the earth.
The most ingenious. il not ingenious,
defense yet made OF Republican cxtrava.
gance is the remark OF the Springfield
Union that tho Republican admins
tration OF Theodore Roosevelt has put
?SS3,OO0,00 more into circulation thnu
Cleveland did" What a delightful in.
difference to the fact that this vast sum
was first removed from circulation by
being taken out Of the pockets Of the
taHpnycrs;-Albany Argus.
Since last week only two miles OF
track 81 track have been laid owing to
the G. &C. being unable to forward the
rails from tho Mound House where there
is an enormous accumulation. This
could easily be handled and greater pro.
grcss made with the tracklnyimg il the
csc. would permit the Tonopah rail.
road Ia use their " locomotives and
haul their own supplies from Mound
House, but for some unknown reason
this simple courtesy in refused.-Bo.
nnnza.
Abraham Lincoln secms to hive been
vel much opposed 10 criminal aggres.
sion,' for he said "Those who deny
freedom to others deserve it not them.
selves, and under n just God, cannot
long retain it. All honor to Jefferson,
the man who IN the concrete pressure Of
tho struggle ~ the national indcpcn.
dencc by a single people had the cool.
ness, forecast and sagacity to introduce
into II merely revolutionary document
an abstract truth, applicable 20 all men
AMI all times, and so to cmbalm it there
tina; today and in all coming days il
shall he IL rcbukc and stumbling block
to the very harbIngcrs Of rcdppcaring
tyranny md opprrsrion.-
FROM WEDNESDAY, DAILN
a. 80 s. a. a. a.