Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-05-13

Michigan, Iowa. South Dakota, Kansa
and Nebraska, come letters to the sec
retary OF the board of education askinc
Tor positions, and sven Offering to send
photographs.
Tho Dutch are fighting in Java, the
Russians and Japanese in Manchuria
the Turks in Mnced, mia. the Germans
III Southwest Africa. tho British in SOM.
maitland aud the United States boaste
a civil wre i'll Colorado. with the nation.
nj political campaign coming on Who
says the world il ut peGce?-Baltimore
American.
Capitalists are nov sending experts
to the numerous mining districts III Ne
vada, where milling plants were install.
ed III early days md where, as n rule,
not moro than G5 per cent Of ore assay
values w"r" recovered. With modern
milling methods there arc millions in
working over what in ea:ly days was
classified as waste waste rUcl:.
y prospcctor and miner named Stcv.
ems is III from Lyon county today
having sune ASSAYS made. ile Inns been
working tins side Of Dayton for years,
ami some years ago completed IL tunnel
300 feet long only to have it ave hope
lessl!. Undauntcd he began another
tunnel which has now reached a length
OF 400 feet and has struck a ledge-tho
lannon's Dayton ledge. he believes
Carson News.
Nearly every day some citizen asks
the writer il there will be "a Fourth OF
July celebration this year. THIS clearly
shows that there 10 n strong sentiment
here in favor Of a celebration and that
IT only needs II leader to bring it ont. IL
some OF those who ask the question will
take the matter IL hand and call "A meet.
ing, there is not much doubt that n
creditable celebration can be gotten up.
1t will eoon be too late to do any.
thing.
The Dewitt Clinton train, built in
1881 for the Mohawk and Hudson River
Railroad, and the first train ever ores.
ated on that line, is exhibited in the
Palace of Transportation at the Worlds
Far. The train consists of an engine,
tender and four cars, each OF which seat
cd fifteen persons, Q inside md 6 ON the
roof. Originally the train ran from Al
bany to Schenectady, n distance OF II
miles which it covered III about an
hour.
The French line steamship LA Lor.
raine sailed from, New York yesterday
for Harve with $4,000, 900 in gold bars
and specie i'll her strong room, the most
valuable shipment Of gold that has ever
gone out Of that port. Considering the
value Of the ship herself ut $4,000, 600,
her general cargo at 81 ,00O, 600, and
adding these to the sum represented by
the gold, the La Lorraine rs she sailed
away WIS the most valuable ship that
ever put out OF New YORK..
Sheriff Clark is still at Edgemont in.
vestigating the bullion robbery. lie
te~lephoned jailer Weathers last night
that the person or persons who broke
into the ~c"mpau!'s store had done a
clean job, Nothing WAS left behind by
which the crime could be traced. As
no Il has left the camp since tie rob
berry, tile robbery is supposed to have
been committed by someone familiar
with the place. Up to last nigh; the
company had not been able to furnish
the sheriff with anything upon which he
could act.
l.. VI. Crawford, Il government inapec.
tor, IL gathering data in this state FOR
the census bureau rs to the number of
u~nnnturalized Tor cignera and the r chill.
dren supported at public e in
poor houses, insane asylums. homes fer
the feeble minded, etc, and So far rs his
investigation has gone i'll Nevada he has
founG only a few, but in California the
number OF un~natnraIized foreigners and
children Of the same who are inmates OF
puclic institutions IL nbou; 30 per cent,
Or course the object of tho government
Ill gathering this data Is not known, but
1t Is surmised that nu appropriation will
be asked from Congress for the purpose
OF returning these public charges to the
countries from which they came.