Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-08-19
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Mr.. Charles Nelson left for Mountain
City yesterday.
Mrs. Walker and daughter intend
gong to- Columbia.
Mr.. f. NJ. ~tIansell vino has been ont
at is:moillr FOR the past f0w days re.
turned to Edgemont yesterday.
Tom 1aggar;, who used to sell rail
road sandwiches, will hrnd the Rcpub-
Leans something even harder to digest
- Houston Post.
General Stoessel, the Russian COM
mander at Port Arthur, has refused 10
surrender. lie says he will fight until
his last man IS killed.
The wife OF Chief Justice Fuller died
suddenly yesterday of heart disease,
while sitting on the piazza OF her sum-
mer home at Msiuestay, Name.
Sheriff Clark, Constable Mccoy. and
Jailer welshon returned last evening
from their trips after Ross and Stratton.
They failed to lind any trace OF the mis-.
sing prisoners.
Prot. Dawkins has returned from Utah
and will now remain with US. II he
succeeds in finding n suitable house, he
will move his family here. He took
charge of the band last night.
Constable Mccoy has Il more com.
plete description Of Jamas Ross in this
Issue. In addition to the reward IT SlGO
he oilers ESQ Tor information that will
lead tn oss' capture. See his notice.
The reportoi the Geological Survey
shows that III 1903 the United States
surpassed all competitors in the yearly
output Of iron ores. Nevada was added
to the list Of iron producing States.
MIR. J. \. Waters, SPECIAL agent OF the
Sun Insurance company, came III from
the East this morning and put in the day
checking up the Elko agency. Mr..
Waters Is an all around Insurance. man
and Il very pleasant gentleman.
Harry Humphreys, deputy U. s. Mar
shall, has returned TO his duties in
Carson. He is is still on crutcL.es and
very weak. While RlightIng from AN
automobile III Reno about two months
ago he stepped upon II rusty nail and
suffered blood poisoning. For IL time
his life was even despaired Of.
Rev. Geo. II. Greenfield has returned
from his northern trip where he has
been having services, IIe leaves tomor.
row for the south and will hold the fol.
lowing services: Sunday August 81,
a. NJ. LamoilIe; p. NJ. South Fork;
August -; Shelton, August 81; Arthur
August %; Voight August %; 4. 81.
Lamoille, +, NJ.
The following tons: was presented at
II printers festival in Lowell, Muss. ::
"Prlntcr, the master Of all trades. lie
beats the farmer with the hoe, the car.
pcnter with his rules, the mas III with
setting up long columns; he surpasses
the lawyer and the doctor in attending
to his cases.; and beats the parson in the
management OF the devil"
Sam Bachman was in from Ruby val.
ley yesterday. tIe said that section had
been visited by heavy rains the last
week TINT greatly intericrcd with hay.
ing operations. While he md his hired
man were working with a steel cable in
the hay field Monday afternoon, II thun.
der shower passed over and the cable
wns heavily charged with electricity and
both mon were severely shocked. When
they recovered, they looked Mt each 9th.
or fooliehly and quit work.
a petition ia being pretty thoroughly
circulated III this section, says the Yer.
ington Times, asking that the govern.
mcnt step into MHson Valley and settle
the vexed water question 10y huiIlng
storage reservoirs.
Judge Parker stands pure in charac.
ter, and will hnvo nothing to explain.
Never before did the voters have u lrucr
representative Of American citizenship
as Il presidential c%andidatr... IL milan polls
Sentinel.
Esther Coronado created great OK.
citmcDt in Reno Tu"eday night by going
Into n severe case Of Mysteries. As pho
Inns taken poison half n dozen times her
companions supposed che had taken nm.
other dose and summoned the officers.
Mr.. Il. +. Hoy, tie Winnonuccn con.
tractor md builder, was in town ycstcr.
day afternoon engaging men and
making arrangements for building tho
new schoolliouse ut Carlin. flo called
at this Office last evening and mot the
writer aitcr tho lapse ~ ncnrly twenty
years.
IN tho course Of a long article regard.
ing tho United Statce %Senatorsllip from
| Nevada, the Reno journal prints tho foI.
lowing: "Mr. Sharon il not a candidate,