Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-06-24

Miss htthrync Mcl)crnIott departed
Tor her home last evening.
Constable Mccoy returned from Car
con this morning. tie was accompanied
by Deputy U. Marshall l.. Stearue.
There are sc prisoners in the county
Jail at Reno. The only reason there are
not more IL that the present bastile
won't hold more.
Now that it is assured TINT the di-
vision point will DO changed Ia Sparks
next sunday, the residents Of TINT pros.
porous and growing city are planning on
a big celebration III honor Of the event.
Mrs. Wintermantle and con Louis r.
turned from San Francisco last night,
accompanied by Mrs. G., II, Oliver and
child Of Winnemucca, who will visit her
parents Mr.. and Mn. j. S. Gardner FOR
a lew days.
DIR. Hood auIputatcd the left foot Just
above the ankle, Of Margarine Peno at
the county hospital yesterday, Pcno is
the man whose foot WIS crushed while
attempting To cross bot wern cars at
Wells Wednesday.
Charley. Alex, Louise and Bessie
Wciland came back this forenoon from
the North vest Territory where they went
Ia look over the country with the idea Oi
settlement. Alex said he WIS much
disappointed III what he ionnd.
Here III "a decision which must be
startling to the ladies: 4 Massachusetts
Judge has decided that "a husband may
open his wifc's letters ON the ground
that -thc husband and the wife are one,
and the husband liz that one"
\ Chinaman Who is thought To have
been -Butch," well known here, md Ia
said to have been gong through from
Deeth, Jumped from No 3 Friday at
BcOyHwc. lie was found some time
attcrwRrd IN an unconscious state and
wns taken Ia Beowuwe where he died.
He acted strangely from tho time he
boarded the car and IL supposed to have
been insane. He went into the toilet
room, locked the door, took of his shoes
winch were found on the floor when the
door wns afterwards forced open, and
jumped from the window.
The Reno Gazette Gays that the Mi.
Ter Bros. stUckmcn Of ST, Anthony.
Idaho, arrived in Reno this week with u
couple Of carloads Of hogs FOR the Ne.
vada meat market. Tho freight on each
Cur wRR 1900 and il money eau he made
in the hog business after paying such
freight rates IL il evident that the farm
era Of this State are asleep, and should
pinch themselves To sec il they really are
alive. Tho Millcrs raise hogs on COW
peas and field peas. These peas ara not
threshold but are stacked like hny and
may he brOwscd or I'D drv. and they are
Il thrifty. hardy vine II il eaid they
nIc supplnnting other hog feed, even III
the corr belt.
Tho discussion among Odd Fcll0ws q.
the Rdviaability oi bull ling ut this tin0
Hhome for dependent Odd Fellows, their
widu~s and orplHns, has brought to
light Il magnificent gilt TINT II wealthy
Reno citizen, who il n member oi the
order, proposes Ia give Ia the GRIND
lnlgc Tor that purpoac. Owing to his
wishcs in the matter however, his name
ia withheld from tho public. Tho Odd
Fellow in qucs'iOn has no immediate
relatives dependent on him and M he
Inns always had II profound rcgard for the
order and its magnificent works, no con.
cludcd some time ago to leave to II his
entire fortune consiatIng ~ about $40.
900 worth of Reno property, winch il TO
bc devoted Ia the erection md main-
tcnnnco ~ mn Orphnps home.