Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-09-02
FROM THURSDAYS DAILi
Salmaqund.

SalmaQund.
George b. Russell returned this
morning from San Francisco.
Billy Budd, the mixolpsist at the Club
and Lander Taber are on the sick list.
IL was reported today that the Russians
We re again onthe retreat fro Lias
Yang.
MIR. and Mrs. Mprrov and Miss Dora
Sheehan rcturnei last night from their
vacation.
There are forty fnur pr . ,mcrs in the
Wushoe couny jail = "a T." Simpson
is i'll the bunch.
Reno is o"cr.un wi II begsars.
Rather "a sad c~Ommentary on ;cpubli.
can prosperity.
y. p. Slivcley and K. Keefer are down
from Mardis. They report everything
quiet in that section.
DIR. Mcdonald will leave for The ST.
Louis Exposition This evening. He will
stop her. for IA while on his return.
The Reno police have discovered
another important witness III the murder
case against doc" R-iuhard and Emna
Robinson.
Governor Sutrks was siNty-onr years
II age Tuesday lie Is just the righ, age
to serve the people 81 Nevada III the
United States Senate.
Work on the new drugstore is going
ahead rapidly. When Joe Taber gets u
his new quarters, nc will be too proud
to notice Common people.
Judge Fitzgerald has rc~pudiated the
action Of the Jump silver convention in
nnming him for United States SEN
ntor. This is just what his best friends
expected him to do.
Tho Springfield Republican, recalls
that Abraham Lincoln answered his no.
tiicntiou by letter ANA the response took
only about 20 newspaper lines. But We
have expanded since those day.
l.. X Moody. claiming to represent
the Pacific Coast Loan and Trust Com
p6ny. 10 IN Ter ares at Il mo for pass.
ing bogus checks. y number Of cases
are charged against Moody, n Of the IN
following him from California.
y boy tramp named Harrison Bardlue,
aged l3 years. was run wei and both
legs severed from his body early Mon.
day morning near Gerald by an extra
tram. He WAS found by another tramp
md taken to liclwawe. where he died
about five hours after the accident &C.
Cured.
The Republicans are using Tom Wat.
IONS speech Of acceptance M II cam
paign document. In Nevada men who
profess to be true silver men are follow
ing this same Tom Watson, who ia iurn.
ithirg the Republicans with Gu mpign
mntcrinl. Tho jcwolry oi consistency IL
not worn by these men.
Frank Coffin, one Of the engineers Oh
tho United States Government survey,
has returned from a visit to The St.
Louis Exposition, and tells tho Reno
Journal that the Nevada exhibit doca
not amount to much. lie says there il
n fine exhibit 81 minerals in the build
ing, hut Tint il is not arranged we'll and
~ 50 placed that visitors cannot SEQ il.
The Episcopal church hall will be for.
mnIIy opened Saturday night, Scptcm.
be- lou at S:l5 o'clock sharp. There
viii hc exercises appropriate to the oc.
cGsi"n. consisting ri music by tho bnnd,
Singing aud All addrcss by District At.
tornry Henderson. After the exercises
the la'lics will serve ice cfonm mud cnito
to all present free ~ charge. Tho pub
lie in cordially invited to these exercises
AZ the admission il free and the leo
cream and cake the same. there should
he u lnrgc Attendance at the opening OF
the new lall. Everybody should 90 and
have II good time.
Inior mntiuu hne leaked out through
some small boys that the mail Rnck,
thrown from Mol tho west bound ilicr
SUNDAY night, wHs stolen by pnrtics
unknown. u was fonnd Monday morn.
ug under the rlnttorm oi tho freight
depot. Tho sack was badly cut. What
tho thirvcs. took or how much wo have
been unable to learn.
Thorc il ra least one lighthouse in tho
world that is not placed on my mar.
incr's chart, II is away out on the Ari.
" desert and marks the spot whore a
we'll supplies pure, fresh water Ia tray.
clcrs. II Ia The only place where water
may he had for forty five miles ia the
eastward nnd thirty miIcs IN my other
direction. Tho "houae- consists Of Il
tall, cottonwood pole. To the top oi
which u lantern is hoistcd every night
Tho light can 10 seen for miles across
the plainR in every direction.