Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-09-23

and Frank Williams for the Assembly.
The Republican ticket is DR.. j. d.
Campbell for senator and L. j. Cox,
Edgar Shier and Lite wheatley Tor the
assembly.
Mrs. Campbell will open a fine line Of
hats tomorrow morning. The ladies'
are invited to call and see them.
Rev. J. p. Gerrier. Synodical Mission
ary Tor California aud Nevada, stopped
of at EIko yesterday on his way to
California.
Judge Morcnn's condition today If
considerably better than yesterday. He
passed Il very good night and was rest.
ing comfortably ut noon.
AS No. 3 came in yesterday afternoon
1t ran over two cows near the cattle
corral. One Of them belonged to Ed.
Bilkcy and the other to Mrs. Nulty.
Fred L. Doll the wool and hids buyer
will shortly leave Tor the East, to return
10 Nevada about March LIST Of next year
when be will conduct his business on
IA more extensive scale than heretofore.
In his absence take your hides Il pelts
to his agent G.. S. Garcia Elko, New
A democratic and two silver party
conventions were held in Reno yester.
day. The democrats tabled n request
from the boiling silver men for fusion ON
a division Of the offices. 4. second re.
quest WIS made and was under dis
cussion when tho Gazette's report
closed.
Detective hacker Of the Wells Fargo
Express company WINS ut GoliTeld last
week and stopped here on his way back.
lie mover forgets faces and declares that
he recognized sc ~ex-convicts on his
brief visit 1t has long been rumored
that there we're a unmber Of desperate
men mt the new camp. The words OF
the detective tend tc co%rroborats that re-
port ~.-Tonopah Sun.
y gentleman who arrived in Austin
yesterday from Muddy Valley says that
during the past month the quails have
die by the hundreds, and several farm
ers were arrested for poisoning them.
At the trial two physicians testified that
the quail5 had died OF appendicitis from
getting grape seeds i'll their appendix,
aud not from poison. The iarneB were
then Observation-Disclosures.
Early yesterday morning a large force
of mon started to work grading for the
street railroad. The work was started
ON East Fonth with the grading pIoughs
hut the ground was too hare for the
plOu-h~ to dig up and they had to he
Hi,HLduned. Lahp;crs armed with
iIcks and shovcIs then went to work
and The grading rapidly progressed -
Reno journal.
\ New York dispatch says that John
ID. K .ckeTeller and the Standard Oil in.
tercsts have joined with the Goulds to
help build the Western Pacific. The
Standard Oil interests have suffered at
tho hands Of the Hartman lines and
they are now seeking a cheaper outlet
to the Pacific coast. The dispatch says
that with the new influence tho
road will he speedily built.
Here IL something worth thinking
abunt says the New York Helat I'd: 4Dut-
ing the last three years Mr.. Roosevelt
has been presumably under the restraint:
Of his promise To carry ont the policy Of
the man he succeeded 10y accident. In
these circumstances he has given un eX-
hibitiou OF one man power, absolutii m
and imperialism i'll the executive office
which may well make the country ask
what might he not do il elected presi
dent and untrameled by any promise OF
conservatism
Two years < the delegates to the
democratic county convention met IN
secret caucus and fixed up II slato that
resulted in minority candidates receiv.
ing the caucus nomination for assembly.
mon and sheriff. The defeated candi.
dates Tor sheriff refused TO DO bound by
the action OF the caucus and q bitter
fight III tho floor Of the convention wan
the result. This fight was carried 10
the polls and helped to defeat the demo
cratic candidate. The convention this
year should do its work in public and
thus avoid the mistakes Of the Inst con-
ventioD.
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