Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-01-15

\ Cubic foot 81 new fallen snow
weighs D ~l-2-pouuds ON the average and
has twelve times the bulk Of au equal
weight OF water.
Or. Arthur Hood has returned from
San Francisco. Tho INDEPENDENT il
pleased To note his complete rcco very
from II long siege IL typhoid fever.
Our average man we IRIS out nearly
two inches Of shoe leather in II year.
Some crank In, estimate, d that il "A man
had shoes made Ia lat him Il lifetime
they would have la haze sples nearly
nine feet thick.
Otis Bisc. Il ~weil-known and respected
young business man II Winnemucca,
has been committed to the State Insane
Asylum The young man began to
worry over money matters Il short time
ago and his mind became deranged.
Hose Company Mol turned on, FOR IL
drill yesterday afternoon. The alarm
WIS sounded and the boys got ont
promptly and put ont the fire, made for
the purpose, near Mr.. Jacobs residence.
The other hose company did not turn
out because they were not informed of
the drill.
Tho News says six carloads of rails
and four OF ties passed through Carson
Wednesday for the TOnopah railroad.
Both the rails and ties were Tor Il broad
gauge road. Four forty-ton locomo-
tives have been ordered from the East.
and another has been purchased from
thu MOO. 10: CONSTRUCTION work.
line Carson News says the State Board
Of Assessors was not unaninruu- III fixing
the valuations Of the S"u,i"rn Pacific
railroad Those who vutei against the
assessment were Kinney, Of Ormsby;
Quirk, Of Storey; McCormncE 81 Doug
las; Randall, Of Lyon; tushimG, "f I'VE.
and lngals Of Esmeraldn.
Prof. w. y. Henry, IA musician, vino
attempted to commit suicide i'll Wads
worth Il few weeks ago by shooting him
self, made n second attempt III Reno
some time Monday by swallp c'ug four
ounCes Of cloral. lie was found after
two days and restored 20 conciousurss
i!e SAYS trOuh.. win tiiI nn-he m-lav
caused lmm t" maze ,Ur ~ c"pl {"
shufTie oil.
George Byrne, WHO mysicrIOusly dis
appeared from his home IL Reno on the
27th. of Drcrmlr:, w;s found IN San
t'rarlsco by his brother Tuesday and ia
Ken back to Reno. He does not remem
hIE wandcring- through California and
can tell Dut little OF whe re- he went. He
il suffering from die effects 81 IA fall r..
rrivcd several years ago md Is not re-
sponsihlc for his actinne.
New Island pays out Sl,000,CO) in
old age pensions, 4 person must he
iifiy.six years old and IL resident for
twenty-five Year., u clean record-that
IL, never has been convicted Of crime
aud his yearly income must nos exceed
$3.50. and his capital not oTer 81 500 nor
mast he deprive himself Of property in
order to qualify himself for a pension.
He then receives 900 Il year.
-Th" Uri;cd States ~ he mernes,
debtor and the most cxacI,ng creditor
in the wOrli,- said Mr.. Couklmr on an
occasion when ne MS maize fairly con.
ciuu- II 1t. The remark it. recalled by
the fact hat the House Committee on
Sar clnims has just reported favOrabiy
Il bill To pay for the Etah. one Of the
civil wAr mnnitora. Another generation
nny pas. before it does.
Mrs. Jcnni" G. Nichols, vino has been
trovelng through the State ~ the in
tcrest Of the "GhiidrrU'~ Rescue and Aid
Society" III Oakland. California, hns
been discharged from the employ NJ the
society. The reason given is that the
charges Of obtaining money under false
pretcnscs were SO frequently made
against her TINT the society preferred
not to continue ANY responsibility for
her work.
There ar" IC,OOn hrnt unit" III a
pound 81 average chunk conl. Il chunk
as biz ar IA mans fist, winch, 4 properly
expended. will give Il fraction o7cr &c
horse prwrs Tho trouble is that we
have not yet devised the means OF ex-
ractimg it's fullest power. That pound
Of coal will do ~ much work--alw ways il
property rxpended-as 100 men putting
forth their mighticst efforts, for four
minutes
In this country there arc ncnrly iOO,.
900 more boys thnn girls Of fourteen
years of age; Mt sixteen years OF age,
there are 1900 moro girls than boye; ut
eighteen there are $4,000 girls than boys
md ut twenty, 1000 more girls thnn
boys. At twenty tour ind twenty-five
the sexes are ahout equal, then the
women begin TO grow lcss with great
rupidIty. At thirty, there ARE $4,000
more men thuu women, and ut forty 49,
900.
/, On New Yours day 4 valuable fur
coat belonging to Mr.. Patterson wat
= stolen from n r0nm in tho Commercial
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