Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-01-08
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
Salmagundi.

day nnd still rSmRins in town
MIR. Griffin. formerly Wells Fargo
route agent, Is visiting Elko friends.
Mr.. Perry. formerly railroad agent at
lial!rck, is III EIko looking for 4 bust
ucss opening.
The Guz-ttc says that Hon. Thumas
Wren wRs reported better yesterday
hut hI- condition is still serious.
\ Boston s~ci.n.is, has discovered that
scarlet fever germs Turk i'll straw
berries. Stick Ia prunes and be safe.
New York S;ntn il havirs another
cold snap. Aa Albany the thermometer
showed twenty dcgrccn below zero yes-
terdGy.
On the authority OF the journal, Steve
Currl" Of Reno has fallen heir to Il val
liable estate in some remote corner OF
the world.
Gay lrlaud has finished hi. telephone
line at Lovelock and returned To EIk0
last night. II" reports about us much
snoX down that wav rs There liz hero
Pat DO! lc who attempted suicide at
Fort IIallcck New Ycnr's night, died at
the county hospital yesterday after.
noon. lie was buried this afternoon.
The commissioners had a good deal
Of business 10 transact at this meeting
and will not get through until tomor-
row. They worked ON the jury list this
afternoon.
Convicts Wood and Murphy, who
were captured in Reno, hive been in
dictcd for the murder Of Rutherford and
Jones, members Of the Ca!i;orn MIA ma.
tional guard.
The last railroad tunnel st R!ndon
will soon be- completed. Daylight was
let through it last week and it will be
! turned over 10y the contractors about
the last of this month.
\ Vermont jury has decided that wives
must not murder their husbands in thai
State. 4 Indy charged with killing her
wOrscr half was severely reprimaudcd
III thai State the other day.
Elko Acric. No. 2G3, FratcrnaI Order
OF Eagles. will give their second annual
ball on Friday evening, January 22nd i'll
Freeman Hall. Full PARTICULARS will
appear in the I~NDESDENT later.
Prince Cupid, the Hawaiian delegate
to Congress, was arrested III Wishing
ton on u charge 81 disOrderly conduct
tie refuses to give bail and is treated
the same N other prisoners. lis case
has been continued until Thursday,
Last weeks issue OF the Tonopah
Miner contains sixteen pages Of inter
csting matter descriptive of that camp.
II is handsomely illustrated with cuts u
the prominent business. men of that
town and Of the mines. 1t should 40
u great work for Tunopah.
Estimates are that about lO.Onr,C 600
pnrInhs 81 aluminium were manufHc'ur
cd and sold IN the United states i">i
year. and il is ti!ursd that 80 far ~ 1t
displnccs copper. u POUND Of alum in.
um does the work al two pounis Of cop
por. |; is estimated Tint il costs less
thnn 10 cents per pound to- max" it. aud
il always sclls nj above ~ Ccnts per
pound.
An English scientist has been making
some lnhHCsliuR experiments in the
effort to dispersc iuG ny mca II clec,
,rical discharges. II" recently reported
tn the British Physical Society that he
Ind succeeded ut liverpool in clearing
a space Of fifty or sixty yards radiua, i'll
n dense tog, 10y the use oi an electric
machine III chargirV u current into the
air through bundles Of points.
\ Southern editor says this in praise
ii tho apple: The apple il the mnei
democratic ~ all fruits. Tho pome
granite ia pricstly, the grape is royal
the orange IL luxurious, the peach HnC
pear are pluiocratic, but the apple he
longe to the p%opulace. II ia symhulirn
~ tho country store mud The corncr gro
Gerry. 1t brcathes tho free spirit u tn,
American township mud village. II In,
n flavor ~ New England and yct n pun
gency M of the south md middle west
II 10 mild, pnlatublc. nourishtng md pro
motive ~ CorIfcllowRhip md long life.