Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-01-22
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William Maxwell has SOLD the Gem
III tn Louis Burkhart. Mr.. Max
vel VII 0iE,c" in business elsewhere.
IA" l:"uu journal Gays that Hon.
Tu' Inm- Wren is improving steadily and
will i,nn be able to resume his probes.
sinnn; hu;ier.
Shelf Clark has seven steady board
ers. One oI those Is held to appear DO.
fore the mex, grand jury, one is a u. s.
prisoner ana the rest are serving sen-
tSnces.
Miss Eleanor Ernst, well known in
Elko. will be married on the 10th Of next
month to Robert Douglas. OF Churchill
county. Her many friends here wish
her much joy.
An Italian c-nzed with liquor attempt
ed Ia murder Mrs. Ralph Fortune and
Miss Daisy Allen near Fallon last week.
The husband OF Mrs. Fortune knocked
the Italian ont witt, u stick Of wood.
The bursting OF n fly wheel in the
Cambria Steel Company's rail mill at
J~ohnstown, Pennsylvania. yesterday
killed three fatally injured three
| others and six were more or less injured.
Robert Hesson lett Tor San Francisco
last night ia begin work for the railroad
company. The INDEPENDENT hopes
thut Robert will succeed i'll winning a
high place among the company's EN-
ployecs. lie has the best wishes OF
everybody for his success.
Three Years ago Joseph Plante wac IN
Carson City. While here he met a
friend who told him his mother was
dead, Naturally he accepted the state.
mrnt as a fact. and from that time on to
,ins his mother. who is alive and living
in los Angeles, has not heard from him.
This comes near being Il domestic trag.
EDDY, hich pos IDLY the newspapers Of
Nevada can avert by giving this notice
publicity. --Cursuu News.
Tie widest excitement prevails at
Tucumcari, New Mexico, over the dis.
coveTy Of gold ON Revuelto Creek. cigh.
/ ltth tlllltF us VI ApuEl
ness men have closed their sior4s and
are Il rcking to the placer fields. Tie
formation is black sand, and nuggets
arc found everywhere as large as grains
Of whcut. Gold is found i'll every pan.
Three hundred men are on the ground.
Guld has never before been found i'll
tina; section.
Charles Wallace, who passed bogus
chicks in keno aud Winnemuccn, plead
guilty yesterday to obtaining $50 by
false p%rctense from higgins and Pueblo
OF W~innemucca and was sentenced to
thirty days i'm prisonment, to return the
mon-y and pay the costs Of S27. He re-
ceived n message from his friend ut
Joseph, Oregon, stating that the party
was unable to place the 500 in the
bnnk us requested. Wallace says every.
thing will be all right before his sem
tence expires md he will mako good NIL
the checks ne has drawn.
News comes from CHEEKY Creek that
the Butte mine, which was only located
last summer aud upon which the deep.
est workings are only ten feet. is show
ing up well. The property is owned by
j. W. Lee of Ogden. DR.. McCurdy OF
Reno and j. Morris OF Boston. IL il
situated in what is known rs tho Coco.
mungo district, once famous Tor it's rich
silver ores. Tho vein on the surface il
eighteen inches. A mill run OF several
tors from the bottom Of the shaft went
s52 30 per ton.
Wells, Fargo x Compnny's express
car was robbed Wednesday night ub"uj
Elk miles nortL east Of San Louis Obisyo
While the messenger was III the baggage
car attending to- his duties, robbers en-
tered The express Cur, wrcnchcd the sat,
from its fasteninss and threw it out o
tho door. The safe in said to have con
timed $4,000, hut tn" officers Of TN
com in San Francisco deny tina
that amount was in the safe. A. soon n
> the messenger discovered the loss II tn
! safc, the train was stopped and wor
I was wired along the liue to look ont IL
: the robbers. Tho safe was found in tn
} rough lands along the truck. IL Ia
been rilled oi tho most OF it's contenis.
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