Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-01-29
FROM THURSDAYS DALI.
Salmagundi.

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day.
The marble season iRr come again
md the hoy g are making the most OF il.
1t is said sIra: another drugstore is
II ot the possibilities OF tho hear
fururJ.
The tow liz fearrully dull and local
items are NOR. difficult to pick up than
pnstollices III Nchrns ku.
Chns W. Conover, a former Remote,
was killed i'll a railroad wreck in Mis-
souri, on Monday afternoon.
III" ~rastbound passenger trains stick
t. the ii no card fairly well. but tl.ose
honnd west pay TO attention to it They
come when they get hare. and leave
When they go. "'
Carson has a Peepinr Tom. His
hours are. from 10 O'Clock till midnight.
His identity has been pretty well fixed
and the News aa! arrest will follow il
he continues his operations.
The ThOma- Hunter Company Lave
the largest and best stcck of nrocy rics
md provisions in town. Everything they
deal i'll is the very best in the market.
See their new nd and give them an order.
The INDEPENDENT is pleased t" l'arn
that Harry Keyser has been promoted *
engineer GU the Southern Pacific and
given Il run out o Los Angles. May
Harry always he on time and u lever have
nm accident.
Part Of the shelving III the drugstore
gave way Monday afternoon md SO yeraI
hundred dollars worth III drugs AMI
medicines were tumbled To the floor, en-.
failing a loss OF Sl3S. Tho demon Of
bad luck seems to be camping IN Joe
Taber's trPil
y small boy in East II Louis, III, re-
Gently vent to the authorities Of the
town and claimed that he had been kid
mapped by a negro who wished to make a
monkey Of him. The toys skin had
been stained and he said that he had
been in a cage OF monkeys in a circus
for "a week.
4 society has been formed in England
fitting words To be substituted for oaths
are being listed. 4 man vino has lie.
come addicted to the real thing. how
ever. will not pause in his anger tn think
up something just rs good when the old
riliablc snckdologers are right on the tip
Of his tongue.-Denver Post.
The following figures taken from the
Observer shows the wage received 10y
skilled labor ut Reno: Paintcrs,s "a per
day: paper hangers. 81 80 per day; car.
prnterf, ~ per day; brick musons.s 6 por
day; stone masone, SG per day; bod
carriers, $3.50 per day; plastercrs. 20 per
day. The wnge quoted above are for
eight hours. Plumbers. 81 per hour;
fathers md shinglers, 81 per NJ; COM
mon Iaborer, 81 80 pes day.
They TO things right III Miss IurI
When John Robinson was hanged at
Kirksville the other day for the murder
Of his father.in law, he was permitted
to shake hands with five hundred
friends before the trap was sprung.
Evidently Mr. Robinson was popular in
the community. We don't know how
his fathPr-in-law stood.-Mmneapolis
Times.
Reno is doing its best to carr the rep
utation Of Il tough place. Tuesday
night rs George IlankF, nm employee of
the Farmers & Merchants Bank WIS
on his way home he was knocked down
and robbed OF sI2 so and a silver watch.
lie was found lying unconscious in the
house. He could give no description OF
his assailauts when lie recovered con.
seriousness.
A geographical magazine makes the
statement that the Philippine islands
have a coast line double that Of The mniu
part OF the United States. The mcns
uremcnt given is ll,44i miles. while the
total area il stated ms ll5,025 square
miles. In the Philippines there il one
mile Of coast line to every ten miles Of
area; in the United States the proper.
ton il one to BOD. II ~ sDid that 1900
islands and islcte can bc counted on the
charts. #
Tho other evening, when ~RueiS'
Coynn WIS on his engine rendy to make
tho trip To Truckcc, he was approached
by n japanese who nated pcrmispion TO
pass coal for u "lifl- over the division.
AZ The load WIS particularly heavy .!:a
engineer consented. There 10 II question,
whether the Jap would have been 90
industrious had no known that the I'll.
trio cargo OF the tram consisted Of beet
for the Russian troops Wadswcrth
Dispatch.
Samuel Stalcy was committed I" tho
asylum 10y Judge Curlor Tuesday. Tho
Gazette says that Stalcy has n wife and
Elk children in North Carolina that he
has not seen Tor several years and con.
ecqucntly he ia very hOmcsict aud longs
to 10 with them once more. His Ella,
| tiyes have been mo med 81 his cOndi
ton and no will bo sent home as sUOn rs