Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-07-01
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
SalmaQundi.

II iuih"hy HOIsc Ntul uO"u Lie
street at noon at a lively gait.
The new flag has arrived. 1t will be
thrown to the breeze on the Fourth.
DIR. c. j. Hood returned from the East
this aitercaon. Mrs. Hood will return
in two or three weeks.
Assessor Guthrie u IIumholdt county
is sick in Reno with a high fever. His
n Few days.
NJ. G. Cecil stopped over last night
on his way home from Chattanooga,
Tennessee, where he attended the Su-
preme Lodge OF the a. .. U. ". He
spent week at the st. Louis Expo
sition and pronuunc"s it great show.
Mark If looking we'll.
MIR. Mcclellan ls around town with
his ara i'll a sling, About six weeks e
he foil down ana injured his arm. but
thought nothing OF it at the time. II
nov turns out that eom OF the bones
were splintered by the fall.
Constable Mccoy returned last night
from Carson, where he had been as alwit.
ness i'll the whiskey selling cases from
Elk. All the men from here plead
guilty cIcep Lee Wah and John How
nrd and they we're convicted by a jury.
The Washoe grand jury found two i'll.
dictments against Dan O.Doan. One
Tor bigamy and the other for perjury in
swearing falsely to obtain a marriage
license. Dan seems to he up against IT.
Tho train carrying the California de
legation to the st. Louis convention pms.
sed through town early this morning nj
a lively pace. Near the cattle corral the
engine struck and killed one OF John
Able's cows. John will put in a claim
Ia the railroad company for the value OF
his COW.
The fare on the new TonOpah rail.
road has been liked at ten cents per
mile, nearly rs cheap as walking. The
freight schedules will no published on
the first az July. Under the freight
rates, it is said that $40 ore can be
shipped to the Salt Lake smelters at a
big profit. The road will be running by
tho 18th Of next month.
An autopsy on the body Of Jaquis
Babe, who was drowned in Reno Sat.
urday night, revealed the fact that the
young man was in extremely bad health
and TINT his death was due to natural
causes. lie wns suffering from acute
gGstrltis and diseased kidney, and had
valvulnr heart trouble. Tho verdict Of
the coroner's jury WIS in accordance
with the above facts.
a number oi our c,tizcng are justly
complaining Mt the closing Oi tho post.
Office at 7 o'clock, town time, in the cve-
ming. Ae this in M hour earlier than the
Office closed before the railroad made
tho change Of time, it works Il great deal
OF Inconvenience to the people who have
10 ]pntronize it. II tho early closing Of
tho Office has been ordered from Wash.
ington, the citizens should petition tho
I DstuliCe department w nave tnc ONCE
rcmnin open until = o'clock. town time
every evening except Sunday or holidays
The Butte Miners Union has decided
la donate S25, 0C0 to the Colorado min.
era to nssIst them in pressing the legal
tcst Ia 10 made ON tho Colorado Su.
prcmc Court decision upholding the
military government in s%usponding the
habcns corpus and allowing President
Meyer Of the Western Federation to
remain in Jail without charges having
been placed agains, him. Tho right oi
Governor PEABODY and General Bell 10
dcrort miners without trial will also be
tcetcd by the Butte Union.
4 now record for tho Fri j ~ II jur,
casc was made in Judge Taylor's Ill.
vision Of tito Criminal Court in st
LOuis, when Otis Pcrceley, charged
with stealing az from Rufus Phillips
was tried IN 81 minutes md SENTENCED
! to two years in the penitentiary aite
!, the jury had been out 20 minutes. Phil
lips told his story in tour minutes. tn,
] ctoss examination required tour min
utcs. Pcrceley testified in ak minute