Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-08-12

Il Elder street, at $500 each. Tins
includes h majority OF the business lots
III the city. Improvements will be as.
sessed additionally according to their
value.-fIarriman Headlight,
MB. e. ii. Sproule will leave tonight
for Louisville, Kentucky, to attend the
Supreme Temple ci Rathboue Sisters
Judge Jones and General Torreyeon.
representatives to the Supreme Lodge
X of p. and Mrs. Williams, the other
representative to the Supreme Temple,
will pass through on No. 6, and Mr.
Sproulc will join them. She will make.
an extended visit through the east be-
fore she rcturns.
Flo the first time since the govern.
ment was established two western states
have been shut out OF the civil service
examination to be held this fall for
clerks i'll the departmental service at
Washington. These two states are Ne
vada and Wyoming, and the reason for
refusing to let the residents OF these
states compete is that they already have
an exceedingly large number Of ap.
pointmepts in the civil service at WASH
ingtou.
Senator Joe Blackburn, OF Kentucky
tells one on himself. lie was admiringIy
looking ut a pretty woman at the rail-
road station III Washington-not imper-
tiuently, but courteously, because che
/ was beautiful when che exclaimed:
~-ltuhher! shrugged her shoulders and
trcwucd. The senator took oil his hat
and said: Madame, | Deg a Thousand
purdnus. I to W the liberty of admiring
you because ] thought you were the
real thing
\ lot Of misguided citiZ ms left yes
teriay to attend the Republican State
convention at Winnemucca. Their
faith ID the 4 q. p. tn cause sunshine,
rain and prosperity would he pitiahle il
1t were not SO simple and child like.
They will assist III indors:ng Roosevelt
and Nixon and III nominating a ticket
for The FusIonIsts to bury thus fall.
Z my VIII Ipult uOIut, lTH III
the faith that their duties Rs either OF
Nevada have been well done. Strange
what wheels some men nave i'll their
heads.
Mrs. Shannon, a cook at the Sparks
ranch, was drowned III the English Mill
ditch at Reno Friday night. She went
from the ranch to Reno with Robert
Eason and when the time came to re-
turn she could not be found. About
. o'clock Friday night che tried to
hire "a team at lIyIneTs' stable, but failed
as they could not furnish Il driver at
tina, time. 1t is presumed that she at
tempted to walk home and fell into the
ditch, She leaves "a son at Grass Val
ley and a daughter at Woodland, Califor-
MIA.
The presidential nominations have
caused an immense revolution III New
York City newspapers. In the two
last campaigns the Journal was the
Only large New York paper that cup
ported Bryan. Now, all OF them, except
the Tribune, Press and Mail support
Parker. Some Of the papers which op.
posed Bryan, are now friendly to Parker.
are 1t Timee. the Sun, the Herald, the
the Staat z.Zeitung, the Word, the Eve.
ing Pest and the brooklyn Eagle. This
II 4 heavy plIalanI.
While driving from Donper Lake TO
the Summit last Monday Mrs. james
Davis, we'll known in Reno, met with a
peculiar accident that may result in the
loss Of her arm. When near Tunnel Six.
a hugo boulder from an overhanging
cliff fell, striking her OH the arm md in
ilicting Il painful injury. Tuesday the
injury became 30 serIous TINT she was
advised to go to Sacramento for treat
mcut aud is o in charge Of physicians
at that place.-Journal.
Few persons have any Flea Of the cx.
t%raordinary manner in which the pop.
ulatiCn Of Europe has increased during
tho last century. According To stats.
t~icinns, this population Inns more than
doubled itself from 1880 to 1900. To
this increase the Latin nations Of the
west aud south west contributed the
least. and the greatest growth wns in the
easi, where the people have not yet be-
come thoroughly saturated with the
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