Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-06-24

Late news from Portland, Oregon,
says that serious trouble is expected
between the sheepmen md cattlemen OF
thnt State. and at the present time every
cowboy aud sbsepman is armed TO the
teeth.
The National Republican convention
will meet in Chicago next Tuesday.
George a. Knight, one OF the finest
oratora on tbs Pacific Coast will secoud
the nomination Of President Roosevelt
III national convention.
On Il wager OF Ave dallars u resident
OF Carson drunk ten schooners 81 beer
'S tas' rs they could be put on the
bar OF Il saloon.-Appeal. As a beer
guzz'er that fellow ID alright. Puts us
III mind "f Il thirsty hog We once rend ot
TINT got away with a bal rel OF swill in a
single day.
II completion Of chips no v under
CONSTRUCTION will make our navy twice
us strong rs it Is now and three times rs
powerful rs il WIS at the beginning of
the Spanish .American war, says
Success. Ii will then rank as tho third
navy III theoretical tonnage and second
III actual fighting power.
Professor james Bluetl, the great
Eaglish astronomer, says the next full
moon will have across..its face Ihe dark
spot that resembles a cross, and that on
Juno ~ it will TO very plain 10 the
naked eye. He Gays the spot Is
caused rom the shadow made by the
north star crossing in front OF the even.
ing star.
MIR. A. w. liesson, Mr. 4 l.. Mauk,
Mr.. Ed, ReinhhrI, Mr.. j.. Eggcre, went
down to Reno yesterday to attend the
Grand Lodge and Grand Encanpment
Of Odd Fellows. Mrs. George Grant
and Miss Violet Bruce went down on
No. ) and Mrs. Lane went down on No.
. to attend the Rebekah Assembly.
Detective ThRcker arrived from
San Francisco this morning and W, II,
to the county Jail where he erview wed
the two prisoners suspected OF being the
Gates brothers. lie says the men are
not the ones they were thought to be,
but says IT Is more probable that they
belong to the gang that resently held up
a D.. and X. G.. train.
Another ~ the worlds most cherished
traditions il shattered by the latest
figures regarding the consumption of
beer. 1t appears that the people Of the
United States put away more boer per
capita than do those in Germany, which
Ii popularity supposed tn be Il country
where men,, women and children spend
n large part Of their time III flushing
their stomachs with tho ambrosial fluid
from high stems.
There IL Il new song going the ronnds
Of the press, and it runs as follows:
we d MT want tn buy at your place, We
don't van to trade there any more;
you'll be sorry when you see US going
in some other store. You can't sell us
any stale goods. We have opened wide
IL eyee; We don't want to trade at your
store, because you do not advertise.
Engineer Rand Fontainr passed
through Oh No. 3 today. IIs says he
WIS up to Ryndon inspecting the new
%tunnele. Tho Old saying that one story
II IN good AZ another when n fellow
doesn't want to tell the truth probably
applies to Rand, but NO don't blame him
whatever tho cause. lie sage the tun.
nels will probably need to he inspected
soon again. tie II cinch he'll do the in
bpcctInR personally.
Reports have bccn received in Elko
this week from Newark Valley and
vicinity that Il number ui gentle horses
That had been turned out and were run.
ming on the range have disappeared aud
no trace Of them can be found. Search
tor them revealed the fact that the
-rustlcrs" lave recently swooped up all
the horses-wild and gentle-On the
near by White PIno County ranges
They are thought to he the same bnnd
tllhN NUS Dttn lpPln hhc ranges III
Elko County.
Eastern dispatches state TINT by Jan.
uury /. 1908. John d. Rockefeller will
have completed deals which will give
him absolute control Of the gold, silver
and copper miDee OF the United States.
With such control Of the mineral output
Of the country Rockefeller will he in Il
position to limit the money supply Of
the nation Ia suit his whnms. Since j.
T.. Morgan seems to have been cclipscd
by a greater money miser, this bomtcd
republic 81 ours in inst becoming n
government OF Rockefeller, 10y Rookie
TELLER and Tor Rnckeicllcr.
Tho Lpvclock correspondent to the
W"iuncmucca Silver State Gays: Lntc
reports from the experts at FallOn,
Churchill County, says tho oil discovery.