Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-07-14

mercury assembled to- tho top OF the glass
III n len minutes and burst the c cylinder
NJ a temperature Of $50 degrees.
The loss by the Goldfield fire. is now
estimated at $4,000. There was 10
insurance, but this docs not disharten
the losers. They will rebuild on a larg.
or scale than before. Tho fire was con.
lined to a little over one block.
Mrs. F%airvoid, who is under arrest
IN Reno for the murder OF her child,
Will DO acquitted. Tho doctors testified
that the child died from natural causes.
Mrs. Fairvoid threatens Coroner Read
with n heavy suit for damages.
The approaching conjunction of the
planets Mars and Venus lights VI tho
eastern horizon Just before dawn with
almost the brightness Of a full moon.
IL Ii IA splendid sight and may never DO
witnessed again by the present genera
ton.
Tho funeral OF Miss Louise Crane
took place Mt the Presbyterian church ut
i;3o this afternoon. There was a large
After the services at the
church, the remains we're taken to the
H.. OF Il. cemetery and laid away. May
her long eleep he peaceful
Ia statement FROM the United States
mn that ther rs is now more money i'm
circulation thar ever before strikes some
people rs a -slitteriuG generality. But
1t Is all night. Money i'll circulation ia
not in the pocket, anyway not in the
pocket Of him that hath il not.
y Minnesota farmer was away from
homo with his family when n cyclone
came along and destroy ed all his pro.
pcrty. While looking over the ruins
he found under the roots Of an old
tree that was twisted up a bottle con.
tanning about 81 ,cOO in gold coins Of an
old date.
1t is officially ~nounc That Ports
mouth y. H., will be the scene OF
peace negotiations between Russia and
Japan after their removal from Wash
1nItcn. The sessions will be held in the
large equipment building in the navy
yard at that city. the representatives 81
both countries having agreed to thus
plan.
He traction situation IN Chicago is
controlled by w. companies, the Union
Traction and the Chicago City. By the
recent purchase of control Of the latter
company for s26, 900, 900, J. Pierpont
Morgan CONTROLS the entire traction
business, though associated with him
are Marshall Field and John J..
Mitchell.
Surveyor Davis, who has just returned
from trlp to the northern part of the
county, informs US that y ttorney Lane
Of Boise City ia i'll that section lnvcsti.
eating the feasibility OF putting in cleo.
trio power ut Mountain City. T]uscarora
and EdgernOnt. Mr.. Lime represents
the Snake River Power Company, III
which Senator Clark il interested.
Yes, It was u famous victory Tor the
Atlantic, but back IN 1854, when the
country had n merchant marine that
was something more than ii joke, the
good clipper ship Dreadniugbi, bu.lt at
Ncwbury port, called from her dock nt
Liverpool III Is duys, md though no red
tire was burned over 1t, tie event re.
mulHs unI arllcllrd.-NostOn Transcript.
at never seems 70 occnr 70 q ropubli-
can mind" says the Ponshkecpsic News
Press, -tha. 1t la just possible TINT the
american people, i'll the light OF the
stand pat, fcet-m-the.trough example
now set before them. may arrange things
40 that 1t will never again be necessary
for the American government To turn to
other countries for supplics in order to
AVOID being robbed BY its own favored
few
\ Copenhagen dispatch OF the 10th
says: Cold discoveries IN Iceland have
caused u regular gold fever in tho island.
prospecting in that neighborhood con-
tinucs and many finds arc reported. An
engineer has brought III Il large nugget
he dug up at Vcstlander, a place lying
Il considerable distance FROM Reykjnvik
whore it il believed Il new gold field will
be opened.
rom Bob and Annie NipOnt, two res.
crvatIon Piutcs, who have been crazy
foI some time were taken to tho Indian
insane nsylum in Dakota Inst Sunday by
An agent from that institution. Bob
has been Insmo Tor some time, and was
becoming worse, but the report going
tho rounds OF the state press that he had
killed two other Indians at tho reservn-
ton ~ Incorrect. lie was kept chained
up.-Lyun County Times.
Two immense tanks which will con.
tain crude oil that Ia to DO used III the
operation 81 trains on the Southern
Pacific are III course oi erection at