Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-03-24

ana death. Ahttle care now may save
your family from eickncss. Attend t.
cleaning up before the germs Of disease
are incubated in the filth.
BY a recent act Of the legislature the
'mrloyes OF the state prison are placed
on the eight.bour bnsis. This measure
was passed through the aid OF Warden
Considine. He has already carried the
law into effect and three SHIFTS az
guards, working eight hours each. are
now employed ut the state prison.
Journal.
W. G. Cameron and George Smith,
two leaders Of the organized gang Of cur
robbers who have been operating through
This State and in the Sierra Nevada
mountains for several weeks past, were
captured i'll the Owl saloon ut Truckee
Sunday night, five minutes after they
had disposed OF 500 worth Of stolen
merchandise To George Kurtz, "a second
hand dealer nf that place.
During the prevalence uf II gals VI on
day afternoon six carloads Of railroad
ties were burned on a siding Of the V. 4
L. railroad near Steamboat. There IL
no clue To the origin Of the lire except
that 1t may have been caused by cinders
from Il pass:ng locomotive. During the
gale the top of "a bo1car was blown OF
and the roofs OF several structures in
the valley were waited INTO space.
Rufus Pippiu recently died in Tono
pah, and nov thut he is dead the Record
will state TINT when he pleaded guilty to
robbing Il peddler down the Meadow
Valley Wash everal years ago, he wns
not guilty and never robbed the man.
He pleaded guilty to the charge for the
purpose Of saving his sister, Mrs. John
Harty, who had a large family and
would have certainly bren sent to the
penItcntiary.-Pioche Record.
Alonzp II. Patterson, resident OF Au-
rora for the past forty years, was found
dend in bed Tuesday morning. Deceas-
ed was "a years OF age; death wac due
to old age, and he had evidently died
during the previous night. A China
mEn, his only friend aud companion, dis
covered the body. 10 looking over his
effects 50, 100 10 in gold coin and about
$4,000 III bullion was found i'll valise
under the bed. He has Il sister in
Madden, observation-disclosures Bulletin.
j. l.. Woodbury. OF this city and A. j.
McCone, owners OF the Rio del Monte
nine at Aurora, Esmeralda county, are
driving ii tunnel to drain the water from
the former workings. The tunnel will
be 100 feet in length when it reaches the
objective point, n is now in 10 feet.
The Rio del Monte was a prolific bullion
producing property in the early sixties.
Aurora will he always notable us having
been the SCENE Of the frat venture in the
newspaper field Of the now world-iamous
humorist, Mark Twain. - Virginia
Chronicle.
The Ogden journal says that Fred
Harrington, John NJ. Tracy, Frank
Gillette and Silas II. Tracy. four Of the
oldest and most prominent conductors
on the Southern Pacific ont OF Ogden,
yesterday severed their connection with
that road. Whether .neir leaving the
company m rs the result OF a SUE
pension, resignation OF discharge has
not been learned. One prominent rail
way official has given confirmation to
the report TINT the men had been sus-
pended, while another eaid "Yee, it is
true that several have left the service
The officials gave no reason for their
statements or why tie men had left the
service.