Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-03-10
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
Salmagundi

Mr.. Mcbride has our thanks Tor Il big
grist Of bills.
Harry Mayer has accepted a position
IN the Smith Company's store.
The supper advertised by the Ladies'
Aid Society has been Indefinitely post
pOncd.
Mrs. Campbell returned last night
from San Francisco where she plr.
chased her spring and stock
Of millinery. She iHs all the latest
creations i'll that line.
DIR. ID. w. Smith wac arrested at Pail.
sade last Saturday us he was leaving the
State with Il lot Of household goods he
Lurloincd from Phil Paroni at Eureka.
Ii cost him ST5 to square matters.
Tho Swedish bride, who is eupersti-
tious, iills her pockets with bread, which
she dispenses to everyone she meets oil
her way to the church, every piece she
%dispos's Of a%verting, as she believes, Il
misfortune.
y report wns current i'll Reno last
night that Tuscarora had burned, and
the writer received a dispatch from the
journal To rush the story. II il strange
that such "a story should be in ~circula-
The legislators are like Il lot OF
s%choolboys. The novelty has worn off
af,l snay a. l,prt,p F~. Kla 1t,ll, ,-l
meadows. The consequence is that
their tcmpcrs are not OF the miidest
and petty tcmpcsts occur occasionally.
Carson News.
The Storey county tax rate has been
fixed at S3.G5 on the SlO0. Seveuty.tive
cents Of this il for State purposes and
the remainder il for county, town and
city purposes. The rate WIS fixed under
IN. Law of 1903, md is too low to Iay
the running expenses OF the county.
Col. John Sobieski, great grand son Of
John SobieskI. the last king OF Poland,
and heir to the throne, if living quietly
at Los Angeles. His father was ~cxccut.
ed 10y Russia and nc with his mother was
cxilcd. He arrived in America fifty
years ago, and served with distinction in
the army during the civil war.
The u. 5. q. surveyor1, who have
been stationed near Dayton for the
past four months, have been called to
headquarters ST liaZen.- All work on
:hc canal that they have been doing
has been called OF, and reports say
thnt work of the construction OF the
canal has been postponed Tor two ycars.
Former United States Senator Frank
Cannon has been disiellowehipped iron.
the Mormon church Tor ~unchristinnlikc
conduct and apnstacy." The action ia
taken toy tho church AZ a result OF the
recent editorial in tho Salt Lake
Tribune, Of which Cannon ia editor.
Cannon refused to sustain Joseph Smith
ia the head uf the Mormon church,
The Southern Pacific railroad pcu.
pie should call q halt on sending people
INT" TonOpah mud Guldlield. 1t is II
shame to alIur" men, with only a few dol.
lars i'll their pockets. with the expectation
Of getting work. Stop them Mt Reno.
Only people who have money Ia
prospect with OF wish to engage in
business should cnmc tins way -Tono-
rah bonanza.
Tho lIOllnndcrs are not fond Of lazy
people, and they have n very good way
81 curing persons who can but won't
work. II Il pnupor IL able To work ind
rcfusCs To do so, they put him in u
cisicrn la which q pump lie attached,
| and turn on II stream az water. Tho
stream flows into the cistcrn just slow
enough to enable the lnzy person by
lively pumping to keep the water from
getting over HE head.
Tho myat"ry ~ Mrs. Stantord'a death
eczema no nearer ISOLATION than il was
the day after her death. \ ln,o diapatcb
from Honolulu taya that the reason Tor
the failure o. tho chcmiR,s Ia make their
report ~ tho nnnlysia ~ Mrh. Stanton d'a
stomach was the discovery thnt the cas.
cara capsules, ono Of winch MrH. Stnp.
ford took Ht the nuc time che took tho
b~icHrbpnntc u! soda on tho night OF her
death. contained ~stryCbniuc. Tho San
Francisco police are examining the en-
| ploycs Of Mrs. Stanford, but claim that
they suspcct no one.
Lnsi ThurshRy evening at Ida a
dispute aroa" between cuflcy vii.
liamp and old pinn Miller uvcr tho
| possession of - lot. Tho disputo ended
10y Williams taking i've shots nj
Miller, mono Of which took effect. 10
then took to run. whcL tho old man
took II shot at him, tho bullet catch.
mg Williams in tho heel, causing him