Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-03-17

losses caused by IL fire there yesterday.
Four insurance companies are affected
by tho losses.
Senator Nixon has our thnmks for
copies II the Washington papers con
tanning Il complete account 81 the III
auguration ceremonies End pictures OF
the new senators.
The most ancient rataComhs are those
Of the Thcbah kings. begun !,Onl years
go. The cRtacomb= OF Rome contain
the remains Of about GOO0.CO0 human
beings; those Of Phris, 100000
Tho trade in FAX" mummics III Egypt
amounts to about - O,0OO a year. Most
OF the modern mummics are made III
ITALY, although IL large number arc
manufactured i'll Germany and France.
The recent census in Bengal reveals
tho fact hat there are 1000 baby
girls in that province nlruG vino have
been married, and Of thus numbe:
Go, all less than Il year al !, are widows.
:. monkey wrench is no. so name
be nus it il Il handy thing to monkey
With, or for any iunirc ! rels III. "Mun
key is not its name at all. but @.Moncky-.
Charles Munciiy, the inventor Of it
sold his patent Tor $2,cO) and invested
the money III q hoUs,. n Will ImsburIh.
Kings county. y. y where he nov livrs.
Tho Reno people are very much
agitatcd over the passage OF the ill
permitting gambling 10 be carried on
on the ground floor aud the governor
intention 81 signing it. They seem to
thi'.k that their city will bc at the
mercy 81 the gambl nG element Tor the
next two years. IL their predictions
are fulfilled. Reno viii be shunacd by
people looking for homes for the pur-
pose 1t educating their children. IL"
gambling interests may iluuri-h, bUt all
the better interests Of the city will sure.
~ suffer.
Al Street, who left Eureka with a
party for the Touppah country two
weeks ago, returned last Saturday. H.
reports 4 strike - mi'ce northwest Of
Belmont. the county seat 81 Nye county,
and Il number have nlr"ndy gone to til"
new camp from Touopah. The strike is
at Jefferson canyon. an old mining dl=.
iTict. Tia" rock l. ~ siliCinu- %pnrphyry.
carrying goIi. Mr.. Street hR- ordered
Il large tent and II stock ~ liquors aud
., NJ. cod .- .. az. H.. .Ll "a.
IN Eureka he will leave Tor Jefferson
canyon and open Il s,.loou.--Schtiuel.
Work on the railroad from Iia2"m on
the Southern Pacific to Fort Churchill
on the Carson i Colorado will begin
soon. III" engineer III charge Of tn"
wrak at lioz"n has received notice tu
turn grading outfits and other materials
over tn the contractors at once 1t Il,
said that the southern Pacific will rush
WORK on thr new rUui and have 1t in
operation early ~ the fall. When cutn.
plrtc!, II will materially ALEC, the
Virginia * TIucH-c, a. ;iI" freight and
passenger trHtlic nov passing over that
road will hc sent direct over southern
Pacific tracks.
Theodore Kytkr, 'he handwriting *
pert, and Attorney G. =. PomrFoy, both
of san Francisco. were IN Fly last week
in connection with mGttcr- concerning
the will Of the late Samuel Davis Of San
Francisco, the codocil to which IL sail to-
be II forgery. THOR mission was I"
secure a letter written hy the ioccUs'l
TO County Treasurer Mdr-, to prove
hat the latter part Of the will. making u
different Iii pnsiuOu ~ the prnpcr;! u
the deceased, was not written ty hun 1T
the time the &c IociI WIZ dated. De-
crlEcd VIA Il large holder ~ WHIT" Pane
Comfy hnuds, aud lett an estate valued
at 2~l.ODr,0J0. Ely Mining Record.