Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-05-19
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY.
SalmaQundi.

George aud Zach I~Iariesty are in
town this afternoon.
j. J. ITylton is in from Shelton. lie
reports everything quiet III that section.
Mr.. Mayham came in from Salt Lake
nn No. Il yesterday and lcft for San
Francisco last night.
The latest dispatches say that the
Russian fleets united on May lOth and
Tint the great sea fight will take place
within u icw days.
james Bark came in from Bullion
yesterday. He reports that fourteen
inches Of snow fell at Bullion and
eighteen inches at Devils Gate, a mile
above Bullion, during the recent storm.
On account OF the stormy weather
since the first Of May. the high school
teams have been unable 10 practice.
II Is. therefore, Doubtful if the school
will be represented at the meet III
Reno. Tho teams are III no condition
to enter the contcsls.
Nearly every saloon man III business
ut liRzcn has been arrested by United
StHtcs Marshal Grimmun and ordered to
appear at Carson to show cause why
they should o bc summRrily removed
from the government land they are
occupying. The cases will come up this
week.
Mrs. Rogers and Miss Chick have
christcncd their new restaurant The
Home. They Will servo supper to-
night III their new quarters and from
then on they will be ready To feed ali
who may ]patfoni2o them. The nt,eu-
non 81 the public Is called To their new
ad. Give the Home restaurant trial.
Tho editor OF the IughaE Comfy
tMicl) Democrat turns the table on the
Merry subscriber III the following man.
ncr. will the lady who sent us the
anuny non request to publish one Of
L,ngfcllow's poem kindly send US a
nicely dressed chicken 'or uur Sunday
iinncr-one that wri-hs four or five
pounds, a roll Of butter and a dozen OF
cgg-:-
Tho Congressional Committee on
irrigation will arrive in Rruo on the
mornmg ot juno l1th. During the day
they viii attend the opening Of thc gov
crnmcn, canal below Clark's station aud
yislt the settlements near lIuzrn and
SC" what they can Of tie work. \ mass
meeting u ,hc citizens 81 Reno ia called
for Saturday ui-ht {" make arrange.
mcnt- Tor their reception and entertain.
mcui.
L. l.. Rnhusuu. u house cleaner and
gardener, cfNAod by liqupr, ran amurk
III San Pedro, California. ycs,rr my
mpruing and KILLED four persons and
seriously w0uuuCd two u,hors. lie
then scut u bullet through his own head
aud died om the be-! 81 IN intended
victim that hal escaped him. There
~ no rcuaon Ia think there had been
III feeling between liobineun and any Of
his victims.
Tho Gazette says a mining stampede
is now uu toward the white llursc
district ~ Wnshoc county. tho recent
strikes on ia" ingalls, property took
hundreds 10 the Dist riot aud III quick
]aucrc1eipn ncwa Of new strikCs
~ the vicinity Ot Secret canyon. ninn
milca north - OlIuRhouac. People who
have gone to the district cay that the
Secret canyon vicinity cannot be OK.
cccIcd IN wealth outside ~ Tonupnh
aud Golilicli and they are rapidly
..aRing ont claimR.
prOiitng 10y long experience, th" War
department has made some changes in
its method u recruiting folli"rs Tor tn"
regular ntmy. It hns been found tha;
much tho greater percentage of desert.
| ora contested 81 quite young recruits,
who soon discover TINT the regular
service ia not what they imagined II Ia
bc and take French leave Oh the fret
opportunity, In viHw 81 the numerous
conttmartInla thus required. aud the
severe penalty for dcscrIion, the now