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

SulHidl
Occasional showers OF rain aud a
bowling wind today iniicate TINT IL big
storm Is coming.
A thirty-six inch trout weighing
over nineteen pounds was caught
III the Truckee river near Derby
Thursday.
Mrs. Mayer aud Mn. Bangs have
reached Salt Lake on their homeward
journey. They will he home in a few
days. Mrs. Mayer mas stood the trip
nicely.
Senator Roll says the report that he
has become a republican IL without
authority from him. lie says he Is
attending strictly to his business md
letting politics alone.
Chns, +. Loring, the popular manager
OF the Western Union at Reno, has
quit the telegraph company and ac-
copied the position OF secretary of the
Washoe Power and Development
com pnny.
Winter went ont like a lamb and
spring came in raw and cold. II today
Ii any indication of what spring Is to be,
overcoats will be III demand, the coal
man Will be in his glory and the ice
nun will take Il back seat.
Senator Allison is authority for the
statement that President Roosevelt will
call congress i'll extra session October
!, two months in advance Of the re-
gular session for the purpose OF con.
eidering The railroad rate investigation.
This is said to have happened in
Carson: 4 yOuug man tool his best
girl to church and stopping at the end OF
the back pews turned to the usher and
said: Il guess wa can squeeze i'll here"
-Yce," said the usher with II smile, Il
guess you can, but probably it would he
better Tor all concerned to wait until
yOu get home"
1t is said that the Emperor Of Jap
an prays often and earnestly to the
heather god for success III war, and
the Car Of Russia kisses his Ikon
and prays just Hs earnestly TINT his
army may wipe ont the. Japs. Pro.
badly il they would pray for peace
and then work Tor peace some good
wUull come Of their prayers.
Serpent worship still survives in India
and IA good snake shrine is said to 10 as
much nm attraction III n house on the
MHlabar coast as a { ardcn is in he case
81 Il country home i'll tho United States.
Srnponts are. however. most uuub-
trusivc and unless one walks nOisclCssly
and barciooted III the dark, as lllndOOs
do, snake bite is an improbable coGtin-
gcncy.
Senator Roll, WHO intro iucod the bill
prohibiting anlOOns along the irrigation
canals, says that while it 10 pcrhaps un-
Fortunate that Legislation in TINT dircc.
ton was not secured, it is believed TINT
the governor was sincere and honest in
hia opinion and it certuinly appears.
upon careful Investigation and Thought,
lIlNh it UIltN "lNtll HIl lbIItCII III
vctuing the bill.
Swedish doctors never send bills to
their patients. Each patient pays what
ho deems just or in able Ia give. Tho
rich pay the physician literally. whether
they have need Of his services or not, II
hc Inns oncc been retained by them The
poor IL they possibly can, pay him II
small sum-, md tho very poor pay him
nothing. Yet he attends tho poor ns
faithfully Rs he dOrs tho rich.
DR.. Stubhs has received n conmuui.
cation from Oxford University stating
TINT Grorgc w. Springmcycr and
James Y. COmorfori had failed to secure
tho Rhodca Scholarship from Nevada.
Tho examinations occurred ~ January.
Tho letter did not stntc in whRt
particulars the two applicants had failed
Ia reach the rcpuirrd standard. 4
detailed report IL expected later.
Before the death ~ her son MB. Jane
Slnrford's display u jewels in Wishing
ton WIS II source II envy TO man won
IN. II is said TINT there Woo no choiccr
or moro extensive collections among the
royal iamilica of Europe. Their value
WA variously wtima,"d nt froI 81 ,000.-
0O1 to 40 600, Mr.. Stanford bought
four acts Of diamonds Tor hia wife when
tho vnlunhlcf of Qiccn Ianbelln 81 Spniu