Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-02-03

Surve!or Davis went to Carlin on
No. , this afternoon.
Miss Esther Stoiiel left for Green Riv-
er, Wyoming, last night. -
Mrs. Woods III on the sick list with AN
attack of lumbago. She will soon be
able to resume her work in the schools.
The Postal Department at Washing.
ton hGs discontinued the postofIice at
Cleveland, White Pine County. Mail
Tor Cleveland los goes 10 Osceala.
a young man from Mason Valley who
signed his name MS III. Gordon Steward"
passed several worthless checks in Reno
"Wednesday night, and thcm skipped out.
At meeting Of the Board OF Prison
Commissioners Thursday, The contracts
for supplying the prison with meats aud
groceries for In ensuing Year we're let
L" the two lowest bidders. Rudolph
Miller secured the meat contract and
L.. Walsh the grocery contract.
The jury III the Lii, dcrman murder
NhSS ~ INtIp "it Bull Out WHICH inc
journal went to press Sunday morning.
They had reported to Judge Curlcr tina;
they were unable to agree and wore sent
back for further dcliOeration. The Jonr.
unl says 1t WIZ rumorcd that one man
WAS hanging the jury.
Miss Porter arrived from Palo Alto
yesterday moruiug and took up the
white wumnu's burden III the high
school this morning. Ihc INDEPENDENT
welcomes her to ElkU mud hopes her
stay amOng us will be pleasant to- her
sell and profitable To the young women
and young men Of the high school.
Mrs. McMicLacl. who has been Slsit.
ing her brother, Commissioner Clark,
Tor the pust few weeks, left this morning
FOR her home at Esk fridge, Kansas. Dur
ing her stay hero, che made many warm
friends Sho wish her II pleasant j urney
and "a safe return to her home. Mr..
Glars accompanied her M far as Wells.
Roberts, Scvcnct md G"rmmu, the
iiuIboldt county murlercn under sem
t,ncc Of death at the ~penitcntiury, have
lees. When the news ui the attempted
lynch!ng Of the Negro Reeves at Keno
reached them. Scvcncr said: That
means the death Of Us fcllowe; We might
have obtained II new trial Il this lid not
happen, but we Will surely hang now
They set III cheerful and do not seem TO
realize that they will hang on February
9th II the supreme court does not grant
Il stay OF execution.
Tom O'Nrll wa turned out Of Jail
yesterday morning after serving ninety
days for fighting III Carlin. lie
started III 10 celebrate the event by III.
sultrmg people on the street and finally
wound up III the Club saloon where hc
began tO abuse John Butler. john
stood II Tor awhile and then knocked
O'Ncil down and threw him ont hoor1.
This did not satisfy him and John gave
him some more. O'Ncil was then
arrested and taken back to his old
quarters in the Jail. lie is u good man
to III III OF town.
This mornings cxTrcss tram WIS de
laycd about an hour on account II lIav
ing an extra express car IN. some ono
lnborrng under the dclurion that people
III Tonupnn were starving to death Tor
want OF facilities To- get II meal, char
tered an express ear III San Francisco
yesterday, and loaded il with a complete
restaurant, outfit and expressed il
through Ia Tonopdh. The express
charges will amount To nearly II thous-
and dolarI. Any one with pluck
enough to incur thu, much expense Oh a
venture III entitled to success.--Virgmin
Chronicle.
One Chiuamau lies dcad mud one Ia in
Hawthorne Saturday afternoon. Lum
Sup Lee, u ~stnrckcrpcr Of Hawthorne,
il appears, owed n Chinaman named
Sing some money. Sing demanded Al
settlement when an argument cnsucd.
Sing drew II knife aud Jcgnn slnshing
Lum, continuing the work until his yIC-
Tim was slashcd in II trightful manner
about the body, neck and face. Ills in
juriCs were such thai he died soon after.
ward. II III undorstnOd tho murderer
lias been captured mud il nov III jail NJ
IIuwthorn .-Jonrnnl.
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