Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-06-09
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY.
Salmagundi.

The is going 10 be lots Of fun in
Elko III tho Fourth OF July and every.
body Ill the surrounding country is III.
y;ted to come and enjoy it.
The funeral Of the late John Ainley
will take place from the family res
iLeure IN Reno tomorrow afternoon ut
oo'clcck. Tho interment will be in the
X. Of p. cemetery.
Tho contract has been lot FOR build
inc the big arena in which Hart and
Roo, will fight in Reno on July Bird. 1t
will seat 5000 to COCO people and seats
will cog, from g. to slO.
p. Woolverton, Jr is in from Ruby
valley. flo il carrying one OF his arms
in Il sling M a result OF being dragged
by Il TORSO several days ago. He reports
everything quiet in the valley.
The Commissioners Of the general land
Office has issued instructions to the ef-
feet that hereafter no one person be
allowoi to acquire more than 800 acres
OF non.mincrlI public land under the
existing laws.
Hancock, the Lincoln county muir
derrr. passed through Elko last night in
charge Of Sheriff Johnson aud ii. f.,
Prudential. Hancock il pretty sure TO
Ice convicted Of one OF the most brutal
crirnos ever committed in this State.
The time for taking testimony i'll the
case Of State Of Nevada vs. the Floriston
Paper and Pulp Company has been e1.
tended. The suit was brought in the
y. S. Court to prevent the company
pollutinG the waters OF the Truckee.
There will DO u meeting Of the fire
companies this evening at 8 o'clock at
Attorney Henderson's office for tho
purpose Of discussing the firemnn's race
on the Fourth OF July. Every member
Of the hose companies is requested to be
present.
Tho Avenue theatre and the Grand
opera house at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
burned yesterday. A matinee was in
p""grSi at the opera house when the
tire broke out. The audience escaped
safely. The property was valued at
S7Ju,CUO.
The Reno gamblers are playing In
hard luck. Thursday night the Louvre,
7 III by Johnson and Stout, went broke.
They lost ELI 900 in sixteen days Ns the
result Of taking oil the limit and remov-
ing the splits from faro. The games
viii reopen.
ia" Tonopah Tide-Watcr Railroad
company began work on the new road
last Monday. Tho grading will begin
at the Las Vegas end Of the line and
will DO carried forward as rapidly ns
possible to Tonopah and 70 the boraI
mines Age.
+. Robes. 4 benevolent looking old
Spaninrd. filed up on Reno booze
Tbursdny and went Ia sleep on the
street. When he woke up he found that
some one Ind been through his pockets
and taken ESQ. Beside losing his money
iiohlGs VIVA fined &c for being drunk.
Ham Mccain still rrophesying on
on tho weather. lie has sent US word
that this will be- the wcttest season this
section Inns had Tor many years and that
a big storm il now on the road. II
ilam's prediction should happen to
come trus IA fortune might he made in
building bouts for crossing Elko's
street.
c. T.. Southworth and J. G.. Mcrkling-
cr found IA cave Monday tour miles
northeast Of Beatty, about iTl0 feet
III dimensions. They discovered Il few
Indian arrows and a water basket,
which they brought AWAY as relics.
Perhaps the indiana deposited the ar
rowe and basket at n grave near the
cave.-Bullirog Miner.
a recent consular report says thnt
Tho taIes are 30 onerous and tho price,
OF living 30 advanced in come cities Of
Spain TINT it ID impossible Tor tho ordi.
nary laborcr to subsist," and, in Uonsc.
%qncnce, "omigration IN increasing and
The press nnd tho governing classcs are
alarmed" And yet it ia cstimated that
Spain has fully 10, 0OO, 600 acres OF un.
cultivated arabic land.
After all, whats tho user No matter
how hard We mny fight, wo lose in tho
end; no matter how much wo may
seemingly conquer, in the end wo are
wretchedly beaten; no matter how much
wo arc in tho public eye, within two
wockB after our death we are too dead
to he talked about. There ia only ono
tiIno IN the world, and that in now
Lawrence (Knn.) World.
A good many shippers. 90 II 10 said,
appeared boforo tho Senate committee
investigating tho ratio question and lie.
cIared themselves perfectly satisfied
with present conditions. II may be
recalled in thia connection that tho beet
wituossos in favor OF polygamy in Utah
arc tho plural wives. Vet nobody he,