Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-12-14
a daughter * Mr. and Mn. Harry
Reynolds OF Shelton lied Saturday.

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Mr.. Tauner, one Of Starr Valleys
solid citizens. il in town, He reports
tho people Of tina, vale, happy and oon-
tented. !.
DR.. q. j. Hool and wife returned
Saturday afternoon. They have moved
into Mr.. Mitchen's residence and viii
occupy it during the winter.
Uncle Josh Perkins viii hold forth at
Leonard Hall tomorrow night. The
papers Of the western part Of the State
speak very highly Of the play.
We regret TO learn that MIR. mud Mn.
PLnelli's little boy is very sick with
spinal meningitis. We lope the little
fellow may recover.
The entertainment at Leonard Hall
Saturday night was we'll Intended. The
little folks did we'll and plensed every
body. Quite Il snug little sun waa
raised for the Christmas tree.
G. W. Hurley, vice.president md
secretary Of the Golden. West mining
company OF Tonopah, arrived trou Salt
Lake Saturday night. After visiting
relatives in EIko for a few days be will
go on to Tonopah. q s,ec
A son Of Mr.. and Mira! IIankins OF
Mound Valley was kicked in the head
by Il steer Saturday and serionsl3 tDjuE:
ed. He was brought to town aud taken
to the Boiling hospital, where is getting
along nicely. -
Water Mt Green water, tie new copper
camp south nf Bullirog, is pretty scarce.
The other day, in one OF the Greenwater
cafes n man w8s aske,i what he'd
have to drink. -water,- said the guest.
-You can't have wnter, retnrted the
hash clerk; sthe water is all in the tea
Bullirog Miner. ..,pygs 3.
Apparently tired o. the life she was
leading, Violet Smith, a woman about
twenty-five yoars old, died ye-ter day
morning in the Depot Hotel. Her
means of determination was a dose Of yen
chez, which 10 the burned substance. .
remaining In the pipe after opium has
been smoked. Ths Smith woman VIA
we'll known in several OF the nearby
camps.-Toropah Bonanza.
Not less tbnn 37n, 100000 pounds OF
copper wire was in use on the numerous
telephone lines OF the Bell companies
laGt year. In 1906 there is expected an
increase Of ba.co0. 900 ppunds, In Rddi-
ton to wire considerable quantities OF
copper is used in the manuf Icture OF
brass for telephone Instruments and for
alloys required in other branches Of
telephone service.-Minng World,
Tue conditions tavoring monoplies
and q federation Of them, reluctant Or
otherwise, on the part af the public,
have bene greatly less active in Great
Bntain than in this country. The inter.
estinR TACT is not merely that this soap
combination was killed, bnt that it was
80 summariIy disposed Of by the brisi-
ling OF a general conviction into the veto
power. 1t was the unnnimity Of a force
u public opinion WHICH, without having
perhaps hnaly zed Its W causes, acted
with The sweeplug power ofIan instinct.
New York News.
At chicken pie dinner given in a
certain church at Dubois, Pa, recently
It wns advertised that all the ladies
would weaF hloomeFs. The men TUNED
ont. Including a hundred old sinners
I ,,IN La,t NAT INanF tnaiI.. N ,hu.oI, a,.,-,
they were cbristened. The women kept
their word, hut the -blooDers" were red
rosep pinned to the ir belts.
Tally one more for Nevada in the way
Of discovery, says the Nina Miner. W.
g. Lindsey. the mnrble mau Of Carson,
Inns been in Nina the past week looking
after some marble locations in this
section. Tie first Of the week his mon
uncovered q ledge Of black marble
south west Of Nina, and Mr.. Lindsoy
says that il is the first find Of this
variety made outside Of Egypt. There
In u large body Of II, and Mr.. Lindsay
now has a force Of men doing active
development.
Al EnwriRht, a bartender IN M Ely
saloon, shot and seriously wounded II.
II. Thompson, q tenderl8ip gentleman,
Monday night. Bnwright WIS leaving
the enloun when Thompson began a
quarrel in which he threatened TO take
Enwright's gun away from him and boa,
him over the head with it. At TINT En-.
wright turned HE gun loose and sbpt
Thompson through the abdomen, serious.
ly wopnd'ng hirn.
Clarence Mackay's telegraph line will
not touch THE part Of Nevada. Il will
follow the Clark rail-oad from Salt lake
70 Bylling nNa then Tnp apross tbe
cpuntry to llopG. It viii pass through
GoidHDld, Tonopab, Hawthorne and
other toAns and connect with the main
line i Reno. Mr.. Mackny' expected to
follow tho liBo ~ thu Weeterh Pacific.
but the tIonll- be,nn henryauN T. Gre IN
tho Western UuiJn hui lIiIu ut, me,
The o., ctioD Of two nrgrops to cohsress