Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-11-30

hSot ho uucCuPStu euL
is 1000 times az bright.
. The Erie canal is The longest canal il
The United STATES, having a length o
3S1 miles. II was completed in 1896
and cost s52,54O,s 500. The Ohio canal il
BIT miles long, and cost sI.665, 20i. The
longest foreign ship canal is the Suez,
between the Mediterranean and Red
Seas, which ID 30 miles in length, and
cost 100000 ,000.-The Sunday Maya,
zine.
ron Howard county comes the tale
OF a four.story farm. Chae. Ridgewsy
ls its owner and the farm is located
near Fayette Mr.. Ridge way bas u fine
clover field. Beneath the clover is one OF
the richest beds Of coal and underueatl,
The coal is n line bed Of shalp, from
which excellent building bricks are
made. In and above the clover ID an
apple orchard on which ia nh Abundant
crop OF apples. This makes a fpnr-story
tarm-ehale, cod. clover, appIes-and
shows how the wealth 10 piled up III
MissouH.-K. G. journal.
Jerusalem now hae a summer: resort
at Ramalnh, which . situated several
hundred feet higher, and commands Il
view Of the MedIteI rRueau.. a new
hotel has been built there Tor Europeans
by an Arab. Most Of the work Of con.
structim wa done BY Women. .tyhoae
wage are ii cents a day, ~
The Southern Pacific comp any has let
u c"ntraci Tor 800 new refrlgerator
care to he delivered at The rate NJ 1900 u
month, beginning with next January.
Six thousand OF the new cars will be
used in shipping fruit and vegetables
from G 'lifnrnia. They will cost abou,
sl4cO each.
that Genr re Mile had benien DIcl, srson
for lieutenant governor by u small
majority. The g. tie rays n message
to the sPcrc'arv ~ state elected the
response that all thu "'nrns were not vet
in, but on the face ~ thnse that had
been received Mills Was in the lead, and
might be elected. The complete re-
turns will not be in until come time next
week.
a masked highwHymRp went through
a train in Missouri Yesterday and
cleaned mp Se'.0 besides several watches
and other jewelry. When the robber
tnUna1 IN NM "a ua a. n,n ~ ~. Lz.t.
the conductor %grappied with him and
threw him to the floor. Tie passengers
then INSISTED the conductor and the rob.
Der was compelled to give up the prop.
erty he had taken. He was then 60.
curely bound and turned Y G to tue
oficeFa,
The age Of a horse cannQt always he
told by lonking Mt its tooth. After the
eighth year the horse gets no more new
teeth, 30 that this method is II seIess for
n horse more than eight years old. AS
soon M the set %! teeth is conrl, tc,
however. a wrinkle begins to appear gu
the cdge Of the lower cyeliq, and
another wrinkle - added zach ) ras,;s so
thai to get the ago ot II horse more tim
eight yoars old you must connt the
teeth plus the wrinkIes.-Ex. r
The goo! book says, Give to every.
Il TINT asketh thee hut TINT doesn:;
mean to give a dErpkMd money 20 buy
w%hiskey; it dnnsTt mean to give the
baby n hammer und looking. glass he.
cause he ask el far it., und it dC esn't
mean thai we should give to prcfes.
eional beggars who travel from town to
town. The Bible dcesu,l always menn
what | sRys, hut il always means wnat
IL means.
'T"ixt optimist and pessirrist
The difference il droll;
The oPtimist sees the %donghnLt,
The peesimst the hole,
Exchange.
Tho Young mnu arrested Mt Reno for
passing bogus money hns heun released
as no complaint WINS n,udo against him.
Ii Ia nov th9nght ihe NoMUs man WIS
aided hy u wolnHn nccomplice md II
smnll hoy In pnss nv the hille. II is cs.
timuted TINT Il thousand dollars Of tile
questionable hills have been ~circulntcd
IN Reno. III" Gazette says it is uo,
yet know2 Yhq,hrr the hills arc COOL or
had. The bnnks have not refu ~, Ia
accept them, The identity OF the nm
and oma Inns not been disclosed,
II 10 about true Tor Nevada Ia de.