Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-08-17

year will be the largest in tie history
Of that country. This is due 10 the
plentitude Of water supplied by the
& government canals.
n. f. Nelson, the mar who was stab
bed at .PUlis1de last week, Is getting al.
oug nicely at the county hospital. Ills
chances for recovery are good, but it
will be a long time before he ls able to
get ont.
The contractors who are engaged in
putting in n steam heating plant Mt the
State Capitol bored So Yeral holes in Tie
floors last Thursday and encountered IN
army OF bats. The stencil was almost
unbearable.
The position Of the standpat 70.
puhlicaus illustrates the old story Of
the three men who met to start II new
church, with but two planks i'll its plat
torm-"lst. Tie meek shall inherit the
earth; ID. We are the meek"
Mr.. Mcfarland inspected the town
hydrants today and put them III coudi.
ton for immediate use. The hydEants
should be tested every week or go by
the fire department. a little time
spent on theu, might save a destructive
tire. " d" 40
4 man in Il neishbOrmg town who
took a city paper in preference to a
county paper because no got more
paper for the money, was attracted 10y
the advertisement Of Il fire escape
which would DO for warded on receipt Of
81. lie sent the cash and III a few days
received II copy the New Testament.
Senator Piatt says he has been
-chewing the bitter cud OF reflection"
bosses DOING the same these days, and
IL the people reflect ON how bitterly
they are paying Tor keeping thcGe boss
ia. with their stand pat"and -Iet well
enough alone" doctrines there Will
be a good many statesmen out of II job
after November.
There will be 53 Sundays in this year
something that Will o occur again
urtil 2Ol6. You may spend this sxtra
day attending church, sparkling your
best girl, reading our favorite paper,
gong fishing or skating, or i'll various
other ways, but be careful TINT it isn't
mex ertn Sunday comes you will o
put i'll tho Hay regre,ting the way the
last one was spent.
Tho leaders Of Tie American Fedora.
ton OF Labor are going into politics
like old hands at the bellows. They
have assessed the $4,000 Labor Unions
Nv Il starter. Money makes the mare
go and there is no doubt that united
labor, in conjunction with the dem
~ocrats. will make the republican
elephant hustle in November. And
this is only the skirmish line Tor 1868.
The escape Of Blackwell, Vernon and
VaZ 40. that seems to be the correct
pane OF the third socapc, from the State
prison was made by filing u lock from
their cell. This admitted them TO the
dining. room, where they worked rs
TRUSTEES. They then dug "A hole through
tho wall Of the prison. Vernon claims
TINT he was for ced to 20 with the other
two as they were afraid he might be!ray
them. He il now locked in one OF the
condemned cells. The escapes took
&c vcral knives and n supply OF food
with them.
A bulletin recently made public ut
the census bureau in Washington shows
TINT l9,Gii,TJ7 copies OF daily news.
papers, or one for every four persons,
are tnrned ont each week in the
United States. On Sundays the mum
Der printed il l,s39.52l. Tho total
amount charged for ndvcrtieing in 1908
was sli5,53l,8ll Tho capital invested
in printing and publishing il s3SI.O2I-
800.