Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-08-10

Commissioners Clark, LyttoD and
Snyder are looking after county and
town affairs today. They seemed 70 he
satisfied with their job, when the re-
porter called ON theu,.
Owing 10 the extremely hot weather
and her Inability to get a cook, MB.
Lang closed the Elko Delacatessen last
night. IL tho conditions in Elko i'm
prove, she will open the place again rs
soon as the hot weather is over.
l. A. Blakeelec, the internal revenue
collector, Ii IN town. lio says he is
here looking after Uncle Sans rev.
enuee, but from the way he rounded up
republicans today makes a wicked DEM
ocrat think that collecting revenue il u
side issue with him IN this trip. 10 the
language OF the lamented Wallace, he is
lining up the tcithtul.
Tie Gazette says that the assessment
roll Of Washoe county will exceed ten
millions dollars this year. IL the propert
Reno alone was assessed at its actual
cash value rs the Law prrscibes, it
would DOT up over ten millions to say
nothing abnnt the property in the re.
mRinder OF the county. The roll OF
Washoe county should be nearer thirty
millions than ten millions.
Mrs. Charles Irving brought her II
n,npfL'a alt .lnRtulfnr ~ fr,,m n,tnk-
water last week for medical treatment.
Tho child in playing around the house,
got in among the hop vines and was
poisoned from being scratched or CON-
ing in contact with some poisonous
growth ~ some kind, Her condition
was similar to a poisoning OF thebody
from poisiou oak or iv~y.-Sautinci.
A brakeman retired to a farm and
a piece ot new land to break. he hitched
up IL team Of mules wrapped the lines
around his waist in farmer fashion aud
started to work. He had gone but a
short distance when ha saw IA stump
ahead nnd Immediately began giving
tho railroad stop" signal with both
hands. Tho plow struck the stump
and the brakeman went head first over
the pillow. Ticking himself up, he ran
nngrly to the mules aud roarcd. "You
flop cared ~scoundrels, don't you ever
look back for II STANDARDIZATION
Globe.
Lust Tues iuy Charles +. Booher. a
brother Of the writer, wGs nominated for
congress on the first ballot by the demo-
cratic convention Of the Fourth Missouri
congressional district. lie WAS n candi-
date for the nomination two years =
and withdrew after the convention had
taken over 1900 ballots without making
a choice. Tho Fourth district com
prlses Andrew, AtchisoD. Buchanan,
Holt, N~odaway and Platte counties and
is normally democratic. Two years
IA 20 the democrats lost the district III
the slump that carried Missouri into the
republican fold. This year conditions
are different and Mr.. B0Nher's election
liz almost certain. His home is ut
Savannah, the county seat Of Andrew
county.
ThUre should bG no faction" iE any
city. Tho property Ut one individual
md every Improvement made enhances
the value OF all property in the corpora
ton. Our city liz simply ono big family.
When this il discorded thore is little
progress. When there If n united pull
for any thing, ITS accomplishment is
mando easy. Envy, jealously and In
tired nre things to he despised. Envy
IL IL cankcr TINT gnaws ut the heart and
makcn tulks sou-. disgrunilcd and I'M
happy; jealousy warps the intellect and
makes us unfair in passing Judgement.
Hatred doesn't pay, even from Il eordid
point of view -~EScbange.