Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-07-13
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY
Salmaqundi

J. w. Puett. one OF Carlin's hustlinR
citizens, was in town this forenoon. He
returned on No. 3.
w. I. Robinson, Carlin's veteran
socialist, came up this morning. He
predicts that t;arlin viii give a socialist
majority this fall.
The examination Of applicants for
teachers certificates closed yesterday.
Miss Burns and Miss Wood received
primary Crude certificate.
1t Is the opinion Of every boy that il
boys were as polite as mothers said they
should be, all the boys in the world
would starve to death.
Mr.. aud Mn. Henry Barley, who
have been visiting Mr.. Ouderkirk at
South Folk. the last two weeke, left for
their home Mt Sacramento this afternoon.
An English physician says ~4silence
will cure v women and delay the
coming Of wrinkles" May fool British
women that way, but not the wide
d"dho nuleTlCdn girl.
MI. Brain still hovers between life and
death. He has been on the border land
for the last three daye, but he cannot
remain much longer with the living, as
he is growing weaker all the time.
The canned meat business almost
makes a fellow suspect that some of the
unparalleled prosperity now on the mar
ket is not always just exactly what it is
labeled, either.-Indianapolis News.
In Russia It is unlawful to give kisses
in public. A kiss in the street ia penal
lied by b fine Of 50, and Oh a train car
by a still heavier fine. Declarations OF
love on post cards renders the sender
liable to a fine OF 81.
Correspondents must sign their names
to communications intended for publ
cation inithis paper. Failing to do so
their communications &c into the waste
basket. One from Mountain City went
that road today.
Clarence II. Mackay and his mother
have given 100000 to the University Of
California for the establishment Of a
professorship Of electrical engineering.
II animal income from the money will
he applied to the payment OF a pro-
T. ssor's salary and the maintenance Of
the department, the original fund tn he
kept intact in perpetuity. The gift is in
honor Of John ". Mackay, Jr.
Ben Morris, who was sent 20 the peui.
Tertiary: for life from this county in 1890,
has been given his liberty by the board
OF Iardons. Morris cut the throat OF
Frank Lacastre. a French cook, in the
sagebrush near Wells and robbed him
OF a few dollars. The murder was one of
the most brutal ever committed in Elko
county and Morris molly deserved
hanging. His pardon will not meet the
approval OF those fan. liar with the
crime. y'.'
According to the figures in the Jour.
nal Of the American Medical associa.
lion, the total results Of our patriotism
on the Fourth OF July in the last three
years were as follows: In 1903; 4G6
dead, il5 cases OF tetanus and 1868
injured; in 1904. 1873 dead, los cases of
tetanus aud 3,9s6 injured; In 1905, 1872
dead, lc4 cases Of tetanus and 1904 in
jured. This years fatalities figure up
the same number rs last year, besides
extraordinary destruction Of property.
Ton White, a bartender, has been ar.
rested at Reno for the burglaries com
mitted Sunday night. Nearly all the
stolen property was found in his room
and the remainder was found where he
had concealed it. White claims that he
overheard two men talking about the
stolen property the day after tho bur.
glaries were committed and that they
told where 1t was concealed, and that he
and another mar went to tho place and
got it. His story is considered very
weak by tho police.
Tho Reno Gazette scores the board OF
pardons for giving Dan Regain, who
killed his mother-in law, a pardon and
refusing to pardon Kendrick, who killed
his father in.law. II claims that tho
board by its action ~ these casos has
placed u comparative value on fathers.
in.law and mothers in.law. Regan had
served but eighteen months OF a three
years sentence. While 1t may be truo
that the bcaro made u mistake in
rnrdoninR Regain. the INDEPENDENT il
sure that no misiake was made in Ken.
bricks case. Ills crime WINS cruel and
promedithicd aud he deserves MI tho
punishment The law can give him.
Tie president is using his influences
to bring Arizona aud New Mexico into
the union as one state, something the
people OF ArIz INA do not want. lie
holds ont the thrent that 10 Arizona
dose not come IN. sbo will be KEEP, out.
side the union for many ycars 10 come.
All OF which strikes us M going n little
too far. Arizona is entitled TO admis.
eion as ono state by herself, and know.
ing this, she wisely ~refrains from joining