Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-08-03
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY
Salmaqundi.

Salmaqundi.
JaiIer Weathers Is feeling better to.
day.
AT o'clock this afternoon, "A voters
had registered in this precinct.
There is a gasoline famine in Reno
and all the automobiles are out OF com.
mission.
Col. MaXon arrived from Reno this
morning. He will go out to Dixie
Creek tomorrow.
Tie corner stone o: Reno's new city
hall was laid ut 4 O'Clock thus aftcr noou
by the grand lodge OF Masous.
Mrs. Booher departed for Buffalo,
New York, last night. On her way
East. she will stop at Savannah,
Missouri and visit c. f.. Bonher and
family. She expects to be gone sew
cral months.
At Maytield, Kentucky, Tuesday
night, Allen Mathis, Il negro, was tried
before IL judge and jury, convicted,
sentenced to be hanged mud hanged in
less than i'm hour. Mathis plead guilty
to assaulting Il young lady.
The monthly statement Of the director
of the mint shows tina during July the
coinage executed at the mIDts OF tile
United Sintes amounted to 5000, lG4
ma iDlllyyE. Gala 81 liz nnn. asl,ar
sl2s, lG4. These amounts, however, do
not include $1,000 pesoes minted for tie
PHILIPPINE Government.
John Conway, Il Virginia City young
man who raised the wind by passing
bogus checks. has been fined $40 or
100 days i'll Jail for cashinG one for 50.
When his s%entencc expires, he viii have
10 face the charge OF obtaining $40 by
the SINE means. Jume' has good pros.
poets OF spending the remainder OF the
year i'll the Storey county Jail.
Paul Keyser, a former Elko boy, and
ISIS Aimee Sherman OF Reno will be
married Mt Santa Cruz, California,
Sunday afternoon. Both Of these young
people were pupils Of the writer in the
good old days when he welded the
birch at Hawthorne and Elko. lie
wishes his former pupils the best Of
LIES treasures, health and happiness.
A case il recorded Of a man in 9
London workhouse who was given ex.
ira food md reduced labor on condi-
ton that he never left the table while
other inmates were cat tnR. lie was one
OF the most repulsive looking men who
over lived. aud The master Of the work.
house found that the mere presence OF
the ugly one was a most valuable wreck.
or OF appetites.
doubtless it suits the packers" said
Roose volt to- Wadsworth before congress
passed the beef inspection bin. at is
the very thing We wanted" said no 10
Beveridge after tho Wadsworth scheme
Ind been passed by congress and signed
10y himself. The whole dirty business 10
very. very bad" Senator McCumbor
| 'N l'tSS Pc" NIC pllu VI II "utu no EHlC
ave invc met tho enemy and wo aro
theirs. Indemnity $4,000, 00O.7
a process has recently been patented
for the production Of fuel from peat by
me ms NJ the electric current. 1t con.
sists in exposing the peli, previously
freed from water, TO the effect Of an
alternating current OF 200 volts and
200 amperes per ton Of solid material
contained IN tho tent, Tor Ger ain
periods. Tie current IL so regulated
ihnt a heat above 100 degrees G.. ia
avoided.
a. l.. Smith, Tformcr ueSsp i,rr re-.
porter in Alaska, but later a real ca;at
nan Of Tonopah. wns arrested ip Reno
Tuesday evening on Il charge Of perjury.
preferred hy the United stat ~ grand
jury at Nome. Ito dcnies the charge,
but Gays lic d "a not want to return 10
Alaska, on account oi the expense oi
returning Ia Nevada. Smith IL IN Tie
Reno Jail aud will he taken to Nome The
latter part Of the week.
All. Chariz has u letter in the Rene
journal. IN which he opposes the up,
pomiment ~ u Nevada man 10 tic
vacant U, s.. Judgeship Ito conceJce
tho ability and integrity u JuGgt
Massey and Mr.. harrington, but claim,
that ihcy would bc Influenced more O
less by o|nrironnieni, nutl PARTICULAR,
by former associations lilo cay
"honcst attornoys-.i there are any
absolutely and uncqnivocnlly desire L
try their cases before judges who hav,
no acquaintance whatever with the tacts