Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-11-23

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pinted at Carson under the manage.
ment OF II. \. Ramsey.
The l. j.. Winter manuel Co., Jeweler.
re prepared to do repairing at the mos.
reasonable rates at their place OF bust.
ness. Engravnr: Tree Of charge on all
articles sold.
Mrs William Corey. who secured a
divorce in Reuo trom her hush and, the
steel king, has now demonstrated that
her residence III Reno was a tenn porary
affair FOR the purpose OF occurring free
dom rum Corr,. She has bought a
home Pennsylvania.
III" othcii Al - nvHss of tile votes cast
IN each pre- " : - this couu', mt the
recen; rlsc ,"n viii be rrnuI ON the
fourth rag The figures have been
caretui!y cominr.,i and the vote Of each
precinct 10 correctly given. Il is a good
thing to Tile uTay for future reference
II cost the Fepubli.ans OF New Yurk,
S332,0ll to defeat Hearst and elect the
balance of the democratic State ticket,
Acc riding To the. statement Of receipts
and ex Jenditures HE'D by tie State
committee the receipts were S3H3923
ami 'h" expenditures s332,Hll.
Bsaause his squaw " mld not ride ON
the" street cars be: ween Sparks aud
Reno, William Beck. u Piute brave, tied
n strip about her ueck and drove her
from Sparks to Reno. When his equaw
-buched.' Beck whipped her until she
made another start. lie eaid that his
squaw needed disciplining aud he had
to do it.
The Old Fellows OF Reno have con.
cluded to put another story ON ,heir new
hall, making it fbur stories instead G!
three M originally planned. The AL.
ditionnl story will adj $4,000 to tho cost
OF the building. The contract Tor the
foundations has been let. The building
will he n of the h~rndsomest in the
state hen completed,
Supervisor Fred p. Nicholas who ia
under Indictment i'll s N Francis % for
petty grating was u former resident OF
Virginia City, where ha was known as
Pig. Nicholas. The Enterprise says
that il all the San Francisco papers
publish about him is true his nick
did not belle him.
y proprietor namei Jones TILED up
on Car-on booze the other day and lnid
| down nv tho rnilron6 tr,,.
the rails for Il pillow. Two men
happened along just before the train
pulled Ill and dragged Jones from the
track. He wanted to know "whazzar
mnzzer' aud cursed the men for disturb.
ing his slumbers.
The next session OF the State Teachers
Institute will be held in Reno from the
18th to the 2lst Of December. J.. a.
Ackermap, State Superintendent OF
Oregon, will deliver Il series OF lectures.
The program for the session is not yet
complete, but it will have many good
things. Every teacher. In The State
should attend this meeting,
The Tonopah & GOldfi,ld railroad has
announced tint after January lst the
fare on the road will he elk cents a mile
iustsad Of eight as mt present.. The
road formerly charged ten cents d mile
Tor passengers, but made the first re.
duction the first OF last July. The road.
1t Is said, long since puid Tor itself, and
the owners have been on velvet for some
IL Iu
time. The officials expected to make the
reduction beginning with the first Of
Decem Der but under the fcaeInI laws
such changes have to I've filed with the
interstate commerce, commission thirty
days before the change.
DR.. Forbes Winslow. the great Eng.
Itch a%lieHist, declares that the re will be
coon more Ineane than zane people OH
this earth. Tho question naturally
occurs M to what is II sR,e man. En-
tire sanity. like common sense mud other
general terms, ls only relative. All
people IRE only approx inlat,ly saue and
sensible. The average man" does moi
exist, nor does the absol utely sane md
sensible map. Tho hest that my OF us
can d" is 10 keep up II fair average
Fix.
The fuel situation in Nevada ia 20 I
ting serious, Nearly every town is short
OF coal and there is no immediate pros
pect OF relief. At Tonopah and Gold.
field coal can not be had at ans price
and the price Ut wood hae Como. up 10
$50 a cord. Tho Gazette reports thai
freight trains are laid up at Winue.
mucca because the raistoad company il
ehort Of coal. Tho Ogden journal
claims that thoreis plenty Of coal at The
mines aud plenty OF empty cars to hauI
1t in. but that tho Union Pacific prefers
to haul Other freikh'. The Journal says
the Denver & Rio Grande is doing liz
best to relieve the situation.
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