Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-07-27

bear from him'on how he regards the
peek.a-boo waist.
Be prepared for a trust busting stunt
when the campaign for congress Rets
warned up, for az Secretary Taft said
the president does not like to be at the
mercy Of a democratic congress.
Real estate in Elko is beginning to
move. Mrs. John Wright has sold the
old Presbyterian parsonage to j. G..
Doughty. This rale was made through
D. McElro,, Elko's real estate agent.
Parties wishing to sell or buy roal
estate should call on or write to him.
The average farmer who rusbes to the
polls and votes to protect -our infant III.
dustl:ea," then pays sl8 for a pillow
which is sold in South America by the
came protected industry for 80, imagines
he is doing n patriotic duty to his
country.
The beef trust md the ice trust are
demanding n square deal. They should
get it and be promptly tried and il
convicted, not only fined but he im.
prisoned to the full extent of thu law.
One trust magnate in stripes would
have. more deterrent effect than all the
mouthiDgs OF republican politicians.
Tho Elko boys tanned the Wells base
ball club to the queen's taste yesterday.
At the end OF the game the score stood
"a to IL in favor OF the Elko club. The
Wells boys must have played very poor
ball to have beaten that bad, or the
playing of the Elko boys must have been
exceedingly good.
An exchange tells of a newspaper
reporter who interviewed thirty success
full business men and found that all Of
them when boys had been governed
strictly and frequently thrashed. He
also interviewed thirty lodfers and
learned that twenty.seven OF them had
been .mamma's darling" and the other
three had been reared by their grand.
III mothers.
Tho Kaneas papers are circulating
this one: 4 maiden from the city trip
ped lightly mid the trees aid snulfed
the pungent odors that floated OH the
breeze: Tell Inc, ancient farmer, with
arms SO brown and bare, what is the
wonderous flower that scents the morn
ing ARR" Loud laughed the ancient
farmer till tears ran down his cheeks.
@Why. bless me that . a pole cat, I've
smelt it Tor a week"
Peter Stewart. better known as
"Scotty," has been judged insane by
Judge Brown and Jailcr Weatlers will
take him to the asylum on No. 3 tomor-
row night. "Scotty" has been u NUS
ance in T%uscarora and Elko for several
years. He likes whiskey and when his
hide il full ~ it he disturbs everybody
by his loud talk or the streets. lie has
spent a good part OF the Inst few years
in %iaiIfor petty otfenses. a course Of
treatment at the asylum may make him
n better man. 1t will certainly do him
no harm.
The following iervent prayer appear.
ed in tho editorial columns of the
Omaha World.IIerald, Friday. June Is;
-we are beginning to need rain out here
in Nebraska. We have no complaints
to'make over republican management
Of the sunshine. 1t has been all the
most captious could desire and the
spring showers we're fine. But we do
DOL that we are entitled to a few gentle
summer rains. And so we appeal to the
republican party for rniD. Give US rain;
oh! great and good republican party,
source OF all our blessings and bane OF
all ills, give us raiu!-
About 8 o'clock Friday morning, Dee
Truett was thrown from a haystack on
the Mary river ranch, about forty miles
north OF Desth, and had his right leg
broken just above the ankle. fle was
taken to Deeth and DIR. Arthur Hood
went up and attended to his injuries.
lle was brought to EIko Friday night
aud taken to tho Boiling hoe pituI. Tie
accident was caused by one OF Dee's
gloves catching in the rake used in
stacking hay. Tho rnko pulled him
from the stack and he fell about twenty.
live foot. Ho 10 getting along M well
M can DO expected.