Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-04-27
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY
SalmaQundi.

j.. +. MERIT and wife OF Duluth,
Minnesota, are expected on No. this
afternoon.
MIR. Nelson and men went to Lamoille
yesterday to build the foundations for
the creamery.
p. Carat, wife and daughter and MIR.
and Mrs. Harrington have returned from
San Francisco.
This is the sch anniversary Of the
cstablihmcni OF Odd Fellowship III
America.
The LImoillc Presbyterian church
gave SD 30 last nigh, sun lay for the
San Francisco sufferers.
John Eiw ards, one of the men who
held up the OJerGn gambling house,
has been hell to appear before the
Washoc county grand jury.
The commissioners of Nye county
have appointed rhnmas McMahon
sheriff 70 Till the vacancy caused by the
death of Sheriff Logan. Mr.. Me ahon
is a pioneer N"vadan and one OF Nye
count! Is best citizens.
Mrs. Crowley. nee Miss Kate McDon-
nell. Il former resident Of Virginia City,
was killed 10y the San Francisco earth.
quake. She was caught under Il falling
building aud was crushed to death.
She grew to womanhoud III Virginia
City.
The Rathbonc Sisters are making
great preIartions Tor the social Satur-
day night. lee cream, cake and coffee
Will he served for the small sum of %
ccCts. ~ the proceeds will 20 to the
general rchcf fund, everybody i'll town
should bc at X. OF p. Hall Saturday
night. Don't miss it.
The ladies' appeal for clothing met
with Il liberal response Yesterday. The
high school boys canvasseG the town
and gathered up "a vast mount of
clothing for men, women and children
anC took il to the Hunter Bros store,
whcr" 1t WIS packed for shipment to
San Francisco. This morning three big
wagon loads wcrc hauled Ia the cx-
press office. The value of the shipment
Is hard to estimate but the good il will
10 Is beyond computation.
The Tusrnrora Masous have given
s2jO to the fund for the relief Of their
suffering brethren of California. This
splendid contribution shows that the
Maspns II Tuscarora are night in line
with the generous people of the country.
tn" two Masonic lodges in EIko county
have given 500 far relief. IL the other
l. igcs III the State keep up the average.
the Nevada Masuns will lend in the
glorious work.
An Oakland dispatch says thut the
Western PLciiis has opened headquart.
Crs ~ 'liat city and the work will he
taken up as rPpiily as po asib!c. The
tar 'hquh"c and tire wi. have no effect
on The plans u ;he company aud the
work will he pushed as rapidly rs pos.
slhlc. Many Of the plans have been
dcstr0yC cd and dupli 'atcs will he called
III. There will he no hitch in the pro.
grcss uf the Western Pacific.
There liz true wisdom III the recipe
Tor having good nci2hbors-he one
When ~ complain Of my fruit III
those around us, blaming them con
tIDutly for being cross, Indifferent,
selfish, rude. unfair or bad tempered, il
IL Hlways well to see to it tina, our own
conduct shall he invariably cheerful,
sympathetic, unscliish, courteous, fair
nnd go1d tempered. Othe rwisc, strange
ns il may so@m, they may be justified in
CON planning Oi us too -Makaho Herald.
The largest gold nugget over found
III Calitorni Ii WIS the ~so.callcd "Oli sor
Martin chunk" which weighed over I5I
pounds, and when melted into bullion
brought Sli,270. II wns discovered
near Camp Corona, III Toulumme county,
November IL, 1871, 10y n poor miner
named Martin, who with Il compan.
ion named Fowler, was tramping up the
country To find new digginga. Ono
night they campcd in u monniain car.
yon and n cloudburst Chmc drowning
Fowler, Martin, who narrowly cs,ap-
cd. buried the body Of his friend near
the rOo,H Of y tree. and ~ digging came
upon the huge nugget.
"Tlc ghnstly hour" said u Chicago
policeman, lis the hour between four
aud five in the morning tho hour ~ tho
monstrosiiIc In cvcry big city there
mr. several dozen drrndfully formed
creatures who could make huge in.
cuGIrs ~ m'iscumP. but who, having
money, prefer 10 remain unseen. They
arc monat r~n-itics, being 30 terribly IN.
like Ordinary men aud women that il
they vcniurcd out upon the street, they
would instantly bc surrounded by IN
enormous and srrickuR crowd. I'll,
moust~ rusitiCs muBt have mir aud cxcr
cleo. They take il before dawn, be
tween four and live. Tor then the street,