Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-05-25
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY.
Salmagundi.

Co nmissioner Clark vent up to Dectl
this morning.
j. Is. Scott is in from the Brunea,
country looking after land matters.
Sidney Treinewnn returned from Rene
this morning. lie and Mrs. WelshoI
lett for their homes III the Brunea,
country.
The railroad rate bill passed the
senate yesterday afternoon by a vote OF
II To 3. The votes against the bill
were cast by Foraker Of OHIO and
Morgan and Puttus OF Alabama.
Tho insurance companies paid ont
100000 yesterday on losses by the San
Francisco fire. II i'll expected TINT the
gScater part Of the undisputed losses
will be settled 10y the end OF the month.
Frank McPhctcrs WIS brought from
Decth t" lny with IA badly crippled leg,
the result Of u horse falling on him. lie
wa taken to the Boiling hospital, where
his mi Irirs were attended to.
San T. ancisco is III II bad way so far
ns IT. records OF naturalization ace con.
rrrncd. Tho fire destroyed POO volumes,
dating from 1852, in each Of which
over five hundred names Of naturalized
cliI% ~ were entered. Tho things OF
the final papers were ALEC lost.
Governors will be elected IN twenty
nipe states this year. Oregon leads oil
"n June D, followed by Arkansas, Sep
icnhcr :, Vermont, September 4. Main..
September 3 and Kentucky November
D., the others voting on November 6
Politically. 1907 il not ns much Of III or.
year as might DO supposed.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. 4. Blossom and Mrs.
l.. y. Lcmairc came up from Battle
Mountain this morning. Mrs. Blossom
Ii suffering from apped;citis. She was
taken Ia the Boiling hospital, where an
operation WIS performed She stood
the operation well and WAS rest ing easily
at last accounts.
Chnrly Stoker and Kitty Blaine, crent-
ed "A Disturbance ut the show Inst night
aud were taken out by Sheriff Clark
and turned over to Deputy Constable
Trplett who charged them with disturb
ing tho peace. They appeared before
Judge Bruce this Afternoon and their
caecs wt re- continued until Monday.
The Carson City mint in now doug an
immense and s,cndily increasing amout
81 business. Though closed for coinage
u purchases bullion, making immediate
settlements. Tho bulk Of the gold re-
ccivcl at the mint at present comes from
Goldi!eld, although Il number Of othe r
mining camps M Tho state mike cOniri
buttons, not a little coming from the i'm
mediate vicinity OF Carson City. Su-
pcrin,cndcnt Colcord sO,s that bullion
in now arriving mt The ratio Of about &C..
900 900 q year.
SIM Francisco as it is wns wildly
shown 10 all who we're Mt Leonard Hall
Inst night. ThOrc was nothing beautiful
nbOut the pictures Oi tho runs Of that
once proud city, but they faithfully Dor.
trayhe tho devastation wrought by the
earthquake and fro. Tho audience waa
the most cosmopolitan the writer ever
saw III ElkO. There wore white poo.
plc, cOlorcd people. Indinua, Chinese.
japanese, Mcxicans, Italians and a few
Misaourinns /" give il tone.
Tho Sutro trPct, IL lnrgo scope OF
ground lying below the exit from tho
Comstock tunnel, shortly to DO cub.
divided into ioTiy.acro iracts, each Of
which will DO capable Of supporting a
fanny. Tho tract in covered with u
dense growth Of sagcbrueh. winch il
proof Of its fertility. Tic water flow
from the tunnel Ia nov about four
hundred miners inches. sufficient to
wat0r tho grnnt, which IL %siiuntrd IN
tho famous potato belt oi the CarsOn
River. Virginia Chronicle.
a 10000 automob lie. containing
S2IiOo,0 600 worth 81 bnndo, ecrjp and
other valuable phper, VIVA stolci, in New
r ycatcrdny by Il dnrrng thief wlo
jumped into tho machine while Il stood
"unoccupicd on Broadway, uear Forty
SECOND atrcet. Ito owner J. II. Clarke,
nm automobile manufacturer. had stop.
ped in II restaurant near by. Tlo heard
tho automobile putting ~ Il started
AWAY and although no rushed Ia tho
s~trcoi, the thief epod the machine
around 4 corner and ascnpccd.
Soon after tho Iirst linotype machine
wns installed In Now Mexico, ono OF the
faithful Old'timcrs, who doubted tho
ability NJ n machine TO %succcmfulIy
perform tho WORK oi n t%ypesottor, won,
oVor I" tho newspaper Office whore Il
wHs ~ operation and tonk u look nj IL
'io wns much impressed. lIc walked
around tho machine md looked at IL in
""" ana wonder md kept saying "a