Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-03-08

y Dispatch trom Assembly ngi. Rus.
sell, rrc' ived AZ We wore going to press,
says Governor %rArus signed the rnil-
road bill today.
II commissioners of Humboldt
county have liked the tax rate Tor county
purposes At Sl.UO on the 800. This is
an increase q: ii :r cents over last yeur.
Staring ut the windows OF their adDred
ones is the way Mexican lovers WOO. IL
the young woman IL agreeable, she viii
appear at the window after se vernl days
and they thus be ,uue acquainted.
MB. I. J. Edwards. wife of the clerI,
Of the y. >. iii urict court. died at
Carson Monday night. She had suffered
Tor some time md her death was vXpect
ed. \ husband and two children
survive her.
Mrs. Connell lost a black pocketbook
near the public school Inst night. IL
contained some money aud other articles
OF value To Mrs. Council. Tie finder
VIII DlCtLSb leave lie e1tlc III lllS UIlltG
or at the Engler lodging house.
The Humboldt Star urges the APP.
p mtmcnt OF }. A. Langwith Of
Gr!conda MS II OF the railroad comnIis.
sioncrs. 1t Gays that Langwith Ia a
successful attorney and has haG fifteen
years experience IN the railroad business.
The Southern Pacific railway company
are making preparations to sink m ar.
tes:ap well at Oreana thirteen miles enst
OF Lovelock. Machinery and we'll Dor.
ing equipment was unloaded there Sun
day and the we'll will be started just as
coon as the plant il installed.-Hum-
boIdt Star.
The session OF congress which closed
Monday Is said to he the most extrnva.
CANT since the foundation OF the govern
ment. The appropriations Of the session
aggregate Il billion dollars. The total
appropriations made by the last congress
aggregate about two billion dollars,
nearly double the amount OF any previ-
Gus congress-.
An interesting case i'll the federal
court ut Carson Monday was that OF tus
United States against Marshal Cor
bctt. Corbctt WIS llarshal some years
ago and suit was brought against him
SELF and bondsmen as a result OF IN al.
legged shortage. Word was received
several days ago by District Attorney
Platt - di1miss the action aud Mon.
day the case was wiped from lh? docket
h levy OF ID cents on all property
within the limit OF the town Of ElkO for
street Improvement il IL move in the
right direction. Tho amonut raised IL
properly applied 90 the main streets
will do away With the uneightly mud
holes and build decent crossings. In
order that this money may be used to
the best advantage, d meeting Of
cit z,ns should bo held and a town i'm.
provemcnt society organized. 4 COM
mitteo from that body could suggest Il
plan Of street improvement to the com.
m~issioDers, which they would undoubt-
eddy adopt. What do the taxpayers OF
Elko think about it?
\ Carson dispatch TO the Reno journal
says that over a hundred applicants
have nskcd To be appointed on the rail-
rond commission and Governor Sparks
Office il besiegcd with letters from men
who are willing to serve the state in this
capacity. Tho governor has told friends
that nc would sign the bill, but would
not talk to newspaper men regarding
his course. Until the bin is signed, the
appointment Of commissioners will not
be considered, Governor Sparks, Lieu.
tenant-Governo Dickerson and At.
t0rnoy.G General StOddard will make the
appointments.
1t is SAID that over Que hundred men
have asked for arpoirtmen on the rail
road commission. IL Governor Sparkle
and his associates urc not mile to solect
three mon from tbis number. the writer
Knows OF several who wOnli be wiling
to take the $500 positions. In fact, tie
writer might he induced to give up bis
lucrative bueiuess Tor II placc Oh the
commission. The only indurpmcnt
TINT neCd be offered him Ia IN official
document with tho pignHiutcs of the
appointing board, atiosted 10y tue great
sonl Of the state,
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