Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-08-16

~, 's'aPn sIrlRe Is still spreading.
Lie olhcIais Of the companies CHIN To
nave enough men at work to carry ON
the business.
Elk II very Quot these days. The
haying season keeps the ranchers at
uome and gives employ ment to all
tourists who want to work.
IL the railroad operators JON forces
Will the striking telegraphers, the busi-
ness OF the country will be tied up worse
than 1t was III 1891 during the strike OF
the American Railway Union. Then
Alko was without railroad or mail facili.
ties for over a month.
Contractor Nelson is making a good
showing On the new theater. Unless all
Indications fail, EIko will have a neat.
comfortable theater before the SNOW
lilies. 1t will be a credit 10 the town
anu "a monument to Mr.. Bradley's e.
terprise.
passenger traIns No. 10, eastbound
and No. 5, w%estbound, collidei head on
III Tunnel No. Is in the Sierra Nevada
mountains Monday morning. The en-
glne struck with little force aud no
d was injured badly or even badly
shaken up. All traffic wac DELAYED for
hbOnt three hours.
y Keno crook bought a tive cent
car OF theb blind boy rum ing the stand
and received si.0j III chang. for what
tie said was a five dollar bill, tut which
proved to DC a worthless piece OF pa per
a man mean enough 10 10 such a trick
shout be sent Ia the penItcntiary for
forty years.
ih0 granite cutters OF Reno nave de-
mRnded an Increase OF Il dollar a day
IN their wages. They have been receiv-
ing sl.1O and now demand $500. One
contracting firm granted the increase
and two firms refused it. The cutters
threaten to strike il the increase is not
granted by August Dist.
James Quarles, and wife, a negro
couple, had a mixup in Ely because the
woman refused to get ON her kuees and
pray forgiveness FOR intideiity. Quarles
struck her with his fist and she caromed
on his scalp with a stovelid. Quur!cs
was arrested for assault and battery not
outstanding he got the worst OF the
episode.
Out at the oil wells a depth OF l75 feet
has been reached, and the Indications
grow better every day. Driller Murphy
stated today that the formation now
being encountered is d greasy shale,
winch is precisely similar to nat which
preceded the perforation OF the oil
strata III tie southern California fields.
Additional casing has been put in, and
the crews are beng worked night and
day without stOp.-Gezctte.
An item appeard in these columns the
other day concerning the treatment Of
his mother by ". J. GrIswold Of White
Pine county. As there has been an
Impression on the art ui some people
that the GriswOld spoken Of is a brother
or other relative Of tho Elko county
Griswulds, the IN]DErESDENT is happy
to state thRt the White Pine county
Guswold is not related in any way to
the citizens Of ElkO county who bear
that name. Tho Griswolds OF Elko
county are counted among it's best
citizens.
Tho South African conquest cost
Great Britain n cool 81 200 COO, 00O, aud
the Beers must have epont a sixth rs
much more in defending their little
republics. To get Il foCthold i'll Man
churia and drive back the Russian
armies took tidy 81 ,lC0, 900 900 from
tho japanese treasury, while ambitions
for II greater empire cost the CIar 81.
o 1000, 600. In these two wars not
counting tho many millions which Ger
many is still paying out in South west
Africa, the siupendou3 total OF sl ,O00,-
600 600 wa expended.
1t is estimated that the rat docs $780,
100000 worth ~ damage each year IN
England, In a slaughter-housc near
Paris rnts III u srngle night picked to the
Lone the carcasscs Of thirty.iive horses.
There IL very little TINT they will not
eat; cggp young birds aud animals are
among tue d~aintics which they snap up
in the the ordinary course OF busiDcss.
But when pressed by hunger, they will
cat anything through which they eau
| drive their terrible teeth. Rnt will cat
rat. Tho idea That II trapped rnt will
bitc OF mn imprisoned leg and go csca pc
IN now eaid to 10 wrong; IL Ia the other
rats which do the biting. Thoy nic tho
the captive.
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