Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-03-22
FROM FRIDAYS DAILY
Salmagundi.

No western mail since Wednesday
night.
Seymour jacobs will leave for Salt
Lake tonight.
MIR. and Mrs. Truett returned to
DeetE this afternoon.
Men are at work today digging a
stump to take care Of the waste water
from the stand pipe near tho passenger
depot. When completed, is will stop
the mud holes that have been a disgrace
to the town.
y western man fell and broke his neck
while trying i'll kiss a woman on the
stairs, Anyone who would take steps to
kiss Il womapis not entitled to sym
pathy. TheShing should oe spontnn-
eOus.-Cleveland Leader.
Passenger service is still badly demor.
allied. No. 4, made up in Sacramento,
passed through this afternoon. 1t was a
heavy train, made up o! express, bag
gage, mail and passenger cars, nnd
pulled by two engines. 1t took on mail
here, but left none.
No0e OF Elko e%ounty's lawmakers
bGvo returned from Carson, The scs.
sion ended yesterday, but the statesmen
still lIDger at the capital. Perhaps, the
demora!ized condition OF the railroads
accouE:S :oT their delay in reaching
homo.
What is the matter with the report
OF the state officers this year? The only
reports received mt this office are those OF
the suryeyor.general and superintendent
OF thea asylum. Those OF the secretary OF
state, controller, treasurer and superin.
tendcDt OF schools have failed 10 chow
up. These reports are very useful in a
newspaper Office and the INDEPENDENT
would like to have them.
Tho l. w. W, miners Of Goldfcld held
a meeting Tuesday night and serious
developments we're feared from their &C.
ton which waB not made public, but
which ia said were Of a sensational nat.
ure. Two Italian iaborers working on
II new hotel were badly beaten 10y nlIeg-
ed |. w. w. sympathizCrs and it is DO.
lieved that one was killed. There is
great mystery about tho whole affair,
a Washington statistician hns esti.
Idated thai during tho recent session OF
congress, tho orators OF tho senate and
house, aided and abetted by tho prcsi-
dent and the heads Of departments,
hurled PA, 1886 words at tho American
people, an average output Of $1,000
words an hour. A considerable portion
OF the total consists OF messages from
tho president and reports from the do.
partments. The president 10 long on
"~mollycoddles.-
The Thnw cnse took nh unexpected
turn Wednesday forenoon when jerome
declared that no believed Thow was
insane ut the present time aud Incapable
Of advising his counsel, and requesting
tho court to make M inquiry into the
mental condition OF Thaw. After q
long wranglc by tho attorneys, Judge
Fitzgerald said that no would institute
an inquiry before himself, and not be.
fore the jury M 10 Thaw's insanity.
Court then adjourned until 9 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon.
Tho fighting Basque is now in the old
jail, serving II ton days sentence on
broad md water. Yesterday afternoon
he was taken before Judge Bruce and
sentenced to ten days in jail. When tho
officers attempted 10 put him in the old
Jail, no showed fight mud Sheriff Clarl,
and Constable Oudctkirk had the time
Of their lives TO lnud him IN tho cell
Otlcr pNtica went Ia their assistance
and the BasNrc wns fnnliy locked up
Itc Ia now living on bread mud water.