Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-03-01
ERoM rHURsDAY.s DAILY
SalmaQundi.

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The last day Of February is raw and
cold.
Senator Ctryell has our thanks for an.
other batch Of hills.
The two convirta that escaped from
the penitentiary Monday night are still
at large.
Marshal Grimmon failed to show up
today. He is expected tomorrow to take
the U. S. prisoners to Carson.
/! is retimatcd that George Wing
fields fortune lie now over thirty mil
ions. Some pu, it at even higher
figures.
The assembly has passed a resolution
prohibit,n the introduction Of any bills
after the close Of the Legislative day OF
March 5tb.
4 California woman married a man
who had Lost both legs aud an arm in n
railroad wreck and then she engineered
the lawsuit- W thereby he got a verdict OF
'ANO.NVo 'ACNtiiRtb nuu NbS Tie say
that woman has no head for business.
The First National Bank is putting
IN more wire screen 10 protect its tnnds.
This hank is increWnR its business
rapidly and its managers are taking
every possible ]precaution to safeguard
it's patronR.
IL there is any way to prevent the
streets from being overlooked with wat
er from the standpipe near the passen-
ger depot, it should be done. The mud
holes TINT result from this water nre a
diegrace to the town. The county COM
~missioners should take the matter up at
their next meeting. Perhaps they can
do something.
The senate and assembly committees
on public buildings NJ the California
legislature nave decided to recommend
the passage nj the bill submitting To the
vote Of the people the PROPOSITION OF re-.
moving the capital 20 the university
town. An effort will be made to bring
the bill no in both houses tomorrow.
Tie Carson Appeal claims that il il
the oldest newspaper in the stnte. The
EoterprIse was started at Genoa in 1860
and then moved to Virginia City, where
If died. IL was out OF commission n year
md was e vived. This the Appeal claims
makes it the oldest continuous news.
pgper in Nevada.
Word comes from Homedale, idaho,
that work on the San Francisco, Idaho
&c Montana railway will ut
that place early in the spring. Surveys
have been run from Butte, Montana.
through Boise and Caldwell. Idaho, to
Winuemucca, whore the road viii con
meet with the Southern Pacific. The
finished road will shorten the route from
Butte to San Francisco upward .; 6U0
miles.
The Carson correspondents OF the
have stirred M Il hornets nest i'll the
senate. The former accused Senator
Oddie OF being Il traitor to the hill
incorporating Tnuopah and rhe latter
accused Senators Boyd and Pyue Of
treason toward the railroad bill. The
accused senators made hot spe 'ches
dengius the charges aud calling the
correspondents many kinds NJ liars. All
of tb"m wanted the correspondents
barred from the senate chamber, just ,s
il that woulh stop the correspondents
from sending their parevs whatever they
wished. 70 nm outsider, il looks like
very silly work un the part OF the
senators.
Jumes May, II Reno sport, won S35 600
Tuesday Oh u single bet ut the roulette
wheel in the Palace gambling house.
May had played faro all night and was
$4,000 to the bad. as he left the game
he said he guessed ne WIS a failure at
faro aud would try the roulette heel.
lie sauutered up to the wheel and asked
the dealer TO give the thing u sp,u" and
pitched u thousand dollar bill on the
table allowing it to,iall where it woulI.
The bill fell on No. II and that Der
came. The dealer never made the
slightest sign that he was hard hit, but
dug up $50, 900 IN green backs and gold
coin. May ordered champagne md
treated everybody that came along.