Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-01-04
Nevada. lie win organize /. party and
GO TO the plaos and dig the homes from
the moupds in The vicinity.


the monnds in the vicinity.
In Mexico the average laborer thinks
himself entitled to l3l days a year for
traditional and more or lees obligatory
idleness. The list is made up Of SO
Sundnye. 50 saint Mondays, 10 solemn
feast dayp. three holy days, three
na6uual feast days. and elk family Feast
daye.
The striking cooks and walters OF
Tonopsh have called ont the bakers and
for a time closed every bakery in the
city. The proprietor of one OF the
bakeries went 10 work and made bread
and pies for the restaurants. Cooks
and walters have been imported from
Denver, but the restaurants are having
considerable trouble in keeping open.
During my absence from January 10
until June II Rev. Pmlo Fuller Phelps
OF Berkeley viii occupy the Elko and
Lamoille pulpits. He viii respond to
any calls demanding ministerial atten
ton IN any part OF this county. II his
services are needed please leave word at
the mans O.: the telephone Office. Gro.
H.. GREENFIELD.
The womaL who calls herself the wife
Of George wmRtield. .he ex-gambler and
Goldfeld millionaire, was fined $40 IN
the San Francisco police court yesterday
for raising a row Mt the St. Francis
Hotel, where che went with the avowed
intention OF killing WineHsld. She paid
the fine and viii take another chance to
put WinRfeld under the cod.
Commissioner Snyder came down
from Tuscarora yesterday. He reports
good sleighing as far us the Sixtetn.mile
Springs. MIR. Snyder predicts that the
rest OF the winter viii be very mill.
He bases his prediction ON the fact thu
November was Il cold month and his
observation Of Nevada winters has been
that comparatively mild winter weather
follows IA cold November.
Talk about I'ate's irony! Down in
Newark, o., a man lived to the advanced
age Of LOG years. He never had n sick
lay in his lite that amounted to any
thing, and at his remarkably advanced
age he was active n in good spirits.
Then II horse with abs o!utely no sense
OF the eternal fitness Of things kicked
him to death.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Commissioners Clark, Lytton and
Snyder met this morning to Glenn up the
business for the year. This is the last
meeting Ut the present board. On Mon
day the new board composed Of Com
missioners Clark, Lytton and Primeaux
will meet, organize and approve The
bonds Of the incoming officers and
transact other business. ommissioner
Snyder viii then be u private citizen.
II is rumored tlia: the Southern Pa
cifc company intend to purchase the
Tonopsh and Goldtield railroad and to
operate the line as a part az the Harri-
man system. Tue cannot he vcr-
flied, but is it known that Super. te nd
ept T.R Jones Of the Southern Pacific
recently visited Tonopah, Nina aud
Goldfeld, and it is stated that be made
the trip for the purpose OF inspecting
the property So rs tn make n report to
the Southern Pacific directors. Ca.
cite,
Eugene Koch, u passenger from
Ogden to Oakland, left HE train at re.
coma Wednesday night md took a few
drinks. Shortly after he became vi.
oleptly insnne and was tnken before
Justice Hogan Of MoDtellu who commit.
ted him to the county jail on the charge
Of insanity. Constable friedrich
brought him to Elko ON No 3 last night
and he was locked up to await Hp
examination. Koch was violent last
night but is qnieter today. 1t seems TO
be a case OF too much booze.
Damascus, said TO no the oldest Of
living cities, is losing its character, A
Belgian company is cutting through
il with an electric street rail way and is
sprinkllnR electric lights in its ancient
streets. The motive power Tor these
installments ia derived from the harness,
ing Of tile river falls a. miles off. Three
and a halt miies OF the street railwa,
are already being laid. Traffic on the
Hniaa railway, which rome day ma,
reach Mecca, finds a convenient entrepo
in the old time emporium 81 the slow
moving caravan,
Santa 80 aud Southern Pacific com
panies NJ well us several other =. ilroat
corporations are to DO made defendant
in nine suits ordered by the secretary o
agriculture 20, violations ~ tue thrity.si!
hour laws in the transportation Of cattle
The law provides that live stock IN tran
sportation may not he kept on the roat
without water mud feed longer thai
tweuty'four hours, without the conson
OF owners. and not longer tbnn tbirty.si:
hours in any circumstances. Three %
the suits are e. lie commenced agains
tho Santa Fc md one against tht
Sou.bern Pacific.
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