Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-08-30
FROM MONDAYS DAILY
Salmagundi.

Ten carIoadr Of hogs passed west this
afternoon.
Mrs. Mallett and Miss Dora left FOR
Oakland Saturday night From there
they Will 20 to Los Angclrs, where Miss
Dora vii! bu placed III school.
Tho NevRd university will open the
hrit semester on September Bird. The
corps of instructors at the institutions
have ncrn materially ad ieI to since
last ycar aud one u the most au-picious
years IN the history Of the school is
anticipated.
II IL suii that the automobile is the
ruinatlon OF more men than any on
thng that ever happened. Homes ar.
murtgagcd, farms are morrgagcd to "a
automobiles, and theu everything a.
sight B mOrigugcd to Keep them goini
II certainly IL IL fast age TIM We are lir.
ng III.
HE meeting Of the Jockey Club WIS
not well attended ) tucday night aud
m adjournment wRs taken to Wednes-
lay night at 5 O'Clock. All Interested
IN the races should rcmcmbcr the date
tud tie on hand.
y Cripple Crook lease nn STATIONS
Independence swept dust from the
walls OF "A w0rEcd-out 5tOpc which ran
At the rat" Of Si2 .OOJ to the ton. Seven
hundred pounds Of this stuff brough,
him $1,000. This rivals the cid days
Shon -EOld dust WIS real money.
y petition asking the commissioners
to grant the right Of way over and across
Silver 81 rect TO The Western Pacific rail-
road company was circulated today by
Attorney Henderson,. 1t received the
signatures 81 nearly every ons 10 whom
Il wRs presented. This il ~ it should
be.
Several gs5cssDrs III various parts Of
he state have finished their ns cssinGn
rolls Tor the year and IN every case there
ngS bUcn IA decided advance III values
and asscGamcuts. 1t simply shows that
the prosperity is not confined to a few
places alone but IS general throughout
the st i:c.
Mrs. Brain lett last evening Tor Dodge
City, Kansas, where she will visit her
.,.s.y Hon, st.,. lg. ,.tII al, ., N,I-
rrly Missouri, aud visit her relatives
and ]frirn,'s at her old home. She *.
pccis 90 spend The winter visiting re.
Intiycs IN Oklahoma, and will return to
Elko in the spring.
Fred ". Fairbanks, editor end propri.
ctor, II the Lyon County Times for the
last 20 years, has sold tho paper Ia tho
Ycrngtou Herald Printing and Pub
fishing CJmpnny, Of which Leslie w.
SMALL il the manager. Mr.. Fairbanks
will visit his old home III the East, after
which he will return to Nevada. lie
has a host Of friends IN Nevada who
wi-h him success.
The "Burnx- Smith railroad has at
last reached the Lila &. mInc III Death
valley and the famous 2O-nulc teams
will exist no more, forever. While the
old fnmilinr Trademark will Pr00hhly
continue "a greet the eye on the refined
product, it will be but a reminder OF a
romantic past, Tor the hOrax now. comes
ont al tho desert OH the ordinary Hat
car al commerce, about which there
clings little of the inspect OF r~onnncc.-
LnR Vogue NHc.
Last taIl Henry Evans, an aged col
orcd hermit, residing ~ Prncnu', "hs
found in his hut dead, apparently hny-
,ug starved to death. Recent investiga
ton, ct hia affairs hHa disclosed that
the age man hnd property valued nj
something like sl,cGO. \ lot OF TIMBER
land IN the district owoncd 10y the man
eold laai week. at public sal0 Tor sl,OUO'
After tic expenses Of tho mans funeral,
cic., are paid the remainder nf the sum
will bc turned over to the state, ~ ho
had no known hcirP.
MIR. aud Mrs. Bouhcr extend their
hearty thanks to Sig. l.. Aulclti nud
Prof. Sohwirt, both OF the Elk orchoslf",
Tor the delightful ectc"adc given them
nt 1880 Sunday morning. They were
Iaonod nslccp whom etnina OF The sweet
cs, ronsic from II mandolin aud @ithor
nwoko them. Music never sounded
ewoetcr than the s,taina from those ~
~otrumcots did Nt thnt quiet hour ~
uolly the music died away, but tho IN
rrceeion il mado on those who listened
wiII mover 10 forgotten, u wHs nj
AVON, in their lives and they tnkc this
m.ona OF showing their appreciation Tor
tho compliment paid ihom'
Chief Eogiuccr liogu" and Engineers
", II. Kennedy and G. llnrIowo arrived
Saturday and yesterday morning BoH"'
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