Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-05-17
tKoA MONDAYS DAILY
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Ven all be happy when our street,
arc torn up no more.
We learn tina. Mr.. Joseph Lindsay i
at The Hot Spring, very much under
Tho weather,
Roy Rsinksn returned from oedeu
last night to me his work as sssist-
ant freight agent.
A party of Western Pacific surysyer
1917 thn morning 70 make some changes
IN the line west OF mwu,
MI. hauk received u letter thu morn.
ing notifying him Of the serious illness
Of his daughter at Fort Steele, Wyou.
ing. He may be summoned to her bed.
eide by telegraph. and il 90 he will 90
on the first train.
An editor ID . man who i liable 70
grammatical blunters, t~oothache, typo-
graphical errors and lapses OF memory.
and usually he has half u million people
watching 70 catch him tripping. And
yet the world 10 full Of people who want
70 be editors! London Answers.
Governor Chamberlain las declared
q quarantine against the sheeppS of Wash
mRton, Nevada and California, based
upon the sworn statements of sheep
inspectors that the sheep Of those states
are infected with scab, and fixes a pen
atty OF from $3.50 to $1,000 for violating
the quarantine.
II seems TO 1e cheaper TO kill a man
In Mexico than merely ipiure one. An
American recently touring that country
ran over and killed a Mexican with his
motor oar and was fined $40. The ext
day his chauffeur blackened d natives
eye with his fist and was sec. - Jail for
six months.
Eman uel.. Carothers, a sheep shearer,
died at the Boiling hospital yesterday
afternoon. He was taken with pneu-
monia about a week ago while in Elko
on his way from Mr.. Bradley's ranch TO
Shelton. dis homo was in Porteryile,
California, where no leaves d wife and
several small children. The RENAME will
leave Tor his former home ON No. 3. He
was fifty years OF age.
Attorney-Ge General Stoddard has decid-
ed that it ia the duty Of the capitol CON-
m%isainers 10 provide I'M Office for the
publicity commission Of which Sam
Davis is chairman. II Sam gets the Of
flee and succeeds i'll drawing down the
salary, hs will be the happieet nan in
the state. When he gets the kinks in
Tho law Strengthened ont, he will begin to
advertise Nevada as she Waa never ad.
Vertised before.
The oldest newspaper in the world is
q named the WochenblAtt, which 10
published In GruningeD a email town
Of come 100 Inhabitants in the canton
Of Zurich. in Switzerland. 1t is the
only newspaper in the place and is at
one and the ssme time the organ OF the
Liberal Conservatives aud the Social
Democratic. Pages ! aud Q belong 10
the Liberals and pages 3 and 4 to the
Socialists, and tho two parties abuse
one another heartily in it's pages,
An unknown man, supposed to be a
lsboror employed at the Derby dam,
committed suicide Friday afternoon by
Jumping of the Derby bridge. While
the Wadsworth local was waiting at the
bridge 10 connect with No. 3, two men
we're seen walking leisurely along the
track toward the Gilpin tanks. Present.
ly they separated and a moment later
the passengers and crew Of the local
were hornfied 10 see one OF them throw
away the bundle that he carried and
leap from tho bridge into the rushing
waters Of the river. Nothing moro was
seen Of him and no Ii supposed to have
drowned.