Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-01-11
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Salmaaundi.

%Salmalundi.
Mr.. e. E. Lutts, departed last nigh
for his home in Ruby valley.
Mrs. Booher Is now able To sit up. l
no complications arise, che will leave tn,
hoapital Tuesday. %
Zen Nelson, Q Suee Of many good min
ing properties ut Mountain City, u
pending a few days Id town..
Tie hraviesi suow storm Of the seuVor
q A,.' IN last night aud continued during
the day. Several inches VI snow Ina W
I,II, AMI there seours Il. be a good deaI
more IN sight,
Nv rsn by na' a fight. mother
'ays, 'Orl yon yet huri?' Father Eays,
did you -poil your ciothes?' Brother
s,,a.'Ci y"u lick him?' "a , heer-
Iul fear Book"
In III" yrur 1916 there we're I'LL
b'rtl the city IT New York, AN in
circus. al 8,r0O over the previoua year.
There were aleu- 3s.355 marriages. AN IN.
ere se Of 300. Tho birth record is the
great est ever reported.
Mr.. Bouher will leave for Reno tomor.
row la attend a melting Of the regents
on Monday. Thus will be the last meet
ing Of the present board. The new
hoard win also meet Monday and
organize
II icb Hariesty came in from South
FORK yesterday. He had nothing OF IN
iriesr to relate nf things in that section.
but declared himself in favor Of building
u courthouse. He thinks ono
thoulI he built this year.
Eugene Koch, the crazy passenRer
rlIo wa brought from Montello Thur
sdHy night, 10 still in jnil. He is impro.
wing and the prospects, are that be will
be able to resume his Journey in a day
or two, 1t ia o case OF too much booze,
j. g. llarris has been appointed
deputy sheriff to succeed w. NJ. Wealth.
era VINO viii hold down the assessors
ofire fnr he mex, Two ytars. 200 has
all tie no :essary qualifications to I'LL the
p'si.io ~ deputy sheriff to tue satis.
facti0p " his principal and the people
generally. Tho IspEREsPEsT oopgratu=
lRtes Jos and VII hes him success,
Wort was received here today Of the
detth oi Joe Williams at Los Angeles
last night or early this morning. While
the emu a of hIs .ieath is not definitely
known here. it liz thought that he died
Tfng. %paneHmptinp Rs no has been suf-
ferIuR from that disease for q year or
two. Mr.. Williams vas a genial. pleas
ant man and his many friends hero are
saddened by the news OF his death.
Peace TO his astrs.
\ writer tells Of a curious stone that
is to no found in Finland. II ia o
natural barometer md actually foro
tells probable changes in the weather.
II ia call al a %senakuir, md its pecul-
iarit, is that il turns black beior ap.
preaching rain, while in fine weather il
is mottled with spots OF white. l~nvesti-
cation has shown the stone 10 DO a sort
Rf fossil, piEed with clay, ROCK salt and
Ritar. When the air is moist, uhe ealt
turns black; when the air Ii dry, the salt
shows in white epOts On the surface OF
the stone.
On Monday the newly elected county
officers will qu hiiy and take their re-.
spective offices W. NJ. weathen will
rneceed Assoasor Eggcp, i. +. Cainp
will succeed District Attorney Williams.
Peter Miller will relieve Hayden Hen
Ierson OF the duties 81 public admins.
traitor and Arthur Primcaux will tako
Commissioner SEyder's job. Tho other
county officers will hold their offices for
Rpather term.
Two hundred head OF beef cattle
which are being fed at tho Millich
ranch in tho upper end OF the Valley,
etampedcd one night last week and In
their wild flight run through elk barbed
Ylre iGnces, brrnking tue wires and In
saSural instances tore tho posts from the
ground. After making their get-a.away
the cattle scattered. through the valley
ard II took several days to ronnd Thorn
up. a number wors badly cut by tho
barbed wIro. II is supposed that a
m0ppiRip liop YAP the cRHes Of thf
stnmpsde -0Rrdnorviile Courcr.Jour.
nal.
According 10 the reports from Tono.
pah there wore many thefts at the Cans.
Herman tight, u number Of the specta.
t"ra losing valuable diamond ping,
w"'chSs' jowels OF various kinda and
pHFtc4. Several, valuable diamonds
wcrp taken in at tho llsht among tho
list, " 10 thought there waH an, organ.
ICED baud Of thioyes attqndinR tho fight
70 work among tho spectators.
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