Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-01-04

LILO toEoo VIII neeu lhe uay 10 Ret SnelI
good resolutions in working order.
g. r. Koonce, alias Tex" and a man
named Davis have been arrested at
Lovelock for steal ing the express box at
Reno several days ago. The Reno Of
hcers are positive that the guilty men
have been captured.
Edward Spencer, who escaped from
the penitentiary last Wednesday even.
ing, was captured in Carson Friday
night by Warden Constitute. Spencer
made no resistance and was taken at
once to the prison to serve on his sen.
teace.
The last day Of 1906 is very much like
the last day Of 1905. The last day OF 1908
was cold and stormy. The thermometer
registered 20 degrees below zero. and
the ground was covered with snow.
Today is stormy and raw and there is
considerable Rlush IN the Streets.
1t ia reported that over one hundred
people were killed this morning in a
$500" pubopukCt kNaaho III
Washington, Do. The wreck is said
TO have been caused by an operator
letting one Of the trains in the block
signal thus causing "a rear-end collision.
To grnde for Il railroad by means Of
water is eomethmR new IN railroad
engineering III this poruou OF the coun.
try, but n contractor on the Western
Pacific liue near Quincy. has started to
grade a line Of roadbed with a lnrge
hydraulic pump, and 1t is stated that he
is meeting with much success. the pump
dong the work Of several men,
Speaking OF the coal famine, gays the
Boise, Idaho, News, it is likely thni Ms
soon ms the coal mines which are owned
ny the railroad companies, get rid OF all
their slack coal he shortage will end.
10 the same connection. il is a bit
strange that the railroads have cars to
haul this elacK but one to haul good
coal.
After n most narrowing experience,
which included q night upon the bleak
Nevada desert, with no Too ! and hardly
cloihinR enough to cover her, Mrs. Mary
Harding is confined II n orn Ut the ST.
Francis Hotel in this city suffer M from
a mental ALTERATION which takes the
form Of a religious haniH. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harding are residents Of a little mining
camp known Ms Ellen, in the Belle Helen
district, about fifty Diles irom Fonopsh.
-DDuansa,
The bureau OF plant industry for the
United States Inns discovered TINT
ground granite rock ia a splendid ferti-
lizer, costing the merest fraction OF the
SUN usually expended per acre on COM
Ttare 10 eaid to te a be a big graft in
the books used in the gchnnis Of this
state. The coming Legislature iDvesti,
gate the matter and put II stoptO the
graft.
Tho Tonopah Bonanza says that indi.
cations pint TO a fake fight tomorrow
between Cans md neFman. I says
TINT the management mas been handi.
ing things IN such Il way that the
opinion In growing TINT the tight will DO
ineut citizens who have heretofore
taken great interest in tle fight, have
olIimsd That on the face OF things. they
would not now attend the fight at all.
George W. Perkins and Cbarles F..
FairchIids, secretary Of the treasury
under Cleveland, have been indicted by
ths New York grand jury OF the charge
OF forgery In connection with the footing
Of the New YORK Life Insurance com.
papy. Ia 1896, the 80 worlhies posed as
defenders NJ national honor" At the
same time, they we're stealing the funds
Of the insurance company ind giy'nR
the NANCY TO iAe republican national
committee to buy the presidency Tor
Mckinley.
mercial fertilizer. AZ usunl, the ex.
perimentcrs were prompted by their OBJ.
servations nf mature. II w9F noticed
that soma Of tho rinhest wiley farms
were fed from erosions from the rocky
hills. The weather worn PARTICLES from
the great cliffs we're wished INTO the
vnlleys. Tie experiment Of ground rock
was ppre"d upon THO soil. Tho cost Of
quarrylng aud grinding the granite 10
only a ,riae after the machinery is act
up. Nm doubt lime atone lodges would
be found equally rich, M southern aud
western farmers have obser we'd TINT tho
crumbling lime stone lodges leave II
patch Of rich black soil.
a town thRi npvpr has anything To- do
a public way, In on ihe way to tho
Geometry. hnyicitizen who viii do moth.
inR for the town IL. helping IN dig the
grave. a man Tint curses the town fur.
nishee tlle @aip. The man who Ia eascli.
ish US to have no time from his business
To give to city affairs il making the
shrouh. Tho man who will not ndvct-
tiac in driv na the hcnTae. The mnu
who 10 always pYN."R bnck iF0m any
public enterprise tl'rows unqu"ts OIL tho
grave. Tho man who 10 90 atinpy M to