Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-08-12
SALMAGUNDI
Henderson left for San

Crescent theatre tonight.
Miss Leah Campbell left for Lovelock
this afternoon to visit friends
Riepetown, near Ely, was almost
totally destroyed by fire Monday night.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
A foreign exchange says that only
three great problems are vexing hui
manity today: The immortality of the
soul, perpetual motion and women's
hats.
E.. H. Hartman is to build $4,000
600 mansion in New York. 1t is under
stood that in architectural appearance
it will resemble roundhouse.
waukee Sentinel
Judge Talbot will ask the Tonopah
convention to renominate him for
supreme judge. Elko county should be
solid for him. He has made an excelfa
emit judge and should be given another
term. +. z (
j. F. Douglas, an attorney and hotel
keeper of Goldfeld, has announced himE
self as candidate for congress on the
Republican ticket. He is said to be a.
man of considerable ability and popular
where known. He and Col. Maxson
will scrap for the nomination.
The first mining and smelling of
lead ores in the United States was in
1921 in Virginia at Falling Creek. At
that time Virginia was of course only
a colony. It is supposed that the
Jesuit priests began mining for lead
in Pima county, Arizona about 1850.
Governor Dickerson has appointed
Warden Day delegate from Nevada
to the American Prison Association to
he held at Richmond, Virginia, in
November, and Senator Newlands a
delegate to the Deep Waterway associa-
ton, which meets at Chicago in
October .'.-.
Judge Langan this morning took up
the law and motion calendar and out
of some 1875 matters called, but 80
were responded to by the attorneys in
the c&AS. In the end over half that
2pmbefSwere passed leaving bare
igfteen for consideration. In veiw of
the reputed congestion of the calendar
the business transacted was very light.
-Goldfield Chronicle. ..,
Monday night Mr.. and Mrs Ed. Nc,
Dermott, who live on Ten-mile discov-
cred that their year old child had frac-
tured one of it's hips. They brought
the child to Elko that night and yester-
day Drs. Hood and West attended to-
the injury. THE parents'do not know
|. how orSwhen tine. fracture occurred.
The child is doing nicely today aid
everything indicates itsspeedy recovery. ;,
There were, ,,doinags in Lincoln, Ne
brasha, today. The next president. of
the United States, William Jennings.
Bryan, was officially. notified of his.
nomination by the Denver convention,
AS the affair was to be nOn-partisan as
far as it could he, there was probably
less enthusiasm shown than at the
notification of Taft, which was strictly
partisan affair, In Bryan's case, the
citizens of his home city will do him
honor without regard to their politics.
In the northern part Of Madagascar
the most remarkable natural fort
ress in the world. 1t is occupied by
II wild tribe who call themselves the
People of the Rocks The fortress is
a lofty and precipitous rock of enor-
nous size, LOCO, feet high and eight
square miles in area. Its sides are so
steep that it cannot be climbed with
out artificial means. Within it is hol-
low, and the only entrance is by a
subterranean passage. Exchange.
The commissioners at their next meet
ing will probably consider the change
Of railroad crossings in town as proposed
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