Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-07-16
SALMAGUNDI

~ on Of @dress this Office.
Mr.. Bryan will be officially notified
his nomination for president at
lincoln, Nebraska. on August 18th.
lr. Kern's notification will occur later.
Fifty thousand barrels of oil are now
tored in the tank yards of the South
IN Pacific Company in Sparks. It has
ever before been filed to its capacity.
Don't forget the entertainment at the
pera house tonight. Remember that
he picture show will take place between
cts. Buy ticket and help the ladies.
Railroad transportation in this coun-
~ is now 78 years old. There were only
miles of road in operation in 1882 and
nee then 22S, 1913 miles of track have
cen constructed
DR.. Birtch, the eye specialists, has re-
urned from the northern part of the
ounty and will remain in Elko another
week. People needing work in his line
hould make note of this.
Some one should see that the fire plugs
ire kept in good order during the hot
weather.. IF fire should break out and
he fire plugs be out of order, there
nixht be heavy loss of property. They
hodld be tested once a week.
Mrs. Alice NJ. Winters, wife of a son
f the late Theodore Winters, is on trial
t Reno for The murder of James A.
Baty. She and Baty were riding to-
Eether when she claims that Baty
aught her by the throat and threat
ned to kill her, and she drew her re.
oliver and shot him. Her plea is self
lefense.
One of the checklist pieces Of knavery
Witnessed in Ely for some time resulted
h the arrest the other day of j. B.
Brien. OBrien stole several opium
;youts from the court room and LITER
old them to the Cinnamon from whom
hey had been originally taken. For
his offense he now languishes in Jail
lnder a sentence of go days, imposed
pom him by Judge Cartwright.
H. H. Holly, the young man SEN
enced from Washoe county for embez-
ling money from the express company,
vas paro]Sa by the board of pardons on
oNitioS at he deposit $50 at the first
\ each and every month during the
Ieriod Of his parole for the support of
lis aged and crippled mother The
pplication of Paul Lovelace for a
pardon was continued to the January
term.
Senator Easton of Austin has returned
from the Chicago convention chuck full
IF Taft enthusiasm or peculiar brand
IF spirits for, according to the Carson
News, he did not see single democrat
~ his way home If the writer did not
know Senator Easton so well, he would
wonder what brand of liquor he drank
IL Chicago and on the way home. 1t
must have been terrible stuff to have
such an effect on "Billy's' brain matter.
According to the school census reports
Pnade to State Superintendent Ring,
here are 1898 less children of school age
II Nevada this year than last. Mr..
Ring explains this by stating that in
feality there is no loss but instead there
Fs gain, as the last census enumera-
ton was stuffed in certain districts. AS
|Elko county has 80 less children of
school age this year than last, was the
ceHsus in this county stuffed last year
Ptwas it poorly taken this Year, If the
school census was stuffed in this county,
In what district or districts was the
Ftuffing done.
a London specialist has given his
views on smoking. This authority de-
FLARES that the cigarette, if the smoke is
|not inhaled, is the least harmful way of
smoking, but if the smoke is inhaled it
|1s the most rabid form Of heart poison
|lng you can get. 1t will affect young
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