Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-08-29
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ay for all or portion of their expenses
lring the time they are attending
Ugh school. Notify principal of high
,hool by mail or phone.
James Pitt, formerly wealthy cattle
nan of Utah, who worked as miner in
he southern mining camps, committed
uicide Thursday at Columbia by shoot
ng himself in the mouth with an auto
natic revolver. He was a brother of
Cheif of Police Pitt of Salt Lake.
The republicans in their Goldfield
platform condole with the citizens of
Nevada because of the bank panic
They seem to overlook the fact that
eight out of the nine directors of the
State Bank and Trust Company which
started the bank panic in Nevada are
straight republicans.-Carson Appeal.
Assemblyman Winter came in from
Bruneau country last night and he and
Mr. Caine left on No. to attend the
Tonopah convention. Both of them
stand for law and order and the re-
nomination of Congressman Bartlett.
Mr. Caine carried several proxies of
the delegates who were unable to attend
convention.
"A A Salt Lake dispatch says that
surveying parties have been placed in
the field to run o line for railroad
between Twin Falls, Idaho, and Wells,
Nevada. The proposed line will be
about 80 miles long and will be built
for the purpose OF giving the country
around Twin Falls an outlet to Nevada
and California.
The Tonopah democrats have made
great preparations for the entertain
ment of the delegates to the state con-
vention. 1t is quite likely that some of
the visitors will wish they had never
seen TOnopah befor the the convention
is over. This merely refers to those
who went there as candidates and fail
ed to land the prize.
The first paper in Nevada ever pub
lished exclusively in the interests of
one race has made it's appearance I'M
Goldfield. The paper is the Goldfield
Commercial Review and is published
in thRninterest of the colored citizens
of t State of Nevada, and devoted
kentiiEly to their interests socially and
otherwise, or as the editor tersely puts
it, social, Industrial and commercial. s"
The editor is NJ. w c. Mcfarland.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Franklin K. Lane will be in Reno
about the 1st of October to preside
ut hearing similar to that of year
and half ago at Spokane, when the
merchants of Western Washington
State presented their claims for the
establishment of an intermediate
common point" within that territory
to be the basis for the fixing of rail
road rates.
The blood of the rhinoceros is very
highly esteemed by Burmese and Chi
nesses as medicine for all kinds of all
''AShOo' w al DdI vi
are successful in shooting rhinoceros-
they are less numerous than they used
to be-the native ceaters carefully draw
off the blood and bring it to Rangoon
Stored in hollow bamboos The precious
liquid is worth it's weight in silver
London Standard.
Three hundred Greeks were hired
Saturday to complete the Schurz- Raw,
hide railroad, and the force will be in
creased as fast as material can be
procured to finish the line. The grad
ing for the road has been completed and
the rails laid for several miles. Officials
of the line say they will have trains
running by October 1. The reason
for employing Greeks is because the
white men prefer to work in the mines
Appeal.
1t is closely estimated that one million
four hundred thousand head of sheep