Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-05-28
SALMAGUNDI

Reno this morning.
Mr.. Cochran will start delivery
wagon Saturday and his bakery goods
will be delivered to all parts of towns
w. T. Smith, Allen Fisher and At
torney Henderson returned this morn
ing from attending the funeral of Gov
ernor Sparks.
Decoration Day flowers will be on sale
at Mizpah Hall, Friday evening imme-
diately upon the arrival of No. 6, and
also on the morning of Decoration Day.
Mrs, Anderson, Miss Nellie and George
returned this morning from Berkely,
California, where they spent the winter.
Miss Nellie put in her time. at the uni
versity.
Mrs. Lothrop and Miss Hamil will
give an entertainment tomorrow after
noon at 2 o'clock at Mizpah Hall and
cordially invite all of their friends to be
present,
The La Majestic cigar at the Club and
Elk saloons is manufactured expressly
for Mr.. Gutridge. 1t is the cigar for
Knockers. Call for the La Majestic and
have good smoke.
One of the earliest finds of gold in the
United States was referred to by
Thomas Jefferson in his diary. 1t was
u lump of pure gold found on the
Rappahannock river, Virginia.
Mr.. Shirley has qualified himself for
membership in the horrible club. He
did it by losing the mustache that has
adorned his upper lip for the last forty
years or more. His best friends hardly
recognize him.
The manufacture of "near beer" is
profitable industry in the prohibition
state of Georgia. 1t contains less than
one per cent of alcohol and is said to be
temperance drink as no one can hold
enough to make him drunk.
The members of Elko Lodge No. Is,
Knights of Pythias, and all sojourning
and visiting Knights are requested to
meet at their hall at 10 o'clock Saturday
forenoon, For further particulars, see
NnoN in this issue.
Stanley Peek, the Reno man who
killed Angelo Satero for an alleged
assault upon his wife, has been held to
appeBr before the Washoe county grand
jury on the charge of murder. Judge
Bell fixed his bail at $4,000. Peek was
committed to the custody of the sheriff.
Governor Dickerson has appointed
James D. Finch, reporter of the supreme
court, his private secretary. Finch is
an old newspaper man and his many
friends say he will make a good private
secretary for the governor. He took
the oath Of Office yesterday and entered
upon his duties.
Owing to the continued cold weather,
the Majestic Theatre Company moved
to the opera house last night and pre-
Sented "Thelma" to fair sized audi
N"NN' AhO pidJ was FOlJ SOOu. 4O-
night the company will present ga
Daughter of Virginia, for the first time
IL Elko. The curtain will rise at $780,
The state veterinary was called to
ioldfeld last week to investigate the
ause Of the sickness among the horses
that place. Animals are afflicted
18th partial paralysis of the limbs COM
ined with dizziness. He found that
me horses had been living on straight
Malta hay diet and recommended that
heir fodder be mixed with other food,
alfalfa contains too much alkaline
natter.
A Palisade dispatch of the Goth says
nat mining man named Tom Adams,
veil known in this section Of the state,
ttempted to shuttle off this mortal coil
stabbing himself with an old dagger.
riends interfered and prevented him
rom succeeding but not in time to pre-.