Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-07-17
~Salmagundi
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

Fifty thousand barrels of oil are 10Y
stored in the tank yards of the South
ern Pacific Company in Sparks. 1t has
never before been filed to its capacity.
Don't forget the entertainment ut the
opera house tonight. Remember that
the picture show will take place between
acts. Buy II ticket and help the ladies.
Railroad transportOtiJn in this coun-
try is now 10 yearSold. There were only
81 miles of road in operation i'm 1882 and
since then 22S, 1913 miles of track have
been constructed.
Some one should see that the fire plugs
are kept i'll good order during the hot
weather. If fire should break out and
the fire plugs lie out of order, there
might he Il heavy loss of property. They
should be tested once Il week.
Mrs. Alice NJ. Winters, wife of a son
of the late Theodore Winters. is on trial
mt Reno for ihe murder of James A.
Baty. She and Baty were riding to-
gether when she claims that Baty
caught her by the throat and threat.
ened to kill her, and she drew her re.
volver and shot him. Her plea is self
defense.
One of the checklist pieces of knavery
witnessed in Ely for some time resulted
in the arrest the other day of j. B.
OBrien. O'Brien stole several opium
layouts from the court room and later
sold them to the Cinnamon from whom
they had been originally taken. For
this offense he now ~languishes in Jail
under u sentence Of GO days, imposed
upon him by Judge Cartwright.
H.. H. Holly. the young man SEN
fenced from Washoe county for ernbez-
cling money from the express company,
was paroled by the board of pardons on
condition that he deposit $2j at the first
of each and every month during the
period of his parole for the support of
his aged and crippled mother. The
application Of Paul Lovelace for q
pardon was continued to the January
term.
Senator Easton of Austin has returned
from the Chicago convention chuck full
of Taft enthusiasm or a peculiar brand
of spirits for, according to the Carson
News, he did not see Il single democrat
OF his way home. If the writer did not
know Senator Elston so well, he would
wonder what brand of liquor he drank
in 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
made to State Superint endent Ring,
there are 1893 less children of school age
in Nevada this year than last. Mr..
Ring explains this by stating that in
reality there is no loss hut instead there
Is II gain, as the last census enumera-
ton was stuffed in certain districts. As
Elko county has 32 less children of
school age this year thar last, was tho
census in this county stuffed last year
or was it poorly taken this year? If the
school census was stuffed in this county,
i'm what district or districts was the
stuffing done.
a London specialist has given his
views on smoking. This authority tie
clarcs that the cigarette. IL the smoke is
not inhaled, is the least harmful way of
smoking, hut If the smoke is inhaled it
is the most rabid form of heart poison.
ing you can got. II will affect II young
mans heart quicker than cigar or pipe
smoking affects II man between fifty
five and sixty.fivc. ut which age q man
is affected more than at any other.
And the better tho cigar the more like.
ly 1t is that harm will be done. There.
fore smoke cabbage; the Havana cigars
are worse than any others.
The publicity plank of the Denver
platform charges that i'm the closing
hours of the last presidential campaign
u single individual ut the personal re.
quest of the republican candidate for
the presidency raised over Il quarter of
million dollars In Il single state for the
campaign fund. When Judge Parker
made this charge near tho close Of tho
campaign, President Roosevelt called
him an atrociOus liar. The truth of
Partcr's charges has since been proven
by the insurance investigation and
Roosevclt.s "My Dear Hartman" letter.
Still the president has not had the do.
ccncy nor manhood to apologize to
Judge Parker. It Is now In order for
Roosevelt to show his teeth and call the
delegates to the Denver convention as
many different kinds Of liars as there
were delegates.