Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-08-14
Salmagundi
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY

Attorney Henderson left for Sar
Francisco last night.
An entire change of program at tn,
Crescent theatre tonight.
Miss Leah Campbell left for Lovclocl
this afternoon to visit friends.
R~icpetown, near Ely, was almost
totally destroyed by fire Monday night
The loss is estimated mt $2j, 900.
\ foreign exchange says that only
three great problems are veXing hu
manity today: The Immortality of tn,
soul, perpetual motion and women's
hats.
+. ii. Hartman is to build II $1,000
600 mansion in New York. 1t is under,
stood that in architectural appearance
it will resemble Il roundhouSc.-Mil-
waukec Sentinel.
Judge Talbot will ask the Tonopah
convention To rcnominate him for
supreme judge. Elko county should be
solid for him. lie has made an excel.
ent judge and should dc given another
term.
j. f. Douglas. an attorney and hotel
keeper of Goldficld, has announced him
self rs Il candidate for congress OH the
republican ticket. He is said to be Il
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 III Falling Creek. At
that time Virginia was of course only
colony. 1t is supposed that the
in Pima county, Arizona about 1850.
Governor Dickerson has appointed
Warden Day II delegate from Nevada
To the American Prison Association to
he held M Richmond, Virginia, in
November, and Senator Newlands II
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 33
were responded to by the attorneys in
the cases. In the end over half that
number were passed leaving u bare
fifteen for consideration. In vciw Of
the rcputcd congestion of the calendar
the business transacted was very light.
-Goldficld Chronicle.
Monday night Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Nc
Dcrmott, who live on Tcn-Inilc disCov-
cred that their year old child had frac.
turcd one of its hips. They brought
the child to Elko that night and ycstcr-
day Drs. Hood and West attended to
the injury. The parents do not know
how or when the fracture occurred.
Tho child is doing nicely today and
everything indicates it's speedy recovery.
There were doingS in Lincoln, Ne
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the United States, William Jennings
Bryan, was officially notified Of his
nomination by the Denver convention.
As the affair was to h0 on partisan us
fur as IL could bc. there was probably
less enthusiasm shown than at the
notification of Taft. which wasa strictly
partisan affair. In Bryun's case. tho
citizens of his home city will do him
honor without regard to their politics.
In the northern part Of Madagascar
Is tho most remarkable natural fort.
ross in the world. 1t is occupied by
n wild tribe who call themselves the
People Of the Rocks. Tho fortress is
la lofty and prccipitous rock of cnor'
nous size, 1000. feet high and eight
sluarc miles in area. Its sides arc 80
stccp that IL cannot bo climbed with.
out artificial means. Within IL Is hol.
low. and the only entrance Is 10y a
su]btarrancan passage. Exchange.
The commissioners ut their mex meet
ing will probably consider the change
of railroad crossings ! town rs proposed
lby tho railroad company. This is n
matter Of Importance to every citizen
of the town and one that should re-
ccivc consideration. The commits
! %sioncrs are DESTROYS of doing the very