Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-29

OHutT inc new time toDle tnut went
into effect Sunday Oh the Southern Pa
citic. No. q. %eastbound. carries the mail
instead of No. 10, as heretofore.
Receiver Wildes has not yet filed
his bond. 1t is likely that the bond will
DO given by surety companies. Owing
to the large amount $1,000, 900. several
companies will supply the bond.
Mr.. j. ii. Cazier of Starr wiley is in
town. He reports everything very
backward in that section, but with
warm weather he thinks the prospects
for grass and grain will be very good.
The c%oroner's juryt hat investigated
the killing of James Taylor, the des.
perado, by Sheriff Lamb, found that the
officer vas acting i'll the discharge of his
duties. and exoncrated him from blame.
Holland has Il perennial necessity for
wooden piles. In Rotterdam harbor
works of all kinds demand them and
the drainage of the Zuydcr Zee us it
steadily proceeds thows out its wooden
ramparts in all directions.
John G.. Taylor has presented Sheriff
Lamb of Humboldt county and State
Policeman Strickland with checks of
$500 each for the capture of James
Taylor. the desperate, who short james
Edison, Mr.. Taylor's partner, a week or
ESQ ago. . - >! 49, "
Five of Elko's young men logged
themselves out III wonen's clothes last
night and were escorted to the Majestic
theatcr by five of their associates. The
management got n them and the
comedian called the names of the bunch
and guyed them.
While the present session of congress
has been called the do nothing ses-
sion. il has managed to get away with
more than II billion dollars. 1t is the
most e~xtravagInt congress i'll the histo-
ry of the government. 1t is hardly ne
cessary to say ii is II republican con
greSS.
If spending $40, G1O0, 900 to provide II
more dignificd approach to the capitol
at Washington would insure the oun
try against humiliation Ivy what is done
inside the building. those who must
! sweat to pay the millions might lie
more willing 10 part with the perspira-
tion.-St. Louis Republic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin left for Mountain
City, their home. this morning. This is
Mrs. Ervin's first trip to the west and
she is very much pleased with the coun-
try. The took the first stage ride of her
life this morning. Back i'll Kalamazoo,
Michigan, where she came from, old
fashioned stage coaches are only mem
cries.
\ woman in Detroit wants Il divorce
from her husband on the ground that
he prays SO much that he has no time
left III which to work for the support of
his family. This plea of being too
good" will make men sigh again with
resigned despair ut ever being able to
solve the puzzle of the feminine go
There's no pleasing EN-"
According to the Reno Gazette. Gov
crnor Dickerson will appoint Il news
paper man rs his private secretary.
The governor also stated that he would
make no removals from Office 50 long aS
the present officials performed their du-
ties i'll II satisfactory manner The
INDEPENDENT hopes that Governor
Dickcrson will insist upon faithful SER
vice from the appointed officials and
that he will not hesitate tn use the TX
whenever il is for the best interests of
the people.
This is Walt MuSon's opinion of Uncle
Joe Cannon: He is the press and the
people. the sultan who rules the Turks:
he is the bell i'll the stccplc and he is
the whole blamed works. He is the hill
and the valley, the dawning, the dusk,
the noon he is the large white alley, he
is the man in the moon. He is the sooth-
ing Slumbcr, he is the soul awake; he is
the big cucumber that gives us the belly.
ache. He is the fire that quickcns, the
company that insurcs; he is the i'll that
sickcnS, and he is the i'll that cures. He
if the ruling Russian, and we are the
grovcling skates; he is the constitution,
and he's the United States.
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