Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-06-26
Salmagundi
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY

afternoon.
Ii you want to buy u New Home sew
ing machine or q new Iroquois bicycle,
call on or address this Office.
A postal card from Mr.. Harrah, dated
Portland, June Goth, states that he and
his family are on tho way home.
! Harry Bruce left on No. 3 yesterday
for the Round Mountain country, where
he Is interested in several mining claims.
In addition to the regular Tuesday
change at the moving picture show to.
night, there will he n short vaudeville
sketch.
A complaint has been filed with Judge
Bruce, charging jaime Hahn. alias Jim
Britt, with an assault with intent to kill
Candigo Narsizo. His examination will
take place as oon Us the wstnesses from
Gold Greek can be brought here.
Judge Bruce last night performed the
ceremony that united J. S. Holcomb
and Mrs. Kalulu Commons in the bonds
of matrimony. The INDEPENDENT OK
tends congratulations to Mr.. and Mrs.
Holcomb and wishes them II long and
happy married life.
The English and American mile is
1850 yards, or $3.50 feet. In France,
Holland and Belgium it is 1000 meters,
or 1904 yards; in Russia. 1867 yards, in
China, 900 yards; in Germany, it equals
three English miles; in Italy, 2O35 yards
in Portugal, 1850 yards; in Austria,
1907 yards, and in Denmark, S23S
yards.
c. b. Henderson, John Henderson.
Mrs. c. B. Henderson, Miss Sadie Hen
derson and District Attorney Caine left
for an automobile ride toward North
Fork this afternoon. They will over.
take Sheriff Clark, who left for Gold
Creek this forenoon and all hut Mr..
Caine will return to town.
Mrs. Julia Chester Whitaker. wife of
Bishop o. w. Whitaker, died mt her
home in Philadelphia last Friday.
Bishop Whitaker and wife were resi-,
dents of Virginia City from 1865 to 1880.
They were universally respected by all
who knew them. Mrs. Whituker's
death will bring tears t. the eyes of
many old C~omstockcrs.
Web Dickson, the hoStlcr ut Mr..
T~hompson's livery stable, was arrested
last night on the charge of stealing a
bed and other articles from the stable.
He was taken before Judge Bruce this
morning and plead guilty to petty
larceny. He was fined 1920 with the
privilege of serving mt out at Fl per day.
He went to Jail.
1t is reported that the German gov
eminent will resume the coinage of sill.
yer on a scale that will call for r., 0OO.-
900 unces of silver annually for the
next five years. This will absorb 10 per
cent of the total amount of silver that
corncs upon the open market and is ex.
pected to have n marked effect upon
quotations, since Germany has not been
a buyer since 1859.
The greatest amount of bullion taken
from the COmstOck lode during a
single year was in 1877. when il reached
$39, 301 ,536. The total production of
the lode up to 1900 was. ~ nearly as
can he a"scertained officially, $387, O1S,.
93S, though it is generally said and rs
generally believed. that this amount
was largely exceeded, probably being
over $400, 600. 900. Since 1900 the out.
put has probably been =. OOO. 900.
Lincoln county is in the throes of Il
wal regarding division Of the big conn
ty. The people of Searchlight, Las
Vegas and other points appear to favor
division while those Mt Phoebe, the
county seat, are opposed to the idea.
II is proposed to whack the county in
two and call one.half Lincoln and the
other half, Clark.
Constable Oudcrkirk arrested Tom
Taylor. proprietor of the 10 saloon. last
evening III the charge of carrying con.
ccalcd weapons. He was taken before
Judge Bruce and admitted to bail. AS
the matter IL now In court we will not
prejudice the public for or against the
defendant by publishing the particulars.
We will say, however, that there should
be no favOritism shown in the enforce.
mcnt Of the law.
The Boise Statesman Gays that II re-,
cent estimate by temperance workers
Is tUthe effect that 81 600, 600 people have
banishcd the saloon In tho last year and
that nov IS per cent Of the people OF
the nation are free from the influence OF
the saloon, These figures will be sur
prising to many although It is known
that the prohibition movement IL max
ing remarkable gains everywhere.
Tho shortest time around the world |,
claimed to have been made by Lieutcn
ant Colonel Burnley Campbell, who left
Liverpool on May 9, 1907, and on his re
turn landed ut Dover on Jnnc 10, 1907