Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-22
Salmagund
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.

AT ScStcI'iaS primaries Three tickets
were i'll the field. The fight was be-
tween the Bryan and the anti Bryan
forces.
The truck team of the high school
will leave for Reno tonight to take part
i'll the annual athletic field meet on
Saturday. We hope the boys will bring
home the bacon.
The Great American Circus will he in
Elko next Tuesday. This circus has but
one ring and'is said to he tirst-class in
every respect. See the add elsewhere
for further particulars.
At Fairbanks, Alaska. 10000 men to
work for - per day are wanted. The
great trouble is that Fairbanks is II long
ways off. and u great part of the route
must be. travcrsei by the pedestrian
method. . .....
The indications are good for IL very
lively school election next Monday.
Following ARE the candidates: Long
term. j. l.. 'keyser, John 4. Mcbride.
Short terih. Charles f. Hickey. H. s..
Tabcr. LII. Bradley, +. S. Gedney.
Pint in ii ballot for your choice.
q a bottle Of whisky was recently sold
for $50 ut Ohakune, New Zealand,
which is forty miles from the nearest
saloon. 49, One,man b,u5'lt two large
"nips'' for 81 each. ANA II, remaining
contents of the bottle were put up for
auction and knocked down for $40.
X. Miller has Orderal 10000 straw.
stead near .Fernly. H.. has had ex-
perience in this business in Texas and
will undoubtedly MAKE u success of it
rs that locality is especially adapted to
the growing of Strawberries. Fernley
is in the Truckec-Carson project and il
located i'll Lyon county.-Carson News.
Elko democrats cast ~ votes ut the
primaries yesterday, and all of them
We're for Thomas Hunter. w. c. Owens,
j. +. Holland and George Mcintosh.
Carlin cast ~ votes all of which were
for ~. II. .Bcrnimg. Lamoille, Carlin
and Elko are i'll this district and
Lamoille is yet to hear from. The four
delegates voted for in'Elko are undoubt-
cdly elected.
Tuesdays Appeal says that reports re-
ceivcd in Carson say that Governor
Sparks is sinking rapidly and no hope
Is held ont for his recovery. He has
lost the use of all his limbs and the
his strength fast. An improvement is
noticed frequently, but this is always
followed by II sinking spell which leaves
him pcrccptihly weaker.
Arrangements have been made with
the Winncmucca base ball team to play
the Elko team, here on Decoration day
and the Sunday following. These
games will bc very interesting ms both
teams will do their best to- take each
others ScalpS. The games already
played show the teams to he pretty
evenly matched, This will make both
games decidedly interesting.
w. r.. Davis, secretary to Governor
Sparks and well known throughout the
state, is critically i'll ut his home in
Carson, suffering from hcmorrhagcs of
the stomach. Mr.. Davis became i'll
last Friday and on Sunday it was feared
that he would not recovcr. Last oven
ing he improved and unless IA relapse
occurs it is thought he will be out again
within IL few days.-Enterprisc.
The democrats of Carson held a caucus
Tuesday night and selected six delegates
to vote for an uninstructcd delegation to
the Denver convention. 1t begins to
look us if Nevada'S delegation would 20
to Denver u~ninstructed. The indica-
tions are that ElkO cOunty's delegation
to the state convention will Inc divided
On the question of %instructing the dele
CATION tuthc national convention to vote
for Bryan. ~
ii. ID. Cochran, aged 81 years. commit
ted suicide mt Rawhidc. Monday by
shooting himself through the head with
II pistol. Pointing the pistol toward
the center Of his head. just above the
right ear. he pulled the trigger once
without the cartridge exploding. He
then pulled the trigger again and the
bullet passed clear through his head.
Cochran had been ON Il spree and had
spent all his iRoncy. lie was Il mining
man of notc!.''' "
~ p H.fth..H u,I
DIR. Mack returned last evening from
South Fork, where he has been study
iug the disease among. the horses. and
left last night for Reno. He will return
Monday morning to. continue the study
of the disease, - DIR. Mack has cstab.
lishcd u small laboratory ut South Fork
and is pursuing the study of the disease
In II scientific manner. lie reports pro-
grcsS and hopes to br able in u few
months to give ont soinc definite infor.
nation regarding the disease.
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