Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-08
If they had heard the guns boom in San
francisco tomorrnvr

a Montgomery man listened to "a con,
versation his wife had over the phone.
She told Il neighbor that Il hen had died.
leaving twcnty.four little chickens, and
that now she was the mother of the
little chicks" Later when her husband
referred to her as ''the old hem she was
quite hurt. Aren't women inconsistentr
TX. G. Post.
While Uncle Sam is ahead i'm all
branches of communication he far out
! strips all other nations in the use of the
telephone. Approximately five.Sevenths
of all the telephones in the world, or
about 1000, 600 Out of Il total of Il little
over 1000, 600, are in the United States.
New York City alone has more than all
countries outside of Europe and North
America.
The skeleton of one of the men buried
i'll the Alpha shaft. near Ely. ut the
time of the big ave about five months
ago, was found Sunday and taken tn the
l. iuellNhilN th tLC HtSLl IlItl
dropped from the bones, leaving only
the skeleton. The remains. supposed to
be those of Hercules CONSTANT, were
found in II heap of muck, 80 feet above
the bottom of the shlft.-.. 81. .-.: "
-'' ali. - 90 rig'r, 49,. 20 d
In Il speech ut St. Joseph recently,
Governor Folk of Missouri said: Many
Il wife, many and many Il mother, has
written me that she now has something
to eat and to ear ON Sundays and
Mondays. whereas before the saloons
were closed on Sunday she was in want.
One such letter from II good woma
more than c~ompensates for the curses
of 10000 outlaw liquor dealers"
Walking out into the middle of fine
road at DithO, ahnut IL miles from
Sparks, William Dempsey, a travelling
man pulled Il revolver and shot himself
in the head d ing Instantly. The shoot
ing happened Saturday night. Judge
Pollock. acting coroner, was sent for
and held AN inquest ut Sparks ycster-
day. the verdict bsihS suicide. Demp-
Scy was unmarried. Journal.
James Burke returned yesterday after
noon from Il visit To his relatives in
Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska. He visited
his sister in Dubuque. whom he had not
seen since 1860. She did not know him
AT first. but Jim spon convinced her that
he was all right. On his return. lie
stopped in Nebraska and came very near
being caught in II cyclone. He says he
had IA good time while away and is
glad To bc back in the sagcbrush again.
In India. with its tccming and
prOvcrty stricken myriads. parents
often find ii no easy task To marry off
their daughters. for Il wife has to- he
bought by the sutton. But widows are
cheap. and when a father finds his
daughter getting ON in years he makes
a widow of her by the simple process of
marrying her to II bunch Of flowers.
When the flowers are lead she is
technically a widow and can be offered
AT a bargain price. Chicago News.
Judge Robinson of Carlin was ut the
county seat today, buying powder and
other supplies for working his mines.
The old gentleman is hale and hearty
and, Notwithstanding his SO years, is
full Of energy. He will leave for his
mines near Carlin in II few days and
expects To remain there until fall. He
told the office force this morning that
he had seen Revolutionary soldiers in
New York City shooting at targets for
prizes and rccountcd many Incidents in
the early history of the country.
The tOur greatest mines i'm the world,
producing gold, silver. copper and lead,
were given by Professor +. \. Thomp.
son of Washington State College recent
ly III II lecture at Spokane, Washington,
us the Trcadwclls of Alaska. the Com
stock lode of Nevada, the Calumet and
Hccla Of Michigan and the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan of the Occur d'Alcncs in
the order of the metals above named.
He, however, qualified the statement
regarding the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
by stating that it was Il moOtcd qucs-
ton. but that the mine was the largest
lead producer in the United States, and
had paid 80, OOO, 600 in dividends.
b. w. Carlow of Boston. the vice.
president Of the Elko Realty and
Development Co, is in town arranging
matters preparatory to bringing out
some eastern capitalists who are contcm-
plating investing in Elku realty and i'm
improving the same by the erection of
some badly needed business blocks and
beautiful residences. Mr.. Carlow is
very enthusiastic uvcr the prospects
for Elko's future and says that the
Tuscarora deal of Mr.. Mayhum Is
practically complete and that the time
Of the starting Of the actual work at
TuScarora depends entirely upon the
arranging of the thousand and one
diverse and cxhausting details coinci.
dent with thp pSt"nhliShmcnt of "A rnI.