Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-07-22
SALMAGUNDI


Don't fail to see the trial of Major
Dreyfus at the Crescent theatre tonight.
There will be roller skating and
dance at the opera house. Friday night.
If you want to buy New Home sew
ing machine or a new Iroquois bicycle,
call on or address this Office.
Germany's population increases at
the rate of about 900, 900 year, the re-
suit of excess of births over deaths. =
A. heavy windstorm this afternoon
sent great clouds of real estate scurry-
ing toward Utah. 1t also crippled the
awning in front of Dave Casper's
store.
The preliminary examination of
Jack Dolan on the charge of murder
began before Judge Bruce this forenoon
and is still in progress. Dolan is his
own lawyer.
A diamond brooch was lost between
the Commercial Hotel and passenger
depot this morning. The finder will be
suitably rewarded by leaving the same
at the Commercial Hotel
The last herd of antelopes in the
United States has been located near
Hooker, Oklahoma. This was formerly
a part of the Great American desert
and called No Mans Land
In well proportional man the dis
lance between the tips of the middle
fingers when the arms are stretched out
laterall should be equal to the length
of his body.-New York Press.
The possibilities and limitations of
deep mining are shown in the fact
that the deepest hole ever bored in the
world is said to be only 1000 feet
deep, passing through SO beds of coal.
1t is located in Silesia, Plussian
province.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has put to work large force of
mechanics to remodel the depot in
Reno. The old depot will be worked
> over frqn end to end and great many
modere Improvements made, also a
Borough readjustment of the offices and.
working departments. f.
Oliver Henry Leferve of Rawhide fill
up on booze the other night and went
home and threatened to shoot out the
lights. His wife tried to get the pistol
from him and the struggle it was dis
charged and the bullet lodged in his
groin, infiicting fatal wound. He died
early the next day after exonerating
his wife, who was under arrest, of all
blame ....,. -
The per capita consumption of spirit
nous liquors for the year ending June
30, 1907, is the highest on record reach
ing 1888 gallons per capita, an increase
over 1905 of 1.27 gallons. The advance
in consumption of distilled spirits from
Log gallons per capita in 1905 to I. 63
gallons in 1907 is more notable than an
increase of .12 gallon in the use of wine
and a rise of 1.04 gallons in beer.
American Grocer.
In the year 1905, there were 1886
collisions and derailments in this coun-
try and only $50 in Great Britain. In
the same year 146 passengers were killed
and 5000 injured in the United States
Eainst 80 passengers killed and 631 in
jured in Great Britain. The number of
employees killed and injured in train
accidents was, respectively, ID and 40
IN Great Britain, against 81 and 7S48
in this country Atlantic Monthly.
Mrs. Bilkey gave this Office a pleasant
call this forenoon. From her, we
learned that had Mr. Lytton lived until
the 18th Of December he would have
been 80 years of age. Also that Mrs.
Lytton bore up bravely on the death of
her husband and that she was well
pleased with her new home at Alameda
Mrs p.i1xau oo1 Mrs MI