Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-08-14
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If this weather continues day or two
the campers will come scurrying home
PiPf. Howard and wife returned this
forenoon from trip through the south
ern part of the county.
Our idea of wealth is feeling finan-
cially able to contribute to campaign
fund. -Atchison Globe. .........
Mrs. White and children arrived from
Reno this morning and left for Pleasant
Valley to visit her sister, Mrs. Bremen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wintermantel and
Misses Rose and May Gardner, who
have been camping at Lamoille, return
ed last night.
Quite change in the temperature
since last week. Last Friday was a
scorcher and today is almost cold
enough for a fire. The thermometer at
=our desk registered about 81 degrees at
noon.
kilograms from Kiev state that there
is a plague of cate rpillars in many
parts of southwestern Russia In some
places the railway tracks are covered
by swarms of the insects and traffic is
being hindered owing to the state of the
rails.
Oscar J. Smith is said to be the
= appointment Reno attorney who gave the
Gazette the facts upon which it based
it's article on Receiver Wilde's bond
He and the Gazette, it is said, is threat
ened with libel suits on account of the
publication of the article
Deputy Sheriff Harris reports SO
prisoners in the county Jail today. The
keeping of these people entail heavy
expense on the taxpayers, but there is
no way that we know of to avoid it,
Crime must be punished and the tax
payers must bear the burden
China is bad place for furniture.
In the summer months it is so damp
that furniture put together with glue
falls apart and drawers stick, while in
the dry months furniture goes to the
other extre me and often exhibits cracks
half an inch or more in width
Tuesday afternoon Judge Brown
denied Chris SCOTS application for a
writ 4Shabeas corpus. Scott must now
stay &S5ail until the grand jury meets
Apr he gives the required bond. IF
indicted, his stay in Jail may be long
enough to teach him to let whiskey
alone.
The republicans have at last found a
candidate for United States senator in
the person of Hon. P. L. Flanagan of
Reno. His chief claim to fame lies in
the letters he wrote to sheepmen six or
eight years ago. He was then dubbed
'Reno's ready letter writer" Flanagan
is easy dope for the democrats.
The article in last nights Free Press
on Bob Skaggs is 90 full-blown daisy.
No one can row doubt his great ability,
honesty, feariessness and devotion to
duty. If the big words and capital
letters in that article don't bring an
abject apology from the editor Of the
Reno Journal, he is past redemption
Oh my! Oh my! what will the poor
editor do in the face of that broadside2
1t is reported that the blasting in the
Western Pacific tunnel at Palisade has
almost ruined the Southern Pacific tun-
mel recently completed The walls of
the latter are said to be shattered by the
incessant blasting in the former and
L there is danger of it's Gazing in. 1t is
said that men are kept in the tunnel
day and night for the purpose of stop
ping trains should a cave occur or any
indication of the walls giving way
"a corruptionist. said Senator De-
pew. ''once entered voters house. In
the voters absence he pleaded his cause
tn tho 1,,;Pa