Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-27

been the case many times in the past !,
the offer was refused, but it is expected
that che hardy old mountameer will
return next sprlnR, TO renew his
overtures.
Without ipjurinR any industry the
democratic party is resolved to relieve
the American consumer of American
industrial products Of the excessive
tribute levied by monopoEes which the
Dingiey tariff fosters. 1t is one thing
to give domestic industry reasonab bile
preferential tax against foreign COM
petition and quite another to give the
same industry the power to exact from
all other industries profits that are I'M
reasonable and oppressive.
Con stable OuderSirk says that fully
$50 meD, Including clerks, bookkeepers,
stenographers and laboring men have
tramped through EEko since yesterday
inornnR. Constable Happier reports
conditions worse in Carhn. He told the
writer today that $50 men looking tor
work got off of one east bound freight
train. Such conditions in this country
are aarproach to our boasted civilization
aud cruel reminder of the blighting
effects of republican pros oenty.
lie E5meralda county grand jury
fund two indictments for embe zzle-
ment against T. B. Hickey. In its re-
port to Judge Langan, the grand Jury
severely censures the bank commission
ers for failing to perform their duties
and permitting the trading of accounts.
The report closes with compliment to
Bank Examiner Miller and RECON-
mendatiop that the atterney-geuera
proceed to have a receiver appointed for
the State Bank and Trust Com pany in
order to protect its creditors.
Tie deepest gold mine in the world is
in the Bendigo district, Victoria, Aus.
tralia. One of the shalloWest is the Wasp
No. 2, in Lawrence county, South Da-
kots, whe ere the ore lies in a thick sheet
on top Of the ridge. 1t is mined in open
cute, and when the ore Is removed there
is All end tn mining as there is no incen.
tive to sink to a greater depth. The ore
assays only 81 per tou. II is mined,
crushed and cyanided at good profit.
The mine Is owned and operated by the
republican boss Of Lawrence county, by
name Jack Gray
A forn.r Raoo o;k;1oo =, -..o.t.-
on the recent attitude of Reno papers,
declared yesterday that the prevailing
impression I'D that town is that Nevada
vas made for its particular benefit.
Therefore all who fail to agree with
it in its attitude toward its pete, are W.
cious and subject to wiping of the map.
Ely City in year or two moro will
make Reno look like less than 30 cents
Mix as a commercial, railroad and in
dustrial center, no matter the growth
Reno should and will make in the same
time.-WhIte Pine News.
Just TO show how business has fallen
off within the past few weeks on the
Southern Pacific it may be stated that
since the first of the month fifty eugin-
GERS who we're employed on runs be-
tween Sparkle md Carlin and Sparks
and Nina have been laid off. Or this
number many have been discharged
outright and others reduced in the
ranks of hremep. Cutting down the
list of engineers was made necessary
80 that the older men could make living
wages ,dnring the present depressed
on the railroad Hum boldt
Star.
One OF the oldest OF the cranks that
have started TO go around the world for
a wager SCI ont the other day from
Trafalgar square, London, wearing an
iron mask and puehing a baby carriage.
He is TO take both with him and is to be
the man in the iron mask tbroughou
his journey, revealing his identity to no
one. IN every town he is to buy post