Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-05-15
Salmagundi
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

pleased to learn that Judge Massey is
improving.
Owing to that slight mitigation in
our unparalleled prosperity perhaps
those hundred pbu.li chunks of ice will
weigh Il little more this year than they
did last scason.-Indianupolis News.
G.. w. Middleton and 4. A. Dough-
eriy, mining men anu capitalists of
New York City, a..:v%i yesterday after
noon. They and Mr.. Brid.s nan left for
TuscarOrn this morning t. investigate
the mining properties I'll that camp.
DIR. Birtch. the ocuiiS.. will leave on
Monday for a trip through Lamoille
and Ruby valleys. The INDEPENDENT
takes pleasure i'll rec Immending DR..
Birtch to all who need work in his line.
He has Il complete line of optical goods
and is prepared To hit all classes and
conditions of eyes.
The first dress suit that ever came to
Kansas came with the aid from Bos-
ton during the dry summer of 1860.
Some rich man in the east contributed
1t, having outgrown it. and n farmer
named Paswell, in Kapioma township,
i'll this county, plowed corn in it all
STANDARDIZATION Globe.
The Louisville Courier-Journal re-
marks that after Il time the Wall street
gamblers may know better than to
label anything 'Aldrich' when they
want TO slip it through congress"
Perhaps. But does anyone observe any
thing labeled nti-Aldiich exceeding
the speed limitT-Pittsburg Gazette.
\ smclter located ut the Merrimac
mill on the Carson river is Il certainty,
work to begin in II short time. This
means more for this section than any
other IL thing evcr projected. Offices
and headquarters will be located in this
city.-Carson Appeal.
In certain towns in Germany house
holders are compelled by law TO sort out
their house dust. They have to pro.
vide three rcccptaclcs-one for ashes
and swccpings, OnefOr cooking refuse
and II for rags and paper. The rub
bish is utilized by the town authorities.
Henry Watterson says that all that
the democrats of the United States need
to do i order to carry the coming pres
idcntial election is to quit their bicker-
ing, to close ranks. to move onward and
look forward, not backward. They
should brace mp and have about them
both some confidence and some style.
AT the meeting of the Athletic club
last night the proposition Of securing
suitable grounds was discussed. If pos
sible II piece of land near town will be
secured and fitted up for athletic sports.
This would be asplendid investment for
the town and the business men especial
ly should subscribe literally toward
such Il fund.
Not many months ago such Il mes.
sage Us President Roosevelt last sent to
congress would have caused disturbance
in financial and speculative circles.
But ii now passes with hardly any
notice, and the same is true of it in con
grcss. The president has tired out his
audicncc.-Spriugiicld Republican.
An Egyptian paper says that the ma
tive families pay an avcrag tax of 81. G5
IN acre, or 2S.A per cent of the crop.
Foreigners and land companies hold
65j, 900 acres. Through their insol-
vcncy and liquidation, and the rcdis.
tribution Of the estates formed since
1909. it is probable that large amounts
of gold may be unhoardcd.
In the United States last year t03,.
600, 900 railway ties were used, which
dcridcd COO, 900 acres of forest to sup
ply. The British, railways are supplied
from Russia, 1000, 900 ties n year being
needed. The Russian forests arc now
SO much exhausted that the peasants
have to slcdgc the trees for making
these ties II distance of twenty miles to
get them to the rivers.
There are no new developments in the
affairs of the State Bank and Trust
company and the prospects are that
Judge Langan will appoint a receiver
tomorrow. Directors Bender and Mapcs
have fled answers in the suit. i'm which
they claim that they are no longer di.
rcctors Of the company. Unless some.
thing transpircs before 10 o'clock to.
morrow, Judge Langan will appoint II
receiver TO wind up the affairs of the
company.
There IL hut one county without rail.
road connection in the state uf Colorado.
Heretofore IL has been considered II
distinction out there to bc outside tho
railroad belt, and Grand, Rio. Blanco,
Baca and Routt counties were In tho
list Of exclusives; but one after the
other has been annexed. so to speak, to
tho outside world. Routt being the
latest, until now little Baca county,
away down in tho southeast corner of