Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-06-26

Dave Dotts left for New York last
night to enter colleg>. Dave is II Of
Elko's best young men anil his many
friends wish him success.
There are 200 paint factories in this
country. making ove 100. ON. 600 gal
Hons of paint II year and the business
demand is increasing faster than the fa.
%cilities.
c. w. Priest and Michael Taylor
fought u duel in the streets of Goldheld
Tuesday and both were mortally wound
ed. There had been bad blood between
the men for months.
Ted Carville returned yesterday from
South Bend, Indiana where he attended
college. He will leave tomorrow morn
ing for his old home i'm Mound valley.
Ted looks us if he had enioyed his
college work.
Mrs. Bert Dunham Of Reno committed
suicide yesterday by drinking carbolic
acid. Her suicide is said to have been
caused by the accusation Of II strange
woman who called on her Just before
she took the acid.
Judge p. Lochrie of Salt Lake, is in
town. He just came from Gold Circle
and is very enthusiastic over the pros
poets of that camp. He says there is u
haitian cIpuyir- fhar.1 kI,,r I~-z
Goldfield in the same stage Of develop
ment.
One thousand aligators ranging from
young animals no longer than Il lead
pencil to monsters that could crush Il
man i'll their jaws, have been transport
ell across the continent from the south
western corner of Louisiana to East Los
Angeles, Cal. where an alligator farm
was recently started. None died in
transit. although ten days on the way.
Final returns have been made on the
ore taken from the Mohawk-Combin.
alton lease at Goldfield Turing the four
days work prior to the expiration of
the lease and shows that during those
four days ore valued mt $G7, ORG. 80 was
taken ont. The amount Of ore was 742
tons and the average value of the output
for the four days was $90.40. The daily
production was $l8, 769. 10.
A new German law provides that the
German language shall he used at all
public meetings in all parts of the
empire. This is part of the systematic
effort to bring about the Gernaniza-
ton of Alsace, German Poland and the
Danish districts of Schleswig. Holstein.
The number of people affected is about
$500, 600. Language is the mightiest
implement of conquest.
Paul Yost, proprietor of the Eureka
Brewery at Eureka, attempted to COM
nit suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor, in the cellar in fine rear of his
Main street saloon, last Monday morn
ing. He was found sitting on the stairs
in the cellar of the saloon. with several
unsightly wounds on the left side of his
neck, from which blood was gushing out
copiously, while near him was u pool of
blood. \ doctor was hastily summoned
and the wounds dressed. III health was
the IL of the attempted suicide.
The cost of pensions jumped from 1873
million dollars last year to l83 million
appropriated ut the recent session of
congress. The largest amount paid
previously 1873 millions in 1893. Last
year there were GS1. 900 old soldiers on
the pension list and 2S6. 600 widows and
othcrs-a total Of orc, 900. The mum
Der had slightly diminished from the
record of slightly under I million in
1902. Since 1863 the United States has
paid out 3.551 billion dollars in pen
si~ons-nearly II billion dollars more
than the national debt at the end of the
Civil war.