Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-08-15
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ing, her Elk9 friends will leave for her
home at Boise tonight. .:...
An exchange says that some people
have more expensive sorrow than 9th
ers. 1t costs so much to drown it.
Sixteen candidates took the examina-.
ton for clerk of the Carson mint. The
papers will be forwarded to Washing
ton for: correction.
Glad to see Col. Hyman ont again
He has been, laid up for some time with:
rheumatism in his feet. It has pulled
the old gentleman down considerably.
A, foreign exchange says that only
three great problems are yexing hu-;
manity today: The immortality of the
soul, perpetual motion and womens,
hats.
The smelter at Ely is now a steady
producer of blister copper and has
been making twelve tons of the metal
day. 1t will probably soon increase
: the amount of the output. =
The Star says, that the Helean outfit,
consisting of teams, wagons and scrap:
ers left Winnemucca Tuesday for. a
point near Elko, where they have taken
contract to do grading on the Western
Pacific.
The disappearance of sack of ANAL
gam, shipped from Manhattan to the
Carson mint, by express, is being in
vestigated by detectives of the express
company. Two sacks Of amalgam
were shipped. but only one of them
reached the mint. Detectives are in
Carson investigating the disappearance
of the missing sack.
The battleship Virginia on June %
took on board 1867 tons of coal in
four hours, breaking all records, an
average of 416.7 tons per hour. Will
liam Costello of this city, an old and
experienced railroad man, has figured
out that it would take trainload of
49, cars. averaging between thirty and
forty tons to the car, to accomplish the
above result.-Virginia Chronicle.
The Goldield Tribune is hot after the
sc9TSof J. F. Douglas of that city who
waHSs the republican nomination for
congress 1t, charges that Douglas is
the personal representative of IThemas
B. Hickey and a dyed-in- thewo cor
poration attorney and the candidate of
the Southern Pacific. The Tribune
serves notice on the party that it will
not support Douglas if he is nominated.
J. T. Longacre, a gambler who shot
and killed P. J. Mclaughlin, miner,
at Seven-Troughs few days ago, has
been held to answer the charge of
murder before the Humboldt county
grand jury. Longacre had won a sum
of money from Mclaughlin and the
latter accused the former of swindling
and demanded his money back A fight
ensued and Langacre shot Mclaughlin
while he was lying on the ground.
The more the scandal surrounding
Receiver Wildes' million dollar bond is
probed the worse it looks for Bank Elk
aminer Hofer According to the Reno
Journal, Mr.. Wildes now states that
Gilbert, an agent for one of the secur-
ity companies, and Hofer got $1125 out
Of the transaction. Hofer's "bit" on his
commission as underwater being 1915.
Wildes is reported to be a partner in
Hofer's insurance business. Is this an
, attemnt Of Mr. Wildes to throuy tho
odium of this bond transaction on to
his wicked partner2" 1t looks to
man up tree as if Wildes and Hofer
should be summarily kicked out of the
positions they hold.
Washingtons death was due to acute
laryngitis; Adams, Madison and Monroe,
practically to old age; Jefferson, chronic
diarrhea; John Quincy Adams paralysis;