Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-04-17
Salmagundi
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY

>'aNAN IN NV
team WAS well loaded with I'LL kinds of
truck.
The Elko county high school closed
yesterday for the spring vacation, which
lasts until Monday next. \ number of
the students went home for Il short
visit.
Miss Kitty Plunektt has peel com
PEELED to give up her studies mt the high
school ON account of her health. She
returned to he" home at Tuscarora
yesterday.
Mrs. Robinson ami Miss Dorothy left
for their home in Ruby valley this
morning. Harry left Yesterday with
the team and his mother and sister will
join him at IIallcn&.
y big diamond firm which failed the
other day blanrS its trouble on the
public's craze for automobiles" The
old saying may, therefore. be changed
To Stick to me and you'll ride in an
automobile.
Doubtless the king of Italy had the
kindcst intentions in knighting IA Bos-
ton hodcarricr, hut we should think
that the knights sword and his ribbons
would be in the way when he was
working al his trade.
y woman who appeared in "A London
police court the other day was described
rs Il %''pawning agent" She makes her
living hy pawning things for her neigh
bors, who pay her a commission because
they believe she can secure larger loans
than they could.
Citizens who have put down new
cement sidewalks complain that bicycles
are ridden over them before they are
dry. There is an ordinance against
riding bicycles on the sidewalk and if
the practice is not stopped somebody
will he arrested and punished.
The members of Hose Company No.
are requested to meet at the fire house
ut . o'clock this evening. Business of
importance will come before the meet
ing and all the members are requested
to he present. This notice is published
at the request of Foreman Miller.
AT Il meeting of the capiol commits
sioncrs Monday. the bids for furnishing
and equipping the new library were re-
icctcd. The Carson News Il v only one
bid was received and that was by the
company that drew the specifications
and il was considered cxorbitant. New
bids will bc advertised for.
Ii Is rather singular that Mr.. Francis |
Hitchcock should feel bound to give
up II lucrative Office in order to become |
in active Taft political manager, while |
Taft himself holds on TO IL still more
important Office, and yet spends his
entire time travelling and clectioncering.
Who pays Taft's salary? Why should
anybody consent to pay itE He is not
at work for the public, but for Taft
alone.
There arrived ut the county hospital
several days ago two old people, prob
ably the oldest in the county. They
are Mr.. and Mrs. Neavcs Lcal. of Bel
mont. who for upwards Of thirty years |
have been residents of the county and
for about ten years charges of the II
ty. lie is % years of age and she is
100. They arc well preserved consider
ing their ages, although practically help.
less. They talk but little, being unable
to converse in English. being Spanish.
Tonopah Sun.
Good progress was made in the Dove
case today. The state rested this after
noon and the defense began its case.
The writer was called to the witness
stand to produce the statement made
by the defendant on the first day of
March. after his arrival in Elko. The
writer was called by the defendant. hut |
when this report closed the statement
had not gccn offered in evidence. The
court had taken II recess and the de-
PENDANT was consulting with his attOr-
ncy. The case will close tomorrow.
"Just for fun" two young persons |
stood up Mt n church entertainment in
Iowa and went through II mock mar.
riagc. II happened that the actor
who took tho part Of the Clergyman
was II notary public and the wedding
was almost, IL not quito. real under the
the law. Only in Legitimate drama is
there justification for an acted mar.
riagc. a hurlcsIuo wedding in II
church may not liz seriously immoral,
says the Youths Companion, hut II
shows u perverted, humorlcss idea Of
frn, and Americans think they have II
keen. sane sense Of humor.