Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-09-04
Salmagundi
FROM DAILY

NeNaui Dec.iuse Oh the bank panic,
They seem to overlook the fact that
eight out Of h nine directors of the
State Bank and Trust Company which
started the bank panic in Nevada oro
straight republicans.-Carson Appal
Assemblyman Winter came in from
Brnneau country last night and he and
Mr.. Caine left OH No. 3 to attend tbo
Tonopah convention. Both of them
stand for law and order and the re-
nomination of Congressman Bartlett
Mr.. Game carried several proxies of
the delegates who We're unable to attend
convention.
y Salt Like dispatch saws that
surveying parties have been placed in
the field to run a line for a railroad
between Twin Falls. Idaho, and Wells,
Nevada. The proposed line will be
about 90 miles long and will be built
Tor the purpose of giving the country
around Twin Falls an outlet to Nevada
and California.
The Tonopah democrats have made
great preparations for the entertain.
mcnt of the delegates to the state con-
vcntion. 1t is quite likely that some of
the visitors will wish they had never
seen Tonopah bcfor the the convention
is over. This merely refers to those
who went there rs candidates and fail
ed 10 land the prize.
The first paper III Nevada ever pub.
liShcd exclusively i'll the interests of
one race has made it's appearance in
tioldficld. The paper is the Goldticld
Commercial Review and is published
i'll the interest of the colorcd citizens
of the State of Nevada, and devoted
entirely to their interests socially and
otherwise, or as the editor tersely puts
1t, social, industrial and commercial"
The editor is NJ. w. c. Mcfarland.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Franklin *. Lane will be in Reno
about the lst of October to preside
~ Il hearing similar to that of a year
and "A half ago AT Spokane, when the
merchants of Western Washington
State presented their claims for the
establishment Of an intermediate
common point within that territory
I" u" the basis for the fixing Of rail
road rates.
Tn" blood Of the rhinOccros is very
highly esteemed 10y Burmese and Chi.
ne>Nts IL u medicine for all kinds Of all
incnts Whenever "A party of hunters
are successful in shooting IA rhinoccros-
they are less numerous than they used
To bc-thc native CcatcrS carefully draw
off the blood md bring il to Rangoon
STORED in hollow baInboOS. The precious
liquid Is worth its weight in silver
London Standard.
Three hundred Greeks were hired
Saturday to complete the Schurz. Raw
hide railroad, and the force will be- in
creased rs fast as material can Ike
procured to finish tn" line. The grad
ing for the road has been completed and
the rails laid for several miles. Officials
Of the line say they will have trains
running by October /. The reason
for employing Greeks is because the
white men prefer to work in the mines.
Appeal.
1t is closely estimated that one million
four hun lrcd thousand head Of sheep
are ranging in the northern part of
ElkO county. II is stated that large
scctious Of that country have bcen
ruined by the sheep. The grass has
been tramplcd out and the young timber
destroyed. Residents of that section
have ]pctitiolIcd to have the Indcpcn.
dcncc forest reservation extended 80 rs
to embrace all the timber land. Tho
claim this as the only salvation for the
residents Of that part Of the county.
+. j. Wychc, engineer in charge Of
the Salt Lake division of the West
crn Pacific, arrived Thursday night and
left last night. The Western Pacific
track is now laid within about twelve
miles of Wells AMI il * expected that
the ROAD will he completed to Wells
between tn" 9TH and 10th Of next
month. The work will now hc pushed
:s rapidly rs poSsiblc with the intcn.
ti"n Of completing the road t" Elko by
the first Of December.
The marriage age in Austria is IL
years for both sexes: Germany. the
man ut II, the Woman at IL; Belgium,
the man at ~, the w0man mt IL; Spain,
the man at II, tho woman at IL: Mcxica
with parental consent, 10 and IL. other.
wise 81 for both: France. the man at
~, the woman at IL; Greece. the man
II, the woman at ~; hungary, CathO'
lies. the man at II. the woman ut ~:
Professionals. the man at ~. the woman
ut IL; Portugal. the man NJ II. the
woman at ~; Russia, the man at ~. tn,
woman at -; Saxony. the man Mt H.
the IN 1T 10: Switzerland, the mar
NJ II. the oma at f..
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