Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-03-27

Hofer, Sr. OF Carson, bank examiner to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
Of Major Miller. Is this the Hofer who
was superintendent of the Carson mint
at the time IIeney and Jones were loot
ing 1t? II it is, the governor has not
made a wise choice
A well known brakeman won't into a
local restaurant yesterday aud gave his
order thus: "Give me a standard brass,
n bowl OF dope and { string OF fate
Watching with inter est the bringing Of
the lunch we found the standard brass
was u eandwicb, the uope wa coffee and
the string OF fats was made up OF pan
cakes. We are always learning m
thing il we keep II care open.-Enter-
prise.
Another railroad is planned for Raw
hide. Surveyors will start next week
to locate a riVht-of way for a railroad
from Fallon to Rawhide. The ,promot-
ers u this most important enterprise are
:he wealth. st and most Influential men
Of Churchill county and it's industries.
The corps Of surveyors will be in charge
Of r.. K. McGregor who did much OF
the survey work Of the Truckee.C Carson
project.
Bohemia Sharpe, a seventy yeur-old
prospector, has just made his yearly
visit to the State Capitol at Portland,
Oregon, and incidentally called at the
Executive Office and made Il for NAL
offer OF his heart and hand to Governor
Chamberlain stenograper. AS hos
been the case many times in the pHst,
the offer was refused, but it is expected
that the hardy old m~ountaueer viii
return next spring, to renew his
overtures.
Without injuring any industry the
democratic party is resolved to relieve
the American consumer Of American
industrial products OF the excessive
tribute levied by m%ouopolies which the
Dingley tariff lost ers. 1t is one thing
to give a domestic industry a reasonable
preferential tax against foreign COM
petition aud quite another to give the
same industry the power to exact from
all other industries profits that are I'M
reasonable and oppressive.
Constable Ouderkirk says that fully
100 men, including clerks, bookkeepere,
stenographers and laboring men have
tramped through Elko since yesterday
morniuR. Constable Happier reports
conditions worse in CarlIn. He told the
writer today that 100 men looking for
work got on Of ono east bound freight
train. Such conditions in this country
are a approach to our boosted CT civilization
aid a cruel reminder Of the | lighting
rffec;e Of republican ~rcs9erity.
The Esmeralda county grand jury
fund two indictments for embe zzIe-
ment against T. b. Hickey. In its re-
port to Judge Lnngan, the grand Jury
severely ceDsures the bank com mission-
ers for failing to perform their duties
aud permitting the trading OF accounts.
Tho report closes with a compliment to
Bank Examiner Miller and n renom-
%mendatiop that the Encouragement
proceed to have n receiver appointed for
the State Bank and Trust Company in
order TO protect its creditors.
Tho deepest gold mine in the world ia
in the Bendigo district, Victoria, Aus.
train. One Of the shsllowest ia the Wasp
No. ., in Lawrence county, South Da-
kota, whore the ore lies in q thick sheet
on top Of the ridge. II is mined in open
cute, and when the ore is removed there
ia MI end to mining 10 there is no incen.
tive to sink to II greater depth. The ore
assays only 81 per ton. II is mined,
crushed and cyanided at n good profit.
The mine ls owned and operated by the
republican boss OF Lawrence county, by
name Jack Gray.
a former Reno citizen In commenting
on the recent attitude OF Reno papers,
declared yesterday TINT the prevailing
impression in TINT town ia that Noynda
was made for its particular benefit.
Aho'oioI' Hu "uu lHI 10 HBTO0 Wild
1t in its attitude toward its pete, arc Vie ,
cious and subject to wiping oil the map.
Ely City in n year or two more will
make Reno look lite less than 80 cents
Nix as a commercial, railrond and IN.
dustrial center, no matter the growth
Reno should and will ma ko in the same
time.--WhIte Pine News.
Just 10 show how business has fallen
of within the past few weeks on the !
Southern Pacific It may be stated that
the first OF tho month titty eugin.
oeH who wore employed on runs be-
tween Sparks end Carlin and Sparks
and Nina have boen hid Off. OF this
number many have been discharged
outright and others reduced in the
ranks OF firemcn. Cutting down the
list Of engineers was made necessary
60 that tho older mon could mako living
wages during tho present depressed
conditions on the railroad.-Humboldt
Stnr.