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

Judge Rutledge of Carlin was in town
today.
Mrs. j. c. Doughty and her mother
will leave for Reno tonight.
DR.. Mabel Young and Mrs. Thompson
left for Gold Circle yesterday.
Bert Harmer has succeeded Billy Wore
as manager of the chain gang. He will
do his best to make the prisoners work.
Bliss and Walters, arrested for holding
up the Rawhide stage, have been held
to answer before the Esmeralda county
grand jury. They have been taken to
Goldficld for safe keeping.
Jailer ElmOre has twenty prisoners
to look after in the county Jail. Six of
them are waiting the action of the
grand jury and the remainder are serv,
ing sentences.
Congressman Sherman, Taft's running
mate, is very sick in Il hospital in Cleve,
land. His condition is very critical and
an operation for the removal Of gall
stones may Ike necessary.
The Amazon stone, found i'll small
quantities near Colorado Springs, Colo.
is greatly in demand. \ firm in Ger
many ordered all that could be] procured
The stone is green in color and hard rs
flint.
Anarchy is Il mark of disease III the
view Of Il Memphis physician. He finds
unarchiStic ideas conclusive evidence of
insanity, and would commit all anar
chists Us dangerous lunatics, thus max
ing them harmless.
4 clear and indisputahle fact is that
Gold Circle has greater mine showings
with less development and shorter time
of operation than any other mining dis.
trict has had for II like spar of time
after their discovery News,
Six hundred men We're laid off tenn
porarily III Ell Dorado county Il few days
ago to enjoy the prosperity which the
republican campaign bureau is preach,
ing all over the land, Talk it! publish
it! preach it! hut the fellow who is
hunting for a job will not believe it
Willows journal.
What n libcntor of debt and enlarger
of the per capita circulation Gold Circle
forecasts. The treasury vaults at Wash
inrfnI, uyil hnt.n 90 Ia nrlnr,,a1 o, r.tn;,,
the bnnatide basis for the issuance of
United States gold certificates us Il ron.
vcnicnt means of circulating the life
giving blood through the arteries of
cOmmcrce.-Ncws.
The INDEPENDENT has received a
copy of the c~itatation served upon the
Tonopah and Goldfeld railroad com
pany by the railroad commission in the
matter Of the reduction Of passenger
rates. The rates are now six cents per
mile and the commission wants n re-
duction to five cents. The railroad
company is ordered to appear OH Jnne
9th and show causc why the reduction
should not be made.
Flags are at half Ia today us % tok-
en- of respect to the memory of EXPIRES
ident Cleveland who died ut Princeton,
New Jersey, this morning. The INDIE
PENDENT Gun not SEQ why Nevada
should do honor to his memory. Fut-
IRE historians will doubtless give him
his proper place in history, hut what
that will be is not easy to tell. Our
readers are familiar with Clcveland's
record and they q size it up for them
selves.
While wOrkmcn Of the Utah Con
struction company were unloading tim.
her Mt Tonka this morning, II heavy
piece fell on Il Swcde workman crushing
his right leg badly below the knee.
The injured man was brought to Elko
on No. 4 and taken to the Boiling hos.
pital. His leg was so badly crushed
that amputation was necessary. Drs.
Hood and West performed the operation
and the patient is doing rs well as can
he expected.
The Glolc-D Democrat prints likcncsscs
of the committee ON resolutions, in the
confer Of which Is a. j. Hopkins of
Illinois. We take back everything We
|, ever said about him. with tho remark
that he could not help 1t. He has got
the face of u Norwegian rat. His eyes
and mouth show that he Is looking after
Hopkins interests all the time. For,
~tunately his hands are not shown in the
: picture. Beside Payne and Rcmmcll
and Long and Ellis and Capcrs. Hopkins
looks like u fox that has straycl into
the company of real lions and believes
he il Il lion himself Salt Lake Tclc.
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