Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-12-04
Salmagund
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY

See what Seymour jacobs has to say
in his new nd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Greenfield have re-
turned to Elko.
Rooscvelt's commission on country life
met in Reno yesterday.
Several teams loaded with grading
outfits left for the west this morning.
a. l.. Mauk, the shoe man, has III in
tcrcsting notice i'll this issue. Read it.
j. j. Owens, grand master of the Odd
Fellows, will visit Elko Lodge officially
next Friday night.
y gang Of men are ut work clearing
the sagcbrush off the Western Pacific
right Of way west of town.
Guy Norton the ticket agent. is
taking Il vacation i'll San Francisco. He
will return about the first of january.
1t is reported that all the mines ut
Tonopah, except the Belmont. will
close down owing To the low price of
silver.
Officers Of the state police who have
been working for the past few weeks,
measuring the coliyicts ut the state pris-
OH by the BcrtilliOn system. have com
p!ctcd their labors.
The Carson Appeal says that the
latest returns from the rcceu election
show the success of the entire demo.
cIatid state ticket. II has been report.
ed that Oscar j. Smith and \. A. Codd.
republican regents, We're elected, but
the Appeal says both were defeated.
The death of Chief of Police Buggy Of
San Francisco removes II man who has
figured prominently in the graft prose.
cutiOn. Whether his death was due to
accident o r suicide will probably remain
a mystery. The facts as given in the
latest dispatches point to suicide.
The daughter of an English woman
of very high rank had "A pain in her
foot, which her mother asked the gov
crncss to he good enough ( look at.
The latter, after examining it, said,
with Difference: IF it were not for her
ladyship's exalted rank ] should say il
was a buniOn."
The preliminary examination of Judge
Hogan and his c~o.dcfcndants in the
Monticello whiskcy case closed this fore
noon and Judge Bruce held all three of
the defendants to appear before the
the grand jury. Judge. Hogan's bail
was fixed ut $1,000 and that of Nc
Dcrmott and Woods at $500 cash or
$3.50 bonds.
Press dispatches from London an
nOuncc the death of Herbert Lee who
died from the effects of Il bullet in the
head fired during the performance of
"Willion Tell" 1t seems that Mime.
Clcmcntinc shot Mt Il distance of fifty
feet and hit Lees head instead of the
apple. However, the dispatches assures
us that Lee has been giving this act for
eighteen years and that is the first time
he has been killed.
a mar just ont Of the county Jail
called at this Office this afternoon and
started o complain about the cleanliness
of the Jail. He had his complaint writ
ton out MS II poem and read two or three
lines and was then cut short and told to
tell his troubles elsewhere. He was
also given 10 understand that he could
keep ont of Jail ny behaving himself.
IIc went away muttcring something
ahout there being another paper that
might want his ''p0mc."
Tho prOgressivcncss of the South
American countries is seen in the cx-
tcnsivc hurbOr works sounc of them are
carrying on. Chile is spending SEQ.
600. 600 for the purpose at Valparaiso.
which has q magnificent harbor and
| intends to utilize il to the fullest extent
and Brazil, on the other side Of the
continent. is preparing to construct IL
miles Of docks at Rio Janciro, making
the greatest system in South America.
tho total cost being estimated ut So.
900. 900. South America is reaching out
for trade. and il certain To find the
result profitable.
Two Of three months ago Alex Car.
den Of Pleasant Valley had the misfor'
tunc,to break ono of his legs AMI spent
several weeks ut the Boiling hospital.
The broken bones seemed to mend
properly and Mr.. Garden left the hos
pital and after the election went to his
home. Aftcr being there II few days,
his leg began to pain him aud he re
, turned To town. Yesterday the physic
g. inns lanccd the leg and removed con
| siderable pus. Mr. Garden is confined
, to his he'd and his suncrings are intense
b. Ills many friends sympathizo with hin
and hope to sec him ont q