Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-05-19
SALMAGUNDI..

cakes, etc., etc., at COchrane'S.
Every democrat in town should turn
put tomorrow and vote at the primaries
for delegates to the state convention.
Remember that the second install
nent of taxes must be paid before 9
o'clock p. m. of the first Monday in
June.
The Washington Herald says:
There is one thing about our great
prosperity-it keeps one broke living up
to it,"
By an order from headquarters all
the work on the Ogden Lucin cut off
has been pulled off and over 200 labor
ers were discharged.
People wishing to see Dr. Birtch will
have until Sunday. Monday he starts
for Lamoille and Ruby valleys. All eyes
examined free and glasses fitted to all
cases.
Candidates for school trustees must
file their petitions with the county
clerk before tomorrow night. If you
want to be school trustee file your
Rtition.
The La Majestic cigar at the Club and
Elk saloons is manufactured expressly
for Mr.. Gutridge. 1t is the cigar for
smokers. Call for the La Majestic and
have good smoke.
Mrs. Hight cid of Carlin is in Elko to-
day. She told the reporter that repub-
lican prosperity had struck Carlin again
and all work at the shops had been stop
ped until the first of the month.
In all France there are only HOO per-
sons who are millionaires i'm our sense
Of the word (in dollars.) Of million
aires in francs, there are about $4,000,
apart from the HOO already counted,
This year the 131st anniversary of the
adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the
emblem of the United States, June ID,
comes on Sunday. The American Flag
association, by circular letter, urges
general observance of flag day on
Monday, June 10.
Today would have been all right in
December, but is decidedly out of place
i'll the bs%ning month of May. Snow
squalls have followed each other closely
and the air is raw and cold Out of place
or not, it has been good day for the
country. The storm is worth many
thousands of dollars to this section.
The wages of $4,000 Massachusetts,
cotton mill operatives wers cut ten per
cent last week. The week before co.
900 other operatives were subjected to
similar cut, and 35, 900 more will get
the same kind of republican tariff
prosperity dose next week. The full
dinner pail is becoming something of q
hollow NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Count Offendorf of Austria has pur-
chased from Countess Shuvalovo of Rus
STA the entire town of Dubno, with it's
fortress, in Russian Poland. The strange
part of it is that the count could pay 3d.
100000 for the town and fort in spite of
the fact that he never, so far as we know,
become the son-in-law of any American
railway magnate or lumber king.-Chi-
cago Record Herald
Yesterday afternoon drunk confined
Ill the old Jail came very near cremating
himself by setting fire to the bedding
~ his cell. The fire was detected by
Stanley Weathers who saw smoke com
ing out of the Jail. He notified the
sheriff's Office and when Jailer Elmore
got to the cell the drunk was nearly all
in. The. blankets and mattress were
destroyed. T ..
Two brothers named Clark, who say
they are travelling through the country,
were arrested Saturday night; one Of
them for peddling goods without a
license and the. other was charged with
carrying "a concealed. weapon. Both
were before Judge Bruce today, and the
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