Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-07-17
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ing machine or q new Iroquois bicycle,
call on or address this Office. o
DR.. Birtch, the eye specialists, hiss re-
turned from the northern part Of the
county and will remain in Elko another
week. People needing work in his line
should make q note Of this. .
F. A. Vincent, former adjutant of
the.state police, has been held to appear
before the Ormsby county grand jury
on the charge Of forgery. He could not
give bail and was locked up.
The tin plate trust has cut wages 8
per cent, but still continues to be pro
tected by the As per cent tariff which
according to republican authority was
expressly devised to protect the work
inginen.
A couple of Mexican convicts ut the
state prison engaged in q fight over
cards in their cell ut the state prison ON
Tuesday night. During the fracas one
of the men stabbed the other with q
stubby bladed knife. The wound was
u SlRnt one.-News.
The Reno Record is u new paper which
will make its first appearance OH Satur-
day next and will be published daily
from that time. Levy &c Shipbaugh are
the publishers. Leo 8. Levy being editor
and A. d. Shipbaugh the business man.
ager. 1t is understood that it will he
democratic.
The Carson News SAYS that informa-
ton has been received by political
parties of this state not to place officers
or directors of national banks on the
national ticket for presidential electors.
The government regards the officers and
directors of national banks as q sort of
part Of the federal ofice-holders i. @. n
part of the government.
Efforts are being made in London to
further the emigration of British
women to South Africa. It is declared
that the only immigrants desired at
present in South Africa are women. OF
the 351 who went there from the United
Kingdom in the last twelve months a
large majority were teachers, all of
whom found ready engagements at the
cape.
All the bids for building the COVER
nor's mansion Mt Carson were rejected
by the capitol commissioners. The
advertisement asking for bids specified
that bids of more than $25, 600 would be
rejected There were four bids sub
United ranging from slightly over
$27,O 600 to $31, 1880. The commissioners
will now secure new plans and make
another start.
Joseph Keitly, a stranger, went into
Mr.. Marks shoe store this forenoon and
wanted his shoes mended. While wait
ing for the work to be done, Keitly Sc
creied Il pair of shoes on his person and
walked off with them when he left the
store. MI. Mauk discovered the theft
soon after Keitly left the store and mott.
fed the officers. They caught him with
the shoes. and he plead guilty to petit
larceny before Judge Bruce. He will
get his medicine at 4 o'clock this after
noon.
A visitor to Moscow soon discovers
why it is called the Holy City. Every
200 or 800 feet there is q cathedral,
church, chapel or shrine, and whichever
way you look You see people crossinS
themselves. Until one has seen Mos
COW the piety of the place is not easily
understood. The outsider cannot imag-
inc Moscow conditions. He cannot
imagine church bells ringing all the
time and people praying in the public
streets Mt all hours of day and night.
On Sunday moring last, ut Sunday
school, Miss Laura Mack was suddenly
stricken totally blind and had to he as
sisted home at Once. She continued in
the same condition until Wednesday,
when her sight returned, and Mt the
present writing she can see about as
we'll as usual. The young lady has long
been afflicted with weakness of the eyes
and for Il time it was feared by her
friends and family that the blindness
would he permanent, but hapily this is
not the case.-Blair Press.
Drop-stitched hose V-shaped lingerie,
cosmetics, artificial teeth, puffs rats and
padding are the weighty matters which
are being grayely discussed by the com
mittee on ways and means of the Geor
gin legislature. Representative George
Glenn of the Whitefield district Is 70.
sponsible for the problem, having intro.
duced q bill to prevent the sad disillus.
comment of husbands 'the day after"
According TO tho provisions of Glenn's
measure, any marriage which has re-
suited from artificial attractions offered
by the bride shall bc declared null and
void.
There was not II very large crowd mt
the opera house last night to see ".Jim
tho Westorncr," but those present were
very we'll entertained. The actors and
actresses did their best to please and the
most OF them succeeded. For some reas-