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

District Attorney Caine went to Reno
last night to attend the funeral of a
friend.
E. A. P. johnson, the Tuscarora at
torney, left for San Francisco last night
to see the fun when the fleet comes in.
The Reinhart Company will have
another special sale Friday. The ladies
should read the ad in this issue and
take advantage of the bargains offered.
How many important recommend
atoms made by the president has con-
gress passed this session? Don't get ex
cited in trying to explain the harmony
between the two.
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.
Antoine J. Sasserno, proprietor of the
Valley House Hotel at Palisade, COM
mitted suicide Sunday morning by
shooting himself through the head with
Vrife. Financial difficulties are given
as the cause of his suicide.
According to the statement of Asses
sor Davis in the White Pine News,
White Pine county's assessment roll
will show an increase this year of nearly
a million dollars over last years roll
Will Elko county do as we'll?
DR.. T. A. Birtch, the expert oculist,
has removed his Office from Mr. Jacobs
store to his residence, the first house
east of Mr.. McBride's. He has COM
plete line of optical goods and is pre-
pared to fit all classes and conditions of
eyes. Give him a call.
An Irishman walked into fruit store,
and asked the proprietor the price of
bananas. The store keeper said:
"Tnese yellow ones are worth 25 cents;
these green ones are not worth any
thing" The Irishman then put a
shanty over the proprietor's eye, for
kHow the guns will boom in San Fran
CISCO porrow, as the fleet steams up
the bay 1t will be great event in the
city's history. Those who see it will
never cease talking about it and those
who failed to see the feet come in will
be justas happy 100 years from now as
if they had heard the guns boom in San
Francisco tomorrow.
A Montgomery man listened to q con-
versation his wife had over the phone.
She told a neighbor that q hen had died,
] leaving twenty four little chickens, and
that now she twas the mother of the
little chicks" Later when her husband
referred to her as "the old hen" she was
quite hurt Aren't women inconsistent
X. G. Post
While Uncle Sam is ahead in all
branches of communication he far out
strips all other nations in the use of the
telephone. Approximately five-sevenths
of all the telephones in the world, or
about 100000 out of total of little
over 7,000 900, are in the United States.
New York City alone has more than all
countries outside of Europe and North
America.
GThe skeleton of one of the men buried
in the Alpha shaft, near Ely, at the
time of the big cave about five months
ago, was found Sunday and taken to the
surface Practically oil the flesh had
dropped from the bones, leaving only
the skeleton. The remains, supposed to
he those Of Hercules CONSTANT, were
found in heap of muck, 40 feet above
the bottom of the shaft. a
In speech at st. Joseph recently,
Governor Folk of Missouri said: MANY
wife, many and many mother, has
written me that she now has something
to eat and to wear on Sundays and
Mondays, whereas before the saloons
were closed on Sunday she was in want.