Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-07-03
S~almagundi
FROM FRIDAYS DAILY

Quite u number of Elkoites have gone
to SHELTON and Starr valley to spend the
Fourth
The California delegation to the Den
yer convention passed through this
afternoon.
If you want to buy II New Home sew
ing machine or II new lroquois bicycle,
call on or address this Office.
Rev. Noel of Reno will occupy the
pulpit of the Presbyterian church both
Sunday morning and evening.
The politician is Il man who bats the
hook with one office and mendaciously
angles for Notwithstanding Ameri.
can.
II. G. Monroe,a stranger, WAS drowned
at W~innenucca Tuesday while in bath
ing i'll the Humboldt. The body was
recovered.
The Humboldt Star says that several
heavy payments have been made recent
~ on the Rip Saw and Elko Prince
groups of mines ut Gold Circle:
BE careful with fire-crackers and 9TH
er explosives. The town is MS dry us
finder, and should Il fire break out Il
grea; deal of damage might he done.
DR.. Birtch, the o~culist, will remain in
Elko for another week before going to
to the northern part of the county.
Eyes examined free and glasses cor
rectly fitted.
DIR. Birtch, the eye specialist, will Wis
it Tuscarora Tuesday, July eth, for one
day. All parties wishing their eyes ex-
amined. or glasses fitted. will please
leave word ut the p~ostonicc. On July
Sth DIR. Birtch will visit North Fork. =
Il hate to hear Il man insistin' dat de
world is gittin' wuSser," said Uncle
Eben, ''foh de reason dat Il mans i'm
preston Of de world depends Il heap OH
de kind o society he gifts into."-Wash-
ingtOn Star.
Al "iiAao'dNi hiii III ~ liIllI OtiltIltu
II few days ago in Paris. \ cat fell
from Il second story window in the Rue
Beaubourg, on the hat of Il woman who
was passing. The cat clawed the wo-
mans face and destroyed the sight of
one of her eyes.
Since the United States government
began to patroniza expeditions, down to
the jamestown fair, congress has ap-
~prOpriated Il total of S2S, 752, 221 for
worlds fairs, of which only 1885, 600 has
been spent west of the Rocky noun
tains, ut the Lewis and Clark exposition.
1t now seems likely that there will he
a scrap at Denver for the vice-presiden-
tiai nomination. EN-congressman Town
of New York has entered the race and
says that he has a good chance to win.
Town is an able, clean man and his
nomination would add strength to the
ticket.
What is England coming tor In
Sunderland there are families living on
boiled potatoe parings, and of the total
number Of ~, 1877 deaths registered IN
London last year 90, 723 took place i'm
warehouses;, hospitals or puplic lunatic
asylums. This looks MS if England had
been struck by republican prosperity.
Dividends have been declared by five
mining companies operating in south.
ern Nevada in the month of June alone, |
amounting to $1G7, 900. This does not
include II considerable amount of money
realized rs profits from leasing enter
priscs for which there are no authentic
reports and the figures do not comprise
profits from such ventures rs the nv
draulic operations at Round Mountain.
Shingles are now made under Il pat.
entcd process from asbestos fiber and
portland cement. Owing to tho enor.
mOu pressure under which the shingles
are manufactured, II is said that they
absorb, when fresh. only about 3 per
ccnt of their weight Of water: and
when exposed to the atmosphere for q
year or two that hydration and su,sc.
qucnt crystnlization make them alsn.
lutcly impermeable.
Bryan seems to have the democratic
presidential nomination in his pocket,
hut this is not conceded 10y his oppon.
cnts. They claim that Bryan has only
49, delegates. pledged to him and that
he an not get enough to win. Strange
things sometimes happen In political
conventions and Bryan may yet Ike beat.
cn. 1t is generally conceded, however.
that he will bcthc nominee of thcDcnycr
convention
Today the Pacific coast of the United
States has about onc.twclrth us many
people ~ live along the Atlantic sou
board; yet the shores Of the Pacific are
many times iicher in natural resources
than arc those Of the Atlantic. There
is hardly any comparison between the
sterile hills Of New England and tho
garden valleys Of Washington. Oregon
and California. California alone Is,
broadly speaking, two.thirds the size Of
France, and is easily cnpallc of s,nttort.