Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-07-31

DIT. CulT DalhS W TeIuhTk tnaC 1hIt 8
fat legs can't compete with his in u
graceful straddle of the round republi.
a elephant.-Ely Exposition.
Ex-Governor Budd of California died
yesterday at Stockton. He was u native
of GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, and was SO
years of age. He was elected governor
by the democrats in 1894 and served one
term.
Extensive improvements are being
made in the Commercial hotel. When
completed Us planned, it will be equip
ped with IL fine barber shop and bath
rooms and have all the conveniences of
4 first.class hotel.
The last day Of July is certainly u
scorcher. At 2:20 o'clock this afternoon
the thermometer mt the writer's desk
registered 10S degrees in the shade and
| was still climbing, 1t is the hottest day
of the season in this office.
A grading outfit, consisting of several
big teams loaded with plows, scrapers,
and other implements. passed through
town late yesterday afternoon. The
outfit came from Winnemucca and was
bound for Ryndon to work on the Yves
tern Pacific.
Mr.. Willis has returned from IL trip to
Gold Circle. He says that district is
looking well and promises to make II
big camp. Mrs. Willis, who accom-
panied him on the trip, was taken with
the mumps and he was compelled to
leave her at Tuscarora. She was doing
nicely.
A curious phenomenon has been found
in the tropics that can never be seen ut
higher attitudes. A mining shaft lit
Sombrero. Mexico, is almost exactly on
the Tropic of Cancer, and at noon, on
June 81, the sun shines to the bottom,
lighting up the we'll for II vertical depth
of 100 feet or more.
There is certainly II change since 1896.
In that year Mr.. Bryan was. being
called an anarchist. Now the worst
said of him is that he is a demagogue. |
Let him run in 1912 and 1916 and he
may be found rather respectable and
have ever II or two college presidents
supporting him.-Springfield Republi-
can.
A careful reading of Taft's speech of
acceptance fails to find any reference
to "malefactOrs of great wealth. ''men-
dacious liars" undesirable citizens"
MY Dear Hartman" the predatory
RICH" 1.-The aninias club" '~'atrocious
liars, and other pet phrases of Presi.
dent Roosevelt. And Teddy o. X. ii the
speech.
james Steele, one of the old time rail
road employees of Wells, returned from
California this morning. He spent sew
eral months there in search of health
and came back feeling almost rs frisky
as a boy. He certainly looks well. Mr..
Steele is now drawing n pension from
the railroad company. He leaves for
Wells tonight.
A deep roar followed by IL fountain of
stones spouting up into the air, caused n
stampede to the Belmont mine on Miz-
pah hill ut Tonopah Saturday. The
cause of the explosion wa the accumu-
lation of oil forming gas i'm the com
pressed air pipe. The pipe burst in two
places at az elbow OH the surface and q
few feet from the 600 foot level under
ground. Fortunately ne one was ser
iously hurt.
A Washington dispatch says that
statements like the following arc now
being heard on every hand: 'Unitarians
teach today what the deists, such rs Tom
Paine, taught II century ago. Unitar.
ians are no more Christians than are ag-
nostics. Thousands of people through
ont the country understand this and they |
will no more vote for Judge Taft, who
IL q Unitarian, than they would have
voted for Colonel Ingersoll."
A number of Tibotan traders who Wis.
tied Calcutta in March, 1908, brought
with them among other articles II large
quantity Of musk, which is held In high
esteem by the high.caste Indians. The
little deer from which the musk Is oh.
tanned ranges in the Himalayas and
Tibetan mountains, 1000 feet above the
sea level. The male deer yields the
finest and greatest quantity of musk.
The deer are shy and ebert and difficult
Of capture.
Mrs. g. II. Jones, wife of IL saloon.
keeper ut Rhyolite. has startled and
shocked effete Salt Lake by wearing n
directiore gown on the streets of Zion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones were returning
from Now York and while IN the east
sho purchased u handsome %dircctiore
and wore II ut Salt Lake for the first
time, going on the streets there and lat.
or to n fashionable restaurant, the Lou.
vrc. The proprietors Of tho latter place
elected the woman because of the gown
Mrs. Jones Is handsome and well. form
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