Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-07-23
SALMAGUNDI

OAnS - oAtOAhOOH.
If you want to buy New Home sew
ing machine or new Iroquois bicycle,
call on or address this office.
Mrs. Cummings, who has been visit
ing her--sister, Mrs Franks, left for
her home at Ely this morning.
There are about two dozen horses at
the Reno race track being trained for
the state fair race meeting, to be held
in September.
The diamond brooch, advertised in
yesterdays issue, was found last eve
ming, and returned to it's owner, Miss
O'Neil Of Wells.
IRON cloth is made from steel and has
the $fpearance Of horsehair cloth 1t is
largely used by tailors as material for
stiffening the shoulders and collars of
coats. :. -
On account Of the illness of. witness
at the county hospital, the preliminary
examination of Jack Dolan was con-
tinued this afternoon until 10 o'clock
Rev. Geo. H. Greenfield will preach
next Sunday morning and evening at
A1ontello. Later in the season he OK
poets to hold series of evangelistic
meetings at Edgemont. - q.
Mrs, Greenfield aud Mrs Booher left
this afternoon for Lamoille, where they
will spend three Or four weeks, camping
out. They expect to have good time
and SO do their husbands.
A meteor, described as being las big
us house." fell near the railroad at Up
sal, a'sinan station twenty miles east of
Sparks, and Engineer John George, on
the Tonopah- Oakland train, mistaking
the astral body for signal, brought the
train to a stop. The meteor was not
found.-Virginia Chronicle. r.
The humps of camels are mere humps
of fat, and not provided for in the
framework of the skeleton. When the
animal is in good condition, the humps
arefull and plump. On a long journey,
where food is scarce, the humps are
entirely absorbed, the skin covering
them hanging over the flank like an
emph + n <G.F,54. s,>e<,,,.j
A,Under, the omnibus public buildings
bill the "pork barrel, !" which was passed
by congress at the close of it's recent
session; the supervising architect has
Just undertaken the construction of 400
federal buildings !, For this work he
has $34. 00O,O OOa LII addition to these
are about 1O0.unfihisted projects left
from other years; st..
In JOHN w. Kern the democratic party
has Nominated a man who warned the
delegates beforehand that he had no
barrel and that he wouldn't ask any of
his rich friends to contribute Kern is
neither rich or poor; he's just plain
every day democrat in whom those who
know him best have the most confidence.
And that's why the convention went to
Indiana for it's SECOND man Kansas
City Post ;
Rev" John r. Clark of Denver arrived
in Elko yesterday and will act in the
capacity of assistant pastor Of the
Presbyterian church for the next two
months while Mr.. Greenfield breaches
in the outlying districts. Mr. Clark
was one of. the favored. ones of his city
in being present at the Denver conven-
Don when Bryan was nominated. He
speaks very enthusiasts tically of the
convention.
The United States Court of Appeal at
Chicago has reversed the judgement of
Judge Lands in the case of the govern
ment against the Standard Oil company
of Indiana, in which the company was
fined $29,24O, 900. Errors in the rulings
of Judge Lands at the trial are assigned
us the ground Of reversal II is "a safe