Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-07-03
Salmagundi
FROM THURsDAY'sD ALLY

for Winnemucca.
Night Operator Terrell is considerably
under the weather.
George Phaler, the Bullion miner and
p~rospectOr, left on No. = for California;.
where he intends To buy a home.
Regent Levers arrived fI1m Reno
this morning. He is here OH legal bust
ness and will remain until tomorrow
night. ~
Harry Bruce returned from Round
Mountain this morning. He is very
much pleased with the mining prospects
of that section. .
Quite Il number of Elkoites will spend
h Fourth ont of town. \ few of the
best will remain To keep things going
i'll the usual rut.
Walter J. Bartnett. San Francisco's
hank wreckcr. was yesterday sentenced
to ten years imprisonment in San QUEEN
tin. His case has been appealed.
Nv 'di'h'Iuiht iii HTt dt Dan
Francisco $500 bindings have been
erected and 1000 others :,mUlelcd. The
disaster destroyed 2S.OO0 buildings.
RcnoS big celebration began yester.
day. Miss lone Talbot, daughter of J..
b. Talbot, has been chosen us the God
dess of Liberty. Miss Talbot is q uni
vcrsity student.
The La Maize tic cigar III the Club and
Elk saloons is manufactured expressly
for Mr.. Gutridge. 1t is the cigar for
smokers. Call for the La Majestic and
have Il good smoke. <
Congressman Bartlett emphaticallv
denies the report that h" mas withdrawn
from the congressional hight. He says
that he has no intention of withdrawing
and is i'll the fight to win.
An expedition is being equipped under
the auspices of the Russian ministry of
marine, with the object of discovering
II northeast passage between the Allan
tic and Pacific oceans.
Nothing has been heard from Web
Dickson, the escaped prisoner. Deputy
Sheriff Harris is keeping Il pitcher of
water and II few slices of bread ready
for him. Joe will kill no fattcd calf OH
DiCksOn's return.
One minister declares that the man
who invented cards must have come
from Hades.' Most of the other min
listers agree that those who play with
them are in Il fair way to see his old
stamping ground.-Kansas City Journal
The socialist state convention will
meet at Sparks on the ID, 18th and 9TH.
They intent to nominate a full state
ticket and go il alone, as it is said that
an effort To join them with the indepen-
dencc league. Hcarst's party. has been
defeated.
Tbs woman who first taught school Il
hundred years ago waa Il dcmurc. timid
creature, who promised to teach writ
ing. embroidery. ''thc use of the globe
and department us prccmincnt branches
of education. Today there are nearly
POO, 900 more mi teachers than men.
The Nevada delegation to the Denver
convention will leave Reno Friday
night. Two special cars will he attach
ed to the limited. At Ogden they will
he switched Ia the Denver & Rio Grandc.
They are scheduled to reach Denver on
the morning of the 9Th. There will be
about sixty in the party.
When the first passenger train in
England took its trial spin along the
tracks Of TN" Stockton IL Darlington
railway in 1925, u h0rscman. bearing Il
red danger flag. glllOpcd along Just
ahead OF the engine To warn the crowds
of spectators, and to act as part of what
was intended us II railway pageant.
The Singer building in New York is
the highest in the world but there is
not enough wood in it TO make a lead
pencil. II can never catch fire from
within. The architect refused to make
II s~kyscrapcr of their first building. but
now that the city is disfgurcd for good
he is willing To put mp commercial
overs if allowed to make them fire.
proof.
Professor j. q. Scrughn,n of the Ne.
vada University is in receipt of Il spcci.
men Of material that resembles some.
what either coal ~ asphalt. Consider.
able comparing and testing fails to give
u definite analysis. II burns almost
the same rs oil and does not leave any
ash ut all. This places IL out of the
coal family. There Is II deposit Of the
material in the eastern part of the state.
Reno Rcvcillc.
II Is said that when II president IL
permitted Ia select his successor, tho
first step toward the monarchy has been
taken. for II Is an assault on u basic
principle Of our form Of government
that weakcns the whole structure. To
periodically refuse to violate Il third.
term tradition and then place the
sccptcr of power in the hands Of his own
selection is looked upon rs Il dangerous