Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-01-31

MIR. Jacob cl, aranee sule win close
GU Saturday, March lst: Tnose wish
inR 10 take advantage OF his rsduc Il
prices should govern themselves ac-
cordmRiy.
The United States Senate has passed
the Clark bill increasing the pay OF
witnesses and Jurors before the United
States and commissioner courts to %
per day in Utah, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana and Nevada, and providing
thu, mileage OF 10 cents per mile shpll
be paid for stage travel and o cents for
raiiroade.
MS. Wood, a prominent attorney,
died in San Francisco yesterday. Mr..
Wood was a member u the firm OF
Whitman il Wood, leading attorneys ON
tile comstock thirty years ago. lie will
10 "nember, Il by ull obi Cumstockers.
Hls death wuh .lue to pBeuunoUia, caused
by exposure tAo weeks ago. lie WIS &C
years Of age.
Pen 10 /" decision I'D the suit Tor
divorce brought against her by her
hub md in Rem, Mrs. Sardis Summer
field viii DC ii 80 sl72. 80 per month
Tor the support u herself and con. This
was 'he order hinded dow1 by Judge
Pike. llearIng Of evidence in the mat
t2. .SG"pied nearly ter days. Both sides
completed their testimony Wednesday
morning and but little tIuie was wasted
in argument. Mrs. SummPrtield had
asked for 500 d month.
The total of the railroads OF the world
on J'nuary !, 1876, liz declared to nave
563,Tl.1 miles (EugIish) or, in the fig
urcs giver, 9l5,G95 k:'cmetere, Of which
the Quilted STATES rrprescn,e 2l5,7I3.39
miles (35l ,003 kilOmetere) resulting in
M An. arci.n lead Of about $3.50 miles
over Europe. 'he total mileage Of the
American coI.tIm mt is It timAted to be
more thnn II i"n!! 81 that Of the entire
WORLD German stat istIcs IN consular
reports.
The problem II race suicide will be
siDpltird by the better housing Of
working people. As the result OF al
experiment coIr". 81 800 ,00O-by an
Euglirh mauut c-urrr, IL garden colony
Tor employees l. f"ported to ave a birth
rate OF III and ii death rate Of only nice
per ] ,Ou0; while the children OF seven
are three III cbes taller and seven pounds
HEAVIER ind those Of IL years are five and
one half inches taller and 20 pounds
heavier, thuu the average Of children Of
the Rame age among the laburlng classes
OF Liverpool.
had a fight IN the district court at Reno
yesterday. Cottrell suid Jones WAS no
gentleman, and Jones told Cottrell that
he would knock him down il the remark
was repeated. C"ttrell repeated the in.
suit md Jones hurled law books ut him.
The fret one missed Cotlrell, but the
second struck him bnck OF the ear.
Mors books followed, but COllrell
lodged them and appealed to the courl
to stop the war. Finally the clerk
stopped Jones and the row ended. The
attorneys apulogized TO the conrt md TO
each other md Judge Pike rebuked
them and let them go.
Mrs. Francis l.. Burton, the invalid
wiie OF Frncis l. Burton. the attorney
OF Minis who was shot and killed some
time ago hy Editor Buck, Of the Raw
hide Ruatler, died in Chicago five days
ago as Il result Of The illness which she
has been afflicted the past ten years.
during BurtoD's stay in Carson City ne
WIZ epokeD kindly Of by som because
OF the devotion he showered Oh Mrs.
burton, although che WIS ben ridden
and practically u burden ub his hands
cecessitatIpg his wheeling her around
daily in "A chair, and it is because Of this
md the fact that Burton was killed in n
gun tight, TINT some say che died NJ q
broken heart.-Npws.