Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-08-21
Salmagundi
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY
Get ready for the big boom.

Get ready for the big boom.
Miss Sadie Wines who has been visit
ing her Elko friends will leave for her
home at Boise tonight.
An exchange says that some people
have more expensive sorrow than 9TH
ers. 1t costs so much to drown it.
Sixteen candidates took the examina-
ton for clerk of the Carson mint. Tie
papers will Ike forwarded to Washing.
ton for correction.
Glad to see Col. Hyman out again
He has been laid up for some time with
rheumatism in his feet. 1t has pulled
the old gentleman down considerably.
y foreign exchange says that only
three great problems are vexing hu-
manity today: The immortality of the
soul, perpetual motion and womcn's
hats.
The slnclter ut Ely is now II steady
producer of blister copper and has
been making twelve tons Of the metal
VIZ lhoDabbN SOoI lllNltitSt
the amount of the output.
The Star says that the Helean outfit,
consisting of teams. wagons and scrap.
crs left Winnemucca Tuesday for a
point near Elko. where they have taken
II contract to do grading Oh the Western
Pacific.
The disappearance of "A sack of ANAL
gam, shipped from Manhattcn to the
Carson mint. by express, is being in.
vestigatcd by detectives of the express
company. Two sacks of mnalgam
were shipped but only one Of them
reached the mint. Detectives are i'll
Carson investigating the disappearance
of the missing sack.
The battleship Virginia on June %
took on board 1867 tons Of coal III
four hours. breaking all records, an
average of ilG.I tons per hour. vii.
liam Costello of this city, an old and
experienced railroad man, has figured
uut that it would take a trainload Of
III ears averaging between thirty and
forty tons To- the car, to accomplish the
ah ~" result. Virginia Chronicle.
The Goldirld Tribune is hot after the
scalp of j. F.. Douglas Of that city who
wants the republican nomination for
congress. 1t charges that Douglas is
I'll" personal representative of Thomas
u. Hickey and dycd.in-tlic-wool cor.
poratiOn attorney and the candidate of
til" Southern Pacific. The Tribune
serves notice on the party that it will
MT support Douglas if he is nominated.
j. +. Longacrc. Il gambler who shot
aud killed =. j. Mclaughlin, "A miner,
ut Srvcn.TroughS n few days age. has
been held to answer the charge of
murder before the Humboldt county
grand jury. Longacrc had won "A sum
of money from Mclaughlin and the
latter accused the former Of Swindling
and demanded his money back \ fight
cnsucd and Langacre shot Mclaughlin
while he WAS lying on the ground.
The more the scandal surrounding |
Receiver Wildcs' million dollar bond is
prolcd the worse il looks for Bank Elk
amincr IIofcr According To the Reno
journal, Mr.. WildcS now tatcS that
Gilbert. an agent for one of the sccur-
ity companies. and Ilofcr got Sil25 ont
Of the transaction. lIofcr's bit on his
commission as underwater being 1919.
WildcS is reported to bc partner i'm
HOfcr's insurance business. Is this AN
attempt of Mr.. Wildcs to throw the
odiurn Of this bond transaction on to
his wicked partncry' 1t looks to u
man mp "A tree as if Wildcs and II0fcr
should bc summarily kicked out of the
positions they hold.
W~ushingtOn's death WAS due to acute
~laryngitis; Adams. Madison and Monroe.
practically to old agc: Jefferson. chronic
h%iarrhca: John Quincy Adams paralysis:
-lackSDn. dropSy; Van Buren,. catarrhal
affections of tho throat and lungs; Will
liam Henry Harrison. plcurisy; Tyler,
cause Of death not given 10y biographcrs;
Polk. cholera; Taylor. cholera morbus,
combined with II severe cold: Fillmore
paralysis; Pierce. dropsy; Buchanan,
rheumatic govt: Lincoln. Garfield and
Mckinley, asSISsinatcd; Johnson. paral.
ysis: Grant. cancer at the root Of the
tongue: Hayes. neuralgia Of the heart;
Arthur. heart trouble. and Brnin;nin
Harrison, pneumonia.