Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-09-11
S~almagundi
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY

Mr.. Critchlcy will take his daughter.
Lille, u San Francisco tomorrow. He
will return in about Il week.
You may have observed that AN office
seeker IL a man who shakes the voters
hand before the election and shakes
the voter aftcrward.
Registration began at the State uni
versity yesterday and the Indications
are that the attendance this year will
he larger than at any previous year.
England owns 90 per cent. of the
mileage of submarine cables, the
United States coming next with Is per.
cent. and France next with nine per
cent
The ore production Of the Goldfeld
mines last week WAS 2I0J tons. valued
ut lGl,2 i0. This is the lowest OUTPUT
since the resumption of work in Feb.
ruary.
Sheriff Clark left last night for
Reno with William Ballard whom
Judge Brown committed to the ASYLUM.
Ballard is as crazy as the traditional
bed bug.
Three hundred and eighteen voters
had registered with Judge Bruce ut
noon today. If you have not registered
do so mt once rs the time is getting
shorter every day.
The public school opened this morn.
ing. All the teachers were OH deck
ready To do their part Of the work i'm
training up the youngsters of Elko in
the paths they should travel through
life.
The press upon which Franklin
worked in London in 1925 is preserved
in the patent Office ut Washington. 1t
is II clumsy structure, almost entirely
of wood, and is KIN own us the Ramage
press.
Abe Attcl and Owen Moran fought
II drawn battle in San Francisco yes.
terday. Both men were severely pun
ishcd. At Los Angeles, Billy Papko
whipped Stanly Kctchcll after Il stub.
born battle.
Assessor Wcathcrs is busy sending
ont the printed list Of taxpayers. He
has not footed mp the roll yet. but csti-
mates that it will foot up in the neigh.
hJrhood of $40, 40, 900. II raise of nearly
q million dollars ovcr last year.
The state fair opened ut Reno yestcr-
day. Tho exhibits are more numerous
than at any of the previous fairs and
there are more entries of racing stock.
Tho indications are excellent for tho
most successful state fair cver held in
Reno. II is II good place to spend the
week.
Labor Day was celebrated yesterday
in all parts of the country. The hosts
Of labor upon whom the prosperity and
welfare of the country depends turned
out in force IN honor Of the day. In
New York City forty thousand men
marched through crowded streets.
Thousands Of unemployed men joined
in II counter demonstration.
The commissioners at their meeting
to-day changed the location of the road
between ElkO and the Hot Springs.
The rOad now runs g land that has
been given to the Western Pacific for
it's right of way and shops. The new
road will he 10 feet wide and its north.
crn boundary will hc 100 fcCt south of
the Southern Pacific's right of way.
The new road will go straight west In
stead of winding south MS the present
road does.
Chief Engineer Boguc of tho Western
Pacific arrived Sunday night in his
special car aud spent part of yesterday
in town. lie went to Ryndon and
looked over the work there and return
cd to town and did sorhc Office work.
The rain prevented him from going
over tho ground where the shop will bc,
, Everything in regard to the Western
, Pacific in this section Is moving alona
nicely.