Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-05-22
SALMAGUNDI
. Sacramento last

last night to visit relatives.
Manfred Reinhart took No. 3 for
San Francisco this afternoon
The black belt, advertised in these
columns, was found by Margaret Hes
son and returned to the owner this
afternoon.
Everything, indicates big house at
the minstrels tonight. The fun will be
fast and furious and you should not
miss it. Go and drive dull care away.
At last reports, Mrs. Keyser was
gaining strength. The operation will
be performed next Monday. Mr..
Keyser will leave for Salt Lake tonight
to be with her.
!. IF yon want to know something about
TIT great national movement which is
spreading to other nations as we'll hear
DR.. Fuller at the Presbyterian church
tomorrow night.
" The athletic contest between the high
hchools of the state takes place in Reno
this afternoon. The Gazette says that
68 contestants have entered and that
the contest will be stubbornly contest
ed. &c." ID.
Government experts have been test
ing a rifle provided with electric lights
for night work. Soon the luxurious
soldier will refuse to fight unless his
weapon be provided also with consoles
and janitor service.
4 Attorney Henderson left for San
Francisco this afternoon to bring Mrs.
Henderson home. We are pleased to
learn that she has recovered sufficiently
to make the trip. They will return
some time next week.
A scientific periodical calls attention
to the fact that not only water color
but oil paintings of the last half CEN
fury seem doomed to fade, entirely,
and that typewriter documents will
ultimately be blank paper.
: The base ball kids and number of
growDnpeople left for Carlin early this
nQrA> over the Western Pacific. The
kids played the Carlin team this AFTER
noon and the grown people looked on
tlElko won by score of IA to0.
A woman of Tonderu. Schleswig-
Holstein, is bringing an action for libel
against number of persons in the
town who have proclaimed her to be a
witch. She is boycotted by the entire
population, and when she appears out
doors no one will walk on the same
side of the street. .c-.
1t is stated by persons who have
made the calculation and pretend to
know that there are over 1000 rooms
in hotels and rooms to let vacant in
Reno, whereas, before the bank failures
a person was fortunate to get any kind
Of ''shakedown However, business
in Reno is reported as improving, and
that it will not be long before these
vacants are occupied again.-Enter-
prise.
Bernard Clark, one of the men
accused of the murder of Sol Hendra at
Chaffe last December, has been con.
victed Of murder of the second degree
at Winnemucca. Pat Coke, one of the
accused men, was convicted of man
slaughter and Pat Mullaly, another
one, was acquitted. The jury in Clark's
case for 10 hours stood II to 1 for
murder in the first degree and the
verdict was a compromise. y "
The board of pardons refused to com
mute the death sentence of Charles
Kaiser, the Gardnerville Indian who
killed his squaw, to life imprisonment
and he was hanged at the penitentiary
yesterday. He sobbed all the way from
thief )demned cell to the gallows and
inclined as the black mask was drawn
over his face. For this reason, he was