Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-02-05
~Salmagundi
FROM DAILY

Mrs. Ed. LyttOn and children returned
from san Francisco Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wintcrmantcl and son
left for san Francisco Saturday.
The commissioners are in session to-
day allowing bills and looking after the
general affairs of the county.
Speaker Giif"n has set his foot down
on any further graft i'll the assembly
attaches. Bully. for the speaker.
The Appeal Says that the play called
tn Holy City as produced in Carson is
highly immoral and apologies To its
reader, for Publishing its advertise
mcnts.
y letter from White Rock says that
mountain lions are killing stock in that
section. The ranchcrS have suffered
considerable loss and are laying plans to
kill the destructive beasts.
\ Manhattan woman with understood
shoes pimching her feet, an ovcrlaccd
corset gripping her waist and II whale
bone collar gouging her heck. went To
Topeka Monday to have II Good Time!
Manhattan tKan.) Mercury.
\ Chinese woman was flaming the
corpse Of her husband. and being asked
10y the nciGhhprs why she famed a
dead man in the middle of winter, she
replied. My husbands last words
were, Wife, wait till | am cold before
Won marry again. Scrap Book,
Ii was announced in the Presbyterian
church yesterday that II patriotic service
in honor of the centenary of LinCnln's
birth will be held in the church Sunday
evening Feb. 18th. The choir will rcnd.
or special music and Prof. L. q. Nc.
Whitney will deliver a short address on
Abraham Lincoln.
Al the annual meeting Of the LamOillc
Creamery company held at Lamoillc
Saturday the following board of direct.
Ors was elected: J. +. Holland. G. f..
AN'Pl't Il''I NDlet, IL. L l'tiNl anu VI W
Bower. The new board will declare II
ten per cent dividend on the capital
stock Of the company.
81 have designed a house, said Il
young married woman Of orr town ia
an architect. ''and ] want you to pass
Judgment on it," After studying tho
sketch II minutes. the architect re-,
marked with no effort to soften the
hiuntncss of his speech: This amt
II design. This is I'm accident"
y movement is on foot to have tho
commissioners locate the new court
house IN the old Dorsey corral. Advo
Gates of this sito say that il the court
house were built there il would IN
easily seen by-pcoplo passing through
on both railroads. Advocates of tn,
other proposed sites should got II move
on ns tho Cogswcll Development com
pany is on the warpath.
The method by which u president mn,
resign Is provided for in section i5I o
the revised statutes. reading as follows
THE only evidence of u refusal to &c
copt or Of II resignation of tho Office q
president or vicc president shall bc ~
instrument IN writing declaring tn
same and subscribed by the person re
insing to accept or rcsigning, US tn
case may hc. and delivered into In
oIico of tho secretary of state Wash
ington Post.
Saturday President Roosevelt signc
tho proclamation adding G0J. 49, acre
70 tho Humboldt National forest in tn
northern part Of this county, borderin
on tho Idaho line. The area contain
pine, fir and aspen timber estimated q
100000 900, lincal feet. This additio
gives tho forest a total of 1,5IS.sI
acres. Tho slicnpmcn will now hav
loss ground to range over with thci
sheep and tho settlers of that sectio
viii bm corrcspondingly happy.