Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-08-02
SALMAGUNDI

MfseReinfeld is reported much better
today.
j. w. Puett, the Carlin merchant
and hotel man, is in town today.
Mrs. Sproule is moving her old resi-
dence from the courthouse site to one
of her lots on Idaho street.
Elko Camp, No. 800, w. o. W., will
hold its first meeting in Leonard hall
tonight at 8 o'clock and all who have
been examined are requested to be
present
Miss Leona Allen who taught in the
Elko public school three or four years.
ago, was married in Sparks Yesterday
to Mr.. Lester Haworth, Editor of the
Reese River Reveille at Austin.
Miss Hattie Rosenstock left this morn
ing for Chicago to resume her charity
work. She is doinga great work in that
city, one that should make it very easy
for her to enter the pearly gates that
open into Paradise.
Some of our readers want to know
L why the chain gang is not put to work
u cleaning up the weeds that are growing
along some of the sidewalks. Perhaps
it is owing to lack of funds. The
query is passed mp to the commissioners.
The new tariff bill passed the house
Saturday night by vote of 195 to 1873.
Twenty republicans voted against the
7
voted for it. The bill now goes to the
senate, where it will be debated more
than it was in the house.
Assistant State Engineer Van Nagel
will leave Monday for Paradise Valley
and the Humboldt river section to COM
plete the work of adjudication of water
rights in Elko, Humboldt, Lander,
Eureka and upper White Pine county
streams tributary to the Humboldt
river.-Appeal. ... 4
The commissioners met this forenoon
and put in most of the day allowing the
accumulation of bills. They also looked
over the plans for the new courthouse
and made some changes in them. Mr..
Weeks, the architect, was present. He
tool rhe plans to San Francisco, where
he : i make the necessary changes.
Thomas A. Edison is credited with
the prediction: within five years,
airships will be carrying passengers
across the ocean in 10 hours miles
an hour. Aerial fight will be COM
1nercialized in that time. The north
pole can and will be reached in a 40
hour trip. The perfected heliocopal
will be able to encircle the globe in a
week." Of, ......
Word is received from Calgary
Bristish Columbia to the effect that
Robert Grimmon, of Reno and former
United States Marshal for Nevada, has
purchased 24OO acres of wheat land near
Calgary which is pronounced the best
land in that section of the country.
The land was held at $40. so per acre
Enterprise.
The Telegram plant was sold Satur-
day to The Nevada Publicity Company
and will be moved to Carlin as stated in
Saturdays issue, The road is again
open for some one to come to Elko and
start an opposition paper to fill that
long felt want. The Telegram is the
third or fourth to try the field and give
it up. Of course, it won't be the last.
Florence Hildebrant and Grace Earle,
} the women charged with enticink q
=. young girl from her home at Virginia
to their den at Gardnerville, were
arrested last week and taken to Virginia
City for their preliminary examination.
Their bail was fixed at $4,000 each,
which they were unable to give and
they were locked up. If they are con-
victed of this offense, they should be