Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-06-21
SALMAGUNDI
our business locals elsewhere.

for Boston. ?,
Miss Mae Gardner returnd from San
Francisco Saturday. '5%
Mrs. Clemmons of Ely is visiting her
Elko relatives and friends. s.
Mrs. George w. Lindsay and children
returned from California Saturday
night. S..
Mrs. Ethel Hale McGinty, arrived
yesterday afternoon from McGinty,
Texas, on a visit to her parents. ,
The Calhoun jurors reported to Judge
Lawler this morning? that they were
unable to agree and were discharged
The preliminary examination of Geb-
hart Siebel, Mr.. Baumbach's bartender,
began before Judge Bruce this after
noon and was still going on when this
report closed. - b. :. ...,. ! 4 [; q
A French learned--man says the only
way for women to be beautiful is for
them to be silent, for talking brings
wrinkles. And does he mean to infer
!. there are no beautiful WON en-?
! The finest Fourth of July poster ever
printed in this county was printed in this
Office yesterday by Mr.. Frost for the
Commercial Tailors. It's dandy and
tells the kind of work this Office can do.
The man who went into the treasury
ut Washington and demanded million
dollars went into the wrong place. He
should have gone to Aldrich and asked
for clause in the tariff.-New York
Evening Post ..
Miss Hattie Hale is visiting her
mother, relatives and friends. She
stopped here last week OH her way from
McGinty, Texas. to her grandmother's
home in Oakland. She will continue
her journey tonight.
A nugget weighing eleven and thir-
teen hundreths ounces. of solid gold
was found last Thursday on Speaker
J. B. Giffin's lease at Manhattan. It
was taken from the surface with q
scraper, and is the size of a deck of
cards. 1t is the biggest nugget yet
found on the placers. The camp is wild
oyt}Ae find.
Whenever a newspaper man fills his
columns with his own name and is the
great ''it," just put it down he is the
most unpopular man in the town in
which he resides and that he has got
to talk about himself in his paper be-
cause the good element never thinks
about him. Think about this
Tonopah Bonanza
The Battle Mountain baseball team
and the Elko nine met on the diamond
yesterday and the home team was
beaten, the score standing 6 to 5 in
favor of the visitors. The game was
a warm one from beginning to end and
good ball was played by both teams.
The two teams are liable to meet again
on the 4th, the schedule being for Battle
Mountain to play Loyelock and Elko to
play Carlin and the winners to play on
the 9Th. ... '..l...
A sprinkling cart for the town arriv-
ed from San Francisco this morning.
The tank is steel and the tires are six
incher wide. The forward wheels track
just inside of the hind wheels and the
machine is roller as well as q sprinkler.
1t should be put in use. at once to keep
down the dust of our very dusty streets.
If our city dads will see that the
sprinkler IS put in use at once and the
dust kept down, they will receive the
blessings of this community. .-..
The plans tpr the new courthouse
arrived Saturday night and are nowtin'
possession Of Clerk Dawley. The plans
provide for building fronting about
III feet on Idaho street and 70 feet in
depth The Jail is Immediately in the
RI of tho cnt1rkhouao ond anna ha1