Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-06-10
SALMAGUNDI
10 bible ouderkirk reports t he town

very HukOI'
Mrs. BARLEY, formerly Miss Belle
Butler, is here from Ely visiting her
mother. brothers and old friends.
P. r. Prunty came in from Mardis
last night. He says there is nothing
out of the ordinary transpiring in that
section. ..,..-.. ..
There is nothing new in the small
pox situation today. 1t is reported
that there is q case in Ruby valley that
may develop into smallpox.
Owing to business conditions at
Rhyolite, the Bulletin has ceased pub
lication. The brand of prosperity
brought OH by the election of Taft has
been too much for it..
The case of the United States against
: the w. T. Jenkins company is on trial
s before Judge Van Fleet in the U. S.
court at Carson, The company is
charged with unlawfully fencing 300
acres of land in this county belonging
to the government,
Mrs. H. Mcneil was painfully burned
tld her home was nearly destroyed by
fire Friday night at Tonopah as the re
suit of the explosion of Il gasoline stove.
The flames caught her clothing and she
rushed from the house, where she man
aged to beat the fire out. The house
caught fire, however, and was nearly
destroyed.
The operator ut Ryndon notified the
Elko hunters this morning that two
large mountain lions were providing
around there last night. This news
greatly excited Joe Taber and Charley
Henderson and they left in an auto
mobile this afternoon to hunt the lions
They will emulate Roosevelt in the
African jungles and bring home the
pelts of the man eaters, that is if said
man eaters will allow their pelts to he
taken.
What is perhaps the largest cost bill
ever filed in a single case ever heard in
the state will be filed by attorneys for
theE plaintiff in the suit brought by
Angus Mcleod against Miller and Lux.
The cost bill aggregates 81, 262.15. The
cast}Eas heard at Dayton and was com
pleiM OH May 29th after having been
going on continuously since April 5th.
AMcLeod was awarded damages from
'Aliller and Lux in the sum of $25, 245
and costs of the suit.--Enterprise.
From present indications it looks as
if boating would be one of the great
amusements on the Humboldt river mt
this place during the summer. A. Y.
Blum's gasoline motor boat will soon be
ready to take it's initial plunge into the
water At y. I. LaPoint's sash and
door factory row boat is being built
for Vic Giroux This craft is almost
completed and will be quite nifty The
next in order will he boat races OH the
Humboldt river at this place. Hum
bOldt Star
Four thousand dollars will be the
cost of pulling off the proposed fights
scheduled to- be held in Reno next
Thursday evening. Sheriff Ferrel
states that he has determined to test
the Nevada fight law, which provides
that every fight held in the state where
IL reward or purse is offered shall be
subject to license of $1,000. Hereto
fore the fighters have been escaping
paying this license by signing an aft
davit TO the effect that they do not re-
. ceive any reward for participating in
the fight.
Miss Mabel Reed of Edgemont read q
very interesting paper on the History
of the Development of Lovelock Valley
AZ her graduating thesis of which the
Reno Journal publishes over a. column
The Journal speaks very highly of the
historical value of the paper and claims
its outbor N q resident of Reno. wheT