Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-01
Salmagund
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY

town FOR the winter.
Judge y. l.. Fitzgerald has g,as to
Boston to sp2al tn" winter with his
son.
The Commercial railors have some
thing that Will interest you in their ud
on the first page. Read it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Adams arrived
yesterday from Gold Creek. where Paul
mas been prospecting ~forsevcral months.
More than 30, 900 worknen are killed
III the course of u year in this country
by accidents incidental to their occupa.
tiOnS.
According to the Gazette. the mining
congress mt GOldiield is rather Il tame
affair. About 200 delegates attended
the opening session.
The United States annually exports
more cottonseed oil than all the other
countries of the w1ril combincd-i2.-
OOO.OOO out of ~. 900. 900 gallons.
The remains Of Mr.. EIglert will
arrive on No. u tonight and the funeral
will take place" tomorrow. We have
Keen unable to learn the time and place.
The White Pine News of SUNDAY is a
~ page paper filled with interesting
write ups and illustrations of tn e diff
fcrcnt mining camps in White Pine
county. 1t Is one Of the best papers
ever Issued in the state.
y brand new boy arrived at George
Hunters home Yesterday morning and
demanded board and lodging. The
mother and child are doing nicely and
George II too proud for thc common
run of people. Hope the yOungster will
grow up to b. An honor To his parents.
I'm glad my children are I'LL boys
said the mother of seven young hope
fuls. Because why" qucried the priv
LEGGED friend. ''Bccaus. none of them
Is doomed To grow up and marry Il
man like their dad. she answered with
u sigh.
|. l.. Woolvcrton, Sr., drove in from
Rnhy valley yesterday. He WAS caught
Ill the storm after leaving Halleck and
had Il wet trip the rest of the way. He
started on the return tripthis afternoon.
There j. nothing exciting, he says,
going on i'll the valley.
The Western Pacific track was COM
plctcd to Winncmucca last Saturday
forenoon. The track WAS then laid to "A
point about liO miles west of Winnie
mucca and there WAS II gap of about 30
miles between the tracklaying outfits
working from both ends. This gap
will be closed about the middle of
October.
So You didn't take any part in the
campaign, Uncle Silasr' Nav, Jim
Higgins, the school teacher. and Eb
Miller. the lawyer, gohbled up 'VoX
Populi' and 'Unum cx Pluribus' right
AT the start, and with them two nom
dcrplums gone and nobody in town
KNOWN any more Latin, the rest of us
fcllcrS couldn't do any writin' for the
public press at all, 10y gum,"-Puck
Captain J. b. Ovcrton, one Of the
best known citizens Of western Nevada,
died SUNDAY evening It the home of
Jay Clemens III Reno. He came to
. California iii 1870 and in 1871 went To
Virginia City, where he took charge of
the Virginia and Gold Hill Water
works and held the position of supcrin-
trndcnr for 81 years. He was II native
of Allegheny county. n. V. aged ~
years.
Carroll ID. Wright. United States
commissioner of labor. shows in his
report for 1908 that the British work.
man is the highest paid man in the
world when his salary is measured by
its power To purchase the ncCccssarics
of life. He estimates that the English
laburcr Il buy the ncccSSaricS of life
for one years with 2Oj days labor.
while il takes ?2j days labor by the
American tn buy the necessities for
II year.
More money was added to the rccla.
nation fund during the last year than
any year since the reclamation law
WAS passed. save l9JS. Receipts from,
4 the sale of public lands last year "
crcdcd thos" of all previous years,
save l00S. The total receipts for tn,
year ending .Jonc 80, 1909, amounted
to $lI.G21,GS7 OF this amount it i,
estimated that Approximately -. 800.
GDO will lc turned into the reclamation
fund. North Dakota shows larger re
ccipts than any other State. Oregon
is second with II total Of SG5s, 933
Washington third. with Si22.0Ij. and
Idaho fourth, with $9i'''a'.
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At HARVARD FIFTY YEARS AGO
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