Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-22
Salmagund
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY

Inc hlA' Mercantile company is
selling Tomatoes very cheap. See the
ad.
Mr.. anu Mrs. ]. W. Thompson and
MIR. and Mrs. Smiley left for VIM.
Rock this morning.
II W. t. Sn,th Company has AN
interesting al in this issue. Re,J il
anu take advantage of the reduced
prices
James j. Hill has never taken nav
save in the increased value of his
holdings. for the management Of any
railroad.
Mayor Britt has vetoed the saloon
ordinance passed by Rcno,s city council
last week. He holds that the ordinance
was improperly passed.
For every million ions of coal pro.
duccd in American mines. six men lo~..
their lives. For every man killed i'm
European mines. We kill three or four
The Guild will meet at Judge Browns
residence ut 2:30 o'clock Wcdne. day
afternoon. All the members are re-.
Iuested to attend as important bust.
ness will come before the meeting.
The largest tobacco farm in the world.
containing $1,000 acres. is near AM
sterdain, Ga. Here is grown about me.
third of all the Sunatra tobacco used
for cigar wrappers in the United States.
When james K IbinSon of Reno re-
turned from his work Sunday morning,
he found his wife setting in "A chair
dead. She had suffered from heart
trouble and that wa the cause of her
death. She WAS u native of Ohio. aged
80 years.
When ElkO's sew y system is in opera.
ton, no town in the state can offer
better Inducements To homeseekers.
Property will increases in value and
I Ter. will br no f. ir~ Of AN epidemic of
typhoid fever or n-n.r fatal diseases
that have their urIsIn in ~unsanitarv
conditions. Let Us all pull for the
eve system.
MIR. Mcclellan returned this murnina
from the Salmon river country. where
he has been surveying for the Vineyard
livestock company. He reports tina,
the railroad binding south from Twin
Falls, Idaho, will stop at Deep Creek
forty-fivc miles from Contact. for III,
present and that Il TOWNSHIP is brinl
laid out there by the railroad company
y guest AT AN -Atchison home cam,
for three days and WAS still there nj tn,
end Of five weeks. Il like all kind,
Of meat she remarked one day as sh
passed her plate for the third helping
but fried liver" That night thcr,
was fried liver for supper. fried live
the text day for breakfast. dinner ant
supper. and the next day. when tn,
guest was asked to have fried liver
she packed her trunk and went home
Atchison Globe.
Doane Robinson, head of the depart
ment of history of the state Of Soutl
Dakota. says OF Sitting Bull and tn,
Custer massacre: The Indians tell III,
that Sitting Bull WAS Il medicine chief;
that he was the greatest intluenc,
among the Sioux at that time by reason
| IF Lis .h,Stnpt nrttnti,n n,aaipgt a.,
whites. and that he did not personally
engage in the fight against Custer, but
that he was back on an elevation he
tween the Little Big Horn and the BIZ
Horn making medicine Indian Schoo
Journal.
\ new system of modified penman
ship will bc started in the publ,
schools of Philadelphia Us the result q
an investigation of the subject by Il
committee of 30 teachers during the
last school year. The new system is ;
modification of the old vertical style
which came in for much condemnation
and the Spencerian type. The result is
expected to put u stop to the cranpcd
writing caused by the old system and {,
instruct the children to spccdier pen
manship.
Statistics compiled by Il technical
journal recently show that in Europe
ono physician can care for 1000 of tho
general population. If such u proper
tions holds good for Europe. 1t is reason
able to suppose that II similar proper
wocld DO sufficient for the United
States. And yet, according to the
census Of 1000, we had II doctor t.
every 50i of our population. II Is csti
mated that the 1910 ccnsu will show
at least l5i, 900 doctors in the United
States. II is stated on authority tina
we are 80 years in advance Of thu
natural requirements.
Frank V. Drake, one of the earl,
! residents of Austin and later "A prom
incnt attorney in Virginia City. died o
pneumonia in Reno Saturday, while OF
his way from Bishop. California, I,
Sacramento for treatment. Franl
Drake WIS district attorney If Store,
county ut the time Of the settlement u
tho bullion tax suits against tn
Bonanza companies. At n time IL