Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-10-19
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Rea&ur business locals elsewhere.


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Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Thompson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Smiley left for White
Rock this morning.
The w. T. Smith Company has an
interesting ad in this issue Read it
and take advantage of the reduced
prices
James J. Hill has never taken pay,
save in the increased value of his
holdings, for the management of any
railroad.
Mayor Britt has vetoed the saloon
ordinance passed by Reno,s city council
last week. He holds that the ordinance
was improperly passed.
: For every million tons of coal pro-
duced in American mines, six men lose
their lives. For every man killed in
European mines, we kill three or four.
!, The Guild will meet at Judge, Browns
&ssidence at $3.50 o'clock Wedne day
afternoon. All the members are re-
quested, to attend as important bust
ness will come before the meeting
The largest tobacco farm in the world,
containing $4,000 acres, is near Am
sserdam, Ga. Here is grown about one
third of all the Sumatra tobacco used
for cigar wrappers in the United States.
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When James Robinson 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 was the cause of her
death. She was d native of Ohio, aged
80 years.
When ElkO's sewer system is in opera
ton, no town in the state can offer
better inducements to homeseekers.
Property will increase in value and
there will be no fears of an epidemic of
typhoid fever or other fatal diseases
that have their origin in unsanitaryy
conditions. Let US all pull for the
sewer system.
Mr.. Mcclellan returned this morning
fron2s5he Salmon river country, where
he E41been surveying for the Vineyard
Livestock company. He, reports that
the railroad building south from Twin
Falls. Idaho, will stop at Deep Creek,
forty-five miles from Contact, for the
present and that townsite is being
laid out there by the railroad company.
A guest at an Atchison home came
for three days and was still there at the
end of five weeks. Il like all kinds
of meat" shs remarked one day as sh e
passed her plate for the third helping,
but fried liver" That night there
was fried liver for supper. fried liver
the. next day for breakfast, dinner and
supper, and the next day, when the
guest was asked to have fried liver,
she packed her trunk and went home
Atchison Globe.
Doane Robinson, head of the depart
lnent of history of the state of South
Dakota, says of Sitting Bull and the
Custer massacre: THE Indians tell me
that Sitting Bull was a medicine chief;
that he was the greatest influence
among the Sioux at that time by reason
OF his constant agitation against the
whites, and that he did not personally
engage in the fight against Custer, but
that he was back on an elevation be-
tween the Little Big Horn and the Big
Horn making medicine. Indian School
Journal.
A new system of modified pc imam
ship will be started in the public
schools of Philadelphia as the result of
an investigation of the subject by a
cWNnittee of 30 teachers during the
lagschool year. The new system is a
modification of the old vertical style,
which came in for much condemnation,
and the Spencerian type. The result is
expected to put stop to the ctamped
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