Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-07
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For Hent-Ihree fOur-rOOm cottages.
Inquire of Mrs L. L. Bradley.
Recorder Greathouse reports many
inquiries about the mines of Elko
county.
Payson, the walker, reached Reno
last night. He is several days behind
the schedule.
Mrs. Anna Talbert committed suicide
at Yerington last Saturday night by
shooting herself.
Applicants for teachers certificates
should read the notice of Superintend-
ent Anderson in this issue.
Mrs. T. T. Harris and Mrs. Chauncey
!; Griswold left for South Fork this after
? noon to visit Mrs Charles Adams.
A note from Ruby Valley says that
: Miss Hortense Wright, who has been
dangerously ill for week or more, was
reported better on Sunday.
Mrs Fender of Ogden is here in the
interest of her son who is serving q
sentence for carrying o concealed
weapon. She will circulate q petition
Ito the board of pardons.
The Anaconda (Mont.) Standard says
it takes more than benzoate of soda to
preserve mans temper when his wife
pays $18 for an inverted bushel basket
and calls it an Easter hat.
Sheriff Clark is busy summoning
jurors to try Joseph MCGOWAN on the
charge of murder. He is getting fifty
jurors from Wells, Deeth, Elko and
Carlin on an open venire.
1t is reported that horse racing on the
east end of Idaho street occurs quite
frequently to the danger of women and
children. The officers should put a
stop to it before some one is killed or
injured.
Joe Harris has twenty patients to
care for in the county hospital and
Jailer Gilmore has twenty-five prisoners
to feed and look after. The hospital
and pare very expensive institutions
to the taxpayers.
i A Missourian has traded 13,OOO-acre
Mrm for newspaper. 1t is no doubt
one of those farms in the Ozarks where
it is necessary to shoot the seeds into
the hillsides with a shotgun and harvest
the crops with a balloon.-St. Joseph
Observer
Virginia City had big time cele-
brating the 50th anniversary of the
discovery of the Comstock lode. Four
old timers, E. Penrod, Oscar Steele,
James Roberts and Frank Dickinson,
who were residents at the time of the
discovery, were hauled about in a
carriage and were cheered all along the
line of the procession.
Newspaper men, as rule, have but
two things to sell, space and subscrip-
ton, and it would be just as consistent
to ask your grocer for a dozen oranges,
Just to FILL" as to ask the editor for q
dozen lines in his paper just to boost
your business, with the idea that you
are doing kindness to fill up space.
Try getting free dinner at the hotel
Just to make show of business for
the house. -Fruitdale (Ala.) Herald.
The Western Pacific carpenters at
the roundhouse have finished the work
n III have been transferred TO Laportia,
the next passenger division west Of
Elko. Laportia is nearly north of Boca,
California and is near the east end of
the Beckwith tunnel. A roundhouse,
depots and other necessary buildings
will be built at that point. This work
will take six months or more to complete
One of the carpenters informed us this
forenoonh that he expected to return
after TN christmas holidays and assist
in building the freight and passenger
lcpots here.
Horse racing in the street of Elko
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