Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-02-08
SALMAGUNDI
Read our business locals elsewhere.
MfAWilliam Hunter and Miss Gladys
left tor San Francisco yesterday.


left fof San Francisco yesterday.
Merchants lunch at the Commercial
from 11:30 a. m. to 1880 p. MS cents. =
This is about the toughest day of the
winter so far. 1t is cold raw and windy.
Will Smith has purchased the Sproule
bookstore. We wish the young man
success in his venture. s.
z Sunday dinner at the Commercial
Hotel from to p. MS cents.
Watch for the bill of fare.
I George Russell returned yesterday
from Salt Lake, where he has been
undergoing treatment for his eyes. .
4. Hayden Henderson and Mrs. Halves
have snapped real estate. Hayden gets
fhe house and lots east of Mr.. McBride's
residence and Mrs. Halves takes
Hayden's home adjoining her residence.
aThe Woman's Guild of st. Paurs
! furch will hold Lincoln afternoon, at
Laonard Hall at $3.50 p. IN. on Wednes-
Refreshment will be served. Admis-
sion 10 cents.
While the Western Pacific is hauling
in it's material from the east, it is not
running freight trains into Elko. From
present indications it will be some time
vet before the road will be in condi-
ton for the running of regular trains to
this point
At the Breeders sale of registered
Percherons at Bloomington, Illinois,
February 2, and 4th, Fl. Morgan Hill
Of North: Fork, this county, bought five
registered Percheron stations, one of
them o yearling tipping the scales at
1000 pounds. At this sale no grades
were sold, the aggregate footing up
$143,75O. -
If the legislature passes law taxing
bachelors, there will be great wailing
and gnashing of teeth in this neck of
the woods. The Elko bunch swear that
they will leave the state before they
will pay any such tax. IF such law
is passed, the tax should not be less than
81 % year. That would bring the old
'tfa' tG<t~e: i
The commissioners of Humboldt
county have offered reward of $3.50
each for the arrest of Joe Rooney and s.
V. Fuller, one the murderer of Sol
Hendra and the other his accomplish
Hendra was killed at Chafey on the
afternoon of December 29th last. Giro
;rllars containsng the description of the
men are being sent out by Sheriff Lamb
Harry Davis sent his mother a check
large enough to cover her expenses to
Norfolk, Virginia the end of the fleets
cruise around the world. Mrs! Davis
was the happiest woman in the state
when she received the letter. She will
leave for Norfolk tomorrow morning
to see the fleet come in and to meet her
boy, one of the best young men in the
American navy
For the past 10 days this section has
been visited at intervals by the most
violent wind storms that have been ex-
perienced in Eureka for years. During
the week about two feet of snow has
fallen, and as We go to press Friday
aftNrnoon, the sun is shining, but the
barometer registers below the storm
point, indicating more inclement wealth
er to come. Seminal
Fred Newton, charged with the
murder of Frank Ciscilini at Round
Mountain last October, was tried at
Tonopah last week and acquitted. The
evidence showed that the shots fires by
Newton the night of the tragedy were
directed toward the heavens and that
they did not kill Ciscilini. The jury
was out about twenty minutes.
Ciscilini was we'll known here.