Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
Col. Hyman returned from Reno las.

frosty.
Miss Hattie Tanner end Mrs. Rogers,
her sister, were visitors mt the county
seat yesterday.
Judge Rutledgc Of Carlin was in
town today. He reports everything
lovely down the river.
Mr.. E p. Martin has disposed of his
residence to Mr.. Dick Lewis of Dceth.
who will o his family here i'm
mediately.
John Butler and Miss Millie Cotant
were married in Ogden last week. They
will make Elko their home. We wish
Mr.. and Mrs. Butler success, happiness
and prosperity.
Suit has been brought by Nye county
against the bondsmen of Sheriff
Thomas Logan. deceased, for the
amount of his shortage. Logan was
killed mt Manhattan in 1906.
a London physician claims to have
discovered the answer to ''Why is the
veriniform "ppendixTit II Is 10 rive
the surgeon Il chance to ~operate-and
get Il big fee.-Lcbanon Rustic.
n prophecies has announced all kinds
of calamity for 1909. What ails these
soothsayers, anyway. Why can't they
tell us about some of the pleasant
things that will h%appen?- Chicago Her
aid.
Kangaroo steak is the latest delicacy
served in New Works fashionable res.
taurants. The price on the bill of fare
is - II enough to pay for
twenty orders of baked bcans.-Boston
Globe.
The wedding of Mr.. Owen 4. Porch
and Mrs. Alice Porch took place ut the
home of the groom OH Cedar Hill,
Eureka. on Tuesday evening, January
), 1909. Rev. Angus Mathcson o%fficiat.
ing. This is the second marriage of the
couple, they having been divorced a few
years agO.-Eurcka Sentinel.
Angelo PoSsctta. the Italian who was
SO badly hurt last week in the Western
Pacific tunnel at Palisadc, died Sunday
morning at the county hospital. His
remains were taken to the undertaking
parlors and prepared for shipment TO
Palisadc OH No. , last night. The fun
eral took place this afternoon.
Senator Nixon is in Reno looking af-
ter his private business. Senator New
lands will bc in Nevada for Il short time
during the session of the legislature.
The republican editors will forget about
Nixon's absence from Washington by
that time and charge Newlands with
ncglccting his duties rs Il senator.
y recent dispatch from Denver says
there will he no community of inter
csts' between the Gould and Hartman
roads in the West. according to the an.
n"OunCcincnt given ont by !. +. Failc,
general counsel for the Denver x Rio
Grande. This statement indicates that
last summers rumors that Hartman
had secured Il hold on the Western Pa.
cific and other Gould lines in the West
is not correct.
According tn a Salt Lake dispatch of
the 9th three men were killed and two
seriously injured in the Flower Lake
tunnel Saturday. The five men, all car
pcntcr helpers, were riding through the
tunnel Oh a ilatcar. when an i]mpr0viscd
scaifold. erected over Il platform on the
car, came in contact with some timber
work on the roof of the tunnel and the
scaifold collapsed. The men were
p%inioncd beneath the wrcckage and
three of them were instantly killed.
Their names were not given in the
dispatch.
Taxpayer has an interesting com
municatiOn in this issue. lie points ont
where the commissioners can reduce OK
penscs If SO inclined. lie is right in the
view he takes of our article in Satur.
days issue. We have no criticism to
make of the commissioners for adver.
Using for bids for doing the county
printing providing they advertise for
bids for tho county physicians. Our
contention is that the county physician
and comfy printing are governed by
the same law and that bids should be
asked for both. We are opposed to the
evasion Of the law in tho case of the
county physician and its enforcement
against the printers.
The board Of pardon ut its meeting
Friday denied tho applications of
Preston and Smith, the Goldficld muir
dcrcrs, for pardons. This action of the
board IL sure to meet with the approval
Of a very large majority of tho people
Of this state. These men committed II
brutal murder and they were given n
full measure Of mercy by tho jurics
that tried them. Any lcsscning Of their
punishment will encourage tho same
kind of lawlcssncss iIf others Of their
stamp. The board of p~arlOns did their
duty in this case regardless of tho
clamor of the labor agitators. For this
they deserve the thanks of all good
citizens of the state.
So