Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-03-26
S~almagundi
r o FRIDAYS DAILY

Read our business locals elsewhere.
l. Mrs. Joe Harris returned from Carson
this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Weight of Lamoile
are spending u few days in town.
The Western Pacific pay car made
the company's employees happy yester-
day.
Frank p. Mannix. editor of the Bull
frog Miner, is said to be seriously sick
in Reno.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shonerd of Echo, Utah,
are visiting Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Shoncrd's
mother.
Mrs. Campbell will have her opening
next Tuesday. The ladies should make
a note Of the date.
Among the sixty largest cities in the
country during February. San Fran
cisco stood third in the building opera.
tions, which amounted to 81, POI, 95G.
We are pleased to learn that the con-
dition of Mrs. Campbell aud her little
grandson changed for the better last
night and that both are considerable
better today.
Mr.. Roundtree was badly bitten by a
dog ut Alfred Bruce's ranch this morn
ing. He was not able to walk home
after the wound was dressed at the
Office of Drs. Hood & West.
Stockings made from human hair are
worn by Chimes, fishermen AS the best
preventive of wet feet. They are drawn
over ordinary cotton stockings, being
too rough for putting near the skin.
Assemblyman Winter has returned
from Ogden where he went to confer
with the chief of the forest service over
grazing permits in the Bruneau country.
He is much pleased with the result of
the conference.
When Tallman saw the banking bill
that passed both houses he said he was
willing to father it, but that he must
have been dreaming. The bill is "A relic
of some forgotten hopes. all right, but
it is Il good bill nevertheless Carson
Appeal.
Governor Dickerson has signed the
banking act, the mining inspector bill,
the anti gambling bill and the juvenile
court bill. According to the Carson
Appeal, the anti-ganbling law goes in
to effect on the 10th of October. 1910.
| After that date no licenses will be issu-
ed.
Don't work for wages all your life.
Owning property is the first step to in.
dependence. Eiio real estate is Il sound
investment. Money has been made by
all who ever invested i'll Ell1o lots. We
have ground ut prices within reach of
the man drawing laborer's wages.
Lots 800 to 1915 per lot. Elko Hide and
Junk Co.. Elko. Nevada.
The delay in the east bound trains
yesterday was caused by the wreck of a
freight train four miles west of Cosgrave
about 3 o'clock in the morning. A
broken axle under n car of wine caused
the wreck. An unknown tramp was
killed and Juarez Sanchez, another
tramp, was badly injured. The train
crew escaped. Cosgrave is about "a
miles west of Winnemucca.
Mrs. Campbell will have her Spring
opening or Tuesday, March 30th. Her
stock of hats is larger and more bcauti.
full than ever before. She has about 1OC
trimmed hats to select from nj prices
ranging from $3.50 to $50. These hats
arc from both Eastern and Western
markets and are of the latest styles.
The ladies should wait and see these
beautiful hats before buying. 4
Mrs. Lissak told tho Gazette yustcr.
day that there was no truth in the re.
port that her daughter, Helen Luella,
had attempted suicide in San Francisco
as reported. She said the young lady
was toying with an automatic pistol bo,
longing to her uncle when it was acci.
dentally discharged, tho bullet passing
through her left forearm shattering the
hone. She is now at tho Sisters hospital
In Reno and will bo ont In II fow days.