Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-08-27
~Salmagundi
FROM FRIDAYS DAILY

New line Of Misses Skirts. just re-
ceived At Engler Co.'S.
Furnished room to rent in Il good To-
cation anu suitable for "a gentleman. In
quire at this office.
New line of Ladies' Fall Waists, Just
received at Engler Co.'s.
The weather bureau predicts that
there will he no more spells of hot
weather this year.
Over 1000 people attended the races
in Reno Wednesday. This is said to
be the largest crowd that ever attended
II race meet III Nevada.
Paulham, IL Frenchman, made Il new
flying machine record Mt Rheims We'd
nesday. He kept his machine in the
air , hours, 80 minutes and 23I seconds
and covered 3.O7 miles.
Secretary Frank Morrison of the
American Federation of Labor has is
sued Il statement announcing that g.
DOC. 900 citizens of the United States are
out of work.
\ man named Maxwell Travelled all
the way from Goldfield to Price, Utah,
to get even with an officer who once ar
rested him. He attempted to shoot hut
the officer killed him before he could
draw his weapon.
Miss Garwood of the Redwood hos
pital lost her purse this morning, some
where between the Commercial Hotel,
and Oldham's station. The finder will
rewarded by leaving the same at the
hospital. o
If the price of u suit of clothes, under
tho new tariff law advances from $1S to
f23, what difference does 1t make when
Il fellow cannot raise the $lS us it is
nOwr That is a good ''stand pat" ar
gument.
Tracing IL stream in Portugal, the
waters of which was reported to have
therapeutic properties, u scientist found
that near its source it ran over Il bed of
uranium phosphate. Thus a new source
of radium was discovered.
We have on exhibition in the Eagle
office a c%rabapple branch twelve inches
in length which bears forty apples of
splendid size. The product is from
Commissioner f. p. McLane and is Il
living illustration of what Carson Sink
soil will yield. The branch has brought
forth many comments from passersby.
Churchill Eagle.
Mississippi boasts of one county il
which every white boy of school age is
working a piece of ground with his own
hands asa part of his education. If
more boys were mixing some of this
work in the soil with what they get
from books they would develop into
more wholesome and useful members of
society.
Complaint is made that some one
monkeys with the electric lights in the
iire.house by the Jail. The light in the
back room is turned off frequently by
some person, The fire boys keep their
coats and hats in this room and the
light should be kept burning. The one
who monkeys with this light must let it
alone from low on or he will get into
serious trouble.
During the present heavy traffic east
md west on the Hartman system there
are about eighty train crews regularly
employed on the main line of the Salt
Lake division on tho Southern Pacific
between Ogden and Sparks, and of this
large number, twelve passenger crews
t~wenty-siS freight crews and four work
train crews are assigned to- duty he.
tween Ogden and Carlin.
Judge Bruce settled two cases this
forenoon. One of them was the GILES.
pie case and the other was that of John
Calevas, n Greek, charged with com
uniting assault and battery on IL boy
several days ago. In the Gillespie case
Judge Bruce found the evidence in.
sufficient to hold him before the grand
jury and dismissed tho case. The Greek
was found guilty and fined s. and costs,
the whole amounting to $13.9 90. He
paid the fine.
Ike Mckay, deputy sheriff. left this
morning for Carson TO bring back the
Indian Williams. now ~incarcerated In
the peDitentiary. The Indian. it will
bo remembered. il the man who shot
and killed two prospectors mt Silver
Peak several months ago and who was
afterward found guilty of murder In
the first degree. He will be sentenced
to death by Judge Sommers during the
week and will bc taken back to Carson
where the sentence will he executed.
GoldRcld Tribune.
According totlic report Of State LII
ccnse Collector Haley, St1 county licen
scs for saloons were issued In this stat,
during the quarter ending Juno Both. ,
gain Of ~ over the same period cndint
December 81, zoos. Washoo count,
heads tho list with l07 saloons, Ny1
comes next with 100, Esmeralda mex
with no, Humboldt has 100 and Elk,
county worries along with 1S. Tn,