Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-09-03
Salmagund
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY

!. ". Puett. the Carlin rustler. circu
Lifted around town today.
Ex. Commissioner Phil Snyder re
turned to TuS:!rJ:L II 5 III ,rning.
Several people from Lamoille valley
attended Mrs. Millcr's funeral this af
t~crIiuvn.
The Reinhart Company has IL fine lin,
of shoes for little folks. The new nd
tells you all about them. Read it.
The father of Sheriff Lamb of Hum,
boldt county died at San Ardo. Culifor
MA. Thursday night. He was 10 years
III age.
Prosperity has also checked in at
Chicago. The Harvester trusts assess
ment' for taxation has been reduced
$l,0IG. Ol.-lndianapJlis News.
Mrs. Nellie Barney arrived from Car.
lin this morning. She spent the time
between trains visiting with Miss Hat.
tie Clark and Miss Lille Roscnstock.
Patrick Casey and Jack Sheridan, the
GJldtield murderers, have been taken
back to Goldticld from the Tonopall iail
The grand jury of Esmeralda county is
i'll session and IN indictment will be
found against Casey.
Robert GraCcy, IN old time Comstock-
er. has been appointed justice of the
peace Of Virginia City to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death of Justice En-.
Dry J. Smith. Bob will dispense Justice
~ She is To the law breakers.
Robert Nc f. Doblc, II consulting cn.
ginccr of Denver, arrived from Den
yer last night and left this morning to
xamin the power sites on South Fork.
He represents Eastern capitalists, who
will finance the enterprise if his report
i favorable.
Attorney G"dncy received Il dispatch
last night from Governor Dickcrson
SAYING that he had refused the rcquisi.
sitlon asked for by the governor of Utah
for y. j. Campbell and Ed. Mcconnell,
wanted i'll Salt Lake on Il charge Of
grand larceny. growing ont Of IL check
Transaction. The governor based his
refusal on the ground that the
Salt Lake authorities had no case
against the men.
Til" Fallon Standard says: Ont east
of town \. .. FUskctt, secretary of the
Farmers Ass DCiatiun, has u little more
than five acres Of alfalfa land seeded
last year. Already he has IL between
thirty and forty tons from this acreage
aud he expects to have II stack ut the
end of the third crop operations that
will measure ont and weigh close to fif.
l. tons. And this from II little more
than five acres. Can you beat the rec
ord? Womld like To hear from the up.
per valley and Humboldt sections.
According to w. II. Rosing, equip
mcnt purchaing agent Of the Western |
Pacific. practically all of the rolling |
stock and part of the motive power of
the road will hc delivered within the
NV HlbiltlN. ne StltcS hat the
western Pacific will bc the best ruuip. |
ped railroad in the world. All baggage
ana passenger cars will bc of steel con.
struction throughout and this road will
he the only one in the country so equip. |
ped, although some Of the Eastern rail. |
roads are beginning to %supplant their
old style coaches with those of steel.
There iSa large quantity of water in
the great desert of Chile, but none that
either human beings or stock can drink.
Science, however. has come To the aid of
this rainlcSs section of the coun.
try in the form of an ingenious desert !
watcrworks. consisting of Il series of
frames containing 20, 900 square feet Of
glass. Fancs of glass are arranged in
the shape of "A V, and under each pane
IS II shallow pan. containing brackish
water. The heat Of the sun c]vaporatcs
the water, which cOndcnscs upon the
sloping glass and, made pure by the OPP.
Grafton, it runs down into little chan
ncls ut the bottom Of the V and il car
ricd away into the main canal. Nearly
1000 gallons Of fresh water are collected
daily by this means. -Alcxicau Herald.