Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-01-08
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1n0ro Will % d concert aG the opera
House on the 10th of January. See the
notice swhere.
salary Produces o serious wound
Philadelphia Ledger.
Politics is the only trade in which a
man can make a post-mortem explana-
ton of why the tunnel caved in on
him.
The removal of the dead and injured
from the ruins of Messina is still going
on. Nothing is being left undone to
rescue the living and care for the
suffering. --...
Asbestos sheets are being Instituted
under the mattresses of sleeping cars
on some of the railways of the United
States to shut out the heat from the
radiators underneath.
The indications look good for another
big storm. The wind made noise this
afternoon that sounded very much like
snow storm and cold weather in the
near future. But the wind is some
tiAes great buffer.
The Carson News and Appeal say
there is movement on foot to depose
DR.. Stubs from the presidency of the
university. Neither of the papers give
the reasons for cutting of the presidents
head, but both seem to intimate that it
will come to pass.
A kindly resident of Richmond, Ind,
who has traversed the veldt, warns in
tending tourists to beware of the Afri-
can bug and tsetse fly. Tush What
are such trifles to one who has met and
tussled with the presidential bee, the
gold bug, the octopus and other weird
things?-New York Herald.
Wednesday at Gardnerville Piute
Indian shot and killed his squaw, whom
he had warned against consorting with
white men. He told her some time ago
that he would kill her if he caught her
in the company of white men, but she
did not heed his threat and went out
for time with white man. AS soon
as the Piute heard of it, he procured o
, shotgun and on meeting his wife blew
her head off, firing both barrels at once.
An hF 1pn was badly hurt in the
WsternNI Pacific tunnel at Palisade
early this morning by rocks falling
upon him. He was put on No. this
morning and brought to Elko and taken
to the county hospital. His skull is
badly crusded and there is scarcely
chance for his recovery. The Italians
who came with the man gave his sur
name as Angelo, but did not know his
given name. The injured man was
working for Nancy Bros.
Treasury officials note that silver dol
lars are gradually going out of use in
the west and south, and that their
place is being taken by dol!ar bills. A
few years ago it was rare thing to
see dollar bill west of the Mississippi
river, while in the south silver dollars
were far more plentiful than the soft
money. 1t seems that the doom of the
silver dollar was sounded when the gov
eminent decided that it would no long
er pay the freight between subtreasuries
and banks on the coins.
1t developed yesterday in the papers
sent to the senate by the president that
Senator Tillman of South Carolina had
been trailed by the secret service men.
INe detectives were put on his trail
over a year ago. after he had made
charges concerning the land grant Of
the Oregon &c California railroad COM
pany. When his attention was called
to che fact, Senator Tillman said that
he hoped it was true that he had been
followed and added that there could be
no developments which he would have