Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-12-17
Salmagundi
FROM DAILY

IOT 80 h6h w cINiiA II
holidays.
Rev. S. c. Gilman has gone to La
noble and will hold services in tn,
church tomorrow.
There are 10. 900 women in Missouri
who arc farmers and II, 900 in til,
learned professions"
Treasurer Miller is busy fixing up hi
tax account. He reports Il Delinquent
list of alb Il; $500.
\ tourist am into town on one oi
the trains last night with badly frozcr
ears. Or. West fixed him up this morn
ing and lie was taken to the county
hospital.
The Christmas music of the Preshy.
terrain church will he in charge of Mrs.
Fred Davis. The choir is now in train.
iny and the public can he assured of
Dec. Goth.
Prof. Hill of the State University ar.
rived yesterday To look over the educa.
tiunal field in the interest of the states
big school. He will return to Reno OH
Mob when it gets here.
This morning WAS just Il little hit raw
The thernOmctcr ut the Southern
Pacific passenger depot registered II
degrees below zero ut ! o'clock this
..s. E.,. ,,., ,;xiN. NJ. l..
night will make the iccmcn happy.
Judge Lang;,n has appointed Thomas
Lockhart receiver Of the Nyc Il OrmS-
bv ,.-".m, Bank ~ go ;h;a va"an"v
caucd by the resignation If Receiver
Hall. LockhIrt's bond WAS fixed at
300. 900. He has so. 900 deposited in
the bank and represents other heavy
depositOrs.
That Uncle Sam turns ont a high
grade Of marksmcn is evident fIon the
experience of the Atlantic fleet. When
pratice with the big guns has to bc
suspended because the targets have been
shot tu pieces the fact furnishes strong
'NiNt''iN' NiihN NllEl' blll w NlEtilIlI
shooting in battle.
\ wcll.kuOwn Scottish clergyman got
into conv crsation in II railroad carriage
with IA working man, who Informed
him that he had been a coupler for over
90 years. oh" said the minister. II
can beat that, have been "A coupler
for over 81 years "Ay." replied the
workman, int | can uncDuplc. and
YOU Gamma
Jr.frics refused positively to fight in
Nevada. M Nevada in mine" he
said. in tho III pSt ,Sitive terms. The
Reason Of Jcitri"S' aversion t. Nevada
is not found in oar clear skies. bulnv
hut because jeff has m old gambling
debt here which lc doesn't want to BAY.
He lost ii in Reno and ''wclchcd."-
TonopAh Bonanza
New progress brings ncw dangers.
TIL" surgeon OF the French warshiu
l)c>cirtcs attributes eczema and eve
troubles tn the Use Of wireless tclry
rarhy. The eczema has appeared ON
the faces n hands of the scamcn told
OIL to work the apparatus. Therefore
the surgeon recommends that in future
use Of the wireless apparatus precan.
tions Inc taken 10 protect these parts Of
the body.
Here is another discovery. and IL has
been made at II distance farther than
the moth pole. Observations by Prof.
Pcrcival Lowell. the Harvard astrono.
mcr. convince him that there is oxygcn
in the atmosphere Of Mars. and from
this he concludes that il is possible for
life to exist OIL that planet rs well ms
on the earth. Here isa chance for real
distinction. What uirship inventor
will fly To Mars and find ont all
about itr
Every county assessor ia this state
should read Governor Dickcrson's letter
on railroad assessments. Published in
the REM Journal. He goes into tho
assessments In other states to show the
r~idiculOhsly low assessment placed on
the Southern Pacific by the state board
OF assessors last January. II the
assessors arc not bound hand and foot
To the Southern Pacific. there will he
Il hig raise in that company's assessment
when the board meets next January .
Let us watch how our assessor votes.
Tho White Pine News says that G. II.
u. Whclcss vas the man who did the
shooting at Ely the other morning and
That Lee Mudd, n prospcctor. was the
victim. Whclcss. Mudd and two other
mon were playing freeze out ut the
Court Exchange saloon and Whclcss
lost Il couple Of dollars IIo quit tho
game and went outside of the saloon.
and Immediately returned and began
shooting ut the men at the table. Ho
Hired four SHOTS. only ono Of which took
effect and that hit Mudd in tho lowor
part of thp ulNlnnnn WLnj,s. ,,.;..,,I