Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-15
Salmagund
FROM WEDN EsDAY.S DAILY.

Eiho friends.
Mr.. c. II. Halo of Pine Valley.
Eureka county. is in town.
The Miner, pahlisheL ut Nina. Esm..
rnlda county. is hDmirc. Frank 4.
NicHuias. state engineer. for governor.
w. l. Plumb. Tuscarora's postmaster,
came down on yesterdays stage and
returned this morning. He reports the
old camp very quiet.
Eugene w. Chafn. Prohibition can
didate for President uf the United
States in 1905. predicts that Chicago
will he without saloons two years
hence.
The New York Evening World de-
ciar"s that Hartman left his wife $2GI.
600. 600. making her the richest woman
III the world. This fabulous sum is
disputed by Mrs. iIarrimIm's closest
friends.
Howard Pepper. Il saloon keeper. was
shot and killed by his wife ut Atlanta.
Lincoln county. Monday night. The
shooting was the result IF Il domestic
quarrel. Pepper wis u rough rider in
the Cuban war.
4 mortgage ON Il cat is not often
heard of. However. the other day there
was flee in the recorders office il chattcl
mortgage the conSidrrati III of which
3 $50. The properly on which the
money vas secured WIS described rs Il
cat called John. columbus Dispatch
County Commissioner b. +. Hazeltine
of Storey county died Monday evening
at his home in Gold Hill after Il long
Illness. III" was II resident of the Com
stock for many years AMI WIS %univer-
sally respected. lie WAS II native of
Pennsylvania, aged - years. He leaves
- wife and one son.
An editor or reporter can please AL
of the people some of the time, but
wh"n he tric t. please all of the people
all of the time he will find ont that he
has made Il dismal failurc of il, and will
Civ" it mp rs one Of the impoSsibiliticS.
1t is something that no newspaper man
has Yet accomplished
All told. Il lIOllandcr pays about ~
per cent of his yearly income. for taxes.
tie Is taxed for his business. income.
for TIA" interest he collects. OH his house
rent. his furniture. on six %fircplaCeS and
all the stoves in the house he rents or
owns, on his horses, bicycle and ser
wants, On an income of 81, 100 a year
he pays sos.
Twelve hours, with two hours rest.
is the legal laboring day ut Odessa,
Russia. Workers under II must 90
t. school for three hours daily. Chris
tians are not required to work on
Sundays or feast days, nor Hebrews
and Mohammcdans on their religious
holidays. Those who have to work
al Sundays have the next day for
rest.
Justice Sweeney has been confined tn
his bed for three days with an attack
of ~sciatica and "A little crvou prostra-
ton mixed in. Mrs. Sweeney is IL fine
nurse and has the justice in Il chair
today. from which Sweeney declares he
will graduate 10 the street tomorrow.
Maybe he will and maybe he won't
Appeal.
Judge Harrington called II l.. $.
grand jury Monday To meet Mt Carson
ON Monday October 25th. \ large
number of cases of selling whiskey to
Indians will come before the jury. So
far there are nome from this. county.
Charles Goodman, the u. $. prisoner in
Jail here. committed the ofrcnsc at
Battle Mountain.
Mining Inspector Stuart stated re.
Gently that there are 1000 miners
employed in Nevada at the present
time. Ely leading al other camps with
$500. Up to last week there had been
even fatal accidents in the mines. To
which number three deaths were add.
cd in the accident ut GJldticld. Gold.
field has 100 miners employed and
Tonopah 100.
Rcno's city council has passed IL very
stringent saloon ordinance. Under it.
the saloons are limited to the present
number, 90. and the license fee is rails
cd. Saloons doing u business of 5000
or under are taxed $40 per quarter: for
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