Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-10-12
SALMAGUNDI


The Commercial Tailors have a new
ad on the first page. Read it.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Smiley left this
afternoon for their home at Santa Cruz.
Frank Boskowitz, the drummer, in
terviewed his Elko customers today.
Time deals very gently with Frank.
Tom Tenant left last night for Hayes
City, Kansas. He put in a very busy
day yesterday shaking hands with his
old friends.
Of the races of the Iworld, 800, 600, 600
are white, 7OO,OOO,OOO yellow. 215, 600, :
700 black, 30, 900, 600 brown or Malayan,
and 100000 red, or American In
dams. Ti'''::s'' 49,. $780,!
William Henry Schmidt one of the
old residents of Independence valley, is
in town proving upon homestead on
which he has lived for the last twenty
fye-years. - ''-''''.'
$1pr. j. w. Chenoweth. the veterinary
surgeon, is now in Starr. valley at work.
He will leave there about the 10Th for
Mr.. Hylton's ranch in Mound valley.
Dr.. Chenoweth is from Albany,
Missouri.
Travellers through Servian villages
often see dolls suspended in the win
dows of cottages. The dolls have
nothing to do with child life but signify.
that marriageable daughter or "a
widow lives in the house.
Don't let this nice weather drive all
thoughts of sewering the town from
your minds. Now is just the time to-
make up your minds to take steps to-
ward warding off an epidemic by severe
4 ing the town. 1t must be done. y )
] Politics in Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island, the only New England states
! holding elections this fall, looms up
Z unusually large for an off-year, says
Boston dispatch, In those states the,
governorship is at stake, while the in
come tax amendment lends great in
terest in contests in each legislative
district. 49,. ..,.,,.... :
DR.. u lillon, the eminent Fren ch VII
tai statistician, has shown that tuber-
cNiosis is twice as prevalent among the
retail liquor dealers of 4 France az
among other shopkeepers. He: attributes
it to the fact that the alcohol which
they handle and use AM day long
weakens their bodies and thus renders
them more susceptible to the discuss
germ. - ~,
1t is said that 30 long as men strive
they err That is bat another way ID
saying that men make mistakes, which
everybody admits Bit it is also b
ftct.that 80 long as men err they alsS
strive; andJt isFby that striving and the
wisdom gained by experience that prog
ress is made and the welfare of man
advanced. ~.-,rs y.,.,, .......
In former times debtors were put III
prison. That sentiment on the Sub
aect has gone from one extreme to an
other is illustrator by the case Of a
man in Pittsburg sent to Jail for dun
ming another for a debit" It was the
man who borrowed money who nsed
to be punished. Now it is the. man
who lends it, and maybeit serves the,
latter right. o.. ,,......... ..,a
Xhe Southern Pacific company has
pat cement culvert and drain box
under the track near the western stand
hpe. The drain box connects with,
hose put in by the town and will catch
me waste water from the standpipe.
inc unsightly culvert near the pas
Fenger depot has been taken out and the
penina led up. This will do away
With the4nudhole that has been nuis-
'nce for years. .,I
About Q o'clock this morning one of