Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-08-14
SALMAGUNDI
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A freight train went of The track
near Wells / asst night.
See the pictures of Great Contact Cop
per Camp at Bradley Opera House.
The thermometer showed SO degrees
ut $40 this afternoon in this office
L. L. Hudson left last night for an
extended trip though the IN iddle west
and Texas. He will be away abouta
month or six weeks
w. E. Holloway, New Yord CAPT
talist, arrived yesterday. He is here
for the purpose of looking over the re-
sources of the county with a view to
future investment.
: A westbound freight train went off the
track at Comus, the second siding east
of Golconda., yesterday afternoon.
Srhe cause was a broken journal on a
refrigerator car. No one was hurt
Traffic was delayed several honrs by the
wreck
Harry Bruce returned last night from
his trip to Round Mountain He brought
with him some fine samples Of ore from
the claims, in which he and number
of other Elkoites are interested. He
reports the prospects very bright at
Round Mountain.
The Lyon and Ormsby County Labor
Union has passed resolutions protest
ing against the employment of convict
labor to haul and store coal in the State
Capitol and the Governors mansion and
censures such action on the part of the
State in taking away an opportunity
from u number of citizens to earn O
living and tending to force them
through lack of opportunity to earn a
dishonest living.
Ex-Assemblyman George B. Russell
received word today that he had been
appointed superintendent of the census
for E1rada The position carries with
it salary of $500 a year and per-
quisites enough to raise the amount to
/ about $1,000. The INDEPENDENT con-
= graduates George on landing the plum.
1t is a republican job and we know of
no other republican that we had
rather see get it.
As result of an inexperienced
druggist in Reno drug store putting
the wrong ingredients in q prescrip
ton, Miss Rose L. Beaulieu, a pretty
young woman of Reno took poison in
stead Of medicine and nearly lost her
life. In some way the clerk substitute
ed strychnine for some other drug with
the result that Miss Beaulieu became
critically ill. The case will be report
ed to the State Board of Pharmacy.
Yee Wing, Chinese merchant of
Carson City, has been arrested on a
charge of manufacturing whisky in a
new form and selling it to the Indians
ON the Walker Lake Indian reserya-
ton. He seems to have invented a
new kind of whisky. He makes it in the
form of small pills, and one of these
pills will make an Indian so drunk
that he will want to go on the war
path. A chemist claims that the mix
ture contains 35 per cent alcohol and
considerable opium.
Edward WEIGH, we'll known resi-
dent of Storey county, committed
suicide yesterday morning by hanging
himself in barn adjoining his resi-.
dence at Gold Hill. He lost one of his
eyes several years ago while at work in
one Of the mines and recently the
sight Of the other became impaired and
he VI , under the impression that he
was going blind. He was otherwise in
poor health and this, coupled with the
loss of his sight, made him Respondent.
According to the Battle Mountain
Herald, Nevada has surplus Of
champion baseball clubs. In the