Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-03-03
SALMAGUNDI
Re&7our business locals elsewhere.

ReS>. our business locals elsewhere.
Jailer Gilmore has about 80 prisoners
to look after. The most of them are
serving sentences for petty ofenses.
A shipment of government seeds was
received at this Office todRy for distribu
tics. Those wanting seeds should come
after them. .'1.s'..a}
A carload of horses came in on the
Western Pacific this morning and was
switched to the Southern Pacific and
continued its western journey. e.
The editor is suffering from a bad
cold that came very near knocking him
out yesterday. He is better today and
hopes to be all right in a day or two.
8 Irwin Mcdowell will return, from
Boston about the first of June. AL
those: wishing their pianos. tuned are
requested to wait for him He knows
how to do the work. ,,,"a NJ
. We are pleased to learn that little
Louie Wintermantel is getting along
nicely and that the chances are excel
lent for his complete recovery. The
DIT side of the little fellows facets
paralyzed.
The Gazette's dispatches say that il
is believed in Carson that the anti
gambling bill will pass the senate with
out amendment Nine senators are
said to be for the bill, six against it and
four doubtful. It requires ten votes tc
pass a measure through the senate.
A Nashville judge is hesitating over
the question, When is man drnnk9 p
In Nevada, we consider that when O
man is unable to lie on the ground
without holding on that he fIas reached
that stage of inebriation that the
table should be pulled over him.-Bull.
frog Miner. aEf' ="
The Carson News says: Assembly
man, Bradshaw stated on the floor OF
the House yesterday that they had been
in session for over thirty days and the
principal things that they have done
was to raise. salaries and he wanted tx
know whether the legislators were here
to benefit the people or were here to
benefit 6he officials? + q
Spell ! Examiner John H. Doyle, OF
the United States land department, is
n Reno to take evidence in the land
Cases of Olinghouse Canyon and other
mining districts of Nevada, where it is
alleged, the Southern Pacific company
has secured patents to mineral land in a
fraudulent manner. There are about
1000 acree Of protested land claims
in Nevada and he will invetigate all
alleged fraudulent patents.
A discovery which for it's unique
character seldom has been equaled in
this state has just been disclosed through
DR.. Samuel E.. Green,-a geologist and
mineral expert Of England. DR.. Green
was exploring the formation at Indian
Springs oil fields when he encountered
strata which contained fossils of pre-
historic animals and reptiles. He broke
open a number of ancient oyster shells,
and in one of them discovered a perfect
pearl, pure white and weighing nearly
150 karats
There is a strong probability that in
the near future there will be q beet SUI
gar mill built in the vicinity of Fallon.
The Southern: California Sugar COM
pany is taking an interest in that sec
ton and has its agents busy gathering
data. The company has offered to put
the mill, provided local people win
take stock in the concern and guarantee
to cultivate an acreage sufficient to
Justify its erection and operation.
There is an abundance of land in the
great irrigation district suitable for the
culture Of the sugar beet, and it is said
that experiment has shown that beets
may be grown of large size, and that