Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-08-20

The tbermolqeteE in this office regi.
tered nearly 100 degrees ut 1880 thi
afternoon. This shows the day TO b
one OF the warinest of the season.
Read the new ads in this issue. The
heinhart Company, the s. Jacobs Com
I pany and the Wintermantel Comnany
have something that will interest Won
) Judge Stevens Of Goldield has made
ah orier that all persons appearing in
MS court IL he fully dressed. that is
That no Il must enter his courtroom
in his shirt sleeves.
Ed Mcconnell. the worlds champion
bronco rider, has returned from Salt
Lake, where he rode the widest horses
ana won several handsome prizes be.
side the championship.
William Burns, who was be,top and
roDted over Il week ago, has recovered
sufficiently to attend court and the ex.
animation of Eugene Cooper, charged
with the crime, has been set for 9:3O to-
morrow morning.
Assessor Weathers is busy assessing
Elkoites.. He estimates an increase in
the o Of abont q million and a quarter.
The Increase is mostly made up of new
property and the raise in the Southern
Pacific assessment.
NJ. BalhrinO behaved badly around
the lumber yard Saturday afternoon
and Mr.. Mcbride notified Constable
ouderkirk. who put Ballarino in the
bastile. He plead guilty this forenoon
to disturbing the peace and Judge Bruce
fined him $40 or 10 days in Jail. He
went to Jail.
In the district court ut Dayton last
Friday, Judge Langan sentenced Frank
White. an Indian, who had plead guilty
to the charge of assault with intent to
commit rape. to fourteen years in the
~penitentiary. all the law allows. He
should now Ike made to serve every day
Of the sentence.
James Hill and Joe Miller, strangers
In town, had trouble ON the street this
morning and Deputy Constable Cotant
locked them up. Miller plead guilty to
the charge of disturbing the peace and
Judge Bruce gave him the privilege of
paying a fine Of $50 or going To Jail for
10 days. He took the Jail part of the
sentence. Hill was discharged.
According to the Oklahoman IA lady
reporter of the Tulsa World was re-
Gently shocked because IL street car.
nival had IN attraction (which was
~piacardrd For Men Only" From the
plumbers going in she decided that it
must he something desperately wicked
and said some caustic things about il
in the paper. Ii developed that the mt.
traction consisted of q clothes-line. on
which was hung a pair of pants. coat,
vest and socks. When one sucker was
caught he very naturally steereil all of
his friends into the trap.
William Ecklund. an cmploye of w.
G. Pitt met with Il painful accident
"H'It :" ""h WI tic IutIcT y fnnCn
Tuesday of this week. Ecklund was
working the cream separator and in
soInc manner the MACHINE burst. a
piece of the flying iron struck Eek
lund in the side. breaking three of the
ribs. One of the ribs was badly shat
tered and for n while il was thought the |
nun had received internal injuries,
DIR. West attended the unfortunate
nan and ut last reports he was getting
along nicely. -Lovelock Review
According to n Melbourne letter to
the London Express. Il miner has sent
to the geological gardens in Perth II
live toad. which he dug out Of hard
while sinking q shaft with ex.
plosivcs. II is believed that the Great.
urc has been cntombed for centuries.
When released from confinement the
toad was quite innnimnte. says the
writer. Its eyes. which were trans.
parent, with no pupil, gradually be-
came normal. The chamber i'm which
1t was confined was perfectly smooth
and there WAS no room for movement.
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