Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-15
S~almagundi
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

FROM THURSDAYS DAILY
Mrs. Highfield returned to her home
ut Carlin this afternoon.
The storm still continues. At this
writing. rain is falling ut Il lively rate.
In the express car on 70. 3 this after
noon, were two calves bound for Salem.
Oregon.
Constable Happier of Carlin was in
town today. He returned on No. 3 this
afternoon.
Chinese New Years begins. officially,
on January 2lst, II little earlier this
year than customarily.
Before disbanding, the Anunias club
has adopted Il a of arms. 1t shows
on Il mottled background, between two
big sticks. Il Tyre bird.-New York
Post.
a young lawyer has been freed of
the charge of hypnotiZing jurors with
his eye. Now should come the con-
domination of those who Use their vocal
organs to Il similar purpose.
Last Saturday there was twelve feet
of SNOW on the level at Lake Tahoe,
while i'll the intervening canyons and
r~ayincs the depth caused by drifting
will go several times that number of
feet.
Senator Hunter told the reporter this
afternoon that he would do his best to
pass the bachelor tax law. He thought
it might he necessary to make its
provisions less drastic than he first
intended.
Sheriff Terrell received word yester-
day morning that two men were crawl
ing around helpless i'll the snow about
% miles north of Reno. He procured a
a team and went in search of the men.
1t is thought that they had started for
Reno and got lost in the storm.
Senators Hunter and Coryell and AS.
semblymen Winters and Schoer left
this afternoon for Carson. Mrs. Schoer
and daughter accompanied her husband.
At Carlin they will be joined by AS.
semblyman Mcintosh. Assemblyman
Riddell was expected to join the bunch,
but he failed to show up.
There was not eve standing room
in the six o'clock crowded car, but one
more passenger, Il young woman,
wedgcd her way along just inside the
doorway. Each time the car took q
sudden lurch forward she fell help.
lossly back, and three times she landed
II the arms of n large, comfortable
man on the back platform. The third
time it happened he said quietly;
Hadn't you better stay hereg"
According to the sworn statement OF
Auditor Seger, the Southern Pacific
cleared Sl5,390.50 last year on every
mile of its road in Nevada. Notwith.
standing this net profit per mile, the
state board of assessors by n bare ma.
iority fixed its valuation at $lS. 500 per
mile. Will some member of the board,
who voted against every attempt to fix
n fair valuation, tell us why he voted
that way? Our columns are open tc
him.
Billy Wore and Charley Roberts will
go to the hills in Il few days to hunt
for one of those queer animals that n
Wyoming editor calls II Deadly Raca.
boar. The boys declare that they know
where such an animal makes its home
and are quite positive they can capture
it. They will go prepared to make Il
lively campaign and may remain away
until spring if not sooner successful. II
they succeed in capturing tho animal,
they will put it i'm Allen Fishers muse
um along with the skin of jim Gut.
ridges rattlcsnakc whose bite was SC
poisonous that it turned an old RATA
black for IL OF 30 feet. No one but q
stranger will doubt Jim's word that he
has heard Of such II snake.
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