Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-06-25
Salmagundi
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY

FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
by Il vote of 80 to 80. the senate YES.
terday placed 4 duty of IL per cent on
hides weighing more than - pounds.
The fat men have refused to play a
game of baseball with the lean fellows.
They probably object to playing with
skeletons
Government scientists who have been
measuring them say rain DROPS vary in
size from the merest spcck Of water to
two inches in diameter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcbride. Mrs. Lothrop
and daughter went To Mr.. Gcnnette's
ranch i'll Mound valley this morning.
They will return in four or five days.
The smallest man that ever lived
WAS dwarf Beb,. born in France i'm
1910. He was inst 90 inches high and
eight pounds in weight when full
grown.
BY Il notice elsewhere, it will lie seen
that Mr.. Hickey offers both Of his
houses for sale. This is a splendid
opportunity To buy good residence
property.
The tclrphnn" girls of Reno struck
yesterday because a w0man from
Sacramento WAS put yer them rs chief
npA,.t,r III, ,.trl. ,l.,,, A.. H.. -
cross and incompetent.
Instead Of John Hunter and family
returning last night, - dispatch was
received from him stating that he
would not leave California until today.
This will bring them home tomorrow.
No. > did not arrive this morning
until aftes the railroad employees at the
depot had quit work. and AS a result
the castbound mail still rests in the
postoficc and will not leave until No.
q arrives tonight.
While changing the postoffice from
its present location To the new building
of the Mayer Company will make it
more convenient for the business men
ON the south side of the S. =. track, it
will Inconvenience "a very large
majority of the people of the town.
The new school building seems to le
held up indefinitely for want of the
specifications. If the Fates bc propi-
tious, ~ the ancicnts used to say, the
new school buildiug will In completed
sometime before the end of the present
century. That is Judging from the
progress made in the past.
About , o'clock this afternoon. Il fire
bruk" out in the oven room Of Wheeler
x Cos bakery. a stream of water from
the Commercial Hotel hose was soon
playing on the fire and had it under
control in a few minutes. The fire
companies were on the ground in short
order and Mol o o had another stream
playing on the fire. The loss will
probably reach 800. Elko surely plays
lucky with fires.
w nfl lNt CslSt ol NftIillTl sDlcItl,
Mr.. Bauubach's bartender. came up
before Judge Bruce this forenoon.
District Attorney Tubrr moved to
reduce the felony charge to Il mis-.
dcmcanor. This step was made ncccs.
sary owing to- the lack Of sufficient
evidence Ia convict on the felony
charge. Judge Bruce granted the
motion and Siclcl plead guilty and was
sentenced to pay II fine of $50 and
serve 90 days in Jail. lie played lucky
in escaping the pcnitcntiary.
Three Indians at the Indian School
last Saturday attempted to get on II
cheap drunk 10y eating wild parsnip
with the result that II boy about twenty
years Of age and II girl about eighteen,
kuOwn rs Annie Jose. were buried that
evening and the other girl, who had
not taken the an quantity of the
poisonous root rs the others wa very
III. This IL the third death ut tho
Indian school during the past month by
tho wild parsnip route Carson News