Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-09-10

The commissioners of Ormsby coupty
have ordered the district attorney to
begin suit against the b)ndsmcn of
County Clerk Patterson to recover 3d.
i'1.Ol. county money deposited in the
Nye IL Ormsby County Bank mt the
time of its failure.
Five Wilmington (Del.) girls. rep.
resentinS five hundred young maidens
of their city, have reached New York
on Il tour of various big cities to ill
out where the best and most eligible
bachelors 4 be found. It's II safe
wager that their trip will end right
here.-New York Herald.
DIR. j. w. Chenoueth, Veterinarian,
of Albany, Mo-, will be mere about Oct.
st. Spaying and nidgeling Clstrat-
ing Il specially. Anyone wishing work
lone write him ut Albany, Missouri. or
leave word with ]. j. Hylton or G. w.
GriSwold. o
Z. {. Tructt came i'll from the Mary's
river country yesterday. He says that
1t rained nearly every day for II week il
that section and the storms were the
heaviest he had seen III years. While
SO much water was falling in the Mary's
river country. this section went dry.
This proves that the unjust sometimes
get more than their proportion of rain.
u. S. Attorney Plat is still after the
railroads i'll the matter of attempting tu
have set aside their patents to land
which he contends are of mineral
character. Saturday afternoon he filed
five suits i'll the Federal Court against
the Southern Pacific. the Central Pacific
II the New York Trust company for
lands held in Elko and IIumboldt coun-
ieS.-CarSon News.
Edward II. Hartman, the railroad
kidg of the world, died ut $3.50 this
afternoon at his home i'll Arden. New
York. His death will doubtless cause Il
furry i'll the financial world. but in Il
few days things will settle down to
their normal state and business will
jog along inst as if Edward II. Harri-
man had never lived to gobble M the
railroads of the country. He has gone
hence. hut the great organizations his
genius created remain rs his monument.
The commissioners met today and
transacted the usual county business.
| The nlnnS fnr tbn nny- ,.,nrt b,pSn ,.,n,.
last week and II few minor changes were
made in them and they We're again
sent To Architect Weeks &c make the
alterations. The commissioners are
chatting some under the delay in getting
plans that meet the requirements for
the new court house, bat they want to
know Just what they are getting when
they approve the plans. The architect
seems to he very slow with his work.
Nh. HyltOn's six horse team ran away
late yesterday afternoon on Idaho street
and ran over f. j. Kiegan's one mule
rig. Two of the runaway team Jumped
into kicgan's cart, striking him and
scratching him up considerably.
kiegan's mule and cart were put ont of
commission and the wagon hitched t.
the runaways was left on the street in
Il damaged condition. The runaway
horses were considerably scratched up.
Billy Wore, the driver of the runaway
horses, was attending to some business
and was not in the wagon when they
started IN RIM
No section of the country offers
greater opportunity to the man of i'll
dustry, thrift and sobriety than does
Nevada. Its gates have been crowded
with the seekers of minerals and vet
more are to follow, while these in a few
years will he elbowcd by the colonist,
who will flock here by the thousands tC
engage in agriculture. Many are the
valleys of the state. and of these not q
few are in White Pine county, which
within ten years will he pouring forth
wealth in grain and other products OF
the sOil.-Whitc Pine News