Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-01
S~almagundi
FROM FRIDAYS DAILY

Read our business locals elsewhere.
Miss Sterling is now ready to take Il
limited number of piano pupils. =
Father Collins will hold mass at the
school house Sunday morning mt 0
O'Clock.
John Roork is in from Shelton. He re-
ports that section of the county quiet
and orderly.
Mrs. Garrecht has sold her residence
TO Jube Wright of Ruby, valley. The
consideration is said to be $4,000,
y man, whose name could not he
learned. Went insane OH the desert
near Bonnie Claire and is being searched
for by the citizens of that place. He
learned that he had Just fallen heir to
$4,000 and it turned his head
Tonopah Sun.
The Carson Appeal says that word
received from Reno is to the effect that
Orvis Ring, State Superintendent of
Schools. is improving and will soon be
able to resume the duties of his Office.
This is good news to Mr.. Rings army of
friends throughout the state.
George Blundell, one of North Forks
solid citizens, is III town. He shipped
his cattle from Decth last night and
came down OH the train. The train
left Deeth about IL o'clock and did not
reach Elko until after one this morning.
lie delays We're caused by Il draw
head pulling ont and by hot boxes.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is rag.
ing i'll Salt Lake. The cause is attri.
buted to the u%nsanitary condition of
the dairies that supply milk to the
people and several of them are under
strict quarantine. Elko may lave an
epidemic in the near future, but the
diaries will not he the cause of it, II
will be the unsanitary condition caused
by the lack of sewerage. Think it over
and act before it is too late.
The trial of Florence Hildergarde, one
of the women charged with enticing 6
young girl from Virginia City to hel
den in G~ardnerville, resulted i'm the
jury standing ten to two in her favor
Her bail was reduced from $4,000 tC
$1,000. She was unable to give the re
duced bail and is still in Jail. Grac,
Earle her associate in the alleged Grim,
was tried in Virginia City Seycra
weeks ago and acquitted.
w. II. Bellingcr informs Us that
large elk was seen last Tuesday in tn
Ruby mountains, back of John HoI
lands ranch in LamOillc valley. Scvcra
shots were fired at it from Il SINAI
calihrc rifle and two ar three of tn
bullets are thought to have struck il
This is the first time an elk has bee
seen in the Ruby mountains and pcopl
arc wondering where it came from
Hunting parties are out after the al
} imal. &c.,
The carpenters are busy setting i
the boxes for the new p~Ostofice in IL
Mayer building. Everything is of Il
latest design and there are separat
windows for each department. Whe
completed, Elko will have one of Il
most convenient p~ostOniccs in the stat
II will take Postmaster Doughty an
his accommodating assistants Il lit
while to become accustomed to the
new surroundings. bnt when that
done there will he no occasion for Il
force to get ont of humor because
insufficient room or lack Of facilities
transact the business of the office.
II is with considerable satisfactio
that Storey county observes the interc
in the CoInstock that has been exhibit,
ut GOldficld during the sessions of Il
Mining Congress. The speakers. OF
after another, find it impossible not
mention Or refer to the old lode. provi,
that after all, there has been but OF
real live camp in Nevada. The Con
stock leads in production. In adopti,
of modern methods and longcvit
Back to tho old Comstock'' Is in Il
| air. ~pcrmcatcrs every cOnclavc Of mi
ing men and is steadily gathcrir
momentum, East and West aud Nor
and South. Chronicle.