Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-05-21

Tom Rhcinhart, the popular travel
ing salesman. is shaking hands with hi.
many Elko friends today.
l.. l.. Bradley will return home TO-
inorrow night from a trip through tine
northern part Of the county.
GINS Nelson. the bean brummel OF
Mountain City, who has been attending
To legal business here. will leave for
home in the morning.
II murders continue to increase in
number as they have the past year We
would suggest that some reform legis,
lature pass an act abolishing emotional
insanity and the unwritten law.
Manhattan, having gone down until
bed rock was reached. financially. in.
dustriallY and otherwise, is now build.
ing up and is sure to be one of the sub.
stantial. producing camps of Nevada.
Joe Taber, Manager of the Elko Drug
Company, went north this morning on
the Tuscarora stage. He is what is
called q live business man and you can
always be sure that he is not going
south"
Our high school track team is in shape
for the Reno meet and will leave for that
city OH Thursday. They will do some
practice work OF the University track
Friday and be ready to smash a few
records Saturday.
Mark Twain said: when in doubt
tell the truth" That is all that is
necessary rs far rs ElkO is concerned.
The truth is good enough and if told
often enough and tn the right people
will bring considerable capital here for
investment.
The Battle Mountain base ball nine
have declined to come and cross bats
with our boys on the 23rd. Winnie.
mucca is also backward abont making
dates and it begins to look rs though
our team could fence the new grounds
and build Il grandStand before Il team
can he found with nerve enough to give
battle.
The deposed Sultan of Turkey will &c
down in history rs the most selfish ma
of the 10th century. He wanted all
the domestic bliss and home comforts of
his country. Eighty Of his wives have
been stored in an old deserted palace
according to tclcgraphic dispatches. 1t
must require quite Il cold storage plant
To keep so many women fresh.
j. w. Puett. the merchant king of
Carlin, was here last evening to attend
the meeting and banquet of the Royal
Arch Masons. Mr.. Puett says Carlin
has finally got its second wind and that
it will double its population in Il year.
He insists that they will soon have q
newspaper published there and that
they have the only logical site for the
dry farm.
Word was received this morning over
our special leased wire that thieves
broke into the store of j. w. Puett, mt
Carlin, last night and got away with
about two hundred dollars worth of
shoes. underwear. canned goods and
ammunition. The thieves were evi.
IDENTIFY acquainted with the store and
knew that Mr.. Puctt was in Elko.
Someone in Carlin was hungry and
didn't have the price.
The two great engines described in
the last edition of the Scientific
American went through this morning
OH their way to Sparks. They are to
he used on the mountain division and
each one is supposed to be able to pull
one hundred and ten loaded freight cars
up the heaviest grades between Sparks
and Sacramento. The Santa Fe Rail
road have ordered two locomotives
still larger than these.
Joe Plunkett. end man in the coming
minstrel show, says he is reliably in
formed that parties in Salt Lake City
are cndcavoring to arrange for special
rates on the Western Pacific, and Il
successful IL is estimated that fully two
hundred will rome to attend the enter
tainment. An addition may have to be
built OF the opera house to accommo.
date the crowd. Get your seats before
they are all sold.
The apparent lull in interest in the
base ball team has given tho schoo'
bows an opportunity to get in the game
The boys won u decisive victory ovcl
Carlin last Saturday and have arranged
to go to Carlin for II return game mex
Saturday. Yesterday they decided thu
suits were necessary and started on
with n subscription list and they hay,
about scvcnty.fvc dollars subscribed
already and the suits will DO ordered
today. With two base ball mines Elk,
ought to got plenty of advertising thi,
summer.