Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-12-03
S~almagundi
r o TUESDAYS DAILY

Q Percival S. Smithe arrived yes
terday afternoon from the east and loft
on No, 5 last night for Reno.
Don't forget that the woman's Guild
Will give u chicken pie supper ut Leon.
ard Hail. Saturday evening.
Joe Taber and Robert Hunter w;n
canvas the town for Christmas tree
funds. Open Your hearts and purs.s
when they call OH you.
The latest returns from the Alabama
election yesterday Indicate "a majority
Oh 2O'oOO against the prohibition amend.
lnent to the state constitution.
treasurer Miller reports taxes coming
In very slowly. This mol ming there
were $50 receipts To issue ont of 1904
Taxpayers should remember that taxes
Will become delii quent at Go'clock next
Monday afternoon Get a hustle ON if
you would save penalties and costs.
The most accommodating man OIL
record lived until lately in Penesyl.
vania. He was hanged, but before his
execution expressed Willingness to have
granted h request Of his wife to see
him hanged and 20 have her share that
pleasure with the man she intended to
marry after it was over.
In M address before the Economic
club Of New York last night, Senator
Aldrich said that the panic of 1907 cost
the United SiL.cs more than two bill
lions of dollars AMI came very near
~wrecking all credit and destroying all
values. OF course, the senator said
nothing about its being Il republican
panic.
The famous Palmilla mine, near Par
raj, chihuahua, Mexico, from the out
put of which its Jwncr, Peter Alvarado,
a few years agI u.f,rtd to pay off the
national debt of " .Surp. has been sold
To Il syndicate of y L-rlcLns headed by
n. j. McQuarter of Dallas, Tex. Just
what McQuarter gave for the Chihua.
hua property is mG / .finitely known,
but 1t Is said to ~ u modest figure,
something like $1,000. 900.
Governor Draper. whose record as
chief executive of Massachusetts seems
to have been open u no criticism, but
who is AN avowed champion of high
protection. from which he is supposed
/ IN hnnpHt nS "A manufactures ,r,. ,n
elected but his majority was little more
than 5000 while last year it was over
20, 900 when his PARTY won IA great
victory on pledges of genuine tariff
Inerce.
When warm weather comes again.
the need of IA sewer system will he dis,
cuAsed and winter will come again
without anything being doneto improve
the sanitary condition of Elko. If ElkC
needs "A system and the people
want it. the way to get il is to 90 after
it. An election must bc held to decide
the question Of bonding the town for
I "S"Si l'ti lgO'iN p'AoiS III hiAliH NiOS ~
be done in the matter. Why not hold
that election in january OF February
If the vote is for the bonds, work on the
sewers al begin early in the spring.
\ MAJ IS years old is taking n course
in the night school i'll Spokane. He
scorncd school when II boy, and has
been an ordinary days laborer Ill his
life. Now he sees his mistake and is
trying to fit himself rs II mechanical
d%raughtsman. Any boy who neglccts
his studies in early life and puts in his
time gadding and idling about or the
streets smoking cigarettes is going to
find that existence is Il serious matter.
rs he gets older with neither education
MOI opportunity to improve his condi.
ton in life.-Exchange