Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-02-16
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MiS 3eulah Greathouse has accept
ed a clerical position in the Office of For
est Superintendent Tremewan.
A long freight train pulled in over the
Western Pacific this; afternoons. It
brought material for the roundhouse and
road
s. The man who was born in cellar
is just as much entitled to sleep in the
guest chamber as the one who was born
with silver spoon in his mouth e.,
ALI those who wish to look upon: the
features of Mrs Cogswell for the last
time are requested to call at the under
taking perlors tomorrow between the
hours of II a. m, and p. m. go
;, Frank L. Gruenthal, Reno merchant,
Has skipped out leaving numerous cred
itors to mourn his departure. The
Gazette says he is long on promises, but
short of performance of them:
Constable Happier was in town today.
He said the trouble at Carlin with the
steepherder the other day was not as
bad as reported in the papers. Judge
Rutledge gave the fellow six months in
the bastile.
Now that the editors of the country
are being taken into the Ananias Club,
the first meeting will have to be held
somewhere in the open in Texas. There
is no hall, in fact no other state, large
enough to handle them The editor of
The Outlook may yet be made the
president of it.-Boonville Advertiser.
The. Gazette says there is trouble in
the insane asylum. A few weeks ago
Dr.. Gibson dismissed Miss McCaffrey,
the matron, and She has appealed to
asylum commissioners for reinstate-
ment. The trouble is said to have been
caused by a quarrel among the female
employees. An investigation will soon
be held by the commissioners and it
may result in general shake-up of the
z asylum's affairs. =.
:. Mr.. Cogswell arrived on No. 6 last
night with the remains of his wife who
died at Los Angeles on the 10th. He
was detained at Caliente, CAL, 80 hours
by a washout or he would have arrived
Sun9fS morning. The remains were
Akeh D the undertaking parlors The
funeral will take place from the Episco-
pal church" tomorrow afternoon at 9
o'clock. The members of the Guild
or 70 o{ ~.
ing parlors at 1870 tomorrow afternoon
for the purpose of escorting the remains
to the church.
There was very exciting time in
Carlin the other day, when q drunken
shepherder decided that he would start
something and proceeded to shoot up
the town. Everybody ducled, to cover
but the town constable, who slipped
behind the archie isturber and placed
him under arrest. On the way to the
town calaboose, the sheepherder knock
ed the peace officer down and made his
escape, but was later retaken by q mob,
hiding under a haystack. Cooler heads
prevented alynching of the sheepherder.
-HumbOldt Star.
'This," says Fred Badger in his Neo-
desha (Kan.l Register, beats life in
surance"all to pieces: A chemist has
determined by painstaking analysis that
human body.of the average size con.
tairis three pounds and three ounces of
calcium. The current value of calcium
is $500 an ounce, which would give us
each value intthe retort of $18, 300, or
one-fourth our weight in gold. You
save the premiums while you are alive,
and have yourself made into calcium
after you are dead and it won't hurt
much. Why hide your calcium light9"
A bunch Of six young women in
Washington City, District of Columbia,
want husbands and have written to
Attorney Schnitzer of Reno to learn if
there would be any chance for them in