Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-08
Salmasundi
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY


Miss Callahan who has been visiting
Mrs. Carville left for her home in In.
diana this morning.
When u girl is told that she has O
fortune i'll her voice, she goes home
and declares dividends for the benefit
Of III neighbors.-Galveston News.
Never kiss u girl while the scent of
cigarettes is on your lips, for the next
fellow who III along may think
She has been doing the smoking
Florida Times Union.
There is no use reading any more
rules about how to live u long time.
An old lady 100 years old has eaten
New England doughnuts all her life
Birmingham Age-Hcrald.
Judge Brown made an order this fore
noon continuing the present grand jury
n ordering it to meet Saturday fore
noon ut 10 o'clock. There are several
cases to come before the inquisitors.
Don't let the sewerage proposition get
ont of your minds. The more you think
1t over the more you will favor it. Of
course it will be expensive to start with,
but the benefit to be gained will more
than offset the cost. Let us sewer the
town next year. Think it over,
At the present time Boston is the
greatest wool market in the country,
5,OOO,OO O pounds being the amount
marketed there last year. Chicago is
Il close second, and if her wool sales
increase at the rate of the past two
or three years she will soon be mt the
head of the list.
In states where two cent fares have
been given Il fair trial the receipts in
fares on most roads have shown an
increase over those from the old rates,
and that following u period of hard
times. The railroads will hardly ask
for Il return to the old rates, ~ it can
only result in a loss in passenger re-
ccipts.
The mayor of Honolulu carries IA
goodly part of his family tree around
with him. He is using two eye teeth
that belonged i'll her lifetime t his
grandmother, wears a heart watch
charm made of the kneecap of his
great-great- grandmotner and the pol
ished white buttons Oh his coat are
from the bones of others of his an
cestors.
President Taft had q strenuous dav
in San Francisco. In his speech at the
Fairmont banquet he advocated a sub.
sidy to shipbuilders. A Subsidy" is
nothing more or less than a gift and q
subsidy to shipbuilders is simply a gift
to rich shipbuilders of money wrung
from the people through taxation.
What right has the government to tax
me for the benefit of some other man.
The Western Pacific ~tracklayins
gangs were only % miles apart Tuesday
according to the Silver State. TIL,
gangs are laying about two miles OF
track a day and, unless delayed by lacl
of material. the work should be finished
by the Goth of this month. If tn,
~ballasting trains have kept up with the
track layers, the road should be oper
for through business before the middle
of November.
We made q hasty visit to the higl
school this afternoon and found every
1 holy hI1SN Thu rl;olr sc &C. k--o
writers greeted us as we entered tn,
door and kept clicking away while W,
were i'll the building. The teacher.
and pupils were all busy mt their worl
and an air of earnestness was every,
where. Elko county has just caus,
for being proud Of its high school.
a boy ten years old, ut Chester, Pa.
held n button in his mouth while play
ing with n cat. and some movement o
his sent it into his gullet. He could Il,
nothing to relieve himself, and, choking
and gasping. he ran along the street t,
find n doctor. Seeing him running,
dog took after him and bit him i'm tn
leg. and the yell the boy gave sent the
button flying ont of his mouth and tel
feet away. 1t is cheaper to he bitter
by II dog than to pay the doctors.
Principal McWhinney has an inter
esting article in this issue OH publ
school matters. Parents, especial,
those whose children are not yet IL
school, should read It. There used {,
be parents in Elko who kept thci
children out of school to crafty thei
frivolous whims and then find faul
with the teachers because they did no
get along in their studies. But tina
was twenty years or more ago an,
many of tho parents of today were tn
children then. They should profit b.
their past experience.
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