Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-01-08
Salmagund
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

ENONl IuUltSDAA > DAlLl
The commissioners are still in session.
salaries this month.
The Greeks in the employ of the
Christmas today at their camp below
town.
1t seems necessary To explain that if
II man isn't worth 5000 o II year he
shouldn't IL prG'id2ut.-St. Louis
Republic.
Well. the AuInits club has not long
in which TO increase its membership,
and Their; is plenty of available materi-
al.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
y London pap: announces that Mr..
Hearst Will be- elected president in 1912.
1t seems impossible for some folks to
keep "A secret. Omaha Bee.
Life insurance statistics show that in
the last quarter of Il century the aver.
length of tho American mans life has
Increased ) per cent from 4l.9 TO 1872
years.
The German army's new guns, built
for warfare against diriSiblc balloons,
have proven effective al greater
heights than it is nov possible to send
airships.
We have received II copy Of Governor
Dicksrson's proclamation setting forth
the result of the November election.
The official vote has already appeared III
these columns.
While the people Of the Mississippi
valley were freezing To death Yesterday,
Novnd" was boing soaked 10y "A warm
rain. Where can you beat Nevada
climate all the year around.
Sheriff Clark returned from Lovclock
last night without the man he went
wrong man i'll hook. Mr.. MUnahun
whom the sheriff went after is still ut
large.
Nevada went democratic at the last
election but few know that the major.
ity of the counties went republican.
Such is a fact however. and the rcpubli-
can list numbers. Churchill. Douglas,
Eureka, Lyon. Ormshy, Storey, Washoc
and White Pine. The democratic
counties are Elko. E%smcralda. Hum.
boldt. Lander, Lincoln. and Nye.-
| Carson News.
The Tonopah Bonanza says that
Goldiicld is quietly pulling the strings
for the removal of the capital to that
city. While Nevada legislatures have
been known to do some very queer
things. there is no danger of the incOm-
ing legislature adding the removal of
the capitalt to Goldfcld to the quccr list.
1t might he well. however. To keep IN
eye III GOldfcld.
At the meeting Of the board of re.
gents Monday. President StubbS sub.
mittcd his estimate of the amount
necessary to run the university for the
next two years. lie asked for $l1G, O0C
for running expenses and about 800. OOC
more for necessary buildings and repairs.
He also called the. need of II library
building to the governors attention
and asked that $3.50, 900 he appropriated
for this purpose.
a cold wave struck tho Mississippi val
ley yesterday and the mercury crawlod
30 degrees below zero at st. Paul, and
80 below ut Regina. Canada, the coolest
place in the northwest. At Chicago
the mercury dropped from a degrees
above zero to q below. At Denver there
was n drop of ~ degrees in the temper
aturc from the day before. Denver ap
pears 10 mark the western and southern
edge of the cold wave. Tho wcathc,
bureau ut Washington reports the cole
wave between the Rocky and Apmla
chain mountains and that il will over
spread the entire cast and south to tn,
Atlantic and Gulf states with coldc
weather in the interior states.