Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-09-13
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Judge Rutledge took in the county
eat today.
Jay Henry left yesterday to enter
TALE college.
Mel Badt, the Wells imerceant, is in
own this afternoon.
President Taft will leave Boston at
0 o'clock Wednesday on his trsp across
he country. His first stop will be at
Chicago. . -.'.. - ... f-
Surveyor Mcclellan left on the Tus-
tarora stage Sunday morning for the
spanish ranch where he expects to re-
main for ten days or two weeks.
Did you ever stop to think that al.
most every minute in the day some one
somewhere is having teeth pulled2
This proves that there is always some
one worse off than yot are.-Atchison
Globe. 't.'..i t't;:.2t .;'..'f'' - 3D.
A man who can fall $500 feet out of
( balloon and hit. the earth so lightly.
las to injure neither himself nor the
ground is not immortal, of course, but
it would be interesting to know just
what will finally carry him off.
LondOners enjoy the use of more
than IA miles of subways, threaded
with railroads, some of them double
track, which intersect so frequently
that it is possible for a person to go
FROM almost any part of the city to
another without coming above ground
1t is highly interesting to note that
the town of Bishop, over in Inyo coun-
ty. Cal, with an assessable valuation
of $437, OGO, enjoys, a tax rate for all
purposes of $1.25 per hundred and that
it also enjoys an adequate sewerage and
water system constructed and main
tanned from the towns revenue.
Grace Earl, the. woman tried in
Virginia City last week on the charge
of enticing a girl to her Gardnerville
den, was acquitted by the jury. The
girl swore that she had not been enticed
away from home by the defendant, but
went to Gardnerville of her own free
will. The case cost Storey county
IrbV $1,000. -
VA fewer than 1000 towns and vii
lagos in Germany still own, and have
owned, down from the middle ages, so
much common land that their inhab-
itants pay neither rates nor taxes.
Five hundred of these townships and
villages derive so great a rental from
their lands that they are able, in addi-
ton, to pay every citizen on New
Years day bonus of from $25 to 800
as his share of the surplus revenue.
A belated voyager in search of hi
larity stumbled home after one o'clock
and found his wife writing for him.
The curtain lecture that followed was
of unusual virulence, and in the midst
of it he fell asleep. Awakening few
hours later he found his wife still
pouring forth regular cascade of de-
nounciation. Eyeihg her sleepily he
said curiousiJ, Say, are you talking
vet or again2"
The Commonwealth, Carlin's weekly
paper, has made its appearance. It is
p neat eight-page sheet filled with
interesting matter The INDEPENDENT.
welcomes the Commonwealth to it's
table and hopes that: it's owners will
realize their fondest dreams and their
pockets overflow with the golden
eagles that never fail to materialize in
the newspaper business. Brothers
Gray and Mayer have the, 1NDEpEND-
ENT's best wishes for their success.
Thirty years ago:a map.in Dsiware
bought an old safe at public auction,
and put it inrhis stable. Lately, after
Il7Tently turning thS matter oyer in;
hill lhind for the said 30 years he had
be&} in possession, he decided to break