Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-02-09
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track tI agh town.
Merchants lunch at the Commercial
from 1870 q. M. to 1880 p. IN. -35 cents. =
Sunday dinner at the Commercial
Hotel from 4 to 8 p. m.-75 cents.
Watch for the bill of fare: :.
Postmaster Doughty has received a
supply of Lincoln stamps. They will
not be sold until Friday, the 1OOdth an
niversary of Lincoln's birth
Assemblymen Allen, Brandon and
Curtain have been appointed a com
mittee to act with the senate committee
in the investigation of the state uni
versity. - =.
If the present legislature will enact
the anti-gambling law and passa drastic
measure to:regulate the liquor. traffic, it
will accomplish more real good for
the state than any of its predecessors.
A bill has been introduced by Assem-
bly, Nan Kayne of Rhyolite to cut Nye
county in two and make the county of
Bullfrog. The bill will be bitterly
fought by the northern part of Nye
county.
New York citY's public library fur
nishes more reading in more tongues
than any other library in the world.
In the oriental department alone there
are 1O.7O0 books, enough to make a Ii
brary by themselves.
The Gazette reports eighteen feet of
snow at Summit on the Sierras, five feet
of which has fallen in the last three
days. At Truckee, seven feet of snow
has fallen, three feet of which is the re-
suit of the recent storm.
Some men," muttered Uncle Allen
Sparks after the tiresome speaker had
sat down, remind me of and old water
mill that's running with empty hoppers.
Their wheels keep on going, but they
don't turn out any grist."
An Atchison man married a school
teacher, and he says that for three
years whenever the school bells would
ring she would act up like the horses at
the fire department when the fire
whistle blows.-Atchison Globe.
People re talking of undertaking to
teach wo.-en how to get off street car
without imperiling their necks. Which
suggests an alteration of an old proberb:
You can take woman to a street car,
but can you make her get off In any
other than the woman's way?
Mrs. Frederick Davis will leave for
Norfolk, Virginia, tonight to see the
fleet come in from it's cruise around
the world and best of all to meet her
son, Harry, who is one of the rising
young men in Uncle Sans navy. The
fleet is due at Norfolk on Washington's
birthday. Mrs. Davis expects to be
away from home for about six months.
Assemblyman Mcintosh of this county
had the honor Of introducing the anti
gambling bill in the legislature. Any
one of the assemblymen from Elko
county would willingly have been the
sponsor of this much needed and popu-
lar measure. But the prize fell to Nc
Intosh. He is to be congratulated.
Now, let the rest of Ello's delegation,
both assemblymen and senators, do
their part by getting in and boosting
for be bill. j
Attorney Taber received dispatch
from Judge Talbot this afternoon stat
ing that the supreme court had sustain.
ed the school trustees in their refusal to
sign the bonds for the new schoolhouse.
Attorneys pronounced the bonds invalid
because the notice of election published
by the school trustees was not in ac-
cordance with the law. The bonds
were sold to the Henderson Banking
Company, but when the time came for
the trustees to sign them, they refused
in order to have the legality of the bonds