Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-12-24
Salmagund
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

AAy AA SeASSNS. III
poor brutes looked US If they Were half
starved.
VIM. Wilmington, who was taken To
the county hospital yesterday ...D
Larnoille. is considerable better to
lie is suffering from paralysis.
Harry Anderson. vino WAS imprison-
ell in the Little Marsh mine with
Charley Moody, arrived ON No. 1 this
morning to spend the holidays with is
Elko friends.
, Owing to the pastors absence from
town OH Christmas Day there will be no
services at the Presbyterian church on
that day.
The ladies did good work at Leonard
Il yesterday afternoon and the
Christmas trees will he loaded down
with bags of candies and nuts. The
presents are all bought and marked and
every child between the required ages
will get "A present from the trees.
P Mr.. l. Warren. the old gentleman
: brought from Carlin yesterday and
: taken to the county hospital. died about
: lGoclock this morning. He was IL
carpenter by trade and hal lived in
. CarlIn for nearly forty years. May the
last long sleep of the old pioneer be ~;
peaceful as the summer Zephyrs that
whisper above his last resting place.
: Less than 81 years ago the ground
whereon stands the prosperous city
@ Of Johannesburg in Sputh Africa, to-
S gather with much Of the surrounding
1 country, then unsupported of con-
tanning the gold. the values of which
is now ~incalculable, WAS bought in by
IN EnSlishman named Pratt for the
amount of 81, 800
Every reserve locomotive and road
- engine owned by the Utah division of
- the Southern Pacific is now i'm commits
sion between Ogden and Sparks, in AN
attempt to handle without further de.
IS lay the great midwintar transconti
It mental freight shipments. The opening
lr OF the orange shipping season from
r. California. together with the heavy
ID traffic in freight from the East is tax.
~ ing the Southern Pacific roads to the
limit.
Id Tuesday night Whcclmen's Hall and
At the new Catholic oh urch in Reno were
H. destroyed by fire. The fire started
Is i'll Wheelmen's Hall and Wa beyond
ID control when the alarm WAS given. The
,s church caught fire in the attic. where,
there were five carloads of Oregon pine
used as ~rafters, braces, beams, etc. and
was a seething furnace when the flames
he burst through the roof. The tiremcr
tn were partially successful in saving the
Il interior of the church. The loss il
IS estimated at 800. 900. partially insur
IS ed.
This LIvelDcS Indian school, whic
-, was opened last month with an attend
ancc of sixteen pupils, is prossI'lS
very satisfactorily. Tha scholarship
has increased and the school lbs
ed shows Il total of. twcnty.onc cnrOlle |
W Application has been made from t.
H. Indian children from Winnemucca fu
id admission to the school, but owing t
vs. the fact that Accommodations are lin
on tied To twenty-five the application
up had to be- denied. Professor Allen
der states that the pupils are very up
C. and take "A great deal of interest i
lis their work.-LoveloCk Review
The st. Lawrence river is an object
lesson in water power. An enorlnou
volume can he turned to account b
Inn1arn nNatbAlS And mote nrnrr.,
nd sive Americans and Canadians Al
he uniting in an effort to utilize TIN
w power. \ plan has been formulate
lv which looks to the erection of II dan
at Brockvillc which will drown on
tho Long Sault rapids and raise I'll
" stream mt that point is inches. AFFORD
ing several hundred thousand hors
power. Competent engineers have pr
~ nOunced it wholly practicable.
id One of Elko's oldest residents told ,
"a this morning that he thought of goir
to work on the sewers tomorrow. I
m. undoubtedly thought this u good iok
MR. but it did moi runlc rs in the least. i
to can make his word good by circulatir
are a petition to the commissioners to ca
th II special election To vote on tho issuant
If of the necessary bonds. Tomorro
m. would bc II splendid time to start II
ball rolling. Some may look upon
sewer system as Il joke, but it will he I
joke il an epidemic. traccablc to our IL
sanitary condition. should sweep Il
In town. ;Ioking would then he out
.;, order.
Icd Tho executive committee Of Chris
yes mas Tree arrangements wish to a
nouncc that all children neither prcscl
or. ut the exercises nor in Elto on Chris
me mas eve will I've eliminated from Il
'ck list. Those who elsewhere are havir
Eat their Christmas will not bc include
ig. This applies to residents and non re-
he dents of Elko and in order that ever
300 ono may bc treated the same this n
cr. ing will obtain in every cas- and
ho, exception can he made. Parents arc I