Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-10-15
~Salmagundi
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

y Social dlncc will b. given ut
LaJaLri ;fAll D.; III. ladies' Of tas Guild
FRIDAY evening. October %, 1908.
Admission 80 cents. including refresh
ments.
Bonnie Mcbride left last night for
Las Vegas to survey tho land in the
Charleston reservation. lately leased
by Charles Kaiser.
Mrs. George S. Nixon. wife of Senator
Nixon. is in San Francisco, suffering
from Il nervous breakdown. Her con-
dition is said to lie serious. Senator
Nixon is travelling i'll Europe.
Charles II. Crane, whom President
Taft appointed minister to China and
whom Secretary Knox asked to resign,
seems to he i'll the position of the parrot
that talked too much. He will proba.
bly, keep Il closer watch of his tongue
hereafter.
During the afternoon and evening of
Dec. Ith, the Guild of the Episcopal
church will serve supper at Leonard
Hall. There will he Oh sale mt this
time many fancy and useful articles,
the work of the Guild for the past q
Joe Harris reports twenty five patients
i'll the county hospital. Five of these
are Western Pacific men with the ty-
phoid fever. They are AL getting along
nicely. Some OF the other patients
nave broken limbs, but the most of
them are men who are broken with age.
Six employees of the Consolidated
Mines Company's mill ut Goldfeld have
been arrested for stealing bullion from
the plates. 1t is claimed that $2l, 900
of stolen bullion has been taken to va.
rious smelters and minis from Goldfield
during the last three months.
Yesterday afternoon William Hopson
and Adlor Lague plead gully to the in
dictments, charging them with burglary.
Judge Brown sentenced Lugue to one
year i'll the penitcntiarY and Hopson
drew two years in the same institution.
Sheriff Clark will take them to Carson
tonight.
y firm advertised typcwriters for sale
that could be held in the lap, and nc.
cording to a wcll-authenticated report Il
well known Elko bachelor sent in a
rush order rs follows: Send me i'm
mediatcly a blond with blue eyes, with
an aifcctionate disposition, who is under
80 years of age.
Charles c.. Gates, Il mining engineer
of Denver, Colorado, arrived yesterday
OH No. 3. MIR. Gates represents the
Cole sydicate of Duluth, Minnesota, and
is here for the purpose of examining
the Nevada Bunker Hill property ut
Bullion for the syndicate. He and Mr..
Davis, the superintendent of the mines
left for Bullion early this morning.
The ferocity of the tiger 4 be seen
from the fact that according to Il recent
writer he is made responsible for 81 per
cent. of the human beings killed by the
wild animals of Hindostan. The writer
adds that Oncc u tiger has tasted human
flesh lie is satisfied with nothing else,
and that in southern India che of these
man-eating tigers has devoured 2Ot
human beings.
The Virginia Chronicle says there are
many candidates for county commits.
siOncr to fill the vacancy caused by the
death Of Commissioner HaZcltinc. Ii /.
said that fourteen men want the job
The democratic county committee vii
submit II list of names to the governor
from which to pick Il man. HaZcltin,
WIS II republican and the appointment
of n democrat will change the politica
complexion of the board.
Little Yates has the distinction o
being the only county in the state tina
is absolutely dry" Every town il
the county has voted 10 license. Til
village of Penn Yam. the county capital
will use cold tea us Il regular beyer
age for the first time in 30 years
Yates is the smallest county in tn,
state, and the tourist can cross it il
either direction before he gets yer,
thirsty without exceeding the spec,
limit.-Utica IN. " Press.
When Il Hindo dies the relative
shave the widows head and clothc he
in coarse garments. Hcnccforwur,
she may wear no silk. or gold. or sill
vcr. She takes her meals apart, AM
il put in the lowest household work
Voluntary austeritics If sho be con
scicntious, and involuntary, degrade
ton In all cases, are her miserable lot
Her religion and social usagcs ~strictl,
forbid remaruiagc. Caste, and civi
law, condemns her. and is more power
ful than any imperial code. She and
second husband, IL she ventures, aud cal
discover u man with equal courage. I,
rcnnrry become %outcasts.
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