Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-02-25
Salmagundi
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY

wolsast whip d Nelson badly YES.
'eruay. In the 10th round the referee
stopped the fight and aw.r,ad tha
nonors to Wolgast. wolgast is now
champion light weight bruiser.
lhere are rumors on Ike s.-a.ts in
carson OF an official investigation Of one
Oh the state appointive officers. bnt inst
what II Will amount T. has not been
made public yet.-News.
Our merchants are all biddirv for
the Jarbidge trade. All have hung ont
attractive signs to catch the eyes of
prospective customers. Parties bound
Tor Jarbldge will find the Elko
merchants the right sort of people TO
deal with.
John Murphy. a former weilknowp
resident of Fort Halleck. died in Sal,
Lake Monday night. He was a native
Oh Ireland, aged "a years. John Murphy
d son OF the deceased, arrived from
oaIt Lake yesterday afternoon. E.
Z. Murphy, another son. lives in Secret
valley. Thedeceased left Fort Halleck
ten years ago and went to Salt Lake.
lie Will be remembered by the old
residents of the county. Nay he sleep
well.
II attention Of everybody is called
% the notice of the three Chinese
restaurants in town. Owing to the
high price of all kinds of provisions.
they have raised the price of meals.
How do you like this effect of the best
tariff law the United States ever had =
The full dinner pail of McKinlev's time
Is III sad contrast with thu empty
stomachs of today. When you dig ND
the extra charge for meals, don't forget
that 1t Is a beautiful illustration of
republican prosperity.
The truth II that the rising cost of
living has become AN economic and DO
ItIcal pOrirnT If the gravest kind. Ii
HhHrpens the weapons Of agitation
against combinations of capital, and in
duceS the &C. np"r of revolt among those
classes who nave heretofore been "A CON
s%ervatiye force in the community. If
the party IN power becomes too CLOSELY
related in the public mind to these un.
pleasant conditions it may experience
IN the fall elections "A downfall stunning
III cifcct.-Providence Journal.
Reese river got on "A rampage last
week and washed ont the Nevada Cen
trail railroad track and bridges and shut
Austin ont IF communication with the
outside world. Ii will be - years in
June since the Reese river o]verfiowed its
banks and washed out the railroad. The
writer was one of about 100 Odd Eel
lows that went ovcr the road when
that flood was AT its height. 1t took
from about I o'clock one Sunday after
Don till about 3 o'clock the next morn
ing to make the trip from Battle ,.Iount-
ain 10 Austin. less than 100 miles.
About 5 o'clock on the afternoon of
the 18th, there was an accident ON the
Eureka * Palisadc railroad in which
Engineer Morey lost his life. The
melting snow had covered the track
with water which had frozen and had
undermined the track. The engineer
saw the danger. reversed the engine
and applied the brakes and her at
tempted to escape from the cab. In
some way one of his arms was caught
between the throttle of the engine and
one Of the pipes and he was unable to
escape from the cab. The engine
topplcd over into about six feet of water
and fell on the engineers breast crush
ing out his life. FOr forty hours, men
worked up to their neCks in water be-
fore the engineers body was found.
The fireman escaped without injury.
though badly shaken up.