Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-02-04
Salmagund
FROM WEDNESDAYS pA.L>

Mr.. Frs III h.s resurn Il fra Gai.
fornia.
The ladies will ii nd tine Reiua, rt Co.'S
new AL very intsr,,tins. R,Ilit.
On account of the funerals of Mr..
and Mrs. Bruce tomorrow afternoon.
the meeting of the Dorcas Society has
been pIstpIucl.
Deputy Sheriff Rutherford reports 90
prisoners in the county Jail. Eight or
nine OF them are W titing trial on petty
charges.
When No. ? passed through toxin
n I morning, RAY Harris Shetland
pony happened T." h. on the track and
was struck by the train and killed.
Mrs. Mae Talbot was acquitted yester.
a by a Reno jury of the charge of
murder for killing her husband last
October. The jury probably thought
that she had done a good job.
Every Odd Fellow and every Daugh-
ter OF Rebekah should be al their hall
tomorrow afternoon at . o'clock to at.
tend the funerals of their late Brother
and Sister. Mr.. and Mrs. A. Bruce.
A freight car was derailed this morn
ing at Coin. IA siding opposite Mr.. Fern.
AIDS ranch. and the Carlin wrecker
went mp and cleared the track. The
only damage was the tearing up of "A
few - of track.
Inc weekly PRAYER meeting of the
Presbyterian church will be held to.
night at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
u. Greathouse. coin II .ncing at 1o'clock
Mr.. G. Z. Eiler will have charge of the
meeting. All are cir,lially invited To
attend.
Happy HoJligan called at this Office
this forenoon and complained that
some person had tempered with his
cabin while he has been ut the county
hospital. He says there is nothing in
the cabin and he wants people to leave
1t alone. Happy looks As if Steward
harms were treating him well.
Judge Cheney of Reno is very sick at
Genoa, Italy. with pleurisy and %infiuen.
u. He was on his way to Alexandria,
Egypt, but was taken sick at Genoa
and was unable to proceed further. Mrs.
Cheney will leave Reno tonight for New
York and if Mr.. Cheney's condition is
no better when she arrives there. she
will take a steamer for Genoa.
A school teacher having instructed a
pupil to purchase a grammar, the next
day received "A note thus worded from
the child's mother: Il do not desire
for Lulu shall ingage in grammar. as [
perter her ingage in yuseful studies
n can learn her how to spoke and
write properly myself. have went
through two grammars and | can't say
they did Inc no good. l prefer her
ingage in grammars and drawing and
vocal music or the piano. Burr Oak
lKas.l Herald.
Last summer a smooth gny, who call.
Ell himself DR.. Graves. visited Carson
with "a woman whom he introduced as
EVELYN Thaw. He spent money freely
and paid his bills with phony checks,
When the checks were returned. the
matter was placed in the hands of Sher.
i'll Regain and he set out To locate DR..
Graves. Graves was finally located at
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and placed
under arrest. Sheriff Regain has gone
after him and he stands a good chance
OF doing time in the pen.
An old Irish woman describing a
gone but not forgotten" said Mike
was the foine man entOirely and hid be
living now. if it wasn't for the dhrink.
He had u dog and sur that haste would
bring him home from the saloon whin
he was 50 blind wild liquor he couldn't
see Il shtep before him. And whin he
died-'tis the truth I'm spaking-his
ghost walked at night, both back and
forth, betune the saloon and his house
and bedad twas {" dhrunk his dog
knew him,'
Al exchange remarks that Doctor
Cook, the explorer, is q great man. how.
ever his North pole trip pans out. II
he reached the pole, he outdid Sir John
Franklin, Melville. Greeley. Nansen.
Andre and all the rest of the bunch. II
he didn't get there. he clearly ontclassed
Baron Munchausen, Marco Polo. GULL
yer, Cagliostre Ananias, =. T. Barnum
and the last Republican platform.
Whichever way you look at it Cook Is a
great man.
Saturday afternoon while Mr.. Black
Of Starr valley was ut Deeth. d. X.
Egan, his hired man. went through the
house and took $40 of his EMPLOYERS
money. On Mr.. Blacks return, Eyan
said he wanted TO go to Deeth and Mr..
Black took him there. At Deeth. Egan
said he wanted to go to Halleck to get
IA pair of Ovcrshoes. Mr.. Black gave
him 81 to make the trip TO Halleck and
that was the last he saw of him until he
saw him in Jail yesterday. Egan It
seems went to Hallcck. and spent Mr..
Blacks money for booze. He then
$780, A.