Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-01-07
Salmagund
FROM FRIDAYS DAILY

Read oar business locals elsewhere.
IA. telclerS' eSintIui,l will D. lin
at the courthouse Mon Jay morning.
Five room modern cottage for rent
On reaSonabi" terms. InInirs At this
Office.
II Weather .,rteIa y,pt deal
- nI-h9 AID today /, ,evgr.u degrees
warmer than yesterday.
: MIR. Sheldon. who has been very
poorly for long time. is reported worse
today. His condition is serious.
Beggar-"Say. mister, would you
give Il pore Teller - dime to save his
lfey' Stranger II shout say not. 1
avn an undertaEer. Chicago News.
what do you think of a man with a
rip in his GOA and only three buttons
IN his vestT" HE should either get
married or divorced Boston Tran
script.
The alligator swallowed him" AN
uid hey kill the 'gatorg.' NO; they
thouSht riat swallerin' him was pun
ishment enougu."-Atlanta Constitu.
ton.
Mining Inspector Ed StuaI. will re-
turn to this city on the 18th of January.
Mr.. Stuart has been suffering with an
affiiction of the eyes and had an OPERA
ton performed upon them Il short time.
ago.-Carson News.
The board ef parlpns refused to
grant the applications of Preston and
Smith, the Goldfeld murderers. This
action of the board will meet with the
approval of "A very large M prity Of the
people Of Nevada.
We received a communication vcster-
day about a wedding that took place in
Elko the night before. As no name
was signed To it, we gently laid it aside
If you are too indolcnt to sign your
name 10 communications, don't send
them to this paper for publication.
Supervisor George b. Russell will
lIeve for Denver tomorrow nighn to
attend the conference of census super
vision of "themountain states. The con
ference will meet Tuesday and
be in session Tuesday anG Wednesday.
He will return Immediately after the
Conference.
The pIy Of census cnumeraturs i'm
this state has not yet been fixed by
Director Durdnd. 1t will be somewhere
between - and 81 per day. Ten years
ago the enumerators We're paid So a
day in Nevada and it is more than
probable that will he the pay this year.
AS the work will last thirty days or
more, there should be no lack of appli.
cants to fill the positions.
y food caused by melting snow i'm
the canyons around C~aliente have swept
that town off the map. Every house
in the path of the food WAS swept away
The houses left standing OH the hillside
wcr5 made unfit for occupation nv the
mud ana refuse that swept through
them. The people were forced to take
refuge on the hillsidss aul ml.h
suffering is sure to result. Onl v one
man is reported missing.
Harry Grain, who WAS sent to TIc
penitentiary for 20 years about two
years ago for rObbiug IA man named
Williamson nu tho str,,tg ,f Eli, b,s
been paroled by the board of pardons.
The evidence at the trial was sufficient
to convince the jury of his guilt. Grain
protested his innocence when sentenced
and his conduct while in Jail here and
in the prison impressed the officers with
the truth of his claim. 1t is barely
possible that a mistake was made in his
case.
Last Tuesday Judge Brown sent his
resignation as judge of the Fourth
Judicial District. composed of ElkO,
White Pine, Lincoln and Clark counties,
to Governor Dickorson To- take effect on
the governors receipt of the same.
This afternoon he received Il telegram
from II governors secretary stating
that he had been appointed judge of
the new Fourth district, composed of
ElkO. Lincoln and Clark counties and
that Thomas L. Mitchell. an Ely
attorney, had been appointed judge Of
the Ninth District. composed of White
Pine county.