Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-02-23
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honors to Wolgast. Wolgast is now
champion lightweight bruiser.
There are rumors on the streets in
Carson of an official investigation of one
of the state appointive officers, but just
what it will amount to has not been
made public yet.-News
would liketo correspond wish party,
who has carload of horses for sale, from
3 to years old, weighing from 1000
lbs. up.-H. I. Mckinley, East
Auburn, Calf
Five years in the Nevada prison is
the sentence imposed upon j. E. Ray
moud by Judge Pike. Raymond was
charged with attempting to secure $500
from the Farmers and Merchants bank
OF Reno by means of forged checks.
-Our merchants are all bidding for
the Jarbidge trade. All have hung out
attractive signs to catch the eyes of
prospective customers. Parties bound
for Jarbidge will find the Elko
merchants the right sort of people to
deal with
John Murphy, a former wellknown
resident of Fort Halleck, died in Salt
Lake Monday night. He was a native
Of ireland, aged IA years. John Murphy
I son of the deceased, arrived from,
Salt Lake yesterday afternoon. E.
G. Murphy, another son, lives in Secret
Valley. The deceased left Fort Halleck
ten years ago and went to Salt Lake.
He will be remembered by the old
residents OF the county. May he sleep
. we'll
The attention of everybody is called
4 to the notice of the three Chinese
g restaurants in town. Owing to the
y high price of all kinds of provisions,
s. they have raised the price of meals.
81 How do you like this effect of 1.-The best
tariff law the United States ever hadP"
1.-The full dinner pail of McKiuley's time
s2is i'll contrast with tho empty
stomacfis of today. When you dig up
the extra charge for meals, don't forget
that it is a beautiful illustration of
Republican prosperity.
81 The truth is that the rising cost of
kliving has become an economic and DO
sslitical portent of the gravest kind. 1t
sharpens the weapons of agitation
against combinations of capital, and in
duces the temper of revolt among those
classes who have heretofore been con-
x sentative force in the community. If
b the party in power becomes too closely
related in the public mind to these un-
u pleasant conditions it may experience
4 In the fall elections downfall stunning
in effect.-Providence Journal.
Reese river got on rampage last
week and washed out the Nevada Cen
trail railroad track and bridges and shut
Austin out of communication with the
outside world. 1t will be % years in
June since the Reese river overfowed its
banks and washed out the railroad. The
writer was one of about 100 Odd Eel
lows that went over the road when
D that flood was at it's height. 1t took
from about A o'clock one Sunday after
noon till about o'clock the next morn
ing to make the trip from Battle Mount
ain to Austin, less than 100 miles.
About 8 o'clock on tho afternoon of
the 14th, there was an: accident on tho
Eureka & Palisade 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 then 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
toppled over into about six feet Of water
and fell on tho engineers breast crush.
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