Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-11-17

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her bed for nearly three weeks
with a stubborn attack of her old
enemy.
Elko is about as quiet as it ever
gets. There is nothing of import
ance transpiring and news items
are hard to get. If you know any
thing OF Importance, send it to this
office and receive onr thanks.
The monthly business meeting
of the Parents and Teachers Cog
uperativ" association will be held
al the grammar school Frida Y
November II at 8 o'clock. Every
n cordially invited.
Rev. l.. I. Rakman came over
from Carlin this morning to attend
the pabtismal service this after
noon, when five candidates were to
be baptised. He returned {, Car
lin on number three train accom-
panied by Pastor Wilbert r. How
ell and others of the 10 cal Baptist
church. There is good interest in
the Chapel Car meetings in Carlin.
The commerce court has decided
tie lOrg and short haul clause of
the interstate commerce law con-
stitutional and the railroads will
appeal to the supreme court of the
United States from the ruling.
Perhaps there are persons now
living who who will be living when
the railroads are made tn Quit
their thievIng practices. 1t is only
a perhaps.
The Western Pacific press bu-
reau in Los Angeles is sending
typewriter stuff to the newspa-
pers booming the land along its
road for colonization purposes
Like all other corporations that
maintain press bureaus the com.
pany expects the ne Hspapcrs to
come through with free pIblica-
ton of its stuff. This paper is not
run on the charity plan, hence the
stuff goes into the waste basket to
keep company with other articles
IF its kind.
Here is a puzzle that puzzles
everybody. Take the number of
your living brothers, double the
amount, add to three, multiply by
five, add to it the number of your
living sisters multiply the result
by ten, add the number of deaths
Of brothers and subtract $50 from
the result. The right figure will
be the number Of deaths, the
middle will be the number of
living sisters and left will show
the number of living brothers.
Try it and see. - Exchange.
The Phoebe Record has the fol-
lowing to say of a man bound
for the state prison: Charles
Rylee, who was arrested at Cali
entc recently for forging the name
Of Sheriff O. II. Smih to a check
for $35 pleaded guilty before
Judge Tabcr last Monday and
Tuesday was s~cntenced to serve
the term of one year in the state
prison. Rylre asked Judge Tabor
TO send him to prison, stating that
he was addicted to the drug habit
and expressed the belief that by
the time his term will have expired
that he will overcome the weak
ness.
Mr.. w. II. Russell, with the Eu-
reka Supply Company at Palisade
is in town. He informs us that
the construction outfit of the cor.
tractors arrived a few days ago
and that the work of reconstruct.
ing the Edrcka Il Palisade is going
ahead as rapidly as possible. The
crossings have been laid over the
Southern and Weston Pacific tracks
and the rails will be laid to
the west cossings tomorrow. The
work viii then be pushed south as
fast as men and money can drive
it. About fifty men are now I'm.
ploycd. The road will b. recon.
structed as n narrow guage. In
some places, it will be necessary to
build a new grade DIS the flood tore
out the old grade and left a wide
channel in its place. Eureka has
certainly a cause for rejoi4ing ov-
or the prospects Of an early COM