Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-07-28
Salmagundi
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY

John backward. the Bullion
rancher. is taking in the county
seat To-Day.
Attorney Williams & Dysart
have just received a new safe of
the Gary make.
Mr.. Mccain Of the Eiko
Mercantile company left on No. 2
this morning for Michigan.
Mrs. Dewar is building a brick
business house on the lot Just east
of the Pullman corner on Idaho
street.
No. Girdner's coalition re-
mains about the same He is
brighter mentally but physically
he is growing gradually weaker.
Prof. Dinsmore told the writer
today that Peter Miller had the
cleanest and neatest soda works in
the state. This may make Peter
mad, but it goes as it lays.
Mr.. Fred Davis left for Bullion
this morning. He was accom-
panied by Mrs. Booher who will
spend a week or more in the
camp.
H.. II. Mix. editor of the Man.
haitian Mail. and we'll known as a
lie "spaperman throughout Nevada,
died at TOnopah Friday the results
of a paralytic stroke he suffered
some weeks ago in Manhattan.
The bill revising the cotton
schedule Of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law was submitted to the
democratic caucus yesterday. The
bill reduces the present rates
about so per cent. Leader Under
wood says the bill will soon pass
the house.
}. w. Puett the Carlinite is in
town. He says Carlin fell heir to
$4,000 young trout from the
Nevada hatchery. They were con-
signed to COb.e and Ely hut when
they reached CaIlin it was seen
that they could not stand the
remainder of the trip. The fish
were distributed in the Humboldt
river and Maggie Creek today.
/ Mrs j. II. Prosser and daughter
Of Fort Edward. New York called
at this Office this forenoon. Mrs.
Prosser was fromerly Miss Annie
Mulcahy. She married Mr..
Prosser here and afterward they
moved to New York. She is here
visiting her sister Mrs. Lar son. and
her old time friends. We were
glad to meet her once more aud
to learn that she is prosperous and
happy.
While working near the bottom
of the 300.foot shaft at the Racine
mine on Adams Hill Friday after
noon during the thunder storm, T..
j. Anderson and Julius Hubner
both received quite an electrical
shock. The current of electricity
was carried down the shaft by
means of the wire cable. The
shock was sufficiently strong
enough to throw Anderson against
the wall of the shaft, and Huhner's
leg was rendered numb for a short
timc-Eureka Sentinel.
Showers of red rain have fallen
more than once in the worlds
history. In the middle ages they
were looking upon as awful omens
IF val and blodshed, but nowadays
we know the hue Of the rain of
blood" to be due TO the presence
of n tiny red insect n variety of
water flea. Red rains are very
rare, but in volcanic regions gray
rain is comparatively common.
Sicily has had many showers of
this shade. They are caused by
the upper atmosphere being full
Of ash coIoied volcanic dust from
Etua. This dust is infnitcsimail,
fine and colors the rain as il falls.
The. Nevada gypsum works al
Mound House have developed int
a large industry and a big force
of men is kept constantly at work
mining and milling the product
heavy shipment being maintained
weekly over the V. and r. railway.
The company has Just installed (,