Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-29
S~almagundi
II o DAILY

against A. w. Sewell & Co. has
FINALLY got down to the taking of
evidence. Mr.. Noble, one of the
plaintiffs was the first witness.
While out riding on his motor
cycle yesterday afternoon, Supt.
Anderson run into a fence and
broke one of the toes on his right
foot. He is in bed today nursing
a very sure toe.
John Henderson will leave for
New York tonight. He will 90 as
far as Ogden on ton gifts train
and wait there until the limited
train arrives tomorrow. He will
be away about two weeks.
Mr.. Fred Davis returned from
ColfaX, California, this morning.
He reports Mrs. Davis well and
Miss Gwen getting along nicely.
She rests well and coughs but
little. This is good news to The
young lady's many friends.
John B Ratio, the humorist and
impersonator, will be at the opera
house tomorrow night. This will
be the last number of the Lyceum
course. Mr.. Ratio is spoken of
highly as an entertainer and those
who are at the opera house to-
morrow night are sure to be richly
paid. Let us all be there.
Ii you have gold ore and want
to test same for gold: Pound ore
fine, then mix a little quick silver
with it and stir well. Take a
potato and make a small hole in
same, put in quicksilver after
removing same from ore. place
potato IN a redhot shovel, and
keeping shovel heated. let remain
for awhile. Quicksilver will enter
potato in fumes, leaving gold in
small recess.
Benjamin FrAnklin's old home
has been recently sold at auction
in Philadelphia. He boarded
there for several years after
arriving in Philadelphia, and
tradition has 1t that he occupied
the one room in the attic. The
house is said to have been one of
the first brick dwellings built in
Philadelphia, and was erected
many years before Franklin lived
in il. 1t is still in a good state of
preservation.
George b. Stills, a carpenter,
was electrocuted Saturday morn
ing in the Verdi plant Of the
TrucRce River General Electric
company. He was seen to enter
the transformer room carrying a
ladder and several seconds later
his body was found on the floor
by the ladder. II is supposed
that the ladder came in contact
with the high tension wire carry
ing 10000 volts, and that the
wood carried the current to his
body. His body was frightfully
burned, and il is thought that
30. 900 volts passed through it.
Word was received in Carson
Saturday that Col. G.. A. Ellis, one
of,Carson's pioneer lawyers died in
Salt Lake City Friday morning,
Col. Ellis was born in Wcstmore-
land, Virginia, July IL. 1910. He
served in the Confederate army
during the Civil war and rose to
the rank Of colonel. He was
prominent in Nevada politics
thirty years ago and al for on
prcss and also for governor on the
democratic ticket. The funeral
took place yesterday in Salt Lake
City.
There is no excuse for the head
tax. II is n nuisance and an in.
justice. # is as irritating as the
itch, as unsatisfactory as an
unkissed kiss: AM morally il
smells worse than a pole.pussy. 1t
does not light equally on all alike.
II jumps about like a pea on a hot
pan, bat IL never overlooks two
bets. Laboring men and China.
men look alike to IL, and it will
go past sever rich men to harpoor
poor devil in oVcralls. II is toe
mean to associate with the ticks on
n yellow dog, and will rob a work,