Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-29
Salmagund
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

this afternoon.
Mrs. Conrad Smith of South
Fork.was a visitor to this office this
forenoon.
Rev. H. f Henriques of Battle
Mountain was a passenger for Tus-
carora on this mornings stage.
In area. Nevada and Italy are
nearly the same-Nevada ITO, 700
square miles Italy. 10, $50 square
miles Italy has a population of
32~,42o.OO0 Nevada, 8l,S75, a.
eording to some enterprising stats.
tician.
The Baltimore hotels have raised
rates for the democratic national
contention. Twenty dollars a day
with a five.day contract seems to
be the ruling rate. These exorbi-
rant rates will prevent many people
from attending the convention.
The regular meeting of the
Parents & Teachers Association
will be held at the grammar school
tomorrow Afternoon at 3 o'clo ok
Mrs. Lothrop will exhibit the work
in sewing completed by the girls OF
the grammer grades. A cordial
invitation is extended to the pub.
lie.
The New York republicans gave
Teddy q terrific drubbing Tuesday.
The Taft delegates were successful
in most of the congressional dis
tricts. The big buffer and his
friends now cry fraud and
threaten to contest the delegation
at the Chicago convention. "Prac-
tical men" like Roosevelt should
take their medicine without squeal-
ing.
The Nevada Sugar Co mpany,
through W. S. Wall, its attorney,
has filed suit against j.. w. Vannuy
to enforce the payment of $3.50, al.
legged to be due ON a subscription
for $500 OF its stock. IL is under.
stood that it is the policy of the
sugar company to enforce pay
ment of stock subscriptions wher-
ever possible, and that several other
suits will follow shortly Church.
i'll Standard.
Governor Oddie has filed charges
against Ray Baker, warden of the
penitentiary. A year ago the gov.
n and the warden were as close
to each other as men could well
be. Now they are enemies and the
governor charges the warden with
extravaganza and making false
reports. If Baker is removed from
the wardenship for extravaganza
what will the governor do with
Charley Norcross, president of the
publicity commission? Will he still
feed from the public trough?
The biologists tell us that the
orobippus, The ancestor Of the no.
BILE horse Of today, was but little
larger than the common rabbit OF
today and that each had sixteen
toes, four on each foot, the same
as the cattle Of today. After the
lapse Of ages this sixteen hoofet
equus shed a toe or hoof from eacl
foot and thus became a twelve
toed animal. The sixteen hoofeC
variety is first found in the eocen,
period Of geological epochs.
ElectrocutioD caused the deatl
Of several hundred trout In tn,
Orr ditch at the University Of Ne
yada Tuesday. The waters of tn,
ditch we're turned Off during III,
morning and at that point wherD
the power wires that furnish cleo
tricity to the university are ground
ed in the ditch nearly 200 specklet
beauties we're discovered dead an,
an equal number were found in 8
weakened condition from the sfec
of the electricity.
The man who sometimes SPOKE
his thoughts aloud had been more
concerned with the things Of thii
world than with things spiritual
One day by chance his hand fell W
on a book containing the catechisr
Of a certain Protestant church. an
he was soon earnestly engaged 4
reading the Ten Commandment
J For some time he pondered owe