Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-12-26
Salmagund
From Saturdays Daily.

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list amounts to S3699. 55 this year
Prof. Swanger left for Salt Lake
this morning to spend the holiday!
with his family.
J. NJ. Fulton arrived this morn,
ing and pu, in the time looking af,
ter the interest of the 5. p.
The United Sta es has already
annexed the hot tamale and that is
about all of Mexico we desire to
possess at this time.-Tacoma Led
ger.
Until a little more than a CEN
Jury age humanity had to rub
along without false teeth of which
nowadays one firm alone sells more
than 2,OO0, 600 a year.
Judge Castle this forenoon said
the words that made +. A. Foley
and Jewell Melyina Adams, both Of
Carlin, husband and wife. The In
dependent extends congratulations.
We received a letter from Sena-
tor NewIunds this morning in which
he said that John f.. Robins and
Ashley &. Dawley had been nori-
mated for register and receiver of
the EIko land Office. This should
settle this matter.
A jury in Winncmucca has ac-
quilted Vincente Mendoza of the
charge Of killing Jean Pierre Mi.
rail, the men were sheep herdcrs
and quarrcled over u flock Of sheen.
Mendiola's defense wa that he WI,
forced to Kill Mirail to save his
= life.
The walls Of the addition TO the
capitol having reached a height
where it is necessary to tear open
the north and south walls Of the
building proper thereby subject
ing the occupants to unnecessary
cold and discomfort it mas been
decided TO postpone further work
on the addition till spring. Carson
Appeal.
A new counterfeit $40 United
States Treasury note has made its
appearance, the secret service SAYS
in a circular Of warning Just is
sued. The note is Of very crude
workmanship and is printed on oi
binary paper. The silk fbc5s Of
the genuine note are initiated with
pen and ink, while the color Of the
seal aal c0u1tcr is brick red.
The O"cn currency bill passed
the senate last night by a vote OF
81 10 81. The votes for the bill
were cast by ~ democrats, &c
pubIicans aud | pr6Sg. Thir.
ty -four republicans voted against
the hill. The republicans voting
for the bill were Crawford, Jones.
Perkins, Norris, Sterling and
Week. Poindextcr vas the lone
progressive. Hitchcock stood by
his party and voted for the bill.
Dick Bender who attends to the
business matters of the Indians of
this section yesterday received a
communication from Manager b.
c. Weeks Of the Union Ice Com
pany at Roca, asking him to gather
together a number Of Indians and
bring them to Boca to work in the
ice fields. Bender will leave with
IN a short time with s~cvcnty-five or
a hundred Indians who are being
gathered in the section. Good
wages arc paid the Indians for the
work and they find ii to be a fnan-
riaI harvest. Carson News.
Inc New YorR police discovered
a system whereby they believe
minor criminals sentenced to short
terms have been able to hire others
TO take their places in prison. An
investigation was begun when n
plckpockct who had heen' started on
his way to BIackwcll's Island Dec.
J. was found walking about this
city. 1t is said that many young
men out Of work during the winter
hre willing TO sell their time a.
prison substitutes. Thus far the
police have not found where the
su6stitutions are made.