Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1914-05-29
recently in Australia with dis
astrous results to those engaged in
this illicit work.
Salmasund
From Wednesdays l.ily

EiOHI nSIlilSouSJ . lily
Floyd Crawford the trusty at the
prison farm who went fishing sun
day and failed to return is still
fishing. So are the prison au-
thorities.
j. C. Atchisou, former county
clerk of Esmeralda county, with
headquarters at Hawthorne, is au-
thorlty for the statement that $50
men are now working at the mine
and mill at Aurora. 1t is expected
that the mill will begin operations
about July /.
A lady of recent widowhood en-
counterei much difn in franz
ing an inscription for her de5r hus-
bands tombstone. After endless
consuli atiUn with her friends and
neighbors this is the one she select
ed: crest in Peace-until we meet
again. "-Exchange.
The women Of Paris have thought
out anotner thing to keep the men
from coming home early. Not con-
tent with the slashed skirt, they are
now leaving off their stockings. No
wonder statistics show that so many
men are run down on the streets
in Paris "a person can't look two
ways at once.-Judge.
Ore shipments from Hamilton
via Eureka we're resumed this week.
c. A. Whitlrck arrived here We'd
nesday with one four and one six
horse team loaded with ore from
the Hamilton Mining and Power
Co.'S. mine and he expects to com.
mence hauling from the Jennie A..
mine next week with two addition
al teams.-Sentinel.
The tearing out OF the boilers.
smoke stacks and engines of the
Mint is now we'll under way and
will be completed early in the
week. The stuff is being sent to
the coast where it was purchased
for junk. This will mean the last
of the machinery of the famous old
building where at one time over
a hundred men and women were
employed and was once the busiest
place in the state.-Carson News.
Reading the newspapers all over
the country SAYS Harper's Weekly,
we find nobody quite so anxious
to have this country take general
charge OF Mexico as Colonel Har-
rison Grey Otis and Colonel Viii
liam Randolph Hearst. Both of
these gentlemen have property in
terests in Mexico. No wonder the
president hates the Diaz-Huerta-
Hearst-Otis situation, and has gone
as far as he dared toward helping
the real Mexirans to find the path
that might give them stake in their
own land.
Bullion shipments from the Mon
tana Tonopah and the West end
went out yesterday morning by
Wells Fargo. The joint shipment
weighed over two tons and the Ig-
gregate value was $48, $500. The
shipment from the West End was
the regular ten day run of the mill
and represented 23 bars containing
35,4S3 ounces. salued approximate
ly at $4,000. The Montana semi
monthly shipment was 18 bars
weighing 1922 ounc s worth S2l,
000-Bonanza.
Monday night n tough gang Of
hobos had a fight on top of the
cars of a Western Pacific freight
train west Of Jungo. In the fight
a colored mar was thrown from
the train and killed. Yesterday
afternoon Sheriff Lamb wired a
description of three men to the
Elko officers, and last night three
men answering the description were
arrested MS they got off an east
bound Western Pacific freight.
Sheriff Lamb was notified and this
morning Constable Moore arrived
and took the men to Winnemucca.
They are young men of the hobo
class.
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