Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1914-06-19
Salmagundi
From Fridays Daily

Mrs L%ottrop's mother and sister
arrived from California yesterday
on a visit.
Constable Happier brought Il
prisoner from Carlin this morning
and left him with Jailer McMullen
to feed and look after for ten
days
This Afternoon the Elko p~ostofRce
received "a tons Of cement, shipped
~ PAL reels post from Boise City,
: Idaho, to j. A. Sewell, Owyhec,
Nevada. The postage on the ship.
.ment amounts to $50.
We are glad to learn that little
Gerald Fitzgerald who accidentally
shot himself in the left foot yes
terday is getting along nicely. For
tunately the bullet missed the
bones and no serious consequences
are likely to follow.
Two retired Minnesota farmers,
on their way to their old homes in
Germany for a visit, wcrc lost on
the Empress Of Ireland. One IF
them was afraid Of railroad ac-
cidents, and refused to travel by
night train to Chicago. He said
he shouldn't feel safe until he was
aboard ship.
Rev. Chas McHarncss leaves to-
night to attend the Northern Bap-
fist Centenial Conference at Boston.
He will return ny the way of Pom
tiac, Michigan, and visit his father.
From there he will go to Chicag.
and spend q few days and then re.
turn to Elko. He viii! be gone a
month. He promised the Indcpcnd-
cnt 10 be good on his trip.
The Tonopah Bonanza critirises us
for the stand we took against the
bill Of the Free Press for publish
iTg an ordinance. In reply to the
BonanZa, We will say that it is such
outrageous bills as that that
brings the newspapers into dis.
rcputc with tie taxpayers of TIC
state and prevents any beneficial
Legislation for the newspapers. So
far as we are concerned we should
just as soon be robbed by anybody
else as by a newspaper.
While the Montana was steam.
ing slowly %nnrthward through the
log a white dogc. the omen OF
peace, blown apparently from TIC
Virginia shore GlIRhtcd on II ten
inch gun on the deck Of the cruis.
or. More than 100 bluCjackets arc
glad To be hom'. \ little yellow
swallow blown to sea near Cuba
rcmainCl on one Of the cruisers al
the way to Vera Cruz and is still
on the deck of the warship.-Ncw
York Correspondence Philadelphia
Times.
II is highly probable that the
two mcn that Sheriff Weaver came
after will soon be under arrest
Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Harris
received word that Tuesdays stage
had picked up two men at Chicken
Creek who said they were looking
for work. This morning word
was received from the V. N. ranch
that two men left there ut 6 O'Clock
this morning for the ]. l.. ranch.
Their description Tailed so closely to
the men wanted that Sheriff Harris
and Weaver left for the !. l.. ranch
in I'm automobile at 8 o'clock this
morning.
Once again the roar and mound.
ing Of n mill is heard in Cande.aria
and the dawn promises brighter
days for that old bonanza camp.
The mill recently completed by
George T.. Threlfhll is running full
blast and ia doinR splendid work.
MIR. ThrclfalI informs us that the
work of adding more machinery and
increasing the capacity Of the plant
nh additional GO tons a day will
begin at nee. II begins to look as
though the old camp will shortly
take its place among the bdlliOn
producers Of the state. II has the
orc and only needs economical
methods Of treatment Western
Nevada Miner.