Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1914-05-29
Salmagund
From Fridays Daily

tnlS morning 10 meet bItnOp SpalQ-
ing. He will return tomorro .
Sheriff Harris went to the north
ern part Of the county this NOR n
ing to see how things are getting
along.
Detective Toombs of the Western
Pacific is in town. He reports no
car robbcries or the Western Pa.
cifc since the Farmer gang was
broken up last fall.
The work of correcting the ac-
coustics of the courtroom will be
finished today. The painting will
take a couple Of days more and the
court room will then be in good
shape.
Postmaster Doughty received g.
500 pounds Of sugar by parcels post
yesterday. The sugar was shipped
from Idaho and is destined to points
in the northern part of this coun-
ty.
d. b. Boyd, treasurer Of Washoc
county since the early 7O's is bat
Ting with a siege of the grip. He
is nearly so years of age. MIR.
Boyd is m of the early pioneers
of Reno and one of it's respected
citizens.
Monday Lee Hardin missed a
steel tape from his tool bnx and
this morning found it in the room
occupied by Alex Brown. He swore
to a complaint and Brown was ar
rested for stealing the tape. The
trial is in progress as we go to
press.
Good roads day was celebrated
in the western part Of the state
yesterday. According to reports
a good deal OF work, good, bad,
and indifferent was done on the
roads. The ladies did thei; part
by distributing refreshments to the
hungry but not tired workers.
The widest authority in the en-
forccment of and punishment of
otfenses against the law in the
canal zone has Deen conferred upon
Col. Goethals by President Wilson.
In an executive order the governor
of the Panama canal is empowered
to grant pardons and rcprieves for
0frenscs against the laws and rcgu.
latlons and To commute sentences
and remit fines.
A movement is m foot 10 cstab-
llsh n condensed milk factory at
Reno. Capitalists With the ncces-
sary money are investigating the
proposition. The proposed factory
will have the Capacity of 500 cases
a day and will require the milk of
$4,000 cows. 1t is said that if ways
IA be found to furnish the neccs-
sary milk there is no doubt the
factory will be built.
The work Of tearing down the OLD
Pullman building on the corner of
Fourth and Idaho Streets and the
office of the Abstract company be-
gan this morning. The Pullman
building is n Of the old landmarks
OF the town. a one story brick
store building with a frontage of
b0 feet on Idaho street and running
back rs feet on Fourth street will
take the place Of The buildings torn
down.
California has Ii wOmen forest
fire lookout, who, when the fire
season begins, establishes herself
at klamath peak, in Siskiyou coun.
ty, 6444 feet above level. The
only human being seer by the look
out from one weeks end to the
other-unless, indeed, some gall
liant adrtnturcr undertakes IT, seek
her out lis her sister, who brings
the mail from home once a week,
and needed supplies. This is COM
muning with Nature with a ven
Reance.
This morning at 1901 the new
time card went into effect and
trains Nus. 8 and d ore things Of
the past, for the time being ut
least. The new arrangement will
make quite Il shake up in The crews
of the passenger runs and 1t will
probnbly take several days to get
the matter adjusted Ia thp tpyujnr