Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-06-18
TOWN TALK

A. E. kimbail is here today.
J. II. Carter and family, Of Lee, are
in Elko today.
Mrs. II. w. Schmidt, of Tuscarora.
is here today.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. 3. Bieroth, of Row
land, are spending the day in Elko.
George w. GoodfeIIow, of Pine Val.
ley, is an Elko visitor today.
E. c. Wood came down from Wells
this morning.
| e. L. Mcdonald. OF Bullion, is
! transaCting business matters here to-
day.
e. 8. Butler and daughter, Miss
/ Elizabeth Butler, of North Fork, are
in this city today.
Mrs. James 3. Mepermott, of La
moille, is registered at the Mayer to-.
/ day.
Thos. Kearns, of Salt Lake City.
and +. J. Kearns, of the Kearns
ranching interests in this county, are
here today.
Walter J. Hoyt, OF the Hoyt Mer-
! la nF 4, Ia,
this city attending to business mat
/ tcrs.
/ Sergeant Thomas J. Montague, re-
/ cruiting officer for the marines, is
here today getting men for his branch
OF the service.
Editor Steninger of the Free Press
furnished us a news item this morn
ing by getting his moustachc trimmed
clean off. Brother Ed will now have
more room TO talk.
A large and interested crowd at.
tended the Christian Science lecture
at the Bradley Opera House last
night. The lecture was well deliver.
ed and thoroughly enjoyed.
The Reno Evening Gazette OF last
night says that the application for a
writ of prohibition in the county com
missioner's cases from this county
has been denied by the supreme
I court.
Miss Laura PIunkett and Mis-.
Mary Dewar will leave tomorrow
evening for Portland. Oregon, where
: they will enter the nurse service OF
the American army. Good luck TO both
of the young ladies and may they
come back to us safe and sound.
A wire was received this morning
by the Seymour Jacobs Co. to the ef.
feet that the Home Guard and band
uniforms had been shipped by express
on the 1lth of this month and the
caps on the 18th. The boys will be
; out in full regalia soon and the sum.
mer band concerts will likely get q
start next Sunday evening.
In the district court this morning
Attorney James Dysart. acting for
the plaintiff in the case of The Ne
vada Industrial Commission vs. Har-
kins, dismissed the action. The suit
was for the sum of $1,000 in premiums
that had not been paid by the defend
ant. The action was dismissed upon
the payment by the defendant of Il
sum satisfactory to the plaintiff.
Lowell Moody has written to his
mother from France recently and thus
has disproved the reports of his death
! circulated hero a short time ago. il
/, was rumOred that Lowell had falleI
victim to u gas attack. lie says tina
IL rains practically every other day il
, France and that the country is yer!
beautiful there; however, he wOulC
be most willing to return home at any
: time without seeing more OF Europe
and relate his most interesting CXpcr
fences to the folks at home. He has
been very close to tho firing line In
his work and has the opinion that the
war will be over by the first OF the
year Lowell is a truck driver and is
working within ten miles OF Paris.
A sad and unexpected death occur
, red last evening in Elko, when Con
stantino Z. Strassi, for many years
u resident of Ruby Valley, passed
, away here. Mr.. Strassi had been a
. sufferer from cancer of the stomach
for some time and had come In tC
Elko for tho purpose of getting mCdi
cal aid. During his visit hero no was
advised by local physician to seek
relief in California and he intended
leaving today for San Francisco "a
undergo an operation for his malady
j. lie died early last evening. lie was
:, unmarried, nGty.cight years of age
|. and had been in the employ for a long
time OF Mr.. VIII Smith, of Ruby Val
Icy, as a ranch hand. lie leaves many
friends TO mourn his loss. Funeral
services will be announced later.
In the justice court at Lamoillo yes
tCrday, Charles Noble, wealthy and
well known Lamoille rancher. was
found guilty and fined $50 for allow
G ing water from his lrrigating bitches