The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-08-10
from Moneay . Daily.l
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ness since Saturday.
A regular gale. accompanied - p, ty
Of dust and q lively dash of rain,
arrived in own from the east about four
o'clock this evening.
Reinhart & Co.. has jus. received .
fresh invoice OF croekery, and John
Ainley is in receipt Of q large lot Of
harvesting machinery.
Judge Flack goes on a visit to San
Francisco in a fow days; Judge Keeney
will also depart for a two weeks visit to
the Bay City on Thursday.
The Board Of County Commissioners
will hold its regular session for tho
transaction OF business. to-morrow-if
Messrs. Holmes and Conley arrive on
time.
Johnny Simpsons wifo has just pre-
sented him with a healthy, eiaht-pound
daughter. and tho young man has
stretched mis- altitude TO full Ave feet, In
consequence.
Il. r. Bigelow and Il. w. Brown
started for Tuscarora by private con.
veyance, at an early hour this morning,
DONE know that there's anything omen
Gus connected with the proceeding.
however.
DIR. +. F. Muller has purchased from
II. w. Brown, the brick building for
merly occupied us the PostoRce. It is
the Doctors Intention to establish his
drug store in the building moving 1t
from the opposite side OF the street.
A stranger who has for several days
been confined in the county Jail was TO-
day examined by a commission in lu-
macy. but his mental alteration was not
regarded as sufficient to entitle him ad-
mission to the Nevada Asylum ut
Woodbridge.
Thsnew bank building has been TOM
pieted. and is now ready for occupancy.
81. p. Freeman, its owner, will get
moved into IL from the old stand on the
opposite corner, this week, when the
business will DO thereafter conductedin
the new building.
Gus Hoffman, Of Railroad district,
who came to town for medical treat
mcnt, and has since been rooming at
Garrccbt X Lnug's lodging house, is
much improved. but il still troubled
-
with chilis. So soon as these shall
have been effcctuaiiy broken, lie thinks
he will be able to return home.
The first edition Of a Thousand copies
Of Harry Mighels' book, "Sagebrush
Leaves" hac arrived in Virginia City.
and ore being delivered to subscribers
in the western part OF the State as fast
AZ possible. The demand for the Work
Is found to far exceed the supply, aud u
second edition will he ordered ut once,
and all Subscribers will be furnished
very shortly.
business at the Bank Of VI. 7. Free.
man N Co. was suspended this after
noon in order that the safes and furni.
ture might be transferred to the new
Bank building OH the opposite corner.
A sufficient force was employed to com.
plete the new arrangement to-day, and
business will 10 resumed, in the new
quarters, tomorrow morning. Toe new
building is n good substantial structure,
indicative Of tho firm financial basis
upon which the business is founded,
with just enough OF the attractive III it's
at. 10 Of architecture to represent the
quiet urbnnity with which the transac.
tons Of the interior departments nre
conducted.
The succulent sage.hen having now
been ZONE time abroad with her brood,
tho sportiye Simrod hath donned his
toggsry and gone forth to the slaughter
OF the inuucents. and il the destruction
Of fowl is in any reasonable proportion
to the consumption of powder, the race
of fea,hered bipeds will SOC have be-
come extinct. Fired with cumulative
zeal and corn whisky, a couple OF
natives Of the historic town Of Wells,
n few days ago shouldered their shot
guns with q view Of bagging n few
birds. As they porspired along upon
the opposite banks OF n little creek
thickly studded with willows, one Of
the parties heard a gun go of, upon
which he was seized with al intense
desire to personally examine tho poste.
rior portion OF his anatomy. and the
ground and lofty tumbliug he was exc.
cutting as his coIDpanion came plunging
through the willows after his game, Ia
said 10 have surpassed anything wit.
nessod in that line since the last circus.
The friends OF tho sufferer are actively
engaged In prospecting his person with
knitting needles. and have already 70.
covered lead enough lead 10 break q
reasonably stiff market.
Depot Hotel Arrivals.
@. IL. Higher, Camp Halleck.
/. ]. H.. Bacon, Mountain City.
+. McKonna, Ogden.
Thomas Brennan. Star Valley.
Mrs. Pomeroy, Eureka.
t.. Wenban, Cortez.
John Shroufo, San Francisco.