The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15
FLANHEA.
Austin is afflicted with horse-thieves.
Utah is threatened with severe

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Utah is threatened with o severe
drouth.
Miss Observation-Disclosures paint,
powder, etc.
Dayton has literary society with
over forty members.
Burglaries are of frequent occurrence
in and around Carson.
The father of Charlie Ross is still on
the hunt for his lost boy.
Some fine bodies OF ore are being
opened up in the Belmont miass.
The Rev. DR.. Dewitt Talmage has
said goodbye and sailed for Europe.
A deep we'll at Stockton, Kansas, has
run dry and is emitting sulphurou,
fumes.
Chinawoman was fatally burned by
the explosion Of coal oil at Phoebe,
Sunday.
Sutro is in very fair way to become
the metropolis Of Nevada. They had
an average Of three fights a day there
last week.
The Tybo Sun wishes it distinctly un-
derstood that W. B. Taylor has nothing
to do with that paper editorially or
otherwise.
So many marriages by telegraph is
given as a reason for the decrease in
the number Of children born in the
United States.
The father OF five blooming daugh-
tiers in Reno. is SO mean that he rubs
their teeth with onions to keep the
young men from hanging over his front
gate.
A Washington special states that il is
reported on good authority that Gen.
Chas. +. Henderson OF Nebraska, will
be rendered the Office of Secretary of
War.
Here Is the way the Belmont Courier
goes for the editor of rival sheet:
The hireling who throws of the
spleen OF the noodle-pated inebriate
who is supposed to own the Tybo Sun is
beneath our notice.
care tulips very sweet. map" asked a
'.Why do you ask,
I.r.ed her mother. "Cause
papa told our Susan that hor two.Iips
were sweeter than vino jelly" Susan
took new departure that afternoon.
He fished most perseveringly all day,
used up his bait, and did not catch n
fish. As he wended his pensive way
homeward. a neighbor accosted him
with: "What luck2" well" he said
with deliberation, "not particularly
good; and still it wasn't SO darned bad
after all; I didn't catch any fish, but
made out to drown o good many
WORMS"
A train boy got rather taken in ON
the Pennsylvania road the other day.
Ho distributed the usual candy and cake
packages through tho emigrant train,
but when he came back to gather them
up again, the foreigners had disposed
OF the goodies and thrown tho empty
boxes out of the window. They thought
1t was free lunch furnished by the con.
ductor, and could not be got to pay for
it either.
Mas. FREEMAN is pining in her pris.
on, aud she lately has experienced n
change of views regarding tho act. She
snys that both she and her husband for
several days after thoroughly believed
that their child would 10 raised TO
them, but at length her heart failed her.
aud now she knows no did wrong. She
thinks II was temptation OF the devil,
and they were surely mistake, n in the
voice. Having thus made up her mind
she has dismissed all thought OF their
act in its religious aspect and relations,
and pines for her slain child and part
ner in sorrow. from whom she il sepnr.
ated. She does not want her other
daughter. Bessie. brought into her pres.
ence for fear tho surroundings OF the
prison might cloud her child's life.
Bessie Is with friends going to school
aud does not yet know th,t her sister
Edith IL dead.
What arc the I'rOnts.