The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1882-08-13
From Wednesdays Daily.I
8aImRxundI.

Inv iueItoo"eter ss0ou NJ ECON To-
day liz in the shade.
We saw . man to-day at noon lying
in the middle of Idaho street deal
drunk.
Lc, me lie in the shade OF an oyst'r,
Or sup Lemonade with a straw.
As nom my face I wipe the moisture
While Bob. lies to me some more.
The sounds made by q puppy 70.
strained of it's liberty. and crying for
its mother, are hailed by rs as q relief
from the mopotopy Of the Chinese
iddlss.
A Reno Chinaman, who has gone into
the ice cream business recently, has the
following sign near the door: "You
catch 'sm laszy belly two bittso all same
Sian francisco.
Seven Nevada Central fa:-cars, car
rying AZ cords Of fre-wood for tho Man
haitian mill at Austin, caught fire aud
vas burnt up at Clifton station last
Thursdry, 50 rays the Battle Mountain
Messenger.
The town at present is overrun with
tramps. We noticed three Of them who
hal only u leg. They call them
selves the game-leggsd crowd. Where
is our psrlIco.
Don't fail to go and sec DIAvoLrSI,
the ~well-knoSn wizard and nccroman.
Ger, Tomorrow night q: Freeman Hall.
This is no dashboard show. The pres
ents to be given away can be seen at
ReinLnrt's store.
There was a moving tournament on
the Humboldt, near Iron Point, last
week. There were % W in oper-
alton at one time. Those machines run
over about 500 acres Of meadow, and
cut over 400 ton, of hay in one day.
Miss Bell Cady and Miss Kate Dor
s"y, who have been ont on l.. s. Dor
sey's ranch at Font Halleck since tho
opening Of the h,ying season, returned
to town last evening. looking fresh as
the daisios in May. There's nothing
like hayinS to bring the bloom Of vigor
Gus health to the pHlIid.
Two chickens deadheadsd their WAY
into winnsmucca on the b~reakbeam of
a freight car last Sunday. It is sup
posed that tie chickens went TO roost
on he beam ut some sidCtrack where
the car had been laid over. The rail
road boys do not object to chickens
riding on brakebssms, as they make
nice Pot-piss.
The Silver State says a young man
who had been working on a ranch on
the Little Humboldt was arrested Z!
Wiunemuoca LIST Saturday upon com
plSint Of a cOryt"san, who charged him
with outraging her person. She had
been i'll for some time. AID she alleges
that SIZE vas too feeble to resist him or
to call for assistance.
Rnbinson's circus since nrri,iay on
80 Naa
the Pacific Coast Las lost several horses,
the mammoth OK, three or four camels
and dromedaries, two leopnrds and T.
lion, all by verious accident. 4 ...mous
bicycle rider was shot by a cosboy. and
lastly, Johnny Lowlow, the mirta-pfo-
vokiug clown fetch out another hess
and kick up some more dust), died Of
consumption at Redding, Cal, n few
dn"s ngo. Financially, however, tho
circus has been a great success.
The EdoG-D dorsey streicher ct al.
fishing party that has been depopuIa-
ting the Streams of the North, oil Sum
mcr, flew back under the refining infu-
ences OF esthotic Elko society again,
yesterday, and are now undergoing the
p"enitsntial bleaching process in the
shady seclusiOn Of their respective
boudoirs. The complexion OF James p.
which is just about that OF q new sad
die, and tho blushing proboseises of the
balance OF the pursuers Of piscstorial
pleasure, publicly proclaim their heroic
devotion TO the angling art. During The
remainder Of the week. their time will
he wholly given up TO tho solitude of
pions reflection, aud for them, society,
for four consecutive drys, will spread
its dazzling allurements in vain.