The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1882-07-30
IRON Saturdays Daily.
RalmnxundI.

Strawberries have disappeared Tor
good.
A daily thunder storm scent to be
our fortune.
Cour. was in session for n few mo.
ments this morning. bnt no business Of
Importance was transacted.
There aro 537 churches in Philadel.
phia-a figure which entities that vii.
lage to be called 1.-The City Of Churches"
The departures by stage for the North
this morning, wero John jenkins and
W. Smith.
Sheriff Ed. Raum Of White Pine
County, has returned homo from San
Francisco, with his health fully restored.
Ninety pounds Of crude bullion WAS
shipped West yesterday by Wells, Fargo
4 Co. 1t was sent by A. rrimoaux
from Goou Hope District.
Divine services will be held ut tho
Presbyterian Church to morrow morn
ing at II o'clock. and in the evening mt
:, Rev. j. ID. Beard. presiding. Sab
bath School IL II.
As this is political year and all State
aud county officers are to be elected,
every voter in tho State should keep
posted in the political news, and they
can do so by taking the IsDErESDENT.
The Central Pacific Company are
making arrangements for the erection OF
new and very extensive brick shops at
Wadsworth, on the opposite side Of the
river from the town. This settles a
long mooted question.
Robison's great moral monngtrie and
compilation Of circuses Las depart ID;
tho jury has been discharged aud gone
home; liiigan.s and lawyers have sub
sided. and tho County Seat has again
lHpsed into its normal state Of moral
poacefulness and righteous rigidi,y.
II it takes a boy twelve years Of age
twenty two minutesto bring in Elk small
sticks OF wood, how long will it tako
him TO walk a milo and u half to see q
circus procession? We give it up. Our
devil started out last Tuesday and amt
back yet. His little brother says LIE il
sick.
The practice OF throwing bottles,
cans, papers, etc.. into the public
streets should be discontinued. Papers
blown about by the wind has end niger
cd life by causing teams to break loose
and run away. while valuable animals
have been ruined by trnmping upon
broken glass. Neither are these accu.
mutations at oil ornamental TO the
principal thoroughfares. and would be
much more becoming TO tho back alleys.
II each piscatorial party that raids the
streams from this locality should sue
coed in capturing n single fish, there
wouldn't be n single representative Of
the hnny tribe left to tell tho viggling
tail. The amount Of angling going on,
10 quite appalling, and tho vast e=pen.
diture in bait is only equnllod by the
destruction OF skirts and trowsers and
the heavy draft on tho profano yocsbu.
Larry. The intrinsic value Of each fish
taken ~ estimated ms follows: Bait, 10
cents; damage 10 boots and broech, 3.
50; arnicn, 90 cents; violation OF moral
aud religious sentiment, % cents; total
$40 90. Cheap enough.
Chris, Reckhar., who wandered of
with n fish pole before daylight this
morning. got lost in the juugles Of tho
Humboldt bottom, and while vainly at
tempting to steer himself out Of the
willow labyrinth in which no had be.
come %entangled, lao states that he sui.
denly st2nbicd upon a secret session
'of the Democratic Central Committee
which was being solcmnly held in n
private circle, tho center Of which was
focbIy maintained by an empty bottle OF
old bourbon. Tho Chairman, promo
upon The grass. had succumbed 10 the
influence while in tho act Of putting
the question; the cork being still re-
tanned in his grasp. Tho "old Demo
crat" himself, wrapped about the cir.
oumferenca Of mn empty fry PAM, was
Sweetly dreaming tho happy hours
away, while tho balance Of tho members
exhausted by the length, Nigor-aud
frequency. OF discussion. were promis.
cuously disposed in slumber among the
ruins OF depleted domijohns and BUD.
xRataaF haar hn1Il..