Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1888-12-30
From Monday. Daily.l
kALMAGUNDl.

days. Long live Congress!
Ham Mccain aud Ed Kelly came
down from Hnlleck this morning.
Birdie Dawley's condition remain.
rbout the same, with little or no
change.
+. II. Kee'e left yesterday morning
for San Jose where lie will remain a
month or SIX wreks.
Walter S. Holbrook left last evening
for Ogden where he will spend the
holidays with his family.
The attention of tho pubic il di-
rected 10 Il notice Of SheriI's Sale under
the head Of New To-day.
liosenstock will have n largo and
varied assortment Of masks suitable for
the coming masquerade.
There is no law against n wifc's pick
ing her husbands pocket III order to
buy him a Christmas present.
EIaminer:-somebody ought to put n
meter on the sky. There ID excessive
use Of rain water just now.
The Reno Gazette snys about 5000
head OF cattle are being fed OH the
Truckee Meadows this Winter.
Us. md Charley Gardner arc at
home for the holidays, having finished
Jno. Il. iiardmnn's new building.
Eleven millions nine hundred md
sixty thousand dollars is the annual
sop asked for tie rivers and hnrbors.
II you wish to enjoy u fuo turkey
dinner with nil the accessories, 20 TO
the Depot Hotel about $3.50 Tomorrow
afternoon.
The Senate hns passed Stewards bill
providing for the opening TO settlement
Of abandoned military reservations in
Nevada.
Alr. and Mrs. l.. Hudson, OF Hunt
ington. and Mr.. and Mrs. Vim Mitchell.
ofSmith Geek, came in to-day to spend
the holidays.
Henry B. Rnlo has been appointed
Postmaster Mt Pitt'burg, Lander Co.
Henry has charge Of the mining Com
pLny's store Mt that place.
notwithstanding the c~losencss Of coin
It seems to he in reach Of Il majority of
our citizens aud our merchants have
done a fine business in holiday goods.
DO not fail to attend the Masquerade
ut Freeman Hall tomorrow night,
either ms n participant or SPECTATOR.
There will be a bTilliam; array Of fancy
and novel costumes aud IL jolly time
generally.
j. .. Gardner has jlst received news
OF the dc nth Of lis brother, David
Gardner, for many years n prominent
citizen Of Orville. Ohio. Deceased
was a member Of the l. y. o. +. Lodge
OF Orryillo.E
At Wells yest0rd,y morning Their.
was quite n snow storm but here it
rnined nearl" - day. This morning
the mud ID over by jack frost
who, appearance sometime
during the night.
T. S. Price is editing tho Rereilie
during the nbscnce OF tho editor who
has gone to San frincrsco. The ques-
ton is "Whero did tho editor &c, money
enough to pay his expenses in that great
city for three weeks"
Tomorrow being the eighteen hun
drcd and eighty. eighth anniversary Of
tho birth Of Christ md n legal holiday
no paper will be issued from this Office;
and We wish nur patrons and friends,
ono and all, n Merry Christmas.
Philadelphia ltccord:-who is there
east OF the Allcghanies who knows TINT
there is such n city in Washington Ter
ritory M Spokane FnlIs2 And yet Spo-
knme Falls to-day hns 81 900 900 worth
w ''ii'lihb7 III CuuioO VI ClcJllOH.
81. Badt, of Wells, hns the IarGcst
md most vnricl stock Of general mer.
chandisc 10 DO found in Eastern
Nevada. 1t is n pleasure to visit his
largo establishment aud inspect the
cudlc.s variety OF goods SO conveniently
aud lastly arranged.
j.. W. st Clair came down from Dceth
this morning With u broken collar bone.
The accident was caused by the rocoil
81 n heavily charged gun with which he
attempted tn shoot II coyote. Tho gun
went of, 80 did the coyote. DR.. Moigs
repaired damages 81 far as possible.
Owing TO tho inclomcncy OF the
weather thorc was not II very largo att
dicnco to hear Mrs. Tablets lecture last
evening on Woman, md the Temper
nuco Crusade. Tho lecture however,
was an interesting one anl shows that
Mrs. Talbot IS mn earnest aud %intclii-
gout worker in thu cause OF Toinpcr-
nucc.
Tho Bulls Head nj Wells is ono Of
he finest lmtls IN Eastoru Neyadn,
md under tho en- sent management OF
J. d. Fitch Ia justly entitled TO the
extensive patronage which il Is rccciy.