Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1888-01-22
From Saturdays Daily.l
aALMAGUHDI.

District Court md G mnd Jury rpor
makes US q little late this evening.
Several members OF the Grand jury
left for home on this afternoons cas-
bound train.
There is q mountain Of coal in Wild
Horse Valley, Wy. T.. which has beer
burning for thirty years. II sends W
dense volumes OF smoke.
Some one has figured out TINT the
reesert T.te OF addition to the poyuln-
ton Of the United States caIIs for 3U3,-
Goo new dwellings, each yeAr.
For intense cold To day haa almost
equhlled last Monday, the thermometer
not having been above zero at any time
during the day. Last Monday il said
by old residents to have been the cold.
est day over known in Nevada.
The coll wave seems to have doubled
on its track aud determined to give ma
another benefit. Quite a heavy snow
storm set in yesterday morning about g
O'Clock md snow continued to fall until
nbout boon. the afternoon ~ns compar
ntirely pleasant, but during the night il
turned suddenly cold aud this morning
F. +. Auller's thermometer registrd q
temperature OF 40 degrees below zero.
The San Francisco Post Of the 18th
instant says: The smallpox epidemic
Is now on the wane. Only four pm
tients were sent to the hospital during
the thirty.siI hours ending at six o'clock
this morning. aud only one case was re-
ported up to noon to-day. The latest
victim OF tho disease is n man. twenty
years OF ngc. living on First Avenue.
The Lyon County Times says there
nrc Mt least twenty-five cases OF gland
crs among horses in Mason Valley.
Il. Is Smith Of Smith Valley has lost
about thirteen head Of horses from
CYLINDERS. having the animals killed at
soon as hc found out what niled them.
II Sc believed that tho disease was
Brought into tho valley by a band OF
horses from California.
The poverty dance says the Nova
ola City Transcript. Is tho latest inuo-
walton. Invitations printed on straw.
hoard Incl osed in cheap yellow en-
velopeS arc circulated. Tickets for the
ball are 10 cents. aud supper 10 cents.
Nc gentleman is allowed TO participate
who has lcss than two patches on his
clothes; the ladies are dressed Ia calico,
and refreshments are served on wooden
plates.
Central Ecyadnn:-W. s. Wilson
cnms up from Reno las. Sunday and
went through to Maysvillc 10 inspect
tho rich strike recently made ia his
mine. II il reported that 3 larger md
richer body Of orc has been uncovered
than has ever been found in the mine
before. Tn is is saying n great deal for
this mine Inns produced some OF the
richcat silver ore ever found In tho
state. We hope the report will be
verified.
An item elsewhere in this tissue indi.
cntes TINT Knox A. Crane aud his esti.
mshle young wife have determined to
obey tho S%criPtural injunction. "Bo
fruitful and multiply, and rrplenish the
earth" Time ficR! II seems but a
very short time since Mrs. Crane, nee
Nellie McDcrmott, was n school girl,
pupil OF this writer. and now sho Ia a
mother. Tho ISbErESpxsr extends
congratulations. with the hope that the
youugstor who iist Jaw the light OF day
during thc extreme cold weather OF the
past week may grow mp To DO mn honor
10 his parents aud tho country which
gsvo him birth.
The two bills OF Jnsliccs of tho
Peace, alluded TO In tho Grand Jury ro.
port, VIC learn wero tho FIRST bills for
fees on scalp certificates which wcro
presented by snid Justices after the
pnssa8e Of tho ACT and before tho Inv
WINS published, when Il was supposed
that tho said fee. were paid 10y tho
county inHtond Of by the person rocciv-
ing tho certificate. We arc awnre that
there was considerable discussion OF the
subject nj Tho time. mud before tho law
was publ ished II was supposed by
many that the sonnty pnid tho fees 81
justices OF tho Pence for issuing such
certificates.