Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1888-01-29
From Wednesdays raily.I
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The severe Winter il liable to be fol-
low~i by nn early Spring. for which let
Us all hope.
Miss Rosa Garrecht l,!t this morning
for Weilaud'S, on the Tuscarorn road,
where she will teach Il term Of school.
Daring the Two weeks in which lev.
Mcdonald hill meetings here there
were twenty.three additions to the
church.
4 dispatch from Portland says the
Willamette river from its pIouth to Ore
Gon City is frozen over solid-thc FIRST
time in % years.
The Hotel de Atwell. Col. ]. II.
Taber, Manager. now supports ten
guests at the ~ouuuty's expense. Verify,
Eiko county is growing very. very bad.
Preparations nre being made for nu
entertainment, to be given by the chill
dren OF Elko, for the purpose of liquid
ating n debt incurred during tho recent
protractcd meeting.
ReckhRrt & Froelich have Just re-
ccived another carload Of Milwaukee
Bottled Beer which. as everyone knows,
5 the best beer in the market and
which will be sold in quantities to SUR.
Reno GGzrttc:-A circular was re-
ceived b. w. d.. Phillips last night
fron General Passenger Agent Good
man to the effect that II change would
he made i'll the g. Z. Time card at IN
early date.
Mr.. George Russ,ll returned this
morning from u trip to San Francisco
where it rnined all the time that lie Was
in the city. At Reno the snow is near
l. gone and The streets are q slush OF
mud nmi water.
Mr. Tom Bisbic--W What do you
expect for your New Y~ear's-the
EARTH
Mr viii G-ttherc-Wr:l. no; not
exactly the whole earth. But. l can
;el yon it'll be n pretty cold day IL
don't get some of the f~uIIuess thereof
before wind up.
The Indians are now snpreinly hap
py. They gather i'll squads on the sun
ny side OF some house and give them
selves over 10 the enj ,ymeEt OF their
~favorite amusement, riute poker. No
matter to what straits they may I've put
by hunger and col | they always have q
few dollars to risk on cards, for they
are all inYeterate gamblers.
Alta:-The 5000 coiored voters of
l Illinois raise their united voice Tue
ing the Republicans to nominate IA lie
gro for LiCutennnt-G Governor. We can
find II man to let n dollar n vote that
these voters won't &c. what they want.
They are knocking at the door of the
wrong party to get al Office for n col
ored man. Their candidate can get n
jIb to clean Republican spittoous.
A Washington dispatch Of the 23rd
instant says: The Supreme Court to.
day rendered n decision in the MAXWELL
Prcller murder case, dismissiug the case
for want of jurisdiction. The effect Of
this decision is 10 affirm the sentence OF
death pronounced by the Missouri
State Court" This decision renders IL
almost certain TINT Maxwell will ,my
the penalty of his crime on the GAL
l1Ts.
Unless we sEoull have some exceed
insly acyrIe weather in the future,
which is hardly probable. tho lossrs uf
stock ia this vicinity wall not exceed the
average OF the past five or six Winters.
This weather will do up .he stock
business" has been the cry every Win
ter since we hare been III Nevadn. hut
Oh the opening OF Spring the losses
were always much less than was ex-
pec;ed.
Hank Snell came in from Lamoillc
Valley to-day aud gave this Office n
friendly call. lie says the mngpics are
destroying quais, prairie chickens aud
Sngc hens rapidly. We are aware that
mngpics are carniyOrOus wrctches. and
TINT they will pick holes in the backs
OF live animals. but We had no idea TINT
their thieVish p~ropinsities aonlI lead
them to the destruction Of game.