Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1888-01-29
From tuesdays Daily
ALM.AGCND

Baron Munchauscn was n very ordi-
nary liar in comparison with Ii. Rider
H"ggasd, the author Of "She."
The signal service says that on the
23rd there will bs another big snow
storm, and that on the eth We may
look for HuUber terrific cold spell.
"Grandmn" Garfield. mother of the
late President James \. Gar:i,li, died
Saturday n, the Eome of Mrs Garfield
i'll Mentor, Ohio, aged eishty-six.
The Senate Committee OH Public
Lands has ordered u favorable report
on Senator Tellcr's bin to euublv the
State of Colorado to select indemnity
school lands.
hltn:-Thc end of the world is predict
cd for this year. That event has been
SO often p: .dictcd that il it should
come lots of y,1,gl. would not believe it
until it is nll over.
Tcacher-Corrcct the sentence, 1.-The
liquor which the man bought was
dIa nS." ..r-.. :,
Stnar; bny-Thc man which bought
the liquor WAS drank.
A rain storm set in last evening about
. O'Clock and continued for two hours
iiI~cc5sWutly. uf,rr which it cl,n-ed off
nad this morinS the face Of nature WAS
covered with IL sheet Of ice.
Carson City has y sensation in the
arrest 81 Max Grosman charged with
tamperins with u H. gil seven years
old. Conflicting statements Of the Child
Indicate that Grosmam is innocent.
Louisgiilc CuuTitr-Journnl:-Thrcc
million women il the United State nIe
working for ways. The mau who can-
not marry rich may at least sGcnrc a
wife whose wages w.!I make his home
happy.
Syracuse Cruricr:-Fhc opposition to
Mr.. LtHAr's confirmation was without
rhyme or reason. 1t was tho dictn:ipn
OF 'icmng 'sucs. lie will make one If
tlr nhir~t ami fnirest judges Oh the
Supreme Bench.
There ARE living tliirty-eight widows
ofshc Revolutionary War. The Young
est is MrS. Nancy Green. She was
born in 1918 or th~irty-fivc years after
The close o! the Sir. she must have
married a ycIy Oil soldier.
Sine" Ia" perforatinm % tho earth in
Pittsburg 10 get u~Htural gas il is dim
c"rous To enter II cellar there with "a
light. The Volume Of gas is so greu,
that it seems to fill the ground, aud
cellars act ~ reservoirs for it.
1t is among the possibilities that n
Republican vii be appointed by PreNi-
dent Cleveland as ipcRsr uni rcfiner Of
the Carson City Mint. The position
requires Il man skilled i'll this line. and
a. Il Parker, the present assistant, is
being strongly urged.
The Los Gatos News SAYS: Mr..
Temple, who resides OH the hill west Of
tO~U. picked ripe strawberries on his
place the LIST Of January. One meas
urcd four and scvrn-eighths inches in
ciscumi,r and weighed twenty
thr, e.thir;y seconds Of nu ounce.
After ynm get angry AMI stop Your
~ per just poke your finger III wnter.
pull It out and look for the hole. Then
yor will know how sadly you are missed;
and the paper will still he published,
nmi what is morc-youn borrow it and
rcnl il "nIhe sig.
Th" Postmaster at McKim. Rituhie
Cndnty, W,st Virginia. whose Office il
now discontinued. was notified 10y the
Government that II H. dcicucy Of one
cent was found in his iinul settlement.
And, f%urthnr, he wnW told that lie woull
have to remit the one centor suit would
lie brought against his b%ondsmen.
According TO the Bellevue Herald the
Wood River country has experienced
great Inconvenience from the sncw
blockade, traius dl.yrd, mails bel ,tcd
rRd a Gcn"rul hing up Of Railroad bus.
mess. The rotary steam snow plow
finally opened up the way for the ar
rival "f IA train whmh put al; in n good
humor.
IndrS.Union:-Thcy have n twelve.
year. old 41rl ~klertumtuiac in Sncramrn-
10 who stcclI everything she cnn get
her hands upon. She doesn't steal for
the profit there is in it, bu, just brcluse
she cnn't help it,. She gives AWAY
money or vnlu ablCs She may have
stolen To the first person that asks her
for them.
The present warm weather is n God
send Ia the poor. haif-sturvcd cattle. ns
they sill not only S-t warmed up but
the SNOW will soon disappear on tho
south sides Of the hills and give them n
chance to obtnin food sufficient TO
maintain their existence II the mill
w~cttlrr continues the losses OF stock
will he much l,ss than vas ANTICIPATED.
Lyon County gimo,:-A rumor IN
TuTT,nt flint Mai, r Jnbn Drnui, ,,;iI 80