Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-18
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A single indiscretion often results in
life Of misery.
Henry voigt, his wife and daughter.
came in from Lamoille yesterday and re-
turned to-day.
Miss Maggie Leddick, of Lamoille,
was in town to-day.
Alex. Musser has sold out his Cross
Roads saloon at Lamo!Ile 10 Bert Toy
Tor Of Pleasant Valley.
Rosenstock will have q large and
varied assortment of masks suitable for
the coming masquerade.
Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana polls,
seems to be the only man in the United
States who does not know who will
compose the Presidents Cabinet.
JAS. P. Hixson, of the firm of Gordan
B 'os., is ct the Depot Hotel with fine
line of samples for suits, overcoats,
Mr.. James Clark returned this morn
ing from Ogden accompanied by his
sister, Mrs. E. Waid, of Kinsman,
Ohio, who will visit here until after the
holidays.
The Enterprise tells ow one Henry
OFT. of Elko, fell on picket fence and
narrowly escaped death. The circum-
stance is unknown to the people of this
burg. and illustrates the force of the
sxiom. go 4way from home for the
: news" e.. O..
The newspapers are having a hard
time trying TO convince the public that
there is nothing in the reported infelic-
ity between President Cleveland and
his wife. Th" quickest way to dispose
of the whole mntter is to drop it entire
ly from the papers. and that ends it.
White Pine News:-In President
Clcveland's last message to Cong ess he
reiterates his hostility to silver and
recommends the discontinuance of its
coinage. From first to last Mr.. Cleve-
land has keen the bitter enemy of tie
white metal. aud no Democrat in Ne
vada can honestly regret change of
administration. We may fare no better
under the new, but We certainly will be
treated no worse.
Ambrose Bierce in the Examiner
The Bulletins solemn though apparent
jy sincere assurance that there is no
further peril of the Chinese Emperor
tnking up the treaty that be once re-
jected, ratifyiDg it and thus effscing the
Scott Exclusion law, is something to be
thankful for. It calms the country
like dose OF bromide Of jackassium.
With reference to the scheme which
it is said will be projected in the com-
ing Legislature for the consolidation OF
counties we have only to say that Eiko
county is entirely sstisfed with her
present boundaries We want NO more
and will be satisfied with no lees; and
there iS not, perhaps, one in hundred
of the residents of the county who
would favor aay change in her borders.
Virginia Chronicle,-Lord SackviIl is
said to be venting his spite against this
beautiful country in the dining rooms
of Paris. We can forgive him. for
there was never d:ploIuist who fell 40
fat or hard as SackviIle. But he ought
to be mad at himself instead of the
American Republic. for there is nobody
here responsible for his being fool.
Philadelphia Re.ord:-Partisans who
regard with complacency the rotten
borough Of Nevada affect n patriotic re.
pugnance to the admission Of New
Mexico. The explanation of this is in
the fact that New Mexico would proba-
bly, be Democratic Stste, while the
Legislature Ut Nevada enables the Re.
publicans TO maintain their ascendeDcy
IN the United Stttes Senate.