Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1888-04-15
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aALMA0UnDE.

George ElnoIe anne down from his
ranch yesterdsyr
American fruits and dainties nre all
the rag. in Paris.
J. A. Plumm+r left this morning for
Tuscnrora on legal business.
Dick Brown came over from Uuion
Yesterday aud will stop in town for q
few days.
Mr. add Mrs. Ham Mccain cnme
down FROM IInl'eck to-day aud will re-
turn BY this evenings train.
Miss Martha Wis.nan Is, stopping
with her brother. County Clerk Wise
nau, and attending the public school.
Eureka Sentinei:-"Bcss' Sadler an
nounces that he will be an independent
candidate for State Senator at the COM
ing election.
A game OF base ball was played yester-
day afternoon between tho minstrel
troupe and tho Eiko nine which resulted
in q victory for Elko.
J. W.. Dorsey left this morning for q
trip 10 California. New Mexico aud tho
republic Of Mexico. and will DO absent
some four weeks or more.
G. W. Litt,n aud !TLos Hunter LEFT
this afternoon for. White Rivor: to look
after the band Of cnttle which they drove
thore last Fall for the Winter range.
Miss d ccie Crombie has secured the
Mound Valley school. aud Miss George
Pollard will take charge Of the Hunting
ton school. Both schools will open
next week.
DR.. J. ]. Leok, Dentist. arrived last
evening and has e,t ,blished his Office
III room 40. Depot Hotel, where he is
prepared to meet all demands for work
in his line.
Mrs. Alice Ricord is visiting her
father, Mr.. +. y. Stone. She came n
few days since from Cherry Creek.
where she spent the Winter. and. will
probably spend the Summer in Elko.
Nevada is entitled to sir delegates to
the Democratic National Convention,
aud J. W. Dorsey Esq, OF Elko. will.
We trust. be among the number ~ lie
will prove n lively representative OF the
Democracy Of the Sage Brush State.
The late Chief Justice Waite VS.
se~yeniy-two when ho died. Justice
Brndlry il seveuty-ive, Matthews sixty
four. Harlan i:ty-hve. Diatchford sixty
eight. Gray sixty. Field sevtnty-two.
Miller seventy-two and Lamar sixty
three.
An Iowa youth was holding his girl
In his lap during q thunderstorm. The
lightning struck aud killed the youth.
while the girl WAS left unframed. We
hope this will teach the young women
that the safest place during o thunder
storm is in a fellows lap.
Mondays Examiner says: Tho ex-
traorLinary secrecy with which tho iu-
neral Of Jacob Sharp has been conduct
ed is almost sufficient to suggest the
theory that tho industrious booller is
not really dead. but has been freed from
punishment by the familiar eIpedient Uf
q dummy burial.
Omaha World:-Omnha girl Did you
really go to seq ''La Toscn?" Why.
the correspondent said il was out
~rageously immoral.
New York girl-well. it isn't quite 30
bal as that; but at the same time it is
not the sort Of n play l would care to
send my mother to.
San Francisco Post:-The House
Committee OH Manufactures has begun
to investigat, the Standard Oil Trust.
II is to be hoped that it will not handle
il with the silk glove touch md the
honeyed words so conspicuous in the
New York legislative Investigation.
There is very little difference in the
views OF President Cleveland aud John
Sherman on the tariff question. Re-
publican journals will either stop the
cry Of "The Presidents Free Trade
Message or rend John Sherman out Of
the party. Nthe President is q free
trader. so Is John Sherman. II John
Sherman's position on the tariff is cor
rect. 30 is President ClovcInud's.
Altn:-A prominent Republican OF
Dss Noines asserts that the only Repub-
lican who cnn DO sure OF carrying Iowa
Ia William d. Allison, aud for That reas-
on insists that Senator Allison DO nomi.
hated. II Allison Is nominated solely
to carry Iowa he must be yoked with n
pretty broad. backed candidate for Vice
President, In order to carry enough
other States to bring him In sight Of the
White House.
Joo Stanley WAS ten years ago a poor
mnn digging gold wherever he conld
find IL in Gilpin county, Colorado.
Mrs. Joo Stanley took in washing 10
buy flour and salt pork. Quo Emo day
Joe Stanley found goii and sold his
claim Tor 81 600, 600. Now Mr.. Joseph
Stanley il vice president OF n Denver
bank, and Mrs. Joseph Stanley goes to