Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-12-22
From Mondays Daily.l
hAL,IAGuNDl.

Miss Maggie Wright, teacher OF tho
Star Vailcy school, was in town Satur.
day.
Regular meeting Humboldt Lodge
No. %, A. o. U. w, ut their Hall to.
night.
James Brain has just received a
new stock Of gloves. Call and sec
them.
Buy your groceries and provisions
at the old, reliable Live and Let Live
grocery store.
A. V. Lancaster arrived from San
Francisco last night and went up to
Tuscarora to-day.
John Mcintosh, Of Mcintosh Bros.
Carlin, came up last night andstopped
over in town to-day.
The Senate hasconiirmed tho nomi.
nation OF Green b. Raum, OF Illinois,
for Commissijn er OF Pensions.
Notwithstanding tho short days
and bad roads, tho Tuscarora stage
mikes regular trips On good time.
The open weather il favorable for
the Elko Water Co, and tho laying
of mains through the principal streets
is progressing rapidly.
w. j. Hanks, OF tho Sun Creek
Land and Cattle Company, came
down this morning and stopped over
i'll town today.
w. w. Booher has just received n
letter from Assessor 4. w. Hcsson,
who was at Baltimore, Md, stating
that he would be Mt home about tho
9th instant
President Harrison on returning to
Washington from his visit to Indian
npolis rested and lunchcd at Pitts
burg. lie said he favored Chicago
for tho Worlds Fair.
Tho jury in tho Cronin case found
three Of tho defendants guilty and
fixed tho penalty at imprisonment
for life. The names OF tho three
guilty ones we could not learn.
Nelly BY was forced by unforeseen
circumstances TO lay over five days ut
Colombo, Ccylon. 4 few such delays
will prevent her from circumnavi-
eating the globe in less than 80 days.
The delinquent tax list OF Logan
county, Idaho, will consist OF about
800 IN FQrty-onc names ON
priscd the list in this county, and
twelve OF tn dclinqucnts have al
ready paid up.
The ladies have succeeded in col
lccting over $3.50 for tho Christmas
trcc, and last Saturday Ms. J. l..
Kcyser and Miss Lizzie Hough were
selecting presents for tho li0chillrcn
who will DO remembered on Christmas
eve.
The Observation-Disclosures
race at Bangor, Mo. closed ut mid
night Saturday. The timo made by
Gucrroro created II sensation. Ho
made tho remarkable timo OF 1907
miles ia thirty hours, breaking the
worlds record.
The Salt Lake Tribune in n long
editorial charges tho President with
stupidity in tho silver question and
closes by saying: "Men can fight
rogucs. What can DO done with n
stupidity so dense that it cannot DO
aroused TO n comprehension OF it,
self"
Jack tho Ripper" has come to tho
front again with his thirteenth victim.
Tho manglcd remains Of n woman
wero found among tho ballast Of n
vessel at Middlosborough last Friday
morning, md tho theory ia now nd.
vanccd that tho ilcnd is II sailor.
Mr.. Griswold, OF Daricn, Wisconsin,
gave tho IHoErENoEHr u friendly call
this afternoon. Mr.. Griswo,d. vito
and daughter arc visiting tho family
OF q. ii. III llo, Mrs. Griswold and
Mira. Halo being sisters. They will
visit California bctoro returning to
their homo in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Leonard and her two littlo
boys loft thiG morning for California
where sho will in future reside with
hor father Mt his homo at T.. raiso
Monterey county. During
hor residence here Mira. Leonard madc
many friends whose kind wishes nc.
company her to her now homo.
Chicago Hcrald:-. Henry M. Stan.
10y is now almost fifty years old. IIo
was born in Wales and his namc was
originally John Rowlnnds. II was
changed on his hoing adopted by n
New Orleans merchant, who found
him, nt tho ngo f~ittccn, n cabin boy In
u sailing vessel and took q fancy 10
him.
ES0,nincr:---A Jefferson Davis
Monument Fund haB been stnricd In
Washington. Lot us note the date
December IL, 1882. New York Inns
had u etart OF four years, four months
and twenty days In tho matter Of the
Grant Monument. Let us ecc which
gots his monument first, Grant or
Davis. Now that this race is on,
Now York should not wnsto my
strength bothering ovor n worlds
fair.