Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-01-13
From Tuesdays Daily.l
RALMAGUADI.

The G. T. pny car passed. through 60
ing west this morning.
Miit Polk. Foretuau for Scott i Co.,
came down fran Hulleck this morning
and circulated among his Elko friends.
Miss Emma Scherff left this morning
for Huntington Wiley to resume her
position as teacher in Sherman dis.
trict.
Editor Kelly. OF tho Silver State, is
on the sick list. In the mean timo
Charles Groves wiclds the editorial
Fater with the sl:ll Of q veteran.
The fact that a man does not take his
local paper is no evidence that he does
not read it. One eau save % cents n
week by reading his nsighLor's paper.
Oliver Hinn aud j. j. Hilton, OF
Mound Valley. ard Il. r. IIardesiy. Of
South Fork, were in own yesterday
AMI called OIL due IsD~EPESDESr. Our
friends will always fud a Welcome at
this Office.
II. Keefer came down from Tuscarora
yesterday. lie has sold out his bust
ness there md will 80 to Bullion to
settle up some business at That place,
but has not determined where he will
locate permanently.
Buffalo Express:-Amid the wreckage
pf fIa I.U,pnFufiS lnhiniktrot,p tLa
most valuable piece Of lotsam falls to
the Hon l.. Q. q. Lamar. lie went
ashore on a fertile ihland early enough
to he high aud dry when the wuterspout
burst.
Reveille:-A first clnss dentist il
needed very badly in Austin. We have
II population of about 1000 souls, and
no Knight Of the Forccps has paid us a
visit for nearly two years. A good man
would find this and the surrounding
country. n profitable field.
G.. ID. Freclnni arrived yesterday
from White Pine county with two car
lnads Of horse which he will ship to
Sacramento. The horses were nit iched
by r.'peS aud Lalt,rs to two wagon
loads of hay on which they fed during
their long trip across tho country.
-Four quarts Of ripe raspberries were
picked from the vines on Mr.. Poor's
place at Penryn. Placer county. CAL. OH
New Years day. The California Santa
Claus travels in a dog cart behind =
pair Of burros. dresses in linen pants
and buster and wears a broad Lrimued
straw hat.
The financial statement of White
riuo shows m indebtedness OF SS9,
7SS VI on the LIST Of January. 1859.
During the pAst four years the county
hns decreased licr debt to tho amount
Of S53. 734 81, which shows that the
county Ia prosperous with q fair pros
poet OF eventually eItiuguishing her
debt. So mote it he.
White Pine Eers:-There is no
business on earth moro hlayinh than
running a country newspaper, when
the income will not permit employing
necessary help. One hnnd in a print
ing office is like n cripple at n plCw-he
has to keep going all the time to mako
any Roadway. A country newspaper is
bright or dull according to the patron
ngo IL receives.
A fnir correspondent Mt Wells sends
ia an article for publication which il
rather out OF dntu now, but tho worst
feature Of tho case is ;bnt she failed to
send her correct name, and this in il.
self IL sufficient to conSign the Article to
tho waste basket. Correspondents who |
with their communications publ, he'd |
must send their correct MINES, not for
publication, bu, for the protection OF !
the publisher. This rule is absolute MS
the law OF the "McdeI and Persinns."
We received news last evening, too
late for publication, OF n severe acci-
dent to james Psurod which occurred
on The LIST OF January at thoir North
Fork ranch. Jim went hunting aud
whilo sitting on his gun in tho sleigh il
WAS nccidcntlJ discharged making nn
ugly. though not dangerous, Nhrsh
wound in bis hip. Nr. Z. PcIrod re-
ccivcd n letter from Alex. yesterday
stating that Jim vas getting along well
with his wound and would soun be nblo
to go after ducks again.
The 1toyeilIe quotes from tho Lon.
don Standard nn article explaining the
Grcgorinn calendar III which it is ,nid:
'Popc Gregory NH. who improved OH
CTsnr's calendar in 1852 drcreed TINT
every coniurinl year dirisiblu by four
should be n loap yenr." This is not
correct; for .ho year 1900 IL divisiblo by
four. slill il will not 10 n leap year.
The year 2000 will be q lap year, as
we'll NJ oil centennial yenrs divisiblo hy
400. All other years Invisible 10y four
nic leap years.
NJ W Smith. Chicago; L ~ McD.r-
mitt, Lsmoillc; a ID Fnrnsworlh Il wife,
South Fork; Wilson L B0ntun, Sclig-
man.