Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-08-11
tFron Thursday. p.iIy. j
sALnAGUNpi.

Geo. Russell vent down to Battl.
Aountsin this morning.
Gabriel Cohn. the cigar nan. arrived
from the east this morning.
G~rssnrille. Plunas county. Cal. had
$4,000 ere Monday night.
H. L. Stevens. Of Rrsy Valley. came
dow By last evenings train.
A number Of Tusearora miners have
gone 10 Washington Territory.
Nevada is still .hronded in the snok.
Of Cnlifornis's burning forests.
R-gul.r meeting Elto Lsase No. Is,
x. Of p. Mt C..,ln Hull tonight.
John N. Dorsey. of Font Hnll-ck.
c"no in yesterd.y aud stopped over
night.
Miss Dorn Bennineld. OF Winnie
rnucSa. is here visiting friends mud rel
atives.
johnny Craig is sinking y we'll on
Railroad street. in trout Of n. Is. Eye's
jewelry s,ore.
C. 81. Riddle lst by this mornings
trsiu for B,t;l4 Mountain, where he has
n fsw days surveying.
Chas. w. Grover. Js. canla in fro m
Fair Play this morning mud remained
over in town to-day.
DstinR the week Guiding Aug. 2 nv.
applications for State lands were aisd
embracing GO SO acres.
VIII geese are already migrating
southwark. This tells OF big anow
storms in the Arctic regions.
Max L. Arnholi. arrived last evening
from BATHS Mountain. He reports that
the Humboldt river is dry at RusselI &
Brudlsy's ranch tan miles the other side
Of Battle Mountain.
The Commission appointed by tho
Japanese Government to study the
legislative bodies of tho United States
AMI Europe passed through Elko l,.t
night on their why east.
Tho man in Illinois who Iras failed 10
commit suicide after four attempts is
advisei to enl his anxiety nud get rid
Of the vital spark which seems to burn
him by going to Wyoming aud 1tsuliuR
q mule.
Post:-Black Dart, the ubiquitous. ia
suspected OF having robbed n railway
train i'll Texas and in Missouri on the
same day. The feat seems hardly
possible. but il any man could do il, it
would he tho "P o g." ~ ho used to
call himself.
A San Fraucisco dispatch yay. that
Archie aud Joseph Cockburn and Chris.
Sylvester. Young men. were drowned
yesterday ten miles south Of the Cliff
House. Thsy were fishing an a rock
a short distance from shore when an
immense wave came in aud washed
them out TO sea.
Tenderfoot-What did tho boys do
about That horss-teslipg case?
Arizona Joe--Hung tus thisf. siran-
ger.
Tsndsr!oot-In efiRy, I suppo.s2
Arizon. Jos-N.~! tn that patch o.
woods over yander.-(Eposb.
Boston IIernll:-Nr1t to our east
winds, the co"lss. thing We know Of il
the calm persistsncy with which tho
New York pnpers urge that Now York
is tho only city on the continent at 10
hold tho international Exposition III
1892. 1t is positively arctic.
Tho people Of Elko should bs very
careful with FIRE during this dry sp, Il.
See that everything IN all right in tho
kitchen before You retro for the night.
Nothing would snvo tho town ma dry ns
IL ia il n Gre once got started. In this
case all unc Of prevention il worth
inor' than all the water in town.
The l'isst chemical analysis OF the
cigarette shows Ave deadly puisons-the
oil in the pnper. the oil OF nicotine,
snlipetrs in the preservation OF the to.
hncc". opium to isnko It mild. and tho
oil in aavoring. This piece Of irfor-
nation will OF course h.vs very little
effect in 't'ying the hand Of tho rnsh
youth who liits the lighted poison 10 his
lips.