Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-09-15
From F,id.y.. Daily
SALMAd.uNnI.

Got the Bed Rock for refresh.
ments.
AL. Fisher, OF Wells, passed. through
last evening ON his return from the
Bay.
Tho Bed Rock Saloon, next door to
tho Postoificc.
Tho ratio OF taxation in Lander
county is g so on each 800 valua-
ton.
Fishing poles from % cents up, and
n full assortment OF fine fishing tackle
at Mullcris. =
Dick Brown gets 81 a day ms helper
in tho coming department OF tho
Carson Mint.
a wild bull which kills horses and
tcrrifies men is reported to DO run
ming Mt large n few miles down tho
river.
Fifteen a loads of cattlo passed
through west bound last
The samo train carried n car load OF
live fowls.
Ifyou desire to know something OF
the history OF that remarkable char
actor known rs righteous Lot" read
the nineteenth chapter of Genesis.
Jim Townsend: Native-born Amcri-
can boys should be allowed to vote
Just rs soon IS they can answer the
questions usually propounGcd TO
garlic caters and other foreign trash
who apply for citizenship. q
a tidal wave, which rolled up
seventy feet on tho beach, reached
Coney Island and Roclsaway last
Sunday, washing away n largo number
OF buildings and doing great damage
to wharves and brcakwatcrs. .
Young ladies' who go stunning"
in our large cities hold a very slack
rein ON their own virtue, and offer
unusual inducements to tho you. y
mon who accompany them. Don't
go near the candle unless you wu,t
your wings scorchcd.
Tho cascade bridge, on the G. p.
linilrond west OF the summit of tho
Siorras burned yesterday afternoon.
hence there will be but one train
each way until tho bridge can be
rebuilt. In tho mean time passon
gers, baggage and mail will DO trans.
fcrred.
Tho Superintendent OF the Carson
Mint has given tho word Let 'er 90
Gallagher" and soon big dollars will
TIC turned out mt tho ratio Of over so
many in n short timc. Ills well.
Now, how long will it DO until 81 90
worth of silver bullion is worth 100
cents?
Homer Indcx:-The geological sur
vcyors who were Ia have ACCOMPLISHED
so much this Summer do not appear
to have lone moro than to trapse
around i'll search of the best fishing
ana hunting grounds. 1t is about
time that Uncle Sam dropped on this
~foolishness and choked OIL these
j%unketing parties. Disband the
Poppycockological Brigade and en-
ploy intelligent prospcctors and on
pericnced mountainous.
As an evidence OF tho n in
which tho surplus is being reduced
III paying pensions, we know n man
n Indiana who was n good soldier
and came out rs sound as n dollar:
but hc is drawing n pension all tho
same. When asked on what grounds
he got n pension. The replied: 81 got
scared while in tho army and never
got over it," Nearly every man in
Indiana who was II soldier, MS well ms
soldiers widows and prospective
widows, draws n quarterly string on
tho United States Treasury.
Boston Horald:-Ono of the oldest
typographical errors evcr mads in
Boston was in n book published by
tho firm OF Crocker & Brewster, which
has just been brought to public at
tontion by the death Of Mr.. Brew
ster. 1t was in one of the sermons Of
DIR. Nathaniel Emmons, tho great or
thodox divine. Tho doctor quoted
tho Scripture text "Cut Him Down.
Why Cumbcrcth Hc the Ground?"
Tho Intelligent compositor put in
typo, "Cut Him Down, Like IL Cucum-
Dor, To tho Ground"