Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-12-22
tFrom Saturdays Dailyl
SALMAGUNDI.

The Christmas number OF Texas
Siftings is a daisy.
W. j.. Triton left by stage this morn,
ing for Tuscarora.
Lunch will DO served at tho w. G.
t. U. Rcnding Rooms tonight.
Unusually heavy rain storms arc
reported throughout various parts oil
California.
Commissioner Fred Wilson left
this morning with his squirrel t,r
Tuscarora.
Texas Siftinys:-Joe King says he
thinks the best place TO hold the FUR
is around tho waist.
At the summit, west Of Trucicc
tie snow is nine feet deep, and two
feet deep in Truckco.
When silver is given its proper posi-
tion rs n precious metal there will be
ns much reason in quoting tho price
OF bar gold as in publishing the price
OF bar silver.
Tho San Francisco Wasp, owned
Tor the past two years by Dryer d
Wnldron, has been purchased by OK
Postmaster Backus. Tho price paid,
1t is said, was 5000.
w. G. Price has resigned tho Super
in.cndcncy of the various Tuscarora
mines OF which he has for many
years had charge and will take up his
residence in California.
There is n spot in Siberia about
thirty miles square where ground has
not thnwcd out for the last 100 years,
and whore it is frozen to n depth of
GO feet. II is inhabited wholly by
cold stiiTs."
Two school boys in Sacramento
were glued 10 their scats with shoe.
mnkors wax, put there by mischiov-
GUS companions, 20 tight that thoir
brooches had to DO replaced with new
ones brought by the mothers OF the
victims.
Baron I~Ialcott, n young English
scion OF nobility, is To marry Miss
Stokes, n Now York lady nonrly six
feet high. Tho Baron evidently looks
high for n wife rs, contrary to all
precedent, he il said to DO hcir 10 a
fortune himself.
Appcal:-A San Francisco news
paper is publishing tho names OF lcnd.
ing taxpayers who secure an income
from tho rontal OF houses OF i'll fame
Tho list makes worry interesting and
startling reading md has given 80.
ciety" tho collie.
We nave received from Robert p.
Porter, Superintendent OF Census, n
copy Of Census Bulletin No. |, giving
alist Of Supervisors Districts through.
out tho several States. Nevada will
form ono supervisors district and will
10 under tho direct churgo Of one
supervisor.
Tho local scribe Of tho Enterprise
sympathizod with Kcndrick who
killed Hugo in cold blood in the
presence OF witnesses, but thinks tho
PottGcs, who IL is supposed killed
Faucott, though thcrc wore no wit.
ncsscs to tho decd, should hang
Consistency IL n jewel, but wo fear
but little OF IL ia To DO found in tho
local columns of tho Enterprise.
Senator Stewart is certainly on.
titled to tho gratitude OF tho people
OF tho State, says tho Reno Gazette,
but II his u called froo coinage silver
bill in n sample OF what no Ia doing in
tho intorost Of tho principal Industry
OF Nevada, VIC fail to sec whcro tho
"grhtitude" should come In. While
posing IA an ardent friend Of silver no
IL hand in glovo with Window In his
scheme to suspend it's coinage.
Lot not tho people OF tho United
States bc deceived by my spccious
scheme to bctray the friends of silver
into tho hands Of their cncmics. FREQ
coinage, puro and simple, should DO
Inscribed upon thcir banners, aud
thcy should novor rcst until tho whito
metal Is placed whore it justly be.
longs on an equal footing In cyory
respect with gold, tho relative tatio IN
sa'ao octwcen tho motalH u DO flxod
by law.