Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-10-27
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The practice dance at Freeman
Hall last night was lightly attended.
owing to the rain.
Drs. Freeman & Burrows, the Salt
Lake Specialists, will be at the Depot
Hotel Nov. 18th.
The time appr oaches when tho ex-
travaGant youth realizes that no can't
trade a linen duster for an overcoat.
Two little grandsons OF Postmaster
Smith left on this mornings train for
San Francisco to reioin their father.
The death of General Hartranft,
formerly Governor Of Pennsylvania,
occurred at Norristown, Pa. last Sun
day.
Mrs. Q. w. Hull and hor two chill
drcn arrived this morning from
three months visit among friends at
Salt Lake City, and q w. is CORES
pondingly happy.
Senator Stewart's bill relative to
doing assessment work in the Summer
did not become a'lnw, and assessment
work in mines will have to be done
under the old law. '.if '
At 8 o'clock last night it SGT in to
rain and a gentle shoder continued
throughout the. night, tho low places
on the ground :being covered with
water this morning.
The Free Press rain gauge shows n
total rain fall Of 1.30 inches from s
o'clock Inst evening to 0 o'clock this
morning. This mean over 100 tons
Of water to the acre.
According to the San Francisco
Evening Post, Reno, and also Washoe
county, is in California Tho "horse"
editor OF the Post is advised to attend
an evening school and pay some at
tention to the study Of Geography.
Eureka Sentinel:-Save us from
girls and matrons who, dull in arith-
metic and nowhere in Eaclid, yet in
varinbiy solve the problem OF putting
a number five foot in a number three
boot and a twenty-four inch waist in
to an eighteen inch corset.
The Indians at Winnemucca are
advancing rapidly toward civilization,
says the Silver State. They get howl
ing drunk, and when questioned rs to
who're they get whisky, say at Battle
Mountain, which is in another county.
Drunken Indians here say they get
their whiskey Mt Palissde, in Eureka
county. Dir. Lo. is cunnin'.
A eas OF national prosperity
would follow m Act OF Congress pro-
viding for the free coinage OF silver;
but so long as our National Legisla-
turo is controlled by tho money lords
OF Wall Street we can. entertain small
hopes that silver will DO placed where
it naturally belongs, on an equal foot
ing with gold.
The Sacramento Bee says n police
man was dismissed from the service
for nrresting, while he was intoxicat-
cd, n respectable woman on n charge
OF soliciting. Drunken loafer navo
no business in responsible positions,
anl any city which appoints such
men on the police force must expect
her citizens to 10 insulted.
R,n) Journal:-A boy named John
0 used IN old shotgun to rake mar
bles out from under n bod in the
family residence mt Bishop Creek last
week. Tho gun was loaded with shot
and the boy grasped.i it by the muzzle.
The precocious youth is now in u fair
way to climb tho golden stairs.
A Coroner's inquest was hold at
Sacramento last Monday on the body
OF Joseph II. Smith, tho man who
shot his wife and was aftorward found
dead, and the jury returned n verdict
Of suicide. Gebhardt. tho woman's
parAmour who was arrested on sus.
picIon OF having killed. Smith, was rc-
leased from custody.
Tho Enterprise speaks a good word
for Eureka as follows: Tho promise
OF revival OF prosperity in Eureka
that our dispatches indicate will, il
fulfilled, add another itom TO the
statement OF Noyadn's ronowcd
growth. The old base range has
thousands OF friends who will rejoice
in tho good timos that nrc coming,
and the entire State will DO measur.
ably benefited by n resumption OF
activity among tho lead silver mines.
The Iron Mouldcrs' Journal says
"In Now York 10000 persons walk
tho strocts Mt night for want Of q
homo, and rs many moro aro not suro
Of thcir breakfasts. This Is rathor q
bad state Of, affairs in n country 30
largo that thero Ia plenty Of room for
NIL to havo n homo and something TO
eat" No doubt every voter Of this
vast army Of 10000 persons cast his
ballot for "Harrison, mud protection
to American labor"