Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-05-12
IRON Thursday,. Daily.
sALMAGUNnI.

Lonis Goldstein arrived from Noun
tain City lnst evening.
Great suffering is reported among uu-
successful Oklahoma boomers.
Regular meeting Elko Lodge No. Is,
X Of Z Mt Castle Hall to night.
Does anyone know what Inns become
OF Hugh j. Mohau. the Irish omtor?
fhc recent heavy rains in California
has Gone great damage to growing
crops.
II. Glnzer md o. G. Mcdonald came
down fom Peko by private conveyance
to dag.
The estate Of the late Joau Bright. Of
the British Parliament, is valued at SS,-
750,O
In n letter 10 her son. Mrs. Taber
says it has been raining in Salt Lake
City ever since she arrived thero.
Horniio j. Sprague has been 40
years American Consul on the rock Of
Gibraltar, ut n salary Of 81. 500 a year.
Puck:-A mistake is like a he'd; When
n man makes IL he should O try to
escape its diScornforts by lying out Of
it..
A II paper, sueeriug at the stu
pidity of n contemporary. snys. 1.-THE
best thing he has got of this week is q
dirty shirt"
S.F. Post:-George Francis Train
has decided to fast for 100 days.. BY
the eni OF that time he won't ucel his
philosophy any more.
Italian lnborers on the Grand Trunk
Railroad Trucks, in Chioa 20. blew up
Que of their comrades, Saturday night,
by putting torpedoes in his stove.
The CheroEees are unwilling to sell
the Cherokee Strip Of G,00o. 900 acres Mt
81 20 an acre. A row-wow will be
held in n few days to consider the mat
ter. All quiet on the Strip.
The railroad surveying party is still
working in the western part of the
State and it il confidently believed that
the Union Pacific will be extended from
Ogden through Ne7adn to tile Pacific.
The Board of Examiners counted the
money III the State Treasury on the
9th Of April. aud found $53S, i9i 30 in
coin and vouchers. They n!so report
$780, 900 in bonds in the School Fund.
An Albany preacher recently made an
elaborate declaration OF faith, in which
he said; ~ believe there aro some
questions which cannot by answered by
any theulosiau in the world; not even
the youngest
Ed. Kelly WAS down from Halleck
yesterday. Kelly & Mccain have lost
two horses, for the return of which they
offer a liberal reward. For description
OF tho stock see notice. und.r the head
of strnyed or stolen.
Carson Tribune:-On Saturday Gov
ernor Stevenson appointed p. n.
Marker as Water Commissioner for
District No. 4 (IIumboldt) and Robert
Cullen rs Water Commissioner for Dis
trict No. 5 IOwyhte).
G Ii. Hale was Delayed in gathering
his cattle by the sickness Of his men,
but is now fnirly started on his trip
to the north. his band Of about 1900
head Of cattle will GIMP tonight Oh the
sink of Rabbit CIcrb.
Lawrence Burrows nrTiyei from
Tuscarora by stage last evening. lie
snys the town is lively, II lnrge Lumler
Of miners being Mt work md every
available room Of both public and pr.
vrie houses occupied St high rcrt..
The new steel cruiser Charleston
sniled from San Francisco ut 5 o'clock
Tuesday morning for SANTA Barbara
channel on her trial trip. Gins S..
Delhi, OF the Associated Press, ~ the
only newspaper maj allowed on board.
Reports from various parts OF the
county show HAT the rain aud snow Of
the past few days has been general, and
abundant feed on the ranges is now
assured, and stockmcn and farmers
feel very different from what they did q
week ngo.
Jennie Osborne has sueh tho Wards,
james n. the Irish trngcdian, and his
wife Carrie Clarke Ward, now in San
Francisco, for S27O for snlary due her
as nurse aud actress, the Wards having
failed to meet tue lnuucial pant OF The
contract.
Thirteen miles from Cheyenne Ia
what is snid 10 bs the lnrgest horse
furm in tho world. There nre 100, 900
ncres Of land where roam 5000 horses,
which require thu constant attendance
OF Go men. One hundred miles Of wire
fence keep the animals in bound.
Three bars Navajo bnllion, valued Mt
$500, wero shipped TO San Francisco
by Wells, Fnrgo d Co.'S Express yoster-
day morning. The Tuscnrpra miura
arc turning out silver rapidly with good
prospects for tho future, as tn ere seems
to be MI incxhnustiblo supply OF the
precious metal In TINT district.