Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-09
D.ay.l
RALRAoUMOl.

Lena Ale1ander, who has been
teachinR at Toano, returned Last
night
Frank and Leo Parsons left yester,
day morning for Ogden in search OF .
business opening.
Ben Yates is busily engaged in
opening channels for the escape OF
tho surplus water.
Archie Borland, the woll known
mining operator, died at his home in
Oakland last Friday.
The Board q County Commission.
ers ut their meeting to-day appointed
]. NJ. Graham Janitot OF the Court
house.
The chinook OF last Saturday got
in its work, and bare ground il now
visible in all directions on the neigh
boring hills
Times-R Notwithstanding through
two-weeks old exchanges in quest OF
items, is like sorting the waste dump
Of n en-dollartn-toa 'mine.c
To-day was the big day which closes
tho celebration Of the China Now
Year. The Celestials, as usual on
such occasions, had a big time.
We have made arrangements. t.
club the National Democrat with the
WEEKLY INDEPENDENT for s. q year..
Sec advertisement elsewhere in this
issue.
Perine G. Whitney and Miss Jo-
sephine Ward, the latter deaf and
dumb, are to be married at West
Haven, Conn, in a iow days. The
groom is GO and the bride forty years
younger.
Phoebe Record:--The graders on tho
Utah Central Extension in Clover
Valley md vicinity arc making good
headwny and as soon as tho weather
gets warmer more men will be put on
and the road pushed "a fast as pos
sible.
Reno Journal:-The San Francisco
meat market is n good deal stronger.
Primo cattlo aro selling at 81 and 0
cents San Francisco and Oakland
are being supplied by strictly Califor-
MIA beef since the blockade. Good
cattle are getting very scarce.
Tho Timcs-Review doubts whether
the INDEPENDENT editor can toll the
difference between a chestnut horse
and n horse chestnut. We give it up;
but We will dispose OF the conundrum
which the Major sent us by Frank
Parsons n soon ~ we lind the brute
in a condition to DO weighed.
1t has been thawing constantly
since last Friday morning and the
snow is rapidly disappearing The
streets are e~nvelopcd in u slush OF wet
snow and water, but owing to the
fact that tho ground was not frozen
when the snow fell, much OF the
wster is absorbed and thore is not
liable to be much Of flood.
Nellie BLY, in passing around the
world by going cast experienced tho
novelty Of two days in succession OF
tho aamo date and name, while Miss
Bisland, by travelling west, skipped
IL day entirely. We have not
learned what day Miss Bislaud
skipped, but Nellie BY had two days
in succession both Of which were
Monday, January 18th.
Silver State:-Francis G. Newlands
will now have 10 seek somo other
route than irrigation channels, to
reach the hearts Of Nevada poople,
as nature has severely interrupted
his plans in showing under all Of our
arid plains, which only n short timo
ago wore clamoring 30 loudly for
moisture.
An Eastern newspaper speaks OF
the young mon coming TO tho front,
and says "tho new Governor Of Iowa
Is one OF the Boies, and the Governor
OF Rhode Island ia n nero Ladd."
Considering tho present aquatic con-
dition Of California, says the Reno Gn.
zotte, it IL appropriate that tho Gov
ornor Of California is named Water
man.
A lottcr from VIM. Myers, dated
Ruby Valley, Jan. 2sth says: "This
Is the first mail We have had for two
weeks, and then nothing but letters.
No papers since December. This Ia
tho first tlmo wo have been shut out
from papers since I came hero In 'G2.
Tho snow Is fully two foot on the lev
oil and covered with a hard crust two
inches thick which cuts the logs Of
all animals that attempt TO 60 through
It." :
Those who drive teams through
tho stroots should DO cautious about
driving ovcr the line whore tho Water
Company laid now pipo recently. A,
Bruce had one OF his horses down
near Bon Fitch's residence this morn.
ing, caused by tho animal sinking
Ia the soft mud which covers tho
pipe, and II was with difficulty, ovcu
with the aid Of n number Of mon, that
tho horse was'extricated. Tho loose
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