Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-03-23
From Saturdays Dailyl
SALHihGUNDI.

Regular meeting Humboldt Lodge
No. %, y. .. U. w, nj their Hall to-
night.
County Clerk L. o. Henderson is
confined 10 his room by sickness.
Regular meeting EllSo Lodge No.
Is, |. O. .. T., at their Hall tonight.
An Agricultural Society with $780,
900 capital has been organized AZ No
icsto, Cal.
The Carlin Brass Band will give n
ball here about tho 1st OF April. Lcok
out for their announcement
Five copies u! the Austin Revcil,c
indicate that the recent blockade on
tho Nevada Central is raised.
Barbcr-lIow will you have your
hair cut, sir?
Irritable Customnr--OT, you idiot.
The Austin Ecvciilo says n Chicago
syndicate is negotiating for tho pur-
chase OF Theodore Win.era' FL Rio
Roy for siO0,O0o.
Tho Z npcror OF Germany recently
sent tho Sultan o:Turkey a few drums.
Tho Sultan has repaid tho gift by n
sword worth slo5,Ooo.
Washington special says tho Sen
ate has passed T. bill providing for tho
erection Of n public building at Reno,
Nevada, 10 cost $1,000.
Central Ncvadan:-Fho water in
the HUMBOLDT river is oycr its banks.
There is more water now than ut any
time for tho last five years.
W. j. Wilson, OF Ventura county
Cal, raisod 1900 pounds OF sweet
potatoes on half nm acre OF ground,
which crop he sold for 800.
Tho Reno Reduction Works, which
cost over sI5,o00, wero destroyed by
fire Wednesday. They were OH
Truckcc river, cast Of town; insurance
$4,000.
French motcorologists, it appears,
have just discovered that tho EiTcl
tnwor will prove far moro valuable TO
ihom for observation than WIS mt
first supposed.
Charley No'singcr WINS taken sud
denly i'll last night with something
like Il conSCstivo chill, and for n time
his condition was considered critical,
but 10 is much better this morning.
A young Harvard graduate is get.
ting up series ot5 aud lO.cont concerts
mt Boston to keep tho poor out oil the
galoans. Tho admission ticket onti-
ties tho holder to n bun and n Gun Of
c1lTco.
Trucltco companies havo stored 70
faT $4,000 IONS of leo against 100000
tons last year. or last years crop
AO,Oo0 tons wcro loft over. Tho Ro.
publican PREDICTS that this ycar's
crop will DO exhausted before October.
A. G. Dawlcy left Thursday night
for linllcck, from which place no
went out to Ruby Valley yesterday
TO look nftor hia stock interests. Not
having been out to his ranch since
Winter sol in, Ito is naturally anxious
to 800 how things look thoro.
Acting upon tho advice OF tho At.
torncy-Gcncral, Secretary Window
has decided that Chinese merchants
coming to this country for the first
time and provided with n certificate
prescribed by Section LOT tho Act Of
July ., 1881, cannot DO permitted to
land in tho United Statos, notwith
standing tho fact that thoy nro not
labufora.
s.. l.. Poet:-Survcyor. General CEas
w. Irish, Of Nevada, gavo a dinner nj
hi. residence in Reno Inst Sunday to
Jill Nyc, tho famous bumorist, Mr..
Edward Curtis, OF this city and MIR.
Sam Davis, OF tho Carson Appeal.
Iloy wcrc among tho delayed passen.
gers who lad to wait for Il couple Of
days at Reno. Miss Irish md Miss
Angel wcro nleo Of tho party.
Albert Wines was in from Pleasant
valley last night. His losses OF stool,
nave boon very light. Ito thinks
"nch OF tho loss among cattlc tha,
are well fed Is accustomed by their
becoming infested with lice, and when
tnls IS tho cnso feeding will rot save
'hom, An application OF blue oint,
mont mixed with lard or conl OF
nlons tho back of tho animal vii
destroy tho yornin, and tho anima
VIII soon show improvement.