Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-03-16
THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.
From Saturdays Daily
SALNIAGUSDI.

N'S'ie '"SNS'hc ''nS 1SsoO 'N
u, +. IL \. NJ, ut their Hall tonight.
Miss Marion Stone camo up from
Carlin to-day.
The Reno Journal says Judge Big
Glow is slowly improving.
Peter Jackson knocked Fallon silly
ut New York the other day.
Lunch will be served at the w. C..
Il. U. Reading Rooms tonight.
Thanks TO Senator Jones for seeds
from tho Department Of Agriculture.
4 lively cutting OF overland pass
scnger rates has set in in San Fran
CISCO.
Times Reviow:--Dam breaks arc
usually due to dam carelcssness in
construction.
Snow is over eight feet deep at tho
Stoncman House in the Yosemite Val
ley, California.
Love is a thing O four letters, yet
sometimes in II breach Of promise suit
hundreds arc produced.
Tho examination Of teachers was
held to-day in the schoolroom, there
being sixteen applicants.
Trains No. ! and 3 duo hero from
the west last night, arrived hero to-
day between l. and 2o'clock.
Tho Times Review says that about
the only live stock that tho Indians
viii save is their dogs and gray-backs.
Mrs. Talbot extends n cordial
invitation to the public to visit tho
Wet. U. Reading Rooms tonight.
The President has sent to tho SEN
nte the nominate IN OF Austin Il. Gill
son, for Postmaster ut Winnemucca,
Nevada.
No hurry about going To 500 Mag
nra Falls. a geological engineer re-
ports that tho falls will last for g.
0oo,OOO years.
Tho romans OF Goo. II. Pondlcton,
late Minister to Germany, wcro taken
to Cincinnati whero tho funeral was
held to-day.
There must have been n recent
blockade in Idaho, rs wo received
seven copies Of tho Hailoy News-AIincr
this morning.
Scgars arc advancing. Ono that n
San Francisco policeman smoked on
duty cost him $40. But, then, there's
nothing too good for the force.
Tho Secretary of tho Treasury pur.
chased over 5 2yoO0,00O OF United States
bonds Thursday, March 6, thereby rc.
ducing tho available surplus to about
s~nS,O0o,000.
Tho barometer indicates nm mp
preaching storm, having fallen several
points below tho storm limo To. day.
Lator-It commenced raining mt .
o'clock this afternoon, with q fair
prospect for n heavy storm.
Tho Times. Roviow is off just 90
cents on tho tax levy in this county.
Tho lcvy is 81 80 for county purposes
and % cents for State purposes. maxi
ing tho total lovy 81 25, not s3 10, on
each 5l00. Read tho INDEPENDENT
md keep posted.
IL took fourteen mon TO carry tho
monster petition for ballot reform In :
to tho Assembly Of tho Now York
Legislature on Monday. No such
large petition has over before boon
presented to n dcliberatiro body. II ia
timc for Governor Hill 10 begin 10
hedge.
Tho snlo Of n number Of fine horses,
tho property OF Il. j. Rose, OF Los
Angeles, took place at Now York
Wednesday. Among those sold was
tho famous trotting stallion, Alcnzar,
This horao WA started mt $4,000, and
WIS knocked down TO Uchlcin Bros.
{" Milwaukee, for S2j,S01.
Buffalo Bills cowboys seem to have
astoundcd the Romans by riding wild
horses from tho herd Of tho Duke oil
S%crmonctc. Tho cowboys conquered
tho animals in nvo minutes. Tho
average vaqucro has no difficulty in
getting tho bottor OF n horse that car
H'Vo up In Tint time. Such animals
htc casy TO rido compared with some
virginia Entorpriso:--Mr. Carnegie
oc"orvcs To DO complimontod for hav.
ing presented his Pan.A mcrica,
guests with n bill OF faro in plair
hnsl'sh. But why did no stop will
tho catablcs, and add boutonnicrcs
una champagne SOC, and champaign,
,r"ppe, aud Chateau Lalittc, and Ohm
'eau fquomH lilo ought TO huvo kcp
up Tho symmetry TO tho ond.