Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-08-24
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L. +. Brennan came in last evening
from Fort lIalleck.
Wick Lemon, OF Secret Valley, is
now lear Pendlcton, Oregon.
l. N. Sherwood came dom from
Halleck yesterday and stopped in
town over night.
Miss Bertha Smith left Saturday
evening for Pendleton, Oregon, where
hor parents rcs:de
jacob Engler and his sister, Mrs.
Eisenberg, returned yesterday from
an extended visit to Salt Lake City.
Tho Denver Lottery agents have
skipped from Kansas City, Kansas,
after victimizing tho people out of
$4,000.
You car pick oat a dozen people in
every community who would demon
alize Heaven in less than u week.
RAMS Horn.
Edward How, Mt st. Louis, shot and
killed his vito while sh" was sleep.
ing, and then inflicted 4 mortal wound
upon himself.
Miss Edith Taylor and Miss Dora
Boniiicld left last evening, in company
with Fred. Bertsch, Cor u ten days
visit to Ruby Valley.
The Democratic State Convention
nominated A. Caminetti, OF imudor
county, for Governor of California at
San Jose yesterday, by acclnmation.
Charley Froelich hus just received
u line spring wagon, tho very thing
tor fishing excursions. We are look
ing every day for an invitation TO tr,
the new wagon.
Carson. Johannesburg say Pown-
ing was knocked out at tho primaries
at Keno on Saturday, while others
assert that he made no opposition 10
the regular ticket.
Edward Happy, n cowboy in Wyo-
ming, was caught in a blizzard last
February: His remains and the body
of tho horse he rode were found near
Cheyenne last Monday.
Bar silver 1895. Sound tho tom
tom, boat tho drum! Let her rise:
for The higher it goes the battor it
suits tho INDEPENDENT, the Reno Ga
zct;e to the contrary Notwithstanding.
We cannot SEQ any good reason why
the Ogden Democrat is never received
at this Office until it is two DAYS old.
Inc Salt Liko Times, also m evening
paper, arrives next morning after its
publication.
Alilt Polk arrived last evening by
his " conveyance from Lamoille.
Although no has not yet "dec!arcd
his intention"it is understood that he
will be n candidate before tho RepuL.
licau Convention for Sheriff.
II is said that on tho Mexican Gull
Railroad in Mexico tho ties arc made
OF tho finest mahogany and tho
bridges built OF marble. These ma
t~erials were the cheapest to be- had,
since tho, wcro found along the track.
Two cowboy weddings took place ut
Payson, a. J., on horseback, Friday,
and tho nowly married couples ut
once began to chase cattle, having
been given IA n wedding present all
the cattle thoy could catch and brand
before sunset.
mes-Reviow:-At tho Republican
primary election Saturday tho follow
ing delegates TO the State Convention
wore elected: L. r. Parsons, james
Daugicrty, j. II. Linohart, d. B. Will
liams ind Goo. If. Bird. But little
interest was manifested, there being
only loo votes pollod.
Hon. Tbos Fitch writes to the Reno
Gazette that he docs not now expect
to DO a candidate for Congress, but
no does not state that no will not be.
There is no question that his namo
will DO presented, unless it shall M
pear that he has no chance OF secur.
ing tho nomination.
Anxious Mothcr-."I want mn order
to send my daughter to an insane
asylum for treatment. SlIo is going
to marry II man thirty ycurs older
than herself" Judgc-"Why, Mud
am, girls marry old mon every day,
and arc not considered irsnnc. Anx-
ious Mothcr-"Ycs, but the old man
my daughter wants to marry is poor"
Nov York Weekly.
Wo have just learned TINT tho
FREQ Lance, tho papor. published ut
Reno with numerous editors, fow
compositors and n noticoable absence
OF proof reader, the papor which up.
held tho Rev. Van Dovcntcr In his
81 urrilous Remuneration of tho people
Of Nevada, tho paper which claimed
to monopolizo MI tho journalistic
virtue Of tho State, hns pctcred out.
Sic transit gloria mundi
Ogdon Democrat: At last T~nscott
has been caught. SO snys tho San
pcte County Register. Mr.. Rollo
Jones, OF tho Grammar Detective
Agency, seized n man Mt Richfeld an.
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