Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-01-26
IRON wednesday. D.ily.l
sALHAGUNnI.

Jack Rabbits will bs u curiosity in
this country hereafter.
Tho thermometer registered % de-
grees below zorro at 4 o'clock this
morning.
Geo. j. Smith and wife, NEE Nova
Burner, arrived last evening from
Tuscarora.
The INDEPENDENT wood pile is
growing small by degrees and beau
tifully less"
Mrs. L. o. Henderson was taken
sick yesterday evening and is confined
to her bed to-day.
A telegram announces that Mrs.
James II. McMullen died at her resi-
dence in Star Valley this morning.
The weather is clear and cold to-
day, and it is devoutly 10 be hoped
that the great storm is at IN end.
At the request Of Treasurer Morgan
a list OF the sales OF property for do
linquent taxes"will not be published.
William Mitchell shipped four cars,
seventy-six head, OF beef cattle to-day
destined to the San Francisco market.
We learned last evening that S. ii.
Henley has been quito sick for two
days. but no is able to be out to-day.
Joseph Miller is sick, having been
quiet i'll for several days. Mrs. Mag
gie Hough is also one among those on
the sick list.
A school boy defined whiskey rs the
stuff that causes the most human
happiness--by letting it alone. A
good definition.
Reno Gazctte:-This is the winter
when many who have been wishing
themselves ont Of tho livestock bust
ness will have n chance to got out. but
tho cleanup will not be ut all satis-
factory.
Both the Anglo-American and the
Bennett-Mackay cable companies arc
beginning to deliver messages in
typewriting, tho operators taking
them from the lines directly upon tho
typewriter.
+. Fisher shipped three cars OF cat.
tic at Halleck yesterday, which
passed through last evening. He in.
tends to unload them at Reno until
no is sure that they can be got
through to San francisco.
Pioche Rocord:-Joo Coumerilh re-
ports the snow four feet deep on an
average in tho Spring Valley noun
tains. He was three days driving q
band Of cattle from Desert Springs to
Spring Valley, II distance Of twenty
five miles.
Mondays Reno Gazette says: Yes
terday ut noon the situation on the
mountains was unchanged. They
had provision train within sevon
miles of tho nov boleagucred passen-
gerS at Blue Canyon or tho track, and
wore packing provisions on snow
shoes.
Train No. 4 with the mail from the
cnst is expected here about 4 o'clock
tomorrow morning. 1t is also ex-
pected that through trains from San
Francisco will arrive tomorrow morn
ing, as the Railroad Company counts
OH having tho track cleared through
tho Sierra Nevada mountains to-day.
Silver State:-According to reports
from the western part OF tho State,
tho snow is about three feet deep in
tho vicinity OF Reno, whilo at Wads-
worth, lower down tho Truckee, it is
only n fow inches deep. Tho snow at
Lovelocks, car tho sink OF Humboldt,
is estimated to DO from ten to four
teen inches deep.
Senator Allison has been renomi-
mated for United States Senator to
succeed himself by II Joint caucus Of
tho Republican members OF both
Houses OF tho Legislature of Iowa.
lie was taken TO tho hall by the com
mittce and received with applause.
Hc made n speech thanking the eau
IL members for thoir action.
Road Master p. Hanson, Of Wells,
says that a large band OF antelope
congregated on tho railroad in u cut
enst Of Wells n few days since. Tho
poor animals were sc near starved
that they would allow n person to mp
proach them and handle tham sccm-
ingly without fear. Several OF Thorn
woro killed. but they wore 40 poor that
tho flesh wns not fit for food.