Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-02
'lrron wednesday. D.ily.l
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thls morning. r.
Mira Rosenstock il improving but
Is still quite weak.
Walter Gilmore has secured a posi-
tion rs .baggageman at the Winnie.
mucoa depot.
There Is quite q lively demand for
snow shoes, Charley Gardner being
the manufactures.
The signal service PREDICTS fair
weather, followed by light rains or
SHOWS, and warmer.
The ". e T. railroad remains block
AIDED; and Sheriff Barnard is still ut
Reno with his prisoners.
Tho train which left Ogden at /
o'clock Pm. last Sunday arrived hero
at 10 O'Clock this morning. (.
w. S. Clayton came in from Mound
Valley for provisions and left with a
sleigh load this afternoon.
"Nothingis harder to bear than n
long succession Of pleasant days,"
sighed'the Umbrella maker.
There is no probability OF n through
train from the west before some time
tomorrow, as the blockade has not
boon overcome sufficiently for trains
TO move.
Twenty stock cars arrived last night
which will be loaded with Russell &
Bradley's cattle that were brought in
from Mound Valley. Those cattle
are now ut Osino.
a scientific papsr is discussing the
question, "Have Fish Sonae?" There
is no doubt but they have rs much
sense us some solks who sit on tho
bank nll day and anglo for them.
The Pceatello, Idaho, Republican OF
the 10th instant says: Twenty-Five
below zero fs the lowest record at
P~ocatello, 10 below at Shoshone, %
below at HALEY, 80 below at Soda
Springs.and about 40 below in Custer
and Lemhi counties.
Cheyenne Stock Journnl:-The
stockmen in tho vicinity OF Evanston
who recently gathered their outside
cattle have put a portion Of them. on
feed at home, and another portion
have boon shipped TO Rock Crock,
Wye, and placed In a good pasture.
Mr.. Steele, OF the firm CT Steele &
Mitchum, passed through this. morn
ing on his way from the East TO San
Francisco. He says there is no snow
at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and prospects
for stock in that country are fair. Mr..
Steele left Ogden at 4 o'clock p. n.
Sunday.
A letter from Fair Play dated the
Goth instant, reports the snow about
throe feet on the level in Secret Val.
Icy, and still deeper in North Ruby.
Many Of tile rnnchcrs in Secret will
loso n aroat PORTION o. thcir stock on
account OF scarcity Of hay. The peo-
pie arc we'll supplied with provisions.
Patient-Doctor, / don't balieve.
that medicine is doing mo any good.
Doctor-You haven't tried it long
enough to see tho object yot.
"What effect ought it TO have!" e
"Um-ah--well-er I haven't tried
it long enough on you to know Just
yot." a..
Bro. Dennis, OF the Times Review,
shows that he is painfully deficient in
natural history when he asserts that
n mole burrows into the earth to a
depth OF five fect. While the Major
is urcommonly wise, what he don't
know would mike nm immense vol
ume, notwithstanding his familiarity
with Quackenbos. philosophy.
No mail again last night, and the
task Of getting out n daily papefwith-
out tho hid OF exchanges ia growing
somewhat Observation-Disclosures
ENr Don't you get tho Timos-R Review
regularity What in thunder moro
do you NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tho
Times. Review Inns boon u regular and
welcome visitor without which we
should have bcon Of ull mon tho most
miserable. g
Harry Lidyard, tho Ruby Valley
mail carrier, camo down from Hal
lock this morning. Hc succeeded In
getting rs fnr as Fair Play whore he
employed Willie Lemon to proceed
on snow shoes with tho mail to Ar
thur whero he will DO succeeded by
Clarence Hayes who expects to make
tho trip to Ruby Valley PostoIIice
and return in threc days.
A fortune teller Gun hit n woman's
case nine timcs out Of tons |'You've
had sickness md trouble. You'll
have some property fall to you. You
do not havo full confidence in. your
husband. Buwarel no, ia deceivipg
you. You have n very gentle nature.
Everybody loves you. Yoh have hah.
trouble with d telativc. 1t was not
your fault Beware Of a bluo.oyed
woman with q mole on her loft check.
Sho will mako you trouble. Good.
byo-ono dollnr-call again.
Tho Times eyicw advises tho
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