Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-01-05

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Regular meeting Humboldt Lodge
No. Q, A. o, wv, at their HILL To-
night.
A special train Of t~wenty-three cars
OF cattle paced through going west
last evening.
Snow has been falling continuously
throughout the day, and appearances
are favorable for aoontinuunce.
f. E ChaSnon and family, OF indie
Pendenoe Valley, arrived last night
FROM a trip to California and Oregon.
Last Saturday night Mr.. Muller's
thermometer registered % degrees
below zero, and 10 degrees below last
night.
La grippe got its grip on Senator
Ingalls, but il failed to hold him down.
He was out on Saturday.
We leurn that tho numo Of the
gentleman married at Wells on
Christmas fs j. j. Nay instead OF
"Moy," as it vas published.
Rev. Van Deventer will be here
Wednesday and Thursday nights on
which occasions no will other preach
a sermon or deliver a lecture.
A Westminster, Pu.) papor refused
to take a chu5ch fair advertisement
for fear it would come under the law
prohibiting lottory advertising.
Tho days aro now growing longer
which reminds US Of the old couplet:
AS tho days begin to lengtien,
Tho cold begins TO strengthen.
The decision Of the Ohio Supreme
Court that tho amendments voted for
ut the fall election were lost fixes the
term OF Governor-elect Campbell ut
two years instead Of four.
Mrs. H.-Maggic, where do o
suppose you will go il you tell such
~falsehoods as this?
Maggic-Sure, marin, 1 don't care;
1 have friends in ayther place.
A Grand Jury, to appear at the
Courthouse on Monday, jan. 18Th,
has been drawn. but at tho request OF
tho ShoriH tho names are withheld
from publication for q few days.
Capt. OShea, an ex.Member Of tho
House Of Commons, Inns fled u pcti-
ton for divorce from his vito on tho
ground Of adultery. He anne
Charles Stewart Parnell "a co-respon-
don't.
A fine turkey dinner, with all tho
accessories, at tho Depot Hotel on
New Year's day, commencing ut 4
o'clock +. N. All tho substantials and
d~elicacies OF tho season will DO served
in p~rofusion and in the highest style
OF culinary art
Tho influenza In Paris is worry fatal.
Tho number Of deaths in tho city
from NIL causes on Christmas Day
was 3ls. Fully one-third Of the
populnco, is. Frustrated. The editor OF
the Moniteur Universal and three
soldiers died last Friday.
Mrs. o. c. ~frcton, OF Boiso county,
Idaho, left her homo, partially
dressed, on Saturday, the 2lst in
slant, and at lust accounts no trace
OF her had been found. Sho WINS par
TALLY deranged from an attack of
brain foyer.
Influenza, or la grippe Ms IL is
called, has reached San Francisco,
Misses May and Flora Irwin, who arc
playing with tho Boston Athonium
Company, at tho California, being tho
victims. Nav says sho was afflicted
with tho dlsonse before eho left Dos.
ton.
An evidences OF tho depth OF snow
between here and Tuscnrora is found
in tho fact that Jas. Stauts, who left
hore OIL tho oath instant, with n cargo
OF freight, has only succeeded in get
ting 10 Reeds Station, whore the in
coming stugo lsft him yesterday.
Times. Reviow:-Corn in north
western Kansas is fifteen cents per
bushel, and ID boiug burned for fuel.
Although much higher in Tuscarora,
it is considered by many cheaper for
heating purposes than wood, and q
large quantity Of it is used for that
purpose, in n CONDENSED and liquehod
form.