Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-05-11
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UTE fhcosu ~ JUST rccelved q lot
OF nice, fresh butter.
Mrs. ]. II. Bradley gassed through
this morning on her way 10 Reno.
Regular meeting Elko Lodge No
Is, X. of P. at Castle Hall tonight.
]. A. Fillmore and other G.. p.
officials passed west on a special last
evening.
Il. T.. Harris returned from tho
East last night. He disposed OF part
OF his horses.
Division Superintendent Knapp,
OF the Salt Lake division, was in
town yesterday.
The Grand Lodge OF Knights OF
Pythias of Nevada will convene in
Carson IN June.
The Supreme Court Of California
last Tuesday admitted twenty-six
young men to the bar as lawyers.
A heavy shower fell last night and
vegetation looks unusually greea this
morning. These rains are a fino thing
for the country.
At n tire in u lunatic asylum an
Tongue Poiute, Quebec, last Tuesday,
over one hundred lunatics were
burned to death.
There are SOD drinking saloons in
Chicago. Each pays u liconse OF $500
per annum, yielding u total revenue
Of nearly s3,5oO,00o.
The Malad river in Idaho is high
or now than ever before known. In
some places on the bottoms it is
spread out over Il mile in width.
Tho Providence Journal, the lead
ing Republican paper OF Rhode Is
land, says: "The burning question
OF the hour is whether the Republi-
can party can make new States as
fast as il is losing the old ones"
Judge Snbin, of tho United States
District Court for Nevada, is danger
ously i'll ut the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, from inilammatory rhcu-
matism, and is not expected TO re-
cover. Ho was unconscious all day
Tuesday.
Rono Journal:-The Board Of Re-
geants OF tho University have decided
to dispense with Prof. Devol at the
end OF the term. They have more
Professors than money, and think
they can bost serve the interests of
the Agricultural Station by saving
what money they have for labor.
1t commenced raining again about
8 o'clock this morning and has con-
tinued to fall without intermission
during the whole day. The Free
Press rain guago indicates n full of &c
from Tuesday night until yesterday
afternoon ut 5 O'Clock, and from then
until 2:30 this afternoon 81; making
q total fall of 81 inches since Tuesday
evening. 81
Belmont Courier:-Were the senti-
mont of President Harrison's Cabinet
in favor Of free coinage, as it should
be, the MINIS of tho United States
would now be open to free coinage.
The gentlemen composing tho Cabinet
should peruso the plank in the Ma
tional Republican Platform regarding
silver and gold. Tho President
should also devote some Of his time
to the reading OF that plank.
At n meeting OF tho Douglas county
ranchcrs, held in Genoa last Sunday,
to resolve on the best course in the
suit brought by tho ComstoCk Mill
and Mining Company to adjudicate
water rights under the act OF tho last
Legislature, it was decided to put in
n demurrer SO as to gain time in which
TO learn tho decision Of tho Court in
tho suit brought by tho Humboldt
valley farmers to test the constitu-
tionality OF the act. .
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the fvo-
year-old son OF Chosloy and Mary
Woodward died Mt jack Creek yes
terduy afternoon. He had been nil
ing since Sunday forenoon and his
brother was about to start to Tusca-
rora for a physician, when commissions
onsued and in u short t'ine tho little
sufferer was beyond human aid or
skill. The body will DO brought to
Tuscarora for burial, and tho funeral
will take place from the Methodist
Church at IL 4. NJ. tomorrow. D
w. II. Smith, Chairman Of tho
convention OF water claimants Of
Elko county, has called n meeting
OF tho citizons Of the county who nre
interested in the water suits, for next
Saturday, tho 10Th instant, ut tho
Courthouse: The object Of tho meet
ing is to consider matters in relation
TO tho employment Of attorneys to
represent tho people OF this county at
Winncmucca ON tho 18th OF June,
whom tho law will DO tested Rs TO its
constitutionality.
The man who wipes his noso on n is
~slcovo; picks his tooth with his fork;
squirts tobacco juice on tho cook
stove hearth; drives to market with
hickory bark limos; deposits his moncy