Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-03-23
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w. T.. Smith loft at noon to-day for
San Francisco.
DR.. Hamilton, tho dentist, can still
bo found at room 40, Depot Hotel.
Jemes Clark returned yesterday
from Tuscarnra. He thinks that with
proper care McClay will recover.
Attention is called to an announce
mont elsewhere OF n Grand Neck Tie
Party, to DO given ut Deeth, on Tues
day evening, April LIST.
Gilbert Henry, Of Mound Valley,
was in town lust night. He says the
losses OF stock in Mound have been
very light during the past Winter.
A special city election TO determine
tho wishes OF the citizens of Carson
upon tho question OF building a new
snhoolhouse will DO held at the Capt.
al on April 9TH.
a. G. Dawley, who has been over to
Ruby Valley, says the outlook is any,
thing but promising, the losses Of
both horses and cattlo having been
fearful throughout that whole coun-
try.
Henry Nofsingcr, Deputy Sheriff OF
Humboldt county, came up from
Wlnnemucca last night to visit his
brother who has been very i'll for SOW
eral days. He says Charley is much
better to-day and he thinks with
proper care ho will soon DO all right
again.
Virgins, the prophet" predicts an
earth-pcrvading storm Of awful char
acter to take place, SO far as this sec
ton is concerned, about the 21st in
slant. II there is any one who has
tho slightest faith in the predictions
Of the meteorological crank, he should
begin to put his house in order.
a Indian known MS "Old Gabriel,
died in the County Hospital at Sail
mas, Cal, last Sunday whose age, as
near as can be asccrtained, was over
$50 years. Although no could not
toll his Hge he remembered AMI re-
lated incidents Of tho arrival OF mis-
sionarics in California 100 years ago.
William Davis and John Hile, OF
L~ogansport, Indiana, persuaded Ida
Asker and Lucinda Brooks, who had
jiltod them, to take a walk with them.
While out the boys got the girls Drunk
on what they supposed to DO wire.
1t vas n preparation OF arsenic. Miss
Brooks is dead and Miss Asker is
dying.
G. II. Sproulc, Of the Free Press,
went down to Reno Sunday and re-
turned Monday accompanied by his
brother who passed through on his
return from San Francisco to Butte
City, Montana. Mr.. Sproule says that
the cattle shipped to Reno by Russell
4 Bradley and Judge Bigclow are
dying, evidently from some disease
with which they arc affected.
The body OF tho late Mrs. E. NJ.
Bnum was brought up from Palisade
last night, aud conveyed to Odd Eel
lows Hall this morning. At 9 o'clock
this afternoon funeral services were
conducted under tho auspices OF tho
Order, and the romans wcre inferred
in the /. o. o. +. cemetery, there to
remain until that great day when
"tho sea shall give up her dead, and
all the nations OF tho earth that have
lived shall come forth"
Tho Truckee Republican says the
Southern Pacific railroad people are
building n house for Winter quarters
for snow shovclers at Shady Run on
tho limo OF the Central Pacific. There
is to be n barracks 800 feet long, q
feet wide and three stories high. In
it will DO placed hunks for shoyelcrs
who may DO employed there during
the WiUter time. There will DO an
apartment Of rooms for hospital pur-
poses.
a force OF U. S. soldiers have been
detailed to clear tho Cherokee strip
Of tho boomers who have invaded tic
territory in defiance Of the law. Tho
San Francisco Post snys: "Tho ro-
trent Of tho boomers from tho Cher
okco strip will DO rs sudden rs was
their advance into tho now territory.
Tho boomers have learned to have
considerable respect for tho army,
and they will go promptly when thoy
aro ordered 10 moyoo out"
Processing Christians.