Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-01-12

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W. j. Urton came down from Tus-
carora by stage yesterday. Ho will
remain in town Tor q few days
Not quito 90 cold last night. The
mercury thermometers marked &c
degrees below zero, and tho spirit, A
degrees below.
Concentrated coolness 10 being
stored for use during the hot weather
ofthe coming Summer. The ice is
from IL to IA inches thick.
Rev. J. w. McComb organized n
church OF eight members in Carlin
last Sabbath. They arc making IN
effort to build q new church thore
now.
The driver Of the Huntington mail
arrived last evening after q two days
trip. Ho says the snow is three feet
deep on the level all over Mound and
Huntington Valleys.
Ellison says that putting wires
under ground will not make electricity
any safer. II it can't run down your
bhck it will run up your trousers leg.
1t gets thore just the samo..
Litton & Hunter have lost several
head OF cattle, that they wore feeding
within tho past few days. These were
some that were poor. and they could
not survive the extromc cold.
We aro informed that Pedro Altube,
OF Independence Valley, has turned
out 5000 head OF cattle to shift for
themselves or die in tho attempt. as
no has not feed sufficient to carry
them through. 1t Is not likely tina
many OF the poor brutes will survive
tho Winter.
Geo. p. Robinson passed through
last evening in charge Of thirteen cars
OF cattle consigned to Hayes & Co.
Oakland, and n a Of horses to II
NJ. Grant & Co. The stock was ship
ped from Ruby Valley by John T.
Wright and George Robinson.
Tho Reno Journal has the follow
ing: E"Tho Elko INDEPENDENT has
entered upon its fifteenth year. Mr..
Grover does we'll to issue q daily pa-
per in the town OF Elko, and ought
to DO encouraged and supported far
better than no is by the people Of that
county"
Times-R eview:-Quite n number of
Altube Bros. cattle succumbed to
hunger and exposure in tho vicinity
OF John Burns and tho Beard Bros
ranches last Saturday and Sunday
nights, md the probability is that
moro followed in the Same direction
last night
On Monday, tho 9th instant, A.
Frederickson, OF Chicago, was n
ried to Mrs. Sarah L. Miller, OF Vir.
ginia City, Nevada, Mt Joliet, Illinois.
Tho groom is twenty-throe years old
and tho bride twenty-five. Tho dis
patch says it looked like an elope-
ment.
Reno Journal:-Out Of the pensions
paid soldiers during the last fiscal
year, n million three hundred and
sixty-three thousand dollars were di.
vided among pension attorneys.
These figures furnish the key to tho
furious clamors for pension legisla-
ton emannting from pension brokers,
headquarters at Washington.
Last Friday afternoon a number Of
houses yer demolished and several
persons killed ut Sierra City, Cali
fornia, by q snow slide. Tho scenes
at and following tho catastrophe are
said to have boon henrtrcnding.
Several miraculous escapes are re-
corded. Six bodies we're dug out of
tho snow and buried.
Alta:-Only twenty members OF the
present Congress are OF foreign birth,
and OF these nine are Democrats and
eleven aro Republicans. Senators
Pasco. Jones, OF Nevada, Beck and
Mcmillan, are oil OF foreign birth. In
the House two aro Englishmen, two
are Scotch, four are Irish, two nre
Canadians; thero is ono Swode and
one Norwegian, and four arc Germans.
Tho San Francisco Post says that
s. A. Won Pragg, II ticket agent in tho
employ OF J. G. Mccall at % Mont.
gomery streot, has boon arrested on a
charge Of ombezzlomont, but no
claims that his accounts nre oil right.
This is probably S. A. Van Pragg,
formerly Travelling Agent for tho
Burlington Route, who is we'll known
horc. 1t Is scarcely probable that q
man OF his standing would stoop TO
pocket tho small sum Of ESQ 35 I'm.
lawfully.
Tho Silver State says TINT ct tho
special election hol' in Big Meadows
school district for tho purpose Of do.
tormining whothor q specinl tox
should DO lovied, tho tux was carried
unanimously, oyory vote being in Ia
o Of 1t. This shows that tho prop.
erty owners Of tho district ore men of
energy and advanced idcas, and that
they believe that tho prosperity Of q
community depends largely on the
education OF the children.