Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1891-08-23
lFnos MosDAr's DArLr.l
sALMAGUNDl.

The Board OF Equalization is in
session to-day.
Tho School Of Methods il running
along smoothly.
r. +. Skaggs and G. E Noble, OF
Lamoillc, are in town to.day.
". w. Rogers is tending bur at the
Peoples saloon in Virginia.
E. g. Jones, tho blacksmith, is
having the front Of his shop painted
IA bright blue.
A child with two tongues wRs born
the other day ut Huntington, w. Va.
1t WIS n female child.
Miss Nellie Quinn, teacher OF tho
South Fork school, il in town attend.
ing the School OF Methods.
Thirty. live cars CT bonded tea
passed. through Elko late Saturday
evening, bound for New York City.
Philadelphia Times:--Wiudmills
can DO exported free to reciprocity
countries. There is Il chance 10 get
rid OF IL long. distance prize fighters.
The taxable property of Storey
county ioots up nearly s2.OGO.OOO this
year. an increase of about $4,000
over 1897.
Attention is called to the al. OF the
Ogden Marble and Granite Works in
another column. II you need a
work in their line give them un order.
DR.. IL. II. Hogan informs the Reno
journal that one OF the simplest and
best remedies for diphtheria is dry
sulphur, ar il may be given in syrup
every half hour. He says il an, thing
will save a patient sulphur will.
The item in Saturdays JSpErESp-
EST in reference To the death OF Mrs
Chris Danburg, OF Douglas county, is
not true. We took il from the Car
son Tribune which stated in its next
| issue that the lady was still alIyo and
III u lhiT way 10 recover.
y bright photographer has invented
II screen behind whose friendly pro.
lection ladies' may bc photographed
With dummy feet OF exquisite proper
tions. III g inventor expects 10 do II
large business ~ Chicago.
Bnltinor. Ameriran:-It was the
first time little Bessie had ever -
"a snake, and as il writhed along she
ran into tho house brcathlcss with
her discovery. oh, mamma, come
quick" she cried. "IIers's n tail out
here wngsing without any dog"
A clouhburst occurred Friday
AFTERNOON at Hawthorne. The main
street vas filed with water aud con
siderable damage done to the T.. G..
railroad track. Ole washout is nino-
" feet wide. Train No. l was do.
layed several hours about three miles
north OF Hawthorne.
AT HAVANA, Illinois, q man stole
over two hundred hogs from farmers.
lilo was finally caught and confessed
that he used i long pole on the cnd
OF Which there was n sponge wet with
chloroform, to siupefy tho hogs. Tho
hogs made no noise when seized and
were hauled off and butchered.
Phoebe Rccord:-Our lads and lasses
are somewhat grcgarious in their
choice OF retreats. The old snelier
used to bc tho ~favorite resort, but il
IL now abandoned for "a now locality,
that Of the graveynr Surely that is
not II very desirable spot to bill md
coo.in. 1t may no they retire there
To mcditato amongst the tombs.
Virginia Entorprise:--The dis
mnntling Of tho California puu mill, in
the canyon below tho Nevada Brew.
cry, WINS begun on Wednesday, pre-.
parhtory 10 Its entire demolition, and
will be followed by tho tearing down
ot the California battery mill Of eighty
stamps, which will no useless after
the pan mill is demolished. The
mills havo been usod since 1878, and
tho management state that their dis.
mnntIing il dono for. the purpose Il
saving 3lu,Oou annually paid IN tnxos
und the wages Of wntChmen.