Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1891-03-22
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SALMAGyNDI,

Hiram Stokcr eft this morning for
Salt Lake City.
j. ". Puett, Of Carlin, passed
through this morning On route to
Ogden.
Miss Lizzio iIough is on the sick
list, and Il substitute is conducting
her department in tho public school.
The ST. Patrick's ball at Freeman
Hall last night was well attended, and
proved 10 be Il very pleasant AMI S uc-
ccssful affair.
Tho tax lovy in Esmeralda county
has been fixed at e3.lO on 500 va!u-
alton. except in Hawthorne school
district where it is $3.50.
The bill licensing stations has be-
come Law. The license for thorough
bred horses will be $50, standard bred,
SO, graded, $50, aud draught so a
year.
Tie Silver State charges tho editor
OF the Enterprise with being tho
author OF the Assembly amendment
to Senate bill No. l, the Australian
ballot bill.
Reno Gazette, Monday Mrs. j. B.
Gallagher, OF Butte, Montana, dauyh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Wines, ar
rived here this morning on Il visit 10
her parents.
\ heavy Storm set in about
9:30 this morning and continued al
most increasingly up To the time OF
going 10 press, though it melts almost
US fast us il falls.
Tho snow storm which set in this
morning prevented some OF our citi.
Zcns from attending the wedding of
Mr.. a. l.. Cotunt aud Miss Maggie
Leddick IN Lamoille Valley, which
was announced for = o'clock this
afternoon.
Reno Juurrai:-Thc sheep shcar;ng
season has commenc"l. Henry An.
drrson is shoaring HIS nocks Mt
Miilers' ranc!, on tho Meadows, and
Abe Scott is bnlcing wool at tho end Of
the y. G. 0. Railroad, and several
others will begin 10 shear us soon us
men can b. had FOR the business.
\ bill has been introduced in tho
Legislature making it II penal offence
TO buy or sell votes. Ii is II safe two
to-one bet that the bill will not pass.
Ia Senate bill No. | passed without
;me Glmcnt there would have been
no need OF such II st ltntc, for the
purchase OF votes would have been
out Of the question.
Sproule's bill making il n missile
mcanO for any Justice OF the Peace
To ISSUE "a certificate on the scalps Of
noxious animals 10 any person except
the u who claims Ia have taken
and killed the same, is agood one and
SHOULD became Il law. THcro is no
doubt that Elku county has been
s"inilra heavily OF the sclip racket,
and this law will provo n safeguard
! to the ccunty treasury.
Joseph Llloundcr and wife, Of
Montreal, Canada, half breeds OF
French and lrriiuois Indian blood,
are tho pcraOns ped ling beaded work
on the strcc;s. They arc stopping at
the Depot Hotel. and are said TO DO
Intelligent well behaved people who
arc doing n good business in selling
this kind OF fancy work all oycr the
Pacific Coast.
i petition 10 the Car OF Russia in
behalf o! the Siberian e~xiIos, gotten
up by tha Siberian Exile Association
"f Philadelphia, can b. found at tho
Post"iiicc. 1t is designed to sond
! tho Monarch OF Russia an enormous
petition from America in behalf Of
those unfOriunatcs who arc confined in
Siberia, and all who arc Interested in
alternating human suffering arc cor
dInlly invited ~ add their names to
tho petition. Tho Association So
licits small donations sufficient TO
cost Of printing and mailing
documents.