Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-12-25
(FRoM FRIpAY's nArLx.]
SALMAGUNDi

TIE Chronicle says timoJ are hard
on the Conistock. I
Tn. cost OF tho election to Storey
county was S5,32l.
Attention 10 called 10 Administra-
tors salo in another column.
Miss Annie Toyn md her mother
left for their homo 10 Mound Valley
to-day.
The Treasury Department., Wod-
nesda,, p.rchaso 4Gl,ON ounces OF
s'lvcr at sS1i5 aud sS25.
President Harrison has been en-
gagged to deliver a course of law lee
lures az the Stanford University.
In Ohio about $4,000 voters declined
To vote TT tho last election. Tho 10.
,al gain ~ votes in four years was
only 1882.
Min. Carrie Stevens has closol her
school III Mound Vnlley and will
spend the holidays with her parents
in Starr Valley.
John Burns WAS hanged at Mis-
souln, Mont, Friday. On the scaffold
fold he smiled at tho SPECTATORS and
his last words were "Let 'er CO."
"Please take OF your Eiffel tower
is the latest slang phrase. 1t is ad-
dressed to young who wear
sky.scrapers To the theater.
Sacramento Bee:-Sam Davis has
discovered TINT sawhust fattcns hogs.
Now il hogs can only be taught u
"saw wood" they will be ablo TO "save
their bacon"
Nevada will DO in IL. A combina-
ton u; tho silver Staten a clog the
wheels Of Legislation sufficiently next
Winter at Washington to force a rec.
oSnition OF silver.
John Trolson, until recently agcn,
for Wells Fargo & Co. at Virgins
City. wac urrcsted "Wednesday ioI
cm~bezzlomcnt. Trolson 10 over s2OUi
short IN his accounts.
The State University closed yester,
dizzy for the holidays aud. will open
again Jan. 9Th. Thp journal Gays
about leo students have been in III.
t'nd"nco during the turm
Tho s,niemcnt OF tho Secretary oil
the Treasury Issued "Wednesday
elbows decrease Of nearly S6,CN0,O0G
in tho gold holdings OF tho Govern.
ment since tho 10Th instant.
During last year the number .0I
electric railways increased from 49,
To AGO, tho capital ntock from 1885,,
o57,0G3 To s2n5, $4,000 and the mile
age from 3,0lG TO 5,ii6 miles.
Reno Jonrnal:-Sam Davis and
Ambroso Bierce have pronounced
James Whitcon.b Riley "no poet" II
ia prubabio that Riley now wishe,
that he had never been born.
j. r. Henry. VIM. Moody, John
Yrwell and Charles Moudy returned
this morning from Now York wber,
they Ind been with q lot OF horses
They report fairly successful trip.
Instead OF ton days, as h~erototore, ,
postmaster ia, by a now ruling Of The
department, authorized TO hold I'm
claimed letters thirty days 10 the al
acnce OF specific instructions from The
writer.
Only thrce mon who were member:
OF this United States Senate in lSiE
are o living-James w. Bradbury
OF Mailp, ex.Gorsrnor Fetch, o.
Michigan, aud Gen. Geo. w. Jones, o
Iowa.
journal: Monday AFTERNOON an in
cipicnt Iiro occurred ut Storart Hall
tho dormitory occupied by tho ycuns
ladies nj the University. II was dis
cnyored aud eIt'nguishsl tctoro an,
damage Sns done.
Geo. H.. Toibcrt, Dep ity o. 8. fis,
Commissioner, arrivei to-, 10y with
consignment 1t 5IO0 specified ,tou
from tho hatchery AZ Lmdnllr, Col
oralo. They we're placed ia tho Hum
boldt river this afternoon.
AT Santa AIMS, Monday, Tom Nor
ria defeated II, g. Stevens, tho Colo
rudo CScloor, 10 l50.,ard foo
race, winning by fifteen feet in four
toen AMI rno.hsit seconds. Th,
purso wrs Tor 5000. Tho world
record fer this distance 10 fourteen
md one. half.