Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-05

increased daily. Railroad men are
kept busy driving men who attempt
10 steal rides out OF box cars.
Rmer (epterlng the editorial sane
tum)-I have written poem ON the
grip, sir.
Editor lwhc is just over a severe
attack of the maiady) well, it de-
serves it-1Brooklyn Life.
The Truckee Republican, Gays there
is only from four to i've feet. of snow
in the mountains at present and un-
less more falls the Reno ranchers will
have an opportunity to use the stor-
age reservoir at Donner Lake next
Summer.
Bank robbers ct ColGwster, Mich
igan, on the night Of the End, blew
open the safe OF the Ooldwater Ma
tioaal Bank and took $4,000 in cash
and $4,000 Of Philadelphia and Read
ing deferred bonds. A reward of slO,-
600 is offered for their arrest.
1t has been discovered that silver
exists in the ashes OF two volcanoes in
the Andes Of Ecuador, in South
America. The quantity of silver 10
exceedingly minute, however, being
about two dFtbs Of an ounce in a ton
Of ashes at Cotopsxi, and about three
tenths OF an ounce at Tunguragua.
An admiring "F'ocastls Jack" once
sent MIR. spurgeon parrot and, whnt
Is worse, very profane parrot. For
some months the gifted minister kept
the wicked bird, which, he said,
seemed to sympathize with him when
he put his pen in the mucilage pot.
But at last he had to send him away
more in sorrow than in anger.
St. Joseph HerGld:-"Hochquell-
Observation-Disclosures "
Is single word used in Vienna TO de-
scribe the bursting OF water pipe.
That word is as long as the average
bill Of the average plumber. Here in
America when the water pipes burst
the unfortunate household usually
stars in with. an expressive monosyl-
laOle that rhymes with ham. -.
What will probably be the oldest
exhibits at the Worlds Fair were re-.
ceived at the Custom House for
Monsieur" Potter Palmer. They
were two Greek vases, of baked clay
made in the third and fourth centu-
ries before Christ. They came from
an antiquarian dealer in Paris, and
we're admitted free Of duty as col.
lection OF antiquities.
The Truckee Republican says: "A
few fish are being caught in the river
and Denner creek. While it may be-
contrary to law to catch them now the
Republicans will not turn informer
especially when fish or two is left or
the editors desk. The law making 4
Close season at this time OF the yea
is foolish one and can be better hon
ored by the breech than by the OBJ
seTvance."
A recent dispatch states that tht
greatest dividend ever paid in ont
month by any mine was by the Molli'
1 Gibson, at Denver, Colorado, during
February Of this year; the output o
which was 100000. In the palm,
days Of the Comstock $4,000 wa
often extracted in one week from diff
terent mines, and for forty conseou
tive months the Consolidated Virgins
turned out o., 100000 every 30 .days.
| ST. Louis Post Dispatch: -Th'
Field family has been known for sixt,
years as one of the brightest, brain
lest, sanest in the country. A chaFg'
4 Of lunacy would have been reseDtes
as an insult and probably prosecute'
rs libel. To save an unworth.
member from tho penitentiary the,
are now trying to persuade the Su
! thotities that for generations tn
l. a