Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-12-18
(FRoM FHrDAY's DArLY.l
SALoIAGUNDI

No preaching in tho Presbyterian
church Sunday:
Rev. John Wallace will preach IT
Starr Valley next Sabbath.
The Panama scandal ,hrratens 10
overturn the Government of France
w. l. Plumb, Agent at the Western
Shoshone Reservation, is in town t.
day.
The Treasury Department Wednes
day purchased $4,000 uunces Of silver
at s.S3I5 per ounce.
Len Covert, OF Secret Valley, was
i'll town To-Day. He reports good
sieighirg in his neighborhood.
Tho Nows siys it Is harder for Of
fcers in White Plnp county 10 rustic
bonds than 1t WAS to get elected.
Tho Nye County Commissioners Mt
their last meeting redeemsL scrip TO
the mount Of s2.GsO for s950.sJ.
There was six inches Of enow
and more coming in Ogden yester-
day morning VIXEN NJ. . left there.
1t is reported that Judges Field and
Lamar will resign from tho Supreme
Court shortly after Cleveland's inaug-
uratiou.
Aurora, which in tie sixties had
O Or 5000 inhabitants, aud still. has
money handsome brick buildings
now has but % inhabitants.
Unhappy Parent; Rouo-It your
Sol persists in prom ,uncing it my
ther," brain him with eyther a crow
bar or m TX. 1t will be justiiiab:e
homicide.
S~herif-elect Henderson sports n fine
b!acktiIorn cane, orhamrnted with u
silver snake, prcsented 10 hin by
Dan Murphy, OF tho hrm OF Murphy
& Hill. Lou prizos il highly ind will
keep it as an hcirloom in tho family
When n resident of Rails county,
Mo. went to cast his vote on clectir n
diy, he found That no was several
sizes larger than tho voting booth.
Tna sheriff vas Obliged 10 constru
fIr hin n screen made Of horse
blankets.
a new swindling Dodge has been
successfully played in Eastern Ohio.
\ man ca MT along and sold n lot OF
bicycles at'very low figures. A few
days Tutor another man turned Up,
proved TINT. the whscls had been
stolen and took them away.
Sam Davis thinks that when the
Monetary Conference gets through
witt silver n life sized statue Of n lao.
pound girl won't crst most thun 500
AMI TINT Nevada ought to stand that
much and exhibit n silver statue OF a
s,gcbrush girl at Tho Worlds Fair.
a California farmer, who wants 10
get married, advortiscs to the point rs
follows in tho local pnpor over his
signature:
"Wautcd. "A red headed Irisl, wife,
one who a dig s,go- brush and raise
chickens. Como quick"
Car8'n Appeal: "A tenchnr in the
public schools OF this city told heI
scholars the other day that there were
M Mexican veterans alive in thr
United States now, ne ia order 10 be
nbove ground They " ,uld hnvo to he
over 800 years old. This IL n rough
shot at Farmer Trcadway and Buck
Zabriskie.
y new TAI with women Of tho East
ia to address their correspondence or
tho back OF tho envelope, using tn,
postage stamp ls a seal 80 as TO pro
vent taTpering with the envvlop,
without bro king tho stamp. How
tho postoAice Officials will tako thu
fid is yet 10 be learned.
Tho expen liturcs for pension,
under Clouoia1d's administration
amounted to s32),Oro,W0. Under III,
present administration up 10 Decem
Der LIST the expenditures for pension
exceeded sE33,O iO,OOO. Tho lat,
President Garfield, when n mcmbc
OF ConSresa froL, Ohio, APOLOGIZE
Tor Advocating tho pussago of q bill
increasing the nnnnaI appropriation
for pensions to s2o,oOo,NOo, md rait
TINT was tho highest iignto pension