Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-12-25
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town.
The ice crop will soon DO ready for
harvesting.
Sheriff Bottstord has landed Prof.
Mulder in the Carson Jail.
Tho aoDetary Conference has ad.
iourned 10 May Both OF next yepr.
Regular meeting Humboldt Lodge
No. %, A. o. U. w. ut their Hall TO-
night.
Skating on the Humboldt is the
principal amusement OF tho young
people OF Elko.
The ladies are hard at We TX dressing
dolls and making nice things for the
Christmas tree.
SEQ Remnants new nd. in another
column and go right of and got n
o; those bargains.
Miss Mile Parker and Miss Ethel
Smith arrived from San Francisco
Saturday evening.
The Treasury Department Fridny
purchased 2T7,OOo ounces OF silver at
s.s25 and 1854 pOr ounce.
1t is reported that g. c. Wallace
faVors Geo. Brown, Of Storey county,
for warden Of the p%eni:ertiLry.
Tho nomination OF Georges II. Bell.
as Postmaster Of Carson City, hau
been confirmed by the Senate.
A. j.. Davidson arrived from San
Francisco Saturday night 10 take
charge OF the Gem jewelry store.
Tho masquerade ball at Freeman
Hall one week from tonight. will DO
tho event OF the saason.- Do not miss
il.
l.. E. Morgan, Public hdministra-
tor, vent up 20 Independence Valley
this morning 10 l1ok after tho estate
OF Pat Moran.
A. G.. Lcddy, sent 10 the State
prison from hero Tor b~urglariug
Osell's 6hoe store last Winter, will
apply for Il pardon nj the next meet
ing OF the Board.
General c. ". Irish and I. X.
Stewart, OF Wsshoe county, and Il +.
Riley, OF Humboldt county, are men
toned rs candidates for the Surveyor
GeuerL!ship.
There will I've tao cclipsrs in 1907
both OF the Eun. The cciirsa Of April
10th viii DO total. Invisible u North
America; that OF October 9Th, annular
and visible To the western half OF
North America.
Exchange: An old negro preacher
divided his. sermon into two parts:
"First, all de things in do text, and,
L: coad, Rll de things not il d. tsx,;
and, brrih-.n we'll wrHstls wild IL.
second part fust."
Tho broker pitiss tho farmer
Because his trousers bag;
But tho farmer drinks hard cider
And u a better jI.l
Now York Recorder.
Utica Observer: In India and
South America there is SAID to be a
small tree known as the "sorrowiul
tree" which bears sweot.scenled
hJwers that "blOom only in tho night
timo aud TAI Off at the break Of day
A Paris furniture dealer recently
bought from, an architect an old writ.
ing table, in overhauling which hu
found Il pnckot containing lG0l francs.
HIS honesty in AT once informing tho
former owner was rewarded by an
equal honest declaration OF the part
OF tho arChitE ct that tho latter knew
nothing whatover about ths money
aud would not accept it.
A large crowd was at the Carson
depot Sunday 10 receive Prof. Null.
der, and Wien hc nlighted from the
train tho crowd joerod and tauntoJ
him in n shameful manner. The pro,
f%es1or, IL is understood, acknow lodges
his guilt ana will make no defense.
A number of the wealthy, M we'll as
tho middle classes OF Curon. ure
un ong the victims OF his smoulhnpss
The following from IN exchange Is
good for local application: II you nre
IL kicker aud sec the shn owe OF iuil.
ure in everything TIN I 10 TO tsu Ia
help tho tos u. for lIcsv,u's sake 70
into some secluded canyon nnd kick
your own swallow IN ti.o clay bank
and give the ,nen wiio ars trying T.
build up tho town a chance. One
long -faced ycllow.cyed, c%urpiuu
chronic kicker can do more to keen
away business and capital from O
town than all tho dtoutha, short
crops, chinch bugs, cyclones aud bliz.
yards combined.
American Canyon pIacrrs.
Ihos. Harper, IN old Californian,
says the country 10 tho ntighbor
hood OF American Canyon, Ia "a fine
placer ground az he has ever viewed
III his state, un1 believes that IL will
yst cause u great excitement. The