Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-09-03
(FRoA THURSDAYS DAILr.l
SALMAGUNDI.
Silver is s.74 to-day

School will begin next Monday.
Don't forget the lawn party at Mr..
ilenlcy's tonight.
The Commissioners. meet next
Monday. Put in your bills.
t. +. Brennan has boon appointed
postmaster at For; Haileck.
w. I. Hit came douu from Deeth
last night aud remained in town to-
day.
IL is reported that all the mines OIL
the Com,took will close down to NOR
row.
Tho President and Mrs. Cleveland
lef. Gray Cables Tor Washington yes.
terday.
The City Trustees Of Sacramento
have refused to pass an ordinance
focusing gambling.
Tho ladies OF the Guild have made
extensive preparations for the lawn
purity tonight. Go and have a good
time.
Judge Webb. OF Fresno, denied {.
motion yesterday tn re-arrest Rich
ard S. Heath, or accoun of alleged
straw bonds.
Rabbits are very numerous in partP
OF Lyon county. rhey are eating up
all tho outside feed and the farmers
have trouble keeping them out Of the
ranches.
The affairs of the Nicaragua Canal
Company were placed in tho hands
OF n receiver yesterday. Warner
Miller, the president Of tho Co., says
it cannot meet it's obligations.
The government is feeling tho hard
times. The receipts for customs at
New York during tho first ten days
Of this month were sl,sOo,Gco less
than for tho same period last year.
n. Tobias. Clerk at the Duck Val
ley Reservation, arrived yesterday
with FIVE lndiHn boys for the Stewart
Institute. They left FOR Carson on
No. 1 to-day in charge OF Sterling
Price.
Miss Lille Rosen stock has closed
her school at South Fork end re-
TUNED 10 town. She drd Miss Hat
tie will leave for the East in about
two weeks to join their mother and
sister ut Omaha.
Washington adyices says the rules
hive been amended, permitting the
Committee on Coinnf e, Weights aud
Measures to report measures at any
time. This is interpreted us n victory
for the silverites.
d. Ilaskel!'s, the old time townsite
agent for tho Southern Pacific Comp
any, head fell in Mr.. HuntiHgton's
basket with n number OF others. Tho
Reno Gazette understands that tho
Office of TOWNSHIP ugent has been
abolished.
The country was lever in a better
condition from the pro tucts OF tho
soil-ncver in n worse condition from
the products OF lawmakers. All fer
the rich, nothing for tho poor. VINO.
may the devil take the n, nre growing
poorer.-Index.
lIalsted street is the longest street
in Chicago. Its length ia twenty one
miles. Philadelphia is nlso notable
for some very long streets, extending
far into the country TO connect with
country ronds. Ono Philadelphia
street is continuously paved with cob.
ble.stones for a distance Of eleven
miles.
"lIave you eve thought what you
would do il you were in Rothschiid's
place and had all his money? "No,
that has never troubled me; but /
have often nskcd my :clf what Roths,.
child would do if ho had only my sal.
nry."-Shcflield Telegraph.
The Committee, investigating the
cha'Ecs OF bribery against Worlds
Fair Commissioners Mercer. Of Wyo-
ming. md Bccson, Of Oklahoma, in
connection with tho awards by the
judges, filed n report with tho Nation
al Commission yesterday generating
Mercer md tiudiug Beeson guilty.
Breson may resign.
A Mnino man has boon tried for
taking in potatoes ut one door Of his
Darn and selling them out OF the
other. Tho trouble was that Quo
part OF his barn was in Maine and the
other part in New Brunswick. Ito
bought potatoes in Canada and, NOV
ing them ncross tho barn, sold thom
in Muinn uitboul phvipn Juiy